Media's Role in Communicating Gender and Migration Messages in Africa

2020 ◽  
pp. 68-84
Author(s):  
Juliet Wambui Macharia
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Domestic Servants ◽  
Local Media ◽  
Gender And Migration ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Negative Messages ◽  
Media Channels

The 21st century has seen the development of digital technologies as well as the growth of diverse media channels including the social networks. Many people in Africa rely on both traditional media, regional and local media to receive messages about other countries. In Africa, most of the media reports will be about women who have migrated to the middle East to look for jobs. But despite the negative messages more women than men still go to the Middle East to work as domestic servants and other lowly jobs. The men also migrate as skilled workers. Both the global media and local media present messages about America as the place to be. The media messages create the perception that in America, one can achieve economic stability. From Kenya, there are as many men as women who migrate to the US in search of education, jobs, and a better life.

International broadcasting: stages of development, specificity and functional structure

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4(13)) ◽  
pp. 51-60
Author(s):  
Ksenia Olegovna NEVMERZHITSKAYA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Global Media ◽  
False Information ◽  
Broadcast Media ◽  
World Community ◽  
Media Agenda ◽  
International Broadcasting ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Reports

The media influence politics by providing intelligence and arena for political statements. Therefore, the danger of spreading false information and deliberate disinformation can have serious consequences. It is impossible to accuse specific media outlets of unfair coverage, but one cannot fail to note the existing resonance in media reports from different countries. Interpretations of the same events are radically different, while a journalist must rely on facts. The world is faced with the problem of global misunderstanding and information discord. Modern international broadcasting plays an important role in shaping the picture of the event for the world community. It is impossible to deny that the information agenda of many foreign broadcast media depends to some extent on a number of reasons: nationality, foreign policy of his state, profitability. Otherwise, the global media would not contradict each other. We want to track how modern foreign broadcasting builds its agenda and what principles it is guided by. Keywords: Broadcasting, media, Media agenda

Foreign Media Exposure and Perceptions of Americans in Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Singapore

1997 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 738-756 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Willnat ◽  
Zhou He ◽  
Hao Xiaoming
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Media Exposure ◽  
Media Impact ◽  
Local Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
Foreign Media ◽  
Media Channels ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This study examines the relationship between foreign media exposure and stereotypical perceptions of and feelings toward Americans in Hong Kong, Shenzhen (China), and Singapore. In line with previous studies, it finds that foreign TV consumption is related to negative stereotypical perceptions of and feelings toward Americans among all tested subjects. However, it also finds that different types of foreign media, such as newspaper, radio, video, and movies, exhibit very distinct and different relationships with perceptions of Americans by subjects from China and Singapore. It suggests that in studies of foreign media impact, attention should be given to specific foreign media channels, the actual content of the media, the impact of local media, the stages at which other cultures encounter the Western culture, and the cultural context of each society.

scholarly journals PECULIARITIES OF FAKE MEDIA MESSAGES (ON THE EXAMPLE OF RUSSIAN FAKES ABOUT UKRAINE)

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Khrystyna Bilohrats ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation Criteria ◽  
Target Audience ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Transmission Channel ◽  
Media Messages ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
Media Channels ◽  
The Russian Language ◽  
Basic Evaluation

Information wars have long been used as a full-fledged weapon against the enemy, using both manipulation and completely fake messages. The methods used to disseminate false media messages by their authors are completely different, but the goal is almost always the same - to make the target audience that consumes information, believe and be influenced. Scientists have identified three main elements of the media chain: the author of the message - the transmission channel - the recipient of the message. According to M. McLuhan, media channels of information transmission are a technical continuation of natural channels: radio (auditory), printed periodicals (visual), television (combination of vocal and visual), and Internet MMC (combination of auditory, optic and visual). Therefore, it is worth considering the ways in which fakes are distributed - through photos, videos or just texts. Very often two or sometimes three distribution channels are used, because video can accompany text and attached to it photos, so this division should be considered conditional. Having analysed fake reports from the Russian-language media segment, it became possible to draw conclusions about the use of basic evaluation criteria according to professional journalistic standards of publications. The emotionality of the texts, which was conditionally divided into two groups - "excessive emotionality" and "moderate neutrality" was taken into account. As for the excessive emotionality of the texts, it has been determined that it is most common in the video, a little less in the photo, and very little in the texts. As to the studies concerning the topic of fakes in the Russian-language media segment, a vast majority of studies concerned Ukraine, and military issues namely. Usually, the authors of fake media reports aim to destabilize the situation, and to make the target audience believe in nonsense and behave predictably, to divert attention from their own problems.

