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Words and Actions: A Critical Discourse Analysis of DEI Discourse and Practice at Jesuit Universities
No full textThis dissertation investigated how four Jesuit higher education institutions in the United States articulate and implement Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) commitments through policy, language and administrative structures. Framed within the context of current political challenges to DEI initiatives—including recent federal reversals—this study explored the intersection of rhetoric and institutional practice at Santa Clara University, Creighton University, the College of the Holy Cross, and Saint Louis University. Focusing on publicly accessible documents, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) was used to analyze mission, vision and values statements, DEI websites, and other selected artifacts. Findings revealed three themes: Mission, Vision, Values, and DEI Statements, with variability of text within and across all data; Diversity Language which had three sub themes of equity language, inclusion language, and Ignatian and Jesuit terminology; and DEI divisions. Across all themes there were variations of language which provided insight as to why, and how, there can be lack of, or mixed messages on, such an important issue as DEI. These findings suggest that Jesuit universities still have work to do when it comes to embodying their missions of social justice and that language of commitment must be matched by structural and measurable implementation
A Latin Perspective on the Media: Gender, Law and Ethics, the Environment and Media Education
Get PDFEdited By: William E. Biematzki, S.J. CSCC, Saint Louis University and Jose Luis Piiiuel Raigada Universidad Complutense de Madri
Communication and The Environment
Get PDFPart 1 and 2 combined:
1 - Communication and The Environment by Maudie Kunst and Nieske Witlox University of Amsterdam
2 - Supplement: Book Note
International News Flows
Get PDFProposals for a \u27New World Information and Communication Order\u27 (NWICO), during the late 1970s and early 1980s, stirred up a hornets\u27 nest of controversy in the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). On the one side it was seen as a demand for a fair and balanced flow in international news. On the other, fears were expressed that it was an invitation to states to control the free collection and distribution of news. At the centre of the turmoil were the transnational news agencies, such as Reuters, Associated Press, Agence France Presse, and their television counterparts, Visnews and World Television News. Criticizing them for lack of fairness and balance, the non-aligned nations established their own national and international agencies and news pools, which often were attacked, in turn, as \u27government-controlled\u27.
This issue of Trends reviews the debate on international news flows then goes on to survey some studies evaluating the actual state of international newsgathering, gatekeeping and transmission, the level and effects of the dominance of Western news agencies, and alternatives to those agencies in the developing world
New Perspectives on Media and Culture
Get PDFMedia studies were born in the 1930s and 1940s with the popular assumption that film and broadcasting have enormous power to sway voters, shape the minds of children and direct public opinion. By the late 1950s, however, the cumulative research showed that the media, in themselves, are rarely the sole cause of aggressive behaviour, conversions or other personal changes. Media are definitely somehow influential, but media effects are a complex process mingled with the influence of family, friend groups, and the broader socio-cultural environment.
In the search for more nuanced explanations of media influence during the 1960s and 1970s, researchers suggested the need to examine not just specific attitudinal effects but the role of media in the development of the total cultural environment. A new CULTURAL STUDIES approach argued that media reproduce the national myths of aggression, racial supremacy, male patriarchy or models of family that set the agenda of values not just for some individuals but for everybody who lives in the culture.
Ironically, early cultural studies analysis retained much of the \u27powerful media\u27 assumption and simply added a \u27powerful culture\u27 perspective. McLuhan, for example, proposed that print and electronic media produce a particular cultural world view and influence whole cultural epochs. Some Marxists maintained that the cultural industries were almost totally dominated by elite ideologies and that media ideology so formed the mentalities of subordinate groups such as women, minorities or the working classes that these groups were duped into support of unjust power structures.
These \u27powerful culture\u27, \u27powerful ideology\u27 theories are now also being questioned. With methods of \u27audience ethnography\u27, researchers are discovering how audiences interpret media messages from their own local perspectives or resist media content they disagree with. This issue of Communication Research Trends reviews research on how audiences participate in the creation of cultures
Video: A Media Revolution?
Get PDFRevolutions connected with technical inventions have been proclaimed, rightly and wrongly, so often in the recent past that it would seem appropriate to look for another expression just to avoid the danger of trivialization. But all the evidence says that this time we are in the presence of a real revolution and that we should call it by its name.
As a true revolution, the emergence of video has been like an explosion, full of energy and even passion, provoking divisions, inflicting wounds, destroying, upsetting and, also, raising hopes and promising new riches in the so-called television wasteland . It will take some time before promises and hopes can be measured against reality. Meanwhile the video revolution has taken the world by storm, caught the popular imagination with incredible speed and set itself up as the universal entertainer of the future. It is not just the rich and it is not just the metropolises. If anything, video cassette recorders (VCRs) have conquered small towns and semi-urban areas even more easily.
Video-related problems are affecting international relations (for example, the so-called battle of Poitiers , in 1982, when France tried to stop the invasion ofJapanese made VCRs and a diplomatic row erupted), family life, leisure time, education, industrial relations, the law and the arts. One of the many. names that video has been given is guerilla television . There is a certain amount of aggressiveness (social, commercial, artistic) in this young child of television which is growing up very rapidly and is fighting to find its place in our midst. As a video artist put it, Television has been attacking us all our lives; now we can hit back\u27\u27.
