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Digital media have been playing an increasingly pivotal role in reshaping urban spaces, landscapes, and lifestyles across the world. In China, the rapid development of digital infrastructure, platforms, and e-commerce has fueled the rise of a number of so-called wanghong cities. A term originally employed to denote internet celebrities, wanghong as a social phenomenon, practice, and modus operandi now penetrates different spheres of life in China. This article presents a case study of a new wanghong city, Zibo, a third-tier industrial city that rose to sudden fame in 2023 with the aid of livestreaming and short video. Extending Manovich's idea of "transcoding" between the cultural and the digital, this article investigates how the logics, aesthetics, and sensibilities of digital (social) media increasingly carry over to the "imagineering" of built environment—particularly urban place-making—within interlocking processes of mediatization and culturalization. Mediatized culturalization of urban places in China prompts us to critically reflect on deeper questions around the right to and the future of our cities in the social media era. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Resilience in tourism studies has mainly departed from a socioecological system theory approach and has developed knowledge in relation to different tourism contexts. This approach has consequences for the conceptualization of resilience and sets limits. Calls for theory development on resilience see a need to take account of, for instance, politics and power relations, and conflicts over resources. As a response to this call, this conceptual article discusses the ontological underpinnings of resilience in tourism studies from an interdisciplinary approach and argues for a media place approach to resilience. From a general socioecological system approach a tourist place is ontologically constituted as a subject with clear boundaries even if it has interactions, relations, and dependencies. The tourism place is therefore constituted as a fixed entity in its essence, even if equilibriums can be positioned differently. However, tourism resilience is a complex issue that calls for additional perspectives. The proposed interdisciplinary media place approach follows changes and dependencies between mediatization of tourism places and changes in the resilience of tourism places. The role of mediatization and its significance for changes in places are put at the center of the analysis. The approach assumes that a tourist place is constituted as a verb that is constantly created and re-created in a process. Additionally, resilience in places must also be conceptualized ontologically as a fluid concept that evolves over time. To understand sudden and long-term changes in tourism place resilience, special attention must be given to nodes or flows of information that connect the media systems and constitute places. Further, the article concludes that resilience is molded by the politics of media practices. An interdisciplinary approach brings new answers to complex questions that cannot be solved from a single disciplinary perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study explores the digital expressions of the No TAV movement in Valsusa, focusing on how activists use culture for strategic impact. The whole research employs mixed and digital methods. This paper is focused on the integrated research phase held by interviews and observations on-site, as follow up of a previous phase related on the online framing analysis. It investigates how online frames translate into real-world actions within a dynamic and evolving context of social movements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In a milieu where technologies heavily mediate the environment and processes of everyday life, a cultural phenomenon that Sonia Livingstone described as the "mediation of everything," scholars are encouraged to heed the call for more mediatization studies. The mediatization approach integrates the institutionalist and social-constructivist perspectives in critically analyzing the changes in both media and communications, on one hand, and culture and society, on the other hand. Reflecting on my past research works applying mediatization theories, I highlighted the value of the mediatization approach through its dialectics: Technological and social; Literal and symbolic, material and semiotic; Descriptive and critical; Objective and subjective, quantitative and qualitative; and Meso and micro levels. In the end, I also surfaced some criticisms of the mediatization approach, which, I argued, prove to be its strength in enabling researchers to keep pace in studying a highly mediatizing Asia and in indigenizing or Asianizing communication research and theorizing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Various stakeholders have hailed the recently introduced "European Championships" – a multi-sport event comprising competitions for European titles in several sports – as a huge success, particularly because some previously overlooked niche sports received an extraordinary amount of media attention. Empirical evidence indicates that the event has elicited increased live broadcasting of the participating sports. However, retrospective coverage in popular news media also plays an important role in helping sports federations attract active members, fans, and sponsors. Based on mediatization and news value theory, we investigated whether "the European Championships" elicited increased coverage of the most popular German TV news show when compared with corresponding stand-alone competitions in previous years. We also assessed whether all participating sports benefitted equally from this mediatization strategy of aggregation. Employing quantitative content analysis using a quasi-experimental design with a non-equivalent control group in a field setting, we analyzed screen time from competitions during (the) European Championships, controlling for national success. The results overall indicate a significant positive aggregation effect, though not all sports profited equally. Our study contributes to a deeper understanding of aggregation as a mediatization strategy that might be particularly attractive to niche sports federations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the rise of mediatization, open-source intelligence (OSINT) has evolved into a decentralized form of intelligence gathering, influenced by both political and commercial logic. This transformation has positioned social media as a primary source of OSINT, enhancing the capabilities of non-state actors and significantly impacting international politics, particularly in the realm of great-power competition. Through an analysis spanning individual, state, and systemic levels, this article examines OSINT's role in shaping contemporary international politics. By exploring case studies such as the Russo-Ukrainian War, Israel-Hamas War, and strategic competition between China and the United States, this article illuminates how OSINT influences decision-making processes and global power struggles and contributes to a deeper understanding of the evolving landscape of intelligence and its implications for statecraft. