Mass Media Education: Introduction to the Theme and Definition of the Concept

1981 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-6
Author(s):  
Sirkka Minkkinen
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Media Education ◽  
Definition Of

Networking the political: On the dynamic interrelations that create publics in the digital age

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 124-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mette Marie Roslyng ◽  
Bolette B Blaagaard
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
The Political ◽  
Relational View ◽  
Minority Culture ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Public Spheres ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Definition Of

This article argues that the definition of the political and its role in on- and offline public spheres calls for a conceptualization that takes into account the networked connections established between lay and professional political actors, mass media and mobile media. While acknowledging the importance of popular and mass media’s impact on participatory and democratic processes, this article focuses on the cultural citizen and proposes that a rethinking of publics affords a new understanding of the idea of networks as a series of connection points fostering a dynamic and relational view on the political. We illustrate this conceptualization through a case study mapping the agonistic and antagonistic frontiers in communication in a variety of publics and counter-publics in the context of Danish minority culture and politics.

Challenging the Media-Incarceration Complex through Media Education

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bill Yousman
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
The United States ◽  
Crime Rates ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Media Education ◽  
Prime Time ◽  
Crisis Of Representation ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
The Media ◽  
Popular Television

This chapter argues that the United States faces a crisis of representation, for while crime rates remain stable, the TV and other corporate-controlled mass media bury viewers beneath an avalanche of fear-based spectacles in which crime and violence are portrayed as escalating, even life-threatening crises. It then outlines a new program of media education that enables consumers of mass media to develop more informed and empowering views of the complexities of crime and violence. Focusing on prime-time dramatic television as the most prevalent source of fictional images of violence, crime, and incarceration, the chapter addresses the distorted narratives and images that saturate popular television dramas. Drawing upon interviews with ex-prisoners, it also shows how media representations of imprisonment, though inaccurate and misleading, shape the perceptions even of those who have themselves been incarcerated.

scholarly journals The newsombudsman as an instrument for media education

Comunicar ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 15 (30) ◽  
pp. 125-130
Author(s):  
Susana Herrera-Damas
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Media Education ◽  
Educational Task

Everybody agrees. Although we lived in the so-called Information Society, traditional systems do not enable people to make a critical consumption of mass media. For that reason, the traditional spaces must be completed by the intervention of other actors. One of them is the newsombudsman. The aim of this article is to describe the singularity of this mechanism and to specify his instruments in his educational task. Ya casi nadie lo duda. A pesar de que vivimos en la denominada «sociedad de la información », muchas veces los sistemas tradicionales no capacitan a la audiencia para que realice un consumo crítico de los medios. Por eso, los espacios tradicionales deben ser completados por la intervención de otros actores. Uno de ellos es el defensor de la audiencia. El objetivo de este artículo es describir la singularidad de este mecanismo y especificar los instrumentos de los que dispone en su tarea formativa.

scholarly journals CRIMINAL LIABILITY OF LEGAL ENTITIES IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 74-80
Author(s):  
Aleksandr V. Fedorov ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Legal Entity ◽  
Specific Object ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Legal Entities

The article is devoted to the issues of legislative establishment of criminal liability of legal entities in the Czech Republic including definition of a legal entity as a subject of crime and criminal liability, conditions under which a crime is considered committed by a legal entity. Special attention is paid to an analysis of the special comprehensive Law of December 6, 2011, On Criminal Liability of Legal Entities and Procedural Actions in Respect Thereof and criminal punishments stipulated by this law for legal entities including: cancellation of registration (liquidation) of a legal entity; property seizure; money fine; seizure of a specific object; prohibition of activities; prohibition of participation in state contracts, non-admission to concession procedures and state procurements; prohibition of receipt of any government allowance or subsidy; judgment publication in state mass media. Injunctive remedies taken in respect of legal entities are reviewed.

scholarly journals Social Dialects in Modern French Language

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Galina Bernetska
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Practical Interest ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
French Language ◽  
Semantic Features ◽  
Literary Language ◽  
Vertical Division ◽  
Definition Of

The article is a study of phonetic-morphological and semantic-stylistic features of argotic vocabulary in contemporary French language. The work is devoted to questions of structural-semantic and phonetic-morphological peculiarities of the argotic vocabulary in printed mass media. The conducted research has shown that the argotic vocabulary can be considered as a special lexical subsystem of spoken language, which is characterized by a steady tendency to penetrate into higher linguistic levels due to its phonetic-morphological and semantic features. The systematization of phonetic and semantic processes in the argotic dictionary is carried out. We have noticed that argot from a linguistic point of view is an expressive lexical subsystem of spoken language, which is characterized by a large expressive potential and rapid changes in vocabulary and penetrates into higher levels of the French language. From the point of view of modern linguistics, the French language can be viewed in vertical and horizontal sections. Horizontal division is caused by the existence of the dialectal partition of the French language. The vertical division is explained by the existence of social groups that use one or another sociolect. Analyzing the evolution of the definition of argot, we can assume that in its development argot passed the long way from the language taboo to the special lexical subsystem of the literary-spoken language. We have noticed that it is important to distinguish argot and spoken language. In spite of the both scientific and practical interest in the spoken language problem and the emergence of numerous studies that led to the creation of colloquialism as a special section of linguistics, a number of aspects of spoken language (approaches to its identification, differentiation of spoken language and related phenomena) remain insufficiently highlighted. The spoken language (vernacular), according to modern linguistic assertions, occupies an intermediate position between the spoken-literary language, dialects and sociolects. We have noticed that the democratization of the norms of the literary language led to the emergence of a literary-colloquial form of spoken language. Such a combination of literary and spoken language is caused by the nature of social development. Key words: argot; slang; French language; dialect; argotheistic vocabulary; non-normative variant elements; semantics; phonetics; morphology; mass media.

scholarly journals Contemporary mass media: a journalist’s responsibility

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Viktor Ivanovich Shahovsky
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Quality Of Information ◽  
New Information ◽  
Contemporary Work ◽  
Russian Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
Information Materials ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Information Consumers

The article views a circle of issues connected with the responsibility of contemporary work of media for the quality of information. The metalanguage actual for the new Russian media sphere is generalized. All types of up-to-date information resources are viewed and classified. The types and forms of their content variation are analysed. Special attention is paid to a new information phenomenon – infonoise – whose harmful nature is revealed. Among intended and unintended fluctuations of the language norm there is a process of constructing createmes as a means of communicative freedom, expressivisation and emotionalisation of the media discourse. The journalists are reminded of their responsibility for the quality of information presented to the public. A most significant definition of responsibility including all its necessary notional specifiers is introduced. The absence of these specifiers is illustrated in the information materials, which impedes adequate understanding of them by the mass media consumers and does not lead to the unified reflection. It is stated that the most important of these specifiers is the truthfulness of information. Special attention is paid to the ecological risks of the irresponsibility of some journalists in regard to their fishing, transmitting and broadcasting low-quality information. Emphasis is put on the fact that the practice of journalists represents a specific communicative sphere, which often disorients information consumers. This fact is mostly obvious in connection with incompliance of mass media in a common methodology of presenting information, which has resulted in destruction of the dialogue function of mass media: only the Internet still preserves this function. Highlighted is the role of the language in creating linguistic reality as opposed to the objective one.

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