Perceptions Of Media Research Articles

INFLUENCIA DEL USO DE REDES SOCIALES SOBRE LA CONFORMIDAD CON LA IMAGEN CORPORAL

Introduction: Body image dissatisfaction is associated with psychophysical morbidity. Exposure to cultural messages about physical or beauty ideals is one of the studied factors which initiate body image dissatisfaction. This work explores the relationship between social media use and preoccupation with one's own body, the desire for a diet to lose weight, and the generation of obsessive thoughts about body shape and size during the period of Social Preventive and Mandatory Isolation (SPMI). Materials and methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out using an online questionnaire of participants over 18 years residing in Argentina. Demographic information, anthropometric data, conformity with body image and the influence of the use of social media on body image and conformity with one's own body were evaluated. Results: 2236 individuals participated in this study (85,5% women) with a mean age of 38.88±15.20 years and a mean IMC of 25.55±5.36 kg/m2. Thirty-four percent of the sample expressed that they never or hardly ever were satisfied with their bodies and 66% referred to a feeling of fault when they overindulge in food. Sixty-eight percent stated that they had been afraid of gaining weight at some moment in their life. The multivariate analysis showed an inverse relationship between age and perception of social media’s negative influence on their body image, and that they increased their desire to diet to lose weight. The negative social media effect was significantly higher in participants who presented body dissatisfaction previous to the SPMI. Conclusion: The increase in social media use during the pandemic was reflected in the level of body dissatisfaction in the most vulnerable group of this sample. Keywords: body image; social media; body image dissatisfaction; pandemic.

Anticipatory Traumatic Reaction: A Framework for Understanding Northern Nigerians’ Outcry Against ECOWAS’ Military Option in Niger

Research suggests strong links between threat-related media exposure and adverse psychological effects. Given the ubiquitous access to news and real-time events in society and the propensity for disaster-related news to include numerous scenes and detailed descriptions of human suffering, consumers of media reports are often exposed not only to distressing material but also threats of future disasters, and they may react in ways that mimic responses to trauma. Anticipatory traumatic reaction (ATR) describes how individuals may respond to imminent danger to which they are exposed by consuming disaster-related news. This interpretive position paper used the ATR framework to provide insight into northern Nigerians’ perception of media stories about the possibilities of a military engagement between ECOWAS’ standby force and the coup leaders in neighbouring Niger, and their subsequent outcry against ECOWAS’ military option in Niger. Because individuals depend on news media for information during crises, this paper suggests that ethically motivated constructive journalism must be sensitively balanced with productive and engaging rolling coverage of real-time threat-related events to prevent traumatization through media exposure to large-scale threats. It might be beneficial for mental health practitioners to recognize ATR symptoms and integrate them into therapy approaches to help their clients. Further research is necessary to expand the toolkit of clinical psychology to mitigate and treat this subclinical phenomenon among individuals and communities.

Representation of toponymic changes in the Russian-Ukrainian media discourse: Problems of national security and protection of historical memory

The study of modern toponymic discourse in the mass media is one of the most pressing problems, since the introduction of “new toponymy” into active speech usage, into the cultural context of each member of the mass audience occurs precisely through the mass communication media. At the same time, the generalization of new toponymic units, even at the level of sentences, has a strong and direct impact on the behavior of the audience, the change and formation of the value system through historical and socio-cultural argumentation. Thus, changes in modern toponymy become part of the current linguistic and cultural concept, a linguistic source of information about the social, political, spiritual culture of the mass audience. Moreover, many examples of modern toponymy directly relate to issues of linguistic security in various aspects of media perception, a kind of humanitarian weapon in the confrontation of ideologies of states. Actual changes in toponymy, dictated by socio-political and historical-social circumstances, participate in the formation of a linguistic and cultural concept, which is formed as a result of the reduction of a fragment of the cognizable world to the limits of human memory and is included in the context of culture in verbal units necessary to meet the communicative needs of members of society. We consider the renaming of historical place names as a format for creating new linguistic concepts, part of a destructive information flow that is deliberately formed in the mass media, in the information flow of new media (telegram channels, social networks), creating an up-to-date media discourse. To study onomastic realities, it is necessary to develop a methodology for extracting cultural and historical information from the onomasticon, as well as a methodology for interpreting this information. This work is aimed at analyzing the current toponymic situation in the context of Russian-Ukrainian relations since 2014 and can be regarded as a contribution to the body of research of the cultural and historical onomasticon.

