Busting Outlaw Bikers: The Media Representation of Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs and Law Enforcement in the Meuse Rhine Euregion

This article provides an initial report on oral histories being collected from three surviving Branch Davidians: Bonnie Haldeman, the mother of David Koresh, Clive Doyle, and Sheila Martin. Their accounts are being made into autobiographies. Interviews with a fourth survivor, Catherine Matteson, are being prepared for deposit in an archive and inform the material gathered from Bonnie Haldeman, Clive Doyle, and Sheila Martin. Oral histories provided by these survivors humanize the Branch Davidians, who were dehumanized and erased in 1993 by the application of the pejorative ‘cult’ stereotype by the media and American law enforcement agents. These Branch Davidian accounts provide alternate narratives of what happened in 1993 at Mount Carmel Center outside Waco, Texas, to those provided by American federal agents, and flesh out the human dimensions of the community and the tragedy. Branch Davidians are differentiated from many other people primarily by their strong commitment to doing God's will as they understand it from the Bible. Otherwise they are ordinary, intelligent people with the same emotions, loves, and foibles as others.

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Media Representation of the Pandemic: a Metaphorical Image of War (based on American Newspapers)

Nauchnyy dialog ◽

10.24224/2227-1295-2020-8-69-83 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 1 (8) ◽

pp. 69-83

Author(s):

N. S. Dankova ◽

E. V. Krekhtunova

Keyword(s):

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Media Coverage ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Media Representation ◽

Martial Law ◽

War Zone ◽

Mass Consciousness ◽

The Media ◽

Coronavirus Infection ◽

Theoretical Foundations

The article is devoted to the study of the media representation features of the situation of coronavirus infection spread. The material was articles published in American newspapers. It is shown that the metaphorical model "War" is widely used in media coverage of the pandemic. The relevance of the work is due to the ability of the media to influence the mass consciousness. The methodological basis of the research is formed by critical discourse analysis, which establishes the connection between language and social reality. The article provides an overview of works devoted to the study of metaphor. The theoretical foundations for the study of metaphorical modeling are given. In the course of the analysis, the linguistic means of updating the metaphorical model "War" were revealed. The authors note that this metaphorical model is represented by such frames as “War and its characteristics”, “Participants in military action”, “War zone”, “Enemy actions”, “Confronting the enemy”. It is shown that modern reality is presented in the media as martial law, the coronavirus is positioned in the media as a cruel and merciless enemy seeking to take over the world, the treatment of the disease is represented as a fight against the enemy. It is concluded that the use of the metaphorical model "War" is one of the ways to conceptualize the spread of coronavirus.

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Unravelling the media representation of circular economy for fashion education

International Journal of Fashion Design Technology and Education ◽

10.1080/17543266.2021.1950846 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-10

Author(s):

Lydia A. Manieson ◽

Alice Payne ◽

Tiziana Ferrero-Regis

Keyword(s):

Circular Economy ◽

Media Representation ◽

The Media

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Media Reports as a Tool for Timely Monitoring of COVID-19–Related Deaths Among First Responders—United States, April 2020

Public Health Reports ◽

10.1177/0033354921999171 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 003335492199917

Author(s):

Kaitlin Kelly-Reif ◽

Jessica L. Rinsky ◽

Sophia K. Chiu ◽

Sherry Burrer ◽

Marie A. de Perio ◽

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Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Law Enforcement ◽

First Responders ◽

High Sensitivity ◽

Demographic Characteristics ◽

Exposure Source ◽

The Media ◽

Media Reports ◽

In Fire ◽

Traditional Surveillance

We aimed to describe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) deaths among first responders early in the COVID-19 pandemic. We used media reports to gather timely information about COVID-19–related deaths among first responders during March 30–April 30, 2020, and evaluated the sensitivity of media scanning compared with traditional surveillance. We abstracted information about demographic characteristics, occupation, underlying conditions, and exposure source. Twelve of 19 US public health jurisdictions with data on reported deaths provided verification, and 7 jurisdictions reported whether additional deaths had occurred; we calculated the sensitivity of media scanning among these 7 jurisdictions. We identified 97 COVID-19–related first-responder deaths during the study period through media and jurisdiction reports. Participating jurisdictions reported 5 deaths not reported by the media. Sixty-six decedents worked in law enforcement, and 31 decedents worked in fire/emergency medical services. Media reports rarely noted underlying conditions. The media scan sensitivity was 88% (95% CI, 73%-96%) in the subset of 7 jurisdictions. Media reports demonstrated high sensitivity in documenting COVID-19–related deaths among first responders; however, information on risk factors was scarce. Routine collection of data on industry and occupation could improve understanding of COVID-19 morbidity and mortality among all workers.

