A Discourse on Mass Media and Society

2017 ◽  
pp. 200-216
Author(s):  
Nneoma A. Anozie
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Medical Diagnosis ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Diagnosis And Treatment ◽  
Media Ethics ◽  
Medical Issues ◽  
Perceived Effects ◽  
The Media

Mass media and society, a popular concept in media studies, has constituted much discourse due to roles media play in society and perceived effects that can result thereof. This chapter is inspired by the term ‘medicalization of the society' whereby ailments are regarded as medical issues and subjected to medical diagnosis and treatment, regardless of their true causes. Similarly, the violence, moral decadence and ethno-religious crises witnessed in the society are largely ascribed to the media. This chapter examined the said effects of mass media with society's social systems, cultures and values, with a view to finding a relationship. It argues that these societal makeups especially ones as formidable as Africa's also affect largely members' conducts and reactions to media contents. However, it advocates children's news segment, adherence to media ethics, and use of media programmes to enhance learning, proper socialization, abolishment of negative cultures, media literacy among others.

A Discourse on Mass Media and Society

2018 ◽  
pp. 422-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nneoma A. Anozie
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Medical Diagnosis ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Diagnosis And Treatment ◽  
Media Ethics ◽  
Medical Issues ◽  
Perceived Effects ◽  
The Media

Mass media and society, a popular concept in media studies, has constituted much discourse due to roles media play in society and perceived effects that can result thereof. This chapter is inspired by the term ‘medicalization of the society' whereby ailments are regarded as medical issues and subjected to medical diagnosis and treatment, regardless of their true causes. Similarly, the violence, moral decadence and ethno-religious crises witnessed in the society are largely ascribed to the media. This chapter examined the said effects of mass media with society's social systems, cultures and values, with a view to finding a relationship. It argues that these societal makeups especially ones as formidable as Africa's also affect largely members' conducts and reactions to media contents. However, it advocates children's news segment, adherence to media ethics, and use of media programmes to enhance learning, proper socialization, abolishment of negative cultures, media literacy among others.

scholarly journals DEVELOPMENT OF CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF MEDIA LITERACY LEVEL IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA AND LATVIA

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 504
Author(s):  
Sandra Murinska-Gaile ◽  
Sabahudin Hadžialić
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Main Hypothesis ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Impact

The aim of this paper is to look on level of media literacy and activities in this field in two countries – Latvia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. People are exposed to a flow of diverse content of information and opinions, there it is important to discuss about media education and it`s outcome – the media literacy. Media literacy helps people to analyze, evaluate, and create messages thus develops people's critical and creative abilities. The survey about credibility of mass media, critical use of information, understanding of media literacy in each country, institutions promoting media literacy and the impact of media literacy on political decision making was carried out. The main hypothesis of this case study was that media literacy is basic presumption of the establishing the critical thinking of society of developed democratic consciousness.The comparative analysis showed that sociological aspect in the area of Bosnia and Herzegovina within the deep division in the society itself, with the lack of consensual awareness creates presumption trust completely into the mass media, while in the case of Latvia there is just few answers related to the existing media literacy.

scholarly journals Post Media Literacy: Menyaksikan Kuasa Media Bersama Michel Foucault

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Iswandi Syahputra
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Control Process ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
The Media ◽  
New Space ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Unique Style

This article would like to present Michel Foucault’s idea concerning Knowledge and Power in media industry. As a contemporary intellectual, Foucault’s thought has a unique style of postmodernism. His thought had gone beyond traditional critical theory whose trying to disclose the relation of power and economic behind the ideology of media. Foucault’s thought had given new perspective in understanding how the media produce truth under tightly control process into something that seems normal. With the assumption of media has the power to create mass culture, which has to be studied critically by media literacy approach, Foucault’s thought had given new space of discursive. An alternative thought on how to estimate the work of mass media as supervisor of truth and creator of information trough normalization practice.

scholarly journals Peran Program Reporter on Campus RRI Mataram Dalam Meningkatkan Kemampuan Jurnalistik Mahasiswa KPI Universitas Muhammadiyah Mataram

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Muhammad Syaoki ◽  
Endang Rahmawati
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
The Public ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
Student Journalism ◽  
Descriptive Method

