Closing of the Journalism Mind

2020 ◽  
pp. 129-143
Author(s):  
Michael McDevitt
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
First Time

Chapter 8 measures anti-intellectualism among mass communication students for the first time and finds that support for journalistic anti-intellectualism is condoned in the views of emerging adults as they develop attitudes toward news, audiences, and authority. Data are drawn from questionnaires distributed to undergraduates at five colleges. Majoring in the news and support for traditional press roles such as the interpretive function fail to inoculate students against the endorsement of journalistic anti-rationalism and anti-elitism. While reflexivity is often viewed as conducive to critical thinking, students’ affinity for transparency in newswork associates with suspicion of intellectuals and their ideas. Many students are drawn to journalism as practice and as a field of study because of its populist mythos. Educators should emphasize a critical autonomy that makes room for transparency but does not succumb to climates of opinion.

Anti-intellectualism among US students in journalism and mass communication: A cultural perspective

Journalism ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 782-799 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael McDevitt ◽  
Perry Parks ◽  
Jordan Stalker ◽  
Kevin Lerner ◽  
Jesse Benn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
College Students ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
The United States ◽  
Professional Roles ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Role Identities ◽  
Cultural Expressions

This study explores how support for journalistic anti-intellectualism is condoned in the views of emerging adults in the United States as they develop attitudes toward news, audiences, and authority. Anti-rationalism and anti-elitism as cultural expressions of anti-intellectualism correlate as expected with approval of corresponding news practices. Identification with professional roles generally fails to inoculate college students against the endorsement of journalistic anti-rationalism and anti-elitism. With the exception of the adversarial function, role identities appear to justify journalistic anti-intellectualism beyond the influence of cultural anti-intellectualism. While reflexivity is often viewed as conducive to critical thinking, affinity for transparency in news work associates with a populist suspicion of intellectuals and their ideas.

scholarly journals Challenges to Local-Global Relations in Federal Countries

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-44
Author(s):  
Gilberto M. A. Rodrigues
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time ◽  
Global Relations

International Relations has been a consolidated expression since the Peace of Westphalia in the 17th Century (Wilkinson, 2010). As a separate field of study, it was adopted for the first time when its Chair at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth was established in 1919 (Evans, 1998). Despite the fact that the expression has been and is still used in academia, politics and diplomacy worldwide to explain relations between nations, we know that the term “international” not only encompasses the nations themselves, as sovereignty countries, but also includes subnational entities, either public or private...

scholarly journals Digital Parenting of Emerging Adults in the 21st Century

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 482
Author(s):  
Michaeline Jensen ◽  
Emily Haston ◽  
Andrea M. Hussong
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Adults ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Text Messaging ◽  
Objective Assessment ◽  
Text Message ◽  
Emerging Adult ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
Digital Pressure ◽  
First Time

In emerging adulthood, when many young people are away from their families for the first time, mobile phones become an important conduit for maintaining relationships with parents. Yet, objective assessment of the content and frequency of text messaging between emerging adults and their parents is lacking in much of the research to date. We collected two weeks of text messages exchanged between U.S. college students (N = 238) and their parents, which yielded nearly 30,000 parent-emerging adult text messages. We coded these text message exchanges for traditional features of parent-emerging adult communication indexing positive connection, monitoring and disclosures. Emerging adults texted more with mothers than with fathers and many messages constitute parental check-ins and emerging adult sharing regarding youth behavior and well-being. Findings highlight that both the frequency and content of parent-emerging adult text messages can be linked with positive (perceived text message support) and negative (perceived digital pressure) aspects of the parent-emerging adult relationship. The content of parent-emerging adult text messages offers a valuable, objective window into the nature of the parent-emerging adult relationships in the digital age of the 21st century.

A trial of the objective structured practical examination in physiology at Melaka Manipal Medical College, India

2009 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reem Rachel Abraham ◽  
Rao Raghavendra ◽  
Kamath Surekha ◽  
Kamath Asha
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Student Satisfaction ◽  
Altman Plot ◽  
Bland Altman Plot ◽  
Acceptable Limit ◽  
Medical College ◽  
Practical Examination ◽  
Method Of Assessment ◽  
First Time ◽  
University Examination

A single examination does not fulfill all the functions of assessment. The present study was undertaken to determine the reliability and student satisfaction regarding the objective structured practical examination (OSPE) as a method of assessment of laboratory exercises in physiology before implementing it in the forthcoming university examination. The present study was undertaken in the Department of Physiology of Melaka Manipal Medical College, Manipal Campus, India. During the OSPE, students were made to rotate through 11 stations, of which 8 stations were composed of questions that tested their knowledge and critical thinking and 2 stations were composed of skills that students had to perform before the examiner. One station was kept as the rest station. Performance of the students was assessed by comparing the students' scores in the traditional practical examination (TPE) and OSPE using “Bland-Altman technique.” Student perspectives regarding the OSPE were obtained by asking them to respond to a questionnaire. The Bland-Altman plot showed that ∼63% of the students showed a performance in the scores obtained using the OSPE and TPE within the acceptable limit of 8; 32% of the students scored much above the anticipated difference in the scores, and the rest scored below the anticipated difference in the scores on the OSPE and TPE. Feedback indicated that students were in favor of the OSPE compared with the TPE. Feedback from the students provided scope for improvement before the OSPE was administered for the first time in the forthcoming university examination.

