New Forms Of Media Research Articles

Tertiary Student Experiences With Digital Language Games for Enhancing the English Language

Recently, digital games are used as a form of new media with massive potential for learning the English Language. To understand the typology of user experiences with digital games, the Presence-Involvement-Flow Framework (PIFF) was utilized. A series of semi-structured interviews were conducted with ten tertiary students in Northern Malaysia. Participants were asked to download and familiarize five digital language games (Duolingo, Memrise, Word Connect, Word Domination and Word Tower Puzzles) before the interviews. Thematic analysis technique was used to analyze the responses. The study’s thematic network comprises four global themes (Game Structure, Feelings, Skills Gained and Prerequisites) and seven organizing themes (Instruction, Game Design, Positive Emotional Outcome, Negative Emotional Outcome, Soft Skills, Technical Skills and Skills Required). The result is expected to be a good guideline or research framework for practitioners and researchers in exploring further the concept of user experience with English language digital games.

Media Control in the Digital Politics of Indonesia

In transitional democratic countries with significant digital media user bases, the “authoritarian turn in digital media” has resulted in new forms of media control designed to counter critical media exposure. This article investigates the ongoing digital pressures experienced by Indonesian media organizations and investigative journalists by the partisan supporters of the country’s new authoritarian political leaders. This article provides a critical review of the forms of media control that have emerged in Indonesia within the past five years (2015–2020), giving special attention to the doxing allegedly faced by several news media and journalistic projects: IndonesiaLeaks; <em>Tempo </em>magazine; and WatchDoc. Applying qualitative methods (observation, semi-structured interviews, review of documents), this study finds that the rise of non-state and societal control over critical media leads to self-censorship amongst media and journalists. This study shows that online trolls, doxing, and hyper-partisan news outlets are used as new forms of media control. Control is also exerted by paid-social media buzzers, whose online identity is established by their use of digital and social media platforms to manipulate information and counter critical news regarding incumbent and oppositional political leaders. This article contributes to the academic debate on the intended forms of media control in digital politics of transitional democracies.

Exploring the Opinion Sharing Patterns among Social Media users in Pakistan

The spiral of silence theory described that when majority opinion is dominant the minority opinion is not expressed. For the last five decades, the theory of the spiral of silence describes social separation due to minority opinions. The fear of isolation has made individuals frightened in exchanging their opinions. The people who have opinions in minority are the main actors feared from isolation. In today’s world, the internet has shown rapid developments in the form of new media, and day by day users are getting attracted to this new technology. This study is an effort to determine the level of effects of the spiral of silence on the young generation of Pakistan. This research focuses on the spiral of silence and the way people are expressing their opinions. This research is quantitative study. A Survey of 1099 respondents has been done through purposive sampling. Opinion sharing is a dependent variable whereas exposure to social media, fear of isolation, willingness to speak, and climate of opinion are independent variables. Regression analysis was applied to check the connection of independent variables with opinion sharing behavior of the social media users. This research uses the spiral of silence theory in relation to the social media usage patterns of its users. The study indicates that the relationship between dependent and independent variables is strong.

Discussion on the Development of Film and Television Culture under the New Media Horizon

With the rapid development of new media in the present society, film and television culture can be better spread by the carrier of new media, so that the masses can watch the content of film and television works anytime and anywhere. New media is the mainstream development trend of today's society. The content of propaganda and the deep meaning of expression of each industry can be conveyed through the form of new media. In this process, film and television culture can attract more people's attention, which plays a win-win role in the development of new media and the dissemination of film and television culture. Therefore, this paper will focus on exploring the development of film and television culture and the relationship between the two under the new media perspective.

Profiles of Parenting in the Digital Age: Associations With Adolescent Alcohol and Marijuana Use

This study assessed parental communication and behavior related to children's Internet and social media usage to delineate profiles of parenting regarding these newer forms of media and associated those profiles with youth alcohol and marijuana use. Using data from 748 adolescents (mean age = 15.8, 52% female, 25% non-White) and their parents, latent class analysis was performed to identify classes based on items concerning device ownership, monitoring, and communication of online activities. The associations between class membership and ever use of alcohol and marijuana were then tested, controlling for screen time, general parenting, substance availability, and deviance. We identified five classes: high media parenting (23%), low media parenting (20%), moderate media parenting with limited device access (11%), moderate media parenting with high device access (25%), and low monitoring but high communication about online activities (21%). Probability of class membership was differentially associated with contemporaneous and 1-year prospective alcohol and marijuana use. The low-device-access class had the highest percentage of abstainers at both time points. The lowest rate of abstaining was associated with membership in the high-device-access class but moderate levels of monitoring. Membership in the low media parenting class was associated with use of both substances. This study provides a novel exploration of media parenting, an important construct in the context of increased access to personalized media devices that allow for streaming of mature media content related to substance use.