Abstrak:Media massa mengalami perkembangan yang pesat, selain menyampaikan informasi kepada masyarakat media juga memiliki tugas mendidik publik melalui literasi media. Dengan menggunakan metode deskriptif kualitatif penelitian ini bertujuan untuk melihat peranan program reporter on campus dalam upaya menumbuhkembangkan literasi media khususnya di kalangan mahasiswa. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa program reporter on campus sangat menunjang kemampuan mahasiswa baik dalam aspek teoritis maupun aplikatif.Kata Kunci: Radio, Reporter on Campus, Mahasiswa JurnalistikAbstract: The mass media experienced development fastly, in addition to conveying information to the media community also had the task of educating the public through media literacy. Using qualitative descriptive method, this study aims to see the role of on campus reporter program in an effort to develop media literacy, especially among students. The results of this study indicated that on the campus reporter program supports greatly the ability of students in both theoretical and applicative aspects.Keywords: Radio, Reporter on Campus, Student, Journalism

scholarly journals LITERASI MEDIA KHALAYAK DI ERA KEBERLIMPAHAN INFOMASI DI MEDIA MASSA

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 90
Author(s):  
Robeet Thadi
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
Media Audience

The era of information abundance problems has shifted, from the difficulty offinding information to the difficulty of filtering information. This paper aims toexplain the urgency of public media literacy in the midst of the abundance ofinformation presented by the mass media. Media literacy is a concept about the ways people question what is watched, observed, read and produced from the media. Media literacy is needed so that the public as a media audience has the authority to actively sort out and choose media shows, so that if there is a presentation that only emphasizes sensation, the public can reject it. by not watching it or switching to other shows. The public can control the contents of the media critically and intelligently so that they can detect propaganda, certain interests or bias in the appearance of the media

scholarly journals Reframing the Montreal Massacre: Strategies for Feminist Media Activism

2006 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maureen Bradley
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Media Activism ◽  
The Media ◽  
École Polytechnique

Abstract: In the days that followed the Montréal Massacre at the École Polytechnique, December 6, 1989, the Canadian mass media became a discursive battleground regarding violence against women. In response to this phenomenon, I released a half-hour documentary in 1995 entitled Reframing the Montreal Massacre: A Media Interrogation. Designed as a feminist tool for media literacy, the tape deconstructs six key moments in the media coverage of the Massacre. This paper serves as an extended artist’s statement to accompany the project’s re-release on the Internet, while simultaneously exploring aesthetic and representational strategies that shape the documentary. This article is supported by several videos.Résumé : Dans les jours qui suivirent le massacre de l’École Polytechnique de Montréal, le 6 décembre 1989, la presse canadienne devint un champ de bataille discursif relativement à la violence orientée contre les femmes. En réponse à ce phénomène, j’ai réalisé en 1995 un documentaire d’une demi-heure intitulé Reframing the Montreal Massacre: A Media Interrogation. Conçu comme un outil féministe en faveur de l’information médiatique, le documentaire déconstruit six moments clés de la couverture médiatique du massacre. A l’occasion de la rediffusion du projet sur Internet, le présent article réitère dans sa continuité ma prise de position en tant qu’artiste, explorant simultanément les stratégies esthétiques et représentationnelles qui modèlent le documentaire. Plusieurs vidéos viennent compléter cet article.

scholarly journals CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS : SEEING THE MEDIA EDUCATION FROM CDA PERSPECTIVE

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annisa Septiani
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Media Education ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Critical Practice ◽  
Know How ◽  
Critical Media ◽  
The Media

This paper about critical discourse analysis in media education.Students have used mass media to help them to learn. They get any information from it. Although mass media can help the students to learn, mass media also has a bad effect. For that, the students must know how to critically mass media such as they know the theory of critical practice, critical media literacy and CDA in the education media

scholarly journals PERILAKU MASYARAKAT & ETIKA MEDIA DALAM TAYANGAN INFOTAINMENT DI TELEVISI

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 120
Author(s):  
Puji Nugroho
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Media Ethics ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
Inherent Strength ◽  
Political Economic

