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Inspiration/input for papers 1) Addressing topics Media effects: What is media effects?:  How do we think about them?: Conceptualization issues, underlying frames, context, assumptions, etc

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Inspiration/input for papers

1) Addressing topics

Media effects:

What is media effects?: 

How do we think about them?: Conceptualization issues, underlying frames, context, assumptions, etc.

Why do we worry about them?: development, power struggle, financial interests, political interests, observations, change, ideology, generational conflicts (Ok, boomer, millennials)

 

How can we document them?: methods (psychology: questionnaires, self-reports), lab settings, neuroscience 

 

Media effects as a moral issue:

 

To what extent are big tech companies responsible for users’ behaviour?: flaming, harassment, trolling, etc.

 

To what extent is Snapchat responsible for disclosure and sharing of nudity and sex?

 

To what extent is that state responsible for children’s safety on the internet?

 

To what extent can we/ought we regulate the internet?

 

Campaigns:

 

The current presidential campaign in the US

 

Movements:

 

#MeToo:

 

In Denmark things are moving fast at the moment. What are we looking at from a media theoretical perspective? There seems to be a tight loop between old mass media institutions, new media (SoMe) and certain actors/people and institutions. How are they using each other and/or battling each other in the current situation?

 

Recent commentary (in Danish!): In the old days there was talk about "all-powerful media". What we are witnessing today is different from the direct effect models. But there certainly  appears to be an extremely powerful cycle of "old media", "new media" and certain people/institutions: https://politiken.dk/kultur/medier/art7968506/Mediernes-skadefryd-b%C3%B8r-vige-for-eftertanken.-For-Frank-Jensen-har-grundl%C3%A6ggende-ret-i-et-par-af-sine-advarsler

 

2. Applying theory