Criminal Defamation, the Criminalisation of Expression, Media and Information Dissemination in the Digital Age

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nhamo A. Mhiripiri ◽  
Jacqueline Chikakano
Keyword(s):  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Western Hemisphere ◽  
Ethical Perspective ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Fourth Estate ◽  
The Media ◽  
Severe Punishment ◽  
Ordinary Citizens

Criminal defamation and the criminalisation of communication in general often result in severe punishment for the media and other content producers accused and prosecuted for committing such ‘crimes'. There are severe financial penalties involved and /or the incarceration of those who are convicted of breaking the law. This chapter studies the existence and feasibility of criminal defamation in largely contemporary Africa, but also making references to ‘older' democracies in the Western hemisphere. In short, the chapter critiques criminal defamation and the criminalisation of expression, making a strong legal and ethical perspective quite often using empirical materials from the courts. The inception and proliferation of new digital technologies amongst ordinary citizens also means that besides the traditional media or fourth estate, ordinary non-professional communicators are also highly likely to get into trouble over defamation, criminal defamation and other forms of crimes associated with the criminalisation of communication.

Criminal Defamation, the Criminalisation of Expression, Media and Information Dissemination in the Digital Age

2018 ◽  
pp. 1638-1661
Author(s):  
Nhamo A. Mhiripiri ◽  
Jacqueline Chikakano
Keyword(s):  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Western Hemisphere ◽  
Ethical Perspective ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Fourth Estate ◽  
The Media ◽  
Severe Punishment ◽  
Ordinary Citizens

Criminal defamation and the criminalisation of communication in general often result in severe punishment for the media and other content producers accused and prosecuted for committing such ‘crimes'. There are severe financial penalties involved and /or the incarceration of those who are convicted of breaking the law. This chapter studies the existence and feasibility of criminal defamation in largely contemporary Africa, but also making references to ‘older' democracies in the Western hemisphere. In short, the chapter critiques criminal defamation and the criminalisation of expression, making a strong legal and ethical perspective quite often using empirical materials from the courts. The inception and proliferation of new digital technologies amongst ordinary citizens also means that besides the traditional media or fourth estate, ordinary non-professional communicators are also highly likely to get into trouble over defamation, criminal defamation and other forms of crimes associated with the criminalisation of communication.

scholarly journals REVIEW: Powerful case for ending the corporate media stranglehold

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 193-196
Author(s):  
David Robie
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Mass Movement ◽  
Fourth Estate ◽  
Noam Chomsky ◽  
Effective Role ◽  
The Media ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Invasion Of Iraq ◽  
Ordinary Citizens

Review of Our Media, Not Theirs: The Democratic Struggle Against Corporate Media, edited by Robert W. Mc Chesney and John Nichols. Forewards by Noam Chomsky, Barbara Ehrenreich and Ralph Nader. New York: Seven Stories Press. This book's messge has a salutary lesson for us in Oceania, half a globe away from the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq and its aftermath. Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols have argued for an honest debate over a total rethink of policy if the media is to continue to have an effective role in demoracy, if it is to remain a genuine Fourth Estate. They present a persuasive case for building a mass movement that seeks to replace their [coporate] media with a media that serves ordinary citizens—our media.   

The Sound of Old Media

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-254
Author(s):  
Seongah Shin
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Experimental Film ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Black Line ◽  
The Media ◽  
Thin Black Line ◽  
Film Sound

In the field of hand-made film, sound and music are a limited part of the media due to the character of the medium; there are only a few sound tracks with poor quality. Hand-made film may be considered ‘old media’ or ‘traditional media’ that are not as popular today due to the spread of digital technologies. However, the limited character of this medium and the low quality of the sound tracks become a very attractive and creative limitation for the author’s recent works. She discusses two recent works for experimental film and sound, The Thin Black Line (2007) and flowing_water (2008) which explore how the limitation of media allows expansion of the sonic and visual arts.

