scholarly journals Responsible media technology and AI: challenges and research directions

AI and Ethics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Trattner ◽  
Dietmar Jannach ◽  
Enrico Motta ◽  
Irene Costera Meijer ◽  
Nicholas Diakopoulos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Content Selection ◽  
The Media ◽  
Close Cooperation ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
The One ◽  
User Personalization

AbstractThe last two decades have witnessed major disruptions to the traditional media industry as a result of technological breakthroughs. New opportunities and challenges continue to arise, most recently as a result of the rapid advance and adoption of artificial intelligence technologies. On the one hand, the broad adoption of these technologies may introduce new opportunities for diversifying media offerings, fighting disinformation, and advancing data-driven journalism. On the other hand, techniques such as algorithmic content selection and user personalization can introduce risks and societal threats. The challenge of balancing these opportunities and benefits against their potential for negative impacts underscores the need for more research in responsible media technology. In this paper, we first describe the major challenges—both for societies and the media industry—that come with modern media technology. We then outline various places in the media production and dissemination chain, where research gaps exist, where better technical approaches are needed, and where technology must be designed in a way that can effectively support responsible editorial processes and principles. We argue that a comprehensive approach to research in responsible media technology, leveraging an interdisciplinary approach and a close cooperation between the media industry and academic institutions, is urgently needed.

Mass Communication and Policy Gatekeeping

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard T. Craig
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Media Audiences ◽  
The Public ◽  
Content Selection ◽  
Private Citizens ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One ◽  
Flow Of Information

Who filters through information and determines what information is shared with media audiences? Who filters through information and determines what information will not be shared with media audiences? Ultimately, who controls the flow of information in the media? At times commentary pertaining to media content references media as an omnipotent individual entity selecting the content transmitted to the public, reminiscent of a Wizard of Oz manner of the all-powerful being behind the curtain. Overlooked in this perception is the reality that in mass media, there are various individuals in positions of power making decisions about the information accessed by audiences of various forms of media. These individuals are considered gatekeepers: wherein the media functions as a gate permitting some matters to be publicized and included into the public discourse while restricting other matters from making it to the public conscience. Media gatekeepers (i.e., journalists, editors) possess the power to control the gate by determining the content delivered to audiences, opening and closing the gate of information. Gatekeepers wield power over those on the other side of the gate, those seeking to be informed (audiences), as well as those seeking to inform (politics, activists, academics, etc.). The earliest intellectual explanation of gatekeeping is traced to Kurt Lewin, describing gatekeeping as a means to analyze real-world problems and observing the effects of cultural values and subjective attitudes on those problems like the distribution of food in Lewins’s seminal study, and later modified by David Manning White to examine the dissemination of information via media. In an ideal situation, the gatekeepers would be taking on the challenge of weighing the evidence of importance in social problems when selecting among the options of content and information to exhibit. Yet, decisions concerning content selection are not void of subjective viewpoints and encompass values, beliefs, and ideals of gatekeepers. The subjective attitudes of gatekeepers influence their perspective of what qualifies as newsworthy information. Hence, those in the position to determine the content transmitted through media exercise the power to shape social reality for media audiences. In the evolution of media gatekeeping theory three models have resulted from the scholarship: (1) examination of the one-way flow of information passing through a series of gates before reaching audiences, (2) the process of newsroom personnel interacting with people outside of the newsroom, and (3) the direct communication of private citizens and public officials. In traditional media and newer forms of social media, gatekeeping examination revolves around analysis of these media organizations’ news routines and narratives. Gatekeeping analysis observes human behavior and motives in order to make conceptualizations about the social world.

The Dynamics of Media Landscape and Media Policy in Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vidi Sukmayadi
Keyword(s):  
Media Literacy ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Literacy Skill ◽  
Media Policy ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Media Consolidation ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Media

Democratization in communication is the starting point for mass media in achieving a prosperous information society. However, building an ideal democratic role of media is not trouble free. The incredible pace of the development of media industry in Indonesia in the last two decades poses at least two main threats to media consumers. First, the growth of the media industry in Indonesia has been driven by capital interests that lead to media oligopoly. Second, the integration of conventional media and the internet and social media technology place our society information flow on a stranglehold. The media consolidation gives the audience an illusion of information choice without realizing that actually they are losing their rights for reliable information. Hence, an upgrade of media literacy skill and a proper media policy are needed to cope with the current fast-paced world.

scholarly journals Going global and local control: Reflections on research directions on media policy in East Asia

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-56
Author(s):  
Lorraine Lim
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The Media ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
The Impact

This article provides a brief look at the impact of digital technology on countries in Asia in relation to the media industry. It then examines the implications of digital technology and the policing of media within the countries of Singapore and China, which have sought to connect to the global economy via its investment in digital technology yet still attempt to maintain some form of control of access to certain digital content on its citizenry. The article concludes with potential directions in which researchers can contribute to the ongoing debate about the impact of the ‘global’ on media and its impact on nation states.

