scholarly journals Voracious villains or hungry heroes? Depictions of food critics in popular media

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Andrew Koch
Keyword(s):  
Graphic Novels ◽  
White Men ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Call To Action ◽  
Journalism Studies ◽  
Close Textual Analysis ◽  
The World ◽  
People’S Perceptions ◽  
Positive Light

There are copious types of visual media that viewers presently consume as entertainment. These various mediums showcase depictions that influence people's perceptions of both individuals and entire careers. In journalism studies, scholars look at these visual depictions in film, television, graphic novels, and others to categorize how journalism works and how journalists interact with the world. Depictions too often focus on hard news and mainline journalism at the expense of subfields such as food criticism. This study responds to a call to action to look into media beyond film, while carving out its own path and establishing that food critics are understudied. From non-journalistic beginnings, food criticism entered the fold of lifestyle journalism. In popular fictional visual media across time, close textual analysis of the depiction of food critics shows unique and shared themes, tropes, and story arcs specific to food critics, including: violence and anonymity. Depictions of food critics were homogenous regardless of the medium and were shown primarily as older white men with similar dress, attitude, and ethics. These depictions were overwhelmingly negative with few showing food critics doing their job well in a positive light. This thesis combats the neglect of depictions of food critics in journalistic study, as well as showcases the characterizations of food critics that separates them from other journalists and critics.

The Whole World in a Book

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
White Men ◽  
Nation State ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Canadian French ◽  
Language And Literature ◽  
The World ◽  
Lower Status ◽  
Brazilian Sign Language

The nineteenth century saw a new wave of dictionaries, many of which remain household names. Those dictionaries didn’t just store words; they represented imperial ambitions, nationalist passions, religious fervour, and utopian imaginings. The Whole World in a Book explores a period in which globalization, industrialization, and social mobility were changing language in unimaginable ways. Dictionaries in the nineteenth century became more than dictionaries: they were battlefields between prestige languages and lower-status dialects; national icons celebrating the language and literature of the nation-state; and sites of innovative authorship where middle and lower classes, volunteers, women, colonial subjects, the deaf, and missionaries joined the ranks of educated white men in defining how people communicated and understood the world around them. This volume investigates dictionaries in the nineteenth century covering languages as diverse as Canadian French, English, German, Frisian, Japanese, Libras (Brazilian sign language), Manchu, Persian, Quebecois, Russian, Scots, and Yiddish.

Review and prioritization of stroke research recommendations to address the mission of the World Stroke Organization: a call to action from the WSO Research Committee

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (SA100) ◽  
pp. 4-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph L. Sacco ◽  
Peter Sandercock ◽  
Matthias Endres ◽  
Valery Feigin ◽  
Jeyaraj Pandian ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Research Committee ◽  
Call To Action ◽  
Stroke Research ◽  
The World ◽  
Research Recommendations

scholarly journals Stemming the Tide of Suicide in Older White Men: A Call to Action

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 189-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Schmutte ◽  
Maria O'Connell ◽  
Melissa Weiland ◽  
Samuel Lawless ◽  
Larry Davidson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Baby Boom ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
White Men ◽  
The United States ◽  
Prevention Strategies ◽  
Call To Action ◽  
National Crisis ◽  
National Priority ◽  
Past Half Century

Preventing suicide has been identified as a national priority by recent commissions in the United States. Despite increased awareness of suicide as a public health problem, suicide in older adults remains a neglected topic in prevention strategies and research. This is especially true regarding elderly White men, who in terms of suicide rates have represented the most at-risk age group for the past half century. In light of the unprecedented aging of the United States as the baby boom generation enters late adulthood, suicide prevention initiatives that focus on aging males are needed to prevent a national crisis in geriatric mental health. This article provides a brief review of the perennially under-recognized reality of suicide in older men and prevention strategies that, if implemented, might help stem this rising tide of suicide in this vulnerable population.

The Globalization of Superheroes: Diffusion, Genre, and Cultural Adaptations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyle Hammonds
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Retributive Justice ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Cultural Imperialism ◽  
High Demand ◽  
Cultural Adaptations ◽  
Civic Values ◽  
The World ◽  
Entertainment Value ◽  
Industrial Societies

Superheroes are a global phenomenon. The superhero genre has been proliferated through modern industrial societies by way of movies, television, comics, and other forms of popular media. Although virtually every nation in the world has heroic myths, the modern superhero, as marked by the inception of recent American comics heroes in 1929, is a uniquely Western invention. Superheroes are “Western” insofar as they embody and exhibit Western civic values, such as democracy, humanism, and retributive justice. These characters have been communicatively incorporated into globalization processes by means of diffusion and thereby enact aspects of cultural imperialism. Even so, superhero figures have been in high demand across many populations for their entertainment value. As superheroes have diffused in non-Western cultures, they have not only been absorbed by new cultures but also refigured and adapted. These non-Western adaptations have had a recursive influence, such as the global popularity of Japanese manga. The recursive relationship between Western superheroes and their non-Western adaptations implies superheroes are an important aspect of cultural fusion in global popular culture.

