When public and private narratives diverge

2018 ◽  
pp. 286-298
Author(s):  
Rachel Grob ◽  
Mark Schlesinger
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Patient Experience ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
System Change ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
English Speaking

Individuals experience illness and healthcare in diverse ways. Advocates striving to create system change, however, typically simplify representations of patient experience. These ‘crafted’ public narratives better accord with journalists’ ideals of compelling, coherent, attention-grabbing stories. But condensing diverse experiences into univocal narratives has costs: some patients’ voices are silenced, and vital ethical issues are overlooked. This chapter uses a case study of advocacy around newborn screening (NBS) to explore the origins and implications of crafted public narratives. It traces the emergence of a single ‘urgency narrative’ used by advocates to promote expanded screening and compares its impact on media coverage and policy-making across the United States and among five English-speaking nations. It shows that crafted narratives are most influential in countries where NBS policies are set subnationally, since geographic variation both fosters advocates’ search for compelling narratives and makes those narratives more evocative, enhancing their impact on policy-making.

Police Body Cameras and Professional Responsibility: Public Records and Private Evidence

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stacy E. Wood
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
The United States ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
District Attorneys ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Private Citizens ◽  
Video Documentation

Abstract:Extensive media coverage has focused attention on the disproportionate frequency and severity of police use of force against black communities in the United States. Video documentation captured by public officials and private citizens aided by the ubiquity of cell phones has made this violence inescapable, enabling conversations of system-wide problems within a mainstream context. Video documentation has been posed as a means of increasing transparency on the part of police and the district attorneys tasked with the decision of whether or not a police shooting requires the indictment of an officer. This documentation is also simultaneously posed as a check against the unmitigated authority of officer testimony, as a financial windfall for companies selling the technology, and as the ultimate exoneration for police officers attempting to justify their decisions in the field. These concurrent rhetorical registers operate in different domains and rarely overlap. The enormous amount of attention that has been focused on body-camera programs belies a techno-utopian impulse, an investment in a technological fix to complex and interlocking historical and socio-political realities. With this attention, funding has followed, pre-existing body-camera programs have been extended, and pilot programs have launched, presenting new challenges for police departments whose resources cannot meet the fiscal demands of a dramatic technological shift in a short period of time. Similarly, policies and laws regarding these devices themselves as well as the footage they capture have been sluggish to coalesce around coherent principles. This paper examines the emergent markets, policies, and laws governing the footage captured by police-worn body cameras in the United States and employs this footage as a way to reckon with complex ethical issues for information professionals.

Neo-Orientalism or Neo-Imperialism? Islamism in a Globalized World: Prayers for the Assassin as a Case Study of Contemporary American Novel

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 86-99
Author(s):  
Mubarak Altwaiji
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
The United States ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
The Novel ◽  
American Novel ◽  
Significant Aspect ◽  
American Media ◽  
Globalized World

This paper deals with some aspects of neo-orientalism in the modern American novel highlighted in much conventional political and literary studies and conceptualized both as a composite of cultural studies and a western ideology. When applied to the post 9/11 American novel analysis, neo-orientalism uses terrorism as a significant aspect of a much broader reaction to Islamists’ threats living in the United States and Europe. It is common in neo-orientalist discourse about extremism to refer to Islamism as a threat to nations and therefore, it is important to find how the American novel represents the Muslims and how vigorously acts with the state in its fight against terror. This paper focuses on contemporary issues on Arabs represented in Robert Ferrigno’s Prayers for the Assassin (2006), such as extremism, women’s rights, hostility, and identity, common themes in post 9/11 novel on the Muslims. Moreover, this study attempts to answer two questions: Has there been a change in the representation of Muslims in the American novel after nineteen years from 9/11, and has American media coverage affected the representation of the Muslims in the novel? In the analysis of Prayers for the Assassin, Muslim characters are victimers and victimized at the same time; they live out the contradiction of being victims of post 9/11 anti-Muslim representations and being arrogant and aggressive towards the non-Muslims.

The Creative City

2020 ◽  
pp. 181-214
Author(s):  
Germaine R. Halegoua
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Creative City ◽  
Local Business ◽  
Creative Placemaking ◽  
The City

The case study in chapter 5 investigates practices related to re-placeing the city from the perspective of those who professionally program and fund placemaking activities in the United States and of the locals who receive this funding and support. The chapter explores the role and potential of digital technologies and practices in creative placemaking efforts. Through an investigation of organizations, artists, and cities that have undertaken creative placemaking projects, the author evaluates the ways in which digital technologies and practices are imagined and implemented in order to “animate public and private spaces, rejuvenate structures and streetscapes, improve local business and public safety, and bring diverse people together to celebrate and inspire.” In addition, the chapter offers reasons that digital technologies and practices are not being associated with and incorporated into creative placemaking endeavors.

