Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on the Investment Strategy for DARPA

Vitto, Vince

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“…The importance of strategies for conveying information to the audience in achieving the targets set for the state or other subjects of communication was emphasized by V. Vitto, who introduced the very concept of strategic communications (Vitto, 2001). The scientist raises the question of the vital importance of strategic communications for state security policy and stresses the need for a deeper study of cultures, relationships and networks of influence in the modern world, where traditional media capitulate/ give in to the influence of the Internet.…”

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Official Media Discourse of ‘Active Longevity’: an Attempt to Popularize the Idea of the Inclusion of Older People into Society or to Conceal Undesirable Forced Choices

Jurkevits¹

2019

INTERC

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In the process of reforming social policies, various actors use media channels to convey their arguments to a wide audience and popularize certain ideas. Not only facts are transmitted, but also a certain image of social reality. This paper explores the main media narratives of the official discourse of ‘active longevity’ in Belarus in the period 2017-2018, with the aim to explore the meanings that they broadcast in society, and what the image of social reality they represent and construct. For the analysis of narratives, semantic content analysis is used, as well as qualitative discourse analysis of texts/articles of The Belarusian Telegraph Agency BelTA and The Belarus Segodnia (‘Belarus Today’) state publishing house incorporated five newspapers. Texts were sampled for the period 1 January 2017 to 31 December 2018. The transmitted narratives in the materials of the official media, together with the comments of journalists, show the activity of older people as a desirable version of reality, as well as their rarity and non-typicality for the contemporary Belarusian society. This conclusion suggests that in this discourse, exactly the official narrative of ‘active longevity’ is the counter-story, designed to overcome the dominant in society popular and most shared narratives. The understanding of ‘active longevity’ offered by official discourse seems to be a simplified version of reality, focusing mainly on categories of labour activity, utility for the society or not burdening the society. This counter-narrative does not re-humanize, but instead of empowering it makes other choices for understanding ‘active longevity’ invisible and insignificant.

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Official Media Discourse of ‘Active Longevity’: an Attempt to Popularize the Idea of the Inclusion of Older People into Society or to Conceal Undesirable Forced Choices

Jurkevits¹

2019

INTERC

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“…It is subsequently proposed in this section that the consistent application of the hegemonic narrative resides in its capacity to discipline rather than describe. 47 The function of language advanced in these examples is thus to persuade the audience to accept a predetermined political agenda, rather than to describe a corresponding reality. Instead, discipline operates by affecting beliefs and by leading people to think within boundaries that validates the desired emotive and normative associations.…”

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“…46 The report identified global public opinion as a vital issue for US national security and recommended this be influenced by adapting 'techniques of skilful political campaigning'. 47 The function of language advanced in these examples is thus to persuade the audience to accept a predetermined political agenda, rather than to describe a corresponding reality.…”

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Human rights narrative in the George W. Bush Administrations

Hancock¹

2010

Rev. Int. Stud.

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This article examines the human rights claims made by the George W. Bush Administrations of their post 9/11 foreign and security policy. Two common scholastic explanations of this narrative are evaluated: (i) that human rights constitute, at least in part, independent foreign policy goals and; (ii) that the human rights claims of policymakers can be dismissed as hypocritical rhetoric. The article informs and progresses this debate by revisiting the works of the early twentieth century political culture theorists Gabriel Almond, Graham Wallas and Edward Bernays. The article details the consistent use of a human rights narrative by administration officials as a technique of political discipline. The article identifies five linguistic mechanisms through which this technique of discipline was made manifest in practice. The article thereby explains how a human rights narrative was employed as an instrument to inculcate, rather than describe, reality.

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Stability Analysis for a Concept Design of Vertical Take-off and Landing (VTOL) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)

Arshad

Kallungal

Elmenshawy

2021

2021 International Conference on Military Technologies (ICMT)

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Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on the Investment Strategy for DARPA

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Official Media Discourse of ‘Active Longevity’: an Attempt to Popularize the Idea of the Inclusion of Older People into Society or to Conceal Undesirable Forced Choices

Official Media Discourse of ‘Active Longevity’: an Attempt to Popularize the Idea of the Inclusion of Older People into Society or to Conceal Undesirable Forced Choices

Human rights narrative in the George W. Bush Administrations

Stability Analysis for a Concept Design of Vertical Take-off and Landing (VTOL) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)

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