scholarly journals RESPON KRISIS KERATON KASUNANAN SURAKARTA DALAM MEDIA

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
RATNA WILANDARI
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Crisis Communication ◽  
Crisis Response ◽  
Local Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Reports

Crisis should be handled properly because it can threat the image and reputation oforganizations if it is too late to be handled. The fulfillment needs the information in terms of responding crisis communication was very important to consider a lot of outstanding issues in the society at the time of crisis. Media was the fulfillment needs information that was important for the society. At the time of crisis organization or institution should understand that the news was published in the media containing specific massage. The reasearch method is content analysis that can be used to learn caracteristic features of message. The purpose of this study was determine whether there was differences election crisis communicationresponse by category SCCT Theory in local media reports Solopos and Joglosemar period from februari until march 2014. The result showed that there was not difference in the election crisis communication response by SCCT Theory. This is evidenced by the data that the categorization of crisis response in the media Solopos was same categorization of crisis response found in Joglosemar media. Categorization crisis response is largest at Solopos that was Attack the accuser with 22 responses (28,9%) of 76 crisis response that was found. Whereas Joglosemar with 12 responses ( 31,5%) of 38 crisis response that was found.Response attack the accuser showed that the organization does not wanted to be blamed on the crisis, it is based on perspektive of the media.

Restoration of two great auk (Pinguinus impennis) eggs: Bourman Labrey's egg and the Scarborough egg

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 392-401
Author(s):  
T. R. Birkhead ◽  
G. Axon ◽  
J. R. Middleton
Keyword(s):  
Black Light ◽  
Private Collection ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
Public Museums ◽  
Private Collections ◽  
Time Of Collection ◽  
Extensive Damage

Most of the approximately 75 known eggs of the extinct great auk ( Pinguinus impennis) are in public museums, with a few in private collections. A small number of these eggs has sustained damage, either at the time of collection or subsequently, and two of these eggs are known to have been repaired. The two eggs suffered rather different types of damage and were subsequently restored using different techniques. The first, known as Bourman Labrey's egg, sustained extensive damage sometime prior to the 1840s, when the shell was broken into numerous pieces. This egg was repaired by William Yarrell in the 1840s, and when it was restored again in 2018, it was discovered that Yarrell's restoration had involved the use of an elaborate cardboard armature. This egg is currently in a private collection. The second egg, known as the Scarborough egg, bequeathed to the Scarborough Museum in 1877, was damaged (by unknown causes) and repaired, probably by the then curator at Scarborough, W. J. Clarke, in 1906. This egg was damaged when one or more pieces were broken adjacent to the blowhole at the narrow end (where there was some pre-existing damage). The media reports at the time exaggerated the extent of the damage, suggesting that the egg was broken almost in two. Possible reasons for this exaggeration are discussed. Recent examination using a black light and ultraviolet (UV) revealed that the eggshell had once borne the words, “a Penguin's Egg”, that were subsequently removed by scraping.

Race, Gender, and Border Control in the Western Balkans

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanja Milivojević
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Former Yugoslavia ◽  
Border Control ◽  
Western Balkans ◽  
Irregular Migrants ◽  
Criminological Inquiry ◽  
Gender And Migration ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Impact

This chapter looks at the intersection of race, gender, and migration in the Western Balkans. Immobilizing mobile bodies from the Global South has increasingly been the focus of criminological inquiry. Such inquiry, however, has largely excluded the Western Balkans. A difficult place to research, comprising countries of the former Yugoslavia and Albania, the region is the second-largest route for irregular migrants in Europe (Frontex 2016). Indeed, EU expansion and global developments such as wars in Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq have had a major impact on mobility and migration in the region. The chapter outlines racialized hierarchies in play in contemporary border policing in the region, and how these racialized and gendered practices target racially different Others and women irregular migrants and asylum seekers. Finally, this chapter maps the impact of such practices and calls for a shift in knowledge production in documenting and addressing such discriminatory practices.

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