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Rosinska, Olena. "SPACE CONTEXTS OF INFORMATION SPACE AS A METHOD OF MENTAL MAPPING OF UKRAINE." Integrated communications, no. 3 (2017): 48–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.28925/2524-2644.2017.3.8.
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The article studies the space images as the basis for mental space represented in the Ukrainian media. The study of concepts of Ukraine’s mental mapping is extremely important for the modern Ukrainian society, since it allows to understand and outline clearly the key problems of self-identification of Ukrainians, to identify and eliminate the acute problems of national confrontation at the level of perception of the state as a cultural phenomenon, gradually form awareness of integrity through rejection of manipulative images. The objective of the study is to identify the key spatial contexts (mental maps) for the Ukrainian information space, and geographical myths that determine self-awareness of citizens in the regions. In the process of scientific research it was used hypothetical-deductive and analytical methods as well as the method of system approach. In general, the study is a part of a comprehensive research devoted to special nature of space images in text communication, including belles-lettres and media communication. In the author’s opinion, the particular space concepts as the basis of mental space of information consumer specify interpretation of this information and create an opportunity for miscellaneous information manipulations. In the article it is used the concept of a mental map, which is the key one for the theory of space mental mapping. The mental maps of the Ukrainian media scene show a clear opposition of “east”- “west” in the context of positive/negative and axiological positions; as well as fixation of particular geographic myths that are perceived as an axiom, not becoming a subject of understanding and re-assessment in the altered reality both for ordinary information consumers and also for the authors of media texts.
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Erjavec, Karmen, Jožica Zajc, Melita Poler Kovačič, Jelka Šuštar Vozlič, Samo Uhan, and Luka Juvančič. "Attitudes Towards Genetically Modified Organisms in Slovenia: Between Knowledge and Myths / Stališča Do Genetsko Modificiranih Organizmov V Sloveniji: Poznavanje In Miti." Slovenian Journal of Public Health 52, no. 3 (September 1, 2013): 201–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/sjph-2013-0021.
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Abstract Objective: Because existing studies examining the impact of knowledge on people’s attitudes towards genetically modified organisms (GMOs) have had contradictory results, the goal of this study was to explore the attitudes that the population of Slovenia has towards GMOs and how knowledge affects their attitudes. Methods: In January 2012, a telephone survey was conducted researching attitudes towards GMOs and knowledge about them on a representative sample of the population of Slovenia (N=446). Results: The results revealed a predominantly negative attitude towards GMOs, regardless of their type, application and geographical distance; perceptions of the negative impact of GMOs on an individual’s health were particularly strong. The majority of respondents (59.5%) had moderate knowledge about GMOs, while a largeshare (30.4%) had poor knowledge of the topic. They had better objective knowledge about topics linked to formal education or legislation and a weaker understanding of mass media myths. Correlation analysis and one-way analysis of variance showed a statistically significant correlation between knowledge and attitudes towards GMOs. The respondents with better objective knowledge (who gave the correct answers to test questions) had a less firm and a more positive attitude towards GMOs and vice versa. The respondents who lacked objective knowledge but expressed subjective knowledge (they were convinced that their answers were correct) on average had a more negative attitude towards GMOs compared to those who lacked subjective knowledge. Conclusions: This finding leads to the conclusion that knowledge, particularly relating to media myths about GMOs, has an important role in forming attitudes towards the impact of GMOs on an individual’s health.
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Sarrimo, Cristine. "The Mediatized Zlatan, Made by Sweden." Nordicom Review 36, no. 2 (October 1, 2015): 3–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/nor-2015-0013.
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Abstract The present article analyses the mediatization of the brand and celebrity Zlatan Ibrahimović using the reception and marketing of the footballer’s life story and autobiography as its main case. It is shown that the construction of a myth such as Ibrahimović transcends the materiality of the book as well as geographical, vernacular and media boundaries, as it is constituted as content in a digital network that produces signification. This ‘Zlatan content’ is framed by national Swedish values and a traditional Western myth of individual masculine excellence. It is also marked by emotions, class and race, telling a tale about the marginalized emotive immigrant becoming both a national icon and part of an imaginary Western ghetto experience and global literary canon formation. It is argued that the performance of excitable speech acts is crucial in the mediatization and branding of mass market literature and celebrities such as Ibrahimović.
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Streib, Heinz. "Mass Media, Myths, and Meta‐Stories: The Antiquity Of Narrative Identity." British Journal of Religious Education 20, no. 1 (September 1997): 43–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0141620970200106.
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Schwartz, Daniel. "Between Sound and Silence: The Failure of the “Symphony of Sirens” in Baku (1922) and Moscow (1923)." Slavic Review 79, no. 1 (2020): 51–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/slr.2020.9.
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This article aims to temper the myth of the sound and scale of Arsenii Avraamov's city-wide mass spectacle the “Symphony of Sirens”—a myth that has been largely unquestioned in English-language sound and urban studies scholarship on the symphony. Instead of focusing solely on the symphony's dreaded noise, I pay attention to the symphony's silence—to the limits of what can be known about its sounds. Drawing on Avraamov's untranslated writings and personal correspondences, I investigate how the symphony's ideal of proletarian unity collides with the geographic, social, and sonic reality of the cities it sought to compose. I then investigate the roots of this ideal in Avraamov's personal aesthetic philosophy, as well as his idiosyncratic views on mechanical reproduction. This article will be of interest to those who wish to explore the connections between urbanism, colonialism, sound technology, the mass spectacle, and mass media in the Soviet musical avant-garde.
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Ertanowska, Delfina. "The influence of Lemkos and Boykos legends and myths on the development of mass communication of Eastern Slavs (frontier territories of Poland, Ukraine and Slovakis)." Proceedings of Vasyl Stefanyk National Scientific Library of Ukraine in Lviv, no. 11(27) (2019): 158–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.37222/2524-0315-2019-11(27)-9.
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This article is devoted to the questions of legends, myths as the first mass communication and their influence on the development of primary mass communication, in the border areas of Poland, Ukraine and Slovakia, inhabited by: Lemkos, Boykos and Huculs. In addition, an important element will be the beginning of media development, its effects and the comparison of the impact of the first mass media on society in confrontation with their modern counterparts. The article is based on sources of the formation of the first mass media and specific ethnic «journalism» on the native Slavic lands. Their influence on the Rusyns society and the formation of the media in the national consciousness in society. Description of the medium which educates the social masses, sometimes manipulates them in reference to their current substitutes. Keywords: Lemkos, mass communication, ethnic journalism, legends, myths.
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Utkin, Abbot Vitaly. "“Joannism” as Interpretive Myth: Politics, Mass Media and Church." Almanac “Essays on Conservatism” 102 (March 1, 2020): 143–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.24030/24092517-2020-0-1-143-159.
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The article is devoted to the mass popular mystic movement of “Joannites” who were the followers of saint holy John of Kronstadt. The author believes that “Joannism” like the “Imiabozhie” and “Khlysts” sects were largely interpretive myths. They were created by the missionary society as well as by the clerical and secular mass media. This myth was actively used for political purposes. The author includes new materials on the police attacks on Joannite orphanages in St. Petersburg. He brings forth the problem of “Joannism” connection with ecclesiastical consciousness in the post-war and contemporary periods.
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Nur, Iffatin. "Perempuan dan Media Massa." Musãwa Jurnal Studi Gender dan Islam 5, no. 4 (October 29, 2007): 559. http://dx.doi.org/10.14421/musawa.2007.54.559-577.
