RUDN Modern Media System Course Blog

 By：Suhad Kadem Obaid     Mass media is communication -whether written, broadcast, or spoken- that reaches a large audience. This includes television, radio, advertising, movies, the Internet,newspapers, magazines, and so forth., which work together to influence the opinion of the general public on a large scale. There are many fields that media channels target to cover, such as education, entertainment, news, information sources, and the transmission of messages. A historical look at the press and the media According to what is common and historian, the fifteenth century witnessed the launch of the press printing revolution, and the beginning of the printing of newspapers and books in a large way, but without using the concept of journalism and media, which began to work in the early twentieth century, and in a contemporary way that included audio and visual means as More advanced media that contributed to the provision of entertainment and informational contents thanks ...

 By：Zheng Haoyuan（John） What is the media? Marx once said that all phenomenon reflected by the news media are sourced from the realities of material life and social relations.   In other words, if society is a chemical reaction, then the media is the catalyst and the people are the reaction substrate. The power of the media is not in controlling the direction of the reaction, but in changing the speed of the reaction, prompting it to explode or temporarily inhibiting the chemical reaction. Some seemingly powerful media propaganda, what is really powerful is the power behind the media and the social contradictions that originally existed. When resonating with society, the media plays the role of bringing the wind and pushing the wave. Propaganda without a mass base is meaningless. For example, the U.S. immigration issue, both the left and right side of the media are leading public opinion, because the immigration conflict has a social base that resonates with the corres...

 By: He YiPeng (Bruce)     From the point of the situation in China, should the dialectical view of the role of government in the media, in a nutshell, is the media should form a government as the leading flowers, and other mass media, the government plays a dominant role in the media communication, control, maintain the stability of governments and economic development, through the mass media at the same time, actively listen to people's Suggestions, Refute rumors in time and maintain the long-term stability of national cultural environment. , and in the framework of law, at the same time drastically to allow the development of a free press, by the rules of competition in the market, select a group of views and authority of the mass media, on the one hand, can be more free and flexible coverage of the latest events, on the other hand, is also an important complement to the mainstream media, to supervise the mainstream media to form at the same time, To make sure the ligh...

  By: Nick Cao In the main opinion of western people, government is made up by people, people will make mistake, then government also. Some people call media power as “the fourth power”, this shows that people think government should be supervised by media. But question is, media are also made up by people, then they will also make mistake. When they make mistake, who will supervise them? And the quotation mark of “the fourth power” shows us this is not a true right or power because it is not stable. It is very easy to be influenced, by tough power, by threaten, by money.       So, in my opinion, the government should limit media market in a limited way and accept the supervision from people and media. And media also should accept supervision from people. Sometimes as an average person, it’s not easy for us to investigate the news media posted. But with the development of Internet, self-media has raised. It provide a good way for people to express their...

by Said EL MARDA   Concentration of media ownership is a threat to media freedom, placing excessive power in the hands of private individuals, corporations, governments or political authorities. Despite the proliferation of websites and social media, power and influence is still concentrated in the hands of the few. Research suggests that more concentrated media ownership also results in a conservative shift in the ideologies being spread. The concentration of media ownership and the corporate conflicts of interest are threatening the truth. The media has a huge amount of power, influencing the way we see the world, especially politically. However, if the media fails to provide us with unbiased information, we cannot make accurate judgements. Do we really want to continue to let massive conglomerates manipulate our thoughts for their profit? The concentrated ownership of media chains is the question of objectivity on the side of the journalists. Since the resident Gods of the m...

     By: Liu Yandong(Reggie)   The so-called concentration of media ownership means that most media or media companies are owned by a few media groups or companies, thus forming a harmful and dangerous mass media ownership structure. In the UK, with the disappearance of the traditional boundaries of the media market and the intensification of the pursuit of economies of scale by media owners, the concentration of media ownership is becoming more and more obvious. The merger of Carlton and Glenda, the acquisition of consumer media group by guardian media group, and the acquisition of Blackville by Willy and son... Mergers and acquisitions in the media industry have led to the concentration of media ownership.     There is an obvious debate about the impact of media ownership concentration. The author believes that we should dialectically look at the concentration of media ownership, not only to see that it can play a positive role in some aspects...

 Kaniyamparambil Issac Jobin The media is a mirror of society, and the state of media freedom is a benchmark, actually the real image of human rights, democracy and the rule of law in one country. Because, the media are the ones who promote, monitor and warn about cases of human rights violations, and also often journalists themselves are victims of human rights violations. It is not without reason that freedom of expression, which also guarantees freedom of the media, is one of the oldest human rights protected by several international declarations and resolutions, but also by the highest legal act of our country – the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina .After World War II, tremendous efforts were made internationally, especially in Europe, to thwart the re-emergence of totalitarian regimes and dictatorships. Such action has resulted in numerous declarations, resolutions, pacts … as well as an extremely complicated and complex system of human rights protection  Theoretica...