PART ONE: MASS COMMUNICATION AND SOCIETY Public Communication and Public Interest Contested Territory Media Performance Traditions of Enquiry The `Public Interest' in Communication PART TWO: MEDIA PERFORMANCE NORMS Performance Norms in Media Policy Discourse The Newspaper Press Performance Norms in Media Policy Discourse Broadcasting A Framework of Principle for Media Assessment PART THREE: RESEARCH MODELS AND METHODS Media Organizational Performance Models and Research Options PART FOUR: MEDIA FREEDOM Concepts and Models of Media Freedom Media Freedom From Structure to Performance Media Freedom The Organizational Environment PART FIVE: DIVERSITY Varieties and Processes of Diversity Taking the Measure of Diversity Media Reflection Media Access and Audience Choice PART SIX: OBJECTIVITY Concepts of Objectivity A Framework for Objectivity Research Measuring Objectivity News as Information Measuring Objectivity The Evaluative Dimension of News PART SEVEN: MASS MEDIA, ORDER AND SOCIAL CONTROL Media and the Maintenance of Public Order Policing the Symbolic Environment Solidarity and Social Identity PART EIGHT: MEDIA AND CULTURE Questions of Culture and Mass Communication Cultural Identity and Autonomy Whose Media Culture? PART NINE: IN CONCLUSION Changing Media, Changing Mores Implications for Assessment

Media performance : mass communication and the public interest / Denis Mcquail

This book is altogether unlike any other sociological treatise on the family. There are two generally recognized types of books on marriage and the family. One, theoretical in nature, deals with the family as a social institution. The other deals with the problems of courtship, marriage and parenthood—more or less as a manual for youths in contemporary society. The book at hand does not structure the family as a social institution, but neither is it in any sense a popular, practical manual for the guidance of youth in pursuit of marital bliss!

Family, Socialization and Interaction Process

Ellen Mickiewicz has done an excellent job of presenting the key elements of our argument and empirical analysis about why the mainstream press proved incapable of independent news framing at critical junctures in the Iraq War. She then raises a series of excellent broader questions: What about the responsibility of government institutions to hold those in power accountable? What about the independent force of public opinion? Were earlier administrations as able to spin the press as successfully as the Bush administration? Each of these questions might well fuel a book. I can only address them briefly in this response.

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Response to Ellen Mickiewicz's review of When the Press Fails: Political Power and the News Media from Iraq to Katrina

The Reality of the Mass Media

Foreword Note on graphic conventions 0. Introduction-Toward a Logic of Culture 0.1. Design for a semiotic theory 0.2. 'Semiotics': field or discipline? 0.3. Communication and/or signification 0.4. Political boundaries: the field 0.5. Natural boundaries: two definitions of semiotics 0.6. Natural boundaries: inference and signification 0.7. Natural boundaries the lower threshold 0.8. Natural boundaries: the upper threshold 0.9. Epistemological boundaries 1. Signification and Communication 1.1. An elementary communicational model 1.2. Systems and codes 1.3. The s-code as structure 1.4. Information, communication, signification 2. Theory of Codes 2.1. The sign-function 2.2. Expression and content 2.3. Denotation and connotation 2.4. Message and text 2.5 Content and referent 2.6. Meaning as cultural unit 2.7. The interpretant 2.8. The semantic system 2.9. The semantic markers and the sememe 2.10. The KF model 2.11. A revised semantic model 2.12. The model \"Q\" 2.13. The format of the semantic space 2.14. Overcoding and undercoding 2.15. The interplay of codes and the message as an open form 3. Theory of Sign Production 3.1. A general survey 3.2. Semiotic and factual statements 3.3. Mentioning 3.4 The prolem of a typology of signs 3.5. Critique of iconism 3.6. A typology of modes of production 3.7. The aesthetic text as invention 3.8. The rhetorical labor 3.9. Ideological code switching 4. The Subject of Semiotics References Index of authors Index of subjects

A Theory of Semiotics

The History and Theory of Post-Truth Communication

Credibility is one of the most important factors that distinguish a ‘good teacher’. But what is credibility? When and why is a teacher credible? In a sociological perspective, this paper considers credibility not merely as a personal quality of the sender, but as a relationship that is always full of risks, subject to continuous negotiations between teachers and students during classroom interactions. On the basis of a literature review, this work indicates three ‘roots’ through which students can recognise a teacher as credible and grant him/her their trust: a) not only disciplinary expertise, but also didactic and communicative expertise; b) the ability to express values that students can appreciate in his/her work, such as seriousness, commitment, and justice; c) communication of a sense of attention and care for each student as a person, with his/her distinctive characteristics and needs. Finally, the paper proposes a distinction between ‘credibility of the role’, which indicates the amount of prestige and the social status enjoyed by the teaching profession and educational institutions in today’s society, and ‘credibility in the role’, which indicates how the teacher assumes and practises this role, making it credible or not credible in the concrete interactions in which he/she is involved, starting from classroom interactions with his/her students.

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Expertise, justice, reciprocity: the three roots of teachers’ credibility

Epidemic emergency due to Covid-19, and the challenge it has implied and it implies for social relationships, has generated a broad feeling of uncertainty and has had a significant impact on different forms of trust-mistrust How did the medical emergency challenge these forms? How did these forms change in this context? In which way and direction? More generally, what is the destiny of trust in our contemporary societies in this Covid-19 epoch and afterwards?

Fidarsi. Cinque forme di fiducia alla prova del Covid-19

The role of the institutional communicator in the Church today has a special relevance derived from the credibility crisis suffered by this institution. A greatly increased awareness to this theme ...

Guido Gili

Papers

The History and Theory of Post-Truth Communication

Expertise, justice, reciprocity: the three roots of teachers’ credibility

Fidarsi. Cinque forme di fiducia alla prova del Covid-19

Transmission or ‘creative fidelity’? The institutional communicator’s role in the Church today

Chi ha paura della post-verità? Effetti collaterali di una parabola culturale