Decoding the Drug War

2020 ◽  
pp. 264-282
Author(s):  
Michael L. Rosino
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Racial Inequality ◽  
Racial Politics ◽  
War On Drugs ◽  
Audience Reception ◽  
Social Critique ◽  
Active Set ◽  
Media Messages ◽  
Audience Effects ◽  
Interpretive Practices

A set of punitive drug-control policies and militaristic policing practices, commonly referred to as the “War on Drugs,” are intertwined with race, racism, and racial inequality. The War on Drugs debate in digital media allows us to think about an important aspect of racialized media: audience reception. Drawing on Stuart Hall’s theory of encoding/decoding, the author points out that the audience effects of digital media do not straightforwardly reflect the messages encoded by media producers. Instead, they are the product of an active set of interpretive practices that result in different decodings of digital media. The author draws on an analysis of online comments on news articles on the War on Drugs to demonstrate some aspects of the racial politics of digital audience reception, highlighting three forms of racialized decoding: (1) dominant decoding of the racialized social critique, (2) oppositional decoding as racialized othering, and (3) dominant decoding as racialized othering. Through this analysis of online comment sections, the author shows that, in the digital sphere, people not only engage in the decoding of media messages but actively articulate and clarify identities and worldviews. Understanding this process of digital decoding helps illuminate the racial politics of meaning in contemporary society.

Evaluasi Program Webinar (Web-Based Seminar) Parenting Education Sebagai Upaya Meningkatkan Literasi Media Digital Dalam Mendidik Generasi Z di Kota Semarang

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Yuli Kurniawati Sugiyo ◽  
Sony Zulfika ◽  
Widayanti Widayanti
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Parenting Education ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Further Training ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Media Messages ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
The Media ◽  
Digital Media Literacy ◽  
To Receive

Sebagai generasi digital native, generasi yang tumbuh di era digital, anak-anak tumbuh besardengan internet. Anak-anak, sekali lagi, terbatas kemampuannya dalam memilah informasiyang penting dan dibutuhkan. Di kajian media ada yang disebut teori kultivasi, kira-kira tentangbagaimana pesan media ditafsir mentah-mentah dan kemudian dipercayai begitu saja sebagairealitas. Dalam konteks dampak buruk bagi anak-anak, mereka bisa mempercayai media tanpamempertanyakan muatannya Atas dasar kebutuhan tersebut, maka diperlukan pelatihan danpendampingan yang ditujukan kepada orangtua di kota Semarang khususnya para ibu yangsecara umum menjadi objek lekat pertama anak. Orang tua perlu mendapat semacam pelatihanuntuk meningkatkan kemampuan literasi media digital agar dapat mendampingi dan mendidikanak dengan baik. Peran orangtua penting dalam memberikan literasi kepada anak terkaitdengan penggunaan media digital dan internet. Pengawasan bukan berarti mencurigai danmembatasi total gerak-gerik anak di internet. Orangtua dan guru sebaiknya hanya mendidikanak untuk tidak mengakses situs berbahaya tapi juga mengajarkan tanggung jawab mediadigital dan internet. Pelatihan (presentasi edukatif, informatif atau instruksional yangdisediakan secara online) ini membahas tentang upaya penerapan dan pengembanganpengasuhan berbasis literasi media digital. Target capaian dari pelatihan ini adalah orangtuaterutama ibu memiliki kesadaran untuk memperbaiki pola pendidikan anak di rumah, memilikipengetahuan dan pemahaman baru dalam mengupayakan pengasuhan berbasis literasi mediadigital. Hasil akhir evaluasi dengan skala angka adalah 89,5 dengan kategori baik padakeseluruhan program.Kata Kunci: web based seminar, parenting education, literasi, media digital, generasiAs the digital generation, the generation that grew up in the digital era, children grew up withthe internet. Children are limited in their ability to sort out important and needed information.Based on theory called cultivation, media messages are interpreted raw and then believed asusual as reality. In a bad context for children, they can trust the media without questioning theburden. Further, training and mentoring is needed aimed to mothers who become the firstcaregiver for children. Mothers need to receive training to improve digital media literacy skillsso that they can assist and educate children well. An important role in providing literacy tochildren of digital media and the internet. Supervision does not mean analysis and totalmovement of children on the internet. Mothers not only educate children but also demandresponsibility for digital media and the internet. This training (educational presentation,instructional provided online) discusses the efforts to implement and develop the use of digitalmedia literacy. The target of this learning is to optimize the education patterns of children athome, to have new knowledge and understanding in pursuing care based on digital medialiteracy. The final result of the evaluation with a number scale is 89.5 with a good category inthe whole program.Keywords: web based seminar, parenting education, literacy, digital media, generation

Discord Over DNA: Ideological Responses to Scientific Communication about Genes and Race