scholarly journals Single Story Sellers Everywhere: Deconstructing Media Reportage on Banditry in Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-39
Author(s):  
Alfa Patrick Innocent ◽  
Isah Ibn-Mohammed ◽  
Otaida Eikojonwa
Keyword(s):  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Violent Crimes ◽  
Fourth Estate ◽  
Extant Literature ◽  
The North ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
Different Parts

Purpose: The media has been described as the fourth estate of the realm because of the huge role it plays in information dissemination and education. However, when the media peddles narratives to make and or mar one group, the media losses its role ethos and principle of balance and neutrality. Therefore, this work attempts to interrogate imbalance media reportage on the issue of north/south divide on banditry. Method: The work is qualitative and employs extant literature as its main source. Findings: The work found out that the media reports the same incidences in different parts of Nigeria in different tones, when violent crimes occur in the north it is simply referred to as banditry but whilst it happens elsewhere, it is called other less derogatory names that do not qualify the extent of the crimes committed. Implications/Originality/Value: The work recommended among other things that the media must uphold its principles of balanced journalism and help peddle narratives that bind rather than divide.

Film Criticism in Germany Today: A Report on Practice

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 59-71
Author(s):  
Claudia Lenssen
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Film Criticism ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Unity ◽  
The Media ◽  
Market Driven ◽  
The Public Sphere

Abstract As traditional media in Germany have lost their relevance in the digital age, so has the perpetually embattled authority of film criticism diminished. The article addresses current debates about the state of criticism while critics are confronting the collapse of the media having traditionally defined their work. What does it mean that writing on film is supposed to function as the “taste tester for cultural gastronomy” (Wolfram Schütte)? Do social media marginalize critical expertise? How does film criticism work under the omen of changing concepts of the public sphere? The article discusses the prospects of film criticism “at a time when the architectonic, mythic, and social unity of film is no longer self-evident and has ceased to function hegemonically” (Georg Seeßlen). What does it mean that “writing about the audiovisual must change” and young film critics open up spaces to win back film criticism as a counterbalance to market-driven film policies?

Digital Media and Appreciation

2021 ◽  
pp. 62-82
Author(s):  
Katherine Thomson-Jones
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Images ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Digital Art ◽  
Digital Workflow ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Aesthetic

This chapter takes up the aesthetic implications of the technology of digital images. Taken together, digital technologies for production and presentation can be understood as the materials that, used for artistic ends, comprise the media of digital art. The challenge for this chapter is to defend medium-based artistic appreciation in the digital age. I argue that awareness of the uses to which an artist puts digital materials is crucial for understanding the particular embodied achievement that is that artist’s work. The kinds of image-based art examples used in this chapter are diverse. They include examples from earlier chapters but also films that rely on a digital workflow.

scholarly journals Fake News as Aberration in Journalism Practice: Examining Truth and Facts as Basis of Fourth Estate of the Realm

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sulaiman A. Osho
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
News Values ◽  
News Production ◽  
Fourth Estate ◽  
The People ◽  
The Media

The deliberate publication of fake news by any media organisation or online network is an aberration in journalism practice. And such sophist intentions and dissemination of falsehood to the people through the virtual media, social media and old media is a depravity against humanity to spread mischief, acrimony, crises, disease, corruption, and squalor. It is total negation of journalism values and news values. Thus, this chapter seeks to examine the concept of newsworthiness in the wake of resurrection of the ghost of fake news in this digital age, which was the practice in the age of ignorance when unlettered men abound as journalists. It investigates the ideological constructs of news because it is a violation of journalism practice for any organisation to base its ideology on the publication of fake news. This study highlights news production process in tandem with the socio-cultural interests, political philosophy, and economic interests of the sponsors, financiers, and owners of the media. The chapter critically examines factors of news or factors of newsworthiness in relation to the concept of fake news. If the twelve factors of news are frequency, threshold, unambiguity, meaningfulness, consonance, unexpectedness, continuity, composition, reference to elite nations, reference to elite people, reference to elite persons, and reference to something negative, should there be anything fake called News? In narrative and argumentative form, the study concludes that anything fake or any information that is based on falsehood cannot be regarded as News. If it is news, it must be based on Truth and Facts. If it is news, it must be new. If it is news, it must be based on actualities. If it is news, it must be based on evidences. If it is news, it must be fair. If it is news, it must be based on realities. If it is news, it must not be based on vendetta. If it is news, it must not be hoax. If it is news, it must not be fallacy. If it is news, it must not be innuendoes.

