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In today's vast digital landscape, people are constantly exposed to threatening language, which attracts attention and activates the human brain's fear circuitry. However, to date, we have lacked the tools needed to identify threatening language and track its impact on human groups. To fill this gap, we developed a threat dictionary, a computationally derived linguistic tool that indexes threat levels from mass communication channels. We demonstrate this measure's convergent validity with objective threats in American history, including violent conflicts, natural disasters, and pathogen outbreaks such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Moreover, the dictionary offers predictive insights on US society's shifting cultural norms, political attitudes, and macroeconomic activities. Using data from newspapers that span over 100 years, we found change in threats to be associated with tighter social norms and collectivistic values, stronger approval of sitting US presidents, greater ethnocentrism and conservatism, lower stock prices, and less innovation. The data also showed that threatening language is contagious. In all, the language of threats is a powerful tool that can inform researchers and policy makers on the public's daily exposure to threatening language and make visible interesting societal patterns across American history., Competing Interests: The authors declare no competing interest., (Copyright © 2022 the Author(s). Published by PNAS.)

This review analyzes trends and commonalities among prominent theories of media effects. On the basis of exemplary meta-analyses of media effects and bibliometric studies of well-cited theories, we identify and discuss five features of media effects theories as well as their empirical support. Each of these features specifies the conditions under which media may produce effects on certain types of individuals. Our review ends with a discussion of media effects in newer media environments. This includes theories of computer-mediated communication, the development of which appears to share a similar pattern of reformulation from unidirectional, receiver-oriented views, to theories that recognize the transactional nature of communication. We conclude by outlining challenges and promising avenues for future research.

This essay explores the dichotomy between mass and family communication and provides a status update to the mass and interpersonal communication dichotomy discussed by Reardon and Rodgers in 1988. This piece begins with an introduction to the history of and hindrance caused by this dichotomy from translational and scholarly perspectives. Next, an overview is provided of each discipline – their histories, popular paradigmatic and methodological approaches, and theoretical developments. An argument is then presented for why the integration of these two areas is so crucial in order to best serve families and conduct communication research with greater meaning. Three significant research areas wherein media and family intersect are discussed along with three long-term integration goals for the field of communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Hallin and Mancini's Comparing Media Systems has provided Mass Communication research with valuable tools to compare media settings from a transnational viewpoint. However, most recent contributions around media systems theory focus on suggesting new dimensions or variables to update the three models presented in the authors' book, leaving behind the discussion concerning the factors galvanizing the transformation processes. We then ask: What factors explain the transformation of media systems? Through a literature review and the discussion of an extensive array of examples from different countries, our essay formulates new insights to refine a crucial concept in media studies. We examine material, institutional, and cultural logics of change to point out how the described transformations might unfold at different paces in particular social systems. By resorting to the idea of "critical junctures," our essay illustrates how supposedly isolated shifts in the media systems can have unexpected impacts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the challenges faced by the media education and curricula development in Pakistan, and how the safety of journalists is apportioned in the courses and curriculum of mass communication in different universities. The study uses a mixed method research, including quantitative approach through surveys from one hundred and fifty media students from different universities of Pakistan, it further uses qualitative in-depth interview method in which fifteen media academics are interviewed. The research reveals that safety of journalists has never been a priority in the curriculum, even if the future journalists are really hungry to be educated and trained to cover any hostile event, pandemics and conflict sensitive reporting, and to cope with post coverage traumas. Safety of journalists has been occasionally discussed in lectures on the demand of students, but can never get a space in the mass communication curriculum. This study lays the foundation of ESCR Model of Journalism Education that deals with ethics and safety in crisis and risks. It further suggests the training of academics themselves; and collaboration of media professionals with the academia to realistically develop a curriculum taking into account what media industry and future journalists actually need to mug up. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

