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“Focus on the Housewife”: the BBC and the Post-war Woman, 1945-1955
Authors: Skoog Kristin
Published: February 2020

Within British women’s history, historians have illuminated the complexity of British post-war society and the particular role played by women within it. Studies show that the post-war woman was considered a significant citizen, crucial for the rebuilding of Britain, both as a worker and as a mother. Building on work within women’s and radio history, the aim of my research is to explore the relationship between the BBC and women in this period. In this paper, I will argue that, through radio, British women were given a voice, as workers and as housewives. This was, however, not without difficulties. The paper also highlights the complexity of the female radio audience and the struggle that faced broadcasters. The material under discussion reflects the changes and negotiations that were taking place in society at that time, and the paper emphasises the important role played by female listeners and by women’s radio in Britain.
The Representation of Motherhood in Post-socialist Chinese Cinema
Authors: Hao Huili
Published: February 2020

Critics agree that the mother figure has consistently played an important role in Chinese cinema. But this topic has rarely been addressed. This paper will explore what others mother figures can be found in Chinese cinema from 1990 onwards besides the mainstream representation of motherhood that carries both the national modernization and the women’s traditional merits. In this paper, I shall investigate three paradigms of the representation of motherhood in Chinese films since 1990s. The first paradigm is the Exemplary Mother, which seeks to construct the main discourse of motherhood through complying with the main-stream ideology. The second paradigm is the Transgressive Mother, which resists the myth of the good mother. The third paradigm the Consistent Mother in Chinese feminist films, which concerns the mother’s subjectivity and experience, emphasizing the strong bonding between mother and daughter, and normally giving them a positive future.
Underworld vs the World of Darkness: Players and Filmgoers Respond to a Legal Battle
Authors: Ward Rachel Mizsei
Published: February 2020

Even before its release, Underworld (2003) had proved controversial following a legal action for copyright infringement from White Wolf, a games publisher, and Nancy A Collins, a horror writer. Reaction was marked among White Wolf fans who debated the case in forums on both gaming and film sites. A significant number of fans were deeply critical of the actions of White Wolf, and they were more concerned about being able to see ‘their’ World of Darkness on screen than demonstrating loyalty to the company. This paper will explain the case and examine the reactions of fans at the time.
‘I Will Survive’: Forty Years of Amber Films and the Evolution of Regional Film Policy
Authors: O'Reilly Paul
Published: February 2020

This article explores the academically neglected yet frequently contentious issue of regional film policy in the UK, via an analysis of the financial history of a single cultural filmmaking collective, Amber Films. Based in the North East of England, since 1969 Amber has created a rich oeuvre informed by a strong social realist ethos, and underpinned by collaborative working practices which attempt to integrate local communities into all aspects of production and exhibition. Despite the remarkable achievements the group and its work have engendered, the narrative of economic survival that frames its history is as fascinating as any formulated during the development of its feature films. Due to the fluctuating dynamics of the company’s relationships with a number of key film funding institutions and initiatives, the example of Amber provides an illuminating insight into the ambiguous paradigms that have dominated evolving cultural policies and procedures over the last four decades.
‘A straight heterosexual film’: Masculinity, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in "Saturday Night Fever"
Authors: Christodoulou Stelios
Published: February 2020

Underpinning "Saturday Night Fever"’s representation of masculinity is a seeming paradox, exemplified in Pauline Kael’s disclaimer that ‘it’s a straight heterosexual film’ despite the obvious similarities to "Scorpio Rising"’s gay bikers. While Tony Manero is represented as a sexist, homophobic, and racist heterosexual man, he also indulges in the traditionally feminizing activities of disco dancing and self-grooming. This article explores the construction of Tony Manero’s masculinity by taking a closer look at these two activities and situating their cinematic representation in the American cultural context of the late 70s. In the case of disco, a distinction between disco’s gay origins and subsequent entry into mainstream culture explains "Fever"’s hetero-normative version of disco. The article subsequently turns the attention to the film’s grooming scene, which poses less easily redeemable challenges to Tony’s machismo through intertextual and contextual references to homosexuality. I extrapolate between possible explanations, drawing on Richard Dyer’s work on representation and the discourse on the 70s men’s liberation movement. In the article’s final section, I turn the attention to the connections between masculinity and ethnicity, examining how the 70s revival of ethnicity proposed a historically specific a model of the Italian-American man, unencumbered by the requirements of new masculinities. I argue that "Fever" replicates this model to infuse into the representation of Tony Manero styles and behaviours that would have otherwise signified homosexuality.
“Please Baby, take me Back”: Homo-social Bonds in the Contemporary British Biopic
Authors: Robinson Matthew
Published: February 2020

Using textual analysis, this article offers a comparison between the homo-social bonds represented in "The Damned United" and those in "The King’s Speech". The article traces a pattern in which a powerful and dominant male suffers a professional crisis which is only overcome through the support of an intimate male friendship that is fixed as heterosexual though marginalised female figures. In both films, the central characters are rehabilitated into success only after a humbling and emotional acceptance of their need for support that positions them within the terms of ‘new man-ism’. However, because this is couched through homo-social couplings, rather than the heterosexual, the films mark the hybridisation of machismo and ‘new man-ism’ that were previously seen as alternative masculinities.
Introduction
Authors: Freeman Matthew
Published: February 2020

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Introduction: Protest in the New Media Ecology
Authors: Darmon Keren
Published: February 2020

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Authorship and Authenticity in the Transmedia Brand: The Case of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Authors: Hadas Leora
Published: February 2020