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The role of mass media is not only providing information to the public to fulfill their 'right to know' and 'right to expression', but also leading the creation of societies' images, myths, behavior, knowledge, even ideologies. Mass media produce new realities through texts, define facts or reality which amongst the semiotics such process is called creating the second reality from the first reality by the media. The media have created new realities in which men are portrayed as superior and engaging in all public spheres, whereas women are visualized as the weak. The production of mass media is also closely related to capitalist system of economy, which sometimes requires certain to become the victims; and women have been the victims in this capitalist system.
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Tobing, Deddy, and Henny Saptatia. "BOOK ANALYSIS WITH THEMA GEOPOLITICS “MEDIA, TERRORISM AND THEORY”, A CRITICAL THEORY RESEARCH APPROACH USING SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS." Jurnal Ilmiah Publipreneur 8, no. 2 (December 31, 2020): 45–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.46961/jip.v8i2.158.
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This article seeks to create a discussion space related to the Media Book, Terrorism and Theory. This book seeks to provide an understanding of the contextualization of the global cycle of violence within the framework of "military action" and "terrorism," as well as mass communication media. The author tries to view this book as a literary work by using semiotic analysis to get the meanings in this book, especially in the sections Critical Media Theory, Democratic Communication, and Global Conflict and Chapter 8 with the title Terrorism, Public Relations and Propaganda. This research finally succeeded in achieving an evaluation that some myths were generated from the meaning of denotation and connotation of Roland Barthes' semiotic technique. These myths when tested through the source triangulation technique show inconsistencies. Some of the myths are discussed by academics and the media, but some do not appear in the media.
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Nyhan, Brendan. "Facts and Myths about Misperceptions." Journal of Economic Perspectives 34, no. 3 (August 1, 2020): 220–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/jep.34.3.220.
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Misperceptions threaten to warp mass opinion and public policy on controversial issues in politics, science, and health. What explains the prevalence and persistence of these false and unsupported beliefs, which seem to be genuinely held by many people? Though limits on cognitive resources and attention play an important role, many of the most destructive misperceptions arise in domains where individuals have weak incentives to hold accurate beliefs and strong directional motivations to endorse beliefs that are consistent with a group identity such as partisanship. These tendencies are often exploited by elites who frequently create and amplify misperceptions to influence elections and public policy. Though evidence is lacking for claims of a “post-truth” era, changes in the speed with which false information travels and the extent to which it can find receptive audiences require new approaches to counter misinformation. Reducing the propagation and influence of false claims will require further efforts to inoculate people in advance of exposure (for example, media literacy), debunk false claims that are already salient or widespread (for example, fact-checking), reduce the prevalence of low-quality information (for example, changing social media algorithms), and discourage elites from promoting false information (for example, strengthening reputational sanctions).
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SAUM, CHRISTINE A., HILARY L. SURRATT, JAMES A. INCIARDI, and RACHAEL E. BENNETT. "Sex in Prison: Exploring the Myths and Realities." Prison Journal 75, no. 4 (December 1995): 413–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0032855595075004002.
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Prison narratives, mass media, and conclusions drawn from institutional research have fostered a perception of widespread “homosexual rape” in male penitentiaries. However, studies of sexual contact in prison have shown inmate involvement to vary greatly. To explore the nature and frequency of sexual contact between male inmates in a Delaware prison, the authors administered a survey of sexual behavior. Respondents were questioned extensively about sexual activities that they engaged in, directly observed, and heard about “through the grapevine” prior to their entry into a prison treatment program. Findings indicate that (a) although sexual contact is not wide-spread, it nevertheless occurs; (b) the preponderance of the activity is consensual rather than rape; and (c) inmates themselves perceive the myth of pervasive sex in prison, contradicting their own realities.
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Bartlett, Jennifer A. "Book Review: American Myths, Legends, and Tall Tales: An Encyclopedia of American Folklore." Reference & User Services Quarterly 56, no. 3 (April 3, 2017): 215. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/rusq.56n3.215a.
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Compilations of American folklore are constantly being rewritten to reflect the increasing diversity and variety of American culture. Many readers grew up with Benjamin Botkin’s classic collection A Treasury of American Folklore (Crown 1944), which featured a foreword written by Carl Sandburg and stories about Pecos Bill, Johnny Appleseed, Brer Rabbit and other popular myths, legends, and tall tales. Today, new legends are entering the folklore lexicon to reflect the influence of urban myths, historical events, science fiction, conspiracy theories, and mass media. This three-volume set offers a fascinating look at both traditional and newer folklore, including “Internet Hoaxes,” the “John Lennon shooting,” “Roswell,” and “Slender Man.”
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Zharovskiy, Egor. "Features of Culture Coverage in Crimean Mass Media." Theoretical and Practical Issues of Journalism 9, no. 1 (March 23, 2020): 173–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.17150/2308-6203.2020.9(1).173-191.
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Culture is one of the basic dimensions of social existence and human life, and influences functioning and development of any civilization. The mass media as social institute tend to focus their attention on the most significant aspects of a society's life. Items of culture often become topics of media texts. Therefore, the issue of the composition of these media texts is of currently relevance. The present-day media space is oversaturated with information and mass culture, which may result in the audience's low perceptivity of information and poorer aesthetic sense. In this relation, there is a necessity of studying features of culture coverage in the mass media in order to get an insight into the content of the culture topics. Since Russian regional mass media are an important link in the information distribution chain that provides public awareness of the culture, they require special attention. The target of the study is the range of culture topics covered in Crimean mass media. The article presents the results of a content-analytical study of media texts created by eleven Crimean mass in the period of 2015-2017. The culture topics of the texts included ethnic culture, religion, language, cultural heritage and art. Geographical location of culture topics was also taken into account. Basing on the results of the empirical study, the author infers that Crimean mass media provide non-uniform coverage of culture aspects: the media texts primarily focus on Russian and Crimean Tatar cultures, as well as on the culture of large Crimean cities, leaving behind cultural life in rural areas.
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Martinson, David L. "Teachers Must Not Pass Along Popular "Myths" Regarding the Supposed Omnipotence of the Mass Media." High School Journal 90, no. 1 (2006): 16–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hsj.2006.0011.
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Couldry, Nick. "Inaugural: A Necessary Disenchantment: Myth, Agency and Injustice in a Digital World." Sociological Review 62, no. 4 (November 2014): 880–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-954x.12158.
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This lecture reviews the history of how the status and authority of media institutions over the past century have been entangled with wider claims about social knowledge and the order of societies. It analyses those relations in terms of three successive and now overlapping myths: ‘the myth of the mediated centre’ which claims that media (traditional mass media institutions) are privileged access points to our centre of social values and social reality; the ‘myth of us’ which is now emerging around the supposedly natural collectivities that ‘we’ form on commercial social media platforms; and, from outside the media industries, the ‘myth of big data’ which proclaims big data techniques are generating an entirely new and better form of social knowledge. All these myths require deconstruction by a particular hermeneutic, but the case of the myth of big data is the most paradoxical, since its claims amount to an anti-hermeneutic, a refusal to interpret the social anymore as the resultant of processes of meaning-making. This third myth, it is argued, requires a hermeneutic of the anti-hermeneutic if it is to be deconstructed and previous conceptions of social knowledge (from Weber onwards), and the claims to possible justice and politics based upon them, are to be preserved.
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Petras, James. "Overseas Education: Dispelling Official Myths in Latin America." Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad 6, no. 1 (December 15, 2000): 73–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.36366/frontiers.v6i1.80.
