Chapter 2.3 Dimensions of variation in TIME magazine

Abstract In the 16 months before TIME magazine naming Greta Thunberg its Person of the Year, as her influence grew, so too did the news media’s attempts to make sense of her. This project analyzes profiles of Greta Thunberg to understand how journalists constructed the persona that has become “Greta.” We argue the paradoxical framing of Thunberg as exceptional and fierce and childlike contributes to an alternative construction of girlhood grounded in the positive portrayal of her Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) diagnosis. While featuring ASD as her “superpower” is potentially progressive, we argue foregrounding Thunberg’s whiteness and age cements her construction as the iconic voice of the climate crisis movement, potentially downplaying the need for collective action to end climate change.

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Rethinking Hierarchies in East Asian Historical IR

Journal of Global Security Studies ◽

10.1093/jogss/ogy028 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 4 (4) ◽

pp. 598-611 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Joseph MacKay

Keyword(s):

International Relations ◽

East Asia ◽

East Asian ◽

Two Dimensions ◽

The Past ◽

Dimensions Of Variation ◽

Over Time

Abstract International relations (IR) has seen a proliferation of recent research on both international hierarchies as such and on historical IR in (often hierarchical) East Asia. This article takes stock of insights from East Asian hierarchies for the study of international hierarchy as such. I argue for and defend an explanatory approach emphasizing repertoires or toolkits of hierarchical super- and subordination. Historical hierarchies surrounding China took multiple dynastic forms. I emphasize two dimensions of variation. First, hierarchy-building occurs in dialogue between cores and peripheries. Variation in these relationships proliferated multiple arrangements for hierarchical influence and rule. Second, Sinocentric hierarchies varied widely over time, in ways that suggest learning. Successive Chinese dynasties both emulated the successes and avoided the pitfalls of the past, adapting their ideologies and strategies for rule to varying circumstances by recombining past political repertoires to build new ones. Taken together, these phenomena suggest new lines of inquiry for research on hierarchies in IR.

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A multi-dimensional analysis of register variation in Brazilian Portuguese

Corpora ◽

10.3366/cor.2014.0059 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 239-271 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Tony Berber Sardinha ◽

Carlos Kauffmann ◽

Cristina Mayer Acunzo

Keyword(s):

Dimensional Analysis ◽

Large Body ◽

Brazilian Portuguese ◽

Linguistic Community ◽

Linguistic Features ◽

Register Variation ◽

Comprehensive Picture ◽

Six Dimensions ◽

Dimensions Of Variation

In this paper, we present a Multi-Dimensional analysis of Brazilian Portuguese, based on a large, diverse corpus comprising forty-eight different spoken and written registers. Previous research in MD analysis includes multi-register investigations of a range of languages, including English, Spanish, Somali and Korean, among others. At the same time, a large body of literature on text varieties in Brazilian Portuguese exists, but previous research focusses on specific aspects of one, or at the most, a few varieties at a time and, therefore, does not present a comprehensive picture of register use in the linguistic community of Brazilian Portuguese speakers. In this study, we attempt to fill this gap by employing the MD framework, enabling researchers to account for a large number of different registers, based on a wide repertory of linguistic features. The analysis revealed six dimensions of variation, which are presented, illustrated and discussed here.

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A Nude Horse Is A Rude Horse: The Society for Indecency to Naked Animals

Animal Studies Journal ◽

10.14453/asj.v10i2.7 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 140-168

Author(s):

Thomas Aiello

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Farm Animals ◽

Human Society ◽

Press Releases ◽

Time Magazine ◽

Nonhuman Animals ◽

American Media ◽

Mainstream Press

In 1959, Alan Abel began sending out a series of press releases to American media outlets credited to a new organization, The Society for Indecency to Naked Animals. Using the language of conservative moralists opposed to the changes in postwar society, he argued that ‘naked’ animals were scandalous and needed to be clothed. Pets, farm animals, and wildlife were all included, as the organization hued to slogans like ‘a nude horse is a rude horse’ and ‘decency today means morality tomorrow’. Abel employed comedian Buck Henry to play the organization’s president, G. Clifford Prout, who gave interviews and speeches covered widely by the mainstream press. Over the next four years, Prout and the group were featured on every major American newscast. The hoax was exposed in late 1962 after he gave an interview to Walter Cronkite. The following year, Time magazine officially debunked the existence of the group. It was an elaborate hoax, but it was also a satire, using animals to critique moralists attempting to ban books and music for indecency. In so doing, the group also unintentionally laid bare American contradictory thinking about animals, as clothing nonhuman animals and worrying about their ‘indecency’ assumed that they had some level of agency. The United States, for example, had always classified the killing of those wearing clothes as murder. Thus it was that while the satire of The Society for Indecency to Naked Animals was directed toward human moralists, the content of its crusade focused exclusively on nonhumans, raising clear questions about their role in human society.

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Children's Hospital Nuclear Warhead Bomb

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.77.1.137 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 77 (1) ◽

pp. 137-137

Author(s):

CHARLES F. JOHNSON

Keyword(s):

Computer Programs ◽

Missile Guidance ◽

Time Magazine ◽

Children's Hospital ◽

The Past ◽

Scholarly Article ◽

Children’S Hospital ◽

Nuclear Warhead

To the Editor.— I appreciate the liberal editorial attitude displayed by your and your staff that has enabled me to publish: 1 cartoon 1 poem and 1 scholarly article during the past several years in Pediatrics. The following article from Time magazine (March 4, 1985) has stimulated my creative interests into a new direction. Bigger bucks for smarter bombs. Missile-guidance computer programs so complex that they can be written and tested only by other computer programs.

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