New media: invective language transformation of global communication

Not only has the digital world removed the borders between local and global communication, affording meaning to the already established “glocal” concept, but it has also blurred the boundaries between journalistic and corporate content, revitalising what has traditionally been known in legacy media as “service journalism.” This chapter supposes a continuation of the thought-provoking line of research begun three years ago on journalistic communication and new media, turning to the deconstruction process as a disruptive method to analyze processes, strategies, and trends. If, then, from the perspective of methodology, the focus of attention turns to the structure of the news itself, attending to how new media reactivate the known 5W, and how the conventional news item dies on paper and is ‘resuscitated', transformed into the digital medium, and to how we place ourselves before a transmedia news structure that changes from inverted pyramid to the Rubik's Cube, we now go one step further and put the spotlight on the processes of content building in the digital realm themselves.

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The new media nation: indigenous peoples and global communication

Choice Reviews Online ◽

10.5860/choice.48-1550 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 48 (03) ◽

pp. 48-1550-48-1550

Keyword(s):

New Media ◽

Indigenous Peoples ◽

Global Communication

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Ernest Fenollosa's Etymosinology in the Age of Global Communication

Theory Culture & Society ◽

10.1177/0263276409103129 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 26 (2-3) ◽

pp. 249-273 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Hwa Yol Jung

Keyword(s):

New Media ◽

Communication Theory ◽

Zen Buddhism ◽

Social Process ◽

Full Scale ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Media Theory ◽

Global Communication ◽

Relational Ontology ◽

Meiji Restoration

This article puts forward the thesis that in the age of multiculturalism, global communication is rooted in cross-cultural understanding as shown in McLuhan's late communication theory. The American philosopher Ernest Fenollosa went to Japan during the Meiji Restoration when it started in earnest full-scale Westernization. He became fascinated with the poetics of sinography manifested in etymosinology. Etymosinology reveals the depth of the Sinic cultural soul, which is this-worldly, practical, concrete and specific. Sinism (i.e. Confucianism, Daoism and Chan/Zen Buddhism) is a species of relational ontology which is predicated upon the conception of reality as social process. This social process is always already embodied. With the aid of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of embodiment, I critically explore and examine the connection between embodiment and `new media' theory.

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Values and the conditions of global communication

Current Sociology ◽

10.1177/0011392110391160 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 59 (2) ◽

pp. 238-251 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Markus S Schulz

Keyword(s):

Civil Society ◽

New Media ◽

World Society ◽

Sufficient Condition ◽

Global Communication ◽

Technological Determinism ◽

Social Actors ◽

Value Choices ◽

The Creation

This article examines the role of values in the shaping of futures from the perspective of global communication. It argues that the prospects for a democratic world society depend on the creation of global deliberative publics as a necessary, albeit not sufficient, condition. It explores how the new media that facilitate globalization of trade and production can also provide technical infrastructures for grassroots dialogue across borders. The contrast between alternative trajectories is used to indicate the stakes and available value choices. Rejecting resilient notions of technological determinism, the article analyses how different social actors create the new mediascapes according to diverging values and abilities of involvement. Corporate interests command more resources and better access to law-makers and treaty negotiators, but users and civil society initiatives can increase leverage through imaginative practices and value appeals.

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Alia, Valerie: The New Media Nation. Indigenous Peoples and Global Communication

Anthropos ◽

10.5771/0257-9774-2011-1-220 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 106 (1) ◽

pp. 220-221

Author(s):

Edmund Searles

Keyword(s):

New Media ◽

Indigenous Peoples ◽

Global Communication

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From Literary Illusions to Media Simulacra: Toward a Semiotic Imagology in the Era of Global Communication

European Review ◽

10.1017/s1062798720000794 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-17

Author(s):

Yirong Hu ◽

Lin Mei

Keyword(s):

Comparative Literature ◽

New Media ◽

Dominant Role ◽

Primary Source ◽

Global Communication ◽

Core Concept ◽

The Core ◽

Foreign Countries ◽

Inadequate Information ◽

Descriptive Knowledge

In the pre-globalization era, when communication between nations was difficult and infrequent, and direct (experiential) or indirect (textual-descriptive) knowledge was scant, images of ‘foreign countries’ were frequently constructions based on inadequate information. As a result, fictional descriptions and images were the primary source for people to gain some knowledge of other nations. However, beginning with the great voyages of discovery of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, we began to step into an age of globalization, which generated the diversification of ‘source texts’ in this regard. Today, the emergence of new media has accelerated and proliferated such diversity. These new media texts now play a dominant role in forming the image of other countries, to some degree replacing traditional fictional texts. The basic presuppositions of comparative literature imagology have changed accordingly. Starting from the core concept of ‘images’, this paper discusses why it is necessary to integrate imagology, with ‘semiotic images’ as core concept, and ‘communications research’.

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