scholarly journals Women Revolt: Between Media Resistance and the Reinforcement of Oppressive Gender Structures

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (Winter) ◽  
pp. 200-211
Author(s):  
Shahd Abusalama
Keyword(s):  
Daily Basis ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Media ◽  
Open Discussion ◽  
Social Media Tools ◽  
Implicit And Explicit ◽  
General Community

After a video accidently caught a sexual harassment incident I was subjected to at the Rafah border, my body became the ground upon which the most hegemonic ideological powers operating in Gaza fought for dominance. The video pushed me and my personhood to the margins under the rubric of my “protection” as a woman, an issue that is perceived by the general community as “common sense.” The media discourse that surrounded the incident demonstrates women’s multiple struggles in the Palestinian community and the central role that media and power structures play in defining and reinforcing certain hegemonic discourses, such as patriarchy. However, women have performed uncountable examples of implicit and explicit resistance to reclaim their agency in the face of oppression and patriarchy. In my case, social media tools allowed me to reclaim the original context of the event and expose the patriarchal cultural traditions that reduces women to their bodies and restricts and marginalises them. It also succeeded in paving the ground for more open discussion around the violations the women are subjected to on a daily basis in public and private spheres, and challenged the cultural taboo around sexual violence against women.

Looking in From the Outside: Media in the Mix of Governance, Security and Development

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
G.M. Shahidul Alam
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Internet Age ◽  
Political Journalism ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Government ◽  
Free Media

The Constitutions of democratic countries list, and elaborately specify the makeup and functions of, three branches of government: the Executive, Legislature, and Judiciary. The Media, dubbed the Fourth Estate by Edmund Burke, cannot be a part of the government. In fact, to contemplate a free media being a part of a government would be an oxymoron. After all, the Media is there to keep a check on the abuse of power by the government and other power structures. This paper looks at the media’s role in a country’s governance, security, and development, and these are encapsulated, indicating also to their complementarity, in the quality traditional media’s glamour best: political journalism. Today, in the early twenty-first century, journalism is still, for good and ill, at the heart of politics. But political journalism is also changing and reinventing itself as a craft and a profession in the face of harsh competition, a rapidly changing business environment, and a political world undergoing its own profound changes. Furthermore, in the Internet Age, the new media, because of the possibilities for good or mischief that it can create, is often a target for manipulation towards one’s own benefit, and at the expense of other political entities, in a number of countries.

Filthy Material

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Forster
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New Media ◽  
Twentieth Century Literature ◽  
Modernist Literature ◽  
Literary Value ◽  
Radclyffe Hall ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media

Modernist literature is inextricable from the history of obscenity. The trials of such figures as James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, and Radclyffe Hall loom large in accounts of twentieth-century literature. Filthy Material: Modernism and the Media of Obscenity reveals the ways that debates about obscenity and literature were shaped by changes in the history of media. The emergence of film, photography, and new printing technologies shaped how “literary value” was understood, altering how obscenity was defined and which texts were considered obscene. Filthy Material rereads the history of modernist obscenity to discover the role played by technological media in debates about obscenity. The shift from the intense censorship of the early twentieth century to the effective “end of obscenity” for literature at the middle of the century was not simply a product of cultural liberalization but also of a changing media ecology. Filthy Material brings together media theory and archival research to offer a fresh account of modernist obscenity with novel readings of works of modernist literature. It sheds new light on figures at the center of modernism’s obscenity trials (such as Joyce and Lawrence), demonstrates the relevance of the discourse of obscenity to understanding figures not typically associated with obscenity debates (such as T. S. Eliot and Wyndham Lewis), and introduces new figures to our account of modernism (such as Norah James and Jack Kahane). It reveals how modernist obscenity reflected a contest over the literary in the face of new media technologies.

