Media Conflict Research Articles

Journalist-Victim Relationship: Analysis of Cyber Media Reporting on the Land Conflict of the Sunda Wiwitan Indigenous Community

The relationship between journalists and sources influences reporting on conflicts in media. The news media's portrayal of conflicts can shape public opinion, which in turn can influence policy decisions. Governments and other stakeholders often pay close attention to media coverage and public reaction when making decisions related to conflicts. This study analyzes how the relationship between journalists and sources, in this case the victims from the Sunda Wiwitan indigenous community in Cigugur, West Java, in online media, relates to the land conflict and how it influences the resolution of the case. The researcher chose the theme of Sunda Wiwitan in relation to online media and conflict because the land conflict involving the Sunda Wiwitan indigenous community in Cigugur, West Java, is an issue that has received widespread media attention. Online media, with its fast and broad reach, often covers this conflict, although frequently in the form of short news pieces (hard news). This study uses a qualitative approach, employing a mixed method of content analysis, in-depth interviews which involving journalists and members of Sunda Wiwitan Community. The researchers analyze 113 news articles from national and local online media about the Sunda Wiwitan land conflict from 2020-2022. This study aims to examine how the relationship between victims in land conflicts and influential journalists affects media framing and agenda-setting.The research shows cyber media are interested to cover the issue as it carries news value of conflict and produce more news in form of hard news that features. The communication established between journalists or the media and victims or sources from the Sunda Wiwitan indigenous community influences the formation of media agendas and framing.The significant attention from online media and diverse sources influenced policy decisions regarding the Sunda Wiwitan land conflict.

Conflicts and the dilemma of media intervention: An educational information management perspective

Conflicts are inevitable in any human community, despite the fact that they are never desirable. One of the characteristics of the contemporary world is conflict. Different parties participate in disputes (individuals, organizations, and states). When disputes arise, interventionist methods are put into action. Conflicts arise in a variety of ways, such as disagreement, rage, quarrelling, hatred, destruction, killing, or war, because human requirements are diverse. Conflict takes many different shapes, and so do interventions. Individuals, groups (both local and foreign), and governments can all intervene in a conflict. The media and its functions are up for debate among those who mediate disputes. Can the media be seen as intervening in a dispute, or are they merely performing their mandated duties? The diversity of opinions is what drives conversations in peace journalism. In addition, peace journalism promotes media engagement and intervention in conflict situations in order to lessen and end conflict. Media intervention, according to some critics, is not objective journalism because those in charge of educational information management and journalists are not expected to make decisions about the news; rather, they should just tell it as they see it. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to examine the idea of conflict, the stages of conflict development, interventions in conflicts, and the contentious position of the media in conflicts from an educational information management perspective. Hence, this paper will contribute to the role of educational information management via social media and other new media platforms, which have occasionally been used to hold governments responsible, unite people in protest of violence, plan relief operations, empower people, dissipate tensions via knowledge sharing, and create understanding across boundaries.

TEACHING MATERIAL ON MOBILE LEARNING-BASED DIGITAL LITERACY AS A PREVENTIVE MEASURE FOR SOCIAL MEDIA CONFLICT

This research was conducted with the aim of producing instructional materials on mobile learning-based digital literacy skills as a preventive measure for social media conflicts. The researchers conducted this study using a research and development (R&D) design. We conduct data collection through the techniques of observation, interview, and validation testing. Researchers use the qualitative analysis method to analyze data on instructional needs and validation. Based on the analysis of the collected data, researchers are able to draw conclusions. Media experts and subject matter experts present prominent findings and corrections, from which conclusions are derived. that the instructional materials on digital literacy based on mobile learning are suitable for use as a preventive measure for social media conflicts.

Media conflictology as a field of research: working out theoretical approaches

The authors discuss both the main approaches in existing media and conflict studies that examine the relationship and interaction between media and conflict, and using theoretical mapping construct the media conflictology as a field of knowledge. The conceptual blocks of media conflictology as an integral field of research are defined and its structure is proposed. Thus, media conflictology as an emerging field of research includes the study of groups involved in media conflict, counting various Internet communities and other subjects of media communication; the stages of conflict represented in the media and the influence of media communication on the “life cycle” of conflict; the totality of the causes of media representation of conflict, with political, ideological and ethno-cultural factors; the analysis of the external context of conflict representation in the media, as well as the national media system, politics and regulation, communication culture and axiological aspects of conflict. A key feature of media conflict studies is the focus of academic attention on media representations and media effects of conflicts, rather than on the conflicts themselves.

