scholarly journals Fashion, the media and age: How women’s magazines use fashion to negotiate age identities

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 334-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Twigg
Keyword(s):  
Later Life ◽  
Women's Magazines ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Third Age ◽  
The Media ◽  
Ageing Body

The article explores the role of women’s magazines in the negotiation of later life identities, focussing on the treatment of fashion and dress. It locates the analysis in debates about the changing nature of later years with the emergence of Third Age identities, and the role of consumption in these. Focussed on the treatment of fashion and age, it analyses four UK magazines: three chosen to represent the older market ( Woman & Home, Saga, Yours), and one to represent mainstream fashion ( Vogue). It is based on interviews with four editors and analysis of the content of the magazines. The article analyses the media strategies that journalists use to negotiate tensions in the presentation of fashion for this group and their role in supporting new formations of age. This article forms part of ‘Media and the Ageing Body’ Special Issue.

scholarly journals The Third Age and the Baby Boomers

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Gilleard ◽  
Paul Higgs
Keyword(s):  
Baby Boomers ◽  
Baby Boom ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Third Age ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Media ◽  
Term Baby

This paper outlines two contrasting positions in interpreting contemporary change in later life. These are summarily represented by a cohort approach that focuses upon the baby boomers and a generational approach that focuses upon the third age. We argue that understanding the role of the sixties’ cultural revolution for the emergence of the third age offers a broader conceptual understanding of the transformation of later life than that provided by the more restrictive and restricting framework of a baby boom cohort. That many people, particularly in the USA, self identify with the term ’baby boomer’ reflects not so much the power of cohorts as structuring influences on the ’conscience collective’ as the role of the market and the media in shaping their social identities.

Happily ever after? ‘Successful ageing’ and the heterosexual imaginary

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 363-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara L Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Visual Field ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Successful Ageing ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Ageing Body ◽  
Controversial Concept

‘Successful ageing’ has been a controversial concept in cultural gerontology, prompting critiques of its inherent individualism, neglect of structural inequalities and promotion of neoliberal strategies of self-care. This article aims at developing the critique of its heteronormative underpinnings. Drawing on cultural gerontology, feminist theory and queer theory, a critique of the rhetoric and visual representation of ‘successful ageing’ is developed that demonstrates the extent to which ‘success’ is equated with enactments of normative, gendered heterosexuality. The intent is not to simply map the exclusion or marginalization of queer representations but to make visible the ways in which assumptions of heterosexuality organize the visual field of ‘successful ageing’. Using examples from ‘lifestyle’ magazines and health promotion materials aimed at mid-to-later life adults, I demonstrate how the promise of ‘heterohappiness’ shapes visions of anticipatory ageing. This article forms part of ‘Media and the Ageing Body’ Special Issue.

scholarly journals Mediatizing Gaza: An Introduction

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nour Shreim ◽  
Simon Dawes
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Mailing List ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Palestinian Refugees ◽  
The Media ◽  
Use Of Social Media

 This full-length article introduces a special issue on the mediatization of Gaza. Beginning with a discussion on the ‘remarkable’ debate that took place on the MeCCSA mailing list during the Israeli bombardment of Gaza in July-August 2014, the article goes on to consider the role of the media in the conflict, and the relation between media and war, more generally. The article provides an overview of recent events in Gaza, the critique of media coverage of the conflict and recent literature on mediatization theory, before summarising the contents of this special issue of Networking Knowledge. The issue features articles on media coverage of Gaza by BBC World, the Jerusalem Post and Haaretz; the use of social media by the Palestine Solidarity Movement and young adult Palestinian refugees in Lebanon; critical documentary photographs of ‘unspectacular’ violence; and data visualisations of audio and visual tweets during the 2014 assault on Gaza. It closes with an interview with Helga Tawil-Souri on the ‘digital occupation’ of Gaza.  

scholarly journals Camp Research: What? So What? What’s Next?

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 316-326
Author(s):  
Karla A. Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Youth Development ◽  
Outcomes Research ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Positive Change ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Additional Consideration ◽  
Research Staff

This special issue of the Journal of Youth Development provides a means to highlight where camp research is today based on the articles presented. Several common areas are identified: role of theory, addressing social issues, methodological imagination, emerging audiences, samples, linking operations and outcomes research, staff and youth development, moving outcomes from what to how, and thoughtful and intentional implications for practice. Areas that need additional consideration in future camp research and issues that can be addressed by camp professionals include further examining how positive change occurs in camp, noting the value of the transfer of camp experiences to later life, using critical analyses of what camp experiences mean, and examining areas that have been under-researched such as day camps. 

scholarly journals Introduction

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Delmont ◽  
Jeanne Theoharis
Keyword(s):  
Race Relations ◽  
School Desegregation ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Neighborhood Schools ◽  
Cultural Deprivation ◽  
The Media

This introduction to a special issue rethinking the Boston “Busing Crisis” seeks to examine how the misleading ‘busing crisis’ narrative took hold as a way to understand Boston race relations. The piece examines the long struggle for school desegregation in Boston and the myriad of tactics used to deflect and delegitmize that struggle through frames of “busing,” “neighborhood schools,” “choice,” and “cultural deprivation” which provided a palatable way for Bostonians to explain and hide school inequalities. Finally, the piece considers the role of the media in legitimating these white framings and delegitimizing the urgency of the struggle against school inequality in the Cradle of Liberty.

