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Inclusive journalism: How to shed light on voices traditionally left out in news coverage
Authors: Rupar Verica
Published: October 2017

This note introduces the concept of inclusive journalism in a bid to encourage a critical dialogue of the press’s ability to challenge hegemonic notions of inequality under the rubric of social diversity. Over the last century journalism’s authority in fast processing of information has moved from the privileged position of reporting life to the more privileged position of reporting life that matters. Its capacity to separate individual lives from the life of society has enabled it to turn persons into representative of the groups. By forming and un-forming groups and by constructing a sense of who we are in relation to others, the journalistic sector of the media participates in the larger process of inclusion and exclusion.
Framing inclusive journalism: Between necessary idealism and essential realism
Authors: Husband Charles
Published: October 2017

This article addresses the challenge of becoming an inclusive journalist. Starting from the structural location of journalism the argument seeks to outline a viable basis for inclusive journalism; which starts with two generic aspirations that inclusive journalists might seek to address. These are that: inclusive journalists must be reflexively aware of their own political framing of diversity, and the limitations of their imagination; and that they must have the critical tools to be able to identify, and critically expose, the partisan discourses used by politicians and others to frame any understanding of coexistence and inter-group competition. In the pursuit of this ambition three competencies are outlined: An appropriate affective moral stance; A critical and self-conscious personal conceptualization of the political basis of an equitable good life; A social science based capacity to interrogate the hegemonic reproduction of violence, brute nastiness and collusion with inequity.
Indigenous voices in the global public sphere: Analysis of approaches to journalism within the WITBN network
Authors: Markelin Lia
Published: October 2017

The World Indigenous Television Broadcasting Network (WITBN) consists of Indigenous broadcasters from around the world. During the WITBN Conference WITBC 2012 in Guovdageaidnu, Sámiland (Norway), a number of interviews were conducted with Indigenous media workers from within the broadcast network. Based upon a selection of these interviews, this article aims to present an analysis of approaches to Indigenous (television) journalism drawing upon data from Australia, Canada, Finland, Hawaii, Norway, Scotland, Sweden, Taiwan and Wales. This analysis will be framed in relation to the wider context of Indigenous peoples’ rights and politics. Drawing upon theoretical frameworks on racism and exclusion vs democracy and inclusion based on self-determination, this article aims to highlight the role of Indigenous media and journalism in making the public sphere more diverse and creating new global networks between previously silenced voices with the help of new technical solutions. The article will demonstrate how, while presenting an Indigenous perspective of the world, these Indigenous broadcasters do ‘real journalism’ just as any majority broadcasting company and while perceiving their own Indigenous communities as their core audience, they aim to reach wider audiences with their programming, thus providing a window for majority audiences into Indigenous realities. The article also highlights how the international movement of indigeneity as a political process impacts upon Indigenous broadcasters in ways that are different from their autochthonous professional colleagues.
Translation in the newsroom: Losing voices in multilingual newsflows
Authors: Perrin Daniel , Ehrensberger-Dow Maureen , Zampa Marta
Published: October 2017

The information, events and voices that receive media attention are highly dependent on their linguistic form – when the language is accessible to journalists, the news is more likely to enter public discourse. If the voices are in languages other than that of the region the journalist is writing for, then translation strategies can influence not only the news style but also the selection and perspectivation of the information presented. In this article, we discuss how working between languages inside the newsroom can endanger the flow of accurate information. Among other stakeholders, we focus on journalists as key gatekeepers in global and local newsflows who need to cope with cross-linguistic communication in their processes of news production. Initial analyses show that translation matters in the newsroom, but it is far from being part of systematic professional socialization or subject to quality measures.
Global interaction as a learning path towards inclusive journalism
Authors: Moring Tom , Zilliacus Kim , Rupar Verica , Treadwell Gregory , Jørgensen Asbjørn Slot , Larsen Inger K. , Munk Inger , Matheson Donald
Published: October 2017

Journalism faces new and serious challenges against a backdrop of attacks on the political notion of an inclusive and pluralist society, an idea based on internationally and locally accepted fundamental rights frameworks. These frameworks build on recognition, respect and inclusion of difference, based on individual or collective rights and a critical stand towards the construction of difference. The immediacy and potentially global reach of digital communication has dramatically changed the information order and given the concept of inclusiveness new meanings. Journalists will have to cope in new ways with extended networks feeding into their understanding of inclusive society. In 2013, four journalism schools in New Zealand and the Nordic countries launched a joint project linked to the EU initiative ‘Promoting the drivers for inclusive & sustainable growth’. This article offers a policy centred elaboration of inclusiveness and university teaching aimed to raise awareness and sensitivity towards diversities, power and reporting. Collaborative forms of inclusive pedagogy with multimodal qualities are presented. Perspectives of combining personal mobility and net-based pedagogical tools that establish a genuinely interactive relation between the teacher-as-student and student-as-teacher in online learning environments for education of journalists are discussed against our first experiences from this joint development work.
How diverse are Egypt’s media: A look at the post-revolution presidential elections
Authors: Abdulla Rasha
Published: October 2017

