Papers by Juliette Harkin
Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture
In this thesis I make use of interpretive methods within comparative political theory for a consi... more In this thesis I make use of interpretive methods within comparative political theory for a consideration of the idea of dignity (karama) in Syria’s revolution, began in 2011. The state and its ruling ideology is, of course, deeply contested in revolutions. But less attention has been paid to how this happens and to the kinds of new ideas—or established beliefs recovered and recast—which can rapidly emerge from the ideational periphery. The concept of karama acts, along with other adjacent and related ‘ideas in the wild’, to resist. It signifies important ‘belief challenges’ to the dominant order. I show the ways in which dignity is used and understood by recourse to the writing and the vernacular utterances of Syrian revolutionaries. I pursue two distinctive ideational exemplars from within the revolution: the progressive al-jumhuriya (The Republic) website; and, the armed fighters of the liwa al-tawhid (Unity Brigade). My research traces the ways in which divergent Syrian revoluti...
Social media and user-generated content (UGC) — photos and videos taken by members of the public ... more Social media and user-generated content (UGC) — photos and videos taken by members of the public — played an important role in coverage of the revolutions in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya, but, this was chiefly supplementary to traditional newsgathering for covering those revolutions. However in Syria with the tight control on foreign media denying access for foreign journalists, especially in the early months of the uprising, news organizations had to rely almost exclusively on this UGC via social media and their own UGC intake platforms. Much of the UGC used by news outlets is fielded by Syrian activists both inside Syria and based overseas who are in contact with Syrian demonstrators and planners. The objective of this study is to look at how two prominent Arab-language news organisations, BBC Arabic and Al Jazeera Arabic (AJA), have used social media and UGC — photos, videos and comments — to provide coverage of the uprising in Syria. Disciplines Communication | Communication Technol...
Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture
Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture
The Review of Politics, 2016
The issue is apparent, for instance, in Church's claim that Nietzsche holds two conceptions of cu... more The issue is apparent, for instance, in Church's claim that Nietzsche holds two conceptions of culture, one Herderian and national, the other Kantian and cosmopolitan. Where Church seeks to portray Nietzsche as ambitiously synthesizing Herder and Kant, we might ask whether it is just as likely that Nietzsche, rather than having two well-developed conceptions of culture, had none, and instead offered sometimes conflicting ruminations on culture never organized into a single coherent account.
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Papers by Juliette Harkin