scholarly journals East German media in transition after reunification

Literator ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 183-198
Author(s):  
M. Von Harpe
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Private Ownership ◽  
Radio Stations ◽  
German Länder ◽  
East German ◽  
The Media ◽  
Quality Programming ◽  
Media Concentration ◽  
Transitional Phase

This article analyses the issue of how the “post-socialist" civil society of the former GDR can be reconstructed to reduce dependence of the media on the state and on future private ownership, thereby maximising freedom of communication. The media had a powerful impact on the transitional phase following reunification. Before 1989 West German television and radio stations were "windows to the West". After reunification East Germans preferred to have their own newspapers, to watch their own television programmes or to listen to their own radio programmes. There has been some criticism about the quality of the media, but the majority of the contemporary audience is satisfied now. To meet the expectations of their audience the journalists themselves have learned to devote special attention to East German problems. One problem of concern is media concentration. Privatisation entails the danger that monopolising trends in mass media, especially in newspaper publishing, will continue in the new East German Lánder. Deregulation and quality programming offer an opportunity for a major breakthrough and new forms of media organisation and management. The period of acclimatisation following the reunification has, however, been too short for the mass media. Nevertheless, owing to specific characteristics of reunification, the transition East Germans have had to make has been largely successful.

scholarly journals ANALISIS AKTIVITAS HUBUNGAN MEDIA DALAM MANAJEMEN KRISIS DI PERGURUAN TINGGI

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 86
Author(s):  
Narayana Mahendra Prastya
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Media Relations ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Sources ◽  
The Media ◽  
The University ◽  
Information Subsidies

Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis aktivitas hubungan media yang dilakukan oleh Universitas Islam Indonesia, saat kejadian Tragedi Diksar Mapala UII. Kejadian tersebut merupakan krisis karena tidak diduga, terjadi secara mendadak, dan menimbulkan gangguan pada aktivitas dan citra organisasi. Hubungan media adalah salah satu aktivitas yang penting dalam manajemen krisis, karena media massa mampu mempengaruhi persepsi masyarakat terhadap satu organisasi dalam krisis. Dalam situasi krisis sendiri, persepsi dapat menjadi lebih kuat daripada fakta. Batasan hubungan media dalam tulisan ini adalah dalam aspek penyediaan informasi yang terdiri dari : (1) kualitas narasumber organisasi dan (2) cara organisasi dalam membantu liputan media. Data penelitian ini diperoleh dengan mewawancarai wartawan dari media di Yogyakarta yang meliput Diksar Mapala UII. Hasilnya menunjukkan bahwa media membutuhkan narasumber pimpinan tertinggi universitas. Informasi yang diperoleh dari humas universitas dirasa masih kurang cukup. Dalam hal upaya organisasi membantu aktivitas liputan, UII dinilai masih kurang cepat dan kurang terbuka dalam memberikan informasi. The purpose of this article is to analyse the media relations activities by Islamic University of Indonesia (UII), related to crisis "Tragedi Diksar Mapala UII". This incident lead to crisis because it is unpredictable, happen suddenly, disturb the organizational activities, and make the organization's image being at risk. Media relations is one important activites in crisis management. It is because mass media could affect the public perception toward an organization. In crisis situation, perception could be stronger than the fact. The limitation of media relations in this article are information subsidies. Information subsidies consist of : (1) the quality of news sources that provided by the organization, and (2) how organization facilitate the news gathering process by the media. The data for this article is being collected from interview with journalist from the mass media in Yogyakarta. The results are media want the top management of the universities as the news sources. The information that being provided by public relations is not enough. The university also lack of quickness and lack of openess.

scholarly journals Film and Culture Consumption of Mass Media: A Case Study of Urban Communities in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
. Karkono
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Urban Communities ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Urban Society ◽  
Media Consumption ◽  
For Profit ◽  
The Media ◽  
Culture Consumption

Urban society is a society that always tries to improve its quality of life and is open to receiving influences from outside, especially those from the media. The media and the use of information technology in all fields significantly increases the quality of people’s lives. Film as a part of media can reach various groups, in terms of age, education, socio-economic status, cultural background, and religion. Film becomes a strategic media for transforming ideas. It is one of the commodification products that is popular among the people. It is important to monitor the culture of media consumption in urban society from the films. This study aimed at finding out how far films can affect human life. The films that were sampled were two Indonesian films. The problem was solved using questionnaires. The sample community was the community living in the city of Jakarta. The results of the study showed that the majority of respondents (80%) stated that they were watching films not just for entertainment but also to gain insight. Films are produced not only for profit orientation but can also be used for educational purposes. Keywords: culture of mass media consumption, urban society, films

scholarly journals Developing Aspects of the Media Sphere Theory Applying Mathematical Modelling, Cognitive Methodology and System Analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 347-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Sukhodolov ◽  
Valentina Marenko
Keyword(s):  
Fuzzy Logic ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Cognitive Map ◽  
Process Approach ◽  
Information Flows ◽  
Information Product ◽  
Knowledge Database ◽  
Media System ◽  
The Media