The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is the first filmmaking endeavour of its kind: multiple separate superhero films taking place within a single diegetic world, united in a single sequel, The Avengers (2012). The third highest-grossing film in history, The Avengers drew not only on the success of its prequels, its established characters and its stars, but perhaps most of all on its writer-director, cult favourite television auteur Joss Whedon. Having delivered on the film, and with considerable experience in creating quirky, character-based telefantasy, Whedon was a natural choice for Marvel for creating the MCU's first expansion into television, ABC’s Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.LD (ABC Studios/Marvel Television/Mutant Enemy, 2013- ). This article examines the use of Whedon's name and his presence in the promotional discourse of Agents of S.H.I.E.LD as a case study of the role of the media creator in extending the transmedia brand. With the names of creators becoming increasingly visible in association with many texts where they were previously absent, such as television series and blockbuster Hollywood cinema, the use of the author name as a brand name sees growing prevalence across the screen industries. In theorizing transmedia storytelling, Elizabeth Evans (2010) has, accordingly, named authorship as one of the key dimensions in which cohesion is established. In this context, I examine the use of Whedon's involvement in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, where the discourse of authorship operates as a guarantor of consistency and authenticity. Looking at the promotional surround of the series in the form of trailers, interviews and convention panels, I track the writer-director's function in validating the brand extension, acting as the glue that holds the transmedia universe together. I examine Whedon's place within the matrix of the franchise, as his authorship is incorporated into and potentially competes with Marvel Studios' own brand.
An Argument across Time and Space: Mediated Meetings in Grizzly Man
Authors: Griffiths Trent
Published: February 2020

In Werner Herzog’s 2005 documentary Grizzly Man, charting the life and tragic death of grizzly bear protectionist Timothy Treadwell, the medium of documentary film becomes a place for the metaphysical meeting of two filmmakers otherwise separated by time and space. The film is structured as a kind of ‘argument’ between Herzog and Treadwell, reimagining the temporal divide of past and present through the technologies of documentary filmmaking. Herzog’s use of Treadwell’s archive of video footage highlights the complex status of the filmic trace in documentary film, and the possibilities of documentary traces to create distinct affective experiences of time. This paper focuses on how Treadwell is simultaneously present and absent in Grizzly Man, and how Herzog’s decision to structure the film as a ‘virtual argument’ with Treadwell also turns the film into a self-reflexive project in which Herzog reconsiders and re-presents his own image as a filmmaker. With reference to Herzog’s notion of the ‘ecstatic truth’ lying beneath the surface of what the documentary camera records, this article also considers the ethical implications of Herzog’s use of Treadwell’s archive material to both tell Treadwell’s story and work through his own authorial identity.
Introduction: Othering Race and Ethnicity in Media and Popular Culture
Authors: Sanz Sabido Ruth
Published: February 2020

This is an introduction to the Special Issue, 'Othering Race and Ethnicity in Media and Popular Culture'
Othering Racialised Femininity in Hip-Hop Journalism
Authors: Panuzzo Barbara Anna
Published: February 2020

This paper investigates the gender and racial traits of female performative identity in hip-hop journalism. This is achieved through an evaluation of the editorial strategies that inform hip-hop femininity in relation to the commercial agendas of the artists and the record companies and management teams behind them. This paper demonstrates that the editorial and artistic agendas that inform the hip-hop press produce gender and race-specific discourses which Other female hip-hop artists. The methodological approach to the research utilises discourse analysis to investigate narrative texts and images in selected US hip-hop magazines, and qualitative interviews with their main editors and journalists. The analysis indicates that articulations of identity in hip-hop journalism seem rooted in the fetishisation of the Black female body – a strategy of Othering that paradoxically possesses a counter-hegemonic value in its resistant approach to normative gender and race discourses. The journalistic mediations of hip-hop womanhood present, therefore, some of the socio-cultural challenges posed by hip-hop feminism, such as the double jeopardy of the assertive reclamation of female sexuality and the compliance with race-specific sexist discourse. Moreover, this paper shows that notions of gender and race mediated by the hip-hop press are commercially driven, as they appear to be informed by interdependent financial interests of artists, press and record industries. In this context, an important insight is that female artists appear to be complicit in their own Othering through the production of mediated performative identities which undermine their position as authentic performers.
“Bring in the Audience!” Exploring an Interdisciplinary Approach to Investigating Audience Reactions to Mediated Distant Suffering
Authors: Huiberts Eline , Joye Stijn
Published: February 2020

Scholarly work on audience reactions to mediated distant suffering tends to focus on the moral, ethical and/or emotional aspects involved (Höijer 2001; Chouliaraki 2006; Scott 2014) while there is also a bias in foregrounding negative reactions such as denial, skepticism or indifference (Moeller 1999; Seu 2010). Hence, more complex and qualified aspects of audience reception risk staying under-explored in future scholarly work. This article acknowledges the complex nature and identifies a broad range of aspects (psychological, cultural, sociological,…) that can influence people’s attitude towards distant societies and suffering. The objective is to explore different processes and aspects that can be integrated in research on audience reactions to images of distant suffering, from different disciplines within social sciences. Cultural anthropology and sociology of new media are briefly discussed in this regard while social psychology is looked in more closely. An interdisciplinary theoretical basis is quintessential in understanding the audience and its complex relation to distant suffering. In this respect, the presented article responds to the call for more empirical and theoretical audience research in the field of mediated suffering by taking the first step towards interdisciplinary and multi-methodological research (Joye 2013; Ong 2014; Orgad and Seu 2014).
A Japanese Approach to Haptic/Multimodal Art Practice and Perception
Authors: Sosnowska Emilia
Published: February 2020