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 260-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandre Morin-Chassé ◽  
Elizabeth Suhay ◽  
Toby E. Jayaratne
Keyword(s):  
Social Inequality ◽  
Genetic Similarity ◽  
Racial Inequality ◽  
Scientific Communication ◽  
Racial Groups ◽  
White Americans ◽  
Representative Survey ◽  
Media Messages ◽  
Left And Right ◽  
Biased Assimilation

AbstractThe American public's beliefs about the causes of social inequality vary greatly, with debates over the causes of racial inequality tending to be the most salient and divisive. Among whites in particular, liberals tend to see inequality as rooted in society's ills, whereas conservatives tend to see inequality as rooted in individuals’ shortcomings. Given this, many infer that white conservatives are more likely than white liberals to adopt the controversial view that racial inequality is “natural,” i.e., due to genetically inherited characteristics. We argue that genetic explanations for racial inequality, in and of themselves, offer little appeal to white conservatives. However, when white citizens are exposed to media messages that emphasize the egalitarian implications of genetic similarity between racial groups, those on the left and right engage in biased assimilation, resulting in a “nature” (conservative) versus “nurture” (liberal) divide. Data from two studies of white Americans—one representative survey and one experiment—support this theoretical framework.

scholarly journals Wicked Overseers

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin F. Steinmetz ◽  
Brian P. Schaefer ◽  
Howard Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Racial Inequality ◽  
War On Drugs ◽  
The United States ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Front Line ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Urban Ghetto ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Racial Ethnic

In recent times, several tragic events have brought attention to the relationship between policing and racial/ethnic minorities in the United States. Scholars, activists, and pundits have clamored to explain tensions that have arisen from these police-related deaths. The authors contribute to the discussion by asserting that contemporary policing in America, and its relationship to racial inequality, is only the latest chapter in a broader historical narrative in which the police constitute the front line of a race- and class-stratified social order. In other words, contemporary criminal justice and race struggles are a legacy of colonialism. This essay begins with a brief overview of colonialism before turning toward dissecting the contemporary colonial character of policing African American urban ghetto communities in four parts. First, the emergence of ghettos as internal colonies is described. Second, mechanisms are given that propelled the mass entry of police into ghetto spaces, with particular attention given to the war on drugs, broken-windows and order-maintenance policing, and police militarization. Third, the authors explore how contemporary policing acts to manage the colonized through police stops, searches, and other practices. Finally, the relationship between American policing practices and cultural denigration of African Americans is described.

scholarly journals Stories about a Queen

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 256-272
Author(s):  
Ranjana Das
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Soap Opera ◽  
Broadcast Media ◽  
Audience Analysis ◽  
Urban Indian ◽  
Indian City ◽  
Interpretive Practices

In this essay, I return to the soap opera – but in a context hardly ever explored – an urban Indian city in the 21st century. Deriving insights from an empirical study that make interpretive negotiations of a specific Bengali television text its analytical object, this article argues that interpretive practices around the broadcast media texts act as resources in understanding lived media cultures in a historical frame and therefore provide a continued impetus to keep audience analysis on the map of communication and cultural studies without prematurely proclaiming its race is run in the age of digital media.

scholarly journals #FeministAntibodies: Asian American Media in the Time of Coronavirus

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 205630512097836
Author(s):  
Rachel Kuo ◽  
Amy Zhang ◽  
Vivian Shaw ◽  
Cynthia Wang
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Racial Politics ◽  
Information Environment ◽  
American Media ◽  
Media Objects ◽  
Social Economies

This article examines the tensions, communal processes, and narrative frameworks behind producing collective racial politics across differences. As digital media objects, the Asian American Feminist Collective’s zine Asian American Feminist Antibodies: Care in the Time of Coronavirus and corresponding #FeministAntibodies Tweetchat responds directly to and anticipates a social media and information environment that has racialized COVID-19 in the language of Asian-ness. Writing from an autoethnographical perspective and using collaborative methods of qualitative discourse analysis as feminist scholars, media-makers, and interlocuters, this article looks toward the technological infrastructures, social economies, and material forms of Asian American digital media-making in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

scholarly journals DIGITAL MEDIA AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT ON HEALTH RISKS OF SMOKING AMONG DRIVERS IN ANAMBRA STATE

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Afam Kenechukwu
Keyword(s):  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Health Risks ◽  
Mass Transit ◽  
Health It ◽  
Anambra State ◽  
Media Messages ◽  
Effective Use

