scholarly journals Googly eyes and yard signs: Deconstructing one professor’s successful rebuffing of a right-wing attack on an academic institution

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-152
Author(s):  
Theresa Catalano ◽  
Ari Kohen
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Academic Institution ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Multiple Strategies ◽  
Emotional Appeal ◽  
Linguistic Strategies ◽  
Auto Ethnography ◽  
The Media ◽  
University Of Nebraska Lincoln ◽  
The University

Right-wing populism is on the rise worldwide, and political attacks against universities have increased in the United States since the election of Donald Trump. In 2017, an incident occurred at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln which resulted in accusations of hostility toward conservative students. Just over a year later, political forces again attempted to denigrate the university’s reputation, but this time they did not succeed. This (multimodal) positive discourse analysis/generative critique combines collaborative auto-ethnography to describe the way these events were represented in the media, deconstructing a professor’s methods of countering a right-wing attack on an academic institution. Findings demonstrate the use of multiple strategies such as controlling the narrative through social media savvy; using linguistic strategies such as refutation of strawman fallacies, syntax, deixis and emotional appeal; and use of image.

Digital Resources: Chile’s Centro de Investigación y Documentación (CIDOC) and Anti-Communism in the 1964 Elections

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Botto Stuven
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
Christian Democracy ◽  
Salvador Allende ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right

The Documentation Center of the Contemporary History of Chile (CIDOC), which belongs to the Universidad Finis Terrae (Santiago), has a digital archive that contains the posters and newspapers inserts of the anti-communist campaign against Salvador Allende’s presidential candidacy in 1964. These appeared in the main right-wing newspapers of Santiago, between January and September of 1964. Although the collection of posters in CIDOC is not complete, it is a resource of great value for those who want to research this historical juncture, considering that those elections were by far the most contested and conflicting in the history of Chile during the 20th Century, as it implicted the confrontation between two candidates defending two different conceptions about society, politics, and economics. On the one hand, Salvador Allende, the candidate of the Chilean left; on the other, Eduardo Frei, the candidate of the Christian Democracy, coupled with the traditional parties of the Right. While the technical elements of the programs of both candidates did not differ much from each other, the political campaign became the scenario for an authentic war between the “media” that stood up for one or the other candidate. Frei’s anticommunist campaign had the financial aid of the United States, and these funds were used to gather all possible resources to create a real “terror” in the population at the perspective of the Left coming to power. The Chilean Left labeled this strategy of using fear as the “Terror Campaign.”

scholarly journals Digital Media and the Entrenchment of Right-Wing Populist Agendas

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 205630511988532 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph Schroeder
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
News Media ◽  
The United States ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Electoral Success ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Manipulation ◽  
Political Divide

Since Brexit and the election of President Donald Trump, news media around the world have given extensive coverage to the issue of disinformation and polarization. This article argues that while the negative effects of social media have dominated the discussion, these effects do not address how right-wing populists have been able to successfully and legitimately use digital media to circumvent traditional media. The article uses the United States and Sweden as case studies about how digital media have helped to achieve electoral success and shift the political direction in both countries—though in quite different ways. It also argues that the sources of right-wing populism go beyond the hitherto dominant left–right political divide, capturing anti-elite sentiment, and promoting exclusionary nationalism. The dominance of the issue of media manipulation has obscured the shift whereby the relation between the media and politics has become more fluid and antagonistic, which fits the populist agenda. This shift requires a rethinking of political communication that includes both the social forces that give rise to populism and the alternative digital channels that entrench them, with implications for the prospects of the role of media in politics in the two countries and beyond.

Missing the (Turning) point

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 346-370
Author(s):  
Anthony Fucci ◽  
Theresa Catalano
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Social ◽  
University Of Nebraska Lincoln ◽  
The University

Abstract On August 25, 2017, student members of Turning Point USA (TPUSA), a right-wing conservative organization who advocates for smaller government and free market enterprise, recruited on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) campus. Members of the UNL community protested nearby. Part of the protest was recorded on video and released to social media leading to harsh public criticism that accused the university of restricting free speech and being an unsafe environment for conservative students. Drawing on cognitive linguistics (e.g. metonymy, framing) and multimodal critical discourse analysis (MCDA), this paper explores how the TPUSA incident at UNL was recontextualized in local and national media discourse, the ways in which the social actors and events were framed, and its consequences. The authors show how these representations reinforce dominant neoliberal discourses (which correlate with right-wing discourses) that negatively impact public education, providing a necessary counter to a populist political climate in which anti-intellectualism reigns.

scholarly journals The Philippines as a Case Study—Populism and Institutional Activism in Transformation Processes Towards Sustainability

