Scott and Shackleton in the media: a response to Ben Macintyre

Polar Record ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 386-391
Author(s):  
Karen May ◽  
George Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Opinion Piece ◽  
The Media ◽  
Noble Death ◽  
The Times ◽  
Zero Sum

An opinion piece by Ben Macintyre entitled ‘Sorry, Scott fans: noble death is so last century’ appeared inThe Times(London) on 20 September 2013. In this, Macintyre argued not only that Ernest Shackleton should be explicitly contrasted against his contemporary and rival Robert Falcon Scott, but that Shackleton should be found superior to Scott in virtually every way. It was a dispiriting piece, strongly suggesting that that the media's understanding of Scott has not greatly advanced since the savage, cod-psychological and often unsubstantiated attacks upon Scott's character and reputation in the 1970s–1990s. Sadly, all too often polar history is reduced to a zero-sum game where praise for Shackleton is directly proportional to insults directed at Scott.

ENRICHING MEDIA MERCHANDISE SARANA PENUNJANG PROMOSI STUDI KASUS PADA BOOKSTORE

CCIT Journal ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 420-436
Author(s):  
Dewi Immaniar ◽  
Sudaryono Sudaryono ◽  
Ayu Ningrum
Keyword(s):  
Visual Media ◽  
Test Duration ◽  
Media Campaign ◽  
Business World ◽  
Retail Business ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Types ◽  
The Times ◽  
A Company

Talk about retail business can not be separated from the importance of service to consumers and good quality goods . But at the present time due to intense competition in the business world , the service and quality of goods is not enough to be able to increase revenue and attract customers loyal . This makes companies think hard to survive and stable in the business . One of them is by using a media campaign in this regard more toward print or visual media is indirectly felt the value of their effectiveness in communicating product marketing programs . PT . Times Prima Indonesia is a company engaged in the retail book with the name of the Times bookstores . Based on the analysis of the company’s problems requires additional media types supporting more varied and creatif promotion of existing ones, which will be used as a complement and a media campaign as well as to enrich the data renewal campaign design to capture the interest of consumers in which one form of the media campaign is shaped merchandise . Therefore , do Enriching ( enrich ) media campaign merchandise before it is less varied and has not formed a company image . The methodology used is the analysis, observation and design . Besides the new design has been tested with the implemented test duration for 6 months, and greatly increases the perceived contribution , this is evidenced by the chart sales increasing each month.

scholarly journals Trying and Failing and Trying again: Work in the Media

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 61-70
Author(s):  
Rosamma Thomas
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
English Language ◽  
Book Publishing ◽  
Work Conditions ◽  
Body Language ◽  
Personal Account ◽  
Career Trajectory ◽  
Growth Prospects ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Times

This paper is an historical auto-ethnographic account by a middle aged journalist who has worked in the English language media in India for about 20 years. English language media staff is among the best paid in the country. Even so, work conditions are far from ideal, and the pandemic this year has rendered several journalists jobless. This is a personal account of one career trajectory that spans book publishing, work on national radio, newspapers and a news agency. Growth prospects are curtailed for women in the news media; one boss at the Times of India¸ India’s largest English daily, told the author that her “body language” betrayed a lack of interest in work.  

scholarly journals Implementasi Media Pembelajaran Dalam Keterampilan Mengajar bagi Mahasiwa Dalam Mata kuliah Media Dan Teknologi Pembelajaran Di Masa Pandemic Covid-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-220
Author(s):  
Rudi Muhamad Barnansyah Rudi
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
Prospective Teachers ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Teaching Skills ◽  
Learning Technology ◽  
State University ◽  
Study Program ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Times