The article gives the rationale for the necessity of developing a theoretical and methodological basis of mass media theory and up-dating its research tools. It is shown that the main direction of further research should be its mathematization and software-based algorithm development of models for managing information flows. It is established that in order to implement this idea it is necessary to apply a process approach to mass media system research as solutions based on the process approach significantly increase the potential for planning and forecasting changes in the media system, as well as forming effective models of information flows management. In the framework of the process approach, mass information activities are considered as processes that result in creating an information product meeting the needs of a particular consumer or a group of consumers. By integrating all the information product processes that take place in media organizations, a process-type media system that in general results in meeting information needs of the society relevant to peoples interests, preferences and requests is formed. In order to study the system, the authors highlight its most important properties such as integrity, nonadditivity and focus. It is demonstrated that it is impossible to apply conventional mathematical methods and models in the conditions of transient influence of external factors and nonlinear interrelations between processes. The authors prove that revealed interrelations can be successfully visualized by means of cognitive mapping. The authors suggest а cognitive map for evaluation of mass media performance, where a target concept is the level of awareness of the population that provides them with landmarks to guide themselves in the world while governing concepts are the quantity demanded and supplied and the quality of information products. At the same time, it is specified that the quality of mass media products is determined by mass media accessibility, promptness, reliability and feedback from consumers. The proposed cognitive map is formalized by means of fuzzy information about concepts and power of their influence, which is presented in the form of a knowledge database according to fuzzy logic rules. Use of the given knowledge database allows to develop an algorithm for evaluating performance of the media system with the help of MATLAB Fuzzy Logic Toolbox, which provides an opportunity to set performance targets and thus to give different scenarios of information flows management.

scholarly journals Contemporary mass media: a journalist’s responsibility

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Viktor Ivanovich Shahovsky
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Quality Of Information ◽  
New Information ◽  
Contemporary Work ◽  
Russian Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
Information Materials ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Information Consumers

The article views a circle of issues connected with the responsibility of contemporary work of media for the quality of information. The metalanguage actual for the new Russian media sphere is generalized. All types of up-to-date information resources are viewed and classified. The types and forms of their content variation are analysed. Special attention is paid to a new information phenomenon – infonoise – whose harmful nature is revealed. Among intended and unintended fluctuations of the language norm there is a process of constructing createmes as a means of communicative freedom, expressivisation and emotionalisation of the media discourse. The journalists are reminded of their responsibility for the quality of information presented to the public. A most significant definition of responsibility including all its necessary notional specifiers is introduced. The absence of these specifiers is illustrated in the information materials, which impedes adequate understanding of them by the mass media consumers and does not lead to the unified reflection. It is stated that the most important of these specifiers is the truthfulness of information. Special attention is paid to the ecological risks of the irresponsibility of some journalists in regard to their fishing, transmitting and broadcasting low-quality information. Emphasis is put on the fact that the practice of journalists represents a specific communicative sphere, which often disorients information consumers. This fact is mostly obvious in connection with incompliance of mass media in a common methodology of presenting information, which has resulted in destruction of the dialogue function of mass media: only the Internet still preserves this function. Highlighted is the role of the language in creating linguistic reality as opposed to the objective one.

Looking Beyond Elections

2013 ◽  
pp. 84-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ufuoma Akpojivi
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Media Freedom ◽  
Quality Of Democracy ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
The Public ◽  
Democratic Rights ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Mass Media

Media freedom is pivotal to the sustenance and consolidation of democracy, as the quality of democracy in any society depends on the level of freedom accorded the media and the plurality of views entertained (Diamond, 2008). The ability of the mass media to carry out their traditional functions of educating, entertaining and enlightening the public about their democratic rights, and holding governments accountable, will subsequently lead to the establishment of a strong democratic institution. Hence there is need to protect media freedom in any democratic society (Baker, 2007; Norris, 2008). The Nigerian media environment, however, is characterised by a series of laws such as sedition law, official secret act, amongst others, which have directly and indirectly hindered the freedom of the mass media and their responsibility of promoting and advancing democracy. This is made worse by the incomprehensive nature of the 1999 Constitution. Using interviews and policy analysis, this chapter critically examines the policy framework of media freedom in Nigeria and its impact on the operation of the mass media. The ability of the media to live up to their responsibility of promoting and advancing the democratisation process in Nigeria within the available framework is also examined.

