Looking in the mirror: the global '68 through the Brazilian daily press

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
José Luis Hernández Huerta
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Social Imaginary ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Mexican Students ◽  
Political Crises ◽  
Daily Press ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Media ◽  
Social Narrative

PurposeThis article explains the process of construction and configuration of the Brazilian social imaginary on the global '68 using the daily press as source material.Design/methodology/approachIt looks at the narratives conveyed by the press about the condition, situation, motivations, aspirations and capacity for action of young university students. The analysis is focused mainly on the usage of totalitarian language and permits an in-depth view of the reality of life in Brazil at the time and the role played by the students in the resistance to the dictatorship. It also includes an analysis of how other students' protests of 1968 – in Poland and Mexico – were portrayed through the media, and how they helped to shape the collective imaginary about Brazilian university students, situating it in a conjuncture of broader dimensions and connections.FindingsThe youth of Brazil, Poland and Mexico were represented as active political and social subjects, capable of defying, and sometimes profoundly upsetting, the established order. Violence and the discourse of violence were constant unifying elements in the narratives created by the daily press. This helped generate an image of university students which portrayed them as a rebellious, revolutionary and/or subversive sector of the population, responsible for one of the most extensive and profound social and political crises which those countries had experienced in decades.Originality/valueThis is the first study of the Brazilian reception of the '68 Polish and Mexican students' protest and its implications for the social narrative of students' resistance in Brazil.

How Snowden’s revelations have influenced youngsters’ attitude and behaviour in the PRC and Taiwan

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-231
Author(s):  
Kiyoshi Murata ◽  
Yasunori Fukuta ◽  
Andrew A. Adams ◽  
Dang Ronghua
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Studying Abroad ◽  
The Social ◽  
State Surveillance ◽  
Questionnaire Surveys

Purpose This study aims to investigate how Snowden’s revelations are viewed by young people in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Taiwan through questionnaire surveys of and follow-up interviews with university students in the two countries, taking into account the histories and current status of state surveillance in these countries and the current complicated and delicate cross-strait relationships. Design/methodology/approach Questionnaire surveys of 315 PRC and 111 Taiwanese university students (a majority studying in those places but a few studying abroad) and semi-structured follow-up interviews with 16 master’s course students from the PRC and one from Taiwan (all studying at Meiji University in Japan) were conducted, in addition to reviews of the literature on privacy and state surveillance in the PRC and Taiwan. The outcomes of the survey were statistically analysed and qualitative analyses of the interview results were also performed. Findings Youngsters living in the PRC had greater interest in and more knowledge about Snowden’s revelations than those living in Taiwan, and the revelations were positively evaluated in both countries as serving public interest. However, PRC students indicated they were less likely to emulate Snowden than those from Taiwan did. Originality/value This study is the first attempt to investigate the social impact of Snowden’s revelations on PRC and Taiwanese youngsters’ attitudes towards privacy and state surveillance as part of cross-cultural analyses between eight countries.

Is the Internet Mightier than the Sword

2011 ◽  
pp. 338-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell Lidman
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Press ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Media ◽  
Traditional Roles ◽  
Recent Insight

This paper considers how to reduce corruption and improve governance, with particular attention to the impacts of information and communication technology. The media and the press in particular have played an important role in opposing corruption. The Internet and related tools are both supplementing and supplanting the traditional roles of the press in opposing corruption. A regression model with a sample of 164 countries demonstrates that, controlling for the independent variables commonly employed in empirical work on corruption, greater access to the Internet explains reduced corruption. The effect is statistically significant albeit modest. It is possible that the social media will have a growing impact on reducing corruption and improving governance. A number of examples of current uses of these media are provided. Recent insight and experience suggest how the newer information and communication technologies are somewhat tipping the balance toward those opposing corruption.

The language of the press in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia: Creation of the citizen role through newspaper discourse

Journalism ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rutger von Seth
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Critical Time ◽  
The State ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Daily Press ◽  
Media System ◽  
The Press ◽  
Russian Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
Soviet Russia

The Russian media system was during most of the 20th century part of the state institutions. During glasnost and perestroika, the media became gradually more independent of the state. However, the subsequent apex of journalistic freedom in the late 1980s and the early 1990s was followed by stagnation and a pronounced democratic setback following Putin’s accession to power. Despite this, the findings based on qualitative text analysis of articles in the daily press strongly indicate that after 1991 readers of the press are being increasingly addressed as active and knowledgeable citizens, a tendency which is strengthened during the entire period of study. Methods for text examination are speech act and modality analysis, exploring how readers are discursively positioned in the sample text material, which covers the democratically critical time span 1978–2003. The findings imply that although post-Soviet journalism itself faces considerable difficulties, a firm cultural ground for citizen participation in society has been laid through changes in press language.

