Effects Of Mass Media Research Articles

Unraveling the nexus: exploring the interplay of mass media, personality traits and social norms in fostering protective behavior against smog

Purpose The rise in industrialization, economic development and urbanization has altered the composition of atmospheric air. Air pollutants have significantly impacted Pakistan's urban areas, resulting in the lowest air quality index readings. To understand disinclined behavior such as using air purifiers and wearing masks, this study aims to explore the relationship between individual personality traits and mass media effects. Design/methodology/approach This study used a cross-sectional survey with a model based on previous theories. Data from 2,000 adults were self-administered and analyzed using partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). Findings PLS-SEM confirmed six hypotheses, revealing mass media's direct and mediating roles in promoting critical psychological perceptions for protective behavior. The empirical results indicate that neuroticism, agreeableness and openness traits reinforce adherence behavior by intensifying threat perception. Practical implications This paper highlights significant implications for media campaign planners and provides more precise and comprehensive theoretical guidance. In the context of environmental challenges like smog, the findings illustrate how an understanding of personality traits can improve the efficacy of public health interventions through adherence to behaviors like mask-wearing and air purifier use. Addressing individual psychological characteristics when creating mass media campaigns to encourage public adherence to health protection measures related to environmental hazards. Originality/value Despite health campaigns and awareness, public compliance with measures like mask-wearing and air purifier use remains minimal. This study explores untapped mass media effects based on individual personality traits to understand this behavior.

Prevalence of Fake News in Relation to the Responsible Netizenship of University of Luzon Criminology Students

Fake News is used to deceive people. It is an act of spreading misinformation or wrong information intentionally to misguide others to gain financial returns or political gains. For them to become law enforcers in the future, the researcher was interested in how responsible criminology students are as netizens in today’s cyberspace in terms of their capacity to spot fake news and strategies to stop it from spreading. The researcher applied the Media Dependency Theory introduced by the American communication researcher Sandra Ball-Rokeach and Melvin Defleur, it is a systematic approach to the study of the effects of mass media on audiences and of the interaction between media, audiences, and social systems. For the data collection instrument, the researcher used a dichotomous formula or simply the percentage scale to interpret the results of the answers to the given questionnaire by 288 respondents who are all criminology students. The study is premised on the conjecture of the following: 1. Fake news is prevalent online; 2. The responsibility and awareness of UL criminology students in terms of netiquettes, political manipulation, and bias in story selection; 3. Internet etiquettes (netiquettes) of UL criminology students; 4. The significant relationship between responsible citizenship and the prevalence of fake news. 5. Measures to lessen the spread of fake news

Patent uncertainty and survival: a longitudinal study of a Chinese knowledge-based international new venture

PurposeUnlike well-documented market or behavioral uncertainty, patent uncertainty has been significantly under-explored in the field of international entrepreneurship. Drawing on an institution-based view of strategy, this study investigated Netac, a Chinese knowledge-based international new venture (KINV), which was facing uncertainty over patents in China and the US. The aim was to address two questions: (1) how does patent uncertainty emerge in the context of KINVs? And (2) how can KINVs navigate patent hazards by interacting with national patent institutions?Design/methodology/approachA longitudinal single-case study approach was adopted as the most appropriate method for exploring novel business phenomena and dynamic processes.FindingsResults suggested that a KINV can adopt strategies to build a unique identity and so better conform to the expectations of institutions that ultimately decide on patent validity. Strategies may involve building institutional awareness, amplifying mass media effects, and strategically managing the intellectual property and socio-emotional tensions between China and the US.Originality/valueThis study introduced the notion of patent uncertainty into research around international new ventures, highlighting how this type of uncertainty in the advanced technology sector can affect the end-product and patent licensing opportunities of KINVs. It also explored the institution-based view of company strategy in the internationalization process by emphasizing interactive institutional mechanisms, and the role of an organization’s identity when interacting with institutions. The study enriches the literature on institutional theory and organizational identity, and also suggests solutions for firms dealing with efforts by competitors to invalidate patents.

