Age Of Digital Media Research Articles

Design and implementation of the international news commentary Data Intelligent Processing System

In the digital media age, international news commentary has changed, creating challenges such as information overload and noise. Traditional platforms often need more data-driven analysis capabilities. This study presented a specialized intelligent system for processing international news commentary data. The system provided robust analysis tools, automated recommendations, and summarization capabilities. Its comprehensive modules included data crawling, processing, visualization, and retrieval. Experimental results demonstrated the system’s effectiveness in processing data and generating valuable insights. Users were able to gain objective insights into topics, emotions, and dissemination patterns. The system provided valuable resources for communication research, enhancing theoretical understanding and practical applications in the field.

The Try Guys Try Image Repair: Apologia in the Age of Influencers and Digital Media

The YouTube entertainment group The Try Guys weathered a public relations crisis in 2022 when fans caught Ned Fulmer, one of the co-owners of the group, engaging in public romantic behavior with one of his employees. The other three co-owners of the group removed Fulmer from their organization and announced his exit through a brief message posted to several of their social media accounts. Roughly a week later, they published a video to their channel explaining their decision. Treating their video as an example of apologia, this essay argues that The Try Guys’ rhetoric of self-defense offers a positive example of taking responsibility and decisive action in a way that actively resists online cultures of sexism. Moreover, the video reveals possibilities for apologia in digital contexts that offer practical suggestions for public relations and other practitioners.

Democratic literacy: Challenges and opportunities to engage youth participatory in the age of digital media

This study endeavors to ascertain the challenges and opportunities in democracy literacy to foster active youth engagement in the digital media age. Through the implementation of Focus Group Discussions and participatory workshops involving a cohort of 17 participants, comprising eight student journalists and nine non-student journalists, who are poised to exercise their voting rights for the first time during the forthcoming 2024 elections, the research outcomes divulge that disparities exist in the democratic perspectives of student and non-student journalists, primarily due to their contrasting experiences. Nevertheless, both groups concur that a solid understanding of democratic principles empowers them to partake in the democratic process. In the digital media era context, four notable challenges emerge in democratic literacy: hoax oasis, politician stigmatization, idiot discussion engagement, and political apathy engagement. Conversely, two prospective avenues for bolstering democratic literacy are identified: information oasis and reigniting youth participation. These identified challenges and opportunities serve as fundamental pillars for formulating effective democratic literacy strategies in the digital era, thereby fostering increased participation of young voters in democratic practices.

Motorcycles, minarets, and mullahs: a multimodal critical discourse analysis on Pakistan’s journey to rebrand Islam

Abstract This study addresses the issue of how religious authority is negotiated and redefined in the age of digital media, focusing on the case of Raja Zia ul Haq, a Pakistani Muslim cleric. Utilizing Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis, the study posits that Zia ul Haq’s strategic semiotic choices in attire and symbolism serve as calculated maneuvers to navigate complex dialogues of power, identity, and cultural capital. The findings reveal that his appropriation of biker club symbolism disrupts traditional paradigms of Islamic clerical authority in Pakistan. These choices resonate with a younger, digitally savvy audience and function as a form of religious rebranding. The study argues that Zia ul Haq’s semiotic choices challenge monolithic interpretations of Islamic authority, thereby opening new avenues for religious engagement and interpretation. The significance of this work lies in its transnational implications, offering a counter-narrative that challenges prevailing stereotypes about Islamic scholars and suggests new paradigms for understanding religious authority in a globalized world.

Impact of social media on the evolution of English semantics through linguistic analysis

Social media (SM) influences social interaction in the age of digital media, impacting how languages develop. Since these networks play a role in daily life, they create new words and conceptual frameworks that define our contemporary society. The current investigation investigates Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit SM posts applying textual extraction. The seven-year temporal sample demonstrates significant semantic change caused by society and technology. The analysis notices the importance of new words, phrase meaning evolving, and sentiment changes in SM users’ English usage, proving their adaptability. The growing popularity of phrases like eavesdropping and doom-scrolling indicated how SM and daily life impact. This investigation distinguishes each platform’s unique linguistic features and digital developments by understanding language flow and leading research in the future.

