scholarly journals Journalism in Digital Native Media: Beyond Technological Determinism

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Berta García-Orosa ◽  
Xosé López-García ◽  
Jorge Vázquez-Herrero
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
The Other ◽  
Practical Approach ◽  
Technological Determinism ◽  
Digital Native ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Production Processes ◽  
Technological Impact

This article reflects on the conceptualisation and practise of journalism in European digital native media. The way news is produced and consumed in the digital era knocks down the boundaries that once divided professionals, citizens, and activists. At the same time, significant changes highlighted in recent studies call for a new theoretical and practical approach that goes beyond the dominant perspective of technological determinism. In relation with previous research, we have selected innovative digital media platforms (<em>De Correspondent</em>,<em> Heidi.news</em>, <em>Eldiario.es</em>, <em>IlPost</em>, <em>Mediapart</em>,<em> </em>and <em>Observador</em>), and we have analysed the types of journalism they set out to produce, as gleaned from their public-facing communications and interviews with the platforms’ founders and editors, comparing their stated goals with the journalism they produce and, lastly, we commented on changes in journalism. Digital native media explore renewed fields for journalism. The present analysis allows identifying the emergence of a series of trends in digital native media, which show a coexistence of traditional and new principles. Beyond the technological impact, the new media respond to the needs of society by incorporating the citizen as a reason for its purpose and as a collaborator in production processes. On the other hand, new players and an updated role of journalists come into play with innovative proposals designed for the current multiplatform and mobile scenario.

The Tale of Fabled Creatures

2021 ◽  
pp. 215-233
Author(s):  
M. Nur Erdem
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Physical Beauty

Violence has been a part of daily life in both traditional and digital media. Consequently, neither the existence of violence in the media nor the debates on this subject are new. On the other hand, the presentation of violence in fictional content should be viewed from a different point of view, especially in the context of aesthetization. Within this context, in this chapter, the serial of Penny Dreadful is analyzed. As analyzing method, Tahsin Yücel's model of the “space/time coordinates of narrative” is used. And the subject of “aestheticization of violence” is analyzed through a serial with the elements of person, space, and time. Thus, the role of not only physical beauty but also different components in the aestheticization of violence is examined.

Shadows of Black and White

2021 ◽  
pp. 178-206
Author(s):  
Leslie C. Gay Jr
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Recorded Sound ◽  
Musical Object ◽  
Social Meanings ◽  
The One

This chapter considers the role of seen and unseen infrastructures in the material transmission and circulation of May Irwin’s (1862–1938) famous “Frog Song.” Just as ontologies of music shift in our digital era, the chapter peels back the hazy ontological histories of this song—as material commodity, technology, and memory—to consider its ramifications as a musical object replete with racial and social meanings. The argument developed here brings together aspects of the “hard” infrastructures of song sheet publishing, paper, and lithography, on the one hand, and the “soft” infrastructures of race, body, and memory, on the other. More specifically, the material resources of the song’s production—in printed page, body, and recorded sound—illuminate the shadowy histories of this song and emphasize how these materials reconfigure shifting notions of gender and race across cultural and historical boundaries into the twenty-first century.

Visual communication in the age of digital media

2020 ◽  
Vol 592 (7) ◽  
pp. 29-36
Author(s):  
Grażyna Penkowska
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Visual Communication ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Dual Nature ◽  
Constant Increase ◽  
Visual Objects ◽  
Leading Role

The aim of the article is to popularize and attempt to reflect on the phenomenon of visuality in various areas of life in the age of new media. The first part of the text introduces the meaning of the term 'visualization' and shows various dimensions of visuality, which is an attempt to validate the assumption about the leading role of image in the modern world. The next part presents the main characteristics of visuality. Visuality is a mean of communication, description of events and expressing emotions. Visual objects affect both the cognitive and emotional sphere, which is the reason behind the constant increase of importance of the message with their participation. The last part of the article contains analysis of the positive and negative aspects of visuality. The dual nature of modern visual messages is associated with the specifics of digital media. The ease of creating and sending images in the era of new media leads to overload of the space with visual objects.

