First, as religious communicators, and people training to be religious communicators, we need to study the characteristics of
our mass media environment as carefully as did missionaries who related the gospel to foreign cultures.
In doing so, I have suggested that without a truly open marketplace of ideas, without
a mass media environment in which all sides of issues are freely and openly discussed, we can not have a workable democracy.
Not exact matches
Since the beginning of the age of
mass media, advertisements and commercials have been commonplace in the entertainment
environment.
The modern
environment of the
mass media, however, presents a quite different world.
The
mass media are forming a new symbolic
environment within which societies organize and express themselves.
It is the thesis of this book that the
mass media of communication have placed Americans in an
environment so different from former times that our values, assumptions, perspectives and worldview, and therefore our understanding of religion, are affected at their roots.
These
environments do not exclude the
mass media, but neither do they depend upon them.
Similarly, seeing the
mass media in relation to our common symbolic
environment would not assume that the
mass media alone are responsible for violence within society.
Considerable care is needed not only in the application of these approaches but also in the interpretation, presentation and dissemination of the generated results — especially so in an
environment dominated by headlines - hungry
mass -
media.
In general, the indicators are created with the objective of mapping the entirety of the
media ecology, which is necessary to promote freedom of expression, pluralism, and diversity in the
mass media.In 2011, Ecuador was the first Latin - American country to analyze its
media environments by means of this mechanism and, currently, this process is being finished in Brazil, which will result in the publication of the findings shortly.
Eduardo Arroyo could be said to fit within the pop art trend, on account of his interest in the
environment, his critique of our
media culture which incorporates icons of both
mass media communication and the history of painting, and his scorn for nearly all established artistic styles.
In placing his works within a gallery space, Versteeg separates technology from its everyday contexts and allows viewers to approach
mass -
media imagery in a more reflective
environment.
According to the exhibition's press release, «drawing from
mass media, local
environment, and subculture, Colen's art imbues the ordinary, the disenfranchised, and the tribal with provocative new status.»
The work of Korean - born US based artist Bohyun Yoon investigates social
environments and how systems of politics,
mass media, technology and science can affect our fragile states of being.
Despite the various social and cultural
environments these artists come from, what universally binds the logic of their artwork and personal experiences together is contemporary life's saturation in
mass media.
In these photocollages Titova uses photographs of social protesters rejected by
mass media for which they were originally made and photographs taken by the military in conflict sites to question the relationships between the lived
environments, institutional power and the production of identity through the optics of historical narration.
In the late 1950s and early 60s, he wrote perceptively about colleagues» art, revealing in those texts his own awareness of the essential relevance of the new urban
environment and of the
mass, photographic
media.
Heinecken's first large - scale installation, «TV Time
Environment», extends «Are You Rea's» critique of
mass media into the realm of moving images.
Around the time of the making of Painting Smith was also developing a growing interest in the physical and mental properties of
environments generated by the
mass media.
These include his founding role, a few years ago, in the Shifting Baselines Ocean
Media Project, which generated videos, short films, hilarious public service announcements, and stand - up comedy contests, all intended to counteract «planetary amnesia» — the
mass forgetting of mounting losses in the natural
environment.
How does discourse about nuclear energy, climate change, and / or the
environment manifest in
mass media, popular culture, or social
media and with what consequences?