scholarly journals Media Restrictions as the Image Formation Tool: the Case Study of Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew Popularity

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 141-162
Author(s):  
Aurelija Juodytė ◽  
Ng Zhen Xiang Colin
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Political Environment ◽  
Opinion Formation ◽  
Environment Impact ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media

We live in the world full of nice people. The media make us think so as we are surrounded by the images of sport, pop culture, fashion industry, entertainment media, and business leaders. We face them even in the news programs and the press. Of course, the photos and other visual outlets of politicians join the general publicity of personality cult. How do these people appear in the journalist media? Why are they exposed in a positive manner while the crucial role of journalism’s “watchdog” function is to demonstrate weaknesses in order to get them into political agenda and improve? We live in the world where there is a huge business of personality promotion and selling beneath the media, and this business is called celebrity branding and news management. The media skip it from exposure. Journalism too, but why? Who is in charge that people in the media become celebrities? Who, the source or the media, is related to the fact that their audience becomes attached to the celebrities and is involved into a never-ending follow-up communication with them? These questions arise when we focus on journalism’s role in the public opinion formation process in general and image management in particular. The issue may be approached by various ways, but the present article narrows the scope of analyses mainly to the issue of political environment impact on the image of the political actor. Such a choice is made due on the factor that political environment covers both the macro (institutional) and micro (content) levels of restrictions the traditional media encounter, and due to the reason that the scope of mediated politics enables the holistic view of the media field professionals (public relations practitioners, sources, and journalists) performance and its influence on the final product. The disclosure of how the personality campaign is organised in order to reach a wide coverage and depict a positive image is of cognitive value also because the case study is made with the Singapore Prime Minister’s example – the international aspect introduces the global patterns of the celebrity phenomenon and also allows to discuss the media regulation in Singapore. First of all, the present article introduces the theoretical background for the case study, then it examines the state of the media in Singapore, showing the ownership specifics, regulation peculiarities and free speech constraints arising from regulation rather than from professionalism. The psychologically fair factor is disclosed through the analysis of legal acts, especially the Internal Security Act. The spiral of silence theory explains the supporters of such political environment that enables a long-lasting positive attitude towards the Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and explains his popularity and a successful image-making job.

scholarly journals Language Means for Shaping the Media Image of China in Russian Internet Texts (Case Study of Blogs about the Chinese Opera)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Юйси Му
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Media Image ◽  
Chinese Opera ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
The World ◽  
Audience Responses ◽  
The Media

The article presents the study of the media image of China in the Russian Internet texts. The purpose of the study is to identify the language means of shaping the media image of China in blogs about Chinese opera. The material involves some of the topical blogs published on the Internet version of «Live Journal» and the «Magazeta». In those materials, the media image of China is partially formed by various aspects of Chinese opera as a cultural phenomenon: it is the cultural context in which Chinese opera exists; features of diverse opera genres; images of performers; audience responses; assessments and feelings of bloggers. The possibilities of expression of different kinds of language means are revealed, so is the authors’ perception of this type of art. It is concluded that the media image created in blogs about Chinese opera by various language means represents China as a country with a long history and unique culture. Chinese opera not only occupies an important place in the world art, but also vividly and meaningfully reflects the mystery of China.

scholarly journals Subsea cable key challenges of an intercontinental power link: case study of Australia–Singapore interconnector

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Gordonnat ◽  
James Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Land Surface ◽  
High Carbon ◽  
High Demand ◽  
High Carbon Content ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
Demand Growth ◽  
The World ◽  
Renewable Energy Generation

AbstractThe high potential for renewable energy generation in Australia, in particular solar and wind, and the high carbon content of Southeast Asian electricity and projected demand growth create favourable conditions for a HVDC power link between Australian and Southeast Asia. Such an interconnector would link predominantly solar farms located in northern Australia, known for its highest insolation levels in the world, to Singapore given its central location within Southeast Asia, high reliance on natural gas for its power generation, high demand growth and limited renewable potential and land surface. The current paper presents a holistic view of the key challenges of an Australia–Singapore power link related to its length, in the order of 3200 km, the water depth of sections crossing the Timor Trough and Indonesian waters, up to 1900 m, and the manufacturing and logistic issues of extensive length of cable to be deployed in a part of the world distant from the main manufacturing facilities. This very ambitious project will require a unique integrated contracting strategy involving multiple HVDC cable suppliers, marine heavy transport companies and cable installation contractors to effectively deliver this project within a sensible timeframe.

