Mechanisms of External Public Spectacle

2020 ◽  
pp. 131-146
Author(s):  
Ana Tanasoca

What others think matters for internal deliberation. Perceptions of public opinion—of the distribution of opinions across the entire community—are important for the same reason. Informal networked deliberation can give citizens only a partial view of the support any opinion or claim enjoys community-wide. This chapter discusses one important deliberative contribution mass media can make to citizens’ internal deliberations: providing information about the incidence of opinion and stakes in society at large. I discuss different ways in which the media can more accurately convey frequency information through its design of public spectacles. The selection of arguments and opinions they feature, how they feature them, as well as the selection of public speakers to voice them, all matter in this respect.

Author(s):  
Е. Гнездилова ◽  
E. Gnezdilova

The article discusses the media discourse, analyzes its role in shaping the picture of the world of modern person: the typological features of the media text, the means and techniques of speech impact on the audience are highlighted. In the study of media texts, the author used the method of discursive analysis. As a result of an experimental study, linguistic techniques and means were revealed by which mass media influence the formation of public opinion, control communication in society. After analyzing publications in Russian media, the author comes to the conclusion that many of the linguistic techniques used in socio-political discourse today are mostly manipulative in nature, and are a powerful tool in the information confrontation. The identification of these tools and techniques, their systematization allows us to understand the specifics of the formation of the picture of the world of modern person, especially communication in society.


Comunicar ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (25) ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuela Barba-García

Nobody questions that advertising is one of the elements of the culture of our time and it generates consumption, being the children the most sensitive objectives. Thus, once the consumption habit is created, it is quite easy to correct its direction, directing it towards the satisfaction of new needs (Martínez, 1995: 12). We try throughout this research to understand the presence of the figure of children in any advertising spot and to set some implicit values that can affect them. For it, we have divided this study in four parts. The first part puts forward the reason of selection of this project. The second part, on which our study is based: the present mediatic society. Consumption predominates in our society, and it finds its maximum apogee on TV. advertising, since the television is a mass-media that has high social power. And the children are protagonists in spots because advertising tries to consolidate the habit of consumption in the childhood (Furones, 1980: 30). In the final part, we will continue with the development of proposals of intervention to prepare people to a critical and intelligent consumption. For it, we will concentrate in five scopes: school, family, the own intervention, the media and the community. The third part of our study presents audio-visual documents, base of our research. In it, we will describe the process of research followed by the object of our study, the audio-visual documents, and we will indicate the objectives that we considered. By watching the videos, we will collect the data that will be analyze with the object of valuing its adjustment to the intentions of the research and will present the results derived from the process. And finally we will indicate the conclusions that have come up in our study along with the consequences that will take us to future potential research and all those limitations that have come up throughout the research process. Nadie pone en duda que la publicidad es uno de los elementos de la cultura de nuestro tiempo y que ella genera consumo, siendo los niños los objetivos más sensibles. Así, una vez engendrado el hábito de consumo, es bastante fácil corregir su orientación, dirigiéndolo hacia la satisfacción de nuevas necesidades (Martínez, 1995: 12). Se pretende a lo largo de este trabajo de investigación comprender la presencia de la figura del niño en cualquier spot publicitario y determinar algunos valores implícitos que le afectan. Para ello hemos dividido este estudio en cuatro partes. Una primera parte que expone el motivo de selección del pro­yecto. Una segunda parte, en la cual se fundamenta de forma global el marco en el que se integra nuestro estudio: la actual sociedad mediática. Estando en una sociedad en la que predomina el consumo, y éste encuentra su máximo apogeo a través de la publicidad televisiva, ya que la televisión es un medio de comunicación de masas que tiene un alto poder social. Y son los niños los mayores protagonistas en los spots publicitarios, porque la pu­blicidad lo que intenta es consolidar el hábito de consumo en la infancia (Furones, 1980: 30). Se continuará en la parte final de este bloque, con la elaboración de propuestas de intervención para preparar a las personas a un consumo crítico e inteligente. Para ello, nos centraremos en cinco ámbitos: la escuela, la familia, la propia intervención, los medios y los colectivos ciudadanos. Una tercera parte del estudio presenta los documentos au­diovisuales, base de nuestra investigación. En ella, se describe el proceso de investigación seguido de nuestro objeto de estudio, los documentos audiovisuales y se señalan los objetivos planteados. Con la visualización de los vídeos, se procederá a recoger los datos obtenidos de los mismos, analizados con el objeto de valorar su adecuación a los propósitos de la investigación y se presentarán los resultados derivados del proceso. Y por último, se señalarán las conclusiones que se vislumbran del estudio, junto con las implicaciones que llevarán a potenciales futuras investigaciones y todas aquellas limitaciones que nos han asaltado a lo largo del proceso investigativo.


