Born-Digital News Preservation in Perspective

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 94-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clifford Lynch
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Online News ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Library Services ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Digital News ◽  
The University

Abstract:The following piece is an extensively edited transcript of a talk given by Clifford Lynch titled “Born-digital News Preservation in Perspective,” from a meeting called “Dodging the Memory Hole 2016: Saving Online News.” It retains the informality of the presentation. The meeting was hosted by the UCLA Library in Los Angeles on October 13–14, 2016, and is presented online at RJI (the Donald W.) Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism at the University of Missouri; there is also video of the talk available on the Internet).https://www.rjionline.org/stories/clifford-lynch-born-digital-news-preservation-in-perspective; accessed 8/3/17. The meeting was sponsored by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the Reynolds School of Journalism, UCLA, the University of Missouri Libraries, and Educopia Institute.

The culture of free: Construct explication and democratic ramifications for readers’ willingness to pay for public affairs news

Journalism ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 146488492091343
Author(s):  
Manuel Goyanes ◽  
Marton Demeter ◽  
Laura de Grado
Keyword(s):  
Online News ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Labor Conditions ◽  
Free Competition ◽  
Perceptions And Attitudes ◽  
Digital News ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
Economic Constraints ◽  
Depth Interviews

The homogenization and commoditization of news have risen since the emergence of the Internet, but have sharply increased in recent years due to economic constraints on news organizations and journalists’ labor conditions. This article explores readers’ perceptions and attitudes toward the economic and informative value of online news in particular, and toward the Internet as a means of news dissemination in general. Drawing upon 50 in-depth interviews with respondents from Spain aged 18–65 years, we conceptualize the lack of readers’ inclinations to pay for digital news as a culture of free and explore its main dimensions. Specifically, the culture of free is a strong orientation to considering news as a public good that must be free of charge, rooted in customs/habits of free consumption on the Internet over decades, fueled by free competition, subtended by advertising, and a lack of interest in the news more generally. Despite the fact that the digital versions might be theoretically considered as inferior, we argue that both products (print vs online) are equally valuable (economically and informatively) and the only divergence lies in their format and thus in their price.

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 The mobile future of university libraries and an analysis of the Turkish case

2017 ◽  
Vol 118 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 120-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gulcin Kubat
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mobile Technology ◽  
Instant Messaging ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Library Services ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
Content Type ◽  
University Library ◽  
The Future ◽  
The University

Purpose The purpose of this study is to search for any evidence for university libraries that are accessible by mobile technology in Turkey as relevant models of the future; having regard to the fact that smartphones will very soon become the standard means by which the internet is accessed, and the rates of connection from mobile devices will supersede those which are computer-based. Design/methodology/approach In the study, both domestic and foreign literature surveys were undertaken to determine which mobile library services are offered in university libraries. Thirty random central libraries of both private and state universities were selected from across the seven regions of Turkey. To gather data, a 26-question electronic survey was generated and e-mailed to the library managers. The questions were based on findings regarding the mobile library services provided by university libraries around the world. Findings By examining the survey results, it was determined that Turkish university libraries utilise a comparable level of mobile technology and demonstrate a similar level of care with regard to the services they offer. There are mobile sites (separate sites or mobile sites as applications), mobile library catalogues, short messaging services, chat rooms, consultations via instant messaging tools, mobile device-lending services, and augmented reality and QR code applications. Research limitations/implications In Turkey, the structures of university libraries operate under variable conditions because of the lack of established standards. This causes negative results for the delivery of library services. For this reason, university library standards should be set practicable as soonas reasonable, considering the social/economic and cultural structure of the country. Practical implications Owing to the transformative effect technology and the internet have had on services information and communication technologies, infrastructure has been added as a sixth element to the five traditional library items, namely, building budget personnel collection and users. Globalisation through the web has resulted in the individualisation of services and the slogan content is king has been changed to the customer experience is king. Fundamental library services are being adapted to allow mobile technology access, and this approach best reflects the new slogan. Therefore, the university library of the future may well be the one entirely based on mobile technology. Social implications Mobile devices lead to new forms of engagement with student learning; so academic libraries are expected to be strong partners in the teaching and learning processes of their institution. Originality/value The hypothesis of this study is that a university library accessible by mobile technology will be the model of the future, and its purpose is to search for any evidence for which the university libraries in Turkey are prepared to meet this challenge. This study is also meaningful because there have not been any study of Turkish university libraries in terms of mobile library services to users. This paper is the first time that a comprehensive study has been made of current mobile technology-based services, and is also the first comparison of the applications in Turkish university libraries. Additionally, paper synthesises developments and provides suggestions for the future.

scholarly journals Digital library services for visually impaired students: A study of the University of Karachi

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 36-41
Author(s):  
Muhammad Waseem Zia ◽  
Farhat Fatima
Keyword(s):  
Digital Library ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Digital Library Services ◽  
Visually Impaired Students ◽  
The University

The aim of this study was to identify the digital library services for visually impaired (VI) students, studying in the University of Karachi. The VI students have the same information needs as that of sighted people but digital information services are not available for them. The VI students have been facing problems in searching information on the internet because they can not use computer and internet without the support of a helper or some specific software or hardware. The researchers collected data by interviewing VI students. The findings show that the VI students had a keen interest in using digital information through digital libraries because they were aware of the importance and usefulness of digital information and wanted to get benefit of that in their education.

scholarly journals Double-click Rhetoric: Rhetorical Strategies of Communication in the Digital Context

