scholarly journals Evolution of Information Systems Starting from Bloomberg and Dow Jones

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 758-769
Author(s):  
Nadezhda Pomerantseva
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
New Media ◽  
Media Messages ◽  
News Agency ◽  
Systemic Analysis ◽  
Media System ◽  
Aggregate Information ◽  
Other Information ◽  
The Media ◽  
Professional Information

This article aims to give an overview and describe a new structure in the media system, namely, closed information systems (CIS). These include various data bases used for performing professional tasks in relation to media and information in business and public administration. CISs may be categorized as new media and hypermedia. Since CISs can aggregate information and media messages, they work simultaneously in both media and information markets. The key task of the study is to analyze the history and prerequisites of CIS emergence, starting from the first one, that of news agency Reuters. We made a systemic analysis of the content terminal Bloomberg of Bloomberg news agency, and the multimedia library Factiva of Dow Jones, which helped to identify their key typological features and target audience. One of their functions is being a blueprint of a professional eco-system. Other information systems with similar functions are studied and analyzed, namely, LexisNexis, a multimedia library of legal papers and mass media archives, and a business directory Dun&Bradstreet, as well as their functions, content, and professional utilization. The article also describes the work of data base publishers and brokers in the market. The author contrasts professional information systems called CIS with the open-access system Internet by their common functions, and points out some key differences in selecting, classifying and verifying content.

Beyond the Phantom Public

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony M. Nadler
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
News Media ◽  
Interactive Media ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Media System ◽  
Critical Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
To Come ◽  
Point To Point

This concluding chapter discusses the intellectual resources of critical media studies and applies them to debates about the future of news. The changes taking place in news media concern not only content but the very modes through which people engage the media in everyday life, as well as the ways media connect individuals to larger communities. Although interactive media is not inherently destined to level hierarchies of power, it is certainly possible that societal appropriations of new media technologies could mean a reworking of the infrastructure that regulates which ideas and visions circulate from point to point in the media system. The issue lies in how crucial decisions at this critical juncture will be made and what course they will set for the years to come.

scholarly journals The Ethics and Legislation of the New Media Use in the United Arab Emirates Analytical Study of the Law “Combating IT Crimes"

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Rahima Aissani ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
New Media ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Content Category ◽  
Official Gazette ◽  
Other Information ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Law ◽  
Media And Communication

The study deals with an analytical reading (from an information and communication perspective) of the Law "Combating Information Technology Crimes" in the UAE. The law was passed in 2012 by Decree Law No: 5/2012, which was published in the Official Gazette No: 540, attached to the 42nd year, on 26/8/2012, and included amendments to the provisions of the law Federal No: (2) for the year 2006 establishing the Law "Combating Information Technology Crimes". The study adopts the method of content analysis of the materials covered by the law, based on two categories of analysis: • Form Category: for the detection of the legal materials governing the use of information technology, which included the following units of analysis: the number of articles and their contents, and the type of penalties imposed by law. • Content Category: and its evidence of the ethics of new media and communication in the UAE. The study reached the following results: 1. The UAE legislation on "Combating Information Technology Crimes" included 51 articles of law, and was widely separated in cybercrime and its penalties. 2. Most of the legal formulations in the "Combating Information Technology Crimes" system come in ways that push the user to commit to ethical and social responsibility while dealing with new media, and communication tools, or other information technology. 3. The Analytical reading of the articles of the "Combating Information Technology Crimes" Law in the United Arab Emirates has revealed three basic ethics for the use of these techniques from the media perspective: respect the intellectual property, respect the privacy and dignity of people, and respect the community values.

scholarly journals The Media Industry’s Structural Transformation in Capitalism and the Role of the State: Media Economics in the Age of Digital Communications

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Manfred Knoche
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Structural Transformation ◽  
Digital Communications ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Media System ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
The Media