Analysis of Favoritism on Chinas Social Media in the 2022 Russia-Ukraine War

The Russian-ukraine conflict is the most significant in Europe since World War II, and it is also the first social media conflict of humankind. In China, the attitude of public opinion towards the Russian-ukraine war has been very torn apart by the development of the situation. To understand the Chinese position in the Russian-ukraine conflict, this study uses crawler technology to capture the relevant data of comments and bullet subtitles on Chinese social media platforms. It uses popular tags specific to the conflict to collect data, depicting both sides neutral or biased views. At the same time, it investigated the social media public opinion communication situation of the Russian-ukraine conflict. Finally, after collecting the information released on the Bilibili platform, it summarized the characteristics of Chinese public opinion in the social media public opinion war as the main pro-Russian. It summarized and analyzed the reasons and positions of different views.

Perceptions of girls and young women on the role of gender and social media conflict implicated in violence

ABSTRACT Social media has changed the landscape of adolescence, altering how young people communicate and connect with peers. This study explores how young women of color living in marginalized neighborhoods perceive, manage, and make meaning of social media threats and conflict. Previous research shows that social media narratives tend to reify gender differences and devalue the experiences of conflict among girls and young women. Focus group discussions among 41 youth, living in a disinvested neighborhood of Hartford, CT, and participating in a development program for adolescents at risk for violence involvement, suggest that girls use social media platforms to define, negotiate, and meet their developmental needs and enhance their wellbeing. These adolescents are intentional in their choices to enter the social media world; they use social media to cultivate their identity, protect their reputation, manage relationships, or simply be seen and heard. While corroborating previous findings concerning perceptions of social media conflicts, these girls were not passive consumers of social media; they had a nuanced sense of this tool and used it to resist violence and benefit their image. Identifying adolescent insights about how particular social media features influence conflict is critical to creating effective interventions.

Reflection of Russian-Ukrainian military conflict in Indonesian and world Digital Media

The military conflict between Russia and Ukraine occurred in February 2022, to be precise, on the 24th. This conflict was quite significant because it resulted in many civilians fleeing and damage to various public facilities. The Indonesian people participated in providing multiple comments related to this conflict related to the military, economy, politics, and law on human rights. Therefore, the researchers want to learn more about the Analysis of the Russo-Ukrainian military conflict in the Media, especially the Indonesian people's reaction to the media coverage. The research method used is descriptive qualitative. Data collection techniques were done by observing various Indonesian media containing comments about the Russian-Ukrainian military conflict. The data that has been collected will then be analyzed in depth to find out the results of the research, which states that the majority of Indonesian media say that many people are more supportive of Russia in taking action against Ukraine because NATO broke the agreement that was made before. Meanwhile, in terms of human rights, this conflict has committed several fakes as well as human rights violations, such as cases of sexual harassment, murders without prior trial, destruction of facilities, and so on, as stated in international human rights law as contained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights article 3, Article 5, Article 6, Article 10, Article 13, Article 20, and so on. In addition, Indonesian people who are consumed by information write various negative comments smelling of defamation, also violating the rules regarding human rights as per the 1945 Constitution and the laws that apply in Indonesia.

Медиа и социальные конфликты: теоретико- методологические вызовы междисциплинарного подхода

