scholarly journals REVIEW: Powerful case for ending the corporate media stranglehold

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 193-196
Author(s):  
David Robie
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Mass Movement ◽  
Fourth Estate ◽  
Noam Chomsky ◽  
Effective Role ◽  
The Media ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Invasion Of Iraq ◽  
Ordinary Citizens

Review of Our Media, Not Theirs: The Democratic Struggle Against Corporate Media, edited by Robert W. Mc Chesney and John Nichols. Forewards by Noam Chomsky, Barbara Ehrenreich and Ralph Nader. New York: Seven Stories Press. This book's messge has a salutary lesson for us in Oceania, half a globe away from the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq and its aftermath. Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols have argued for an honest debate over a total rethink of policy if the media is to continue to have an effective role in demoracy, if it is to remain a genuine Fourth Estate. They present a persuasive case for building a mass movement that seeks to replace their [coporate] media with a media that serves ordinary citizens—our media.   

Criminal Defamation, the Criminalisation of Expression, Media and Information Dissemination in the Digital Age

2018 ◽  
pp. 1638-1661
Author(s):  
Nhamo A. Mhiripiri ◽  
Jacqueline Chikakano
Keyword(s):  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Western Hemisphere ◽  
Ethical Perspective ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Fourth Estate ◽  
The Media ◽  
Severe Punishment ◽  
Ordinary Citizens

Criminal defamation and the criminalisation of communication in general often result in severe punishment for the media and other content producers accused and prosecuted for committing such ‘crimes'. There are severe financial penalties involved and /or the incarceration of those who are convicted of breaking the law. This chapter studies the existence and feasibility of criminal defamation in largely contemporary Africa, but also making references to ‘older' democracies in the Western hemisphere. In short, the chapter critiques criminal defamation and the criminalisation of expression, making a strong legal and ethical perspective quite often using empirical materials from the courts. The inception and proliferation of new digital technologies amongst ordinary citizens also means that besides the traditional media or fourth estate, ordinary non-professional communicators are also highly likely to get into trouble over defamation, criminal defamation and other forms of crimes associated with the criminalisation of communication.

Criminal Defamation, the Criminalisation of Expression, Media and Information Dissemination in the Digital Age

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nhamo A. Mhiripiri ◽  
Jacqueline Chikakano
Keyword(s):  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Western Hemisphere ◽  
Ethical Perspective ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Fourth Estate ◽  
The Media ◽  
Severe Punishment ◽  
Ordinary Citizens

Criminal defamation and the criminalisation of communication in general often result in severe punishment for the media and other content producers accused and prosecuted for committing such ‘crimes'. There are severe financial penalties involved and /or the incarceration of those who are convicted of breaking the law. This chapter studies the existence and feasibility of criminal defamation in largely contemporary Africa, but also making references to ‘older' democracies in the Western hemisphere. In short, the chapter critiques criminal defamation and the criminalisation of expression, making a strong legal and ethical perspective quite often using empirical materials from the courts. The inception and proliferation of new digital technologies amongst ordinary citizens also means that besides the traditional media or fourth estate, ordinary non-professional communicators are also highly likely to get into trouble over defamation, criminal defamation and other forms of crimes associated with the criminalisation of communication.

Disruptive Fixation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christo Sims
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
New Media ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Complex Processes ◽  
Middle Schoolers ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Class Divisions ◽  
Conventional Type

