Challenging the Media-Incarceration Complex through Media Education

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bill Yousman
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
The United States ◽  
Crime Rates ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Media Education ◽  
Prime Time ◽  
Crisis Of Representation ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
The Media ◽  
Popular Television

This chapter argues that the United States faces a crisis of representation, for while crime rates remain stable, the TV and other corporate-controlled mass media bury viewers beneath an avalanche of fear-based spectacles in which crime and violence are portrayed as escalating, even life-threatening crises. It then outlines a new program of media education that enables consumers of mass media to develop more informed and empowering views of the complexities of crime and violence. Focusing on prime-time dramatic television as the most prevalent source of fictional images of violence, crime, and incarceration, the chapter addresses the distorted narratives and images that saturate popular television dramas. Drawing upon interviews with ex-prisoners, it also shows how media representations of imprisonment, though inaccurate and misleading, shape the perceptions even of those who have themselves been incarcerated.

The American Ghetto, Gangster, and Respect on the Streets of Copenhagen: Media(tion)s between Structure and Street Culture

2021 ◽  
pp. 089124162110569
Author(s):  
Hakan Kalkan
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Perceived Similarity ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Street Culture ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Relationship

“Street culture” is often considered a response to structural factors. However, the relationship between culture and structure has rarely been empirically analyzed. This article analyzes the role of three media representations of American street culture and gangsters—two films and the music of a rap artist—in the street culture of a disadvantaged part of Copenhagen. Based on years of ethnographic fieldwork, this article demonstrates that these media representations are highly valuable to and influential among young men because of their perceived similarity between their intersectional structural positions and those represented in the media. Thus, the article illuminates the interaction between structural and cultural factors in street culture. It further offers a local explanation of the scarcely studied phenomenon of the influence of mass media on street culture, and a novel, media-based, local explanation of global similarities in different street cultures.

scholarly journals Media in the Middle East

1996 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 275-278
Author(s):  
Abdelwahab El-Affendi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
The United States ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
Hard Work ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Systems ◽  
Comprehensive Study

As evidenced by its subtitle, this book is a mighty ambitious work. Theeditors, recognizing the "woeful lack of information on the [Middle East's]media systems," present the book as "the first comprehensive study of thestructure and functions of the mass media in the Middle East." And it tooka lot of hard work, being the "culmination of more than two years ofresearch and writing by 32 mass media scholars from across the MiddleEast and the United States."The books covers twenty-one countries. The Middle East is definedhere as most Arab countries (Morocco, Sudan, Yemen, and Somalia wereleft out) plus Iran, Turkey, Israel, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.There is no question that a serious gap in information exists in the areathe book attempts to cover. It is also safe to say that the researchersinvolved did a great job, assembling in one volume a wealth of infomiationon the structure of the media in the Middle East. One can at a glance gleanup-to-date information about what publications are produced in each country,who owns them, what radio and television channels are available, whattimes they broadcast, what regulations exist, and how the media fit in thefuller picture ...

scholarly journals Anytime? Anywhere?: Reframing Debates Around Community and Municipal Wireless Networking

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Forlano
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Wireless Networks ◽  
The United States ◽  
Wireless Networking ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
The Past ◽  
Local Characteristics ◽  
The Media ◽  
Technological Affordances ◽  
The Way

Over the past three years, cities across the United States have announced ambitious plans to build community and municipal wireless networks.  The phrase ‘anytime, anywhere’ has had a powerful impact in shaping the way in which debates about these networks have been framed.  However, ‘anytime, anywhere’, which alludes to convenience, freedom and ubiquity, is of little use in describing the realities of municipal wireless networks, and, more importantly, it ignores the particular local characteristics of communities and the specific practices of users.  This paper examines the media representations and technological affordances of wireless networks as well as incorporating the practices of those that build and use them in an attempt to reframe these debates.

Do Mass Media Shape Stereotypes About Intellectually Gifted Individuals? Two Experiments on Stigmatization Effects From Biased Newspaper Reports

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-94
Author(s):  
Sebastian Bergold ◽  
Matthias R. Hastall ◽  
Ricarda Steinmayr
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Randomized Controlled Studies ◽  
Intellectually Gifted ◽  
The Media

Negative stereotypes about intellectually gifted individuals prevail among teachers and in society although empirical research has debunked them. They are also dominant in mass media representations of gifted individuals such as newspaper reports. The present study investigated whether stereotypic representations in newspaper articles contribute to the stigmatization of gifted individuals and whether nonstereotypic, evidence-based representations might help destigmatize gifted individuals. Two randomized controlled studies with N = 431 and N = 432 university students, respectively, were conducted. In both experiments, the stereotypic representation caused more negative attitudes toward gifted individuals ( d = 0.86/0.81), whereas the evidence-based representation caused more positive attitudes ( d = −0.54/−0.58), compared with a control group. Quality of previous relationships with gifted persons moderated both effects to some extent; however, both effects were quite robust against potential moderators. Results indicate that the media should be aware of their influence on recipients’ attitudes. Giftedness researchers should more actively join in the public debate to counteract stigmatization of intellectually gifted individuals.