Innovationsmotor Medientechnik – Von der Schreibmaschine zur «Mittleren Datentechnik» bei der Siemag Feinmechanische Werke (1950 bis 1969)

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-117
Author(s):  
Christian Henrich-Franke
Keyword(s):  
Data Processing ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Strategic Decisions ◽  
Adverse Conditions ◽  
Family Enterprise ◽  
The Us ◽  
Innovative Products ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Media ◽  
The 1960S

Abstract The second half of the 20th century is commonly considered to be a time in which German companies lost their innovative strength, while promising new technologies presented an enormous potential for innovation in the US. The fact that German companies were quite successful in the production of medium data technology and had considerable influence on the development of electronic data processing was neglected by business and media historians alike until now. The article analyses the Siemag Feinmechanische Werke (Eiserfeld) as one of the most important producers of the predecessors to said medium data technologies in the 1950s and 1960s. Two transformation processes regarding the media – from mechanic to semiconductor and from semiconductor to all-electronic technology – are highlighted in particular. It poses the question of how and why a middling family enterprise such as Siemag was able to rise to being the leading provider for medium data processing office computers despite lacking expertise in the field of electrical engineering while also facing difficult location conditions. The article shows that Siemag successfully turned from its roots in heavy industry towards the production of innovative high technology devices. This development stems from the company’s strategic decisions. As long as their products were not mass-produced, a medium-sized family business like Siemag could hold its own on the market through clever decision-making which relied on flexible specialization, targeted license and patent cooperation as well as innovative products, even in the face of adverse conditions. Only in the second half of the 1960s, as profit margins dropped due to increasing sales figures and office machines had finally transformed into office computers, Siemag was forced to enter cooperation with Philips in order to broaden its spectrum and merge the production site in Eiserfeld into a larger business complex.

Challenges MNCs Face in Emerging Markets: The Nestlé Experience

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 222-231
Author(s):  
V.S. Pai
Keyword(s):  
Monosodium Glutamate ◽  
Control Process ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Product Recall ◽  
Quality Control Process ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Media ◽  
World Class ◽  
Lab Test

Maggi was the most popular instant noodles brand in India, which children in particular loved to snack on. The brand had a dominant position until suddenly in mid-2015 it got engulfed in controversy. Several state food regulators found that Maggi contained monosodium glutamate as well as lead well above the prescribed limits. Both these substances were harmful especially for children. When Nestlé India was confronted with lab test results it stuck to its position that they had a world class quality control process in place and that their products were safe for consumption. Finally, the national food regulator FSSAI, ordered a ban on the sale of Maggi including product recall. Consequently, several state governments imposed temporary ban on the sale of Maggi noodles in their respective states. The future of the company suddenly looked very bleak. Nestlé India was slow to respond to this fast unfolding crisis. Further, their responses were very brief and not adequately culture-sensitive. This led to the feeling in several quarters that the company was probably guilty of wrongdoing. To set right things Nestlé's worldwide CEO flew into India to douse the flames of the controversy and draw up an appropriate strategy to bail out the brand. He address the media, put in place a new CEO for Nestlé India and set brand Maggi on the path of recovery. However, Nestlé India was still facing a number of critical issues. What should be done to win over the trust of its customers? How should it recover market share lost to competitors both old rivals and new entrants? What strategy should it develop to succeed with the new products, especially hot heads, launched along with the comeback strategy? Should it change its approach to dealing with government health officials to prevent confrontations in future? How should it shorten the response time and make it effective in the face of a media backed public outcry in future?

Accountability and the Media

2014 ◽  
Vol 652 (1) ◽  
pp. 206-221
Author(s):  
Anton Harber
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Access ◽  
Political Interference ◽  
The Face ◽  
Public Broadcaster ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Poor Management

Two decades of contestation over the nature and extent of transformation in the South African news media have left a sector different in substantive ways from the apartheid inheritance but still patchy in its capacity to fill the democratic ideal. Change came fast to a newly open broadcasting sector, but has faltered in recent years, particularly in a public broadcaster troubled by political interference and poor management. The potential of online media to provide much greater media access has been hindered by the cost of bandwidth. Community media has grown but struggled to survive financially. Print media has been aggressive in investigative exposé, but financial cutbacks have damaged routine daily coverage. In the face of this, the government has turned its attention to the print sector, demanding greater—but vaguely defined—transformation and threatened legislation. This has met strong resistance.

