Moral Textures: Feminist Narratives in the Public Sphere. By Maria Pia Lara. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999. Pp. 238. $45.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

2000 ◽  
Vol 106 (2) ◽  
pp. 535-537
Author(s):  
Georgia Warnke
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
University Of California ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere

scholarly journals McDonaldization in Households

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Paul Woolridge ◽  
Leslie Stanley-Stevens
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Private Sphere ◽  
The Public ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Video Survey ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Using Data ◽  
And Control

<p>Using data collected over three years and mimicking the methodology of Arnold et al. (2012) in Los Angeles, a study in Texas was conducted in which 66 families opened their homes and allowed video, survey data, and pictorial evidence to be collected. These data are used to determine if McDonaldization has spread from the public sphere into the private sphere by determining if the four factors of McDonaldization: predictability, calculability, efficiency, and control are present, and if so, in what ways they are represented. Ultimately, every single household studied showed instances of all four factors of McDonaldization, thus heavily supporting the hypothesis that McDonaldization has encroached into the private sphere. This phenomenon will be explained by using McDonaldization either as a rational means to pursue individualistic self-actualization as described through Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs or as a means by corporations to extend their own factor of control into the private sphere and thus influence consumers. Finally, the fifth factor of McDonaldization, irrationality emerging from rationality, was examined with examples provided. </p>

Remembering Allan Sekula (1951–2013)

October ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 148 ◽  
pp. 133-142
Author(s):  
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Allan Sekula ◽  
Hourly Basis

Having just recently returned from a rare visit to Los Angeles, and wondering about the city's loss of Michael Asher and Allan Sekula in the past year and a half, I was suddenly struck by the idea that these artists must have made gargantuan efforts in that environment on a daily—if not hourly—basis to sustain their conviction in the viability of their practices. After all, the near-total erasure of any remnant of conventional structures of subjectivity and the dissolution of even the last residual spatial forms of the public sphere could hardly reach a more decisive state.

Ethnic media as communities of practice: The cultural and institutional identities

Journalism ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (10) ◽  
pp. 1309-1326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sherry S Yu
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Institutional Identity ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Ethnic Media ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere

In an increasingly multicultural, multiethnic, and multilingual media environment, ethnic media are an important part of the public sphere, and the process in which ethnic discourse is produced deserves attention. This article advances Husband’s work on ethnic media as communities of practice by exploring ethnic media of young diaspora. Just as ethnic communities are heterogeneous across ethnic groups, depending on immigration history, demographics, and communication infrastructure, among other factors, ethnic media as communities of practice are never homogeneous and lineal practices. The case of Korean media in Vancouver and Los Angeles, one of the most rapidly growing ethnic media sectors in North America, suggests two new identities – cultural identity and institutional identity – in addition to the journalists’ subjective identities, which Husband discussed. These two identities that are specific to Korean media confirm diversity within communities of practice and suggest the variations to be considered in the broader discussion of ethnic media as communities of practice.

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