Advent Of New Media Technologies Research Articles

The Survey on the Development of Language Training Industry from the Perspective of New Media

The study abroad education industry has witnessed significant transformations with the advent of new media technologies. Online platforms, interactive resources, and multimedia content have revolutionized language training methods and opened up new opportunities for students. Understanding the impact of new media on language training in the study abroad context is essential for language training institutions to adapt their strategies and meet students evolving needs. This paper aims to explore the role of new media in language training for study abroad and its impact on the study abroad education industry. The research is conducted through a questionnaire analysis, which gathers data on students current level of study, demand for English language learning, willingness to spend on language training, perception of the epidemics impact on study abroad, preferences for language training institutions and courses, reasons for not choosing online training, preferences for online learning formats, future adoption of online language training, and more. The research findings provide insights into the challenges, preferences, and expectations of students in the study abroad language training industry in the new media era.

The Battle for the True Zimbabwean Archive of Crisis: Journalist Hopewell Chin’ono’s Facebook Page and the State Archive in Zimbabwe

Since independence in 1980, the Zimbabwean government has reserved the right to not only control the national archive, but also to decide what constitutes Zimbabwean history. However, the advent of new media technologies, particularly social media, has opened up new platforms to archive alternative histories and contest hegemonic narratives. Following the economic crisis of the post-2000 period, the battle for the Zimbabwean archive has intensified, with different parties seeking to authorise contesting versions of the national archive. The purpose of this article is to examine how prominent Zimbabwean journalist, Hopewell Chin’ono’s Facebook page can be read as a counter archive that not only records the experiences of ordinary Zimbabweans in the context of crisis, but also contests hegemonic narratives of the state. The article draws on theories of the archive, particularly the view that scholars need to move away from viewing the archive as a specific place where “we deposit records” to think about the archive as the everyday, the world. The study is qualitative and it uses netnography as method to identify and collect relevant posts from Chin’ono’s Facebook page. The study argues that Chin’ono’s Facebook page constitutes an alternative archive that records the everyday in an attempt to contest authorised versions of the Zimbabwean crisis.

Media Literacy: Concept, Theoretical Explanation, and its Importance in the Digital Age

Nowadays, when the flow of fake news in traditional media and on social media platforms has increased dramatically, media literacy skills are more important than ever. Media literacy promotes the critical thinking skills that enable people to make independent choices, in particular how to evaluate and choose different information sources and channels, as well as how to interpret the news and information received through those channels. For instance, the advent of new media technologies has brought drastic and dramatic changes in the media landscape globally. Digital media advancements (Multimedia, social media, and communication technologies) have permeated the aspect of human life (social, political, economic, and cultural). The cultural practices of doing things, learning, and personal life domains receive a significant influence from digitally enhanced communities. Most scholars agree that, at its core, media literacy depends on both knowledge and skills. In particular, individuals need to acquire knowledge about key facets of the mass media phenomenon, such as media industries, media messages, media audiences, or media effects. Also, they should be able to apply this knowledge when accessing, analysing, and evaluating all kinds of media messages. The theoretical explanation of media literacy discourages the protectionist approach and recognises and acknowledges the sociocultural effect of media in our mass-mediated society. The theoretical focus of media literacy bases on three aims, first, facilitating democracy, participation, and active citizenship. Second, knowledge economy, competition and choice, and lastly, lifelong learning, cultural expression, and personal fulfilment. The current article draws on the existing literature to explore the concept of media literacy, the theoretical explanation of media literacy, and the importance of media literacy in the digital age

Computer Mediated Communication and the Promotion of World Cultural Diversity

In order to unpack the potential of CMC to promote the world cultural diversity, nomadology as the major cultural medium is considered, especially that it holds structural affinities to orality striking a tripartite media (CMC-nomad-oral). Nomadology suggests a traditional cultural structure that is already re-attracting academic interest with the advent of new media technologies. Rhizome as cultural theory used to explore social media negotiates its structural potential to promote cultural diversity, not just globalization. Considering the global reach of cyberspace, the diversity of world cultures are hosted on the same plane of interaction to "connect" and negotiate their potential of development and spread. Therefore, this study aims at introducing new perceptions to the cultural potential of CMC through arguing that the diversity of world cultures stand a chance of promotion amidst the tech-based globalization sweeping cultural production.

