scholarly journals Educational Potential of New Media

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
Maria Yu. Kazak ◽  
Irina I. Karpenko ◽  
Aleksandr P. Korochenskiy ◽  
Andrey V. Polonskiy ◽  
Yan I. Tiazhlov ◽  
...  

<p>Digitalization of the mass media, which has radically changed the information environment, creates new opportunities for self-education and upgrowth of the audience. The paper defines the communicative and cultural status of new media, characterizes the socio-cultural and technological aspects of their dynamics; substantiates the necessity of elaborating mechanisms for systematization of heterogeneous information flows and elaborating criteria for their evaluation in the era of globalization of the media sphere, what implies a qualitatively different level of media competence of the audience, provided with such factors as media education, media coverage, media criticism. The definition of concepts "media competence", "media enlightenment", "media education", "media criticism" is given and their functional areas are delineated. Social networks are considered as an important tool for media enlightenment which provides significant opportunities for promoting cultural achievements in the new media environment.</p>

Author(s):  
محسن عبود كشكول

The importance of media education in our present time lies in its supposed role in rationalizing the youth’s use of digital media, as the school is no longer able to continue its knowledge and educational pioneering role in light of the excessive and absurd use of the Internet, just as the teacher is no longer a main source of science and knowledge. Considering the study curricula, addressing the negative impact of the excessive use of digital media on the school, as well as addressing the decline in the role of the family and its withdrawal from educational competition with the school, and thus education has lost the mandate of the school and the family to educate the new generation in favor of the hegemony of the new media authority, which is called metaphorically. Fifth, which overtook all authorities, including the authority of traditional media (the fourth power), so that control over the child went beyond control of his family and parents, and the challenge became before those concerned with education, how can the new media be a source of education, entertainment, education, guidance and direction, and in various methods of influence, By using multiple and amazing techniques that are characterized by transcending the limits of time and space, and according to that the great impact of the new media, we see a decline in public education. Illiteracy and its limited means, as well as retreating and losing its control over the social environment, which calls on researchers to study ways to rationalize media education, enhance human awareness of the media, and give it the largest share in influence and direction, and in social upbringing and raising young and old together.


Author(s):  
Ullamaija Kivikuru

The 1990s brought radical changes to Sub-Saharan Africa. In the rhetoric, the ownership mode appeared as a crucial marker of freedom. However, neither the access to the media nor the media content has changed much. The media mode, inherited from previous phases of social history, seems to change slowly. Old modes reproduce themselves in new media titles disregarding ownership mode. In this chapter, empirical evidence is sought from Namibia and Tanzania. The empirical evidence is based on two sets of one-week samples (2007, 2010) of all four papers. In this material, a government paper and a private paper from one particular country resemble each other more than when ownership modes are compared. Bearers of the journalistic culture seem to be to a certain extent media professionals moving from one editorial office to another, but the more decisive factors are the ideals set for journalism. The “first definition of journalism” reflects old times.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Renés-Arellano ◽  
Ignacio Aguaded ◽  
Maria Jose Hernández-Serrano

Nations across the globe are immersed in a technological revolution—intensified by the need to respond to COVID-19 issues. In order to be critical and responsible citizens in the current media ecosystem, it is important that students acquire and develop certain skills when consuming and producing information for and when communicating through the media. This is a major challenge that educational systems worldwide have to face. Hence, new curricula in media education to guide future teachers towards the successful acquisition of new media skills have been proposed. The aims of this work are to conduct a theoretical approach to this worldwide technological and media evolution in the past decade, to make an in-depth comparison between the Curriculum for teachers on media and information literacy published by the UNESCO (2011) and the publication of the new AlfaMed Curriculum for the training of teachers in media education (2021). This framework starts by providing an extensive analysis of the key elements of both curricula and of their corresponding modules, establishing, thus, a constructive comparison while updating them, according to the needs, changes, and realities that have taken place regarding digital literacy in the past decade. Finally, the chapter concludes with the detailing of the challenges and with proposals for teacher training in media and information literacy.


