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This paper aims at critically observing the alternating concatenation of seasonally inspired numbers and Japanese legends from time immemorial in the show Sekkashō (「雪華抄」, Snowflake Anthology), staged by the Japanese all-female musical company Takarazuka Revue’s Flower Troupe in late 2016. The goal is to disclose some of the strategies employed by Takarazuka Revue’s administrators in pursuing a necessary agenda of breaking with the tradition while steadily moving forward towards a future of self-reinvention, without disappointing the deeply conservative fans’ vast community. The analysis occurs both historically and systematically: on the one hand, the year 2016 was a “bridge” year between 2015, with its two major reconfigurations of the decadelong image of Takarazuka Revue as a bastion of shōjo culture firmly anchored in a delusional past and its stubborn rejection of common sense as well as historical reality, and 2017, with its blatant reconfiguration of soft power priorities in terms of theatrical representation; on the other hand, Sekkashō itself is a symbolical gem of Takarazuka Revue’s most typical features, signifying an effective yet dignified statement of not so much criticizing the past, but releasing oneself from its almighty grasp so that one can change the direction of the present towards a type of future different than the familiar flows of history so far.

In the last decade of the 20th Century, the rapid development of communication, electronics and information technology decisively impacted on parts of the generational Italian literature. In the first half of the decade, logos, brands, TV catchphrases, advertising jingles, TV theme songs and all TV narratives were assimilated by generational literature. In the second half of the decade, on the other hand, the extraliterary audiovisual narratives are no longer merely mentioned in the texts, but it is the text itself that mimics their times, spaces and contents, giving rise to a "televisualised" literature, as also recalled by Enrico Brizzi in 1999. In both cases, punctual references to slogans, television calambours, characterising idioms borrowed from the small screen can be easily found. They enter into the everyday «sound del parlato» while the generational literature mimics their narrative gestures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the historical process, mosques have exhibited different architectural features depending on various factors such as culture, geography and construction techniques, and have generally been defined by elements such as domes and minarets. Although mosque architecture has maintained its characteristic features for many years, new design approaches emerged with the Republican Era. In mosque architecture, which has been reinterpreted from a contemporary perspective, elements such as domes and minarets have undergone formal changes and interior elements have been reconsidered. However, the traditional image of the mosque in the minds of the public has created a resistance to contemporary design approaches and modern mosque designs have become a current topic of discussion. This study was carried out to understand the role of architectural documentaries in the perceptual change regarding the adoption of contemporary approaches by determining the tendencies of individuals regarding mosque architecture. In the research conducted on architecture students, the documentary 'Sancaklar Mosque' broadcasted in TRT2's Eşik program was used. Following an experimental method, user perception was evaluated with questionnaires applied before and after screening the documentary.The results were analyzed with "Dependent Groups t-test" in SPSS and the statistical significance of the change in user perception was discussed. The findings of the study showed that architecture documentaries significantly changed architecture students' acceptance of contemporary mosque designsIn addition, after screening the documentary, it was determined that the perception that architectural elements such as dome and minaret can be included in mosque architecture in different forms was strengthened.The results obtained show that mass media can be used not only as a tool in architectural education, but also as a method for informing the society and adopting contemporary design approaches to mosques. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article proceeds to analyze the Atlante freddo trilogy, focusing particularly on the interplay between fictional creation and the author’s cognizance of crime chronicles explored in his non-fictional works. From this vantage point, Bernardi’s novels emerge as an experimental terrain wherein he probes conceivable narratives, employing the narrative as a pretext to delineate the locales and dynamics of contemporary society. The trilogy by Bernardi directs attention to a spectrum of concerns, encompassing the marginalization of the foreigner, the erosion of the media’s informative function, and the interrelation between minor and major criminal activities. Ultimately, a comparative analysis between Bernardi and Carlotto is introduced, primarily examining ideological and thematic alignments.

