3. The first casualty: journalists at war

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Hargreaves
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Al Jazeera ◽  
Television Channel ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Balkan Wars ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Impact ◽  
War Reporting

It was in the ‘Balkan wars’ of the 1990s that the news media and the military started to understand the extent to which digital media were reshaping the craft of war reporting. Journalists were now able to report from behind enemy lines. War has always delivered the most severe test to journalistic independence. What are the challenges to journalists reporting news in a war situation? How objective can they be? ‘The first casualty: journalists at war’ charts the impact of the digital era on war reporting in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the rise of the Arabic television channel Al Jazeera.

News personalization for peace: how algorithmic recommendations can impact conflict coverage

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 309-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariella Bastian ◽  
Mykola Makhortykh ◽  
Tom Dobber
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
System Design ◽  
News Media ◽  
Content Distribution ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Constructive Conflict ◽  
Peace Journalism ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
The Impact ◽  
War Reporting

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to develop a conceptual framework for assessing what are the possibilities and pitfalls of using algorithmic systems of news personalization – i.e. the tailoring of individualized news feeds based on users’ information preferences – for constructive conflict coverage in the context of peace journalism, a journalistic paradigm calling for more diversified and creative war reporting.Design/methodology/approachThe paper provides a critical review of existing research on peace journalism and algorithmic news personalization, and analyzes the intersections between the two concepts. Specifically, it identifies recurring pitfalls of peace journalism based on empirical research on constructive conflict coverage and then introduces a conceptual framework for analyzing to what degree these pitfalls can be mediated – or worsened – through algorithmic system design.FindingsThe findings suggest that AI-driven distribution technologies can facilitate constructive war reporting, in particular by countering the effects of journalists’ self-censorship and by diversifying conflict coverage. The implementation of these goals, however, depends on multiple system design solutions, thus resonating with current calls for more responsible and value-sensitive algorithmic design in the domain of news media. Additionally, our observations emphasize the importance of developing new algorithmic literacies among journalists both to realize the positive potential of AI for promoting peace and to increase the awareness of possible negative impacts of new systems of content distribution.Originality/valueThe article particle is the first to provide a comprehensive conceptualization of the impact of new content distribution techniques on constructive conflict coverage in the context of peace journalism. It also offers a novel conceptual framing for assessing the impact of algorithmic news personalization on reporting traumatic and polarizing events, such as wars and violence.

scholarly journals Looking Behind the Screen: Genealogies of Poetic Technology

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 169-189
Author(s):  
Peter Middleton
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Contemporary Poetry ◽  
Material Technology ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Strong Focus ◽  
History Of ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Rapid Transformation

Abstract Everyone, from distinguished philosophers to emergent poets, has been to some extent disoriented by the new digital technology and its shimmer of compositional novelty. This article reviews recent studies of the impact of the digital on research into the history of modern and contemporary poetry. Almost all poetry written and circulated today is dependent on digital media, with profound consequences for every aspect of its writing, performance, and reception. I argue that scholars of poetry can benefit from learning more about what constitutes the digital, as material technology, as programming, and as transformative social practice, as well as by studying earlier phases of the rapid transformation of communications technology. I then discuss briefly several recent texts on current digital infrastructure, before surveying some representative recent critical works that draw on insights derived from our digital era to provide new perspectives on the predigital age of poetry. At the heart of this review, essay is extended discussions of Seth Perlow’s The Poem Electric and Todd Tietchen’s Technomodern Poetics, recent books that explore changing concepts of lyric, surveillance, anonymity, and even electricity. In addition, this essay discusses The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature, edited by Joseph Tabbi, which has a strong focus on poetics.

Between authoritarianism and democracy: Examining news media usage for political re-socialization and information acquisition in diasporic contexts

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-33
Author(s):  
Rana Khaled Arafat
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Information Acquisition ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Political Learning ◽  
Political Opportunities ◽  
Democratic Regimes ◽  
Democratic Norms ◽  
The Impact

While political scholars study news media as agents of political learning, the processes of political re-socialization of a conflict-generated diaspora moving from authoritarian to democratic regimes pose significant theoretical challenges that remain insufficiently researched. To this end, this study investigates the importance of traditional and digital media sources from the homeland and host country in fostering refugees’ understanding of the democratic norms and values, and political opportunities offered by the receiving country. Furthermore, it investigates the role of online diaspora communities as agents for political re-socialization and tools for information acquisition about Arabic, Swiss and international politics. Sixty semi-structured interviews with Arabs from refugee origins in Switzerland were analysed. Findings show the influence of the early-life political socialization, received prior to forced migration, on the purposive consumption of media from various sources. As Facebook started to lose its value as a source of political information, participants shift to producing and consuming news distributed by strong ties on private WhatsApp groups as a counter-strategy to acquire trustworthy information. Further insights on the impact of perceived media credibility and individual trust in news on the consumption behaviour and political learning are discussed.

