Journalism ethics and the emerging new media culture of radio talk shows and public debates (Ekimeeza) in Uganda

Journalism ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 646-663 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Goretti Nassanga
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Talk Shows ◽  
Journalism Ethics ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
Radio Talk

scholarly journals “Volumes!”

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (79) ◽  
pp. 117-134
Author(s):  
Sara Tanderup Linkis
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Participatory Culture ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Modern Media ◽  
Serial Novel

Departing from an analysis of Mark Z. Danielewski’s serial novel The Familiar, the article investigates how contemporary literature at once imitates and resists the serial logics of modern media culture. Thus, focusing especially on the aspects of transmediality and participatory culture, I point out how Danielewski’s work adapts the narrative structure as well as the modes of promotion and reception that characterize e.g. modern television series while also positioning itself in contrast to new media culture and emphasizing the ‘literariness’ of the literary series.

The Janus face of social media and democracy? Reflections on Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 317-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Mutsvairo ◽  
Helge Rønning
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Current Case ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Political Processes

The purpose of this issue of Media Culture and Society is to discuss the possible role of social media in the struggle for democracy, against authoritarianism, and over hidden power structures. The articles included in this volume are meant to offer empirical interventions to beliefs, some of them unproven, on whether the emergence of new media technologies has driven Africa towards democratic change. Papers in this Special Issue cover a wide variety of African countries delving deep into comparative studies of participatory citizens’ media on the continent. This introduction is an attempt to offer an explanation on African democratisation and authoritarianism before conceptualising the role of social media in political processes with the backing of current case study dispatches in Africa, demonstrating the dilemmas of digital disparities in promoting or denting democratisation in Africa.

scholarly journals Cultural Discourse of the Cinematic Language Evolution

2021 ◽  
pp. 28-34
Author(s):  
E. Horyslavets
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Language Evolution ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Evolutionary Development ◽  
Basic Unit ◽  
Significant Shift ◽  
Structural Elements ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Audiovisual Work ◽  
Book Culture

The relevance. The problems of addressing the issue of crisis phenomena in the development of cinematic language is due to the need to identify and study the contradiction between the need to update the cinematic language and established audience stereotypes in the rigidly established semiotic code of cinema. The development of clip­thinking against the background of the transition from book culture to media culture facilitated the emergence of a new cinematic language, which gave impetus to shift the emphasis of semiotic code from frame­sign, frame­symbol to defragmentation of time pause between structural elements of multi­series audiovisual work: episodes and seasons. The purpose of the article is to describe the transition from “sign language” to “time language” as a logical revolutionary transformation of the classical language of cinema. The methodology is based on culturological, historical and semiotic approaches. The results. The development of modern technologies has led to a significant shift of emphasis from cinema towards the series. This was due to the possibility of expanding the story into projects, where the plot, characters and conflicts can be covered more deeply. A multi­series film can now better reveal the plot narrative, where there are more than twenty story lines and about two hundred important plot twists. Thus, the revolutionary changes in the semiotic code of the cinematic language have shifted towards serial creativity, which cannot be considered second­rate or low­quality — this is a fundamentally different set of logic. If you watch any good series according to the rules of watching a movie, where the frame is a hieroglyph, the result will be really bad. But if you apply clip­thinking­based principle of viewing, where the basic unit of information is time, the result will be completely different. A new cinematic language emerged due to the development of clip­thinking against the background of the transition from book culture to media culture, which gave impetus to shift the emphasis of semiotic code from frame­sign, frame­symbol to defragmentation of time pause between structural elements of multi­series audiovisual work: episodes and seasons. The topicality. Different approaches to the problem of understanding cinematic text as a complex semiotic device are determined by cultural codes. The article develops a conceptual approach which is based on the fact that the transition from the memory culture and text culture to media culture is accompanied by a rethinking of the semiotic code syntax of the audiovisual work, that is its language that changes rethinking traditional discourse of the semiotics of audiovisual work. The practical value. In the perspective of art history, the primary basis of cinema is a specific language developed throughout the history of cinema, which must develop, because the language that does not develop becomes a dead language. It is the understanding of cinematic language, the ability to freely express one’s ideas and be understandable to the viewer, allows the author to express his/her idea in cinema. Conclusions. The formation of clip­thinking in the era of media culture significantly encourages the search for new ways to develop the semiotic code of cinematic language. These processes should be in the field of close attention not only of art critics, but also of culturologists, sociologists, philologists and philosophers. Today, the emphasis of traditional cinema is gradually shifting from local history to expanding of its boundaries to infinity, that is the lack of a rigid structured entry point — transmedia storytelling. Time is a new constant of media text as opposed to cinematic text. The evolutionary development path of the language of traditional cinema did not stop, and the revolution did take place in the serial space, which led to the emergence of a new media syntax.

scholarly journals Social Media and Journalism Ethics in Nigeria: A Study of Journalists in Kwara State of Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 04 (03) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernice Titilola Gbadeyan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Journalism Ethics ◽  
Broadcast Media ◽  
The North ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
The Impact

Journalism is a term that has been used to describe the act of gathering and reporting news, either through the print media which includes newspaper, magazine or through the broadcast media to mention television, radio broadcasting system and recently journalism has been extended throughout the world through unrestricted use of social media, whereby the act of gathering and disseminating of news is done without restraint. Conversely, one important thing to note about journalism is the ethics that enhance the profession, its notes worthy to know that any information that is disseminated via any media should be ethically standard. The new media has on a large scale given the opportunity to a whole large number of people to practice journalism without them knowing the ethics that guide the profession, which is affecting the dynamics of the profession. Therefore this study is based on assessing the impact of a new communication system on journalism; whether social media promote the ethics of journalism profession and to know if social media journalists are in compliance with the journalism code of ethics in their dissemination of news and information. In this research, the survey method was adopted and the north-central geo-political zone, Kwara state to be précised was selected for the study.

scholarly journals Media culture in modern society

2020 ◽  
pp. 61-67
Author(s):  
Samir Ljajić
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Complex Spectrum ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Global Culture ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Television Film ◽  
The Media

The importance of media culture in contemporary society is extremely large because it shapes a modern man life, the creation of political attitudes and social behavior of individuals. The products of media culture, paintings, sounds and performances are increasingly organizing free time of a contemporary man, shaping his thinking and identity. Based on the content of radio, television, film, and new media technologies, a person creates an image of himself, his own potentials, values, success, as well as his own affiliation, a certain class, race, nationality, and thus media culture has a remarkable social significance. A number of relevant authors state that media culture shapes people's perceptions of the world, the value system, morality, good and evil. Worldwide, the contents of the media culture today constitute a general culture and are seen as the basis for new forms of global culture. A complex spectrum of actions that make media, primarily radio television, film, and media of modern technologies, creates the need for a more precise definition of the term media culture, bearing in mind its breadth and complexity. In this context, the main goal of this paper is to define the concept of media culture, in order to better understand all aspects, as well as the complexity of the whole that this term implies. Media culture is determined by the terms which provide an insight into a better understanding of this term, and in this paper they are given considerable attention. D. Kelner in the Media Culture section points to the following important determinants: a wide range of media resources that form an integral part of the media culture; performances created by the combination of picture and sound; creation of features and symbols of contemporary social life; media culture as a high technology culture (techno-culture); the relation between media culture and society; theory of media and cultures.

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