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One of the most important contributions that the study abroad program makes is to allow students and professors to contrast official (government and mass media) versions of reality with their own observations and experiences. In many cases, there is a significant gap between what students were told before they left the U.S. and what they have learned upon their return. Not all students are able or willing to go beyond their preconceived notions, in part because of the limited access to different classes, ethnic and gender groups, or because the nature of the program limits the range of experiences to which students are exposed. Nevertheless, in my nearly forty years of travel to Latin America, I have found that most students do develop significantly different and critical views of the “official” versions of Latin America and U.S. foreign policy. The initial reactions to the contrast between preconceptions and reality vary from surprise to indignation, with many pursuing alternative and more critical paradigms. To illustrate this issue, I would like to cite several cases that I have witnessed in the field.
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Akhter, Pervaiz, Tanveer Hussain, and Hafiz Bilal Ahsan. "Mass Media as a Source of Agricultural Information: An Overview of Literature." Global Regional Review VI, no. II (June 30, 2021): 58–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/grr.2021(vi-ii).08.
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This research paper provides a systematic review of published research work by different research scholars regarding the role of communication channels in disseminating agricultural information and the diffusion of agricultural innovations among agriculturists. Findings of review are summarized with the help of reviewing methodology, major findings and implications of earlier published researches. The review depicts that there are significant variations in findings of the relevant researches some certain reasons like geographical, methodological and theoretical perspectives. It is hard to draw any specific conclusion about the role of a different communication channel in the agriculture sector. However, the review has revealed that the different channels of communication have a different role regarding the dissemination of agricultural information and diffusion of innovations amongst farmers.
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Spulber, Diana. "COVID-19 and mass-media: the weight of the words." Geopolitical, Social Security and Freedom Journal 3, no. 2 (December 1, 2020): 53–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/gssfj-2020-0012.
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Abstract The events of the year 2020 have had and heavy impact on the whole world. For the first time, each of us felt that we were part of this great globalised family. For the first time, the events that happened on a strict continent were directly related to other continents’ inhabitants. The new words entered to be a part of our vocabulary, and the new way of behaviour have been performed. On the positive side, we could mention that countries have been discovered for people with low geographical culture and the existence of certain professions and certain hospital departments have been discovered. The role of mass-media has been decisive in transmitting the news about Covid 19 in various ways. The article aims to show the role of mass media on the headlines of high ranking newspapers in UK Germany and Italy by analysing the weight of the words. The used methodology was the analysis to analyse the headlines of high ranking newspapers in UK Germany and Italy. Through content analysis, it was possible to individuate how the news-papers attract the audience through the headlines and how they contributed to keeping up the attention and the stress among social reality.
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Badiger, Apoorva Basavaraj, Triveni Mavinakote Gowda, Usha Govindaroy Venkatesh, Rucha Shah, Gayathri Gunjiganuru Vemanaradhya, and Mallanagouda Basanagouda Patil. "Curtailing of Myths and Misconceptions Regarding Oral Health among Indian Adult Population through Health Education and Promotion -Cross Sectional Survey." Balkan Journal of Dental Medicine 25, no. 1 (February 24, 2021): 34–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/bjdm-2021-0002.
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Summary Background/Aim: Myths related to oral diseases and oral health-related practices are very common among the population. Inadequate knowledge along with the persisting myths regarding the etiology, course and outcome of oral diseases makes it difficult to initiate health behavioural changes. Present study scrutinizes various myths and misconceptions regarding oral health among the outpatients. The aim of this study was to assess myths and misconceptions about oral health and imparting education regarding the same. Material and Methods: The calculated sample size was 200. A pre –tested closed ended questionnaire was prepared in both English and local language (Kannada). It comprised of four sections with 24 questions. The Content validity index value of 0.9 suggested a good validity. A Chi square test was applied and significance level was fixed at p< 0.05. Results: We had 100% response rate. In our study half of the participants visited dental hospital for the very first time (57.5%). About 45.2% of subjects believed 3rd molar eruption is the sign of intelligence, while 64.8% had a notion that all dental procedures are painful. Conclusions: Myths and misconceptions related to oral health are still prevalent among the population. However, small steps like compulsory education about oral health in the school curriculum, available and affordable oral care also effective use of mass media could be the steps to reduce oral health burden to the society.
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Bíró, Anikó, and Ágnes Szabó-Morvai. "Mass media coverage and vaccination uptake: evidence from the demand for meningococcal vaccinations in Hungary." European Journal of Health Economics 22, no. 6 (April 9, 2021): 887–903. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10198-021-01296-y.
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AbstractWe estimate the effect of mass media coverage of the meningococcal disease on the uptake of meningococcal vaccinations in Hungary. Our analysis is based on administrative county-level data on vaccination purchases linked to indicators of media coverage of the meningococcal disease and to administrative records of disease incidence. Using geographical and time variations in these indicators, our fixed effects estimates indicate a strong positive effect of mass media coverage of the disease on the rate of vaccination with all types of the meningococcal vaccine. At the same time, we do not find evidence that disease incidence itself has a positive impact on vaccination. These findings are broadly in line with imperfect information and the principles of bounded rationality and highlight the responsibility of mass media in influencing health-related behaviours.
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Meena, Keval Singh, Saugandhika P. Nambiar, Yogita Kumari, Hepsi Bai Joseph, and Asha P. Shetty. "Facts and prevailing myths on COVID-19 among the general public, India: a cross-sectional survey." International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health 8, no. 5 (April 27, 2021): 2465. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20211775.
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Background: COVID-19 is not a new disease for this world, but it shows alarming effects globally, and its sudden increase in incidence and spread is causing misperception and fear among the general population. The aim of this study was to assess the myths about COVID-19 among the general public, India.Methods: Cross-sectional survey was conducted using a convenient sampling technique to assess the myths on COVID-19 among 367 general public, India. The material used to collect the data was sociodemographic proforma and a structured questionnaire with 20 dichotomous questions with ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ option covering the transmission treatment and prevention myths on COVID-19. Data were collected through an online platform using Google forms and analyzed using R software.Results: The study identified six top myths on COVID-19. Taking a hot bath prevents coronavirus infection (93.5%), thermal scanners fail to detect COVID-19 (59.7%), prolonged use of face mask prevents COVID-19air entry (42.5%), houseflies transmit COVID-19 disease from one person to other (33.8%), mosquito bite transmits coronavirus (32.4%), and only older people and children are more susceptible to COVID-19 (30.8%).Conclusions: Myths were existed regarding COVID-19 due to lack of awareness. Awareness activities and strategies should be encouraged to reach all possible communication mean to erase the emerging myths. Besides, awareness should be enhanced by mass media or another portal in-order to follow the evidence-based preventive practices, including social distancing, cough and mask etiquette, hand hygiene, and other infection control measures to protect everyone from infection.
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Cho, Joan E., Jae Seung Lee, and B. K. Song. "MEDIA EXPOSURE AND REGIME SUPPORT UNDER COMPETITIVE AUTHORITARIANISM: EVIDENCE FROM SOUTH KOREA." Journal of East Asian Studies 17, no. 2 (May 9, 2017): 145–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jea.2016.41.
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AbstractThis study explores whether and how exposure to mass media affects regime support in competitive authoritarian regimes. Using geographical and temporal variation in newspaper circulation and radio signal strength in South Korea under Park Chung Hee's competitive authoritarian rule (1961–1972), we find that greater exposure to media was correlated with more opposition to the authoritarian incumbent, but only when the government's control of the media was weaker. When state control of the media was stronger, the correlation between media exposure and regime support disappeared. Through a content analysis of newspaper articles, we also demonstrate that the regime's tighter media control is indeed associated with pro-regime bias in news coverage. These findings from the South Korean case suggest that the liberalizing effect of mass media in competitive authoritarian regimes is conditional on the extent of government control over the media.
