Author: Benjamin Rex Lapoe File Type: pdf Resistance Advocacy as News Digital Black Press Covers the Tea Party examines the Black and mainstream presss digital interpretations of the Tea Party during President Barack Obamas first term. The Tea Party narrative and the white ideologies disseminated by conservative groups was, and continues to be, an intricate story for journalists to tell. This book tracks coverage of the Tea Party from the modern groups beginning in early February of 2009 until two weeks after the 2012 general presidential election in November. While many mainstream journalists either fail to recognize, or ignore all together, the racial component that the Tea Party poses to Black solidarity, this book shows that Black reporters working for the Black press absolutely recognize the racial component and provide more thorough discussions than their mainstream counterparts. Historically, the Black press has existed to fill holes of misrepresentation in the mainstream press to that end, this book addresses questions surrounding the ongoing necessity of the Black press and whether our society is postracial, combining a quantitative analysis of implicit racial frames with a qualitative analysis of resonant myth, and providing empirical evidence that Black people still struggle to have their voices heard in the mainstream press. **ReviewResistance Advocacy as News is an important and timely consideration of one of the most-often overlooked alternative presses in the United States the black press. Black press historians have for a long time heralded its role in shaping black consciousness, identity, and activism as far back as 1827s Freedoms Journal, and LaPoe and LaPoes work reminds us that the black press resonates not only as a voice of the past but also in our divided present. This book is essential reading for scholars interested in the black presss role in shaping US politics as well as aspiring and practicing journalists. (Carrie Teresa, Niagara University) In an era of unprecedented attack on the fourth estate, mainstream media is on its heels searching for relevance. Perhaps now more than ever it is time for the mainstream to seek answers from the masters of the marginsthe journalists of the black press. Lapoe and Lapoe tell a story of digital black newspapers that unflinchingly confronted the racial implications of the Tea Party. Ultimately, the black press anticipated todays normalization of white supremacist policies in ways the mainstream media could not. Resistance Advocacy as News bears witness to why black press matters for a multiracial democracy. (Khuram Hussain, Hobart and William Smith Colleges) This timely book provides a rich history of how both the black press and mainstream media covered the Tea Party during former President Barack Obamas stint as leader of the United States. Chapters compare and contrast the mainstream and black press narrative of the Tea Party and explore racial implicitness in the black and mainstream press. This content is of interest to both students and scholars of race, media, sociology, and politics. The authors have done a good job of providing an overview of this important topic. (Mia Moody-Ramirez, Baylor University) About the AuthorBenjamin Rex LaPoe II is visiting assistant professor at Ohio University. Victoria L. LaPoe is assistant professor in Ohio Universitys Scripps School of Journalism.

Author: Leo Charney File Type: epub Casting aside the traditional conception of film as an outgrowth of photography, theater, and the novel, the essays in this volume reassess the relationship between the emergence of film and the broader culture of modernity. Contributors, leading scholars in film and cultural studies, link the popularity of cinema in the late nineteenth century to emerging cultural phenomena such as window shopping, mail-order catalogs, and wax museums. **

Author: Giuliana Bruno File Type: pdf What is the place of materialitythe expression or condition of physical substancein our visual age of rapidly changing materials and media? How is it fashioned in the arts or manifested in virtual forms? In Surface, cultural critic and theorist Giuliana Bruno deftly explores these questions, seeking to understand materiality in the contemporary world. Arguing that materiality is not a question of the materials themselves but rather the substance of material relations, Bruno investigates the space of those relations, examining how they appear on the surface of different mediaon film and video screens, in gallery installations, or on the skins of buildings and people. The object of visual studies, she contends, goes well beyond the image and engages the surface as a place of contact between people and art objects. As Bruno threads through these surface encounters, she unveils the fabrics of the visualthe textural qualities of works of art, whether manifested on canvas, wall, or screen. Illuminating the modern surface condition, she notes how facades are becoming virtual screens and the art of projection is reinvented on gallery walls. She traverses the light spaces of artists Robert Irwin, James Turrell, Tacita Dean, and Anthony McCall touches on the textured surfaces of Isaac Juliens and Wong Kar-wais filmic screens and travels across the surface materiality in the architectural practices of Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Herzog & de Meuron to the art of Doris Salcedo and Rachel Whiteread, where the surface tension of media becomes concrete. In performing these critical operations on the surface, she articulates it as a site in which different forms of mediation, memory, and transformation can take place. Surveying object relations across art, architecture, fashion, design, film, and new media, Surface is a magisterial account of contemporary visual culture. **