Abstract: This paper discusses how the capitalist media industry has been structurally transformed in the age of digital communications. It takes an approach that is grounded in the Marxian critique of the political economy of the media. It draws a distinction between media capital, media-oriented capital, media infrastructure capital and media-external capital as the forms of capital in the media industry. The article identifies four capital strategies that media capital tends to use in order to try to maximise profits: a) The substitution of “old” by “new” media technology, b) the introduction of new transmission channels for “old” media products, c) the definition of new property rights for media sectors and networks, d) the reduction of production and transaction costs. The drive to profit maximization is at the heart of the capitalist media industry’s structural transformation. This work also discusses the tendency to the universalization of the media system in the digital age and the economic contradictions arising from it. It identifies activity fields of the media industry’s structural transformation and shows how the concentration of the capitalist media markets is an essential, contradictory and inherent feature of the capitalist media system and its structural transformation. The paper identifies six causes of why capital seeks to employ capital strategies that result in the media industry’s structural transformation. They include market saturation, overaccumulation, the tendency of the profit rate to fall, capital-concentration, competition pressure, and advertising. The paper finally discusses the role of the state as an agent of capital in general and media capital in particular. It discusses the role of the state in privatisations, neoliberal deregulation, the formation of national competitive states, and various benefits that the state provides for media capital. This contribution shows that capital and capitalism are the main structural transformers of the media and communications system. For understanding these transformations, we need an approach that is grounded in Marx’s critique of the political economy.Translation from German: Christian Fuchs and Marisol Sandoval

scholarly journals Logics of the Icelandic Hybrid Media System

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-59
Author(s):  
Birgir Guðmundsson
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Parliamentary Elections ◽  
Media System ◽  
Network Media ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Logic

AbstractThe increased importance of social media platforms and network media logic merging with traditional media logic are a trademark of modern hybrid systems of political communication. This article looks at this development through the media-use by politicians before the 2016 and 2017 parliamentary elections in Iceland. Aggregate results from candidate surveys on the use and perceived importance of different media forms are used to examine the role of the new platform Snapchat in relation to other media, and to highlight the dynamics of the hybrid media system in Iceland. The results show that Snapchat is exploited more by younger politicians and those already using social media platforms. However, in spite of this duality between old and new media, users of traditional platforms still use new media and vice versa. This points to the existance of a delicate operational balance between different media logics, that could change as younger politicians move more centre stage.

scholarly journals Eksistensi Radio Saat Ini : Studi Preferensi & Motivasi Khalayak Dalam Mendengarkan Radio

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 735
Author(s):  
Pritta Miranda ◽  
Reny Yuliati
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Information Content ◽  
Radio Broadcasting ◽  
Other Information ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
The Media

Radio is an audio medium used to fulfil the needs the audience's need, both for information and entertainment. Radio provides a variety of information content and a choice of music. Amid technological developments, the presence of many choices of media to access news, entertainment, music, and other information has become a challenge for radio broadcasting. Now people have various choices of media to get information and listen to music. This research aimed to look at the choice of media, especially radio, from the audience and find out what makes radio remains the audience's choice for information, entertainment and listening to music compared to other new media, including the reasons and motivations of audiences to listen to the radio. The results showed that audiences tended to prefer radio over other media because radio offered unique things, for example, the element of 'surprise' in selecting songs that give different sensations. In addition, the presence of radio broadcasters is also considered entertaining and can be a companion to the audience, especially when travelling. These results indicate that radio offers a uniqueness that cannot be found in other media, and the audience is free to choose the media based on their motivations, the greatest of which is listening to the radio for music, entertainment, and information.

scholarly journals New Media as Power for Eradicating Communication Inequalities in Indonesia

2018 ◽  
Vol 73 ◽  
pp. 14004
Author(s):  
Subekti W.M.A. Priyadharma
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Good News ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Media System ◽  
Political Networks ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
The Media ◽  
Communication Inequalities ◽  
Journalistic Practice ◽  
Good Food

