Image, Reality and Media Construction
Title | Image, Reality and Media Construction PDF eBook |
Author | Fengmin Yan |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 2019-09-24 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9813290765 |
This book explores how news media construct social issues and events and thereby convey certain perceptions within the scope of framing theory. By operationalizing media framing as a process of interpretation through defining problem, diagnosing causes, making moral judgments and suggesting solutions, the book proposes a systematic and transparent approach to images in news discourse. Based on a frame analysis, it examines how German news media framed a list of China-related issues and events, and thereby conveyed particular beliefs and opinions on this country. Moreover, it investigates whether there were dominant patterns of interpretation and the extent to which diverse views were evident by comparing two major daily newspapers with opposite political orientations - the FAZ and the taz. Motivated by the relationship between image and reality, the book explores image formation and persistence from media construction of meaning and human cognitive complexity in perceiving others. Media select certain issues and events and then interpret them from particular perspectives. A variety of professional and non-professional factors behind news making may result in biased representations. In addition, from a social psychological perspective, inaccurate perceptions of foreign cultures may arise from categorical thinking, biased processing of stimulus information, intergroup conflicts of interest and in-group favoritism. Accordingly, whether media coverage deviates from reality is not the main concern of this book; instead, it emphasizes the underlying logics upon which the conclusions and judgments were drawn. It therefore contributes to a rational understanding of Western discourse and holds practical implications for both Chinese public diplomacy and a more constructive role of news media in promoting the understanding of others.
Inter/Cultural Communication
Title | Inter/Cultural Communication PDF eBook |
Author | Anastacia Kurylo |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Pages | 497 |
Release | 2012-07-23 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1452289492 |
Today, students are more familiar with other cultures than ever before because of the media, Internet, local diversity, and their own travels abroad. Using a social constructionist framework, Inter/Cultural Communication provides today's students with a rich understanding of how culture and communication affect and effect each other. Weaving multiple approaches together to provide a comprehensive understanding of and appreciation for the diversity of cultural and intercultural communication, this text helps students become more aware of their own identities and how powerful their identities can be in facilitating change—both in their own lives and in the lives of others.
The Mediated Construction of Reality
Title | The Mediated Construction of Reality PDF eBook |
Author | Nick Couldry |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2018-03-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0745686516 |
Social theory needs to be completely rethought in a world of digital media and social media platforms driven by data processes. Fifty years after Berger and Luckmann published their classic text The Social Construction of Reality, two leading sociologists of media, Nick Couldry and Andreas Hepp, revisit the question of how social theory can understand the processes through which an everyday world is constructed in and through media. Drawing on Schütz, Elias and many other social and media theorists, they ask: what are the implications of digital medias profound involvement in those processes? Is the result a social world that is stable and liveable, or one that is increasingly unstable and unliveable?
Meaningful Media
Title | Meaningful Media PDF eBook |
Author | Ruben Peter Konig |
Publisher | |
Pages | 334 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Mass media |
ISBN |
Great Powers and Regional Orders
Title | Great Powers and Regional Orders PDF eBook |
Author | Markus Kaim |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2016-04-22 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1317124847 |
Great Powers and Regional Orders explores the manifestations of US power in the Persian Gulf and the limits of American influence. Significantly, this volume explores both the impact of US domestic politics and the role played by the region itself in terms of regional policy, order and stability. Well organized and logically structured, Markus Kaim and contributors have produced a new and unique contribution to the field that is applicable not only to US policy in the Persian Gulf but also to many other regional contexts. This will interest anyone working or researching within foreign policy, US and Middle Eastern politics.
Media Mythologies
Title | Media Mythologies PDF eBook |
Author | Barry Lowe |
Publisher | UNSW Press |
Pages | 170 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780868400068 |
An examination of the media and how it operates in Australia. The history of human communication is outlined and an exploration of contemporary media ownership and media criticism is presented. The author, a communications lecturer at Charles Sturt University, has worked for various media organisations including the ABC, SBS TV,'The Australian' and 60 Minutes.
Psychoanalysis, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Work of Julia Kristeva
Title | Psychoanalysis, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Work of Julia Kristeva PDF eBook |
Author | Kelly Oliver |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 265 |
Release | 2009-06-02 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1438426577 |
The social and political relevance of Julia Kristeva's work is perhaps the central question in Kristeva studies, and the essays in this collection provide a sustained interrogation of this complicated problematic from a variety of perspectives and across the various contexts and moments of Kristeva's forty-year writing career. Presenting Kristeva's thought as the sustained interrogation of a political problematic, the contributors argue that her use of psychoanalysis and aesthetics offers significant insight into social and political issues that would otherwise remain concealed. The collection addresses the entirety of Kristeva's oeuvre, from her earliest work on poetic language to her most recent work on female genius, and it includes two previously untranslated essays by Kristeva, as well as original contributions from scholars working in several countries and a variety of disciplines.