Media Construction Research Articles

MEDIA STRATEGY IN UPHOLDING THE TRUTH IN POST TRUTH ERA

Initially the mass media acted as the sole interpreter of truth, but now it is divided into many versions of truth. The treatise of truth presented is distorted by the truths of media construction on the internet network. Truth is no longer valuable and becomes relative. This condition made people confused, believing the truth from the media soon disappeared because it was annulled by other media. However, the public cannot be separated from their dependence on information and always seek and apply themselves to the media. Based on this description, the research is directed to uncover the phenomenon of truth in the post-truth era by using qualitative methods that emphasize mainstream media strategies in spreading, shaping, and confirming public beliefs. The results of the study show that the strategy of upholding the truth is part of daily activities by penetrating online networks carried out by all subsidiaries by spreading the truth based on the ethical principles contained in the Journalistic Code of Ethics and the Basic Press Law, as well as value principles that refer to facts, objectivity. , as well as verification, as a guide to the value of information by educating the public about the types of verified information, conducting campaigns regarding media credibility, to efforts to support the movement to fight hoax.

Construction of online Media Against the Procession of Kendi Nusantara

The IKN Law has been ratified by the House of Representatives. Then, to mark the start of a giant project, namely building a new IKN, President Joko Widodo conducted a procession at the zero point location. The procession is pouring soil and water from 34 provinces into a container called Kendi. This event not only raises the pros and cons, but also creates a mystical, occult, and magical impression for some people. Likewise, the media construct messages in various ways and styles. The purpose of this study was to determine the message construction by detik.com and kompas.com in framing the news regarding the Kendi Nusantara procession. The object of this research is the coverage of the two online media at the specified time. This research method is qualitative with framing analysis. Data were analyzed using Zhongdang Pan and Gerald M. Kosicki's framing analysis. The results showed that these two online media reported the same phenomenon with different styles.

Research on the Combination Path of Influencing Factors on the Dissemination Effect of Gossip News on “Marriage Change” Issues: Focusing on Qualitative Comparative Analysis

Objective Gossip news is a popular news product specially designed for gossip fans and suitable for mass communication. Under the background of news marketization, the social influence of gossip news has increased dramatically, and the relevant research is urgent. “Marriage change” is a topic of great concern to the audience in gossip news, so it is necessary to understand the combination path of the main influencing factors affecting its dissemination. Results This paper builds an analysis framework of “content communication” concerning the qualitative comparative analysis method. In the five years from 2018 to 2022, 10 gossip news on “marriage change” topics with strong communication effects were selected as research cases. The qualitative comparative analysis method (QCA) was adopted to analyze the research samples, and the combination of conditions of high communication effect was obtained. Conclusion From the two dimensions of social construction attribute and media construction attribute, this study reveals the combination of conditions that affect the communication effect of gossip news on the topic of “marriage change”, including perceptual and rational combination paths.

Media discourses on the socio-spatial rights of older people living with dementia and their carers.

Media discourses about people living with dementia and carers contribute to the ways in which public, social spaces are designed, planned, and used. Negative media discourses play an important role in the socio-spatial exclusion of people living with dementia and stigmatising and dehumanising language prevents the achievement of genuine, rights-based dementia-friendly environments. Because the media plays a powerful role in shaping public attitudes, there is a need to understand media constructions of people living with dementia and carers in relation to their socio-spatial rights, which is the aim of this paper. A Foucauldian-inspired discourse analysis (FDA) was conducted on the public news media texts of one regional Australian city, to identify discourses relating to the socio-spatial rights of people living with dementia and carers. Lefebvre's (1996) 'right to the city' concept was used as a conceptual framework, to define socio-spatial rights. Analysis revealed discourses relating to the right to urban citizenship, the right to difference and socio-spatial justice. Representations of participatory democracy, important to urban citizenship, are absent, as are the voices of people living with dementia. Through advocacy from others and a lens of citizenship, socio-spatial rights for people living with dementia, and in one instance carers, are recognised, in the context of dementia-awareness and dementia-friendly initiatives. While a lens of personhood constructs people living with dementia as historical and relational beings, a citizenship lens adds a spatial dimension. Advocacy and the lenses of personhood and citizenship are important in creating positive constructions of people living with dementia, however, their participation in decision-making processes would confer an active citizenship status, and the inclusion of their authentic voices in media discourse would contribute to raising awareness towards rights-based dementia-friendly communities.

