scholarly journals Lost in the stream? Professional efficacy perceptions of journalists in the context of dark participation

Journalism ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 146488492110169
Author(s):  
Florian Wintterlin ◽  
Klara Langmann ◽  
Svenja Boberg ◽  
Lena Frischlich ◽  
Tim Schatto-Eckrodt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Online Communication ◽  
Perceived Efficacy ◽  
Professional Efficacy ◽  
Interaction Rate ◽  
Perceived Credibility ◽  
Deliberative Discourse ◽  
Online Comments ◽  
Depth Interviews

Online comments and contributions from users are not always constructive nor rational. This also applies to content that is directed at journalists or published on journalistic platforms. So-called ‘dark participation’ in online communication is a challenge that journalists have to face because it lowers users’ perceived credibility of media brands and hinders a deliberative discourse in comment sections. This study examines how journalists perceive themselves in relation to dark participation, what measures they take against it, and how they assess the efficacy of these measures. Based on in-depth interviews ( N = 26), we find that journalists overall considered themselves to be effective in handling dark participation. The perceived efficacy differed according to the grade of engagement with users. Journalists who interacted very much or very little with users perceive the efficacy of their interventions to be highest, whilst those with medium levels of interaction rate their efficacy to be lower. Furthermore, the perceived amount of dark participation also affected the perceived efficacy.

scholarly journals The green dilemma: Reflections of a Generation Y consumer cohort on green purchase behaviour

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Muposhi ◽  
M. Dhurup ◽  
J Surujlal
Keyword(s):  
Peer Influence ◽  
Social Dilemma ◽  
Green Products ◽  
Perceived Efficacy ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Green Consumerism ◽  
The Social ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Marketing Messages

Green consumerism has garnered much scholarly interest in recent years. However, research on the influence of the Social Dilemma Theory (SDT) on green purchase behaviour has been scarce. Using data generated from sixteen in-depth-interviews, the present study identified perceived efficacy, perceived cost, in-group and self-identity, trust and peer influence as the main antecedents of SDT that influence green purchase behaviour. The findings of the study imply that to promote and institutionalise green purchase behaviour, marketers need to enhance perceived efficacy, trust in green products, reduce perceived cost, align green products with the consumers’ sought image and utilise peer networks when structuring green marketing messages.

scholarly journals KOSTI Surabaya as a counterculture against the foreign culture in the era of generation 4.0

Simulacra ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-26
Author(s):  
Salmatian Safiuddin ◽  
Dewi Atikah
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Good Relationship ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Foreign Culture ◽  
Counter Culture ◽  
Depth Interviews

Indonesian Old Bicycle Community or Komunitas Sepeda Tua Indonesia (KOSTI) of Surabaya is a subculture consisting of old bicycle lovers in Surabaya. This qualitative study aims to clarify and strengthen the idea of Internet as a resource and media for the development of subcultures, to investigate online and offline activities of KOSTI Surabaya, and to promote further research on the diversity of subcultures like KOSTI Surabaya following the development of generation 4.0 trend. The researchers collected data through in-depth interviews and observation to the community members. The result indicates that KOSTI Surabaya promotes and maintains the local and Indonesian culture through offline and online communication. This present study can support the conceptualization of subculture in the digital era. This community helps young generations to put Indonesian important values and norms into practice through their lifestyle, such as to build a good relationship, kinship, brotherhood, to create a good harmony in life. In addition, this community becomes a media to foster and maintain our local culture. KOSTI Surabaya is the resistance against the modern culture which makes this community as counter culture against foreign culture challenges. Not only the use of a means of transportation but also of the nature of individualist that starts to embrace most of Indonesian people in urban areas.

Who's Talking Online II

2008 ◽  
pp. 3540-3551
Author(s):  
Taralynn Hartsell
Keyword(s):  
Student Involvement ◽  
Online Community ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Graduate Courses ◽  
Descriptive Model ◽  
Student Activity ◽  
Online Comments ◽  
Discussion Threads

This descriptive study investigated the association between gender and online communication that involved participants from two online graduate courses. The study implemented a descriptive model in that “student involvement” was assessed by tabulating and recording the quantity and quality of student activity in the discussion threads. Quantity was recorded by the amount of times students posted online comments and the number of words that women and men used to make their responses. In addition, quality was examined by reviewing the content that women and men made concerning topics under discussion. A difference between the genders was found in that the amount (quantity) women contributed to the discussions exceeded the men. Women were also more inclined to give supportive or encouraging remarks than men, and addressed their classmates by name to promote a sense of online community, all which support previous studies.

Who's Talking Online? A Descriptive Analysis of Gender & Online Communication

2008 ◽  
pp. 3529-3539
Author(s):  
Taralynn Hartsell
Keyword(s):  
Online Community ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Graduate Course ◽  
Descriptive Model ◽  
Student Activity ◽  
Online Comments ◽  
Discussion Threads

This preliminary descriptive study investigated the association between gender and online communication and involved participants from an online graduate course. The study implemented a descriptive model in that “student involvement” was assessed by tabulating and recording the quantity and quality of student activity in the discussion threads. Quantity was recorded by the amount of times students posted online comments and the number of words that women and men used to make their responses. In addition, quality was examined by reviewing the content that women and men made concerning topics under discussion. In the end, a difference between the genders was found in that the amount (quantity) women contributed to the discussions exceeded that contributed by the men. Women were also more inclined to give supportive or encouraging remarks than men, and addressed their classmates by name to promote a sense of online community, all which support previous studies.

