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The rhetoric of reportage: The media construction of a pandemic2013 September 1900 (has links)
In disease outbreak situations, the media are considered (and relied upon) by authorities to “translate” information across disciplinary boundaries. A reporter covering the 2003 SARS outbreak observed that journalists “are often conscious of their role as participants in a human crisis” (World Health Organization). Consequently, a pandemic presents a unique rhetorical situation to journalists. As significant intermediaries in public health messaging, journalist-rhetors help frame the narrative of a disease outbreak for lay audiences and influence whether those audiences implement protective behavioral changes. While the literature implicitly acknowledges issues of motivation in the media industry as a whole, little work has yet appeared to examine strategies specific to individual acts of reportage.
Through comparative analyses of media portrayals of the 2009 H1N1 influenza outbreak before the nature of the threat became clear, this project explores rhetorical characteristics of the coverage in order to uncover implicit assumptions guiding public understanding of a high-risk health threat. Kenneth Burke’s method of cluster analysis yields insight into the symbolic processes embedded in a rhetorical artefact, enabling an interpretation of the rhetor’s worldview. Resulting worldviews can then be examined through a dramatistic lens. Burke also described the strategic adoption of “role” as an element of symbolic action.
This study found that journalists purveyed widely different, even contradictory, worldviews, each with different impacts on audiences in terms of the interpretation and appropriate response to the threat. I argue that such divergences occur due to alienation arising from individual ethos in conflict with formal constraints in the new pandemic “scene.” Responses to alienation manifested in identifiably distinct roles. Identification with a particular role in pandemic reportage was reflected in the terminology of journalists studied. Through clusters of association and dissociation, journalists classed the threat as “mild” and rejected the term “pandemic,” as a serious threat but one that could be managed, or as an apocalyptic threat against which there was no defence, with all stances occurring simultaneously in time. Ramifications for the lay public ranged from the location of protection with public health officials, invitations to engage in processes of Othering, or the amplification of the cataclysmic nature of the scene. As these stances differed in their portrayals of impacts on the lay public and thus ability to motivate behavioral change, an improved understanding of journalistic experience in the pandemic “scene” is crucial to improving communication aiming to protect the health of lay publics.
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Scapegoating as a Form of Color-Blind Racism: Do African American and Latino Men Receive Harsher Punishment in the Workplace?Sievers, Brittany 01 September 2020 (has links)
The purpose of both Study 1 and Study 2 was to experimentally examine the ways in which non-Latinx, White, European American individuals just world beliefs and color-blind racism may predict scapegoating behaviors directed at Black, African American and Brown, Latino men in the workplace. Participants were recruited via Amazon Mechanical Turk Prime. The main hypothesis for Study 1 was that just world beliefs would positively predict shame and guilt, shame and guilt would positively predict discipline, and that color-blind racism would mediate the relationship between shame and guilt and discipline. The overall scapegoating model was not supported, but individual pathways were significant. The main hypothesis for Study 2 was that just world-beliefs would positively predict threat of loss, threat of loss would positively predict discipline, and that color-blind racial ideology would mediate the positive relationship between threat of loss and discipline. The overall scapegoating model was not supported but the significance of individual pathways is discussed below. For Study 1 I found partial support for racial differences in discipline, but this was not found in Study 2. However, I did find that participants who were threatened with job loss in Study 2 assigned harsher discipline. In both Study 1 and Study two it was found that color-blind racism predicts harsher discipline. Future research and implications are discussed.