This article examines media diversity and inclusiveness of the coverage in Egypt through a content analysis of Egyptian media during the first Presidential elections following the 25 January revolution of 2011. Diversity is defined as the inclusiveness of different groups in terms of race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, age, income-based discrimination, gender and any other factors that make individuals or groups different from, but equal to, each other. The author used quantitative content analysis of four popular state and private newspapers and a critical analysis of the main television news bulletin and several talk shows. Overall, the coders analysed a total of 5308 stories that were published on the elections in the four newspapers. They also analysed the main news bulletin and three talk shows on state and private satellite channels. Analysis started a week before and ended a week after each round of the Presidential elections for a total of 32 monitoring days. The research addressed diversity both in terms of the agents featured in the media and the topics mentioned/discussed. The results indicate that, even though the journalistic standards were sometimes reasonable, coverage ignored important issues of substance and all issues related to inclusiveness and diversity as they relate to women, children, the elderly, religious minorities and ethnic minorities. The study concludes that diversity issues are still largely ignored in the Egyptian media.
Who speaks for Islam in Australian newspapers? – The case of the Doveton mosque in Melbourne, Victoria
Authors: Parr Caitlin , Sandner Judith
Published: October 2017

This article provides a discursive analysis of content published in the Berwick Leader, a local newspaper in Melbourne, Victoria, on a proposed and approved mosque in the suburb of Doveton. The mosque development was instigated by the Afghan Mosque Project Committee in 2012 and approved by Casey Council in 2013. Catch the Fire Ministries, led by politician Daniel Nalliah from the Rise Up Australia Party led opposition to the mosque project, appealing to the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT). The opposition centred on the mosque’s physical location next to Catch the Fire Ministries’ proposed church, however the formal appeal was dropped when the church purchased land elsewhere. Database research returned 23 published items from the Berwick Leader relating to the mosque in Green Street, Doveton. Part of the discourse analysis reveals inclusive publishing decisions in terms of community input, with thirteen letters to the editor about the controversial project being selected for publication. Significantly though, the voices identified as being excluded from news reports are those of the Afghan Mosque Project Committee, the representative body for the local Muslim community. It may be argued this form of social exclusion, embedded in journalistic practice, reflects discourses of Orientalism, whereby the Muslim community is relegated to an inferior, strange and threatening ‘other’ in local media reporting. By being denied a voice and right of reply in the reporting on the proposed mosque, the authors posit that the Berwick Leader denied the Muslim community of Doveton recognition and validation as social subjects.
‘To follow or not to follow?’: How Belgian health journalists use Twitter to monitor potential sources
Authors: Van Leuven Sarah , Deprez Annelore
Published: October 2017

Digital technology, the Internet and mobile media are transforming the journalism and media landscape by influencing the news-gathering and sourcing process. The empowering capacities of social media applications may constitute a key element for more balanced news access and ‘inclusive journalism’. We will build on two contrasting views that dominate the social media sourcing debate. On the one hand, the literature shows that journalists of legacy media make use of social media sources to diversify their sourcing network including bottom-up sources such as ordinary citizens. On the other, various authors conclude that journalists stick with their old sourcing routines and continue to privilege top-down elite sources such as experts and government officials. In order to contribute towards this academic debate we want to clarify the Twitter practices of professional Belgian health journalists in terms of how they use the platform to monitor potential sources. Therefore, we examined the 1146 Twitter ‘followings’ of six Belgian health journalists by means of digital methods and social network analysis. Results show that top-down actors are overrepresented in the ‘following’ networks and that Twitter’s ‘following’ function is not used to reach out to bottom-up actors. In the overall network, we found that the health journalists mainly use Twitter as a ‘press club’ to monitor media actors. If we zoom in specifically on the ‘following’ network of the health-related actors, we found that media actors are still important, but experts become the most followed group. Our findings also underwrite the ‘power law’ or the ‘long tail’ distribution of social network sites as very few actors take a central position in the ‘following’ lists while the large majority of actors are not systematically monitored by the journalists.
The hope and hyperbole of social media as a vehicle to promote inclusive journalism
Authors: Sacco Vittoria
Published: October 2017

The influence of social media on promoting an inclusive journalism remains unclear but raises great interest and debate. A total of 22 interviews were run with Swiss media professionals to shed light on journalists and their perception of social media to promote inclusive journalism and, more broadly, an inclusive society during the pre and post Arab revolutions. As a result of these interviews, an analysis is done of how social media helps journalists extend beyond dominant sources and narratives when reporting conflicts and thus promote an inclusive journalism. Findings show that even though social media creates a space where diverse voices can have their say, social media remains an uncertain terrain for journalists to apply judgements whether they are extending on dominant sources and narratives. On social media, journalists must negotiate new professional methods, skills and practices for reporting war and conflict to disrupt effectively dominant voices and narratives.
Building bridges: Inclusive journalism in conflict zones
Authors: Cotza Lorena
Published: October 2017

The media is often said to be a weapon of war. It can contribute to fuel violence and spur ethnic hatred. It is, however, a double edged sword: it can also help de-escalate tensions and restore peace. In order to do so, journalism has to be not only balanced and independent, but it should also have an inclusive approach, giving space to marginalized voices and being sensitive to the needs of the whole community. Analysing different media initiatives in conflict and post-conflict zones (South Sudan, Burundi, Central African Republic and Georgia), this article will explore the following question: can inclusive journalism be a tool to rebuild divided communities? While acknowledging how difficult it is to operate in conflict zones and recognizing the limited impact that inclusive journalism can have, this study will mainly focus on the positive role that media can play and the opportunities it can create.
‘I’ve never interviewed ordinary people. We use them only in vox pops’
Authors: Pesic Milica
Published: October 2017

