scholarly journals Mass consumer culture in the information society of the 21st century

2021 ◽  
pp. 106-112
Author(s):  
Азамат Асланович Тлий
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Global Integration ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cultural Processes ◽  
Public Consciousness

В статье отмечается, что массовая культура с момента своего возникновения существует уже на протяжении века. Приводится анализ ряда теоретических работ по проблеме массовой культуры. Отмечается, что развитие информационно-компьютерных технологий и Интернета, появление феномена виртуальной реальности оказало влияние на формы, способы, каналы распространения массовой культуры, поставив перед социологической наукой ряд гносеологических проблем, которые нуждаются в решении. В статье делается акцент на отличиях индустриального общества от информационного, в контексте которых и появляется массовая культура. Анализируется такая функция массовой культуры, как социокультурная общемировая интеграция. Отмечается, что массовая культура постепенно стала приобретать свойства медиакультуры, встраиваясь в пространство информационно-компьютерных и телекоммуникационных технологий. Вместе с тем распространение массовой культуры привело к деформации общественного сознания, усилению унификационных процессов, примитивизации культурных ценностей и росту потребительских аппетитов населения. В то же время, как показала общественно-историческая практика, многие алармистские оценки оказались преувеличены. В этой связи делается вывод о том, что в начале XXI столетия в общественном и научном сообществе возобладало конструктивное понимание функционала масскультурных процессов в изменении духовной жизни человечества. Mass culture since its inception has existed for a century. An analysis of a number of theoretical works on the problem of mass culture is given. The development of information and computer technologies and the Internet, the emergence of the phenomenon of virtual reality has influenced the forms, methods, and channels for spreading mass culture, posing a number of epistemological problems before sociological science that need to be solved. The paper emphasizes the differences between the industrial society and the information society, in the context of which mass culture appears. The function of mass culture, such as sociocultural global integration, is analyzed. It is noted that mass culture gradually began to acquire the properties of media culture, embedded in the space of information, computer and telecommunication technologies. At the same time, the spread of mass culture has led to a deformation of public consciousness, strengthening of unification processes, primitivization of cultural values and an increase in consumer appetites of the population. Simultaneously, as socio-historical practice showed, many alarmist assessments were exaggerated. In this connection, it is concluded that at the beginning of the 21st century, a constructive understanding of the functionality of mass-cultural processes in changing the spiritual life of mankind prevailed in the public and scientific community.

scholarly journals Food for thought - Communicating food-related risks

2003 ◽  
Vol 02 (01) ◽  
pp. A01 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giancarlo Sturloni
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
Risk Society ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Continuous Series ◽  
Communication Analysis ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Media

In the last few years, a continuous series of food alerts have caught the attention of the media and the public in Europe. First, eggs and pork contaminated with dioxins; then, "mad cow" disease, while, all along in the background, a battle against genetically modified plants has been in progress. These food alerts have had complex repercussions on the perception of risks associated with food production. Experts have often been divided over these issues, and the uncertainty of scientific data has been indicated on more than one occasion as one of the factors that influence risk perception. However, the most important factor seems to be undoubtedly the way in which the risk has been communicated (or not communicated) to the public. Therefore, risk communication analysis offers an excellent opportunity to understand the profound changes that are taking place in relations among the scientific community, mass media and other members of civil society now that they are fully aware that scientific and technological innovation, the real driving force of modern industrial society, is a source of development but also a source of risks which are not always acceptable. Within this different context, a debate open to all interested parties appears to have become a dire necessity for the "risk society", especially as far as food is concerned because food has extremely important psychological, ethical and cultural values.

scholarly journals The Information Society

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiranya Nath
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Post Industrial

This article briefly discusses various definitions and concepts of the so-called information society. The term information society has been proposed to refer to the post-industrial society in which information plays a pivotal role. The definitions that have been proposed over the years highlight five underlying characterisations of an information society: technological, economic, sociological, spatial, and cultural. This article discusses those characteristics. While the emergence of an information society may be just a figment of one’s imagination, the concept could be a good organising principle to describe and analyse the changes of the past 50 years and of the future in the 21st century. 

scholarly journals Sociedade da informação e linguagem: as novas tecnologias e o caminho para a construção de palavras e sentidos

