Journalistic Publications Research Articles

Отражение богословских вопросов армянской церкви в русскоязычной научной и публицистической литературе XIX – начала XX вв. как основа межцерковного диалога

Отражение богословских вопросов армянской церкви в русскоязычной научной и публицистической литературе XIX – начала XX вв. как основа межцерковного диалога

La Ilustración de Madrid (1870-1871). Revista de transición del romanticismo al realismo

La Ilustración de Madrid (1870-1871) fue una revista que trató de aunar información política y cultural con una presentación gráfica cuidada, realizada por artistas españoles. Dirigida por Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer e impulsada en su parte gráfica por Valeriano Bécquer, la revista perdió en gran parte su orientación cuando fallecieron los dos hermanos, Valeriano en septiembre y Gustavo Adolfo en diciembre de 1870. Aun así sobrevivió una año más y resulta hoy una de las publicaciones periódicas fundamentales para el estudio de la transición del romanticismo al realismo.

Mediações digitais: os Estudos Culturais para investigações do jornalismo na cultura da convergência / Digital mediations: Cultural Studies in journalism investigations in the convergence culture

Cultural Studies analyses social change and the role of culture in these transformations' processes. This article seeks to problematize convergence culture and discussions of digital journalism in a perspective that has its origin in the discussion of Cultural Studies. Therefore, it problematizes the issues of convergence culture (JENKINS, 2009), through a perception of technology as effect (WILLIAMS, 2005) and media as mediation (MARTIN-BARBERO, 2009). This study results from a Master thesis on the journalistic publication for tablets The Daily (the first of its kind), and also covers the empirical challenges of this methodology when applied for dynamic and constantly changing objects.

On the Edge

The subject of “Europeanness” has been analysed in Belarus thoroughly for the last twenty years, but mainly in journalistic publications and books. It is hard to trace the implication of this topic in cinema. Nevertheless, a documentary examined from a certain angle can reveal a “European component”, manifesting important issues about Belarusian identity at the same time. The documentary We Are Living on the Edge (2002) by Victor Asliuk (Belarus) is reviewed in this connection. The reality shown in the film represents the European past and evokes a strong nostalgic feeling. However, the film, though generally renowned, is perceived differently by film professionals and audiences in Western and Eastern Europe. Some points of this East-West divergence are considered in the article. Finally, the issue of the relevance of Europe is analysed in the context of Belarusian history.

The ethics of “smart” advertising and regulatory initiatives in the consumer intelligence industry

Purpose – This paper aims to study the ethics of “smart” advertising and regulatory initiatives in the consumer intelligence industry. Increasingly, online behavioural advertising strategies, especially in the mobile media environment, are being integrated with other existing and emerging technologies to create new techniques based on “smart” surveillance practices. These “smart” surveillance practices have ethical impacts including identifiability, inequality, a chilling effect, the objectification, exploitation and manipulation of consumers as well as information asymmetries. This article examines three regulatory initiatives – privacy-by-design considerations, the proposed General Data Protection Regulation of the EU and the US Do-Not-Track Online Act of 2013 – that have sought to address the privacy and data protection issues associated with these practices. Design/methodology/approach – The authors performed a critical literature review of academic, grey and journalistic publications surrounding behavioural advertising to identify the capabilities of existing and emerging advertising practices and their potential ethical impacts. This information was used to explore how well-proposed regulatory mechanisms might address current and emerging ethical and privacy issues in the emerging mobile media environment. Findings – The article concludes that all three regulatory initiatives fall short of providing adequate consumer and citizen protection in relation to online behavioural advertising as well as “smart” advertising. Originality/value – The article demonstrates that existing and proposed regulatory initiatives need to be amended to provide adequate citizen protection and describes how a focus on privacy and data protection does not address all of the ethical issues raised.

Is Islam an Enemy of the West?

Events in the current world and the nature of religious beliefs being followed by Muslims and non-Muslims have made many argue that Islam is indeed an enemy of the west. However, this topic has raised a serious debate all over the world in the past three decades with a splurge in journalistic publications prompted by international events such as the Iranian revolution, Gulf War, Rushdie affair and the revolution in Afghanistan (Shadid & Koningsveld, 2002). The debate has seen opponents and proponents of the notion that Islam is an enemy of the Western culture and diverse views have been formed based on critical analysis of the Islamic religion and several references have also been made to the societal happenings in the world, particularly with regard to terrorism. Ultimately, the debate has largely been inconclusive and often one sided based on stereotypes and prejudices about the Muslim culture and media reports have strongly described Muslims as either fanatics, primitive or belligerent and irrational (Shadid & Koningsveld, 2002). However, such generalizations are invoked by lack of knowledge and surge in fantasy and essentially this negative attitude of the West towards Islam is uncalled for and baseless.