News reporting is a vital cog in the news industry. People always show a great interest in reading and listening to Crime News. Investigation plays an important role in Crime News. As readers and viewers of Crime News, one has to know the difference between Crime News Reporting and Investigative News Reporting. No one can deny the roles of these reporting in the enhanced circulation of newspapers/magazines and viewership in visual media. There are many different kinds of crime news, including fraud, blackmail, kidnapping, rape, murders, blazes, accidents, robberies, and burglaries. To purge the element of criminal behaviour from society, reporting crimes helps in pursuing justice, and social reform. In a significant way, it benefits the community by serving as a vigilant watchdog and alerting individuals about potential crimes and criminal activities. This paper enumerates and analyses the roles of reporters involved in reporting these. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article compares Swedish social workers, teachers, and journalists' experiences of workplace violence. It addresses similarities and differences between the three professional groups in terms of who exposed them to workplace violence, what it was about, and what triggered it. The article is based on an online survey study, and the findings suggest that consumer-related violence from target groups was the most common among all three professional groups. Looking at worker-on-worker relationship violence, the teachers were the most exposed, followed by social workers and journalists, and such violence suggests bullying in the workplace. Most respondents stated that the hate, threats, and harassment were about their professional competence. While all of these professional groups have a position of power in society, they also perceive that it is often in the situations in which they exercise their power (e.g., making a decision for social workers and teachers or when journalists publish) that they become targets for workplace violence. Plain Language Summary: Powerful and vulnerable: Workplace violence against Swedish social workers, teachers, and journalists This article compares Swedish social workers, teachers, and journalists' experiences of workplace violence. It addresses similarities and differences between the three professional groups in terms of who exposed them to workplace violence, what it was about, and what triggered it. The article is based on an online survey study. It was most common with workplace violence from target groups such as clients for social workers, pupils for teachers and readers/viewers for journalists. Most respondents stated that the hate, threats, and harassment were about their professional competence. While all of these professional groups have a position of power in society, they also perceive that it is often in the situations in which they exercise their power (e.g., making a decision for social workers and teachers or when journalists publish) that they become targets for workplace violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article undertakes a theoretical analysis of mass media as a means of mass communication, which is a vital factor in the socialisation and well-being of humanity. The article aims to conduct a theoretical analysis of the role of mass media as a crucial factor in socialisation and well-being, to identify its impact on the human psyche, mass consciousness, and behaviour. The article also aims to assess the level of media literacy in Ukraine, investigate both the positive and negative aspects of the influence of mass media on mental health and emphasise the importance of psychosocial support through mass media in crisis situations. The study uses theoretical methods (content analysis, comparative analysis, generalisation, and systematisation) as well as an analysis of empirical data on the level of media literacy in Ukrainian society. It has been found that communication in the internet space should be aimed at immersing individuals in the media environment and oriented towards self-realisation and consumption tools. It has been noted that mass media exert a certain influence on the human psyche, mass consciousness, behaviour, and thoughts, which affects the process of socialisation. The conducted analysis of scientific research showed that the media literacy level among people in Ukraine is increasing. In Ukraine’s information space, electronic means of information transmission dominate. At the same time, it has been emphasised that information can control individuals, affect their psyche, and stimulate their thinking, actions, and deeds. It has been asserted that the process of information transmission is purposeful. It is determined that mass communication is not limited to specific videos or texts as tools of information transmission. It has been found that personal development is an uninterrupted process and continues even in complex and extreme conditions that exist in Ukraine now. It has been established that the crisis is a source of a person’s development. It has been shown that mass media is a useful tool for psychosocial support. One of the most important approaches to psychosocial aid via mass media is the dissemination of helpful information and skills that can help people with various mental states, problems, etc. It has been emphasised that mass media can provide information about professional aid, the availability of useful resources to support mental health, and whatever. It has been found that mass media cannot replace professional psychotherapy or counselling, especially in severe cases. It has been highlighted that mass media can have both positive and negative effects on mental health, particularly causing stress, anxiety, and depression. It also has been noted that mass media have a greater impact on the psyche of teenagers than adults. It has been claimed that the positive impact of mass media includes their ability to effectively and diversely disseminate information, increase the level of users’ education, provide new forms of entertainment and facilitate relaxation, as well as ease communication and establish new communicative connections. On the other hand, mass media can manipulate the psyche and public opinion, and spread fake news and disinformation, leading to a destructive impact on the psyche and developing dependence on them. It has been concluded that media have a significant influence on society, especially on children and youth, hence media literacy becomes essential for effective interaction with mass media and adequate behaviour in the information environment. In the modern world, where media play a crucial role in society and social issues, media literacy becomes an important competence for professionals in the field of psychosocial work. This professionally important quality encompasses understanding media systems, critical thinking, the ability to analyse social problems, readiness to communicate with media, and selfassertion in the media space.