A Literature Review on Museum Merchandising and Branding based on Cultural Heritage Creative Design

The cultural and creative industries and the massive dissemination of information in the age of digital media provide new vehicles for the transmission and expression of cultural heritage and use the language of design to capture people's sensibilities, express cultural connotations, and bring the value of history to audiences through new media. Museums, as institutions of culture collection and dissemination, also want to increase their visibility by creating their brand. At the same time, as an important part of urban tourism, museum branding is also conducive to enhancing people's understanding and identification with local culture. For museums, the merchandising and branding of museum-based cultural heritage is an important part of museum marketing, in which museums' cultural heritage design products also tend to function as both consumer promotion and cultural expression. This paper is a literature review using methods that include analysis of literature database platforms and interdisciplinary research and discusses the impact of product design on the branding of museums' cultural heritage. Focusing on the relationship between museum branding and communication with audiences, as well as further study of dialectical thinking on the cultural dimensions of museum product expression, thus identifying key knowledge and research processes in this area.

Innovative Strategies in Movie Marketing: A Case Study of the Barbie Movie

With the rise of the digital media age, there has been a significant shift in viewer behavior, prompting television content producers and networks to actively seek out opportunities to better connect with and enable more active engagement with their digital focus groups. High-profile marketing examples from the movie industry include Scream and Glee 3D, which highlight the movie industry's innovative approach to engaging audiences in the digital age. Using the movie Barbie as a case study, this paper examines traditional and new movie marketing strategies and their application in a changing media landscape. The study finds that digital marketing strategies offer the advantages of broad reach, higher audience engagement, real-time feedback, cost-effectiveness, targeting, and long-term impact, but there are also some limitations. This study provides new ideas about digital marketing for the movie industry and discusses its long-term sustainability, diversification strategies and limitations. Finally, the paper emphasizes that movie marketing in the digital era will provide an important reference for future movie marketing strategies.

Print media in digital age: creativity as e-learning tool

The Covid-19 pandemic has transformed the relationship between teachers and students. Consolidated and proven effective pedagogical strategies were adapted in a short time. This article describes the once-unlikely experience of teaching printing techniques to undergraduate graphic designers remotely. The experiment was conducted by two professors with consistent expertise in editorial printed design, Dr. Gustavo Curcio and Dr. Fernanda Sarmento, and assisted by Claudia Dayé. A class of fifty-five students, organised into small groups of four to five students, performed a series of practical exercises monitored by the university's Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment (moodle). This paper describes the successful articulation of students' practice, technique and creative stimulation.

Exploring new forms of audiovisual translation in the age of digital media: cybersubtitling and cyberdubbing

ABSTRACT The prevalence and popularity of audiovisual content in the current times has resulted in a wide range of practices which have been categorised within audiovisual translation (AVT) research as examples of fan translation, amateur translation, crowdsourcing or collaborative translation, among others. While some practices can be included under these categories, other forms of AVT that have recently emerged are not as clear-cut. Against this backdrop, this article explores the conceptual uncertainties surrounding these new AVT practices, with a focus on dubbing and subtitling, by revisiting the work carried out by the authors, who have previously suggested the use of the umbrella terms ‘cybersubtitling’ and ‘cyberdubbing’. In addition to providing a revised classification, the paper emphasises the need to explore the wider social and ethical consequences of these innovative translational activities. As regards ethical implications, altruist and fan practices are the ones most exposed to malpractice, often because some organisations emulate corporate behaviour but rely on free labour, without any financial retribution or credit towards those involved in these activities. The article also concludes that more critical research should be conducted to unravel the impact of these practices on the role of translation as a socio-professional activity.

