2024-03-29T07:41:25Z
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/oai
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2014-04-08T06:03:03Z
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2014-04-08T06:03:03Z
politicsandgovernance:ART
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oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/112
2017-02-10T07:51:49Z
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oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/2672
2020-03-31T05:28:56Z
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oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/6344
2023-06-09T17:35:14Z
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Music as Soft Power: The Electoral Use of Spotify
Quevedo-Redondo, Raquel
Department of Early Modern History, Modern History, History of America and Journalism, University of Valladolid, Spain https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6219-3237
Rebolledo, Marta
Department of Public Communication, University of Navarra, Spain https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0986-7332
Navarro-Sierra, Nuria
Department of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising, King Juan Carlos University, Spain https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1431-1534
electoral campaign; politainment; political playlists; pop politics; soft power; Spain; Spotify
The changes brought by new technologies and the ensuing rapid development of the communication field have resulted in an increasing number of studies on politicians’ use of the internet and social media. However, while election campaigns have been the predominant research area in political communication scholarship, music has not yet been taken as an object of study alongside spectacularisation and politainment. Aside from some preliminary studies, systematic research on music in politics is scarce. The literature holds that music is a universal language. Music in politics can therefore be deemed to be an identification tool that can help politicians connect with voters and bring together positions between the different actors of international relations. This is an exploratory study about the use of music in political campaigning. It is focused on the role played by the Spotify playlists created by the main political parties in recent election campaigns in Spain. The initial hypothesis is that some of the candidates strategically selected songs to be shared with their followers. A quantitative content analysis (N = 400) of some Spotify playlists showed that there were significant differences in the selection of songs among the different political parties. This research contributes to the understanding of how Spotify has been used for electoral campaigning, as well as shedding some light on the current communication literature on music and politics.
Cogitatio Press
2023-05-16 00:00:00
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6344
Media and Communication; Vol 11, No 2 (2023): Political Communication in Times of Spectacularisation: Digital Narratives, Engagement, and Politainment
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Copyright (c) 2023 Raquel Quevedo-Redondo, Marta Rebolledo, Nuria Navarro-Sierra
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/2757
2020-04-17T05:02:38Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
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Data Journalism as a Service: Digital Native Data Journalism Expertise and Product Development
Appelgren, Ester
Department of Journalism, Södertörn University, Sweden https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1428-9477
Lindén, Carl-Gustav
Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki, Finland
boundary work; data journalism; digital native; Finland; journalism; peripheral actors; Sweden
The combined set of skills needed for producing data journalism (e.g., investigative journalism methods, programming, knowledge in statistics, data management, statistical reporting, and design) challenges the understanding of what competences a journalist needs and the boundaries for the tasks journalists perform. Scholars denote external actors with these types of knowledge as interlopers or actors at the periphery of journalism. In this study, we follow two Swedish digital native data journalism start-ups operating in the Nordics from when they were founded in 2012 to 2019. Although the start-ups have been successful in news journalism over the years and acted as drivers for change in Nordic news innovation, they also have a presence in sectors other than journalism. This qualitative case study, which is based on interviews over time with the start-up founders and a qualitative analysis of blog posts written by the employees at the two start-ups, tells a story of journalists working at the periphery of legacy media, at least temporarily forced to leave journalism behind yet successfully using journalistic thinking outside of journalistic contexts.
Cogitatio Press
2020-04-16 08:36:08
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/2757
Media and Communication; Vol 8, No 2 (2020): Digital Native News Media: Trends and Challenges
eng
Copyright (c) 2020 Ester Appelgren, Carl-Gustav Lindén
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/979
2020-07-21T09:48:33Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
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Forgetting History: Mediated Reflections on Occupy Wall Street
Daubs, Michael S.
School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Wimmer, Jeffrey
Department of Media, Knowledge and Communication, University of Augsburg, Germany
discursive content analysis; media logic; mediatisation; Occupy Wall Street; protest movement
This study examines how Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protestors’ practices and stated understanding of media act on social perceptions of networked media. It stems from a discursive content analysis of online commentary from OWS protestors and supporters, using different sources from the first Adbusters blog in July 2011 until May 2012. We demonstrate how the belief in the myth of an egalitarian Internet was incorporated into the offline structure of OWS and led OWS participants to adopt rhetoric that distances the movement from past protest actions by stating the movement was “like the Internet”.
Cogitatio Press
2017-09-22 02:40:14
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/979
Media and Communication; Vol 5, No 3 (2017): Acting on Media: Influencing, Shaping and (Re)Configuring the Fabric of Everyday Life
eng
Copyright (c) 2017 Michael S. Daubs, Jeffrey Wimmer
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/4013
2021-09-13T10:17:58Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
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Keep the Fire Burning: Exploring the Hierarchies of Music Fandom and the Motivations of Superfans
Edlom, Jessica
Department of Geography, Media and Communication, Karlstad University, Sweden https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1439-2784
Karlsson, Jenny
CTF—Service Research Center, Karlstad Business School, Karlstad University, Sweden https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0333-8341
fandom; fan community; fan hierarchy; engagement; music industry; superfan; value co-creation
The Internet has changed how music fans come together and how the music industry connects to and communicates with fans. To understand the incentives for becoming a fan and why fans take part in an artist brand, this article considers the diversity in a particular fan community, including its hierarchy and roles. Fans have different levels of engagement, knowledge, and status, both inside and outside a fan community. To extend the existing research on fan hierarchies into the digital promotional culture, this study focuses on the case of the Swedish music artist Robyn and her Facebook fan community Konichiwa Bitches. To gain insights into a complex online research arena, we use a qualitative and digital ethnographic approach in both online and offline contexts. The article provides an understanding and conceptualization of fan hierarchies, focusing on the top of the hierarchy, superfans and executive fans, and on their incentives for engagement. These high-level fans function as a key connecting point between the brand management and the fans, thus taking fandom a step further and enhancing the brand.
Cogitatio Press
2021-08-05 10:33:44
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/4013
Media and Communication; Vol 9, No 3 (2021): Complexity, Hybridity, Liminality: Challenges of Researching Contemporary Promotional Cultures
eng
Copyright (c) 2021 Jessica Edlom, Jenny Karlsson
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/2388
2020-01-20T08:03:36Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
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Modality-Specific Effects of Perceptual Load in Multimedia Processing
Fisher, Jacob Taylor
Department of Communication, Media Neuroscience Lab, University of California Santa Barbara, USA https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2968-2557
Hopp, Frederic René
Department of Communication, Media Neuroscience Lab, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
Weber, René
Department of Communication, Media Neuroscience Lab, University of California Santa Barbara, USA https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8247-7341
media psychology; modality; multimedia processing; perceptual load; resource availability
Digital media are sensory-rich, multimodal, and often highly interactive. An extensive collection of theories and models within the field of media psychology assume the multimodal nature of media stimuli, yet there is current ambiguity as to the independent contributions of visual and auditory content to message complexity and to resource availability in the human processing system. In this article, we argue that explicating the concepts of perceptual and cognitive load can create progress toward a deeper understanding of modality-specific effects in media processing. In addition, we report findings from an experiment showing that perceptual load leads to modality-specific reductions in resource availability, whereas cognitive load leads to a modality-general reduction in resource availability. We conclude with a brief discussion regarding the critical importance of separating modality-specific forms of load in an increasingly multisensory media environment.
Cogitatio Press
2019-12-20 04:35:42
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/2388
Media and Communication; Vol 7, No 4 (2019): Video Games as Demanding Technologies
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/download/2388/13330
Copyright (c) 2019 Jacob Taylor Fisher, Frederic René Hopp, René Weber
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/5712
2022-12-30T17:23:16Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
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Intergenerational Perspectives on Media and Fake News During Covid-19: Results From Online Intergenerational Focus Groups
Oliveira, Ana Filipa
Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture, and New Technologies (CICANT), Lusófona University, Portugal https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3655-9984
Brites, Maria José
Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture, and New Technologies (CICANT), Lusófona University, Portugal https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9840-9554
Cerqueira, Carla
Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture, and New Technologies (CICANT), Lusófona University, Portugal https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6767-3793
fake news; information disorders; intergenerationality; media habits; online focus groups; Portugal
This article reflects on intergenerational perspectives on media habits and fake news during Covid-19. Active participation is closely linked to the citizens’ media literacy competencies. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, inequalities in access, use, and understanding of the information conveyed by the media became more evident. Digital skills are essential to encourage co-learning and active ageing among different generations. This article relies on data collected during two online intergenerational focus groups with family pairs of different ages (grandparents and grandchildren) conducted in Portugal in the context of the European project SMaRT-EU. The focus groups addressed subjects such as news, fake news, critical perspective towards social networks and digital communication, and younger and older people’s perspectives regarding these matters. The thematic analysis of the Portuguese data suggests that, by placing grandparents and grandchildren side by side, the online intergenerational focus groups promoted sharing and exchange of knowledge, valuing the intergenerational encounter and the voices of one of society’s most fragile groups. Data also shows that participants have different perspectives on communication and digitally mediated interaction, mainly related to age factors and media literacy skills. As for fake news, although grandparents and grandchildren show awareness of the phenomenon, for the youngest participant it was complex to identify characteristics or the spaces where they are disseminated. The young adult participant was the most proficient and autonomous digital media user. Results further indicate that, although the online environment contributed to continuing research in times of pandemic, bringing together family members with different media literacy skills and ages poses difficulties related to the recruitment of participants.
Cogitatio Press
2022-12-28 15:19:25
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5712
Media and Communication; Vol 10, No 4 (2022): Inclusive Media Literacy Education for Diverse Societies
eng
Copyright (c) 2022 Ana Filipa Oliveira, Maria José Brites, Carla Cerqueira
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3997
2021-04-06T04:34:14Z
mediaandcommunication:EDI
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Contemporary Research on Gender and Media: It’s All Political
Bauwel, Sofie Van
Department of Communication Sciences, Centre for Cinema and Media Studies, Ghent University, Belgium https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8554-2452
Krijnen, Tonny
Department of Media and Communication, Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
#MeToo; gender; gender politics; media; post-feminism; representation
Recent global social changes and phenomena like #MeToo and Time’s Up Movement, the visibility of feminism in popular media (e.g., Beyonce or the TV series Orange is the New Black), the increase of datafication and fake news have not only put pressure on the media and entertainment industry and the content produced, but also generated critique, change and questions in the public debate on gender in general and (the backlash on) gender studies around the world. But are these phenomena also game changers for research on media and gender? In this thematic issue we want to provide insight in recent developments and trends in research on gender and media. What are the dominant ideas and debates in this research field and how do they deal with all of the changes in the media scape (e.g., platformization, the dominance of algorithms and datafication, slacktivism, and gender inequalities in media production). Moreover, how do current debates, theoretical insights and methods communicate with those in the past? The research field has changed rapidly over the last 10 years with repercussions on the conceptualisation of gender, its intersections with other identities markers (e.g., age, ethnicity, class, disabilities, sexualities, etc.), and media audiences’ responses to these developments. We welcome contributions within the scope of gender and media and which are topical in the way they introduce new concepts, theoretical insights, new methods or new research subjects.
Cogitatio Press
2021-03-23 05:39:33
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Media and Communication; Vol 9, No 2 (2021): Gender and Media: Recent Trends in Theory, Methodology and Research Subjects
eng
Copyright (c) 2021 Sofie Van Bauwel, Tonny Krijnen
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/7427
2024-02-29T10:28:35Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
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Can’t Fix This? Innovation, Social Change, and Solutionism in Design Thinking
Richterich, Annika
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University, The Netherlands https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8467-1084
design thinking; inequality; innovation; social change; solutionism; techno-fix; technological solutionism
Design thinking is commonly presented as a solution-oriented approach to innovation. It aims to solve so-called “wicked problems,” with various textbooks and toolkits promising to equip their readers with the skills needed to do so. By rendering design thinking as a magic bullet for problem-solving towards innovation and social change, some of its proponents fall back on a solutionist position. This is despite a growing body of research highlighting critical approaches to design thinking. Drawing on, and adding to, such literature, this article examines how innovation and social change are concretely conceptualised in design thinking guides. Using a cultural media studies approach, the article first contrasts design thinking literature with critical design research, emphasizing the notion of (technological) solutionism. It then zooms in on a purposively selected case: a design thinking textbook aimed at tertiary students. Based on an interpretative analysis of this example, it discusses what understandings of innovation and social change are encouraged in the envisioned design thinking. In linking the reviewed literature and observations from the case study, the analysis highlights two main arguments: First, complex interrelations between innovation and social change are causally simplified in outlining design thinking, thereby fostering techno-fix approaches and mindsets: Readers are encouraged to not merely select but in fact construct solvable “problems,” in turn avoiding confrontations with substantive issues that cannot be fixed through the envisioned design thinking. Second, innovation is conflated with corporate activities and normative questions of innovation, (in-)equality, privilege, and social change are neglected, in turn suggesting a misleading symbiosis between economic and societal interests.
Cogitatio Press
2024-02-29 09:21:32
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/7427
Media and Communication; Vol 12 (2024): Unpacking Innovation: Media and the Locus of Change
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Copyright (c) 2024 Annika Richterich
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/695
2020-07-21T09:48:14Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
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Mediatisation, Marginalisation and Disruption in Australian Indigenous Affairs
McCallum, Kerry
News and Media Research Centre, Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra, Australia
Waller, Lisa
Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University, Australia
Dreher, Tanja
School of Arts, English and Media, Wollongong University, Australia
mediatisation; Indigenous constitutional recognition; Indigenous media; participation; political communication
This article considers how changing media practices of minority groups and political and media elites impact on democratic participation in national debates. Taking as its case study the state-sponsored campaign to formally recognise Indigenous people in the Australian constitution, the article examines the interrelationships between political media and Indigenous participatory media—both of which we argue are undergoing seismic transformation. Discussion of constitutional reform has tended to focus on debates occurring in forums of influence such as party politics and news media that privilege the voices of only a few high-profile Indigenous media ‘stars’. Debate has progressed on the assumption that constitutional change needs to be settled by political elites and then explained and ‘sold’ to Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. Our research on the mediatisation of policymaking has found that in an increasingly media-saturated environment, political leaders and their policy bureaucrats attend to a narrow range of highly publicised voices. But the rapidly changing media environment has disrupted the media-driven Recognise campaign. Vigorous public discussion is increasingly taking place outside the mainstream institutions of media and politics, while social media campaigns emerge in rapid response to government decisions. Drawing on a long tradition in citizens’ media scholarship we argue that the vibrant, diverse and growing Indigenous media sphere in Australia has increased the accessibility of Indigenous voices challenging the scope and substance of the recognition debate. The article concludes on a cautionary note by considering some tensions in the promise of the changing media for Indigenous participation in the national policy conversation.
Cogitatio Press
2016-08-11 09:41:45
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/695
Media and Communication; Vol 4, No 4 (2016): Political Agency in the Digital Age: Media, Participation and Democracy
eng
Copyright (c) 2016 Kerry McCallum, Lisa Waller, Tanja Dreher
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/5623
2022-10-31T14:57:08Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
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States vs. Social Movements: Protests and State Repression in Asia
Lukito, Josephine
School of Journalism and Media, University of Texas at Austin, USA https://www.jlukito.com/ https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0771-1070
Cui, Zhe
School of Journalism and Media, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Hu, An
School of Journalism and Media, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Lee, Taeyoung
School of Journalism and Media, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Ozawa, Joao V. S.
School of Journalism and Media, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Asia; political repression; propaganda; protests; social movements
This study considers how governments use state-sponsored propaganda and state violence in tandem to repress social movements and, in so doing, exacerbate polarization. We specifically focus on cases in young and non-democracies in East and Southeast Asia: China and Hong Kong, the Free Papua Movement in Indonesia, and Myanmar’s more recent coup. Using a time series analysis, our analysis reveals a temporal relationship between state propaganda and violence; however, we do not find much evidence that these state actions Granger-cause social movement activities. The exception to this is in Myanmar, where we find that repressive state actions decrease activity in Facebook groups criticizing the Tatmadaw, which in turn increases offline protest activities.
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2022-10-28 09:20:30
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5623
Media and Communication; Vol 10, No 4 (2022): Protesting While Polarized: Digital Activism in Contentious Times
eng
Copyright (c) 2022 Josephine Lukito, Zhe Cui, An Hu, Taeyoung Lee, João V. S. Ozawa
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/2257
2019-08-09T03:46:25Z
mediaandcommunication:COM
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A Third Wave of Selective Exposure Research? The Challenges Posed by Hyperpartisan News on Social Media
Barnidge, Matthew
Department of Journalism & Creative Media, The University of Alabama, USA https://matthewbarnidge.com/ https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0683-3850
Peacock, Cynthia
Department of Communication Studies, The University of Alabama, USA http://cpeacock.people.ua.edu/ https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1807-0301
democracy; hyperpartisan news; political communication; populism; public sphere; selective exposure; social media
Hyperpartisan news on social media presents new challenges for selective exposure theory. These challenges are substantial enough to usher in a new era—a third wave—of selective exposure research. In this essay, we trace the history of the first two waves of research in order to better understand the current situation. We then assess the implications of recent developments for selective exposure research.
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2019-07-30 03:03:09
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/2257
Media and Communication; Vol 7, No 3 (2019): Selective Exposure in a Changing Political and Media Environment
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Copyright (c) 2019 Matthew Barnidge, Cynthia Peacock
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/7141
2024-02-07T12:04:55Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
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Advertising on Video-Sharing Platforms in the Toy and Food Categories in Spain
Nicolás-Ojeda, Miguel Ángel
Department of Communication, University of Murcia, Spain https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0356-8227
Martínez-Pastor, Esther
Department of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2861-750X
advertising; food; influencers; kid influencers; media regulation; self-regulation; toys; YouTube
This article reviews the advertising content on the YouTube channels featuring kid influencers with the highest number of subscribers in Spain. The goal is to observe the evolution of the elements that define this type of content as advertising content, even though the vast majority of the advertising content is not labelled as such. An analysis was conducted of all the videos posted during the 2022 Christmas period on the 15 YouTube channels with the largest audiences, which produced a sample of 61 videos that possessed the pertinent characteristics. Content analysis was applied and the degree to which the content complied with food and toy advertising regulations was examined.
