scholarly journals Culture, Values and Integrity in Contemporary Society

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Willoughby Small
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Australian Society ◽  
The Media

Comments in the Australian press and the media have suggested that all is not well within certain sections of Australian society. This view was publicised by comments of the Chief of the Australian Army, who had stated in vigorous terms that he intends to change the culture in the Army. Changing the culture of any organisation is difficult, slow and time consuming, and so in an endeavour to facilitate this process, it is argued that some thought might be given to studying some of the classical writers who were faced with similar problems thus illustrating the relevance and timeliness of their ideas.

Rendering LGBTQ+ Visible in Nursing: Embodying the Philosophy of Caring Science

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 262-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Goldberg ◽  
Neal Rosenburg ◽  
Jean Watson
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Music Industry ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Diversity Initiatives ◽  
Call To Action ◽  
Health Care Institutions ◽  
Caring Science ◽  
Science Philosophy ◽  
The Media

Although health care institutions continue to address the importance of diversity initiatives, the standard(s) for treatment remain historically and institutionally grounded in a sociocultural privileging of heterosexuality. As a result, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) communities in health care remain largely invisible. This marked invisibility serves as a call to action, a renaissance of thinking within redefined boundaries and limitations. We must therefore refocus our habits of attention on the wholeness of persons and the diversity of their storied experiences as embodied through contemporary society. By rethinking current understandings of LGBTQ+ identities through innovative representation(s) of the media, music industry, and pop culture within a caring science philosophy, nurses have a transformative opportunity to render LGBTQ+ visible and in turn render a transformative opportunity for themselves.

‘To die, to sleep’ – assisted dying legislation in Victoria: A case study

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 1976-1982 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Gilbert ◽  
Jane Boag
Keyword(s):  
Terminal Illness ◽  
Assisted Dying ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
Australian Society ◽  
Australian State ◽  
Pain And Suffering ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Impact

Background: Assisted dying remains an emotive topic globally with a number of countries initiating legislation to allow individuals access to assisted dying measures. Victoria will become the first Australian state in over 13 years to pass Assisted Dying Legislation, set to come into effect in 2019. Objectives: This article sought to evaluate the impact of Victorian Assisted Dying Legislation via narrative view and case study presentation. Research design: Narrative review and case study. Participants and research context: case study. Ethical considerations: This legislation will provide eligible Victorian residents with the option to request access to assisted dying measures as a viable alternative to a potentially painful, protracted death. Findings: This legislation, while conservative and inclusive of many safeguards at present, will form the basis for further discussion and debate on assisted dying across Australia in time to come. Discussion: The passing of this legislation by the Victorian parliament was prolonged, emotive and divided not only the parliament but Australian society. Conclusion: Many advocates for this legislation proclaimed it was well overdue and will finally meet the needs of contemporary society. Protagonists claim that medical treatment should not provide a means of ending life, despite palliative care reportedly often failing to relieve the pain and suffering of individuals living with a terminal illness.

scholarly journals Arab Women and the Media

1970 ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Samira Aghacy
Keyword(s):  
Arab Women ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Sexual Roles ◽  
The Media ◽  
Women's Role ◽  
Traditional Roles ◽  
Images Of Women

Despite changes emerging in contemporary society regarding women's role and contributions, the images of women represented in the media have not reflected these changes sufficiently enough. Women have generally been presented within the restrictive mold of domesticity and subservience reinforcing traditional roles andbehaviors where a woman is defined in relation to men who see her within the framework of marital, maternal and sexual roles.

Media Language and Representations of Identity

1999 ◽  
Vol 62 ◽  
pp. 57-71
Author(s):  
Allan Bell
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
The Self ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Human Identity ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Anthony Giddens ◽  
The Media ◽  
Modern Identity ◽  
Late Modern

The use of language in the mass media is an act of identity. The media offer us representations of the identities of groups and individuals, and are even implicated in the very nature of contemporary identity. Drawing on the work of the British socio-logist Anthony Giddens on late modernity, this paper examines four aspects of identity in contemporary society, and illustrates and evidences them by analysis of New Zealand television advertisements. Firstly, human identity in the late modern age is 'reflexive', by which the media and their language reflect back images of the self. Secondly, modern identity is at least in part a 'narrative of the self, and many advertisements frame their appeal as aspects of personal biographies, including in particular personal choices and the lifestyle which constitutes them. Thirdly, the media are the crucial technologies in the re-organisation of time and place in the modern wodd, and offer a wodd for consumption. Lastly, the media are the means by which the global reaches into the local, and the local can be disseminated to the rest of the globe. These characteristics are manifested and identifiable across all levels of language.