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In the historical process, mosques have exhibited different architectural features depending on various factors such as culture, geography and construction techniques, and have generally been defined by elements such as domes and minarets. Although mosque architecture has maintained its characteristic features for many years, new design approaches emerged with the Republican Era. In mosque architecture, which has been reinterpreted from a contemporary perspective, elements such as domes and minarets have undergone formal changes and interior elements have been reconsidered. However, the traditional image of the mosque in the minds of the public has created a resistance to contemporary design approaches and modern mosque designs have become a current topic of discussion. This study was carried out to understand the role of architectural documentaries in the perceptual change regarding the adoption of contemporary approaches by determining the tendencies of individuals regarding mosque architecture. In the research conducted on architecture students, the documentary 'Sancaklar Mosque' broadcasted in TRT2's Eşik program was used. Following an experimental method, user perception was evaluated with questionnaires applied before and after screening the documentary.The results were analyzed with "Dependent Groups t-test" in SPSS and the statistical significance of the change in user perception was discussed. The findings of the study showed that architecture documentaries significantly changed architecture students' acceptance of contemporary mosque designsIn addition, after screening the documentary, it was determined that the perception that architectural elements such as dome and minaret can be included in mosque architecture in different forms was strengthened.The results obtained show that mass media can be used not only as a tool in architectural education, but also as a method for informing the society and adopting contemporary design approaches to mosques.

One major contestation of mediatisation is insufficient empirical historiography of its development, particularly in light of claims for its value in understanding political and social change and the processes of change. This article seeks to add to evidence on concept development by considering a single transformation from mediation towards mediatisation in public communication processes as an example of its phased development at the juncture of press and politics. Using a historical case framework from the British Coal Dispute of 1984-5 to consider political change agency, it explores print media representations of union activity and union leadership to examine how the Conservative government used the media as a proxy in seeking to change public attitudes toward industrial relations. Using three themes from the 1977 Stepping Stones strategy, the article discusses how media outlets were used as a vehicle for purposeful political communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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False information on Jordanian news websites lures readers through their inaccurate headlines to click on them in order to access the content, shock and impress them, regardless of the effects it has on these people when they discover that they are dealing with false news. This research aims to identify the methods used by journalists on Jordanian news websites to deal with false information. The methodology of this study is based on the descriptive analytical approach, through which a literature review of certain terms related to the problem and four interviews with editors of some Jordanian news websites were conducted. The results show that there is a consensus that the veracity of the news should be ensured before publication by the editors of these news websites, without resorting to appropriating information from other news websites and verifying its authenticity. To conclude, several recommendations are made to avoid disinformation, among which it is worth highlighting that there should be legal protection for the information issued by news websites and harsh penalties for false information published on them.