Cogitatio Press
2023-11-16 00:00:00
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/7141
Media and Communication; Vol 11, No 4 (2023): Digital Media and Younger Audiences: Communication Targeted at Children and Adolescents
eng
Copyright (c) 2023 Miguel Ángel Nicolás-Ojeda, Esther Martínez-Pastor
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/365
2020-07-21T09:47:56Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
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Awareness towards Peace Journalism among Foreign Correspondents in Africa
Rodny-Gumede, Ylva
Department of Journalism, Film and Television, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Africa; foreign reporting; Peace Journalism; war journalism
Much has been said about the news media’s role in instigating war, conflict and violence. Less attention has been paid to the news media’s role in mitigating conflict. Criticism has been directed towards the ways in which journalists and war correspondents cover conflict with an emphasis on violence, suffering, polarization of the views of main stakeholders, and over-simplification of the underlying causes of conflict. The growing literature and scholarship around Peace Journalism stands as a response to this. In the context of the African continent, further critique has been levelled against frames and narratives of war, conflict and violence grounded in Western epistemologies and dominant discourses of African conflicts and stakeholders. Based on data collected from interviews with a selected group of journalists working on—and covering—the African continent, the article assesses awareness towards alternative narratives and news frames, as well as attitudes towards alternative practices and models for journalism. Particular attention is paid to ideas and responses regarding Peace Journalism as an alternative model for reporting.
Cogitatio Press
2016-02-18 10:08:06
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/365
Media and Communication; Vol 4, No 1 (2016): Peacebuilding in the Age of New Media
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Copyright (c) 2016 Ylva Rodny-Gumede
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3685
2021-01-08T05:55:12Z
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Looking Ahead in Games Research: Entry Points into a Pragmatic Field of Inquiry
Siitonen, Marko
Department of Language and Communication Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
de la Hera, Teresa
Department of Media and Communication, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Reer, Felix
Department of Communication, University of Muenster, Germany
digital games; game studies; methodology; serious games
This thematic issue presents a number of emerging scholarships into the study of digital gaming. The articles are based on a 2019 symposium on game studies hosted by the Digital Games Research section of ECREA. As the phenomena related to digital gaming keep on evolving and emerging, so must research keep up with the times and constantly challenge itself. Whether speaking about validating previously developed research methods, imagining totally new ones, or even challenging the whole philosophy of science on which research is being done, there is a constant need for reappraisal and introspection within games research. As a cultural medium that has become deeply embedded into the social fabric of the 2020s, digital gaming continues to excite and challenge academia. This thematic issue provides a collection of approaches to look into the future that addresses some of the challenges associated with game research.
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2021-01-06 03:50:49
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3685
Media and Communication; Vol 9, No 1 (2021): Games and Communication—Quo Vadis?
eng
Copyright (c) 2021 Marko Siitonen, Teresa de la Hera, Felix Reer
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/7050
2024-02-07T12:04:55Z
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Can an Awareness Campaign Boost the Effectiveness of Influencer Marketing Disclosures in YouTube Videos?
Boerman, Sophie C.
Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands / Strategic Communication Group, Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2453-1493
van Reijmersdal, Eva A.
Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3950-3524
Rozendaal, Esther
Erasmus School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1234-8496
advertising literacy; awareness campaign; disclosure; influencer marketing; minors; online video; persuasion knowledge; pictograms; transparency
Answering the strong need for insight into how minors can effectively be informed about advertising (e.g., influencer marketing) in online content, we ran an online experiment (N = 623 minors between 8 and 18 years old) testing the effects of two pictograms that were designed in co-creation with minors and the potential of an awareness campaign to boost the pictogram’s effectiveness. Our findings provide three important insights that have implications for theory, practice, and regulation. First, we find that minors are able to distinguish between sponsored and non-sponsored videos, indicating that they have developed some level of advertising literacy in this context. Second, our study shows that the two pictograms informing minors about advertising in online videos went unnoticed by most viewers and did not enhance conceptual or attitudinal advertising literacy. Third, the awareness campaign did not lead to higher recognition of the pictograms nor enhanced advertising literacy. The campaign did increase minors’ understanding of the meaning of the pictograms. However, the majority of minors also understood the pictograms without the campaign. Based upon our findings, we argue that pictograms are unnoticed by most minors and seem ineffective in enhancing minors’ advertising literacy. Although an awareness campaign can familiarize minors with pictograms and their implementation in online videos, it does not seem to boost the pictogram’s effects on advertising literacy.
Cogitatio Press
2023-11-16 00:00:00
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/7050
Media and Communication; Vol 11, No 4 (2023): Digital Media and Younger Audiences: Communication Targeted at Children and Adolescents
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/download/7050/47575
Copyright (c) 2023 Sophie C. Boerman, Eva A. van Reijmersdal, Esther Rozendaal
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1765
2020-07-21T09:49:43Z
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Exploring Political Journalism Homophily on Twitter: A Comparative Analysis of US and UK Elections in 2016 and 2017
Fincham, Kelly
Department of Journalism, Public Relations and Media Studies, Hofstra University, USA
elections; groupthink; homophily; political journalism; Twitter, UK; US
The tendency of political journalists to form insular groups or packs, chasing the same angles and quoting the same sources, is a well-documented issue in journalism studies and has long been criticized for its role in groupthink and homogenous news coverage. This groupthink attracted renewed criticism after the unexpected victory of Republican candidate Donald Trump in the 2016 US presidential election as the campaign coverage had indicated a likely win by the Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. This pattern was repeated in the 2017 UK election when the Conservative party lost their majority after a campaign in which the news coverage had pointed to an overall Tory victory. Such groupthink is often attributed to homophily, the tendency of individuals to interact with those most like them, and while homophily in the legacy media system is well-studied, there is little research around homophily in the hybrid media system, even as social media platforms like Twitter facilitate the development—and analysis—of virtual political journalism packs. This study, which compares Twitter interactions among US and UK political reporters in the 2016 and 2017 national elections, shows that political journalists are overwhelmingly more likely to use Twitter to interact with other journalists, particularly political journalists, and that their offline tendencies to form homogenous networks have transferred online. There are some exceptions around factors such as gender, news organizations and types of news organization—and important distinctions between types of interactions—but overall the study provides evidence of sustained homophily as journalists continue to normalize Twitter.
Cogitatio Press
2019-03-21 05:35:15
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Media and Communication; Vol 7, No 1 (2019): Journalism and Social Media: Redistribution of Power?
eng
Copyright (c) 2019 Kelly Fincham
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/5036
2022-07-28T12:00:48Z
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Precariousness and Hope: Digital Everyday Life of the Undocumented Migrants Explored Through Collaborative Photography
Nikunen, Kaarina
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication, Tampere University, Finland https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5747-4093
Valtonen, Sanna
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication, Tampere University, Finland
communicative rights; datafication; digital everyday life; participation; photography; undocumented migrants; visibility
The article explores the digital everyday life of recently or currently undocumented migrants in times of Covid-19 in Finland. It is based on an empirical case study on a collaborative photographic exhibition and workshop including visual images, diaries, interviews, and discussions. The analysis explores the ways in which a photography exhibition and a workshop may depict meaningful moments in digital everyday life as well as open up an understanding of the various vulnerabilities that emerge in the life of the undocumented, as expressed by themselves. The study demonstrates the fundamental importance of communication rights for people in precarious life situations, expressed by themselves in visual images. The insight produced multidimensionally in images, discussions, and interviews illustrate how digital media environment exposes to coerced visibility and requires constant struggle for communicative rights. These struggles take place on the material infrastructural level of devices, chargers, and access, but also on the level of self-expression and connection on social media platforms. Finally, the article discusses the emancipatory potential of a collaborative exhibition and workshop as a way to encounter and deal with increasingly vulnerable life situations. It points out the relevance of collaborative work as a research method, in providing knowledge from experience as well as space of recognition.
Cogitatio Press
2022-06-30 00:00:00
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5036
Media and Communication; Vol 10, No 2 (2022): Media and Migration in the Covid-19 Pandemic: Discourses, Policies, and Practices in Times of Crisis
eng
Copyright (c) 2022 Kaarina Nikunen, Sanna Valtonen
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3007
2020-08-13T10:53:51Z
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Exploring the Effect of In-Game Purchases on Mobile Game Use with Smartphone Trace Data
Boghe, Kristof
imec-mict-UGent, Ghent University, Belgium
Herrewijn, Laura
Center for Persuasive Communication, Ghent University, Belgium
Grove, Frederik De
imec-mict-UGent, Ghent University, Belgium
Gaeveren, Kyle Van
imec-mict-UGent, Ghent University, Belgium
Marez, Lieven De
imec-mict-UGent, Ghent University, Belgium
computational methods; continual game use; in-game purchases; monetization; smartphone trace data; survival analysis
Microtransactions have become an integral part of the digital game industry. This has spurred researchers to explore the effects of this monetization strategy on players’ game enjoyment and intention to continue using the game. Hitherto, these relationships were exclusively investigated using cross-sectional survey designs. However, self-report measures tend to be only mildly correlated with actual media consumption. Moreover, cross-sectional designs do not allow for a detailed investigation into the temporal dimension of these associations. To address these issues, the current study leverages smartphone trace data to explore the longitudinal effect of in-game purchase behavior on continual mobile game use. In total, approximately 100,000 hours of mobile game activity among 6,340 subjects were analyzed. A Cox regression with time-dependent covariates was performed to examine whether performing in-game purchases affects the risk of players removing the game app from their repertoire. Results show that making an in-game purchase decreases this risk initially, prolonging the survival time of the mobile gaming app. However, this effect significantly changes over time. After the first three weeks, a reversal effect is found where previous in-game purchase behavior negatively affects the further survival of the game. Thus, mobile games without previous monetary investment are more prone to long-term continual game use if they survive the first initial weeks. Methodological and theoretical implications are discussed. As such, the current study adds to those studies that use computational methods within a traditional inferential framework to aid theory-driven inquiries.
Cogitatio Press
2020-08-13 00:00:00
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Media and Communication; Vol 8, No 3 (2020): Computational Approaches to Media Entertainment Research
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/download/3007/21394
Copyright (c) 2020 Kristof Boghe, Laura Herrewijn, Frederik De Grove, Kyle Van Gaeveren, Lieven De Marez
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/6807
2023-09-28T09:49:20Z
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Dealing With Covid-19 in Casual Democracies
Steensen, Steen
Department of Journalism and Media Studies, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2675-1817
Covid-19; free speech; infodemic; local democracy; local journalism; misinformation; news deserts
This article reports findings from an in-depth, autoethnographic study of local communities in Denmark and England left behind by local journalism. The study was conducted during—and is thematically framed by—the Covid-19 pandemic, and it investigates how news, information, and deliberation related to this crisis were facilitated in the communities. The article embarks from ideas of informed citizenship and problems of misinformation and free speech related to the pandemic, and it aims to uncover developments in local democracy in places left behind by local journalism and dominated by platforms. The article argues that “news desert” is not an accurate term describing such places. Instead, such places and their social media platform dependency constitute what is identified as “casual democracies.” In casual local democracies, who and what gets to dominate the local public spheres is difficult to predict, as are the credibility and trustworthiness of local news and information and the interests that local news and information providers serve. Such local democracies are, to a large degree, shaped by informal power structures, individual agency, and the infrastructure of platforms.
Cogitatio Press
2023-09-28 08:37:58
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Media and Communication; Vol 11, No 3 (2023): News Deserts: Places and Spaces Without News
eng
Copyright (c) 2023 Steen Steensen
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/220
2020-07-21T09:47:41Z
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Surveillance and Resilience in Theory and Practice
Raab, Charles D.
School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, UK
Jones, Richard
School of Law, University of Edinburgh, UK
Székely, Iván
Eotvos Karoly Policy Institute, Hungary
democracy; privacy; public goods; resilience; security; surveillance
Surveillance is often used as a tool in resilience strategies towards the threat posed by terrorist attacks and other serious crime. “Resilience” is a contested term with varying and ambiguous meaning in governmental, business and social discourses, and it is not clear how it relates to other terms that characterise processes or states of being. Resilience is often assumed to have positive connotations, but critics view it with great suspicion, regarding it as a neo-liberal governmental strategy. However, we argue that surveillance, introduced in the name of greater security, may itself erode social freedoms and public goods such as privacy, paradoxically requiring societal resilience, whether precautionary or in mitigation of the harms it causes to the public goods of free societies. This article develops new models and extends existing ones to describe resilience processes unfolding over time and in anticipation of, or in reaction to, adversities of different kinds and severity, and explores resilience both on the plane of abstract analysis and in the context of societal responses to mass surveillance. The article thus focuses upon surveillance as a special field for conceptual analysis and modelling of situations, and for evaluating contemporary developments in “surveillance societies”.
Cogitatio Press
2015-09-30 00:00:00
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Media and Communication; Vol 3, No 2 (2015): Surveillance: Critical Analysis and Current Challenges (Part I)
eng
Copyright (c) 2015 Charles D. Raab, Richard Jones, Ivan Szekely
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1743
2020-07-21T09:49:12Z
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Commentary on News and Participation through and beyond Proprietary Platforms in an Age of Social Media
Katz, James E.
Division of Emerging Media Studies, Boston University, USA
comparative methodology; critical studies; journalism; research agenda; social media
The far-seeing collection in this issue is arrayed across the terrain of journalism infused with social media. The authors take deep dives into the material and in the process contribute significantly to the research community’s corpus on social media and proprietary platforms in journalism. In their wake, they leave an ambitious albeit hazy roster of research topics. My aim is to offer a brief critique of the articles and conclude with a few hortatory words.
Cogitatio Press
2018-11-08 00:00:00
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Media and Communication; Vol 6, No 4 (2018): News and Participation through and beyond Proprietary Platforms in an Age of Social Media
eng
Copyright (c) 2018 James E. Katz
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/4771
2022-03-02T10:00:36Z
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Narrative of Young YouTubers From the Andean Community and Their Media Competence
Rivera-Rogel, Diana
Department of Communication Sciences, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Ecuador https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8965-0170
Rodríguez-Hidalgo, Claudia
Department of Communication Sciences, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Ecuador https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4004-9389
Beltrán-Flandoli, Ana María
Department of Communication Sciences, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Ecuador https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6807-7635
Córdova-Tapia, Rebeca
Department of Communication Sciences, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Ecuador https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6918-0914
Andean Community; digital literacy; media competence; narratives; social media; YouTube
Young people spend an increasing amount of time in front of a screen, developing new forms of content consumption and production. In this context, the so-called YouTubers emerge. They are the new actors of the information society, who acquire prominence specially in the creation of audiovisual content. This article studies the narrative of YouTubers and the media competition behind the process. To accomplish this task we have selected the 10 most relevant young YouTubers in the Andean Community (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru), ranked by number of followers. Their products were analyzed with the following criteria: the narrative that they use, the impact that they generate, and the media competence that they demonstrate. The research we have made is descriptive and uses a mixed-methods approach, which employs technical datasheets that collect general information on the channels studied and the impact of their accounts. In general terms, we have observed that the videos contemplate new standards, which are not related to the contents of traditional media; the narrative is self-referential and through it, YouTubers manage to identify with niches of younger audiences, that can see in them similar life experiences. An interesting aspect is that a good part of the language used is violent and even foul, considering that young people are a vulnerable population group on the internet. Finally, the use and mastery of technological tools is evident on YouTubers, as well as the interest in self-training in content production processes.
Cogitatio Press
2022-02-24 00:00:00
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Media and Communication; Vol 10, No 1 (2022): New Narratives for New Consumers: Influencers and the Millennial and Centennial Generations
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Copyright (c) 2022 Diana Rivera-Rogel, Claudia Rodríguez-Hidalgo, Ana María Beltrán-Flandoli, Rebeca Córdova-Tapia
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/2859
2020-06-25T09:30:15Z
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Health and Scientific Frames in Online Communication of Tick-Borne Encephalitis: Antecedents of Frame Recognition
Kohler, Sarah
Department of Science Communication, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Koinig, Isabell
Department of Media and Communications, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
framing; health communication; science communication; tick-borne encephalitis; vaccination
In a period characterized by vaccine hesitancy and even vaccine refusal, the way online information on vaccination is presented might affect the recipients’ opinions and attitudes. While research has focused more on vaccinations against measles or influenza, and described how the framing approach can be applied to vaccination, this is not the case with tick-borne encephalitis, a potentially fatal infection induced by tick bites. This study takes one step back and seeks to investigate whether health and scientific frames in online communication are even recognized by the public. Moreover, the influence of selected health- and vaccine-related constructs on the recognition of frames is examined. Study results indicate that health frames are the most easily identified and that their use might be a fruitful strategy when raising awareness of health topics such as vaccination.
Cogitatio Press
2020-06-25 00:00:00
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Media and Communication; Vol 8, No 2 (2020): Health and Science Controversies in the Digital World: News, Mis/Disinformation and Public Engagement
eng
Copyright (c) 2020 Sarah Kohler, Isabell Koinig
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/6412
2023-07-10T07:54:30Z
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Experiencing Political Advertising Through Social Media Logic: A Qualitative Inquiry
Echeverría, Martin
Center for Studies in Political Communication, Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico
digital advertising; digital campaigns; mediatization; political advertising; reception studies; social media logic
The allocation of political advertising in social media is rising in Western campaigns. Yet audiences, unlike those of television advertising, are no longer isolated and passive consumers of linear discourses from politicians; users can now interact, share, and merge political advertising with other messages. Literature has dealt with the effects of such affordances separately, yet not in an integrative, holistic way that makes it possible to observe how they interact with each other. Hence, this article explores qualitatively how users experience, engage with, and make sense of political advertising in social media, and how its affordances mediate the attitudes, responses, and meanings users bring to political advertising and its sponsors. Under the lenses of the theory of social media logic, which points out the properties of social media—popularity, programmability, datafication, and connectivity—that structure users’ experiences, we conducted six focus group sessions with Mexican users (n = 34) during the 2021 federal campaigns. Findings show the fuzziness of digital advertising for users, which blurs with other formats like infographics or memes, the crucial role of individual linkages for advertising attention and attitude formation, a mismatch between the platform’s political feed and citizens’ information needs, and the tactics users perform to tame or avoid political content, disengaging them from campaigns.
Cogitatio Press
2023-05-16 00:00:00
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Media and Communication; Vol 11, No 2 (2023): Political Communication in Times of Spectacularisation: Digital Narratives, Engagement, and Politainment
eng
Copyright (c) 2023 Martin Echeverría
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1321
2020-07-21T09:48:53Z
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The Form of Game Formalism
Willumsen, Ea C.
Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen, Norway
aesthetic formalism; game formalism; game studies; research methods; research ideologies; Russian Formalism
This article explores how the concept of formalism and the resulting method of formal analysis have been used and applied in the study of digital games. Three types of formalism in game studies are identified based on a review of their uses in the literature, particularly the discussion of essentialism and form that resulted from the narratology-ludology debate: 1) formalism focused on the aesthetic form of the game artifact, 2) formalism as game essentialism, and 3) formalism as a level of abstraction, related to formal language and ontology-like reasoning. These three are discussed in relation to the distinctions between form and matter, in the Aristotelian tradition, to highlight how the method of formal analysis of games appears to be dealing with matter rather than form, on a specific fundamental level of abstraction, and in turn how formal analysis becomes a misleading concept that leads to unnecessary confusion. Finally, the relationship between game essentialism and the more computer science-centric approach to ontology is studied, to account for the contemporary trend of identifying the unique properties of games and opposing them with properties of, e.g., traditional storytelling media like literature and film, explored through their aesthetic form.