Contemporary Paradigm of Development Communication: Gaps & Dogma Between 2008 – 2018

Development is a product of collaboration and participation of all stakeholders, and communication is seen as an essential tool for participation. Development communication is critical to national development, and citizens are at the centre of this. The advent of new media technologies amplified the potential for participation in the public sphere. Consequently, discerning democratic governments appreciate the need for active discourse among citizens so that their needs can truly be understood and met. Thus, this study assessed the development communicativity to citizens of a democratic government in West Africa over ten years, 2008-2018. Findings indicated a preponderance of old media channels used by the government, huge gaps in development and communication to citizens. It also found a nexus of communication preferences and opportunity for optimised development communication to foster national development. This study is strategic as it aligns with the United Nations democracy plan and vision which encompasses civilisation, governance and developmental democracy. This paper’s significance is the intricate detail of how a specific nation is faring, developments occurring, the societal impact and communication expectations from a citizen purview. Theories engaged are the Paradigm of modernisation, dependency and the Paradigm of Another Development/Multiplicity. Keywords: Development Communication, Nigeria, Paradigm of Multiplicity, Democracy DOI: 10.7176/DCS/11-5-06 Publication date: May 31 st 2021

YOUNG PEOPLE AS CREATORS OF SEXUALLY EXPLICIT ONLINE MATERIAL: FAN FICTION AND THE LAW IN AUSTRALIA

Debate concerning the role of traditional media in the sexualization of young people tends to view young people as a special group of consumers who require protection from some media content and its potential risks. However, with the advent of new media technologies, young people are no longer passive consumers of sexualized representations, but also generators of sexually explicit material that is created and shared among their peers. This challenge has raised concern among those adults who remain ambivalent, or perhaps in denial, about the possibility that young people are sexually curious. Accordingly, this essay seeks to challenge the view that young people are simply passive recipients of sexual messages in the media by highlighting the role that young people play as producers of media content, in particular through the production of fan fiction. This essay investigates the potential criminalization of young people whose online communications about sex can be classified as criminal acts under Australia’s child abuse material legislation. Interviews were conducted with five members of the judiciary to ascertain how this kind of communication might be viewed in a court of law. This was conducted as part of larger research project that seeks to analyze how Australia’s child abuse material legislation may impact on the sexual self-expression of young people themselves.

The cultural power metric: Toward a reputational analysis of China’s soft power in the Asia-Pacific

The advent of new media technologies has changed how people watch, engage with, and share digital media. Conventionally, audiences were surveyed selectively, and the results were collated by professional agencies and often kept confidential. However, the conspicuous ratings given to media and cultural products outside their country of origin and their very public success and failure raises questions about the validity of such methods, particularly at a time when media and cultural products are used as proxies for cultural “soft power.” This term, first used by Joseph Nye in a political context, evokes reputational impact: a particular nation’s cultural and media products can “go global” if they prove sufficiently popular, reflecting positively on the originating nation. This article examines the various methods used to evaluate China’s “cultural power.” It notes the current weighting given to the humanities and social sciences. By applying some basic big data analysis and machine-learning techniques, the authors build on previous studies by offering new insights into the rise of “Digital China” and China’s digital and Internet trailblazers. The authors consider two major international metrics, as well as China’s early experimental attempts at devising its own standard, before introducing an alternative model, the cultural power metric.

To boldly go where no relationship has gone before: Commentary on interpersonal relationships in the digital age

ABSTRACTIndividuals have a need to maintain positive social interactions, and with the advent of new-media technologies, there are a myriad ways individuals can satisfy this need by engaging socially in mediated (non-face-to-face) communication, hence the need for a special issue on “Relationships in the Digital Age.” The articles in this special issue reflect the need to answer theoretical questions brought forth by the increased tendency for individuals to create and maintain interpersonal relationships through mediated forms of communication. The commentary highlights the need for increased research on mediated interpersonal relationships by psychologists and discusses how the articles in the issue can be used to answer theoretical questions about mediated interpersonal communication. The article ends with speculation on how media may create social spaces that may be advantageous for some individuals.

To boldly go where no relationship has gone before: commentary on interpersonal relationships in the digital age

ABSTRACTIndividuals have a need to maintain positive social interactions and with the advent of new media technologies, there are a myriad ways individuals can satisfy this need by engaging socially in mediated (non-face-to-face) communication, hence the need for a special issue on Relationships in the Digital Age. The articles in this special issue reflect the need to answer theoretical questions brought forth by the increased tendency for individuals to create and maintain interpersonal relationships through mediated forms of communication. The commentary highlights the need for increased research on mediated interpersonal relationships by psychologists and discusses how the articles in the issue can be used to answer theoretical questions about mediated interpersonal communication. The article ends with speculation on how media may create social spaces that may be advantageous for some individuals.

Between art and information: communicating world health, 1948-70.

With the advent of new media technologies and approaches in the twentieth century, public health officials became convinced that health needed mass media support. The World Health Organization believed that educating people, as well as informing them about the health situation around the world, could assist in the enduring fight against disease. Yet in an increasingly competitive media landscape, the agency recognized the need to persuade people and hold their attention through attractive presentation. Public information, the name given to the multiple strategies used to communicate with the public, was rarely straightforward and required the agency not only to monitor the impact of its own efforts but also to identify opportunities to further enhance its reputation, especially when this was in danger of damage or misappropriation. The WHO's understanding of public information provides insights into the development of international information, communication, and education networks and practices after 1945, as well as the increasingly central position of these processes in generating support for and evincing the value of international organizations.

