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This book presents a new perspective on how Russia projects itself to the world. Distancing itself from familiar, agency-driven International Relations accounts that focus on what ‘the Kremlin’ is up ...to and why, it argues for the need to pay attention to deeper, trans-state processes over which the Kremlin exerts much less control. Especially important in this context is mediatization, defined as the process by which contemporary social and political practices adopt a media form and follow media-driven logics. In particular, the book emphasizes the logic of the feedback loop or ‘recursion’, showing how it drives multiple Russian performances of national belonging and nation projection in the digital era. It applies this theory to recent issues, events, and scandals that have played out in international arenas ranging from television, through theatre, film, and performance art, to warfare.
The lack of broad public support prevents the implementation of effective climate policies. This article aims to examine why citizens support or reject climate policies. For this purpose, we provide ...a cross-disciplinary overview of empirical and experimental research on public attitudes and preferences that has emerged in the last few years. The various factors influencing policy support are divided into three general categories: (1) social-psychological factors and climate change perception, such as the positive influences of left-wing political orientation, egalitarian worldviews, environmental and self-transcendent values, climate change knowledge, risk perception, or emotions like interest and hope; (2) the perception of climate policy and its design, which includes, among others, the preference of pull over push measures, the positive role of perceived policy effectiveness, the level of policy costs, as well as the positive effect of perceived policy fairness and the recycling of potential policy revenues; (3) contextual factors, such as the positive influence of social trust, norms and participation, wider economic, political and geographical aspects, or the different effects of specific media events and communications. Finally, we discuss the findings and provide suggestions for future research.
Policy relevance
Public opinion is a significant determinant of policy change in democratic countries. Policy makers may be reluctant to implement climate policies if they expect public opposition. This article seeks to provide a better understanding of the various factors influencing public responses to climate policy proposals. Most of the studied factors include perceptions about climate change, policy and its attributes, all of which are amenable to intervention. The acquired insights can thus assist in improving policy design and communication with the overarching objective to garner more public support for effective climate policy.
Social media applications are extending the information and communication technology landscape in the public sector and are used to increase government transparency, participation and collaboration ...in the U.S. federal government. The success, impact and performance of these new forms of bi-directional and networked interactions can provide insights to understand compliance with the mandate of the Open Government Initiative. Many government agencies are experimenting with the use of social media, however very few actively measure the impact of their digital interactions. This article builds on insights from social media directors in the U.S. federal government highlighting their current lack of measurement practices for social media interactions. Based on their articulated needs for measurement, existing rules regulating the extent of measurement practices and technological features of the main social media platforms, a framework is presented that traces online interactions to mission support and the resulting social media tactics. Implications for both researchers and practitioners are discussed.
ניתוח טקסט איכותני זה בוחן את סיקור מותם של שלושה נשיאים מצרים: גמאל עבד אל נאצר (1970), אנואר סאדאת (1981) וחוסני מובארק (2020) בעיתונים דבר ומעריב (נאצר וסאדאת), ובעיתון ישראל היום ובאתרי החדשות ...המקוונים ישראל היום ו-Ynet (מובארק) במהלך השבוע שלאחר מותם. מאמר זה מדגים כיצד, על רקע התהפוכות שידעו יחסי ישראל-מצרים לאורך העשורים, הסיקור העיתונאי של מנהיגי מדינת האויב המצרית החל להתמתן ולשקף נרטיב של "מאויב אכזר לידיד קרוב".
