Media, Society, and Criminology: Gregg Barak

2013 ◽  
pp. 18-60
Keyword(s):  
Media Society

A Model for a Collective Aesthetic Consciousness

2015 ◽  
pp. 159-172
Author(s):  
Sherry Mayo
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Paradigmatic Shift ◽  
Modern Media ◽  
Aesthetic Consciousness ◽  
Media Society ◽  
Media Condition ◽  
Post Industrial

During the 20th century, the modern media was born and viewed as an industrial factory-model machine. These powerful media such as film, radio, and television transmitted culture to the passive masses (Enzensberger; 1974). These art forms were divorced of ritual and authenticity and were reproduced to reinforce their prowess (Benjamin, 1936). In the 21st century post-media condition, a process of convergence and evolution toward a social consciousness, facilitated by a many-to-many social network strategy, is underway. Web 2.0 technologies are a catalyst toward an emergence of a collectivist aesthetic consciousness. As the prophecy of a post-industrial society (Bell, 1973) becomes fulfilled, a post-media society emerges whose quest is for knowledge dependent upon economy that barters information. This paper identifies a conceptual model of this recent paradigmatic shift and to identify some of the possibilities that are emerging.

Surgeon, Media, Society, Patient

2018 ◽  
pp. 197-225
Author(s):  
Brett Lunceford
Keyword(s):  
Plastic Surgery ◽  
Cosmetic Surgery ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
Respect For Autonomy ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Society ◽  
Ethical Failures ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Made In

For many, cosmetic surgery holds the promise that one can reshape his or her body to remove perceived defects and thus have a more perfect body. However, the decision to undergo elective cosmetic surgery is not made in a vacuum, and it is easy to overlook the full range of ethical considerations surrounding cosmetic surgery. Many medical ethicists subscribe to an ethical code that centers mainly on the relationship between the doctor and patient, with a focus on respect for autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence, and justice. This chapter builds on this framework by extending the scope of actors to include not only the surgeon and the patient but also the media and the overall society. To illustrate this framework, the author uses the example of actress Heidi Montag, who underwent 10 different plastic surgery procedures in one day. The chapter concludes with a discussion of potential correctives for ethical failures in each of these areas.

A Collective Consciousness Model in a Post-Media Society

2018 ◽  
pp. 25-49
Author(s):  
Sherry Mayo
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Network ◽  
First Century ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Collective Consciousness ◽  
Modern Media ◽  
Aesthetic Consciousness ◽  
Media Society ◽  
Media Condition ◽  
Post Industrial

During the twentieth century, the modern media was born and viewed as an industrial factory-model machine. These powerful media such as film, radio, and television transmitted culture to the passive masses. These art forms were divorced of ritual and authenticity and were reproduced to reinforce their prowess. In the twenty-first century post-media condition, a process of convergence and evolution toward a social consciousness, facilitated by a many-to-many social network strategy, is underway. Web 2.0 technologies are a catalyst toward an emergence of a collectivist aesthetic consciousness. As the prophecy of a post-industrial society becomes fulfilled, a post-media society emerges whose quest is for knowledge dependent upon economy that barters information. This chapter identifies a conceptual model of this recent paradigmatic shift and to identify some of the possibilities that are emerging.

scholarly journals The COVID-19 Mental Health Content Moderation Conundrum

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 205630512094818 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ysabel Gerrard
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Safety Measures ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
Personal Connections ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Time Record ◽  
Media Society ◽  
The Uk

At the time of writing (mid-May 2020), mental health charities around the world have experienced an unprecedented surge in demand. At the same time, record-high numbers of people are turning to social media to maintain personal connections due to restrictions on physical movement. But organizations like the mental health charity Mind and even the UK Government have expressed concerns about the possible strain on mental health that may come from spending more time online during COVID-19. These concerns are unsurprising, as debates about the link between heavy social media use and mental illness raged long before the pandemic. But our newly heightened reliance on platforms to replace face-to-face communication has created even more pressure for social media companies to heighten their safety measures and protect their most vulnerable users. To develop and enact these changes, social media companies are reliant on their content moderation workforces, but the COVID-19 pandemic has presented them with two related conundrums: (1) recent changes to content moderation workforces means platforms are likely to be less safe than they were before the pandemic and (2) some of the policies designed to make social media platforms safer for people’s mental health are no longer possible to enforce. This Social Media + Society: 2K essay will address these two challenges in depth.

Psychodynamics in Mass Media Society

1979 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 192-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Harold Ellens
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
Successful Communication ◽  
Communications Systems ◽  
Communication Interaction ◽  
Cultural Domination ◽  
Media Society

Communications systems have become the central organizing framework of Western society as they have progressed from a position of simply serving to unite society to a status of cultural domination. Through an exploration of definition, the complexity of communications is obviated. The very complexity involved is seen as cause for anxiety, leading to a conceptualization of communication as a psychodynamic process of essential importance to human personhood. Attempting to analyze the complexifying factors in the process of communicating, the author presents a six-level “Noetic Continuum” which delineates a variety of psycho-social stages from which the sender and the receiver may come to the communication interaction. A new communications model is then outlined, emphasizing the degree of experience overlap between the sender and receiver and the commonalities of their symbolic vocabularies as critical factors in the successful communication exchange.

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