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Climate change transformed Pakistan into 5th most vulnerable nation across globe facing threats of food and water scarcity, increased flooding, extreme heat, more disease, and economic loss. Balochistan is its largest province and challenges are multifold. In order to face these, role of mass communication and social media is vital and needs exploration to evaluate and improve. Climate change forced major threat across Pakistan. Quetta as capital of Baloshistan acts as hub of educational institutions. Hence sensitization amongst students needed exploration to identify gaps and future strategies. Online questionnaires using purposive sampling method was used to collect data from three universities during COVID19 pandemic. Major of the respondents were aware of climate change, its causes, its impacts and role of media was acknowledged to be critical for future mass scale sensitization. Future strategies must incorporate social media and digital means in social and public sensitization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the context of the digital attention economy, the following analysis presents SlimScore, a method for assessing the resonance of content in social networks, focusing on direct interactions. To test the effectiveness of the tool, a study is carried out focusing on the social network X, based on a sample of 345,000 messages from more than 17,000 nodes (profiles). Through a comparative analysis with the Ayzenberg Social Index metric, it is shown how this approach provides more accurate results in measuring the virality of messages in social networks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The mass communication model and interactive ritual chain theory, which serve as communication paradigms in the new media era, facilitate and enhance the synergy between the fields of social history of medicine and health communication. This study employs a comprehensive framework based on the five elements of the mass communication model: information source, communication subject, communication object, message content, and post-communication feedback. Additionally, it incorporates the interactive ritual chain theory to examine the evolving dynamics and developmental trajectory of research in the social history of medicine during the new media era. Conclusively, this paper acknowledges the existing interaction gaps in the interaction between health communication and the social history of medicine research while outlining the challenges for fostering collaboration and proposing strategic optimizations for effective integration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses using of generative neural networks in education, especially in legal education, as an example, employing formal analysis in the context of the Russian legal system. Neural networks are considered as a kind of media and hence the issue of using neural networks by students is by nature a question of media education, its application, and its limits. The core question is whether it is possible to give students the opportunity to use generative neural networks when performing tasks like writing a diploma. Neural networks are considered as a kind of “new media” that must be assessed in the context of the media philosophy dichotomy between “tool” and “body”. The article reviews several scenarios of law students using neural networks and the conclusion is provided that not in all cases it is inadmissible. However, in the cases that concern the core competences that relate to understanding law as a phenomenon of information and communication, it is inadmissible. Such core competences imply command of natural language and writing reasoning skills. It is critical to take into an account the provisions of the legislation that focus on the concept and purposes of education which clarify the matter on the formal side. Ultimately, the “blackout test” is suggested to discern the cases were using of neural networks in education is not possible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study is devoted to the description of the linguopragmatic potential of media texts in the context of the informational and psychological impact on the individual and collective addressee of mass information broadcasting. As the key modern form of text existence in the information space, a media text contains not only verbal elements that influence the audience through either spoken or written words, but also non-verbal ones, introduced through video, picture and various sound means other than speech. The combined combination of communicative means of linguistic and non-linguistic nature enhances the information-psychological impact on the audience by achieving a synergistic effect. Due to the fact that with the complex use of verbal and non-verbal means, the media text acquires such essential characteristics as polycode and multimodality, its analysis should take into account not only the linguistic proper, but also the extralinguistic aspects of communication. Modern media text has a complex communicative structure that combines a text, hypertext, dynamic (static) image and sound, and provides a non-linear, multi-channel, multi-layered and multidimensional perception of the embedded conceptual and stylistic meanings. The aim of the study is to analyze linguopragmatic characteristics of a media text as the primary form of the informational and psychological impact realization in the modern mass media discourse. Descriptive, synchronic, diachronic and functional methods of research, as well as methods of contextual and communicative-pragmatic analysis have been employed. As to the material, the study is based on the analysis of theoretical works by Russian and foreign linguists for the past 30 years. The authors concluded that the information-psychological impact is enhanced by the use of PR and advertising techniques in the media text and is largely based on their application.

