scholarly journals Contemporary Media Discourse and the Role of Journalistic Research in it

2018 ◽  
Vol 0 (2) ◽  
pp. 22-29
Author(s):  
Igor Pecheranskyi ◽  
Khrystyna Vaskul
Keyword(s):  
Media Discourse ◽  
Contemporary Media

scholarly journals Emotionalisation of contemporary media discourse: A research agenda

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 586-610
Author(s):  
Franco Zappettini ◽  
Douglas Mark Ponton ◽  
Tatiana V. Larina
Keyword(s):  
Research Agenda ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
Linguistic Representations ◽  
Political Background ◽  
The Media ◽  
Contemporary Media

This special issue continues the discussion of the role of emotion in discourse (see Russian Journal of Linguistics 2015 (1) and 2018, 22 (1)) which, as testified by the burgeoning body of literature in the field, has become more prominent in different spheres and contexts of public life. This time we focus on emotionalisation of media discourse. We highlight the intensification of emotions in media and, showcasing contributions from international authors, critically reflect on constructions, functions and pragmatic purposes of emotions in media discourse. Our aim is to investigate emotions in the media from semiotic, pragmatic and discursive perspectives against the contemporary socio-political background in which traditional notions concerning the role of media are being noticeably changed. In this introductory article, we also put forward an agenda for further research by briefly outlining three main areas of exploration: the logics of media production and reception , the boundaries of media discourse, and the semiotic resources deployed to construct emotionality . We then present the articles in this issue and highlight their contributions to the study of linguistic representations of emotions. We then summarise the main results and suggest a brief avenue for further research.

scholarly journals Media Discourse Syntax

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 14-21
Author(s):  
Alexandra Iorgulescu
Keyword(s):  
Word Order ◽  
Sentence Type ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Logical Links ◽  
Discourse Syntax

In this article we have emphasized the role of media discourse syntax, so necessary to avoid any misinterpretation. Therefore, understanding the message conveyed by journalists is and will be influenced by word order, sentence type, but also by providing logical links between concepts and ideas play in their own way original. It was found that a contemporary media discourse seeking new concepts to describe functions, meanings and uses of concepts in a particular field, which gradually integrate with older visions through a generality extending existing concepts.

scholarly journals Metaphor in Azerbaijani and Russian Media Discourse

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 141
Author(s):  
Ulviyya H. Taghiyeva
Keyword(s):  
Media Discourse ◽  
Expressive Function ◽  
Russian Media ◽  
Metaphoric Expression

<p>The paper aims to study the role of metaphors in the construction of Azerbaijani and Russian media discourse. It speaks of the fact that metaphor plays a central role in the structure of discourse. Being the unit of the second nomination, metaphor carries out greater expressive function. Metaphoric expression is always directed to attain the maximal communicative effectivity. This situation makes the metaphor an organizing centre of discourse of any type.</p>

A metapsychological exploration of the role of popular media in engineering public belief on planning issues

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 325-343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Gunder
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Communication Media ◽  
Public Issues ◽  
The Future ◽  
Contemporary Media

The article considers how planning, in its various dimensions of engagement with popular communication media, plays an important role in helping to ideologically constitute a polity’s desired spatial reality. In doing so it will consider the historical deployment in public relations of psychoanalytical theory to facilitate the construction of public issues and beliefs, as well as to engineer consent for planning and related policy. The article will consider the role of contemporary media in shaping public aspirations as to what is desired for the future of our cities and settlements. The article will conclude that psychoanalytical insight gives us one effective handle from which to begin to understand planning’s ideologically shaping role in the formulation of our desires for our future communities.

scholarly journals Understanding the prime mover

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan Hammarlund ◽  
Kristina Riegert
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Us Foreign Policy ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Prime Mover ◽  
Cultural Symbols ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Role Of Religion

