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Media Studies Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations from the Department of Media Studies, collected from the Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Theses/Dissertations from 2024 2024
Networks of Resistance: A Regional Analysis of Extractive Conflicts in Central America , Giada Ferrucci
Arts-Informed Storytelling: How Arts-Informed Research was Used with Six Indigenous Peoples in London, Ont. , Percy Sherwood
Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023
Witnessing Conspiracy Theories: Developing an Intersectional Approach to Conspiracy Theory Research , David Guignion
Canadians Redefining R&B: The Online Marketing of Drake, Justin Bieber, and Jessie Reyez , Amara Pope Ms.
Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022
Instagram Influencers and their Youngest Female Followers , Amanda Jenkins
A descriptive analysis of sport nationalism, digital media, and fandom to launch the Canadian Premier League , Farzan Mirzazadeh
Influencer Engagement Pods and the Struggle Over Measure in Instagram Platform Labour , Victoria J. O'Meara
Radiant Dreams and Nuclear Nightmares: Japanese Resistance Narratives and American Intervention in Postwar Speculative Popular Culture , Aidan J. Warlow
Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021
More barriers than solutions: Women’s experiences of support with online abuse , Chandell E. Gosse
Heavy Metal Fundraisers: Entrepreneurial Recording Artists in Platform Capitalism , Jason Netherton
Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019
Resistant Vulnerability in The Marvel Cinematic Universe's Captain America , Kristen Allison
Unwrapping the Toronto Christmas Market: An Examination of Tradition and Nostalgia in a Socially Constructed Space , Lydia J. Gibson
Trauma, Creativity, And Bearing Witness Through Art: Marian Kołodziej's Labyrinth , Alyssa Logie
Appropriating Play: Examining Twitch.tv as a Commercial Platform , Charlotte Panneton
Dead Men Walking: An Analysis of Working-Class Masculinity in Post-2008 Hollywood Film , Ryan Schroeder
Glocalization in China: An Analysis of Coca-Cola’s Brand Co-Creation Process with Consumers in China , Yinuo Shi
Critiquing the New Autonomy of Immaterial Labour: An Analysis of Work in the Artificial Intelligence Industry , James Steinhoff
Watching and Working Through: Navigating Non-being in Television Storytelling , Tiara Lalita Sukhan
Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018
Hone the Means of Production: Craft Antagonism and Domination in the Journalistic Labour Process of Freelance Writers , Robert Bertuzzi
Invisible Labour: Support-Service Workers in India’s Information Technology Industry , Indranil Chakraborty
Exhibiting Human Rights: Making the Means of Dignity Visible , Amy J. Freier
Industrial Stagecraft: Tooling and Cultural Production , Jennifer A. Hambleton
Cultural Hybridity in the Contemporary Korean Popular Culture through the Practice of Genre Transformation , Kyunghee Kim
Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017
Regarding Aid: The photographic situation of humanitarianism , Sonya de Laat
The Representation of the Canadian Government’s Warrantless Domestic Collection of Metadata in the Canadian Print News Media , Alan Del Pino
(Not) One of the Boys: A Case Study of Female Detectives on HBO , Darcy Griffin
Pitching the Feminist Voice: A Critique of Contemporary Consumer Feminism , Kate Hoad-Reddick
Local-Global Tensions: Professional Experience, Role Perceptions and Image Production of Afghan Photojournalists Working for a Global Audience , Saumava Mitra
A place for locative media: A theoretical framework for assessing locative media use in urban environments , Darryl A. Pieber
Mapping the Arab Diaspora: Examining Placelessness and Memory in Arab Art , Shahad Rashid
Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing: Documentary Governance of Indigenous Life in Canada and its Disruption , Danielle Taschereau Mamers
Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016
Finding Your Way: Navigating Online News and Opinions , Charlotte Britten
Law and Abuse: Representations of Intimate Partner Homicide in Law Procedural Dramas , Jaime A. Campbell
Creative Management: Disciplining the Neoliberal Worker , Trent Cruz
No hay Sólo un Idioma, No hay Sólo una Voz: A Revisionist History of Chicana/os and Latina/os in Punk , Richard C. Davila
Shifting Temporalities: The Construction of Flexible Subjectivities through Part-time Retail Workers’ Use of Smartphone Technology , Jessica Fanning
Becoming Sonic: Ambient Poetics and the Ecology of Listening in Four Militant Sound Investigations , David C. Jackson
Capital's Media: The Physical Conditions of Circulation , Atle Mikkola Kjøsen
On the Internet by Means of Popular Music: The Cases of Grimes and Childish Gambino , Kristopher R. K. Ohlendorf
Believing the News: Exploring How Young Canadians Make Decisions About Their News Consumption , Jessica Thom
Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015
Narrative Epic and New Media: The Totalizing Spaces of Postmodernity in The Wire, Batman, and The Legend of Zelda , Luke Arnott
Canada: Multiculturalism, Religion, and Accommodation , Brittainy R. Bonnis
Navigating the Social Landscape: An Exploration of Social Networking Site Usage among Emerging Adults , Kristen Colbeck
Impassioned Objects And Seething Absences: The Olympics In Canada, National Identity and Consumer Culture , Estee Fresco
Satirical News and Political Subversiveness: A Critical Approach to The Daily Show and The Colbert Report , Roberto Leclerc
"When [S]He is Working [S]He is Not at Home": Challenging Assumptions About Remote Work , Eric Lohman
Heating Up the Debate: E-cigarettes and Instagram , Stephanie L. Ritter
Limitation to Innovation in the North American Console Video Game Industry 2001-2013: A Critical Analysis , Michael Schmalz
Happiest People Alive: An Analysis of Class and Gender in the Trinidad Carnival , Asha L. St. Bernard
Human-Machinic Assemblages: Technologies, Bodies, and the Recuperation of Social Reproduction in the Crisis Era , Elise D. Thorburn
Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014
Evangelizing the ‘Gallery of the Future’: a Critical Analysis of the Google Art Project Narrative and its Political, Cultural and Technological Stakes , Alanna Bayer
Face Value: Beyond the Surface of Brand Philanthropy and the Cultural Production of the M.A.C AIDS Fund , Andrea Benoit
Cultivating Better Brains: Transhumanism and its Critics on the Ethics of Enhancement Via Brain-computer Interfacing , Matthew Devlin
Man Versus Food: An Analysis of 'Dude Food' Television and Public Health , Amy R. Eisner-Levine
Media Literacy and the English as a Second Language Curriculum: A Curricular Critique and Dreams for the Future , Clara R. Madrenas
Fantasizing Disability: Representation of loss and limitation in Popular Television and Film , Jeffrey M. Preston
(Un)Covering Suicide: The Changing Ethical Norms in Canadian Journalism , Gemma Richardson
Labours Of Love: Affect, Fan Labour, And The Monetization Of Fandom , Jennifer Spence
'What's in a List?' Cultural Techniques, Logistics, Poeisis , Liam Cole Young
Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013
Distinguishing the 'Vanguard' from the 'Insipid': Exploring the Valorization of Mainstream Popular Music in Online Indie Music Criticism , Charles J. Blazevic
Anonymous: Polemics and Non-identity , Samuel Chiang
Manufacturing Legitimacy: A Critical Theory of Election News Coverage , Gabriel N. Elias
The Academic Grind: A Critique of Creative and Collaborative Discourses Between Digital Games Industries and Post-Secondary Education in Canada , Owen R. Livermore
We’re on This Road Together: The Changing Fan/Producer Relationship in Television as Demonstrated by Supernatural , Lisa Macklem
Brave New Wireless World: Mapping the Rise of Ubiquitous Connectivity from Myth to Market , Vincent R. Manzerolle
Promotional Ubiquitous Musics: New Identities and Emerging Markets in the Digitalizing Music Industry , Leslie Meier
Money, Morals, and Human Rights: Commercial Influences in the Marketing, Branding, and Fundraising of Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch , Danielle Morgan
If I Had a Hammer: An Archeology of Tactical Media From the Hootenanny to the People's Microphone , Henry Adam Svec
Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012
Watching High School: Representing Disempowerment on Teen Drama Television , Sarah M. Baxter
Will Work For Free: Examining the Biopolitics of Unwaged Immaterial Labour , Brian A. Brown
Social Net-working: Exploring the Political Economy of the Online Social Network Industry , Craig Butosi
Watching the games: Critical media literacy and students’ abilities to identify and critique the politics of sports , Raúl J. Feliciano Ortiz
The Invisible Genocide: An Analysis of ABC, CBS, and NBC Television News Coverage of the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda. , Daniel C. Harvey
It's Complicated: Romantic Breakups and Their Aftermath on Facebook , Veronika A. Lukacs
Keeping Up with the Virtual Joneses: The Practices, Meanings, and Consequences of Consumption in Second Life , Jennifer M. Martin
The (m)Health Connection: An Examination of the Promise of Mobile Phones for HIV/AIDS Intervention in Sub-Saharan Africa , Trisha M. Phippard
Born Again Hard : Transgender Subjectivity in Paul Chadwick's Concrete , Justin Raymond
Communicating Crimes: Covering Gangs in Contemporary Canadian Journalism , Chris Richardson
Online Social Breast-Working: Representations of Breast Milk Sharing in the 21st Century , Cari L. Rotstein
Because I am Not Here, Selected Second Life-Based Art Case Studies. Subjectivity, Autoempathy and Virtual World Aesthetics , Francisco Gerardo Toledo Ramírez
Day of the Woman?: Feminism & Rape-Revenge Films , Kayley A. Viteo
Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011
"Aren't They Keen?" Early Children's Food Advertising and the Emergence of the Brand-loyal Child Consumer , Kyle R. Asquith
Immediacy and Aesthetic Remediation in Television and Digital Media: Mass Media’s Challenge to the Democratization of Media Production , Michael S. Daubs
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Theses/dissertations from 2023 2023.
The Impact of Follower-Influencer Relationship Stages on Consumers’ Perceptions and Behavioral Intentions in the Context of Influencer Marketing , Khalid Obaid Alharbi
The Effect of Social Media (Instagram) Use Patterns on The Cultural and Athletic Identity of Black Female Collegiate Athletes’ Body Image Dissatisfaction , Shelbretta Kar’Anna Ball
Contextualizing Search: An Analysis of the Impacts of Construal Level Theory, Mood, and Product Type on Search Engine Activity , Jackson Everitt Carter
Words Evaporate, the Images Remain: Testing Visual Warnings in the Context of Intentions to Vape Among U.S. Adults as an Expansion of the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) , Carl Arland Ciccarelli
Risk Propensity in Journalists: An Analysis of Journalists’ Personality Traits and How They Direct Behavior in the Field , Ellen Katherine Dunn
Online Information-Seeking and Cancer Screening Intention: An Analysis of the Health Information National Trends Survey 2022 , Rachel Aileen Ford
Always on Display: South Carolina Civil Rights Lawyer Matthew J. Perry Jr. Expanding the Civil Sphere Through the Courts and the News Media, 1954-1963 , Christopher G. Frear
Exploring the Agenda-Setting Dynamics Between Traditional Newspapers and Twitter During Mass Shooting Event , Yujin Heo
Extreme Persuasion: Analyzing Meaning Creation and Persuasive Strategies Within Extreme Discourse on Alternative Social Media , Naomi Kathryn Lawrence
Framing Police Brutality: An Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of Walter Scott’s Murder , Shamira S. McCray
Understanding Podcast Advertising Processing and Outcomes: An Analysis of Podcast Ad Types, Message Types, and Media Context on Consumer Responses , Colin Piacentine
The Unsung Heroes for Intercollegiate Athletics: Examining the Dialogic Principles of Communication in Community College Athletic Departments , Matthew Alan Stilwell
Exploring Trustworthiness Issues About Disaster-related Information Generated by Artificial Intelligence , Xin Tao
Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022
The Effect of Emotional Intensity, Arousal, and Valence On Online Video Ad Sharing , Chang Won Choi
“Power, Poison, Pain & Joy”: Applying a Critical Race Conceptual Model of Implicit Racial Bias to Narratives Framing Blackness in Black Sports Columns, Black Music, and Black Journalism , Christina Lauren Myers
Gatekeeping Blackness: Roles, Relationships, and Pressures of Black Television Journalists at a Time of Racial Reckoning , Denetra Walker
The Binge Viewing Index: Creating and Testing a New Measure , Larry J. Webster Jr.
Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021
Portion of Profit Donations: CSR as Public Relations Strategy and its Relationships with Trust and Purchase Intentions , Branden Dylan Cameron Birmingham
The Role of Sexting in the Development of Romantic Relationships , Max Bretscher
Let’s Be Friends: Examining Consumer Brand Relationships Through the Lens Of Brand Personality, Engagement, and Reciprocal Altruism , Daniel D. Haun
Go with The Flow: Testing the Effects of Emotional Flow on Psychophysiological, Attitudinal, and Behavioral Changes , Chris R. Noland
Brand New: How Visual Context Shapes Initial Response To Logos and Corporate Visual Identity Systems , Robert A. Wertz
Inoculating the Public Against Misinformation: Testing The Effectiveness of “Pre-bunking” Techniques in the Context of Mental Illness and Violence , Nanlan Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020
Gun Violence and Advocacy Communication , Minhee Choi
The Role of Third-person Perceptions in Predicting the Public’s Support for Electronic Cigarette Advertising Regulations , Joon Kyoung Kim
Conservative Media’s Coverage of Coronavirus on YouTube: A Qualitative Analysis of Media Effects on Consumers , Michael J. Layer
Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019
Problem Chain Recognition Effect and CSR Communication: Examining the Impact of Issue Salience and Proximity on Environmental Communication Behaviors , Nandini Bhalla
The Games Behind the Scenes: Newspaper Framing of Female African American Olympic Athletes , Martin Reece Funderburk
Effectiveness of a Brand’s Paid, Owned, and Earned Media in a Social Media Environment , Anan Wan
Providing Prevention Education About Child Sexual Abuse to Parents: Testing Media Effects on Knowledge, Behavioral Intentions and Outcomes , Jane Long Weatherred
Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018
Creating an Online Social Movement in Socially Conservative Societies: A Case Study of Manshoor Blog Using Frame Alignment Process , Noura Abdullah Al-Duaijani
How S. C. Daily Newspapers Framed the Removal of the Confederate Flag from the State House Grounds in 2015 Through Letters to the Editor and Editorials , Thomas Craig Anderson
Breaking The Silence: Extending Theory To Address The Underutilization Of Mental Health Services Among Chinese Immigrants In The United States , Jo-Yun Queenie Li
Fandom In Politics: Scale Development And Validation , Won-Ki Moon
Fatal Force: A Conversation With Journalists Who Cover Deadly, Highly-Publicized Police Shootings , Denetra Walker
Domestic Extension Of Public Diplomacy: Media Competition For Credibility, Dependency And Activation Of Publics , Yicheng Zhu
Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017
Hydraulic Fracturing In the United States: A Framing Analysis , Kenneth Stephen Cardell Jr.
Network vs. Netflix: A Comparative Content Analysis of Demographics Across Prime-Time Television and Netflix Original Programming , James Corfield
Framing Marijuana: A Study of How us Newspapers Frame Marijuana Legalization Stories and Framing Effects of Marijuana Stories , Hwalbin Kim
The Allure of Isis: Examining the Underlying Mechanisms that Helped the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria , Alexander Luchsinger
International Twitter Comments About 2016 U.S. Presidential Candidates Trump And Clinton: Agenda-Building Analysis In The U.S., U.K., Brazil, Russia, India and China , Jane O’Boyle
Is That Online Review Fake News? How Sponsorship Disclosure Influences Reader Credibility , Mark W. Tatge
Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016
Measuring Strategic Communications , Jeffrey A. Ranta
Public Perceptions Of Genetically Modified Food On Social Media: A Content Analysis Of Youtube Comments On Videos , Nanlan Zhang
Toward A Situational Technology Acceptance Model: Combining the Situational Theory of Problem Solving and Technology Acceptance Model to Promote Mobile Donations for Nonprofit Organizations , Yue Zheng
Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015
Promoting HPV Vaccination for Male Young Adults: Effects of Social Influence , Wan Chi Leung
Redneckaissance: Honey Boo Boo, Tumblr, and the Stereotype of Poor White Trash , Ashley F. Miller
Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014
Conflicted Union: Culture, Economics and European Union Media Policy , Daphney Pernola Barr
Beating Down the Fear: The Civil Sphere and Political Change in South Carolina, 1940-1962 , Sid Bedingfield
The State v. Perry: Comparative Newspaper Coverage of South Carolina's Most Prominent Civil Rights Lawyer , Christopher G. Frear
(MASCOT) NATION: EXAMINING UNIVERSITY ENGAGEMENT ON COLLEGE FOOTBALL TEAMS’ FACEBOOK PAGES , Matthew J. Haught
Innovation Among Georgian Journalism Educators: A Network Analysis Perspective , Ana Keshelashvili
Emotional Bond between the Creator and the Avatar: Changes in Behavioral Intentions to Engage in Alcohol-Related Traffic Risk Behaviors , Hokyung Kim
Handcuffing Speech: Federal Fraud Statutes and the Criminalization of Advertising , Carmen Maye
Social Movements, Media, and Democratization in Georgia , Maia Mikashavidze
Am I in Danger? : Predictors and Behavioral Outcomes of Public Perception of Risk Associated with Food Hazards , Sang-Hwa Oh
Parental Mediation of Adolescent Movie Viewing , Larry James Webster Jr.
Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013
Political Advertising In Kuwait - A Functional Discourse Analysis , Jasem Alqaseer
The Westernization of Advertisements Published In Kuwaiti Newspapers From 1992 to 2012; A Content Analysis , Farah Taleb Alrefai
What Can Reader Comments to News Online Contribute to Engagement and Interactivity? A Quantitative Approach , Brett A. Borton
Exploring a paradigm shift: The New York Times' framing of sub-Saharan Africa in stories of conflict, war and development during the Cold War and post-Cold War eras, 1945-2009 , Zadok Opero Ekimwere
Mental Health On Youtube: Exploring the Potential of Interactive Media to Change Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviors About Mental Health , Caroline Belser Foster
That's News to Me: An Exploratory Study of the Uses and Gratifications of Current Events On Social Media of 18-24 Year-Olds , John Vincent Karlis
Making Stewardship Meaningful For Nonprofits: Stakeholder Motivations, Attitudes, Loyalty and Behaviors , Geah N. Pressgrove
An Alternative Path: The Intellectual Legacy of James W. Carey , Matthew Ross
The Corporation in the Marketplace of Ideas: The Law and Economics of Corporate Political Speech , Matthew W. Telleen
Child Sexual Abuse In the Media: Is Institutional Failure to Blame? , Jane Long Weatherred
Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012
The Relationship Between Facebook Use and Religiosity Among Emerging Adults , Heidi D. Campbell
Attribute Agenda Setting, Attribtue Priming, and The Public's Evaluation of Genetically Modified (GM) Food in South Korea , Soo Yun Kim
What's Mine is Yours: An Exploratory Study of Attitudes and Conceptions About Online Personal Privacy In the Socialist Republic of Vietnam , Patrick Sharbaugh
Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011
How Journalists Perceive Internal and External Influence: A Qualitative Assessment of Local Television Reporters' Ethical Decision-Making , Beth Eckard Concepcion
Collective Memory of the War In Iraq: An Analysis of Letters to the Editor and Public Opinion Polls, 2003-2008 , Lisa Cash Luedeman
A Framing Analysis and Model of Barack Obama in Political Cartoons , Anthony Palmer
Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010
Breaking Down the Fear' -- John H. Mccray, Accommodationism and theFraming of the Civil Rights Struggle in South Carolina, 1940-1948 , Sid Bedingfield
Do You See What I See?: A Comparative Content Analysis of Iraq War Photographs As Published In the New York Times and the Tehran Times , Garen Cansler
Exploring Intention to Adopt Mobile Tv Services In the U.S.: Toward A New Model With Cognitive-Based and Emotional-Based Constructs , Seoyoon Choi
Media Representations and Implications For Collective Memory: A Grounded Theory Analysis of TV News Broadcasts of Hillary Clinton From 1993-2008 , Mary Elizabeth McLaughlin
Resonance and Elaboration: the Framing Effect of Chinese Product Safety Issue Coverage , Ji Pan
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2. what is media ecology.
Media ecology looks into the matter of how media of communication affect human perception, understanding, feeling, and value; and how our interaction with media facilitates or impedes our chances of survival. The word ecology implies the study of environments: their structure, content, and impact on people. An environment is, after all, a complex message system which imposes on human beings certain ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving. It structures what we can see and say and, therefore, do. It assigns roles to us and insists on our playing them. It specifies what we are permitted to do and what we are not. Sometimes, as in the case of a courtroom, or classroom, or business office, the specifications are explicit and formal. In the case of media environments (e.g., books, radio, film, television, etc.), the specifications are more often implicit and informal, half concealed by our assumption that what we are dealing with is not an environment but merely a machine. Media ecology tries to make these specifications explicit. It tries to find out what roles media force us to play, how media structure what we are seeing, why media make us feel and act as we do. Media ecology is the study of media as environments. (see [ 7 ])
Traditionally, an ecological system or ecosystem refers to a biological system consisting of a natural physical environment and the living organisms inhabiting that physical environment as well as the interactions of all the constituents of the system. A media ecosystem is defined in analogy with a traditional biological ecosystem as a system consisting of human beings and the media and technology through which they interact and communicate with each other. It also includes the languages with which they express and code their communication (…) Language and technologies mediate and create environments like media. Media and languages are both techniques and tools just like any other form of technology. Media and technologies are languages of expression, which like a language communicate information with their own unique semantics and syntax. Given these overlaps, we claim that the ecological study of media cannot be restricted to narrowly defined media of communication but must also include technology and language and the interactions of these three domains, with together form a media ecosystem. (Logan, 2010 [ 3 ] (pp. 33–34))
Media ecology is a metadiscipline that deals with the study of a complex set of relationships or interrelationships between symbols, media and culture. The word ecology implies the study of environments and their interrelationships: content, structure, and social impact. A media environment is one that derives from the interrelationships between man and the different communication technologies such as: books, radio, television and internet. Media ecology is the study of techniques, modes of information and communication codes as the main part of an interrelated environment performing various effects in a given context. [ 8 ]
Media ecology is the study of media environments, the idea that technology and techniques, modes of information and codes of communication play a leading role in human affairs. Media ecology “is” the Toronto School, and the New York School. It “is” technological determinism, hard and soft, and technological evolution. It “is” media logic, medium theory, mediology. It “is” McLuhan studies, orality-literacy studies, American cultural studies. It “is” grammar and rhetoric, semiotics and systems theory, the history and the philosophy of technology. It “is” the postindustrial and the postmodern, and the preliterate and prehistoric. [ 9 ]
According to the Media Ecology Association, the term “media ecology” can be defined as “the study of media environments, the idea that technology and techniques, modes of information and codes of communication play a leading role in human affairs”. Media ecology theory centers on the principles that technology not only profoundly influences society; it also controls virtually all walks of life. It is a study of how media and communication processes affect human perception and understanding. The term was first formally introduced by Neil Postman in 1968, while the concept of the theory was proposed by Marshall McLuhan in 1964. To strengthen this theory, McLuhan and Quentin Fiore claim that it is the media of the epoch that defines the essence of the society by presenting four epochs, inclusive of Tribal Era, Literate Era, Print Era and Electronic Era, which corresponds to the dominant mode of communication of the time respectively. McLuhan argues that media act as extensions of the human senses in each era, and communication technology is the primary cause of social change. To understand how media effect large structural changes in human outlook, McLuhan classified media as either hot or cool. Hot media refers to a high-definition communication that demands little involvement from audience whereas cool media describes media that demands active involvement from audience. McLuhan with his son Eric McLuhan expanded the theory in 1988 by developing a way to look further into the effects of technology on society. They offer the tetrad as an organized concept that allows people to know the laws of media, the past, present and future effects of media. Media ecology is a contested term within media studies for it has different meanings in European and North American contexts. The North American definition refers to an interdisciplinary field of media theory and media design involving the study of media environments The European version of media ecology is a materialist investigation of media systems as complex dynamic systems. [ 10 ]
A broad based scholarly tradition and social practice. It is both historical and contemporary, as it slides between and incorporates the ancient, the modern, and the post-modern. ... More precisely, media ecology understands the on-going history of humanity and the dynamics of culture and personhood to be intricately intertwined with communication and communication technologies. [ 11 ]
Postman himself recognized that Marshall McLuhan had used it earlier this decade, specifically in the era of his greatest intellectual brilliance ( The Gutenberg Galaxy is published in 1962, and Understanding Media in 1964) (...) during his lecture, Postman defined the Media Ecology as the study of media as environments. [ 9 ]
No single individual is more central to media ecology than McLuhan, not because he was the first to employ this perspective, but rather because he popularized it, and produced the first great synthesis of media ecological thought. For some, McLuhanism or McLuhan Studies is sufficient in and of itself, and all the answers can be found in his writings. To others, it was the questions he asked that had the true significance, as he opened up a relatively new field of study, probed uncharted territories, generated excitement, and served as a source of inspiration. For the vast majority, it was this book, first published in 1964, which turned them on to the study of media environments. [ 7 ]
3. The Interpretation of Historical Time
The increase of speed from the mechanical to instant electrically reverses explosion in implosion. In the present Electric Age the imploding or contracting energies of our world collide with the old patterns of organization, expansionists and traditionals (...) In fact, creating our concern for the population is not increasing quantities, but the fact is that everyone has to live in closer proximity created by our electric and reciprocal involvement in the lives of others. (McLuhan, 1996 [ 11 ] (p. 55))
4. Media Ecology and Complex and Systemic Thinking
“Until very recently there is a voice that understood that set of ideas; to express everything through a word, I was forced to invent it. From there: cybernetics, resulting from kubernetes, Greek word, or helm, the root of which people of the West have formed government and its derivatives.” (Wiener, 1981 [ 1 ] (p. 17))
In 1948, Norbert Wiener (1894–1964) publishes Cybernetics or control and communication in animals and machines. This work, in which observation of physiological processes and neurophysiological monitoring (heart muscle contraction, benefits the nervous system as an integrated whole) and formalization of a general theory of technological control systems gets intersect, is the starting point for pilotage or science cybernetics.
