scholarly journals How can we Agree on Anything in This Environment? Tunisian Media, Transition and Elite Compromises: A View From Parliament

2021 ◽  
pp. 194016122110180
Author(s):  
Francesco Cavatorta ◽  
Nidhal Mekki
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Constituent Assembly ◽  
Transitions To Democracy ◽  
The Media ◽  
Rules Of The Game

The literature on the role of the media during processes of transitions to democracy is divided over the positive or negative influence media outlets have. Both theoretically and empirically cases can be substantiated. In the case of the 2011 Arab revolts, however, there is a scholarly consensus that the media—traditional and social—have negatively affected the processes of transitions. While the criticism of the role of the media is empirically borne out, it does not explain how Tunisia was able to consolidate its democracy despite a polarizing media environment. Based on participant observation and interviews, the article argues that the inner workings of the Constituent Assembly and the role of individual deputies were crucial in overcoming a hostile atmosphere. This suggests that the role of political actors in negotiating the new rules of the game is more important than other factors shaping a transition.

Framing media populism: The political role of news media editorials in Duterte’s Philippines

Journalism ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 146488492095950
Author(s):  
Jefferson Lyndon D Ragragio
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
The Political ◽  
Fourth Estate ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Media Frames ◽  
Political Role ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Government

Editorials are a political force used by news media to fulfil its watchdog function in fragile democracies like the Philippines. However, they also serve as a platform to invite a more positive reading of strongman administration. Against the backdrop of media populism, the article will problematize how the Fourth Estate articulates its political stance by examining the tensions and complexities in editorials. It will highlight the ways the media deals with subjects and stories surrounding Rodrigo Duterte. Through an analysis of editorials of four leading dominant news outlets (Bulletin, Inquirer, Rappler, and Star), three meta-thematic categories of media frames are uncovered. First, character degradation frames delineate how the media denounces the ties of Duterte with other political actors, particularly the Marcoses and China’s Xi. Second, pro-establishment frames echo the optimistic mantra of the government amid crisis. And third, non-editorial frames exhibit the failure of media to publish watchdog-inspired editorials. Each of these categories has underlying frames that are indicative of the democratic potential, or lack thereof, of news media.

Governance and the media: exploring the linkages

2019 ◽  
pp. 13-32
Author(s):  
B. Guy Peters
Keyword(s):  
Media Environment ◽  
The Media

To understand contemporary governance, one needs to be cognisant of the manner in which media, and perhaps more generally, information, is used as a component of the process. The fundamental contention of the mediatisation literature is that institutions and organisations adapt to the pervasive role of the media, and this paper argues that the same is true for processes of governance. Thus, contemporary governance reflects the extent to which the formal and informal actors in governance have adapted their behaviours to the media environment within which they function. Whatever the goals of a government, they must pursue those goals within the environment shaped (in part) by mediatisation.

Contemporary Dynamics of Sámi Media in the Nordic States

2013 ◽  
Vol 149 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lia Markelin ◽  
Charles Husband
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Language And Identity ◽  
Political Will ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Indigenous Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Professionals ◽  
National Governments ◽  
Insight Into

Although one people, the Sámi live in four different countries with different laws and regulations. The Sámi media landscape is thus shaped by four different political and economic frameworks, creating unique nationally defined environments. Simultaneously, the Sámi people are internally diverse, both in terms of language and identity. The media professionals within Sámi media need to navigate in an environment where there are several indigenous and majority languages, which raises questions about the fragmentation of potential audiences, and also about the role of the Sámi media in sustaining or undermining particular Sámi languages. Drawing upon recent interviews (2012) with Sámi media professionals, this article seeks to provide insight into the development of an expanding indigenous media infrastructure within the Nordic states and the homelands of Sápmi. It points particularly to the centrality of the national public service broadcast system in providing the political and infrastructural context for this development. The different political settlements between national governments and their Sámi populations significantly shape the wider political will that has framed this process. At the same time, while seeking to shed some light on the diverse Sámi media environment, this article also provides some insight into the professional and personal identities of the individuals working within the Sámi media world. The synergy between the wider media environment and the personal and professional endeavours of Sámi media professionals is central to the future development of the Sámi media environment of Sápmi.

#tropy#feminizm

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (25) ◽  
pp. 88-107
Author(s):  
Agata Szuba Szuba
Keyword(s):  
A Priori ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
The Media ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Walter Lippmann ◽  
Media Message ◽  
Unique Style ◽  
The Mind

The contemporary media message can be perceived in two perspectives: an active one, in which women perform a role of journalists and editors, and a passive perspective, in which they become a part of media message. The latter aspect is the most controversial for many reasons. Walter Lippmann defines a stereotype as an image created in the mind which allows a subordination of a certain fragment of reality a priori. The media’s visible, negative influence on women has them create a reality beyond the boundaries of acceptance, presenting it in a way the audience expects. A new kind of feminism appears, i.e. one which answers the receiver’s needs (succumbing to the expectations and exposing to the view), and a question appears – whether in the time of the feminist legacy, thereby changes resulting from the development of the media, feminists should gain their own unique style? In a way this begins to happen. Due to the development of the media, women gained an unrestricted possibility to express their views, and the reception and availability of the media lifts the restrictions and causes an inconspicuous person to please and sweep the crowd and his or her voice to be impossible to be ignored in the discourse.

scholarly journals Own Video Content of Libraries: Trends and Prospects for Use

2020 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-270
Author(s):  
Nadezhda V. Popova
Keyword(s):  
Positive Impact ◽  
Video Content ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Media ◽  
Goals And Objectives

