2024-03-28T20:27:17Z
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/oai
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/5260
2022-07-28T12:23:41Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5260
2022-07-28T12:23:41Z
Media and Communication
Vol 10, No 3 (2022): Journalism, Activism, and Social Media: Exploring the Shifts in Journalistic Roles, Performance, and Interconnectedness; 17-27
Hijacking Journalism: Legitimacy and Metajournalistic Discourse in Right-Wing Podcasts
Dowling, David O.; School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Iowa, USA
Johnson, Patrick R.; School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Iowa, USA
Ekdale, Brian; School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Iowa, USA
2022-07-28 10:36:28
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5260
Ben Shapiro; conservative media; Dan Bongino; metajournalistic discourse; right-wing podcasts; Rush Limbaugh
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Whereas personal expression has become a core practice of journalism whose merits can include greater attention to context and interpretative analysis, these freedoms from the constraints of traditional broadcast conventions can pose serious risks, including the ideological hijacking of journalism by partisan actors. In popular right-wing podcasts, such as those hosted by Ben Shapiro and Dan Bongino, the element of opinion amplifies the tendency of the podcast medium to relegate news to a secondary concern behind the emotional impact. Not only do podcasters like Shapiro and Bongino contribute to a fractured media environment of hyper-partisan news and commentary, but they also utilize social media platforms and transmedia networks to undermine traditional journalism and replace it with an alternative conservative media ecosystem—a multiplatform, full-service clearinghouse of news and commentary afforded by the publishing capabilities of the internet and the distribution algorithms of social media platforms like Facebook. This study charts the evolution of conservative audio production, from the influential work of talk radio star Rush Limbaugh through the latest innovations by conservative podcasters, as exemplified by Shapiro and Bongino. Our study builds on previous scholarship on metajournalistic discourse to examine how right-wing podcasters use exclusionary language to delegitimize the institution of journalism and offer a self-contained, ideologically conservative version of journalism as a replacement.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3163
2020-08-13T10:53:52Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3163
2020-08-13T10:53:52Z
Media and Communication
Vol 8, No 3 (2020): Computational Approaches to Media Entertainment Research; 231-238
Open-Source’s Inspirations for Computational Social Science: Lessons from a Failed Analysis
Poor, Nathaniel; Underwood Institute, USA
2020-08-13 04:25:45
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3163
computational social science; fandom; games; online community; open source; Reddit
Underwood Institute
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The questions we can ask currently, building on decades of research, call for advanced methods and understanding. We now have large, complex data sets that require more than complex statistical analysis to yield human answers. Yet as some researchers have pointed out, we also have challenges, especially in computational social science. In a recent project I faced several such challenges and eventually realized that the relevant issues were familiar to users of free and open-source software. I needed a team with diverse skills and knowledge to tackle methods, theories, and topics. We needed to iterate over the entire project: from the initial theories to the data to the methods to the results. We had to understand how to work when some data was freely available but other data that might benefit the research was not. More broadly, computational social scientists may need creative solutions to slippery problems, such as restrictions imposed by terms of service for sites from which we wish to gather data. Are these terms legal, are they enforced, or do our institutional review boards care? Lastly—perhaps most importantly and dauntingly—we may need to challenge laws relating to digital data and access, although so far this conflict has been rare. Can we succeed as open-source advocates have?
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/6661
2023-08-03T10:30:59Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6661
2023-08-03T10:30:59Z
Media and Communication
Vol 11, No 3 (2023): Social Media’s Role in Political and Societal Mobilization; 153-163
The Value of a Like: Facebook, Viral Posts, and Campaign Finance in US Congressional Elections
Kowal, Michael; College of Arts, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
2023-08-03 10:14:06
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6661
campaign finance; campaign fundraising; congress; elections; political campaigns; social media; US elections; viral posts
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Social media has become a dominant force in American political life, from Twitter and Facebook to newer rivals like Instagram and TikTok. As American elections have also grown increasingly expensive, campaigns have sought to capitalize on social media success through campaign donations. The most successful social media posts can garner thousands of likes and millions of views focusing attention on the candidate and presenting a fundraising opportunity. In this study, I examine the impact of viral posts (those receiving more than 5,000 likes or those in the top 1% of likes) on the number and amount of campaign donations a candidate receives on the date of the post. Combining social media data from Facebook and campaign finance donations during the 2018 and 2020 House of Representatives elections, I find that viral posts can dramatically increase a candidate’s fundraising on those dates. This finding suggests that candidates can increase their fundraising through increased social media success.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/7
2023-12-27T09:04:56Z
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/7
2023-12-27T09:04:56Z
Media and Communication
Vol 2, No 2 (2014): Multidisciplinary Studies in Media and Communication; 72-83
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
2014-07-24 00:00:00
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/7
e-mobilization; health communication; Korean health activism; NGO communication; patient activism; social media
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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.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/4717
2022-03-02T10:00:36Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/4717
2022-03-02T10:00:36Z
Media and Communication
Vol 10, No 1 (2022): New Narratives for New Consumers: Influencers and the Millennial and Centennial Generations; 173-174
Instagram Influencers as Superwomen: Influencers’ Lifestyle Presentations Observed Through Framing Analysis
Devos, Sarah; School for Mass Communication Research, KU Leuven, Belgium
Eggermont, Steven; School for Mass Communication Research, KU Leuven, Belgium
Vandenbosch, Laura; School for Mass Communication Research, KU Leuven, Belgium
2022-02-24 10:20:50
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/4717
content analysis; framing analysis; Instagram influencers; superwoman ideal
Flemish Fund for Scientific Research (FWO, G073017N)
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Female Instagram influencers presumably manipulate their online presentations to conform to the “superwoman ideal” (i.e., the idea that women have to excel in multiple roles). Knowledge of how they build such presentations is important to understand how young women’s perception of the superwoman ideal might be affected by social media. As such, the current content analytical study (N = 1,200 posts, 60 influencers) examined how female health and beauty influencers present themselves in accordance with the superwoman ideal and whether such presentations vary by culture (i.e., the US, Belgium, and China). Inductive framing analysis revealed that they highlight their excellence in six roles, which focus on appearance, relationships, activities, achievements, wisdom, and expertise. Additional multilevel analyses suggested that besides beauty, it is most important to be perceived as an exciting and experienced individual. These roles are generalizable across cultures, implying that the superwoman ideal is presented identically worldwide.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1751
2020-07-21T09:49:13Z
mediaandcommunication:COM
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1751
2020-07-21T09:49:13Z
Media and Communication
Vol 6, No 4 (2018): News and Participation through and beyond Proprietary Platforms in an Age of Social Media; 107-110
The Midlife Crisis of the Network Society
Usher, Nikki; College of Media, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
Carlson, Matt; Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Minnesota, USA
2018-11-08 04:10:21
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1751
digital journalism; fake news; hybridity; Networks; Media; participation; reflexivity
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The network society is moving into some sort of middle age, or has at least normalized into the daily set of expectations people have for how they live their lives, not to mention consume news and information. In their adolescence, the technological and temporal affordances that have come with these new digital technologies were supposed to make the world better, or least they could have. There was much we did not foresee, such as the way that this brave new world would turn journalism into distributed content, not only taking away news organizations’ gatekeeping power but also their business model. This is indeed a midlife crisis. The present moment provides a vantage point for stocktaking and the mix of awe, nostalgia, and ruefulness that comes with maturity.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/4763
2022-03-02T10:00:36Z
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/4763
2022-03-02T10:00:36Z
Media and Communication
Vol 10, No 1 (2022): New Narratives for New Consumers: Influencers and the Millennial and Centennial Generations; 222-234
Influencers With Intellectual Disability in Digital Society: An Opportunity to Advance in Social Inclusion
Bonilla-del-Río, Mónica; Department of Philology, University of Huelva, Spain
Castillo-Abdul, Bárbara; Department of Communication Sciences and Sociology, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain / ESAI Business School, Espiritu Santo University, Ecuador
García-Ruiz, Rosa; Department of Education, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain / Nebrija University, Spain
Rodríguez-Martín, Alejandro; Department of Education Sciences, University of Oviedo, Spain
2022-02-24 10:20:50
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/4763
digital inclusion; disability; down syndrome; influencer; Instagram; social inclusion; social networks
Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) (RTI2018-093303-B-I00), and by the Government of Andalusia (Andalusian Plan for Research, Development and Innovation, 2020) (P18-RT-756)
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Social networks are appointed as an opportunity to socially normalize disability, as demonstrated by the growing number of influencers with a disability who are followed by millions of users. Likewise, intellectual disability has its place in the networks, with special relevance among influencers with Down syndrome. In this study, a content analysis of 10 accounts of influencers with Down syndrome from seven different countries was performed. Images, videos, comments, and other interactions with their followers were analyzed. The preliminary results described the influencer profiles, the type of content posted, and their relationship with sponsoring brands. These results indicate that social networks allow them to make their interests visible, take part in the digital environment, and interact with their audience, being a positive influence that promotes respect for diversity. These platforms are positioned as powerful tools for the construction and dissemination of inclusive values and the empowerment of disabled people, minimizing controversial questions such as the instrumentalization of the disability and its association with clichés. With all the analyzed results, it is possible to evidence that Instagram can be considered a privileged network that could be utilized for the eradication of barriers and to ease the inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities in the public sphere. The conclusions are relevant for the scientific community given that they will allow us to achieve social inclusion, thanks to the impact of the posts from the influencers with disability.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/2812
2020-06-25T09:30:15Z
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/2812
2020-06-25T09:30:15Z
Media and Communication
Vol 8, No 2 (2020): Health and Science Controversies in the Digital World: News, Mis/Disinformation and Public Engagement; 425-439
“On Social Media Science Seems to Be More Human”: Exploring Researchers as Digital Science Communicators
Koivumäki, Kaisu; Faculty of Humanities, University of Oulu, Finland
Koivumäki, Timo; Oulu Business School; University of Oulu, Finland
Karvonen, Erkki; Faculty of Humanities, University of Oulu, Finland
2020-06-25 08:29:42
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/2812
communication; media research; new media; science communication; social media
This study has been funded by the Strategic Research Council at the Academy of Finland, project no. 292854 and the Finnish Cultural Foundation
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In contemporary media discourses, researchers may be perceived to communicate something they do not intend to, such as coldness or irrelevance. However, researchers are facing new responsibilities concerning how popular formats used to present science will impact science’s cultural authority (Bucchi, 2017). Currently, there is limited research on the microlevel practices of digital science communication involving researchers as actors. Therefore, this qualitative study explores how digital academic discourse practices develop, using the tweeting and blogging of researchers involved in a multidisciplinary renewable energy research project as a case. The results of a thematic analysis of interviews with researchers (n = 17) suggests that the researchers’ perceptions form a scale ranging from traditional to progressively adjusted practices, which are labelled ‘informing,’ ‘anchoring,’ ‘luring,’ and ‘maneuvering.’ These imply an attempt to diminish the gap between science and the public. The interviewees acknowledge that scientific facts may not be interesting and that they need captivating means that are common in the use of new media, such as buzzwords and clickbait. It appears that trials and experimentation with hybrid genres helped the researchers to distinguish the contours of digital academic discourses. The implications support suggestions to broaden the trajectories of expertise and communication, including issues of culture and identity, trust, and the relevance of science. It is argued that scientists’ embrace of new media channels will refine some articulations of the mediatization processes, and these findings support recent suggestions that mediatization could also be conceptualized as a strategic resource.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/6388
2023-06-28T07:42:14Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6388
2023-06-28T07:42:14Z
Media and Communication
Vol 11, No 2 (2023): A Datafied Society: Data Power, Infrastructures, and Regulations; 307-318
The Infrastructure of News: Negotiating Infrastructural Capture and Autonomy in Data-Driven News Distribution
Kristensen, Lisa Merete; Department of Communication and Arts, Roskilde University, Denmark
Hartley, Jannie Møller; Department of Communication and Arts, Roskilde University, Denmark
2023-06-28 08:11:18
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6388
datafication; digital media infrastructures; infrastructure capture; media logics; platformisation
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The platformisation of news has triggered public and scholarly concern regarding the impact of platforms on the news industry and, more importantly, platforms’ potential threat to ideals of autonomy and economic independence. Despite ongoing debate and the increasing investment in technologies for automated distribution and artificial intelligence, the material infrastructures of the news media sustaining this artificial intelligence-driven news distribution remain understudied. Approaching the infrastructural relationship as spaces of negotiation this article investigates how the news media is negotiating their own autonomy vis-à-vis infrastructure capture by platforms. The analysis is grounded in a mapping of technologies sustaining the production, distribution, and commercial viability of the media. This is further combined with ethnographic observations from two large Danish news organisations and 19 in-depth interviews with news organisations and digital intermediaries from Scandinavia, the US, and the UK. The research shows how infrastructure capture is manifested and negotiated through three overall logics in the infrastructure of news: logics of classification, standardisation, and datafication.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1326
2020-07-21T09:48:52Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1326
2020-07-21T09:48:52Z
Media and Communication
Vol 6, No 2 (2018): Games Matter? Current Theories and Studies on Digital Games; 126-136
Model Matching Theory: A Framework for Examining the Alignment between Game Mechanics and Mental Models
McGloin, Rory; Department of Communication, University of Connecticut, USA
Wasserman, Joe A.; Department of Communication Studies, West Virginia University, USA
Boyan, Andy; Communication Studies Department, Albion College, USA
2018-06-07 08:06:42
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1326
game-based learning; game mechanics; media effects; mental models; model matching; skill acquisition; video games
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The primary aim of this article is to provide a comprehensive review and elaboration of model matching and its theoretical propositions. Model matching explains and predicts individuals’ outcomes related to gameplay by focusing on the interrelationships among games’ systems of mechanics, relevant situations external to the game, and players’ mental models. Formalizing model matching theory in this way provides researchers a unified explanation for game-based learning, game performance, and related gameplay outcomes while also providing a theory-based direction for advancing the study of games more broadly. The propositions explicated in this article are intended to serve as the primary tenets of model matching theory. Considerations for how these propositions may be tested in future games studies research are discussed.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/4062
2021-11-22T11:49:29Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/4062
2021-11-22T11:49:29Z
Media and Communication
Vol 9, No 4 (2021): Algorithmic Systems in the Digital Society; 222-233
Automated Trouble: The Role of Algorithmic Selection in Harms on Social Media Platforms
Saurwein, Florian; Institute for Comparative Media and Communication Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Spencer-Smith, Charlotte; Department of Communication Studies, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria
2021-11-18 10:14:40
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/4062
algorithmic content curation; algorithmic harm; algorithms; behavioural advertising; content moderation; internet; social media
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Social media platforms like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter have become major objects of criticism for reasons such as privacy violations, anticompetitive practices, and interference in public elections. Some of these problems have been associated with algorithms, but the roles that algorithms play in the emergence of different harms have not yet been systematically explored. This article contributes to closing this research gap with an investigation of the link between algorithms and harms on social media platforms. Evidence of harms involving social media algorithms was collected from media reports and academic papers within a two-year timeframe from 2018 to 2019, covering Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter. Harms with similar casual mechanisms were grouped together to inductively develop a typology of algorithmic harm based on the mechanisms involved in their emergence: (1) algorithmic errors, undesirable, or disturbing selections; (2) manipulation by users to achieve algorithmic outputs to harass other users or disrupt public discourse; (3) algorithmic reinforcement of pre-existing harms and inequalities in society; (4) enablement of harmful practices that are opaque and discriminatory; and (5) strengthening of platform power over users, markets, and society. Although the analysis emphasizes the role of algorithms as a cause of online harms, it also demonstrates that harms do not arise from the application of algorithms alone. Instead, harms can be best conceived of as socio-technical assemblages, composed of the use and design of algorithms, platform design, commercial interests, social practices, and context. The article concludes with reflections on possible governance interventions in response to identified socio-technical mechanisms of harm. Notably, while algorithmic errors may be fixed by platforms themselves, growing platform power calls for external oversight.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/6389
2023-06-26T15:50:20Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6389
2023-06-26T15:50:20Z
Media and Communication
Vol 11, No 2 (2023): Fakespotting: (Dis)Information Literacy as Key Tool to Defend Democracy; 53-63
Teaching Journalism Literacy in Schools: The Role of Media Companies as Media Educators in Germany
Sengl, Michael; Chair of Communication Studies, University of Passau, Germany
Heinke, Elfi; Chair of Communication Studies, University of Passau, Germany
2023-04-28 08:58:22
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6389
disinformation; journalism literacy; journalistic media education; media literacy; news media literacy
Publication Fund of the Passau University Library
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German journalism is facing major challenges including declining circulation, funding, trust, and political allegations of spreading disinformation. Increased media literacy in the population is one way to counter these issues and their implications. This especially applies to the sub-concept of journalism literacy, focusing on the ability to consume news critically and reflectively, thus enabling democratic participation. For media companies, promoting journalism literacy seems logical for economic and altruistic reasons. However, research on German initiatives is scarce. This article presents an explorative qualitative survey of experts from seven media companies offering journalistic media education projects in German schools, focusing on the initiatives’ content, structure, and motivation. Results show that initiatives primarily aim at students and teachers, offering mostly education on journalism (e.g., teaching material) and via journalism (e.g., journalistic co-production with students). While these projects mainly provide information on the respective medium and journalistic practices, dealing with disinformation is also a central goal. Most initiatives are motivated both extrinsically (e.g., reaching new audiences) and intrinsically (e.g., democratic responsibility). Despite sometimes insufficient resources and reluctant teachers, media companies see many opportunities in their initiatives: Gaining trust and creating resilience against disinformation are just two examples within the larger goal of enabling young people to be informed and opinionated members of a democratic society.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/2738
