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Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1990
Abstract
This article discusses some epistemological issues regarding the definition of bibliology as a science about written communication. It distinguishes the methodological issues from those concerning the object of this science itself. The article argues that defining bibliology as a science for the written communication is rather problematic, while its difference from semiotics or linguistics is not clarified and particularly while its methodological differentia specifica stays undefined.
Editor: Giorgos Plios
Athens: Polytropo
Abstract
Even though the research on the non-verbal forms of communication used in propaganda and persuasion is well developed, it includes music only in very rare cases. Too general, vague and brief statements and too few - if any - references are usually met in the literature. Normally, the analyses do not get into the details to illuminate these particular functions and uses of music.
Exploring the relation between music and propaganda, this chapter focuses precisely on this shortcoming in the sociology of music and communication studies. Distancing itself from the oversimplifying structuralist view about the recording industry as an ideological mechanism, from the gatekeeping theory, and from certain classical models of communication and audience theories, this study examines both aspects of music, i.e., as an audible result and in terms of the functions of the institutions for its production, distribution and reception. In terms of the first aspect, this study discusses the relation between music and propaganda focusing on the communicative aspects of music in a perspective defined by the framing theory. This perspective is already known in the sociological research of music in particular and of the arts in general. In terms of the second aspect, the chapter discusses the relation among music, propaganda, and persuasion taking into account the functions of the recording industry within the broader system of mass communication institutions, where convergence and synergy among different media and structures are observed. The analysis focuses also on the relation between music and politics, particularly in times of crisis, tension, and conflicts.
Volume 3, pp. 1144-1150
Editor: Debra L. Merskin
SAGE Publications, 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4833-7553-3, 978-1-4833-7551-9
https://doi.org/10.4135/9781483375519
https://sk.sagepub.com/Reference/the-sage-encyclopedia-of-mass-media-and-society/i11246.xml
Abstract
Focusing on the development, the mutations, and the decline of the traditional recording industry, this article outlines the historical course of the whole system of music industries as well as the main aspects of the economics of music, considering also the most significant developments in theory and research for this particular field of cultural production.
Volume 4, pp. 1452-1454
Editor: Debra L. Merskin
SAGE Publications, 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4833-7553-3, 978-1-4833-7551-9
https://doi.org/10.4135/9781483375519
https://sk.sagepub.com/Reference/the-sage-encyclopedia-of-mass-media-and-society/i13859.xml
Abstract
The article depicts the development of the online radio and outlines the new issues that emerge from a variety of viewpoints (economic/entrepreneurial, political, cultural) as this new medium cannot be disassociated from its traditional counterpart not only (and not primarily) in technical or technological terms, but mainly in terms of its functions in the field of information as well as in the field of the production of culture in general.
Under review in a peer-reviewed journal
Abstract
This paper examines the influence of several factors on a main source of uncertainty in the business of culture. In particular, it traces the needs people gratify by examining the uses of a specific type of content that is music. The factors studied in a representative sample of 400 students at the Democritus University of Thrace (Greece), include social values, individual differences, gender, the school or the department attended and the educational capital of their parents as an indicator for their social background.
Participants reported on why they use music in everyday life. They also indicated their values on an abbreviated version of the Schwartz Value Survey and their personality traits on the Big Five Inventory scale. A principal component analysis revealed five types of uses:
- self-awareness and escapism,
- mood regulation,
- background for other activities,
- cognitive and aesthetic gratification, and
- social interaction (including sociability and socialization).
Hierarchical regression analyses indicated that the factors studied contribute differentially to predict the uses of music. Individual differences, values, gender, and the direction of studies influence the ways this particular symbolic good is consumed. In addition, the extent to which the different uses may be predicted is also an estimate for the uncertainty stemming from the volatility of consumption, where uncertainty means that there are still unidentified factors affecting the different uses of music.
Finally, the limitations of this study and some suggestions for future research are also discussed.
The article is a reviewed and enhanced version of the paper presented at the World Media Economics & Management Conference 2012 (Thessaloniki, Greece, May 23-27, 2012).
