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This case study examines the media's role in shaping public opinion on the impact of screens on children's cognitive abilities, analyzing media productions and their influence on society.
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[...] In what ways do the media play a role in the persistence of the idea that screens harm children's cognitive abilities? Introduction To question how the media play a role in the persistence of the idea that screens harm children's cognitive abilities is to question how the media contribute to influencing opinion on this issue. We will not attempt through this reflection to determine whether the media are true (since the subject is not settled by the scientific community) but rather to measure in what ways the media play a role in the persistence of the idea that screens harm children's cognitive abilities. [...]
[...] In this sense, they make a judgment on reality. In short, the media end up producing an informational framework that will determine which problems are the most interesting in society, with a margin of maneuver concerning the subjects to be highlighted as they also depend on the interest of the audience. This means, in other words, that an interesting information is also an information that interests.3. C. Influence of the media on society The journalist and professor of economics and social sciences, Igor Martinache, analyzed in 2009 the influence of the media on society in the journal Alternatives économiques, he describes how the media participate in the dissemination of ideas between propaganda, services to the interests of the powerful and economic interests related to the media economic model. [...]
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[...] Mediarchy: how the media build our representation of the world - Meta-media The information revolution. Meta-media The information revolution - The information revolution. https://www.meta-media.fr/2018/06/08/mediarchie-comment-les-medias-construisent-notre-representation-du-monde.html Pailliart, I. (2019). Chapter 7. Mediatization and public space. In Lafon, B. Media and mediatization Analyze printed, audiovisual, digital media. (p. 191-211). Presses universitaires de Grenoble. [...]
[...] Among the persistences of these new forms of media coverage, she analyzes the highlighting of certain actors: patients and associations, who are privileged actors of this production that gradually erases the health professionals; various programs with different tones: specialized programs on health and medical research and programs of society that address health; and diverse forms of production valuing the reportage and the testimony In her master's thesis in information and communication sciences titled, "The public and media construction of a health problem: the case of eating disorders"8, Julie Schillaci highlighted, on the other hand, the increasingly important opposition of the 'profane' word to the expert word. In a third part, a case study of the construction and media production on the subject related to the nuisance of screens on the cognitive abilities of children. It will then be possible to produce a study aiming to quantify the productions related to this subject, the way this subject has been media-constructed over time, and finally to analyze the concerned productions. [...]
