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The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research

hungry for a more concrete prescription, it is fully in keeping with the book’s tone. Ultimately, House of My Sojourn is an uneven read. From my perspective, the case studies*in particular those in chapters three and four*make the clearest and most useful contributions to the study of women’s rhetoric. Sutton is more adept at explicating the barriers to women’s authoritative rhetorical practice than at offering an innovative way to overcome them, despite her vow to rebuild the house of rhetoric. The fanciful comparisons, imagined scenarios, and sometimes vexing vocabulary can be off-putting, but the style is clearly part of the point of the exercise. Sutton wants to envision a future that can transcend the problems of the past, and she takes a great deal of rhetorical license to do so. The result, always erudite, is often enlightening and occasionally perplexing, but it is never dull.

About to Die: How News Images Move the Public

The Essence of Truth

Understanding the “if” and “when” of autonomous vehicle (AV) adoption is of clear interest to car manufacturers in their positioning of business processes, but also to transportation planners and traffic engineers. In this paper, we examine the individual-level AV adoption and timing process, considering the psycho-social factors of driving control, mobility control, safety concerns, and tech-savviness. A ranked choice stated preference design is used to elicit responses from Austin area residents regarding AV adoption. Our results underscore the need to examine the adoption of technology through a psycho-social lens. In particular, technology developments and design should not be divorced from careful investigations of habits and consumption motivations of different groups of individuals in the population. The findings from our analysis are translated to specific policy actions to promote AV adoption and accelerate the adoption time frame.

A socio-technical model of autonomous vehicle adoption using ranked choice stated preference data

In a marketplace still dominated by arcane legislative and regulatory architectures and by legacy communication processes, social enterprises are finding it difficult to secure funding. This qualit...

Telling the impact investment story through digital media: an Indonesian case study

In that it privileges the grand perspective (the landscape, and the battalion arrayed in all its splendour), The Longest Day (1962) is typical of big-picture World War II films produced up until the mid-1970s. There are few close-ups, and takes are ponderously long. The focus is on grand strategy, and an attendant grand narrative; the lens offers a blow-by-blow assessment of the massive assault. Shot in 1998, Saving Private Ryan periodically echoes this perspective but reflects modalities informed by changing technologies and a hyper-mediated culture. The result is more intimate framing, punctuated by shots sometimes adapted from the source material: footage captured on Omaha Beach, 6 June 1944, by the Signal Corps cameramen. This portrayal serves two purposes: it opens the film in spectacular fashion, introduces the main characters and prefaces their mission. This article identifies and examines filmic frames from the day of the landings; from the grand narrative of The Longest Day; and from Spielberg's confronting representation Saving Private Ryan. The aim is to show how, through the lens alone, cinematographers approximate the character of a tumultuous and terrifying day in ways that are surprisingly similar and profoundly different.

Re-viewing D-Day: The cinematography of the Normandy landings from the Signal Corps to Saving Private Ryan

In considering the problem of asylum generally, and the experience of ‘boatpeople’ specifically, through the tools of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and New Criticism Cries from Babylon is a study of asylum-seeker discourse within the Australian body politic. More particularly, it is a retrospective on shifting policy rhetoric during the Rudd and Gillard Labor governments. Through its historical-cultural and linguistic analysis, the paper positions the rhetoric of these Prime Ministers in the context of an historical narrative concerning the asylum seeker. A principal finding is that, despite indubitably strong personal convictions (inspired, in significant measure, by the life and work of World War II martyr Deitrich Boenhoeffer), in trying to appease the right of Labor’s own broader electorate, Rudd occasionally echoed — though never adopted wholesale — the hard-line rhetoric of his predecessor John Howard, Prime Minister of Australia 1996 ‐ 2007. In making its arguments, Cries from Babylon also considers the resurgence of such rhetoric by Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott.

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Cries from Babylon: the problem of compassion in Australian refugee policy

This essay offers a preliminary examination of the battle-map as depicted in two films about the Second World War: Franklin J. Shaffner's biopic Patton (1970) and Jack Smight's epic Midway (1976). In these films, maps, charts, or tableaux (the three-dimensional models upon which are plotted the movements of battalions, fleets, and so on) emerge as an expression of both martial and cinematic strategy. It is argued that the battle-map emerges as a crucial isomorphic element. It features as a prop to signify command and to relay otherwise complex strategic plottings, giving audiences a glimpse into how military strategy is formed and tested: a traditional 'reading' of the map. Conversely, the map is a device of foreshadowing and a sign of command's profound limitations. It is thus resolved that the battle-map is as much a sign of the subjective as the objective.

Paul Ryder

Papers

Telling the impact investment story through digital media: an Indonesian case study

Re-viewing D-Day: The cinematography of the Normandy landings from the Signal Corps to Saving Private Ryan

Cries from Babylon: the problem of compassion in Australian refugee policy

The Semiotics of Strategy: A Preliminary Structuralist Assessment of the Battle-Map in Patton (1970) and Midway (1976)

The motorcar and desire : a cultural and literary reconsideration of the motorcar in modernity