Skeptical Studies of Language, the Media, and Mass Culture

1988 ◽  
Vol 82 (4) ◽  
pp. 1333-1339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murray Edelman
Keyword(s):  
Mass Culture ◽  
The Media

Adolescência, mídia e drogas: O condicionamento do humano através de mecanismos midiáticos

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marciano Tribess
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Preventive Strategy ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Aldous Huxley ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Society Of The Spectacle ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Michel Henry ◽  
The Media

This book presents the influence exerted by the media on children and adolescents in relation to the early experimentation with psychoactive substances. And the pedagogical-theological intervention as a preventive strategy. The influence on the human being through media mechanisms that condition him to the action expected by the conditioning, has been studied for a long time, by several authors such as Aldous Huxley with his book "Admirável Mundo Novo" that already addressed the conditionality of the human since the decade of 30. In the following decades, other theorists such as Edgar Morin and Guy Debord, analyzed how the human being is conditioned through mass culture and the society of the spectacle. The reality presented in relation to the conditioning of children and adolescents through the media has propelled the author, to seek preventive ways regarding the conditionality of human beings through the media. For that, it analyzed theorists like Paulo Freire and Michel Henry and their discoveries about the mediation of knowledge and the analysis of the Words of Christ and how they can contribute in the elaboration of pedagogical-theological interventions.

scholarly journals Paradigms of the Religious Network Society

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-15
Author(s):  
Adam Bajan
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Exponential Growth ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Hierarchical Structures ◽  
Network Society ◽  
The Media ◽  
Individual Self

Beginning in the early 1970’s with the invention of the microprocessor, mass use of information technologies worldwide coincided with the appearance of a nodally-linked network of digital interconnectivity, or ‘network society’ (Castells, 1996). The network society’s exponential growth correlates with a rise in use of digital networking media by various sects and denominations of the Christian religion. Today, growing numbers of Christian organizations integrate digital media into both their approach to worship and the dissemination of the Holy Scriptures. This paper argues that the use of digital media by these organizations is indicative of the creation of a “religious network society” exhibiting identical structural paradigms to Castells’ (1996) network society. By virtue of the media deployed within it, the ‘religious network society’ fosters a mass culture of digital participation characterized by a rapid fragmentation of religious messaging and an over-sharing of personal religious beliefs. However, the religious network society also erodes Christianity’s hierarchical structures of authority (Turner, 2007). It is argued that these structures are being replaced with a banal form of religion emphasizing spirituality and individual self-expression at the expense of tradition (Campbell, 2012; Hjarvard, 2013). Moreover, purpose alterations to Christianity’s authority structures and approach to worship are indicative of a much larger shift in the religion, in which rising digital media use may in fact imply a decline in Christianity’s societal influence.

scholarly journals Transformation of Value Positions in the Youth Attitude of to Work: A Philosophical Analysis

2019 ◽  
pp. 35-40
Author(s):  
Roman Kobylkin
Keyword(s):  
Mass Culture ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Practical Importance ◽  
Value Orientations ◽  
Information Revolution ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Internet Radio ◽  
The Media ◽  
New Forms Of Work

Most representatives of the modern youth demonstrate formed clip thinking characterized by a loss of skills to analyze, discourse, set logical connections. This not only affects the process of learning and obtaining professional knowledge, but also expresses a change in the attitude to work as one of the most important values against the background of a significant increase in the value of leisure. The transformation of values due to the influence of external factors such as television, Internet, radio, media on consciousness is obvious. The bulk of the media clip thinking is the youth facing serious difficulties in introducing serious creative work and the creation of new values. At present the structure and types of differences in employment are undergoing epoch-making changes. They are expressed in the mixture of traditional and modern trends, the emergence of new forms of work (freelance, downshifting, etc.), as well as in the formation of new trends in the attitude to work. New values such as "success", "pleasure", "power" are formed on the basis of cultural changes in the youth environment. The value paradigm formed in the youth environment under the influence of mass culture in the conditions of the information revolution has become an expression of new needs in the transformation of social reality. Under these conditions, the study of trends in the youth's value attitudes to work is of great theoretical and practical importance. The theoretical basis of this article is grounded on the works of A. Mole, E. Toffler, D. bell, E. Fromm, G. Marcuse, G. McLuhan. Their research papers reflect the changes that began to occur in society in the second half of the XX century and had an impact on the change of value orientations of young people. In our country, these changes were manifested in the generation of the nineties and noughties, and the representatives of this generation are the carriers of new values associated with the consequences of the information revolution.

