Anticipating the Reboot: Teasing Top Gun 2

Film Reboots ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 205-218
Author(s):  
Paul Grainge
Keyword(s):  
Reference Point ◽  
Media Events ◽  
Promotional Materials

This chapter interrogates the ways in which Top Gun’s status as filmic reference point for Hollywood ‘high concept’ of the 1980s has informed speculation around its new millennial reboot, Top Gun: Maverick. With the new film still unreleased at the time of writing, the essay focuses not on the reboot (or even its promotional materials) but on the anticipation of the reboot as ‘discursive project’. Attending to the paratextual arrays that inform and prefigure media events, it focuses on the period in the mid-2010s leading up to the first official publicity still for Top Gun: Maverick to investigate the dynamics of speculation and nostalgia that accompany the ‘anticipation’ of Hollywood reboots.

Ten Years after the Danish Muhammad Cartoon News Stories: Terror and Radicalization as Predictable Media Events

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Hervik
Keyword(s):  
Reference Point ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Racial Boundaries ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Media Events ◽  
Media Event ◽  
National Borders

In the tenth year after Danish daily Jyllands-Posten published twelve cartoons, the Muhammad Cartoons, this media event—and the hegemonic understanding behind it—continues to be a discursive reference point for new controversies around national borders and racial boundaries. Then, since late 2010, radicalization as a “pre-terrorist” phase has become the lens through which the category “Muslims” has been represented in much media coverage. In this article, I argue that the dominant hegemonic understanding in Denmark that is based on a certain spatial–racial logic is not a passive production of knowledge. It keeps informing news coverage of media events as terror and thereby risking describing the hegemony more than adequately understanding the events at hand.

Cognitive Reflection Effects on Time Discounting

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michał Białek ◽  
Przemysław Sawicki
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Individual Difference ◽  
Delay Discounting ◽  
Reference Point ◽  
Reference Points ◽  
Cognitive Reflection Test ◽  
Process Information ◽  
Time Discounting ◽  
Cognitive Reflection ◽  
The Way

Abstract. In this work, we investigated individual differences in cognitive reflection effects on delay discounting – a preference for smaller sooner over larger later payoff. People are claimed to prefer more these alternatives they considered first – so-called reference point – over the alternatives they considered later. Cognitive reflection affects the way individuals process information, with less reflective individuals relying predominantly on the first information they consider, thus, being more susceptible to reference points as compared to more reflective individuals. In Experiment 1, we confirmed that individuals who scored high on the Cognitive Reflection Test discount less strongly than less reflective individuals, but we also show that such individuals are less susceptible to imposed reference points. Experiment 2 replicated these findings additionally providing evidence that cognitive reflection predicts discounting strength and (in)dependency to reference points over and above individual difference in numeracy.

Comparison-Induced Evaluations Around a Reference Point

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amber N. Bloomfield ◽  
Jessica M. Choplin
Keyword(s):  
Reference Point

The potential of continuous library and information education within the context of the Model Standard of Public Library

2017 ◽  
pp. 83-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Galina Kuzichkina ◽  
Alexander Mazuritsky
Keyword(s):  
Professional Education ◽  
Reference Point ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Single System ◽  
Library And Information Education

The authors discuss the problems of library and information education. The lack of a single system of life-long education in the library industry is stressed. The Model Standard of Public Libraries as a reference point for education reinvention is analyzed. The main vectors of public libraries activities defined in the Model Standard are considered, along with the desirable professional competences. The ratio of the libraries’ main tasks and functionalities and the professional education is examined.

Policing the British Empire on the Bund: The Origin of the Sikh Police Unit in Shanghai

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-73
Author(s):  
Cao Yin
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
British Empire ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Reference Point ◽  
Police Force ◽  
Imperial History ◽  
Municipal Police ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
British Colonies ◽  
Modern Shanghai

Red-turbaned Sikh policemen have long been viewed as symbols of the cosmopolitan feature of modern Shanghai. However, the origin of the Sikh police unit in the Shanghai Municipal Police has not been seriously investigated. This article argues that the circulation of police officers, policing knowledge, and information in the British colonial network and the circulation of the idea of taking Hong Kong as the reference point amongst Shanghailanders from the 1850s to the 1880s played important role in the establishment of the Sikh police force in the International Settlement of Shanghai. Furthermore, by highlighting the translocal connections and interactions amongst British colonies and settlements, this study tries to break the metropole-colony binary in imperial history studies.

Bone material properties as measured by Reference Point Indentation are low in subjects with acromegaly

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Malgo ◽  
Neveen A T Hamdy ◽  
Alberto M Pereira ◽  
Nienke R Biermasz ◽  
Natasha M Appelman-Dijkstra
Keyword(s):  
Material Properties ◽  
Reference Point ◽  
Bone Material ◽  
Bone Material Properties ◽  
Reference Point Indentation
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