scholarly journals Global contradictions and education for democracy

2005 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-20
Author(s):  
Zoran Avramovic
Keyword(s):  
Professional Education ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Global Democracy ◽  
Uncertain Outcome ◽  
Universal Solution ◽  
The Media ◽  
Education For Democracy

The paper presents a critical approach to globalization as a major social process nowadays and globalization as an ideology. Globalization is a contradictory process of modern society with uncertain outcome. Ideologists of democracy would like to find a universal solution to modern-day problems in this power order. In the 20th century problems with democracy multiplied with the increasingly important role of the media, confrontations in multinational countries and political manipulations. The UN endorses the restriction of national sovereignty for the benefit of democracy and human rights. However, in reality this idea is often used for the sake of certain geopolitical interests. The paper points out difficulties of education for "global" democracy. Problems of professional education in schools are discussed. The conclusion emphasizes the problem of incorporating global differences in national educational programs for democracy.

scholarly journals The role of media in the construction of social reality

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanja Nišić ◽  
Divna Plavšić
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
The State ◽  
The Social ◽  
Media Construction ◽  
Rapid Spread ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Impact

Th is paper analyzes the concept of media construction of reality and its impacton society. Recognizing the growing infl uence and importance of themedia in a man’s daily life, it can be said that the media and media cultureitself are an important factor in modern society. Th e media have the abilityto place information and to provide to the citizens-consumers to accept themwithout critical and conscious interpretation and real understanding. An importantfactor in the development of the media is and technological advancesthat contributed to the rapid spread of the media and gave more power to thepresentation of reality and the state of society as it corresponds to the creatorsand the “constructors” of that reality. By understanding Baudrillard and hisunderstanding of the simulation, we will present the impact and role of themedia in constructing the social reality (simulation of reality).

scholarly journals Application of innovative technology "Media Synergy" in the process of training specialists at the technical university in the conditions of digitalization of education

2020 ◽  
Vol 210 ◽  
pp. 18012
Author(s):  
Tatiana Vlasova ◽  
Evgenia Krasnova
Keyword(s):  
Professional Education ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Educational Technologies ◽  
Innovative Technology ◽  
Media Space ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
Technical University ◽  
Ethical Component ◽  
Manipulative Techniques

The article is devoted to the innovative technology of upbringing students "Media synergy", which was used for four years of training teachers at the technical University in a prolonged experiment. Special attention is paid to the analysis of educational technologies that are used in higher foreign and domestic professional education, including information, health-saving, subject, media, upbringing, in the conditions of digitalization of all spheres of life in modern society. The article substantiates a set of conceptual ideas that allowed us to determine the criteria of the spiritual and ethical component of the existential period of students. Models of the "Media synergy" technology were developed; the results of the application of innovative technology were summarized, which allowed to realize the main goal in the professional education of teachers – to overcome the pseudo-virtual picture of the world in the minds of students through synergetic relationships between equal partners and through interaction based on anti-manipulative techniques in the media space.

The Problem of Governance from an Autopoietic Perspective (and a Critical Comment on the Role of ICT)

2010 ◽  
pp. 13-21
Author(s):  
Amanda J. Gregory
Keyword(s):  
Main Part ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Critical Comment ◽  
Perceived Benefits ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Role Of Government ◽  
Steering Mechanism ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Role Of Information

The aim of this chapter is to examine the role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the governance of modern society from an autopoietic perspective. For the main part, discussions of ICT use by government have focused on either practical issues, dissemination issues, or the assessment of perceived benefits of e-government initiatives; in this chapter a more critical approach will be adopted. This chapter will adopt an autopoietic view in seeking to address the role of government as a steering mechanism in modern society and the use of ICT as an instrument of governance by administrators.

Journalism and Professional Education: A Contradiction in Terms?

2008 ◽  
Vol 126 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Nolan
Keyword(s):  
Professional Education ◽  
Careful Consideration ◽  
Important Influence ◽  
Journalism Education ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Analytical Perspective ◽  
Journalistic Professionalism

This article revisits a set of long-standing debates to suggest how the role of universities in providing a ‘professional education’ in journalism might be (re)considered. Existing arguments over journalism education identify a need to move beyond the limiting frame of a presumed ‘industry–academic dichotomy’ to develop a more critical approach to professional education. While supporting this direction, this article draws on work suggesting that a more careful consideration of both the concept of professionalism and its implications for stakeholders is required. It argues that, by approaching professionalism as a discursive and socially valorised basis of identity rather than simply a series of ‘traits’, a more analytical perspective on how universities are both subject to and implicated in processes of ‘professionalisation’ is gained. These processes situate universities as both major stakeholders in, and an increasingly important influence on, emergent formations of journalistic professionalism.

scholarly journals Informaciniai nutylėjimai: priežastys ir pasekmės

2014 ◽  
Vol 68 ◽  
pp. 127-146
Author(s):  
Mantas Martišius
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
General Context ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
The Public ◽  
The People ◽  
The Media ◽  
Political Economic