Cogitatio Press
2018-06-07 00:00:00
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Media and Communication; Vol 6, No 2 (2018): Games Matter? Current Theories and Studies on Digital Games
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Copyright (c) 2018 Ea C. Willumsen
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/4241
2021-11-22T11:49:29Z
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One Recommender Fits All? An Exploration of User Satisfaction With Text-Based News Recommender Systems
Wieland, Mareike
Institute of Journalism/Media Research, University of Hamburg, Germany
Nordheim, Gerret von
Institute of Journalism/Media Research, University of Hamburg, Germany
Kleinen-von Königslöw, Katharina
Institute of Journalism/Media Research, University of Hamburg, Germany
algorithm-based recommenders; diversity; news recommender design; recommender field experiment; reliable surprise
Journalistic media increasingly address changing user behaviour online by implementing algorithmic recommendations on their pages. While social media extensively rely on user data for personalized recommendations, journalistic media may choose to aim to improve the user experience based on textual features such as thematic similarity. From a societal viewpoint, these recommendations should be as diverse as possible. Users, however, tend to prefer recommendations that enable “serendipity”—the perception of an item as a welcome surprise that strikes just the right balance between more similarly useful but still novel content. By conducting a representative online survey with n = 588 respondents, we investigate how users evaluate algorithmic news recommendations (recommendation satisfaction, as well as perceived novelty and unexpectedness) based on different similarity settings and how individual dispositions (news interest, civic information norm, need for cognitive closure, etc.) may affect these evaluations. The core piece of our survey is a self-programmed recommendation system that accesses a database of vectorized news articles. Respondents search for a personally relevant keyword and select a suitable article, after which another article is recommended automatically, at random, using one of three similarity settings. Our findings show that users prefer recommendations of the most similar articles, which are at the same time perceived as novel, but not necessarily unexpected. However, user evaluations will differ depending on personal characteristics such as formal education, the civic information norm, and the need for cognitive closure.
Cogitatio Press
2021-11-18 10:14:41
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Media and Communication; Vol 9, No 4 (2021): Algorithmic Systems in the Digital Society
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Copyright (c) 2021 Mareike Wieland, Gerret von Nordheim, Katharina Kleinen-von Königslöw
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1351
2020-07-21T09:48:56Z
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Psychasthenia Studio and the Gamification of Contemporary Culture
Szabo, Victoria
Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Duke University, USA http://vszabo.net http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8008-5187
activist games; critical play; game studies; gamification; installation art; new media; psychology; subversion; videogames
What does it mean to say that Games Matter within a new media art context? Conversely, what contributions can artists and scholars exploring the medium make to the cultural conversation around their use and meaning? This contribution highlights the ways in which our interdisciplinary art collective, Psychasthenia Studio, has addressed the cultural effects of games and gamification as they have evolved over the last decade, using a series of videogame art projects as the medium of expression and critique. As Mary Flanagan (2009) suggested in Critical Play, “games carry beliefs within their representation systems and mechanics” (p. 4). Through their thematic content and interaction design, the three videogames developed by us in the interdisciplinary Psychasthenia Studio between 2009‒2017 draw attention to those beliefs as they exist not only in the games themselves, but also more broadly in an increasingly gamified contemporary culture. Psychasthenia Studio simultaneously intervenes in the discussion around games in society and pushes the boundaries of what constitutes new media art practice today. By playing the Psychasthenia games, our hope is that users both co-author and witness their own participation in the system.
Cogitatio Press
2018-06-07 00:00:00
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Media and Communication; Vol 6, No 2 (2018): Games Matter? Current Theories and Studies on Digital Games
eng
Copyright (c) 2018 Victoria Szabo
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/5738
2022-11-29T12:05:47Z
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Points of Contact Between Activism, Populism, and Fandom on Social Media
Riddick, Sarah
Department of Humanities and Arts, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1046-4912
celebrity; citizen journalism; digital publics; fan activism; fan studies; hashtag activism; popular culture; pop music; social media; social movements
This article explores how music fans used social media to increase a social movement’s public support. Although initially dismissed as a conspiracy theory, the movement eventually gained widespread support and is motivating communities to engage in broader cultural conversations. The movement’s success, this article argues, is largely owed to social media’s networked communication affordances and how they facilitate fan-based citizenship and citizen journalism. Through a rhetorical analysis of social media communication related to the movement, this article examines how online fan-based citizen journalism can draw together seemingly disconnected ideologies and audiences to diversify and bolster social movements’ support.
Cogitatio Press
2022-11-29 09:47:13
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Media and Communication; Vol 10, No 4 (2022): Online Communities and Populism
eng
Copyright (c) 2022 Sarah Riddick
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3535
2021-03-05T03:36:00Z
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Cross-Media Alliances to Stop Disinformation: A Real Solution?
Palomo, Bella
Department of Journalism, University of Malaga, Spain https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2228-5716
Sedano, Jon
Department of Journalism, University of Malaga, Spain https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1845-7570
alliance; collaboration; collaborative journalism; cross-media; disinformation; fact-checking; newsroom
Social networks have surpassed their intermediary role and become gatekeepers of online content and traffic. This transformation has favored the spread of information disorders. The situation is especially alarming in Spain, where 57% of Spaniards have at some moment believed false news. Since 2016, First Draft has promoted several collaborative verification projects that brought together newsrooms to fact-check false, misleading and confusing claims circulating online during presidential elections in several countries. The main objective of this article is to study the collaboration forged between newsrooms in Spain in order to debunk disinformation contents in 2019 under the name of Comprobado (Verified) and the impact of this initiative. Applying a methodological approach based on non-participant observation, interviews, content analysis of reports, scientific articles, books and media archives, we examine the internal uses of this platform, how journalists verified public discourse, the strategies and internal agreements implemented, and the degree of participation of the 16 media involved. Results show that only half of the initiatives begun were transformed into published reports, and the media impact achieved was limited. Finally, we note that the principal reasons for the frustration of the project were its improvised implementation, due to the date of the election being brought forward, and the scant culture of collaboration in the sector. In Spain at least, cross-media alliances are still an exception.
Cogitatio Press
2021-03-03 00:00:00
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Media and Communication; Vol 9, No 1 (2021): Disinformation and Democracy: Media Strategies and Audience Attitudes
eng
Copyright (c) 2021 Bella Palomo, Jon Sedano
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/7443
2024-02-29T10:28:35Z
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Innovations in Journalism as Complex Interplay: Supportive and Obstructive Factors in International Comparison
Meier, Klaus
School of Journalism, Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, Germany https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0582-2172
Graßl, Michael
School of Journalism, Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, Germany https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7389-906X
García-Avilés, Jose Alberto
Department of Social Sciences, Miguel Hernández University, Spain https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7854-3476
Mondejar, Dámaso
Department of Social Sciences, Miguel Hernández University, Spain https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9503-0445
Kaltenbrunner, Andy
Medienhaus Wien, Austria / Institute for Comparative Media and Communication Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Klagenfurt, Austria https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4136-4655
Lugschitz, Renée
Medienhaus Wien, Austria / Institute for Comparative Media and Communication Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Klagenfurt, Austria https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9127-9785
Porlezza, Colin
Institute of Media and Journalism, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland / Department of Journalism, City, University of London, UK https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1400-5879
Mazzoni, Petra
Institute of Media and Journalism, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5120-8969
Wyss, Vinzenz
IAM Institute of Applied Media Studies, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4145-1660
Saner, Mirco
IAM Institute of Applied Media Studies, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0452-1589
Austria; Germany; innovation; journalism; media organizations; obstructive factors; Spain; supportive factors; Switzerland; UK
Where does innovation in journalism come from, how is it implemented, and what factors drive or hinder its development? Scholars have explored these questions from different perspectives for over two decades. Our research holistically considers the broader factors that influence the development of journalistic innovation at the macro, meso, and micro levels, and whether it is internally or externally driven. In a three-year international research project, we have unpacked innovation with this multidimensional approach, looking at the most important innovations in journalism in Austria, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, and the UK. Our study focuses on the mutual interplay between journalists, media organizations, and society. We investigated 100 case studies with 137 guided interviews with senior managers or project leaders. The results show that the focus of supporting and obstructive factors is internal and on the meso level and that many parallels exist between media systems. Internal factors are the intrinsic motivation of individuals, which need the support of open-minded management, allowing a culture of experimentation without economic pressure and assembling interdisciplinary teams. Across countries and independent of the respective media system, three external key drivers of innovation in journalism can be identified: technology, societal change, and change in the digital media universe. The study confirms once again as if through a magnifying glass that journalism is primarily a public service, especially for those innovations that strengthen the role of journalism in a democratic society.
Cogitatio Press
2024-02-29 09:21:32
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Media and Communication; Vol 12 (2024): Unpacking Innovation: Media and the Locus of Change
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Copyright (c) 2024 Klaus Meier, Michael Graßl, Jose Alberto García-Avilés, Dámaso Mondejar, Andy Kaltenbrunner, Renée Lugschitz, Colin Porlezza, Petra Mazzoni, Vinzenz Wyss, Mirco Saner
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/547
2020-07-21T09:48:08Z
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The End of Television—Again! How TV Is Still Influenced by Cultural Factors in the Age of Digital Intermediaries
Enli, Gunn
Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo, Norway
Syvertsen, Trine
Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo, Norway
convergence; Norway; public service broadcasting; television
This article discusses the impact of convergence and digital intermediaries for television as a medium, industry and political and cultural institution. There is currently widespread debate about the future of television and the impact of technological and market changes. Our argument is that the answer to what is happening to television cannot be adequately addressed on a general level; local and contextual factors are still important, and so is the position and strategic response of existing television institutions in each national context. Based on analyses of political documents, statistics, audience research and media coverage, as well as secondary literature, the article explores the current situation for Norwegian television and point to four contexts that each plays a part in constraining and enabling existing television operators: the European context, the public service context, the welfare state context and the media ecosystem context.
Cogitatio Press
2016-07-14 05:23:17
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/547
Media and Communication; Vol 4, No 3 (2016): (Not Yet) the End of Television
eng
Copyright (c) 2016 Gunn Enli, Trine Syvertsen
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/6155
2022-09-05T10:13:34Z
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Enlightening Confusion: How Contradictory Findings Help Mitigate Problematic Trends in Digital Democracies
Mothes, Cornelia
Department of Culture, Media, and Psychology, Macromedia University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Ohme, Jakob
Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
civic norms; corrective action; disinformation; media trust; news avoidance; political polarization; politicized self; populism; selective exposure; social identity
This thematic issue includes ten articles that address previous contradictions in research on two main trends in digital democracies: news avoidance and political polarization. Looking at these contradictions from different angles, all contributions suggest one aspect in particular that could be important for future research to investigate more specifically possible countermeasures to harmful trends: the individualized, self-reflective way in which media users nowadays engage with political content. The increasingly value-based individualization of media use may be a hopeful starting point for reversing harmful trends to some degree by addressing individual media users as a community with a common base of civic values, rather than addressing them in their limited social group identities.
Cogitatio Press
2022-08-31 11:39:45
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6155
Media and Communication; Vol 10, No 3 (2022): Enlightening Confusion: How Contradictory Findings Help Mitigate Problematic Trends in Digital Democracies
eng
Copyright (c) 2022 Cornelia Mothes, Jakob Ohme
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1930
2019-07-02T04:43:14Z
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Citizenship Islands: The Ongoing Emergency in the Mediterranean Sea
Von Burg, Alessandra
Department of Communication, Wake Forest University, USA
citizenship; Mediterranean Sea; migrants; mobility; noncitizens; nonplaces; refugees
I present the concept of “citizenship islands” to analyze the ongoing emergency in the Mediterranean Sea. Citizenship islands are based on the idea of “nonplaces” for noncitizens who are both constantly present and invisible. Citizenship islands are a test of what is to come, as noncitizens such as migrants and refugees continue to arrive, even as countries refuse their right of entry and of seeking asylum. Based on research in Lampedusa, I argue that as understandings of citizenship change, the ongoing emergency in the Mediterranean Sea forces a focus on noncitizens. What is happening around discourses of citizenship, mobility, and migration requires new language to describe and analyze what is already happening, and to theorize new research tools for the future. Nonplaces invite a paradox between visibility and invisibility, between in-dependence and inter-dependence, highlighting the importance of language in characterizing the experience of migrants and refugees and how that language shapes relationships between newcomers/noncitizens and already established residents/citizens.
Cogitatio Press
2019-06-28 07:51:33
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1930
Media and Communication; Vol 7, No 2 (2019): Refugee Crises Disclosed: Intersections between Media, Communication and Forced Migration Processes
eng
Copyright (c) 2019 Alessandra Von Burg
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/7131
2024-02-07T12:17:54Z
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Downplaying Euroscepticism in Mainstream Media: The Schengen Accession of Romania and Bulgaria
Ștefănel, Adriana
Department of Cultural Anthropology and Communication, University of Bucharest, Romania https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3050-0631 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3050-0631
Momoc, Antonio
Department of Cultural Anthropology and Communication, University of Bucharest, Romania https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9800-9892 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9800-9892
Surugiu, Romina
Department of Cultural Anthropology and Communication, University of Bucharest, Romania https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2731-2058 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2731-2058
Bulgaria; Euroscepticism; mainstream media; populism; Romania; Schengen Area
Scholars have expressed concern about the growth of Eurosceptic discourses in the media since Taggart’s (1998) article on Euroscepticism. While some progress has been made in understanding the media’s role in increasing Euroscepticism, previous studies have primarily focused on Western European media discourses. This research aims to address the knowledge gap on Eurosceptic discourse in Eastern Europe by analysing the impact of the veto against Romania and Bulgaria’s application to join Schengen, as reflected in mainstream media. The research question is: To what extent the Eurosceptic discourse arose in both countries in the weeks before and after the Justice and Home Affairs Council (8–9 December 2022)? The findings indicate that mainstream-mediated discourse employed a strategy of downplaying Euroscepticism. The Romanian and Bulgarian political class labelled the failure to join Schengen as “disappointing,” “unfair,” “unjustified,” and “regrettable.” This research provides evidence of how mainstream media discourses addressed the issue while promoting the European integration project by minimising Euroscepticism.
Cogitatio Press
2023-10-19 00:00:00
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/7131
Media and Communication; Vol 11, No 4 (2023): Mediatized Discourses on European Integration: Information, Disinformation, and Polarization
eng
Copyright (c) 2023 Adriana Ștefănel, Antonio Momoc, Romina Surugiu
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/345
2020-07-21T09:47:48Z
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Who Is Willing to Pay for Online Journalistic Content?
Himma-Kadakas, Marju
Institute of Social Sciences, University of Tartu, Estonia
Kõuts, Ragne
Institute of Social Sciences, University of Tartu, Estonia
audience studies; media audience; online journalism; paywalls; pricing models; willingness to pay
While the overall readership of newspapers is growing as a result of the multiplatform reach, many online media consumers are not offered the surplus value they expect of journalistic content. Since a great deal of journalistic content published on the internet has been free of charge for years, attempting to monetarise this content is now proving complicated. This article considers the motivating factors behind attitudes towards paying for online journalistic content in different population groups. We follow two directions: attitudes towards paying for online news, and obstacles that compromise willingness to pay in different groups. The survey results and trends noticed by media organisations indicate that the public’s readiness to pay for journalistic online content is growing, albeit slowly. Based on the outcomes of various interviews we can conclude that the expectation of exclusive quality and web distinctive content are the two main reasons behind willingness to pay for online journalistic content, however, it is difficult to outline particular preference groups based on cultural, demographic, or socio-economic characteristics. This seems to be the result of audience fragmentation—the reasons behind willingness to pay for online journalistic content are hidden in the interests and preferences of small audience groups.
Cogitatio Press
2015-12-29 00:00:00
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/345
Media and Communication; Vol 3, No 4 (2015): Turbulences of the Central and Eastern European Media
eng
Copyright (c) 2015 Marju Himma-Kadakas and Ragne Kõuts
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3252
2020-10-15T03:35:41Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
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2183-2439
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Free Speech Under Pressure: The Effect of Online Harassment on Literary Writers
Wegner, Juliane
Institute for Media Research, University of Rostock, Germany
Prommer, Elizabeth
Institute for Media Research, University of Rostock, Germany
Collado Seidel, Carlos
Department of History and Cultural Studies, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany
democratic discourse; freedom of expression; hate speech; self-censorship
In the perception of writers in Germany, free speech is under strong pressure. A survey study, in which 526 literature writers took part, reveals innumerable aspects of hate speech, online harassment, and even physical assaults. Every second person has already experienced assaults on his or her person and is also aware of attacks on colleagues. Three quarters are concerned about freedom of expression in Germany and complain of an increase in threats, intimidation, and hateful reactions. The research project was developed in collaboration between the Institute for Media Research, University of Rostock, and the PEN Center Germany.
Cogitatio Press
2020-10-15 00:00:00
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3252
Media and Communication; Vol 8, No 4 (2020): Freedom of Expression, Democratic Discourse and the Social Media
eng
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/download/3252/22721
Copyright (c) 2020 Juliane Wegner, Elizabeth Prommer, Carlos Collado Seidel
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1801
2020-07-21T09:49:37Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
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Optimizing Content with A/B Headline Testing: Changing Newsroom Practices
Hagar, Nick
Department of Communication Studies, Northwestern University, USA
Diakopoulos, Nicholas
Department of Communication Studies, Northwestern University, USA
audience metrics; content optimization; digital media; headline testing; headlines
Audience analytics are an increasingly essential part of the modern newsroom as publishers seek to maximize the reach and commercial potential of their content. On top of a wealth of audience data collected, algorithmic approaches can then be applied with an eye towards predicting and optimizing the performance of content based on historical patterns. This work focuses specifically on content optimization practices surrounding the use of A/B headline testing in newsrooms. Using such approaches, digital newsrooms might audience-test as many as a dozen headlines per article, collecting data that allows an optimization algorithm to converge on the headline that is best with respect to some metric, such as the click-through rate. This article presents the results of an interview study which illuminate the ways in which A/B testing algorithms are changing workflow and headline writing practices, as well as the social dynamics shaping this process and its implementation within US newsrooms.