Strip

Research Article| February 01 2013 Strip Marya Hornbacher Marya Hornbacher Marya Hornbacher is an award-winning journalist, writer, and best-selling author of five books. Her work has been published in 16 languages and is taught in universities around the world. Shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize, her nonfiction, fiction, and poetry appear regularly in literary and journalistic publications. She is currently at work on her sixth and seventh books. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction (2013) 15 (1): 71–84. https://doi.org/10.14321/fourthgenre.15.1.0071 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Marya Hornbacher; Strip. Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction 1 February 2013; 15 (1): 71–84. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/fourthgenre.15.1.0071 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressFourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © Michigan State University Board of Trustees2013 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

A Journalistic Cosmology

Abstract Can Norwegian journalism be meaningfully understood as constituting a social field in Pierre Bourdieu´s sense? And if so, how did this field emerge historically, and what is its fundamental structure? Following a structural history of the rise of journalism in Norway, a model of this field in 2005 is sketched through correspondence analysis using survey data on Norwegian journalists and editors. The analysis suggest a bipolar structure: a first dimension of capital volume that is closely linked to age, gender and medium type, and a second dimension that opposes agents with different degrees of internal recognition (symbolic capital), which in particular separates specialized news journalists in national and larger regional journalistic publications from journalists in the local press and magazines. Special attention is given to the link between this social cosmos and a specific cosmology of journalistic beliefs and position-takings, the relation between journalistic power and social class, and the intertwinedness of symbolic and economic dominance in this field.

The Polish Government-in-exile in London, the Delegatura, the Union of Armed Struggle-Home Army and the Extermination of the Jews

During the Second World War, the Nazis and their collaborators murdered almost six million Jews, half of them from Poland, whose territories were chosen as the place of this unimaginable crime. The question of how the Polish authorities, both underground in the occupied country and working in exile, responded to the murder of their Jewish compatriots is being repeatedly discussed in academic and journalistic publications. This essay presents an outline of the key issues, focusing on the crucial year of 1942.

Living Beyond the End Times: Living in the End Times

In Living in the End Times, Slavoj Žižek takes up themes many of which he has explored elsewhere in his numerous works embodied in varied media. This Slovenian origin cosmopolitan philosopher and cultural critic uses many types of outlets and modes of expression (books and scholarly journal articles, but also journalistic publications, TV interviews, appearances in documentary films, etc.) to explore variegated subject matter. He responds to politics in an age of increasing globalization by taking up a global range of issues, and responds to the multimedia environment which conveys ideology as false consciousness with his own multimedia works, possibly counter-ideological. He addresses, here and elsewhere, our complex (likely unsustainable and arguably largely illegitimate) global political economy, our cultural, (in his view too often objectionably multi-cultural) visions and fights, our often twisted and conflicted personal psychology. He does so here and elsewhere in ways worth far more (for their sparkling, sometimes witty, often disturbing insights) than any sober typically conformist academic treatise might do. This is so despite occasional unintelligible passages and some more serious philosophical lapses.

The Infrastructural Monument: Stalin's Water Works under Construction and in Representation

The task of monumentalizing the power of the Stalin regime was given to the Soviet infrastructure, and to the water works (canals, dams, and reservoirs) in particular. In the process, the Gulag labor camps were entrusted both with the construction of the canal system and the representation of Communism's power to transform nature. Leading Soviet authors enlisted avant-garde artists, including Alexander Rodchenko, into the representational propaganda campaign to formulate a new state geography and, with it, a new Soviet mentality. Through a series of journalistic publications, photographic essays, and utopian representations, the otherwise utilitarian infrastructure was brought into the aesthetic discourse of monument making. This representational campaign came to its conclusion in the work of the popular geographer, Nikolai Mikhailov, whose maps offered a unified image of the landscape transformed through politics.

