scholarly journals Blackfish and SeaWorld: A Case Study in the Framing of a Crisis

2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-243
Author(s):  
Randall L. Waller ◽  
Christina L. Iluzada
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
Frame Theory ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
High Profile

This research focuses on the crisis that the documentary Blackfish precipitated at SeaWorld. The study begins with a brief account of the growth and evolution of SeaWorld and the financial and reputational damage that followed Blackfish’s release in 2013. A literature review of framing and frame theory follows. Next, the three issue-related, transformative frames embedded in the text/video of Blackfish are identified and analyzed; then the three main counter frames deployed by SeaWorld are identified and analyzed. The conclusion discusses how and why Blackfish prevailed in this high-profile framing contest. It does so by discussing the resonance, coherence, and credibility of the documentary’s anticaptivity narrative and its superiority over SeaWorld’s counterframing campaign. Perhaps even more important, the conclusion briefly examines how the tectonic shift in late-20th-century public opinion regarding animal rights—the kairotic backdrop of this crisis—forced SeaWorld to fundamentally change its business model in order to meet the dictates of this new ethos and to reestablish its postcrisis legitimacy.

Criminal justice in the middlebrow imagination: The punitive dimensions of Making a Murderer

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel LaChance ◽  
Paul Kaplan
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Law And Order ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Crime And Punishment

Popular documentary representations of crime and punishment have traditionally tended to fall into two camps: programs that are critical of law enforcement agencies and those that are sympathetic to them. In this article, we show how programs that present themselves as critical of legal authorities can nonetheless reinforce the “law and order punitivism” that underlay the ratcheting up of harsh punishment in the late 20th century. In a case study of the popular documentary miniseries Making a Murderer, we show how this can happen when texts fetishize the question of a criminal defendant’s innocence, adopt a “good versus evil” approach to players in the criminal justice system, and perpetuate a procedural rather than substantive vision of justice. Arguments are supported by a close reading of Making a Murderer and illustrated by a line of discussion it inspired in an internet forum.

IoT Driven Business Model Innovation and Sustainability: a literature review and a case Study in Brazil

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cesar A. de Souza ◽  
Juliana N. Correa ◽  
Moacir M. Oliveira ◽  
Annabeth Aagaard ◽  
Mirko Presser
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Business Model Innovation

Why are missionaries in America? A case study of a Korean mission movement in the United States

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 426-440
Author(s):  
Rebecca Y. Kim
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Korea ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
The United States ◽  
Great Commission ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Majority World ◽  
Mission Movement ◽  
Christian Nation

Why are missionaries coming to the United States? Why is the country that is a top missionary-sending nation also a top missionary destination? Based on an in-depth case study of one of the largest missionary-sending agencies in South Korea that sends many of its missionaries to the United States, this article explores five reasons for the phenomena of missionaries in America. These factors include the perennial importance of the Great Commission among impassioned majority-world evangelicals as well as their framing of the United States as a “great nation,” the “modern Rome,” and a dominant “Christian nation in crisis” in the late 20th century.

CENSURING SOUNDS: TAPES, TASTE, AND THE CREATION OF EGYPTIAN CULTURE

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-256
Author(s):  
Andrew Simon
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Mass Medium ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Al Jazeera ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
High Culture ◽  
Egyptian Culture ◽  
Middle East Studies

AbstractIn this article, I argue that audiocassette technology decentralized state-controlled Egyptian media long before the advent of al-Jazeera and the Internet. By enabling any citizen to become a cultural producer, as opposed to a mere consumer, the mass medium and its users sparked significant anxiety in the mid-to-late 20th century, when contentious cassette recordings led many local critics to assert that “vulgar” tapes were poisoning public taste, undermining high culture, and endangering Egyptian society. This article breaks down these arguments and shows that audiotapes actually broadcast a vast variety of voices. Thus, underlying many criticisms of cassette content, I contend, was not simply a concern for aesthetic sensibilities but a desire to dictate who created Egyptian culture during a time of tremendous change. By unpacking these discussions, this article harnesses Egypt as a case study to enhance prevailing investigations of sound, popular culture, and mass media in Middle East studies.