We give the name of the content information which is the subject of trade with the outside world, as we adjust to it and make that fits us. The process of receiving and using information is to adjust to the contingencies of our environment and living effectively within it. The needs and complexity of modern life posed to this phenomenon demands more intense exchange of information at any other time; the press, museums, scientific laboratories, universities, libraries and textbooks have to meet them or fail in its purpose. Live effectively it means having the right information. Thus, communication and regulation constitute the inner life of man, and their social life.
states that the properties of the systems can’t significantly be described in terms of its separate elements. The understanding of systems occurs only when they are studied globally, involving all the interdependencies of its parts. The three basic premises are: the systems exist within systems, the systems are open and the function of a system depends on its structure. [ 25 ]
The Luhmann’s theory has, instead, powerful analytical tools for understanding the functioning of society, subsystems and organizations. Mechanisms for reducing the complexity, the codes of the various subsystems, the binary selection schemes and regulation of relations within each subsystem and exchanges between them, are rigorously scrutinized. So the conceptual apparatus is emerging as a very suitable to the characteristics of modern society vision, and the processes that occur at different levels. [ 28 ]
McLuhan (2003) argued that language is a form of perception, indeed, that languages are organs of perception. And to Luhmann (1982, 1989, 1995, 2000), both, perception and language, contribute to the maintenance and running of the limits of self-organizing social systems. (Strate, 2010 [ 5 ] (p. 35))
5. Conclusions
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The upheavals caused by digitalization at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the twenty-first century are indeed enormous, but they are not the first media-technical changes that have sustainably influenced and modified society and culture. The twentieth century, especially the 1950s, is characterized as the decades of society-revolutionizing, as the development of television was driven forward in this time. Such technical innovations were taken up by the media sciences. In the course of the technical changes, media theorists compared the prevailing media-technical conditions with those of book printing. The fact that the comparison medium or similar conditions can be seen in book printing shows how far-reaching the social behavior was from book printing, and also how far-reaching the changes caused by television and computer were perceived by media theorists.
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The novel reflects the US media conditions of the time. Since the USA was much ahead of Germany in terms of television development, because the USA was not destroyed by the war, the media conditions addressed in the novel only occur in Germany a few years later (in the 1960s).
Cf. Epping-Jäger, Cornelia (1996): The Inszenierung of Schrift. Der Literalisierungsprozeß und die Entstehungsgeschichte des Dramas. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, p. 39 ff.
In comparison to the individual media, the computer is a universal machine because computers are calculators that can process anything and play multiple senses at the same time based on their 0/1 code. But even that can’t the book, as a single medium, address multiple senses through imagination or conscious activation of the imagination through language, such as one can imagine a smell while reading.
Cf. Nelles, Jürgen (2002): Bücher über Bücher, p. 39.
Cf. ibid., p. 41.
Ibid., p. 39
McLuhan, Marshall/Fiore, Quentin (1969): The Medium is Massage, Frankfurt am Main/Berlin/Vienna: Ullstein, p. 26.
Ibid., p. 31–40.
Nelles (2002): Bücher über Bücher, S. 43.
McLuhan/Fiore (1969): Das Medium ist Massage, S. 50.
Cf. Nelles (2002): Bücher über Bücher, S. 44
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The form in which media influence our perceptual apparatus is also the subject of McLuhan’s investigations. According to McLuhan, media cause “an extension of human faculties, whether they be mental or physical” (McLuhan/Fiore (1969): The Medium is the Massage, p. 26). This has the consequence that our senses change, which in turn has the consequence that “the way we think and act—the way we perceive the world” (ibid., p. 41) changes. And thus the human being changes fundamentally himself. The famous sentence “the medium is the massage” is to be related to this, as Christa Karpenstein-Eßbach explains: “Its message lies in the modification of our sensory activity.” (Karpenstein-Eßbach, Christa (2004): Introduction to the Cultural Studies of Media, Paderborn: Fink, p. 68). This will be discussed in more detail in Sect. 5.2.2 .
Thus, the smartphone has to be defended, because it can also bridge and abolish isolation. This way, especially older people who live alone can stay in touch with their grandchildren and overcome local distance through video calls. Especially in the current pandemic time, the smartphone and all internet-enabled devices are very helpful for people who live alone to not be lonely.
Cf. German Institute for Trust and Security in the Internet: “DIVSI U25 study: children, adolescents and young adults in the digital world”, March 6, 2014, URL:
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Grampp, Sven (2011): Marshall McLuhan: an introduction, Stuttgart: UTB, p. 91.
McLuhan/Fiore (1969): The Medium is Massage, p. 63.
Ibid., p. 125
This thesis can be transferred to the world giant Facebook, which makes use of this principle.
Book data can be exchanged quickly if they are internet-based. The eBook reader also does not lose connection, as eBook readers are usually internet-connected. If a breaking news alert pops up on the screen, the book reader is also involved in world events at the same time. Consequently, the carrier allows the reader to be informed of events at the same time.
McLuhan/Fiore (1969): The Medium is the Massage, Frankfurt am Main/Berlin/Vienna: Ullstein, p. 26.
Ibid., p. 41.
Karpenstein-Eßbach, Christa (2004): Introduction to the Cultural Studies of Media, Paderborn: Fink, p. 68.
McLuhan/Fiore (1969): The Medium is the Massage, p. 26.
Cf. Grampp (2011): Marshall McLuhan: an introduction, p. 122, refers to Hörisch: A history of media, pp. 71 ff. and Leschke: Introduction to media theory, pp. 245 ff.
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In addition, popular scientists are also dealing with the topic, so it is Manfred Spitzer’s books “Digital Dementia: How We Drive Ourselves and Our Children Crazy” (2012), “Cyberkrank! How the digitalized life ruins our health” (2015) and “The Smartphone Epidemic: Dangers for health, education and society” (2018), which make the topic accessible to the general public.
McLuhan, Marshall (1968): Magische Kanäle. Understanding Media, Dresden/Basel 1995: Verlag der Kunst, S. 22.
Grampp (2011): Marshall McLuhan: eine Einführung, S. 129.
Cf. McLuhan, Marshall (1978): Wohin steuert die Welt? Massenmedien und Gesellschaftsstruktur, Wien: Europaverlag, S. 47.
Cf. McLuhan (1968): Magische Kanäle, S. 39.
In contrast, it is possible with internet-enabled eBook readers that, for example, short messages are displayed in the reading window. For others, however, an e-reader brings so many advantages that their consumption behavior has completely adapted to it and only books are re-ciphered over it.
Krampf, Leif/Hepp, Andreas (2016): Preface: Cultural Change as Media Change. On the Relevance of Walter J. Ong, in Orality and Literacy , The Technologization of the Word, in the series: Media—Culture—Communication, 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, p. VII.
Cf. ibid., p. VII.
Ibid., p. IX ff.
Ibid., p. X.
Ong, Walter (1987): Orality and Literacy, The Technologization of the Word, in the series: Media—Culture—Communication, 2nd edition 2016, Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, p. 73.
Ibid. p. 76.
Ibid., p. 77.
Ibid., p. 109.
Ibid., p. 114.
Ibid., p. 113
Cf. Ong (1986, 2016): Orality and Literacy, p. XII.
Ibid., p. XIII.
Ong (1986, 2016): Orality and Literacy, p. XIV.
See: Hickethier, Knut (1998): History of German Television, Stuttgart/Weimar: Metzler; Eurich, Claus/Würzberg, Gerd (1983): 30 Years of Television. How television has changed our lives, Hamburg: Rowohlt; Hörisch (2004): A history of the media. From the oblate to the internet, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp; Scholz, Werner (2007): Quickstart TV, Cologne: DuMont Literature and Art.
Kittler, Friedrich (1986): Grammophon, Film, Typewriter, Berlin: Brinkmann & Bose, p. 3.
Cf. Kittler, Friedrich A. (1993): Draculas Vermächtnis. Technische Schriften, Leipzig: Reclam, p. 8.
For Kittler, the media are not only involved, but shape world history, indeed dissolve it in three phases: Phase 1, since the American Civil War, developed storage techniques for acoustics, optics and writing: film, gramophone and the human-machine system typewriter. Phase 2, since the First World War, developed for all storage contents the appropriate electrical transmission technologies: radio, television and their secret twins. Phase 3, since the Second World War, transferred the circuit diagram of a typewriter into the technology of calculability as such; Turing’s mathematical definition of computability gave the name to computers coming in 1936. (Kittler (1986): Grammophon, Film, Typewriter, p. 352).
Karpenstein-Eßbach (2004): Einführung in die Kulturwissenschaft der Medien, p. 98.
Kittler (1986): Gramophone, Film, Typewriter, p. 29.
Ibid., p. 4.
Another topic of Kittler’s is that the typewriter not only revolutionized the materiality of writing, but also broke the gender role, because typewriter also stands for “typewriter” (cf. Kittler, Friedrich: Grammophon, Film, Typewriter, Binkmann & Bose Berlin, 1986, p. 273.): “The monopoly of writing on serial data processing was at the same time a privilege of men. Even if, in the course of general literacy, more and more women learned the letters, being able to read was not being allowed to write. [...]. Only the Civil War of 1861 to 1864, this revolutionary media combination of telegraph cable and parallel railway tracks, opened government bureaucracy, post office and stenography for women writers, the number of which, however, still fell below the statistical threshold of attention. The Gutenberg galaxy was thus a sexually closed system. He controlled [...] nothing less than German poetry.” (ibid., p. 275). Manuscripts written or dictated by men “went to male setters, bookbinders, publishers, etc., only to end up as a print with those girls for whom Goethe wrote” (ibid., p. 275 f.).
Kittler, Friedrich (1986): Grammophon, Film, Typewriter, Binkmann & Bose Berlin, p. 293.
Karpenstein-Eßbach (2004): Introduction to the Cultural Studies of the Media, S, 99.
Ibid., p. 98.
Ebd., S. 99.
Kittler, Friedrich: Dracula’s Legacy, p. 8.
Ibid., p. 9.
Kittler (1986): Gramophone, Film, Typewriter, p. 372.
Hartmann, Frank (2008): Friedrich Kittler, in: Handbook of Media Education, ed. by Uwe Sander, Friederike von Gross, Kai-Uwe Hugger, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, p. 256.
Ibid., p. 252.
Ibid., p. 244.
Hartmann, Frank (2008): Friedrich Kittler, in: Handbuch Medienpädagogik, ed. by Uwe Sander, Friederike von Gross, Kai-Uwe Hugger, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, p. 252.
Kittler, Friedrich (1986): Grammophon, Film, Typewriter, Berlin: Binkmann & Bose, p. 3
Ibid., p. 3 f.
Ibid., p. 4
Bollmann, Stefan: Editor’s Foreword, in: Flusser, Vilém (1997): Media culture, Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, p. 7.
Flusser, Vilém (1997): Media culture, Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, p. 61.
Ibid., p. 62 f.
Ibid., p. 63.
Ibid., p. 65.
Ibid., p. 66.
Flusser, Vilém (1991): Gestures. Attempt at a Phenomenology, Düsseldorf and Bensheim: Bollmann, p. 39.
Ibid., p. 42.
Ibid., p. 47
Cf. Ibid., p. 49
Flusser died in 2011 and was unable to experience the peak and aftermath of digitalized writing.
Flusser, Vilém (1992): Into the Universe of Technical Images. 4th, revised edition, Göttingen: European Photography, pp. 9–10.
Hörisch, Jochen: Introduction, in: Introduction to Media Studies. Developments and theories, by Peter Ludes, Berlin 2003, p. 17.
Hörisch, Jochen: The touching helplessness of the forestry industry, Zeit.de, 05.12.2014, page 2, URL: http://www.zeit.de/kultur/2014-12/spiegel-buechner-medien-branche-nervositaet/seite-2 , accessed 21.08.2021 at 14:37.
Ibid., p. 76 f.
The beginning of the distinction between digital and analog is “often understood as a world-historical watershed”, whereby here more the image, sound and media technology is meant. (Schröter, Jens: Analog/Digital—Opposition or Continuum?, In: Analog/Digital—Opposition or Continuum? On the Theory and History of a Distinction, ed. by Jens Schröter and Alexander Böhnke, Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, p. 8).
Ibid., p. 7.
Renner, Kai-Hinrich/Renner, Tim (2011): Digital is better. Why the Occident will not perish through the Internet. Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag, p. 235.
Ibid., p. 235.
Hörisch (1999): End of the presentation, p. 212
Ibid., p. 214.
Ibid., p. 247 f.
Cf. Ibid., p. 212.
Ibid., quoted Coy, Wolfgang (1995): From the Gutenberg galaxy to the Turing galaxy: Beyond printing and television. Introduction to: Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg galaxy. The end of the book age. Cologne: Addison-Wesley, p. XVII.
Hörisch, Jochen (1997): Media generations, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, p. 133.
Hörisch (1999): End of the Show, p. 207.
Cf. GfK Consumer Panel. Basis: book market including audiobooks (physical and downloads) and e-books, period: January to December 2018, in: Börsenblatt, issue 42: focus market and power, 15. October 2019, Frankfurt am Main, p. 18–19.
Hörisch (1997): Media Generations, p. 13.
The effects of collective and simultaneous television consumption are addressed in Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury. The television was particularly heavily criticized by literary scholars because it was an equalizing and dumbing-down medium. The same accusations are made against the television in Bradbury’s novel, which is representative of the criticism of the 1960s and shows how literature devalues itself in relation to the television.
Hörisch (1997): Mediengenerationen, p. 134
Cf. ibid., p. 135.
Ibid., p. 134.