Language, Social Media and Political Identity (Re)presentation: A New Theoretical Framework for the Analysis of Social Media Political Discourse

As language is central to all social processes and practices, so it is considered as the most effective tool for (re)shaping and (re)constructing the social realities and political identities as they are negotiated, (re)constructed and thus projected in the broader social and cultural contexts. Since the advent of new media technologies, particularly social media, the forms and modes of political identity construction and (re)presentations are also transformed. As debated earlier that language enables its users, specifically political actors, to exhibit the political ideologies and identities effectively, so the political actors frequently exploit these platforms to achieve their pre-defined political agendas. Within the same context the political rhetoric, specifically the ones that is generated and exhibited on social media network sites, offers a new visibility for the researchers to explore and predict how ideologies and perceptions can be achieved, advocated, altered and rebuilt through discursive discourse strategies on these networking sites. Providing the power of social media for political participation, political engagement and political activism, there is a need to design such framework that can offer a different lens for the analysis of critical yet sensitive issue of political identity (re)presentation beyond the textual level. To address the above debated issue a new theoretical framework is presented in this paper that enables to analyse the text with special reference to the context in which the political identities are negotiated, (re)constructed and (re)presented. This framework is designed by collaborating the approaches of CDA, Political Identity theory, Social Media theory and Political Discourse theory that enables to explore the interrelationship between the “language in use” and the context in which it is created and consumed.

Citizen Journalism Through Mobile Communication An Approach for Crisis Communication

India is a multi-cultural country where different religions, signs, symbols and languages are practiced by the masses from varied demographic backgrounds. People communicate and exchange their thoughts which are based on their beliefs, attitudes and perceptions. Within this background the life moves on and communication takes place in an unsystematic and a diffused fashion. The information which is generated evolves and re-orients itself with each passing day. This procedure is full of barriers, communication gaps and prejudiced thinking patterns. The message is at times distorted and as it travels from media vehicles to opinion leaders and then to followers it gets a new meaning altogether. With the advent of new media technologies this message is exchanged at a much faster rate and it travels across national and international boundaries on a click of a button. This pattern of dissemination of news and information is also undefined and generally it flows from on community to another via group communication. As a society evolves it often faces situations of crisis and emergency. These situations can be dynamic, unexpected events that may involve a significant threat, on-going uncertainty, and can be a danger to life and property. India being a secular and the biggest democracy has also witnessed similar situations in the past. There have been riots, communal violence and situations of emergency declared by the government. Mobile being a common man's possession is the most powerful& easily accessible device to communicate at times of emergency and risk. Mobile phone is the appropriate tool to facilitate the exchange of risk-relevant and safety information during an emergency situation. Mobile phone can not only help in controlling the impact of message and false news it can also be useful to implement immediate and effective actions to lessen harm. It can also be useful for consensus-building, collaborative decision-making, and interactions with potentially affected communities. Depending on the intensity of the circumstances during a crisis, decision-making, risk perceptions, and information processing styles are often modified; thus, it is even more important than usual to not only get the information right, but also get the right information into concise, focused messages. Knowing how, when, and where to deliver the message may be the difference between keeping the public safe and to protect them form a crisis. This paper would attempt to discuss the participatory approach of communication through mobile phones which citizens can adopt at times of crisis. It will also try to integrate the concept of community communication through mobile phone in times of crisis. It will also look at normative concepts and will look at the points to be used by the stake holders, community leaders, opinion leaders and citizen journalists to control the crisis through participatory mobile communication.

Young People as Creators of Sexually Explicit Online Material: Fan Fiction and the Law in Australia

Debate concerning the role of traditional media in the sexualization of young people tends to view young people as a special group of consumers who require protection from some media content and its potential risks. However, with the advent of new media technologies, young people are no longer passive consumers of sexualized representations, but also generators of sexually explicit material that is created and shared among their peers. This challenge has raised concern among those adults who remain ambivalent, or perhaps in denial, about the possibility that young people are sexually curious. Accordingly, this essay seeks to challenge the view that young people are simply passive recipients of sexual messages in the media by highlighting the role that young people play as producers of media content, in particular through the production of fan fiction. This essay investigates the potential criminalization of young people whose online communications about sex can be classified as criminal acts under Australia’s child abuse material legislation. Interviews were conducted with five members of the judiciary to ascertain how this kind of communication might be viewed in a court of law. This was conducted as part of larger research project that seeks to analyze how Australia’s child abuse material legislation may impact on the sexual self-expression of young people themselves.