Currently, the study of social conflicts in the media environment is becoming increasingly relevant: large-scale mediatization has significantly changed the course and consequences of any kind of social processes, including those with conflict potential. However, as the critical analysis of the relevant scientific discourse carried out in this article shows, there are many gaps in the existing body of literature, the appearance of which is caused by both objective and subjective reasons. The insufficient level of scientific development of social conflicts in the media is associated both with the imperfection of the methodological tools and with the historically established traditions of the scientific field. The extreme heterogeneity of the “field” of this kind of research is obvious, due primarily to the phenomenological complexity of the object – social conflicts unfolding in the media environment. On the one hand, the interpretation of any kind of data on the representation of conflicts in the mass media is possible and often takes place within the framework of the institutional-normative approach. On the other hand, scientists often implement approaches that only record the influence of the media on unfolding conflicts. In this article, as part of the study of representations of social conflicts in the media, the question is raised about the need to shift the focus of research attention from media texts to the figure of a person – both as a recipient of numerous conflict messages and as a participant in any conflict media discourse, which, thanks to digital technologies, itself turns into a separate subject of media communication. In particular, it seems very fruitful to intensify research into the causes of the audience’s behavior – their making decisions that contribute to the escalation of the conflict or its relief. A separate important scientific direction is the development of memory issues at the level of personal and, further, group experience associated with certain conflict contexts, most often represented in the media. These studies can get a legitimate epistemological perspective, which is to study the trauma of participants in a mediated conflict and/or audiences/communities receiving such information through traditional or new media. The application of interdisciplinary approaches can open up original promising directions for further research. Modern media research discourse, which traditionally exists within the framework of contentanalytical methods and is focused on the study of media texts, should be supplemented by attracting the methodological achievements of modern psychology, economics, anthropology, ethnography, which will significantly enrich the research process aimed at mastering the essence of social conflicts in the media and understanding the impact of media representations of the conflict on the audience and on the modern person as a whole.

Враги левого движения глазами испанских коммунистов: медийный аспект

The article reveals the construction of enemies’ image in the Spanish communist newspaper Mundo Obrero, an example of leftist media. The author analyses the long tradition of me-dia conflict with right-wing groups and partially refutes the thesis about ignoring the topic of the Francoist regime after the Spanish Amnesty Law (1977). The work also contains a description of the main categories of "enemies" of the news-paper Mundo Obrero, as well as a description and classification of ideological metaphors used to label the opponents of modern Spanish communists in the period 2017-2021. The collected data lead to the thesis about the importance of the image of the enemy in the context of a blurred leftist identity.

El discurso del odio en la militancia política en red social

The goal of this study is to understand how hate speech emerges as part of political activism on social media. From a qualitative perspective, we developed a multi-method investigation. Our thematic content analysis delves into the motivations of activists and the consequences of social media conflicts, while our automated content analysis identifies the frequency of hate speech and the types of publications that lead to such reactions. Social media are democratic environments and fertile ground for ideological and political activism, which can sometimes spark violent, hate-filled debates that transform these environments into dangerous and toxic places. Among our main theoretical and practical results, we found that the self-construction of online havens or shelters contributes to the increase of social bubbles as well as the rise in hate speech and its consequences for the lives of individuals. &nbsp

Social Media Performance: From the Perspective of Social Media Apathetic Behavior

Purpose - Social media platforms have presented individuals with an opportunity to create and maintain their social relationship through the use of social media services. However, such social relationship has a negative influence on users’ interest in social media.
 Design/methodology - Using structural equation modeling, this study seeks to examines the effects of different social media conflicts (individual and social conflicts) on users’ psychological internal state, especially user apathetic behavior
 Findings - The findings confirm that, among social media conflicts, social-related conflict, especially social interaction overload has a negative effect on cognitive resonance, while individual conflict has the highest effect on cognitive dissonance. Also, cognitive dissonance has a much greater effect than cognitive resonance on user resistance, this means that users' negative perception of social media has a greater influence on their resistance. Lastly, user’s resistance was found to have a positive influence on user’s apathetic behavior.
 Originality/value - In other to capture social media Apathetic behavior, this study focus on social media conflict perspective, which includes social-related conflict and individual conflict, which are found to influence users’ internal states towards social media and further induce social media behavior. This study is unique because it is among the first to explore social media apathetic behavior by focusing on the influence of both external social media conflict and internal state. Also, this study proposed that social related conflict has a higher negative influence on WeChat user than individual related conflict.