Generation Y comprises people born between 1980 and 1995, and Generation Z, born between 1996 and 2010 (cf. UNICUM: Generation Z: Who are the young people of tomorrow?, URL: https://unicum-media.com/marketing-wiki/generation-z/ , accessed on 21.08. at 15:47 pm): “With the Generation Z we mean the young people and young adults born around the turn of the millennium. While the Generation Y was still referred to as Digital Natives, the Generation Z can undoubtedly be referred to as Digital Natives 2.0. Because in contrast to the previous generation, the Gen Z was already confronted with the digital flood of information in childhood, knows how to process it better and is technically more versed. She does not know a world without new technologies. The boundaries between virtual and real world are blurring for the Gen Z more and more.” (ibid.)
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No 200 Berniebros and Vagina Voters: Content Analysis of Gendered Facebook Communication in the 2016 U.S. Democratic Presidential Primary , Meredith Epstein
No 199 ‘Othering’ the ‘Left-Behind’? A Critical Discourse Analysis of the representation of Leave voters in British broadsheets’ coverage of the EU referendum , Louise S. Thommessen.
No 198 Social Media as Civic Deliberation Space: A content analysis study of the public discussion about the legalization of surrogacy on Weibo and Zhihu , Liu Yu
No 197 Stories of Dismantling the White Patriarchy: A thematic narrative analysis of the imagined futures in 2015 science fiction films , Kylie Courtney
No 196 Too Small to Succeed? The Case of #NoAlVotoElectrónico and the Limits of Connective Action , Juan Floreal Graña
No 195 How we remember and forget via Facebook: The Mediatization of Memento and Deletion Practices , Jacopo Villanacci
No 194 Mediated Japanophile? Media consumption and Chinese people’s attitudes towards Japan among different generations , Han Xiao
No 193 Digital Mediatization in the Lifestyle Sport Slacklining , Friedrich Enders
No 192 Recipe for Success: A qualitative investigation into the role of social capital in the gendered food blogosphere , Fiona Koch
No 191 Access and Beyond: An Intersectional Approach to Women’s Everyday Experiences with ICTs , Fatma Matin Khan
No 190 Not Manly Enough: A Quantitative Analysis of Gender Stereotypes in Mexican Political Advertising, 2010‐2016 , Enrique López Alonso
No 189 Loudspeaker Broadcasting as Community Radio: A qualitative analysis of loudspeaker broadcasting in contemporary rural China in the framework of alternative media Shutong Wang
No 188 21st Century Cholos Representations of Peruvian youth in the discourse of El Panfleto Esteban Bertarelli
No 187 Representations of Calendar Girls and An Ideology of Modernity in 1930s Republican Shanghai Yifan Song
No 186 Reality Television as a Neoliberal Technology of Citizenship? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Điều Ước Thứ Bảy Vu Anh Ngoc Nguyen
No 185 Truth on Trial: Indigenous News Media and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Tomas Borsa
No 184 No Place Like Home: Analysing Discursive Constructions of ‘Home’ in Canadian Mainstream Newspaper Coverage of the Elsipogtog Protest Brooklyn Tchozewski
No 183 Modiplomacy and Diaspower: The discursive construction of modernity and national identity in Narendra Modi’s communication with the Indian diaspora Saanya Gulati
No 182 “The centre must hold”: Partisan dealignment and the rise of the minor party at the 2015 general election Peter Carrol
No 181 ‘Rapefugees Not Welcome’. Ideological Articulations of Media Discourses on Migrants and Refugees in Europe: New Racism and Othering – A Critical Discourse Analysis Monica Ibrahim
No 180 Constructing Connectivity: A Qualitative Analysis of the Representation of the Connected and Unconnected Others in Facebook’s Internet.org Campaign Minji Lee
No 179 Space and Place: The Communication of Gentrification to Young People in Hackney Kimberley Brown
No 178 Adherence to the protest paradigm? An examination of Singapore’s news coverage of Speakers’ Corner protests from 2000 to 2015 Joann Tan
No 177 The system is rigged: A discursive analysis of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders Jessica Cullen
No 176 An Examination of American Mainstream Media Discourse of Solidarity and Citizenship in the Reporting of the Black Lives Matter Campaign Eilis Yazdani
No 175 Are All Lives Valued? Worthy 'Us', Unworthy 'Others'. A Comparative Content Analysis of Global News Agencies’. Pictorial Representation of the Paris Attacks and the Beirut Bombings . Dokyum Kim
No 174 Imperial remains: A Critical Discourse Analysis of a Televised Retelling of the Portuguese Colonial Period Beatriz Serra
No 173 Unmasking USAID Pakistan’s Elite Stakeholder Discourses: Towards an Evaluation of the Agency’s Development Interventions Anum Pasha
No 172 Boundary Work between ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ Global News Agencies’ Double Standard on the Construction of Forced Migrants by Geographical Proximity Woo-chul Kim
No 171 Why Did Our Watchdog Fail? A Counter Perspective on the Media Coverage of the 2007 Financial Crisis Tran Thuy-Anh Huynh
No 170 Unmasking ‘Sidekick’ Masculinity: A Qualitative Investigation of How Asian-American Males View Emasculating Stereotypes in U.S. Media Steffi Lau
No 169 The Silence of the Lamb: Animals in Biopolitics and the Discourse of Ethical Evasion Sana Ali
No 168 The Tartan Other: A qualitative analysis of the visual framing of Alex Salmond and the Scottish National Party in the British Press Ross Alexander Longton
No 167 The Unmasking of Burmese Myth in Contemporary Thai Cinema Pimtong Boonyapataro
No 166 Neoliberal Capitalism, Transnationalism and Networked Individualism: Rethinking Social Class in International Student Mobility Nguyen Quynh Tram Doan
No 165 The New Media Elite: How has Participation been Enabled and Limited in Leaders Live Online Political Debates Matilde Giglio
No 164 Constructing a Sense of Place through New Media: A Case Study of Humans of New York Mariele O’Reilly
No 163 The failure of cosmopolitanism and the reinforcement of hierarchical news: managing the visibility of suffering throughout the Multimodal Analysis of the Charlie Hebdo versus the Baga terrorist attacks Maria Paola Pofi
No 162 Imagining (In)security: Towards Developing Critical Knowledges of Security in a Mediated Social World Kathryn Higgins
No 161 Tweens Logged In: How Social Norms and Media Literacy Relate to Children’s Usage of Social Media Kalina Asparouhova
No 160 Finding Ferguson: Geographic Scale in the United States’ National Nightly Network News John Ray
No 159 Solidarity as Irony: Audience Responses to Celebrity Advocacy Isabel Kuhn
No 158 Phantasmagoric Nationalism: State power and the diasporic imagination Felicia Wong
No 157 Investigating Music Consumption ‘Circuits of Practice’ Eva Tkavc Dubokovic
No 156 A complex history turned into a tale of reconciliation: A critical discourse analysis of Irish newspaper coverage of the Queen’s visit to the Republic of Ireland Ciara Spencer
No 155 Economic power of e-retailers via price discrimination in e-commerce: price discrimination’s impact on consumers’ choices and preferences and its position in relation to consumer power Arina Vlasova
No 154 Exploring the Boundaries of Crowd Creation: A study on the value of voice in neoliberal media culture Ana Ecaterina C. Tan
No 153 “Songs of Guilt”: When Generosity is to Blame - A Content Analysis of the Press and Social Media Reactions to U2’s “Songs of Innocence” Giveaway on iTunes Alessandro Volonté
No 152 Hybridity within Peer Production: The Power Negotiation of Chinese Fansub Groups Zongxiao Rong
No 151 Writing On the Wall: Conversations with Beirut's Street Artists Zeina Najjar
No 150 'Gaining Control with the Power of the Gun and Maintaining Control with the Power of the Pen': A Content Analysis of Framing the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) in the People's Daily Yuanyuan Liu
No 149 Let My Voices be Heard: A Qualitative Study of Migrant Workers' Strategies of Mediation Resistance in Contemporary China Yijun Chen
No 148 'Popular Politics': A Discourse Theory Analysis of Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa's TV/radio Program Citizen Link Veronica Leon Burch
No 147 A Comparative Analysis of Chinese, Western and African Media Discourse in the Representation of China's Expansion of Economic Engagements in Africa Tong Wei
No 146 Ideological Trafficking of God and the Other Sultana Haider
No 145 The Maasai and the Internet: Online Civil Participation and the Formation of a Civic Identity in Rural Kenya Stine Ringnes Wilhelmsen
No 144 Wood in Water Does Not a Crocodile Make: Migrants Virtual Place-making, Ontological Security and Cosmopolitanism in the Transnational Social Field Sheetal Kumar
No 143 Droning On: A Critical Analysis of American Policy and News Discourse on Drone Strikes Sadaf Khan
No 142 The Impact of Mass Media Sentiments on Returns and Volatility in Asset Markets: Evidence from Algorithmic Content Analysis Panu Kuuluvainen
No 141 Problematising the Self-Representation of Race and Gender in Vines: Who has the Last Laugh? Shaikha Nurfarah Mattar
No 140 Corporate Public Apologies, or Capitalism in Other Words Nina M Chung
No 139 Agenda Setting and Framing in the UK Energy Prices Debate Nicholas Davies
No 138 'It is of Inestimable Benefit': Communicating American Science Policy in the Post-Cold War Era Mercedes Wilby
No 137 Beyond Twenty Cents: The Impact of the Representation of Violence on the Coverage of the Brazilian Protests of June 2013 by the Mass Media Margarida Gorecki Telles
No 136 Framing Françafrique: Neo-colonial Framing Practices in Le Monde 's Coverage of the French Military Interventions in Mali and the Central African Republic Lucie Gagniarre
No 135 Representing Persia: A Discourse Analysis of The American Print Media's Coverage of Iran Kyle Bowen
No 134 From Fat Cats to Cool Cats: CEOs and Micro-celebrity Practices on Twitter Julia Regina Austmann
No 133 Critically Imagining Ineternet Governance: A Content Analysis of the Marco Civil da Internet Public Consultation João Carlos Magalhães
No 132 The Ambiguous ICT: Investigating How Tablet Users Relate to and Interact with Their Device Jessica Blank
No 131 Threats, Parasites and Others: The Visual Framing of Roma Migrants in the British Press Grace Waters
No 130 Fifty Years of Negativity: An Assessment of Negative Compaigning in Swedish Parlimentary Election Campaigns 1956-2006 Gustav Gidenstam
No 129 The Talking Dog: Representations of Self and Others in Japanese Advertising Eryk Salvaggio
No 128 The Selfie Protest: A Visual Analysis of Activism in the Digital Age Clare Sheehan
No 127 Negativity and Australian Political Discourse: A Case Study of the Australian Liberal Party's 2013 Election Television Advertising Clare Creegan
No 126 What are You Laughing at? A Social Semiotic Analysis of Ironic Racial Stereotypes in Chappelle's Show Cindy Ma
No 125 Reconsidering Agenda Setting and Intermedia Agenda Setting from a Global Perspective: A Cross-National Comparative Agenda Setting Test Christoph Rosenthal
No 124 Big Data Exclusions and Disparate Impact: Investigating the Exclusionary Dynamics of Big Data Phenomenon Charly Gordon
No 123 Tabloidisation of the Norwegian News Media: A Quantitative Analysis of Print and Online Newspaper Platforms Celine Storstad Gran
No 122 Red, White and Afro Caribbean: A Qualitative Study of Afro-Caribbean American Identity During the Olympic Games Ashley Gordon
No 121 The City without Gates: Facebook and the Social Surface Andrew Crosby
No 120 Yes I Do Mind: Constructing Discourses of Resistance against Racial Microaggressions on Tumblr Abigail Kang
No 119 Tensions in Urban Street Art: a Visual Analysis of the Online Media Coverage of Banksy Slave Labour Elisabetta Crovara
No 118 The Sticky Case of Sticky Data: An Examination of the Rationale, Legality, and Implementation of a Right to Data Portability Under European Competition Law Paul T. Moura
No 117 Pinning Pretty: A Qualitative Study of Pinterest Users' Practices and Views Elizabeth White
No 116 Comparing Perceptions of NGOs and CSR: Audience Evaluations and Interpretations of Communications Gitanjali Co Devan Anderson
No 115 What is Web-Populism doing to Italian Politics? The Discursive Construction of 'Grillini' vis-a-vis the Antagonist Other Isadora Arredondo
No 114 Yellow Skin-White Prison: A Content Analysis of French Television News Broadcast Ngo Bossoro
No 113 A Revisionist Turkish Identity: Power, Religion and Ethnicity as Ottoman Identity in the Turkish series Muhteşem Yüzyıl Esra Doğramacı
No 112 Behind the Curtain: Women's Representations in Contemporary Hollywood Reema Dutt
No 111 From Liberal Conservative to Conservative Conservative : David Cameron's Political Branding Ignacio José Antonio López Escarcena
No 110 'Micropolitics' and Communication: An Exploratory Study on Student Representatives' Communication Repertoires in University Governance Nora Kroeger
No 109 Ideology No More: A Discourse of Othering in Canadian Mainstream Newspaper Representations of the Idle No More Movement Christian Ledwell
No 108 Media Representation of Nationalism and Immigration: A Case Study of Jamie's Great Britain Xin Liang
No 107 You're Not Alone : Virtual Communities, Online Relationships & Modern Identities in the Military Spouse & Blogging Community Elizabeth M. Lockwood
No 106 Harperist Discourse: Creating a Canadian 'Common Sense' and Shaping Ideology Through Language Mashoka Maimona