2020-04-17T05:02:38Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/2738
2020-04-17T05:02:38Z
Media and Communication
Vol 8, No 2 (2020): Digital Native News Media: Trends and Challenges; 73-85
Journalism Expands in Spite of the Crisis: Digital-Native News Media in Spain
Negredo, Samuel; Department of Journalism Projects, University of Navarra, Spain
Martínez-Costa, María-Pilar; Department of Journalism Projects, University of Navarra, Spain
Breiner, James; Department of Marketing and Media Management, University of Navarra, Spain
Salaverría, Ramón; Department of Journalism Projects, University of Navarra, Spain
2020-04-16 08:36:06
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/2738
digital journalism; digital-native media; media economics; online news; Spain
digital journalism; digital-native media; media economics; online news; Spain
en
Digital-native news organizations have grown steadily in Spain since the mid-1990s and they have become established as a major force in the media market. Paradoxically, their biggest expansion coincided with the Great Recession (2008–2014). In fact, their numbers increased most during 2012–2013, when traditional media were cutting staff in response to the economic crisis, and unemployment rates in the media sector as a whole hit their peak. However, these digital-native news startups have yet to prove their sustainability and stability. This study uses our own database of 3,862 native and non-native digital news outlets in Spain and the Reuters Institute Digital News Report to analyze a number of characteristics of these media, such as the percentage that have gone inactive, the relative popularity of legacy brands vs. digital natives, multi-platform synergies, content subject matter, geographical location, ownership, and funding sources. Based on these quantitative parameters, this study reviews the structural strengths and weaknesses of digital-native media in the Spanish news market. Taking into account these findings, we conclude that the surge in digital-native news media observed in Spain during the Great Recession followed the pattern of creative destruction described by several economists.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1034
2020-07-21T09:48:34Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1034
2020-07-21T09:48:34Z
Media and Communication
Vol 5, No 3 (2017): Acting on Media: Influencing, Shaping and (Re)Configuring the Fabric of Everyday Life; 59-66
Media Activism as Movement? Collective Identity Formation in the World Forum of Free Media
Stephansen, Hilde C.; Department of History, Sociology and Criminology, University of Westminster, UK
2017-09-22 02:59:31
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1034
alternative media; collective identity; communication rights; FMML; media activism; media democracy movement; social movements; World Forum of Free Media; World Social Forum
University of Westminster, Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy, Goldsmiths, University of London; ESRC
en
More than simply tools used by social movements to reach other substantive aims, media are increasingly becoming subjects of activism. This article contributes to advancing understanding of such media-focused activism through a case study of the World Forum of Free Media, a thematic forum for media activists and media advocacy organisations linked to the World Social Forum. Based on qualitative research conducted between 2008 and 2016—including participant observation, in-depth interviews and textual analysis—the article critically explores the extent to which the World Forum of Free Media can be considered a ‘free media’ movement in the making, and examines some of the challenges and contradictions that such a movement-building project entails. Drawing on social movement theory, specifically the concept of collective identity, it analyses efforts by forum organisers to mobilise a very diverse range of actors—from alternative media activists to policy- and advocacy NGOs—around a plural and inclusive ‘free media’ identity. While the World Forum of Free Media has to some extent succeeded in facilitating convergence around a set of core principles and ideas, it has so far struggled to develop a clear outwards-facing identity and mobilise a broad grassroots base.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/4118
2021-09-13T10:17:59Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/4118
2021-09-13T10:17:59Z
Media and Communication
Vol 9, No 3 (2021): Complexity, Hybridity, Liminality: Challenges of Researching Contemporary Promotional Cultures; 133-143
Spinning at the Border: Employee Activism in ‘Big PR’
Reyes, Camille; Department of Communication, Trinity University, USA
2021-08-05 10:33:43
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/4118
employee activism; immigration; Ogilvy; promotional culture; public relations
en
This article extends Coombs and Holladay’s (2018) social issues management model to provide new perspectives on activism and public relations. It also fills a gap in the literature on internal activism by analyzing the case of The Ogilvy Group and their employees, many of whom pushed for the agency to resign its work for U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Through a textual analysis of a leaked transcript documenting a meeting between Ogilvy management and internal activist employees, the communicative tasks of definition, legitimation, and awareness (Coombs & Holladay, 2018) are explored in a way that complicates identity and power. As public relations practitioners are increasingly called upon to either advocate for or against social issues, this study provides an interesting contrast, showing one interpretation of what happens when there is dissension in the ranks.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/2297
2020-01-20T08:03:36Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/2297
2020-01-20T08:03:36Z
Media and Communication
Vol 7, No 4 (2019): Video Games as Demanding Technologies; 166-175
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger? The Relationship between Cognitive Task Demands in Video Games and Recovery Experiences
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/download/2297/12649
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/download/2297/12650
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/download/2297/12651
Wulf, Tim; Department of Media and Communication, LMU Munich, Germany
Rieger, Diana; Department of Media and Communication, LMU Munich, Germany
Kümpel, Anna Sophie; Department of Media and Communication, LMU Munich, Germany
Reinecke, Leonard; Department of Communication, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
2019-12-20 04:35:40
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/2297
cognitive task demand; gaming; interactive media; recovery experiences; video games
en
Research has repeatedly demonstrated that the use of interactive media is associated with recovery experiences, suggesting that engaging with media can help people to alleviate stress and restore mental and physical resources. Video games, in particular, have been shown to fulfil various aspects of recovery, not least due to their ability to elicit feelings of mastery and control. However, little is known about the role of cognitive task demand (i.e., the amount of cognitive effort a task requires) in that process. Toward this end, our study aimed to investigate how cognitive task demand during gameplay affects users’ recovery experiences. Results of a laboratory experiment suggest that different dimensions of the recovery experiences seem to respond to different levels of cognitive task demand. While control experiences were highest under low cognitive task demand, there was no difference between groups regarding experiences of mastery and psychological detachment. Nevertheless, both gaming conditions outperformed the control condition regarding experiences of mastery and psychological detachment. Controlling for personal gaming experiences, relaxation was higher in the low cognitive task demand condition compared to the control condition. Findings are discussed in terms of their implications for research on the multilayered recovery effects of interactive media.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/5814
2022-12-30T17:23:16Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5814
2022-12-30T17:23:16Z
Media and Communication
Vol 10, No 4 (2022): Inclusive Media Literacy Education for Diverse Societies; 294-304
Storytelling as Media Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue in Post-Colonial Societies
Cruz, Maria Teresa; NOVA Institute of Communication (ICNOVA), NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal
Miranda, Madalena; NOVA Institute of Communication (ICNOVA), NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal
2022-12-28 15:19:23
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5814
afro-european dialogue; desktop cinema; media literacy; post-colonial societies; storytelling
FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia under the project UIDB/05021/2020
en
This article reflects upon digital storytelling and collaborative media practices as valuable tools for reassessing memory, questioning identity discourses, and unveiling the cultural diversity of contemporary societies. The digital age allows for a constant re-reading and re-mediation of cultural archives by ordinary citizens, namely by younger generations, and for the production and dissemination of alternative narratives about the present. These are crucial opportunities for post-colonial societies to overcome silences around difficult memories that hinder a collective reappropriation of the past, confront some of the current issues on ethnical diversity, and discrimination and reimagine a more inclusive identity. However, taking advantage of this opportunity implies fully recognizing the role of media technology in shaping memory, social individuation and establishing networks, making media literacy and media education crucial aspects of cultural dialogue. Based on the experience of a citizenship project about the post-colonial condition and Afro-European interculturality, this essay reflects on digital storytelling, and co-creative practices as relevant literacy and education strategies for furthering interculturality in contemporary societies.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/592
2020-07-21T09:48:11Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/592
2020-07-21T09:48:11Z
Media and Communication
Vol 4, No 3 (2016): (Not Yet) the End of Television; 99-108
Television in Latin America Is “Everywhere”: Not Dead, Not Dying, but Converging and Thriving
Orozco, Guillermo; Centro Universitario de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Universidade de Guadalajara, Mexico
Miller, Toby; Department of Media and Cultural Studies, University of California, USA, School of Arts, Murdoch University, Australia, Escuela de Comunicación Social, Universidad del Norte, Colombia, School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University, UK, and Institute of Media and Creative Industries, Loughborough University, UK
2016-07-14 05:23:53
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/592
mestizaje; realismo mágico; televisión; televisual
en
In Latin America, the now-venerable expression “the end of television” itself looks old, tired, and flawed: markets, cultures, politics, and policies alike find television more alive than ever, albeit in its usual state of technological, institutional, and textual flux. Advertising investment in TV continues to increase, governments still use television to promote generalized propaganda as well as their daily agendas, football on screen remains wildly popular, and fiction programs, most notably telenovelas, dominate prime time and draw large audiences aged between 25 and 60. While younger viewers watch television on a wider variety of screens and technologies, and do so at differing times, the discourse of TV remains an important referent in their audiovisual experiences. In addition, across age groups, divides persist between a minority with routine high-quality access to the digital world of technology and information and a majority without alternatives to the traditional audiovisual sphere, for whom cell phones, for instance, are at most devices for communicating with friends and family members. We cannot predict the future of TV in Latin America—but we can say with confidence that the claims for its demise are overstated. Television remains the principal cultural game in town.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3731
2021-04-06T04:34:14Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3731
2021-04-06T04:34:14Z
Media and Communication
Vol 9, No 2 (2021): Gender and Media: Recent Trends in Theory, Methodology and Research Subjects; 5-15
“It’s Not Just Instagram Models”: Exploring the Gendered Political Potential of Young Women’s Instagram Use
Caldeira, Sofia P.; Department of Communication Sciences, Ghent University, Belgium
2021-03-23 05:39:30
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3731
everyday politics; gender; Instagram; social media; young women
Ghent University, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
en
With over one billion monthly users worldwide (Constine, 2018) and being embedded in the everyday lives of many young people, Instagram has become a common topic of discussion both in popular media and scholarly debates. As young women are amongst the predominant active users of Instagram (WeAreSocial, 2019) and the demographic stereotypically associated with online self-representation (Burns, 2015), Instagram carries an underlying gendered political potential. This is manifested through online political practices such as hashtag activism (Highfield, 2016), as well as through Instagram’s use of user-generated content to challenge existing politics of representation, broadening the scope of who is considered photographable (Tiidenberg, 2018). This article explores how this gendered political potential is understood by young women using Instagram. This research is based on 13 in-depth interviews with a theoretical sample of female ‘ordinary’ Instagram users (i.e., not celebrities or Insta-famous), aged 18–35. Our findings illustrate how the perception of political potential is grounded in the participants’ understanding of Instagram as an aesthetically-oriented platform (Manovich, 2017). Most participants recognised the potential for engaging in visibility politics (Whittier, 2017), representing a wider diversity of femininities often absent from popular media. However, this was seen as tempered by the co-existence of idealised beauty conventions and the politics of popularity within social media (Van Dijck & Poell, 2013). Furthermore, this political potential is accompanied by the possibility of receiving backlash or being dismissed as a slacktivist (Glenn, 2015). As Instagram becomes a central part of contemporary visual cultures, this article seeks to critically explore the nuanced ways in which young women’s everyday experiences of Instagram intersect with broader cultural and political questions of gender representation.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/7529
2024-02-06T09:50:05Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/7529
2024-02-06T09:50:05Z
Media and Communication
Vol 12 (2024): Examining New Models in Journalism Funding
Symbiosis or Precarity? Digital Platforms’ Role on Australian Digital-Native Journalism and Their Funding Models
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/download/7529/50366
Carson, Andrea; Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy, La Trobe University, Australia
Muller, Denis; Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne, Australia
2024-02-06 09:29:57
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/7529
Australia; digital-native journalism; Facebook; Google; journalism business models; Meta; News Media Bargaining Code; platform dependency; social media; TikTok
Meta Platforms Inc., Menlo Park, California.
en
Legacy media outlets, especially newspapers, have confronted significant challenges this century due to the shift of advertising revenues to digital platforms like Facebook and Google. Major events like the Global Financial Crisis (2007–2009) and Covid-19 pandemic intensified the financial strain, resulting in further downsizing and newsroom closures. Despite these difficulties, digital-native journalism has experienced widespread growth globally. This article explores funding models of selected digital-native journalism in Australia, drawing on platform dependency theory to address questions of what role digital technology platforms and nascent regulation have played in shaping the state of digital-native journalism in Australia. Australia’s concentrated media ownership landscape and its introduction of the world-first News Media Bargaining Code (NMBC), provide a unique backdrop to examine the economic and regulatory environment that impacts Australia’s digital-native journalism. Using a case-study approach, the research explores seven diverse digital-native news outlets over six years across three time periods: several years after the Global Financial Crisis (2017), just prior to the Covid-19 pandemic (2020–), and after the introduction of the NMBC (2023). Expert interviews provide insights into the role of digital platforms in shaping digital-only media. The digital native fail rate in this study is high (>40%). But we also find that of those that endure, the most successful placed a premium on building a distinctive brand (often through specialized reporting), adopting a diversified (hybrid) funding model, and growing audience share through trust. Most benefited from regulation in the form of the NMBC to increase newsroom resources, yet were also cautious of platform dependency.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/693
2020-07-21T09:48:14Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/693
2020-07-21T09:48:14Z
Media and Communication
Vol 4, No 4 (2016): Political Agency in the Digital Age: Media, Participation and Democracy; 43-52
Free Software Beyond Radical Politics: Negotiations of Creative and Craft Autonomy in Digital Visual Media Production
Velkova, Julia; Department of Media and Communication Studies, Södertörn University, Sweden
2016-08-11 09:49:48
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/693
Blender; craft autonomy; F/OSS; media tools; material politics; media industries; open source software; post-Fordism; Synfig
en
Free software development and the technological practices of hackers have been broadly recognised as fundamental for the formation of political cultures that foster democracy in the digital mediascape. This article explores the role of free software in the practices of digital artists, animators and technicians who work in various roles for the contemporary digital visual media industries. Rather than discussing it as a model of organising work, the study conceives free software as a production tool and shows how it becomes a locus of politics about finding material security in flexible capitalism. This politics is ultimately contradictory in that it extends creative and craft autonomy of digital artists but does not mobilise a critical project. Instead, it nurtures further precarious labour. Empirically, the article draws on ethnographically collected material from the media practices of digital artists and programmers who engage with two popular free software production tools, Blender and Synfig.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/6227
2022-10-28T09:27:27Z
mediaandcommunication:EDI
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6227
2022-10-28T09:27:27Z
Media and Communication
Vol 10, No 3 (2022): Across Mobile Online and Offline Spaces: Reflections on Methods, Practices, and Ethics; 219-224
Doing Research at Online and Offline Intersections: Bringing Together Digital and Mobile Methodologies
Kaufmann, Katja; Department of Geography, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Palmberger, Monika; Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, Austria
2022-09-28 09:57:46
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6227
digital ethnography; hybrid methods; mixed methods; mobile media; mobile methods; mobile technologies; multimethod; multimodal; online ethnography; qualitative methods
In case of author Monika Palmberger: Austrian Science Fund (FWF V681)
en
This thematic issue is an interdisciplinary exchange of methodological, practical, and ethical issues linked to conducting research across online and offline spaces in times of mobile technologies. It includes a wide range of disciplines, geographical locations, methodological approaches, and designs. The seven articles in this thematic issue are organized around three distinctive potential entry points: (a) researching across online and offline spaces with ethnographic, multisited, nonmedia-centric approaches; (b) making use of mobile media for researching across online and offline spaces; (c) researching emerging technologies built across online and offline spaces. All authors make their research processes transparent and share not only the methodical challenges and ethical dilemmas they faced, but also the opportunities that arose and methodological ways forward.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/2289
2019-08-09T03:46:25Z
mediaandcommunication:COM
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/2289
2019-08-09T03:46:25Z
Media and Communication
Vol 7, No 3 (2019): Selective Exposure in a Changing Political and Media Environment; 8-11
From Selective Exposure to Selective Information Processing: A Motivated Reasoning Approach
Camaj, Lindita; Jack J. Valenti School of Communication, University of Houston, Houston
2019-07-30 03:03:08
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/2289
audience; information; information processing; media; motivated reasoning; selective exposure
None
en
Literature suggests that while without doubt people engage in selective exposure to information, this does not entail that they also engage in selective avoidance of opinion-challenging information. However, cross-cutting exposure does not always lead to dispassionate deliberation. In this commentary I explore psychological conditions as they apply to attitude-based selection and make an argument that selectivity does not stop at exposure but continues as audiences engage with information they encounter and incorporate in their decision-making. I propose the theory of motivated reasoning as a rich theoretical underpinning that helps us understand selective exposure and selective information processing.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/7198
2024-01-17T12:29:44Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/7198
2024-01-17T12:29:44Z
Media and Communication
Vol 12 (2024): Democracy and Media Transformations in the 21st Century: Analysing Knowledge and Expertise
Delayed Reflections: Media and Journalism Data Deserts in the Post-Socialist Czech Republic
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/download/7198/45667
Císařová, Lenka Waschková; Department of Media Studies and Journalism, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Jansová, Iveta; Department of Media Studies and Journalism, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Motal, Jan; Department of Media Studies and Journalism, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
2024-01-15 11:11:40
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/7198
Central European media; Eastern European media; data desert; media research; post-socialist media system; post-socialist transition
European scheme HORIZON 2020 – Research and Innovation Framework Program. Project number: 10100481.