In New York City in 2009, a new kind of public school opened its doors to its inaugural class of middle schoolers. Conceived by a team of game designers and progressive educational reformers and backed by prominent philanthropic foundations, it promised to reinvent the classroom for the digital age. This book documents the life of the school from its planning stages to the graduation of its first eighth-grade class. It is the account of how this “school for digital kids,” heralded as a model of tech-driven educational reform, reverted to a more conventional type of schooling with rote learning, an emphasis on discipline, and traditional hierarchies of authority. Troubling gender and racialized class divisions also emerged. The book shows how the philanthropic possibilities of new media technologies are repeatedly idealized even though actual interventions routinely fall short of the desired outcomes. It traces the complex processes by which idealistic tech-reform perennially takes root, unsettles the worlds into which it intervenes, and eventually stabilizes in ways that remake and extend many of the social predicaments reformers hope to fix. It offers a nuanced look at the roles that powerful elites, experts, the media, and the intended beneficiaries of reform—in this case, the students and their parents—play in perpetuating the cycle. The book offers a timely examination of techno-philanthropism and the yearnings and dilemmas it seeks to address, revealing what failed interventions do manage to accomplish—and for whom.

Media Coverage and Solidarity after Tragedies: The Reporting of School Shootings in Two Nations

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 845-874 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Hawdon ◽  
James Hawdon ◽  
Atte Oksanen ◽  
James Hawdon ◽  
Atte Oksanen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Virginia Tech ◽  
School Shootings ◽  
Considerable Research ◽  
National Comparison ◽  
The Media ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Cross National

Abstract Although considerable research analyzes the media coverage of school shootings, there is a lack of cross-national comparative studies. Yet, a cross-national comparison of the media coverage of school shootings can provide insight into how this coverage can affect communities. Our research focuses on the reporting of the school shootings at Virginia Tech in the U.S. and Jokela and Kauhajoki in Finland. Using 491 articles from the New York Times and Helsingin Sanomat published within a month of each shooting we investigate how reports vary between the nations and among the tragedies. We investigate if one style of framing a tragedy, the use of a “tragic frame,” may contribute to differences in the communities’ response to the events.

Identification and Validation of Requirements for a Registry System of Children's Developmental Motor Disorders in Iran

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (04/05) ◽  
pp. 124-130
Author(s):  
Elahe Gozali ◽  
Reza Safdari ◽  
Marjan Ghazisaeedi ◽  
Bahlol Rahimi ◽  
Hamidreza Farrokh Eslamlou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Electronic System ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Motor Disorders ◽  
Section Data ◽  
Registry System ◽  
History Of ◽  
Effective Role ◽  
Data Elements

Abstract Background Despite recent advances in the field of medical sciences, children's developmental motor disorders (DMDs) are considered as one of the challenges in this area. Establishment of electronic systems for recording and monitoring children's DMDs can play an effective role in identifying patients and reducing the costs and consequences of the disease management. The aim of this study was to identify and validate the requirements for a registry system of children's DMDs in Iran. Methods The present descriptive–analytical study was performed in three main stages. In the first step, the literature was reviewed to identify the requirements. In the second stage, the information obtained from the literature review was used to develop a questionnaire for validating and selecting the requirements for an electronic system of recording DMDs in infants. In the final stage, the requirements were validated by selected experts (22 specialists). Data were analyzed using SPSS 20 software (IBM Corporation, New York, United States). Results According to findings, the requirements of a registry system for children's DMDs were identified in three areas of demographic (24 data elements), clinical data (87 data elements), and technical (28 capabilities). In the demographic section, data elements of “family history of motor disorders” (mean = 1.18) and “drug allergy” (mean = 2.9) gained an average score of < 2.5 and therefore were not selected as data elements necessary for the registry system of data recording and monitoring children's DMDs. Conclusion In such developing countries as Iran, standard information recording and management is not properly done due to a large amount of information and the lack of comprehensive information registry systems. The findings of this study can help to design and establish information registry systems in the field of children's DMDs. Based on the findings of this research, it is recommended that future research be done to explore infrastructures necessary for providing a suitable platform to design and implement information registry systems in the field of children's DMDs.

The Media, the Masses and Urban Management

1970 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Paul Boynton ◽  
Deil S. Wright
Keyword(s):  
Social Awareness ◽  
Urban Management ◽  
Fourth Estate ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Masses

Greater social awareness and action commitments should be expected and demanded of the Fourth Estate in reducing the gap between government and ghetto in the seventh decade.

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