Annotated sources – Journey Browne

1. Watkins, A., & Closson, T. (2022, April 6). Shootings rise in New York, coloring perceptions of city’s safety. The New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/06/nyregion/shootings-new-york-city-safety.html

* This is not a scholarly article, it is an Op-ed. At first, I was not really sure to what extent I wanted to have op-eds be a part of my digital exploration. Because I was already doing a creative project, I felt increasing pressure to make my project more scholarly. However, once I reevaluated the direction my project was going in, I found that op-eds on this issue were vital because they could tell me way more than crime statistics could. These op-eds could tell me more about how people are perceiving the city as a result of this crime.

2. Pransky, N. (2022, May 18). Is crime in NYC actually soaring? 2022 crime rates in perspective. LX. Retrieved from https://www.lx.com/community/nyc-crime-rates-how-dangerous-is-new-york-city/51473/

* Before I found this article I was going through individual police reports for each year, which was very time intensive. This article is helpful because it links to some of those same reports and puts the data in one place. The article is centered around exploring the claim that NYC crime rates are “sky high”. It provides statistics, from the NYPD database and the Council on Criminal Justice, that showcase that this is not the case.

3. YouTube. (2010). Ronald Reagan-Speech to the Nation on the Campaign Against Drug Abuse (September 14, 1986). YouTube. Retrieved May 19, 2022, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYWS7udm0yg.

* This speech had to be a part of my digital exploration simply because of how important Ronald Reagan was to the war on drugs. Reagan’s “Just Say No” campaign was insidious in many ways because it blatantly ignored the systematic factors that drove people to addiction and just boiled it down to “say no”. I think many people see this speech in a different like in today’s age. But during the 1980s, many thought that Reagan was a hero of sorts.

4. Miller, S. (Ed.) (1998). Crime control and women: Feminist implications of criminal justice policy. Page, 114. SAGE Publications, Inc., https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781452243207

* Although I only used some of the data this article contained, and not a huge amount of the content, the article is still interesting on its own. Miller’s article frames the war on drugs as a war on women, but more specifically, a war on black women. This frame is very unique and probably why I decided to include it by any means necessary. Many black women were affected by the war on drugs, as many black men were dragged out of homes and taken to jail. The term “crack baby” was also coined at this time, a direct diss to poor black mothers in this time period.

5. Buder, L. (1981, February 25). 1980 called worst year of crime in city history. The New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/1981/02/25/nyregion/1980-called-worst-year-of-crime-in-city-history.html

* I used this article because this article was able to speak more about the crime statistics at the beginning of the 1980s. A lot of the data I looked at had framed the 1980s as a decade, aggregating all the data from 1980 – 1990. However, I liked that this article only focused on one year. I also like the sensationalized title, which is very characteristic of the media covering crime in that era.

6. Pew Research Center. (2018, November 29). Television remains most preferred platform for news. Pew Research Center’s Journalism Project. Retrieved from https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2018/12/03/americans-still-prefer-watching-to-reading-the-news-and-mostly-still-through-television/pj_2018-12-03_read-watch-listen_0-02/

* Because a part of my claim is covering hyperbolized visual media like television, I wanted to find a study that focuses on how popular visual media is in conveying the news. There are a few limitations of this study, as it does not include social media. However, I am able to draw connections between the proliferation of social media and the increase of apps that offer a portable television and also a social media experience with small clips of news segments.

7. Crime news consumption and fear of violence: The role of traditional … (n.d.). Retrieved May 19, 2022, from https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0011128720922539

* This is arguably one of the most important studies in my project. The study focuses on Finland, as the country is having an increase of civilian fear of violence that parrallels the city of New York. The researchers realized an increase of crime coverage in both the tabloid headlines and the main evening television news since late 1970s and wanted to evaluate it in relationship to the rising feelings of unsafety. Definitely that I found this study because it frames what is happening as not an isolated issue. It is not only New York that is experiencing this. Hyperbolic media is a plague that crosses borders.

8. News, Y. (2020, June 17). Violent crime spike in Finland during Corona spring. News. Retrieved from https://yle.fi/news/3-11406342

* This is a really interesting article that I randomly stumbled across while looking for a country to juxtapose the United States to. I originally just clicked on the article to learn more about Finland but after reading the article, which discusses Finland’s covid spike that happened during the pandemic, I began to see so many parallels between what was happening in Finland and NYC. So, I decided to explore further.

9. Review, A. C. M. (2017, May 23). Research (vol. 54) – active choice, passive consumption. College Media Review. Retrieved from http://cmreview.org/active-choice-passive-consumption/

* This article focuses on the news media habits of college students. Although I am making claims about the effect of media on all people, not only college students, I figured that the authors claims about how passive consumption could be used interchangeably.

10. YouTube. (2016). But Wait: Do We Really Consume Media? YouTube. Retrieved May 19, 2022, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRsQ0-94O9A.

* I took a Media and Politics class which discussed many of the same things that this video discussed. Although I feel as if I did not learn anything new with this video, I am sure the person who watches it will, as it really forces us to think about how we absorb information.

