scholarly journals Journalism beyond democracy: A new look into journalistic roles in political and everyday life

Journalism ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Hanitzsch ◽  
Tim P Vos
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Discursive Institutionalism ◽  
Political News ◽  
Institutional Norms ◽  
Discursive Constructions ◽  
New Look

Journalism researchers have tended to study journalistic roles from within a Western framework oriented toward the media’s contribution to democracy and citizenship. In so doing, journalism scholarship often failed to account for the realities in non-democratic and non-Western contexts, as well as for forms of journalism beyond political news. Based on the framework of discursive institutionalism, we conceptualize journalistic roles as discursive constructions of journalism’s identity and place in society. These roles have sedimented in journalism’s institutional norms and practices and are subject to discursive (re)creation, (re)interpretation, appropriation, and contestation. We argue that journalists exercise important roles in two domains: political life and everyday life. For the domain of political life, we identify 18 roles addressing six essential needs of political life: informational-instructive, analytical-deliberative, critical-monitorial, advocative-radical, developmental-educative, and collaborative-facilitative. In the domain of everyday life, journalists carry out roles that map onto three areas: consumption, identity, and emotion.

Mobile Media and Political Communication

2020 ◽  
pp. 228-243
Author(s):  
Ran Wei
Keyword(s):  
Political Communication ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Personal Communication ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Mobile Phone Technology ◽  
Political News ◽  
Communication Devices ◽  
The Impact

To fully understand the impact of mobile phone technology on politics, this chapter provides a state-of-the-art overview of research and identifies an emerging subfield concerning the relationship between mobile media and politics. The chapter traces the evolution of mobile media from personal communication devices to tools for political participation. The growing literature on the role of various mobile devices in civic and political life is reviewed and critiqued. The specific uses of mobile media as tools in political communication, such as informational use, mobile political news, and mobile public sphere, are explicated and synthesized. The chapter also sheds light on the question of how the attributes of mobile media influence the political process in democratic and non-democratic countries. The chapter outlines key issues concerning mobile media in civic and political communication, highlighting significant predictors and mediators. Unresolved issues and debates are highlighted, and directions for future research are suggested.

scholarly journals ‘FITNA’ IN EVERYDAY LIFE: Phenomena of the Digital Behavior of Indonesian Muslim Society on Dajjal Hadith

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
D.I Ansusa Putra
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Demand Pattern ◽  
Cultural Conditions ◽  
The World ◽  
Life Phenomena ◽  
The Many

<p><em>Dajjal appearance discussion in the last decade has been the trending among Muslim. There are massive search for religious doctrines text on Dajjal in digital media. This is oriented towards certain views about the world, social and cultural conditions, political project, political subjectivity, attitudes, and practice or competence. The behavior affects social-political life through the contextualization of hadith about Dajjal. This study aims to obtain a complete picture of digital media behavior in understanding religious doctrines related to  Fitna of Dajjal among Muslims. This article combines Muslim theory of Cosmopolitanism Khairuddin Aljunied and living hadith approach, supported by data from google trend search throughout 2019. The results showed that there were four digital behaviors of Indonesian Muslim related to Dajjal hadith, first, searching instantaneously; second, reviewing from internet; third, joining the contextualisation discussion; and fourth, liking the personalization and illustration. The most frequently sought topic is about the prayer to be protected from Fitna of Dajjal. In addition, the study also tried to prove that this digital behavior is formed massively because of supply and demand pattern. It means that there are groups producing Dajjal hadith in public sphere regularly since they are supported by the many interests of consumers.</em></p>

Beyond Abstraction: Marx and the Critique of the Critique of Religion

2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto Toscano
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Religious Authority ◽  
The Real ◽  
Social Existence ◽  
Spiritual Authority ◽  
Mike Davis ◽  
Critique Of Religion

AbstractThis article reconsiders Marx’s thinking on religion in light of current preoccupations with the encroachment of religious practices and beliefs into political life. It argues that Marx formulates a critique of the anticlerical and Enlightenment-critique of religion, in which he subsumes the secular repudiation of spiritual authority and religious transcendence into a broader analysis of the ‘real abstractions’ that dominate our social existence. The tools forged by Marx in his engagement with critiques of religious authority allow him to discern the ‘religious’ and ‘transcendent’ dimension of state and capital, and may contribute to a contemporary investigation into the links between capitalism as a religion of everyday life and what Mike Davis has called the current ‘reenchantment of catastrophic modernity’.

The Early Nationalization of Political News In America

1986 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 255-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Kernell
Keyword(s):  
Capital City ◽  
Political Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Alexis De Tocqueville ◽  
Political News ◽  
Indirect Influence ◽  
Democracy In America

When Alexis de Tocqueville toured America in the 1830s, he found Washington occupying a lowly position in the political life of the country. In a footnote, Democracy in America informs the European reader, “America has no great capital city where direct or indirect influence is felt over the whole extent of the country.” Throughout the book, he expands on the effects of this decentralization. And we may fairly suspect that as much as any other, this observation led de Tocqueville to concentrate his inquiry on the performance of democracy in communities across the country.