en
One of the key obstacles to the normative development of post-socialist media systems, in general, and the Czech Republic in particular, is the deferral of the thoughtful reflection and critical examination of the evolution of the media industry by academics and professionals. In the early years of post-socialist development, there was a lack of collected data and relevant analysis of the state of the media and journalism. It was foreign researchers who provided the first studies of the post-socialist media systems. Plus, the commercial industry, which systematically collected data, but made it inaccessible and/or expensive. This lack of domestic contemplation and transparency led to the existence of data deserts, which made it difficult to effectively reflect upon the development of the media and its role in the transition society. This article is based on a comprehensive literature review and expert interviews with witnesses of the media industry development. These sources—academia, industry, and NGOs—make it possible to highlight specific areas that were overlooked and to propose reasons that data deserts are created in post-socialist media systems. Analysing the data through the lenses of availability, continuity, accessibility, and topicality, we delimit three eras for the general reflection of the development of the media environment, setting a distinguishable timeframe for the post-socialist media data reflection’s evolution.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/345
2020-07-21T09:47:48Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/345
2020-07-21T09:47:48Z
Media and Communication
Vol 3, No 4 (2015): Turbulences of the Central and Eastern European Media; 106-115
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
2015-12-29 04:19:50
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/345
audience studies; media audience; online journalism; paywalls; pricing models; willingness to pay
University of Tartu, Institute of Social Sciences
en
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.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3170
2021-01-08T05:55:12Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3170
2021-01-08T05:55:12Z
Media and Communication
Vol 9, No 1 (2021): Games and Communication—Quo Vadis?; 5-16
The Slippery Path to Total Presence: How Omnidirectional Virtual Reality Treadmills Influence the Gaming Experience
Wehden, Lars-Ole; Department of Communication, University of Muenster, Germany
Reer, Felix; Department of Communication, University of Muenster, Germany
Janzik, Robin; Department of Communication, University of Muenster, Germany
Tang, Wai Yen; Department of Communication, University of Muenster, Germany
Quandt, Thorsten; Department of Communication, University of Muenster, Germany
2021-01-06 03:50:47
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3170
cybersickness; digital games; experimental research; gaming experience; locomotion; omnidirectional treadmill; passive repositioning systems; virtual reality
en
Researchers, game designers, and consumers place great hopes into the potential benefits of virtual reality (VR) technology on the user experience in digital games. Indeed, initial empirical research has shown that VR technology can improve the gaming experience in a number of ways compared to traditional desktop gaming, for instance by amplifying immersion and flow. However, on the downside, a mismatch between physical locomotion and the movements of the avatar in the virtual world can also lead to unpleasant feelings when using VR technology—often referred to as cybersickness. One solution to this problem may be the implementation of novel passive repositioning systems (also called omnidirectional treadmills) that are designed to allow a continuous, more natural form of locomotion in VR. In the current study, we investigate how VR technology and the use of an omnidirectional treadmill influence the gaming experience. Traditional desktop gaming, VR gaming, and omnidirectional treadmill gaming are compared in a one-factorial experimental design (N = 203). As expected, we found that VR gaming on the one hand leads to higher levels of flow, presence, and enjoyment, but at the same time also is accompanied by higher levels of cybersickness than traditional desktop gaming. The use of the omnidirectional treadmill did not significantly improve the gaming experience and also did not reduce cybersickness. However, this more physically demanding form of locomotion may make omnidirectional treadmills interesting for exergame designers.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1764
2020-07-21T09:49:44Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1764
2020-07-21T09:49:44Z
Media and Communication
Vol 7, No 1 (2019): Journalism and Social Media: Redistribution of Power?; 225-234
Mapping Political Discussions on Twitter: Where the Elites Remain Elites
Dagoula, Chrysi; Center for Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
2019-03-21 05:35:13
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1764
democracy; digital public sphere(s); elites; Habermas; journalism; political arenas; Twitter
en
This article compares digital arenas such as Twitter with the principles prescribed by the bourgeois public sphere, to examine how close or far these arenas are from Habermas’ original concept. By focusing on one of the criteria, the current influence of elites on political debate, it discusses the Habermasian principles of general accessibility and non-dominance of the elites as prerequisites for a functioning public sphere. This study finds that even though there are few access restrictions on Twitter and despite the fact that no one, in principle, is excluded from the platform, there is no apparent elimination of privileges and the elites maintain their elite status within its borders. Methodologically, the article relies on empirical research of hashtagged exchanges on Twitter during the General Elections in the United Kingdom in 2015. Through the mapping of Twitter as a synthesis of dialogic arenas, it explores the elite-focused discourse and the vocal actors in the stream, underscoring that the presence of the elites, even in an indirect way. Drawing on these elements, the article argues for a reconceptualization of the normative perception of the public sphere, suggesting the notion of exclusion is a complex issue that includes expanding notions of publics to also include those topics being discussed. Finally, it focuses on the significance of journalism in relation to political dialogue and argues that the move towards less elite-centered arenas largely depends on journalism.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/6367
2023-06-09T17:35:14Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6367
2023-06-09T17:35:14Z
Media and Communication
Vol 11, No 2 (2023): Political Communication in Times of Spectacularisation: Digital Narratives, Engagement, and Politainment; 148-162
The Spectacle of “Patriotic Violence” in Romania: Populist Leader George Simion’s Mediated Performance
Grapă, Teodora-Elena; Doctoral School in Political and Communication Sciences, Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania
Mogoș, Andreea-Alina; Department of Journalism and Digital Media, Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania
2023-05-16 08:59:28
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6367
content analysis; corpus linguistics; discourse analysis; news values; politainment; populist frames; populist political communication; telegram
en
Political actors who adapt their performance to the logic of politainment gain visibility and success in the public sphere. Such is the case of George Simion, an emerging politician and leader of the newest parliamentary party, the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), a populist radical right party that proved especially attractive to Romanian diaspora voters. This study focuses on the discursive and stylistic dimensions of Simion’s newsworthiness and mediatization. Additionally, a multiplatform analysis of his populist communication content and style aims to determine degrees of populism. As such, we propose a mixed-methods multimodal approach that combines corpus linguistics and semi-automated content analysis with thematic coding and visual semiotic analysis. The media-reported performance analysis focuses on content (n = 963) produced by three popular online news media outlets (Digi24.ro, Adevărul.ro, and Antena3.ro) between May 13th 2015 and April 30th 2022, while the analysis of Simion’s discourse examines his Telegram channel’s feed (738 messages and 383 images) between March 15th 2021 and April 30th 2022, and his authored texts published in Adevărul.ro (n = 116) between July 8th 2014 and April 30th 2022. The results indicate that news media reports are defined by conflict (aggression, violence), scandalization, negativity, emotionality, and by a prevalent use of arresting quotes that employ colloquial language (sarcasm, vulgarity). Simion’s celebrity populism is styled through an “ideal candidate,” “populist campaigner” image and framed through the emotional glorification (unionism, patriotism, Orthodoxy) of a potentially united “homeland,” a democratic space that reflects the unadulterated will of ordinary Christian-Orthodox Romanians whose sovereignty is currently undermined by corrupt political elites. He invokes historical narratives (e.g., founding fathers, retrospective utopia) reinforced through othering the EU and ethnic/sexual minorities as forces that threaten the purity of “the people.”
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/2883
2020-06-23T08:54:34Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/2883
2020-06-23T08:54:34Z
Media and Communication
Vol 8, No 2 (2020): The Politics of Privacy: Communication and Media Perspectives in Privacy Research; 314-322
Data Subjects vs. People’s Data: Competing Discourses of Privacy and Power in Modern Russia
Lokot, Tetyana; School of Communications, Dublin City University, Ireland
2020-06-23 06:24:14
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/2883
data; digital rights; power; privacy; Russia
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Dublin City University
en
The notion of individual privacy has always been a political one throughout Russia’s Soviet and post-Soviet periods, but in the age of all-encompassing datafication and digitisation of identities, privacy has become an even more contested concept. This article considers how Russian state officials and Russian digital rights advocates construct the notion of privacy in their public online discourses. I argue that how these actors talk about privacy helps shape the norms and the politics around it in Russia. An in-depth analysis of activity reports published online by the state internet regulator and a grassroots digital rights group reveals competing privacy discourses underpinned by differential understandings of how anonymity, secrecy, confidentiality, and control of personal data determine the distribution of power and agency in Russian public and political life. These differential interpretations of privacy inform the contentious politics that emerge around how privacy is regulated and negotiated within the greater regulatory and normative framework of digital citizenship in Russia. Thus, the article offers critical insights into the contestation of citizenship and, consequently, the distribution of power in more and less democratic systems.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/6396
2023-06-26T15:50:20Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6396
2023-06-26T15:50:20Z
Media and Communication
Vol 11, No 2 (2023): Fakespotting: (Dis)Information Literacy as Key Tool to Defend Democracy; 64-75
Accessing to a “Truer Truth”: Conspiracy and Figurative Reasoning From Covid-19 to the Russia–Ukraine War
Terracciano, Bianca; Department of Communication and Social Research, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
2023-04-28 08:58:22
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6396
conspiracy; Covid-19; figurative reasoning; QAnon; Russia; semiotics; Telegram; Ukraine
en
This research hypothesizes that all conspiracy theories have dominating isotopies and images-symbols regardless of ideology or context. As a result, I hypothesized that the common denominator might be discovered in figurative reasoning, which means using the same representations to explain current events, in order to detect an ideal center of the semantic universe of conspiracy where the diverse conspiracist fringes converge. Social media invariant topicalizations of the Covid-19 epidemic and the Russia–Ukraine war are the ideal field to validate this hypothesis. The corpus on which the study was conducted consists of thousands of online items published between February 15, 2020, and October 15, 2022. Within the corpus were chosen posts by QAnon supporters designated as disinformation “superspreaders.”
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1495
2020-07-21T09:48:47Z
mediaandcommunication:EDI
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1495
2020-07-21T09:48:47Z
Media and Communication
Vol 6, No 2 (2018): Rethinking Media and Social Space; 1-4
Media Studies for a Mediatized World: Rethinking Media and Social Space
Jansson, André; Department of Geography, Media and Communication, Karlstad University, Sweden
Lindell, Johan; Department of Geography, Media and Communication, Karlstad University, Sweden
2018-05-25 09:28:34
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1495
mediatization; media discourse; media practice; media sociology; media technology; power; social space
en
This editorial introduces a thematic issue on “Rethinking Media and Social Space”. By critically rethinking the relationship between media and social space this issue takes initial steps towards ensuring that media studies is appropriate for a mediatized world. Contemporary societies are permeated by media that play important roles in how people maneuver and position themselves in the social world. Yet, analyses of media-related social change too often fail to engage with the complex and situated nature of power relations. This editorial highlights three enduring problems: (1) the annihilation of the socially structured and structuring role of media technologies and practices; (2) the conflation of inherent social capacities of media technologies and discourses with existing mediations of power, and (3) the reduction of social space to one predominant dimension which overshadows all other forms of social power that media technologies, discourses, and practices are part of. As a response to these problems—and in bringing together the arguments of the five articles included in the thematic issue—this editorial calls for sociologized approaches to media technologies, discourses, and practices.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/4054
2021-11-22T11:49:29Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/4054
2021-11-22T11:49:29Z
Media and Communication
Vol 9, No 4 (2021): Algorithmic Systems in the Digital Society; 120-133
A Literature Review of Personalization Transparency and Control: Introducing the Transparency–Awareness–Control Framework
Segijn, Claire M.; Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Minnesota, USA
Strycharz, Joanna; Amsterdam School of Communication Research, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Riegelman, Amy; University Libraries, University of Minnesota, USA
Hennesy, Cody; University Libraries, University of Minnesota, USA
2021-11-18 10:14:39
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/4054
awareness; computational advertising; consumer data; control; covert data collection; information disclosure; personalization; privacy; targeting; transparency
en
Through various online activities, individuals produce large amounts of data that are collected by companies for the purpose of providing users with personalized communication. In the light of this mass collection of personal data, the transparency and control paradigm for personalized communication has led to increased attention from legislators and academics. However, in the scientific literature no clear definition of personalization transparency and control exists, which could lead to reliability and validity issues, impeding knowledge accumulation in academic research. In a literature review, we analyzed 31 articles and observed that: 1) no clear definitions of personalization transparency or control exist; 2) they are used interchangeably in the literature; 3) collection, processing, and sharing of data are the three objects of transparency and control; and 4) increased transparency does not automatically increase control because first awareness needs to be raised in the individual. Also, the relationship between awareness and control depends on the ability and the desire to control. This study contributes to the field of algorithmic communication by creating a common understanding of the transparency and control paradigm and thus improves validity of the results. Further, it progresses research on the issue by synthesizing existing studies on the topic, presenting the transparency–awareness–control framework, and formulating propositions to guide future research.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/2602
2020-06-23T08:08:43Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/2602
2020-06-23T08:08:43Z
Media and Communication
Vol 8, No 1 (2020): Emotions and Emotional Appeals in Science Communication; 151-163
The Emotional Effects of Science Narratives: A Theoretical Framework
Bilandzic, Helena; Department of Media, Knowledge, and Communication, University of Augsburg, Germany
Kinnebrock, Susanne; Department of Media, Knowledge, and Communication, University of Augsburg, Germany
Klingler, Magdalena; Department of Media, Knowledge, and Communication, University of Augsburg, Germany
2020-03-18 06:31:04
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/2602
EESN-Model; emotional response; emotion; narrative; narrative effects; science communication
This research was funded by a grant of the German Research Foundation to Susanne Kinnebrock and Helena Bilandzic (grant no. KI 1532-/1-1; BI 838/9-1).
en
Stories have long been discussed as a tool to make science accessible to the public. The potential of stories to stimulate emotions in their audiences makes them an emotional communication strategy par excellence. While studies exist that test the effects of stories in science communication on the one hand and the effects of emotions on the other hand, there is no systematic elaboration of the mechanisms through which stories in science communication evoke emotions and how these emotions influence outcomes such as knowledge gain and attitude change. In this article, we develop a theoretical framework of the “Emotional Effects of Science Narratives” (EESN-Model), which includes a typology of emotions likely to arise from reading science communication as well as mechanisms for each of the emotions to evoke the (desired) outcomes. The model serves as a heuristic to delineate the emotional effects of narratives in science coverage and will help guide research in this domain to provide a deeper understanding of the role of emotion in science news.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/6056
2023-06-26T15:47:13Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6056
2023-06-26T15:47:13Z
Media and Communication
Vol 11, No 1 (2023): Global Inequalities in the Wake of Covid-19: Gender, Pandemic, and Media Gaps; 163-172
Representing Life and Death in Care Institutions: Between Invisible Victims and Suffering Old Women
Adlung, Shari; Institute for Media and Communication Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Backes, Annabella; Collaborative Research Center Affective Societies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
2023-02-28 09:59:07
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6056
ageing; agency; Covid-19; German newspapers; institutionalised care; media representation; vulnerability
en
The article examines the representation and (in)visibility of ageing people in German care institutions during the Covid-19 pandemic. Within the framework of a qualitative content-analytical and discourse-analytical study of 185 articles, including 108 images from German newspapers, the authors trace the patterns behind the representation of ageing people. In so doing, they argue that in the media discourse ageing people are often represented without agency and in a strongly homogenised way as “others.” By emphasising pre-existing conditions and vulnerability, older and disabled people appear naturally at risk. The article also problematises the mere counting of life and death in care institutions, which contributes to a naturalisation and symbolic annihilation of the death of ageing people. Furthermore, the authors identify the notion of the suffering old woman as a key figure in pandemic media discourse, performing a critical function. She embodies an appeal to society to show sympathy and solidarity and to act reasonably with respect to the pandemic measures yet contains no elements of discursive agency or personal characteristics beyond that. Additionally, the suffering old woman reinforces traditional patterns of patriarchal representation. The authors conclude that the pandemic has placed the German care crisis in settings of institutionalised geriatric care into the media spotlight. However, the comprehensive inclusion of ageing people has been absent. Emphasising one’s own ability and thus adapting to the midlife years seems to be the only way to precarious inclusion for ageing people in the discourse.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/878
2020-07-21T09:48:29Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/878
2020-07-21T09:48:29Z
Media and Communication
Vol 5, No 2 (2017): Multidisciplinary Studies in Media and Communication; 67-76
Crises, Rumours and Reposts: Journalists’ Social Media Content Gathering and Verification Practices in Breaking News Situations
Backholm, Klas; Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki, Finland
Ausserhofer, Julian; Department of Communication, University of Vienna, Austria, and Research Group Internet Policy & Governance, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Germany
Frey, Elsebeth; Department of Journalism and Media Studies, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway
Larsen, Anna Grøndahl; Department of Journalism and Media Studies, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway
Hornmoen, Harald; Department of Journalism and Media Studies, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway
Högväg, Joachim; Experience Lab, Åbo Akademi University, Finland
Reimerth, Gudrun; Department of Media and Design, FH JOANNEUM University of Applied Sciences, Austria
2017-05-19 02:48:18
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/878
crisis; journalism; situational awareness; social media; usability; user-centred design; verification
The Norwegian Research Council, grant number 233975/H20; The Högskolestiftelsen i Österbotten Foundation; The Svensk-Österbottniska Samfundet Foundation
en
Social media (SoMe) platforms provide potentially important information for news journalists during everyday work and in crisis-related contexts. The aims of this study were (a) to map central journalistic challenges and emerging practices related to using SoMe for collecting and validating newsworthy content; and (b) to investigate how practices may contribute to a user-friendly design of a web-based SoMe content validation toolset. Interviews were carried out with 22 journalists from three European countries. Information about journalistic work tasks was also collected during a crisis training scenario (N = 5). Results showed that participants experienced challenges with filtering and estimating trustworthiness of SoMe content. These challenges were especially due to the vast overall amount of information, and the need to monitor several platforms simultaneously. To support improved situational awareness in journalistic work during crises, a user-friendly tool should provide content search results representing several media formats and gathered from a diversity of platforms, presented in easy-to-approach visualizations. The final decision-making about content and source trustworthiness should, however, remain as a manual journalistic task, as the sample would not trust an automated estimation based on tool algorithms.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3958
2022-08-30T09:06:26Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3958
2022-08-30T09:06:26Z
Media and Communication
Vol 9, No 3 (2021): Spaces, Places, and Geographies of Public Spheres; 5-15
Issue Spatiality: A Conceptual Framework for the Role of Space in Public Discourses
Stoltenberg, Daniela; Institute for Media and Communication Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
2021-07-23 10:39:51
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3958
communication geography; issue space; issue spatiality; place-naming; public discourse; public sphere
DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft/German Research Foundation) – project number 290045248 – SFB 1265
en
Public spheres research has traditionally sidestepped questions of space by focusing on a priori delineated political territories, most prominently national public spheres. While this approach has always lacked nuance, it has become acutely insufficient nowadays, as digital communication technologies easily enable a host of heterogeneous actors to draw public attention to spaces and places at any scale, and communicatively connect places anywhere in the world. This conceptual article argues that communication scholars need to reconsider the spaces embedded in the content of public discourses. Drawing on the notion of issue publics, it understands the public definition of issues as inextricably linked to the places that are communicatively associated with them, causing issue spaces to emerge. The issue space is constructed through place-naming whenever public actors reference places in the context of issues. The article develops issue spatiality as an analytical framework to understand the role of place and space in public discourse. It discusses how issue spatiality enables a better understanding of the increasingly complex scales of public communication, and outlines several dimensions of issue spatiality. Drawing on communication infrastructure literature, it proposes socio-spatial inequalities of communicative resources as important predictors of issue spatiality, along with the habits of professional communicators, and local problem properties. Gazetteers and mapping techniques are introduced as methodological interventions required for the empirical use of issue spatiality.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/2275