scholarly journals Bernard Cohen’s Snowdome: somewhere in a postmodern time

2007 ◽  
pp. 185
Author(s):  
Andrés Romero Jódar
Keyword(s):  
Space Dimension ◽  
World Order ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Time Space ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Near Future ◽  
The City

Occidental societies, according to certain visions of a postmodern future as reflected in literature and arts, are heading towards a dystopian decadent world order. It is inside this perspective that I place the following essay with the aim to analyse the representation of Postmodernism and Postmodernity in Bernard Cohen’s experimental work, Snowdome. This novel can be conceived as a complex portrayal of contemporary existence and life in the city. By means of three different narrations and two stories separated by the unstable boundary of time, Cohen depicts contemporary Sidney from a nightmarish present of noise that leads to the complete isolation of the subject in a near future. The novel emphasises the multiplicity of information in contemporary society and the way in which that information becomes a constant noise flooding the city. The individual is unable to grasp a bit of that “pure reality” outside the simulacrum offered by the media and by the terrifying museum. Sidney and Australia become, in Cohen’s work, a prolongation of contemporary North-American invasive culture, based on the power of the TV screen and the falsehood of simulacrum, whereas individuals are plunged into a new time-space dimension which is placed somewhere in a postmodern time.

Coverage of Women’s Issues by Urdu and English Press: A Comparative Analysis

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1and2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. G. K. Sahu ◽  
Shah Alam
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Belief Systems ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Women's Issues ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Media ◽  
Contemporary Media

We are living in a mediated world where every aspect of human life is getting affected by images of media. Consciously or unconsciously, knowingly or unknowingly our attitudes, values and belief systems are getting increasingly influenced by media. Some media critics expressed serious concern over the influence of the media in our everyday life. In the contemporary media saturated world, the agenda of the media becoming the public agenda. It is in this context, the news media play an important role in shaping public opinion and creating consciousness on different issues. Keeping in view of the importance of the news media in the contemporary society, the paper makes an attempt to ascertain the agenda setting role of the press towards women’s issues. For the purpose two mainstream dailies- one from the English and the other from the Urdu language newspapers purposively taken and their contents related to women’s issues have been subjected to detailed analysis.

Education for Aborigines

1975 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 42-54
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Death Rate ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Australian Population ◽  
Australian Society ◽  
National Population ◽  
The Media ◽  
Stark Contrast

Over the last two years Australians have become more aware through the bitter comments of Aborigines in the media that a new government cannot overnight solve problems which have been festering for more than a century. It is still possible for the National Population Inquiry Report to note in 1975 that ‘in every conceivable comparison, the Aborigines and Islanders … stand in stark contrast to the general Australian society, and also to other “ethnic” groups, whether defined on the basis of race, nationality, birthplace, language or religion. They probably have the highest growth rate, the highest death rate, the worst health and housing, and legal status of any identifiable section of the Australian population’. They also have the least schooling.

scholarly journals The digital dreamtime: A shining light in the culture war

Te Kaharoa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Fraser
Keyword(s):  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Culture War ◽  
Culturally Specific ◽  
Australian Society ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Digital Production ◽  
The Media ◽  
Production Areas ◽  
Colonisation Process

The realm of the arts is often viewed as the stronghold in the last line of defence against the enduring colonisation process of the minority Aboriginal populace. It is one of few avenues in Australian society where Aboriginal people can have a voice and fortunately this is partly driven by the influence of the outside international artworld. In more recent years the digital production areas have further enabled the space and recognition for self-determined, culturally specific and diverse sources of creativity, exchange and community building.  This is all despite a culture war where mainstream institutions such as the galleries sector, the associated funding bodies, academia and the media are all being utilised and strengthened as non-military mechanisms of imperialism.

scholarly journals A IGREJA E O ESCÂNDALO DA PEDOFILIA

2011 ◽  
Vol 43 (120) ◽  
pp. 249
Author(s):  
Luís Corrêa Lima
Keyword(s):  
Social Reality ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Catholic Clergy ◽  
Huge Impact ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Church

O escândalo da pedofilia envolvendo o clero católico teve uma enorme repercussão na mídia. Para além de fatos pontuais amplamente noticiados, há uma realidade social da Igreja, do clero e da sociedade contemporânea que se manifesta, onde os agentes estão interligados e interagindo, e podem ser melhor conhecidos. Avaliam-se a dimensão do escândalo, desdobramentos e consequências, polêmicas que se seguiram, e a pertinência de medidas adotadas.ABSTRACT: The pedophilia scandal involving the Catholic clergy had a huge impact in the media. Beyond specific events widely reported, there is a social reality of the Church, the clergy and of contemporary society which is manifested, where the agents are interconnected and interacting, and may be better known. The extent of the scandal, developments and consequences, controversy that followed, and adequacy of measures taken are evaluated.

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