scholarly journals Holy Selfie as the Channel of Media Memory in the Digital World

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-27
Author(s):  
Denis S. Artamonov ◽  
Elena N. Medvedeva ◽  
Sophia V. Tikhonova ◽  
Marina L. Volovikova
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Religious Experience ◽  
Semantic Space ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Sacred Places ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Memory Channel

Selfie as a special genre of digital photography performs a variety of functions, giving users the possibility to refer themselves to places, persons and events, thus personifying one's self-presentation and expressing the author's attitude to the world and their own experiences. Selfie is actively used in the representation of religious life, first of all, documenting the connection of the authors to sacred places, objects, persons and events, preserving the memory of significant moments in the life of an individual and making it available to the public. The memorial function of photography in the holy selfie format merges with its communicative function, changing the motivation of religious practice, redirecting it from the acquisition of religious experience to its sharing, empathy and participation, i.e. socializing religious experience. By analysing likes and reposts of selfie content, one can create strategies for the union of virtual religious communities around the offline experience of their members. In this article we will try to identify the differences in the ways of organizing the semantic space of holy selfie, practiced by the followers of Catholicism and Orthodoxy. Holy selfie will be studied as a new media memory channel to which users resort in order to correlate the practices of constructing personal and group memory for the reproduction of religious context by banal religion. Our work is based on the content analysis of selfie photos posted on Instagram.

When Journalism Met the Internet

2019 ◽  
pp. 379-393
Author(s):  
Mike Dillon
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
New Media ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Los Angeles Times ◽  
The Public ◽  
Digital World ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
Cast Doubt

American news organizations have long been criticized for failing to anticipate, appreciate and exploit the Internet as it became a fact of daily life in the mid-1990s. This chapter explores and analyzes the lack of planning that stymied the development of journalism on the Web and cast doubt on the viability of traditional public-service journalism with its enduring values of accuracy, fairness and advocacy. Specifically, the essay documents and analyzes the online debuts of two venerable “old media” news outlets (The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times) and two “new media” Web news outlets (Salon and Slate) in the mid-1990s by exploring the claims they made about their aims, purposes and expectations as they introduced themselves to the public via their salutatory editorials. It is a cautionary tale for a digital world that reconfigures itself in ever-quickening cycles.

Islamic Religion (Part 1)

1970 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles J. Adams
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Religious Commitment ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
System A ◽  
Current State ◽  
Narrow View ◽  
Islamic Religion ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Phenomenon

The task confronting the person who seeks to survey the current state of the literature dealing with Islam as a religion is both enormous and complex. Since Muslims have traditionally considered themselves to be a religious commonwealth whose very identity is fixed by a shared religious commitment, it follows that virtually every writing on any subject whatsoever having to do with Muslims might be considered to fall within the field of religion. Even if one restricts his attention, as we propose to do here, to a more narrow view of religion, the task is still formidable. Muslims have been no less prolific than other major religious communities in producing dissident opinions from within their own fold. The history of Islamic sects, each with its own peculiar thought system and religious practice, is a field of study in itself and one that might well challenge the most energetic scholar. Far from being monolithic, as many of the scholarly cliches about Islam presuppose (e.g. Islam is a religion of Law, Islam is a religion of the Book, etc.), the religious experience of Muslims is diverse and multiform, defying the most sophisticated attempts to reduce it to order and system. No informed approach to the religiousness of Muslims can deal solely with a narrowly marked out “normative Islam”. The deviations from the norm are also part of the reality of historic Islamic experience and cannot be set aside in favor of what one may prefer as religiously or conceptually pure. It quickly becomes clear to the perceptive inquirer that the meaning of Islam is an historical phenomenon cannot be stated in terms of a unified doctrinal system, a universally accepted set of rites, or common institutions.

When Journalism Met the Internet

2015 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Mike Dillon
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
New Media ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Los Angeles Times ◽  
The Public ◽  
Digital World ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
Cast Doubt

American news organizations have long been criticized for failing to anticipate, appreciate and exploit the Internet as it became a fact of daily life in the mid-1990s. This chapter explores and analyzes the lack of planning that stymied the development of journalism on the Web and cast doubt on the viability of traditional public-service journalism with its enduring values of accuracy, fairness and advocacy. Specifically, the essay documents and analyzes the online debuts of two venerable “old media” news outlets (The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times) and two “new media” Web news outlets (Salon and Slate) in the mid-1990s by exploring the claims they made about their aims, purposes and expectations as they introduced themselves to the public via their salutatory editorials. It is a cautionary tale for a digital world that reconfigures itself in ever-quickening cycles.

