New Media

The Role of New Media in Religious Violence Report in Indonesia

by Finsensius Yuli Purnama

Finsensius Yuli Purnama. "The Role of New Media in Religious Violence Report in Indonesia" Cakrawala, Jurnal Peneltian Sosial Vol. 1 No. 2.Edisi Khusus (2011): 220-233.

Inspired by the writings of Andreas Harsono and his investigation on youtube, blogs, and paper.li, this paper observes... more Inspired by the writings of Andreas Harsono and his investigation on youtube, blogs, and paper.li, this paper observes the opportunity of new media usage in the aim of reporting religious violence in Indonesia as well as the challenges. Learning from how the conventional media responded to the incident of assaulting the adherents of the Ahmadiyah, Cikeusik (Feb 6, 2011), it showed that the usage of new media such as youtube is becoming an open-alternative way in spreading information when the conventional media is not able to accommodate specific content in the issue of pluralism, esspecialy to reporting religious violence. The media ethics and regulations that bound the coverage of media content are being used to protect the harmfulness in society. Thus, the freedom of media usage relies on the emergence of new media. However, the characteristic of new media that is interactive and dispersals has brought the experience of overloaded information to public. Therefore it is necessary to find a smart aggregator that can provide the accurateness of information. Futhermore, we can be the one of the smart aggregator to reporting religious violence.

New Media and Media Students: an Approach and Use Pattern Analysis

by JOMI thomas

Media Monstering: From Tabloid Demons to Transnational Cyberbullies

by Jim Clarke

Won joint first prize.

Postdemokratie: Zu Genealogie und Poetologie des Postings

by Lino Wirag

Anatomy of the Italian Web TV ecosystem. Current issues and future challenges.

by Valentina Bazzarin

Co-authored with Emiliano Trerè

The aim of this article is to provide an overview of the emergent Italian Web TV ecosystem. We begin by sketching a... more The aim of this article is to provide an overview of the emergent Italian Web TV ecosystem. We begin by sketching a summary of the Italian media scenario, focusing on three related aspects: the Rai-Mediaset duopoly, the Berlusconi anomaly and digital revolution of the TV system. We then switch to the Italian digital resistance scenario and describe some of the most interesting experiences developed in the Italian context. In the third part, we dissect and analyze the phenomenon of Italian Web TVs, exploring its roots, legal status, producers and audiences. We conclude by providing a reflection on Italian Web TVs as an ecosystem, both by pointing out some future challenges it will face within the Italian media scenario and by focusing on the role of active citizens and unprofessional producers in changing the scenario and in advocating pluralism and creativeness.

Exploring the Democratic Potential of Online Social Networking: The Scope and Limitations of e-Participation

by Panos Panagiotopoulos

In Communications of the Association for Information Systems 30 (16), 2012

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The availability and promise of social networking technologies with their perceived open philosophy has increasingly... more The availability and promise of social networking technologies with their perceived open philosophy has increasingly inspired citizens around the world to participate in political activity on the Web. Recent examples range from opposing public policies, such as government funding cuts, to organizing revolutionary social movements, such as those in the Middle East and North Africa. Although online spaces create remarkable opportunities for various forms of political action, there are concerns over the power of existing institutions to control and even censor such interaction spaces. The objective of this article is to draw together different insights on the online engagement phenomenon, highlighting both its potential and limitations as a mechanism for fostering democratic debate and influencing policy making. We examine recent examples from Europe, the Middle East and Latin America. Finally, we summarize the implications of our work and outline directions for further research.

The impact of social media on the content of the New York Times' news coverage?

by Jan Petras

The rise of social media comes with a number of overlapping consequences for news organizations around the world.... more The rise of social media comes with a number of overlapping consequences for news organizations around the world. These consequences vary from changes in methodology, such as the use of user generated content and participatory journalism1, to changes in business strategies, such as online subscriptions. Agreeing with Marshall McLuhan’s notion of ‘the medium is the message’ (McLuhan 1967), the change from reading news on paper to consuming news online through different media channels, is a drastic change. The medium through which news is received changed and therefore the message itself changed. This paper focuses on one specific change, namely the change in the content provided by a news organization.

The rise of new media and Internet power schemes: An impact study of social media rise on CNN.

by Jan Petras

Mass-media networks, which includes but is not limited to newspapers, have had, and some still do, a hard time... more Mass-media networks, which includes but is not limited to newspapers, have had, and some still do, a hard time adjusting to the rather quick rise of the social media. Many newspapers just closed shop, many more soon understood that no online presence was basically a death sentence for them. In theory, the rise of social media was, for many newspaper, a cease and desist notice. Newspapers, but not only, adapted and managed to survive but their future is considered uncertain, at best.

