2024-03-28T22:53:35Z
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/oai
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3
2014-04-08T06:03:03Z
politicsandgovernance:ART
driver
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/112
2017-02-10T07:51:49Z
socialinclusion:ART
driver
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/2672
2020-03-31T05:28:56Z
politicsandgovernance:ART
driver
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1
2014-03-31T18:58:44Z
politicsandgovernance:EDI
driver
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/4
2014-04-08T06:03:03Z
politicsandgovernance:ART
driver
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1955
2019-07-02T04:43:14Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1955
2019-07-02T04:43:14Z
Media and Communication
Vol 7, No 2 (2019): Refugee Crises Disclosed: Intersections between Media, Communication and Forced Migration Processes; 184-194
Prospects of Refugee Integration in the Netherlands: Social Capital, Information Practices and Digital Media
Alencar, Amanda; Department of Media and Communication, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Tsagkroni, Vasilki; Institute of Political Science, Leiden University, The Netherlands
2019-06-28 07:51:30
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1955
digital technologies; information practices; refugee integration; social capital
The authors did not receive funding for the current research.
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Integration is a highly contested concept within the field of migration. However, a well-established view of the concept draws from underpinning migration and refugee theories, in which integration is seen as a dynamic, multidimensional, and two-way process of adaptation to a new culture and that takes place over time. Most studies have focused on the integration perspective of host societies, in particular how governments’ understandings of belonging shape legal frameworks of rights and citizenship and their impact on the process of integration itself. With a focus on refugee migration to the Netherlands, this study analyzes the newcomers’ perspectives and experiences of integration and information in the host society, as well as the role of digital media technologies and networks in mediating this relationship. Building on policies and refugee migrant interviews, the article sketches out the ongoing dynamics of social capital during refugees’ adaptation processes in the country and puts forward a perception of the role of media in the integration act.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/7073
2024-02-07T12:17:54Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/7073
2024-02-07T12:17:54Z
Media and Communication
Vol 11, No 4 (2023): Mediatized Discourses on European Integration: Information, Disinformation, and Polarization; 20-33
The War in Ukraine and the EU’s Geopolitical Role in Spanish Media Discourses
Quintanal, Gracia Abad; Faculty of Law and International Relations, Nebrija University, Spain / SEGERICO Group, Nebrija University, Spain
Boulos, Sonia; Faculty of Law and International Relations, Nebrija University, Spain / SEGERICO Group, Nebrija University, Spain
Radeljić, Branislav; Faculty of Law and International Relations, Nebrija University, Spain / Department of Government and Society, United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates
2023-10-19 11:19:16
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/7073
European Union; geopolitics; media discourses; security; Spain; Ukraine; war
European Union's H2020 Research and Innovation Programme
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The EU’s ability to protect common interests and effectively address the challenges faced by its members relating to external threats is one of the most debated questions in the European landscape. Understandably, the war in Ukraine has had a major impact on discourses regarding the EU Common Security and Defense Policy, granting them more space and thus visibility in the media and public debates. Our study examines Spanish media discourses about the EU’s geopolitical role and, more specifically, to what extent such discourses foster or hamper European integration processes. To collect data and carry out this study, we selected six media outlets based on their ownership, ideological stance, consumption frequency, and impact on public opinion. Our sample includes 540 news items, collected between July 2021 and March 2022. Our discourse analysis benefits from, inter alia, a Foucauldian framework that focuses on the sayable, conservation, memory, reactivation, and appropriation. In addition, we also identify communicative strategies that are employed to promote different discourses, as well as possible policy alternatives, concerning the EU’s geopolitical role and future prospects.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/341
2020-07-21T09:47:52Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/341
2020-07-21T09:47:52Z
Media and Communication
Vol 3, No 4 (2015): Turbulences of the Central and Eastern European Media; 62-75
Comparing Czech and Slovak Council Newspapers’ Policy and Regulation Development
Waschkova Cisarova, Lenka; Department of Media Studies and Journalism, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
2015-12-29 04:18:19
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/341
council newspapers; Czech media; media; politics; press regulation; Slovak media; UK media policy
Masaryk University; European Social Fund; State budget of the Czech Republic (VITOVIN project CZ.1.07/2.3.00/20.0184)
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Council newspapers form an integral part of European media systems and, as such, have been analysed for their important contribution to the development of local politics. However, despite a recognition of the media’s important democratic function in the transition countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) after the fall of socialism, the consideration of council newspapers’ political role in the Czech Republic and Slovakia have been largely absent in debates surrounding the development of regulatory frameworks until recently. Interestingly, debates regarding local government transparency emerged recently (2011) in the United Kingdom, resulting in the Code of recommended practice on local authority publicity, underscoring the importance of this issue. However, developments in the aforementioned situations demonstrate divergent outcomes in such considerations: the British addressed the causes, the Czechs addressed the symptoms, and the Slovaks have yet to make any headway. This article utilizes qualitative analysis of policy and regulation documents to compare the trajectories of media policy and regulation of council publicity in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, ultimately contrasting it with developments in the UK, suggesting possible future trajectories for the development of this type of regulation in the CEE countries.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3299
2020-10-15T03:29:50Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3299
2020-10-15T03:29:50Z
Media and Communication
Vol 8, No 4 (2020): Freedom of Expression, Democratic Discourse and the Social Media; 110-120
Freedom of Expression and Alternatives for Internet Governance: Prospects and Pitfalls
Ricknell, Emma; Department of Political Science, Linnaeus University, Sweden
2020-10-15 03:49:46
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3299
decentralization; freedom of expression; Internet governance; social media platforms; walled garden
en
This article dives into the ongoing debate on how to address concerns of personal safety and respect online, as well as consequences for exposure to polarizing and in various ways harmful information, while at the same time safeguarding the democratic essentials of freedom of expression and participation. It does so by examining the issue from a less common angle, namely who governs the Internet and the platforms where much of the toxic material appears. By applying a model of free speech regulation conceptualized by legal scholar Jack Balkin (2018a, 2018b), the article explores different theoretical future scenarios of Internet governance involving three main players, namely governments, private companies, and speakers. The analysis finds that depending on which player is at the forefront, the outcomes from the standpoint of participation and freedom of speech may be drastically different. While there is potential for transformation that can enable more ownership, transparency, and agency for citizens and news media, some potential paths will place ever-increasing control over the interests of users.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1686
2020-07-21T09:49:35Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1686
2020-07-21T09:49:35Z
Media and Communication
Vol 7, No 1 (2019): Communicating on/with Minorities; 90-101
We Live Here, and We Are Queer!: Young Gay Connected Migrants’ Transnational Ties and Integration in the Netherlands
Patterson, Jeffrey; Graduate Gender Programme, Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Leurs, Koen; Graduate Gender Programme, Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
2019-02-05 04:36:11
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1686
bonding social capital; bridging social capital; connected migrants; digital diaspora; digital migration studies; forced migrants; gay; inter-ethnic social contact; sexuality; voluntary migrants
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)
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Upon arrival to Europe, young migrants are found grappling with new language demands, cultural expectations, values, and beliefs that may differ from global youth culture and their country of origin. This process of coming-of-age while on-the-move is increasingly digitally mediated. Young migrants are “connected migrants”, using smart phones and social media to maintain bonding ties with their home country while establishing new bridging relationships with peers in their country of arrival (Diminescu, 2008). Drawing on the feminist perspective of intersectionality which alerts us socio-cultural categories like age, race, nationality, migration status, gender and sexuality impact upon identification and subordination, we contend it is problematic to homogenize these experiences to all gay young adult migrants. The realities of settlement and integration starkly differ between desired migrants – such as elite expatriates and heterosexuals – and those living on the margins of Europe – forced migrants and lesbian, gay, trans, queer and intersex (LGBTQI) migrants. Drawing on 11 in-depth interviews conducted in Amsterdam, the Netherlands with gay young adult forced and voluntary migrants, this paper aims to understand how sexual identification in tandem with bonding and bridging social capital diverge and converge between the two groups all while considering the interplay between their online and offline entanglements of their worlds.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/5168
2022-05-03T16:15:46Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5168
2022-05-03T16:15:46Z
Media and Communication
Vol 10, No 2 (2022): Networks and Organizing Processes in Online Social Media; 66-80
Election Fraud and Misinformation on Twitter: Author, Cluster, and Message Antecedents
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/download/5168/34273
Chiu, Ming Ming; Analytics/Assessment Research Centre, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Park, Chong Hyun; School of Business, Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea
Lee, Hyelim; Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Oklahoma, USA
Oh, Yu Won; Department of Digital Media, Myongji University, Republic of Korea
Kim, Jeong-Nam; Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Oklahoma, USA / Debiasing and Lay Informatics, USA / Data Institute for Societal Challenges, University of Oklahoma, USA
2022-04-29 10:00:45
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5168
diffusion; elections; fake news; situational theory of problem-solving; social networks
Luke Snyder, Data Institute for Societal Challenges (for Dataset)
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This study determined the antecedents of diffusion scope (total audience), speed (number of adopters/time), and shape (broadcast vs. person-to-person transmission) for true vs. fake news about a falsely claimed stolen 2020 US Presidential election across clusters of users that responded to one another’s tweets (“user clusters”). We examined 31,128 tweets with links to fake vs. true news by 20,179 users to identify 1,069 user clusters via clustering analysis. We tested whether attributes of authors (experience, followers, following, total tweets), time (date), or tweets (link to fake [vs. true] news, retweets) affected diffusion scope, speed, or shape, across user clusters via multilevel diffusion analysis. These tweets showed no overall diffusion pattern; instead, specific explanatory variables determined their scope, speed, and shape. Compared to true news tweets, fake news tweets started earlier and showed greater broadcast influence (greater diffusion speed), scope, and person-to-person influence. Authors with more experience and smaller user clusters both showed greater speed but less scope and less person-to-person influence. Likewise, later tweets showed slightly more broadcast influence, less scope, and more person-to-person influence. By contrast, users with more followers showed less broadcast influence but greater scope and slightly more person-to-person influence. These results highlight the earlier instances of fake news and the greater diffusion speed of fake news in smaller user clusters and by users with fewer followers, so they suggest that monitors can detect fake news earlier by focusing on earlier tweets, smaller user clusters, and users with fewer followers.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3199
2020-07-28T08:19:19Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3199
2020-07-28T08:19:19Z
Media and Communication
Vol 8, No 3 (2020): Journalism from Above: Drones, the Media, and the Transformation of Journalistic Practice; 85-92
Post-Hype Uses of Drones in News Reporting: Revealing the Site and Presenting Scope
Harvard, Jonas; Department of Media and Communication Science, Mid Sweden University, Sweden
2020-07-27 05:09:33
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3199
drone journalism; drone use; drones; history of technology; media technology; photojournalism; unmanned aerial vehicles
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ)
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Camera-equipped drones have emerged as an increasingly commonplace tool for media to acquire aerial imagery. Previous research has mainly focused on the innovative aspects and creative potential of the technology. This article argues that early optimistic projections reflected a novelty effect, typical of a culturally embedded idea that new and better technologies continuously replace older ones. Using a historical theory which distinguishes techno-optimistic innovation discourse from actual observations of technology in use, photojournalists were interviewed on the role of drones in news reporting. The results show that the practitioners historicise drones, relating them to previous aerial technologies, and they reflect on current and future uses of drones in journalism based on a notion of phases, where early hype gives way to subsequent drone fatigue. Drones are seen by many as a more convenient tool to do things that journalism has done before, but the convenience increases the use of aerial imagery. The results also show that, although photojournalists see a wide range of potential uses, there are also limitations, including the ideals of the invisible observer, safety concerns, and the perils of over-aesthetic imagery. The post-hype uses of drone photography were summarized in two categories: (a) revealing the site, establishing ‘this happened here’ and (b) presenting scope, or showing how vast or large something is.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/6614
2023-08-03T10:41:22Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6614
2023-08-03T10:41:22Z
Media and Communication
Vol 11, No 3 (2023): Social Media’s Role in Political and Societal Mobilization; 238-249
Instaworthy? Examining the Effects of (Targeted) Civic Education Ads on Instagram
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/download/6614/45325
Errenst, Emilia; Amsterdam School of Communication Research, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Remoortere, Annelien Van; Strategic Communication Group, Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands
Vermeer, Susan; Amsterdam School of Communication Research, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Kruikemeier, Sanne; Strategic Communication Group, Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands
2023-08-03 10:14:08
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6614
civic education; civic participation; Instagram; online advertisements; political microtargeting
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The last few years have witnessed a growing societal and scholarly interest in the potential of online political microtargeting to affect election outcomes in favor of parties and candidates. It has often been rightly pointed out that political microtargeting can pose risks to electoral integrity in democracies. But can political microtargeting also benefit democratic functioning? Very little is known about the potential of political microtargeting to affect citizens’ attitudes towards politics and increase their civic participation. To address this paucity, this article presents a preregistered online experiment conducted in Germany among young adults (N = 445), examining whether (targeted) civic education ads on Instagram increase political interest, efficacy, and civic participation. An innovative methodological approach to studying political microtargeting is deployed, exposing respondents to civic education ads in a mock Instagram feed, personalized in real-time based on individual preferences. We find no direct evidence of (targeted) civic education ads, leading us to believe that (targeted) ads do not unconditionally affect political interest, efficacy, or civic participation.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/8
2023-12-27T09:04:56Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/8
2023-12-27T09:04:56Z
Media and Communication
Vol 2, No 2 (2014): Multidisciplinary Studies in Media and Communication; 31-41
Violence in Popular U.S. Prime Time TV Dramas and the Cultivation of Fear: A Time Series Analysis
Romer, Daniel; Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania, 202 S. 36th St., Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Jamieson, Patrick; Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania, 202 S. 36th St., Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
2014-06-17 16:01:46
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/8
content analysis; crime; cultivation theory; fear; transportation theory; TV violence
en
Gerbner and Gross’s cultivation theory predicts that prolonged exposure to TV violence creates fear of crime, symptomatic of a mean world syndrome. We tested the theory’s prediction in a time series model with annual changes in violence portrayal on popular US TV shows from 1972 to 2010 as a predictor of changes in public perceptions of local crime rates and fear of crime. We found that contrary to the prediction that TV violence would affect perceptions of crime rates, TV violence directly predicted fear of crime holding constant national crime rates and perceptions of crime rates. National crime rates predicted fear of crime but only as mediated by perceptions of local crime rates. The findings support an interpretation of cultivation theory that TV drama transports viewers into a fictive world that creates fear of crime but without changing perceptions of a mean world.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/4460
2022-01-25T11:05:44Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/4460
2022-01-25T11:05:44Z
Media and Communication
Vol 10, No 1 (2022): New Forms of Media Work and Its Organizational and Institutional Conditions; 77-87
In/Visibility in Social Media Work: The Hidden Labor Behind the Brands
Duffy, Brooke Erin; Department of Communication, Cornell University, USA
Sawey, Megan; Department of Communication, Cornell University, USA
2022-01-20 10:20:40
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/4460
cultural production; digital media; gender; invisibility; labor; social media; technology; work
The President's Council of Cornell Women
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Despite the staggering uptick in social media employment over the last decade, this nascent category of cultural labor remains comparatively under-theorized. In this article, we contend that social media work is configured by a visibility paradox: While workers are tasked with elevating the presence—or visibility—of their employers’ brands across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and more, their identities, and much of their labor, remain hidden behind branded social media accounts. To illuminate how this ostensible paradox impacts laborers’ conditions and experiences of work, we present data from in-depth interviews with more than 40 social media professionals. Their accounts make clear that social media work is not just materially concealed, but rendered socially invisible through its lack of crediting, marginal status, and incessant demands for un/under-compensated emotional labor. This patterned devaluation of social media employment can, we show, be situated along two gender-coded axes that have long structured the value of labor in the media and cultural industries: a) technical‒communication and b) creation‒circulation. After detailing these in/visibility mechanisms, we conclude by addressing the implications of our findings for the politics and subjectivities of work in the digital media economy.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1596
2020-07-21T09:49:09Z
mediaandcommunication:COM
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1596
2020-07-21T09:49:09Z
Media and Communication
Vol 6, No 3 (2018): Multidisciplinary Studies in Media and Communication; 73-76
The New Frontier in Communication Research: Why We Should Study Social Robots
Peter, Jochen; Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Kühne, Rinaldo; Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2018-09-27 04:45:12
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1596
artificial intelligence; communication science; human-machine interaction; human-robot interaction; social robots
European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, under grant agreement No. 682733
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Social robots—robots that are made for interaction with humans—are becoming increasingly popular. In contrast to other disciplines, however, communication research has been slow in studying them. In our view, there are at least three theoretical reasons for communication researchers to deal with social robots. First, social robots challenge our notions of medium and media. Second, social robots challenge our understanding of the communication partner. Finally, social robots challenge our notions of the boundaries of communication. We therefore believe that social robots should play a more central role in communication research than it is currently the case.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/6315
2023-06-26T15:50:20Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
ec_fundedresources
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6315
2023-06-26T15:50:20Z
Media and Communication
Vol 11, No 2 (2023): Fakespotting: (Dis)Information Literacy as Key Tool to Defend Democracy; 15-29
An Overview of the Fake News Phenomenon: From Untruth-Driven to Post-Truth-Driven Approaches
Rodríguez-Ferrándiz, Raúl; Department of Communication and Social Psychology, University of Alicante, Spain
2023-04-28 08:58:21
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6315
bibliometrics; disinformation; fakeness; fake news; lexicography; news-ness; partisanship; post-truth; public perception; shareworthiness
Spanish Government and Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER) through the project TRIVIAL: Technological Resources for Intelligent VIral AnaLysis through NLP (PID2021-122263OB-C22).