No 105 The Spiral of Silence and Social Media: Analysing Noelle-Neumann's Phenomenon Application on the Web during the Italian Political Elections of 2013 Cristina Malaspina
No 104 Participatory Culture on YouTube: A Case Study of the Multichannel Network Machinima Bryan Mueller
No 103 Up the Cascade: Framing of the Concession of the Highway between San Jose and San Ramon Marie Garnier Ortiz
No 102 Science in the Headlines: The Stakes in the Social Media Age Sasjkia Otto
No 101 Representing Disease: An Analysis of Breast Cancer Discourse in the South African Press Lauren Post
No 100 Blob and Its Audience: Making Sense of Meta-Television Giulia Previato
No 99 Streaming the Syrian War: A Case Study of the Partnership between Professional and Citizen Journalists in the Syrian Conflict Madeline Storck
No 98 Immigration Policy Narratives and the Politics of Identity: Causal Issue Frames in the Discursive Construction of America's Social Borders Felicity P. Tan
No 97 Behind 'gift-giving': The Motivations for Sharing Fan-Generated Digital Content in Online Fan Communities Mengchu Wang
No 96 Smartphone Location-based Services in the Social, Mobile, and Surveillance Practices of Everyday Life Carey Wong
No 95 The Impacts of Design on Voluntary Participation: Case Studies of Zimuzu and Baike Li Zeng
No 94 Mediated Politics and Ideology: Towards a New Synthesis. A case study from the Greek General Election of May 2012 Angelos Kissas
No 93 E-Arranged Marriages: How have Muslim matrimonial websites affected traditional Islamic courting methods? Ayesha Ahmed
No 92 Hospitality in the Modern Mediapolis: Global Mediation of Child Soldiers in central and east Africa Bridgette Bugay
No 91 Media Framing of the 2009-2010 United States Health Care Reform Debate: A Content Analysis of U.S. Newspaper Coverage Christina Brown
No 90 Behind the Laughter: Mediating Hegemony through Humour Ningkang Wang
No 89 Saving Europe online? European identity and the European Union’s Facebook communication during the eurozone crisis Johannes Hillje
No 88 Like it? Ritual Symbolic Exchange Using Facebook’s ‘Like’ Tool Kenneth J. Gamage
No 87 Understanding representations of low-income Chinese migrant workers through the lens of photojournalists Lee Zhuomin
No 86 The Modernization of Irish Political Campaigning: The 2011 General Election Liam Murphy
No 85 Online Freedom?Film Consumption in the Digital Age Luane Sandrin Gauer
No 84 Audience Reception of Charity Advertising: Making Sense, Interpreting and Decoding Advertisements That Focus on Human Suffering Magdalini Tsoutsoumpi
No 83 Beneath the Anthropomorphic Veil: Animal Imagery and Ideological Discourses in British Advertising Manjula Kalliat
No 82 Mobile Discourses: A Critical Discourse Analysis on Reports of Intergovernmental Organizations Recommending Mobile Phones for Development Maria Paola de Salvo
No 81 We the People: The role of social media in the participatory community of the Tea Party movement Rachel Weiler
No 80 SOPA Deliberation on Facebook: Deliberation and Facilitation or Mere Mobilization? Ray Wang
No 79 Discerning the Dominant Discourse in the World Summit on the Information Society Ria Sen
No 78 The impact of online health information on the doctor-patient relationship. Findings from a qualitative study Susanne Christmann
No 77 The Influence of Weibo Political Participations on the Political Efficacies of Weibo Users Wenxu Wang
No 76 In what Forms and Patterns does Inequality Exist in the Weibosphere? Xiao Han
No 75 Creating Scandal to Avoid Panic: How the UK Press Framed the News of the World Phonehacking Scandal Zuzanna Natalie Blaszkiewicz
No 74 Measuring media pluralism in the convergence era: The case of News Corp’s proposed acquisition of BSkyB Davide Morisi
No 73 Observers, Witnesses, Victims or Activists? How Inuit Voices are Represented in Mainstream Canadian Newspaper Coverage of Global Warming Patricia H. Audette-Longo
No 72 Global journalism, local realities: Ugandan journalists' views on reporting homosexuality Rachael Borlase
No 71 Why pay if it's free? Streaming, downloading, and digital music consumption in the "iTunes era" Theodore Giletti
No 70 Peacebuilding and Public Service Media: Lessons from Star Radio and media development in Liberia Elizabeth Goodfriend
No 69 The Discourse of Protest: Using discourse analysis to identify speech acts in UK broadsheet newspapers Stefan Brambilla Hall
No 68 Life With or Without the Internet: The Domesticated Experiences of Digital Inclusion and Exclusion Mark Holden
No 67 We are all well (and undisrupted) in the shelter - the 33 of us: Narratives in the rescue of the Chilean Miners as a Live Media Event César Antonio Jiménez Martínez
No 66 Critical Failure: Class, Taste and the Value of Film Criticism Moses Lemuel
No 65 The Story of Egypt: Journalistic impressions of a revolution and new media power Thomas Ledwell
No 64 Political Fandom in the Age of Social Media: Case Study of Barack Obama's 2008 Presidential Campaign Komal H. Parikh
No 63 Against all odds: Evidence for the 'true' cosmopolitan consumer A cross-disciplinary approach to investigating the Cosmopolitan Condition Saskia Scheibel
No 62 Relating to 'Ohio' in Political Advertisements: Interpreting Representations of Culture in Narratives, Myths, and Symbols from Democratic Spots in the 2010 Gubernatorial Campaign Daniel Schwarz
No 61 Youth Understanding of Climate: Towards a theory of social adaptation to climate change in Africa Hardi Shahadu
No 60 Translating China:A case study of Chinese-English translation in CCTV international broadcasting Yueru Zhang
No 59 From watchdog to lapdog?The impact of government intimidation on the public watchdog performance of peace media in processes of democratisation Michael Spiess
No 58 From Hardback to Software: How the Publishing Industry is Coping with Convergence Lauren Christina Sozio
No 57 Witnessing War: Blogs from Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan Jessica Siegel
No 56 Mediated Cosmopolitanism? The Other’s Mediated Dialogical Space on BBC World’s Hardtalk Andrew Rogers
No 55 Reconceptualising IT? Policy Learning and Paradigms of Sustainability in the ICT Policy of the European Union Jussi Nokkala
No 54 ‘Alive with Possibility’: Brand South Africa and the Discursive Construction of South African National Identity Yasuko Murai
No 53 The Journalistic Identities of Liveblogging A Case Study: Reporting the 2009 Post-Election Protests in Iran David McDougall,
No 52 Blogging the Gap: A survey of China bloggers Kerry Arnot
No 51 Young People’s Adoption and Consumption of a Cultural Commodity – iPhone Hui Jiang
No 50 Preserving the Liberal World Order in an Age of Globalization: Representing the People’s Republic of China in the American Prestige Press Jasmine Chan
No 49 In the Name of Allah? Alison Jarrett
No 48 An Investigation into the Meaning of Locally Produced Entertainment Media to Lebanese Women:A Concentration on the Film Sukkar Banat (Caramel) Carol Haidar
No 47 ‘Discuss This Article!’ Participatory Uses of Comment Sections on SPIEGEL ONLINE: A Content Analysis Eilika Freund
No 46 Fleeting Racialisation?: Media Representation of African Americans During the California Proposition 8 Campaign - App 1 - App 2 Tiana Epps-Johnson
No 45 The Big Society Will Not Take Place: Reading Postmodernism in Contemporary Conservative Discourse Matthew Eisner Harle
No 44 Situating the imagination:Turkish soap operas and the lives of women in Qatar Dima Issa
No 43 guardian.co.uk: online participation, ‘agonism’ and ‘mutualisation’ Mariam Cook
No 42 Freedom or intervention: What is the role of the regulator in achieving competitive pay-TV markets? Yi Shen Chan
No 41 The united states of unscreened cinema: The political economy of the self-distribution of cinema in the U.S. Bajir Cannon
No 40 Constructing the virtual body: Self-representation, self-modification and self-perfection in pro-eating disorder websites Gillian Bolsover
No 39 The Altruistic Blockbuster and the Third-World Filmstar Olina Banerji
No 38 The Modernisation of Australian Political Campaigns: The Case of Maxine McKew Evie Watt
No 37 Platform-based Open Innovation Business Models: Bridging the gap between value creation and value capture Michael Seminer
No 36 Transmit/Disrupt: Why does illegal broadcasting continue to thrive in the age of liberalised spectrum? Justin Schlosberg
No 35 Domestic Conflict or Global Terror? Framing the Mumbai Terror Attacks in the U.S. Print Press Kamla Pande
No 34 Information plurality, the financial sector, and the fate of Reuters News agency: Policy and problems surrounding the Thomson Reuters merger Leila Lemghalef
No 33 The Contested Framing of Canada’s Military Mission in Afghanistan: The News Media, the Government, the Military and the Public Brooks Decillia
No 32 UK community radio: policy frames and outcomes Helen Charles
No 31 Bunny Talk: Teenagers Discuss The Girls Next Door Jennifer Barton
No 30 Psephological Peer Production Tim Watts
No 29 Domestication of the Cell Phone on a College Campus: A Case Study Madhuri Shekar
No 28 The Visuals of Violence Sofie Scheerlinck
No 27 All Work and No Play - Does it Make Jack a Dull Boy? Ece Inanç
No 26 Perusing Perez: How do Taste Hierarchies, Leisure Preferences and Social Status Interact among visitors to Perez Hilton's Celebrity Gossip Blog? Ellen Hunter
No 25 Exploring the 'Americanization of Political Campaigns: Croatia's 2003 and 2007 General Elections Milly A. Doolan
No 24 Acts of Negotiation Rajana Das
No 23 Banal Environmentalism: Defining and Exploring an Expanded Understanding of Ecological Identity, Awareness, and Action Ryan Cunningham
No 22 Letting the Other Solitude be Heard: On the Media's Role as a Forum for Multilingual Conversation in Canada Marc Chalifoux
No 21 Multilateral Institutions and the Recontextualization of Political Marketing: How the World Intellectual Property Organization's Outreach Efforts Reflect Changing Audiences Sandra Bangasser
No 20 Branding in Election Campaigns: Just a Buzzword or a New Quality of Political Communication? Manuel Adolphsen
No 19 A Study on Self-regulatory Initiatives in China's Internet Industry Lijun Cao
No 18 An Exploration of the 2006 Electoral Campaign for the Re-election of Walter Veltroni for Mayor of Rome Maddalena Vianello
No 17 Creating Global Citizens? The Case of Connecting Classrooms Mandeep Samra
No 16 Audience Reception of Health Promoting Advertising Cristian Raftopoulou
No 15 The Game of (Family) Life: Intra-Family Play in the World of Warcraft Holly Peterson
No 14 Global TV and Local Realities: Constructing Narratives of the Self Sunandini Pande
No 13 Twitter: Expressions of the Whole Self Edward Mishaud
No 12 Crowdsourced News: The Collective Intelligence of Amateurs and The Evolution of Journalism Melissa Metzger
No 11 To Support or Distort: An Analysis of Ontario Referendum Campaign Websites Anna Mather
No 10 Political Handbags: The representation of women politicians Eva Markstedt
No 9 Free Speech, Political Correctness and the Public Sphere in a Talk Radio World Michele Margolis
No 8 Propaganda, Grassroots Power, or Online Public Sphere? Zheng Liu
No 7 Preventing Drug Abuse in China: Anti-Drug Campaigns in the Eyes of a Drug User Bo Li
No 6 Taming Technology: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Families and Their Domestication of the Internet Josh Hack
No 5 Keeping up Appearances: Candidate Self-Presentation through Web Videos in the 2008 US Presidential Primary Campaign Nisha Gulati
No 4 The End of the Media's '"War on Terror"? An Analysis of a Declining Frame Dominik Cziesche
No 3 Fantasizing Reality: Wetware, Social Imaginaries, and Signs of Change Jennifer Cross
No 2 The Colbert Nation: A Democratic Place to be? Kristen Boesel
No 1 Media Constructions of Extreme Female Thinness Nelly Abranavel
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Jacob Gaboury (PhD 2014)
Jacob is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Film & Media at the University of California, Berkeley. His dissertation "Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics, 1965-1979" investigated the early history of computer graphics and the role they play in the move toward new forms of simulation and object oriented design.
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Xiaochang Li (PhD 2017)
Xiaochang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Stanford University. Her teaching and research interests include the history of computing and information systems, AI and algorithmic culture, speech and language technology, and software/platform studies. Before joining Stanford, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.
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Hatim El-Hibri (PhD 2012)
Hatim is Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at George Mason University. His research examines media technologies and urban space in the Middle East. His dissertation traced the history of the visualization of Beirut, from the politics of aerial photography and mapping during the French Mandate, to the visual economy of postwar construction, to the materiality of Hizballah's live satellite television.
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Liz Koslov (PhD 2017)
Liz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Planning and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA. Previously, she was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT. Her research examines the cultural, political, and sociological dimensions of climate change adaptation. Her first book project, Retreat: Moving to Higher Ground in a Climate-Changed City , is under advance contract with the University of Chicago Press.