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

In the near future, all television will be digital. Nowadays, indeed, digital television is already very common in most of our society. Thus, Media Education should include this new media within its studies. In this paper, we make a proposal for such integration, aiming to fulfill the Media Education’s goal of educating for the ever changing environment that we live in. Según las previsiones del gobierno, en el año 2010 toda la televisión en España será digital. Para el resto de Europa, la Comisión Europea ha propuesto completar el apagón analógico en 2012. Para entonces, cuando desde la Educación en Medios de Comunicación hablemos de televisión deberemos hacerlo en su vertiente digital, con las variantes que supone frente al modelo tradicional en un contexto en permanente transformación tecnológica y socioeconómica (hablamos por ejemplo de la multiplicación de la oferta, de la integración de diversos medios en un mismo canal gracias a la convergencia digital, de las posibilidades interactivas que se incluyen, de la diferente conceptualización que irá teniendo el espectador-usuario, etc.). Para ello sería adecuado ir introduciendo desde ya este medio en nuestras actividades educativas, pues es imprescindible que la Educación en Medios de Comunicación evolucione a la par, e incluso se adelante, a los cambios sociales en el ámbito de la comunicación. Lo que aquí presentamos son elementos y reflexiones para una propuesta de un programa de Educación en Medios de Comunicación utilizando la televisión digital como eje vertebrador. De forma resumida, nuestra propuesta se articula en torno a las siguientes claves: a) De cara al siglo XXI, consideramos que la Educación en Medios de Comunicación debe poner su énfasis principal en el estudio de los contextos y de las relaciones que los ciudadanos establecen con ellos y dentro de ellos. Sin abandonar tareas clásicas como el análisis de los textos, el desafío principal está ahora más que nunca, a nuestro entender, en las “lecturas del mundo” que se oculta detrás de esos textos, como afirmara Freire; b) La clave general que define a estos contextos que estamos viviendo es el cambio. Debemos estudiarlo pues en cuanto contextos en transformación, no como realidades ya establecidas e inmóviles; c) Una de las vías para realizar este estudio de los contextos desde la Educación en Medios de Comunicación nos la ofrece la televisión digital. En cuanto medio paradigmático nacido en el vientre de estas corrientes de transformación, los retos que nos presenta la televisión digital son a nuestro entender los mismos desafíos que nos plantean esos contextos de cambio. A través de este medio podemos pues cumplir nuestro objetivo; d) La televisión digital nos permite además afrontar nuevas vías para la Educación en Medios de Comunicación sin olvidar sus bases clásicas, así como estudiar los nuevos medios sin olvidar los viejos. En definitiva, se trata de incorporar la televisión digital en el seno de la Educación en Medios de Comunicación, dándole la importancia creciente que ya tiene en nuestra sociedad.


Author(s):  
James Painter

Media research has historically concentrated on the many uncertainties in climate science either as a dominant discourse in media treatments measured by various forms of quantitative and qualitative content analysis or as the presence of skepticism, in its various manifestations, in political discourse and media coverage. More research is needed to assess the drivers of such skepticism in the media, the changing nature of skeptical discourse in some countries, and important country differences as to the prevalence of skepticism in political debate and media coverage. For example, why are challenges to mainstream climate science common in some Anglophone countries such as the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia but not in other Western nations? As the revolution in news consumption via new players and platforms causes an increasingly fragmented media landscape, there are significant gaps in understanding where, why, and how skepticism appears. In particular, we do not know enough about the ways new media players depict the uncertainties around climate science and how this may differ from previous coverage in traditional and mainstream news media. We also do not know how their emphasis on visual content affects audience understanding of climate change.


2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (6) ◽  
pp. 624-632 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xavier Ginesta ◽  
Enric Ordeix ◽  
Josep Rom

This article studies how traditional media functions have changed due the new media growth in terms of consumption and influence and how this has affected the public relations (PR) campaigns in terms of storytelling and managing content. The starting point of this article is the media coverage of the Paris attacks on the 13th November, as well as the institutional ceremonies that the French government organized as a tribute to 120 victims. The methodology of this article is based in a sample of the mainstream media in French and English language published in Europe. The analysis indicators are the following: (a) the “message,” as the story based on organizational essentials, values and identity; (b) the publics in a media relations campaign: opinion leaders and opinion makers; (c) the social dimension and the agenda setting; (d) effectiveness versus excellence and vice versa; (e) role of the media: traditional media (or mainstream media) and new media; (f) trends and challenges for professionals. As we will see, new trends of communication are redirecting the media strategy in PR campaigns in terms of influencing other key publics that generates major engagement in institutional reputation. Hence, traditional media functions (setting agenda, transmitting values, and creating opinion) operate in a new digital context of mashup journalism where cross-cultural PR seeks to better align media agenda’s with public and political agenda’s in order to set frames of sociability and community engagement.