Asymmetrical Religious Commitments? Religious Practice, Identity, and Self-Presentation among Western Scholars of Hinduism and Buddhism

Numen ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 62 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 265-300
Author(s):  
Mikael Aktor
Keyword(s):  
Religious Practice ◽  
Western World ◽  
Engaged Scholarship ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Questionnaire Surveys ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Original Observation

The starting point of this article is the observation that more scholars of Buddhism seem to be engaged in Buddhist practices than their colleagues in the study of Hinduism are engaged in Hindu practices. It aims to examine this observation more closely and discuss the involved problematics in a more general perspective of the scholar’s responsibilities in relation to the public. The evidence examined consists partly of different types of public material including scholarly works, institutional and personal webpages, and the results from two anonymous questionnaire surveys set up on Hindu and Buddhist scholarly e-lists. Whereas the former type of evidence seems to confirm the original observation, the latter shows that the difference in the amounts of practicing scholars is more a matter of openness than of identity. The last part of the article, therefore, looks at the stereotypes that are inherited from the modernization of both religions in their transition to the Western world. How far a religiously engaged scholarship is acceptable or not is finally discussed at the institutional level.

scholarly journals Character, Author, Viewer of Documentaries in the Public Space of New Media

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Miasnikova ◽  
◽  
Alexandra Trukhina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Open System ◽  
Digital Camera ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Functional Changes ◽  
The Public ◽  
Creative Personality ◽  
Real Person

Any screen message usually comprises three components: life drama in the form of a story about a real person as the character; the author’s intention to create an artistic world containing footprints of the creative personality and the author’s concept; and the viewer’s mindset regarding this world. Thus, a screen document is created by three participants of communication: character, author, viewer, though each of them differently manifests itself in turbulent conditions of ongoing media-transformations. Under the new direction named ‘real’, ‘actual’, ‘horizontal’ cinema, the documentary screen is increasingly featuring a new hero: a private, ‘simple’ person who is easy to watch with a lightweight digital camera, and who himself, blurring the line between the personal and the public, does not mind picking up the camera for the purpose of self-presentation. The author has an opportunity to demonstrate his films on new media platforms. And the viewer participates in the creation of interactive documentaries. Thus, the article covers the essential and functional changes taking place with characters, authors, and viewers of modern documentaries as an open system at their transition (alongside this movie type itself) from the existence within the framework of old, conventional media (big-screen cinema and television) to relevant media platforms (social media, new media, mobile devices, etc.).

scholarly journals Minecrafting Bar Mitzvah: Two Rabbis Negotiating and Cultivating Learner-Driven Inclusion through New Media

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-206
Author(s):  
Owen Gottlieb
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Narrative Inquiry ◽  
Special Needs ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Educational Innovation ◽  
Institutional Context ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Inquiry Approach

Abstract In 2013, a boy with special needs used the video game Minecraft to deliver the sermon at his bar mitzvah at a Reform synagogue, an apparently unique ritual phenomenon to this day. Using a narrative inquiry approach, this article examines two rabbis’ negotiations with new media, leading up to, during, and upon reflection after the event. The article explores acceptance, innovation, and validation of new media in religious practice, drawing on Campbell’s (2010) framework for negotiation of new media in religious communities. Clergy biography, philosophy, and institutional context all impact the negotiations with new media. By providing context of a set of factors influencing a particular negotiation and validation of a ritual and educational innovation using new media, the article intends to demonstrate the importance of clergy narrative for understanding new media negotiations in religious settings, and in particular in progressive religious communities

Representasi Moralitas Dalam Iklan Teh Botol Sosro Versi “Semeja Bersaudara”

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-59
Author(s):  
Aji Sulistyo
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Television Advertisement ◽  
Stuart Hall ◽  
The Media ◽  
Promotional Messages ◽  
Social Messages

