scholarly journals The Coronavirus Pandemic as a Critical Moment for Digital Journalism

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 1199-1207
Author(s):  
Thorsten Quandt ◽  
Karin Wahl-Jorgensen
Keyword(s):  
Critical Moment ◽  
Digital Journalism

Dramatic Irony as an Intervention Strategy in Two Dholuo Films: Kalausi and The Cleansing

Imbizo ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Odhiambo ◽  
Loreen Maseno
Keyword(s):  
Intervention Strategy ◽  
Critical Moment ◽  
Sharp Focus ◽  
Burial Rituals

Kalausi and The Cleansing are two films set in Kenya whose storylines touch on death and rituals among the Luo community of Kenya. Both films are in the language of Dholuo and place sharp focus on widowhood and its prevailing dilemmas and anxieties within Luo culture. It is these dilemmas and anxieties that reveal the injustices that culture metes out to women. While Kalausi engages its viewers up until the burial ceremony, The Cleansing starts after the actual burial and focuses on post-burial rituals. Thus, the two films in a way complement each other in the presentation of the injustices and intrigues that a woman faces during and after the demise of a spouse. Dramatic irony as the trope of ambiguity in the two films builds up tension, suspense and comic relief. Consequently, we examine how dramatic irony participates as a socio-cultural device of intervention in the two films. Reading the two films from this perspective, dramatic irony as a signifying trope becomes paramount in unravelling the multiplicities of interpretations evident in the critical moment of death within the Luo community. It is an extremely intricate signifying device as it plays on the contrast between reality and appearance.

The demise of #NSFW: Contested platform governance and Tumblr’s 2018 adult content ban

2021 ◽  
pp. 146144482199671
Author(s):  
Jeanna Sybert
Keyword(s):  
Core Values ◽  
Term Survival ◽  
Long Term Survival ◽  
Community Values ◽  
Critical Moment ◽  
Platform Governance ◽  
Sexually Explicit ◽  
Explicit Content ◽  
Insight Into

On December 3, 2018, Tumblr announced that it would ban sexually explicit content from the platform, drawing immediate backlash from users. The ensuing discord on the site is conceptualized here as contested platform governance, or a conflict between users and ownership, in which not only are a platform’s policies and features challenged, but also its core values, identity, and/or purposes are put into question. By examining 238 Tumblr posts, this analysis identifies the unique ways users combatted the ban and (re)inscribed community values, while also contesting the owners’ legitimacy to govern the platform. Holding implications for the site’s long-term survival, such conflicts capture a critical moment in which the boundaries of power between users and ownership are challenged and, possibly, transformed. By examining Tumblr’s Not Safe For Work (NSFW) ban through the lens of platform governance, this study offers insight into how power and its limits are negotiated online.

scholarly journals What a Special Issue on Latin America Teaches Us about Some Key Limitations in the Field of Digital Journalism

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 130-135
Author(s):  
Eugenia Mitchelstein ◽  
Pablo J. Boczkowski
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Digital Journalism

Music Theory and Mainstream Digital Journalism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alyssa Barna
Keyword(s):  
Music Theory ◽  
Popular Press ◽  
Music Theory And Analysis ◽  
Digital Journalism

The tools of music theory and analysis have appeared in articles published in popular press venues for the last decade. Many of these articles, however, are written by non-experts and often stir controversy among academic writers due to assumptions or inaccuracies. Instead of passively arguing about this form of public music theory, this chapter encourages academic theorists to write stories for digital journalism outlets by explaining the role and context of this type of journalism, then outlining the process of pitching, writing, and editing a story. This chapter closes with a discussion of the specific responsibilities of music theorists who write for these venues, and the role of the academic in digital journalism.

Passion's Fictions from Shakespeare to Richardson

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benedict S. Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Adam Smith ◽  
Francis Bacon ◽  
Theoretical Knowledge ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Critical Moment ◽  
Intimate Relation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Social Scenes

Passion’s Fictions traces the intimate links between literature and the sciences of soul and mind from the age of Shakespeare to the rise of the novel. It chronicles the emergence of new sciences of the passions between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries out of and in some ways against a received “science of the soul,” and it argues that this history was shaped by rhetoric, which contained the most extensively particularized discourse on the passions, offering principles for moving and affecting the passions of others in concrete social scenes. This rhetoric of the passions centered on narrative as the instrument of a non-theoretical knowledge of the passions in their particularity, predicated on an account of passion as an intimate relation between an empassioned mind and an empassioning world: rhetoric offers a kind of externalist psychology, formalized in the relation of passion to action and underwriting an account of narrative as a means of both moving passion and knowing it. This book describes the psychology of the passions before the discipline of psychology, tracing the influence of rhetoric on theories of the passions from Francis Bacon to Adam Smith and using that history to read literary works by Shakespeare, Milton, Haywood, Richardson, and others. Narrative offers a means of knowing and moving the passions by tracing them to the events and objects that generate them; the history of narrative practices is thus a key part of the history of the psychology of the passions at a critical moment in its development.

Augustine's Use of Scripture

1945 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 188-200
Author(s):  
Mervin Monroe Deems
Keyword(s):  
North Africa ◽  
European History ◽  
Inner Life ◽  
Critical Moment ◽  
Western European

Augustine lived at a critical moment in western European history. On the last day of the year 406, many Vandals, Alani, Suevi crossed the Rhine and, having defeated the Franks, settled for a time in Gaul and finally reached the Pyrenees. Four years later Rome itself fell to Alaric and his Visigoths. In addition to these outward catastrophes, the church's inner life suffered from the assaults of heretic and schismatic. Arianism persisted in Gaul, Montanism and Manichaeism were rife in North Africa. Puritanic Donatism laid claim to being genuine Christianity, a claim which the doughty Bishop of Hippo could not countenance.

‘Genuine Invariants’: The Origins of Regional Modernity in Twentieth-Century Spain

2013 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. 299-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brett Tippey
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Spanish Colonial ◽  
Critical Moment ◽  
Colonial Empire

During the decades that followed the loss in 1898 of Spain's last colony, Spanish architecture languished in a turbulent search for identity. In this search, some architects argued for a return to the historic architecture of the Spanish colonial empire, while others followed the progressive ideas of the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM). Finally, in the mid-1940s, Spain's architects began to progress towards a successful reconciliation of these two seemingly opposed camps. A critical moment occurred in 1947 with the publication of Fernando Chueca Goitia's watershed textInvariantes Castizos de la Arquitectura Española (Genuine Invariants of Spanish Architecture).In this text, which Chueca conceived as a pocket reference for Spain's Modern architects, he described Spain as a unique place where the diverse architecture of Christian Europe and Islamic North Africa coalesced into a new — and essentially Spanish — whole. In it, he called on Spain's architects to move beyond superficial considerations of both history and modernity, and to arrive at a genuine, self-critical identity for Spanish architecture.

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