2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (04) ◽  
pp. A02
Author(s):  
Lena Jelinski ◽  
Katrin Etzrodt ◽  
Sven Engesser

When, to what extent and under what conditions autonomous driving will become common practice depends not only on the level of technical development but also on social acceptance. Therefore, the rapid development of autonomous driving systems raises the question of how the public perceives this technology. As the mass media are regarded as the main source of information for the lay audience, the news coverage is assumed to affect public opinion. The mass media are also frequently criticized for their inaccurate and biased news coverage. Against this backdrop, we conducted a content analysis of the news coverage of autonomous driving in five leading German newspapers. Findings show that media reporting on autonomous driving is not very detailed. They also indicate a slight positive bias in the balance of arguments and tonality. However, as soon as an accident involving an autonomous vehicle occurs, the frequency of reporting, as well as the extent of negativity and detail increase. We conclude that well-informed public opinion requires more differentiated reporting — irrespective of accidents.


2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 541-660
Author(s):  
V. V. Volchik ◽  
E. V. Fursa ◽  
A. I. Maskaev

Objective: to examine the influence of positive and critical narratives in the media, illustrating the problems and strengths of the Russian innovation system development, on the formation of public opinion.Methods: the methodology of narrative analysis of economics and original institutionalism is used in relation to the national innovation system.Results: with the help of narrative analysis, we analyzed 43 media outlets from Internet sources selected in accordance with the Medialogiya rating “Federal Mass Media: 2020” for the period from 01.01.2010 to 01.07.2021. A range of significant issues is highlighted which affect the innovative development, mentioned by media addressees and the Russian innovation system actors (policymakers, business, academic circles). Four types of positive narratives about the Russian innovation system are identified: 1) narratives about significant technological achievements; 2) narratives about the development of innovative infrastructure; 3) narratives that tell about the public recognition of the success of the Russian innovation system actors at professional conferences or by the state; 4) futurological narratives about prospects in the medium or long term.Scientific novelty: consists in the development of the narrative economics approach and the concept of public arenas for the analysis of the Russian innovation system with the help of mass media.Practical significance: the identified positive narratives allow studying the best practices and rules that contribute to the integration of science, government and business into a single innovation system in order to further upscale the positive experience to the entire economy. Positive narratives also contribute to the formation of a favorable innovation space and public opinion in Russia.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Butler

In the twenty-first century, the mass media is increasingly seen as having a very pervasive influence: the extent and reach if it simply cannot be ignored. In communities large and small, and in countries all over the world, the mass media has the ability to set agendas and influence public opinion. In North America, the mass media is particularly ubiquitous; from television, to the internet, to newspapers, it has become difficult to avoid mass media products.


Author(s):  
Muhamad Parhan ◽  
Mohammad Rindu Fajar Islamy ◽  
Nurti Budiyanti ◽  
Risris Hari Nugraha ◽  
Pandu Hyangsewu

<p>This article focuses on an inaccurate understanding of Islam that causes hatred, anxiety, and unfounded fear of the Muslim community. On account of this view of Islam, Muslims face hostility, discrimination, intolerance, and racism. This attitude is increasingly seen in mass media propaganda that presents a partial and inaccurate view of the religion. Islam is presented as a violent belief system and is responsible for radicalism and terrorism. The media greatly influences social reality. They function as a spectacle, but they also influence public opinion on a range of issues. The research design of this paper uses literature review with descriptive analysis. The results show that internalizing the Islamic value of <em>rahmatan lil alamin</em> (“being a mercy to the world”) through the media is a solution that can rectify misconceptions about Islam. Along with the foundation of <em>amar ma’ruf nahi munkar </em>(“enjoining the good and forbidding the evil”), the value of “being a mercy to the world” can transform people into educators (<em>muaddib</em>), agents of correct information (<em>musaddid</em>), reformers (<em>mujaddid</em>), unifiers (<em>muwahhid</em>), and fighters (<em>mujahid</em>).</p><p> <em></em></p><p>Artikel ini fokus terhadap pemahaman Islam dengan perspektif yang salah, sehingga menimbulkan kebencian, kecemasan, dan ketakutan yang tidak berdasar serta berlebihan kepada individu maupun komunitas Islam. Akibatnya timbul permusuhan, diskriminasi, intoleransi, dan rasisme. Sikap ini semakin terlihat melalui propaganda media massa yang menampilkan kontroversi yang tidak benar dan parsial terhadap Islam, media merepresentasikan Islam dengan kekerasan dan radikal melalui fenomena terorisme. Kehadiran media sangat berpengaruh terhadap realitas sosial yang tidak hanya berfungsi sebagai tontonan tetapi menjadi tuntunan yang menggiring opini publik dalam merubah sikap, pandangan, dan perilaku. Desain penelitian menggunakan <em>literature review</em> dengan analisis deskriptif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa Internalisasi nilai-nilai Islam <em>rahmatan lil alamin</em> melalui media merupakan solusi dalam meluruskan pemahaman yang keliru tentang Islam, yang berfungsi sebagai pendidik (<em>muaddib</em>), agen informasi yang benar (<em>musaddid</em>), menjadi pembaharu (<em>mujaddid</em>), pemersatu (<em>muwahhid</em>), dan pejuang (<em>mujahid</em>) dengan dasar <em>amar ma’ruf nahi munkar.</em></p>