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Nossek, Hillel. "The Narrative Role of the Holocaust and the State of Israel in the Coverage of Salient Terrorist Events in the Israeli Press." Narrativization of the News 4, no. 1-2 (January 1, 1994): 119–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jnlh.4.1-2.07the.
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Abstract The mass media convey dominant values and attitudes through stories and myths that they circulate within a specific culture. As a narrative form, news coverage places events into social reality by retelling them within the framework of known stories or myths. Events acquire meanings and reactions by the ways in which these stories are told. In Israeli society, the Holocaust is a historical event that plays a prominent role in shaping national and cultural identity. An analysis of Israeli press coverage of terrorist attacks on Israel reveals that the Israeli press uses these events to convey the basic myth of the Holocaust and the revival of the Jewish state. Using Barthes' theories of narrative analysis, a composite story is constructed to illustrate the workings of this process. In this story the Jews, formerly helpless victims of Nazi aggression, are saved by Israeli soldiers as proof of the revival of the Jewish people in the state of Israel. The findings of the study suggest that the myth of the Holocaust may be used as a framework by the Israeli press in more serious emergency situations, such as war. At the same time, the study suggests that the analysis of news as narrative provides a means of understanding how terrorist events are reported by the press in other countries and in other media as well. (Mass Communication)
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Gionis, MD, JD, LLM, MBA, MHA, FCLM, Thomas M., Cyril H. Wecht, MD, JD, FCLM, Lewis W. Marshall, Jr., MS, MD, JD, FAAEP, and Fred A. Hagigi, DrPH, MBA, MPH. "Dead bodies, disasters, and the myths about them: Is public health law misinformed?" American Journal of Disaster Medicine 2, no. 4 (July 1, 2007): 173–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.5055/ajdm.2007.0027.
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While the mission of public health is to fulfill society’s interest in ensuring a healthy society as “public health is what we, as a society, do collectively to assure the conditions for people to be healthy,” the mission of public health law is to assist in the creation of those conditions. However, at times of disaster, threats or risks caused by dead bodies often cause dramatic media coverage and public panic, which incite the passage of emergency public health laws. The unfortunate result of such emergency public health laws mandating immediate dead body disposal, often through mass burial, is that proper identification of the deceased is severely hampered, and families are frequently precluded from experiencing the grieving process and are unable to bring closure to such a traumatic event. Are such emergency public health laws misinformed? Are the threats of dead bodies of disasters a threat to the public’s health? Are the perceived public health threats of dead bodies merely a myth—or is their cause for justified concern? Such a rush to burial not only may add to the psychological distress of survivors but it also forbids them the opportunity of seeing their loved ones being treated with dignity and respect. Additional consequence of “emergency” mass burial legislation without proper identification include legal problems associated with inheritance, life insurance, remarriage of spouses, parenting of surviving children, and even the threat of diplomatic tensions between nation states resulting from burial of foreign tourists.Disaster medicine specialists are often called upon to comment to the media, advise governmental agencies, and console families, as to the disposition of dead bodies and to the existence of any public health threats caused by the accumulation of human cadavers. Because disaster medicine specialists play a vital role in preserving the public’s health, and because public fears of spread of infectious disease often escalate paralleling the accumulation of dead bodies, disaster medicine specialists must be properly informed of the epidemiologic risks and public health issues that dead bodies of disasters may pose. The purpose of this article is to provide a foundation for disaster medicine specialists in properly advising governments, the public, media, and families regarding the risks and fears concerning the health hazards of human cadavers resulting from disasters.
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MAZHARUL ISLAM, M., and A. H. M. SAIDUL HASAN. "MASS MEDIA EXPOSURE AND ITS IMPACT ON FAMILY PLANNING IN BANGLADESH." Journal of Biosocial Science 32, no. 4 (October 2000): 513–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021932000005137.
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This paper analyses mass media exposure and its effect on family planning in Bangladesh using data from the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS) 1993–94. The findings indicate that radio and television are two important mass media for disseminating family planning information in Bangladesh. However, access to them and exposure to family planning through them are still limited. Slightly more than 40% (42·1%) of respondents reported that they had heard family planning messages via radio, while 17·2% said television, 8·4% said poster and 5·4% said billboard. Respondent’s place of residence, education, economic status, geographical region and number of living children appeared to be the most important variable determining mass media exposure to family planning. Multivariate analysis shows that both radio and TV exposure to family planning messages and ownership of a radio and TV have a significant effect on current use of family planning methods. These factors remain significant determinants of contraceptive use, even after controlling socioeconomic and demographic factors. The study reveals that both socioeconomic development policies and family planning programmes with a special emphasis on mass media, especially radio, may have a significant effect on contraceptive use in Bangladesh. The principal policy challenge is to design communications strategies that will reach the less privileged, rural and illiterate people who are by far the majority in Bangladesh.
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Yegorova, Lyudmila. "Crimean Identity in the Media Presentation of the Region." Theoretical and Practical Issues of Journalism 8, no. 2 (May 24, 2019): 373–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.17150/2308-6203.2019.8(2).373-387.
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The author proposes a new approach to studying regionology, an actively emerging area of research that examines laws of functioning of a region in terms of geographical, geopolitical, geo-economic, information and historical-cultural factors. This approach lies in coordinating the theory of regionality with real facts of a certain territory media history in its dynamic characteristics displayed in media texts. The author points out that active forming of the Crimean identity is a result of the ideas of the Russian world as a uniting factor. The identity features of those who live in the peninsula manifest themselves by the formula “We are Crimean” regardless of a person’s nationality. The identity features of the Crimean people are also determined by the role of the Russian language as an integrative field of communication for the living together representatives of different cultures. Regional mass media have a significant impact on shaping a regional worldview. Applying discourse analysis to the Crimean printed texts the author demonstrates peculiarities of media constructing of the Crimean identity involving geographical, historical, cultural and personal themes. The analysis carried out allows one to conclude that the Crimean (regional) identity corresponds to the professional identity of the journalists who work in the region. This is confirmed by the main regional themes being broadcast by the most popular regional mass media. The Crimean society is a specific regional polyethnic environment formed as the result of long-term and complex cultural and historical development. Characteristics of the key events representation in public space determine their collective comprehension. The regional mass media of the Republic of Crimea through the media texts draw the audience’s attention primarily to the attributes of the unified mentality. It is important that now when several years have passed after the Crimea joined Russia it is the time to interpret this historical event to build a complex hierarchically ordered system of the peninsula citizens’ self-identity.
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Onyeisi Morka, Emmanuel. "The government, mass media, myths and misconceptions of sickle cell disease : impact on the sustainable- development goal of healthy lives in Nigeria." Journal of African Films & Diaspora Studies 3, no. 2 (December 1, 2020): 103–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.31920/2516-2713/2020/3n2a6.
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This study reviewed the expected role of the mass media in setting an agenda of public benefit with a view to achieving the Sustainable Development Goal of ensuring healthy lives and the promotion of well-being for all at all ages. Nigeria bears a high burden of sickle cell disease in the world. Five percent (5%) of the global population is carriers of the sickle cell trait and one out of every four Nigerian bears the sickle cell gene. Fifty to ninety percent (50% to 90%) of those born with the disease die before the age of five. Ethno-religious beliefs and ignorance are the two factors that are responsible for the misconceptions of the disease among Nigerians. There is the near-absence of the effort of the mass media in setting agenda for public discourse on the disease. There is the need to promote health education and awareness campaign that will bring about a modification in the attitudes that posses as risk factors. The press and media houses should be given freedom of expression.
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Fredman, Nick. "Misreading the Crisis: Issues in Australian Media Representations of Indonesian Politics." Media International Australia 93, no. 1 (November 1999): 119–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x9909300112.
