scholarly journals Some proposals of creative measures for the production of original print media content

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. first
Author(s):  
Thuy Cam Huynh
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
News Media ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Fourth Power ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Print Advertising ◽  
The Public ◽  
Creative Solutions ◽  
Rich Information ◽  
The Right

The declining trend in print advertising revenue over the past decade has become more serious since Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. The quick spreading of Corona virus over the world has resulted in further decrease in this area's revenue by 30% to 50%. How can the so-called ``fourth power'' be able to recover after the epidemic crisis? How can press & news media maintain operations and sustainably develop in order to serve the public and the society, especially in the context of rapid explosion of social networks and multi-interaction channels which challenge mainstream journalism? Being faced with this situation, the article proposes a number of creative solutions for the production of innovative media content including surveying, doing research on readers' preferences to identify "golden'' readers segment; filtering and selecting unique, attractive and attention-catching content; taking advantage of "social networks" to deliver rich-information content to reach readers instantly, to choose the right form and the right time to publish information. The author hopes that this article can contribute a small part to press and news media to preserve trust from and connection with readers; thereby, meeting their increasingly diverse needs in the current Industrial Revolution 4.0.

Framing the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Icelandic media: What were the key concerns and who could raise them?

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-152
Author(s):  
Adda Guðrún Gylfadóttir ◽  
Jón Gunnar Ólafsson ◽  
Sigrún Ólafsdóttir
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
The Public ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Relationship

The worldwide outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of reliable and relevant information dissemination. How well a crisis like COVID-19 is handled depends, in many ways, on how the public perceives the crisis and risks related to it, through the media. Therefore, how the situation is framed, what are seen as key issues, and who is perceived to be in charge, can have implications for the outcome. This article analyses Icelandic news media content about COVID-19 at the onset of the pandemic by using theories of agenda-setting and framing. The objective is to examine how the pandemic was framed, which topics were highlighted and who was given a voice in the media. We specifically investigate what kind of leadership was present during the earliest stages of the pandemic. Using content analysis, we examined media content about COVID-19 from 21 Icelandic media outlets from January 1st to March 31st, 2020. Our conclusions show that from the start of the pandemic, health related subjects, such as disease prevention, COVID-19 statistics and the health care system were salient in the media, though tourism and economic factors were also quite prominent. Furthermore, experts were at the helm of communication whilst politicians remained more in the background. The dissemination of instructions and rules illuminates the relationship between the experts and politicians, as the experts were given a voice in the media to communicate such information. The politicians, however, directly cited the experts, thanked them or endorsed them, when they spoke on instructions and rules in the media.

What do Indonesian start-ups communicate during the COVID-19 pandemic?

2022 ◽  
pp. 1329878X2110684
Author(s):  
Jandy Luik
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Human Values ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Mutual Assistance ◽  
The Public ◽  
Start Up ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Right ◽  
Start Ups ◽  
The Impact

This article aims to explore the media content during the COVID-19 pandemic. It focuses on the pandemic-handling videos released by start-up companies in Indonesia through their official YouTube accounts. As start-ups were also experiencing the impact of the pandemic, one of their biggest challenges was to communicate optimistic messages to the public with the right content and context. Therefore, this article examines the contents of the videos released by start-up companies during the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia. Drawing from the data collected between March and December 2020, this qualitative study finds four inspirational media themes: ‘ we all are affected by the pandemic’, the appearance of human values, presenting action taken, and optimistic expressions. Further, this article discusses the arrangement of inspirational statements and acts of empathy, which are predominantly mixed with brand identities and echo the value of gotong royong (mutual assistance).

Introspection into the Battle over Broadcast Regulations in India

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (02) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pallavi Majumdar
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The State ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Government ◽  
Regulatory Controls

Across the world, media entities are subjected to regulations following the universal perception that media content and media operations radically influence political debate, social policies and economic growth. This is accompanied by the tension of how to regulate the media and how to secure a free independent media on the other. Though regulation of the media content can take on several forms ranging from direct control of the government, guidelines from the industry associations, pressure from advertisers or suggestions by the civil society groups, it is normally aimed at protecting the public from perceived harm, or with enriching their knowledge or appreciation of culture. In India, the state has zealously guarded its control over broadcast news media, however, the emergence of new stakeholders in the postliberalization era has resulted in a complex mesh of regulatory controls. This paper traces the historical context of the broadcast regulatory framework in India and explores the various sites of contestations between the various stakeholders, particularly the state and the broadcasters, with specific reference to news on television.

