scholarly journals A WELL-TOLD STORY… WILL COVID-19 TEACH US TO LISTEN TO A CITY?

Muzealnictwo ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 62 ◽  
pp. 163-172
Author(s):  
Michał Niezabitowski
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Direct Contact ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Prose Poems ◽  
Strong Bond ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Programme ◽  
At Home

As a result of the pandemic, in March 2020, world museology was cut off from the direct contact with their public. Owing to the introduced regulations, Polish museums were closed down on three occasions (14 March – 4 May 2020, 15 Oct 2020 – 31 Jan 2021, and 20 March – 4 May 2021). When searching for new forms of activity, in 2020, museums made an enormous technological progress, and mastered numerous new competences allowing them to move in cyberspace with ease. The pace at which they introduced various ‘online’ formats is worthy of appreciation. Presently, the time has come to ask whether the effectiveness in reaching the public via such means truly contributed to consolidating a strong bond with them. In order to get the answer to this, it is necessary to critically assess the museum efforts, which will not be possible without researching into the Polish public over that period. Wishing to voice my opinion in the critical discourse on the museums’ activity during the pandemic, I have decided to share my experience from a selected activity of the Museum of Krakow: I have presented the effects of the social Programme titled ‘Stay at Home and Tell Krakow’ (#zostanwdomuiopowiedzkrakow). The Museum created this programme convinced that a city dweller, exposed to the oppression of the pandemic will feel the urge to share his or her experience. Apparently, the appeal made by the Museum of Krakow was eagerly responded to. The Museum received ‘stories’ about the pandemic in different formats: prose, poems, diaries, visual arts, and even musical pieces and artifacts. The results of the ‘Stay at Home and Tell Krakow’ Programme are currently hard to sum up, however, what seems a valuable and worth analysing experience is the focus of residents’ attention on the Museum which they considered an institution trustworthy enough to entrust it their private, often intimate reflections on living through that challenging period.

Music in the Age of Anxiety

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Wierzbicki
Keyword(s):  
Technological Progress ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Sexual Politics ◽  
White Flight ◽  
The Social ◽  
Experimental Rock ◽  
At Home

Derided for its conformity and consumerism, 1950s America paid a price in anxiety. Prosperity existed under the shadow of a mushroom cloud. Optimism wore a Bucky Beaver smile that masked worry over threats at home and abroad. But even dread could not quell the revolutionary changes taking place in virtually every form of mainstream music. This book sheds light on how the Fifties' pervasive moods affected its sounds. Moving across genres established (pop, country, opera, experimental, rock, jazz) the book delves into the social dynamics that caused forms to emerge or recede, thrive or fade away. Red scares and white flight, sexual politics and racial tensions, technological progress and demographic upheaval—the influence of each rooted the music of this volatile period to its specific place and time. Yet this book also reveals the host of underlying connections linking that most apprehensive of times to our own uneasy present.

scholarly journals A Critical Discourse Analysis Of The Ontario Government's Dissemination Of The FDK Program

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Willetts
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Social Citizenship ◽  
Social Investment ◽  
The Public ◽  
Full Day Kindergarten ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government ◽  
Full Day

This major research paper applies a critical discourse analysis (CDA) to examine the Ontario government’s rationalization of full day kindergarten to the public and the underlying discursive representation of social citizenship that the government sets forth. A content analysis of nineteen textual documents identified twelve rationales for FDK. A social investment discourse was identified as the dominant discourse underlying these rationales, while a social justice discourse and a combination of both discourses was also present. A CDA of three textual documents indicated that the Ontario government employed nominalization, modality and interdiscursivity to perpetuate the social investment discursive representation of FDK. The prevalence of social investment discourse in the Ontario government’s rationalization of FDK holds important implications for advancing just and caring early childhood policy for all children and families.

scholarly journals Augmented Virtual Reality: Playing Architect

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Miller
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Black Male ◽  
White Male ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Public Image ◽  
The Public ◽  
Young Black Male ◽  
The Social ◽  
Alternative Understanding

This thesis sits at the intersection of identity and technology by considering what it means to assume the role of architect as the young black male. The public image of the architect is represented instead, by the white male figure and distributed in a narrative of individualist and ego. However, a critique of the ego through introspection and auto-biographical context gives alternative understanding to the social, cultural, racial and political discourse for the minority seeking autonomy. Framed in modern blackness, design in research becomes a process of appropriation where the architect can be challenged by notions of new softwares where platforms are built instead of foundations. Research that began largely about architecture and virtual reality - instead concludes with urgent questions involving the architect and the tools he interfaces - opening avenues for critical discourse on identity, autonomy, anonymity, and devices.