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 89-101
Author(s):  
Vinícius Oliveira Braz Deprá
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
George Orwell ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Global Integration ◽  
New Words ◽  
Deductive Method ◽  
Development Of Language ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The Impact

RESUMO: A partir da sociedade pós-industrial, houve o delineamento de um novo paradigma social advindo da Sociedade da Informação, identificado especialmente pelas novas tecnologias e pelo impacto que a informação suscitou nos mais variados meios sociais. Nesse passo, quais seriam as relações existentes entre a Sociedade da Informação e o desenvolvimento da linguagem? Esse problema conduz a pesquisa, que buscará inicialmente contextualizar a sociedade da informação, para, em seguida, associá-la com os elementos da linguagem. Posteriormente, será analisado o relativismo linguístico e a ideia trabalhada por George Orwell em seu livro “1984”. Em seguida, fala-se sobre a Sociedade da Informação, novas tecnologias e o advento de novas palavras e sentidos. Para tanto, utiliza-se o método de abordagem dedutivo. O método de procedimento será o monográfico. Quanto à técnica, utiliza-se a documentação indireta (pesquisa bibliográfica). Ao final, o estudo permitiu indicar que existe uma relação direta e indissociável entre a Sociedade da Informação e o desenvolvimento da linguagem, especialmente pelas integrações globais das novas tecnologias. Além disso, a adoção de novos símbolos linguísticos é necessária para acompanhar a velocidade da tecnologia e da informação, diante da expansão de novas palavras e novos sentidos. Com isso, constatou-se que a Sociedade da Informação se constitui em um vasto campo para o desenvolvimento, marcado pela mobilidade linguística e pelos novos horizontes de palavras e sentidos.   PALAVRAS-CHAVE: sociedade da informação; linguagem; novas tecnologias; construção de palavras e sentidos.   ABSTRACT: After the post-industrial society, there was the design of a new social paradigm arising from the Society of Information, especially identified by new technologies and the impact that the information raised in various social media. In this step, which would be the relationship between the information society and the development of language? This problem leads to research that will initially seek to contextualize the society of information, to then associate it with the language elements. After, the linguistic relativism will be analyzed, as the idea worked by George Orwell in his book "1984". Then, it talks about the Society of Information, new technologies and the advent of new words and meanings. For this, it uses the deductive method of approach. The method of procedure will be the monographic one. As for the technique, the indirect documentation (literature) will be used. Finally, the study concluded that there is a direct and inseparable link between the Information Society and the development of language, especially the global integration of new technologies. Moreover, the adoption of new linguistic symbols is necessary to monitor the speed of technology and information, given the expansion of new words and new meanings. In addition, it was found that the Information Society constitutes a vast field for the development, marked by the linguistic mobility and new horizons of words and meanings.   KEYWORDS: society of Information; language; new technologies; construction of words and meanings.

scholarly journals Watching video games. Playing with Archaeology and Prehistory

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel García Raso
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
The West ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The Public ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Narrative Medium

Video games have become a mass culture phenomenon typical of the West Post-Industrial Society as well as an avant-garde narrative medium. The main focus of this paper is to explore and analyze the public image of Archaeology and Prehistory spread by video games and how we can achieve a virtual faithful image of both. Likewise, we are going to proceed to construct an archaeological outline of video games, understanding them as an element of the Contemporary Material Culture and, therefore, subject to being studied by Archaeology.

scholarly journals Mass culture in the public consciousness

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ж. Кутпaнбaевa ◽  
Н. Мухaмедиевa ◽  
З. Орaзбековa
Keyword(s):  
Mass Culture ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Consciousness

scholarly journals Book and mass media in the information society: partners or competitors (proceedings of the Round Table in SPSTL SB RAS)

Bibliosphere ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 25-30
Author(s):  
S. N. Lyutov ◽  
E. V. Diner ◽  
E. V. Evdokimova ◽  
V. E. Belenko
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Round Table ◽  
Information Environment ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cultural Transformations ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Public Consciousness ◽  
Information Consumers

The complex process of forming the information society is accompanied by new challenges, demands, public demands, dictating the need to revise the established ideas about the place, role and functions of participants of information communications. Socio-cultural transformations of the early XXI century foreground the problem of book and other mass media partnership in a changing information environment. Formed in the XIX-XX centuries «relative» relations undergo revision in the competition for readers (information consumers). New channels and means of information transmission displace the traditional media in the information services market and create new conditions affecting the public consciousness. Scientific discussions on these issues facilitate an exchange of views and reflection on new approaches to the analysis of emerging contradictions.

