Or in other words, in what way has it been reflected about the consequences of the role of electronic media in modern times to make receptors who don´t have direct access to the reality of things, recognize these realities?
My primary interest is to make a reflection of how electronic media produces information without taking into account location and territory, and how this affects the receptor in these locations or territories. Also, if information produced locally can be effective in contributing to the lives of the receptors, and to their agency too.
This is a huge question. However, it could be argued that electronic media remains unfamiliar territory for many and unknown for the majority of people on the earth. Moreover, reality is not necessarily created by electronic media or at all. At best, it is simply another form of communication, perhaps unreflective of reality and potentially even unnecessary relative to the reality of people's lives.
The issues are worthy of wider debate.
During the partition of Germany, in East Germany, many people udes to watch West German TV programs, most of them less for political reasons, but for entertainment. But there used to be a part of East Germany (round Dresden), where the reception of West German TV programs via aerial failed. The inhabitants of this so called "Tal der Ahnungslosen" (valley of the unsuspecting) seemed to be more critical towards the communist regime than the rest of the population. In their study of 2009, Kern and Hainmueller assume, that the escapist use of West Media helped to stabilize the regime. In his doctoral thesis, Mischa Hansel, cites this study (Mischa Hansel: Internationale Beziehungen im Cyberspace : Macht, Institutionen und Wahrnehmung, Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, 2012, ISBN 978-3-658-00227-5).
The question is colossal since ramifications of electronic media on the socio- cultural, political life of people are aplenty....It makes, breaks, forms, reforms and deforms opinions, perceptions of the masses....power of electronic media is so immense it can make people see what it wants them to see.... The Jawaharlal Nehru University incident is a recent iillustration raising questions of media ethics,...
http://m.hindustantimes.com/analysis/jnu-sedition-row-when-media-became-part-of-the-story/story-UbqV7NaT6JwecPIcfW1yPI.html
http://www.dailyo.in/politics/jnu-row-kanhaiya-kumar-umar-khalid-anti-india-slogans-fake-videos-medias-role-accountability-democracy/story/1/9194.html
Getting at the second part of the question--how electronic media make what is unaccustomed, familiar--seems the best way to pursue this line of inquiry. One useful approach is laid out in Joshua Meyrowitz's "No Sense of Place," which examines the role of TV in providing access to information that was formerly socially embargoed. Meyrowitz fruitfully synthesizes Goffman and McLuhan in his analyses of a variety of case studies in this monograph.
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