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study deals with journalistic coverage of historical events and their contextualization. It conceptualizes the relationship between history, collective memory, and contemporary media logic. It shows the specific treatment of news values on historical topics and the penetration of entertainment elements into the resulting media content. The case study analyzes the discrepancy between the perceived importance of some historical events in Czech society and their journalistic coverage using the example of Czech media production in the year of round anniversaries in 2018. It utilizes the concept of news values and identifies similar procedures in presenting historical events in the media. The result is a more robust media reminder for those events that meet specific news values for historical topics. Content analysis has shown that the media choose more significant media coverage of other anniversaries than those considered by the Czechs to be the most important. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Much of the mediatization literature argues that the increased occurrence of expressions of media logic in political news coverage is driven by supranational factors including marketization, and postulates that contextual factors such as the national democratic model can explain the marked variations between countries. However, the relationship between such structural conditions and the occurrence of media-content elements in news coverage remains underexplored. In response, we compare the incidences of seven content expressions of media logic across a classic majoritarian democracy (UK) and a classic consensual democracy (the Netherlands). Innovatively, we additionally incorporate the dynamic political constellation of the two national governments. Our logistical regression analysis of 1463 newspaper articles shows that, as expected, these content expressions of media logic occur more often under majoritarian than under consensual styles of government. Our results further reveal that the political constellation of national governments offers a more refined explanation for how coverage behaves than the less dynamic variable of adopted democratic model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Over the years, social media has emerged as the largest source for global communication. In post-COVID-19 times and especially in the New Reality, social media consumption patterns have shifted significantly. As these platforms become more open and widespread, they also exacerbate issues related to information and news consumption, mediation and mediatization. This is particularly crucial for young populations in developing nations such as those in the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) group, who face both high external pressures and internal challenges. Examines the state of social media usage among youth in BRICS countries, focusing on data from 2023 to find the specificity of social media driven mediatization. Research indicates that youth in BRICS nations have been active social media users over the past decade. The authors identify key consumption patterns among Generation Z and millennials in Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa in 2023, and conduct a comparative analysis of social media usage in these nations. Provides a brief overview of the mediatized challenges posed by social media in the BRICS nations, particularly the spread of fake news. The study reveals that the increasing reliance on social media for news and information by younger generations underscores the need for identifying specific field of media studies in BRICS countries (Media Studies based on the concept of BRICSology). The conclusion highlights the social media consumption patterns and challenges that need attention in future research.

Based on corpus-assisted discourse analysis, the paper studies the mediatization of artificial intelligence (AI) technology in the Russian-language media discourse as a construe technique that shapes AI perception and evaluation as a concept of new social reality. The paper reveals linguistic portraying of the AI concept in Russian digital media corpus, construed by business-oriented outlets Kommersant, Vedomosti, RBC, and popular media resources, such as Lenta.ru, Argumenty i Fakty, Komsomolskaya Pravda. Corpus-assisted discourse analysis comprises aims to extract the quantitative parameters of texts and establish their correlations with content parameters; define the themes of narratives about AI, which determine its discursive interpretation, and describe their distribution across the Russian-language news digital corpus; define discursive strategies used for designing the image of AI. The quantitative characteristics of the texts construing AI imagery in the corpus under study point to the prevalence of small and moderate size texts, which is explained by the pragmatics of informing a broad lay audience on advancement and development of AI without initiating any public discussions. The thematic distribution analysis showed domination of “Positive AI capabilities” and “AI development and Investments”, whereas “Impending danger” and “Negative AI capabilities” are covered infrequently. Argumentation in the explanatory and prognostic strategies introduces the topoi of inevitability, necessity, and rivalry in AI development. The explanatory strategy expands on the nature of AI, its functions and potential. The prognostic strategy delivers information on the development and advancement of AI technology, portraying efficiency scenarios, but only a tiny fraction of the texts warn about the negative consequences of AI. The novelty of the results lies in the establishment of contradictory mediatization of the AI concept, which, on the one hand, is aimed at depicting its positive portrayal and capability of bringing social and economic benefits. On the other hand, it contains a warning about its potential dangers and risks if the spheres of its application expand.

This article addresses the implications of the mediatization of communicative memory and explores the underlying causes of the crisis of critical thinking in the digital age. It focuses on the transformations within the public sphere influenced by new media. A review of discussions surrounding “new sincerity” and “new sensitivity”, as well as the roles of nostalgia in new media, is presented. The interconnections among these phenomena and their common foundations are demonstrated. The study argues that representations of the past in new media increasingly rely not on biographical or historical experiences but on replicable and “privatized” second-order simulacra created by users. Special attention is given to the issue of nostalgia, which emerges as a symptom of the subjugation of cultural and communicative memory to the logic of mediatization, characterized by extreme fragmentation of images, their emotional-affective sharpness, and the replacement of complex structures of historical reality with situational impressions. The article posits that theoretical critiques of mediatization and its effects on the public sphere are insufficient without identifying practical alternatives — namely, the most reflexive projects in both old and new media: auteur cinema, social media blogs by public historians, historical documentary dramas produced by the BBC, independent video games, and more.

