12. Civil Society, Interest Groups, and the Media

Political Life ◽

Subaltern Studies ◽

The Media ◽

This chapter focuses on the concept of civil society, along with interest groups and the media. It first provides a background on the evolution of civil society and interest groups before discussing corporatism. In particular, it examines the ways in which civil society responds to state actors and tries to manoeuvre them into cooperation. This is politics from below. The chapter proceeds by considering the notion of ‘infrapolitics’ and the emergence of a school of ‘subaltern’ studies. It also explores the role of the media in political life and the impact of new communication technologies such as the Internet and mobile phones on politics. Finally, it evaluates some of the challenges presented by new media to civil society.

International Journal of Information Communication Technologies and Human Development ◽

The Impact of Mobile Phone Uses in the Developing World

10.4018/ijicthd.2017040102 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 20-48 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sylvain K. Cibangu ◽

Mark Hepworth ◽

Donna Champion

Keyword(s):

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Mobile Phones ◽

Large Scale ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Top Down ◽

Information And Communication ◽

The Subject ◽

In recent years, the rise of information and communication technologies (ICTs) contrasted with the dire living conditions of the world's poorest has been the subject of debate among industry and academia. However, despite the amount of writings produced on mobile phones, Western bias is surprisingly unbridledly prevailing alongside the fêted dissemination of mobile phones. Expansive literature tends to present the rapid adoption of mobile phones among rural individuals, with little to no indication of how local values and voices are respected or promoted. We undertook semi-structured interviews with 16 rural chiefs to inquire into ways in which mobile phones enabled socio-economic development in the rural Congo. Rather than using quantitative, large-scale, or top-down data, we sought to give voice to chiefs themselves about the role of mobile phones. We found that Western bias dominates the literature and deployment of mobile phones more than usually acknowledged. We suggested some paths forward, while bringing the African communal Utu or Ubuntu culture to the center stage.

Izvestia Ural Federal University Journal Series 1. Issues in Education, Science and Culture ◽

Communication Technologies of Media Sphere as the Basis for the Development of Legal Media Culture

10.15826/izv1.2021.27.4.077 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 27 (4) ◽

pp. 90-97

Author(s):

N. B. Kirillova ◽

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Civil Society ◽

Legal Culture ◽

Media Culture ◽

The Media ◽

Educational Potential

The object of the research is the educational potential of the media sphere in the development and dissemination of legal culture and human rights culture in modern Russia. This is due to the strengthening of the role of the information factor in the formation of civil society. The purpose of the work is to consider the communication technologies of the media sphere as the basis for the transformation of legal culture into legal media culture.

The Role of Civil Society in Creating the International Criminal Court Statute: Ten Years On and Looking Back

Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies ◽

10.1163/18781527-00301001 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 3-42

Author(s):

Helen Durham

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Civil Society ◽

International Criminal Court ◽

International Criminal ◽

Criminal Court ◽

Government Organisation ◽

The Media ◽

The Impact ◽

Looking Back

This article demonstrates that civil society, in particular the Coalition for the International Criminal Court (Coalition), played a significant role in the creation of the Statute for the ICC. At the ten year anniversary of the ICC entry into force, a reflection on the impact of civil society in this particular treaty negotiation is useful and aims to tell an important element of the ICC story often not exposed. The Coalition was developed to act as an umbrella for a range of organisations wishing to see a just and effective ICC and was actively involved in the negotiations in New York and Rome. From writing papers, directly lobbying delegates, hosting meetings and events, creating daily updates and linking the UN discussions back to capitals, members of the Coalition worked hard on ensuring a voice wider than State representatives was heard in the debate. The Coalition members also provided a crucial connection with the media and added creativity, emotion and colour to the diplomatic negotiations. Noting the philosophical differences between various groups within civil society on the ICC and the careful processes and procedures used by the Coalition, this article highlights the tension between diversity and efficiency within the non-government organisation community.

