The document discusses the role of mass media in relation to trade unions. It notes that mass media is largely owned by capitalist groups who use it to promote their political and economic agendas. This includes manipulating public opinion, slandering trade unions, and hiding the exploitative nature of capitalism. While some media workers unwittingly promote this agenda, trade unions must organize media workers and create alternative media sources to expose capitalist strategies, promote workers' interests, and build class consciousness and international solidarity among workers. The goal is for media to educate and organize workers in support of their struggles.
[En] THE TRIBALISATION OF SOCIETY AND ITS IMPACT ON THE CONDUCT OF MARKETINGYann Gourvennec
This paper presents an alternative, 'Latin', vision of our societies. Here the urgent societal issue is not to celebrate freedom from social constraints, but to re-establish communal embeddedness. The citizen of 2000 is less interested in the objects of consumption than in the social links and identities that come with them. This Latin view holds that people like to gather together in tribes and that such social, proximate communities are more affective and influential on people's behaviour than either marketing institutions or other 'formal' cultural authorities. There is also an element of resistance and re-appropriation in the acts of being, gathering and experiencing together. This view of the shared experience of tribes sets it apart from both Northern notions of segmented markets and one-to-one relationship.
This week we cover the political economy approach to communication. Rooted in marxism theory, such exploration considers the role of economy in shaping the media landscape.
[En] THE TRIBALISATION OF SOCIETY AND ITS IMPACT ON THE CONDUCT OF MARKETINGYann Gourvennec
This paper presents an alternative, 'Latin', vision of our societies. Here the urgent societal issue is not to celebrate freedom from social constraints, but to re-establish communal embeddedness. The citizen of 2000 is less interested in the objects of consumption than in the social links and identities that come with them. This Latin view holds that people like to gather together in tribes and that such social, proximate communities are more affective and influential on people's behaviour than either marketing institutions or other 'formal' cultural authorities. There is also an element of resistance and re-appropriation in the acts of being, gathering and experiencing together. This view of the shared experience of tribes sets it apart from both Northern notions of segmented markets and one-to-one relationship.
This week we cover the political economy approach to communication. Rooted in marxism theory, such exploration considers the role of economy in shaping the media landscape.
Paolo Mancini
(Università di Perugia)
CMPF Summer School 2013 for Journalists and Media Practitioners
http://cmpf.eui.eu/training/summer-school-2013.aspx
The world “Media is a plural Latin noun; the singular form is medium”. So it is correct to call television a “medium” and to refer to multiple types of communication as “Media”.
Campbell, R., et al. (2011). Chapter 14: Media economics and the global marketplace. Media Essentials: A Brief Introduction. Bedford/St.Martin’s. p.394-419
Media Re:public @ MiT6 New Media, Civic MediaPersephone Miel
24 April 2009 Presentation on Media Re:public as part of Media in Transition 6 New Media, Civic Media (panel questions)
Jessica Clark, Center for Social Media (American University)
Ellen Hume, Center for Future Civic Media (MIT)
Persephone Miel, Media Re:public and Internews Network
Respondents: Dean Jansen, Participatory Culture Foundation
Jake Shapiro, Public Radio Exchange (PRX)
Moderator: Pat Aufderheide, American University
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Paolo Mancini
(Università di Perugia)
CMPF Summer School 2013 for Journalists and Media Practitioners
http://cmpf.eui.eu/training/summer-school-2013.aspx
The world “Media is a plural Latin noun; the singular form is medium”. So it is correct to call television a “medium” and to refer to multiple types of communication as “Media”.
Campbell, R., et al. (2011). Chapter 14: Media economics and the global marketplace. Media Essentials: A Brief Introduction. Bedford/St.Martin’s. p.394-419
Media Re:public @ MiT6 New Media, Civic MediaPersephone Miel
24 April 2009 Presentation on Media Re:public as part of Media in Transition 6 New Media, Civic Media (panel questions)
Jessica Clark, Center for Social Media (American University)
Ellen Hume, Center for Future Civic Media (MIT)
Persephone Miel, Media Re:public and Internews Network
Respondents: Dean Jansen, Participatory Culture Foundation
Jake Shapiro, Public Radio Exchange (PRX)
Moderator: Pat Aufderheide, American University
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License
Media companies are profit-making businesses. Those who commission and plan
programs or decide newspaper or magazine content, usually play safe by excluding
anything that might offend or upset readers or viewers. No media company would
like to lose revenue and profit by losing readers, or viewers, because they were
offended by ‘extreme’ views.
The pluralist theory of media ownership
Pluralists argue that media owners are responsible for their ways of handling
information because media content is mainly shaped by consumer demand in the
marketplace. They therefore only give the buying public what they want.
Moreover, editors, journalists and broadcasters have a strong sense of professional
ethics which act as a system of checks and controls on potential owner abuse of the
media.
They feel mass media are an essential part of the democratic process because the
electorate today gets most of their knowledge of the political process from
newspapers and television. They are also of the opinion that owners, editors and
journalists are trustworthy managers and protectors of this process.
Furthermore, pluralists argue that media audiences are the real power holders
because they can exercise the right to buy or not to buy.
