scholarly journals The press struggles for credibility in the face of info-toxification: new strategies emerge to counter decentralized hoaxes

2021 ◽  
pp. 39-51
Author(s):  
James G. Breiner
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Internet Access ◽  
Social Media Networks ◽  
The Past ◽  
Technology Platforms ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Face ◽  
Media Ecosystem ◽  
New Strategies

The emergence of search engines and social media networks in the past two decades created a new media ecosystem that allowed the instantaneous creation, distribution, manipulation, and sharing of content to a global audience by anyone with a smartphone and internet access. This ecosystem was ripe for exploitation by actors with aims of profit or propaganda to disrupt society and threaten democratic processes. Their disinformation sowed distrust and undermined the credibility of the press. The dispersed, decentralized nature of this communication has made it hard to police. However, new countermeasures are emerging based on international collaboration on systems for rating trustworthiness of publications and journalists. The technology platforms are collaborating on some of these efforts, but are resisting efforts to have regulators interfere with their business model.

scholarly journals Who Keeps the Gate? Digital Gatekeeping in New Media

2021 ◽  
Vol 64 (2 (246)) ◽  
pp. 91-99
Author(s):  
Karolina Pałka-Suchojad
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Media Ecosystem ◽  
The Media ◽  
Echo Chamber ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Network Diffusion

This article is the result of noticing the need to transpose the gatekeeping theory. Technological progress has left its mark on the media ecosystem, generating and then strengthening the convergence processes, and has also changed the understanding of gatekeeping. The architecture of new media, especially social media, places gatekeeping in the context of the network. This allows one to look at the classically understood process from a new perspective, in which the key is to base the concept on network diffusion. Contemporary gatekeeping should be analyzed in the context of such mechanisms as: information bubble, echo chamber, filtering information by users and algorithms. Basic conceptual categories, the gate and the keeper, are also modified. There is a noticeable trend towards the transformation of gatekeeping towards gatewatching, in which social media users do not create their own gates, but observe and use already existing gates. Gatekeeping in the era of social media makes the audience an important element of it, moving towards secondary gatekeeping.

scholarly journals Growth and Upheaval in the Network Media Economy in Canada, 1984-2019

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Winseck
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Operating Systems ◽  
Internet Access ◽  
Mobile Wireless ◽  
Broadcast Television ◽  
The Past ◽  
Pay Television ◽  
Network Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
Selection Of

This report examines the development of the media economy over the past thirty-five years. Since beginning this project a decade ago, we have focused on analyzing a comprehensive as possible selection of the biggest telecoms, Internet and media industries (based on revenue) in Canada, including: mobile wireless and wireline telecoms; Internet access; cable, satellite & IPTV; broadcast television, specialty and pay television services as well as Internet-based video subscription and download services; radio; newspapers; magazines; music; Internet advertising; social media; operating systems; browsers, etc.

scholarly journals POSISI UNDANG-UNDANG PERS INDONESIA DALAM EKOSISTEM MEDIA DIGITAL

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Mufti Nurlatifah
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Print Media ◽  
Electronic Media ◽  
Freedom Of The Press ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Online Journalism ◽  
Media Management ◽  
The Press ◽  
Media Ecosystem ◽  
New Perspective