The ‘hero archetype’ in the neo-mythological context of contemporary screen culture

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 116-126
Author(s):  
Olesya V. Stroeva
Keyword(s):  
Technical Progress ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Structural Elements ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
Happy Ending ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Senses ◽  
Hero Archetype ◽  
Formal Properties

The essay examines the image of the hero in the contemporary neo-mythological field of mass screen culture. The author identifies the main features of the hero archetype and the core cultural meanings forming this concept and analyzes images of the neo-mythological heroes of our time, taking examples of mass cinema and authorial cinema and revealing differences between these two categories. According to the author, mass culture creates the hero model according to the principle of bricolage, remaining within the framework of the Christian eschatological paradigm and synthesizing it with scientific and technical progress or other elements but not reproducing the structure of the archaic myth. When the stereotype of happy ending replaces tragedy, it completely changes the true archetype of the hero more characteristic of art-house or authorial cinema. Examining the films of Jim Jarmusch and Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu, the author analyzes the method of deconstruction in authorial cinema, a cinema which seeks to reveal the meanings of the archaic hero archetype. If mass cinema acts within the simulacrum system without transcending its limits endlessly repeating the same models and often using only superficial formal properties authorial cinema tries to explode the structure in such a way as to widen the boundaries of the senses or to discover them under the layers of simulacra. Thus, screen culture has the characteristics of a neo-mythology, forming the neo-myth and developing its elements and structures, producing a stream of neo-mythological images in the media landscape. The conglomerate of various structural elements borrowed from different traditions fully reflects the postmodern situation that turns symbols and archetypes into a set of simulacra. The era of postmodernism is a stage in the development of culture characterized by the problem of the impossibility of creating anything new. Postmodernism is a creative crisis which leads to excessive visuality and, paradoxically, to visualitys death.

Rural Ambivalence Toward Mass Society: Evidence from the U.S. Parcel Post Debates, 1900–1913

Rural History ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard B. Kielbowicz
Keyword(s):  
Mass Culture ◽  
Consumer Choice ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Consumer Society ◽  
Mass Society ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Cost

For rural Americans, the debate over establishing a parcel post evoked all the hopes and anxieties associated with the expansion of mass society at the turn of the century. Parcel post, today an accepted and seemingly inconsequential government service, was originally seen as a linchpin in the emerging industry of mass culture. The media of mass communication advertised products and ran stories acclimating readers to a consumer society, thereby encouraging demand for mass-produced goods that were distributed, finally, by parcel post. Opponents of parcel post foresaw a decline of small towns, a centralization of production and distribution, a disruption of the ‘natural’ relations among labor, retailers, and consumers, and the aggrandizement of urban culture. At the other extreme, proponents claimed that parcel post would increase consumer choice, reduce the cost of living, and bridge the widening chasm between urban and rural life. Thus, the simple act of carrying a parcel from Chicago to a farmer's lane became freighted with a panoply of issues agitating the nation.

scholarly journals Communicative Strategies of an Interviewer Yury Dud: A Linguist’s View of the Media Phenomenon in Mass Culture

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 263-277
Author(s):  
O. S. Issers
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Communicative Behavior ◽  
Mass Audience ◽  
Social Communications ◽  
Communicative Strategies ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Show Business ◽  
The Media ◽  
Modern Mass

Purpose. The article examines the methods of building dialogue in interviews conducted by the popular video blogger and journalist Yury Dud, who is named the main hero of Russian cultural life in 2020 by Forbes Life. To determine his individual style, the author analyzes strategies of communicative behavior. The following parameters are the most significant for the description of interviewing strategies: thematic repertoire and thematic dominants of the conversation; methods of requesting/extracting information; methods of interpreting and evaluating what the interlocutor said; the choice of language code. The empirical basis of the study contains interviews by Yu. Dud with various interlocutors – journalists, TV presenters, cultural and show business figures, politicians, and other public figures, uploaded on the YouTube video hosting service in the period of 2017–2020. The analysis of more than 40 programs allows observing a wide range of techniques of a journalist, depending on the “addressee factor”.Results. The key topics that are regularly discussed in interviews are identified, including those that violate ethical taboos (about sex, bad behavior, and bad habits, judgments and hot takes on colleagues and senior officials, etc.). The thematic repertoire is considered as a deliberate communicative choice of a journalist, conditioned by the dramaturgy of public dialogue addressed to a mass audience and the tasks of portrayal.The author reveals the distinctive methods of requesting information and eliciting facts, which is inherent to the journalistic style of Yu. Dud: illocutionary forcing reasoning (“why-questions”), clarifying questions, reformulating, role modeling of relations with a guest, where the journalist often pretends being dilettante. Interpretation and evaluation of the interlocutor's statements are based on the clearest identification of their position for the mass addressee by an explication of ideas expressed by the guest implicitly, “delegation of opinion”, and the effects of “insight”.The choice of the language code indicates the “discursive adaptation” of the journalist to his interlocutor and allows the journalist to reveal to the mass audience their personality, including their speech characteristics. The dynamism of the dialogue is due to the setting to dramatize the conversation scenario: this is manifested not only in the choice of somewhat unexpected topics of conversation, but also in the expression of one's attitude to the statements of the interlocutor, explicit/implicit assessments, and the choice of the speech code.Conclusion. It is concluded that Dud’s interviews are a vivid example of the trends of modern Internet journalism, and the communicative strategies he implements allow us to see the prospects for the development of the genre. Given the popularity of the genre in traditional and new media, the author notices that the interview not only reflects the features of social communications of the 21st century but is also a powerful factor of shaping modern mass culture.