From Words to Images: The Rise and Treatment of Visual Public Opinion in the Post-epidemic Era

The rise of short videos in the Post-epidemic era have caused the migration of Internet traffic to visual content. This new form of media based on communication technology and algorithm technology can arouse more emotional resonances of audiences, which promotes the formation of a Visual Public opinion field. The emergence of this public opinion field not only increases the risk of public opinion crises such as rumors and extreme views, but also points out the current direction of public opinion governance, and shows the importance of making good use of visual communication methods. Based on this, mainstream media needs to integrate and lead the visual public opinion field by entering the video media platform, producing high-quality video content, and reconstructing the visual public opinion ecology; the competent authority should do a good job in the visual public opinion field from the three aspects of ideology, technology and content. Supervision and governance work will promote a good long-term growth of visual public opinion field.

Między starym a nowym: źródła wiedzy licealistów o polityce w procesie socjalizacji

The process of political socialization takes place on many levels and depends on various factors, such as family, peer group or school. The basic catalog of them includes the media as well. The main ob[1]jective of the article is to diagnose their role in the process of social adjustment in the area of politics of high school youth from the region of Wielkopolska. The surveys conducted among high school students helped examine a number of factors: sources of knowledge about politics, media formats on the Internet as well as the most important actors playing the role of opinion leaders in the process of political socialization of young people. The study proved that young people display features of media use characteristic of “traditional” mass communication tools (such as television), but also a tendency to use new forms of media, characteristic of “generation Z”. At the same time, significant differences in this respect were observed on the grounds of gender and the declared approach to the religion by young people from Wielkopolska region.

YouTube Videos Related to the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Content Analysis.

BackgroundYouTube (Alphabet Incorporated) has become the most popular video-sharing platform in the world. The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) disaster resulted in public anxiety toward nuclear power and radiation worldwide. YouTube is an important source of information about the FDNPP disaster for the world.ObjectiveThis study's objectives were to examine the characteristics of YouTube videos related to the FDNPP disaster, analyze the content and comments of videos with a quantitative method, and determine which features contribute to making a video popular with audiences. This study is the first to examine FDNPP disaster–related videos on YouTube.MethodsWe searched for the term “Fukushima nuclear disaster” on YouTube on November 2, 2019. The first 60 eligible videos in the relevance, upload date, view count, and rating categories were recorded. Videos that were irrelevant, were non-English, had inappropriate words, were machine synthesized, and were <3 minutes long were excluded. In total, 111 videos met the inclusion criteria. Parameters of the videos, including the number of subscribers, length, the number of days since the video was uploaded, region, video popularity (views, views/day, likes, likes/day, dislikes, dislikes/day, comments, comments/day), the tone of the videos, the top ten comments, affiliation, whether Japanese people participated in the video, whether the video recorder visited Fukushima, whether the video contained theoretical knowledge, and whether the video contained information about the recent situation in Fukushima, were recorded. By using criteria for content and technical design, two evaluators scored videos and grouped them into the useful (score: 11-14), slightly useful (score: 6-10), and useless (score: 0-5) video categories.ResultsOf the 111 videos, 43 (38.7%) videos were useful, 43 (38.7%) were slightly useful, and 25 (22.5%) were useless. Useful videos had good visual and aural effects, provided vivid information on the Fukushima disaster, and had a mean score of 12 (SD 0.9). Useful videos had more views per day (P<.001), likes per day (P<.001), and comments per day (P=.02) than useless and slightly useful videos. The popularity of videos had a significant correlation with clear sounds (likes/day: P=.001; comments/day: P=.02), vivid information (likes/day: P<.001; comments/day: P=.007), understanding content (likes/day: P=.001; comments/day: P=.04). There was no significant difference in likes per day (P=.72) and comments per day (P=.11) between negative and neutral- and mixed-tone videos. Videos about the recent situation in Fukushima had more likes and comments per day. Video recorders who personally visited Fukushima Prefecture had more subscribers and received more views and likes.ConclusionsThe possible features that made videos popular to the public included video quality, videos made in Fukushima, and information on the recent situation in Fukushima. During risk communication on new forms of media, health institutes should increase publicity and be more approachable to resonate with international audiences.

