Race in Digital Space: Conceptualizing the Media Project

Art Journal ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 92-95
Author(s):  
Erika Dalya Muhammad
Keyword(s):  
Digital Space ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Project

scholarly journals Click off: How digital has disrupted New Zealand sports journalism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Greg Michael Stutchbury
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Sports Journalism ◽  
Editorial Content ◽  
Digital Space ◽  
Print News ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Depth Interviews

<p>This thesis examined through a political economy framework how New Zealand’s two largest newspaper chains, Fairfax and NZME, have been impacted by the advent of digital technologies and the effects these have had on the practice of sports journalism. Digital technology, falling revenue and increasing pressure from financial owners have all played a part in the restructuring of both Fairfax and NZME’s editorial news operations, especially in the last five years as both companies transitioned to a ‘digital-first’ environment.  Semi-structured, in-depth interviews were conducted with 16 senior journalists who had knowledge of the transition from a print to a digital focus. These interviews highlighted the strategies adopted by both companies as they faced a challenging and evolving marketplace. They also underlined the internal tensions within newsrooms between not only journalists and editorial news managers but also the digital and print operations.  Despite the belief that digital technologies would make the print news media more collaborative and provide greater diversity and plurality, the opposite has occurred. Sports reporting remains highly routinised, coverage diversity is shrinking, and greater control is now exerted by editorial managers over the production of journalistic content. Digital technologies have also impacted the forms of content, with decision making on editorial content and resourcing now strongly influenced by data analytics, although there was still strong resistance to greater interactivity with readers. The relationship between sports organisations and print news media organisations, while considered in theory to be a symbiotic one but in reality, is an area of conflict, has also further deteriorated as sports organisations introduce significantly greater control over the media agenda. An element of this control has also heightened tensions with sports organisations moving into the digital space and competing directly with print news media organisations.</p>

scholarly journals Mission Possible: Russian Orthodox Priest Blogs

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-59
Author(s):  
E. A. Ostrovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Text Analysis ◽  
Direct Consequence ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Constructivist Approach ◽  
The Public ◽  
Digital Space ◽  
Missionary Work ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Practices

The paper dwells on the modern phenomenon of the clergy going online and exploring new audiences. The empirical study conducted by the author concerned the activities of popular Orthodox Russian-speaking bloggers whose heightening media presence is aimed at digital missionary work and catechism. The research was organized in accordance with the theoretical framework of the concept of communicative figurations that was coined by Andreas Hepp. This constructivist approach implies that mediatization blurs the borders between previously disentangled actors and encourages the growth of their interactions and, thus, a tighter social reality. To embody a communicative figurations-oriented study, the author lays down the methodological foundations that are able to express the nature of personal practices and the reflections on them. So, the methods consisted of case studies, expert and field interviews, and online text analysis. The findings can be set out in the following manner. Online media activity and social networking allow wider transparency and a wider span of audience. Despite stereotype and politicized doxa, the online demand for a specific niche of purely catechetic Orthodox priest blogging has existed for a decade and a half. Over the years, the media practices of missionary work, catechism, and preaching have been formed, mainly in such social networks as VK.com, LiveJournal, Instagram, and in YouTube channels. This dynamic has been growing: priest blogs have acquired the audiences of some tens of thousands of subscribers. It is due to the fact that priest offer a contemporary language when addressing the public for the purpose of missionary work and catechism. They attract an audience of the Russian-speaking network of actors that is diverse in age, gender, and country of residence. Seeing and aiming beyond the conservative confines of an offline parish and church, blogging priests have the opportunity to create their own audience — reach out to a particular generation, choose the style and content of a sermon or testimony of faith. In turn, the audiences choose priest bloggers according to their interests and the preferable ways of religious participation. Orthodox blogger priests strive to consolidate their efforts, to promote various forms of testimony of faith in the digital space. The central direct consequence of the mediatization of catechism and missionary practices is the promotion of a new image of a priest and a new version of the priest‒layman interaction, both contributing to a new church construct.

scholarly journals Behind the screens: How magazines organize for digital success

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Heather Lamb
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Editorial Staff ◽  
Brand Identity ◽  
Work Culture ◽  
Strategic Entrepreneurship ◽  
Content Creation ◽  
Digital Space ◽  
Strategic Goals ◽  
The Media ◽  
To Come