Creating high-resolution 360-degree single-line 25K video content for modern conference rooms using film compositing techniques

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (3) ◽  
pp. 206-1-206-14
Author(s):  
Eberhard Hasche ◽  
Dominik Benning ◽  
Oliver Karaschewski ◽  
Florian Carstens ◽  
Reiner Creutzburg
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Social Contact ◽  
Single Line ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Still Image ◽  
Conference Room ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One ◽  
Media Form

360-degree image and movie content have been gaining popularity in the last few years all over the media industry. There are two main reasons for this development. On the one hand, it is the immersive character of this media form and, on the other hand, the development of recording and presentation technology has made great progress in terms of resolution and quality. 360-degree panoramas are particularly widespread in VR and AR technology. Despite the high immersive potential, these forms of presentation have the disadvantage that the users are isolated and have no social contact during the presentation. Efforts have therefore been made to project 360-degree content in specially equipped rooms or planetariums to enable a shared experience for the audience. One area of application for 360- degree single-line cylindrical panorama with moving imagery included are modern conference rooms in hotels, which create an immersive environment for their clients to encourage creativity. The aim of this work is to generate high-resolution 25K 360-degree videos for projection in a conference room. The creation of the panoramas uses the single-line cylinder technique and is based on composition technologies that are used in the film industry. Video sequences are partially composed into a still image panorama in order to enable a high native resolution of the final film. A main part of this work is the comparison of different film, video and DSLR cameras, in which different image parameters are examined with respect to the quality of the images. Finally, the advantages, disadvantages and limitations of the procedure are examined.

scholarly journals The Media Industry's Structural Transformation in Capitalism and the Role of the State: Media Economics in the Age of Digital Communication

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manfred Knoche
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Structural Transformation ◽  
Profit Maximization ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Media Economics ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Media System ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
The Media ◽  
Definition Of

This paper discusses how the capitalist media industry has been structurally transformed in the age of digital communications. It takes an approach that is grounded in the Marxian critique of the political economy of the media. It draws a distinction between media capital, media-oriented capital, media infrastructure capital and media-external capital as the forms of capital in the media industry. The arti- cle identifies four capital strategies that media capital tends to use in order to try to maximise profits: a) The substitution of “old” by “new” media technology, b) the introduction of new transmission chan- nels for “old” media products, c) the definition of new property rights for media sectors and networks, d) the reduction of production and transaction costs. The drive to profit maximization is at the heart of the capitalist media industrys structural transformation. This work also discusses the tendency to the universalization of the media system in the digital age and the economic contradictions arising from it.

scholarly journals Social media revolution - The new digital frontiers of Journalism

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 610-620
Author(s):  
Kaveri Devi Mishra
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Business Strategies ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Business Networks ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
The Media

Social media has become a phenomenon with the advent of technology and rapid rise in the reach across the world. It has made inroads in almost every sphere of business, communication and marketing. Post globalization, Indian media industry has witnessed a sea change and revamped itself tremendously to be part of changing global scenario.  Social media today, has become an integral part of the media industry, whether it is news deliverance, marketing or advertising. The social media revolution has changed and will continue to change journalism and news organizations. Social media as a powerful tool has been realized largely across Indian Media industry, its importance is no longer debated. Therefore, the Indian media has successfully embraced social media technology and digital shift to widen and expanding their reach and exposure. The business strategies have widened and given a facelift; the social media platform has been effectively efficient used for expanding their business networks, whether news deliverance, advertising or other user generated content.   This paper aims at examining and exploring the role, growth and challenges of digital and Social media with a case study approach on Indian Media Industry. 

Media Ecology and its Multi Dimensional Effect- A Critical Analysis

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. M. Rabindranath
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Media Ecology ◽  
Ecological Perspective ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Media Change ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Environments ◽  
The One ◽  
Effects Of Media

Media Ecology is study of complex communication systems as environments. Media ecologists are interested in the interactions of communications media, technology, technique, and processes with human feelings, thoughts, values, and behaviour. Ecology implies the study of environments: their structure, content, and impact on people and media environments; the specifications are more often implicit and informal, half concealed by our assumption that what we are dealing with is not an environment but merely a machine. Media Ecology tries to find out what roles media forces us to play, the media structure what we are seeing, why media make us feel and act as we do. An ecological perspective instead views the human as always being situated within both environmental and technical networks, and contends that an analysis of the human must not proceed from an abstract essence, such as the concept of the soul or free will. An ecological perspective instead views the human as always being situated within both environmental and technical networks, and contends that an analysis of the human must not proceed from an abstract essence, such as the concept of the soul or free will, but instead should compose an investigation into the networks in which humanity is situated. McLuhan saw that media change the way we live and who we are. McLuhan gave Media Ecology a centre of gravity, a moral compass. Neil Postman, who wisely created Media Ecology in so much of McLuhan’s image, was the one most responsible for our focus on media, technology, process, and structure, rather than content. This paper analyses the different dimensional effects of Media Ecology and the own personal interpretation of the author himself.

scholarly journals Moralitas Pemimpin: Dialektika atas Teks Suci Agama dan Pembentukan Budaya Lokal (Kajian Living Hadits dalam Sinetron Para Pencari Tuhan (PPT) Jilid 2 Eps.3)

