Online Media

Given the on-going nature of this crisis, it’s too early for the full implications to be realized. However, it’s clear that the news industry which emerges on the other side will look very different from the one that went into it.

Nonetheless, what this report shows is that we can start to identify the key characteristics inherent in those outlets who look best placed to navigate this situation.

Tl;DR think “audience first.”

“Businesses that focus on the audience first and advertising second will be better equipped to handle the consequences of the pandemic,” argues Curtis Huber, Senior Director of Circulation and Audience Revenue at the Seattle Times.

What does that mean in practice? Here’s a topline six-point playbook.

This entry reviews and discusses several issues regarding online friendship. After introducing two opposite perspectives: the cues-filtered-out perspective and the social information process theory, it examines empirical studies with particular focuses on online friendships development, comparisons between online friendship and its offline counterpart, and the impacts of online friendship on the offline life.

Digital marketing is a subset of marketing that is used to promote a brand or product using one or more electronic technologies.  The goal is to influence target consumers in taking action.
The power of digital marketing is phenomenal.  You can reach millions of users within hours and a couple of clicks. Now that’s true power available to anyone.
Users are no longer consuming content while sitting.  They’re now doing it on the go or while multi-tasking.
Overall, we’re missing a lot of things because we are constantly staring down at our phones.  We’re being distracted with notifications and even phone batteries are having  a hard time keeping up with our usage.

The Internet is the preferred source of health information followed by healthcare providers, friends and family, print media, and television (Baxter & Egbert, 2008). Yet, previous research about online sexual health resources for LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, queer) groups, especially lesbian and bisexual (LB) women, primarily consists of introductions and reviews of related websites rather than critique of the quality of the information present (e.g. Clark, 2003; Finlon, 2002; McKay, 2011). Thus, the goals of this study were to examine the LB women's sexual and relational health content in online sources and identify the degree to which the online sources considered LB women's identity and standpoint when presenting sexual and relational health messages. The analysis includes a comparison of text-based and video-based online messages related to LB women's sexual and relational health. We argue that there is an overall lack of quality in the online sexual and relational health messages for LB women, and that websites are not comprehensive enough in their coverage of LB women's sexual and relational health.

This paper describes the use of adaptation patterns in the task of formulating standards for adaptive educational hypermedia (AEH) systems that is currently under investigation by the EU ADAPT project. Within this project, design dimensions for high granularity patterns have been established. In this paper we focus on detailing lower granularity adaptive patterns based upon learning styles. Several patterns from existing AEH system case studies are identified and classified according to an extended learning style "onion" model. This model forms the basis of a learning style taxonomy, introduced here, whose components determine adaptation patterns for AEH. These patterns are of importance both for authoring, as well as for interfacing between adaptive hypermedia systems. From an authoring point of view, these patterns may be used to establish a fine-grain approach to instructional strategies that can be implemented in AEH systems, as a response to a particular learning style. The implementation of this adaptation pattern taxonomy is discussed, both generally and in detail.

In Spike Jonze’s Her (2013), we watch the film’s protagonist, Theodore, as he struggles with the end of his marriage and a growing attachment to his artificially intelligent operating system, Samantha. While the film remains unique in its ability to cinematically portray the Lacanian contention that “there is no sexual relationship,” this article explores how our digital non-relationships can be re-approached through the medium of comedy. Specifically, when looked at through a comic lens, notable scenes from Her are examined for the potential they provide in affording a self-decentrement which allows us to traverse the fantasies that structure our non-relations.

As Abraham Lincoln has said, democracy is government of the people, for the people and by the people. Citizens elect their representative for governing them, and for making suitable policies for the development of the country. Earlier, the involvement of the citizens in the democracy was limited because of insufficiency of the means for connecting with their representatives. But with the emergence of new communication technologies, democracy has gained a new dimension – the participation of the citizens has increased. They can comment on, criticize or support their representatives, their parties and the policies of the government. The use of mobile phone, new apps, internet and social networking sites has been increasing exponentially in India. New platforms have become available for people to voice their opinions. And with this new communication technology politicians can connect with their voters or supports.
Out of 1.29 billion population women constitute more than 625 million which means almost 50% of the total population. The level of participation of women in the politics is important to build sustainable democracy. They should get fair representation only then democracy can deliver for all of its citizens.  They have capacity and potential to shape the society. With this belief woman politicians have more responsibility. They can bring different views and perspectives to many issues by voicing their opinions on available platforms. It may help to generate gender sensitivity towards many issues and views.  Researcher believes that the existence of women on different platforms like radio, television, print and social networking sites, is more likely to provide positive role models for girls to join different fields including politics and gain the confidence.
The new tools of communication have made one-on-one interaction easier, cheaper and less time consuming, and therefore so much more extensive and effective. But the larger question here is, how aware are our elected representatives of these tools? In other words, do they use new communication technologies? Do they have their own websites? Do they use social networking sites to interact with their voters or member of the constituency? Do they respond to emails? What is their opinion about the new media?
This is an attempt to find out answers to all the above questions. Out of 543 elected MPs there are 66 women Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha 2014. In case of Maharashtra out of 48, there are five women MPs. This is a case study of the usage of new communication technology by all the women MPs. This study hopes to examine women MP’s attitude towards the communication technology. Effective use of new media can enhance communication between the citizens and their representatives. This will lead to a better and healthier democracy.
Key Words: new communication technology, democracy, women politicians, women and ICT

