scholarly journals Lethal Images: Analyzing Extremist Visual Propaganda from ISIS and Beyond

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 634-657
Author(s):  
Stephane J Baele ◽  
Katharine A Boyd ◽  
Travis G Coan
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Measurement Method ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Visual Style ◽  
Diachronic Study ◽  
Visual Propaganda ◽  
Extremist Groups ◽  
And Shifts

Abstract Violent extremist groups regularly use pictures in their propaganda. This practice, however, remains insufficiently understood. Conceptualizing visual images as amplifiers of narratives and emotions, the present article offers an original theoretical framework and measurement method for examining the synchronic and diachronic study of the manipulative use of images by violent extremist groups. We illustrate this framework and method with a systematic analysis of the 2,058 pictures contained in the Islamic State's propaganda magazines targeting Western audiences, exposing the “visual style” of the group, and highlighting the trends and shifts in the evolution of this style following developments on the ground.

Credibility Trap: Japan today and China tomorrow

2006 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-50
Author(s):  
Kensei Hiwaki ◽  
Junie Tong
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Socioeconomic Development ◽  
Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Normative Framework ◽  
Specific Culture ◽  
Prevention And Cure ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient

This article provides a theoretical framework for a long-term socioeconomic lethargy (Credibility Trap) that results from the liquidation of holistic society-specific culture. As for example, it deals with the cases of Japan today and China tomorrow, elaborating on the slight of their respective society-specific cultures in a century-long process of “modernization”. The present theoretical framework primarily consists of three pivotal concepts, viz., Credibility Trap, society-specific cultures (Cultures) and market fundamentalism (Market), which facilitates a clear, concise and effective argument that the liquidation of their respective holistic Cultures may intimately relate to their actual and potential socioeconomic lethargy. Also, the present article concentrates on the elaboration of some promising avenues for prevention and cure of Credibility Trap. Such avenues comprise the necessary and sufficient conditions for a balanced socioeconomic development; a theoretical framework for a perpetual “virtuous” circle among cultural enrichment, comprehensive human development and balanced socioeconomic development; and a normative framework of multi-faceted value enhancement for vitality augmentation and cultural enrichment within a society.

Cross-dialectal diversity in Mukrī Kurdish I: Phonological and phonetic variation

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Hiwa Asadpour
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Phonetic Variation ◽  
Sociological Factors ◽  
Triggering Factors ◽  
And Shifts

Abstract This article provides a comparative overview of phonological and phonetic differences of Mukrī Kurdish varieties and their geographical distribution. Based on the examined data, four distinct varieties can be distinguished. In each variety area, different phonological patterns are analyzed according to age, gender, and social groups in order to establish cross-regional and cross-generational developments in relation to specific phonological distributions and shifts. The variety regions which are examined in the present article include West Mukrī (representing an archaic form of Mukrī), Central Mukrī (representing a linguistically peripheral dialect), East Mukrī (representing mixed archaic and peripheral dialect features), and South Mukrī (sharing features of both Mukrī and Ardałānī). The study concludes that variation in the Mukrīyān region depends on phonological developments, which in turn are due to geographical and sociological factors. Moreover, contact-induced change and internal language development are also established as triggering factors distinguishing regional variants.

scholarly journals Imagine Paradise in Ads

2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Marit Waade
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Consumer Culture ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Visual Spatial ◽  
Communicative Effect ◽  
Visual Matrix

Abstract Paradise has been a significant concept in tourism as well in consumer culture. The present article demonstrates how paradise is presented as visual, spatial and ideal concepts in ads, and how they illustrate imagination as a central communicative effect in marketing and consumer culture. Through an analysis of selected consumer and tourism ads for TV and cinema presented in Denmark, the author points out different ways of reflecting viewers’ imagination of paradise as a place and condition. The author outlines a theoretical framework for understanding imagination from a media-specific perspective as involving cognitive, emotional and sensuous processes, respectively, and looks at how paradise, as an active and present visual matrix in tourism and consumer communication, has a specific appeal to viewers’ imagination.

scholarly journals Emotions et agressivité verbale : l’impolitesse volcanique et l’impolitesse affective stratégique

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-36
Author(s):  
Alina Oprea
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Talk Shows ◽  
Mise En Scene ◽  
Verbal Violence ◽  
Type Of Management

Prenant comme cadre théorique l’analyse du discours, le présent article interroge le rapport entre émotion(s) et agressivité verbale à travers l’analyse de l’impolitesse volcanique et l’impolitesse affective stratégique. Partant du postulat que ces manifestations de l’impolitesse supposent une gestion et une manipulation différentes des émotions, ma démarche est ici double : il s’agit de dégager le fonctionnement des émotions dans un corpus médiatique (séquences extraites de talk-shows télévisés) et de mettre en parallèle les deux formes de violence verbale. En effet, l’analyse du corpus montre que l’impolitesse volcanique et l’impolitesse affective stratégique se ressemblent de par leur forme mais se distinguent de par leur temporalité, leur spontanéité et sincérité, et surtout de par la mise en scène complexe qui accompagne cette dernière et qui met en place trois portraits (héros, antihéros, victime) et trois discours (dénonciation d’une injustice, accusation, victimisation). Emotions and verbal violence: volcanic impoliteness and strategic affective impoliteness Taking the Discourse Analysis as the theoretical framework, the present article explores the relations between emotion(s) and verbal violence through the analysis of volcanic impoliteness and strategic affective impoliteness. Starting from the premise that each of these manifestations of impoliteness implies a different type of management and manipulation of emotions, my approach will be twofold: I will try to bring out the functioning of emotions in my corpus (composed of several extracts of TV talk-shows) and to compare the two forms of verbal violence. Indeed, the analysis of my corpus shows that, although volcanic and affective strategic impoliteness may have the same form, they differ with regard to their temporality, to they spontaneity and sincerity, and especially to their mise en scène: the complex mise en scène of the latter provides three portraits (the hero, the antihero and the victim) and three speeches (denunciation of some sort of injustice, accusation, victimization).

