scholarly journals Conservative Christianity and the Creation of Alternative News: An Analysis of Focus on the Family's Multimedia Empire

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Susan B. Ridgely
Keyword(s):  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Conservative Christianity ◽  
Fox News ◽  
News Sources ◽  
The Family ◽  
2016 Election ◽  
Conservative Christian ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Conservative Media ◽  
Christian Conservatives

AbstractIn this article, I explore how, from 1977 through 2009, the conservative Christian media empire, Focus on the Family, acted as a model for and a creator of alternative news long before the 2016 election. In particular, since 1977, Focus linked proper Christianity with recognition of a world of hazards by defining danger as those people and institutions who refused to submit to God, especially feminists, secular universities, and the welfare state. Through the creation of a closed-media network, Focus taught Christian conservatives to see the mainstream news as undermining biblical Truth by espousing stories that supported postmodern relativism over God's singular truth. Simultaneously, Focus generated its own news sources to fill the vacuum left by the mainstream with stories highlighting the political and social structures needed to support the Focus-defined traditional family. Soon, other conservative media outlets began using these frameworks to attract listeners and to add veracity to their stories. Although mainstream media portrayed Focus as passé by 2009, I argue that the model that Focus developed led seamlessly to the creation of Fox News and, later, to the formation of internet communities around outlets such as Breitbart and to the believability of Russian bots.

Understanding Trump Supporters’ News Use: Beyond the Fox News Bubble

The Forum ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-346
Author(s):  
Sadie Dempsey ◽  
Jiyoun Suk ◽  
Katherine J. Cramer ◽  
Lewis A. Friedland ◽  
Michael W. Wagner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Fox News ◽  
2016 Election ◽  
Heterogeneous Consumption ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Habits ◽  
Conservative Media ◽  
Methods Analytical ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Since the 2016 election, the relationship between Trump supporters and Fox News has gained considerable attention. Drawing on interviews with more than 200 people and a representative survey conducted in the state of Wisconsin, we dive deeper into the media habits of Trump supporters using a mixed methods analytical approach. While we do not refute the importance of Fox News in the conservative media ecology, we find that characterizing Trump supporters as isolated in Fox News bubbles obscures the fact that many are news omnivores, or people who consume a wide variety of news. In fact, we find that Trump supporters may have more politically heterogeneous consumption habits than Trump non-supporters. We find that 17% of our survey respondents who support Trump in Wisconsin are regularly exposed to ideologically heterogeneous news media. We also find that like other voters, Trump supporters are disenchanted with the divisive nature of contemporary media and politics. Finally, we analyze the media use of young Trump supporters and find an especially high level of news omnivorousness among them.

The Fox Diet

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yochai Benkler ◽  
Robert Faris ◽  
Hal Roberts
Keyword(s):  
First Year ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Justice Department ◽  
Fox News ◽  
The Core ◽  
Deep State ◽  
Media Ecosystem ◽  
Conservative Media ◽  
The Right

This chapter focuses on the role of the dominant player in conservative media, Fox News, during the first year of Donald Trump’s presidency. It looks at three case studies to illustrate how Fox News used its position at the core of the right-wing media ecosystem repeatedly to mount propaganda attacks in support of Trump: the Michael Flynn firing in March 2017, when Fox adopted the “deep state” framing of the entire controversy; the James Comey firing and Robert Mueller appointment in May 2017; when Fox propagated the Seth Rich murder conspiracy; and in October and November, when the arrests of Paul Manafort and guilty plea of Flynn seemed to mark a new level of threat to the president, Fox reframed the Uranium One story as an attack on the integrity of the FBI and Justice Department officials in charge of the investigation.

Law, Love and the Limits of Liberalism

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (84) ◽  
pp. 49-66
Author(s):  
Julia Moses
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Common Assumption ◽  
Religious Difference ◽  
Imperial Germany ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Practices ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Mainstream Society ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Social Reformers

Abstract The creation of Imperial Germany in 1871 sparked a nationwide debate about the nature of marriage and the family. Behind these discussions was a common assumption: families were anchored in monogamous marriage. The assumption was so widely held that it was, with few exceptions, unspoken. It was revealed only in exceptional instances, for example, in confrontation with colonial others, bigamists who were deemed criminals or life reformers living on the fringes of mainstream society. By tapping into a discourse about civilization and human progress, it also linked discussions about the homeland and its overseas Empire. Drawing on a matrix of jurisprudence, social-scientific writings, tracts by social reformers, missionaries and government discussions, this article suggests that Germans embraced monogamy as the tacit rule of marital life within the boundaries of the metropole. Nonetheless, monogamy as a marital standard did not apply consistently within Germany’s overseas colonies. Instead, understandings of racial and religious difference, couched in a specific logic of imperial liberalism, predominated and meant that indigenous people were of ten lef t to continue their own family practices.