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Devon Powers (PhD 2008)
Devon is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Advertising, Media & Communication at Temple University. Powers' research interests include popular music, 20th century history, and cultural intermediation – the people and processes that operate "in between" the production and consumption of culture. Powers completed a fellowship at the University of Leeds in 2014, and was recently elected Vice Chair of the Popular Communication Division of the International Communication Association.
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Matthew is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington-Seattle. His dissertation "Humanity's Publics: NGOs, Journalism and the International Public Sphere" examined reporting roles assumed by international NGOs as legacy media outlets cut their foreign news budgets, and received the Gene Burd Outstanding Dissertation in Journalism Studies award from the International Communication Association.
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2.2 Media Effects Theories
Learning objectives.
- Identify the basic theories of media effects.
- Explain the uses of various media effects theories.
Early media studies focused on the use of mass media in propaganda and persuasion. However, journalists and researchers soon looked to behavioral sciences to help figure out the effect of mass media and communications on society. Scholars have developed many different approaches and theories to figure this out. You can refer to these theories as you research and consider the media’s effect on culture.
Widespread fear that mass-media messages could outweigh other stabilizing cultural influences, such as family and community, led to what is known as the direct effects model of media studies. This model assumed that audiences passively accepted media messages and would exhibit predictable reactions in response to those messages. For example, following the radio broadcast of War of the Worlds in 1938 (which was a fictional news report of an alien invasion), some people panicked and believed the story to be true.
Challenges to the Direct Effects Theory
The results of the People’s Choice Study challenged this model. Conducted in 1940, the study attempted to gauge the effects of political campaigns on voter choice. Researchers found that voters who consumed the most media had generally already decided for which candidate to vote, while undecided voters generally turned to family and community members to help them decide. The study thus discredited the direct effects model and influenced a host of other media theories (Hanson, 2009). These theories do not necessarily give an all-encompassing picture of media effects but rather work to illuminate a particular aspect of media influence.
Marshall McLuhan’s Influence on Media Studies
During the early 1960s, English professor Marshall McLuhan wrote two books that had an enormous effect on the history of media studies. Published in 1962 and 1964, respectively, the Gutenberg Galaxy and Understanding Media both traced the history of media technology and illustrated the ways these innovations had changed both individual behavior and the wider culture. Understanding Media introduced a phrase that McLuhan has become known for: “The medium is the message.” This notion represented a novel take on attitudes toward media—that the media themselves are instrumental in shaping human and cultural experience.
His bold statements about media gained McLuhan a great deal of attention as both his supporters and critics responded to his utopian views about the ways media could transform 20th-century life. McLuhan spoke of a media-inspired “global village” at a time when Cold War paranoia was at its peak and the Vietnam War was a hotly debated subject. Although 1960s-era utopians received these statements positively, social realists found them cause for scorn. Despite—or perhaps because of—these controversies, McLuhan became a pop culture icon, mentioned frequently in the television sketch-comedy program Laugh-In and appearing as himself in Woody Allen’s film Annie Hall .
The Internet and its accompanying cultural revolution have made McLuhan’s bold utopian visions seem like prophecies. Indeed, his work has received a great deal of attention in recent years. Analysis of McLuhan’s work has, interestingly, not changed very much since his works were published. His supporters point to the hopes and achievements of digital technology and the utopian state that such innovations promise. The current critique of McLuhan, however, is a bit more revealing of the state of modern media studies. Media scholars are much more numerous now than they were during the 1960s, and many of these scholars criticize McLuhan’s lack of methodology and theoretical framework.
Despite his lack of scholarly diligence, McLuhan had a great deal of influence on media studies. Professors at Fordham University have formed an association of McLuhan-influenced scholars. McLuhan’s other great achievement is the popularization of the concept of media studies. His work brought the idea of media effects into the public arena and created a new way for the public to consider the influence of media on culture (Stille, 2000).
Agenda-Setting Theory
In contrast to the extreme views of the direct effects model, the agenda-setting theory of media stated that mass media determine the issues that concern the public rather than the public’s views. Under this theory, the issues that receive the most attention from media become the issues that the public discusses, debates, and demands action on. This means that the media is determining what issues and stories the public thinks about. Therefore, when the media fails to address a particular issue, it becomes marginalized in the minds of the public (Hanson).
When critics claim that a particular media outlet has an agenda, they are drawing on this theory. Agendas can range from a perceived liberal bias in the news media to the propagation of cutthroat capitalist ethics in films. For example, the agenda-setting theory explains such phenomena as the rise of public opinion against smoking. Before the mass media began taking an antismoking stance, smoking was considered a personal health issue. By promoting antismoking sentiments through advertisements, public relations campaigns, and a variety of media outlets, the mass media moved smoking into the public arena, making it a public health issue rather than a personal health issue (Dearing & Rogers, 1996). More recently, coverage of natural disasters has been prominent in the news. However, as news coverage wanes, so does the general public’s interest.
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Through a variety of antismoking campaigns, the health risks of smoking became a public agenda.
Quinn Dombrowski – Weapons of mass destruction – CC BY-SA 2.0.
Media scholars who specialize in agenda-setting research study the salience, or relative importance, of an issue and then attempt to understand what causes it to be important. The relative salience of an issue determines its place within the public agenda, which in turn influences public policy creation. Agenda-setting research traces public policy from its roots as an agenda through its promotion in the mass media and finally to its final form as a law or policy (Dearing & Rogers, 1996).
Uses and Gratifications Theory
Practitioners of the uses and gratifications theory study the ways the public consumes media. This theory states that consumers use the media to satisfy specific needs or desires. For example, you may enjoy watching a show like Dancing With the Stars while simultaneously tweeting about it on Twitter with your friends. Many people use the Internet to seek out entertainment, to find information, to communicate with like-minded individuals, or to pursue self-expression. Each of these uses gratifies a particular need, and the needs determine the way in which media is used. By examining factors of different groups’ media choices, researchers can determine the motivations behind media use (Papacharissi, 2009).
A typical uses and gratifications study explores the motives for media consumption and the consequences associated with use of that media. In the case of Dancing With the Stars and Twitter, you are using the Internet as a way to be entertained and to connect with your friends. Researchers have identified a number of common motives for media consumption. These include relaxation, social interaction, entertainment, arousal, escape, and a host of interpersonal and social needs. By examining the motives behind the consumption of a particular form of media, researchers can better understand both the reasons for that medium’s popularity and the roles that the medium fills in society. A study of the motives behind a given user’s interaction with Facebook, for example, could explain the role Facebook takes in society and the reasons for its appeal.
Uses and gratifications theories of media are often applied to contemporary media issues. The analysis of the relationship between media and violence that you read about in preceding sections exemplifies this. Researchers employed the uses and gratifications theory in this case to reveal a nuanced set of circumstances surrounding violent media consumption, as individuals with aggressive tendencies were drawn to violent media (Papacharissi, 2009).
Symbolic Interactionism
Another commonly used media theory, symbolic interactionism , states that the self is derived from and develops through human interaction. This means the way you act toward someone or something is based on the meaning you have for a person or thing. To effectively communicate, people use symbols with shared cultural meanings. Symbols can be constructed from just about anything, including material goods, education, or even the way people talk. Consequentially, these symbols are instrumental in the development of the self.
This theory helps media researchers better understand the field because of the important role the media plays in creating and propagating shared symbols. Because of the media’s power, it can construct symbols on its own. By using symbolic interactionist theory, researchers can look at the ways media affects a society’s shared symbols and, in turn, the influence of those symbols on the individual (Jansson-Boyd, 2010).
One of the ways the media creates and uses cultural symbols to affect an individual’s sense of self is advertising. Advertisers work to give certain products a shared cultural meaning to make them desirable. For example, when you see someone driving a BMW, what do you think about that person? You may assume the person is successful or powerful because of the car he or she is driving. Ownership of luxury automobiles signifies membership in a certain socioeconomic class. Equally, technology company Apple has used advertising and public relations to attempt to become a symbol of innovation and nonconformity. Use of an Apple product, therefore, may have a symbolic meaning and may send a particular message about the product’s owner.
Media also propagate other noncommercial symbols. National and state flags, religious images, and celebrities gain shared symbolic meanings through their representation in the media.
Spiral of Silence
The spiral of silence theory, which states that those who hold a minority opinion silence themselves to prevent social isolation, explains the role of mass media in the formation and maintenance of dominant opinions. As minority opinions are silenced, the illusion of consensus grows, and so does social pressure to adopt the dominant position. This creates a self-propagating loop in which minority voices are reduced to a minimum and perceived popular opinion sides wholly with the majority opinion. For example, prior to and during World War II, many Germans opposed Adolf Hitler and his policies; however, they kept their opposition silent out of fear of isolation and stigma.
Because the media is one of the most important gauges of public opinion, this theory is often used to explain the interaction between media and public opinion. According to the spiral of silence theory, if the media propagates a particular opinion, then that opinion will effectively silence opposing opinions through an illusion of consensus. This theory relates especially to public polling and its use in the media (Papacharissi).
Media Logic
The media logic theory states that common media formats and styles serve as a means of perceiving the world. Today, the deep rooting of media in the cultural consciousness means that media consumers need engage for only a few moments with a particular television program to understand that it is a news show, a comedy, or a reality show. The pervasiveness of these formats means that our culture uses the style and content of these shows as ways to interpret reality. For example, think about a TV news program that frequently shows heated debates between opposing sides on public policy issues. This style of debate has become a template for handling disagreement to those who consistently watch this type of program.
Media logic affects institutions as well as individuals. The modern televangelist has evolved from the adoption of television-style promotion by religious figures, while the utilization of television in political campaigns has led candidates to consider their physical image as an important part of a campaign (Altheide & Snow, 1991).
Cultivation Analysis
The cultivation analysis theory states that heavy exposure to media causes individuals to develop an illusory perception of reality based on the most repetitive and consistent messages of a particular medium. This theory most commonly applies to analyses of television because of that medium’s uniquely pervasive, repetitive nature. Under this theory, someone who watches a great deal of television may form a picture of reality that does not correspond to actual life. Televised violent acts, whether those reported on news programs or portrayed on television dramas, for example, greatly outnumber violent acts that most people encounter in their daily lives. Thus, an individual who watches a great deal of television may come to view the world as more violent and dangerous than it actually is.
Cultivation analysis projects involve a number of different areas for research, such as the differences in perception between heavy and light users of media. To apply this theory, the media content that an individual normally watches must be analyzed for various types of messages. Then, researchers must consider the given media consumer’s cultural background of individuals to correctly determine other factors that are involved in his or her perception of reality. For example, the socially stabilizing influences of family and peer groups influence children’s television viewing and the way they process media messages. If an individual’s family or social life plays a major part in her life, the social messages that she receives from these groups may compete with the messages she receives from television.
Key Takeaways
- The now largely discredited direct effects model of media studies assumes that media audiences passively accept media messages and exhibit predictable reactions in response to those messages.
- Credible media theories generally do not give as much power to the media, such as the agenda-setting theory, or give a more active role to the media consumer, such as the uses and gratifications theory.
- Other theories focus on specific aspects of media influence, such as the spiral of silence theory’s focus on the power of the majority opinion or the symbolic interactionism theory’s exploration of shared cultural symbolism.
- Media logic and cultivation analysis theories deal with how media consumers’ perceptions of reality can be influenced by media messages.
Media theories have a variety of uses and applications. Research one of the following topics and its effect on culture. Examine the topic using at least two of the approaches discussed in this section. Then, write a one-page essay about the topic you’ve selected.
- Internet habits
- Television’s effect on attention span
- Advertising and self-image
- Racial stereotyping in film
- Many of the theories discussed in this section were developed decades ago. Identify how each of these theories can be used today? Do you think these theories are still relevant for modern mass media? Why?
David Altheide and Robert Snow, Media Worlds in the Postjournalism Era (New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1991), 9–11.
Dearing, James and Everett Rogers, Agenda-Setting (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1996), 4.
Hanson, Ralph. Mass Communication: Living in a Media World (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2009), 80–81.
Hanson, Ralph. Mass Communication , 92.
Jansson-Boyd, Catherine. Consumer Psychology (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2010), 59–62.
Papacharissi, Zizi. “Uses and Gratifications,” 153–154.
Papacharissi, Zizi. “Uses and Gratifications,” in An Integrated Approach to Communication Theory and Research , ed. Don Stacks and Michael Salwen (New York: Routledge, 2009), 137.
Stille, Alexander. “Marshall McLuhan Is Back From the Dustbin of History; With the Internet, His Ideas Again Seem Ahead of Their Time,” New York Times , October 14, 2000, http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/14/arts/marshall-mcluhan-back-dustbin-history-with-internet-his-ideas-again-seem-ahead.html .
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The Department of Media Study’s PhD is one of a small set of innovative doctoral programs in experimental media theory and practice-led research in the United States. This program responds to the rapid development and transformation of media due to advances in digital technologies and to the growing number of artist-scholar-researchers working in technology-based art forms.
A new community of artist-scholar-researchers has emerged in the spaces between media art practice, the humanities and the sciences. This work is not easily categorized and often spans disciplines that traditionally have little overlap. Students of this program become experts in the hybrid set of conceptual and technical abilities that this field requires while they engage with the aesthetic, political and social challenges of media making. The department offers courses in film and video production, interactive media, digital media, physical computing, media networks and web-based media.