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This article critiques differing approaches to analysing Australian media representations of Indonesia, and argues that an analysis of ideology and language is key to understanding this discourse. Many mass media commentators have been caught by surprise at the rapid development and severity of the economic and political crisis in Indonesia, and there has been ongoing confusion in media accounts of the crisis. The article explains this in terms of the contradictions that representing an authoritarian political system has created for the Australian media, which is underpinned by liberal-democratic ideology. These contradictions were held in check by the creation of several myths around Indonesia's apparent economic successes, the possibilities of peaceful change and Australia's national interest. The onset of a major crisis, however, has brought these contradictions to breaking point. The article also suggests some connections between the liberal discourse of a closer engagement with Asia and Australia's racist history.
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Gürkan, Assist Prof Dr Hasan. "The Representation of Masculinity in Cinema and on Television: An Analysis of Fictional Male Characters." European Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies 5, no. 1 (May 19, 2017): 402. http://dx.doi.org/10.26417/ejms.v5i1.p402-408.
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Mass media, especially cinema and television, are important devices that build and strengthen males and female roles in societies. The representation of gender in media is crucial because individuals get to know gender roles in the process of socialization. Besides the female identity, masculinity is also a constructible element and fictional male characters produced both in cinema and on television send messages about masculinity to the audience. In this study, the male representation both in the television series and in films were compared with this assumption and the question how male characters are represented on the two different mass media is examined in Turkey. Furthermore, the question "whether masculine representation reinforces the existing patriarchal male image or produces an alternative male model" is in the interest area of the study. The method of this study is reception analysis and in-depth interviews were undertaken with audiences with different demographic characteristics. As a result, it has been found that male representations in cinema and television are produced with similar myths, symbols, metaphors and messages, similar gender languages are used in different media, and fictional male characters in cinema and television have common characteristics.
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Ridad, Geraldine Sabate. "BARRIERS TO ADHERENCE TO EXPANDED PROGRAM ON IMMUNIZATION AMONG PARENTS IN LANAO DEL NORTE, PHILIPPINES." Belitung Nursing Journal 5, no. 1 (February 13, 2019): 16–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.33546/bnj.695.
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Background: The Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) was developed to ensure access of infant and children to recommended vaccines. In the Philippines, nurses are deployed in the community to ensure that children in their assigned units are fully immunized before they reach 1 year old. However, despite the various immunization campaigns, many children still remain unprotected and at-risk to life-threatening vaccine-preventable diseases. Thus, identifying the barriers that have averted parents from adhering to complete and timely immunization is important, most especially to nurses who are the primary program implementers in the community.Objective: This study chiefly aimed to determine the respondents’ perceived barriers along the aspects of Personal, Geographical and Social Barriers, Beliefs and Myths on Immunization, and Knowledge and Awareness on EPI and their relationship to the respondents’ level of adherence to immunization.Methods: Descriptive correlational design was used to explore the perceived barriers to immunization and examine its relationship to the respondents’ level of adherence. A researcher-constructed questionnaire was used after being pilot tested to gather data from 352 random respondents.Results: Using frequency counts, percentages, and weighted arithmetic mean, the results showed that most of the respondents considered only geographical factors as barrier along with social factors. Moreover, it has been found out that respondents lacked knowledge and awareness on the benefits of immunization, the number of vaccines their child needs to receive, site and schedule, side-effects, and contraindications. However, with mean above 2.34 indicated that respondents were informed on the appropriate interventions for side-effects of vaccines, as well as their right to refuse vaccination. The respondents’ over-all level of adherence was moderate.Conclusion: The identified barriers geographical, social, personal, beliefs and myths on immunization and respondents’ level of knowledge and awareness have influenced respondents’ level of adherence to a moderate level only. Based on the results, health care providers, especially nurses, and other concerned program implementers need to consider and address these barriers when formulating or improving strategies to increase immunization compliance. Lastly, more intentional follow-up campaign drives in spreading information about Expanded Program on Immunization using media and other ways is needed.
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Yang, Feikai, Rajendra Prasad Singh, and Dangfang Fu. "Experimental study on filter media using locally available materials in bioretention." Journal of Water Supply: Research and Technology-Aqua 68, no. 8 (December 1, 2019): 757–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/aqua.2019.210.
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Abstract Bioretention systems and selection of effective filter media are very important in implementation of sponge cities. The current study was carried out to find proper composition of filter media using locally available materials, which acclimate to the special/local climate, environmental and geographical conditions in Yangtze River Delta region. Results revealed that sand with discontinuous gradation and containing a certain amount of clay led to unsatisfactory hydraulic performance (hydraulic conductivity ranged from 423 mm/h to 1,054 mm/h, and 1,500 mm/h to 29 mm/h). In contrast, a mixture of locally available sand, which consisted of continuous gradation of coarse sand (40–70%, by mass), fine sand (0–40%, by mass), very fine sand (10–60%, by mass) and nutrient soil (0–3%, by mass), had a hydraulic conductivity ranging from 200 to 400 mm/h and relatively stable structure. During the 70 days' flooding test, the hydraulic conductivity changed in the first 20 days due to the migration of particles (mainly <0.6 mm) and then became stable; the stable value was close to the initial. Moreover, easy access and simple production processes made it easier to promote. Findings could be used as a guideline for implementation of bioretention systems and selection of locally available and effective filter material.
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Samry, Wannofri. "THE ROLE OF MASS MEDIA AND MINANGKABAU IDENTITY." Book Chapters of The 1st Jakarta International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities (JICoSSH) 1 (January 25, 2019): 52–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.33822/jicossh.v1i1.1.
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Since early of twentieth century mass media is one of the professional jobs which they done By Minangkabau People, both as journalist or auhtor and publisher. Beside as teacher carier, It seems that the mass media is the professional field that done ealiest of them. Establishing of Minangkabau identity is closely ralated to existence of mass media; with mass media progressing and having dialectic. The intelectual richness of Minangkabau since the early 20th century was known at national level is also not separated from the existence of mass media. Their identity also determained by the mass media; locality, nationalism and globalization influences are processed in mass media to form different Minangkabau world from time to time. This paper presents the establishing of the identiy of Minangkabau people through the mass media on various problem in a historical perspective, mainly after 1950’s.
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Alexander, PhD, David. "News reporting of the January 12, 2010, Haiti earthquake: The role of common misconceptions." Journal of Emergency Management 8, no. 6 (November 1, 2010): 15. http://dx.doi.org/10.5055/jem.2010.0036.
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The Haiti earthquake of January 12, 2010, was one of the worst seismic disasters of the last half-century. Given the severity of damage to infrastructure and the gravity of the humanitarian crisis, it was particularly difficult for journalists to report the situation accurately during the early stages of the crisis. In relation to the Haitian catastrophe, this article considers 10 misassumptions that commonly appear in news reports about disaster. They include “myths” about the inevitability of disease, the prevalence of panic, and the need to impose martial law. Behind the misassumptions is a widely disseminated but wholly inaccurate model of the breakdown of society, which is greatly at variance with the observational definition by sociologists of the postdisaster “therapeutic community.” This article concludes that the misassumptions are, at least in part, alive and well. Some of the less responsible news media enthusiastically propagated them without checking the reality on the ground in Haiti. However, there are signs that at last the more thoughtful media are prepared to question the myths of disaster. In part this is clearly because influential people in the humanitarian relief effort have made a special effort to make journalists aware that certain notions are misassumptions— for example, that unburied dead bodies give rise to disease epidemics. Nevertheless, it is not yet clear whether we are entering a new age of more responsible reporting of disasters by the mass media.
