Steppenwolf

HISTORY AND CLASSIFICATION Starting with Usenet , the internet discussion system which make people communicate by posting messages and reading them, the new media conception seen on media world first in 1979. This program was actually the mixed type of web forums and e-mails, which is now accepted as the precursor to internet forums.   Earlier than that, in 1950’s the primitive forms of blog systems were appeared on computer systems which is known as Open Diary . These two programs were at the very core of the new emerging media systems. Then we see more modern and complicated websites on internet world, such as Myspace in 2003 and global phenomenon Facebook in 2004. All these years, booming of social media has done so many impacts at almost all parts of the universe, especially in the developing countries. Some revolutions, social movements, upheavals and so on come after intensive using of these technologies by vast majority of societies. We will talk about it with mo...

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Power and Counter – Power in the Network Society                 Are the public space and media atmosphere shifting from the conventional communication instruments to the new age technological communication spaces? It seems “yes” that for those who take a look at the today’s situation. But this shifting is not that simple which has to be examined properly for whom want to see the things beyond what is happening just under our eyes. Castells' 2007 work’s -Power and Counter – Power in the Network Society- aim is to show that how this shifting happen and what results it created in digital age as he thinks that all institutional systems reflect power relations in any time. He presents some hypotheses in regard to transformation of power challenges while his approach is defining what power and counter power are and how they are overlapping in mass-communication and mass self-communication. According to the autho...

Introduction           The very important idealogue who was a Marxist before, his ideas transformed to liberal - conservative structure of thought, Daniel Bell was the first person who defined the society as “Information Society” which is outgoing from the traditional forms of society as once Emile Durkheim, Herbert Spencer, Talcott Parsons and many other eminent sociologists had tried to developed. It was conceptualized by the theorist during 1970’s, which can be seen in his Opus Magnum: The Coming of Post-Industrial Society ,   the years that the idea were encountered by many people as meaningless. The new independence movements had gone wider such as in Algeria or Vietnam and tough social movements, global oil crises came all together in 1970’s which were prevent the people of free think of Bell’s “post-industrial society” definition. But later on, whilst people were not pay much attention on what he presciently concerned, he ins...

DEFINITION OF PROPAGANDA AND EARLY MODELS From the very beginning of the 20th century to the 1940’s, there were two giant wars that had effected at a tremendous rate almost all part of the universe. In this era, scholarly thought that media has enormous power to consent people what it intented to. With the conception of paradigm of mass society and the atmosphere of the war it was commonly accepted that mass communication tools are the most powerful propaganda tools which can easily effect on people’s visions on their mind. In other words, all these times mediated tools were seen and deemed as “brain washing tools”.   The dominant model in these times were hypodermic syringe model and it was percieved that the messages of media were sent to the minds of people just like how a nurse injects a syringe to a patient. In this regard, masses can be easily manipulated by the hand of the media instituitons and if one that would use media tools properly, than it will probably gain...