Interrogations of consumption: the territory of late-stage capitalism in the National Radio Quiet Zone

BackgroundPrevious reports have described a leveling off of mortality from premature coronary artery disease (CAD). In recent years, the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors has increased in rural communities and young adults.Methods and ResultsWe extracted CAD mortality rates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wide‐Ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research (CDC WONDER) database from 1999 to 2017, focusing on mortality from premature CAD (defined as <65 years of age in women) and urban–rural differences. Variations in mortality rates over time, assessed with Joinpoint regression modeling, are expressed as estimated annual percentage change (95% CI) and stratified by urbanization, sex, age, and race. Age‐adjusted mortality rates decreased for women and men. Stratification by urbanization revealed that premature CAD mortality is stagnating among women in rural areas. However, this stagnation conceals a statistically significant increase in CAD mortality rates since 2009 in women aged 55 to 64 years (estimated annual percentage change: +1.4%; 95% CI, +0.3% to +2.5%) and since 1999 in women aged 45 to 54 years (estimated annual percentage change: +0.6%; 95% CI, +0.2% to 1.0%). Since 1999, mortality has been stagnating in the youngest group (aged 35–44 years; estimated annual percentage change: +0.2%; 95% CI, −0.4% to +0.8%). Stratification by race indicated an increase in mortality rates among white rural women. Premature CAD mortality remains consistently higher in the rural versus urban United States, regardless of sex, race, and age group.ConclusionsPremature CAD mortality rates have declined over time. However, stratification by sex and urbanization reveals disparities that would otherwise remain concealed: CAD mortality rates have increased among women from rural areas since at least 2009.

Infant mortality has been reduced dramatically with the development of perinatal regionalized high-technology care. Our objective was to assess use of high technology care among women with high-risk pregnancies in the urban and rural United States. The 1988 National Maternal and Infant Health Survey was linked to the 1988 American Hospital Association survey of all obstetrical hospitals. Hospitals were classified into five levels of care based on services and staffing. Women were classified as having high-risk pregnancies using two definitions: (1) gestational age < 34 weeks and birthweight < 1500 g (High Risk I) and (2) the first definition or an antenatal high-risk medical diagnoses (High Risk II). Analyses assessed the proportion of high-risk women delivering in appropriate locations in the rural and urban United States and explored how personal characteristics, insurance status, and use and source of prenatal care influenced where high-risk women delivered. 71.2% of High Risk I and 55.9% of High Risk II women delivered in a high-technology facility (Level IIA or III). Fifty percent of HRI rural women delivered in tertiary high-technology hospitals and 39% of HRII rural women delivered in a high-technology hospital. High-risk urban women were two to three times more likely to deliver in a high-technology facility compared to their rural counterparts. The multivariate analysis showed that Black high-risk women were more likely to deliver in a high-technology setting and that receipt of prenatal care in a private setting lowered the odds of delivering in a high-technology setting when other factors were controlled. In an era where regionalized perinatal care was not threatened by managed care, a large proportion of high-risk women received care in less than optimal settings. Rural high-risk women delivered in high-technology hospitals less often than their urban counterparts. The multivariate analyses implied that the potential barriers to care may be more important among those considered more socially advantaged, who may be more at the mercy of managed care. The current reimbursement environment, which discourages referral to specialists and high-technology care, could result in less access today.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recently proposed a new National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for ozone, based on an 8-hour averaged concentration of 0.08 part per million. An analysis of ozone data gathered in 1995 by the Southern Oxidants Study Spatial Ozone Network (SON) and EPA’s Clean Air Status and Trends Network (CASTNet) indicates that promulgation of this new standard will bring large parts of the rural eastern United States into nonattainment. This in turn will necessitate a major change in the nation’s pollution control strategies.

The research aims to present the role of the media brand associations on media content consumption by Generation Z. Technological convergence and content distribution and accessibility via multi- platforms brought new patterns in media content consumption regarding volume, channel, device and time. Digitalisation and technology advancement brought utterly new aspects in media consumption. Due to accessibility, content is distributed and consumed via multiple platforms. Convergence between different demand and supply channels makes content consumption easier in the meantime; content supply becomes more cluttered with new media entering the market. Social network sites created new possibilities for content distribution, readership, branding. Content consumption on-demand and via multi-platforms bring not only possibilities for media brands but also challenges. Media brands should reinvent their branding strategies as content consumption via multi-platforms dilutes brand associations, and therefore more and more of the audience becoming indifferent to media brands and more focused on content experience. Jenkins (2008) referred that consumers content consumption behaviour now is mobile, non-linear, modular, and not device/outlet/platform dependent. The main impact of the increasing audience fragmentation, the development of distribution channels, and the advancement of technology that allows for time and platform shifting according to the audience's immediate needs all contribute to an environment where the value of media brand or channel branding is valued might be diminishing. For Generation Z, this behaviour is even more pronounced as they consume traditional media below average and prefer media content on online platforms, access online content via mobile devices, use social media more than other age groups and choose international media and social network platforms over local media content. Changes create difficulties for national media brands to attract and grow the future audience – Generation Z. This audience use less local media content, use less media content in their national language, and consume it via social media platforms. The author analyses the consumption trends of national media brands in Latvia and highlights the significant brand associations that positively impact media brand content consumption for a younger media audience. The research shows that the distinctive content seamless and appropriate content experience to each consumption platform positively influences and strengthens media brand associations and, therefore, increase media brand usage. The more the target audience feels connected, engaged and associated with the media brand community, the more it feels towards the media brand. Thus, the research confirms many scholars findings that audience becomes a significant part of media brand and interaction or content experience is crucial for building media brand associations.