Reframing sociotechnical imaginaries: The case of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

2021 ◽  
pp. 096366252110135
Author(s):  
Paulo Nuno Vicente ◽  
Sara Dias-Trindade
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Media Framing ◽  
Public Performance ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
The Public ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
Sociotechnical Imaginaries ◽  
World Economic

In recent years, a Fourth Industrial Revolution emerged in public discourse as a narrative of exceptional societal disruption. At the core of this conceptual construct, led by the World Economic Forum, rests a sociotechnical imaginary of future essentialism, based on the revolutionary potential of digital, biological and physical innovations. This article addresses the lack of studies assessing the dynamics between the institutionalisation and the public performance of the Fourth Industrial Revolution concept through news media. We present the results of a quantitative content analysis of how the topic has been covered (frames, sources, tone) by the Portuguese national circulation press (2013–2020). This exploratory case study informs a proposal for an epistemic and methodological articulation between the theoretical frameworks of sociotechnical imaginaries and of media framing.

scholarly journals O Ruído que Brota dos Muros do Porto: Ensaio visual sobre o direito à habitação

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (56) ◽  
Author(s):  
Inês Barbosa
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
The Public ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
The Right ◽  
Double Character ◽  
Selection Of

Enquadrado numa sociologia visual e andante, este ensaio apresenta e discute uma seleção de fotografias de protesto pelo direito à habitação, capturadas nas paredes do Porto, Portugal, nos últimos dois anos. As imagens dão conta das tensões e contradições associadas aos processos de gentrificação e turistificação. Desse conjunto, salienta-se a diversidade de agentes, linguagens, destinatários ou estratégias discursivas, bem como o potencial de disseminação que estas mensagens possuem, ao serem transpostas para outros contextos, como as mobilizações coletivas ou as redes sociais. Destaca-se ainda o seu carácter duplo de inscrição no espaço público: são memória de reivindicações passadas e incentivo para lutas futuras. Sendo aparentemente silenciosas, estas contra-visualidades produzem ruído, modificando a paisagem urbana e provocando transformações sociais e políticas.Palavras-chave: fotografia, protesto, gentrificação Framed in a visual and walking sociology, this essay presents and discusses a selection of photographs of protest for the right to housing, captured on the walls of Porto, Portugal, in the last two years. The images show the tensions and contradictions associated with the processes of gentrification and tourism. Of this set, we highlight the diversity of agents, languages, recipients or discursive strategies, as well as the potential for dissemination that these messages have, when transposed to other contexts, such as collective mobilizations or social networks. The double character of registration in the public space is also noteworthy: they are a memory of past claims and an incentive for future struggles. Being apparently silent, these counter-visualities produce noise, changing the urban landscape and driving social and political transformations.Keywords: photography, protest, gentrification

Critical Thinking in a World of Fake News. Teaching the Public to Make Good Choices

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-39
Author(s):  
Ştefana Ciortea-Neamţiu
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
News Media ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Media Audiences ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Core ◽  
Popularization Of Science ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Way

"Fake news are a big concern for media, audiences and governments. Some journalists are engaged in finding fake news and disclose them. Fake news is also a concern to the researchers and journalism professors, but they should not focus only on the way fake news work, or how to teach future journalists about them, a big challenge would be to teach the audiences, the public to make the right choices and identify fake news. Tackling this problem of the popularization of science and teaching the public should actually be one of the key-concerns of the journalism professors today in Romania. It is the purpose of this paper to propose a list of criteria to identify fake news, by using critical thinking, a list that could be easily explained to people from the public, so they can make good choices. The core notion used hereby will be quality. A large discussion on quality in journalism raised at the end of the 1990s in Western Europe, not so in Romania. Therefore, it seems more than appropriate to start it now. Keywords: fake news, media, critical thinking, education, public, criteria. "

EXPLORING THE FACTORS INFLUENCING ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN REPORTING ON MIGRATION ISSUES IN LATVIAN NEWS MEDIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Agnese Dāvidsone ◽  
Dagne Galvanovska
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
Individual Perceptions ◽  
Training Development ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Right

This article analyses the perceived importance of various influences on the ways in which Latvian local and national news media (print, online, TV, radio) have reported on migration issues and the process of accepting asylum seekers in Latvia during the last years. Previous studies indicate that the framing in media content depends on a large number of considerations such as general principles of ethical reporting, the established cultures inside media, and – in many cases – the individual perceptions of the “right” and “wrong” of the journalists and editors. The current study applies a qualitative approach drawing on 13 semi-structured interviews with media editors. The data analysis reveal how the perceptions of various individual, procedural and cultural influences intersect with the journalist perceptions of media roles, responsibilities and duties in a democratic society. Based on the results, suggestions are made about the opportunities of lifelong learning training development for journalists. 

scholarly journals Political fact or political fiction? The agenda-setting impact of the political fiction series Borgen on the public and news media

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Boukes ◽  
Lotte Aalbers ◽  
Kim Andersen
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
The Political ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Aggregate Level ◽  
The Public ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Time Series Analyses ◽  
Google Search ◽  
The Impact

AbstractPoliticotainment and democratainment are concepts used to identify the relevance of popular culture for citizenship. Among the most prominent examples of these concepts are political fiction series. Merging political facts with fictional narratives, such series provide a unique opportunity to engage the audience with political matters in an entertaining way. But can these series also affect the agenda of the public and the news media? Based on aggregate-level data of Google search queries and news-media content, the current study examines the agenda-setting effects of the political fiction series Borgen. Time-series analyses show that only a few Borgen episodes affected the public agenda and even fewer the news media agenda. Evidence is also found for negative patterns. Thus, we should be careful not to overestimate the impact of political fiction in terms of agenda-setting effects: It occasionally has agenda-setting effects but more often not.

