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Iran In U.S. Corporate And Regional Media: A Content Analysis Of The New York Times, The Washington Post, Rooz Online, Al Jazeera And Iran Review, Justin Hyde

Master's Theses

There has been an increase in tension between the United States government and the Islamic Republic of Iran over the past decade. A number of events including the US- led invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan and the expansion of Iran’s nuclear program have strained this fragile relationship. The U.S. and its allies contend that Iran’s nuclear program is intended for arms proliferation while the Islamic Republic of Iran states it is for domestic power and research. Much of this conflict has played out in news media, which have a vital role to provide information, analysis and opportunities for dialogue as …

Wales: A Hidden Cultural Gem, Clara Martinez

Fulbright Grantee Projects

In this presentation, Clara Martinez discusses exposure to Welsh academics, cultural interactions, and exploration of national landmarks as part of her participation in the Fulbright Wales Summer Institute in 2012, which focused on Contemporary Wales: Industry, Politics, Culture and Change. Martinez's presentation emphasizes her visits to museums, galleries, castles, and islands and provides a collection of photos and stories from her experience studying in Wales, United Kingdom.

How Is The Most Segregated City In The Country Addressing Disproportionate Minority Contact With A Juvenile Burglary Restorative Justice Program And What Implications Exist For Community Based Restorative Circles? : Conflict Analysis And Recommendations, Lauren Thrift

Capstone Collection

Milwaukee, Wisconsin is considered the most segregated city in the country and has the most disproportionate rate of minorities in Wisconsin’s juvenile justice system. The State of Wisconsin recognizes disproportionate minority contact (DMC) is a product of both differential offending by minorities and the racist differential processing by the juvenile justice system. Milwaukee’s residents are locked in a conflict about the role of racism in the high rates of minority crime and whether to address DMC with more stringent punishment or increasing alternatives to incarceration. The entrenched segregation between African American and Caucasian neighborhoods and social groups reinforces polarization, increasing …

In Or Out? Experiential Learning And Three Consequences Of Communicating Group Identity, Anastacia Kurylo, Kelli Coghill, Katrina Comber, Fernando Taveras

Proceedings of the New York State Communication Association

Group identity is intimately tied with self identity. Yet, people often understand their identity as individual without appreciation for the role others play in their identity. Based on social identity theory this article highlights the role that group identity plays in self identity and explores three consequences of this association. Case studies present first-hand experience with the consequences of communicating group identity. These case studies also demonstrate the value of a specific class project undertaken to provide students with a meaningful understanding of these issues.

East Versus West: Chinese And American Development Efforts And Perceptions In Cameroon, Grace Perkins

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

Every year, donor countries pour billions of dollars of foreign aid into developing recipient countries. Humanitarian and “win-win” rhetoric generally accompanies the grant, hospital, school, or sports stadium. To a realist international relations scholar, it is highly unlikely that powerful nations like the United States and China donate anything without political or economic strategic interests in mind. How do American and Chinese strategic interests affect the quality of development aid? This paper seeks to answer this question in the context of Cameroon, a Central African state rich in resources and young minds but whose growth is hampered by its colonial …

Harmony Or Mere Toleration? Examining Inter-Religious Relations In Amertasari, Keller Hawkins

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

When I was first told about a small village in North Bali where Hindus and Muslims live in harmony with one another, I was immediately intrigued. A month and a half later, our group was driving on the windy roads that take one from the southern part of Bali through the mountains into North Bali. We arrived in the village of Pegayaman and listened to some of the more distinguished village members tell us about life in Pegayaman. Because the village is known for being an example of religious harmony between Hindus and Muslims, this was the main topic of …

Robert W. Mcchesney, Ilmu Komunikasi, Dan Tradisi Kritis, Ignatius Haryanto

JURNAL KOMUNIKASI INDONESIA

Artikel ini hendak memperkenalkan seorang tokoh ilmuwan komunikasi kritis abad XX dan XXI sekaligus juga seorang aktivis, yaitu Robert W. McChesney. Chesney adalah penulis produktif yang banyak menyoroti sekaligus mengritik industri media di Amerika yang mendominasi di dalam dan luar negeri. Chesney meneruskan tradisi ilmuwan komunikasi yang telah dirintis sebelumnya oleh Herbert Schiller dan Dallas Smythe ataupun Noam Chomsky, yang utamanya mengritik struktur kepemilikan industri media, lalu juga mengritik orientasi isi media yang terlalu komersial dan sensasional. Tulisan ini barulah melakukan suatu pemetaan awal pemikiran Chesney dan akar-akar pemikiran yang mempengaruhi Chesney, salah satunya adalah Karl Marx.