scholarly journals A Critical Discourse Analysis Of The Ontario Government's Dissemination Of The FDK Program

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Willetts
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Social Citizenship ◽  
Social Investment ◽  
The Public ◽  
Full Day Kindergarten ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government ◽  
Full Day

This major research paper applies a critical discourse analysis (CDA) to examine the Ontario government’s rationalization of full day kindergarten to the public and the underlying discursive representation of social citizenship that the government sets forth. A content analysis of nineteen textual documents identified twelve rationales for FDK. A social investment discourse was identified as the dominant discourse underlying these rationales, while a social justice discourse and a combination of both discourses was also present. A CDA of three textual documents indicated that the Ontario government employed nominalization, modality and interdiscursivity to perpetuate the social investment discursive representation of FDK. The prevalence of social investment discourse in the Ontario government’s rationalization of FDK holds important implications for advancing just and caring early childhood policy for all children and families.

نظرية الفعل التواصلى وعلاقتها بفاعلية أداء المؤسسات الإعلامية Communicative Action Theory and its Relationship to Performance Effectiveness in Media Institutions

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (first) ◽  
pp. 170-185
Keyword(s):  
Action Theory ◽  
Communicative Action ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Performance Effectiveness ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Facts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Media Institutions ◽  
The Media

يهدف هذا البحث إلى مناقشة القضايا الأساسية لنظرية الفعل التواصلي عند هابرماس والانطلاق من هذه القضايا فى دراسة فاعلية الأداء فى المؤسسات الإعلامية بالتطبيق على وكالة أنباء الشرق الأوسط. واتفقت نتائج البحث مع بعض الفرضيات الخاصة بالنظرية النقدية وخاصة نظرية الفعل التواصلي عند هابرماس فيما يتعلق بتأثير القوى المسيطرة فى المجتمع على عمل وسائل الإعلام، حيث تؤكد هذه القوى نفوذها من خلال وسائل الإعلام التى تقوم بإعادة تشكيل الحقائق الاجتماعية بما يتفق مع رؤيتها وأهدافها، بينما لم تدعم النتائج الفروض الخاصة بقدرة وسائل الإعلام على تحقيق استقرار المجتمعات عن طريق حشد وتعبئة الجماهير تجاه القضايا التى تحقق هذا الاستقرار، حيث أشارت النتائج إلى أن الوكالة – خاصة فى عهد مبارك – كانت تدعم رموز النظام السياسى الحاكم أكثر من تعبيرها عن مصالح الدولة. وعلى الجانب الآخر اتفقت النتائج مع رؤية هابرماس حول ضرورة خلق أنماط اتصالية جديدة تنمو وتتطور عن طريق الحوارات الجماعية القادرة على طرح خطاب عقلانى نقدى يحل محل الخطاب الرسمى، وذلك لاستبدال النظام المؤسسى بنظام آخر لا يحتوى على معوقات وعراقيل تعوق حركة الأفراد ومشاركتهم فى المجتمع. “Communicative Action” theory and to use these issues to examine the effectiveness of performance in media institutions, especially the Middle East News Agency. The results agreed with some hypotheses of critical theory especially the Communicative Action theory with regard to the influence of dominant forces in society on the role of media, where they confirm their influence through the media to reform the social facts in line with their vision and goals. While the results didn’t support the hypotheses about the ability of media to stabilize societies by mobilizing the public towards the issues that brings about this stability. On the other hand, the results agreed with Habermas (Wikipedia The Free vision) about the necessity of creating new communication patterns that grow and develop through collective dialogue capable of offering rational and critical discourse to replace the institutional system with another system that does not hinder the movement of individuals and their participation in the society.

The construction of anger in comments on the public behavior of members of the social elite in Chile

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 595-613 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Cristina Arancibia ◽  
Lésmer Montecino
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Economic Power ◽  
The Public ◽  
Digital Discourse ◽  
Social Elite ◽  
The Social ◽  
Public Behavior

Digital media is a platform of immediate presence that rests on a demediatized communication. It favors virtual collective action that allows digital citizens, in contexts of accentuated social inequality, to construe themselves as anti-establishment. Our research explores the co-participative construction of an online shitstorm, in comments posted on websites generated to respond to power abuse and inequity in Chilean society. The construction of citizens’ anger in digital discourse will be analyzed in light of the postulates of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and in the perspective of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). The corpus analyzed consists of 500 comments issued between April and July 2016 to contest a powerful Chilean businessman who uploads a video to YouTube to defend himself from the public verbal attacks of a congressman. The results of the analysis show representations related to corruption, power abuse and inequity from people who conceal in the economic power they have to assert they are ordinary citizens.

