Challenges Of New Media Research Articles

The Global Development and Communication Mechanisms in the New Media Era: Multiculturalism and the Global Communication of New Media

In the era of new media, social media has become an essential platform for global information dissemination and cultural exchange. The globalization of social media has changed the way of information dissemination of traditional media, making the cultural values of different countries and regions blend and collide more frequently. This report will analyze how users with different cultural backgrounds interact and disseminate content on social media platforms, and reveal the potential and challenges of new media in promoting cross-cultural communication, developing multicultural and resolving cultural conflicts. In addition, through research methods to analyze the interaction of users from different cultural backgrounds on new media platforms and the dissemination of content, the research objects will include active social media users of different ages, different countries and cultural backgrounds. This report finds that new media plays a vital role in resolving cultural conflicts and promoting cultural exchanges, but it needs to be further optimized in terms of communication mechanisms to create a harmonious network atmosphere. Additionally, this report proffers recommendations for the refinement of new media communication mechanisms. By enhancing the efficacy of these channels, it becomes increasingly feasible to address the cross-cultural communication imperatives of a global user base, thereby facilitating the promotion of cultural integration and fostering a deeper, more nuanced understanding of diverse societal contexts on a global scale.

FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTS IN SUSTAINING INTER-RELIGIOUS HARMONIOUS RELATIONS UNDER ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVES IN THE AGE OF NEW MEDIA

Background and Purpose: Inter-religious harmony is crucial in maintaining peaceful co-existence and national stability of a multiracial and multi-religious society. The existence of minor racial or religious tension in the society can escalate to a crisis and jeopardise inter-religious relations in this age of new media. The failure to preserve religious harmony may expose the society to conflict and chaos. Thus, this article aims to discuss and elaborate the fundamental elements in sustaining harmony among multi-religious society from Islamic perspective in the age of new media.
 
 Methodology: This research employs the qualitative research design. The research method used is content analysis, and the library data that comprises the physical and online books and articles on topics related to religious harmony and new media, was collected from the years 2010 until 2021. Using deductive reasoning, the challenges of new media in the area were identified and solutions proposed.
 
 Findings: The findings indicated that the challenges of interreligious harmony in the age of new media are the rapid spread of atheism, religious pluralism, misperception of a religion due to its intra-faith issues, mistaken identity of a religionist versus racist, misunderstanding of ‘izzah as arrogance and misrepresentation of Islam. These challenges can be reduced by applying the fundamental elements to sustain interreligious harmony in Islamic perspective, namely ta`āruf (knowing each other), tafāhum (mutual understanding), ta`āwun (mutual cooperation), takāful (mutual protection), tasāmuḥ (mutual tolerant) and acceptance. Besides, Muslim educators or murabbiyun have to be the prosumers of the new media to continuously teach Islam, and instil iman and adab among fellow Muslims.
 
 Contributions: This article contributes to the foundation of peaceful co-existence in a multi-religious context because the fundamental elements discussed form the basis of fiqh al-ta’ayush or the understanding of co-existence, especially in the age of new media.
 
 Keywords: Basis of religious harmony, inter-religious relation in Islam, fiqh al-ta’amul, fiqh al-ta’ayush, religions in the age of new media.
 
 ite as: Mohd Khambali @ Hambali, K., Ghazali, A., & Senin, N. (2022). Fundamental elements in sustaining inter-religious harmonious relations under Islamic perspectives in the age of new media. Journal of Nusantara Studies, 7(2), 147-165. http://dx.doi.org/10.24200/jonus.vol7iss2pp147-165

The challenges of new media and the influence of politics

The challenges of new media and the influence of politics

The challenges of new media and the influence of politics

Nowadays communication has taken on momentum like never before in human history. We all aim to be informed faster and easier through technology. The extensive use of social media attracted the attention of many companies, organizations, and political entities to conduct their online campaigns thus being closer to their target groups in meeting the objectives. The Internet and social networks are forcing public communicators of all fields, to change, alienate and adapt. Internet was expected to be an instrument of ‘empowerment’, with the ability to nurture political life and facilitate political mobilization. And while today we are aware that this digital divide has brought inequality to political life, we are also aware of the role that the new media is playing in elevating important political figures.

