H. George Frederickson and Edmund C. Stazyk
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199573547
- eISBN:
- 9780191722677
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199573547.003.0004
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Public Management, Organization Studies
Approximately every three years US News and World Report publishes its rankings of master's degree programmes in public affairs. As part of its ‘America's best graduate schools’ series, the most ...
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Approximately every three years US News and World Report publishes its rankings of master's degree programmes in public affairs. As part of its ‘America's best graduate schools’ series, the most recent US News rankings of public affairs programmes appeared in 2008. Earlier rankings were published in 2004, 2001, 1998, and 1995. What were the intentions of those introducing these rankings, what form did the rankings take and what intended or unintended effects did they have? This chapter begins by considering the background, rationale, scope, and methodology of the US News ranking programme, and what those who introduced it intended and anticipated the rankings would do. It then describes a ‘general theory’ of academic rankings, setting out the book's findings in the context of that theory, and considering those findings in the light of what effects were anticipated or intended by those who introduced the rankings.Less
Approximately every three years US News and World Report publishes its rankings of master's degree programmes in public affairs. As part of its ‘America's best graduate schools’ series, the most recent US News rankings of public affairs programmes appeared in 2008. Earlier rankings were published in 2004, 2001, 1998, and 1995. What were the intentions of those introducing these rankings, what form did the rankings take and what intended or unintended effects did they have? This chapter begins by considering the background, rationale, scope, and methodology of the US News ranking programme, and what those who introduced it intended and anticipated the rankings would do. It then describes a ‘general theory’ of academic rankings, setting out the book's findings in the context of that theory, and considering those findings in the light of what effects were anticipated or intended by those who introduced the rankings.
William R. Ryan
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- May 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195387285
- eISBN:
- 9780199775774
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195387285.003.0010
- Subject:
- History, American History: early to 18th Century
The epilogue illustrates that the Thomas Jeremiah affair became a cause célèbre on both sides of the Atlantic. Royal Governor Thomas Hutchinson of Massachusetts, for instance, was well aware of ...
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The epilogue illustrates that the Thomas Jeremiah affair became a cause célèbre on both sides of the Atlantic. Royal Governor Thomas Hutchinson of Massachusetts, for instance, was well aware of Jeremiah's trial and of the Negro Act itself (the provincial statute under which Jeremiah was tried), and he described both as overt examples of patriot tyranny. First Lord of Admiralty John Montague, fourth Earl of Sandwich, gave a speech in the British Parliament specifically mentioning Jeremiah, condemning his trial and subsequent execution by Whigs as acts of “cruelty and baseness.” In contrast, white patriots in South Carolina, such as Henry Laurens, saw the case of Jeremiah as a prime example of what could—and should—happen to a black upstart who had overstepped his bounds, exceeded his station, and conspired against provincial authority.Less
The epilogue illustrates that the Thomas Jeremiah affair became a cause célèbre on both sides of the Atlantic. Royal Governor Thomas Hutchinson of Massachusetts, for instance, was well aware of Jeremiah's trial and of the Negro Act itself (the provincial statute under which Jeremiah was tried), and he described both as overt examples of patriot tyranny. First Lord of Admiralty John Montague, fourth Earl of Sandwich, gave a speech in the British Parliament specifically mentioning Jeremiah, condemning his trial and subsequent execution by Whigs as acts of “cruelty and baseness.” In contrast, white patriots in South Carolina, such as Henry Laurens, saw the case of Jeremiah as a prime example of what could—and should—happen to a black upstart who had overstepped his bounds, exceeded his station, and conspired against provincial authority.
Patrick Connolly
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199216451
- eISBN:
- 9780191712173
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199216451.003.0020
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology, Religion and Society
This chapter examines the extent and limitations of the resources that exist within the 1983 Code of Canon Law of the Latin Catholic Church for addressing one particular perceived area of weakness in ...