Media Diversity Institute, a London-based charity, is one of the oldest NGOs working in the field of media and diversity. Its Executive Director Milica Pesic writes about MDI’s experience in getting inclusive journalism practiced, taught and promoted.
Cultural policy for a heroic age
Authors: King Richard
Published: October 2017

If the culture of the Cultural Revolution was as sectarian, monotonous, and predictable as leaders and critics since the late 1970s have claimed, how are we to explain the pervasiveness of the icons and images from that era in the contemporary arts? This article addresses the question by presenting the Cultural Revolution project, driven by Mao’s wife Jiang Qing, of inventing a new socialist culture, portraying a heroic world in the arts as a model for the remoulding of the Chinese nation and its people.
The transformation of Beijing opera: Jiang Qing, Yu Huiyong and yangbanxi
Authors: Ludden Yawen
Published: October 2017

Critics have described the Cultural Revolution as a musical famine, a time when only eight so-called ‘model operas’ (yangbanxi) were performed. In the current article, the author’s interviews with over a 100 persons active in yangbanxi during the Cultural Revolution lead her to a dramatically opposed view, namely that the Cultural Revolution was a period of vigorous musical activity at both the professional and the amateur level. True to its name, yangbanxi served as a model for a new style of socialist performing art designed to engage the masses. Mao’s wife Jiang Qing, who envisioned this new form of Beijing opera, enjoyed a remarkably productive relationship with Yu Huiyong, the composer who brought that vision to fruition. Yangbanxi also inspired the creation of numerous derivative works and its innovative musical techniques reshaped the performing arts in China generally. As a central part of a movement to reform China’s iconic art form, Beijing opera, yangbanxi’s influence continues to the present day. A new generation of established Chinese composers and performers who grew up during the Cultural Revolution openly acknowledge the immense impact that yangbanxi has had on their musical development.
Internationalizing Chairman Mao: Creation of the Mao cult in China Reconstructs and its reception in Latin America
Authors: Zhao Xing
Published: October 2017

Starting from the early 1950s, the China Foreign Languages Publishing Administration launched six kinds of official magazines such as China Reconstructs, People’s China and Peking Review. These publications circulated in large volume during the Cultural Revolution, and played a key role in spreading and perpetuating the Revolution and Maoism internationally. The radical revolutions and rebellions inspired by Mao’s doctrines occurred in multiple countries in Latin America for a long period of time. The phenomena provide case studies and proofs of Mao’s influence through propagandistic materials. This article attempts to delineate the three strategies that are encapsulated in the images in the periodicals. The strategies together create a fetish, in its nuance as a primitive religion or cult of religious superstition, of Maoism and the Maoist revolution. First, an ultimate goal or a possible future is rendered in the socialist realist painting and the staged photography. Second, by turning on a revolutionary mode where everything can be revolutionized, one automatizes the doctrine and creates countless paths through which the ideology can be implemented. Last but not least, international Maoism does not only aim for a result but also requires the consistency in the collective mobility in order to keep the doctrine vital. Here, the visual representation is more than resemblance to the present, but a creator of a futurist new reality if the Revolution perpetuates.
Photography and the Cultural Revolution: A wider aperture, a longer exposure
Authors: Mulloy Martin
Published: October 2017

The Cultural Revolution was not only a political attempt to restructure society in its entirety but a transformation of the world of Chinese visual representation. Photography was a major part of the image world of the Cultural Revolution, serving ideological aims and projecting a coercive revolutionary mode of social and political behaviour. This strict state control of photographic production and dissemination has led to photography, and other forms of visual expression in the Cultural Revolution, being viewed as an exceptional visual culture, framed and understood largely as a phenomenon of propaganda. This reductive view is reflected in the hitherto dominant image world of the Cultural Revolution which has sometimes calcified into a visual discourse of mass rallies and Mao iconography. This article considers the more recent emergence of other photographic records of the period – transgressive images, unofficial and private images, archival research projects – which offer alternative frameworks of mediating contested memories and understanding the history, complexity and consequences of the Cultural Revolution.
Visualizing biopower, discipline and the female body in mid-twentieth century China
Authors: Pittwood Linda Jean
Published: October 2017

This article has two parts: the first discusses whether Foucault’s theories of ‘biopower’ and ‘discipline’ constitute an appropriate method for analysing art – specifically articulating the relationship between art, politics and power – in the context of Chinese Communism. The second section of the article uses these concepts to analyse a public discourse of visual imagery produced in the PRC from approximately the 1940s to the early 1980s that represent the female body. The visual culture artefacts considered in this framework include selected propaganda posters, mostly drawn from the collection of the Shanghai Propaganda Poster Art Center, and photographs by Li Zhensheng, reproduced in his book Red Colour News Soldier (Li 2003).
Propaganda on shellac, vinyl and plastic: The politics of record production during the Cultural Revolution in China (1966–76)
Authors: Steen Andreas
Published: October 2017