OBJEKTIFIKASI TUBUH LAKI-LAKI DALAM EKSPRESI SEKSUAL PEREMPUAN DI MEDIA SOSIAL

This research aims, among others: (1) How is the form of expression of women in objectifying the male body on social media, (2) Knowing the responses and opinions of some users who see the objectification of the male body on social media. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative method, with a phenomenological approach. With data collection through non-participant observation in Twitter social media. Based on the results of the study, it can be concluded that women basically also have the same sexual desires but have their own ways of conveying their sexual expressions. The results in this study show: (1) Through social media they give forms of expression with sensual language such as, the desire to be raped, to declare their uterus warm just by looking at a man's body image. (2) Differences in perception between the pros and cons of the reality that occurs in social media, but the perception of other social media users chooses to be against the actions taken by women in social media.

Whistleblowers and their Faith in Journalism

ABSTRACT Reporters, in order to enact their role as watchdogs and to their commitment to uncover corporate or governmental wrongdoing, often must rely on individuals willing to risk their careers and reputations, at times their lives, to expose their employers’ malfeasance. Some whistleblowers turn to the news media to get their messages and stories out. This is often a leap of faith that implies a level of trust in journalists and in their outlet’s adherence to their normative roles. This study explores whistleblowers’ perceptions of the news media as they recall crossing over from the employer’s institutional logic to journalism’s institutional logic. In-depth interviews conducted with 16 U.S. whistleblowers who contacted journalists from the 1970s through the 2010s, find that trust in individual journalists is a consistent theme. Of all norms, participants most valued source protection and accuracy, followed by a reporter’s expertise and willingness to listen. Almost all interviewees lack faith in the impact of today’s press. As austerity measures take hold in newsrooms across the country, this study shines a light, from the source’s perspective, on what will likely be lost if newsrooms neglect beat reporting and overlook the specter of government surveillance and control.

Perceptions of media influence and performance among politicians in European democracies.

This study explores politicians' subjective views of the mediatisation of politics and the implication it has for their satisfaction with democracy. Based on previous research, we hypothesise a negative effect of their perception of media influence on their evaluation of the news media's performance as a public informant. These perceptions directly and indirectly influence politicians' satisfaction with democracy. The relationships were tested with a Structural Equation Model (SEM) based on comparative survey data from politicians in seven democracies (Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland). Results show that a strong influence runs from politicians' perception of the media's performance as regards public information to their satisfaction with the functioning of democracy. This influence is stable across countries. The SEM thus may provide a good explanation for why some politicians attack legacy media and excessively use social media to communicate with voters. Results also point to risks of media-driven democracies.

Perception and Impact of Social Media on Unity among Minority Groups in Melaka

Perception and Impact of Social Media on Unity among Minority Groups in Melaka

Factors Influencing Public Opinion in Mass Media News Coverage

Mass media play an extremely important role in the development process of democratic countries. Since the widespread dissemination of paper media and public media such as cable television and radio, more and more new media platforms have begun to appear in the daily lives of citizens as technology advances, excluding the traditional model of government-funded or non-profit media reporting news. This article will focus on the evolution of traditional public media news coverage and how they have gradually changed the public perception of public media in response to social events. The essay will then discuss some of the role’s media coverage has played in the political sphere and the reasons why the phenomenon of political polarization has arisen. In addition, the article includes a reference to how polarized views in real life are deviated from what one would expect. However, with the emergence of commercial media platforms, media coverage needs to be made more reliable through reasonable regulatory measures, and citizens need to understand that news coverage is always topical and limited, and that they need to rely moderately on online social media to avoid over-reliance on the same environmental circle and thus social disengagement.

