179 research outputs found
Journalism education for the digital age promises, perils, and possibilities
No full textThis book examines pressing debates concerning how and why journalism education should respond to digital changes in and around the industry, and questions market oriented ideology and civic responsibility in the field.Surveying a broad field of discourse and research into journalism education, Creech shows how public ideals, market logics and industry concerns have come to animate discussions about digital journalism education and journalism's future, and how academic structures and cultures are positioned as a key obstacle to attaining that future. The book examines labor conditions, critiques of journalism education as an institution, and curricular change, with reference to how conversations around race, fake news, and digital infrastructures impact the field. Creech argues for a critical pedagogy of journalism education, one that pushes beyond jobs training and instead is centred around a commitment to public and civic value via a liberal arts tradition made practicable for the digital age.This insightful book is vital reading for journalism educators and scholars, as well as journalists and news executives, education scholars, and program officers and decision-makers at journalism-adjacent foundations and think tank
Thomas Creech\u27s “Concerning the Nature of Things” Books I–II
No full textThis work contains my translation of Thomas Creech\u27s dedicatory letter to Christopher Codrington and his interpretations of books one and two from Titi Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex quibus interpretationem et notas addidit Thomas Creech…, Oxonii: E Theatro Sheldoniano, impensis Ab. Swall & Tim. Child, bibliopol. Lond.…, 1695 (Early English Books Online [EEBO]). I have then connected Creech’s learned interpretations to his own translation of De Rerum Natura (1682), thus allowing him to interpret his own verse translation. The introduction is a literary biography about Thomas Creech, in which I discuss his literary works and examine and resolve the controversies surrounding my author, such as Dryden’s plotting to destroy him, the disrepute of his rendering of Horace, and the cause(s) of his suicide. Furthermore, expounding on the different methods of translating in the 17th and 18th century, I examine how Creech interprets his author and renders him into English verse, usually in heroic couplets. This work illustrates that Creech was a brilliant interpreter of Lucretius and an exceptional translator, the most prolific translator of the 17th and 18th century, deserving a place of honor beside Dryden and Pope. To read the entire edition on which my dissertation is based, you must enter EEBO, which can be reached through your university\u27s library (electronic resources online), and search for the following work: Titus Lucretius Carus his six books of Epicurean philosophy, done into English verse, with notes, London: printed for Anthony Stephens, bookseller near the Theatre in Oxford, 1683. Type in Creech for KEYWORD(s): and Lucretius for AUTHOR KEYWORD(s): You can also find this work on Eighteenth Century Collection Online (ECCO): Lucretius Carus, Titus, Titus Lucretius Carus, his six books of Epicurean philosophy, done into English verse, with notes. By T. Creech,…. The fifth edition. London, 1712. This edition on ECCO is a reprint of the 3rd edition
The grove: or, the rival muses. A poem. [electronic resource] : By the author of A pastoral elegy on the death of Mr. Creech.
No full textAuthor of A pastoral elegy on the death of Mr. Creech = John Froud.Foxon,Electronic reproduction.English Short Title Catalog,Reproduction of original from Harvard University Houghton Library
Between Opportunity and Exploitation: Labor Expectations and Institutional Practices in the Public Relations Internship
No full textThis dissertation explores the institutional practices that shape and inform internships within the public relations industry to shed light on the motivations and operating constraints that can lead to exploitive internship opportunities. It addresses how universities prepare emerging talent and the ways the public relations industry solicits labor. Theoretically informed by political economy of communication and cultural studies, this research builds on several key precepts, including creative autonomy, invisible labor, exploitation and practices of resistance, power dynamics within social structures, and investigates how hegemony is exercised through relations of power and consent.
The investigation is pursued through three entry points: A textual analysis of PR News examines how trade publications influence the professional identities of PR practitioners to understand how the industry constructs the ideal public relations employee. This study argues PR News creates interoffice conflict between generations of professionals centered on the topic of professional development. Next, an institutional analysis of internship advertisements at the top 25 communications firms provides insights on how the culture industries solicit student workers, illicit emotional responses to the media text, exploit the ontological rewards of future employment, and governance structures that may conceal forms of exploitation. Lastly, in-depth interviews with interns shed light on how these young laborers negotiate creativity within corporate governance structures, as well as intern’s motivations to produce content without earning a paycheck.
The conclusion summarizes findings, implications, real world applications, suggestions for future interns, as well as offers areas for future scholarship.Media & Communicatio
Teaching from the margins: An examination of the teaching practices and labor conditions of adjunct faculty in communication
No full textThis study explores the teaching practices and labor conditions of media and communication adjunct faculty at three universities. Since the late 1960s, the number of faculty who are part-time and contingent is increasing and adjuncts are now more than 70% of college and university faculty (AAUP, n.d.). In this study, I examine the neoliberal university’s reliance on the teaching labor of part-time faculty and interrogate the use of adjunct labor for skills-based, vocationally oriented elements of the media and communication curriculum. The history of higher education, the literature of teaching and learning, and the theoretical frameworks of Bourdieu’s practice theory and Freire’s critical pedagogy situate this qualitative study of adjunct faculty teaching practices and labor conditions. A multi-method approach includes textual analysis of course syllabi and university documents; eight interviews with administrators, department chairs, sequence heads, course directors, and university leadership; three interviews with union activists; eleven interviews with current or former adjuncts; semester-long participant observation of teaching practices of thirteen courses taught by nine adjunct faculty; and three student focus groups with nineteen total participants. This study reveals media and communication adjuncts as key members of the academic community who apply student-centered practices and who are responsible for important elements of the curriculum, and at the same time, marginalized as a flexible, on-demand, and disposable labor force that serves the neoliberal university. This study offers insights to improve the labor conditions of adjunct faculty. I conclude that the COVID-19 global pandemic and the disruption of higher education’s normal tempo reveals a changing higher education landscape with threats of financial exigency and increased precarity for all faculty.Media & Communicatio
One of Us: Examining the Affective Negotiations of Feministy Authenticity in Digital Publics
No full textSocial media have long been sites for political discussion and ideological conversations. Connecting geographically-dispersed individuals around ideologically-salient conversations, Instagram users who hold feminist ideals talk in a discursive environment formed by their discussions, a space I call “feminist Instagram.” As a community connected by affective gestures, intensities, and textures (Papacharissi, 2015), this work seeks to understand the affective nature of the “prevailing practices,” and “avenues for engagement, agency, and power,” (Papacharissi, 2015, p. 126) that circulates in feminist digital spaces, both for what they reveal about the nature of negotiating the boundaries of authentic feminist identities, and about the ways digital feminists experience these negotiations. Approaching feminist Instagram as an affective public, this dissertation examines “how affective processes are enabled in the online environment by examining the form and texture of communication” (Papacharissi, 2015, p. 27) through an ethnography of feminist digital spaces. This dissertation’s findings carry implications for the online ideological organizing futures, and forward a mindful orientation to social media use, especially in ideologically-salient learning environments like feminist Instagram.Media & Communicatio
Finding the White working class in 2016: Journalistic discourses and the construction of a political identity
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