scholarly journals View of Polish and Russian Media on Euro 2012: Comparing and Contrasting

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 169-182
Author(s):  
L. A. Tsyganova ◽  
L. Bieszke
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
Football Fans ◽  
Youth Subcultures ◽  
The Media ◽  
Run Up ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The One ◽  
The Guardian

Considering the role of the media in modern society, we need to understand that public opinion about football fans in general is formed out of the information transmitted by the media. The objective of the study is to analyze the different views and aspects of the Euro 2012: its influence on countries development; its profitability but also the behavior of fans – their cooperation and rivalry. However, contemporary scholarship on sports sociology and football fandom subcultures does not recognize class impact on the near-football movement. European Football Championship 2012 showed problems of development and regulation of football fanaticism. It is essential to see how events on Euro 2012 in Poland, collision and confrontation Polish and Russian fans were reflected in Russian, Polish and UK press “Sport-Express”, “Soviet Sport”, “Rossiyskaya Gazeta”, “Gazeta Wyborcza”, “Gazeta Polska”, “The Independent” and “The Guardian”. Football fans’, organization, and culture require precise studies, not only for understanding of current situation, but, perhaps, also for the development of an adequate strategy of interaction with them in the run-up to the World Cup in 2018. It is also necessary to identify not only the relationship of this movement to the different sectors of society, but also a subculture itself and its image in public opinion shaped by the media. In the era of globalization, understanding of youth subcultures is complicated and leads to a paradox. At the moment, there is a modification of the fan movement. On the one hand, we see the transition from bullying to the cultural «fanatism»; on the other hand, the question arises, if the bullies were an integral part of this culture, do we talk about the death or rebirth of culture? Youth subcultures in the era of postmodernism and globalization are transformed, into the phenomenon of «postsubculture», and may enhance the destructive tendencies in the spiritual life of the young generation, increasing the level of nihilistic attitudes. It should also be noted that the movement of football fans is becoming mainstream. There has been an increase in the popularity of fandom in society. This is due to the attention to this phenomenon in the media, in the cinema and fiction. 

Children as Commodities: Conflicting Discourses of Protection and Abuse of Children

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 231-244
Author(s):  
Pamela Schulz
Keyword(s):  
Modern Society ◽  
Modern Democracy ◽  
Keywords And Phrases ◽  
The Press ◽  
Secure Environment ◽  
The Media ◽  
Legal Frameworks ◽  
The One ◽  
Media Discourses ◽  
Language Construct

In modern society children are valued and nurtured, and it is often stated in media discourses across a variety of platforms and via the press and elsewhere, particularly by politicians, that “Children are our future”. Thus, they deserve the best education and a safe and secure environment in order to thrive and become a part of society. To this end, this study looks at how the media and its language construct children as a commodity in the economy who are used by media as a barometer for society and its commitment to decency and community. However, on closer inspection, a disturbing discourse of division emerges showing the community is split on how best to care and protect our children so that they may partake of that future. Children are used to promote viewpoints (or even ideologies) by celebrities who use their children as exemplars of their parenting style. In addition, children are used by media as a measure of whether a modern democracy is fair or decent in its application of law. From issues related to the pester power through which marketers use children to sell products to the lure of the internet, children are used to make money or seek access to it. Most modern legal frameworks actively support the maintenance of children within culture and kinship groups, yet thousands of children each year are deliberately separated from their parents who are encouraged by marketing ploys to send their children to other parts of the world for education or to seek a migration outcome. This study suggests that modern democratic societies are not consistent in their discourses which, on the one hand, seek to promote active support for the care and wellbeing of children and, on the other, continue a divisive discourse about appropriate responses. In this analysis and commentary, italics are used to give emphasis to keywords and phrases.

scholarly journals The Loss of the Popular: Reconstructing Fifty Years of Studying Popular Culture

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 228-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joke Hermes ◽  
Jan Teurlings
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Voting Behavior ◽  
Defining Moment ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Media Objects ◽  
The Media ◽  
Filter Bubbles ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The One