Will Podcasting and Social Media Replace Journals and Traditional Science Communication? No, but...

The digital world in which we live is changing rapidly. The evolving media environment is having a direct impact on traditional forms of communication and knowledge translation in public health and epidemiology. Openly accessible digital media can be used to reach a broader and more diverse audience of trainees, scientists, and the lay public than can traditional forms of scientific communication. The new digital landscape for delivering content is vast, and new platforms are continuously being added. In this article, we focus on several, including Twitter and podcasting, and discuss their relevance to epidemiology and science communication. We highlight 3 key reasons why we think epidemiologists should be engaging with these mediums: 1) science communication, 2) career advancement, and 3) development of a community and public service. Other positive and negative consequences of engaging in these forms of new media are also discussed. The authors of this commentary are all engaged in social media and podcasting for scientific communication, and we reflect on our experiences with these mediums as tools to advance the field of epidemiology.

Entrepreneurship Media: Brand Journalism and Verticals’ : Practice-Analysis of Six Regional Arab Outlets

Over the last decade, new forms of vertical media have officially arisen in the Arab world, beginning from Al-Sham with a regional perspective. Unlike the global context in which Entrepreneurship Media (EM) began decades earlier, this relatively new vertical media was not, until lately, one of the traditional forms of business media in the Arab world. In Egypt, EM was fostered through mass media outputs in the form of TV shows. Through working on both the development and business sides, observing and analyzing content of this emerging trendy EM is becoming increasingly important. With key informant interviews with six leading and outstanding regional entrepreneurship-focused digital and print platforms, practitioners from the media and entrepreneurship ecosystems can understand how this new form of media has emerged and who stands behind it, what purposes it serves, how it has been growing, which business models have proven to be successful, and how EM is being challenged to answer the question of whether there is potential for real journalism in Vertical Media and Brand Journalism. The ground-setting platforms are Wamda, Entrepreneur Middle East & Al-Arabiya, Arabnet, MENAbytes, Founders Media (WAYA) and Startup Scene ME. The paper solely attends to regional platforms that have laid the groundwork for this new media format.

From Cannes to Cardboard: The Circulation and Promotion of Visages Villages and the Auteur on Instagram

Abstract This article explores the Instagram activities of Agnès Varda and her Visages Villages (Faces Places, France, 2017) codirector JR to consider the role of social media in the film's theatrical release and awards campaign, which led to the film's nomination for Best Documentary Feature—Varda's first and only Academy Award nomination. Through analysis of Varda's posts and her appearances on JR's Instagram, the author argues that social media complemented the film's conventional promotion while extending Varda's aesthetic practices and interests, offering one of the final examples of her consistent, enthusiastic experiments with new forms of media. On Instagram, Varda recycled and recontextualized the strategies of self-presentation and formal play seen in her documentaries for a different format, as she posted images and videos involving premieres, special events, and press coverage from her perspective. Throughout the film's release and awards campaign, social media began to function as an atypical way to draw attention to the film and its directors, especially for a low-budget documentary. The Visages Villages team merged traditional methods of achieving visibility with an unusual and intentional online presence, culminating in substantial coverage from new types of outlets when JR traveled to the Academy Awards luncheon with cardboard cutouts of Varda.

New media and the digitized paranormal: instrumentation, affective atmospheres, and the production of history in Chile

AbstractIn the last decade in Chile, an increasing amount of paranormal investigation companies have carried out ghost tours in patrimonial and historical places, using diverse technologies to penetrate into the history of sites. We ethnographically and analytically explore two related questions. First, we ask what paranormal instrumentation does to collective memory and to history. We argue that these ‘registers’ of the paranormal create ‘affective atmospheres’, namely from the forms of indeterminacy embedded in the functioning and performance of the apparatuses. Our argument is that these machines are mechanisms for the creation of a new history, one that is apprehended affectively. Second, in the context of an explosion of adherence in Chile to forms of new media, we employ the notion of ‘dark media’ to illustrate that online material posted by paranormal researchers appears to escape any form of mediational understanding, feeding at once the public's perceptive and affective dispositions.

