scholarly journals THE SPECIFICITY OF INTERACTION OF JOURNALISTS WITH THE PUBLIC IN COVERAGE OF PUBLIC EVENTS ON SOCIAL TOPICS

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olena Zinenko
Keyword(s):  
Mass Communication ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
Functional Approach ◽  
Complex Object ◽  
Public Events ◽  
Working Definition ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Relationship Of

Consideration of aspects of the functioning of mass media in society requires a comprehensive approach based on universal media theory. The article presents an attempt to consider public events in terms of a functional approach to understanding the media, proposed by media theorist Dennis McQuayl in the theory of mass communication. Public events are analyzed, on the one hand, as a complex object of journalistic reflection and, on the other hand, as a situational media that examines the relationship of agents of the social and media fields in the space of communication interaction. Taking into account philosophical approaches to the interpretation of the concept of event, considering its semantic spectrum, specificity of use and synonyms in the Ukrainian language, a working definition of the concept of public event is given. Based on case-analysis of public events, In accordance with the functions of the media the functions of public events are outlined. This is is promising for the development of study on typology of public events in the context of mass communication theory. The realization of the functions of public events as situational media is illustrated with such vivid examples of cultural events as «Gogolfest» and «Book Forum in Lviv». The author shows that a functional approach to understanding public events in society and their place in the space of mass communication, opens prospects for studying the role of media in reflecting the phenomena of social reality, clarifying the presence and quality of communication between media producers and media consumers.

scholarly journals Universal and national precedent phenomena in the headlines of Ukrainian media publications

2019 ◽  
pp. 165-175
Author(s):  
Anastasiia Petrenko
Keyword(s):  
Mass Communication ◽  
Information Source ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Linguistic Expression ◽  
Level Of Consciousness ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
New Research ◽  
Modern Mass

Modern mass communication has become the lingual background of the definition of linguistic preferences of «human speaker» (Homo Loquens). Nowadays, media discourse is not only an information source, but also a means of influence that can manipulate different human moods, feelings, preferences, including those at the level of consciousness and language. Most scholars of contemporary journalistic discourse point to two parallel trends. On the one hand, the language of mass communication tends to individualize the linguistic expression of information, on the other – to the traditional, standard, cliché, etc. One of the means of penetrating the human consciousness and activating its thinking activity is the use of precedent phenomena that can reveal both tendencies at the same time. The precedent phenomena, having fallen into the field of view of scholars at the end of the twentieth century, continue to hold the interest of researchers in various fields of humanities. Everything related to the study of mentality, issues of the interconnection of language and thinking, prompts new and new research. This explains the numerous works of Ukrainian linguists, whose subject of analysis are the precedent phenomena in different aspects of their expression by the means of different languages in different genres and different discursive practices. In particular, these are publications by F. S. Batsevych, Yu. M. Velikoroda, I. O. Golubovska, O. A. Gapchenko, S. Ya. Yermolenko, S. S. Yermolenko, E. A. Karpilovska, T. Yu. Kalchenko, O. Yu. Karpenko, A. K. Moisienko, E. S. Otin, O. O. Selivanova, N. V, Listen, M. I. Stepanenko, G. M. Sіuta, T. V. Radzievska, I. A. Kazimirova, S. B. Serebrova, G. Yu. Kasim, T. V. Chrdileli, T. А. Cosmeda, O. A. Levchenko, O. G. Ruda, I. V. Bogdanov, R. S. Chornovol-Tkachenko, S. V. Lazarenko, O. O. Malenko, N. O. Sunko, O. V. Nadyuk, O. S. Palchevska, L. Y. Mercoton, M. V. Mamich, O. B. Sprissa, A. A. Berestova, G. V. Tashchenko, M. V. Roslitskaya and others. The purpose of this article is to describe national and universal precedent phenomena in the media resources of Ukraine, to clarify their significance for contemporary speakers. Its relevance is determined by the need to identify the main features of the national cognitive base of modern Ukrainian.

scholarly journals Universal and national precedent phenomena in the headlines of Ukrainian media publications

2019 ◽  
pp. 165-175
Author(s):  
Anastasiia Petrenko
Keyword(s):  
Mass Communication ◽  
Information Source ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Linguistic Expression ◽  
Level Of Consciousness ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
New Research ◽  
Modern Mass

