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Subbotina, M. V. "Non-heroic heroes: Two approaches to the analysis of media images." RUDN Journal of Sociology 21, no. 3 (September 17, 2021): 623–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2313-2272-2021-21-3-623-633.

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In the contemporary society, media heroes are one of the most influential reference groups, which determines our perception of our own life in terms of happiness, success, justice, well-being, or, on the contrary, in opposite terms. The article is a review of two books: Salakhieva-Talal T. Psychology in Cinema: How to Make Heroes and Stories . Moscow: Alpina non-fiction; 2019. 349 p.; and Lilti A. The Invention of Celebrity. Transl. from French by P.S. Kashtanova. Saint Petersburg: Ivan Limbakh Publishing House; 2018. 496 p. The author believes that such works are necessary to broaden the horizons of the sociologist focusing on the development of social representations of happiness, justice and well-being: these works explain psychological and visual (the first book) and historical and media (the second book) prerequisites and tools for creating heroes as role models.

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Thompson, Gareth. "Help for Heroes: From organizational discourse to a new orthodoxy." Public Relations Inquiry 7, no. 1 (January 2018): 25–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2046147x17753438.

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This article offers an account of the institutional entrepreneurship behind the formation of the UK charity for military veterans, Help for Heroes, along with an analysis of the symbols, narratives and rhetoric that made up its organizational discourse. Tracing the development of the charity since its launch in 2007, the inquiry considers the means of transmission used by Help for Heroes to diffuse its organizational discourse, arguing that a dualistic promotional approach across elite and mass media – narrative through a network of support from mass media outlets as well as individual actors, such as members of the Royal Family, politicians and celebrities – helped to propagate a new national orthodoxy of veterans as heroes. The conclusion is that 10 years after its foundation, Help for Heroes’ discursive legacy has reinvigorated the veteran charity sector in a way not seen since the end of World War I and established a wide and deep level of support among civic society for veterans as a social cause, regardless of the level of support for the underlying military operations.

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Schott, Christine. "Harry Potter and cancel culture: Responding to fallen heroes." Journal of Fandom Studies, The 11, no. 1 (March 1, 2023): 19–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jfs_00069_1.

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In the wake of the ongoing turmoil caused by J. K. Rowling’s tweets expressing transphobic prejudice, hurt fans must decide what, if any, future relationship they will have with the Harry Potter series. This article argues that the books provide a training ground for young people learning to grapple with difficult issues like problematic heroes, and that engaging in two kinds of fan activities can enable fans to continue to find value in Harry Potter while simultaneously registering their objections to prejudice and bias. These two activities are literary analysis and fan fiction, and both empower fans to articulate the problems of social justice in sustained, thoughtful ways that other short-form mediums like social media do not.

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Rafolt, Leo. "Terror of Acceptance." Cross-cultural studies review 2, no. 3-4 (2021): 165–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.38003/ccsr.2.1-2.7.

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The paper offers a comparative analysis of Franco Berardi Bifo’s treatise on modern terrorism (Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide, 2015) and its (semio)capitalist background on one side and Montažstroj’s theatrical performance, inspired by a half-documentary fiction novel Jugend Ohne Gott (1937) by Ödön von Horváth, on the other. Employing some of the contemporary theoretical insights on violence and terror in modern society, Montažstroj’s performance is thus interpreted in the context of recent theories of globalization – and its prevalent communication and circulation of capital paradigms – as well as in the light of Breivik’s Darwinist and anti-Marxist manifesto.

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Bellieni, Carlo V. "Nurses and Doctors Heroes? A Risky Myth of the COVID19 Era." Nursing Reports 10, no. 2 (September 28, 2020): 37–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nursrep10020006.

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Recent newspapers reports have named health professionals as “heroes”. This is surprising, because in the last few decades, doctors and nurses have been taken into account by mass media only to describe cases of misconduct or of violence. This change was due to the coronavirus pandemic scenario that has produced fear in the population and the need for an alleged “savior”. This need for health professionals seen as heroes is also disclosed by the fact that even politicians have abdicated to their role in favor of the healthcare “experts” to whom important decisions on social life during this pandemic have been delegated, even those decisions that fall outside of the specific health field. This commentary is a claim to framing the job of caregivers in its correct role, neither angel nor devil, but allied to the suffering person, that the image of “heroes” risks to overshadow.

