Nowadays, daily life is unimaginable without information and communication technologies (ICTs). “New” reality dictates tectonic changes in communication processes that affect all spheres of life, including political ones. In recent years, there has been a trend towards more open and transparent governance. The purpose of this article is to assess the current status of civic participation platforms in the Russian regions of the Greater Caspian Sea on the basis of a comparative analysis of the institutional foundations and practices of their operation. The main empirical method of the research was the monitoring of civic participation platforms in Astrakhan region, the Republic of Dagestan and the Republic of Kalmykia, as well as qualitative content analysis of the texts posted on the above-mentioned portals. Civic participation platforms have a positive impact on the community. Despite the wide range of opportunities that new technologies offer to engage the party concerned and the citizens, the initiatives fail to achieve the expected results and to mobilize a sufficient number of active users. New forms of interaction between the authorities and civic society are just beginning to develop in our country. The development of electronic civic participation portals in the three Russian regions of the Greater Caspian Sea is taking place in different; their level of development can be estimated as average (in Astrakhan region), below average (in the Republic of Dagestan) and zero (in the Republic of Kalmykia). The main reasons for this state of affairs are digital divide between the regions and the governance practices of the federal and local governments in the regions.
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The article is devoted to the analysis of the process of formation of the image of Palestine and the British Empire at the end of the First World War. On the basis of the materials of American cartoons and periodicals, the main points in the evolution of the attitude of American society to Palestine are considered, the complexities and contradictions in understanding the features of the British Empire are shown. The study of cartoons will help determine the nature of the interaction of textual and visual images in the US media during the discussion of the results of the First World War, the Treaty of Versailles, the League of Nations and the mandate system. Based on the study of cartoons, two stages in the perception of Palestine in the United States are distinguished: 1) “romantic” and 2) “critical”. New images of Palestine, the British colonial empire, and the Middle East first appeared in newspaper articles, and only later in cartoons. The debate between apologetic and critical strands of US public opinion regarding Palestine and the British model of internal security in the colonies became in 1919 one element of a more global debate between Democrats and Republicans about the role of the US in the League of Nations.
本文旨在分析第一次世界大战末期巴勒斯坦与大英帝国形象的形成过程。以美国漫画和期刊的资料为基础，分析了美国社会对巴勒斯坦态度演变的要点，揭示了对大英帝国特征认识的复杂性和矛盾性。对漫画的研究将有助于确定在讨论第一次世界大战、凡尔赛条约、国际联盟和授权制度的结果时，美国媒体中文字和视觉图像相互作用的性质。通过对漫画的研究，可以将美国人对巴勒斯坦的认知分为两个阶段:1)“浪漫”阶段和2)“批判”阶段。巴勒斯坦、英国殖民帝国和中东的新形象最初出现在报纸文章中，后来才出现在漫画中。1919年，围绕巴勒斯坦问题和英国在殖民地的内部安全模式，美国公众舆论中持道歉态度和持批评态度的两派之间的辩论，成为民主党和共和党之间围绕美国在国际联盟(League of Nations)中的角色展开的一场更为全球性的辩论的一部分。
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The subject of this review is the second part of the information-military dictionary “Ecology of human existence: media ecology”. The dictionary presents the theme of media ecology or ecology of communications through a number of terms in the aspect of the ecohumanist approach. The authors of the vocabulary articles developed and used it as a new methodology in the study and understanding of the capabilities of modern digital technologies that form the information environment for the existence of a contemporary human. The editors and authors of the vocabulary set a goal of carrying out a philosophical interpretation of the technical and technological conditions of human ‘in-der-Welt-Sein’, in the aspect of information environment (media space), and propose a new, namely, eco-humanistic approach for solving the main problems of the relationship “human – technical and technological world”. The texts of vocabulary articles substantiate the thesis that the capabilities and power of modern digital technologies actualize the need for an eco-humanistic measurement of the relationship “human – technical and technological world”, which does not pre-refuse digital technologies, but means the optimal use of all technological tools, taking into account the detection and preservation of their humanistic potential. The review pays attention to the specifics of the theoretical development of the eco-humanistic approach and its main principles: integrity, optimality, coordination, and eco-systemity. As a result of the analysis the reviewer concludes that the eco-humanistic approach proposed and used by the authors will allow to study and explore the processes and phenomena of contemporary culture in a multidimensional manner, to receive a more accurate interpretation of the ways of human existence and eco-cultural practices that ensure the effect of the staneity of the “ecosystems” in the situations of any intensive technological transformations.