scholarly journals Social networks and resilience in the fight for the right to the city: the Movimento Ocupe Estelita, Recife, Brazil

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 255
Author(s):  
Edinéa Alcântara ◽  
Fátima Furtado ◽  
Circe Gama Monteiro ◽  
Rubenilda Rosinha Barbosa
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
The Public ◽  
Empirical Basis ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

Online social networks have played a key role in the struggle for rights and for more sustainable, less unequal cities. In Brazil, this movement is relatively recent, and has tended to increase in the face of threats or crises that might adversely affect the rights, welfare or life of a city’s residents, or the public interest. The Movimento Ocupe Estelita fights against the interests of capital, symbolised by the Projeto Novo Recife, a project destined for the Cais Estelita. The movement started in 2012 and shows signs of resistance and resilience. This article aims to identify the theoretical and empirical basis of this resilience. The research was based on participatory online and offline observation and interviews at the encampment, with a chronology of the occupation process and subsequent campaigns of resistance and struggle. Finally, the movement’s capacity to reinvent itself and grow stronger despite continual disputes is analysed.

scholarly journals Aktywność polskich korespondentów zagranicznych na Twitterze

2021 ◽  
Vol 64 (4 (248)) ◽  
pp. 55-72
Author(s):  
Bartłomiej Łódzki
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Public Space ◽  
News Media ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Editorial Office ◽  
Foreign Correspondents ◽  
The Public ◽  
Commercial Media ◽  
Public Media ◽  
The Right

Activity of Polish Foreign Correspondents on Twitter Social media have been transforming the realm of journalism, audiences, as well as news consumption. Twitter, which is one of the top three social networking sites in the world (Broersma, Graham 2013; Neuberger et al. 2019; Nordheim et al. 2018; Swert, Wouters 2011) has become one of the main social networking tools used by the news media industry, too. There is little research on how foreign correspondents use Twitter as a reporting tool. This research aims to investigate how foreign correspondents of the largest Polish radio and TV stations use Twitter. The analysis focuses on the correspondents in the Washington and Brussels sites. The research period covered 2016–2019, when the new management of the public media decided to replace most of the correspondents. The author looks for similarities and differences between journalists from public and commercial media. He tries to find out whether their activities on Twitter are used to transmit messages, promote their work, build the image of the editorial office, or communicate with recipients. The analysis of over 20,000 tweets confirms the influence of political changes on the work and activity of journalists in the public sphere. Most public media correspondents reported in line with the ruling party’s agenda focused on domestic affairs and used Twitter for self-promotion. Commercial media representatives mainly covered international topics, using a wider range of sources in their tweets. Significant differences were related to the way of interacting with the audience. The majority of shares on Twitter and the most intense discussions concerned the content of public media correspondents. The highest rates were achieved by tweets that focused on the actions of the leading politicians of the right-wing parties, national issues, and criticism of the actions of European bodies. The disputes and discussions on Twitter between the correspondents and the public as well as among the correspondents themselves show the crisis in public space, lack of trust, and difficulty to change this state in a short time. STRESZCZENIE Artykuł analizuje, w jaki sposób wykorzystują Twittera korespondenci zagraniczni największych polskich stacji radiowych i telewizyjnych na przykładzie placówek w Waszyngtonie i Brukseli. Okres badawczy obejmuje lata 2016–2019, kiedy nowe kierownictwo mediów publicznych w Polsce podjęło decyzję o wymianie większości korespondentów. Celem analizy jest identyfikacja podobieństw i różnic między relacjami dziennikarzy mediów publicznych i komercyjnych, jak również ustalenie, czy aktywność podejmowana na Twitterze służy do przekazywania wiadomości, promowania własnej pracy, budowania wizerunku redakcji czy też komunikowania się z odbiorcami. Wyniki analizy, która objęła ponad 20 tys. tweetów, potwierdzają wpływ zmian politycznych na pracę i aktywność dziennikarzy w sferze publicznej. Większość polskich korespondentów mediów publicznych relacjonowała wydarzenia zgodnie z linią programową partii rządzącej, koncentrowała się na sprawach krajowych i wykorzystywała Twittera do autopromocji. Dziennikarze mediów komercyjnych relacjonowali natomiast głównie tematykę międzynarodową, korzystając z szerszego spektrum źródeł w tweetach. Istotne różnice widoczne były także w sposobie interakcji z publicznością. Najwięcej udostępnień na Twitterze i najintensywniejsze dyskusje dotyczyły treści korespondentów mediów publicznych. Najwięcej uwagi uzyskały tweety na temat działań głównych polityków partii prawicowych, kwestii krajowych i krytyki działań organów europejskich. Wyniki badań dowodzą istnienia głębokiego kryzysu debaty publicznej, braku wzajemnego zaufania i możliwości zmiany tego stanu rzeczy w bliskiej perspektywie.

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