en
“Fake news” was chosen in 2017 as the word of the year by the Collins Dictionary and the American Dialect Society, due to its extraordinary popularity. However, its relevance has been called into question due to its controversy and ambiguity. We have compiled herein 30 definitions from selected dictionaries, academic papers, news agencies, influential media observatories, and independent, certified fact-checkers over the last six years and have carried out a manual relational content analysis on them. We also collected data from four bibliometric studies from academic literature and five surveys on how the general public perceived fake news. In keeping with this three-level systematic review (lexicography, bibliometrics, and public perception) we detected some trends, including a growing drift towards a post-truth-driven conceptualization of fake news. Results also show that the “viral” and “memetic” quality of a rumor prevail over the demonstrable credibility of a source and even the factuality of a reported event; the element of surprise or outrage in the heat of the moment is more powerful than the ironic detachment elicited by news satire and parody; and sharing motivations are definitely less concerned with perceived accuracy than with partisan support, community sentiment, emotional contagion, and a taste for the sensational or bizarre.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/2761
2020-06-23T08:20:51Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/2761
2020-06-23T08:20:51Z
Media and Communication
Vol 8, No 2 (2020): The Politics of Privacy: Communication and Media Perspectives in Privacy Research; 270-279
Staying at the Edge of Privacy: Edge Computing and Impersonal Extraction
Munn, Luke; Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Australia
2020-06-23 06:24:12
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/2761
artificial intelligence; cloud; edge computing; personal data; privacy; smart city; surveillance
Australian Research Council
en
From self-driving cars to smart city sensors, billions of devices will be connected to networks in the next few years. These devices will collect vast amounts of data which needs to be processed in real-time, overwhelming centralized cloud architectures. To address this need, the industry seeks to process data closer to the source, driving a major shift from the cloud to the ‘edge.’ This article critically investigates the privacy implications of edge computing. It outlines the abilities introduced by the edge by drawing on two recently published scenarios, an automated license plate reader and an ethnic facial detection model. Based on these affordances, three key questions arise: what kind of data will be collected, how will this data be processed at the edge, and how will this data be ‘completed’ in the cloud? As a site of intermediation between user and cloud, the edge allows data to be extracted from individuals, acted on in real-time, and then abstracted or sterilized, removing identifying information before being stored in conventional data centers. The article thus argues that edge affordances establish a fundamental new ‘privacy condition’ while sidestepping the safeguards associated with the ‘privacy proper’ of personal data use. Responding effectively to these challenges will mean rethinking person-based approaches to privacy at both regulatory and citizen-led levels.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/6367
2023-06-09T17:35:14Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6367
2023-06-09T17:35:14Z
Media and Communication
Vol 11, No 2 (2023): Political Communication in Times of Spectacularisation: Digital Narratives, Engagement, and Politainment; 148-162
The Spectacle of “Patriotic Violence” in Romania: Populist Leader George Simion’s Mediated Performance
Grapă, Teodora-Elena; Doctoral School in Political and Communication Sciences, Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania
Mogoș, Andreea-Alina; Department of Journalism and Digital Media, Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania
2023-05-16 08:59:28
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6367
content analysis; corpus linguistics; discourse analysis; news values; politainment; populist frames; populist political communication; telegram
en
Political actors who adapt their performance to the logic of politainment gain visibility and success in the public sphere. Such is the case of George Simion, an emerging politician and leader of the newest parliamentary party, the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), a populist radical right party that proved especially attractive to Romanian diaspora voters. This study focuses on the discursive and stylistic dimensions of Simion’s newsworthiness and mediatization. Additionally, a multiplatform analysis of his populist communication content and style aims to determine degrees of populism. As such, we propose a mixed-methods multimodal approach that combines corpus linguistics and semi-automated content analysis with thematic coding and visual semiotic analysis. The media-reported performance analysis focuses on content (n = 963) produced by three popular online news media outlets (Digi24.ro, Adevărul.ro, and Antena3.ro) between May 13th 2015 and April 30th 2022, while the analysis of Simion’s discourse examines his Telegram channel’s feed (738 messages and 383 images) between March 15th 2021 and April 30th 2022, and his authored texts published in Adevărul.ro (n = 116) between July 8th 2014 and April 30th 2022. The results indicate that news media reports are defined by conflict (aggression, violence), scandalization, negativity, emotionality, and by a prevalent use of arresting quotes that employ colloquial language (sarcasm, vulgarity). Simion’s celebrity populism is styled through an “ideal candidate,” “populist campaigner” image and framed through the emotional glorification (unionism, patriotism, Orthodoxy) of a potentially united “homeland,” a democratic space that reflects the unadulterated will of ordinary Christian-Orthodox Romanians whose sovereignty is currently undermined by corrupt political elites. He invokes historical narratives (e.g., founding fathers, retrospective utopia) reinforced through othering the EU and ethnic/sexual minorities as forces that threaten the purity of “the people.”
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1172
2020-07-21T09:48:45Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1172
2020-07-21T09:48:45Z
Media and Communication
Vol 6, No 1 (2018): Media History and Democracy; 34-42
From the Old New Republic to a Great Community: Insights and Contradictions in John Dewey’s Public Pedagogy
Anderson, James; Department of Media and Cultural Studies, University of California, USA, and Communication Studies Department, Riverside City College, USA
2018-02-09 04:22:15
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1172
John Dewey; media; media history; public pedagogy; Randolph Bourne; The New Republic
en
This article draws from John Dewey’s philosophy of education, ideas about democracy and pragmatist assumptions to explain how his articles for The New Republic functioned pedagogically. Taking media as a mode of public pedagogy, and drawing extensively from Dewey’s Democracy and Education, as well as from his book The Public and its Problems, the article explores the relationships between communication, education and democracy using the expanded conceptions of all the aforementioned advanced by Dewey. Borrowing insights from Randolph Bourne, who used Dewey’s own ideas to criticize his mentor’s influence on intellectuals who supported US involvement in World War I, the analysis explores the contradictions within Dewey’s public pedagogy. The article suggests Dewey’s relevance as a public intellectual in the liberal-progressive press, his view of the State and some of his related presuppositions produced a tension in his thought, delimiting democratic possibilities while simultaneously pointing toward greater democratic potentials. The essay concludes by suggesting that learning from both Dewey and Bourne prompts us to get beyond the former’s public/private dualism to realize what he called the “Great Community” by communicating and practicing the Commons.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/4238
2021-10-25T09:38:15Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/4238
2021-10-25T09:38:15Z
Media and Communication
Vol 9, No 4 (2021): Media Control Revisited: Challenges, Bottom-Up Resistance and Agency in the Digital Age; 73-81
Boundary Control as Gatekeeping in Facebook Groups
Malinen, Sanna; Department of Social Research, University of Turku, Finland
2021-10-21 10:20:00
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/4238
Facebook; Facebook groups; gatekeeping; moderation; platforms; political discussions; social networks
en
Facebook groups host user-created communities on Facebook’s global platform, and their administrative structure consists of members, volunteer moderators, and governance mechanisms developed by the platform itself. This study presents the viewpoints of volunteers who moderate groups on Facebook that are dedicated to political discussion. It sheds light on how they enact their day-to-day moderation work, from platform administration to group membership, while acknowledging the demands that come from both these tasks. As volunteer moderators make key decisions about content, their work significantly shapes public discussion in their groups. Using data obtained from 15 face-to-face interviews, this qualitative study sheds light on volunteer moderation as a means of media control in complex digital networks. The findings show that moderation concerns not just the removal of content or contacts but, most importantly, it is about protecting group norms by controlling who has the access to the group. Facebook’s volunteer moderators have power not only to guide discussion but, above all, to decide who can participate in it, which makes them important gatekeepers of the digital public sphere.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/2481
2020-06-23T08:08:43Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/2481
2020-06-23T08:08:43Z
Media and Communication
Vol 8, No 1 (2020): Emotions and Emotional Appeals in Science Communication; 107-117
What Do You Expect? Linguistic Reflections on Empathy in Science Communication
Janich, Nina; Institute of Linguistics and Literary Studies, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
2020-03-18 06:31:02
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/2481
discourse linguistics; emotionality; empathy; expectations of expectations; science communication
Klaus Tschira Stiftung; Technische Universität Darmstadt
en
This linguistics article, which draws additionally on interdisciplinary insights, discusses whether and to what extent more empathy could facilitate and promote the exchange of knowledge between science and society. The existence of the Internet as a knowledge resource has made it necessary, especially in online communication, to renegotiate (scientific) expertise and roles such as ‘expert’ and ‘layperson.’ A discourse linguistics case study of a science blog shows that these negotiations quickly take on the character of an emotionally charged relationship between writer and respondent and are by no means limited to the level of fact or disinterested scholarly debate. The reason for this—so this article argues—is that reciprocal expectations and expectations of expectations play an essential role in science communication, as in any social communication. This hypothesis is supported by an analysis of interviews with scientists about their expectations of the public’s understanding of science. Against this background, empathy seems to be a suitable means to better meet the expectations of one’s interlocuter (or at least to avoid disappointed expectations) and to move from a more emotional level back to a more rational one. Empathy and its role in science communication should therefore be investigated more closely—on an interdisciplinary basis.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/6839
2023-06-26T15:47:13Z
mediaandcommunication:EDI
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6839
2023-06-26T15:47:13Z
Media and Communication
Vol 11, No 1 (2023): Global Inequalities in the Wake of Covid-19: Gender, Pandemic, and Media Gaps; 86-90
Countering or Reinforcing (Gendered) Inequalities? Ramifications of the Covid-19 Pandemic in and Through Media
Lünenborg, Margreth; Institute for Media and Communication Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Reißmann, Wolfgang; Institute for Media and Communication Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Siemon, Miriam; Institute for Media and Communication Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
2023-02-28 00:00:00
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6839
Covid-19; gender and representation; gender gaps; gender inequalities; global inequalities; intersectionality; marginalization; visibility
en
The Covid-19 pandemic reveals and exacerbates inequalities in various ways. Gender inequalities—intertwined with intersectional differences along class, ethnicity, or origin—are highly visible. Legacy and social media around the world cover and perform these issues as much as they conceal them. On the one hand, they have the ability to give those affected a voice and to intervene in public discourse. On the other hand, they reproduce stereotypes and imbalances and rely on gendered (infra)structures. This thematic issue explores the entanglement between empowering and restricting forms of media discourse and media practices. Ten contributions from different world regions, which analyze various media, and involve diverse methodological approaches, make visible reproductions of established power structures as well as new visibilities and counter-practices of marginalized groups. In sum, they generate a complex body of knowledge about global and local inequalities and the ramifications of the pandemic in and through media.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/901
2020-07-21T09:48:27Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/901
2020-07-21T09:48:27Z
Media and Communication
Vol 5, No 2 (2017): Multidisciplinary Studies in Media and Communication; 31-40
Under the Influence: Advertisers’ Impact on the Content of Swiss Free Newspapers
Porlezza, Colin; PMZ—Institute of Mass Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich, Switzerland
2017-04-13 03:05:17
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/901
advertising; commercialization; free newspapers; journalism; media accountability
en
The study focuses on whether and to what extent advertisers influence the editorial content of free newspapers in the German part of Switzerland. The contribution analyzes, grounded on an historic approach, the most competitive period in Switzerland, 2008, when not less than five freesheets were competing for advertisers and public attention. By using Altmeppen’s (2006) organizational theory, the paper offers a theoretical frame able to describe the vanishing co-orientation between the media management and the newsroom, a trend that aggravates commercialization processes in news organizations. In a situation of economic turmoil, so the hypothesis, newsrooms are more inclined to positively adapt the valence of their coverage about their main advertisers in order to keep them in the portfolio. Using a content analysis, the author examined the editorial coverage of six among the most important advertisers of Swiss free newspapers, carrying out an aggregated statistical analysis based on logistic regression. The study revealed that free newspapers with a strong market orientation display a higher chance to publish positive facts and evaluations about advertisers with a high advertising expenditure.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3929
2022-08-30T09:06:26Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3929
2022-08-30T09:06:26Z
Media and Communication
Vol 9, No 3 (2021): Spaces, Places, and Geographies of Public Spheres; 74-84
Towards (Hyper)Local Public Sphere: Comparison of Civic Engagement across the Global North
Hujanen, Jaana; Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki, Finland
Dovbysh, Olga; Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland
Jangdal, Lottie; Department of Media and Communication Science, Mid Sweden University, Sweden
Lehtisaari, Katja; Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, Tampere University, Finland
2021-07-23 10:39:50
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3929
civic engagement; Finland; Global North; hyperlocal media; local media; public sphere; Russia; Sweden
en
The role of hyperlocal media is of increasing relevance as traditional local journalism experiences a decline due to centralisation and consolidation. The affordances of Internet and digital technologies also enable hyperlocal initiatives to enhance civic engagement in localities and serve as a place and resource for local deliberative processes. This study examines how the aims, perceptions and practices of hyperlocal media vary in three countries of the Global North—Sweden, Finland and Russia—and what implications this has for connectedness and civic engagement in local public spheres. The context of different media systems and local political regimes help to explore possibilities and limitations of hyperlocals as agents of place-oriented civic engagement. The data includes interviews with practitioners and analysis of selected hyperlocal media. Our results indicate that hyperlocal media practitioners in all three countries aim to provide local people and communities with a voice, and to enhance resident engagement in local life. We reveal three civic roles of hyperlocal media: (i) information provider, (ii) community builder, and (iii) civic mediator. Practices of civic engagement used by hyperlocal media range from relying on civic journalism to fostering civic debates and can be classified in two main categories: civic information and civic debate and interaction. The perceptions and practices of these hyperlocal media are, to some extent, similar because of comparable changes and challenges regarding the local media and public spheres. At the same time, the perceptions of civic roles vary, reflecting both the developments and differences in the countries’ media spheres and political regimes. This research raises a critical question about hyperlocal practitioners’ understanding of their own roles and aims, and in addition, how differences in media cultures and local regimes affect their performance as agents of local public spheres.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/2401
2020-01-20T08:03:36Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/2401
2020-01-20T08:03:36Z
Media and Communication
Vol 7, No 4 (2019): Peripheral Actors in Journalism: Agents of Change in Journalism Culture and Practice; 103-111
Negotiating Roles and Routines in Collaborative Investigative Journalism
Konow-Lund, Maria; Department of Journalism and Media Studies, OsloMet, Norway
2019-12-17 03:50:32
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/2401
collaboration; investigative journalism; journalistic roles; news ecology
Jomec, Cardiff University; OsloMet University
en
Over the past two decades, the practice of investigative journalism has been reconstructed via the rise of journalistic networks around the world that have layered collaboration atop what had long been an individual pursuit. Among the recent successes of collaborative investigative journalism was the cross-border effort to expose the tax haven leaks that included the Panama Papers (2016). Due to such notable accomplishments, research on cross-border collaboration is increasing, but the ways in which this pooling of resources, time, and networks has impacted practice on a daily basis remain under-investigated. This article looks at how organizations and actors in emerging and legacy newsrooms are negotiating their routines and roles while developing new practices in investigative journalism. It uses three organizations as cases: Bristol Cable, a journalistic co-op operating at the community/local level; the Bureau Local, a local/national data-coordinating news desk; and The Guardian, a legacy media company that has long operated at the national/global level. This article finds that, in the transitions of traditional organizations and journalists and the emergence of new innovative organizations and non-journalistic actors, actors involved in collaborative investigative journalism deploy a language of justification regarding rules between the new and the old. It also finds that concepts such as coordination are part of this negotiation, and that knowledge and knowledge generation are taking place within a traditional understanding of journalism, as the “new” is normalized over time.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/536
2020-07-21T09:48:06Z
mediaandcommunication:REV
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/536
2020-07-21T09:48:06Z
Media and Communication
Vol 4, No 3 (2016): Adolescents in the Digital Age: Effects on Health and Development; 79-89
Adolescent Cellphone Use While Driving: An Overview of the Literature and Promising Future Directions for Prevention
Delgado, M. Kit; Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Wanner, Kathryn J.; Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, USA
McDonald, Catherine; School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, USA
2016-06-16 10:47:19
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/536
accidents prevention; adolescent; cell phones; distracted driving; text messaging
en
Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death in adolescents, and drivers aged 16–19 are the most likely to die in distracted driving crashes. This paper provides an overview of the literature on adolescent cellphone use while driving, focusing on the crash risk, incidence, risk factors for engagement, and the effectiveness of current mitigation strategies. We conclude by discussing promising future approaches to prevent crashes related to cellphone use in adolescents. Handheld manipulation of the phone while driving has been shown to have a 3 to 4-fold increased risk of a near crash or crash, and eye glance duration greater than 2 seconds increases crash risk exponentially. Nearly half of U.S. high school students admit to texting while driving in the last month, but the frequency of use according to vehicle speed and high-risk situations remains unknown. Several risk factors are associated with cell phone use while driving including: parental cellphone use while driving, social norms for quick responses to text messages, and higher levels of temporal discounting. Given the limited effectiveness of current mitigation strategies such as educational campaigns and legal bans, a multi-pronged behavioral and technological approach addressing the above risk factors will be necessary to reduce this dangerous behavior in adolescents.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/5586
2022-11-29T12:00:49Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5586
2022-11-29T12:00:49Z
Media and Communication
Vol 10, No 4 (2022): Online Communities and Populism; 118-128
The Spectre of Populist Leadership: QAnon, Emergent Formations, and Digital Community
Cover, Rob; School of Media and Communication, RMIT University, Australia
Thompson, Jay Daniel; School of Media and Communication, RMIT University, Australia
Haw, Ashleigh; Melbourne Social Equity Institute, University Melbourne, Australia / School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Deakin University, Australia
2022-11-29 09:47:11
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5586
digital affordances; identification practices; leadership; networking; populism; QAnon; simulacra
en
QAnon is an online conspiracy movement centred on cryptic posts published by an unknown figure referred to as “Q.” Its anti-hierarchical framework and deployment of an unknown leader can be understood as a substantial departure from other 21st-century populisms that are sustained by the celebrity relationship between a leader (often aspiring to or gaining political office) and its followers (constituted in community through consumption of the leaders’ social media posts). Reflecting on contemporary debates and insights within cultural studies and digital communication literature, this article investigates some of the ways in which the spectral leadership of Q presents challenges for understanding and apprehending populist movements. In light of QAnon, there is an emerging need to make sense of populisms that are built on mythical or anonymous characters rather than on identifiable human actors in leadership roles. We begin by discussing the role of key practices of contemporary populist leadership and contrast these with justice-based populisms that are community-led without the figure of an identifiable leader. We argue that, as a populist movement, QAnon fits neither of these frameworks and, instead, has drawn on the affordances of digital media and its intersections with postmodern hyperreality to produce a new formation of populist movement today. Arguing that Q is the simulacra of a leader, we theorise the ways in which QAnon fosters affiliation and action from its adherents who, themselves, take on the role of saviour-leader.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3815
2021-02-05T04:28:44Z
mediaandcommunication:COM
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3815
2021-02-05T04:28:44Z
Media and Communication
Vol 9, No 1 (2021): Dark Participation in Online Communication: The World of the Wicked Web; 215-216
Beyond the Darkness: Research on Participation in Online Media and Discourse
de Vreese, Claes; Amsterdam School of Communication Research, The Netherlands
2021-02-03 03:43:57
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3815
democratic backsliding; misinformation; participation; polarization; trust
en
This commentary reflects on the notion of ‘dark participation’ which is central in this thematic issue. It asks whether there are patches of light and whether our research is becoming too obsessed with the darkness?
