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The psychological and socio-economic implications of digital technologies call for scholarship that engages questions about the nature of human consciousness, the construction of the self and the ethics of technical development. In this article, I outline a framework for an approach called contemplative media studies. This approach incorporates several different scholarly threads, namely: via critical political-economic media scholarship, a focus on achieving social and economic justice through policy initiatives and structural reform ; via media and religious scholarship, an interest in the religious dimensions of digital culture and the role of media in shaping religious identity ; and via contemplative studies, an appreciation of the applicability of contemplative principles to research methods and theory. This framework allows us to examine the spiritual ideology that drives the construction of commercial digital platforms and to ask whether alternative platforms might better catalyze human development. Anchored in a critical commitment to socio-economic justice, contemplative media studies is aimed at articulating an ethically-responsive and economically-sustainable architecture of human flourishing.

This article outlines the growth and character of media and communication studies in the UK. It sets out the history and development of the field, and explains its twin origins in both humanities and social sciences contexts. The article also presents some descriptive data about the scale and nature of teaching and research in the field in UK higher education, and explains the evolution of relevant subject associations. The public, political and professional reception of and response to the field are described, and the continuing debates about its value and salience examined.

This paper considers the implications of applying an interdisciplinary urban media studies framework to study protest in the city and the city in protest. Using the case of a grassroots community in the Euromaidan protests in Ukraine, it demonstrates how this approach can help explain the melding of citizen agency and local political and cultural contexts with the digital and material geographies of the city. Such interdisciplinary thinking also allows us to consider how the changing relationship between the city, its inhabitants, and their media use informs our methodological approaches to the study of augmented urban protest.

This article considers the implications of applying an interdisciplinary urban media studies framework to study protest in the city and the city in protest. Using the case of a grassroots community in the Euromaidan protest in Ukraine, it demonstrates how this approach can help explain the melding of citizen agency and local political and cultural contexts with the digital and material geographies of the city. Such interdisciplinary thinking also allows us to consider how the changing relationship between the city, its inhabitants, and their media use informs our methodological approaches to the study of augmented urban protest.

Led by Erika Pearson with assistance from Bernard Madill (both from the University of Otago) and featuring contributors from Massey University, University of Canterbury and University of South Australia. "Inspired by similar projects around the world, and supported by funding from Creative Commons, the Media Text Hack Group sought to act as 'curators' of the vast array of information about media and communication, and drew together examples specific to the region . This first release represents a core of work based on the common curricula of media and communication studies programs across the region. It is hoped that future versions will develop and expand these areas, as well as take advantage of new tools of collaboration and sharing. All are welcome to take, use, recycle and adapt the material under the Creative Commons Attribution licence"--Media release, 13 Feb. 2013 ; Pt. 1. Reading media texts -- Pt. 2. Culture and contexts -- Pt. 3. Production and structures -- Pt. 4. Audiences & identity.

Libro para estudiantes en el área de medios de información, orientado a la superación del examen oficial del OCR (Oxford Cambridge and RSA Examinations) en el nivel A2. A través del análisis de seis temas clave (medios de comunicación e identidad colectiva, medios de comunicación globales, medios de comunicación en la era digital, medios de comunicación y democracia, regulación contemporánea de los medios de comunicación y medios de comunicación postmodernos) el autor proporciona a los alumnos un marco de referencia para comprender cómo los medios de comunicación influyen en nuestras vidas y cómo interactuamos con ellos. ; SC ; Biblioteca de Educación del Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte; Calle San Agustín, 5 - 3 planta; 28014 Madrid; Tel. +34917748000; biblioteca@mecd.es ; GBR

Libro para estudiantes en el área de medios de información, orientado a la superación del examen oficial del OCR (Oxford Cambridge and RSA Examinations) en el nivel A2. A través del análisis de seis temas clave (medios de comunicación e identidad colectiva, medios de comunicación globales, medios de comunicación en la era digital, medios de comunicación y democracia, regulación contemporánea de los medios de comunicación y medios de comunicación postmodernos) el autor proporciona a los alumnos un marco de referencia para comprender cómo los medios de comunicación influyen en nuestras vidas y cómo interactuamos con ellos. ; SC ; Biblioteca de Educación del Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte; Calle San Agustín, 5 - 3 planta; 28014 Madrid; Tel. +34917748000; biblioteca@mecd.es ; GBR

