Frederick Attenborough
Biographic Data
| ID | 96671 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frederick Attenborough |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frederick |
| FAMILY NAME | Attenborough |
| SIGNATURE | ATTENBOROUGH F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loughborough University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Rape is rape (except when it’s not)
This article contributes to a body of research in which media reports of violence against women are analysed for the ways they gloss precisely what it is that constitutes ‘violence against women’ in the event under report. To catch this glossing in flight , as it were, mediated reports of violence are conceptualised as recontextualisations; that is, reports that may differ in rhetorically consequential ways from those provided by victims of, or w…
Words, Contexts, Politics
Categorical feminism
This article focuses on online assessments of a controversial British television advertisement. Across blogs, websites and forums, a range of stances emerged in debates about its possible “sexism”, “humour”, “misogyny”, or “realism”. The analytic interest here is in the ways that assessors invoked “f-” categories (e.g., “feminism”, “feminist”) as part of their assessments: across the data corpus, people would locate themselves or others in relati…
Jokes, pranks, blondes and banter
This article examines how media texts that take sexism as their topic can be analysed for the ways in which they present what does (or does not) constitute sexism in the particular event being reported upon. To do so, it treats any such text as a ‘recontextualisation’. This concept, drawn from the field of critical discourse analysis, suggests that for an incident of sexism to be reported in any media text is also for that incident to be recontex…
University students managing engagement, preparation, knowledge and achievement
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) and the rhetorical construction of “bad” scientific work
How are secondary accounts of “bad” scientific practice constructed? How do they engage with the primary data produced by “bad” scientists? And what happens to those primary data as generations of secondary accounts purporting to describe them accumulate? This paper addresses such questions via a case study of Dr. Hong, a microbiologist accused of “bad” scientific practice by numerous secondary accounts of the 2003 SARS outbreak. Bringing Hong’s …
Sexism Re-Loaded … or Sexism Re-Presented
If part of the project of a feminist media studies is to explore the various ways in which sexism operates through the media, then how might this be achieved? Any answer to this question will depend upon how the concept of “sexism” is understood. Much existing research has tended to approach sexism as an etic, analyst-driven phenomenon; that is, as something to be defined by the analyst during the study of media representations that may be sexist…
Discourse analysis and sexualisation
The relatively novel phenomenon of ‘sexualisation’ has, over recent years, received attention as a matter of concern within scholarly and popular texts. And yet those studies have paid little attention to the ways in which ‘gender’ inflects the media's representations of ‘sexy’ men and women. As a result, claims that sexualised representational strategies now affect men just as much as they did, and still do, affect women have proliferated. The o…
To Rid Oneself of the Uninvited Guest
Does an infectious disease have one, singular pathogenic cause, or many interacting causes? In the discipline of medical microbiology, there is no definitive theoretical answer to this question: there, the conditions of aetiological possibility exist in a curious tension. Ever since the late 19th century, the "germ theory of disease"-"one disease, one cause"- has co-existed with a much less well known theory of "multifactorality"-"one disease, ma…
Complicating the sexualization thesis
General suggestions about the ‘sexualization of culture’ pay too little attention to the ways in which gender shapes the media’s representation of men and women as sexy men and women. As a result, claims to the effect that ‘we are all objectified now’ (i.e. that idealized–sexualized representational strategies are no longer limited to women’s bodies) have proliferated in recent years. In this article, however, it is argued that such claims result…
The monad and the nomad
This paper is about the ontological politics and possibilities of the mobile microbe. It seeks to foreground a link that exists between current understandings of the mobile microbe and the conditions of possibility structuring the production of such a microbe in the medical microbiological sciences. When the microbial world is brought into the field of medical perception, it is a monadic microbe, isolated and alone, that appears. But why is this?…
Complicating the sexualization thesis
General suggestions about the ‘sexualization of culture’ pay too little attention to the ways in which gender shapes the media’s representation of men and women as sexy men and women. As a result, claims to the effect that ‘we are all objectified now’ (i.e. that idealized–sexualized representational strategies are no longer limited to women’s bodies) have proliferated in recent years. In this article, however, it is argued that such claims result…
Jokes, pranks, blondes and banter
This article examines how media texts that take sexism as their topic can be analysed for the ways in which they present what does (or does not) constitute sexism in the particular event being reported upon. To do so, it treats any such text as a ‘recontextualisation’. This concept, drawn from the field of critical discourse analysis, suggests that for an incident of sexism to be reported in any media text is also for that incident to be recontex…