Pluralists also argue that concentration of ownership is a product of economic
rationality rather than political or sinister motives. It is driven by the need to keep
costs low and to maximize profits. Globalization too results from the need to find
new audiences rather than from cultural imperialism. Power of media owners is
also restricted by state, or government, controls, e.g. in some societies, owners are
not allowed to own too much media or different types of media.
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2. Kathmandu Nepal, 14 July 2012
WFTU SEMINAR:
“Mass media
and the trade union movement”
3. How is information massively
circulated today?
Through:
International News Agencies
(Reuters, Associated Press, Al
Jazeera etc.)
National Agencies
National Mass Media Groups (TV,
Radio, Newspapers, Magazines,
Web-Portals)
4. Which story becomes news?
It is these Mass Media Groups that define:
what will become news in national and global
level
how will the news be presented, from which
viewpoint
what will become the top story
which will be the hierarchy of the headlines
how long these “story” will remain in the
headlines
which aspects of the story will be highlighted
5. Who owns the Media Groups?
The Mass Media Groups are owned
by monopoly groups, by owners of
oil companies, pharmaceutical
companies, construction companies,
etc.
Mass Media are owned by
capitalists.
6. Why do capitalists own Mass
Media?
They do not sick primarily to make profit out of
their use.
Advertisements usually cover the cost of the
programs.
They aim to:
Improve their individual interests in relation to
the state.
Improve their position in the competition with
other capitalists and increase the profitability of
the other companies of the monopoly group.
Serve the collective interests of the capitalist
class in the class struggle against the working
class and the popular strata.
7. Mass Media in Relation to the State
The state is giving them licenses for the
free use of the public frequencies.
The competition of the media for the state
advertisement affects the content of the
information.
Journalists are on “payrolls” of the state,
ministries or political parties.
8. Media in the capitalist crisis
Because:
1) the capitalists usually do not make direct profit
out of their Media Corporations
2) Within the crisis they do not have the percentage
of profit they would like to have though their
other investments
Hence, they might choose:
to close some Media down
proceed to mergers
or/and attack trade union rights, collective
agreements, flexible and long working hours etc.
9. How do Mass Media act under
capitalist ownership?
Marx and Engels wrote:
“the class which is the ruling material force
of society is at the same time its ruling
intellectual force. The class which has the
means of material production at its disposal
has control at the same time over the
means of mental production”
10. How do Mass Media act under
capitalist ownership?
Putting pressure in the governments:
This way the hold their political
personnel captive to serve their
individual or collective interests.
11. How do Mass Media act under
capitalist ownership?
Manipulate the public opinion targeting
mainly the popular factor: the working
class and the popular strata.
They cultivate false consciousness. They
make the workers think as if they were
capitalists, according to the bourgeois
ethics. (racism, anti-communism, drug
culture, sub-culture, corruption etc.)
12. How do Mass Media act under
capitalist ownership?
Promotion of the bourgeois
agenda and strategy though
the hierarchy and the choices
of the news stories.
13. How do Mass Media act under
capitalist ownership?
They terrorize the people and
slander the history of the
people and the trade union
movement
14. How do Mass Media act under
capitalist ownership?
They form a perverse reality by
hiding the exploitative nature
of the capitalist system which
is the true cause of the acute
labour and social problems.
15. How do Mass Media act under
capitalist ownership?
To promote the capitalist
products they have to create a
perverse perception of what are
the actual needs of the people.
16. Two types of people
working in the media:
A labour aristocracy which plays an
active and conscious part in promoting
the ruling ideology (with huge wages,
party payrolls, direct contact with
governments or even secret agencies)
A majority of poorly paid, hard working
people who under the pressure of
dismissal, terrorism, directions or false
consciousness, willingly or unwillingly
function as the communicators of the
ruling ideology and morality.
17. What is the role of the trade union
organisations?
to organize the media staff in order to play
a progressive role beside the limitations: to
expose the capitalist strategy and plots, to
promote the working class interests and the
struggles of the trade union movement.
To form the criteria to the people in order
to be able to filter the information they
receive and see it through their own class
interests.
18. What is the role of the trade union
organisations?
to organize the progressive working people
in the media to use their skills and
knowledge for the creation of media of the
working people, media owned by trade
unions, democratic organizations,
progressive parties.
To use photos, video, analysis, publications
to circulate the information around the
world in order to enhance international
proletarian solidarity.
19. Which are our goals?
Cultivating class consciousness
Belief in the power of the people
Belief in the victorious historic role of the working
class
Exposing capitalism and the capitalist mode of
production
Exposing the parasitic role of the capitalists
Cultivating the main principles of the working
class: solidarity, internationalism, class unity
Exposing the defeatist role of the corrupt, sold-
out trade unionists
Building action though feeding information
Give orientation to the struggle.
20. According to Lenin:
We need media that will be “the
collective propagandist and collective
enlightenment but also the collective
organizer.” Those kind of media that can
be compared to the “scaffolding built
around a building under construction, that
carve the outline of the building, facilitate
the communication between the different
construction workers, they help them to
allocate the work and have the oversight
of the common results achieved by the
organized work”