scholarly journals “Perhaps we see it in negative terms, but, ultimately, it is positive”

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Sorgenfrei
Keyword(s):  
Social Responses ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Strong Emphasis ◽  
Majority Culture ◽  
The Media ◽  
A Current

This article investigates how prominent preachers within Sweden’s most active puritan Salafi group, Islam.nu, relate to COVID-19. The article analyzes material published online between March 1, 2020, and July 31, 2020, which is herein divided into three categories: rhetorical responses, social responses, and theological responses. Salafism is often presented in academic literature and by the media as a current that is at odds with the majority society. The material analyzed shows that the Salafi group upon which this article focuses can rhetorically criticize certain expressions in the majority culture while simultaneously emphasizing the importance of heeding the recommendations of the Swedish authorities. Islam is presented both as an alternative and as a complement. The material also shows how the strong emphasis on proselytizing that is typical for Islam.nu is also apparent in relation to COVID-19.

scholarly journals La representación de la Ley antitabaco en la ficción televisiva española. Estudio comparativo con la prensa | The representation of the anti-smoking law in the Spanish television fiction. Comparative study with the press

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Belén Puebla Martínez
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Current Issue ◽  
Visual Narrative ◽  
Current Period ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Media ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
Medios De Comunicacion ◽  
A Current

ResumenPresentamos en esta investigación el análisis de un tema de actualidad a través de la realidad representada en la ficción y la realidad mediatizada en la información. Debido a la naturaleza del objeto de estudio – las telecomedias españolas –realizamos un estudio de caso de tal modo que podamos comparar el tratamiento que el tema propuesto en los medios de comunicación, concretamente en la prensa, frente a la manera de exponerlo en las tramas de los capítulos de las series. Para analizarlo hemos considerado conveniente realizar un análisis narrativo audiovisual cualitativo a un tema estrechamente relacionado con la actualidad del periodo que se plantea en este estudio y que está presente en las series analizadas: 7vidas y aquí no hay quien viva. El tema elegido es la implantación de la Ley Antitabaco 28/2005 de 26 de diciembre y que fue recogida por ambas telecomedias en el primer capítulo que emitieron en el mismo mes de la promulgación de la ley. Abstract We present in this study the analysis of a current issue through the reality represented in fiction and reality mediated in information. Due to the nature of the object of study - the Spanish sitcom- conducted a case study so that we can compare the treatment that the proposed topic in the media, particularly in the press, in front of the way to put in chapters of the series. To analyze this we considered advisable to conduct a qualitative visual narrative analysis a subject closely related to current period arising in this study and is present in the series analyzed: 7 vidas and Aquí no hay quien viva. The theme is the implementation of the anti-smoking law 28/2005 of December 26 and was picked up by two sitcoms in the first chapter that issued in the same month of the enactment of the law. Palabras claveRepresentación, series de televisión, prensa, análisis cualitativo, 7 vidas, Aquí no hay quien viva.KeysworksRepresentation, spanish television fiction, press, qualitative analysis, 7 vidas, Aquí no hay quien viva.

The process of frame-building

2018 ◽  
pp. 104-129
Author(s):  
Marina Dekavalla
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Political Campaigns ◽  
Previous Experience ◽  
Election Campaigns ◽  
Media Frames ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Frame Building ◽  
Five Factors ◽  
The Media

Chapter 6 attempts to explain the prominence of these frames in the media coverage, based on insights from interviews with broadcasters and their sources. It proposes five factors which played a role in shaping media frames: the influence of political campaigns, professional routines relating to balance, journalists’ views of their own role in the coverage of a contested issue, broadcasters’ perceptions of what attracts audiences and what constitutes a contribution to public debate, as well as previous experience of covering election campaigns. The discussion is contextualized within broader academic literature about frame building.

La Terra dei Fuochi

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-28
Author(s):  
Salvatore Giusto
Keyword(s):  
Radioactive Waste ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Political Change ◽  
Southern Italy ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
The Media ◽  
Cultural Sphere

In the summer of 2013, two major televisual outlets released a groundbreaking campaign of information about a massive mafia-lead traffic of toxic and radioactive waste involving the peripheries of Napoli and Caserta, southern Italy, which was historically covered up by the national secret services. The widespread mass-mediation of such a dramatic news significantly impacted the local cultural sphere. At the same time, it elicited eclectic (re)actions among the dwellers of these two areas, which the media dubbed as the “Land of Fires.” This article ethnographically analyzes the “Land of Fires” case study as a discursive milieu that mirrors the relationships between power, cultural production, and political change in neoliberal Italy. In so doing, it aims to redefine the contemporary Italian mediascape, which most academic literature describes as a “cynical” machine of political consent merely engendering “televised” subjectivities amid its publics, as an highly controversial (but still sophisticated and vibrant) space of socio-cultural production.