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This chapter examines the extent and limitations of the resources that exist within the 1983 Code of Canon Law of the Latin Catholic Church for addressing one particular perceived area of weakness in the internal governance of the Roman Catholic Church, namely: episcopal accountability, as this has come under scrutiny in the light of the sexual abuse scandals in the English-speaking world. The ensuing crisis has given these matters a new and compelling relevance as it becomes obvious that such weaknesses have practical implications and significant consequences for the church's credible preaching of the Good News in a sceptical world. The concern here is to explore how in this specific regard the gap that can open up between the high rhetoric of Roman Catholic self-understanding and the actual reality of practice and structure might be narrowed.Less
This chapter examines the extent and limitations of the resources that exist within the 1983 Code of Canon Law of the Latin Catholic Church for addressing one particular perceived area of weakness in the internal governance of the Roman Catholic Church, namely: episcopal accountability, as this has come under scrutiny in the light of the sexual abuse scandals in the English-speaking world. The ensuing crisis has given these matters a new and compelling relevance as it becomes obvious that such weaknesses have practical implications and significant consequences for the church's credible preaching of the Good News in a sceptical world. The concern here is to explore how in this specific regard the gap that can open up between the high rhetoric of Roman Catholic self-understanding and the actual reality of practice and structure might be narrowed.
F. E. Peters
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199747467
- eISBN:
- 9780199894796
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199747467.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, World Religions
This chapter and the following look into the heart of the matter: the foundation messages of Jesus and Muhammad. Jesus’ was called the “Good News” and, though he worked wonders — chiefly cures and ...
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This chapter and the following look into the heart of the matter: the foundation messages of Jesus and Muhammad. Jesus’ was called the “Good News” and, though he worked wonders — chiefly cures and exorcisms — and preached a new morality, Jesus’ chief focus was, as it had been for John the Baptist before him, on the approaching End Time, the arrival of the Kingdom and the need for repentance. Jesus’ own place in that scenario was apparently, and perhaps reluctantly, messianic.Less
This chapter and the following look into the heart of the matter: the foundation messages of Jesus and Muhammad. Jesus’ was called the “Good News” and, though he worked wonders — chiefly cures and exorcisms — and preached a new morality, Jesus’ chief focus was, as it had been for John the Baptist before him, on the approaching End Time, the arrival of the Kingdom and the need for repentance. Jesus’ own place in that scenario was apparently, and perhaps reluctantly, messianic.
Joshua A. Braun
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780300197501
- eISBN:
- 9780300216240
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300197501.003.0015
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This epilogue provides an update on MSNBC and NBC News's footprint in the distribution of online television news since their acquisition by Comcast, with particular emphasis on the restructuring of ...
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This epilogue provides an update on MSNBC and NBC News's footprint in the distribution of online television news since their acquisition by Comcast, with particular emphasis on the restructuring of MSNBC.com into an expanded NBC News Digital and the creation of an entirely new website for the MSNBC cable news channel. It discusses other changes at MSNBC, including the rebranding of the Blue Site as NBCNews.com, the creation of a new MSNBC.com based on the open source content management system Drupal, and the use of the “Newsvine 3.0” commenting system as the basis for all the community features on the new site. Despite some changes that seem to show the influence of a centralized management and hierarchy, complex assemblages of system builders remain both inside and outside the MSNBC organization. Heterarchy is alive and well within MSNBC's constellation of companies and teams.Less
This epilogue provides an update on MSNBC and NBC News's footprint in the distribution of online television news since their acquisition by Comcast, with particular emphasis on the restructuring of MSNBC.com into an expanded NBC News Digital and the creation of an entirely new website for the MSNBC cable news channel. It discusses other changes at MSNBC, including the rebranding of the Blue Site as NBCNews.com, the creation of a new MSNBC.com based on the open source content management system Drupal, and the use of the “Newsvine 3.0” commenting system as the basis for all the community features on the new site. Despite some changes that seem to show the influence of a centralized management and hierarchy, complex assemblages of system builders remain both inside and outside the MSNBC organization. Heterarchy is alive and well within MSNBC's constellation of companies and teams.
Lydia Bean
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691161303
- eISBN:
- 9781400852611
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691161303.003.0007
- Subject:
- Sociology, Sociology of Religion
This chapter looks at how, in U.S. churches, political influence operated through a broad set of opinion leaders, not just through ordained pastors or media elites. Previous research has identified ...
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This chapter looks at how, in U.S. churches, political influence operated through a broad set of opinion leaders, not just through ordained pastors or media elites. Previous research has identified local pastors as key opinion leaders who help bridge the gap between political elites and the general public, by preaching on political topics, sending partisan cues, or proclaiming official church stances on issues like abortion and gay marriage. Other scholars argue that Christian Right elites increasingly reach individuals directly, through targeted mailings, Fox News, and Christian radio, without the need to work through their personal networks and congregations. But previous work has largely ignored the political influence of volunteer, non-ordained religious leaders.Less
This chapter looks at how, in U.S. churches, political influence operated through a broad set of opinion leaders, not just through ordained pastors or media elites. Previous research has identified local pastors as key opinion leaders who help bridge the gap between political elites and the general public, by preaching on political topics, sending partisan cues, or proclaiming official church stances on issues like abortion and gay marriage. Other scholars argue that Christian Right elites increasingly reach individuals directly, through targeted mailings, Fox News, and Christian radio, without the need to work through their personal networks and congregations. But previous work has largely ignored the political influence of volunteer, non-ordained religious leaders.
