Linguistic Methods of Anti-Russian Propaganda ‒ a New Trend in the German Mass Media

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 99-109
Author(s):  
Mel’nik Galina S. ◽  
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Misonzhnikov Boris Ya. ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
The United States ◽  
Information Policy ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Media Image ◽  
Third World Country ◽  
New Information ◽  
The Media ◽  
Linguistic Methods

The article reveals the specifics of constructing the image of Russia in the German mass media. Based on the study of media discourse, the positions of Russia in the context of the global information and psychological confrontation are determined. We identify markers that determine the information policy of Germany in relation to Russia, as well as linguistic means of forming the image of the country and methods of information aggression against Russian society. On the basis of headline complexes and article leads, priority topics (buzz-topics) in the media, informational reasons for referring to them, sentiment (expressive-evaluative vocabulary), directional vector were determined. The research object are German media, such as Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), Die Welt, Bild, Der Spiegel. The lexemes ″Russia″, ″Moscow″, ″Putin″, ″Kremlin″ (and synonyms) were used as the units of analysis. Relations with Syria, the United States and NATO, Ukraine, Belarus and Turkey were popular topics in the German media during the study period (2020). The analysis of the texts showed that the mostly negative media image of Russia is represented. In foreign policy, the country is presented as an invader, a military aggressor, a murderer, an enemy, and its leader, in the interpretation of the media, is an insidious, cunning schemer, a dishonest player on the geopolitical chessboard. The portrayal of leading German newspapers portrays Russia as a peripheral state, a third world country that claims to be a world power (with nuclear weapons) and a semi-dictatorial regime. In the course of the study, we used general scientific methods of cognitive and interpretive linguistic discourse analysis. In publications, even high-quality ones, metonymy, metaphors, comparisons, epithets, hyperboles are used as components of anti-Russian rhetoric. Conclusion: there is practically no positive news about Russia, the country itself is seen as the main threat to the security of the world. This requires an adequate response, a new information policy and a correction of the country’s reputation. Keywords: information attacks, media image, , enemy image, Russia, ogenda, stylistic means, semantic, discourse

Challenging the Media-Incarceration Complex through Media Education

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bill Yousman
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
The United States ◽  
Crime Rates ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Media Education ◽  
Prime Time ◽  
Crisis Of Representation ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
The Media ◽  
Popular Television

This chapter argues that the United States faces a crisis of representation, for while crime rates remain stable, the TV and other corporate-controlled mass media bury viewers beneath an avalanche of fear-based spectacles in which crime and violence are portrayed as escalating, even life-threatening crises. It then outlines a new program of media education that enables consumers of mass media to develop more informed and empowering views of the complexities of crime and violence. Focusing on prime-time dramatic television as the most prevalent source of fictional images of violence, crime, and incarceration, the chapter addresses the distorted narratives and images that saturate popular television dramas. Drawing upon interviews with ex-prisoners, it also shows how media representations of imprisonment, though inaccurate and misleading, shape the perceptions even of those who have themselves been incarcerated.

scholarly journals Media in the Middle East

1996 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 275-278
Author(s):  
Abdelwahab El-Affendi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
The United States ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
Hard Work ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Systems ◽  
Comprehensive Study

As evidenced by its subtitle, this book is a mighty ambitious work. Theeditors, recognizing the "woeful lack of information on the [Middle East's]media systems," present the book as "the first comprehensive study of thestructure and functions of the mass media in the Middle East." And it tooka lot of hard work, being the "culmination of more than two years ofresearch and writing by 32 mass media scholars from across the MiddleEast and the United States."The books covers twenty-one countries. The Middle East is definedhere as most Arab countries (Morocco, Sudan, Yemen, and Somalia wereleft out) plus Iran, Turkey, Israel, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.There is no question that a serious gap in information exists in the areathe book attempts to cover. It is also safe to say that the researchersinvolved did a great job, assembling in one volume a wealth of infomiationon the structure of the media in the Middle East. One can at a glance gleanup-to-date information about what publications are produced in each country,who owns them, what radio and television channels are available, whattimes they broadcast, what regulations exist, and how the media fit in thefuller picture ...

scholarly journals Problems of Communication between Government, Society and the Media in the Field of Extremism Prevention

Communicology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-111
Author(s):  
S. A. Vorontsov ◽  
F. I. Sharkov ◽  
A. V. Ponedelkov
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Information Policy ◽  
Action Plans ◽  
Counter Terrorism ◽  
Illegal Behavior ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
The Government ◽  
Local Levels ◽  
Active Interaction

