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Television (From The Mississippi Encyclopedia)
Television came relatively late to Mississippi and several other southern states. Following a federal freeze on licensing new stations by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), television stations came on air in 1953 in Mississippi, Arkansas, and South Carolina. Over the next three years Mississippians built six stations-first WJTV and WLBT in Jackson and WCOC in Meridian and later WCBI in Columbus, WDAM in Hattiesburg, and WTWV in Tupelo. Anticipating WJTV\u27s first broadcast, Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower\u27s January 1953 inauguration, the station\u27s general manager, John Rossitor, told city leaders and educators that television would bring the world into your home and accent friendliness among neighbors in this city and state:\u2
Introduction (Watching Jim Crow: The Struggles Over Mississippi Television, 1955-1969.)
The broadcast complex that houses WLBT-TV remains today where it has always been, a few blocks outside the modest cluster of skyscrapers that defines downtown Jackson, Mississippi. Built in the 1950s a short distance from prominent businesses and seats of government, the center\u27s managers have long enjoyed proximity to political and economic power. But as the years have passed, station planners have faced the problem of updating the center\u27s aging physical plant and technologies. The architectural results are an eclectic mix- a layering of the new upon the old- as a consequence of repeated remodeling projects. While the station\u27s original brick facade remains at the public entrance, behind it the furnishings have been dramatically changed to reflect contemporary needs and concerns. Familiar spaces remain but have been transformed: the cramped dressing rooms and viewing areas built to keep Negro performers apart from white audiences have been radically redesigned for contemporary uses. Traces of a past station remain, reconfigured for the present
Standing on Unstable Grounds: A Reexamination of the WLBT-TV Case
In 1962, the Jackson Nonviolent Movement began to change business as usual in Mississippi. The upstart organization, comprised largely of local teens, targeted prominent Jackson businesses, demanding that basic employment and consumer rights be extended to African Americans. They insisted that the segregation, degradation, and physical abuse grimly familiar to black consumers in the white marketplace be confronted and addressed. In the spring, when a pregnant African-American mother was verbally and physically assaulted by a white grocer, the Movement called a church meeting, distributed leaflets, and led a successful boycott against the store. Months later, this strategy was reemployed with a massive boycott of downtown businesses and the demand that Negro consumers ... [be] treated as they ought to be-as first class citizens (Salter, 1987, pp. 36, 56)
“Reporters Gone Wild” Reporters and Their Critics on Hurricane Katrina, Gender, Race & Place
The great fiction of the southern United States is frequently characterized by its passionate embrace of place. In her classic essay, “Place in Fiction,” the widely beloved Mississippi author Eudora Welty writes, “Place in history partakes of feeling, as feeling about history partakes of place. Feelings are bound up in place. Location is the ground conductor of all the currents of emotion and belief and moral conviction that charge out from the story in its course.”
Welty\u27s rich stories evoke larger traditions of southern art and everyday culture imbued with multifaceted understandings of place. Starting with Welty\u27s insight, in this essay I discuss the relationship of place and emotion and the expression of that relationship in journalistic storytelling—specifically, the rituals and techniques evident in the televised cable network news coverage of Hurricane Katrina as the storm and its aftermath devastated parts of the U.S. South. My aim is not primarily to provide yet another critique of network reporting (although much of it is ripe for such analysis), nor is it to present a systematic content analysis of television news texts. Rather, this essay offers a meta-critique, examining prominent published evaluations of the reporting in the earliest hours of the disaster, with a particular focus on moments in which normative national network news practices quite literally “broke down.
