The backend of news as a juxtaposition of data and human costs

2020 ◽  
pp. 32-55
Author(s):  
Cate Dowd
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Classification Systems ◽  
Conflict Zones ◽  
Semantic Code ◽  
Interactive Graphic ◽  
Training Systems ◽  
Human Costs ◽  
Integrate Data ◽  
Media Cloud

Indexing and semantic code in news draw on a base of well-defined vocabulary from classification systems used by news editors for search tags, but journalism also uses leaked data, mobile metadata logs, and datasets for visualisations. The tagging systems in news, like NewsCode, are embedded in CMS and help to bind data for cross-referencing purposes. The defined concepts have an ontological base that relate to “news” and they are structured in hierarchical and logical ways. For many years social media tags were unstructured, but folksonomy approaches do not exclude semantic methods, and vice versa. Media cloud tools can also be used by journalists to generate lightly interactive graphic visualisations or to integrate data onto maps. However, data and metadata should also be used to develop new semantic systems to better protect journalists in conflict zones and to embed the values and ethics of journalism into algorithms for journalism training systems.

Digital Journalism, Drones, and Automation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cate Dowd
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Game Design ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Classification Systems ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Conflict Zones ◽  
Digital Journalism ◽  
Cloud Servers

Advances in online technology and news systems, such as automated reasoning across digital resources and connectivity to cloud servers for storage and software, have changed digital journalism production and publishing methods. Integrated media systems used by editors are also conduits to search systems and social media, but the lure of big data and rise in fake news have fragmented some layers of journalism, alongside investments in analytics and a shift in the loci for verification. Data has generated new roles to exploit data insights and machine learning methods, but access to big data and data lakes is so significant it has spawned newsworthy partnerships between media moguls and social media entrepreneurs. However, digital journalism does not even have its own semantic systems that could protect the values of journalism, but relies on the affordances of other systems. Amidst indexing and classification systems for well-defined vocabulary and concepts in news, data leaks and metadata present challenges for journalism. By contrast data visualisations and real-time field reporting with short-form mobile media and civilian drones set new standards during the European asylum seeker crisis. Aerial filming with drones also adds to the ontological base of journalism. An ontology for journalism and intersecting ontologies can inform the design of new semantic learning systems. The Semantic CAT Method, which draws on participatory design and game design, also assists the conceptual design of synthetic players with emotion attributes, towards a meta-model for learning. The design of context-aware sensor systems to protect journalists in conflict zones is also discussed.

scholarly journals Restricted modes: Social media, content classification and LGBTQ sexual citizenship

2020 ◽  
pp. 146144482090436
Author(s):  
Clare Southerton ◽  
Daniel Marshall ◽  
Peter Aggleton ◽  
Mary Lou Rasmussen ◽  
Rob Cover
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Classification Systems ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Sexual Citizenship ◽  
Online Content ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Content Classification ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Public Criticism

In the context of recent controversies surrounding the censorship of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer online content, specifically on YouTube and Tumblr, we interrogate the relationship between normative understandings of sexual citizenship and the content classification regimes. We argue that these content classification systems and the platforms’ responses to public criticism both operate as norm-producing technologies, in which the complexities of sexuality and desire are obscured in order to cultivate notions of a ‘good’ lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer sexual citizen. However, despite normative work of classification seeking to distinguish between sexuality and sex, we argue that the high-profile failures of these classification systems create the conditions for users to draw attention to, rather than firm, these messy boundaries.

scholarly journals Technology Transformation: Promoting Sustainable Indonesia MSMEs and Cooperative by Digitalization

JEJAK ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 364-383
Author(s):  
Tri Andjarwati ◽  
Vieqi Rakhma Wulan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Integrative Review ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
The Government ◽  
Technology Transformation ◽  
Media Cloud

This research was conducted to find out what steps the government has taken in striving for society to be 'digital literate', what obstacles are faced and what digital forms have been implemented by MSME players and cooperatives that have gone digital. The method used is an integrative review. The results of this study found that the government has tried various ways to make SMEs and cooperatives more “digitally literate”, from infrastructure, training to collaborating with related institutions and companies that have gone online first in terms of systems of operational (transaction), marketing and also payment. Obstacles to infrastructure and available facilities as well as the lack of information and human resource skills in utilizing digital are challenges faced by the government, SMEs and cooperatives. Therefore, better coordination from up to bottom is needed so that understanding and utilization of digital can be distributed evenly. For MSMEs and cooperatives that have “go digital”, found that they are still at the basic and intermediate levels, while the platforms used are still in the sharing economy, e-commerce, social media, cloud computing and other digital platforms related to applications to simplify transactions and operations.

scholarly journals Cost Efficient Media Cloud Storage and Systematic Risks Involved in the Cloud Computing

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 2466-2469
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Cloud Storage ◽  
Fast Rate ◽  
Main Aspect ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
High Security ◽  
Systematic Risks ◽  
Cost Efficient ◽  
Media Cloud