It is often remarked that politicians’ private lives are becoming feature of political communication in many advanced industrial democracies. However, there have so far been no genuinely comparative studies examining the personalised nature of political communication. Intimate Politics provides for the first time a systematic comparative analysis of such developments in Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the UK, and the US. Drawing on a wide range of primary and secondary sources it assesses the extent to which the private lives of politicians have become a feature of political communication in each democracy. The book provides a comprehensive account of the shifting boundaries between the public and private and whether any developments are universal or more advanced in some democracies than others, and seeks to explain why this might be. Intimate Politics will be of great value for students and scholars of communication and media studies and political science and is required reading for anyone who wants a fuller understanding of the transformation of mediated politics in advanced industrial democracies.

The evolution of digital media has inspired new narrative forms within the media context. In the last few years, interactive documentary has presented complex and alternative ways to access information. This article presents an analysis of this statement consisting of the case study of five international productions: Bear 71, A Short History of the Highrise, Pirate Fishing, Do Not Track and Párkinson, que tiemble el camino. The production of interactive documentary in online media as a journalistic format is tackled with a multidimensional approach which incorporates the product, the user’s perception and the author’s view. The exploration of new formats in online media is linked to innovation and a contemporary response to the audiences, who are now able to interact, play and share in an environment favoured by mobile communication and the skills of the current society.

A sizeable portion of our everyday knowledge about sub-Saharan Africa comes from the work of international news reporters stationed on the continent. Even though they play a critical role in communicating about the distant Other (communication frequently criticised for its representational deficits), scholarly empirical research on the work of foreign correspondents has been neglected: it is now decades old and lacks a systematic examination of the on-the-ground realities of journalism in Africa. This chapter is about the socio-demographics, the professional cultures, and the news work of these individuals. It examines long-term trajectories in international journalism combined with short-term developments resulting from transformations in microelectronics and digitisation. Three main lines of inquiry are outlined: who is actually reporting across the continent, what are the main characteristics of the occupational cultures in place, and what are the constraints that limit the range of news workers’ production routines?

Do users tend to consume only like-minded political information online? We point to two problems with the existing knowledge about this debate. First, the measurement of media preferences by the typical means of surveys is less reliable than behavioral data. Second, most studies have analyzed only the extent of online exposure to like-minded content, not the users’ complete web-browsing repertoire. The current study used both survey data and real-life browsing behavior (661,483 URLs from 15,976 websites visited by 402 participants) for the period seven weeks prior to the 2013 Israeli national elections.  The results indicate that 1) self-report measurements of ideological exposure are inflated; 2) exposure to online ideological content accounted for only 3% of total online browsing; 3) the participants’ media repertoires are very diverse with no evidence of echo chambers; and 4) in accordance with the selective exposure hypothesis, individuals on both sides are more exposed to like-minded content. The results are discussed in light of the selective exposure literature.

Proceedings paper in conjunction with the opening keynote address on the 2019 conference theme of Global Digital Society: Impacts on Humanities and Social Sciences. The topic of disruptive technology and our calling suited the author's background in online education and international faculty development. The author has also worked for the impact to go the other way, from the Humanities and Social Sciences to new technologies, which tend to be rudderless or even dangerous unless guided by ethics and, in education, pedagogy. Thus the paper recommends interdisciplinarity and outlines the history of e-learning.

The New York Times needs to expand to global audiences if it is to grow its digital subscription base. However, to do so it must balance difficult questions of colonial intentions with demands for inclusivity. By juxtaposing the case of the Times' Australian expansion with its approach to global journalism as a whole, the power dynamics of American journalism imported from abroad to grow markets is explored. But the context is different from what most scholars critique as media imperialism: there is no capital surplus, the Times is not a global media firm, and in the case of Australia, traditional concerns of 'first-world/third-world' power flows are not present, although different modes of domination nonetheless prevail.