K. D. Ewing
- Published in print:
- 1991
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198254393
- eISBN:
- 9780191681486
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198254393.003.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Employment Law, Human Rights and Immigration
This study considers the position of the individual worker who engages in a strike or industrial action, described as one of the fundamental human liberties protected by international law. This ...
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This study considers the position of the individual worker who engages in a strike or industrial action, described as one of the fundamental human liberties protected by international law. This chapter gives a background of the study by presenting an account of the strike at Wapping on 24 January 1984. The employers there responded to the strike by dismissing some 5,500 workers. The Wapping dispute clearly demonstrated the powerlessness of workers faced with an aggressive management determined to introduce change into the workplace. It highlighted a central weakness of British labour law where a strike or other forms of industrial action is a breach of contract by the workers involved.Less
This study considers the position of the individual worker who engages in a strike or industrial action, described as one of the fundamental human liberties protected by international law. This chapter gives a background of the study by presenting an account of the strike at Wapping on 24 January 1984. The employers there responded to the strike by dismissing some 5,500 workers. The Wapping dispute clearly demonstrated the powerlessness of workers faced with an aggressive management determined to introduce change into the workplace. It highlighted a central weakness of British labour law where a strike or other forms of industrial action is a breach of contract by the workers involved.
Joseph M. Hassett
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199582907
- eISBN:
- 9780191723216
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199582907.003.0010
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
Yeats extended his last, yearning grasp for the Muse toward Edith Shackleton Heald, whose Siren's evocation of the twin impulses of Eros and Thanatos propelled him to pursue sexual desire for the ...
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Yeats extended his last, yearning grasp for the Muse toward Edith Shackleton Heald, whose Siren's evocation of the twin impulses of Eros and Thanatos propelled him to pursue sexual desire for the sake of desire, even as he learned to relinquish longing for life or death. The stasis of Yeats's relationship with the Muse is apparent in ‘News for the Delphic Oracle’, where eroticism leaves the ‘golden codgers’ depleted rather than energized. Chapter 9 traces these remarkable developments to their culmination in Yeats's recognition that ‘lust and rage’ were unreliable sources of inspiration. Their sterility is apparent in ‘The Circus Animals' Desertion,’ which describes the poet's vain search for a theme. Yeats's next poem, ‘Politics’ the one he intended to complete his last volume, eschews the Furies and — as he enjoined himself in ‘Those Images’ — calls the Muses home. The poet focuses on ‘That girl standing there,’ and his longing — that of a true Muse poet — ‘that I were young again/And held her in my arms.’ The wheel had come full circle with Yeats's decision to end his body of work with quite a different song from ‘Words,’ where his Muse's unattainability was essential to generating his poetry. The poet of ‘Politics’ is a devotee of a Muse who, speaking in ‘The Three Bushes,’ insists on being captured because ‘None can rely upon/A love that lacks its proper food.’Less
Yeats extended his last, yearning grasp for the Muse toward Edith Shackleton Heald, whose Siren's evocation of the twin impulses of Eros and Thanatos propelled him to pursue sexual desire for the sake of desire, even as he learned to relinquish longing for life or death. The stasis of Yeats's relationship with the Muse is apparent in ‘News for the Delphic Oracle’, where eroticism leaves the ‘golden codgers’ depleted rather than energized. Chapter 9 traces these remarkable developments to their culmination in Yeats's recognition that ‘lust and rage’ were unreliable sources of inspiration. Their sterility is apparent in ‘The Circus Animals' Desertion,’ which describes the poet's vain search for a theme. Yeats's next poem, ‘Politics’ the one he intended to complete his last volume, eschews the Furies and — as he enjoined himself in ‘Those Images’ — calls the Muses home. The poet focuses on ‘That girl standing there,’ and his longing — that of a true Muse poet — ‘that I were young again/And held her in my arms.’ The wheel had come full circle with Yeats's decision to end his body of work with quite a different song from ‘Words,’ where his Muse's unattainability was essential to generating his poetry. The poet of ‘Politics’ is a devotee of a Muse who, speaking in ‘The Three Bushes,’ insists on being captured because ‘None can rely upon/A love that lacks its proper food.’
