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Television Reporting of the Gulf War
Full text linkNewsmen and soldiers enter a way situation with almost intrinsically opposed priorities. The soldiers must fight to win. Their imperatives include staying alive, keeping casualties on their own side at a minimum, concealing their forces\u27 intentions and movements from the enemy to ensure maximum advantage and inflicting enough damage on the enemy to guarantee victory. Newsmen, on the other hand, are opposed to ferret out the truth about the confrontation and to report it as fully as possible to their audiences.
Technologically, the Gulf War of the early 1991 was the most thoroughly reported of any way in history. The human factor was an entirely different story. Protests and criticism flew as hot and heavy as bullets and rockets, both during and after the fighting, and journalistic breast-beating, in some quarters, thunders almost as loudly as the bombs.
The War, whatever else may be said about it, was a costly \u27laboratory case\u27 for students of the media. It has stimulated much passionate discussion, and even some valuable research projects, and promises to continue to do so. The War affected people. So did the way television and the other mass media reported it. It is this impact on people which prompts Trends to devote special attention to research on television coverage of the War
Community-Engaged Research Projects in School Settings: Science Teachers’ Practices and Reflections
Full text linkCommunity-engaged research (CER) is a justice-oriented research paradigm that emphasizes equitable and reciprocal knowledge co-production with community members and organizations, sharing power, benefits, contributions, and responsibilities among all participants. This study explores nine teachers’ cases of facilitating CER projects in their respective school settings, aimed to support students’ critical consciousness and action for environmental issues and injustices. This study contributes to educational research by adapting an existing framework for CER for environmental justice that can guide K-12 teaching and research on it. By analyzing data from teacher community meetings and individual interviews in the CER framework, this study articulates classroom practices that addressed the Distribution, Procedure, Recognition, and Transformation dimensions of CER, as well as the positive impacts and challenges of these implementations. The findings report teacher practices categorized by the CER dimensions they addressed (the what of the practices) and the instructional strategies they employed (the how of the practices). The findings also compare the frequency of these practices as an indicator of variation in teacher practices and illustrate this variation through three teachers’ CER cases. The findings also document the positive outcomes of CER in student empowerment, as well as the challenges related to time, resources, assessment, and stakeholder skepticism, underscoring the need for systemic support to enhance CER in school settings. The discussion focuses on the implications of these findings and ways to address the identified challenges through future research and institutional efforts
Giacomini, George, History, interviewed by
No full textIn this interview, we sit down with George Giacomini, a storyteller and longtime member of the Santa Clara University community. Born here in the Bay in 1934, Giacomini’s journey has taken him from a magna cum laude graduate of Santa Clara to an U.S. Army serviceman, and then on to begin his doctoral studies at UC Berkeley. He returned to Santa Clara in 1962 to begin his teaching career that spanned decades, earning accolades like the Brutocao Award for Teaching Excellence and the Paul Locatelli, S.J. Award for Distinguished Service. As he is sometimes referred to,“Mr. Santa Clara,” Giacomini served the University in many roles: dean of students, vice president for student affairs, and assistant to the president. His trademark humor and deep institutional knowledge, Giacomini brings history to life—most notably in Serving the Intellect, Touching the Heart, a novel of the history of Santa Clara that he enjoyably co-authored with Fr. Gerald McKevitt, S.J. Listen in to hear more about this SCU alum and SCU professor emeritus
Healy, Tim, Engineering, interviewed by
No full textDr. Healy first joined Santa Clara University in the fall of 1966, when the Electrical Engineering Department had just seven faculty members. While he deeply valued his time in the department, he eventually discovered a passion for art—particularly the works of Van Gogh. Beyond his role as a professor, Dr. Healy served on the Board of Trustees from 1973 to 1979. He and his wife Mary are also active participants in the Mission Masses. Always be the person who raises their hand when asked, Would anyone like to do this? It’s a great world—don’t be afraid to step into it
Interpersonal Communication
Full text linkThe story is told of a novice interpreter who once translated the English Biblical phrase \u27The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak\u27 into Russian as \u27The vodka is excellent, but the meat is bad\u27!
Translation is not simply a problem for professional interpreters. All of us have to translate what other people are saying into words we can understand. More often than not we translate badly and the intended message is misunderstood. Even when talking with our closest friends and immediate family we can find ourselves struggling to reach a common understanding. How often is our speech littered with phrases expressing uncertainty and requesting enlightenment: \u27Could you say that again, please?; \u27I\u27m not sure what you mean\u27; or even the despairing \u27I wish I knew what you were talking about\u27!
Over the past two or three decades communication researchers have sought to understand and elucidate the complex set of actions and words which go to make up communication between two people. How do people express their appreciation, show disagreement, reach common understandings, persuade, argue, cajole or deny? How are conversations begun, organized and ended? How does body language affect interpersonal communication? What makes communication successful, and why does it fail?
The research covered in this issue of TRENDS focuses on the interactions between two people ( dyadic communication). The review reports on studies of communicative interactions, communicators, communication in relationships, communicative situations and mediated interpersonal communication
Youth and Rock Music
Full text linkIn 1954 the nineteen-year-old Elvis Presley suddenly caught the enthusiasm of millions of teenagers with a new form of pop music called rock \u27n\u27 roll. Five years later, sociologist James Coleman, in a massive survey of American adolescents, confirmed that pop music - especially rock \u27n\u27 roll - was the major form of entertainment of young people. Research continues to show that around the world teenage interest in rock music influences the television programmes they watch, the magazines they read, the cafes, youth clubs and dances they go to, and the \u27necessary tools\u27 they seek to own (transistor radios, record players, tape recorders, guitars). Even home entertainment means largely music making or listening to music. Today, pop music accounts for about 85-90 percent of record sales, and 75 percent of pop sales are to 12-20 years olds.
In the popular imagination and in much youth research, rock music is considered a major influence on the values of young people and the symbol of the new youth cultures. Some see these youth cultures as a threat to traditional values; others see them as ushering in an Age of Aquarius. Another major question is whether the music industry is manipulating youth and destroying local, spontaneous music traditions.
This issue reviews research on the pop music industry, how teenagers use pop music and how pop music influences youth cultures in various parts of the world
Secrecy, Privacy and the Right to Information
Full text linkGeorge Orwell\u27s 1984 is the vision of the ultimate totalitarian state. The citizens ruled by Big Brother surrender all control over their lives, their personal privacy is abolished, and government surveillance is ubiquitous and inescapable. Meanwhile, impenetrable secrecy protects and enhances the power of the rulers and their agents.
Many people find disturbing echoes of Orwell\u27s nightmare in present-day democratic societies. They point to growing control of all aspects of everyday life by governments and large corporations, to the storage of more and more sensitive personal information in ever larger data banks, and to continuing \u27Watergate type\u27 revelations of abuse of power and corruption in high places. There is growing public pressure for measures to protect privacy and to give the people a legal right to know what is being done in their name.
But how justified are such fears? Are computer data banks the real threats to privacy? Is more open government necessary or desirable? Can secrecy be limited by passing freedom of information legislation? Will the right to information conflict with the right of privacy? This issue looks at these and other key questions posed by researchers in this complex and important debate