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Mediator As Cook: Mediation Metaphors At The Movies, The, Jennifer L. Schulz
Mediator As Cook: Mediation Metaphors At The Movies, The, Jennifer L. Schulz
Journal of Dispute Resolution
In this article I will explore the vitality of the metaphor of the mediator as cook by tracing it through other food and conflict resolution related films. In so doing, I hope to achieve two things: first, to continue to insist that non-adversarial processes like mediation be included in the study of Law & Film, and second, to show that the metaphor suggested for mediators based on one film, resonates in other films and suggests new insights about mediator style and practice. Through a Law & Film analysis of two films, Soul Food and Mostly Martha, I will argue that …
Beyond The Assumptions: News Reporting And Its Impact On Conflict, Richard C. Reuben
Beyond The Assumptions: News Reporting And Its Impact On Conflict, Richard C. Reuben
Journal of Dispute Resolution
This symposium seeks to bridge this important gap in our social understanding of conflict by stimulating a sustained discussion among scholars about its contours. The task is important and timely, worthy of effort on both the media and the conflict sides of the equation.
News Coverage And Social Protest: How The Media's Protect Paradigm Exacerbates Social Conflict, Douglas M. Mcleod
News Coverage And Social Protest: How The Media's Protect Paradigm Exacerbates Social Conflict, Douglas M. Mcleod
Journal of Dispute Resolution
Past research on media coverage of social protests has yielded evidence of a protest paradigm: a set of news coverage patterns that typifies mainstream media coverage. This coverage generally disparages protesters and hinders their role as vital actors on the political stage. The lack of respect for the value of social protest inherent in such coverage has created frustration among the protesters, which has in turn contributed to dysfunctional confrontations. However, under certain conditions, journalists will deviate from the protest paradigm. Such aberrations were found in the Los Angeles Times' coverage of the May 1, 2006, "Day without Immigrants" demonstrations. …
Media, Memory, And Forgiveness: Case Studies In South Africa And Argentina's Conflict Resolution Processes, Byron T. Scott, Caroline Escudero, Anya Litvak
Media, Memory, And Forgiveness: Case Studies In South Africa And Argentina's Conflict Resolution Processes, Byron T. Scott, Caroline Escudero, Anya Litvak
Journal of Dispute Resolution
Studies of conflict frames' customarily include neither mid- to long-term resolution nor the role of the media in that healing process. In theory, the formal reconciliation processes that have followed internal conflicts in many nations provide resolution and a pathway to long-term healing. But do they? As the chief cultural guardians of national memories, what is the role of the media? Between the spikes of crisis reporting, are there persistent frames of journalistic messages that affect how ever-receding events are viewed by new generations? This paper looks at media behavior in two contrasting nations, Argentina and South Africa, while arguing …
Media And International Conflict: A Multidisciplinary Approach, Eytan Gilboa
Media And International Conflict: A Multidisciplinary Approach, Eytan Gilboa
Journal of Dispute Resolution
This study suggests a new framework for analysis of media coverage and its role in international conflict. The framework is based on integration of theories and models from both international studies and communication. The work begins with a brief analysis of major changes that have occurred in last two decades in the nature and evolution of international conflicts. The analysis offers significant distinctions among types, levels, and phases of conflict. Next, the study presents major changes that have occurred in the media and offers significant distinctions among levels, types, and functions of media. Based on all these concepts and ideas, …
Press Coverage Of Interethnic Conflict: Examples From The Los Angeles Riots Of 1992, Shah Shah
Press Coverage Of Interethnic Conflict: Examples From The Los Angeles Riots Of 1992, Shah Shah
Journal of Dispute Resolution
News media are an important source of cultural production and information. Their representation of the social world provides explanations, descriptions, and frames for understanding how and why the world works as it does. In media studies, "frames" refer to the perspectives on, or interpretation of, current events provided by news coverage. Frames are complex and overlapping, existing in a single news article or within an entire body of news coverage. Multiple and opposing frames may exist simultaneously. Frames are built up from the choices reporters make in terms of language use, source selection, and story organization. In their coverage of …