scholarly journals “Get Your Teeth Fixed Before You Go on TV”: Online Discussions of Reality Television as the Hegemonic Gaze Pointed at Socially Unacceptable “Others”

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Jakub Machek
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Reality Television ◽  
Reality Tv ◽  
Online Discussions ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Outcome ◽  
Shifting Boundaries ◽  
Insight Into

The article is engaged with the question of how viewers of Czech reality television programmes negotiate the social status of low-income participants in online discussions. The analysis is triggered by an enquiry into practices of stigmatisation and the processes of drawing, maintaining, and shifting boundaries between the normalised, well-ordered “self” and the poverty-stricken, socially unacceptable “other”. The public judgement of people lacking economic and cultural capital is analysed using Internet and social network debates related to the Czech adaptations of the reality TV programmes Výměna manželek (Wife Swap, TV Nova, 2005-present) and Prostřeno (Come Dine with Me, TV Prima, 2010-present). This method provides insight into the creation of consensual meaning, and allows the analysis of the positions, claims and arguments adopted by online discussants. The research outcome showed some important differences between the evaluations offered by the producers of programmes and those accepted by viewers.

Muriel Spark's Early Fiction

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Bailey
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
Social Critique ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Stage Play ◽  
Insight Into

This book presents a detailed critical analysis of a period of significant formal and thematic innovation in Muriel Spark’s literary career. Spanning the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s, it identifies formative instances of literary experimentation in texts including The Comforters, The Driver’s Seat and The Public Image, with an emphasis on metafiction and the influence of the nouveau roman. As the first critical study to draw extensively on Spark’s vast archives of correspondence, manuscripts and research, it provides a unique insight into the social contexts and personal concerns that dictated her fiction. Offering a distinctive reappraisal of Spark’s fiction, the book challenges the rigid critical framework that has long been applied to her writing. In doing so, it interrogates how Spark’s literary innovations work to facilitate moments of subversive satire and gendered social critique. As well as presenting nuanced re-readings major works like The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, it draws unprecedented attention to lesser-discussed texts such as her only stage play, Doctors of Philosophy, and early short stories.

scholarly journals Chasing the Public: The CBC and the Debate Over Factual Entertainment on Canadian Airwaves

2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek Foster
Keyword(s):  
Reality Television ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Reality Tv ◽  
The Public ◽  
Débat Public

Abstract: This article focuses on the public debate surrounding the CBC as it began to program reality TV. It highlights the tension between a public broadcaster’s popular programming and the expectations of a cultural nationalist public that seeks to hold the institution accountable. It argues for the existence of a “CBC effect” and questions whether the transnational format of reality television on Canada’s national broadcaster augurs changes in Canadian public culture.Résumé : Cet article porte sur le débat public entourant le CBC quand ce dernier a commencé à diffuser de la téléréalité. Il souligne la tension qu’engendre la programmation populiste d’un radiodiffuseur public à l’égard d’un public nationaliste qui s’attend à ce que celui-ci fasse des choix plus cultivés. L’article postule l’existence d’un « effet CBC » et se demande si le format transnational de la téléréalité telle qu’elle passe au radiodiffuseur national du Canada annonce des changements à venier dans la culture publique canadienne.

Escaping Reality by Watching Reality TV?

2020 ◽  
pp. 42-56
Author(s):  
Melissa Ames
Keyword(s):  
Reality Television ◽  
Reality Tv ◽  
Surveillance Culture ◽  
Identity Performance ◽  
Privacy Rights ◽  
Television Programs ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Social ◽  
Entertainment Products ◽  
Familial Expectations

Chapter Two turns to reality television, exploring three theories of emotion that explain the rise of this televisual genre in the wake of 9/11. A study of the 2000-2010 programming schedule reveals the cultural anxieties with which producers and viewers of these shows (dis)engage. Although often considered superficial, lowbrow entertainment products meant primarily for escapist purposes, this essay argues that reality television programs grapple with important societal concerns: surveillance culture and privacy rights; the pressure of identity performance in the social media era; and shifting social, domestic, and familial expectations for men and women.

scholarly journals Color, Caption and Emoji – Using Instagram as a Screening Tool for Depression in Teenagers and Adults

2021 ◽  
Vol 04 (08) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Enciu, MD ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Narrative Review ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Major Depressive ◽  
Comparison Theory ◽  
The Public ◽  
Demographic Group ◽  
The Social ◽  
Insight Into

