scholarly journals Atrocity Prevention in the New Media Landscape

AJIL Unbound ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 113 ◽  
pp. 262-266
Author(s):  
Rebecca Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Preventive Action ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Foreign Correspondents ◽  
Civilian Protection ◽  
The Past ◽  
Legal Obligations ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Impact

Journalists have traditionally played a crucial role in building public pressure on government officials to uphold their legal obligations under the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide. But over the past twenty years there has been radical change in the media landscape: foreign bureaus have been shuttered, young freelance journalists have taken over some of the work traditionally done by experienced foreign correspondents, and, more recently, the advent of social media has enabled people in conflict-affected areas to tell their own stories to the world. This essay assesses the impact of these changes on atrocity prevention across the different stages of the policy process. It concludes that the new media landscape is comparatively poorly equipped to raise an early warning alarm in a way that will spur preventive action, but that it is well-positioned to sustain attention to ongoing atrocities. Unfortunately, such later stages of a crisis generally provide the most limited policy options for civilian protection.

scholarly journals Media Use in Estonia

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peeter Vihalemm
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Political Order ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Media System ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Postcommunist Transformation

Abstract The article gives an overview of general trends in media use in Estonia over the last 15 years, making some comparisons with Nordic countries. Since the beginning of postcommunist transformation in 1991, the media landscape in Estonia has faced substantial changes. A completely renewed media system has emerged, characterized by a diversity of channels, formats, and contents. Not only the media themselves, but also the patterns of media use among audiences, their habits and expectations, have gone through a process of radical change. Changes in the Estonian media landscape have some aspects in common with many other European countries, such as the impact of emerging new media and global TV; others are specific features of transition to a market economy and democratic political order. Besides discussing general trends, the article gives insights into some audience- related aspects of changes, more specifically age and ethnicity.

It’s All about the Coalition

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 325-354
Author(s):  
Sovinda Po ◽  
Christopher B. Primiano
Keyword(s):  
International System ◽  
Belt And Road Initiative ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Negative View ◽  
The World ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
The Media ◽  
Economic Ties ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Strategic Goal

Abstract Since its creation in 2013, China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has received ample attention in the media and from government officials and scholars. Many different, and often polarising, views exist on BRI. While some view it as China’s grand strategic goal of remaking the world in its own image, others perceive it as consistent with the international system. Using interviews conducted in Cambodia and an examination of press sources, this article draws from the selectorate theory to examine both why the Cambodian government is siding with China regarding economic ties, specifically regarding BRI, and the impact that is having on popular perception in Cambodia. The small coalition in Cambodia that Hun Sen seeks to placate results in a negative view among a significant segment of the Cambodian populace regarding Cambodia’s relations with China, and Chinese investments in particular.

scholarly journals The Revolutionary Media Education Decade: From the UNESCO to the ALFAMED Curriculum for Teacher Training

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Renés-Arellano ◽  
Ignacio Aguaded ◽  
Maria Jose Hernández-Serrano
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Training ◽  
New Media ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Media Education ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
The Past ◽  
Media Ecosystem ◽  
The Media ◽  
New Curricula

Nations across the globe are immersed in a technological revolution—intensified by the need to respond to COVID-19 issues. In order to be critical and responsible citizens in the current media ecosystem, it is important that students acquire and develop certain skills when consuming and producing information for and when communicating through the media. This is a major challenge that educational systems worldwide have to face. Hence, new curricula in media education to guide future teachers towards the successful acquisition of new media skills have been proposed. The aims of this work are to conduct a theoretical approach to this worldwide technological and media evolution in the past decade, to make an in-depth comparison between the Curriculum for teachers on media and information literacy published by the UNESCO (2011) and the publication of the new AlfaMed Curriculum for the training of teachers in media education (2021). This framework starts by providing an extensive analysis of the key elements of both curricula and of their corresponding modules, establishing, thus, a constructive comparison while updating them, according to the needs, changes, and realities that have taken place regarding digital literacy in the past decade. Finally, the chapter concludes with the detailing of the challenges and with proposals for teacher training in media and information literacy.