Janet Thumim
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198742234
- eISBN:
- 9780191694998
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198742234.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
This chapter deals with factual programming in the 1950s. The Talks Department was a rather powerful one and as it expanded it tended to overlap with both News and Documentary. In a sense documentary ...
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This chapter deals with factual programming in the 1950s. The Talks Department was a rather powerful one and as it expanded it tended to overlap with both News and Documentary. In a sense documentary – central as it became to British television’s reputation for excellence, and despite its complex relation with drama – is a more straightforward generic descriptor than current affairs. In the latter, broadcast television’s direct engagement with the contemporary political process was overtly acknowledged both by those like Grace Wyndham Goldie in the BBC and Sidney Bernstein at Granada, who welcomed current affairs broadcasting as an extension to democratic debate. Documentary, by contrast, was typically conceived and executed over a much longer time span. Meanwhile, it was in the permeable boundary between news and current affairs that women found opportunities. For this reason, current affairs offered a more promising terrain for women than that bastion of masculinity, the newsroom itself.Less
This chapter deals with factual programming in the 1950s. The Talks Department was a rather powerful one and as it expanded it tended to overlap with both News and Documentary. In a sense documentary – central as it became to British television’s reputation for excellence, and despite its complex relation with drama – is a more straightforward generic descriptor than current affairs. In the latter, broadcast television’s direct engagement with the contemporary political process was overtly acknowledged both by those like Grace Wyndham Goldie in the BBC and Sidney Bernstein at Granada, who welcomed current affairs broadcasting as an extension to democratic debate. Documentary, by contrast, was typically conceived and executed over a much longer time span. Meanwhile, it was in the permeable boundary between news and current affairs that women found opportunities. For this reason, current affairs offered a more promising terrain for women than that bastion of masculinity, the newsroom itself.
Adrian Bingham
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199279586
- eISBN:
- 9780191707308
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199279586.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, Social History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter investigates how newspapers reported the sexual transgressions that featured in court cases. The News of the World perfected this genre with a commercially successful balance of ...
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This chapter investigates how newspapers reported the sexual transgressions that featured in court cases. The News of the World perfected this genre with a commercially successful balance of euphemism and titillation. But critics claimed that court reporting posed a serious threat to public morality. This concern led to the passage of the 1926 Regulation of Reports Act, curtailing the coverage of divorce suits, and in the 1950s many complaints were sent to the Press Council. From the 1960s, anxieties increasingly focused on the press's unscrupulous pursuit of scoops. The News of the World's was accused of glamorizing vice by serializing Christine Keeler's memoirs in 1963, while its deal with a prosecution witness threatened to derail the Moors Murders trial of 1966. During the 1970s, feminists argued that sexist styles of journalism reinforced damaging assumptions about rape. Ultimately, however, these restrictions and criticisms did not diminish the press's appetite for sex crime stories.Less
This chapter investigates how newspapers reported the sexual transgressions that featured in court cases. The News of the World perfected this genre with a commercially successful balance of euphemism and titillation. But critics claimed that court reporting posed a serious threat to public morality. This concern led to the passage of the 1926 Regulation of Reports Act, curtailing the coverage of divorce suits, and in the 1950s many complaints were sent to the Press Council. From the 1960s, anxieties increasingly focused on the press's unscrupulous pursuit of scoops. The News of the World's was accused of glamorizing vice by serializing Christine Keeler's memoirs in 1963, while its deal with a prosecution witness threatened to derail the Moors Murders trial of 1966. During the 1970s, feminists argued that sexist styles of journalism reinforced damaging assumptions about rape. Ultimately, however, these restrictions and criticisms did not diminish the press's appetite for sex crime stories.
Lauren Shohet
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199295890
- eISBN:
- 9780191594311
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199295890.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, 17th-century and Restoration Literature
This chapter examines masques in the context of publicity, information, and evolving forms of public opinion. Public encounters with the masque reveal the early history of ‘news’, the circulation of ...
