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Fatal Racial Encounters in the US in the Media Representation
No full textDiscussions of such interrelated notions as identity, citizenship, ethnicity, and race are
usually formulated in reference to the present trends of immigration and/or globalisation.
However, when dealing with cultural dis–encounters in the US, such issues dramatically
emerge at the intra–national level and do not refer to migration flows, but to
the historically problematic relationship between Black and White populations. In the
contemporary US scenario, we witness violent nationwide racial confrontations, as well
as thought–provoking debates on such issues.
Notable examples of violent racially–biased interactions can be found in the frequent
killings of unarmed African–American men by white police officers in the US. Among recent
front–page cases are the deaths of Eric Garner in New York City (July 17, 2014) and
Mike Brown (August 9, 2014) in Ferguson (MO), which can be seen as two instances
of the same tragedy, on both the personal and social levels. Those killings were followed
by months of nationwide protests and rioting, calls for justice and voluminous
news–media coverage, all of which constitute the focus of this study. A key issue at
stake in these stories is racial profiling: these deaths are a stern reminder that race still
plays a critical role in how the law is enforced in the US. Apparently, a persistent identity
and empathy gap is still generating conflictual mixed socio–cultural interactions. The
fact that no police officers in these cases have been brought to trial has had a disruptive
impact on societal values and belief systems, which in our web–wired arena is still
resonating beyond socio–geographical boundaries.
The role of the media in this chain of events cannot easily be overvalued, owing
to their ever–growing potential to intersect the plurality of the existing communication
channels, and to rapidly engage with (news media) audiences. In particular, through
the fluid and virtually global semiosphere of the Worldwide Web, many (old and new)
newspapers increasingly disseminate and amplify their news by utilising both real–time,
cross–media communication and hyper–textual links to additional sources (which, in
turn, lead to other sources, and so on). Moreover, on many newspaper websites different
genres share contiguous spaces, such as more traditional articles alongside freer ‘voices’, blogs, forums, tweets, social media, as in the case of The Huffington Post (the liberal–
oriented American online news aggregator), featuring Black Voices, Gay Voices, etc.
The aim of this study is to analyse both qualitative and quantitative data from
the news coverage of the protests following these killings. Samples extracted from the
HuffPost website, both from the articles and from the Black Voices bloggers’ posts will
be comparatively analysed along the evaluative dimension, by utilising some of the
Appraisal Framework categories, with a special focus on «Attribution» (White 2012),
with its evaluative implications. The main difference between the journalists’ and bloggers’
voices can be found in their degree of personalisation/impersonalisation, as will
be shown and discussed in this study
Prefazione introduttiva e metodologica
No full textIt is mainly within and around Mediterranean itineraries that the European Union seeks its in/tangible cultural heritage, an important component of both individual and collective identities. This volume brings together different strands of analysis, helping to shed light on the multifaceted entities that constitute the vibrant socio-semiotic landscape of the Mediterranean. The volume views this scenario from a cross-cultural perspective, and investigates the domains of national identities and stereotypes, advertising and social media, TV series, myths and festivals, landscapes, culture-bound terms, migrating words and food.
Given the variety of perspectives and methodological approaches with a specific focus on the prominent role of English in representing the Mediterranean heritage, despite the fact that it is a non-Mediterranean language, this volume can offer useful insights to students and practitioners of discourse analysis, bridging the gap between academic research and class practice at the university level. From an educational perspective the book, which also includes practical worksheets, can be used in first and second level degrees in Foreign Languages, Communication, Political Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies, as well as courses in linguistics, multimodal studies, critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics
Year in Review in Minerva Anestesiologica, 2007. II Anesthesia and Analgesia: experimental and clinical studies
No full textDevelopment of diagnostic and manipulation systems for space-charge dominated electron beams and confined electron plasmas in ELTRAP
No full textModifications have been implemented in the Penning-Malmberg device ELTRAP aimed
at performing studies on the dynamics of space-charge dominated nanosecond electron bunches traveling along the magnetic field. In particular, a Thomson backscattering apparatus has been developed where an infrared (IR) laser pulse collides with the bunched electron beam. The frequency-shifted
backscattered radiation, acquired by means of a photomultiplier (PMT), can be exploited to evaluate information on energy, energy spread and density of the bunch. The achievable sensitivity
of the diagnostics has been estimated, and valuable information on the main parameters affecting the signal-to-noise (S/N) ratio has been obtained [B. Paroli, F. Cavaliere, M. Cavenago, F. De Luca, M. Ikram, G. Maero, C. Marini, R. Pozzoli, and M. Romé, JINST 7, P01008 (2012)]. A series of upgrades are under way, aimed at increasing the S/N ratio through the use of a new laser for the electron source, the insertion of a stray light shield, and the optimization of the detection electronics. Moreover, electromagnetic simulations relevant to the design and implementation of a microwave
heating system are presented. The generation of an electron plasma in ELTRAP by means of a low-power radio frequency (RF) drive in the MHz range applied on one of the trap electrodes and under ultra-high vacuum (UHV) conditions has previously been demonstrated [B. Paroli, F. De Luca,
G. Maero, F. Pozzoli, and M. Romé, Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 19, 045013 (2010)]. The new heating system will allow the extension of the RF studies to the GHz range and in particular the
production of a more energetic electron plasma via cyclotron resonant excitation
Explorıng the Onlıne Advertısıng of the Maltese Archıpelago’s Herıtage through Ecostylıstıcs
No full textApplying the theoretical and methodological paradigm of ecostylistics to analyse the sections “What to See & Do”, "Places”, “About Malta”, and “Gozo and Comino” of the official tourist portal of the Maltese archipelago, the aim of the contribution is to identify what linguistic and textual strategies are used, within a more general framework of tourism discourse, to represent Malta a) as a site for heritage tourism (Dallen and Boyd 2003; Park 2014), and b) as “truly Mediterranean”. More specifically, an ecostylistic analysis of one written text presented in the section “What to See & Do” will be carried out, in order to distinguish those linguistic features which form part of the language of tourism from those stylistic features of Malta’s official tourism website that, far from being deployed to describe and provide information about spaces, places and landscapes, are utilised as implicit persuasive means (Östman 2005) to promote the archipelago as a tourist destination worth visiting for its history, heritage, culture and Mediterranean appeal. In addition, a brief examination of the keywords ‘Mediterranean’ and ‘history’, ‘heritage’, ‘culture’ in the pages crosslinked to the text analysed will be offered, in order to provide further co-textual support to the findings of the ecostylistic analysis
Channel Power Pre-Emphasis in Wavelength Division Multiplex Optical Communication Systems
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Year in Review in Minerva Anestesiologica, 2007. II Anesthesia and Analgesia: experimental and clinical studies
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