ABSTRACTThe proliferation of infotainment shows on television media for current decades is considered quite disturbing for broadcasting stakeholders in this country. The mass media through its four functions should be able to perform these functions in sequence and the four should run proporsonally, either the functions of educating, providing information, entertaining and influencing. But along with the disowning of conscience by media owners who are very oriented to the political economic of the liberal media, the main purpose of broadcasting is merely pursuing for ratings to be able to reap a lot of advertisements, with the reason people as the owner of the sovereign broadcasting like it. The orientation of media owners through infotainment shows that sold well consumed by society, on one hand, potentially damage the morality of the society into an opportunistic, apathy and hedonist nation. The situation of upheaval domestic political is also considered to foster infotainment shows in the midst of people's worries about the increasingly uncertain political situation, especially the corruption news that has filled the labyrinth of society, more saturated, so that people seek entertainment on television through infotainment shows.The lack of favor towards the conscience and the morality of society, thereby crashing into the corridor of mass media function, encourages media owners to tend to display something of added value in society, by denying the educational function, providing useful information and influencing the society with more cosmopolitan thinking. This is the serious problem faced by this nation, and has not obtained law enforcement as regulated in legislation. In this case, the Indonesian Broadcasting Commission which has repeatedly reprimanded and gave strong warnings against television stations that broadcast infotainment shows inappropriately, merely to rebuke and commemorate, without being able to bring it into the realm of justice. The inherent strength of capital accompanied by the social political power of the media owners, have made all violations and crimes in the mass media unfolded without ever being touched by the law. Keywords: People behavior, media ethics and infotainment shows on television

scholarly journals Law, Journalistic Profession and Mass Media Ethics

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 2532-2540
Author(s):  
M. Yoserizal Saragih
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Media Ethics ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Communication Ethics ◽  
Media Institutions ◽  
The Media ◽  
Legal Subjects ◽  
Political Economy Approach

In law and mass media studies, morals and ethics are linked to the obligations of journalists, such as; the implementation of journalistic code of ethics in every journalistic activity is subject to legal institutions and regulations to carry out with good etiquette as the provisions in the law, which are a set of principles and rules that have generally been accepted and approved by the public. In this regard, ethical principles for the journalistic profession provide a legal basis for managing news in the media in an orderly manner in the relationship between legal subjects. In developments in media institutions in Indonesia, the aspects of share ownership in the media (leadership), economics and media marketing will greatly determine the ideology that is promoted by the media, where this ideology, if it leads to a political economy approach, will create media actors who are less familiar with communication ethics. Communication ethics here are positioned as mere instruments and become less meaningful in determining program content, program quality and media actors' respect for human rights that are represented by individuals as sources of information. This choice raises communication ethics on media actors who are considered to have experienced a reduction. Media players as a profession have taken a shortcut by referring to the principle of benefit, prioritizing the principle of benefit in its coverage and news, which is also paradoxical with the professional ethics it carries. To make matters worse, the absence of respect for the presumption of innocence in the name of the public's interest in obtaining information will increasingly make the mass media and media actors as dominant persons in reconstructing and manipulating social reality. Up to this point, the choice of the tendency to interpret the political economy approach or the ethical approach, in fact both of them do not have obvious legal implications, all of them are returned to each individual who is involved in activities in mass media institutions.

scholarly journals Digital Media Literacy in Samin Indigeneous People

2018 ◽  
Vol 73 ◽  
pp. 14018
Author(s):  
Turnomo Rahardjo ◽  
Hapsari D. Sulistyani ◽  
Taufik Suprihatini
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
The Media ◽  
Digital Media Literacy

As an ethnic group, Samin community has values and rules that differ to the dominant Indonesian culture. Negative stereotypes that are embedded in the word of Samin has made the community prefer to be called as Sedulurur Sikep. In Baturejo village, a village that has a large number of Sedulur Sikep, the monograph data shows that 70.74 percent of the population does not attend junior high school. The data indicates that many members of the population do not fully participate in formal education. On the other hand, the data also signifies that the community has in a way exposed to an outside (formal) mode of education particularly at the level of elementary school. The similar phenomenon also occurs in the terms of digital media. Some of the Sikep community have consumed mass media, even though the way they perceive mass media differ to that of the dominant culture. Thus, it is necessary to conduct a media literacy education to Sikep society icluding digital media literacy. The media education have to be adapted to local thinking and understanding of the media’s contents. The result of media literacy observation indicates that, while still maintaining its cultural values, Sikep community does not become completely exclusive to digital media exposures. Communication activities that are using mobile phones can be found in their daily lives.They also interact with those who have different cultural backgrounds with them. The mobile phone has become a relatively prominent gadget in the society. Therefore, the Sikep community is vulnerable to the various contents of messages offered by the media.

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