scholarly journals Multiliteracies for Combating Information Disorder and Fostering Civic Dialogue

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 205630512098444
Author(s):  
Cristiane S. Damasceno
Keyword(s):  
Digital Age ◽  
Learning Goals ◽  
False Information ◽  
Potential Harm ◽  
Public Spheres ◽  
Civic Dialogue ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Creation

Widespread misleading stories circulating in networked public spheres have raised debates about their potential harm to democracies, organizations, and individuals. In the face of this challenge, educators have been rightly questioning how to prepare students to thrive in this so-called post-truth era. Scholarship on media and information literacies has often focused on incorporating new topics to address the issue and re-articulating learning goals. This body of work, however, does not address the question of how to deal with fast-paced changes that surround information disorder in the digital age. Based on Stuart Selber’s multiliteracies, this article proposes a set of competencies in combination with an analysis of the factors that contribute to the creation and circulation of false information. My argument focuses on students’ need to effectively identify misleading stories, thoughtfully question the role of technology in society, and ethically engage in civic dialogues. Taken together, these skills and knowledge provide a framework that they can expand upon as the landscape of information disorder shifts.

The Creation of the Film Council

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gillian Doyle
Keyword(s):  
Policy Development ◽  
New Labour ◽  
Film Production ◽  
Review Group ◽  
Policy Review ◽  
Tax Relief ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Film Policy

This chapter first analyses the two decades of policy development and debate that lay behind the creation of the Film Council. It details the rebirth of interest in film policy and consequent key interventions made by successive Conservative governments after 1979. The Conservatives’ deployment of film tax relief along with their use of the National Lottery as a funding body for film production is described. Next, the New Labour government’s invention of the Film Council in 2000 is considered, noting the diverse policy moves behind this and role of the Film Policy Review Group. The major impact of the creation of the Film Council on the veteran British Film Institute’s status and range of activity is made clear. The chapter highlights how New Labour’s deployment of the dual logics of using expertise and seeking rationalisation together changed the face of film support.

Making a “Bangladeshi diaspora”: Migration, group formation and emplacement between Portugal and Bangladesh

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-24
Author(s):  
José Mapril
Keyword(s):  
Group Formation ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Public Spheres ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Emplacement Processes ◽  
National Boundaries

In 1996, Appadurai argued that imagination is an essential element in the creation of cross-border political forms.Electronic media, for example, establishes links across national boundaries, linking those who move and those who stay.In his argument, these diasporic public spheres were examples of post-national political worlds and revealed the erosion of the nation-state in the face of globalisation and modernity. In this paper, I draw inspiration on this concept of diasporicpublic sphere but to show how these imaginaries are intimately tied to forms of group making and emplacement in several contexts. This argument is based on an ethnographic research about the creation of a transnational federation ofBangladeshi associations – the All European Bangladeshi Association (AEBA) – in the past decade, its main objectivesand activities. Through the analysis of an AEBA event that took place in Lisbon, I want to show the productive dialecticbetween diasporic imaginaries, group formation and emplacement processes between Portugal and Bangladesh.

Public Hearings and Public Spheres in India: The Case of the Right to Information (RTI) Movement

2014 ◽  
Vol 152 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pradip Ninan Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Public Spheres ◽  
The Public ◽  
Local Means ◽  
Public Hearings ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Right To Information ◽  
The Right

This article explores issues related to the Right to Information movement in India specifically in relation to the public sphere, a concept that is habitually invoked to describe spaces for deliberation and communication. It explores the role played by the jan sunwai (public hearings) in the creation of a counter public sphere based on the local idiom, local means of communication and performative traditions that enabled a balance between speaking, listening and actioning. The article focuses on the Right to Information movement and the jan sunwai as an important indigenous means and pedagogical device used by this movement to mobilise, radicalise and give voice to marginalised people who have traditionally been expected to remain silent, even in the face of the most atrocious atrocities committed by the forward castes and wealthy.