This article examines the problems of communication between the government, society and the mass media in the field of extremism prevention through a systematic information policy aimed at identifying the causes and factors that determine radical manifestations, determining measures aimed at their localization, and forming a persistent rejection of illegal behavior of citizens and their associations in society. The competent organization of interaction between the government, society and the media makes it possible to synthesize their efforts in the field of extremism prevention. This approach encompasses not only basic security-based counter-terrorism measures, but also systematic preventive steps to address the underlying conditions that encourage individuals to radicalize and join violent extremist groups. It is necessary to develop specific recommendations and action plans at the federal, regional and local levels of both state and municipal authorities in active interaction with the mass media, in particular, focusing on the root social reasons why some people are attracted to extremist organizations and what measures to combat extremism are most effective.

scholarly journals Contemporary mass media: a journalist’s responsibility

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Viktor Ivanovich Shahovsky
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Quality Of Information ◽  
New Information ◽  
Contemporary Work ◽  
Russian Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
Information Materials ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Information Consumers

The article views a circle of issues connected with the responsibility of contemporary work of media for the quality of information. The metalanguage actual for the new Russian media sphere is generalized. All types of up-to-date information resources are viewed and classified. The types and forms of their content variation are analysed. Special attention is paid to a new information phenomenon – infonoise – whose harmful nature is revealed. Among intended and unintended fluctuations of the language norm there is a process of constructing createmes as a means of communicative freedom, expressivisation and emotionalisation of the media discourse. The journalists are reminded of their responsibility for the quality of information presented to the public. A most significant definition of responsibility including all its necessary notional specifiers is introduced. The absence of these specifiers is illustrated in the information materials, which impedes adequate understanding of them by the mass media consumers and does not lead to the unified reflection. It is stated that the most important of these specifiers is the truthfulness of information. Special attention is paid to the ecological risks of the irresponsibility of some journalists in regard to their fishing, transmitting and broadcasting low-quality information. Emphasis is put on the fact that the practice of journalists represents a specific communicative sphere, which often disorients information consumers. This fact is mostly obvious in connection with incompliance of mass media in a common methodology of presenting information, which has resulted in destruction of the dialogue function of mass media: only the Internet still preserves this function. Highlighted is the role of the language in creating linguistic reality as opposed to the objective one.

scholarly journals MESSAGES AND IDEAS AS A COMPONENT OF THE INFORMATION WAR AGAINST UKRAINE (ON EXAMPLE OF THE CRIMЕAN MEDIA)

2020 ◽  
Vol 9.1 (85.1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gayana Yuksel ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Information Policy ◽  
Scientific Article ◽  
Occupied Territory ◽  
Occupied Territories ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Monitoring ◽  
Council Of Ministers ◽  
Main Ideas

The scientific article presents the results of monitoring of modern Crimean mass media of the temporarily occupied territory (hereinafter –TOT) of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol. The aim of the work is to study and analyze the process of formation and content of the main messages regarding the events in Ukraine, which are presented in the modern media of the temporarily occupied Crimea and Sevastopol and provided to the audience in informational and analytical publications. The subject of the study is the most common in the Crimean media content groups and the main ideas of messages about Ukraine. The study used a chronological approach to the analyzed events; the systematization of information was carried out using sociological, statistical methods, including content analysis. Methods of observation, comparison and generalization are used at different stages. The results of the study can be used to develop the principles of information policy, implementation of measures to inform the population and establish communication with residents of the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. During the monitoring, the information segment of the six Crimean mass media was analyzed: the most widely circulated newspaper «Crimean Pravda», the official publication of the so-called Crimean Council of Ministers «Krymskaya Gazeta», the Crimean Information News Agency, «RIA Novosti Crimea», and Internet sites «Crimean Echo» and «Crimean News». The scientific article is an integral part of a comprehensive study of the transformation of the media space of Crimea after the occupation of 2014 and the basics of information policy and information reintegration of temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. The article contains terminology banned in Ukraine regarding the territorial integrity of the state, as well as negative emotional statements addressed to Ukraine and the Ukrainian people. All of them belong entirely to the Crimean media and have been used as examples. The author does not share the views of the authors of the Crimean media. The latest information on Crimean media monitoring has been put into scientific circulation. The results of the study can be used in the formation of principles and principles of information policy, implementation of measures to inform the population and establish communication with residents of the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.