Penerapan Metode ‘3H’ dalam Pelatihan Jurnalistik Anggota LAPMI-HMI Makassar

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 151-163
Author(s):  
Zulkarnain Hamson ◽  
St. Shofiyah ◽  
Andi Azhar Aljurida ◽  
Irwan Muin
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Training Model ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Basic Study ◽  
South Sulawesi ◽  
Paper Machines ◽  
Legal Implications ◽  
The Media

Pelatihan jurnalistik, dengan pola ceramah yang klasik sudah tidak bisa diharapkan memberikan hasil maksimal, terlebih patron media massa berita telah bergerak kearah online. Untuk Indonesia, peralihan basis media ke online, berpotensi menimbulkan implikasi hukum yang tidak kecil bagi wartawan. Kajian dasar jurnalistik kontemporer, sudah harus disandingkan dengan pengetahuan teknologi digital media. Mesin cetak dan kertas, bukan lagi pemegang mahkota bagi media massa era kini. Semua telah diambil alih professional bidang Informasi dan Teknologi (IT). Wartawan hanya menjadi satu dari elemen lainnya yang memegang kunci informasi bisa tersebar dan sampai ke tangan pembaca. Pelatihan ini bertujuan mengubah cara lama, yang masih mengedepankan pengenalan elemen dasar berita, menaikkannya ke posisi setara dengan kemampuan seorang wartawan atau reporter dalam mengolah informasi menjadi berkualitas, tentu saja dengan bobot menghindarkan mereka dari jerat hukum. Pelatihan ini singkat, dengan durasi waktu tiga hari, dan menitikberatkan pada kemampuan wartawan atau reporter dalam menyeleksi fakta, melengkapinya dan kemudian menuliskan, sebelum dipublikasikan di portal berita atau media mereka. Penggunaan pola ‘H3’ (Head, Heart and Hand), diyakini menambah kemampuan dan ketajaman analisis seorang wartawan atau reporter, sebelum memulai penulisan beritanya. Pola ini bisa saja telah berlangsung di banyak tempat pelatihan, namun untuk wilayah Kota Makassar, Sulawesi Selatan, Indonesia, terbilang baru.Kata Kunci: Pelatihan Wartawan, Pola Tiga H, Kualitas Berita, Media MassaABSTRACTJournalistic training, with a classic lecture pattern, cannot be expected to give maximum results, especially since the news mass media patrons have moved towards online. For Indonesia, the shift from the media base to online has the potential to have significant legal implications for journalists. The basic study of contemporary journalism must be juxtaposed with knowledge of digital media technology. Printing and paper machines are no longer crown holders for today's mass media. All have been taken over by professionals in the Information and Technology (IT) field. Journalists are only one of the other elements who hold the key to information being spread and reaching the readers' hands. This training aims to change the old way, which still prioritizes the introduction of the basic elements of news, raising it to a position equivalent to the ability of a journalist or reporter to process information into quality, of course with the weight of preventing them from being caught in the law. This training is short, with a duration of three days, and focuses on the journalist's or reporter's ability to select facts, complete them and then write them down, before being published on their news portal or media. The use of the pattern "H3" (Head, Heart and Hand), is believed to increase the ability and sharpness of a reporter or reporter's analysis, before starting to write news. This pattern may have taken place in many training venues, but for the City of Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, it is relatively new.Keywords: Journalist Training, Model Tree H, News Quality, Mass Media

Ethnicizing the Media: Multicultural Imperatives, Homebound Politics, and Turkish Media Production in Germany

2003 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 107-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kira Kosnick
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Radio Stations ◽  
Daily Newspapers ◽  
The Past ◽  
Immigrant Populations ◽  
The Media ◽  
German Newspaper ◽  
Turkish Language

The past fifteen years have witnessed a veritable explosion of mass media productions aimed at immigrant populations in Germany. Facilitated by new communication technologies, television channels and radio stations from former “home countries” and elsewhere have become available to immigrants via satellite and the internet. Daily newspapers produced in Ankara, Belgrade, or Warsaw can be bought at German newspaper stands. There has also been a proliferation of mass media venues created locally, by and for immigrants themselves, and nowhere is this landscape of immigrant media more evolved than in the case of Turkish-language media in Berlin.

