The Construction Of Truth In Contemporary Media Narratives About Risk

Author : John Gaffey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000387094

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The Construction of Truth in Contemporary Media Narratives about Risk by John Gaffey Pdf

The Construction of Truth in Contemporary Media Narratives about Risk provides a theoretical framework for how, in a post-truth era, media audiences are able to understand and navigate everyday risk. The book examines media risk narratives and explores forms of truth, experiential knowledge, and authority. Using the concept of parrhesia to show how we invest trust in various types of knowledge in a changing media environment, the book demonstrates how we choose between expert and non-expert information when navigating a seemingly risky world. It considers how news media formats have previously engaged audiences through risk narratives and examines how experiential knowledge has come to hold a valuable place for individuals navigating what we are often told is an increasingly risky and uncertain world. The book also examines the increasingly precarious position of expert knowledge and examines how contemporary truth-games play out between experts and non-experts, and considers how this extends into the world of online and social media. This book will be of interest to those researching or teaching in the areas of criminology, sociology, media and cultural studies, and of interest to readers in professional areas such as journalism and politics.

Author : Sander van der Linden,Ragnar E. Löfstedt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000022926

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Risk and Uncertainty in a Post-Truth Society by Sander van der Linden,Ragnar E. Löfstedt Pdf

This edited volume looks at whether it is possible to be more transparent about uncertainty in scientific evidence without undermining public understanding and trust. With contributions from leading experts in the field, this book explores the communication of risk and decision-making in an increasingly post-truth world. Drawing on case studies from climate change to genetic testing, the authors argue for better quality evidence synthesis to cut through the noise and highlight the need for more structured public dialogue. For uncertainty in scientific evidence to be communicated effectively, they conclude that trustworthiness is vital: the data and methods underlying statistics must be transparent, valid, and sound, and the numbers need to demonstrate practical utility and add social value to people’s lives. Presenting a conceptual framework to help navigate the reader through the key social and scientific challenges of a post-truth era, this book will be of great relevance to students, scholars, and policy makers with an interest in risk analysis and communication.

Author : George Ritzer,Jeffrey Stepnisky
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781544396255

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Contemporary Sociological Theory and Its Classical Roots by George Ritzer,Jeffrey Stepnisky Pdf

Contemporary Sociological Theory and Its Classical Roots: The Basics, is a brief survey of sociology′s major theorists and theoretical approaches, from the Classical founders to the present. The content is adapted from Ritzer/Stepnisky, Sociological Theory, and the authors connect many theorists together into chapters with broad headings (Contemporary Integrative Theories, Contemporary Theories of Everyday Life, etc.) that offer students a big-picture, synthesized view of sociological theory. Because of its size, price, and flexible organization, the text can be used in a variety of undergraduate sociological theory classes: Classical, Contemporary, or Combined.

Author : Paul Dawson,Maria Mäkelä
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 781 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000576375

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The Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory by Paul Dawson,Maria Mäkelä Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory brings together top scholars in the field to explore the significance of narrative to pressing social, cultural, and theoretical issues. How does narrative both inform and limit the way we think today? From conspiracy theories and social media movements to racial politics and climate change future scenarios, the reach is broad. This volume is distinctive for addressing the complicated relations between the interdisciplinary narrative turn in the academy and the contemporary boom of instrumental storytelling in the public sphere. The scholars collected here explore new theories of causality, experientiality, and fictionality; challenge normative modes of storytelling; and offer polemical accounts of narrative fiction, nonfiction, and video games. Drawing upon the latest research in areas from cognitive sciences to complexity theory, the volume provides an accessible entry point for those new to the myriad applications of narrative theory and a point of departure for new scholarship.

Author : Virginia Newhall Rademacher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501386923

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Derivative Lives by Virginia Newhall Rademacher Pdf

The title of this book, Derivative Lives, alludes to the challenge of finding one's way within the contemporary market of virtually limitless information and claims to veracity. Amid this profusion of options, it is easy to feel lost in spaces of uncertainty where biographical truth teeters between the real and the imaginative. The title thus also points to the prolific market of biographical novels that openly and intentionally play in the speculative space between the real and the fictional. Drawing on theories of risk and uncertainty, Derivative Lives considers the surge in biofiction in Spain and globally, relating literary expression to concepts such as circumstantiality, derivatives, speculation, and game studies.

Author : Christopher Shaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317667803

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The Two Degrees Dangerous Limit for Climate Change by Christopher Shaw Pdf

This book is about the history, present and future of one the most important policy ideas of the modern era – that there is a single, global dangerous amount of climate change. That dangerous amount of climate change is imagined as two degrees centigrade of global warming above the pre-industrial average. Though the two degree idea is based on the value system of elite policy actors, it is been constructed in public discourses as scientific fact. This false representation of the concept undermines opportunities for positive public engagement with the climate policy debate, yet it is strong public engagement which is a recurring aspiration of climate policy discourses and is considered essential if climate mitigation strategies are to work. Alongside a critical analysis of how the idea of a single dangerous limit has shaped our understanding of what sort of problem climate change is, the book explains how the public have been kept out of that decision making process, the implications of this marginalisation for climate policy and why the dangerous limit idea is undermining our ability to mitigate climate change. The book concludes by exploring possibilities for a deliberation about the future of the two degree limit which allows for public participation in the decision making process. This book illustrates why, at this critical juncture in the climate policy debate, the two degree limit idea has failed to achieve any of the policy goals intended. This is the first book dedicated to questioning the issue of the two degree limit within a social science framework and should be of interest to students and scholars of environmental policy and politics, climate change communication, and science, technology and society studies.

