Latest Publications
Being and becoming in the culture of immediacy: An existential-ethical approach
Jan Jasper Mathé, Jo Bauwens, and Karl Verstrynge
July 2024
Link: https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448241267004
Journal: New Media & Society
Publisher: Sage Journals
Abstract
In this article we employ an Interpretative Phenomenological Approach to explore online immediacy from an existential-ethical perspective. While existing literature already accounts for the socio-cultural and psychological impact of constant connectivity, we venture to reveal its underlying existential-ethical implications. Our findings show the often contradictory ways in which young adults cope with the allure of immediate-aesthetic experiences on the one hand, and the challenge of authentic self-development on the other. Ultimately, we advocate for a transformative shift in which online practices are brought in alignment (are relativized) with an existential-ethical view of life. Drawing on Kierkegaard’s existential philosophy of the self, this article underscores the need to transcend the superficiality of immediacy to foster an authentic journey of being and becoming a self in a social environment that is increasingly mediated by online media technologies.
MOTHERS, TERRORISTS, OR VICTIMS? THE FRAMING OF DUTCH AND BELGIAN WOMEN IN THE SYRIAN CAMPS AND THE QUESTION OF REPATRIATION IN NEWS MEDIA
Yazan Badran
May 2024
Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14648849241255561
Journal: Journalism
Publisher: Sage Journals
Abstract
Following the fall of ISIS in March 2019, thousands of women affiliated with the movement, along with their children, were brought to Kurdish-controlled camps in north-eastern Syria. Since then, an international, political, and juridical debate raged on regarding the repatriation of Western female detainees in the camps and their children. This paper aims to evaluate how Dutch and Belgian women in the Syrian camps have been framed by their national news media in the context of political discussions on their repatriation. Our qualitative framing analysis identifies six distinct framing packages: the criminal, terrorist, victim, regret, mother, and bad parent frames. Moreover, our analysis highlights how the frames, and their intersection with different modes of othering, shifted as the debate moved to the question of their repatriation. Finally, we also discuss differences in the framing, argumentation, and frame advocates between the two contexts.