When the People’s Republic of China was founded in 1949, Shanghai’s recording industry was nationalized and turned into a propaganda enterprise. For the next decades, the China Record Factory became China’s sole recording company. This article investigates the politics of record production and the development and organization of China’s recording industry. Censorship and control reached its peak during the Cultural Revolution; almost simultaneously the distribution of revolutionary sounds increased via a new record format: flexible plastic records. While revolutionary enthusiasm hit the factories, the goal of spreading the voice of Mao Zedong motivated record production until the late 1960s. Afterwards, however, the narrow record repertoire, ever-changing political slogans and campaigns resulted in a behaviour of avoiding risk that affected the entire industry and severely hampered record distribution and propaganda especially in the provinces.
Labour and art during the Cultural Revolution: An analysis of the sculptural installation Wrath of the Serfs (1975)
Authors: Kyo Yi Yi Mon
Published: October 2017

The following article examines the process of creating the Wrath of the Serfs (1975), a large collective sculptural display completed by art workers from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, the Shenyang Lu Xun Arts Academy and workers from the Tibet Revolution Exhibition Hall. Placing art production in conversation with the idea of dianxing (typical), as developed in model operas during the Cultural Revolution, this article explores the sculptural tableaux and its interaction with developing roles of state art workers. I analyse the creation process of Wrath in order to understand the multivalent ways in which artists were both subjects and objects of gradually forming and shifting visual models of ideal workers in the PRC. By considering common revolutionary prescriptions, such as ‘plunging into the thick of life’ and ‘shifting one’s world-view’ in artists’ experience of this period, the article presents how individual art workers came to identify with the collective. To illuminate the complex ways in which art workers viewed themselves as both part of the collective creative group and as individuals making art, the article considers the complicated ways in which these two trajectories were interwoven. Further, the analysis delves into the nuanced formulation of agency, on the one hand, and ownership, on the other, while placing these two terms within the contemporary rhetorical context of individual sublimation to collective identity.
Making a new world and a new people: Cold War, Maoist austere architecture and the ‘Rammed-earth Campaign’, 1966–76
Authors: Liu Zixian
Published: October 2017

After the Sino-Soviet split in the 1960s, Mao’s China replaced the Soviet way of urban planning with a new campaign of adopting Chinese vernacular architecture and decentralized Maoist urban planning. This article examines the neglected political intention of the Maoist architectural and urban planning project, the ‘Rammed-earth Campaign’. My study argues that socialist China aimed at shaping itself as a ‘Maoist austere aesthetics regime’ to manufacture a new socialist space and to cultivate a new socialist people who were able to both physically and mentally combat against ‘American imperialism’ and ‘Soviet revisionism’. This article reminds historians that without considering the cultural context of the socialist era, it is impossible to understand China’s urban planning and architecture in the late Mao era.
‘A world where nothing is solved’: Investigating the Anthropocene in True Detective
Authors: Coley Rob
Published: October 2017

In the HBO series True Detective (2014–present), the material world is no mere backdrop. It is not a neutral geography against which the theatre of human drama takes place, nor does it simply take the form of a psychological landscape, understood as an expression of the interior terrain of the show’s protagonists. This particular crime drama does not rely on the stabilizing dualism of exterior/interior, nor does it concern itself with an interaction between these apparently separate realms. Instead, True Detective deals with the consequences of living as part of a world in which such dualisms – and the humanist assumptions upon which they are based – are subject to mass extinction, a world in which a long-held belief in the separability of culture and nature, of free will and determinism, of the organic and the technological, is no longer tenable. Here, far from peripheral to practices of detection and investigation, the material world is an active agent inseparably entangled in such practices. In this article I contend that True Detective maps present trauma concerning a geohistorical period scientists have designated the Anthropocene, and, in doing so, radically exploits a crisis in the anthropocentric conventions of the genre.
Nostalgia for the giant robot: The appropriation of Japanese pop culture in Philippine media
Authors: Fondevilla Herb L.
Published: October 2017

This article describes the influences of Japanese popular culture on Philippine media through television shows and local advertising. As the generation raised on Japanese animation has grown up, their connection to Japanese culture is presently being manifested through their creative work. As a result, Japanese popular culture has become a part of Philippine nostalgia and is also being used as a powerful marketing tool towards young people. It continues to be prevalent in the Philippines despite having little to no support from the ‘Cool Japan’ project from MOFA. This article analyses a selection of media aired between 2006 and 2014 on Philippine television and YouTube, including television shows, advertisements and music videos, in relation to their visual content, sound and language. Following trends in media allows for a deeper consideration of how globalizing influences can affect local cultures and how these are assimilated, manipulated and eventually used for advertising and marketing.
Genre, cycles and sunshine noir television
Authors: Jenner Mareike
Published: October 2017

This article explores the concept of television cycles, using the American sunshine noir cycle as an example. To conceptualize television cycles, this article draws heavily on Amanda Ann Klein’s work on American film cycles and puts the television cycle in relation to notions of genre, sub-genre and individual texts. In a second step, this article will analyse a specific example, the sunshine noir, a cycle present in American television in the 1980s and 1990s and most commonly associated with Miami Vice (1984–89). The sunshine noir is part of the crime genre and describes detective narratives that draw on film noir of the 1930s and 1940s and neo-noir films from the 1980s and 1990s and reconfigure elements of style and narrative to fit the narrative and industrial needs of television.
Castaway on the hyperobject: Getting Lost with Timothy Morton
Authors: Laist Randy
Published: October 2017