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In Kosovo, ethnic identity played a central role in sustaining interethnic conflict until the current decade. Despite the efforts of the international community to reconcile the parties and mediate the political dialogue with Serbia, mistrust between ethnicities has been sustained by a history of tensed relations, identity politics, but also, to a significant extent, through the media and after the digitalization of communication - through social media. The paper problematizes on the role that mass media and social media have played in the ethnicization of conflicts and manifestation of ethnic hate speech, arguing that while the former has been subject to regulation and professionalization, the latter remain to a significant extent spaces that support the continuation of conflict and even the mobilization of groups. In describing the framework of interethnic relations in Kosovo, the history of interethnic relations and the dynamics of post-war events are briefly presented. Subsequently, through the case study and the method of documentary analysis, the paper addresses the role played by the media in amplifying conflicts in the case of the events of March 2004 and the more recent contributions of social networks in the unhindered promotion of ethnic hatred in the case of a political subject - the import of Serbian products into Kosovo. Finally, an argument is built in favour of the need for a more proactive approach of international organizations and local institutions in Kosovo in combating ethnic hate speech promoted via social networks, which can increase tensions in the fragile security environment of the Western Balkans. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The media is a force that brings together, unifies and gives coherence to social individuals and communities in the modern world, because it produces at the same time the same messages, which it distributes to very diverse categories of audiences in equally different spaces. Thus, the problems that influence or face certain individuals or social groups, once publicized, become common for the whole society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In the academic field, science communication is of particular importance, as it can enhance the visibility and reputation of higher education institutions, contributing both to a better positioning in international rankings and to greater attractiveness for potential students. Effective institutional science communication requires a greater openness to the public, targeting communication efforts and the transfer of scientific information equally to the specialised and general public. Collaboration between researchers and the media has never been very comfortable, but the role of science journalism in disseminating information to the general public is undeniable. The poor scientific education of journalists and the lack of control over the results of interaction with journalists are some of the reasons why researchers avoid contact with the media, believing that the risk of misunderstanding, sensationalism, superficial, distorted, or biased interpretation is very high. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Towards the end of the 1970s, there is a reactivation of the Romanian exile, along with the change on the international level. The contacts with the French mass media meant a lot for the Romanian refugees in exile: they now had the context to express themselves freely, and above all, to finally be listened to. Access to the major French publications, a dream for the generation of exiles in the early communist decades, now a reality - gave them a huge opening to the Western world. The few Romanians in exile gathered around Monica Lovinescu (Mihnea Berindei, Paul Goma, Dumitru Țepeneag, Marie-France Ionescu, etc.), will successfully manage to use all their resources and any means in order to attract French journalists to their side. Things became all the more serious, as the issue of journalists visiting our country became internationalized, especially in the last two years of the regime. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Articolul este consacrat analizei particularităților funcționării mijloacelor de comunicare în masă în contextul reflectării problematicii specifice vizând actualele relații internaționale. În fond, în centrul cercetării se află geopolitica în strânsa ei relație și interdependență de mass-media. Este urmărită istoria devenirii acestor relații, sunt discutate anumite probleme controversate, generate de afirmarea geopoliticii ca știință, pe de o parte, și a mass-mediei, pe de altă parte, fiind evidențiate punctele de tangență ale acestora dar și diferențele inerente. Se atrage atenție descifrării tendinței observate, manifestate de media, de a se erija în postura de actor politic în cadrul situațiilor ce caracterizează relațiile internaționale contemporane. Sunt semnalate și anumite forme noi de colaborare în domeniile vizate, aflate la confluență. Pentru aprofundarea interpretării paradigmei geoinformaționale, se recurge la elucidarea unor concepte esențiale, ca terorism, criză, conflict.

În ultimii ani, termenul de știri false a ajuns în prim-planul mass-mediei și al dezbaterii publice. Știrile construite care nu răspund efectiv la realitate pot avea impact și pot crea complicații asupra vieții politice, economice sau sociale a indivizilor, deoarece sunt adesea fabricate cu scopul de a înșela publicul. Dar pentru a percepe problema, trebuie mai întâi să elucidăm conceptul de știri false, pentru ca apoi, în baza pătrunderii fenomenului, în realitate – destul de complex, să putem concepe strategii pentru a le limita. În prezentul articol sunt evidențiate trei categorii ce țin de prejudiciile aduse și de falsitatea știrilor, care, în opinia noastră, pot contribui la înțelegerea mai clară a subiectului în cauză. Aceste categorii sunt informarea defectuoasă, dezinformarea și dezinformarea neintenționată, având o afinitate între ele, dar și unele diferențe principiale care generează interpretări diferite pentru fiecare dintre ele.

Based on qualitative and quantitative analysis of the audio-visual material of two Georgian media outlets, the empirical base of research on the formation of political discourses and their influence on the socio-political life of the country is presented. Media content during the pre-election period September - October 2020: about 2337 publications of audio-visual character. The analysis of television content is of interest for understanding the information and political environment in a society where media is directly linked to various interest groups. There is a high concentration of the political factor in the media that determines its discourse. Taking into account the increasing political polarization in Georgia, the mass media also take an appropriate stance towards political actors and form discourse that serves the political agenda of a certain interest group. The public receives ideologically processed information and, despite the factor of democratization of the methods of political struggle, finds itself in a situation where political forces use information and disinformation as a method of combating opponents. The presented analysis is one of the first results of the inter-university project “Mass Media in Political Processes of Georgia”, it is crucial for understanding the trends of Georgian mass media related to both internal and external factors. The results of the research show the patterns inherent in different TV channels in the context of media and political environment in Georgia.

