Photojournalism and the Moss Side Riots of 1981: Narrowly Selective Transparency

2020 ◽  
Vol 89 ◽  
pp. 221-245
Author(s):  
Shirin Hirsch ◽  
David Swanson
Keyword(s):  
Media Representation ◽  
Evening News ◽  
News Photography ◽  
Susan Sontag ◽  
Local Newspaper ◽  
History Of

Abstract In the summer of 1981 a series of riots broke out across England. Here we look at the contemporary photojournalism of the Moss Side, Manchester, riots in the local newspaper, the Manchester Evening News, in order to better understand the riots and media representation of riots more generally. We begin by exploring the contradictory nature of photography (and news photography in particular) – what Susan Sontag refers to as photography’s narrowly selective transparency. We then outline a brief history of the riots, before turning to examine photographs in the Manchester Evening News at the time. We analyse the images both collectively and individually on the basis of what has been selected to be shown and why, and what has been excluded. This perspective allows us then to see in the photographs themselves what was intended to be excluded, primarily the causes of the riots – poverty, racism and oppressive policing; and the humanity of those who took part.

On The Threshold of Democratic Fragility

2016 ◽  
pp. 328-348
Author(s):  
Asiru Hameed Tunde ◽  
Daniel Ochieng Orwenjo
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Election ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Media Representation ◽  
Value Judgments ◽  
News Reports ◽  
A Value ◽  
Political Events ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Control ◽  
Election News

The recent events in the Nigerian political space are clear indications of a match towards the ‘unwanted'. These political events, such as the 2011 presidential elections resulted into the most violent post-elections killings in the history of Nigeria. In the light of this, media representation of that election may not be a value-free exercise but one imbued with value judgments or opinions which conveyed certain ideological leanings. It is against this background that the author examines the macrospeech acts which characterize the discourse of the 2011 post-presidential election news reports with a view to identifying and interpreting the prominent acts and their ideological imports. The study is situated within the broad frame of pragmatics and operationalises Searle Speech Act model in order to uncover the macrospeech acts in the news reports and how the acts covertly convey instances of prejudice and control.

Chasing the Pictures: Press and Magazine Photography

2014 ◽  
Vol 150 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fay Anderson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
The United States ◽  
Technological Innovations ◽  
News Photography ◽  
History Of

For over a century, press and magazine photography has influenced how Australians have viewed society, and played a critical role in Australia's evolving national identity. Despite its importance and longevity, the historiography of Australian news photography is surprising limited. This article examines the history of press and magazine photography and considers its genesis, the transformative technological innovations, debates about images of violence, the industrial attitudes towards photographers and their treatment, the use of photographs and the seismic recent changes. The article argues that while the United States and United Kingdom influenced the trajectory of press and news photography in Australia, there are significant and illuminating differences.

Super Bowl Icon or Marketing Tool?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah K. Fields
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
First Amendment ◽  
National Football League ◽  
Freedom Of Speech ◽  
San Jose ◽  
Super Bowl ◽  
Local Newspaper ◽  
Financial Interest ◽  
History Of ◽  
Marketing Tool

This chapter explores Joe Montana's lawsuit against the San Jose Mercury News. Montana was one of the best quarterbacks in the history of the National Football League. In San Francisco, he led four teams to victory in the Super Bowl and was named the Most Valuable Player of three of those games. After each Super Bowl victory, the local newspaper, not surprisingly, ran stories about Montana and the team and included photographs. These stories and photographs were clearly protected as documenting newsworthy events under the First Amendment. After the fourth Super Bowl victory, however, the San Jose Mercury News released and sold a poster that included photos of Montana from all four Super Bowls. Montana felt that the use of his photograph in the poster was a violation of his right of publicity—that the newspaper had used his image without his permission and profited from it. Montana's lawsuit highlighted the question of what was newsworthy and thus protected by freedom of speech, and how long that newsworthy privilege lasted. His case also reflected the shift in laws of reputation from protecting dignity to protecting the celebrity's financial interest in his image.