Cogitatio Press
2019-02-19 05:03:11
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1801
Media and Communication; Vol 7, No 1 (2019): Emerging Technologies in Journalism and Media: International Perspectives on Their Nature and Impact
eng
Copyright (c) 2019 Nick Hagar, Nicholas Diakopoulos
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/5792
2022-05-30T11:42:23Z
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The Impact of Social Media on Social Cohesion: A Double-Edged Sword
Stieglitz, Stefan
Department of Computer Science and Applied Cognitive Science, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany https://www.uni-due.de/digicat/stieglitz_en.php https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4366-1840
Ross, Björn
Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation, University of Edinburgh, UK https://sweb.inf.ed.ac.uk/bross3/ https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2717-3705
crisis communication; social cohesion; social divide; social media; social movements; polarization; political communication
Social media plays a major role in public communication in many countries. Therefore, it has a large impact on societies and their cohesion. This thematic issue explores the impact social media has on social cohesion on a local or national level. The nine articles in this issue focus on both the potential of social media usage to foster social cohesion and the possible drawbacks of social media which could negatively influence the development and maintenance of social cohesion. In the articles, social cohesion is examined from different perspectives with or without the background of crisis, and on various social media platforms. The picture that emerges is that of social media as, to borrow a phrase used in one of the articles, a double-edged sword.
Cogitatio Press
2022-05-26 10:26:07
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5792
Media and Communication; Vol 10, No 2 (2022): Impact of Social Media on Social Cohesion
eng
Copyright (c) 2022 Stefan Stieglitz, Björn Ross
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3097
2020-07-28T09:10:43Z
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Relationships between Law Enforcement Authorities and Drone Journalists in Spain
Gallardo-Camacho, Jorge
Department of Communication, Camilo José Cela University, Spain https://www.ull.es/apps/guias/guias/view_teacher_niu/460/(%3FPvrbreijo.*)/ https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3790-5105
Breijo, Vanessa Rodríguez
Department of Communication Sciences and Social Work, University of La Laguna, Spain https://www.ull.es/apps/guias/guias/view_teacher_niu/460/(%3FPvrbreijo.*)/ https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9749-8444
aerial footage; drones; journalism; news production; television; unmanned aerial vehicles
The article analyzes the relationship between law enforcement authorities and drone journalists, professionals who use unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for newsgathering purposes, in Spain. The study has two specific objectives. First, to identify the criteria that law enforcement authorities have set for the public dissemination in traditional and social media of the drone footage they have obtained as part of their police operations, and to characterize the relationship that exists between law enforcement authorities and drone journalists. The study is guided by three hypotheses: Spanish law enforcement authorities have more capacity than journalists to shoot aerial news footage (H1); for Spanish law enforcement authorities, the informational use that can be made of the drone footage they obtain is of secondary importance (H2); and drone journalists feel their work is heavily restricted by law enforcement authorities (H3). These hypotheses are tested with the use of in-depth interviews with representatives of three law enforcement organizations in Spain and five drone pilots who have collaborated with news media outlets. The study concludes that the current regulatory framework for UAVs in Spain is very restrictive, in comparison to other countries, which prevents the development of drone journalism.
Cogitatio Press
2020-07-27 05:09:35
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3097
Media and Communication; Vol 8, No 3 (2020): Journalism from Above: Drones, the Media, and the Transformation of Journalistic Practice
eng
Copyright (c) 2020 Jorge Gallardo-Camacho, Vanessa Rodríguez Breijo
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/6727
2023-09-28T09:49:19Z
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No People, No News: News Deserts and Areas at Risk in Spain
Negreira-Rey, María-Cruz
Department of Communication Sciences, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8945-2641
Vázquez-Herrero, Jorge
Department of Communication Sciences, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9081-3018
López-García, Xosé
Department of Communication Sciences, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
critical information needs; depopulation; digital media; local journalism; news deserts; Spain
In recent decades Spain has suffered a gradual process of depopulation and exodus from rural areas to large capitals. The España Vaciada political and social movement denounces the country’s territorial inequality, while the government is working on a strategic plan to address the demographic challenge. At the media level, there is concern about citizens’ access to a local and quality journalistic service, key to the strengthening of communities and their democratic functioning. The main objective of this research is to explore the phenomenon of news deserts in Spain, identifying the areas that can be considered news deserts and those that are at risk of becoming so, based on the mapping of digital media in the country. The characteristics of the digital media of the autonomous communities with the highest presence of news deserts are studied to ascertain whether the risk factors of population or richness index are connected to their appearance. The results reveal that 6,304 (77.53%) Spanish municipalities can be considered news deserts, inhabited by 11.6 million people, 24.51% of the country’s total population. In addition, another 523 municipalities are at risk of becoming news deserts. In the regions with the largest number of news deserts, there is a clear concentration of media in the main capitals and a weak ecosystem of local and hyperlocal media. Depopulation is the main risk factor in the loss of media and news coverage in local communities.
Cogitatio Press
2023-09-28 08:37:58
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6727
Media and Communication; Vol 11, No 3 (2023): News Deserts: Places and Spaces Without News
eng
Copyright (c) 2023 María-Cruz Negreira-Rey, Jorge Vázquez-Herrero, Xosé López-García
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/7
2023-12-27T09:04:56Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
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Impact of Social Media on Power Relations of Korean Health Activism
Shim, KyuJin
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University, 50 Stamford Road, Singapore 178899, Singapore
e-mobilization; health communication; Korean health activism; NGO communication; patient activism; social media
This case study explores how the Korea Leukemia Patient Group (KLPG) uses social media in its internal communication strategy and how that empowers its relationship with external counterparts. This study’s findings indicate that the communication strategy of the local health Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) is changing in response to the increased effectiveness and impact of social media. Using social media (e.g., Twitter) the KLPG can quickly and effectively construct an issue-based advocacy group. Consequently, more legitimacy and representativeness through collected support from the general public have further empowered the KLPG. Yet, the sustainability component in the relationships built through social media use was not evidenced in the current findings. The effects of social media use were analyzed based on data from interviews with top-level KLPG executive members and general members, and from documentation and archival materials. Limitations and suggestions for future research are included.
Cogitatio Press
2014-06-15 00:00:00
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/7
Media and Communication; Vol 2, No 2 (2014): Multidisciplinary Studies in Media and Communication
eng
Copyright (c)
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/4437
2022-01-25T11:05:44Z
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Remixing News: Appropriation and Authorship in Finnish Counter-Media
Seuri, Olli
Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Finland https://www.olliseuri.com/
Ramstedt, Kim
Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki, Finland / Faculty of Arts, Psychology and Theology, Åbo Akademi University, Finland
alternative media; appropriation; authorship; counter media; democracy; journalism; media activism; media work; remix
This article outlines a first attempt at analysing counter-media publishing through the lens of remix theory. We concentrate on two key concepts—appropriation and authorship—which have a permanent standing in the remix research literature. To support our theoretical analysis, we investigate the coverage of two cases in the Finnish right-wing counter-media online publication MV-lehti. Our findings enable new readings on the nature of both counter-media work and remix culture. In fact, counter-media publishing leans more in the direction of remix culture—which is based on the act of using pre-existing materials to produce something new—than towards traditional journalistic convention, with its rules and ethical guidelines. MV-lehti’s practice of combining and layering different material is discernibly political, often resembling media activism. Our study provides the argument that counter to the utopian democratising assumptions of remix culture, the proliferation of remix practices has also given antidemocratic actors the means to challenge collectively and institutionally supported ideas of knowledge and justice. Counter-media publishing is perhaps democratising in that it offers the means to participate, but these antagonistic actors also remix news to undermine liberal-democratic ideals and social justice. Evidently, remix practices can be co-opted for a reactionary agenda.
Cogitatio Press
2022-01-20 00:00:00
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/4437
Media and Communication; Vol 10, No 1 (2022): New Forms of Media Work and Its Organizational and Institutional Conditions
eng
Copyright (c) 2022 Olli Seuri, Kim Ramstedt
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1775
2020-07-21T09:49:11Z
mediaandcommunication:EDI
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News and Participation through and beyond Proprietary Platforms in an Age of Social Media
Westlund, Oscar
Department of Journalism and Media Studies, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway / Department for Journalism, Volda University College, Norway / Department of Journalism, Media and Communication University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Ekström, Mats
Department of Journalism, Media and Communication, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
digital intermediaries; epistemology; participatory journalism; social media
The link between journalism and participation has since long been envisioned and argued to be an important one. However, it is also a complex link. It encompasses how the news media and their social actors actively work towards enabling and engaging citizens as active participants through the digital infrastructures of their proprietary platforms, as well as the ways citizens potentially make use of such opportunities or not in their everyday lives, and how this affects epistemologies of news journalism. However, to date, journalism studies scholars have mostly focused on positive forms of participatory journalism via proprietary platforms, and thus fail to account for and problematize dark participation and participation taking place on social media platforms non-proprietary to the news media. This introduction, and the thematic issue as a whole, attempts to address this void. The introduction discusses three key aspects of journalism’s relationship with participation: 1) proprietary or non-proprietary platforms, 2) participants, and 3) positive or dark participation.
Cogitatio Press
2018-11-08 00:00:00
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1775
Media and Communication; Vol 6, No 4 (2018): News and Participation through and beyond Proprietary Platforms in an Age of Social Media
eng
Copyright (c) 2018 Oscar Westlund, Mats Ekström
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/2850
2020-06-23T08:53:58Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
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Polish Privacy Media Discourse: Privacy as Imposed Policies
Wojtkowski, Łukasz
Department of Communication, Media and Journalism, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0124-427X
Brodzińska-Mirowska, Barbara
Department of Communication, Media and Journalism, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4294-5996
Seklecka, Aleksandra
Department of Communication, Media and Journalism, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8265-7545
critical discourse studies; General Data Protection Regulation; media discourse; Poland; privacy; privacy-invasive politics
In this article we look at the Polish media discourse on privacy. In the analysis, we draw on theoretical approaches that understand privacy as having four dimensions: Relational, participatory, contextual, and technological. Moreover, we seek whether a specific norm of data-related privacy could be defined/redefined within the discourse. Considering the post-communist past that shapes a specific approach to surveillance and the general polarisation of polish media discourse, one would expect the key role of privacy issues in the public sphere. Thus, applying a critical discourse studies analysis, the aim was to capture the character of the so far under-researched privacy in Polish media discourse. We study what types of institutional agents are mentioned as creating privacy policies and what dimensions of privacy they tackle. Moreover, we also try to capture whether the institutional position offers a specific normative understanding of privacy and whether this norm is citizen/user-oriented. The results of the study indicate that: both the media discourse and the normative content of privacy policies are dominated by legal aspects concerned with the issues resulting from EU regulations (i.e., General Data Protection Regulation); privacy policies are institutionally dispersed and monopolised by journalists and experts instead of state officials or politicians; and there is only limited evidence of a discursive frame of a citizen-oriented norm of how to protect data-related privacy.
Cogitatio Press
2020-06-23 06:24:14
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/2850
Media and Communication; Vol 8, No 2 (2020): The Politics of Privacy: Communication and Media Perspectives in Privacy Research
eng
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/download/2850/18335
Copyright (c) 2020 Łukasz Wojtkowski, Barbara Brodzińska-Mirowska, Aleksandra Seklecka
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/6506
2023-06-26T15:50:20Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
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Combating Disinformation or Reinforcing Cognitive Bias: Effect of Weibo Poster’s Location Disclosure
Luo, Chang
School of Media and Design, Beijing Technology and Business University, China
Liu, Juan
School of Media and Design, Beijing Technology and Business University, China
Yang, Tianjiao
School of Media and Design, Beijing Technology and Business University, China
Xu, Jinghong
School of Journalism and Communication, Beijing Normal University, China
cognitive bias; disinformation; identity disclosure; social media; Weibo
This study conducted a controlled experiment to examine the impact of posters’ IP disclosure on the perceptions of Weibo users with different habits and information preferences and explore whether such disclosure facilitates the fight against disinformation or deepens cognitive biases. Results showed that the IP location of the information poster does influence users’ judgments of the authenticity of the information and that the consistency between users’ long-term residence and poster IP is not important for users to make judgments about the credibility of information. The high level of usage of Weibo also has no effect on users’ judgment of the credibility of the information, and this may be related to the small difference in college students’ overall use of Weibo. The results also showed that users’ perceptions of information’s accuracy, logical coherence, absence of bias, alignment with their own views, consistency with the majority opinion, and trustworthiness of its source are all statistically positively correlated with the overall credibility of information.
Cogitatio Press
2023-04-28 00:00:00
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6506
Media and Communication; Vol 11, No 2 (2023): Fakespotting: (Dis)Information Literacy as Key Tool to Defend Democracy
eng
Copyright (c) 2023 Chang Luo, Juan Liu, Tianjiao Yang, Jinghong Xu
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1195
2020-07-21T09:48:47Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
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The Media Protest of Neighbouring Associations, Promoter of Citizen Democratic Culture during Transition in Southern Spain
Méndez-Muros, Sandra
Department of Journalism II, University of Seville, Spain http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4312-9798
civil society; democratic culture; local press; media; media history; neighbouring movement; Spanish Transition
In the current context of placing value on the neighbouring movement within the Spanish democratic Transition, we set out to confirm that the press actively participates in the growing conjunction of neighbouring issues with political content and contributes to the idea that this movement becomes a parameter of the democratic culture for the citizen during Transition. Since the conflict is newsworthy, we conduct a micro-social study of the neighbouring protest in the newspaper El Correo de Andalucía, published in the southern Spanish city of Seville. Through analysis of content, we study the informative flow and the repertoire of protest following a typology that distinguishes four formats (demonstrations, strikes, speeches and associations) divided into two levels of conflict. The analysis sample consists of 33 texts published between November 1975 (Franco’s death and the accession to the throne of Juan Carlos I) and June 1977 (the first democratic general elections). The main conclusion reveals that the newspaper becomes a platform that gives visibility to the neighbouring movement, normalising behaviours and procedure rules through the protest.
Cogitatio Press
2018-02-09 04:11:06
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1195
Media and Communication; Vol 6, No 1 (2018): Media History and Democracy
eng
Copyright (c) 2018 Sandra Méndez-Muros
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/4217
2021-11-03T09:31:55Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
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Protest Event Analysis Under Conditions of Limited Press Freedom: Comparing Data Sources
Dollbaum, Jan Matti
SOCIUM Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy, University of Bremen, Germany / Research Center for East European Studies at the University of Bremen, Germany https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3399-6137
authoritarian regimes; media freedom; opposition; protest event analysis; Russia
The investigation of long-term trends in contentious politics relies heavily on protest event analysis based on newspaper reports. This tends to be problematic in restricted media environments. To mitigate the effects of bias and (self-)censorship, researchers of protest in authoritarian regimes have experimented with other sources such as international media and dissident websites. However, even though classical news media are easier targets for repression, journalistic reports might still outperform other sources regarding the quality of information provided. Although these advantages and disadvantages are known in the literature, different types of sources have seldom been tested against each other in an authoritarian context. Using the example of Russia between 2007 and 2012, the present article systematically compares protest event data from English-language news agencies, dissident websites, and several local sources, first and foremost with a view to improving methodological knowledge. The analysis addresses broad trends across time and space as well as the coverage of specific regions and single protest events. It finds that although the data sources paint different pictures of protest in Russia, this divergence is systematic and can be put to productive use. The article closes with a discussion on how its findings can be applied in other contexts.
Cogitatio Press
2021-10-21 00:00:00
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/4217
Media and Communication; Vol 9, No 4 (2021): Media Control Revisited: Challenges, Bottom-Up Resistance and Agency in the Digital Age
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/download/4217/27791
Copyright (c) 2021 Jan Matti Dollbaum
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/2498
2020-06-23T08:08:43Z
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Emotionalization in the Media Coverage of Honey Bee Colony Losses
Huber, Brigitte
Department of Communication, University of Vienna, Austria https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9070-4962
Aichberger, Ingrid
Department of Communication Studies, University of Salzburg, Austria
content analysis; emotionalization; emotions; environmental communication; quality newspapers; science communication; tabloid newspapers
Emotionalization is increasingly used in the daily news. However, communication scholars have only just begun to explore how journalists use emotionalization in coverage of scientific and environmental topics. This study contributes to filling this research gap by investigating emotionalization in reporting on honey bee colony losses. The aim of the study is to analyze the amount of emotionalization that took place, as well as to observe changes over time. Emotionalization is assessed in two ways; by analyzing to what extent journalists (1) explicitly mentioned discrete emotions in news stories (joy, hope, fear, anger, etc.) and/or (2) used rhetorical devices to evoke emotions (affective vocabulary, metaphors, colloquial language, superlatives, etc.). Results from a quantitative content analysis of four Austrian newspapers in 2010/2011, 2013/2014, and 2017/2018 show that the coverage is highly emotionalized across all three time periods studied. Emotionalization occurs far more often by using rhetorical devices than by explicitly mentioning positive or negative emotions. Interestingly, the incorporation of emotional elements and scientific expertise in the news items do not exclude one another. Hence, there seems to be no strict dichotomy between rational/objective and emotional reporting.
Cogitatio Press
2020-03-18 00:00:00
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/2498
Media and Communication; Vol 8, No 1 (2020): Emotions and Emotional Appeals in Science Communication
eng
Copyright (c) 2020 Brigitte Huber, Ingrid Aichberger
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/6043
2023-06-26T15:47:13Z
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Cartographies of Resistance: Counter-Data Mapping as the New Frontier of Digital Media Activism
Jeppesen, Sandra
Media, Film, and Communications, Lakehead University, Canada
Sartoretto, Paola
School of Education and Communication, Jönköping University, Sweden
activist maps; CityLab; Covid-19; Data for Black Lives; data imaginaries; data justice; data mapping; Indigenous Emergency
In the first datafied pandemic, the production of interactive Covid-19 data maps was intensified by state institutions and corporate media. Maps have been used by states and citizens to understand the advance and retreat of the contagion and monitor vaccine rates. However, the visualisations being used are often based on non-comparable data types across countries, leading to visual misrepresentations. Many pandemic data visualisations have consequently had a negative impact on public debate, contributing to an infodemic of disinformation that has stigmatised marginalised groups and detracted from social justice objectives. Counter to such hegemonic mapping, counter-data maps, produced by marginalised groups, have revealed hidden inequalities, supporting calls for intersectional health justice. This article investigates the ways in which various intersectional global communities have appropriated data, produced counter-data maps, unveiled hidden social realities, and generated more authentic social meanings through emergent counter-data mapping imaginaries. We use a comparative multi-case study, based on a multi case-study of three Covid-19 data mapping projects, namely Data for Black Lives (US), Indigenous Emergency (Brazil), and CityLab maps (global). Our findings indicate that counter-data mapping imaginaries are deeply embedded in community-oriented notions of spatiality and relationality. Moreover, the cartographic process tends to reflect alternative imaginaries through four key dimensions of data mapping practice—objectives, uses, production, and ownership. We argue that counter-data mapping is the new frontier of digital media activism and community communication, as it extends the projects of data justice and community media activism, generating new practices in the activist repertoire of communicative action.