Interview with Rossen Djagalov, Mariya Ivancheva, Mary Taylor, on behalf of the LeftEast collective, interviewed by Greek journalist Stratis Bournazos. First published in Greek on “Enthemata” of the newspaper “Avgi”, 1st of May 2016. Reprinted in English on AnalyzeGreece.Gr.

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how rating mechanisms encourage emotional labor norms among sharing economy consumers. Design/methodology/approach This study follows a mixed-methods research design. Survey data from 207 consumers were used to quantify the impact of three distinct rating dimensions on a consumer behavioral outcome (emotional labor). In the second step, 18 focus groups with 94 participants were used to investigate the conditioning functions of ratings in more depth. Findings Rating mechanisms condition consumers toward performing socially desirable behaviors during sharing transactions. While consumers accept the necessity of bilateral rating mechanisms, they also recognize their coercive nature. Furthermore, the presence of bilateral rating mechanisms leads to negative outcomes such as annoyance and frustration. Originality/value This study contributes to sharing economy literature by examining bilateral rating mechanisms as a means of behavioral cond...

Media holds a very significant role in liberal democratic regimes. Media actors influence the way social and political events are seen and evaluated. Free and plural media is the safeguard of a healthy democracy. Media has critical functions in a democratic regime. Journalism serves functions such as giving information, making investigation, and providing society a public forum. The main objective of this article is to seek answers to the questions of "how can the media profile and ownership in India be described" and "what is the nature of the relationship between media and politics in India". India has a developing media scene with thousands of outlets in multiple languages. Media in the country has been subjected to a structural change in recent years. India has a multi-party parliamentary democracy and media-as in other democracies-has a key role for Indian politics.

"Diversidad cultural, narrativas y representaciones sociales. Hacia un estudio de la TV abierta en Uruguay.


L. Nicolás Guigou, p. 19.


Resumen, p. 21.


1. Introducción, p. 21.
2. Los quehaceres mediáticos, p. 22.
3. Mirar la Televisión, p. 23.
4. Narrando la (in) seguridad, p. 25.
5. Comenzando el montaje: los guardaespaldas en la TV, p. 26.
6. Los niños asaltantes, p. 31.
7. El barrio Marconi, p. 32.
8. La televisión y la construcción del Otro: a modo de conclusión, p. 35.
Bibliografía, p. 37.


Resumen
Indagamos las narrativas y representaciones sociales sobre la seguridad pública y la ciudadanía presentes en la Televisión abierta uruguaya. A través de la subsunción de la diversidad cultural a la figura de un Otro-enemigo, la Televisión abierta, en tanto superficie de inscripción, resume performáticamente la fascinación tanática del límite de ese frágil “nosotros-ciudadanos” en relación a una alteridad monstruosa y radical.
Dicha alteridad radical (u Otro-enemigo), se expresa a través de un estilo de montaje específico del espacio discursivo televisivo que este artículo trata de analizar y desnaturalizar mediante la elaboración de –precisamente- un montaje etnográfico de corte benjaminiano.
Asimismo, este trabajo discute la pertinencia de un enfoque crítico sobre la televisión que atienda lecturas más allá de la supuesta pasividad o la infinita resignificación de un posible “televidente-ideal”, considerando la sofisticación de los contemporáneos dispositivos de captura del medio de comunicación abordado."

Despite its long history of investigating sociality, phenomenology has, to date, said little about online sociality. The phenomenological tradition typically claims that empathy is the fundamental way in which we experience others and their experiences. While empathy is discussed almost exclusively in the context of face-to-face interaction, I claim that we can empathetically perceive others and their experiences in certain online situations. Drawing upon the phenomenological distinction between the physical, objective body and the expressive, lived body, I: (i) highlight that empathy involves perceiving the other's expressive, lived body, (ii) show that the lived body is not tied to the physical body and that empathy can take place outside of face-to-face interactions, and (iii) argue that the lived body can enter online space and is empathetically available to others there. I explore two ways in which the other's lived body enters online space and can be empathetically perceived: first, in cases where our face-to-face encounter is technologically-mediated over video link and, second, by showing how the other's texts, as speech, can form part of the other's lived body. Investigating empathy online not only furthers our understanding of online encounters but also leads to a refined conception of empathy more generally.

