Supportive, transformative and reverse effects of media on Tunisian diaspora’s political identity

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mostafa Shehata
Keyword(s):  
Political Ideology ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Country Of Origin ◽  
The Political ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Significant Research ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Channels ◽  
Effects Of Media

The Tunisian diaspora in Europe has gained significant research interest due to the fundamental changes recently triggered by the Tunisian Revolution with which the diaspora strongly interacted. This article investigates the potential effects of media use on the political identity of Tunisian diasporic communities in Europe, from a sociopolitical communication perspective. Based on 45 interviews conducted with Tunisians living in Denmark, Sweden and France, a special focus has been set on the patterns of media use in relation to components of political identity (homeland orientation, religion and ideology), considering the combined influences of both country of origin and country of residence. The analysis shows that media exerted supportive effects on the diaspora’s homeland orientations – a process that likely depended on participants’ previous connection with Tunisia. The media also exerted short-term transformative effects on the political ideology and a reverse effect on religious orientations – a process that mainly depended on life in both country of origin and country of residence. This article proposes that this Tunisian diaspora is more likely to construct a hybrid identity, supported by media channels that facilitate the adoption of sociopolitical principles derived from both country of origin and country of residence.

Negative Media Effects and Islamic Remedies (Penyelesaian Kepada Kesan Negatif Media Menurut Perspektif Islam)

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 215
Author(s):  
Mohd. Shuhaimi Ishak
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Social Influences ◽  
The Political ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Essential Form ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Government ◽  
Effects Of Media ◽  
Political Economic

 Abstract Generally speaking, media is extensively used as the means to disseminate news and information pertaining to business, social, political and religious concerns. A portion of the time and space of media has now become an important device to generate economic and social activities that include advertising, marketing, recreation and entertainment. The Government regards them as an essential form of relaying news and information to its citizens and at the same time utilizes them as a powerful public relations’ mechanism. The effects of media are many and diverse, which can either be short or long term depending on the news and information. The effects of media can be found on various fronts, ranging from the political, economic and social, to even religious spheres. Some of the negative effects arising from the media are cultural and social influences, crimes and violence, sexual obscenities and pornography as well as liberalistic and extreme ideologies. This paper sheds light on these issues and draws principles from Islam to overcome them. Islam as revealed to humanity contains the necessary guidelines to nurture and mould the personality of individuals and shape them into good servants. Key Words: Media, Negative Effects, Means, Islam and Principles. Abstrak Secara umum, media secara meluas digunakan sebagai sarana untuk menyebarkan berita dan maklumat yang berkaitan dengan perniagaan, kemasyarakatan, pertimbangan politik dan agama. Sebahagian dari ruang dan masa media kini telah menjadi peranti penting untuk menghasilkan kegiatan ekonomi dan sosial yang meliputi pengiklanan, pemasaran, rekreasi dan hiburan. Kerajaan menganggap sarana-sarana ini sebagai wadah penting untuk menyampaikan berita dan maklumat kepada warganya dan pada masa yang sama juga menggunakannya sebagai mekanisme perhubungan awam yang berpengaruh. Pengaruh media sangat banyak dan pelbagai, samada berbentuk jangka pendek atau panjang bergantung kepada berita dan maklumat yang brekenaan. Kesan dari media boleh didapati mempengaruhi pelbagai aspek, bermula dari bidang politik, ekonomi, sosial bahkan juga agama. Beberapa kesan negatif yang timbul dari media ialah pengaruhnya terhadap budaya dan sosial, jenayah dan keganasan, kelucahan seksual dan pornografi serta ideologi yang liberal dan ekstrim. Kertas ini menyoroti isu-isu ini dan cuba mengambil prinsip-prinsip dari ajaran Islam untuk mengatasinya. Tujuan Islam itu sendiri diturunkan kepada umat manusia ialah untuk menjadi pedoman yang diperlukan untuk membina dan membentuk keperibadian individu dan menjadikan manusia hamba yang taat kepada Tuhannya. Kata Kunci: Media, Kesan Negatif, Cara-cara, Islam dan Prinsip-prinsip.

scholarly journals ‘Independent’ Kurdish Media in Syria

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 334-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yazan Badran ◽  
Enrico De Angelis
Keyword(s):  
Political Identity ◽  
Political Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
Television Station ◽  
Radio Stations ◽  
News Agency ◽  
Local Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
New Generation ◽  
First Time

The Syrian uprising in 2011 was accompanied by the birth of a new generation of media outlets seeking to offer alternative narratives to those of the regime. After the Kurds gained a certain level of autonomy from the Syrian regime and opposition forces, areas historically inhabited by Kurds (Rojava) have also seen the emergence of local media: for example, the television station Ronahi, magazines and newspapers such as Welat, Buyer and Shar, radio stations such as Arta FM and Welat and the ARA News agency. Indeed, for the first time in their history, Syrian Kurds have the opportunity to have an independent voice in the media landscape. In this paper we map the field of emerging Kurdish media in Syria and analyze some of the main features of these outlets, while situating them in the larger context of emerging Syrian media. Moreover, the paper explores their relationship in the current political context of the Syrian uprising and, especially, of Rojava. In doing so, we analyze the political identity that these media tend to project and address how they position themselves toward the issue of the Kurdish identity in general and in Syria in particular.

