Public Interest and Private Rights in Social Media

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Private Rights

Press Subsidies

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mart Ots ◽  
Robert G. Picard
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Policy Initiative ◽  
State Support ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Fourth Estate ◽  
The World ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Social Media Platforms

Due to its function as a watchdog or fourth estate in democratic societies and a variety of commercial challenges, policy-makers have undertaken initiatives to support the production and distribution of news. Press subsidies are one such policy initiative that particularly aims to provide support to private news producers. Paid as direct cash handouts or indirect reduced taxes and fees, they exist in some form in almost every country in the world. Subsidies are not uncontroversial, their effectiveness is unclear, and their magnitude, designs, and areas of application, differ across nations and their unique economic, cultural, and political contexts. After periods of declining political and public interest in media subsidies, the recent economic crisis of journalism, and the rising influence of various forms of click-bait, fake, native, or biased news on social media platforms, has brought state support of original journalism back on the agenda.

scholarly journals Our Right to Share, Their Right to Know: An Analysis of Public Interest Defense to Defamation

Lentera Hukum ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 241
Author(s):  
Kezia Ezekiel
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Doctor Who ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Defamation Law

The defamation reports have increased and shifted under online-based technology through social media. This study considered the defamation issue in Indonesia that alleged Richard Lee, a doctor who shared a beneficial publication through social media about the dangerous skincare product. Richard's audience believed that his content helped them know the hidden truth behind skincare products available in the market. Consequently, the public questioned whether he was liable because he was regarded to share helpful information under the public interest. This study aimed to analyze Indonesia’s defamation laws, especially in public interest defense under Article 310(3) of the Indonesian Criminal Code. However, the interpretation for public interest as a crime abolition is unclear, resulting in various courts' decisions that lead to criminalizing internet users. This study used legal research with statutory and comparative approaches. It examined legal norms and practices in Indonesia and compared those in the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand. These three countries adapted defamation law to develop cases, including those alleged defamations for the public interest. While the freedom of expression is enshrined in the constitution, its practice has contradicted defamation provisions outlined in derivative regulations. By comparison, these three countries have precise boundaries and public interest defense is explicit. Those countries have specific rules and lists that needed to be fulfilled for those who use public interest defense. The lists based on previous precedents show how they learn and adapt to the development of public interest defense in many cases. This study concluded that Indonesia does not have specific standards or rules to determine cases categorized as the public interest. KEYWORDS: Public Interest Defense, Online Defamation, Freedom of Expression.

scholarly journals PEMAKNAAN PERANG TANDA PAGAR ‘#’ ANTAR DUA KUBU CALON PRESIDEN INDONESIA 2019 DI MEDIA SOSIAL (Analisis Semiotika Peirce Pada Sampul Majalah Tempo Edisi 04 Juni 2018)

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Linna Friska Marbun ◽  
Lasmery RM Girsang
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
The State ◽  
General Election ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Wide Audience ◽  
Deep Meaning ◽  
The Government ◽  
Opposing Camp