Communication is pervasive, it helps us to know ourselves better, and those around us; it is a perfect interrelationship system between people and it "builds" mutually beneficial relationships, giving efficiency to any activity, regardless of the field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the general concept of PR, PR genres and their characteristics, the language and style of PR texts, and their differences in genre. It also analyzes the content and genre characteristics of PR texts used in the field of PR in Uzbek media. A PR text must meet the same criteria as other types of mass communication texts, namely journalistic and advertising texts. For example, availability, originality, conciseness, ease of perception, aesthetics, and in addition to these, there should be an opportunity to quickly select relevant information for certain genres of PR text. PR text does not report on new products - it contains information about news events in the life of the main subject of PR. PR texts always have a clear target audience. In this article such important aspects are studied and analyzed.

Mijloacele de comunicare moderne joacă un rol esențial în modelarea viziunii asupra lumii și controlează în mare măsură diseminarea informațiilor care afectează percepțiile, atitudinile și, în cele din urmă, comportamentul uman. Acest lucru înseamnă că comportamentul oricărui individ este întotdeauna influențat de furnizorii de informații, care poate fi pozitiv sau negativ. Cerințele societății de a pregăti oamenii pentru a naviga conștient în fluxul tot mai mare de informații - pe de o parte, iar pe de alta – dezvoltarea teoretică și practică insuficientă a acestui domeniu, indică actualitatea problemei de cercetare. Educația media este un subiect fierbinte astăzi nu doar în Turcia și în Republica Moldova, ci în întreaga lume. Problemele educației media din ambele țări sunt în prezent în discuție între oameni de știință, profesori, organizații neguvernamentale, în general, oameni avansați în domeniul noilor tehnologii. Toată lumea înțelege că acest lucru este necesar, dar până acum societatea nu a acordat prea multă atenție acestor probleme. Articolul este consacrat principalelor tendințe de dezvoltare a mișcării de educație media în Turcia și în Republica Moldova.

The article is dedicated to the problems of preservation of national and cultural identity of the Russian people, quarantee of the Russians culture and language safety, counteraction the Western cultural expansion.

