Impactos econômicos, tecnológicos e sociais do desenvolvimento das pessoas na TV Amazonas, pela Fundação Rede Amazônica - a percepção de diretores, gerentes e funcionários

This research has the objective to present the economic, technological and social impacts on the TV Amazonas' employees development. The study was made based on the perception of directors, managers and old employees of the organization, since the creation of the Rede Amazonica Foundation. The methodical procedures were based on the phenomenologic-hermeneutic approach, using theoretical study, text analysis, documents and interviews. The theoretical referential was based on publications about the history of the television in the world, Brazil and Amazon. It looked at digital television, the importance of the education on people's development and the society, as a whole changes in the labor market, professional qualification; professional education and social responsibility. The results show that employees qualification has contributed directly to the economic, technological and social growth of TV Amazonas.

Os meios de comunicação de massa como aparelhos de hegemonia

Nas sociedades fundadas no modo de produção capitalista, os meios de comunicação de massa exercem funções políticas e econômicas fundamentais, atuando no sentido de inculcar a ideologia que dá sustentação a esse modelo econômico. A compreensão crítica de tais funções, pode ser obtida tomando-se como referência a teoria de Antonio Gramsci que situa, com precisão, através de seus conceitos de homem, ideologia, Estado, hegemonia, cultura e relações pedagógicas, a importância política dos meios de comunicação de massa, entendidos como aparelhos de hegemonia do Estado. No contexto específico da América Latina, os meios de comunicação de massa assumem dupla importância na medida em que suas práticas hegemônicas atendem, concomitantemente, aos interesses do capitalismo internacional - sobretudo aos dos Estados Unidos - e aos interesses das classes dominantes de cada um dos países deste continente, envolvidos em alianças político-econômicas, com as nações que detêm a hegemonia internacional. De acordo com essa perspectiva, podemos compreender o significado político do processo de implantação e desenvolvimento dos meios de comunicação, sobretudo da televisão, no Brasil e explicitar o sentido dessa prática hegemônica que assumiu papel de maior relevância após o golpe militar de 1964, quando a ideologia da Segurança Nacional encontrou, na comunicação de massa, difusora dos produtos da indústria cul tural, o canal mais adequado para desenvolver sua estratégia de atuação, denominada ação psicológica, objetivando consuiltar a anuência da totalidade social ao regime político que, então, se instalou no país. O caso específico da Rede Globo de Televisão, se constitui num dos mais tontundentes exemplos da concretização desta prática e pode, quando analisado, elucidar, através de fatos concretos, os mecanismos hegemônicos internacionais e nacionais que se encontram presentes desde o histôrico da implantação da referida emissora em nível de rede nacional, até os processos diários de produção de programas como o Jornal Nacional e o Fantástico - o Show da Vida. Esta análise, entretanto, não pode deixar de ressaltar que o processo de inculcação ideológica encontra diversos obstáculos a seu êxito integral junto às classes subalternas, que não podem ser compreendidas como meras receptoras passivas das mensagens produzidas pela classe dominante. Os mecanismos de resistência dessas classes existem e, embora não sejam, ainda, suficientemente conhecidos, não podem deixar de ser considerados quando o que se pretende é compreender o real significado das funções e do alcance dos meios de comunicação na sociedade.

Twitter snapshots show Venezuela’s government isolated from its people

How isolated is Venezuela’s government from the people it supposedly represents? Very isolated indeed, according to a study commissioned by beyondbrics from Marco Ruediger and colleages at FGV DAPP, the department of public policy analysis at the Fundação Getulio Vergas in Rio de Janeiro. The study, derived from activity on Twitter, demonstrates the extreme polarisation of opinion in the country and suggests that Venezuela’s media, often either controlled or suppressed by the government, is increasingly lining up with opposition voices.

How children's television networks in the United States have adapted to the changing digital habits of their young audiences: A comparative analysis between the Disney Channel and Nickelodeon

In the contemporary societies, many children are drawn to digital media, using it in ways that were initially unfathomable. Changing digital habits among young children have been affiliated to the rapid development, witnessed in the technological field. Prevalently, new forms of technology are being developed and ingrained into young children’s day-to-day activities. The emergence of new forms of technology has in turn prompted significant changes in digital and media consumption particularly, among young children. Changes in media and digital consumption have in turn instigated linear transition in the analogue media industries. This has resulted in analogue media networks working towards digitalizing their industries in a manner that will befit changing digital habits among young children. This report aims at establishing and analyzing the different ways in which children’s digital habits have changed and revolutionized. To achieve this, the report will critically examine the existing scope of knowledge, with reference to changing digital habits among young audiences. Further, the report also aims at establishing the manner in which children television networks have adapted to the changing digital habits among young audiences. To achieve this, the report will focus on two children television networks, Disney channel, and Nickelodeon. After which, a comparative analysis will be conducted to establish the changes made by each of these television channels, with the aim of adapting to the new digital habits among children.

Show me the money and I will bring you the head: evaluation of the effects of self-interest and anger on whistleblowing

Though many of those who decided to report wrongdoings in their organizations were able to tell their stories (e.g. Bamford, 2014, Armenakis 2004), it is fair to say that there is still much left to uncover. The paper aims to contribute to the literature in three ways. First, it provides preliminary evidence that the wrongdoing linked with individual financial loss leads to higher whistleblowing rate. Secondly, it shows how the experience of anger is related to the higher likelihood to report the wrongdoer but only if the wrongful act is perceived as a cause of one’s financial loss. Finally, the paper establishes first steps for the future development of an experimental procedure that would enable to predict, and measure whistleblowing behavior in the lab environment.