Hybrid mediation opportunity structure? A case study of Hong Kong’s Anti-National Education Movement

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (10) ◽  
pp. 1741-1762 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shiau Ching Wong ◽  
Scott Wright
Keyword(s):  
System Theory ◽  
New Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Opportunity Structure ◽  
National Education ◽  
Education Movement ◽  
Media System ◽  
Media Practices ◽  
The Relationship

This article assesses how social movements make use of media, and how their media practices influence movement outcomes using a case study of the Anti-National Education Movement in Hong Kong. It contributes to the literature on this important protest event and to ongoing debates about changes in the relationship between media and protesters. It is argued that activists adapted to what we call a “hybrid mediation opportunity structure.” The concept of a hybrid mediation opportunity structure is built on a critical engagement with Cammaerts’ mediation opportunity structure and is informed by Chadwick’s hybrid media system theory. We find that old (mainstream) and new (social) media tactics were deployed interdependently in a hybrid, symbiotic process. Old and new media logics fed off each other, in turn producing new logics: hybrid mediation opportunities which enabled activists to simultaneously broaden their connective networks and capture the attention of news media to publicize and legitimize their collective protests.

scholarly journals Mediapractices and the population’s trust in media from the perspectives of agent-structural integration

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 45-52
Author(s):  
Taras Prokopyshyn
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Structural Characteristics ◽  
Structural Integration ◽  
Media System ◽  
The Media ◽  
Methodological Principles ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Media Practices ◽  
The Relationship

In modern societies, innovative (participatory) mediapractices are becoming more widespread, replacing traditional (consumatory) mediapractices. Unlike traditional mediapractices, when the masses of the population were only recipients and passive consumers of information, today masses of the population become co-authors of mediaproduct and influence mediadiscourse. Newly established mediapractices are not yet institutionalized and are innovative activity, the preconditions, factors and consequences of which have not been studied yet. Along with the progressive phenomenon of mediatization, there are also crisis phenomenas in the field of mediapractices. Already known dysfunctional phenomena, including the crisis of trust in the media, are taking on new forms. New media reality requires scientific understanding, in particular in measuring the ratio of traditional and new mediapractices in the context of the relationship with the phenomenon of (dis)trust in media (including news media). Sociological understanding of the newly established media practices requires taking into account two essential aspects of the analyzed phenomenon: 1) institutional and structural characteristics of the media system as a context; 2) characteristics of mass media practices. Based on methodological principles of the theory of agent-structural integration, a scheme for the development of media practices in context of (dis)trust in news media is proposed. The proposed tool can be used to diagnose expert and mass mediapractices.

Blogging as ‘Recoding’: A Case Study of the Discursive War over the Sinking of the Cheonan

2011 ◽  
Vol 141 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-106
Author(s):  
Yeran Kim ◽  
Irkwon Jeong ◽  
Hyoungkoo Khang ◽  
Bomi Kim
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Korean Society ◽  
The Public ◽  
Digital Network ◽  
The Social ◽  
Discursive Politics ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Media Practices

This article explores how Korean bloggers, in contestation, participate in the social structure of communication and potentially transform it through their vernacular practices of decoding and recoding in the blogosphere. As a neo-liberal regime has been established, citizens practise discursive politics in a seemingly democratic and technologically advanced society that is actually a coercive-controlled communication system. Through the analysis of news blogs on the Cheonan disaster, it is suggested that a majority of bloggers are seen to utilise news media stories to gain leverage for their points of view or to provide counter-arguments against the dominant frames generated by the established news media. The critical reframing of the digital network in Korean society allows a reflexive reading of the Korean digital wave, which should be contextualised within generation politics, economic polarisation and ideological contestation. In order to avoid a nationalistic celebration of the IT power of the country, citizens' digital media practices are analysed as contributions to the democratisation of the public sphere and the enhancement of social openness and participation in the digitised arena of discursive politics.

Beyond the Phantom Public

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony M. Nadler
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
News Media ◽  
Interactive Media ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Media System ◽  
Critical Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
To Come ◽  
Point To Point

This concluding chapter discusses the intellectual resources of critical media studies and applies them to debates about the future of news. The changes taking place in news media concern not only content but the very modes through which people engage the media in everyday life, as well as the ways media connect individuals to larger communities. Although interactive media is not inherently destined to level hierarchies of power, it is certainly possible that societal appropriations of new media technologies could mean a reworking of the infrastructure that regulates which ideas and visions circulate from point to point in the media system. The issue lies in how crucial decisions at this critical juncture will be made and what course they will set for the years to come.

Polarization and partisanship: Key drivers of distrust in media old and new?

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 484-501
Author(s):  
Jane Suiter ◽  
Richard Fletcher
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Multilevel Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
The United States ◽  
Media System ◽  
Political Environments ◽  
Key Drivers ◽  
The Relationship

Some worry that increased partisanship is lowering trust in the news media, as people increasingly come into contact with cross-cutting news coverage. We use multilevel analysis of online survey data from 35 countries and find that left-right partisans (1) have slightly less trust in the news media in general, (2) slightly higher levels of trust in the news they consume and (3) perceive a larger ‘trust gap’ between the news they use and the rest of the news available within their country. However, we do not find evidence to support the idea that people in more politically polarized countries have less trust in the news, or that the association between partisanship and trust is strengthened in polarized political environments. Although in most cases the relationship between partisanship and trust is weak, it is noticeably stronger in the United States. However, the United States is home to a unique media system, and our analysis highlights the problems of assuming that the processes at work in one relatively well-understood country are playing out in the same way globally.