Šiuolaikinėje visuomenėje žiniasklaida atlieka svarbią funkciją. Ji ne tik informuoja, teikia pramogą ar šviečia, bet ir kuria bendrąjį kontekstą. Žiniasklaidos temų darbotvarkės kūrimas formuoja visuomenės temų darbotvarkę. Medijos teikiamos informacijos kokybė lemia visuomenėje naudojamo diskurso lygį, o pastarasis turi įtakos bendrųjų politinių, ekonominių ar socialinių klausimų sprendimui. Siūlomas naujas teorinis bendrojo konteksto nagrinėjimo aspektas – informacinis nutylėjimas. Informaciniai nutylėjimai – tai svarbios informacijos nepasakymas, kuris veikia bendrąjį kontekstą. Empirinis tyrimas nėra atliekamas, nes siekiama į reiškinį pažvelgti komunikacijos teorijos aspektu. Kitas aspektas, kad informacinių nutylėjimų empirinis nagrinėjimas vestų prie konkrečios istorijos pateikimo analizės. Būtų prarastas holistinis teorinis požiūris į informacinį nutylėjimą, kai, pateikiant informaciją ir sąmoningai ar atsitiktinai dalį svarbių žinių, duomenų ar faktų paliekant paraštėse, kuriamas nevisavertis visuomenės informuotumas. Straipsnio tikslas – analitiniu teoriniu būdu panagrinėti informacinio nutylėjimo reiškinį, jį sieti su propaganda ir bendrojo konteksto formavimu. Aptarti informacinio nutylėjimo priežastis ir poveikį Jurgeno Habermaso viešosios erdvės teorijos aspektu.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: informacinis nutylėjimas, propaganda, bendrasis kontekstas, žiniasklaida. Informative veiling: causes and consequencesMantas Martišius SummaryIn the modern society, the media play an important role. They not only inform, educate and provide entertainment, but also provide to the people the general context. Creating the news, the media shape the public agenda. The information provided by the media determine the quality of society’s discourse level and affect the political, economic, and social issues. The article theoretically proposes a new aspect of the examination, which is the information veiling. Informative veiling is an important information suppressing, which affects understanding of the context of general events. The information veiling can be intentional or accidental, but the effect will be the suppressing of important knowledge, data or facts and their unbalanced awareness. The purpose of the article is to examine analytically and theoretically the phenomenon of information veiling, linking it with propaganda and the context formation in general. In the deliberate or accidental information veiling, the result appears to be similar. Such information creates a weakly informed audience which is not using the valuable information for making the most effective decisions. If the public space is dominated by a large percentage of information veiling news, in society evolve myths, false assessments, and incorrect conclusions. In order to reduce the influence of information veiling, the audience should be careful as to the source of information and its expected effect. Examination of the media interest in the material reduces its propagandistic effect, and a more critical approach to the media coverage could reduce the information influence on the audience. On the other hand, we have to admit that it is a more idealistic approach rather than the reality.

scholarly journals The interaction of peoples and cultures in the context of Muslim integration into society in Sweden: problems and prospects

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-114
Author(s):  
S. Yu. Dianina
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Politics ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Communication Link ◽  
Integration Policy ◽  
Integration Process ◽  
Islamic Religion ◽  
Swedish Society ◽  
The Media

The article is devoted to studying the problems of integration of the Islamic religion representatives into the indigenous Sweden society. The relevance of the study is provided by several factors, including an increase in the pace of migration, an intensification of the role of the «Islamic factor» on a global scale and in the countries of the Scandinavian region, an increased level of secularization of modern society in Sweden, etc. The latter factor often entails ignorance of religious rules and norms by members of society, including Islam, which can lead to uncomfortable situations, misunderstandings, disagreements and the growth of contradictions. It is the matter of interest that such «isolation» of Swedes from religion as a whole leaves room for migrants to practice their own religion in Swedish society. At the same time, religious and cultural rules and rituals undergo changes, tuning in to certain cultural filters and adapting to the everyday life of Swedes. In order to identify difficulties in the integration process, a number of differences in social and cultural rituals are analyzed, as well as the place of immigrants and their values in the modern society of the country. At present, not only external factors that affect the specific characteristics of modern society in the Scandinavian countries (values, norms, preferences, lifestyle, etc.) are changing, but also significant changes are taking place within the societies of these countries themselves. Taking these changes into account creates prerequisites for the development of a successful integration process, allows you to predict the reaction of people to different processes and events, thereby preventing a clash of sides and setting the direction of cultural and integration policy.The media in its close interaction with various components of intercultural communication play a crucial role in the processes of international and interregional integration, as an essential communication link for the whole region of the Nordic countries and contribute to solving relevant to the region the problem of finding the optimal balance between different models of ethnic politics.

Medialisierung und Mediatisierung

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Birkner
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Societal Change ◽  
Research Focus ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Media Change ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media And Communication

Mediatization is of the most successful yet most often discussed approaches used in media and communication studies. The issues of media change and societal change are central in this respect, with two traditions having developed, which examine the role of the media in our modern society in different ways (qualitative v quantitative methods). The research focus could be divided between a) changes to communication in humans’ daily lives, for example through smartphones, and b) influences of the mass media in different areas of society such as politics, the economy and sport. The second edition of this book, which has been revised and updated, explains the origins of these approaches, presents key studies and findings on them and discusses their similarities and differences.