Change, Continuity and Partisan Sorting on Moral Issues

The Forum ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Ridenour ◽  
Elizabeth Schmitt ◽  
Barbara Norrander
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Gay Rights ◽  
Moral Issues ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
Over Time

Abstract Is public opinion on moral issues basically stable or does it change over time? Evidence from the late 20th century indicated contrary patterns for public opinion on abortion, where attitudes were mostly stable, versus views toward gay rights, where public opinion was moving quickly in the liberal direction. This article examines whether public opinion trends on abortion and gay rights from the 20th century remain the same at the beginning of the 21st century. Second, we explore whether change or continuity better describes public attitudes on a host of moral issues. Finally, we investigate the contribution of partisan sorting to contemporary attitudes on moral issues.

scholarly journals Henri Lefebvre on education: Critique and pedagogy

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 410-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue Middleton
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Student Activism ◽  
Production Of Space ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Spatial Turn ◽  
Student Protests ◽  
Government Grants ◽  
20Th Century History ◽  
Work Production

The ‘spatial turn’ in education policy studies fuelled interest in Lefebvre’s work: initially, in his work Production of Space and, more recently, Rhythmanalysis and Right to the City. Yet, although in these texts Lefebvre critiques universities and schools and introduces original pedagogical concepts, their educational strands have attracted little attention. Lefebvre’s other works available in English have been largely overlooked in education literature. As France’s first Professor of Sociology, Lefebvre was passionately engaged with education: in particular, teaching, competing for government grants and leading student activism. Critiques of education are threaded through Lefebvre’s three-volume Critique of Everyday Life, his writings on architecture and anthologies. Lefebvre’s work, The Explosion, is surprisingly neglected. A critique of French universities, it analyses student protests across Paris in 1968 – events in which Lefebvre was a leading activist. In geography and philosophy there are burgeoning secondary literatures on Lefebvre. Laying groundwork for such a literature in education, I survey Lefebvre’s references to education in all the works available in English. Arguing that Lefebvre was an educational thinker in his own right, this paper sketches a ‘roadmap’ for educational readings of Lefebvre’s prolific and largely sociological writing. This paper falls into three parts. The first uncovers core Marxist and phenomenological foundations of Lefebvre’s critiques of universities and schools. Building on these, it introduces Lefebvre’s pedagogical concepts. The second part contextualises these in relation to ‘New’ (or ‘Progressive’) education movements at ‘critical moments’ of 20th-century history. It includes a case study of one such moment – the 1968 Parisian student uprising – then outlines Lefebvre’s summation of education in the late 20th century. The third part draws together four ‘Lefebvrian’ pedagogical principles and considers their relevance today. Educational readings of Lefebvre, I suggest, can help educationists identify ‘cracks or interstices’ in ‘technocratic rationality’, suggesting strategies for resisting contemporary neo-liberal regimes.

Fast Fashion Business Model

2016 ◽  
pp. 186-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisa Arrigo
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Strategic Management ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Fast Fashion ◽  
Case Study Methodology ◽  
Management Perspective ◽  
Study Methodology ◽  
Key Drivers

Fast fashion is a commonly adopted strategy in fashion retailing, the relevance of which is well recognized both in academia and in practice; however fast fashion research is still under-developed and frequently focused on a single aspect of management or marketing. On the contrary, the aim of this chapter is to provide an overview of the whole fast fashion business model by describing its key drivers from a strategic management perspective. To reach this purpose, a critical systemization of the fast fashion literature review has been carried out and the fast fashion business models of the three major fast fashion companies worldwide have been investigated through the case study methodology. Findings have highlighted how the fast fashion business model is characterized by efficiency, speed and flexibility, all features that allow fast fashion companies to succeed in the highly competitive and over-supplied apparel market.

scholarly journals Business Model Innovation: Insights from a Multiple Case Study of Slovenian SMEs

Organizacija ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 161-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marjeta Marolt ◽  
Gregor Lenart ◽  
Damjan Maletič ◽  
Mirjana Kljajić Borštnar ◽  
Andreja Pucihar
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Multiple Case Study ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Business Model Innovation ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Multiple Case Studies ◽  
Research Frameworks

Abstract Background and Purpose: Business model innovation (BMI) has become increasingly important, especially in the fast changing business environment. While large enterprises approach these changes systematically, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are left to their own resourcefulness. For the purpose of developing dedicated methods and tools to support different SMEs in addressing these challenges, we have conducted a multiple case study to gain insights into factors that drive SMEs to innovate their BM, how they approach BMI and what changes they made to their BM. Design/Methodology/Approach: First the framework of analysis was developed based on BMI research frameworks identified in literature review. Then the multiple case studies were conducted following the case study protocol developed by Envision project. Results: Based on the proposed framework the results of four Slovene SME cases revealed differences between enterprises regarding the drivers behind BMI and changes in usage of the different BMI elements. Conclusion: Overall, the results suggest all four SMEs, coming from different sectors, are facing BMI challenges without systematically addressing it and without using any dedicated BM ontologies or tools.

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