As media usage continues to increase on a global scale, fueled by the proliferation of mobile devices, this facilitates the effortless behavior of mediamultitasking. This paradigm shift in the way in which media is consumed presents fundamental challenges for the domains of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), education, psychology, and commerce. This technological shift introduces a new dimension that is needed when attempting to understand user interaction related to both the devices themselves andthe digital platforms accessed. This study begins a process of developing an understanding of cross-cultural media multitasking habits through a survey of a large group of experimental participants. In this study, participants from two different countries were surveyed. The countries used in this study were the USA and Portugal. This research provides valuable insights into theincreasingly common phenomenon of media multitasking and the similarities and differences between cultures when users are engaging in this activity. This study contributes to previous research in the realm of media multitasking by expanding on foundational knowledge on a global scale setting the stage for more detailed research on predictors, outcomes, and habits of global media multitasking.

Talking politics online is not exclusively reserved for those spaces dedicated to politics, particularly the everyday political talk crucial to the public sphere. However, past net-based public sphere research has focused mostly on political spaces thereby neglecting an array of other genres. The aim of this article is to move beyond politically oriented communicative spaces by investigating political talk within the British reality TV discussion forum Wife Swap. The purpose is to see whether a forum dedicated to reality TV provides the communicative space, content, and style for politics that extends the public sphere. The central question is whether it fulfils the requirements of rationality and ‘decent’ deliberation. Moreover, the analysis moved beyond a formal notion by investigating how expressives influence the more traditional elements of deliberation. The findings revealed that Wife Swap participants engaged in political talk that was often deliberative. Moreover, it was a space where the use of expressives played a key role in enhancing such talk.

This article examines the Internet’s emergent role in the claims-making process. My central premise is while Internet technology provides lay citizens with a mass mediated platform to dis- tribute claims publically, power dynamics in the public sphere have remained relatively stable: Insiders and lobbyists continue to be powerful cultural voices; the press still functions as a cul- tural gatekeeper of newsworthiness; most people continue to have relatively little social author- ity; and the least powerful risk being completely left out of a digital society. Using the National Rifle Association (NRA) web presence as a case study, I describe the Internet as a vast collec- tion of interconnected public cyber-arenas where problem claims are continuously disseminated, global communication is facilitated via online advocacy networks, and claimants utilize novel cyber-strategies to mobilize supporters. In doing so, I examine how cyber-arenas fundamentally differ from more static traditional claims-making arenas like television, radio, and print publica- tion. I conclude by considering the extent to which historically powerful insider claims-making groups like the NRA are actually best positioned to succeed in a supposedly democratized new media world.

1 The aim of this study is to examine, from the perspective of Hyperpersonal Theory, the role of the communication components, sender, receiver, channel, and feedback, in the impression formation of matrimonial sites' (MSs) users. The study used a sample of Saudi Arabian users to also understand the role of their culture in this process. The findings of the study indicate that senders were selective about presenting themselves and forming positive impressions but very religious users were less selective. As receivers, the important criteria used to form an impression about senders was the extent to which the senders' online behaviours were in line with Saudi social norms. These findings suggest that the study participants did not totally challenge their social norms when searching for a future spouse through an MS. With regards to the channel, the study participants thought the MS was effective for finding a spouse, supporting the argument that within a gender-segregated society an online setting would carry more information than a face-to-face setting.

Native advertising, defined as the practice by which a marketer borrows from the credibility of a content publisher by presenting paid content with a format and location that matches the publisher’s original content, has been the primary driving engine of the Internet marketing economy for several years. Spending on native advertising is projected to grow from $4.7 billion in 2013 to $21 billion by 2018 (Hoelzel, 2015), and advertising agencies are not only using native broadly but also hoping to increase their usage (Aldridge, 2016). While a majority of online marketing seeks to narrowly target users based on topic, through the use publication audience data, user tracking, collaborative filtering, and other techniques, native advertising not only gives users content that matches the topic of the publishers’ original content but also does so by copying the format of nonpaid content. Native advertising can take a wide variety of forms, ranging from sponsored posts on social media platforms, sponsored articles and videos on sites that publish original content, and sponsored links and recommendation blocks on content providers and Web search engines.

¿Cómo utilizar la red para crear una relación de confianza con los ciudadanos y ampliar su público de simpatizantes? ¿Cómo transformar la participación en la red en participación activa fuera de la red?

La presente obra, que reúne por primera vez un enfoque científico con la experiencia en el campo de la gestión de una campaña electoral, responde a estas preguntas.

El texto es una herramienta útil para quienes trabajan en la comunicación, no solo en el ámbito político, sino también en el institucional, el social y el empresarial.

El libro ha sido publicado también en inglés, Online Political Communication (Springer) e italiano, La comunicazione politica online (Carocci Editore).