The current study emphasizes the poor prognosis of patients with dysphagia after extubation. Dysphagia developed in more than 1 in 10 patients post-extubation; therefore, monitoring for a swallowing disorder is crucial in daily nursing in the intensive care unit.
This article examines Japanese press coverage of Premier Koizumi’s controversial visits to Yasukuni Shrine from 2001 to 2006. The shrine memorializes war dead, including 14 Class-A Second World War criminals, and is implicated in the history issue — the unresolved legacy of Imperial Japan’s wartime history. Using critical, qualitative content analysis, the authors analyze the Japanese press coverage’s representation of historical context. Theories of the social production of news and collective memory ground their analysis and interpretation of the representations and their implications. They argue that the press coverage that contextualized the shrine’s war criminals offered critical, mnemonic representations, while those that excluded this context provided fragmented representations. The authors assess the implications of these representations for the contemporary political objective of moving Japan toward a martial state. Ultimately, the Japanese press’s capacity to facilitate debate on history issues depends upon the public coming to terms with the war’s history and legacy.
This book is an insightful analysis of representations on media and communication sites, including the Internet and social networking sites. It explores what media representations help us understand about distant Others in the context of our world, how we are related to them, and how we conceive these Others by seeing them on flat screens. Orgad, a professor of media and communication, analyzes a variety of media forms on contemporary mediated sites such as blog, film, song, photography, television program, and so on. A compelling theme is that 'media representations [in mediated sites] may offer alternatives to Orientalism' (p. 33) in an age of global media because contemporary mediated sites offer space for viewers to see and understand 'us' and 'Others' (p. 33).This book uses communication and media studies approaches and aims to show how imagination 'informs and orients our thinking, feelings and actions towards the other and, inextricably, towards ourselves' (p. 80). These intriguing queries seem akin to Benedict Anderson's (1991) Imagined Communities, which investigates how printed media help readers imagine distant Others, worlds, and news events. Similarly, Orgad queries how media representations on contemporary mediated sites help us understand the world we live in. Contemporary mediated sites are ubiquitous and unavoidably contain rapidly changing contexts, contents, and information. Despite such challenges, the author dissects media representations in the context of global media and addresses the intersection of macro and micro levels in understanding such media representations. Exploring both levels, the author claims that imagination is a key to understanding the complexities of media representations that we are exposed to in everyday life.Most interesting to critical communication and media scholars will be Orgad's fascinating arguments about theories of representations that challenge the limitation of academic disciplinary boundaries. The author elaborates the intricate and ambiguous relationships between our perceptions and media representations by incorporating Appadurai's (1996: 5) concept of imagination. According to Appadurai (1996), imagination is not mere fantasy but an intellectual, social skill, used to recognize and develop 593017D CM0010.
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