scholarly journals The Social Construction of Digital Multimedia and the Policy of Mass Media Coverage in the Creation of Hyper-Reality Politics in Indonesia and Malaysia

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-37
Author(s):  
Basa Alim Tualeka ◽  
Burhan Bungin
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Digital Multimedia ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Creation

Poor Kids versus Bad Teachers: Vergara v. California and the Social Construction of Teachers

2021 ◽  
Vol 123 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Jeanne M. Powers ◽  
Kathryn P. Chapman
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Spectacle ◽  
The Public ◽  
Print News ◽  
Political Conflicts ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
The Social

Background In the past decade, the laws governing teachers’ employment have been at the center of legal and political conflicts across the United States. Vergara v. California challenged five California state statutes that provide employment protections for teachers. In June 2014, a California lower court declared the statutes unconstitutional because they exposed students to “grossly ineffective teachers.” Purpose The purpose of the article is to document and analyze how Vergara was presented in the print news media. It is important to understand how the print news media presents education policy debates to the public, because the print news media shapes the general public's understanding of education and other public policy debates by providing frames and themes for interpreting the issues in question and people associated with them. Research Design Using the social construction of target populations and political spectacle as conceptual lenses, we conducted a content analysis of print news media articles on the Vergara case published between June 2012 and November 2014. We provide a descriptive overview of the full corpus of articles published during this period and a thematic analysis of the 65 unique news articles published in the aftermath of the decision. The latter focuses on news articles because they are intended to provide more objective coverage of the case than opinions or editorials. Findings In the print news media coverage, the word “teacher” was often paired with a negative qualifier, which suggests that Vergara was an effort to change the relatively advantaged social construction of teachers. Similarly, metaphors and the illusion of rationality associated with political spectacle were used in ways that bolstered the plaintiffs’ claims. While Vergara consumed a substantial amount of philanthropic and public dollars, ultimately it did not change the policies that govern teachers’ employment in California. Vergara may have been more successful in shaping the general public's perceptions of teachers and the conditions of teachers’ employment in the period following the trial.

scholarly journals Unreasonable rage, disobedient dissent

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Gagnon
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Student Engagement ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Student Activists ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Social ◽  
Media Discourses ◽  
The Impact

This article explores the limits of student engagement in higher education in the United Kingdom through the social construction of student activists within media discourses. It scrutinises the impact of dominant neoliberal discourses on the notion of student engagement, constructing certain students as legitimately engaged whilst infantilising and criminalising those who participate in protest. Exploring media coverage of and commentary on students engaged in activism, from the 2010 protests against university fee increases and from more recent activism in 2016, the article draws upon Sara Ahmed’s (2014) Willful Subjects and Imogen Tyler’s (2013) Revolting Subjects to examine critically the ways in which some powerful discourses control and limit which activities, practices and voices can be recognised as legitimate forms of student engagement.

scholarly journals Representasi Pembawa Acara Program Talk Show di Televisi Indonesia

Humaniora ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 782
Author(s):  
Rahmat Edi Irawan
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Television Station ◽  
Talk Show ◽  
The Social ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Media ◽  
Talk Show Host

Presentation of talk show host program has been known to be intelligent, smart, and is able to direct the conversation in the program well. The presentation is in line with the view of talk show programs packed seriously as a journalistic genre program with emphasis on the truth of the facts or information conveyed. However, in recent years there are different representations associated with the talk show host of the program. The representation shows that a talk show host is not such intelligent and smart, and is not able to direct the conversation in the program properly. The existence of this representation is consistent with the theory of social construction assuming that mass media play a major role in shaping the social reality in the society. As of this writing, the audience receives social reality as a representation. Like the previous presentation, as the television has broadcasted for a long time, people feel that the reality is normative and ideal conditions for them. Public realize that the social reality was only the reconstruction of the television when TV presents a representation of another social reality. Nevertheless, whatever the social reality that is deliberately made or reconstructed by the media, including television, in fact everything is a reality that is deliberately created just for the sake of the manager or owner of the television station.  

scholarly journals Islamic Peril

2004 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 147-149
Author(s):  
Laurent Bonnefoy
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
The North ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Relations Of Power

At the junction of history, international relations, political science, andcommunication studies, Karim H. Karim’s Islamic Peril provides seriousand in-depth research on the media coverage of violence involving Muslimindividuals and groups. This updated edition of the book, first published in2000, adds a preface and an afterword that briefly account for 9/11 and itsaftermath. While studying the construction of Islam as the primary “Other”in Canada’s main print media since the beginning of the 1980s, the authorargues that the numerous (mis)representations and stereotypes of Muslimsare based on a lack of religious, sociological, political, and historicalknowledge rather than on what Karim calls a “centrally organized journalisticconspiracy against Islam” (p. 4).The author concentrates on the construction, flow, and reproductionof globally dominant interpretations through relations of power and dominationbetween the North and the South, but also inside the North’s media.His focus on journalism’s internal mechanisms (e.g., dependence on alimited number of sources, the need for simplification, and the clash ofinterests between information and business) and the wider sociopoliticaldomination processes (e.g., the end of the cold war or unipolarity) preventsthe analysis from being overtly simplistic and adopting a victimmentality. The author does not just highlight the (mis)representations; healso tries to analyze them. His approach is optimistic, for it implies thereis no fatality in reproducing stigmatization and stereotypes.Karim studies what could be called the “Islamization of representations”:the social construction of the linkage between facts of violence thatare historically and sociologically rooted and the notion of Islam as anessence. His analysis does not revolutionise the approach toward discourseson Islam, for one can feel how much he was influenced by the ...

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