Los relatos de viaje de Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda

En este artículo pretendo ofrecer una perspectiva poco habitual en relación con la escritura de Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, la de autora de relatos de viaje. Son tres los escritos de este tipo pergeñados por la escritora, uno editado como Memorias inéditas en 1914 y otros dos publicados en la prensa en 1857 y 1860. Los tres están escritos en primera persona y el primero es, con diferencia, el más intimista. Los relatos de 1857 y 1860 son los menos conocidos debido a su publicación periodística, sobre todo el primero de ellos, aparecido en las páginas del periódico El Estado, en el que hasta ahora ningún crítico había reparado; son una impresiones de viaje escritas en forma epistolar y dirigidas al escritor cubano Teodoro Guerrero. El publicado en 1914 es un relato del exilio que lleva a la autora desde Cuba hasta España, en tanto que los otros dos narran viajes veraniegos de placer; son comunes a ellos la presencia de tradiciones y de episodios históricos, constituyen además un ejemplo de literatura de balneario y de crónica social. En los tres se aglutinan variedad de materiales narrativos a los que concede cohesión la mirada de una narradora romántica que sublima el entorno contemplado y lo reproduce en términos pintorescos e incluso fantásticos, ya que su contemplación se halla mediatizada por la concepción idealizada del pueblo vasco y del entorno natural y por algunos referentes literarios. Con todo ello, dichos relatos de viaje evidencian su condición de género fronterizo, híbrido, de gran diversidad genérica y discursiva, trufados de elementos heterogéneos en una suerte de relato-miscelánea en que la aventura del viajero es un pretexto para hilvanar piezas diversas.

El humor es cosa seria. Discursos transgresores en la prensa alternativa norpatagónica

At present, in the north of Argentine Patagonia is circulating a press with text opinionswich use humor as a confr ontation, resistance and social protest resource. In this paper, it is important to notice the resources and linguistic strategies concerning two journalistic publications -El Cascotazo and El Mosquito- through this, this media construct reality and are establish as antagonistic social actors to the current government. The conclusions reveal that the analized humoristic texts have the proper characteristics of the agonic discourse: they constitute contest-discourses wich question the status quo,transgress the conventions and the established discursive practices and by the resources - sarcasm, irony, parody, sharpness- this texts become exponents of serious humor.

Portrayal of Life Settlements in Consumer Focused Publications

ISI RESEARCH BRIEFProject: Life Settlement Consumer AwarenessStatus: In Progress. Completion Expected Summer, 2009Lead Researchers: Jesse Miller, Intern from University of Saint Thomas and MBA candidate; Christopher Kampa, ISI Research AnalystISI Oversight: Paul Siegert, ISI President and CEO; Christopher Kampa, ISI Research AnalystProject Description: Evaluate and gauge seniors’ awareness of life settlements as a viable product for retirement planning, and analyze how those perceptions have been influenced through various media publications available to consumers over the past 4-5 years. ISI is concerned that many seniors are not aware that life settlements may be an option to provide additional funding for retirement in amounts greater than that received when surrendering a life insurance policy. Many sources of media appear to misunderstand the basic fundamentals of life settlements and may be influencing the public through faulty reporting.Scope of Research and Methodology: The project consists of a two-pronged analysis including secondary and primary research. The secondary research entails the collection and the review of journalistic articles and other publications relating to life settlements that are generally available to consumers, i.e., trade journals are excluded. Persistent themes chronicled from 2005 through April, 2009 are examined. The primary research consists of a survey sponsored in conjunction with Golden Gate Financial. The survey provides quantification of seniors’ attitudes towards retirement planning and awareness of life settlements as a financial resource. The goal of the primary research is to assess seniors’ perception of life settlements while the goal of the secondary research is an attempt to explain how those perceptions may have been influenced.Appendix, Potential Data Sources: Business Source Premier, General Reference Center Gold, Golden Gateway Financial, ProQuest, Other Sources of MediaTarget Results and Benefits: Evidence that seniors have not been adequately informed of how life settlements provide additional funding for retirement. It is hoped the research reported from this project will be useful to those considering how to better position the LISM and how to make seniors more aware of life settlement options.Timeline: Data collection – April 2009; Data Analysis – May/June 2009; Write-up/Publish – July 2009.

Stand van de Wetenschap: Popularisering en personalisering in politieke communicatie

Debate about the infl uence of the media, and in particular television, on the quality and viability of democracy and public debate has led to a variety of academic, political and journalistic publications. In this paper we analyze the diverse phenomena that authors have brought together under widely used terms such as ‘video malaise’, ‘tabloidization and ‘media logic’, in order to develop more precise concepts to assess the contribution of current forms of communication to political and democratic processes. Introducing two new conceptualizations, through a bottomup, one-by-one comparison of publications, we found that popularization pertains to topical, narrative, audiovisual and participatory features of political television programs. Personalization includes the distinct but related processes of individualization, privatization and emotionalization of the coverage of individual politicians.Popularization and personalization are concepts that can be used for the analysis of political communication without taking an a priori, normative position of television as either dumbing down the political process or providing new potential for a more inclusive political process.