On Cropsey's World: Joseph Cropsey and the Tradition of Political Philosophy

1998 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 307-342
Author(s):  
Gregory Bruce Smith
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Leo Strauss ◽  
The Future ◽  
Ongoing Dialogue ◽  
Made In

Throughout his corpus, Joseph Cropsey reflects upon the tradition of political philosophy. Those reflections can be fruitfully approached under four headings. First, Cropsey questions the nature and origins of political philosophy as well as its cosmological or metaphysical foundations. Second, Cropsey questions the customary periodizations of the tradition of political philosophy. He especially questions the usefulness of the ancients-moderns distinction. Third, Cropsey reflects upon the relation between the tradition of political philosophy and concrete political life past and present. In the process, he tries to show the ways in which comprehensive constellations of ideas work their way into and inform everyday life. Fourth, Cropsey reflects upon the nature of the American regime and its prospects for the future. Throughout, it becomes clear that Cropsey has engaged in an ongoing dialogue with his mentor Leo Strauss. Finally, it also becomes clear, contrary to recent assertions made in response to Plato's World, that Cropsey engages in a series of subtle critiques of Nietzschean and Heideggerian historicism and thereby of contemporary postmodernism as well.

scholarly journals Discrimination of women in the private sector

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
MSc. Arbenita Kosumi
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Free Space ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
The World ◽  
Post War ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Detailed Picture

Our research on the topic set forth, "Discrimination of women in the private sector" has resulted in a detailed picture of the role and place of women in the overall socio-economic and political life in post-war Kosovo, by emphasising the problem of the employment process and other current problems, which women face on daily basis.Women, who constitute half of humanity, since the beginning of the era of patriarchy have faced discrimination, in social as well as economic and political aspects, and since then appeared barriers to their career development. This problem is present even today, in almost all countries of the world and is not peculiar only for Kosovo, however the problem in Kosovo appears to be more acute. This kind of discrimination comes as a result of various “reasons“: religious, social and cultural. In subsequent periods, especially during the last decade, women‘s participation in everyday life has begun to improve in all sectors of life, however it is still far from the desirable one.Our findings, which helped the completion of this research, lead us to conclude that women have been, are and continue to be discriminated against in all walks of life and so it will be, until the woman does not realise that her fate is in her own hands, namely not to ask a man to free space for her, but to fight in order to conquer it herself.

scholarly journals Political change in Serbia in the perspective of social learning: An idea revisited

2008 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 89-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivana Spasic
Keyword(s):  
Social Learning ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Political Change ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Collective Learning ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Before And After

The paper contains a retrospective of the thesis that 'social learning' may be deployed as analytical framework to understand political change in Serbia, first proposed in 2001. The thesis contends that the events immediately before and after the toppling of Milosevic's regime in 2000 may be interpreted as outcomes of a process of collective learning by Serbian citizens. On the basis of the findings of three-wave qualitative study 'Politics and Everyday Life', as well as other research, the paper seeks to answer the question whether the idea of 'social learning' stands or falls when confronted with the developments taking place in Serbian political life between 2001 and 2008.

scholarly journals The discursive construction of the gamification of journalism

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 470-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim P Vos ◽  
Gregory P Perreault
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Change ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Discursive Institutionalism ◽  
Audience Engagement ◽  
Institutional Norms

This study explores the discursive, normative construction of gamification within journalism. Rooted in a theory of discursive institutionalism and by analyzing a significant corpus of metajournalistic discourse from 2006 to 2019, the study demonstrates how journalists have negotiated gamification’s place within journalism’s boundaries. The discourse addresses criticism that gamified news is a move toward infotainment and makes the case for gamification as serious journalism anchored in norms of audience engagement. Thus, gamification does not constitute institutional change since it is construed as an extension of existing institutional norms and beliefs.

The Relevance of Aristophanes: a New Look at Clouds

1988 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-28
Author(s):  
Raymond K. Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
Original Intention ◽  
Current Affairs ◽  
Battle Of The Sexes ◽  
Classical Author ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
New Look

My aim in this paper is to discover in what sense, if any, Aristophanes can be considered relevant to our society in the 1980s. If we call a classical author relevant to contemporary society, we may mean that he or she presents issues and problems for which we can find modern parallels and from which we may gain a deeper insight into our own current affairs. Aristophanes deals with a wide range of social and political problems of the kind which recur in all cultures, as well as with the practicalities of everyday life, so that when dealing with these problems he is ostensibly as relevant now as he was in his own day. But is there anything in the nature of Aristophanic comedy which constrains us from making the kind of modern connections which we might wish to make? L. Spatz says ‘Aristophanes speaks directly to us through such topical themes as the battle of the sexes, the scandals of power politics, and the underdog's need to strike back at his oppressors. But sometimes this relevance results in a misunderstanding of his original intention.’

scholarly journals Dagestan Arabic-Language Epistolary Materials of the 19th — Early 20th Centuries

2021 ◽  
pp. 320-336
Author(s):  
Z. A. Magomedova ◽  
Z. B. Ibragimova
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
Research Center ◽  
Factual Information ◽  
Federal Research ◽  
History Of ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The article deals with the Arabic-language epistolary documents of Dagestan origin, dating back to the late 19th — early 20th centuries. The relevance of this study is due to the need to enter into scientific circulation epistolary material from the Fund of Oriental Manuscripts of the Institute of History, Archeology and Ethnography of the Dagestan Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. It is noted that the introduction of these materials into scientific circulation will allow them to be used as sources of factual information, which can significantly supplement or clarify the facts already known to a specialist historian dealing with a particular problem. An overview of some Arabic-language epistolary documents of Dagestan origin is presented, their thematic characteristics are given, individual excerpts of letters from Arabic into Russian are translated, and the features of these documents are described in a historical context. Particular attention is paid to sources, as a storehouse of valuable information on the study of the socio-economic and political life of the Dagestan society. It is shown that the epistolary heritage allows one to reconstruct and interpret the history of everyday life, personal relationships in society and clarify certain aspects of the life of Dagestan society in the 19th — early 20th centuries.

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