“She Set Me Writing My First Play”

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Brewer Redwine
Keyword(s):  
The Face ◽  
Stable Family ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Death Wish

Chapter 1 recovers the importance of Laura Armstrong to Yeats’s beginnings as a poet and dramatist. In his relationship with Armstrong, Yeats begins the pattern of needing a challenging woman to start writing and to imagine himself in the role of playwright. The tensions between the two in terms of class and power—Armstrong came from a more financially stable family—and the approaching date of Armstrong’s wedding to another gave rise to the now familiar death wish in Yeats’s work for her. Yeats wrote out his anxieties about his parents’ marriage, his mother’s illness and depression, and his insecurities in the face of Armstrong’s high-handedness in the creation of these early plays, and his work for Armstrong stands as an important precursor for his lifetime of fruitful writing out for women; Armstrong began the patterns that Yeats would follow in his years of work for Maud Gonne

scholarly journals Perempuan dan Media Massa

2007 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 559
Author(s):  
Iffatin Nur
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Right To Know ◽  
Capitalist System ◽  
Public Spheres ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Creation

The role of mass media is not only providing information to the public to fulfill their 'right to know' and 'right to expression', but also leading the creation of societies' images, myths, behavior, knowledge, even ideologies. Mass media produce new realities through texts, define facts or reality which amongst the semiotics such process is called creating the second reality from the first reality by the media. The media have created new realities in which men are portrayed as superior and engaging in all public spheres, whereas women are visualized as the weak. The production of mass media is also closely related to capitalist system of economy, which sometimes requires certain to become the victims; and women have been the victims in this capitalist system.

The role of affect in feelings of obligation

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefen Beeler-Duden ◽  
Meltem Yucel ◽  
Amrisha Vaish
Keyword(s):  
Positive Emotions ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Sense Of Obligation

Abstract Tomasello offers a compelling account of the emergence of humans’ sense of obligation. We suggest that more needs to be said about the role of affect in the creation of obligations. We also argue that positive emotions such as gratitude evolved to encourage individuals to fulfill cooperative obligations without the negative quality that Tomasello proposes is inherent in obligations.

Questions on the role of biofilms for the adaptation of microorganisms to unfavorable environmental factors by the example of P. aeruginosa

2020 ◽  
Vol 99 (4) ◽  
pp. 379-383
Author(s):  
Vasily N. Afonyushkin ◽  
N. A. Donchenko ◽  
Ju. N. Kozlova ◽  
N. A. Davidova ◽  
V. Yu. Koptev ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Antibiotic Resistance ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Barrier Function ◽  
Infectious Agent ◽  
Antagonistic Activity ◽  
The Body ◽  
Main Function ◽  
Pathogenic Potential ◽  
The Face

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a widely represented species of bacteria possessing of a pathogenic potential. This infectious agent is causing wound infections, fibrotic cystitis, fibrosing pneumonia, bacterial sepsis, etc. The microorganism is highly resistant to antiseptics, disinfectants, immune system responses of the body. The responses of a quorum sense of this kind of bacteria ensure the inclusion of many pathogenicity factors. The analysis of the scientific literature made it possible to formulate four questions concerning the role of biofilms for the adaptation of P. aeruginosa to adverse environmental factors: Is another person appears to be predominantly of a source an etiological agent or the source of P. aeruginosa infection in the environment? Does the formation of biofilms influence on the antibiotic resistance? How the antagonistic activity of microorganisms is realized in biofilm form? What is the main function of biofilms in the functioning of bacteria? A hypothesis has been put forward the effect of biofilms on the increase of antibiotic resistance of bacteria and, in particular, P. aeruginosa to be secondary in charcter. It is more likely a biofilmboth to fulfill the function of storing nutrients and provide topical competition in the face of food scarcity. In connection with the incompatibility of the molecular radii of most antibiotics and pores in biofilm, biofilm is doubtful to be capable of performing a barrier function for protecting against antibiotics. However, with respect to antibodies and immunocompetent cells, the barrier function is beyond doubt. The biofilm is more likely to fulfill the function of storing nutrients and providing topical competition in conditions of scarcity of food resources.

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