scholarly journals Anti-migrant Islamophobia in Europe. Social roots, mechanisms and actors

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (53) ◽  
pp. 25-40
Author(s):  
Fabio Perocco
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Internal Structure ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Social Origins ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Muslim Immigrants ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Mass Media

Abstract During the last two decades of rising anti-migrant racism in Europe, Islamophobia has proven to be the highest, most acute, and widely spread form of racism. The article shows how anti-migrant Islamophobia is a structural phenomenon in European societies and how its internal structure has specific social roots and mechanisms of functioning. Such an articulate and interdependent set of key themes, policies, practices, discourses, and social actors it is intended to inferiorise and marginalise Muslim immigrants while legitimising and reproducing social inequalities affecting the majority of them. The article examines the social origins of anti-migrant Islamophobia and the modes and mechanisms through which it naturalises inequalities; it focuses on the main social actors involved in its production, specifically on the role of some collective subjects as anti-Muslim organizations and movements, far-right parties, best-selling authors, and the mass-media.

scholarly journals The Images and The Struggle of The 2018 Central-Java Local Government Election Reporting Meaning in Online Media

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-109
Author(s):  
Anung Anindita Parwaningtiyas ◽  
Hari Bakti Mardikantoro ◽  
Bernadus Wahyudi Joko Santoso
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Information Display ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Public ◽  
Central Java ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
Discourse Practice

The role of online media is really essential in society because it fosters and encourages the public opinion. Therefore, online media could be the most effective interest mean to achieve certain massive purposes, including the reports of certain actor's images. It allows social actor's images to not being reported objectively but instead processed and managed. Thus, it could be said there is a correlation between the language and the domination in the discourse practice to create ideologies with certain purposes.  The point, the mass media has its specific powers to control its information display so its neutrality in the mass media is doubtful. So as this research, the images of social actor’s images, the candidate of Central-Java election 2018, become the focused problems to analyze by Theo van Leeuwen theory. The data sample was obtained from the report discourse in online mass media, such as Kumparan.com, Tribunnews.com, and Sindonews.com about the Central-Java Election 2018, from April-June 2018. The analysis was based on the deletion strategy in which covered suppression and backgrounding. The results showed that Kumparan.com tended to apply suppression in merging the social actors, Ganjar Pranowo-Taj Yasin and backgrounding in the form of a phrase “politikus PDIP, mantan anggota DPR RI yang diperiksa KPK”. (The PDIP politician, the ex of the House whom is investigated by Corruption Eradication Comission). Meanwhile, Tribunnews.com applied backgrounding in the form of “sang petahana” or “incumbent”, meanwhile Sindonews.com did not either put certain social actors in advantage nor marginalize them.

Post-panoptic panopticism in docile mass media

Human Affairs ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Sámelová
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Mass Media

AbstractThe main theme of the paper is the role of the mass media in the production, creation, retention, protection and defense of a social order, or in carrying out revisions, or cosmetic and extensive changes to it. In the first section, the author explains the Power of the Mass Media by looking at Foucauldian leprosy/plague management. The second part, Docile Mass Media Producers Under Panoptic Control, deals with the routinization of the mass media craft. Finally, the Social Order of Docile Individuals who Feel Freedom takes a closer look at the social order and how it is created by mass media producers (as professionals in their craft).

Community Patterns of Idea Intake

1951 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-57
Author(s):  
James D. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Social System ◽  
University Of North Carolina ◽  
Community Patterns ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
The University

The effects of the mass media can be understood better if the role of other elements of the social system in passing along and interpreting ideas also is considered. The author, a member of the Wisconsin journalism faculty, is working toward the Ph.D. in sociology at the University of North Carolina.

Horse Maiming in the English Countryside: Moral Panic, Human Deviance, and the Social Construction of Victimhood

2001 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Yates ◽  
Chris Powell ◽  
Piers Beirne
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Moral Panic ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Social ◽  
Crime And Deviance ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
Societal Reaction ◽  
The Invisible

AbstractThe societal reaction to a series of horse assaults in rural Hampshire during the 1990s was a rare example of a moral panic about crime and deviance in which animals other than humans occupy, or seemed to occupy, the central role of victim. This paper explores how the nature of the relationships between humans and animals is revealed through authoritative utterances about offenders and victims by the mass media, the police, and the humans who felt they had a stake in the horses' well-being. Analysis of how and when victimhood is ascribed to animals helps to uncover the invisible assaults routinely inflicted on them - in the name of business or pleasure, for example - and against whose human perpetrators the categories of criminalization are almost never applied.

