scholarly journals Poola intertekstuaalsed meemid COVID pandeemia kohta

Mäetagused ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 79 ◽  
pp. 5-34
Author(s):  
Dorota Brzozowska ◽  
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Władysław Chłopicki ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Life ◽  
Social Discourse ◽  
Parliamentary Elections ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
Universal Themes ◽  
Looking Glass

The aim of the paper is to show the Polish story of the Covid-19 pandemic as seen through a humorous looking glass. Different stages of coronavirus presence in the media and social discourse have been accompanied by the appearance and development of jokes and memes, which illustrate the rapidly changing pandemic situation. The database consists of over three hundred memes, movies, and comments collected between February and May 2020, during the pandemic humour peak, and come mainly from private WhatsApp and Facebook accounts of the researchers. The humorous material is related to introduced restrictions, changing laws, parliamentary elections, news from other affected countries as well as seasons and festive times – especially Easter – occurring in the same period of time. The universal themes present in the humorous material travelling around the world are complemented by the strictly culturally immersed topics, reflecting the specific social and political situation in Poland. The analysis undertaken in the article focuses on various kinds of mechanisms which involve intertextuality (allusions) as well as complexity of references that function as sources of humour, with special attention being paid to cultural references, for example, films, paintings, references to political life, including those of the life under socialism as well as universal themes, such as animal memes.

scholarly journals The Role Of Ethno-Confessional Leaders In The Political Life Of Society

2021 ◽  
Vol 03 (01) ◽  
pp. 364-373
Author(s):  
Khurshid A. Mirzakhmedov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
World Religion ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
The Media ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
Media Reports

In the article, the authors are based on the verdict that the main and most important element of world religion is the phenomenon of the prophets. However, at the beginning of the New century as a world. Similarly, in regional terms, the media reports about false prophets and insults to religious prophets, including the great prophet Muhammad, which negatively affects the feelings of believers in the Muslim world. According to the authors of the article, this seriously depresses the international political situation, since the cult of the Holy prophets is recognized as the meaning-forming basis of the Muslim faith. The article proves that the goal of Islam in the formation and development of the socio-cultural life of Muslims is based on the strengthening of spiritual and cultural identity, based on the priority of recognizing the Majesty of the prophet Muhammad, that any skepticism or insults is a threat to the entire system of Islam's ideology. The authors note that the life of the great Muhammad is generally accepted as an example of the righteous organization of the personal and collective life of the Muslim community, which forms the highest qualities of spiritual and moral culture among believers.

scholarly journals Zum diskursiven Bild von Deutschland in der medialen Flüchtlingsdebatte

FILOGI ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kałasznik Marcelina
Keyword(s):  
Near East ◽  
European Countries ◽  
The Political ◽  
Special Position ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
The World ◽  
Drastic Increase ◽  
The Media

In 2015–2016, a large number of refugees sought refuge in European countries due to the political situation in the Near East and Africa. A drastic increase in number of refugees caused the issue to polarize citizens across Europe. Germany can be assigned a special position in terms of the number of refugees accepted. With the help of the concept of the discursive picture of the world, the article tries to reconstruct the image of Germany based on the analysis of press articles. Online editions of the magazine “Die Zeit” from 2015 are analyzed for this purpose. The question is how this way of presenting Germany is profiled in the media and how it is linguistically structured in the media-mediated refugee debate.

Hard Issues, Core Values and Vertical Constraint: The Case of Nuclear Power

1993 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip H. Pollock ◽  
Stuart A. Lilie ◽  
M. Elliot Vittes
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Core Values ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Social Discourse ◽  
Social Agents ◽  
Use Values ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Mass Attitudes

Under what conditions are mass attitudes towards particular issues ‘vertically’ constrained by core cultural values? Vertical constraint is shaped by three related variables: the objective content of the issue, the way the issue is framed by elites and the individual's level of attentiveness to the controversy. Some issues are ‘easy’. They so permeate social discourse that people encounter, often without wanting to, many social agents offering shortcuts for the vertical, values-to-issue link. Most issues, however, are ‘hard’. Arcane in content and bereft of vigorous mediation, hard issues are more difficult for individuals to tie to core values. As the inferential connection between value and issue lengthens, and as social agents become fewer and more remote, an individual's ability to use values to interpret issues will increasingly depend on whether the decision makers, activists and other elites directly involved in the debate can create a connection and, of course, on whether the individual is paying attention. An analysis of the nuclear power controversy, a highly complex technical issue, reveals that a value-based interpretation favoured by elites and promoted by the media is faithfully reflected in how the mass public understands the issue. Furthermore, non-elites who are more attuned to political life are more polarized on the basis of these core values.