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Simov, Mikhail. "Did Russia want liberation of Bulgaria? New interpretations and myths in Bulgarian academic and popular literature." Slavs and Russia, no. 2019 (2019): 386–402. http://dx.doi.org/10.31168/2618-8570.2019.17.
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With the beginning of democratic changes in Bulgarian historical science faced the problem of reconsideration of many accepted assertions and interpretations concerning the Russo-Turkish war of 1877-1878 and the liberation of Bulgaria from the Ottoman rule. Historical revisionism was presented with exceptional persistence, often aggression, on the pages of journalistic essays. The following paper examines modern trends in interpreting the events that happened 140 years ago and explores the existing myths and conditions facilitating their spreading. The main academic works on the subject published in the last 30 years, as well as journalistic popular works and publications in mass media are analysed by the author.
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Gurevitch, Michael, and Anandam P. Kavoori. "Global Texts, Narrativity and the Construction of Local and Global Meanings in Television News." Narrativization of the News 4, no. 1-2 (January 1, 1994): 9–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jnlh.4.1-2.02glo.
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Abstract This article discusses the relevance of narrative analysis to the study of media globalization by presenting results of an ongoing study of television news in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. It discusses issues of local and global meanings by focusing on a number of elements of narrative structure (time, valence, story/discourse, themes, drama, genre, and myths) and argues that each element presents ways to track particularistic and universalistic meanings in television news. A concluding section emphasizes the importance of narrative analysis to the study of globalization with a discussion of live global television events. (Journalism and Mass Communication)
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Ma, Shihan (David), and Andrei P. Kirilenko. "Climate Change and Tourism in English-Language Newspaper Publications." Journal of Travel Research 59, no. 2 (April 5, 2019): 352–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0047287519839157.
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Tourism is one of the sectors of the economy that is most dependent on climate, creating multiple vulnerabilities and new opportunities arising with changing climate. Even though the links between tourism and climate have been well researched, this scientific knowledge has not percolated into policies and the ability to act. This disconnect between scientific knowledge and practices is frequently blamed on inadequate climate change communication to the public in mass media. We studied the mass media framing of climate change and tourism by analyzing English newspaper publications worldwide over the past 30 years. The paper presents a Big Data analysis of the content, geographical patterns, and temporal changes in newspapers’ publications on climate change and tourism.
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Kostyuk, Iryna. "Fundamentals of mythologization of personality in the context of the totalitarian society." Bulletin of Lviv National Academy of Arts, no. 40 (July 1, 2019): 25–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.37131/2524-0943-2019-40-3.
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The article analyzes the problem of using social myths in the system of a totalitarian society, outlines the main mechanisms of their influence on all spheres of society life, scenarios of activity and modifications in modern times. The totalitarian societies of the twentieth century (on the example of the Soviet Union and Germany) created their myths, because without them, totalitarianism is in principle impossible, and also actively used millennial mythological schemes and images already created by the millennium. The modern information society gives rise to new myths, commercially oriented, but the mechanisms of influence are rooted in archaic myth-making and myth-creation of totalitarian states. Objectives – to analyze the mechanisms of the functioning of myths in a totalitarian society, the basic principles of mythologizing the image, the transformation of social myths in modern society. Scientific novelty. All modern theories of social myths can be conditionally divided into two kinds of flows: 1) those that interpret myth as a certain way of expressing the unconscious, to begin even an irrational experience that is experienced subjectively but is unique to the whole community; 2) theories that emphasize his or her ability to form types of thinking and norms of behavior (which is extremely important for totalitarian societies that want to ensure total control over citizens). Results. Since the most researched totalitarian societies today are Soviet and Nazi, it is best to go there according to the models of the existence of mythological paradigms, even when realizing the diversity of these varieties of totalitarian regimes - the Nazi totalitarianism is directed to the pre-Christian past. at the end of the XXI century. the latest social myths have started to play a much larger role than the new weapons. Considering the tangible effect of civilized means of influence on extremely militant states (through a set of economic and political sanctions, access to global financial systems and levers of influence on the politics and economy of other states), it is social myths relayed through all possible media (directly or veiled). ), began to form mass public opinion and even state ideology. It is the mythology that offers a person the key to understanding the situation (social, political, spiritual, emotional) in which they find themselves. The mythology (ideology) of an individual society (or even a particular social group) comprehensively characterizes its representatives, their motivation, and their interest. Myths are a guarantee that a particular community will not be completely destroyed during radical changes. Therefore, in times of social and economic crises, myth gives a person the possibility of unconditional identification with the team. Conclusions. Society and civilization of the twentieth century. modestly retreated to the laws and regulations of mythological consciousness, mythological laws, because for thousands of years man has preserved the collective subconscious and resist (in its mass) cannot, and "others" immediately found themselves outside the society, becoming social exiles (this in the scene of exile) or died. The modern information society gives birth to new, commercially oriented myths, but the mechanisms of influence are rooted in the archaic myth-making and myth-making of totalitarian states.
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Grazia Riva, Maria. "THE LOVE THAT FRIGHTENS. CLINICAL-PEDAGOGICAL REFLECTIONS." SOCIETY, INTEGRATION, EDUCATION. Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference 2 (May 30, 2015): 213. http://dx.doi.org/10.17770/sie2013vol2.569.
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The experience of love is common to all human beings, of all ages, social classes and geographical origins (Bettetini, 2012; Passerini, 2008). Contemporary society has typically dragged love out of the intimate sphere, partly as a result of technological advances in the mass communication media, especially Internet. The media constantly dwell on the themes of love and sex, honing in on people’s love lives and making gossip about them a global affair, exposing the most intimate details of the love affairs of the famous and not so famous, and shamelessly flaunting nudity.
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Muzzatti, Stephen L. "Bits of Falling Sky and Global Pandemics: Moral Panic and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)." Illness, Crisis & Loss 13, no. 2 (April 2005): 117–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/105413730501300203.
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Whether it's a story about crime, the weather, politics, Hollywood celebrities, or public health, sensationalistic and exploitative coverage is a media staple. The mass media's coverage of the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in the spring of 2003 was no exception. The media's construction of the source, virulence, and transmissibility of this disease, a previously unknown cousin of the common cold, diverged considerably from its medical realities and contributed to a widespread though short-lived moral panic. Drawing on work in the areas of the sociology of health and critical criminology, this article explores the claims-making activities behind the SARS “epidemic.” Specifically, it addresses how threats to the public well-being are manufactured by the media and how these threats draw upon past and present cultural myths of dangerous “others” and contribute to unwarranted public fear, intolerance, and distrust.
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Crowhurst, Andrew. "Empire Theatres and the Empire: The Popular Geographical Imagination in the Age of Empire." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 15, no. 2 (April 1997): 155–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/d150155.
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The role of the emerging mass media in informing popular attitudes towards imperialism in late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain is explored through a case study of music hall. It is argued that, in contrast to practices adopted in other media, music hall songs and sketches contributed little to the nurturing of an imperialist popular imagination. I take issue with the assertion first made by J A Hobson in The Psychology of Jingoism that music halls promoted militarist and imperialist activities and fostered a popular chauvinism. I also suggest that although music hall songs and sketches purveyed images of racial difference they did not contribute to the discourse of racial supremacy upon which the moral justification of British imperialism rested. Rather, the halls celebrated the emergence of a culture of consumption that transcended social and ethnic boundaries and confronted the dominant ascetic value system of the Victorian bourgeoisie.