“Bad news is good news,” they say. This is the mantra of journalistic practice, which still trapped in the logic of market-oriented media institution. Until today, Indonesian media system is still driven by capitalistic and political motives of many actors especially media owners and political figures. Their domination in Indonesian media environment results in the colonization of media networks by political networks and vice versa. Controversial statements from and conflicts among political elites are “good” food for the media, which would attract audiences to buy their newspapers, watch their television and click on their sensational headlines that functions as a bait. Mass media public spheres are filled with this type of communication. Good News from Indonesia (GNFI) comes onto the surface of Indonesian media landscape to counter the negativity that the current media system holds. This paper analyzes how GNFI delivers its messages and, as an alternative media, uses its various media platform, most of them are online-based, to balance the inequality of communication about Indonesia.

scholarly journals Before the ‘Arab Spring’: How challengers pushed counter-issues in Egypt’s hybrid media system

2019 ◽  
pp. 175063521989461
Author(s):  
Hanan Badr
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
New Media ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
Print Media ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Agenda Building ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Media System ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Arab Spring

Eight years after the ‘Arab Spring’, literature is still marked by techno-deterministic interpretations. This article contributes to examining the role of agenda-building processes just before the outbreak of the Egyptian uprising in 2011 within authoritarian systems. Using the ‘hybrid media system’ concept, the article not only focuses on new media effects but, by including print media, it takes into consideration the media system in its entirety. Focusing on Khaled Said’s case as a counter-issue, the qualitative content analysis investigates how challengers in Egypt successfully pushed the media salience of police torture onto the mainstream media agenda. By reconstructing the issue cycle and intermedia spill-over effects, the author investigates the agenda-building processes within hybrid media systems in Arab authoritarian contexts. The qualitative content analysis includes 415 articles and posts from 12 diverse print, online and social media outlets between June 2010 and January 2011. The central finding is that successful spill-over effects occurred from online media to private print media, even though state media tried to ignore the issue. The coverage transferred the issue’s salience from new media into mainstream media, thus reaching wider non-politicized audiences. These proven interlinkages between old and new media are often an overlooked aspect in the literature on media and the ‘Arab Spring’.

scholarly journals Välfärden, samhällskritiken och medierna

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (3-4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lundälv Jörgen
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
New Media ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Services ◽  
National Board ◽  
International Media ◽  
Media System ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Systems

Welfare, critique and the media – social workers’ voices in podcasts in social policy and social workSocial workers and social policy researchers can engage in social work and critical social policy, in traditional media and in the new media. In recent years, the social media have been increasing in both the international media systems and in the media system in Sweden. One channel for social workers to use to be able to make their voice heard in society is to participate, debate and discuss social policy in podcasts. In 2016, the Union for Professionals, Akademikerförbundet SSR, developed ”Social Services Podcasts”. At the same time the National Board of Health and Welfare introduce a new podcast on social services and health care that is called ”Podcast in the Deep”. This article examines voices and themes in social policy and social work in a total of 112 programmes in two podcasts: ”Socialtjänstpodden” and ”In Depth” during the years 2016–2019. There are several challenges for the storytelling tradition and social criticism in social policy and social work in podcasts, which is highlighted in this article.

scholarly journals Literary Magazine: Its Social-and-Cultural Mission and Functions in the Literary Communication

2019 ◽  
pp. 262-275
Author(s):  
Olga Shilnikova ◽  
Galina Belolipskaya
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Literary Magazines ◽  
Publication Type ◽  
Cultural Space ◽  
Literary Magazine ◽  
Media System ◽  
Literary Journal ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Stability

The article analyzes the functions of the literary magazine in the current social-and-cultural space. The educational, communicative, creative, social-and-cultural potential of modern monthly publications is revealed. It is stated that multifunctionality is one of the most valuable typological features of national literary magazines. Over a long period of Russian journalism, culture, and history development it was this specificity that ensured the stability of this type of media. At the same time, multifunctionality is the key to the further literary journal evolution as a publication type. In the article the objective and subjective causes of the modern journals crisis are determined. Due to the specificity of the content, literary publications face serious troubles in adapting to new social-and-cultural reality that is losing its artistic literary centricity and to the media product functioning aspects in the digital age, when literary communication takes on a altered quality and different forms. These circumstances largely determine the instability of the typological profile and the functional paradigm of modern magazines. A comprehensive way of overcoming crisis phenomena is proposed. It is proved that the future of literary magazines consists in integrationinto the new information reality and the new media system, while maintaining its unique cultural functionality. It is important that each publication concretizes its typological model: its mission, tasks, place in the cultural space, target audience; ideological and substantial vector of literary, critical, publicistic discourses and ways of their representation, structural features, authors, directions of extrajournalistic sociocultural activities.