Modern mass communication has become the lingual background of the definition of linguistic preferences of «human speaker» (Homo Loquens). Nowadays, media discourse is not only an information source, but also a means of influence that can manipulate different human moods, feelings, preferences, including those at the level of consciousness and language. Most scholars of contemporary journalistic discourse point to two parallel trends. On the one hand, the language of mass communication tends to individualize the linguistic expression of information, on the other – to the traditional, standard, cliché, etc. One of the means of penetrating the human consciousness and activating its thinking activity is the use of precedent phenomena that can reveal both tendencies at the same time. The precedent phenomena, having fallen into the field of view of scholars at the end of the twentieth century, continue to hold the interest of researchers in various fields of humanities. Everything related to the study of mentality, issues of the interconnection of language and thinking, prompts new and new research. This explains the numerous works of Ukrainian linguists, whose subject of analysis are the precedent phenomena in different aspects of their expression by the means of different languages in different genres and different discursive practices. In particular, these are publications by F. S. Batsevych, Yu. M. Velikoroda, I. O. Golubovska, O. A. Gapchenko, S. Ya. Yermolenko, S. S. Yermolenko, E. A. Karpilovska, T. Yu. Kalchenko, O. Yu. Karpenko, A. K. Moisienko, E. S. Otin, O. O. Selivanova, N. V, Listen, M. I. Stepanenko, G. M. Sіuta, T. V. Radzievska, I. A. Kazimirova, S. B. Serebrova, G. Yu. Kasim, T. V. Chrdileli, T. А. Cosmeda, O. A. Levchenko, O. G. Ruda, I. V. Bogdanov, R. S. Chornovol-Tkachenko, S. V. Lazarenko, O. O. Malenko, N. O. Sunko, O. V. Nadyuk, O. S. Palchevska, L. Y. Mercoton, M. V. Mamich, O. B. Sprissa, A. A. Berestova, G. V. Tashchenko, M. V. Roslitskaya and others. The purpose of this article is to describe national and universal precedent phenomena in the media resources of Ukraine, to clarify their significance for contemporary speakers. Its relevance is determined by the need to identify the main features of the national cognitive base of modern Ukrainian.

scholarly journals Universal and national precedent phenomena in the headlines of Ukrainian media publications

2019 ◽  
pp. 165-175
Author(s):  
Anastasiia Petrenko
Keyword(s):  
Mass Communication ◽  
Information Source ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Linguistic Expression ◽  
Level Of Consciousness ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
New Research ◽  
Modern Mass

Modern mass communication has become the lingual background of the definition of linguistic preferences of «human speaker» (Homo Loquens). Nowadays, media discourse is not only an information source, but also a means of influence that can manipulate different human moods, feelings, preferences, including those at the level of consciousness and language. Most scholars of contemporary journalistic discourse point to two parallel trends. On the one hand, the language of mass communication tends to individualize the linguistic expression of information, on the other – to the traditional, standard, cliché, etc. One of the means of penetrating the human consciousness and activating its thinking activity is the use of precedent phenomena that can reveal both tendencies at the same time. The precedent phenomena, having fallen into the field of view of scholars at the end of the twentieth century, continue to hold the interest of researchers in various fields of humanities. Everything related to the study of mentality, issues of the interconnection of language and thinking, prompts new and new research. This explains the numerous works of Ukrainian linguists, whose subject of analysis are the precedent phenomena in different aspects of their expression by the means of different languages in different genres and different discursive practices. In particular, these are publications by F. S. Batsevych, Yu. M. Velikoroda, I. O. Golubovska, O. A. Gapchenko, S. Ya. Yermolenko, S. S. Yermolenko, E. A. Karpilovska, T. Yu. Kalchenko, O. Yu. Karpenko, A. K. Moisienko, E. S. Otin, O. O. Selivanova, N. V, Listen, M. I. Stepanenko, G. M. Sіuta, T. V. Radzievska, I. A. Kazimirova, S. B. Serebrova, G. Yu. Kasim, T. V. Chrdileli, T. А. Cosmeda, O. A. Levchenko, O. G. Ruda, I. V. Bogdanov, R. S. Chornovol-Tkachenko, S. V. Lazarenko, O. O. Malenko, N. O. Sunko, O. V. Nadyuk, O. S. Palchevska, L. Y. Mercoton, M. V. Mamich, O. B. Sprissa, A. A. Berestova, G. V. Tashchenko, M. V. Roslitskaya and others. The purpose of this article is to describe national and universal precedent phenomena in the media resources of Ukraine, to clarify their significance for contemporary speakers. Its relevance is determined by the need to identify the main features of the national cognitive base of modern Ukrainian.

