One dimensional man
About: This article is published in Philosophical Books.The article was published on 1965-05-01. It has received 2842 citations till now.
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TL;DR: This paper analyzed the discursive framing of the British government's economic policies by BBC News Online, focusing on the coverage of the government's Comprehensive Spending Revi......,..
Abstract: This study analyses the discursive framing of the British government’s economic policies by BBC News Online. Specifically, it focuses on the coverage of the government’s Comprehensive Spending Revi...
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...Ultimately, the ‘more rational, productive, technical, and total the repressive administration of society becomes, the more unimaginable the means and ways by which the administered individuals might break their servitude and seize their own liberation’ (Marcuse, 1964: 6)....
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...We suggest, therefore, that news media are part of a communicative structure that steers people not only in terms of ‘what to think about’ and ‘what to think’, but also how to think (cf. Habermas, 1987; Marcuse, 1964)....
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01 Jan 2019
TL;DR: In this article, a metro rail megaproject in India has been examined from an organizational power perspective in terms of power, persuading strategies, framing strategies and hegemonizing strategies.
Abstract: Infrastructure megaprojects, due to their colossal nature, can cause inconvenience to multiple external stakeholders such as stakeholders in lands, existing services and project communities. These stakeholders are difficult to manage as they interact with the project across permeable boundaries, are not accountable to the requirements of a Detailed Project Report (DPR) and cannot be governed with contractual instruments or conformance to standards as in the case of internal stakeholders. In this context, this research aims to understand 𝘩𝘰𝘸 an infrastructure megaproject during its construction and operation phase can manage these external stakeholders through strategic action from an organizational power perspective.
Anchored in the dimensions of power, persuading strategies, framing strategies and hegemonizing strategies are observed from two exploratory case studies. Multiple organizational power theories which relate to these strategies such as influence tactics framework, bases of power framework, framing theory, governmentality theory and circuits of power theory are considered in this study. The literature review of these organizational power theories and the megaproject literature pertaining to each of these strategies helped identify gaps in the literature, for addressing which eight research questions are proposed. To address these research questions, I selected a metro rail megaproject in India. Multiple data sources from this project such as semi-structured interviews, news media articles, and social media posts were used to investigate the strategies employed by the megaproject to manage external stakeholders. Subsequent to developing twenty-one propositions through a grounded theory approach, a conceptual framework that can help explain external stakeholder management in megaprojects is proposed.
The research makes multiple contributions to theory, methodology and practice. The role of strategy in making power dynamic by creating power, using power and maintaining power is established. The definition of project community is broadened to involve all stakeholders of the project (both internal and external) as the strategies used to manage the project community percolated and trickled down to other stakeholders as they are also part of the project community. A structured approach to study naturalistic data such as news articles and social media is proposed and their ability to contribute to megaproject research is highlighted. To practice, I contribute a framework to explain external stakeholder management in megaprojects. The study also emphasizes the role of the covert strategies such as framing and hegemonizing in dictating the visible stakeholder management strategies such as persuading strategies, and vice versa.
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...…consumers has some similarity to governmentality practices: both make the exercise of power seem rational and natural (Lemke, 2002) - consumption of specific brands as a matter of brand loyalty is often a part of everyday rationality, as Marcuse (1964) outlined in an early critical account....
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TL;DR: The authors examines whether the ubiquitous presence of technology in schools negatively affects democratic learning by promoting instrumental rationality and reifying social reality, and concludes that democratic educators should appropriate classroom technologies and utilize them in ways to promote the critical consciousness of students.
Abstract: This article examines whether the ubiquitous presence of technology in schools negatively affects democratic learning by promoting instrumental rationality and, hence, reifying social reality. The author suggests that structural critiques of educational technology ignore the considerable impact of human agency on shaping related learning outcomes. By combining Dewey's constructivism with Internet technology, the article suggests student agency and participatory democratic learning are actually encouraged. Rather than condemning educational technology as necessarily socially reproductive, then, the author concludes that democratic educators should appropriate classroom technologies and utilise them in ways to promote the critical consciousness of students.
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...Marcuse (1964) contends that instrumental rationality, the very feature of technology Habermas connects to neutrality, is historically contingent within capitalist culture....
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...In sharp contrast to Habermas, he maintains that technologies are inescapably value laden, and designed by hegemonic interests to manipulate, control, and dominate public consciousness (Marcuse, 1964)....
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TL;DR: In this article, a case study of one such project, a Human Library (HL), hosted alongside a portraiture exhibition in an Art Gallery in British Columbia, was conducted and the findings show how this safe space of discomfort illuminated stereotyping, bias, and ignorance and the subsequent transformation of perspectives around both people and art.
Abstract: Against a backdrop of elitism and exclusion, many public art galleries are adopting educational processes aimed at tackling society’s pressing social and cultural problems. This paper shares the findings of case study of one such project, a Human Library (HL), hosted alongside a portraiture exhibition in an Art Gallery in British Columbia. Findings show how this ‘safe’ space of ‘discomfort’ illuminated stereotyping, bias, and ignorance and the subsequent transformation of perspectives around both people and art. It also provided a critical space of social reflection on the media and gender issues. Yet those who attended were predominantly middle and upper class and female and there was confusion around the link between the portraits, the mission of the Gallery and the HL. However, the Gallery can be seen as an intentional, critical space of adult education, playing a unique role in promoting social justice and change.
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...No person is one-dimensional (Marcuse, 1964); rather, a person is a constellation of race, gender, ability, class, and sexuality shaped and constructed by experience (Crenshaw, 1991; Manicom & Walters, 2012)....
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