Subversive song: Imagining Colossians 1:15–20 as a social protest hymn in the context of Roman empire

2019 ◽  
Vol 116 (4) ◽  
pp. 421-435
Author(s):  
Mark S. Medley
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
Social Protest ◽  
The Political ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Political Consciousness ◽  
Protest Music ◽  
Popular Protest ◽  
Imperial Power ◽  
Jewish Resistance

A connection exists between the Christological hymn of praise and protest in Col 1:15–20 and popular protest music. The connection is the lyrical ability to transform political and socio-cultural realities, as well as to empower and mobilize protest and resistance against imperial power and coercive structures of domination. A special focus is on Billie Holiday’s song, “Strange Fruit,” a contemporary model of a protest song in comparison to Col 1:15–20. In the comparison, the Colossians hymn draws upon the political ideology and imagery of the Roman Empire in the form of a counter-discourse, as was Jewish resistance poetry, in ways analogous to how Holiday’s “Strange Fruit” evokes the imagery of white racial terror for the sake of raising political consciousness.

scholarly journals Political Identity as a Security Factor of Ukrainian Statehood

2020 ◽  
pp. 297-316
Author(s):  
Mykola Prymush
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
The Political ◽  
Security Level ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
The Media

In the article, the authors analyze the formation of the political identity of citizens of Ukraine as a security factor of Ukrainian statehood. It is noted that, in addition to political identity, there are many other identities, that are presented in the form of a matrix, the components of which continuously interact with, complement and influence each other. In terms of methodology, the process of forming political identity is considered from the standpoint of symbolic interactionism, where the emphasis is placed on political interaction. In addition, in order to objectively assess the effectiveness of the formation of political identity and potential negative consequences in the form of a crisis of statehood, the mechanism for transforming a situational identity into a basic political identity is considered from the standpoint of post-structuralism. The study identifies and formulates criteria for constructing this basic type of political identity, the prerequisites for their formation and correlation with the actual political situation in Ukraine. The multitude of approaches to the study of the formation of political identity is complemented by the consideration of various models of its construction. Fragmental, elite and organic models are considered. Particular attention is paid to the leading role of the state in the process of forming political identity, where the key participants are political elites, the media and civil society. To determine how the perception of the degree of influence of each participant affects the process of political identity formation by the population of Ukraine at different periods of time, with its intermittent outbursts of social activity, the method of factor analysis is used. On the basis of the results of the analysis of the constructed triangular diagrams, two patterns are extracted. According to one, an increase in positive perception and integration into the process of socialization of models of the political identity formation proposed by the political elite is observed in society after each surge in mass protests that leads to a regime change. The other pattern is manifested in the revealed tendentiousness of the influence of the media and political elites on the security level of Ukrainian statehood and the growth of tension in society.

scholarly journals Psychological Aspects of Media Communication during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Insights from Healthcare and Pharmacy Specialists in Lithuania

Healthcare ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 1297
Author(s):  
Nida Žemaitienė ◽  
Milda Kukulskienė ◽  
Vilma Miglinė ◽  
Loreta Kubilienė ◽  
Gabrielė Urbonaitė ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Subjective Effects ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Psychological Aspects ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Related Information ◽  
The Media ◽  
Search For Information ◽  
Effects Of Media

In the setting of disasters, people seek information as they hope that knowledge will provide security. This makes the media a critical source of crisis exposure. The aim of the study described in this article was to analyze COVID-19 pandemic-related psychological aspects of media use by healthcare and pharmacy workers in Lithuania and to reveal the subjective effects of media consumption on their psychological well-being. 967 healthcare workers and pharmacists in Lithuania completed an electronic survey, which consisted of questions about the changes in well-being experienced since the beginning of the lockdown and media use in the search for information on COVID-19. It was found that communication might have ambiguous effects on psychological well-being. Excessive, unreliable, misleading, contradictory information and “catastrophizing” were subjectively related to impaired psychological well-being. Objective and reliable, relevant, clear, timely, hopeful and supportive information had a subjective positive effect. Seeking COVID-19-related information many times a day was associated with increased fear of becoming infected with COVID-19, feeling unable to control the risk of contracting COVID-19, fear of infecting relatives with COVID-19 and feeling that other people would avoid interaction with healthcare workers and pharmacists because of their job. General browsing was not consistently associated with COVID-19-related fears.

