Anthony Burton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3638841 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anthony Burton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anthony |
| FAMILY NAME | Burton |
| SIGNATURE | BURTON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Simon Fraser University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6474-0313 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Rebel personalities: Canada’s far-right media
This paper questions the influence of far-right media in Canada in light of the emergence of populist politics globally and the recent (2022) domestic truck protests, occupations and border blockades. In lieu of enumerating far-right activity online this paper questions the impact and funding sources of online influencers and news channels headed by former media and political staff. Canada’s Rebel Media organization has served not only as the lea…
Blackpill Science: Involuntary Celibacy, Rational Technique, and Economic Existence under Neoliberalism
Background: This article explores the “scientific blackpill,” used by those in contemporary digital incel communities to describe living as involuntarily celibate. To take the scientific blackpill is to both see and develop a rigid social hierarchy that attempts to explains the incel’s sexual and social lacks. Analysis: Through a discourse analysis of the largest web forum for self-identified “incels,” this article finds that the “scientific blac…
Deplatforming, demotion and folk theories of Big Tech persecution
This article examines the moderation of conspiracy narratives surrounding COVID-19 through digital methods analysis of deplatformed or demoted videos. Building upon the literature on moderation, it performs a comparison of the types of content moderated by YouTube during the early stages of the pandemic. It seeks to determine the extent to which YouTube's own moderation actions are brought in as part of the conspiratorial narratives surrounding C…
The Rebel Yell: On YouTube’s Burlesque Traditionalists and Their Alt-Right Audiences
Background: This article examines how the rhetorical style of the “alt-right” builds a political audience through a study of the Rebel, a Canadian YouTube news channel. Analysis: This study analyzes the rhetoric of two hosts on the Rebel, Lauren Southern and Gavin McInnes, and finds their style marked by the use of the vernacular slang associated with subcultural communities of the alt-right. Conclusion and implications: The unique rhetorical sty…
Performing Left and Right
Performing Left and Right Ioana B. Jucan (bio), Roopa Vasudevan (bio), Anthony Glyn Burton (bio), Tong Wu (bio), and Yuguang (YG) Zhang (bio) Introduction How is the construction and performance of political identity shaped by algorithms and technological platforms? How can we use online theatre performance to expose and push against prescribed political identities that fuel polarization? Can we repurpose technological tools that sustain machinic…
Zoombombing During a Global Pandemic
Using a digital methods analysis, the following article conducts a cross-platform study of the emergent 'Zoombombing' phenomenon alongside COVID-19 and the concomitant on-lining of professional and public life. This empirical study seeks to provide further insight to media frames characterizing Zoombombing at the outbreak of the pandemic, providing further insight into Zoombombing as a practice, how related actions act as an extension of longer h…
Crowdfunding during Covid-19: An international comparison of online fundraising
This article performs a digital methods analysis on a sample of online crowdfunding campaigns seeking financial support for COVID related financial challenges. Building upon the crowdfunding literature this paper performs an international comparison of the goals of COVID related campaigns during the early spread of the pandemic. The paper seeks to determine the extent to which crowdfunding campaigns reflect current failures of governments to supr…
Is enough attention given to climate change in health service planning? An Australian perspective
BACKGROUND: Within an Australian context, the medium to long-term health impacts of climate change are likely to be wide, varied and amplify many existing disorders and health inequities. How the health system responds to these challenges will be best considered in the context of existing health facilities and services. This paper provides a snapshot of the understanding that Australian health planners have of the potential health impacts of clim…
Human Health and Climate Change: Leverage Points for Adaptation in Urban Environments
The design of adaptation strategies that promote urban health and well-being in the face of climate change requires an understanding of the feedback interactions that take place between the dynamical state of a city, the health of its people, and the state of the planet. Complexity, contingency and uncertainty combine to impede the growth of such systemic understandings. In this paper we suggest that the collaborative development of conceptual mo…