Cogitatio Press
2023-02-28 00:00:00
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6043
Media and Communication; Vol 11, No 1 (2023): Global Inequalities in the Wake of Covid-19: Gender, Pandemic, and Media Gaps
eng
Copyright (c) 2023 Sandra Jeppesen, Paola Sartoretto
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/2536
2020-06-23T08:08:43Z
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Why Are Scientific Experts Perceived as Trustworthy? Emotional Assessment within TV and YouTube Videos
Reif, Anne
Department of Communication and Media Sciences, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
Kneisel, Tim
Department of Communication and Media Sciences, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
Schäfer, Markus
Department of Communication and Media Sciences, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
Taddicken, Monika
Department of Communication and Media Sciences, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6505-3005
entertainment; public trust; science communication; science video; stereotype; television; trustworthiness; YouTube
Due to the rise of the Internet, the effects of different science communication formats in which experts appear cannot be neglected in communication research. Through their emotional and more comprehensible communication ‘sciencetubers’—who frequently differ from the stereotypical image of scientists as white, old men—may have a considerable effect on the public’s perceived trustworthiness of scientists as well as their trust in science. Thus, this study aims to extend trust and trustworthiness research to consider the role of emotion in science communication in the context of emerging online video content. Therefore, perceived trustworthiness was examined in an experimental online survey of 155 people aged 18–80. We considered different potential influencing variables for trustworthiness (expertise, integrity, benevolence) and used six different video stimuli about physics featuring scientific experts. The video stimuli varied according to format (TV interviews vs. YouTube videos), gender (male vs. female), and age of the experts depicted (old vs. young). The results suggest that: (1) Scientific experts appearing in TV interviews are perceived as more competent but not higher in integrity or benevolence than sciencetubers—while scientists interviewed on TV are regarded as typical scientists, sciencetubers stand out for their highly professional communication abilities (being entertaining and comprehensible); (2) these emotional assessments of scientists are important predictors of perceived trustworthiness; and (3) significantly mediate the effect of the stimulus (TV interview vs. YouTube video) on all dimensions of perceived trustworthiness of scientific experts.
Cogitatio Press
2020-03-18 00:00:00
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/2536
Media and Communication; Vol 8, No 1 (2020): Emotions and Emotional Appeals in Science Communication
eng
Copyright (c) 2020 Anne Reif, Tim Kneisel, Markus Schäfer, Monika Taddicken
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/976
2020-07-21T09:48:28Z
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A Historical Analysis of Media Practices and Technologies in Protest Movements: A Review of Crisis and Critique by Anne Kaun
Laajalahti, Anne
Department of Language and Communication Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
critique; economic crises; media history; media participation; media practices; media technologies; protest movements
Dr. Anne Kaun’s book, Crisis and Critique: A Brief History of Media Participation in Times of Crisis (London: Zed Books, 2016, 131 pp., ISBN: 978-1-78360-736-5), is a concise but comprehensive analysis of the changing media practices and technologies in protest movements. The book overviews the topic within the context of major economic crises and scrutinises three richly detailed case studies in the United States: (a) the unemployed workers’ movement during the Great Depression in the 1930s, (b) the tenants’ rent strike movement of the early 1970s, and (c) the Occupy Wall Street movement following the Great Recession of 2008. Kaun begins her book with an introduction to economic crises and protest movements and highlights the relationship of crisis and critique to media practices. She goes on to investigate historical forms of media participation in protest movements from three different perspectives: (a) protest time, (b) protest space, and (c) protest speed. The book contributes to the recent discussion on the emerging role of social media in protest by providing a historically nuanced analysis of the media participation in times of crisis. As a whole, the book is valuable to anyone interested in media and social activism.
Cogitatio Press
2017-03-27 00:00:00
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/976
Media and Communication; Vol 5, No 2 (2017): Multidisciplinary Studies in Media and Communication
eng
Copyright (c) 2017 Anne Laajalahti
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3934
2022-08-30T09:06:26Z
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Transit Zones, Locales, and Locations: How Digital Annotations Affect Communication in Public Places
Lettkemann, Eric
Institute of Sociology, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany https://www.ts.tu-berlin.de/v_menue/mitarbeiterinnen/dr_eric_lettkemann/parameter/en/ https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4504-2488
Schulz-Schaeffer, Ingo
Institute of Sociology, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
annotation; civil inattention; Foursquare; locative media; perceived accessibility; public places; small talk; sociability; social worlds; Tabelog
The article presents an analytical concept, the Constitution of Accessibility through Meaning of Public Places (CAMPP) model. The CAMPP model distinguishes different manifestations of public places according to how they facilitate and restrict communication between urbanites. It describes public places along two analytical dimensions: their degree of perceived accessibility and the elaboration of knowledge necessary to participate in place-related activities. Three patterns of communicative interaction result from these dimensions: civil inattention, small talk, and sociability. We employ the CAMPP model as an analytical tool to investigate how digital annotations affect communicative patterns and perceptions of accessibility of public places. Based on empirical observations and interviews with users of smartphone apps that provide digital annotations, such as Foursquare City Guide, we observe that digital annotations tend to reflect and reinforce existing patterns of communication and rarely evoke changes in the perceived accessibility of public places.
Cogitatio Press
2021-07-23 00:00:00
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3934
Media and Communication; Vol 9, No 3 (2021): Spaces, Places, and Geographies of Public Spheres
eng
Copyright (c) 2021 Eric Lettkemann, Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/2374
2020-01-20T08:03:35Z
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Working on the Margins: Comparative Perspectives on the Roles and Motivations of Peripheral Actors in Journalism
Schapals, Aljosha Karim
School of Communication, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology, Australia https://staff.qut.edu.au/staff/aljosha.schapals https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9512-8792
Maares, Phoebe
Department of Communication, Journalism Studies Center, University of Vienna, Austria https://journalismstudies.univie.ac.at/team/phoebe-maares/
Hanusch, Folker
Department of Communication, Journalism Studies Center, University of Vienna, Austria https://journalismstudies.univie.ac.at/team/folker-hanusch/
digital news; entrepreneurship; innovation; journalism; media; news production; news start-ups
As a consequence of digitization and other environmental trends, journalism is changing its forms and arguably also its functions—both in fundamental ways. While ‘legacy’ news media continue to be easily distinguishable by set characteristics, new content providers operating in an increasingly dense, chaotic, interactive, and participatory information environment still remain somewhat understudied. However, at a time when non-traditional formats account for an ever-growing portion of journalistic or para-journalistic work, there is an urgent need to better understand these new peripheral actors and the ways they may be transforming the journalistic field. While journalism scholarship has begun to examine peripheral actors’ motivations and conceptualizations of their roles, our understanding is still fairly limited. This relates particularly to comparative studies of peripheral actors, of which there have been very few, despite peripheral journalism being a global phenomenon. This study aims to address this gap by presenting evidence from 18 in-depth interviews with journalists in Australia, Germany, and the UK. In particular, it examines how novel journalistic actors working for a range of organisations discursively contrast their work from that of others. The findings indicate that journalists’ motivations to engage in journalism in spite of the rise of precarious labour were profoundly altruistic: Indeed, journalists pledged allegiance to an ideology of journalism still rooted in a pre-crisis era—one which sees journalism as serving a public good by providing an interpretative, sense-making role.
Cogitatio Press
2019-12-17 03:50:33
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/2374
Media and Communication; Vol 7, No 4 (2019): Peripheral Actors in Journalism: Agents of Change in Journalism Culture and Practice
eng
Copyright (c) 2019 Aljosha Karim Schapals, Phoebe Maares, Folker Hanusch
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/7090
2024-02-07T12:17:54Z
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Overcoming the Age Barrier: Improving Older Adults’ Detection of Political Disinformation With Media Literacy
Sádaba, Charo
School of Communication, University of Navarra, Spain https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2596-2794
Salaverría, Ramón
School of Communication, University of Navarra, Spain https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4188-7811
Bringué, Xavier
School of Communication, University of Navarra, Spain https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7943-7982
fake news; information disorders; media literacy; news bias; older adults; political disinformation; Spain; WhatsApp
This experimental study analyzes the effect of media literacy on the ability of Spanish seniors over 50 years of age to identify fake news. The experiment measures the improvement achieved by older adults in the detection of political disinformation thanks to a digital competence course offered through WhatsApp. The study comprises a total sample of 1,029 individuals, subdivided into a control group (n = 531) and an experimental group (n = 498), from which a qualified experimental subsample (n = 87) was extracted. Results reveal that participants’ political beliefs, ranging from left to right positions, influence their ability to detect misinformation. A progressive political position is associated with higher accuracy in identifying right-biased news headlines and lower accuracy for left-biased headlines. A conservative position is associated with higher accuracy when the news headline has a progressive bias, but lower accuracy when the headline is right-wing. Users are more critical when the headline has a bias against theirs, while they are more likely to believe news that confirms their own beliefs. The study adds evidence on the relevance of cognitive biases in disinformation and supports the convenience of designing specific media literacy actions aimed at older adults.
Cogitatio Press
2023-10-19 00:00:00
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/7090
Media and Communication; Vol 11, No 4 (2023): Mediatized Discourses on European Integration: Information, Disinformation, and Polarization
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/download/7090/45113
Copyright (c) 2023 Charo Sádaba, Ramón Salaverría, Xavier Bringué
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/387
2020-07-21T09:47:51Z
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Revisiting National Journalism Cultures in Post-Communist Countries: The Influence of Academic Scholarship
Harro-Loit, Halliki
Institute of Social Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia
academic scholarship; actor approach; CEE countries; discursive institutionalism, journalism culture
The aim of this exploratory study is to develop the concept of the actor approach and journalism culture by adding a factor that has been more or less overlooked: academic scholarship. The paper also proposes to use the concept “discursive institutionalism” in order to clarify what knowledge and opinions about media are formed in the interaction of media institutions and academia with other institutions in society (e.g. educational, political and judicial). The concept “discursive institutionalism” includes the role of academia in providing new knowledge by conducting and disseminating research on the national and international levels, and this deserves greater attention. Although it is a common understanding that the role of academia is to prepare young professionals, it is less discussed how national media research and journalism education, in synergy, can create and maintain a collective understanding regarding the role and performance of national journalism in turbulent times. The paper is a meta-analysis of published research, and the empirical part of the study includes a close reading of academic articles, reports and conference presentations that are available in English about media in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. Examples of research from selected CEE countries provide a descriptive view of problems and tendencies concerning media performance in these countries. The proposed analytical approach aims to connect these problems and provide ideas for further research.
Cogitatio Press
2015-12-29 00:00:00
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/387
Media and Communication; Vol 3, No 4 (2015): Turbulences of the Central and Eastern European Media
eng
Copyright (c) 2015 Halliki Harro-Loit
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3166
2020-10-08T04:16:07Z
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Rethinking Public Agenda in a Time of High-Choice Media Environment
Bentivegna, Sara
Department of Social Sciences and Economics, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Boccia Artieri, Giovanni
Department of Communication Sciences, Humanities and International Studies, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1398-7823
legacy media; media environment; political communication; public agenda; public sphere; social media
Contemporary political communication is conditioned by an information environment characterised, on the one hand, by increased choice, and on the other by the fragmentation and multiplication of the ways of consuming information. This article introduces the notion of the ‘interrelated public agenda’ as a frame to study this context, taking into account elements of convergence and divergence from a single viewpoint, adopting a complex analysis model which proceeds along axes which make it possible to detect a continuum in which opposing forces are in a constant, problematic equilibrium. In this sense, we identified three dimensions which are helpful in describing public agenda interrelations. First, horizontality vs verticality, which contains the dynamics of power, and is generated in a context of political disintermediation, through the altered nature of the media system—in the complex relation between legacy media and web 2.0, and between social, institutional actors, and others. Second, personal vs aggregative, which stresses the need to take account of convergences and divergences between personal orientation towards certain issues and the aggregative pressure in different media spaces in which people feel at home: from information consumption via media diets of varying complexity to active participation in the production of content or in public discourse, offline and online. And finally, dynamic vs static, which points to the need to orient analysis towards the relation between media spaces rather than focusing on specific spaces, thus helping, importantly, to make up for the current dearth of research in comparison with studies of single platforms.
Cogitatio Press
2020-10-08 03:30:37
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3166
Media and Communication; Vol 8, No 4 (2020): The Ongoing Transformation of the Digital Public Sphere
eng
Copyright (c) 2020 Sara Bentivegna, Giovanni Boccia Artieri
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1624
2020-07-21T09:49:30Z
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ICT Use and Digital Inclusion among Roma/Gitano Adolescents
Garmendia, Maialen
Department of Sociology and Social work, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Karrera, Inaki
Department of Didactics and School Organization, University of the Basque Country, Spain
adolescents; development; digital divide; Gitano; ICT; Roma; social inclusion; Spain
This article analyses the way in which the digital divide affects Roma/Gitano minors. This ethnic group is a paradigmatic case among socially underprivileged groups in Spain; excluded from industrial society, they appear to be facing a similar situation in the post-industrial era. We, therefore, sought to explore the digital experiences of minors from this group in order to study social and digital exclusion/inclusion among them. The research strategy took a comprehensive approach, covering both offline and online behaviour. We focused on the results of fieldwork undertaken in Spain during 2017. In all, interviews were conducted with 17 adolescents (aged 11 to 18) as well as with several social workers who were providing support to the minors. Given that the use of technology has become a prerequisite for the welfare of children and for the development of their rights, the issue tends to centre on three main areas, commonly known as the three Ps: provision, participation, and protection. As such, the analysis of inequality was based on these areas. The findings presented in this article illustrate that the use of ICTs can contribute to empowering Roma/Gitano adolescents to improve the position they occupy as a group in the social structure.
Cogitatio Press
2019-02-05 04:36:11
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1624
Media and Communication; Vol 7, No 1 (2019): Communicating on/with Minorities
eng
Copyright (c) 2019 Maialen Garmendia, Inaki Karrera
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/4948
2022-05-03T16:15:46Z
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Homophily and Polarization in Twitter Political Networks: A Cross-Country Analysis
Esteve-Del-Valle, Marc
Centre for Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen, The Netherlands https://www.rug.nl/staff/m.esteve.del.valle/ https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4407-1989
homophily; parliamentarians; political networks; political polarization; political communication; Twitter
Homophily, the tendency of people to have ties with those who are similar, is a fundamental pattern to understand human relations. As such, the study of homophily can provide key insights into the flow of information and behaviors within political contexts. Indeed, some degree of polarization is necessary for the functioning of liberal democracies, but too much polarization can increase the adoption of extreme political positions and create democratic gridlock. The relationship between homophilous communication ties and political polarization is thus fundamental because it affects a pillar of democratic regimes: the need for public debate where divergent ideas and interests can be confronted. This research compares the degree of homophily and political polarization in Catalan MPs’ Twitter mentions network to Dutch MPs’ Twitter mentions network. Exponential random graph models were employed on a one-year sample of mentions among Dutch MPs (N = 7,356) and on a one-year, three-month sample of mentions among Catalan MPs (N = 19,507). Party polarization was measured by calculating the external–internal index of both Twitter mentions networks. Results reveal that the mentions among Catalan MPs are much more homophilous than those among the Dutch MPs. Indeed, there is a positive relationship between the degree of MPs’ homophilous communication ties and the degree of political polarization observed in each network.
Cogitatio Press
2022-04-29 10:00:46
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/4948
Media and Communication; Vol 10, No 2 (2022): Networks and Organizing Processes in Online Social Media
eng
Copyright (c) 2022 Marc Esteve-Del-Valle
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3001
2020-07-10T04:17:37Z
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Negotiated Autonomy: The Role of Social Media Algorithms in Editorial Decision Making
Peterson-Salahuddin, Chelsea
Department of Communications Studies, Northwestern University, USA https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7006-3259
Diakopoulos, Nicholas
Department of Communications Studies, Northwestern University, USA https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5005-6123
algorithms; gatekeeping; journalism; newsworthiness; social media
Social media platforms have increasingly become an important way for news organizations to distribute content to their audiences. As news organizations relinquish control over distribution, they may feel the need to optimize their content to align with platform logics to ensure economic sustainability. However, the opaque and often proprietary nature of platform algorithms makes it hard for news organizations to truly know what kinds of content are preferred and will perform well. Invoking the concept of algorithmic ‘folk theories,’ this article presents a study of in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 18 U.S.-based news journalists and editors to understand how they make sense of social media algorithms, and to what extent this influences editorial decision making. Our findings suggest that while journalists’ understandings of platform algorithms create new considerations for gatekeeping practices, the extent to which it influences those practices is often negotiated against traditional journalistic conceptions of newsworthiness and journalistic autonomy.
Cogitatio Press
2020-07-10 00:00:00
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3001
Media and Communication; Vol 8, No 3 (2020): Algorithms and Journalism: Exploring (Re)Configurations
eng
Copyright (c) 2020 Chelsea Peterson-Salahuddin, Nicholas Diakopoulos
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/7317
2023-06-28T07:41:22Z
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Datafied Societies: Digital Infrastructures, Data Power, and Regulations
Ferrer-Conill, Raul
University of Stavanger, Norway / Karlstad University, Sweden https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0501-2217
Sjøvaag, Helle
University of Stavanger, Norway https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6737-8129
Olsen, Ragnhild Kr.
Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3072-8046
datafication; datafied society; data power; digital infrastructure; media policy; media political economy; media regulation; platforms
The datafication and platformization of social processes further the overall shift from an open, public, and decentralized internet towards a private and siloed realm that establishes power asymmetries between those who provide data and those who own, trade, and control data. The ongoing process of datafying societies embraces the logics of aggregation and automation that increasingly negotiate transactions between markets and social entities, informing governance systems, institutions, and public discourse. This thematic issue presents a collection of articles that tackle the political economy of datafication from three main perspectives: (a) digital media infrastructures and its actors, data structures, and markets; (b) the articulation of data power, public access to information, data privacy, and the risks of citizens in a datafied society; and (c) the policies and regulations for effective, independent media institutions and data sovereignty. It concludes with a reflection on the role of media and communication scholarship when studying sociotechnical processes controlled by giant technological companies.