scholarly journals Invisible or Powerful? Ageing in a Mediatised Society

2022 ◽  
pp. 191-205
Author(s):  
Annika Bergström ◽  
Maria Edström
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Freedom Of Information ◽  
Structural Level ◽  
The Media ◽  
Technological Means ◽  
Media Responsibility

AbstractIn order to live your rights and achieve your goals, you need to be informed, have a voice and be listened to, and have the opportunity to engage in society, regardless of age. Freedom of expression and freedom of information are core human rights values that connect the concept of capability with the role of the media in society. The media can be a tool for enhancing a person’s capabilities, but it can also be seen as hindering a good life if technology and its applications are perceived as awkward and/or difficult to access.At a structural level, a wider discussion of media responsibility has the potential to contribute to enhancing people’s capabilities in later life. One critical issue is who should be held accountable and responsible for media content that lacks diverse stories about older people and their voices, possibly reinforcing ageism. Furthermore, where the responsibility lies for ensuring that older people have the technological means to act as digital citizens is somewhat unclear. In an increasingly mediatised environment, we might see a stronger relationship between media literacy, health and ageing, which in turn could emphasise the importance of the role of the media in enhancing capabilities.

Watchdogs or Masters? The changing role of the Canberra Press Gallery

2018 ◽  
Vol 167 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-12
Author(s):  
Philip Chubb ◽  
Stephanie Brookes ◽  
Margaret Simons
Keyword(s):  
Political Life ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Political Journalism ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Media ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
Political Reporting

This Special Issue tackles increasing urgent questions about the role and performance of the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery, a unique and valuable institution central to Australian political journalism. These questions about the Press Gallery’s contribution to political life include: how might we understand the changing authority and effectiveness of the Press Gallery? Has Australia entered an era when media failures are damaging the country’s ability to affect reform? Are we witnessing a twin assault on the quality of Australian democracy from politicians and the media? The articles gathered here offer a variety of tools and perspectives useful for thought and action in this moment in history – when political reporting is fundamentally disrupted, and with it the democratic forms that have grown up in lockstep with mass media. They chart changes and longer-term trends, and particularise broader shifts in political journalism and communication, providing both information and theoretically engaged analysis.

Growing old with media technology and the material experience of ageing

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecilie Givskov
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Older Women ◽  
Cell Phones ◽  
Natural Ageing ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
The Media ◽  
Ageing Body ◽  
Cultural Constructions ◽  
Material Ageing

During the 20th and 21st century, media such as radio, telephone, television, computers and cell phones moved into everyday life as taken-for-granted elements. Based on observations and life-history interviews with 22 older women, this article discusses how media technology is materially involved in the experience of growing old. The analysis reveals two aspects of this. First, different technology stands out from its background presence as problematic because the media no longer enable the experiences they used to. Second, disconnects with and through media technology direct attention towards the declining body. The participants embody ‘old age’ by linking their experience with media to two cultural constructions of material ageing: generation and natural ageing. I argue that inasmuch as everyday life has become mediatized, the experience of growing old also takes place with and through media technology. This article forms part of ‘Media and the Ageing Body’ Special Issue.

scholarly journals Emotionalisation of contemporary media discourse: A research agenda

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 586-610
Author(s):  
Franco Zappettini ◽  
Douglas Mark Ponton ◽  
Tatiana V. Larina
Keyword(s):  
Research Agenda ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
Linguistic Representations ◽  
Political Background ◽  
The Media ◽  
Contemporary Media

This special issue continues the discussion of the role of emotion in discourse (see Russian Journal of Linguistics 2015 (1) and 2018, 22 (1)) which, as testified by the burgeoning body of literature in the field, has become more prominent in different spheres and contexts of public life. This time we focus on emotionalisation of media discourse. We highlight the intensification of emotions in media and, showcasing contributions from international authors, critically reflect on constructions, functions and pragmatic purposes of emotions in media discourse. Our aim is to investigate emotions in the media from semiotic, pragmatic and discursive perspectives against the contemporary socio-political background in which traditional notions concerning the role of media are being noticeably changed. In this introductory article, we also put forward an agenda for further research by briefly outlining three main areas of exploration: the logics of media production and reception , the boundaries of media discourse, and the semiotic resources deployed to construct emotionality . We then present the articles in this issue and highlight their contributions to the study of linguistic representations of emotions. We then summarise the main results and suggest a brief avenue for further research.

Media and the ageing body: Introduction to the special issue

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 281-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecilie Givskov ◽  
Line Nybro Petersen
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
Embodied Experiences ◽  
The Media ◽  
Ageing Body ◽  
Changing Practices ◽  
The Relationship

In this introductory article we offer a frame for understanding the relationship between the ageing body and the media as the focus for this special issue. As societies age, issues of representations of old bodies and people’s practices and embodied experiences with media technologies requires a deeper investigation. At the same time, contemporary society is undergoing processes of mediatization, which invites us to think of the ways in which media can be said to play a role in changing practices or changing representations regarding the older body. The introduction is concerned with this duality: the changing sociocultural conditions for the ageing body and the changing authority of media and its role for the ageing body. Finally, we briefly introduce the articles that are part of the special issue ‘The ageing body and the media’.

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