Why Does Generation Z Love Using Apple Products as Personal Branding on Their Social Media?

Young people, particularly members of Generation Z, are the technological generations. They are always on the cutting edge of technology. Apple is one of the technology brands with generationally positive sentiment. This generation uses Apple products not only for technical reasons but also as a form of personal branding. They frequently upload photos taken with an Apple device to their social media accounts. Consequently, this paper describes how and why they brand themselves by using Apple products in their Instagram account. Personal branding theory related to impression management theory by Littlejohn and Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) by Tomic describe these phenomena. The study employed qualitative descriptive methods by interviewing a young apple addict. The outcome of their use of apple products as personal branding is netizens’ favorable perception of social media. They believe that using Apple products will enhance their personal brand. Their personal branding will improve their relationships, friendships, existence, education, and careers, as well as their amusement and usefulness. In order to develop their personal brand, they utilized impression management by displaying an Apple product in a photo or video mirror selfie directly within their Instagram content.

FACTORS DETERMINATING THE PERCEPTION OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS

The research aimed to identify the factors most strongly determine consumers’ perception of agricultural products. The study was conducted using an online questionnaire made available on the most popular social networking site in Poland (Facebook) in groups of residents of the 16 voivodships of Poland. The survey verified the importance of the respondents’ beliefs about the modernity of agriculture, organic farming, and farmers’ presence in social media perception of agricultural products. Research has shown that in the perception of the quality of agricultural products, their ecological character, nutritional value, and availability of information on the course of the production process are of particular importance. The respondents’ interests in the system of production processes focused mainly on the welfare of farm animals and the impact of agricultural activity on the natural environment. Socially responsible, ecological agriculture, which is present in social media, was combined with modernity. The research also revealed the potential of social media as a direct sales channel for agricultural products. Respondents also found social media an effective marketing tool for agricultural products.

Influence of social media marketing on the brand performance of the students’ small online businesses

Social media marketing is a type of marketing that used social media platforms to promote its products and brand. Facebook is one of the social media platforms that is used by students’ small online businesses to inform and attract their customers. This study aims to analyze the influence of social media marketing on the brand performance of the student’s small online businesses. The study used a correlation quantitative research design with the random sampling technique. The respondents were composed of 100 customers of the students’ small online businesses who have given their evaluation about their perception of social media marketing in terms of entertainment, interaction, trendiness, advertisement, and customization. And their perception of brand performance in terms of brand awareness and brand loyalty. The results show that social media marketing has a significant influence on the brand performance of the students’ small online businesses. All variables of entertainment, interaction, trendiness, advertisement, and customization moderately influenced brand awareness and brand loyalty.

Using the DEMATEL Method to Explore Influencing Factors for Video Communication and Visual Perceptions in Social Media

This study used expert interviews and the DEMATEL method to explore the influencing factors affecting the evaluation of the good and cognitive response of video communication and visual perception in social media and for the benefit of facilitation of the implementation in improving the overall video communication and visual quality in social media in the related fields of communication, advertising, and visual design. Correspondingly, it could provide educators and practitioners in the field with a foundation to maximize the effectiveness of allocating resources to these influencing factors. This study explored the influencing factors of video communication and visual perception in social media and evaluated the causality, relevance, and degree of materiality among different factors. The results of this study indicated that the six dimension factors, including like (X8), feeling satisfied (X9), feeling of attractiveness (X11), a good sense of shape contour (modeling) (X12), good visual characteristics (X13), and a good sense of color (X14), showed a high degree of connection (prominence) with other dimension factors. Improving the quality of these six factors could help solve the problem while promoting a good feeling about the other factors.

