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Women as Consumers of Reproductive Technology: Media Representation versus Reality
Get PDFIn light of the growing role of media as a central source of health information, this article evaluates the contribution of television representations to the dissemination of information and social conceptions of women regarding new reproductive practices. The study reported here examined a case study of media representations of surrogacy in a popular television series in Israel, entitled A Touch of Happiness, which has been broadcast repeatedly over the last decade. The analysis compared the televised content with the legal framework and social reality of surrogacy, and found major discrepancies between the two. Thus, this study demonstrates the role media can play in disseminating misinformation and misconceptions that affect women’s health and lives
Religious broadcasting 1920 - 1980: Four religious broadcast pioneers and the process of evangelization
No full textThis dissertation, through an examination of four religious broadcast pioneers, investigates the development of the broadcast technologies of radio and television and their influence on the process of evangelization in the American Christian experience of the twentieth century. The religious broadcasters are examined in two pairs of a Catholic and a non-Catholic Christian according to two specific periods of technological development: (1) the advent of religious broadcasting and the radio; (2) the transition from radio to television as the medium of religious broadcasting. The process of evangelization and the spiritual roots and denominational traditions of the four religious broadcast pioneers—Sister Aimee Semple McPherson, Father Charles E. Coughlin, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, and Reverend Robert H. Schuller—are discussed. This study contributes to the existing body of literature in the areas of the history and the development of broadcast technology, the history of twentieth-century American religious broadcasting, and the role of broadcast technology in the process of Christian evangelization
Secular modernity and Catholic tradition: Finding God in the machinery of the Industrial Revolution.
No full textMuch of the contemporary research on secular modernity versus Catholic tradition pits one against the other, a religion versus technology, or faithfulness versus secularism scenario, whereby religious thought, practice, and institutions lose their shared meaning in the face of rising technological obscurism. This dissertation examines the challenges that Catholic tradition faced in the countenance of secular modernity and how religious congregations worked to overcome these societal challenges. It is meant to question the concept that the onslaught of modernity at the beginning of the European Industrial Revolution signaled the demise of Catholicism in France. It shows, utilizing the letters and writings of Father Andre Coindre, founder of the Brothers of the Sacred Heart, that there were those working from within the Church who were re-Christianizing their native land while at the same time incorporating the burgeoning technology into both ministry and mission. This research illustrates how the establishment of educational institutions in Lyon by the Brothers was ordered so that their young charges could find God in the machinery of the Industrial Revolution. It is only through these connections with the modernisms of the past that we can learn how to re-engage with the sacred and give it a place amongst the clutter of the profane that we have thrown up around ourselves
Manuscript to Microchip: The Role of Technology in the Evolution of Higher Education
No full textThis study examines the history of the university with a broad overview of the genesis, evolution and development of university education from the medieval era in Europe to the modern American university of today. The research includes an in-depth description of how various technologies have changed the educational mindset over centuries and influenced pedagogy, including the liberal arts at the undergraduate level. It chronicles technology as a factor in the evolution of higher education and it examines how it has influenced our thinking about a liberal education and the use of its primary elements or technologies: lecture, tutorial and library. The primary methodology was the study and review of the philosophies of John Henry Cardinal Newman, Clark Kerr and Harry Lewis in a Hegelian dialectic. A review of the philosophies in the context of technology and liberal education enabled this study to effectively address the primary research questions of this dissertation: What role has technology played in the evolution of higher education in Europe and the United States? How has technology influenced the university’s way of thinking about liberal education and use of its primary elements: lecture, tutorial and library? The major findings of the study are: (1) In the formative years of the university, the emergence of technological tools such as manuscripts and books were as inventive and influential as digital technology is today, but technology today is moving at a faster pace than we can harness or control. Consequently, institutions of higher education are at varying levels of engagement with technology as those with resources are able to adapt more quickly to rapid change. (2) Digital technology influences the use of our different senses related to the acquisition of knowledge and, in some cases, even more than the traditional modes of the lecture and tutorial. (3) Many institutions of higher education still value the traditional human discourse between professors and students even in an age of advanced technology. However, technology can have a great influence on determining the liberal arts curriculum. (4) Through studying the philosophies of Newman, Kerr and Lewis, I have come to understand that technology is a significant dynamic in the academy and with human discourse
Teaching Social Justice through the Lens of Multicultural Education
Get PDFWith public school populations growing in socio-economic and racial diversity, as projected by the Census Bureau, there is a clear need for an understanding of this diversity to occur at the early childhood level. In order to truly adopt multicultural education as an integral part of a student’s academic growth, teachers must consider the meaning of “cultural competence”. In the first years of a student’s education, fundamental values can be developed as the building blocks for future culturally responsive human beings. This presentation will review concrete evidence that supports the incorporation of multicultural education early childhood classrooms
Religious broadcasting 1920 – 1980: Four religious broadcast pioneers and the process of evangelization
No full textThis dissertation, through an examination of four religious broadcast pioneers, investigates the development of the broadcast technologies of radio and television and their influence on the process of evangelization in the American Christian experience of the twentieth century. The religious broadcasters are examined in two pairs of a Catholic and a non-Catholic Christian according to two specific periods of technological development: (1) the advent of religious broadcasting and the radio; (2) the transition from radio to television as the medium of religious broadcasting. The process of evangelization and the spiritual roots and denominational traditions of the four religious broadcast pioneers—Sister Aimee Semple McPherson, Father Charles E. Coughlin, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, and Reverend Robert H. Schuller—are discussed. This study contributes to the existing body of literature in the areas of the history and the development of broadcast technology, the history of twentieth-century American religious broadcasting, and the role of broadcast technology in the process of Christian evangelization
Manuscript to Microchip: The Role of Technology in the Evolution of Higher Education
No full textThis study examines the history of the university with a broad overview of the genesis, evolution and development of university education from the medieval era in Europe to the modern American university of today. The research includes an in-depth description of how various technologies have changed the educational mindset over centuries and influenced pedagogy, including the liberal arts at the undergraduate level. It chronicles technology as a factor in the evolution of higher education and it examines how it has influenced our thinking about a liberal education and the use of its primary elements or technologies: lecture, tutorial and library. The primary methodology was the study and review of the philosophies of John Henry Cardinal Newman, Clark Kerr and Harry Lewis in a Hegelian dialectic. A review of the philosophies in the context of technology and liberal education enabled this study to effectively address the primary research questions of this dissertation: What role has technology played in the evolution of higher education in Europe and the United States? How has technology influenced the university’s way of thinking about liberal education and use of its primary elements: lecture, tutorial and library? The major findings of the study are: (1) In the formative years of the university, the emergence of technological tools such as manuscripts and books were as inventive and influential as digital technology is today, but technology today is moving at a faster pace than we can harness or control. Consequently, institutions of higher education are at varying levels of engagement with technology as those with resources are able to adapt more quickly to rapid change. (2) Digital technology influences the use of our different senses related to the acquisition of knowledge and, in some cases, even more than the traditional modes of the lecture and tutorial. (3) Many institutions of higher education still value the traditional human discourse between professors and students even in an age of advanced technology. However, technology can have a great influence on determining the liberal arts curriculum. (4) Through studying the philosophies of Newman, Kerr and Lewis, I have come to understand that technology is a significant dynamic in the academy and with human discourse