Lawyers Not in Love, The Defenders and Sixties TV
This essay offers a social history and examination of The Defenders as a popular, criti- cally acclaimed television text that negotiated anxieties regarding crime, law, justice, lib- eralism, and masculinity in the 1960s and 1990s. Both The Defenders television series (1961–1965) and the Showtime motion picture series (1997–1998) by the same name rearticulated enduring tensions between law’s formalism and just desires for compassion and mercy, depicting defense attorneys as men who work both inside and outside of “law” to ensure justice and confront the lack of humanism in “the rule of law.” Such discourses are understood and appreciated in different ways in different times, particularly as the cultural politics of nostalgia are engaged. The Defenders offers clear illustrations of the ways in which popular narratives not only depict juridical roles but also perform them, specifying when and where “law” begins and ends
Inside Job: Diagnosing Bluetooth Lower Layers Using Off-the-Shelf Devices
Bluetooth is among the dominant standards for wireless short-range
communication with multi-billion Bluetooth devices shipped each year. Basic
Bluetooth analysis inside consumer hardware such as smartphones can be
accomplished observing the Host Controller Interface (HCI) between the
operating system's driver and the Bluetooth chip. However, the HCI does not
provide insights to tasks running inside a Bluetooth chip or Link Layer (LL)
packets exchanged over the air. As of today, consumer hardware internal
behavior can only be observed with external, and often expensive tools, that
need to be present during initial device pairing. In this paper, we leverage
standard smartphones for on-device Bluetooth analysis and reverse engineer a
diagnostic protocol that resides inside Broadcom chips. Diagnostic features
include sniffing lower layers such as LL for Classic Bluetooth and Bluetooth
Low Energy (BLE), transmission and reception statistics, test mode, and memory
peek and poke
DEMO: Attaching InternalBlue to the Proprietary macOS IOBluetooth Framework
In this demo, we provide an overview of the macOS Bluetooth stack internals
and gain access to undocumented low-level interfaces. We leverage this
knowledge to add macOS support to the InternalBlue firmware modification and
wireless experimentation framework.Comment: 13th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile
Network
Instabilities on graphene's honeycomb lattice with electron-phonon interactions
We study the impact of electron-phonon interactions on the many-body
instabilities of electrons on the honeycomb lattice and their interplay with
repulsive local and non-local Coulomb interactions at charge neutrality. To
that end, we consider in-plane optical phonon modes with wavevectors close to
the point as well as to the points and calculate the effective
phonon-mediated electron-electron interaction by integrating out the phonon
modes. Ordering tendencies are studied by means of a momentum-resolved
functional renormalization group approach allowing for an unbiased
investigation of the appearing instabilities. In the case of an exclusive and
supercritical phonon-mediated interaction, we find a Kekul\'e and a nematic
bond ordering tendency being favored over the -wave superconducting state.
The competition between the different phonon-induced orderings clearly shows a
repulsive interaction between phonons at small and large wavevector transfers.
We further discuss the influence of phonon-mediated interactions on
electronically-driven instabilities induced by onsite, nearest neighbor and
next-to-nearest neighbor density-density interactions. We find an extension of
the parameter regime of the spin density wave order going along with an
increase of the critical scales where ordering occurs, and a suppression of
competing orders.Comment: 9 pages, 5 figure
Ladder-like optical conductivity in the spin-fermion model
In the nested limit of the spin-fermion model for the cuprates,
one-dimensional physics in the form of half-filled two-leg ladders emerges. We
show that the renormalization group flow of the corresponding ladder is towards
the d-Mott phase, a gapped spin-liquid with short-ranged d-wave pairing
correlations, and reveals an intermediate SO(5)SO(3) symmetry. We use
the results of the renormalization group in combination with a memory-function
approach to calculate the optical conductivity of the spin-fermion model in the
high-frequency regime, where processes within the hot spot region dominate the
transport. We argue that umklapp processes play a major role. For finite
temperatures, we determine the resistivity in the zero-frequency (dc) limit.
Our results show an approximate linear temperature dependence of the
resistivity and a conductivity that follows a non-universal power law. A
comparison to experimental data supports our assumption that the conductivity
is dominated by the antinodal contribution above the pseudogap.Comment: 11+2 pages, 8 figure
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