On-Air and Online: Social Media and Local Radio Production in the UK

MedienJournal ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-18
Author(s):  
Anna Zoellner ◽  
Stephen Lax
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Radio Stations ◽  
Broadcast Media ◽  
Online Social Media ◽  
The Social ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Media Practices ◽  
The Relationship

Digitalisation and the emergence of online media in particular have led to intense debates about its effects on what is now often called “traditional media” including broadcast media such as radio. Our paper investigates how radio stations’ expansion into online space has transformed radio production. Focusing on the relationship between station and listeners, it discusses the social media practices of radio producers and explores whether these new digital tools contribute to a shift towards a more participatory production culture. The paper draws on data from a multi-method case study investigation of local British radio stations that combined programme analysis, expert interviews and web analysis. The study highlighted a shared belief among producers in the importance and value of social media for achieving audience loyalty and engagement. Nevertheless –not least due to a lack of additional resources –their use of social media is mainly an extension of traditional journalistic and promotional tech niques. Its potential for listener involvement in the production process is not met and exchanges with the audiences remain in the digital realm without impact on the on-air listener experience.  

Students' Out-of-School Writing Practices in an Educational Facebook Application

2014 ◽  
pp. 154-170
Author(s):  
Thor Gibbins ◽  
Christine Greenhow
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Leisure Time ◽  
Reciprocal Relationship ◽  
School Practices ◽  
Writing Practices ◽  
K 12 ◽  
Media Practices ◽  
Out Of School

In this chapter, the authors seek to help educators understand trends in students' writing outside of the classroom, with a particular emphasis on illuminating students' purposes and practices in writing within social media spaces. The authors synthesize current research on students' Internet and social media practices and offer a case study from their own research on students' writing within an educational Facebook application called Hot Dish. This chapter seeks to elucidate the reciprocal relationship between students out of school writing using popular social media and their in-school practices. Ultimately, the authors seek to help readers make connections between what students are doing with new media in their leisure time and the improvement of students' writing performance in K-12 settings, believing there may be important but under-explored synergies.

Displaying and negotiating identity through the hair bow: A case study of child celebrity JoJo Siwa and her social media fans

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-71
Author(s):  
Fiona Andreallo
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Gender Performance ◽  
Social Meanings ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Ways Of Being ◽  
Geographical Locations

Abstract This cultural case study examines the hair bow as a key element of identification and gender performance for child celebrity JoJo Siwa and her fans. Siwa fans are represented as exclusively female and include girls (newborn‐12 years old) and their mothers identifying from the geographical locations of United States, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. The methods of this research include social semiotic discourse analysis complemented by archival research. Between 8 July and 11 October 2017 fan and celebrity interactions were observed on the Siwa official Facebook page and collected. To complement and contextualize these observations, news media reports, and observations of Siwas official YouTube channel and Instagram accounts were collected from 2 January to 13 November 2017. The data were examined with two key sets of interdependent questions in mind: How is the hair bow depicted by Siwa and how do the fans depict the bow? How is the relationship between Siwa and her fans depicted on social media through the bow? The findings suggested three key themes of meaning attached to the hair bow: gender, innocence and empowerment. The findings suggest that the hair bow signals femininity, but that this historically is not limited to a female body. The JoJo Bow Facebook fan community limits femininity as exclusively female. For these fans the JoJo Bow signifies an exclusive mother‐daughter bond. Social meanings attached to the hair bow (including the JoJo Bow) both enable and constrain ways of being for the wearer.

Faces of an Invisible Population

2015 ◽  
Vol 59 (7) ◽  
pp. 783-801 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tine Ustad Figenschou ◽  
Kjersti Thorbjørnsrud
Keyword(s):  
System Theory ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Human Face ◽  
Innovative Design ◽  
Human Interest ◽  
Extant Literature ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Media System ◽  
Personal Stories

Based on a quantitative, comparative analysis of U.S., French, and Norwegian news media, this article examines the use of human interest stories in the coverage of irregular immigration. In an innovative design, it systematically analyzes how human interest framing is related to the frequency and complexity of dominant arguments and perspectives (issue-specific frames). In contrast to the extant literature, arguing that news on immigration reduces immigrants to dangerous and anonymous threats, the article finds that about half the news stories studied have a human face or example. Moreover, these human interest articles tend to frame the issue from the immigrants’ perspective, describing their personal stories and struggle. This result nuances the commonly held assumption that human interest frames signal declining news quality, as the number and range of arguments presented are not significantly reduced when human narratives are employed. The prevalence of human interest frames is highest in Norway, where we also identify a reduction in frame complexity in human interest stories, indicating the need to rethink the democratic corporatist model in media system theory.

The place of the emplaced mobile: A case study into gendered locative media practices

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larissa Hjorth
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Communication ◽  
Location Based Services ◽  
Camera Phone ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Locative Media ◽  
Media Practices ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Visual Cultures

In this inaugural issue of the timely Mobile Media & Communication journal, questions have been posed about the state of play for mobile communication now and in the future. Given the growing convergence between mobile, social and locative media, this requires a reassessment of mobile media and its relationship with place and intimacy. How are these convergent media platforms, contexts and practices shaping, and being shaped by, intimate cartographies of place? Drawing on a case study of location-based services, games and camera phone practices in South Korea, this paper explores the role of gendered visual cultures in the relationship between place and intimacy.

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