‘Moral journalists’: The emergence of new intermediaries of news in an age of digital media

Journalism ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 1035-1051 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmit Wiesslitz ◽  
Tamar Ashuri
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Online Journalism ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
New Models ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Israeli Army ◽  
Journalistic Practice ◽  
Modern Era

The article examines how online journalism fosters new models of journalism that challenge journalistic values associated with modern era journalism. It focuses on the shift from ‘objective’ journalism to an ethical journalistic practice that aims to publicize a reality of suffering that is marginalized or even denied. We argue that the digital platforms facilitate the emergence of a new journalistic model – the model of the ‘moral journalist’. Unlike the ‘objective’ journalist who (supposedly) remains outside of events and reports only ‘facts’, and unlike the ‘advocate’ journalist who aims to bring about change by reporting on events in which they take part, the ‘moral journalist’ witnesses events that involve the suffering of others with the aim of changing the witnessed reality. The claims will be grounded in an analysis of one case study: the online journalistic activities of the members of ‘Machsom Watch’ – an all female organization whose members act to monitor the human rights of Palestinians at checkpoints set up by the Israeli army and post their reports on their website.

scholarly journals The Challenge of Teaching Mobile Journalism through MOOCs: A Case Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (13) ◽  
pp. 5307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Cervi ◽  
José Manuel Pérez Tornero ◽  
Santiago Tejedor
Keyword(s):  
Online Courses ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Open Learning ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
Current Challenge ◽  
New Models ◽  
Journalistic Practice ◽  
The Way

Smartphones have become a key social tool: They have changed the way people consume, receive and produce information, providing potentially anyone with the opportunity to create and share content through a variety of platforms. The use of smartphones for gathering, producing, editing and disseminating news gave birth to a new journalistic practice, mobile journalism. Incorporating mobile journalism is, thus, the current challenge for journalism educators. Our article aims at discovering whether new models of education, such as massive online courses, can help mobile journalism training. The research focuses on the first pilot project of a massive open online courses (MOOC) on mobile journalism, the Y-NEX MOOC. By assessing structure, functioning and participants’ opinion, the objective is to discover if MOOCs prove to be useful tools in mobile journalism training. Results show that this model of distance open learning can be helpful for mobile journalism training, providing some recommendations for improvement.

Korean Youth Netizenship and its Discontents

2011 ◽  
Vol 141 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Epstein ◽  
Sun Jung
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Cultural Expression ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
The Web

South Korea frequently is regarded as standing at the vanguard of the digital revolution, and its status as perhaps the world's most wired society makes it a fruitful case study for considering how digital culture may develop. South Korea's reputation rests in part on statistics that place it at the global forefront in terms of broadband penetration and internet speed – that is, its infrastructural ‘hardware’ – but it is equally in the cultural expression of Korea's engagement with digital media – its ‘software’ – that the nation evinces characteristics that call for attention. Compressed modernisation in South Korea has brought about contestation over acceptable behaviour, and several recent incidents highlight the thorny negotiation of cultural practice in the Web 2.0 era. This article focuses on two interrelated phenomena: first, the use of digital media to confront convention and foster activism; and second, an opposing desire to police violations of norms, often at the expense of invasion of privacy and human rights.

Populism and plebiscitarianism 2.0: How Podemos used digital platforms for organization and decision-making

2021 ◽  
pp. 146144482110387
Author(s):  
Lluis de Nadal
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Participatory Democracy ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Digital Platforms

Using the Spanish party Podemos as a case study, this article opens up a dialogue between researchers in the fields of populist communication and the digitization of political parties. Research has persuasively shown how the participatory promise of digital parties often degenerated into “plebiscitarianism 2.0.” However, partly because of the mutual disengagement between these fields, the mismatch between promise and reality remains poorly understood. This article argues that, in the case of Podemos, this gap arises from the party’s populist project to turn widespread public disaffection into political power—a project that, as populism typically does, involved the use of plebiscitarian linkages and, therefore, was contradictory to the promise of promoting participatory democracy. By bridging the gap between populism and digital party research, this article calls attention to how populist actors use digital media not only to bypass traditional gatekeepers but also to replace political parties with online plebiscites.

@Indigenousx: A Case Study of Community-Led Innovation in Digital Media

2013 ◽  
Vol 149 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Sweet ◽  
Luke Pearson ◽  
Pat Dudgeon
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Aboriginal Education ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
The Status ◽  
Twitter Account ◽  
Journalistic Practice ◽  
Digital Landscape ◽  
Indigenous Voices

The ever-increasing uses for social media and mobile technologies are bringing new opportunities for innovation and participation across societies, while challenging and disrupting the status quo. Characteristics of the digital age include the proliferation of user-driven innovation and the blurring of boundaries and roles, whether between the producers and users of news and other products or services, or between sectors. The @IndigenousX Twitter account, which has a different Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person tweeting each week, is an example of user-driven innovation and of how Indigenous voices are emerging strongly in the rapidly evolving digital landscape. Its founder, Luke Pearson, a teacher and Aboriginal education consultant, wanted to share the platform he had established on Twitter for storytelling to an engaged audience. The account can thus be seen as a form of citizen, participatory, community or alternative journalism. This article provides a preliminary analysis of @IndigenousX, and suggests that this account and the diversity of Indigenous voices in the digital environment offer opportunities for wide-ranging research endeavours. Initiatives like @IndigenousX are also a reminder that journalism has much to learn from innovation outside the conventional realm of journalistic practice.

