Television and Mass Media
Don DeLillo's work is known for addressing certain topics in depth; among these are television and consumerism. Most articles focus their attention on White Noise; however, if one reads pretty much any work by DeLillo, mass media – newspapers, radio, television, film, the internet, in addition to the mass consumption and information overload that comes with them – will be present either as a major thematic concern or a steady, omniscient buzz in the background. For the handful of texts in which it is not, particularly those of the twenty-first century, their characters often retreat to almost uninhabited and occasionally downright inhospitable settings, making the near absence of technology all the more palpable. Written before the release of The Silence (2020), this chapter demonstrates how DeLillo’s body of work – from Americana (1970) to Zero K (2016) – documents how mass media since the mid-twentieth century has helped shape individual identity, culture, and history in the USA, as well as anticipating some of the dangers mass media man poses to contemporary society.
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- 10.1007/bf01499171
- Oct 1, 1994
- Law and Human Behavior
Previous research on how jurors are prejudiced by pretrial publicity (PTP) has focused on the impact of print media (i.e., newspapers). However, in this “television age”, we are exposed to compelling and vivid images of crimes and cases. This raises the question of whether potential jurors may be more influenced by television media (e.g., news programs or televised hearings) then print media (e.g., newspaper and magazine articles). Using an actual case involving extensive PTP, the present study varied the type of medium (print articles, video, articles+video) presented to potential jurors. The results indicated that exposure to the various media had a prejudicial impact on people, and that they were unaware of their biases. As hypothesized, television exposure and television plus print articles biased potential jurors significantly more than exposure to print media alone.
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- 10.46799/syntax-idea.v6i3.3027
- Mar 25, 2024
- Syntax Idea
In the current digital era, mass media has a significant influence on the individual socialization process. Apart from television which has long been the main medium, new media platforms such as social media and other digital platforms are increasingly popular and have become an integral part of everyday life. The aim of this research is to explore the effects of media on socialization, with a focus on the role of television and new media platforms. This study used qualitative research methods. The data collection technique in this research is literature study. The data that has been collected is then analyzed in three stages, namely data reduction, data presentation and drawing conclusions. The research results show that television media and new media platforms such as social media have a significant influence on people's behavior and thought patterns. These media influence the way people communicate, obtain information, and form opinions. Social media also allows people to participate in discussions, share information, and influence the views of others. However, the use of social media can also directly influence social interactions, change the way people communicate, and influence people's thought patterns and behavior. Apart from that, social media can also influence social, cultural and norm changes in society.
- Research Article
- 10.5958/j.2231-0657.13.2.013
- Jan 1, 2013
- Siddhant- A Journal of Decision Making
Recognition and recall are important components of effective advertising. The impact of different media over recall and recognition is also different. The debate is centered around which group of media has an edge over the others in terms of advertising effectiveness, while accepting the notion about their effectiveness in this regard. However it ignores the mutual interdependency and nature of interdependency between the two categories of media, i.e. electronic and non-electronic media, especially the outdoor media. In the present study, we have taken the same issue for systematic investigation to find out the mutual interdependency and its characteristics in a particular region of India having its own unique socio-economic and cultural features. In this sense, our basic question is whether the outdoor media has primary or secondary role, or supplementary and catalyst role in advertising effectiveness. It appears that television (TV) media has a crucial role in initiating and creating interest in ads, but the strategic role of sustaining and promoting interests in ads is in the hands of other media exposures, viz., outdoor, in-store display, etc. In this sense, outdoor and other media, including in-store display, have the role of a catalyst for TV media-created ad interests and recall at the point of purchase.