This paper reflects a fraction of research which sets out to examine the complex constructions and debates underpinning visual culture theory, and assesses its adequacy as the main theoretical framework with which to engage in contemporary interactive art. The treatment presents digital art in Japan with its roots in traditional East Asian philosophy giving the senses a prominent role in perceiving the world and enabling perfect symbiosis between humans and machines. This paper points out the expansion of this culturally and traditionally inspired spirituality from its natural and cultural context to contemporary digitally mediated environments. This is accomplished through an analysis of digital interactive work by specific artists located in Japan, such as Kumiko Kushiyama, Masaki Fujihata and Ryota Kuwakubo.
Operation Protective Edge 2014: Holding Language and Gaza Hostage
Authors: Bratchford Gary
Published: February 2020

Examining the Israeli military operation against Gaza during the summer months of 2014, this paper firstly examines how Israel ‘took language hostage’ to justify the multifaceted punishment of the Palestinian. I will identify how this use of language helps to frame Israel’s actions as democratic by acting in defence, a process articulated throughout previous military operations. Such a process is implicit within the dominant political imaginary that constitutes much of the popular discourse that shapes the Israeli relationship with the Palestinian. Secondly, I will draw attention to the critical documentary photography practice of Gianluca Panella’s 2013 World Press award winning series Black Out. Making comparisons to work produced in the West Bank by Israeli Photographer Gaston Ickowicz, I will highlight how Panella’s work goes someway to addressing how to visually articulate a society brought to the ‘brink’, while also being artifacts that communicate the trace of ongoing-catastrophisation.
The Digital Occupation of Gaza: An Interview with Helga Tawil-Souri
Authors: Dawes Simon
Published: February 2020

In this contribution to a Special Issue on Mediatizing Gaza, the author interviews Helga Tawil-Souri on the significance of digital technology to the Israeli occupation of Gaza. In discussing this, she covers the extent to which Israel’s military, territorial, infrastructural and technological control over Gaza can be considered an occupation and example of settler colonialism. The interview focuses, however, on the processes by which both Israeli occupation and Palestinian attempts at resistance are technologically-mediated and increasingly digitalized. Ultimately, this interview is concerned with explicating the dialectical relation between the digital and the territorial, and critiquing the neoliberal logic that underlies the infrastructural arrangements that make Palestinians dependent upon, yet segregated from, Israel.
Induction, Deduction and Transduction: On the Aesthetics and Logic of Digital Objects
Authors: Hui Yuk
Published: February 2020

The article questions the two dominant views on media aesthetics – one takes the empiricist stance, and the other pushes forwards a media-technological a priori – in order to posit a third view. This view is transcendental empiricism, which one can trace in the work of Gilbert Simondon and Gilles Deleuze. This article demonstrates this argument with the example of digital objects – the new form of industrial objects composed of data and metadata – and proposes to investigate their aesthetics by articulating three logical operators – induction, deduction and transduction – as correlations to the three views mentioned above.
Performing ‘Readings’: The Interplay of Theatre And Digital Comics In Tezuka
Authors: Bremgartner Mathias P.
Published: February 2020

The article investigates the intriguing interplay of digital comics and live-action elements in a detailed performance analysis of TeZukA (2011) by choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. This dance theatre production enacts the life story of Osamu Tezuka and some of his famous manga characters, interweaving performers and musicians with large-scale projections of the mangaka’s digitised comics. During the show, the dancers perform different ‘readings’ of the projected manga imagery: e.g. they swipe panels as if using portable touchscreen displays, move synchronously to animated speed lines, and create the illusion of being drawn into the stories depicted on the screen. The main argument is that TeZukA makes visible, demonstrates and reflects upon different ways of delivering, reading and interacting with digital comics. In order to verify this argument, the paper uses ideas developed in comics and theatre studies to draw more specifically on the use of digital comics in this particular performance.
Negotiating Conflict: A Discussion of Interactive Documentary as Constructive Storytelling in Societies Emerging from Conflict
Authors: McRoberts Jamie
Published: February 2020

Storytelling is often cited as an important device for recovery and transformation in societies emerging from war and conflict. When official storytelling processes are problematic or non-existent, the process of addressing a conflicted past is often tackled creatively. Existing forms of unofficial storytelling have been identified as therapeutic and empowering but also as having limitations. The potential of an emerging form of narrative representation known as interactive documentary has been used to help negotiate themes of conflict, but remains under-researched. This paper explores four modes of interactivity (Gaudenzi 2013) and applies key factors in Jessica Senehi’s (2002) constructive storytelling to explore essential commonalities and differences between the two. The paper argues that interactive documentary has the potential to offer a unique contribution to the negotiation of complex and contested narratives of conflict but may contain limitations depending on how technologies are applied to realise the aims of constructive storytelling.
A Holistic Approach to the Mechanisms of Music Engagement
Authors: Ibañez Cantí Anna
Published: February 2020

