Saviours and Barbarians at the Gate

2012 ◽  
pp. 339-348
Author(s):  
Arun Mahizhnan
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
International Workshop ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Magic Bullet ◽  
End User ◽  
Regulatory Policies ◽  
Keynote Speech ◽  
The Media

This chapter is based on the Keynote Speech at International Workshop on Regulatory Policies for New Media at Leipzig on 23-25 September 2009. It addresses the tensions between the inevitable need for some kind of regulation of the new media and the essentially uncontrollable nature of the architecture and the function of the media. State-regulation, self-regulation, and co-regulation have each its own strengths and weaknesses as a regime, and there is no magic bullet for keeping the new media under control. Ultimately, self-control of the end user seems more critical to the outcome than externally imposed control regimes.

Accountability in Journalism

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Fengler
Keyword(s):  
Self Regulation ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Media Criticism ◽  
The Public ◽  
Press Councils ◽  
Global North ◽  
Strategic Influence ◽  
Media Markets ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Systems

In the past decade, academic and professional debates about media accountability have spread around the globe – but have done so in a fundamentally different framework. In many Western democracies, trust in media – along with trust in politics and trust in institutions – as eroded dramatically. Fundamental shifts regarding the patterns of media use and the structure of media and revenue markets have made media and journalism more exposed to criticism from various stakeholders, and more vulnerable to the strategic influence of national and international actors. While many “Western” media professionals have reacted to these challenges to its credibility by new initiatives to demonstrate accountability and transparency, policy makers in other countries even in the “Global North” have tightened their grip on independent media and gradually weakened the concept of self-control. At the same time, an ongoing democratization in many parts of the world, along with a de-regulation of media markets, has created a growing demand for self-regulation and media accountability in countries formerly characterized by rigid press control. Claude-Jean Bertrand defined the development and current structures of accountability in journalism as “any non-State means of making media responsible towards the public.” Key aims of media accountability are “to improve the services of the media to the public; restore the prestige of media in the eyes of the population; diversely protect freedom of speech and press; obtain, for the profession, the autonomy that it needs to play its part in the expansion of democracy and the betterment of the fate of mankind.” Journalists and news outlets have a wide array of responses to professional, public, and political criticisms via press councils, ombudsmen, media criticism, and digital forms of media accountability, while online and offline media accountability instruments have distinct traditions in different media systems and journalism cultures.

scholarly journals SELF-REGULATION OF PERSONALITY AS A PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL PROBLEM

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (4) ◽  
pp. 53-59
Author(s):  
Olena Denis
Keyword(s):  
Self Regulation ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Scientific Concepts ◽  
Education Development ◽  
Individual Organism ◽  
Self Organized ◽  
Current State ◽  
Regulation Of Activity ◽  
The Individual

The article reveals the essence of the concept of «self-regulation» and «self-regulation of personality». The current state of the problem self-regulation of personality is considered in the following positions: functions or properties of self-organized systems; complex multilevel systemic education; development of conscious self-regulation in activity and also this concept was studied in the aspect - "personality-activity". The current state of the problem of self-regulation of personality has been considered on the basis of existing scientific approaches such as subject-activity approach through understanding of conscious self-regulation of activity as a system-organized process of internal mental activity of man for initiation, construction, support and management of various types and forms of arbitrary activity that directly implements the achievement of goals that are accepted by man; structural-functional approach through self-regulation of arbitrary activity, which is characterized as the ability of the subject and as a process. Scientific concepts are of considerable interest for our study that have developed within the framework of: systemactivity concept of self-regulation of the state, in which self-regulation is characterized as an activity and as a state; the concept of individual style of self-regulation of arbitrary human activity; concepts that develop a view of selfregulation as a hierarchically organized system, which involves processes of different levels of individuality. A theoretical analysis of the problem of formation of the concept of «self-regulation of personality» in the scientific literature of various fields of knowledge has been done. A retrospective of scientific research on personality selfregulation is revealed: from understanding it as the most important explanatory principle in the system approach based on theories of functional systems as abilities and properties of the individual organism, to studying this category as a process and independent activity in functional state regulation. The basic conceptual positions, directions of researches and formation of the basic scientific concepts are considered. The basic conceptual positions and directions of researches in which the basic concepts from a researched problem are formulated are considered. Mechanisms of personality self-regulation such as self-esteem, level of one's own aspirations, self-control, reflection, self-stimulation are revealed.