Socioeconomic dissimilarities have an overwhelming impact, with profound reverberations across societies, on health risk factors and consequences, especially regarding cardiovascular diseases. Cardiovascular diseases and their outcomes are preventable, if the risk factors are taken into account. The assembly of these factors can be grouped into unmodifiable risk factors, modifiable risk factors that are behavioural, metabolic factors and socioeconomical factors. The socioeconomical factors, known as socioeconomical determinants of health, are defined as the conditions where people are living, settings that are modelled by the dispersal of wealth, power and resources at all levels. The barriers to a better health can be alleviated by optimising publics’ knowledge through media communication about the effect of the determinants on health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The media has a significant impact on public attitudes and understanding of autism. Media representation can perpetuate negative stereotypes and misconceptions or promote positive and accurate portrayals that challenge stereotypes and promote acceptance. Autism is a spectrum, and media outlets must strive to accurately represent the diversity of experiences associated with it. Mass media awareness campaigns can educate the public about the realities of the condition and promote inclusivity. The media has a crucial responsibility in shaping public attitudes towards autism and must provide accurate and respectful representation of the condition and those affected by it to support the development of a more inclusive and understanding society. The study aims to investigate the impact of mass media on the attitudes of primary school teachers towards children with autism and their inclusion in mainstream public schools in Romania. It will use a mixed methods design with a large sample size from all schools in Brasov and the outskirts. The study will employ content analysis, questionnaires, focus group studies and semi-structured interviews to gain an in-depth understanding of the phenomenon. The results will provide insights into how mass media influences general attitudes towards individuals with autism and their inclusion in mainstream public schools. In this proposed research study, a mixed methods design combining quantitative and qualitative methods will be used to gain a comprehensive understanding of teachers' attitudes towards autism, including the impact of mass media on these attitudes. The results could be used to develop targeted interventions for promoting inclusive education practices and providing programs for teachers on creating an inclusive environment for students with autism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the last decades of the communist regime in Romania, at "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iasi, Romania, a marvelously unexplainable event occurred, with considerable impact in the fields of academia and mass-media. In a paradoxical way, freedom of writing became possible, during the 1970s and 1980s, in the editorial office of the "Students' Opinion", a journal edited by the Union of the Communist Students' Associations from Romania (UCSAR). The members of the editorial staff, all of them teachers and students enrolled in the universities of the University Center of the city of Iasi, built a mass-media, literary, philosophical, cultural discourse consisting of several semantic layers. An apparently innocent layer addressed the censors of the Communist Party of Romania. A subversive, anti-communist, layer addressed the readers of the journal residing in the Romanian Western diaspora. A layer of a perpetual intellectual feast of the ideas circulated among writers and philosophers in the West, in the free world. The editorial staff was constituted by the writers who formed the nucleus of the anti-communist group of Iasi (Luca Pitu, Liviu Antonesei, Liviu Cangeopol) and students enrolled in various BA programs. Most of the authors who contributed to the journal gained notoriety in the realms of mass-media and literature, in Romania, after 1990. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This sports media research uses a single case study approach to investigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mediatic consumption of sports heroes. The case of airing the "3mm" documentary film about WTA tennis player Simona Halep on Romanian television is being analyzed. The theoretical framework is set around the concept of parasocial interaction specific for the mediated relationships between sports fans and their favorite sports brands. The research question asks about the factors induced by the COVID-19 pandemic that might have influenced the rather low audiences of the broadcasted documentary. Results show that, indeed, the COVID-19 pandemic might have well had a considerable impact upon audience figures, mainly because, due to the pandemic situation, the patterns of parasocial interaction between sports fans and sports brands have been altered. The paper discusses the changes in parasocial interaction which occurred due to the pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We live in a universe of communication where the activity of institutions is subject to public debate, and in which critical opinions are expressed with less consideration and more haste than in the past. Through the strategy, the communication channels and tools used until this moment will be reevaluated and improved. Also, the strategy presents new elements in terms of its objective's "tools" through which internal, external, or international communication will be carried out. The communication strategy aims to identify and develop a message coherent, specialized in each of the targeted components (internal, external, and international), disseminated to the public in an appropriate time. In this paper, the authors are analyzing the communication strategies within public and private companies in Romania. Their research is based on an interview addressed to twenty people and the main conclusion is that the communication process must be maintained and updated in permanence at the highest level, so that the organization does not encounter problems of communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nowadays, although the cinema is seen as a way of entertaining the masses, of keeping people abreast of what is going on outside their homes, we sometimes fail to notice that, like any mass media, it ‘injects’ certain values, ideas, even feelings and reactions. Speculating on the conscious and unconscious state of the millions towards which they are directed, the cinematic representations are social constructions rather than valueneutral reflections of the ‘real’ world. Although seen as being essentially visual, because it mimics our mental constructions of life, and the way our consciousness shapes the world, the film ‘touches’ deeper aspects of our inner world, such as emotion, attention, and imagination. The aim of this study is to put forward the idea that music plays a central role in film contexts. Being an all-encompassing and organic tool, music has the power to convey meaning and emotions, at times even more efficiently than images. An analysis of the soundtrack of Disney’s Frozen was attempted in order to highlight music’s potential to influence one’s perception and interpretation of the film.