Information Geopolitics and Political Propaganda in the Mass Media of the Russian Federation

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Waldemar Żak
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
World Order ◽  
Global Information ◽  
New Information ◽  
Continental Block ◽  
New Imperialism ◽  
The Media ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Relationship

Information is considered one of the main factors of the current geopolitical dynamics. The information paradigm of geopolitics defines the canons of conquest and control of a global information space, as well as the nature of the relationship between geopolitical actors. It covers a range of issues related to geographic information policy, which includes the activities aimed at increasing the power of State information, including in the media. Helping people understand the changing world order has become the main goal of mass media. In an emerging global information field, the media no longer divide events into domestic and foreign ones. Russia’s propaganda offensive is a carefully prepared strategy. The country built an array of soft power instruments and transformed them into effective weapons in a new information war with the West. Initially intended as a tool to enhance Russia’s soft power, it quickly developed into one of the main instruments of Russia’s new imperialism. The minimum task may be the integration of part of the post-Soviet space, whereas the maximum task is to unite civilizations into a single Eurasian continental block in order to restore civilization balance

scholarly journals Strategies for the Mediatization of Legal Concepts in Russian Mass Media of XXI Century (Concept LEGITIMACY)

2021 ◽  
pp. 69-85
Author(s):  
O. N. Kondratyeva ◽  
Yu. S. Ignatova
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Subjective Feeling ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Culturally Specific ◽  
Legal Concept ◽  
The Media ◽  
Legal Concepts ◽  
Negative Connotation

The role of mass media in the processes of interpretation and assessment of various fragments of reality is discussed in the article. The problem of the entry of legal concepts into the media discourse is raised and the task is set to study the changes occurring in this process, which ultimately lead to the formation of new conceptual units — media concepts. The designated task is solved in the process of analyzing one of the key legal concepts LEGITIMACY. It has been demonstrated that the Russian mass media significantly modify each of the three components of the legal concept, that is, the media virus is “implanted” into the conceptual, figurative and value layers. It allows us to speak of three strategies of mediatization: definitional, metaphorical and evaluative. It is shown that the definitional strategy contributes to the emergence of new features in the conceptual layer of the LEGITIMACY concept (‘trust’, ‘approval’, ‘support’, ‘respect’, ‘fairness’, ‘the phenomenon of consciousness’ and ‘subjective feeling’). It is noted that the metaphorical strategy additionally forms such linguo-culturally specific features as ‘defectiveness’ and ‘object of political manipulation’, the evaluative strategy gives the positively perceived concept of LEGITIMACY a negative connotation (conceptual signs of ‘doubtfulness’ and ‘imaginary’ develop), which is an alarming marker reflecting the current situation in Russian society. It is pointed out that the recorded changes indicate the importance of the discursive factor in the study of concepts.

scholarly journals Mass media image of selected instruments of economic develepment

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 282-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ladislav Kruliš
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Investment Incentives ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Media Image ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
Media Message

Abstract The goal of this paper is twofold. Firstly, two instruments of economic development – investment incentives and cluster initiatives – were compared according to the frequency of their occurrence in selected mass media sources in the Czech Republic in the periods 2004-2005 and 2011-2012. Secondly, the mass media image of these two instruments of economic development was evaluated with respect to the frames deductively constructed from literature review. The findings pointed out a higher occurrence of the mass media articles/news dealing with investment incentives. These articles/news were, additionally, more controversial and covered a wider spectrum of frames. Politicians were a relatively more frequent type of actors who created the media message from the articles/news. On the contrary, the mass media articles/news concerning cluster initiatives typically created the frame of positive effects of clusters. The messages were told either by economic experts or by public authority representatives who were closely connected with cluster initiatives. Spatial origin of these messages was rather limited. The definitional vagueness, intangible and uncontroversial nature of cluster initiatives restrained their media appeal.

scholarly journals Relevance of the mass media in Prevention, Education and Contextual Management of COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-146
Author(s):  
Enaidy Reynosa Navarro ◽  
Margit Julia Guerra-Ayala ◽  
Walther Hernán Casimiro-Urcos ◽  
Dolores Vélez-Jiménez ◽  
Nora Consuelo Casimiro-Urcos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
The United States ◽  
Electronic Media ◽  
International Survey ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Prevention Education ◽  
The Media

The purpose of this research was to determine the relevance of the media in the prevention, education and contextual management of COVID-19. Methodology: descriptive non-experimental transectional research. An international survey validated by experts was applied, surveying 1082 people during a month. The countries with the highest participation were Peru, Colombia, Mexico, the United States and Russia. The data was processed using SPSS version 25. 64.7% of the respondents affirmed that the means were decisive in preventing the pandemic; 59.1% recognized the importance of the media for awareness and prevention of the pandemic, and 64% valued the importance of the media for the contextual management of the pandemic; demonstrating a significant relationship between the variables. Contributions: the need for strategic, prudent, ethical and socially responsible communication that benefits citizens in a pandemic situation is highlighted.   Keywords: Mass media; communication; electronic media; social networks; education; prevention

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