A mid-term assessment of progress towards the immunization coverage goal of the Global Immunization Vision and Strategy (Givs)
Progress towards GIVS goals highlights improvements in routine immunization coverage, yet it is troubling to observe priority countries with little or no progress during the past five years. These results highlight that further efforts are needed to achieve and maintain the global immunization coverage goals
Christopher Whitehead, The Public Art Museum in Nineteenth Century Britain: The Development of the National Gallery
The chief purpose of this book is indicated in its sub-title: to chart the institutional history of the National Gallery, London, between 1850 and 1876.Most previous histories of the Gallery have concentrated on the assembly of the collection, and, indeed, the history of museums and galleries has predominantly been written in terms of the pursuit and capture of works of art.As we all know, this is the sexy side of museum life.But we have come to …
Cowie, Edward
Ruders, Poul
States of Injury: Josephine Butler on Slavery, Citizenship, and the Boer War
Journal Article States of Injury: Josephine Butler on Slavery, Citizenship, and the Boer War Get access ANTOINETTE BURTON ANTOINETTE BURTON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 5, Issue 3, Fall 1998, Pages 338–361, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/5.3.338 Published: 01 October 1998
London and Paris through Indian spectacles. Making a spectacle of Empire: Indian travellers in fin-de-siecle London
London and Paris through Indian spectacles. Making a spectacle of Empire: Indian travellers in fin-de-siecle London A Burton A Burton Department of History, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 42, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1996, Pages 127–146, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/1996.42.127 Published: 01 January 1996
Creative Unbalance
Looking forward from Ariès? Pictorial and material evidence for the history of childhood and family life
Philippe Ariès est le père de l'histoire de l'enfance. II fournit un cadre pour Interprétation et de nouvelles données, pour la plupart iconographiques. L'utilisation de ces documents n'a pas été soumise à la critique et peu d'historiens après lui y ont eu recours. Cet article examine plusieurs thèmes utilisés par Ariès comme preuves iconographiques et oppose ses méthodes d'interprétation à celle des historiens de l'art à ce sujet, avant d'indiqu…
Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck: A Creative Partnership
Journal Article ROBERT SCHUMANN AND CLARA WIECK: A CREATIVE PARTNERSHIP Get access ANNA BURTON ANNA BURTON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Music and Letters, Volume 69, Issue 2, April 1988, Pages 211–228, https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/69.2.211 Published: 01 April 1988
The Canal Builders
Terrorism: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
The Submerged and the Seers: Adult Literacy in Peru, 1973-1974
During 1973-74, the author was a consultant to ALFIN, a national literacy program organized by the Peruvian Ministry of Education and intended to operate in many areas of the Andes and coastal regions of Peru. ALFIN was developed as part of the revolutionary reform of education in Peru and was largely based on the teachings of Paulo Freire. This article explains and describes ALFIN, and recounts the author's role as participant
Anthropology of the Young1
This article has a double-barreled purpose: to raise some important questions and to sketch out a conceptual framework for an anthropology of the young. The first part of the article raises the question: Is anthropology of education, through an emphasis on such themes as school ethnography, observational methodology, curricular development, and the schooling of native peoples, moving towards narrowness and specialization? Or to turn the question …
Symphonies
London and Paris through Indian spectacles. Making a spectacle of Empire: Indian travellers in fin-de-siecle London
London and Paris through Indian spectacles. Making a spectacle of Empire: Indian travellers in fin-de-siecle London A Burton A Burton Department of History, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 42, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1996, Pages 127–146, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/1996.42.127 Published: 01 January 1996
States of Injury: Josephine Butler on Slavery, Citizenship, and the Boer War
Journal Article States of Injury: Josephine Butler on Slavery, Citizenship, and the Boer War Get access ANTOINETTE BURTON ANTOINETTE BURTON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 5, Issue 3, Fall 1998, Pages 338–361, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/5.3.338 Published: 01 October 1998
Anthropology of the Young1