scholarly journals Augmented Virtual Reality: Playing Architect

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Miller
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Black Male ◽  
White Male ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Public Image ◽  
The Public ◽  
Young Black Male ◽  
The Social ◽  
Alternative Understanding

This thesis sits at the intersection of identity and technology by considering what it means to assume the role of architect as the young black male. The public image of the architect is represented instead, by the white male figure and distributed in a narrative of individualist and ego. However, a critique of the ego through introspection and auto-biographical context gives alternative understanding to the social, cultural, racial and political discourse for the minority seeking autonomy. Framed in modern blackness, design in research becomes a process of appropriation where the architect can be challenged by notions of new softwares where platforms are built instead of foundations. Research that began largely about architecture and virtual reality - instead concludes with urgent questions involving the architect and the tools he interfaces - opening avenues for critical discourse on identity, autonomy, anonymity, and devices.

scholarly journals An Analysis of the Media’s Role in the 2008 Economic Recession

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sadia Kamran
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Economic Recession ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Mortgage Market ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social

The purpose of this Major Research Paper (MRP) is to explore the 2008 economic recession and the unprecedented collapse of the American economy triggered by the mortgage market that affected individuals and corporations. One of the objectives of this work is to identify the key actors who prompted the economic crisis and how they influenced the public perception of investing in the housing that led to bankruptcy for millions. Another objective is to identify the media’s role in the recession and some of the key lessons learned in how they could have mitigated the crisis. This MRP will undertake a critical discourse analysis built on the seminal work of theorists (e.g., Van Dijk (1977), and Fairclough (1985) to analyze media communications during the recession. Critical discourse analysis would be used as a theory given it examines the interaction between the abuse of social power, dominance and inequality perpetuated by institutions through text and conversation in the social and political context (Wodok and Myers, 2001).

scholarly journals THE ATTITUDES OF STUDENTS IN BULGARIA AND THE CZECH REPUBLIC TOWARDS PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 728-733
Author(s):  
Margarita Ruseva ◽  
Vesela Kazashka
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Direct Contact ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Educational Needs ◽  
Special Educational Needs ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
The Public ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual

The paper is covering a survey aimed to find out what is the publicity and the interest of society in people with disabilities, what is the public attitude of students towards this stigmatized group of people, are there any already formed stereotypes and positive stigmas of the people with disabilities, how to achieve their overall integration into society, i.e. starting from the family, through university and finally at work.   We carried out surveys (questionnaires) among students from the Czech Republic and Republic of Bulgaria, as for this purpose we interviewed 100 students from both countries.This work reviews the concept of a relation between people with disabilities and the students, and the positive attitude of the latter for the purpose of integration into society. This survey uses several statistical methods. This fact increases its value and in great extent increases the possibilities of obtaining adequate and credible results. As a result of the survey, we determined the following: Direct contact with people with special educational needs is more influential both for people with disabilities and for the change of attitudes towards them. Overcoming the problem with the socialization and realization of the people with disabilities, both in public and personal aspect are a positive stigma which is a motivator and generator of new attitudes. Positive stigma, positive examples and direct contact are catalysts of the social processes related to people with disabilities and stimulate attitudes of the society and the individual.

The Changing Way of Life and Altered Values in the Mountain Villages of Himachal Pradesh. An Analysis of the Hindi Short Stories of S.R. Harnoṭ

2019 ◽  
Vol 79 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 236-271
Author(s):  
Mariola Offredi
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Direct Contact ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Himachal Pradesh ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The Social ◽  
Village Life ◽  
Mountain Villages

Abstract The article, based on the Hindi short stories of S.R. Harnoṭ, focuses on the transformation of villages in an age of globalisation. The setting of the stories is the mountain villages of Himachal Pradesh, and, in a few instances, Shimla, also a mountain location. The article is divided into two sections. The first is an overview of the stories, the second covers two main themes: the arrogance of power and the distortions generated from its abuse, and the effects of glocalisation and the end of the social produced by technological progress, which cuts off direct contact between human beings. The two themes merge in a single discussion in the conclusion through the unifying element of nature, an ever-present theme that is at times explicit, at times implied. Throughout the analysis three terms have been used to highlight the changes in village life: modernisation, glocalisation and globalisation.

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