Child Protection and Development in Nigeria

2020 ◽  
pp. 57-79
Author(s):  
Stellamaris Ngozi Okpara
Keyword(s):  
Child Protection ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Child Rights ◽  
Nigerian Children ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Rights Issues

It is unarguably true that one of the social institutions from which children need protection is the media. This is because some media content violates and poses a harmful influence on their development. The media has been accused of being weak in protecting the rights of Nigerian children from the standpoint of the content it disseminates. This chapter focuses on the power of the media to advocate for the child's rights and shape the childhood process through its content. The study discovered that media outlets are not predisposed to reporting issues regarding child rights but rather place more attention on entertainment programmes that attract big sponsors. The study recommends that media content should focus on promoting child rights issues in Nigeria.

The Traitor and the Hedonist: The Mythology of Motherhood in Two New Zealand Child Abuse Cases

2011 ◽  
Vol 139 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Jean Kenix
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Local Media ◽  
The Media

Two recent child abuse cases in New Zealand flooded the local media spotlight and captured the public's attention. In both cases, the mothers were not charged with murdering their children. Yet both mothers received extensive scrutiny in the media. This qualitative analysis found two central narratives in media content: that of the traitor and that of the hedonist. In drawing upon such archetypal mythologies surrounding motherhood, the media constructed these women as simplistic deviants who did not possess the qualities of a ‘real’ mother. These framing techniques served to divert scrutiny away from civil society and exonerated social institutions of any potential wrongdoing, while also reaffirming a persistent mythology that remains damaging to women.

scholarly journals Transnational Marriages between Vietnamese Women and Asian Men in Vietnamese Online Media

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danièle Bélanger ◽  
Khuất Thu Hồng ◽  
Trần Giang Linh
Keyword(s):  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Transnational Marriages ◽  
Vietnamese Women ◽  
International Marriages ◽  
The Social ◽  
Asian Men ◽  
The Media ◽  
Vietnamese Studies

This paper examines the social construction of marriage migration in Vietnamese online media. We present a content analysis of 643 items published online between 2000 and 2010 on international marriages between Vietnamese women and foreign Asian men. Our analysis reveals that online media content speaks to four important shifts discussed in Vietnamese studies: (1) shifts in notions of gender, sexuality, and marriage; (2) emerging discourses around class-making; (3) emerging discourse on human trafficking; and (4) shifting roles of the media.

scholarly journals The Protection of Minors Against Harmful Media Content in Europe

2005 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-129
Author(s):  
Christian Büttner
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Media Content ◽  
European Level ◽  
National Differences ◽  
Youth Media ◽  
Adolescents And Adults ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
European Youth

Abstract Reaching agreement on child protection and the media at a joint European level is a difficult process, as national differences regarding film classifications would appear to be too great. On the basis of interviews conducted with leading classifiers in Great Britain, Sweden, Denmark, France, Portugal, Spain and Ireland, the considerable differences in the rationales behind the respective national classification concepts are examined in terms of how children and adolescents in Europe are granted autonomy and responsibility, and what role parents play in this. The basic plea is for more attention to be given to the intercultural dimensions of the relationship between children, adolescents and adults in further work to develop a European youth media protection act.

scholarly journals Medicine and society: micro level of social interaction

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 43-65
Author(s):  
T. V. Semina
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social System ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Social Conflicts ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Indivisible Object

This article examines the features of the interaction of social institutions of medicine and health care in modern Russian society at the micro level — within the social system “doctor — patient”. Sufficient space is given to a comparative analysis of traditional (paternalistic and collegial) and modern (informational and contractual) models of social relations between doctors and patients. Ne author highlights the factors under which the widespread use of information and contractual models in Russian realities contribute to the transformation of traditionally solidary social relations in the system under consideration into conflict ones. The article, based on the original author’s sociological research, examines the features of the conflict confrontation between doctors and patients, identifies their specific differences from traditional social conflicts. On the one hand, the conflicts that unfold in the social system “doctor — patient” are precisely social conflicts, since the interaction in this system embraces both all representatives of the medical community and practically all members of society, each of which, one way or another, becomes patient. On the other hand, if the prerequisite and then the basis of the usual conflict interaction is the presence of a single indivisible object, then in the case of a social conflict in the “doctor — patient” system, health can hardly be considered “a single and indivisible object”. Health for the subjects of this conflict is indeed an important spiritual value, but much more often the conflict arises over the rights and obligations, as well as the distribution of power among the interacting parties. Enough attention is paid to the analysis of the macro-, meso- and micro- causes of this conflict, as well as to the problem of the influence of the media on the genesis of this type of conflict relationship; tendencies that are especially characteristic in the relationship between the patient audience and the media in recent times are highlighted and revealed.

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.

scholarly journals Intercultural journalism: Peruvian and Bolivian representation in the Chilean daily press news

Comunicar ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (35) ◽  
pp. 85-93
Author(s):  
Rodrigo-Francisco Browne-Sartori ◽  
Ricardo-Alberto Baessolo-Stiven ◽  
Víctor-Manuel Silva-Echeto
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Communication Media ◽  
Social Construction Of Reality ◽  
Cultural Discourses ◽  
Daily Press ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Los Grupos ◽  
Medios De Comunicacion