scholarly journals Using the president’s tweets to understand political diversion in the age of social media

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan Lewandowsky ◽  
Michael Jetter ◽  
Ullrich K. H. Ecker
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
Increased Activity

Abstract Social media has arguably shifted political agenda-setting power away from mainstream media onto politicians. Current U.S. President Trump’s reliance on Twitter is unprecedented, but the underlying implications for agenda setting are poorly understood. Using the president as a case study, we present evidence suggesting that President Trump’s use of Twitter diverts crucial media (The New York Times and ABC News) from topics that are potentially harmful to him. We find that increased media coverage of the Mueller investigation is immediately followed by Trump tweeting increasingly about unrelated issues. This increased activity, in turn, is followed by a reduction in coverage of the Mueller investigation—a finding that is consistent with the hypothesis that President Trump’s tweets may also successfully divert the media from topics that he considers threatening. The pattern is absent in placebo analyses involving Brexit coverage and several other topics that do not present a political risk to the president. Our results are robust to the inclusion of numerous control variables and examination of several alternative explanations, although the generality of the successful diversion must be established by further investigation.

scholarly journals Pandemic leadership: Lessons from New Zealand’s approach to COVID-19

Leadership ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suze Wilson
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Leadership Practices ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Complete Control ◽  
Good Practices ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
Leadership Lessons

This case study analyses the leadership approach and practices of the New Zealand government, led by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, in the response thus far to the COVID-19 pandemic. It reports on how a shared sense of purpose has been established, that of minimizing harm to lives and livelihoods, for which the government has sought – and secured – New Zealanders’ commitment. Key leadership practices comprise the government’s willingness to themselves be led by expertise, its efforts to mobilise the population, and to enable coping, all of which serve to build the trust in leadership needed for transformative, collective action such as the pandemic demands. At the time of writing, New Zealand appears well on track to achieve its ambitious goal of achieving rapid and complete control over the COVID-19 outbreak – not just ‘flattening the curve’ as other countries are struggling to do – at least in part due to these leadership contributions. A framework of good practices for pandemic leadership is offered drawn from this case study, in the hope transferable lessons can be taken to aid others in the continuing struggle to limit the harm COVID-19 poses to lives and livelihoods throughout the world.

Reflections on solidarity in global and transnational environment: Issue of social recognition in the context of the potential and limitations of the media

Human Affairs ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Solík ◽  
Juliána Laluhová
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Social Recognition ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Transnational Organizations ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Informative Role ◽  
The Media

AbstractThe present article deals with issues of social recognition in the global and transnational environment. It deals with the issue of solidarity, a form of recognition that has no adequate parallel beyond nation state borders and manifests itself mainly in the transnational economy. We focus on the articulation of the extraterritorial recognition of social rights-holders at the international and transnational levels of justice. It is clear that conditions in developing countries do not allow the people there to express disapproval in ways that are typical for Western societies. We stress that states should strengthen their influence in global and transnational organizations and equally that the media should improve its informative role and should provide information on what is happening in developing parts of the world.

The “World” Concept Among Jehovah's Witnesses

1946 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-140
Author(s):  
Theodore W. Sprague
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Jehovah’S Witnesses ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Jehovah's Witnesses ◽  
The World ◽  
World Concept

Various concepts bearing the label of “the world” have held an important place among the categories in terms of which men of many times and places have organized their experience. The present article attempts a case study of a single one of these — that developed by Jehovah's witnesses.

scholarly journals The Control of Information in Traditional Media through the Social Ones

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
Resul Sinani
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
National Level ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
High Level

