Psychodynamics in Mass Media Society

1979 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 192-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Harold Ellens
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
Successful Communication ◽  
Communications Systems ◽  
Communication Interaction ◽  
Cultural Domination ◽  
Media Society

Communications systems have become the central organizing framework of Western society as they have progressed from a position of simply serving to unite society to a status of cultural domination. Through an exploration of definition, the complexity of communications is obviated. The very complexity involved is seen as cause for anxiety, leading to a conceptualization of communication as a psychodynamic process of essential importance to human personhood. Attempting to analyze the complexifying factors in the process of communicating, the author presents a six-level “Noetic Continuum” which delineates a variety of psycho-social stages from which the sender and the receiver may come to the communication interaction. A new communications model is then outlined, emphasizing the degree of experience overlap between the sender and receiver and the commonalities of their symbolic vocabularies as critical factors in the successful communication exchange.

scholarly journals On the return of the (media) author: Michel Houellebecq, écrivain médiatique

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-45
Author(s):  
Ashley Harris
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Social Discourse ◽  
Literary Field ◽  
Michel Houellebecq ◽  
Cultural Domination ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Authorship

This article argues that Michel Houellebecq is an écrivain médiatique, and it examines how and why he engages in an authorial strategy that relies on more than the text and presents the author as a visible, multimedia, and culturally relevant figure. From an epistemological need to reassess authorship in the digital age, this article defines media authorship before analysing Houellebecq through a critical framework including Meizoz’s concept of posturing (2007), Saint-Gelais’s transmediality (2011) and Angenot’s social discourse (1989). It addresses how Houellebecq attempts to situate and justify his media-focused and author-centric strategy, showing how this reflects the challenges of the cultural domination of mass media and new technologies of the digital age, and indicates that the autonomy of the literary field is diminishing. This article shows how a superficially transgressive engagement with the media and multimedia in fact reflects consent to the dynamics of the contemporary socio-cultural context.

scholarly journals Theoretical Aspects of the Communication Interaction of Political Institutions and Media (Illustrated by the Republic of Bulgaria)

2019 ◽  
pp. 260-270
Author(s):  
Ruslana Klym
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
The Political ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Public ◽  
Communication Interaction ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
The Republic

The article defines that political institutions are integral elements of the political system of society, important subjects of politics and carriers of the political process, that regulate the political organization of society, ensuring its stable and long-term functioning. It is stated that the main scientific approaches to understanding the phenomenon of political communication is positivism, behaviorism, structural functionalism, institutionalism and the attention is drawn to the fact that the mass media perform several functions in modern society – communicative, informational, relay, through the implementation of which, media affects all spheres of society and play an important role in the process of interaction between the government and the public. It was noted that the authorities of the Republic of Bulgaria took advantage of the historical moment when the European Union member states were interested in cooperation and were able to convince the Bulgarian society that membership in the EU is a way to solve economic problems, which will further contribute to the economic well-being of the country. The article mentions that an important role in the European integration process of interaction between the authorities and the public was played by Bulgarian journalists, who conducted an extremely intensive and important information campaign, which resulted in 76% of support for the Republic’s membership in this international organization by the Bulgarian society The experience of the Republic of Bulgaria shows that effective work of the mass media is extremely important for establishing communication interaction between government and civil society at a crucial moment for the country. However, the modern Bulgarian media environment is subject to intense criticism for the poor quality of the media product, the media’s dependence on oligarchs, and corruption.

scholarly journals Meraih Profesionalisme Wartawan

2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Darajat Wibawa
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Ethical Problem ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Fundamental Change ◽  
Media Society ◽  
The Mass Media

Since  reformation era, the Indonesian mass media had a fundamental change that made  Indonesian mediascape and  brought Indonesian people becoming the strait-media society. The  journalist had a role as information collector that decided whether the mass media where their work qualified or not. Besides that, it still many things that becoming a problem in journalism and mass media, and one of them is ethical problem. Some questions about the professionalism of the journalist had asked. For answering that questions, the writer tried to research it with descriptive and qualitative approach. Through long interview and observation in 30 journalist in Bandung, the result showed that professionalism could divided into four group that are autonomy, commitment, skill and responsibility. During the implementation  of  four variations in real activities, it had obstructed lots of problem that interfere journalist duty.

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF DECISIONS OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF LEGISLATION ON MASS MEDIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 59-62
Author(s):  
D. Sh. Pirbudagova ◽  
◽  
A.M. Omarova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Media Society ◽  
The Relationship

The article examines the legal positions of the constitutional control bodies regarding the legislative regulation of the status of mass media. The authors note that the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation has made decisions on the issues of financing, ownership and legal regulation of mass media, the relationship between the mass media, society and the state, the content of the constitutional prohibition of censorship and its correlation with restrictions on freedom of mass media, etc. Conclusions are drawn about the conceptual nature of the decisions of the constitutional Court of the Russian Federation aimed at clarifying the constitutional and legal status of mass media and contributing to filling legal gaps in this area

scholarly journals PRAKTIK KONSTRUKSI JENDER DI MEDIA MASSA

LITERA ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lilik Wahyuni
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Gender Construction ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Media Society ◽  
The Mass Media

The mass media is part of one of the class systems. Therefore, it becomes one of thedomination system arenas, one of which is the patriarchal norm domination. Through themass media, society carries out a symbolic contestation such as daily linguistic exchangesto construct gender. This study aims to explain: (1) verbal forms of gender construction, (2)dynamics of gender construction, and (3) gender trajectory in the mass media. The studyemployed the qualitative approach, discourse analysis, and Gadamer’s hermeneutics.Based on the analysis, the findings are as follows. First, verbal forms of gender constructionin the mass media are represented by forms of diction and expression styles showingsymbolic contestation between males and females. Second, in the mass media, there aredynamics of the maintenance and replacement of doksa. Third, the gender trajectory inthe mass media includes ideological changes and divided awareness.

scholarly journals Mediatization of society – Consequences for organizational communication

2005 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 201-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliana Raupp
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Organizational Communication ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
Structural Characteristics ◽  
Dependent Relationship ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Society ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
Complex Relationships

Mediatization serves as a starting point for developing a theoretical framework of external organizational communication. The overall importance of the mass media affects organizations: Organizations have to adapt to the logic of the mass media in order to gain attention in the media society. Thus, organizations make not only attempts to influence mass media; mass media also have an impact on organizations. The mutually dependent relationship between media and organizations is examined on the basis of a symbolic-interactionist communication theory. The structural characteristics of a mediated public sphere provide the backdrop for the complex relationships between mass media and organizations. Finally, the consequences of mediatization for organizations are discussed.

scholarly journals Media, art and technology: a contemporary reflection

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 299-310
Author(s):  
Fernando Augusto Silva Lopes
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
The Body ◽  
Cultural Identities ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Art And Technology ◽  
Commodification Of Culture ◽  
Contemporary Western Society

This article is based on a report about cultural industries and their reflexes on media saturation. From that point, a reflection on technology, media and contemporary arts is presented, especially on the role of the body in the manifestation of art. This work seeks to ratify the influence of technology, of mass media and of information over the construction of the contemporary cultural values. It also provides a reflection on current contemporary artistic practices as elements that seek to evidence and question the standardizing influence of mass media and of the market. The background for the development of this article is the evolution of technologies, which expand the commodification of culture and make possible the deep social and cultural changes experienced in contemporary Western society. Finally, it is outlined a brief analysis  of cultural identities and diversities in the teleinformatics era.

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