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Yeates, Robert. "Serial fiction podcasting and participatory culture: Fan influence and representation in The Adventure Zone." European Journal of Cultural Studies 23, no. 2 (August 29, 2018): 223–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367549418786420.

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New media affords significant opportunities for audience feedback and participation, with the power to influence the creation and development of contemporary works of fiction, particularly when these appear in serialized instalments. With access to creators permitted via social media, and with online platforms facilitating the creation and distribution of audience paratexts, fans increasingly have the power to shape the fictional worlds and diversity of the characters found within the series they enjoy. A noteworthy and understudied example is fiction podcasting, an emerging form that draws on conventions of established media such as radio and television. Despite the recent surge in the popularity of podcasts, little scholarly attention has been given to the format, except to discuss it as either a continuation of radio programming or part of a transmedia landscape for texts which are centred in media such as television and film. This article argues that fiction podcasting offers unique affordances for creating serial works of fiction, taking The Adventure Zone as a case study which demonstrates the power of successful participatory culture. The podcast has grown from modest beginnings to acquire a considerable and passionate fan network, has diversified into other media forms, and, though available for free, is financially supporting its creators and raising substantial amounts of money for charities. Crucial in its success is the creators’ cultivation of an inclusive environment for fans, and a constant attempt to feature characters representative of a diversity of gender and sexual identities, particularly those typically excluded from other science fiction worlds. This article argues that The Adventure Zone and the format of fiction podcasting demonstrate a shift in contemporary culture, away from established mass media programming and towards a participatory, transmedia, fan-focused form of storytelling which utilizes the unique advantages of new media technologies in its creation, development, and distribution.

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Murphy, Peter. "I am not what I am: Paradox and indirect communication the case of the comic god and the dramaturgical self." Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication 1, no. 2 (June 1, 2010): 225–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ejpc.1.2.225_1.

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An exploration of the self in dramaturgical societies: This is the double, duplicitous, witty self, the one who communicates indirectly through characters and masks, the self who is a personality, who knowingly plays a role on the public stage, and who inhabits a wry, not to say awry, paradoxical world created by a mischievous comic God. A motley bunch of characters wander across the stage of this article. These include recusant Catholics, American sociologists, theologians of paradox, philosophers of comedy, Oscar Schindler, Mick Jagger, William Shakespeare, G.K. Chesterton, as well as various assorted epicurean puritans, inventive liars, elusive playwrights, pompous intellectuals, sleuthing heroes from detective fiction, ambitious pretenders, satirists of newspaper folly, media nitwits, boys playing girls playing boys, and, if you are really good, girls playing boys playing girls. All of them bearing testament to Viola's immortal line: I am not what I am.

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Silva, Roberta. "The Risk of Conformity: Representing Character in Mass Market Fiction and Narrative Media." International Research in Children's Literature 3, no. 1 (July 2010): 75–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2010.0007.

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In current literary production, teenagers are one of the most important target groups, and there are more and more correlations among books, films and serials dedicated to teenagers; in other words it is impossible to discuss children's literature without placing it into the complex context of the cultural industry. This situation may encourage a ‘mutual influence’ among these media languages, based on the use of the same stock characters and the same stereotypes. But, are teen novels really influenced by teen drama and teen films, absorbing their clichés and conventions? And, if this is the case, what is the dimension of this phenomenon?

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Dechêne, Antoine. "Detective Storyworlds: Longmire, True Detective, and La trêve." Crime Fiction Studies 1, no. 1 (March 2020): 41–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/cfs.2020.0006.

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This paper addresses one question: What makes detective series popular today? In the past, scholars have responded that the genre is mainly focused on plot, to the point of becoming a narrative prototype. This approach explains why detective fiction appears to be more limited in its proliferation across media than other genres such as fantasy or science fiction. If plot is the dominant feature of the genre, and plot somehow works against proliferation, then why are we still producing and consuming so many detective series? Following Marie-Laure Ryan, I wish to argue that a shift from plot to worldbuilding has occurred in detective fiction. This shift follows the evolution of narrative theory which in the last decades had to expand to other disciplines and media. In the same way that narratology embraced the new concept of ‘world,’ popular series have adopted its potential to proliferate, an aptitude that is now truly part of its aesthetics and poetics. I want to describe and understand the increasingly important role played by storyworlds in detective fiction so as to better apprehend how popular series are made in our cultural era of mass media production.