Students’ perception of digital media for English teaching learning

This research was to find out the students’ perception towards digital media for ELT in Purworejo Muhammadiyah University. This research generally answered the question: how is students’ perception towards digital media for ELT in Purworejo Muhammadiyah University. The researchers collected the data through a questionnaire. There were twenty-seven of fourth semester students at Purworejo Muhammadiyah University participated in this research. This research used case-study design. Descriptive analysis was used to analyze the data from questionnaire. The result of this research showed that the students had high perception on digital media as an English reading material. The mean score of the questionnaire was 3.55 which can be interpret in the “High” category. Besides there were some difficulties faced by students and teacher in using digital media, such as limited mobile phone facilities, limited internet packages, and poor signal problems.

The Mobile Learning Cognitive Counseling Approach for Improving Counseling Practicum Skills Among Undergraduate Students during Covid-19 Pandemic

Students as prospective counsellors need to understand the theory of counselling approaches well to carry out effective counselling practicums. This study aims to develop a mobile learning design for a cognitive counselling approach to improve counselling skills in students. This type of research is research and development. The data collection technique used a questionnaire to determine student and lecturer perceptions of mobile learning media in learning. The sample in this study were 116 students and 38 lecturers of guidance and counselling in Indonesia who were selected using a simple random sampling technique. The results showed that 22.4% of students thought that mobile learning could help the learning process of the counselling approach, and 54% of lecturers thought that mobile learning was needed in learning activities. The mobile learning cognitive counselling approach is a website-based media consisting of 9 features: landing page, login page, initial test, material, final test, chat room, record, developer profile, and contact. The developed mobile learning has been validated by media experts and is declared suitable for learning activities. The researcher tested the effectiveness of mobile learning on 14 students of Yogyakarta State University. The data analysis used the Wilcoxon signed-ranked test and showed the p-value at 0,0000,005, which means that mobile learning effectively improves students' understanding of counselling approaches. Mobile learning contributes as a novelty in guidance and counselling as an innovative media that can be used in the university to deliver content for students in guidance and counselling study programs

Infodemic and Fake News Turning Shift for Media: Distrust among University Students

In many parts of the world, long before social media, trust in media and journalism was fragile and shaky. Today, however, with an unprecedented information abundance, the situation has worsened because, in the high-speed information free-for-all of social media platforms and the internet, anyone can consume and produce. As a result, citizens find it difficult to discern what is real and what is fake. In this context, the aim of the study is to explore how information and fake news consumption affects the perception of media in terms of trust. The methodology applied for this purpose was a mixed method using both quantitative and qualitative data in order to provide not only descriptive data but more thorough results. For the quantitative analysis, a sample of 849 university students participated: from these, a smaller sample of 100 participated in the qualitative phase. Conclusions indicate that the distribution of fake news is worryingly associated with the media and, consequently, a concerning distrust of media is shown among participants who express feeling insecure, vulnerable, confused, and distrusting of media.

Affectivity of New Media Art Based on the Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience

With the development of both media and technology, new media technology has cast a significant influence on art creation, creating an aesthetic paradigm different from that of traditional art. Meanwhile, owing to the different aesthetic appeals of the new era, basic components of art, such as content and form, are constantly changing. The ultimate goal of art is to express the artist’s emotions and communicate with the spectator in the same aesthetic flow. Additionally, new media art attempts to convey emotions to the appreciators and provide them a multidimensional aesthetic approach by subverting traditions and innovating in artistic expressions and aesthetic experience. This study aims to explore the aesthetic perception and perception-based emotions in new media art from the perspective of aesthetic experience. Specifically, it applies Dufrenne’s phenomenological aesthetic theory to analyze the aesthetic process. Through the analysis of affectivity in aesethics, the creator’s aprroaches of constructing the emotional aesthetic space, as well as the role of emotions in art creation, is reflected upon to inspire the future affective creation of new media art.

Drawing Picture Media in Teaching English Speaking: Learning Opportunity and Students’ Perception


 The purpose of this study was to clarify and investigate the effect of Drawing Picture Media on improving the students’ speaking skills and their responses to the use of picture media in Indonesian EFL classrooms. In this case, the researcher used quantitative and qualitative research methods. Quantitatively, the data was collected by using a pre-experimental design, with a treatment to the One Group Pretest-Posttest group. Before the researcher gave treatment, the average score of students was 11.13, then increased to 15.13 after the treatment. Therefore, learning using the Drawing Picture Media method significantly improves students' speaking skills. The results of data analysis using observations and questionnaires showed that most of the students (83%) responded very well to the drawing picture media that was used in learning English in the classroom. From these results, the researcher can conclude that students' perceptions of the learning media were excellent.

