Bringing Mankind to the Moon

2019 ◽  
pp. 28-43
Author(s):  
P. J. Blount ◽  
David Miguel Molina
Keyword(s):  
Social Value ◽  
The Moon ◽  
American Life ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
The Media ◽  
Historical Moment

In this chapter, P. J. Blount and David Molina trace NASA’s attempted counternarrative of social value and a policy of liberal equality rooted in the concept of “all mankind.” They consider whether this argument for NASA’s value remains a salient one at present as the continued inequalities in American life are increasingly highlighted in the media, and as we face a historical moment in which activists and astronauts alike will be challenged to bridge the distance between Black Lives Matter and Mars.

Protesting During a Pandemic: Narratives on Risk Taking and Motivation to Participating in the 2020 March on Washington

2021 ◽  
pp. 001112872199933
Author(s):  
Jennifer Cobbina ◽  
Ashleigh LaCourse ◽  
Erika J. Brooke ◽  
Soma Chaudhuri
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Social Position ◽  
Structural Racism ◽  
Police Violence ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
The Media ◽  
March On Washington

The study elucidates the interplay of COVID-19 and the wave of Black Lives Matter protests to assess motivation and risk taking for protest participation. We draw on protesters’ accounts to examine how police violence influenced the participants decision making to participate in the 2020 March on Washington during a pandemic that exacerbated the risks already in place from protesting the police. We found that protesters’ social position and commitment to the cause provided motivations, along with a zeal to do more especially among White protesters. For Black participants, the images in the media resonated with their own experiences of structural racism from police.

scholarly journals Policing and Racial (In)Justice in the Media: Newspaper Portrayals of the “Black Lives Matter” Movement

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Janani Umamaheswar
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Social Protest ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
Protest Movements ◽  
The Public ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
Recent Emergence ◽  
Public Nuisance ◽  
The Media

The “Black Lives Matter” movement, centered on fighting racial injustice and inequality (particularly in the criminal justice system), has garnered a great deal of media attention in recent years. Given the relatively recent emergence of the movement, there exists very little scholarly research on media portrayals of the movement. In this article, I report findings from a qualitative examination of major newspaper portrayals of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement between April and August 2016, before the particularly divisive 2016 presidential election. Inductive textual analyses of 131 newspaper articles indicate that, although the movement’s goals were represented positively and from the perspective of members of the movement, the newspapers politicized and sensationalized the movement, and they focused far more on supposed negative consequences of the movement. I discuss these findings by drawing on the “protest paradigm” and the “public nuisance paradigm” in media coverage of social protest movements, arguing that the latter is particularly useful for interpreting portrayals of Black Lives Matter in the prevailing US political climate.

The Rhetoric of Shared Grief: An Analysis of Letters to the Family of Michael Brown

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 355-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felicia R. Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Black Men ◽  
Healing Process ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Media ◽  
Symbolic Gestures ◽  
Funeral Services ◽  
Trayvon Martin

The Black Lives Matter Movement is alive and growing as the media capitalizes on the killings of Black men. Amid the marches, protests, funeral services, television appearances, political rallies, and other symbolic gestures that have allowed those touched by the tragedies to express themselves emotionally, one might wonder how, in particular, the mothers of these young Black men respond, cope, and move forward with their lives. With an understanding of this type of loss, two women decided to reach out to a family in order to share in their grief and offer words of support. This article examines the letters written by Wanda Johnson, mother of Oscar Grant III, and Sybrina Fulton, mother of Trayvon Martin, to the family of Michael Brown. It seeks to uncover the rhetoric of their grief and highlight the necessity of their words as a part of the grieving and healing process.

