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Discursive Shift towards the “Politics of Fear” and Localization of the War in Ukraine in Georgia
Get PDFAfter the Kremlin authorized full-scale war in Ukraine, the far-right groups localized disinformation narratives and led the coordinated ‘politics of fear’ in the country. The latter, orchestrated via governmental, media and illiberal/far-right groups’ platforms, have soon become the main framework of political discussions including and beyond the issue of the war. Even though the public surveys depict the main issuesof concern to be socio-economic across the Georgian society (CRRC Georgia, Caucasus Barometer Dataset 2021), the politics shift towards the issues of identity and foreign relations where the war in Ukraine appears central. Scrutinizing the political narratives in Georgia one year into the war, such ‘politics of fear’, we argue, encompass three main interconnected discursive Oields as they evolve in media: identity (rethinking ‘Georgianness’ in relation to the West), economics (rethinking ties with Russia vis-à-vis the sanctions), and security (in relation to the war trauma and attitudes towards the West as a guarantor of thepeace).
Vis-à-vis the overwhelming pro-Western/pro-EU attitudes in Georgian society, the political discourse constructed around the fear centered on Ukraine being “abandoned by the West” and implied ways of rethinking Georgia’s policies on Western integration. Discursive strategies of casting doubt, heteronomisation, and discontinuation (Wodak., et.al., 2009) dominate the political discourse. Within the network of communication, the pro-government media play a connecting as well as disseminating role across the far-right, governing executives, and the wider society via not only displaying but also constructing the narratives. Thus, the war appeared as a new reference point for legitimizing the previously veiled narratives regarding Georgia’s foreign orientation toward Russia, as seen by its far right. Moreover, narratives related to the war enabled instrumentalizing of the local trauma of the war via ‘politics of fear’. Interpreting and referring to the disinformation narratives around the war in Ukraine exacerbated the bigger informational weapon of Russia regarding its invincibility used in the region for years
Authenticity Trumps Facticity: The Manipulation of Informative Narrative Strategies in Journalism
Get PDFMuch recent research has focused on disinformative or conspiratorial narratives. However, what defines in-formative narration that should be firmly rooted in a truthful representation of actual events? This paper, there-fore, discusses informative narrative strategies in journalism. Journalists employ narratives to convey information and capture readers’ attention, two objectives that aren't easily harmonized. The paper explores how narratives about recent events can both engage their audience and maintain a truthful foundation in the facts.The analysis draws on concepts such as the truth claims of media (Gunning, 2004) and truthfulness in communication (Elleström, 2018). Rather than pitting facts against fiction or information against narration, this analysis explores how facts, narration, and audience engagement integrate within different news items. The analysis of informative narrative strategies enables us to describe the characteristics of truthful and engaging journalistic narration while identifying patterns that threaten this delicate balance. The analytical method highlights recurring patterns of informative narration in journalism, where narrative and rhetorical patterns are firmly grounded in a combination of sensory, specific, and verifiable details. However, the interplay of facts, narration, and audience engagement looks significantly different in the manipulated features of former Spiegel reporter Claas Relotius. In Relotius’s features, the interplay of different forms of details is missing, presenting another set of narrative and rhetorical patterns that enhance cohesion and plausibility rather than factuality. The presentation specifically focuses on the narrative strategies that enable Reloti-us to replace the journalistic claim of factuality with a diverse set of truth and authenticity claims. These claims may be valid in fictive, biographical, testimonial, or even legal narratives but can be irrelevant or misleading in the context of informative journalism. A closer examination of the misinformative, authenticating narrative strategies in Claas Relotius's features contributes to a better understanding of factuality and authenticity as competing claims to truth in the digital public sphere
The need for cycloplegic refraction in adolescents and young adults
Get PDFCycloplegic refraction is considered the gold standard method when examining children and for ensuring accurate refractive error assessment within epidemiological studies. Recent reports underline that cycloplegia is equally important for ensuring accurate refractive error assessment in Chinese adolescents and young adults (Sun et al., 2018). The aim of this study was to assess whether cycloplegia is of equal importance for refractive error assessment in Norwegian adolescents and young adults. Non-cycloplegic and cycloplegic autorefraction (Huvitz HRK-8000A), and cycloplegic ocular biometry (IOLMaster 700), were undertaken in 215 Norwegian adolescents (101 males) aged 16–17 years. Topical cyclopentolate hydrochloride 1% was used for cycloplegia. Two years later, autorefraction and ocular biometry were repeated in 93 of the participants (34 males), both non-cycloplegic and cycloplegic. Non-cycloplegic spherical equivalent refractive errors (SER = sphere + 1⁄2 cylinder) were more myopic (less hyperopic) than cycloplegic SER in 93.6% of the participants (overall mean ±SD difference in SER: -0.59 ±0.50 D, 95% limit of agreement: -1.58 – 0.39 D). Refractive error classification by non-cycloplegic SER underestimated the hyperopia frequency (10.4% vs. 41.4%; SER ≥ +0.75 D) and overestimated the myopia frequency (12.1% vs. 10.7%; SER ≤ -0.75 D), as compared with refractive error classification by cycloplegic SER. Mean crystalline lens thickness decreased and mean anterior chamber depth increased with cycloplegia, with the largest changes in the hyperopes compared with the emmetropes and myopes (p ≤ 0.04). The individual differences between non-cycloplegic and cycloplegic SER varied by more than ±0.25 D between first and second visit for 31% of the participants. Accurate baseline measurements — as well as follow-up measurements — are imperative for deciding when and what to prescribe for myopic and hyperopic children, adolescents, and young adults. The results here confirm that cycloplegia is necessary to ensure accurate measurement of refractive errors in Norwegian adolescents and young adults
Designing and Implementing a Mobile Augmented Reality Application to Support Learning History in the Classroom
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How and why integrate health and wellbeing into urban planning projects? An ongoing research project about the dissemination of healthy urban approaches in France
Get PDFThe places we live in, their features and quality impact both our health and wellbeing, and are associated with social inequalities. Healthy Urban Planning (HUP) emerged in the 1980s to address these issues, in line with the principles of sustainable development. In France, healthy urban approaches, inspired by HUP, started to develop in the 2010s. Nowadays, their increased development, implementation, diffusion and sustainability encounter certain impediments, such as mediation with political, economic and technical concerns and, also, with other stakes such as the ecological and social impacts of urban planning projects. Studying the terms and conditions of the emergence, implementation and dissemination of these approaches and the arbitrations that take place at the local level is thus of interest for both stakeholders and researchers, and raise important questions related to the definition of “healthy urban approaches”. This questioning has resulted in the start of a three-year action research project currently implemented through my PhD thesis in Urban Planning, undertaken at Nantes Université, Paris Est Université (France) and at an urban consultancy firm (Paris, France)
Geokalkyl – GIS-Assessment of Building Foundation Reinforcement Costs and Carbon Footprints
Get PDFGeokalkyl is a GIS-based tool used for calculating and visualizing foundation reinforcement costs in municipal development areas. It is used in early stages of planning to assess cost differences between alternative locations (or layouts within the same location). Accordingly, Geokalkyl helps to identify the most favorable terrain and geotechnical ground conditions for housing and infrastructure development. Geokalkyl features not only geotechnical cost estimates but also evaluates carbon footprint, as well as general climate adaption- and remediation costs. The tool requires national level soil- and elevation data and can be combined with additional geotechnical borehole data for better results. Results are visualized both as 2D maps and 3D scenes as well as in tabular spread sheet format. Geokalkyl is a product of SGI and is subject to constant development improving upon features and user friendliness. At present, Geokalkyl consists of a set of toolboxes for Esri’s ArcGIS Desktop 10.5, 10.7 and 10.8 and we recommend a combination of both geotechnical and GIS competence to run the toolbox.  
Urbanization, Cities, and Deep Decarbonization Nexus: What it Means to Limiting Warming to 1,5 degree C?
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Om svenskans genuina hållbarhet som förverkligats i översättning
Get PDFI mitt föredrag tänker jag anknyta till det ursprungliga begreppet av hållbarhet som kommer från skogsbruket och gäller en 1700-tals idé om hur man kan uppnå tillförsel av timmer ”så att det ska finnas en kontinuerlig, stadig och outhållig användning av den” (Grober 2007: 7). Betraktat på detta sätt blir principen av hållbar utveckling lika strävan efter att finna balans mellan användning och bevarande av naturens resurser, till och med för framtiden (Grober 2007: 5). En viktig del av principen blir då också återvinning. Det som avkastas ska återkomma till ekosystemet så att dess funktioner inte utmanas. Samma kan påstås om det svenska språket i bruk.
I föredraget ska jag ta itu med frågan på vilket sätt hållbar utveckling av svenskan – en kontinuerlig, stadig och outhållig användning av språkets strukturer via deras återvinning – har kommit till uttryck i A. Bodegårds översättningar av W. Gombrowicz två verk: Vigseln (1995) och Trans-Atlantic (2017[2009]). Jag ska bevisa att detta har förverkligats därför att Bodegård i sina översättningar har realiserat en av den polska författarens grundläggande litterära antaganden som gäller återvinning av det gamla i språket. Samtidigt har han lyckats att utvidga Gombrowicz kreativa inställning till språket genom att bruka specifika svenska språkstrukturer som försvann i den språkhistoriska utvecklingen men kanske kommer att bli element av standardsvenskan i framtiden (Josephson 2007). Man kan alltså hävda att A. Bodegård bidrar till att förnya svenskan genom att tillämpa principen av hållbar utveckling inom språkets område