scholarly journals Distributing intelligence and organizing diversity in new media projects

2002 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monique Girard ◽  
David Stark
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Web Design ◽  
New Economy ◽  
Project Teams ◽  
Performance Criteria ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Collaborative Engineering ◽  
Design Project ◽  
Design Firms

This paper examines how web design firms in the new media industry probe and experiment with possible forms and sources of value giving shape to the new economy. Focusing on the collaborative engineering of cross-disciplinary web-design project teams, we examine how websites emerge as provisional settlements among the heterogeneous disciplines as they negotiate working compromises across competing performance criteria.

scholarly journals Distributing Intelligence and Organizing Diversity in New-Media Projects

2002 ◽  
Vol 34 (11) ◽  
pp. 1927-1949 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monique Girard ◽  
David Stark
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Web Design ◽  
New Economy ◽  
Project Teams ◽  
Performance Criteria ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Collaborative Engineering ◽  
Design Project ◽  
Design Firms

In this paper we examine how web-design firms in the new-media industry probe and experiment with possible forms and sources of value that give shape to the new economy. Focusing on the collaborative engineering of cross-disciplinary web-design project teams, we examine how websites emerge as provisional settlements among heterogeneous disciplines as they negotiate working compromises across competing performance criteria.

Composing Like an Entrepreneur: The Pedagogical Implications of Design Thinking in the Workplace

2021 ◽  
pp. 004728162110315
Author(s):  
Mason Pellegrini
Keyword(s):  
Design Thinking ◽  
Web Design ◽  
Professional Communication ◽  
Business Success ◽  
Current State ◽  
Composing Process ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
Design Firms ◽  
Fierce Competition ◽  
Technical And Professional Communication

Fierce competition has made innovation increasingly necessary for business success, and this has increased the importance of user-based innovation strategies like design thinking (DT). While many studies in technical and professional communication (TPC) have explored how DT can be used pedagogically, no studies have done this through investigating how DT is used as a workplace composing process. This study does exactly that. First, it presents the current state of research on pedagogical uses of DT in TPC, and then it builds upon those suggestions with an empirical study that chronicles on how two web design firms use DT to make websites. My main suggestion is to teach DT as a recursive process that allows students transcend potentially incorrect assumptions built into design tasks through gathering data not only from users, but from clients as well.

The Effect of Statistics on Enjoyment and Perceived Credibility in Sports Media

2021 ◽  
pp. 216747952199839
Author(s):  
Dustin Hahn
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Sports Media ◽  
Perceived Credibility ◽  
Competitive Environments ◽  
Dependent Variables ◽  
Media Source ◽  
The Impact

Evolving media landscapes toward increasingly diverse and competitive environments in both traditional and new media requires producers regularly examine the quality of their productions. One growing line of research identifies the increasing presence and significance of statistics in sports media programming. This experiment measures the effect of statistics on enjoyment and perceived credibility by sport consumers while considering level of fanship, media source, and variations in placement within Instagram posts. Results uncover evidence that validates previous observations about statistics in media while contradicting others. Specifically, findings reveal that statistics enhance enjoyment and improve perceived credibility. Observations were consistent across fanship level. However, additional findings also suggest media source and placement of statistics influences both enjoyment and credibility as well. For both dependent variables, statistics in both the Instagram caption and image yielded significantly greater enjoyment and credibility than some other conditions including posts without statistics at all. The impact of these and other findings on sports media industry and scholarship, along with limitations and directions for future research, are discussed.

Constructing Innovativeness in New-Media Start-Up Firms

10.1068/a3558 ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 34 (11) ◽  
pp. 1951-1984 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolf Heydebrand ◽  
Annalisa Mirón
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
State Level ◽  
Project Teams ◽  
Business Culture ◽  
Project Organization ◽  
Interfirm Networks ◽  
Self Organized ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Mixed Networks ◽  
Client Relations

We focus on the social construction of innovativeness in the context of project teams and interfirm networks among new-media start-up firms in Silicon Alley, Manhattan. The analysis is based on a total of thirty-four interviews with firm executives and other informants. A brief discussion of the historical and structural context of the research project is followed by an exposition of the theoretical framework, that is, the theory of industrial districts and the hypothesized connection between innovativeness and interactivity. In each of the three subsequent sections of the paper, the empirical findings are presented and analyzed: the grounded conceptions of innovativeness, the two main variants of project organization (self-organized versus managerially coordinated project teams), and the varieties of interfirm networks such as transactional and mixed networks. Other networking practices documented are client relations and hiring. We consider the effect of state-level legal infrastructure and economic deregulation on the business culture of interfirm networking, information sharing, and innovativeness.