scholarly journals University television and public service

Comunicar ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (31) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ignacio Aguaded ◽  
Yolanda Macías-Gómez
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Utility ◽  
Business Logic ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
The University ◽  
Medios De Comunicacion

The mass media, increasingly more present in the society, seem to be losing their social sense and their function of citizenship formation, for the benefit of business logic and market. The public use of television is becoming blurred, so there is an urgent need to promote channels of civic vocation that recovers the social and formative role of media. The University television is a wonderful way for the promotion of this television. In this article an analysis of the Spanish situation is done and proposals for a University television of public utility are carried out. Los medios de comunicación, cada vez más presentes en la sociedad, parecen estar perdiendo el sentido social y de formación de la ciudadanía de éstos, en beneficio de la lógica empresarial y el mercado. Cada vez se desdibuja más el servicio público de la televisión y urge potenciar canales de vocación ciudadana que recuperen el papel social y formativo de los medios. La televisión universitaria es una magnífica vía para el fomento de esta televisión. En esta comunicación se hace un análisis de la situación española y se realizan propuestas para una televisión universitaria de servicio público.

Memories of Violence, Cultural Transformations of Cannibals, and Indigenous State-Building in Post-Conflict Mozambique

2014 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 774-802 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Igreja
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
State Building ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Cultural Transformations ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
The Mass Media

AbstractThis article explores how accusations of cannibalism in post-conflict Mozambique, which were leveled in the context of individually driven and protracted struggles, albeit with cultural spinoffs, have contributed to ongoing and contested forms of social transformation in the country. The accusations were accentuated by the mobilizing effects of memories of violence and interventions of the mass media, which in turn highlighted the enduring struggle over the politics of local recognition and authority and its dynamic and broader links to state-building and legitimacy in Mozambique. This analysis traces the origins of cannibal accusations in culture and politics and, through a discussion of the biographies of concrete social actors and their open and discreet struggles, has wider repercussions for the study of the role of indigenous beliefs about, and fears of, cannibals and witches on state-building in post-conflict countries.

scholarly journals Understanding Tourist Behavioural Intention When Faced with Smog Pollution: Focus on International Tourists to Beijing

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (14) ◽  
pp. 7262
Author(s):  
Wenjia-Jasmine Ruan ◽  
Junjae Lee ◽  
Hakjun Song
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Behavioural Intention ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Media Effect ◽  
Structural Relationships ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
New Variables

This study examines the behavioural intentions of international tourists travelling to Beijing when faced with smog pollution. An extended MGB (model of goal-directed behaviour) was employed as the theoretical framework by integrating mass-media effect and perception of smog. The role of mass-media effect and perception of smog were considered as new variables in the international tourist’s decision-making process for travel to Beijing. Structural equation modelling (SEM) was employed to identify the structural relationships among research variables. Our research results showed a strong correlation between positive anticipated emotion and desire. The mass-media effect is a significant (direct) predictor of both the perception of smog and behavioural intention. The Chinese government could attach great importance to the mass-media effect to reduce the negative impact caused by smog pollution on inbound tourism.

scholarly journals Thai Gender Ideology: A View from Representations of Social Actors in Crime News Headlines

MANUSYA ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-49
Author(s):  
Phennapha Klaisingto ◽  
Wirote Aroonmanakun
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Gender Ideology ◽  
Gender Identities ◽  
Gender Ideologies ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Social ◽  
Crime News ◽  
Study Power ◽  
News Headlines

This study examines the linguistic structure used for uncovering gender ideologies through crime news headlines. It’s based on the idea that languages represent reality and different linguistic choices indicate different points of view of reality. Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) (Fairclough 1990,VanDijk 1995, Simpson 1993) is used in this study. The main objectives of the study are 1) to study the differences of representation between male and female social actors (Van Leeuwan 2008) in crime news headlines and 2) to study power relations, gender identities and the reproduction of patriarchal society through crime news headlines. Samples of 1,815 crime news headlines are analyzed in this study. The result shows that Thai crime news constructs gender identities based on gender ideology. Thai crime news headlines convey a variety of linguistic meanings which allow for varying forms of representation of social actors, including exclusion and inclusion of social actors. The exclusion of male social actors in headlines may be ideologically motivated by obscuring the responsibility of male actors for negative actions, whereas the exclusion of female social actors does not have the same effect because their referents can be inferred from the headline context. In addition, the inclusion of social actors varies according to the social actor’s sex. Male actors are usually referred to using a functionalization form or an appraisement form, whereas female actors are usually referred to using an identification form. These representations reflect the role of masculinity and femininity among men and women in the society.

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