"Medium, Immediacy, Intermediality": a call for contributions to a proposed special issue of POSTMODERN CULTURE

by Matt Tierney

Co-edited with Mathias Nilges.

We invite submissions for a proposed special issue of Postmodern Culture entitled “Medium, Immediacy, Intermediality.”... more We invite submissions for a proposed special issue of Postmodern Culture entitled “Medium, Immediacy, Intermediality.” The issue aims to gather ways of seeing the term “medium” beyond current disciplinary frames. Rather than take the routes of literary or film studies, art history or communication theory—and rather than see media as discrete, pre-constituted categories of aesthetics or mechanics—we seek to put the category of medium into question, and in doing so, to facilitate approaches to the various mutually dependent media whose boundaries and frames might now seem less conclusive.

The Private and the Public: Identity and Politics in Virtual Space

by Nathanael Bassett

Television's Job-To-Be-Done

by Maurice McGinley

This article reviews research into why people watch television. Christensen (2003) proposes businesses are best... more This article reviews research into why people watch television. Christensen (2003) proposes businesses are best understood by looking at the way they help people address their jobs-to-be-done. If new forms of television are more likely to succeed to the extent that they do the jobs now done by traditional television; then to understand how people will use future forms of TV, we must understand how viewers use traditional TV.

‘Warning: Do Not Dig’: Negotiating the Visibility of Critical Infrastructures

by Nicole Starosielski

published in the 'Journal of Visual Culture' April 2012.

This article highlights the visual traces of undersea cables, technologies that carry the majority of transoceanic... more This article highlights the visual traces of undersea cables, technologies that carry the majority of transoceanic telecommunications traffic, in order to make visible the material systems that support an ‘immaterial’ internet. The author documents the cultural production of these traces, recording how infrastructural visibility must be negotiated at points where cables cross through public spaces, including beaches, highways, and state parks. By examining the cultural conflicts over cables in California and O‘ahu, the article shows how telecommunications companies reorganize visual space to protect the cable, using diverse media such as nautical charts and warning signs. The cultural specificity of these representations testifies to the ways in which global cable systems develop in relation to local spatial politics. The article seeks to broaden research on infrastructure’s invisibility, disruption, and sensationalization to include the ‘existing visibilities’ of undersea cables as they are constituted in everyday life and material environments.

Tocca a noi! Giovani e nuove forme di comunicazione politica

by sara minucci

Information violence and the myth of interactivity: why new media do not mean democracy.

by Jan Motal

In Božena Baluchová - Jana Matúšová - Beata Slobodová. Budúcnosť médií. Piešťany: MEDIATIKA, 2012. od s. 223-241, 18 s. ISBN 978-80-971009-0-2. (In czech)

This theoretical study examines the myth of cyberculture being democratic. Author adapts the Philippe Breton's concept... more This theoretical study examines the myth of cyberculture being democratic. Author adapts the Philippe Breton's concept of democracy as a symmetric speech act, and seeks for this symmetry within the internet, taking notice of the men's situation in particular, democratic divide and interactivity. The man as a central category of democracy stands opposed to technodeterminism and tries to revaluate the question of man's meaning as opposed to the utopian transhumanism. Besides the discourse of utopian, dystopian and social sciences, men's situation in the information society is viewed on the basis of his hermeneutics.

Maximum Museum: Digital Images, Licensing, and the Future of Museums

by Christine Kuan

American Association of Museums (AAM) Annual Meeting 2012

Today, as organizations grapple with the global economic crisis and the emergence of new technologies that upend our... more Today, as organizations grapple with the global economic crisis and the emergence of new technologies that upend our traditional sustainability models, access to images is at the center of the museum debate. Unlike any other field, images are absolutely essential to art historical education, teaching, research, curatorial work, and publication. Now more than ever, museums have the unprecedented power to serve as “mentors” to the public by reorienting image policies to maximize the ways we engage with our audiences, and ultimately, to grow our impact.

Making Global Publics? Communication and Knowledge Production in the World Social Forum Process

by Hilde C. Stephansen

PhD Thesis, 2011

This thesis provides an in-depth empirical analysis of the character and significance of media and communication in... more This thesis provides an in-depth empirical analysis of the character and significance of media and communication in the World Social Forum (WSF), focusing on their relationship to processes of knowledge production. Using the concept of publics as a theoretical tool, it explores how, through mediated communication, forum organisers and communication activists seek to extend the WSF in time and space and thereby make it public. Engaging critically with the idea of the WSF as a global process, the thesis considers how mediated communication might contribute to making the WSF global, not so much in absolute terms as by creating a sense of globality, and how the idea of the global relates to other scales. It develops an understanding of the WSF as an epistemic project that seeks both to affirm the existence and validity of multiple knowledges and to facilitate convergence between them, and considers how different communication practices might further this project.