Harari’s concept of macrohistory: origins of popularity and academic status

The unprecedentedly high level of popularity of Y. N. Harari, а professor at the faculty of history of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and his main book trilogy, foreground the problem of interpreting and explaining the so-called Hararimania phenomenon, which has become a notable event in the academic community and popular culture of modern Western societies. The purpose of this article is the historical and philosophical reconstruction of the creative evolution of Y. N. Harari with an emphasis on identifying the fundamental meaning and status of his concept of macrohistory in this evolution (process). At the same time, the internal inconsistency of this concept is substantiated, which is largely responsible for the dual nature of its perception and assessments in the mass media and professional academic discussions. The designated goal of the article is achieved through contextual interpretation and the solution of its several basic tasks. Among them: identifying and explaining the most important stages of the professional socialisation of Y. N. Harari, as well as determining the reasons behind his transition from medieval studies to macrohistory; identifying the thematic priorities of Y. N. Harari, special attention is paid to the topic of transformation of homo sapiens into homo deus; characterising the educational role of Y. N. Harari’s concept of macrohistory, in particular, the part of it that is associated with the popularisation of modern science and its futurological potential; carrying out a contextual analysis of Y. N. Harari’s idea about a new humanistic revolution, in the process of which classical ideas about humanism and liberalism must necessarily give way to techno-humanism and the data religion. The novelty of this article is determined by the following circumstances. Though there is extensive debate about the work of Y. N. Harari this article represents one of the first attempts to implement not only a historical, but also a philosophical and conceptual reconstruction of his main ideas set forth in the famous book trilogy. Simultaneously this is one of the first articles to make the analysis of Y. N. Harari’s concept of macrohistory the main focus point. This sets us apart from most of the publications devoted to Y. N. Harari, which are usually presented in the form of short and purely descriptive literary reviews. The article presents a new aspect to consider about the creative evolution of the Israeli historian – the interpretation of the causes and origins of the significant popularity of his ideas and main publications. These include the author’s deep understanding of the specifics of mass consciousness and the way its representatives perceive popular science texts. This subtle and adequate understanding largely explains the emotional figurative language, genre originality and literary style of Y. N. Harari.

Hostile media perceptions and consumption of genetically modified and organic foods: Examining the mediating role of risk-benefit assessments.

Drawing upon the hostile media effect, this study examined how perceived media bias in covering genetically modified (GM) food influences individuals' risk-benefit assessments of it and their food consumption behaviors. The results of a nationally representative survey (N=1364) showed that individuals seeing media coverage as more biased in favor of GM food perceived it as more hazardous, which was related to a higher proportion of organic food consumption in their diets. In contrast, perceived media coverage as less slanted toward GM food was associated with more benefit perceptions of it, thereby predicting its higher proportion in individuals' diets. More importantly, the indirect effect of perceived media bias on GM food consumption through benefit perceptions was more pronounced among males than females. The findings of this study not only provide empirical evidence of the perceptual and behavioral outcomes of hostile media perceptions, but also offer valuable insights for journalists and education practitioners to improve public understanding of emerging food technologies.

What drives journalists’ perceptions of media powers as political image-makers in the emerging democracy of Indonesia?

This work explores what drives Indonesian journalists’ perceptions of media powers as political image-makers. The findings indicate that the following structural factors determined their perceptions: the journalists’ willingness to adopt the news media logic, journalists’ conceptions of the media as primary sources of political information and media and journalist independencies. The effects of these factors on journalists’ perceptions are defined by the types of media content, platform and media ownership with which they are associated and also the journalists’ age, gender, education level and position in the media organisation.