scholarly journals Economic problems and the threat of the Old World: the USA media assessment

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 214-217
Author(s):  
Sergey Olegovich Buranok ◽  
Katerina Vyacheslavovna Belyaeva ◽  
Margarita Igorevna Tulusakova
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Formation Process ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Red Scare ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
Soviet People ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Media ◽  
Soviet Russia

The paper is dedicated to the evolutionary formation process of the American mass media perception towards the Soviet Russia during the severe Russian famine of 1921-1922, also known as the Povolzhye famine. The research novelty lies in the deep analysis of the US press assessments concerning the famine. The authors provide the results of their American newspapers examination regarding the image formation of the Soviet authorities, the Soviet people and the so-called Red Scare. The authors research included a review of the main anti-Soviet arguments made by the media; the review revealed that the Povolzhye famine image had a crucial role in the labeling Russia as a retrogressive country. Studying this informational phenomenon allows researchers to understand what impact it had on Soviet-American relations, since it directly affected the perception of Russia and the Russian/Soviet people through the media. This, in turn, might help with comprehension of some stereotypes about Russia that can still be encountered in the American public opinion to date.

scholarly journals Transformation of the Latino image in Western culture (based on the analysis of American mass media)

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 28-42
Author(s):  
E. S. Golousova
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Real Life ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Media

With rapid development of Latino communities and their members’s active involvement in the US social and political life the attitudes toward Latinos (Hispanics) have changed, both from the outside and the inside. The Latino people themselves came to realize their self-identification and, consecutively, the portrayal of Latinos in the media has been altered. In this paper the author argues, that the range of Latino stereotypes has become wider today and that the model that used to work decades ago in picturing Latino migrants is no longer relevant. Thus, the main goal of the study is to mark out and describe the changes that have occurred in the US media regarding the images of ‘Latinos’ (/Latinas). Comparative analysis is the key method in addition to the content analysis of media publications. The empirical basis consists of 80 publications, including digital media footage, published in 2016-2020 (both in English and Spanish languages) – such as the New York Times, The Time, The Washington Post, El Opinion, etc. These newspapers and magazines are considered to be highly influential as they set the agenda, shape the opinion and affect public consciousness. The material of the study also comprises 20 TV episodes related to the coverage of Hispanic issues in the USA. Having analyzed the media content related to the Latino issue (mainstream media, online sources, TV footage), the author comes to a conclusion that the number of roles that are attributed to the Latinos/Latinas has increased significantly and the today’s narrative to a larger degree is aligned with the changes occurring in real life of the Latino community.

scholarly journals Self-censorship threatens US press freedom: Fear of costly legal actions is inhibiting the media

1982 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 15-16
Author(s):  
Robert G. Picard
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Press Freedom ◽  
Freedom Of Information ◽  
Investigative Journalism ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Media

‘American publishers and broadcasters are increasingly exercising self-censorship to avoid costly litigation’ says the editor of Freedom of Information Digest, giving a pessimistic assessment of the situation Despite a strong tradition of press freedom and (especially since Watergate) increasingly aggressive investigative journalism in the USA, the country's libel laws can inhibit journalists and lead to self-censorship. The authors of the two articles that follow examine the effect of libel legislation on the US press — one from a journalist's, the other a lawyer's point of view.

Fear's Slave: The Mass Media and Islam after September 11

2003 ◽  
Vol 109 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Padgett ◽  
Beatrice Allen
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
War On Drugs ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Mass Media

This paper investigates the purpose of society's construction of ‘others’ through the gaze of the mass media. During times of crisis, the paper argues, Western mass media are faced with an irreconcilable paradox: the simultaneous demand for, and denial of, a fear-inspiring other (the Soviet Union, Al Qaeda, etc.) This paradigm of otherness was overcome in the period post-Cold War and pre-9/11 as the US media was able to demonise ‘others’ at home — the war on drugs, for example. The question this paper will address, then, is: what are the motives driving the US mass media towards an other constructed along lines similar to the Soviet-era other? Who is to ‘blame’ for this phenomenon — the media, or the society in which these media operate?