2020-01-20T08:03:35Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/2275
2020-01-20T08:03:35Z
Media and Communication
Vol 7, No 4 (2019): Peripheral Actors in Journalism: Agents of Change in Journalism Culture and Practice; 112-122
Friend, Foe or Frenemy? Traditional Journalism Actors’ Changing Attitudes towards Peripheral Players and Their Innovations
Chua, Sherwin; Department of Journalism, Media and Communication, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Duffy, Andrew; Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2019-12-17 03:50:32
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/2275
appropriation of innovation; interlopers; journalism; media innovation; peripheral players
en
This study synthesises two analytical frameworks—journalistic strangers and agents of media innovation—to examine how perceptions among newsworkers towards new entrants to their field shape the normalisation of innovations in a digital-first legacy news organisation over three years. Based on two rounds of interviews, it finds that peripheral players are gradually recognised for their contributions to journalism by traditional actors. Nonetheless, as barriers between the two groups lower, tensions involving dissonant professional perspectives, practices, and jurisdictions surface and are negotiated. The findings indicate a growing salience of hybrid roles in newsrooms that serve as linchpins to connect divergent professional fields, and more importantly, as bridges between tradition and innovation. Based on the increasing importance of collaboration and hybrid roles, this study makes a theoretical and practical contribution to research and media management by proposing that four forms of proximity—physical, temporal, professional, and control—are crucial in operationalising the impact that peripheral players have on innovation in news organisations.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/5807
2022-11-29T12:06:20Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5807
2022-11-29T12:06:20Z
Media and Communication
Vol 10, No 4 (2022): Online Communities and Populism; 213-223
Bread and Plots: Conspiracy Theories and the Rhetorical Style of Political Influencer Communities on YouTube
Wurst, Christina; Department of American Studies, University of Tübingen, Germany
2022-11-29 09:47:12
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5807
BreadTube; conspiracy theories; popular culture; populism; social media; YouTube
en
Based on the assumption that social media encourages a populist style of politics in online communities and the proposition that populism and conspiracy theories tend to co-occur, this article investigates whether this holds true for YouTube influencers, particularly on the less investigated left-wing spectrum. The article provides qualitative case studies of four different groups of political content creators on YouTube whose content makes use of or analyzes popular culture. The article concludes that a populist style plays a far less central role in left-wing communities on YouTube than on other platforms or within right-wing communities.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/515
2020-07-21T09:48:02Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/515
2020-07-21T09:48:02Z
Media and Communication
Vol 4, No 3 (2016): Adolescents in the Digital Age: Effects on Health and Development; 13-23
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
2016-06-16 10:44:06
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/515
adolescents; digital technology; health; information-seeking
en
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.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3443
2021-03-05T03:36:00Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3443
2021-03-05T03:36:00Z
Media and Communication
Vol 9, No 1 (2021): Disinformation and Democracy: Media Strategies and Audience Attitudes; 251-263
Fact-Checking Interventions as Counteroffensives to Disinformation Growth: Standards, Values, and Practices in Latin America and Spain
Moreno-Gil, Victoria; Nebrija University, Spain
Ramon, Xavier; Department of Communication, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
Rodríguez-Martínez, Ruth; Department of Communication, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
2021-03-03 04:15:37
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3443
disinformation; fact-checking; journalism; Latin America; Spain
en
As democracy-building tools, fact-checking platforms serve as critical interventions in the fight against disinformation and polarization in the public sphere. The Duke Reporters’ Lab notes that there are 290 active fact-checking sites in 83 countries, including a wide range of initiatives in Latin America and Spain. These regions share major challenges such as limited journalistic autonomy, difficulties of accessing public data, politicization of the media, and the growing impact of disinformation. This research expands upon the findings presented in previous literature to gain further insight into the standards, values, and underlying practices embedded in Spanish and Latin American projects while identifying the specific challenges that these organizations face. In-depth interviews were conducted with decision-makers of the following independent platforms: Chequeado (Argentina), UYCheck (Uruguay), Maldita.es and Newtral (Spain), Fact Checking (Chile), Agência Lupa (Brazil), Ecuador Chequea (Ecuador), and ColombiaCheck (Colombia). This qualitative approach offers nuanced data on the volume and frequency of checks, procedures, dissemination tactics, and the perceived role of the public. Despite relying on small teams, the examined outlets’ capacity to verify facts is noteworthy. Inspired by best practices in the US and Europe and the model established by Chequeado, all the sites considered employ robust methodologies while leveraging the power of digital tools and audience participation. Interviewees identified three core challenges in fact-checking practice: difficulties in accessing public data, limited resources, and the need to reach wider audiences. Starting from these results, the article discusses the ways in which fact-checking operations could be strengthened.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/7153
2023-12-07T11:02:02Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/7153
2023-12-07T11:02:02Z
Media and Communication
Vol 11, No 4 (2023): Trust, Social Cohesion, and Information Quality in Digital Journalism; 344-354
The Awkward Moment When You Agree With News Outlets That You Normally Distrust
Blom, Robin; School of Journalism and Strategic Communication, Ball State University, USA
2023-12-07 10:11:35
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/7153
distrust; news content; news expectancy; news sources; news trust
Ball State University, Aspire Award
en
News source attribution in selective exposure has been examined in many contexts, but rarely in the context of selecting news from distrusted sources. As such, 800 US adults were asked to select one of two headlines attributed to CNN and/or Fox News. Results showed some people selected news from a distrusted source, but only under very specific circumstances. Others avoided the awkward moment of siding with a distrusted source, even when that meant selecting news from a trusted source that was counter-attitudinal to the source’s typical slant on global warming.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/542
2020-07-21T09:48:09Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/542
2020-07-21T09:48:09Z
Media and Communication
Vol 4, No 3 (2016): (Not Yet) the End of Television; 154-161
Digital Media Platforms and the Use of TV Content: Binge Watching and Video-on-Demand in Germany
Mikos, Lothar; Department of Media Studies, Filmuniversity Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, Germany
2016-07-14 05:27:04
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/542
audiences; binge watching; convergence; digitalization; television, television culture; television series; video-on-demand
en
The advancing digitalization and media convergence demands TV broadcasting companies to adjust their content to various platforms and distribution channels. The internet, as convergent carrier medium, is increasingly taking on a central role for additional media. Classical linear TV is still important, but for some audiences it has been developing from a primary medium to a secondary medium. Owing to the growing melding of classical-linear TV contents with online offerings (e.g. video-on-demand platforms or Web–TV), a great dynamic can be seen which has triggered numerous discussions about the future of TV for some time now. This article will summarize the results of two different audience studies. Film and television shows are meanwhile distributed online via Video-on-Demand platforms such as Netflix or Amazon Prime Video. The first audience study has dealt with the use of VoD-platforms in Germany investigating user rituals, user motivation to watch films and TV shows on these platforms, and the meaning of VoD in everyday life. Most of the participants in this study reported that they mainly watch TV drama series at Netflix or Amazon Prime. Therefore, the second audience study focused the online use of television drama series of individuals and couples elaborating the phenomenon of binge watching. In relating the audience practice to the new structures of the television market the article will shed light on the future of television.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/5373
2022-09-05T10:13:34Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5373
2022-09-05T10:13:34Z
Media and Communication
Vol 10, No 3 (2022): Enlightening Confusion: How Contradictory Findings Help Mitigate Problematic Trends in Digital Democracies; 133-145
Information Patterns and News Bubbles in Hungary
Polyák, Gábor; Department of Media and Communication, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary / Mertek Media Monitor, Hungary
Urbán, Ágnes; Mertek Media Monitor, Hungary / Department of Infocommunication, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary
Szávai, Petra; Mertek Media Monitor, Hungary / Doctoral School of Linguistics, University of Pécs, Hungary
2022-08-31 11:39:44
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5373
Hungarian media; information bubble; media classification; news consumption; polarisation
en
The study is based on data from a representative survey conducted in Hungary in 2020, which examined the public’s consumption of political and public information. Using the survey data, the authors attempt to map the consumption patterns of the Hungarian audience, with a special focus on the relationship between party preferences and the consumption of the various news sources with different ideological backgrounds. The research aims to better understand the phenomenon of polarisation, which is increasingly observed on both the supply and demand sides of the Hungarian news media. The focus of the study is to examine news consumption patterns in Hungary and the relationship between political polarisation and news consumption. The authors analysed the prevalence of information bubbles in the Hungarian public sphere, where consumers are only exposed to the views of one political side without being confronted with information or opinions that differ. Particular attention is paid to a special category of the Hungarian media system, the grey-zone media; they might seem to contribute greatly to the pluralism of the media system, but they are, in fact, strongly politically dependent. In addition to the identified news consumption patterns, the study aims to shed light on the importance and problematic nature of this grey-zone media category and to reveal how deeply the Hungarian public is actually dependent on the government.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1927
2019-07-02T04:43:14Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1927
2019-07-02T04:43:14Z
Media and Communication
Vol 7, No 2 (2019): Refugee Crises Disclosed: Intersections between Media, Communication and Forced Migration Processes; 230-241
In the Bullseye of Vigilantes: Mediated Vulnerabilities of Kyrgyz Labour Migrants in Russia
Gabdulhakov, Rashid; Department of Media and Communication, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2019-06-28 07:51:31
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1927
digital divides; digital vigilantism; layers of vulnerabilities; labour migrants
This work was supported by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) [project number 276-45-004] .
en
Hundreds of thousands of Kyrgyz labour migrants seek opportunities in Russia where they fall target to retaliation of vigilante citizens who find offence in the presence of alien labourers in their homeland. Vigilantism also takes place within this migrant ‘community’ where male Kyrgyz labour migrants engage in retaliation on female migrants over perceived offences such as dating non-Kyrgyz men. On several occasions between 2011 and 2016 videos featuring honour beating of female labour migrants by fellow countrymen shook the internet. The selected case illustrates vulnerabilities experienced by migrants due to xenophobia and hostility of the host state, as well as additional layers of vulnerabilities linked to gendered biases that ‘travel’ across borders along with compatriots in migration. The study argues that offline structures, norms, biases, violence, and stigma not only reincarnate online, where they culminate in vigilante acts, but consequently, they re-enter the offline discourse and go through further normalization and justification.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/7612
2023-09-28T09:49:20Z
mediaandcommunication:EDI
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/7612
2023-09-28T09:49:20Z
Media and Communication
Vol 11, No 3 (2023): News Deserts: Places and Spaces Without News; 285-289
Places and Spaces Without News: The Contested Phenomenon of News Deserts
Gulyas, Agnes; School of Creative Arts and Industries, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK
Jenkins, Joy; Missouri School of Journalism, University of Missouri, USA
Bergström, Annika; Department of Journalism, Media and Communication, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
2023-09-28 08:37:54
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/7612
local communities; local journalism; local media; local news; media gaps; news deserts; news inequalities; subnational media.
News deserts have gained prominence both in academic literature and policy discussions about local news in recent years. Although there is no agreed definition of the term, it usually refers to the lack of or diminishing availability, access, or use of local news or media in a community. It is seen as a significant phenomenon that highlights inequalities in local news provisions, challenges of local media operations in the digital environment, and issues around the quality of local journalism and the critical information needs of communities. This thematic issue aims to contribute to the field by bringing together different approaches to the topic, considering varied empirical studies and methodological designs, and providing perspectives from countries around the world with different media systems and cultures. The articles in the thematic issue address three broad issues: approaches to studying news deserts, local news production and news deserts, and the impact of news deserts on communities. Overall, the contributions reveal that the presence of a news desert is not a simple question of a locality having or not having a local media outlet. The concept is better understood as processes affecting access and quality of local news involving places, news media outlets and production, communities, and audiences. We end the editorial highlighting areas for further research, including the need for more holistic, conceptual, and comparative work on the topic.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/387
2020-07-21T09:47:51Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/387
2020-07-21T09:47:51Z
Media and Communication
Vol 3, No 4 (2015): Turbulences of the Central and Eastern European Media; 5-14
Revisiting National Journalism Cultures in Post-Communist Countries: The Influence of Academic Scholarship
Harro-Loit, Halliki; Institute of Social Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia
2015-12-29 04:15:16
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/387
academic scholarship; actor approach; CEE countries; discursive institutionalism, journalism culture
Centre of Excellence in Cultural Theory, CECT, European Regional Development Fund
en
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.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3722
2020-12-21T09:21:19Z
mediaandcommunication:EDI
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3722
2020-12-21T09:21:19Z
Media and Communication
Vol 8, No 4 (2020): Children’s Voices on Privacy Management and Data Responsibilization; 158-162
Editorial: Children’s Voices on Privacy Management and Data Responsibilization
De Wolf, Ralf; Department of Communication Sciences, imec-mict, Ghent University, Belgium
Vanden Abeele, Mariek M. P.; Department of Communication and Cognition, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
2020-11-10 05:13:42
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3722
children; data responsibilization; empowerment; online; parents; privacy; sharenting
en
Contemporary children live in datafied societies in which they navigate and use technological innovations that drive on their personal information. Instructing privacy literacy is often presented as a key solution to help children manage their personal data responsibly. While there is agreement on the empowering potential of privacy literacy for children, there are also concerns over the burden that this responsibility places on them and their capacity for resilience. Children are key stakeholders in this debate. Nonetheless, we rarely hear their voices on issues related to their online privacy and data responsibilization. The articles included in this thematic issue account for this limitation by amplifying the voices of children, looking into the practices of parents and exploring the role of the tools being used.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1761
2020-07-21T09:49:37Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1761
2020-07-21T09:49:37Z
Media and Communication
Vol 7, No 1 (2019): Emerging Technologies in Journalism and Media: International Perspectives on Their Nature and Impact; 128-138
Does Fear of Isolation Disappear Online? Attention-Seeking Motivators in Online Political Engagement
Shim, KyuJin; School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne, Australia
Oh, Klive (Soo-Kwang); Communication Division, Pepperdine Seaver College, USA
2019-02-19 05:03:10
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1761
attention-seeking; anonymity-seeking; fear of isolation; political communication; social media; status-seeking
en
This study investigated the effects of fear of isolation (FOI) on political content consumption and creation in the context of online communication. Using more than 1,000 respondents from South Korea, the study empirically tested a theoretical model of FOI on political content consumption and expressions with two mediators (i.e., attention/status-seeking, and anonymity-seeking). Results indicated that FOI is related to seeking attention and status in political outlets also connected to anonymity-preference that leads to political expression. Implications for political communication scholarship and for practitioners are that voters’ political participations can be understood in a framework different from traditional focus on persuasion, political ideology, or demographics because—in today’s virtual and interactive media environment—users are more content consumers or community participants.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/5129
2022-05-30T11:42:23Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5129
2022-05-30T11:42:23Z
Media and Communication
Vol 10, No 2 (2022): Impact of Social Media on Social Cohesion; 108-118
Online Neighborhood Networks: The Relationship Between Online Communication Practices and Neighborhood Dynamics
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/download/5129/33310
Robaeyst, Ben; imec-mict-UGent, Ghent University, Belgium
Baccarne, Bastiaan; imec-mict-UGent, Ghent University, Belgium
Meulenaere, Jonas De; Hoplr, Belgium
Mechant, Peter; imec-mict-UGent, Ghent University, Belgium
2022-05-26 10:26:05
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5129
communication infrastructure theory; neighborhood social cohesion; online neighborhood networks; social cohesion
Hoplr
en
This article builds upon communication infrastructure theory and investigates how communication practices on online neighborhood networks (ONNs) relate to the social cohesion of neighborhood communities. Specifically, we study the hyperlocal social media platform Hoplr, which provides ad-free ONNs in which neighbors can communicate with one another. Local governments can subscribe to Hoplr to communicate with their residents and engage them for community and public participation purposes. This study is based on an online survey of Hoplr members (N = 3,055) from 150 randomly selected ONNs. Social cohesion is disentangled as a combination of social support, a sense of community, reciprocal exchange, and social trust. We investigated social cohesion differences at the neighborhood level in relation to self-reported types of ONN communication practices (shared interest, supportive communication, and both tangible and informational support mobilization). The results reveal the limited value of quantified behavioral data to explain differences in neighborhood social cohesion. However, interesting patterns are revealed between different communication practices and neighborhood social cohesion, such as the importance of trivial storytelling and information exchange practices for enhancing trust, reciprocal support, and a sense of community. At the same time, a reversed relation appears when ONNs are considered explicit information exchange platforms. With these insights, we enhance the theoretical understanding of ONNs in relation to neighborhood social cohesion and within a broader repertoire of neighborhood communication infrastructures.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3081
2020-07-28T09:11:12Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3081
2020-07-28T09:11:12Z
Media and Communication
Vol 8, No 3 (2020): Journalism from Above: Drones, the Media, and the Transformation of Journalistic Practice; 123-136
Audience Attention and Emotion in News Filmed with Drones: A Neuromarketing Research
Mañas-Viniegra, Luis; Department of Applied Communication Studies, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
García-García, Alberto; Department of Applied Communication Studies, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Martín-Moraleda, Ignacio J.; Department of Applied Communication Studies, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
2020-07-27 05:09:34
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url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3081
audiovisual technology; breaking news; communication; drone; emotional journalism; eye tracking; galvanic skin response; neuromarketing; unmanned aerial vehicles
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Emotional journalism is being driven by audiovisual technology such as drones, also known as unmanned aerial vehicles, which have demonstrated their usefulness in transforming objective news into news stories from a new visual perspective, facilitating access to dangerous or difficult places. They also allow for greater immersion by an audience that has become an active participant in the news, and they contribute to the storytelling of communication despite the risk to privacy and security that their misuse might entail. The aim of this research is to determine the differences in attention and intensity of the emotions experienced when viewing two pieces of audiovisual news: One was filmed with the technological support of a drone, and the other was produced in the conventional way. The techniques of eye tracking and galvanic skin response were used in 30 Spanish university students. The results suggest that attention was focused on the most spectacular visual elements, although the images filmed with a drone received a higher concentration of attention from the subjects, and this attention was spread throughout the entire image, which demonstrates that drones enhance the effectiveness of panoramic images with natural landscapes. The greatest emotion generated by viewing the images recorded with drones was statistically significant, but it was limited exclusively to these particular scenes, and not to the entire recording of the news.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/6818
2023-08-03T10:38:44Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6818
2023-08-03T10:38:44Z
Media and Communication
Vol 11, No 3 (2023): Social Media’s Role in Political and Societal Mobilization; 214-225
Stuck With the Algorithm: Algorithmic Consciousness and Repertoire in Fridays for Future’s Data Contention
Sorce, Giuliana; Institute of Media Studies, University of Tübingen, Germany
2023-08-03 10:14:07
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6818
algorithmic activism; data contention; environmental justice; Fridays for Future; social media mobilization; youth climate activism; virtual interviews
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By focusing on the transnational youth climate movement Fridays for Future, this article explores how activists understand algorithms and how they try to use them in their digital campaigns. A qualitative case study, this article provides insights from nine virtual in-depth semi-structured interviews with organizers in social media roles from Fridays for Future country collectives across the globe, giving youth activists the opportunity to tell stories about their understandings and experiences in working in datafied spaces. Four central themes emerge via a three-step qualitative data analysis: algorithmic consciousness (understanding, functions, issues, pitfalls, and misinterpretations), algorithm as stake (contentious importance, tactical politics), algorithm as repertoire (role in activism, algorithmic campaigning), and data contention (data analysis, digital contentious tactics, uncritical uses). The interviews show that activists are stuck with the algorithm in two ways: They have to engage with them but are often unsure how. In that sense, activists frame algorithms as a stakeholder in their campaign but are often unclear on how they work. While organizers recognize algorithmic dependency on campaign success, they lack specific mobilization strategies, which prevents them from leveraging algorithms as a contentious tactic. Data contention includes conducting analytics and tailoring strategies to platforms; yet, datafied spaces are used largely uncritically. This article prompts scholars to go beyond textual analyses of digital activism and conduct research that centers on the experiences and practices of activists in dealing with algorithms and data as structural conditions for digital activism.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/70
