Review of To kill a messenger: Television news and the real world, The communicative arts: An introduction to mass media, and International communication: Media, channels, functions.

1972 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-177
Author(s):  
Israel W. Charny
Comunicar ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 11 (22) ◽  
pp. 33-37
Author(s):  
María Magdalena da-Costa-Oliveira

Social communication media, especially audiovisual media, are the best example of the spectacular representation of the real world. This is the reason why they are an exceptionally good anaesthetic. They make democracy lose its significance since they use Los medios de comunicación social, sobre todo los de soporte audiovisual, son los exponentes máximos de la representación espectacular de lo real. Son, por esto, un «lecho» privilegiado donde adormecernos. Los medios de comunicación social, omnipotentes, condenan la democracia a su irremediable estetización, por su mediación, simulación, hedonismo, narcisismo… de manera que el ideal democrático pierde su objeto. La autora estima que lo diabólico resume mejor la naturaleza de la cultura mediática, porque presupone una tensión permanente. Los medios deberían ser interpretados como espacios privilegiados para la confrontación de experiencias.


2012 ◽  
pp. 944-959 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stepan Konecny

Mass media often presents a warped image of the Internet as an unreliable environment in which nobody can be trusted. In this entry, the authors describe lying on the Internet both in the context of lying in the real world and with respect to the special properties of computer-mediated communication (CMC). They deal with the most frequent motives for lying online, such as increasing one’s attractiveness or experimenting with identities. They also take into account the various environments of the Internet and their individual effects on various properties of lying. The current methods for detecting lies and the potential for future computer-linguistic analysis of hints for lying in electronic communication are also considered.


Author(s):  
Michael Goddard

This chapter argues that in relation to dominant communication media such as newspapers, radio, and television, punk rock operated as a form of noise—less in the literal sense, since noisy forms of rock music were already well established, but in the sense of communicational noise, as an excess of the standard requirements for rock music communication. More than just “ineptness” in relation to professional recordings and instrumental prowess, punk was a short-circuiting of mainstream media channels operating both by an alternative production of media and the production of events unassimilable by the mass media, especially radio and television. The author argues that the first-generation punk band the Clash was as much a form of alternative world service radio, informing listeners about both local and global struggles for freedom and survival, as it was a musical band.


2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 4856-4863
Author(s):  
Umang Gupta, Dr. Rakesh Prakash

Cinema Industry is a popular form of mass media believed to entertain. This experience helps the audience to skip to the world that is ascetically different from the real world, the land which helps them to escape from the daily drudge of life. Cinema is a popular form of art medium which plays a vital role in reinforcing dominant cultural values, constructing images and molding opinion. This research article deals with the portrayal of women in mainstream cinema “Bollywood”. It is important to examine this issue as women are the large part of country’s population and therefore their representation on screen is essential for determining the existing stereotypes in society. This paper will investigate about how mainstream Hindi cinema is restricted with limited defined sketches of womanhood. It will also examine about whether the mainstream Hindi Cinema has been successful in representing women’s different shades through celluloid screen in a society with patriarchal values. The data collected for the research work is secondary. This study is exploratory and the method used for research is qualitative.


1972 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 246
Author(s):  
Irwin T. Sanders ◽  
Heintz-Dietrich Fischer ◽  
John Calhoun Merrill

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 100-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne K. Bothe

This article presents some streamlined and intentionally oversimplified ideas about educating future communication disorders professionals to use some of the most basic principles of evidence-based practice. Working from a popular five-step approach, modifications are suggested that may make the ideas more accessible, and therefore more useful, for university faculty, other supervisors, and future professionals in speech-language pathology, audiology, and related fields.


2006 ◽  
Vol 40 (7) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
LEE SAVIO BEERS
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