Telling scholarly stories: Translating research outcomes into multimedia stories for the purposes of dissemination

Introduction: Universities have always focused on research, but the dissemination of research results beyond the scholarly community is often less of a priority (Armstrong, 2011) and poses serious challenges for scholars. Research is regularly published in books and in specialized scholarly journals, but both are expensive and often not readily available to the general public. The presentation of research papers at scholarly conferences is also problematic in that audiences tend to be limited to other scholars. Lack of ready access to upto-date research results means that individuals, communities and sometimes even government policy makers do not have the information they need for decision-making purposes. Moreover, students’ preoccupation with day-to-day studying and their focus on class-related work means they too are often unaware of advances in knowledge and the work professors do in their role as researchers in the academy. To address the challenge of making research results available to a wider audience, my Undergraduate Research Opportunity award focused on the creation of multimedia journalism stories for a research-focused website. Ryerson University School of Journalism professor

Telling scholarly stories: Translating research outcomes into multimedia stories for the purposes of dissemination

Introduction: Universities have always focused on research, but the dissemination of research results beyond the scholarly community is often less of a priority (Armstrong, 2011) and poses serious challenges for scholars. Research is regularly published in books and in specialized scholarly journals, but both are expensive and often not readily available to the general public. The presentation of research papers at scholarly conferences is also problematic in that audiences tend to be limited to other scholars. Lack of ready access to upto-date research results means that individuals, communities and sometimes even government policy makers do not have the information they need for decision-making purposes. Moreover, students’ preoccupation with day-to-day studying and their focus on class-related work means they too are often unaware of advances in knowledge and the work professors do in their role as researchers in the academy. To address the challenge of making research results available to a wider audience, my Undergraduate Research Opportunity award focused on the creation of multimedia journalism stories for a research-focused website. Ryerson University School of Journalism professor

Journalism Students and Information Consumption in the Era of Fake News

Technological platforms, such as social media, are disrupting traditional journalism, as a result the access to high-quality information by citizens is facing important challenges, among which, disinformation and the spread of fake news are the most relevant one. This study approaches how journalism students perceive and assess this phenomenon. The descriptive and exploratory research is based on a hybrid methodology: Two matrix surveys of students and a focus group of professors (n = 6), experts in Multimedia Journalism. The first survey (n = 252), focused on students’ perception of fake news, the second (n = 300) aims at finding out the type of content they had received during the recent confinement caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Results show that most of the students prefer online media as a primary source of information instead of social media. Students consider that politics is the main topic of fake news, which, according to the respondents, are mainly distributed by adult users through social networks. The vast majority believe that fake news are created for political interests and a quarter of the sample considers that there is a strong ideological component behind disinformation strategies. Nonetheless, the study also reveals that students do not trust in their ability to distinguish between truthful and false information. For this reason, this research concludes, among other aspects, that the promotion of initiatives and research to promote media literacy and news literacy are decisive in the training of university students.

The impact of multimedia journalism on ageism in television news: Commodification and the anxiety of ageing in the newsroom

Television news corporations changed their work roles from a tradition of team production to a ‘one-man-band’ method of production. Many veteran reporters are hesitant to accept the new methodology. This study intended to examine how television news reporters adjusted to more work demands and new technologies. A questionnaire was combined with participant observation for analysis. The participants included 289 television journalists, selected from local affiliates throughout the United States. The results indicate that there is preference for younger workers and burnout occurring to all age groups. This study explores the commodification of the profession in terms of labour value.

Classification Of Genres In Multimedia Journalism

Тhe article focuses on multimedia issues that are gaining popularity in journalism. It also includes analysis of increasingly popular multimedia articles online, classification of multimedia genres, and transformation issues. Online format of data journalism, journalistic skills, classification online data materials are also covered in it. The virtual network genres are covered with a basis of extensive examples.

The future journalists of Timor-Leste: Job expectations, knowledge and skills on multimedia journalism

In April 2019, Jakarta-based UNESCO with two lecturers from the Department of Communication Science at Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) and one researcher at PR2Media prepared a plan to hold multimedia journalism training workshops at the Department of Social Communication (DSC) of the Universidade Nacional Timor Lorosa’e (UNTL) in Timor-Leste (East Timor). This article describes the current aspirations of the trainees related to their future media and journalism career in East Timor as well as the reflective evaluations of the Indonesian trainers on the training complemented with students’ pre-test and post-test survey on multimedia journalism knowledge and skills. Participants on the multimedia journalism training carried out in July-August 2019 were adept with the required technological skills. Their biggest challenges came from basic language and journalism skills, such writing in good Tetum, Portuguese, Indonesian or English (in East Timor, Tetum and Portuguese are the official languages, while Indonesian and English were designated as ‘working’ languages), covering the stories, and presenting the stories in a journalistic style. Despite these challenges, they were finally able to produce basic multimedia stories with a local perspective on the designated news site.

Культурное наследие региона в медиакультурном пространстве постсоветской России (на примере Астраханской области)

Статья посвящена проблеме сохранения культурного наследия региона в эпоху глобализации. Целью исследования является определение степени полноты отражения проблем сохранения культурного наследия в массмедиа постсоветской России на примере Астраханского региона. Материалами явились исследования культурологов и историков, а также публикации в региональных СМИ. Реконструкция процессов развития астраханских СМИ в социокультурной динамике и проведение контент-анализа современного медиакультурного пространства региона обусловили вывод о том, что массмедиа Астраханской области уделяют значительное внимание проблематике культурного наследия во многом благодаря серьезной поддержке местных властей, активно использующих СМИ в целях привлечения общественного внимания к сохранению культурного наследия. Указано на необходимость дальнейшего исследования данной проблематики средствами различных областей научного знания от истории, культурологии и философии до мультимедийной журналистики и политики.The article is devoted to the issues of reflecting activities to preserve the cultural heritage of a region in the mediacultural space of post-Soviet Russia using the example of Astrakhan Oblast. The aim of the study is to determine the degree of coverage of the problems of preserving cultural heritage in the mass media of post-Soviet Russia, based on the study of the evolution of the mediacultural space of Astrakhan. The research materials were the studies of culturologists and historians, as well as publications in regional media. The methodology is based on a system-historical approach and the ideas of the followers of the French sociological school (Emile Durkheim). The analysis of the concept cultural memory showed that objects of cultural heritage are an integral part of the history of humankind since they provide a factual basis for the development of ideas that arise in the field of humanitarian knowledge and can confirm them. Such objects preservation reflects the recognition of the need to study the past however, the specific content of the concept cultural heritage varies from generation to generation. The author used these ideas in the subsequent review of the media development in Astrakhan Oblast. This process began in the pre-revolutionary period with the appearance of the first sociopolitical newspapers and periodicals on economics. The study of the history of regional media in the Soviet times showed that the number of printed periodicals grew, their influence on the formation of public opinion increased, new media communication technologies (broadcasting and television) appeared. It is noted that the regional features of the media formed in the 20th century contributed to the formation of a single modern mediacultural space. The development of the media sphere of Astrakhan in the post-Soviet period was characterized by intense dynamics. Skillfully using modern communication capabilities, the regional authorities were able to draw public attention to the problems of preserving the objects of cultural heritage of Astrakhan. This became possible due to the nature of the mass communication tools, which have a direct impact on ideas, opinions, values, and guidelines of behavior that form and exist in the public consciousness. At the same time, a continuous coverage of a problem in the media devalues it, reduces its social significance and normalizes its severity in peoples minds. The need for further study of this issue by means of various fields of scientific knowledge, from history, cultural studies and philosophy to multimedia journalism and politics, is indicated.