The article considers myth as an element of social communication reproduced in both archaic and modern times. The author seeks criteria for identifying mythological messages in the general corpus of connotative messages. The empirical field of the search is the mass media. The author follows the interdisciplinary research principles and presents a combination of various approaches to the study of myth. In the contemporary culture, myth remains one of the most relevant ways for constructing meaning. In both modern and archaic myths, there is a single type of thinking, the logic of which is not limited to the logic of emotions or scientific normativity. The author distinguishes normal and transformed myths, and argues that the demarcation of the mythological is needed exclusively for transformed myths. In other cases, despite its obvious ubiquity, myth remains a by-product of communications, does not distort their main content and does not parasitize on their form. The article draws an analogy between how mythological thinking functions in the archaic and the methods for forming mythological content in the contemporary mass media. The author comes to the conclusion that the initial functional orientation of the mass media is distorted in mythological messages: in the transformed media (media + myth), the function of informing is replaced by the functions of motivation. The mass media code information/not information is distorted, values are presented as systems of facts, and the image of reality as reality itself. The demarcation of mythological messages can be achieved by identifying the distortion of the content and functions of the original form of culture. Such a transformation is a necessary but insufficient criterion for identifying mythological messages in the communicative space of contemporary culture.

This article aims to emphasize that metaphor is not an accidental occurrence in many press articles or radio shows. On the contrary, it is a figure of speech frequently used in conveying some particular messages. However, the frequency of these metaphors may create risks as well, resulting in linguistic clichés or a certain vulgarization of the discourse. The group of metaphors that we intend to highlight belongs to the field of zoology, because their frequency can be explained by making reference to the immediate social reality. Our study will also analyze the strong cultural component of these figures of speech.

Una din problemele majore, care provoacă multe dificultăți în calea Pepublicii Moldova spre o democrație autentică, este așa-numita criză identitară. Fenomenul național a provocat şi provoacă multiple confruntări verbale nu numai în mass-mediile autohtone, dar şi în ceea ce numim realitate politică moldovenească. „Chestiunea naţională”, cum a fost calificată la începutul anilor ”90 ai secolului trecut, a pătruns adânc în toate sferele de activitate din Republica Moldova, ea divizându-i pe acei care se încumetă s-o abordeze în două tabere distincte, ambele tratânduşi oponenţii în termenii cei mai duri. Autorul constată, cu multă părere de rău, că după o perioadă îndelungată de numeroase discuţii şi dezbateri publice, de „ascensiune” pe calea democraţiei, societatea moldovenească continuă să se mai afle într-o profundă criză a identităţii naţionale. În opinia acestuia, criza identitară poate să comporte şi un potenţial distructiv enorm. În primul rând, dacă deţinătorul acesteia este ameninţat de pierderea patriei, de dispariţia ţării ca subiect internaţional. Pericolul dispariţiei statului înseamnă nu numai o criză a identităţii, dar şi o dispariţie a acesteia. Prezentul articol reprezintă o încearcare de a face o diagnosticare a acestei situații și de a identifica câteva soluții.

The paper explores the role and peculiarities of the populism in the modern foreign policy of the Republic of Turkey. Populism became especially popular in Turkeys foreign policy discourse when the Justice and Development Party came to power in 2002 and R.T. Erdoğan as President in 2014. Special attention is paid to R.T. Erdoğans populist statements made in the context of the key foreign policy ideologies - Neo-Ottomanism, Neo-Panturkism and Islamism. The propaganda of Neo-Ottoman ideas is aimed at restoring Turkey to its former Imperial greatness. The ultimate goal of Turkeys populism in Turkic states is to form a new Turkish-centric subsystem of international relations - the Turkic world. Turkeys Islamic populism within the country is primarily aimed at the conservative part of the population and at the world Islamic community on the international arena. The main task of such populism is the gradual abandonment of the principles of M.K. Ataturk and the secularism, as well as the formation of public opinion that Ankara is the center of the Islamic world. The author comes to the conclusion that Turkeys populism is quite effective and assists the ruling elite in achieving its foreign policy goals. In many ways, the success of Turkeys populism depends on the competent policy of its implementation by R.T. Erdoğan - a classic example of an Eastern politician with a charismatic type of leadership. However, the situation may change significantly in case of the power change in Turkey, emergence of a new leader and, consequently, new populist mechanisms.

