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Recent scholarship highlights the importance of public discourse for the mobilization and impact of social movements, but it neglects how cultural products may shift discourse and thereby influence mobilization and political outcomes. This study investigates how activism against hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) utilized cultural artifacts to influence public perceptions and effect change. A systematic analysis of Internet search data, social media postings, and newspaper articles allows us to identify how the documentary Gasland reshaped public discourse. We find that Gasland contributed not only to greater online searching about fracking, but also to increased social media chatter and heightened mass media coverage. Local screenings of Gasland contributed to anti-fracking mobilizations, which, in turn, affected the passage of local fracking moratoria in the Marcellus Shale states. These results have implications not only for understanding movement outcomes, but also for theory and research on media, the environment, and energy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Studies focusing on black–Latino intergroup perceptions in zero-sum environments (e.g., jobs) have found little perceived outgroup discrimination or a tendency for each group to perceive the injustices faced by the other group. In contrast, we examine the non-zero-sum criminal justice domain. Although we find some asymmetry—that is, blacks are somewhat more likely to see discrimination toward Latinos than vice-versa, we mainly find both groups acknowledge the discrimination faced by the other disadvantaged group, especially those who feel closely linked to the fate of their own group. Under such circumstances, blacks and Latinos recognize a common sense of deprivation and discrimination and are likely to regard the other group as facing comparable victimization, potentially seeing the other group as a coalition partner for remediating mutual concerns. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the strategies that can be used by teachers in the U.S. to support school children with internalizing behaviors. It states the need to identify and refer students showing symptoms of internalizing problems. It notes the cognitive behavioral approaches for treating depression and anxiety. It mentions the importance of providing higher rates of praise than reprimands.

The article discusses the implications of the criteria of "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: 5th edition (DSM-5)" for autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in the U.S. It states that it provides guidelines on the common features of ASD to direct research and treatment. It mentions that the variability in symptomology and performance is a hallmark of ASD in education and medical contexts.

The article discusses the challenges encountered by schools in the U.S. in meeting the mental health needs of students with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD). It states the prevalence of childhood EBD. It notes the need of complete understand of the emotional and behavioral function of students with EBD. It mentions the scope of the mental health programs.

The article discusses the effects of the changes to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) to healthcare professionals in the U.S. working with young people with disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD) and substance use disorders (SUDs). It states that the diagnosis and treatment of SUD will become simpler. It mentions that it will provide greater precision in identifying and working with children with special needs.

Growth in the U.S. Latino population has prompted speculation that the “racialization” of welfare with respect to African Americans would eventually extend to Latinos. The authors assess this prediction, analyzing public attitudes toward welfare spending and national health insurance and their linkages to attitudes about Latinos and undocumented immigrants. The authors find significant relationships between affect for “illegal immigrants” and social welfare attitudes, conditional on party identification. The findings indicate that Americans view undocumented immigrants as the beneficiaries of social welfare policies, not the wider Latino population. Furthermore, the framing of social service utilization by undocumented immigrants could threaten the Democratic coalition. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

