scholarly journals MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY: DIGITAL OPTIMISTS AND DIGITAL PESSIMISTS

2017 ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Anka Mihajlov Prokopovic
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Pure Form ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Variable Intensity ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Media And Technology ◽  
The Relationship

This work examines the relationship between mass media and digital technology by following McChesney’s argument (2013) that the division on the technological optimists and technological pessimists is gaining in significance again. The debate between these two currents, which has been ongoing since the beginning of the Internet with variable intensity, has enabled many advantages and many disadvantages brought by the digital age is discussed in its “pure form''. The work is conceptualization of the following themes: the nature of the mass media, the characteristics of digital life, citizens' participation in the creation of content on digital platforms and the future of journalism, as they are seen by these two theoretical approaches.

scholarly journals Theoretical approaches to the study of ethnic identity in the online space

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
З.А. Махмутов
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Information Society ◽  
User Behavior ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Network Communities

Актуальность статьи обусловлена необходимостью осмысления новой реальности, к которой привело развитие информационных и цифровых технологий. Целью исследования является рассмотрение таких концептов, как виртуальная этничность и идентичность. Для их сравнения с реальными эквивалентами были проанализированы особенности виртуального пространства и его влияние на поведение пользователей. Особое внимание в статье было уделено виртуальным этническим сообществам. Они иллюстрируют яркую форму проявления этничности в Интернет-пространстве и новаторские практики, которые реализуют этнические сообщества в эпоху информатизации и цифровизации. Новые условия позволяют рядовым пользователям самим становиться акторами, оказывающими влияние на конструирование виртуальной этнической идентичности. Статья предназначена для исследователей, занимающихся изучением этничности, сетевых сообществ и информационного общества в целом. The relevance of the article is due to the need to comprehend the new reality to which the development of information and digital technology has led. The aim of the study is to examine concepts such as virtual ethnicity and identity. The author analyzed the features of the virtual space and its impact on user behavior to compare the virtual identity with real equivalents. Special attention was paid in the article to such institutions as virtual ethnic communities. This illustrates a vivid form of manifestation of ethnicity in the Internet space and innovative practices that implement ethnic communities in the information and digital age. New conditions allow ordinary users to become actors themselves, who construct virtual ethnic identity. The article is intended for researchers who study ethnicity, network communities and the information society.

Korean Cosmetic Surgery and Digital Publicity: Beauty by Korean Design

2011 ◽  
Vol 141 (1) ◽  
pp. 146-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gloria Davies ◽  
Gil-Soo Han
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Cosmetic Surgery ◽  
Export Market ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Entertainment Media ◽  
Celebrity Culture ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
The Relationship

This article examines the relationship between digital publicity and cosmetic surgery. While focused on South Korea, it also discusses China because of the conspicuous Chinese demand for Korean cosmetic surgery in recent years. In fact, China has become the largest export market for Korean cosmetic surgery. The analysis is based on the premise that there is a vital link between cosmetic surgery and digital technology in both these countries. We argue that the celebrity culture spawned by entertainment media has facilitated the normalisation of cosmetic surgery to the extent that it is commonly viewed, quite unproblematically, as a form of human physiological enhancement. The article examines the publicity surrounding cosmetic surgery (comprising media reports, advertisements and commentaries) to see how it is presented in the Korean media and on the internet. These findings are then considered in relation to the promotion of Korean cosmetic surgery in China.

scholarly journals Peran Media Massa dan Teknologi dalam Transformasi Keintiman di Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-19
Author(s):  
Rinta Arina Manasikana ◽  
Ratna Noviani
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Online Dating ◽  
Active Role ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Current Development ◽  
Patriarchal Culture ◽  
Anthony Giddens ◽  
Media And Technology ◽  
The Way

This research aimed to identify how the current development in technology and mass media is affecting the form and the way people fulfill intimacy in Indonesia by using Anthony Giddens' concept of intimacy transformation. In his book The Transformation of Intimacy Sexuality, Love, and Eroticism in Modern Societies (1992), Giddens stated that there are changes in intimacy relations in society from time to time which are influenced by the pace of modernity. This research showed that there are influences from mass media and technology in changing concept of intimacy and how to fulfill it in society, where previously only recognizing the concept of matchmaking and marriage as way to fulfill it, are now beginning to shift in other ways, such as the use of matchmaking columns in mass media, online dating applications, to the internet and games. However, patriarchal culture is something that still limits change with all existing stereotypes and rules, especially for women. This reflected in the negative stigma of their active role and the potential for sexual harassment in cyberspace when fulfilling intimacy. Keywords: mass media, intimacy, transformation of intimacy, Anthony Giddens

Media, Technology, and New Religious Movements

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shannon Trosper Schorey
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Information Control ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Significant Distinction ◽  
Media And Technology

Since the first edition of theOxford Handbook of New Religious Movements(2004), the growing field of media, religion, and culture has moved at a rapid clip. The previous emphases on theoretical approaches that imagined a significant distinction between online and offline practices has been largely replaced by approaches that attend to the entanglement of digital and physical worlds. Research within this new analytical turn speaks about the Internet and religion in terms of third spaces, distributed materialities or subjectivies, and co-constitutive histories and locations. Highlighted within these works are the negotiations and intersections of consumer practices, popular culture, information control and religious pluralism online. As the field continues to develop, theoretical approaches that emphasize entanglement will help disclose the various relationships of power by which the material practices of religion, media, and technology are produced - allowing scholars to trace robust histories of multiplicity by which the contemporary imaginaries of religion, media, and technology are inherited.