المجلة العربية للعلوم ونشر الأبحاث مجلة العلوم الاقتصادية والإدارية والقانونية ◽

The extent to which Saudi E-newspapers adhere to professional media standards: مدى التزام الصحف السعودية الإلكترونية بالمعايير المهنية الإعلامية

10.26389/ajsrp.k200617 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 1 (6) ◽

Author(s):

Kholoud Abdullah Mohammed Meliani

Keyword(s):

New Media ◽

New Technologies ◽

Practical Experience ◽

Professional Standards ◽

The Press ◽

Information And Communication ◽

The Media ◽

The Individual ◽

The emergence of the press on the Internet is a new media phenomenon linked to the revolution of information and communication technology. The media landscape has become closer to everyone. The role of the individual is free from the production controls and the policies of the media establishment. Which created a great problem related to the profession and its conditions so that it became easy for the citizen to be a journalist without professional qualification and practical experience in the basic rules of work. The increasing number of electronic media and the impact on Saudi Arabia are an important stage in its media activity. It has been able to reflect a significant role in the world of journalism, to accelerate the use of these new technologies, and to impose itself on the media arena as a strong competitor for paper journalism. However, the multiplicity of electronic platforms, accompanied by many negative repercussions in this aspect, including the absence of professionalism and professionalism and the decline in journalism standards, especially in the climate of freedom enjoyed by the new media and the absence of scissors censor. The aim of this study was to identify the methods and means of communicators in the electronic press to achieve professional standards such as accuracy, credibility, objectivity and neutrality in the dissemination of news and reports through the use of descriptive and analytical approach through the field survey on a sample of the study community. The study relied on the questionnaire as a tool for collecting data from a sample of 120 Saudi journalists in electronic newspapers and then analyzing and interpreting them. The study reached several results, the most important of which is that there is weakness in the adoption of the Saudi electronic press to the professional standards of objectivity, accuracy, credibility, and impartiality in the dissemination of news and reports. The study also concluded that e-newspapers do not always adhere to the rules of journalistic editing, and sometimes publish what is considered a violation of personal freedom.

SOCIAL MEDIA AND BRIDGING OF COVID-19 INFORMATION GAP AMONG STUDENTS OF FEDERAL POLYTECHNIC, OKO

Nnamdi Azikiwe University Journal of Communication and Media Studies ◽

10.47851/naujocommed.v1i2.90 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Onyeka Uwakwe

Keyword(s):

New Media ◽

Change Agents ◽

National Development ◽

Survey Study ◽

Media Dependency ◽

Information Gap ◽

Media Services ◽

The Media ◽

This is a survey study. The researcher uses a sample of 112 students to x-ray the impact of new media in dissemination information on COVID-19 pandemic. The study submits that WhatsAPP, Facebook and Opera news are rendering front line media services. Based on this, therefore, the paper reveals that new media have been potent at the awareness level. The paper also notes some differentials (gap) among the students in terms of level of awareness of COVID-19 pandemic terminology. This aspect of the result is hypothetically explained in the level of new media dependency, literacy level and income. The paper reinforces the role of the media in national development. The paper consequently recommends that governments and change agents take advantage of the possibilities inherent in the new media in the fight against COVID-19 pandemic.

16. Civil Society, Interest Groups, and Populism

Politics ◽

10.1093/hepl/9780198787983.003.0016 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Peter Ferdinand ◽

Robert Garner ◽

Stephanie Lawson

Keyword(s):

Civil Society ◽

Interest Groups ◽

Direct Relationship ◽

Liberal Democracies ◽

The Status ◽

Five Star Movement ◽

The Media ◽

The Arab Spring

This chapter explores the role of civil society, interest groups, and populism in politics. It first considers the concept of ‘civil society’ and how it came to be associated with the protests that brought down communist regimes in Eastern Europe, along with its role in the Arab Spring. It then looks at interest groups as a major component of civil society, the rise of corporatism, and the notion of ‘infrapolitics’ or politics from below. It also discusses the growing phenomenon of populism as a way of enhancing the status and position of previously neglected groups in democracies as well as a challenge to liberal democracies. A case study on populism online involving Beppe Grillo and the Five star Movement is presented. The chapter suggests that populist politicians make use of the media to forge a direct relationship with their supporters.

