Zairo-Congolese Musicians and the Sound of Assimilation in East Africa

2019 ◽  
pp. 201-220
Author(s):  
Aaron Louis Rosenberg
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
East Africa ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Half Century ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Political Understanding

This chapter investigates the phenomenon of emigrant Zairo-Congolese musicians in Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania and their attempts to integrate into these societies through a variety of strategies that overtly and covertly employ political elements. Remmy Ongala, Samba Mapangala, and the members of Orchestra Maquis all spent time in one of these countries and shaped their sound and messages in these settings, politics being a significant part of their work. While political communication studies focus on structures, institutions, and the media, it is the case that in numerous African contexts music is an integral part of political understanding and participation. Drawing upon the works of scholars such as Michael Urban, Mark Mattern, and Uche Onyebadi, this chapter combines varied fields such as ethnomusicology, political communication, and cultural studies to provide a close understanding of these musical emigrants as well as an exploration of the social trajectories in their work over the course of the last half century.

scholarly journals The relationship between media - politics and politainment in the experience society: The case of ‘The Daily Show’Yaşantı toplumunda politainment ve medya -siyaset ilişkisi: The Daily Show örneği

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 1146
Author(s):  
Şakir Eşitti
Keyword(s):  
Political Communication ◽  
Political Scientist ◽  
News Reporting ◽  
The Daily Show ◽  
Daily Show ◽  
Media And Politics ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Politics ◽  
The Relationship

<p>Nowadays the relationship between media and politics has reached a new dimension especially with the developments in the dynamics of the societies.  Usage of entertainment elements by politicians in order to take place in the media and usage of entertaining political contents in the media have increased the importance of the entertainment in political communication. This has led to the discussions on the concept of “<em>politainment</em>”, a portmanteau word composed of politics and entertainment which is seen a new form of political communication. The German political scientist Andreas Dörner coined this concept to the social sciences that can be translated in Turkish entertaining politics. The main aim and objectives of this study are examining the concept of <em>politainment</em>, addressing the change in the relationship between media and politics as well as in the understanding of news reporting in the case of United States’ (US) one of the most popular TV program “The Daily Show”. According to the findings of the study, usage of the elements of entertainment by politicians, make them more visible in the media, creates more awareness for the messages they want to convey, and make their messages more memorable and appealing. Also the media uses various political elements to differentiate its content and make it more appealing to their audience. This has led to a symbiotic relationship between media, politics and entertainment, which is based on a mutually beneficial understanding. The Daily Show is one of the most concrete and important examples of <em>politainment</em> concept. The program approaches to the national and international problems critically but in an entertaining way and makes these problems more popular and therefore more debatable. Besides this, politicians are aware of the effects and popularity of this program and therefore they often participate in the program and convey their ideas and political aims to the audiences, in this way they try to gain the sympathy and support.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Özet</strong></p><p>Günümüzde medya ve siyaset arasındaki ilişki toplum dinamiklerinde meydana gelen yeni gelişmelerle beraber farklı bir boyuta ulaşmıştır. Giderek artan bir şekilde politikacıların eğlence unsurlarını kullanarak medyada yer alması ve medyanın da izleyicisine politik içerikleri eğlenceli bir şekilde sunması, siyasal iletişimde eğlencenin önemini arttırmıştır. Bu durum siyasal iletişimde yeni bir unsur olarak görülen, politika (politics) ve eğlence (entertainment) kelimelerinin birleşmesiyle oluşturulmuş, <em>politainment</em> kavramının tartışılmasına neden olmuştur. Türkçe’ye eğlenceli siyaset olarak çevrilebilecek olan <em>politainment</em> kavramı, Alman siyaset bilimci Andreas Dörner tarafından sosyal bilimlere kazandırılmıştır. Bu çalışmanın temel amacı Dörner’ın ortaya attığı <em>politainment </em>kavramını irdelemek, medya - siyaset ilişkisindeki ve habercilik anlayışındaki bu değişimi Amerika Birleşik Devletleri’nin (ABD) popüler TV programlarından biri olan ‘The Daily Show’ isimli program örneğinde ele almaktır. Çalışmada elde edilen verilere göre siyasetçiler tarafından eğlencenin bir araç olarak kullanılması, politikacıları medyada daha görünür hale getirmekte, iletmek istedikleri mesajlar hakkında farkındalık yaratmakta, bu mesajları daha akılda kalıcı ve çekici kılabilmektedir. Medya ise, izleyicisine sunduğu içeriklerin diğerlerinden farklılaşmasını ve daha cazip hale gelmesini sağlamak için politik içerikleri kullanmaktadır. Bu durum medya, siyaset ve eğlence arasında karşılıklı fayda anlayışına dayalı ‘simbiyotik’ bir ilişkiyi doğurmuştur. <em>Politainment</em>ın medyadaki en önemli örneklerinden birini The Daily Show programı oluşturmaktadır. Program, ulusal ve uluslararası sorunlara eleştirel ancak eğlenceli bir şekilde yaklaşmakta, bu sorunların popülerleşerek daha fazla tartışılabilmesine imkân vermektedir. Siyasetçiler de The Daily Show’un popülerliğinden haberdar bir şekilde bu programa sıklıkla katılmakta, düşüncelerini ve siyasal hedeflerini izler kitleye aktarmakta, bu yolla sempati ve destek kazanmaktadır.</p>