Governance Strategies of Public Crisis Communication in the New Media Environment – Taking Tobacco Industry as Example

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 6115-6120
Author(s):  
Yang Lei
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Crisis Communication ◽  
Tobacco Industry ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Public Crisis ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Governance Strategies ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Masses

Social and economic development has brought about a higher standard of living and higher material standards, resulting in higher requirements for spiritual life. As a result, the development of the new media industry and related industries was accelerated, providing various channels for the dissemination of information. To put it simply, as an important concept in today's society, new media is a kind of social environment, which is mainly attached to the Internet industry and has profoundly changed the media pattern and communication pattern in contemporary society. Because the new media mainly depends on the network, and the network spreads rapidly and in a wide range, it will spread the news to the public as soon as there is a major event. Therefore, the emergence and widespread use of new media has also had a great impact on the government's crisis communication. In the new environmental situation, the government will face more problems and difficulties, and more supervision by all the masses. In this paper, from the characteristics of public crisis communication in the tobacco industry, the measures and strategies of public crisis communication governance under the new media environment are put forward.

scholarly journals Television’s role in Indian new screen ecology

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 1226-1242
Author(s):  
Smith Mehta
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Meaningful Work ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Industry Studies ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Critical Media ◽  
Digital Delivery

In this article, I discuss the various issues that have prompted select creators such as writers, directors, actors, producers and casting agents to focus their creative energies on Internet-based content. The article’s main findings illustrate that because a growing segment of Indian content, new media practitioners are disillusioned by the programming and industrial practices of television, they increasingly embrace digital delivery platforms as the preferred outlets for their creative expressions. By drawing from critical media industry studies framework, the aim of this research is to examine the everyday practices of content creators and compare the formal and aesthetic qualities of their textual artefacts, as these professionals navigate the larger structural tensions between television and Internet in India. The article marshals evidence based on qualitative interviews, trade press, and news articles to suggest that the television industry’s production culture discourages creators from seeking meaningful work and instead look for opportunities on the Internet.

Information-Communications Systems Convergence Paradigm

2011 ◽  
pp. 54-74
Author(s):  
Fjodor Ruzic
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
New Media ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Information Technology Professionals ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Communications Systems ◽  
The World ◽  
New Form ◽  
Information Technology Development

This chapter is on cultural aspects of information-communications systems embedded into new media environment and invisible e-technologies, and on a new age of social responsibility for information technology professionals. Besides the key issues in information technology development that create smart environment and ambient intelligence, the chapter also discusses digital e-culture and the new media role in cultural heritage. From the viewpoint of information technology, the current information-communications systems converge with media. This convergence is about tools-services-content triangle. Thus, we are confronted with a new form of media mostly presented with the term digital, reshaping not only media industry but also a cultural milieu of an entire nation on a regional and global basis. The discussion follows on the World Library idea that is rebuilding with new form of World Memory (World Brain), the shift from visible culture domination to the domination of invisible culture in the world of e-technologies predominance. From this scenario, information technology professionals coping with information systems projects, e-services development, and e-content design have more cultural responsibility than in the past when they worked within closer and inner cultural horizons and when their misuse of technologies had no influence on culture as a whole.

Information-Communications Systems Convergence Paradigm

2009 ◽  
pp. 332-348
Author(s):  
Fjodor Ruzic
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
New Media ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Information Technology Professionals ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Communications Systems ◽  
The World ◽  
New Form ◽  
Information Technology Development

This chapter is on cultural aspects of information- communications systems embedded into new media environment and invisible e-technologies, and on a new age of social responsibility for information technology professionals. Besides the key issues in information technology development that create smart environment and ambient intelligence, the chapter also discusses digital e-culture and the new media role in cultural heritage. From the viewpoint of information technology, the current information-communications systems converge with media. This convergence is about tools-services-content triangle. Thus, we are confronted with a new form of media mostly presented with the term digital, reshaping not only media industry but also a cultural milieu of an entire nation on a regional and global basis. The discussion follows on the World Library idea that is rebuilding with new form of World Memory (World Brain), the shift from visible culture domination to the domination of invisible culture in the world of e-technologies predominance. From this scenario, information technology professionals coping with information systems projects, e-services development, and e-content design have more cultural responsibility than in the past when they worked within closer and inner cultural horizons and when their misuse of technologies had no influence on culture as a whole.

scholarly journals The Drift in Journalism Education in India vis-à-vis New Media: Use of New Media by Administrators/ Educators in Journalism Schools

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-43
Author(s):  
Neha Jindal
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Journalism Education ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Curriculum And Pedagogy ◽  
Willingness To Adopt ◽  
Education In India ◽  
Curriculum Instruction ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Practices

With new media becoming the mainstay of the journalism industry, there is a change in curriculum and pedagogy in journalism education. Even with Web 2.0 becoming the main source of news dissemination, journalism educators will still be required to impart skills to the next generation on writing with clarity, organizing ideas cleanly and working efficiently as a team. The change will be in the methodology, and has to be accepted by the institution at the administrative level first. Since journalism education is required to develop a rational capacity in future graduates, and help them attain all skills essential to understand the media industry with regard to new media practices and changing trends, journalism administrators and educators have to be ably equipped with the skills, only then these can be delivered to the students. The study is about private and public (government) journalism schools in India and focuses on their willingness to adopt the requisite skill set and display adaptability towards using new media. It includes interviews conducted with administrators (who are also educators) in government and private journalism institutions in the country, concerning acceptance of new media and adoption in curriculum, instruction, evaluation and feedback, and arrives at results interpretatively.

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