The Autonomy of Law and the Formation of Network Standards

2004 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 639-668 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Vesting
Keyword(s):  
Modern Society ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Technical Standards ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
The Media ◽  
Software And Hardware ◽  
Internet Law ◽  
Rule Making

In the recent discussion on Internet law and regulation it has often been argued that technical standards have a significant impact on the variety and diversity of the Net's communication flows. This Article extends this argument, focusing on the ability to constrain Net communication through “code” and “architecture” imposed by network technology, i.e., by a source of rule-formation and rule-making beyond the traditional law of nation-states. Although I am generally sympathetic to the position that a novel “Lex Informatica” poses new legal and political challenges for nation-states, it should, however, be clear from the outset that the attention for “code” and “architecture” is something different to a paraphrase of the ever-expanding role of technology in modern society. This has to be emphasized because the discourse of “the technological”, which was already a prominent subject in the anti-modernist debate during the Weimar Republic, still casts a shadow on the contemporary legal discussion about the role of technical standards on the Internet. Lawrence Lessig, for example, confronted with a strict anti-governmentalism of cyber-libertarians in the mid-nineties, argues inCode and other Laws of Cyberspacethat the Internet is regulated by “code”, i.e. “the software and hardware that make Cyberspace what it is”. “Code” itself is embedded in an environment of economic power and corresponding political interests. In a nutshellLessigpaints a picture in which the Internet is developing towards an intolerable density of control by powerful coalitions of technical experts and economic enterprises. This view may be convincing in some respects, but with his accent on “code”, Lessig comes very close to the anti-modernist reaction to the growing significance of film and radio in the early 20th century, inasmuch as both strands are based on the misconception of a technological superstructure steering the (media) world and its further evolution.

scholarly journals Education for democracy or democratic education?

2020 ◽  
pp. 39-49
Author(s):  
Zinaida Igorevna Rozhkova
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Elementary Education ◽  
Democratic Education ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Democratic Schools ◽  
Article Analysis ◽  
Education For Democracy ◽  
Younger Generation

This article examines the phenomenon of democratic education and the role of democratization of education in modern society. The subject of this research define the main goal: it is necessary to assess the level of impact of democratic education upon the formation of critical thinking among younger generation. Within the framework of this article, analysis was conducted on the theoretical works of the researchers of humanities, legislative documents and reports dedicated to the questions of education policy. The author also covers the examples of practical implementation of the principles of democratic education in history and modernity; as well as considers the experience of such democratic schools and Summerhill and Sudbury Valley. The conclusion is made that the principles of democratic schools are not always widely implemented in the society. However, despite the criticism of democratic education worldwide, the principles of democratization of education are used ubiquitously from elementary education to higher education. This is testified by the examples of the successfully functioning democratic schools. Namely democratic and democratized education lay the foundation for upbringing of the national members of civil society due to the flexibility and adjustment of education to the needs of modern society. Such school can be justifiably considered as one of the best models for the development of critical thinking among younger generation due to holistic development of children.

scholarly journals The language of the media as an indicator of the language culture of modern society

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maryna Lysyniuk
Keyword(s):  
Modern Society ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
National Language ◽  
Literary Language ◽  
Systematic Observation ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Media ◽  
Perception Of Politics

The purpose of the article is to analyze the current state of the language of the Ukrainian media as an indicator of the linguistic culture of modern society. Research methodology. The interdisciplinary nature of the study led to the use of general scientific methods, in particular, unstructured systematic observation and descriptive technique. The scientific novelty lies in the generalization of linguistic trends in modern media, in explaining the reasons for linguistic shifts in recent decades. The article notes the dominant position in the stylistic system of our time of the language of the media, which has become the main factor in the productive functioning of the Ukrainian language, a factor that determines its cultural, historical, and historical and linguistic originality. In addition, the language of the media plays the role of a kind of model of the national language in the information society, largely shaping literary norms, language tastes, and preferences, influencing the perception of politics, art, literature, and the like. Hence the urgent need to comply with the language of the media literary norms. Conclusions. The conclusions note that one of the most important areas of studying the cultural aspect of the language of the media is to find out how the latter affects culture. The essence of this influence lies in the fact that the language of the media, which covers practically unlimited topics, significantly affects the literary language, and through it, the culture. The language of the media enriches the literary language, saturating it with evaluative turns, forming a refined language, developing techniques, and methods of discussion and polemics. Developing a literary language, the language of the media also contributes to the development of culture due to, for example, the qualities of speech such as flexibility, wealth, and a variety of functions. It is emphasized that the power and advantage of journalism plays an important role in the language of the media - in the direct impact on the addressee, the audience. Therefore, the mission of a journalist is to positively influence the mass audience, to correct its motivation, behavior, and worldview. It is concluded that the language of the media should be exemplary in terms of the competent use of linguistic ethics, correct word usage, the richness of vocabulary, expressive word-formation. Attention is drawn to the fact that the role of neological vocabulary in the media, which reflects the current processes in society, remains a problem in media speech. Further research is also required by the question of the characteristics of the media language and the prospects for its development.

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