scholarly journals Estudos culturais latino-americanos e Jesús Martín-Barbero: mais afinidades do que disputas

Matrizes ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Ana Carolina Damboriarena Escosteguy
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Latin American Cultural Studies ◽  
The Media

Although Martín-Barbero claims that “we had done cultural studies long before this label appeared”, this article sustains that, without De los medios a las mediaciones (From the Media to Mediations), Latin American cultural studies would not have developed, especially those linked to communication studies. The argument highlights the kinship between cultural studies, especially in the version associated with the Birmingham School, and the premises of the research program proposed by the Spanish-Colombian author. To trace these affinities, the combination of methodological programmatic and ethnographic approaches was adopted.

scholarly journals A CONCEPTUAL ASSESSMENT OF SPONSORSHIP ACTIVITIES AND MACRO ELEMENTS AFFECTING SUCCESS IN FOOTBALL

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 555-570
Author(s):  
İsmailcan DOĞAN
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Target Audience ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Key Points ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject

Football is an important sport that today attracts large audiences. Because of this interest in football, this sport has been the subject of academic studies of many disciplines in the Social Sciences. However, it is considered in the context of football sponsorship, especially in public relations, marketing and Communication Studies, and research is carried out on it. As is known, sponsorship activities are an important application used for different goals and goals in communication strategies for businesses. Today, when we examined the areas where businesses will be carried out for sponsorship, sports fields, in these fields, especially football, offering significant opportunities for businesses and is a sport that is effective in reaching their target audience. In this study, the focus was on the dynamics affecting success in sponsorship practices in football for businesses. The main aim of the study is to contribute to the literature by making a conceptual assessment of the main factors affecting success in football sponsorship studies. In this context, the literature review method was used in the study. Businesses that will make it work sponsorship in football as a result of the assessment of the key points that need to be careful: the target audience of the media in determining the interest in football sponsorship activity, which will be the determination of the interest in football, sponsorship or support will be given, which will be supported football club football player's image as a type of activity, and finally discussed and evaluated.

scholarly journals Media Sosial dan Budaya Politik Generasi Milineal dalam Pemilu

ARISTO ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kokom Komariah ◽  
Dede Sri Kartini
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Political Behavior ◽  
Millennial Generation ◽  
The Political ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Local Election ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Use Of Social Media

Social media nowadays has been crutial part of human being life particularly for the genarations those are so called millenial. The massive use of social media is not merely functioned for the social purpose such as information sharing among them but also has been used for business and economic or even political purposes. The local election of the Jawa Barat province in the year of 2018 is a moment where the millineal generation functioned the social media such as facebook and whattsap for the political purposes. This article discusses the phenomenon of using internet-based social media as an instrument in political communication and campaigning in the local election of West Java Province in 2018 as well as discussing the effectiveness of the media contents in shaping the pattern of millennial generation political behavior. The research adopts is qualitative approach by taking the object of research on political communication, as well as culture and political behavior. The main informants from this study were beginner voters who also catogerisaed as the group of the millennial generation. This study found that social media contents in general became an important instrument in shaping the pattern of political behavior of the millennial generation. The roles of the media for instance are indicated that current life of the millennial generation that cannot be separated from such media, social media contents provides political knowledges about profiles of candidates in local election, social media content provided political education both related to the technical implementation of the election and also the vision and mission of the candidates and, millennial generation have their respective communities which they make as a forum for discussion about the social media contents.