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- 10.32461/2226-0285.2.2022.270543
- Dec 27, 2022
- Almanac "Culture and Contemporaneity"
The purpose of the article is to reveal the peculiarities of the development of mass broadcasting culture in the context of the specifics of modern mass media (the case study of television and print media). Research methodology. The methods of analysis and synthesis, the method of structuring, and the system method have been used to understand the peculiarities of mass media influence on the process of developing mass speech culture. The typological method enabled revealing the peculiarities of conventional and modern media in the context of the transformation of mass broadcasting culture. The abstract-logical method has contributed to the generalisation of the development trends of broadcasting culture and the role of mass media in their formation. Scientific novelty. The impact of modern mass media on the process of formation and development of mass broadcasting culture has been studied. The concepts of "speech culture" and "mass speech culture" have been clarified and supplemented. Typical for the beginning of the XXI century positive and negative trends in the influence of mass media on speech culture have been revealed. Peculiarities of the influence of the latest foreign language borrowings in the context of the specifics of the development of modern mass media have been considered. Conclusions. At the current stage, in relation to Ukrainian-language communication and verbal code, we can talk about the phenomena of mass culture at the level of psychological, political, etc. culture. Mass speech culture is formed as a certain popular way of communication used by the majority in society regardless of status and social roles in public and everyday communication. Mass media – traditional and new media – play an important role in this, as they are the ones who broadcast and reproduce the patterns of speech behaviour characteristic of modern society (for example, words, expressions, and speech phrases relevant to this socio-cultural space, quotes from characters, and speech memes). The study revealed that the influence of traditional mass media (television and print publications) on the formation of mass media culture at the present stage has increased due to the development of information and communication technologies, which has created the prerequisites for access unlimited by time and space parameters. Despite the presence of negative factors of the influence of traditional media on mass speech culture, due to changes in their system and functions as a result of globalisation processes, which is manifested in the appearance of a huge number of lexical borrowings, language simplifications on the one hand and the spread of specific regional practices (slang, dialect, sociolect), on the other hand, there is definitely a positive experience of creating a media text characterised by a high level of speech behaviour. Important in the context of raising the level of mass broadcasting culture, in our opinion, is the maintenance of a high level of the language of mass media. Key words: mass broadcasting culture, mass media, traditional media, television.
- Research Article
- 10.62379/jiksp.v2i2.1717
- Oct 24, 2024
- Jurnal Ilmu Komunikasi Dan Sosial Politik
With communication, humans can connect and interact with other humans. Communication can also help in terms of information sharing and education, one of which is by using mass media. Information that is not clear about its truth and authenticity can cause social conflicts in society, therefore it is important to learn about the disadvantages and benefits obtained from the mass media. One of the mass media that is currently still trusted in terms of conveying information, be it an event, phenomenon, or entertainment, is the television media. Television is a means of communication media that plays a role in conveying messages to the audience, one of which is messages in the form of information or news related to public problems. The Voice People's Program aired on iNews is a program with a talk show format that discusses problems or events that are currently occurring. What is discussed in this study is about the Role of Gatekeeping in the Live Voice People's Talk Show Program on iNews, by using a descriptive qualitative research method with a constructivist paradigm through case study analysis, then the theory used is the Westley and Maclean's model Gatekeeping theory. The results of the study show the importance of the role of gatekeepers in the People's Voice program by going through several important stages, then there are several individuals who play an important role as gatekeepers. So that information conveyed to the public can be well received and worthy of being broadcast to the public through television media.
- Research Article
- 10.1016/s1042-0991(15)30735-0
- Aug 1, 2014
- Pharmacy Today
New ideas in urology: 2014 update
- Book Chapter
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- 10.1355/9789814786003-010
- Dec 31, 2017
It is well known that the business models of the mainstream media industry have been thrown into disarray by the arrival of the internet, which has enabled widespread diversification of media content, mostly delivered for free. In fact, of all industries, digitalisation's impact has affected the media industries first, and most compellingly. Although Indonesia's official internet penetration rates remain low, Indonesians with internet access are living in a time of tremendous choice for online news, informa-tion and entertainment. Individual citizens can also maintain their own participatory media sites, including blogs, Facebook pages and YouTube channels. For the mainstream media companies, digitalisation is bringing enormous challenges, but also significant opportunities. This chapter explains how digitalisation has favoured the larger media companies, whose owners have become wealthier and more politically powerful, and has hindered smaller news sites, some of which are dying out. Despite the fragmentation of media content caused by the internet, digitalisation has enabled further concentration of the mainstream media. Industrial media remains a key avenue by which elites exert power in Indonesia. In the early days of the internet, many scholars predicted that the ‘new’ online media platforms would replace the ‘old’ or ‘traditional’ media of print, radio and television. Rather, what occurred was that the platforms converged, and the distinct delineation between online and print or television media became largely redundant as old and new media began to ‘collide’ (Jenkins 2006). All major news companies in Indonesia began to acquire digital television and radio stations; online news and social media sites; citizen journalism ventures; and even new daily print publications as newspapers merged and converged. The mainstream media companies believe that to survive financially in the digital era, they must swiftly morph into multiplatform news services. New digital technologies are allowing for a convergence of social media with print, television, radio, telecommunications, cable television, satellites, gaming, citizen journalism and much more. The previously traditional media companies are now branching out into other digital business ventures such as e-commerce, creating larger digital ‘ecosystems’. This has led many in the media industry and those who study it to rightly ask: ‘What exactly is a media company in the digital age?’ (Economist 2006).