2023-12-27T09:05:12Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/70
2023-12-27T09:05:12Z
Media and Communication
Vol 1, No 1 (2013): Multidisciplinary Studies in Media and Communication; 2-14
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
2013-08-12 00:00:00
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/70
Facebook; mass media; media activism; platform analysis; social media; Twitter; viral
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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.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/4684
2022-03-22T09:37:41Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
ec_fundedresources
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/4684
2022-03-22T09:37:41Z
Media and Communication
Vol 10, No 1 (2022): New Narratives for New Consumers: Influencers and the Millennial and Centennial Generations; 136-145
Obesogenic Features of Food-Related Content Aimed at Children on YouTube
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/download/4684/30106
Tur-Viñes, Victoria; Department of Communication and Social Psychology, University of Alicante, Spain
Castelló‐Martínez, Araceli; Department of Communication and Social Psychology, University of Alicante, Spain
Barrilero-Carpio, Cecilia; Department of Communication and Social Psychology, University of Alicante, Spain
2022-02-24 10:20:49
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/4684
advertising; children; child YouTubers; food; obesogenic features; YouTube
Communication and Specific Audience research group, Communication and Pscychology Department, University of Alicante
en
Obesity, and particularly childhood obesity, is considered an epidemic by the WHO because of the health problems it causes and its impact on the lives and environment of those who suffer from it. In this article, the term “obesogenic features” refers to the set of supposedly aggravating risk factors that could intensify the proven effect on minors of exposure to food-related media content. The article explores the characteristics of food-related content in YouTube videos aimed at children, with the objective of identifying videos that pose a high risk due to the presence of obesogenic arguments, as well as videos with innovative media trends. It presents an exploratory study of 293 videos (22 hr 41 min) aimed at children and containing food and/or food brands, posted from May 2020 to April 2021 on 28 YouTube channels of food brands and child YouTubers with the largest numbers of subscribers. Child YouTubers often appear to explicitly promote calorie intake as a diet alternative and to disseminate content in which the presence of low-nutrition foods undermines childhood obesity prevention policies. The sensitivity of this target audience and the highly emotional nature of the formats in which messages with obesogenic features appear, such as “challenges,” point to an urgent need to adopt ethical standards and legal measures to regulate such content.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1562
2020-07-21T09:49:13Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1562
2020-07-21T09:49:13Z
Media and Communication
Vol 6, No 4 (2018): News and Participation through and beyond Proprietary Platforms in an Age of Social Media; 11-23
A Decade of Research on Social Media and Journalism: Assumptions, Blind Spots, and a Way Forward
Lewis, Seth C.; School of Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon, USA
Molyneux, Logan; Klein College of Media and Communication, Temple University, USA
2018-11-08 04:10:21
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1562
audience; journalism; news; research; social media
en
Amid a broader reckoning about the role of social media in public life, this article argues that the same scrutiny can be applied to the journalism studies field and its approaches to examining social media. A decade later, what hath such research wrought? In the broad study of news and its digital transformation, few topics have captivated researchers quite like social media, with hundreds of studies on everything from how journalists use Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat to how such platforms facilitate various forms of engagement between journalists and audiences. Now, some 10 years into journalism studies on social media, we need a more particular accounting of the assumptions, biases, and blind spots that have crept into this line of research. Our purpose is to provoke reflection and chart a path for future research by critiquing themes of what has come before. In particular, our goal is to untangle three faulty assumptions—often implicit but no less influential—that have been overlooked in the rapid take-up of social media as a key phenomenon for journalism studies: (1) that social media would be a net positive; (2) that social media reflects reality; and (3) that social media matters over and above other factors.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/6653
2023-06-26T15:45:25Z
mediaandcommunication:COM
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6653
2023-06-26T15:45:25Z
Media and Communication
Vol 11, No 1 (2023): Referendum Campaigns in the Digital Age; 81-85
Does Social Media Use Matter? A Case Study of the 2018 Irish Abortion Referendum
Reidy, Theresa; Department of Government and Politics, University College Cork, Ireland
Suiter, Jane; School of Communications, Dublin City University, Ireland
2023-01-31 11:27:03
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6653
abortion; campaign regulation; referendum; referendum campaign; social media
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The role of social media at electoral events is much speculated upon. Wide-ranging effects, and often critical evaluations, are attributed to commentary, discussions, and advertising on Facebook, Twitter, Telegram, and many other platforms. But the specific effects of these social media during campaigns, especially referendum campaigns, remain under-studied. This thematic issue is a very valuable contribution for precisely this reason. Using the 2018 abortion referendum in Ireland as an illustrative case, this commentary argues for greater research on social media at referendum campaigns, more critical evaluation of the claims and counterclaims about social media effects, often aired widely without substantive evidence, and, finally, for robust, coordinated cross-national regulation of all digital platforms in line with global democratic norms.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3806
2021-04-08T02:43:34Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3806
2021-04-08T02:43:34Z
Media and Communication
Vol 9, No 2 (2021): Critical Theory in a Digital Media Age: Ways Forward; 140-149
Disenchanting Trust: Instrumental Reason, Algorithmic Governance, and China’s Emerging Social Credit System
Zou, Sheng; International Institute, University of Michigan, USA
2021-04-06 04:02:32
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3806
algorithmic rationality; Frankfurt School; instrumental reason; Social Credit System; social governance; trust
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Digital technologies have provided governments across the world with new tools of political and social control. The development of algorithmic governance in China is particularly alarming, where plans have been released to develop a digital Social Credit System (SCS). Still in an exploratory stage, the SCS, as a collection of national and local pilots, is framed officially as an all-encompassing project aimed at building trust in society through the regulation of both economic and social behaviors. Grounded in the case of China’s SCS, this article interrogates the application of algorithmic rating to expanding areas of everyday life through the lens of the Frankfurt School’s critique of instrumental reason. It explores how the SCS reduces the moral and relational dimension of trust in social interactions, and how algorithmic technologies, thriving on a moral economy characterized by impersonality, impede the formation of trust and trustworthiness as moral virtues. The algorithmic rationality underlying the SCS undermines the ontology of relational trust, forecloses its transformative power, and disrupts social and civic interactions that are non-instrumental in nature. Re-reading and extending the Frankfurt School’s theorization on reason and the technological society, especially the works of Horkheimer, Marcuse, and Habermas, this article reflects on the limitations of algorithmic technologies in social governance. A Critical Theory perspective awakens us to the importance of human reflexivity on the use and circumscription of algorithmic rating systems.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/813
2020-07-21T09:48:23Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/813
2020-07-21T09:48:23Z
Media and Communication
Vol 5, No 1 (2017): Post-Snowden Internet Policy; 63-75
Corporate Privacy Policy Changes during PRISM and the Rise of Surveillance Capitalism
Kumar, Priya; College of Information Studies, University of Maryland, USA
2017-03-22 03:58:49
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url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/813
Internet companies; PRISM; privacy policies; surveillance capitalism; targeted advertising; transparent citizen
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Disclosure of the NSA’s PRISM program demonstrated that Internet companies have become prime targets of government surveillance. But what role do companies themselves play in putting users’ privacy at risk? By comparing the changes in the privacy policies of ten companies—the nine in PRISM plus Twitter—I seek to understand how users’ privacy shifted. Specifically, I study how company practices surrounding the life cycle of user information (e.g. collection, use, sharing, and retention) shifted between the times when companies joined PRISM and when PRISM news broke. A qualitative analysis of the changes in the privacy policies suggests that company disclosure of tracking for advertising purposes increased. I draw on business scholar Shoshana Zuboff’s conceptualization of “surveillance capitalism” and legal scholar Joel Reidenberg’s “transparent citizen” to explain the implications such changes hold for users’ privacy. These findings underscore why public debates about post-Snowden privacy rights cannot ignore the role that companies play in legitimizing surveillance activities under the auspices of creating market value.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1911
2019-08-09T03:47:25Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1911
2019-08-09T03:47:25Z
Media and Communication
Vol 7, No 3 (2019): Public Discussion in Russian Social Media; 167-178
Making Sense of Emotions and Affective Investments in War: RT and the Syrian Conflict on YouTube
Chatterje-Doody, Precious N.; School of Arts, Languages and Culture, University of Manchester, UK
Crilley, Rhys; Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The Open University, UK
2019-08-09 04:05:07
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1911
affective investments; conflict; emotion; international broadcaster; RT; Russia; social media; Syria; war; YouTube
Arts and Humanities Research Council
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Within the context of an ‘affective turn’ in media studies and the social sciences, this article explores the methodological challenges of researching emotions when studying online videos of conflict. Our study focuses on videos of the Syrian conflict shared on YouTube by the Russian state funded international broadcaster, RT. We propose that the concept of affective investment is a useful pivot between online videos of conflict and audience responses to them. Our study interrogates the role that affective investments play in 1) RT’s YouTube representations of the Syrian conflict, and 2) audience comments on these videos. We draw attention to the important intersections of RT’s representations of the conflict and audiences’ affective investments in those representations, and draw attention to the methodological issues raised. Our empirical focus is two critical junctures in the Syrian conflict: the commencement of Russia’s military intervention; and following the announcement of plans to withdraw Russian troops. We conclude by discussing the utility of affective investments in war when assessing online coverage of conflict, and suggesting avenues for further development.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/5747
2022-11-29T12:06:01Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5747
2022-11-29T12:06:01Z
Media and Communication
Vol 10, No 4 (2022): Online Communities and Populism; 202-212
Dropkick Murphys vs. Scott Walker: Unpacking Populist Ideological Discourse in Digital Space
Wilcox, Connor D.; College of Communication and Information, Kent State University, USA
2022-11-29 09:47:12
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5747
discourse; Dropkick Murphys; ideology; music; new media; populism; Scott Walker; Twitter
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On January 24, 2015, the folk punk band Dropkick Murphys penned a tweet to former Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker that read “please stop using our music in any way…We literally hate you!!!” Within hours, thousands of users interacted with the post and a contentious mediated discussion materialized. By exporting the full conversation using the program BrandWatch and applying Sonja Foss’s ideological criticism approach, I found several recurrent ideological constructions reappear throughout the data. Through comments considering the band’s political activism as alienating, re-envisioning punk rock as right-wing, and framing Dropkick Murphys as inherently un-American and undesirable through Twitter comments, Walker supporters rhetorically dismiss the band and their message. These constructions show how new media audiences discursively construct ideologies to delegitimize opposition along the lines of political affiliation and illustrate the communicative mechanism of populism on a micro-level.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/312
2020-07-21T09:47:59Z
mediaandcommunication:BREV
driver
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/312
2020-07-21T09:47:59Z
Media and Communication
Vol 4, No 2 (2016): The Impact of Media on Traditional Communities; 38-41
Cultural Resiliency and the Rise of Indigenous Media
Moscato, Derek; School of Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon, USA
2016-04-26 08:59:35
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/312
communication; indigenous; first nations; globalization; native American; new media
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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.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3421
2021-02-05T04:28:44Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3421
2021-02-05T04:28:44Z
Media and Communication
Vol 9, No 1 (2021): Dark Participation in Online Communication: The World of the Wicked Web; 158-170
Investigating Visual Content Shared over Twitter during the 2019 EU Parliamentary Election Campaign
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/download/3421/20529
Marchal, Nahema; Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK
Neudert, Lisa-Maria; Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK
Kollanyi, Bence; Doctoral School of Sociology, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary
Howard, Philip N.; Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK
2021-02-03 03:43:55
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3421
elections; European politics; populism; social media; visual communication
European Research Council; Civitates; We are grateful to Silvia Cavasola, Samuelle Chinellato, Didac Fabregas, Freja Hedman, Tomasz Hollanek, Jedrzej Niklas, Juan Lopez Martin, Karolina Partyga and Francesco Pierri for their research assistance
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Political communication increasingly takes on visual forms. Yet, despite their ubiquity in everyday communication and digital campaigning, the use of these visuals remains critically understudied. In this article, we investigate the formats and modes of visual content deployed by Twitter users over a two-week period leading up to the 2019 EU Parliamentary elections and across two publics: those discussing the election at large and those discussing the more contentious issue of EU membership. Conducting a multilingual, cross-comparative content and thematic analysis of a sample of 1,097 images, we find that: (1) Visuals originating from traditional political actors prevailed among both Twitter discourses; (2) users shared substantial amounts of anti-EU, populist and, to a lesser extent, extremist images, though this content remained largely disjointed from the mainstream public debate; and (3) political humor emerged as a vector for anti-establishment and Eurosceptic themes, especially in discussions critical of the European project. We discuss the implications of our findings for the study of visual political communication and social media manipulation.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/7647
2024-02-07T12:04:55Z
mediaandcommunication:EDI
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/7647
2024-02-07T12:04:55Z
Media and Communication
Vol 11, No 4 (2023): Digital Media and Younger Audiences: Communication Targeted at Children and Adolescents; 124-128
Digital Media and Younger Audiences
Kolotouchkina, Olga; Department of Applied Communication Sciences, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Rangel, Celia; Department of Applied Communication Sciences, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Gómez, Patricia Núñez; Department of Applied Communication Sciences, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
2023-11-16 09:47:13
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/7647
adolescents; children; digital literacy; digital media; digital vulnerabilities; influencers; online content; self-regulation; video-sharing platforms
en
The active digital engagement of children and teens from a very early age makes them the most prolific digital users and online content creators. Simultaneously, this high level of digital exposure enhances their vulnerability to online risks and the potential for them to encounter harmful online content. This dynamic has profound implications for all dimensions and stakeholders within the digital ecosystem. This thematic issue presents a comprehensive review of the significant advantages, critical risks, and challenges arising from the extensive online engagement of children and adolescents. This body of research provides valuable insights and identifies future research avenues related to emotional well-being, identity development, perceptions of social success and self-esteem, as well as examining the critical aspects concerning digital literacy and the regulatory frameworks governing digital content providers.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1899
2020-07-21T09:49:49Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1899
2020-07-21T09:49:49Z
Media and Communication
Vol 7, No 2 (2019): Critical Perspectives on Digital Literacies: Creating a Path Forward; 100-114
Digital Literacy Through Digital Citizenship: Online Civic Participation and Public Opinion Evaluation of Youth Minorities in Southeast Asia
Yue, Audrey; Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Nekmat, Elmie; Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Beta, Annisa R.; Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore, Singapore
2019-06-11 10:11:46
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1899
digital citizenship; digital literacy; Indonesia; online civic participation; Singapore; Southeast Asia
Centre for Multicultural Youth, Melbourne, Australia
en
The field of critical digital literacy studies has burgeoned in recent years as a result of the increased cultural consumption of digital media as well as the turn to the production of digital media forms. This article extends extant digital literacy studies by focusing on its subfield of digital citizenship. Proposing that digital citizenship is not another dimension or axis of citizenship, but a practice through which civic activities in the various dimensions of citizenship are conducted, this article critically considers how the concept of digital citizenship can furnish further insight into the quality of online civic participation that results in claims to and acts of citizenship. Through interdisciplinary scholarship, drawing from critical media and cultural theory, and media psychology, and deriving new empirical data from qualitative digital ethnography and quantitative focus group and survey studies, it presents original case studies with young people in Southeast Asia, including young Muslim women’s groups in Indonesia and youth public opinion on LGBTs in Singapore. It argues that Southeast Asian youth digital citizenship foregrounds civic participation as emergent acts that not only serve to make society a better place, but also enacts alternative publics that characterise new modes of civic-making in more conservative, collectivistic Southeast Asian societies.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/5300
2022-07-28T12:23:41Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5300
2022-07-28T12:23:41Z
Media and Communication
Vol 10, No 3 (2022): Journalism, Activism, and Social Media: Exploring the Shifts in Journalistic Roles, Performance, and Interconnectedness; 64-77
Neutral Observers or Advocates for Societal Transformation? Role Orientations of Constructive Journalists in Germany
Krüger, Uwe; Institute of Communication and Media Studies, Leipzig University, Germany
Beiler, Markus; Institute of Communication and Media Studies, Leipzig University, Germany
Gläßgen, Thilko; Institute of Communication and Media Studies, Leipzig University, Germany
Kees, Michael; Institute of Communication and Media Studies, Leipzig University, Germany
Küstermann, Maximilian; Institute of Communication and Media Studies, Leipzig University, Germany
2022-07-28 10:36:29
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5300
constructive journalism; Germany; professional role orientations; solutions journalism; value attitudes
en
Since the 2010s, a new type of journalism has emerged, especially in North America and Western Europe, called constructive journalism. Its basic idea is to complement classic problem-centered reporting by covering problem-solving approaches that could inspire the recipients. It has been harshly criticized, especially for its alleged proximity to advocacy or activism. To clarify the role orientations of the protagonists of this trend, a survey of all German journalists that call themselves constructive or solution-oriented was conducted (n = 79). The results show that constructive journalists are as diverse in age as the total of all journalists in Germany, but tend to be more women journalists, freelancers, formally higher educated, and politically leaning toward green and left-wing positions. Regarding role orientations, the field of constructive journalism not only represents a new facet of the entire journalistic field but also consists of several nuanced approaches itself: In factor analysis, we found eight role dimensions, of which the most important were the Social Integrator, the Transformation Agent, the Active Watchdog, the Emotional Storyteller, and the Innovation Reporter. In comparison to the average German journalist, the German constructive journalist shows stronger ambitions to control political and business elites, to motivate people to participate, and to contribute to social change. This can be explained as a countermovement not only to a possible negativity bias in the news but also to an increased attitude of detachment in German newsrooms.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1922
2020-07-21T09:49:53Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1922
2020-07-21T09:49:53Z
Media and Communication
Vol 7, No 2 (2019): Critical Perspectives on Digital Literacies: Creating a Path Forward; 148-159
Self-Efficacy in Multimodal Narrative Educational Activities: Explorative Study in a Multicultural and Multilingual Italian Primary School
Banzato, Monica; Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Coin, Francesca; Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
2019-06-11 10:11:47
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1922
international migrant students; multicultural; multilingualism; multiliteracies; multimodality; narrative skills; primary school; self-efficacy
en
The international migration changed the situation in the Italian school system: it is asked to update educational practices with new pedagogical models of narration and expression (multiliteracies and multimodality) and to promote digital skills from childhood. Self-efficacy, more than the actual performance, influences the will to try again and not give up. Few studies are available on how narrative self-efficacy affects expressive development, especially in school contexts characterized by multilingualism and multiculturalism. This exploratory survey aims to investigate the narrative self-efficacy of eighteen 8-year-old children attending primary school, with a significant presence of international migrant children (two out of three). For three months, these students were involved in multimodal narrative learning activities through gestural/mime languages (theatre), visual languages (drawings), verbal languages (oral and written) and digital languages (digital video narration). The research questions were: (1) Does the multimodal workshop influence the self-efficacy beliefs of the narrative skills perceived by Italian students (L1) and international migrant students (L2)? (2) Does the most influence come from the mime/gestural, the digital video or the entire multimodal narrative activities? (3) In which aspects of the narrative is the self-efficacy most influenced by the multimodal workshop for L1 and L2 groups?
