“The Catholic Mahdi of the North West”: Louis Riel and the Metis Resistance in Transatlantic and Imperial Context

The authors examine the transatlantic press coverage of the Metis resistance in Saskatchewan in 1885. The article documents that there was extensive international coverage of this ostensibly Canadian conflict and traces the evolution of narratives about it from their origins in French and English Canada to the United States, Great Britain, and France. The article resituates Riel and the Metis resistance within this international framework, demonstrating how the story of Riel and the Metis was reshaped by commentators in the transatlantic world to suit local, national, and imperial contexts.

Internacionalizando a Extensão Universitária: O Projeto S-Intex na UFPB | Internationalizing Universitary Extension: S-Intex Project at the Universidade Federal da Paraíba (Brazil)

Este artigo tem como objetivo apresentar os resultados iniciais do S-Intex, projeto de avaliação da internacionalização do campo da extensão universitária, implantado na Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB) a partir do curso de Relações Internacionais da instituição. Trata-se de uma iniciativa de diagnóstico e avaliação dos projetos de extensão ativos na universidade, com a finalidade de desenvolver os diferentes potenciais de abrangência internacional nessa área na instituição, com a identificação e difusão de “boas-práticas” e tecnologias que permitam promover a extensão universitária ao mesmo patamar de internacionalização presentes nos campos do ensino e da pesquisa.Palavras-chave: Extensão universitária; Internacionalização da Extensão; Ferramentas de Avaliação.ABSTRACTThis article aims to present the initial results of S-Intex, a project to evaluate the internationalization on the field of university extension, implemented at the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB) from the institution's International Relations course. It is an initiative to diagnose and evaluate the extension projects that are active at the university, to develop the different potential of international coverage in this area in the institution, with the identification and dissemination of "good practices" and technologies to promote the university extension to the same level of internationalization present in the fields of education and research.Keywords: University extension; Extension Internationalization; Assessment Tools.Recebido em: 10 dez. 2018 | Aceito em: 15 mai. 2019

The pictures in our pages

This exploratory study continues early first-level work on intermedia visual agenda setting, which asks what influences the visual media agenda, and extends it into the third level of network analysis. The top visual agenda of the Associated Press is compared to the top visual agenda of 45 U.S. newspapers (divided into three tiers of circulation) over two constructed weeks. Findings indicate some transfer of the visual agenda at both the first and third levels. Additionally, the networked visual agenda has a moderate significant correlation to all newspapers. Sports and local vs. national/international coverage are identified as key aspects of authority over how the visual agendas are formed and transferred. While the AP places sports images high on the visual agenda, newspapers relegate them to inside pages unless they are important events. Smaller-circulation papers put fewer international topics on their front page than medium and high-circulation newspapers.

Frenemy in Media: Maritime Sovereignty and Propaganda on South China Sea

When Indonesia struggles to fight illegal fishing in 2016, Indonesian Navy has caught several Chinese fishing boats in its 200-mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ) off the Natuna Island. Although, many have trespassed Indonesia’s EEZ, conducted illegal fishing and been scuttled, China is the only country that backs up their fishermen with military forces. After Indonesia officially sent diplomatic protest note over the incident, China replied that the seizing had no official grounded as the area was actually claimed as traditional fishing ground by China. This position may leave Indonesia in frenemy position with China. Regional conflict such as South China Sea has been diligently highlighted in international coverage. If it’s about involvement of home country conflict, the concept of objectivity journalism has been under questioned. This embodied-concept has raised because of broad range of contextualization in international coverage. Interdependency between media systems and political systems interprets how propaganda influences on the media within the national interest frames of ideology, particularly when the global issue involving their home countries. There are nine propaganda techniques including name calling, glittering generalities, transfer, testimonial, plain folks, card stacking, bandwagon, frustration of scapegoat and fear. Applying comparative content analysis of Indonesian and Chinese state-run wire services of ANTARA and Xinhua, and three most popular news websites: China Daily, People’s Daily and Kompas this study identifies types of national interest frames including common, conflict, and threat interest frames. It is found out that media perform propaganda techniques which later depict the frenemy position according to their national interest frames.