Learning Environment
This doctoral program is designed to create a framework for practice-led and scholarly research into media arts. Commensurate with the traditional PhD framework, most of the credits are earned in research and independent study. Consequently, students are free to organize their course of study around specific research trajectories. Coursework gives students opportunity to showcase and critique their work with peers. Students work closely with members of the faculty who share their research area. The dissertation combines both written and production components in a proportion and manner appropriate to the student’s area of research. The program only requires that the conversation between these two components be substantial and original. This PhD is most obviously appropriate for artists who plan to conduct their research in an academic context. However, the PhD is equally appropriate for media artists who want to explore the theoretical implications of their work or for ‘scholarly’ researchers who want to move from the purely discursive to explore practice-based research. This program is designed to be completed in five to six years.
Program Requirements
Seventy-two credit hours are required, and students are expected to create a substantial and original media project to accompany their doctoral dissertation.
The PhD Requirements Manual offers a more comprehensive explanation of degree requirements.
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Description of required coursework follows:
Production (9 credits): PhD students must be literate in media creation. (This category was previously Methods of Making.) Students should discuss with their faculty advisor whether any particular courses in this category would benefit them.
Media Theory and History (18 credits): The required course DMS 570, Media Theory, provides a graduate-level introduction to media theory and research methodologies. Additional media theory and history courses prepare students to take their qualifying exams and eventually to contribute original research to the field. The preliminary media theory course should be taken in the first semester, the other two media theory courses should be taken in the semester prior to the qualifying exam.
PhD Seminars and Research Ethics (6 credits): Students are encouraged to take these courses (I and II) in semester 1 and semester 4. PhD Seminar I focuses on research methods and practices; PhD Seminar II focuses on research strategies and preparation of manuscripts for publication in peer-reviewed journals. Students will identify appropriate professional journals, publication venues and conferences for the presentation of their doctoral research. Students must also pass a research ethics course, either by taking a 2 credit seminar (PHI 640 or RPN 541) or by completing the online Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) with a passing score of 80% or higher. Students taking the CITI course must submit documentation of their successful completion of the course with their Application to Candidacy.
Directed Electives (30 credits): Students may choose any UB graduate courses that support their doctoral research, chosen in consultation with their faculty advisor. Students must keep records (course work and syllabi) of all course activities performed outside of DMS. This information will become important when applying for candidacy. Some directed electives (at least 8 credits) must be taken in additional media theory classes.
Dissertation and Project Guidance (9 credits): Thesis and project work is usually credited by registering for DMS 598 project supervision during one of the last three semesters, and DMS 702 Dissertation guidance in the final two semesters, in any combination of credits suited to the work.
Required Coursework outside DMS: Students must take at least 3 classes outside of DMS as part of their requirements for the major. Usually these courses will be used for electives and will be chosen in concert with the student’s faculty advisor. Use of these courses for PhD requirements, other than as electives, must be approved by the DGS. Students are required to keep documentation (syllabi, semester papers, etc.) for these courses. All credits must be in graduate level courses External Courses (counted under electives or other categories)(500 level and above).
Requirements for Student Starting Prior to Fall 2021
Production (8 credits)
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Communication Studies Theses, Dissertations, and Professional Papers
This collection includes theses, dissertations, and professional papers from the University of Montana Department of Communication Studies. Theses, dissertations, and professional papers from all University of Montana departments and programs may be searched here.
Theses/Dissertations from 2024 2024
The Role of Face Threats in Understanding Target’s Interpretation of a Tease , Shawn M. Deegan
RETROSPECTIVE AND INTERACTIVE ANALYSES OF PARENT-ADOLESCENT STORYTELLING ABOUT ALCOHOL , Kiersten Marie Falck
A CASE OF WATER: A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF THE LEGAL AND SOCIAL EFFECTS OF THE ARIZONA V. NAVAJO NATION SUPREME COURT CASE , Mykel Patrick Greene
To Revise Or Not To Revise: How Feedback Type, Interpersonal Liking, and Messenger Credibility Influence Revision , Rachel Jane Jensen
The National Football League's Problem , Marley R. Merchen
Menopause in The Public Sphere: The Consciousness-Raising Practices of Technical and Experiential Experts , Emma J. Murdock
Minimizing Toxicity and Maximizing Social Connection in Collegiate Esports Teams , Julia Kay Tonne
EXPLORING CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES AND SOLUTIONS OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS IN ACADEMIC ENVIRONMENTS WITH CONSIDERATION TO COMMUNICATION ACCOMMODATION THEORY , Wendy K. Yeboah
Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023
COMEDY, CAMARADERIE, AND CONFLICT: USING HUMOR TO DEFUSE DISPUTES AMONG FRIENDS , Sheena A. Bringa
Navigating Toxic Identities Within League of Legends , Jeremy Thomas Miner
Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022
UNDERSTANDING MEDIA RICHNESS AND SOCIAL PRESENCE: EXPLORING THE IMPACTS OF MEDIA CHANNELS ON INDIVIDUALS’ LEVELS OF LONELINESS, WELL-BEING, AND BELONGING , Ashley M. Arsenault
CANCELING VS. #CANCEL CULTURE: AN ANALYSIS ON THE SURVEILLANCE AND DISCIPLINE OF SOCIAL MEDIA BEHAVIOR THROUGH COMPETING DISCOURSES OF POWER , Julia G. Bezio
DISTAL SIBLING GRIEF: EXPLORING EMOTIONAL AFFECT AND SALIENCE OF LISTENER BEHAVIORS IN STORIES OF SIBLING DEATH , Margaret C. Brock
Is Loss a Laughing Matter?: A Study of Humor Reactions and Benign Violation Theory in the Context of Grief. , Miranda B. Henrich
The Request Is Not Compatible: Competing Frames of Public Lands Discourse in the Lolo Peak Ski Resort Controversy , Philip A. Sharp
Patient Expectations, Satisfaction, and Provider Communication Within the Oncology Experience , Elizabeth Margaret Sholey
Psychological Safety at Amazon: A CCO Approach , Kathryn K. Zyskowski
Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021
Discourse of Renewal: A Qualitative Analysis of the University of Montana’s COVID-19 Crisis Communication , Haley Renae Gabel
Activating Hope: How Functional Support Can Improve Hope in Unemployed Individuals , Rylee P. Walter
Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020
THE HOME AS A SITE OF FAMILY COMMUNICATED NARRATIVE SENSE-MAKING: GRIEF, MEANING, AND IDENTITY THROUGH “CLEANING OUT THE CLOSET” , Kendyl A. Barney
CRISIS AS A CONSTANT: UNDERSTANDING THE COMMUNICATIVE ENACTMENT OF COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE WITHIN THE EXTENSION DISASTER EDUCATION NETWORK (EDEN) , Danielle Maria Farley
FOSTERING COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE IN COMPREHENSIVE SEX EDUCATION: EVALUATION AND RECOMMENDATIONS ON THE FOUNDATIONS TRAINING , Shanay L. Healy
Belonging for Dementia Caregivers , Sabrina Singh
Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019
Making the Most of People We Do Not Like: Capitalizing on Negative Feedback , Christopher Edward Anderson
Understanding the Relationship Between Discursive Resources and Risk-Taking Behaviors in Outdoor Adventure Athletes , Mira Ione Cleveland
Service Failure Management in High-End Hospitality Resorts , Hunter A. Dietrich
Fear, Power, & Teeth (2007) , Olivia Hockenbroch
The climate change sublime: Leveraging the immense awe of the planetary threat of climate change , Sean D. Quartz
Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018
The Relationship Between Memorable Messages and Identity Construction , Raphaela P. Barros Campbell
Wonder Woman: A Case Study for Critical Media Literacy , Adriana N. Fehrs
Curated Chaos: A Rhetorical Study of Axmen , Rebekah A. McDonald
THE ROLE OF BIPOLAR DISORDER, STIGMA, AND HURTFUL MESSAGES IN ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS , Callie Parrish
Cruising to be a Board Gamer: Understanding Socialization Relating to Board Gaming and The Dice Tower , Benjamin Wassink
Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017
STEAMED: EXAMINATIONS OF POWER STRUGGLES ON THE VALUE FORUM , richard E. babb
Beyond the Bike; Identity and Belonging of Free Cycles Members , Caitlyn Lewis
Adherence and Uncertainty Management: A Test Of The Theory Of Motivated Information Management , Ryan Thiel
Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016
Redskins Revisited: Competing Constructions of the Washington Redskins Mascot , Eean Grimshaw
A Qualitative Analysis of Belonging in Communities of Practice: Exploring Transformative Organizational Elements within the Choral Arts , Aubrielle J. Holly
Training the Professoraite of Tomorrow: Implementing the Needs Centered Training Model to Instruct Graduate Teaching Assistants in the use of Teacher Immediacy , Leah R. Johnson
Beyond Blood: Examining the Communicative Challenges of Adoptive Families , Mackensie C. Minniear
Attitudes Toward Execution: The Tragic and Grotesque Framing of Capital Punishment in the News , Katherine Shuy
Knowledge and Resistance: Feminine Style and Signifyin[g] in Michelle Obama’s Public Address , Tracy Valgento
Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015
BLENDED FRAMEWORK: BILL MCKIBBEN'S USE OF MELODRAMA AND COMEDY IN ENVIRONMENTAL RHETORIC , Megan E. Cullinan
THE INFLUENCE OF MEDICAL DRAMAS ON PATIENT EXPECTATIONS OF PHYSICIAN COMMUNICATION , Kayla M. Fadenrecht
Diabesties: How Diabetic Support on Campus can Alleviate Diabetic Burnout , Kassandra E. Martin
Resisting NSA Surveillance: Glenn Greenwald and the public sphere debate about privacy , Rebecca Rice
Rhetoric, participation, and democracy: The positioning of public hearings under the National Environmental Policy Act , Kevin C. Stone
Socialization and Volunteers: A Training Program for Volunteer Managers , Allison M. Sullivan
Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014
THIRD PARTY EFFECTS OF AFFECTIONATE COMMUNICATION IN FAMILY SUBSYSTEMS: EXAMINING INFLUENCE ON AFFECTIONATE COMMUNICATION, MENTAL WELL-BEING, AND FAMILY SATISFACTION , Timothy M. Curran
Commodity or Dignity? Nurturing Managers' Courtesy Nurtures Workers' Productivity , Montana Rafferty Moss
"It Was My Job to Keep My Children Safe": Sandra Steingraber and the Parental Rhetoric of Precaution , Mollie Katherine Murphy
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Free Markets: ALEC's Populist Constructions of "the People" in State Politics , Anne Sherwood
Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013
COMMUNICATIVE CONSTRUCTION OF EXPECTATIONS: AN EXAMINATION OF EXPECTATIONS REGARDING MOTHERS IN NARRATIVE CONSTRUCTION , Jordan A. Allen
Let’s talk about sex: A training program for parents of 4th and 5th grade children , Elizabeth Kay Eickhoff
"You Is The Church": Identity and Identification in Church Leadership , Megan E. Gesler
This land is your land, this land is my land: A qualitative study of tensions in an environmental decision making group , Gabriel Patrick Grelle
The Constitution of Queer Identity in the 1972 APA Panel, "Psychiatry: Friend or Foe to Homosexuals? A Dialogue" , Dustin Vern Edward Schneider
The Effect of Religious Similarity on the Use of Relational Maintenance Strategies in Marriages , Jamie Karen Taylor
Justice, Equality, and SlutWalk: The Rhetoric of Protesting Rape Culture , Dana Whitney Underwood
Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012
Collective Privacy Boundary Turbulence and Facework Strategies: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of South Korea and the United States , Min Kyong Cho
COMMUNICATING ARTIFACTS: AN ANALYSIS OF HOW MUSEUMS COMMUNICATE ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTITY DURING TIMES OF CONTROVERSY AND FINANCIAL STRAIN , Amanda Renee Cornuke
Communication Apprehension and Perceived Responsiveness , Elise Alexandra Fanney
Improving Patient-Provider Communication in the Health Care context , Charlotte M. Glidden
What They Consider, How They Decide: Best Practices of Technical Experts in Environmental Decision-Making , Cassandra J. Hemphill
Rebuilding Place: Exploring Strategies to Align Place Identity During Relocation , Brigette Renee McKamey
Sarah Palin, Conservative Feminism, and the Politics of Family , Jasmine Rose Zink
Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011
Salud, Dignidad, Justicia: Articulating "Choice" and "Reproductive Justice" for Latinas in the United States , Kathleen Maire de Onis
Environmental Documentary Film: A Contemporary Tool For Social Movement , Rachel Gregg
In The Pink: The (Un)Healthy Complexion of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month , Kira Stacey Jones
Jihad as an Ideograph: Osama bin Laden's rhetorical weapon of choice , Faye Lingarajan
The Heart of the Matter: The Function and Relational Effects of Humor for Cardiovascular Patients , Nicholas Lee Lockwood
Feeling the Burn: A Discursive Analysis of Organizational Burnout in Seasonal Wildland Firefighters , Whitney Eleanor Marie Maphis
Making A Comeback: An Exploration of Nontraditional Students & Identity Support , Jessica Kate McFadden
In the Game of Love, Play by the Rules: Implications of Relationship Rule Consensus over Honesty and Deception in Romantic Relationships , Katlyn Elise Roggensack
Assessing the balance: Burkean frames and Lil' Bush , Elizabeth Anne Sills
Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010
The Discipline of Identity: Examining the Challenges of Developing Interdisciplinary Identities Within the Science Disciplines , Nicholas Richard Burk
Occupational Therapists: A Study of Managing Multiple Identities , Katherine Elise Lloyd
Discourse, Identity, and Culture in Diverse Organizations: A Study of The Muslim Students Association (University of Montana) , Burhanuddin Bin Omar
The Skinny on Weight Watchers: A Critical Analysis of Weight Watcher's Use of Metaphors , Ashlynn Laura Reynolds-Dyk
You Got the Job, Now What?: An Evaluation of the New Employee Orientation Program at the University of Montana , Shiloh M. A. Sullivan
Theses/Dissertations from 2009 2009
Because We Have the Power to Choose: A Critical Analysis of the Rhetorical Strategies Used in Merck's Gardasil Campaign , Brittney Lee Buttweiler
Communicative Strategies Used in the Introduction of Spirituality in the Workplace , Matthew Alan Condon
Cultures in Residence: Intercultural Communication Competence for Residence Life Staff , Bridget Eileen Flaherty
The Influence of Sibling Support on Children's Post-Divorce Adjustment: A Turning Point Analysis , Kimberly Ann Jacobs
TALK ABOUT “HOOKING UP”: HOW COLLEGE STUDENTS‟ ACCOUNTS OF “HOOKING UP” IN SOCIAL NETWORKS INFLUENCES ENGAGING IN RISKY SEXUAL BEHAVIOR , Amanda J. Olson
The Effect of Imagined Interactions on Secret Revelation and Health , Adam Stephens Richards
Teaching Intercultural Communication Competence in the Healthcare Context , Jelena Stojakovic
Quitting versus Not Quitting: The Process and Development of an Assimilation Program Within Opportunity Resources, Inc. , Amanda N. Stovall
Theses/Dissertations from 2008 2008
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Trump rally shooting breeds social media lies and sick conspiracies. What's wrong with us?