A typology of sexism in contemporary business schools: Belligerent, benevolent, ambivalent, and oblivious sexism

AbstractThe legitimacy of business schools is based on rankings, revenues, branding, and opportunities to support staff and students “to make a difference in the world”. Yet sexism in business schools is endemic. Drawing on Acker's inequality regimes framework and a thematic analysis of reports in Poets&Quants, EFMD's Global Focus and AACSB International's BizEd/AACSB Insights over a decade, this study explores how business schools are dealing (or not) with sexism. We propose a typology of four categories of sexism in business schools: belligerent, benevolent, ambivalent, and oblivious sexism. Our findings contribute to understandings of institutional theory and the institutional development of business schools as important sites of (sexist and gendered) knowledge production and dissemination and entrenched inequalities. We posit that media constructions of sexism may better inform individual decisions, organizational development, and governance about the imperative to eliminate sexist behaviors and discrimination. We argue that business schools need to gain substantive legitimacy as effective role models by reforming themselves. They must actively tackle institutional and cultural sexism from within. Implications for practice include the effective inclusion of mandatory sexism reporting in international business school accreditation standards and rankings criteria as well as requirements for research funding.

Mapping the Police-Media Institutional Relationship

The relationship between police and media has been and remains one of the most significant for both institutions. The modern police and modern newspaper developed contemporaneously, each influencing the form, function, and popular appeal of the other. Theories of media and power, however, often address the police as part of larger power structures and ignore the unique police-media institutional relationship.
 This research paper establishes essential characteristics of the police-media relationship and identifies frequent sites of interaction between them, with a focus on crime reporting. Media effects, dominant ideology, and institutional approaches are then assessed as interpretive frameworks, concluding that institutional theory provides the strongest theoretical model for analyzing internal and interorganizational behaviours.
 The professional norms and practices that compose police and media institutional logics are defined, and their historical origins and evolutions are investigated. These long-established logics continue to direct how police and media construct and respond to crime, and consequently how crime is perceived by the public and treated by legal authorities. Because the habits of crime reporting shape policing practices, altering routine media coverage of crime and police issues may help address systemic problems in policing.

News on fake news

Abstract This article presents a qualitative study of media discourses around fake news, examining 288 news articles from two national elections in Denmark in 2019. It explores how news media construct fake news as a national security threat and how journalists articulate their own role in relation to this threat. The study draws on discourse theory and the concept of logics to critically map how particular meaning ascriptions and subject positions come to dominate over others, finding five logics undergirding media discourses: (1) a logic of anticipation; (2) a logic of exteriorisation; (3) a logic of technologisation; (4) a logic of securitisation; and (5) a logic of pre-legitimation. The article concludes that fake news is constructed as an ‘ultimate other’ in Danish media discourses, potentially contributing to blind spots in both public perception and political solutions. This resonates with previous studies from other geo-political contexts, calling for further cross-national research.

Окружающий мир как симулятивная реальность: о коммуникационных основах современного мировоззрения

This article is devoted to the study of the communication foundations of the worldview phenomenon, which is considered as a subjective system of perception, interpretation and evaluation of events, processes, and phenomena of the surrounding world, as well as behavioral strategies based on a holistic, consistent set of beliefs, values, symbols and meanings, the bearer of which is an individual or social community. The paper proposes a conceptual prism of the functional features of the worldview, which is based on the law of the necessary diversity of W.R. Ashby. Within the framework of the proposed conceptual prism, the author explores the structure of the worldview phenomenon, as well as the functional dualism of communication tools used in the processes of worldview formation. The article analyzes the current state of the worldview formation processes in the contemporary world. Special attention is given to the role of traditional media and modern digital information and communication resources, through which, under the current conditions of globalization, attempts are made to eliminate worldview diversity and form a single worldview system based on a universal system of values, meanings, symbols, and ideas. In this regard, the thesis is put forward about the emergence in the modern world of a line of tension associated with a value-semantic conflict, within which scenarios of preserving the diversity of traditional national worldview systems or their complete replacement with modern simulated media constructs supported at the global level by leading geopolitical actors are opposed. As part of the analysis of these scenarios, special attention is paid to the need to ensure national information sovereignty, as the ability of the state to maintain its own diversity at the national level. The article shows that in the current conditions of technological transformations and the formation of a global digital space for constructing universal meanings, values and cultural codes, traditional national worldview systems are subject to significant external influences and significant risks of transformation. The author concludes that the contemporary man, due to his isolation from the highly dynamic and complex world, is forced to use only explanatory media models that are displaced relative to reality and constructed with the help of information and communication resources to form his own worldview. These explanatory models form a picture of ideas about the world, as well as a “correct” worldview complex.

