Key Concepts to Understand the Media Economy

2010 ◽  
pp. 47-62
Keyword(s):  
2020 ◽  
pp. 21-48
Author(s):  
Herman Wasserman

This chapter clarifies key concepts and theoretical frameworks and explains how they will be used to build the book’s central arguments. The chapter asks questions such as: What is meant by “the media”? How is conflict defined? What are the links between media and conflict? Is there a causal relationship between the mediatization of conflict and its outcomes? The chapter also introduces the question of the applicability of normative frameworks inherited from established Western democracies to African societies going through transitions from authoritarianism to democracy. The relationship between media, conflict, and democratization is a complex one that can be approached from different angles. This chapter considers three of these angles—the critical perspective, the contestation perspective, and the cultural perspective.


Author(s):  
Wesley Kaufmann ◽  
Richard F J Haans

Abstract Public administration scholarship is facing a crisis of legitimacy, as academic research is viewed as both increasingly irrelevant for practice and methodologically underdeveloped. In this study, we put forward a so-called collocation analysis approach, which is a useful tool for studying the meaning of key concepts in public administration and (re)focusing academic research agendas to salient societal problems by identifying how concepts are talked about in different domains. To illustrate our approach, we assess the meaning of red tape in academia, policy-making, and the media. Our dataset consists of 255 academic articles, 2,179 US Congressional Records, and 37,207 US newspaper articles mentioning red tape. We find that red tape has specific connotations in each domain, which limits the extent to which these domains are being bridged. Using the insights from our analysis, we develop a red tape research agenda that aims for more relevant and rigorous knowledge generation and conclude by setting out implications and ways forward for public administration research at large.


2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 317-333
Author(s):  
Imola Katalin Nagy

Abstract This paper aims at making a presentation of the main regional ideologies of the Transylvanian cultural and spiritual life in the interwar period. The Hungarians’ Transylvanianism and the Romanians’ creative localism or ardelenism alike offered a wide range of key concepts and ideas that shaped/and were shaped by the cultural context of the time. Both regionalisms - Romanian and Hungarian - shared many of these concepts and ideas, although they never really sustained an open and efficient communication due to a series of causes. The shifts that occurred in the self-defining strategies, the communication breakdowns that characterized the relationships between the two cultural milieus and intellectual circles, the identity discourses that can be spotted in the media of that time, and the movement known as Transylvanianism are all approached with the purpose of identifying the causes that hindered real and efficient communication between Romanians and Hungarians.


2021 ◽  
pp. 3-55
Author(s):  
Kyle Devine ◽  
Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier

The editorial introduction to this book offers an intellectual and political proposition for studying the media infrastructures of music and sound. It provides a summary of existing infrastructural scholarship across media studies, anthropology, science and technology studies, and other fields. It also describes the work of infrastructural analysis in relation to music and sound studies. Key concepts and approaches include examining supporting casts and operating in a deflationary mode, as well as adopting a mediatic perspective on the infrastructures of music and sound in order to understand the broad technosocial conditions that give rise to these cultural forms in the first place. Certain aspects of musical culture are described in terms of cultural techniques. There is also a section on the histories of notation, paper, ink, and publishing as media infrastructures of music and sound. Ultimately, the introduction lays the groundwork for a book that is about humble things and ordinary people—deeply hidden, plainly obvious, and everywhere powerful infrastructures of music and sound. The goal is to make infrastructures audible. For it is at this level—the level of supply chains, circulatory systems, and waste streams—where scholars can confront some of the most pressing dilemmas regarding the conditions of music, and the human condition more generally.


2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-146
Author(s):  
Chris Rojek

This article introduces the concept of designer notoriety to refer to calculated attempts to derail aspects of normative order so as to garner media attention. The objective is for otherwise unexceptional people to gain celebrity. The case of the alleged sabotage of Germanwings Airbus A320 Flight, by the co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz, in 2015, is used as a case study. Drawing on the methods of content analysis from various media sources and historical sociology, the article examines the media claim that Lubitz sought celebrity and planned the crash as a means to acquire media interest. Public receptivity to the notion of designer notoriety is investigated. It is related to three key concepts: ‘the demotic turn’, ‘mediatization’ and the ‘world historic event’. The application of each concept to designer notoriety is set out and justified. The article ends by expanding the Lubitz case to refer to other examples of designer notoriety.


2021 ◽  
pp. 019685992110408
Author(s):  
Muniz Sodré ◽  
Otávio Daros

Professor Emeritus Muniz Sodré discusses his contributions to the formation of the communication field in Brazil, of which he is one of the founding figures. The interview, conducted by Otávio Daros, unpacks some of the main arguments of his newly translated book The Science of the Commons: A Note on Communication (2019). Among the key concepts is mediatization, defined by him as the structural articulation of the media with social organizations and institutions. The Brazilian theorist also discusses the challenges for an education committed to “deracialization” and decolonization.