Cogitatio Press
2023-06-28 00:00:00
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/7317
Media and Communication; Vol 11, No 2 (2023): A Datafied Society: Data Power, Infrastructures, and Regulations
eng
Copyright (c) 2023 Raul Ferrer-Conill, Helle Sjøvaag, Ragnhild Kr. Olsen
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/70
2023-12-27T09:05:12Z
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Understanding Social Media Logic
van Dijck, José
Department of Mediastudies, University of Amsterdam, Turfdraagsterpad 9, 1012 VT Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Poell, Thomas
Department of Mediastudies, University of Amsterdam, Turfdraagsterpad 9, 1012 VT Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Facebook; mass media; media activism; platform analysis; social media; Twitter; viral
Over the past decade, social media platforms have penetrated deeply into the mechanics of everyday life, affecting people's informal interactions, as well as institutional structures and professional routines. Far from being neutral platforms for everyone, social media have changed the conditions and rules of social interaction. In this article, we examine the intricate dynamic between social media platforms, mass media, users, and social institutions by calling attention to social media logic—the norms, strategies, mechanisms, and economies—underpinning its dynamics. This logic will be considered in light of what has been identified as mass media logic, which has helped spread the media's powerful discourse outside its institutional boundaries. Theorizing social media logic, we identify four grounding principles—programmability, popularity, connectivity, and datafication—and argue that these principles become increasingly entangled with mass media logic. The logic of social media, rooted in these grounding principles and strategies, is gradually invading all areas of public life. Besides print news and broadcasting, it also affects law and order, social activism, politics, and so forth. Therefore, its sustaining logic and widespread dissemination deserve to be scrutinized in detail in order to better understand its impact in various domains. Concentrating on the tactics and strategies at work in social media logic, we reassess the constellation of power relationships in which social practices unfold, raising questions such as: How does social media logic modify or enhance existing mass media logic? And how is this new media logic exported beyond the boundaries of (social or mass) media proper? The underlying principles, tactics, and strategies may be relatively simple to identify, but it is much harder to map the complex connections between platforms that distribute this logic: users that employ them, technologies that drive them, economic structures that scaffold them, and institutional bodies that incorporate them.
Cogitatio Press
2014-06-04 00:00:00
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/70
Media and Communication; Vol 1, No 1 (2013): Multidisciplinary Studies in Media and Communication
eng
Copyright (c)
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/4433
2022-01-25T11:05:44Z
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ProPublica’s Data Journalism: How Multidisciplinary Teams and Hybrid Profiles Create Impactful Data Stories
de-Lima-Santos, Mathias-Felipe
School of Communication, University of Navarra, Spain https://www.unav.edu/en/web/digitalunav/team/researchers https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8879-7381
data journalism; hybrid profile; journalism; multidisciplinary teams; news nerds; ProPublica
Despite growing interest in the emergence of technologies in journalistic practices, especially from the production perspective, there is still very little research on organizational structures and professional culture in relation to the deployment of these technologies. Drawing on six interviews and observation in staff meetings, this study aims to explore the nuances behind the professional roles of data journalists and how these relate to structural aspects of news organizations. The study focuses on the case of ProPublica, a news organization internationally renowned for its global excellence in data stories. This work considers boundary-making in the context of journalism and focuses on new professional roles in the news industry to produce a hybrid ethnography study based on qualitative data collected immediately before the Covid-19 pandemic hit the United States. The findings reveal the importance of hybrid profiles at ProPublica. While some journalists have had to expand their knowledge to learn more about new areas, such as coding and design, some non-journalistic professionals have had to develop writing skills, and this blurring of traditional boundaries forms an important aspect of ProPublica’s professional culture. The structure of the organization, divided into two teams engaged in cross-sector activities, helps to promote data skills and collaboration with other journalists, which also serves to mitigate any individual lack of experience on certain topics. The article concludes by suggesting that the growing importance of these new professional roles has broader implications for the development of data skills in the newsroom, and also discusses the limitations that can arise from the increasing overlap between journalistic and non-journalistic roles.
Cogitatio Press
2022-01-20 00:00:00
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/4433
Media and Communication; Vol 10, No 1 (2022): New Forms of Media Work and Its Organizational and Institutional Conditions
eng
Copyright (c) 2022 Mathias-Felipe de-Lima-Santos
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1424
2020-07-21T09:49:04Z
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Towards a Psychoanalytic Concept of Affective-Digital Labour
Johanssen, Jacob
Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), Faculty of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster, UK
affective labour; digital labour; psychoanalysis; social media
This article draws on the argument that users on corporate social media conduct labour through the sharing of user-generated content. Critical political economists argue that such acts contribute to value creation on social media and are therefore to be seen as labour. Following a brief introduction of this paradigm, I relate it to the notion of affective labour which has been popularised by the Marxist thinkers Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. To them, affective labour (as a sub-category of immaterial labour) denotes embodied forms of labour that are about passion, well-being, feelings of ease, immaterial products and generally a kind of communicative relationality between individuals. I point to some problems with a lack of clarity in their conceptualisation of affective labour and argue that the Freudian model of affect can help in theorising affective labour further through a focus on social media. According to Freud, affect can be understood as a subjective, bodily experience which is in tension with the discursive and denotes a momentary feeling of bodily dispossession. In order to illustrate those points, I draw on some data from a research project which featured interviews with social media users who have facial disfigurements about their affective experiences online. The narratives attempt to turn embodied experiences into discourse.
Cogitatio Press
2018-09-11 07:20:04
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1424
Media and Communication; Vol 6, No 3 (2018): The Turn to Affect and Emotion in Media Studies
eng
Copyright (c) 2018 Jacob Johanssen
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/6028
2023-06-26T15:48:50Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
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Meet Bob and Offset Your Flight: Optimising Explainer Videos to Promote Voluntary Carbon Offsetting
Schorn, Anna
Department of Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich, Switzerland https://www.ikmz.uzh.ch/de/research/divisions/mediapsychology-and-effects/team/employees-current/anna-schorn.html https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6386-993X
Wirth, Werner
Department of Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich, Switzerland
exemplar; experiment; explainer video; narrative perspective; nudging; social influence; social norm appeals; sustainable behaviour; voluntary carbon offsetting
In Germany, over 60% of people use YouTube as a search engine and watch explainer videos or tutorials at least occasionally. Two studies were conducted to determine how explainer videos can be optimised to promote sustainable minority behaviour such as voluntary carbon offsetting. A typical way to present information in explainer videos is by using exemplars (the “meet Bob” trope), which can change recipients’ judgements of the frequency of events. When an exemplar is included, the frequency of occurrence can be estimated to be higher, even if the actual base-rate information is given. Therefore, study one (N = 482) tested whether an exemplar could enhance the positive effects of a dynamic descriptive social norm appeal (DSNA), prevent the backfire effects of a static minority DSNA, and examine whether there were any differences depending on the narrative perspective. In study one, we conducted a 2 (narrative perspective: first vs. third person) × 2 (DSNA: static vs. dynamic) × 2 (travel destination: Europe vs. overseas; control factor) between-subjects experiment using six self-produced explainer videos about voluntary carbon offsetting (N = 270). The results show that the narrative perspective, different DSNAs, and the destination had no effect on persuasive outcomes. Study two (N = 270) focused on social norm appeals and supplemented minority DSNAs (DSNA: static vs. dynamic vs. absent) with an injunctive social norm appeal (ISNA: present vs. absent). The results show that a majority injunctive social norm appeal can improve attitudes towards voluntary carbon offsetting and perceived effectiveness.
Cogitatio Press
2023-03-27 00:00:00
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6028
Media and Communication; Vol 11, No 1 (2023): Science Communication in the Digital Age: New Actors, Environments, and Practices
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/download/6028/41748
Copyright (c) 2023 Anna Schorn, Werner Wirth
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/2783
2020-06-23T08:08:59Z
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Digital Participation and Risk Contexts in Journalism Education
Dzula, Mark
Fawcett Library, The Webb Schools, USA
Wuu, Sydney
Fawcett Library, The Webb Schools, USA
Luna, Janitza
Fawcett Library, The Webb Schools, USA
Cook, Amelie
Fawcett Library, The Webb Schools, USA
Chen, Summer
Fawcett Library, The Webb Schools, USA
digital participation; digital writing; high school; journalism; journalistic collaboration; risk
High school journalism programs nurture student voice, information literacy, and collaboration. Journalism programs do not merely produce commodities; they help students constitute a public within a school community. When publishing online, student journalists navigate relationships behind the scenes with stakeholders, including peers, adults, and the institution. Publishing can be fraught with hesitation and fear of consequences for speaking out. Because of this implication, journalism programs can serve as “potentially valuable yet imperfect” settings for the amplification of student voice and civic development, but can also unduly limit students’ self-expression, especially for girls (Bobkowski & Belmas, 2017). What might be the affordances and constraints of digital participation in a high school journalism program? How might youth journalists and other participants navigate exigencies of publishing online in this context? We, the head editors and adviser, use grounded theory to examine processes and develop pragmatic knowledge (Glaser & Strauss, 2017). Through a mix of prompts, group interviews, and participant observation, we develop a case study that demonstrates implications for ‘risk context,’ or the total situation of an actor’s vulnerability brought on by digital participation in publishing online. We describe what digital participation is good for, and for whom, thus further theorizing relationships between agency and co-production.
Cogitatio Press
2020-05-19 00:00:00
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/2783
Media and Communication; Vol 8, No 2 (2020): Youth Digital Participation: Opportunities, Challenges, Contexts, and What’s at Stake
eng
Copyright (c) 2020 Mark Dzula, Sydney Wuu, Janitza Luna, Amelie Cook, Summer Chen
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1057
2020-07-21T09:48:41Z
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“I Set the Camera on the Handle of My Dresser”: Re-Matter-Ializing Social Media Visual Methods through a Case Study of Selfies
Warfield, Katie
Journalism and Communication Studies, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada http://www.thevisualmediaworkshop.com
intra-view; new materialism; photo elicitation; posthumanism; social media
This article is a confession about research trouble and the start of a narrative of research rectification. I begin this article with a review of new materialist theory and methods broadly and specifically those that contribute insight into interviews and photo elicitation such as intra-views and posthuman visual methods. I then detail the research methodology I used for an empirical study conducted last year to look at what young women experience while taking selfies, or images of their face and body to be shared on social media. After this fairly procedural account, I return to my messy research notes and video recordings, and—rather than reread—I re-trace and re-matter-ialize one specific interview with one young woman using new materialist methods (intra-views and reading images horizontally) to reveal data that would otherwise not have been evidenced via my original humanist methods. Re-matter-ializing describes my process as a researcher re-visiting not only the discursive moments, but the affective encounters and the matter of the research assemblage; meaning I move beyond the spoken data to look at how the material-discursive-afffective assemblage or arrangment of the interview room, technologies of data recording, props in the room, and embodied interactions of the participants were entangled in and vital agents in the production of data. In conclusion I detail the benefits of a posthuman re-tracing: 1) an attentiveness to the complex human and non-human agents in a research assemblage, 2) a response-ability or ethical duty of researchers to not reduce the complexity of the phenomena they study, 3) the importance of affect in the research encounter especially in visual methods, and, 4) a questioning of the implicit assumption that—of all steps in a research program—methodology is the least malleable.
Cogitatio Press
2017-12-21 00:00:00
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1057
Media and Communication; Vol 5, No 4 (2017): Visual Communication in the Age of Social Media: Conceptual, Theoretical and Methodological Challenges
eng
Copyright (c) 2017 Katie Warfield
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/4292
2021-10-25T09:38:15Z
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Re-Defining Borders Online: Russia’s Strategic Narrative on Internet Sovereignty
Litvinenko, Anna
Institute for Media and Communication Studies, FU Berlin, Germany https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4029-0829
digital sovereignty; internet governance; Russia; strategic narrative
Over the past decades, internet governance has developed in a tug-of-war between the democratic, transnational nature of the web, and attempts by national governments to put cyberspace under control. Recently, the idea of digital sovereignty has started to increasingly gain more supporters among nation states. This article is a case study on the Russian concept of a “sovereign internet.” In 2019, the so-called law on sustainable internet marked a new milestone in the development of RuNet. Drawing on document analysis and expert interviews, I reconstruct Russia’s strategic narrative on internet sovereignty and its evolution over time. I identify the main factors that have shaped the Russian concept of sovereignty, including domestic politics, the economy, international relations, and the historical trajectory of the Russian segment of the internet. The article places the Russian case in a global context and discusses the importance of strategic narratives of digital sovereignty for the future of internet governance.
Cogitatio Press
2021-10-21 00:00:00
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/4292
Media and Communication; Vol 9, No 4 (2021): Media Control Revisited: Challenges, Bottom-Up Resistance and Agency in the Digital Age
eng
Copyright (c) 2021 Anna Litvinenko
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/2514
2023-01-31T18:46:55Z
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Reporting in Conflict Zones in Pakistan: Risks and Challenges for Fixers
Baloch, Kiyya
NLA University College, Norway
Andresen, Kenneth
Institute of Media and Nordic Studies, University of Agder, Norway
conflict zones; fixers; journalism; Pakistan; security
As a backbone of reporting in war and conflicts, fixers offer essential assistance to the foreign correspondent in conflict zones, also in Pakistan. With valuable local knowledge and contacts, fixers can arrange travel to secure entry of foreign correspondents into conflict zones in addition to securing interviews with otherwise unattainable figures, while offering reliable translation services. Pakistani media, despite being one of the largest and most developed in South Asia, remains under the strict control of powerful military establishment and government, while seeming to mirror the overarching government sentiment with a distinct lack of research-based news. Challenging this state of affairs, local journalist fixers seek to conduct research and investigative journalism, making them an attractive asset for western correspondents travelling to Pakistan. Based on data from interviews with local fixers and journalists in Pakistan, this article reveals the many security problems for local fixers in the Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa regions in Pakistan. It also shows that the fixers’ rights and interests are not protected by media organizations or the governments. Additionally, fixers face increasing censorship from security agencies and death threats from militants. This study discusses the harsh realities fixers face in the conflict zones of Pakistan where international press lack access due to increasing restrictions imposed by the government, and the violence perpetrated against media workers by the Islamic State and other radical groups, like Taliban and Baloch separatists.
Cogitatio Press
2020-02-25 03:41:59
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/2514
Media and Communication; Vol 8, No 1 (2020): Rethinking Safety of Journalists
eng
Copyright (c) 2020 Kiyya Baloch, Kenneth Andresen
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/6200
2023-06-26T15:45:25Z
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Beyond Brexit? Public Participation in Decision-Making on Campaign Data During and After Referendum Campaigns
Rone, Julia
Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, UK
Brexit; data-driven campaigning; digital democracy; participation; referendums; referendum campaigns
While the Brexit referendum campaign has been extensively researched, media, regulatory bodies, and academics have often talked at cross-purposes. A strong focus on Cambridge Analytica’s role in the 2016 referendum, despite official investigations concluding the company had only limited involvement in the campaign, has distracted attention from more mundane but highly controversial data practices, including selling voters’ data to third parties or re-using campaign data without consent from data subjects. This empirical case study of data-driven referendum campaigning around Brexit raises two broader theoretical questions: First, moving beyond the current focus on transparency and accountability, can public participation in the ownership and management of campaign data address some of the problematic data practices outlined? Second, most academic literature on data-driven campaigning, in general, and referendum campaigns, in particular, has often overlooked the key question of what happens with campaigning data once campaigns are over. What legal safeguards or mechanisms of accountability and participation are there to guarantee consent when it comes to further re-use of people’s data gathered during campaigns? Ultimately, the article raises the question of who should have a say in how “people’s data” is used in referendum campaigns and afterwards and makes a case for democratising such decisions.
Cogitatio Press
2023-01-31 00:00:00
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6200
Media and Communication; Vol 11, No 1 (2023): Referendum Campaigns in the Digital Age
eng
Copyright (c) 2023 Julia Rone
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3804
2021-04-08T02:43:34Z
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Mobile Journalists as Traceable Data Objects: Surveillance Capitalism and Responsible Innovation in Mobile Journalism
Salzmann, Anja
Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen, Norway https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7447-5410
Guribye, Frode
Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen, Norway https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3055-6515
Gynnild, Astrid
Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen, Norway https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9502-1044
innovation; journalism; mobile journalism; mobile technology; responsible innovation; responsible research; risk technology; surveillance capitalism; Zuboff
This article discusses how Shosana Zuboff’s critical theory of surveillance capitalism may help to understand and underpin responsible practice and innovation in mobile journalism. Zuboff conceptualizes surveillance capitalism as a new economic logic made possible by ICT and its architecture for extracting and trading data products of user behavior and preferences. Surveillance is, through these new technologies, built into the fabric of our economic system and, according to Zuboff, appears as deeply anti-democratic and a threat to human sovereignty, dignity, and autonomy. In Europe, the framework of responsible research and innovation is promoted as an approach and a meta-concept that should inform practice and policy for research and innovation to align with societal values and democratic principles. Within this approach, ICT is framed as a risk technology. As innovation in mobile journalism is inextricably tied to the technologies and infrastructure of smartphones and social media platforms, the apparent question would be how we can envision responsible innovation in this area. Zuboff provides a critical perspective to study how this architecture of surveillance impedes the practice of mobile journalism. While the wide adoption of smartphones as a key tool for both producing and consuming news has great potential for innovation, it can also feed behavioral data into the supply chain of surveillance capitalism. We discuss how potentially harmful implications can be met on an individual and organizational level to contribute to a more responsible adoption of mobile technologies in journalism.
Cogitatio Press
2021-04-06 04:02:33
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3804
Media and Communication; Vol 9, No 2 (2021): Critical Theory in a Digital Media Age: Ways Forward
eng
Copyright (c) 2021 Anja Salzmann, Frode Guribye, Astrid Gynnild
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/805
2020-07-21T09:48:22Z
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Clipper Meets Apple vs. FBI—A Comparison of the Cryptography Discourses from 1993 and 2016
Schulze, Matthias
International Relations Department, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Germany http://www.lib.uni-jena.de
Apple; cryptowar; discourse analysis; encryption; FBI
This article analyzes two cryptography discourses dealing with the question of whether governments should be able to monitor secure and encrypted communication, for example via security vulnerabilities in cryptographic systems. The Clipper chip debate of 1993 and the FBI vs. Apple case of 2016 are analyzed to infer whether these discourses show similarities in their arguments and to draw lessons from them. The study is based on the securitization framework and analyzes the social construction of security threats in political discourses. The findings are that the arguments made by the proponents of exceptional access show major continuities between the two cases. In contrast, the arguments of the critics are more diverse. The critical arguments for stronger encryption remain highly relevant, especially in the context of the Snowden revelations. The article concludes that we need to adopt a more general cyber security perspective, considering the threat of cyber crime and state hacking, when debating whether the government should be able to weaken encryption.
Cogitatio Press
2017-03-22 03:49:46
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/805
Media and Communication; Vol 5, No 1 (2017): Post-Snowden Internet Policy
eng
Copyright (c) 2017 Matthias Schulze
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3824
2021-05-10T07:19:46Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
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The ‘Eudaimonic Experience’: A Scoping Review of the Concept in Digital Games Research
Daneels, Rowan
Department of Communication Studies, University of Antwerp, Belgium https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2299-7369
Bowman, Nicholas D.
College of Media and Communication, Texas Tech University, USA
Possler, Daniel
Department of Journalism and Communication Research, Hanover University of Music, Drama, and Media, Germany
Mekler, Elisa D.