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Politics as Violence: A Girardian Analysis of Pre-Genocide Rwandan PoliticsPitts, Teresa Ann 19 May 2011 (has links)
In 1994 genocide occurred in the tiny, crowded country of Rwanda in the Great Lakes region of Africa. What was unique to that genocide was its efficiency and use of low technology weapons: somewhere around 800,000 to one million persons were killed, mainly by machetes and bullets, and often by neighbors, former friends, or relatives that they knew by name. The killers had been well-prepared for their roles via myth-building and reinforcement of old fears against the victims. There was little to no international intervention, although Rwanda had close political ties with France and a colonial history with Germany and Belgium. Although dozens of books and articles have been written seeking to understand, in both practical and theoretical ways, the motivations of the killers, this research looks to add to that body of knowledge by considering the ideas of a theorist outside traditional political theory — René Girard — and how they may shed some light on the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Girard's conception of mimetic rivalry and his theorization of scapegoating illuminate society-based characteristics of political competition between well-established factions of Rwandan society. These characteristics, if subjected to various manipulations of social positioning and control, can serve to precipitate brutal acts of believed conciliatory violence against a perceived causal group. Without examining the origin of violence in society, an understanding of the 1994 genocide is incomplete, and policies designed to prevent such genocides from recurring may not be effective. / Master of Arts
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Entre verrinas e ditirambos: maternagem nos discursos normativos: São Paulo, 1925-1940Colucci, Sandra Regina 18 February 2016 (has links)
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Previous issue date: 2016-02-18 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This research aimed to capture the constitution movement of different practices of mothering through fragments filtered by the hegemonic consciousness of documents, seeking historicizing the construction of the meanings assigned to it in his subjective process. The life of the city scaled the perspective of social history through different eyes, in the diversity of languages and the multiplicity of their code authorizes the analysis of the relationships established by different speeches that wove responsibility networks and guilt mothers front of child crime, forms of female labor, disease, death and food practices. In this sense, the theme of Between blame and praise: mothering in normative discourses" appears woven in the pursuit of building meanings to different feminine care practices with their children in ways of working, living, live, to have fun, to eat, to women's daily lives. Our goal was to analyze the discourses that allow heterogeneous seek the local knowledge, perception of other times / places in concurrency multidirectional experiences, in the seizure of tensions and confrontations inherent experiences, as well as on the construction of representations in its multiple interference the strategies of social groups, producing new study references that allow the expansion of women's studies / Esta pesquisa buscou captar o movimento de constituição de diferentes práticas de maternagem, através de fragmentos filtrados pela consciência hegemônica dos documentos, buscando historicizar a construção dos significados a ela atribuídos em seu processo de subjetivação. O cotidiano da cidade dimensionado na perspectiva da História Social através de olhares distintos, na diversidade de linguagens e na multiplicidade de seus códigos, autoriza a análise das relações estabelecidas por diferentes discursos que teceram redes de responsabilidade e culpa das mães frente à criminalidade infantil, formas de trabalho feminino, doenças, morte e práticas alimentares. Neste sentido, a temática de Entre verrinas e ditirambos: maternagem nos discursos normativos se apresenta tecida na busca da construção de significados atribuídos a diferentes práticas femininas de cuidados com os filhos, de modos de trabalhar, viver, morar, de se divertir, de se alimentar, ao cotidiano feminino. Nosso objetivo foi analisar os discursos que permitissem buscar o heterogêneo nos saberes locais, na percepção de outros tempos/espaços, na simultaneidade de vivências multidirecionais, na apreensão de tensões e confrontações inerentes às experiências, assim como sobre a construção das representações nas suas múltiplas interferências nas estratégias dos grupos sociais, produzindo novos referenciais de estudo que permitam a expansão dos estudos das mulheres
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Oskick i svensk debatt : En studie om oskick i partiledardebatter mellan Annie Lööf (C) och Jimmie Åkesson (SD) valåret 2018Lithner, Simon January 2021 (has links)
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Scapegoating and VOX: Twitter and Right-Wing Rhetoric in SpainChiappone, Benjamin 23 August 2022 (has links)
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Qui est à blâmer pour la pandémie de la COVID-19? : analyse des perceptions de la responsabilité pendant la crise et évaluation de l’Allocation de Dirichlet latente dans l’étude de questions ouvertesChevalier, Marianne 08 1900 (has links)
La crise de la COVID-19 a provoqué des bouleversements majeurs dans la vie des populations du monde entier et a suscité des réactions sociales importantes. La propagation du virus contagieux de la COVID-19 a été rapidement suivie d’une « épidémie » d’explications et de discours tentant de donner un sens à la crise. Lorsqu’un événement dévastateur se produit, les gens se demandent ce qui se passe et ce que cela signifie. Le premier but de cette recherche est de suivre l’évolution de la dynamique du blâme et de la désignation de boucs émissaires au fur et à mesure que la pandémie de COVID-19 se déroule. Le deuxième but de cette recherche est d’évaluer l’intérêt d’utiliser l’Allocation de Dirichlet latente (ADL), un modèle de mélange/classe latente génératif bayésien, dans l’analyse de questions ouvertes. Les données ont été recueillies auprès d’un échantillon représentatif de 3617 Canadiens selon un devis de recherche longitudinal intensif (avec 12 temps de mesure). Neuf thématiques ont été identifiées, dont six sont récurrentes à différents temps de mesure. Les résultats indiquent que, durant les premiers mois de la pandémie, les Canadiens blâment majoritairement les collectivités distantes, telles que la Chine et les marchés aux animaux vivants (wet markets). Au fil du temps, ils blâment de plus en plus les collectivités locales, tels que les individus qui ne respectent pas les mesures sanitaires. Cette recherche met en évidence le rôle de la proximité géographique et de l’évaluation du risque dans la manière dont le public perçoit la pandémie. / The COVID-19 crisis has caused major disruptions in the lives of
populations around the globe and provoked important social responses. The
spread of the contagious COVID-19 virus was quickly followed by an outbreak
of explanations and discourses trying to make sense of the crisis. When
devastating events occur, people ask themselves what happened, why the event
happened and what it means. The first goal of this paper is to track the changing
dynamics of blame attribution and scapegoating as the COVID-19 pandemic
unfolds. The second goal of this paper is to evaluate the relevance of LDA (Latent
Dirichlet Allocation), a Bayesian generative mixture/latent class model, to
analyze open-ended survey responses. Data was collected from a representative
sample of 3,617 Canadians following an intensive longitudinal research design
(with 12 waves). Nine topics were identified, six of which were recurring.
