LINGUISTIC ASPECT OF CONTEMPORARY GENDER CHALLENGES IN THE FRENCH LANGUAGE

2020 ◽  
pp. 60-67
Author(s):  
Mariya K. Borisenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Native Speaker ◽  
French Language ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Traditional Structure ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
The Media ◽  
Internet Community ◽  
Linguistic Aspect

The article discusses the morphological features associated with the formation of feminine words to designate professions, ranks and positions. The change in the social status of a woman – a politician, public figure, government official, professional – in the fields confined to male representatives – requires adequate expression in the language. The need search correct forms that do not violate the traditional structure of the language is felt both by linguists and authorities of the country. Their acceptance or non-acceptance by the language depends on the reaction of the native speaker, the media, representatives of the Internet community. The author reviews the possibilities presented by the French language in the formation of the feminine nouns – suffix formation, epicenes. Issues related to the peculiarities of matching plural nouns are also considered. The article does not only deal with the situation in France, but also with what is being done in this direction in Geneva canton, in the French-speaking community of Belgium, in Quebec. The author found it interesting to dwell on some of the reasons that impede the entry of new forms into modern French. The conclusion contains some observations covering the period of the last two years, made on the basis of viewing media materials.

scholarly journals The Internet´s role in the Bersih movement in Malaysia – A Case Study

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 60-70
Author(s):  
Melanie Radue
Keyword(s):  
Green Revolution ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Political Liberalization ◽  
Communication Processes ◽  
Technological Structure ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Government ◽  
Use Of The Internet

Everywhere in the media, people talk about the so-called “Twitter and Facebook revolution” in regard to the Green Revolution in Iran or other new social movements which demand democratization in their countries and use the Internet for communication and mobilization. Libertarian advocates of the Internet state that the Internet has democratizing effects because of its reputed egalitarian, open and free technological structure for communication processes. Especially in countries in which the media is under strict control by the government, these characteristics are emphasized as stimulation for political liberalization and democratization processes. This essay critically examines the alleged democratizing effect of the use of the Internet on the Malaysian society exemplified on the social movement Bersih. The Bersih movement demands free and fair elections in Malaysia, often described as an ethnocratic and “electoral authoritarian regime”. 141 The objective of this study is to demonstrate the dependency of such possible effects on context.

scholarly journals SOCIAL MEDIA IN A CONTENT COURSE FOR THE DIGITAL NATIVES

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
Anita Lie
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Classroom Practices ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Natives ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Participatory Process ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
The Media

Digital technologies and the Internet have revolutionized the way people gather information and acquire new knowledge. With a click of a button or a touch on the screen, any person who is wired to the internet can access a wealth of information, ranging from books, poems, articles, graphics, animations and so much more. It is imperative that educational systems and classroom practices must change to serve our 21st century students better. This study examines the use of Edmodo as a social media to teach a course in Pedagogy to a class of digital natives. The media is used as an out-of-class communication forum to post/submit assignments and resources, discuss relevant issues, exchange information, and handle housekeeping purposes. A survey of students' responses and discussions on their participatory process leads to insights on how the social media helps achieve the required competences.

Is the Internet Mightier than the Sword

2011 ◽  
pp. 338-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell Lidman
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Press ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Media ◽  
Traditional Roles ◽  
Recent Insight

This paper considers how to reduce corruption and improve governance, with particular attention to the impacts of information and communication technology. The media and the press in particular have played an important role in opposing corruption. The Internet and related tools are both supplementing and supplanting the traditional roles of the press in opposing corruption. A regression model with a sample of 164 countries demonstrates that, controlling for the independent variables commonly employed in empirical work on corruption, greater access to the Internet explains reduced corruption. The effect is statistically significant albeit modest. It is possible that the social media will have a growing impact on reducing corruption and improving governance. A number of examples of current uses of these media are provided. Recent insight and experience suggest how the newer information and communication technologies are somewhat tipping the balance toward those opposing corruption.

scholarly journals FEMINISMO E REPRESENTAÇÕES SOCIAIS: A INVENÇÃO DAS MULHERES NAS REVISTAS “FEMININAS”

2001 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tania Navarro SWAIN
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
The West ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
The Media ◽  
Social Level

Ouve-se dizer que o feminismo acabou. Que tudo já foi conseguido pelas mulheres, conquistas em todos os campos do social. Apesar de evidentes modificações nas relações de gênero em alguns países do Ocidente, o que aqui se pretende analisar é a dimensão das representações sociais do feminino, constitutivas das configurações identitárias e corpóreas, já que presentes na apreensão do real. A mídia e as revistas femininas compõem um locus especial de análise da ação do discurso e das imagens, modelando corpos e assujeitando-os a uma certa representação do feminino. Abstract Some say that Feminism is over. That women have obtained everything and conquered all they wanted on the social level. Although many changes have obviously modified gender relations in the West, I would like to analyze here the dimension of social representations of the feminine that constitute identity and corporeal configurations and a present time apprehension of reality. The media and feminine magazines represent a special locus for an analysis of the action of discourse and images, of their modeling bodies and subduing them to a certain representation of the feminine.

scholarly journals Historicizing media, globalizing media research: infrastructures, publics, and everyday life

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 437-453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph Schroeder
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Research ◽  
The Cold War

AbstractVisions of media spanning the globe and connecting cultures have been around at least since the birth of telegraphy, yet they have always fallen short of realities. Nevertheless, with the internet, a global infrastructure has emerged, which, together with mobile and smartphones, has rapidly changed the media landscape. This far-reaching digital connectedness makes it increasingly clear that the main implications of media lie in the extent to which they reach into everyday life. This article puts this reach into historical context, arguing that, in the pre-modern period, geographically extensive media networks only extended to a small elite. With the modern print revolution, media reach became both more extensive and more intensive. Yet it was only in the late nineteenth century that media infrastructures penetrated more widely into everyday life. Apart from a comparative historical perspective, several social science disciplines can be brought to bear in order to understand the ever more globalizing reach of media infrastructures into everyday life, including its limits. To date, the vast bulk of media research is still concentrated on North America and Europe. Recently, however, media research has begun to track broader theoretical debates in the social sciences, and imported debates about globalization from anthropology, sociology, political science, and international relations. These globalizing processes of the media research agenda have been shaped by both political developments and changes in media, including the Cold War, decolonization, the development of the internet and other new media technologies, and the rise of populist leaders.