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- 10.1016/j.cjca.2019.03.015
- Mar 20, 2019
- Canadian Journal of Cardiology
Information on Cardiovascular Disease in the Digital Era: Results From a Cross-Sectional Patient Survey
- Research Article
- 10.9790/0837-197296109
- Jan 1, 2014
- IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science
Upon the citizens’ completion of their formal education, media become their most accessible and sometimes the only source of information on scientific achievements, debates, events and scientists’ work. Science and scientists are displayed in the mass media on a day-to-day basis. People gain the major part of their knowledge on science and scientists through television and other mass media. The present study was conducted to investigate the effect of mass media on increased public understanding of science. The population of the study consisted of all Isfahan citizens aged over 15 years old. A number of 384 citizens were selected as the participants using quota sampling method. Data analysis was done using SPSS and Amos software. The results showed that the mean score of public interest in the topics of science and technology was above average. The majority of respondents had a positive attitude toward science and technology though the findings revealed that the citizens’ level of scientific knowledge was below the average. Moreover, the majority of people were found to gain their understanding of science throughout their lifetime so that they collect the information necessary for this understating from an array of situations and for various reasons such as the mass media. The variable ‘mass media’ obtained a Gamma coefficient of 0.36 in the structural equation model and proved to exert a significant effect on the public understanding of science. The fit indices indicate that the collected data well confirmed the developed model.
- Book Chapter
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- 10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.013.343
- Mar 28, 2018
- Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History
The emergence, spread, and transformation of media technologies in North Africa has attracted much attention over the past decade. Yet the disruptive effects of technological mass media have been a defining feature of North African modernity from the mid-19th century to the present. Classically distinguished from pre-modern oral and scribal transmissions by “technological reproducibility,” mass media offer capacities both for simultaneous collective address (i.e., broadcast), and for nearly limitless copying (i.e., reproduction) and re-transmission (i.e., sharing). As such, dramatic expansions in mass media, from print journals, or “the press,” to electronic broadcast media of radio and television, small media of audio and video cassettes, and Internet-based and mobile digital media, have sustained modern North African political movements and mass publics, from anticolonial nationalism to postcolonial nation-state building and the 21st-century Arab Spring. Any understanding of contemporary mass media, including digital media, in North Africa must consider how these current media movements reprise and transform earlier forms of political consciousness, community, and protest grounded in a century of new media.
- Research Article
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- 10.36615/jcsa.v39i1.1525
- Oct 6, 2022
- Communicare: Journal for Communication Studies in Africa
Based on the 2016 presidential election in Uganda as covered on the NTV Facebook page,this paper, emanating from a doctoral study, shows how the medium of television has massmediatised Facebook. The onset of social media has meant that audiences increasingly turnto such platforms for their information needs, including news. As a consequence, the traditionalmedia’s role of providing such news and information updates is demoted and threatened. In orderto stay relevant, mass media has had to join social media platforms to provide the aforementionedinformation/news. In attempting to do so, mass media has consequently mediatised social media,especially as seen through the lens of the agenda-setting theory, which this paper argues is incontrast with the discursive nature of social media as a public sphere.