“We Should Have Had a Historian”: Live Television and the Accident of the Moon Landing Tapes

2020 ◽  
pp. 152747642093476
Author(s):  
Ella Klik
Keyword(s):  
Small Group ◽  
Magnetic Tape ◽  
Tape Recording ◽  
The Moon ◽  
The World ◽  
Magnetic Tape Recording ◽  
Live Television ◽  
The Media ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Moon Landing

Forty years after the first moon landing in 1969, National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced that it had likely recycled the tapes containing the original footage of the landing. Although the mission was a monumental event viewed by millions of people around the world, the production and handling of the recorded materials was a matter of little concern to more than a small group of employees, historians, and space enthusiasts. This article argues that despite the fact that the erasure of these archival materials was accidental, it was not an accident per se but rather a fulfillment of a logic designed into the apparatus of magnetic tape recording from its very inception, and therefore a generative event for the media archeologist. By evoking histories and theories of broadcast and magnetic recording, I argue that erasure is a process that discloses networks of economic, cultural, material, and aesthetic discourses and interests.

Athletes and/or Activists: LeBron James and Black Lives Matter

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (5) ◽  
pp. 425-444 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danielle Sarver Coombs ◽  
David Cassilo
Keyword(s):  
Controversial Issue ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
Four Frames ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Frame

As one of the world’s most recognizable athletes, Cleveland Cavaliers superstar LeBron James is emblematic of the modern athlete-activist; as such, it is important to understand how the media frame him in the context of a controversial issue. In recent years, he has used it to quietly support the Black Lives Matter movement. In 2014, 12-year-old Tamir Rice was killed by police on a Cleveland playground, just miles from where the Cavaliers play and just north of James’s hometown of Akron. James declined to comment on the case, and a Twitter campaign—#NoJusticeNoLeBron—attempted to force his hand. This article examines the role of James as an athlete-activist, identifying four frames embedded in content around James and the Black Lives Matter movement: Brand LeBron; Established Voice, Higher Expectations; Attention, Not Aggression; and Community Versus Protest. We found James is cautious and deliberate in his activism, moderating a message of consideration rather than revolution, contextualized by his brand and ambitions.

scholarly journals Screening Power: Harry Truman and the Nuclear Leviathan (ENG)

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 38-52
Author(s):  
Isabelle Freda
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
The United States ◽  
Nuclear Age ◽  
Political Sovereignty ◽  
Power And Control ◽  
The Media ◽  
Historical Moment ◽  
And Control ◽  
First Time

Harry Truman’s succession to the United States presidency upon Franklin Roosevelt’s death in 1945 thrust an obscure and inexperienced politician into the center of one of the 20th century’s most critical historical moment: the final months of World War II, as the United States was preparing to deploy nuclear weapons for the first time. Truman’s clear unequalness (in both image and substance) to the tasks at hand, in juxtaposition with the epic scale of the tasks themselves, provides a unique exposure of the illusory nature of presidential authority in the Nuclear Age. Using Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan as a means of delineating the theory and image of political sovereignty, this essay examines three distinct moments from the early days of Truman’s administration that serve to elucidate the absence of presidential power and control that continues to this day to underlie the media apparatus that defines the American presidency.

scholarly journals Social Value of Public Information

2002 ◽  
Vol 92 (5) ◽  
pp. 1521-1534 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Morris ◽  
Hyun Song Shin
Keyword(s):  
Private Information ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Welfare Effects ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Strategic Complementarity ◽  
Market Participants ◽  
The Media ◽  
Public Disclosures ◽  
The Impact

What are the welfare effects of enhanced dissemination of public information through the media and disclosures by market participants with high public visibility? We examine the impact of public information in a setting where agents take actions appropriate to the underlying fundamentals, but they also have a coordination motive arising from a strategic complementarity in their actions. When the agents have no socially valuable private information, greater provision of public information always increases welfare. However, when agents also have access to independent sources of information, the welfare effect of increased public disclosures is ambiguous.

scholarly journals Wrestling with Gender: Constructing Masculinity by Refusing to Wrestle Women

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah L. Brake
Keyword(s):  
Title Ix ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Opting Out ◽  
Sex Equality ◽  
Women's Equality ◽  
The Media ◽  
Formal Equality ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Legal Strategies ◽  
Do So