scholarly journals Digital Media Framing of the Egyptian Arab Spring: Comparing Al Jazeera, BBC and China Daily

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 66
Author(s):  
Minos-Athanasios Karyotakis ◽  
Nikos Panagiotou ◽  
Nikos Antonopoulos ◽  
Matina Kiourexidou
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
English Language ◽  
British Broadcasting Corporation ◽  
Al Jazeera ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Video Footage ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
China Daily

Digital Media organizations had a crucial role on the coverage of the Egyptian ‘Arab Spring’, but until today the outcomes of the news gathering are debatable in the academic society. This study examines the frames of the English-language websites of Al Jazeera, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), and China Daily from 9 to 13 February 2011 because of the termination of Hosni Mubarak’s presidency. The sample consists of 92 website articles, which report the Egyptian ‘Arab Spring’ without considering any video footage in the examined news stories. The particular article examines the frames of each article and categorizes them according to a Knowledge Extraction (KE) tool named ‘Open Calais’, which is owned by another media organization, Reuters. In this study, China Daily’s coverage differs from the former researchers’ results regarding the ‘Arab Spring’ covering. According to the findings, there was a merited coverage on the case of the Egyptian ‘Arab Spring’ without relying exclusively on the content of the official press agency of the People's Republic of China, Xinhua News Agency, and acted like a western-type news media.

scholarly journals Czech Literary Culture in the Post-Digital Era

Porównania ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-288
Author(s):  
Karel Piorecký ◽  
Vojtěch Malínek
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Literary Culture ◽  
Interactive Media ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Evolutionary Changes ◽  
Interactive Network ◽  
Network Media ◽  
Role Of The Reader ◽  
The Impact

This study examines the changes within Czech literary culture since 2000 in relation to the process of remediation. The starting methodological point is in examining a structure of a literary system within a model proposed by Siegfried J. Schmidt. The impact of new creative approaches which utilise interactive network media and also of available publishing platforms are observed in terms of the increase in the size of the literary active group of the population. The study further investigates publishing options via the Internet used mainly by amateur authors, complementary phenomena in print production, as well as the impact of these innovative forms on the dynamics of the book market. The ways in which texts are received are examined particularly from the point of enhancing the role of the reader within interactive media and attention is paid to the qualitative changes within the reception frameworks (transnational and non-literary contexts). And finally, the ways in which literary phenomena are handled is largely related to the reflection of the critical state of the current literary criticism and new virtual formats of critiquing literature. The study shows that the evolutionary changes which were brought about by extending the use of digital media within literary communication have been so extensive that the Schmidt model of analysis has proven insufficient.

The impact of new technologies to the field o media in Poland: adaptation of European experience

2017 ◽  
pp. 161-169
Author(s):  
Mykola Prokhorov
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Effective Management ◽  
The Public ◽  
European Model ◽  
European Experience ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Impact

The article deals with important aspects of the impact of new technologies on mediasphere in Poland in terms of adaptation of modern European experience. Underlined European influence on Poland implementation media projects in the public sphere and in the sphere of business and within local government. Also highlights the fact that for modern mediasphere of Poland, there is only one way - is to follow the European model of media openness and transparency, setting them to play effective and independent civil government positions. In the new environment of electronic media they become sometimes quite unexpected dimensions and social emphasis. Also emphasized that at the beginning of XXI century the Internet has become an important source of daily information to citizens and often replaces traditional news media - radio and TV. Because it focuses on promoting digital media projects to maintain effective management and proper civic activity. Keywords: Newmedia, civilsociety, theinformationsociety, e-government, Poland

scholarly journals Digitalisasi Komunikasi Penggiat Backpacker (Studi Kasus Terhadap Komunitas Backpacker)

Koneksi ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Nadya Febylia ◽  
Gregorius Genep Sukendro
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
The Times ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Descriptive Method