Understanding Islamic Republic of Iran’s Media Policy: A Concentration on Regulations and Laws

ABSTRACT Iran’s media policy is one of the most complicated media policies around the world. The Islamic rules and ideologies and the principle of the Islamic Revolution are the foundations of Iran’s media policy. The Iranian media policy and its regulations are changed through the last two centuries and it is adapted according to the advent of new media and new political situations. There are different regulations and laws including the press, broadcasting, satellite and cyberspace. The challenges of new media have enforced the government to make new media policies. This article analyzes Iran’s media policy in the framework of the normative theories of media and uses the documentary method to show how the advent of new media and communication technologies and political situations has changed media regulations and laws in Iran. As Iran’s media policy and media regulating system is a unique model in the world, a synthesizing perspective of the six media normative theories can explain Iran’s media regulating system, while it has more similarities to the social responsibility theory.

On the Influence and Challenge of New Media on Public Management

On the Influence and Challenge of New Media on Public Management

Valuing Transience in Contemporary African Art: Economic Viability and Challenges of New Media in South Africa

Looking at artists stemming from South African cities—as well as examples from other parts of the continent—this article examines the economic viability of new-media art in the realm of contemporary African art production. There has been a noted shift from objecthood to video and digital installation and transient forms of art among artists in both early and later stages of their careers in South Africa and beyond. While the economic viability of new-media art is questionable, especially in various localities across the continent, many contemporary African artists engage with this as their medium of choice. Focusing on major as well as peripheral urban economies in Africa, this article explores how recent generations of South African artists and their contemporaries from other parts of the continent are taking on a medium with fraught economic value within the context of the global art market.

Construction of autonomous-interactive mode about how to cultivate the values of medical students in the age of new media

Currently, the widespread use of new media challenges ideological and political education among the medical students. The study explores the effects on medical students' values by new media on the basis of analyzing its characteristics, including communication space, information, subject and route. In addition, the study analyzes the mode's theoretical construction and practical operation from these aspects: the mode's connotation, operation mechanism, the characteristics and practical application. Key words: New media; Medical students; Values; Autonomous-interactive

Research on Construction of Campus Culture under New Media Environment

New media has become an important carrier of campus culture spread, what role it will play in the cultural construction of university campus? How should we understand and use the new media? How to build a new campus culture media era? Based on the reviewing research studies of new media research, this paper explores the impact of new media in the building of new culture and the issues and challenges of new media in the cultural construction of university and college campuses. This paper also discuss the path to build a harmonious campus culture when new media is taken as a carrier.

Cross-platform television: Superliveness, metadiscourse and complex audience orientation in a sports journalism production on the web

Abstract This article presents a close analysis of interactions in cross-media formats with a specific focus on how television ‘is done’ on the web by established sports broadcasters who are used to producing traditional sports television. It will be argued that the web platform promotes significantly altered audience-oriented behaviours compared to traditional television, and that the web ultimately both calls for and produces a new kind of sociability in relation to audiences. It will be proposed in the discussion that this new kind of sociability will have an increasing impact also on how traditional television ‘is done’. The article makes use of data from the sports genre that is normally associated with ‘lighter entertainment’. Therefore the results may not be immediately applicable to how other types of journalistic genres tackle the communicative challenges of new media. However, it will be argued that sports journalism may well be thought of as a frontrunner when it comes to adapting to increasingly ‘sociable’ communicative modes of address. The analysis of web interactions focuses around three overarching audience orientations that are promoted in the web context: superliveness, metadiscourse and complex audience orientation(s). Taken together, these orientations constitute ‘a new kind of sociability’.

New Media and Political Advertising in Nigeria: Prospects and Challenges

This paper examines the new media as a tool for political advertising in Nigeria vis- a-vis, the challenges and prospects. The new media, especially the Internet and Global System for Mobile Telecommunication (GSM) have become important political campaign tools in Nigeria and the world over. This paper is guided by the fact that the new media have become so important in the dissemination of political activities. Thus, the study aims at finding out the relevance of the new media and the prospects/ challenges. We adopted the survey research method, employing the questionnaire as an instrument of data collection. Two hundred copies of questionnaires were administered to the respondents, to elicit their opinions concerning the prospects and challenges of the new media as a tool for political advertising. Two theories were chosen to provide the theoretical framework for the study. The theories are technological determinism theory and the agenda setting theory. Findings from the questionnaire administered to the two hundred respondents show that the political parties in Nigeria recognise and make use of the new media for carrying out their political activities, but this they do occasionally. Findings show that there are prospects and challenges of new media as a tool for political advertising in Nigeria. One of the prospects is that the new media can reach a very broad audience while one of the challenges is that the ability to constantly deliver messages via the new media is difficult. Based on the findings, the paper concludes that the extent to which the political parties in Nigeria use the new media is minimal and therefore, recommends that political parties in Nigeria should give due attention to the use of the new media for the dissemination of political activities.Key Words: Advertising, Political Advertising, Communication and the New Media