Now a days data is growing at a very fast rate. Here data is referred not only with organizational data but the data also from non-organizational and social media, the data may be PDF’s, Photos, Audios, Videos, XML file etc. To earn more profit, the organizations tends to establish Cloud Storage with minimum establishment cost and high security. To provide robust and secure platform is the main aspect of cloud. Lots of algorithms have been designed and implementing for securing the data at cloud but the attack on 2014 on cloud in which 50 million accounts were hacked, shows that cloud is not fully secured. The main focus of this paper is to draw attention towards security issues and cost-efficient cloud and the solution for implementing it.

scholarly journals Forensic conflict studies: Making sense of war in the social media age

2021 ◽  
pp. 175063522110373
Author(s):  
Jakob Hauter
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Process Tracing ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Methodological Innovation ◽  
Conflict Zones ◽  
Digital Forensic ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The Social

Online media is a blessing and a curse for academic research on war. On the one hand, the internet provides unprecedented access to information from conflict zones. On the other hand, the prevalence of disinformation can make it difficult to use this information in a transparent way. This article proposes digital forensic process tracing as a methodological innovation to tackle this challenge and make case study research on the causes of war fit for the social media age. It argues that two important features of process-tracing methodology – source criticism and Bayesian updating – are well developed in theory but are rarely applied to the study of armed conflict. Digital forensic process tracing applies these features to online media sources by drawing on the journalistic practice of open source intelligence (OSINT) analysis. This article uses the case of the war in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region to illustrate the usefulness of the proposed methodology.

Understanding environmental tweets of for-profits and nonprofits and their effects on user responses

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sumin Shin ◽  
Eyun-Jung Ki
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Attribution Theory ◽  
Message Framing ◽  
Environmental Issue ◽  
Classification Systems ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Specific Information ◽  
Green Products ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Environmental Messages

PurposeOrganizations are communicating with the public about their thoughts and behaviors relevant to the environment via social networking sites. The purpose of this paper is to explore for-profit and nonprofit organizations' Twitter messages to understand their environment-related messages and their influences on the publics' responses.Design/methodology/approachThis study conducted a content analysis adopting four message classification systems: environmental message orientation, message specificity, message framing, and environmental issue. Guided by attribution theory, this study also explored how the organization's environmental messages influence social media (Twitter) user responses, likes, retweets, and replies.FindingsThe analysis showed that for-profits' messages tend to discuss their green products and manufacturing processes with specific numeric evidence, while nonprofits are disposed to describe a severely degraded environment. In addition, the study revealed that tweets yield a high number of likes and replies when the organizations are for-profits and the messages emphasize green products.Research limitations/implicationsThe findings of this study showed that the green message categorization systems are applicable to the social media context. But, this study focused on Twitter only. Future studies need to examine various social media platforms.Practical implicationsThe study findings recommend communication practitioners use substantive green messages highlighting actual pro-environmental performances. Also, practitioners might need to make a linkage between the discussed environmental issue and the organization (e.g. a water issue by a wildlife-related nonprofit, an energy issue by a home appliance manufacturer, an air pollution issue by a bicycle company). In addition, regarding the message specificity, infographics can be present specific information that audiences can readily understand because it is described visually.Originality/valueScholars investigated environmental messages in advertising and cautioned that environmental messages that are not substantive or specific can cause audiences to perceive the messages as greenwashing. However, these previous studies focused on conventional media, and they have not been replicated in the age of social media. Thus, it is important to explore the current status of organizational environmental messages on social media.

IHL 2.0: Is There a Role for Social Media in Monitoring and Enforcement?

2012 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 493-536 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Herzberg ◽  
Gerald M Steinberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Use Case ◽  
Conflict Zones ◽  
Legal Obligations ◽  
Monitoring And Enforcement ◽  
Fact Finding ◽  
The Impact

This article will examine the opportunities and limitations of using social media in the execution of legal duties relating to the monitoring and enforcement of IHL. The article will first provide an overview of social media. Next, it will briefly summarise the normative framework of IHL as well as the legal duties of the primary actors and promoters of IHL (for example, states, the UN, NGOs, the International Committee of the Red Cross and courts) to monitor and enforce these rules. The article will then address specific legal obligations relating to IHL monitoring and enforcement and the impact of social media on meeting these requirements.Throughout, the article will use case studies from several conflict zones, including Sudan, Uganda, Mexico, Somalia, Gaza and Libya. The article will conclude that social media can play a critical role in promoting IHL education, and monitoring for potential violations. The benefits of this technology, however, are less clear for carrying out legal obligations related to the enforcement of IHL, such as fact-finding, arrest and prosecution. It is essential, therefore, that clear guidelines for utilising this quickly evolving technology, particularly in official fact-finding and judicial frameworks, be established.

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