Ecocritic and philosopher Timothy Morton introduced the term ‘hyperobjects’ in a blog post in March 2010. Morton elaborates on the concept of the hyperobject in the final chapter of The Ecological Thought (2010), and the term supplies the title of his 2014 book Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World. As Morton was articulating the idea of the hyperobject in the spring of 2010, the final season of the television show Lost (2004–10) was dramatizing the climactic instalments of its six-year narrative about a band of castaways stranded on a time-travelling, globe-trotting island, an uncanny object that exemplifies many of the characteristics Morton associates with hyperobjects. In its representation of the island as an inscrutable object punctuated by absence and mystery, in its examination of the dense interconnectedness of its sprawling human cast, and in its thematic emphasis on the epistemological limits that characterize our understanding of the natural world and even of ourselves, Lost not only presents its own version of Morton’s hyperobject but also suggests many of the same conclusions about the way our encounter with hyperobjects reconfigures our self-understanding and our relationship with the non-human world.
Feeling the past: Television archive material as an affective element in the series Uutishuone
Authors: Pajala Mari
Published: October 2017

Many contemporary television programmes use television archive material in remembering the recent past. While research on memory cultures on television has developed over the past decade, there is very little research on the use of archive material in fiction. This article analyses how archive material functions as an affective element in the Finnish drama series Uutishuone (Newsroom) (2009). The article argues that television archive material in fiction is not just documentary evidence of the past, but can also work as an affective element. Uutishuone uses archive material as an affective element in three ways. First, scenes where characters witness legendary television moments appeal with a sense of experiencing history as it happens. Second, archive material functions as a melodramatic element that expresses the feelings of fictional characters. Third, in some scenes the affective charge of archive material derives from the sense that viewers know more about future developments than the fictional characters. The affective use of archive material enables Uutishuone to articulate ambivalent experiences of gender and socialism in the recent Finnish past.
The interaction of broadcasters, critics and audiences in shaping the cultural meaning and status of television programmes: The public discourse around the second series of Broadchurch
Authors: Rixon Paul
Published: October 2017

The meaning and cultural standing of a television programme is not predetermined or set. Indeed, it changes over time from before the broadcast of the programme, to when it is shown, and after. Over this period, and beyond, different parties will struggle, negotiate and seek consensus over a programme’s status and reception. In this article I will develop a concept of media engagement in relation to such a process. To help delineate this concept I will focus on how broadcasters, critics and the public in the United Kingdom interacted over ITV’s second series of Broadchurch (2013–17). I will explore how the producers created a publicity image of the programme to position it in popular and critical debates. As I do this I will identify some of the main strategies being followed by media organizations and the related textual and discursive devices utilized in their publicity output to achieve these aims. I will then seek to identify and explore how critics and audiences responded to the broadcaster’s publicity image. However, as I argue, while, with the use of social media, the importance of the public might have increased in such debates, the broadcaster and critic still have a role in framing such discussions and, at least for the critic, in providing a final summation of the public mediated discussion once a programme has finished its run.
Reality TV gets real about marriage equality: Project Runway’s ‘Tie the Knot’ episode
Authors: Weiss David
Published: October 2017

While reality television is not typically associated with acts of political advocacy or the endorsement of pro-social causes, on occasion the genre is capable of making such contributions, including participation in the cultural debate over LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) equality. The present article analyses ‘Tie the Knot’, an episode of the acclaimed fashion-design competition reality series Project Runway (2004-present) produced shortly before the United States Supreme Court’s 2013 rulings opening the door for marriage-equality legislation in the United States. I discuss the various ways the ‘Tie the Knot’ episode was noteworthy as a reality television text, a participant in the debate over same-sex marriage and an advocate for marriage equality. While ‘Tie the Knot’ broke new ground for the Runway series and the reality genre, at the same time the episode revealed limitations regarding how far its producers were willing to go in expressing their support for a controversial political cause and raised questions about the varying universalizing tendencies of mainstream media framings of same-sex marriage.
Reviews
Authors: Samuel Michael , Spicer Andrew , Smith Matt Boyd , Hallam Lindsay
Published: October 2017

Lifestyle TV, Laurie Ouellette (2016) New York and London: Routledge, 194 pp., ISBN: 9781138784857, p/bk, £18.99

The Format Age: Television’s Entertainment Revolution, Jean K. Chalaby (2016) Cambridge: Polity Press, 232 pp., ISBN: 9781509502592, p/bk, £16.99 (pb); h/bk, £55.00

American TV Detective Dramas, Mareike Jenner (2015) London: Palgrave Macmillan, 198 pp., ISBN: 9781137425669, h/bk, £58.00; e-book, £45.99

Return to Twin Peaks: New Approaches to Materiality, Theory, and Genre on Television, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock and Catherine Spooner (eds) (2016) Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 262 pp., ISBN: 78113755695, h/bk, £60.00; e-book £47.99

TV Peaks: Twin Peaks and the Modern Television Drama, Andreas Halsko v (2015) Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark, 300 pp., ISBN: 9788776749064, p/bk, £24.38
Godots arrivent: More morality plays for our times
Authors: Coilféir Máirtín
Published: October 2017

This article looks at two sequels to Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot: Alan Titley’s Tagann Godot (Godot Arrives) (1991), originally written in Irish, and Daniel Curzon’s Godot Arrives (2002), written in English. Although Curzon knew nothing about the earlier work of Titley, the article traces numerous stylistic and thematic similarities between the sequels and attempts to explain those similarities by drawing on the concept of carnivalized literature as elucidated by Mikhail Bakhtin. Both works are read as morality plays attacking a contemporary consumerist culture and the article concludes with an argument for Bakhtinian carnival as a particularly apt framework for analysing many other fictional critiques of modern consumerism.
Delegated performance: Interdisciplinary tensions, provocations and questions
Authors: Prendergast Monica
Published: October 2017