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This chapter examines masques in the context of publicity, information, and evolving forms of public opinion. Public encounters with the masque reveal the early history of ‘news’, the circulation of masque texts and information about masques constituting one element of the news trade that flourished prior to legalization. This chapter explores the news information that could be deduced from accounts of masques and entertainments. It also analyzes three of Jonson's 1620s court masques—News from the New World, Pan's Anniversary, and The Masque of Augurs—whose ridicule of news and public opinion indexes their emergence as a force requiring courtly response.Less
This chapter examines masques in the context of publicity, information, and evolving forms of public opinion. Public encounters with the masque reveal the early history of ‘news’, the circulation of masque texts and information about masques constituting one element of the news trade that flourished prior to legalization. This chapter explores the news information that could be deduced from accounts of masques and entertainments. It also analyzes three of Jonson's 1620s court masques—News from the New World, Pan's Anniversary, and The Masque of Augurs—whose ridicule of news and public opinion indexes their emergence as a force requiring courtly response.
Donald Read
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198207689
- eISBN:
- 9780191677779
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198207689.003.0011
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter explores how Reuters managed to gather news from the battlefield during the Second World War. Censorship during the Second World War was generally more flexible than during the First ...
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This chapter explores how Reuters managed to gather news from the battlefield during the Second World War. Censorship during the Second World War was generally more flexible than during the First World War. It was sometimes unpredictable, but war correspondents were allowed greater freedom of expression and movement than before. In the victory number of the World's Press News, Christopher Chancellor contributed an article on ‘How Reuters did its Job Right Through the War’. The war in Europe took priority for Reuters — as for the United Kingdom over the war with Japan. Relations between Reuters and the Japanese authorities had been growing increasingly strained during the years before the war. Finally, Reuters prepared to report the painful return of peace to the world, just as it had reported the destructive course of war. During each war, the agency has successfully restructured itself, becoming in the process a more effective news collector and distributor.Less
This chapter explores how Reuters managed to gather news from the battlefield during the Second World War. Censorship during the Second World War was generally more flexible than during the First World War. It was sometimes unpredictable, but war correspondents were allowed greater freedom of expression and movement than before. In the victory number of the World's Press News, Christopher Chancellor contributed an article on ‘How Reuters did its Job Right Through the War’. The war in Europe took priority for Reuters — as for the United Kingdom over the war with Japan. Relations between Reuters and the Japanese authorities had been growing increasingly strained during the years before the war. Finally, Reuters prepared to report the painful return of peace to the world, just as it had reported the destructive course of war. During each war, the agency has successfully restructured itself, becoming in the process a more effective news collector and distributor.
Pablo J. Boczkowski and Eugenia Mitchelstein
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780262019835
- eISBN:
- 9780262318181
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262019835.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
The sites of major media organizations—CNN, USA Today, the Guardian, and others—provide the public with much of the online news they consume. But although a large proportion of the top stories these ...
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The sites of major media organizations—CNN, USA Today, the Guardian, and others—provide the public with much of the online news they consume. But although a large proportion of the top stories these sites disseminate cover politics, international relations, and economics, users of these sites show a preference (as evidenced by the most viewed stories) for news about sports, crime, entertainment, and weather. In this book, Pablo Boczkowski and Eugenia Mitchelstein examine this gap and consider the implications for the media industry and democratic life in the digital age. Drawing on analyses of more than 50,000 stories posted on twenty news sites in seven countries in North and South America and Western Europe, Boczkowski and Mitchelstein find that the gap in news preferences exists regardless of ideological orientation or national media culture. They show that it narrows in times of heightened political activity (including presidential elections or government crises) as readers feel compelled to inform themselves about public affairs but remains wide during times of normal political activity. Boczkowski and Mitchelstein also find that the gap is not affected by innovations in Web-native forms of storytelling such as blogs and user-generated content on mainstream news sites. Keeping the account of the news gap up to date, in the book’s coda they extend the analysis through the 2012 U.S. presidential election. Drawing upon these findings, the authors explore the news gap’s troubling consequences for the matrix that connects communication, technology, and politics in the digital age.Less
The sites of major media organizations—CNN, USA Today, the Guardian, and others—provide the public with much of the online news they consume. But although a large proportion of the top stories these sites disseminate cover politics, international relations, and economics, users of these sites show a preference (as evidenced by the most viewed stories) for news about sports, crime, entertainment, and weather. In this book, Pablo Boczkowski and Eugenia Mitchelstein examine this gap and consider the implications for the media industry and democratic life in the digital age. Drawing on analyses of more than 50,000 stories posted on twenty news sites in seven countries in North and South America and Western Europe, Boczkowski and Mitchelstein find that the gap in news preferences exists regardless of ideological orientation or national media culture. They show that it narrows in times of heightened political activity (including presidential elections or government crises) as readers feel compelled to inform themselves about public affairs but remains wide during times of normal political activity. Boczkowski and Mitchelstein also find that the gap is not affected by innovations in Web-native forms of storytelling such as blogs and user-generated content on mainstream news sites. Keeping the account of the news gap up to date, in the book’s coda they extend the analysis through the 2012 U.S. presidential election. Drawing upon these findings, the authors explore the news gap’s troubling consequences for the matrix that connects communication, technology, and politics in the digital age.