The Internet Community as a Phenomenon of Modern Network Culture (on the example of the KVN community in the social network VKontakte)

Communicology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-154
Author(s):  
D.A. Ryazanov
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Virtual Tools ◽  
Video Recordings ◽  
The Social ◽  
Audio Recordings ◽  
History Of ◽  
Internet Community

This paper discusses the characteristics and specific features of the Internet community ‘I love KVN’, whereas identifying user tokens in a network group are shown during their adaptation in the community. The author considers users’ techniques and virtual tools (audio recordings, video recordings, text publications, images, animated images, posters, polls, etc.). The Internet, as unique in terms of the its conditions and possibilities, makes it possible to study sociological phenomena that were not actualized or so accessible to empirical study in different environment of activity and interaction. This is relevant in the light of the rapid development of thematic communities on the VKontakte social network. According to the Levada Center analytical center, today about 72% of the population of the Russia use the Internet “daily or almost daily” and “several times a week”. At the same time, about 45% of citizens go online “several times a day”; these are, first of all, the youngest Russians under the age of 25 (87%). The focus of our consideration is the group on VKontakte “I love KVN”. KVN (The Club of Cheerful and Inventive) is one of the first projects that appeared on domestic television in the format of a humorous game, in which teams (educational institutions, universities, enterprises, cities and so on) compete in humorous answers to questions asked, improvisations on given topics, playing pre-prepared scenes. In the narrow sense, KVN is a competition in one’s own wit. The long-term history of the project (since 1961) and the relentless attention to the game from the mass audience determined in many respects the appearance of communities of lovers of intellectual humorous competitions on various types of venues. With the advent of social networks on the Internet, many KVN fans have joined together in a community that currently numbers approximately 670 thousand people.

scholarly journals Information Disorders

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (19) ◽  
pp. 10-28
Author(s):  
Divina Frau-Meigs
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
The Media ◽  
Fact Checking ◽  
The One

This paper analyses the major modifications created by the “social turn” i.e. the emergence of social media. It presents the drastic change of ecosystem created by the three “continents” of the Internet. This sets up the context of deployment for “information disorders” such as radicalisation and disinformation. The analysis then considers the risks and opportunities for Media and Information Literacy: on the one hand, the rise of fact-checking and the increasing interference of social media platforms; on the other hand, the augmentation of the Media and Information Literacy epistemology and the Media and Information Literacy paradigm shift entailed by information disorders. It concludes on an agenda for Media and Information Literacy in 21st century.

scholarly journals Teachers’ beliefs in multilingual education in the Basque country and in Friesland

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabet Arocena Egaña ◽  
Jasone Cenoz ◽  
Durk Gorter
Keyword(s):  
Native Speaker ◽  
Basque Country ◽  
Minority Language ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
Multilingual Education ◽  
The Social ◽  
Teachers Beliefs ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Media

In this article we analyze teachers’ beliefs about learning different languages in multilingual education, which include forms of immersion in the minority and the majority languages. In this study interviews were held with 51 primary school teachers from the Basque Country (Spain), and Friesland (The Netherlands). In both regions three languages are taught: majority, minority and English. Based on the teachers’ views we obtain interesting insights into the native speaker ideal, pupils as multilingual speakers, and the proficiency levels for each language. The teachers also expressed their ideas on teaching through the minority language and through English, as well as their beliefs on cross-linguistic use of languages and how that is related to the multilingual repertoire. The social context is believed to have an important influence through the parents, the media, and the status of the languages in society. The article concludes that beliefs are still largely monolingual and seem to only gradually change to more multilingual views.

Separatists or terrorists? Jews or Nigerians?

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 583-603
Author(s):  
Innocent Chiluwa ◽  
Isioma M. Chiluwa
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Group Identity ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
Jewish Ancestry ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Ideological Construction

Abstract This study adopts a discourse analytical approach to examine the contested identity of the Igbos of the southeast of Nigeria. It analyses the significance of the social and political discourses in the media and the Internet about their claim to the Jewish ancestry and as “Biafrans” rather than Nigerians. The study highlights the implications of these claims and their larger political implications for Nigeria. The study also shows that ideological construction of group identity by IPOB consistently portrays them as the victim and the marginalized. And their claim to Jewish ancestry is possibly a way of seeking foreign support.

THE EFFECT OF THE INTERNET ON THE FORMATION OF SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS OF YOUTH

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-61
Author(s):  
G'ofir Amanov ◽  
◽  
Arzimurod Yusufaliev
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Social Consciousness ◽  
Information Space ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The Impact

This article emphasizes the importance of educating our youth to be independent, able to stand up to various spiritual information attacks, to be selfless and patriotic. the priorities of effectiveand reliable protection from ideas and influences are elaborated. And in today's increasingly information-intensive, diverse media sources and media, there is a sharp struggle to capture the minds of young people. In addition, the positive and negative aspects of the impact on the social consciousness of young people through the Internet and the media were analyzed.Key words:World information space, Odnoklassniki, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Startup, multimedia, post-industrial revolution, informatization, globalization

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