This article tries …

Jalin Merapi: Penggunaan Media Baru Dan Gerakan Sosial Penanggulangan Bencana, Mirah Mahaswari

JURNAL KOMUNIKASI INDONESIA

mampu menjadi fasilitator gerakan sosial penanggulangan bencana di masyarakat. Secaraepistemologis, penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif dengan teknik pengumpulandata berupa wawancara – terhadap para pegiat dan relawan Jalin Merapi, observasi, danstudi dokumen. Beragam kanal media baru yang digunakan Jalin Merapi pun diteliti untukmengetahui alur informasi yang terjadi, diantaranya: SMS Gateway, Yahoo Messenger Chat, Website, Twitter, Facebook, radio streaming, dan webcam streaming. Melalui pendekatan Covergence Theory (1981), penelitian ini juga menilik isu konvergensi media yang dihadirkan oleh Jalin Merapi, dimana beragam media baru tersebut mampu menjadi konektor antarindividu – pegiat organisasi, relawan, penyintas, donatur – yang terhubung oleh pertukaran informasi. Selain itu, …

Media Dan Identitas: Cultural Imperialism Jepang Melalui Cosplay (Studi Terhadap Cosplayer Yang Melakukan Crossdress), Ranny Rastati

JURNAL KOMUNIKASI INDONESIA

Tulisan ini membahas mengenai bagaimana peran media dalam membentuk identitas cosplayer dan bagaimana identitas cosplayer yang melakukan crossdress. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kualitatif, menggunakan paradigma critical-constructionism, metode studi kasus dengan teknik pengumpulan data melalui wawancara mendalam, observasi langsung, dan observasi terlibat. Konsep yang digunakan adalah konsep budaya populer termasuk di dalamnya cosplay yang merupakan salah satu bentuk soft power Jepang untuk menyebarkan budayanya ke seluruh dunia. Selain itu dilihat juga bagaimana peran media dalam pembentukan identitas, konsep identitas, konsep anak muda, serta gender dalam pakaian dan fesyen. Berdasarkan analisis yang telah dilakukan, ditemukan bahwa identitas seorang cosplayer dipengaruhi oleh media, …

Televisi Jakarta Di Atas Indonesia: Diatur Atau Diakomodir?, A. G. Eka Wenats Wuryanta

JURNAL KOMUNIKASI INDONESIA

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Pergeseran Budaya Komunikasi Pada Era Media Baru: Studi Kasus Penggunaan Facebook Oleh Digital Natives, Amelia Virginia

JURNAL KOMUNIKASI INDONESIA

Sebagai sebuah media baru, Facebook memiliki platform yang berbeda dengan mediakonvensional. Platform tersebut dapat memberikan implikasi pada budaya komunikasipenggunanya, dalam penelitian ini digital natives. Sebagai generasi fasih menggunakanteknologi media baru, digital natives menggunakan Facebook sebagai sebuah mediakomunikasi. Melihat fenomena di atas, penelitian ini bermaksud untuk mengeksplorasipergeseran budaya komunikasi yang dikonstruksi oleh digital natives. Pergeseran budayaini menjadikan digital natives melakukan strategi diferensiasi media dalam berkomunikasidengan cara membedakan isi pesan dan penerima pesannya. Penelitian ini memberikan informasi mengenai nilai-nilai budaya komunikasi yang dianut oleh digital natives di Indonesia. Serta memberikan gambaran tentang budaya komunikasi yang terbentuk pada generasi muda di era media …

Foreign Front: Third World Politics In Sixties West Germany, Bruce Garver

International Dialogue

In Foreign Front, Quinn Slobodian presents a thorough, critical, and well documented account of how West German and foreign students cooperatively organized and led large public demonstrations from February 1961 onward against repressive policies of Third World dictatorships and imperialistic great powers. Simultaneously this joint activity accelerated the political radicalization of German students while enlarging their understanding of international affairs. Foreign students initiated many of these demonstrations in order to protest injustice and suppression of dissent by their home governments. In doing so, they were helped by their German fellow students to utilize the free press and civil liberties in …