15. Media and Politics

Politics ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Ferdinand ◽  
Robert Garner ◽  
Stephanie Lawson
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Life ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Media And Politics ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Political Journalism ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media

This chapter explores the link between media and politics. It first considers the more general relationship between the media and governmental organizations, and more specifically the overlap of governmental and media functions, and how dramatic representation influences our understanding of political life. It then examines the ways in which journalists and media organizations make news, along with the role of political journalism in political life, especially in democracies. It also discusses the globalization of media and the convergence of styles of news presentation and reporting on television around the world. Finally, it analyses the implications of the Internet and social media for political life, from potentially promoting democracy to accusations of false narratives and ‘fake’ news.

Employing Religious Concepts to Address the Political Situation Post-9/11: The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005)

2019 ◽  
pp. 133-151
Author(s):  
John White
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Good And Evil ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The U.S

This chapter considers The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005) in relation to its use of the key Christian concepts of forgiveness of sins and redemption. The central focus of Three Burials is seen as being its recourse to Christian ideas, not only in relation to eternal spiritual questions regarding the relationship of human beings to an all-powerful deity but also in relation to the contemporary historical/political moment. This chapter considers two types of detachment from the world: one in which the individual lives their life in a state of indifference and the other in which the individual exists within a space of thoughtful contemplation. The film moves away from the more normal Hollywood consideration of the world as a space for the contest between good and evil to encourage viewers to question the way in which the Mexican ‘Other’ is (and, by extension, all ‘Others’ are) viewed within the U.S. and represented within the media. Ultimately, however, it is argued the film neglects to consider the economics that underpins the contemporary political situation.

The world’s first mainly female cabinet: “The council of female ministers” in the Spanish cabinet (2018) on Twitter

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (s1) ◽  
pp. 788-813
Author(s):  
Asunción Bernárdez-Rodal ◽  
Maria Luz Congosto ◽  
Nuria López-Priego
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
The Public ◽  
Extensive Coverage ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
Twitter Users ◽  
The Public Sphere

Abstract1 June 2018 marked a historic moment in Spanish politics, when the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (Partido Socialista Obrero Español, PSOE) announced a cabinet with the largest proportion of female ministers in the world. This announcement received extensive coverage in the traditional media. The objective of this research was to measure whether the news had an equivalent impact on Twitter users. To this end, we analyzed the reaction to the appointments based on the popularity of the hashtags #GobiernoSanchez (“Sanchez Government”), #GobiernoFeminista (“Feminist Government”) and #ConsejoMinistras (“Council of Female Ministers”). The most significant findings are that women had even less visibility than they were given in traditional media because of what is not retweeted does not exist, and that the extreme polarization of political life and the media in the public sphere appears to extend to the digital environment of Twitter.

Recognition of fake news in sports

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (4s) ◽  
pp. 18-27
Author(s):  
Petko Dimov
Keyword(s):  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Information Space ◽  
Gradual Transition ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Sports Media ◽  
The World ◽  
Sports Information ◽  
The Media