There are few studies of the manner in which media portray the mental state of mass killers. There are also no formally tested frameworks or models for understanding how such portrayals contribute to the stigma of mental illness. In this article we analyzed the initial depictions of a high-profile mass killer applying discourse analytic methods to representations of the Tucson shooter, Jared Loughner, in the New York Times. We identified fourteen items that focused on Loughner and his actions that were published over the 1st week after the shooting prior to any authoritative assessment of his mental state. This study sought to deconstruct this portrayal of the killer as “mad”, and to show how the four cultural mechanisms of language in use, culture, social practices, and institutions contributed to that construction. Those cultural mechanisms underpinned links observed in the items between Loughner’s behavior, his putative mental illness, and the mass murders. This seamless interplay between the cultural mechanisms as related intertextually enabled the differing representations of Loughner as mad, dangerous, and fearsome. We argue that such a portrayal is a significant contributor to stigmatizing understandings of mental illness and people’s fear of mental disorders. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Background/Context: Explanations for the relatively low numbers of Latinas pursuing higher education have tended to focus on socialization into traditional gender roles. However, recent scholarship has challenged this view, suggesting that gender roles--particularly among recent immigrants--are mutable and subject to constant renegotiation. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study: This article suggests that forgoing college, far from representing a retreat into traditional women's roles, might in some cases represent emergent feminism and a means for Latina immigrants to contest and reshape those roles. Setting: A new Latino diaspora community in the rural southeastern United States. Research Design: Longitudinal qualitative case study of an adolescent immigrant Latina. Findings/Results: Both risk factors and facilitative factors previously identified by research as contributing to Latino/a college enrollment were found to be present in the case study student's background. The article argues, however, that some gender-specific factors often used to explain Latina school-leaving and low academic ambitions, such as close association with teenage mothers and responsibilities for household chores and child care, served instead as deterrents for this Latina adolescent from taking traditional gender roles. On the other hand, the article argues that the association between higher education and increased independence and a break from traditional gender roles that is often assumed for American-born women did not hold for a working-class Latina. Rather, her wage-earning represented a better position from which to challenge traditional gender roles within her family. Conclusions/Recommendations: This case study confirms the heterogeneity and diversity to be found in the individual schooling paths of Latino/a immigrant youth, and thus the value of close examination of the protracted and as yet little understood process through which Latinas/os make the decision to pursue or forgo higher education over the course of high school. The article lends support to arguments in recent scholarship suggesting the mutability of gender roles in immigrant communities. It suggests that new attention be paid in research and college recruitment programs to growing evidence of gender-specific factors at work in Latino/a immigrant students' academic achievement and college-going decisions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study analyzes changes in the regional subcultures of the United States using 2000 census and religious survey data. The results suggest a remarkable degree of continuity with those the authors identified in an earlier study. In addition, they demonstrate that a new multidimensional measure of state culture does a much better job in predicting social and political behavior than other frequently used indicators. Finally, they show how their new measure of state culture significantly reduces and often eliminates the problem of spatial autocorrelation in many state-level indicators that cannot be explained by differences in economic development and racial–ethnic diversity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article argues that Barack Obama’s restoration rhetoric in The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream functions as the American reclamation jeremiad, in which he employs political discourse to restore a positive vision of America’s democratic mission and warns Americans of the dangers of not fulfilling that mission. While Obama combines this ideological warning to his positive vision of America, he constructs a message that is unifying while at the same time indicative of a risk in not challenging the destructive path of the American political system. In the classic jeremiadic fashion, Obama calls Americans to political repentance, an innovative kind of political system that builds on the communal understandings that will unite all Americans. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents a discussion of U.S. President Barack Obama from the standpoint of his impact on visual culture. It focuses on the ways in which he can be seen as representing a rapprochement of white and black culture in America. The significance of Obama's status as the first African American president is noted. Topics related to the history of racial symbolism and race relations in America are mentioned in this context. Some of the ways in which Obama's election has affected the representation of African Americans in American popular culture are analyzed.

The article presents a discussion of U.S. President Barack Obama from the standpoint of his impact on visual culture. It focuses on the ways in which racist stereotypes have been used against him in political propaganda. The significance of Obama's status as the first African American president is noted. Topics related to the history of racial symbolism and race relations in America are discussed in this context. Some of the ways in which Obama has been visually represented in American popular culture are analyzed. These include offensive images involving chimpanzees and watermelons.

The article presents a discussion of U.S. President Barack Obama from the standpoint of his impact on visual culture. It focuses on the ways in which his image has attained a type of iconic status. Comparisons are drawn between Obama's presence in the mass media and the images of other American celebrities of African descent, such as the television talk show host Oprah Winfrey and the rapper Jay-Z. Topics related to the history of racial symbolism and race relations in America are mentioned in this context.

The article presents a discussion of U.S. President Barack Obama from the standpoint of his impact on visual culture. It focuses on his association with 21st century technological gadgets, such as the BlackBerry smartphone. The significance of Obama's status as the first African American president is also noted. The author then raises the topics of global capitalism, military technology, and wars in Asia, all of which he finds objectionable. The fact that Obama does not seem to share this perspective is also portrayed as objectionable. The author expresses his concern that a popular obsession with political imagery will cause Obama's lack of hostility toward capitalism and the military to go unremarked.

The article presents a discussion of U.S. President Barack Obama from the standpoint of his impact on visual culture. It focuses on various objectionable and racist images which were prevalent in popular culture shortly before the beginning of his presidential campaign. The significance of Obama's status as the first African American president is noted. Topics related to the history of racial symbolism and race relations in America are discussed in this context. Racial and political tensions in the city of Cleveland, Ohio are cited as an example.

The article presents a discussion of U.S. President Barack Obama from the standpoint of his impact on visual culture, focusing on his association with the American flag. Obama's relationship to musical culture is also noted, as two of the songs which have been used as soundtracks to his public appearances are discussed. The significance of Obama's status as the first African American president is noted. Changing racial attitudes in America in the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 are also analyzed.

The article presents a discussion of U.S. President Barack Obama from the standpoint of his impact on visual culture. It focuses on the use of images in a political and cultural context, such as Obama's symbolic gestures of solidarity with the common man, which are compared to similar gestures by former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. The use of politically charged imagery by Obama's supporters and opponents during the 2008 presidential campaign is also discussed, such as the satirical portrayal of Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin by television actress Tina Fey.

