Steppenwolf

I Brian McNair, who got his PhD. in Sociology from University of Glasgow and now is working for QUT in Austria, specializes in school of media and sociology of journalism. His book, The Sociology of Journalism which had been published in 1998 is kind of a conceptual book that focuses on merely on the elements of journalistic outputs and examines them by two different approaches as liberal pluralist and marxist materialist. These two dimensions at the core of the discuss of the book are subsequently defined and detailed by the author as an aim to understand how the journalistic media works in liberal democrasies such as U.S.A. and UK, what media’s role in the central and East European emerging democrasies and how media conducts its own role in the oppressive regimes and on the other dimension, it works for enlighting what is the social components of the media on social indicators in the context of the form and contex. It refers to the social theory which shapes the last centu...

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...