Cognitively motivated or emotionally charged? Issue-switching mechanism of second screening-facilitated political participation during the 2022 COVID-19 waves in China

This study examines the effects of mass media and mobile media on civil behaviors in China during COVID-19 outbreaks. It explores the media practices of the Chinese public and the psychological mechanisms that led to their protests and boycotts against the government's COVID policies. Chinese official media has a reputation for depoliticizing natural disasters and censoring the online mobilization of collective actions. Based on previous research and theories regarding media multitasking and political communication, this study demonstrates the psychological mechanism by which a special type of media multitasking—second screening—contributed to political participation in a politically restrictive environment. This study contributes to existing research on media multitasking by proposing a unique theoretical framework that entails an issue-based typology of second screening. The framework expands knowledge by highlighting the importance of issue-switching and investigating its psychological influence on political participation. Previous studies have primarily focused on device-switching and its effects, so this study offers fresh insights in this field. Drawing on a nationwide online survey (N = 1180) conducted during the late-2022 wave of COVID-19 in China, this study reveals that second screening on official televised COVID-19 news can elicit simultaneous issue-switching among Chinese audiences: from the de-politicalized COVID-19 propaganda toward politics. Further, second screening on different issues (i.e., politics vs. health sciences) may instigate political participation through cognitive and emotion channels differently. That is, both political efficacy (cognitive) and negative emotions (emotion) facilitate the process, with the former making a greater contribution.

Collaboration with Triple Helix: The Mediating Effect of Mass Media in Expanding SMEs' Information Access

Purpose: The study explores how collaboration among SMEs with the Triple Helix innovation ecosystem impacts their information access and performance. It also examines the mediating role of mass media. Methodology/Approach: Data were collected from 545 SME managers and owners in Malang, Indonesia. SEM-PLS was used to analyse the data to examine the relationship of four latent variables: SME collaboration (COL), information access (IA), SME performance (SP), and collaboration with mass media (MM). Findings: The study proves the pivotal role of SME collaboration with the triple helix ecosystem to improve SME information access and performance. It is also underscoring the considerable significance of mass media mediating roles. Research Limitation/implication: The study demonstrates that SMEs can improve information acquisition through collaborations with the government, universities, and major corporations. It proposes expanding the 'triple helix' model to include mass media, thus enhancing SME development by augmenting information access capabilities alongside government, universities, and industry. Originality/Value of paper: The study adds to the existing research on the triple helix innovation ecosystem by exploring how additional elements, beyond government, universities, and industries, collaborate to support SME development, suggesting the inclusion of mass media to create a quadruple helix ecosystem.

Yoksulluk Kavramının Sosyolojik ve Ekonomik Açıdan Önemi

The concept of poverty has become very controversial on a global scale in recent years. Especially the rapid development of technology, the increase in the difference between income groups, inflation and increasing needs are among the most important reasons for this increase. Poverty with the simplest definition; It is the inability of individuals to have goods and services to sustain their lives and meet their needs, to meet their most basic needs and to not reach the income sources of the country they live in. Especially in recent years, the problem of poverty has affected the whole world and has become a threat to all developed and developing countries. Because the concept of poverty has economic, sociological and psychological aspects. After the Industrial Revolution, and especially today, the concept of poverty is getting deeper and more widespread in the whole world and in Turkey, and it affects all segments of the society. In addition, poverty has become more visible with the effects of mass media. The whole world is trying to take various measures and develop policies to deal with poverty. In this study, the sociological aspect of poverty and the changes in the poverty line, poverty rate and the number of poor people in Turkey in the last 8 years have been tried to be analyzed and interpreted from the sociological aspect.

The Mediating Effects of Mass Media and Perceived Knowledge in Shaping Consumer Trust in Organic Food Labels

The Mediating Effects of Mass Media and Perceived Knowledge in Shaping Consumer Trust in Organic Food Labels

Mass Media Effects and News Items

Mass media has very powerful tools to create public opinion. In everyday life, we are influenced by media in different ways. Media coveragehelps to define the things we think about and worry about. TheMass media influence us, but scholars are divided about how much.People choose what they read and what they listen to or watch andthey generally filter the information and images to conform to theirnotions and personal values. The Media tries to fit into the lives oftheir audience. The Media contribute both to social stability and tochange.