Art historian and critic Claire Bishop and theatre/performance scholar Jen Harvie have each written about a relatively new form of socially engaged participatory performance art that Bishop calls ‘delegated performance’. Delegated performance differs from earlier forms of performance art in that the performance is delegated to other people (hired or volunteer), including (at times) spectators, who enact the piece, rather than the piece being carried out by the artist herself. This set of poetically informed microlectures examines delegated performance in the attempt to glean interdisciplinary understandings about how the delegation of performance happens in drama education and applied theatre. What might those who work and research in these fields consider as issues surrounding the delegating performance? Of what value is this notion in assisting in thinking about practice? Examples of delegated performance are drawn from Bishop and Harvie and additional sources and considered for the ethical questions and provocations they raise. In light of this investigation, drama educators and applied theatre facilitators are recommended to consider how much and in what ways they are delegating performance with students/participants, and to what effect.
Reviews
Authors: Badham Cath , Beswick Katie , Chiasson Basil , Corbett Poppy , Katafiasz Kate , Pattie David , Price Jason , Walsh Aylwyn
Published: October 2017

Ethical Speculations in Contemporary British Theatre, Mireia Aragay and Enric Monforte (eds) (2014) Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 216 pp., ISBN: 9781137297563, hbk, £66.99

Theatricality, Dark Tourism and Ethical Spectatorship: Absent Others, Emma Willis (2014) Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 248 pp., ISBN: 9781137322647, hbk, £53.00

Performance in the Blockades of Neoliberalism: Thinking the Political Anew, Studies in International Performance Series, Maurya Wickstrom (2012) Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 224 pp., ISBN: 9780230247215, hbk, £56

Postdramatic Theatre and the Political, Karen Jürs-Munby, Jerome Carroll and Steve Giles (eds) (2013) London: Bloomsbury, 324 pp., ISBN: 9781408184868, pbk, £19.99

Theatres of Immanence: Deleuze and the Ethics of Performance, Laura Cull (2012) Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 302 pp., ISBN: 9780230319523, hbk, £55.00

Theatre & Violence, Lucy Nevitt (2013) Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 96pp., ISBN: 9781137302274, pbk, £6:00

Theatre of Good Intentions: Challenges and Hopes for Theatre and Social Change, Dani Snyder-Young (2013) Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 156 pp., ISBN: 9781137293022, hbk, £50.00

South African Performance and Archives of Memory, Yvette Hutchinson (2013) Manchester: Manchester University Press, 238 pp., ISBN: 9780719083730, hbk, £65.00
A study of frequent itemset mining techniques
Authors: Sharma Sachin , Bhatia Shaveta
Published: October 2017

Frequent item set is the most crucial and expensive task for the industry today. It is the task of mining the information from different sources and a key approach in Data Mining. Frequent item sets satisfying the minimum threshold can be discovered. Association rules are extracted from frequent item sets. The Association rules are affected by the minimum support value entered by the user may be considered as Positive or negative. There may be some other Association rules, which involve the rare item sets. Various methods have been used by researchers for generating the Association Rules. In this paper, our aim is to study various techniques to generate the Association rules.
La evaluación como mecanismo de regulación del trabajo académico. Estudio de casos en universidades de Argentina y España
Authors: Walker Verónica Soledad
Published: October 2017

El artículo focaliza en la evaluación como mecanismo de regulación del campo universitario y su incidencia en el trabajo académico. Se triangula el análisis de la literatura especializada con los datos obtenidos en una investigación que abordó las políticas de evaluación del trabajo docente en Argentina y España. El análisis realizado permite advertir que los procesos de evaluación propician formas de organización del trabajo académico caracterizadas por el individualismo, las acciones estratégicas, el simulacro, la competencia, la burocratización y el estrés. Se concluye que la evaluación constituye un instrumento de subjetivación que configura particulares formas de habitar la universidad.
O controle social no planejamento municipal da educação no Brasil
Authors: Souza Donaldo Bello de , Alcântara Alzira Batalha
Published: October 2017

Durante processo de redemocratização do Brasil (1980s), o controle social passa a ser compreendido como controle da sociedade civil sobre o Estado para a construção de um novo projeto de cunho emancipador, democrático e participativo. A partir da década de 1990, este viria a ser despolitizado por perspectivas conservadoras e neoliberais criando canais de participação instrumentais, burocratizados, segmentados e pouco descentralizados. O presente artigo trata da problemática do controle social no âmbito do planejamento municipal da educação, enfocando os Conselhos de Acompanhamento e Controle Social (CACS) e os Conselhos Municipais de Educação (CMEs). Toma-se por base empírica 20 (95%) dos 21 Planos Municipais de Educação (PMEs) da Região Metropolitana do Rio de Janeiro (RMRJ) consoantes ao novo Plano Nacional de Educação (PNE) para o decênio 2014-2024, visando analisar o papel atribuído a esses órgãos colegiados no controle social local da educação. Conclui-se que os PMEs estudados refletiram as disposições do PNE em torno do controle social e dos órgãos correlatos (CACS e CMEs), mas de forma esparsa e fragmentada, à margem da incorporação sistemática dessas ações e dos Conselhos no conjunto de decisões, quadro que pode ser considerado tímido e prescritivamente exíguo. É possível também afirmar que tais resultados exprimem a continuidade de uma insuficiência prescritiva que se arrasta desde o planejamento decenal anterior (2001-2011), uma vez que esses planos não atribuíram lugar de destaque aos Conselhos , enfraquecendo o controle social sistemático da educação, quer em termos municipais e intermunicipais, quer ao nível do planejamento metropolitano.
A customized resistivity system for monitoring saturation and seepage in earthen levees: installation and validation
Authors: Arosio Diego , Munda Stefano , Tresoldi Greta , Papini Monica , Longoni Laura , Zanzi Luigi
Published: October 2017