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Topalova, Delgir Yu. "События Гражданской войны в рассказах калмыцкого писателя-эмигранта С. Балыкова." Бюллетень Калмыцкого научного центра Российской академии наук, no. 2 (December 30, 2020): 198–215. http://dx.doi.org/10.22162/2587-6503-2020-2-14-198-215.

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The article analyzes the Civil War theme in the work of emigrant writer Sanzha Balykov based on the example of a number of works. Updating the documentary beginning in the works, the author projects the main points of the emergence of Kalmyk emigration, builds the entire historical background of the forced mass exodus of Kalmyks abroad. The stories of S. Balykov are a reliable historical document describing the complex “time-space” of Kalmyk history. Both the narrative as a whole and the image of the heroes of the stories embody the dramatic fate of the nation, the universal calamity that is obviously inseparable from the fate of the writer himself. The author’s achievement is that, having shown the tragedy and fate of the Kalmyk people in a completely different light, he “transformed” his previous views on the events of history that have not been described in Kalmyk fiction before him

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Heroes in mass media in fiction"

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Wanat, Matthew Stephen. ""Feels Like Times Have Changed": Sixties Western Heroes." The Ohio State University, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1364225401.

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Trono, Mario T. "Salvaging the subject, mediant fiction contra the mass media." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ60034.pdf.

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Marshall, Katie Elizabeth. "Corridor media architectures in American fiction /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1932209641&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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MacNeill, Gordon. "Moulding Minds : Media, Mass Manipulation and Subjectivity in Dystopian Science Fiction." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.507728.

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CRINITI, STEPHEN FRANCIS. "NAVIGATING THE TORRENT: DOCUMENTARY FICTION IN THE AGE OF MASS MEDIA." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1189530451.

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Maulden, Hannah Leah. "Heroes and Villains: Political Rhetoric in Post-9/11 Popular Media." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1431964700.

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Sèbe, Berny. "Celebrating British and French imperialism : the making of colonial heroes acting in Africa, 1870-1939." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670137.

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This thesis investigates the ways in which British and French imperial heroes involved in the exploration, conquest or administration of Mrica between 1870 and 1939 were selected, packaged and promoted to the various sections of the public of their respective countries. It seeks to unveil the commercial, political and personal interests that lay behind the imperial hero-making business. This research analyses the hidden mechanisms, as well as the reasons that led to the appearance of a new type of hero in the context of the 'new' T Imperialism and the 'Scramble for Mrica': private connections, political lobbies (especially colonial advocates and nationalists), commercial interests (journalists, writers, biographers, hagiographers, publishers, film-makers) and personal ambition, the combination of which underpinned the creation and success ofheroic reputations. The first part of the thesis investigates the process through which imperial heroes progressively became widely known in their homelands, and how it was facilitated by the technical and social improvements of the Second Industrial Revolution. Drawing upon a wide variety of printed and manuscript sources, it shows the ever-increasing commercial success of imperial heroes throughout the period, analyses how they could serve political ends, and explains the values for which 'they were held up as examples. The second part examines the case studies of two military commanders in times of Anglo-French rivalry in Africa (the Sirdar Kitchener and Major Marchand before, during and after the Fashoda confrontation of 1898), in order to compare the modalities of the development of these legends, and the different backdrops against which they took shape. This thesis is the first to combine quantitative evidence (such as print run figures) and qualitative sources (such as police records) to demonstrate conclusively the prevalence and complexity of the hero-making process brought about by the conquest of Mrica, and to evaluate the reception of these heroic myths among the public.

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Uniyal, Ranu. "A changing vision : women and landscape in the fiction of Margaret Drabble and Anita Desai." Thesis, University of Hull, 1992. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:3121.

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Skrbic, Nena. "A sense of freedom : a study of Virginia Woolf's short fiction." Thesis, University of Hull, 2000. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:4637.

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Chessman, David Ralph. "'In defense of the human' : the survival of moral optimism in post-war American fiction." Thesis, University of Hull, 1985. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:8072.

