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Social epistemology as a new paradigm for journalism and media studies

open access: yesNew Media & Society, 2020
Journalism and media studies lack robust theoretical concepts for studying journalistic knowledge generation. More specifically, conceptual challenges attend the emergence of big data and algorithmic sources of journalistic knowledge.
Yigal Godler, Zvi Reich, Boaz Miller
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Three Challenges for Media Studies in the Age of Platforms

open access: yesTelevision & New Media, 2020
Digital platforms, from Instagram to Spotify, have become central to the production, distribution, and monetization of cultural content. This essay discusses how this process of platformization poses three interrelated challenges for the research on and ...
Thomas Poell
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Social Media Rumors in Bangladesh

open access: yesJournal of Information Science Theory and Practice, 2020
This study analyzes N=181 social media rumors from Bangladesh to find out the most popular themes, sources, and aims. The result shows that social media rumors have seven popular themes: political, health & education, crime & human rights, religious ...
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

From Insult to Hate Speech: Mapping Offensive Language in German User Comments on Immigration

open access: yesMedia and Communication, 2021
In recent debates on offensive language in participatory online spaces, the term ‘hate speech’ has become especially prominent. Originating from a legal context, the term usually refers to violent threats or expressions of prejudice against particular ...
Sünje Paasch-Colberg   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Media studies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
This chapter aims to provide an overview of key ideas in media studies that can be helpful for research on translation. Given the increasing centrality of audiovisual texts and the increasing dominance of internet distributed texts (both written and audiovisual), understanding how media work is becoming increasingly important for both translation ...
openaire   +1 more source

Developing an early-warning system for spotting at-risk students by using eBook interaction logs

open access: yesSmart Learning Environments, 2019
Early prediction systems have already been applied successfully in various educational contexts. In this study, we investigated developing an early prediction system in the context of eBook-based teaching-learning and used students’ eBook reading data to
Gökhan Akçapınar   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Personal Power and Agency When Dealing with Interactive Voice Response Systems and Alternative Modalities

open access: yesMedia and Communication, 2018
In summer 2015, we conducted an exploratory study of how people in the U.S. use and respond to robot-like systems in order to achieve their needs through mediated customer service interfaces.
Jill Walsh   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Traumatic pasts, literary afterlives, and transcultural memory : new directions of literary and media memory studies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This article presents new directions of literary and media memory studies. It distinguishes between (1) the study of "traumatic pasts", i.e. representations of war and violence in literature and other media, (2) diachronic and intermedial approaches to ...
Erll, Astrid
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Changing the focus in multimedia story production: Experiences from high budget and low budget production settings

open access: yesStudies in Communication Sciences, 2022
Complex multimedia stories have initially emerged as prestige projects from high budget newsrooms such as The New York Times or the Washington Post; over time, both the practical experiences with the format as well as the developed technological ...
Rosanna Planer   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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