scholarly journals Humanity–Organization–Technology in View of Industry 4.0 / Society 5.0

2021 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Andrzej Kiepas ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
The Other ◽  
Technological Determinism ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Digital Society ◽  
Technological Factors ◽  
Loss Of Autonomy ◽  
The World

The article addresses selected problems related to the perspective on the development of Industry 4.0 and social and cultural changes that accompany this development and lead toward the so-called post-digital society. In the field of industry, the changes concern, among others, the functioning of various organizations, and in the perspective of post-digital society – human beings and their relations with the world of technology. These changes lead to an increase in the role of technological factors, hence the current revival of technological determinism, and this, in turn, has to do with questions regarding human subjectivity. In this context, questions regarding humans also revolve around the need to acknowledge their increasing capabilities and scope of freedom, and on the other hand, their loss of autonomy in relation to the world of technology.

scholarly journals Reinterpretasi Jihad dalam Pendidikan di Era Digital

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-150
Author(s):  
Tian Wahyudi
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Quality Education ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Digital Era

This article examines the urgency of jihad in education and the role of the ummah in actualizing it in the digital era. The method used in this research is literature study, namely by collecting, selecting and sorting library materials relevant to the topics discussed, then analyzing and interpreting it. Jihad in Education is earnest effort for mukmin with all his abilities in order to provide a quality education intended for Muslims in ways that are in accordance with the guidance of the Shari'a in order to gain the pleasure of Allah. Jihad in education demands a collaborative role for all elements of the ummah, both their role as Muslim individuals and their role in the Muslim community. Jihad in education is very important to be actualized according to the role and abilities Muslim. As for the forms of jihad in education, namely: 1) jihad against lust as a basis for carrying out other jihad activities;2) Jihad parents in educating their children;3) jihad teachers in educating generations of ummah;4) jihad students in studying; 5) jihad assets used for the benefit of Islamic education;6) jihad through virtual media, namely by presenting educational and Islamic content in various digital media in various forms.

Digital Media and the Changing Nature of Labor Action

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 376-391 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faiz Ullah
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Labor Movement ◽  
Industrial Workers ◽  
Labor Strikes ◽  
Production Processes ◽  
Indian State ◽  
Neoliberal Policies

Precarious working conditions resulting from neoliberal policies of the Indian state have placed an overwhelmingly young and mobile industrial workforce under a lot of duress. Traditional forms of organizations and modes of resistance such as labor strikes that were thought to be effective are now increasingly seen as inadequate against the speed and complexity of contemporary production processes, forcing the workers to devise commensurate responses. In this article, I discuss some of the newer strategies of resistance gaining prominence among industrial workers, especially as they are mediated through digital media. Focusing on online self-work underpinning worker agitations, I argue that contemporary labor movement should devise creative strategies using new media tools, to which the millennial worker has unprecedented access, in addition to their traditional rank and file struggles, to counter contemporary challenges.

scholarly journals Migration and Mobility in a Digital Age: (Re)Mapping Connectivity and Belonging

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 547-557 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Ponzanesi
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Intermittent Connectivity ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Multidisciplinary Perspective ◽  
Vantage Points ◽  
Globalized World

This article charts new directions in digital media and migration studies from a gendered, postcolonial, and multidisciplinary perspective. In particular, the focus is on the ways in which the experience of displacement is resignified and transformed by new digital affordances from different vantage points, engaging with recent developments in datafication, visualization, biometric technologies, platformization, securitization, and extended reality (XR) as part of a drastically changed global mediascape. This article explores the role of new media technologies in rethinking the dynamics of migration and globalization by focusing in particular on the role of migrant users as “connected” and active participants, as well as “screened” and subject to biometric datafication, visualization, and surveillance. Elaborating on concepts such as “migration” and “mobility,” the article analyzes some of the paradoxes offered by our globalized world of intermittent connectivity and troubled belonging, seen as relational definitions that are always fluid, negotiable, and porous.