The Lost Innocence of Love

1998 ◽  
Vol 15 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 161-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Illouz
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Romantic Love ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Bodily Experiences ◽  
Crisis Of Representation ◽  
The Relationship

This article examines the relationship between `mass media' representations of love and a model of love which we commonly view as more `realistic', that is more compatible with sharing everyday life with another. The article offers three arguments: (1) the postmodern claim that everyday life in general and romantic love in particular have been colonized by the empty `simulacrum' of mass media resonates with a long-standing Western discussion of the problematic relation between fiction and reality; (2) the relation between mass media representations of love and realistic models of love is reconceptualized as deriving from two conflicting bodily experiences of love; (3) postmodern love is defined as being characterized by a particular crisis of representation in which signifiers and signifieds of love do not match.

scholarly journals Directions and Tasks of Media Psychology in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
pp. 146-161
Author(s):  
Mariia Viktorovna Zhizhina
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Media Analysis ◽  
Media Education ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Media Psychology ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
The Media ◽  
Crisis Conditions

Three main areas of media psychology are analyzed: media analysis, media education, and media therapy in the crisis conditions of the pandemic. Today, media psychology faces a number of completely new, unexplored problems and practice-oriented tasks in a radically changing media environment, including in conditions of social distancing. Thus, the author emphasizes the increased practical significance of using the psychotherapeutic potential of the media in order to reduce and minimize the negative effects not only of the mass media itself, but also of the consequences of crisis situations.

scholarly journals CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS : SEEING THE MEDIA EDUCATION FROM CDA PERSPECTIVE

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annisa Septiani
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Media Education ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Critical Practice ◽  
Know How ◽  
Critical Media ◽  
The Media

This paper about critical discourse analysis in media education.Students have used mass media to help them to learn. They get any information from it. Although mass media can help the students to learn, mass media also has a bad effect. For that, the students must know how to critically mass media such as they know the theory of critical practice, critical media literacy and CDA in the education media

scholarly journals Relevance of the mass media in Prevention, Education and Contextual Management of COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-146
Author(s):  
Enaidy Reynosa Navarro ◽  
Margit Julia Guerra-Ayala ◽  
Walther Hernán Casimiro-Urcos ◽  
Dolores Vélez-Jiménez ◽  
Nora Consuelo Casimiro-Urcos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
The United States ◽  
Electronic Media ◽  
International Survey ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Prevention Education ◽  
The Media

The purpose of this research was to determine the relevance of the media in the prevention, education and contextual management of COVID-19. Methodology: descriptive non-experimental transectional research. An international survey validated by experts was applied, surveying 1082 people during a month. The countries with the highest participation were Peru, Colombia, Mexico, the United States and Russia. The data was processed using SPSS version 25. 64.7% of the respondents affirmed that the means were decisive in preventing the pandemic; 59.1% recognized the importance of the media for awareness and prevention of the pandemic, and 64% valued the importance of the media for the contextual management of the pandemic; demonstrating a significant relationship between the variables. Contributions: the need for strategic, prudent, ethical and socially responsible communication that benefits citizens in a pandemic situation is highlighted.   Keywords: Mass media; communication; electronic media; social networks; education; prevention

scholarly journals Strategi Komunikasi Politik Amerika Serikat dalam Memanfaatkan Hollywood sebagai Media untuk Memperkuat Dominasi Global

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Elfan Kaukab ◽  
Atinia Hidayah
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
The United States ◽  
Movie Industry ◽  
Hollywood Movies ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
Global Influence

The United States has a range of methods that is strong enough to carry out propaganda. The role of the mass media and Hollywood movie industry have become a tool of war used by the United States. The media is very influential in persuading one's thoughts and actions. Media is also able to carry out its social construction to wrap reality into an ideal one which is strongly believed because it has been occurring over periods of time. The purpose of this research is to analyze the United States in dominating global influence through Hollywood as a media that plays a role in running propaganda politics. The method used is an explanative analysis of the Black Panther movie. The result of this research is the significant role of the mass media in reconstructing global social conditions by the United States which tries to maintain its dominance through various kinds of propaganda, including those carried out through the production of Hollywood movies.

scholarly journals Construction of war conflicts: an analysis from education in mass media

Comunicar ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 11 (21) ◽  
pp. 141-145
Author(s):  
Fernando Tucho-Fernández
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Media Education ◽  
The Media ◽  
Medios De Comunicacion ◽  
Critical Citizens

One of the main purposes of the media education is the formation of critical citizens. For this reason the media education has to develop a continual analysis of how they function. War conflict periods are an incomparable opportunity for this work, because the usual actions of media are encouraged and emerge much more clearly. From this point of view this article pretends an approach to the mediatical construction of this war conflicts. La educación en medios de comunicación tiene entre sus objetivos la formación de una ciudadanía crítica hacia los medios. Para ello debe desarrollar un análisis continuado de su funcionamiento. Los períodos de conflicto bélico son una oportunidad inmejorable para esta labor, pues las acciones habituales de los medios se ven reforzadas y emergen con mucha mayor claridad. Desde este punto de vista, este artículo pretende realizar un acercamiento a la construcción mediática de esos conflictos.

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