The article considers the concept of digital reputation in relation to the executive authorities of the Russian Federation, as well as identifies the technological and communicative methods of its formation and maintenance. The digital reputation of a public administration body is a multicriterial assessment of its activities. It appears in media space and reflects the opinions of socially active population. Digital reputation is not identical to digital image. The authors revealed the following discursive factors that shape stereotypes about public administration. For instance, an indefinitely wide range of addressees lack basic knowledge in public administration; public assessments are flexible and unpredictable; some Internet users practice provocative speech behavior, etc. The research featured internet posts made by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation in the social network VKontakte. The service Popsters.ru made it possible to rate them by user involvement. A discursive and stylistic analysis of the posts with a high engagement coefficient revealed the following effective tools for managing the digital reputation of the authorities: hashtags as means of data distribution and systematization, dialogical and personalized presentation, interactive forms of communication (voting, polls, etc.), timely reaction to user comments, etc.

This research explores the profound impact of digital media on the lives of Chinese immigrants in Ikebukuro Chinatown. It illustrates how the Internet and digital platforms have transformed their economic, social, and identity landscapes. Employing qualitative methods such as surveys and interviews, this study underscores the pivotal role of social media in creating expansive networks. These networks facilitate ethnic entrepreneurship and enhance cultural visibility, contributing to the deterritorialization of traditional community confines. This empowerment enables the Chinese diaspora in Ikebukuro to cultivate a rich, interconnected social tapestry that extends beyond geographic limitations. The findings underscore the central role of digital media mediatization processes in redefining immigrant experiences. Additionally, they promote deeper, more dynamic integration within the host society’s multicultural environment. This transformative shift emphasizes the emergence of a more fluid, networked form of community and identity among immigrants. It challenges conventional enclave models and offers new perspectives on diaspora engagement in the digital age.

In an increasingly advanced modern era and growing communication technology, mediatization is present in every aspect of people's lives, including in the context of religiosity. The transition to the use of new media in supporting religious activities to keep running faces challenges that are not easy with the issue of the sacredness of religious activities that are communal in nature at first and are forced to change formats. This research was conducted with a qualitative approach and supported by a literature review method and complemented by supporting data obtained from researcher observations of related phenomena that occur today. In the end, mediatization in the religious context is like a double-edged sword with all its advantages and challenges, especially for conventional religious leaders who are increasingly eroded in power and reach by influencers who are able to reach a stronger and wider audience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The advent of digital platforms and new technologies of information and communication has transformed the manner in which citizens interact with art. Emerging as key actors, prosumers have (re)appropriated images, including traditional works. A qualitative model is presented to understand the mediatization of prosumers, revealing the significance of their new agency as producers. Grounded theory and socio-semiotic analysis are combined from a phenomenological perspective. This approach unravels the complexities of the mediatization of art in social networks. Its adaptability suggests its usefulness in contemporary image research, providing a framework for exploring the transformation of meaning in the digital age. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines how social media platforms shape encounters with religious "others" across diverse cultural contexts, focusing on Muslim users in Pakistan and Buddhist/Christian users in Hong Kong. Through qualitative interviews and reflexive thematic analysis, we identify key patterns in how these platforms both facilitate and constrain meaningful interreligious dialogue. We find that while religious social media can expand exposure to diverse perspectives, it often reinforces in-group boundaries and amplifies polarization through echo chamber effects. Our findings further reveal that users engage in selective exposure, primarily interacting with like-minded believers, while also developing new competencies as "religious bridge-builders" in some cases who cultivate new competencies for interreligious communication. We develop a theoretical framework of "digital othering" to explain how believers navigate religious identity, knowledge, and community in online spaces. By adopting a cross-cultural comparative approach, the study contributes to our understanding of religion in the digital age, offering insights into the culturally specific manifestations of digital othering while also identifying broader patterns that transcend particular contexts. This research advances the field of digital religion studies, providing a nuanced understanding of how social media reshapes religious expression, authority, and interreligious relations in an increasingly digitized global society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to investigate the mediatization of politics in TikTok in the contemporary era, taking into account the modes of enunciation of an Argentinean ruler in his official account, and comparing the period of the Covid-19 pandemic, the immediate aftermath and the 2023 presidential campaign. Using methodological tools from socio-semiotics and theories of the mediatization of politics, we analysed the type of meaning-producing social operations present in Horacio Rodríguez Larreta's account during the period in which he was Head of Government of the City of Buenos Aires. The conclusion was to show the combination of political, ludic, electoral, social network and media logics in the different moments analysed between 2020 and 2023, as well as the existence of a new type of digital militant subject of TikTok. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The photograph of the so-called Tank Man, who in 1989 stood in the street and stopped a line of Chinese army tanks after the forcible dissolution of pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, is one of the twentieth century's most famous images of unarmed protest. This article explores how the iconic Tank Man image performs in Lucy Kirkwood's Chimerica (2013) and Lauren Yee's The Great Leap (2018). By expanding performance studies scholarship that frames his actions as theatrical, this article adds Meredith Conti's notion of the "crisis actor" to the discourse around Tank Man: an activist who responds to moments of political urgency by performing resistance for contemporary audiences seeking authenticity in the noisy digital landscape. To track Kirkwood and Yee's dramatization of the Tank Man icon, I analyse how their stage directions locate Tank Man in theatrical worlds that merge history and fiction, past and present, live and mediated. Arguing that Kirkwood and Yee make Tank Man legible on a human scale through domestic drama, this article traces how each characterizes their fictional Tank Man as a husband, father, and reluctant political actor compelled to radical action by the domestic tragedy of a dead wife and a lost or absent child. This allows the playwrights to humanize and reanimate the historical protest performance of Tank Man as they use the figure's iconicity to bolster their characters' subjectivity as crisis actors. In Chimerica and The Great Leap, Tank Man as icon and crisis actor offers a hopeful model of utopian politics for contemporary audiences, newly legible as a mediatized twenty-first-century hero. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article introduces the life-transition perspective as a novel conceptual framework for mediatization research. By examining individuals' media engagement during significant life transitions, this perspective illuminates the interplay between media-communicative practices and transitioning social roles. The article argues that the life-transition perspective offers methodological advantages and fosters integration between audience research and mediatization research. It enables in-depth analysis of lived experiences of media-related social change in the context of digital everyday life and provides a comprehensive concept for synthesizing existing research on the evolving role of media across diverse domains. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This contribution investigates the campaign posters of the right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP) in four communication domains: in public space, in the mass media, their impact on other political actors and manipulations of the posters. This approach combines social semiotics, discourse analysis, media linguistics, and linguistic landscaping to present a comprehensive account of the posters' usage and design. Relying on social semiotics, we first analyze the posters themselves. We then show how the posters are reproduced in journalistic news media which creates a visual framing of the discussion about migration. This framing effect is also evidenced by the fact that many political actors adapt to the SVP's visual language. Consequently, the discussion about migration increasingly follows the SVP's logic. In a fourth analytical step, we show how the posters become objects of manipulation that turn them into a place of public debate. We sum up by pointing out the affordances that the posters offer to actors in these different domains. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research explores the profound impact of digital media on the lives of Chinese immigrants in Ikebukuro Chinatown. It illustrates how the Internet and digital platforms have transformed their economic, social, and identity landscapes. Employing qualitative methods such as surveys and interviews, this study underscores the pivotal role of social media in creating expansive networks. These networks facilitate ethnic entrepreneurship and enhance cultural visibility, contributing to the deterritorialization of traditional community confines. This empowerment enables the Chinese diaspora in Ikebukuro to cultivate a rich, interconnected social tapestry that extends beyond geographic limitations. The findings underscore the central role of digital media mediatization processes in redefining immigrant experiences. Additionally, they promote deeper, more dynamic integration within the host society's multicultural environment. This transformative shift emphasizes the emergence of a more fluid, networked form of community and identity among immigrants. It challenges conventional enclave models and offers new perspectives on diaspora engagement in the digital age. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research context: Over the past thirty years, shifts in strategic communication and journalism have altered how communicators and journalists interact. With content creation and news writing central to capturing attention and building relationships, their functions are increasingly overlapping. Purpose of the study: This study explores how Italian strategic communicators and journalists perceive their own and each other's identities and functions in the current Italian media landscape. It investigates how these professionals respond to mediatization and how this, in turn, has supported mutual positive relationships. Methodology: Through expert interviews, this study adopts an exploratory approach to examine the perspectives of strategic communicators versus those of journalists on questions of professional identity, roles, working practices, relationships, and professional challenges. Results: The perceptions of professional identities and roles in strategic communication and journalism have evolved, while the growing mediatization of practices among strategic communicators has enhanced journalists' perceptions of relationships. There is a noticeable convergence in the skills and competencies of these professionals, alongside a mutual recognition of the importance of high-quality information. Research limitations: This study is exploratory and conducted with a small sample size. Due to the qualitative nature of the findings, they cannot be generalized. Practical implications and originality of the study: The study addresses a gap in research with a country-specific focus and sheds light on mediatization effects on professional identities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Culture and media transform each other through mediatization. Mediatization interacts between culture and media through artifacts of material and visual culture to convey its messages