SWECJMC #6
Outside readers--note that for each time slot, two sessions are going on at the same time. Persons in the session I am not in are asked to add their comments by summarizing those sessions.
At 9:30 Marlin Shipman from Arkansas State began the session I am in with "The Newspaper Press, Capital Punishment and Religion." The purpose of the study was to try to identify and classify types of religious statements or images that appeared in execution stories in newspapers, and how these might influience public perception about capital punishment. Shipman talked first about the repentence-redemption model used in stories in the 1800s to the mid-1900s. Race also comes into the coverage--white-owned press reported images about African-Americans based on myths. Black-owned press became important between 1830-1860.
The next model discussed--just punishment model: you break the law, you pay the price. Newspapers 'precahed' in the stories about the messages in this view. Beginning in the 1960s, the 'sanctity of human life' model emerged and continues through to today. Readers started seeing more stories about people protesting the executions. The Roman Catholic Church started evaluating the sanctity of human life as organized religions started speaking against executions. More religious beliefs were included in execution stories.
The second presenter, Janice Wood from Texas Christian University, did "Foote Work for Free Speech: Two Doctors Foote Support Defendants Charged Wth Obscenity, 1872-1915." Wood talked about Anthony Comstockwho in 1873 lobbied Congress about obscenity. Father/sons-doctors named E.B. Foote Sr. and Jr. who were prosecuted. The paper is about a campaign started by the doctors to defend people based on free speech. Summarized obscenity, anti-anarchist, reform issues and courts hostile to free speech. Hicklin rule noted. The paper looks at people affected by some prosecutions under the law-- D.M. Bennett, Exra Heywood, Charles Reynolds, Dr. Sara Chase, Ida Craddock, John Turner, Emma Goldman, Margaret Sanger.
James E. Mueller of the University of North Texas presented "Victims, Villains and Heroes: Comparing Newspaper Coverage of World War II and the Iraq War." Presented related story about media coverage in Iraq--speaking with a student who returned from Iraq--angry about media coverage. If there was a foul up the story led CNN; something good , he couldn't find any news . Feeling that the coverage indicated the war was a lost cause and its failure made him feel like a fool for being there as a soldier. This anecdote led the author to lok at how news stories framed war coverage. Hero-type stories shown, like one from the Dallas Morning News during WWII. Iraq coverage stories of this type were hard to find. In contrast a lot of the Iraq stories portrayed the story in a victim mode, hopelessness of the war effort, person killed in war had joined the miltary to help pay for college and was a victim by being killed. Even editorial page cartoon portrays Iraq war as hopeless. In the frame of 'soldier as villain, ' Iraq war coverage it was dominant; in WWII similar stories looking at soldiers killings or enemy did not question soldier's motives or look to outside interpretations.
Charles (Curt) Yowell of the University of Houston presented "Community and the Public Realm of Alternative Media" (Don't Hate the Media, Become the Media)
Defined alternative/independent media--not mainstraeam media, non-profit, ideally accomplishes such goals as facilitation of group/organization identity for audience /producers, formation of community by unique use of public space, and engagement of disenfranchised groups. Noted Independent Media Center founded in Seattle 1999 as part of the protest of the WTO meeting. Community Public radio can be for people like the alienated or the faceless. It facilitates discussion of social power, political power and group identity. Discussed how alternative media empowers . Research questions: what role does the production/reception of alternative media have on group identity and what role does the production/reception of alternative media have on public sphere. Evaluated KPFT in Houston, run by Pacifica Radio; noted the station's mission as noted on its web site. Ethnographic and other research is being conducted to continue to add to theory on alternative media influence.
At 9:30 Marlin Shipman from Arkansas State began the session I am in with "The Newspaper Press, Capital Punishment and Religion." The purpose of the study was to try to identify and classify types of religious statements or images that appeared in execution stories in newspapers, and how these might influience public perception about capital punishment. Shipman talked first about the repentence-redemption model used in stories in the 1800s to the mid-1900s. Race also comes into the coverage--white-owned press reported images about African-Americans based on myths. Black-owned press became important between 1830-1860.
The next model discussed--just punishment model: you break the law, you pay the price. Newspapers 'precahed' in the stories about the messages in this view. Beginning in the 1960s, the 'sanctity of human life' model emerged and continues through to today. Readers started seeing more stories about people protesting the executions. The Roman Catholic Church started evaluating the sanctity of human life as organized religions started speaking against executions. More religious beliefs were included in execution stories.
The second presenter, Janice Wood from Texas Christian University, did "Foote Work for Free Speech: Two Doctors Foote Support Defendants Charged Wth Obscenity, 1872-1915." Wood talked about Anthony Comstockwho in 1873 lobbied Congress about obscenity. Father/sons-doctors named E.B. Foote Sr. and Jr. who were prosecuted. The paper is about a campaign started by the doctors to defend people based on free speech. Summarized obscenity, anti-anarchist, reform issues and courts hostile to free speech. Hicklin rule noted. The paper looks at people affected by some prosecutions under the law-- D.M. Bennett, Exra Heywood, Charles Reynolds, Dr. Sara Chase, Ida Craddock, John Turner, Emma Goldman, Margaret Sanger.
James E. Mueller of the University of North Texas presented "Victims, Villains and Heroes: Comparing Newspaper Coverage of World War II and the Iraq War." Presented related story about media coverage in Iraq--speaking with a student who returned from Iraq--angry about media coverage. If there was a foul up the story led CNN; something good , he couldn't find any news . Feeling that the coverage indicated the war was a lost cause and its failure made him feel like a fool for being there as a soldier. This anecdote led the author to lok at how news stories framed war coverage. Hero-type stories shown, like one from the Dallas Morning News during WWII. Iraq coverage stories of this type were hard to find. In contrast a lot of the Iraq stories portrayed the story in a victim mode, hopelessness of the war effort, person killed in war had joined the miltary to help pay for college and was a victim by being killed. Even editorial page cartoon portrays Iraq war as hopeless. In the frame of 'soldier as villain, ' Iraq war coverage it was dominant; in WWII similar stories looking at soldiers killings or enemy did not question soldier's motives or look to outside interpretations.
Charles (Curt) Yowell of the University of Houston presented "Community and the Public Realm of Alternative Media" (Don't Hate the Media, Become the Media)
Defined alternative/independent media--not mainstraeam media, non-profit, ideally accomplishes such goals as facilitation of group/organization identity for audience /producers, formation of community by unique use of public space, and engagement of disenfranchised groups. Noted Independent Media Center founded in Seattle 1999 as part of the protest of the WTO meeting. Community Public radio can be for people like the alienated or the faceless. It facilitates discussion of social power, political power and group identity. Discussed how alternative media empowers . Research questions: what role does the production/reception of alternative media have on group identity and what role does the production/reception of alternative media have on public sphere. Evaluated KPFT in Houston, run by Pacifica Radio; noted the station's mission as noted on its web site. Ethnographic and other research is being conducted to continue to add to theory on alternative media influence.
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