Smoking is the inhalation and exhalation of fumes of burning tobacco and other dangerous nicotine substances that endanger health. It is also a learned behaviour capable of causing addiction. The study examined civic engagement through digital media on health risks of smoking among drivers in Onitsha, Anambra State. The study focused on drivers of registered Mass Transit companies:  Eastern Mass Transit and Onitsha South Mass Transit. The study was anchored on two theories: grounded theory of smoking decision which explains pre-and-post effects of smoking quitting, and mediatisation theory which examines the long-term structural change in the role of media in culture and society. The study adopted a survey of drivers of select Mass Transit companies in Anambra State. This was to ensure that these drivers were studied in their varying work atmospheres concerning smoking. Findings of the study showed that drivers of both companies make effective use of digital media for information on the dangers of smoking while driving and erring drivers are adequately penalised. Based on the findings of this study, it is recommended that media messages on the dangers of smoking tobacco or other dangerous substances on the wheel should be sustained. It equally recommended psychological tests on drivers before recruitment.

scholarly journals Rhetoric in Digital Communication: Merging Tradition with Modernity

Res Rhetorica ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Bendrat
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
Rhetorical Situation ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Digital Medium ◽  
Active Participant ◽  
Media Messages ◽  
Interactive Nature ◽  
Definition Of

Looking into the definition of rhetoric in the digital space, one often encounters the view that rhetoric is too remote or too “ancient” to be used as a conceptual, theoretical or practical framework for researching digital media. However, a substantial body of contemporary media research applies the theory of rhetoric, using a modern conceptual apparatus (e.g. cognitive theories of metaphor). Based on Kenneth Burke’s model of the pentad, the article aims to show that media messages in the digital environment are based on the notion of the rhetorical situation and demonstrate that the rhetorical apparatus has a crucial role in discerning the ways to modify the discourse space in human-computer-human communication. The source of modification in the traditional model of a rhetorical situation is the interactive nature of communication in digital media and the fact that the recipient [agent a] is bestowed with the role of an active participant who can influence the content of the message. Thanks to the use of the rhetorical model of pentad, the argument goes that in contrast to traditional media, modifications in the model act 1 → agent → agency → act 2 are possible and they result from the inclusion of external participants [agent b] and changes in the ontological status of the digital medium from the role of an intermediary to an active participant in the communication process [agent c].

scholarly journals Watching Dallas again 1: Doing retro audience research

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Gilroy
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Audience Reception ◽  
Master's Level ◽  
Audience Research ◽  
Influential Book ◽  
Television Audience ◽  
Critical Reflections

This essay and the audience reception projects it introduces alleviate the desperation of seeking the television audience by recourse to Ien Ang's influential book, Watching Dallas ([1982] 1985). Within the context of a unit on audience research in a master's-level course on media, two groups of students explored the possibilities of remixing Ang in the present digital media landscape via informants' comments on the first season of the new series of Dallas (2012–14). Discourses of nostalgia circulate within and around the text, as well as the project itself. Retro audience research generates not only data about the affective memories and critical reflections of informants but also insights into research methods and the production of new nostalgic subjects.

UNDERSTANDING “NO SPECIAL FAVORS”

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (02) ◽  
pp. 323-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alicia D. Simmons ◽  
Lawrence D. Bobo
Keyword(s):  
Racial Inequality ◽  
Predictive Power ◽  
Racial Politics ◽  
Relative Weight ◽  
Valid Measure ◽  
Group Status ◽  
Group Position ◽  
Racial Resentment ◽  
Social Concerns ◽  
Multimethod Approach

AbstractDespite its predictive power, there is substantial debate about the attitudes measured by the racial resentment scale (RRS) and the relative weight of each. One group contends that the RRS is a valid measure of racial animus, foregrounding a basic psychological acrimony; some foreground social concerns about group status hierarchies; and yet others assert that the RRS is an invalid measure of racial enmity, instead primarily tapping non-racial principles and politics. We use a multimethod approach to address these debates, mapping the frames of reference respondents use in explaining their RRS answers. We find that the RRS fundamentally measures racial concerns and minimally taps non-racial politics. Although RRS responses reflect psychological acrimony, this orientation is substantially outweighed by social concerns about relative group position. Moreover, RRS responses substantially reflect beliefs about the relevance of race in the contemporary US and the sources of racial inequality, and values about individualism and fairness. We discuss how one of the most potent measures of present-day racial prejudice is rightly understood, and the implications for theory and research at the intersection of race and politics.

scholarly journals Creating, Providing, and Performing Space

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Viega
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Social Critique ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Walk Away ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Experienced Pain ◽  
Art Research ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Traditional Scholarship

This special edition of Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy is dedicated to the glorious blurred boundaries of art, research, and performance. There is an array of traditional scholarship, aesthetic texts, digital media projects, critical self-reflection, cultural exploration, and social critique. I have experienced pain, joy, connection, disconnection, longing, sadness, anger, and beauty within all of the work presented here. As you engage these works of art, you may experience some of the same feelings, or you might walk away with completely different perceptions. It is our collective and collaborative heuristic experience with the artwork contained herein that will shine a spectrum of color onto the complex and daunting social issues addressed by these artists, scholars, researchers, and wonderful human beings. 

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