Media Studies, the Spatial Turn, and the Middle East

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-48
Author(s):  
Hatim El-Hibri
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Spatial Turn ◽  
Place And Space ◽  
Arab Media ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media

What questions do the ‘spatial turn’ in the humanities and the social sciences pose for the study of the media and culture of the Middle East? And how might attending to the spaces and spatiality of media in the Middle East help us to better understand the historical present? This article puts Middle East and Arab media and cultural studies into dialogue with an interdisciplinary literature that considers media as spatial and geographic phenomena. I examine how the question of space has arisen or might contribute to the study of media and culture in the Middle East by examining three areas of research in which that question has emerged: the place of media in domestic and public spaces and mobilities, the representation of place and space, and the geography of media industries and media infrastructure.

Jesús Martín Barbero and Communication Studies

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Lagos Lira
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Graduate Studies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Meanings ◽  
Entire Career ◽  
The 1960S

Jesús Martín Barbero is a philosopher specializing in communication and culture, particularly focusing on Latin America as his major geographical research environment and emphasizing the social meanings and practices of cultural consumption. Although he was born in Spain and his formal academic training was developed in Belgium and France, his entire career has been conducted in Latin America and, specifically, in Colombia, where he has lived since the 1960s, with a brief interruption due to his graduate studies in the 1970s. Along with others, Martín Barbero is considered to be one of the main theorists of the Latin American school of communication. He represents the cultural studies trend within it, and he is one of the few Latin American authors in communication and cultural studies who has been translated or published in English. Some of Martín Barbero’s main contributions have been to resituate communication studies within the broader field of culture, emphasizing a nonmedia-centered approach, proposing a radically historical perspective, arguing that the concepts of popular and mass culture are not actually opposite, but tightly embedded within each other, and recognizing that popular and mass culture practices are indeed worthy of study. This perspective has often been dismissed or neglected by previous research in communication and cultural studies in Latin America, and the recent focus on telenovelas research is one such example. De los medios a las mediaciones: Comunicación, Cultura y Hegemonía (1987), Martín Barbero’s most cited book, has several editions in Spanish and has been translated to Portuguese (Dos meios ‘as mediacoes, 1992) and French (Des médias aux mediations, 2002). The translation to English in 1993 includes a little twist on its title: Communication, Culture, and Hegemony: From Media to Mediations. Although Martín Barbero’s work has been included in edited volumes or special issues in English, it has been overwhelmingly published in Spanish. Drawing on his corpus of work—his books, articles, conferences, and interviews—this article offers an overview of Jesús Martín Barbero’s main concepts, his intellectual trajectory, his major intellectual influences, and how and why he became an influential thinker in the Latin American field of communication and cultural studies. It also highlights some limitations in Martín Barbero’s work.

scholarly journals Critical animal and media studies: Expanding the understanding of oppression in communication research

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 367-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Núria Almiron ◽  
Matthew Cole ◽  
Carrie P Freeman
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Animal Studies ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Critical Animal Studies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Critical Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
Ethical Thinking ◽  
Media And Communication ◽  
Moral Stance

Critical and communication studies have traditionally neglected the oppression conducted by humans towards other animals. However, our (mis)treatment of other animals is the result of public consent supported by a morally speciesist-anthropocentric system of values. Speciesism or anthroparchy, as much as any other mainstream ideologies, feeds the media and at the same time is perpetuated by them. The goal of this article is to remedy this neglect by introducing the subdiscipline of Critical Animal and Media Studies. Critical Animal and Media Studies takes inspiration both from critical animal studies – which is so far the most consolidated critical field of research in the social sciences addressing our exploitation of other animals – and from the normative-moral stance rooted in the cornerstones of traditional critical media studies. The authors argue that the Critical Animal and Media Studies approach is an unavoidable step forward for critical media and communication studies to engage with the expanded circle of concerns of contemporary ethical thinking.