The sound and fury accompanying the irruption of video attracts, on the one hand, the curiosity of researchers. But on the other it does not facilitate an overall view of the phenomenon. The presence of video is so elusive, so constantly changing, that even quantitative data are difficult to gather. Under these circumstances any probe into its future can only be undertaken with the strong conviction that it is basically unpredictable. The present issue of TRENDS is an attempt to explore a part of that unknown future
Satellites for Development, Broadcasting and Information
Get PDFThe symbol of the \u27global village\u27 is the communications satellite. For over twenty years, ever since the. USSR launched Sputnik in 1957, the USA and the USSR in particular, and other countries too, have been devoting ever more financial and human resources to the building of ever more elaborate satellite systems; Today a host of communication satellites are positioned in geostationary orbit 22,282 miles (35,860 kilometres) above the equator. The globe is encircled by a communications network that links the most distant parts of the earth in a matter of seconds.
A communications satellite system consists of three parts. The transmittor on the ground sends a signal to the satellite in space which receives it, amplifies it, switches it to a different frequency, and retransmits. it back to earth. Each satellite has a number of channels (transponders) which carry voice, radio, data, or television signals. The great benefits offered by satellites are their capacity to carry large amounts of data (users of the RCA Satcom satellite for example can transmit 60 million bits of information per second via one of the satellite\u27s 24 transponders), and their ability to provide communications services (e.g., Telephony) over large distances cheaply.
The idea of satellites for long-range communications was first put forward by Arthur C. Clarke in 1945. He pointed out that three satellites positioned over the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans in geostationary orbit could cover with their beams almost all the inhabited areas of the earth. Today that vision has been realized. Today too, it seems as if a new era of satellite communications is beginning: across the world there is talk of satellites that will be able to beam TV programmes directly into people\u27s homes. The direct broadcast satellite (DBS) has become in its tum a symbol of the programming abundance that new technologies of all kinds (video, cable, videotex, etc.) seem to offer.
This issue of TRENDS looks at the range of political, educational, social and cultural issues raised by satellites, and looks at the way in which satellites have been used in the service of development, broadcasting and information transfer
Integrating Psychologically Informed Spiritual Care in Mental Health Support of Youth in the Nigerian Context
No full textMental health challenges among Nigerian youth, marked by depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, and school dropout, pose urgent threats to individual well-being as well as national development. These threats expose a crucial need for innovative mental health interventions. In contexts where supernatural interpretations of mental illness dominate and access to professional care is limited, traditional healers, herbalists, and spiritualists - including prophets, prophetesses, and pastors- serve as frontline responders. This thesis proposes the integration of psychologically informed spiritual care as a culturally resonant intervention, bridging gaps between spirituality and psychology to address mental health disparities.
Drawing on the work of both Western and African scholars who have highlighted the benefits of integrating spirituality and psychology in mental health care, this research seeks to adapt these frameworks for a remote Nigerian population. This study will demonstrate the viability of psychologically informed spiritual care in delivering holistic, dignity-centered mental health support through training programs for non-professional caregivers. Grounded in Nigerian cultural and Christian values, these frameworks emphasize contextual relevance, leveraging local belief systems to foster trust and efficacy. It highlights the transformative potential of equipping spiritual caregivers with psychologically informed tools, enabling them to mitigate crises and promote recovery. Ultimately, this thesis offers a practical first-aid toolkit from Ignatian Spirituality Informed Therapy (I-SIT), empowering spiritual caregivers to make a meaningful impact on mental health in their communities. This work contributes a novel approach to mental health care in resource-constrained settings by harmonizing Christian spiritual practices with psychological insights
Religious Communication in an Urban Society
Get PDFWhatever happened to the churches? To whom are they speaking these day?
Christianity and other major religious traditions developed their symbolic language and their patterns of communication in a pre-industrial world and in the largely oral culture of rural villages. Christianity did adapt rather remarkably to the possibilities of the print media. But now the urban pattern of life, the technical-scientific mode of thought and the electronic media are· influencing radically the pattern of human life.
Sociologists of religion conclude that religious aspirations are as strong as ever, but that people increasingly do not find the expression of their religion in the main-line churches. Can Christianity and other religious traditions contribute to a greater understanding of the meaning of human life and human destiny in urban society? The answer to that may depend very much on how the churches adapt their language and their pattern of communications in an urban world.
This CSCC NEWSLETTER surveys current research on religious communication and especially recent studies of religious symbolism, the most characteristic thought-language mode of religious communication. In the REVIEW ARTICLE, we examine recent studies of religious communication and of symbolism from the point of view of four different disciplines: sociology of religion, David Martin, specialist in the process of secularisation; communication -- the visionary and innovative thought of Pierre Babin and Marshal McLuhan; theology, a pioneering book on the theology of symbolism by Charles Bernard; and anthropology, Victor Turner, an authority on religious symbolism in his field today.
One of the most important areas of research for religious communication is that of religious symbolism. In the REPORT ON CURRENT RESEARCH we give reports on some of the projects in progress and on major centres where research of this type is being done