Digital Rebellion

10.5406/illinois/9780252038846.001.0001 ◽

2014 ◽

Cited By ~ 35

Author(s):

Todd Wolfson

Keyword(s):

Social Movements ◽

New Media ◽

Democratic Governance ◽

Cultural Logic ◽

The Social ◽

The Media ◽

Historical Antecedents ◽

The Impact ◽

Media And Communication

This book examines the impact of new media and communication technologies on the spatial, strategic, and organizational fabric of social movements. It begins with the rise of the Zapatistas in the mid-1990s, and how aspects of the movement—network organizational structure, participatory democratic governance, and the use of communication tools as a binding agent—became essential parts of Indymedia and all Cyber Left organizations. From there the book charts the media-based think tanks and experiments that continued the Cyber Left's evolution through the Independent Media Center's birth around the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle. After examining the historical antecedents and rise of the global Indymedia network, the book melds virtual and traditional ethnographic practice to explore the Cyber Left's cultural logic, mapping the social, spatial and communicative structure of the Indymedia network and detailing its operations on the local, national and global level. It also looks at the participatory democracy that governs global social movements and the ways the movement's twin ideologies, democracy and decentralization, have come into tension, and how what the book calls the switchboard of struggle conducts stories of shared struggle from the hyper-local and dispersed worldwide. As the book shows, understanding the intersection of Indymedia and the Global Social Justice Movement illuminates their foundational role in the Occupy struggle, Arab Spring uprising, and the other emergent movements that have in recent years re-energized radical politics.

Media Ecology and the Blurring of Public and Private Practices: A Case from the Middle East

Politik ◽

10.7146/politik.v19i4.27633 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 19 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Chiara De Franco

Keyword(s):

Middle East ◽

New Media ◽

International Politics ◽

Media Ecology ◽

Public And Private ◽

Medium Theory ◽

Social Settings ◽

The Media ◽

This paper aims at posing the basis for a new conceptualization of the impact of ‘old’ and ‘new’ media in international politics by creating a dialogue between the practice theoretical approach in IR (Adler and Pouliot 2011) and the medium theory in media studies (Meyrowitz 1985). Building on these approaches, the paper argues that in order to understand the role of the media in international politics it is necessary to shift the focus from media outlets and organisations to the media as environments, and from media content to media ecology. In fact, the paper argues that changes in the media ecology can produce changes in the social settings where international practices develop. It particular, it argues that the media ecology can affect the articulation of public and private and lead to the emergence of international practices where appropriate and competent behaviour reconstitute the private in the public (and vice versa). To explore its theoretical claims further and clarify how useful this approach can be to understand the role of the media in the Middle East, the paper discusses how an Israeli/Iranian movement catalysed by a Facebook (FB) page attempts at fostering peace. It explains how such a group has developed a Transnational Activist Network (TAN) bringing people together through shared private experiences.

6. Social revolution

Modern India: A Very Short Introduction ◽

10.1093/actrade/9780198769347.003.0006 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 84-102

Author(s):

Craig Jeffrey

Keyword(s):

Civil Society ◽

Mobile Phones ◽

The State ◽

The Internet ◽

Social Revolution ◽

Social Production ◽

Cultural Expression ◽

Institutional Infrastructure ◽

The Media

Social revolution has provided people, elites in particular, with new economic and social aspirations. These have been brought about by a transformation in people’s access to communication technologies through mobile phones and the internet, as well as access to and enthusiasm for education. The educational revolution is in turn linked to a third key shift related to notions of citizenship and the state. ‘Social revolution’ also explains how cultural expression has been encouraged and civil society has increased. However, civil society and social production of hope are limited by three significant weaknesses in India’s political institutional infrastructure related to the law, policing, and the media.