Meaning is encoded in the production and decoded by the audience during the consumption, which is why it is a process of constant feedback. Each person experiences meaningful connotations in relation to their favourite music, hence music occupies a particular position in each one’s life and within the cultural life of particular individuals and groups.   Music meaning and emotion has been studied by David Carr (2004), who wonders if emotion is intrinsic in music, or if it is a symbolic representation – or rather if emotions are projected from the listener onto the music. Like Akio Morita (the co-founder of Sony, and the person behind Sony Walkman), Jean Baudrillard argues that meaning does not reside in an object but in how that object is used (Du Gay et al. 1997, 90). Is there a relation between what music means to an individual and his/her preference for a particular genre?   The methodological approach is mainly qualitative. I have analysed 215 responses to an online questionnaire, and followed this with an analysis of 8 semi-structured in-depth interviews. I seek to comprehend the space that music occupies in the net of relationships that constitute culture, and to discover the mechanisms of taste configuration in relation to music-meaning within a holistic approach, encompassing the circuit of culture as a theoretical framework.
Practice, Process, and Product: A self-reflexive inquiry of practice-led research in progress
Authors: Hornum Emily
Published: February 2020

This paper investigates through a series of immersive and interactive installations how traditional notions of family archives have altered due to new media.  Notions regarding the affect this might have on the performance of memory are central to this investigation. My creative praxis is situated within a practice-led research methodological paradigm. As this paper will discuss, practice-led research centralises interdisciplinary practices, fosters a holistic and experimental art-making process and is informed by theoretical frameworks and subjectivity. Photographs, videos and personal belongings are sourced from own family’s archives. Consequently, my research approach positions me as artist, subject and researcher working within a framework that encourages subjectivity and reflexivity. This paper will explore the importance for transitional dialogues in practice-led research between theory and artistic practices, processes and products.
Method through motion – structuring theory and practice for motion graphics in spatial contexts
Authors: Steijn Arthur Maria
Published: February 2020

Contemporary scenography often consists of video-projected motion graphics. The field is lacking in academic methods and rigour: descriptions and models relevant for the creation as well as in the analysis of existing works. In order to understand the phenomenon of motion graphics in a scenographic context, I have been conducting a practice-led research project. Central to the project is construction of a design model describing sets of procedures, concepts and terminology relevant for design and studies of motion graphics in spatial contexts.   The focus of this paper is the role of model construction as a support to working systematically practice-led research project. The design model is being developed through design laboratories and workshops with students and professionals who provide feedback that lead to incremental improvements. Working with this model construction-as-method reveals aspects of the tension between theory and praxis.
Introduction to Fortress Europe: Media, Migration and Borders
Authors: Marino Sara , Dawes Simon
Published: February 2020

This is the Editorial Introduction to the special issue 'Fortress Europe: Media, Migration and Borders'.
What Are We Going to Do about Them? The Centrality of Borders in Fortress Europe
Authors: Marino Sara
Published: February 2020

Confronted with the images that have been reaching us since the influx of refugees entered new dimensions last year in Europe, the term ‘Fortress Europe’ has been used over and over again to identify the continent’s concerns about security. What are we going to do with them? What do we know about them? All European governments seem to agree that a humanitarian state of urgency and emergency is on its way: a crisis of enormous proportions that is threatening the ‘soul’ and ‘authentic spirit’ of Europe. Across the Union, governments have struggled to develop an effective response, and mainly responded by transforming their borders into instruments of exclusion and prevention. This article discusses the centrality of the borders within the current political agenda, by conceptualising them as institutions of power, as processes of identity formation, and as performances. It focuses on the human costs of Fortress Europe, and its ongoing fight against the unwanted.
Europe Says OXI: “Online Camaraderie” and European Crisis
Authors: Alinejad Donya
Published: February 2020

This paper presents a small-scale case study of the Facebook page, Europe Says OXI, and a group of political activists spread across European cities who are affiliated with the page. It focuses on how digital communications practices play a role in social movement participation, and follows these young people’s practices and stories as they move between different forms of mediated communication. This shows how activists use social media to apply mobilization frames that align with their shared ideological tenets, display emergent forms of leadership, and negotiate the use of media within moral frameworks. The argument complicates theories of connective identity and connective action, which some scholars discuss as a new mode of practice produced through the uptake of social media within contemporary social movements. It challenges the idea that these new modes are replacing older notions of collective identity by being personalized, leaderless, and eschewing ideology. Moving beyond seeing collective and connective in opposition, the paper attempts to build a concept around the emic term, ‘online camaraderie’, taking it as a felt sense of shared connection to the movement, its events, places, and its other participants. It suggests that understanding how a sense of camaraderie is mediation requires further theoretical and methodological reflection on how to trace the traversal of the affective relationships that the social movement relies on across various means of communication.
Editorial Introduction
Authors: Dawes Simon
Published: February 2020

This is the Editorial Introduction to Issue 9(5):Standard Issue featuring Special Section of Interviews on Neoliberalism, Media and Power (with Des Freedman, Terry Flew and Sean Phelan)
Restor(y)ing the Ground: Digital Environmental Media Studies
Authors: Starling Gould Amanda
Published: February 2020

This article presents a digital environmental media studies (DEMS) framework that shifts the primary focus of digital media study from one grounded in computation to one fully rooted in the earth. DEMS proposes a relational, metabolic ontology wherein popular media theory terms like atmospheric media, elemental media, cyborg, and digital labor are put to new use to call attention to the evolving, inseparable and transformative, material relations between the human, the earth, and the digital network. Motivated by the absence of environmental thinking from both digital theory and popular digital rhetoric, this article counters by making visible the overlooked intersections of media materiality, social reflexivity, and the environment.
M-PESA: A Socio-Economic Assemblage in Rural Kenya
Authors: Jerop Komen Leah
Published: February 2020