This article has a double-barreled purpose: to raise some important questions and to sketch out a conceptual framework for an anthropology of the young. The first part of the article raises the question: Is anthropology of education, through an emphasis on such themes as school ethnography, observational methodology, curricular development, and the schooling of native peoples, moving towards narrowness and specialization? Or to turn the question …
The Submerged and the Seers: Adult Literacy in Peru, 1973-1974
During 1973-74, the author was a consultant to ALFIN, a national literacy program organized by the Peruvian Ministry of Education and intended to operate in many areas of the Andes and coastal regions of Peru. ALFIN was developed as part of the revolutionary reform of education in Peru and was largely based on the teachings of Paulo Freire. This article explains and describes ALFIN, and recounts the author's role as participant
Looking forward from Ariès? Pictorial and material evidence for the history of childhood and family life
Philippe Ariès est le père de l'histoire de l'enfance. II fournit un cadre pour Interprétation et de nouvelles données, pour la plupart iconographiques. L'utilisation de ces documents n'a pas été soumise à la critique et peu d'historiens après lui y ont eu recours. Cet article examine plusieurs thèmes utilisés par Ariès comme preuves iconographiques et oppose ses méthodes d'interprétation à celle des historiens de l'art à ce sujet, avant d'indiqu…
Symphonies
Anthropology of the Young1
This article has a double-barreled purpose: to raise some important questions and to sketch out a conceptual framework for an anthropology of the young. The first part of the article raises the question: Is anthropology of education, through an emphasis on such themes as school ethnography, observational methodology, curricular development, and the schooling of native peoples, moving towards narrowness and specialization? Or to turn the question …
Terrorism: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
The Submerged and the Seers: Adult Literacy in Peru, 1973-1974
During 1973-74, the author was a consultant to ALFIN, a national literacy program organized by the Peruvian Ministry of Education and intended to operate in many areas of the Andes and coastal regions of Peru. ALFIN was developed as part of the revolutionary reform of education in Peru and was largely based on the teachings of Paulo Freire. This article explains and describes ALFIN, and recounts the author's role as participant
The Canal Builders
Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck: A Creative Partnership
Journal Article ROBERT SCHUMANN AND CLARA WIECK: A CREATIVE PARTNERSHIP Get access ANNA BURTON ANNA BURTON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Music and Letters, Volume 69, Issue 2, April 1988, Pages 211–228, https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/69.2.211 Published: 01 April 1988
Looking forward from Ariès? Pictorial and material evidence for the history of childhood and family life
Philippe Ariès est le père de l'histoire de l'enfance. II fournit un cadre pour Interprétation et de nouvelles données, pour la plupart iconographiques. L'utilisation de ces documents n'a pas été soumise à la critique et peu d'historiens après lui y ont eu recours. Cet article examine plusieurs thèmes utilisés par Ariès comme preuves iconographiques et oppose ses méthodes d'interprétation à celle des historiens de l'art à ce sujet, avant d'indiqu…
Creative Unbalance
London and Paris through Indian spectacles. Making a spectacle of Empire: Indian travellers in fin-de-siecle London
London and Paris through Indian spectacles. Making a spectacle of Empire: Indian travellers in fin-de-siecle London A Burton A Burton Department of History, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 42, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1996, Pages 127–146, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/1996.42.127 Published: 01 January 1996
States of Injury: Josephine Butler on Slavery, Citizenship, and the Boer War
Journal Article States of Injury: Josephine Butler on Slavery, Citizenship, and the Boer War Get access ANTOINETTE BURTON ANTOINETTE BURTON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 5, Issue 3, Fall 1998, Pages 338–361, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/5.3.338 Published: 01 October 1998
Cowie, Edward
Ruders, Poul
Christopher Whitehead, The Public Art Museum in Nineteenth Century Britain: The Development of the National Gallery
The chief purpose of this book is indicated in its sub-title: to chart the institutional history of the National Gallery, London, between 1850 and 1876.Most previous histories of the Gallery have concentrated on the assembly of the collection, and, indeed, the history of museums and galleries has predominantly been written in terms of the pursuit and capture of works of art.As we all know, this is the sexy side of museum life.But we have come to …
A mid-term assessment of progress towards the immunization coverage goal of the Global Immunization Vision and Strategy (Givs)
