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The forgotten sunday: the Newcastle Sunday Mirror 1959-1961
No full textThis thesis concentrates on a very limited period of Australian newspaper history. The Newcastle Sunday Mirror, Newcastle's only Sunday newspaper appeared briefly in 1959-61 wrapped around the Sydney Sunday Mirror. It was not a 'free' newspaper. The price of 6d. bought the reader the complete Sydney Sunday Mirror with the addition of the Newcastle paper with up to 32 pages of local stories, local pictures featuring local people together with local advertisements. Forty years later it has been largely forgotten. This thesis postulates, however, that it deserves study as a innovative venture into regional newspaper production. The Newcastle Sunday Mirror campaigned vigorously against Sydney domination, promoting Newcastle interests and championing the 'battler'. Its journalism drew on three major genres of tabloidism: hard news tabloidism; Fleet St tabloidism; and Nortonism. Definition of these genres, and their application to Australian journalism, particularly regional journalism, are principal conceptual objectives of the thesis. The Newcastle Sunday Mirror was often dismissed as sensational and its accuracy was questioned, particularly by the conservative Newcastle Morning Herald. Ironically, moonlighting journalists from the Newcastle Morning Herald and The Newcastle Sun were frequent suppliers of copy for the Newcastle Sunday Mirror. Such elements of news gathering and production are closely analysed in the distinctive context of a regional Sunday newspaper with a proprietary based in Sydney, and committed to tabloidism. The initial popularity of the paper helped to stem the declining sales of the Sunday Mirror which lost substantial circulation after it was transformed in late 1959 from the salacious, sensational Truth to a Sunday tabloid targeted at family audiences. The Newcastle Sunday Mirror was rather more successful than the metropolitan Sunday Mirror in building advertising and circulation, and promoting its content to regional audiences. Rupert Murdoch's acquisition of both the Daily and Sunday Mirror in May 1960 provided initial opportunites for the further development of the newspaper. It succumbed, however, to the serious economic downturn sparked by the severe "Credit Squeeze" of 1960-61. Despite the fate of the Newcastle Sunday Mirror and its subsequent neglect, it provides significant insights into journalism, newspaper production, advertising, circulation and promotion, particularly in regional Austrália. It also offers some fascinating clues to the evolution of tabloid journalism and free-newspaper distribution in the decades after 1960, particularly by Rupert Murdoch's News Ltd proprietary
Global subjective memorability and the strength-based mirror effect
No full textBetween-list manipulations of memory strength through repetition commonly generate a mirror effect, with more hits, and fewer false alarms for strengthened items. However, this pattern is rarely seen with within-list manipulations of strength. Three experiments investigated the conditions under which a within-list mirror effect of strength (items presented once or thrice) is observed. In Experiments 1 and 2, we indirectly manipulated the overall subjective memorability of the studied lists by varying the proportion of non-words. A within-list mirror effect was observed only in Experiment 2, where a higher proportion of non-words was presented in the study list. In Experiment 3, the presentation duration for each item (0.5 s versus 3 s) was manipulated between groups with the purpose of affecting subjective memorability: A within-list mirror effect was observed only for the short-presentation durations. Thus, across three experiments, we found the within-list mirror effect only under conditions of poor overall subjective memorability. We propose that when the overall subjective memorability is low, people switch their response strategy on an item-by-item basis, and that this generates the observed mirror effect. <br/
""Dali's Christ. Da Vinci's Christ: 460-Year Variation on a Sacred Theme. How Two Famous Artists--Separated by Four Centuries--Have Mirrored Their Own Times in These Conceptions of Jesus Christ at the Last Supper""
No full textThe article discusses Dali's renewed preoccupation with his faith. He had studied the philosophies of Communism, Nazism and neo-paganism and found them ""soulless."" After studying theology, Dali felt the importance of spiritual forces
The hospital ‘superbug’: social representations of MRSA