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/7444
2024-02-29T10:28:35Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/7444
2024-02-29T10:28:35Z
Media and Communication
Vol 12 (2024): Unpacking Innovation: Media and the Locus of Change
“It’s New to Us”: Exploring Authentic Innovation in Local News Settings
Olsen, Ragnhild Kr.; Department of Journalism and Media Studies, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
Hess, Kristy; School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University, Australia
2024-02-29 09:21:32
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/7444
authenticity; localized innovation; local journalism; local news; media innovation
en
Many local newsrooms across the globe have been forced to re-assess (and re-assert) their value and function during a period of intense digital disruption. “Innovate or die” has become an accepted mantra as governments, policymakers, and academics focus on shifting, for example, traditional newspapers into the digital era to maintain their perceived relevance. This article argues the need to understand and learn from the experiences of traditional commercial local news providers who have been encouraged to consider innovative solutions for their businesses. The article adopts a pooled case comparison approach, drawing on data from two separate studies examining media innovation in Norway and Australia. We outline three specific themes that appear to shape localized innovation practices: there is ambivalence or challenge to innovation discourse; introduced innovations are done so incrementally and re-contextualised to adapt to a local setting; and there is an authentic approach to innovation that prioritizes change aligning with local journalism’s social and community values.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/561
2020-07-21T09:48:07Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/561
2020-07-21T09:48:07Z
Media and Communication
Vol 4, No 3 (2016): (Not Yet) the End of Television; 109-122
“There Will Still Be Television but I Don’t Know What It Will Be Called!”: Narrating the End of Television in Australia and New Zealand
Given, Jock; Swinburne Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
2016-07-14 05:24:47
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/561
digital switchover; digital television; Netflix; subscription video; SVOD; television; video
Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC); Screen Australia
en
Australia and New Zealand, like other countries, have unique TV systems and practices that shape the possibilities enabled by emerging technologies, enterprises, behaviors and ideas. This article explores two recent articulations of the concept of television that have motivated ‘end of television’ narratives in the two countries. One is future-oriented – the introduction of online subscription video services from local providers like Fetch TV, Presto, Stan and from March 2015, the international giant Netflix. It draws on a survey of senior people in TV, technology, advertising, production, audience measurement and social media conducted in late 2014 and early 2015. The other is recent history – the switchover from analogue to digital terrestrial television, completed in both countries in December 2013. Digital TV switchover was a global policy implemented in markedly different ways. Television was transformed, though not in the precise ways anticipated. Rather than being in the center of the digital revolution, as the digital TV industry and policy pioneers enthused, broadcast television was, to some extent, overrun by it. The most successful online subscription video service in Australia and New Zealand so far, Netflix, talks up the end of television but serves up a very specific form of it. The article poses a slightly different question to whether or not television is ending: that is, whether, in the post-broadcast, digital era, distinctions between unique TV systems and practices will endure, narrow, dissolve, or morph into new forms of difference.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/5316
2022-10-28T09:27:26Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5316
2022-10-28T09:27:26Z
Media and Communication
Vol 10, No 3 (2022): Across Mobile Online and Offline Spaces: Reflections on Methods, Practices, and Ethics; 290-302
Methodological Reflections on Capturing Augmented Space: Insights From an Augmented Reality Field Study
Schweiger, Moritz; Department for Media, Knowledge, and Communication, University of Augsburg, Germany
Wimmer, Jeffrey; Department for Media, Knowledge, and Communication, University of Augsburg, Germany
2022-09-28 09:57:48
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5316
augmented reality; augmented space; locative tracking; methodology; polarity profiles; spatial meaning; spatial movement; spatial perception; thinking aloud
en
The growing popularity of augmented reality has led to an increased overlaying of physical, offline space with digital, augmented space. This is particularly evident in the public space of big cities, which already feature a multitude of holographic content that can be experienced via augmented reality devices. But how can we methodically capture the interrelation between physical and augmented space? In this augmented reality field study, a historical building was holographically reconstructed in its original size on a public city square. The test people were then able to move around and view the hologram from different angles via high-tech augmented reality glasses. Due to its explorative character and constantly changing field conditions, including, among other things, the Covid-19 pandemic, we had to critically reflect and adapt our methods to take into account technical, environmental, social, operationalisation, and recruitment issues. After evaluating our solutions to these issues, this article aims to illustrate the methodological challenges and opportunities of augmented reality field studies and to provide an overview of best practices for capturing the interrelationship of physical and augmented space.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3395
2020-07-10T04:15:26Z
mediaandcommunication:EDI
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3395
2020-07-10T04:15:26Z
Media and Communication
Vol 8, No 3 (2020): Algorithms and Journalism: Exploring (Re)Configurations; 1-4
Algorithmic Actants in Practice, Theory, and Method
Zamith, Rodrigo; Journalism Department, University of Massachusetts–Amherst, USA
Haim, Mario; Department of Communication and Media Studies, University of Leipzig, Germany
2020-07-10 04:46:04
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3395
actants; algorithmic journalism; algorithms; automated journalism; automation; journalism; journalism studies; robot journalism
What changes as algorithms proliferate within journalism and become more sophisticated? In this essay, we synthesize the articles in this thematic issue, which offer empirical evidence for how algorithms—and especially those designed to automate news production—are being incorporated not only into journalistic activities but also into the logics of journalism itself. They underscore that journalists have neither feared nor rejected such algorithms, as might be expected given the recent history of technological adoption in journalism. Instead, journalists have sought to normalize the technology by negotiating them against existing values and practices, and perhaps even reified some normative ideological constructs by finding unique value in what they offer as humans. These articles also highlight the shortcomings of those algorithms, giving pause to postulations of algorithms as potential solutions to shortcomings of trust in news and market failures. Indeed, such algorithms may end up amplifying the very biases that seed distrust in news all the while appearing less valuable to readers than their human counterparts. We also point to new opportunities for research, including examinations of how algorithms shape other stages in the journalistic workflow, such as interviewing sources, organizing knowledge, and verifying claims. We further point to the need to investigate higher analytic levels and incorporate additional perspectives, both from more diverse contexts (e.g., Global South) and from our sister academic fields (e.g., human–computer interaction). We conclude with optimism about the continued contributions this stream of work is poised to make in the years to come.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/6748
2023-07-18T09:27:05Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6748
2023-07-18T09:27:05Z
Media and Communication
Vol 11, No 3 (2023): Communication for Seniors’ Inclusion in Today’s Society; 112-123
The Perception of Older Adults Regarding Socio-Political Issues Disseminated on Social Networks
Sánchez-Valle, María; Department of Audio-visual Communication and Advertising, CEU San Pablo University, Spain
2023-07-18 09:35:02
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6748
digital divide; digital inclusion; fake news; seniors; social media; social networks
Community of Madrid; European Social Fund
en
Research on the relationship between seniors and social networks has focused mainly on the difficulties experienced by this group in accessing the internet. However, it has not examined other aspects such as participation by older adults in socio-political discourse. Although articles have been written on specific topics related to this issue, such studies are not enough. This research aims to analyse the perception of people over 60 years of age regarding the use of social networks as a channel for staying informed and participating in socio-political discourse that takes place on social media. To achieve this objective, four focus groups were conducted in July of 2022. In assessing the results, the transcripts were examined using qualitative-inductive content analysis and reinforced with topic analysis to identify shared perceptions. The co-occurrence evaluation reveals a strong relationship between negative perceptions and concepts such as tension and fake news. Positive perceptions are associated with the ease of interaction with other users and the potential for obtaining information. Differences have also been observed among social networks such as Facebook and WhatsApp, which appear to be the networks of choice for sharing information and opinions on socio-political issues.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/16
2023-12-27T09:05:30Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/16
2023-12-27T09:05:30Z
Media and Communication
Vol 2, No 1 (2014): Multidisciplinary Studies in Media and Communication; 2-12
Card Stories on YouTube: A New Frame for Online Self-Disclosure
Misoch, Sabina; Department of Sociology, University of Lucerne, Frohburgstrasse 3, 6002 Lucerne, Switzerland
2014-04-09 00:00:00
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/16
anonymity; card story; computer-mediated communication; frame; self-disclosure; video; YouTube
en
This paper deals with the phenomenon of so-called (note) card stories on YouTube. Card stories can be described as self-disclosing videos or confessions, using a new frame for telling one’s own story audio-visually to the public by combining ‘old’ (hand-written messages) and ‘new’ media (video, computer mediated communication). In 2012/13, a qualitative and exploratory study with a sample of 25 card story videos on YouTube was conducted. The content and visual analysis revealed (1) that these videos are bound to a very specific frame of presentation, (2) that they deal with specific topics, and (3) that the presenter does not remain (visually) anonymous. These findings question previous research results that stressed a strong correlation between online self-disclosure and (visual) anonymity; further, the findings show that this special frame of textual confessions via video supports deep self-disclosures.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/4466
2021-12-22T09:35:07Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/4466
2021-12-22T09:35:07Z
Media and Communication
Vol 9, No 4 (2021): Ten Years after the Arab Uprisings: Beyond Media and Liberation; 331-344
How Do Chinese Media Frame Arab Uprisings: A Content Analysis
Hu, Shiming; School of Journalism and communication, Beijing Normal University, China
Hou, Weipeng; School of Journalism and communication, Beijing Normal University, China
Xu, Jinghong; School of Journalism and communication, Beijing Normal University, China
2021-12-17 10:17:09
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/4466
Arab uprisings; Chinese media; content analysis; news framing
en
Employing content analysis, this study compares the coverage of the Arab uprisings by the People’s Daily (the official newspaper of the Communist Party of China) and Caixin Net (a typical commercial media) with statements from the Chinese Foreign Ministry in the last decade. It shows that the overall attention given to Arab uprisings in the People’s Daily and Caixin Net declined during the period, but there were shifts in the framing of the conflicts, presentation of issues, and positions. The article demonstrates and analyses how the approach and outline of the conflicts in the People’s Daily changed from disaster to criticism, and then to comparison—its position towards the events generally negative—and how Caixin Net moved from a disaster to a contextual framing of the events, its position tending to be neutral.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1732
2020-07-21T09:49:03Z
mediaandcommunication:EDI
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1732
2020-07-21T09:49:03Z
Media and Communication
Vol 6, No 3 (2018): The Turn to Affect and Emotion in Media Studies; 1-4
The Turn to Affect and Emotion in Media Studies
Lünenborg, Margreth; Institute for Media and Communication Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Maier, Tanja; Institute for Media and Communication Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
2018-09-11 07:20:03
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1732
affect; body emotion; communication; media studies; power
This editorial delivers an introduction to the thematic Media and Communication issue on “The Turn to Affect and Emotion in Media Studies”. The social and cultural formation of affect and emotion has been of central interest to social science-based emotion research as well as to affect studies, which are mainly grounded in cultural studies. Media and communication scholars, in turn, have especially focused on how emotion and affect are produced by media, the way they are communicated through media, and the forms of emotion audiences develop during the use of media. Distinguishing theoretical lines of emotion theory in social sciences and diverse traditions of affect theory, we reflect on the need to engage more deeply with affect and emotion as driving forces in contemporary media and society. This thematic issue aims to add to ongoing affect studies research and to existing emotion research within media studies. A special emphasis will be placed on exploring structures of difference and power produced in and by media in relation to affect and emotion.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/6122
2023-06-26T15:48:50Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6122
2023-06-26T15:48:50Z
Media and Communication
Vol 11, No 1 (2023): Science Communication in the Digital Age: New Actors, Environments, and Practices; 306-322
How Do Multiple Actors Conduct Science Communication About Omicron on Weibo: A Mixed-Method Study
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/download/6122/43633
Xu, Jinghong; School of Journalism and Communication, Beijing Normal University, China
Guo, Difan; School of Journalism and Communication, Beijing Normal University, China
Xu, Jing; School of Journalism and Communication, Beijing Normal University, China
Luo, Chang; School of Media and Design, Beijing Technology and Business University, China
2023-03-27 11:50:01
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6122
Covid-19; Omicron; public sentiment; science communication; social media; sentiment analysis; Weibo
en
This article explores science communication about Omicron on Weibo by eight actors from November 2021 to June 2022. Regarding the themes of vaccines, symptoms, and medicines, we examined the actors’ communication with content analysis, presented the interactions of different actors using social network analysis, and assessed the impact of weibos on public sentiment using SnowNLP and descriptive statistics. The results showed that scientists are still the most important actors, focusing on science issues and using contrasting and contextual frames. Central-level media play an essential mediating role, relaying scientific knowledge. Science communication on Weibo had a positive impact on public sentiment.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/2772
2020-06-23T08:08:59Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/2772
2020-06-23T08:08:59Z
Media and Communication
Vol 8, No 2 (2020): Youth Digital Participation: Opportunities, Challenges, Contexts, and What’s at Stake; 185-196
Generation Z and Organizational Listening on Social Media
Reinikainen, Hanna; Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics, Finland
Kari, Jaana T.; Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics, Finland
Luoma-aho, Vilma; Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics, Finland
2020-05-19 05:11:47
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/2772
brands; organizational listening; generation Z; social media; trust
Academy of Finland
en
Young people are avid users of social media and have appeared as a powerful force for social change, as shown by the ranks of those who have joined Greta Thunberg in the global climate movement. In addition to challenging political institutions and governments, young people today are also holding the corporate world accountable. To respond to young people’s expectations, brands, and organizations have turned to social media to interact and build relationships with them. However, critics have lamented that these attempts often fail and that young people’s trust in institutions, brands, and organizations continues to decline. This article asks how young people perceive organizational listening on social media and whether their perceptions are related to their trust in the information shared by brands and other organizations on social media. Data for the study were gathered through an online survey in Finland and the UK. The respondents (N = 1,534), aged 15–24, represent the age cohort known as Generation Z. The results show that organizational listening is connected to higher levels of perceived benefits from social media as well as higher levels of trust in the information that brands, public authorities, and non-governmental organizations share on social media. The results highlight the role of competent listening on social media, bolstering the previous literature connecting both organizational listening and trust with higher levels of participation and engagement online.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1020
2020-07-21T09:48:39Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1020
2020-07-21T09:48:39Z
Media and Communication
Vol 5, No 4 (2017): Visual Communication in the Age of Social Media: Conceptual, Theoretical and Methodological Challenges; 26-36
The Visual Discourse of Protest Movements on Twitter: The Case of Hong Kong 2014
Wetzstein, Irmgard; Department of Communication, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Vienna, Austria
2017-12-21 03:46:41
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1020
documentary image interpretation; Hong Kong; protest movement; social media; Twitter; visual discourse
Open access funding provided by University of Vienna.