Mass media and its impact on opinion dynamics of the nonlinear q-voter model

With the success of general conceptual frameworks of statistical physics, many scholars have tried to apply these concepts to other interdisciplinary fields, such as socio-politics, economics, biology, medicine, and many more. In this work, we study the effect of mass media on opinion evolution based on the nonlinear q-voter by means with probability p a voter adopts the mass media opinion whenever a q-sized agent in the population is not in unanimous agreement. We perform analytical and numerical calculations for some quantities of macroscopic parameters of the model such as order parameter (representing an average of public opinion), consensus (relaxation) time, and exit probability, and obtain the agreement results. We find the power-law relations for some quantities of the model. (1) The probability threshold pt, i.e a probability that makes the system reaches a homogeneous state, follows the power-law relation pt∼qγ with the q-sized agent, where γ=−1.00±0.01 is the best fitting parameter. The probability threshold pt also eliminates the coexistence two ordered states of the model. (2) The relaxation time (the time needed by the system to reach consensus) τ with the population size N is obtained in the form of τ∼Nδ, where δ depends on the probability p and q-sized agent. We also approximate the separator point rs and the system’s scaling parameters by employing the standard finite-size scaling relation.

The Use and Effect of Mass Media in the Dissemination of Chinese Contemporary Art: A Case Study of the New Star Art Awards

As a platform for the public to know the world, the media is a carrier to carry all kinds of information and spread ideas, culture, and art. Highly developed media not only popularize the basic knowledge of art, connect the relationship between art and the public, but also promote the development of contemporary art. This paper chooses the New Star Art Awards, a representative award in the field of Chinese contemporary visual art, as a case study. It is used to analyze how the mass media is used in the dissemination of Chinese contemporary art. Then, it analyzes the positive influence of mass media on Chinese contemporary art.

다문화교육과 대중매체 경험이 성인 다문화수용성에 미치는 영향

This study pays attention to the perspective fact that appropriate policy intervention can lead to improvement in the general adult's multicultural awareness in a situation where contact is limited, aims to empirically verify the effect of multicultural education, mass media, and multicultural activities, which are the main elements of multicultural acceptance enhancement policy, on multicultural acceptance. In addition, the mediating effect of multicultural activities, which is direct contact, in the relationship between multicultural education including mass media, which is indirect contact, and multicultural acceptance, was also examined. To this end, a statistical analysis was conducted on 4,993 general adults using the 2021 National Multicultural Acceptance Survey. As a result of the analysis, it was confirmed that multicultural education and multicultural activities each had a positive (+) effect on multicultural acceptance. In addition, in the causal relationship between multicultural education and multicultural acceptance, the partial mediating effect of multicultural activities, which is direct contact, was found. However, no statistically significant causal relationship was found in the relationship between mass media and multicultural acceptance. Through this, it was confirmed that multicultural education and multicultural activities act as major factors influencing multicultural acceptability, and that multicultural activities affect multicultural acceptability as an important link in the causal relationship between multicultural education and multicultural acceptability. Based on these analysis results, we proposed as follows; measures to overcome the limitations of contact, expansion of multicultural education, overall reexamination of mass media policies, and consideration of policies linking multicultural activities to multicultural education.

A Study on the Role of Tamil Films in the Teaching of Social Issues

The impact of movies on women's empowerment has been enormous. Movies have always been one of the most essential sources of entertainment in our modern lives. In movies art, technology, commerce, entertainment, and aesthetics all come together. All four elements play a vital role in the present, as seen by the variety of their manifestations. Movies are about technology, business, and entertainment, while cinema is about aesthetics. Society has a significant influence on film, which is reflected in them. Through the big screen, the film has attempted to reflect and promote awareness about societal issues as well as women's empowerment and reelection since its inception. Casteism, politics, social discrimination, the zamindari system, untouchability, women empowerment, national integration, and so on. The main goal of this research paper is to comprehend the role of movies in the influence of women's empowerment. The following main areas have been considered: the importance of movies, movie tools, learning with movies, and examples, media in development communication, the effect of mass media on motivation, and the positive impact of movies on societies. The secondary data was thoroughly examined based on the study and was available on various mass media related to movies with social messages.