No full textThe so-called ‘hospital superbug’ methcillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) became a topic of media and political concern from the middle of the 1990’s. It was increasingly politicised in the period leading up to the British General Election of 2005. This study examines the meanings of MRSA that circulate in Britain by analysing newspaper coverage of the disease over a ten year period. It utilises social representations theory and contextualises MRSA within existing research on representations of emerging infectious diseases (EIDs). A key pattern in the representation of EIDs is to externalise the threat they pose by linking the origin, risk and blame to ‘the other’ of those who represent them. In this light the study investigates who and what MRSA is associated with and the impact that these associations have on levels of alarm and blame. Key findings are that MRSA is represented as a potentially lethal ‘superbug’, marking the end of a ‘golden age of medicine’ in which the story of the discovery of antibiotics has played such a key role. Furthermore, MRSA is constructed around an “it could be you / me” set of assumptions by way of the plethora of human interest stories that dominate the coverage. Finally, the blame for MRSA focuses not on its genesis, but rather on why it spreads. This is attributed to poor hygiene in hospitals, which is ultimately caused by mismanagement of the National Health Service and erosion of the authority and morality symbolised by the ‘matron’ role. This constellation of meanings speaks to a somewhat different pattern of response to MRSA when compared to many past EIDs
Wavelength tunable 10-GHz 3-ps pulse source using a dispersion decreasing fiber-based nonlinear optical loop mirror
No full textWe experimentally demonstrate the use of a dispersion decreasing fiber (DDF)-based nonlinear optical loop mirror (NOLM) for the generation of wavelength tunable soliton-like pulses at a repetition rate of 10 GHz. We compress ~12 ps Gaussian pulses from an electro-absorption modulator (EAM) (followed by 125 m of DCF for preliminary linear dispersion compensation) into 3 ps pedestal-free pulses using both high-order soliton compression and nonlinear switching effects within an 8.5 km DDF-based loop mirror. The output pulses from the DDF-based NOLM show considerable pedestal reduction compared to those obtained by directly compressing the EAM seed pulses via a single passage through the DDF. Wavelength tuning of the compressed pulses over a ~15 nm bandwidth (from 1541 to 1556 nm) is demonstrated without a significant increase in pulse duration or degradation in pulse quality
White Cube, Bermondsey, London: Screening: Magic Mirror, Confessions To The Mirror
No full textAs part of ‘Dreamers Awake’ – a group show that brings together over 100 works by women artists from the 1930s to the present day; including Lenora Carrington, Eileen Agar, Maya Deren and Claude Cahun.
The event was curated by Susanna Greaves, Head of Museum Relations and Curator, White Cube Bermondsey, London as part of the Sunday Film Programme
DAILY MIRROR
No full textEstá já disponível o acesso digital online aos arquivos do jornal Daily Mirror, de 1903 em diante. Igualmente podem aceder-se aos arquivos do Daily Express, Sunday Express, Daily Star e Daily Star Sunday. Procurar em ukpressonline
Re-visioning one's selves: mirror reflections in the autobiographical works of Marguerite Duras
No full textThis thesis explores the construction of the central figure of a cycle of four works relating to Marguerite Duras' adolescence in Indochina: Un Barrage contre le Pacifique, L'Eden Cinéma, L'Amant, and L'Amant de la Chine du Nord. In these texts, biographical fact - the conventional foundation of autobiographical writing – is shown to be mutable, as Duras (re)creates and re-visions the past and self in question. The plurality of Duras' textual history suggests that the central figure's construction does not lie, as we might have anticipated, in a performative reading of her past. A new and alternative explanation for the central figure's construction is proposed: namely, that she is described by a series of mirror reflections within, between, and beyond the texts. The thesis is divided into four sections. Chapter I draws upon psychoanalytical and feminist theories to introduce the notion of mirror reflections in intra- and extra-textual contexts, with particular reference to interpersonal relationships, textual devices and reader involvement. Chapter II examines the deliberate alteration of the central figure's image and reflection, discussing questions of power, performance, and (self-) objectification. Chapter III focuses on the interaction between writing and written selves, on the re-visioning of self and history, and questions the 'autobiographical' status of these texts. Chapter IV suggests that the four accounts act as intertextual mirrors, forming contradictory reflections that profoundly shape the reading experience by destabilising any previously confirmed sense of the textualised selfhood. The iterative (dis)establishment of the written self is also explored in relation to Duras' perception of writing as a process that is concurrently creative, destructive and chaotic. It is concluded that the mirror trope is indeed useful in describing the construction of the central figure of these texts, yet it brings the reader no closer to locating the central self and her past in a form that is neither plural nor provisional
Article re: Tom Connally's wedding to Lucille Sheppard
No full textHeadline: "Connally Weds Mrs. Sheppard
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