2020 ◽  
pp. 205-224
Author(s):  
Ariel Macaspac Hernandez
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Finance Minister ◽  
Institutional Activism ◽  
Divide And Rule ◽  
The University ◽  
Transformation Processes

AbstractThe current resurgence and reinforcement of populists in many countries has profited not only from various real or imagined crises (e.g., 2015-present refugee crisis in Europe or the caravan of migrants in Latin America heading to the United States), but also from how established political parties and polities have addressed these crises, which have disenfranchised, in a de facto manner, a significant portion of the population. Former Greek finance minister and Professor of Economics at the University of Athens, Yanis Varoufakis, notes that President Trump’s election, Brexit, and the resurgence of right-wing political parties in Germany, Austria & other countries are not new in history, but merely “a post-modern variant of the 1930s, complete with deflation, xenophobia, and divide-and-rule politics” (Varoufakis 2016). Populist movements have found and instrumentalized compelling issues, such as emission reduction, to gain political importance.

“Trump”—What Does the Name Signify? or, Protofascism and the Alt-Right

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Flisfeder
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The United States ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
2008 Financial Crisis ◽  
Contemporary Politics ◽  
Politics And Culture ◽  
The Media ◽  
The 2008 Financial Crisis

This article examines the rise of the alt-right and Donald Trump’s successful campaign for president of the United States in the context of three overlapping contradictions: that of subversion in postmodern culture and politics, that between the democratic and commercial logics of the media, and that of the failure of the Left in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. The article looks at the rise of “Trumpism” and the new brand of white nationalist and misogynistic culture of the so-called alt-right in its historical context to show how it is consistent with but also distinguished from previous right-wing ideologies. More generally, the three contradictions presented here are proposed as explanations for understanding the mainstreaming of the alt-right in contemporary politics and culture.

Flexural Capacity of Compact and Noncompact High-Performance Steel Plate Girders

2000 ◽  
Vol 1712 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Atorod Azizinamini ◽  
Richard Sause
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cooperative Research ◽  
Iron And Steel ◽  
Plate Girders ◽  
Lehigh University ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
University Of Nebraska Lincoln ◽  
The University

As a result of a cooperative research program between FHWA, the U.S. Navy, and the American Iron and Steel Institute, high-performance steels (HPSs) with yield strengths of 485 MPa [70 kips/in.2 (ksi)] (HPS-70W) and 690 MPa (100 ksi) (HPS-100W) were developed. During the past 2 years, several bridges in the United States have used these new grades of steel. Because of a lack of test data, AASHTO specifications placed several limitations that prevent bridge designers from taking full advantage of HPSs. In response to AASHTO limitations, which preclude full use of the advantages that the HPS-70W and HPS-100W steels have to offer, research investigations were initiated at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Lehigh University, and the Georgia Institute of Technology. Partial results of research activities under way at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and Lehigh University to remove design limitations related to the use of HPSs are presented.

Instructional Development Related to an Intelligent Videodisc

1980 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 231-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert L. LaGow
Keyword(s):  
Development Project ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Instructional Materials ◽  
Interactive Videodisc ◽  
Experimental Production ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Videodisc Player ◽  
The Media ◽  
University Of Nebraska Lincoln ◽  
The University

The Media Development Project for the Hearing Impaired at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is currently investigating possible uses of an interactive videodisc player to provide instructional materials for the deaf. The paper describes some general characteristics of the deaf learner and discusses the videodisc as a means for marketing computer-based visual instructional materials, hardware functions and possible design approaches using a variety of instructional techniques. It further describes one experimental production, for an interactive videodisc, based on the needs for materials generated in the MDPHI project to develop basic reading skills for the hearing impaired.

Celebrating the Undiscipline of Cultural Studies

2013 ◽  
Vol 146 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-11
Author(s):  
Geert Lovink ◽  
Graeme Turner
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
The United States ◽  
Television Studies ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Tv Shows ◽  
The University

This article is based on an email exchange between media theorist and critic Geert Lovink and former Director of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland, Professor Graeme Turner. It explores the field of television studies internationally, focusing on the ‘nihilist turn’. In the Netherlands, right-wing populist websites and TV shows have been able to set the racist, anti-migration agenda, while in the United States and Australia, this agenda has been set by talkback radio. The issue of how we can distinguish between the popular and the populist is examined, and some more general cultural studies issues are discussed.

Media Development Project for the Hearing Impaired: A Review

1981 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 36-38
Author(s):  
Robert E. Stepp
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Special Education ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Concept Development ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Media Development ◽  
The Media ◽  
University Of Nebraska Lincoln ◽  
The University

This article focuses on the work of the Media Development Project for the Hearing Impaired, funded by the Office of Special Education, and established at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln in 1964. Special emphasis is given to the scope of the current contract which is involved in the curricular areas “decision-making skills” and “concept development.”

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