Progress towards GIVS goals highlights improvements in routine immunization coverage, yet it is troubling to observe priority countries with little or no progress during the past five years. These results highlight that further efforts are needed to achieve and maintain the global immunization coverage goals
Human Health and Climate Change: Leverage Points for Adaptation in Urban Environments
The design of adaptation strategies that promote urban health and well-being in the face of climate change requires an understanding of the feedback interactions that take place between the dynamical state of a city, the health of its people, and the state of the planet. Complexity, contingency and uncertainty combine to impede the growth of such systemic understandings. In this paper we suggest that the collaborative development of conceptual mo…
Is enough attention given to climate change in health service planning? An Australian perspective
BACKGROUND: Within an Australian context, the medium to long-term health impacts of climate change are likely to be wide, varied and amplify many existing disorders and health inequities. How the health system responds to these challenges will be best considered in the context of existing health facilities and services. This paper provides a snapshot of the understanding that Australian health planners have of the potential health impacts of clim…
Crowdfunding during Covid-19: An international comparison of online fundraising
This article performs a digital methods analysis on a sample of online crowdfunding campaigns seeking financial support for COVID related financial challenges. Building upon the crowdfunding literature this paper performs an international comparison of the goals of COVID related campaigns during the early spread of the pandemic. The paper seeks to determine the extent to which crowdfunding campaigns reflect current failures of governments to supr…
Deplatforming, demotion and folk theories of Big Tech persecution
This article examines the moderation of conspiracy narratives surrounding COVID-19 through digital methods analysis of deplatformed or demoted videos. Building upon the literature on moderation, it performs a comparison of the types of content moderated by YouTube during the early stages of the pandemic. It seeks to determine the extent to which YouTube's own moderation actions are brought in as part of the conspiratorial narratives surrounding C…
The Rebel Yell: On YouTube’s Burlesque Traditionalists and Their Alt-Right Audiences
Background: This article examines how the rhetorical style of the “alt-right” builds a political audience through a study of the Rebel, a Canadian YouTube news channel. Analysis: This study analyzes the rhetoric of two hosts on the Rebel, Lauren Southern and Gavin McInnes, and finds their style marked by the use of the vernacular slang associated with subcultural communities of the alt-right. Conclusion and implications: The unique rhetorical sty…
Performing Left and Right
Performing Left and Right Ioana B. Jucan (bio), Roopa Vasudevan (bio), Anthony Glyn Burton (bio), Tong Wu (bio), and Yuguang (YG) Zhang (bio) Introduction How is the construction and performance of political identity shaped by algorithms and technological platforms? How can we use online theatre performance to expose and push against prescribed political identities that fuel polarization? Can we repurpose technological tools that sustain machinic…
Zoombombing During a Global Pandemic
Using a digital methods analysis, the following article conducts a cross-platform study of the emergent 'Zoombombing' phenomenon alongside COVID-19 and the concomitant on-lining of professional and public life. This empirical study seeks to provide further insight to media frames characterizing Zoombombing at the outbreak of the pandemic, providing further insight into Zoombombing as a practice, how related actions act as an extension of longer h…
Rebel personalities: Canada’s far-right media
This paper questions the influence of far-right media in Canada in light of the emergence of populist politics globally and the recent (2022) domestic truck protests, occupations and border blockades. In lieu of enumerating far-right activity online this paper questions the impact and funding sources of online influencers and news channels headed by former media and political staff. Canada’s Rebel Media organization has served not only as the lea…
Blackpill Science: Involuntary Celibacy, Rational Technique, and Economic Existence under Neoliberalism
Background: This article explores the “scientific blackpill,” used by those in contemporary digital incel communities to describe living as involuntarily celibate. To take the scientific blackpill is to both see and develop a rigid social hierarchy that attempts to explains the incel’s sexual and social lacks. Analysis: Through a discourse analysis of the largest web forum for self-identified “incels,” this article finds that the “scientific blac…
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