Christopher Ali
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252040726
- eISBN:
- 9780252099168
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252040726.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
Local media is at a turning point. Legacy outlets – television and newspapers – are declining while emerging platforms are failing to take their place. When it comes to the policies and regulations ...
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Local media is at a turning point. Legacy outlets – television and newspapers – are declining while emerging platforms are failing to take their place. When it comes to the policies and regulations governing local television, regulators are struggling to address audience gravitation and fragmentation, the declining commercial viability of broadcasting, and the ongoing crisis of journalism. In an era of digital platforms such as YouTube and Facebook, regulators are also grappling with a question they had never anticipated: What does it mean to be local in the digital age? The lack of an answer has left them unsure of how to define a locality, what counts as local news, if the information needs of communities are being met, and the larger role of local media in a democracy. Through comparative analysis, Media Localism explains, assesses, and critiques these issues and asks how communication regulators in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom defined, mobilized and regulated “the local” in broadcasting from 2000 to 2012. Using critical theories of space and place, critical regionalism and critical political economy, and based on document analysis and interviews, Ali offers a fresh approach to localism in media policy. Through policy critique and intervention Ali argues that it is only through redefining the scope of localism that regulators can properly understand and encourage local media in the 21st century.Less
Local media is at a turning point. Legacy outlets – television and newspapers – are declining while emerging platforms are failing to take their place. When it comes to the policies and regulations governing local television, regulators are struggling to address audience gravitation and fragmentation, the declining commercial viability of broadcasting, and the ongoing crisis of journalism. In an era of digital platforms such as YouTube and Facebook, regulators are also grappling with a question they had never anticipated: What does it mean to be local in the digital age? The lack of an answer has left them unsure of how to define a locality, what counts as local news, if the information needs of communities are being met, and the larger role of local media in a democracy. Through comparative analysis, Media Localism explains, assesses, and critiques these issues and asks how communication regulators in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom defined, mobilized and regulated “the local” in broadcasting from 2000 to 2012. Using critical theories of space and place, critical regionalism and critical political economy, and based on document analysis and interviews, Ali offers a fresh approach to localism in media policy. Through policy critique and intervention Ali argues that it is only through redefining the scope of localism that regulators can properly understand and encourage local media in the 21st century.
Nancy J. Curtin
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198207368
- eISBN:
- 9780191677632
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198207368.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
The faith in the power of the press as a tool of political education led United Irish radicals in Belfast to found their own newspaper, the Northern Star, early in 1792. They sought to establish a ...
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The faith in the power of the press as a tool of political education led United Irish radicals in Belfast to found their own newspaper, the Northern Star, early in 1792. They sought to establish a newspaper which would take Irish political education beyond the mainstream whiggism provided by Henry Joy's Belfast News-Letter. The proprietors of the new Northern Star consisted of 12 Presbyterian radicals. Samuel Neilson, the principal shareholder, was its first editor. They had come together to secure the reform of parliament and to promote the union of all Irishmen. The evidence of the Northern Star's influence and its radical content is provided by the government's repeated attempts to suppress it as a voice of radical opposition in Ireland.Less
The faith in the power of the press as a tool of political education led United Irish radicals in Belfast to found their own newspaper, the Northern Star, early in 1792. They sought to establish a newspaper which would take Irish political education beyond the mainstream whiggism provided by Henry Joy's Belfast News-Letter. The proprietors of the new Northern Star consisted of 12 Presbyterian radicals. Samuel Neilson, the principal shareholder, was its first editor. They had come together to secure the reform of parliament and to promote the union of all Irishmen. The evidence of the Northern Star's influence and its radical content is provided by the government's repeated attempts to suppress it as a voice of radical opposition in Ireland.
Nancy J. Curtin
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198207368
- eISBN:
- 9780191677632
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198207368.003.0010
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
The radicals were also skilled manipulators of a sort of propaganda by deed. During their reformist phase, the United Irishmen exploited planned, orderly demonstrations, often celebrating the ...