scholarly journals The impact of the internet and its applications on radio audiences: تأثيرات الإنترنت وتطبيقاته على استماع الجمهور الأردني للإذاعة

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Mubarak Al-hjouj
Keyword(s):  
Communication Technology ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Radio Stations ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Impact

The study aimed to identify the effects faced by radio from new technologies and applications that have been able to attract a lot of audience traditional media, especially radio. To achieve this goal descriptive approach used methods, a tactic survey the public media, using the tool questionnaire, and then applied on a random sample of the Jordanian public in order to stand on their attitudes towards the Internet and its applications on the effects of listening to the radio. The study proved that the Internet and its applications impacted adversely on listening to the radio, where the ratio came from listening to the Jordanian public 39% versus 61% for to the radio. The study showed that the most important reasons for the Jordanian public to listen to radio stations is to satisfy recreational, cultural and scientific desires, and love of the Jordanian public to some of the broadcasters who provide programs and radio stations will help to know what is going on from the events. The study showed that there is dissatisfaction by the Jordanian public about the programs offered by the radio, where he said that 55% of the study sample who listen to the radio. From these results will be achieved hypotheses and the study of the theory relied on by the study and followed the approach uses the theory. The study recommends the importance of working to improve the quality of programs offered by the radio and to the satisfaction of listeners, and to increase the broadcast hours of programs that attract public radio institutions. Reconnaissance work ray studies to the public periodically to learn about their needs and desires. Supplying radio institutions modern techniques that would maintain the audience, and supplement her human cadres qualified and capable of using communication technology and increased awareness among workers about the concept of communication technology to the technique of active impact on the performance of radio stations, and set up special centers set the media production enterprise quality media. The study recommends researchers to conduct further research and studies for the radio service and support for its survival in the media arena.

scholarly journals Perception of the Quality of News Reports by Editors and Journalists of All News and News/Talk Radio Stations

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-110
Author(s):  
Anastasia Obraztsova
Keyword(s):  
State University ◽  
Talk Radio ◽  
Women Journalists ◽  
Radio Stations ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
The Difference

This article presents the results of the research in which the perception of the quality of journalistic texts by newsroom members of Russian all-news and news/talk radio stations were studied. Journalists are more critical (and sometimes even skeptical) in determining the quality of materials produced independently, while chief editors, on the contrary, consider their subordinates' media texts to be "good". Women journalists assess the quality of media texts produced much higher than their male counterparts. Employees aged above 40 are often more skeptical about the quality of their own texts than their younger colleagues. In the article we can see the difference of the media text perception between journalists that produced the content and their managers, gender and age differences of the respondents have also been taken into consideration. The authors of the article identified that the evaluations of media texts by various groups of journalists can sometimes be significantly different. As the conclusions of the research are debatable, the results of the study need verification. The results of this research are also placed against data of the other study, titled “Structure of the work of a Russian journalist” by researchers of the Faculty of Journalism of Lomonosov Moscow State University (A.Vyrkovsky, A.Vartanov, M.Galkina, A.Kolesnichenko, A.Obraztsova), carried out in 2014–2016. The research is based on a survey of correspondents and editors of socio-political printed and online media of the Russian Federation (the media of the federal level and those ones of million-plus cities).

scholarly journals Microplastics—How and What Do University Students Know about the Emerging Environmental Sustainability Issue?

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (21) ◽  
pp. 9220
Author(s):  
Svatava Janoušková ◽  
Pavel Teplý ◽  
David Fatka ◽  
Milada Teplá ◽  
Tomáš Cajthaml ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Environmental Literacy ◽  
Natural Systems ◽  
Sustainability Issue ◽  
The Media ◽  
Access Information

For a successful transition towards sustainability, people need information and knowledge to understand the complex interconnectedness of social, natural, and social-natural systems. In order for people to be able to take a position on a number of environmental and social issues, and make decisions arising from these challenges, they need to use environmental literacy. We have come up with a tool to answer the question of how students access information about new environmental topics in the media, and how they transform it into environmental knowledge. Almost 400 students from seven Czech universities took part in a combined knowledge test and context questionnaire on microplastics (information based on the previous analysis of selected major web media). More than a third of students tested identified mass media as their main source of knowledge. Most students, however, already had some simple partial knowledge about the topic—the level of commonly discussed information that students remember and then just reproduce. Our statistically evaluated results may help teachers improve the quality of their instruction, curriculum, and subsequently students’ achievement and environmental civic competencies. The results present original findings complementing international research on the role of education and mass media in environmental sustainability knowledge.

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