scholarly journals Can Unscrewed be unskewed? Television coverage of the Internet

First Monday ◽  
2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martha McCaughey
Keyword(s):  
Web Sites ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
Talk Show ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cable Network ◽  
Late Night ◽  
Market Driven ◽  
Online Culture ◽  
Television Coverage

This paper documents one way the Internet is presented to the public by analyzing a late–night TV talk show about the Internet called Unscrewed on the TechTV cable network. I gained the opportunity to study Unscrewed, and attempt to influence its focus, when I was invited to appear as a guest on their show after having e–mailed them a criticism of their sexist coverage of the Internet — specifically their positioning of women as pretty objects to be ogled online rather than as creative participants in online culture and as authors of a diversity of Web sites. Though I liked the program’s potential to challenge some aspects of an increasingly market–driven Internet, I was unable to unskew the sexist focus of Unscrewed precisely because market forces demanded the show remain male–centered.

Knowledge in the Shrinking Commons

2016 ◽  
pp. 358-379
Author(s):  
Luke Bassuener
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Economic Environment ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
Self Directed Learning ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Face ◽  
Directed Learning ◽  
Market Driven

Libraries and Open Access function in a variety of ways to make information freely available to the public, but the current era of market-driven globalization has reshaped the economic environment, and threatens to undermine their principle mission. The defining characteristic of this threat is the treatment of knowledge as a commodity. The idea of open access and the institution of the library exist as sources of self-directed learning and as representatives of the shrinking commons in the face of encroaching market forces. Libraries face challenges of relevance in regard to technology, budgets, privatization, and physical space. Open Access must find ways to define itself coherently—as publishers, researchers, libraries and businesses all try to manipulate the concept to fit their needs. This chapter looks at the shared obstacles and objectives of libraries and the open access movement, and analyzes some of the efforts being made to address current challenges and work toward a future of collaboration and continued relevance.

scholarly journals FROM MOCKUMENTARY TO INTERNET MEME: THE BRITISH MEDIA, CELEBRITY, AND PRINCE HARRY’S SECOND MILITARY DEPLOYMENT TO AFGHANISTAN

2021 ◽  
pp. 73-85
Author(s):  
Richard A. Voeltz `
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Reality Tv ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Strong Reaction ◽  
The Public ◽  
Internet Age ◽  
The Media ◽  
Unlimited Access ◽  
Television Coverage ◽  
Tv Show

Media critics of the war in Afghanistan and Prince Harry’s participation in it hoped that his imagined kidnapping by the Taliban portrayed in the British TV mockumentary The Taking of Prince Harry (2010) would prevent his return to Afghanistan. Prince Harry’s first deployment to Afghanistan in 2007-2008 was conducted under a media blackout to protect him from potential Taliban threats. He returned home after news of his service leaked out on the internet. However, his second deployment to Afghanistan after the mockumentary aired was radically different. The British media was now given almost unlimited access to Captain Wales in terms of interviews, television coverage, and video postings on YouTube. Prince Harry’s second 20 weeks serving in Afghanistan from 2012 to 2013 became an effective reality TV show and viral internet sensation, culminating in the propaganda documentary exercise of Prince Harry: Frontline Afghanistan (2013) that the British government and military hoped would erase the public relations disaster associated with his first deployment that prompted the making of The Taking of Prince Harry. But the successful packaging of Prince Harry proved difficult in the Internet Age. In fact, the perceived unfair treatment of Harry by the media prompted such a strong reaction in him that it can be seen as instrumental in the current attempts by Harry and Meghan to establish new identities separate from the monarchy through a newly refashioned celebrity.

scholarly journals Self-diagnosis and attitude change through the ‘information super highway’

1998 ◽  
Vol 22 (9) ◽  
pp. 581-583 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oyedeji Ayonrinde ◽  
Simon Michaelson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Attitude Change ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Public ◽  
Variable Quality ◽  
Electronic Sources