scholarly journals OS JORNAIS IMPRESSOS DE RORAIMA E AS TRANSFORMAÇÕES NA ATIVIDADE POLÍTICA ESTADUAL (1914-1989)

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 36-55
Author(s):  
Luís Francisco Munaro ◽  
Cyneida Menezes Correia
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Transformation ◽  
Local Newspaper ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The Press ◽  
Consolidation Phase ◽  
History Of ◽  
Literate Culture ◽  
Political Settlement

O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar trajetória dos jornais impressos de Roraima no recorte que vai da fundação do primeiro jornal local até a transformação de Roraima em Estado, a partir da seguinte periodização: jornalismo impresso durante o pertencimento de Roraima ao Estado do Amazonas (1914-1942), durante o período em que Roraima se transformou em território federal (1943-1979) e fase de consolidação da atividade impressa (1981-1989). Ele fará isso através da recuperação de acervos documentais e identificação de jornais e atores importantes na construção de uma cultura letrada regional em paralelo com a transformação política do Estado. Ao fazer semelhante levantamento, será possível reforçar hipóteses sobre porque são tão conflituosas as relações entre o estamento político regional e os canais impressos.   PALAVRAS-CHAVE: História da imprensa; Roraima; História política; Mídia impressa; Boa Vista.     ABSTRACT The objective of this paper is to analyze the trajectory of Roraima's printed newspapers in the cut that goes from the foundation of the first local newspaper to the transformation of Roraima into a state, from the following periodization: printed journalism during the Roraima's belonging to the State of Amazonas ( 1914-1942), during the period in which Roraima became federal territory (1943-1979) and the consolidation phase of printed activity (1981-1989). It will do this by recovering documentary collections and identifying newspapers and key players in building a regional literate culture in parallel with the political transformation of the state. By making such a survey, it will be possible to reinforce hypotheses as to why the relations between the regional political settlement and the print channels are so conflicting.   KEYWORDS: History of the press; Roraima; Political history; Print; Boa Vista.     RESUMEN El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar la trayectoria de los periódicos impresos de Roraima en el corte que va desde la fundación del primer periódico local hasta la transformación de Roraima en un estado, desde la siguiente periodización: periodismo impreso durante la pertenencia de Roraima al Estado de Amazonas ( 1914-1942), durante el período en que Roraima se convirtió en territorio federal (1943-1979) y la fase de consolidación de la actividad impresa (1981-1989). Lo hará recuperando colecciones documentales e identificando periódicos y actores clave en la construcción de una cultura regional alfabetizada en paralelo con la transformación política del estado. Al realizar una encuesta de este tipo, será posible reforzar las hipótesis de por qué las relaciones entre el acuerdo político regional y los canales impresos son tan conflictivas.   PALABRAS CLAVE: Historia de la prensa; Roraima Historia política; Medios impresos; Boa Vista.  

scholarly journals The Albanian diaspora : immigration and settlement experiences

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valbona Sulemani
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Media Representation ◽  
Anthropological Perspective ◽  
Negative Experiences ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Immigration And Settlement ◽  
History Of ◽  
Positive Experiences ◽  
The Difference

This study attempts to analyze the immigration and settlement experiences of the Albanian diaspora. The paper takes an historical and anthropological perspective in outlining the experiences of Albanian people through a comparative analysis of Europe and North America. This paper examines the difference experiences of migrants in Greece and Italy to those of the United States and Canada in relation to the country of origin (Albania, Kosova, or Macedonia), the time period of migration, and the reason for migration. This study will outline and analyze the more positive experiences of Albanian people in North America, compared to the somewhat more negative experiences in Europe, with a discussion on the effects media representation has had on Albanian migrants in Greece and Italy. The history of a receiving country strongly affects its perspective on immigration and consequently its reception of immigrants.

