scholarly journals From Respected Religion Scholar Expert to Cartoon Character: Reflections in the Wake of the Danish Muhammad Cartoon Crisis and Three Decades as Expert to the Media

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 333
Author(s):  
Tim Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Study ◽  
Public Television ◽  
The Public ◽  
Daily Newspapers ◽  
Scientific Approach ◽  
Cartoon Character ◽  
The Media ◽  
Opinion Maker ◽  
Cartoon Crisis ◽  
The University

Respected scholar, expert, public opinion maker, oracle, under-cover politician, charlatan, cartoon character – all roles “out there” waiting for scholars sharing knowledge with a wider public. Scholars of religion trying to carve out more room in the public arena for a nonreligious, scientific approach to religion always risk digging their graves as (respected) scholars. What’s worse, they also risk digging the grave for a valuable and respectable, as well as publicly valued and respected academic, scientific study of religion. The scholar popularizing scientifically based knowledge, not least via the mass media (daily newspapers or public television), may “become” political and controversial to such a degree that s/he becomes a problem for the scientific study of religion, the community of scholars of religion, and the university with which s/he is affiliated. The otherwise valuable engagement threatens the reputation of science as being something valuable, “pure” and “neutral,” elevated above the dirty business of politics and power. In spite of the risks, the engaged scholar, it is, however, also argued, actually can help to strengthen the position, inside and outside the academy, of scientifically based knowledge and of the critical, analytical, scientific study of religion.

scholarly journals The development of the program of voluntary blood donation promotion in students population of the University of Belgrade

2015 ◽  
Vol 72 (6) ◽  
pp. 489-494 ◽  
Author(s):  
Snezana Jovanovic-Srzentic ◽  
Ivana Rodic ◽  
Mirjana Knezevic
Keyword(s):  
Blood Donors ◽  
Blood Donation ◽  
Population Group ◽  
Minimum Risk ◽  
Blood Donations ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Media ◽  
Donated Blood ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year

Background/Aim. Given that in each country students represent the most progressive population group, as of 2001, the Blood Transfusion Institute of Serbia (BTIS) has been carrying the program of voluntary blood donation promotion and education of volunteers at the University of Belgrade (UB). In 2011, the BTIS intensified all activities at the UB. The aim of this study was to present activities performed from 2001 at the Blood Donors` Motivation Department (DMD) of the BTIS related with increasing the level of awareness on voluntary blood donation in the Belgrade students` population, enhancing their motivation to become voluntary blood donors (VBDs), increasing the number of blood donations at faculties of the UB, and increasing the number of blood donations in the UB students population compared with the total number of blood units collected by BTIS in Belgrade, with the emphasis on the year 2013. Methods. Initially, the applied methodology was based on encouraging students to donate blood through discussions and preparatory lectures, followed by organized blood drives. Appropriate selection of volunteers at each faculty was crucial. Besides their recognisable identity, they had to have remarkable communication skills and ability to positivly affect persons in their environment. The applied principle was based on retention of volunteers all through the final academic year, with the inclusion of new volunteers each year and 1,000 preparatory lectures on the annual basis. The activities were realized using two Facebook profiles, SMS messages and continuous notification of the public through the media. Results. There was an increase in the average number of students in blood drives at the faculties from 2011, when the average number of the students per blood drive was 39, followed by 43 in 2012 and 46 in 2013. The number of students who donated blood in 2013 increased by 21.3% compared with 2012 data. Conclusion. The applied concept highly contributed to generation and retention of future VBDs willing to regularly donate blood in the coming years, with a minimum risk of transmission of transfusion transmissible diseases markers.

scholarly journals ANALISIS AKTIVITAS HUBUNGAN MEDIA DALAM MANAJEMEN KRISIS DI PERGURUAN TINGGI

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 86
Author(s):  
Narayana Mahendra Prastya
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Media Relations ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Sources ◽  
The Media ◽  
The University ◽  
Information Subsidies

Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis aktivitas hubungan media yang dilakukan oleh Universitas Islam Indonesia, saat kejadian Tragedi Diksar Mapala UII. Kejadian tersebut merupakan krisis karena tidak diduga, terjadi secara mendadak, dan menimbulkan gangguan pada aktivitas dan citra organisasi. Hubungan media adalah salah satu aktivitas yang penting dalam manajemen krisis, karena media massa mampu mempengaruhi persepsi masyarakat terhadap satu organisasi dalam krisis. Dalam situasi krisis sendiri, persepsi dapat menjadi lebih kuat daripada fakta. Batasan hubungan media dalam tulisan ini adalah dalam aspek penyediaan informasi yang terdiri dari : (1) kualitas narasumber organisasi dan (2) cara organisasi dalam membantu liputan media. Data penelitian ini diperoleh dengan mewawancarai wartawan dari media di Yogyakarta yang meliput Diksar Mapala UII. Hasilnya menunjukkan bahwa media membutuhkan narasumber pimpinan tertinggi universitas. Informasi yang diperoleh dari humas universitas dirasa masih kurang cukup. Dalam hal upaya organisasi membantu aktivitas liputan, UII dinilai masih kurang cepat dan kurang terbuka dalam memberikan informasi. The purpose of this article is to analyse the media relations activities by Islamic University of Indonesia (UII), related to crisis "Tragedi Diksar Mapala UII". This incident lead to crisis because it is unpredictable, happen suddenly, disturb the organizational activities, and make the organization's image being at risk. Media relations is one important activites in crisis management. It is because mass media could affect the public perception toward an organization. In crisis situation, perception could be stronger than the fact. The limitation of media relations in this article are information subsidies. Information subsidies consist of : (1) the quality of news sources that provided by the organization, and (2) how organization facilitate the news gathering process by the media. The data for this article is being collected from interview with journalist from the mass media in Yogyakarta. The results are media want the top management of the universities as the news sources. The information that being provided by public relations is not enough. The university also lack of quickness and lack of openess.

On Not Believing What You Read

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Rose
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
High School ◽  
College Admissions ◽  
Reading Strategy ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Gallup Poll ◽  
The Public ◽  
University Life ◽  
The Media ◽  
The University

Every student should, before graduating, see the 2006 teen-comedy movie Accepted. It’s a broad satire built around some high-school misfits whom no college admissions officer in his right mind would accept, not even in this economy. So they commandeer an abandoned mental asylum and construct their own college based on Marxism (Groucho), and they do to higher education what A Night at the Opera did to Il Trovatore. To a flabbergasted visitor, the teenage president of the college recommends the school newspaper, The Rag. “There’s a great op-ed piece in there about not believing everything you read,” he explains. Like all absurdist comedy, Accepted poses that subversive question, “Who’s absurd here?” It stands upside-down all the pretenses of university life, including its most fundamental pretense, that if we spend years here reading, we will get closer to the truth. Is there, though, any necessary relation between reality and what we find on the printed page? It’s a question that has become particularly acute today, when it seems that every man is his own deconstructionist. When Paul Ricoeur coined the phrase “hermeneutic of suspicion,” he was only recommending this reading strategy to literary theorists, but his students took it quite seriously and in 1968 turned the University of Nanterre into, well, something like the campus in Accepted. And today that skepticism is thoroughly mainstream. According to the Gallup Poll, only 32 percent of Americans in 2016 have confidence in the media, down from a high of 72 percent in 1976, post-Woodward and Bernstein. Among millennials (18-to-29-year-olds), just 11 percent trust the media. In Britain, back in 1975, only about a third of tabloid readers and just 3 percent of readers of “quality” broadsheets felt that their paper “often gets its facts wrong.” But by 2012 no British daily was trusted by a majority of the public “to report fairly and accurately.” In something of a contradiction, the Sun enjoyed both the largest circulation and the lowest level of trust (just 9 percent).