A Mosaic of Land Tenure and Ownership Creates Challenges and Opportunities for Transboundary Conservation in the US-Mexico Borderlands

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Miguel L. Villarreal ◽  
Sandra L. Haire ◽  
Juan Carlos Bravo ◽  
Laura M. Norman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
The United States ◽  
Land Ownership ◽  
Collaborative Management ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Mountain Ranges ◽  
The Us

In the Madrean Sky Islands of western North America, a mixture of public and private land ownership and tenure creates a complex situation for collaborative efforts in conservation. In this case study, we describe the current ownership and management structures in the US-Mexico borderlands where social, political, and economic conditions create extreme pressures on the environment and challenges for conservation. On the United States side of the border, sky island mountain ranges are almost entirely publicly owned and managed by federal, state, and tribal organizations that manage and monitor species, habitats, and disturbances including fire. In contrast, public lands are scarce in the adjacent mountain ranges of Mexico, rather, a unique system of private parcels and communal lands makes up most of Mexico’s Natural Protected Areas. Several of the Protected Area reserves in Mexico form a matrix that serves to connect scattered habitats for jaguars dispersing northward toward public and private reserves in the United States from their northernmost breeding areas in Mexico. Despite the administrative or jurisdictional boundaries superimposed upon the landscape, we identify two unifying management themes that encourage collaborative management of transboundary landscape processes and habitat connectivity: jaguar conservation and wildfire management. This case study promotes understanding of conservation challenges as they are perceived and managed in a diversity of settings across the US-Mexico borderlands. Ultimately, recognizing the unique and important contributions of people living and working under different systems of land ownership and tenure will open doors for partnerships in achieving common goals. Una versión en español de este artículo está disponible como descarga.

scholarly journals Local control in the era of accountability: A case study of Wisconsin preK

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 60 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Elizabeth Graue ◽  
Bethany Wilinski ◽  
Amato Nocera
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Local Control ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Standards ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Rational Models ◽  
Accountability Movement ◽  
Teachers And Students

The opposing principles of local control and increased standardization are a prominent tension in the United States’ education system. Since at least the early 1990s, this tension has taken shape around the accountability movement, defined by educational reforms that hold schools, teachers, and students accountable for performance on new standards, assessments, and curricula. While many scholars have examined the manifestations of the current accountability movement, few have looked at this phenomenon within the growing public preK movement. Drawing from interviews with state policymakers and district-level actors, this paper describes how the seemingly contradictory principles of local control and increased state and national standards (what we refer to simply as standardization) are shaping the policy and practice of Wisconsin’s preK system, known as 4K. We argue that rational models of policy making fail to explain the coexistence and blending of the strands of local control and standardization we found in our data, and suggest that Deborah Stone’s (2001) policy paradox provides a better theoretical framework for our findings.

scholarly journals Use of English in Ph.D. programs in Social Work in the United States. An illustrative case study of idiomatic hegemony

2021 ◽  
pp. 165-186
Author(s):  
Smitha Rao ◽  
◽  
Carlos Andrade ◽  
Javier Reyes-Martínez ◽  
Ignacio Eissmann-Araya ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Social Work Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Illustrative Case ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Illustrative Case Study ◽  
Work Education

This study reviews the experiences of non-native English-speaking students in Doctoral Social Work Education in the United States. The research, through a qualitative case study, interrogates regarding the centrality of English in education processes, and generates recommendations for improving them. Findings show that English can play a hegemonic role in Social Work Education and that some educators can exert discrimination based on language proficiency. Among recommendations are the need to promote reflexivity to contribute that educators reconnect with discipline principles as well as review the way their power is exerted in the classroom.

When Public Opinion Does Not Shape Foreign Policy

2017 ◽  
pp. 105-127
Author(s):  
Scott Lucas
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
The Right

President Eisenhower easily swept to victory in 1956, defeating Adlai Stevenson, whom he had also beaten in 1952, despite crises and wars that had suddenly flared in Hungary and Egypt. When the events of 1956 are examined through public and private records, the president’s response to these crises appears to confirm his claim that he would not allow policy making to be hostage to the wishes of the public. Instead, he made clear time and again that he would proceed with what he thought was the “right” course for US interests, irrespective of the American public’s reaction to the policy or to his reelection campaign. At the same time, he was ready to invoke public opinion in the United States and throughout the world to try and bend other statesmen to his will.

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