Department of Computer Science, Aalto University, Finland
appreciation; digital games; emotional challenge; emotionally moved; eudaimonia; meaningfulness; media entertainment; self-reflection; social connectedness
Digital games have evolved into a medium that moves beyond basic toys for distraction and pleasure towards platforms capable of and effective at instigating more serious, emotional, and intrapersonal experiences. Along with this evolution, games research has also started to consider more deeply affective and cognitive reactions that resemble the broad notion of eudaimonia, with work already being done in communication studies and media psychology as well as in human–computer interaction. These studies offer a large variety of concepts to describe such eudaimonic reactions—including eudaimonia, meaningfulness, appreciation, and self-transcendence—which are frequently used as synonyms as they represent aspects not captured by the traditional hedonic focus on enjoyment. However, these concepts are potentially confusing to work with as they might represent phenomenological distinct experiences. In this scoping review, we survey 82 publications to identify different concepts used in digital gaming research to represent eudaimonia and map out how these concepts relate to each other. The results of this scoping review revealed four broad conceptual patterns: (1) appreciation as an overarching (yet imprecise) eudaimonic outcome of playing digital games; (2) covariation among meaningful, emotionally moving/challenging, and self-reflective experiences; (3) the unique potential of digital games to afford eudaimonic social connectedness; and (4) other eudaimonia-related concepts (e.g., nostalgia, well-being, elevation). This review provides a conceptual map of the current research landscape on eudaimonic game entertainment experiences and outlines recommendations for future scholarship, including how a focus on digital games contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of eudaimonic media experiences broadly.
Cogitatio Press
2021-05-06 03:12:33
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3824
Media and Communication; Vol 9, No 2 (2021): The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Inspirational Media between Meaning, Narration, and Manipulation
eng
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/download/3824/24722
Copyright (c) 2021 Rowan Daneels, Nicholas D. Bowman, Daniel Possler, Elisa D. Mekler
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1910
2019-08-09T03:46:25Z
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Newsworthiness and the Public’s Response in Russian Social Media: A Comparison of State and Private News Organizations
Judina, Darja
Center for Sociological and Internet Research, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6603-0697
Platonov, Konstantin
Center for Sociological and Internet Research, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9659-5894
audience; media agenda; news organizations; news values; newsworthiness; Russia; social media; social networks
Social media have become one of the most important news delivery channels due to their interactivity and large audiences. The content published by news organizations on social networking sites is of particular value to sociologists, because it allows measurement of users’ attitude to certain events. However, we understand that the media choose which events become news in accordance with certain criteria, such as news values. In this study, we decided to examine how news values determine the public’s response as expressed by likes, reposts, and comments. To analyze the characteristics of different media and their audiences, we selected four popular newsgroups on the social networking site Vkontakte: TASS and Russia Today, representing the state media, alongside RBC and Meduza, representing the private media. The posts of the selected newsgroups were coded and analyzed by means of Harcup and O’Neill taxonomy of values (2016). The study showed that news organizations tend to have preferences for some news values rather than others. Regression analysis revealed positive relationships between 1) the sharing of likes and good and entertaining content, 2) the sharing of comments and the presence of celebrities or conflicts in news, 3) the sharing of reposts and comments and significant events. An unexpected discovery was a negative dependency between the number of comments and the presence of exclusive content.
Cogitatio Press
2019-08-09 04:05:07
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1910
Media and Communication; Vol 7, No 3 (2019): Public Discussion in Russian Social Media
eng
Copyright (c) 2019 Darja Judina, Konstantin Platonov
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/515
2020-07-21T09:48:02Z
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Teens, Health and Technology: A National Survey
Wartella, Ellen
Department of Communication, Northwestern University, USA
Rideout, Vicky
VJR Consulting, USA
Montague, Heather
Department of Communication, Northwestern University, USA
Beaudoin-Ryan, Leanne
Department of Communication, Northwestern University, USA
Lauricella, Alexis
Department of Communication, Northwestern University, USA
adolescents; digital technology; health; information-seeking
In the age of digital technology, as teens seem to be constantly connected online, via social media, and through mobile applications, it is no surprise that they increasingly turn to digital media to answer their health questions. This study is the first of its kind to survey a large, nationally-representative sample of teens to investigate how they use the newest digital technologies, including mobile apps, social networking sites, electronic gaming and wearable devices, to explore health topics. The survey covered the types of health topics teens most frequently search for, which technologies they are most likely to use and how they use them, and whether they report having changed their behaviors due to digital health information. In addition, this survey explores how the digital divide continues to impact adolescents. Results of this study indicate that teens are concerned about many health issues, ranging from fitness, sexual activity, drugs, hygiene as well as mental health and stress. As teens virtually always have a digital device at their fingertips, it is clear that public health interventions and informational campaigns must be tailored to reflect the ways that teens currently navigate digital health information and the health challenges that concern them most.
Cogitatio Press
2016-06-16 10:42:17
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/515
Media and Communication; Vol 4, No 3 (2016): Adolescents in the Digital Age: Effects on Health and Development
eng
Copyright (c) 2016 Ellen Wartella, Vicky Rideout, Heather Montague, Leanne Beaudoin-Ryan, Alexis Lauricella
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/5588
2022-11-29T12:00:31Z
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“Don’t Fauci My Florida:” Anti-Fauci Memes as Digital Anti-Intellectualism
Zolides, Andrew
Department of Communication, Xavier University, USA https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1742-5801
Anthony Fauci; anti-fandom; anti-intellectualism; memes; online communities; populism
In his prescient book Achieving Our Country, Richard Rorty predicts the rise of a Trump-like strongman built on attacking, among other public figures, “postmodern professors” (1998, p. 90). This speaks to the importance of anti-intellectualism to the populist movement in the US today. Always present in populist appeals, like McCarthy’s placement of “educated elites at the center of his communist conspiracy” (Peck, 2019, p. 129), this approach “seeks to undermine public discourse by attacking and devaluing education, expertise, and language” (Stanley, 2020, p. 36). The result of these attacks is a return to tribalism and power, key facets of populist rhetoric and strategies. With the Covid-19 pandemic dominating the US public discourse since 2020, the populist conservative movement has trained their anti-intellectual rhetoric towards a singular figure: Dr. Anthony Fauci. An anti-fandom community was thus born built around attacking and mocking Fauci, taking place within the larger populist movement. While this anti-Fauci rhetoric takes many forms, one of the most dominant is that of memes. Through an analysis of both formal (DeSantis merchandise and political cartoons) and informal (actual grassroots) anti-Fauci memes, I argue online communities have used anti-Fauci memes as a form of anti-fandom community building utilizing and bolstering anti-intellectual, populist rhetoric due to their ease of transmission, mutability, and personification of intellectualism on a singular figure. In this way, being “anti-Fauci” allows the populist argument to seem like a personal grievance rather than a focused attack on academic thought itself.
Cogitatio Press
2022-11-29 09:47:13
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5588
Media and Communication; Vol 10, No 4 (2022): Online Communities and Populism
eng
Copyright (c) 2022 Andrew Zolides
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3405
2021-02-05T04:28:44Z
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Digital Civic Participation and Misinformation during the 2020 Taiwanese Presidential Election
Chang, Ho-Chun Herbert
Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California, USA / Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, USA
Haider, Samar
Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, USA
Ferrara, Emilio
Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California, USA / Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, USA
2020 Taiwanese Presidential Election; digital civic participation; foreign interference; misinformation; Taiwan
From fact-checking chatbots to community-maintained misinformation databases, Taiwan has emerged as a critical case-study for citizen participation in politics online. Due to Taiwan’s geopolitical history with China, the recent 2020 Taiwanese Presidential Election brought fierce levels of online engagement led by citizens from both sides of the strait. In this article, we study misinformation and digital participation on three platforms, namely Line, Twitter, and Taiwan’s Professional Technology Temple (PTT, Taiwan’s equivalent of Reddit). Each of these platforms presents a different facet of the elections. Results reveal that the greatest level of disagreement occurs in discussion about incumbent president Tsai. Chinese users demonstrate emergent coordination and selective discussion around topics like China, Hong Kong, and President Tsai, whereas topics like Covid-19 are avoided. We discover an imbalance of the political presence of Tsai on Twitter, which suggests partisan practices in disinformation regulation. The cases of Taiwan and China point toward a growing trend where regular citizens, enabled by new media, can both exacerbate and hinder the flow of misinformation. The study highlights an overlooked aspect of misinformation studies, beyond the veracity of information itself, that is the clash of ideologies, practices, and cultural history that matter to democratic ideals.
Cogitatio Press
2021-02-03 00:00:00
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3405
Media and Communication; Vol 9, No 1 (2021): Dark Participation in Online Communication: The World of the Wicked Web
eng
Copyright (c) 2021 Ho-Chun Herbert Chang, Samar Haider, Emilio Ferrara
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/7158
2024-02-07T12:04:55Z
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Generation Alpha Media Consumption During Covid-19 and Teachers’ Standpoint
Šramová, Blandína
Faculty of Multimedia Communications, Tomáš Bata University, Czech Republic https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3941-2603
Pavelka, Jiří
Faculty of Multimedia Communications, Tomáš Bata University, Czech Republic https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7342-8057
Covid-19; digitalisation; education; generation Alpha; media consumption; mobile applications; motivation; teachers
With the development of digital technologies that are part of everyday life, new cultural norms and patterns are developing with which children play, learn, communicate, and socialise in the digital age. Technologies are also fundamentally changing teachers’ attitudes to education. This study aims to determine the motivation of teachers of generation Alpha for using technology and mobile applications, what technologies were preferred by generation Alpha after the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, and for what reason. The research sample included one segment of the Alpha generation, pupils of primary schools (N = 53) and their primary school teachers (N = 83). A qualitative research design was used. The data processed by thematic content analysis identified the themes associated with using digital tools by generation Alpha, according to the teachers. The results showed the teachers’ motivation for using digital technology with generation Alpha, such as meeting their physiological, safety, social, cognitive, aesthetic, and self-actualisation needs. Generation Alpha’s media applications saturated four needs: entertainment, information, education, and games. They were covered by 12 applications. The findings show that the digital communication activities of generation Alpha refer to the audience’s intentionality, selectivity, and involvement with the media. The presented research opens other possible research topics, such as how new communication and mobile apps influence the behaviours of Alpha generation, value orientation, and well-being, and how effectively to use mobile apps in education praxis.
Cogitatio Press
2023-11-16 00:00:00
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/7158
Media and Communication; Vol 11, No 4 (2023): Digital Media and Younger Audiences: Communication Targeted at Children and Adolescents
eng
Copyright (c) 2023 Blandína Šramová, Jiří Pavelka
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/5345
2022-07-28T12:23:41Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
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How China Divides the Left: Competing Transnational Left-Wing Alternative Media on Twitter
Nachman, Lev
College of Social Science, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Rauchfleisch, Adrian
Graduate Institute of Journalism, National Taiwan University, Taiwan https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1232-083X
Hioe, Brian
Independent Scholar, Taiwan
alternative media; China; counterpublic; public opinion; Twitter; transnational
Twitter has pushed public opinion on foreign policy into partisan bubbles that often value alternative media sources over traditional media or political elites. Public opinion on China is no exception. On the left, some alternative media outlets support China as a socialist ideal, while others criticize it as a key player in global capitalism and neoliberal order. This leads to an important puzzle: How and why do some transnational left media disseminate pro-China messaging while others do not? We focus on two leftist alternative media outlets: the Qiao Collective and Lausan. Both organizations claim to offer a variety of counter-hegemonic-oriented discourses. We first qualitatively analyze the differences in how these two organizations frame key topics in contemporary Chinese politics including Uyghurs in Xinjiang and the Hong Kong protests. We then use quantitative social network analysis to show how their communication efforts lead to different follower audiences. In the last step, we analyze what issues the Qiao Collective is using to achieve its inward- and outward-oriented goals. Our study shows how both outlets focus on the transnational left, but each reaches distinct audiences that do not overlap. We find that the Qiao Collective jumps on traditional left-wing issues in the US to extend its reach while regularly posting positive, often revisionist perspectives about Chinese politics. This specific element conflicts with its claim of supporting anti-imperialist and pro-democracy politics and distinguishes the Qiao Collective from other transnational left outlets.
Cogitatio Press
2022-07-28 00:00:00
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5345
Media and Communication; Vol 10, No 3 (2022): Journalism, Activism, and Social Media: Exploring the Shifts in Journalistic Roles, Performance, and Interconnectedness
eng
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/download/5345/35369
Copyright (c) 2022 Lev Nachman, Adrian Rauchfleisch, Brian Hioe
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1902
2020-07-21T09:49:51Z
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They Need More Than Technology-Equipped Schools: Teachers’ Practice of Fostering Students’ Digital Protective Skills
Berger, Priscila
Department Empirical Media Research and Political Communication, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany https://www.tu-ilmenau.de/empk/team/priscila-berger/
Wolling, Jens
Department Empirical Media Research and Political Communication, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany https://www.tu-ilmenau.de/empk/team/prof-dr-jens-wolling/
digital literacy; digital skills; media education; online risk; protection of the private sphere; protective skills; teaching
The intense use of digital media among children and adolescents raises concerns about online risks. In response, digital literacy frameworks for formal education usually include a set of protective skills. Considering that teachers have the responsibility to implement such frameworks, this study investigates factors associated with teachers’ practices of fostering students’ digital protective skills. Therefore, data from a survey conducted with 315 teachers in the state of Thuringia, Germany, was analyzed. The findings indicate positive associations between the importance teachers attribute to digital protective skills, the knowledge they have about guidelines for media education, their formal media training, and their media and technology use in class. Besides, the analysis revealed associations with school type, subject taught, and teacher age. Conversely, the factors of human and technological resources did not yield significant effects in the regression model. The final model explained 48% of the variance in the teachers’ practices of fostering protective skills.
Cogitatio Press
2019-06-11 10:11:48
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1902
Media and Communication; Vol 7, No 2 (2019): Critical Perspectives on Digital Literacies: Creating a Path Forward
eng
Copyright (c) 2019 Priscila Berger, Jens Wolling
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/6660
2023-08-03T10:21:11Z
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Mobilization in the Context of Campaign Functions and Citizen Participation
Wurst, Anna-Katharina
Department of Media and Communication, LMU Munich, Germany https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1371-7652
Pohl, Katharina
Department of Media and Communication, LMU Munich, Germany https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4172-7121
Haßler, Jörg
Department of Media and Communication, LMU Munich, Germany https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2907-5228
Facebook; Instagram; online campaigning; political mobilization; political participation; social media
Mobilization strategies are an essential part of political parties’ campaign communication. By mobilizing voters and supporters, parties promote civic participation in politics, the forms of which have multiplied given the possibilities of user activities on social media. To define their online mobilization strategies, parties have to choose which forms of participation (e.g., voting, donating, or liking or sharing a post) they will seek to mobilize. Understanding mobilization as a communicative appeal to engage audiences in participatory actions, in our study we conceptually linked parties’ mobilizing appeals with three campaign functions—information, interaction, and mobilization—to systematize different types of mobilization. We applied that categorization to the social media campaigns of parties and top candidates in Germany and conducted a manual quantitative content analysis of 1,495 Facebook and 1,088 Instagram posts published in the run-up to the 2021 federal election. Results show that parties primarily mobilized their audiences to vote and seek out more information (e.g., on the party’s website). Although user reactions are generally an important factor of performance on social media, parties mostly avoided calls to like, share, or comment on posts. When compared, the strategies of parties and candidates indicate that mobilization is more the task of parties than of candidates. Differences between Facebook and Instagram can be attributed to the different technical affordances of the platforms. Because Facebook, unlike Instagram, supports clickable links in posts, parties are more likely to encourage users on Facebook to seek out more information online.
Cogitatio Press
2023-08-03 00:00:00
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6660
Media and Communication; Vol 11, No 3 (2023): Social Media’s Role in Political and Societal Mobilization
eng
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/download/6660/43974
Copyright (c) 2023 Anna-Katharina Wurst, Katharina Pohl, Jörg Haßler
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/4475
2021-12-22T09:35:07Z
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Understanding Emerging Media: Voice, Agency, and Precarity in the Post-2011 Arab Mediasphere
Badran, Yazan
Echo, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium / imec-SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0480-464X
Arab uprisings; emerging media; institutionalisation; media development; MENA; politics of voice; professionalisation
The decade following the 2010–2011 Arab uprisings saw a flourishing of emerging media organisations across the region. The most recognisable examples of these new independent media actors include Enab Baladi in Syria, Mada Masr in Egypt, and Inkyfada in Tunisia. However, this phenomenon comprises a much more diverse set of actors from small-scale associative radio stations in Tunisia to numerous exilic Syrian media outlets. Building on previous research as well as recent fieldwork in Tunisia and Turkey, this article is an attempt to make sense of the genesis, development, and relevance of this new class of media actors. We argue that these emerging media organisations can be seen to represent specific interventions into the politics of voice in their various national and local contexts, but ones that share similar logics. To elucidate this argument, we propose a multi-dimensional understanding of these interventions that brings together voices (actors, issues, discourses), modalities of voice (organisational models, values, production value), and the underlying political economy of these emerging media (funding, institutionalisation). However, the article also argues that these interventions, and the logics they share, themselves belie a complex interaction between the political and professional agency and precarity of these media organisations and the individuals, and groups, behind them. We believe that combining these two perspectives is a necessary step for a more nuanced understanding of the nature and practice of these emerging media organisations.
Cogitatio Press
2021-12-17 10:17:10
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/4475
Media and Communication; Vol 9, No 4 (2021): Ten Years after the Arab Uprisings: Beyond Media and Liberation
eng
Copyright (c) 2021 Yazan Badran
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1278
2020-07-21T09:48:58Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
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Female Bodies Adrift: Violation of the Female Bodies in Becoming a Subject in the Western Media
Parikka, Tuija
Department of Mass Communication, St. John’s University, USA
body; mass harassment; media; refugees; subjectivity
This article focuses on how the violation of female bodies in the case of mass harassment of women is rendered intelligible by the Western media and the refugees. Violation of female bodies is approached as a site for politicizing possibilities of becoming a subject in the Western media. Informed by Deleuzian notion of “becoming” and the subjectivation of the refugees, I argue that the understanding of “violation” is a central component in contributing to possibilities of becoming affirmed as a subject in the Western media. Empirical material subjected to critical text analysis includes a key text form the Finnish daily newspaper Helsingin Sanomat and refugee interviews. The analysis suggests that the repression of irreducible conceptions of “violation,” and the subsequent erasure of the uncertainty of a “self” in the process of becoming, yields to offering possibilities of becoming primarily in Western terms and the affirmation of Western ideological certainty in understanding mass harassment of European women by the refugees.
