scholarly journals Resettling minority groups : the case of the Somali Bantu

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khwaka Daria Kukubo
Keyword(s):  
Formal Education ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Western Country ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Smooth Transition ◽  
Basic Information ◽  
Somali Bantu ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media

This paper argues the possession of formal education is essential for successful settlement in a western country. Using the Somali Bantu resettlement experience as a case study, this paper highlights the extent to which a lack of basic information can hamper a smooth transition into a western community. It is contended that a long history of social exclusion and intentional discrimination and abuse of the Somali Bantu resulted in their state of illiteracy and or lack of pre-literacy skills, which made their resettlement experience that much more difficult than usual. I will seek to support my argument by use of narrations and case studies obtained from refugee supporting agencies and settlement providing organization reports and the media.

scholarly journals Resettling minority groups : the case of the Somali Bantu

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khwaka Daria Kukubo
Keyword(s):  
Formal Education ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Western Country ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Smooth Transition ◽  
Basic Information ◽  
Somali Bantu ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media

This paper argues the possession of formal education is essential for successful settlement in a western country. Using the Somali Bantu resettlement experience as a case study, this paper highlights the extent to which a lack of basic information can hamper a smooth transition into a western community. It is contended that a long history of social exclusion and intentional discrimination and abuse of the Somali Bantu resulted in their state of illiteracy and or lack of pre-literacy skills, which made their resettlement experience that much more difficult than usual. I will seek to support my argument by use of narrations and case studies obtained from refugee supporting agencies and settlement providing organization reports and the media.

scholarly journals Media aesthetic component of communication and its manifestation in infographic content

Lumina ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-96
Author(s):  
Svetlana Simakova
Keyword(s):  
Visual Image ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media

The goal of the present study is to demonstrate the media-aesthetic potential of infographic messages on particular cases. This can be done due to an integrated approach to the analysis of the visual content of media content. That indicates the case study method implementation as well as description and generalization. The theoretical basis of the research is represented by scientific studies of various directions. That includes the history of media and visual media culture; features of the concepts of media culture and media language, media aesthetics; infographics as a tool of media language. The empirical basis of the study is journalistic materials containing infographic content of such publications as by RIA Novosti (ria.ru), TASS (tass.ru). The examples of visual image implementation in the transmission of information — media content containing infographics — are given and analyzed. Considering media aesthetics as the formation of a sensory perception of the proposed media content, the author turns to the philosophical and aesthetic foundations of visual practices in the media and post-humanistic trends in journalism. As a result of the analysis of the theoretical and practical basis of the research, the author comes to the conclusion that today the role of the media aesthetic component of messages is most relevant. And infographics, as the connecting link of language and consciousness, is its most striking tool.

scholarly journals Cosplay on Demand? Instagram, OnlyFans, and the Gendered Fantrepreneur

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 205630512110423
Author(s):  
Lauren Rouse ◽  
Anastasia Salter
Keyword(s):  
Economic Viability ◽  
Sample Analysis ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Brand Building ◽  
On Demand ◽  
Television Shows ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Favorite Television

Fan producers engaged in monetization, or what Suzanne Scott has termed “fantrepreneurs,” struggle with legal mechanisms for brand-building given the limitations of both copyright and platform moderation. These challenges have been amplified during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has fundamentally changed the way that cosplayers, or fans who dress up as characters from their favorite television shows or movies, market themselves in an increasingly online space, as opposed to their initial public platforms of conventions. Restricted by digital platforms and their various moderation and monetization methods, cosplayer fantrepreneurs have developed new, multi-platform methods for sustaining their content and community connection. One prominent platform significant to this turn is OnlyFans, which is billed as a “peer-to-peer subscription app,” and allows users to “Sign up and interact with your fans!” Through a sample analysis of 50 cosplayers, this case study considers the approaches of cosplayers on integrating OnlyFans as part of a multiplatform struggle for economic viability. When we contextualize this platform labor in the history of cosplay, we note the hypersexualized labor that has always been central to monetization in this space, and the media franchise exploitation that profits from that labor at the expense of the fan producer, demonstrating the fundamental, gendered exploitation of the trend toward a patronage economy.

Conclusion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael R. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Cotton Industry ◽  
Reconstruction Era ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Jewish

The conclusion reaffirms how the history of Jewish merchants in the American cotton industry is not only a story of American Jewish success that accounts for a golden age for Jews during the Reconstruction era. It is also a more universal case study that speaks to niche economies and minority entrepreneurship more broadly, revealing the ways in which ethnicity mattered in the development of global capitalism. It suggests that the economic milieu in which a niche economy emerged was critical, and any explanation of how niche economies function must begin with a rigorous understanding of that particular capitalism. But within the confines of those structural factors, ethnicity fostered trust in the economic transactions upon which a particular capitalism relied. These forces worked together to provide minority groups such as Jews a competitive advantage that fueled their niche economies.