De journalistiek voorbij

2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Deuze
Keyword(s):  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Journalism Studies ◽  
The World

Journalism studies beyond institutional journalism Journalism studies beyond institutional journalism Journalism studies and education is growing rapidly around the world, at a time when the audience for news seems to be disappearing. Yet most of the scholarly work on journalism keeps a rather narrowly defined institutional focus on the news as an industry. In this essay an argument is made for a journalism studies that goes beyond this kind of journalism.

scholarly journals PENERAPAN MEDIA PEMBEMBELAJARAN KOGNITIF DALAM MATERI PERSAMAAN GARIS LURUS MENGGUNAKAN VIDEO DI ERA 4.0

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-10
Author(s):  
Fine Siwi ◽  
Nicky Dwi Puspaningtyas
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Learning Mathematics ◽  
The World ◽  
Video Based Learning

AbstractAt this time thinking creativity is low in the world of education. To improve creative thinking patterns urgently, as educators must have ways to improve them. Learning mathematics can be done only through the medium of learning mathematics. Audio-visual media, is a type of media used in learning activities with hearing and vision in one process or activity. Messages and information that can be channeled through this media can consist of verbal and nonverbal messages that depend on the sight whether hearing. In this 4.0 era, students are required to be better able to think cognitive in learning. Fully creative thinking including in the current era is needed. However, at this time creative thinking in the world of education is low. To improve the importance of creative thinking patterns, as educators who already have a way to improve it by using learning media. Therefore the material explanation method is made using video-based media to facilitate students in understanding the material and also improve their cognitive abilities. This research can prove through video-based learning media can be an effective method in improving students' cognitive abilities. Keywords: Media, Video, Cognitive

scholarly journals Determinism in the mountains: The ongoing belief in the bellicosity of 'mountain people'

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Pickering
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Mountainous Regions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Conflict Research ◽  
Positive Light

It has long been argued that mountains have an effect on wars. While some research understands this chiefly in physical terms, other research looks at the effect that mountains have on human nature. This article looks at the two thousand year history of the term 'mountain people.' It explores how the belief has emerged that living in mountainous regions changes people to the degree that it makes them more likely to engage in conflict. It also explores how mountain people can be seen in a more positive light, but this perspective is often ignored by both popular media and conflict research. It makes the case that the foundations upon which perceptions of 'mountain people' are based are rather shaky and somewhat misleading for empirical conflict research.

Graphic journalism: il fumetto come racconto del mondo

2012 ◽  
pp. 118-126
Author(s):  
Vito Santoro
Keyword(s):  
Graphic Novels ◽  
The World ◽  
Crime Stories ◽  
True Crime ◽  
Visual Power

The graphic journalism is a form of journalism that takes advantage of the potential of narrative and visual power of comics. More than a theory, a trend or a school, it is a practice adopted by the authors. The graphic reporter is always ready to gather as much evidence as possible on the object of his search. This is what happens in the work of Joe Sacco, Aleksandar Zograf and Igort: their graphic novels describe unknown places, situations and areas. In Italy the publisher BeccoGiallo has created a particular kind of comics, called civil comic. BeccoGiallo's graphic novels talk about true crime stories, biographies and reportage about the world of migrants.

Conclusions

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam M. Messinger
Keyword(s):  
Call To Action ◽  
The World ◽  
The Invisible

This concluding chapter reviews key findings from this book, from the astounding prevalence of LGBTQ IPV and its damaging outcomes to the myths and pressures that have rendered LGBTQ IPV largely invisible throughout the world and to the heavy price that victims pay for this invisibility. Ultimately, a call to action is made for policymakers, practitioners, researchers, survivors, and their allies. By building on the lessons offered in this book, it is hoped that one day we can make the invisible visible and end LGBTQ IPV.

Branded Beautiful

2019 ◽  
pp. 151-165
Author(s):  
Lia T. Bascomb
Keyword(s):  
Coming Out ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
White Men ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Down Low ◽  
Queer People ◽  
The World ◽  
Cultural Amnesia ◽  
Ways Of Being ◽  
The U.S

This chapter investigates how white homonormative narratives perform tyrannous acts that distort understandings of queerness for people of color. As white queerness romanticizes and celebrates “coming out”—becoming the universal marker of liberation—these fascinations forge a space where other, discrete ways of being in the world appear anachronistic, backwards, or rare. McCune re-opens the case of “white men on the Down Low (DL),” if you will—to elucidate how the larger discourse of the queer triumphant, or queer progress, activates an erasure of all queers (white included) who do not fit the mold of the “out and proud” gay subject. This elision constructs a cultural amnesia around other ways of knowing sexuality outside of coming out—which enables a mis-remembering of a white queer past and present, devoid of discretion. Secondly, these constructions of a white queer past sanitize white queerness and enable a discourse that not only impacts how white queers perpetually privilege progress narratives, but potentially demonizes or distorts queers of color who perform often more illegible enactments of queerness. Bringing back the film Brokeback Mountain as a shape-shifting cultural text—globalizing an understanding of the foregone closet—the chapter forces an interracial non-romance between discretion in whiteface and blackface. Brokeback Mountain and other resonant texts perform a popular queer historiography, which misreads or under-reads the broader histories and social realities of queer people within and outside of the U.S.

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