to as many people as possible. Religion is an important component of culture, so it may be interesting to analyze the influence of mediatization on specific religious practices such as rites, particularly the rite of marriage. The processes of mediatization in marriage rites act performatively on physical and cultural space, and they are reshaping religious values and norms. Starting from the relationship between the ritual form of marriage and the physical shape of the architecture designed to host them, this article analyzes the relationship between mediatization and interfaith marriage rites. The objective is to show how the condition of inter-religiousness can demonstrate the presence of invariants in the structure of marriage rites and the architectural characterof the spaces where they take place. This article aims to demonstrate that the performative dimension of the space of marriage rites is based on these invariants, which are becoming one of the main tools through which mediatization is acting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is a correlative relationship between mediatization and social interaction. Communication scholars have paid attention to this relationship. We argue that mediatization involves the incorporation of various patterns of interaction among users of social media platforms. We used two theoretical approaches, namely mediatization and symbolic interaction. We surveyed a purposive sample that we selected according to certain criteria. Regression analysis revealed the correlative relationship between the dimensions of mediatization over social media platforms and the patterns of symbolic interaction among users. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article aims to combine research agendas on Digital Sociology and the Sociology of cinema, explicitly considering the spread of Serial TV Shows on streaming platforms such as Netflix and HBO-Max. Since the early 2000s, with Web 2.0 allowing a shift in the traffic and consumption of multimedia –music, photos, videos, and animation– on the Internet, the presence of audiovisual content in everyday life has become more intensified than before with cinema and broadcast television. It is argued in this paper that this technological shift changes how societies and individuals relate to electronically mediated images and constitute symbolic and valuation references through social life. However, much of the cultural and imagistic references set in motion in present digital media were established by cinema and television currently in the 20th century, being seen in a naturalized way, although historically produced. This paper reviews Pierre Sorlín’s sociological approach to films as ideological productions, contributing to form historical and social shared ways of conceiving reality, and Sorlin’s methodological guidelines for analyzing films. However, the differences between cinema and television series are considered, according to Esquenazi’s approach to TV series. Nevertheless, this paper highlights how technical and cultural specificities of today’s digital media, paired with a deep individualization process, set new analytical challenges. So, it is presented an analytical reflection that places together connectivity and cinematic culture in order to comprehend how today’s ideologies are partly influenced by specific recurrent imagistic constructions diffused by streaming platforms by using cinema and television languages.

During the summer of 2023 news and debates about public burnings of the Qur’an dominated the Swedish and international media. In the aftermath of the flames and the debate this article aims to present and discuss the representation of the event as a ‘crisis’ in the Swedish daily press between 1 April and 1 October 2023. The article uses a quantitative analysis of the main topics in a selection of Swedish and Nordic daily newspapers, and a combination of co-occurrence and qualitative frame analysis of how the event came to be debated in a sample of Swedish opinion articles. Theories of mediatized conflicts as dynamic and complex processes revealing the state of democracy in a society are used to analyse the findings. The results are discussed in light of previous research on Qur’an burnings in Sweden and on debates about previous events involving clashes between freedom of speech and freedom of religion in the Nordic countries. The article concludes by arguing that the ‘Qur’an crisis’ as a mediatized conflict co-structures an ongoing negotiation between different positions on the most fundamental values of democracy, which has become increasingly contentious in Swedish public and political debate.

As manifested in Jean Baudrillard’s notoriously provoking claim that “the Gulf War did not take place,” mediatization of war has long been associated with illusion. Today, war images that circulate online are increasingly judged by their proximity to ‘truth,’ eliciting a skepticism towards their ‘evidentiary’ value. By juxtaposing Baudrillard’s reading of the mediatization of the Gulf War with the contemporary image theories of e.g. Cecilia Sjöholm and Matthew Fuller and Eyal Weizman, the article explores how this skepticism is expressed in a contemporary context. Through visual analysis of a YouTube video of a press conference held at the bombed Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza, it examines the relationship between the f orm through which the war is perceived (the images) and their cont ent (the ‘realities’ of war). Through a lens oered by Georges Didi-Huberman, the article concludes by suggesting that by expanding what I term the snapshot logic of war images to embrace a scenography of war, the press conference video gives form to the condition of desperation and suering in Gaza.

The aim of this article is to function as a starting point for combining the study of epistemic injustice in a higher education framework with that of digitalization, including recent developments such as the entrance of AI in higher education. What is identified as the main problem is the power of digital technology and how technologies shape institutional practices of teaching and learning, often in opposition to democratic education aims. The introduction of AI in higher education deepens the mediatization process of higher education, demonstrated by a mainstream oriented usage of AI. In higher education, digital technology shapes practices that are indifferent to the epistemic claims and rights of students, and quite perfectly attuned to the ‘practical needs’ of digital technology which severely challenges the concept of knowing and also critical thinking in higher education.