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The radicals were also skilled manipulators of a sort of propaganda by deed. During their reformist phase, the United Irishmen exploited planned, orderly demonstrations, often celebrating the progress of the cause of liberty in revolutionary France. The radicals were concerned to protect the image of a socially respectable, disciplined, and responsible campaign for civil and political liberty. Any disorderly outbursts by the crowd would have shown that they were unable to control the popular classes. Such latent threat of force signaled to the government that they had the mass of the population on their side. These demonstrations also served to discipline United Irish recruits and to assess their strengths in certain areas. The United Irish propaganda by deed reflected the civic humanist ideology adopted by Irish reformers and revolutionaries.Less
The radicals were also skilled manipulators of a sort of propaganda by deed. During their reformist phase, the United Irishmen exploited planned, orderly demonstrations, often celebrating the progress of the cause of liberty in revolutionary France. The radicals were concerned to protect the image of a socially respectable, disciplined, and responsible campaign for civil and political liberty. Any disorderly outbursts by the crowd would have shown that they were unable to control the popular classes. Such latent threat of force signaled to the government that they had the mass of the population on their side. These demonstrations also served to discipline United Irish recruits and to assess their strengths in certain areas. The United Irish propaganda by deed reflected the civic humanist ideology adopted by Irish reformers and revolutionaries.
Christopher Martin
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781501735257
- eISBN:
- 9781501735264
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501735257.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Political History
Workers in the U.S. have been increasingly invisible since the late 1960s, as the news media shifted their focus to upscale audiences and lost sight of the American working class. This bookcharts the ...
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Workers in the U.S. have been increasingly invisible since the late 1960s, as the news media shifted their focus to upscale audiences and lost sight of the American working class. This bookcharts the decline of labor reporting and the shift in worker news narratives from a labor-based to a consumer-based perspective during the twentieth century. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, most American newspapers became part of large, publicly traded media companies and refocused their target market from a mass audience to upscale readership. America’s white working class, a segment of the broader working class cut adrift from mainstream journalism, eventually found the rising conservative media – right-wing newspapers, Christian television, vitriolic talk radio, Fox News, and later a host of conservative web sites that specialize in stoking white, working class grievances. The newspaper industry’s upscale turn resulted in a momentous fallout: the decline of labor reporting, changing narratives about workers, the popular deployment of frames tagging labor unions and pro-worker policies as “job killers,” the loss of political voice for the working class, the rise of conservative media, and the conditions for a Donald Trump presidency.Less
Workers in the U.S. have been increasingly invisible since the late 1960s, as the news media shifted their focus to upscale audiences and lost sight of the American working class. This bookcharts the decline of labor reporting and the shift in worker news narratives from a labor-based to a consumer-based perspective during the twentieth century. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, most American newspapers became part of large, publicly traded media companies and refocused their target market from a mass audience to upscale readership. America’s white working class, a segment of the broader working class cut adrift from mainstream journalism, eventually found the rising conservative media – right-wing newspapers, Christian television, vitriolic talk radio, Fox News, and later a host of conservative web sites that specialize in stoking white, working class grievances. The newspaper industry’s upscale turn resulted in a momentous fallout: the decline of labor reporting, changing narratives about workers, the popular deployment of frames tagging labor unions and pro-worker policies as “job killers,” the loss of political voice for the working class, the rise of conservative media, and the conditions for a Donald Trump presidency.
Roberta Montemorra Marvin
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780195365870
- eISBN:
- 9780199932054
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195365870.003.0002
- Subject:
- Music, Opera, History, Western
Chapter 2 explores the visual culture of nineteenth-century British spectatorship by examining images of prima donnas that were published in one of the principal English newspapers, the Illustrated ...
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Chapter 2 explores the visual culture of nineteenth-century British spectatorship by examining images of prima donnas that were published in one of the principal English newspapers, the Illustrated London News. Dress, ornament, posture, and physiognomy were each subtle codes through which aspects of personality were communicated, and newspaper editors and illustrators were adept at manipulating these codes to specific ends. In some cases these can be seen working against what the readers’ prior impressions of a prima donna might have been, based on reports of her irregular private life and moral transgressions. This revealing case study offers insights into ideologies of gender that literally shaped the image and the public’s perception of Italian opera stars in the years before newspapers moved over from engravings to photography.Less
Chapter 2 explores the visual culture of nineteenth-century British spectatorship by examining images of prima donnas that were published in one of the principal English newspapers, the Illustrated London News. Dress, ornament, posture, and physiognomy were each subtle codes through which aspects of personality were communicated, and newspaper editors and illustrators were adept at manipulating these codes to specific ends. In some cases these can be seen working against what the readers’ prior impressions of a prima donna might have been, based on reports of her irregular private life and moral transgressions. This revealing case study offers insights into ideologies of gender that literally shaped the image and the public’s perception of Italian opera stars in the years before newspapers moved over from engravings to photography.
