scholarly journals Media freedom vs. culture, history, foreign influences, and technologies: A comparative analysis of China and Myanmar

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tung Manh Ho
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Political Environment ◽  
Political Repression ◽  
Media Freedom ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Culture History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media

As China and Myanmar both have a history of political repression and are undergoing significant changes in their media landscape due to the rise of new technologies, studying on the issue of media freedom in the two countries could draw out some important implications. This paper looks at the structures and trends in the media environment of the two countries in recent history. Through an analysis of these factors, the paper attempts to outline the extent to which the media is free in China and Myanmar. Finally, as the two countries present a case study for how media freedom is shaped, the various factors that shape the extent of media freedom will be discussed: internal political environment, culture and history, foreign influences, and technologies.

scholarly journals Media aesthetic component of communication and its manifestation in infographic content

Lumina ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-96
Author(s):  
Svetlana Simakova
Keyword(s):  
Visual Image ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media

The goal of the present study is to demonstrate the media-aesthetic potential of infographic messages on particular cases. This can be done due to an integrated approach to the analysis of the visual content of media content. That indicates the case study method implementation as well as description and generalization. The theoretical basis of the research is represented by scientific studies of various directions. That includes the history of media and visual media culture; features of the concepts of media culture and media language, media aesthetics; infographics as a tool of media language. The empirical basis of the study is journalistic materials containing infographic content of such publications as by RIA Novosti (ria.ru), TASS (tass.ru). The examples of visual image implementation in the transmission of information — media content containing infographics — are given and analyzed. Considering media aesthetics as the formation of a sensory perception of the proposed media content, the author turns to the philosophical and aesthetic foundations of visual practices in the media and post-humanistic trends in journalism. As a result of the analysis of the theoretical and practical basis of the research, the author comes to the conclusion that today the role of the media aesthetic component of messages is most relevant. And infographics, as the connecting link of language and consciousness, is its most striking tool.

scholarly journals Cosplay on Demand? Instagram, OnlyFans, and the Gendered Fantrepreneur

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 205630512110423
Author(s):  
Lauren Rouse ◽  
Anastasia Salter
Keyword(s):  
Economic Viability ◽  
Sample Analysis ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Brand Building ◽  
On Demand ◽  
Television Shows ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Favorite Television

Fan producers engaged in monetization, or what Suzanne Scott has termed “fantrepreneurs,” struggle with legal mechanisms for brand-building given the limitations of both copyright and platform moderation. These challenges have been amplified during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has fundamentally changed the way that cosplayers, or fans who dress up as characters from their favorite television shows or movies, market themselves in an increasingly online space, as opposed to their initial public platforms of conventions. Restricted by digital platforms and their various moderation and monetization methods, cosplayer fantrepreneurs have developed new, multi-platform methods for sustaining their content and community connection. One prominent platform significant to this turn is OnlyFans, which is billed as a “peer-to-peer subscription app,” and allows users to “Sign up and interact with your fans!” Through a sample analysis of 50 cosplayers, this case study considers the approaches of cosplayers on integrating OnlyFans as part of a multiplatform struggle for economic viability. When we contextualize this platform labor in the history of cosplay, we note the hypersexualized labor that has always been central to monetization in this space, and the media franchise exploitation that profits from that labor at the expense of the fan producer, demonstrating the fundamental, gendered exploitation of the trend toward a patronage economy.

Fighting or fumbling with the beast? The mediatisation of public sector agencies in Australia and the Netherlands

2019 ◽  
pp. 101-122
Author(s):  
Thomas Schillemans
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Public Agencies ◽  
Media Management ◽  
Daily News ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Internal Structures ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Systems

Public agencies are the objects of a large share of the daily news and devote substantial resources to media management and monitoring. This paper analyses how public agencies have adapted their internal structures and processes in order to meet the demands from their media environment. To this end, an analytical framework for the analysis of organisational mediatisation – the adaptation of internal structures and processes to external media demands – is developed. This is the first framework available for empirical analyses of organisational mediatisation. Its use is then demonstrated in a comparative analysis of the mediatisation of public agencies in Australia and the Netherlands; countries with contrasting political and media systems. An explorative, multimethod study describes how Australian agencies go to greater lengths in accommodating their media environment – they fight the media beast – whereas Dutch agencies are more hesitant; they are fumbling with the beast.

Looking Beyond Elections

2013 ◽  
pp. 84-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ufuoma Akpojivi
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Media Freedom ◽  
Quality Of Democracy ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
The Public ◽  
Democratic Rights ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Mass Media

Media freedom is pivotal to the sustenance and consolidation of democracy, as the quality of democracy in any society depends on the level of freedom accorded the media and the plurality of views entertained (Diamond, 2008). The ability of the mass media to carry out their traditional functions of educating, entertaining and enlightening the public about their democratic rights, and holding governments accountable, will subsequently lead to the establishment of a strong democratic institution. Hence there is need to protect media freedom in any democratic society (Baker, 2007; Norris, 2008). The Nigerian media environment, however, is characterised by a series of laws such as sedition law, official secret act, amongst others, which have directly and indirectly hindered the freedom of the mass media and their responsibility of promoting and advancing democracy. This is made worse by the incomprehensive nature of the 1999 Constitution. Using interviews and policy analysis, this chapter critically examines the policy framework of media freedom in Nigeria and its impact on the operation of the mass media. The ability of the media to live up to their responsibility of promoting and advancing the democratisation process in Nigeria within the available framework is also examined.