This report examines the phenomenon of “fake news” and the influence which disinformation has in the contemporary sports information space. The problem, regarding their wide spread in the contemporary information space and their gradual transition from political life to the world of sports, leads to the necessity of defining and classifying fake news in the sports information space in order to offer a mechanism for their recognition and a practical tool supporting this activity. In the age of fake news, sports stars need security and real connections with the media to improve their performance. With the help of the literary analysis of the specialized sources, examples of disinformation in sports stories have been found, and consequently definitions of fake news, propaganda and disinformation have been proposed. After a review of specialized sources, a classification of ten types of fake news in sports has been made, giving real examples from the lives of Bulgarian athletes. Hence, a simplified seven-step algorithm has been developed to support users' critical thinking and decision-making when evaluating news in the media space. As a result of the proposed classification of “fake news” in sports and the created algorithm, a practical online tool has been created which would help the analysis of given information and the recognition of signs of fake news in online sports media. The tool has been created with the help of the HTML programming language HTML in the form of a webpage which is accessible from anywhere in the world. It is a set of applications that identify all types of fake content in the contemporary information space. This tool can be used to improve the security of athletes and even their game performance.

scholarly journals Think tanks españoles: análisis longitudinal de su presencia en medios nacionales e internacionales (2004-2018)

2020 ◽  
pp. e290331
Author(s):  
Vanessa Roger-Monzó ◽  
Fernando Castelló-Sirvent
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Think Tanks ◽  
Economic Cycle ◽  
International Media ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
Medios De Comunicacion

The objective of this study is to explore the presence of Spanish think tanks in national and international media based on a quantitative analysis of content published on 70 think tanks over 15 years (2004-2018). The published content was obtained through Factiva®, a database from Dow Jones & Company, that provides access to more than 35,000 mass media around the world. The results suggest that the representation of think tanks in the media has gradually increased over the years, regardless of the economic cycle or political situation, quadrupling over the analyzed period. Moreover, an increase of the hegemony of a few think tanks in the grouping of messages on the public debate and their concentration in a few media and media agencies are confirmed. Resumen El objetivo de este estudio es explorar la presencia de think tanks españoles en medios de comunicación nacionales e internacionales. Para llevar a cabo la investigación se ha desarrollado un análisis cuantitativo de los contenidos publicados sobre 70 think tanks, durante 15 años (2004-2018). Los contenidos publicados se han obtenido mediante Factiva®, una base de datos de Dow Jones & Company que proporciona acceso a más de 35.000 medios de comunicación de todo el mundo. Los resultados sugieren que la representación mediática de los think tanks aumenta gradualmente a lo largo de los años, con independencia del ciclo económico y de la situación política, llegando a cuadriplicar su presencia en el período analizado. Del mismo modo, se confirma la existencia de un incremento de la hegemonía de unos pocos think tanks en la agrupación de mensajes del debate público y su concentración en torno a unos pocos medios y agencias de medios.

Ein Ende mit Schrecken – Frankreich nach den Wahlen

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (188) ◽  
pp. 495-504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix Syrovatka
Keyword(s):  
Political System ◽  
Political Support ◽  
The Political ◽  
Parliamentary Elections ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Economic Transformations ◽  
Crisis Of Representation ◽  
Election Results ◽  
Deep Crisis

The presidential and parliamentary elections were a political earthquake for the French political system. While the two big parties experienced massive losses of political support, the rise of new political formations took place. Emmanuel Macron is not only the youngest president of the V. Republic so far, he is also the first president not to be supported by either one of the two biggest parties. This article argues that the election results are an expression of a deep crisis of representation in France that is rooted in the economic transformations of the 1970s. The article analyses the political situation after the elections and tries to give an outlook on further political developments in France.

9/11 and Armageddon: the Christian Right and George W. Bush

2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-50
Author(s):  
Göran Gunner
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Christian Right ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Religious Leader ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The World ◽  
Mega Church ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Jerry Falwell ◽  
High Degree

Authors from the Christian Right in the USA situate the September 11 attack on New York and Washington within God's intentions to bring America into the divine schedule for the end of the world. This is true of Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell, and other leading figures in the ‘Christian Coalition’. This article analyses how Christian fundamentalists assess the roles of the USA, the State of Israel, Islam, Iraq, the European Union and Russia within what they perceive to be the divine plan for the future of the world, especially against the background of ‘9/11’. It argues that the ideas of the Christian Right and of President George W. Bush coalesce to a high degree. Whereas before 9/11 many American mega-church preachers had aspirations to direct political life, after the events of that day the President assumes some of the roles of a mega-religious leader.

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