Mass Communication and Policy Gatekeeping

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard T. Craig
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Media Audiences ◽  
The Public ◽  
Content Selection ◽  
Private Citizens ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One ◽  
Flow Of Information

Who filters through information and determines what information is shared with media audiences? Who filters through information and determines what information will not be shared with media audiences? Ultimately, who controls the flow of information in the media? At times commentary pertaining to media content references media as an omnipotent individual entity selecting the content transmitted to the public, reminiscent of a Wizard of Oz manner of the all-powerful being behind the curtain. Overlooked in this perception is the reality that in mass media, there are various individuals in positions of power making decisions about the information accessed by audiences of various forms of media. These individuals are considered gatekeepers: wherein the media functions as a gate permitting some matters to be publicized and included into the public discourse while restricting other matters from making it to the public conscience. Media gatekeepers (i.e., journalists, editors) possess the power to control the gate by determining the content delivered to audiences, opening and closing the gate of information. Gatekeepers wield power over those on the other side of the gate, those seeking to be informed (audiences), as well as those seeking to inform (politics, activists, academics, etc.). The earliest intellectual explanation of gatekeeping is traced to Kurt Lewin, describing gatekeeping as a means to analyze real-world problems and observing the effects of cultural values and subjective attitudes on those problems like the distribution of food in Lewins’s seminal study, and later modified by David Manning White to examine the dissemination of information via media. In an ideal situation, the gatekeepers would be taking on the challenge of weighing the evidence of importance in social problems when selecting among the options of content and information to exhibit. Yet, decisions concerning content selection are not void of subjective viewpoints and encompass values, beliefs, and ideals of gatekeepers. The subjective attitudes of gatekeepers influence their perspective of what qualifies as newsworthy information. Hence, those in the position to determine the content transmitted through media exercise the power to shape social reality for media audiences. In the evolution of media gatekeeping theory three models have resulted from the scholarship: (1) examination of the one-way flow of information passing through a series of gates before reaching audiences, (2) the process of newsroom personnel interacting with people outside of the newsroom, and (3) the direct communication of private citizens and public officials. In traditional media and newer forms of social media, gatekeeping examination revolves around analysis of these media organizations’ news routines and narratives. Gatekeeping analysis observes human behavior and motives in order to make conceptualizations about the social world.

scholarly journals Corporate Disclosure: A Synthesis of Literature

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Kennedy Prince Modugu
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Unified Theory ◽  
X Rays ◽  
Corporate Disclosure ◽  
Empirical Inquiry ◽  
Working Definition ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Reporting Environment

This study is a compendium of the existing literature on corporate disclosure with a view to identifying the gaps to which future empirical inquiry may be directed. The paper discusses the concept of disclosure as canvassed by different authors. This review is initiated with a working definition of disclosure. This was followed by a series of reviews of studies in developed countries. Added to this, are developing countries’ studies. The review showed that the influencers of corporate disclosure differ between developed and developing countries on the one hand, and within both economies on the other hand. The review revealed mixed findings on the determinants of corporate disclosure. This suggests that the factors determining corporate disclosure are not fixed, and vary from one jurisdiction to another. The paper also x-rays a litany of theories of corporate disclosure research and suggests a unified theory that amalgamates the existing theories; and that which will be amenable to the ever-changing reporting environment.

scholarly journals Translation and the Dialectics of Difference and Equivalence: Some Theoretical Propositions for a Redefinition of the Source-Target Text Relation

2002 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 210-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lieven Tack
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
Sufficient Conditions ◽  
General Question ◽  
Source Text ◽  
The Social ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient ◽  
Level Of Analysis

Abstract At which level of analysis (descriptivist, empirical, epistemological), and along which perspective (sociological, linguistical, communicative), should we locate the distinctive criteria for the definition of translation? In other words, what are the necessary and sufficient conditions which constitute the object « translation,» exclusively this object and not any other object? This is the general question of this article. It will be developped in two steps. First, we shall try to demonstrate that the perspective adopted by translatology, in defining translation by its semantical and fonctional equivalence relation with a source text, is congenetically determined by the discursive exclusion of the theorisation of that which is the very condition of possibility of each translation: the disrupture and distancing by which humans structure their social relation. Consequently, it is by the critique of communication theory, where a large part of translatology has drawn its scientific foundations, that we can deliver sound arguments for the assessing of translation in the structure of social relations. A second step consists in the formulation of a working hypothesis: if translation may be caused by the social dialectics of distancing and negociation of meaning, it is not sufficiently specified by this logic. It could be hypothesized that translation finds its specificity in the hybridity of the linguistic referential relation it instaures with the mute universe to be conceptualized on the one hand, and with the source text to be reformulated on the other.