en
The article presents the results of a qualitative documentary image interpretation of the visual discourse of the Hong Kong protests on the Twitter hashtag #hongkongprotests. Visual thematic patterns, the actors depicted, and the relations between actors as well as visual perspectives were analyzed to derive the function of visual images and to give insights into visual protest storytelling. Visuals and image-text relations in Tweets within #hongkongprotests revealed an application of images in clear favor of the protest movement taking an ‘at the scene’/‘on the ground’ perspective, with media workers being active in front of the camera rather than mere observers behind the camera. While the approach used proved to be suitable for the research project, the research design comes with some limitations, for example in terms of the non-generalizability of results.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/4218
2021-09-16T10:00:33Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/4218
2021-09-16T10:00:33Z
Media and Communication
Vol 9, No 3 (2021): From Sony’s Walkman to RuPaul's Drag Race: A Landscape of Contemporary Popular Culture; 228-238
The Loss of the Popular: Reconstructing Fifty Years of Studying Popular Culture
Hermes, Joke; Research Group Creative Business, Inholland University, The Netherlands
Teurlings, Jan; Department of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2021-09-13 09:44:09
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/4218
affect theory; banality; cultural studies; Foucault; governmentality; media environment; popular culture; the popular
en
This article starts from the observation that popular culture resides in a contradictory space. On the one hand it seems to be thriving, in that the range of media objects that were previously studied under the rubric of popular culture has certainly expanded. Yet, cultural studies scholars rarely study these media objects as popular culture. Instead, concerns about immaterial labor, about the manipulation of voting behavior and public opinion, about filter bubbles and societal polarization, and about populist authoritarianism, determine the dominant frames with which the contemporary media environment is approached. This article aims to trace how this change has come to pass over the last 50 years. It argues that changes in the media environment are important, but also that cultural studies as an institutionalizing interdisciplinary project has changed. It identifies “the moment of popular culture” as a relatively short-lived but epoch-defining moment in cultural studies. This moment was subsequently displaced by a set of related yet different theoretical problematics that gradually moved the study of popular culture away from the popular. These displacements are: the hollowing out of the notion of the popular, as signaled early on by Meaghan Morris’ article “The Banality of Cultural Studies” in 1988; the institutionalization of cultural studies; the rise of the governmentality approach and a growing engagement with affect theory.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/2512
2023-01-31T18:46:55Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/2512
2023-01-31T18:46:55Z
Media and Communication
Vol 8, No 1 (2020): Rethinking Safety of Journalists; 5-14
Democracy at Stake: Self-Censorship as a Self-Defence Strategy for Journalists
Walulya, Gerald; Department of Journalism & Communication, Makerere University, Uganda
Nassanga, Goretti L.; Department of Journalism & Communication, Makerere University, Uganda
2020-02-25 03:41:56
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/2512
democracy; election reporting; journalists; press freedom; safety; self-censorship; violence
Oslo Metropolitan University; Norwegian Programme for Capacity Development in Higher Education and Research for Development
en
The media play an essential role of informing and mobilising voters as well as facilitating a two-way communication process between citizens and those vying for electoral offices during elections. This allows citizens to get information on various issues from the contenders, which largely informs their electoral decisions. In most less democratic societies however, this media function is increasingly becoming difficult to fulfil due to challenges journalists encounter during electoral processes. Using Uganda’s last general elections in 2016 as a case study, this article discusses the safety of journalists during elections basing on findings from a bigger study on the media coverage of the 2016 elections, supplemented by in-depth interviews with 10 journalists who covered the elections. In addition, the analysis makes reference to the 2016 Uganda Press Freedom Index. Findings of this research show that journalists face more safety and security risks during elections particularly perpetuated by state security agencies. Compared to previous elections, the 2016 elections also recorded the highest number of victims who were female journalists. This article highlights key challenges journalists face during elections, which include: state harassment and intimidation, arrest of those considered critical to the state, and denial of access to important information. Due to concerns of their own safety, journalists have responded to the insecure work environment by engaging in self-censorship, thereby giving biased or limited information to the public. The article identifies gaps that media development agencies can help to close if the media are to play their rightful role in a democratic society, especially during the electoral process.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/6030
2023-06-26T15:45:25Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6030
2023-06-26T15:45:25Z
Media and Communication
Vol 11, No 1 (2023): Referendum Campaigns in the Digital Age; 19-30
Googling Referendum Campaigns: Analyzing Online Search Patterns Regarding Swiss Direct-Democratic Votes
Blassnig, Sina; Department of Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Mitova, Eliza; Department of Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Pfiffner, Nico; Department of Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Reiss, Michael V.; Department of Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich, Switzerland
2023-01-31 11:27:01
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6030
data donation; direct democracy; Google; online search patterns; political information; referendum campaigns
University of Zurich, Department of Communication and Media Research
en
In direct democracies, voters are faced with considerable information demands. Although search engines are an important gateway to political information, it is still unclear what role they play in citizens’ information behavior regarding referendum campaigns. Moreover, few studies have examined the search terms that citizens use when searching for political information and the potential “user-input biases” in this regard. Therefore, we investigate to what extent citizens search online for information about upcoming referendums and what differences emerge between proponents, opponents, and non-voters regarding the search terms they used and the results they visited, related to three national ballot proposals voted on in Switzerland on November 28, 2021. The study combines cross-sectional survey data with longitudinal digital trace data containing participants’ Google Search histories obtained through data donations. Our findings show that participants rarely used Google to search for information about upcoming referendums. Moreover, most ballot-related searches employed rather neutral search terms. Nevertheless, a qualitative analysis of the search terms points to differences between different voting groups, particularly for the most prominent proposal around a Covid-19 law. The study provides interesting insight into how citizens search for information online during national referendum campaigns.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3737
2021-04-08T02:43:34Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3737
2021-04-08T02:43:34Z
Media and Communication
Vol 9, No 2 (2021): Critical Theory in a Digital Media Age: Ways Forward; 98-109
The Commodification of Virtual Community Content in Increasing Media Traffic
Widiastuti, Tuti; Communication Department, Bakrie University, Indonesia
2021-04-06 04:02:30
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3737
commodification of content; media traffic; online forum; virtual community
en
Traffic is activity on a page of a site resulting from Internet visits and activity on that page. The more a site is visited, and the more activity Internet users engage in on the site’s pages, the higher its traffic. Traffic is like an audience on a television station, listener to the radio station, or circulation on print media. Traffic is the overall activity of readers on online media sites. Data collection from cnnindonesia.com is the commodification of content in an online forum, as in Kaskus and Kompasiana. The media are certainly competing to present exciting news content so that their readers remain loyal to their online. Exciting content on news portals and other efforts are employed solely to increase traffic. One such effort is the use of referral traffic, that is traffic which comes from other websites other than the major search engines, sources such as forums, blogs, and minor search engines are categorized as referral traffic. Visitors come to the online media portal through other websites and blog intermediaries. Although the contribution of made by referral traffic is not as great as the other sources, this practice considered quite useful as it does increase traffic in the media, traffic which is essential—and a measure of success.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/821
2020-07-21T09:48:20Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/821
2020-07-21T09:48:20Z
Media and Communication
Vol 5, No 1 (2017): Post-Snowden Internet Policy; 17-28
Intelligence Reform and the Snowden Paradox: The Case of France
Tréguer, Félix; Center for International Studies and Research, Sciences Po, France
2017-03-22 03:52:54
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/821
contentious politics; intelligence; internet; securitisation; Snowden; surveillance
French National Research Agency
en
Taking France as a case study, this article reflects on the ongoing legalisation strategies pursued by liberal states as they seek to secure and expand the Internet surveillance programs of their domestic and foreign intelligence agencies. Following the path to legalisation prior and after the Snowden disclosures of 2013, the article shows how post-Snowden controversies helped mobilise advocacy groups against the extra judicial surveillance of Internet communications, a policy area which had hitherto been overlooked by French human rights groups. It also points to the dilemma that post-Snowden contention created for governments. On the one hand, the disclosures helped document the growing gap between the existing legal framework and actual surveillance practices, exposing them to litigation and thereby reinforcing the rationale for legalisation. On the other hand, they made such a legislative reform politically risky and unpredictable. In France, policy-makers navigated these constraints through a cautious mix of silence, denials, and securitisation. After the Paris attacks of January 2015 and a hasty deliberation in Parliament, the Intelligence Act was passed, making it the most extensive piece of legislation ever adopted in France to regulate secret state surveillance. The article concludes by pointing to the paradoxical effect of post-Snowden contention: French law now provides for clear rules authorising large-scale surveillance, to a degree of detail that was hard to imagine just a few years ago.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1934
2019-08-09T03:46:25Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1934
2019-08-09T03:46:25Z
Media and Communication
Vol 7, No 3 (2019): Public Discussion in Russian Social Media; 119-132
Beyond Left and Right: Real-World Political Polarization in Twitter Discussions on Inter-Ethnic Conflicts
Bodrunova, Svetlana S.; School of Journalism and Mass Communications, St. Petersburg State University, Russia
Blekanov, Ivan; Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Control Processes, St. Petersburg State University, Russia
Smoliarova, Anna; School of Journalism and Mass Communications, St. Petersburg State University, Russia
Litvinenko, Anna; Institute for Media and Communication Studies, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany
2019-08-09 04:05:06
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1934
echo chamber; inter-ethnic conflict; political polarization; social media; Twitter
Russian Science Foundation
en
Studies of political polarization in social media demonstrate mixed evidence for whether discussions necessarily evolve into left and right ideological echo chambers. Recent research shows that, for political and issue-based discussions, patterns of user clusterization may differ significantly, but that cross-cultural evidence of the polarization of users on certain issues is close to non-existent. Furthermore, most of the studies developed network proxies to detect users’ grouping, rarely taking into account the content of the Tweets themselves. Our contribution to this scholarly discussion is founded upon the detection of polarization based on attitudes towards political actors expressed by users in Germany, the USA and Russia within discussions on inter-ethnic conflicts. For this exploratory study, we develop a mixed-method approach to detecting user grouping that includes: crawling for data collection; expert coding of Tweets; user clusterization based on user attitudes; construction of word frequency vocabularies; and graph visualization. Our results show that, in all the three cases, the groups detected are far from being conventionally left or right, but rather that their views combine anti-institutionalism, nationalism, and pro- and anti-minority views in varying degrees. In addition to this, more than two threads of political debate may co-exist in the same discussion. Thus, we show that the debate that sees Twitter as either a platform of ‘echo chambering’ or ‘opinion crossroads’ may be misleading. In our opinion, the role of local political context in shaping (and explaining) user clusterization should not be under-estimated.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/583
2020-07-21T09:47:59Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/583
2020-07-21T09:47:59Z
Media and Communication
Vol 4, No 2 (2016): International Broadcasting and Public Diplomacy in the 21st Century; 104-119
Target Gutahuka: The UN’s Strategic Information Intervention in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Jacob, Jacob Udo-Udo; Communications and Multimedia Design, American University of Nigeria, Nigeria
2016-05-04 08:32:41
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/583
demobilisation; dialogue entre Congolais; disarmament; Gutahuka; repatriation
British Institute in Eastern Africa
en
This paper examines the nature and impacts of two information intervention radio programmes broadcast on Radio Okapi—the radio service of the UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A matched randomization technique was used to assign Rwandan Hutus and Congolese autochthons in South Kivu to listen to either of the two programmes within their naturalistic contexts for 13 months. At the end of the treatment, participants’ perceptions of barriers to peace; descriptive and prescriptive interventions; victimhood and villainity; opportunities for personal development and civic engagement; and knowledge of repatriation processes were assessed in 16 focus groups across four contexts. The study concludes that international media intervention programmes that provide robust information and a platform for objective analyses within a multiple narrative and participatory framework can enhance greater engagement with nascent democratic reforms, positive perception of long term opportunities for personal development and empathy with the ethnic Other.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/5669
2022-12-30T17:23:16Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5669
2022-12-30T17:23:16Z
Media and Communication
Vol 10, No 4 (2022): Inclusive Media Literacy Education for Diverse Societies; 347-356
Joining and Gaining Knowledge From Digital Literacy Courses: How Perceptions of Internet and Technology Outweigh Socio-Demographic Factors
Lev-On, Azi; School of Communication, Ariel University, Israel
Abu-Kishk, Hama; School of Communication, Sapir Academic College, Israel
Steinfeld, Nili; School of Communication, Ariel University, Israel
2022-12-28 15:19:24
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5669
digital divide; digital inequality; digital literacy; Israel; Lehava; media literacy; perceptions about technology; perceptions about the internet
en
Many government-sponsored policies and programs have been implemented in recent years to reduce digital inequality, but research on the effectiveness of such programs is severely lacking. We examine the short-term effects of participation in Lehava, the largest such program in Israel. Participants in our study completed a survey before and after taking introductory computer and internet classes. The findings demonstrate that motivations for participating in the program (measured before taking the course), as well as knowledge gains (i.e., differences between levels of familiarity with concepts before and after taking the course), were predicted almost exclusively by participants’ perceptions of technology and the internet, and not by socio-demographic or other variables. We conclude by discussing the significance of perceptions over and above socio-demographic considerations for bridging digital inequality gaps.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3418
2021-02-05T04:28:44Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3418
2021-02-05T04:28:44Z
Media and Communication
Vol 9, No 1 (2021): Dark Participation in Online Communication: The World of the Wicked Web; 99-109
Communities of Darkness? Users and Uses of Anti-System Alternative Media between Audience and Community
Schwarzenegger, Christian; Department of Media, Knowledge and Communication, University of Augsburg, Germany
2021-02-03 03:43:54
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3418
alternative media; anti-system; audience; community; dark participation; populism
en
The hopes regarding the positive impact of the Internet and digital participation in civic society have faded in recent years. The digital realm is now increasingly discussed regarding its role in putting democracy in jeopardy and polarizing public debate by propagating extremist views and falsehoods. Likewise, the perception of so-called alternative media as beneficial carriers of counter-public spheres and as important complements to mainstream positions in social debate has flipped. Alternative media are now often associated with the “Wicked web” of disinformation, political populism, or even radicalization. Following Quandt’s (2018) notion of ‘dark participation’ and Phillips and Milner’s (2017) description of the Internet as ambivalent, this article asks, whether the same holds true for the users of alternative media: a segment of the audience traditionally discussed in terms of community, engagement, participation, and strong ideological identification with progressive political causes. Do users of ‘dark’ alternative media bond with their media in similar ways to constitute communities of darkness? Based on interviews with 35 users of alternative media from a left-leaning, right-wing, Russian-tied and/or conspiracy spectrum users, uses of alternative media are pictured as grey rather than black or white. The findings illuminate the ambivalences within alternative media users as audiences and communities. Ambivalences are found regarding the use of alternative sources as audience or community members, regarding a shared attitude of criticality and anti-systemness, which connects trans-medially and trans-ideologically, as well as the experienced comfort of community, which can become a main motivation for use.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/7414
2024-02-29T10:28:35Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/7414
2024-02-29T10:28:35Z
Media and Communication
Vol 12 (2024): Unpacking Innovation: Media and the Locus of Change
Breaking Away From Hectic Daily Media Production: Unleashing Explorative Innovation Through Inter-Firm Collaborations
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/download/7414/47086
Zambelli, Giordano; imec-SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Morganti, Luciano; imec-SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
2024-02-29 09:21:32
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/7414
dissonance; explorative innovation; inter-firm collaboration; journalism innovation; news media organisations
FWO (Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek)
en
Beyond the widespread disruption narrative around media innovation, journalism scholarship has put forward valuable remedies to counteract a techno-deterministic perspective by embracing socio-constructivist and socio-technical approaches. Nevertheless, thus far, scholarly attention has primarily been directed towards the newsroom despite the journalism field having undergone significant structural transformations. In this article, we adopt an organisational perspective to journalism innovation and apply it to the emerging locus of inter-firm collaborations in journalism. In fact, while the newsroom has traditionally been considered the dominant location for implementing innovations, an increasing amount of media work currently occurs in decentralised settings. Our study draws upon 20 qualitative interviews with media practitioners and media managers who have been involved as project leaders in inter-firm collaborative projects. These projects have received institutional funding specifically aimed at fostering media innovation. We strive to understand how practitioners conceive of innovation in their overall activity, what obstacles they encounter in their usual routines, and how collaborative practices support them in their innovation trajectory. Our findings indicate that innovation is predominantly perceived as a demanding and complex ongoing practice characterised by adaptation to an evolving environment and hindered by a lack of resources and time. We also find that collaborations offer media practitioners a temporary framework for balancing their efforts to keep up with the demand for daily media production and their aspiration to carry out explorative activities. Lastly, our research reveals that these collaborations provide occasions for knowledge exchange and self-reflection that are frequently absent in non-collaborative settings.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1880
2020-07-21T09:49:57Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1880
2020-07-21T09:49:57Z
Media and Communication
Vol 7, No 2 (2019): Critical Perspectives on Digital Literacies: Creating a Path Forward; 47-58
Expanding and Embedding Digital Literacies: Transformative Agency in Education
Lund, Andreas; Department of Teacher Education and School Research, University of Oslo, Norway
Furberg, Anniken; Department of Teacher Education and School Research, University of Oslo, Norway
Gudmundsdottir, Greta Björk; Department of Teacher Education and School Research, University of Oslo, Norway
2019-06-11 10:11:46
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1880
agency; digital literacies; double stimulation; education; transformation
en
Socio-political, environmental, cultural, and digital changes require literacies that will be crucial for facing complex challenges. This article contributes to a notion of digital literacies as agentic and transformative and having epistemological implications. Although studies in digital literacies have examined diverse forms of understanding and relating to digitalization, we find that few studies have adopted a principled approach to transformative enactment of digital literacies. Our analytic focus is on how agents turn to digital (and other) resources when faced with problems in order to make them manageable. We conceptualize this notion of digital literacies by drawing on the Vygotskian principle of double stimulation. To demonstrate how agentic and transformative literacies appear in technology-rich learning environments, we make use of an empirical setting in which lower secondary school students and their teacher face a conundrum in a science project. We use this case as an empirical carrier of the conceptual and analytical framework employed. The analysis shows how the teacher enacts digital literacies in the design and orchestration of student activities in technology-rich learning environments where unforeseen issues occur, and how the collaborating students enact digital literacies by drawing on resources that enable them to resolve their insufficient understanding of a problem to reach insights that are shared with their peers.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/5984
2022-07-28T12:23:41Z
mediaandcommunication:EDI
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5984
2022-07-28T12:23:41Z
Media and Communication
Vol 10, No 3 (2022): Journalism, Activism, and Social Media: Exploring the Shifts in Journalistic Roles, Performance, and Interconnectedness; 1-4
Editorial: Journalism, Activism, and Social Media: Exploring the Shifts in Journalistic Roles, Performance, and Interconnectedness
Maurer, Peter; Department of Media Studies, Trier University, Germany
Nuernbergk, Christian; Department of Media Studies, Trier University, Germany
2022-07-28 10:36:28
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5984
activism; journalism research; journalistic legitimacy; journalistic roles; political journalism; social media
en
The emergence of the Hybrid Media System (Chadwick, 2017) has changed the actor constellations between political journalism, active members of the audience, and sources. How journalism responds to activism, pressure from politics, and emerging forms of connective action around news events is an important theme in journalism research. This thematic issue brings together seven articles that look at these developments from different angles in a rapidly changing communication ecosystem. The focus is on journalistic authority and legitimacy, journalism and interpretive communities, and changes concerning journalistic roles and practices.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1899
2020-07-21T09:49:49Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1899
2020-07-21T09:49:49Z
Media and Communication
Vol 7, No 2 (2019): Critical Perspectives on Digital Literacies: Creating a Path Forward; 100-114
Digital Literacy Through Digital Citizenship: Online Civic Participation and Public Opinion Evaluation of Youth Minorities in Southeast Asia
Yue, Audrey; Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Nekmat, Elmie; Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Beta, Annisa R.; Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore, Singapore
2019-06-11 10:11:46
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1899
digital citizenship; digital literacy; Indonesia; online civic participation; Singapore; Southeast Asia
Centre for Multicultural Youth, Melbourne, Australia
en
The field of critical digital literacy studies has burgeoned in recent years as a result of the increased cultural consumption of digital media as well as the turn to the production of digital media forms. This article extends extant digital literacy studies by focusing on its subfield of digital citizenship. Proposing that digital citizenship is not another dimension or axis of citizenship, but a practice through which civic activities in the various dimensions of citizenship are conducted, this article critically considers how the concept of digital citizenship can furnish further insight into the quality of online civic participation that results in claims to and acts of citizenship. Through interdisciplinary scholarship, drawing from critical media and cultural theory, and media psychology, and deriving new empirical data from qualitative digital ethnography and quantitative focus group and survey studies, it presents original case studies with young people in Southeast Asia, including young Muslim women’s groups in Indonesia and youth public opinion on LGBTs in Singapore. It argues that Southeast Asian youth digital citizenship foregrounds civic participation as emergent acts that not only serve to make society a better place, but also enacts alternative publics that characterise new modes of civic-making in more conservative, collectivistic Southeast Asian societies.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/6869
2023-09-28T09:49:20Z
mediaandcommunication:COM
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6869
2023-09-28T09:49:20Z
Media and Communication
Vol 11, No 3 (2023): News Deserts: Places and Spaces Without News; 355-359
Co-Creating News Oases in Media Deserts
Ferrier, Michelle Barrett; Independent Researcher, USA
2023-09-28 08:37:56
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6869
civic communication; community-centered journalism; Media Deserts Project; media deserts; media ecologies; news desert; news oases; online news
Journalism That Matters; Democracy Fund; Knight Foundation, Ohio University.