Razvoj profesionalnog novinarstva u Bosni i Hercegovini

2016 ◽  
pp. 35-56
Author(s):  
Amila Grbo
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Right To Know ◽  
The Public ◽  
Strict Regulation ◽  
The Media ◽  
Journalistic Professionalism

A variety of information published in many media nowadays, especially those in new media, are not based on fact. Such information are often offensive, xenophobic, islamophobic and a serious threat to human dignity and peace. However, part of the public used to believe the media uncritically accept their content because it believes that the ”mighty” media bring nothing but the truth. The other part of the public recognizes such content and raises the question of how to change that, or how to compel the media to work professionally. It seems that the answer to this question is not only in the sphere of strict regulation and strict sanctions (laws), but in the system of self-regulation that will ensure journalistic professionalism and public right ”to know the truth”. However, precondition for that is a developed democratic society and within a formed political culture.

Parasympathetic Concomitants of Habitual, Spontaneous, and Instructed Emotional Suppression

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asmir Gračanin ◽  
Igor Kardum ◽  
Jasna Hudek-Knežević
Keyword(s):  
Negative Emotion ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Experimental Manipulation ◽  
Task Demands ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Integration Model ◽  
Sinus Arrhythmia ◽  
Emotional Suppression ◽  
Emotion Experience ◽  
Similar Relation

Abstract. The neurovisceral integration model proposes that different forms of self-regulation, including the emotional suppression, are characterized by the activation of neural network whose workings are also reflected in respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA). However, most of the previous studies failed to observe theoretically expected increases in RSA during emotional suppression. Even when such effects were observed, it was not clear whether they resulted from specific task demands, a decrease in muscle activity, or they were the consequence of more specific self-control processes. We investigated the relation between habitual or trait-like suppression, spontaneous, and instructed suppression with changes in RSA during negative emotion experience. A modest positive correlation between spontaneous situational and habitual suppression was observed across two experimental tasks. Furthermore, the results showed greater RSA increase among participants who experienced higher negative affect (NA) increase and reported higher spontaneous suppression than among those with higher NA increase and lower spontaneous suppression. Importantly, this effect was independent from the habitual suppression and observable facial expressions. The results of the additional task based on experimental manipulation, rather than spontaneous use of situational suppression, indicated a similar relation between suppression and RSA. Our results consistently demonstrate that emotional suppression, especially its self-regulation component, is followed by the increase in parasympathetic activity.

Disruptive Fixation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christo Sims
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
New Media ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Complex Processes ◽  
Middle Schoolers ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Class Divisions ◽  
Conventional Type

In New York City in 2009, a new kind of public school opened its doors to its inaugural class of middle schoolers. Conceived by a team of game designers and progressive educational reformers and backed by prominent philanthropic foundations, it promised to reinvent the classroom for the digital age. This book documents the life of the school from its planning stages to the graduation of its first eighth-grade class. It is the account of how this “school for digital kids,” heralded as a model of tech-driven educational reform, reverted to a more conventional type of schooling with rote learning, an emphasis on discipline, and traditional hierarchies of authority. Troubling gender and racialized class divisions also emerged. The book shows how the philanthropic possibilities of new media technologies are repeatedly idealized even though actual interventions routinely fall short of the desired outcomes. It traces the complex processes by which idealistic tech-reform perennially takes root, unsettles the worlds into which it intervenes, and eventually stabilizes in ways that remake and extend many of the social predicaments reformers hope to fix. It offers a nuanced look at the roles that powerful elites, experts, the media, and the intended beneficiaries of reform—in this case, the students and their parents—play in perpetuating the cycle. The book offers a timely examination of techno-philanthropism and the yearnings and dilemmas it seeks to address, revealing what failed interventions do manage to accomplish—and for whom.