Ghost Written

This visual essay presents a feminist counter-fiction to the likely fictional narratives the media has used to describe Sarah Winchester’s reclusive life in the labyrinthine mansion she designed for herself in the Santa Clara Valley, California (1886–1922). Given Winchester’s continual construction of uninhabited rooms in that house and given her decision to offer no explanation for her designs, the media has projected narratives of haunting and madness onto Winchester and her house. Without dismissing the possibility of those readings, our feminist counter-fiction does not presume to assign a specific meaning to Winchester’s designs. Instead, we ghost-write two soundtracks along the edges of filmstrips that trans-mediate the narratives of so-called yellow journalism and of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s story of haunting and madness, ‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’ (1892), into the sepia tones of early cinematic imagery. Specifically, we visualise Winchester as a media construct and the media’s fabulation about the columns in Winchester’s house and about her would-be seance room, where the public apparently saw nothing more than a woman’s silhouette projected onto a curtained window. While we offer nothing to penetrate that curtain, which we have trans-mediated to a cinematic screen that divides us from her interiority, we see traces of objects and a shadow ostensibly tracing a pattern from behind the curtain. Thus, we draw inspiration from Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s uncanny ability to ghost-write the hymenal curtain/screen between Jacques Derrida’s labyrinthine columns of text. Tolling the bell of Derrida’s Glas, this essay positions Winchester’s pendular body in a space where the interiority of her designing pleasure eludes representation because that pleasure is not dependent on the reproduction of meaning. We pastiche certain forms from the Winchester House, but these forms, akin to the impossibility of Gilman’s yellow wallpaper, do not amount to the meaning of a total design.

PENGEMBANGAN MEDIA PEMBELAJARAN INTERAKTIF BERBASIS LECTORA INSPIRE DALAM MENINGKATKAN HASIL BELAJAR SISWA KELAS X LINTAS MINAT PADA MATA PELAJARAN GEOGRAFI DI SMAN 1 PADANG SAGO

This study analyzes interactive learning using Lektora Inspire. The 4D research approach developed by Thiagarajan is used: define, design, develop, and distribute. The students of class X cross-interest at SMAN 1 Padang Sago were studied. The construction of interactive learning media based on Lectora Inspire Inspire by media, language, education, and IT lecturers, and the results obtained are 0.737 and are acceptable. The study revealed that this media can be created and the location of the media determined using Microsoft Excel, with a score of 214 with a mean of 4.89 and 98% with “Very Good” information. The practicality test of Lectora Inspire media based on questionnaire data obtained a score of 2,920 with an average of 4.71, 94% with "Very Practical" knowledge

“Traditional” Media is Used to Focus on the Construction of Gender Cognition of Middle School Students in Mainland China

With the arrival of the era of disenchantment described by the famous sociologist Weber, our human society has stepped into a new era, but some of the social characteristics in this era all reflect the reflection and high self-reflection of this era. One of the most expressive things is the collision of multiple values and epistemological systems, which is called the “war of the gods”. This will encourage people to grasp the mutual influence and internal causal connection of various factors in a specific situation from the rationalization process in a broad sense. And establish a kind of self-constructed idealized knowledge, emphasizing the binary construction of understanding, communication, and trust factors in the process of socialization. Therefore, if too much epistemological self-disturbance is excluded, the more interesting manifestation is that the traditional media construction process of gender cognition of middle school students is actually a unilateral and passive self-construction mode. Especially for Chinese mainland middle school students, it has greater value and will reflect the difference in cognitive mode; the difference itself is due to a series of social policies, school policy, and the pressure of the college entrance examination, it is difficult to strengthen through self connection and social network, and more tend to be strengthened in the so-called correct knowledge in school. Therefore, the influence of cognition in schools is more single or monotonous, without the existence of many different perceptions in society. At least, the influence of this point on the research can be excluded to a large extent. The purpose of this study is to have a more intuitive understanding of the intuitive impact of traditional media on middle school students in the current environment, where it is extremely luxurious and difficult to completely eliminate or cut off such connections. The results of the tracking interviews were used to standardize the study.