Author(s):  
Annelise Russell ◽  
Maraam Dwidar ◽  
Bryan D. Jones

Scholars across politics and communication have wrangled with questions aimed at better understanding issue salience and attention. For media scholars, they found that mass attention across issues was a function the news media’s power to set the nation’s agenda by focusing attention on a few key public issues. Policy scholars often ignored the media’s role in their effort to understand how and why issues make it onto a limited political agenda. What we have is two disparate definitions describing, on the one hand, media effects on individuals’ issue priorities, and on the other, how the dynamics of attention perpetuate across the political system. We are left with two notions of agenda setting developed independently of one another to describe media and political systems that are anything but independent of one another. The collective effects of the media on our formal institutions and the mass public are ripe for further, collaborative research. Communications scholars have long understood the agenda setting potential of the news media, but have neglected to extend that understanding beyond its effects on mass public. The link between public opinion and policy is “awesome” and scholarship would benefit from exploring the implications for policy, media, and public opinion. Both policy and communication studies would benefit from a broadened perspective of media influence. Political communication should consider the role of the mass media beyond just the formation of public opinion. The media as an institution is not effectively captured in a linear model of information signaling because the public agenda cannot be complete without an understanding of the policymaking agenda and the role of political elites. And policy scholars can no longer describe policy process without considering the media as a source of disproportionate allocation of attention and information. The positive and negative feedback cycles that spark or stabilize the political system are intimately connected to policy frames and signals produced by the media.


2000 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Weingart ◽  
Anita Engels ◽  
Petra Pansegrau

This paper summarizes the results of a research project analyzing communication about global warming among those in the fields of science, politics, and the media in Germany between 1975 and 1995. The methodology of discourse analysis has been applied to investigate the changing perceptions of climate change over time and the ways in which it became an important issue on Germany's political agenda. The first part of the paper will briefly introduce the underlying theoretical assumptions and explain the multiple steps by which data covering a period of two decades have been collected and analyzed. In the second part, the paper will provide the reader with the main research results, indicating the usefulness of distinguishing among the separate discourses on climate change in science, politics, and the mass media. The results suggest that there are specific discourse dynamics common to each of the three spheres, as well as some important disparities among them. These findings will be illustrated by a selection of examples typical of the samples analyzed. Finally, the third part of the paper will discuss the broader theoretical and practical implications of these results, which suggest that modern societies must cope not only with environmental risks but also with the risks inherent in communication.


2018 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 213-242
Author(s):  
Karolina Lachowska

The media image of terrorism — a study design and results of pilot studiesThe article presents a concept of a study focusing on the mediatisation of terrorism. The author seeks to capture how the media construct define terrorism; she looks the selection of events which the media consider to be acts of terror as well as ways of hierarchising them. On this basis she attempts to reconstruct the media image of terrorism and terrorists. Her analysis begins with Niklas Luhmann’s concept of mass media, according to which in contemporary mediatised societies the media are the basic source of information about the world. They represent and construct particularly those areas of life we cannot reach directly. In the study the author used techniques and methods applied in corpus research and making it possible to analyse key words appearing in media materials concerning terrorism as well as lexemes used to describe the notions of “terrorist” and “terrorism”.


2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 190
Author(s):  
Abdul Manaf

<p><em>In human development process, media is needed which will be a channel in the da'wa carried out. Da'wa as an effort to build the existence of human beings is an entry point that supports the success of it. The more suitable the da'wah media used, the more positive and successful the da'wah will be. Conversely, if the preacher is wrong in choosing a channel causing his missionary activity to fail. This brief article highlights the importance of the media as a missionary channel. The results of the analysis in this paper state that mass media as a da'wah channel has positive implications as a da'wa channel. In addition, mass media also has a negative contribution if it is not maximized by its use and errors in the selection of themes in da'wa.</em></p><p><em>****<br /></em></p><p><em>Dalam pembangunan manusia dibutuhkan media yang akan menjadi saluran dalam dakwah yang dilakukan. Dakwah sebagai upaya membangun keberadaan diri manusia menjadi sebuah <em>entry point </em>yang mendukung keberhasilan terhadapnya. Semakin sesuai media dakwah yang digunakan, maka akan memberikan makna positif dan keberhasilan atas dakwah yang dilakukan. Sebaliknya, apabila pendakwah salah dalam memilih saluran menyebabkan aktivitas dakwahnya menjadi gagal. Tulisan singkat ini menyoroti tentang pentingnya media sebagai saluran dakwah. Hasil analisa dalam tulisan ini menyatakan bahwa media massa sebagai saluran dakwah mempunyai implikasi positif sebagai saluran dakwah. Selain itu media massa juga mempunyai kontribusi negatif apabila tidak dimaksimalkan penggunaannya dan kesalahan dalam pemilihan tema dalam dakwah.</em></p>


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