scholarly journals Media Availability and Utilization in Education Institution

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 244-249
Author(s):  
P. Ravi Kumar ◽  
P.A. Varghese
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Interactive Media ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Future Generation ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Impact

Media plays a vital role in educational programs, health communication and agricultural development. Without a vibrant media no society can function well. The Media plays a significant role in forming and influencing people’s attitudes and behaviour. Gone are the days of chalks and blackboard and the technological changes have brought in digital projection and interactive classrooms. In this new world of interactive media networks, traditional education technology and ignorance of new media are looked down upon. In schools and colleges some of the media are used in teaching and learning. Educational media is a systematic way of designing, carrying out and evaluating the total process of learning and teaching in terms of specific objectives, based on research in human learning and communication In the present age, when scientific developments have made the human life comfortable, media education has gained much importance. Many authors and philosophers have made valuable observations about media and their utilization in schools. So, today Media is very essential tool in education institutions. Without media we can’t imagine the life of the future generation and their knowledge. In this way the present study is an effort to focus on availability of media and their utilization in education institution. In the present study researcher used the survey based on Questionnaire and Interview. Survey based on Questionnaire was used for students to get the information and Interviews were conducted with teachers and administrators of the schools. The researcher chose four schools in Bhadravathi City. The study is located in Bhadravathi Taluk of Shimoga District in Karnataka State. Two Government schools of Kannada medium and two private institutions of English medium are chosen to analyze the impact of language on education and utilizing media. The study also explain the authorities interest and teachers knowledge, weather they have a sufficient training to operate media devices, and know how to effectively link with curriculum and co-curricular activities of the school. This paper also brings out the procedural and pattern wise issues with regard to media availability and utilization in educational institutions.Int. J. Soc. Sci. Manage. Vol-2, issue-3: 244-249 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ijssm.v2i3.12824 

The Impact of New Media on Women Rights, with particular referemce to India

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Dr.R.K. Maya
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Media ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Women Rights ◽  
Traditional Roles

In the recent past, advances in information and communication technology have resulted in unifying the world and these developments have impacted public policy, private attitudes and behaviour. The media can play a vital role in the empowerment of women. Though the number of women who work in the media has increased, very few women are in the top positions where they can take decisions or influence content and policy towards the portrayal of women's issues. Gender-based stereotyping still continues in all forms of media. The consumer-driven patterns of media reinforce women's traditional roles and inappropriately target women. The media also contribute to the creation of violent, negative and sexually exploitative content about women which leads to negatively impacting women's participation in society as equal partners to men with inherent dignity.

Applying McLuhan’s tetradic framework to the effects of 9/11 on US media reports and depictions of Muslims

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Matusitz
Keyword(s):  
Information Seeking ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
The Impact ◽  
People’S Perceptions

This article applies McLuhan’s tetradic framework to the impact of 9/11 on US media reports and portrayals of Muslims. The tetradic framework posits that transformations in media and world life happen through four fundamental steps. All forms of media (1) intensify specific aspects of media culture while, simultaneously, (2) making other characteristics of media culture obsolete. At some point, people tend to (3) discover new things about aspects in media culture that were ignored in the past (i.e. which obsolete aspects of culture do media retrieve?). Finally, (4) with this rise in information-seeking and discovery, media culture is experiencing continuous modification. Stated differently, the media go through a reversal when pushed too far or extended beyond the limits of their capacity. Overall, this analysis is able to inform readers on the full complexity of the long-term development of people’s perceptions of Muslims as a result of the constant metamorphosis of the media.

