Projects / Programmes
Social information and communication processes
January 1, 1999
- December 31, 2003
| Code |
Science |
Field |
Subfield |
| 5.06.00 |
Social sciences |
Political science |
|
| 6.05.00 |
Humanities |
Linguistics |
|
| Code |
Science |
Field |
| S265 |
Social sciences |
Press and communication sciences |
| H350 |
Humanities |
Linguistics |
| S170 |
Social sciences |
Political and administrative sciences |
| S191 |
Social sciences |
Market study |
Researchers (18)
Organisations (1)
Abstract
Since American Pragmatism and symbolic interactionism it is considered a matter of fact that society does not exist by means of communication, but through communication, and that communication technologies may be used to develop communication as human need and generic ability, or misused as, or reduced to means to achieve external ends. In contemporary societies there is a permanent process of a communicative production of legitimate power and manipulative direction of media power to achieve mass loyalty. In such framework politically active publics not only need institutionally guaranteed autonomy within legal state, but also the support of cultural traditions and socialization patterns, or political culture. This permanently makes relevant the question of the importance of mass media, which act as »narrator, advocate and weathercock,« as Bryce put it, and influence human life styles, and together with other associations form opinions. If the media do not belong to the administrative system, their communicative influence may well result in political effects. Within this general theoretical framework, this research program attempts to answer questions of sources and consequences of such modern communication and related phenomena as media tabloidization, public relations, media democratization, computer mediated communication, the interaction of the media and political actors, media performance, and the impact of institutional arrangements, such as supervision, financing, journalistic rights, on political autonomy and plurality of mass media. The empirical stream of the program is focused on the stratification of publics, segmentation of audiences and their life styles, the development of computer mediated communication and the uses of the Internet in Slovenia.
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