Deborah L. Brake, Wrestling with Gender: Constructing Masculinity by Refusing to Wrestle Women, 13 Nevada Law Journal 486 (2013). In February of 2011, an Iowa high school boy captured national attention when he refused to wrestle a girl at the state championship meet. The media shaped the story into a tale that honored the boy for sacrificing personal gain out of a moral imperative to “never hurt a girl.” Unpacking this incident reveals several “fault lines” in U.S. culture that often derail gender equality projects: (1) religion/morality is interposed as an oppositional and equally weighty social value that neutralizes an equality claim; (2) the agency of persons supporting traditional gender norms is assumed, while the agency of persons contesting them is questioned; (3) opting out or “leveling down” is employed to reinforce status hierarchies while maintaining a semblance of formal equality (neither boy nor girl wrestles); and (4) de-contextualized strands of feminist theory are appropriated and co-opted in service of the existing gender order. This paper asks, what happens when sex equality law is interjected into this narrative? After examining the anatomy of the backlash to the threat to the gender order posed by the entry of girls into wrestling, this paper constructs an argument that Title IX obligates schools and athletic associations to take measures designed to deter gender-based forfeitures that deprive girls of athletic opportunity. It then explores a tougher question: does the introduction of a sex equality claim disrupt the conventional understandings of gender that emerged from this narrative? I ultimately contend that law has a potentially useful role to play in subverting the gender order, but that to do so it must engage the crucial dynamic at the heart of forfeiture incident: the construction of masculinity, both for the boy who forfeited and for the sport of wrestling itself. Feminist legal strategies must contend with how masculinity is constructed and valued for the boys and men who play sports in order to further advance the cause of girls’ and women’s equality in sports.

scholarly journals Legal principles of countering hate speech: a retrospective review and analysis of perspectives

2021 ◽  
pp. 28-38
Author(s):  
O. GOLOVKO
Keyword(s):  
Retrospective Review ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
Legal Liability ◽  
Hate Crimes ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Legal Principles ◽  
Media Space ◽  
The Media

The article reflects the retrospective review of Ukrainian legislation and an analysis of the prospects of the lawmaking process on countering hate speech, including in the media space. Criteria for the hate speech and other non-criminal criminal qualification, which entail legal liability or without one, are presented. The conclusions are drawn from the European practice of classifying hate crimes. It has been established that the basis of legislation to combat hate speech should be recognition of the highest social value of a person, regardless of those features that make him or her unlike any other. The problems of new draft laws aimed at counteracting hate speech in the media space have been identified.

scholarly journals Collectivisation image in Soviet cinema of 1930s: philosophical analysis

Polylogos ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (№ 4 (18)) ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Aristova
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Socialist Realism ◽  
Philosophical Analysis ◽  
Modern Language ◽  
The People ◽  
Soviet Cinema ◽  
The Media ◽  
Historical Moment ◽  
Philosophic Tradition ◽  
Special Space

The article analyses the character of the collectivization image in Soviet cinema of the 1930s. The comparison of the films of S. Eisenstein, G. Aleksandrov, A. Medvedkin, A. Dovzhenko, F. Ermler, I. Pyryev is given to describe their common images and analyse the mechanism of their impact on a viewer in its connection to a special historical moment and cinema art specifics. The collectivization, which affected lives of the population of the USSR at the turn of the 1930s as an extremely unpopular measure, “skidding” all the time and rejected by the people, demanded a constant broadcast of its presence: images of a wonderful new life, images of an enemy, images of achievements. It also demanded the presence of a special space between reality and fiction, which can be called using the modern language the “media”. The unrealism of the analyzed films, which contradicts the canons of socialist realism, shows the ability of the image to involve a viewer’s perception into the game of suspicions about the “true” reality, which can be associated with platonism philosophic tradition in its influence on art. The article materials can be used for creating studying courses and literature on philosophy, political science, art and another humanities.

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