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Bernarr Cooper (1912–1999) led the Bureau of Mass Communications of the New York State Education Department from 1962 to 1982. During its heyday—roughly between 1970 and 1980—the Bureau produced or coproduced more than 1,500 educational programs, distributed widely to public schools and libraries across the state of New York. This article draws the story of Cooper and the Bureau out of the annals of New York State history, making it meaningful to the interrelated histories of mass communication, popular television, education, and public health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Social media posts made by ordinary people are in most cases only viewed by a small number of friends and contacts. But some posts get thousands of likes, comments, and shares, a phenomenon often dubbed as going viral. This paper provides a content analysis of viral Facebook posts published by common people in Norway, and of the news coverage they received. The social media posts that go viral in Norway deal with a variety of topics, like health care, elderly care, bullying, traffic safety, unemployment, animal welfare, school, and education. Some of the viral posts were open job applications, and some were creative expressions. Many of the posts address political issues, and becomes part of the public debate. The posts are personal in their mode of address, often with an emotional appeal for civic engagement. They resemble the letters to the editor, though they bypass the editor and go directly to online self-publication, and in this way, moving parts of the public debate from the newspapers to social media. Most of the viral posts got news coverage, which in most cases focused more on the popularity cues and the virality of the post, and less on the topic the post addressed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Tests are vital for understanding causal connections in special education and mass communication research. In the present study, the researchers examine how mass media play its role in educating the masses particularly in terms of special education. Qualitative research has been used for this study. Under this methodology, it would give valuable materials to mass communication instructors and understudies who might not have a complete handle on the value and advantages of special education in educating and learning processes in the field of mass communication. The sample size of this paper is 19 conducted past research papers. The selected research papers were published between 2010-2020. The information for the appraisal was assembled utilizing an audit structure by categorizing the accumulated data. The review is the most helpful gadget for this evaluation because of the most powerful methodology for coordinating comprehensive subjective information. This article also provides an overview of the physical and digital access to library resources, discusses the various roles the mass media and media center may play in the lives of students with disabilities, and describes how teachers and library media specialists can collaborate to meet the needs of students with disabilities. The researchers note that there are positive interrelationships among these pointers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article compares eight studies on the media treatment of the LGBTI group within the framework of Mèdia.cat, the Critical Media Observatory. The main objective is to develop a new and original project for the introduction of the LGBTI perspective in the world of journalism. This should allow a critical reflection on the cisheterocentrism of media discourse and the treatment of the reality of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transsexuals and intersexuals (LGBTI) and will help to identify strategies to address the situation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

MPhil and PhD students of media research (media studies/mass communication students) are expected to be a highly skilled selective group of students in addition to being avid researchers. Therefore, pursuing the MPhil and PhD in media studies/mass communication is more challenging than other humanities and social sciences disciplines. The existing literature addresses the issues faced by the students during their research journey. The literature also endorses this research journey as rewarding for some students. However, others may find it more complex and challenging. This qualitative study explores the MPhil and PhD media research students' experiences of disengagement from their studies. The semi-structured interviews have been conducted with 20 MPhil and PhD media research students who have prolonged or discontinued their MPhil and PhD studies. The research study explores the different categories, reasons, and inability to overcome the disengagement experience from studies among MPhil and PhD or higher education media research students. Work pressure, financial reasons, health issues, poor supervision, family restrictions, better alternatives, and change in priorities are found to be the few reasons for disengagement experienced by media research students in Pakistan. Moreover, students' personal and environmental inabilities to overcome the reasons for disengagement that leads to prolongment and discontinuation of their MPhil and PhD studies have also been discussed, followed by potential recommendations to overcome the disengagement experiences. The research is beneficial for the academic institutions offering MPhil and PhD programs in media research to resolve the issues of disinterest and disengagement of students at the MPhil and PhD levels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Science journalism in India is need-based and happens only when the country is in crisis. There are many reasons to it including a lack of journalistic training in presenting science stories. While India has one of the largest newspaper markets in the world, its reach does not extend to one-third of its population. The vastness and vibrancy of the country, teeming millions in need of decent science stories in hundreds of different languages, and a large network of research institutions and think tanks offer enormous opportunities for the proliferation of science journalism. Journalists must tap these opportunities to promote this scientific stream. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article compares eight studies on the media treatment of the LGBTI group within the framework of Mèdia.cat, the Critical Media Observatory. The main objective is to develop a new and original project for the introduction of the LGBTI perspective in the world of journalism. This should allow a critical reflection on the cisheterocentrism of media discourse and the treatment of the reality of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transsexuals and intersexuals (LGBTI) and will help to identify strategies to address the situation.

