Lack of Fact Checking in Mass Media in the Digital Age

2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-49
Author(s):  
Gadirova Nigar ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Fact Checking

scholarly journals On the return of the (media) author: Michel Houellebecq, écrivain médiatique

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-45
Author(s):  
Ashley Harris
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Social Discourse ◽  
Literary Field ◽  
Michel Houellebecq ◽  
Cultural Domination ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Authorship

This article argues that Michel Houellebecq is an écrivain médiatique, and it examines how and why he engages in an authorial strategy that relies on more than the text and presents the author as a visible, multimedia, and culturally relevant figure. From an epistemological need to reassess authorship in the digital age, this article defines media authorship before analysing Houellebecq through a critical framework including Meizoz’s concept of posturing (2007), Saint-Gelais’s transmediality (2011) and Angenot’s social discourse (1989). It addresses how Houellebecq attempts to situate and justify his media-focused and author-centric strategy, showing how this reflects the challenges of the cultural domination of mass media and new technologies of the digital age, and indicates that the autonomy of the literary field is diminishing. This article shows how a superficially transgressive engagement with the media and multimedia in fact reflects consent to the dynamics of the contemporary socio-cultural context.

Networking the political: On the dynamic interrelations that create publics in the digital age

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 124-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mette Marie Roslyng ◽  
Bolette B Blaagaard
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
The Political ◽  
Relational View ◽  
Minority Culture ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Public Spheres ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Definition Of

This article argues that the definition of the political and its role in on- and offline public spheres calls for a conceptualization that takes into account the networked connections established between lay and professional political actors, mass media and mobile media. While acknowledging the importance of popular and mass media’s impact on participatory and democratic processes, this article focuses on the cultural citizen and proposes that a rethinking of publics affords a new understanding of the idea of networks as a series of connection points fostering a dynamic and relational view on the political. We illustrate this conceptualization through a case study mapping the agonistic and antagonistic frontiers in communication in a variety of publics and counter-publics in the context of Danish minority culture and politics.

scholarly journals Media education in the digital age

Comunicar ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (31) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfonso Gutiérrez-Martín
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Interactive Media ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Media Education ◽  
The People ◽  
Key Aspects

Changes taking place in the current media scenery will affect the television as mass media decisively. Maybe students and the rest of the people should be educated not only as critical viewers, but also as creators and producers of audiovisual messages, as users of interactive media, as part of audiovisual experiences in cyberspace. In this paper the author revises the key aspects of media education (including television, of course), explores to what extent they are still valid nowadays and what new changes are required in the digital age Los cambios que se están produciendo en el panorama comunicativo actual van a afectar decisivamente a la televisión como medio de comunicación de masas. Tal vez la mirada que tengamos que educar no sea sólo la del receptor, sino también la del creador de mensajes audiovisuales, la del usuario de un medio interactivo, la de partícipe de una experiencia audiovisual en el ciberespacio. En la comunicación que proponemos pretendemos referirnos a los aspectos clave de de la educación para la televisión y los medios en general. Se tratará de ver hasta qué punto siguen siendo válidos hoy día y qué modificaciones requieren en la era digital

scholarly journals Fact-Checking and Information Verification in the Context of Journalism Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-108
Author(s):  
Lyudmila Shesterkina ◽  
Lidiya Lobodenko ◽  
Anna Krasavina ◽  
Arina Marfitsyna
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Research Database ◽  
Journalism Education ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Fake News ◽  
The Media ◽  
Information Verification ◽  
Fact Checking ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
Media Market

The article, being a part of a major study into fake news phenomenon, fact checking and information verification, analyzes the issues related to journalism education in the context of the increasing amount of fake news. The topicality of the study is determined by the fact that journalism education is failing to comply with the ever-changing requirements of the mass media market. Moreover, in the current era of information wars, post-truth, and social media regarded as sources of news, teaching future journalists to check facts and verify information is one of the primary demands of the mass media market. The study involved interviewing lecturers, students and specialists in media industry; the original results of the study add to its scientific novelty. The authors aimed at searching for cutting-edge practices to train skills of fact checking and verification. The results of the study indicate the necessity of introducing these practices into the academic process of training journalists, contribute to the research database in the field of journalism and the education, and provide for bridging the gap between universities and the media in terms of professional requirements for journalists.