Mediatization of communications as a factor of transformation of value orientations of Russian youth: Trends and risks (part 1)

The purpose of the presented research was to identify the basic value characteristics and potentially conflicting contradictions as a result of the influence of the rapid spread of new media on the audience of modern Russian youth. The first part of the article problematizes the search for theoretical grounds for studying the virtual projection of politics, the methodological background of research on the specifics of the phenomenon of the mediatization of politics. Considering the mediatization effects in the riskological projection, the authors pay special attention to the value attitudes of perception of information about threats, the ideological dominants of the features of political reactions of various social strata. This research aims to contribute to the Russian academic discourse on the specifics of youth media activism, models and practices of its media consumption, new forms and parameters of communication, "digital aborigines". It is concluded that in the conditions of media conflicts, the system of "traditional" values is being desacrated, the struggle of real political interests and parallel/alternative political agendas is taking place, which affects the value political activity of young people and the processes of their self-identification. In the course of the analysis, a fundamentally new knowledge was obtained, based on a holistic vision of the cultural and historical reality of the formation of a "digital society" in Russia, about the axiological features of the modern Russian social order, including a complexly structured set of moral values of youth, the dominant discourses of the value system and ways of alternative vision of the political situation and images of threats and conflicts. The paper examines the "conflict of selection of social problems" in the media communication youth space, algorithms and mechanisms of the clash of beliefs on digital platforms, analyzes media conflicts about the political past and present. In this regard, the article develops a model for measuring and preventing the risks of political and axiological transformations among Russian youth based on the development of complementary methods of their assessment for the construction and implementation of effective state strategies in terms of their change and improvement.

CPEC in Pakistani Print Media: Transitivity Analysis of English Newspapers’ Articles

The purpose of the study is to scrutinize critically the ideological constructions and discursive features used in Pakistani print media representing economical phenomenon of CPEC. This research has elucidated the ideology through critical discourse analysis (CDA) of the leading English newspapers of a good repute: However, the similar news from the different newspapers as depicted in the various forms that are all ideologically disputed in this perspective including Daily Dawn and The News HE NEWS. These articles on CPEC, the most prevailing economic subject in Pakistan as published during the year 2016-17, have been purposefully selected for this study. Transitivity analysis as an analytical tool has been applied for the analysis of such the articles. By applying Halliday's transitivity system, hence; the study attempts to show how the use of linguistic signals can demonstrate the characteristics and techniques used in Pakistani print media for representing CPEC. Further, this study is comparative in nature, and compares the language used in both the English newspapers for representing CPEC. The findings indicate that CPEC has been presented as an economical subject of national worth in both the newspapers that implies a meaning of PRO-CPEC ideology. The current study is the significant in its originality as it is interdisciplinary study, and its findings are not in line with the exist in literature on media conflict.

Small becomes big, fast: Adolescent perceptions of how social media features escalate online conflict to offline violence

While youth violence is a longstanding public health problem, social media has changed how youth experience conflict. Qualitative work documents that threats are now being expressed online and escalate to offline violence, in a phenomenon termed internet banging. The goal of the present study was to examine adolescent perceptions of how social media features escalate online conflict to offline fights in a sample of adolescents living in disinvested neighborhoods in Hartford. To explore this topic, we foreground adolescent voices to document 1) what adolescents see as the sources of conflict online, and 2) how adolescents see social media features (e.g., photos, comments, livestream video) in escalating conflict online. We draw on Nesi et al.’s (2018a, 2018b) transformational framework and Phenomenality and Ecological Systems Theory (Spencer et al., 1995) to guide our understanding of the role of these features in this form of interpersonal peer conflict. Four focus groups with 41 American adolescents (ages 12 to 19, 73% self-identified as Black) solicited perspectives on violence resulting from social media conflict. Three coders analyzed data in Dedoose, guided by systematic textual coding using a multi-step thematic analysis. Major findings underscore that adolescents described romantic conflict as a significant source of social media fights that led to offline violence, particularly for conflict involving girls. Further, our findings underscore that adolescents engaged in social media threats often do not go online with the intention to fight. Rather, adolescents expressed keen awareness that social media intensifies interpersonal slights, and specifically identified video streaming and comments as social media features that intensify social media threats, increasing the likelihood of offline violence.

Una aproximación a los medios de comunicación en el conflicto vasco desde el Periodismo de Paz

El artículo presenta un estudio interdisciplinar sobre los medios de comunicación en el conflicto vasco a la luz del Periodismo de Paz y la Psicología Social. El estudio expone los principales trabajos en Ciencias de la Comunicación sobre el comportamiento de los medios en dicho conflicto, y basa su apartado empírico en 22 entrevistas en profundidad con responsables de medios vascos. Los testimonios señalan que los medios fueron actores del conflicto, trasladaron visiones simplificadas y polarizadas de la realidad, y fueron víctimas de la violencia. Como reflexión final, se infiere que los medios practicaron un Periodismo de Guerra.