Aturan mengenai pers di Indonesia diatur oleh Undang-undang No.40 tahun 1999 tentang pers. Segala bentuk aktivitas jurnalisme, baik yang menggunakan media cetak, media penyiaran, dan media baru dilindungi dan dijamin oleh Undang-undang Pers. Pada perkembangannya, praktik jurnalistik pada media online tidak sesederhana formulasi pada undang-undang Pers. Ruang lingkup media baru yang menghadirkan sedemikian banyak kebaruan menghadirkan persoalan dilematis karena karakter media yang berbeda. Karakter media yang berbeda membuat aktivitas jurnalistik pada media baru juga mengalami pergeseran dan dinamika yang luar biasa. Hal ini pula yang kemudian menghadirkan persoalan dilematis di wilayah normatif dan etis. Berangkat dari asumsi tersebut, penelitian ini bermaksud ingin melihat bagaimana posisi Undang-undang Pers dalam ekosistem media baru. Penelitian ini berusaha menjawab posisi tersebut dalam dua aras. Pertama, penelitian ini hendak mengelaborasi bagaimana posisi Undang-undang Pers dalam konteks hukum media di Indonesia, baik dalam perspektif lex spesialis maupun perspektif lex generalis. Kedua, posisi Undang-undang Pers dalam penelitian ini dilihat dalam konteks empirik pada berbagai kasus jurnalisme media online di Indonesia. Konteks empirik ini lebih melihat pada bagaimana fakta yang terjadi di wilayah hukum dalam menanggapi berbagai persoalan terkait pers di media online.  Indonesian Law No. 40 in 1999 on Press regulate Indonesia press activity in print media, electronic media, and online media. This law not only regulate press activity in collecting and reporting information but also guarantee freedom of the press in all Indonesian platform media. However, online journalism practice not as simple as the law. New media ecosystem challenge journalism practice, ethics, and regulation to the new level. New media character change journalism in many aspect, such as commentary, accuracy, and media management. These changes brought new perspective to discuss about regulation for online journalism. This research want to answer, how Indonesian Press Law taking position in new media ecosystem. First, we can discuss this position by elaborate Indonesian Press Law in lex specialist or in lec generalis condition. Second, we can compare Indonesian online journalism case which use Indonesian Press Law to justice.

New Media and Terrorism

2014 ◽  
pp. 184-196
Author(s):  
Pauline Hope Cheong
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
War On Terrorism ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Social Media Networks ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Hearts And Minds ◽  
Video Material

Beyond the widespread coverage of terrorism-related stories on international news outlets, we are witnessing the swift spread of alternative interpretations of these stories online. These alternative narratives typically involve digital transmediation or the remix, remediation, and viral dissemination of textual, audio, and video material on multiple new and social media platforms. This chapter discusses the role of new(er) media in facilitating the transmediated spread of extremist narratives, rumors, and political parody. Drawing from recent case studies based upon multi-modal analyses of digital texts on social media networks, including blogs, vlogs, Twitter, and Jihadist sites associated with acts of terror in Asia, Middle East, and North America, the chapter illustrates how digital transmediation significantly works oftentimes to construct counter narratives to government counter insurgency operations and mainstream media presentations. In discussing these examples, the chapter demonstrates how the new media points to varied narratives and reifies notions of national security, global politics, terrorism, and the media's role in framing the “War on Terrorism.” Moreover, a critical examination of remix texts and digital mashups of popular artifacts inform a Web 2.0 understanding of how the creative communication practices of online prosumers (hybrid consumers and producers) contest dominant interests in the online ideological battlefield for hearts and minds.

The Difference Between the Western Reflections of Disaster News and Orientalist Perspectives

2021 ◽  
pp. 145-164
Author(s):  
Nilüfer Pembecioğlu ◽  
Uğur Gündüz
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
Daily Consumption ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Press ◽  
Eastern Cultures ◽  
History Of ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Different Cultures

The women issue is important not only in Western but also in Eastern cultures. Positioned in between the East and West, Turkey always provides an interesting collection of cases and data. Apart from the daily consumption of the women images and realities, the image of the women is also mobile when it comes to the press, and thus, this mobility is extended worldwide through the new media possibilities in the age of information. However, the contradictory images of the different cultures were displayed in the history of media as well. This chapter aims to put forward how the positioning of women in the past took place specifically in the case of Titanic news on the press of the time. The chapter questions the similarities and differences of handling women in news comparing and contrasting the Western journalism of the time and Ottoman press coverage.

scholarly journals Cutting the Face

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-71
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Fitzgibbon Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Middle East ◽  
New Media ◽  
Social Control ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
New Technology ◽  
State Building ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Existing Structures ◽  
The Face

The local uptake of new media in the Middle East is shaped by deep histories of imperialism, state building, resistance and accommodation. In contemporary Jordan, social media is simultaneously encouraging identification with tribes and undermining their gerontocratic power structures. Senior men stress their own importance as guarantors (‘faces’), who restore order following conflicts, promising to pay their rivals a large surety if their kin break the truce. Yet, ‘cutting the face’ (breaking truces) remains an alternative, one often facilitated by new technologies that allow people to challenge pre-existing structures of communication and authority. However, the experiences of journalists and other social media mavens suggest that the liberatory promise of the new technology may not be enough to prevent its reintegration into older patterns of social control.

scholarly journals The Revolutionary Media Education Decade: From the UNESCO to the ALFAMED Curriculum for Teacher Training

