查看更多>>摘要：In the early 1700s and throughout the 1900s, newspapers emerged worldwide. Apprenticeships were abundant as many young individuals pursued higher education to become writers, undergoing specialized training in ethics and accurate reporting. This trend persisted for most of the world into the early 2000s, excluding communist Russia and other countries under communist or dictatorship rule. In Russia, the state newspaper, named Pravda, was written and controlled by the communist party. Pravda served as the sole source of news the Russian people, all of which adhered to the party's narrative. The late 1990s saw the rise of the internet, introducing a new information format known as social media, including platforms like Twitter and Facebook, lacking a solid foundation. This prompted traditional news channels, such as CNN, MSNBC, and FOX, to sensationalize the news to attract a larger audience. Due to the political leanings of these organizations, the entire America news system appears to be transforming into one big "Pravda." The objective of this research is to examine historical patterns and illustrate the potential trajectory of the United States' landscape and, possibly, its impact globally.
查看更多>>摘要：The evolution of the welfare state resulted in the diversification of occupational stratification, an increase in social prosperity, and the collapse of Soviet socialism. This led media researchers to turn their attention to gender, race, consumption, and globalization. Consequently, class issues have lost their ideological significance, receiving little scholarly input in recent decades. However, the COVID-19 pandemic, Russo-Ukrainian conflict, and US-China hegemony have seriously impacted the economy and widened class separation. Therefore, media studies must reconsider class issues and develop media and class-related research perspectives and analytical methods based on a re-reading of classical theories. This study focuses on the Frankfurt School and Cultural Studies in critical theory, as an extension and development of Marxism. It compiles research perspectives and analytical methods on class and media by reviewing relevant theories. This study emphasizes the critical schools' significance in analyzing contemporary class and media issues, and proposes research topics for subsequent research.
查看更多>>摘要：The convergence of new media platforms with traditional media has been extensively observed, which has spurred substantial discourse in research circles regarding their effects on journalism and the dissemination of information, encompassing both positive and negative aspects. These rapid technological advancements have facilitated the swift transfer and circulation of information, images, and videos. However, concerns remain about the challenge of verifying information, which becomes more complicated as the user base of these platforms expands globally. This academic research paper investigates the scholarly literature on the impact of new media on journalism; it also seeks to examine the effects of modern media platforms on journalistic practices. Additionally, it provides a theoretical framework for understanding the dissemination of news on the Facebook platform, which has become a prominent channel for news consumption in the contemporary media landscape, as an exemplification of emerging media platforms. The findings indicate that a mutually dependent relationship exists between new media platforms and traditional media; they serve as mutually beneficial channels for generating and sharing information, particularly in the context of communicating breaking news. Furthermore, this article highlights the growth of Facebook as a prominent medium for disseminating news, despite controversy over the credibility of the information circulated on the platform. As such, this article underscores the necessity of enhancing the collaboration between traditional media organizations and new media platforms to address the issue of fabricated and fake news.
Joshua O. BondestoBay-ar C. VillamorMaico Demi B. Aperocho
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查看更多>>摘要：During trying times, students addicted to social media experience a variety of struggles, most especially in terms of their family relationships. Through a phenomenological study, the researchers investigated the experiences, challenges, and coping strategies of seven purposively selected individuals addicted to social media from Davao City, Philippines. Using interviews as the data collection method, the researchers gathered information regarding the participants' experiences, specifically about how social media resulted in poor family relationships and how it makes communication easy. The researchers also discovered that the social media-addicted youth encountered several challenges, such as becoming irresponsible at home, experiencing conflicts and emotional outbursts, and experiencing emotional and mental tolls due to conflicts. Moreover, it was unraveled that the participants' coping strategies include managing time, returning to reality, and imposing self-discipline. This article can help families from the region to be oriented on common problems related to social media addiction and the various strategies that could be used to address relevant issues.
查看更多>>摘要：The outbreak of COVID-19 in 2019 brought challenges to Chinese government departments' health protection and control. During this pandemic, Weibo, the representative of online media, provided a platform for netizens to express their opinion of this sudden public health crisis by interacting with others under the pandemic-themed posters' tweets. Using figurative visual symbols as the main images, with the affirmation and encouragement of the government, shaped a collective cultural identity and inspired a sense of patriotism during the crisis. It makes the empathy effect maximize spread and maintains the image of the government as well. This article explores the symbiotic relationship between citizen-initiated poster works, governmental social media, and social discourse during COVID-19 as well as how the pandemic-themed posters can resonate emotionally with viewers and guide spontaneous participation in the design. The results play an important role in promoting the dissemination of posters, maintaining the national image, and giving people a sense of stability.
查看更多>>摘要：Irony is an effective discursive tool whose communicative power can be used for both social critique and manipulative concealment. It is widely exploited in media communication due to its significant persuasive potential. Novelists in the early stages of postmodernism played a key role in debunking the vacuous and manipulative nature of consumerism and entertainment culture. The pivotal tool in this demystification process was irony, which unveiled the fictional and ideological essence of Western mass cultural products by challenging and subverting the conventions of TV narrations. Nevertheless, these 1980s and 1990s writers failed to introduce a new cultural paradigm and value system that could supplant the former. Instead, they used irony as a defense mechanism to avoid taking things seriously and conceal their powerlessness against the prevailing status quo. Meanwhile, the television industry started exploiting irony against itself to deflect criticism related to its own hypocrisy, superficiality, and manipulation. In doing so, TV has become unbeatable because it appears self-critical, and thus "sincere." Building on these ideas, this article aims to identify a particular type of irony used in advertising and clarify how this strategy has evolved from the era of televisions dominance to the supremacy of social media. Through a semiotic perspective, the concept of "intertextual irony" is discussed as specific kind of irony that breaks traditional textual rules to establish complicity with viewers and induce them to align with the behaviors prompted by the advertisements, thus overcoming their skepticism. A pragmatic definition of the concept of irony will be preliminarily offered through the perspective of the Speech Act Theory. This methodology, previously tested only on verbal irony, will be transposed to a metatextual dimension to define "intertextual irony." After the development of the latter category, it will be applied to the analysis of the short commercial for the NooN nail polish line by the Italian rapper and influencer Fedez, published on his Instagram profile in April 2021.
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