- Research Article
- 10.35870/ijsecs.v3i3.1914
- Dec 30, 2023
- International Journal Software Engineering and Computer Science (IJSECS)
The insufficient number of alumni students displaying a strong work ethic can be attributed to a mismatch between the talents and interests of alumni in the UINSU MEDAN KPI area, which should be the focal point of monitoring for these Indonesian youths. The effective management of alumni can offer a potential solution. In this study, researchers employed the ANP method to calculate career recommendations and ranked them using the TOPSIS method. The research methodology included a comprehensive literature review, observational data collection, interviews, documentation analysis, system flowchart design, ANP method application, TOPSIS method application, and system testing conducted using the black box method. Based on the calculations using the ANP and TOPSIS methods, Alternative A1 emerged as the top priority, scoring 1, while Alternative A13 received the lowest priority with a score of 0.13. These calculations were based on six criteria: discipline, honesty, responsibility, teamwork skills, and technical or practical proficiency. The highest-ranked career recommendation was "Insight into print, radio, and television media" with a manual priority of 0.7747 and a system-assigned priority of 0.73. Conversely, "Cameramen in television media" received the lowest score, with a value of 0.13 and a system-assigned priority of 0.13.
- Research Article
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- 10.9790/7388-04532128
- Jan 1, 2014
- IOSR Journal of Research & Method in Education (IOSRJRME)
The present study is to examine the television is a dominant source of infotainment for youths in Bangalore city.Television has direct and straight relation withyouth's lives.At early stage of their life they become familiar to several programs of television.The early exposures to the television the youths are mainly depend on television as an important media for their information and entertainment.Television plays a significant role in the lives of youths, in the development moral formation and attitudinal change in the daily lives.Youths are more intelligent in understanding a choosing their content from television programs.The most significant social trends during 21st century involved the rise of television as the dominant leisure time activity for most people in nations where television was widely available.The prime aim of this study is to find out the how television is an important source for their infotainmentTelevision is not only eroded values; it has also managed to group out old-fashioned conversation and more amusements like reading.Family members have now retreated into a cocoon to watch different programmes.Television today, plays a major role in shaping the society.It has a vast impact on Indian society and this effect is both positive and negative.The advent of television has changed and reformed Indian society to a great extent.In this present study the survey is conducted to know how television is an important source of information and entertainment for youths.
- Research Article
- 10.31315/ijcs.v1i1.1317.g1184
- Jul 1, 2008
The study deals with three issues i..e how the mass media especially print in Indonesia represent political party in the period of 2007-2008 prior to the 2009 general election, what the public think of the performance of political party, and which sources the public acces to get information about political parties’ performance. The survey and in-depth interview are used in the study focuses in Solo Central Java. The study suggests that the mass media often represent political party negatively and the public tends to think the performance of politial party negatively as well. The public mostly get information on politics including political party from the mass media especially television and print media.
- Research Article
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- 10.24036/jpk/vol9-iss2/119
- Jun 29, 2018
- JURNAL PENDIDIKAN DAN KELUARGA
The purpose of this research is to analyze the promotion strategy through advertising media at Desa Wisata Kubu Gadang Kota Padang Panjang view from 3 indicator: print media, electronic media, outdoor media. The research is a descriptive qualitative with survey method. Determination of informant using purposive sampling and snowball sampling. The purposive sampling technique involving 2 informant from tourism govermant and 2 informant from desa wisata Kubu Gadang Kota Padang Panjang manager then snowball sampling technique involving 3 informant from desa wisata Kubu Gadang Kota Padang Panjang visitor. Technique of collecting data is done by interview, observation, and documentation. The results of this study indicate that: 1) the strength of promotion advertising are: news paper easy to get, the picture quality on brochure have a good and interesting, radio can be heard anywhere, television give information through sound and picture, desa wisata Kubu Gadang also have a website and a big billboard with a perfect lighting. 2) the weakness of promotion advertising are: there was no promotion through a brochure, there was no update on the Kubu Gadang’s website, the billboard was vulnerable of damage. 3) the opportunities of promotion advertising are: there are many people who still interest to read the newspaper and brochure, there are many people who interest of internet using, many people can see the outdoor media as if billboard and baliho. 4) the threats of promotion advertising are: there are competitor through print media, television and outdoor media. The conclusion of The promotion strategy through advertising media at Desa Wisata Kubu Gadang Kota Padang Panjang is 1) making use of print media for promotion, 2) to increase the promotion thourgh radio, television and website/internet, 3) making advertising through outdoor media as if billboard and baliho.