The article presents a discussion of U.S. President Barack Obama from the standpoint of his impact on visual culture. It focuses on the ways in which he can be seen as representing green interests. The Obama campaign's use of Web 2.0 technology is noted in this context, and the role of internet videos in the 2008 presidential campaign is noted. The political aspects of environmentalism, green technology, and popular culture in America are addressed. Some of the ways in which Obama has been visually represented in American popular culture are analyzed. These include internet videos and television appearances.

The article presents a discussion of U.S. President Barack Obama from the standpoint of his impact on visual culture. It focuses on popular representations of Obama including graffiti art, and a campaign poster designed by Shepard Fairey. The poster is analyzed in terms of Fairey's appropriation of a news photograph of Obama, which he reworked in a style reminiscent of 20th century political screen prints. A comparison is drawn between Obama's image as a political pop culture icon, and a well-known image of the Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara.

The article presents a discussion of U.S. President Barack Obama from the standpoint of his impact on visual culture. It focuses on Obama-related photographs which have been posted on the photo-sharing website Flickr. An analysis is presented of some of these images, which were selected by a Flickr algorithm as ranking among those which the site's users found most interesting as of June 2009. The political symbolism of these photographs is discussed, and comments from users of the site are quoted to illustrate relationships between the images and the larger political culture.

The article presents a discussion of U.S. President Barack Obama from the standpoint of his impact on visual culture. It focuses on his representation in the realm of digital media. The significance of the Obama campaign's embrace of Web 2.0 features such as online social networks, blogs and text messaging is discussed. Comparisons are drawn to the use of older media by previous presidents, such as Franklin D. Roosevelt's use of radio for "fireside chats" and John F. Kennedy's television appearances.

The article presents a discussion of U.S. President Barack Obama from the standpoint of his impact on visual culture. It focuses on a popular Obama campaign poster designed by Shepard Fairey. The poster is analyzed in terms of Fairey's appropriation of a news photograph of Obama, which he reworked in a style reminiscent of 20th century political screen prints. Topics related to postmodernism and copyright law are mentioned in this context. A comparison is drawn to the painting "The Secretary of State" by Luc Tuymans, which was based on a news photograph of former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice.

The article presents a discussion of U.S. President Barack Obama from the standpoint of his impact on visual culture. It focuses on the experiences of the authors, who worked for the Obama campaign in Las Vegas, Nevada. Topics related to the demographic characteristics of American voters are mentioned in this context. Some of the ways in which Obama has been visually represented in American popular culture are analyzed. These include his campaign paraphernalia, and television news coverage of the elections.

The article presents a discussion of U.S. President Barack Obama from the standpoint of his impact on visual culture. It focuses on the ways in which he can be seen as an iconic figure. The significance of Obama's status as the first African American president is noted. Topics related to the history of racial symbolism and race relations in America are mentioned in this context. Some of the ways in which Obama has been visually represented in American popular culture are analyzed. These include a television image of Obama greeting the author and his wife.

The article presents a discussion of U.S. President Barack Obama from the standpoint of his impact on visual culture. It focuses on his multi-faceted public image, which has enabled him, in some measure, to represent different things to different people. The significance of Obama's status as the first African American president is noted. Topics related to the history of racial symbolism and race relations in America are mentioned in this context. Some of the ways in which Obama has been visually represented in American popular culture are analyzed. These include campaign paraphernalia such as t-shirts and coffee mugs.

The article presents a discussion of U.S. President Barack Obama from the standpoint of his impact on visual culture. The significance of Obama's status as the first African American president is noted, and the ways in which he can be seen as representing a multiracial culture, due to his white heritage on his mother's side, is emphasized. Topics related to the history of racial symbolism and race relations in America are mentioned in this context. Some of the ways in which Obama has been visually represented in American popular culture are analyzed, with an emphasis on images from various magazine covers.

The article presents a discussion of U.S. President Barack Obama from the standpoint of his impact on visual culture. It focuses on the ways in which Obama's visual image can be understood in the context of the works of the French philosopher Jacques Derrida, the German political theorist Karl Marx, and the Austrian therapist Sigmund Freud. Topics related to semiotics and the empiricization of the metapsychological are addressed. The concept of the univalence of racialization is discussed, and questions related to the empiricization of lostness are also mentioned.

The article focuses on the trends in the increase of the population of black Americans in the U.S., the factors affecting such increase, and its impact to the U.S. The 2000 U.S. Census claims that there are 36 million black Americans in the U.S., in which 1.5 million of the total population are immigrants from the Caribbean and 600,000 are from Africa. African immigrants in Washington D.C., New York, and Atlanta have reached a population two times bigger than the past decade. Immigration from the Caribbean regions was brought by the Hart-Cellar Act in 1965 which gave Caribbean blacks more freedom in entering the U.S. It also discusses sociological issues related to racial discrimination and the aspects of national identity of black Americans.