Addressing “Another” in the Aftermath of School Shootings Using Dance and Rhetoric

This chapter investigates dance and rhetoric as resources for sensemaking and discussing school shootings in their aftermath, such that people might speak to one another empathetically and respond as active agents of change. Inspired by the production process and performance of “Equipment for Living: An Artistic Exploration of School Shootings,” the 2019 dance concert choreographed by the author, community is proposed as an additional resource for addressing and healing from school shootings. Burke's dramatism is paired with his concept of “equipment for living” to discuss dance as an alternative to traditional media, such as print journalism, for addressing “another” in the aftermath of school shootings. Another refers to (1) people conjured in the act of performance, collaborators involved in the production process of media, and audience members invited to participate as active viewers and (2) the problem of rhetorically framing school shootings with the term “another.”

Visual Communication Through Body Movement

Nonverbal behaviour plays an important role in journalism because of its heavy reliance on visual forms of communication. In the first section of this chapter, academic research on nonverbal behaviour is discussed in terms of the following topics: the communication of emotion and interpersonal relationships, the synchronization of nonverbal behaviour and speech, deception detection, and communications skills training. The second section focusses on the use of visuals and nonverbal behaviour in two specific journalistic contexts: print journalism and the television news. Illustrative examples are discussed, based on the impact of photographs of the Vietnam War and the dead Syrian boy Aylan Kurdi; celebrity photographs are also considered. There follows an analysis of the television news, focussed primarily on recent changes in audiovisual editing techniques, and this is illustrated by a case study—an analysis of audiovisual news coverage of the British parliamentary expenses scandal of 2009.

O desenho de uma trajetória: design editorial nos jornais diários de Imperatriz (MA), de 1979 a 2013

Este trabalho apresenta a trajetória do design editorial em Imperatriz (MA), delineada por meio da memória gráfica e análise visual dos principais diários locais no período de cinco décadas. A pesquisa se debruça nos jornais O Progresso (1970), Jornal de Imperatriz (1985), Jornal Capital (1994), Folha do Dia (1998) e Correio Popular (2011) com o objetivo de desenhar a história visual dos impressos locais, conhecendo processos e rotinas produtivas que impulsionaram a prática na cidade. Como resultados da investigação são apontadas características visuais de cada época e reflexões sobre o modo como a atividade jornalística se desenvolveu no município. O estudo identificou três fases do design editorial: a era textual, era iconográfica e a era policrômica.The drawn of a trajectory: editorial design in daily newspapers of Imperatriz (MA), from 1979 to 2013AbstractThis work presents the trajectory of editorial design in Imperatriz (MA), delineated through graphic memory and visual analysis of the main local diaries in the period of five decades. The research focuses on the newspapers O Progresso (1970), Jornal de Imperatriz (1985), Jornal Capital (1994), Folha do Dia (1998) and Correio Popular (2011), with the aim of drawing the visual history of local printing, knowing productive processes and routines that boosted the practice in the city. As results of the investigation are pointed out visual characteristics of each epoch and reflections on how the journalistic activity developed in the municipality. The study identified three phases of editorial design: the textual era, the iconographic era, and the polychromic era.Keywords: Newspapers; editorial design; trajectory; print journalism; Imperatriz.

What Makes Journalism “Excellent”? Criteria Identified by Judges in Two Leading Awards Programs

What does “excellence” mean in journalism? The literature reveals no universally agreed set of standards, and awards guidelines are often unclear. We interviewed judges in two leading Canadian print journalism awards programs, using a sequence of open-ended and ranking questions to probe their criteria of excellence in a way calculated to elicit not just the standards they felt should be applied but the standards they actually did apply. Judges mentioned a wide variety of criteria, including the social importance and impact of works of journalism. But only two values were affirmed consistently: writing style and reporting rigour.

What Makes Journalism “Excellent”? Criteria Identified by Judges in Two Leading Awards Programs

What does “excellence” mean in journalism? The literature reveals no universally agreed set of standards, and awards guidelines are often unclear. We interviewed judges in two leading Canadian print journalism awards programs, using a sequence of open-ended and ranking questions to probe their criteria of excellence in a way calculated to elicit not just the standards they felt should be applied but the standards they actually did apply. Judges mentioned a wide variety of criteria, including the social importance and impact of works of journalism. But only two values were affirmed consistently: writing style and reporting rigour.

‘It’s OK to feel’: The emotionality norm and its evolution in U.S. print journalism

Between the 1960s and the 1990s journalists in U.S. newspapers created, constructed, and advanced emotionality as a new occupational norm in American print journalism, challenging some aspects of the dominant objectivity norm while simultaneously affirming its overall relevance. This historical study delineates how the emotionality norm emerged as a constitutive element of narrative journalism during this time period. Drawing from archival research, in-depth interviews, and textual analysis of trade publications, this study analyzes how narrative journalists developed moral ideals, practices, and justifications for advancing narrative journalism as an acceptable and desirable mode of emotional storytelling. As the emotionality norm affected journalistic roles, expanded the repertoire of journalistic forms, and transformed the emotive posture of newspapers, it contributed in nuanced and deliberate ways to the interpretive turn in U.S. journalism.

Music Theory for the “Weaker Sex”: Oliveria Prescott’s Columns for The Girl’s Own Paper

In this article, I examine a cluster of music theory essays by Oliveria Louisa Prescott (1842–1917), which were published between 1886 and 1891 in The Girl’s Own Paper (TGOP), the most popular periodical for young women in Victorian England. Although little known today, Prescott sustained a vibrant musical career in London as a composer and teacher, and her articles on music theory regularly appeared in major periodicals such as The Musical World and TGOP. Prescott’s work for TGOP presents a rare opportunity to explore music theory that was not just written by a woman, but also intended for a genteel female audience in the Victorian era. Her articles include explanations of fundamental theoretical subjects (cadences, basic harmonic progressions) as well as short analyses of solo piano works by Beethoven and Mendelssohn. But these articles are also noteworthy for their discussions of more advanced theoretical topics (such as chromatic harmony), concepts that might seem surprising for a popular periodical for young ladies. Mainstream journalism is often devalued as a “less serious” form of intellectual discourse, but Prescott’s work complicates stereotypes of ignorant amateur female musicians and the so-called “private” sphere, and it demonstrates how print journalism could serve as a vital public platform for the circulation of music theory among young British women in the Victorian era.