This article starts from the observation that popular culture resides in a contradictory space. On the one hand it seems to be thriving, in that the range of media objects that were previously studied under the rubric of popular culture has certainly expanded. Yet, cultural studies scholars rarely study these media objects <em>as</em> popular culture. Instead, concerns about immaterial labor, about the manipulation of voting behavior and public opinion, about filter bubbles and societal polarization, and about populist authoritarianism, determine the dominant frames with which the contemporary media environment is approached. This article aims to trace how this change has come to pass over the last 50 years. It argues that changes in the media environment are important, but also that cultural studies as an institutionalizing interdisciplinary project has changed. It identifies “the moment of popular culture” as a relatively short-lived but epoch-defining moment in cultural studies. This moment was subsequently displaced by a set of related yet different theoretical problematics that gradually moved the study of popular culture away from the popular. These displacements are: the hollowing out of the notion of the popular, as signaled early on by Meaghan Morris’ article “The Banality of Cultural Studies” in 1988; the institutionalization of cultural studies; the rise of the governmentality approach and a growing engagement with affect theory.

Language in the news: investigating representations of ‘Englishness’ using WordSmith Tools

Corpora ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Astrid Ensslin ◽  
Sally Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Approach ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Ideologies ◽  
Linguistic Anthropology ◽  
The Media ◽  
Systematic Understanding ◽  
The Times ◽  
The One ◽  
The Guardian ◽  
And Linguistics

It is not uncommon to hear linguists lamenting the misrepresentation of language whenever linguistic subjects are taken up by the media. Ironically, though, we have relatively little systematic understanding of the ways in which language is actually dealt with in, and by, those media. This paper describes a project that aimed to explore the ways in which themes relating to language and linguistics are represented in a corpus of articles gathered from two British newspapers, The Times and The Guardian. The software programme WordSmith Tools (Scott, 2004) was used to identify those ‘key’ keywords that were most likely to occur in conjunction with the node terms language, languages, linguistic and linguistics. The applied methodology, which combines a quantitative analysis of keyword lists, concordances and collocations with a qualitative, discourse-analytical approach, reveals a number of ways in which issues related to the English language are debated in this particular sector of the print media. As could be expected, statistically-derived linguistic data suggest that English is predominantly represented in terms of a monolithic standard. Deeper insight was given by a close collocational analysis, which demonstrated that representations of the English language further subdivide into six partially conflicting categories relating to abuse and victimisation (inferiority presupposition), and, to a considerably larger extent, to commodification, empowerment and fetishisation (superiority presupposition). The findings are explored in the context of recent debates within sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology on the representation of language, on the one hand, and the construction of language ideologies, on the other.

scholarly journals Technokracja i demagogia

2010 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 193-210
Author(s):  
Stanisław Gałkowski
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Liberal Approach ◽  
The One ◽  
The Masses ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Voice

A modern society cannot function without experts in every field and without high level specialists. Before any undertaking is initiated, an issue of effectiveness emerges, one which only they may ensure. At the same time, however, it tends to be forgotten that there is no such thing as ‘just effectiveness’; there is only effectiveness in meeting the targets adopted. Technocracy, in itself, does not issue any social objectives. On the one hand, this is in  accordance with the liberal approach, which demands the neutrality of the state; on the other hand, however, it may lead, at the very least, to dangers to democracy, to the possible collaboration of technocrats with a totalitarian government, with this group possibly resorting to populism (that is, to an unthinking subordination to the demands of the masses) and, third, to an attempt to govern on their own by demagogy, making the voice of public opinion subject to its rule.

scholarly journals The Formation of Teachers’ Media Competencies as a Problem of Modern Pedagogy

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-76
Author(s):  
Aida TOPUZYAN ◽  
Lusine POGHOSYAN
Keyword(s):  
Media Literacy ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Parental Education ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Media Education ◽  
Correct Selection ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Innovative Methods ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One