scholarly journals Dimensional Anhedonia and the Adolescent brain: Reward and Aversion Anticipation, Effort and Consummation: Anhedonia in adolescent depression

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ewelina Rzepa ◽  
Ciara McCabe
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Adolescent Depression ◽  
Depression Symptoms ◽  
Neural Responses ◽  
Dimensional Approach ◽  
Reward Function ◽  
Health And Illness ◽  
Age Range ◽  
Future Work ◽  
First Time

AbstractGiven the heterogeneity of depression the Research Domain Criteria Framework suggests a dimensional approach to understanding the nature of mental health and illness. Neural reward function has been suggested as underpinning the symptom of anhedonia in depression but less is known about how anhedonia is related to aversion processing. We examined how anhedonia relates to neural activity during reward and aversion processing in adolescents and emerging adults (N=84) in the age range 13-21yrs. Using a dimensional approach we examined how anhedonia and depression severity correlated with an fMRI task measuring anticipation, effort and consummation of reward and aversion. We show for the first time that the dimensional experience of anhedonia correlated with neural responses during effort to avoid aversion in the precuneus with a trend in the insula and during aversive consummation in the caudate. Using a categorical approach we also examined how the neural responses during each phase of the task differed in those with depression symptoms compared to healthy controls. We found participants with depression symptoms invested less physical effort to gain reward than controls and had blunted neural anticipation of reward and aversion in the precuneus, insula, and prefrontal cortex and blunted neural effort for reward in the putamen. This work highlights blunted neural responses to reward and aversion in depression and how anticipatory and consummatory anhedonia may be enhanced via dysfunctional neural processing of aversion. Future work will assess if these neural mechanisms can be used to predict blunted behavioural approach to reward and avoidance of negative experiences in adolescents at risk of depression.

scholarly journals THE PROBABLE PLACE FOR BEING CREATED MASS INFORMATION THEORY BETWEEN OTHER FUNDAMENTAL THEORIES ABOUT IMPACT ON MASS AUDIENCE

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Volodymyr Vladymyrov
Keyword(s):  
Mass Communication ◽  
Current Theory ◽  
Scientific Field ◽  
Fundamental Theory ◽  
Domestic Science ◽  
Paradoxical Situation ◽  
Holistic Theory ◽  
The Masses ◽  
First Time ◽  
Mass Information

The article continues, for the first time in English in domestic science, to study the question of the need to create a new scientific theory – the theory of mass information. For the first time too raises the question of creating, in a place of the current theory of mass communication, a system of sciences including: a) mass information (shpuld be created now in rpoh of mass information), b) the theory of mass understanding (has created as a hermeneutics of the masses), c) the theory of mass communication (has created as a theory of the transfer of content) and the theory of mass emotions (started to create in 2017). This is a paradoxical situation – the absence of fundamental theory of mass information in the epoch of mass information. Researches in the scientific works of foreign mass communication also showed the absence of a holistic theory, as well as attempts to create it, even the lack of decisions on the need to create it as a new scientific field.

Introduction to Special Focus

2007 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Ataullah Bogdan Kopanski ◽  
Mesut Idriz
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Special Edition ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
The West ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
Original Works ◽  
Islamic Civilization ◽  
First Time

AbstractDuring the 20th century, there have been numerous scholarly attempts in studying, analyzing and even to some extent, criticizing the issues pertaining to the contacts, impacts and relations between the Muslim world and the West. However, when dealing with these issues, the geography should not be limited to the Muslim world and the West, Europe in particular, but it should cover both Europe and Asia taken together where the earliest civilizations took place and by the 7th century, Islamic civilization flourished in the center of domain civilizations. With a wider and more positive look, the four articles by the academicians, (namely Danial M. Yosuf, Ali Çaksu, Anke Iman Bouzenita and Mesut Idriz), selected to be featured in this edition will contribute not only to this field of study but also avoid or remove the barriers and concentrate on the bridges between the Islamic world and the Eurasia. All the articles are original works and published for the first time in this volume The focus of this special edition is on the paradoxes between the Islamic and Eurasian worlds.

scholarly journals Emotional Eating and Obesity

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ignacio Jáuregui-Lobera ◽  
Marian Montes-Martínez
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Eating ◽  
Food Addiction ◽  
Addictive Behavior ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Current State ◽  
Addictive Substance ◽  
The Individual ◽  
First Time ◽  
Emotional Basis

The first time that terms such as food addiction and addictive eating were mentioned was in 1956, in an article by T.G. Randolph. Recently, from a psychosomatic point of view, some authors have linked obesity and food addiction. Along with the concept of food addiction (derived from the similarities between the consumption of certain foods and “substance addictions”), a couple of questions seem to arise: What if it’s not just the particular food (the substance) that we are addicted to? Could it be that we are addicted to something else that makes us eat it? Thus, the concept of eating addiction has its own set of particulars. It brings the attention back to the individual and not the external substance (the food or ingredient). The focus on confronting the obesity problem should be moved away from the food itself (the addictive substance) to the person’s act of eating (the addictive behavior). Undoubtedly, there are many links between emotions and overweight/obesity. This chapter aims to review the current state of this field of study which is the emotional basis of obesity (at least a particular case of obesity and weight-related disorders).

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