Along with the times, technology is something that we often encounter around us, including in the world of backpackers. In this digital era, backpakers are divided into two types, namely backpackers who use traveling applications and backpakers who don't. This study aims to determine the positive and negative impacts of digitizing communication on backpacker activists. The formulation of the problem is to determine the positive and negative impacts of new media on the backpacker community, therefore researchers will conduct research on the Jakarta backpacker community. Therefore, the researcher wanted to examine the impact resulting from the use of digital media on the backpacker community by using a qualitative descriptive method and using a phenomenological approach to find out firsthand the experiences of backpacker activists, the research location through zoom from their respective homes. From the results of the research that the researchers have done, the researcher can draw the conclusion that the use of technology in the backpaker world is more positive because the informants whom the researchers interviewed through zoom felt very helped by the current travel applications.Seiring dengan perkembangan zaman, teknologi merupakan sesuatu hal yang sering kita jumpai disekitar kita, termasuk kedalam dunia backpacker. Pada era digital seperti ini, para backpaker menjadi dua tipe yaitu backpacker yang menggunakan aplikasi traveling dan backpaker yang tidak menggunakan aplikasi. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui dampak positif dan dampak negatif dari digitalisasi komunikasi terhadap penggiat backpacker. Rumusan masalahnya adalah untuk mengetahui dampak positif dan dampak negatif dari media baru yang masuk ke dalam komunitas backpacker, oleh karena itu peneliti akan melakukan penelitian terhadap komunitas backpacker Jakarta. Maka dari itu peneliti ingin meneliti tentang dampak yang dihasilkan dari penggunaan media digital terhadap komunitas backpacker dengan menggunakan metode deskriptif kualitatif dan menggunakan pendekatan fenomenologi untuk mengetahui secara langsung pengalaman yang dilakukan oleh para penggiat backpacker, lokasi penelitian melalui zoom dari rumah masing-masing. Dari hasil penelitian yang telah peneliti lakukan, peneliti dapat menarik kesimpulan bahwa penggunaan teknologi pada dunia backpaker lebih mengarah postif karena dari informan yang peneliti wawancarai melalui zoom merasa sangat terbantu dengan aplikasi traveling yang ada saat ini.

scholarly journals Dampak Konvergensi Media Terhadap Pola Menonton Televisi Indonesia di Era Digital

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Zamroni
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Convergence ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Television Programs ◽  
The Public ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Electronic Access ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Television Characters

The present digital era is marked by the emergence of computer technology and other technologies that support electronic access to information. Various digital media that are connected to each other form a new media that is more compatible, easily and quickly accessed, which is then called media convergence. During its development, this has led to various changes in the mass media on how information is presented to the public. In this regard, the television media is no exception, which has undergone several changes due to media convergence. YouTube is a platform that is considered to be one of the most compatible forms of media convergence with television characters. This research focuses on how audiences or television viewers enjoy Indonesian television programs on the YouTube platform, which is analyzed from the number of viewers to see the viewing patterns and measure the impact of media convergence on television. The results of this study can provide an up-to-date picture of how Indonesians watch television and what steps have been taken by television stations in dealing with these impacts. Keywords: media convergence, television, YouTube, digital, information.

The Impact of Digital Marketing Communication on Consumer Purchase Decision Among Youths in Cameroon

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 947-963
Author(s):  
Darcy Awah Achunguh
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Electronic Devices ◽  
Digital Marketing ◽  
Marketing Communication ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Commercial Market ◽  
Business Conditions ◽  
The Impact

Digital marketing has become one of the most commonly used phrases these days. Although it's easily used in a sentence, quite often, it is not defined accurately. For some, it's a synonym for "Internet Marketing," while others describe it as marketing using electronic devices. Business conditions have changed due to the growth of digital media, and today's commercial market is undervalued. The world's digital era is at a turning point. All companies' goods benefit from the use of digital platforms to increase revenue. Companies can quickly accept more customers, especially youths, and customers have various options when making buying decisions.

scholarly journals Dampak Terpaan Informasi Media Digital terhadap Perkembangan Pariwisata dan Perilaku Masyarakat Bali

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 177
Author(s):  
I N. Laba ◽  
I M.T. Semara ◽  
K.R. Tunjungsari
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Online News ◽  
Control Information ◽  
Information Exposure ◽  
Secondary Data Sources ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact

In this millennial era many tourism industries use digital media as a means of promotion. The digital media has greatly influenced tourism development and community life. Media exposure has a positive and negative impact on its users. Media information exposure can affect the socio-cultural community. It is necessary to master and control information technology to give us benefits. The aim of this study is to determine the impact of media information exposure to the development of tourism and the behavior of Balinese people. The type of data used in this study is quantitative and qualitative deriving from secondary data sources. Data collection techniques use documentation study sourced from government reports and online news media. The results show that exposure of digital media information has a positive and negative impact on the development of tourism and the behavior of Balinese people.

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