scholarly journals Post Media Literacy: Menyaksikan Kuasa Media Bersama Michel Foucault

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Iswandi Syahputra
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Control Process ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
The Media ◽  
New Space ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Unique Style

This article would like to present Michel Foucault’s idea concerning Knowledge and Power in media industry. As a contemporary intellectual, Foucault’s thought has a unique style of postmodernism. His thought had gone beyond traditional critical theory whose trying to disclose the relation of power and economic behind the ideology of media. Foucault’s thought had given new perspective in understanding how the media produce truth under tightly control process into something that seems normal. With the assumption of media has the power to create mass culture, which has to be studied critically by media literacy approach, Foucault’s thought had given new space of discursive. An alternative thought on how to estimate the work of mass media as supervisor of truth and creator of information trough normalization practice.

scholarly journals The elusive «І» or an identity crisis

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Culture ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Component Structure ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
The Media ◽  
Individual Consciousness ◽  
The Subject ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Relationship Of

At the present stage of development of society the problem of identification and self- identification of the person becomes actual one. Individual consciousness is split by the influence of mass culture, the use of technologies of consciousness change, for example, in situations of formation of public opinion, the absolutization of any facet of a person (a person who produces, a person who consumes, etc.). The problem of self-identification without understanding the essence of man cannot be solved. The essential characteristic of man is consciousness. As a generic characteristic, consciousness is manifested in each individual through the prism of the unique essence of a particular personality. The component structure of consciousness includes will, knowledge, emotions (volitional, rational-mental and emotional-sensual spheres) and self-consciousness. Modern deconstruction of personality is carried out mainly through deconstruction of the rational-mental sphere; therefore, there is reason to assume that the relationship of this component with others is a backbone. Analysis of the absolutization of other components of consciousness (will and emotions) shows that formlessness or emptiness is what the essence of a person becomes when such a component as rationality is removed from his consciousness. Postmodernism captures the «death of the subject». He emphasizes the impossibility of an independent individual consciousness. The subject is transformed into an instrument of blind impersonal social processes. Information technology is used to influence people's minds. A person begins to represent reality not in accordance with his personal perception, but through its reflection in the media. From the above we can see all the difficulties of self-determination in the information society. Information society and mass culture replicated by it lead to internal disharmony and fragmentary personality. This could lead to her false identification. Therefore, it is necessary to be clearly aware of the situation, so that there is no substitution of the personality by the«likeness», that is, not to become a «quasi-personality». To resist the existing state of affairs, the subject must be only integral one on the personal and generic levels, and not fragmented, "decentralized" individual, devoid of self-awareness and clear identity. Therefore, modern man needs to develop the ability to form his own judgment and strive to penetrate into the essence of processes and phenomena.

scholarly journals LA CULTURA DE MASAS Y LOS MEDIOS DE COMUNICACIÓN. SU INCIDENCIA EN LA SOCIEDAD

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Elba Orfelia Domaccin Aros
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Culture Media ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The Media ◽  
Medios De Comunicacion

La cultura de masas consigue fabricar a gran escala, con técnicas y procedimientos  industriales,  ideas,  sueños  e  ilusiones,  estilos  personales  y hasta una vida privada en gran parte producto de una técnica, subordinada a una rentabilidad y a la tensión permanente entre la creatividad y la estandarización,  apta  para  poder  ser  asimilada  por  el  ciudadano  de  clase media. En la actualidad, los medios de comunicación constituyen una herramienta persuasiva que nos permiten mantenernos en continua comunicación con los distintos sucesos sociales, políticos y económicos tanto a escala nacional como internacional. PALABRAS CLAVE: cultura de masas; medios de comunicación; creatividad; estandarización. ABSTRACT Mass culture manages to manufacture on a large scale, with industrial techniques and procedures, ideas, dreams and illusions, personal styles and even a private life largely the product of a technique, subordinated to a profitability and the permanent tension between creativity and Standardization, capable of being assimilated by the middle-class citizen. At present, the media is a persuasive tool that allows us to keep in constant communication with the different social, political and economic events, both nationally and internationally. KEYWORDS: mass culture; media; creativity; standardization.

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