Değişen Dijital Medya Çağında Değiş(e)meyen Toplumsal Cinsiyet Rolleri: Femme Fatale Bağlamında Bir Netflix Dizisi Olan Lucifer’e Dair Bir İnceleme

Cinema and television series have been functioning as a sort of mirror of almost all societies since their first invention on the ground that they cover various topics concerning human beings. Cinematic thoughts, experiences, and digital and visual images in Television series accompany nearly all transformations which have taken place in any community. However, some issues such as gender roles or stereotypes related to women have not changed positively even though mass media and digital tools in media have been altering considerably and radically. In the digital media era, it is still crystal clear that women have been portrayed as inferior compared to man depiction. In this context, the main aim of this study is to accentuate this issue and emphasize the gender gap and changeless woman roles in changing the digital media age. In line with this purpose, the well-known Netflix series Lucifer has been studied in terms of the notorious character femme fatale with the help of descriptive analysis and it has been seen that woman figures have been depicted as derogatory and diabolic in Lucifer. Thence, it is possible to allege that shifting digital movie and broadcasting trends do not have a noteworthy effect on the representation of women in the cinematic universe.

Automation anxiety. Sztuczna inteligencja w dziennikarstwie w perspektywie infoetycznej

Personal demand for information and opinions seems to be constantly increasing in the age of digital media. Artificial intelligence (AI) is a new milestone for the constantly developing media. The influence of artificial intelligence on journalism is an interesting subject for research. Although, the main field of reflection should be focused on infoethics. Automation anxiety, means the fear of automation, accompanies journalists more and more frequently. For some, robotization of journalism is only a way to save money in the newsroom, and for others a catalyst for algorithm bias, contributes to the formation of an information bubble, causes a confirmation effect and fosters the generation of so-called deep fakes. Still other opinions indicate the positive side of the process, e.g. greater transparency of journalism and the discovery by AI of such connections between facts that would never have been discovered otherwise. So is there a space left in the media of the Web 3.0 era for a journalist’s personality, reflection, responsibility for the word and personalism? These problems are key at the beginning of the third decade of the 21st century.

Student opinions on the place of digital media in history education

The age of digital media has gradually changed our habits of accessing information and the knowledge we have. The learning habits of students and the way they access information have also changed. Reflecting on this fact, the main purpose of this research is to determine the reflection of this change in history education and students. The main problem question of this study was “What are students' views on the place of digital media in history education?” The study group of the research consisted of 25 ninth-grade students who were determined randomly and on a voluntary basis. The researcher conducted this study in his/her classes. Therefore, he/she knew the students' educational and social backgrounds. However, since students from homogeneous classes with similar success levels and grade point averages were included in the study, according to the information received from other teachers, students’ success level was considered equal in practice. Additionally, students are admitted to this high school, where the study was conducted, based on a national test. For this reason, the study was conducted with students with equal success levels. Study data were collected using a semi-structured interview form designed by the researcher. Firstly, what the students who made up the study group understood from digital media was questioned. Then, the place and role of digital media in history education were questioned, and the benefits of using digital media tools, such as software, digital photographs, digital images or videos, websites, social media, digital data, mobile applications, blog articles, and electronic books, newspapers, and magazines, in history education, were tried to be determined. Since instant access to information was considered the main goal, it was determined that students confirmed the accuracy of the information they got by asking their teachers. In this study, it was determined that students mostly used digital media to watch videos about course topics. Ease of access to information was seen as the most important benefit of using digital media tools in lessons. It was concluded in the study that encourages students to use their digital gains for their education rather than using them in an uncontrolled way would be important in terms of directing the utilization of time and energy correctly.

How to Promote COVID-19 Vaccination in the Digital Media Age: The Persuasive Effects of News Frames and Argument Quality