Change has dominated the media landscape for nearly two decades as digital content creation and delivery mushroomed from the work of secluded upstarts to that of society-influencing giants. Magazine publishers have found varying levels of success in this digital age. Some have thrived; others have folded. This research aims to determine factors that fuel digital success by examining the internal practices of three successful magazine digital operations. Data was gathered through interviews of editorial staff within the digital organizations of Better Homes and Gardens, The Hollywood Reporter and New York, and analyzed using thematic content analysis and applying a strategic entrepreneurship framework. Most striking to come out of this research was the importance of people. These magazine divisions thrived due to passionate, smart employees and visionary, involved leaders. This builds upon previous research in the field about the value of a company's human resources and effective leadership. Also interesting was that success was defined broadly--in part as quantitative measures, but also as continually pushing forward, as effective teamwork and as supporting the brand's value in consumers' lives. Experimentation was part of the work culture, and also was built into the nature of serving content to audiences in a digital space. And through it all, brand identity was intertwined in almost every facet of the work, and it fueled strategic goals and employees' passion.

scholarly journals The paradigm shift in intercultural communication in digital space

2021 ◽  
Vol 273 ◽  
pp. 11018
Author(s):  
Lyubov Cherkasova
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Behavioral Patterns ◽  
Digital Space ◽  
Creative Solutions ◽  
Communication Space ◽  
The Media ◽  
Vector Orientation ◽  
New Generation

The paradigm of intercultural communication has changed its vector orientation in a period of digital space expansion. Previously existing behavioral patterns, which included basic components, have led to the emergence of new behavioral patterns through the development of high-tech production, the media industry and media space. The functional approach made it possible to identify the strengths and weaknesses of digitization, the specifics of communication space in the spheres of science, technology and education and to predict possible changes in intercultural communication on the basis of the developing digital platform. The standardization and unification of digital space, which have penetrated all spheres of human activity, have revealed opportunities for improving digital content and its knowledge component. The study reflects the features of implementation and functioning of high-tech digital equipment in the education system, which is a basic component for the formation of the man of a new generation, capable of living in digital space, managing this space, finding creative solutions and creating opportunities for further development of society. Digitization changes social consciousness completely, intensifies the gap between the older and the younger generation, but this process is inevitable, as it opens up prospects for the development of the world community and forms conditions for its unification and improvement.

scholarly journals Ontology of Transgressive Social Media

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 641-648
Author(s):  
Valentin N. Stepanov
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
Real Space ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Main Function ◽  
Digital Space ◽  
The Media ◽  
Digital Physics ◽  
Digital Time

This paper presents the T-Magic formula revealing ontology of social media which has become a transgressive form of media through its ability to build a digital community, sharing digital identity, and building a digital social capital, that prevails over offline human relations, and includes supporters and doubters estimated for their contact establishing function. Social media belongs to the so called culture of participation, and is considered as a versatile social phenomenon building a hybrid digital culture. Mutation seems to be a key characteristic of media in general and social media in particular. The consequences of the mutation change shows pathway to a new ontology of digital communication, that of digital physics with a special focus on digital space and digital time, digital substance and digital energy. Transformation displays a technological turn in digital communication that reveals technological sources of digital energy. Transfiguration unveils the essence of digital substance, that of a social media sapience. Transgression outlines digital space and digital time, and is a means of overcoming real space and time by means of certain text units establishing bridges to connected personal or collective accounts or aggregate archives. The main function of the media text transgressiveness is to raise a so called publicity capital of a media subject initiating or releasing the post.

scholarly journals Click off: How digital has disrupted New Zealand sports journalism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Greg Michael Stutchbury
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Sports Journalism ◽  
Editorial Content ◽  
Digital Space ◽  
Print News ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Depth Interviews