Learning media is one of the things that can help the process of learning activities, but the media can also be a tool that does not support the smooth learning process, internet-based learning media is one of the infrastructures that can be used especially with today's era where everything is very easy to access. especially internet-based media which at this time have been widely used as learning materials or media that can support teaching skills for teachers or prospective teachers during the current COVID-19 pandemic, where teachers are required to be as creative as possible in providing media that will be used in teaching and learning activities. learning activities, the purpose of this research is to find out from the implementation of learning media in learning skills for students who are taking courses in Media and Learning Technology in which students especially prospective teachers must be able to adapt to the times with developments and technology. The research method used is descriptive qualitative media, where this method is to determine the extent of student knowledge in implementing a learning media on teaching skills, for the presence of researchers in this study is as an observer who designs learning activities or actions taken together with the team. The research model is a member of the research team, namely the lecturer of Islamic Religious Education. The research was carried out at the State University of Jakarta during the even semester lectures for the 2020/2021 academic year from March to July 2021. The subjects of this research were students in the PAI study program. The focus of this research is to find out the implementation of the usefulness of learning media during the covid-19 pandemic in teaching skills.

scholarly journals Mediatization of Georgian-Indian relations at the current stage

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 303-311
Author(s):  
Valentin V. Matvienko ◽  
Danara B. Kurmanova
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
News Agency ◽  
Bilateral Relations ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
The Media ◽  
Indian Relations ◽  
The Times ◽  
Cultural Reality

The article analyzes a particular case of the mediatization of modern socio-cultural reality through the informational and communication technologies, using the example of modern Georgian-Indian relations. The authors conducted a content analysis of two leading publications in India and Georgia: the English-language newspaper “The Times of India” and the Russian-language news agency “Sputnik Georgia”, during which had studied 30 materials from the Indian media and 43 articles from the Georgian news agency published over the period January, 2013 - February, 2019. The authors concluded that the mediatization of political and economic processes in bilateral relations had required close interaction between government and the media, since a lack of information led to a distorted perception of media communications.

As Heard on…

2021 ◽  
pp. 603-624
Author(s):  
Justin Patch
Keyword(s):  
Online Advertising ◽  
Political Advertising ◽  
Emotional Content ◽  
The Other ◽  
Nuclear War ◽  
Film Scores ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Times ◽  
Musical Elements

The musical elements of political advertising change with the times. From songsters, contrafactum songs with lyrics that extoll one candidate or party and denigrate the other, to television and radio jingles and online ads, the aesthetics of the campaign mirror the media diet of the public. Early television ads imitated jingles of the day: They were simple, catchy, and repetitive. Both Eisenhower’s “Ike for President” and Kennedy’s “Kennedy” follow this mold. Johnson’s 1964 campaign breaks this mold with “Daisy,” an anti-Goldwater ad known for deploying the eerie sounds of nuclear war. Successive campaigns sought to use a similar recipe, employing cues from film scores and trailers to dictate the emotional content of the ad. Recently, online advertising has bloomed, including tribute videos and promotional spots made by citizens and submitted to the campaign, adding grassroots allure and authenticity.

Learning with Mak Karjo Media to Increase Student Motivation for Learning Materials Trigonometry High School Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 537-541
Author(s):  
Eka Susanti ◽  
Siti Kumawati
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Math Learning ◽  
School Students ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Motivation For Learning ◽  
Ex Post Facto ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Times ◽  
Descriptive Method

Math learning is growing as the times evolve. More and more media is used to enhance student learning motivation. This assessment aims to create a math learning design that can increase the motivation of learning students through Math card matchmaking (Mak Karjo) in high school students. As for the use is a descriptive method and the post facto method ex. The descriptive method used is with the development of pre-existing research results. While the method ex post facto, that is to assess the use of Media card soul mate in improving the motivation to learn high school students. Mak Karjo is the length of mathematics with a matchcard, so the media used is the media of a soul mate filled with sin, cos, and tan. Results show that the application of Mak Karjo in trigonometric learning motivates students in learning because learning is designed in such a way that it can create a pleasant learning atmosphere.

