Image Information Technologies. Towards the 21st Century. Part 1. Digital Broadcasting. Here It Comes! 4. Digital-Broadcasting and the Change of Media Business.

The knowledge society is a new social species that, despite many uncertainties and some (old and new) ambiguities, is emerging on the horizon of the 21st century. Placed at the convergence of two long-term processes (society of individuals and knowledge society), it is characterised by the social-economic process of knowledge circulation, which can be divided into four fundamental phases (generation, institutionalisation, spreading and socialisation). The current situation also sees the traditional (modern) structure of knowledge being outdated by the convergence of nanotechnologies, biotechnologies, information technologies and neuro-cognitive technologies (NBIC). In the background, the need arises to cross the cultural frontier of modernity.

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Media Aggression and Political Discourse

Izvestia Ural Federal University Journal Series 1. Issues in Education, Science and Culture ◽

10.15826/izv1.2021.27.1.025 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 27 (1) ◽

pp. 227-232

Author(s):

S. V. Moshkin ◽

Keyword(s):

21St Century ◽

Political Discourse ◽

Information Technologies ◽

The Political ◽

The Internet ◽

The Media

The review covers the collective monograph “Communicative Aggressions of the 21st Century” dedicated to the study of destructive manifestations of communicative aggression in the media sphere connected with functional specifics of the contemporary information technologies and, in particular, of Internet. The review deals with the contents of the book and its structure, evaluates the understanding by the authors of communicative aggression, its features and destructive consequences. Special emphasis is laid upon the growing aggressiveness of the political discourse as the Internet becomes more widespread and commonly available. It was concluded that in order to find tools to reduce communicative aggression in the media sphere, the authors should consider and assess the developing censorship practices of Internet communications.

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Cinema and New Media Possibilities in the Pandemic

CTC 2021 PROCEEDINGS BOOK ◽

10.17932/ctcspc.21/ctc21.027 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Burcu Kavas

Keyword(s):

New Media ◽

21St Century ◽

Digital Publishing ◽

Screening Process ◽

Movie Theaters ◽

Media Technologies ◽

Global Cinema ◽

The World ◽

Digital Broadcasting ◽

Collective Production

Cinema, which started to digitalize in the 20th century, continues to be integrated with digital publishing platforms that emerged with the development of new media technologies in the 21st century. With the coronavirus pandemic that affected the whole world in 2019, digital broadcasting platforms became popular as an alternative cinema event in the quarantine process. Various precautions have been taken around the world for the coronavirus pandemic. As a result of the quarantine precaution, the local and global cinema industry was negatively affected. Cinema industry which is a collective production and screening process, has been interrupted by the suspension of the filming and the closing of the movie theaters during the quarantine. New media created a movement area for the cinema industry in this process. In this sense, the aim of this study is examining the researches on the effect of the coronavirus pandemic on the cinema and the effect of new media tools and opportunities on the cinema sector.

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