scholarly journals Küreselleşmenin Medya Üzerinde Etkileri: Küresel Medyaya “Sürükleniş” / The Effects of Globalization on Media: "Drifting" into the Global Media

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 515 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fevzi Kasap ◽  
Ayhan Dolunay ◽  
Ali Murat Mırçık
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
International Agencies ◽  
Media Messages ◽  
Video Clips ◽  
Politics And Culture ◽  
Western Imperialism ◽  
The Media

<p><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p>Globalization affects the lives of individuals by showing themselves in many areas. The notion of globalization, which is particularly influential in the field of economy, politics and culture, has led to change and transformation through important influences both in the media and in the news cycle. In this context, with the globalization of the media, attempts have been made to create a uniform culture all over the world. Movies, TV programs, music video clips, have also changed in support of this argument. The global news cycle, which is in the hands of international agencies, causes an imbalance in the global flow as it is published due to the views of western imperialism of a certain capital. In this context, "news" is only in the hands of certain agencies; the dominance is maintained. In particular, although they are working to correct them on the effects of the global media and on the imbalances in the news cycle, they have not yet reached a sufficient level. Because of the international cycle of communication, the global media environment is in the hands of certain capitalists, imbalances are also felt in the environment. In this study, it will be discussed how the globalization phenomenon, especially the reflection of the media, and as a result, the news and other visual media messages affect the target audience. Following the identification of the situation, this structure will be referred to the work that can be described as "contradictions" and this particular emphasis on local / new media actors that may create alternatives will be addressed.</p><p><strong>Öz</strong></p><p>Küreselleşme, pek çok alanda kendini göstererek, bireylerin yaşamlarını etkilemektedir. Özellikle ekonomi, siyaset ve kültür alanında etkili olan küreselleşme kavramı, medyada ve haber döngüsünde de önemli etkileri vasıtasıyla değişim ve dönüşüme yol açmıştır. Buna kapsamda, medyanın küreselleşmesiyle birlikte, tüm dünya üzerinde tek tip bir kültür oluşturulması girişimleri de söz konusu olmuştur. Filmler, tv programları, müzik klipleri de bu savı destekler nitelikte değişimler göstermiştir. Uluslararası ajansların elinde olan küresel haber döngüsü ise belli bir sermayeye ait batı emperyalizmi görüşlerine bağlı olarak yayınlandığı için küresel akışta bir dengesizliğe sebep olmaktadır. Bu kapsamda, “haber” sadece belli ajansların elinde olup; söz konusu hakimiyet sürdürülmektedir. Özellikle, küresel medyanın etkilerinde ve haber döngüsündeki dengesizlikler üzerinde bunları düzeltmeye yönelik çalışmalar olsa da, henüz yeterli düzeye erişilememiştir. İletişimdeki uluslararası döngü, küresel medya ortamı belli sermayelerin elinde olduğu için ortamda dengesizlikler de kendini hissettirmektedir. Bu çalışmada küreselleşme olgusunun özellikle medyaya yansımaları ve bunun sonucunda haberlerin ve diğer görsel medya iletilerinin hedef kitleyi nasıl etkileyip, yönlendirdiği tartışılacak; durum tespiti ardından, bu yapıya “karşı çıkışlar” olarak nitelenebilecek çalışmalara değinilecek ve  alternatif oluşturabilecek yerel/yeni medya aktörlerinin bu husustaki önemi ele alınacaktır.</p>

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