The increasingly massive development of technology provides a gap in creating social discrepancies in society because it departs from the impact of understanding online media da'wah so that consumption is received personally without any prior review process. The process of finding this kind of understanding needs religious mediatization to avoid one-sided consumption in understanding da'wah content on social media. This research focuses on the object of study Halimah Alaydrus via her Instagram to be examined comprehensively with a qualitative approach and using the critical-analytical method. So that it departs from the Koran that it becomes a text that is always relevant from time to time both in terms of place and time, that the content that becomes the subjectivity of a Halimah Alaydrus gives a distinctive da'wah color and is easily understood by various groups. As for the results of this study, researchers found several verses that were used as da'wah content by Halimah Alaydrus which were persuasive in nature. In this case, the verse construction used provides orientation to the community to remain calm in living life, despite loneliness, focus on yourself, always feel that Allah is in control of His servants. It is at this point that Halimah Alaydrus inserts several strands of redaction that are in accordance with the current context in her caption. the space to simplify or simplify the interpretation of a verse ultimately becomes the impetus and needs of the community in understanding the content of the message of the Quranic verse. Of course, at the same time, the understanding of a verse will continue to move dynamically.

21. yüzyılın bilim dünyasında “medya çalışmaları”, dijitalleşme ve ağ tabanlı teknolojilerin günlük hayattaki etkinliği sebebiyle toplum ve kültürle ilgilenenler için yadsınamayacak bir hâl almıştır. Bu alandaki sosyal çalışmaların ve araştırmacıların sayısı da gün geçtikçe artmaktadır. İşte tanıtımını yapacağımız Mehmet Haberli’nin Medyatikleşme ve Din adlı kitabı (2023) da bu kritik konuyu ele almakta, yaşanan değişimleri medyatikleşme bağlamında meta-analiz yöntemi ile açımlamaktadır. Doç. Dr. Haberli, gelişen medya kültürü konusunda sosyolojik ve iletişimsel tahayyüle sahip ve Türk akademisinde medyanın din bağlamında incelenmesine öncülük etmiş bir araştırmacıdır. Özellikle Sanal Din isimli kitap çalışması (2014), medyanın din sosyolojisi literatüründe yeni bir kulvar açtığı yıllarda özgün bir çalışma niteliğindedir. Yazarın ayrıca sanal cemaatler, dijital çağda dindarlığın dönüşümü ve dijital din araştırmaları konularındaki çalışmaları dikkat çekmektedir. Bu çalışmaları ile “teorik anlamda” yeni medyanın dinle ilişkisine Türkiye’de ilk değinen sosyolog olduğu söylenebilir. İnceleyeceğimiz kitabı da yazarın bugüne kadarki bilgi birikiminin bir hülasası olarak değerlendirmek yerinde olacaktır.

This article explores the deployment of various communicative strategies within prominent medical blogs. The study analyzes 400 texts in Russian and Armenian, sourced from diverse social networks. The selection of these materials is justified by the growing popularization of medical knowledge and the escalating public interest in health, which motivates physicians to undertake active educational initiatives across all accessible information platforms. The objective of this research is to systematically delineate the primary communicative strategies and tactics employed in Russian- and Armenian-language medical blogs authored by doctors from a range of specialties. The significance of this study arises from the incontrovertible popularity of social networks and the progressive mediatization of medical discourse, coupled with a gap in scholarly literature regarding the comparative analysis of Russian and Armenian medical discourses. The findings reveal that medical media discourse on social networks predominantly implements two communicative strategies: informational-educational and manipulative. Each strategy has distinct goals and is manifested through specific communicative tactics. The informational-educational strategy seeks to disseminate medical knowledge through tactics such as providing concise information, referencing authoritative sources, offering guidance, and dispelling medical myths. In contrast, the manipulative strategy aims to market certain products or services, thus actively employing marketing tactics like extolling the virtues of one’s offerings, drawing attention to the blogger’s professional accomplishments and expertise, among others. The study concludes that tactics associated with the manipulative strategy are prevalent in both Russian and Armenian medical blogs, as are tactics related to myth debunking, instructional guidance, and the provision of succinct information within the informational-educational framework.

One of the most acute and poorly predicted social problems in modern educational institutions around the world and in Russia has become school shooting (armed mass attacks) with tragic consequences and a long-term subsequent media effect. Revenge, the will to power, the search for universal attention: what motivates school shooters and generates a chain of subsequent tragic attacks in educational institutions? To a large extent, this is determined not only by internal factors (mental, behavioral characteristics), but also by external influence, including informational ones. The study is devoted to the study of a underexplored segment of fan-literature about school shooting and its participants, posted on the Wattpat and Ficbook media resources, from the position of identifying the main gender, thematic and content characteristics that contribute to maintaining interest in school shooting, its glorification and mythologization. The characteristic of the specifics, forms and mechanisms of promoting the ideas of school shooting in the media environment is obtained by the example of communities of creators and readers of fanfiction. The study was carried out using the methodological capabilities of modern communication theories as well as using Data-Science. It has been revealed that through fan literature, the topic of school shooting has largely become legalized, expanded its audience, and became a “gray zone”, poorly controlled from the outside.