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Renés-Arellano ◽  
Ignacio Aguaded ◽  
Maria Jose Hernández-Serrano
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Training ◽  
New Media ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Media Education ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
The Past ◽  
Media Ecosystem ◽  
The Media ◽  
New Curricula

Nations across the globe are immersed in a technological revolution—intensified by the need to respond to COVID-19 issues. In order to be critical and responsible citizens in the current media ecosystem, it is important that students acquire and develop certain skills when consuming and producing information for and when communicating through the media. This is a major challenge that educational systems worldwide have to face. Hence, new curricula in media education to guide future teachers towards the successful acquisition of new media skills have been proposed. The aims of this work are to conduct a theoretical approach to this worldwide technological and media evolution in the past decade, to make an in-depth comparison between the Curriculum for teachers on media and information literacy published by the UNESCO (2011) and the publication of the new AlfaMed Curriculum for the training of teachers in media education (2021). This framework starts by providing an extensive analysis of the key elements of both curricula and of their corresponding modules, establishing, thus, a constructive comparison while updating them, according to the needs, changes, and realities that have taken place regarding digital literacy in the past decade. Finally, the chapter concludes with the detailing of the challenges and with proposals for teacher training in media and information literacy.

scholarly journals The Mediatisation of MFAS: Diplomacy in the New Media Ecology

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 66-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilan Manor ◽  
Rhys Crilley
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
New Media ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
Media Ecology ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Profound Impact ◽  
The Press ◽  
Online Audiences

Summary The proliferation of social media has had a profound impact on the practice of diplomacy; diplomats can bypass the press and communicate their messages directly to online audiences. Subsequently, ministries of foreign affairs (MFAS) are now mediatised; they produce media content, circulate content through social media and adopt media logics in their daily operations. Through a case study of the Israeli MFA during the 2014 Gaza War, this article explores the mediatisation of MFAS. It does so by analysing how the Israeli MFA crafted frames through which online audiences could understand the war and demonstrates that these frames evolved as the conflict unfolded. It then draws attention to the important way in which MFAS are now media actors through a statistical analysis, which demonstrates that the use of images in tweets increased engagement with the Israeli MFA’s frames. Finally, the article illustrates how these frames were used to legitimize Israel’s actions, and delegitimise those of Hamas.

How Social are New and Social Media for National Minorities? Perspectives from the FCNM

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Bojana Kostić ◽  
Tarlach McGonagle
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Advisory Committee ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
National Minorities ◽  
Media Ecosystem ◽  
The Media

Understanding the transformation of digital communication gives important insights into how new media, including social media, affect the ability of persons belonging to national minorities to exercise their rights to freedom of expression and participation in society. Thus, the new media ecosystem calls for greater attention for minority-related issues. The Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (ACFC) has already observed that the media ecosystem is increasingly used for the expression of intolerance and hostility towards minorities, but that it also provides them with valuable expressive opportunities. This article starts with an analysis of how the advent and growing dominance of social media are causing farreaching changes in how we communicate in the new media ecosystem. The potential and drawbacks of new and social media for national minorities is the next focus. The article then analyses the ACFC’s monitoring work regarding new and social media. The article’s conclusions are supplemented by a set of recommendations that may guide the ACFC’s future monitoring work on relevant issues.

From strong guanxi to weak guanxi: Connectivity in Chinese micro-charity

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 473-487
Author(s):  
Xun Lin ◽  
Hua Huang
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Active Engagement ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Chinese People ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Strong Ties ◽  
The Past

Charity in China is deeply rooted in the guanxi tradition and mainly involves strong ties. In the wake of emerging social media, online charity (also known as micro-charity) has become increasingly popular over the past few years. People’s participation in micro-charity is afforded by the ubiquitous connectivity of social media. Their charitable behaviours are steered towards connecting, communicating, and eventually contributing to the formation of a powerful digital environment, which essentially diffuses the awareness of responsibility and commitment. Thus, the affordance of connectivity makes it possible for Chinese people to break from the traditional tightly-bounded close ties towards loosely-bounded networks in micro-charity. In addition, by drawing on some college students’ experiences, this article indicates that connectivity affords people’s active engagement with micro-charity, which in turn fosters their distinct subjectivity pertaining to a social life that is intertwined with new media technology.

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