The Evolving Role of Social Media as News Outlet: Opportunities and Threats

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-57
Author(s):  
Cendera Rizky Bangun
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Generation Gap ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
News Source ◽  
The Media ◽  
To Come ◽  
News Outlet

As new media emerge and replace the popularity of conventional media, people use social media not only as medium to socialize, but also increase its role as news source or news outlet. A generational divide has always existed within news. The older people tend to choose TV and newspaper as their primary news source meanwhile research conducted by Reuters in 2015 showed that younger audiences that grown up in digital era, exhibiting very different behaviors and increasingly expect the news to come to them through online channels and in new formats. This makes social media become the opportunities and also threats to some news companies. What should the media do in order to survive? Does the generation gap influence the media to use both traditional and digital or social media? Some online media even put their headlines and link in Facebook and Twitter as news outlet, so people can just click the link and go to their websites. Methodology used in this research is qualitative with data gathered from focus group discussion and interview. The result of the study expected to show how the generation gap creates different media consumption and the need for news corporation to change their pattern in order to survive. Keywords: Social media, news outlet, new media

Analysis of Data Model for News Media

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
O Balalaieva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Data Model ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Synergetic Effect ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Metadata Model ◽  
Modern Mass

Abstract. The article deals with communicative aspect of using metadata in news media. The relevance of the study is due to the objective need for theoretical justification and the specification of new communication models that have arisen with new channels of communication emergence, media digitalization and convergence. Some modern scientific works raise issue of “the communication of metadata model” in connection with the development of metadata journalism. In particular, the purpose of this article is to analyze the components of the metadata model in news media by the standard of the International Press Telecommunications Council. The rNews standard defines the terminology and a data model for embedding metadata in web documents. It was found that the rNews data model is nonlinear, because the communication in new media is positioned as a two-way process of interaction of actors. The model captures the feedback elements: one of its components is the User Comments Class with the relevant attributes, which, on the one hand, helps to make communication more effective, as the active role of the audience is provided, supported and stimulated, and on the other – makes it possible to create the original metatext. In the communicative aspect, the model is based on a two-way asymmetric model that fixes the feedback, but retains the leading role of the communicator. Asymmetry is reflected in the quantitative (disproportion between the number of “professional” and “naïve” communicators), communicative (disproportion of the “voices” of communicators and recipients, interfering with the building a dialogue) and intentional (unequal intentions of communicators and recipients) forms. The model reflects the general trends in the development of modern mass communication: the target setting for the formation not knowledge, but opinion, the removal of barriers to the involvement of audience in communication, the shift of information from the objective, factual, not related to the situation and participants of communication to a pragmatic, subjective one, synergetic effect of interactive polycode content. Issues of modeling communication processes in new digital media, the transformation of the roles of communicators and recipients, the formation and dissemination of polycode content, its impact on the audience are promising areas of further research and can be explored in various aspects.

Digital Libraries and Web Linking

2011 ◽  
pp. 273-293
Author(s):  
Maria G. Sinanidou
Keyword(s):  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Copyright Protection ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The Other ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
The One ◽  
Access To Knowledge ◽  
The Right ◽  
Flow Of Information

In the digital era knowledge and information are becoming more and more online accessible. In this perspective, libraries have a vital function in respect of copyright protection and accessibility to knowledge. On the one hand, web services are facilitating flow of information and access to knowledge; on the other hand, Internet moots questions regarding copyrights protection. The main purpose of linking is the creation of the World Wide Web as a thesaurus of knowledge and information. Nevertheless, digitization projects on an international level are already experiencing conversely issues, mainly because of copyright. Purpose of this chapter is to discuss some of these issues deriving from the linking, particularly for digital libraries. What is the relation between the scope of digital libraries on the one hand and of copyright on the other one? What is the role of the various stakeholders, i.e. the libraries and the right holders?

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