An Explorations in Media Ecology appreciative inquiry: Onward and upward

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 371-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred Cheyunski
Keyword(s):  
Appreciative Inquiry ◽  
Media Ecology ◽  
Digital Object ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Digital Publication ◽  
The Past ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
The Media ◽  
Online Format ◽  
The Way

This article combines appreciative inquiry (AI) as well as digital object interviewing and other constructs from the field to examine Explorations in Media Ecology (EME) in its online format. It provides an in-depth review of the journal and its issues produced over the past twenty years. The article surveys EME’s editorial advances and transitions, its coverage of the media environment, its interdisciplinary range, along with its demographics and reach. Throughout this article, EME’s digital publication speaks for itself describing its own strengths and opportunities as manifested since its origination. Along the way, this article utilizes anecdotes and quotes from EME’s contributors that illuminate and support the survey results. Finally, this article through these quotes, gives EME a voice; it offers suggestions to build on its strengths and make use of opportunities for an onward and upward future.

scholarly journals Soviet Films in the New Media Environment: Idealization or Discretization of the Past?

2014 ◽  
pp. 61-67
Author(s):  
Anna A. Novikova ◽  
Varvara P. Chumakova
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
New Media ◽  
Media Ecology ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Media ◽  
Rural Dwellers

Analyses how Russian viewers of the multichannel TV perceive narrative and aesthetic clichés of the Soviet movies. The influence of Soviet clichés on social construction of today’s reality, especially on attitudes of the rural dwellers towards the Past is in the focus of the paper, the authors of which follow the media ecology approach

Solace in sound: Glenn Gould’s electronic solitude

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-32
Author(s):  
Steven Hicks
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Media Ecology ◽  
Marshall Mcluhan ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Musical Tradition ◽  
General Systems ◽  
The Media ◽  
Musical Traditions ◽  
Media Environments

Inspired by Marshall McLuhan, pianist Glenn Gould dedicated his career to polemics against the concert hall tradition. Through radio/television broadcasts, written works and contentious recorded catalogue, Gould advocated adoption of the new electric media environment of the mid-twentieth century, challenging musical traditions of centuries past. Gould also used telephonic technology to mediate contact with the outside world. Gould has been acknowledged by such authors as Paul Théberge as putting into practice the ideas of Marshall McLuhan. In this study, I follow Robert Logan’s work in media ecology and general systems and investigate Gould’s polemics through systems theory. In particular, I employ Niklas Luhmann’s theory of social systems, offering a model of society through which we may observe the effects of electric technology via the notion of functional de-differentiation of social systems as discussed by authors such as Erkki Sevänen. I suggest that Gould’s polemics are not just commentary on musical tradition but the media environments in which those traditions arose and show how we too can find solace in sound.

scholarly journals Anytime? Anywhere?: Reframing Debates Around Community and Municipal Wireless Networking

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Forlano
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Wireless Networks ◽  
The United States ◽  
Wireless Networking ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
The Past ◽  
Local Characteristics ◽  
The Media ◽  
Technological Affordances ◽  
The Way

Over the past three years, cities across the United States have announced ambitious plans to build community and municipal wireless networks.  The phrase ‘anytime, anywhere’ has had a powerful impact in shaping the way in which debates about these networks have been framed.  However, ‘anytime, anywhere’, which alludes to convenience, freedom and ubiquity, is of little use in describing the realities of municipal wireless networks, and, more importantly, it ignores the particular local characteristics of communities and the specific practices of users.  This paper examines the media representations and technological affordances of wireless networks as well as incorporating the practices of those that build and use them in an attempt to reframe these debates.