לאחר מות נאצר חידדו העיתונים את תדמיתו הערמומית והלעומתית והבליטו את הקו העוין שהוביל בפומבי נגד מדינת ישראל והעם היהודי. בשונה מכך, לאחר ההתנקשות המטלטלת בסאדאת ואל מול התפרצויות של שמחה לאיד בעולם הערבי, מפתיע היה לגלות שעיתונאים ישראלים הפכו למגיניו המושבעים של הנשיא המצרי. לראיה, העיתונים הישראלים התייחסו לסאדאת כאל ידיד נפש, דימוהו ליונת השלום ואף התייחסו בסלחנות לחלקו המרכזי בקטל הנוראי של מלחמת יום הכיפורים. לבסוף, גם מותו של מובארק בשנת 2020 שיקף נימה ישראלית מפויסת ומכובדת אל מול קולות ביקורתיים יותר שהשמיעו אזרחים ופוליטיקאים מצרים – אם כי במידה פחותה מאשר לאחר רצח סאדאת. מעבר לכך מותו של מובארק חשף הבדלים ניכרים בין הכיסוי בעיתונים המודפסים ובין אופציות הסיקור המהירות והנרחבות של אתרי החדשות המקוונים.
This qualitative research examined the ways in which Israeli newspapers and websites covered the death of three Egyptian presidents: Gamal Abdel Nasser (1970), Anwar Sadat (1981), and Hosni Mubarak (2020) the week following their demise. The study describes and demonstrates how the Israeli press changed its attitude toward the Egyptian presidency over the years: from hostile enemy to true friend.
After Nasser died, the Israeli media portrayed a threatening and opposing image, and highlighted the hard line he had led against the state of Israel and the Jewish people. In contrast, after Sadat was assassinated, the Israeli press positioned itself as Sadat’s sole defenders, in contrast to Arab leaders, who denounced him. Furthermore, the Israeli media defined Sadat as a symbol of peace and even forgave and expressed understanding of his offensive role in the Yom Kippur War. In 2020, reportage on Mubarak’s death also reflected a dignified and friendly tone, compared to the criticism voiced by Egyptian citizens and politicians. Mubarak’s death also unveiled significant differences between the journalism on online websites and that of printed newspapers.
Recent scholarship highlights the importance of public discourse for the mobilization and impact of social movements, but it neglects how cultural products may shift discourse and thereby influence ...mobilization and political outcomes. This study investigates how activism against hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") utilized cultural artifacts to influence public perceptions and effect change. A systematic analysis of Internet search data, social media postings, and newspaper articles allows us to identify how the documentary Gasland reshaped public discourse. We find that Gasland contributed not only to greater online searching about fracking, but also to increased social media chatter and heightened mass media coverage. Local screenings of Gasland contributed to anti-fracking mobilizations, which, in turn, affected the passage of local fracking moratoria in the Marcellus Shale states. These results have implications not only for understanding movement outcomes, but also for theory and research on media, the environment, and energy.
China’s news sector is a place where newsmakers, advertising executives, company bosses, and Party officials engage one another in contingent and evolving arrangements that run from cooperation and ...collaboration to manipulation and betrayal. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork with journalists, editors, and executives at a newspaper in Guangzhou, The Currency of Truth brings its readers into the lives of the people who write, publish, and profit from news in this milieu. The book shows that far from working as mere cogs in a Party propaganda machine, these individuals are immersed in fluidly shifting networks of formal and informal relationships, which they carefully navigate to pursue diverse goals. In The Currency of Truth, Emily H. C. Chua argues that news in China works less as a medium of mass communication than as a kind of currency as industry players make and use news articles to create agreements, build connections, and protect and advance their positions against one another. Looking at the ethical and professional principles that well-intentioned and civically minded journalists strive to uphold, and the challenges and doubts that they grapple with in the process, Chua brings her findings into conversation around “post-truth” news and the “crisis” of professional journalism in the West. The book encourages readers to rethink contemporary news, arguing that rather than setting out from the assumption that news works either to inform or deceive its publics, we should explore the “post-public” social and political imaginaries emerging among today’s newsmakers and remaking the terms of their practice.
Civic life today is mediated. Communities small and large are now using connective platforms to share information, engage in local issues, facilitate vibrant debate, and advocate for social causes. ...In this timely book, Paul Mihailidisexplores the texture of daily engagement in civic life, and the resources—human, technological, and practical—that citizens employ when engaging in civic actions for positive social impact. In addition to examining the daily civic actions that are embedded in media and digital literacies and human connectedness, Mihailidis outlines a model for empowering young citizens to use media to meaningfully engage in daily life.
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