Political leadership in transboundary crises, responsibility attributions, and the role of the media: a synthesis of previous research and theoretical extension

ABSTRACT With the increasing frequency of transboundary crises in the twenty-first century – examples from the past are the financial crisis, the migration crisis and the current coronavirus pandemic – the need for political leadership beyond national borders is growing. As public visibility is an essential leadership resource with regard to transboundary leadership, the question arises of how media construct and thus legitimize political leadership in transboundary crises. The basic theoretical assumption is that perceived leadership in a transboundary crisis results from publicly observable processes of attributing responsibility beyond geographical and hierarchical boundaries. Consequently, a tool for capturing attribution statements, their senders and addressees as well as their reasoning in the media coverage is presented.

MEDIA AND SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION BASED ON LOCAL WISDOM IN COVID 19 DISASTER MANAGEMENT IN SUMENEP DISTRICT

The purpose of this study was to find out how social and media construction was built as part of the early Covid-19 mitigation efforts by the Sumenep district government and how the institutional role of volunteer groups in efforts to cope with the Covid-19 disaster in Sumenep district. This research is a qualitative-descriptive research by taking the research subject of person and paper. The subjects of the paper are written documents in the form of legislation or other library materials that have relevance to the research data, while the subject persons are stakeholders and community groups at the research location (Batang-Batang and Bluto). The results of this study indicate that the handling of the Covid 19 disaster in Sumenep Regency was carried out with several steps including 1) strengthening community involvement through coordination meetings with village heads, community leaders and leaders of religious organizations, 2) stimulus policies in the form of giving gifts to the community (sembako, and door prizes). , 3) involvement of ulama figures through moral testimony, 4) pick-up technique for villagers

Character Education Based on Javanese Cultural Values in Madrasah Aliyah Al Islam Surakarta, MAN 2 Semarang, and Madrasah Aliyah Al Manshur Popongan

<p>This study aims to analyze the importance of character education based on Javanese cultural values and the implementation of character education construction based on Javanese cultural values. The objects of this research were Madrasah Aliyah Al Islam Surakarta, MAN 2 Semarang, and Madrasah Aliyah Al Manshur Popongan. In its implementation, qualitative research was used with phenomenological and naturalistic approaches. Data collection techniques were through observation, interviews, and documentation. The discussion in this article leads to the conclusion that Javanese culture is vital since it can be used as a medium and means of forming students' character, containing the fundamental beliefs and knowledge sources in harmony with Islamic teachings. The implementation process is through the construction of approaches, values, methods, media, strategies, and evaluations reflected in the 2013 curriculum and Central Java Regional Regulation Number 9 of 2012, which are integrated into every subject, extracurricular activities, school culture, habituation and exemplary, and school regulations.</p>

From industry development to social influence: video games in Chinese newspaper coverage, 2010–2020

Through quantitative content analysis, this study outlines the media construction of video games in Chinese newspapers in the period 2010–2020 from four aspects: dominant themes, tones, benefits–threats, and stakeholders. The findings indicate that the dominant themes of game coverage shifted from the commercial and industrial fields to social concerns, while the tone toward gaming became more negative. Entertainment remained the most prominent benefit of gaming in media coverage, while media concerns about game addiction increased immensely. Notably, game developers increased their presence as information sources. They were also the dominant responsibility takers for the gaming impacts in 2010–2015, after which the media more frequently attributed responsibility to all stakeholders.

