Social Sciences, Media & Journalism

Loneliness is a common experience within long-term care and, to promote well-being and quality of life among people with dementia, it is important to draw upon a repertoire of strategies that provide social stimulation, companionship, and enjoyment. This paper describes and reflects on a program of co-operative social participatory research that sought to introduce football-focused (ie, soccer-based) reminiscence based in 4 community settings within Spain and Scotland. Findings are reported and inform an original conceptual model that supports the introduction of sustainable approaches to the development of football-focused reminiscence with and for people with dementia.

... The question of French na-tional identity predominated, not least because of what was seen as the 'mixture of races' present in the French squad. ... The same article suggested, talking of the French mid-fielder Zidane who is himself a 'beur', that 'A winning goal by Zidane in the ...

An author types furiously on a typewriter. Behind him a man and woman argue violently. She pulls out a gun and shoots him. The man approaches the author and exclaims “¡ No me mates!” The author insists “Tú haces lo que yo te diga. Yo te inventé”. The character ...

... world (O'Donnell, forthcoming). Clydesidism, for its part, offers an urban male working-class view of Scottish life based mainly on the heavy industries (often shipbuilding) of a Glasgow which now no longer exists and focusing on class conflict and the struggle for workers' rights. ...

It is in the explanation of conflicts that narratives of confrontation are most clearly deployed. In the definition of the problems, in the roles embodied by the different subjects, in the lexical choices made when referring to territories or symbolic objects, we establish differences in terms of how such confrontations are (to be) understood. These narratives are articulated through structures which work to construct the origin of the problem, the solution, the victim or aggressor and so on. Applying a narratological analysis, the aim of this article is to offer a set of key elements for understanding news constructions of the — essentially political — conflict among nations and regions within Spain. Starting from a study of five cases and a comparison of ten TV news items from both the Spanish (TVE) and the Catalan (TVC) public-service channels concerning recent conflicts, the authors attempt to throw light on the ways in which different and divergent conceptions of the same set o...

... commentary since the 1980s.21 The period of postmodernity is held to have produced both a remarkable acceleration in the ... If in sports culture there was already a tendency to reflect nostalgically on the past in the modern period ... CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS IN MEDIA SPORT ...

346 DISCOURSE & SOCIETY In connection with the first of these it also explores the relationship be-tween the macro-discourse and local racist discourse. Part IV examines a number of micro-discourses which, though clearly deriving from this macro-discourse, operate on an ...

... had visited American troops in Vietnam in the nineteen-seventies, there were Gulf War floats at Super Bowl XXV in 1991 – had been essayed, albeit in less dramatic form, before. ... Real, MR (1982) The Superbowl: Mythic Spectacle ... Schwartz, D. (1998) Contesting the Super Bowl. ...

... ONCE IN TV'S ROYAL CITY 173 renewed national cohesion. But is this actually the case? In an attempt to theorise audience behaviour during large-scale royal events, I intend to concentrate initially on Diana's funeral, precisely because it is a funeral rather than a wedding, and ...

This paper analyses coverage of a number of incidents of football fan violence on Swedish television during the 1992 European Championship. Concentrating mainly on the technical characteristics of the video footage used—coming mostly from amateur or surveillance ...

This paper analyses coverage of a number of incidents of football fan violence on Swedish television during the 1992 European Championship. Concentrating mainly on the technical characteristics of the video footage used—coming mostly from amateur or surveillance ...

The Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies (CJCS) had its genesis in casual conversations among the members of the Department of Communication Studies at the Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona during the years 2007 and 2008. We were certainly excited about the idea of publishing a quality academic journal, yet it was difficult to find answers to questions such as: why should we launch a new journal? Would this journal meet with any interest in our field? What would it add to the already existing publications? Would any publisher be interested in the Catalan cultural field? Among all these uncertainties the only thing that was quite clear to us was that times had changed: communication and cultural studies within the Catalan context was now a richer reality than five years before; the rules of the university system were now demanding higher levels of quality in their evaluation of scholarship; and the need to internationalize academic output was more pressing than ever. But how could we bring this project to fruition? Around that time we received a communication from Intellect looking for new journal proposals. Without thinking twice, we looked for national and international alliances, we worked out the focus and scope of the journal and we began to write up the project. Two decisions were already taken: it must be a blind peer-reviewed journal following the standard academic practice regarding the selection of articles for inclusion, and it must be an English-language publication. The reason for these conditions was that no other completely blind peer-reviewed journal produced with the backing of a Catalan academic institution such as Rovira i Virgili University was available in English in the field of communication and cultural studies. We submitted the project to Intellect’s 2009 call for journals and, a few weeks later, we received a positive reply from the publishers. This, in our view, proves two things: on the one hand, Intellect’s commitment to seeking out and fostering new ideas and niches in the academic field and, on the other, of the growing stature and confidence in Catalan culture and society in the international sphere. We had the feeling that scholarship in the cultural and social disciplines in Catalonia had been too inward looking for too long, and the time had come to raise our heads and look around us. But let us explain what CJCS is about, and what are we proposing with the journal.

... Library ISBN 1-84150-043-7 Series Editor: Production Officer: Cover Photograph: Copy Editor: Keith Cameron Peter Singh ... Autdnoma de Barcelona), Peter Dahlen (Bergen University), Tom Hutchison (Middle Tennessee State University), Fernando Leon Solis (University of ...