Inhibition tasks are not associated with self-regulation outcomes in healthy college students

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Curtis David Von Gunten ◽  
Bruce D Bartholow ◽  
Jorge S. Martins
Keyword(s):  
Latent Variable ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Poor Performance ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Life Outcomes ◽  
Variable Level ◽  
Cast Doubt ◽  
The Individual

Executive functioning (EF) is defined as a set of top-down processes used in reasoning, forming goals, planning, concentrating, and inhibition. It is widely believed that these processes are critical to self-regulation and, therefore, that performance on behavioral task measures of EF should be associated with individual differences in everyday life outcomes. The purpose of the present study was to test this core assumption, focusing on the EF facet of inhibition. A sample of 463 undergraduates completed five laboratory inhibition tasks, along with three self-report measures of self-control and 28 self-report measures of life outcomes. Results showed that although most of the life outcome measures were associated with self-reported self-control, none of the life outcomes were associated with inhibition task performance at the latent-variable level, and few associations were found at the individual task level. These findings challenge the criterion validity of lab-based inhibition tasks. More generally, when considered alongside the known lack of convergent validity between inhibition tasks and self-report measures of self-control, the findings cast doubt on the task’s construct validity as measures of self-control processes. Potential methodological and theoretical reasons for the poor performance of laboratory-based inhibition tasks are discussed.

Filthy Material

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Forster
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New Media ◽  
Twentieth Century Literature ◽  
Modernist Literature ◽  
Literary Value ◽  
Radclyffe Hall ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media

Modernist literature is inextricable from the history of obscenity. The trials of such figures as James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, and Radclyffe Hall loom large in accounts of twentieth-century literature. Filthy Material: Modernism and the Media of Obscenity reveals the ways that debates about obscenity and literature were shaped by changes in the history of media. The emergence of film, photography, and new printing technologies shaped how “literary value” was understood, altering how obscenity was defined and which texts were considered obscene. Filthy Material rereads the history of modernist obscenity to discover the role played by technological media in debates about obscenity. The shift from the intense censorship of the early twentieth century to the effective “end of obscenity” for literature at the middle of the century was not simply a product of cultural liberalization but also of a changing media ecology. Filthy Material brings together media theory and archival research to offer a fresh account of modernist obscenity with novel readings of works of modernist literature. It sheds new light on figures at the center of modernism’s obscenity trials (such as Joyce and Lawrence), demonstrates the relevance of the discourse of obscenity to understanding figures not typically associated with obscenity debates (such as T. S. Eliot and Wyndham Lewis), and introduces new figures to our account of modernism (such as Norah James and Jack Kahane). It reveals how modernist obscenity reflected a contest over the literary in the face of new media technologies.

Mediatizing Sex

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Crispin Thurlow
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Communicative Practices ◽  
Digital Discourse ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter focuses on sex/uality in the context of so-called new media and, specifically, digital discourse: technologically mediated linguistic or communicative practices, and mediatized representations of these practices. To help think through the relationship among sex, discourse, and (new) media, the discussion focuses on sexting and two instances of sexting “scandals” in the news. Against this backdrop, the chapter sets out four persistent binaries that typically shape public and academic writing about sex/uality and especially digital sex/uality: new-old, mediation-mediatization, private/real-public/fake, and personal-political. These either-or approaches are problematic, because they no longer account for the practical realities and lived experiences of both sex and media. Scholars interested in digital sex/uality are advised to adopt a “both-and” approach in which media (i.e., digital technologies and The Media) both create pleasurable, potentially liberating opportunities to use our bodies (sexually or otherwise) and simultaneously thwart us, shame us, or shut us down. In this sense, there is nothing that is really “new” after all.

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