The putative reader in mass media persuasion – stance, argumentation and ideology

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 404-423
Author(s):  
Peter R.R. White
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
The Way

This article explores a framework for analyses of what has variously been termed the ‘implied’, ‘imagined’, ‘virtual’ or ‘putative’ reader/addressee – the effect by which ostensibly ‘monologic’ texts, such as news media commentary, political pronouncements and academic essays project particular attitudes, beliefs and expectations on to the reader/addressee. The framework is demonstrated in being applied to an examination of the construal of putative addressee positioning in a selection of mass media texts concerned with the Israeli military’s invasion of Gaza in 2014. The framework is novel in the way in which it mobilises the account of the options for dialogistic positioning offered by the appraisal-framework literature, combined with some insights from Toulmin’s notion of the argumentative ‘warrant’. Conclusions are offered as to how such analyses of the readers being ‘written into the text’ can extend insights into the rhetorical workings of such texts and their ideological functionality in naturalising particular value positions.

scholarly journals “Keep it Wild, Keep it Local”: Comparing News Media and the Internet as Sites for Environmental Movement Activism for Jumbo Pass, British Columbia

2011 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 313-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark CJ Stoddart ◽  
Laura MacDonald
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Provincial Government ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Grizzly Bear ◽  
Media Access ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
Resort Development

Environmental movements depend on mass media to reach the public and shape political decision-making. Without media access, social movements experience political marginality. In this paper, we examine whether the internet is a more open space than traditional media for activists to speak on behalf of non-human nature. Our analysis is based upon newspaper coverage and environmental organization websites that focus on the conflict over the proposed Jumbo Glacier Resort ski resort development in British Columbia. Environmental websites and mass media texts both define Jumbo Pass as wilderness and grizzly bear habitat, while focusing on ecological issues and questions of local democracy. However, environmental group websites discuss a greater range of environmental risks and provide more detailed discussion of these issues. Environmentalist websites also integrate scientific experts and celebrity supporters to a greater degree than mass media texts, which are dominated by environmentalist, ski industry, and provincial government news sources.

scholarly journals Analisis Pemberitaan Polemik Perppu Ormas di Media TV ONE dan Metro TV

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 116
Author(s):  
Muftihah Ma’rupah ◽  
Zahrotunni’mah Zahrotunni’mah ◽  
Kholil Nawawi
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
State Government ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
News Media ◽  
Government Regulation ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Visual Image ◽  
Mass Organization ◽  
The Government ◽  
Selection Of