This work is based on the assumption that a resistivity meter can effectively monitor water saturation in earth levees and can be used as a warning system when saturation exceeds the expected seasonal maxima. We performed time-lapse ERT measurements to assess the capability of this method to detect areas where seepage is critical. These measurements were also very useful to design a prototype monitoring system with remarkable savings by customizing the specifications according to field observations. The prototype consists of a remotely controlled low-power resistivity meter with a spread of 48 stainless steel 20 × 20 cm plate electrodes buried at half-meter depth. We deployed the newly-designed permanent monitoring system on a critical levee segment. A weather station and an ultrasonic water level sensor were also installed in order to analyse the correlation of resistivity with temperature, rainfalls and water level seasonal variations.

The preliminary analysis of the monitoring data shows that the resistivity maps follow a very reasonable trend related with the saturation/drying cycle of the levee caused by the seasonal variations of the water level in the irrigation channel. Sharp water level changes cause delayed and smooth resistivity variations. Rainfalls and, to a lesser extent, temperature seem to have an influence on the collected data but effects are apparently negligible beyond 1 m depth. The system is currently operating and results are continuously monitored.
Reassessing the significance of the PAH c.158G>A (p.Arg53His) variant in patients with hyperphenylalaninemia
Authors: Choi Rihwa , Lee Jeongho , Park Hyung-Doo , Park Jong Eun , Kim Yong Hyuk , Ki Chang-Seok , Lee Soo-Youn , Song Junghan , Kim Jong-Won , Lee Dong Hwan
Published: October 2017

Background:

The accurate interpretation of sequence variation is critical for successful molecular diagnoses. It is also fundamental to the accurate diagnosis and treatment of phenylketonuria (PKU). This study aims to evaluate the significance of the c.158G>A (p.Arg53His) variant in the

Methods:

Seven unrelated Korean patients with HPA genotyped with the c.158G>A variant were included in this study. The variant c.158G>A was classified by the standards and guidelines for the interpretation of sequence variants by the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics and the Association for Molecular Pathology.

Results:

By both directly collecting genetic data and comprehensively reviewing the existing literature, we found that this variant is more appropriately classified as “Likely benign” rather than pathogenic. The allele’s frequency is 2.57% in the general Korean population, which was greater than expected for phenylketonuria. This variant was observed to be homozygous in healthy subjects and was also observed in

Conclusions:

This study expands our understanding of the consequences of variation in
A Coasean View of Stateless Commerce
Authors: Richman Barak
Published: October 2017

This short essay, delivered at a panel meeting entitled “The Legacy of Ronald Coase,” documents the influence of Coase’s work on the recently published book, Stateless Commerce.
Synthesis and crystal structure of bis{1-(((4-(1-(hydroxyimino)ethyl)phenyl)imino)methyl)naphthalen-2-olato-κ2
O,N}copper(II), C38H30CuN4O4
Authors: Li Peng-Peng , Zhao Li , Zhao Ji-Xing , Zhu Zhao-Bin , Wang Fei , An Qin-Qin
Published: October 2017

C38H30CuN4O4, triclinic, P1̅ (no. 2), a = 8.3882(7) Å, b = 8.5024(9) Å, c = 11.3649(15) Å, α = 89.960(10)°, β = 69.689(10)°, γ = 80.269(8)°, Z = 1, V = 747.73(15) Å3, R
gt(F) = 0.0701, wR
ref(F
2) = 0.1308, T = 294.68(10) K.
The crystal structure of oxonium chlorido-ethylenediaminetetraactetotin(IV) hydrate, C10H17ClN2O10Sn
Authors: Fu Zhihai , Chen Bo , He Aidang , Lv Xia , Wei Xin , Feng Xiaojie , Huang Chao , Xia ChuanQin , Jin Yongdong
Published: October 2017

C10H17ClN2O10Sn, triclinic, P1 (no. 1), a = 6.6666(3) Å, b = 6.6892(4) Å, c = 8.8779(6) Å, α = 101.340(5)°, β = 99.624(5)°, γ = 91.279(4)°, V = 382.08(4) Å3, Z = 1, R
gt(F) = 0.0318, wR
ref(F
2) = 0.0726, T = 294 K.
Crystal structure of triethylammonium bis{3-(((3-oxidonaphthalen-1-yl)methylene)amino)-2-oxo-2H-chromen-4-olato-κ3
O,N,O′}manganese(III), C46H38MnN3O8
Authors: Li Jing , Jia Hao-Ran , Sun Yin-Xia
Published: October 2017