The role of information communication technologies in development is contested between those who view it as facilitating broad based human development (Waverman et al., 2005; Jack, Suri and Townsend 2010) and those that  view it as counterproductive (Donner 2008, Castel et al 2007). Mobile telephony, in particular, is seen as the most techno-social transformation to occur. For instance, at a macro level, Waverman et al. (2005) note that ‘mobile telephony has a positive and significant impact on economic growth and this impact may be twice as large in developing countries’. Kenya’s M-PESA is a case in point. This paper looks at M-PESA as a site of inclusion and exclusion, focusing on two elements:  emerging accounts of M-PESA usage, and security on money transfers. The paper presents M-PESA as a social assemblage by adopting DeLanda’s (2006) assemblage theory, which opens up macro and micro dichotomies. Data obtained from ethnographic interviews shows that although M-PESA is meeting some needs, it also has deterministic tendencies, such as power and gender hierarchy distributions, though complex in nature. The paper has studied mobile money as a socio-economic assemblage that shows the dynamics of social change not as given, but as constantly forming and reforming.
Ageing in a network society: An Introduction
Authors: Grist Hannah , Vale-Costa Liliana
Published: February 2020

This special issue aims to explore the role of ICTs in encouraging the development of networked older adults. Specifically, the following papers give a noteworthy contribution to the challenges posed by an increasingly ageing and networked society. This special issue is edited by colleagues whose disciplines are not naturally symbiotic – one from Information and Communication studies and the other from Ageing studies. As such, this special issue posed an interesting set of challenges for the editors as they explored their shared understandings of what it means to grow old or be old in a network society. The editors would therefore like to thank the authors for their receptiveness to ageing studies theory and for challenging their own assumptions about what it means to be old. This special issue acts, in some ways, as a stepping stone or a bridge between more information technological based notions of what it is to grow older and cultural gerontological constructions of older age.
China’s Cinema Watchdogs on the World Wide Web
Authors: Herring Lara
Published: February 2020

Online communities play an important role in the development of the Chinese film industry in several significant ways. Taking social media as its focus, this article explores three areas of influence; promoting transparency, critiquing and policing. In China, the leaking of private industry documents, such as employment contracts and memos including information about incentives put forth by the State, are shared on social media with the intention of helping to ensure the opacity and integrity of the industry. Furthermore, where State-run media channels in China are heavily censored, film critiques are made possible through less-restricted social media sites such as Douban. Finally, this paper explores the role that users of social media play in policing distributors and cinema chains who are accused of committing box office fraud when Chinese film industry personnel and cinemagoers use social media to call out malfeasance. Thus, this paper contributes to existing research interested in State intervention in the Chinese cinema industry and the consequences of that intervention.
Interview with Professor Nico Carpentier, Uppsala University
Authors: Patera Aurora
Published: February 2020

After his keynote speech ‘Culture as an integral part of the discursive-material knot’ presented on 5th July 2018 at the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network conference, Aurora Patera interviewed Prof. Nico Carpentier to explore deeper into the ideas and arguments he presented on this topic.
Candidate Ideology and Vote Choice in the 2020 US Presidential Election
Authors: Broockman David , Kalla Joshua
Published: February 2020

A prominent literature argues that moderate candidates perform better in general elections, but a competing literature that emphasizes voters’ partisan loyalties contests these predictions. The 2020 Democratic Presidential primary represented an opportunity to speak to these debates due to relatively high voter information about multiple moderate and extreme candidates running in the same election. We present results from both an existing (n = 62,275) and an original (n = 12,725) national survey that asked how respondents would choose in a general election between one of the Democratic candidates and Republican Donald Trump. Our evidence is consistent with moderates having an electoral advantage: more moderate Democratic candidates receive more support against Trump than do more extreme Democratic candidates. Republican partisans contribute to Democratic moderates’ advantage: ≈2% select Trump against a more extreme Democrat but not against a more moderate Democrat. One of the more extreme candidates, Bernie Sanders, ostensibly deviates from this pattern, but only under unlikely assumptions about turnout. Our point estimates are larger than Biden’s margin of victory in pivotal states in the 2020 general election. Our findings lend further support to the hypothesis that moderate candidates are electorally advantaged.
EVALUASI PROGRAM PENDIDIKAN SOSIAL WANITA THERAVADA INDONESIA JAWA TENGAH
Authors: Dewi Sukhitta
Published: February 2020

AbstrakPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengevaluasi program pendidikan social Wanita Theravada Indonesia (Wandani) Provinsi Jawa Tengah. Pendidikan social disini merupakan usaha membimbing dan mengembangkan potensi anggota Wandani secara sadar dan sistematis agar anggota Wandani dapat membiasakan diri dalam mengembangkan dan mengamalkan perilaku social dengan baik dengan didukung dengan ajaran Buddha. Pendidikan social disini terkait dengan kegiatan sucita dana, samajivita, sentuhan kasih Wandani, dan bagi rupang Buddha. Penelitian ini merupakan kualitatif evaluative. Data dikumpulkan menggunakan teknik wawancara, dokumentasi dan observasi. Data didapat dari pengurus daerah, cabang dan anggota Wandani yang tersebar di beberapa daerah di Jawa Tengah. Hasil analisis menunjukkan pengelolaan program pendidikan social di Provinsi Jawa Tengah sudah mencapai sebagian dari obyektifnya dengan adanya penerapan tahap perencanaan, pengorganisasian, pelaksanaan, dan evaluasi program pendidikan social.
MPST MERINSA SOMBA
Authors: somba Merinsa
Published: February 2020