Vaccination-related information is important for the public to increase vaccine acceptance intention, while the guidance and persuasion effects of information are influenced by approaches to information presentation. Thus, this study has focused on news media, an important source of vaccination-related dissemination, and aimed to investigate how different presentations of news influence an individual’s COVID-19 vaccine intention. Moreover, whether the cultural values individuals possess would influence the persuasive effects of news information was also considered in our study. A web-based experiment among 310 participants employing 2 (news framing: rights frame vs. obligation frame) × 2 (argument quality: high argument quality vs. low argument quality) × 2 (individual–collective orientation: individualism vs. collectivism) design was conducted in this study. Data were analyzed through a series of analyses of variance (ANOVAs) in SPSS 26. The results show that argument quality had a significant positive impact on individuals’ psychological acceptance of the COVID-19 vaccine. The results also show that the rights framework was significantly more persuasive than the obligation framework. Furthermore, for individualistic individuals, news information with high argument quality and a rights frame was the most persuasive. These findings may help guide the writing of news, thereby improving vaccine uptake, enhancing the public’s health literacy, and facilitating the implementation of vaccination policies during and after a pandemic.

Adapting Feature Selection Algorithms for the Classification of Chinese Texts

Text classification has been highlighted as the key process to organize online texts for better communication in the Digital Media Age. Text classification establishes classification rules based on text features, so the accuracy of feature selection is the basis of text classification. Facing fast-increasing Chinese electronic documents in the digital environment, scholars have accumulated quite a few algorithms for the feature selection for the automatic classification of Chinese texts in recent years. However, discussion about how to adapt existing feature selection algorithms for various types of Chinese texts is still inadequate. To address this, this study proposes three improved feature selection algorithms and tests their performance on different types of Chinese texts. These include an enhanced CHI square with mutual information (MI) algorithm, which simultaneously introduces word frequency and term adjustment (CHMI); a term frequency–CHI square (TF–CHI) algorithm, which enhances weight calculation; and a term frequency–inverse document frequency (TF–IDF) algorithm enhanced with the extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) algorithm, which improves the algorithm’s ability of word filtering (TF–XGBoost). This study randomly chooses 3000 texts from six different categories of the Sogou news corpus to obtain the confusion matrix and evaluate the performance of the new algorithms with precision and the F1-score. Experimental comparisons are conducted on support vector machine (SVM) and naive Bayes (NB) classifiers. The experimental results demonstrate that the feature selection algorithms proposed in this paper improve performance across various news corpora, although the best feature selection schemes for each type of corpus are different. Further studies of the application of the improved feature selection methods in other languages and the improvement in classifiers are suggested.

Scholarship Criteria for Promotion in the Age of Diverse Faculty Roles and Digital Media.

In academic medical centers, scholarship is essential to advancing scientific knowledge, clinical care, and teaching and is a requirement for faculty promotion. Traditional evidence of scholarship, such as publications in peer-reviewed academic journals, remains applicable to the promotions of physician and nonphysician researchers. Often, however, the same evidence does not fit the scholarly work and output of clinician-educators, whose scholarship is often disseminated through digital communications and social media. This difference challenges promotion and tenure committees to evaluate the scholarship of all faculty fairly and consistently. This study aimed to generate a list of the features that a faculty product should demonstrate to be considered scholarship, regardless of how it is disseminated. The full professors of one academic department of family medicine engaged in a mini-Delphi deliberative process to identify criteria to assess whether a scholarly product put forth by faculty in the promotion process is indeed scholarship. The full professors identified seven criteria to evaluate a faculty product to assess whether it represents scholarship-specifically its demonstration of faculty expertise, faculty contribution, originality, peer review, quality, relative permanence, and impact. These criteria may help promotion committees more easily and consistently assess the full scope of a faculty member's scholarly work within today's changing approaches to its dissemination.

Reconstruction of Communicative Rationality: A Study on the Digital Mass Media Society in Indonesia

