A media construction set for a broad public worldv

A media construction set for a broad public worldview. A treatise on the reflection of reality in a modern media.


Khabarovsk, Lebanon, Belarus, South Caucasus ...

A powerful stream of various events and their coverage in the Russial media ...


1. Parcelled media. [parcellation - division into parcels; especially the dividing up of a large amount of land between the inhabitants of it so that each person receives an equal amount of land]

We have already written that the entire amount of media actors can be divided into groups. For example, we proposed such concepts as a “sunny meadow of metropolitan journalism” and a “blogging mass” ...

To these proposals, one can add the hypothesis of the existence of modern media in a parcelled format. [parcellation (here) - division into parcels; especially the dividing up of a large amount of "media land" between the participants of "the big media game" so that a number of media players receive a some amount of "media land"] Each media, ideally, operates within its own media parcel [a piece of "media land"]. That is, within its social niche ...

The notion of a media parcel includes the history of a particular media, its brand, financial sources, readership (typical groups of readers) ...

There is an assumption that those media that are covered by the concept of "sunny meadow of metropolitan journalism" are very sensitive to their living space and try to keep within the boundaries granted to them.


2. The rules of a media construction set.

Among the rules that govern the functioning of the media construction set are the concepts of “taboo”, of “desirability” and “undesirability” of topics for coverage, the relationship between choral behavior and funding ...

Taboos can be fundamental (deep) and situational ...

Choral behavior is not so much a rules of good manners and of a good education for representatives of the media world (from among the "successful"), as a mandatory algorithm of behavior.

Participation in "choral performances" is a condition for survival, a condition for security and obtaining financial resources. As a variants of "choral performances", for example, can be called: an information pushing through, a suppression, a boycotting ...

You need to navigate the taboo system, know which topics are desirable and undesirable, and participate in choral behavior on time and without objection ...


3. Figures [persons] from a media construction set.

The kit of figures of the media construction set and their coloring is an important factor in the final information picture of reality.

There are figures that endlessly, continuously roam the spaces of media reality. Even if anyone wants to, he will not be able to drive them out of there ...

On the contrary, if a figure is not included in the main, additional or spare set, then it does not fit into the media-picture of the world ...

For example, children's writer Vladislav Krapivin. He seems to be a useful person, and a famous writer, and he has merits, and a several awards, and there is a certain fame at the regional level - but ... he is not the kind of figure to be included in the main set ...

Another example. A certain Khabarovsk petty figure suddenly charters a ship and loads it with saltpeter. He receives a million dollars for transportation. But nobody needs saltpeter. A million dollars has been paid? Money is needed to live on the Sunny Island ... As a result, the ship ends up in the port of Beirut ...

Isn't that an interesting figure [person]?

Alas, this figure is not included in the main set; she was walking a little along the outskirts of information fields and went away into the information darkness ...


4. A fragmentation of the information picture of reality.

Who knows what the dynamics of the external debt of Belarus is? Differentiated to specific creditor countries?

At what prices and in what volumes are electricity, gas, oil, timber supplied to China from Russia?

For example, I am interested in the events in Belarus, I know that she was promised a loan from Russia in the amount of one and a half billion dollars ...

But what are the summarizing digits, what is the dynamics of the external debt of Belarus?

Or another example. The media environment was noisy and agitated. A new stage of the conflict in the South Caucasus.

What are the characteristics of the opposing sides, who is leading them? Manpower (numbers)? Composition, structure? Armament? Who is in command? What are the plans, what are the prospects ... After [following the results] a thirty (or how many?) years everything, in theory, should be known to the smallest detail.

Moreover, “we” have artificial intelligence that analyzes metadata ...

But not. Nothing is known. Stop! It seems like new information has arrived! It turns out that the drone is named after either a commander or a politician ... "Where are our Skobelevs ?!"

Yes…

The overwhelming number of reports from Minsk, Belarus, neatly bypasses the question of the number of protesters ... Sometimes a concession is made to the public interest - it is mentioned that the number of protesters is allegedly decreasing ... Hmm ...


5. A worldview media construction set and a models of the future.

Even a brief analysis of the rules and of results the media construction set is used leads to the following conclusions:

A) A fundamental freedom - a freedom of the media - is lost. The media market, which is the basis of information freedom, has been destroyed.

B) De facto, a media construction set has been formed. The obligation exist to use him.

C) The result of the media's activity is a fragmented (fragmentary) picture of reality - a picture often false, meaningless and devoid of logic.

D) Parcelled media [media players, who received a some amount of "media land"] are prone to choral behavior, as such behavior is a condition of survival, security and funding.

E) The informational worldview picture created with the use of a media construction set (taboos, desirable and undesirable topics, sets of figures [persons] approved for use, etc. ...) does not allow making up any effective projects of the future ...

A generalization:

A proper planning is not being done ...

Proactive actions [Actions ahead of time; Advance Actions] are rare ...

The most important events turn out to be unexpected ...


September 29, 2020 06:30


Translation from Russian into English: October 2, 2020 09:36.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский “Мировоззренческий медиа-конструктор. Трактат об отражении реальности в современных  медиа”.