Climate change and visual imagery

Many actors���including scientists, journalists, artists, and campaigning organizations���create visualizations of climate change. In doing so, they evoke climate change in particular ways, and make the issue meaningful in everyday discourse. While a diversity of climate change imagery exists, particular types of climate imagery appear to have gained dominance, promoting particular ways of knowing about climate change (and marginalizing others). This imagery, and public engagement with this imagery, helps to shape the cultural politics of climate change in important ways. This article critically reviews the nascent research area of the visual representations of climate change, and public engagement with visual imagery. It synthesizes a diverse body of research to explore visual representations and engagement across the news media, NGO communications, advertising, and marketing, climate science, art, and virtual reality systems. The discussion brings together three themes which occur throughout the review: time, truth, and power. The article concludes by suggesting fruitful directions for future research in the visual communication of climate change.

From protest to powerlessness : a Marxist analysis of the Ontario NDP /

Using Marxist state theory as an analytical framework, this thesis explains the problems faced by the Ontario New Democratic Party government (1990-1995) in implementing a social democratic agenda. Not only was the government constrained in its ability to implement progressive policy, but it was also pushed to implement a Social Contract (involving legislated wage cuts to public sector employees) that alienated the party's base of support, making it more difficult for the party to organize in the future. Although this study relies predominantly on a reinterpretation of existing research on the topic, some primary research is used in the analysis, including interviews with members of the labour movement and former MPPs and analysis of the news media's treatment of the party/ government. Historical and class analytical perspectives are used to explain the evolution of the ONDP's structure and policies, as well as to assess the relative strength of the working class and its ability to support a social democratic political agenda. It was found that the ONDP' s unwillingness to develop a long term plan for social democracy, and its inability to act as a mass party or to build a strong working class movement, made it more difficult for the party to succeed when it formed the government. Moreover, the class nature of the capitalist state, along with pressure exerted by a well mobilized capitalist class, worked to limit the government' s options.

Analyse de la couverture m��diatique d'un leader ��mergent : le cas d'Andr�� Boisclair

Ce m��moire porte sur le r��le que jouent les m��dias de masse dans la construction de la personnalit�� publique des nouveaux chefs de partis politiques. Lorsqu���un individu est nomm�� �� la t��te d���un parti politique, il est la plupart du temps peu connu du grand public. Or, comme une ��crasante majorit�� de citoyens n���a jamais l���occasion d���entrer en contact directement avec les hommes et les femmes politiques, c���est exclusivement par le biais des m��dias que la plupart des gens apprennent �� conna��tre leurs repr��sentants politiques ��� ou ceux qui aspirent �� jouer ce r��le. Or les m��dias ne se contentent pas de r��p��ter ce que les politiciens disent. Les informations qu���ils d��cident d���inclure dans leurs reportages, les mots qu���ils utilisent et les cadrages qu���ils retiennent contribuent �� d��finir la personnalit�� des leaders ��mergents dont ils parlent. Les m��dias choisissent aussi de mettre l���accent sur certains traits de personnalit�� et d��cident d���en ignorer d���autres. Afin de mieux comprendre ce ph��nom��ne, nous avons ��tudi�� le cas de l���ex-chef du Parti qu��b��cois, Andr�� Boisclair. Nous avons cherch�� �� savoir si la couverture dont ce dernier a fait l���objet a ��t�� stable ou si elle a suivi certains cycles, et nous nous sommes int��ress��s aux crit��res retenus par les m��dias pour ��valuer sa personnalit��. Pour ce faire, nous avons ��tudi�� le volume, le format, le ton, les objets et les cadrages qui caract��risent la couverture dont a ��t�� l���objet Andr�� Boisclair �� l���antenne de la Soci��t�� Radio-Canada et du R��seau TVA entre le 4 juin 2005 et le 21 f��vrier 2007. Nos conclusions sont �� l���effet que la couverture a bel et bien suivi un cycle, et que les crit��res retenus par les m��dias sont tr��s similaires �� ceux qui sont r��put��s ��tre importants pour la population dans le choix d���un leader politique.

WAIS seminar: Computer Science, the Revolution in Schools

Tuesday 22nd April 2014 Speaker(s): Sue Sentance Organiser: Leslie Carr Time: 22/04/2014 15:00-16:00 Location: B32/3077 File size: 698 Mb Abstract Until recently, "computing" education in English schools mainly focused on developing general Digital Literacy and Microsoft Office skills. As of this September, a new curriculum comes into effect that provides a strong emphasis on computation and programming. This change has generated some controversy in the news media (4-year-olds being forced to learn coding! boss of the government���s coding education initiative cannot code shock horror!!!!) and also some concern in the teaching profession (how can we possibly teach programming when none of the teachers know how to program)? Dr Sue Sentance will explain the work of Computing At School, a part of the BCS Academy, in galvanising universities to help teachers learn programming and other computing skills. Come along and find out about the new English Computing Revolution - How will your children and your schools be affected? - How will our University intake change? How will our degrees have to change? - What is happening to the national perception of Computer Science?