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Corporate Governance of Artificial Intelligence in the Public Interest

Information ◽

10.3390/info12070275 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (7) ◽

pp. 275

Author(s):

Peter Cihon ◽

Jonas Schuett ◽

Seth D. Baum

Keyword(s):

Artificial Intelligence ◽

Corporate Governance ◽

Law Enforcement ◽

Nonprofit Organizations ◽

Public Interest ◽

Department Of Defense ◽

The Public ◽

Wide Range ◽

The Media ◽

The U.S

Corporations play a major role in artificial intelligence (AI) research, development, and deployment, with profound consequences for society. This paper surveys opportunities to improve how corporations govern their AI activities so as to better advance the public interest. The paper focuses on the roles of and opportunities for a wide range of actors inside the corporation—managers, workers, and investors—and outside the corporation—corporate partners and competitors, industry consortia, nonprofit organizations, the public, the media, and governments. Whereas prior work on multistakeholder AI governance has proposed dedicated institutions to bring together diverse actors and stakeholders, this paper explores the opportunities they have even in the absence of dedicated multistakeholder institutions. The paper illustrates these opportunities with many cases, including the participation of Google in the U.S. Department of Defense Project Maven; the publication of potentially harmful AI research by OpenAI, with input from the Partnership on AI; and the sale of facial recognition technology to law enforcement by corporations including Amazon, IBM, and Microsoft. These and other cases demonstrate the wide range of mechanisms to advance AI corporate governance in the public interest, especially when diverse actors work together.

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A Feminist Critique of Representations of Potentially Coerced Women

Coercion and Women Co-Offenders ◽

10.1332/policypress/9781447330981.003.0005 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Charlotte Barlow

Keyword(s):

Male Partner ◽

Media Representation ◽

Feminist Critique ◽

Media Discourse ◽

Potential Influence ◽

Women's Representation ◽

Women’S Representation ◽

Media Construction ◽

The Media ◽

Offending Behaviour

This chapter discusses the media construction of women co-offenders and their relationship with their male partner/ co-offender, using the case/ court file material as a comparative tool. It particularly considers the ways in which the women’s representation served to minimise and discredit their perspectives and defence, particularly in relation to the potential influence of their relationship with their male partner on their offending behaviour. It also considers the ways in which the women’s suggestions of coercion or coercive techniques (at varying levels) by their male partner were constructed, particularly in media discourse. In doing so, the chapter is divided into a number of key themes, such as ‘bad women’ and ‘equally bad or worse’. It is important to note that the themes apply to the women at varying levels and the extent to which they were evident in the women’s legal and media representation will be discussed.

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From “pizzini” to social media channel: The mediatic storytelling of mafia language

Forum Socjologiczne ◽

10.19195/2083-7763.9.15 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 ◽

pp. 191-199

Author(s):

Francesco Pira

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Oral Tradition ◽

Information Technologies ◽

Media Representation ◽

Financial Flows ◽

State Institutions ◽

Criminal Organizations ◽

The Media ◽

Illicit Trafficking ◽

Media Channel

From “pizzini” to social media channel: The mediatic storytelling of mafia language We intend to provide an analysis of how the media representation of the mafia language has turned into storytelling and how this has influenced public opinion and the perception of organized crime in Italian society. The communicative style of the mafia has always been characterized as the result of communication “by subtraction”. From the nineteenth-century oral tradition, through the “pizzini”, to the use of information technologies to manage financial flows and illicit trafficking, they always made us of an essential communication, a conspiratorial language. In the most critical phase of the conflict between the Italian state institutions and criminal organizations, the strategy of the mafia included actions supposed to maintain its media representation, with the aim of instilling fear and uncertainty in citizens and to demonstrate its strength and its control over the territory. This distorted representation of reality facilitates the exercise of the “sweet power” of organized crime, which operates in a more unseen way, increasing its influence. This evolution is immersed in the social context, where culture and knowledge are threatened by the increasing inability of individuals to interpret reality.

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