en
The Media Deserts Project is a research effort to map and model the changing media landscape in the United States. Media deserts are defined as geographies lacking fresh, daily news and information. Using circulation data of US print newspapers, emerging hyperlocal online news sites in digital networks, and broadband access data from the Federal Communication Commission, the Media Deserts Project maps these changes using geographic information systems down to the zip code level, making visible local communication systems and gaps. To develop community-centered news and information solutions, this research team used community-based research practices, where students engaged with residents, local business leaders, health, education, and other administrators to examine the communication needs of three specific communities in Southeast Ohio. We centered our efforts on building relationships with community members and designing localized media tools. We learned key insights that we believe may travel well into other projects using community-based engagement, participatory design, and co-creation practices.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/301
2020-07-21T09:47:47Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/301
2020-07-21T09:47:47Z
Media and Communication
Vol 3, No 3 (2015): Surveillance: Critical Analysis and Current Challenges (Part II); 68-80
“Austerity Surveillance” in Greece under the Austerity Regime (2010−2014)
Samatas, Minas; Sociology Department, University of Crete, Greece
2015-10-20 08:16:31
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/301
austerity; coveillance; Greece; surveillance
en
In this article we have tried to analyze “austerity surveillance” (AS), its features, and its functions under the extreme austerity regime in Greece during 2010−2014, before the election of the leftist government. AS is a specific kind of coercive neoliberal surveillance, which in the name of fighting tax evasion and corruption is targeting the middle and lower economic strata and not the rich upper classes. It is based mainly on “coveillance,” i.e. citizen-informers’ grassing, public naming, and shaming. Functioning as a domination and disciplinary control mechanism of the entire population, it works within a post-democratic setting without accountability or democratic control. We provide empirical evidence of these features and functions, including some indicative personal testimonies of austerity surveillance subjects. After presenting some cases of electronic surveillance as an indispensable supplement to AS, we then briefly underline the negative personal, and socio-political impact of this surveillance. In conclusion, a tentative assessment is made of AS’ efficiency in the Greek case, comparing it with other types of past and present authoritarian surveillance in Greece and in other current surveillance societies, considering also the prospects for its abolition or its reproduction by the new leftist government.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3162
2020-10-08T04:16:07Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3162
2020-10-08T04:16:07Z
Media and Communication
Vol 8, No 4 (2020): The Ongoing Transformation of the Digital Public Sphere; 40-52
Ready for the World? Measuring the (Trans-)National Quality of Political Issue Publics on Twitter
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/download/3162/22348
Schünemann, Wolf J.; Political Science Department, Institute of Social Sciences, Hildesheim University, Germany
2020-10-08 03:30:35
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3162
climate change; cross-referential cohesion; issue publics; national structuration; network analysis; transnational communication; Twitter
en
This article presents a multi-method research design for measuring the (trans-)national quality of issue publics on Twitter. Online communication is widely perceived as having the potential to overcome nationally bound public spheres. Social media, in particular, are seen as platforms and drivers of transnational communication through which users can easily connect across borders. Transnational interactivity can be expected in particular for policy fields of global concern and elite or activist communication as practiced on Twitter. Nevertheless, there is still a lot of evidence for the enduring national structuration of political communication and publics as it results from a shared language (mostly), culturally defined media markets, established routines of social and political communication, and sociocultural stocks of knowledge. The study goes beyond measuring user interaction and also includes indicators of cross-referential cohesion. It applies a set of computational methods in network and discourse analysis and presents empirical evidence for Twitter communication on climate change being a prime issue of global concern and a globalized policy agenda. For empirical analysis, the study relies on a large Twitter dataset (N ≈ 6m tweets) with tweet messages and metadata collected between 2015 and 2018. Based on basic measurements such as geolocation and language use, the metrics allowed measurement of cross-national user interactions, user centrality in communicative networks, linking behaviour, and hashtag co-occurrences. The findings of the exploratory study suggest that a combined perspective on indicators of user interaction and cross-referential cohesion helps to develop a better and more nuanced understanding of online issue publics.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1985
2020-07-21T09:49:27Z
mediaandcommunication:EDI
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1985
2020-07-21T09:49:27Z
Media and Communication
Vol 7, No 1 (2019): Communicating on/with Minorities; 1-3
Introduction to Communicating on/with Minorities
d’Haenens, Leen; Institute for Media Studies, KU Leuven, Belgium
Joris, Willem; Institute for Media Studies, KU Leuven, Belgium
2019-02-05 04:36:08
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1985
communication; ethnic minorities; gender; immigrants; intersectionality; media; refugees; sexualities
This editorial delivers an introduction to the Media and Communication thematic issue on “Communicating on/with Minorities” around the world. This thematic issue presents a multidisciplinary look at the field of communicating on and with different members of minority groups who, based on gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or a background in migration, experience relative disadvantage and marginalization compared to the dominant social group. The contributors to this thematic issue present a variety of professional contexts (i.e., portrayals in journalistic content, in fiction and non-fiction audiovisual content, on social media platforms and in health care). Taken together, the contributions examine various theoretical angles, thereby adopting new research directions through the use of quantitative, qualitative or mixed methodologies.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/4756
2022-04-01T10:01:49Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/4756
2022-04-01T10:01:49Z
Media and Communication
Vol 10, No 1 (2022): Digital Child- and Adulthood: Risks, Opportunities, and Challenges; 361-370
The Ethics of Gatekeeping: How Guarding Access Influences Digital Child and Youth Research
Fecke, Malin; Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, Germany
Fehr, Ada; Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, Germany
Schlütz, Daniela; Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, Germany
Zillich, Arne Freya; Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, Germany
2022-03-29 09:53:32
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/4756
access; gatekeeping; group communication; instant messaging; personal learning environment; research ethics; researching minors; research in schools; teacher–pupil relationship
German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
en
Digital child and youth research is often conducted in schools involving minors. Corresponding research designs raise two related sets of problems: Ethical issues with regard to working with vulnerable groups like children and adolescents and access to these groups. The latter pertains to the concept of gatekeeping which is an ethical issue in and of itself if certain groups or areas of research are systematically excluded from empirical research and, consequently, from the resulting benefits. Thus, our study examines how perceived ethical challenges influence gatekeepers’ decisions to grant or deny access to investigate a potentially problematic topic: pupils’ group communication. We addressed this research question empirically via semi-structured in-depth interviews with eight educational gatekeepers in Germany inquiring their attitudes on research in schools in general and on the specific topic of pupils’ group communication via instant messaging as an exemplar of digital child and youth research. Approaching the question from two perspectives (procedural ethics and ethics in practice), we identified hierarchical power structures within multiple levels of gatekeeping and revealed rationales to deny access based on ethical considerations with regard to the given scenario of pupils’ group communication.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/2724
2020-04-17T05:02:38Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/2724
2020-04-17T05:02:38Z
Media and Communication
Vol 8, No 2 (2020): Digital Native News Media: Trends and Challenges; 86-97
Behind the Comments Section: The Ethics of Digital Native News Discussions
Castellano Parra, Orge; Department of Journalism II, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Ayerdi, Koldobika Meso; Department of Journalism II, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Fernández, Simón Peña; Department of Journalism II, University of the Basque Country, Spain
2020-04-16 08:36:06
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/2724
discourse ethics; native digital media; new media; newspapers; social media; user-generated content
Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness.
en
Initially offered as a digital public sphere forum, comments sections became the preferred democratic arena for gatekeepers to encourage their readers to engage in constructive dialogue about relevant issues. However, news sites require commenters to remain civil in their interactions, which led users to seek alternative ways of commenting on the news. This article explores in-depth the contents of a sample of 98,426 user-comments collected between February–March 2019 from three major Spanish digital native newspapers: ElDiario.es, ElEspañol.com, and ElConfidencial.com. The main goals were to analyze whether comments in news outlets are deliberative, to assess the quality of the debate that takes place in them, and to describe their specific features. Discourse ethics were explored to determine the discussions’ impact, the language used, the acceptance of arguments, and the recognition and civility of participants. Findings reveal that comments sections in news outlets do not have a dialogic nature and that the debates have a low-quality profile. Nonetheless, the degree of mutual respect in interaction is acceptable, with slightly observed levels of incivility. Finally, the data suggest that the focused comments are higher on social media and that memes and emojis represent a new form of digital discourse.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1177
2020-07-21T09:48:35Z
mediaandcommunication:EDI
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1177
2020-07-21T09:48:35Z
Media and Communication
Vol 5, No 3 (2017): Histories of Collaboration and Dissent: Journalists’ Associations Squeezed by Political System Changes; 67-69
Journalists’ Associations as Political Instruments in Central and Eastern Europe
Lauk, Epp; Faculty of Humanities, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Nordenstreng, Kaarle; Faculty of Communication Sciences, University of Tampere, Finland
2017-09-27 05:02:57
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1177
Central and Eastern Europe; journalism; journalist associations; political control; professionalism
en
This editorial provides the overall context for the five cases—three national and two international—covered in this thematic issue. While the cases are from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), they highlight fundamental questions of journalism everywhere, including contradictions between freedom and control, professionalism and politics, individual and collective. The associations of journalists serve as very useful platforms to study these questions, especially at historical turning points when the whole political system changed, as happened twice in CEE after World War II.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/4015
2021-09-13T10:17:59Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/4015
2021-09-13T10:17:59Z
Media and Communication
Vol 9, No 3 (2021): Complexity, Hybridity, Liminality: Challenges of Researching Contemporary Promotional Cultures; 144-154
Review Pollution: Pedagogy for a Post-Truth Society
West, Emily; Department of Communication, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
2021-08-05 10:33:43
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/4015
consumer empowerment; disinformation; online reviews; platforms; reputation economy
en
Consumer reviews on platforms like Amazon are summarized into star ratings, used to weight search results, and consulted by consumers to guide purchase decisions. They are emblematic of the interactive digital environment that has purportedly transferred power from marketers to ‘regular people,’ and yet they represent the infiltration of promotional concerns into online information, as has occurred in search and social media content. Consumers’ ratings and reviews do promotional work for brands—not just for products but the platforms that host reviews—that money can’t always buy. Gains in power by consumers are quickly met with new strategies of control by companies who depend on reviews for reputational capital. Focusing on ecommerce giant Amazon, this article examines the complexities of online reviews, where individual efforts to provide product feedback and help others make choices become transformed into an information commodity and promotional vehicle. It acknowledges the ambiguous nature of reviews due to the rise of industries and business practices that influence or fake reviews as a promotional strategy. In response are yet other business practices and platform policies aiming to provide better information to consumers, protect the image of platforms that host reviews, and punish ‘bad actors’ in competitive markets. The complexity in the production, regulation, and manipulation of product ratings and reviews illustrates how the high stakes of attention in digital spaces create fertile ground for disinformation, which only emphasizes to users that they inhabit a ‘post-truth’ reality online.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/2347
2020-01-20T08:03:36Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/2347
2020-01-20T08:03:36Z
Media and Communication
Vol 7, No 4 (2019): Video Games as Demanding Technologies; 176-185
Between a Troll and a Hard Place: The Demand Framework’s Answer to One of Gaming’s Biggest Problems
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/download/2347/12980
Cook, Christine L.; Department of Communication and Cognition, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
2019-12-20 04:35:40
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/2347
demand imbalance; flow theory; motivations; multiplayer online games; trolling
en
The demand framework is commonly used by game scholars to develop new and innovative ways to improve the gaming experience. However, the present article aims to expand this framework and apply it to problematic gaming, also known as trolling. Although still a relatively new field, research into trolling has exploded within the past ten years. However, the vast majority of these studies are descriptive in nature. The present article marries theory and trolling research by closely examining interdisciplinary empirical evidence from a single platform—video games—and applying the various forms of demands to propose a testable, dual-route model of trolling behaviour. Within the video game context, I argue the presence of two primary causal mechanisms that can lead to trolling: 1) Demand imbalance between players and the game; and 2) demand imbalance between players. The article discusses how these two types of imbalance can lead to trolling, which kinds of demands can be imbalanced, and how future researchers can use the demand framework to expand our understanding of trolling.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/5640
2024-01-18T09:29:09Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5640
2024-01-18T09:29:09Z
Media and Communication
Vol 10, No 4 (2022): Inclusive Media Literacy Education for Diverse Societies; 305-316
Inclusive Media Education in the Diverse Classroom: A Participatory Action Research in Germany
Bozdağ, Çiğdem; Faculty of Pedagogy and Educational Sciences, University of Bremen, Germany / Research Centre Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
2022-12-28 15:19:23
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5640
diversity; inclusion; influencers; Instagram; media education; media literacy; migrants; social media; TikTok; youth
en
Media literacy has become a key concept for understanding how different citizens develop the capacity to participate in the mediatized society. One key question here is how media literacy education can support people of diverse backgrounds to have equal chances of benefiting from the media. Furthermore, as many schools are characterized by superdiversity, especially in bigger cities (Crul et al., 2013), there is also a need for research on media education and diversity. This article presents the findings of the research project INCLUDED, a participatory action research about media education in a secondary school in Germany. The project aims to analyse the everyday media use of young people with diverse cultural backgrounds living in a socio-economically disadvantaged neighbourhood and co-develop teaching modules on media literacy education integrating an intercultural perspective. The fieldwork of the project (January 2020–April 2021) included participatory observations (online and offline), teacher interviews, and focus groups with the students (13–15 years). The article will particularly focus on one teaching module that focused on TikTok and Instagram influencers. The students’ presentations in the classroom demonstrated how the diverse cultural backgrounds of the students also shaped the content that they consumed on social media. Analysing this teaching module as an example, this article discusses the benefits and challenges of designing a more inclusive and participatory approach to media education in the context of culturally diverse schools as an alternative to culture-blindness and over-emphasis of cultural differences.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3749
2021-04-06T04:34:14Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3749
2021-04-06T04:34:14Z
Media and Communication
Vol 9, No 2 (2021): Gender and Media: Recent Trends in Theory, Methodology and Research Subjects; 16-26
Pitching Gender in a Racist Tune: The Affective Publics of the #120decibel Campaign
Adlung, Shari; Department of Journalism Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Lünenborg, Margreth; Department of Journalism Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Raetzsch, Christoph; Department of Media and Journalism Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark
2021-03-23 05:39:31
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3749
#120decibel; affective publics; dissonant public spheres; feminism; Germany; hashjacking; migration; racism; right-wing activism; populism
en
This article analyses the changed structures, actors and modes of communication that characterise ‘dissonant public spheres.’ With the #120decibel campaign by the German Identitarian Movement in 2018, gender and migration were pitched in a racist tune, absorbing feminist concerns and positions into neo-nationalistic, misogynist and xenophobic propaganda. The article examines the case of #120decibel as an instance of ‘affective publics’ (Lünenborg, 2019a) where forms of feminist protest and emancipatory hashtag activism are absorbed by anti-migration campaigners. Employing the infrastructure and network logics of social media platforms, the campaign gained public exposure and sought political legitimacy through strategies of dissonance, in which a racial solidarity against the liberal state order was formed. Parallel structures of networking and echo-chamber amplification were established, where right-wing media articulate fringe positions in an attempt to protect the rights of white women to be safe in public spaces. #120decibel is analysed and discussed here as characteristic of the ambivalent role and dynamics of affective publics in societies challenged by an increasing number of actors forming an alliance on anti-migration issues based on questionable feminist positions.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/7257