Formaci��n de periodistas de la ciencia en Bogot��

El prop��sito de este art��culo period��stico es a partir de la descripci��n de la situaci��n actual de la formaci��n de periodistas cient��ficos en Bogot��, identificar las din��micas que se pueden implantar en esta ciudad para mejorar la formaci��n de periodistas cient��ficos. El corpus del art��culo est�� dividido en dos partes. En primer lugar, se realizar�� un contexto de la situaci��n actual del periodismo cient��fico (PEC) y una investigaci��n que incluye los diferentes actores involucrados en ��ste. El segundo cap��tulo plantear�� las recomendaciones y consideraciones frente al objeto de estudio. En este orden de ideas, se analiza la nula oferta de educaci��n de calidad para programas de profundizaci��n en la rama del periodismo cient��fico. Se concluye dando unas posibles soluciones a la problem��tica de formaci��n de periodistas cient��ficos en Bogot��, siendo ��stas identificadas a partir de la investigaci��n realizada.

Microfilme: literatura e m��dia no correio feminino de Clarice Lispector

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cient��fico e Tecnol��gico

A case study of the 9 August 1988 South Atlantic storm: Numerical simulations of the wave activity

During 9-11 August 1988, a cyclone developed over Uruguay in the lee of the Andes Mountains and moved over the South Atlantic Ocean, where it redeveloped into an intense storm. This storm was responsible for unusual wave activity along the Brazilian shoreline from 22�� to 32��S. The Brazilian news media reported the loss of at least one life, waves of 3 m and higher, and the disappearance of a drainage pipe, which weighed 8000 kg, off the shores of Rio de Janeiro. In this paper, the evolution of this intense storm and the associated ocean wave response is studied through European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts analyses, a hydrostatic limited-area meteorological model, and a second-generation prognostic wave model. The atmospheric model results indicated the presence of a long-lived and large fetch with surface wind velocities higher than 12 m s -1 directed toward the coast. Some areas with velocities of 20 m s -1 were embedded in the fetch. The wave model forced by this wind field was able to simulate waves with a significant height of 8 m far from the coast and about 4 m in regions very close to the Brazilian coast in agreement with the occurrence reported at Rio de Janeiro. The swell propagation toward the coast of Rio de Janeiro was obstructed by a northeastward 10-m wind during the first 24-h period of the model's integration. During the second 24-h period, the fetch was still large and strong, but the obstacle was removed by a counterclockwise rotation of wind direction favoring the swell and windsea propagation toward the Rio de Janeiro coast.

Where do Latin America and the Caribbean stand in relation to the eLAC2007 Plan of Action?: evidence from available information

Includes bibliography

As flores animadas em O Parahyba : caracter��sticas do suporte e suas significa����es no folhetim brasileiro do s��culo XIX

Coordena����o de Aperfei��oamento de Pessoal de N��vel Superior (CAPES)

Integralismo e ideologia autocr��tica chauvinista regressiva: cr��tica aos herdeiros do sigma

Coordena����o de Aperfei��oamento de Pessoal de N��vel Superior (CAPES)

Jornalismo da Multid��o: estudo sobre as formas de financiamento coletivo da Ag��ncia P��blica

P��s-gradua����o em Televis��o Digital: Informa����o e Conhecimento - FAAC

Spirit of Mardis Gras in Hartford

This is a news video produced by Journalism student Jackie Marsiglia. This is to test streaming functionality in the UConn Digital Commons. The RealPlayer movies have been shortened.

Residents' risk perception due to operations of a copper smelter located near residential communities in El Paso, Texas

A face to face survey addressing environmental risk perception was conducted in January through March 2010. The 35 question survey was administered to a random sample of 73 households in El Paso, Texas. The instrument, administered in two adjacent residential communities neighboring an inactive copper smelter solicited responses about manmade and naturally occurring health risks and sources of health information that might utilized by respondents. The objective of the study was to determine if intervention which occurred in one of the communities increased residents' perception of risk to themselves and their families. The study was undertaken subsequent to increased attention from news media and public debate surrounding the request to reopen the smelter's operations. Results of the study indicated that the perception of environmental related health concerns were not significantly correlated with residence in a community receiving outreach and intervention. Both communities identified sun exposure as their greatest perceived environmental risk followed by cigarette smoking. Though industrial by products and chemical pollution were high ranking concerns, respondents indicated they felt that the decision not to reopen the smelter reduced risk in these areas. Residents expressed confidence in information received from the local health district though most indicated they received very little information from that source indicating an opportunity for public health education in this community as a strategy to address future health concerns.^

O com��rcio de medicamentos de g��nero na m��dia impressa brasileira: misoprostol e mulheres

Este artigo analisa como a m��dia impressa brasileira noticia o com��rcio clandestino do misoprostol, o principal medicamento para aborto. Foram recuperadas 1.429 not��cias, de 220 ve��culos de informa����o impressos e eletr��nicos, entre 2004 e 2009. A an��lise foi realizada em 524 not��cias de 62 ve��culos impressos regionais e nacionais. O misoprostol �� pauta permanente, mas o enquadramento das not��cias �� policial, diverso do aborto como uma quest��o religiosa, pol��tica e de sa��de p��blica que domina a m��dia brasileira. O misoprostol est�� inserido no mercado ilegal de medicamentos de g��nero, tais como os para emagrecimento, disfun����o er��til ou anabolizantes. Sessenta e quatro (12%) not��cias impressas apresentam hist��rias de vida de mulheres que abortaram com o misoprostol. As mulheres t��m de 13 a 46 anos e sua inser����o de classe demarca diferentes experi��ncias de aborto. Tr��s personagens foram identificados nos itiner��rios de aborto: amigas, intermedi��rios e m��dicos. As hist��rias de aborto tardio s��o confundidas com a tipifica����o penal do infantic��dio e s��o casos-limite para a narrativa midi��tica.