Partners in Gatekeeping

Partners in Gatekeeping
Author: Lauren Braun-Strumfels
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2023-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 0820365432

Partners in Gatekeeping

Partners in Gatekeeping
Author: Lauren Braun-Strumfels
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023
Genre: Italians
ISBN: 9780820365411

"Partners in Gatekeeping illuminates a complex, distinctly transnational story that recasts the development of US immigration policies and institutions. Braun-Strumfels challenges existing ideas about the origins of remote control by paying particular attention to two programs supported by the Italian government in the 1890s: a government outpost on Ellis Island called the Office of Labor Information and Protection for Italians and rural immigrant colonization in the American South-namely a "plantation" in Arkansas called Sunnyside. Through those places, Braun-Strumfels argues that we must consider Italian migration, and the asymmetric partnership that emerged between the United States and Italy to manage that migration, an essential piece in the history of how the United States became a gatekeeping nation. In so doing, Partners reveals that the last ten years of the nineteenth century were critical to the establishment of the modern gatekeeping system by establishing the antecedents for "remote control" beyond the well-studied Chinese and Mexican cases"--

The Gatekeeper

The Gatekeeper
Author: Kathryn Smith
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2016-09-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1501114964

"Journalist Smith (A Necessary War) grants readers an unusual insider's view of F.D.R.'s political career by profiling his longtime private secretary. Marguerite 'Missy' LeHand, a young woman with a modest background, an agile intellect, a pleasant personality, and remarkable stenographer's skills, began working for F.D.R. in 1920, when he ran for vice president. Smith writes particularly well about F.D.R.'s struggle to bounce back from being struck with polio in 1921, explaining the disease and the origins of the Warm Springs, Ga., health spa that he frequented. LeHand was F.D.R.'s most constant companion during the 1920s, sparking rumors--convincingly dismissed by Smith--that they were lovers. The real core of the story is the White House years from 1933 until 1942, when LeHand helped create the vast New Deal bureaucracy. She decided who would see the president and when; today her title would be chief of staff. LeHand worked long hours but took time to enjoy the perks of the job, including a barrage of social invitations and fawning press coverage. Though Smith overstates her claim about LeHand's importance to F.D.R. and his work as president, she delivers a fascinating account of one woman's involvement in an important administration"--Publishersweekly.com.

Celebrity and New Media

Celebrity and New Media
Author: Stephanie Patrick
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2022-05-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 100058013X

This book looks back to the early days of new and social media, to examine the potential threat that such technologies and platforms posed to the mainstream corporate media’s gatekeeping, and its ability to exploit, humiliate, and even violate famous women. Drawing on her own experiences working as part of this gatekeeping system, Stephanie Patrick argues that, in order to combat this threat, the mainstream media doubled down on gendered narratives of meritocracy that legitimized certain (male) celebrities over others. Using a range of case studies spanning "old" media sites and "new," including Disney, Playboy, and reality television, this book demonstrates that sexual exploitation and violation could be considered constitutive of female celebrity, rather than a side effect. Patrick’s case studies include some of America’s most (in)famous celebrities, including Miley Cyrus, Lindsay Lohan, Anna Nicole Smith, Paris Hilton, and Donald Trump, urging readers to question their assumptions about these figures and their public trajectories. This nuanced exploration of patriarchal capitalism and women’s ongoing sexual exploitation by the media will be an important reference for scholars and students of digital and new media, journalism, celebrity studies, and gender studies.

Gatekeeping Theory

Gatekeeping Theory
Author: Pamela J. Shoemaker
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2009-09-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1135860599

Gatekeeping is one of the media’s central roles in public life: people rely on mediators to transform information about billions of events into a manageable number of media messages. This process determines not only which information is selected, but also what the content and nature of messages, such as news, will be. Gatekeeping Theory describes the powerful process through which events are covered by the mass media, explaining how and why certain information either passes through gates or is closed off from media attention. This book is essential for understanding how even single, seemingly trivial gatekeeping decisions can come together to shape an audience’s view of the world, and illustrates what is at stake in the process.