Author : Pardeep Singh
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031554087

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Environmental Activism and Global Media by Pardeep Singh Pdf

Author : Sandra M. Bucerius,Kevin D. Haggerty,Luca Berardi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190904500

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The Oxford Handbook of Ethnographies of Crime and Criminal Justice by Sandra M. Bucerius,Kevin D. Haggerty,Luca Berardi Pdf

Despite ethnography's long and distinguished history in the social sciences, its use in criminology is still relatively rare. Over the years, however, ethnographers in the United States and abroad have amassed an impressive body of work on core criminological topics and groups, including gang members, sex workers, drug dealers, and drug users. Ethnographies on criminal justice institutions have also flourished, with studies on police, courts, and prisons providing deep insights into how these organizations operate and shape the lives of people who encounter them. The Oxford Handbook of Ethnographies of Crime and Criminal Justice provides critical and current reviews of key research topics, issues, and debates that crime ethnographers have been grappling with for over a century. This volume brings together an outstanding group of ethnographers to discuss various research traditions, the ethical and pragmatic challenges associated with conducting crime-related fieldwork, relevant policy recommendations for practitioners in the field, and areas of future research for crime ethnographers. In addition to exhaustive overview essays, the handbook also presents case studies that serve as exemplars for how ethnographic inquiry can contribute to our understanding of crime and criminal justice-related topics.

Author : Henry Jenkins,David Thorburn,Brad Seawell
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0262600633

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Democracy and New Media by Henry Jenkins,David Thorburn,Brad Seawell Pdf

Essays on the promise and dangers of the Internet for democracy.

Author : Winfried Nöth
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 908 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110803617

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Semiotics of the Media by Winfried Nöth Pdf

Author : Liliana Chávez Díaz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781501366031

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Latin American Documentary Narratives by Liliana Chávez Díaz Pdf

What defines the boundary between fact and fabrication, fiction and nonfiction, literature and journalism? Latin American Documentary Narratives unpacks the precarious testimonial relationship between author and subject, where the literary journalist, rather than the subject being interviewed, can become the hero of a narrative in its recording and retelling. Latin American Documentary Narratives covers a variety of nonfiction genres from the 1950s to the 2000s that address topics such as social protests, dictatorships, natural disasters, crime and migration in Latin America. This book analyzes – and includes an appendix of interviews with – authors who have not previously been critically read together, from the early and emblematic works of Gabriel García Márquez and Elena Poniatowska to more recent authors, like Leila Guerriero and Juan Villoro, who are currently reshaping media and audiences in Latin America. In a world overwhelmed by data production and marked by violent acts against those considered 'others', Liliana Chávez Díaz argues that storytelling plays an essential role in communication among individuals, classes and cultures.

Author : Femke Kaulingfreks
Publisher : Springer
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137480965

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Uncivil Engagement and Unruly Politics by Femke Kaulingfreks Pdf

This book explores the significance of riots and public disturbances caused by marginalized youth with a migrant background in France and the Netherlands, and how their demands for recognition, justice and equal opportunities are voiced in uncivil, yet politically meaningful ways.

Author : Shani Orgad
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745680859

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Media Representation and the Global Imagination by Shani Orgad Pdf

This book is a clear, systematic, original and lively account of how media representations shape the way we see our and others’ lives in a global age. It provides in-depth analysis of a range of international media representations of disaster, war, conflict, migration and celebration. The book explores how images, stories and voices, on television, the Internet, and in advertisements and newspapers, invite us to relocate to distant contexts, and to relate to people who are remote from our daily lives, by developing ‘mediated intimacy’ and focusing on the self. It also explores how these representations shape our self-narratives. Orgad examines five sites of media representation – the other, the nation, possible lives, the world and the self. She argues that representations can and should contribute to fostering more ambivalence and complexity in how we think and feel about the world, our place in it and our relation to far-away others. Media Representations and the Global Imagination will be of particular interest to students and scholars of media and cultural studies, as well as sociology, politics, international relations, development studies and migration studies.

Author : Briony Jones
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781789905359

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Knowledge for Peace by Briony Jones Pdf

Combining the knowledge and experience of leading international researchers, practitioners and policy consultants, Knowledge for Peace discusses how we identify, claim and contest the knowledge we have in relation to designing and analysing peacebuilding and transitional justice programmes. Exploring how knowledge in the field is produced, and by whom, the book examines the research-policy-practice nexus, both empirically and conceptually, as an important part of the politics of knowledge production.

Author : Chris Fitzgerald
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000823653

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Investigating a Corpus of Historical Oral Testimonies by Chris Fitzgerald Pdf

Investigating a Corpus of Historical Oral Testimonies guides the reader through the process of sourcing a relevant oral history archive for linguistic analysis, constructing a representative corpus out of this archive and analysing this using corpus tools. Focusing on the oral history archive at the Irish Bureau of Military History, this book shows how corpus linguistics can illuminate themes worthy of investigation that may otherwise remain hidden. This is exemplified through the investigation of how certainty is constructed in this archive through a number of expressions and which serves as a template for both how oral history can aid linguistic understanding and how corpus linguistics can contribute to oral history investigation. Highlighting why oral history archives are worthy of linguistic analysis and showing what readers can gain from blending linguistic tools and competencies with oral history data, this book is essential reading for all researchers and students working in the areas of corpus linguistics, discourse analysis and oral history.