Prevalence and risk factors of hepatitis C virus infection in the rural northeastern United States

Digital images in museums: Digital desires: What are museums up to?

The implications of digital visual media for human–nature relationships

Research on the occupational socialization of teachers and coaches has largely centered on physical education teachers and rarely on teachers from core content areas (i.e. English, foreign language, mathematics, science and social studies) who also coach athletics. The primary purpose of this single-case study was to explore the socialization of a first-year, core content area teacher/athletic coach at a small high school in the rural southeastern United States. Various qualitative techniques were utilized during data collection, while data analysis consisted of a system of open, axial and selective coding. Four themes emerged and were viewed through the lens of teacher identity. Themes include gender and opportunity; interactions within the school culture; teaching and coaching expectations; and interrole conflict and complementarity. Findings from this study hope to shed light on the need for further research on core content area teacher-coaches, while adding to the existing literature on females in the coaching profession and the roles of academics and athletics in rural areas.

Social power is reflected in and exercised through the production and control of space. These socio-spatial relations are gendered and vary across the life course, riddled by differences associated with class, ethnicity, race, and nationality. From “dad’s chair” to occupied national territories, the spatial forms of control are charged with and interpenetrated by political-economic power, cultural meaning, and personal significance. These conjunctures are neither stable over time nor distributed evenly across space. This chapter explores their form and significance at particular periods and transitions in the life course of females emphasizing the shifts from childhood to youth and womanhood in two divergent settings—rural Sudan and urban United States.

Preferences of motorcyclists to views of managed, rural southern United States landscapes

Attitudes toward deprescribing in a middle-aged health disparities population.

Media and digital content has become an integral part of our lives. Digital content has expanded the opportunities for accessing information for individuals with special needs and classrooms with culturally diverse students. Because the digital content is taught through multiple modes, it provides access to information previously available only through print formats. By incorporating universal design into the classroom, the students are using media and digital literacy skills, preparing them for the global world in which they live. In this chapter, a description of universal design will be provided, how to use the digital and media content to create a classroom that honors diversity, and how to use universal design for teaching different languages. The concepts of universal design and the global classroom are pulled together through project or problem-based learning. Finally, a glimpse into the future classroom technology is provided.

Media and digital content has become an integral part of our lives. Digital content has expanded the opportunities for accessing information for individuals with special needs and classrooms with culturally diverse students. Because the digital content is taught through multiple modes, it provides access to information previously available only through print formats. By incorporating universal design into the classroom, the students are using media and digital literacy skills, preparing them for the global world in which they live. In this chapter, a description of universal design will be provided, how to use the digital and media content to create a classroom that honors diversity, and how to use universal design for teaching different languages. The concepts of universal design and the global classroom are pulled together through project or problem-based learning. Finally, a glimpse into the future classroom technology is provided.

This paper outlines the importance and role of non-product-related brand attributes, e.g., user imagery and usage imagery, in local news media content consumption by a younger audience aged 15–24. Due to technological developments, new media content consumption patterns have emerged. New dynamic, interactive, and multiplatform marketplaces have changed how media brands deliver content and how audiences consume it. The main catalysts of change are multiple platforms, on-demand content consumption, and social media platforms. The increasing use of global social networks offers media brands possibilities to distribute content and connect with their audiences, all while creating new challenges and competition in local media. These changes have brought about possibilities of broadening media audiences, as well as challenges, e.g., because of decreasing media brand associations and preference being given to social media platforms and global media brands. Generation Z’s traditional media consumption patterns are below average. This audience segment prefers mobile access and online media content on various platforms, uses social media more than other age range audiences, and chooses global media and social media platforms over national media brands. These dynamics increase the challenges for local news media brands in attracting and growing a future audience, as Generation Z consumes fewer national media content in their local or national language, and what they do consume is through the medium of social media. The authors analyse media consumption trends in Latvia and determine how media brands increase their equity and the consumption of media regarding younger audiences. This research was designed to understand media consumption trends via secondary information analyses and employs a quantitative survey to identify non-product-related brand attitudes. The research question of this paper is concerned with defining how media brand associations affect content consumption and engagement. We used regression analyses to predict the most significant correlations between brand attributes and content consumption and concentration. The study focuses on national news media brands.

The study aimed to demonstrate how Early Childhood Development (ECD) teachers can utilize young children’s exposure to digital media to deconstruct gender stereotypes, fostering positive gender identities. This qualitative study adopted a sequential exploratory research design wherein in-depth interviews with key informants (Infant teachers in charge and parents of ECD learners) were preceded by focused group discussions with ECD teachers. Content analysis was also used to explore the nature of content viewed by children in selected cartoon movies and films. The qualitative research approach adopted the purposive sampling strategy to select participants. The findings reveal the heavy consumption of media content by 21st-century young children. It revealed a vivid digital divide between girls and boys from a very tender age. Through the lens of the cultivation theory, it can be argued that characters in cartoon movies can be used to cultivate either positive or negative gender identities in young children. Gender-stereotyped identities tend to negatively affect ECD learners’ schooling experiences. However, leveraging children’s heavy consumption of digital media, ECD teachers can deconstruct gender stereotypical perceptions and cultivate positive self-images in ECD learners. ECD teachers are encouraged to apply gender-responsive pedagogies, leveraging the heavy consumption of digital media content by children