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Risk in The New York Times (1987-2014) : a corpus-based exploration of sociological theories
\"This book investigates to what extent claims of common social science risk theories such as risk society, governmentality, risk and culture, risk colonisation and culture of fear are reflected in linguistic changes in print news media. The authors provide a corpus-based investigation of risk words in The New York Times (1987-2014) and a case study of the health domain. The book presents results from an interdisciplinary enterprise which combines sociological risk theories with a systematic functional theory of language to conduct an empirical analysis of linguistic patterns and social change. It will be of interest to students and scholars interested in corpus linguistics and digital humanities, and social scientists looking for new research strategies to examine long term social change.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Atomic Bill
In Atomic Bill
, Vincent Kiernan examines the fraught career of
New York Times science
journalist, William L. Laurence and shows his professional and
personal lives to be a cautionary tale of dangerous proximity to
power. Laurence was fascinated with atomic science and its
militarization. When the Manhattan Project drew near to perfecting
the atomic bomb, he was recruited to write much of the government's
press materials that were distributed on the day that Hiroshima was
obliterated. That instantly crowned Laurence as one of the leading
journalistic experts on the atomic bomb. As the Cold War dawned,
some assessed Laurence as a propagandist defending the
militarization of atomic energy. For others, he was a skilled
science communicator who provided the public with a deep
understanding of the atomic bomb. Laurence leveraged his perch at
the Times to engage in paid speechmaking, book writing,
filmmaking, and radio broadcasting. His work for the Times declined
in quality even as his relationships with people in power grew
closer and more lucrative. Atomic Bill reveals
extraordinary ethical lapses by Laurence such as a cheating scandal
at Harvard University and plagiarizing from press releases about
atomic bomb tests in the Pacific. In 1963 a conflict of interest
related to the 1964 World's Fair in New York City led to his forced
retirement from the Times . Kiernan shows Laurence to have
set the trend, common among today's journalists of science and
technology, to prioritize gee-whiz coverage of discoveries. That
approach, in which Laurence served the interests of governmental
official and scientists, recommends a full revision of our
understanding of the dawn of the atomic era.
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Money Jungle
Description: For more than a century, Times Square has mesmerized the world with the spectacle of its dazzling supersigns, its theaters, and its often-seedy nightlife. New York City's iconic crossroads has drawn crowds of revelers, thrill-seekers, and other urban denizens, not to mention lavish outpourings of advertising and development money.
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Talking prices
How do dealers price contemporary art in a world where objective criteria seem absent?Talking Pricesis the first book to examine this question from a sociological perspective. On the basis of a wide range of qualitative and quantitative data, including interviews with art dealers in New York and Amsterdam, Olav Velthuis shows how contemporary art galleries juggle the contradictory logics of art and economics. In doing so, they rely on a highly ritualized business repertoire. For instance, a sharp distinction between a gallery's museumlike front space and its businesslike back space safeguards the separation of art from commerce.
Velthuis shows that prices, far from being abstract numbers, convey rich meanings to trading partners that extend well beyond the works of art. A high price may indicate not only the quality of a work but also the identity of collectors who bought it before the artist's reputation was established. Such meanings are far from unequivocal. For some, a high price may be a symbol of status; for others, it is a symbol of fraud.
Whereas sociological thought has long viewed prices as reducing qualities to quantities, this pathbreaking and engagingly written book reveals the rich world behind these numerical values. Art dealers distinguish different types of prices and attach moral significance to them. Thus the price mechanism constitutes a symbolic system akin to language.
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Angels at the table : a Shirley, Goodness and Mercy Christmas story
Shirley, Goodness, and Mercy know that an angel's work is never done, especially during a time as wondrous as New Year's Eve. With an apprentice angel, Will, under their wings, they descend upon Times Square in New York City eager to join in the festivities. And when Will spies two lonely strangers in the crowd, he decides midnight is the perfect time to lend a heavenly helping hand.
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Black Corona
InBlack Corona, Steven Gregory examines political culture and activism in an African-American neighborhood in New York City. Using historical and ethnographic research, he challenges the view that black urban communities are \"socially disorganized.\" Gregory demonstrates instead how working-class and middle-class African Americans construct and negotiate complex and deeply historical political identities and institutions through struggles over the built environment and neighborhood quality of life. With its emphasis on the lived experiences of African Americans,Black Coronaprovides a fresh and innovative contribution to the study of the dynamic interplay of race, class, and space in contemporary urban communities. It questions the accuracy of the widely used trope of the dysfunctional \"black ghetto,\" which, the author asserts, has often been deployed to depoliticize issues of racial and economic inequality in the United States. By contrast, Gregory argues that the urban experience of African Americans is more diverse than is generally acknowledged and that it is only by attending to the history and politics of black identity and community life that we can come to appreciate this complexity.
This is the first modern ethnography to focus on black working-class and middle-class life and politics. Unlike books that enumerate the ways in which black communities have been rendered powerless by urban political processes and by changing urban economies,Black Coronademonstrates the range of ways in which African Americans continue to organize and struggle for social justice and community empowerment. Although it discusses the experiences of one community, its implications resonate far more widely.
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