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The trinity of government, military and publics has been drawn together into immediate and unpredictable relationships in a ""new media ecology"" that has ushered in new asymmetries in the waging of war and terror. To help us understand these new relationships, Andrew Hoskins and Ben O'Loughlin here provide a timely, comprehensive and highly readable survey of the field of war and media. War is diffused through a complex mesh of our everyday media. Paradoxically, this both facilitates and contains the presence and power of enemies near and far. The conventions of so-called traditional warfar

This collection of critical essays, originally published in Pragmatics and Society 1:2 (2010), discusses how normative biases that shape our relation to the world are constructed through discursive practice in media discourse. The intertextual perspective it adopts is crucial for our understanding of how media representations of speakers and languages shape many of our preconceptions of others. Mediatization is inherently intertextual; the very nature of this process involves extracting the speech behavior of particular speakers or groups from a highly specific context and refracting and reshaping it to be inserted in another stream of representation. The notion of intertextuality becomes a useful concept for the linguistic anthropological study of media discourse in the context of modernity, as it provides us with a tool for exploring the semiotic processes that underlie the way in which the media negotiate and reinscribe the complex relationships of identity that characterize late modern subjecthood.

"This book examines the circulation and effects of radical discourse by analysing the role of mass media coverage in promoting or hindering radicalisation and acts of political violence"--EBL

This volume provides new approaches to the concept of media logics, developed by Altheide and Snow, by drawing on theoretical and empirical perspectives from international scientists working in the field of communications, media, political science, and sociology. In an increasingly digitized and globalized world, powerful media structures and technologies influence our daily lives in many respects. It is not only mass media but "poly medial channels" that become more and more contextualized in everyday lives. It thus seems necessary to reflect on the theory of media logics, which in fact focuses on the strong intercorrelation of media technologies, media institutions and media power. The current developments and strong cultural embedding of media in various social contexts, however, call for critical reflections on the idea of media logic

Banyak para ahli komunikasi dunia memberikan pandangan tentang komunikasi massa secara beragam. Semua dilakukan berdasarkan sudut pandang masing-masing untuk melahirkan sebuah pemahaman yang konkrit, jelas dan mudah dipahami oleh semua kalangan terkait komunikasi massa. Diantara ahli komunikasi yang meyampaikan defenisi komunikasi massa untuk diketahui dan dipahami khalayak adalah Bittner mengatakan "komunikasi massa adalah pesan yang dikomunikasikan melalui media massa pada sejumlah besar orang (massa communication is meseeges communicated through a mass medium to a large number of people). Dalam ilmu jurnalistik, media massa yang menyiarkan berita atau informasi disebut juga dengan istilah pers. Menurut undang-undang pokok pers nomor 40 tahun 1999 pasal 1 ayat (1) pers adalah lembaga social dan wahana komunikasi massa yang melaksanakan kegiatan jurnalistik meliputi mencari, memperoleh, memiliki, menyimpan, mengelola dan menyampaikannya sebagai informasi, baik dalam bentuk tulisan, suara, gambar, suara gambar serta data dan grafik menggunakan media massa. Misi yang diemban oleh media massa adalah mengamankan, menjunjung dan menyukseskan pembangunan nasional. Dari defenisi yang diungkapkan oleh para ahli tersebut, maka dapat kita pahami secara sederhana bahwa komunikasi massa adalah proses penyampaian pesan dari seorang komunikator kepada komunikan (khalayak banyak) melalui saluran media massa baik berupa cetak, online, radio dan televisi. Namun dalam pemahaman komunikasi massa, setiap pesan yang disampaikan berisi informasi atau berita penting bagi masyarakat, baik berupa pengumuman, pendidikan, pengetahuan, maupun informasi social, hukum, politik dan budaya yang terjadi dalam kehidupan kita. Bukan pesan (komunikasi) sebagaimana percakapan rutin yang dilakukan oleh dua orang atau lebih di warung atau rumah. Media massa sebagai saluran atau sarana komunikasi telah mengalami perkembangan yang signifikan dari waktu ke waktu, mulai dari surat kabar cetak harian (koran), majalah, berkembang ke era frekuensi atau radio, selanjutnya era signal atau televisi dan kini era jaringan atau internet. Perkembangan media massa ini secara positif semakin memudahkan manusia melakukan berbagai komunikasi terbuka secara massif untuk penyebaran informasi. Namun secara negative, perkembangan teknologi media massa ini juga telah merusak bahkan memutuskan hubungan interaksi social masyarakat. Bahkan manusia cenderung lebih memilih media sebagai sarana untuk berkomunikasi daripada bertemu langsung dan menyampaikan pesan (komunikasi interpersonal).

This paper contributes to the growing literature on how "new media" is influencing "old media" by tracking references to an extensive list of political blogs in stories run by seventeen prominent print media outlets during the last ten years. The findings presented here show that although journalists frequently use political bloggers as sources in their news coverage, they only reference certain blogs in certain ways at certain times. To be precise, journalists turn to political blogs primarily during national election campaigns and this turn is commonly in the direction of a relatively small group of interactive, liberal blogs.

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This article examines the transformation of the Serbian media landscape over the last two decades, by applying four analytical categories developed for identifying levels of media capture in different national contexts (Dragomir 2019). Implementation of diachronic document analysis provides rich descriptions of the media regulatory capture, grip over public service broadcasters, misuse of state advertising and project-based financing of media content, as well as endurance of state media ownership. Therefore, this study identifies some of the reasons behind recent decline of media freedoms in Serbia, adds elements for finding the right place for Serbia on the map of Central and Eastern European post-communist media transformations, and contributes to the growing literature aimed at understanding media capture in its many forms and variations across the globe.