{"title":"Review of the Dictionary “Ecology of Human Existence. Part II. Media Ecology”","authors":"Dmitry V. Solomko","doi":"10.46539/gmd.v4i4.292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46539/gmd.v4i4.292","url":null,"abstract":"The subject of this review is the second part of the information-military dictionary “Ecology of human existence: media ecology”. The dictionary presents the theme of media ecology or ecology of communications through a number of terms in the aspect of the ecohumanist approach. The authors of the vocabulary articles developed and used it as a new methodology in the study and understanding of the capabilities of modern digital technologies that form the information environment for the existence of a contemporary human. The editors and authors of the vocabulary set a goal of carrying out a philosophical interpretation of the technical and technological conditions of human ‘in-der-Welt-Sein’, in the aspect of information environment (media space), and propose a new, namely, eco-humanistic approach for solving the main problems of the relationship “human – technical and technological world”. The texts of vocabulary articles substantiate the thesis that the capabilities and power of modern digital technologies actualize the need for an eco-humanistic measurement of the relationship “human – technical and technological world”, which does not pre-refuse digital technologies, but means the optimal use of all technological tools, taking into account the detection and preservation of their humanistic potential. The review pays attention to the specifics of the theoretical development of the eco-humanistic approach and its main principles: integrity, optimality, coordination, and eco-systemity. As a result of the analysis the reviewer concludes that the eco-humanistic approach proposed and used by the authors will allow to study and explore the processes and phenomena of contemporary culture in a multidimensional manner, to receive a more accurate interpretation of the ways of human existence and eco-cultural practices that ensure the effect of the staneity of the “ecosystems” in the situations of any intensive technological transformations.","PeriodicalId":393706,"journal":{"name":"Galactica Media: Journal of Media Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121650871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Menderes Akdağ, Serhat Yetimova, Hatice Yaren Eser
Between the 1970s and 1980s in Turkey, there were various problems such as rapid urbanization, migration from village to city, economical problems such as embargo and neoliberalism and political violence over the military coups. Our study focuses on the problems experienced by children which lead to child victimization through Turkish movies. In our research, we used deduction and induction methods together. Based on the political and economic developments in the period between 1970 and 1980, we looked at how these dynamics were reflected in the films by thematic analyze method. Here are the themes that we found in the films which are commonly used in relation to children in cities and their urbanization, child marriage, smuggling, political violence and education. In conclusion of the Turkish press and movies and according to the interviews we did with the people who witnessed those periods, the problems related to children manifest themselves quite heavily and negatively. The Turkish society, which is experiencing a rapid urbanization process, has continued the patriarchal, sexist, religious-conservative and statist discourse they brought from the feudal village life in modern cities as well. While this is a problem that the press and cinema criticize with a common approach, it is seen that children are also a part of this process.
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This paper opens a dialogue between Marshall McLuhan and Squid Game, the hit 2021 Netflix series. I argue that Squid Game both exposes and reproduces the repressed libidinal economy that underwrites media studies’ understandings of political economy and of the global circulation of media. Many media theorists after McLuhan have extended his “global village” thesis, according to which globalization has birthed a nascent universal consciousness. What are we to make, then, of McLuhan’s affirmation that “it is no longer possible to adopt the aloof and dissociated role of the literate Westerner” when, roughly six decades later, “we” in the West are witnessing a decidedly “aloof and dissociated” VIP audience spectate, alongside us, the suffering of South Korean subalterns (4)? My paper critically questions McLuhan’s “global village” by reflecting on the contradictions inherent in Squid Game’s anti-capitalist desire to expose the suffering of subaltern masses for the pleasure of bourgeois voyeurs, given that the show’s own audience is composed of many such Western bourgeois voyeurs. If “we,” like “Gganbu” in Squid Game, seek pleasure and above all fun as we consume the violent objectification of the Other, perhaps the “global village” is not so peaceful after all. After considering how the show may be read both through and against McLuhan’s analysis of violent “retribalization” in “our” (post)modern electric age, I conclude that the political economy of the global village runs on a hidden structure of desire that only produces an elite few (VIPs) as full human subjects by brutally reducing subaltern masses to objects. It is this libidinal economy that Squid Game forcefully brings into view, so forcefully that its own mass appeal may feed the violent desires of Netflix audiences rather than vanquish them. The question, ultimately, will be: can subaltern media(lity) speak?
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The article is the final in a series of studies we conducted in the period from 2018 to 2022, and focuses on the transformation of the image of the Other in the period of the Covid-19 pandemic. For this study, we used Internet query statistics, extracting a series of markers, which we divided into three groups: food, clothing(appearance), and sexuality. The data was used to compile a correlation matrix and identify the strongest correlation between the markers. The study showed that the most diverse in the number of different markers is the food aspect. The appearance and sexual aspects are less distinctive during the pandemic but also play an important role in shaping the Other's image. It is also worth mentioning the fact that in the post-Covid time (2022) the difference between various models is blurred and some of them are enlarged by the inclusion of representatives of other ethnic groups. In particular, today we can distinguish several big clusters of the Other’s models holding common structural markers: some models are united according to their “food” aspect (Far Eastern cluster), others according to their appearance and sexual aspects (cluster of the former Soviet Union ethnic groups). However, within these clusters, models also share structural markers, so that they can be combined into subgroups based on one feature or another.