Go get ’em! Elites, depoliticization and resistance in the Catalan independence bid

ABSTRACT Exploring the role of elites in recent liberal democratic crises is emerging as one of the most important themes of our times. In this regard, the Catalan bid or independence in autumn 2017 remains a puzzling example of a foreseeable crisis that produced a dramatic institutional watershed. This article turns to frame the structural elements and specific actions that, contrary to the pluralist view, prevented Spanish elites from supplying a political solution to a fundamentally political problem and, in turn, helped trigger the crisis. By situating the political clash in contentious politics, we observe how elite-led depoliticization unfolded in three manners: damaging institutional legitimacy; politicizing justice and finally framing the conflict in media towards repression. Departing from Scott's description of the interrelationship between power, rule and resistance, some conclusions follow to help shed light onto the current debate around the role of elites in similar ‘democratic failures.’

Media sensory curation and family media conflict: replication and validation of short-form measures

ABSTRACT Media sensory curation theory conceptualizes sensory regulation within the built environment as a gratification of electronic media use and predictor of parent-child conflict over children’s media use. This paper replicates an initial survey of caregivers of children ages 3 to 14 with an independent replication survey of N = 754. As in the original study, media sensory curation was higher among children with sensory diagnoses (e.g., autism, ADHD) than without and was a moderate to strong predictor of problematic child media use and adult-child media conflict for all children. The 48-item Adult and Child Media Sensory Curation Inventories (MediaSCIs) were subject to scale-reduction analyses using the pooled samples (N = 1543) to create short-form scales. The resulting Adult MediaSCI-SF and Child MediaSCI-SF (12 items each) showed good reliability. The Child MediaSCI-SF predicted problematic child media use and media conflict as robustly as the 48-item Child MediaSCI. The MediaSCI-SF scales are parsimonious options for measuring media sensory curation.

Avoiding fights on social media: Strategies youth leverage to navigate conflict in a digital era.

Emerging qualitative work documents that social media conflict sometimes results in violence in impoverished urban neighborhoods. Not all experiences of social media conflict lead to violence, however, and youth ostensibly use a variety of techniques to avoid violent outcomes. Little research has explored the daily violence prevention strategies youth use on social media, an important gap given the omnipresence of social media in youth culture. This paper examines youth strategies and factors that avoid violence resulting from social media conflict. Four focus groups with 41 teenagers of color solicited strategies to prevent violence resulting from social media conflict. Three coders analyzed data in Dedoose, guided by systematic textual coding using a multi-step thematic analysis. Four approaches emerged to avoiding violence from social media conflict: avoid, de-escalate, reach out for help, and bystander intervention. Our findings position youth as key players in efforts to prevent violence from resulting from social media conflict.

Taming the genius loci? Contesting post-socialist creative industries in the case of Brno's former prison

In the increasingly tight race of inter-urban competition, the idea that cities have to be made creative has gripped the imagination of urban planners and scholars alike. This process is imagined as straightforward, readily exportable and devoid of conflict. The paper uses the perspective of relational place-making to reveal the creative city imperative as a political process. This is carried out through the medium of conflict, which brings about two contrasting place frames, which progressively reveal each other's political connections. We use the case of a former central-European prison, located in Brno, the Czech Republic, to show how making a city creative is just one possible framing of a place, how making cities attractive to creative individuals engenders resistance and how historical memory summons the powerful genius loci, that is nevertheless relational and contingent. The results illustrate in detail how the conflict between development and preservation unfolds around six axes of opposition that define the two frames (e.g. future vs. past, part vs. whole etc.) and how these axes are themselves linked to various concepts of place and time.

Social media in conflicts and crises

ABSTRACTThe growing importance of social media in conflicts and crises is accompanied by an ever-increasing research interest in the crisis informatics field in order to identify potential benefits and develop measures against the technology’s abuse. This special issue sets out to give an overview of current research on the use of social media in conflicts and crises. In doing so, it focuses on both good and malicious aspects of social media and includes a variety of papers of conceptual, theoretical and empirical nature. In six sections, the special issue presents an overview of the field, analytical methods, technical challenges, current advancements and the accepted papers before concluding. Specific topics range from cyber deception over information trustworthiness to mining and near-real-time processing of social media data.