scholarly journals Academic traditions in communication: Expanding the field and redrawing the boundaries. ECREA 2018 special panel report

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Schwarzenegger ◽  
Katharina Lobinger ◽  
Gabriele Balbi
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Public Communication ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
General Outline ◽  
Panel Report ◽  
The Many ◽  
Media And Communication ◽  
Over Time

The main conference topic for the ECREA conference in Lugano addressed the many ways in which centers, cores and peripheries, and also mainstreams and alternatives are dealt with in academic media and communication research. The premise of this panel was to apply this general outline of the conference for academic introspection and to recount the many shifting centers and peripheries of communication research over time and discuss the redrawing of the contours of our expanding field. Less than two decades back, the question what the main subjects of media and communication inquiry were would have highlighted the centrality of (already slowly declining) mass media as the main pillars alongside journalism and public communication. Since then, the very notion of mediated communication has become less clear and has expanded to nearly all areas of the human experience and encompasses a variety of technologies, tools, platforms and intermediaries for communication.

scholarly journals The English language in academia: Identifying power structures, denaturalizing daily choices. ECREA 2018 special panel report

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Helena Sousa
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Academic Life ◽  
Special Session ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Critical Reasoning ◽  
Panel Report ◽  
Specific Dimension ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Media And Communication

Media and communication research has been dominated by the Anglo-American paradigm and English has become the lingua franca of academic life. The 2018 ECREA conference focused on centres and peripheries, inclusions and exclusions, cores and margins in the field. In line with the programme, this special session on Language in Academia tried to respond to contemporary critical asymmetries, analysing a specific dimension often taken for granted: the English language hegemony. The centrality of the English language is often assumed without questioning or critical reasoning.

The silence of the ellipses: Why history can’t be about telling our children lies

2021 ◽  
Vol 102 (5) ◽  
pp. 8-11
Author(s):  
Sam Wineburg
Keyword(s):  
History Textbooks ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Many ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Boston Massacre

History textbooks are less likely to be complete renderings of the truth than a series of stories textbook authors (and the many stakeholders who influence them) consider beneficial. Sam Wineburg describes how the process of writing history textbooks often leads to sanitized and inaccurate versions of history. As an example, he describes how the story of Crispus Attucks and the Boston massacre has evolved over time. The goal of historical study, he explains, is not to cultivate love or hate of the country. Rather, it should provide us with the courage needed to look ourselves unflinching in the face, so that we may understand who we were and who we might aspire to become.

DEVELOPMENT OF CORPORATE CULTURE DURING THE SPREAD OF COVID-19 ON THE EXAMPLE OF AMERICAN SOCIETY

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 138-143
Author(s):  
EKATERINA V. GORLOVA ◽  
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NATALYA S. RESHETNIKOVA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Corporate Culture ◽  
Corporate Values ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
The Government ◽  
American Society ◽  
The Many ◽  
Country People

The many changes caused by COVID-19 have impacted all areas of our lives. Since the beginning of the pandemic in every country, people have experienced the same fears: getting sick, being left without a livelihood, dying, losing loved ones, etc. In many states, support was provided by both the government and the employer. Our analyze show how the employees themselves assessed the level of relations between them and the company through the connecting thread of corporate culture. We have determined that, in general, in many cases there is an increase in corporate values, information coming from managers is more trustworthy than information from the mass media. Honesty, openness and communication are becoming the new flagships for the development of corporate culture.

Dewey, Adorno, and the Purpose of Art

2017 ◽  
pp. 470-488
Author(s):  
Espen Hammer
Keyword(s):  
Modern Art ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Many

The chapter focuses on Dewey’s claim that art should be viewed as a model of full, unrestricted human experience. Art, in this sense, is supposed to serve as a cognitive correction of certain key trends in modernity, including the transformation of experience in line with social and scientific requirements of abstraction, quantification, and instrumentality. Drawing on Adorno’s competing account, it is argued that Dewey’s position does not sufficiently grant art autonomy and that modern art, in particular, does not offer a direct alternative to the forms of experiential deformation identified by Dewey. Unlike Dewey, Adorno views art as radically separated from the everyday and able to offer insight only in an indirect, self-negating manner. Despite the many similarities between the two thinkers, the chapter argues that Dewey did not respond with sufficient care to aesthetic modernism, which by and large resisted the organicism he attributes to art in general.

The Many Shades of Communication Research in South Asia

Media Asia ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Binod C. Agrawal
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
The Many

scholarly journals Kilburn High Road Revisited

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Capineri
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Service Management ◽  
Street Life ◽  
The Many ◽  
High Road ◽  
Simple Narrative ◽  
Unique Relationship ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Selection Of

Drawing on John Agnew’s (1987) theoretical framework for the analysis of place (location, locale and sense of place) and on Doreen Massey’s (1991) interpretation of Kilburn High Road (London), the contribution develops an analysis of the notion of place in the case study of Kilburn High Road by comparing the semantics emerging from Doreen Massey’s interpretation of Kilburn High Road in the late Nineties with those from a selection of noisy and unstructured volunteered geographic information collected from Flickr photos and Tweets harvested in 2014–2015. The comparison shows how sense of place is dynamic and changing over time and explores Kilburn High Road through the categories of location, locale and sense of place derived from the qualitative analysis of VGI content and annotations. The contribution shows how VGI can contribute to discovering the unique relationship between people and place which takes the form given by Doreen Massey to Kilburn High Road and then moves on to the many forms given by people experiencing Kilburn High Road through a photo, a Tweet or a simple narrative. Finally, the paper suggests that the analysis of VGI content can contribute to detect the relevant features of street life, from infrastructure to citizens’ perceptions, which should be taken into account for a more human-centered approach in planning or service management.

scholarly journals Rethinking the Rethinking

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Göran Eriksson
Keyword(s):  
Critical Realism ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Media Consumption ◽  
General Knowledge ◽  
Audience Research ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Media And Communication ◽  
Oriented Research ◽  
Media Audience

Abstract During the last few decades, the possibilities and limitations of qualitative media audience research have regularly been discussed in media and communication research. Quantitatively oriented researchers have claimed that qualitatively oriented research is incapable of producing general knowledge. From a ‘radical ethnographic’ point of view it has been stated that such knowledge is more or less useless, while other qualitatively oriented researchers have approached the question of generality in a more balanced way, and argued for the necessity to interpret specific events within a framework of more general theories. But these solutions are not satisfactory. The aim of this article is to suggest an alternative conceptualisation of generality. From the meta-theoretical viewpoint of critical realism, this article states that generalisations have to take into consideration the domain of the deep structures of reality. Qualitative media audience research should aim at producing general knowledge about the constituent properties or transfactual conditions of the process of media consumption.

scholarly journals The Significance of Nordicom and the NordMedia Conference to Nordic Media and Communication Research

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (s1) ◽  
pp. 18-28
Author(s):  
Kaarle Nordenstreng ◽  
Kirsten Frandsen ◽  
Rune Ottosen
Keyword(s):  
Communication Research ◽  
Media And Communication
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