scholarly journals Finding Joy and Elegy

Lateral ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Karioris
Keyword(s):  
Economic Deprivation ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Literary Journals ◽  
The World

Amidst the despair, desperation, death, and economic deprivation of the pandemic, poetry—and creative outlets more broadly—have arisen to assist us in both making sense of the world at large, as well as addressing our own struggles during and from these challenges. This essay seeks to put these works into conversation as part of a process—along with quarantine—of seeding, an opportunity to grow new roots and networks. Drawing from a field of established literary journals and ones established during and explicitly to address the pandemic, the essay aims to begin a process of distilling the ways that even amongst fear and loss we must (and will) find ways to find joy. This requires us to seek out new forms of elegy that elaborate and understand the importance of relations and joys between peoples, and the new relational possibilities that our life holds for us as we move towards a post-pandemic world.

What We Call Misconceptions May Be Necessary Stepping-Stones Toward Making Sense of the World

Science Scope ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 039 (07) ◽  
Author(s):  
Todd Campbell ◽  
Christina Schwarz ◽  
Mark Windschitl
Keyword(s):  
Stepping Stones ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The World

scholarly journals Making sense of “superbugs” on YouTube: A storytelling approach

2021 ◽  
pp. 096366252198925
Author(s):  
Monika Djerf-Pierre ◽  
Mia Lindgren
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Antimicrobial Resistance ◽  
Health Knowledge ◽  
Social Media Platform ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
The World ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
Youtube Videos ◽  
Health Experts

Antimicrobial resistance is one of the greatest challenges facing the world. With the rapid growth of social media, YouTube has become an influential social media platform providing publics with expert health knowledge. This article explores how antimicrobial resistance is communicated on YouTube. Drawing on qualitative media analyses of the most viewed YouTube videos 2016–2020, we identify seven different genres and two main storytelling approaches, personalized and fictionalized storytelling, used to make sense of antimicrobial resistance and its complexities. The study contributes new knowledge about YouTube as a platform for health communication and the types of videos about antimicrobial resistance that gets most traffic. This is useful, not the least for public health experts working to improve communication strategies that target hard-to-reach media publics.

Governing Hate: Facebook and Digital Racism

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-130
Author(s):  
Eugenia Siapera ◽  
Paloma Viejo-Otero
Keyword(s):  
Hate Speech ◽  
Silicon Valley ◽  
Governance Structures ◽  
Ideological Position ◽  
Material Parameters ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The World ◽  
Logistical Problem

This article is concerned with identifying the ideological and techno-material parameters that inform Facebook’s approach to racism and racist contents. The analysis aims to contribute to studies of digital racism by showing Facebook’s ideological position on racism and identifying its implications. To understand Facebook’s approach to racism, the article deconstructs its governance structures, locating racism as a sub-category of hate speech. The key findings show that Facebook adopts a post-racial, race-blind approach that does not consider history and material differences, while its main focus is on enforcement, data, and efficiency. In making sense of these findings, we argue that Facebook’s content governance turns hate speech from a question of ethics, politics, and justice into a technical and logistical problem. Secondly, it socializes users into developing behaviors/contents that adapt to race-blindness, leading to the circulation of a kind of flexible racism. Finally, it spreads this approach from Silicon Valley to the rest of the world.

scholarly journals TRANSNATIONALE BARNDOMME: Refleksioner over bømemigranter og identitet

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Child ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Interpretive Analysis ◽  
The World ◽  
Iraqi Refugee

Michael Anderson: Transnational Childhood: Reflections on Child Migrants and Identity The article seeks to elucidate some themes pertinent to childhood migrancy from the perspective of children’s reported experiences, in an attempt to challenge “static” conceptualizations of the child in a moving world. Through interpretive analysis of four vignettes about Iraqi refugee children, the author hints at the limitations of contemporary theorising which either homogenises children as the same all over the world, or particularises them as culturally specific in definitively bounded locations. The migrant child, whose identity is transnational and transcultural, challenges both of these conceptualizations. Furthermore, given the opportunity, children prove articulate “expositors” of the dynamic processes inherent in this complexity in their narrative (verbal and behavioural) mappings of themselves. By availing ourselves of their words, actions and imaginations, we can participate in their making sense of a world in movement and their own childhoods as they unfold.