Instagram, the largest growing social network site today, has grown exponentially since its launch in 2010. Mental health challenges, particularly anxiety and major depressive disorder in those aged 16 to 30 have been associated with Instagram’s popularity. Depression is of particular interest to health care providers within the public health sector: it affects 264 million people globally; suicide is the second most common cause of death in 18 to 29-year-olds. This age group also constitutes the main demographic group of Instagram users. A narrative review was conducted on peer-reviewed articles between January 2019-July 2020 to analyze Instagram use and its association with depression, and using it as a tool to diagnose depression. PubMed, EBSCO, NCBI, NIH, and Google Scholar were used to source articles published between 2015-2020. The narrative review focused on four primary papers. The first study looked at the social comparison theory, while the second and third studies used screening questionnaires in conjunction with analyzing an individual’s Instagram content into text-based scores. The fourth study analyzed the content of photos which were posted to give insight into an individual’s status regarding depressive states. Accounting for 18 to 30 year olds’ Instagram usage into how they engaged with content can accurately screen for, and diagnose depression.

scholarly journals Interaction and Transformation on Social Media: The Case of Twitter Campaigns

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 205630511775072 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Housley ◽  
Helena Webb ◽  
Meredydd Williams ◽  
Rob Procter ◽  
Adam Edwards ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Media Analysis ◽  
Social Media Analysis ◽  
Media Campaigns ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Insight Into

The increasing popularity of social media platforms creates new digital social networks in which individuals can interact and share information, news, and opinion. The use of these technologies appears to have the capacity to transform current social configurations and relations, not least within the public and civic spheres. Within the social sciences, much emphasis has been placed on conceptualizing social media’s role in modern society and the interrelationships between online and offline actors and events. In contrast, little attention has been paid to exploring user practices on social media and how individual posts respond to each other. To demonstrate the value of an interactional approach toward social media analysis, we performed a detailed analysis of Twitter-based online campaigns. After categorizing social media posts based on action(s), we developed a typology of user exchanges. We found these social media campaigns to be highly heterogeneous in content, with a wide range of actions performed and substantial numbers of tweets not engaged with the substance of the campaign. We argue that this interactional approach can form the basis for further work conceptualizing the broader impact of activist campaigns and the treatment of social media as “data” more generally. In this way, analytic focus on interactional practices on social media can provide empirical insight into the micro-transformational characteristics within “campaign communication.”

scholarly journals The Corporate Crisis Management Of Colour Blind Advertising - A Case Study of Dolce & Gabbana’s and H&M’s Racially Charged Campaigns

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Goldentuler
Keyword(s):  
Crisis Communication ◽  
Communication Model ◽  
Best Interest ◽  
Advertising Industry ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Corporate Crises ◽  
Corporate Crisis ◽  
Insight Into

The purpose of this Masters Research Paper is to analyze the methods of crisis communication utilized by H&M and Dolce & Gabbana in response to their racially charged ads launched in January 2018 and November 2018 respectively. After thorough research, it is clear that many retail groups have suffered irreparable damage to their images from a crisis (Liu et al., 2011). Image Restoration Theory (IRT) and the Social-mediated Crisis Communication model will act as a lens through which the companies’ techniques will be examined. The Literature Review aiding the research gathered in this paper will provide insight into the growth of the advertising industry, examples of modern corporate crises, and a recap of each corporation’s controversial pasts. The review will also cover theories of crisis communication and social media’s role in crisis communication. After manually collecting data from Dolce & Gabbana’s Instagram and Twitter accounts, it is clear that the Italian fashion house misused denial in combination with William Benoit’s other strategies within IRT. The public swiftly accused Dolce & Gabbana of lying and avoiding blame. After Dolce & Gabbana turned to mortification, their image had been damaged as many users labeled the apology as insincere. Similarly, the data collected on H&M reveals that the retail group attempted to evade responsibility. Later, H&M retracted their statement and released an apologized. The apology received a marginally warmer reception by Instagram users, where as many users on Twitter were demonstrably skeptical of its genuineness. When corrective action is employed the public recalls each company’s racist past. After thorough analysis, it is evident that in racially charged corporate crises it may be in the best interest of the company’s image to take full responsibility for the act and release a denial free apology.