<p>Media massa menyusun peristiwa yang terjadi hingga menjadi wacana yang bermakna. Keseluruhan isi berita media massa adalah realitas yang telah dikontruksi dalam bentuk wacana yag bermakna. Kekuatan dan pengaruh media massa khususnya media televisi masih menjadi medium utama dalam menyihir pemirsa televisi<em>.</em> Dalam menkonsumsi media berdasarkan temuan survei <em>media research</em> <em>Nielsen</em> dengan nilai presentase 95 %. Masalah krusial dalam kehidupan manusia adalah kebijakan pemerintah (negara). Kebijakan pemerintah sangat besar pengaruhnya dalam kehidupan.<strong><em> </em></strong>Belakangan ini di Indonesia, terjadi polemik saat pemerintah mengeluarkan Peraturan Pemerintah Pengganti Undang-undang  Nomor 2 tahun 2017 berisi perubahan atas Undang-undang Nomor 17 tahun 2013 tentang Organisasi Kemasyarakatan. Pemberitaan Program <em>Indonesia Lawyers Club </em>TVOne Episode “Panas Setelah Perppu Ormas” dan Mata Najwa Episode “Menangkal yang Radikal” menarik dikaji lebih dalam. Metode penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif isi dengan strategi analisis teks media yakni Analisis <em>framing. </em>Peneliti bermaksud untuk melihat <em>framing </em>yang dikontruksi oleh kedua media tersebut dan mengungkapkan aspek-aspek ideologi media dalam mengkontruksi pemberitaan. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa kontruksi berita mengemukakan bahwa Program <em>Indonesia Lawyers Club </em>TVOne Episode “Panas Setelah Perppu Ormas” cenderung lebih mengkritisi Perppu Ormas. Hal ini tampak pada narasi pemberitaan, <em>visual image</em>, serta pemilihan narasumbernya. Sedangkan Mata Najwa Episode “Menangkal yang Radikal”  Metro TV lebih menonjolkan pemberitaan mengenai mengukuhkan ideologi negara, mengupas soal HTI dan bahaya radikalisme. Hal ini tampak pada narasi pemberitaan, visual image, serta pemilihan narasumbernya.</p><p><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p class="Default">The mass media make reality of the events that happen to be a meaningful discourse. The overall content of the news media is a reality that has been contructed in the form of meaningful discourse. The strength and influence of mass media, especially television media is still the main medium in bewitching television audiens. In the media consumption based on findings survey of Nielsen research media with a percentage of 95%. Crucial problem in human life is government policy (state). Government policy is very big influence in life. Lately in Indonesia, there was a polemic when the government issued a Government Regulation in Lieu of Law No. 2 of 2017 contains amendments to Law No. 17 of 2013 on Social Organizations. Reporting on the Indonesia Lawyers Club TVOne Programme Episode "Heat After the Mass Organization" and the Mata Najwa  Episode "Radical Prevent" attracts a deeper review. This research method using qualitative approach of content with media text analysis strategy that is framing analysis. The researcher intends to see the framing constructed by both media and reveal aspects of media ideology in constructing the news. The results show that the news construction suggests that the Indonesia Lawyers Club TVOne Programme Episode "Heat After the Mass Organization" tends to be more critical of the mass organizations. This can be seen in the narrative of the news, visual image, and the selection of the source. While Mata Najwa Episode "Radical Prevent" Metro TV further highlight the news about strengthening the country's ideology, explore about HTI and the danger of radicalism. This can be seen in the narrative of the news, visual image, and the selection of the source.</p>

Menelaah Lebih Dekat “Post Factual/Post Truth Politics, Studi Kasus Brexit” (Analsis Resensi Media)

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eko Wahyono ◽  
Rizka Amalia ◽  
Ikma Citra Ranteallo
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Struggle ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Way

This research further examines the video entitled “what is the truth about post-factual politics?” about the case in the United States related to Trump and in the UK related to Brexit. The phenomenon of Post truth/post factual also occurs in Indonesia as seen in the political struggle experienced by Ahok in the governor election (DKI Jakarta). Through Michel Foucault's approach to post truth with assertive logic, the mass media is constructed for the interested parties and ignores the real reality. The conclusion of this study indicates that new media was able to spread various discourses ranging from influencing the way of thoughts, behavior of society to the ideology adopted by a society.Keywords: Post factual, post truth, new media

Tanks in the Spa Town. The New Book about the Events of the Year 1968 in Czechoslovakia

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 278-282
Author(s):  
Kirill A. Popov
Keyword(s):  
Fiftieth Anniversary ◽  
Warsaw Pact ◽  
Scientific Event ◽  
The Social ◽  
Prague Spring ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Scientific Terms ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Regional Perspective ◽  
The Way

This review is devoted to the monograph by Jan Nedvěd “We do not decline our heads. The events of the year 1968 in Karlovy Vary”. The Karlovy Vary municipal museum coincided its publishing with the fiftieth anniversary of the Prague spring which, considering the way of the presentation, turned the book not only to scientific event but also to the social one. The book describes sociopolitical trends in the region before the year 1968, the development of the reformist movement, the invasion and advance of the armies of the Warsaw Pact countries, and finally the decline of the reformist mood and the beginning of the normalization. Working on his writing, the author deeply studied the materials of the local archive and gathered the unique selection of the photographs depicting the passage of the soviet army through the spa town and the protest actions of its inhabitants. In the meantime, Nedvěd takes undue freedom with scientific terms, and his selection of historiography raises questions. The author bases his research on the Czech papers and scarcely uses the books of Russian origin. He also did not study the subject of the participating of the GDR’s army in the operation Danube, although these troops were concentrated on the borders of Karlovy Vary region as well. Because of this decision, there are no materials from German archives or historiography in the monograph. In general, the work lacks the width of studying its subject, but it definitively accomplishes the task of depicting the Prague spring from the regional perspective.