•As a pervasive historical construct that is both foreign and familiar, the USA has a looming presence in Swedish media discourse. Swedish journalists’ views of the USA can best be described as ambivalent — critical of a unilateral or too passive US foreign policy, while at the same time being heavily influenced by many aspects of the American economic model and culture. This article presents the results of an analysis of Swedish editorials, debate, commentary and cultural articles about the USA in time periods between 1984 and 2009. During these three decades USA actions are broadly framed against the backdrop of Cold War, globalization and cultural contestation paradigms respectively. The USA is seen as a formidable power, one that should be checked by others on the international stage. Cultural symbols based on historical European narratives about the US are called upon to illustrate reckless unilateralism (‘Space Cowboy’ Reagan) or the future-oriented entrepreneur as a role model for Sweden (during the Clinton years). The final decade under the cultural contestation paradigm is also ambivalent — the role of religion in the USA appears foreign to Swedish eyes, whereas the USA’s cultural misunderstandings with others appear familiar. •

scholarly journals Intimate listening and sonic solidarity. Radio in the works of Radio Earth Hold collective as a way towards the sonic turn

2021 ◽  
pp. 191-207
Author(s):  
Marta Wódz
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Theoretical Interest ◽  
Contemporary Media

At first glance, radio may seem to be an example of dated technology, overturned by other, more contemporary media. However, the beginning of the 21st century brought an upsurge of radio-related artworks alongside an increased theoretical interest around the broader topic of sound in culture – in response to W. J. T Mitchell’s ‘pictorial turn,’ the ‘sonic turn’ was introduced in 2004 by Jim Drobnick. In this article, I specifically focus on radio as a tool used in visual arts on the example of works by artistic/curatorial collective Radio Earth Hold, observed through the lens of ‘transmission arts’ – a term coined at the end of the 1990s, which recognizes the issue of transmission as political at its core. REH’s works render apparent the potential of the radio voice to become authoritarian as well as to create an intimate experience of listening. By building upon the idea of ‘sonic solidarity’ REH touches upon political topics in a way that can profoundly challenge our thinking and encourage us to reexamine not only the role of radio but also the transmission and communication in or via art – which perhaps could be understood as a way towards the possible sonic turn.

scholarly journals Migration Discourse in Sweden: Frames and Sentiments in Mainstream and Social Media

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Yantseva
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
The Media ◽  
European Refugee Crisis

This study undertakes a systematic analysis of media discourse on migration in Sweden from 2012 to 2019. Using a novel data set consisting of mainstream newspapers, Twitter and forum data, the study answers two questions: What do Swedish media actually talk about when they talk about “migration”? And how do they talk about it? Using a combination of computational text analysis tools, I analyze a shift in the media discourse seen as one of the outcomes of the European refugee crisis in 2015 and try to understand the role of social media in this process. The results of the study indicate that messages on social media generally had negative tonality and suggest that some of the media frames can be attributed to a migration-hostile discourse. At the same time, the analysis of framing and sentiment dynamics provides little evidence for the discourse shift and any long-term effects of the European refugee crisis on the Swedish media discourse. Rather, one can hypothesize that the role of the crisis should be viewed in a broader political and historical context.

scholarly journals A Refugee Crisis Without Refugees: Policy and media discourse on refugees in the Czech Republic and its implications

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-45
Author(s):  
Marie Jelínková
Keyword(s):  
Policy Implications ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Security Threat ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
The Media ◽  
Significant Effort

Abstract Along with other Central and Eastern European counties, Czechia has invested significant effort in deterring refugees from entering the country during the ‘refugee crisis’. This article sheds light on the role of the media in legitimising anti-refugee policies by analysing the politicised discourse on refugees in 900 articles published in Czech newspapers between 2014 and 2016. The findings indicate that refugees were depicted as a security threat and an administrative burden partly imposed by the European Union. The article discusses the policy implications of depicting refugees in this way and thus broadens the literature on European narratives during the refugee emergency in Europe.

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