Gatekeeping in the Evolving Business of Independent Film Distribution

Gatekeeping in the Evolving Business of Independent Film Distribution
Author: Roderik Smits
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2019-07-09
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 3030168964

This book is about the business of distribution, around which the international film business revolves. Considering sales agents and distributors as primary gatekeepers, the book examines the networks in which they operate, how they operate, how their practices have evolved, and the power and control they exert over the business of independent film distribution. Critically, it also considers how they are affected by the powerful influence of Netflix and Amazon in the online era. At a time of disruption and change to traditional business models and industry professions, Roderik Smits argues that gatekeepers remain equally – if not more – crucial to the distribution and circulation of films in international markets.

Gatekeepers

Gatekeepers
Author: John C. Coffee
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2006-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0199288097

John Coffee traces the evolution of the four main gatekeeping professions: auditors, lawyers, securities analysts and credit-rating agencies, in the wake of corporate governance disasters, such as Enron and WorldCom.

Gatekeeping in Transition

Gatekeeping in Transition
Author: Timothy Vos
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2015-06-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317910516

Much of what journalism scholars thought they knew about gatekeeping—about how it is that news turns out the way it does—has been called into question by the recent seismic economic and technological shifts in journalism. These shifts come with new kinds of gatekeepers, new routines of news production, new types of news organizations, new means for shaping the news, and new channels of news distribution. Given these changing realities, some might ask: does gatekeeping still matter? In this internationally-minded anthology of new gatekeeping research, contributors attempt to answer that question. Gatekeeping in Transition examines the role of gatekeeping in the twenty-first century from organizational, institutional, and social perspectives across digital and traditional media, and argues for its place in contemporary scholarship about news and journalism.

Gatekeepers of Knowledge

Gatekeepers of Knowledge
Author: Margaret Zeegers
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2010-02-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 178063207X

Throughout its history, the Western library has played a significant role in bringing the book to the hands of Western scholars. This book analyses that history, examining constructs of librarianship, publishing and scholarship within that history as gate keeping access to knowledge. Exploring significant events in the field from the time of the Lyceum to the present day in the development of repositories of books and their access by scholars. Gatekeepers of Knowledge engages in an analysis of those events from a perspective that makes visible the ways in which the production, storage and access of books, have been privileged, while others have been marginalised. Examines its material as analyses of significant events in the development of libraries, books, and scholarship in the western world Embeds those developments in significant political, economic, social and cultural fields of particular eras Ties scholarship to class structures and associated protocols in its treatment of scholarship as the generation of knowledge

Equal Partners

Equal Partners
Author: Kate Mangino
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2022-06-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1250276128

"An inspiring and inclusive guide for rethinking and reworking household gender roles."—Booklist (starred review) "This book is a beautiful, engaging way to look at the modern family and Mangino works to dismantle gendered assumptions and replace them with structured decision making examples and case studies. A must read."—Eve Rodsky, author of Fair Play From gender expert and professional facilitator Kate Mangino comes Equal Partners, an informed guide about how we can all collectively work to undo harmful gender norms and create greater household equity. As American society shut down due to Covid, millions of women had to leave their jobs to take on full-time childcare. As the country opens back up, women continue to struggle to balance the demands of work and home life. Kate Mangino, a professional facilitator for twenty years, has written a comprehensive, practical guide for readers and their partners about gender norms and household balance. Yes, part of our gender problem is structural, and that requires policy change. But much of our gender problem is social, and that requires us to change. Quickly moving from diagnosis to solution, Equal Partners focuses on what we can do, everyday people living busy lives, to rewrite gender norms to support a balanced homelife so both partners have equal time for work, family, and self. Mangino adopts an interactive model, posing questions, and asking readers to assess their situations through guided lists and talking points. Equal Partners is broad in its definition of gender and gender roles. This is a book for all: straight, gay, trans, and non-binary, parents and grandparents, and friends, with the goal to help foster gender equality in readers' homes, with their partners, family and wider community.