2024-01-15T16:12:16Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/7257
2024-01-15T16:12:16Z
Media and Communication
Vol 12 (2024): Democracy and Media Transformations in the 21st Century: Analysing Knowledge and Expertise
Legal and Ethical Regulation in Slovakia and Its Relation to Deliberative Communication
Čábyová, Ľudmila; Faculty of Mass Media Communication, University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava, Slovakia
Krajčovič, Peter; Faculty of Mass Media Communication, University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava, Slovakia
Švecová, Magdaléna; Faculty of Mass Media Communication, University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava, Slovakia
Radošinská, Jana; Faculty of Mass Media Communication, University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava, Slovakia
Brník, Andrej; Faculty of Mass Media Communication, University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava, Slovakia
Mináriková, Juliána; Faculty of Mass Media Communication, University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava, Slovakia
2024-01-15 11:11:40
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/7257
deliberative communication; media; media accountability; media ethics; media legislation; Slovakia
en
The offered social-scientific analysis is based on a critical discussion of key problems present in the Slovak media environment, such as the ethical self-regulation of the media, freedom of expression, the right to obtain information, or the legal protection of the sources of information. The study also refers to available scholarly sources and the previously published body of knowledge to assess the development of the media system in Slovakia over the past 30 years, outlining the country’s (in)ability to foster deliberative communication and democracy. The results suggest that the legal and ethical aspects of the Slovak media system do support some of the principles of deliberative communication, specifically freedom of expression and free access to information; however, free speech is not sufficiently confronted with the boundaries of protecting privacy and human dignity to prevent defamation and hate speech. Media autonomy based on the possibility of self-regulation is not sufficiently developed either. A serious problem is the lack of transparency in the media.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/694
2020-07-21T09:48:15Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/694
2020-07-21T09:48:15Z
Media and Communication
Vol 4, No 4 (2016): Political Agency in the Digital Age: Media, Participation and Democracy; 53-62
No Digital “Castles in the Air”: Online Non-Participation and the Radical Left
Andersson, Linus; Media and Communication Studies, School of Health and Welfare, Halmstad University, Sweden
2016-08-11 09:50:58
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/694
activism; digital media; non-participation; online media; radical left
en
This article presents results from a study of online presence in activist milieus associated with the radical left in Sweden discussed from a perspective of non-participation. With the aim to further the understanding of digital non-participation as communicative strategy in activism, it builds upon empirical findings and argues that the online practices and use of social media, as could be observed in milieus associated with the radical left, indicates active non-participation and that this, in turn, is related to the ambition to claim autonomy. The article draws from existing scholarship on critical perspectives on protest movements and social media as well as empirical examples of online content published by radical leftist groups. Furthermore, it analyses how these activities could be understood in terms of active and passive non-participation, abstention or adaptation to social media affordances, as well as implosion of the social in digital media. The findings suggest that much of the activities in the material could be described as active non-participation and that this media practice relates to ideological positioning and values in the milieu.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/5340
2022-10-28T09:27:26Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5340
2022-10-28T09:27:26Z
Media and Communication
Vol 10, No 3 (2022): Across Mobile Online and Offline Spaces: Reflections on Methods, Practices, and Ethics; 247-260
The Instagram Interview: Talking to People About Travel Experiences Across Online and Offline Spaces
Hugentobler, Larissa; Department of Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich, Switzerland
2022-09-28 09:57:47
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5340
cultural sites; digital ethnography; heritage tourism; Instagram; social media
Forschungskredit of the University of Zurich
en
Studying visitors’ experiences with cultural sites has been complicated by the availability of internet-connected mobile devices. Simply observing visitors on site is no longer sufficient since they can interact with a site offline and online: before, during, and after their visit. Furthermore, cultural sites are as much sites of cultural heritage as they are sites of tourism. To study such complex experiences, new approaches to the study of human interactions with cultural sites must be developed; these methods must account for the fact that the offline and online realms can no longer be considered separate. In this article, I introduce the method of the Instagram interview as applied in an Instagram ethnography, contextualized by my project on visitor experiences of a Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington, DC, where I interviewed visitors after their visit. The Instagram interview helps study a dispersed population that engages, through Instagram posts, with one physical location and its narratives, allowing conclusions about visitor experiences of the site and the role of Instagram in this context. When constructing the Instagram interview in a manner that corresponds to platform conventions, it produces personal, in-depth narratives about the interviewee’s experiences. Conceptualizing the experience of a memorial as expanding beyond the space and time of the site visit, the Instagram interview is suitable for holistically studying visitors’ complex experiences: before, during, and after their visits, as it recognizes that offline and online interactions with the site are part of the same experience.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1991
2019-08-09T03:46:25Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1991
2019-08-09T03:46:25Z
Media and Communication
Vol 7, No 3 (2019): Selective Exposure in a Changing Political and Media Environment; 12-31
Picture Power? The Contribution of Visuals and Text to Partisan Selective Exposure
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/download/1991/10392
Powell, Thomas E.; Amsterdam School of Communication Science, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam
van der Meer, Toni G. L. A.; Amsterdam School of Communication Science, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Peralta, Carlos Brenes; Centre for Political Science, University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica
2019-07-30 03:03:09
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1991
balanced content; experimental research; image; selective exposure; text; visual communication
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Today’s high-choice media environment allows citizens to select news in line with their political preferences and avoid content counter to their priors. So far, however, selective exposure research has exclusively studied news selection based on textual cues, ignoring the recent proliferation of visual media. This study aimed to identify the contribution of visuals alongside text in selective exposure to pro-attitudinal, counter-attitudinal and balanced content. Using two experiments, we created a social media-style newsfeed with news items comprising matching and non-matching images and headlines about the contested issues of immigration and gun control in the U.S. By comparing selection behavior of participants with opposing prior attitudes on these topics, we pulled apart the contribution of images and headlines to selective exposure. Findings show that headlines play a far greater role in guiding selection, with the influence of images being minimal. The additional influence of partisan source cues is also considered.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/416
2020-07-21T09:47:58Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/416
2020-07-21T09:47:58Z
Media and Communication
Vol 4, No 2 (2016): The Impact of Media on Traditional Communities; 3-12
Media Portrayals of Hashtag Activism: A Framing Analysis of Canada’s #Idlenomore Movement
Moscato, Derek; School of Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon, USA
2016-04-26 08:57:35
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/416
media framing; online activism; social media
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The confluence of activism and social media—legitimized by efforts such as the Arab Spring and Occupy Movements—represents a growing area of mainstream media focus. Using Canada’s #IdleNoMore movement as a case, this study uses framing theory to better understand how traditional media are representing activism borne of social media such as Twitter, and how such activism can ultimately have an impact in political and public policy debates. A qualitative framing analysis is used to identify frames present in media reporting of #IdleNoMore during its first two months by two prominent Canadian publications. Emergent frames show that hashtag activism as a catalyst for a social movement was embraced as a theme by one of the publications, therefore helping to legitimize the role of social media tools such as Twitter. In other frames, both positive and negative depictions of the social movement helped to identify for mainstream audiences both historical grievances and future challenges and opportunities for Canada’s First Nations communities.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3203
2021-01-08T05:55:12Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3203
2021-01-08T05:55:12Z
Media and Communication
Vol 9, No 1 (2021): Games and Communication—Quo Vadis?; 17-27
Merging the Analogue and the Digital: Combining Opposite Activities in a Mixed Media Game
Wilhelmsson, Ulf; Division of Game Development, University of Skövde, Sweden
Susi, Tarja; Division of Game Development, University of Skövde, Sweden
Torstensson, Niklas; Division of Game Development, University of Skövde, Sweden
2021-01-06 03:50:47
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3203
activity theory; mixed media; online risk awareness; serious game; zone of experience
The Sten A Olsson Foundation for Research and Culture;The World Childhood Foundation
en
While much of the games research field for the last two decades has focused on digital games, this article draws attention to the benefits of combining analogue and digital game components to cater for a serious but fun game experience. In this case, the game design provides a set of game rules for players, where the goal is to win by finding another player’s hidden treasure. But, the game also includes deceptive characters, initially unknown to the players, whose goal is to lure the players to reveal information, which will make a player lose the game. Hence, the players and the unknown characters are involved in opposite but intertwined activities. To describe the differing activities we use the activity system model found in Activity Theory. The theoretical conceptualisation, the game design and the play situation create what we term a zone of experience where young players can experience the consequences of sharing too much information. The game design mimics real world online interactions, but under safe off-line conditions. The zone of experience also creates the foundation for an ensuing activity that fits well within the concept of the zone of proximal development: A follow-up conversation under adult guidance of game experiences aimed at raising children’s online risk awareness.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/7181
2024-02-07T12:04:55Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/7181
2024-02-07T12:04:55Z
Media and Communication
Vol 11, No 4 (2023): Digital Media and Younger Audiences: Communication Targeted at Children and Adolescents; 239-251
Tethered Disparities: Adolescent Smartphone Use in Rural and Urban China
Chen, Huan; School of Journalism and Communication, Minjiang University, China
Tai, Zixue; School of Journalism and Media, University of Kentucky, USA
2023-11-16 09:47:15
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/7181
China; digital divide; media disparities; smartphone use; territorial gap
en
The pervasive penetration of the smartphone has disproportionately affected adolescents and youth more than any other sociodemographic group. Inspired by the conceptual framework of the digital divide in internet use, this research aims to interrogate the multi-dimensional aspects of disparities in smartphone use among teens in China. Measurement was developed to assess the first-, second-, and third-level divide as manifested in smartphone access and engagement in a variety of activities, different skill sets, and myriad outcomes and consequences. Results from a cross-sectional survey of 1,511 at-school teens show various patterns of divide along the lines of age, gender, and rural/mid-sized-city/metropolitan location.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1758
2020-07-21T09:49:45Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1758
2020-07-21T09:49:45Z
Media and Communication
Vol 7, No 1 (2019): Journalism and Social Media: Redistribution of Power?; 235-247
The Role of Journalism on YouTube: Audience Engagement with ‘Superbug’ Reporting
Djerf-Pierre, Monika; Department of Journalism, Media and Communication, University of Gothenburg, Sweden / School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University, Australia
Lindgren, Mia; School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University, Australia
Budinski, Mikayla Alexis; School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University, Australia
2019-03-21 05:35:14
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1758
antibiotic resistance; antimicrobial resistance; audience engagement; popular science; social media; superbugs; user comments; video journalism; YouTube
Monash University; Centre for Antibiotic Resistance Research (CARE) at University of Gothenburg
en
Journalism has gradually become ‘normalized into social media’, and most journalists use social media platforms to publish their work (Bruns, 2018). YouTube is an influential social media platform, reaching over a billion users worldwide. Its extensive reach attracts professional and amateur video producers who turn to YouTube to inform, entertain and engage global publics. Focusing on YouTube, this study explores the place for journalism within this media ecology. This study uses a mixed-method approach to examine forms of audience engagement to YouTube videos about antimicrobial resistance (AMR), or so called “superbugs”, caused by overuse and misuse of antibiotics. The analysis focuses on the most viewed YouTube videos about AMR between 2016 and 2018, and compares engagement themes expressed in comments to journalistic videos with popular science videos. The most viewed videos about AMR on YouTube are professionally produced educational popular science videos. The qualitative analysis of 3,049 comments identifies seven main forms of high-level engagement, including expressions of emotions, blame and calls for action. This study shows that journalism plays an important role on YouTube by generating audience discussions about social and political accountability. Our findings demonstrate that journalism videos were associated with propositions for political, economic and social/lifestyle actions, while popular science videos were associated with medicines, scientific or pseudo-scientific, and medical practice changes.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/5918
2022-08-18T13:48:08Z
mediaandcommunication:EDI
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5918
2022-08-18T13:48:08Z
Media and Communication
Vol 10, No 2 (2022): Media and Migration in the Covid-19 Pandemic: Discourses, Policies, and Practices in Times of Crisis; 214-217
Editorial: Media and Migration in the Covid-19 Pandemic—Discourses, Policies, and Practices in Times of Crisis
Tsagkroni, Vasiliki; Institute of Political Science, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Alencar, Amanda; Department of Media and Communication, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Skleparis, Dimitris; School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University, UK
2022-06-30 09:54:41
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5918
Covid-19; digital technologies; media and migration; media discourses; migrants
This editorial serves as an introduction to Media and Communication’s thematic issue “Media and Migration in the Covid-19 Pandemic: Discourses, Policies, and Practices in Times of Crisis.” This thematic issue presents a space for discussion on ways in which digital infrastructures and media have an impact on understandings and experiences of migration during the pandemic. The seven articles in this volume offer an integrated account of this issue from many empirical studies adopting a multi-actor perspective while also involving different methodologies and cross-cultural and interdisciplinary frameworks. The contributions featured in this thematic issue shed new light on the role of mediated processes and discourses around migration and may be of assistance to understanding the opportunities and challenges of leveraging media technologies to promote inclusive, sustainable, and meaningful participation and representation of migrants beyond the pandemic.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3536
2020-08-24T03:41:16Z
mediaandcommunication:EDI
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3536
2020-08-24T03:41:16Z
Media and Communication
Vol 8, No 3 (2020): Media Performance in Times of Media Change; 239-343
More Relevant Today Than Ever: Past, Present and Future of Media Performance Research
Magin, Melanie; Department of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Stark, Birgit; Department of Communication, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
2020-08-24 03:22:57
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3536
democracy; information intermediaries; media consumption; media performance; media quality; media structures; news quality; social media
en
Media performance is constitutive for functioning democracies. But what is the situation regarding media performance in the age of digitalisation? And how can media performance continue to be assured under the current difficult economic conditions for the news industry? In this essay, we give a short overview of how media performance research has developed from the introduction of private broadcasting to the spread of the Internet and social media. In the course of this development, the initial focus of media performance research on media content has broadened to include media quality from the user perspective. We show how the contributions to this thematic issue relate with existing lines of media performance research, but also add new facets to them. Finally, we point to the directions in which research on media performance should evolve in order to keep pace with current developments in the media market.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/6813
2023-08-03T10:31:36Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
ec_fundedresources
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6813
2023-08-03T10:31:36Z
Media and Communication
Vol 11, No 3 (2023): Social Media’s Role in Political and Societal Mobilization; 175-186
Are Online Political Influencers Accelerating Democratic Deconsolidation?