2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (11) ◽  
pp. 2435-2451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosemary Pennington ◽  
Jessica Birthisel

The 2013 Steubenville, Ohio, rape case featured a sadly familiar story of juvenile acquaintance rape involving star football players; what captured national interest in the case, however, was how the rapists and peer witnesses alike captured video and photos of the sexual assault and disseminated them swiftly and publicly via social media sites. This qualitative textual analysis utilizes framing theory to explore how national news coverage framed new media technology in relation to the Steubenville rape case, particularly how technology was framed as witness, galvanizer, and threat during the rape and its aftermath. Implications of these frames, as well as a lack of broader sexual assault context in the media coverage, are considered.


2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (47) ◽  
pp. 85-108
Author(s):  
Jovana Trajković

Low social awareness of disability issues maintains discriminatory attitudes in society and does not contribute to improving the position of persons with disabilities. The media play a significant role in this because they produce new or reproduce existing meanings through representation. The media represent different identities and act as a forum for the social construction of reality, they construct and reproduce the social definition of disability. A highly discriminatory society is the main reason for the difficult life of people with disabilities, but objective media coverage of the topic of disability and persons with disabilities can improve this situation. Such reporting would contribute to changing the stereotypical attitudes towards which a person with a disability is viewed as one who needs help and pity, without considering physical and cultural barriers created in society. If living conditions were adapted to people with disabilities to the extent that they were adapted to all other persons, the quality of life of persons with disabilities would be significantly improved. In the research conducted for the purposes of this paper, we came to the conclusion that print media in Serbia do not devote sufficient space to the topic of disability, and generally report stereotypically.


Author(s):  
Michael Haas ◽  
Anna Keller

Digital assistants increasingly infiltrate the world of children. The way they function reminds us somewhat of playmates, nannies and tutors. So far, educators have only marginally dealt with this new media phenomenon, yet the use of smart speakers by young people offers many opportunities as well as challenges. These are elaborated in this article and classified in terms of media education. Firstly, we will address a definition of smart speakers and digital speech assistants, and then examine their use by means of usage data. We will then concentrate on examining the extent to which these smart technologies play a role in the environments of young people. What forms of advertising are there? What data do digital assistants collect? And finally, how can parents, educators and companies ensure that smart technologies are used in a child-friendly manner that complies with data protection regulations? Our aim is to nudge the phenomenon of smart speakers and speech assistants into the media-pedagogical focus. Dealing with the specific characteristics of smart speakers requires a high degree of (child) user competence. As we will show in the conclusion, there are further pedagogically beneficial approaches from the point of view of promoting advertising literacy.


Dynamis ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 325-347
Author(s):  
Kimberly Probolus

This paper explores how discourses of giftedness informed attitudes towards parenting in the United States from 1920 to 1960. Using psychologists’ studies of giftedness, media coverage of the topic, and guidebooks for parents of gifted children, I argue that giftedness emerged in the 1910s, and by the 1920s addressed a newly limited definition of intelligence and problems in urban public education, coinciding with the popularity of the culture and personality school. Scholarly debates about giftedness traveled from the academy to the wider public through the media and guidebooks for parents. Media coverage brought awareness of the problem of the neglected gifted student, and guidebooks offered parents practical suggestions about how to raise gifted children. I show that the discourse contributed to racial segregation in American schools and classrooms by using merit to determine access to educa- tional opportunity. Experts’ advice about giftedness also altered expectations about childrearing and encouraged parents to become more involved in their child’s educational development. This argument puts the history of psychology in conversation with histories of parenting, and it evidences how the discourse on giftedness impacted institutional inequality both through merit-based gifted and talented programs and by impacting ideologies of parenting. Thus, I provide a more comprehensive account of how and why giftedness profoundly shaped both the school and the home. This article considers the cultural work the discourse accomplished; it gave the public the impression that disparities in educational achievement between individuals and groups could be explained by the parenting a child received, putting significant pressure on all parents to make educational achievement a top priority for their child.


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