The monad and the nomad
This paper is about the ontological politics and possibilities of the mobile microbe. It seeks to foreground a link that exists between current understandings of the mobile microbe and the conditions of possibility structuring the production of such a microbe in the medical microbiological sciences. When the microbial world is brought into the field of medical perception, it is a monadic microbe, isolated and alone, that appears. But why is this?…
Words, Contexts, Politics
Discourse analysis and sexualisation
The relatively novel phenomenon of ‘sexualisation’ has, over recent years, received attention as a matter of concern within scholarly and popular texts. And yet those studies have paid little attention to the ways in which ‘gender’ inflects the media's representations of ‘sexy’ men and women. As a result, claims that sexualised representational strategies now affect men just as much as they did, and still do, affect women have proliferated. The o…
Complicating the sexualization thesis
General suggestions about the ‘sexualization of culture’ pay too little attention to the ways in which gender shapes the media’s representation of men and women as sexy men and women. As a result, claims to the effect that ‘we are all objectified now’ (i.e. that idealized–sexualized representational strategies are no longer limited to women’s bodies) have proliferated in recent years. In this article, however, it is argued that such claims result…
The monad and the nomad
This paper is about the ontological politics and possibilities of the mobile microbe. It seeks to foreground a link that exists between current understandings of the mobile microbe and the conditions of possibility structuring the production of such a microbe in the medical microbiological sciences. When the microbial world is brought into the field of medical perception, it is a monadic microbe, isolated and alone, that appears. But why is this?…
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) and the rhetorical construction of “bad” scientific work
How are secondary accounts of “bad” scientific practice constructed? How do they engage with the primary data produced by “bad” scientists? And what happens to those primary data as generations of secondary accounts purporting to describe them accumulate? This paper addresses such questions via a case study of Dr. Hong, a microbiologist accused of “bad” scientific practice by numerous secondary accounts of the 2003 SARS outbreak. Bringing Hong’s …
Sexism Re-Loaded … or Sexism Re-Presented
If part of the project of a feminist media studies is to explore the various ways in which sexism operates through the media, then how might this be achieved? Any answer to this question will depend upon how the concept of “sexism” is understood. Much existing research has tended to approach sexism as an etic, analyst-driven phenomenon; that is, as something to be defined by the analyst during the study of media representations that may be sexist…
Discourse analysis and sexualisation
The relatively novel phenomenon of ‘sexualisation’ has, over recent years, received attention as a matter of concern within scholarly and popular texts. And yet those studies have paid little attention to the ways in which ‘gender’ inflects the media's representations of ‘sexy’ men and women. As a result, claims that sexualised representational strategies now affect men just as much as they did, and still do, affect women have proliferated. The o…
To Rid Oneself of the Uninvited Guest
Does an infectious disease have one, singular pathogenic cause, or many interacting causes? In the discipline of medical microbiology, there is no definitive theoretical answer to this question: there, the conditions of aetiological possibility exist in a curious tension. Ever since the late 19th century, the "germ theory of disease"-"one disease, one cause"- has co-existed with a much less well known theory of "multifactorality"-"one disease, ma…
University students managing engagement, preparation, knowledge and achievement
Rape is rape (except when it’s not)
This article contributes to a body of research in which media reports of violence against women are analysed for the ways they gloss precisely what it is that constitutes ‘violence against women’ in the event under report. To catch this glossing in flight , as it were, mediated reports of violence are conceptualised as recontextualisations; that is, reports that may differ in rhetorically consequential ways from those provided by victims of, or w…
Words, Contexts, Politics
Categorical feminism
This article focuses on online assessments of a controversial British television advertisement. Across blogs, websites and forums, a range of stances emerged in debates about its possible “sexism”, “humour”, “misogyny”, or “realism”. The analytic interest here is in the ways that assessors invoked “f-” categories (e.g., “feminism”, “feminist”) as part of their assessments: across the data corpus, people would locate themselves or others in relati…
Jokes, pranks, blondes and banter
This article examines how media texts that take sexism as their topic can be analysed for the ways in which they present what does (or does not) constitute sexism in the particular event being reported upon. To do so, it treats any such text as a ‘recontextualisation’. This concept, drawn from the field of critical discourse analysis, suggests that for an incident of sexism to be reported in any media text is also for that incident to be recontex…
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Newspaper (4 works)