Author(s):  
N.G. Kudinov ◽  
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I.S. Trubchik ◽  

The current work covers the technological and marketing advantages brought by the application of augmented reality to the tourism cluster for the development of the territorial brand “done on the Don”. The task of the study consists of understanding the interdependence of meta-processes that will help to formalize the media effect of augmented reality. The article explores key concepts from the works of David Alteide and Robert Snow (1979; 1988), Marshall McLuhan (1964; 1967), Bolter and Grusin (1999), and Lefebvre (1984).


Comunicar ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (25) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Tucho-Fernández

In order to develop the viewers’ critical thinking we must analyze the media and our viewing habits. Media Education uses the model of key concepts. We can talk about four main key concepts: Production, Language, Audiences and Representations. Among them, the Production is commonly the less studied, it should, however, play a key role on our program choices. As a case study, this paper aims to apply this model of analysis to what we call «simulation of reality genres», one of the most popular and polemical television genre. La Educación en Medios de Comunicación (EMC) viene empleando con éxito la propuesta de los «conceptos clave» (key concepts) como herramienta para el análisis de los medios desde su formulación teórica en los años 80. Esta propuesta de conceptos clave ha variado con el tiempo y en su propia naturaleza está su adaptabilidad a las condiciones particulares de uso. En todo caso, como regla general podemos hablar de cuatro grandes conceptos clave que correctamente articulados nos son útiles para el análisis de dentro un programa de EMC: Producción, Lenguajes, Representación y Audiencias. El análisis combinado desde esta cuatro perspectivas –a la vez que nos ayuda a superar las divisiones entre propuestas de análisis monofocales de las escuelas teóricas clásicas– nos permite tener un conocimiento amplio sobre nuestro objeto de estudio, un paso necesario (aunque no exclusivo) para una formación crítica de los telespectadores. De estos cuatro conceptos clave, el más olvidado en nuestra sociedad a la hora de valorar los productos mediáticos parece ser la Producción (este concepto incluye cuestiones como las prácticas y condiciones de los profesionales, las dinámicas de la industria, los objetivos de los productores, la participación y el acceso de la audiencia en los procesos de producción, etc.). Así, se suele valorar a los programas televisivos por sus contenidos, los valores que promueven, los recursos empleados, los supuestos efectos sobre la audiencia, etc., pero normalmente no se tienen en cuenta las condiciones en que han sido producidos. Igual que movimientos como el Comercio Justo promueven tener en cuenta cómo se han elaborado los productos que consumimos, la EMC debería hacer lo propio con los productos mediáticos. Cada producto que consumimos supone apoyar un tipo u otro de modelo de producción. Para tomar esta decisión de manera consciente y razonada, el telespectador tendría que tener a su alcance la información necesaria, algo que debería ser exigible a los productores en una sociedad verdaderamente democrática, y para lo cual es necesario de momento la colaboración de aquellos profesionales más comprometidos. Desde esta perspectiva, en este texto se realiza como estudio de caso un análisis de los llamados «géneros de simulación de realidad» –que incluyen reality-shows, talk-shows y programas del corazón, principalmente–, uno de los géneros con más presencia en nuestras televisiones y por tanto más consumidos por la audiencia. Sin dejar de lado el resto de conceptos clave que permiten tener una visión global, se hace hincapié en las condiciones de producción de este tipo de programas, marcadas en gran parte, como se verá, por la racionalidad mercantil y la deshumanización que ésta produce.


2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 248
Author(s):  
Karen Ito ◽  
Lise Anne Slatten

The nonprofit sector continues to grow in size, assets, and influence. However, a critical eye in recent years has brought scrutiny from many stakeholders to the operations of nonprofit organizations (NPOs). Accountability, transparency, and ethical behavior are now part of the everyday language of NPO leaders, staff, volunteers, donors, and board members. This study synthesizes research on a specific set of guidelines developed by Independent Sector and provides a substantive review of key concepts and developments related to nonprofit ethics and accountability. The results should prove useful for NPO staff, stakeholders, regulators, the media, and others interested in improved governance.


2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (121) ◽  
pp. 175-184
Author(s):  
Natalia N. Letina ◽  
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Yuliya M. Tryaskova ◽  

The article is devoted to the problem of the current state of cultural memory about the Soviet experience, Soviet existence in the media space in the context and format of memetics. The authors solve three problems: the definition of key concepts that characterize the problem, including the definition of the concept «soviet meme»; identification and overview content analysis of Runet resources updating cultural memory of the USSR in meme format; systematizing the results of a micro-sociocultural survey aimed at identifying the state of cultural memory of soviet. The soviet meme is positioned as a peculiar cultural gene of soviet being and consciousness and is defined as a unit of soviet cultural information, entrenched in cultural memory and reproduced in the infosphere, media environment, culture, mass consciousness, sociocultural practices in accordance with context and modality in the original or transformed state. A significant sphere of the existence of soviet memes is the cultural memory and actual discourse of the soviet. Key components of the media oecumenes of soviet memes in Runet were revealed. The results of a micro-sociocultural survey were systematized, which made it possible to form an idea on the state of Runet users’ cultural memory.


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