Clientelism, Elites, and the Media in Central and Eastern Europe

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 497-515 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henrik Örnebring
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Communication Tools ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Elite Networks ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Many ◽  
Definition Of

This article argues that the traditional political science definition of clientelism is insufficient for explaining how the media fit in with clientelistic systems in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). It is suggested that a broader understanding of clientelism, looking in particular at how media are used as elite-to-elite communication tools as well as elite-to-mass communication tools, better explains the place of the media in the clientelistic systems of the CEE nations. Empirically, it is based on a set of 272 elite and expert interviews conducted across ten CEE countries (Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia) in 2010 and 2011. The article presents some general findings on the nature and character of the linkages between political elites and the media, and the extent to which such linkages can be considered clientelistic. Then follows a discussion of specific practices of media instrumentalization, charting the many ways in which the media can function as a resource in conflicts and negotiations between clientelistic elite networks, directly as well as indirectly. Particular attention is given to the phenomena of advertorials and kompromat.

scholarly journals Urbanonymic Acts in the Context of Modern Information Wars: Symbolic and Communicational Functions

2019 ◽  
pp. 28-40
Author(s):  
Dmytro Danylchuk
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Social Communication ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
The Social ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
Modern Information ◽  
The One ◽  
Effective Diagnosis

The study is relevant due to the need for effective diagnosis of such manifestations of the information war, they have the external form of memorial urbanonymic acts (name and renaming). Revealing of the hidden essence of an urban anonymous act is possible provided that it is properly described in terms of the social communication theory and a corresponding analysis of both the structure and functions of the act itself as well as the associated media texts. This should contribute, on the one hand, to counteract hostile acts of information war disguised as urbanonymic memorial changes, and, on the other hand, to use, consciously and systematically, similar tools of information influence. The theoretical significance of this intelligence is to expand the application field of the theory of social communication and social communication science as a whole due to urbanonymy as one of the channels of mass communication. The purpose of the research is to describe this category of urbanonymic acts, to determine their functions in the aspect of social communication, to propose the criteria for distinguishing the analyzed denominations from the general array of names and renames in urbanonymy. The study used the following methods: descriptive – to determine the type of urbannymic acts and to determine the factors that influence the acquisition of the character of the démarches to foreign countries; methods of analysis and synthesis – in order to formulate criteria for the presence in the act of signs of a foreign policy demarche; empiric analysis and structural-functional analysis – to reveal the information and socio-political context of the urbanonyma changes and to clarify their functional characteristics. As a result of the analysis of urbanonymic renamings in Ukraine during 2014–2019, criteria have been formulated which allowed to distinguish urbanonymic acts with signs of foreign policy demarche. The functions of such acts in the context of modern information wars are defined, in particular the key role of symbolic and communication functions is substantiated.

Konstruksi Ekonomi Politik Media Massa: Kasus Pemberitaan Illegal Logging Pada PT. RAPP (2009-2010)

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
Muchid Albintani
Keyword(s):  
Political Communication ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Forest Products ◽  
The Other ◽  
Illegal Logging ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Relationship

PT. Riau Andalan Pulp and Paper (RAPP) and the activities of Illegal Logging inthe period 2009-2010 the focus of mass media. The focus of the reports motivatedby contradictory realities. On the one hand for the first time since a RegionalHead of local autonomy (Regent) was convicted of corruption (graft) relatedlicense for utilization of timber forest products (IUPHHK) that led to the illegallogging activities that also involve PT. RAPP. While on the other hand, theMinistry of Forestry by SK MENHUT/327/2009, provides expansion of theSemenanjung Kampar to PT. RAPP considered problematic and potentially theactivity of Illegal Logging. This paper aims to, first analyze the media coverage ofIllegal Logging on the existence PT. RAPP in 2009-2010. Second, describe andanalyze the implications of the media coverage of Illegal Logging on the existencePT. RAPP in 2009-2010. This paper uses constructionist (media) and politicaleconomy communication as a theoretical approach. The results of the discussionshowed that, the first the relationship of Illegal Logging and PT. RAPP has beenconstructed by the media that shows if the presence of both (PT RAPP and IllegalLogging) in the year 2009-2010 run separately and not linked. The second, so thenews about the activities undertaken Illegal Logging ('alleged') in PT RAPP anissue of 'ambiguous' and different from each other. In this context, if the newsshowed Illegal Logging, rather than an integral part of the production process(activities) PT. RAPP.Keywords: PT. RAPP, Illegal Logging and Economics Political Communication

Broadcasting versus Narrowcasting

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miriam J. Metzger
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Production Distribution ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Contemporary Media

This chapter explores the question of the continuing relevance of “mass media” due to recent technological changes in the media landscape. The chapter traces the history of media content production, distribution, and consumption from broadcasting to narrowcasting, and considers recent trends toward “hyperpersonalization” afforded by digital networked media. The chapter examines what these changes mean for politics and for political communication theory, and concludes by posing some questions about the future of mass media that serve as a call for research into the changing nature, circumstances, and effects of mass communication in the contemporary media environment.

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