Author: Ellen Ernst Kossek File Type: pdf Work-family researchers have had much success in encouraging both organizations and individuals to recognize the importance of achieving greater balance in life. Work and Life Integration addresses the intersect between work, life, and family in new and interesting ways. It discusses current challenges in dealing with work-life integration issues and sets the stage for future research agendas. The book enlightens the research community and informs the public debates on how workplaces can be made more family sensitive by providing contributions from psychologists, sociologists, and economists who have not shied away from asserting the policy implications of their findings.This text appeals to both practitioners and academics interested in seeking ways to create meaningful lives.ReviewIn sum, this book meets many of its ambitious goals It focuses on the work-side of work life issues, and emphasizes, balance, coping and enrichment in addition to work family conflict.. The volume offers a strong collection of studies that will help scholars stay current in a rapidly growing field.Administrative Science Quarterly, December, 2005Lambert hopes that Work and Life Integration will add to the debate on balancing the two, and perhaps inform government decisions. It highlights a need for social policy...arguing that too much responsibility is left to the employers.CHICAGO MagazineThere is much more in the book that is new, important, and deserving of attention....Great work...congrats to editors for an outstanding job!Work and Family Connection...this volume immediately serves two useful purposes for academic researchers. First, the editors introductory and final chapters provide a critical review of a large portion of the work-life area. Second, the individual contributions function as an encyclopedia of primarily U.S.-based research. This volume offers a strong collection ofstudies that will help scholars stay current in a rapidly growing field.Administration Science Quarterly...editors Ellen Kossek and Susan Lambert bring together individual, cultural, and organizational perspectives, crafting a framework to anchor a rich and varied range of interpretations of the work-family nexus. Indeed, Work and Life Integration Organizational, Cultural and Individual Perspectives offers academicians and practitioners an array of ideas, theories, and strategies more diverse and extensive than those typically found in books of this genre. Thus, the collection should advance scholarship and practice in work-family field.Social ScienceThe past, present, and future are brilliantly captured in Kossek and Lamberts far-reaching volume on work-life integration. A remarkable array of chapters by outstanding scholars examines the impact of technological, global and organizational changes on work-life issues. The editors have provided readers with an unprecedented opportunity to understand how the intersection of work and personal life is affected by a rich assortment of individual, organizational, and societal factors. Researchers and practitioners alike should emerge from this timely and significant book energized and inspired to face the challenges that lie ahead.Jeffery H. GreenhausDrexel UniversityFocusing on the work-side of work-life, Kossek and Lamberts volume brings fresh perspectives to the work-life arena. Crafted to inspire researchers, practitioners and policy makers, this work advances the work-life agenda by advocating a new business case steeped in social responsibility. Sure to be a catalyst for major advancements in the work-life field, this book is a must read for work-life scholars of every discipline.Debra A. MajorOld Dominion UniversityThe volume makes a substantial contribution to work and family research by moving away from outdated theories and by tackling the fields toughest issues. The authors bring much needed clarity by defining this sphere of study as an examination of relationships across both work and personal life, and, at the same time, expanding the context of this research to include missing areas, such as the labor market on one end of the spectrum and personality on the other.Ellen GalinskyPresident, Families and Work InstituteWork and Life Integration makes a significant contribution to the work-life literature by addressing the intersections among organizational structure, job design, organizational culture, and individual differences. The authors reveal the complexities involved in understanding the conditions under which employer policies and practices enhance the ability of individuals to coordinate their work and personal lives effectively. The insights provided by the book will enrich the efforts of scholars, work-life professionals, and organizational leaders and members as they address work-life issues from their multiple perspectives.Patricia VoydanoffUniversity of Dayton