Neue Gemeinwohlherausforderungen - Konsequenzen für Wettbewerbsrecht und Regulierung

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Good ◽  
The Public ◽  
Internet Age ◽  
Fourth Symposium ◽  
Regulatory Law ◽  
Fourth Volume ◽  
The Media ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
The One ◽  
The University

On 11 and 12 September 2018, the fourth symposium of the “Wissenschaftliche Vereinigung für das gesamte Regulierungsrecht” [“Scientific Association for the Entirety of Regulatory Law”] took place at the University of Regensburg. The topic was: “New challenges for the public good – consequences for competition law and regulation”. The basic idea of the conference concept was, on the one hand, to consider which new challenges for the public good exist in the classical network economies of the telecommunications, energy and railway regulations, and on the other hand, to focus on adjacent sectors – such as the media and communications industries – and finally go beyond the sectors considered so far. The conference was divided into the following thematic blocks: “basic papers”, “classic sectors in transition”, “new sectors in the internet age” and “new challenges beyond the sectors”. The fourth volume of the series contains the lectures given at the symposium. With contributions by Markus Ludwigs, Heike Schweitzer, Thomas Fetzer, Charlotte Kreuter-Kirchhof, Karten Otte, Karl-Eberhard Hain, Ralf Müller-Terpitz, Rupprecht Podszun, Thosten Kingreen, Julia Barth, Anna Kellner, Fabian Toros and Florian Sackmann

scholarly journals Québec News-Print Media Portrayals of Immigrants During the Reasonable Accomodations Commission

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Hall
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
News Media ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Media Portrayals ◽  
The Public ◽  
Daily Newspapers ◽  
Reasonable Accommodations ◽  
Critical Content ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Discourses

Media and public discourses are constantly changing as a result of their effect on one another. The Consultation Commission on Accommodation Practices Related to Cultural Differences which roamed the province of Québec in late 2007 was widely reported on in the mainstream news-media. This paper provides a critical content analysis of 105 articles in three Québec daily newspapers (La Presse, Le Soleil, and The Gazette) during the months of September to December 2007 when the public forums discussing the reasonable accommodation of minority groups took place. By making theoretical linkages with the data collected, the findings show that the media discourses between the three newspapers vary slightly and are not accurate representations of the public discourses surrounding the issue of reasonable accommodations amongst the Québec population.

Counter-hegemonic language practices and ideologies

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariana Achugar
Keyword(s):  
Language Ideologies ◽  
Standard English ◽  
University President ◽  
Communicative Practices ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The University ◽  
Texas Border ◽  
Institutional Actors

This article examines how local norms for Spanish use in a multilingual Southwest Texas border setting respond to and contest dominant monolingual ideologies. The analysis focuses on notions of what languages are legitimate for use in the public sphere in this community and on the benefits of engaging in particular communicative practices. The corpus analyzed comes from interviews with key members of the university (president, program director, professor) and from newspaper articles published in the local newspaper. The article shows how institutional actors from the media and education contest dominant monolingual language ideologies by situating these views historically and connecting them to key conceptual metaphors that encapsulate language ideologies. In doing so, these institutional actors challenge national ideologies that construct monolingualism and standard ‘English’ as the natural and only option connected to social and economic success, offering Spanish and bilingualism as legitimate alternatives.

scholarly journals "Powerless, Public-Spirited Women," "Angry Feminists," and "The Muffin Lobby": Newspaper and Magazine Coverage of the Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women, the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, and REAL Women of Canada

1999 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenn Goddu
Keyword(s):  
Advisory Council ◽  
Group Leaders ◽  
The Public ◽  
Daily Newspapers ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Action Committee ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Status Of Women

Abstract: This paper examines the interaction between women's groups and the media between 1980 and 1995. In particular, this analysis documents the relationship between the Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women, the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, and REAL Women of Canada and newspaper and magazine journalists. Using extensive examples from major Canadian daily newspapers and magazines and drawing on individual interviews with group leaders on whom the media focused, this study demonstrates how journalists stressed the personal, private details about the women leaders of the more feminist groups in an effort to contain the role of women in the public sphere. Résumé: Cet article examine l'interaction entre les groupes de femmes et les médias de 1980 à 1995. En particulier, cette analyse documente la relation entre d'une part le Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women ("Le Conseil consultatif canadien sur la condition de la femme"), le National Action Committee on the Status of Women ("Le Comité d'action national sur la condition de la femme") et REAL Women of Canada ("Femmes "réelles'' du Canada") et d'autre part les reporters de journaux et revues. Utilisant des exemples détaillés provenant de revues et de quotidiens importants au Canada et se fondant sur des entrevues particulières avec des dirigeantes de groupes sur lesquels les médias ont porté leur attention, cette étude montre comment les journalistes ont mis l'accent sur les détails privés et personnels ayant trait aux dirigeantes des groupes plus féministes afin de restreindre le rôle des femmes dans la sphère publique.