A short ethnography of twenty-first century consumers: On retail rage and one-dimensionality

2021 ◽  
pp. 146954052110396
Author(s):  
Kevin P. Bingham
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Culture ◽  
Retail Trade ◽  
First Century ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Unique Position ◽  
Material Goods ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Sociological Interpretation ◽  
The Way

This article begins with two central ideas – that feelings of rage appear to be on the increase in present modernity and that one of the main sources of rage is directly linked to consumer culture and the retail experience it fosters. Although retail trade allows twenty-first century individuals to spend their money on material goods and experiences which provide structure and a sense of meaning and belonging, what it also causes is ambivalence, insecurity and anxiety. These are formidable feelings that cause irritation, frustration and anger to gradually fester until it accumulates into something violent that distorts the way an individual thinks, acts and treats other people. With these points in mind, what this article provides is a thorough sociological interpretation of twenty-first century retail rage. Veering away from existing interpretations of rage by drawing on Herbert Marcuse’s analysis and image of a one-dimensional society, what this article explores is the idea that retail experiences turn people into individuals who are bound and controlled by a consumer duty. As I contend, based on my unique position as a researcher turned retail worker, it is this administered, one-dimensional kind of lifestyle that cultivates rage. To support my argument and understand more comprehensively how and why retail breeds frustration and anger, I use a selection of narrative episodes to unpack three key sources of consumer rage in the twenty-first century. These sources have been labelled instantaneity, performativity and unfulfillment.

Perception of factuality in selected online news media

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 134-148
Author(s):  
Eva Eddy
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Online News ◽  
The Other ◽  
News Report ◽  
Specific Event ◽  
The Way

Abstract The paper focuses on one’s perception of factuality in selected online news media. A group of university students of English were approached and presented with ten statements about Sweden and asked to evaluate their truthfulness. Half of the group (informed respondents) were then advised on the ways media use to infer a narrative onto the reader, potentially influencing the way they view events, while the other half (uninformed respondents) were not made aware of this fact. The respondents were then presented with a news report describing a specific event that took place in Sweden; however, half of each group were asked to read its tabloid description while the other halves were shown the event as reported by a broadsheet (both online). They were then asked to reevaluate the statements they were presented with before and decide whether their opinions changed based on the article they had just read. The results suggest that one is inclined to believe what they read, regardless whether the source seems reliable and whether they are aware of the fact media might manipulate their audiences.

On the Inadequacy of existing Data for determining the Rate of Mortality among Select Lives

1854 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
William Spens
Keyword(s):  
First Year ◽  
Sufficient Data ◽  
Existing Data ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
The Way

I. While so much improvement has recently taken place in the arrangement and construction of various tables for facilitating calculations founded on existing data, very little has been done in the way of investigating and correcting the data themselves; and it is feared that the question of the rate of mortality among select lives is still involved in the greatest doubt and obscurity.II. It is not proposed in the present paper to go farther than to show that the rate of mortality, during the first year of selection, of select assured lives is so materially different from what it has hitherto been represented, as to lead to the inference that the data from which the erroneous deduction has been made cannot be true data for the ascertainment of the value of selection. To investigate the rate of mortality of select lives at separate ages, I conceive to be of the utmost importance for the elucidation of truth, and the proper direction of sanatory inquiries; but I do not consider that sufficient data at present exist for the determination of this, and these can only be obtained by a united inquiry. I shall be very happy if the present observations have any effect in hastening such an investigation, which sooner or later must be entered upon.

scholarly journals Enriching CBT by Neuroscience: Novel Avenues to Achieve Personalized Treatments