<p>ABSTRAK<br />Menjelang kegiatan Pemilihan Umum (Pemilu) pada bulan April 2019, perseteruan tanda pagar (tagar)/#/hashtag #2019GantiPresiden dan #Jokowi2Periode semakin hari semakin marak di media sosial. Perang tagar tersebut merepresentasikan perbedaan dukungan antara kubu pro Pemerintah Joko Widodo dan kubu yang tidak ingin Joko Widodo terpilih kembali menjadi Presiden pada periode 2019-2024.<br />Majalah TEMPO sebagai majalah yang menyajikan berita mengenai Politik, menerbitkan perseteruan yang terjadi di media sosial tersebut pada edisi 04 Juni 2018 dengan tema “PERANG#ADU KUAT DI MEDIA SOSIAL MENJADI PEMANASAN MENJELANG PEMILU 2019. SIAPA BERADA DI BELAKANG DUA KELOMPOK BERSETERU?”.<br />Melalui hasil Analisis Semiotika Peirce yang mengemukakan teori segitiga makna, yaitu: sign, object, dan interpretant, peneliti berhasil memperoleh makna bahwa sampul majalah TEMPO edisi 04 Juni 2018 menggambarkan keadaan Pemerintah pada masa akhir jabatan Joko Widodo sebagai Presiden Indonesia ke-7 yang tengah merasakan ketidaknyamanan dan kecemasan, akibat maraknya serangan tanda pagar atau hashtag dari kubu lawan di media sosial.<br />Tujuan dan manfaat dari penelitian ini selain untuk menguak makna grafis dan teks yang terdapat pada sampul Majalah TEMPO edisi 04 Juni 2018 dengan mengunakan model analisis Semiotika Peirce, juga untuk memberikan sumbangan pemikiran kepada khalayak luas, khususnya pembaca untuk menyikapi bahwa sebuah gambar ilustrasi pada sampul majalah tidak hanya sebagai cara untuk menarik minat khalayak dalam membeli majalah. Lebih dari itu, gambar ilustrasi sebenarnya memiliki makna mendalam berkaitan dengan isi berita yang dimuat suatu majalah.<br />Kata Kunci: Semiotika, Charles Sander Peirce, Majalah TEMPO, Tagar</p><p> </p><p>ABSTRACT<br />Ahead of the General Election (Election) in April 2019, the hashtag / # / hashtag # 2019GantiPresiden and # Jokowi2Periode period are increasingly rife on social media. The hashtag war represented a difference in support between the pro-Joko Widodo government and those who did not want Joko Widodo to be re-elected as President in the 2019-2024 period.<br />TEMPO magazine, as a magazine that presents news about politics, published a dispute that occurred on social media in the June 4, 2018 edition with the theme "WAR # STRONG ADUES IN SOCIAL MEDIA BECOME WARMING AGAINST ELECTION 2019. WHO WAS BEING BEHIND THE TWO GROUPS UNDERSTANDING?".<br />Through the results of Peirce's Semiotic Analysis which proposes the theory of triangles of meaning, namely: sign, object, and interpretant, the researcher succeeded in obtaining the meaning that the cover of the June 4th edition of TEMPO magazine illustrates the state of the Government at the end of Joko Widodo's term as the 7th President of Indonesia who was feeling discomfort and anxiety, due to the rise of fence attacks or hashtags from the opposing camp on social media. The purpose and benefits of this research are not only to uncover the graphic and text meanings contained on the cover of the June 04 2018 edition of TEMPO Magazine by using the Peirce Semiotic analysis model, also to contribute ideas to a wide audience, especially readers to respond to an illustrated picture on the cover of the magazine not only as a way to attract public interest in buying magazines. More than that, the illustrated image actually has a deep meaning related to the news content published in a magazine.                                                                                          Keywords: Semiotics, Charles Sander Peirce, TEMPO Magazine, Tagar</p><p><br /><br /></p>

scholarly journals Rise to fame: events, media activity and public interest in pangolins and pangolin trade, 2005–2016

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 107-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren A. Harrington ◽  
Neil D'Cruze ◽  
David Macdonald
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Conservation Status ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Wildlife Trade ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Awareness Campaigns ◽  
Favourable Conservation Status ◽  
Iconic Status ◽  
Future Work

Attention focused on pangolins (Pholidota) and the threats posed to their survival and welfare by international trade (for use in Chinese Traditional Medicine and the Asian wild meat market) has skyrocketed across all digital information platforms over the last decade. Previously obscure and often referred to as the ‘mammal you’ve never heard of’, pangolins are now widely recognised as an icon of the illegal wildlife trade. We document the events that led to the pangolins’ ‘rise to fame’, culminating in its Appendix I listing by CITES in September 2016 and a global commercial trade ban and explore temporal co-occurrence between events and peaks in media activity and public interest with the aim of identifying events (or types of events) that may have been influential in terms of awareness-raising. More broadly, our objective was to highlight lessons in public communication that might be applied to awareness campaigns for other lesser-known threatened species. We found no evidence that any particular type of event was more likely to generate a significant media/public response than any other, but peaks in public interest co-occurred with reports of pangolin seizures, highlighting the importance of news coverage of these incidents. Further, although neither editorial nor social media peaks were strongly correlated with the timing of events, they sometimes co-occurred with different events and each differed in their coverage of different types of events, suggesting that editorial and social media have independent and distinct roles to play in conservation communication. However, despite their iconic status, public interest in pangolins is still not equivalent to that directed at, for example, tigers, elephants or lions, so efforts need to be sustained. Finally, we note that, although attention can help to generate funds and influence policy, this alone will not be enough to achieve a favourable conservation status for pangolins – on-going and future work need to ensure that public enthusiasm for this species is translated into effective protection.

scholarly journals Privacy study on images uploaded in social networks

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1.7) ◽  
pp. 142
Author(s):  
Hemalatha D ◽  
Almas Begum ◽  
Alex David S
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
The Social ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Privacy Settings

Presently, the growth of Social media is explosive among the users. Increasingly developed social websites like Flickr, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn etc permits the users to create, share and view the post. Confidentiality is a leading factor required in Social Networks. The social users upload their photos to the social sites that intend to gain public interest for social purposes. The exposure of personal information leads to slipping process like identity stealing, morphing etc, which are against the privacy violations. Relied upon the personal characteristics of users, the privacy settings of each user should be defined. In this paper, a relational study about the privacy settings in Online Social structure is examined. Initiated by the importance of social networks among the social users and their behavior towards Online Social Networks, which is followed by the privacy techniques suggested by other researchers are explored. At last, an overview about the merits and demerits of privacy designs and schemes for the user-uploaded images are presented. The study results a new privacy system that controls the confidential information from being accessed from different devices, including mobile devices and computers.

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