In the 21st century, modern society learns and lives with new rules and laws. They are dictated by the surrounding reality. If education is cut off from modern life, then it can not be of interest to the pupils, which would make it ineffective. The introduction of information technologies is one of the keys to organizing effective education for pupils. Therefore, the role of the teacher in this process is extremely important. Teacher’s media competencies are aimed at pupils' correct selection and interpretation of media content, their perception and understanding of the content, avoiding manipulation, and literate media use. Our research among learners, teachers, parents shows that the use of media in modern schools is not widespread. Teachers rarely use media technologies during lessons and, as a rule, they are not aimed at the development of the pupils' media literacy, but act as meeting the demand of applying innovative methods and technical means. In order to organize children's media education, to use media tools, to identify teachers' level of media literacy, and to develop media competencies, studies have been conducted in various secondary schools. The studies show that some teachers don't know exactly what the media is. The responses of some of the teachers who participated in the survey show that teachers do not exactly understand the nature of the media, the forms, the answers of many of them are different and incomplete. Teachers are mostly unaware of media technologies and do not realize its role in the upbringing and development of children. Summing up the results of surveys of teachers, children, and their parents, we came to the conclusion that the central role in the implementation of media education is played by the teacher. He is the pedagogue of ICT and the media the one who carries out parental education; he is the one who turns students into media educators. So it is necessary to help the teacher and the future teachers in carrying out their mission. All this forced us to try to develop the following media competencies of teachers and in parallel, determine the pupil's media competencies.

scholarly journals Patriotism as a key note of Russian young education in modern society

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 195-199
Author(s):  
Elena Leonidovna Krylova
Keyword(s):  
Modern Society ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
Complex Approach ◽  
Patriotic Education ◽  
High Quality Information ◽  
The Media ◽  
Special Knowledge ◽  
Universal Values ◽  
Productive Development

The article states that patriotism is considered to be a key note of Russian youths education, and the complex approach in the process of patriotic thinking development is highlighted. The mechanism of patriotic education consists of methods and means of development, functioning and saving moral-ethic ideology of patriotic orientation. The article proves the significance of young education that is based on such principles as respect of historical background, love for country and for national culture, as it is youth who provides productive development of a strong country and healthy society. The connection, where the core is universal values, between prosperous future of a country and youths patriotic thinking is established. It is proved that true patriotism can only be aroused, but not dictated because young generation overreacts informational pressure. In these conditions, the aim of the media is to create a high quality information product adapted to the young audience. In this regard, media activity is considered as a complex of purposeful activities based on a combination of special knowledge, skills and values which develop the senses of love and loyalty to their country, readiness to defend their people, country and its interests.

scholarly journals Социально-информационное конструирование и информационная культура современного российского общества

2019 ◽  
pp. 69-73
Author(s):  
O.A. Vertiyevets
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
Common Information ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One

Социальное конструирование в информационно-коммуникативной сфере является важнейшим элементом современного информационно-коммуникативного пространства. Лавинообразное увеличение объемов информации и коммуникативных взаимодействий сформировало информационно-коммуникативные потоки, захлестнувшие человека. Это расширило рамки используемых им социокультурных паттернов. Включенность в потоковые информационно-коммуникативные структуры значительно сократило возможности рефлексивного осмысления и переработки получаемой информации, внедрив в современные информационно-коммуникативные практики пассивно-созерцательные схемы восприятия. В статье раскрываются и анализируются модели социального конструирования в информационно-коммуникативном поле стратегии и технологии мифологизации и симулякризации информации, направленной на управляющее ментальное воздействие в сфере индивидуального сознания отдельных людей, образующих целевые аудитории, и на общественное сознание выделенных сообществ со сходными идентификационными признаками целевых групп.Modern people, immersed in intensive information and communication flows, do not perceive the surrounding world on the basis of personal experience, subordinated to the algorithmized authorized requirements of the normative value system of the society. They perceive it through these flows determination by protocols and algorithms of everyday sociocultural practices and mental schemes frames, focused on maintaining social consensus. The actualization of the mental algorithms and schemes, sanctioned in the community and integrated in the common information and communication field in the context of information redundancy, has led to the predominance of subconscious immediate reactions to what is happening in the environment of the event thus, the choice of social actions becomes an instant reaction based on the choice of a particular model of social action, and this choice is actually prescribed by the collective unconscious. Under these conditions, the more communicative support in the form of repetitions, judgments of various experts and analysts such information receives (public response), the more active people and social institutions act in the given vector of social activity. The preservation and deepening of the asymmetry of distribution and interpretation of information in society results in the homogenization of meanings. The perception of the outside world based on personal experience is replaced by a visually illustrated description of events and life conflicts in the media that generate mediareality, including in social networks in the Internet space. Social roleplaying narratives are common there. The result is a sociocommunicative field with high emotional stress, which produces an emotional echo in the public opinion of the target group emotional ressponse based, on the one hand, on the averaging of public opinion and, on the other hand, on the multiple strengthening of emotional impact and empathy to the interpretation, perceived as normative and acceptable, of a social and communicative construct that is designed to integrate the target audience of the information and communicative impact. Therefore, peoples modern perception of reality in the information and communication field is constructed on the schemes that adapt people to a collective average public opinion and partially design and supplement the image of the world around with the use of factoids taking into account peoples personal experience and conditions of their rootedness in community to which they belongs, according to the Veblen effect.

