Transformations in Mass Society and Emergent Properties of Human Behavior in Contemporary Media Space

2017 ◽  
pp. 583-588 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dobrinka Peicheva ◽  
Lilia Raycheva ◽  
Valentina Milenkova ◽  
Boris Manov
Keyword(s):  
Human Behavior ◽  
Emergent Properties ◽  
Mass Society ◽  
Media Space ◽  
Contemporary Media

scholarly journals The Media Image as a Motivator for the Humanization of Society

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-149
Author(s):  
Olga A Vazhenina
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorders ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
The Social ◽  
Media Space ◽  
The Media ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Spectrum Disorders ◽  
Developmental Features

The author studies the modern media environment, which reflects the problem of people with personality disorders of the autistic spectrum. The relevance of the article is determined by the severity of the social problems of the categories of deviant people in society and the insufficient degree of study of this context in contemporary media space. The novelty of the research consists in the author's attempt to investigate the role and importance of the media environment in the positioning of the phenomenon of social autism and humanization of society basing on cinema . Among the most socially important issues which are being reflected in contemporary media space the problems of disabled and deviant people take a major place. Contemporary cinema promotes the penetration and dissemination of socially significant ideas in society: responsibility, differentiation, humanism. Films about people with autism spectrum disorders are included in many films about the problem of sick people, people with disabilities and people with developmental features. The key idea of this large thematic group is to overcome the existing life circumstances and attempts to live a full life. The ideological features of films about autistics, as the author assumes, differ from the conceptual field of films of the general thematic group. These features are: projection into society of the image of the savant - a highly functional autist and the fact that such people are better (more honest, naive, more moral) than ordinary people. Proceeding from the increase in the total number of films devoted to this problem and their ideological homogeneity and uniqueness, the conclusion follows that a trend is being formed in society to humanize the social attitude to people with autism spectrum disorders.

scholarly journals Issues of the Interview Genre in Contemporary Media Space

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-17
Author(s):  
Alla Medvedieva ◽  
Serhii Chernenko
Keyword(s):  
Practical Knowledge ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
Scientific Article ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Relevant Today ◽  
Modern Media ◽  
Media Space ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
Contemporary Media

The purpose of the research is to investigate the problems of the genre in modern media discourse. Research methodology. When writing a scientific article, research methods are used: analysis and synthesis (analyzed and systematized the work of the interview genre have been analyzed and systematized), a comparative method (parallels of interviews in the world and Ukraine have been made), generalization and systematization (summarizing has been made due to practical knowledge and work with diverse literature). Scientific novelty. This article is relevant today, despite the huge number of ready-made materials and articles. Scientific work will help to understand the essence of conducting one of the most complex genres of information journalism and will demonstrate the problems of interviews in Ukraine. Conclusions. During the study of the interview genre in the modern media space, the problems of the interview genre were analyzed through scientific works. It has been established that interviews are a special genre in modern media discourse that helps to reveal or create something completely new and show another angle of the interlocutor. Being one of the leading genres on television, the interview makes a significant contribution to the growth of popularity in a modern environment on the leading channels of the country. Psychological factors have been disclosed, which contribute to the success of communication with a guest; potential problems, the main difficulties faced by the interviewer have been outlined. It has been proved that during the conversation, important moments that turn into information are revealed. The fact that in modern information space, especially in Ukrainian media, there is a lack of qualification of leaders during interviews, is accentuated. Based on them, we summarized the main problems and features of the interview genre. As a result, while working with the article, we have made a conclusion about the main problems of the genre on modern television.

scholarly journals Way better than the original!! Music video covers and language revitalisation

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kati Dlanske
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Music Video ◽  
Minority Languages ◽  
Original Music ◽  
The Social ◽  
Media Space ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Language Revitalisation ◽  
Better Than

The development of the social media has opened up new spaces and genres for minoritised languages. As argued in previous research, access to new media spaces can contribute to the revitalisation of minoritised languages by generating new functions and values for them. Combining sociolinguistic and sociosemiotic approaches and bringing together data from four minority language contexts, Irish, Welsh, Sámi, and Corsican, this study addresses the potential of music video covers on YouTube to contribute to language revitalisation. The investigation suggests that music video covers in minority languages can have significance in language revitalisation in both language ideological and practical terms. However, these effects are not just a matter of access to a new media space (YouTube) or a new genre (music video cover) but, in a much more complex manner, a question of practices of relocalisation and the semiotic resources used. As semiotic aggregates, music video covers can not only endow minority languages and their speakers with a new glamour, but also recirculate and reinforce old, stereotypical notions. While ‘new glamour’ may be desirable, the study points, on the other hand, to the need for critical interrogation of the terms on which minority languages are commodified in the context of contemporary media culture.