Algerian leadership will head off military threat

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Past ◽  
Military Threat ◽  
The Media ◽  
Powerful Interest ◽  
The Way

Subject President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's grip on power in Algeria. Significance In the past three months, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has dismissed ten generals in the armed forces and police. The scale of the turnover is unusual, as is the way in which the changes have been effected. The media have advanced various explanations: a cocaine-smuggling scandal, corruption charges or a routine rotation of officers. Questions have also arisen about what impact the dismissal of powerful security figures might have on the presidency itself, as Bouteflika’s supporters prepare the ground for him to secure a fifth term in an election scheduled for April 2019. Impacts A fifth term for Bouteflika will not lay to rest rivalries among powerful interest groups over the eventual succession. Activists and civil society members will organise more protests to express discontent with the presidency. If the cocaine smuggling claim is true, it may point to mafia-style networks deep within the security establishment.

scholarly journals Beyond apologies Historical reflections on policy and practice relating to the out-of-home care of children in contemporary Australia

2010 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 12-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denise Cuthbert
Keyword(s):  
Home Care ◽  
Family Policy ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
The Public ◽  
Black And White ◽  
The Past ◽  
Out Of Home Care ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Way

A series of harrowing reports across the 1990s on the past removal of children, black and white, from their families have impacted on children and family policy in contemporary Australia, and on the way in which this is reported by the media and understood by the public. This paper briefly surveys some of these consequences and asks how we, as a community, can learn from the past with respect to questions of the welfare of children, without being burdened by that past.

Global Media Generation Memories: Australia and Mexico

2001 ◽  
Vol 101 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-125
Author(s):  
Christina Slade
Keyword(s):  
Focus Groups ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Three Generations ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Way ◽  
International Events

This paper compares Australian and Mexican focus groups discussing the media memories of their youth. It forms part of the Global Media Generations 2000 project, in which cohorts of three generations have been interviewed in 12 countries. The first radio, television and internet generations were asked about the media environment of their youth, about the major local and international events they recalled, and finally about a number of significant international events. This paper uses the results of two countries to argue for a version of media relativism: that the way events are remembered is in part determined by the media available.

scholarly journals New Television Narratives: Entertainment, Telling, Citizenship, Experimental

Comunicar ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (36) ◽  
pp. 43-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omar Rincón
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Soap Opera ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Important Thing ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Media ◽  
Moral Conservatism ◽  
Industrial Television ◽  
The Way

Broadcasting and industrial television is a trip back to the past, to a space devoid of meaning, and to the boredom resulting from its moral conservatism, lack of creativity, thought and entertainment. But television’s monopoly over public screening is over; now, anyone can be a producer, an audiovisual narrator with his or her own screen. New television and other screens are daring to change the way stories are told: a more subjective, testimonial and imagebased journalism; a hyperrealist soap opera that dares to bring melodrama to comedy, documentary and local cultures; a bottom-up media with people in charge of breaking with the thematic and political homogeneity of the media, market and development machines. This essay will argue in favor of television as a space for expression by unstable identities, narrative experiments and unknown possibilities for audiovisual creation…only if «it takes the form» of women, indigenous peoples, African races, the environment, other sexualities…and plays on YouTube and new screens that are community-based and cellular. The most important thing is for television to move away from an obsession with content towards aesthetic and narrative explorations of other identities and into narratives that are more «collaboractive», with the possibility that they become the stories we want them to be.La televisión generalista e industrial es un viaje al pasado, al vacío de sentido y al aburrimiento por su conservadurismo moral, su pereza creativa, su ausencia de pensamiento y su pobre modo de entender el entretenimiento. Pero el monopolio televisivo de la pantalla pública se acabó, pues ahora todo ciudadano puede ser un productor, narrador audiovisual y tener pantalla. Así aparecen nuevas televisiones y otras pantallas que se atreven a contar distinto: un periodismo más subjetivo, testimonial y pensado desde las imágenes; una telenovela hiperrealista que se atreve a intervenir el melodrama desde la comedia, el documental y las culturas locales; unos medios de abajo y con la gente que se hacen para romper con la homogeneidad temática y política de las máquinas mediática, del mercado y del desarrollo. En este ensayo se argumenta a favor de la televisión como lugar de expresión de identidades inestables, experimentos narrativos y posibilidades inéditas para la creación audiovisual… solo si «toma la forma» de mujer, de lo indígena, afro, medio ambiental, otras sexualidades… y juega en nuevas pantallas como Youtube, lo comunitario y el celular. Lo más urgente es que la televisión pase de la obsesión por los contenidos a las exploraciones estéticas y narrativas desde las identidades otras y en narrativas más «colaboractivas» porque existe la posibilidad de ser los relatos que queremos ser.