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McLuhan cites Ortega y Gasset's works, including History as a System and Other Essays Toward a Philosophy of History and Man and People, in two passages from War and Peace in the Global Village, six years after publishing The Gutenberg Galaxy and four years after Understanding Media. These readings coincide with the abandonment of the expression "galaxy," which he replaced with "environment." Based on these findings, we have examined McLuhan's citations of Ortega and their relation to the replacement of "galaxy" for "environment" for the first time. Using a method of direct collation of the Ortega's works that McLuhan read in English with the original texts written by Ortega, this study aims to show a relationship between the use of the term "environment" by McLuhan and Ortega's concept of "circumstance," which has gone unnoticed by specialists. McLuhan tacitly endorsed some of the main ideas of Orteguian philosophy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study will be focused on the literary construction of ideologies in Albania after the 1990s, concentrating on two leading figures in Albania, Prime Minister Edi Rama and the chairman of the largest opposition party, Lulëzim Basha, who at different times have published respectively the books Sacrifice and My Mission in order to influence Albanian public opinion on the eve of the elections. The analysis will be based on the elements and techniques of mass communication, on the content, on the language used, and on the propagandistic elements that that have accompanied the publication of these two books. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the forms and ways of the impact of modern digital media on people, groups, and society as a whole. The unilateral communication effect on a person is emphasized. The accent is made on the transmission model of information dissemination, taking into account the formation of its ritualized form. The author pays his particular attention to the status and role of an individual in interaction with mass media; provides arguments about the exclusion of a person from the communication dimension. The activity of modern digital media structures is substantiated as social constructors of reality. The researcher shows the technological and visual possibilities of mass media in the creation of artificial, illusory simulated models of the world perceived by a person as objective, authentic, and real. Mass media are presented as an integral social institution of modern society, operating autonomously, based on its own rules and norms, technological and content principles, conditions of network communication, digitalization, and mediatization of society. The article presents the concepts of theoretical comprehension of mass media as a self-sufficient autopoietic system of N. Luhmann, and consideration of media communication implementation as a non-communication of J. Baudrillard. The author stresses the role of spectacle and visuality in the process of TV influence on the subjects, in the construction of images and models of the world, comparable with the already available information consumers pictures of the world. The contradictory and ambiguous conceptual assessments of the activity and influence of mass media on the modern man are emphasized.

This study aims to find the significance of messages conveyed through communication media in a pandemic situation. The demands of a pandemic era have crisis dimensions on various fronts, making the choice of communication media more careful. This problem will then have an impact on the misinformation received by the community. Therefore, the selection of mass communication as a strategic media in response to various existing problems can be an alternative as a means of early education that directly targets the wider community effectively and efficiently. The main discussion in this research is related to the important role of mass communication in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. This research uses qualitative methods with the type of field study research. Data collection techniques using observation, interviews, and documentation. To sharpen the data analysis, this study uses the Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann social construction approach. This study found that mass communication has a central role in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. This role forms a new behavior that emerges from a new social order and reconstruction in the face of a social order that is more adaptive to the pandemic situation. To create this situation, it requires close communication between stakeholders and the community in responding to this problem. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menemukan signifikansi pesan yang disampaikan melalui media komunikasi dalam keadaan pandemi. Tuntutan masa pandemi yang berdimensi krisis dalam berbagai lini, menjadikan pemilihan media komunikasi harus lebih hati-hati. Persoalan ini kemudian akan berdampak pada kesalahan informasi yang diterima oleh masyarakat. Oleh sebab itu, pemilihan komunikasi massa sebagai media yang strategis dalam menanggapi berbagai persoalan yang ada dapat menjadi alternatif sebagai sarana edukasi dini yang langsung menyasar terhadap masyarakat luas dengan efektif dan efisien. Bahasan utama dalam penelitian ini berkaitan dengan peran penting komunikasi massa di tengah pandemi COVID-19. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif dengan jenis penelitian studi lapangan. Teknik pengumpulan data menggunakan observasi, wawancara, dan dokumentasi. Untuk mempertajam analisa data, penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan konstruksi sosial Peter L. Berger dan Thomas Luckmann. Penelitian ini menemukan bahwa komunikasi massa memiliki peranan sentral dalam menanggapi pandemi COVID-19. Peran ini membentuk perilaku baru yang muncul dari tatanan dan rekonstruksi sosial baru dalam menghadapi tatanan sosial yang lebih adaptif dengan keadaan pandemi. untuk menciptakan keadaan ini, diperlukan komunikasi yang erat antara stakeholder dengan masyarakat dalam menanggapi permasalahan ini.

