The precedent context of Russian mass media discourse

The role of precedent phenomena in the media space, in the processes of text generation and meaning formation of the media text is studied. Today, the media are modelling the reality. It may differ from the reality as it is, which is not reflected, but presented through diverse interpretations. In interpreting a statement/message, a significant role belongs to precedent phenomena and the underlying knowledge structures. The problems of the media text, a socially significant communicative environment of our time, determined the relevance of the research. The purpose of the study is to characterize the role of precedent units in interpreting the media text (at the level of meaning and significance). The materials of the research are Russian newspapers, the Newspaper Corpus of the Russian Language, the National Corpus of the Russian Language, and internet sources in Russian. The authors used methods of the discursive level, discourse analysis of precedent phenomena, taking into account their extra-linguistic dimension; the cognitive projection of the study assumed linguo-cognitive analysis and linguo-cognitive modeling as modeling the structure of meaning, text formation and sense formation based on precedent units. The study provides a discourse analysis of precedent phenomena taking into account their extralinguistic dimension and a liguocognitive analysis in order to model additional meanings and the structure of the meaning of precedent units. The cognitive approach identified the role of extralinguistic knowledge in forming the meaning of the text and the precedent unit. Thematized (invariant) knowledge shared by communicants is the key to the successful interpretation of the precedent unit and the functional effectiveness of the media text. Prospects: in the future, it seems promising to study the corpus of precedent units relevant to professional and citizen journalism, their structure, differences, spheres of functioning, as well as modeling the meaning of precedent units in social networks, memes, and the blogosphere.

Citizen journalism reduces the credibility deficit of authoritarian government in risk communication amid COVID-19 outbreaks

During the outbreak of an epidemic, the success in risk communications to make the public comply with disease preventive measures depends on the public’s trust in the government. In this study, we aim to understand how media audiences update their trust in the government during the COVID-19 outbreak depending on the information they received. We conducted an online survey experiment in February 2020 in Hong Kong (n = 1,016) in which respondents were randomly provided with a government press release and an endorsement either from an official or a non-official source. This study shows that the information from a non-official source enhances the credibility of official government messages. Our findings imply that dictators can actually “borrow credibility” from their citizen journalists and even nondemocratic leaders can make themselves more trustworthy to potential dissenters through citizen journalism. Allowing information flow from non-official sources can be a practical measure for governments to address the problem of a credibility deficit during a pandemic.

The Evolutionary Game Analysis of Public Opinion Supervision of Engineering Quality in the Network Citizen Journalism Environment

With the rapid development of mobile networks and citizen journalism, public opinion supervision has become an essential social supervision on engineering quality. They consider the dynamic characteristics of the spread process of public opinion and the game process of social supervision on engineering quality. The tripartite evolutionary game model of the government, contractors, and the public was constructed by coupling the Susceptible-Exposed-Infected-Removed (SEIR) model of public opinion spread and the evolutionary game model. Then, the influence laws of public opinion spread on the tripartite evolutionary game were analyzed and discussed through numerical simulation analysis. The results show that the public with more significant influence or authority is more able to restrain the quality behavior of government and contractors; increasing the probability of transforming ignorant into latent, the probability of converting latent into the communicator and topic derivation rate or reducing the direct immunization self-healing can improve the effectiveness of public opinion supervision; the true online public opinion can effectively restrain the quality behavior of contractors and urge the government to supervise actively. The research conclusions can provide a reference for improving the social supervision mechanism of engineering quality in the era of network citizen journalism.

Institutional citizen journalism outlets as news? News Values comparison between Peopo and Public Television Service in Taiwan

Scholars have been debating the credibility of citizen journalism, with some arguing that it is a legitimate news source and others arguing that it should only be considered user-generated content (UGC). This study seeks to determine whether citizen media should be considered news.This study revisits the relationship tested by Tse and Spiezio (2021) that uses content analysis of 400 news headlines from Taiwanese citizen media outlet Peopo and local media outlet Public Television Service to compare the news values. The findings indicated that citizen media in Taiwan pay different attention to news values than mainstream media. The differences in news values between the two media agencies suggested that citizen media in Taiwan cannot be considered news. However, citizen media has its own unique values, including more stories featuring Common Man, and provides more Good News than the mainstream media. The function of citizen media in Taiwan is seen as complementary to the mainstream media.