This article examines the processes through which the massive press generates and represents the cultural discourses of two of the most polemic migrant groups coexisting nowadays in Chile: Peruvians and Bolivians. The representation that the communication media carries out regarding the studied cultures strongly influences the imaginaries of the Chilean audiences. That calls for special concern so as to propose the necessary spaces for intercultural exchange as much in the media as in the social institutions. These spaces will be the ones in which communication studies and intercultural journalism can unite, in order to offer meeting and communication alternatives between culturally different groups. The principal goal of this research study is to understand how, in the processes of social construction of reality through the communication media, are represented the Peruvian and Bolivian «discourses of difference» in Chile. The methodology employed to validate such proposal is the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) applied to the news in «La Cuarta» and «Las Últimas Noticias» newspapers, belonging to the press groups with the greatest circulation of the country: the consortia Copesa y El Mercurio S.A.P. The results of the research allow us to conclude that these press media represent realities which tend to marginalise the «migrant other», through the reinforcement of identity imaginaries constructed upon the frontier relationships among the three national-states. El presente trabajo estudia los mecanismos por los cuales la prensa masiva genera y representa discursos culturales provenientes de dos de los grupos más polémicos que en la actualidad conviven con lo chileno: peruanos y bolivianos. La representación que hacen los medios de comunicación sobre las culturas estudiadas incide fuertemente en los imaginarios que crean sus audiencias, lo que demanda una preocupación por proponer espacios de interacción intercultural tanto en los medios como en otras instituciones sociales, donde los estudios de la comunicación y el periodismo intercultural se cohesionen para ofrecer alternativas de encuentro y comunicación entre grupos culturalmente distintos. El objetivo central de esta investigación es comprender cómo, en los procesos de construcción social de la realidad a través de los medios de comunicación masivos, son representados los «discursos de la diferencia» peruano y boliviano en Chile. La metodología empleada para validar dicha propuesta es la del análisis crítico del discurso (ACD) aplicado en las noticias de los diarios «La Cuarta» y «Las Últimas Noticias», pertenecientes a los grupos periodísticos con mayor tiraje en el país: consorcios «Copesa» y «El Mercurio». Los resultados de la investigación permiten concluir que estos medios de prensa representan realidades que tienden a marginar al «otro migrante», a través del reforzamiento de imaginarios de identidad construidos desde las relaciones fronterizas entre los tres estados-nacionales.

scholarly journals Tabloidyzacja bluźnierstwa. Strategie medialne w debacie publicznej o granicach wolności artystycznej i obrazie uczuć religijnych

2019 ◽  
pp. 217-237
Author(s):  
Anna Leszczuk-Fiedziukiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Public Places ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One ◽  
Media Narratives

“Pop-cultural profanities” that are described in the article cause social and criminological consequences. They inform about cultural norms and point to the problem of freedom of expression in democratic societies as well as the subtlety of meanings of religious symbols used by artists in theatreperformances. This issue has a broader social context. On the one hand, there is growing secularization and phenomenon of “privatization of religion”in Europe. On the other hand, the social movements are grounded their cultural identity on religion. The polarization of these two perspectives i easily noticed in the media content. The more shocking artists are, the more innovative Christians reaction is. Outrage usually takes the form of street protests and demonstrations, occupying theatres and public places. Many ases end with lawsuits and debates about the boundaries of art. The content of this article are the media narratives used by professional and amateur journalists in the public debate on the plays of Golgota Picnic (2014) and Klątwa (2017).

scholarly journals TV and Internet interviews in the structure of media education: transformation of the ontological paradigm

2020 ◽  
Vol 210 ◽  
pp. 18010
Author(s):  
Svetlana Bylkova ◽  
Denis Shalkov
Keyword(s):  
Educational Process ◽  
Media Education ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Pedagogical Tool ◽  
Communicative Development ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Jel Code ◽  
Interview Methodology ◽  
Educational Potential

The purpose of the work: 1) to identify the didactic and educational potential of TV and Internet interviews in the structure of media education; 2) to evaluate the genre-stylistic and language parameters of a modern interview. Methodology. The educational potential of media interviews is revealed with the help of methodological tools of linguistic, social, psychological and pedagogical disciplines. Results. The article proves the need to use TV and Internet interviews as parts of the educational process, since this type of communication allows the consumer of information and media content to receive it literally "firsthand". It is emphasized that the use of interviews in the learning process can become a powerful pedagogical tool. Conclusions/recommendations. When processing the data obtained during the experiment, it turned out that the results of monitoring the social and communicative development of students in two focus groups are characterized by qualitative differences, which are statistically significant. The communicative descriptors of students of the 2nd focus group that worked with the media content of model native speakers were formed at a higher level, in contrast to the participants of the 2nd group, who were offered interviews with popular bloggers. JEL Code: I 00, I 20, I 21.

scholarly journals Fear as an object of social production

2020 ◽  
pp. 16-23
Author(s):  
Dmitri V. Polianski
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Social Production ◽  
Paradoxical Situation ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
High Level

The article analyzes the socio-cultural trends associated with the experience of the emotion of fear. Social institutions and factors that contribute to the spread of new fears in society are identified. Special attention is paid to the role of the media. Fear is considered not only as an existential fate, but also as a person’s need. The industry and the social practices related to meeting this need are described. The article aims to explain the paradoxical situation of modern human: a combination of a high level of safety with a high level of anxiety in their social life.

Introduction

It's a Setup ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Timothy Black ◽  
Sky Keyes
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Child Support ◽  
Family Courts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Economically Marginalized ◽  
Normative Expectations ◽  
The Media ◽  
Set Up

The engaged and nurturing father has gained cultural traction in a short period of time. The authors argue that socially and economically marginalized fathers have embraced the new normative expectations of the engaged father and have been encouraged to do so through popular culture and the media; in state welfare, child protection, and probation offices; in jails, prisons, and post-release programs, and in child support and family courts. Within these institutions, they have learned that it is up to them to make better choices, to get themselves together, and to be involved fathers. The authors stress, however, that without substantial changes to the economic, political, and social conditions that facilitate engaged and nurturing fatherhood, these fathers are being “set up.” This chapter describes the argument, the characteristics of the 138 fathers and 41 mothers profiled in the book, the social-historical dynamics of inequality in Connecticut, and the organization of the book.

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