Zaman yang semakin modern yang menjadi masalah bagi kaum muda kurangnya minat dalam pelayanan. Sehingga dalam pelayanan yang dilakukan harus memiliki warna yang baru yang dapat menarik perhatian kaum muda untuk memberi diri dalam pelayanan. Sehingga tujuan penelitian ini untuk membuka wawasan dan memberikan warna yang baru, pelayanan yang kreatif sehingga dalam hal ini pemuda yang belum ikut dalam pelayanan memberi dirinya dan pemuda yang melayani tetap mengembangkan pelayanan yang lebih kreatif lagi bagi pertumbuhan pelayanan di Gereja Toraja Jemaat patila. Pengembangannya itu dilakukan dengan cara pemuridan dengan metode pemuridan kontekstual yang mempertimbangkan konteks yang sesuai dengan keadaan dan suasana kaum muda sekarang.
PENGEMBANGAN PEMURIDAN KONTEKSTUAL SEBAGAI KONSELING KELUARGA DALAM MENINGKATKAN NILAI-NILAI IMAN KRISTEN
Authors: Datu Rahel Liku
Published: February 2020

Tingginya kekerasan di dalam keluarga dan banyak masyarakat yang mengalami kesulitan dalam menyelesaikan masalah keluarga,sehingga sangat dibutuhkan implementasi pemuridan kontekstual untuk meningkatkan nilai-nilai iman Kristen di dalam keluarga untuk mengurangi atau meringkan beban yang dialami oleh setiap anggota keluarga.
IMPLEMENTASI PEMURIDAN KONTEKSTUAL DALAM MENANAMKAN NILAINILAI PENDIDIKAN KARAKTER BAGI ANAK USIA DINI
Authors: Donnalo Reni Sandy
Published: February 2020

Anak usia dini adalah anak yang berada pada rentang umur antara 0-6 tahun. Masa ini sering juga disebut dengan istilah “golden age” atau masa emas, dimana anak akan mengalami perkembangan secara cepat, baik dari segi fisik, psikis, maupun karakter setiap anak. Pada masa ini karakter setiap anak akan di proses, baik itu melalui lingkungan dimana anak tersebut berada maupun keluarga dimana anak mendapatkan pendidikan untuk pertama kalinya. Dengan demikian, pada masa ini merupakan waktu yang paling baik untuk menanamkan nilai-nilai karakter pada anak. Melalui pemuridan kontekstual yang dilakukan dapat membantu menanamkan nilai-nilai karakter dalam diri setiap anak. Anak membutuhkan pendidikan untuk menumbuhkan karakter yang positif dalam diri mereka.
Pelayanan Pastoral Perkunjungan Dan Penggembalaan, Anggota Jemaat Lembah Kasih Ollon
Authors: tumanan Merlin
Published: February 2020

Pelayanan Perkunjungan merupakan pelayanan yang bertujuan untuk menyapa kehidupan anggota jemaat, dan mengenali setiap situasi jemaat, dan menguatkan Iman anggota jemaat oleh karena itu pelayanan perkunjungan sangat penting dan juga sangat di rindukan oleh anggota jemaat khususnya di Jemaat lembah Kasih Ollon. Pelayanan perkunjungan di Jemaat ini sangat jarang, walaupun dilakukan itu pun hanya kepada orang-orang yang tertentu juga. Berdasarkan pengamatan saya, pendeta belum melakukan perkunjungan secara maksimal, meskipun itu disadari bahwa pelayanan melalui perkunjungan anggota jemaat sehingga dapat dikuatkan untuk dapat menghidupi panggilannya sebagai gereja yakni bersekutu, bersaksi, dan melayani, perkunjungan dapat mengarahkan dan membimbing warga jemaat untuk tetap memelihara Imannya.
Implementasi Pemuridan Kontekstual Terhadap Pengaruh Pelayanan Pemuda mengenai Pertumbuhan Gereja Di Indonesia
Authors: Pondanan Obet
Published: February 2020

Di Indonesia kita dapat melihat bagaimana peran kaum muda untuk melakukan pelayanan yang telah di tugaskan kepada mereka,sering kali bayak kaum muda yang menolak suatu pelayanan yang telah dipercayakan kepada mereka sehingga masalah yang di hadapi gereja-gereja hari-hari ini adalah berkurangnya minat kaum mudaterhadap kegiatan gereja.gereja perlu mengevaluasi pelayanan kaum muda yang telah dilaksanakan selama ini untuk dapat melihat tingkat keefektifan setiap kegiatan yang telah dilakukan untuk dapat menjangkau generasi Muda tujuan penelitian inj adalah untuk mengetahui pengaruh pelayanan pemuda yang berbasis kontekstual terhadap pertumbuhan gereja dibIndonesia.penulis menggunakan metode analisis linear berganda untuk melihat pengaruh yang signifikan antara pemuda yang berbasis kontekstual tehadap petumbuhan kwantitas di suatu gereja yang ada di indonesia. Pelayanan pemuda yang berbasis kontekstual adalah sebuah jawaban yang perlu di pertimbangkan agar gereja daat melaksanakan pelayanan yang relevan dan kehidupan kaum muda modern yang hidup dalam Culture kemajuan informasi digital yang sangat cepat.pelayanan pemuda yang berbasis kontekstual dapat membantu pelayanan gereja menjadi Efektif bagi penjangkauan generasi melenial.Disini kita akan melihat apa saja yang kaum mudah lakukan dalam melakukan perkembagan.
Pengimplementasian pemuridan kontekstual dalam konseling guru PAK dalam khasus pernikahan dini di Lembang ponglu
Authors: Ngali Rante
Published: February 2020