This article views Chinese media as a complex web of diverse academic disciplines and political perspectives, and provides a diagnostic survey of the various disciplines that deal with Chinese media. By clarifying and comparing the methodological characteristics of these academic disciplines, it attempts to prepare for interdisciplinary dialogue. It will pose questions such as what kinds of disciplines have become involved in the studies of Chinese media; what are the main focuses and the methodological characteristics; and what kinds of regional and historical characteristics exist in scholarship on Chinese media. The article maps 'Chinese media studies' from four angles: the academic traditions of journalism and communication studies; politics and sociology; Chinese studies; and cinema and cultural studies. It views the main focus of each field respectively as: democracy and political economy of the media industry; civil society and network society; history and language; and culture and power. The disciplinary division cannot be so clearcut, as most works attempt to converse with other disciplines or are by nature interdisciplinary. Using disciplinary mapping allows one to identify the shaping power and distinctions of academic disciplines.

In this short piece, I discuss the necessity of employing more-than-textual methods to understand more-than-textual phenomena. My case study is the feminized world of wellness, where stylish young entrepreneurs sell strategies of health-enhancement. While existing commentary typically frames wellness as the exclusive and somewhat risible preserve of wealthy white women—a framing enabled by the prominence of figures such as Gwyneth Paltrow—this narrative risks obscuring a more complicated story about the desire for health and well-being in an era of heightened precarity. Against this backdrop, I argue that the rise of wellness as a novel cultural formation and new commercial development must be situated within the broader social, economic, and political terrain of contemporary Britain. Methodologically, this means grappling with the glamorous trappings of wellness media and excavating the psychic investments and embodied experiences that animate this movement-market.

Indonesia dewasa ini telah memiliki beberapa perusahaan skala besar di bidangmedia massa. Perusahaan tersebut menguasai berbagai jenis media yang kemudianberkembang menjadi konglomerasi. Perusahaan konglomerat media ini dimiliki oleh individupemilik yang dengan kekuatan media yang dikuasainya tidak saja memiliki kontrol terhadapisi media tetapi juga mampu memberikan pengaruh di bidang politik. Terlebih lagi, beberapapemilik media juga menjadi ketua atau pengurus partai politik seperti Media Group milikSurya Paloh. Artikel ini merupakan hasil penelitian yang mempelajari bagaimana SuryaPaloh menggunakan media massa yang dikuasainya sebagai instrumen untuk mencapaiambisi politiknya. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa praktek oligopoli media yang saat initerjadi telah berada pada tahap yang membahayakan hak warga terhadap informasi karenamedia dikelola sebagai bisnis yang hanya mewakili kepentingan pemilik dan kekuasaan yangdiwakilinya. Fakta menunjukkan bahwa pemilik media cenderung menjadikan isi mediasebagai komoditas, dan menjadikan warga hanya sebagai konsumen. Konglomerasi mediajuga mengontrol banyak informasi dan produk media yang menghasilkan banyakkeuntungan.Indonesia dewasa ini telah memiliki beberapa perusahaan skala besar di bidangmedia massa. Perusahaan tersebut menguasai berbagai jenis media yang kemudianberkembang menjadi konglomerasi. Perusahaan konglomerat media ini dimiliki oleh individupemilik yang dengan kekuatan media yang dikuasainya tidak saja memiliki kontrol terhadapisi media tetapi juga mampu memberikan pengaruh di bidang politik. Terlebih lagi, beberapapemilik media juga menjadi ketua atau pengurus partai politik seperti Media Group milikSurya Paloh. Artikel ini merupakan hasil penelitian yang mempelajari bagaimana SuryaPaloh menggunakan media massa yang dikuasainya sebagai instrumen untuk mencapaiambisi politiknya. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa praktek oligopoli media yang saat initerjadi telah berada pada tahap yang membahayakan hak warga terhadap informasi karenamedia dikelola ...

Based on an in-depth discussion between us (six Black PhD and early career researchers), this work explores burgeoning Black feminist and digital media studies in Britain. Our article is rooted in dialogue about Black feminist digital culture, communications, aesthetics, joy, and our different yet interconnected scholarly experiences. We consider who and what shapes the work that we do, the way we approach it, and how it has developed in recent years. Specifically, our thoughts relate to five expansive and interlinked themes: 1. Digital Blackness, Twitter, and Community-Building, 2. Aesthetics, Archives, and Knowledge Production, 3. Pressures, Projections, and Power Dynamics, 4. Research on/as Black Feminist Joy and Pleasure, 5. The Politics of Research. By reflecting on our research and encounters in academia we provide an overview of key aspects of Black feminist and digital media studies in Britain, including how such scholarship is impacted by the specifics of where we are (and have been) located. In doing so, we share insights at the nexus of Black studies, digital studies, cultural studies, and feminist media studies that foreground possibilities, problems, playfulness, and pleasure that can be part of doing Black feminist and digital media studies work in Britain.