<p>This thesis examined through a political economy framework how New Zealand’s two largest newspaper chains, Fairfax and NZME, have been impacted by the advent of digital technologies and the effects these have had on the practice of sports journalism. Digital technology, falling revenue and increasing pressure from financial owners have all played a part in the restructuring of both Fairfax and NZME’s editorial news operations, especially in the last five years as both companies transitioned to a ‘digital-first’ environment.  Semi-structured, in-depth interviews were conducted with 16 senior journalists who had knowledge of the transition from a print to a digital focus. These interviews highlighted the strategies adopted by both companies as they faced a challenging and evolving marketplace. They also underlined the internal tensions within newsrooms between not only journalists and editorial news managers but also the digital and print operations.  Despite the belief that digital technologies would make the print news media more collaborative and provide greater diversity and plurality, the opposite has occurred. Sports reporting remains highly routinised, coverage diversity is shrinking, and greater control is now exerted by editorial managers over the production of journalistic content. Digital technologies have also impacted the forms of content, with decision making on editorial content and resourcing now strongly influenced by data analytics, although there was still strong resistance to greater interactivity with readers. The relationship between sports organisations and print news media organisations, while considered in theory to be a symbiotic one but in reality, is an area of conflict, has also further deteriorated as sports organisations introduce significantly greater control over the media agenda. An element of this control has also heightened tensions with sports organisations moving into the digital space and competing directly with print news media organisations.</p>

scholarly journals Churching Online: A Study on Religious Authority and Tourism in a Digital Age

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-82
Author(s):  
Benson Rajan ◽  
Devaleena Kundu
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Assemblies Of God ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Religious Authority ◽  
Digital Space ◽  
Christian Churches ◽  
Faith Practices ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Church

Christian churches in India with their growing access to digital technology have brought along promises to im-prove the interface between religion and society. This study looks at the Assemblies of God Fellowship (AGF), a popular youth church in Ahmedabad, Gujarat which has utilised the digital space to create an experience of engaging with the spiritual. This study contributes to-wards an ethnographically researched narrative of the church and its role in the domain of digital tourism, the manner in which religious authority negotiates the influx of the Internet. The research focusses on ways in which online communications shape religious meanings, identi-ties, expressions of religiosity, and contemporary notions of tourism. AGF‘s inclusion of the online in its day-to-day faith practices along with its establishment of new units such as the ‗media team‘ has led to the emergence of a media-savvy leadership.

scholarly journals Perspectivas sobre a argumentação: breve panorama / Perspectives on argumentation: brief overview

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 2175
Author(s):  
Helcira Maira Rodrigues de Lima ◽  
María Alejandra Vitale
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Digital Space ◽  
Digital Discourse ◽  
Social Discourses ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Verbal Violence ◽  
Shed Light

Resumo: A Retórica de Aristóteles (1998) foi retomada e ressignificada pelas teorias da argumentação contemporâneas. Cada uma delas se apropria dessa herança de modo a alavancar, a partir dos anos de 1990, uma intensa produção de pesquisas. Na atualidade, em um movimento que visa à melhor compreensão dos discursos sociais, em especial, da polêmica, do papel das emoções no discurso, da violência verbal, de discursos de ódio, entre outros, assistimos ao resgate do pensamento aristotélico em problemáticas da argumentação, a partir de um necessário diálogo com os trabalhos produzidos sobre o discurso midiático, político e, em especial, sobre o discurso digital. Nessa seara, sem a pretensão de esgotar o assunto, nosso propósito é apresentar no artigo um panorama dos estudos em argumentação que circulam nas pesquisas contemporâneas, além de lançar algumas luzes à reflexão sobre o papel da argumentação nesse espaço digital, assim como na configuração e na circulação desses discursos.Palavras-chave: argumentação; discursos digitais; análise do discurso.Abstract: Aristotle's Rhetoric was taken up and given a new meaning by contemporary theories of argumentation. Each one of them appropriates this heritage in order to leverage, from the 1990s onwards an intense production of research. Currently, in a movement aimed at better understanding social discourses, especially polemics, the role of emotions in discourse, verbal violence, hate speeches, among others, we are witnessing the rescue of Aristotelian thought in argumentation issues, from a necessary dialogue with the works produced on the media and political discourse and, in particular, on the digital discourse. In this field, without intending to exhaust the subject, our purpose is to present in the article an overview of the studies in argumentation that circulate in contemporary research, in addition to shed light on the role of argumentation in this digital space, as well as in the configuration and in the circulation of these discourses.Keywords: argumentation; digital discourse; discourse analysis.

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