The Internet provides information on virtually any subject. This is readily accessible to the public, although of variable quality. The Internet also plays an important role in contemporary psychiatry with the dissemination of information on disorders, research and clinical practice. Our patients may have access to mental health web-sites, consulting electronic sources when making decisions that affect their health. The implications of patient power on the Internet are discussed.

scholarly journals Use Of New Media In The Local Press: Comparative Analysis Of Local Newspapers Websites In İzmir, Adana and Bursa

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 14-26
Author(s):  
Berrin Kalsin
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
New Media ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Public ◽  
Local Newspapers ◽  
The Media ◽  
Internet Environment

Local press is defined as a press that serves to introduce and train the public and to provide the public opinion.  Local press gives information about the cases happen around the region that it is published and it forms public opinion about the problems of that region.  New communication technologies havehave an important role in the forming and enhancing the news contents in the media. Changeovers have occurred in the production,  process and distributiondistribution of the news by developing the new media. On the other hand,  Internet journalism used by many press institutions is occurredoccurred as a new concept in mass communication.  National and local newspapers do not remain insensitive to this new mass communication and it attempts the Internet journalism. Firstly,  pressed newspaper had been turned into Web sites as similar but later new application about the transferring the news to the reader have occurred when we look at this application about the transferring of the pressed newspaper to the Internet environment.  In this study, the Internet websites if Adanaher from Adana,  Olay from Bursa and Ege'nin Sesi from Izmir have been compared with each other.  The form, content and interaction of these three newspapers have been discussed and the usage of social media and importance given to the local news have been analyzed.

Evaluating Personal Health Care and Health Promotion Web Sites

2005 ◽  
Vol 44 (02) ◽  
pp. 328-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Collen ◽  
J. R. Lang
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Personal Health ◽  
The Public ◽  
Site Evaluation ◽  
Methodological Approaches

Summary Objective: An exemplary sample of web sites relevant to personal health care and health promotion was chosen and evaluated. Methods: Both quantitative and qualitative data were converged to assess and rank the sites on nine attributes. Results: The sites provided a definitive range of value and variety of presentations, health care and health promotion information, and services covering the virtual choices currently available to users of the Internet. Conclusion: Discussion focused on methodological approaches and issues of web site evaluation serving the public interest, health care, and health promotion.

Detecting “DeepFakes” in H.264 Video Data Using Compression Ghost Artifacts

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (4) ◽  
pp. 116-1-116-7
Author(s):  
Raphael Antonius Frick ◽  
Sascha Zmudzinski ◽  
Martin Steinebach
Keyword(s):  
Image Forensics ◽  
Video Data ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Video Sequences ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Video Content ◽  
High Quality ◽  
The Public

In recent years, the number of forged videos circulating on the Internet has immensely increased. Software and services to create such forgeries have become more and more accessible to the public. In this regard, the risk of malicious use of forged videos has risen. This work proposes an approach based on the Ghost effect knwon from image forensics for detecting forgeries in videos that can replace faces in video sequences or change the mimic of a face. The experimental results show that the proposed approach is able to identify forgery in high-quality encoded video content.

The Internet Trap

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Hindman
Keyword(s):  
The Internet ◽  
Net Neutrality ◽  
The Public ◽  
Attention Economy ◽  
Digital News ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Over Time

The Internet was supposed to fragment audiences and make media monopolies impossible. Instead, behemoths like Google and Facebook now dominate the time we spend online—and grab all the profits from the attention economy. This book explains how this happened. It sheds light on the stunning rise of the digital giants and the online struggles of nearly everyone else—and reveals what small players can do to survive in a game that is rigged against them. The book shows how seemingly tiny advantages in attracting users can snowball over time. The Internet has not reduced the cost of reaching audiences—it has merely shifted who pays and how. Challenging some of the most enduring myths of digital life, the book explains why the Internet is not the postindustrial technology that has been sold to the public, how it has become mathematically impossible for grad students in a garage to beat Google, and why net neutrality alone is no guarantee of an open Internet. It also explains why the challenges for local digital news outlets and other small players are worse than they appear and demonstrates what it really takes to grow a digital audience and stay alive in today's online economy. The book shows why, even on the Internet, there is still no such thing as a free audience.

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