Gibson, Rachel; Department of Politics, University of Manchester, UK
Bon, Esmeralda; Department of Politics, University of Manchester, UK
Darius, Philipp; Center for Digital Governance, Hertie School, Germany
Smyth, Peter; Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research, University of Manchester, UK
2023-08-03 10:14:07
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6813
democratic deconsolidation; digital campaigning; micro-influencers; online election; online influencers; social media
European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, European Research Council
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Social media campaigning is increasingly linked with anti-democratic outcomes, with concerns to date centring on paid adverts, rather than organic content produced by a new set of online political influencers. This study systematically compares voter exposure to these new campaign actors with candidate-sponsored ads, as well as established and alternative news sources during the US 2020 presidential election. Specifically, we examine how far higher exposure to these sources is linked with key trends identified in the democratic deconsolidation thesis. We use data from a national YouGov survey designed to measure digital campaign exposure to test our hypotheses. Findings show that while higher exposure to online political influencers is linked to more extremist opinions, followers are not disengaging from conventional politics. Exposure to paid political ads, however, is confirmed as a potential source of growing distrust in political institutions.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/297
2020-07-21T09:47:42Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/297
2020-07-21T09:47:42Z
Media and Communication
Vol 3, No 2 (2015): Surveillance: Critical Analysis and Current Challenges (Part I); 53-62
EU Law and Mass Internet Metadata Surveillance in the Post-Snowden Era
Ni Loideain, Nora; Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, UK
2015-09-30 12:16:43
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/297
Edward Snowden; EU law; human rights; judicial review; mass surveillance; metadata; personal data; privacy
en
Legal frameworks exist within democracies to prevent the misuse and abuse of personal data that law enforcement authorities obtain from private communication service providers. The fundamental rights to respect for private life and the protection of personal data underpin this framework within the European Union. Accordingly, the protection of the principles and safeguards required by these rights is key to ensuring that the oversight of State surveillance powers is robust and transparent. Furthermore, without the robust scrutiny of independent judicial review, the principles and safeguards guaranteed by these rights may become more illusory than real. Following the Edward Snowden revelations, major concerns have been raised worldwide regarding the legality, necessity and proportionality standards governing these laws. In 2014, the highest court in the EU struck down the legal framework that imposed a mandatory duty on communication service providers to undertake the mass retention of metadata for secret intelligence and law enforcement authorities across the EU. This article considers the influence of the Snowden revelations on this landmark judgment. Subsequently, the analysis explores the significance of this ruling for the future reform of EU law governing metadata surveillance and its contribution to the worldwide debate on indiscriminate and covert monitoring in the post-Snowden era.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3058
2020-08-24T03:41:16Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3058
2020-08-24T03:41:16Z
Media and Communication
Vol 8, No 3 (2020): Media Performance in Times of Media Change; 281-292
Democratic Theory and the Potential of Value Frames in Assessing Media Performance
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/download/3058/18924
Weiß, Ralph; Institute of Social Sciences, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
Kösters, Raphael; Institute of Social Sciences, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
Mahrt, Merja; Institute of Social Sciences, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
2020-08-24 03:22:59
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3058
cleavages; citizenship; democracy; diversity; framing; media performance; news standards; plurality; political values
German Research Foundation (DFG); Austrian Science Fund (FWF); Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
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Media users need information and knowledge to act as free citizens. From this basic democratic assumption, news standards for media performance can be derived. Porto’s (2007) model of the ‘interpreting citizen’ assigns a central role to the diversity of interpretive frames. These frames enable citizens to make judgments about societal issues and related political positions. However, a theoretical foundation for classifying these frames in terms of their content is missing. We propose to derive such a basis from democratic theories of citizenship, which assume that values define a citizen’s position vis-à-vis the political sphere. Building on the cleavage approach from political science, we characterize which values organize political debates. The results of a large-scale content analysis of German news media demonstrate which empirical insights into media performance can be gained with a theoretically derived classification of value frames (most notably, measuring the substantive content of plurality). Based on this, we discuss additional avenues for future research.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1744
2020-07-21T09:49:14Z
mediaandcommunication:COM
driver
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1744
2020-07-21T09:49:14Z
Media and Communication
Vol 6, No 4 (2018): News and Participation through and beyond Proprietary Platforms in an Age of Social Media; 111-114
Why We Should Keep Studying Good (and Everyday) Participation: An Analogy to Political Participation
Kligler-Vilenchik, Neta; Department of Communication and Journalism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
2018-11-08 04:10:21
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1744
citizen journalism; dark participation; everyday participation; good participation; news; participatory journalism; political participation; social media
en
Research on participation is currently characterized by a trend towards studying its “darker” sides. In this commentary, I make an argument for why we should keep studying good participation. In addition, I claim that the flipside of studying exceptional case studies of participation shouldn’t be only focusing on dark participation, but on everyday, mundane forms of participation, that may happen in surprising contexts (such as non-proprietary platforms) and may take different shapes. To make these claims, I introduce a case study of “good participation” in news production processes, and explain why it may merit this distinction. I then use a three-pronged analogy to the cognate field of political participation to show what it can tell us about good—and everyday—participation in the news.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/5050
2022-03-02T10:00:36Z
mediaandcommunication:EDI
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5050
2022-03-02T10:00:36Z
Media and Communication
Vol 10, No 1 (2022): New Narratives for New Consumers: Influencers and the Millennial and Centennial Generations; 120-123
OK, Boomer: New Users, Different Platforms, New Challenges
Romero-Rodríguez, Luis M.; Department of Communication Sciences and Sociology, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain / ESAI Business School, Espiritu Santo University, Ecuador
Tejedor, Santiago; Department of Journalism and Communication Sciences, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
Berlanga, Inmaculada; Faculty of Business and Communication, International University of La Rioja, Spain
2022-02-24 10:20:50
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5050
centennials; digital media; Facebook; influencers; Instagram; millenials; social networks; online participation; TikTok; YouTube
Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), and Government of Andalusia
en
The popularization of new interaction spaces brings new narratives and social phenomena that merit attention from the scientific community. Based on the existing literature on the new challenges facing the communication discipline with these emerging narratives, this editorial summarizes the empirical and theoretical contributions of the thematic issue entitled “New Narratives for New Consumers: Influencers and the Millennial and Centennial Generations.” The authors emphasize that the studies selected for this thematic issue explore the innovative features and opportunities of the emerging scenarios and offer a cautionary account of their structural problems and the urgency of a new media literacy.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3223
2020-06-25T09:30:16Z
mediaandcommunication:COM
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3223
2020-06-25T09:30:16Z
Media and Communication
Vol 8, No 2 (2020): Health and Science Controversies in the Digital World: News, Mis/Disinformation and Public Engagement; 440-443
Africa and the Covid-19 Information Framing Crisis
Ogola, George; School of Journalism, Media and Performance, University of Central Lancashire, UK
2020-06-25 08:29:42
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3223
Africa; Coronavirus; Covid-19; crisis; health journalism; misinformation; news framing
en
Africa faces a double Covid-19 crisis. At once it is a crisis of the pandemic, at another an information framing crisis. This article argues that public health messaging about the pandemic is complicated by a competing mix of framings by a number of actors including the state, the Church, civil society and the public, all fighting for legitimacy. The article explores some of these divergences in the interpretation of the disease and how they have given rise to multiple narratives about the pandemic, particularly online. It concludes that while different perspectives and or interpretations of a crisis is not necessarily wrong, where these detract from the crisis itself and become a contestation of individual and or sector interests, they birth a new crisis. This is the new crisis facing the continent in relation to the pandemic.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/6422
2023-06-28T07:42:00Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6422
2023-06-28T07:42:00Z
Media and Communication
Vol 11, No 2 (2023): A Datafied Society: Data Power, Infrastructures, and Regulations; 296-306
Digital Platforms and Infrastructure in the Realm of Culture
Hesmondhalgh, David; School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds, UK
Campos Valverde, Raquel; School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds, UK
Kaye, D. Bondy Valdovinos; School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds, UK
Li, Zhongwei; School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds, UK
2023-06-28 08:11:18
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6422
digital information infrastructure; digital platforms; internet architecture; internet regulation; music streaming platforms; platformisation
European Research Council
en
The concepts of (digital) platform and (digital) infrastructure have been widely used and discussed in recent media research, and in neighbouring fields such as science and technology studies (STS). Yet there is considerable confusion about these concepts and the relations between them. This article seeks to bring these concepts together more coherently by showing how “platformisation” might be understood in terms of its impacts on information infrastructure, including on the principles of openness and generativity underlying early internet architecture, and potential further effects on media and culture deriving from those impacts. To develop this perspective, we draw on research from legal studies which: (a) articulates these principles more fully than in recent media studies and STS; (b) understands infrastructures as resources subject to political contestation; and (c) in the work of Julie Cohen, interprets digital platforms as strategies for disciplining infrastructures. We discuss how such a perspective might complement approaches to digital platforms and infrastructures to be found in political economy of media and internet governance research. We then apply the perspective to a case study: the transition of online music from chaotic experiments with alternative models of distribution in the early century to a thoroughly platformised environment in the 2020s.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/4184
2021-11-22T11:49:29Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/4184
2021-11-22T11:49:29Z
Media and Communication
Vol 9, No 4 (2021): Algorithmic Systems in the Digital Society; 234-249
What’s “Up Next”? Investigating Algorithmic Recommendations on YouTube Across Issues and Over Time
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/download/4184/26303
Matamoros-Fernández, Ariadna; Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology, Australia / School of Communication, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Gray, Joanne E.; Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology, Australia / School of Communication, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Bartolo, Louisa; Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology, Australia / School of Communication, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Burgess, Jean; Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology, Australia / School of Communication, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Suzor, Nicolas; Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology, Australia / School of Law, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
2021-11-18 10:14:40
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/4184
algorithms; automation; content moderation; digital methods; platform governance; YouTube
QUT Digital Media Research Centre;Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society
en
YouTube’s “up next” feature algorithmically selects, suggests, and displays videos to watch after the one that is currently playing. This feature has been criticized for limiting users’ exposure to a range of diverse media content and information sources; meanwhile, YouTube has reported that they have implemented various technical and policy changes to address these concerns. However, there is little publicly available data to support either the existing concerns or YouTube’s claims of having addressed them. Drawing on the idea of “platform observability,” this article combines computational and qualitative methods to investigate the types of content that the algorithms underpinning YouTube’s “up next” feature amplify over time, using three keyword search terms associated with sociocultural issues where concerns have been raised about YouTube’s role: “coronavirus,” “feminism,” and “beauty.” Over six weeks, we collected the videos (and their metadata, including channel IDs) that were highly ranked in the search results for each keyword, as well as the highly ranked recommendations associated with the videos. We repeated this exercise for three steps in the recommendation chain and then examined patterns in the recommended videos (and the channels that uploaded the videos) for each query and their variation over time. We found evidence of YouTube’s stated efforts to boost “authoritative” media outlets, but at the same time, misleading and controversial content continues to be recommended. We also found that while algorithmic recommendations offer diversity in videos over time, there are clear “winners” at the channel level that are given a visibility boost in YouTube’s “up next” feature. However, these impacts are attenuated differently depending on the nature of the issue.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1382
2020-07-21T09:48:55Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1382
2020-07-21T09:48:55Z
Media and Communication
Vol 6, No 2 (2018): Games Matter? Current Theories and Studies on Digital Games; 69-79
Do We Need Permission to Play in Public? The Design of Participation for Social Play Video Games at Play Parties and ‘Alternative’ Games Festivals
Love, Lynn H. C.; School of Design and Informatics, Abertay University, UK
2018-06-07 08:06:42
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1382
cultural intermediaries; cultural transformation; games; independent video games; social play events
en
Play is fundamental to being Human. It helps to make sense of the self, to learn, to be creative and to relax. The advent of video games challenged traditional notions of play, introducing a single player experience to what had primarily been a communal social activity. As technology has developed, communal play has found both online and real-world spaces within video games. Online streaming, multiplayer games and built-in spectator modes within games underpin online communal play experiences, whilst ‘alternative’ games festivals, play parties and electronic sports, provide real world spaces for people to meet, play and exchange knowledge relating to both playing and making video games. This article reports the study of social play events which bring people together in the same space to explore video games making and playing. Expert interviews with curators, and event facilitators provides qualitative data from which design processes are formalised into a ‘model of participation’ of social play. Four key areas of balance are proposed as core considerations in supporting participation in event design. The study of these events also suggests that their design and fostering of participation has the potential to evoke cultural change in game making and playing practices.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/6453
2023-06-26T15:50:20Z
mediaandcommunication:REV
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6453
2023-06-26T15:50:20Z
Media and Communication
Vol 11, No 2 (2023): Fakespotting: (Dis)Information Literacy as Key Tool to Defend Democracy; 76-87
A Systematic Literature Review of the Phenomenon of Disinformation and Misinformation
Pérez-Escolar, Marta; Department of Communication, Universidad Loyola Andalucía, Spain
Lilleker, Darren; Department of Media and Communication, Bournemouth University, UK
Tapia-Frade, Alejandro; Department of Marketing and Communication, University of Cadiz, Spain
2023-04-28 08:58:22
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6453
credibility; disinformation; fake news; falsehood; hoaxes; misinformation; truth
en
Disinformation threatens the virtue of knowledge. The notion of truth becomes corrupted when citizens believe and give credibility to false, inaccurate, or misleading messages. This situation is particularly relevant in the digital age, where users of media platforms are exposed to different sorts of persuasive statements with uncertain origins and a lack of authenticity. How does academia understand the disinformation problem, and are we equipped to offer solutions? In response to this question, our study provides an overview of the general definitions, trends, patterns, and developments that represent the research on disinformation and misinformation. We conducted a systematic review of N = 756 publications covering eight years, 2014–2022. This period captures phenomena such as Trump’s emergence as a candidate for the US presidency, his term in office, as well as the leadership of figures such as Erdogan in Turkey, Bolsonaro in Brazil, Modi in India, and various similar populist and nationalist leaders across a range of democratic and semi-democratic societies. This period is also one that witnessed the first global pandemic, when misinformation and disinformation not only threatened societal cohesion but the lives of people. This systematic review explores the critical terminology used, the areas of social life where disinformation is identified as problematic, the sources identified as creating or circulating this material, as well as the channels studied, the targets, and the persuasiveness of the discourse. What this article offers, then, is an overview of what we know about disinformation and what gaps in research should be pursued. We conclude that given the problems that misinformation and disinformation are seen to cause for democratic societies, we need to assess the contribution of social science in providing a foundation for scientific knowledge.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/7374
2024-02-29T10:28:34Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/7374
2024-02-29T10:28:34Z
Media and Communication
Vol 12 (2024): Unpacking Innovation: Media and the Locus of Change
Institutional Arbitrageurs: The Role of Product Managers as a Locus of Change in Journalism
Kosterich, Allie; Gabelli School of Business, Fordham University, USA
Royal, Cindy; School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Texas State University, USA
2024-02-29 09:21:32
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/7374
innovation; institutional arbitrage; institutional change; journalism; news product manager; news professional; product managers
Fordham University
en
The modern news industry demands a continuous stream of products ready to meet audience needs; the emergent newsroom role of product manager serves to prioritize them by providing a holistic perspective on an organization’s goals. Product professionals bring in new skill sets and help to bridge the divide and align the priorities among editorial, business, and technology functions, serving as a locus of change in journalism. This sets the stage for institutional complexity where actors struggle to make decisions due to competing logics, which are socially constructed rules created to normalize behavior. This article thus focuses on the dynamics of change in a complex environment by examining news product professionals as institutional arbitrageurs, which are actors who bring competing logics together to create value during a time of complexity. This framing raises questions regarding the locus of change in journalism and aims to further understand the tactics used by actors in a complex environment such as the field of journalism. A qualitative study using interviews with digital journalism’s product professionals is used to address this phenomenon, which allows for a theoretical contextualization of the dynamics of change in journalism and specifically, how product managers act as a locus of change using their roles to manage complexity by bringing incompatible logics together to leverage differences between them.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/595
2020-07-21T09:48:09Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/595
2020-07-21T09:48:09Z
Media and Communication
Vol 4, No 3 (2016): (Not Yet) the End of Television; 162-175
The End of the Television Archive as We Know It? The National Archive as an Agent of Historical Knowledge in the Convergence Era
Hagedoorn, Berber; Research Centre for Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Agterberg, Bas; Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, The Netherlands
2016-07-14 05:27:36
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/595
archival footage; broadcasting; convergence; cross-media; digital media; history programming; media policy; online circulation; preservation and contextualization practices; production research documentation
en
Professionals in the television industry are working towards a certain future—rather than end—for the medium based on multi-platform storytelling, as well as multiple screens, distribution channels and streaming platforms. They do so rooted in institutional frameworks where traditional conceptualizations of television still persist. In this context, we reflect on the role of the national television archive as an agent of historical knowledge in the convergence era. Contextualisation and infrastructure function as important preconditions for users of archives to find their way through the enormous amounts of audio-visual material. Specifically, we consider the case of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, taking a critical stance towards the archive’s practices of contextualisation and preservation of audio-visual footage in the convergence era. To do so, this article considers the impact of online circulation, contextualisation and preservation of audio-visual materials in relation to, first, how media policy complicates the re-use of material, and second, the archive’s use by television professionals and media researchers. This article reflects on the possibilities for and benefits of systematic archiving, developments in web archiving, and accessibility of production and contextual documentation of public broadcasters in the Netherlands. We do so based on an analysis of internal documentation, best practices of archive-based history programmes and their related cross-media practices, as well as media policy documentation. We consider how audio-visual archives should deal with the shift towards multi-platform productions, and argue for both a more systematic archiving of production and contextual documentation in the Netherlands, and for media researchers who draw upon archival resources to show a greater awareness of an archive’s history. In the digital age, even more people are part of the archive’s processes of selection and aggregation, affecting how the past is preserved through audio-visual images.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/5449
2022-09-05T10:13:34Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5449
2022-09-05T10:13:34Z
Media and Communication
Vol 10, No 3 (2022): Enlightening Confusion: How Contradictory Findings Help Mitigate Problematic Trends in Digital Democracies; 146-157
Media Use and Societal Perceptions: The Dual Role of Media Trust
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/download/5449/38778