When international case-law meets national law

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katia Peruzzo
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
European Convention ◽  
Loan Words ◽  
European Court ◽  
International Court ◽  
Translation Techniques ◽  
Official Languages ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Legal Concepts

Abstract The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) is an international court set up in 1959 with the aim of ruling on applications alleging violations of the rights enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights. The Court’s official languages are English and French, which are also used for delivering and publishing its judgments. In order to decide on the single cases, the ECtHR needs to discuss and recall national and international legislation. This leaves “traces” in the Court’s judgments. The focus of this paper is on one possible type of such traces, i.e. loan words referring to Italian legal concepts and institutions. The paper presents a case study conducted on a corpus of ECtHR judgments published in English. The aims are to propose a methodology for the semi-automatic extraction of loan words and to analyse them in the light of translation techniques.

scholarly journals Sports broadcasting, journalism and the challenge of new media

2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (53) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Kirsten Frandsen
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Digital Platform ◽  
Sports Events ◽  
Sports Broadcasting

<p>This article explores the challenge faced by established media organisations integrating digital media in their production. Using a case study of a Danish broadcaster’s use of blogs in their coverage of major sports events, it is argued that the challenge is strategic in a broader sense, as the move to digital platforms is influenced by economic, organisational as well as conceptual parameters for roles. It is argued that in order to understand the potential and challenges of this case, the peculiarities of the role of sports journalists in broadcasting have to be taken into consideration. The case illustrates how their distinctive engagement with their topic and the audience makes some of them more prone to work for pleasure and produce for the digital platform on very unclear conditions, just as it influences the interaction that takes place in the blogs in various ways.</p>

Digital Platforms for Enhancing Participatory Design and Urban Regeneration

2020 ◽  
pp. 54-82
Author(s):  
Francesca De Filippi ◽  
Cristina Coscia ◽  
Roberta Guido
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
The Public ◽  
Administrative Management ◽  
Open Policy ◽  
Administrative Area ◽  
Collaborative Platform ◽  
Set Up

This chapter explores an innovative approach to open policy-making and citizen-responsive urban planning. It reports on the ongoing project MiraMap carried out by the Politecnico di Torino from 2013. It started creating a crowdmap, engaging both citizens and the Public Administration in a reporting process concerning issues, and resources within the Mirafiori Sud administrative area of Turin (Italy), until it became a digital collaborative platform. It was a real case study geared at evaluating the use of open source technologies. MiraMap has been set up by integrating current administrative management process and involving new actors in the decision-making process. Today, the project is focusing mostly on encouraging forms of co-design and co-production, including gaming components. The chapter seeks to set up a methodological and technological framework, by addressing the complexity of urban planning and integrating the perspectives of citizens through their actual engagement.

scholarly journals Misogyny, solidarity and postfeminism on social media: The work of being Diana Shurygina, survivor-celebrity

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 739-762
Author(s):  
Sudha Rajagopalan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Support Groups ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Social Networking Site ◽  
Radical Politics ◽  
Individual Choice ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Soviet Russia

In a disclosure on Russian talk television in January 2017, 16-year-old Diana Shurygina shared with a national audience the traumatic details of her rape by Sergei Semenov. Using Shurygina’s performances on television and her subsequent participation on social media as a case study, this article analyses the emergence of empathic publics and the construction of celebrity at the intersection of digital media, popular misogyny and postfeminism in Russia. By setting up a vlog, support groups, fan and personal pages on VKontakte (a popular Russian social networking site), Shurygina is able to counter vicious pillorizing by creating a network of empathy and support. The celebrity that Shurygina sculpts in these spaces, however, is postfeminist in its emphasis on individual choice and self-esteem as strategies to overcome all societal ills, in its celebration of hyperfemininity and in its eschewal of radical politics. This article thus considers how digital platforms shape voice, public affect and solidarity on digital platforms but also how complicit that emergent voice is in the neoliberal ‘retraditionalisation’ of gender roles in post-Soviet Russia.

scholarly journals Affordances of Digital Archives: The Case of the Prozhito Archive of Personal Diaries

2020 ◽  
pp. 371-387
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Kalinina
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Public Access ◽  
Digital Archive ◽  
Historical Documents ◽  
Digital Archives ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
The Past ◽  
Digital Media Studies

With regard to increasing politicization and instrumentalization of history in Russia and the development of digital tools allowing public access to previously non-available historical documents, analysis of digital platforms exhibiting potential for engagement with the past becomes of relevance to Russian and Digital Media Studies. Therefore this chapter focuses on a Russian case study Prozhito, a digital archive of personal diaries created by a community of volunteers. Being an example of public engagement with the past, Prozhito, nevertheless, has a number of constraints that raise ethical, political and techno-methodological questions concerning archival composition and affordances of the platform for participation. Therefore the aim of this chapter is to study Prozhito’s affordances to learn more about the potentials of such platforms for the production of historical knowledge.

scholarly journals Proximity Online Media in Catalonia (Spain). The Case Study of Nació Digital Group

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Mònica Puntí Brun
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The State ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Online Journalism ◽  
History Of ◽  
Media Outlet ◽  
State Of Art

This paper aims to make a conceptualization of proximity digital media. It will define what is local and proximity communication as well as the history and evolution of online journalism and digital media features which are briefly reviewed. Business models that exist nowadays and the state of art in Catalonia (Spain) will also be briefly analysed. From this theoretical framework it will be explained the case of Nació Digital and its territorial media. Initially the history of this media group will be developed, as well as its journalistic and business models. The paper seeks to underscore the importance of the journalistic model based on the tradition of the profession, the proximity information and the technology developed for this online media. The Nació Digital is an example of a successful media outlet judging from its audience figures (the second online media in Catalonia) and its sustainable model business.<em><em><br /></em></em>

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