Pernikahan dini merupakan yang dilakukan pada usia yang muda. Penyebab terjadinya pernikahan dini dipengaruhi oleh berbagai faktor.pernikahan dapat diumpamakan sebagai suatu perjalanan yang panjang. Penelitian ini berfokus mengetahui peruridan kontekstual yang didasari padapemuritan pemuridan Tuhan Yesus memiliki delapan langka yaitu pemilihan persekutuan pemberian diri perangan pendelegasian pengawasan dan multipkasi
Tilorone: A Broad-Spectrum Antiviral For Emerging Viruses
Authors: Ekins Sean , Madrid Peter
Published: February 2020

Tilorone demonstrates in vitro antiviral activity against Chikungunya virus (CHIK) and Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV).
Rianto parande
Authors: Parande Rianto
Published: February 2020

Pemuridan sendiri pertama-tama di mulai oleh Yesus Kristus sendiri kepada murid-muridNya, pemuridan Yesus sendiri adalah salah satu model pemuridan kontekstual. Pemuridan Yesus memiliki delapan langkah yaitu, pemilihan, pengabdian,persekutuan, pemberian diri, peragaan,pendelegasian,pengawasan,dan multipikasi. Dalam hal pemuridan sendiri harapan yang ingin dicapai adalah seorang yang di muridkan harus dapat bertumbuh dalam segala lingkungan yang ada ataupun era yang sedang berjalan. Apabila seseorang murid yang dimuridakan dengan baik dan benar akan mampu memberi dapat yan signifikan terhadap lingungan dimana ia berada. Tujuan dari penulisan ini untuk mengetahui penyebab para pemuda mulai meninggalkan gereja, sehingga perlu beberapa cara untuk mengatasi masalah tersebut, sehingga pemuda kembali menyadari tugas dan pelayanannya di gereja dan terlebih pemuda dapat mendemostrasikan karakter Kristus dimana pun mereka berada.
Tugas Metodologi Penelitian 2
Authors: Oktovianus
Published: February 2020

Pendidikan Kristen merupakan salah satu jenis pendidikan yang bertujuan untuk membentuk anak. Pendidikan Kristen selain di pahami secara teoristis juga harus diterapkan dalam kehidupan sehari-hari utamanya dalam lingkungan keluarga, sekolah dan masyairakat. Ada tiga wadah pendidikan yaitu keluarga, sekolah, dan gereja.Keluarga sebagai wadah pertama dan terutama dalam pelaksanaan pendidikan agama Kristen. Pendidikan kristan dalam keluarga merupakan dasar pendidikan lainnya.Dalam pendidikan Kristen peranan keteladanan orang tua sangat penting bagi penbentuk Pribadi Dan Prilaku anak. Melalui peran keteladanan orang tua maka anak akan memiliki sifat yang sesuai dengan sifat-sifat kristiani. Peran keteladanan orang tua dalam memberikan pendidikan agama Kristen sangatlah besar. Orang tua memberikan kasih saying dan kebebasan kepada anak untuk bertindak sesuai dengan umur mereka sehingga diharapakan mereka dapat mengalami perkembangan,baik sikap, tingkah laku, dan cara berfikir mereka secara optimal.Peran keteladanan orang tua dalam pendidikan Kristen bagin anak yakni dalam hal,doa,dan praktek iman di tengah keluarga adalah merupakan alat pendidikan agama Kristen bagi anggota keluarga.keluarga adalah gereja pertama bagi setiap orang yang percaya.jadi Peran keteladanan orang tua sangat di dalam membagi bentuk seperti memberikan perhatian, kasih sayang, dan nasehat yang benar supaya anak tidak menyimpang dari jalanTuhan dan pembinaan iman anak akan menampakkan sikap yang baik serta takut akanTuhan
IMPLEMENTASI PEMURIDAN KONTEKSTUAL KEPADA MAJELIS GEREJA MELALUI PASTORAL KONSELING
Authors: Astrid
Published: February 2020

Pemuridan kepada majelis gereja menciptakan dan membentuk generasi atau pemimpin yang berkualitas dan memiliki jiwa-jiwa persektuan yang bisa mengabdi untuk memberi diri dalam melayani di tengah-tengah jemaat. Melatih berbagai macam proses dan mendidik dengan kualitas-kualitas yang terpercaya sehingga dapat menjadi pejabat gereja yang bertanggung jawab sebagai pejabat gereja dalam menjalankan tugas sebagai kawan sekerja Allah. konseling pastoral sebagai suatu pendekatan pemuridan mengandung makna membangkitkan kesadaran untuk membangun kesadaran rohani dalam Kristus. Dengan adanya pastoral konseling sebagai pemuridan kepada majelis gereja akan memperkaya kehidupan gereja. Dalam penelitian ini menggunakan Pendekatan kualitatif dengan mengumpulakan data. Hasil dari penelitian ini adalah bukan hanya anggota jemaat biasa yang membutuhkan pastoral konseling melainkan majelis gereja juga membutuhkanya guna untuk menjalankan tugas dan tanggung jawabnya sebagai pejabat gereja.
IMPLEMENTASI PEMURIDAN KONTEKSTUAL KEPADA PELAYANAN PEMUDA DALAM MENUNJANG KEDEWASAAN ROHANI
Authors: Astri
Published: February 2020