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It is widely accepted that early American literature reflects the boundless social and moral optimism of "The Great Experiment", expresses certitude in the ultimate perfectibility of man in the New World. Equally widely held is the belief that American experience in the twentieth century has prompted something of a retreat from this optimistic position, has blunted the belief in -- crudely put -- the American Dream and that this retreat has been particularly marked in American fiction since World War Two. This thesis seems to confront such assumptions about the "American Nightmare", as described in contemporary American fiction, by examining the work of six post-War American fiction writers: three Jews -- Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud.and Chaim Potok and three non-Jews -- John Cheever, John Updike and William Burroughs. This arrangement allows for a discussion of the obvious literary differenlces between Jew and non-Jew in the period. Moreover, it allows for speculation about the cultural processes underlying such differences, processes which have enabled some writers to produce fictions reinforcing the values and principles of individual significance and moral virtue in a social context while the work of others powerfully argues the irrelevance or impossibility of such values in contemporary society. My object in this is not to make an equation whereby optimism equals good literature and pessimism equals bad literature. Rather it is to demonstrate the way in which the optimistic strain of American literature abides -- albeit in a somewhat muted form -- and to point up the paradoxical way in which it is the very Jewishness of their writing that has made the work of Bellow, Malamud and Potok seem so thoroughly American. In so doing, I hope to underline the singular contribution of Jewish Ameeican writing since ,1945 to the American literary canon.

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Books on the topic "Heroes in mass media in fiction"

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Misercola, Mark. Death to the centurion. Kingsport, TN: Twilight Times Books, 2004.

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Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery. Conference. The image of the hero in literature, media, and society: Selected papers [of the] Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery, March 2004, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Pueblo, CO: The Society, Colorado State University-Pueblo, 2004.

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Fountain, Ben. Ban chang wu zhan shi. Taibei Shi: Shi bao wen hua chu ban qi ye gu fen you xian gong si, 2015.

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Burns, K. S., and W. S. S. Duffy. Ancient women in modern media. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

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Brooks, Laurie. Everyday heroes. Woodstock, Ill: Dramatic Pub., 2006.

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Alsford, Mike. Heroes and villains. London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 2006.

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Alsford, Mike. Heroes and villains. Waco, Tex: Baylor University Press, 2006.

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Chabon, Michael. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. Prince Frederick, MD: RB Large Print, 2005.

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Chabon, Michael. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. New York: Picador USA, 2000.

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Chabon, Michael. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. New York: Random House, 2000.

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Book chapters on the topic "Heroes in mass media in fiction"

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Silver, Alain, and James Ursini. "Crime and the Mass Media." In A Companion to Crime Fiction, 57–75. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444317916.ch4.

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Ory, Pascal. "The Introduction of Science Fiction into France." In France and the Mass Media, 98–110. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11208-1_8.

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James, Roxie J., and Kathryn E. Lane. "“I Need a Hero:” Representation and Reinvention of the Criminal Hero in Mass Media." In Criminals as Heroes in Popular Culture, 1–15. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39585-8_1.

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Major, Patrick. "‘Smut and Trash’: Germany’s Culture Wars Against Pulp Fiction." In Mass Media, Culture and Society in Twentieth-Century Germany, 234–50. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230800939_14.

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Algaba, Cristina, Beatriz Tomé-Alonso, and Giulia Cimini. "Orientalism and the mass media—a study of the representation of Muslims in Southern European TV fiction." In Hate Speech and Polarization in Participatory Society, 221–36. London: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003109891-18.

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Bruckenberger, Ulrike, Astrid Weiss, Nicole Mirnig, Ewald Strasser, Susanne Stadler, and Manfred Tscheligi. "The Good, The Bad, The Weird: Audience Evaluation of a “Real” Robot in Relation to Science Fiction and Mass Media." In Social Robotics, 301–10. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02675-6_30.

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"5 Mass Media: High Culture, 1922–64." In No Gods and Precious Few Heroes, 124–51. Edinburgh University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781474468978-008.

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Millard, Kenneth. "Consumerism, Media, Technology." In Contemporary American Fiction, 111–52. Oxford University PressOxford, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198711780.003.0005.