Unfulfilled Promise: Palestinian Family Reunification and the Right of Return

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 24-39
Author(s):  
Nabila El-Ahmed ◽  
Nadia Abu-Zahra
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Family Reunification ◽  
The State ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Successor State ◽  
Palestinian Refugees ◽  
Right Of Return ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Right

This article argues that Israel substituted the Palestinian refugees' internationally recognized right of return with a family reunification program during its maneuvering over admission at the United Nations following the creation of the state in May 1948. Israel was granted UN membership in 1949 on the understanding that it would have to comply with legal international requirements to ensure the return of a substantial number of the 750,000 Palestinians dispossessed in the process of establishing the Zionist state, as well as citizenship there as a successor state. However, once the coveted UN membership had been obtained, and armistice agreements signed with neighboring countries, Israel parlayed this commitment into the much vaguer family reunification program, which it proceeded to apply with Kafkaesque absurdity over the next fifty years. As a result, Palestinians made refugees first in 1948, and later in 1967, continue to be deprived of their legally recognized right to return to their homes and their homeland, and the family reunification program remains the unfulfilled promise of the early years of Israeli statehood.

scholarly journals ‘I Looked and Beheld a Country’: Home Movies, Homesteads and the Family Archive

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Clayton Rathbone
Keyword(s):  
Southern Africa ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Family Identity ◽  
Home Movies ◽  
Family Photographs ◽  
The Family ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The 1950S

Home movies, like family photographs, are important parts of family life, acting as ways to frame the idea of the family and connect different, inter-generational memories together. Footage of key moments helps develop a family identity, as well as locate it within broader historical contexts. As a result, home movies provide an incredibly useful source with which to examine the intersections between narratives of the family, nation and belonging. Utilising a collection of personal home movies, this paper will explore how these themes are touched on within the context of British Colonial Southern Africa. These films explore how ideas of family identity are rooted within ideas of home and belonging, articulating a conceptualisation of colonial Southern Africa as a ‘home-scape’ for descendant of British settlers living there during the 1950s and 1960s. These home movies draw attention to the creation of the idea of home and family, while also producing disruptive elements to those narratives.

scholarly journals INDIVIDUALIZATION AND SOCIALIZATION OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 319-321
Author(s):  
U.K. Kyyakbayeva ◽  
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A.I. Bulshekbayeva ◽  
R.E. Karimova ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
Preschool Child ◽  
Preschool Age ◽  
The Political ◽  
Cultural Experience ◽  
The Family ◽  
Culture Enrichment ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Individual Needs ◽  
Children's Activities

Changes in the political, social and economic spheres of modern Kazakhstan society dictate the need to increase attention to the socialization of preschool children in the family and preschool organizations. The integrity of the pedagogical process is understood as the integrity of the processes of socialization and individualization of the preschool child, preservation of the child's nature and its development in culture, enrichment of individual cultural experience in the process of inclusion in the socio-cultural experience, unity of development and education. The modern pedagogical process is designed as a system of conditions that allow each child to realize individual needs and at the same time interact with the children's community. The organization of children's activities initiates the creation of children's associations in which each child performs a favorite function and simultaneously cooperates with other children. In such an educational space, the processes of socialization and individualization leading to preschool age harmoniously complement each other.