The Single European Act

1989 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-14
Author(s):  
Émile Noël
Keyword(s):  
Entire Range ◽  
Internal Market ◽  
European Policy ◽  
National Sovereignty ◽  
The Past ◽  
Single European Act ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Way

THIS ARTICLE' PUTS FORWARD SOME GENERAL reflections on the Single European Act, on the conditions in which it was negotiated and on its first consequences. But a detailed description of the modalities of the Single Act, of the entire range of changes which it will introduce and of its potential would be beyond its scope. The Single Act has been extremely controversial, during its negotiation, after its conclusion, and for different reasons, during the ratification process. Some decried it as inadequate, even derisory, but others saw in it a threat to national sovereignty. Two referendums (in Denmark and in Ireland) were needed before it could be ratified. Today, on the contrary, the Single Act and its best-known feature — the achievement of the internal market in the Community by the end of 1992 — are presented in the media as the basis of a new Europe, the foundation of all European policy. The Single European Act does not deserve so much honour, any more than it deserved the past indignity, but it contains important innovations, which might lead to significant changes in the behaviour of the institutions and in the way in which the Community itself will develop. This is what I shall try to put forward by recalling briefly first the background of the Single Act, describing the details of the negotiations and, lastly, by singling out some of the original features of the new Treaty.

scholarly journals Media Ecology: The Competition of Local Private Television on Seizing Audiences for Broadcasting Sustainability in South Kalimantan, Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2(S)) ◽  
pp. 20-26
Author(s):  
Atika Rusli ◽  
Achmad Bayu Chandrabuwono ◽  
Muhammad Febri Rahmat Akbari
Keyword(s):  
Life Support ◽  
Niche Breadth ◽  
Niche Overlap ◽  
Target Audience ◽  
Media Ecology ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Or Management ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
The Media

Media ecology examined the interrelationships between the media and their supporting environment. This research article aimed to determine the category of life-support sources (niche breadth) and to measure the level of competition (niche overlap) of local private television in South Kalimantan in seizing for viewers. This research used a quantitative approach. Target audience data, as the main data, was obtained by data collection techniques in the form of a log book survey results or management estimates from each television. The collected data was processed using the niche breadth formula to determine the category of each television media, and the niche overlap formula to determine the level of television competition in seizing for its viewers. The findings showed that Duta TV was in the generalist category and Prima TV was in the specialist category. The niche overlap scores differed between a number of target audience types, where the level of competition in seizing for viewers between the two televisions was quite high in the gender category compared to the other four types of target audiences, namely age group, socioeconomic status, recent education, and occupation.

scholarly journals On the Innovation of Journalism Practice Teaching in the Media Convergence Environment

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 179
Author(s):  
Ruikun Zhang ◽  
Chunpeng Shen
Keyword(s):  
Internet Technology ◽  
Media Convergence ◽  
Continuous Development ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Practice Teaching ◽  
The Media ◽  
Innovation And Change ◽  
Obvious Feature ◽  
The Way

<p>The current media environment has undergone great changes, which benefit from the continuous development of Internet technology. The gap between different media is gradually being eliminated, and the concept and approach of news transmission have also undergone tremendous changes. With the integration of different media, the way of news dissemination also changes. In the current education of journalism and communication in China, the most obvious feature is the practicability of journalism practice. This paper mainly discusses the innovation and change of journalism practice teaching under the media convergence environment.</p>

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