Who's Talking Online II

2011 ◽  
pp. 36-50
Author(s):  
Taralynn Hartsell
Keyword(s):  
Student Involvement ◽  
Online Community ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Graduate Courses ◽  
Descriptive Model ◽  
Student Activity ◽  
Online Comments ◽  
Discussion Threads

This descriptive study investigated the association between gender and online communication that involved participants from two online graduate courses. The study implemented a descriptive model in that “student involvement” was assessed by tabulating and recording the quantity and quality of student activity in the discussion threads. Quantity was recorded by the amount of times students posted online comments and the number of words that women and men used to make their responses. In addition, quality was examined by reviewing the content that women and men made concerning topics under discussion. A difference between the genders was found in that the amount (quantity) women contributed to the discussions exceeded the men. Women were also more inclined to give supportive or encouraging remarks than men, and addressed their classmates by name to promote a sense of online community, all which support previous studies.

scholarly journals Interactivity in Cybermedia News: An Interview with Journalists in Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador

Information ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 173
Author(s):  
Daniel Barredo Ibáñez ◽  
Karen Pinto Garzón ◽  
Úrsula Freundt-Thurne ◽  
Narcisa Medranda Morales
Keyword(s):  
Online Communication ◽  
Technological Gap ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Informational Value

Interactivity is a factor on which cyber journalism is based and summarizes participation options between a user and the medium, a user with other users, and a user with editors. In this study, we focus on the latter in three countries—Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador—, which have been identified owing to their technological gap and the emerging importance of online communication for their respective societies. Through 35 in-depth interviews with journalists from these countries, we analyzed the concept of interactivity of these professionals and their relationship with users. The results revealed that the journalists positively valued civic contributions as a space for diagnosis, although they do not perceive its informational value, as they relate them to the context of opinions. These results verify the prevalence of journalism as strongly influenced by conventional offline production routines.

Changing Borders and Realities: Emigration of Indian Scientists and Engineers to the United States

2007 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 539-556 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roli Varma
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
The United States ◽  
Knowledge Flows ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
Scientists And Engineers ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
The U.S

AbstractInternational migration cannot be viewed as a byproduct of globalization since people have been migrating for centuries. However, globalization has given rise to a new kind of immigration, where a growing variety of interconnected social activities are taking place among technical immigrants at a high speed irrespective of their geographical location. The advent of instant online communication and the ability to share discoveries, inventions, advances, documents, and pictures in real time, as well as safe, easy, and fast travel options have made the traditional notions of borders, immigration, and even assimilation obsolete. This paper looks at how the tenets of immigration under globalization seem to be becoming outmoded as scientific knowledge flows between India and the U.S. It is based on the review of literature on the subject and in-depth interviews conducted in 2002-2004 with 120 Indian scientists and engineers from both countries.

Motivated processing of online news comments : how do incivility and belief congruence affect comment readers' cognitive and emotional responses?

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Di Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Response ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Online News ◽  
Self Report ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Perceived Credibility ◽  
Online Comments ◽  
Belief Congruence ◽  
Rate Deceleration ◽  
The University

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The present study examined how the presence of incivility in online comments (i.e. uncivil comments) influences individual online news user's cognitive and emotional responses. In specific, by conceptualizing incivility in online comments as a message feature which influences news users' motivational system activations, this study investigates audience' real-time responses during their processing of online comments through psychophysiological measures along with self-reports and memory measures. The study also explored how different viewpoints expressed in the online comments as function of consistent or inconsistent with audience pre-existing viewpoint may modulate the level of activation in motivational systems, thus influencing comment readers' cognitive and emotional responses. The findings suggested that uncivil comments resulted in greater negative emotional response (indexed by increased self report negativity, anger and arousal) and enhanced cognitive resource allocation (indexed by heart rate deceleration) to encoding the comments compared to civil comments. Further, belief-incongruent comment also elicited greater negative emotional response (indexed by self-report negativity, anger and physiological and self-report arousal) and stronger intention to post a comment, compared to belief-congruent comments. At last, comments incivility and belief congruence interact with each other to affect one's positive emotional responses (indexed by orbicularis oculi responses) and perceived credibility of the main news messages.

scholarly journals Estonian Male Journalists’ Experiences with Abusive Online Communication

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-47
Author(s):  
Armas Riives ◽  
Maria Murumaa-Mengel ◽  
Signe Ivask
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Hegemonic Masculinity ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Female Journalists ◽  
Online Abuse ◽  
Depth Interviews

Several studies have established that female journalists experience (sexual) harassment and online abuse considerably more than their male colleagues. Understandably, this has resulted in a gap in research – male journalists’ experiences with abusive online communication have not yet been thoroughly studied. This paper seeks to understand how abusive communication is contextualised and defined by male journalists in the context of hegemonic masculinity, and to explore which coping strategies are employed to overcome such experiences. From qualitative in-depth interviews with male journalists (n=15), we found that participants considered different forms of abusive online communication from readers/sources a normalised practice, “feedback” that one must just ignore or overcome. Experiences are interpreted predominantly in the frame of hegemonic (complicit) masculinity, but the results also indicate that shifts in these rigid norms are emerging and can be embraced when acknowledged and supported by surrounding structures.

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