What is Fox News? Partisan Journalism, Misinformation, and the Problem of Classification

2021 ◽  
pp. 193124312110604
Author(s):  
A.J. Bauer ◽  
Anthony Nadler ◽  
Jacob L. Nelson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Research Design ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Fox News ◽  
News Sources ◽  
News Source ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Journalism Research ◽  
Scholarly Inquiry

Fox News is one of the most popular news sources in the United States. Yet, there are those who reject the idea that Fox should be considered a news source in the first place, claiming it should be considered something more akin to propaganda. This article uses the ambiguity surrounding Fox News’ classification as an opportunity to explore how news sources get defined and categorized within journalism research and practice. It discusses three approaches that can be utilized to understand and categorize partisan media—producer-focused, audience-focused, and critical/normative. It explores the benefits and limitations of these perspectives and the need for scholarly inquiry that transverses and synthesizes them. We argue that an increasingly variegated news landscape calls for scholars to develop a richer vocabulary for distinguishing key features of partisan news outlets and greater reflexivity in research design that acknowledges the challenges inherent in translating meaning and values between producers, audiences, and scholars.

Internalisasi Nilai-nilai Keagamaan dalam Pembentukan Karakter Bagi Remaja

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Ahmad Masduki
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Development ◽  
Peer Relationships ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Religious Values ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Physical Changes ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Teens have different characters from children and adults and the problems they face. With this difference, it is necessary to take steps to remain a good teenager. In general, there are ten characters that exist in adolescents that parents and teachers must know about, namely physical changes, socialization, cognitive development, personal and emotional characteristics, independence, emotionality and rebellion, extreme moodiness, self-identity, peer relationships, independence and testing limits, selfish attitude. With characters who tend  much opposed  by  the  parents and teachers, it is necessary their internalization or inculcation of religious values in  adolescents. As for actions that do the elderly within the family and  teachers  in the school such as provide exemplary self, their sense of togetherness in the realization of the values of religious, harmonious relationship  the parents (father 's mother), the intimacy of the relationship people parents with children, train bear  responsibility, exercise and habitation of children since age early in the realization of the values of religious, consistency and unity of the behavior of  the parents, the creation of an atmosphere of openness, and communication dialogical, and  children are also able to choose companions who diligently carry out the command of religion.   Abstrak Remaja memiliki karakter yang berbeda dengan anak-anak maupun orang dewasa  dan problematika yang dihadapinya. Dengan adanya perbedaan itulah perlu adanya langkah-langkah yang dilakukan agar tetap menjadi remaja yang baik. Secara umum ada sepuluk karakter yang ada pada remaja yang orang tua maupun guru harus mengetahuinya, yaitu perubahan fisik, sosialisasi, perkembangan kognitif, karakteristik pribadi dan emosional, independen, emosional dan pemberontak, moodiness ekstrim, identitas diri, hubungan sebaya, kemandirian dan batas pengujian, sikap egois. Dengan karakter yang cenderung banyak berlawanan dengan orang tua maupun guru, maka perlu adanya internalisasi atau penanaman nilai-nilai keagamaan pada remaja. Adapun tindakan yang dilakukan orang tua didalam keluarga maupun guru di sekolah diantaranya memberikan keteladanan diri, adanya rasa kebersamaan dalam merealisasikan nilai-nilai keagamaan, keharmonisan hubungan orang tua (ayah-ibu), kemesraan hubungan orang tua dengan anak, melatih tanggung jawab, latihan dan pembiasaan anak-anak sejak usia dini dalam merealisasikan nilai-nilai keagamaan, konsistensi dan kesatuan perilaku orang tua, penciptaan suasana keterbukaan, dan komunikasi dialogis, dan anak juga mampu memilih sahabat yang rajin menjalankan perintah agama.

Radical isomorphism and the anti-authoritarian diffusion of leaderless organizations

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dana M. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Word Of Mouth ◽  
Critical Mass ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Institutional Isomorphism ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Organizational Forms ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Central Organization

Social movements are interested in the creation of alternative social practices, but must rely upon previous ideas and actions for a starting place. Ideally, anarchists seek to borrow good ideas and avoid bad ideas. This is challenging given anarchist movements’ horizontalist structures—tactics and organizational forms must be transmitted non-hierarchically in order to remain legitimate, as there is not central organization managing, authorizing, and dictating to new anarchist organizations. They key means for institutional isomorphism—how organizations tend to have comparable characteristics—with anarchist movements, is mimicry. This chapter analyses the creation and founding iterations of four “anarchistic franchise organizations”: Anti-Racist Action, Critical Mass, Earth First!, and Food Not Bombs. These tactics and organizational forms have spread through networks of activists and organizers (mainly via word-of-mouth and first-hand experience) and media (especially the Internet, as well as activist press and sometimes mainstream media).

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