379 research outputs found

    Un cúmulo de crisis: circulación, ingresos, atención, autoridad y confianza

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    El autor expone el cúmulo de crisis que ha marcado el desarrollo del periodismo profesional norteamericano a lo largo del siglo XX. Una variedad de problemas ha conducido a la más profunda crisis sufrida por las organizaciones mediáticas en toda su historia. El autor proporciona una interpretación en profundidad de la situación, aportando consejos sobre cómo sobrevivir al desastre.The author of this article exposes the surfeit of crisis that have characterised professional journalism in the USA during the last century. This variety of problems has driven news organizations to the deepest crisis suffered in the whole history of the newsmaking profession. The author gives a deep interpretation of the state of the art, and focuses also on some important advises to survive to the crash.L’auteur expose l’ensemble de crises qu’a marquée le développement du journalisme nord-américain pendant le XXème siècle. Une variété de problèmes a emmené la profession à la plus profonde crise soufferte par les organisations médiatiques dans toute leur histoire. L’auteur fournit des interprétations en profondeur ainsi que des conseils pour survivre au déluge

    The Age of Entertainment Overload

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    Todd Gitlin is Professor of Culture, Journalism, and Sociology at New York University. This paper was presented at Sacred Heart University on March 15, 1998, as part of the fourth annual Media Studies Symposium

    Political Ignorance in an Information-Soaked World

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    Todd Gitlin is Professor of Journalism and Sociology at Columbia University. This is a lightly-edited version of a talk delivered on February 18, 2004, at Sacred Heart University as part of the College of Arts and Sciences Lecture Series on Media and Society

    Un cúmulo de crisis: circulación, ingresos, atención, autoridad y confianza

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    El autor expone el cúmulo de crisis que ha marcado el desarrollo del periodismo profesional norteamericano a lo largo del siglo XX. Una variedad de problemas ha conducido a la más profunda crisis sufrida por las organizaciones mediáticas en toda su historia. El autor proporciona una interpretación en profundidad de la situación, aportando consejos sobre cómo sobrevivir al desastre

    Reflecting on forty years of sociology, media studies, and journalism : An Interview with Todd Gitlin and Michael Schudson

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    Reflecting on more than four decades in dual scholarly careers that cut across the boundaries between communication, the sociology of culture, and journalism studies, Professor Todd Gitlin and Professor Michael Schudson discuss the growth, evolution, and strengths and weaknesses of the media studies field with Professor Jiang Chang. The three reflect on the origins of the research, the gap between the field of journalism studies and the field of sociology, the role played by journalism in the growing conflict between China and the United States, the relationship between media and political protest, and whether there ought be any cause for optimism regarding the state of democracy in the twenty-first century.Peer reviewe

    Reclaiming heritage: colourization, culture wars and the politics of nostalgia

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    This article considers the discursive continuities between a specifically liberal defence of cultural patrimony, evident in the debate over film colourization, and the culture war critique associated with neo-conservatism. It examines how a rhetoric of nostalgia, linked to particular ideas of authenticity,canonicity and tradition,has been mobilized by the right and the left in attempts to stabilize the confguration and perceived transmission of American cultural identity. While different in scale, colourization and multiculturalism were seen to create respective (postmodern) barbarisms against which defenders of culture, heritage and good taste could unite. I argue that in its defence of the ‘classic’ work of art, together with principles of aesthetic distinction and the value of cultural inheritance,the anti-colourization lobby helped enrich and legitimize a discourse of tradition that, at the end of the 1980s, was beginning to reverberate powerfully in the conservative challenge to a ‘crisis’ within higher education and the humanities. This article attempts to complicate the contemporary politics of nostalgia, showing how a defence of cultural patrimony has distinguished major and minor culture wars, engaging left and right quite differently but with similar presuppositions

    Reduced Expression of IFIH1 Is Protective for Type 1 Diabetes

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    IFIH1 (interferon induced with helicase C domain 1), also known as MDA5 (melanoma differentiation-associated protein 5), is one of a family of intracellular proteins known to recognise viral RNA and mediate the innate immune response. IFIH1 is causal in type 1 diabetes based on the protective associations of four rare variants, where the derived alleles are predicted to reduce gene expression or function. Originally, however, T1D protection was mapped to the common IFIH1 nsSNP, rs1990760 or Thr946Ala. This common amino acid substitution does not cause a loss of function and evidence suggests the protective allele, Ala946, may mark a haplotype with reduced expression of IFIH1 in line with the protection conferred by the four rare loss of function alleles. We have performed allele specific expression analysis that supports this hypothesis: the T1D protective haplotype correlates with reduced IFIH1 transcription in interferon-β stimulated peripheral blood mononuclear cells (overall p = 0.012). In addition, we have used multiflow cytometry analysis and quantitative PCR assays to prove reduced expression of IFIH1 in individuals heterozygous for three of the T1D-associated rare alleles: a premature stop codon, rs35744605 (Glu627X) and predicted splice variants, rs35337543 (IVS8+1) and rs35732034 (IVS14+1). We also show that the nsSNP, Ile923V, does not alter pre-mRNA levels of IFIH1. These results confirm and extend the new autoimmune disease pathway of reduced IFIH1 expression and protein function protecting from T1D

    Not interesting enough to be followed by the NSA: An analysis of Dutch privacy attitudes

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    Open curtains and a careless attitude. The Dutch are described as holding an indifferent stance towards privacy in the aftermath of Snowden’s revelations of far-reaching government surveillance. But are Dutch reactions as aloof as often claimed? This study provides an in-depth overview of privacy attitudes in the Dutch debate about the National Security Agency (NSA) leaks, showing a greater variety of sentiments than anticipated. A qualitative frame analysis and a quantitative descriptive analysis resulted in six frames, which convey distinct privacy attitudes. Online and offline as well as professional and non-journalistic content in the debate displays a different distribution of frames. The frames, ranging from an “End justifies the means” attitude to an anxious fear of an “Orwellian dystopia”, are placed in a larger framework as the research demonstrates the connection to existing theories about privacy and surveillance. Dutch discussions about the NSA revelations often display a trade-off narrative balancing safety against privacy, and include (de)legitimisation strategies. These outcomes are in line with previous studies about mediated surveillance debates, which indicates that privacy attitudes transcend national boundaries. However, the inclusion of user-generated content adds an individual dimension to the existing body of research and reveals a personal perspective on surveillance issues
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