scholarly journals Decoding Evaluative Senses in the Discourse of English Mass Media

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-96
Author(s):  
Elena V. Gordienko
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Popular Press ◽  
Military Conflict ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
The Uk

The research considers the study of the media texts devoted to the topic of burning political-military conflict issues as exemplified in the UK and the US quality and popular press. The clarification of the term ‘conflict’ employed in this study is given. The importance of the opposition ‘we-they’ while describing any conflict is underlined. It is highlighted that the above mentioned category is realized on various language levels, namely, those of lexical, morphological, and syntactic ones. The conclusion is drawn that one of the means for the introduction of an evaluation meaning into a media text is quantification of evaluation frames.

scholarly journals The “Innocence of Muslims” in the US Media: An Analysis of the Media Discourses on Islam and Muslims

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (101) ◽  
pp. 107-135
Author(s):  
Zafar Iqbal ◽  
Fazal Rahim Khan ◽  
Haseeb ur Rehman
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Social Construction Of Reality ◽  
Muslim Countries ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Discourses ◽  
The Relationship

The release of trailer of ‘Innocence of Muslims’ generated a huge debate on free speech, hate speech and the representation of the Muslims and Islam in the Western media. This paper investigates these issues in detail by taking instances from the mainstream US print media. Some other interesting debates in the mass media like the identification of the filmmaker and denigration of the Muslims and Islam in historical context have also been undertaken in the paper. Discourse theory and social construction of reality by Schutz (1976) and Berger and Luckmann (1991) have been applied as theoretical framework to evaluate the relationship between mass media and social construction of reality, and to see as how the US mass media constructed the reality about the movie (trailer). Three major aspects were selected for analysis; viz., filmmaker(s) and their associates, issues concerning freedom of speech and expression, and the representation of the Muslims’ protesting against the YouTube clip and the ensuing violence in some Muslim countries.

scholarly journals Investigating the US biomedical workforce: Gender, field of training, and retention

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (6) ◽  
pp. 913-926
Author(s):  
Anne E Winkler ◽  
Sharon G Levin ◽  
Michael T Allison
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Biomedical Research ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Interdisciplinary Training ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Restricted Use ◽  
Research Workforce ◽  
Scientific Workforce

Abstract The biomedical research workforce plays a crucial role in fostering economic growth and improving public health through discoveries and innovations. This study fills a knowledge gap by providing a comprehensive portrait of this workforce and retention within it. A distinguishing feature is that we use an occupation-based definition which allows us to look ‘backward’ to field of training and assess the extent to which it has grown more interdisciplinary, and how this differs by gender. The analysis is conducted using restricted-use SESTAT data, the most comprehensive dataset on the scientific workforce in the USA, for the years 1993, 2003, and 2010. Among the findings, we identify differences in interdisciplinarity in training by gender, and these differences have widened. In the retention analysis, which focuses on the 7-year period, 2003–10, we find that retention is negatively and significantly associated with interdisciplinary training for women, but not for men.

scholarly journals The Media's influence on the validity of medical information regarding Alzheimer's Disease

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Samhita Korukonda ◽  
Hiranmayi Pantula
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Common Source ◽  
Web Browsers ◽  
Patient Awareness ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Media

This article aims to statistically analyze misinformation regarding dementia and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) on the internet and discuss common trends amongst falsities. The internet is the most common source of medical information and is largely used by the general public to seek information about a condition/treatment. Dementia is one of the most searched conditions across online platforms. AD is the most common cause of dementia in the US and accounts for 75% of dementia cases. As the prevalence of AD increases, more patients turn to the media to seek information about its implications and treatments. With the increasingly important role that media plays in the field of medicine, families need to be aware of potential sources of misinformation. This paper analyzes one hundred total sources, then categorizes each source into one of three groups (with varying degrees of falsities): misleading, partially misleading, and reliable. The sources were collected using the keywords “Alzheimer’s disease” and included 50 videos from YouTube and 25 recommended sources from Google and Firefox respectively (Google and Firefox are some of the most used web browsers in the USA). Subsequently, a misinformed source was thematically classified based on the type of misinformation found. To verify results, all sources were reviewed by a senior geropsychiatric consultant from London, who specializes in dementia care/treatment. [Further elaborated in ‘methods’ section]   The results indicate that there is systematic misinformation on the internet. It highlights the importance of patient awareness towards this issue. On this basis, it should be recommended that provider’s offices alert their patients of this problem.