Examining political efficacy among Malaysian voters

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Syed Arabi Idid ◽  
Ismail Sheikh Yusuf Ahmed ◽  
Rizwanah Souket
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Political Development ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Political Efficacy ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
The Political ◽  
Technological Advancement ◽  
The Media ◽  
Quota Sampling

Abstract The technological advancement and political situations have dramatically impacted the way traditional and new media have played their role in society, especially in the political development of the country. Studying media use and credibility have been a major concern among scholars to understand audience perceptions and attitudes towards the media and their role in politics. This study investigated the level of media use and credibility among voters and their perception of political efficacy. Drawing on a nationwide quota sampling of 2030 respondents, the findings found voter perception on the media as credible, with the highest trust being on television, followed by newspapers and radio. Internet was found to be the least credible. A factor analysis performed on the political efficacy items extracted three dimensions: Voter Efficacy, Internal Efficacy and External Efficacy. The results of hierarchical regression suggested that traditional and new media use as well as media trust dimensions were significantly correlated with political efficacy but different media use and credibility contributed differently to the various efficacy dimensions. Implications and recommendations are further discussed.

Social Media Use and Political Mobilization

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 50-60
Author(s):  
Justin W Holmes ◽  
Ramona S McNeal
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Political Mobilization ◽  
The Political ◽  
Central Component ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
The Media ◽  
Individual Decisions

This article describes how political participation is a central component of democracy. Past research has found that a variety of factors drive individual decisions about participation, including the media that citizens use to gain political information. Social media offers the possibility of engaging citizens in a new way and potentially increasing various forms of participation. In this article, the role that social media use has in fostering a variety for forms of political participation is examined. This article finds that social media use can be a driver of participation, but that this impact is largely contingent on the political predispositions of the user.

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF THE MEDIA IN SHAPING THE IMAGE OF A POLITICIAN

World Science ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (11(51)) ◽  
pp. 34-37
Author(s):  
Vladyslav Buinitskyi ◽  
Anatolii Yakovets
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Media Use ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Creation

This article discusses the ability of the media to influence the political culture and consciousness of society, in particular through the creation of stereotypical symbolic constructs such as political images and political myths. The features and the role of each type of media in the formation of the images of political leaders and parties are presented, as well as some techniques that the media use in the process of updating political images are presented. It is known that the main goal of the media in the process of constructing political images is the creation and dissemination of political myths. The article discusses in detail four main topics from all possible plots of political myths: “the myth of the conspiracy”, “the myth of the golden age”, “the myth of the hero-savior”, “the myth of unity”.

scholarly journals Discursos mediáticos versus discursos sociales en la Argentina contemporánea

2017 ◽  
pp. 223
Author(s):  
Cora Cecilia Arias
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Media Use ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Conflicts ◽  
The Media ◽  
Medios De Comunicacion

Resumen:Este artículo reflexiona sobre las estrategias recreadas por los medios de comunicación a la hora de informar los conflictos sociales. Con ese objetivo, se selecciona una protesta sindical de gravitante resonancia pública en la Argentina: el paro de subterráneos de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires de abril de 2004. Se contrastan y ponen en tensión los discursos de los protagonistas de esa experiencia con los discursos emitidos por la televisión sobre ese caso. De esta manera, y entendiendo a los medios de comunicación como agentes de control social, se resaltan los sentidos y significados políticos que la televisión vehiculizó sobre ese conflicto social.Palabras clave: Discurso; televisión; protesta; conflicto sindical.Abstract:This article is a reflection on the strategies the media use to inform of social conflicts. It takes a union protest widely covered in Argentina, namely the subway workers strike in Buenos Aires in April 2004. Discourses by the protagonists are contrasted with discourses broadcasted on television. Understanding the media as agents for social control, the political senses and meanings television transmitted on this case are highlighted.Key words: discourse; television; protest; union conflict

Nomic Sound

2019 ◽  
Vol 98 (98) ◽  
pp. 156-170
Author(s):  
Cormac Deane
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Power Flow ◽  
Information Overload ◽  
The Political ◽  
Ontological Status ◽  
Control Room ◽  
Human Control ◽  
The Media ◽  
Control Rooms ◽  
Media Channels

This article pays attention to the media channels through which different modes of power flow, and specifically to how they sound. The soundscapes of real and fictional control rooms provide a way of understanding the connection between automation, decision-making and politics. The types of sounds that accompany control rooms screens map onto alternative, at times contradictory, interpretations of the ontological status of computation and data visualisations. As a result, both biopolitical and sovereign modes of power seem to coexist, with human control room operators making decisions whose actual significance is difficult to measure. The control room is therefore a key manifestation of a general contemporary anxiety about dematerialisation, virtualisation and information overload, and about the political problems that they entail.

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