Social Media and Marriage Equality in Australia: The Media Roles in the Public Sphere and the Agenda-Setting

<p align="justify">Marriage equality or the equal status of same-sex marriage has undergone a rather tough road in Australia, involving diverging opinions in parties at the state and federal levels and constitutional amendments. It appears that people in power set the agenda on the legalization of same-sex marriage. However, it cannot be denied that social media played an almost decisive role in this process because it enabled the gathering of massive public opinion to pressure the government to make changes. To be specific, social media or social networking sites offered platforms for people concerned to share reports about the progress of foreign countries in legalizing same-sex marriage, to express their opinions and to launch campaigns in support of their beliefs. This essay explores the role that social media played in the legalization of marriage equality movement in Australia from the perspectives of the public sphere theory and the agenda-setting theory.</p>

On the Digital Hybrid Publishing Model of English Reference Books for Primary and Secondary Schools—A Case Study of Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press

<p>English reference books occupy a large proportion in the basic educational books market, and the innovative publishing model is worth exploring. Another valuable question is the way to apply digital hybrid publishing—a new publishing model—in English reference books. In this article, the above problems are analyzed by taking the digital teaching reference products of Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press as examples.</p>

Research on Pear Video Information Communication Strategy

<p>From 2012 to 2015, the development of China’s short video industry has been in an exploratory period, with platforms such as Aauto Quicker, beautiful shooting and second shooting. In 2016, the development of short video in China ushered in a growth period, and the number of short video applications increased sharply, which benefited from the improvement of various mobile services, the change of audience reading habits and the capital investment of Internet giants in the short video industry. The competitive advantage of short video is that it is short and pithy, and can make users get rich content in the shortest time, which can meet the needs of users for fragmentation. With the continuous development of short video, short video applications begin to show vertical characteristics, and content production extends to vertical fields, such as food, music, beauty and information. Pear Video was launched in November, 2016, which is positioned to focus on the application of short information video, and it is also an early application of short information video in China. Studying its communication strategy has reference significance for the development of short-sighted information industry.</p>

Research on News Media in Constructing Harmonious Society

<p>Mass media has currently become the “nerve” connecting all parts of society. News media, as an important part of mass media, has become an important part of social structure and the bridge of building a harmonious social network. Moreover, news media has a wide and far-reaching impact on the construction of a harmonious socialist society due to its unique functions.</p>

Media Ecology of Citizen Journalism

<p>The development of everything is closely related to its ecological system. To be exact, it should be the ecological environment of things that gives birth to and promotes its growth. This rule also applies to citizen journalism. To study citizen journalism, it is necessary to make a systematic analysis of its ecosystem and explore the factors in the ecosystem affecting its formation and development. Only by clarifying the ecological background of the emergence and development of citizen journalism can citizen journalism be better applied.</p>

Some Reflections on the Broadcasting and Hosting Skills of Journalists

<p>With the continuous improvement and development of television and radio, the forms of news reports have become rich and diverse. Compared with other news reporting methods, the outbound journalists have enhanced the intuitive nature of news reports by capturing the freshest news information and expressing them fluently, and this way of live reporting has gradually been widely recognized by the audience. Therefore, in the news live reporting process, the news reporters broadcast hosting skills also put forward higher requirements, this article corresponding to how to improve the news reporters broadcast hosting comprehensive literacy, put forward a few effective suggestions.</p>

Analysis on the Art Skills of Editing Radio and TV News in the Era of Financial Media

<p>Under the background of the new era, network technology, information technology and new media technology have been applied to various fields, effectively promoting social progress and industry development. In particular, the application of big data, cloud computing and multimedia technology in the radio and television industry not only accelerates the speed of information transmission and increases the number of information dissemination, but also truly realizes information sharing and promotes the sustainable development of the radio and television industry. Under the background of the new era, the information collection and processing technology and editing technology in the radio and television news industry have been improved, which also puts forward new requirements for the editing skills of radio and television news. Based on the author's own news practice, through analyzing the editing skills of radio and television news in the new era, the author puts forward some thoughts and countermeasures to provide useful reference for more radio and television news from the north.</p>

Research on News Editing Skills of Radio Stations Based on New Media Era

<p>With the continuous development of Internet technology, the development of radio stations has encountered great challenges. Facing the current situation, how to effectively deal with the news gathering and editing work plays a vital role in the further development of radio stations. For this reason, this paper briefly analyzes the news editing skills of radio stations under the new media environment, with a view to providing some references for the radio and television industry.</p>

An Online Review Research Based on Opinion Dynamics Model

<p>Due to the rapid growth of Internet, consumers obtain information about products and experiences from online rating platforms, which further influences their purchase decisions. Considering the differences in the opinion interaction pattern, traditional opinion dynamics models cannot explain individual review behaviors. In order to explore the evolution process of opinions on the online review platform, we optimized the network structure and confidence thresholds of traditional models based on the collected data from Dianping, and created an opinion dynamics model for online rating platforms. The proposed method can advance the understanding for the evolution process of online opinion. </p>

Media Leaders Mining Based on Android News Apps

<p align="justify">With the rapid development of the mobile Internet, the mobile news apps have become the most important way for the public to obtain news. As a new media carrier and communication platform,the mobile news apps can promote the rapid dissemination of information and the rapid spread of influence. Some media have a major influence on the direction of other media reports and the behavioral decisions of the public. These media can be regarded as media leaders. Media leaders are very important in the dissemination of news. By identifying media leaders, companies or governments can promote sales or guide public opinion separately. This article believes that media leaders mainly achieve their own influence by publishing news, so this article uses the news published by the mobile news apps as an entry point. This paper firstly solves the problem of data crawling in mobile news apps, and proposes a data crawling method based on reverse analysis, and obtains the data source. Then, reconstruct the reprinting path of the news, and carry out accurate traceability. Finally, cluster the news based on LDA, and propose an algorithm for mining media leaders from three aspects: influence, activity and preference. Experimental studies of data sets have shown that our algorithms can effectively identify media leaders.</p>