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Abstract This paper is the comparative study in order to discover the motives of using censorship on Media. The main argument of this study is to determine the "Using of Censorship on Media in different government states" Consistently, the study depends on document analysis method and academic sources as well.Correspondingly, the study focuses on Media and democracy and then Mass Media in Iran and Kurdistan region of Iraq. Finally, the law of press in Iran and Kurdistan will be analysis to know the key elements of censorship in both governments.

The cultural (and media) significance of dying rests in the symbolic context in which representations of dying are embedded. An examination of that context of mostly violent representations suggests that portrayals of death and dying serve symbolic functions of social typing and control and tend, on the whole, to conceal the reality and inevitability of the event.

L'obiettivo di questo articolo è indagare, con specifico riferimento al caso italiano, le differenze tra sondaggi di opinione e sentiment analysis nel loro rapporto con i mass media. A seguito di una panoramica sul rapporto tra politica, media e sondaggi, nonché sulla regolamentazione della materia, saranno evidenziati i principali limiti dello strumento di previsione elettorale per eccellenza, anche con riferimento al particolare momento politico e istituzionale nazionale, all'evoluzione della dieta mediatica ed alle sue conseguenze nella formazione dell'orientamento di voto da parte dei cittadini. Saranno quindi prese in considerazione nuove tecniche di monitoraggio dell'elettorato afferenti alla sentiment analysis, che si applicano in particolare alle nuove tendenze della discussione politica sui social media. L'articolo si concluderà con un caso di studio, che avrà l'obiettivo di verificare come sondaggi e sentiment analysis vengano veicolati dai mass media, secondo la contrapposizione tra diffusione e racconto, al fine di evidenziare possibili spunti critici nella regolamentazione della materia, nel ruolo di mediazione proprio dei professionisti dell'informazione nell'evoluzione dell'ecosistema dei media informativi.The aim of this article is to investigate, with specific reference to the italian case, the differences between opinion polls and sentiment analysis in their relationship with the media. After an overview of the relationship between politics, media and polls , as well as on the regulation of the matter, the author highlights the limits of the main electoral forecasting tool, with particular reference to national institutional and political moment , to the evolution of the media diet and its consequences in the formation of orientation voting by citizens. Then there will be taken into account sentiment analysis techniques, which apply in particular to the new trends of political debate on social media. The author will conclude the article with a case study, with the aim to verify as opinion polls and sentiment analysis are conveyed by the media, according to the opposition between spreading and storytelling, in order to point out some critical insights into the regulation of the matter, in the mediating role of information professionals, and in the evolution of the ecosystem of news media

This article closely reads a single protest by a small group of male high school stu dents in Mexico City, 1934. The protestors interrupted a movie to voice their oppo sition to sex education in the public schools (a new program that had inspired widespread controversy but was never instituted). This protest represented wider tensions over post-Revolutionary modernization and urbanization, particu larly in its effects on children and families. It marked the moment when these tensions ceased to focus on government policies directly and turned toward opposi tion to media representations of social transformations.

This research focuses on a comparative analysis of the coronavirus metaphorical image in the Chinese and Russian mass media. The discursive theory of metaphor serves as a theoretical basis for our study. Within the framework of this theory metaphor is referred to as a cognitive frame, which operates in the discursive space for a certain period of time. J. Charteris-Black's Metaphor Critical Analysis has been used for the practical part of this paper. Linguistic analysis is based upon headlines and leads of Chinese and Russian news reports on the coronavirus pandemic. A total of 750 units of analysis in Chinese and 1,000 units of analysis in Russian have been examined. The authors arrive at the conclusion that media projections of the coronavirus image in the PRC and Russia are similar. Among the most widespread metaphorical models are «Virus is Enemy/Antagonist,» «Virus is Natural Disaster/Phenomenon,» «Virus is Living Creature,» and «Virus is Cause of Fear.» Despite overall homogeneity of metaphorical images, quantitative indicators of the distribution of metaphors and metaphorical implications (entailments) show significant differences. Critical analysis of Chinese and Russian media metaphors has made it possible to scrutinize public opinion within two different political systems

