scholarly journals Pediatric Bipolar and the Media of Madness

2010 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 254-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonah Bossewitch
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Interactive Media ◽  
Psychoactive Drugs ◽  
Behavioral Expectations ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Communications ◽  
American Children ◽  
And Behavior

This past decade has witnessed an explosive rise in the controversial diagnosis of pediatric bipolar and the prescription of antipsychotics to children. Has the behavior of American children grown more irritable and defiant, or has adult judgment of their behavior changed? How can we effectively study and explain these dramatic transformations in judgment and behavior? This article proposes a hypothesis that explains many of these developments and lays out a research program for a continuing investigation of these urgent questions. The article highlights the controversy around the diagnosis of pediatric bipolar and the emerging relations between the media of surveillance and structures of social control. It explores connections between the interactive media landscapes inhabited by youth, the behavioral expectations imposed on them in schools, and the role of psychoactive drugs in mediating this tension. Finally, the article details the intersections between media, communications, and madness studies and proposes a research agenda for studying this controversy using approaches drawn from these disciplines.

scholarly journals DEVELOPING CRITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS TO ASSIGNING QUESTIONS- ALWAYS EXAMINE’S ALL IN LIFE. - WHY?

ZBORNIK MES ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanja Stankov ◽  
Aleksandar Rakić ◽  
Jasmina Bajić
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Critical Consciousness ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Minimal Basis ◽  
Public Role ◽  
The Media ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Unconscious Mind

Why are the media important? The role of the media is to send messages; they are those who have taken on a public role to provide information to citizens, to explain, analyze, interpret in various ways, however, the problem is that critical thinking is lost to events and information, but it is news they only make it without any analysis, but always so that the citizen has the minimal basis for something to conclude about the quality and objectivity of this information. Whether it’s a marketing or media industry, this paper aims to present subtle and non-so-subtle tactics of mass manipulation that affect our conscious and unconscious mind that affects our thinking and behavior.

Media and public accountability: typology and research agenda

2019 ◽  
pp. 33-52
Author(s):  
Sandra Jacobs ◽  
Thomas Schillemans
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Public Accountability ◽  
The Media ◽  
Public Organisations ◽  
Informal Accountability

The role of the media in public accountability has often been discussed. This is especially the case for public sector organisations, whose accountability relations have changed in the shift from government to governance. In this paper, we develop a typology of the ways mass media are involved in public accountability processes. Media can stimulate actors to reflect on their behaviour, trigger formal accountability by reporting on the behaviour of actors, amplify formal accountability as they report on it or act as an independent and informal accountability forum. To explore the presence of these roles in practice, we focus on public sector organisations in the Netherlands. Our quantitative and qualitative analysis in the Netherlands suggests that the media primarily serve an indirect role in public accountability, either by invoking pre-emptive self-criticism in public organisations in anticipation of potential media scrutiny or by triggering formal accountability demands from MPs

scholarly journals 17. Criminology and transitional justice

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kieran McEvoy ◽  
Ron Dudai ◽  
Cheryl Lawther
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
Restorative Justice ◽  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
The Social ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter explores the intersection between criminology and transitional justice. The chapter begins with a critical discussion on the utility of criminological scholarship from settled democracies to the exceptional circumstances of post-conflict or post-authoritarian societies. It then explores a range of debates related to the punishment of offenders in such contexts including the role of prosecutions, amnesties, the reintegration of former combatants, and the role of restorative justice. The chapter next considers the social and political construction of victimhood in transitional contexts including competing notions of the ‘idealized’ victim. The relationship between transitional justice and social control is then examined including the importance of countering denial, the relationship between deviance and memory and the particular contribution of efforts ‘from below’ to counter elites-level narratives on past abuses. The chapter concludes that a criminology of transitional justice provides the basis for revisiting some of the foundational questions on responding to crime and justice in the most challenging of settings—a sobering but intellectually rich research agenda for years to come.

Journalists as agents and language as an instrument of social control: A child protection case study

2001 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 26-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Goddard ◽  
Bernadette Saunders
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Court Case ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

In recent years there has been considerable analysis of how the media create images of crime. The relationship between child abuse and the media has also been subject to greater scrutiny. This article examines the role of one newspaper in a child protection case. The part played by the newspaper in the court case led to an examination of the language used by the media in their representations of children. The researchers found that a child may be objectified in language even when the child’s gender is previously identified. The ‘gender slippage’ may in extreme cases lead to the ‘textual abuse’ of children, where child abuse is rewritten to lessen the impact on the reader. The authors conclude that the actions of journalists and the language they use require more critical analysis.

scholarly journals PERAN OPINION LEADER DALAM SISTEM DAKWAH (Analisis Difusi Jaringan Komunikasi)

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 184
Author(s):  
Hasyim Hasanah
Keyword(s):  
Social System ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Opinion Leader ◽  
Opinion Leaders ◽  
Behavior Changes ◽  
The People ◽  
The Media ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Attitudes And Behavior

