A History of Local Media in Norway

This research identified the construction of Sundanese culture in the local mass media of West Java. Based on the phenomenon occurred, the culture could be interpreted in an accordance with the spirit of time and society. Within the national framework, this issue was not simple because the nationalism that was built on the plots of localism was not impossible to be changed. The research method employed the qualitative method. The data were the form of discourses contained in the local mass media. The results show that the language that is being used by the local media that describes the meaning of low bargaining of political position and national leadership. The construction of the local media in depicting the Sundanese culture is classified as the national, cultural, Islamic, and other aspects of culture. In the context of national leadership, the construction strengthens and affirms the faced condition and the reality. In terms of cultural relations with Islam, the local media shows the positive aspects of the condition and the history of the Sundanese people that has been known as a religious, ethnic group. In terms of the cultural relations with other aspects, the people of West Java are advised to make an inward reflection in viewing the existence of Sundanese culture within the national context. The ideologies that established by the local media towards the Sundanese culture are idealism, primordial, and pragmatism-realistic.

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The Development of the Underclass

Making Black Los Angeles ◽

10.5149/northcarolina/9781469629278.003.0004 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Marne L. Campbell

Keyword(s):

Native American ◽

Los Angeles ◽

People Of Color ◽

Federal State ◽

Local Media ◽

History Of ◽

State And Local ◽

The Impact ◽

History Of Race

Chapter 4, “The Development of the Underclass,” contextualizes the history of race in Los Angeles within the history of the American West (1870 – 1900). It explores how local white Angelenos combated notions of criminality and attempted to portray Los Angeles as atypical compared to other western American centers, hoping to pin its social ills on the small racialized communities (black Latino/a, and Chinese) that they were actively trying to segregate and minimize. It also explores California’s legal history, and examines the impact of federal, state, and local legislation on the communities of racialized minorities, particularly African American, Native American, and Chinese people. This chapter also examines the role of the local media in shaping mainstream attitudes towards local people of color.

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Massaging the Media: Australia Day and the Emergence of Public Relations

Media International Australia ◽

10.1177/1329878x1214400106 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 144 (1) ◽

pp. 27-36

Author(s):

Robert Crawford ◽

Jim Macnamara

Keyword(s):

Public Relations ◽

Growth And Development ◽

Media Relations ◽

Early Nineteenth Century ◽

Central Function ◽

Dynamic Relationship ◽

Local Media ◽

The Status ◽

History Of ◽

The Media

The status of Australia Day has long generated mixed responses – from patriotic flag-waving, to apathy, to outright hostility. Proponents of 26 January consequently have engaged in various public relations activities in order to promote Australia Day and to establish its credentials as the national day. From the early nineteenth century through to the present, local media outlets have had a dynamic relationship with Australia Day. Yet while they have been active proponents of Australia Day, their support was not unconditional. The emergence of various bodies with the specific aim of promoting Australia Day would alter this relationship, with the media becoming a potential adversary. As such, media relations assumed a more central function in the promotion of Australia Day. By charting the growth and development of media relations that have accompanied Australia Day celebrations, this study not only documents the evolution of media relations practice, but also reveals the extended history of public relations in Australia and its presence in everyday Australian life.

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The Construction of Acehnese Identity in Serambi Indonesia after the Helsinki Memorandum of Understanding

Talenta Conference Series Local Wisdom Social and Arts (LWSA) ◽

10.32734/lwsa.v1i2.207 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 354-361

Author(s):

Febri Nurrahmi

Keyword(s):

Symbolic Language ◽

Peace Accord ◽

Conflict Area ◽

Post Conflict ◽

Local Media ◽

Free Aceh Movement ◽

History Of ◽

The Government ◽

Separatist Movement ◽

Reconciliation Process

The signing of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Government of Indonesia and The Free Aceh Movement (GAM) in 2005 in Helsinki officially ended the armed separatist movement in Aceh. The long history of separatist movement in the region had created the question of identity between Acehnese and Indonesian identities among Acehnese. This study investigated the construction of Acehnese identity in relation to Indonesian identity in Serambi Indonesia, the most prominent local media, after the signing of the Helsinki peace accord. This study used a textual analysis to examine the construction of Acehnese identity through the use of symbolic language. The sample of 88 articles collected from July 2012 to May 2013 were analyzed based on five coding categories; themes, framing perspectives, labels to describe Aceh, labels to describe Indonesia, and depiction of Aceh-Indonesia relations. Findings revealed that Serambi Indonesia had managed to negotiate the tension between Acehnese and Indonesian identities. The newspaper overtly legitimated Aceh as an Indonesian region while maintaining the specialty of Aceh in comparison to other provinces of Indonesia. These findings suggested that the local media played a significant role in identity reconciliation during the reconciliation process in the post-conflict area