Kim Kardashian's Korset

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adib Rifqi Setiawan
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Medical Intervention ◽  
Reality Tv ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
Susan Sontag ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Look ◽  
A Site ◽  
Dress Reform

The 2019 Met Gala’s theme was based on the Susan Sontag essay “Notes on Camp,” and the celebrity attendees had a broad range of interpretations. The look that caused the most controversy was worn by the reality TV star Kim Kardashian, in a Thierry Mugler dress and Mr. Pearl corset. Rather than focus on the design, the first for Mugler since 2002, or how the dress fit into the theme, critics instead chose to focus on the corset and repeat a rhetoric about the controversial garment that has been recurrent for over a hundred years. There is a long tradition of opposition to corsets, including claims that the accessory is bad for the health of the wearer, that corsets are unnatural, and that they are anti-feminist. This article explores the history of corsets, health, popular culture, and fashion, using Kardashian as a contemporary source of examination. Kardashian’s body is a site of controversy, much like corsets, as she wears and sells shapewear. The critique of Kardashian’s use of modern shapewear reflects a long tradition of controlling women’s bodies through dress reform and medical intervention, a debate the Met Gala dress reignited.

The Perception of Reading Online News among University Students in Sub-Urban Area

Sains Insani ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 22-29
Author(s):  
Liana Mat Nayan ◽  
Siti Suriani Othman ◽  
Lee Kuok Tiong ◽  
Nik Norma Nik Hasan
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Urban Area ◽  
Online News ◽  
Urban Students ◽  
Suburban Area ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Daily News ◽  
Evening News ◽  
Local Newspaper ◽  
Different Types

In studying Internet, we need to take account for differences in places. This is because the Internet affords to show different patterns in which people in different types of places access and use the Internet. Meanwhile, many current studies proved that the Internet is changing the behavior of news readers. Instead of reading a copy of the local newspaper or watching the scheduled evening news, people increasingly turn to the Internet for daily news and this trend also included university students as one of the increasing readers. Therefore, we seek to explore how university students in suburban area differ in terms of the ways in which they read news, their levels of access to the Internet and the purpose of read online news. Findings suggested that few criteria must be considered in order to produce better online news in future. Keywords: readiness; reading; online news; sub-urban; students

“People Want to See What Happened”

2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynnell L. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
New Orleans ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Media Representation ◽  
Cultural Reproduction ◽  
Theatrical Production ◽  
Expressive Culture ◽  
Class Culture ◽  
Racial Conflict ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

Occupying the space between cultural reproduction and theatrical production, the HBO series Treme offers an important vantage point from which to analyze the intersection of race, class, culture, and media representation animating New Orleans’s post-Katrina tourist identity. Treme illustrates the tension between the welcome recognition and celebration of New Orleans black expressive culture and its spectacularization and commodification. The resuscitation of tourist tropes and an emphasis on jazz and heritage music in the series often render the city’s history of racial conflict and injustice invisible or subordinate to new narratives of cross-racial unity among Katrina survivors and paternalistic actions by white characters uniquely positioned to express the community’s outrage. Treme takes up where the disaster tour leaves off, giving viewers - televisual tourists - access to purportedly authentic places, people, events, and experiences that exist beyond the tourist landscape and that suggest a racial remapping of the city.

scholarly journals How the Female Subject was Tempered. An Instructive History of 8 March and Its Media Representation in Naša Žena (Our Woman)

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-43
Author(s):  
Paula Petričević
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Female Subject ◽  
Media Representation ◽  
The Political ◽  
State Socialism ◽  
World War ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

Abstract The author explores the socialist emancipation of women in Montenegro during World War II and its aftermath, using the example of the 8 March celebrations. The social life of this ‘holiday of the struggle of all the women in the world’ speaks powerfully of the strength and fortitude involved in the mobilization of women during the war and during the postwar building of socialist Yugoslavia, as well as the sudden modernization and unprecedented political subjectivation of women. The emancipatory potential of these processes turned out to be limited in the later period of stabilization of Yugoslav state socialism and largely forgotten in the postsocialist period. The author argues that the political subjectivation of women needs to be thought anew, as a process that does not take place in a vacuum or outside of a certain ideological matrix, whether socialist or liberal.

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