Shehata, Adam; Department of Journalism, Media and Communication, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Strömbäck, Jesper; Department of Journalism, Media and Communication, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
2022-08-31 11:39:44
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5449
alternative media; media effects; media trust; media use; societal perceptions
European Research Council (ERC); Swedish Research Council (VR)
en
How citizens’ perceptions of societal problems are shaped by media use has been a critical question in media effects research for decades. This study addresses a specific puzzle concerning media effects in contemporary fragmented media environments: the dual role of media trust as both (a) an antecedent variable guiding news selection and (b) a moderator variable conditioning the effects of news use on perceptions of societal problems. Building upon the differential susceptibility to media effects model, we analyze the role of media trust for citizens’ orientation towards mainstream and alternative news media—and how such usage influences perceptions of two major societal issues: health care and school. Findings from a four-wave panel survey conducted in Sweden suggest that public service and alternative news use matter for citizens’ perceptions of societal problems and that media trust influences news choices and may, partly, condition media effects.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1879
2019-07-02T04:43:14Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1879
2019-07-02T04:43:14Z
Media and Communication
Vol 7, No 2 (2019): Refugee Crises Disclosed: Intersections between Media, Communication and Forced Migration Processes; 242-253
Urban & Online: Social Media Use among Adolescents and Sense of Belonging to a Super-Diverse City
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/download/1879/9798
van Eldik, Anne K.; Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Kneer, Julia; Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Jansz, Jeroen; Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2019-06-28 07:51:31
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1879
adolescents; identity construction; migration; Rotterdam; self-esteem; social media; super-diversity; urban identity
Roy Borggreve, Bouwkeet
en
In a world of continuous migration, super-diverse cities consist of a multitude of migrants and non-migrants from a variety of cultural backgrounds. Yet one characteristic they all have in common is the place where they currently live. In addition, both groups are active users of social media, especially the young. Social media provide platforms to construct and negotiate one’s identity—particularly the identity related to where one lives: urban identity. This article presents the results of a survey study (N = 324) investigating the relationships between social media engagement and identity construction among migrant and non-migrant adolescents in the super-diverse city of Rotterdam, the Netherlands. It was found that urban identity was significantly higher for migrants than non-migrants. Certain aspects of social media engagement predicted urban identity in combination with social identity. Finally, social media engagement was found to be positively related to group self-esteem.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/7104
2023-12-07T11:01:19Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/7104
2023-12-07T11:01:19Z
Media and Communication
Vol 11, No 4 (2023): Trust, Social Cohesion, and Information Quality in Digital Journalism; 320-331
Confusing Content, Platforms, and Data: Young Adults and Trust in News Media
Ehrlén, Veera; Department of Language and Communication Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Talvitie-Lamberg, Karoliina; Department of Language and Communication Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Salonen, Margareta; Department of Language and Communication Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Koivula, Minna; Department of Language and Communication Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Villi, Mikko; Department of Language and Communication Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Uskali, Turo; Department of Language and Communication Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
2023-12-07 10:11:35
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/7104
data confusion; datafication; news; news trust; platformisation; social media; vulnerability; young adults
Media Industry Research Foundation of Finland
en
News media trust, and the lack thereof, has been a prominent topic of discussion among journalism scholars in recent years. In this article, we study young adults’ trust in news media from the perspectives of platformisation and datafication. For the empirical study, we collected interview data from 23 Finnish 19–25-year-old young adults and analysed it inductively with applied thematic analysis. Our analysis reveals that trust negotiation is relational and entails not accepted, but forced vulnerability in relation to news media and the platforms on which they operate. Unclarity about the agency of news media on social media platforms causes young adults to experience powerlessness and anxiety in the face of data collection, which in practice translates into indifference toward their data being used by both news media and social media platforms. We show that young adults face a variety of challenges when navigating the online (news) media environment, which as we identify, can result in three trust-diminishing confusions about content, platforms, and data. This may have profound effects on how journalism is viewed as a cornerstone of a democratic society.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/559
2020-07-21T09:47:53Z
mediaandcommunication:EDI
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/559
2020-07-21T09:47:53Z
Media and Communication
Vol 4, No 1 (2016): Peacebuilding in the Age of New Media; 1-3
Peacebuilding in the Age of New Media
Bratic, Vladimir; Department of Communication Studies, Hollins University, USA
2016-02-18 10:08:06
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/559
conflict; Internet; mass media; new media; peacebuilding; social media; traditional media, war
en
This editorial provides the historical context for the current state of peacebuilding media and introduces the articles featured in the issue.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3232
2020-12-21T09:21:19Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3232
2020-12-21T09:21:19Z
Media and Communication
Vol 8, No 4 (2020): Children’s Voices on Privacy Management and Data Responsibilization; 163-174
Children’s and Parents’ Perceptions of Online Commercial Data Practices: A Qualitative Study
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/download/3232/20598
Desimpelaere, Laurien; Department of Communication Sciences, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Belgium
Hudders, Liselot; Department of Communication Sciences, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Belgium / Department of Marketing, Innovation and Organization, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Belgium
Sompel, Dieneke Van de; Department of Communication Sciences, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Belgium / Department of Marketing, Innovation and Organization, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Belgium
2020-11-10 05:13:44
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3232
children; coping; data collection; online privacy; parents; privacy literacy
BOF & FWO
en
Children’s personal data are often collected for commercial aims. Although regulations in different countries aim to protect children’s privacy (e.g., by imposing websites to request parental consent for the processing of children’s data for commercial purposes), concerns about protecting children’s online data continue to rise. This article therefore aims to get insights into parents’ and children’s privacy coping strategies and perceptions underlying these strategies. In-depth interviews with ten parents and nine children (8–11 years) were conducted. Findings show that although children engaged in avoidance (e.g., leaving the particular website) and confrontation (e.g., seeking support) strategies, they mainly did this to protect their privacy from malicious individuals—and not from commercial parties. Participating children also lacked general knowledge about both explicit and implicit data practices. To protect their children’s privacy, parents in this study mainly adopted restrictive mediation strategies, but lacked the knowledge to undertake concrete actions in the case of implicit data collection. Implications for policymakers are discussed.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1745
2020-07-21T09:49:38Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1745
2020-07-21T09:49:38Z
Media and Communication
Vol 7, No 1 (2019): Emerging Technologies in Journalism and Media: International Perspectives on Their Nature and Impact; 139-152
Social Television Viewing with Second Screen Platforms: Antecedents and Consequences
Guo, Miao; Department of Telecommunications, Ball State University, USA
2019-02-19 05:03:10
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1745
mobile media; second screen platforms; social TV; viewer behavior
en
This study investigates the causal relationship between antecedents and consequences of social television viewing combining the television screen and concurrent use of a mobile, “second screen” media platform. The results indicate that social television viewing is a complex process driven by the viewers’ program affinity, motives, interpersonal interaction, and the perceived media characteristics of alternative platforms. The social television viewing behavior also has a positive influence on loyalty to television programs, time-shifted viewing, and product purchase intention. The implications of these findings and recommendations for future research are discussed.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/5004
2022-05-30T11:42:23Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5004
2022-05-30T11:42:23Z
Media and Communication
Vol 10, No 2 (2022): Impact of Social Media on Social Cohesion; 119-129
Does Passive Facebook Use Promote Feelings of Social Connectedness?
Pit, Ilse L.; Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, The Netherlands / Institute of Human Sciences, University of Oxford, UK / Calleva Research Centre for Evolution and Human Sciences, Magdalen College, UK
Veling, Harm; Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, The Netherlands / Consumption and Healthy Lifestyles, Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands
Karremans, Johan C.; Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, The Netherlands
2022-05-26 10:26:05
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5004
Facebook; ostracism; preregistration; social connectedness; social media; social network site
Research Master's Behavioural Science, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
en
Previous research has shown that passive social media use does not have the same positive effects on well-being as active social media use. However, it is currently unclear whether these effects can be attributed to the benefits of active use, the costs of passive use, or both. The current article investigated the effect of active and passive Facebook use on feelings of social connectedness after being ostracized. In two preregistered experiments, participants were first ostracized on a faux social media platform, followed by a measurement of social connectedness. In Experiment 1 they were then instructed to either use Facebook passively, use Facebook actively, or use a non-social website (Wikipedia), after which social connectedness was measured again. Results indicated that active Facebook use can restore social connectedness after being ostracized as compared to using a non-social website. While passive Facebook use also restored social connectedness, it did not change social connectedness significantly more so than Wikipedia use. In Experiment 2, we replicated Experiment 1, now focusing only on passive Facebook use compared to a non-social website. Results showed again that passive Facebook use did not influence social connectedness more so than the use of Wikipedia. In exploratory analyses, we found that for participants who felt close to other Facebook users, passive Facebook use did increase social connectedness compared to using a non-social website. These experiments suggest that, even though passive social media use does not restore social connectedness in the same way that active social media use does, it also does not harm social connectedness, and it may actually promote social connectedness under certain circumstances.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3031
2020-07-28T09:11:43Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3031
2020-07-28T09:11:43Z
Media and Communication
Vol 8, No 3 (2020): Journalism from Above: Drones, the Media, and the Transformation of Journalistic Practice; 137-146
Drones, Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Journalism: Mapping Their Role in Immersive News Content
Pavlik, John V.; Journalism and Media Studies, Rutgers University, USA
2020-07-27 05:09:35
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3031
augmented reality; drones; journalism; photogrammetry; virtual reality; volumetric
en
Drones are shaping journalism in a variety of ways including in the production of immersive news content. This article identifies, describes and analyzes, or maps out, four areas in which drones are impacting immersive news content. These include: 1) enabling the possibility of providing aerial perspective for first-person perspective flight-based immersive journalism experiences; 2) providing geo-tagged audio and video for flight-based immersive news content; 3) providing the capacity for both volumetric and 360 video capture; and 4) generating novel content types or content based on data acquired from a broad range of sensors beyond the standard visible light captured via video cameras; these may be a central generator of unique experiential media content beyond visual flight-based news content.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/6654
2023-08-03T10:27:49Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6654
2023-08-03T10:27:49Z
Media and Communication
Vol 11, No 3 (2023): Social Media’s Role in Political and Societal Mobilization; 141-152
In the Web of the Parties: Local Politicians on Facebook in Hungary
Bene, Márton; Institute for Political Science, Centre for Social Sciences, Hungary / Faculty of Law, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
Dobos, Gábor; Institute for Political Science, Centre for Social Sciences, Hungary / Research Institute for Politics and Government, University of Public Service, Hungary
2023-08-03 10:14:06
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6654
Facebook; Hungary; local politics; local representatives; municipalities; social media
National Research, Development and Innovation Office of Hungary (FK-135189)
en
The study examines the Facebook use of elected local politicians over two years in Hungary. To gain insights into the role of local politicians in social-media-based local publics in Hungary, a large-scale data collection has been conducted to capture the Facebook activity of all elected local representatives (mayors and councilors; N = 19,503) from the 3,152 Hungarian municipalities. Our research uncovers the level (adoption, activity) and direct audience (number of followers) of their Facebook activity and shows how these patterns are conditioned by political (party, electoral competitiveness, bandwagon effect) and contextual (size, average income of the population, development level of the local Facebook sphere) factors. We show that local politicians are mostly active in larger municipalities, while a larger proportion of the population can be reached directly in smaller communities. The activity of local politicians is largely driven by political considerations, while demand-side factors are less important.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/304
2023-12-27T09:04:37Z
mediaandcommunication:COM
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/304
2023-12-27T09:04:37Z
Media and Communication
Vol 3, No 1 (2015): Multidisciplinary Studies in Media and Communication; 1-4
Climate Crisis and Communication: Reflections on Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything
Hackett, Robert A.; School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
2015-06-01 09:39:40
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/304
alternative media; capitalism; climate crisis and media; journalism; media reform
en
This commentary suggests that Naomi Klein’s influential book This changes everything: Capitalism vs. the climate, implicitly points to the influence of media institutions on societal response to the crisis, yet does not analyze them explicitly. Communication scholars could help fill that gap. Conversely however, Klein’s work suggests productive avenues for media researchers to explore, including a fresh take on the relationship between climate crisis, communication and capitalism as a system, and the potential for alternative media to challenge dominant cultural narratives.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/4699
2022-03-02T10:00:36Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/4699
2022-03-02T10:00:36Z
Media and Communication
Vol 10, No 1 (2022): New Narratives for New Consumers: Influencers and the Millennial and Centennial Generations; 146-156
Blurring Boundaries Between Journalists and Tiktokers: Journalistic Role Performance on TikTok
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/download/4699/30644
Negreira-Rey, María-Cruz; Department of Communication Sciences, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Vázquez-Herrero, Jorge; Department of Communication Sciences, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
López-García, Xosé; Department of Communication Sciences, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2022-02-24 10:20:49
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/4699
influencer; journalism; journalist; social media; TikTok
Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities; ERDF
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In recent years, media has adapted to the logic of each new social network to respond to renewed consumption habits and journalists have developed new roles on these platforms. TikTok is an emerging platform with its own influencer culture and in which the main audiences are the millennial and centennial generations. The main objective of this study is to analyze the presence of journalists on TikTok through the type of content and strategies used in adapting to this platform. The research is based on methodological triangulation. First, a database of journalists on TikTok (n1 = 212) was developed and the profiles were reviewed. Second, a questionnaire survey (n2 = 63) was developed. Finally, a content analysis (n3 = 520) of profiles exceeding 100,000 followers was conducted. This research provides a first description of the activity of journalists on TikTok, where a variety of roles, usages, and strategies are identified, beyond those of their profession. They join the of-the-moment platform with different purposes (to inform, entertain, or introduce themselves) and targets (new audiences, young people, fans). Journalists adapt their presence to the TikTok social media logic, seeking a space of influence on a platform that is the natural habitat of younger generations.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1492
2020-07-21T09:49:15Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1492
2020-07-21T09:49:15Z
Media and Communication
Vol 6, No 4 (2018): News and Participation through and beyond Proprietary Platforms in an Age of Social Media; 24-25
From Counter-Power to Counter-Pepe: The Vagaries of Participatory Epistemology in a Digital Age
Anderson, C. W.; School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds, UK
Revers, Matthias; School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds, UK
2018-11-08 04:10:21
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1492
Andy Carvin; Buzzfeed; citizen journalism; Indymedia; meta-discourse; memes; participatory epistemology; Pepe the Frog; populism; trolls
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This article reconstructs the evolution of societal and journalistic meta-discourse about the participation of ordinary citizens in the news production process. We do so through a genealogy of what we call “participatory epistemology”, defined here as a form of journalistic knowledge in which professional expertise is modified through public interaction. It is our argument that the notion of “citizen participation in news process” has not simply functioned as a normative concept but has rather carried with it a particular understanding of what journalists could reasonably know, and how their knowledge could be enhanced by engaging with the public in order to produce journalistic work. By examining four key moments in the evolution of participatory epistemology, as well as the discursive webs that have surrounded these moments, we aim to demonstrate some of the factors which led a cherished and utopian concept to become a dark and dystopian one. In this, we supplement the work of Quandt (2018) and add some historical flesh to the conceptual arguments of his article on “dark participation”.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/4737
2022-03-02T10:00:36Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/4737
2022-03-02T10:00:36Z
Media and Communication
Vol 10, No 1 (2022): New Narratives for New Consumers: Influencers and the Millennial and Centennial Generations; 198-207
Why Do People Return to Video Platforms? Millennials and Centennials on TikTok
Cuesta-Valiño, Pedro; Department of Economics and Business Management, Universidad de Alcalá, Spain
Gutiérrez-Rodríguez, Pablo; Department of Business Administration, Universidad de León, Spain
Durán-Álamo, Patricia; Department of Economics and Business Management, Universidad de Alcalá, Spain
2022-02-24 10:20:49
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/4737
centennials; continuance motivation; millennials; social networks; stickiness; TikTok; video creation; video sharing behaviour
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While some social networks like Facebook are losing interest among digital influencers, TikTok continues to grow, capturing and impacting centennials and millennials alike. This situation highlights the new generations’ increasing interest in short video formats, which are also becoming a new window of communication between companies and consumers. TikTok allows users to create, share, and discover short, user-generated videos in hopes of attracting viewers. But it is necessary to understand the variables that attract and engage users of these particular social networks. This article analyses the variables of continuance motivation, video sharing behaviour, and video creation capabilities, which allow users to enjoy such networks, and service providers and companies to obtain results from them. The aim is to understand how these variables motivate social media users to return to and spend more time on this video-sharing platform. This is measured through the stickiness variable. In this context—and due to the particular relevance of the topic—the authors also aim to reveal any potential differences in the behaviour of centennials and millennials when using TikTok. Therefore, a cross-sectional study was conducted through a questionnaire answered by 2,301 millennials and centennials who use TikTok. The data were analysed through a structural equation model to measure the relevance of each of the variables to stickiness. The results provide guidelines for improving research on video social media platforms, as well as an opportunity to explore the importance of the selected variables to the stickiness variable across different user segments.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/2937
2020-06-25T09:30:15Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
ec_fundedresources
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/2937
2020-06-25T09:30:15Z
Media and Communication
Vol 8, No 2 (2020): Health and Science Controversies in the Digital World: News, Mis/Disinformation and Public Engagement; 329-338
Pro-Science, Anti-Science and Neutral Science in Online Videos on Climate Change, Vaccines and Nanotechnology
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/download/2937/20302
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/download/2937/20305
Erviti, M. Carmen; School of Management Assistants, University of Navarra, Spain
Codina, Mónica; School of Communication, University of Navarra, Spain
León, Bienvenido; School of Communication, University of Navarra, Spain
2020-06-25 08:29:38
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/2937
climate change; Google; nanotechnology; science communication; user-generated content; vaccines; video production
Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, España (CSO2013- 45301-P)
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Online video has become a relevant tool to disseminate scientific information to the public. However, in this arena, science coexists with non-scientific or pseudoscientific beliefs that can influence people’s knowledge, attitudes, and behavior. Our research sets out to find empirical evidence of the representation of pro-science, anti-science and neutral stances in online videos. From a search on Google videos, we conducted content analysis of a sample of videos about climate change, vaccines and nanotechnology (n = 826). Results indicate that a search through Google videos provides a relatively small representation of videos with an anti-science stance, which can be regarded as positive, given the high potential influence of this search engine in spreading scientific information among the public. Our research also provides empirical evidence of the fact that an anti-science stance is more frequent in user-generated content than in videos disseminated by other types of producers.
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