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Collective memory of the Kirkenes iron mine in sub-Arctic Norway: Its role in forming the future

Polar Record ◽

10.1017/s003224741900038x ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 56 ◽

Author(s):

Urban Wråkberg

Keyword(s):

Collective Memory ◽

Participant Observation ◽

Raw Material ◽

Industrial History ◽

The North ◽

Local Media ◽

Iron Mine ◽

History Of ◽

Social Licence To Operate ◽

Post Industrial

Abstract This study argues that collective memory is a relevant concept that can be used to analyse how the outlooks on industrial futures are shaped in remote northern locations. The case in question is the Sydvaranger iron mine in Kirkenes in the north-easternmost part of Norway. By drawing attention to the long periods of time often involved in forming collective memory, this study questions the viability of top-down processes of forming opinions aiming to set local minds on the track towards either “place-renewal” into an unknown post-industrial future or towards attaining a “social licence to operate” for any new or continued raw material producing industry. This exploration includes a discussion of memory studies, an overview of the industrial history of Kirkenes as part of a Euroarctic borderland and a study of the manifestations of collective memory in the contemporary local media. Revealing insights were obtained in Kirkenes through informal conversations and participant observation.

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Buryat Literature as a Political and Cultural Institution from the 1950s to the 1970s

Inner Asia ◽

10.1163/000000009793066569 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 47-63 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Melissa Chakars

Keyword(s):

Soviet Union ◽

Second World War ◽

Substantial Contribution ◽

Government Officials ◽

The Soviet Union ◽

Local Media ◽

History Of ◽

The 1950S ◽

1960S And 1970S ◽

Second World

AbstractThis paper explores the history of Buryat literature as an institution in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. Buryat literature was not simply the creation of Buryat writers. Local Party and government officials, censors, editors, publishers, and others made a substantial contribution to the direction, promotion, and content of Buryat literature. Buryat literature, as well as writers, was widely promoted by local media. Literature was also taught regularly at all levels of education. Buryat writers did not produce any samizdat and they generally did not use literature as a way to explore their pre-Soviet or pre-Russian history and culture as did other Soviet nationalities. Instead, Buryat literature generally emphasised topics that promoted and supported the project of Soviet modernisation. It promoted the value of Soviet leadership, the importance of the friendship of nations and in particular the friendship between Buryats and Russians, and it promoted the idea that life was better for the Buryats in the Soviet Union than it had been in the past or could be anywhere else. In addition, it helped create a new Buryat history that showed how the Buryats played an important role in Soviet historical events such as the Civil War, the October Revolution, the collectivisation of agriculture, and the Second World War. Buryat literature was a place to define and promote the new Soviet Buryat nation and all its modern attributes.

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Acehnese or Indonesian?: Post-conflict representation of identity in a local newspaper

Pacific Journalism Review – Te Koakoa ◽

10.24135/pjr.v24i2.439 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 24 (2) ◽

pp. 95-109

Author(s):

Nasya Bahfen ◽

Febri Nurrahmi

Keyword(s):

National Identity ◽

Ethnic Groups ◽

Collective Identity ◽

Civil Conflict ◽

Local Newspapers ◽

Post Conflict ◽

Local Newspaper ◽

Local Media ◽

The Everyday ◽

History Of

To what extent does a local newspaper in the Indonesian province of Aceh construct Acehnese identity as distinct from Indonesian national identity? In this article, the authors examine the representation of Acehnese identity post-civil conflict and in relation to Indonesian national identity by drawing on a content analysis of Aceh’s local newspaper, Serambi Indonesia. There are few studies of representations of local ethnic groups in their local newspapers, let alone the representations of ethnic groups with a history of separatist movements. Therefore, this study sets out to bridge the gap in the literature on how a formerly separatist ethnic group is positioned vis-à-vis its nation-state in its local media. This study examines the representation of Acehnese in the local newspaper in terms of Anderson’s (1983) ‘imagined community’, Billig’s (1995) ‘banal nationalism’, as well as ‘media representation and identity’. In doing so, this study attempts to give a more comprehensive approach to show that the local newspaper continues to be a means for the reproduction of ‘imagined communities’ and the delivery of the narrative of collective identity through the everyday representations of the nation.

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