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This study aimed at enhancing a comprehension about economic and political power, media and public spaces. It included an effort to synchronize the relation of social media, market public and power or nation. Furthermore, the parties who have authorities in economic and politics are the media owners which involved in political practice and tend to ignore public interest. Media industries controlled by some global and national corporations which dominate the public are used for political-economy pragmatism. This study used qualitative research related to critical paradigms in perspective of political-economy media theory in which the theory chosen is Professor Vincent Moscow theory. The data was gained by means of observation, interview, and document through validity of media and public. It includes focus group discussion held with weekly review of Atjeh Analyst Club (A2C) and Sekolah Menulis dan Kajian Media (SMKM-Atjeh). The result of the study shows that the media has heavily involved in oligarchy politic, monopoly and hegemony so that the public opinion is on the edge. The content forms of media are more selected by political power, economy, capitals owner and media income orientation rather than the public although the public has the right to select the truth and correct information. It is expected that the study provides the benefit to raise the public's critical awareness, the regulation and policy which is oriented to the public so that the media becomes truly public right and this study is expected to enrich previous practical and theoretical findings.

Increasing attention has been paid to social media influencers and their self-branding strategies; yet, a perspective that specifically focuses on such practices in terms of social status has still to be fully developed. This paper analyses how Instagram micro-influencers use self-branding practices as ways to construct and display social status and, secondly, contributes to shed light on the contemporary changes in status gaining and signalling. Moving from Veblen's theory of conspicuous consumption, I contend that conspicuousness represents the main cultural logic underpinning micro-influencers' practises, and it's characterised by a productive display of consumption. Departing from Veblen's theorisation, the display is not an expression of wastefulness, but a productive element in the construction of social status. Employing a methodological approach comprising digital methods and qualitative interviews, the research shows how the logic of conspicuousness unfolds and becomes productive through consumption practices characterised by accumulation, access, and circularity. Furthermore, the results highlight how micro-influencers follow the logic of conspicuousness to construct social status by seeking exclusivity or negotiating belongingness.

What are organizations? Where do they come from? How are they transformed and adapted to new situations? In the digital age and in the global network society, traditional theories of the organization can no longer answer these questions. Based on actor-network theory, this book explains organizations as flexible, open networks in which both human and non-human actors enter into socio-technical assemblies by constantly negotiating and re-negotiating programs of action. Organizations are not macro social structures or autonomous systems operating behind the backs of individuals. Instead, they are scalable actor-networks guided by network norms of connectivity, flow, communication, participation, authenticity, and flexibility.

Intro -- SEMIOTICS: THEORY AND APPLICATIONS -- SEMIOTICS: THEORY AND APPLICATIONS -- LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 SIGNIFYING THE TRANSITION FROM MODERN TO POST-MODERN SCHOOLING THROUGH ANALYZING CHANGES IN THE MATERIAL CULTURE OF SCHOOLS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION: SETTING THE THEORETICAL GROUND -- 2. MODERN AND POST-MODERN SCHOOLING: A BERNSTEINIAN ANALYSIS -- 2.1. The First Ideal Type: Modern Schooling (Aftermath of the Second World War Until the Mid Seventies) -- a. Content Selection -- c. Objectives and Mode of Assessment -- c. The Social Relationships Established -- 2.2. The Second Ideal Type: Post Modern Schooling (Mid Seventies Until Today) -- a. Content Selection -- b. Objectives and Mode of Assessment -- c. The social Relationships Established -- 3. A SOCIO-SEMIOTIC INVENTORY FOR ANALYZING THE MATERIAL CULTURE OF SCHOOLS -- 3.1. Semiotic Resources for Classification -- 3.2. Semiotic Resources for Framing -- CONCLUSION: IMPLICATIONS FOR LEARNERS AND EDUCATIONAL POLICY -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2 BEYOND SIGNIFICATION: THE CO-EVOLUTION OF SUBJECT AND SEMIOSIS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE ANIMAL KINGDOM AND THE SYMBOLIC REALM -- 2.1. Zoosemiotics -- 2.2. The Symbolic Realm -- 2.3. Texts and Semiosis -- 2.4. Abstraction -- 2.5. Agency and Subjectivity -- 2.6. Semiosis and Psychoanalysis -- 3. SEMIOSIS AS THE HISTORY OF SUBJECTIVITY -- 3.1. Coercion and Suppression of Subjectivity -- 3.2. Internal Representation and Subjective Morality -- 3.3. The Animal Kingdom of the Spirit: The Bad Subject -- 3.4. Freedom as the Realisation of the Symbolic Realm -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3 LANGUAGE, EMOTION, AND HEALTH: A SEMIOTIC PERSPECTIVE ON THE WRITING CURE -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- PEIRCEAN SEMIOTICS -- The Triadic Circuitry of the Sign.

