Mass Media Misleading the Masses: The Propagation of Nonscientifically Supported Autism Treatments

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberly A. Schreck ◽  
Melissa Russell ◽  
Luis Vargas ◽  
Tanya Brucie ◽  
Jennifer Hall
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Autism Treatments

scholarly journals DYNAMICS OF MEDIA AND SOCIETY INTERACTION IN COMMUNICATIVE SPACE

2013 ◽  
pp. 234-240
Author(s):  
D. I. Chistyakov
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Structural Integrity ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Communication Model ◽  
Media Impact ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Late Modern

The article is dedicated to the analysis of the social issues caused by mass-media impact on individuals and society. The author bases on reflection of sociological theories and discourses of late modern and postmodern and thus shows the transformation of media and their audience on the society’s way to the postmodernity. Postmodern media are viewed as a specific social institution of postmodernity; the author also emphasizes the basic peculiarities of its institutionalization. Structural integrity between mass-media and society is ensured through mass communication in its one-sided direction of the only communicator to the masses, often turning into an influence on recipients. The article stems from the premise that a modernday person is included in qualitatively and quantitavely other communications than in a preceding era of late modernity. Mass-media’s influence on society is thus specific. Messages, images, symbols, signs created by media not only form our perspective, but also serve as keys to the perception of reality. A subject today is involved in endless interconnected streams of information, hence a subject doesn’t consume information in discreet blocks anymore. Rather, we can imagine a subject standing knee-deep in a vast stream grabbing whatever he or she may find interesting. Under the certain conditions the very reality is being substituted by the virtual reality. The author shows and analyses the communication model of the basic information producers and recipients.

Survive in Rating Battles

2019 ◽  
pp. 190-208
Author(s):  
Ufuk İnal ◽  
Elif Şevik
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Smartphone Applications ◽  
Information Tools ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Social Media Tools ◽  
The Masses

Television has never lost its popularity since the day it entered our life, unlike other mass media. One of the only reasons why television should maintain this feature is that the masses do not give up using it actively. Another thing that should be mentioned together with this is that this vehicle has been able to keep up with the changing media structure. Changing and evolving computer-based information tools and environments force communities to adapt. Media tools along with the communities have also taken their place. In this study, the program named Survivor, which is broadcasted on TV8 channel, will be questioned about the structure created by using transmedative narrative strategies. Supported by two television channels, websites, social media tools, forum sites, and smartphone applications, Survivor will be linked to the audience.

Justice for the Masses? Aggregate Litigation & Its Alternatives

Daedalus ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 143 (3) ◽  
pp. 73-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah R. Hensler
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Class Action ◽  
Court Involved ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Modern Mass

Traditionally, disputes over injury compensation that were brought to court involved one or a few plaintiffs and defendants and were processed individually. The risk and expense of such litigation meant that most victims of legally cognizable injuries never came through the courthouse doors. The modern global economy, however, has vastly increased the potential for mass harms and losses, and modern mass media have created felicitous circumstances for mass claiming. Aggregated mass litigation blasts open the courthouse doors for individuals who might otherwise find them closed. Aggregation benefits some but disadvantages others. Class action rules attempt to mitigate these conflicts, but such procedures do not apply to aggregate non-class litigation. It is time for courts to adopt rules and practices that recognize the realities of such litigation.

scholarly journals ATHEISTIC WORK AND EVERYDAY RELIGIOUS PRACTICES IN THE KABARDIAN ASSR IN THE 40S-50S OF THE 20TH CENTURY

2021 ◽  
pp. 56-63
Author(s):  
ALEKSANDRA N. TAKOVA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
General Description ◽  
North Caucasus ◽  
Direct Communication ◽  
The North ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Mass Participation ◽  
Widespread Dissemination

The article deals with the features of the implementation of atheistic work in one of the republics of the North Caucasus - the Kabardian ASSR in the 40s-50s of the 20th century. The main directions of implementation of this work are analyzed: 1) indirect-atheistic work using the mass media available at that time; 2) direct-work carried out by direct communication of propagandists-agitators with the audience on the ground. A general description of the features of the implementation of atheistic work in this period, the techniques and methods used for this purpose, is given. The emphasis is placed on the widespread dissemination of natural science views to the masses, together with the foundations of Marxism-Leninism, as opposed to religious ideas. The paper points out a number of key problematic issues that reduced the quality and effectiveness of the field atheist work carried out - the lack of specialists, excessive focus on mass participation, lack of targeting...

scholarly journals COVID-19 AS A LINGUISTIC PHENOMENON (BASED ON ENGLISH MASS-MEDIA TEXTS)

2020 ◽  
pp. 51-58
Author(s):  
Вероника Викторовна Катермина ◽  
Екатерина Андреевна Яченко
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Language Development ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Public Consciousness ◽  
The Media ◽  
Lexical Composition ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Social Upheaval ◽  
Linguistic Phenomenon