scholarly journals Study of Russian-American Relations and the US History in Post-Soviet Russia

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimir V. Sogrin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social History ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Us History ◽  
Social Divisions ◽  
Real Place ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Soviet Russia

The article analyzes the state of historical Amerikanistika in Post-Soviet Russia. The best results have been achieved in the study of Russian-American relations as well as the history of the US parties and the US democracy. Serious deficiencies remain in the study of economic and social history. In the study of foreign relations of the 18th–early 20th centuries more attention must be paid to the real place of Russian-American relations in the foreign policy of both Russia and the United States. First and foremost we are talking about the U.S.-Great Britain relations. Shortcomings in the study of social history, that was typical for the Soviet historiography, have not been overcome. The Soviet historians paid groundless attention to the study of the US labor movement in order to find the “socialist” and “revolutionary” potential of the American working class and to answer the ques- tions why this potential has not been implemented in different historical periods and what mistakes and miscalculations have been made by the American Commu- nists and socialists. In fact throughout the most part of the US history the conflict between the proletariat and the capitalist class did not play any significant role. Only twice—at the turn of the 19th–20th centuries and at the 1930s—this conflict was in the focus of the social relations in the United States. But even then this conflict did not have the antagonistic character. In other epochs of the US history the main social tensions in the USA have been created by other social forces and groups. These social divisions are waiting for more attention of the post-Soviet historical Amerikanistika. 

Measurement Invariance of a Universal Behavioral Screener Across Samples From the USA and Germany

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gino Casale ◽  
Robert J. Volpe ◽  
Brian Daniels ◽  
Thomas Hennemann ◽  
Amy M. Briesch ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Measurement Invariance ◽  
Student Behavior ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cross Cultural Comparison ◽  
School Based ◽  
Cultural Research ◽  
Universal Screener ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Usa

Abstract. The current study examines the item and scalar equivalence of an abbreviated school-based universal screener that was cross-culturally translated and adapted from English into German. The instrument was designed to assess student behavior problems that impact classroom learning. Participants were 1,346 K-6 grade students from the US (n = 390, Mage = 9.23, 38.5% female) and Germany (n = 956, Mage = 8.04, 40.1% female). Measurement invariance was tested by multigroup confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) across students from the US and Germany. Results support full scalar invariance between students from the US and Germany (df = 266, χ2 = 790.141, Δχ2 = 6.9, p < .001, CFI = 0.976, ΔCFI = 0.000, RMSEA = 0.052, ΔRMSEA = −0.003) indicating that the factor structure, the factor loadings, and the item thresholds are comparable across samples. This finding implies that a full cross-cultural comparison including latent factor means and structural coefficients between the US and the German version of the abbreviated screener is possible. Therefore, the tool can be used in German schools as well as for cross-cultural research purposes between the US and Germany.

Sanctions of the USA and the Policy of Bank of Russia:double Blow to the National Economy

2014 ◽  
pp. 13-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Glazyev
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Economic Sanctions ◽  
Capital Flight ◽  
Practical Advice ◽  
The Us ◽  
Monetary Authorities ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Simultaneous Adoption ◽  
The Eu

This article examines fundamental questions of monetary policy in the context of challenges to the national security of Russia in connection with the imposition of economic sanctions by the US and the EU. It is proved that the policy of the Russian monetary authorities, particularly the Central Bank, artificially limiting the money supply in the domestic market and pandering to the export of capital, compounds the effects of economic sanctions and plunges the economy into depression. The article presents practical advice on the transition from external to domestic sources of long-term credit with the simultaneous adoption of measures to prevent capital flight.

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