‘Landscapes of fear’: public places, fear of crime and the media

2013 ◽  
pp. 200-214
Keyword(s):  
Fear Of Crime ◽  
Public Places ◽  
The Media

Social Psychology

2017 ◽  
pp. 206-231
Author(s):  
John G. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Impression Management ◽  
Reflective Thinking ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
Public Places ◽  
Jean Paul ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Early Recruitment

In this chapter, we investigate the recent situation concerning the seduction of consumers by advertising and the media. A new plethora of media-organised conglomerates is attempting to monopolise our attention and steer our emotions, opinions and choices towards increased consumption through imposed wants in the interest of gross profits for a semi-invisiblised few. Herein we consider: the colonisation of public places (advertising), the work/spend cycle, increased work at the cost of leisure; impression management, status-conscious and conspicuous consumption, reflective versus pre-reflective thinking in consumer choices, the early recruitment of children, how human emotions can become the fuel of overconsumption, class-based emotions and fashion consumption, obsessions with body image, the evasion and silencing of criticism by the corporate media. The approach is one founded in critical theory - a perspective that describes the individual as reciprocally constituted by the society in which she lives, rather than as a passive entity existing prior to socialisation. It seeks to reveal the seduction of our subjectivities (running marketing strategies ‘from within') as contrasted with the value-free, ‘objective' approach of much contemporary social psychology. Contemporary theoreticians in sociology and consumer studies, including Pierre Bourdieu and Juliet Schor, are cited along with deeper philosophical perspectives from the earlier philosopher, Jean-Paul Sartre, complete with references from contemporary books and journals.

scholarly journals Mission Financing: The Case of Contemporary Prophetic Ministry in Ghana

2020 ◽  
pp. 67-78
Author(s):  
Daniel Nii Aboagye Aryeh
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Public Places ◽  
Fundraising Strategies ◽  
Church Life ◽  
The Media ◽  
Critical Resource ◽  
Biblical Principles

This article discusses the ways in which “newly called prophets” begin and sustain ministry activities. It argues that among the various ways “newly called prophets” use to raise the needed funds to begin ministry is a bare-foot ministry in public places. It also posits that charging consultation fees as a requirement to receiving the services of a prophet, selling “anointing oil”, relics, and prophylactics to aid miracles for seekers, and as means of mobilizing funds to sustain ministry activities in the media lack effective biblical support. Even though money is a critical resource in mission and church life, the means that are used to mobilize funds from the congregants must not be oppressive. The study employed a narrative historical analytical approach towards the discussion of issues. It is recommended that contemporary prophets must adapt good biblical principles and fundraising strategies that do not over-burden congregants/donors.

Football and Sports Media in Chile, 1895–1962

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Acuña
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Read Aloud ◽  
Public Places ◽  
Print Journalism ◽  
Sports Media ◽  
Gradual Introduction ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
The 1960S

Football and media have become associated to such an extent that it would be difficult to discuss the history of sports in Chile without acknowledging its relationship with the media. Since the early 1900s, the media coverage of football—arguably the most significant mass spectacle in Chile—has become a unique place to evoke political sympathy and national pride. Before the gradual introduction of television in the 1960s, print journalism and radio were the technological tools that defined the ways in which Chileans experienced football. As narrative devices, sports media represented football for much larger audiences than those sitting in the stadium. In the 1940s, football chronicles may have been read aloud, and photographs of famous footballers were usually posted in public places for semiliterate workers too poor to buy sports magazines. Similarly, the pitch of a radio announcer’s voice and the quick summations he gave to different plays generated their own visual spectacle and moral evaluations for listeners. Although sports magazines and radio broadcasts were mostly consumed in urban areas, they created new ways of experiencing football that enabled participation from larger parts of the nation. The importance of these sources lies in their central role of making football a much more understandable sport to mass audiences, many of whom were illiterate. Most importantly, sports media became a public terrain for making claims about Chilean citizenship, including affirmations of appropriate masculinity, racial belonging, and class relations.