Memasuki era globalisasi yang memudahkan setiap orang untuk mengakses apapun, kecepatan menerima informasi, mempercepat dan mempermudah aktifitas manusia namun tidak dapat dipungkiri akan ada dampak negatif dari perkembangan zaman ini, Gereja mulai terlena dengan perkembangan tekhnologi dan mengabaikan pelayanan pemuda, kebanyakan sekarang lebih mengutamakan pengetahuan, iptek dan mengabaikan pengetahuan akan pertumbuhan iman, kedewasaan iman yang lebih penting dari itu. Berdasarkan hal tersebut maka sebagai Gereja yang adalah tubuh Kristus hendaknya terus memperlangkapi pemuda selaku generasi gereja dalam memperhatikan pelayanan pemuda dalam menunjang kedewsaan rohani sehinnga mereka mampu bertahan hidup dalam situasi dan kondisi. Gereja harus terus memberi pelayanan yang aktif. Salah satu peran aktif adalah melalui pemuridan kontekstual/KTBK yang didalamnya terdapat Pembelajaran Alkitab yang kontinu.
Implementasi pemuridan kontekstual untuk meningkatkan etika berbicara di gereja toraja Jemaat Buntu Bassan
Authors: pasiang Seprianti
Published: February 2020

Berbicara adalah salasatu hal yang membedadakan antara manusia dengan hewan. Dengan bertutur sapa baik, manusia akan lebih di hargai oleh orang lain. Oleh sebab itu tata cara berbicara sangat penting untuk diketahui agar apa yang dibicarakan seseorang tidak salah serta tidak menyinggung orang lain. Masalah yang dihadapi gereja-gereja saat ini adalah kurangnya etika berbicara pada pemuda. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengimplementasikan pemuridan kontekstual terhadap peningkatan etika berbicara pemuda di gereja Toraja Jemaat Buntu Bassan. Setelah melakukan penelitian, ditemukan bahwa sangat perluh untuk melakukan pemuridan terhadap pemuda dalam meningkatkan etika berbicara terkhusus di Jemaat Buntu Bassan
Three Models of Acculturation: Applications for Developing a Church Planting Strategy among Diaspora Populations
Authors: Dunaetz David Robert
Published: February 2020

Cross-cultural church planters often work with individuals from several cultures or with immigrants from one specific culture. These church planters can develop a more effective church planting strategy by understanding three models of acculturation, the process of how individuals respond and change when coming into contact with a new culture. The melting-pot one dimensional model describes how immigrants acculturate as time progresses, from one generation to another. The two dimensional acculturation strategies model describes what can be expected to happen to members of a diaspora population due to their views of both their host and home cultures. The social identity model of acculturation predicts immigrants’ desire to be member of a group based on what group membership contributes to their identity. All three models can be used to help choose an appropriate church planting strategy according to the context.
KAJIAN BIBLIKA TEOLOGI MEMINTA MENURUT INJIL MATIUS 7.docx
Authors: Grace
Published: February 2020

pertama untuk menjelaskan teologi yang terkandung dalam pengajaran Tuhan tentang meminta menurut Matius pasal 7:7-11.
pentingnya pemuridan kontekstual dalam mengimplementasikan firman Tuhan pada anak sekolah minggu gereja toraja jemaat Buntu Marinding
Authors: Singgi Risda Yanti
Published: February 2020

implementasi anak sekolah minggu dalam upaya mewujudkan gereja yang ramah .
Implementasi Pemuridan Kontekstual Untuk meningkatkan Nilai-Nilai Kebangsaan Bagi Mahasiswa Jurusan Teologi Di IAKN Toraja
Authors: Marson
Published: February 2020

Abstrak – Pemuridan kontekstual dalam implementasi untuk meningkatkan nilai-nilai kebangsaan dalam konteks kehidupan mahasiswa ialah sebuah hal yang didalamnya mahasiswa dituntut untuk menghayati serta melakukan nilai-nilai kebangsaan. Dalam perkembangan yang semakin maju pada saat ini, seiring dengan lajunya perkembangan teknologi yang kian makin berkembang, maka hal itu juga mempunyai relevansi yang sangat signifikan tentang kontekstualisasi bagi generasi muda saat ini. Secara khusus jurusan teologi yang ada di IAKN Toraja. Untuk mencapai sebuah makna atau mengerti tentang nilai-nilai kebangsaan, hal itu sebenarnya harus ditanamkan bagi generassi mudah saat ini. Metode yang digunakan ialah metode kualitatif, yaitu dimana jenis penelitian yang temuan-temuannya tidak diperoleh melalui prosedur statistic atau bentuk hitungan lainnya. untuk menjelaskan makna/nilai-nilai kebangsaan di IAKN Toraja.
Pemuridan pemuda dalam mengembangkan nilai-nilai kristiani di jemaat GGP EFRATA PERANGIAN
Authors: datumanik Artati
Published: February 2020

Agama adalah sekelompok orang yang percaya akan kristus dab beribadah dengan mementingkan aspek-aspek rohani yang telah diajarkan oleh Yesus kristus, dan saya melihat bahwa di gereja GGP perangian ini kurang mengenal akan kebenaran firman Tuhan. Sehingga perluh pemuridan dilakukan di Gereja agar pemuda dibekali untuk mendalami Alkitab dan melakukan apa yang harus dilakukan dan agar pemuda di tempat bisa menpunyai nilai-nilai kristiani dan bisa melibatkan diri dalam sebuah pelayanan/kemulian bagi Tuhan.