scholarly journals Making sense of personal and global problems: an analysis of the writings and lectures of Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde

2012 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 344-349
Author(s):  
Tommy Ramstedt
Keyword(s):  
Belief System ◽  
School Shootings ◽  
Talk Shows ◽  
Personal Health ◽  
Conspiracy Theories ◽  
Elite Group ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Problems ◽  
Theory View

Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde (b. 1939) is a well-known figure in the Finnish alternative spiritual milieu. She is an author and lecturer on parapsychology and ufology and has been a guest on several talk shows in the Nordic countries. The topics discussed by Luukanen-Kilde range from the psychic abilities of mankind to visitations from extraterrestrial beings. Since the mid-1980s Luukanen-Kilde has developed conspiracy theories about an elite group governing the world in secret. Luukanen-Kilde is a bestselling author and draws audiences of several hundreds to her talks. Her conspiracy theory view of the world offers explanations for all kinds of personal, national, as well as global problems and disasters. Personal health problems, tragic incidents such as school shootings, economic crises and unemployment, earthquakes and floods can, according to her belief system, all be attributed to a single cause; namely to the actions of a clandestine, malevolent group. The popularity of Luukanen-Kilde’s books and lectures can be seen as an example of how people in late modernity are seeking alternative interpretations of themselves and of world events. 

scholarly journals Children being children: the value of an “importance filter”

2007 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr Jonathon Sargeant
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Internal Information ◽  
Processing Mechanism

The perspectives of young children are of considerable interest to the community yet remains largely misunderstood. This paper posits that children demonstrate an optimistic view of the world and the future that is also encased in a deeper understanding of key global, local, and social issues than previously thought. This study challenges the notion that children are either adversely affected by knowledge or ignorant of global issues outside their control. The effects of external media and the reputed social decay of society and the pessimistic worldview reportedly held by young children are questioned. In acknowledging the children’s understanding of key issues, this research identifies that children engage in an internal metacognitive processing of information that allows them to maintain their optimistic view of the world. This paper introduces the concept of an Importance Filter, an internal information processing mechanism that assists children in making sense of their world.

Examination Findings in Legally Confirmed Child Sexual Abuse: It's Normal to be Normal

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 97 (1) ◽  
pp. 148-149
Author(s):  
C. J. Hobbs ◽  
J. M. Wynne
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
Plea Bargaining ◽  
Clinical Area ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The World

This paper (Adams et al, Pediatrics. 1994;94:310-317) causes us great concern and if not challenged will be quoted by every advocate the world over to dismiss the validity of physical signs seen in association with child sexual abuse (CSA) at a time when experienced researchers are making sense of a difficult clinical area. The legal data on the cases is incomplete, and any possible correlation between the physical signs and the crime committed was irrelevant because of plea bargaining but also poor clinical date.

Varia: Another Kind of Cross-Border Journalism – Making Sense of the Journalistic Experience of the Blog „The Bridge of Friendship“

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimir Mitev
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Mutual Knowledge ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common

This publication examines the notion of ‘cross-border journalism’ in its western form. It also attempts to present an alternative cross-border journalism based on the experience of the author with the Romanian-Bulgarian “The Bridge of Friendship” blog and the impressions received from other Bulgarian cross-border websites. The international brand of cross-border journalism is used for investigations – such as “The Panama Papers” – which involve the cooperation of journalists from various countries. The kind of cross-border journalism found in the “Bridge of Friendship” blog is both local and regional. It does not have an investigative element but it tries to bring about change through the mutual knowledge and understanding of Romanians and Bulgarians. It defines a Bulgarian-Romanian point of view of the world and presents the common Romanian-Bulgarian spaces in politics, economy and culture.

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