Introduction: assembling and materialising

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick McCurdy ◽  
Anna Feigenbaum ◽  
Fabian Frenzel ◽  
Gavin Brown
Keyword(s):  
Physical Space ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media And Communication ◽  
Media Practices ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Over Time

In this section introduction the authors consider the different elements that are brought together to create the material and social infrastructures of camps. Taking seriously the material and social infrastructures of camps, they examine the spatial division of labour within protest camps. They also introduce how the architecture of the public squares and gardens that are occupied by protesters can shape the ways in which politics is practised within them. Protest camps are seldom spontaneous, and it is necessary to understand better the processes by which camps are planned, and the ways in which political practices travel between camps over time. This includes the important role of media and communication infrastructure. The authors highlight the need to examine the relationship between the physical space of occupation and the mediated or virtual space. Of interest are the media practices used to maintain and amplify spaces of protest, with particular attention given to the role of media - and social media in particular - in maintaining and amplifying corporeal protest camp sites.

Achieving the Aims of Open Justice? The Relationship Between the Courts, the Media and the Public

2004 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Rodrick
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Foreseeable Future ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Do So

This article begins by outlining what the principle of open justice is intended to achieve. It then investigates the nature of the relationship that exists between the courts and the media, and between the media and the public, and suggests that these relationships are not always conducive to realising the aims of open justice. While the reporting role of the traditional news media will undoubtedly persist, at least for the foreseeable future, it is argued that, since courts now have the means to deliver to the public a fuller and truer picture of their work than the media can, they should seize the opportunity to do so.

Mediascape and Movement

2019 ◽  
pp. 100-122
Author(s):  
Francis L. F. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Protest Movements ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter reviews the relationship between the media and the Umbrella Movement. The mainstream media, aided by digital media outlets and platforms, play the important role of the public monitor in times of major social conflicts, even though the Hong Kong media do so in an environment where partial censorship exists. The impact of digital media in largescale protest movements is similarly multifaceted and contradictory. Digital media empower social protests by promoting oppositional discourses, facilitating mobilization, and contributing to the emergence of connective action. However, they also introduce and exacerbate forces of decentralization that present challenges to movement leaders. Meanwhile, during and after the Umbrella Movement, one can also see how the state has become more proactive in online political communication, thus trying to undermine the oppositional character of the Internet in Hong Kong.

scholarly journals Ambivalent Architecture: The Architecture Of “Distraction” The Influence Of Tele-Technology On Architecture And Urbanism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad M. Ghiyaei
Keyword(s):  
Communication Networks ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
The Public ◽  
Decisionmaking Process ◽  
Architectural Element ◽  
Media Space ◽  
The Media ◽  
Effects Of Media

The physical environment is being transformed by tele-technology and the emerging space of communication networks. Wireless tools, our instruments to engage with the emerging space of media, distribute our attention and dynamically switch between two distinctive operating logics to deal with the media and physical space. In addition to distracting us, they allow the users agency and fluidity of function in the physical space. Through synthesized research into the socio-technical effects of media space and cybernetic architecture influenced by this emerging space, this thesis aims to find an architectural approach that approximates the simultaneous and distractive aspects of virtual space(s) we inhabit through our devices. An ambivalent architecture is proposed which reflects this pseudo-hyperconnectivityof cyberspace in the physical collective space, and promotes this socio-spatial transparency and gives agency to the inhabitants to engage with the space in different ways. In this architecture, the architect is the initiator of the spatial decisionmaking process which allows the public to constantly transform the nature of the architectural element with their active participation.

Ethics, Media, and Reasoning

2014 ◽  
pp. 188-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmoud Eid
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Reasoning ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Integral Role ◽  
Ethical Skills ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Systems ◽  
Media And Communication ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Ethical Systems

Due to the rapidly changing norms and constant developments in technology, media and communication educators and practitioners are expected to (re)evaluate the functioning of ethics and reasoning in this field. This chapter discusses the relationship between ethics, reasoning, and the media, and the integral role of ethical reasoning education for communication and media professionals. Ethical systems and theories are discussed to inform the debate on the importance of ethics and reasoning education. Globalization and the growing interconnectivity of global media systems are presented, providing insight on how different media systems function around the world. The large impact that the media have on society necessitates the possession of rational and ethical skills; thus, the connection between reasoning and ethics is explained.

Ethics, Media, and Reasoning

2015 ◽  
pp. 1638-1647
Author(s):  
Mahmoud Eid
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Reasoning ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Integral Role ◽  
Ethical Skills ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Systems ◽  
Media And Communication ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Ethical Systems

Due to the rapidly changing norms and constant developments in technology, media and communication educators and practitioners are expected to (re)evaluate the functioning of ethics and reasoning in this field. This chapter discusses the relationship between ethics, reasoning, and the media, and the integral role of ethical reasoning education for communication and media professionals. Ethical systems and theories are discussed to inform the debate on the importance of ethics and reasoning education. Globalization and the growing interconnectivity of global media systems are presented, providing insight on how different media systems function around the world. The large impact that the media have on society necessitates the possession of rational and ethical skills; thus, the connection between reasoning and ethics is explained.