Assessment of attitude regarding effect of mass media on behavioral pattern of adolescents in selected high schools, West Bengal

Assessment of attitude regarding effect of mass media on behavioral pattern of adolescents in selected high schools, West Bengal

Beyond Media Education: Assessing News Media Literacy in Media Students of Public and Private Universities in Pakistan

Infiltration of mass media has increased the exigency of tools necessary for countering the hazardous effects of mass media. Media literacy is considered a tool essential in the 21st century for a democratic society that aims to empower the audience and provides autonomy over mass media messages. Media education plays a significant role in educating media students about theoretical and practical knowledge about media industries. The researcher has employed the “Cognitive Model of Media Literacy” proposed by Potter (2004) and seven skills of media literacy suggested by Potter (2019), particularly as related to news content. News media is supposed to be highly objective, but highlighting some news while neglecting others raises questions about the objectivity of news media. The study intends to explore the standard of media education in Pakistan in imparting news media literacy among media students enrolled in BS and Master’s degree programs. To analyze the level of theoretical and practical knowledge of media students regarding news media and their level of news literacy skills, the researcher has collected data using a cross-sectional survey of 300 students (N=300) enrolled in two public and two private universities in Pakistan, including 200 media students and 100 non-media students. Moreover, through content analysis of the curriculum of media studies mentioned in the prospectus of BS and Master’s degree programs, the standard of media education in Pakistan is also assessed. The study’s findings suggest that media students are more news media literate than non-media students, highlighting the significance of media education. Similarly, consciously and excessively consuming news media also positively affects the level of news media literacy in media students. Moreover, this study suggests that while performing information processing tasks, media students are equipped with skills to perform the task of news filtering comparatively better than meaning construction tasks. However, content analysis of the curriculum reveals that the majority of the courses related to news content focus on theoretical and practical knowledge while neglecting the significance of incorporating analytical courses crucial to harness critical thinking skills. The findings elucidate that universities offering analytical courses in their BS and Master levels scored higher in their news media literacy than those not offering analytical courses. Therefore, the study suggests the incorporation of analytical courses at BS and Master level media education curricula to develop essential skills for performing meaning construction tasks effectively.

Coupled Information-Epidemic Spreading Dynamics with Selective Mass Media.

As a pandemic emerges, information on epidemic prevention disseminates among the populace, and the propagation of that information interacts with the proliferation of the disease. Mass media serve a pivotal function in facilitating the dissemination of epidemic-related information. Investigating coupled information-epidemic dynamics, while accounting for the promotional effect of mass media in information dissemination, is of significant practical relevance. Nonetheless, in the extant research, scholars predominantly employ an assumption that mass media broadcast to all individuals equally within the network: this assumption overlooks the practical constraint imposed by the substantial social resources required to accomplish such comprehensive promotion. In response, this study introduces a coupled information-epidemic spreading model with mass media that can selectively target and disseminate information to a specific proportion of high-degree nodes. We employed a microscopic Markov chain methodology to scrutinize our model, and we examined the influence of the various model parameters on the dynamic process. The findings of this study reveal that mass media broadcasts directed towards high-degree nodes within the information spreading layer can substantially reduce the infection density of the epidemic, and raise the spreading threshold of the epidemic. Additionally, as the mass media broadcast proportion increases, the suppression effect on the disease becomes stronger. Moreover, with a constant broadcast proportion, the suppression effect of mass media promotion on epidemic spreading within the model is more pronounced in a multiplex network with a negative interlayer degree correlation, compared to scenarios with positive or absent interlayer degree correlation.

Effect of Mass Media in forming voters' Political Perception: A Quantitative Study

Effect of Mass Media in forming voters' Political Perception: A Quantitative Study

The role of local and global preparation in the embodiment of the literary genre’s interference phenomenon in Kurdish novels

Literary genre interference is an important subject to be written about in literary criticism. Throughout this study, the role of local and global preparation in the embodiment of the literary genres interference phenomenon in Kurdish novels has been discussed in detail. Within this study, we refer to local preparation especially the role of the uprising of Kurdish people in 1991 and its impact on literary genre interference. Also, the effect of mass media on novels has been analyzed. The impact of technology and science development, new liberalism, multinational companies, and free markets have shown as part of the global preparation role of literary genre interference which really they have a great impact on the new style of Kurdish novels. In the practical part of this study, some examples of Kurdish novels have been concentrated on; throughout them, the reality of the effects has been proven.