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

This study aimed to determine the practice of internationalization carried out by BeritaSatu Media Holdings in supporting global economic interests of Lippo Group Company. Internationalization is an implication of media industrialization which the media company owner sought to reduce the spatial distance to obtain greater profits. Theory of Political Economy Media used to see how media content represents the interests of certain political economy, especially from media owners. To view the practice of internationalization, the concept of spatialization was used. The analysis showed that the practice of internationalization was done by BeritaSatu Media Holdings visible from nine of thirteen brand-owned media were in English, the media focused on business economics and finance or the life of the upper class, BeritaSatu Media Holdings' media distribution limited in cosmopolitan areas, some media published in Indonesia (The Straits Times, ThePeak) had editions in other countries, such as Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong. Of this trend was seen that the reader of BeritaSatu Media Holdings was segmented to the expatriate community and executives. The expatriate community and executives were capital market investors and financial markets, or the part of policy makers in the field of economy both in the private and public sectors who have the power or role for the current financial turnaround either within the scope of national, regional, and multinational.

This Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of media geography, focusing on a range of different media viewed through the lenses of human geography and media theory. It addresses the spatial practices and processes associated with both old and new media, considering "media" not just as technologies and infrastructures, but also as networks, systems and assemblages of things that come together to enable communication in the real world. With contributions from academics specializing in geography and media studies, the Routledge Handbook of Media Geographies summarizes the recent developments in the field and explores key questions and challenges affecting various groups, such as women, minorities, and persons with visual impairment. It considers geographical aspects of disruptive media uses such as hacking, fake news, and racism. Written in an approachable style, chapters consider geographies of users, norms, rules, laws, values, attitudes, routines, customs, markets, and power relations. They shed light on how mobile media make users vulnerable to tracking and surveillance but also facilitate innovative forms of mobility, space perception and placemaking. Structured in four distinct sections centered around "control and access to digital media," "mass media," "mobile media and surveillance" and "media and the politics of knowledge," the Handbook explores digital divides and other manifestations of the uneven geographies of power. It also includes an overview of the alternative social media universe created by the Chinese government. Media geography is a burgeoning field of study that lies at the intersections of various social sciences, including human geography, political science, sociology, anthropology, communication/media studies, urban studies, and women and gender studies. Academics and students across these fields will greatly benefit from this Handbook.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, North Halmahera Regency's political activity became intense in virtual spaces, especially on the Facebook group Quovadis North Halmahera. The things discussed in the virtual space have an impact on the community in the real world. Hate Speech and provocative issues generate negative responses in the real world, marked by conflicts in several social spaces.This article aims to discuss regional development issues and politics in social media based on sentiment analysis and actor-network theory. This article also identifies the vulnerability aspect by mapping and classifying netizen's argument in the virtual space to various regional development issues based on economic, social, cultural, political, tourism, and environmental aspects. This research uses qualitative methods. The process of collecting data uses in-depth interview techniques, observation, and document study. Data processing uses triangulation techniques. Also, research instruments used are QGIS 2.18.4 and Nvivo 12 Plus applications for mapping research sites and mapping development issues in virtual space, namely Quo Vadis Halmahera Utara Facebook group. This study indicates that social capital (Norm, Trust, Network) becomes an aspect of vulnerability based on mapping and content analysis in virtual space according to netizens' response to development issues in the North Halmahera Regency. Furthermore, the contents containing hate speech elements, invalid information (hoax), sarcasm, bullying, and privacy attacks are the potential actors to cause social capital degradation based on the Actor-Network-Theory. Selama Pandemi Covid-19, kondisi perpolitikan di Kabupaten Halmahera Utara menjadi intensif di ruang virtual, khususnya grup facebook QuoVadis Halmahera Utara. Pelbagai isu pembangunan dan politik di ruang virtual tersebut berdampak terhadap kondisi sosial masyarakat di kehidupan sehari-hari. Ujaran kebencian, isu profokatif hingga sentimen negatif memantik konflik di ruang sosial. Artikel ini bertujuan untuk mendiskusikan masalah pembangunan dan politik di media sosial berdasarkan analisis sentimen dan teori jejaring aktor. Artikel ini juga mengidentifikasi aspek kerentanan, dengan memetakan dan mengklasifikasikan argumen netizen di ruang virtual, menanggapi pelbagai persoalan sosial, budaya, politik, pariwisata dan lingkungan. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif. Proses pengolahan data menggunakan teknik wawancara mendalam, observasi dan studi dokumen. Proses pengolahan data menggunakan trianggulasi. Instrumen penelitian yang digunakan ialah QGIS 2.18.4 untuk pemetaan lokasi atau wilayah penelitian dan Nvivo 12 Plus untuk pemetaan isu pembangunan dan politik yang didiskusikan dalam grup facebook Quovadis Halmahera Utara. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa modal sosial (norma, kepercayaan, jejaring) menjadi aspek kerentanan. Selain itu, konten yang teridentifikasi dari hasil analisis sentimen ialah ujaran kebencian, informasi yang tidak valid, sarkasme, perundungan dan penyerangan privasi, sebagai penyebab degradasi modal sosial berdasarkan teori jejaring aktor.

