Popular newspaper discourse

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 314-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Rixon
Keyword(s):  
Specific Form ◽  
Soft News ◽  
The World ◽  
News Industry ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Way ◽  
Television Criticism

Journalistic discourse, the world over, has developed over time, reflecting changes in the news industry and the wider society. Likewise television criticism, a specific form of journalism, has also had to evolve over time. Initially, as television critics sought recognition and respectability in the quality newspapers, they developed a form of writing similar to the way other forms of culture and art were reviewed. However, as journalists began to develop more popular ways of writing, and with the spread of soft news throughout newspapers and into new magazine supplements, television critics also found themselves having to follow suit. This was such that by the 1970s a number of critics had moved away from trying to mimic other forms of reviewing or criticism to creating their own, more popular form of discourse. In this article I will explore some of the ways the language of critics changed between the 1950s and the 1980s, and how these developments were similar or different to the wider changes in journalism happening at this time.

scholarly journals Finding the Right Balance: Financial Self-Help Organizations as Sources of Security and Insecurity in Urban Indonesia

2000 ◽  
Vol 45 (S8) ◽  
pp. 159-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hotze Lont
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Social Function ◽  
Self Help ◽  
The World ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The Right ◽  
Financial Arrangements ◽  
Main Shortcoming ◽  
The Way

Financial self-help organizations can be found in many parts of the world, and the cities of Java are among the areas where they are particularly widespread. Since about the 1950s, interest in these institutions among anthropologists and development sociologists has increased considerably. Analyses of financial self-help organizations have most often focused on their economic or their social function; few scholars have pointed to their function as providers of security and identified self-help organizations as typical forms of local social security institutions. The main shortcoming of most of these studies is that they base their conclusions solely on an analysis of the financial arrangements provided by these self-help organizations, neglecting the accommodating practices that people undertake in order to fit the provisions of self-help organizations to their own household needs. This essay explores the observation that financial self-help organizations do not simply provide security through the different kinds of insurance mechanisms they might contain, but that, particularly through the way in which people use them and participate in them, these institutions become meaningful for coping with insecurity. It examines the question of whether participation in financial self-help organizations contributes to the ability of households to cope with adversities and deficiencies in a concrete social context. Research aiming to answer this question was conducted in Bujung, an urban ward on the outskirts of Yogyakarta, on the island of Java.

scholarly journals A Genealogical Analysis of Information and Technics

Information ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 123
Author(s):  
J.J. Sylvia IV
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Information Age ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Genealogical Analysis ◽  
The World ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Way

This paper explores how the concepts of information and technics have been leveraged differently by a variety of philosophical and epistemological frameworks over time. Using the Foucauldian methodology of genealogical historiography, it analyzes how the use of these concepts have impacted the way we understand the world and what we can know about that world. As these concepts are so ingrained in contemporary technologies of the information age, understanding how these concepts have changed over time can help make clearer how they continue to impact our processes of subjectivation. Analysis reveals that the predominant understanding of information and technics today is based on a cybernetic approach that conceptualizes information as a resource. However, this analysis also reveals that Michel Foucault’s conceptualization of technics resonates with that of the Sophists, offering an opportunity to rethink contemporary conceptualizations of information and technics in a way that connects to posthuman philosophic systems that afford new approaches to communication and media studies.

A Comparative and Transnational Approach to Socialist Anti-Colonialism

2021 ◽  
pp. 133-164
Author(s):  
Quentin Gasteuil
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Specific Form ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
European Network ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
The Way

From the 1930s to the 1950s, Fenner Brockway (1888-1988) and Marceau Pivert (1895-1958), both ‘left-wing’ socialists, were deeply committed to anti-colonialism. Brockway lived mostly in the United Kingdom and Pivert in France, but their involvement was not restricted by national boundaries. Regarding colonial issues, both men conceived of the militant activities they pursued in transnational terms. This was a feature of their distinct internationalist approach of politics. Their relationship was part of a wider European network of militants, and their strife against colonial imperialism was embodied in various collective forms of action. The Brockway–Pivert connection thus illustrates the way two anti-colonialist stances met and interacted on different scales and levels. The ideas, the initiatives and the practices of this specific form of socialist anti-colonialism are at the heart of this chapter.

scholarly journals СУЧАСНА ФОТОКНИГА ЯК ОБ’ЄКТ ДИЗАЙНУ: СИСТЕМАТИЗАЦІЯ ЗА СПОСОБОМ ПОДАННЯ КОНТЕНТУ

2020 ◽  
pp. 92-103
Author(s):  
А. В. Сафронова ◽  
Р. Д. Михайлова
Keyword(s):  
Market Value ◽  
National Character ◽  
The World ◽  
Art Analysis ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Photo Book ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Written Sources ◽  
The Way

To explore the features and characteristics of a modern photobook as an object of design, its artistic and compositional solutions, types of content presentation; identify the state, trends in the development of photobooks of relevant types in the world and in Ukraine. The article uses visual-analytical analysis to process samples and written sources, typological – to identify criteria for the distribution of samples and their systematization, comparative – for stylistic, compositional, content, analysis of various works of photography, photo albums and other publications. Based on the analysis of scientific sources, modern foreign and Ukrainian photobooks, it is generalized the approaches to its artistic and compositional solutions and design, the classification of types of photo books by the way of presenting content as specific publications, the grounds for combining photos in a series is made, which include : common theme; common idea; common plot; common formalities; community of associations. The characteristics of the photo book as an object of design are formed: the features of artistic and compositional design solutions of a number of Ukrainian photobooks, which have been recognized as works of photography, are systematized; the leading tendencies of development of concrete types of photo books in the way of presenting content in Ukraine are revealed. On the basis of art analysis of photobooks by the way of presenting content, trends in its development within modern photography, features of design of a number of photographic works, which over time have acquired high artistic and market value or received recognition at international competitions are revealed. Characteristic features of photo reproduction are determined, which give Ukrainian photo books a distinct national character.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. xvi-16
Author(s):  
Rebecca Braun
Keyword(s):  
World Literature ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
New Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
Literary Practices ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Way