<p><em>Th</em><em>i</em><em>s paper aims to explain the role of opinion leader in dakwah activities through the analysis of communication network diffusion. This paper uses a descriptive qualitative method, with a network analysis approach. The results showed that opinion leaders playan important role in accelerating and slowing the process of diffusion of dakwah information. The higher the ability of people to influence others, the higher the effort also in influencing behavior changes that  occur in  that  person.  This is because  the  opinion  leader has the characteristic of making himself a media through innovation into society as a social system. An opinion leader also becomes a reference for media behavior (media behavior). That is, when the opinion leader is a Dai, he is a information disseminator of dakwah information that makes himself as one of the media forming behavior to change the order of values, attitudes, and behavior of people in a systematic and structured. Double role of a Dai to achieve social system changes and realize the life of the people who Sallam, hasanah, and thayyibah, and getting of Ridho Allah SWT.</em></p><p><em>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</em></p><p>Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk menjelaskan peran opinion leader dalam dakwah Islam melalui analisis difusi jaringan komunikasi. Tulisan ini menggunaakan metode kualitatif  deskriptif  dengan  pendekatan analisis jaringan. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa para pemimpin opini memegang peranan penting dalam mempercepat maupun memperlambat proses difusi informasi dakwah. Semakin tinggi kemampuan orang mempengaruhi orang lain, maka akan semakin tinggi pula usahanya dalam memengaruhi perubahan perilaku yang terjadi pada orang tersebut. Hal ini dikarenakan opinion leader memiliki karakteristik menjadikan dirinya sebagai media lewatnya  inovasi  ke dalam masyarakat sebagai  sebuah  sistem  sosial.  seorang opinion leader juga menjadi rujukan bagi perilaku media <em>(media behavior).</em> Artinya, ketika opinion leader adalah  seorang  dai,  maka  ia merupakan penyebar informasi  dakwah yang menjadikan dirinya sebagai salah satu media pembentuk perilaku untuk mengubah tatanan nilai, sikap, dan perilaku umat secara sistematis dan terstruktur.  Peran ganda seorang dai guna mencapai perubahan sistem sosial dan mewujudkan kehidupan umat yang salam, hasanah dan thayyibah serta memperoleh ridha Allah SWT.</p><p><em><br /></em></p>

scholarly journals Journalism and public opinion according to a number of studies and the theory of reliance on the media: الصحافة والرأي العام وفق عدد من الدراسات ونظرية الاعتماد على وسائل الإعلام

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (9) ◽  
pp. 123-112
Author(s):  
Huda Alshamsi Huda Alshamsi
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Knowledge And Attitudes ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Media ◽  
And Behavior

This research aimed at reveal the role that the press plays in shaping the knowledge and attitudes of individuals in any issue, and to explain this in light of the theory of dependence on media that are concerned with the motives and causes of the public's dependence on the media and the effects that this dependence has on Knowledge, opinions, trends and behavior, as I collected 19 scientific studies on the same topic through which we emphasize the role of the media in drawing public opinion, which is determined based on the articles that are published and they represent the facts that the reader gets, and the countries on which the studies were taken varied. According to different topics.

Cosi fan tutte: Information, Beliefs, and Compliance with Norms

2011 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Kotzian
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
Multilevel Analysis ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
Norm Compliance ◽  
Rational Acceptance ◽  
Rational Calculation ◽  
The Media ◽  
Role Of Information

SummarySocial norms help to solve collective dilemmas. In addition to the internalization of norms, social control, rational calculation, and rational acceptance, this paper analyzes the role of information in regard to compliance with norms. We predict that people will cooperate if they believe that others will cooperate as well, and that they will defect if they believe that others will defect. Each reaction respresents a rational course of action. Beliefs about the validity of norms are influenced by information, whether public (as obtained from the media) or private (gained from personal experience), with which individuals update their beliefs. Complementing existing explanations of norm compliance, this paper studies the effect on norm compliance of information which allows individuals to adjust beliefs about whether a norm is valid. The empirical findings based on a multilevel analysis of survey data from 24 countries strongly confirm the prediction that collectively held beliefs about the validity of norms are a major factor in determining compliance, comparable in its strength to the internalization of norms.

scholarly journals How do we tackle the COVID-19 crisis? Mass media and psychological responses to the health crisis in Spain

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (05) ◽  
pp. A05
Author(s):  
María Álvarez-Rementería Álvarez ◽  
Gorka Roman Etxebarrieta ◽  
Maria Dosil Santamaria
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Risk Society ◽  
Psychological Responses ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
People’S Perception ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Mass Media

During global health crises, the mass media plays a key role in the construction of risk society. This paper analyses people's perception during the confinement in Spain regarding the role of mass media and its relationship with psychological responses and attitudes towards social control. Results from the survey (n=704) suggest that certain groups have been more affected by the messages distributed by the media, rendering them more vulnerable to suffering from negative psychological responses. The mass media interferes with the manner in which people psychologically deal with this crisis and the behaviour that results from their perception of risk.

scholarly journals Emotionalisation of contemporary media discourse: A research agenda

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 586-610
Author(s):  
Franco Zappettini ◽  
Douglas Mark Ponton ◽  
Tatiana V. Larina
Keyword(s):  
Research Agenda ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
Linguistic Representations ◽  
Political Background ◽  
The Media ◽  
Contemporary Media

This special issue continues the discussion of the role of emotion in discourse (see Russian Journal of Linguistics 2015 (1) and 2018, 22 (1)) which, as testified by the burgeoning body of literature in the field, has become more prominent in different spheres and contexts of public life. This time we focus on emotionalisation of media discourse. We highlight the intensification of emotions in media and, showcasing contributions from international authors, critically reflect on constructions, functions and pragmatic purposes of emotions in media discourse. Our aim is to investigate emotions in the media from semiotic, pragmatic and discursive perspectives against the contemporary socio-political background in which traditional notions concerning the role of media are being noticeably changed. In this introductory article, we also put forward an agenda for further research by briefly outlining three main areas of exploration: the logics of media production and reception , the boundaries of media discourse, and the semiotic resources deployed to construct emotionality . We then present the articles in this issue and highlight their contributions to the study of linguistic representations of emotions. We then summarise the main results and suggest a brief avenue for further research.

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