Tiresian Journeys

2008 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 174-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petra Kuppers
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
The Body ◽  
Public Performance ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
Disability Culture ◽  
The Media ◽  
Extreme Performance ◽  
Performance Project ◽  
Union Square

Given the media frenzy over Hillary Clinton's unsuccessful presidential bid, and the ensuing questions about the state of feminism, it seems a serendipitous moment to feature two pieces—written by the women who conceived and performed them—that offer very different but complementary takes on agency, identity, and the conflation of the public and private as one's body becomes the locus of the gaze. Petra Kuppers's dramaturgical meditation on her experiences as part of Tiresias, a disability culture performance project, investigates erotics, change, mythology, and identity. A collaboration between photographers, writers, and dancers, the project, occurring over six months in 2007, posits the body as the site at which myth might be reshaped and movement might become poetry. Lián Amaris critically analyzes her feminist public performance event Fashionably Late for the Relationship, which took place over three days in July 2007 on the Union Square traffic island in New York City. Informed by Judith Butler's citational production of gender, the piece focused on exposing and critiquing the marked visibility of gender construction and maintenance within an extreme performance paradigm.

May Day Demonstrations in Five European Countries

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 281-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abby Peterson ◽  
Mattias Wahlström ◽  
Magnus Wennerhag ◽  
Camilo Christancho ◽  
José-Manuel Sabucedo
Keyword(s):  
Political Orientation ◽  
Political Opportunity ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Opportunity Structures ◽  
The Past ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
May Day ◽  
Political Opportunity Structures ◽  
Political Demonstrations

In this article, we argue that there is an element of rituality in all political demonstrations. This rituality can be either primarily oriented toward the past and designed to consolidate the configuration of political power—hence official—or oriented towards the future and focused on challenging existing power structures—hence oppositional. We apply this conceptual framework in a comparison of May Day demonstrations in Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom in 2010. The demonstrations display significant differences in terms of officiality and oppositionality. Our study provides strong evidence that these differences cannot be explained solely—if at all—by stable elements of the national political opportunity structures. Instead, differences in degrees of oppositionality and officiality among May Day demonstrations should be primarily understood in terms of cultural traditions in combination with volatile factors such as the political orientation of the incumbent government and the level of grievances.

scholarly journals Cultism and Violence in Nigerian Universities: A Paradigm for Achieving Religious Academic Excellence

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 102
Author(s):  
Ushe Mike Ushe
Keyword(s):  
Moral Education ◽  
Survey Design ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Academic Excellence ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Face ◽  
Persistent Violence ◽  
The Government ◽  
Forms Of Violence

Nigerian universities and other institutions of higher learning have in recent times witnessed unprecedented insecurity, persistent violence and educational backdrop, leading to loss of many lives and properties worth millions of naira across the country. Part of the face out of this scourge is the prevailing case of cultism and other forms of violence in Nigerian universities and other higher educational institutions. This has resulted to gruesome arrest, expulsion and murder of many students on account of cult activities on the campuses and other forms of students’ violence which further exposed our universities to insecurity, ritual murders, drug abuse and use of dangerous weapons by cult groups, victimization and regime of terror against fellow students, lecturers, and anyone that stands in the ways of these cult groups on our campuses. This paper discusses the impacts of cultism and other forms of violence on university campuses in Nigeria as a search for achieving sustainable peace and academic excellence. To explore this change, the study employs survey design, questionnaires and face-to-face interviews in collecting data and analysis. The research findings have shown that cultism and other forms of violence are prevalence in Nigerian universities and have increased tremendously in recent decades, reoccurring almost on daily basis. The paper observed that students’ radical activism and union politics, incapability of university and state authorities to enforce minimum standard of students’ civil behaviors on campuses as well as rivalries between cult groups and the wider campus community has drastically affected educational or academic performance of students in contemporary Nigerian society. The paper recommends the restructuring of university educational policies and curriculum, provision of moral education and non-interference of the government and university authorities in the affairs of students’ union politics and activism.