scholarly journals Ambivalent Architecture: The Architecture Of “Distraction” The Influence Of Tele-Technology On Architecture And Urbanism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad M. Ghiyaei
Keyword(s):  
Communication Networks ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
The Public ◽  
Decisionmaking Process ◽  
Architectural Element ◽  
Media Space ◽  
The Media ◽  
Effects Of Media

The physical environment is being transformed by tele-technology and the emerging space of communication networks. Wireless tools, our instruments to engage with the emerging space of media, distribute our attention and dynamically switch between two distinctive operating logics to deal with the media and physical space. In addition to distracting us, they allow the users agency and fluidity of function in the physical space. Through synthesized research into the socio-technical effects of media space and cybernetic architecture influenced by this emerging space, this thesis aims to find an architectural approach that approximates the simultaneous and distractive aspects of virtual space(s) we inhabit through our devices. An ambivalent architecture is proposed which reflects this pseudo-hyperconnectivityof cyberspace in the physical collective space, and promotes this socio-spatial transparency and gives agency to the inhabitants to engage with the space in different ways. In this architecture, the architect is the initiator of the spatial decisionmaking process which allows the public to constantly transform the nature of the architectural element with their active participation.

Pantheon – between Idea and Mathematics

2017 ◽  
Vol 55 (Supplementum) ◽  
pp. 63-66
Author(s):  
Michal Stehlík
Keyword(s):  
Social Situation ◽  
The State ◽  
National Museum ◽  
The Public ◽  
Science And Culture ◽  
The Media ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Over Time

The Pantheon has been the heart of the National Museum ever since its foundation. It was intended to serve the role of honouring personalities of Czech history, science, and culture. The composition of the busts and statues of represented personalities changed over time due to the current political and social situation. It was necessary to define its future form in the context of the renovation. In 2017, discussions of its composition raised the interest of the media and the public. Several possibilities of the new Pantheon were considered, the National Museum finally chose to return to the state of 1948 (55 busts and statues). The Pantheon gallery will exhibit the changes of the compositions throughout time.

Lebanese-American Allies of the Bush Administration

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadejda K Marinova
Keyword(s):  
Bush Administration ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Public ◽  
Un Security Council ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Relationship

Utilizing firsthand interviews with activists and Lebanese diaspora leaders, the chapter centers on the active role of a coalition of Lebanese-American organizations who advanced their positions and those of the Bush administration in promoting, before UN diplomats, members of Congress, the public, and the media, the passage of UN Security Council Resolution 1559 (2004). UNSCR 1559 mandated Syrian withdrawal from Lebanese territory and militia disarmament. The chapter also analyzes the involvement of Lebanese-American organizations in lobbying for the Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration Act (2003). The novel relationship between US policymakers and their junior Lebanese-American allies was in contrast to the 1990s, when Washington was interested in preserving the status quo with Syria and doors had been closed for the Lebanese diaspora activists. The relationship upholds the theoretical model central to this work, and it traces the interaction between the Bush administration and Lebanese-American organizations from 2001 until 2005, when Syria withdrew its troops from Lebanon.

scholarly journals From Poisonous Weeds to Endangered Species:ShenghuoTV, Media Ecology and Stability Maintenance

2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wanning Sun
Keyword(s):  
Social Stability ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Common Framework ◽  
The Media ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
And Control ◽  
Media And Communication ◽  
Media Practices ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Party State

The most common framework through which we understand media communication and political/social stability in China is that of hegemony and control. This characterization may have served us well in documenting how the mandate for stability often results in censorship, regulation and restriction, but it has two major faults: First, the focus on crackdowns, bans and censorship usually tells us something about what the party-state does not like, but does not convey much about what it does like. Second, it often obscures the routine ways the party-state and the market work together to shore up ideological domination and maintain stability. In this analysis of the policies, economics and content of a broad range of television programmes, I suggest that we look at the media and communication as an ideological-ecological system in order to arrive at a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between China's media practices and its ongoing objectives.

scholarly journals Digital materialities in the diasporic mourning of migrant death

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 671-681
Author(s):  
Karina Horsti
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
The Public ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
The Family ◽  
Digital Objects ◽  
Public Lives ◽  
Media Practices ◽  
The Relationship

This article examines memorialization among the family and friends of those who have died at the world’s deadliest border in the Mediterranean Sea. Digital media platforms are central spaces for new, innovative forms of coping with ambiguous loss or the inability to mourn over a dead body. The analysis focuses on the role of digital media technologies and the relationship between digital and material elements in memorialization. I examine the creation and circulation of digital objects of memorialization: visual assemblages in which the material and digital intertwine. The analysis demonstrates that digital media practices are not separate from the material world, nor do they make mourning and memorializing less human or less authentic. On the contrary, in transnational and mobile circumstances, digital technologies facilitate human, ethical engagement with complicated grief. Memorializing is crucial for both the private and the public lives of diasporic communities. In Europe, public recognition of the memorialization of refugee deaths would increase understanding of the human consequences of the border, allowing the dead to be seen as individuals with human relationships rather than as numbers.

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