Produced during the post-doctorate in Argentina, it is an in an essayistic form, and at times it is established as an “informal conversation” or academic memoir with the research supervisor, valuing the partnership and contributions during the internship. We emphasize the paths in a conceptual rhetorical exercise of mediatization, tradition and folkmedia, using authors from the Social Sciences and Communication. A literature review as a research technique, the objectives are the theoretical construction of mediatization and the insertion of tradition, altering its course over time, being impacted by the media and technology; and the appropriation of a communication and media industry in the face of popular demonstrations, as we call it in the concept of folkmidia. In a mediated context between technology, the network and multiple languages, aspects of tradition undergo ruptures, gradually merging a battle between values of permanence and adaptation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How 2630 Bill can make your internet worse ("Como o PL 2630 pode piorar a sua internet") is the title of one of the branded content advertisements produced and broadcast by Google in 2023, in the media landscape of the socio-political discussion of 2630/20 Bill (PL 2630/20). In this context, the article aims to understand if/how the circulation of discourse, apparently without financial pretension, combined with the monopoly of power and technological dominance, could silently constitute subterfuges for the legitimization of the corporation's market interests. The aim was to identify the effects of meaning present in the advertising campaign against the Bill, based on a discursive analysis - based on the French Line - of the ad about the Fake News Bill inserted on the search engine's homepage. It became clear that, in articulating the dynamics of production and circulation of content related to the issue of regulation, there was use of textual strategies characteristic of disinformation, as well as the circumscription of the Bill in a Discursive Formation that presupposes legislative subservience to the interests of business conglomerates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mediatization and digitalization are trends that are increasingly affecting religious communities and their communicative practices. While many aspects of these developments have been described theoretically and empirically, little is known about the dynamic interplay between digital media use, an individual's religious meaning system, and the relationships within a religious community. Building on the theory of the mediatization of religion, the functionalist perspective of religion, media selection, and co-orientation research, we propose a dynamic model of digital media use in religious communities. Hereby, the religious functions of meaning-making and social connection are considered important drivers for how individuals engage with others. Additionally, theories on media selection help our understanding of the acceptance and domestication of new technologies, as well as selective exposure to specific content. In combination, the model links the individuals with the social context of their religious communities and vice versa. Furthermore, the theoretical model helps to combine and systematize empirical research from different disciplines that are relevant to understanding today's digital religious media use. We therefore conclude with a discussion of the benefits of the model for future theoretical developments and empirical research in the field of digital religion and beyond. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The media is fundamental to socio-political life. It delivers facts to allow us to be well informed about the matters that are essential to every individual. The Constitution of The Islamic Republic of Pakistan legally protects the freedom of press and through the freedom of information ordinance 2002 and code of conduct rules 2010. However, Media has never been independent of Politics and society. Pakistan has remained under military rule and many media outlets supported and acted on its orders. Democracy is the basic necessity for an independent media. As politics became increasingly mediatized, the influence of media on the society is far reaching than individual politicians. Various media outlets and channels in Pakistan have been seen either advocating or criticizing various governments in power or in opposition. Media outlets are often associated with politicians and bureaucrats, which are privately owned. Unlike the Associated Press of Pakistan and the state owned National Broadcaster the Pakistan Television Network. This research article covers the mediatization of politics in Pakistan and various stages through which it has passed on. The study also analyses the future of media and its technology in addition the media should also train people and educate them on media responsibilities. The role of Media in any society plays a pivotal role in building a sense of decision making and portraying the image of politicians and bureaucracy. Media has been aiding as a cautious watch dog of Pakistan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we investigate how public organizations, through their senior managers, perceive media-related activities and to what extent these perceptions support the existence of a 'media logic.' We interviewed 64 managers from 40 Swedish government agencies and compared their perceptions related to media with their perceptions related to the corporate logic, which has become vital in public sector contexts. The findings reveal that media and media-oriented activities are understood as contextual, contingent, and driven by individual events. In contrast to the understandings of management and strategy (i.e. corporate logic), which was much more coherent, universal, and aligned to sectoral conditions. Accordingly, media are generally more open for interpretations, local adaptations, and contextualization, making it difficult to provide clear-cut answers to what media means for public organizations. Our study suggests that public managers understand media in a manner that challenges the media logic rationale. We also challenge an institutional logic argument that institutional structures surrounding public organizations are, in general, to be seen as open for strategic responses. Our results point in another direction. The way managers understand different institutional structures, such as those associated with media, are, to a much greater extent, characterized by uncertainty linked to a lack of necessary knowledge about what constitutes the underlying qualities of the structures at hand; and by ambiguity about what meanings to mobilize and follow when institutional structures are to be introduced into specific organizational contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Gjirokastra National Folklore Festival has been the most important showcase for staged performances of traditional expressive culture during the Communist regime. It was held every five years in Gjirokastër from 1968. More than 1500 people participated, and almost all Albanian institutions - on local and central levels - were involved in the organization. Alongside, an entire machinery of media coverage was involved, from sound and audiovisual recordings for scholarly purposes to TV broadcasting and the production of documentaries and feature films. My focus is the documentaries produced for each of the five editions, now found in the Albanian Film Archive. Through these films, we engage with the Festival as an event per se and not just as a scene for staged traditional expressive culture. This can shed light on different aspects of audiovisual representation, that is, how it has been captured, shaped, and represented as a cinematic experience. This is not supposed to be just a film analysis but a way of simultaneously engaging and interpreting what we see and hear, through a conjunction between film studies, ethnomusicology and anthropology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the wake of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, religious organizations increasingly mediatized their activities. Studies examining this process mostly focused on communal offerings, while ignoring how rapid mediatization affected programs geared toward interfaith dialogue. This paper examines the effects and possibilities of this shift to virtual spaces by focusing on frameworks that promote Jewish–Muslim dialogue in Germany. It traces how Jews and Muslims intervene in popular discourse using social media platforms to self-define their respective religions and the relationship between them. In this process, those involved in creating virtual spaces focused on the intersectionality between gender biases and Christonormativity. This paper utilizes a broad methodological approach, including participant observation in dialogue events in virtual spaces, discursive analyses of videos and podcasts, and qualitative interviews with Jews and Muslims involved in the creation of virtual spaces. The first section discusses Jewish–Muslim encounters occurring in organized dialogue events on video communication platforms that are ephemeral in nature (no recordings). The subsequent sections analyze German-language formats that have a representative character and are streamed, recorded, and presented on social media platforms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to develop a theoretical interpretation of how satellite navigation transforms drivers' experience of automotive spaces. The use of satellite navigation has, so far, been predominantly studied from a cognitivist perspective based on the computer model of cognition and the theory of spatial disengagement. Experimental studies have concluded that over-reliance on digital navigation tools diminishes spatial orientation and spatial memory. According to the dominant interpretation, satellite navigation causes disengagement from space. After addressing these approaches, the paper introduces an embodied perspective of satellite navigation. This is accomplished by applying the phenomenology of perception of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, whose notions, such as perception, body schema, motor habit, and virtual body, illuminate otherwise undertheorized dimensions of drivers' spaces. By using digital tools for wayfinding, drivers' body schema, virtual body, and perception of space are modified, thereby enabling an engagement with convoluted 'mesh spaces.' This new term is integral to the interpretation of drivers' spaces, as well as being distinct from that of 'hybrid space,' although both aim to conceptualize spaces, including physical objects and their visual representations. Conclusions will be drawn against the broader context of the mediatization of everyday life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Professional economists wield considerable power as experts and policymakers. Consequently, economists frequently appear in the media, where they comment on current economic issues and assess economic policy options. Despite the status of economists, little is known about the relationship between economists and the media and how economists use the media to promote economic and political interests. Building on the scholarship on the mediatization of expertise, this article analyzes the mediatization of the economist profession. The article draws on 17 semi-structured interviews with Finnish economists who appear frequently in the news media. The findings reveal how institutions from private banks to research institutes use economists to advance their economic and political interests via the media. It is found that using social media and serving journalists are elemental parts of an economist's job description. Furthermore, economists work closely with communications professionals to advance organizational interests. This article argues that further research should analyze how mediatization intertwines with the work of economic experts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study analyzes the impact of the media on political processes in the world and in Ukraine. To achieve this goal, the methods of analysis, comparison, observation and a systematic approach were used. It was found that the influence of the media on politics depends on many factors, is diverse and variable. The media shape public opinion creates perceptions of politicians, political phenomena and processes, and determines which events are important and which are not. They exercise public control over the government, conduct investigative journalism, uncover corruption, and write about the shortcomings of the government. This influences the political decision-making process. In the context of the development of information technology, the media have moved part of their activities to the Internet space, creating platforms for discussing political decisions and current issues, and publishing different points of view. Citizens can communicate directly with politicians and candidates, comment on events, criticize their activities or express support. Social media expands opportunities for mobilizing new voters to support a political force or activists to participate in mass actions. The actions of the media can influence public sentiment, the electoral process, and international relations, and can reduce or increase the degree of tension in society. The Ukrainian media and the model of their interaction with politics are going through a transitional period of development, being influenced by globalization processes and other global trends. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]