Police Legitimacy under the Spotlight: Media Coverage of Police Performance in the Face of High Terrorism Threat

2015 ◽  
pp. 183-206
Author(s):  
Revital Sela-Shayovitz
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Police Legitimacy ◽  
Police Performance ◽  
Terrorism Threat ◽  
The Face

scholarly journals Sins for some, virtues for others: Media coverage of investment banks’ misconduct and adherence to professional norms during the financial crisis

2018 ◽  
Vol 72 (9) ◽  
pp. 1436-1463 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas J Roulet
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Initial Public Offerings ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Investment Banks ◽  
Professional Misconduct ◽  
Public Offerings ◽  
Professional Norms ◽  
The Face ◽  
Corporate Customers

Why does professional misconduct persist in the face of media scrutiny? In this study, we explain how professional norms can be at odds with societal norms and how the behaviours they trigger can be perceived as misconduct. Most audiences tend to disapprove of wrongdoings, but specific stakeholders may interpret this disapproval as an indication of the focal organization’s level of adherence to professional norms. Building on mixed methods, we explore the case of the investment banking industry during the financial crisis and suggest that corporate customers were favourably biased by the reporting of banks’ misconduct in the print media as they linked it to the banks’ quality of service. We capture the extent to which banks are associated with misconduct, signalling their adherence to negatively perceived professional norms. We then look at how such signalling affects the likelihood for banks to be invited into initial public offerings syndicates. Our findings show that the more banks are disapproved of for their wrongdoings, the more likely they are to be selected to join a syndicate. This study suggests that the coverage of misconduct can actually act as a positive signal providing banks with incentives to engage in what is broadly perceived as professional misconduct.

scholarly journals CSR Communication, Corporate Reputation, and the Role of the News Media as an Agenda-Setter in the Digital Age

2020 ◽  
pp. 000765032092896
Author(s):  
Daniel Vogler ◽  
Mark Eisenegger
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Corporate Reputation ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
The Public ◽  
Csr Communication ◽  
Agenda Setter ◽  
The Face ◽  
Pass Through

By using social media, corporations can communicate about their corporate social responsibility (CSR) to the public without having to pass through the gatekeeping function of the news media. However, to what extent can corporations influence the public’s evaluation of their CSR activities with social media activities and if the legacy news media still act as the primary agenda setters when it comes to corporate reputation have not yet been thoroughly analyzed in a digitized media environment. This study addressed this research gap by looking at the effect of CSR communication through Facebook and news media coverage of CSR on corporate reputation in Switzerland. The results of this longitudinal study show that the salience and tone of news media coverage of CSR were positively related to corporate reputation, even though the news media coverage about CSR was predominantly negative. Thus, reputation was still strengthened even in the face of negative publicity. No effect of CSR communication through Facebook on corporate reputation was found. The results suggest that legacy news media still were influential in determining how the public evaluates corporations in the digital age.

Wang Shu’s design practice and ecological phenomenology

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 361-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hing-Wah Chau
Keyword(s):  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Architectural Discourse ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
The Face ◽  
Ongoing Concern

Wang Shu (b. 1963) is a locally trained Chinese architect who has received widespread media coverage in the last decade, especially after receiving the prestigious Pritzker Prize in 2012, often considered the Nobel Prize of architecture. Numerous articles and interviews have been published concerning Wang Shu and his design practice, however, there is a lack of analysis of his work from what might be called the perspective of his ecological phenomenology. Wang acknowledges his interest in phenomenological thinking and expresses an ongoing concern about human relationships with place and nature, the continuity of craftsmanship in the face of technological development, as well as the materiality and tactility of bodily perception. Before analysing Wang's work, relevant ideas of Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) and Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961) and their influence on architectural discourse are firstly examined. Both of them were seminal philosophers who offered inspiring insights to ecological discourse.

scholarly journals Responding to the climate crisis: Green consumerism or the Green New Deal?

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-104
Author(s):  
Sean Shanagher
Keyword(s):  
New Deal ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Green Consumerism ◽  
The Face ◽  
Climate Crisis

This article aims to contribute to the climate crisis debate in Ireland by exploring tendencies in media coverage towards two quite different ‘solutions.’ These might be seen as representing two poles of the current debate—either remaining securely within or departing significantly from the certainties of neoliberalism. The focus in this piece is on critically weighing up the respective strengths of these two responses in the face of climate disruption. I hope to encourage further research on this basis into quantifying media coverage of these and other potential solutions. In 2020, ‘green’ has become a mobile and versatile qualifier, employed by various social groups for a range of ends. I will briefly explore what Kahn has termed ‘green consumerism’ before considering various forms of the Green New Deal (GND).