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Abstract The United States is overwhelmingly a free-enterprise culture, a market economy in which commercial and industrial progress is fundamental to the structure and fabric of society, and in the twentieth century America has been in the vanguard of technological and business innovation associated especially with mass production and investment capital. In American capitalism the forces of the marketplace are paramount and concepts of private ownership, property, and the drive towards profit are integral to social organization. As Henry Ford once said, ‘There is something sacred about big business. Anything which is economically right is morally right.’ Moreover, there is often a close association between the idea of freedom and economic prosperity;

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Ellis, Kate. "GIMME SHELTER: FEMINISM, FANTASY, AND WOMEN'S POPULAR FICTION." In American Media and Mass Culture, 216–30. University of California Press, 1988. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/9780520906846-024.

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"7. Beyond Reality and Fiction? The Fate of Dualism in the Age of (Mass) Media." In Fiction Updated, 91–104. University of Toronto Press, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/9781487578442-010.

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Conference papers on the topic "Heroes in mass media in fiction"

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Mihai, Elena Claudia. "The Characteristics Of Some Modern Romanian Mass Media Heroes And Their Educative Effects On Public." In 5th International Congress on Clinical & Counselling Psychology. Cognitive-crcs, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2017.05.7.

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Kuzmina, Luiza, and Elena Remchukova. "RUSSIAN CLASSICAL LITERATURE TEXT AS A PRECEDENT PHENOMENON OF THE MODERN MEDIA SPACE." In NORDSCI International Conference. SAIMA Consult Ltd, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.32008/nordsci2020/b1/v3/18.

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The article is devoted to the functioning features of precedent texts in modern media discourse. Texts by F.M. Dostoevsky, namely, fiction, journalism and epistolary heritage, served as the research material. The relevance of the study is explained by the intertextual nature of the modern media space. The article shows that along with the use of Dostoevsky's precedent texts as signs of high culture, the modern media space also actively manifests the features of the postmodern cultural paradigm. The specifics of the latter include metatextuality, irony, various kinds of transformation, e.g., in headlines, which indicates their game foregrounding. Special attention is paid, firstly, to various types of intertextuality and ways of precedent phenomena foregrounding; secondly, to their use in various media areas (advertising, urban naming) and genres (interviews, internet blogs, etc.). The problem of recoding precedent phenomena is considered against the background of the use of signs of high culture as a form of reflection of modern mass consciousness in modern media communication, which is of research interest from an axiological point of view.

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Reports on the topic "Heroes in mass media in fiction"

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Demchenko, Dmytro. DEMASSIFICATION OF SOCIAL PROCESSES IN THE CONTEXT OF DIGITAL COMMUNICATION (TO THE PROBLEM OF THE DICHOTOMY OF “ELITE-MASS” AS A POLITICAL COMMUNICATION PARADOX). Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, March 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.30970/vjo.2024.54-55.12171.

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The article aims to analyze a complicated process of the society’s main components – elite, mass communication, and masses – in their interaction and interdependence from the historical perspective. Due to industrialization and modernization of the life quality, the social life changes radically, and the essence of every component of the society changes as well. The elite loses its dynastic character. The media stop to play the role of a mediator taking on the obligations of a collective agitator and propagandist, and the mass stops to be cloth for wiping shoes. It starts to form a mass audience and, by that, obtains new forms that must be taken into account by social institutions. Together with that the collective views are substituted by the views which are stronger than the ones of a separate individual. One of the main conclusions of the investigation is as follows. The formation of the “consumer society” and the strengthening of the mass communication role resulted in the appearance of “mediocracy” which factually introduced an absolute elite dependence on it and conferred the right of media to set the social agenda. The mass turned out to be a silent majority, a unity of conformity-oriented people. These people become simultaneously a product of mass communication impact because they dictate what one must read, listen to, and watch from the media menu. They force MMC to satisfy their unassuming needs making the content trivial and commodificated. In other words, the mutual process of the interaction of the media, “impossible independence” and the conscious “communicative consensus” of individuals who are willingly united with the mass audience takes place. The creation of the internet due to “digital anonymity” and the autonomy of the consumer formed the conditions for the self-determined citizens and gave the elite a modest place in the “cyber democracy”. However, the increase in individual self-isolation leads to his gradual loss of “social capital,” and that threatens to replace the direct experience with a virtual environment that will make it very difficult to differentiate reality from fiction. Keywords: elite, mass, media, mass communication, information space, globalization.

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