scholarly journals Study on the Factors of Photographic Images Sharing among Online Community

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-17
Author(s):  
Mohd Pirdaus B. Mat Husain
Keyword(s):  
Communication Technology ◽  
Online Community ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
The Public ◽  
Photographic Images ◽  
Photographic Image ◽  
Image Sharing ◽  
The Media ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
The University

Communication technology has played an important role in disseminating information to the public. This information includes the dissemination of photographic images seen in various forms. The Internet is also seen as a tool to convince the public of an event. Therefore, the main objective of this study is to see what are the main factors that influence students to tend to do the sharing of photographic images in the online community. The method used for this research was a focus group discussion (FGD) consisting of 21 informants aged 20 - 25 years old. All informants are students of the University College of Yayasan Pahang (UCYP). To see the basis of the spread of a photographic image, Narrative Theory has been used to support this study. The findings of the study found that several factors are seen as the main factors of image sharing online. Among them is the use of themes in the image and the emotions found in the image. In addition, ‘subject matter’ and ethics is an important factor that is evaluated before a photographic image is shared. However, some informants do not take any action instead are more interested in sharing photographic images. This is due to the lack of exposure to photography and the use of the media itself.

scholarly journals How the Croatian Daily Press Presents Science News

2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-112
Author(s):  
Adrijana Šuljok ◽  
Marija Brajdić Vuković
Keyword(s):  
Developed Countries ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Media Reporting ◽  
The Public ◽  
Daily Newspapers ◽  
Daily Press ◽  
Science News ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Relationship

Research into media representations of science is widespread and well-established in scientifically and technologically highly developed countries. However, very little is known about the characteristics of media reporting of science in transition countries, which are only just beginning to recognize the importance of research into the relationship between science, the media and the public. In this study, using content analysis of the daily newspapers with the largest circulations in Croatia (Jutarnji list and Večernji list) we researched the quantity and quality of media reporting of science. We link them to the characteristics of the Croatian media (tabloidization, the erosion of professional criteria) and the wider social context from which they stem. Our findings have shown poor representation of science news in the daily press as well as a low level of trustworthiness, especially in reporting biomedical news.

Memorialization, Memorabilia, and the Mediated Afterlife of Ada Reeve

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 132-145
Author(s):  
Martina Lipton
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Nationalism ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Popular Entertainment ◽  
Popular Theatre ◽  
Contemporary Theatre ◽  
The Public ◽  
Is Research ◽  
Research Fellow ◽  
The Media ◽  
The University

This paper explores the differing levels of control over representations of Ada Reeve's mediated and ‘ghosted’ afterlife. Confessional memoirs that strategically frame the star persona for posterity provide her with the most immediate control. However, the star can become recruited to new assertions of cultural nationalism, which desire to claim coherent genealogies, public celebration, and commemoration of a star's afterlife. This, paired with nostalgic desires for past ‘golden ages’, also mediates strategic interests in her imbricated identity. Similarly, the star's mediated afterlife inevitably becomes susceptible to repositioning by theatre managements, the media, family, fans, and the public when their revisionist agendas make new assertions for the star's image after death in various immediate political and social contexts, and as communal encoded memory. Martina Lipton is Research Fellow (Australia) at the University of Warwick and Honorary Associate Lecturer at the University of Queensland. She has published several articles in Australasian Drama Studies, Contemporary Theatre Review, New Theatre Quarterly, and Popular Entertainment Studies on pantomime and popular theatre performers, and her paper ‘Localism and British Modern Pantomime’ is in A World of Popular Entertainments: an Edited Volume of Critical Essays (2012).

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