Defying expectations: what leader insurgencies reveal about media and party incapacity in the time of ‘audience democracy’

2018 ◽  
Vol 167 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Walter ◽  
Zareh Ghazarian
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
New Media ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Political Class ◽  
The People ◽  
Democratic Engagement ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Rules Of The Game

Political communication and citizen engagement have been impacted by crises in both political parties and conventional media models. This article contends that the confluence of these crises has been insufficiently understood, and that this lack of understanding depends upon a third element: the dissolution of a ‘holding culture’, a sense of the ‘rules of the game’ that has constituted the ground on which parties and the media operated and generated the imaginative space for constituting community. This dissolution might be represented as resistance to a now discredited political class, once constituted by ‘old’ political and media elites, and promising a new culture – with the potential for parties to be more responsive to ‘the people’, and for a more diversified and representative media. By looking at case studies of leadership insurgency in parties and the impact of new media in creating the discursive conditions for their emergence, this article explores the realities in relation to political communication and democratic engagement.

In the Web of Doubts and Prospects. Consequences of the Digitisation of the Modern Society

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-20
Author(s):  
Tomasz Łachacz ◽  
Joanna Dziekońska
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Net Generation ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
The Media ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
The Impact

New information and communication technologies are an inherent part of the contemporary man’s living space. Since their very beginning, the media have always, to a lesser or greater extent, determined the functioning of individuals. Today, however, due to unlimited access, impressive growth of the media market and human creativity in the area of new technological developments, the involvement of mass media in people’s lives is taking on a new, unprecedented dimension. Such a state of affairs was envisaged as early as in the middle of the last century by, among others, M. McLuhan, who wrote that “the new media will transform us entirely: nothing will remain unchanged, untouched”, or J. Baurdrillard, who speculated at the time that media would become the life itself. Nowadays, these speculations are taking on a real form, especially as regards the net generation, which is an audience strongly dominated by the impact of the media for a simple reason, i.e. because its representatives — contemporary children and young people, unlike adults, were born and have been growing up in the digital world. Thus, the article is an attempt to present opportunities, challenges and threats involving widespread use of the latest technologies by digital natives. The authors show consequences of the phenomenon in the social, cultural, educational and security dimensions through references to the Polish and foreign literature, focusing on ambivalent implications of changes in the net generation’s way of thinking, communicating, collecting information and learning. Moreover, the article gives examples of juvenile perpetrators of attacks who were strongly linked with the virtual world prior to committing their crimes.

scholarly journals The Experience and Meaning of Media to Non-Mainstream Athletes: Qualitative Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1154
Author(s):  
Eunhye Yoo ◽  
Jeong-Hui Park ◽  
Jung-Min Lee
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Media Exposure ◽  
Auxiliary Data ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Media ◽  
Sustained Effort ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Depth Interviews

This study aims to understand the process by which ssireum (traditional Korean wrestling), which was labeled a declining industry, has regained its popularity owing to the impact of the media. The study was conducted as a case study with ten ssireum athletes who participated in the television program “The Rhapsody of Ssireum.” Additionally, text analysis was performed based on in-depth interviews and auxiliary data collection. As a result, four media-driven transformative trends in ssireum were observed: a shift of the public’s interest from online to offline under the influence of media, shift in the public’s perception of ssireum athletes’ body, birth of ssireum stars with nicknames matching the characteristics of popular ssireum athletes, and ssireum athletes’ increased sense of responsibility toward ssireum matches felt under the spotlight of the media. Admittedly, media exposure of ssireum athletes has increased significantly compared to the past. However, for the popularization of ssireum, a sport unique to Korea, the athletes, and the ssireum association need to make a sustained effort.

scholarly journals Soviet Films in the New Media Environment: Idealization or Discretization of the Past?

2014 ◽  
pp. 61-67
Author(s):  
Anna A. Novikova ◽  
Varvara P. Chumakova
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
New Media ◽  
Media Ecology ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Media ◽  
Rural Dwellers

Analyses how Russian viewers of the multichannel TV perceive narrative and aesthetic clichés of the Soviet movies. The influence of Soviet clichés on social construction of today’s reality, especially on attitudes of the rural dwellers towards the Past is in the focus of the paper, the authors of which follow the media ecology approach

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