Sports broadcasting, journalism and the challenge of new media

This article explores the challenge faced by established media organisations integrating digital media in their production. Using a case study of a Danish broadcaster’s use of blogs in their coverage of major sports events, it is argued that the challenge is strategic in a broader sense, as the move to digital platforms is influenced by economic, organisational as well as conceptual parameters for roles. It is argued that in order to understand the potential and challenges of this case, the peculiarities of the role of sports journalists in broadcasting have to be taken into consideration. The case illustrates how their distinctive engagement with their topic and the audience makes some of them more prone to work for pleasure and produce for the digital platform on very unclear conditions, just as it influences the interaction that takes place in the blogs in various ways.

EBooks and Literacy in K–12 Schools

In this article the authors present a review of literature from multiple disciplines pertaining to using eBooks in the classroom in order to understand the underlying literacy and technology related issues and challenges. eBooks brought about changes in how students learn to read, and in how they read to learn. They require students to learn new literacies and to use new technologies, which has had a profound impact on reading pedagogy in K–12 classrooms. Dedicated eBook readers, smartphones, and tablet computers have led to changes in a signature pedagogy—reading literacy instruction. Research is needed on how to best teach the new literacies to help learners adapt to the challenges of new media and technologies.

O papel dos websites de cidades tombadas na educação patrimonial

It is the goal of this article to demonstrate the role that websites of respective cities included on UNESCO's World Heritage List plays in patrimonial education. In response to the question of what motivates this research, the investigation is driven by the hypothesis that social representations of these cities found on websites contribute to the understanding of those cities in the context of patrimonial education. Guided by that hypothesis, the article's argument is grounded in the following concepts: patrimonial education, such as that emerging from patrimonial theories and letters; websites, understood as the most recent narrative illustrations of the respective cities; and social representations, such as those advocated by Moscovici. Through the exploration of the above concepts, this article presents a method of detection for social representations of preserved cities in websites. Such a method is applied in the empirical approach to the research that investigates the websites of two preserved cities in the state of Minas Gerais: Ouro Preto and Diamantina. Once the social representations for each city are found, the article then explores how these representations effect the understanding and patrimonial education of each city. After confirming the initial hypothesis, the article concludes by presenting the principal contributions of the websites in the understanding of the respective preserved cities and by revealing the challenges of new media in the various fields of patrimonial education.

The challenge of new media in French and American politics: Concepts, methods and opportunities

As the digital revolution in political discourse continues, there are some important conceptual, methodological and empirical challenges that must be met by scholars interested in new media politics in both France and the United States. Some of the challenges that the Internet poses to basic concepts and procedures in the field of political communication are profound, and perhaps explain a lack of disciplinary consensus on any kind of theory. This article uses an example of recent research to highlight these difficulties and suggest some possible solutions. It then surveys the realm of new media politics in France, and offers some suggestions for future research.

Adapting Small Market Rural Media to the Challenges of New Media: Interviews with Small Market Rural Managers

Adapting Small Market Rural Media to the Challenges of New Media: Interviews with Small Market Rural Managers

Confronting the Challenges of Critical Digital Literacy: An Essay Review Critical Constructivism: A Primer

This essay review connects Joe L. Kincheloe's Critical Constructivism on epistemological analysis to the conceptual and sociopolitical challenges of new media in educational contexts. New media is a domain of educational research that has taken ubiquitous directions in recent scholarship. From cyber-bullying to digital rights management to the development of new literacies and the Orwellian nature of plagiarism watchdog sites like Turnitin.com, teachers are wary of tapping new media resources or “vehicles” to enhance their more traditional instructional strategies and have little impetus to develop what may be called critical digital literacy skills for themselves or their students. In 12 efficacious points, Joe L. Kincheloe's Critical Constructivism: A Primer ushers readers through complex processes of teaching and learning, knowledge construction, and cognition, as well as necessary examinations of the social, historical, and cultural contexts in which the knower and known are situated. The key understandings of critical constructivism are further explored in this review by evaluating its pedagogical applications and possibilities for teachers and learners confronting the challenges of navigating the vehicles (Web sites, online gaming, any form of online community/social environment ad, use of personal digital communication devices, ad infinitum) of new media in and beyond the classroom for the purposes of gaining what may be termed as critical digital literacy. Kincheloe's primer offers teachers, students and researchers an accessible epistemological manual equipped with definitions of concepts and terms emboldened and spotlighted throughout the text, in addition to its convenient glossary compiled in the back of the text. At face value, teachers, preservice teachers, and teacher educators are provided with a practical heuristic for crossing the great divide from the abstract domains of pedagogical theory to the inviting shores of teacher and learner cognition and practice.