scholarly journals Hegemony and Protectionism in Bologna’s Meat Trade:The Role of Visual Imagery in Reputation Management

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
PAUL FREATHY ◽  
IRIS THOMAS
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Economic Reform ◽  
Visual Imagery ◽  
Reputation Management ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
Image Management ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Visual Propaganda

During the Renaissance, visual images were legitimate and authoritative sources of information that influenced behavior and directed public opinion. Against a background of political and religious unrest and growing pressure for economic reform, it is maintained that Annibale Carracci’s painting of The Butchers Shop (ca. 1580–1583) sought to legitimize the professionalism of Bologna’s butchery trades, reinforce the reputation of the guild system, and remind audiences of the dangers of papal interference in commercial endeavor. By implicitly advocating the value of institutional hegemony and trade protectionism, The Butchers Shop represents a form of late sixteenth-century visual propaganda and image management.

scholarly journals Domestic structure and sub-national foreign policy: an explanatory framework

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 102-118
Author(s):  
Ayman El-Dessouki
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Intergovernmental Relations ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
International Agency ◽  
Foreign Policy Analysis ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Legal Grounds ◽  
Academic Debate

PurposeThis paper aims to examine the effects of domestic structure forces on “sub-national” foreign policy (SFP); an analytical concept provides a suitable operational framework for research on international activities of sub-national entities or regions.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is carried out on the basis of a theoretical framework proposed by the author. First, the dependent variable is defined. Then, domestic structure is broken down into four variables, including legal grounds, the level of autonomy, the type of intergovernmental relations and institutionalization. A comparative method is used to examine the validity of the theoretical framework.FindingsThe paper finds out that domestic structural forces influence level and form of SFP with some regularity. The influence of these forces on SFP can be explained, as they recur and have such consistent effects that they create patterns and regularities in SFP. Such regularities can be detected through systematic analysis.Originality/valueThe topic of SFP is relatively controversial because of academic debate over international agency of substate actors. However, it is a worthwhile subject of research, as it has the potential to revolutionize research in foreign policy analysis. Moreover, the phenomenon of SFP is in need of theorizing and comparison as the literature on SFP is still in its infancy.

Political Skill in Organizations

2007 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 290-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald R. Ferris ◽  
Darren C. Treadway ◽  
Pamela L. Perrewé ◽  
Robyn L. Brouer ◽  
Ceasar Douglas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Political Skill ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Practical Implications

Political skill is a construct that was introduced more than two decades ago as a necessary competency to possess to be effective in organizations. Unfortunately, despite appeals by organizational scientists to further develop this construct, it lay dormant until very recently. The present article defines and characterizes the construct domain of political skill and embeds it in a cognition—affect—behavior, multilevel, meta-theoretical framework that proposes how political skill operates to exercise effects on both self and others in organizations. Implications of this conceptualization are discussed, as are directions for future research and practical implications.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bilge Yesil
Keyword(s):  
Political System ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The Political ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Media System ◽  
The World ◽  
Media Systems ◽  
Cultural Tensions

This introductory chapter sets out the book's purpose, namely to provide a systematic analysis of Turkey's media system, its reconfiguration under domestic and international dynamics, the political and cultural tensions it harbors, and the trajectories it shares with other media systems around the world. The book highlights the push-pull forces of a centralized state authority and its democratization demands, the interpenetration of state and capital, and the overlapping of patronage structures with market imperatives. The remainder of the chapter discusses Turkey's media industry, its political system, and its authoritarian neoliberal order. These are followed by descriptions of the scope of the present study, the theoretical framework and methods, and an overview of the subsequent chapters.

The Social Semiotic Analysis of Translation of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness Based on Peircean Model

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 1281
Author(s):  
Iraj Noroozi ◽  
Somayeh Tork
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Social Semiotics ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Persian Version ◽  
The Social ◽  
Heart Of Darkness ◽  
Persian Translation

The aim of the present article is to investigate the meaning of the signs in Persian translation of Heart of Darkness. To reach the desired goal, the researcher has used social semiotics and Peirce’s triadic sign model as the theoretical framework. In the current study, Peirce semiotics has been used for detecting signs. After detection 50 signs, the researcher used Peirce’s triadic sign model for analyzing the translation of each sign. The researcher decoded the signs to identify their components and analyzed them in social semiotic level to clarify whether they have the same impression on the Persian version of Heart of Darkness as their English source or not. After performing data analysis, it was cleared that 37 signs (out of 50) in the corpus of the study have the same effect and meaning in the target text as what they have in the source text.

scholarly journals When a Peasant Can Only Grieve or Rejoice: Thomas and Znaniecki’s Approach to Emotions

Stan Rzeczy ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 95-110
Author(s):  
Bogna Dowgiałło
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Sociology Of Emotions ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual

The present article represents a new attempt to read the first two volumes of The Polish Peasant in Europe and America from the perspective of the sociology of emotions. Reconstructing Thomas and Znaniecki’s approach to emotions entails defining the place of emotions (as emotional habits, feelings, and sentiments) in a theoretical framework of values and attitudes and presenting how Thomas and Znaniecki took affectivity into account at the analytical level. The authors’ approach seems to correspond to the contemporary understanding of emotions, which avoids a separation between the individual and the social, the emotive and the cognitive.

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