scholarly journals O mito contemporâneo da heroína esportiva: da guerra ao pódio

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 317-324
Author(s):  
Rafael Da Silva Mattos ◽  
Juliana Brandão Pinto de Castro ◽  
César Sabino ◽  
Wecisley Ribeiro do Espírito Santo ◽  
Jéssica Oliveira Florentino ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Women Athletes ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Social Imaginary ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Order Analysis ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Documentary Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Methodological Strategy

Objetivo: identificar o imaginário social transmitido pela mídia sobre atletas consideradas heroínas esportivas e identificar os discursos sobre as diferenças de gênero transmitidas pela mídia nos Jogos Olímpicos Rio 2016. Métodos: trata-se de uma pesquisa descritiva de análise documental, cuja estratégia metodológica consistiu na busca de matérias sobre heroínas Rio 2016 no site Google. As reportagens foram analisadas utilizando-se a Análise da Ordem do Discurso, de Michel Foucault. Resultados: os princípios da inversão, descontinuidade, especificidade e exterioridade, estabelecidos por Foucault, estavam presentes nos discursos analisados. Nas reportagens, as mulheres consideradas heroínas esportivas tiveram destaque quando conquistaram a primeira medalha olímpica do país de origem, quando realizaram grandes atuações em partidas decisivas e quando superaram abuso sexual. Conclusão: mesmo sendo consideradas heroínas esportivas, a imagem dessas mulheres foi associada à figura masculina. Isso evidencia a necessidade de avanços no quesito igualdades de direito entre homens e mulheres na sociedade.ABSTRACT. The contemporary myth of sports heroin: from war to podium. Objective: to identify the social imaginary transmitted by the media about women athletes considered athletic heroines and to identify the discourses on the gender differences transmitted by the media in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Methods: this is a descriptive research of documentary analysis, whose methodological strategy consisted in the search of stories about Rio 2016 heroines in the Google site. The reports were analyzed using the Discourse Order Analysis of Michel Foucault. Results: the principles of inversion, discontinuity, specificity and exteriority, as established by Foucault, were present in the discourses analyzed. In the reports, women considered to be sport heroines were highlighted when they won the first Olympic medal in the country of origin, when they performed great plays in decisive games and when they overcame sexual abuse. Conclusion: however, even though they were considered sport heroines, the image of these women was associated with the male figure. This highlights the need for advances in the area of equal rights between men and women in society.

Imposter art

2018 ◽  
pp. 129-159
Author(s):  
Anna Dahlgren
Keyword(s):  
Art World ◽  
Breaking News ◽  
Professional Journals ◽  
Daily Press ◽  
Media System ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Media ◽  
Illegal Acts ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Media Discourses

Chapter 4 explores how mass media, in the form of daily press, professional journals and television, represented and interpreted contemporary art that was deemed as illegal acts. In consequence, it considers how media discourses intervened and acted in such artistic and legal processes. At the centre of this study are artworks made by three Swedish artists between 1967 and 2009 which were simultaneously considered as both artistic statements and real illegal deeds. These artworks and the ensuing media debates are illuminating examples of how the notion of art is continuously negotiated and interpreted very differently by various agents in diverse contexts. This chapter, therefore, expands its focus beyond the typical agents of the art world such as curators, critics and art historians to include statements and writing by representatives of politics, media, entertainment, law and the general public. Being controversial acts, these artworks were open to multiple interpretations and fed smoothly into the logic of the media system. Accordingly, the artists and their artworks were described as breaking news in the standard vocabulary of the press. In addition, they all elicited extensive media discussions on the definition of art.

Adolescents’ perceptions of alcohol

2017 ◽  
Vol 117 (3) ◽  
pp. 280-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amit Roy ◽  
Risto Ikonen ◽  
Tuula Keinonen ◽  
Kuldeep Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Urban Region ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Social ◽  
Educational Guidance ◽  
The Media