Surrogate Stages: Theatre, Performance and the Challenge of New Media

It is well known that Marcel Proust spent the last decade of his life in almost complete seclusion, living in a cork-lined room, attended by a few loyal servants. Almost completely unknown is the f...

The Shape of Guilds to Come: The Hollywood Guild Residuals and the Challenge of New Media

As technology changes the entertainment industry, it also changes our entertainment choices. Wide-ranging trends prompted by new technologies that affect the delivery of entertainment to the masses are already generating pressure among Hollywood's labor ranks for these changes to be reflected in their guilds' contracts. But as profound as the industry-wide changes are, the industry's labor may not see its employment contracts change as profoundly just yet for economic, political, and even cultural reasons.

House of Leaves : Reading the Networked Novel

HOUSEOFLEAVES: READING THE NETWORKED NOVEL Jessica Pressman University of California—Los Angeles Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves (2000) is a novel that is not just a book. The seven-hundred-nine page codex embraces and exploits the pleasures of print in typographical play and innovative page design; its substantial print body contains an extensive hypertextual navigation system connecting multiple narratives and reading paths. The reader hopscotches across pages and points ofview, layers offootnotes and different fonts, decoding a novel that relishes a print fetish while revealing how literature and its readers encounter and evolve in relation to digital media. The book reaches beyond its bindings to a network of multimedia instantiations that collectively and collaborativelyproduce its multilayered narrative. The book House of Leaves is the central node in a network of multimedia, multiauthored forms that collectively comprise its narrative: the House of Leaves website (www.houseofleaves.com), The Whalestoe Letters (an accompanying book by Danielewski containing a section from the novel's Appendix), and the musical album Haunted by the author's sister, the recording artist Poe.1 The novel was published to exist in relation to these entities, all of which were published in 2000. House ofLeaves participates in a feedback loop with these works: the multimedia entities spring from, feed off, and filter back into the novel through references and clues that illuminate its narrative. Katherine Hayles identifies House of Leaves as an example of a "Work as Assemblage, a cluster of related texts that quote, comment upon, amplify, and remediate one another."2 Such assemblages, she rightly argues, challenge and expand the concept of the literary work. House ofLeaves does this by presenting a paradox: it is a print novel for the digital age, a book that privileges print while plugging into the digital network. The novel is acutely aware of its location within the contemporary "discourse network," a system Friedrich Kittler identifies as "the network of technologies and institutions that allow a given culture to select, store, and produce relevant data."3 House ofLeaves aestheticizes and enacts this concept: it is a networked novel that connects up with the contemporary "discourse network" of the Internet.4 I read House of Leaves across its multimedia network to show how the novel uses its assemblaged narrative to teach the reader to engage 108Jessica Pressman with a contemporary print novel that is distributed across the digital network. On her website, Poe articulates the relationship between her album and her brother's novel: '"House of Leaves' is one thing. 'Haunted' is another. Together they are something quite different."5 It is this third "thing" that interests me: the connections across and between media forms that forge a networked aesthetic, foster new reading strategies, and foreground the importance of House ofLeaves as a print novel for a digital age. Written in the age of the Internet boom and crash and published in 2000, House ofLeaves reflects and refracts its digital environment in its print pages. Formally, the novel is structured as a hypertext, a system ofinterconnected narratives woven together through hundreds of footnotes. Every appearance of the word "house" is blue, the color of an active hyperlink on the Internet.6 These colored signifiers are textual acts of "remediation," the term Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin use to describe how older media, such as books, "refashion themselves to answer the challenges of new media."7 Besides imitating the interface and navigation structure ofthe Web, House ofLeaves positions itself as a node on the information network before its narrative even begins. Beneath the copyright and publisher's information is the web address for the official House of Leaves website: www.houseofleaves.com. Sharing the title of the novel and its publication date, the website is its fraternal twin. On the book's back cover is a red circular icon surrounded by text that prompts the reader to "listen to the house . . . 'HAUNTED' the new CD from Poe on Atlantic Records, www.p-o-e.com." The text identifies "the house" from the novel as distributed across media forms and prompts the reader to pursue these connections between book, website, and album. In this way, House ofLeaves not only mimics...