scholarly journals Commentary: Reflecting the new realities of the digital age

2007 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-18
Author(s):  
Matt Mollgaard
Keyword(s):  
Core Competencies ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Journalism Education ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Digital World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Media ◽  
Education Conference

Three broad themes reflecting the role of the media in the digital age emerged from the Journalism Downunder journalism education conference in Auckland in December 2006. These were trepidation, confusion and celebration. The sense of trepidation relates to a fear of the unknown and unknowable: a sense that digital technologies are changing at a speed that confounds attempts to master them before they morph into new forms. Another theme was the confusion created by the new digital technologies. This confusion is related to the fetish-isation of gadgets and the growing gap between those who have always interacted with the digital world and those who have had it thrust upon them. The third theme was cautious celebration. The power, speed and usefulness of digital creation, transmission and reception opens up communication and the media to people in previously unimaginable ways. This commentary is an overview of papers presented at the conference, with some general conclusions reached about the future of journalism in the digital age. While the new digital platforms and technologies do present significant challenges to traditional journalism, they are also enabling technologies that offer opportunities to reinvigorate newsgathering. Although the future of journalism is a digital one, the core competencies of a good journalist will be as important as ever.

scholarly journals MODEL DISEMINASI INFORMASI PEMERINTAH KOTA PADANG MELALUI MEDIA SIBER

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Gerry Gerry ◽  
Elva Ronaning Roem ◽  
Rahmi Surya Dewi
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Media Analysis ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Media Space ◽  
Media Objects ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Media ◽  
Information Media ◽  
Main Thing

The rapid progress of information and communication technology has disrupted the media world. Traditional media is being replaced by cyber media such as websites and social media. This change makes public relations, especially government public relations, to be adaptive and able to make it an opportunity in information dissemination. This study aims to analyze and describe interesting information media models so that people have a tendency to continue to access the development of information through government cyber media. The method used in this study is the method of cyber media analysis. This method emphasizes aspects of media space, media documents, media objects, and experiences. The results of the study show that various forms and models of media display are things that need to be considered to provide a stimulus for someone to access and then read the cyber media used. In addition to the appearance of concern for cyber media users is media content, content is the main thing that should be a concern.  

MATHEMATICS TEACHER EDUCATION AND THE FLEXIBLE USE OF TECHNOLOGIES IN DIGITAL AGE

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans-Georg Weigand
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Mathematics Teacher ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Mathematics Teacher Education ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Competence Model ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Concept Representations

Advantages and disadvantages of the use of digital technologies (DT) in mathematics lessons are worldwidedissussed controversially. Many empirical studies show the benefitof the use of DT in classrooms. However, despite of inspiringresults, classroom suggestions, lesson plans and research reports,the use of DT has not succeeded, as many had expected during thelast decades. One reason is or might be that we have not been ableto convince teachers and lecturers at universities of the benefit ofDT in the classrooms in a sufficient way. However, to show thisbenefit has to be a crucial goal in teacher education because it willbe a condition for preparing teachers for industrial revolution 4.0.In the following we suggest a competence model, which classifies– for a special content (like function, equation or derivative) –the relation between levels of understanding (of the concept),representations of DT and different kind of classroom activities.The flesxible use of digital technologies will be seen in relationto this competence model, results of empirical investigations willbe intergrated and examples of the use of technologies in the upcoming digital age will be given.

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