Canadians mostly blame distant collectives in the early months of the pandemic,
especially China and wet markets. Over time, they increasingly blame local
collectives, such as individuals who do not comply with sanitary measures. This
study highlights the role of geographic proximity and perceived risk in shaping
public perceptions of the pandemic.
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Exploring the Help-seeking / Helping Dynamic in Illegal Drug UsePolych, Carol 01 March 2011 (has links)
Heuristic qualitative research techniques (Moustakas,1990) were used to explore the dynamic of the help-seeking / helping relationship in illegal drug use from the perspective of the professional. Six professionals, expert in helping people living with an addiction, shared their opinions and insights, analyzed problems, explained the rewards, and made recommendations for improvement, based on their own practices within the health care and social services systems. These professionals identify stigma as a major barrier to the provision of quality care in addictions, and analysis shows that a cultural predilection for scapegoating underlies the application of stigma. The many layered social purposes served by the designation of certain substances as illegal and the utility of scapegoating to hegemonic, vested interests is surveyed. This thesis reviews the true social costs of addictions, the entrenched and enmeshed nature of the alternate economy, and the many above ground institutions and professions sustained by the use of drugs designated as illegal. Prohibition and imprisonment as a response to illegal drug use is exposed as costly, inhumane, dangerous, and overwhelmingly counterproductive in terms of limiting harm from illegal drug use. A recent example of drug prohibition propaganda is deconstructed. Consideration is given to the role of the Drug War as a vehicle to accelerate social creep toward a fragmented self-disciplining surveillance society of consumer-producers in the service of economic elites. Classism is brought forward from a fractured social ground characterized by many splits: sexism, racism, age-ism, able-ism, size-ism, locationism, linguism, and others, to better track the nature of the social control that illegal drugs offer to economic elites. The moral loading that surrounds illegal drug use is deconstructed and the influence of religion is presented for discussion. The primitive roots of human understanding that endorse the ritual Drug War and its supporting mythology, leading to the demonization of illegal drugs and the people who use them, are uncovered. Direction is taken from Benner and Wrubel’s Primacy of Caring (1989) and other leaders in the professions as a means to move practitioners away from their roles as agents of social control into a paradigm of social change.
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Exploring the Help-seeking / Helping Dynamic in Illegal Drug UsePolych, Carol 01 March 2011 (has links)
Heuristic qualitative research techniques (Moustakas,1990) were used to explore the dynamic of the help-seeking / helping relationship in illegal drug use from the perspective of the professional. Six professionals, expert in helping people living with an addiction, shared their opinions and insights, analyzed problems, explained the rewards, and made recommendations for improvement, based on their own practices within the health care and social services systems. These professionals identify stigma as a major barrier to the provision of quality care in addictions, and analysis shows that a cultural predilection for scapegoating underlies the application of stigma. The many layered social purposes served by the designation of certain substances as illegal and the utility of scapegoating to hegemonic, vested interests is surveyed. This thesis reviews the true social costs of addictions, the entrenched and enmeshed nature of the alternate economy, and the many above ground institutions and professions sustained by the use of drugs designated as illegal. Prohibition and imprisonment as a response to illegal drug use is exposed as costly, inhumane, dangerous, and overwhelmingly counterproductive in terms of limiting harm from illegal drug use. A recent example of drug prohibition propaganda is deconstructed. Consideration is given to the role of the Drug War as a vehicle to accelerate social creep toward a fragmented self-disciplining surveillance society of consumer-producers in the service of economic elites. Classism is brought forward from a fractured social ground characterized by many splits: sexism, racism, age-ism, able-ism, size-ism, locationism, linguism, and others, to better track the nature of the social control that illegal drugs offer to economic elites. The moral loading that surrounds illegal drug use is deconstructed and the influence of religion is presented for discussion. The primitive roots of human understanding that endorse the ritual Drug War and its supporting mythology, leading to the demonization of illegal drugs and the people who use them, are uncovered. Direction is taken from Benner and Wrubel’s Primacy of Caring (1989) and other leaders in the professions as a means to move practitioners away from their roles as agents of social control into a paradigm of social change.
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