scholarly journals THE REGION IMAGE: Specifics, Basic Elements and Technologies of Formation

2018 ◽  
pp. 414-429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irina G. Napalkova ◽  
Ksenia V. Kurochkina
Keyword(s):  
Functional System ◽  
Formation Mechanisms ◽  
Problem Solution ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Brand Reputation ◽  
Complex Image ◽  
Regional Leaders ◽  
Regional Authorities

Introduction. The efficiency of functioning of market processes is defined both by partnership and by the interregional competition in modern Russia. Strengthening of responsibility of regions for results of regional economic growth stimulates the aspiration to be allocated among similar, to strengthen and expand positions in the market, to create high-cost idea of the positioned territory induces regional authorities to pay special attention to formation and advance of the region image as a real administrative resource. Owing to the fact that the image is the result of purposeful information and communicative activity success of the named problem solution depends on research and development in the sphere of imagology and also understanding degree of formation mechanisms of the region image by power structures, the attracted technologies of its positive formation and correction, creating of steady presence in the information space what actualize the stated perspective. In this regard a main objective of this work is the theoretical and methodological analysis of the region image studying, in the context of determination of the main research categories in relation to the territory; definitions of the image analysis elements and description of the technologies designing the region image. Materials and Methods. The structural analysis, functional, system, axiological approaches and a hermeneutical paradigm acted as the theoretical and methodological strategy of the research. Results. Research approaches to understanding of the terms «image», «brand», «reputation» are analyzed. So, the image of the territory is understood as the complex image, which is purposefully formed by special communicative technologies in this work, proceeding from the available territorial resources and advanced among representatives of target groups. As the major image-forming factors are considered: natural and geographical characteristics, tendencies and orientation of the political sphere development, level of regional economy development and its investment potential; interregional and international relations; condition of the social and demographic sphere; identity of historical and cultural traditions; ethno national and ethno confessional originality of the region; level of the realized information policy, etc. Discussion and conclusions. Distinguish advertising, PR and branding are the most often used image technologies. Their level of development gives the chance of diversification now being guided by the customer and conditions of realization. In the conditions of virtualization of policy for the federal center the secondary image of the territory arising in the course of the interregional competition becomes a peculiar estimated means of efficiency of activity of regional leaders and state governing bodies. At the same time, despite understanding of the importance, ultimate goals and strategy by the regional authorities, a complex – from development until monitoring – the territorial image policy is not implemented. Most often development of appeal of the territory is connected with separate actions or PR-programs of formation of a favorable investment image, climate. The received results of this research become prerequisites for further studying of a phenomenon of image of territories in the context of studying deepening of experience of certain Russian regions, its applied analysis Keywords: territory, region, territorial image, PR-program, territorial branding, image making, visualization.

scholarly journals ترقية تعليم مهارة الكلام بالرسوم المتحركة على التلاميذ بمعهد دار العلوم العصري بندا أتشيه

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Mikyal Oktariana
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Action Research Approach ◽  
The Media ◽  
Arabic Speaking ◽  
Banda Aceh ◽  
Speaking Skills

Mahārah kalām (speaking skills) is a part of skills that highly considered in learning Arabic at Pesantren Darul Ulum Banda Aceh. It encourages students to practice speaking Arabic on a daily basis both in the classroom and outside. Based on pre observations, there are many students who are unable to speak or communicate in Arabic. Most of them feel tired and bored to learn Arabic due to media being used that does not match with the learning process, while some of them do not practice using Arabic in daily conversation. Based on this situation, the author conducted research using animation media to improve learning speaking skills at the school using action research approach. The results of this study show that the continuity of the learning process with the media is very effective in improving the language proficiency particularly speaking skills. Furthermore, they are also delighted with the use of animation media in the learning process. Keywords: Learning Arabic; Speaking Skills; Animation Media

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