The usage of social media by Kosovar politicians is almost absolute. Politicians of all levels have their accounts on Facebook as well as other social networks. They use those for various reasons, starting from contacting the voters and supporters during the election campaigns as well as during the time they are in the office, up to presenting their stands and ideas that have do with different issues of public interest. For many of them, especially for low-level politicians the social media, mainly Facebook, have become the only place where they express themselves, since they find it almost impossible to become a part of the traditional media, especially of those on the national level, like newspapers, radio or television. Whereas for high-leveled politicians, concretely the heads of main institutions like the prime-minister, the head of parliament or the president, who refuse to be interviewed and be present in political shows where they could face questions from the journalists or the public, they are using Facebook statements in order to avoid direct questions from the journalists about the political subjects of the day. By making it impossible for them to take direct answers through their journalists the traditional media (newspapers, radio, TV) have to quote the posts that the politicians are making on Facebook. The kosovar journalists and the heads of media see this tendency of politicians, especially of the prime minister as the lack of transparency, avoidance of accountability, control of information and setting the agenda of the media. This paper attempts to argument the hypothesis that the high level politicians, the heads of main state institutions in Kosovo are controlling the information in traditional media through the usage of social media. In order to argument this hypothesis as a case study we have taken the Kosovar (ex)PM Hashim Thaçi whose almost every status and update has been quoted by the media. We have also interviewed journalists and editors of Kosovar media houses who have expressed their thoughts about the subject, while supporting the hypothesis of this paper.

scholarly journals A Arte e a Ciência de dados na era digital

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (40) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto Semeler ◽  
Marcelo Walter
Keyword(s):  
Binary Code ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Biological Information ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
Technological Means ◽  
Visualization Techniques ◽  
Digital Or

Gerar dados é uma ação intrínseca da nossa relação cotidiana com o mundo. Nosso contato com os dispositivos tecnológicos digitais está sempre numa lógica binária: transcodificar nossa existência biológica para o código binário gerando um dilúvio de dados. Deste modo, produzimos dados como uma espécie de commodities (matéria prima). Ao produzir dados alimentamos longas cadeias de bases de dados que movimentam nossa cultura digital. Pretende-se analisar como essa profusão de dados pode afetar o pensamento e teorização sobre arte, seja ela digital ou não, bem como, o que fazer com estes dados no plano da arte. Neste sentido, com o uso de métodos computacionais analíticos e quantitativos, oriundos das ciências dos dados, implicam na produção, análise, e teorizações na arte. Nesse contexto, apresentamos como estudo-de-caso uma aplicação que utiliza técnicas de visualização para auxiliar na análise de obras de artistas, temáticas, cores preferidas, bem como de sua trajetória artística.AbstractGenerating data is an intrinsic part of our daily relationship with the world. Our contact with digital technological means is always in a binary logic: transcoding our biological information to the binary code generating a flood of data. This mode, we produce the data as a kind of commodities (raw material). By collecting data they fed the chains of databases that move our digital culture. It is intended to perfect precisely or do not need to know what to do, whether it is digital or not, and what to do with these data in the art plane. In this sense, with the use of analytical and quantitative computational methods, that is, the data of the media, implies in the production, analysis, and theorizations in the art. In this context, we present as a case study an application that uses visualization techniques to aid in the analysis of works by artists, themes, preferred colors, as well as their artistic trajectory

Recent trends and prospects in Sikh studies

1998 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 407-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pashaura Singh
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Community Newspapers ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
The World ◽  
Unpublished Thesis ◽  
The Media ◽  
Personal Level ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
The University

Examining the recent trends in Sikh studies, the issue of academic freedom and religious authority has affected me on a most personal level. Readers may be aware of the controversy in the media over my doctoral thesis ("The Text and Meaning of the Adi Granth," University of Toronto, 1991) over the last few years. My unpublished thesis, filed at the University of Toronto library, was copied without my knowledge or authorization and circulated throughout the world. This led to a series of denunciations in letters and reviews in Sikh community newspapers, which accused me of committing blasphemy. The present article examines this controversy over scholarship on Sikh religion in the light of the historical situation of the recent past.

scholarly journals I vs. We. First Person Personal Pronouns in Political Speeches

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-135
Author(s):  
Ilina-Mihaela Stănculete
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Oral Communication ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
First Person ◽  
Personal Pronouns ◽  
Tony Blair ◽  
Political Speeches ◽  
The Way

Abstract The present article reports on a case study that focuses, comparatively, on the extent to which Romania’s Prime Minister Adrian Năstase and UK’s Prime Minister Tony Blair reveal their intentions and thoughts in their investment speeches, by the use of the personal pronouns I and we. The number of occurrences of each of the two first person pronouns and the way in which they are used will be considered in an analysis that is both quantitative and qualitative. The overall aim of the comparative approach is to highlight how democracy is seen in the cases scrutinized, based on the activation by the speakers of the principle of cooperation in oral communication.

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