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Nickolaichuk, Igor, Tamara Yakova, and Marina Yanglyaeva. "In Search for a New Russian Identity: Media-Geographical Studies of the Mental Landscape." Theoretical and Practical Issues of Journalism 9, no. 4 (December 23, 2020): 642–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.17150/2308-6203.2020.9(4).642-659.
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The authors demonstrate the opportunities that mediageography provides for tracking socio-political processes, and, via rank analysis, present a new approach to studying the issue of a new Russian identity. The topicality of the research is explained by the fact that, in the context of the emergence of wider forms of international cooperation, global interest to the problems of cultivation of national identity is growing and is currently the mainstream of ethnological and sociological studies. An analysis of popularity of various morphological sculptures in Russian mental landscape is based on Internet statistics and evaluation of these structures as static objects by two parameters — popularity and consensual perception. The article also examines multimedia projects and big data of Google and Yandex that help to determine the degree of Internet users’ interest to various morpho-sculptures (personality, event, object) as accurately as possible. An analysis of the contemporary Russian mental landscape is done by media-geographic categories put into a space-time frame of axis, and shows the degree of consensus by Russian residents and its fluctuation by RF constituent territories and other geographic areas. The study takes into account mass media’s attention, as well as Internet users’ interest, to personalities that represent various clusters, namely, politicians, culture luminaries, the military, etc. The results are interpreted in relation to geographic aeolotropism of morpho-sculptures’ popularity. The authors infer that commemoration practices aimed at uniting the nation should be based on large-scale interdisciplinary studies of the audience and on a systemic scientific approach to interpretation of the results.
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Gaižutis, Algirdas, and Jurgita Subačiūtė. "Youth aggression topic in the daily newspaper Lietuvos rytas (2011)." Pedagogika 114, no. 2 (June 10, 2014): 234–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.15823/p.2014.020.
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Analysing youth aggression topic in the press, it is noted that only statistics of youth aggression cases revealed in the public space is represented. There are no records reflecting the real situation. In this instance, the mass media, which is controlling the thoughts of society, has mostly influence to public attitude formation on youth aggression question. It is often based on stereotypes and myths, in that way representing the vision of distorted reality. The aim of this paper is to ascertain how is represented youth aggression topic in the mass media, and what is its formed image of inseparable from aggression informal groups of young people such as ultras (extreme football fans) and skinheads (nationalist attitude).After having analysed the numbers of daily newspaper Lietuvos rytas (January–December of 2011), 99 articles on youth aggression topic were detected. It is noted, that there are no articles about aggression of young people living in the wealthy and rich families. So the mass media is forming a view, that youth aggression mostly occurs in asocial families, whereas in wealthy families this problem simply does not exist. With regard to the portrayal of youth aggression in Lietuvos rytas, as well as paying attention to the fact that trust in the mass media in Lithuania goes up to 70 percent, we can state that readers form themselves a distorted vision of reality.The most common youth aggression cases represented in the mass media are − younger or peer sexual abuse, as well as a large demonstration of transaggression - aggression used to achieve the objective. Most of the images published in the press are attributed to anger aggression and aggressors are depicted as asocial, intoxicating substances tend to use young people. Analysing Lietuvos rytas (2011), as well as reviewing other newspapers (Lietuvos rytas (2007, 2008), Lietuvos Aidas (2008), Merkio kraštas (2011)) in search of information on Lithuania‘s ultras and skinheads formed image, we have to state that public opinion towards ultras and skinheads is formed mostly not by personal experience (communication, confrontation with them), but by mass media which is the main source of information absorbed by members of the society.
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Widholm, Andreas. "The sociality of public space broadcasting during media events." Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 22, no. 6 (July 7, 2016): 581–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354856515586041.
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In the last decade, large public screens and globally organized public viewing areas (PVAs) have become increasingly significant elements of media events, expanding the possibilities for mass audiences to collectively watch events together in real time. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in connection with the British Royal wedding (2011) and the London Olympics (2012), this article explores the ‘sociality’ of public space broadcasting, focusing on interactions and performances of identity by people gathered for collective viewing in the city centres of London, Birmingham and Manchester. The analysis shows that public space broadcasting mobilizes a variety of social identities and performances, spanning from ‘relaxed’ forms of engagement to more fannish articulations of nationality, cosmopolitan hybridity and spectacle participation. Geographical location and structural embedding strategies clearly impinge on public performances within PVAs. The article concludes that the degree of commercialization and presence of journalists and other media professionals are particularly central external drivers of performativity in connection with public consumption of media events.
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Miller, Toby, Eva Aladro-Vico, and Paula Requeijo-Rey. "The hero and the shadow: Myths in digital social movements." Comunicar 29, no. 68 (July 1, 2021): 9–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.3916/c68-2021-01.
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The general subject of this analysis is the presence of myths on social media, a heritage of the previous century’s mass culture, and in particular, for social movements. Social movements within networked communication are particularly endowed with mythologies, which draw on mass culture and on societies’ archetypal and psychological backgrounds. This fact justifies the hypothesis that the most effective and popular social movements resort to deeper mythological forms. The specific objective is to describe concrete myths in the language of digital social movements and to review the aspects of mythology in the scholarly literature on mythology from four fields. After tracing contents and impact, a qualitative analysis, focused on two examples justified by their digital origin, is performed: the “Anonymous” movement and “Je Suis Charlie” social mobilisation. Results show the persistence of two mythological motives: the profound hero’s monomyth, playing an essential identifying role, channelled through social networks, with hashtags as slogans, and the related myth of the shadow, the dark, “Anonymous” and hybrid identity. Connections and analogies with other recent examples are discussed ?such as the “Me Too” and “Black Lives Matter” cases?. The conclusion is the clear connection between these two myths and the communicative strength of social movements transmitted through social networks. El tema general de este análisis es la presencia de los mitos en las redes sociales, herencia de la cultura de masas del siglo anterior y en particular, en los movimientos sociales. Los movimientos sociales en las redes digitales se dotan de mitologías, sean retomadas del siglo anterior sean formas del fondo arquetípico y psicológico intemporal. Esta presencia justifica la hipótesis sobre si los movimientos más eficaces y populares recurren a formas mitológicas más profundas. El objetivo específico es describir mitos concretos que aparezcan en el lenguaje de los movimientos sociales específicamente digitales. Se revisan los rasgos de los mitos de acuerdo con los autores más prestigiosos de cuatro ámbitos científicos. Se extraen del rastreo de contenido e impacto dos ejemplos de origen digital: el movimiento «Anonymous» y la movilización social «Je Suis Charlie». Aplicando análisis heurístico, los resultados muestran la persistencia de dos motivos mitológicos muy concretos: el profundo monomito del héroe, que cumple un papel crucial identificativo en las canalizaciones mediante redes como Twitter, a partir del uso específico de los hashtags como eslóganes, y el mito asociado de la sombra, la identidad anónima, híbrida y oscura. Se presentan las funciones y analogías en otros movimientos recientes –como «Me Too» y «Black Lives Matter»–. Se concluye la conexión entre estos mitos y la fuerza comunicativa de los movimientos sociales que se transmiten en las redes.
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Novokshonova, Nataliia. "Mythologization of the woman and her image in the discourses of postmodern mass culture." Grani 23, no. 5 (August 10, 2020): 28–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.15421/172050.