scholarly journals ‘They are just children!’ The Symbol of Childhood in Political Mobilization of Modern Russia

2021 ◽  
pp. 188-197
Author(s):  
Tat'yana Ryabova ◽  
Lyudmila Kleschenko
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Political Rhetoric ◽  
Political Mobilization ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One

The first part of the paper describes the theoretical aspects of the issues regarding the politicization of childhood. The authors demonstrate that the representation of childhood in political rhetoric, on the one hand, reflects the ideas about it existing in society, and on the other hand, is its significant forming factor. The second part provides the analysis of the symbol of childhood along with the media coverage of 2017—2019 protest movement in Russia. The third part provides for the study of public opinion on the participation of minors in politics and the use of the symbol of childhood by political actors, based on interviews conducted by the authors. The authors conclude that according to the public opinion there is a need for minors to participate in political life. At the same time, in the course of using the image of childhood by political actors, the majority of informants is aware of its manipulative nature.

scholarly journals The impact of mediatization in the healing ministry of African preachers

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonny Eli Zaluchu
Keyword(s):  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Healing Ministry ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One ◽  
Adaptive Step ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Church

Healing service happens everywhere. However, the healing service practice in Africa, as practised by several preachers from South Africa, Nigeria, Malawi and Zimbabwe, is more phenomenal and has a significant impact towards the Christianity in the world. One of the impacts is the emergence of religious tourism. This study observes that the service success is supported by two things, namely a deep understanding and the strong foundation on the theology of biblical healing, which trigger the presence of faith, on the one hand, and on the other hand the presence of invisible but very real support from the power of media popularising this practice to all over the world. It is concluded that even though it must be tightly controlled, mediatisation is an adaptive step to introduce the mission of the church and news related to the Bible to the modern society. Christianity has to accept this step as the updated step.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: This article takes an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach to media’s role and uses in today’s Christian ministry. The presence of the media and its optimisation for evangelism are supported by global theology.

scholarly journals VIRTUAL SATISFACTION AS A SYMPTOM OF INTERPASSIVITY IN MODERN SOCIETY

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 132-140
Author(s):  
Zhanna E. Vavilova
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
The Other ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
Potential Risks ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual

Research into how new media are transforming our daily lives is the frontier of modern philosophical and scientific thought. It is difficult to reflect on what is happening to society and to the person at the moment; however, for all the pace of social transformations today, we can still talk about potential risks and opportunities offered by new technologies. The article introduces the concept of virtual satisfaction and examines its connection with the phenomenon of interpassivity which is well known in philosophical discourse, as well as with manifestations of visual normalization in society. The aim of the study is to trace the mechanism of involvement of humans in interpassive practices of a virtualized society through consumption of media images. This environment acts as a virtual link between social reality and the needs of the individual which can only be satisfied with the mediation of the Other. On the one hand, this is the world of safe interactions and quasi-interactions where satisfaction is obtained in screen non-contact forms. On the other hand, this satisfaction turns out to be interpassive, depriving us not only of realization of desire, but also of desire itself, so that people voluntarily lose part of themselves, and therefore part of their humanity.

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