Changing of media consumption in the digital age is the object of focus attention of both Russian and foreign researchers. Modern cultural studies note the increasing role of video content in the media environment. Taking into account current trends, libraries more often create their own video materials to implement various goals and objectives. Thus, creation of own video content is rapidly becoming an integral part of the work of modern library. However, despite some established experience of libraries in this area, there is still not enough research of general and theoretical nature on the content, guidelines and prospects for the development of activities related to the creation and use of library video content, and there is no its classification.The purpose of this work is to conduct analysis of the video content in libraries, identify the most common materials, as well as to determine the prospects for using this tool to reach their own goals. The article discusses definitions of the term “video content”. The author presents the main types of videos produced by libraries, their characteristics and features. Special attention is paid to video projects of libraries in Russia. The article reveals the experience of the Astrakhan Library for Youth named after B. Shakhovsky in using its own video content. The paper discusses the issue of classification of video materials produced by libraries. The author proposes the following classification of library videos: video review, virtual book exhibition, webinar (online seminar or web conference), interview, humorous video, webcast, event announcement, video report and booktrailer. The author indicates the main reasons hindering the demand for library video content among the wide range of Internet users and gives the rationale for the necessity and importance of this type of activity and proposes possible prospects for using own video content of libraries. Thanks to its presence, the library ceases to be a closed institution storing knowledge within itself that produces positive impact on its image. Using means of communication that are understandable to a person of visual culture, it changes stereotypes and demonstrates its modern capabilities.

Debating the EU Constitution in France

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angeliki Koukoutsaki-Monnier
Keyword(s):  
Political Communication ◽  
The Political ◽  
Mediation Process ◽  
Rhetorical Strategies ◽  
Constitutional Treaty ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Daily Newspapers ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Eu

This paper focuses on the argumentative approaches and the rhetorical strategies employed by political actors in France in favour of or against the EU Constitutional Treaty (TCE), as they appeared in four French daily newspapers, Le Monde, Le Figaro, Libération and Aujourd’hui en France (national edition of Le Parisien), before the 29th of May 2005 referendum. In a qualitative discourse analysis and with the aid of argumentation theories and political communication approaches, the study investigates how the European Union’s Constitution, identity and future were represented and discussed by French political actors through the media in their effort to obtain public adherence before the referendum. Inevitably, the role of the media and the mediation process in the construction and transcription of the political discourse is also discussed.

Agenda-setting in a social media age

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolina Carazo-Barrantes
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Agenda ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Setting Theory

Abstract This paper analyzes the role of social media in electoral processes and contemporary political life. We analyze Costa Rica’s 2018 presidential election from an agenda-setting perspective, studying the media, the political and the public agendas, and their relationships. We explore whether social media, Facebook specifically, can convey an agenda-setting effect; if social media public agenda differs from the traditional MIP public agenda; and what agenda-setting methodologies can benefit from new approaches in the social media context. The study revealed that social media agendas are complex and dynamic and, in this case, did not present an agenda-setting effect. We not only found that the social media public agenda does not correlate with the conventional MIP public agenda, but that neither does the media online agenda and the media’s agenda on Facebook. Our exploration of more contemporary methods like big data, social network analysis (SNA), and social media mining point to them as necessary complements to the traditional methodological proposal of agenda-setting theory which have become insufficient to explain the current media environment.

The role of Police`Ombudsmen in implementation principle of democratic policing

2019 ◽  
Vol specjalny (XIX) ◽  
pp. 301-317
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Wentkowska
Keyword(s):  
Political Leaders ◽  
Human Rights Protection ◽  
Rights Protection ◽  
Transitions To Democracy ◽  
Democratic Policing ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
And Control

Democratic policing is now a widely and more increasingly used approach to policing around the world. New challenges produced both by the media and the law as well as the internal command and control issues call for the basic reformulation of the foundations of democratic policing. An establishment of oversight institutions over police actions is one of the items of democratic policing undoubtedly. The important opportunities to promote the oversight may emerge from the broader political changes or reforms such as the election of new political leaders, transitions to democracy, or through implementing system of human rights protection.

scholarly journals Reassembling Traditionality and Creativity: A Study of Place as Assemblage in Pasar Cihapit Bandung

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 07006
Author(s):  
Agus S. Ekomadyo ◽  
Tyas Santri ◽  
Andika Riyadi
Keyword(s):  
Economic Activities ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Creative Movement ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Economic Role ◽  
Cultural Events ◽  
Contested Space ◽  
Traditional Market ◽  
The Media

There are many efforts to revitalize traditional market as urban economic and socio-cultural place. Several creative communities in Bandung have been trying to pep up the vitality of Pasar Cihapit Bandung through socio-cultural events. Through place as assemblage approach, this paper traces the actors involved and their relation in the place-making, and also to seek how the creative movement contribute to the traditional economic activities which have been taken place before. This creative movement has identified to be able to attract public attention to the market, signified in the media publication. The emergence of new actors also generated the contested space in Cihapit market, influenced by actors’ relation to another group outside the market. The market publicities is also attracted political actors concern, stimulated by their popularity desires, that impact to space contestation intensity. It is found that creative movement can increase the physical image of the market by socio-cultural events, but it is not found its significant contribution to improve the economic role of the traditional market. This paper contributes knowledge to understand how everyday practice of power works in designing and creating built environment

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