Since the 1980s, digital materialism has received increasing interest in the field of media studies. Materialism as a theoretical paradigm assumes that all things in the world are tied to physical processes and matter. Yet within digital media studies, the understanding of what should be the core object of a materialist analysis is debated. This paper proposes to untangle some of the principal theoretical propositions that compose the field of digital materialism. It outlines six frameworks that share the assumption that digital stuff is composed of material entities: the Berlin School of media, the field of software studies, the literary critique of electronic texts, the forensic approach, the 'new materialist' media ecology, and the field of Marxian critical studies. These different options are positioned along three main lines of tensions: between a semantic and an engineer's perspective on media, between technological and social determinism, and between critical or post-humanist political propositions.

Since the 1980s, digital materialism has received increasing interest in the field of media studies. Materialism as a theoretical paradigm assumes that all things in the world are tied to physical processes and matter. Yet within digital media studies, the understanding of what should be the core object of a materialist analysis is debated. This paper proposes to untangle some of the principal theoretical propositions that compose the field of digital materialism. It outlines six frameworks that share the assumption that digital stuff is composed of material entities: the Berlin School of media, the field of software studies, the literary critique of electronic texts, the forensic approach, the 'new materialist' media ecology, and the field of Marxian critical studies. These different options are positioned along three main lines of tensions: between a semantic and an engineer's perspective on media, between technological and social determinism, and between critical or post-humanist political propositions.

New media, simply put, is new form of mass communication. Another term for it is digital media. Relatively, it is recent media based on new information technology, a 21stcentury's people's media. It is dynamic as the Internet-based tools and technology keep changing in unpredictable ways, and evolving too. New media has redefined, given a new dimension to the very concept of communication, whether internal, intrapersonal,one to one or one to many. New technologies, which are emerging on a daily basis, are enabling new media to evolve. Inarguably, social media is shaping opinion, helping to build profiles of people, companies and government. Moreover, it is helping to get people 'connected' and draw moral support sometimes. Political communi-cation, which is a sub-field of communication, has dramatically changed in the last decade. Many traditional media as well as new media have changed politics which is inclusive of governance and players involved in it.New media platforms and social media tools have made democracy more vibrant, at least in the cyber world. This does not imply that the quality of governance has improved and society at large is happier because the quality of life has improved. But with the media becoming more and more interactive, public communication has increased which in turn has an impact on policy makers. 'Social media afford new opportunities for engaging citizens in democratic processes. Use of socialmedia is increasing rapidly, these forms of media offer increased access to voters and potential voters,' (McNamara et.al, 2012) says the study on the usage of social media in Australia. A study on political changes in China (Ashley Esarey, 2011) observesthat digital technologies empower citizens by providing forums for the expression of political views and critics of the state. The present paper is a Meta review of studies undertaken on new media as agents of political communication.

New media, simply put, is new form of mass communication. Another term for it is digital media. Relatively, it is recent media based on new information technology, a 21stcentury's people's media. It is dynamic as the Internet-based tools and technology keep changing in unpredictable ways, and evolving too. New media has redefined, given a new dimension to the very concept of communication, whether internal, intrapersonal,one to one or one to many. New technologies, which are emerging on a daily basis, are enabling new media to evolve. Inarguably, social media is shaping opinion, helping to build profiles of people, companies and government. Moreover, it is helping to get people 'connected' and draw moral support sometimes. Political communi-cation, which is a sub-field of communication, has dramatically changed in the last decade. Many traditional media as well as new media have changed politics which is inclusive of governance and players involved in it.New media platforms and social media tools have made democracy more vibrant, at least in the cyber world. This does not imply that the quality of governance has improved and society at large is happier because the quality of life has improved. But with the media becoming more and more interactive, public communication has increased which in turn has an impact on policy makers. 'Social media afford new opportunities for engaging citizens in democratic processes. Use of socialmedia is increasing rapidly, these forms of media offer increased access to voters and potential voters,' (McNamara et.al, 2012) says the study on the usage of social media in Australia. A study on political changes in China (Ashley Esarey, 2011) observesthat digital technologies empower citizens by providing forums for the expression of political views and critics of the state. The present paper is a Meta review of studies undertaken on new media as agents of political communication.