CSR Communication in the Digital Age

2019 ◽  
pp. 71-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Nicoli ◽  
Marcos Komodromos
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Strategic Communication ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Csr Communication ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Practical Implications

The purpose of this chapter is to explore, describe, and offer new directions on corporate social responsibility (CSR) communication in the digital age. CSR communication is in a state of flux as organizations adapt to technological transformations and new communication approaches conducive to the digital age. The chapter draws on current strategic communication trends and CSR communication literature to underline new theoretical and practical implications. The chapter explicates the relationship between CSR, strategic communication, and more recent forms of CSR communication via digital platforms. The Bank of Cyprus is considered as a case study to illustrate how one largely structured organization applies current approaches of CSR communication.

Digital Convergence and IP Divergence

2011 ◽  
pp. 174-194
Author(s):  
Y. Tian
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Copyright Policy ◽  
Digital Convergence ◽  
Trade Wars ◽  
Trade Conflicts ◽  
The U.S

This chapter proposes a legal, political, and social framework for a nation to formulate proper copyright policy and minimize the risk of potential IP trade conflicts in the digital age. It examines the challenges that the Internet and digital technology present to the traditional copyright legal system. It reviews and compares the copyright history in the U.S. and China, and explores major rationales behind copyright policies of these two countries as well as the main reasons why they were able to avert potential IP trade wars in recent years. By drawing on their experiences, the author argues that the interest of a country is only best served by tailoring its IP regimes to its particular economic and social circumstances. The author believes a nation’s copyright policy should always strike a sound balance of IP protection and social development, and makes some specific suggestions on how to achieve this in the digital age.

Digital Gamification in the Tourism Industry

2020 ◽  
pp. 169-203
Author(s):  
Emrah Özkul ◽  
Emre Uygun ◽  
Selen Levent
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Game Design ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Strenuous Work ◽  
Game Environment ◽  
Game Elements ◽  
The Relationship

In today's world where digital technology has become an indispensable part of human life, the use of digital platforms allows people to play various types of games to not only meet their personal needs, but also to keep people's minds away from the strenuous work tempo of daily life. The game is an action that allows people to socialize and gain different experiences and to have a pleasant time. It is limited by certain fixed rules for a purpose, including the outcome of winning and losing as a result of these rules. This action led to the emergence of a concept called gamification along with digitalizing technology. Gamification is the use of game elements, game design, and mechanics in the game environment that enable users to socialize and have fun in non-game environments. This chapter defines the concepts of game, gamification, and gamification in tourism, and examines the digital gamification applications in the tourism industry with certain parameters. Authors emphasize the relationship between tourism and gamification.

scholarly journals The changing nature of consumption and the intensification of McDonaldization in the digital age

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Ritzer ◽  
Steven Miles
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Consumption Experience ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Networked Individualism

In this article, we re-examine the McDonaldization thesis in light of social changes that occurred since the 1990s and notably in light of the onset of digital forms of consumption. The argument is presented that while the theory of McDonaldization remains profoundly relevant to the consumption of bricks-and-mortar locales, it is even more applicable in the digital age, as well as “bricks-and-clicks” consumption sites. The ways in which McDonaldization is played out in three iconic companies, namely, McDonalds, Amazon, and Wal-Mart is critically interrogated. On this basis, the article seeks to understand what the intensification of McDonaldization means for our understanding of the contemporary consumption experience. Arguing that theories are routinely outpaced by the pace of social change, we contend that the digital speeds up processes of rationalization while intensifying levels of consumption. The article concludes by reflecting on what this might mean given that we now live in an age of networked individualism, for our understanding of the relationship between place and consumption: the degree to which digital platforms appear to consumers to be “natural” and thus ideologically powerful, being of particular concern. For this reason, we suggest that the McDonaldization thesis is, in fact, more relevant in the digital future than it was in the bricks-and-mortar past.

scholarly journals Personal Readings and Public Texts: Book Blogs and Online Writing about Literature

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 471-494 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Steiner
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Book Trade ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Sociology Of Literature ◽  
Literary Context ◽  
Social Realm ◽  
Media Systems ◽  
The Relationship

The blogging culture has become an important and integrated part of the book trade and has influenced the publishing, marketing and distribution of literature in North America and in many European countries. However, it is unclear how this potential agency among bloggers operates, and thus far most research has concerned politics, media systems and larger social structures. The present article is a study of the Swedish book blogs during the autumn of 2009 and an attempt to address a small, but significant, part of the Internet influence. The relationship between books and digital technology is complicated and manifold, but it is clear that the Internet has changed how people access books, how they read and how they communicate with others about their reading. Here, the position of the amateur is one that will be discussed in detail in terms of professionalism, strategies and hierarchies. Another issue that will be addressed is the connections between the book bloggers and the book trade, especially the publishers and their marketing departments. The book bloggers operate in a social realm, despite the fact that their writing is personal, and have to be understood in their social, economic and literary context. The Swedish book blogs will be analysed with the help of readerresponse theory, sociology of literature and a book historical perspective on the dissemination of literature.

scholarly journals Suicide Amongst Dentists – Are you at Risk?

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 160-163
Author(s):  
N Vanishree ◽  
J Jeswin ◽  
S Madhusudhan
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Suicide Rate ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
The Internet ◽  
High Suicide Rate ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Commit Suicide

ABSTRACT The fact that dentists are prone to commit suicide has been repeated so many times both in the specialist press and in the mass media that by carrying out a search on the internet, we found that large amount of news considered it to be true. The high suicide rate associated with our profession is treated in diverse ways in the scientific literature myth for few, generally dentists, and statistical data which need further studies for others. In this review we will try to analyse the scientific weight of the studies, searching for factors that may allow us to discover the relationship of the profession to the risk of suicide, analyzing the factors that are linked with dental activities.

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