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The intellectual context of the early 21st century, defining new topics and subjects of research, is de facto blurring the boundaries between high and low culture, emphasizing mass culture as a phenomenon that appears to be a means of seeking distractions in the real world. In the problematic field of postmodernism, mass culture represents how an ordinary person describes himself/herself as an individual in temporal and local dimensions. When contemporary culture represents a woman in the mainstream media, a woman is by definition the primary object of creating mythologemes, usually related to the goals of consumerism. Of great importance is that the illusory world created in the imagination deforms the existing world view in which femininity is still more often represented as a biological quality. The goal of the paper is an interdisciplinary analysis of the issues of gender mythologization in postmodern philosophy and culture. The above-mentioned demonstrates the need for applying the principles of systematic analysis with a focus on hermeneutical interpretation of texts of mass culture. It should be stressed that femininity and embodiment in their combination hold a specific place in the postmodern culture; the latter is vividly represented in all genres of mass culture: both in television shows and series (Netflix, HBO, NBC, MTV) and on the wide screen. This goes to prove the phenomenon of unprecedented visualization used in different genres of mass culture. On the presumption that the heroine of mass culture in the early 21st century is an artifact, the authors of feminine artifacts are continuing to use the dominant myths of patriarchal culture, with certain changes. Therefore for the emergence of new dynamics in the mythologization of femininity, it is important to disburden women of the fear of patriarchal masculinity. Today this problem is solved in the artistic field of mass culture in its highest echelon of gender myths and mythologemes (C. Buckley, A. Monro, M. Atwood, L. Moriarty et al.).
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Karpenko, Yu. "Newspaper Discourse as a Type of Mass Information Discourse." Studia Linguistica, no. 12 (2018): 38–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/studling2018.12.38-49.
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The article focuses on the main features of newspaper discourse as a mass information discourse type. On the basis of known in linguistics classifications of the discourse the place of newspaper discourse among them has been analyzed and defined as evaluative, extensive, compelling, interlocutory and manipulative. Its main functions (informing and influencing) and categories (cognitive, communicative, metadisсursive) have been singled out. The newspaper discourse has been considered from the points of view of the addresser and the addressee of media messages. As the recipient of newspaper communication is the mass audience with different interests, knowledge degree, intelligence, background, age, culture, life experience, and geographical location, the addresser should solve a difficult problem of engaging the interest to their edition of the most part of this audience. For this purpose, authors use different models of covering the material (actual and author’s), as well as means and devices of presenting the information by selecting the expressive verbal and nonverbal components corresponding to the addressee, appealing to their consciousness, influencing them by means of a combination of expressiveness and standardization. In the article the difference between the terms “mass information media” (MIM) and “mass communication media” (MCM) has been explained. Thus, MIM are monological, unidirectional and responsible for mass informing of the society, whereas MCM, forming public opinion, influence public and individual consciousness, create situations of dialogueness/interactivity, and multidirectional information flow. The comprehensive purposes of a newspaper discourse, such as informing, influencing the reader and forming public opinion, have also been outlined, especially referring to electronic newspapers, MCM of the new age. It has been defined that these convergent media as the center of a modern newspaper discourse are easily accessible, fast, popular with youth, have additional opportunities (photos or videos, comments, discussions, hyperlinks to other sources, two-way communication), and therefore the addresser has a more effective influence on the necessary category of addressees.
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Schmitz, Andreas, Susann Sachse-Thürer, Doreen Zillmann, and Hans-Peter Blossfeld. "Myths and facts about online mate choice. Contemporary beliefs and empirical findings." Journal of Family Research 23, no. 3 (December 1, 2011): 358–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.20377/jfr-199.
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With the increasing dissemination and usage of online mate choice, finding a partner via the Internet has attracted remarkable public attention in the last decade. Several, mostly negative prejudices toward online mate choice – especially regarding its risks and disadvantages – circulate constantly throughout the mass media and form public perceptions. This article presents common stereotypes on this (still) new phenomenon, derived from an investigation of newspapers online and offline, online guides, blogs, and discussion forums and confronts them with the empirical facts. Based on several descriptive analyses, we discuss whether and to what extent ten prevalent beliefs correspond to the empirical reality of finding a mate via the Internet in Germany.
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Mit ihrer wachsenden Verbreitung ist die Partnerwahl im Internet zu einem bemerkenswerten Gegenstand des öffentlichen Diskurses geworden. Viele, meist negativ konnotierte Annahmen über die Eigenschaften und den Ablauf der Partnerwahl im Internet, insbesondere hinsichtlich ihrer Risiken und Nachteile, zirkulieren heute in den Medien und beeinflussen deren öffentliche Wahrnehmung. In diesem Beitrag präsentieren wir weit verbreitete Stereotype zum (immer noch) neuen Phänomen der Partnerwahl im Internet. Diese Klischees und Vorurteile, die in (Online-) Zeitungen und Zeitschriften, Online-Ratgebern, Blogs und Diskussionsforen recherchiert wurden, werden mit empirischen Fakten konfrontiert. Basierend auf verschiedenen deskriptiven Analysen diskutieren wir, ob bzw. inwieweit zehn populäre Vorstellungen mit der empirischen Realität der digitalen Partnersuche in Deutschland übereinstimmen.
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Gribok, M. V. "GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURES OF THE MASS MEDIA COVERAGE OF EVENTS IN THE FIELD OF ECOLOGY (ON THE EXAMPLE OF “RIA NOVOSTI”)." Proceedings of the International conference “InterCarto/InterGIS” 3, no. 23 (January 1, 2017): 225–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.24057/2414-9179-2017-3-23-225-234.
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Kutsyk, R. "Informational Substantiation of Western Ukrainian Lands Conquest by the Russian Empire in 1914." Kyiv Historical Studies, no. 2 (2018): 65–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.28925/2524-0757.2018.2.6572.
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The article deals with the peculiarities of ideological and propaganda substantiation of the process of Eastern Galicia, Northern Bukovina, Zakarpattia by the Russian Empire at the initial stage of the First World War on the basis of source materials of Ukrainian governorates of South-West Kray (Kyiv, Volyn and Podillia). The main thematic areas of press publications, the content and specificity of appeals and brochures’ informative filling are noted. It is examined that the imperial authorities began to actively ideological myths propaganda from the first days of the war about the process of the “collecting Rus’ lands” (“zbyrannia zemel ruskykh”*) and that the Galician population is a fraternal people who needs a long-awaited “liberation”. The mass media used various techniques and mechanisms of information influence on the formation of public consciousness in order to overpersuade the society in the truthfulness of the aforementioned assertions and for the formation of a positive attitude towards the occupation of Western Ukrainian lands. The Orthodox clergy and the church mass media, which supported the official policy of the government and widely propagated the idea of the liberation of Eastern Galicia, Northern Bukovina and Zakarpattia population from Roman, Catholic oppression, played an important role in theideological course of the imperial authorities.
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Xi, Yipeng, Anfan Chen, and Aaron Ng. "Conditional transparency: Differentiated news framings of COVID-19 severity in the pre-crisis stage in China." PLOS ONE 16, no. 5 (May 24, 2021): e0252062. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252062.
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Transparency of Chinese media coverage became an international controversy when the COVID-19 outbreak initially emerged in Wuhan, the eventual crisis epicenter in China. Unlike studies characterizing mass media in authoritarian contexts as government mouthpieces during a crisis, this study aims to disaggregate Chinese media practices to uncover differences in when, where, and how the severity of COVID-19 was reported. We examine differences in how media institutions reported the severity of the COVID-19 epidemic in China during the pre-crisis period from 1 January 2020 to 20 January 2020 in terms of both the “vertical” or hierarchical positions of media institutions in the Chinese media ecosystem and the “horizontal” positions of media institutions’ social proximity to Wuhan in terms of geographical human traffic flows. We find that the coverage of crisis severity is negatively associated with the media’s social proximity to Wuhan, but the effect varies depending on the positional prominence of a news article and situation severity. Implications of the institutions’ differentiated reporting strategies on future public health reporting in an authoritarian context are also discussed.