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristoffer N T Månsson ◽  
Ulrike Lueken ◽  
Andreas Frick
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Common Mental Disorders ◽  
Behavioral Therapy ◽  
Therapy Outcomes ◽  
Efficient Treatment ◽  
Related Research ◽  
Number Of Patients ◽  
Key Topics ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
The Way

Abstract Although cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is an established and efficient treatment for a variety of common mental disorders, a considerable number of patients do not respond to treatment or relapse after successful CBT. Recent findings and approaches from neuroscience could pave the way for clinical developments to enhance the outcome of CBT. Herein, we will present how neuroscience can offer novel perspectives to better understand (a) the biological underpinnings of CBT, (b) how we can enrich CBT with neuroscience-informed techniques (augmentation of CBT), and (c) why some patients may respond better to CBT than others (predictors of therapy outcomes), thus paving the way for more personalized and effective treatments. We will introduce some key topics and describe a selection of findings from CBT-related research using tools from neuroscience, with the hope that this will provide clinicians and clinical researchers with a brief and comprehensible overview of the field.

scholarly journals Interrogating the Founding Gestures of the New Materialism

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis Bruining
Keyword(s):  
New Materialism ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
The Way

In this article, I aim to further thinking in the broadly ‘new materialist’ field by insisting it attends to some ubiquitous assumptions. More specifically, I critically interrogate what Sara Ahmed has termed ‘the founding gestures of the “new materialism”’. These founding rhetorical gestures revolve around a perceived neglect of the matter of materiality in ‘postmodernism’ and ‘poststructuralism’ and are meant to pave the way for new materialism’s own conception of matter-in/of-the-world. I argue in this article that an engagement with the postmodern critique of language as constitutive, as well as the poststructuralist critique of pure self-presence, does not warrant these founding gestures to be so uncritically rehearsed. Moreover, I demonstrate that texts which rely on these gestures, or at least the ones I discuss in this article, are not only founded on a misrepresentation of postmodern and poststructuralist thought, but are also guilty of repeating the perceived mistakes of which they are critical, such as upholding the language/matter dichotomy. I discuss a small selection of texts that make use of those popular rhetorical gestures to juxtapose the past that is invoked with a more nuanced reading of that past. My contention is that if ‘the founding gestures of the “new materialism”’ are not addressed, the complexity of the postmodern and poststructuralist positions continues to be obscured, with damaging consequences for the further development of the emerging field of new materialism, as well as our understanding of cultural theory’s past.

scholarly journals Crimean Identity in the Media Presentation of the Region

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 373-387
Author(s):  
Lyudmila Yegorova
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Regional Identity ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Historical Event ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Media Presentation ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
The Republic

The author proposes a new approach to studying regionology, an actively emerging area of research that examines laws of functioning of a region in terms of geographical, geopolitical, geo-economic, information and historical-cultural factors. This approach lies in coordinating the theory of regionality with real facts of a certain territory media history in its dynamic characteristics displayed in media texts. The author points out that active forming of the Crimean identity is a result of the ideas of the Russian world as a uniting factor. The identity features of those who live in the peninsula manifest themselves by the formula “We are Crimean” regardless of a person’s nationality. The identity features of the Crimean people are also determined by the role of the Russian language as an integrative field of communication for the living together representatives of different cultures. Regional mass media have a significant impact on shaping a regional worldview. Applying discourse analysis to the Crimean printed texts the author demonstrates peculiarities of media constructing of the Crimean identity involving geographical, historical, cultural and personal themes. The analysis carried out allows one to conclude that the Crimean (regional) identity corresponds to the professional identity of the journalists who work in the region. This is confirmed by the main regional themes being broadcast by the most popular regional mass media. The Crimean society is a specific regional polyethnic environment formed as the result of long-term and complex cultural and historical development. Characteristics of the key events representation in public space determine their collective comprehension. The regional mass media of the Republic of Crimea through the media texts draw the audience’s attention primarily to the attributes of the unified mentality. It is important that now when several years have passed after the Crimea joined Russia it is the time to interpret this historical event to build a complex hierarchically ordered system of the peninsula citizens’ self-identity.

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