C46H38MnN3O8, triclinic P1̅ (no. 2), a = 8.9705(6) Å, b = 12.0309(8) Å, c = 18.4209(13) Å, α = 96.303(2)°, β = 103.884(2)°, γ = 101.636(2)°, Z = 2, V = 1864.0(2) Å3, R
gt(F) = 0.0496, wR
ref(F
2) = 0.1274, T = 296 K.
Crystal structure of bis(4,4,5,5-tetramethyl-1,3,2-dioxaborolane)-9,9-dioctylfluorene, C41H64B2O4
Authors: Liu Yingfan , Mao Kaiming , Li Xiaochuan , Son Young-A
Published: October 2017

C41H64B2O4, triclinic P1̅ (no. 2), a = 12.8189(8) Å, b = 13.4808(9) Å, c = 14.1592(12) Å, α = 110.394(3)°, β = 90.170(1)°; γ = 115.623(3)°; V = 2033.5(3) Å3, Z = 2, R
gt(F) = 0.0562, wR
ref(F
2) = 0.1629 , T = 296 K.
Crystal structure of 1-{4-[(5-Chloro-2-hydroxy-benzylidene)amino]phenyl} ethanone O-ethyl-oxime, C17H17ClN2O2
Authors: Zhao Ji-Xing , Zhao Li , Liu Guo-Hua , Li Peng-Peng , Zhu Zhao-Bin
Published: October 2017

C17H17ClN2O2, monoclinic, Pc (no. 7), a = 17.789(2) Å, b = 7.1127(7) Å, c = 6.2885(6) Å, β = 97.513(10)°, Z = 2, V = 788.83(15) Å3, R
gt(F) = 0.0600, wR
ref(F
2) = 0.1651, T = 290.83(10) K.
Synthesis and crystal structure of 1-{4-[(2-hydroxy-benzylidene)amino]phenyl}ethanone oxime, C15H14N2O2
Authors: Li Peng-Peng , Zhao Li , Liu Guo-Hua , Zhao Ji-Xing , Zhu Zhao-Bin
Published: October 2017

C15H14N2O2, monoclinic, P21/c (no. 14), a = 13.5809(12) Å, b = 9.7794(14) Å, c = 9.8883(9) Å, β = 97.972(9)°, Z = 4, V = 1300.6(3) Å3, R
gt(F) = 0.0635, wR
ref(F
2) = 0.1758, T = 291(2) K.
Crystal structure of 5,5-difluoro-10-(4-fluorophenyl)-1,3,7,9-tetramethyl-5H-4l4,5l4-dipyrrolo[1,2-c:2′,1′-f][1,3,2]diazaborinine - a Z′ = 3 structure, C19H18B2F3N2
Authors: Liu Yingfan , Yan Ming , Li Xiaochuan , Li Yajuan , Son Young-A
Published: October 2017

C19H18B2F3N2, triclinic, P1̅ (no. 2), a = 10.8885(6) Å, b = 13.9767(8) Å, c = 18.1330(10) Å, α = 79.3484(19)°, β = 86.2213(9)°; γ = 73.461(2)°; V = 2599.6(3) Å3, Z = 6, R
gt(F) = 0.0450, wR
ref(F
2) = 0.1105, T = 296 K.
The crystal structure of tris(μ2-1,3-bis(4,4,4-trifluoro-3-oxido-1-(oxo)but-2-en-1-yl)phenyl-κ4
O,O′:O′′,O′′′)-bis(1,2-dimethoxyethane-κ2
O,O′)dilutetium(III), C50H38F18Lu2O16
Authors: Zhao WeiCan , Shi Jing , Hou YanJun
Published: October 2017

C50H38F18Lu2O16, monoclinic, C2/c (no. 15), a = 15.7024(12) Å, b = 12.6169(10) Å, c = 29.715(2) Å, β = 91.919(10)°, V = 5883.7(8) Å3, Z = 4, R
gt(F) = 0.0273, wR
ref(F
2) = 0.066, T = 273 K.
Synthesis and crystal structure of trans-tetraqua-bis(2-(((7-hydroxy-3-(4-hydroxy-3-sulfonatophenyl)-4-oxo-4H-chromen-8-yl)methyl)ammonio)acetato-κO)cobalt(II) hexahydrate, C36H48CoN2O28S2
Authors: Chen Hai-Lin , Lai Hong-Fang , Wei Lian-Qiang , Jiang Li-Rong , Su Yan-Xiang
Published: October 2017

C36H48CoN2O28S2, monoclinic, P21/c (no. 14), a = 18.2239(13) Å, b = 7.1282(6) Å, c = 17.8550(13) Å, β = 97.883(2)°, V = 2297.5(3) Å3, Z = 2, R
gt(F) = 0.0906, wR
ref(F
2) = 0.1998, T = 293(2) K.
Crystal structure of 2,8-diphenyl-3,7,9-trioxa-1-azaspiro[4.5]dec-1-ene, C18H17N1O3
Authors: Zhang Min , Li Zhong-Yan , Yuan Xian-You , Yuan Lin
Published: October 2017

C18H17N1O3, monoclinic, P21/c (no. 14), a = 14.9752(8) Å, b = 9.0793(5) Å, c = 11.1030(6) Å, β = 106.431(1)°, V = 1447.96(14) Å3, Z = 4, R
gt(F) = 0.0342, wR
ref(F
2) = 0.0903, T = 296(2) K.