The Material World of a Household and Collection

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Social Hierarchy ◽  
Professional Expertise ◽  
Material World ◽  
The Public ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
The Social ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Insight Into

This chapter demonstrates the significance of the Palais de Justice at the summit of Parisian office-holding society and as a centre of information and communication in the capital. It situates L’Estoile in the social hierarchy of the Palais, analysing his duties in its Chancery and his involvement in the sale of offices, a crucial factor in the complex and developing administration of the early modern French state. Like most office-holders, L’Estoile openly criticized the sale of offices while tacitly practising it. His understanding of his colleagues’ use and abuse of this system reveals how it worked from the inside. From his position in the Chancery, L’Estoile was particularly involved in the licensing of printed books, and his professional expertise gives his diaries unparalleled insight into the public presence of print in Paris and the limits that contemporaries imposed on its sale and circulation.

scholarly journals Social security expenses with patients with back pain by the National Institute of Social Security of Brazil from 2008 to 2014

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. e233
Author(s):  
Marcelo José da Silva de Magalhães ◽  
Samara Aparecida Martins Dias Silva ◽  
Fernando Ericson Almeida Vieira ◽  
Samuel Caires Martins de Lima ◽  
Thais Mendes Colares Maurício ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Back Pain ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Lower Back Pain ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
The Public ◽  
Lower Back ◽  
The Social ◽  
Average Annual Cost ◽  
Urban And Rural Areas

Objective: To analyze all social security expenditures paid by Brazilian Institute of Social Security (INSS) of lower back pain, from 2008 to 2014. Methods: Consultation to Social Security database in order to obtain information about the main benefits offered individuals by the INSS, in the period between 2008 and 2014. Based on the Social Security database and the ICDs M51 and M54, the INSS expenditures were assessed for low-income retirement, sickness and to accidental retirement, between men and women from urban and rural areas from 2008 to 2014. Results: In this period, the most prevalent benefit was Disease Aid, with an average annual cost of R$ 88.458.511,10. The total cost of benefit was: Accidental Sickness Insurance-R$ 116.076.692,00;Accidental Retirement-R$ 6.740.052,84; Illness Assistance-R$ 373.547.294,00; Retirement Due to Disability-R$ 75.883.844,00. Among all the above mentioned beneficiaries, there was a predominance of males and individuals living in the urban area. Conclusions: Lower back pain leads to suffering for workers, costs to companies, as well as burdening the public coffers regarding the social security system and health care.

scholarly journals The Corporate Crisis Management Of Colour Blind Advertising - A Case Study of Dolce & Gabbana’s and H&M’s Racially Charged Campaigns

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Goldentuler
Keyword(s):  
Crisis Communication ◽  
Communication Model ◽  
Best Interest ◽  
Advertising Industry ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Corporate Crises ◽  
Corporate Crisis ◽  
Insight Into

The purpose of this Masters Research Paper is to analyze the methods of crisis communication utilized by H&M and Dolce & Gabbana in response to their racially charged ads launched in January 2018 and November 2018 respectively. After thorough research, it is clear that many retail groups have suffered irreparable damage to their images from a crisis (Liu et al., 2011). Image Restoration Theory (IRT) and the Social-mediated Crisis Communication model will act as a lens through which the companies’ techniques will be examined. The Literature Review aiding the research gathered in this paper will provide insight into the growth of the advertising industry, examples of modern corporate crises, and a recap of each corporation’s controversial pasts. The review will also cover theories of crisis communication and social media’s role in crisis communication. After manually collecting data from Dolce & Gabbana’s Instagram and Twitter accounts, it is clear that the Italian fashion house misused denial in combination with William Benoit’s other strategies within IRT. The public swiftly accused Dolce & Gabbana of lying and avoiding blame. After Dolce & Gabbana turned to mortification, their image had been damaged as many users labeled the apology as insincere. Similarly, the data collected on H&M reveals that the retail group attempted to evade responsibility. Later, H&M retracted their statement and released an apologized. The apology received a marginally warmer reception by Instagram users, where as many users on Twitter were demonstrably skeptical of its genuineness. When corrective action is employed the public recalls each company’s racist past. After thorough analysis, it is evident that in racially charged corporate crises it may be in the best interest of the company’s image to take full responsibility for the act and release a denial free apology.

scholarly journals “That Was What I Had to Use”: Social and Cultural Capital in the Careers of Women Broadcasters

2018 ◽  
Vol 96 (1) ◽  
pp. 194-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tracy Lucht ◽  
Kelsey Batschelet
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social And Cultural Capital ◽  
The Public ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Full Participation ◽  
The Public Sphere

This study uses in-depth, biographical interviews to understand a range of historical experiences in the careers of individual women broadcasters in the Midwest, a region of the United States that has received relatively little attention from media scholars. The findings demonstrate the barriers these women faced as well as the social and cultural capital available to them as they pursued diverse roles in an industry that did not welcome their full participation. The study contributes to scholars’ understanding of women’s participation in the public sphere during the 1950s to 1970s.

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