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 345
Author(s):  
Ridha Hayati
Keyword(s):  
Soap Opera ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Religious Texts ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One

In recent years, some Indonesian television artists have used the Qur'an and the Hadith as part of the dialogue in their work. Thus in some of the TV soap opera there are religious and aesthetic power that shows the content of religion, that is da'wah or tabligh (invitation, or appeal) to the audience. The Seeker of God (PPT) is an example, how soap opera Ramadan is filled with nuances of religion and has more emphasis on the elements of Islam. In this research, the writer reviews the one of the episodes in PPT soap opera which generally talk about a leadership in society. In this episode, religious texts (Al-Qur'an and Hadith) and community actions interact, ayat and the referred hadith are sometimes understood textually, but sometimes also contextually. It is expected that this research explains that the study of the Qur’an and hadits do not only dwell on the literature of the books of tafsir only, but also has spread in the media technology in its curremt forms.Keywords: Al-Qur’an, Hadith, Dialogue, Indonesian Television. Belakangan ini, muncul karya-karya para seniman dan artis televisi Indonesia yang menjadikan Al-Qur’an maupun Hadits sebagai bagian dari dialognya. Sehingga dalam karya tersebut tercium aroma religius dan berdaya estetitis yang menunjukkan muatan spiritualitas yang bersifat dakwah atau tabligh (ajakan, seruan, maupun himbauan) bagi penonton­nya. Sinetron Para Pencari Tuhan (PPT) adalah sinetron Ramadhan yang bernuansa religi dan lebih menekankan unsur-unsur keislaman. Dalam penelitian ini penulis mengkaji sinetron PPT jilid 2 episode 3 yang secara umum berbicara tentang sebuah kepemimpinan dalam masyarakat. Di dalam episode ini, teks keagamaan (Al-Qur‟an dan Hadis) dan tindakan masyarakat saling berinteraksi, ayat maupun hadits yang dirujuk terkadang dipahami secara tekstual, namun terkadang juga kontekstual. Penelitian ini diharapkan dapat menjelaskan bahwa kajian Al-Qur’an dan hadis tidak hanya berkutat pada literatur kitab tafsir saja, melainkan telah menjalar dalam media teknologi sesuai perkembangan zamannya.Kata Kunci: Al-Qu’an, Hadits, Dialog, Televisi Indonesia. 

Murder with Impunity: The Construction of Arab Masculinities and Honor Crimes

1970 ◽  
pp. 38-45
Author(s):  
May Abu Jaber
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Social Boundaries ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One ◽  
Male Authority ◽  
Cultural Networks ◽  
Gender Specific

Violence against women (VAW) continues to exist as a pervasive, structural,systematic, and institutionalized violation of women’s basic human rights (UNDivision of Advancement for Women, 2006). It cuts across the boundaries of age, race, class, education, and religion which affect women of all ages and all backgrounds in every corner of the world. Such violence is used to control and subjugate women by instilling a sense of insecurity that keeps them “bound to the home, economically exploited and socially suppressed” (Mathu, 2008, p. 65). It is estimated that one out of every five women worldwide will be abused during her lifetime with rates reaching up to 70 percent in some countries (WHO, 2005). Whether this abuse is perpetrated by the state and its agents, by family members, or even by strangers, VAW is closely related to the regulation of sexuality in a gender specific (patriarchal) manner. This regulation is, on the one hand, maintained through the implementation of strict cultural, communal, and religious norms, and on the other hand, through particular legal measures that sustain these norms. Therefore, religious institutions, the media, the family/tribe, cultural networks, and the legal system continually disciplinewomen’s sexuality and punish those women (and in some instances men) who have transgressed or allegedly contravened the social boundaries of ‘appropriateness’ as delineated by each society. Such women/men may include lesbians/gays, women who appear ‘too masculine’ or men who appear ‘too feminine,’ women who try to exercise their rights freely or men who do not assert their rights as ‘real men’ should, women/men who have been sexually assaulted or raped, and women/men who challenge male/older male authority.

Freedom of speech is not freedom from ethics: the 2019 Israel Folau media controversy as a case study

2021 ◽  
pp. 1329878X2199289
Author(s):  
Jay Daniel Thompson ◽  
Denis Muller
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Freedom Of Speech ◽  
Rugby Player ◽  
Ethical Principles ◽  
Framing Analysis ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One

This article examines how freedom of speech is framed in the media controversy surrounding the Australian rugby player Israel Folau’s April 2019 Instagram post. A content analysis and framing analysis of newspaper reportage reveals that the controversy has been largely discussed in terms of whether or not Folau’s speech was being curtailed and whether this curtailing indicates a broader, ideologically motivated censoriousness. This discussion is problematic in that it says little about the actual substance of Folau’s post. This article argues that debates surrounding freedom of speech such as the one involving Folau could and should be enriched by an engagement with ethical principles. This engagement is premised on a commitment to the free exchange of views, while acknowledging that ‘speech’ is not always inherently beneficial for democracy, nor worth defending.

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