Based on ethnographic research carried out in connection with the WSF 2009 in Belém, complemented by fieldwork at other social forums, the thesis is structured as a series of case studies of different communication practices, ranging from efforts to engage with conventional mass media to various initiatives that seek to strengthen movement-based communication infrastructures and enable WSF participants to communicate on their own terms. These demonstrate that there are many different approaches to making the WSF 'public' and 'global', which beyond facilitating the circulation of media content also involve mobilising new actors to participate in media production and generating a sense of identification with a global WSF process. They also show that mediated communication can contribute to knowledge production not only by facilitating information sharing, but also through the more subtle processes of empowerment, network-building, and translation across difference it can stimulate when embedded in movement dynamics.

British pubs, decoder cards, and the future of intellectual property licensing in the European Union after Murphy.

by Anastasios Kaburakis

With Lindholm, J, and Rodenberg, R.

October 4, 2011 marked a new era in global sports media rights. On this day, the Grand Chamber of the European Court... more October 4, 2011 marked a new era in global sports media rights. On this day, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) delivered its judgment in FA Premier League et al. v. QC Leisure et al. & Murphy v. Media Protection Services Ltd (“Murphy”). Murphy decided upon the legality of a scheme whereby the holder of intellectual property rights to a sporting event licenses the right to broadcast the event on a national exclusivity basis.

Extrema turbulencia en los medios en 2011

by Ramón Salaverría

Salaverría, R. (2012) “Extrema turbulencia en los medios en 2011”, Anuario ThinkEPI, 6, 2012: 161-165.

[English]

Abstract: Review of developments, changes and trends in radio, television, and online and print... more [English]

Abstract: Review of developments, changes and trends in radio, television, and online and print media in 2011. The strong impact of the economic crisis is discussed: unfortunately many newspapers have had to reduce staff, and a large number of journalists have been dismissed. The consequences of the general transition from paper to digital, and the new internet developments that day by day gain more audience and attract advertising are described. Statistics are provided.
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[Spanish]

Resumen: Revisión de las novedades, cambios y tendencias de la prensa impresa y online, la radio y la televisión en 2011. Fuerte impacto de la crisis económica: muchos periódicos han tenido que reducir sus plantillas por lo que hay que lamentar
un gran número de despidos de periodistas. Se describen las consecuencias de la general transición del papel a lo digital, y de nuevos desarrollos en internet que día a día ganan más audiencia y se llevan la publicidad. Se ofrecen estadísticas.

The Labour of Media Use: The Two Active Audiences

by Göran Bolin

published in Information, Communication & Society, online first (April 2012)

The ‘active audience’ has theoretically been conceptualized from two perspectives: in political economy, it is... more The ‘active audience’ has theoretically been conceptualized from two perspectives: in political economy, it is suggested that television audiences work for the networks while watching and that they contribute to the valorization process with their labour. Although contested, it has survived among media scholars, also feeding into the discussion on web surveillance techniques. The other conceptualization comes from reception theory, media ethnography and cultural studies, where the interpretive work by audiences is seen as productive and resulting in identities, taste cultures and social difference. This article relates these perspectives by considering audiences as involved in two production–consumptions circuits: (1) the viewer activities produce social difference (identities and cultural meaning) in a social and cultural economy, which is then (2) made the object of productive consumption as part of the activities of the media industries, the end product being economic profit. This article argues for the relevance of analysing these as separate circuits, with different kinds of labour at their centre, and that recent debates on the active audience often misrecognize the difference.

Rethinking Mass Communication Theories in the Internet Era

by Simon Columbus

Mutsvairo, B., Klamroth, L., & Columbus, S. (2012). Rethinking Mass Communication Theories in the Internet Era. In N. Ekekwe & N. Islam, Disruptive Technologies, Innovation and Global Redesign: Emerging Implications. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.

This study examines three classical theories of mass communication to support a hypothesis suggesting that in the age... more This study examines three classical theories of mass communication to support a hypothesis suggesting that in the age of Internet, these theories are fast becoming extraneous. Theories to be analysed are the cultivation, agenda-setting, and media systems dependence theories. By interviewing over 100 university students based at Amsterdam University College, the authors hope to establish their media behaviours and practices, effectively verifying or disproving the argument that Web technology is masterminding a new revolution, which is uncharacteristically making these theories null and void.