The Politics of the Police

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Bowling ◽  
Robert Reiner ◽  
James W E Sheptycki
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Police Work ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Public Perceptions ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Mass Media

In its fifth edition, The Politics of the Police has been revised, updated, and extended to take account of recent changes in the law, policy, organization, and social contexts of policing. It builds upon the previous editions’ political economy of policing to encompass a wide global and transnational scope, and to reflect the growing diversity of policing forms. This volume explores the highly charged debates that surround policing, including the various controversies that have led to a change in the public’s opinion of the police in recent years, as well as developments in law, accountability, and governance. The volume sets out to analyse what the police do, how they do it and with what effects, how the mass media shape public perceptions of the police, and how globalization, privatization, militarization, and securitization are impacting on contemporary police work. It concludes with an assessment of what we can expect for the future of policing.

It's the Speciesism, Stupid!

2018 ◽  
pp. 92-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Brügger
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
The Core ◽  
Nonhuman Animals ◽  
The Future ◽  
Livestock Raising ◽  
The Mass Media

In a time of intense instrumentalization of life, nature becomes a mere factory from which natural resources are withdrawn. This system is causing immense social, ethical and environmental impacts, and livestock raising is at the core of these problems. The concept of speciesism – a prejudice concerning nonhuman animals, analogous to racism and sexism – is paramount in this realm. This chapter analyses the role of the mass media in perpetuating speciesist values and the urgent need for a paradigm shift. A genuine concern about the future of the planet and nonhuman animals involves questioning our speciesism and our narrow instrumental and economic paradigms.

Self-observation, self-reference and operational coupling in social systems: steps towards a coherent epistemology of mass media

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-74
Author(s):  
Juan Miguel Aguado
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Epistemic Status ◽  
Media System ◽  
Autopoietic Systems ◽  
Meaning Systems ◽  
Meaning Production ◽  
Significant Divergence ◽  
The Mass Media

This paper is concerned with the role of self-observation in managing complexity in meaning systems. Revising Niklas Luhmann's theory of mass media, we approach the mass media system as a social sub-system functionally specialized in the coupling of psychic systems' (individuals) self-observation and social systems' self-observation (including, respectively, themselves as each other's internalized environment).According to Autopoietic Systems Theory and von Foerster's second order cybernetics, self-observation presupposes a capability for meta-observation (to observe the observation) that demands a specific distinction between observer and actor. This distinction seems especially relevant in those social contexts where a separation between the action of observation and other social actions is required (in politics, for instance). However, in those social contexts (such as mass-media meaning production) where the defining action is precisely observation (in terms of the differentiation that constitutes the system), the border between observer and actor is blurred.We shall consider the significant divergence between the implicit and the explicit epistemologies of the mass media system, which appears to be characterized by the explicit assumption of a classic objectivist epistemology, on one side, and a relativist epistemology on the other, posing a hybrid epistemic status somewhere in between science and arts.

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media.

1989 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 937
Author(s):  
James R. Bennett ◽  
Edward S. Herman ◽  
Noam Chomsky
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Mass Media

The Political Economy of the Mass Media: An Interview with Edward Herman

1989 ◽  
Vol 40 (8) ◽  
pp. 35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert W. McChesney ◽  
Edward S. Herman
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Mass Media

Satanic Ritual Abuse

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
James R. Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Ritual Abuse ◽  
Systematic Survey ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
Satanic Panic ◽  
New Religion

The notion of an international Satanist conspiracy became prominent during the so-called Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA) scare. This scare—also referred to as the ‘Satanic Panic’—peaked in the late 1980s and early 1990s. During these years, significant segments of the law enforcement community and numerous therapists believed in the existence of a vast, underground network of evil Satanic cults sacrificing and abusing children. Less responsible members of the mass media avidly promoted the idea as an easy way of selling copy and increasing ratings. Although the Satanism scare did not involve an empirically-existing new religion, it shared many themes with the cult controversy. Anti-cultists, for example, jumped on the Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA) bandwagon as a way of promoting their own agenda, and NRM scholars spear-headed the academic analysis of the scare. In “Satanic Ritual Abuse,” James R. Lewis presents a systematic survey of this phenomenon.

Should We Have a “General Right to Privacy” In Israel?

