scholarly journals A feminist new materialist experiment: Exploring what else gets produced through encounters with children’s news media

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 363-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jayne Osgood ◽  
Camilla Eline Andersen
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
News Media ◽  
School Shooting ◽  
Important Work ◽  
News Reports ◽  
High Profile ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
Sticky Tape

In this paper we grapple with the ways in which real-world issues directly impact children’s lives and ask what else gets produced through encounters with children’s global news media, specifically within the contexts of the United Kingdom and Norway. Our aim is to experiment with storytelling and worldling practices as a means to open up generative possibilities to encounter and reconfigure difficult knowledges. We take two contemporary events, the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire tragedy in London and the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting massacre in Florida, as a means to attend to ways in which affects are materialised across multiple times and spaces. News reports of these harrowing events, alongside what they produced in terms of child activism, racism and toxic masculinity, provided a catalyst for a feminist new materialist experiment in generating other knowledges through material-affective-embodied encounters. Newspapers, glue, sticky tape, string, torches, bags and a cartridge for a firearm were used in important work within a speculative workshop, where a small number of early childhood researchers came together to be open to multiple and experimental ways of (k)not-knowing to formulate collectively shared problems. Following Manning (2016), we recognise that to avoid getting stuck in familiar ways of thinking and doing we need to undertake research differently. We wondered how the re-materialisation of these events (through objects, artefacts, sounds and images) might shift our thinking about childhood in other directions. We dwell upon the affective work that these high-profile news events perform and how they might become rearticulated through affective encounters with materiality. Attending to how these events worked on us involves staying with the trouble (Haraway, 2016) as it becomes reignited, mutated and amplified across time and in different contexts. Our goal is to generate other possibilities that seek to reconfigure the ‘image of the child’. By resisting comforts of recognition, reflection and identification, we reach beyond what we think we know about how children are in the world and instead argue for their entanglement with difficult knowledges through our and their world-making practices.

scholarly journals YouTube: An international platform for sharing methods of cheating

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher M Seitz ◽  
Muhsin M Orsini ◽  
Meredith R Gringle
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
High School ◽  
The United States ◽  
Instructional Videos ◽  
Video Sharing ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
Traditional Technologies ◽  
Written Assignments ◽  
Age Range

This study investigated the video sharing website www.youtube.com for the presence of instructional videos that teach students how to cheat on academic work. Videos were analysed to determine the methods of cheating, the popularity of the videos, the demographics of viewers and those uploading the videos, and the opinions of viewers after watching these types of videos. A total of 43 videos were included in this study. Those featured in the videos taught viewers how to cheat on exams, homework, and written assignments using modern and traditional technologies. The far majority of those featured in the videos, and their viewers, were males within the age range of those who attend middle school, high school, and college. Videos were watched by people from several different nations, including the United States (US), Canada, Australia, India, and the United Kingdom (UK). The study's results suggest that instructional cheating videos are popular among students around the world. Positive viewer feedback indicates that the videos have educated and motivated students to put the methods of cheating found in the videos to use. Educators should consider YouTube as a resource in order to become familiar with various methods of cheating.

The Sunday Press

2020 ◽  
pp. 538-555
Author(s):  
Martin Conboy
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Class ◽  
News Media ◽  
Production Cycle ◽  
Success Story ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Daily Press ◽  
The World ◽  
Colour Photography

The Sunday newspaper is an often-neglected success story of the twentieth century news media landscape. The popularity and profitability of Sunday papers grew throughout the century to establish themselves as flagships of cultural and commercial trends and an essential complement to most national daily productions. On account of their production cycle, Sunday newspapers were always able to do things that the daily press with its punishing routines and pressure of deadlines were never able to achieve. Mapped onto the characteristic social class and politically stratified perspectives of British and Irish newspaper reading publics, the Sunday newspaper became a prominent vehicle for the experiments in layout and content after the full computerization of newspapers in the mid-1980s; lifestyle, commentary, colour photography all were pioneered in this format. The range of geographical variants of the Sunday newspaper are also considered from the regional Sunday Sun published in Newcastle from 1919 to the Irish Sunday Independent and Scottish Sunday Post to the migration of English titles across Britain into Ireland with increasing national specialization in their content and appeal. The chapter also considers the varying reasons for the failure of high-profile Sunday papers such as the Sunday Correspondent and the News of the World.

