Working the ‘front lines’ in Washington, DC: Digital age terrorism reporting by national security prestige press

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Davis Epkins
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
National Security ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Elite Group ◽  
Prestige Press ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Insight Into

This article reports on a critical tier in the global flow of terrorism information gathered through in-depth interviews with 35 national security journalists in the Washington, DC, ‘prestige press’. This research offers value by organizing, describing and analyzing the opinions of this elite group on terrorism reporting in the digital age. Rarely studied but extremely influential as conversation-shapers and a conduit to other press, these ‘front-line’ reporters offer insider knowledge and unique perceptions regarding the interplay of terrorist goals with resulting media coverage, the decline of traditional journalism, and how new media technologies are affecting their work. Findings include evidence of altered post-9/11 journalist routines. Reported results can offer practitioners insight into best practices and an opportunity for information-users to better understand and evaluate what they are receiving.

scholarly journals Fashion 2.0: the uses and gratifications of fashion blogs

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sasha Johnson
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Uses And Gratifications ◽  
Motivational Factors ◽  
Qualitative Investigation ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Step Process ◽  
Fashion Magazines ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
New Media Technologies

There has been limited research in the field of fashion blogs. This study attempts to begin filling this void by examining fashion blogs from the user’s perspective as they relate to other forms of fashion media. From the uses and gratifications perspective, this study employs a qualitative investigation to identify the motivational factors for fashion blog use. A two-step process, made up from an initial online questionnaire and in-depth interviews was used. The online questionnaire was answered by 247 women between the ages of 18 and 35. Respondents for the second portion of the study, the in-depth interviews, were made up of 10 women who had previously participated in the questionnaire. Three new motivational factors were identified: habit, entrance, and retrieve/save content. Adhering to the belief that new media technologies supplement rather than succeed one another, these findings have been explained in relation to the use of fashion magazines.

Where Is This Now, Now?: Gertrude Stein's Literary Innovations and New Sound Media

Poetics Today ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 597-621
Author(s):  
Lynley Edmeades
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Compositional Techniques ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Sound Media ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Final Work ◽  
The Way ◽  
Audio Technologies ◽  
New Media Technologies

Abstract This article addresses the largely unexplored relationship between Stein's literary innovations and the new sound media of her time. By examining these connections, this article looks at Stein's compositional techniques—in particular her concept of the continuous present and her lifelong interest in speech and dialogue—to examine how new media technologies intersected with her attempt to change the way writing was written, read, and heard. By focusing on sound, and looking specifically at her final work Brewsie and Willie (1946), this article reads Stein's innovative poetics against the backdrop of concurrent changes to audio technologies during her career. Finally, the article argues that by paying attention to the ongoing shifts in media ecologies in relation to modernist innovations, we might gain insight into the larger phenomenological and sensorial sphere that formed the backdrop to modernism.

scholarly journals The culture and politics of Internet use among young people in Kuwait

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ildiko Kaposi
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Arab Country ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Political Relationships ◽  
Social Turmoil ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
Depth Interviews

While Kuwait has not joined the Arab Spring wave, there is considerable political and social turmoil in the tiny emirate. The turmoil is, for the most part, contained within the framework of Kuwait’s indigenous democratic institutions but the lines that used to clearly delineate acceptable public norms of speech and action are becoming increasingly blurred. One factor contributing to the changes is the influence new media technologies have on Kuwaiti society, especially on youth. The paper focuses on the meanings and democratic potentials of the internet for youth in the context of the Gulf Arab country of Kuwait. Through an ethnographic approach and in-depth interviews, it explores how new media reconfigure complex social, cultural, and political relationships, potentially enabling different forms of public engagement in the process.

scholarly journals The permanent campaign in social media: A case study of Poland

2018 ◽  
Vol 331 ◽  
pp. 461-468 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorota Domalewska
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Strategic Communication ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Online Activity ◽  
The Public ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Permanent Campaign ◽  
New Media Technologies

New media technologies provide new venues for political communication enabling politicians to wage a permanent campaign. Participatory platforms have paved the way for new forms of political communication during non-election period when those seeking or holding office can increase media coverage, create their public image and foster deeper relationships with the public. The purpose of the paper is to contribute to the discussion on permanent campaign; specifically, the study focuses on presenting the method of embracing new media technologies (in particular Twitter) by politicians’ during a non-election period in Poland. The analysis aims to investigate online activity, the design of Twitter profiles and the implementation of campaign-like techniques by the politicians. The findings shed light on the Polish MPs’ application of participatory platforms as a tool of strategic communication used to increase media visibility, and share messages across in a one-way communication.

