The Media and the “Construction” of “Mental Maps”: The Relationship with the Individual, Institutional and Disciplinary Homogenization among University graduates in the Light of a Systemic Theory | Chapter 9 | Recent Trends in Arts and Social Studies Vol. 8

 A insane map shows a person's perception of their environment. Our brains subconsciously devise mental maps to help us understand what our atmosphere looks like and how to communicate with the fundamentals and objects within it. Mental maps are subjective—different public will have different insane maps of the same space, accompanying variations preventing from their experiences, biases, and assumptions. You can even create a mental picture of a place you've never been before. It concede possibility not be entirely accurate from a terrestrial or spatial view, but it'll reveal insights into your backdrop knowledge and acceptances about the space. The theory of "agenda-setting" is individual of several theories examined in this study that are indiscriminate the psychosocial-communicational paradigm, that stresses the long-term intelligent impacts of media and the role of the psychosocial subject as the receiver. Additionally, it complies accompanying the author's latest intrinsic theory, "The Three Dimensional Spiral of Sense," as it relates to the media. It is the first research of allure kind in the region. Macro-micro-meso-large-scale-micro was the action, which is still uncommon. It is a in a way sui generis systemism that includes connections (links and feedback) betwixt people and backgrounds without discounting either, hence avoiding some form of reductionism. It consists same of sui generis systemism which contains relationships (links and response) between things and contexts, without disregarding neither the former nor the latest; thus, avoiding some type of reductionism. Individuals, organizations and big-contexts interaction and feedback themselves. The four main objectives were: a) to explicate the cognitive belongings of the media in university graduates; b) to discover levels of manipulation and homogenization of their “insane maps”; c) to ascertain the personality determinants that condition differential openness (“Filtering” of the news) (151 variables); d) to decide the degree of impact and incidence of media workers in the public’s mental patterns and in the academy graduates identities; e) to analyze the relation middle from two points institutional beliefs, political beliefs and media choice graduates make (established versus more growing media); in other words, the level  of meso, large-scale and micro interaction. The sample was made up of (N=516) graduates from Cuyo University (Argentina). Quanti-concerning qualities not quantities techniques were complemented: almost-structured survey and interviews. The results show: a) a extreme level of influence of the media on the problems that have been prioritized by graduates; b) a extreme level of coincidence of the topics prioritized by Faculties (dominant “ideologies”); c) individual and uniform homogenization which affected by a macro context of homogenization of the information and the globalization. All these facets impact on institutional and individual identities. In essence, the occurrence of psychology and instruction in the differential explanation of “cognitive maps” was confirmed in addition to the stronger occurrence of the press as regards the impact began by news and the insane homogenization.

Author(s) Details:

Miriam Aparicio,
National Council of Scientific Research (CONICET) – National University of Cuyo, Argentina.

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