A bridge over troubled water? Celebrities in journalism connecting implicit and institutional politics
This article looks empirically into how audience members evaluate celebrities in journalism; whether and how celebrities help them to envisage their relationship to politics and media and consequently regard themselves as citizens. The analysis generates a broad and audience-based understanding of celebrities in nine focus group discussions, wherein more than 50 citizens in Finland discussed their favourite celebrities. The discussions revealed three interpretative frames explaining what the celebrities represent to the participants: normative, critical and alternative. In the first two, the groups impose a critical view on celebrities, whereas only the latter one comes close to the optimi…
Crystal structure of lactitol (4-O-beta-D-galactopyranosyl-D-glucitol).
Abstract Lacitol, C 12 H 24 O 11 , is monoclinic, space group P 2 1 with cell dimensions a = 7.614(1), b = 10.757(1), c = 9.370(1) A, β = 108.19(1)°, and V = 729.0(1) A 3 ; Z = 2, D x = 1.57 Mg.m −3 , λ(Cu- K α ) = 1.5406 A, μ = 1.166 mm −1 , F (000) = 368, and T = 23°. The structure was solved by direct methods and refined by least-squares calculations to R = 0.048 for 1510 unique observed reflections. There are one intra- and eight inter-molecular hydrogen bonds in the structure. Bond lengths and angles accord well with the mean values of related structures. The galactopyranosyl ring has a chair conformation.