News Media Translation

As digital convergence marks the transition from print to screen culture, translation plays an increasingly important role of in the production and dissemination of the news. The translation of information in the news media is a pervasive set of practices that affects the daily consumption of the news and a topic of relevance to scholars in several areas of the humanities and the social sciences. This book provides a wide-ranging and accessible introduction to research in news media translation practices, products and processes, illustrating and discussing historical, theoretical and descriptive perspectives. Inter- and multi-disciplinary research spans fields such as Translation Studies, Linguistics, Journalism and Media Studies, and includes approaches from Critical Discourse Analysis and narrative theory to Systemic Functional Linguistics and Corpus Linguistics. The book also offers first-hand analyses of news texts in English and Italian, approaching news translation from an ethnomethodological perspective.

Rethinking singing on screen: the case for contemporary American ‘screensong’ across the film musical, music television and the music video

The last 20 years have seen extensive scholarship on changing audiovisual aesthetics and the blurring boundaries between all screen media. This article draws on this scholarship and engages with critical debates around the musical genre to examine contemporary song-based screen media. While song and singing have a long history across film, television and video, the digital convergence era has engendered new types of song performance and song-based screen formats. To understand the complex connections and exchanges between different forms of singing on screen, this article develops a new evaluative and conceptual framework. I propose the term screensong to refer to audiovisual representations of singing performance across screen-based media. This article understands screensong as both a broad category of song-based screen texts, genres and formats and as a particular type of song-driven, highly commodified, audiovisual and narrative unit – the screensong – prevalent in contemporary American popular screen media.

Big Data Analytics for Improved Risk Management and Customer Segregation in Banking Applications

While the phrase Big Data analytics is not only applicable for a certain realm of technology, diverse business segments like banking also benefit from the use of advanced mathematical and statistical models like predictive analysis, artificial intelligence, and data mining. If it is a query that is data volume generated in a bank or any financial institution is huge, it is absolutely a yes. As per the recent survey, it is observed that banks worldwide aren't just concentrating on improving the asset quality and fulfilling regulatory compliance but on the lookout for a digital convergence strategy to reach customers effectively in delivering services and products. As most of the data generated in internet banking and ATM transactions are unstructured accounting around for 2.5 quintillion bytes useful for fraud detection, risk management, and customer satisfaction, the use of trending Big Data Analytics methodology can be used to tackle the challenges and competition among banks. There are surplus advantages of Big Data strategy in the banking field and in this paper, we have made an analysis over Big Data Analytics on banking applications and their related concepts.

Digital Intermediaries: More than New Actors on a Crowded Media Stage

Digitization, digital convergence and digitalization are well-known terms that have caused a huge impact on the media landscape in the last two decades. The embedded consequences of the increase of free information online or the lack of stable profits for media companies are present in the day-to-day practices of news companies. However, there is a lack of understanding of how the emergence of new players has modified the logic and rhythm of the media production chain. In this article, we try to identify a theoretical approach to analyze and classify the different roles and actors considered to be disrupting the media stage. Through a systematic literature review of more than 200 articles published in the last twenty years, we identify and define a term to better understand the nature of these new media players: digital intermediaries. Furthermore, we argue that there is a need for a clear taxonomy regarding digital intermediaries, paying special attention to the shifts in the news companies’ definition and delivery of value.

DIGITALIZATION AS A DETERMINANT OF THE HIGHER EDUCATION TRANSDISCIPLINARITY WITHIN LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE

Purpose of the article. The research is devoted to the substantiation of new methodological approaches to the development of cognitive and axiological components of Higher Education in Library and Information Science in the conditions of the digital economy and knowledge society development. Methodology. The combination of research tools (systematic, comparative, transdisciplinary approaches) allowed proving the objectivity of the strengthening integrative relations’ processes in the “Information, Library and Archival Affairs” disciplinary field’s components due to digital convergence of library, archive, and documentation center. Scientific novelty. The digital revolution in documenting and dissemination technologies are gradually erasing the functional boundaries between different types of documentary and communication institutions while contributing to their multifunctionality. This highlights the need to introduce the principle of transdisciplinarity in the educational programs’ content and structure for the library and information professionals training, which will help increase their competitiveness in the labor market. Conclusions. New roles and activities of libraries in the digitalization society take them beyond the pure library infrastructure and determine the transdisciplinary training of librarians. Such training is a guarantee of their high adaptability and prospects in the digital culture society, a guarantee of preservation and development of libraries as multifunctional information and cultural-educational media complexes, that are attractive for users.