Rethinking police legitimacy in postcolonial Hong Kong: Paramilitary policing in protest management

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ho Lawrence Ka-Ki
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Resistance To Change ◽  
Police Legitimacy ◽  
Civil Unrest ◽  
The Public ◽  
Protest Policing ◽  
Street Violence ◽  
The Face ◽  
One Country Two Systems ◽  
The One

Abstract This article addresses a frequently asked question regarding Hong Kong policing since the outbreak of prolonged civil unrest in June 2019: How can we understand the tactics adopted by the police in their attempts to de-escalate street violence, and why did the highly regarded police quickly lose its legitimacy among the public? This article argues that these phenomena can be explained by the abrupt change in the structural and policing context. This combined and interacted with the limitations of the ‘paramilitary policing model’ and public order legislation of Hong Kong adopted since the realignment of Beijing’s Hong Kong policy under the ‘One Country Two Systems’ principle in 2012. In the face of growing resistance to change this shift demystified the ‘professionalism’, ‘neutrality’, and ‘accountability’ that had continually been associated with the public’s perception of the Hong Kong Police since the 1970s. The protests pulled the police back to the escalated force in protest policing which in turn led to further declines in perceptions of police legitimacy across the population of the special administrative region. The findings also provide the platform for further conceptual debate on police legitimacy.

“The Way New Zealanders Would like to See Themselves”: Reading White Masculinity Via Media Coverage of the Death of Sir Peter Blake

2005 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 336-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Cosgrove ◽  
Toni Bruce
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
National Character ◽  
Unexpected Death ◽  
White Masculinity ◽  
Media Control ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Media ◽  
America’S Cup ◽  
Economic Landscape

In the face of growing scholarly concern about whiteness, and following Denzin’s (1996) argument that “those who control the media control a society’s discourses about itself” (p. 319), it becomes vital to interrogate and map what is at stake in specific representations of whiteness that gain purchase and mobilize the nation in shared ways. In death, America’s Cup sailor and adventurer Sir Peter Blake was held up as a New Zealand hero representative of a “true” national character. We argue that in the context of marked changes in the racial, political, and economic landscape of New Zealand, Blake’s unexpected death represented an important moment in the symbolic (re)production of historically dominant but increasingly contested notions of national character that are synonymous with white masculinity. We conclude that, as long as the centrality of whiteness is under threat, we are likely to see the ongoing rearticulation of nostalgic visions of nationalism.

Examining terrorism threat and police performance

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 258
Author(s):  
Haci Duru ◽  
Erlan Bakiev
Keyword(s):  
Police Performance ◽  
Terrorism Threat

scholarly journals Ambiente e Salute News n.11 - settembre-ottobre 2021

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Giacomo Toffol ◽  
Angela Biolchini ◽  
Luisa Bonsembiante ◽  
Vinceza Briscioli ◽  
Laura Brusadin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
International Health ◽  
Health News ◽  
Environment And Health ◽  
Significant Events ◽  
The Face ◽  
Climate Crisis

Environment and health news This issue of Ambiente e salute news comes out shortly after two significant events: the COP26 which took place in Glasgow in November 2021 with media coverage inversely proportional to the results, and a support initiative, Ride for Their Lives initiative which led pediatricians and international health workers on bicycles from London to Glasgow to reiterate that individual behaviors are also indispensable to protect our planet for the future of our children, and that it is necessary for the medical profession to mobilize much more in this direction. This concept was reiterated once again by the authors and readers of the bmj, as seen in this statement: https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/10/24/we-must-protect-our-planet-for-our-childrens-future/. Our alleged powerlessness in the face of the complexity of climate change can be overcome through awareness of what we know and what we can put into practice, and this belief also supports this column: https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/10/24/the-climate-crisis-how-do-we-show-we-care/. As in the previous issues, we summarize here briefly the main articles published in the monitored journals, among which numerous are precisely those relating to climate change and air pollution. This issue is based on the systematic review of the September and October 2021 publications.

scholarly journals Information ACTism in “Trumping” the Contemporary Fake News Phenomenon in Rural Libraries

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 181-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bharat Mehra
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
Rural Libraries ◽  
Present Participle ◽  
The Face ◽  
Political Decision Making

Abstract Fabricated or fake news has become a phenomenon of unprecedented proportions in the 21st century. Donald J. Trump, the 45th and current President of the United States, has played a major role in its pervasive adoption and spread of misinformation and disinformation since his ascendency on November 8, 2016. In today’s complex political landscape, this article introduces the gerund and present participle “trumping” in mock homage to the fake news legacy of President Trump. “Trumping” simultaneously symbolizes a seemingly contradictory act of subversive and patriotic resistance for libraries to counter his fake news rhetoric to further his political ends. It calls for rural libraries (amongst others) to embrace a multi-pronged approach of information ACTism that draws upon intersections in information literacy-fluency-advocacy in their “trumping” actions to resist the President’s unhealthy behaviors since rural communities (and others) continue to be especially susceptible to his negativity and use of fake news. This think piece is based on analysis of selected news media coverage and provides libraries out-ofthe-box strategies to lead their communities towards critical and reflective analytical political decision-making in the face of fake news bombardment emerging from a person in the highest office of the land.

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