Working in Mass Media in the Digital Age

2017 ◽  
pp. 441-462
Author(s):  
J. Charles Sterin ◽  
Tameka Winston
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Digital Age

scholarly journals MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY: DIGITAL OPTIMISTS AND DIGITAL PESSIMISTS

2017 ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Anka Mihajlov Prokopovic
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Pure Form ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Variable Intensity ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Media And Technology ◽  
The Relationship

This work examines the relationship between mass media and digital technology by following McChesney’s argument (2013) that the division on the technological optimists and technological pessimists is gaining in significance again. The debate between these two currents, which has been ongoing since the beginning of the Internet with variable intensity, has enabled many advantages and many disadvantages brought by the digital age is discussed in its “pure form''. The work is conceptualization of the following themes: the nature of the mass media, the characteristics of digital life, citizens' participation in the creation of content on digital platforms and the future of journalism, as they are seen by these two theoretical approaches.

scholarly journals Communicative and cultural memory of Yugra and problems of its intergenerational translation in the digital age: the philological aspect

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 507-516
Author(s):  
V. F. Oleshko ◽  
◽  
E. V. Oleshko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Effective Functioning ◽  
Cultural Specificity ◽  
Unique Object ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
Media Systems ◽  
Media Preferences

Introduction: the article is one of the first in Russian philology and journalism theory experience of the system analysis of the process of digitalization of communicative and cultural memory as a phenomenon, and problems of its intergenerational translation in the media space of a multi-ethnic region. Objective: to identify and analyze trends in the development of Yugra media sphere in the context of permanent social and technological transformations based on the ethno-cultural specificity of media texts; to identify and describe the resources of productive intergenerational communication. Research materials: the results of the latest research in the field of philological regionalism, cultural studies and communication studies. The empirical basis was a discourse analysis of 212 mass media texts and a survey of 177 respondents. Results and novelty of the research: the result of the research is a conceptual justification of the concept of «model of effective activity of mass media of Yugra», as well as identification of their role and ways of effective functioning in digital reality. For the first time, mass media are considered as the main translators of discursive practices related to the formation and development of communicative and cultural memory in a multi-ethnic region. The article notes that the problems of effective functioning of global media systems of the digital age cannot be systematically analyzed without highlighting the mechanisms of transformation of communicative and cultural memory at the regional level. The pluralistic media environment of Yugra is a unique object of research that allows us to determine the fundamental factors of building of the multicultural community. The research conducted by the authors makes it possible to substantiate approaches that contribute to overcoming digital generational gaps in the society, including a model approach to the problem of mass media performance. The model is defined as an action whose predictive characteristics in digital reality should be based primarily on the identification of emotional and semantic dominants of multimedia texts and the nature of respondents ‘ media preferences.

scholarly journals Propaganda in a function of a systemic instrumentalization of media for ultra-nationalist purposes

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 61-75
Author(s):  
Aleksandar Filipović ◽  
Ivana Spaić
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Maximum Capacity ◽  
Historical Aspects ◽  
Amount Of Information ◽  
Vast Amount ◽  
Turn On ◽  
The Subject

Propaganda and its elements are an inseparable part of everyday life. In a digital age, when, in every second, a vast amount of information is exchanged, the possibilities and variations of propaganda techniques application are proportionally high. The majority of these propaganda messages that can be seen every time we turn on a device, or just go outside and look around are the messages of economic propaganda. Every time we hear a speech of a corporate or government official, we hear a carefully created and delivered message put together by public relations experts, which as well, by its genesis, belongs to propaganda. Still, the subject of this paper is propaganda, which is much more malicious in its origins and manifestations, and that is propaganda for ultranationalist purposes. In this paper, the authors first consider the etiological and historical aspects of propaganda focusing on those forms that had the most devastating effects. Propaganda predates mass media, but it is their conjunction that helped propaganda to reach a maximum capacity of its impact. Therefore, the authors analyze the correlation between propagandists, propaganda, and mass media.

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