From Igloos to iPods

2011 ◽  
pp. 80-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia J. Alexander
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Development Project ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
The World ◽  
Ways Of Being ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
New Media Technologies

Inuit in the Eastern Arctic of Canada reclaimed their homeland on 1 April 1999 when the newest territory in Canada, Nunavut, was created. Inuit are using new media technologies to preserve and promote their language, traditional knowledge, and ways of being. In this chapter, the reader is offered an exploration of the challenges northerners face in the digital era, including affordable, reliable access to the Internet. However, the author shows how the resilience that characterizes Inuit culture extends to their innovative adoption of new media technologies. The author offers insight into one web development project, a partnered initiative with Inuit, which enables Inuit youth to learn from their Elders, and for users around the world to learn from Inuit via an interactive online adventure. The case study of The Nanisiniq Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit, or IQ Adventure, provides an interesting example of how harnessing the power of new media can support Indigenous peoples’ decolonization efforts.

First Australians using mediatisation to preserve, maintain and promote cultural heritage

2020 ◽  
Vol 176 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-33
Author(s):  
Keith Christopher Robinson
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Community Connections ◽  
Australian Context ◽  
Revenue Streams ◽  
Creativity And Innovation ◽  
Insight Into

This article offers an insight into the relationships between deep mediatisation and the preservation, maintenance and promotion of First Australian cultural heritage by exploring three related themes. First, it provides an up-to-date analysis of the theory of mediatisation from a theoretical perspective, including the leading research and methodological perceptions of mediatisation. Second, it highlights First Australian creativity and innovation in their adoption of new media technologies, using the frameworks of mediatisation to establish sustainable new revenue streams in the global digital economy. Finally, it discusses how mediatisation helps to promote and strengthen community connections by focusing attention on social and cultural affairs in a First Australian context.

Keepers of the comments: How comment moderators handle audience contributions

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 433-454
Author(s):  
J. David Wolfgang ◽  
Hayley Blackburn ◽  
Stephen McConnell
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Professional Role ◽  
Online News ◽  
Traditional Practices ◽  
News Production ◽  
News Discourse ◽  
Media Practices ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Insight Into

As news commenting has evolved as a participatory tool and journalists have developed traditional practices for moderation, there are questions about how to promote quality spaces for news discourse. Using gatekeeping theory, this study analyzes in-depth interviews with 13 news comment moderators to understand how these individuals establish moderation routines and define their professional role. This provides new insight into the journalist–audience relationship and the development of new media practices for online news production.

scholarly journals Fashion 2.0: the uses and gratifications of fashion blogs

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sasha Johnson
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Uses And Gratifications ◽  
Motivational Factors ◽  
Qualitative Investigation ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Step Process ◽  
Fashion Magazines ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
New Media Technologies

There has been limited research in the field of fashion blogs. This study attempts to begin filling this void by examining fashion blogs from the user’s perspective as they relate to other forms of fashion media. From the uses and gratifications perspective, this study employs a qualitative investigation to identify the motivational factors for fashion blog use. A two-step process, made up from an initial online questionnaire and in-depth interviews was used. The online questionnaire was answered by 247 women between the ages of 18 and 35. Respondents for the second portion of the study, the in-depth interviews, were made up of 10 women who had previously participated in the questionnaire. Three new motivational factors were identified: habit, entrance, and retrieve/save content. Adhering to the belief that new media technologies supplement rather than succeed one another, these findings have been explained in relation to the use of fashion magazines.

Coda: The Rosetta Stone

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesse Schotter
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Digital Code ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Rosetta Stone ◽  
The World ◽  
Western Imagination ◽  
Origin Point

Hieroglyphs have persisted for so long in the Western imagination because of the malleability of their metaphorical meanings. Emblems of readability and unreadability, universality and difference, writing and film, writing and digital media, hieroglyphs serve to encompass many of the central tensions in understandings of race, nation, language and media in the twentieth century. For Pound and Lindsay, they served as inspirations for a more direct and universal form of writing; for Woolf, as a way of treating the new medium of film and our perceptions of the world as a kind of language. For Conrad and Welles, they embodied the hybridity of writing or the images of film; for al-Hakim and Mahfouz, the persistence of links between ancient Pharaonic civilisation and a newly independent Egypt. For Joyce, hieroglyphs symbolised the origin point for the world’s cultures and nations; for Pynchon, the connection between digital code and the novel. In their modernist interpretations and applications, hieroglyphs bring together writing and new media technologies, language and the material world, and all the nations and languages of the globe....

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