In Britain and Europe, neo-Marxist approaches were common amongst media theorists from the late '60s until around the early '80s, and Marxist influences, though less dominant, remain widespread. So it is important to be aware of key Marxist concepts in analysing the mass media. However, there is no single Marxist school of thought, and the jargon often seems impenetrable to the uninitiated. The...

In modern politics, parties and individual candidates must have an online presence and usually have dedicated social media coordinators. In this context, real time members classification and party characterization taking into account the dynamic nature of social media are essential to highlight the main differences between parties and to monitor their activities, influences, structures, content...

Research indicates employers use social media, such as Facebook and LinkedIn, to make decision regarding would-be employees. A scarce amount of academic research specifically examines the decision-making processes employers use when using social media to select the best job applicant for the job. This study focuses on how social media impacts hiring processes, investigating the impact of politi...

Contributing to a more nuanced and detailed understanding of media effects on crime, this paper presents empirical evidence that detailed media coverage of homicides, influences the probability that criminals use similar murder styles, but does not change overall crime rates. We tracked 31,676 homicides carried out by drug cartels operating at the US-Mexico border, its stylistic characteristics...

Adolescents are developmentally sensitive to pathways that influence alcohol and other drug (AOD) use. In the absence of guidance, their routine engagement with social media may add a further layer of risk. There are several potential mechanisms for social media use to influence AOD risk, including exposure to peer portrayals of AOD use, socially amplified advertising, misinformation, and preda...

Exposure to media violence has been associated with decreased empathy and increased aggressive behavior. One possible mediator for this relationship may be emotional face processing; however, little is known about how media violence may influence the neural correlates of emotional face processing. Twenty-six participants were shown violent and nonviolent movie clips during separate testing sess...

The research was aimed at determining the mediation’s influence of customer value in relationship Media Social Marketing Brand Equity. methods used were descriptive-associative and cluster sampling method. Spreading out questionnaires to 390 respondents who costumers local fashion brand Mayoutfit Sukabumi City. technique analysing data Structural Equation Modelling analysis assisted by AMOS Ver...

Barriers to accessing autism services and social media influences around eating disorders were two of the topics covered in continuing professional development sessions at Best Practice London meeting held March 2023. Steve Titmarsh reports.

OBJECTIVE Environmental factors may be very important in the development of disordered weight-control behaviours (DWCB) among youth, yet no study to date has conducted a review that synthesizes these findings. The purpose of the present study was to systematically review existing literature on environmental influences on DWCB among youth and to identify conceptual and methodological gaps in the...