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/7053
2023-12-07T10:55:26Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/7053
2023-12-07T10:55:26Z
Media and Communication
Vol 11, No 4 (2023): Trust, Social Cohesion, and Information Quality in Digital Journalism; 297-307
Trust and Distrust in Public Service Media: A Case Study From the Czech Republic
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/download/7053/48108
Urbániková, Marína; Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Smejkal, Klára; Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
2023-12-07 10:11:34
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/7053
Czech radio; Czech television; distrust; media quality; public service media; skepticism; trust
This work was supported by the Czech Science Agency, Grant No. GA22-30563S.
en
Although public service media is a trusted island in the media landscape of many countries, trust in public service media is not absolute and universal. This study adopts a qualitative approach to explore what trust and distrust entail for the public, a perspective rarely applied in trust research. Also, it explores the extent to which the sources of trust and distrust are the same and whether the concepts of trust and distrust are identical (only inverse), or linked but separate. It focuses on the Czech Republic, where the level of trust in the news is among the lowest in the world, yet public service media is the most trusted news source (Newman et al., 2022). Based on four focus group discussions with the general public (N = 24), this study analyzes the reasons for the audience’s trust and distrust in Czech public service media. There are three main categories: trust in the message (i.e., people trust public service media if, in their view, it provides objective, truthful, reliable, relevant, and fast information without sensationalism and anti-system views); trust in the source (i.e., people trust public service media if they perceive the public service media journalists as professional); and trust in the public service media organizations (i.e., people trust public service media if they perceive the regulatory framework as effective in ensuring independence from politics and oversight boards as a guarantee for quality). As the reasons leading to trust were not identical (only inverse) to the reasons leading to distrust, our findings suggest that trust and distrust in public service media are not two sides of the same coin.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/266
2020-07-21T09:47:44Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/266
2020-07-21T09:47:44Z
Media and Communication
Vol 3, No 2 (2015): Surveillance: Critical Analysis and Current Challenges (Part I); 88-97
Literacies for Surveillance: Social Network Sites and Background Investigations
Jackson Young, Sarah; Department of English, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA
2015-09-30 12:18:27
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/266
background investigations; data double; literacies; sorting; surveillance
en
In September 2013, civilian contractor Aaron Alexis entered the Washington Navy Yard and murdered twelve people before being fatally shot by police. This incident, together with an incident three months earlier involving Edward Snowden, caused the U.S. government to critically examine their background investigation (BI) process; because both Snowden and Alexis had supposedly slipped through the cracks of their investigations, there must be some flaw in the BI procedure. The U.S. Committee on Oversight and Reform concluded that rules forbidding “background checkers from looking at the Internet or social media when performing checks” was one of the main factors contributing to defective BIs (Report, 2014). Since the report’s release, the Director of National Intelligence has been debating and trialing whether information from the Internet should be used to form a data double for BIs (Kopp, 2014; Rockwell, 2014). Using this conversation as a discussion catalyst, I argue that due to the nature of the data double, if the United States were to adopt the use of social networking sites (SNSs) for security clearance purposes, neglecting to take into account basic principles of SNSs into the process of BIs may lead to misinformation and unfavorable adjudication. Ultimately, being literate about the social practices involved in SNSs and surveillance would benefit not only investigators, but anyone, including academics, looking at individuals in online spaces.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3149
2020-10-08T04:16:07Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3149
2020-10-08T04:16:07Z
Media and Communication
Vol 8, No 4 (2020): The Ongoing Transformation of the Digital Public Sphere; 63-72
Measuring Online Political Dialogue: Does Polarization Trigger More Deliberation?
Serrano-Contreras, Ignacio-Jesús; Department of Political Science, University of Granada, Spain
García-Marín, Javier; Department of Political Science, University of Granada, Spain
Luengo, Óscar G.; Department of Political Science, University of Granada, Spain
2020-10-08 03:30:36
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3149
algorithms; polarization; public sphere; social media; text mining; YouTube
en
In recent years, we have witnessed an increasing consolidation of different realms where citizens can deliberate and discuss a variety of topics of general interest, including politics. The comments on news posts in online media are a good example. The first theoretical contributions called attention to the potential of those spaces to build a healthy (civic and participatory) public sphere, going much deeper in the process of political dialogue and deliberation (Fung, Gilman, & Shkabatur, 2013; Lilleker & Jackson, 2008; O’Reilly, 2005; Stromer-Galley & Wichowski, 2011). Polarization has been configured as a constant feature of the quality of the mentioned dialogues, particularly in Mediterranean countries (polarized pluralists’ cases). One of the research challenges at the moment has to do with the scrutiny of polarization within the political deliberation provoked by news stories. The goal of this article is the analysis of political dialogue from the perspective of the polarization in the increasingly popular network YouTube, which is presenting very particular characteristics. Using a sample of almost 400,000 posted comments about diverse topics (climate change, the Catalonian crisis, and Political parties’ electoral ads) we propose an automated method in order to measure polarization. Our hypothesis is that the number of comments (quantitative variable) is positively related to their polarization (qualitative variable). We will also include in the examination information about the ideological editorial line of newspapers, the type of topic under discussion, the amount of traceable dialogue, etc. We propose an index to (1) measure the polarization of each comment and use it to show how this value has behaved over time; and (2) verify the hypothesis using the average polarization of comments for each video.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1489
2020-07-21T09:49:30Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1489
2020-07-21T09:49:30Z
Media and Communication
Vol 7, No 1 (2019): Communicating on/with Minorities; 32-42
Risk and Culture of Health Portrayal in a U.S. Cross-Cultural TV Adaptation, a Pilot Study
Perez Ryan, Darien; Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Jamieson, Patrick E.; Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania, USA
2019-02-05 04:36:10
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1489
adolescent; content analysis; health; Hispanic; media; risk; telenovela; television
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Annenberg Public Policy Center
en
Because media portrayal can influence adolescents’ health, we assessed the health-related content of a popular telenovela—a Spanish-language TV soap opera genre—and its widely watched English adaptation. To test our “culture of corruption” hypothesis, which predicts that the English-language adaptation of telenovelas will “Americanize” their content by increasing risky and reducing healthy portrayal on screen, we coded the depictions of five risk variables and five culture of health ones in ten episodes each of “Juana la Virgen” (2002) and its popular English-language counterpart, “Jane the Virgin” (2014). A significant increase was found between the Spanish and English-language shows in the risk category of sexual content and a marginally significant increase was found in violence. “Jane” also had larger numbers of characters modeling alcohol consumption, sex, or violence. Across culture of health variables, “Juana” and “Jane” did not exhibit significant differences in the amounts of education-related content, social cohesion, and exercise at the episode level. However, “Jane” had significantly more unhealthy food content (specifically, fats, oils, and sweets and takeout food) and more pro-health messaging than did “Juana.” “Jane” also had a larger amount of modeled food/beverage consumption. While “Juana” modeled several instances of characters involved in exercise, “Jane” had no exercise content across the sample. Overall, “Jane” portrayed more problematic health content than “Juana.” The increase in worrisome content in “Jane” may adversely affect the health of adolescent Hispanics, who make up a large part of the show’s audience.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/5616
2022-05-03T16:15:46Z
mediaandcommunication:EDI
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5616
2022-05-03T16:15:46Z
Media and Communication
Vol 10, No 2 (2022): Networks and Organizing Processes in Online Social Media; 1-4
Editorial: Networks and Organizing Processes in Online Social Media
Lee, Seungyoon; Brian Lamb School of Communication, Purdue University, USA
2022-04-29 10:00:44
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5616
emergent organizing; networks; organizational communication; online communities; social media; social network analysis
Online social media present unprecedented opportunities and challenges for a range of organizing processes such as information sharing, knowledge creation, collective action, and post-disaster resource mobilization. Concepts and tools of network research can help highlight key aspects of online interaction. This editorial introduction frames the thematic issue along three themes of networked processes: identity and identification; interaction patterns in online communities; and challenges and cautionary notes concerning social media organizing. A diverse range of country contexts, as well as theoretical and methodological approaches illustrated in this issue, represent the multifaceted research that scholars can undertake to understand networked organizing on social media.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3022
2020-07-10T04:18:07Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3022
2020-07-10T04:18:07Z
Media and Communication
Vol 8, No 3 (2020): Algorithms and Journalism: Exploring (Re)Configurations; 39-49
Automated Journalism as a Source of and a Diagnostic Device for Bias in Reporting
Leppänen, Leo; Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland
Tuulonen, Hanna; Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki, Finland
Sirén-Heikel, Stefanie; Media and Communication Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland
2020-07-10 04:46:07
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3022
algorithmic journalism; automated journalism; bias; diagnosis; journalism; news automation
The European Union; The Media Industry Research Foundation of Finland; University of Helsinki
en
In this article we consider automated journalism from the perspective of bias in news text. We describe how systems for automated journalism could be biased in terms of both the information content and the lexical choices in the text, and what mechanisms allow human biases to affect automated journalism even if the data the system operates on is considered neutral. Hence, we sketch out three distinct scenarios differentiated by the technical transparency of the systems and the level of cooperation of the system operator, affecting the choice of methods for investigating bias. We identify methods for diagnostics in each of the scenarios and note that one of the scenarios is largely identical to investigating bias in non-automatically produced texts. As a solution to this last scenario, we suggest the construction of a simple news generation system, which could enable a type of analysis-by-proxy. Instead of analyzing the system, to which the access is limited, one would generate an approximation of the system which can be accessed and analyzed freely. If successful, this method could also be applied to analysis of human-written texts. This would make automated journalism not only a target of bias diagnostics, but also a diagnostic device for identifying bias in human-written news.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/6510
2023-06-28T08:01:09Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6510
2023-06-28T08:01:09Z
Media and Communication
Vol 11, No 2 (2023): A Datafied Society: Data Power, Infrastructures, and Regulations; 344-354
“I Think Quality is More Important Than a Lot of Data” in Cities Datafication
Okafor, Carl Chineme; Department of Media and Social Sciences, University of Stavanger, Norway
2023-06-28 08:11:19
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6510
data quality; data value; data volumes; smart city datafication; Stavanger Smart City
en
This article studies how the decision to connect data volumes to value is made by technologists and governance people in smart cities’ datafication process. Its entry point is that datafication promises to use data to make cities liveable domains. Cities on the back of this promise presuppose that more data produce value and therefore fixate on exhaustive datafication. But datafication does not appear self-evident, and knowledge of how technologists and governance people connect data volumes to data value is quite unclear in media and communication literature. Using evidence from interviews (n = 6), datafication policy documents (n = 4), and a diverse dataset of city activities (n = 299) in the open data portal of a situated datafication site, the Stavanger Smart City, Norway, and with the theoretical support of critical data studies, this article responds to the question: How does data volume connect to data value in smart cities datafication? Its findings put data quality as the intermediary that makes this connection.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/4428
2022-01-25T11:05:44Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/4428
2022-01-25T11:05:44Z
Media and Communication
Vol 10, No 1 (2022): New Forms of Media Work and Its Organizational and Institutional Conditions; 16-26
Negotiating Journalistic Professional Ethos in Nordic Business Journalism
Suhonen, Johanna; Media and Communication Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland
2022-01-20 10:20:39
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/4428
business journalism; editor; ethos; financial journalism; managerialism; newsroom management; professionalism
en
News work conducted more like business creates clashes between the journalistic and managerial professional ethos of editors. While journalists’ professional ethos includes values of self-regulation, autonomy, and public service, managerialism promotes business ideals, measurable outcomes, and organizational efficiency—values that business journalism is claimed to support. This article aims to show how editors negotiate their work-related ethos at the junction of two professional discourses. The article is based on 20 semi-structured interviews of editors in four Nordic business newsrooms. The results reveal a new hybrid professional ethos that combines managerial practices with journalistic ideals. Furthermore, editors in business journalism tend to absorb managerial tendencies more easily due to close connection to financial and commercial communities. Strong journalistic principles prevail, but managerial ideals are considered a notable part of the new editorial work ethos.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1502
2020-07-21T09:49:05Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1502
2020-07-21T09:49:05Z
Media and Communication
Vol 6, No 3 (2018): The Turn to Affect and Emotion in Media Studies; 30-39
Negotiating Belonging as Cultural Proximity in the Process of Adapting Global Reality TV Formats
Suna, Laura; Institute for Media and Communication Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
2018-09-11 07:20:03
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1502
belonging; cultural proximity; emotion repertoires; emotions; feeling rules; format adaptation; reality TV
German Research Foundation
en
This article focuses on aspects of belonging the producers of reality TV programmes address in the staging of emotions. Based on interview statements by 12 experts from the field of national and international reality TV format production, we argue as follows: on the one hand, producers in reality TV shows address belonging as a perceived cultural proximity to trans-local meta-narratives of a longing for change, romantic love, competition and victory. The producers associate these trans-local meta-narratives with allegedly universal emotions. On the other hand, the producers address belonging as a perceived cultural proximity to local cultural discourses on beauty ideals and combine these with a specific local cultural performance of emotions. The results show that an emotional repertoire is developed and negotiated in the adaptation process of trans-local formats. It refers to universalistic understanding of emotional display and negotiates specific “feeling rules” accordingly.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/6098
2023-06-26T15:48:50Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6098
2023-06-26T15:48:50Z
Media and Communication
Vol 11, No 1 (2023): Science Communication in the Digital Age: New Actors, Environments, and Practices; 361-373
How Politicians’ Attacks on Science Communication Influence Public Perceptions of Journalists and Scientists
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/download/6098/42483
Egelhofer, Jana Laura; Department of Media and Communication, LMU Munich, Germany
2023-03-27 11:50:02
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6098
anti-elitist attitudes; disinformation accusations; incivility; media trust; political attacks; populist communication; science communication; science trust
University of Vienna
en
In today’s “post-truth” world, concerns over political attacks on the legitimacy of expert knowledge and scientific facts are growing. Especially populist politicians frequently use their social media platforms to target science and journalism, arguing these are part of an “evil elite,” deliberately misleading the public by spreading disinformation. While this type of discourse is highly concerning, thus far, we lack empirical evidence on how these accusations affect the public perceptions of scientists and journalists. To fill this gap, this study tests how politicians’ attacks affect citizens’ trust in journalists and scientists and the information provided by them. Furthermore, it investigates whether this discourse renders hostility towards journalists and scientists acceptable and whether there are effects on the image of politicians using such anti-science rhetoric. Findings suggest that the effects of politicians’ attacks on citizens’ perceptions of scientists and journalists are limited. Only individuals with strong anti-elitist attitudes are susceptible to disinformation accusations and indicate less belief in discredited scientific information. Interestingly, these individuals also perceive politicians using such attacks as more trustworthy and authentic.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3352
2020-09-25T04:08:01Z
mediaandcommunication:EDI
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3352
2020-09-25T04:08:01Z
Media and Communication
Vol 8, No 2 (2020): Health and Science Controversies in the Digital World: News, Mis/Disinformation and Public Engagement; 323-328
Digital Mis/Disinformation and Public Engagement with Health and Science Controversies: Fresh Perspectives from Covid-19
Nguyen, An; Department of Communication and Journalism, Bournemouth University, UK
Catalan-Matamoros, Daniel; Department of Communication Studies, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
2020-06-25 08:29:38
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3352
anti-5G; anti-vaccination; Covid-19; conspiracy theories; disinformation; healh controversies; infodemic; misinformation; science controversies
Digital media, while opening a vast array of avenues for lay people to effectively engage with news, information and debates about important science and health issues, have become a fertile land for various stakeholders to spread misinformation and disinformation, stimulate uncivil discussions and engender ill-informed, dangerous public decisions. Recent developments of the Covid-19 infodemic might just be the tipping point of a process that has been long simmering in controversial areas of health and science (e.g., climate-change denial, anti-vaccination, anti-5G, Flat Earth doctrines). We bring together a wide range of fresh data and perspectives from four continents to help media scholars, journalists, science communicators, scientists, health professionals and policy-makers to better undersand these developments and what can be done to mitigate their impacts on public engagement with health and science controversies.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1041
2020-07-21T09:48:42Z
mediaandcommunication:BREV
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1041
2020-07-21T09:48:42Z
Media and Communication
Vol 5, No 4 (2017): Visual Communication in the Age of Social Media: Conceptual, Theoretical and Methodological Challenges; 75-78
The Semiotics of Emoji: The Rise of Visual Language in the Age of the Internet
Kerslake, Laura; Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Wegerif, Rupert; Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
2017-12-21 03:56:09
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1041
emoji; visual communication; semiotics; visual languages
en
This paper reviews Marcel Danesi’s new book on the use of emoji in particular, and the use of visual language more generally. Danesi offers a number of interesting examples of emoji use, pointing out that their use has risen considerably in a number of contexts. He goes on to question how far emoji use can be extended by examining the structure of the emoji ‘language’. Overall this is an accessible book that presents a number of examples of visual languages and comments on the possibilities and challenges for visual language use against a backdrop of technological change.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/4177
2021-10-25T09:38:15Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/4177
2021-10-25T09:38:15Z
Media and Communication
Vol 9, No 4 (2021): Media Control Revisited: Challenges, Bottom-Up Resistance and Agency in the Digital Age; 16-26
From “Troll Factories” to “Littering the Information Space”: Control Strategies Over the Russian Internet
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/download/4177/26576
Kiriya, Ilya; School of Media, HSE University, Russia
2021-10-21 10:19:58
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/4177
alternative media; ideological control; digital self-expression; power; RuNet; Russian media; social media
Basic Research Program at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE University).