The role of mass media in society keeps the problem of manipulative influence distinction and the contiguous phenomena, chief among which is objectivity and authenticity of news items, current. The research provides a detailed study of the information broadcasting mechanisms in the media area, defines the problems, impeding an impersonal reproduction and disclosure of information, clarifies the verification methods, and gives their topology. In this research, we examined how the mass media of different countries presented the same event to the public. The publications of four mass media, concerning such an event as the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Brexit), have been determined as an object of the analysis. The chosen mass media refer to the countries, which are not the direct participants of that process: Russia, the USA, and Ukraine. D. Brewer's criteria were used to define the objectivity of the news items. A relative sentiment of the news, which became the objective analysis basis, has been identified using linguistic rate with Eureka Engine intelligence system. The obtained results predominantly confirmed the hypothesis, that the mass media of different countries would represent the process of the UK withdrawal from the EU according to the country's policy and interpret the facts in their favor. All the four mass media demonstrate the partiality when broadcasting the current situation in the matter of Brexit. The concepts being the semantic kernel elements of mass media publications have emotional coloring. The sentiment analysis of the publications resulted in the conclusion that only one of the four mass media gave a neutral assessment of the Brexit situation. The other three held to the political stance of their edition or government. The research results indicate that the problem of mass media objectivity remains relevant. The correctional impact on public opinion through mass media is extremely high. Therefore, forming the personal attitude toward the situation or event should occur with using several verifications methods and mass media sources at once.

The paper explores the role of translation across multilingual mass-media for security discourse to counter terrorism. The article integrates long-standing emerging practices regarding bilingual discourse analysis. The research combined theoretical and empirical studies. The theoretical analysis focused on the research conceptual framework and explored the researchers' views on the concepts of mass media communication, ideology, security discourse, anti-terror language use. The literature review also aimed to map methodological issues regarding translation techniques that can be used to render information on terrorism related issues that can be culturally, politically, socially sensitive for target audiences. The empirical studies focused on the comparative analysis of mass-media reports that were produced in English and Russian and focused on recent terrorist attacks in the world. Specific emphasis was laid on the analysis of the techniques used by mass-media multilingual stakeholders who highlighted the relevant events, shared their opinions, and aired their comments. The statistics was used to check the frequency of the mentioned techniques use. The research also relied on translators' comments regarding the mentioned techniques use as the research findings support earlier conclusions based on the studies regarding other mass - media topics and translation language pairs. The research results made it possible to identify some trends regarding translation tools to foster security discourse, proactive potential of the translation instruments in the process of fostering security discourse through mass media to counter radicalization, extremism and terrorism. The research findings can be useful to draft further recommendations for multilingual communities and their mass-media in regard to security discourse development to counter terrorism.

After the collapse of Soviet system, mass-media in Lithuania became the concomitant element of democracy. However, with the great reliance by society upon and with the enlarged influence of mass-media, it could become not only the scene where formation of cultural and social values of society take place, but, failing to establish an efficient supervision, an autocratic former of public opinion as well. The authority, carried by mass-media, enables it to create different images, which, if the audience fails to be critical, could be treated as real. Means of mass-media form agenda setting by paying greater attention to some of the topics and leaving the other ones behind, however, the elite of the society always has been one of the subjects of mass-media. The relation between mass-media and elite has not been broadly explored yet, therefore the main purpose of this paper is to analyze how the image of elite in Lithuanian mass-media is formed. The research is based on content analysis of national daily newspapers "Lietuvos Rytas" and "Vakaro zinios" published during December 2003. The investigation revealed, that "Vakaro zinios", which represents the yellow-press, openly divides society into "elite" and "the masses" and uses this division actively in it's pages. This contraposition is extremely emphasized and highlighted by the huge and expressive headlines, comments on photoprints. "Lietuvos rytas", which aims at representing the solid mass-media, also shows existing confrontation between social segments, however it avoids emphasizing this by giving clearly expressed titles to these segments. During the second research the image of elite was explored in "Stilius", a weekly supplement of "Lietuvos rytas", which in several years became the publication, reflecting in chronological order the lifestyle of Lithuanian elite. The investigation of photoreporting of public events in 1998-2005 "Stilius" revealed an active process of formation of the image of elite. "Stilius" brought elite into publicity, introduced the lifestyle of elite to society, sorted and presented persons, belonging to elite, to society. There was no publication in Lithuania before "Stilius", which would show so visually and clearly who forms the elite, what persons belong to it, how they are different. The portrayal of their luxurious lifestyle became one of the features, representing elite. In summary, could be proposed that Lithuanian mass-media, carrying great reliance of society and using it's influence, actively forms the image of Lithuanian elite, using it to catch the attention of audience. The image of elite, created by mass-media, in case of social tension, could influence the hostility of lower segments of society for the elite.

Traditional media effects research has identified two important perspectives referring to the cognitive & persuasive dimension of effects. Bridging between the two fields, the present study, which was conducted during the German reunification process, analyzes their relationship with regard to the agenda-setting approach & the transfer of media evaluations via fieldwork & mail survey data from 476 respondents, Jan-Feb 1990. In a dynamic view, the concept of "cognitive bonding" forms the theoretical background for a replication of earlier work on this topic. Results indicate an interdependency of cognitive & persuasive media effects. Perceptions of issue importance are related to opinion formation, but the influence is rather small across time. Media effects are moderate in general but are more pronounced for respondents who have a high need for orientation concerning political issues. 1 Table, 3 Figures, 42 References. Adapted from the source document.