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May 19, 2022 at 4:47 pm

1. Watkins, A., & Closson, T. (2022, April 6). Shootings rise in New York, coloring perceptions of city’s safety. The New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/06/nyregion/shootings-new-york-city-safety.html

* This is not a scholarly article, it is an Op-ed. At first, I was not really sure to what extent I wanted to have op-eds be a part of my digital exploration. Because I was already doing a creative project, I felt increasing pressure to make my project more scholarly. However, once I reevaluated the direction my project was going in, I found that op-eds on this issue were vital because they could tell me way more than crime statistics could. These op-eds could tell me more about how people are perceiving the city as a result of this crime.

2. Pransky, N. (2022, May 18). Is crime in NYC actually soaring? 2022 crime rates in perspective. LX. Retrieved from https://www.lx.com/community/nyc-crime-rates-how-dangerous-is-new-york-city/51473/

* Before I found this article I was going through individual police reports for each year, which was very time intensive. This article is helpful because it links to some of those same reports and puts the data in one place. The article is centered around exploring the claim that NYC crime rates are “sky high”. It provides statistics, from the NYPD database and the Council on Criminal Justice, that showcase that this is not the case.

3. YouTube. (2010). Ronald Reagan-Speech to the Nation on the Campaign Against Drug Abuse (September 14, 1986). YouTube. Retrieved May 19, 2022, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYWS7udm0yg.

* This speech had to be a part of my digital exploration simply because of how important Ronald Reagan was to the war on drugs. Reagan’s “Just Say No” campaign was insidious in many ways because it blatantly ignored the systematic factors that drove people to addiction and just boiled it down to “say no”. I think many people see this speech in a different like in today’s age. But during the 1980s, many thought that Reagan was a hero of sorts.

4. Miller, S. (Ed.) (1998). Crime control and women: Feminist implications of criminal justice policy. Page, 114. SAGE Publications, Inc., https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781452243207

* Although I only used some of the data this article contained, and not a huge amount of the content, the article is still interesting on its own. Miller’s article frames the war on drugs as a war on women, but more specifically, a war on black women. This frame is very unique and probably why I decided to include it by any means necessary. Many black women were affected by the war on drugs, as many black men were dragged out of homes and taken to jail. The term “crack baby” was also coined at this time, a direct diss to poor black mothers in this time period.

5. Buder, L. (1981, February 25). 1980 called worst year of crime in city history. The New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/1981/02/25/nyregion/1980-called-worst-year-of-crime-in-city-history.html

* I used this article because this article was able to speak more about the crime statistics at the beginning of the 1980s. A lot of the data I looked at had framed the 1980s as a decade, aggregating all the data from 1980 – 1990. However, I liked that this article only focused on one year. I also like the sensationalized title, which is very characteristic of the media covering crime in that era.

6. Pew Research Center. (2018, November 29). Television remains most preferred platform for news. Pew Research Center’s Journalism Project. Retrieved from https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2018/12/03/americans-still-prefer-watching-to-reading-the-news-and-mostly-still-through-television/pj_2018-12-03_read-watch-listen_0-02/

* Because a part of my claim is covering hyperbolized visual media like television, I wanted to find a study that focuses on how popular visual media is in conveying the news. There are a few limitations of this study, as it does not include social media. However, I am able to draw connections between the proliferation of social media and the increase of apps that offer a portable television and also a social media experience with small clips of news segments.

7. Crime news consumption and fear of violence: The role of traditional … (n.d.). Retrieved May 19, 2022, from https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0011128720922539

* This is arguably one of the most important studies in my project. The study focuses on Finland, as the country is having an increase of civilian fear of violence that parrallels the city of New York. The researchers realized an increase of crime coverage in both the tabloid headlines and the main evening television news since late 1970s and wanted to evaluate it in relationship to the rising feelings of unsafety. Definitely that I found this study because it frames what is happening as not an isolated issue. It is not only New York that is experiencing this. Hyperbolic media is a plague that crosses borders.

8. News, Y. (2020, June 17). Violent crime spike in Finland during Corona spring. News. Retrieved from https://yle.fi/news/3-11406342

* This is a really interesting article that I randomly stumbled across while looking for a country to juxtapose the United States to. I originally just clicked on the article to learn more about Finland but after reading the article, which discusses Finland’s covid spike that happened during the pandemic, I began to see so many parallels between what was happening in Finland and NYC. So, I decided to explore further.

9. Review, A. C. M. (2017, May 23). Research (vol. 54) – active choice, passive consumption. College Media Review. Retrieved from http://cmreview.org/active-choice-passive-consumption/

* This article focuses on the news media habits of college students. Although I am making claims about the effect of media on all people, not only college students, I figured that the authors claims about how passive consumption could be used interchangeably.

10. YouTube. (2016). But Wait: Do We Really Consume Media? YouTube. Retrieved May 19, 2022, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRsQ0-94O9A.

* I took a Media and Politics class which discussed many of the same things that this video discussed. Although I feel as if I did not learn anything new with this video, I am sure the person who watches it will, as it really forces us to think about how we absorb information.

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