Risk‐Taking and the Media

In recent years, media formats with risk‐glorifying content, such as video games that simulate illegal street racing (“bang and crash” games), films about extreme sports, and risky stunts have emerged as top sellers of the media industry. A variety of recent studies conducted by several researchers revealed that exposure to risk‐glorifying media content (e.g., video games that simulate reckless driving, smoking and drinking in movies, or depictions that glorify extreme sports) increases the likelihood that recipients will show increased levels of risk‐taking inclinations and behaviors. The present article (1) reviews the latest research on the detrimental impact of risk‐glorifying media on risk‐taking inclinations (cognitions, emotions, behaviors), (2) puts these findings in the theoretical context of recent sociocognitive models on media effects, and (3) makes suggestions to science and policymakers on how to deal with these effects in the future.     

Won't somebody please think of the children? Or,South Park fanfic and the political realm

Comedy Central’s South Park has proved a bone of contention for traditional guardians of youth culture. From the denunciations of pressure groups on one hand, to academics attempting to claim South Park for various political positions on the other, it is ironic that a show addressing the failure of official pedagogy has had so little attention paid to its young fans. Academics argue over the ‘message’ of South Park, in a socio-political sense, or denounce it for irresponsibly embracing post-political cynicism. Yet as Mendes et al. have argued, to draw a false division between youth entertainment and some pre-conceived notion of the political realm is a fallacy: young people’s engagement with and meaning-making practices derived from popular culture are political in themselves. This paper uses a politically informed conception of discourse analysis developed from Laclau and Mouffe to code the top-rated South Park fanfics from Fanfiction.net, a site whose primary demographic is teenagers, in pursuit of the messages young people perceive and make of the show. This project prefers concrete data over impressionistic views of ‘young people’, and attends to what teenage fans make of and do with the text, rather than imagining them as passive consumers absorbing inherent messages.     

Media coverage and issue visibility: State legislative responses to school bullying

Dealing with the schoolyard bully is an age-old problem; however, legislators have only recently tackled it at the state level. This study examines the adoption of anti-bullying policies from the policy diffusion and innovation perspective with an emphasis on the role of print media coverage. The study contributes to the policy diffusion literature by examining both national and local media coverage as conduits for diffusion and adds to the expanding views of the diffusion process beyond the traditional geographic proximity argument. Further, it provides the first examination of an emerging policy area important to education policy scholars. The findings show issue saliency via national media coverage drives policy adoption beyond any geographic proximity.     

青少年媒体使用习惯与暴力行为倾向调查

多种媒体形式广泛拓展了青少年获取信息的渠道、丰富了他们休闲娱乐的方式,但媒体中所包含的暴力内容也广为传播,对青少年的身心健康产生了极为不利的影响。调查研究发现:总体上青少年进行休闲性阅读的时间相对较少,对于电视节目、电影和视频电子游戏三类媒体,青少年普遍存在低到中等程度的暴力偏好。男生媒体接触频次、接触时间、暴力偏好以及暴力媒体接触量普遍高于女生。青少年暴力媒体接触量与攻击行为呈正相关,接触时间、频率和暴力偏好与总体攻击倾向、躯体攻击呈正相关。为改善青少年的媒体使用习惯,提出了重视阅读的作用、采用技术手段对含有暴力内容的媒体节目进行规范,青少年需要不断丰富学习和娱乐方式等对策和建议。     

议大众传媒德育功能的开发

大众传媒以其特有的优势彻底改变了青少年的德育环境,被人们看成影响青少年道德水平的要素之一。面对传媒的飞速发展,本文就如何开发其德育功能作了一些有益的探讨。     

文化帝国主义与加拿大传播业的困境

文化帝国主义不仅存在于东西方国家之间,也存在与西方国家内部,加拿大就是一个典型的案例,虽然加拿大拥有世界上最先进的大众传播体系,但传播的内容却不是加拿大而是美国的,这一困境已经威胁到了加拿大的文化生存和身份认同。本文试图从历史、地理、经济、文化等方面来发掘加拿大传播业困境的成因．为其他国家反抗美国文化入侵、发展民藏文化提供有益的启示。     

新媒体背景下短视频传播凉山彝族文化研究

随着信息技术的发展,数字化时代已悄然进入大众生活。传播媒介迭代更新,作为一种新型社交媒体的移动短视频,以简便性、趣味性、碎片化、多感官性与强交互性等特征,迅速被大众接受。新媒体环境下,短视频创作已经成为社会发展的潮流,短视频的创作既可以促进社会文化的发展,也可以限制原有文化的传播。通过分析移动短视频平台的传播特点,剖析其对凉山彝族文化传播带来的问题与影响,并提出相应的策略,探讨这种变化对彝族文化传承与创新性传播具有重要的意义。     

网络媒体与电视媒体的融合与发展

新媒体科技的发展将带来传统的媒介格局的变化。并对传统媒体造成冲击。在此,以网络媒体和电视媒体的融合和发展为例展开分析,通过探析网络媒体与电视媒体融合的形式,研究媒体融合如何改变电视媒体传统的传播模式,如何促进媒介生态系统的和谐平衡发展等问题,以证明媒体融合是媒介发展的必然趋势。     

六十年来我国媒体关于中东问题的报道

中国与中东关系60年既是短暂而急剧变动的历史,又是一个宏大的主题。本文从中国媒体对中东问题特别是巴以冲突报道的微观角度出发,从国家政策影响和媒体表现案例分析两大层面作初步考察,并提出几点建议。笔者认为,中国媒体的中东问题报道随着国内外形势变化尤其是国内政策的调整,大致可以分为前后30年两个阶段。前30年比较稳定,后30年特别是近10年,中东报道多元倾向日益明显,所体现的世界观、价值观、外交观和利益观呈现碎片化。尽管在政府意志和主流新闻管制层面上还保持着较为清晰的方向引导和政策干预,但民意、学者甚至媒体从业者本身的立场分歧日益严重和公开化,甚至反作用于主流媒体。为应对新形势下传播领域的认识和情感巨变,政府、学者和媒体人士都必须认真思考,从战略上考虑和规划未来中国与中东国家在深度交往和交融中面临的挑战。     

“People in Stockholm are smarter than countryside folks” – Reproducing urban and rural imaginaries in film and life

This article explores the celebrated film The Hunters (Swedish title: Jägarna) within the context of the discourse of Internal Orientalism. By juxtaposing a contemporary Swedish film with historical accounts and contemporary news media, I demonstrate how the film reworks and (re)produces representations of the rural North (Norrland), constructing stereotypes enmeshed with familiar and global genre-specific stereotypes of a traditional and intransigent population positioned in rural areas and a modern and progressive population in urban areas. This paper shows how the representation in popular culture becomes enmeshed with the representation in news media and politics and how this helps obscure geography, gender, ethnicity and class by way of positioning representations of the middle class in urban spaces and white male working class in rural spaces, and by way of constructing class as a choice of lifestyle or culture.