Claims to Fame

2020 ◽  
pp. 159-172
Author(s):  
Özpinar
Keyword(s):  
Women Artists ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
Important Case ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Museum Of Modern Art ◽  
History Writing ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media

Since the day it was inaugurated in 2004, the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art has assumed a pivotal role in re–establishing the history of modern and contemporary artistic practices in Turkey. The major all–woman exhibition titled ‘Dream and Reality: Modern and Contemporary Women Artists from Turkey’, which was opened in late 2011 at Istanbul Modern, constitutes an important case study to prompt deeper exploration into the narrative frameworks within which the art museum reproduces differences. This chapter revisits the institutional and the curatorial discourse of ‘Dream and Reality’ by examining the statements released in the media and in catalogue essays with a view to comprehending the allegedly conflicting notions of gender and feminism on which the exhibition was premised and how differences were articulated against the politics of the state and art history writing. With this reconsideration, the chapter addresses the reverberations of these framings in the art histories of Turkey but also relocates them within the debates of art’s new transnational landscape.

Contested framings: democratic conflict and the public university

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Sheldon
Keyword(s):  
British Society ◽  
British Imperialism ◽  
The Public ◽  
Policy Interventions ◽  
Public Role ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Globalising World

This chapter provides a brief history of the campus politics of Palestine-Israel in Britain alongside a genealogical account of how the stakes, boundaries and grammars of these struggles have been represented in the media, policy interventions and research. Taking up Nancy Fraser’s emphasis on the injustices produced by framings of justice, I show how these public representations have made liberal, secular and nationalist assumptions so that they have been unable to account for the limits of consensus or attend to students’ complex investments in the Palestine-Israel conflict. In the process, I situate these campus struggles in relation to historically evolving relations within British society, the emergent geo-politics of the ‘War on Terror’, and the legacies of the Holocaust and British imperialism. Finally, I consider how public constructions of this as an ‘imported’, ‘ethno-religious’ conflict have failed to address the role played by the British university in shaping these dynamics. I discuss how, in a post-imperial, globalising world, universities in Britain have become conflicted in their public role, creating different challenges for institutions operating in a fragmented higher education field. I conclude by explaining my multi-sited approach in this study, describing my selection of case study institutions and introducing these field-sites.

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.

Concepts of Order in Southeast Asia and Micronesia

1972 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 484-493 ◽  
Author(s):  
William H. Alkire
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Striking Resemblance ◽  
The People ◽  
Culture History ◽  
Caroline Islands ◽  
History Of

In this article a system of ordering space found among the people of the central and western Caroline Islands of Micronesia will be described, the fundamental concepts of which bear a striking resemblance to particular regulative principles found among various Southeast Asian peoples. If a genetic connection is accepted for these parallels the form taken by Southeast Asian cultures after contact with ‘Hindu/Buddhist’ peoples can be interpreted as a natural outgrowth of concepts already basic to these cultures before such contact. The ethnographic information presented here, therefore, is directed to the comparative analysis of the culture history of Southeast Asia and Oceania and should be viewed in conjunction with the recent work of linguists and archaeologists on this topic (e.g. Benedict, 1966, 1967; Grace, Solheim and Chang, 1964).

Settlement, Environment, and Politics in the San Bartolo-Xultun Territory, El Peten, Guatemala

2009 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 525-552 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas G. Garrison ◽  
Nicholas P. Dunning
Keyword(s):  
Regional Culture ◽  
Natural Landscape ◽  
Ecological History ◽  
Culture History ◽  
Holistic Understanding ◽  
San Bartolo ◽  
History Of ◽  
Major Factors ◽  
El Peten

AbstractThis article examines the cultural and ecological history of a single Maya territory from circa 1000 B.C. to A.D. 1100. An ancient Maya territory is defined as an area of land and population under the jurisdiction of a particular capital. In addition to the capital, there are minor centers, household groups, and temporary settlements, which together comprise the population of a territory. Here, the San Bartolo-Xultun territory in the northeastern Department of the Peten, Guatemala is used as a case study. During more than two thousand years of occupation the natural landscape and cultural settlement pattern changed dramatically. This study isolates major factors contributing to broad changes in local culture history by employing data from archaeology, geography, remote sensing, epigraphy, and iconography. It is argued that reconstructing regional culture histories using a conjunctive approach should be a major goal of Maya archaeology in the coming years as we strive for a more holistic understanding of the past.

scholarly journals Islamic Content On Malaysian TV: A Case study of TV Al Hijrah

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 445
Author(s):  
Juliana Abdul Wahab
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Television Drama ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Popular Entertainment ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
News Content ◽  
Religion And Media ◽  
The Media

Religion and media are converging and frequently becoming a subject matter for news content and popular entertainment programmes in television and film, publishing, music as well as the new media. Religion, arguably has become part and parcel of the media environment today. In Malaysian context, during the millennium era, many locally produced ‘Islamic programmes’ started to gain popularity among Malaysian audience especially within the entertainment genre such as television drama. With the establishment of Malaysian first Islamic free-to-air television, TV Al Hijrah in 2010, this paper aims to understand the nature of Islamic content available on the station. The preliminary findings of this paper suggest that there are varieties of television programmes created and aired on TV Al Hijrah cutting across different genres meant for disseminating Islam as a way of life. Programmes available are mainly about showcasing the values of Islamic teaching and beliefs with the ultimate goal to highlight Islam as a beautiful and peaceful religion.  

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