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Crime, media and the will-to-representation: Reconsidering relationships in the new media age
This paper considers the ways in which the rise of new media might challenge commonplace criminological assumptions about the crimeâmedia interface. Established debates around crime and media have long been based upon a fairly clear demarcation between production and consumption, between object and audience â the media generates and transmits representations of crime, and audiences engage with them. However, one of the most noticeable changes occurring in the wake of the development of new media is the proliferation of self-organised production by âordinary peopleâ â everything ranging from self-authored web pages and âblogsâ, to self-produced video created using hand-held camcorders, camera-phones and âwebcamsâ. Today we see the spectacle of people them, send them and upload them to the Internet. This kind of âwill to representationâ may be seen in itself as a new kind of causal inducement to law- and rule-breaking behaviour. It may be that, in the new media age, the terms of criminological questioning need to be sometimes reversed: instead of asking whether âmediaâ instigates crime or fear of crime, we must ask how the very possibility of bound up with the genesis of criminal behaviour.performing acts of crime and deviance in order to recordmediating oneself to an audience through self-representation might be bound up with the genesis of criminal behaviour
The International Planetary Protection Handbook
The Planetary Protection of Outer Solar System (PPOSS) project tackled the science, technology and policy-making components related
to biological and organic contamination of
outer solar system bodies, in particular icy
moons. This intensive three-year program has
provided an international platform and forum
where science, industry and policy actors met
to nurture and catalyze discussions, exchange
of knowledge and produce policy recommendations on the matter of planetary protection.
The main objectives of the PPOSS project are
to: Describe the state-of-the-art and good
practice for implementing planetary protection requirements, and identify good
practices and lessons to be learnt.
Identify scientific challenges, requirements
and knowledge gaps related to planetary
protection of outer solar system bodies, including small solar system bodies.
Develop a European engineering roadmap
for the industry sector.
Review the international outer solar system
planetary protection regulation structure
and categorization and suggest improvements, and,
Facilitate the dissemination of knowledge
related to planetary protection. The PPOSS
project gathers seven European partner organizations, one international partner and
one international observer