Surrounded by the mirage of visual ensembles, technology, the Internet and social media, today's youth no longer pass through the filter of their consciousness of the real experiences of life, but they allow themselves to be guided by the screens of mobile devices, replacing the most important element of the world - the word. Generation Z no longer engages in face-to-face conversation; instead, they pass on information virtually, without human interaction or emotion. Unfortunately, this message is transformed into a counterweight that makes the world look like a spectacle and influences their choices as in a television program. Their mental and spiritual well-being is affected by the loss of the religious component, ritualistic feelings, devitalization of life, and the resulting impacts. The ability to successfully enter the virtual world, the capability to manage the facts responsibly, and the ability to limit potential obstacles are the three skills that are needed in the face of this harsh reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Copyright and related rights, regulated by Law no. 7/1996, constitutes a research topic for specialists in the field of journalism, as well as for those in the legal field, both for theorists and for practitioners. This article presents the issue of the incidence of copyright in the case of journalistic creations. The focus falls on the border between press materials that benefit from the rights conferred by Law 8/1996 and exceptional situations from protection, with examples from the practice of national courts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the present paper is to find out the essence of the discursive moment (understood as an act or an event having a strong social echo which gives rise to a massive amount of texts in the international sphere and in the press space) which was created by the Syrian crisis from August-September 2013 in the Romanian public diplomacy. To this purpose, we will use and analyse a heterogeneous corpus of texts belonging to different genres (press releases, interviews, public discourses) and we will outline the specialized expressions referring to international conflicts (recorded by the documents of international law) and the glosses of these expressions in order to depict the rhetoric and discursive manner in which they are used in these genres. We will also focus on the linguistic markers of the speakers taking part in the three-sided communication situation: the specialized discourse of International Law - mediation text - large audience. Another aim will be the manner in which the texts of international law are used (throughout quotation, allusions and also the adherence of the discourse to the legal articles). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article discusses the phenomenon of factual information misrepresentation in popular print media. From the point of view of the authors, misrepresentation is determined by a general communicative pattern — the process of misrepresentation information during its transfer; the ideology of a particular edition and the tendentiousness of the media in general; striving for informational priority and a professional perspective of presenting information. Understanding the misrepresentation in the media discourse as a substitution, falsehood, fiction, and the transformation of factual information, the authors attempt to generalize the ways of translating facts (truthful information) into a version of facts. Based on the material of the “near-political narrative”, which is part of the peripheral zone of political discourse and includes texts dedicated to the politician's relatives or ancestors, as well as his personal and even intimate life, the authors distinguish three main directions that contribute to the emergence of versions of facts. These are: extra-textual factors; a group of proper text methods; change of the axiological mode of the media. It is proved that the subjective mode of modern media determines the use of not so much false information as of transformed information, the share of which is steadily increasing and begins to determine the specifics of modern journalistic text formation.

The author aims at establishing the limits and components of the right to information in the actual Romanian legal system, departing from the provisions of art.31 of the Romanian Constitution and of Law no.544/2001 regarding the free access to information of public interest. To this purpose, the notion of the right to information will be analyzed, alongside its components by reference to both the special legal and the Constitutional provisions. After pointing out some particularities regarding the relation of the right to information and mass media, the substantial limits of the right will be identified. After the analysis undertaken, the author will establish a dual nature of the right to information.

Destrămarea Imperiului sovietic și dezvoltarea vertiginoasă a noilor tehnologii comunicaționale, au condus la reconfigurarea geopolitică a lumii, dar și au deschis calea fostelor republici sovietice spre democrație și colaborare cu țările europene. Pe măsura înaintării NATO și UE către hotarele Rusiei, aceasta depune eforturi atât militare, cât și propagandistico-ideologice, pentru a menține sub influența sa teritoriile de altă dată. Nu fără implicarea Rusiei în țările din „vecinătatea apropiată” – Ucraina, Republica Moldova și Georgia – au fost inspirate conflicte, scopul cărora este de a păstra controlul militar, politic, ideologic și economic asupra acestor regiuni. O luptă aprigă duce Rusia și pentru întărirea pozițiilor sale în regiunea Mării Negre, unde geografic se situează aceste trei state. În prezentul articol sunt evidențiate strategiile, tacticile și tehnicile aplicate de mass-media rusă în scopul atingerii obiectivelor geopolitice.