Age-Related Differences in Reading Negative Texts on COVID-19

IntroductionThe worldwide COVID-19 pandemic leads to the development of stress disorders, increased anxiety in the society. One of the strongest factors leading to the development of anxiety, stress in society during a pandemic is the Mass Media. The mechanisms of stressogenic effects of Mass Media remain not completely clear.ObjectivesThe aim of this study was to evaluate age-specific characteristics of gaze behaviour related to the perception of anxiety-provoking information.Methods189 volunteers took part in the study (164 participants aged between 17 and 22 years old (students, control group), 25 people aged between 59 and 71 (experimental group)). Participants were asked to fill in Psychological Stress Measure (PSM-25), Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), and Generalised Anxiety Disorder Assessment (GAD-7) questionnaires in order to determine their levels of stress, depression, and anxiety. The second stage of the research was an eye-tracking study of text perception - we analysed eye-tracking data during the text perception by using web-eye tracking (EyePass).ResultsTo identify the relevance of COVID-19 information, we compared the perception of positive, neutral and negative texts and detected rather a negativity bias than attraction to the positive or neutral stimuli: fixations positive vs negative (p-value < 0.01), positive vs neutral (p-value < 0.01), neutral vs negative (p-value < 0.01). Under the competitive conditions (higher relevance of negative information during Pandemic) the perception of negative text is characterized by attentional priority. Moreover, it should be taken into account that highly anxious participants showed a negativity bias than attraction to the positive stimuli, and this is typical during quarantine.ConclusionsTherefore, participants showed a negativity bias than attraction to the positive stimuli, and this is typical during quarantine. There are significant age-related differences in gaze behavior while reading text with negative text elements. While the origin of these differences between older and younger adults remains unknown, further research may provide more evidence about the origin of this effect.Disclosure of InterestNone Declared

The Independent Effects of Educational Attainment and Mass Media Exposure on Overweight and Obesity Among Bangladeshi Women: A Rural-Urban Comparison

Problems regarding obesity and being overweight are growing, not only in industrialized countries but also in developing countries. This study aimed to examine the effects of education and mass media on urban and rural women suffering from weight issues and obesity in Bangladesh, a developing country. The data were from the 2017 Demographic and Health Survey conducted in Bangladesh among women aged 15–49. The data were analyzed using the chi-square test and multinomial logistic regression (MLR). The prevalence of obesity and being overweight was higher among urban women (23.4% and 36.7%, respectively) than among rural women (12.5% and 32.7%, respectively). Model 1 provides unadjusted odds ratios (ORs), while Models 2, 3, and 4 provide adjusted ORs obtained by MLR for overweight and obesity. According to Model 4, the ORs for obesity and being overweight among women with higher education were higher in urban areas (OR = 3.65 and 1.93, respectively) than in rural areas (OR = 2.14 and 1.58, respectively). The corresponding ORs for women exposed to mass media were 1.78 and 1.17 in urban areas and 1.65 and 1.30 in rural areas. Women with higher education levels and exposure to mass media have a higher risk of being overweight and obese. Appropriate health promotion interventions based on education and mass media should work to reduce this problem.

‘Non è mai troppo tardi’. An Italian TV programme in the service of public education (1958–1967): an accounting [in] history perspective

ABSTRACT ‘Telescuola’ (translated readily as ‘Teleschool’) was an innovative educational television project realised by the Italian radio and television broadcasting service – RAI (1958–1967) that aimed at improving the conditions of the population through TV lessons, specifically by contributing to the literacy of adults. Using financial statements from RAI, data from the Ministry of Public Education and Labour – considered from an ‘accounting [in] history’ perspective – as well as different evidence (annual reports, governmental documents, sociological data), literature and historiography on the subject, the study investigates the influence of the initiative as a path to people’s emancipation built on an instrument (the television) typically associated with power. The theoretical framework relates to the power/empowerment effects of mass media and is founded on a critical discussion of the notion of Synopticon (that is a concomitant conception to that of the Panopticon). The study therefore contributes to the debate about the effects of mass media and fosters deeper understanding by contextualising accounting recordings within these social and historical frameworks.