Cicely Saunders
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- November 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198570530
- eISBN:
- 9780191730412
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198570530.003.0012
- Subject:
- Palliative Care, Palliative Medicine Research
This is a review of Sauerbruch and Wenke's Pain: Its Meaning and Significance that appeared in Medical News. This is a wide-ranging and reflective analysis of the revised English edition of a book ...
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This is a review of Sauerbruch and Wenke's Pain: Its Meaning and Significance that appeared in Medical News. This is a wide-ranging and reflective analysis of the revised English edition of a book which was first published in German in 1936. The aim of the authors is to bring together the results ‘of both medical and philosophical discussion in a complementary whole’. The book contains a discussion of the arguments about the utility and otherwise of pain; there is a chapter on the psychology of pain; and an exploration of theories and theologies of suffering. The review quotes from a remarkable range of reading, including the works of Buber and de Chardin, and the book is seen as ‘a valuable and necessary corrective to a purely positivist approach to the problems of pain and people in pain’.Less
This is a review of Sauerbruch and Wenke's Pain: Its Meaning and Significance that appeared in Medical News. This is a wide-ranging and reflective analysis of the revised English edition of a book which was first published in German in 1936. The aim of the authors is to bring together the results ‘of both medical and philosophical discussion in a complementary whole’. The book contains a discussion of the arguments about the utility and otherwise of pain; there is a chapter on the psychology of pain; and an exploration of theories and theologies of suffering. The review quotes from a remarkable range of reading, including the works of Buber and de Chardin, and the book is seen as ‘a valuable and necessary corrective to a purely positivist approach to the problems of pain and people in pain’.
Matt Carlson
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252035999
- eISBN:
- 9780252093180
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252035999.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This book confronts the promise and perils of unnamed sources in this exhaustive analysis of controversial episodes in American journalism during the George W. Bush administration, from prewar ...
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This book confronts the promise and perils of unnamed sources in this exhaustive analysis of controversial episodes in American journalism during the George W. Bush administration, from prewar reporting mistakes at the New York Times and Washington Post to the Valerie Plame leak case and Dan Rather's lawsuit against CBS News. Weaving a narrative thread that stretches from the uncritical post-9/11 era to the spectacle of the Scooter Libby trial, the book examines a tense period in American history through the lens of journalism. Revealing new insights about high-profile cases involving confidential sources, he highlights contextual and structural features of the era, including pressure from the right, scrutiny from new media and citizen journalists, and the struggles of traditional media to survive amid increased competition and decreased resources. In exploring the recent debates among journalists and critics over the appropriate roles of media, the book underscores the potential for unattributed information to be both an effective tool in uncovering necessary information about vital institutions and a means for embroiling journalists in controversy and damaging the credibility of already struggling news outlets. The book maps the varying perspectives on confidential sources to foster a deeper understanding of moments of crisis, anxiety, transformation, and power in American history and American journalism.Less
This book confronts the promise and perils of unnamed sources in this exhaustive analysis of controversial episodes in American journalism during the George W. Bush administration, from prewar reporting mistakes at the New York Times and Washington Post to the Valerie Plame leak case and Dan Rather's lawsuit against CBS News. Weaving a narrative thread that stretches from the uncritical post-9/11 era to the spectacle of the Scooter Libby trial, the book examines a tense period in American history through the lens of journalism. Revealing new insights about high-profile cases involving confidential sources, he highlights contextual and structural features of the era, including pressure from the right, scrutiny from new media and citizen journalists, and the struggles of traditional media to survive amid increased competition and decreased resources. In exploring the recent debates among journalists and critics over the appropriate roles of media, the book underscores the potential for unattributed information to be both an effective tool in uncovering necessary information about vital institutions and a means for embroiling journalists in controversy and damaging the credibility of already struggling news outlets. The book maps the varying perspectives on confidential sources to foster a deeper understanding of moments of crisis, anxiety, transformation, and power in American history and American journalism.