Russian population under the conditions of self-isolation

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (Extra-C) ◽  
pp. 152-160
Author(s):  
Margarita S. Astoyants ◽  
Anna G. Luginina ◽  
Polina S. Volkova ◽  
Ovsep A. Gomtsyan ◽  
Nina A. Oparina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Behavior ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Russian Population ◽  
The Self ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Public Places ◽  
The Media ◽  
Coronavirus Infection

The authors focus their attention on the current regime of self-isolation, which arose in the context of the spread of a new coronavirus infection. Currently, the Russian population is forced to change their social behavior adapting to the conditions dictated by the pandemic. Within this article, based on secondary data analysis, the authors consider the transformational contradictions of social behavior, highlighting the aspect of virtuality. On the part of social institutions there are new organizational and management strategies that are implemented through social distancing of citizens and wearing masks in public places, as well as the self-isolation of the population, the transition of professional activity to the remote mode. The reaction of the population is expressed in such social practices as distrust of social institutions represented by the state and the media, denial of the coronavirus, non-compliance with the self-isolation regime, fear of the economic crisis, the transition of labor activity to a remote mode, a change in the approach to consumption and its structure.    

Exploring the Complexities Associated to Victimization

2016 ◽  
pp. 296-311
Author(s):  
Erica Hutton
Keyword(s):  
Racial Disparities ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Fear Of Crime ◽  
Racial Bias ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Ecological Effects ◽  
Unequal Treatment ◽  
Racial Conflict ◽  
The Media ◽  
Criminological Theories

The following chapter addresses both the presence and complexities that are associated to the reports of victimization within the media in direct correlation to the element of how racial disparities sensationalize certain incidents of crime. The terminology pertaining to news coverage is also identified and described in regards to the modality of planning in the report of the news; in addition, the perspectives of racial conflict is expounded upon to include the sociological influences, ecological effects, and the criminological theories that best describe the cyclical reactions of race-related bias in the media. The discussion explores previous literature centered upon racial bias in media coverage and the areas that appear to be sensationalized more so than not. The goal of news broadcasting and narrowcasting are delineated upon as well as correlating measures associated to the perception of unequal treatment and fear of crime.

Exploring the Complexities Associated to Victimization

2020 ◽  
pp. 250-261
Author(s):  
Erica Hutton
Keyword(s):  
Racial Disparities ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Fear Of Crime ◽  
Racial Bias ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Ecological Effects ◽  
Unequal Treatment ◽  
Racial Conflict ◽  
The Media ◽  
Criminological Theories

The following chapter addresses both the presence and complexities that are associated to the reports of victimization within the media in direct correlation to the element of how racial disparities sensationalize certain incidents of crime. The terminology pertaining to news coverage is also identified and described in regards to the modality of planning in the report of the news; in addition, the perspectives of racial conflict is expounded upon to include the sociological influences, ecological effects, and the criminological theories that best describe the cyclical reactions of race-related bias in the media. The discussion explores previous literature centered upon racial bias in media coverage and the areas that appear to be sensationalized more so than not. The goal of news broadcasting and narrowcasting are delineated upon as well as correlating measures associated to the perception of unequal treatment and fear of crime.

Uses of English in Southern British Cameroons

2002 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Paul Kouega
Keyword(s):  
Home Environment ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Indigenous Languages ◽  
The Other ◽  
Tertiary Level ◽  
Official Language ◽  
Public Places ◽  
Language Of Instruction ◽  
Contact Language ◽  
The Media

This study looks into the use of English in Southern British Cameroons, a territory where English was introduced some 500 years ago by British privateers. The data are a collection of answers to a questionnaire devised to check the respondents’ use of English in various domains such as the home, neighbourhood, place of work and others. The findings reveal that English, a co-official language of the country, is gradually entering the home environment, where the indigenous languages are expected to dominate; it is the language of instruction in primary and secondary schools, and of religion and the court as pastors and lawyers consistently use it in their respective trades; in short it is the means of expression of educated people, the elite of the land. However, English finds itself in a situation of competition with other languages in this territory. At a lower level, it has to compete with Pidgin English, a contact language which dominates the neighbourhood domain. At a higher level, it competes with French, the other official language, which is dominant in tertiary level education, in the media (where most newspapers as well as most foreign radio and cable television programmes are in it), in public places (where respondents report overhearing talks and reading notices in tongues other than English), and in the civil service (where most official correspondences are initiated in it). In short what seems to have been taking place in the country since Reunification with French Cameroon in 1961 is a one-way bilingualism, with speakers of English being made to fully operate in French.

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