This introductory chapter explains what ‘world authorship’ is, and how consciously working with this concept might change the way we make sense of literature as both a live social phenomenon and an object of study. Divided into four core sections—‘World Literature Needs World Authors’, ‘A New Approach to Authorship’, ‘World Authorship over Time’, and ‘Doing Literature Differently’—it locates the concept within existing literary practices around the world as well as diverse academic approaches to the study of literature. Weaving each of the following twenty-five chapters into a larger frame, it shows how the approach pioneered by this handbook challenges and extends the way we engage with literature today, and what we might be able to do in the future.

Melodrama On and Off the Stage

2014 ◽  
pp. 685-701
Author(s):  
Jim Davis
Keyword(s):  
The World ◽  
New Locations ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Way

Although melodrama is often considered specifically in national contexts, it is also a transnational phenomenon. Individual melodramas take on different meanings in new locations, while melodrama as a genre changes over time. Evidence of this can be seen, for instance, in the way the supernatural is gradually subsumed by psychology. Melodrama is a fluid genre that eludes easy definition and many plays now described as melodramas were not so defined by their original authors. Melodrama is not antipathetic to realism, but often complements or even makes use of reality, especially when confronting the problems of modernity. It helps to mediate reality and even provides agency to its spectators in their interaction with the world around them.

Unconventional Histories of Capitalism

2019 ◽  
Vol 93 (3) ◽  
pp. 589-597
Author(s):  
Sudev Sheth
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Computational Tools ◽  
American Perspective ◽  
Regional Markets ◽  
The World ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Financial Crisis Of 2008 ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Way

The financial crisis of 2008 brought with it a renewed interest in the study of capitalism across disciplines. While historians have since led the way with writings on commodities, labor, finance, and institutions, these have been largely conveyed from the Euro-American perspective without necessarily probing other values, parameters, and conditions beyond western political economy that have shaped business over time. This article suggests that to assess the benefits and limits of the global capitalist experience, we must prioritize unconventional subjects, sources, and styles in how we frame research questions, analyze evidence, and cast narratives. Such an endeavor is especially timely given the growing influence of regional markets around the world and the increasing prominence of computational tools to generate and analyze novel datasets.

scholarly journals Irreverent Views of Natália Correia and Hilda Hilst from an Autobiographical Perspective

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Heloisa Martins Dias
Keyword(s):  
Sao Paulo ◽  
The Other ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Literary Movement ◽  
The World ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Literary Performance ◽  
The Way

This article explores two talented, controversial writers. One Portuguese, the other Brazilian, both fueled by irreverence and provocation in the way they focus on themselves and the world. Natália Correia, a poet, novelist and Azorean playwright (1923-93), whose work emerged in the midst of the Salazar regime, and with a militant political-literary performance with other leading figures in Portuguese culture and literature during the 1950s and 1960s. Her poetry maintains affinities with aesthetic tendencies of Surrealism, although she was not a strict follower of any literary movement. Hilda Hilst, a poet, prose and playwright from São Paulo (1930-2004), was a militant of different nature. She was not linked to any aesthetic programs or literary trends, a singularity that even today defies critics.

Postdenominational Missiology: Developing an Ecumenical Renewalist Approach

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 243-259
Author(s):  
Andy Lord
Keyword(s):  
Mission Statements ◽  
World Council Of Churches ◽  
Significant Development ◽  
The World ◽  
World Council ◽  
Ongoing Dialogue ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Way

The emergence of postdenominational identities has been recognised as a significant development in approaches to mission. These contribute to a deeper form of ecumenism in the way they integrate different traditions in themselves rather than starting from a confessional or correlational outlook. They also seek to develop over time through ongoing dialogue with different traditions. This article examines one such postdenominational identity, the emerging ‘renewalist’ identity that is particularly shaped by the charismatic tradition. A renewalist approach is contrasted with the ecumenical approaches of Lausanne and the World Council of Churches as represented in their latest agreed statements on mission. We also consider the next stage of renewalist development by asking how it might learn from these mission statements. This article strengthens the claim to significance of postdenominational identities and clarifies the nature of renewalist missiology.

Identity

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Baldwin
Keyword(s):  
Personal Identity ◽  
Basic Concept ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Philosophical Debate ◽  
The World ◽  
Narrative Unity ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Way

Identity is a basic concept which concerns the way in which the world divides up at one time into different things which are then reidentified despite change over the course of time until they cease to exist. Important debates concern the relation between identity and similarity, between something’s identity and the kind of thing it is, how far identity is fixed by human interests, and especially whether identity over time is really coherent. But the special focus of philosophical debate has long been the topic of personal identity—how far this is distinct from that of our bodies and how far it is determined by our self-consciousness. Recent discussions have also emphasized the importance of our sense of our own identity, which perhaps gives a narrative unity to our lives.

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