Enjoying Art: The Experience of Beauty from Understanding Regularities

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 137-175
Author(s):  
Fabrizio Serrao
Keyword(s):  
Human Behavior ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Emergent Properties ◽  
Evolutionary Perspective ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Biophilia Hypothesis ◽  
Art Production ◽  
Definition Of

Art production and enjoyment is a universal human behavior, yet the reasons why it evolved remain elusive. Works of art can convey strong emotions, and various authors attempted to explain the enjoyment of such emotions from an evolutionary perspective. Other authors focused instead on emergent properties of works of art: patterns and coherence, symmetry and proportions, harmony and consonance. Here, I argue that all these emergent properties fall into the definition of regularity, as well as other features that have been overlooked and yet create beauty in all arts (including literature). More precisely, I define a regular composition as having its elements arranged according to a rule that is understandable ‘a priori.’ Furthermore, I propose two novel evolutionary insights into the enjoyment of complex regularities. First, the enjoyment may stem from the drive to gain information on the environment, which would result in a preference for those arrangements that can be understood ‘a priori’ but provide information on a variety of elements. Second, because regularity is mostly a product of life, the attraction to regular stimuli might have evolved to promote the detection of living beings. This would encourage the interaction with other organisms in accordance with Wilson’s ‘biophilia’ hypothesis.

scholarly journals Book in the media systeme

Bibliosphere ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 5-11
Author(s):  
M. G. Vokhrysheva
Keyword(s):  
Modern Society ◽  
Transdisciplinary Approach ◽  
The Public ◽  
Independent Unit ◽  
Media Space ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Media ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
The Difference

Book functioning in the modern society, called by the researchers not only as an information but also a media one, has changed. Book and media are considered as unique phenomena the essence of which being reflected in sense-filled notions. The aim of the article is to reveal the place of book in the media space. Its tasks are: 1) on the base of modern home and foreign dictionaries and encyclopedias to show the difference in approaches to definitions and expose the content of the concepts “book” and “media”; 2) to demonstrate the specifics of the book entering into contemporary media sphere both on the level of its transformation into new existence forms in the electronic environment and on the level of its being as an independent unit in the form of a printed book; 3) to establish the possible methodological approaches to the investigation of the problem and suggest the methodology of transdisciplinarity as the basic one. Methods used are: theoretical analysis and generalization, terminological analysis, transdisciplinary approach. The term “media” describes the whole sphere of activity (“media sphere”) in the centre of which are means of information and communication, social institutes, dealing with the content production and delivering it to the public. The book is included into this sphere transforming its form into a new electronic one and getting benefits through the variability ofelectronic resources, virtuality, a new language and communicative formats. A printed book with its great number of valuable properties, first of all ability to influence inner cognitive and psychological perception structures while reading faces significant difficulties in its publishing and dissemination; it’s transferred into the second row of information policy and mass cognition. Thus, it’s methodologically important to consider book in any form as a significant element in the modern media sphere. It’s promising to use the transdisciplinary approach to book research when it is studied not by aspects from the viewpoint of this or that discipline but as a whole using all acquired knowledge.

scholarly journals Media i geopolityki późnej nowoczesności. Naturalizacja i nostalgia jako horyzont wspólnot wyobrażonych.

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (57) ◽  
pp. 61-70
Author(s):  
Karina Banaszkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Technological Change ◽  
Imagined Communities ◽  
Global Culture ◽  
Late Modernity ◽  
Living Space ◽  
Media Space ◽  
The World ◽  
Actual Range ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Weak Ontology

Contemporary media organize exchange by means of Internet, bridges, convergences, double addressing… The result is overproduction of hybrids with mixed weak ontology and inclusion of digital augments into living space. Implementation of technology makes people face a change and requires domestication of innovations and subsequent products of the language of mathematics. Adaptation is slower than the technological change. What counts is an actual range of transformations and cultural content. It is about proxemic schemes characteristic of numerical media and schemes according to which media space is perceived, presented, understood and created. Experiencing a place and recording human reactions to a digital place lead to geopoetics. Virtual geographies and patterns of home and route… repeated by media result in questions about imagined communities and content which is able to integrate them nowadays. Two strategies of being-in-the-world dominate in late modernity: naturalization and nostalgia. In the context of them people still live in the horizon of home and of encountering the others, and a global culture still remains a question of time.

scholarly journals Work, play, and precariousness: An overview of the labour ecosystem of esports

2021 ◽  
pp. 016344372110115
Author(s):  
Mark R Johnson ◽  
Jamie Woodcock
Keyword(s):  
Rapid Growth ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Digital Gaming ◽  
Global Industry ◽  
Media Space ◽  
Big Picture ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Career Options ◽  
Game Developers

Professionalised competitive digital gaming or ‘esports’ has grown to a point where millions of dollars are being awarded in competitions watched globally by tens of millions of viewers. Previous analyses of the phenomenon have examined the role(s) of labour in esports performed by various actors – players, tournament organisers, sponsors, game developers – but these have yet to be unified into a ‘big picture’ of esports labour, especially when considering the relationships between the labour performed by different esports actors. In this paper we therefore present a comprehensive overview of the labour that different actors within the emerging Esports ecosystem perform, and how they intersect and influence each other in order to contribute to the existence of this highly contemporary phenomenon. In doing so we show that the rapid growth of Esports has created new labour processes and forms of work, transformed existing ones, yielded new career options, and tremendous profits to be made by a range of involved actors. Esports’ emerging position as a major global industry both within gaming and within contemporary media more broadly demands close attention to its work, its workers, and who is winning and losing in this dynamic media space.

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