UA68/13/5 InSync

Newsletter created by students for students and alumni involved with the WKU Photojournalism program. Contains examples of student and alumni work, news from alumni and award announcements

UA68/13/5 InSync

Newsletter created by students for students and alumni involved with the WKU Photojournalism program. Contains examples of student and alumni work, news from alumni and award announcements

Maine Press Association Proceedings, 1926

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Jean-Baptiste Couture Maine Press Association Award Article

Photocopy of an article featuring Jean-Baptiste Couture\u27s 1937 Maine Press Association Award for 50 years as a newspaper editor. The article caption is written in French.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/jean-baptiste-couture/1006/thumbnail.jp

Neoliberalisation and 'lad cultures' in higher education

This paper links HE neoliberalisation and ‘lad cultures’, drawing on interviews and focus groups with women students. We argue that retro-sexist ‘laddish’ forms of masculine competitiveness and misogyny have been reshaped by neoliberal rationalities to become modes of consumerist sexualised audit. We also suggest that neoliberal frameworks scaffold an individualistic and adversarial culture among young people that interacts with perceived threats to men’s privilege and intensifies attempts to put women in their place through misogyny and sexual harassment. Furthermore, ‘lad cultures’, sexism and sexual harassment in higher education may be invisibilised by institutions to preserve marketability in a neoliberal context. In response, we ask if we might foster dialogue and partnership between feminist and anti-marketisation politics

Implicit theories of online trolling: evidence that attention-seeking conceptions are associated with increased psychological resilience.

Three studies were conducted to investigate people’s conceptions of online trolls, particularly conceptions associated with psychological resilience to trolling. In Study 1, factor analytic analysis of participants’ ratings of characteristics of online trolls found a replicable bifactor model of conceptions of online trolls, with both a general factor of general conceptions towards online trolls being identified, but five group factors (attention-conflict seeking, low selfconfidence, viciousness, uneducated, amusement) as most salient. In Study 2, participants evaluated hypothetical profiles of online trolling messages to establish the validity of the five factors. Three constructs (attention-conflict seeking, viciousness, and uneducated) were actively employed when people considered profiles of online trolling scenarios. Study 3 introduced a 20-item ‘Conceptions of Online Trolls scale’ to examine the extent to which the five group factors were associated with resilience to trolling. Results indicated that viewing online trolls as seeking conflict or attention was associated with a decrease in individuals' negative affect around previous trolling incidents. Overall, the findings suggest that adopting an implicit theories approach can further our understanding and measurement of conceptions towards trolling through the identification of five salient factors, of which at least one factor may act as a resilience strategy

Risk assessment practice within primary mental health care: A logics perspective

From the 1980s onwards, discourses of risk have continued to grow, almost in ubiquity. Ideas and practices of risk and risk aversion have extended to UK mental health care where services are expected to assess and manage risks, and high-quality clinical assessment has been revised to incorporate risk assessment. This article problematises practices of risk assessment in mental health provision, focussing on the base-rate problem. It presents an analysis of audio recordings of risk assessments completed within a primary care mental health service. The analysis is informed by a critical logics approach which, using ideas from discourse theory as well as Lacanian psychoanalysis, involves developing a set of logics to describe, analyse and explain social phenomena. We characterise the assessments as functioning according to social logics of well-oiled administration and preservation, whereby bureaucratic processes are prioritised, contingency ironed out or ignored, and a need to manage potential risks to the service are the dominant operational frames. These logics are considered in terms of their beatific and horrific fantasmatic dimensions, whereby risk assessment is enacted as infallible (beatific) until clients become threats (horrific), creating a range of potential false negatives, false positives and so forth. These processes function to obscure or background problems with risk assessment, by generating practices that favour and offer protection to assessors, at the expense of those being assessed, thus presenting a challenge to the stated aim of risk assessment practice

Planning for Sustainability in Small Municipalities: The Influence of Interest Groups, Growth Patterns, and Institutional Characteristics

How and why small municipalities promote sustainability through planning efforts is poorly understood. We analyzed ordinances in 451 Maine municipalities and tested theories of policy adoption using regression analysis.We found that smaller communities do adopt programs that contribute to sustainability relevant to their scale and context. In line with the political market theory, we found that municipalities with strong environmental interests, higher growth, and more formal governments were more likely to adopt these policies. Consideration of context and capacity in planning for sustainability will help planners better identify and benefit from collaboration, training, and outreach opportunities

Die Bedeutung der Bistumszeitungen

Der Katholische Presseverband der Vereinigten Staaten und Kanadas (CPA) setzt sich aus verschiedenen Gruppen von Publikationen zusammen. Unsere Mitglieder veröffentlichen Newsletters, Magazine, Zeitungen, Bücher, Websites, Kataloge und vieles mehr. Doch alle diese Publikationsarten sind nurverschiedene Wege, um dieselbe Botschaft zu verbreiten: die unglaubliche Gute Nachricht, dass Gott lebt und unter uns weilt.Fast die Hälfte der Publikationen unserer CPA-Mitglieder gehört jedoch zu einer besonderen Kategorie. Diese 173 Zeitungen erscheinen in bestimmten geografischen Gebieten als Publikationen für Bistümer oder Erzbistümer. Oft ist der Bischof oder Erzbischof ihr Herausgeber. Diese Zeitungen spielen eine vitale Rolle für unsere Ortskirchen. Sie sind Träger der Verkündigung und Verantwortlichkeit, die den Katholiken einen Weg öffnen, um ihren Glauben in ihrem Alltagsleben lebendig werden zu lassen. (...

The Journalists of the Future meet Entrepreneurial Journalism

Journalism is undergoing a strong restructuring of its labour market due to the consequences of the economic crisis and the technological innovations. Discussions on the search for new formulas for job creation are centred on the emergence of entrepreneurial journalism. Spain is a paradigmatic example of this phenomenon because between 2008 and 2014, 454 news media outlets were created. The rise of entrepreneurial journalism raises many questions and challenges that affect all areas of journalism. One is their introduction in journalism education and the views of journalism students. The aim of this article is to analyse the perceptions regarding entrepreneurship held by those who will be future journalists and who are now receiving their education in the classroom. Our goal is to find out what knowledge journalism students have about entrepreneurship and the skills that are deemed essential. We evaluate the willingness of journalism students to develop their own business project and the major barriers and obstacles. The methodology uses a quantitative approach based on surveys in Spain (N=184). The results suggest an increase of the willingness in students to engage in entrepreneurship. However, students also have a negative and disenchanted view of journalism as they progress in their studies.This research was supported by the Universitat Jaume I de Castelló [grant number PI11A2013– 12]