Media Literacy in the Digital Age

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Amir Manzoor
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Literacy Programs ◽  
The World ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Media ◽  
Informal Settings

Time has come to equip people communities around the world with digital and media literacy skills. In order make informed decisions, people need ability to access, analyze and engage in critical thinking about the daily messages they receive on a variety of issues such as health and politics. Today's “connected homes” provide people access to latest information and communication technologies. To become an effective participants in the information society of 21st century, people need not only acquire the multimedia skills but also the ability to use these skills effectively. One way this can be achieved is by including digital and media literacy in formal education. The objective of this chapter is to examine the media literacy programs working across the world to equip citizens to analyze and evaluate incoming information. In addition, the chapter provides some specific recommendations to bring digital and media literacy education into formal and informal settings.

Claims to Fame

2020 ◽  
pp. 159-172
Author(s):  
Özpinar
Keyword(s):  
Women Artists ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
Important Case ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Museum Of Modern Art ◽  
History Writing ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media

Since the day it was inaugurated in 2004, the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art has assumed a pivotal role in re–establishing the history of modern and contemporary artistic practices in Turkey. The major all–woman exhibition titled ‘Dream and Reality: Modern and Contemporary Women Artists from Turkey’, which was opened in late 2011 at Istanbul Modern, constitutes an important case study to prompt deeper exploration into the narrative frameworks within which the art museum reproduces differences. This chapter revisits the institutional and the curatorial discourse of ‘Dream and Reality’ by examining the statements released in the media and in catalogue essays with a view to comprehending the allegedly conflicting notions of gender and feminism on which the exhibition was premised and how differences were articulated against the politics of the state and art history writing. With this reconsideration, the chapter addresses the reverberations of these framings in the art histories of Turkey but also relocates them within the debates of art’s new transnational landscape.

Contested framings: democratic conflict and the public university

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Sheldon
Keyword(s):  
British Society ◽  
British Imperialism ◽  
The Public ◽  
Policy Interventions ◽  
Public Role ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Globalising World

This chapter provides a brief history of the campus politics of Palestine-Israel in Britain alongside a genealogical account of how the stakes, boundaries and grammars of these struggles have been represented in the media, policy interventions and research. Taking up Nancy Fraser’s emphasis on the injustices produced by framings of justice, I show how these public representations have made liberal, secular and nationalist assumptions so that they have been unable to account for the limits of consensus or attend to students’ complex investments in the Palestine-Israel conflict. In the process, I situate these campus struggles in relation to historically evolving relations within British society, the emergent geo-politics of the ‘War on Terror’, and the legacies of the Holocaust and British imperialism. Finally, I consider how public constructions of this as an ‘imported’, ‘ethno-religious’ conflict have failed to address the role played by the British university in shaping these dynamics. I discuss how, in a post-imperial, globalising world, universities in Britain have become conflicted in their public role, creating different challenges for institutions operating in a fragmented higher education field. I conclude by explaining my multi-sited approach in this study, describing my selection of case study institutions and introducing these field-sites.

scholarly journals Victim blaming among young students

2021 ◽  
pp. 178-186
Author(s):  
V. P. Kurachinskaya ◽  
O. A. Kulikova
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Victim Blaming ◽  
Basic Information ◽  
Just World ◽  
Negative Experience ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Major Factors ◽  
The Impact

The article presents basic information on the problem of victim blaming, describes the history of the appearance of this concept. Major factors in the formation of victim blaming such as patriarchal attitudes, the phenomenon of a just world, family and upbringing, established social cliches and patterns of relationships and the media have been identified. The results of the study have been presented, from which the level of awareness of young people about the problem of victim blaming and their views in the context of the problem have been outlined. The role of the immediate environment in relation to the victim of the situation has been considered, and the influence of the media on the formation of victim blaming among students has been outlined. The problem outlined reflects the impact of victim blading on young people and the further consequences of this negative experience. 

Media Literacy in the Digital Age

2018 ◽  
pp. 97-123
Author(s):  
Amir Manzoor
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Literacy Programs ◽  
The World ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Media ◽  
Informal Settings

Time has come to equip people communities around the world with digital and media literacy skills. In order make informed decisions, people need ability to access, analyze and engage in critical thinking about the daily messages they receive on a variety of issues such as health and politics. Today's “connected homes” provide people access to latest information and communication technologies. To become an effective participants in the information society of 21st century, people need not only acquire the multimedia skills but also the ability to use these skills effectively. One way this can be achieved is by including digital and media literacy in formal education. The objective of this chapter is to examine the media literacy programs working across the world to equip citizens to analyze and evaluate incoming information. In addition, the chapter provides some specific recommendations to bring digital and media literacy education into formal and informal settings.

scholarly journals Journalism training aid by Australians: A case study in the Solomon Islands

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Wake
Keyword(s):  
Solomon Islands ◽  
Journalism Education ◽  
Turn Of The Millennium ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
History Of Journalism ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
And Training

After the ethnic clashes and generally poor plight of Solomon Islands at the turn of the millennium, the country has been the recipient of substantial international foreign aid, which has included journalism education and training, particularly from Australia. However, little independent research has been done about the role of Australian trainers and the history of journalism training in this period of change and restoration. This article seeks to provide a point-in-time report on journalism training in an aid context, in a bid to provide a baseline for future investigation of changes in the media landscape and training in Solomon Islands. This research draws on independent in-depth interviews with engaged stakeholders in the Solomon Islands, including journalists, civil leaders and government figures. It also discusses the Australian government-funded media aid programmes, including the Solomon Islands Media Assistance Scheme (SOLMAS) and its unnamed predecessor.

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