Res Rhetorica ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabel Morales-Sánchez ◽  
Juan Pedro Martin-Villarreal
Keyword(s):  
Radical Change ◽  
Online News ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Rhetorical Strategies ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Digital Medium ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Digital News ◽  
Rapid Dissemination ◽  
Communicative Context

This article analyzes the rhetorical strategies involved in the spread of texts created in a digital context. The Internet has initiated a new communicative environment which seeks to shape the contents and circumstances of dissemination of online news and electronic literature. The digital medium affects journalism and literature with a series of rhetorical strategies aimed at persuading the audience to double click (automated interactions, clickbait, trending). These rhetorical strategies are not accepted as valid in conventional media and publishing, however they promote rapid dissemination of digital news, as well as reconfi gure the existing relationships between authors and readers in literary works. Our aim is to explain how the dissemination of these texts can be understood from a rhetorical viewpoint, no matter how much the spread of fake news or the radical change in the electronic literary works can be criticized. We point to the consequences of a communicative context that prioritizes immediacy, anonymity and content democratization. Analyzing selected examples from the Spanish (social) media context will demonstrate how double-click rhetoric relates to fictionalization and backgrounding of ethos.

"Learning the ropes : coaching and performing race, style, and identity in professional boxing"

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Isais Wellington Smith
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Cultural Wealth ◽  
New School ◽  
The University ◽  
Professional Boxing

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation is an urban ethnography that utilizes a critical race theory (CRT) approach into analyzing the culture and identity, race and/or ethnicity, and performances and duties of professional boxing coaches in Los Angeles, California. Specifically, this dissertation emphasizes a "community cultural wealth" framework (Yosso, 2015), to outline how professional boxing coaches take pride in their personal and/or collective identities as a way of "doing difference," especially as forms of "accomplishment" within their culture and communities (West and Zimmerman, 1987; Fenstermaker and West, 2002). In many ways, this project analyzes how the sport of boxing shapes identity and how professional boxing coaches influence and shape the identity of professional fighters through symbolic performances of race and/or ethnicity, and teaching fighting styles. Considering that the scholarship of race and ethnicity in boxing is extremely limited, my contribution has been to uphold the spirit of ethnographic research via full immersion participant observation to outline the personal and collective forms of identity that coaches navigate every day. I begin my findings by discussing "old school" and "new school" identities in the boxing world to highlight how professional coaches navigate their personal and collective forms of identity within the sport. How coaches view themselves in their personal identity is a symbolic force in how they train their fighters via cultural markers and expectations of manhood.

scholarly journals The Digital Advertising Gap and the Online News Industry in Croatia

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (18) ◽  
pp. 62-79
Author(s):  
Paško Bilić ◽  
Jaka Primorac
Keyword(s):  
Market Failure ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Online News ◽  
Internet Advertising ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Supporting Evidence ◽  
Information Goods ◽  
Digital News ◽  
News Industry ◽  
The Difference

Internet advertising brought about many changes in communication production, distribution, and consumption. By using critical political economy of communication as the mainstay of our approach, we provide supporting evidence of the ambiguous influence of data-driven advertising dynamic on the news industry and audience habits. We look at what we define as the digital advertising gap, or the difference between the size of the internet advertising market and the total income of digital news’ firms. Digital intermediaries such as Google and Facebook are the final destinations for the majority of internet advertising investments in Europe and Croatia. A multi-sided, internet advertising market creates a fertile ground for the production of untrustworthy journalistic content. The digital advertising gap provides an example of a ‘market failure’ in which the market does not efficiently allocate public information goods. We argue that the confidence in the ability of the market to self-regulate the internet should be re-considered in European and national media policies.

TEM study of boron additions to cobalt aluminide

1988 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 546-547
Author(s):  
Gerald B. Feldewerth
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Turbine Engines ◽  
Major Drawback ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Specific Strength ◽  
Aerospace Applications ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Ordered Alloys ◽  
The University ◽  
Very High

In recent years an increasing emphasis has been placed on the study of high temperature intermetallic compounds for possible aerospace applications. One group of interest is the B2 aiuminides. This group of intermetaliics has a very high melting temperature, good high temperature, and excellent specific strength. These qualities make it a candidate for applications such as turbine engines. The B2 aiuminides exist over a wide range of compositions and also have a large solubility for third element substitutional additions, which may allow alloying additions to overcome their major drawback, their brittle nature.One B2 aluminide currently being studied is cobalt aluminide. Optical microscopy of CoAl alloys produced at the University of Missouri-Rolla showed a dramatic decrease in the grain size which affects the yield strength and flow stress of long range ordered alloys, and a change in the grain shape with the addition of 0.5 % boron.

MARS — Its Tenth Anniversary of Operation and its Future

1980 ◽  
Vol 19 (03) ◽  
pp. 125-132
Author(s):  
G. S. Lodwick ◽  
C. R. Wickizer ◽  
E. Dickhaus
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Development ◽  
Administrative Support ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Hospital Environment ◽  
Computer Scientist ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Complete Bibliography ◽  
The University ◽  
Economic Considerations

The Missouri Automated Radiology System recently passed its tenth year of clinical operation at the University of Missouri. This article presents the views of a radiologist who has been instrumental in the conceptual development and administrative support of MARS for most of this period, an economist who evaluated MARS from 1972 to 1974 as part of her doctoral dissertation, and a computer scientist who has worked for two years in the development of a Standard MUMPS version of MARS. The first section provides a historical perspective. The second deals with economic considerations of the present MARS system, and suggests those improvements which offer the greatest economic benefits. The final section discusses the new approaches employed in the latest version of MARS, as well as areas for further application in the overall radiology and hospital environment. A complete bibliography on MARS is provided for further reading.

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