Television advertisement is an effective medium that aims to market a product or service, because it combines audio and visuals. therefore television advertisement can effectively influence the audience to buy the product or service. Advertisement nowadays does not only convey promotional messages, but can also be a medium for delivering social messages. That is one form of the function of the media, which is to educate the public. The research entitled Representation of Morality in the Teh Botol Sosro Advertisement "Semeja Bersaudara" version analyzed the morality value in a television advertisement from ready-to-drink tea producers, Teh Botol Sosro entitled "Semeja Bersaudara" which began airing in early 2019. In this study researchers used Charles Sanders Peirce's Semiotics theory with triangular meaning analysis tools in the form of Signs, Objects and Interpretations. In addition, researchers also use representation theory from Stuart Hall in interpreting messages in advertisements. The results of this study found that the "Semeja Bersaudara" version of Teh Botol Sosro advertisement represented a message in the form of morality. There are nine values of morality that can be taken in this advertisement including, friendly attitude, sharing, empathy, help, not prejudice, no discrimination, harmony, tolerance between religious communities and cross-cultural tolerance. The message conveyed in this advertisement is how the general public can understand how every human action in social life has moral values, so that the public can understand and apply moral values in order to live a better life.

The impact of the new media on public relations in the public administration in Kurdistan Region

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 268-288
Author(s):  
Dlan Ismail Mawlud ◽  
Hoshyar Mozafar Ali
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
New Media ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Management System ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Kurdistan Region ◽  
The Public ◽  
Government Institutions ◽  
The Impact

The development of technology, information technology and various means of communication have a significant impact on public relations activity; especially in government institutions. Many government institutions have invested these means in their management system, in order to facilitate the goals of the institution, and ultimately the interaction between the internal and external public. In this theoretical research, I tried to explain the impact of the new media on public relations in the public administration, based on the views of specialists. The aim of the research is to know the use of the new media of public relations and how in the system of public administration, as well as, Explaining the role it plays in public relations activities of government institutions. Add to this, analyzing the way of how new media and public relations participate in the birth of e-government. In the results, it is clear that the new media has facilitated public relations between the public and other institutions, as it strengthened relations between them

ADVERTISING IN THE CONTEXT OF EMPATHY

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 201-207
Author(s):  
Kamen Kirilov
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Personal Communication ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Consumer Sovereignty ◽  
Advertising Industry ◽  
The Public ◽  
Effective Contact ◽  
Human Ability ◽  
Asymmetric Pattern ◽  
Broad Variety

Globalization, commodity parity, consumer sovereignty, super competition and a broad variety of other factors, including the roll-out of the mass media, the emergence and rapid rise of the new media formats and platforms as well as the exchange of information provided by social networks pose new challenges for the advertising industry. Throughout its 150 years of history, since we have known it as a distinct occupation and practice, advertising shows adaptive sustainability quality and greatly enhance its capacity as features, forms, user approaches and distribution channels. Nevertheless, by its very nature, advertising retains the constant of an asymmetric pattern of communication in which, in nowadays environment, the success of effort is expressed in the formula of understanding others and the willingness they to understand us in return. In practice, beyond the abstract of this formula, the effort of advertisers in the process of creating and planning a certain campaign would be greatly facilitated by putting the basic principles of empathy theory. Numerous experiments and studies of this human ability establish working models to achieve effective contact both at the level of personal communication and in the cases of direct and indirect communication with huge quantity and variety of audiences with specific composition. Synthesized and brought to a universal level of application, the basic principle of empathy is the ability, rather cognitive than emotional, to understand and to feel the feelings of others. The achievements in this psychology field currently apply mainly to psychotherapy, clinical psychiatry, pedagogy and political rhetoric theories and ractices. Experience proves that empathic skills help the communicator for faster, easier, more effective and more properly understood and accordingly more efficient as a moderator. This article provokes a new paradigm for advertisers in communicating with the public - about the content, forms and planning of communication activities of the principles of empathy. The goal of the effort is clear - creating more effective communication and achieving a sustainablecompetitive advantage.

Lewis’s Popular Reception in Mid-Century Britain and America

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie L. Derrick
Keyword(s):  
Print Culture ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Fiction Writer

From the time of his BBC broadcasts and The Screwtape Letters the name of C. S. Lewis was trusted by many. In both Britain and America the public knew him as an Oxford don, Christian apologist, and fiction writer. He was a sensation during the war and his Christian writings continued to find a market during his lifetime. Mid-century British and American Christians praised much of the same things in Mere Christianity and used it in similar ways. In both countries, Lewis benefited from a thriving periodical and print culture. Thousands of Americans responded enthusiastically to Lewis. However, shallow knowledge of British intellectual and cultural life meant that his works were less critically engaged; his person and books were made to fit American expectations. He was understood to be the contrarian persona he presented, and his embattled self-presentation was taken up with gusto by American critics.

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