Public Information Flows in Rural Australia

1983 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
D J Walmsley

Geographical studies of the transmission of information have focussed overwhelmingly on private information flows based on direct, face-to-face contact. Very little attention has been directed to media-based public information flows despite the potential importance of this type of flow in regional development. Yet an examination of newspaper content for the New England region of New South Wales for 1971 and 1977 reveals that major changes are occurring in newspaper-based information flows. Rural newspapers are becoming increasingly aspatial and parochial in their news coverage and the flow of information between rural centres is changing from a complex system to a less complex system. The reasons for these trends are not entirely clear, but may relate to economic and technological changes within the newspaper publishing industry as well as to the fortunes of regional policy in Australia.

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (04) ◽  
pp. 913-920
Author(s):  
Haritz Garro

I study how the quality of information affects politician selection in a two-candidate model where voters want to vote for the best candidate but also for the winner. Voters receive private and public signals about candidates’ relative valence. Public information has a stronger effect on equilibrium outcomes because voters use it to infer other voters’ beliefs. Contrary to what might be expected, more precise public information does not always benefit the better candidate’s electoral prospects: when voters’ private information is precise enough, improving public information hurts the better candidate’s electoral prospects. The model provides a rationale for the prevalence of large swings in voter sentiment in close elections, and for front-runner candidates’ tendency to avoid face-to-face television debates with the underdog.


Author(s):  
Daniel Trottier

This article examines changing rules and regimes of visibility on social media, using Facebook as a case study. Interpersonal social media surveillance warrants a care of the virtual self. Yet this care is complicated by social media’s rapid growth, and especially Facebook’s cross-contextual information flows that publicize otherwise private information. Drawing from a series of thirty interviews, this article focuses on how users perceive and manage their own visibility and take advantage of the visibility of other users. These experiences are tied to shifting understandings of private and public information, as well as new terms like “stalking” and “creeping” that frame surveillant practices.Cet article examine l’évolution des règles et des régimes de visibilité sur les médias sociaux, en utilisant Facebook comme une étude de cas. La surveillance interpersonnelle sur les médias sociaux nécessite un soin de l’être virtuel. Pourtant, ce soin est compliqué par l’expansion rapide des médias sociaux, et en particulier la nature inter contextuel de Facebook, qui diffuse de l’information privé. Tirant d’une série de trente entrevues, cet article concentre sur la manière dont les utilisateurs perçoivent et gèrent leur proper visibilité sur Facebook ainsi que de profiter de la visibilité des autres. Ces expériences sont liées à l’évolution des conceptions de l’information publique et privée, ainsi que de termes nouveaux comme «harcèlement» et «stalking» qui caractérise la surveillance sur les médias sociaux.


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-224
Author(s):  
Heni Kartika

Abstract This writing takes the theme of the online learning process which is motivated by the Covid-19 pandemic situation by taking one of a series of learning processes, namely the learning evaluation process, where learning does not take place normally as usual. This results in changes in the delivery of information within the scope of learning which must be adapted to situations that cannot have a face-to-face, cannot gather in one room, and cannot interact directly with each other, but material information must continue with complete learning targets ). Therefore, this research is interesting to do because it aims to reveal patterns of information flows in learning activities during the Covid-19 pandemic. This research uses qualitative research with a phenomenological approach. This research took a research locus at MI Ma'arif Mangunsari, Salatiga City. Informants taken in this study were teachers, school principals and parents of students who were taken randomly. The results of this study indicate that first, the implementation of Mangunsari online learning in Salatiga City runs well without significant obstacles due to good planning in terms of teacher competence, materials, facilities and parental involvement, as well as the accuracy of selecting the facilities and infrastructure used in online learning. Second, the process of information flow in online learning forms a triangular pattern between teacher parents and students with the flow of information from teacher to parent through online media, parents to students offline, students to parents, then parents to teachers.  AbstrakPenulisan ini mengambil tema proses pembelajaran online yang dilatar belakangi oleh situasi pandemi Covid-19 dengan mengambil salah satu rangkaian proses pembelajaran yaitu proses evaluasi pembelajaran, dimana pembelajaran tidak berlangsung normal seperti biasanya. Hal ini mengakibatkan terjadinya perubahan penyampaian informasi dalam ruang lingkup pembelajaran yang harus disesuaikan dengan situasi tidak dapat bertatap muka, tidak dapat berkumpul dalam satu ruangan, dan tidak dapat saling berinteraksi secara langsung, namun informasi materi harus dilanjutkan dengan menyelesaikan target pembelajaran). Oleh karena itu, penelitian ini menarik untuk dilakukan karena bertujuan untuk mengungkap pola arus informasi dalam kegiatan pembelajaran pada saat pandemi Covid-19. Penelitian ini menggunakan jenis penelitian kualitatif dengan pendekatan fenomenologi. Penelitian ini mengambil lokus penelitian di  MI Ma’arif Mangunsari Kota Salatiga. Informan yang diambil dalam penelitian ini adalah guru, kepala sekolah dan orang tua siswa yang diambil secara acak. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa pertama, pelaksanaan pembelajaran online Mangunsari di Kota Salatiga berjalan dengan baik tanpa kendala yang berarti dikarenakan perencanaan yang baik dari segi kompetensi guru, materi, fasilitas dan keterlibatan orang tua, serta ketepatan pemilihan fasilitas dan infrastruktur yang digunakan dalam pembelajaran online. Kedua, proses arus informasi dalam pembelajaran online membentuk pola segitiga antara orang tua guru dan siswa dengan arus informasi dari guru ke orang tua melalui media online, orang tua ke siswa secara offline, siswa ke orang tua, kemudian orang tua ke guru.


1963 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 313-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. Cooper ◽  
J. R. Richards ◽  
A. W. Webb

Author(s):  
Chaker Mhamdi

This paper examines the characteristics of news translation during wars and conflicts. There is limited research available concerning the issues of English-Arabic news translation, especially during conflicts. Based on an analysis of 11 CNN news headlines and Al-Jazeera parallel translations during the 2003 Iraq War, this study discusses the mechanics of news translation and interpretation and the strategies and challenges involved. Particularly, the paper explores news translation in the context of global information flows across the boundaries of space, language and culture. Building on existing research on news translation, and employing critical discourse and framing analyses, the study shows how news coverage of the Iraq War was framed to serve the competing narratives of war chroniclers as active participants in the conflict.


2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-163
Author(s):  
Kamil Lipiński

The article retraces the epistemological debates occurring in mass communication, from the problem of dispersed perception in the Frankfurt School to accelerated decentration in the theory of immaterial labour. The analysis covers, first of all, the theses of the Frankfurt School representatives concerning the disappearance of aura and distraction as a starting point for theoretical reflection on the problem of perception dispersion and, subsequently, the abolition of face-to-face communication in the decentralized internet. The purpose of following Hans Belting’s concept of “the presence of the absent places image” is to outline the tendency for acceleration and progressive decentration associated with the spatio-temporal compression and the flow of information posing a threat to material co-presence.


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