After the pandemic caused by the Covid-19 virus, both religious organizations and other actors involved in religious and spiritual activity, such as training centers, theological schools, migrated to the virtual space. Online platforms have become a safe and easy to use environment. This has led to a very large number of platforms and sources, which has led to an avalanche of news, many of them fake news coming from illegitimate sources that have led to misinformation but also to religious fanaticism. This article presents the main module, a media portal, of a platform that will interconnect religious institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objectives The complexity of studying cultural public events as an object of journalism is that they are not real news but specially designed messages that can be part of the strategic plan of the stakeholders. In theoretical research, such type of special events is called media events, or pseudo-events (Boorstin, 1992, 32-37). Newsbreak of the public event grounds not only on information about the present but also about the past (culture memory, collective behavior, etc.). The problem is that the impact of the message of a cultural event depends on the will of elites, such as political, business figures or public activists. People and institutions involved in the field of the organization of the event, journalists as transmitters or interpreters, and it is important to help ordinary consumers not to fall into the trap of the frame of a cultural event, not to be used as manipulative purposes.subjects of production of this message. This issue is aimed to identify markers of cultural public event message transformations that affect mass-media. Material and methods To conduct research, we use the ontology approach by Allein Badiou and media discourse analysis approach. For analysis, we choose public events, which are based on organized cultural events. Results Define the four trends of the transformation of public event message in media discourse: increasing, decreasing, splashes of attention, decorative discourse. Conclusions Shifts of the meanings depend on the ontology of the public event message, its creation, implementation, and perception. In order to prevent manipulative influences, this knowledge helps to develop the productive motivation to a responsible attitude towards information products.

The objective of this research is to analyze advertising as a means of mass communication which influences consumption patterns and affects social reality. The problem questions how advertising induces consumers in the midst of technological evolution. The methodology was developed through hypothetical-deductive method which is structured into three segments -- mass media communication, advertising, and globalization and consumption. It is concluded that the media contributes to the construction of social reality and that there are many possibilities of consumption as it sells satisfaction, educates the consumer and ensures that information is important. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Political analysts believe that in the history of the development of society, we can observe two interrelated phenomena. The first is related to the introduction of new content in the old political forms, the second – with the filling of new forms of old content. From our point of view, the conclusion of political analysts may be used in the case of political technologies. Political technologies that use different types of effects on individuals and social groups are considered to be a relatively new phenomenon in the world of politics. In this article, we aim to clarify whether all the components of modern political technologies are fundamentally new. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Radio is a cultural producer and a main player in the music industry. Radio operates a system that determines which music will be broadcast and which music will not make it 'on the air,' functioning as gatekeeper for the general audience. Such a system gives radio significant influence on the music to which listeners are exposed. By way of offering a comprehensive picture of the diverse tastes, styles and trends of popular music in Israel, this article examines the mix of the common musical taste in Israeli society as reflected in the audience votes for the annual music charts that were broadcast on Gal Galatz radio station for 15 years. Findings show that pop music is the most common music in the charts and accounts for 45%, in contrast to rock music, which shows a declining trend. Mediterranean music has grown in popularity in recent years to become an integral part of mainstream music and accounts for a significant proportion of the mix of popular music according to Israeli listeners. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Throughout the history of the field of media and mass communication theory and research, claims have been made that 'mass' media and 'mass' communication are concepts that do not fit the contemporary media environment (anymore). However, contemporary developments and debates regarding the role of media and communication in the context of a global pandemic clearly suggest otherwise. In this article, the field of study regarding media and mass communication is reviewed based on the (7) fundamental theories explaining the role of media in society, as these have emerged out of a century of scholarship in media studies and communication science. The study aims to show how each of these theories can be considered to be 'at work' in current debates and concerns about the role of media and communication in the global coronavirus pandemic/infodemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The concepts of photography in ICT are considered. The author analyzes the development processes of online media photography, which entails large-scale changes in the practice of mass communication. The basic features and aesthetic aspect of the perspective development of modern photography are described. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Educational applications play an important role in modern education. Based on this, the objectives of this study are as follows: analyze a student interview (focus group) that has been conducted among University student of college of Mass Communication at Ajman University; determine the characteristics of educational applications; find out possible advantages and disadvantages of educational applications; formulate, including based on a student interview, criteria for choosing educational applications; divide educational applications into different categories to more fully see the academic possibilities of their use; develop student skills. Based on the objectives, it is decided to divide the study into two parts. The first step is to analyze semistructured interviews that have been conducted with students. In the second part of the study, a list of educational applications is compiled, indicating their educational categories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mass-media affects its consumers primarily in their cognitive dimension, by changing the image of the world - in this sense that the media becoms a vector of social influence, by changing the cognitions of individuals - but also by changing the shared social constructs within membership groups. The stated role of the media is to inform target audiences about events of interest in the field specific to the activity of the media trust, but also to convey opinions, ideas and views on those events in a way that is as complete and as complex as possible, allowing recipients to build their own opinions or adhere to one or another of the opinions expressed. This article deals with the ethics of mass communication when faced with a window of opportunity which allows an easier promotion of ideas or interests, taking into account the theory of life as a spectale promoted by Erwin Goffman. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this experiment we manipulated three features (intergroup social comparison, outgroup character stereotypicality, intergroup intimacy) of an intergroup TV pilot proposal. We examined how two underlying social identity motivations (social enhancement, social uncertainty reduction) were gratified by the aforementioned features, and whether this gratification predicted media attractiveness. Findings indicate that when social comparison was manipulated to advantage the ingroup, intergroup media gratified existing social enhancement motivations and led to audiences rating the show as more entertaining and attractive. This finding was most clearly evident in the absence of intergroup romance. The gratification of social uncertainty reduction motivations was also shown to increase audience perceptions of intergroup media attractiveness, but outgroup stereotypicality was weakly associated with the gratification of this motivation. These results are discussed in terms of both theoretical implications as well as applications to media campaigns. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The field of mass communication is constantly undergoing change and development, and the pace has accelerated with the advent of digital technologies. One challenge educators face is: how do we educate college students not just for today's careers, but also for lifelong competencies with media? Against this backdrop, the Department of Media and Journalism at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania sought a new curriculum to capitalize on "emergent media," that is, media that does not fit neatly into established mass communication disciplines such as journalism, telecommunications, public relations, and advertising. Our curriculum is centered around media literacy, skills development, and experiential learning. In this article, we discuss the theoretical backdrop for the curriculum, the structure of the curriculum, and the growth and future directions of our program. Now seven years into this curriculum, our experience can assist other educators in finding ways to make their curricula responsive and adaptable to a rapidly changing media environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Developing technology and innovations in the world order have accompanied a number of complexes and changes. With the developing and renewed world, mass media has taken a serious place in the lives of almost everyone. In the politics, business world, academy and media sector, if and only emotions, regardless of the content of what is meant are conveyed to public by this mass medium. In addition to this, mass medium has taken on an important task in order to reach the necessary information in the political field and attract the attention of the public and create the necessary effect. This study reveals the relationship between advertising, politics and negotiation by addressing the specific concepts of managing the relationship between politics and advertising. In this study, conceptual political advertising is examined with complex general comprehension with discussions of political advertising together with the political ad spending process that has been demonstrated in Turkey. All this information and media with a specific rating of the debate shows that professionals have come to the position where the assessment of political advertising in Turkey. In this connection, the 7 (seven) media professionals who are considered active and effective in political advertising were interviewed by using in-depth interview technique and examined the current situation of political ads in Turkey. In the light of the information obtained, political advertising in relation to the information on political advertising, while the parties showed similar acceleration, compared to the situations in other places. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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