Purpose Rising trends in alcohol consumption and early drinking initiation pose serious health risks especially for adolescents. Learner’s prior knowledge about alcohol gained from the social surroundings and the media are important sources that can impact the learning outcomes in health education. The purpose of this paper is to map adolescents’ perceptions of alcohol in Punjab, India and how these perceptions are related to their attitudes towards their social surroundings and the media. Design/methodology/approach The questionnaire was created after informal discussions with local people who consume alcohol and discussions with alcohol-related experts. Students from five schools (n=379, average age=13.6 years) in the urban region of Punjab, India, filled in a questionnaire. Quantitative tests were performed on the questionnaire data. Summative content analysis was performed for the textbook content about alcohol from classes 1 to 10. Findings Data suggest that students gain knowledge about alcohol from multiple sources, including society, the media and education. While society and the media can give misinformation, education did not provide them with factual scientific information about alcohol. Students from financially marginalized social surroundings experience the presence and use of alcohol more frequently; they trust the media and celebrities somewhat unquestioningly and, hence, are more at-risk. Research limitations/implications All participants in informal discussions as well as all participating schools in the study were from urban regions. Data about individual’s socio-economic conditions was not collected. Originality/value This research investigates perceptions of alcohol that are derived from adolescents’ social surroundings, perceptions of the media and perceptions gained through educational guidance in a developing country. Such multi-dimensional investigations have not been conducted earlier.

scholarly journals Betrayal and Fear: Press Coverage of Canadian Skinheads

1992 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Murray Forman
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Institutional Structure ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
News Reports ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Media ◽  
Public Strategies

Abstract: This paper examines the ways in which skinheads and the press in Canada mutually engage in public strategies to subvert each other's significatory powers. Arguably, skinheads present a limited challenge to the social mainstream which, like their style, exists primarily on the surface. In analyzing the media response, the discursive containment of subcultural resistance is revealed as news reports retain the social order of the existing institutional structure. As skinheads attempt to draw attention to themselves and to society's hidden contradictions, the media exploit their spectacularity, transforming it into a saleable news commodity. Résumé: Cet article propose une étude des façons dont les "skinheads" et la presse au Canada se livrent un duel sur la place publique dans le but de subvertir leurs significations et leurs pouvoirs respectifs. On reconnaît qu'à première vue les "skinheads" posent un défi à la majorité de la société. L'analyse de la réponse des médias révèle que le discours de la presse atténue la dimension rebelle de cette sous-culture et tend à renforcer l'ordre social et la structure institutionnelle établis. Les "skinheads" veulent attirer l'attention sur eux-mêmes et sur les contradictions de la société; les médias exploitent leurs côtés spectaculaires à des fins commerciales.

scholarly journals O budowaniu znaczeń w dyskursie prasowym w ujęciu komparatywnym – na przykładzie zamachów w Norwegii w 2011 roku

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 25-54
Author(s):  
Patrycja Chruściel ◽  
Inez Jasińska
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Meanings ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Media ◽  
Similarities And Differences

About construction of meanings in the press discourse – the comparative approach, based on the example of Norway attacks in 2011The purpose of the article is to describe and analyse the meanings which the media construct in relation to real events ‘événement réel’ by the example of Anders Breivik’s attacks in Norway in 2011. The paper is a comparative analysis of the media productions in three countries – Poland, France and the United Kingdom. The authors use the French Linguistic Discourse Analysis FLAD methods to determine the keywords ‘mot vedette’ – the most common words or phrases naming the event – reconstruct referential paradigms ‘paradigme désignationnel’ – the lists of expressions that rephrase the keywords – and then deliberate their social meanings. The article textualizes similarities and differences of the social meanings of the event in different European countries and contemplates the collective memory of Europeans.

scholarly journals Brexit, the Press and the Territorial Constitution

2020 ◽  
pp. 096466392092192
Author(s):  
Gregory Davies ◽  
Daniel Wincott
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Media Analysis ◽  
Valuable Contribution ◽  
Critical Junctures ◽  
Law And Politics ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Uk

Brexit has unveiled previously hidden aspects of United Kingdom (UK) society, law and politics. It provides a valuable opportunity to investigate the social reception of law, and in particular the mediation of the law and constitution in the press. The distinctive constitutional arrangements and histories of Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and England have given rise to different territorial interpretations of the UK state. These asymmetries have parallels in the UK’s territorial media landscape, yet we have little understanding of how this landscape contributes to constitutional discourses. This article offers quantitative content and thematic analysis of UK-wide media coverage of major court judgments which have served as critical junctures in the Brexit process. The analysis reveals striking territorial variation in the volume and substance of coverage. Here, the media appears to reinforce divergent understandings of the constitution: while English reporting chimed with a more unitary account of the constitution, reporting elsewhere was more consistent with a vision of the UK as union-state. In the light of these findings, we argue that media analysis can make a valuable contribution to our understanding of the law and the constitution.

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