Islamism and Totalitarianism

Ever since the 1979 Iranian Revolution, and even more so since the spectacular attacks by Qaʿidat al‐Jihad against the U.S. on 9/11, there has been an ever‐growing flood of academic and journalistic publications devoted to radical Islam. Unfortunately, much of that literature has embodied problematic conceptual perspectives that can best be characterized as ‘Islam bashing’, ‘Islam apologism’, or – worst of all – ‘Islamist apologism’. The purpose of this article is to identify the key problems with all of those perspectives, and especially to challenge the widespread view that Islamism can assume genuinely ‘moderate’, ‘democratic’, or ‘liberationist’ forms. On the contrary, the argument herein is that Islamism is an intrinsically radical and anti‐democratic extreme right‐wing political ideology, one that is not only based upon an unusually strict, puritanical interpretation of central tenets of the Islamic faith but is totalitarian in its very essence. Hence Islamist movements should not be seen as being comparable to Western movements like Christian Democracy, but rather as being similar in certain respects to Western totalitarian movements like Marxism‐Leninism and fascism.

Research on participatory journalism in Brazil: a survey of the state of the art

Worldwide interest in the study of participatory journalism has been growing in recent years and it is generally accepted that journalistic practices are undergoing considerable transformations as a result of this expanding conversational dimension (Gillmor, 2004; Bowman and Willis 2003; Brums, 2005; Deuze et al. 2006; Rutigliano, Hyun and Jeong, 2007) brought forwards by mechanisms that facilitate production and circulation of information through different participatory communication systems, such as forums, blogs, and sites of the open source type. In this study we produce a preliminary survey of thematic concentration and methodologies of research on blogs and other interactive models of journalistic publication in recent Brazilian contributions in this area.

Kryzys liberalnej demokracji w Polsce na tle innych państw członkowskich Unii Europejskiej

The issue of the condition of Polish democracy and Polish (democratic) society has certainly been among the most significant subjects of analyses of political science and sociology over recent years. Such considerations have emerged both in academic studies and journalistic publications. It is unfortunate that a majority of the authors refer to the general and imprecise notion of ‘democracy’, and they intentionally or unintentionally ignore the need for its clarification. This clarification involves the addition of the adjective ‘liberal’, which may appear trivial, yet it carries a profound and highly important meaning. The contemporary model of democracy, frequently referred to as ‘Western democracy’, concerns liberal democracy in contrast to the Antique, socialist, controlled democracy (the term applied to the political system of Russia, among others), or the authentic democracy mentioned in numerous texts that discuss the standpoint of the Catholic Church. The greatest actual threat to the liberal-and-democratic political system in general, and particularly in Poland, does not appear to be posed by ‘classical’ authoritarianism, but rather by the non-liberal version of democracy. Jacek Żakowski emphasizes that the latter is in principle different to ‘the system Poland built after 1989 and what the democratic West used to term as democracy for the previous fifty years’.

Newsmaking e fotografia: um exemplo das rotinas de produção noticiosa aplicadas ao fazer fotográfico

The approaches to journalistic production usually relate to the verbal text, or at best take it as a parameter of language for the analysis of the whole complex that constitutes a newspaper or a magazine. However, the linguistic text is only a part, one of the languages involved in the system of signification of a journalistic publication; An extremely important part, of course. But at least three more could be cited immediately: graphic design, illustration and photography, each endowed with specificities that are not always recognized. Considered for a long time as secondary, as an addendum, the visuality of news is decisive in the construction of meanings in journalism. It is no wonder that the aesthetics of newspapers and magazines is becoming more sophisticated every day, seeking to meet specific audiences and thus communicate better.

Koncepcja „wolnego rynku idei” i perspektywy jej dalszego rozwoju

Owing to the Internet the concept of a ‘free marketplace of ideas’ is thriving. Although even today it is difficult to decide unanimously whether the Miltonian principle of the self-righting process is a theory reflected in real life, or rather a ‘rhetoric myth’, it is beyond any doubt that the conviction that under the conditions of free exchange of information and opinion truth is able to triumph over falsehood still intrigues people, who feel compelled to verify this conviction over and over again. How much the ideas referred to at the beginning of this text, namely the free marketplace of ideas and self-righting process, have taken possession of the imagination of a contemporary information recipient is demonstrated by the fact that they are echoed both in the academic studies devoted to the issue of freedom of speech and in introductory, journalistic or educational publications. It seems that in the future it will be the Internet that remains one of the main instruments to verify the rightness of the self-righting process. One should not doubt that it will be a never-ending process, as predicted by Milton. One can assume though that the concept of a ‘free marketplace of ideas’ will continue to exert a significant impact on the development of international standards of free speech both in Western culture and elsewhere.