Search results for "EWS"

Critical Studies on Men in Ten European Countries

2003

This article is on the work of the European Research Network on Men in Europe project, “The Social Problem and Societal Problematization of Men and Masculinities” (2000-2003), funded by the European Commission. The Network comprises women and men researchers with a range of disciplinary backgrounds from Estonia, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Norway, Poland, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom. The Network's initial focus is on men's relations to home and work, social exclusion, violence, and health. Some of the findings on the Network's fourth phase of work, namely the review of newspaper and media representations of men's practices in the ten countries, are presente…

The prince and the pauper: Journalistic culture and Paralympic games in the Spanish print press

2016

The Paralympic Games are one of the world’s most important multisport events, maybe second only to the Olympic Games. However, research conducted to date shows that the media do not devote as much space to them as would accordingly be expected. This article proposes, through a case study, a new way of approaching this hypothetical discrimination by comparing the attention that the London Paralympic Games received from the Spanish print press with the attention that other sports received (football, basketball, tennis, cycling, motor sports and other minority sports) while those Games were being held. The main finding of our study is that over the period analysed, the Spanish press devoted l…

Controlling the image of the teacher’s body under authoritarianism: the case of Soviet Latvia (1953–1984)

2017

The ideal of the Soviet teacher can be revealed in Soviet mass media, but historians are challenged by the question “what was the actual reality”? Therefore, we addressed the reality of the Soviet ...

Reading Weber and the Claims of the Weberians

2016

“I feel, I know, I am immortal”: literary works in the newspapers of Soviet prisons and camps in the 1920s

2021

Abstract The present article sheds new light on the newspapers and other publications of the Soviet prison camps in the 1920s and early 1930s. The first part reconstructs the institutional dynamics that brought about the publication of newspapers, wall newspapers and other periodicals produced inside the camps. The article then focuses on a selection of literary works published by inmates and on the importance of Soviet newspapers published in places of detention as a source for the study not only of the history of the Gulag, but also of its culture and literature.

April Fools’ day news — still funny?

2020

The long tradition of joking connected with the first day of April seems to be dying out in the era of fake news and scary headlines published every day. The aim of the article is to show the status of April Fools’ Day jokes in the Polish and English language context on the example of the material published on a single topic — swallowing inedible objects. In order to develop the methodology of analysis of humour in the news, it is useful to take into account the notion of incongruity, whether it is appropriate incongruity, background and foreground incongruities or various levels of meta-scripts. In order to discuss the collected material, it seems necessary to specify what kind of incongru…

Print and online newspapers as material artefacts

2014

Traditional newspaper journalism is in a state of crisis and there have been several attempts to overcome this. Many discourses have reiterated the triumphal march of a digital revolution in newspaper journalism and anticipated the end of the print newspaper. This moment calls for an in-depth analysis of reader habits of news consumption and use in order to understand the audiences for journalistic output and their relationship with the journalistic objects. In this study, we adopt a multi-method approach, integrating (1) qualitative content analysis of student essays dealing with the physicality of printed and online newspapers, (2) ethnographic observation of the use practices of readers…

Pilgrimages of the Polish Gentry to Holy Places in the 17th and the 18th Centuries

2015

Pielgrzymki szlachty polskiej do miejsc świętych w XVII i XVIII wieku(streszczenie) W wiekach XVII i XVIII szlachta polska i litewska chętnie wyruszała w podróże. W przypadku podróży zagranicznych o charakterze religijnym największym zainteresowaniem cieszyły się wyprawy do Ziemi Świętej, grobu św. Jakuba Starszego w Santiago de Compostela i do Rzymu. W ich trakcie odwiedzano sanktuaria przechowujące relikwie świętych oraz sławne z cudów za sprawą Matki Boskiej lub świętych na terenie dzisiejszych Czech, Austrii, Bawarii czy północnych Włoch. Popularnymi celami pielgrzymek były też ośrodki pątnicze na terenie Rzeczypospolitej, których liczba wzrosła w XVIII wieku do około 150. Znaczenie mia…

Media crisis and disinformation: the participation of digital newspapers in the dissemination of a denialist hoax

2021

Disinformation is a communicative phenomenon that frequently feeds on political or electoral topics, as well as other aspects of our reality. This research takes as a case study the coverage given by the Spanish digital media to a hoax broadcast during the Filomena storm in 2021 that insisted that the snow was plastic. The purpose of this work is to analyze the instrumentalization of fake information as an expression of the information media crisis in the current context of disinformation. We set out four specific objectives: (SO1) to study the spread of the hoax through the media, (SO2) to analyze the construction of headlines in the news pieces, (SO3) to investigate the treatment of the h…

F wie Fake News – Phatische Falschmeldungen zwischen Propaganda und Parodie

2018

Bei aller Kritik am Begriff und den Zweifeln an der wesenhaften Neuigkeit des Phanomens ist das Etikett „Fake News“ insofern sinnvoll, als solche weniger Ursache denn Symptom einer aktuellen (Problem-)Situation sind. Diese betrifft nicht nur den Ruf und die Rolle von Journalismus in der digitalmedialen Welt oder die Regeln offentlicher Kommunikation im Social Web, sondern den Stellenwertwandel publizistischer Faktizitat. Ausgehend vom Kernbegriff der Falschung fasst der Beitrag Fake News als aktuelle Erscheinungsformen eines, selbst im Falle etwa von Verhetzung, quasi-ironischen Spiels mit der Gattung „Nachricht“ und ihren konventionell-stilistischen Authentizitatsmarkern auf. Jenseits des …