scholarly journals POLITICAL COMMUNICATION AND PUBLIC SPHERE DEMOCRACY (AN ANALYSIS: THE HASHTAGS USAGE OF REJECTION THE OMNIBUS LAW 2020 ON TWITTER)

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Anang Setiawan ◽  
Herdin Arie Saputra ◽  
Helen Dian Fridayani
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government

In academic research, the Internet and the public domain's topic now has a permanent place; it is entering the mainstream of political communication studies. The coming out of the same ideas and opinions with social media can build a discourse for further discussion. One of the viral and trending discourses on Indonesian twitter was the rejection of OMNIBUSLAW; many people issued opinions using the hashtags #MosiTidakPercaya and #Tolakomnibuslaw, which emerged as a result of the passing of the omnibus law, which contains many irregularities in its ratification. This research was conducted by taking data on Twitter in October 2020 and processed using the Nvivo 12 Plus software. The results of this study indicate that the social media using twitter as information is 25%, where the public uses Twitter as a means of seeking information on the Job Creation Bill in its development process and its rejection in it, political communication is 48%, communication that is built has an interest in running political goals and as a movement. 25% of politics in pressuring the government and forming public opinion on the Work Creation Bill and a place for public space to communicate can be seen in the public space that people are interested in voicing their anxieties if there is a disagreement of opinion between stakeholders and the wider community.

scholarly journals PENGARUH MEDIA SOSIAL INSTAGRAM TERHADAP INFORMASI PENYEBARAN DAKWAH KEPADA MAHASISWA PROGRAM STUDI ILMU KOMUNIKASI UNIVERSITAS NEGERI JAKARTA

Kinesik ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 284-296
Author(s):  
Maulina Larasati Putri ◽  
Vera Wijayanti Sutjipto ◽  
Marissa Puspita Sary ◽  
Latifah Firdausah ◽  
Yoandra Putri Amarawati
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
State University ◽  
Wide Audience ◽  
Uses And Gratification ◽  
Uses And Gratification Theory ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media

Instagram is one of the social media that is widely used by various groups ranging from teenagers to adults, so that the information uploaded on Instagram can reach a wide audience. The concept in this study is Instagram Social Media as variable X and Information on the Spread of Da'wah as variable Y. The population in this study were students of the 2019 State University of Jakarta Communication Studies program, totaling 82 people. This research uses uses and gratification theory. This study uses quantitative methods and the data that has been obtained is processed and analyzed by testing the validity, reliability and bivariate. The results showed that the t-count value of 6.265 is higher than the t-table value of 2.017, the validity of the X and Y variables which are more than 0.5 and can be said to be valid and the reliability of the X and Y variables which are more than 0.6 and can be said to be reliable so that it can be It was concluded that Instagram social media had an effect on the media for spreading da'wah to students of Communication Studies, State University of Jakarta, batch 2019.

Cultural Studies and Communication

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toby Miller
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
The State ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
The Social

Communication and cultural studies share turbulent and contradictory histories, epistemologies, methods, and geographies, both on their own and as partners and rivals. This is in keeping with their status as interdisciplinary areas that emerged in the early to mid-20th century and crossed the humanities and the social sciences. Communication and cultural studies are linked and distinguished both by the topics they analyze and by their politics, countries, disciplines, theories, languages, and methods. Whereas the dominant forms of communication studies are dedicated to scholarly objectivity and disciplinary coherence, cultural studies is more akin to a tendency connected to concerns and identities on the margins of academia, and committed to methodological diversity. And whereas the critical strand of communication studies, notably political economy, examines such social forces of domination as the state and capital, cultural studies investigates the struggles undertaken by ordinary people to interpret dominant cultural forms in terms of their conditions of existence. The supposedly pessimistic orientation of political economy is frequently eschewed in favor of a faith in the resistive qualities of the oppressed and silenced. A similar perspective characterizes cultural studies’ rejection of effects studies for neglecting the politicized way that active audiences interpret media texts. In place of such concerns, the dominant strands of cultural studies tend to favor aesthetic and anthropological ways of analyzing societies to examine subjectivity and power and work with the understanding that popular culture represents and creates rituals and vice versa, through institutions and discourses that construct identities, which in turn form them.

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