Purpose: This study looked at the cognitive response of Indonesian society (i.e. people using digital media) to narratives constructed by digital media. Theoretical framework: It is necessary to establish an argumentative relationship of "communication" between digital media and society, since the narratives constructed by digital media are particular interests. Method: This study used a qualitative approach, conducting a sociological analysis of narratives in the community of digital mass media users, especially mass resources for convergence (kompas.com, tempo.co and tribunnews.com). The technique of triangulation of technical sources and theories to demonstrate the validity of narrative data of people using digital media. Results and Conclusions: The digital society can create and create imaginary spaces based on its law and culture. Therefore, a word of "communication" between the two is needed to come to terms with rational language. This relationship is a communication society based on the value of emancipatory critical rationality to achieve "consensus". Therefore, the problem posed in this study is: "how is the cognitive response and shape of the digital society in Indonesia, within the age of digital media?". Research Implications: Knowing the digital narrative of the media is solid and changes its passive role to be "interactive" (in itself as a subject) with the media. Right now, the community doesn't have much resilience. Originality/value: Meanwhile, the relationship between digital society and communication technology has three options, namely, first, digital society positions itself as technology; second, humanize technology as itself; and third, dialectically compromising the potential of humanity and technology.

Developing Multi-Labelled Corpus of Twitter Short Texts: A Semi-Automatic Method

Facing fast-increasing electronic documents in the Digital Media Age, the need to extract textual features of online texts for better communication is growing. Sentiment classification might be the key method to catch emotions of online communication, and developing corpora with annotation of emotions is the first step to achieving sentiment classification. However, the labour-intensive and costly manual annotation has resulted in the lack of corpora for emotional words. Furthermore, single-label semantic corpora could hardly meet the requirement of modern analysis of complicated user’s emotions, but tagging emotional words with multiple labels is even more difficult than usual. Improvement of the methods of automatic emotion tagging with multiple emotion labels to construct new semantic corpora is urgently needed. Taking Twitter short texts as the case, this study proposes a new semi-automatic method to annotate Internet short texts with multiple labels and form a multi-labelled corpus for further algorithm training. Each sentence is tagged with both the emotional tendency and polarity, and each tweet, which generally contains several sentences, is tagged with the first two major emotional tendencies. The semi-automatic multi-labelled annotation is achieved through the process of selecting the base corpus and emotional tags, data preprocessing, automatic annotation through word matching and weight calculation, and manual correction in case of multiple emotional tendencies are found. The experiments on the Sentiment140 published Twitter corpus demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach and show consistency between the results of semi-automatic annotation and manual annotation. By applying this method, this study summarises the annotation specification and constructs a multi-labelled emotion corpus with 6500 tweets for further algorithm training.

Book Review: Transmedia Storytelling in East Asia: The Age of Digital Media

Book Review: Transmedia Storytelling in East Asia: The Age of Digital Media

Online News Media Analysis on Information Management of “G20 Summit” Based on Social Network Analysis

This paper contributes to the Special Issue on Communication for the Digital Media Age by investigating the factors that influence the management of political information on online news media platforms, specifically Twitter and Weibo. Using the recent “G20 Summit” as a case study, this study employs a mixed-methods approach that incorporates both deductive and inductive reasoning. Social network analysis (SNA) and graph theory are used to evaluate specific social relationships in the context of the G20 summit, while a combination of structured and content (semantic) analysis is performed. The findings indicate that individual power is becoming increasingly important in the age of online news media. Individuals contribute significantly to the diffusion of information and may play a decisive role in the future. The study also finds that the frequency of retweets increases as the reciprocity ratio increases, and mentions may be the most effective method for delivering political news on online news media platforms. Practical implications suggest strategies for managing information diffusion effectively. Additionally, this study provides insights into effective information diffusion on online news media platforms that can be utilized in health communication management during the COVID-19 era. This study expands theoretical understanding by investigating the role of individual power in the age of online news media and enriching the literature on online news media through the use of structured and content analysis based on social network analysis.

Öffentlich-rechtlicher Rundfunk unter Druck

Abstract In the wake of recent scandals, public broadcasting has again come under criticism. In the coming years, public broadcasting faces three major challenges: Firstly, considering recent scandals, an effective system of corporate governance must be installed. Secondly, the funding of public broadcasting must be rethought. Thirdly, in the longer term, public broadcasting must be adapted to a digitised and changing media landscape. In addition to various approaches for better corporate governance, alternative solutions for determining the financial resources of public broadcasting are discussed. Finally, structural reform options as well as a comprehensive reform by means of a media fund for the digital media age are analysed.