scholarly journals Bank power and public policy since the financial crisis

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huw Macartney ◽  
David Howarth ◽  
Scott James
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
Regulatory Capture ◽  
Undue Influence ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
International Financial Crisis ◽  
The Media ◽  
The 2008 Financial Crisis ◽  
Financial Power

AbstractDespite much commentary in the media and the popular assumption that the banking industry exerts undue influence on government policy-making, the academic literature on the role of the banks since the 2008 financial crisis remains theoretically and empirically under-specified. In particular, we argue that different forms of financial power are often conflated, while favorable policy outcomes are too-readily assumed to be evidence of regulatory capture. In short, we still know relatively little about how bank influence varies over time and in different national contexts, the extent to which banking interests are unified or divided, and the conditions under which banks are capable of producing meaningful variation in policy outcomes. This article has three objectives: 1) to explain why the debate on bank influence matters; 2) to examine the evidence of bank influence since the international financial crisis; and 3) to set out a range of conceptual tools for thinking about bank power.

The Media and Sports Corruption: An Outline of Sociological Understanding

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dino Numerato
Keyword(s):  
Future Research ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Relationship

This article focuses on the role of the media in the processes of diffusion, maintenance, and undermining of corruption in sports, particularly soccer. Drawing chiefly on various illustrative examples of several recent cases of corruption and the existing academic literature on the topic, the article demonstrates how the media function as both an enemy and a facilitator of corruption in sports. Both micro- and macrosocial analytical dimensions for potential future research on the relationship between the media and corruption are proposed and discussed.

The Sprewell/Carlesimo Episode: Unacceptable Violence or Unacceptable Victim?

2001 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theresa Walton
Keyword(s):  
Media Representations ◽  
Cultural Representations ◽  
Social Responses ◽  
The Social ◽  
Gender Hierarchies ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Media ◽  
Violent Acts ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Normalization Of Violence

NBA player Latrell Sprewell’s attack on his coach, P.J. Carlesimo, in 1997, received extraordinary attention in the media. The coverage of the incident and subsequent trial revealed the media’s attitude toward violence within cultural representations of sport. This paper focuses on the way that violence associated with sport can be understood in relationship to the normalization of violence against women in American culture. Specifically, I focus on how the violent acts of athletes and coaches elicit different social responses depending on the social status of the victim. I argue that media representations, framed within narratives that construct their importance around gendered ideas of private and public spheres, work to support current race, class, and gender hierarchies. I also offer alternative ways of understanding the incident given the peculiar work setting of professional sport.

scholarly journals Charismatic Leaders in a New Perspective: Reality in Estonia and Italy

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Ülle Toode
Keyword(s):  
Political Communication ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Charismatic Leadership ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
The Media ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Popular Subject ◽  
A Current ◽  
Web Media

The purpose of this explorative study is to put the existing theories on charismatic political leadership in a current post-web media context. It also seeks to better understand why “charismatic politicians” seem to have success in present-day cyber politics. The paper considers political charisma in a Weberian perspective and aims to explain what elements it includes in a current electoral environment characterized by a fast-changing media landscape. The paper places the existing theoretical models in the context of two European societies, by comparing Estonia and Italy as case studies. Estonia, a small ex-Soviet country has emerged in recent years as an advanced e-society with highly “internetisized” media. At the same time, Italy became known by the phenomenon of the “Berlusconization” of the media, a popular subject of study in political communication. The analysis considers existing research, mostly based on the work of Max Weber, and aims to test the index of charisma, developed by Pappas (2011), in the two observed countries. The paper concludes with a discussion on if and how charismatic political leaders fit a deliberative democracy. Finally, attention is drawn to the need for further systematic comparative research to better understand the phenomenon of charismatic leadership in the post-web media environment.

scholarly journals Social Responses to Media Technologies in the 21st Century: The Media are Social Actors Paradigm

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 29-55
Author(s):  
Matthew Lombard ◽  
Kun Xu
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Evolutionary Psychology ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Social Actor ◽  
Social Responses ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
The Media