Print media campaign material strongly influences people's perceptions of illness and health and the role and purpose of medication (NSMC, 2010: np). Because adherence is critical to the successful management of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), the introduction of antiretroviral treatment (ART) into the South African health sector presented a major communications challenge, namely how best to communicate awareness and administration of the drugs and how they should be taken. Over the past ten years, the government Department of Health (DoH), the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), and other prominent nongovernmental HIV/AIDS organizations (NGOs) such as Love Life, Soul City and the Bishop Tutu Foundation have defined a number of different objectives aimed at the promotion of prescription generic antiretroviral drugs (Venter, 2014:3). This has led to an increase in the number of campaigns, each having singular visual representations of HIV/AIDS and users' relationships to antiretroviral drugs. Despite this, stigma and distrust around HIV/AIDS is prominent among the South African public (Rubincam, 2013:13). As a result, there remains a large amount of ambivalence toward the impact of ART on the body and its place within many communities. This has a direct bearing on issues of adherence. For this reason, it is important to study the nature and efficacy of the materials currently being used for social marketing in this context. This qualitative study therefore questions the nature of the current visual language of ART related leaflets and posters found in four Western Cape community clinics and asks whether the content effectively communicates an understanding of antiretroviral therapy, specifically around issues of adherence. In this study, I aim to identify ART adherence social marketing communication strategies used by leading NGOs and the DoH in South Africa. The nature of the visual and textual representations of antiretroviral print media campaign materials found in four Western Cape community clinic environments is established. The purpose of this research is to provide contemporary and useful information on the style, content, and design of social marketing materials in the hope that it will add significant value for further research on ART adherence. This study is a microanalysis focused on quality, not quantity. The investigation is modest. It does not consider a large sample and is intended as a starting point for further research. I hope to identify possible gaps between the combination of messages offered in leaflet and poster print media, and the needs of those infected with the virus, especially at a time when it necessitates they begin ART. The intended impact of this research is to encourage an increased understanding and awareness by government and NGO marketing departments of their campaign material so that it facilitates the transition onto treatment in a way that is empowering, informative, empathetic, and responsible.

Mediated public spaces both on and offline privilege the educated male elite, and thus cannot address the specific needs of women (Huyer and Sikoska, 2003:2), or their points of view. This study aimed to explore the extent to which three African feminist blogs realise the democratising potential of the blogosphere as well as the ways in which they articulate the concerns and perspectives of women whose vantage points are often silenced by mainstream discourses of citizenship. As a specifically gendered platform within a feminist public sphere, these blogs offer insight into the fluidity of the private/public dichotomy in online media spaces, and how this determines particular discourses of citizenship both on and offline. Using a qualitative-quantitative content analysis of 45 blog posts across three African feminist blogs (Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women, Her Zimbabwe, and MsAfropolitan) during July and August 2016, this study investigated how women's engagement with feminist issues is enabled by alternative online media spaces, and in what ways blogs offer African women a relatively democratic space for sharing and discussion. Through an analysis of blog content, the study revealed that contributors deploy particular communicative strategies such as first-person narration, reflection of personal experience in relation to broader social, economic and political issues, and a confessional intimacy that altogether prioritise women's voices and personal lived realities. The topics discussed in the content of blogs cut across public and private life, testifying to a need to move away from ideological conceptualisations of public engagement that delegitimise women's participation in the public sphere. It also makes a case for the reconsideration of the terms "public" and "politics" and what counts as both in a technologically dynamic society in which marginalised groups are continuing to explore alternative avenues for communication and self-expression.

Viral social media challenges have erupted across multiple social media platforms. While social media users participate in prosocial challenges designed to support good causes, like the Ice Bucket Challenge, some challenges (e.g., Cinnamon Challenge) can also potentially be dangerous. To understand the influential factors, experiences, and reflections of young adults who participated in a viral social media challenge in the past, we conducted interviews with 30 college students (ages 18–27). We applied behavioral contagion theory as a qualitative lens to understand whether this theory could help explain the factors that contributed to their participation. We found that behavior contagion theory was useful but not fully able to explain how and why young social media users engaged in viral challenges. Thematic analyses uncovered that overt social influence and intrinsic factors (i.e., social pressure, entertainment value, and attention-seeking) also played a key role in challenge participation. Additionally, we identified divergent patterns between prosocial and potentially risky social media challenges. Those who participated in prosocial challenges appeared to be more socially motivated as they saw more similarities between themselves and the individuals that they observed performing the challenges and were more likely to be directly encouraged by their friends to participate. In contrast, those who performed potentially risky challenges often did not see similarities with other challenge participants, nor did they receive direct encouragement from peers; yet, half of these participants said they would not have engaged in the challenge had they been more aware of the potential for physical harm. We consider the benefits and risks that viral social media challenges present for young adults with the intent of optimizing these interactions by mitigating risks, rather than discouraging them altogether.