{"title":"A Comparative Analysis of the Transformation of the Other’s Image: 2018-2022","authors":"R. T. Aliev, Olesya S. Yakushenkova","doi":"10.46539/gmd.v4i4.347","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46539/gmd.v4i4.347","url":null,"abstract":"The article is the final in a series of studies we conducted in the period from 2018 to 2022, and focuses on the transformation of the image of the Other in the period of the Covid-19 pandemic. For this study, we used Internet query statistics, extracting a series of markers, which we divided into three groups: food, clothing(appearance), and sexuality. The data was used to compile a correlation matrix and identify the strongest correlation between the markers. The study showed that the most diverse in the number of different markers is the food aspect. The appearance and sexual aspects are less distinctive during the pandemic but also play an important role in shaping the Other's image. It is also worth mentioning the fact that in the post-Covid time (2022) the difference between various models is blurred and some of them are enlarged by the inclusion of representatives of other ethnic groups. In particular, today we can distinguish several big clusters of the Other’s models holding common structural markers: some models are united according to their “food” aspect (Far Eastern cluster), others according to their appearance and sexual aspects (cluster of the former Soviet Union ethnic groups). However, within these clusters, models also share structural markers, so that they can be combined into subgroups based on one feature or another.","PeriodicalId":393706,"journal":{"name":"Galactica Media: Journal of Media Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122642401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
World War II was a time of increased rapprochement between the United States and Great Britain. After a long rivalry and outright hostility in the XVIII-XIX centuries, by the beginning of the 20th century, these two countries began to get closer with time, which was reflected in the gradual design of the concept of “Special Relations” between the United States and the United Kingdom. The rapprochement required strong propaganda support to explain political changes to the population. Due to its accessibility, clarity and brightness, cinema has become one of the main tools for promoting the new paradigm of US foreign policy. In this study, we examined the problem of constructing the image of Great Britain in American cinema in 1942. The purpose of this article is to identify the main features and stereotypes of perception used by American filmmakers and propagandists in building the image of an ally. Based on an analysis of 1942 films, a number of specific features were identified that were used in cinema to form the image of Great Britain as an ally.
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Sergey V. Teterskiy, Aman I. Izmailov, Elena R. Dakhina, S. Ilyasova
The results the Google Forms survey conducted among young people living the Caspian bordering countries (Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan) revealed the main problems in the development of creative spaces for the youth self-fulfillment: lack of such places or their inaccessibility, lack of variety of the services provided, low level of their digitalization. At the same time, according to the respondents, digital spaces, which are developing especially rapidly during the pandemic, are disparate and sometimes dangerous (because of manipulations and fraud). The need of young people for systematizing and structuring creative spaces both in real and virtual environment is evident. The digital platform Discover Your Mission Through Nine Sources of Giving was developed and successfully implemented within the framework of this study. Thanks to this platform, the students of Astrakhan State University were consciously choosing and building creative spaces (in the roles of followers, creators, mentors). Creative spaces make it possible to find a useful activity according to one’s mission and connect it with the future profession or with volunteer, business, blogging activities and research work (graduation thesis or dissertation). Immersion of young people into creative spaces and the process of its digitalization (in three areas: instant messaging, using social media for professional needs, professional software) resulted in the increase of responsibility for their lives and for the development of the Caspian region in comparison with the control study group.
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The research object is the evolution of the main strategic concepts that determine the impact of information technologies on the socio-cultural development of society at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries and lay the foundations of a new humanitarian science on the media, i.e. medialogy. The study is relevant since globalization and digital revolutions change not only the reality and spiritual existence of a person but also the science that studies all these issues. Within the socio-cultural system of media civilization, there is an obvious integration of various humanities that study the role of the media in the formation of civil institutions and personality. The study considers different approaches of both foreign and Russian scholars (sociologists, philosophers, culture experts, philologists) to media science in its historical context and modern realities. The study results substantiate strategic concepts of media science, its issues, and development prospects as a factor in the formation of a citizen in the globalized world.
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The article deals with the search for the sources of visual pollution. While the information environment, alongside with pollution of air, water and food, has been already recognized as the new area of contamination, the pollution of visual environment has not yet been listed among the spheres monitored by the ecologists. The symptoms of visual contamination are not identified, and the sources – apart from advertising – are unknown not only to environmental activists, but also to the specialists. The main thesis of the article is as follows: the pollution of visual environment affects the health of people no less negatively than traditional sources of environmental threats. However, visual pollution is not visible; it has not yet been the subject of close study, so we do not yet have any record of its species, or the criteria for the dangerous level of pollution exceedance, nor recommendations for prevention and ways and techniques of getting rid of it. The uncertainty of the sources of visual pollution leads in the long term to disastrous health consequences, because the moral, spiritual and physical well-being of a person living in it depends on how healthy and favourable the visual environment is. Huge fields of plastic packaging and disposable dishes floating in the ocean are not only visual pollution, but also pollution of water, marine inhabitants, and soil; while in the urban environment it is difficult to separate visual dirt from pollution of air, water, land. It is concluded that the source of the pollution is a substance both out of place, without a place or outside the place. The source of pollution can be the reverse side of purity of the visual environment brought to the limit, to sterility, to geometric rigidity, which accompanies the “pathos of colonization of nature by geometry”.
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