1977 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Gavison
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Electronic Devices ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Public Knowledge ◽  
Right To Privacy ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Mass Media

In recent years there has been a growing concern about privacy in many countries. Consequently demands are being made that the law should afford privacy a more adequate protection. This new concern about privacy may seem surprising when we recall that people have always gossipped, that individuals have always sought information about others for various purposes, and that governments have always had an interest in knowing as much as they could about their citizens. The intensity of these recent demands for more legal protection suggests that conditions have changed, and that this change has created new threats for privacy. To deal effectively with these new threats we must first identify and understand them.It appears that a combination of various factors, all of which are somehow related to technological developments, is responsible for arousing this interest in privacy. First is the development of the mass-media, which removed the traditional limitations on dissemination of information, and created an artifical demand for such information. Second is the development of electronic devices enabling invasions of privacy which were hitherto impossible. Third is the development and use of computerised systems for the storage and compilation of information. The threats to privacy are evident. Information about us can be retrieved from the files, or sought by detectives or journalists aided by sophisticated devices against which there is virtually no protection. This information may be used against us or disseminated in the mass-media and thus become “public knowledge”. Movements and conversations may be recorded.

scholarly journals ARAH FORMULASI KEBIJAKAN KOMUNIKASI

Populasi ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Nadhya Abrar
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Interactive Media ◽  
Communication Media ◽  
Broadcast Media ◽  
Alternative Method ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Mass Media

Law No.32, 2002, was formed in response to the problems society has faced for approximately four years regarding the absence of laws governing the broadcast media (lawless broadcasting era). In reality, the presence of this law has not been accepted by those involved in broadcast media and has resulted in the criticism of this law by such parties. Several questions have been raised by these criticisms, mainly: What direction does the formulation of Law No.32, 2002 lead? In response to this question the writer examines the passages of the Law qualitatively. This has lead to the discovery that the formulation of Law No. 32, 2002, is not conducive to the building of a healthy Indonesian democracy. The direction of the formulation of the rules governing broadcast media as laid out in Law No.32, 2002are believed to be incapable of being useful within a civil society. Because of this, the writer presents an alternative method for the formulation of the direction for appropriate communication. This is achieved through combining issues of the communication media in Indonesia by outlining the primary characteristics of the mass media, social media and interactive media from their respective positions.

scholarly journals Myths and facts about online mate choice. Contemporary beliefs and empirical findings

2011 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 358-381
Author(s):  
Andreas Schmitz ◽  
Susann Sachse-Thürer ◽  
Doreen Zillmann ◽  
Hans-Peter Blossfeld
Keyword(s):  
Mate Choice ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Public Perceptions ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Discussion Forums ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Empirical Reality ◽  
The Mass Media

With the increasing dissemination and usage of online mate choice, finding a partner via the Internet has attracted remarkable public attention in the last decade. Several, mostly negative prejudices toward online mate choice – especially regarding its risks and disadvantages – circulate constantly throughout the mass media and form public perceptions. This article presents common stereotypes on this (still) new phenomenon, derived from an investigation of newspapers online and offline, online guides, blogs, and discussion forums and confronts them with the empirical facts. Based on several descriptive analyses, we discuss whether and to what extent ten prevalent beliefs correspond to the empirical reality of finding a mate via the Internet in Germany. Zusammenfassung Mit ihrer wachsenden Verbreitung ist die Partnerwahl im Internet zu einem bemerkenswerten Gegenstand des öffentlichen Diskurses geworden. Viele, meist negativ konnotierte Annahmen über die Eigenschaften und den Ablauf der Partnerwahl im Internet, insbesondere hinsichtlich ihrer Risiken und Nachteile, zirkulieren heute in den Medien und beeinflussen deren öffentliche Wahrnehmung. In diesem Beitrag präsentieren wir weit verbreitete Stereotype zum (immer noch) neuen Phänomen der Partnerwahl im Internet. Diese Klischees und Vorurteile, die in (Online-) Zeitungen und Zeitschriften, Online-Ratgebern, Blogs und Diskussionsforen recherchiert wurden, werden mit empirischen Fakten konfrontiert. Basierend auf verschiedenen deskriptiven Analysen diskutieren wir, ob bzw. inwieweit zehn populäre Vorstellungen mit der empirischen Realität der digitalen Partnersuche in Deutschland übereinstimmen.

scholarly journals Legal Protection for Minors as Victims of Sexual Harassment in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 525
Author(s):  
Fuzi Narin Drani
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Child Victims ◽  
The Future ◽  
Victims Of Crime ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
Day By Day

The news in the mass media regarding sexual harassment against children are increasing day by day so that it is troubling not only families, but also the community. Children are soulmates, family assets, images and reflections of the future that we must take care of well. The implementation of legal protection for child sexual harassment victims in Indonesia has not been fully maximized. This research aims to find out the forms of legal protection for child victims of crime in accordance with the provisions of the laws in force in Indonesia.

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