Rethinking Fake News: Disinformation and Ideology during the time of COVID-19 Global Pandemic

Digital media and citizen journalism has escalated the infiltration of fake news attempting to create a post truth society (Lazer et al., 2018). The COVID-19 pandemic has seen a surge of misinformation leading to anti-mask, anti-vaccine and anti-5G protests on a global scale. Although the term ‘misinformation’ has been generalized in media and scholarly work, there is a fundamental difference between how misinformation impacts society, compared to more strategically planned disinformation attacks. In this study we explore the ideological constructs of citizens towards acceptance or rejection of disinformation during the heightened time of a COVID-19 global health crisis. Our analysis follows two specific disinformation propagandas evaluated through social network analysis of Twitter data in addition to qualitative insights generated from tweets and in-depth interviews.

Pengaruh Praktik Citizen Journalism terhadap Pemenuhan Kebutuhan Informasi Masyarakat Pada Akun Instagram @JKTINFO di Jakarta

In an era that is all digital, where the exchange of messages occurs so fast and obtains information via the internet. The public can get national and foreign information and news. The most widely used information dissemination now is social media. The most popular social media in the past few years is Instagram. One of them is the @Jktinfo account, an online media that practices citizen journalism, which has been trusted as a credible media based on information content in the city of Jakarta. The author is interested in seeing the effect of citizen journalism practices on meeting the information needs of the public on the @Jktinfo Instagram account in Jakarta. The purpose of this study was to see the effect of citizen journalism practices on online media @Jktinfo on meeting the information needs of the community. The theories used in this research are (E) new media theory, social media, citizen journalism, usability and satisfaction theory, and information needs. The method used in this research is quantitative method. The sample selection technique used is a non-probability sampling technique with a convenient type of sample selection technique. Collecting data in this study is by means of a questionnaire to 150 respondents who are followers of the @jktinfo account and become citizen journalism in the Jakarta area. The results showed that citizen journalism has a significant influence on meeting the information needs of the public in Jakarta.Di era yang serba digital dimana pertukaran pesan terjadi begitu cepat dan mendapatkan informasi melalui internet. Masyarakat dapat memperoleh informasi dan berita nasional maupun mancanegara. Penyebaran informasi yang sangat ramai digunakan sekarang adalah media sosial. Media sosial yang sangat populer beberapa tahun kebelakang adalah instagram. Salah satunya adalah akun @Jktinfo merupakan media online yang melakukan praktik jurnalisme warga yang telah dipercaya sebagai media yang kredibel dengan berbasis konten informasi di wilayah kota Jakarta. Penulis tertarik untuk melihat pengaruh praktik jurnalisme warga terhadap pemenuhan kebutuhan informasi masyarakat pada akun Instagram @Jktinfo di Jakarta. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk melihat pengaruh praktik jurnalisme warga pada media online @Jktinfo terhadap pemenuhan kebutuhan informasi masyarakat. Teori yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini yaitu (E) teori media baru, media sosial, jurnalisme warga, teori kegunaan dan kepuasan, dan kebutuhan informasi. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah metode kuantitatif. Teknik pemilihan sampel yang digunakan adalah teknik non probability sampling dengan jenis teknik pemilihan sampel secara nyaman. Pengumpulan data dalam penelitian ini yaitu dengan cara kuesioner kepada 150 responden yang merupakan pengikut dari akun @jktinfo dan menjadi citizen journalism di wilayah Jakarta. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa citizen journalism memiliki pengaruh yang signifikan terhadap pemenuhan kebutuhan informasi masyarakat di Jakarta.

The phenomenon of modern Crimean citizen journalism: survey results

The purpose of the study is to cover the characteristic, the development of common Crimean citizen journalistic movement features as a social phenomenon, a phenomenon that arose after the occupation through the identification of a modern journalist portrait. The study uses the general scientific method of empirical research as the main one, the sociological method of a questionnaire survey, as well as the methods of classification, generalization, observation, statistical calculation. An analysis of a survey of Crimean citizen journalists demonstrates the existence of an active, mobile community in Crimea that seeks to provide information and human rights nonviolent resistance to the occupation.