Flirting, dating, and breaking up within new media environments

Although romantic and sexual relationships are an important aspect of young people's lives, research on how young people negotiate their love/sex relationships is lacking. New media environments provide a new context within which young people negotiate their love/sex relationships; however, what is negotiated is often not all that different from what was negotiated before the advent of new media technologies. Using an online discussion board and individual in-person interviews, this paper explores how young Australians, aged 18–25 years, engage with dominant gendered discourses to negotiate their love/sex relationships within the context of new media environments. Previous research suggests that young people make use of new media technologies to flirt with one another, to initiate new relationships, to maintain their relationships, and to fight and end their relationships. This paper focuses on young people's practices of mediated flirting, surveillance, and breaking up. It considers the creative and agentic ways young people use new media technologies in the negotiation of their love/sex relationships.

New Media Communication Strategies for Election Campaigns: Experiences of Indian Political Parties

Politics and Mass Communication have been an unbreakable duo for many centuries. Public meetings, Newspapers, Magazines, Radio, Television are themajor communication tools. With the advent of new media technologies, the political campaign has gained a new dimension. During the last elections Indian political parties used Websites, E-mails, IVRS, SMSs, InternetBanners, Online Advertising, Blogs, Mobile Phones, etc. This study has aimed to assess the effectiveness of new media political campaigns during the elections. Content analysis, Survey and In-depth Interview methods were used in the study. The study has revealed surprising facts. Every largepolitical party has tried to use all the available new media tools. Television,Mobile phone and Internet have played a great role. The utilization of new media communication tools and strategies gave a new facet that was highly beneficial to the Indian politics. The political parties have reached a large number of voters through the new media. It made their election campaign easy, fast and successful.

Appropriating Memories: Home Movies and Spatial Montage

Meaning in home movies if often limited for viewers who were not involved with the original event recorded on film. However, the advent of new media technologies and grammars, together with a shift from private viewing to online, public exhibition, has enabled the home movie to be re-contextualized into a more accessible experience for a range of audiences. The emphasis on preserving memory in the home movie, together with the role of (computer) memory in a digital age, open up rich possibilities for new kinds of meaning-making when these forms intersect.

Appropriating memories: home movies and spatial montage

Meaning in home movies if often limited for viewers who were not involved with the original event recorded on film. However, the advent of new media technologies and grammars, together with a shift from private viewing to online, public exhibition, has enabled the home movie to be re-contextualized into a more accessible experience for a range of audiences. The emphasis on preserving memory in the home movie, together with the role of (computer) memory in a digital age, open up rich possibilities for new kinds of meaning-making when these forms intersect

The Media Freedom Movement in Malaysia and the Electoral Authoritarian Regime

This article will provide an outline of the Malaysian media freedom movement from reformasi in 1998 until today. Research for this article includes testimony from those journalists and activists who attempted to implement reform in the media industry, including detailing reported instances of direct editorial intervention. This article explains that the advent of new media technologies has pushed journalism in new directions in Malaysia, but rather than accept these changes as part of a media liberalisation process, the government has retaliated through constraints and controls over the media and its practitioners. Seen through the prism of media liberalisation, this article adds to the body of scholarly work which examines Malaysia’s electoral authoritarian regime.

Managing the Opportunities and Perils of New Media Technologies in Crisis Communication: A New Paradigm in 21st Century Crisis Preparedness

The advent of new media technologies has resulted in a growing array of communication tools now available to individuals and organizations. However, the crisis management and crisis communication literature does not include an examination of how communication made possible by these technologies affects organizational crisis communication and preparation. The Internet and myriad other forms of electronic-based communication including e-mail, blogs, webcasts, podcasts, instant messaging, and social media, have resulted in a paradigm shift in how organizations must now manage crises. The study found that the crisis communication made possible by the advent of new media technologies represents an important factor in organizational crisis preparedness and that the use of new media technologies can both aid and hinder organizational crisis communication efforts. The study points to the role of new media technologies as an emerging force in crisis communication that can assist organizations in developing management practices to improve their crisis preparedness.

Interactive multimedia and risk communication.

As our understanding of risk factors and their interaction with individual susceptibility to disease improves, general messages designed to communicate risk seem increasingly ineffective and often misleading. Risk messages communicated through the mass media cannot convey an individual's personal susceptibility to preventable diseases or the seriousness of these diseases. The advent of new media technologies allows us to better reach the public with programs tailored to the needs and interests of individual users. Although similar in outward appearance to mass media, programs delivered through the Internet, CD-ROM, and computer kiosks offer the potential for vastly improved efficacy in communicating risk. This paper outlines the potential uses of interactive multimedia within the traditional goals of risk communication. A significant research endeavor, coupled with stronger avenues for dissemination, is recommended to achieve the potential of new media in a timely manner.