On The Other: A Muslim View, Mile Babić

International Dialogue

The original Bosnian title of Rusmir Mahmutćehajić's book, Malo znanja, means “Little Knowledge” and comes from the Qur’an (17:85). It encapsulates the author’s fundamental insight and the fundamental thesis of the book, a thesis that places him securely in a current of thinkers conscious of their own ignorance that runs from Socrates to Nicholas of Cusa, from Socrates’ “I know that I know nothing” to Cusanus’ docta ingnorantia (learned ignorance). It is not accidental that I mention no thinkers of the modern period, caught up as they were by modernity's will for power, carried off into the realms of absolute …

International Relations In The Post-Industrial Era [Rephrasing The Third World], Owen Mordaunt

International Dialogue

Arthur Natella begins his book by stating that the concept of the “Third World” is out of date. The dominant attitude is that Third World people would to see things as they are seen by First World nations and do things their way if they are better educated. But the standard for measuring social values, according to Natella, is outdated, for various reasons. Among these is the fact that the United States is a debtor nation. Secondly, it is no longer a “manufacturing-based society” but one that is “service-based” or an “information-gathering nation, with its advanced technology often more geared …

Globalectics: Theory And The Politics Of Knowing, Annika Hughes

International Dialogue

“Life after theory is a text.” —Derrida, “Following Theory: Jacques Derrida,” 27

A bit like Schrödinger’s cat, it is unclear to me whether or not theory has died and if it has, whether or not it should be resurrected. If it has indeed died and needs to be brought back to life, future theorists should certainly read Globalectics: Theory and the Politics of Knowing by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o before trying to revive it. For if Derrida’s theory is correct and life after theory is a text, one of the texts on that reading list should include Thiong’o’s account of a …

Table Of Contents, Rory J. Conces

International Dialogue

Table of Contents for Volume 2

Images Of Muslims In Evangelical Christian And Secular Right-Wing Discourse, Kristian Steiner

International Dialogue

This is a comparative content analysis of the construction of Islam and Muslims in two Swedish publications—the newspaper Världen idag and the journal SD-Kuriren, the official organ of the Sweden Democrats—representing the Swedish Evangelical Christian right and the Swedish political right, respectively. The aim is to see both agreement and differences in their Muslim-related discourse from 2006–2007. Both news products share basic assumptions about Muslims and Islam. The main theme in the editorials and articles is the Muslim threat, in some cases combined with a Western retreat. Världen idag also focuses on Islam’s alleged incompatibility with democracy. In both media …

Living Beyond The End Times: Living In The End Times, Edward Sandowski, Betty J. Harris

International Dialogue

In Living in the End Times, Slavoj Žižek takes up themes many of which he has explored elsewhere in his numerous works embodied in varied media. This Slovenian origin cosmopolitan philosopher and cultural critic uses many types of outlets and modes of expression (books and scholarly journal articles, but also journalistic publications, TV interviews, appearances in documentary films, etc.) to explore variegated subject matter. He responds to politics in an age of increasing globalization by taking up a global range of issues, and responds to the multimedia environment which conveys ideology as false consciousness with his own multimedia works, possibly …

When Is It Best To Remember? Maintaining The Sacred Center: The Bosnian City Of Stolac, Ed Marques

International Dialogue

The town, Stolac, has a long history of vibrancy as a strategic commercial town and a Center of culture in the southern part of Bosnia—spawning writers, poets, scholars and artists, an amount disproportionate to its size. Maintaining the Sacred Center: The Bosnian City of Stolac, is the latest book of Rusmir Mahmutćehajić, who carries on the heritage of his own hometown: Stolac. His book begins with a quote from the Quran and a line of poetry by Stolac-native Mak Dizdar—Bosnia’s leading poet in the 20th century. Both the Quran and the poetry of Mak Dizdar are returned to throughout the …

The Invisible Arab: The Promise And Peril Of The Arab Revolution, Daniel G. Acheson-Brown

International Dialogue

Marwan Bishara’s The Invisible Arab: The Promise and Peril of the Arab Revolution (2012) is a must-read for students and scholars of the Middle East and the Arab world. The author is a senior political analyst for Al Jazeera English channel, and is also editor of Al Jazeera’s show “Empire.” Bishara spent many hours doing first-hand reporting from the streets of the Arab uprisings of 2011. He presents an intense book, organized in an essay format, with relevant topical sections.