Radio: The Indigenous Peoples Media Construction of the Concept of Na-tion

This study explored whether radio had an impact on the indigenous peoples or Bihug of Camarines Norte, Philippines in developing their concept of nation. Descriptive and exploratory research designs were used. Through a multi-level approach, the intensive qualitative component of the research procedure was addressed, the construction of the indigenous peoples’ concept of nation through radio listening. Thematic analysis was used to process the data gathered. The study employed Anderson’s theory on imagined communities as a social construction and Crisell’s characteristics of radio. Radio in the community of the indigenous peoples did not appear to play a primary role in the construction of their concept of nation; rather their actual encounters with people in various activities, their knowledge of places, the recognition given to their benefactors and stories from ancestors which helped in the realization of the extent of their assimilation with the lowlanders, their being Filipino, and their membership of a minority group were the main contributory factors. Although radio was not the main source, it contributed to the formation of their concept of nation as events, places, sense of belongingness, and benefactors. This study, which dealt with the role of radio in the formation of the indigenous peoples’ concept of nation in Camarines Norte, Philippines also considered other factors which may influence the construction of a concept of nation aside from radio like other mass media, and their social encounters with members of NGOs, other agencies and institutions, barangay officials and the constituents of the community where they stay.

Diskursus Media Online Tentang Problematika Jember Fashion Carnaval (JFC) di Kabupaten Jember

This research departs from the phenomenon of media in constructing reality. The reality displayed by the media is judged as the real truth by the audience, but the reality that is displayed by the media is not a single truth. As the reality of the 18th JFC controversy in 2019 becomes an interesting topic to discuss with Halliday discourse analysis model. Thus, the purpose of this study is to describe the online media discourse about the JFC problems in Jember district. This study uses a descriptive qualitative approach. The results of this study indicate that: 1) the mass media participate in the discourse of Muslim communication battles against reality through the construction of news in the mass media, especially online media; 2) The mass media, both electronic media and online media, talk about Cinta Laura Kiehl as one of the ambassadors whose appearance does not deserve to be displayed in the JFC event in media construction; and 3) the online media Bangsaonline.com and Potretjember.com talk about Cinta Laura Kiehl as an ambassador for the JFC event, which can damage the image of Jember as a city of students.
 Keywords: Discourse, Online Media, Problem JFC

“Happy” in Za’atari: Difference and Global Belonging in the Refugee Camp Imaginary

This article analyzes two video remakes of Pharrell Williams’s hit song “Happy” portraying Za’atari refugeechildren. I discuss the role that the “Happy” tribute video trend had in developing a global imaginary that lends itself to current conversations around humanitarian happiness and “deexceptionalizing” migration and humanitarian space. I look at the videos in relationship to this trend and to the media construction of Za’atari camp as “city.” In the context of this debate and reading the videos through the paradigm of global urbanness such as we also see in the “Happy” craze, I argue that in fact the videos show the limits of the ideology of global belonging when it comes to the refugee camp and of the incommensurability of contemporary humanitarian and global imaginaries, even in an age defined by the sway of new media.

Beyond Caster as object? Examining media constructions of Caster Semenya through decolonial thinking

ABSTRACT The popular media coverage of South African track and field star Caster Semenya showcases how colonialist discourses shaped the sexed, gendered, and racialised meaning of her public biography. Yet, when researchers study Semenya as their research ‘object’, does this act of inquiry reproduce the knowledge constructs of Western coloniality as well? In this article, we consider both issues by conducting and reflecting on our poststructuralist analysis of popular media coverages of Semenya’s athletic career, with specific attention to her dealings with gender-verification testing. We examine the discursive construction of Semenya’s public biography by popular newspaper outlets in the United States and South Africa from 2009 to 2019, arguing that both geopolitical locales maintained Western social binaries and scientific discourses concerning Semenya’s sexual identity in similar, yet distinct ways. Drawing from the poststructuralist methodology of intertextuality, we reflect on its capacity to deconstruct the colonial discourses shaping the cultural meaning of a non-Western athlete of colour such as Semenya, as well as its relation, as a method of knowledge production, to the epistemological legacies of Western coloniality. We also contend that by approaching Semenya as the ‘object’ of our poststructuralist framework, our analysis implicitly reproduced, rather than challenged, the Eurocentric subject/object framework of modern (Western) epistemology. Thus, our purposes are empirical, methodological, and reflexive as we seek to contribute to critical analyses of the constructed cultural meaning of celebrity athletes while subjecting our own research assumptions and frameworks to poststructuralist and decolonial deconstruction.

Review: Media Hot and Cold, by Nicole Starosielski

Review: <i>Media Hot and Cold</i>, by Nicole Starosielski