Analysis of the evolution of culture

2020 ◽  
pp. 40-43
Author(s):  
S. Petrova
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Philosophical Reflection ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Artistic Life ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Post Industrial

The paper is devoted to the analysis of determinants and sources of culture. If earlier certain cultural values have not changed for many centuries, determining the existence of more than one generation, now several cultural eras alternate throughout one life. The transition to a post-industrial society leads to a transformation in the spiritual sphere and the emergence of mass culture. It is shown that the starting point for the philosophical reflection of mass culture should be beyond the consideration of this phenomenon only as a phenomenon of artistic life of "people of mass culture" and the definition of its conditionality from the development of culture of society as a whole.

scholarly journals SANCTIONS IN LAW: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE

Lex Russica ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 87-104
Author(s):  
T. V. Kashanina
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Death Penalty ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
The Public ◽  
Agrarian Society ◽  
The Government ◽  
Physical Impact

The paper considers viewpoints on the stages of social development. It is based on the position of E. Toffler, who distinguishes three stages: agricultural, industrial and informational. The concept of sanctions is given as a measure of influence on the subjects of law, the purpose of which is either to suppress, eliminate, condemn undesirable actions (negative sanctions), or to stimulate desirable behavior (positive sanctions). Sanctions in law are analyzed in an evolutionary way, that is, in relation to the mentioned periods of development of society. In agrarian society, the death penalty was the main type of punishment, as society and the government itself were not notable for humanity. The society kept growing: since the XVIII century the barbaric ways of its implementation began to disappear, and since the twentieth century the process of abolition of death penalty began in many countries. In an industrial society, the main burden falls on the deprivation of liberty. But with the development of society, the amount of imprisonment sentences has reduced and replaced by less stringent sanctions (fines, mandatory work). In the information society the nature of sanctions is changing dramatically: 1) the physical impact on offenders is replaced by mental; 2) the negative impact on the subjects of law gradually gives way to a positive impact on them. The paper analyzes in detail the sanctions in the information society: 1) deprivation/non-provision of work; 2) forced publicity (defamation) as the placement of negative information in the public space, which is associated with the loss of reputation; 3) promotion as a measure of influence on the subject, associated with the onset of favorable consequences for him, applied for merits in achieving particularly significant results. All types of incentive sanctions are considered: material incentives; moral incentive, which aims to provide a person with increased attention, recognition, respect, raising his authority; provision of benefits, i.e. certain advantages, additional rights; reward for outstanding services.

6th Meeting of the Public Committee Assisting Russian Libraries Development

2010 ◽  
pp. 8-14
Author(s):  
Boris V. Gryzlov ◽  
Andrey V. Loginov ◽  
Mikhail D. Afanasiev ◽  
Viktor V. Fedorov ◽  
Aleksandr V. Kibovsky
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Research Library ◽  
The Public

On the 6th Offsite Meeting of the Public Committee Assisting Russian Libraries Development, held in the framework of the VII socio-economic forum "Information Society" in the Tver Regional Universal Research Library named after A. Gorky on July, 8th, 2010

The Specific Features of Public Relations Maintained by Libraries, Acting as Cultural Institutions

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-152
Author(s):  
Radosław Molenda
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Public Consciousness ◽  
Significant Question

Showing the specificity of the work of the contemporary library, and the variety of its tasks, which go far beyond the lending of books. The specificity of the library’s public relations concerning different aspects of its activity. The internal and external functions of the library’s public relations and their specificity. The significant question of motivating the social environment to use the offer of libraries, and simulta-neously the need to change the negative perception of the library, which discourages part of its poten-tial users from taking advantage of its services. The negative stereotypes of librarians’ work perpetuated in the public consciousness and their harmful character. The need to change the public relations of libra-ries and librarians with a view to improving the realization of the tasks they face. Showing the public relations tools which may serve to change the image of librarians and libraries with particular emphasis on social media. This article is a review article, highlighting selected research on the librarian’s stereo-type and suggesting actions that change the image of librarians and libraries.

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