The chaos of the moment, as is always the case now, was swiftly made worse by speculation blasted out to thousands or millions on x and facebook and other platforms..
News of a shooting at former President Donald Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania broke Saturday, then descended immediately into the chaotic churn of social media, birthing the kind of lies, conspiracies and speculation that have become our new normal.
What happened was sickening. We didn’t need to wait on specific details to know that. Hearing a crackle of gunfire and watching the presumptive Republican presidential nominee – thankfully OK – swarmed by Secret Service officers , rushed off the stage with blood on his face? It’s unthinkable. It’s not how America is supposed to work.
But what followed, within minutes, was maddening.
Shooting at Trump rally birthed swift social media conspiracies
The chaos of the moment, as is always the case now, was swiftly made worse by speculation blasted out to thousands or millions on X and Facebook and other platforms. It came from every source – random knuckleheads, pundits, lawmakers – deciding in the moment they knew exactly what had happened.
Facts rendered meaningless. Opinions and hot takes elevated to levels that were once the sole realm of actual, reputable news.
It was this person’s fault. It was that person’s fault. You’re to blame. They’re to blame.
Americans' social-media-driven demand for instant answers hurts us all
Trending topics took off with claims of everything from an assassination attempt to a staged event. Unfettered garbage. Cynical manipulations.
Sick, twisted imaginings and attempts at humor – worthless chatter that once had no way to enter the mainstream – were blasted out to a country where, quite literally, everybody has to have a damn opinion in order to grasp at some form of social status.
What is wrong with us? How have we let the drip of conspiracy theories and lies that are part of any society become a fire hose?
After the Trump rally shots, there was no waiting around for facts
I don’t know yet exactly what happened at Trump’s rally , beyond the reporting that says the former president is OK, a person at the rally was shot and killed, two others were injured and the shooter is dead. That will change as investigators learn more and share it with the public, but in the wake of the shooting Saturday, that is absolutely the extent of anyone’s knowledge.
This didn’t stop people from extrapolating, from fabricating, from sensationalizing a horrible moment that needed no augmenting. The dearth of facts were quickly backfilled with opportunistic bollocks.
As a journalist, as someone whose entire professional life has been anchored by facts, this out-of-control, all-too-predictable tornado of fiction makes me sick. It has made me sick following more tragic, chaotic moments that I can recall. It made me sick in the past few weeks as everyone and their uncle became an expert on aging and on President Joe Biden’s cognitive state.
But this moment – even though we still don’t know the motive or the full details – is one that demands clarity and unity and care. Damn it, we are one nation, and we can and should, across the board, condemn any form of political violence. Period.
Trump rally shooting should've made us pause, not speculate
And that’s all anyone should have been doing Saturday, from the moment that shocking gunfire erupted and on and on through the night and until Americans know, without question, what the hell happened.
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This isn’t a battle. This can’t be us vs. us. We have to reach a moment where we put down our phones and just keep quiet. Just let the facts come out. Just hold back the emotions and the click-thirsty desires and the demand for instant gratification that has led us to this point.
I look forward to every detail of this horrific shooting coming out so we can move forward together and do what Americans should be doing: Make things better.
What happened on social media and across TV screens throughout the country in the wake of this shooting all but certainly made things worse.
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No, this photo is not of Trump rally shooting suspect Thomas Matthew Crooks
If your time is short.
- An unnamed man falsely claimed responsibility for the attempted assassination.
- He posted a photo and a video of himself saying he was the shooter at the rally.
- The posts came hours after police and local officials confirmed the real shooting suspect was dead.
Do these images show Thomas Matthew Crooks, the man named by the FBI as the suspect in the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump?
Social media posts quickly claimed to reveal the portrait of the suspect who authorities say shot and killed one person, injured former President Donald Trump and critically injured two others at the candidate’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania July 13.
The posts seen on X and Instagram show the side profile of a long-haired blond man wearing a blue shirt and eyeglasses.
The man can be seen in a video claiming responsibility for the attack. "My name is Thomas Matthew Crooks," he said. "I hate Republicans, I hate Trump and guess what, you got the wrong guy."
The person in the video is not Crooks.
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U.S. Secret Service agents killed the suspected shooter, according to the agency’s July 13 press statement . Butler County District Attorney Richard A. Goldinger also confirmed the shooting suspect’s death.
The photos and video also surfaced online several hours after officials confirmed the real shooting suspect was dead.
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Minutes after Trump shooting, misinformation started flying. Here are the facts
What began as a jubilant rally for Donald Trump, just days before he becomes the official Republican presidential nominee, ended in mere minutes with the former president bloodied and a suspected would-be assassin shot dead by Secret Service.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Within minutes of the gunfire, the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump spawned a vast sea of claims — some outlandish, others contradictory — reflecting the frightening uncertainties of the moment as well as America’s fevered, polarized political climate.
The cloudburst of speculation and conjecture as Americans turned to the internet for news about the shooting is the latest sign of how social media has emerged as a dominant source of information — and misinformation — for many, and a contributor to the distrust and turbulence now driving American politics.
Mentions of Trump on social media soared up to 17 times the average daily amount in the hours after the shooting, according to PeakMetrics, a cyber firm that tracks online narratives. Many of those mentions were expressions of sympathy for Trump or calls for unity . But many others made unfounded, fantastical claims.
“We saw things like ‘The Chinese were behind it,’ or ‘ Antifa was behind it,’ or ‘the Biden administration did it.’ We also saw a claim that the RNC was behind it,’” said Paul Bartel, senior intelligence analyst at PeakMetrics. “Everyone is just speculating. No one really knows what’s going on. They go online to try to figure it out.”
Here’s a look at the claims that surfaced online following the shooting:
Claims of an inside job or false flag are unsubstantiated
Many of the more specious claims that surfaced immediately after the shooting sought to blame Trump or his Democratic opponent, President Joe Biden, for the attack.
Some voices on the left quickly proclaimed the shooting to be a false flag concocted by Trump, while some Trump supporters suggested the Secret Service intentionally failed to protect Trump on the White House’s orders.
The Secret Service on Sunday pushed back on claims circulating on social media that Trump’s campaign had asked for greater security before Saturday’s rally and was told no.
What to know :
- Timeline of events : How the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump unfolded.
- On the suspect : What we know about the 20-year-old man who tried to assassinate Trump .
- Motive still not known : The FBI said that it had not yet determined a motive , but the agency believed that the shooter acted alone.
- Biden’s response : The president appealed for “unity” and said he was ordering an independent security review.
- A “man of conviction” : Victim Corey Comperatore, a former fire chief, used his body to shield his family from gunfire.
“This is absolutely false,” agency spokesman Anthony Guglielmi wrote Sunday on X. “In fact, we added protective resources & technology & capabilities as part of the increased campaign travel tempo.”
Videos of the shooting were quickly dissected in partisan echo chambers and Trump supporters and detractors looked for evidence to support their beliefs. Videos showing Secret Service agents moving audience members away from Trump before the shooting were offered as evidence that it was an inside job. Images of Trump’s defiantly raised fist were used to make the opposite claim — that the whole event was staged by Trump.
“How did the USSS allow him to stop and pose for a photo opp if there was real danger??” wrote one user, using the abbreviation for the U.S. Secret Service.
Social media bots helped amplify the false claims on platforms including Facebook, Instagram, X and TikTok, according to an analysis by the Israeli tech firm Cyabra, which found that a full 45% of the accounts using hashtags like #fakeassassination and #stagedshooting were inauthentic.
An image created using artificial intelligence — depicting a smiling Trump moments after the shooting — was also making the rounds, Cyabra found.
Moments like this are ‘cannon fodder’ for extremists
Conspiracy theories quickly emerged online that misidentified the suspected shooter, blamed other people without evidence and espoused hate speech, including virulent antisemitism.
“Moments like this are cannon fodder for extremists online , because typically they will react with great confidence to whatever has happened without any real evidence” said Jacob Ware, a research fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. “People will fall into spirals and will advance their own ideologies and their own conclusions.”
Before authorities identified the suspect, photos of two different people circulated widely online falsely identifying them as the shooter.
In all the speculation and conjecture, others were trying to exploit the event financially. On X on Sunday morning, an account named Proud Patriots urged Trump supporters to purchase their assassination-attempt themed merchandise.
“First they jail him, now they try to end him,” reads the ad for the commemorative Trump Assassination Attempt Trading Card. “Stand Strong & Show Your Support!”
Republicans cast blame on Biden
After the shooting, some Republicans blamed Biden for the shooting, arguing sustained criticisms of Trump as a threat to democracy have created a toxic environment. They pointed in particular to a comment Biden made to donors on July 8, saying “it’s time to put Trump in the bullseye.”
Ware said that comment from Biden was “violent rhetoric” that is “raising the stakes,” especially when combined with Biden’s existential words about the election. But he said it was important not to make conclusions about the shooter’s motive until we know more information. Biden’s remarks were part of a broader approach to turn scrutiny on Trump, with no explicit call to violence.
Trump’s own incendiary words have been criticized in the past for encouraging violence. His lies about the 2020 election and his call for supporters to “fight like hell” preceded the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, which led to his second impeachment on charges of incitement of insurrection. Trump also mocked the hammer attack that left 80-year-old Paul Pelosi, the husband of the former House speaker, with a fractured skull.
Surveys find that Americans overwhelmingly reject violence as a way to settle political differences, but overheated rhetoric from candidates and social media can motivate a small minority of people to act, said Sean Westwood, a political scientist who directs the Polarization Research Lab at Dartmouth College.
Westwood said he worries that Saturday’s shooting could spur others to consider violence as a tactic.
“There is a real risk that this spirals,” he said. “Even if someone doesn’t personally support violence, if they think the other side does, and they witness an attempted political assassination, there is a real risk that this could lead to escalation.”
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It was the first attempted assassination of a current or former American president in the era of social media, and the conspiracy theories, finger-pointing and campaign gamesmanship moved at the speed of the internet, far faster than the actual facts of what transpired at former President Donald J. Trump’s campaign rally in Butler, Pa.
The assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963 left the nation in bewildered grief. Conspiracy theories would proliferate, of course, and Abraham Zapruder’s film of Kennedy’s last moments would be studied for decades. But first, there was mourning. The assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 would rock the public consciousness again, leaving Americans wondering what would become of their country.
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This makes the theories, contrary to the common literary approach, to be the subject of scrutiny itself, instead of being the basis of explanation and analysis. The background of this approach is the thesis that the social change caused by the printing press, with which the theories were confronted, and the change caused by the digital dissemination possibilities resemble each other very much ...
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Thus, exposure to either media source could influence perceptions based on crime, race, and fear of crime (Moore, 2011). Individual exposure to crime-based media content. is important to consider in this study. The use of social cognitive theory has been persuasive concerning the criminal.
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News of a shooting at former President Donald Trump's rally in Pennsylvania broke, then descended immediately into the chaotic churn of social media.
A photo from viral social media posts shows Trump rally shooting suspect Thomas Matthew Crooks.
Mentions of Trump on social media soared up to 17 times the average daily amount in the hours after the shooting, according to PeakMetrics, a cyber firm that tracks online narratives. ... Conspiracy theories quickly emerged online that misidentified the suspected shooter, blamed other people without evidence and espoused hate speech, including ...
The shooting threw into overdrive a phenomenon dubbed "BlueAnon" — a play on the right-wing conspiracy theory QAnon — that refers to liberal conspiracy theories online.
The shooting targeting Donald J. Trump was the first of its kind in the era of social media, and was followed by a flood of striking images, rich eyewitness accounts and furious, fearful reaction.
Conspiracy theories swell around false flags, Deep State, Biden and the Secret Service, filling the information vacuum as consumers choose their own reality.