en
This article explores aspects, transformations, and dynamics of the ideological control of the internet in Russia. It analyses the strategies of actors across the Russian online space which contribute to this state-driven ideological control. The tightening of legislative regulation over the last 10 years to control social media and digital self-expression in Russia is relatively well studied. However, there is a lack of research on how the control of the internet works at a structural level. Namely, how it isolates “echo chambers” of oppositional discourses while also creating a massive flood of pro-state information and opinions. This article argues that the strategy of the Russian state to control the internet over the last 10 years has changed considerably. From creating troll factories and bots to distort communication in social media, the state is progressively moving towards a strategy of creating a huge state-oriented information flood to “litter” online space. Such a strategy relies on the generation of news resources which attract large volumes of traffic, which leads to such “trash information” dominating the internet.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/2541
2023-01-31T18:46:55Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/2541
2023-01-31T18:46:55Z
Media and Communication
Vol 8, No 1 (2020): Rethinking Safety of Journalists; 47-56
Female Journalists’ Experience of Online Harassment: A Case Study of Nepal
Koirala, Samiksha; Department of Media and Communication Studies, Nepal Open University, Nepal
2020-02-25 03:41:57
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/2541
female journalists; gender; harassment; journalism; Nepal; online harassment; online participation
en
This study examines the experiences of female journalists in Nepal in the context of rapidly growing expansion of broadband Internet. By examining the findings of the qualitative in-depth interview of 48 female journalists, it argues that online platforms are threatening press freedom in Nepal, mainly by silencing female journalists. The study also indicates that the problem is particularly severe in such a patriarchal society as a significant number of incidents of abuse go unreported, largely due to a culture of shame as well as ineffective legislation. Over the course of this article, I have attempted to show how social issues raised by second-wave feminism and online feminism are similar. The findings show that some of the female journalists experiencing harassment tolerate it by being ‘strong like a man,’ while many of them avoid social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook to keep free of such abuse. The study also suggests that individual efforts to tackle the vicious issue of misogyny might not be enough and collective effort from legislation, media organisations, and feminists is required to address the issue.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/390
2020-07-21T09:47:54Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/390
2020-07-21T09:47:54Z
Media and Communication
Vol 4, No 1 (2016): Peacebuilding in the Age of New Media; 27-38
Fields and Facebook: Ta’ayush’s Grassroots Activism and Archiving the Peace that Will Have Come in Israel/Palestine
Simons, Jon; Media School, Indiana University, USA
2016-02-18 10:09:54
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/390
archive; Israel; media activism; new media; Palestine; peace activism; social media; Ta’ayush; Umm el-Arayes; Walter Benjamin
Lady Davis Trust; Jewish Studies Program, Indiana University; Indiana University, Bloomington.
en
Israeli peace activism has increasingly taken place on new media, as in the case of the grassroots anti-Occupation group, Ta’ayush. What is the significance of Ta’ayush’s work on the ground and online for peace? This article considers the former in the light of social movement scholarship on peacebuilding, and the latter in light of new media scholarship on social movements. Each of those approaches suggest that Ta’ayush has very limited success in achieving its strategic goals or generating outrage about the Occupation in the virtual/public sphere. Yet, Ta’ayush’s apparent “failure” according to standard criteria of success misses the significance of Ta’ayush’s work. Its combination of grassroots activism and online documentation of its work in confronting the Occupation in partnership with Palestinians has assembled an impressive archive. Through the lens of Walter Benjamin’s philosophy of history, Ta’ayush can be seen to enact a “future perfect” peace that will have come.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3193
2021-01-08T05:55:12Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3193
2021-01-08T05:55:12Z
Media and Communication
Vol 9, No 1 (2021): Games and Communication—Quo Vadis?; 62-72
Crooked Views and Relaxed Rules: How Teenage Boys Experience Parents’ Handling of Digital Gaming
Meriläinen, Mikko; Game Research Lab, Tampere University, Finland
2021-01-06 03:50:49
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3193
digital gaming; gaming literacy; media education; parental mediation; parenting
Professor Markku Hannula, University of Helsinki; Associate Professor Petri Lankoski, Södertörn University; University of Helsinki; Strategic Research Council
en
Digital gaming is a major part of the current media landscape. Parents employ a variety of practices, such as limiting gaming time and discussing games, when addressing their childrens’ gaming. Yet, there is still a notable gaming-related generational gap between adolescents and their parents. In this qualitative study, gaming-related parenting practices and parents’ and teenagers’ views are examined through a thematic analysis of reports from Finnish, 16–19-year-old, active game players. The results suggest a core tension between elements of protection and understanding. Perceived parental attitudes towards gaming ranged from excessively negative to indifferent to very positive. These attitudes were not static, but instead changed according to life situations and parents’ familiarity with gaming. Young game players’ perceptions and views were also not uniform. Respondents indicated the need for both parental understanding of games and gaming, and parents’ responsibilities in limiting gaming, particularly in the case of younger children. Implications for parenting and future research are discussed.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/7526
2024-02-07T12:17:54Z
mediaandcommunication:EDI
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/7526
2024-02-07T12:17:54Z
Media and Communication
Vol 11, No 4 (2023): Mediatized Discourses on European Integration: Information, Disinformation, and Polarization; 1-4
Charting the Impacts of Media Discourses on the European Integration Project
Pérez-Escoda, Ana; Department of Communication, Antonio de Nebrija University, Spain
Lokot, Tetyana; School of Communications, Dublin City University, Ireland
2023-10-19 11:19:15
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/7526
digital literacy; disinformation; Europeanization; European Union; Euroscepticism; media discourses; polarization; social networks
European Union Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme. Grant Agreement no 101004534
en
The over-exposure to information facilitated by the hybrid media system and social networks is a key factor contributing to the increasing polarization of public opinion on major political issues. The European integration project is one of the major political processes affected by information manipulation and disinformation. In this regard, social networks have become powerful tools for nurturing news siloes or “echo chambers,” influencing people’s perceptions of important political issues in a manner that could have a destabilizing effect on democratic processes and institutions. In this context, the role of media discourses and their circulation among networked publics has become particularly relevant, leading audiences to adopt different views supporting or rejecting the European project. This thematic issue features a range of articles considering how the Europeanization process is impacted by discourses circulating in the hybrid media system or threatened by the destructive dynamics of disinformation and polarization.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/2209
2020-07-21T09:49:48Z
mediaandcommunication:EDI
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/2209
2020-07-21T09:49:48Z
Media and Communication
Vol 7, No 2 (2019): Critical Perspectives on Digital Literacies: Creating a Path Forward; 1-3
Critical Perspectives on Digital Literacies: Creating a Path Forward
Spires, Hiller A.; Department of Teacher Education and Learning Sciences, North Carolina State University, USA
2019-06-11 10:11:44
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/2209
critical perspectives; digital literacies; digital media; socio-cultural theory
en
This thematic issue of Media and Communication features a range of critical perspectives on digital literacies with the aim of shedding light on a path forward with respect to theory, research and practice. The issue hosts fourteen articles divided into four themes that address digital literacies in varying ways. The four themes are (a) defining digital literacies, (b) socio-cultural theories of digital literacies, (c) digital literacies in practice, and (d) digital skills and efficacy. The articles make a strong case for the continued exploration of the significance and (re)definition of digital literacies within our global communicative landscape. The authors have inspired new dialogue, research directions, innovative practices, and policy on digital literacies. As digital technologies continue to evolve so too will intellectual frameworks—generating nuance and scope for and by researchers as well as practitioners.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/5169
2022-07-28T12:00:49Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5169
2022-07-28T12:00:49Z
Media and Communication
Vol 10, No 2 (2022): Media and Migration in the Covid-19 Pandemic: Discourses, Policies, and Practices in Times of Crisis; 276-286
Urban Refugees’ Digital Experiences and Social Connections During Covid-19 Response in Kampala, Uganda
Sseviiri, Hakimu; Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Climatic Sciences, Makerere University, Uganda / United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Uganda / Urban Action Lab, Makerere University, Uganda / Glocal Progressive Goals, Uganda
Alencar, Amanda; Department of Media and Communication, Erasmus University, The Netherlands
Kisira, Yeeko; Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Climatic Sciences, Makerere University, Uganda / Glocal Progressive Goals, Uganda / Department of Geography, Ndejje University, Uganda
2022-06-30 09:54:43
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5169
Covid-19; digital technologies; social connections; social networks; Uganda; urban refugees
en
The Covid-19 crisis and its aftermath challenged economies and societal sectors globally. Refugees in developing countries are particularly vulnerable to the socio-economic impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. In Uganda, refugees significantly compose the marginalized urban population, dependent largely on the informal sector, and are severely affected by the crisis amidst limited social protection interventions. This article draws on key informant interviews with refugees and refugee-led organizations to examine the diverse ways through which social capital within refugees and host communities in Kampala enabled and shaped digitally mediated responses to sustain livelihoods, social wellbeing, and access to information and economic resources in the wake of the pandemic. The findings indicate that digitally enabled and mediated social networks and/or connections through bonds, bridges, and links are crucial in supporting refugees to cope with crisis effects. Networks of friends, families, and institutions are sustained by digital spaces that support the everyday lives of urban refugees through communication, social protection, livelihood continuity and recovery, and service improvisation during and after the crisis. The fragmented digital infrastructure, digital divide, limited government support, language barrier, and circulation of fake news challenged the utility of digital social networks in mobilizing support for refugees during the crisis. Digital technologies offer opportunities to strengthen social support and potentially mobilize refugee livelihoods in cities with fluid programs for displaced communities. The best practices around sustained multi-platform communications, technological innovations, data collection, and robust community engagement should be leveraged to garner the opportunities offered by technologies towards stimulating inclusive crisis responses.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3058
2020-08-24T03:41:16Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3058
2020-08-24T03:41:16Z
Media and Communication
Vol 8, No 3 (2020): Media Performance in Times of Media Change; 281-292
Democratic Theory and the Potential of Value Frames in Assessing Media Performance
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/download/3058/18924
Weiß, Ralph; Institute of Social Sciences, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
Kösters, Raphael; Institute of Social Sciences, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
Mahrt, Merja; Institute of Social Sciences, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
2020-08-24 03:22:59
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3058
cleavages; citizenship; democracy; diversity; framing; media performance; news standards; plurality; political values
German Research Foundation (DFG); Austrian Science Fund (FWF); Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
en
Media users need information and knowledge to act as free citizens. From this basic democratic assumption, news standards for media performance can be derived. Porto’s (2007) model of the ‘interpreting citizen’ assigns a central role to the diversity of interpretive frames. These frames enable citizens to make judgments about societal issues and related political positions. However, a theoretical foundation for classifying these frames in terms of their content is missing. We propose to derive such a basis from democratic theories of citizenship, which assume that values define a citizen’s position vis-à-vis the political sphere. Building on the cleavage approach from political science, we characterize which values organize political debates. The results of a large-scale content analysis of German news media demonstrate which empirical insights into media performance can be gained with a theoretically derived classification of value frames (most notably, measuring the substantive content of plurality). Based on this, we discuss additional avenues for future research.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/7002
2023-12-07T10:47:09Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/7002
2023-12-07T10:47:09Z
Media and Communication
Vol 11, No 4 (2023): Trust, Social Cohesion, and Information Quality in Digital Journalism; 264-273
News Representation and Sense of Belonging Among Multicultural Audiences
Park, Sora; News & Media Research Centre, University of Canberra, Australia
Lee, Jee Young; News & Media Research Centre, University of Canberra, Australia
McGuinness, Kieran; News & Media Research Centre, University of Canberra, Australia
Griffiths, Rebecca; Special Broadcasting Service, Australia
Nguyen, Thu; Special Broadcasting Service, Australia
2023-12-07 10:11:33
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/7002
Australia; migrants; multicultural communities; news representation; news trust; sense of belonging
SBS
en
This study seeks to understand the role of representation in news media, trust in news, and participation in multicultural audiences’ sense of belonging to society. A multimodal survey combining online, CATI, and CAPI methods was conducted in Australia at the end of 2021 and early 2022 (N = 1,084). The top five non-English language communities in Australia (Arabic, Cantonese, Italian, Mandarin, and Vietnamese) were included in the survey, of which n = 851 were born overseas. The findings reveal a significant link between the perception of sufficient representation in Australian news media, trust in news, confidence to participate in society, and sense of belonging. When multicultural audiences see themselves fairly and adequately represented in the news, they are more likely to trust the news and participate in the community by discussing the news and current affairs. This, in turn, leads to a stronger sense of belonging to society. We also found confidence in English and time spent in Australia were important factors contributing to perceptions of representation. While the length of stay has a positive impact on the perception of representation among those with high confidence in English, this perception is significantly lower among those who have lower confidence. This result confirms the significant role language proficiency plays in migrants’ experiences in the host country.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/248
2023-12-27T09:04:37Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/248
2023-12-27T09:04:37Z
Media and Communication
Vol 3, No 1 (2015): Multidisciplinary Studies in Media and Communication; 34-43
Encoding Systems and Evolved Message Processing: Pictures Enable Action, Words Enable Thinking
Lang, Annie; Department of Telecommunications, Indiana University, USA
Bailey, Rachel L.; School of Communication, Washington State University, USA
Connolly, Sean Ryan; Department of Telecommunications, Indiana University, USA
2015-09-28 12:43:04
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/248
embodied; embedded; dynamic systems; message processing; pictures; words
en
This paper, based on theories of ecological perception, embodied motivated cognition, and evolutionary psychology, proposes that pictures elicit evolved biologically imperative responses more quickly and thoroughly than do words. These biologically imperative responses are directly responsible for evolved automatic reactions away from biological threats (e.g. escaping predators, avoiding disease and noxious stimuli) and towards opportunities (e.g. consuming food, approaching mates, finding shelter) in the environment. When elicited, these responses take time to occur and may delay or interfere with other types of behavior. Thus, when environmental information is presented in pictures (which should elicit larger biological responses than words) biological responses should interfere more with higher order tasks like information processing and cognitive decision-making. To test this proposition we designed an experiment in which participants performed speeded categorizations of 60 pairs of matched pleasant and unpleasant environmental opportunities and threats. They categorized the items based on their form (is this a word or a picture?) or based on how the picture made them feel (is this pleasant or unpleasant to you?). If pictures do elicit greater biologically imperative responses than their word counterparts, participants should be able to make form decisions faster than feeling decisions, especially when presented with words rather than pictures and especially when the words and pictures have less biological relevance. This main proposition was supported. Implications for this proposition in terms of communication theory are discussed.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3142
2020-08-24T03:41:16Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3142
2020-08-24T03:41:16Z
Media and Communication
Vol 8, No 3 (2020): Media Performance in Times of Media Change; 335-347
Perceptions of Media Performance: Expectation-Evaluation Discrepancies and Their Relationship with Media-related and Populist Attitudes
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/download/3142/20506
Fawzi, Nayla; Department of Communication and Media, LMU Munich, Germany
Mothes, Cornelia; Media Management Department, Macromedia University of Applied Sciences, Germany
2020-08-24 03:23:00
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3142
journalistic quality; media performance; media trust; populist attitudes; quality evaluations; quality expectations
en
Public criticism of professional media is omnipresent in many democratic societies. This debate has often been examined concerning what the audience demands from the media (expectations) or how they evaluate media performance (evaluations). Based on a representative, quota-based online survey of the German population in 2019, this study examines citizens’ expectations, evaluations, and the discrepancies between both, as well as their relationship with media trust, socio-political predispositions—particularly populist attitudes—and individual media use in high-choice media environments. Results show that citizens have high expectations of the media which they mainly do not see fulfilled and that expectation-evaluation discrepancies are related to lower media trust in the case of particularly important and/or most noticeably underperformed media functions. Both expectations and evaluations were associated with populist attitudes, but only in the case of anti-elite attitudes in such a way that increased expectations collide with negative media evaluations. For anti-outgroup attitudes, instead, the analyses show a generally negative assessment of journalistic media, both in terms of expectations and evaluations. Media use does only play a minor role.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1679
2020-07-21T09:49:22Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1679
2020-07-21T09:49:22Z
Media and Communication
Vol 6, No 4 (2018): E-Government and Smart Cities: Theoretical Reflections and Case Studies; 127-139
“Technology Readiness and Acceptance Model” as a Predictor for the Use Intention of Data Standards in Smart Cities
Buyle, Raf; Internet Technology and Data Science Lab, Ghent University, Belgium
Van Compernolle, Mathias; Research Group for Media, Innovation, and Communication Technologies, Ghent University, Belgium
Vlassenroot, Eveline; Research Group for Media, Innovation, and Communication Technologies, Ghent University, Belgium
Vanlishout, Ziggy; Informatie Vlaanderen, Flemish Government, Belgium
Mechant, Peter; Internet Technology and Data Science Lab, Ghent University, Belgium
Mannens, Erik; Research Group for Media, Innovation, and Communication Technologies, Ghent University, Belgium
2018-12-21 03:46:48
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1679
