“I Still Don’t Understand Award Shows”

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tara Colley
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Reality Television ◽  
Racial Microaggressions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Fashion Designer ◽  
Changing Role

This chapter examines the evolution of the rapper, producer, fashion designer, and reluctant reality television personality Kanye West. An artist whose subject matter addresses personal anxieties and self-doubt in ways seldom seen in mainstream rap, West engages fame and celebrity in conflicting and often incongruous ways. Through the amateur creation and distribution of memes, gifs, hashtags, and other “viral” cultural articles, the public plays an unprecedented role in the construction—and destruction—of celebrity. Exploitation of this process, in which West consciously engages, constitutes a unique enactment of celebrity work. West’s interaction with the notion of celebrity—as an antihero, an activist, and an icon—speaks both to the changing role of hip hop in mainstream American culture and to the ongoing racial microaggressions of “post-race” America toward influential black celebrity.

Student Teacher Knowledge: Knowing and Understanding Subject Matter in the New Zealand Context

2002 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dawn Garbett ◽  
Belinda R Yourn
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
National Curriculum ◽  
Early Childhood Teachers ◽  
Professional Knowledge ◽  
Early Childhood Educators ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Changing Role

In the past few decades there has been an increasing awareness of the importance of early childhood education in New Zealand. Concomitant with this has been the move towards professionalising the early childhood sector through a national curriculum and increased expectations for its practitioners. This paper examines issues relating to the changing role of early childhood teachers as they manage the implementation of the New Zealand curriculum. There is no consensus about what makes up the professional knowledge base for early childhood educators. This paper explores the nature of professional knowledge and suggests that subject matter knowledge may be more important than previously recognised for early childhood educators.

Dutch social policy in the 1980s: A changing role of the public sector

1992 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-29
Author(s):  
Kees Goudswaard ◽  
Victor Halberstadt ◽  
Hans van de Kar
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
The Public ◽  
Changing Role

scholarly journals Legal Regulation of Public Governance in Finland – an Illusion of Predictable Public Administration?

2015 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 52-59
Author(s):  
Niina Mäntylä ◽  
Laura Perttola ◽  
Kristian Siikavirta
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Administrative Law ◽  
Soft Law ◽  
Eu Law ◽  
Public Governance ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Changing Role

Legal coherence and predictable decision-making are the cornerstones of Finnish administrative law. The aim of this research is to analyze the factors that make administrative decisions unpredictable in Finland today. Why is the challenge so significant for the authorities? The factor analysis revealed six main features affecting predictability in the legal regulation of Finnish public governance: the increasing use of soft law, the devolution of government, deregulation, the changing role of the individual, the blurring of the division between the public and the private sector and the influence of international and EU-law.

scholarly journals PERUBAHAN PERAN PEMUKA ADAT PUNYIMBANG PADA MASYARAKAT ADAT PEPADUN

SOSIETAS ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Saras Sarita ◽  
Siti Nurbayani
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Public Response ◽  
The Public ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
The Village

This study is about the changing role of traditional leaders called punyimbang in pepadun community. This research was conducted in the village of Terbanggi Besar, Terbanggi Besar District of Central Lampung regency. This research was motivated by the social and cultural changes taking place in society. The research is a qualitative research method of case study that compares difference conditions punyimbang role ago and today. The results of this study are firstly the social and cultural changes that occurred in the community so that the role punyimbang the first switch and always involved in every aspect of community life is starting at left, second, the factors that cause changes in this role is the modernization that began touching indigenous peoples pepadun village Terbanggi great so that people began to leave things that are traditional, third, these changes have an impact on the conflict in the community, due to the people lost figure punyimbang that exemplifies the good things that people are starting to do a lot of irregularities such as conflict between villages, spoliation, and the conflict between generations, fourth, related to the changing role of public response punyimbang happens is people still assume the existence punyimbang needed as long as there customary held by the public but does not bind as before.

scholarly journals Digital media and democracy: tactics in hard times

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fenwick Robert McKelvey
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Bush Administration ◽  
The Public ◽  
Hard Times ◽  
The Media ◽  
Tactical Media ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
Public Demand

“We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality,” explains an unnamed Bush administration official. This quote sets the tone for a new edited collection reflecting on the role of the media in constructing reality. The lack of a “truth” does not quell the public demand for one, as Boler aptly points out in her introduction: “The desire and longing for truth expressed by the public demands for media accountability is in tension with the coexisting recognition of the slipperiness of meaning” (p. 7). Media, then, in all their forms, become a central battleground for forging meaning and shaping reality. “Media are the most powerful institutions on earth,” Amy Goodman of Democracy Now claims, “more powerful than any bomb, more powerful than any missile” (p. 199). This series of interviews and articles explores how incumbent powers and media activists compete to produce and reproduce their versions of reality through the media. The contributors use the format to discuss the tenuous relationship between media and democracy and the changing role of the news media, as well as to present examples of tactical media. The resulting collection provides an excellent introduction to the current, troubling media landscape and its tactical opportunities.

scholarly journals The New Real: Iggy Azalea and the Reality Performance

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tara Morrissey
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Reality Television ◽  
Creative Potential ◽  
Politics Of Identity ◽  
Gender And Race ◽  
The Real ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Whiteness Theory

Questions of realness, authenticity, and legitimacy, are deeply invested in a politics of identity that polices the purity of its central categories. The creative potential of performative modes such as rap performance and reality television is thus complicated by expectations of authenticity that are frequently embroiled in broader projects of identity delineation and regulation. This paper considers correlations between hip hop culture’s ethos of realness and authenticity, and the ‘real’ as manifested in the cultural phenomenon of reality television, for the ways in which they are bound by but also strive to reconfigure the limits of realness. With particular attention to the work and self-styling of Australian female rapper Iggy Azalea, I emphasise the tension between performance and authenticity, and point to the ostensibly disparate subcultural forms of hip hop and reality television as distinctly engaged in the renegotiation of this tension. I invoke the critical imperatives of whiteness theory to critique the normative channels of realness that remain at the forefront of hip hop’s self-conceptualisation and general promotion, in particular the role of gender and race in the construction of hip hop authenticity. I then examine reality television and its relationship with shame and intimacy as crucial to understanding its devalued status in studies of television and popular culture more broadly. Ultimately, I propose the explorations of ‘real’ in these works as indicative of a contemporary shift in the evaluation and justification of authenticity that points to a revised appreciation of the power of performativity.

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