Cogitatio Press
2018-06-29 00:00:00
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1278
Media and Communication; Vol 6, No 2 (2018): Media and Communication between the Local and the Global
eng
Copyright (c) 2018 Tuija Parikka
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/6080
2023-06-26T15:48:50Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
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Maximizing Science Outreach on Facebook: An Analysis of Scientists’ Communication Strategies in Taiwan
Rauchfleisch, Adrian
Graduate Institute of Journalism, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Kao, Jo-Ju
Graduate Institute of Journalism, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Tseng, Tzu-Hsuan
Graduate Institute of Journalism, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Ho, Chia-Tzu
Graduate Institute of Journalism, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Li, Lu-Yi
Graduate Institute of Journalism, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Facebook; science communication; self-disclosure; social media; Taiwan; Twitter
The internet, and especially social media platforms, offer scientists new opportunities to connect with a broader public. While many studies have focused on science communication on Twitter, surprisingly few have analyzed how scientists use Facebook, even though it is an essential platform for the general public in many countries. A possible explanation for this lack of research is that scientists keep their Facebook profiles separate from their work life and are more active on Twitter in their professional roles. Our study challenges this assumption by focusing on Taiwan as a peculiar case. Due to the local culture, Twitter is less popular there, and scientists are more active on Facebook, even in their professional roles. In our study, we analyzed 35 public pages of scientists on Facebook and assessed the factors explaining the reach of their communication using content analysis in combination with a multilevel model that allowed us to test predictors on the page level, such as the number of fans, in combination with predictors on the post level, such as the complexity of the language used. Our study shows that Facebook can play an influential role in science outreach. To effectively communicate with the audience on Facebook, it is best to use strategies that appeal to new and existing followers. Posts that address current issues and include opinions are likely to be shared widely, while humor or personal self-disclosure is likely to engage the existing audience. Our study contributes to the current debate about alternatives to Twitter in science communication.
Cogitatio Press
2023-03-27 00:00:00
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6080
Media and Communication; Vol 11, No 1 (2023): Science Communication in the Digital Age: New Actors, Environments, and Practices
eng
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/download/6080/42020
Copyright (c) 2023 Adrian Rauchfleisch, Jo-Ju Kao, Tzu-Hsuan Tseng, Chia-Tzu Ho, Lu-Yi Li
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/2717
2020-04-17T05:02:38Z
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Managing Social Networks in Online-Native Newsrooms: When Less Means More
Mendez, Antonio
Department of Journalism, University of Malaga, Spain https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1046-5867
Palomo, Bella
Department of Journalism, University of Malaga, Spain https://www.uma.es/departamento-de-periodismo/info/73080/perfil-bella-palomo/ https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2228-5716
Rivera, Agustin
Department of Journalism, University of Malaga, Spain http://www.agustinrivera.com https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3100-3610
audience; media business; new media; newspaper; online-native newsroom; social media; social networks
During the last few years online-only media have been explored as an alternative to mainstream media. The development of this new media model coincides in time with an increase in dependence on social networks. Online media editors estimate that one third of their visits proceed from Facebook, a figure that obliges them to create specific strategies to ensure their company’s reputation and growth in the 2.0 field. The aim of this article is to assess what motivates Spanish digital-native newspapers to act on social networks, analyse their internal view of these channels, and describe their strategies for managing their relationship with audiences. Based on a qualitative and longitudinal approach, we conducted in-depth interviews with the social media editors of the most relevant digital-native newspapers in Spain—El Confidencial, Eldiario.es, El Español and El HuffPost—during 2017 and 2019, in order to trace the evolution of their professional routines. These social media editors consider that although digital-native newsrooms are smaller than traditional ones, they are more agile in reacting to metrics. Our results also confirm that Instagram is generating great expectations, and the new paywall system is affecting the way audiences are understood.
Cogitatio Press
2020-04-16 08:36:08
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/2717
Media and Communication; Vol 8, No 2 (2020): Digital Native News Media: Trends and Challenges
eng
Copyright (c) 2020 Antonio Mendez, Bella Palomo, Agustin Rivera
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1046
2020-07-21T09:48:37Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
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The Rocky Road towards Professional Autonomy: The Estonian Journalists’ Organization in the Political Turmoil of the 20th Century
Lauk, Epp
Department of Language and Communication Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9697-2538
Estonian Journalists’ Organization; history; journalists; politics; professional autonomy
This article attempts to explain the relationships between journalists, politics and the state from the perspective of collective autonomy, that of the professional organization of journalists. The case of Estonian Journalists’ Union demonstrates the complexity and historical contingency of professional autonomy of journalism. The development of the Estonian journalists’ organization occurred as a sequence of transformations from the Estonian Journalists’ Association to the Estonian Journalists’ Union to the Soviet type journalists’ union, and lastly to an independent trade union. This sequence was disrupted by several fatal breakdowns that changed not only the character of the association, but also professional values, the whole occupational ideology and the conditions of the existence of journalism as a profession in Estonia.
Cogitatio Press
2017-09-27 05:02:58
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1046
Media and Communication; Vol 5, No 3 (2017): Histories of Collaboration and Dissent: Journalists’ Associations Squeezed by Political System Changes
eng
Copyright (c) 2017 Epp Lauk
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/4656
2021-09-16T10:00:33Z
mediaandcommunication:EDI
driver
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An Uneasy Return to the Role of Popular Culture
Brennan, Niall
Department of Communication, Fairfield University, USA
Dhaenens, Frederik
Centre for Cinema and Media Studies, Ghent University, Belgium
Krijnen, Tonny
Department of Media and Communication, Erasmus University, The Netherlands
commodification; political communication; popular culture; postmodernism
The editorial for the thematic issue of Media and Communication, “From Sony’s Walkman to RuPaul’s Drag Race: A Landscape of Contemporary Popular Culture,” looks at the prevailing themes of earlier studies of popular culture, from Raymond Williams’ organic culture to the postmodern embrace of commodity culture, in relation to the current cultural moment of disruption and unease. The editorial then synthesizes the articles contained in the issue against where the study of popular culture has been and where we may anticipate it going.
Cogitatio Press
2021-09-13 00:00:00
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/4656
Media and Communication; Vol 9, No 3 (2021): From Sony’s Walkman to RuPaul's Drag Race: A Landscape of Contemporary Popular Culture
eng
Copyright (c) 2021 Niall Brennan, Frederik Dhaenens, Tonny Krijnen
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/2294
2020-01-20T08:03:36Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
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(A)morally Demanding Game? An Exploration of Moral Decision-Making in a Purpose-Made Video Game
Hodge, Sarah E.
Department of Psychology, Bournemouth University, UK https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5007-8429
Taylor, Jacqui
Department of Psychology, Bournemouth University, UK https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2145-5077
McAlaney, John
Department of Psychology, Bournemouth University, UK https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4062-6131
decision-making; digital games; moral foundations theory; morality; purpose-made games; video games
A purpose-made video game was used to measure response time and moral alignment of in-game moral decisions, which were made by 115 undergraduate students. Overall, moral decisions took between 4–6 seconds and were mostly pro-social. Previous gameplay, in-game, and post-game experiences predicted in-game moral alignment. Real-life moral salience was not related to in-game decision-making. The implications of these results are discussed in the context of the demands of video games and in-game moral decision-making models.
Cogitatio Press
2019-12-20 04:35:42
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/2294
Media and Communication; Vol 7, No 4 (2019): Video Games as Demanding Technologies
eng
Copyright (c) 2019 Sarah E. Hodge, Jacqui Taylor, John McAlaney
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/5709
2022-12-30T17:23:16Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
ec_fundedresources
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Including the Experiences of Children and Youth in Media Education
Supa, Markéta
Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Czech Republic https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4465-0238
Römer, Lucie
Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Czech Republic https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4250-0308
Hodboď, Vojtěch
Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Czech Republic
children; Czech Republic; diversity; inclusion; media education; youth
This article explores how the concepts of inclusion and experience can be approached and applied in educating children and youth about the media. Using a multiple-case study approach, we present three cases where media education programs were delivered to students in the Czech Republic. The first case is a three-month-long program aimed at nurturing students’ media literacy and encouraging their civic participation. It involved 17 vocational school students (ages 17–19) at risk of social exclusion. The second case is a three-hour workshop promoting children’s cooperation with their peers and civic engagement with media in a diverse society tested with 60 children (ages 10–11) in three classrooms in two public elementary schools. The third is a year-long media education program based on students’ guided self-reflection on their media experiences, attended by eight students (ages 15–17) at a private high school. Despite numerous differences in the programs (goals, activities, duration, context, student demographics, etc.) and their varied approaches to promoting inclusivity and the whole student experience, we argue that each one has the potential to contribute to creating a more inclusive society that respects diversity. We also believe that longer programs would be more successful in supporting children and youths’ immediate and future well-being.
Cogitatio Press
2022-12-28 15:19:25
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5709
Media and Communication; Vol 10, No 4 (2022): Inclusive Media Literacy Education for Diverse Societies
eng
Copyright (c) 2022 Markéta Supa, Lucie Römer, Vojtěch Hodboď
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3830
2021-04-06T04:34:14Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
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Breaking the Rules: Zodwa Wabantu and Postfeminism in South Africa
Boshoff, Priscilla
School of Journalism and Media Studies, Rhodes University, South Africa
coloniality; Daily Sun; gender; postfeminism; South Africa; tabloid
Zodwa Wabantu, a South African celebrity recently made popular by the Daily Sun, a local tabloid newspaper, is notorious as an older working-class woman who fearlessly challenges social norms of feminine respectability and beauty. Her assertion of sexual autonomy and her forays into self-surveillance and body-modification, mediated by the Daily Sun and other tabloid and social media platforms, could be read as a local iteration of a global postfeminist subjectivity. However, the widespread social opprobrium she faces must be accounted for: Using Connell’s model of the gender order together with a coloniality frame, I argue that northern critiques of postfeminism omit to consider the forms of patriarchy established by colonialism in southern locales such as South Africa. The local patriarchal gender order, made visible within the tabloid reportage, provides the context within which the meaning of Zodwa Wabanu’s contemporary postfeminist identity is constructed. I examine a range of Zodwa Wabantu’s (self)representations in Daily Sun and other digital media in the light of this context, and conclude that a close examination of the local gender order assists in understanding the limits of postfeminism’s hegemony.
Cogitatio Press
2021-03-23 05:39:33
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3830
Media and Communication; Vol 9, No 2 (2021): Gender and Media: Recent Trends in Theory, Methodology and Research Subjects
eng
Copyright (c) 2021 Priscilla Boshoff
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/7891
2024-02-06T09:45:10Z
mediaandcommunication:EDI
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New Funding Models in Journalism Are Emerging, but Major Leap Forward Is Lacking
Myllylahti, Merja
School of Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7763-4867
Meese, James
School of Media and Communication, RMIT University, Australia https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1910-6166
business model; e-commerce; funding; innovation; journalism; journalism revenue; news; newspapers; platforms; subscriptions
This editorial introduces our thematic issue, titled Examining New Models in Journalism Funding, at a pivotal time. While news companies have attempted to build sustainable business models, we have not yet seen a major leap forward. As observed by the authors of this issue, digital reader revenue has become a prominent source of income for many publishers, but the bulk of them continue to rely on advertising and print subscriptions for money. Recently, Google and Facebook have become major funders of news and innovation in journalism. Some governments have also launched specific support programs. After providing some background context, we introduce the articles featured in the issue. We go on to argue that these articles signal a renewed interest in the business of journalism, which will help us better understand the ongoing financial crisis in the commercial news sector at a more granular level.
Cogitatio Press
2024-02-06 09:29:57
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/7891
Media and Communication; Vol 12 (2024): Examining New Models in Journalism Funding
eng
Copyright (c) 2024 Merja Myllylahti, James Meese
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/579
2020-07-21T09:48:18Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
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Facebook’s Emotional Contagion Experiment as a Challenge to Research Ethics
Jouhki, Jukka
Department of History and Ethnology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland https://www.jyu.fi/hum/laitokset/hie/en/staff/jjouhki
Lauk, Epp
Department of Communication, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Penttinen, Maija
Department of History and Ethnology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Sormanen, Niina
Department of Communication, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Uskali, Turo
Department of Communication, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Big data; emotional contagion; Facebook; informed consent; manipulation; methodology; privacy; research ethics; social media; user data
This article analyzes the ethical discussion focusing on the Facebook emotional contagion experiment published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2014. The massive-scale experiment manipulated the News Feeds of a large amount of Facebook users and was successful in proving that emotional contagion happens also in online environments. However, the experiment caused ethical concerns within and outside academia mainly for two intertwined reasons, the first revolving around the idea of research as manipulation, and the second focusing on the problematic definition of informed consent. The article concurs with recent research that the era of social media and big data research are posing a significant challenge to research ethics, the practice and views of which are grounded in the pre social media era, and reflect the classical ethical stances of utilitarianism and deontology.
Cogitatio Press
2016-10-10 08:23:09
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/579
Media and Communication; Vol 4, No 4 (2016): Successes and Failures in Studying Social Media: Issues of Methods and Ethics
eng
Copyright (c) 2016 Jukka Jouhki, Epp Lauk, Maija Penttinen, Niina Sormanen, Turo Uskali
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/5372
2022-10-28T09:27:26Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
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Community Internet of Things as Mobile Infrastructure: Methodological Challenges and Opportunities
Butkowski, Chelsea P.
Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, USA https://chelseabutkowski.com/ https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5593-2487
Chan, Ngai Keung
School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5848-3098
Humphreys, Lee
Department of Communication, Cornell University, USA https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5005-0394
community networks; infrastructure; internet of things; LPWAN; mobile communication; qualitative methods; sensing technologies
From smart devices to homes to cities, Internet of Things (IoT) technologies have become embedded within everyday objects on a global scale. We understand IoT technologies as a form of infrastructure that bridges the gaps between offline spaces and online networks as they track, transmit, and construct digital data from and of the physical world. We examine the social construction of IoT network technologies through their technological design and corporate discourses. In this article, we explore the methodological challenges and opportunities of studying IoT as an emerging network technology. We draw on a case study of a low-power wide-area network (LPWAN), a cost-effective radio frequency network that is designed to connect sensors across long distances. Reflecting on our semi-structured interviews with LPWAN users and advocates, participant observation at conferences about LPWAN, as well as a community-based LPWAN project, we examine the intersections of methods and practices as related to space, data, and infrastructures. We identify three key methodological obstacles involved in studying the social construction of networked technologies that straddle physical and digital environments. These include (a) transcending the invisibility and abstraction of network infrastructures, (b) managing practical and conceptual boundaries to sample key cases and participants, and (c) negotiating competing technospatial imaginaries between participants and researchers. Through our reflection, we demonstrate that these challenges also serve as generative methodological opportunities, extending existing tools to study the ways data connects online and offline spaces.
Cogitatio Press
2022-09-28 09:57:48
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5372
Media and Communication; Vol 10, No 3 (2022): Across Mobile Online and Offline Spaces: Reflections on Methods, Practices, and Ethics
eng
Copyright (c) 2022 Chelsea P. Butkowski, Ngai Keung Chan, Lee Humphreys
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/2385
2019-08-09T03:46:25Z
mediaandcommunication:EDI
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"190806 2019 eng "
2183-2439
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Civic Organizations and Digital Technologies in an Age of Distrust
Gordon, Eric
Engagement Lab, Emerson College, USA
civic organizations; distrust; fake news; information communication technology; innovation; social infrastructure
How are civic organizations using new and emerging technologies to adapt to a new context of distrust? This editorial contextualizes new research on trust and organizations in civic life and identifies a number of key factors contributing to the urgency of the work. As publics grow increasingly suspicious of the institutions that mediate civic life, including news, government and civil society, organizations are adopting new tactics to accommodate this new reality.
Cogitatio Press
2019-08-06 06:24:18
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/2385
Media and Communication; Vol 7, No 3 (2019): Civic Organizations in an Age of Distrust
eng
Copyright (c) 2019 Eric Gordon
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/312
2020-07-21T09:47:59Z
mediaandcommunication:BREV
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"160426 2016 eng "
2183-2439
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Cultural Resiliency and the Rise of Indigenous Media
Moscato, Derek
School of Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon, USA
communication; indigenous; first nations; globalization; native American; new media
Valerie Alia’s book, The New Media Nation: Indigenous Peoples and Global Communication (New York: Berghahn Books, 2012, 270 pp.), points the way to major communication breakthroughs for traditional communities around the world, in turn fostering a more democratic media discourse. From Canada to Japan, and Australia to Mexico, this ambitious and wide-reaching work examines a broad international movement that at once protects ancient languages and customs but also communicates to audiences across countries, oceans, and political boundaries. The publication is divided roughly into five sections: The emergence of a global vision for Indigenous communities scattered around the world; government policy obstacles and opportunities; lessons from Canada, where Indigenous media efforts have been particularly dynamic; the global surge in television, radio and other technological media advances; and finally the long-term prospects and aspirations for Indigenous media. By laying out such a comprehensive groundwork for the rise of global Indigenous media over a variety of formats, particularly over the past century, Alia shows how recent social media breakthroughs such as the highly successful #IdleNoMore movement—a sustained online protest by Canada’s First Nations peoples—have been in fact inevitable. The world’s Indigenous communities have leveraged media technologies to overcome geographic isolation, to foster new linkages with Indigenous populations globally, and ultimately to mitigate structural power imbalances exacerbated by non-Indigenous media and other institutions.
Cogitatio Press
2016-04-26 08:55:18
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/312
Media and Communication; Vol 4, No 2 (2016): The Impact of Media on Traditional Communities
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Copyright (c) 2016 Derek Moscato
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/5796
2022-10-31T14:57:08Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
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"221028 2022 eng "
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Another Violent Protest? New Perspectives to Understand Protest Coverage
Proust, Valentina
Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, USA https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3648-4647
Saldaña, Magdalena
School of Communications, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile / Center for the Study of Media, Public Opinion, and Politics in Chile, Chile / Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data, Chile https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1218-0091
Chile; Estallido Social; generic frames; issue-specific frames; protest; Radio Bío Bío
This study assesses the relationship between two well-established sets of frames to better understand the news coverage of massive political protests. By relying on Semetko and Valkenburg’s generic frames and McLeod and Hertog’s protest frames, this study aims to identify whether certain generic frames emphasized in news stories increase the tendency to delegitimize protest movements. To this end, we analyzed the news coverage of Chile’s Estallido Social, a series of massive political demonstrations that developed across the country from October to December 2019. Data for this study come from stories published by Radio Bío Bío, the most trusted news outlet in the country, according to Reuters Institute. By analyzing a sample of 417 stories, we found the coverage replicated patterns that usually delegitimize protest movements, as many of the stories focused on violent acts and depicted demonstrators as deviant from the status quo. We also found a direct relationship between generic frames and protest frames, in which the presence of the former determines that of the latter. Generic frames provide information about how the news media interpret and package the news, which in turn affects demonstration-related features that the news media pay attention to. As such, we argue that combining both generic and issue-specific frames is a helpful approach to understanding the complexities of protest news coverage.
Cogitatio Press
2022-10-28 09:20:30
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5796
Media and Communication; Vol 10, No 4 (2022): Protesting While Polarized: Digital Activism in Contentious Times
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/download/5796/36249
Copyright (c) 2022 Valentina Proust, Magdalena Saldaña