Статья посвящена изучению COVID-19 как лингвистического явления на материале журнала “The Economist” за март-май 2020 года. В статье отмечается, что в современном мире, характеризующемся переломными моментами цивилизационного плана, особое значение приобретает изучение основ формирования общества, роли информационных технологий и новых дискурсивных практик социального взаимодействия. Начало 2020 года ознаменовалось эпидемией коронавируса, перешедшей в пандемию. Повсеместное распространение заболевания отразилось не только на функционировании медицины и других социальных институтов, но и на лексическом составе многих языков, в частности английского. В статье анализируется структурный и семантический план лексемы «COVID-19». Данная лексема и ее синонимы вводятся в дискурс средств массовой информации, что позволяет рассмотреть их в дискурсивном контексте, выражающем изменения общественного сознания в период пандемии. В статье подчеркивается, что в периоды социальной стабильности процессы языкового развития протекают размеренно и постепенно, а языковые изменения затрагивают отдельные участки системы. В пору социальных потрясений процессы языкового развития ускоряются, создается впечатление хаоса и нестабильности. В соответствии с особенностями ситуации в обществе изменяются психологические установки масс, их языковой вкус и чувство языка. Комплексный лингвистический анализ материала позволил установить, что лексема «COVID-19» в английском массмедийном дискурсе приобретает дополнительные коннотации и служит для формирования информационной картины мира, отражающей национально-культурные особенности мировосприятия и систему ценностных отношений. The article is devoted to the study of COVID-19 as a linguistic phenomenon on the material of The Economist (March-May 2020). The article notes that in the modern world, characterized by critical moments of the civilization plan, the study of the foundations of the formation of society, the role of information technology and new discursive practices of social interaction is of particular importance. The beginning of 2020 was marked by the coronavirus epidemic, which turned into a pandemic. The wide spread of the disease affected not only the functioning of medicine and other social institutions, but also the lexical composition of many languages, in particular English. The article analyzes the structural and semantic plans of the COVID-19 token. This token and its synonyms are introduced into the discourse of the media, which allows us to consider them in the discursive context expressing changes in public consciousness during the pandemic. The article emphasizes that during periods of social stability, the processes of language development proceed gradually, and language changes affect individual parts of the system. At a time of social upheaval, the processes of language development are accelerating, an impression of chaos and instability is created. In accordance with the peculiarities of the situation in society, the psychological attitudes of the masses, their linguistic taste and flair of the language are changing.A comprehensive linguistic analysis of the research material made it possible to establish that the lexeme COVID-19 in the English mass media discourse acquires additional connotations and serves to form an informational picture of the world that reflects the national-cultural characteristics of worldview and the system of axiological relations.

MODERN PROCESSES OF GLOBALIZATION IN THE ASPECT OF MASS INFORMATION IMPACT

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 12-17
Author(s):  
T. V. NAUMENKO ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Social Adaptation ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Amount Of Information ◽  
Mass Consciousness ◽  
Important Means ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Mass Information

The concept of mass media has nothing to do with the masses or the amount of information being circu-lated. Mass information is information that circulates at the level of mass consciousness of society, which is a practical consciousness as opposed to a specialized consciousness. She is not only an important means of social adaptation to a mass audience in the environment of existence, but also a major catalyst of the global-ization processes, because the media contributes to the formation of such properties of the mass conscious-ness, as the versatility needed for high-quality formation and functioning of global social processes.

scholarly journals Diffusion of News through Social Media with Reference to the Kiss of Love Movement on Facebook

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 22
Author(s):  
Rupa P
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Diffusion Process ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Mass Movement ◽  
Social Networking Site ◽  
Personal Level ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Interactive Medium

Web 2.0 is an interactive medium that has paved the way for the democratization of news. News is no longer the domain of the elite who disseminate it to the masses via mass media. In the age of Web 2.0, where social media rules the roost, every individual is a content generator and a purveyor of information. News is now more viral than ever. Facebook with over a hundred million users in India is the most popular social networking site in India. People use Facebook to connect, like, share and comment on everything from politics to culture to religion and so on. They also use it to disseminate news that they connect with on a personal level; along with their opinions on the same. This way, they become creators and transmitters of information.The Kiss of Love movement is a non-violent protest against moral policing which began when a Facebook page called 'Kiss of love' asked the youth across Kerala to participate in a protest against moral policing on 2nd November, 2014, at Marine Drive, Cochin. The controversial movement has snowballed into a mass movement which has spread into other states. A campaign of this magnitude has been made possible due to viral diffusion of news, information and comments on Facebook. This study uses quantitative and qualitative tools to study the diffusion of news with regard to the Kiss of Love movement through Facebook in an attempt to shed more light on the diffusion process of information through social media.

scholarly journals Portrayal Of Violence Against Women On Media

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-44
Author(s):  
Lubna Naz Karim
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Societal Level ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Negative Feelings ◽  
Ordinary Citizens

This study will review the role of media in portraying women and prevalence of violence in various forms like verbal, psychological, physical and symbolic against them. Technology has made media a powerful tool of communication, as well as a motivating force. Media directly or indirectly affects the minds of masses. The role of media in a society is incredible and unmatchable because the society depends on media for various reasons. This dependence on media is not only personal but social as well and it plays an important role in political, social, educational, religious and family institution at societal level. It is very much responsible for the transference of moral and social heritage from generation to generation, imposing even greater effects on the lives of ordinary citizens. Media claims to provide the masses with knowledge and information through entertainment programs. However, portrayal of violence against women on media in the form of different characters is contrary to ethical policies. Woman is an integral part of human society. She is a source of peace and contentment not only the whole family but for society on the whole. This study will explore that through entertainment; the negative feelings are induced into audience regarding violence against women, and where as mass media can play a significant role in reflecting social realities.

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