An Unfiltered Dose of the Human Condition

2020 ◽  
pp. 103-132
Author(s):  
Jack Reid
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Significant Drop ◽  
The Road ◽  
Previous Decade ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Media ◽  
State And Local ◽  
On The Road ◽  
The Times

After a significant drop in ride solicitation during the previous decade, the early 1960s witnessed what journalists at the time deemed a “hitchhiking renaissance.” Young people, the predominant hitchhikers of the era, attached different meanings to the practice. For those frustrated with the status quo and inspired by the Beat novel On the Road, hitchhiking was part of an alternative lifestyle. Others saw thumbing as a thrifty way to get to civil rights and anti-war demonstrations. “Sport hitchhikers” characterized the practice as a pathway to adventure and authentic experience. Finally, some continued to associate hitchhiking with utter necessity. Although there continued to be vocal critics of the practice, the media of the early sixties put forth a more nuanced analysis of hitchhiking as journalists tried to make sense of the era’s youth culture. At the same time, some state and local legislatures softened their anti-hitchhiking laws. Despite concerns about highway safety and periodic acts of violence, this brand of hitchhiking found greater acceptance in American culture because it tracked with the spirit of the times, including the optimism and ambition of President John F Kennedy’s vision of a “New Frontier.”

scholarly journals Alexander Lamb Cullen OBE. 30 April 1920—27 December 2013

2018 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 131-148
Author(s):  
J. Brian Davies
Keyword(s):  
Electromagnetic Waves ◽  
Electrical Engineering ◽  
Measurement Techniques ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
Engineering Research ◽  
British Science ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Media ◽  
Great Sense ◽  
The Times

Alex Cullen combined the sharpest of scientific minds with a gentle personality and a great sense of humour. He was Professor and Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Sheffield from 1955 to 1967, and then Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering at University College London (UCL) until 1980. He continued his research there as a Science and Engineering Research Council Senior Fellow until 1985, and for some years as Research Fellow of UCL. His research concerned electromagnetic waves over a wide range of microwave devices and measurement techniques, the latter at a fundamental level. These contributions were of a highly innovative and ‘ground-breaking’ nature. He was appointed OBE in 1960, and elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1977. He was an accomplished jazz musician, playing drums and clarinet. He was a signatory of a letter to The Times in January 1986, calling on Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to ‘Save British Science’. This led to the foundation of the Save British Science pressure group, now the Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE), which has built up an enviable reputation with politicians and the media in representing the concerns of scientists and engineers. When (now Sir) Eric Ash left UCL in 1985 to become Rector of Imperial College, he remarked that Alex was ‘the last gentleman in the business’.

scholarly journals Is there a North–South divide between schools in England?

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-40
Author(s):  
Michael Jopling
Keyword(s):  
School Performance ◽  
Performance Data ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Popular Discourse ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
National School ◽  
Opinion Piece ◽  
The Media

The article is an opinion piece which examines the extent to which rhetoric about a North–South divide in performance between schools in England is justified. Starting with the catalyst, Sir Michael Wilshaw’s final annual Ofsted reports in 2015 and 2016, it traces how the divide rhetoric has been assimilated into popular discourse by the media and subsequent policy reports, notably in connection with the Northern Powerhouse agenda. The article uses regional school performance data to examine whether claims about the divide are convincing, focusing on the North East, which has been recognized as an outlier in both primary and secondary performance. It concludes that the case for a North–South divide is not proven, and with an appeal for more contextually sensitive and flexible approaches to assessing local, regional and national school performance to counter the negative effects of this divisive rhetoric.

scholarly journals UK media representations of Carbon Capture and Storage

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brigitte Nerlich ◽  
Rusi Jaspal
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Capture ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Carbon Capture And Storage ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Times ◽  
And Storage

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is a climate change mitigation technology which has had a rather chequered history in British policy making and in the British public sphere. This article deals with the neglected topic of representations of CCS in the British media and their possible impact on public perceptions and public policy. Public perception of CCS is shaped in part by the media which provide tools for making sense of complex technological and political issues such as CCS. This article compares articles on CCS in two UK newspapers, one national (“The Times”) and one regional (“The Aberdeen Press and Journal”) in 2011, a year during which some of the last battles over CCS demonstration projects were fought. It applies frame and metaphor analysis to a corpus of 150 articles. Findings reveal that during 2011 CCS coverage moved through a cycle of hype and disillusionment, with both newspapers reaching a trough of disappointment at the end of 2011. It will be difficult to reignite interest in CCS in this context, both in terms of media and public attention, and in terms of policy and investment. Regional confidence in national CCS policy in particular will be difficult to recover.

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