How is the dependency spiral triggered? It might start by looking either for pleasure or escape. In either case, the time spent in front of a screen leads to a pleasant, dopamine-mediated experience. The desire to repeat the use is further fuelled by the physiological process of tolerance and addiction. This is how things unfold in screen dependence (mass-media) when socialization, games, movies are concerned. Things look entirely different when the need for information is taken into consideration. What is the need for information's threshold? Information is not the same thing as the learning process. The fourth power in the state is the MEDIA. In mass-media, information relies on amazement, emotional shock, fear. Media feeds on powerful emotions. Are we all victims of such emotions? As of December 2019, until the present, mass-media information focused on the medical and social issue of the coronavirus pandemics. How have we been affected by this information? What was its impact on our anxiety? How was the perception on reality of the people who had the disease altered? In order to get a few answers, we applied a series of questionnaires to a batch of 30 people who had the SARS COV2 infection and to a batch of 20 people who haven't yet contracted the virus. Used material: - Coronavirus anxiety questionnaire www.researchcentral.ro - Mass-media dependency questionnaire www.researchcentral.ro - SRGS posttraumatic development scale; Crystal Park, Lawrence Cohen and Renee Murch The summarized data indicates that the people from the batch who was infected with cu SARS COV2 have a high anxiety level, a minimum level of mass-media dependency and a maximum SRGS level. In the batch of people who have not contracted the disease, the majority has a medium towards maximum anxiety level, minimum mass-media dependency. The people in both batches unanimously asserted they felt oversaturated with the media information, although a year ago they could have declared themselves as addicted to such type of information. Considering that the questioned people suffered minimum manifestation forms of the disease, the high scores obtained in SRGS could only be justified if this disease were correlated to a major psychic disease. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Social-media influences people's lives including organizational activity. At the organizational level, social-media has changed the way employees communicate, multinational companies developing social-media platforms especially for their employees. The influence of social-media on mass media is a widely researched subject, and, we focused our attention on the way in which the activity on social-media of different TV stations in Romania influences their audiences. This study examines the influence of social-media on the audiences of ten TV stations in Romania. Through a questionnaire, we determined the rating of the TV stations without the influence of social-media and these audiences were compared to the official ones. The results of the study showed that there is an economic effect of the social-media influence in the case of the analysed TV stations.

Both the general public and the specialists (archaeologists, historians, etc.) that are concerned with the cultural heritage, are most often informed about their state or about the latest archaeological discoveries in the written or TV press. The present study focuses on articles published in the press and television during 2017 and 2018 ( January - November) on the issue of the cultural and archaeological heritage of Romania included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. For a better follow-up to this study, we will provide you with a table below with each UNESCO heritage objective, along with the LMI code, UNESCO registration code, year of listing and geographic location. Also, the study will contain a brief presentation of the report drawn from the media for each monument.

La Generación Nocilla apareció en la literatura española a partir de una serie de poemas, relatos, blogs y novelas de Agustín Fernández Mallo. El ensayo Postpoesía. Hacia un nuevo paradigma (2009) completó una propuesta que se había formulado en buena medida en otro ensayo importante para la cuestión, Afterpop (2007), de Eloy Fernández Cuesta, o a Vicente Luis Mora y Pablo García Casado. Mallo buscaba una regeneración de la narrativa y de la poesía, a la que consideraba moribunda en España, desde la hibridación de los géneros, apelando a los mass-media, en un ejercicio experimental. Nocilla lab era un laboratorio o arte trasgénico, de arte informático, cómics, de arte fractal, de teatro electrónico, de arte biotecnológico, de arte posthumano o del arte del caos. Sin embargo, es difícil distinguir en algunos casos la hibridación y todo se parece sospechosamente en un neovanguardismo sin demasiado fundamento teórico al fondo. Todo se parecía mucho y era simplemente novedoso. La novela Nocilla Lab fue seguramente su momento más importante.