Henry Mayer Lecture 2012: The Market Populism of Rupert Murdoch

2012 ◽  
Vol 144 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
David McKnight
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Republican Party ◽  
The United States ◽  
Commercial Success ◽  
The Past ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Us ◽  
Liberal Ideology ◽  
The World ◽  
English Speaking

Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is the most powerful media organisation in the world. Murdoch's commercial success is obvious, but less well understood is his successful pursuit of political goals, using his news media. Murdoch himself is probably the most influential Australian of all time. He says the recent News of the World hacking scandal went ‘went against everything [he stands] for’. But how true is this? He sees himself as an anti-establishment rebel, yet his influence in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States makes him part of a global elite. He has become one of the key promoters of neo-liberal ideology of small government and deregulation over the past 30 years. The basis of his philosophy was expressed by one of his former editors, David Montgomery, who said ‘Rupert has contempt for the rules. Contempt even for governments.’ Murdoch is also a devotee of the neo-conservative wing of the US Republican Party. The possibility of exercising power through ownership of the news media has been little studied in recent years, but Murdoch's role in English-speaking countries over the last 30 years shows that perhaps we need to look again at such media theories.

Private International Assistance in Major Disasters: The Brother's Brother Foundation

1985 ◽  
Vol 1 (S1) ◽  
pp. 309-311
Author(s):  
Luke L. Hingson
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
News Media ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Public Service Announcements ◽  
News Reports ◽  
The Past ◽  
Private Organizations ◽  
The World ◽  
Pittsburgh Area ◽  
International Rescue Committee

Over the past two decades, the general public in affluent western societies has become vividly aware of major disasters from around the world through the improving technology of the news media. Each one of us can readily recall the instantaneous reports on earthquake ravaged Guatemala in 1976; war-torn Nicaragua and Cambodia in 1979; and devastating earthquakes in Italy and Algeria in 1980.Once alerted to the magnitude of these disasters, private organizations (churches, foundations, civic clubs, etc.), some 300–400 in number, in dozens of countries mobilized public support through news reports, ads, public service announcements, speeches and circular letters. For example, the Pittsburgh area raised over one half million dollars for refugees in Southeast Asia in 1980 that was channeled through such groups as UNICEF, Catholic Relief Services, and the International Rescue Committee.

scholarly journals The Language of Inequality: Evidence Economic Inequality Increases Wealth Category Salience

2021 ◽  
pp. 014616722110366
Author(s):  
Kim Peters ◽  
Jolanda Jetten ◽  
Porntida Tanjitpiyanond ◽  
Zhechen Wang ◽  
Frank Mols ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
News Media ◽  
Economic Inequality ◽  
The United States ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The Rich

There is evidence that in more economically unequal societies, social relations are more strained. We argue that this may reflect the tendency for wealth to become a more fitting lens for seeing the world, so that in economically more unequal circumstances, people more readily divide the world into “the haves” and “have nots.” Our argument is supported by archival and experimental evidence. Two archival analyses reveal that at times of greater inequality, books in the United Kingdom and the United States and news media in English-speaking countries were more likely to mention the rich and poor. Three experiments, two preregistered, provided evidence for the causal role of economic inequality in people’s use of wealth categories when describing life in a fictional society; effects were weaker when examining real economic contexts. Thus, one way in which inequality changes the world may be by changing how we see it.

Voice and Communication for the Transgender/Transsexual Client: Presenting the WPATH Standing Committee on Voice and Communication

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-36
Author(s):  
Richard Adler
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Organization ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Important Work ◽  
Standing Committee ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
The Voice

The World Professional Association for Transgender Health is an international organization that has a purpose of providing guidelines for safe, effective, and evidence-based practice for the Transgender/Transsexual client throughout the world in all aspects of care, including medical, psychological, voice, speech, and other services. Newly formed and accepted as an integral part of the organization, the Voice and Communication Committee is comprised of four speech-language pathologists (SLPs) from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia. This article introduces SLPs to this committee and its important work in providing guidelines for offering voice and communication therapy to all Transgender (TG) clients.

scholarly journals Journalistic Ethics and Freedom of Expression: Ideals and Realities

ICR Journal ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 377-382
Author(s):  
Christoph Marcinkowski
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
The United States ◽  
Federal Bureau ◽  
Federal Bureau Of Investigation ◽  
High Profile ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
Journalistic Ethics

The still ongoing scandal surrounding the News International phone-hacking scandal in the United Kingdom, a controversy involving the News of the World, a now-defunct British tabloid newspaper, has resulted in several high-profile resignations, arrests, and legal instigations. The scandal eventually also garnered attention in the United States, when in July 2011, the Federal Bureau of Investigation launched its own investigations into the access of voicemails of victims of the 9/11 attacks. The affair has once more brought to the forefront the issue of ethics in today’s world of journalism.

Media

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael B. Munnik
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
News Media ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Central Focus

Muslims are a subsidiary concern for religion reporting in Scotland’s news media. If journalists must cover religion, issues pertaining to Christian sectarianism still occupy a central focus, although, as more Scots identify with no religion, news reports take on a memorialising tone, marking religion’s decline. Sometimes these storylines merge, as was the case with the biggest religion story in the news during my research about Muslims and the news media in Scotland: the revelation of the sexual abuse of several priests by Cardinal Keith O’Brien (Deveney, 2013). The dominant Scottish story overall was the preparation for the referendum on independence. Muslims played a humble part in coverage of the second story and no part at all in the first.

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