Clifford Nass and his colleagues proposed the Computers Are Social Actors (CASA) paradigm in the 1990s and demonstrated that we treat computers in some of the ways we treat humans. To account for technological advances and to refine explanations for CASA results, this paper proposes the Media Are Social Actors (MASA) paradigm. We begin by distinguishing the roles of primary and secondary cues in evoking medium-as-social-actor presence and social responses. We then discuss the roles of individual differences and contextual factors in these responses and identify mindless and mindful anthropomorphism as two major complementary mechanisms for understanding MASA phenomena. Based on evolutionary psychology explanations for socialness, we conclude with nine formal propositions and suggestions for future research to test and apply MASA.

scholarly journals BOOSTING COMMUNICATION SKILLS IN STUDENTS

2019 ◽  
pp. 125-132
Author(s):  
Olga. A. Suleimanova ◽  
◽  
Albina A. Vodyanitskaya ◽  
Natalia N. Beklemesheva ◽  
Vera I. Yaremenko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Public Speaking ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Extensive Experience ◽  
Neurolinguistic Programming ◽  
Successful Communication ◽  
Professional Success ◽  
The Media ◽  
A Current

The article focuses on training students' speaking skills thus helping them integrate academically and socially. In the current information and social context, speaking competence and confidence are crucial for professional success, which makes the task of leading students to successful communication especially relevant. Various formats and strategies described in the article have proved to be effective through years of foreign language teaching. Extensive experience gives us enough grounds to argue that combining theory (e. g. Grice's maxims) and practice (helping students structure their speeches, taking part in Public speaking forums, revealing anchoring techniques) results in enhanced communication skills. As these teaching strategies appear to be only rudimentary in the Russian educational landscape, looking into their potential might be really instrumental. The development of the following skills can be seen as particularly beneficial: (i) neurolinguistic programming for capturing and keeping listeners' attention, decoding neurolinguistic mechanisms of other language speakers (including manipulation techniques), (ii) structuring speech in accordance with the international standards, (iii) building a discussion around a current event that has received massive coverage in the media.

scholarly journals Estudo sobre Igualdade de Gênero em uma Escola de Ensino Médio de Comunidade do Rio de Janeiro, RJ

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 201
Author(s):  
Renata Corrêa Sinimbú Almeida ◽  
Maria Geralda De Miranda ◽  
Roy Reis Friede ◽  
Patricia Maria Dusek ◽  
Kátia Eliane Santos Avelar
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
School Environment ◽  
Current Issue ◽  
Main Tool ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
The Media ◽  
A Current

A busca pela igualdade e direitos da mulher é um assunto atual, presente não só no universo acadêmico, mas junto à mídia e em toda a sociedade. Nesse sentido, este estudo teve por objetivo trabalhar a igualdade de gênero na educação básica. Para tanto, foram realizadas atividades interdisciplinares, que possibilitassem a construção do conhecimento sobre os conceitos relativos à igualdade de gênero e os direitos humanos, com a participação de 50 alunos do 1° ano do Ensino médio, sendo 26 homens e 24 mulheres, com idade média entre 15 e 19 anos. Após as atividades foi observado que 72% dos alunos concordam que a separação de gênero não deve ser praticada em nenhum tipo de ambiente, afirmando que a inserção de discussões sobre gênero na escola pode aumentar a conscientização e respeito à diversidade de valores, crenças e comportamentos. 100% dos alunos afirmaram que cor, raça e opção sexual são os principais motivos de rotulagem no ambiente escolar. Tais resultados expressam o conhecimento dos alunos sobre a necessidade de igualdade na sociedade, onde meninos e meninas afirmaram que a escola tem papel fundamental na conscientização de que a igualdade de gênero é a principal ferramenta para a construção de uma sociedade em que homens e mulheres possuam direitos, deveres e oportunidades iguais. Palavras-chave: Gênero. Direitos Humanos. Educação.  AbstractThe quest for equality and women's rights is a current issue, present not only in the academic universe, but also in the media and throughout society. In this sense, this study aimed to work on gender equality at elementary school. Interdisciplinary activities were carried out to construct knowledge about gender equality concepts, with the attendance of 50 freshman students from high school, 26 men and 24 women, with average age between 15 and 19 years. After the activities, it was observed that 72% of the students believed that gender separation should not be practiced in any kind of environment, affirming that the insertion of gender discussions in school can increase awareness and respect for the diversity of values, beliefs and behaviors. 100% of the students stated that color, race and sexual choice are the main reasons for labeling in the school environment. These results express the students' knowledge about the need for equality in society, where boys and girls affirm that school plays a fundamental role in raising awareness that gender equality is the main tool for building a society in which men and women have rights, duties and opportunities. Keywords: Gender. Human Rights. Education.

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