Data Governance; Decentralisation; E-Government; Interoperability; Linked Data; Policy Making; Smart Cities; TRAM; Standardisation
data governance; decentralisation; e-government; interoperability; linked data; policy making; smart cities; TRAM; standardisation
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Taking the region of Flanders in Belgium as a case study, this article reflects on how smart cities initiated a grassroots initiative on data interoperability. We observe that cities are struggling due to the fragmentation of data and services across different governmental levels. This may cause frustrations in the everyday life of citizens as they expect a coherent user experience. Our research question considers the relationship between individual characteristics of decision makers and their intention to use data standards. We identified criteria for implementing data standards in the public sector by analysing the factors that affect the adoption of data governance, based on the Technology Readiness and Acceptance Model (TRAM), by conducting an online survey (n = 205). Results indicate that respondents who score high on innovativeness have a higher intention to use data standards. However, we conclude that personality characteristics as described in the TRAM-model are not significant predictors of the perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use of data standards. Therefore, we suggest exploring the effects of network governance and organisational impediments to speed-up the adoption of open standards and raise interoperability in complex ecosystems.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/5461
2022-04-01T10:01:49Z
mediaandcommunication:EDI
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5461
2022-04-01T10:01:49Z
Media and Communication
Vol 10, No 1 (2022): Digital Child- and Adulthood: Risks, Opportunities, and Challenges; 301-304
Editorial: Digital Child- and Adulthood—Risks, Opportunities, and Challenges
Riesmeyer, Claudia; Department of Media and Communication, LMU Munich, Germany
Zillich, Arne Freya; Digital Media Culture, Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, Germany
Naab, Thorsten; German Youth Institute, Germany
2022-03-29 09:53:31
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5461
adolescents; advertising; childhood; digital media usage; media education; media effects; media literacy; media socialization
en
This thematic issue discusses risks, opportunities, and challenges of digital child- and adulthood based on different theoretical and methodological perspectives. It focuses on three topics: First, the challenges children and adolescents face in developing skills for dealing with promotional content are highlighted. Second, several contributions discuss the actions of parents and instructors and their function as role models for children and adolescents. They outline the tension between the consequences of intensive media use by children and adolescents and a responsible approach to digital media as often demanded by parents and teachers. Finally, the last contribution gives an insight into how the political socialization of adolescents can manifest itself in the digital space. The multi-methodological, multi-perspective, and multi-theoretical contributions of this thematic issue illustrate the intergenerational relevance of digital child- and adulthood.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3219
2020-06-25T09:30:16Z
mediaandcommunication:COM
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3219
2020-06-25T09:30:16Z
Media and Communication
Vol 8, No 2 (2020): Health and Science Controversies in the Digital World: News, Mis/Disinformation and Public Engagement; 458-461
Spreading (Dis)Trust: Covid-19 Misinformation and Government Intervention in Italy
Lovari, Alessandro; Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Cagliari, Italy
2020-06-25 08:29:44
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3219
Coronavirus; Covid-19; emergency; health communication; Italy; misinformation; public communication; social media
en
The commentary focuses on the spread of Covid-19 misinformation in Italy, highlighting the dynamics that have impacted on its pandemic communication. Italy has recently been affected by a progressive erosion of trust in public institutions and a general state of information crisis regarding matters of health and science. In this context, the politicization of health issues and a growing use of social media to confront the Coronavirus “infodemic” have led the Italian Ministry of Health to play a strategic role in using its official Facebook page to mitigate the spread of misinformation and to offer updates to online publics. Despite this prompt intervention, which increased the visibility and reliability of public health communication, coordinated efforts involving different institutions, media and digital platform companies still seem necessary to reduce the impact of misinformation, as using a multichannel strategy helps avoid increasing social and technological disparities at a time of crisis.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/6401
2023-06-28T08:02:10Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6401
2023-06-28T08:02:10Z
Media and Communication
Vol 11, No 2 (2023): A Datafied Society: Data Power, Infrastructures, and Regulations; 379-391
Platforms and Exposure Diversity: Towards a Framework to Assess Policies to Promote Exposure Diversity
Ranaivoson, Heritiana; imec-SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Domazetovikj, Nino; imec-SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
2023-06-28 08:11:20
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6401
audiovisual policy; data requirement; exposure diversity; media pluralism; news policy; online platforms; platform regulation; recommender systems
en
The fragmentation of consumption and algorithms’ increasing impact on how content is recommended and displayed makes it even more important to analyse and promote exposure diversity, i.e., the extent to which audiences are exposed to, discover, and engage with diverse content. Although there is a growing literature addressing how to define media diversity in the context of the challenges posed by platformisation, this article translates the normative dimensions into a framework for operationalising exposure diversity into a tangible policy goal, taking into account datafication and its consequences in terms of increasing data requirements towards platforms. The main objective of this study is to analyse initiatives to assess exposure diversity in the platform era and to discuss how such assessment could be improved, particularly for policy initiatives. This involves addressing several challenges of existing approaches for the assessment of exposure diversity related to defining an appropriate frame of reference, determining the degree of diversity required, dealing with data transparency issues, and promoting user autonomy. To achieve this, we propose a framework for analysing initiatives aimed at assessing and promoting exposure to media diversity. Our framework is composed of four key features: measures (type of initiative), metrics (quantifying exposure diversity), data collection methods, and data requirements. We apply this framework to a set of 13 initiatives and find that policy initiatives can benefit from adopting metrics based on distances and experimenting with data collection methods.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/4492
2021-12-22T09:35:07Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/4492
2021-12-22T09:35:07Z
Media and Communication
Vol 9, No 4 (2021): Ten Years after the Arab Uprisings: Beyond Media and Liberation; 275-285
A Case Study: Mada Masr—A Progressive Voice in Egypt and Beyond
Leihs, Nadia; Independent Researcher, Germany
2021-12-17 10:17:08
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/4492
alternative media; Arab Spring; authoritarianism; Egyptian media; Mada Masr; media systems; media transitions; online journalism
en
This article questions the role of the media in times of political transformation. In doing so, it draws on theories on the interconnectedness of the different fields of society to explain the sets of roles that media outlets and journalists adopt during phases of transition. Before 2011, the Egyptian media mostly acted as collaborators of the ruling regime and rarely as an agent of change. Journalists took over the latter role more often following the advent of privately-owned media outlets, thus helping to pave the way for the events of the so-called Arab Spring. This case study focuses on the development of the online news portal Mada Masr and therefore traces the development of two newsrooms. Starting as the English edition of a privately-owned Arabic newspaper in 2009 and changing its status to an independent news outlet in 2013, Mada Masr is one of the few voices which still openly criticise the Egyptian government. Founded in a time of political turmoil and struggling against an increasingly authoritarian environment, the outlet implements innovative ways of producing content, securing funding, and reaching out to its readers. A group of young Egyptian and international journalists make use of new spaces for expression that have opened through the global changes in communication infrastructure while struggling with frequent attacks by representatives of the ruling regime. As such, Mada Masr is a role model for small and regime-critical media outlets.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1284
2020-07-21T09:48:59Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1284
2020-07-21T09:48:59Z
Media and Communication
Vol 6, No 2 (2018): Media and Communication between the Local and the Global; 168-178
Watchdogs, Advocates and Adversaries: Journalists’ Relational Role Conceptions in Asylum Reporting
Ojala, Markus; Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki, Finland
Pöyhtäri, Reeta; Research Centre for Journalism, Media and Communication COMET, University of Tampere, Finland
2018-06-29 05:37:18
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1284
asylum seekers; migration; journalism; refugee crisis; role; role conception
The Helsingin Sanomat Foundation
en
Journalistic role conceptions are usually understood as internalised professional conventions about the tasks reporters pursue in society. This study insists that more attention be put on the relational and context-dependent nature of journalistic role conceptions. Adopting a social-interactionist approach to journalistic roles, the study examines how Finnish journalists conceived of their professional roles when covering asylum issues during the so-called “refugee crisis” of 2015–2016. Based on an analysis of open-ended, semi-structured interviews with 24 journalists, we highlight how considerations of the political context and interactions with three key reference groups—officials, asylum seekers and anti-immigrant publics—shaped the journalists’ conceptions of their tasks and duties. The article contributes to the study of journalistic role conceptions by illustrating how the conceptualisation of journalistic roles in relation to reference groups takes place in practice. It also sheds light on the tensions involved in journalistic balancing and negotiation between various available role conceptions, especially in the shifting societal and political contexts of a Europe marked by multiculturalism and the simultaneous rise of anti-immigrant movements.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/6070
2023-06-26T15:48:50Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6070
2023-06-26T15:48:50Z
Media and Communication
Vol 11, No 1 (2023): Science Communication in the Digital Age: New Actors, Environments, and Practices; 240-251
Women Scientists on TikTok: New Opportunities to Become Visible and Challenge Gender Stereotypes
Huber, Brigitte; Department of Marketing and Communication, IU International University of Applied Sciences, Germany / Department of Communication, University of Vienna, Austria
Baena, Luis Quesada; Department of Communication, University of Vienna, Austria
2023-03-27 11:50:00
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6070
female scholars; gender stereotypes; science communication; social media; TikTok
en
Today, women scientists are still underrepresented in media coverage and confronted with gender stereotypes. However, social media might have the potential to challenge current gender stereotypes of scientists, foster diversity in science communication, and open new ways of becoming visible. We explore this potential by analyzing TikTok accounts of female scholars (n = 50 accounts). Results from content analysis (n = 150 videos) indicate that female scientists from a wide range of different disciplines and at different career stages are visible on TikTok. Building on previous research, we show that female scholars use TikTok mainly to explain scientific facts and concepts and to discuss what being a (female) scholar is like. Moreover, female scholars talk about private life events, give expert advice, and show science in the making. Finally, some of the videos analyzed address gender stereotypes by, for example, challenging assumptions on how a female professor should dress. Implications for science communication in the digital age are discussed.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/2657
2020-06-04T10:02:07Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
ec_fundedresources
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/2657
2020-06-04T10:02:07Z
Media and Communication
Vol 8, No 2 (2020): Digital Native News Media: Trends and Challenges; 135-145
Information Quality in Latin American Digital Native Media: Analysis Based on Structured Dimensions and Indicators
Rodríguez-Hidalgo, Claudia; Department of Communication Sciences, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Ecuador
Rivera-Rogel, Diana; Department of Communication Sciences, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Ecuador
Romero-Rodríguez, Luis M.; Department of Communication Sciences and Sociology, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain / ESAI Business School, Espiritu Santo University, Ecuador
2020-04-16 08:36:07
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/2657
digital media; fake news; information quality; journalism; Latin America
State Research Agency of the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
en
The current communicative ecosystem has profoundly transformed journalistic work and the media, generating with great eagerness the emergence of digital native media that do not follow the logic of their conventional peers. Although the advent of these media is not entirely negative, as they create multiple voices that contribute to pluralism, their quality has undoubtedly been questioned on several academic fronts. This work analyzes the most important Latin American digital native media by number of accesses (traffic), using a taxonomy of evaluation of dimensions of the informative quality, in which aspects such as informative sources, uses of international news agencies, correction of contents and factuality levels, ideological plurality in their opinion contents, among others, are taken into consideration. Of the emerging results, the ‘use of statistical indicators’ was the least rated (32.5%), mainly due to a lack of data journalism in the media studied. It is also worth noting that the indicator ‘comments and monitoring’ obtained the second-lowest rating, indicating an absence of conversation between the media and its audience through the comments section of each content.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1042
2020-07-21T09:48:37Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1042
2020-07-21T09:48:37Z
Media and Communication
Vol 5, No 3 (2017): Histories of Collaboration and Dissent: Journalists’ Associations Squeezed by Political System Changes; 95-102
The Story of Journalist Organizations in Czechoslovakia
Ševčíková, Markéta; Independent Researcher, Czech Republic
Nordenstreng, Kaarle; Faculty of Communication Sciences, University of Tampere, Finland
2017-09-27 05:11:39
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1042
Cold War; communism; Czechoslovakia; International Organization of Journalists; journalism; union of journalists
University of Tampere
en
This article reviews the political history of Czechoslovakia as a vital part of the Soviet-dominated “Communist bloc” and its repercussions for the journalist associations based in the country. Following an eventful history since 1918, Czechoslovakia changed in 1948 from a liberal democracy into a Communist regime. This had significant consequences for journalists and their national union and also for the International Organization of Journalists (IOJ), which had just established its headquarters in Prague. The second historical event to shake the political system was the “Prague Spring” of 1968 and its aftermath among journalists and their unions. The third landmark was the “Velvet Revolution” of 1989, which played a significant part in the fall of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe and led to the closing of the old Union of Journalists in 1990, followed by the founding of a new Syndicate which refused to serve as the host of the IOJ. This led to a gradual disintegration and the closing down of what in the 1980s was the world’s largest non-governmental organization in the media field.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/4092
2021-09-16T10:00:33Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/4092
2021-09-16T10:00:33Z
Media and Communication
Vol 9, No 3 (2021): From Sony’s Walkman to RuPaul's Drag Race: A Landscape of Contemporary Popular Culture; 179-188
Conspiracies, Ideological Entrepreneurs, and Digital Popular Culture
Hyzen, Aaron; Department of Communication Studies, Antwerp University, Belgium
Van den Bulck, Hilde; Department of Communication, Drexel University, USA
2021-09-13 09:44:08
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/4092
Alex Jones; alternative media; conspiracy theories; digital popular culture; ideological entrepreneurs; popular culture; QAnon
en
This contribution starts from the contemporary surge in conspiracism to develop a theoretical framework to understand how conspiracy theories make it from the margins to the mainstream. To this end, it combines a view of conspiracy theories as ideology and its propagandists as ideological entrepreneurs with insights into how the affordances of digital media and popular culture are instrumental in propagating the conspiracy theories. It further complements sociological and psychological explanations with a fandom perspective to grasp the diversity of conspiracy audiences. Together, it is argued, these factors allow ideological entrepreneurs to push conspiracy theories from the margins to the mainstream. Alex Jones and QAnon are discussed as cases in point.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/2366
2020-01-20T08:03:36Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/2366
2020-01-20T08:03:36Z
Media and Communication
Vol 7, No 4 (2019): Video Games as Demanding Technologies; 226-236
Interaction Tension: A Sociological Model of Attention and Emotion Demands in Video Gaming
Deterding, Sebastian; Digital Creativity Labs, University of York, UK
2019-12-20 04:35:41
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/2366
gaming; Goffman; interaction tension; self-control; social demands; video games
This work was conducted in the Digital Creativity Labs (digitalcreativity.ac.uk), jointly funded by EPSRC/AHRC/InnovateUK under grant no EP/M023265/1.
en
Video gaming actively demands players’ attention, affording positive experiences like flow. Recent research has suggested to extend analysis from cognitive and physical to the social and emotional demands of gameplay. This article argues that Erving Goffman’s concept of interaction tension offers a promising theoretical model for social demands. We report a re-analysis of qualitative interview data on the social norms of video gaming corroborating the model. As suggested by Goffman (1961) for gaming, video gaming features rich social norms regarding involvement. When spontaneously experienced and normatively demanded involvement misalign, players experience self-conscious disinvolvement and engage in unenjoyable, effortful self-control of their experienced and displayed involvement.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/6021
2023-06-26T15:45:25Z
mediaandcommunication:ART
driver
v2
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6021
2023-06-26T15:45:25Z
Media and Communication
Vol 11, No 1 (2023): Referendum Campaigns in the Digital Age; 56-68
Referendum Campaigns in Hybrid Media Systems: Insights From the New Zealand Cannabis Legalisation Referendum
Rychert, Marta; SHORE & Whāriki Research Centre, Massey University, New Zealand
Wilkins, Chris; SHORE & Whāriki Research Centre, Massey University, New Zealand
2023-01-31 11:27:02
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6021
cannabis advocacy; hybrid media; marijuana legalisation; New Zealand; Meta; political advocacy; referendum
Massey University
en
During New Zealand’s 2020 cannabis legalisation referendum, advocacy groups on both sides widely debated the issue, utilising “older” and “newer” media channels to strategically influence voters, including through appearances in traditional media and paid advertising campaigns on Facebook. Comparatively little is known about the campaign strategies used by each camp and how they leveraged the hybrid media environment to advocate for their positions. We analyse the cannabis legalisation referendum campaigns using primary data from our digital ethnographic study on Facebook, a systematic quantitative content analysis of legacy media websites, and a review of published reports from other authors. We show how positive sentiment towards cannabis law reform in the traditional media was amplified via referendum campaigners’ activity on Facebook. While campaign expenses on both sides were similar, money was spent in different ways and via different mediums. The pro-legalisation campaign focused more on new digital media channels, while the anti-legalisation campaign diversified across a range of mediums, with greater attention paid to traditional political advertising strategies, such as leaflets and billboards. The New Zealand case study illustrates how greater engagement with the “newer” media logics may not necessarily secure a favourable outcome during a national referendum campaign. We discuss how the broader media and political environment may have influenced campaigners’ choices to engage (or not) with the different media channels.
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