The Novel Stage: Narrative Form from the Restoration to Jane Austen by Marcie Frank

Reviewed by: The Novel Stage: Narrative Form from the Restoration to Jane Austen by Marcie Frank Alexandra G. Bennett THE NOVEL STAGE: NARRATIVE FORM FROM THE RESTORATION TO JANE AUSTEN, by Marcie Frank. Transits: Literature, Thought and Culture, 1650-1850. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2020. 230 pp. $120.00 hardback; $34.95 paperback; $34.95 ebook. Though Marcie Frank's The Novel Stage: Narrative Form from the Restoration to Jane Austen came out in 2020, its subject matter certainly resonates at this moment, when theaters around the world have been forced to adapt their craft to new forms of media for over a year. As a drama specialist and a theater practitioner, I tend to assume that genres are inherently collaborative and intertwined and that influence is reciprocal and might be both innovative and hearken back to past ideas simultaneously; these threads are part of the warp and weft of my work. It therefore came as some surprise to me, I have to admit, when I understood that a common perspective posits dramatic and novelistic genres as not only distinct but opposed in fundamental ways, as if novels could not be performative nor plays consumed through print. As a counter to this mode of discourse, The Novel Stage works brilliantly, showing how dramatic genres such as tragicomedy, comedy of manners, and melodrama fundamentally affected the prose writings of figures such as Aphra Behn, the Earl of Rochester, [End Page 398] Elizabeth Inchbald, Henry Fielding, and Jane Austen and how their prose works inherently affected audiences for theatrical genres over time. Not only does Frank explore the ways in which each writer portrayed aspects of theater performance in their works—such as the home performance of Inchbald's Lovers' Vows (1798) in Austen's Mansfield Park (1814)—she also carefully traces the overlapping elements of performance and publication in showing, for instance, how elements of stage action get turned into narrative description in Frances Burney's Evelina (1778). Given that many of the authors she discusses here wrote both plays and prose pieces of varying lengths, the intertwining of genres makes excellent sense, and Frank clearly shows how each form influenced the other during the course of the eighteenth century. Loud cheers and huzzahs are also due for Frank's insistence that none of these writers worked in isolation and that the integration of women's writings in reworkings of literary history gives important contextualization that separating "women's writing" into a subgroup might omit. The process of writing in any period is a tension between novelty and tradition, a process of saying "yes, and . . ." as the best improvisers do; indeed, one of the impressions from the book's argument is that the development of genre in this particular time period was one of both improvisation and careful connection so as to appeal to as wide an entertainment-seeking audience as possible. (This seems especially timely now, when the demand for entertainment sparks both innovation and rehashes of older popular material in the effort to drive more eyes to various media services.) Frank is fully aware of the wider implications of her re-examination of genre in the eighteenth century. Defamiliarizing the relationships between plays and novels not only as forms of writing but as aspects of media consumption enables her to question the idealized aesthetic autonomy that underpins some previous histories of the novel as "a fantasy deriving from a Hegelian aesthetics whose influence is still to be found in the prizing of objects whose form recapitulates their content" (p. 154). Instead, by showing some of the ways in which print and performance informed and fed the demand for one another through this time period, Frank opens up the discussion of literary history as one that is far more collaborative and dialectical than might previously have been posited in the transition from thinking of writing as "poetry" to the classification of "literature." As energizing as Frank's exploration of the interweaving of drama and novel is, it also implicitly emphasizes some of the remaining frameworks that underpin current literary studies, such as the time-bound silos of periodization. For instance, Behn's use of both dramatic and novelistic forms...

Utilization of Tik Tok Social Media as A Media for Promotion of Hidden Paradise Tourism in Indonesia

Internet use in Indonesia has reached 64.8% and as many as 160 million people use social media, this is the basis for a promising market for social media industry players, such as the tik tok application. The Tik Tok application in the 2020 pandemic year is the most popular application in Indonesia, because people in Indonesia must know this application and some become its users. Tik tok users range from children, adolescents, to adults. The Tik Tok application is a form of new media that functions to provide support in the form of song editing features and attractive visual effects in making short videos that range from 30-60 seconds. The use of tik tok as a new media can also be used for promotion of hidden tourism (hiding paradise), because it is widely accessed by various ages. The popularity of Tik Tok in Indonesia is an ideal media for tourism agencies who campaign for hidden tourism in their area, by producing videos and the hashtag #wisatahidenparadise in the Tik Tok application, which then creates their own version of video content and adds this hashtag, but there are several points that the basis for which videos are most watched, liked and shared by Tik Tok users.

The Essence of Information Telegram Channels as a Media (for Example, the Republic of Buryatia)

Telegram channels have become a new phenomenon in the Russian mass media space. Despite the ban, Telegram messenger is one of the most popular cellular networks among subscribers in Russia. Moreover, it is used not only as a means of communication, but also as a source of news and other information. This article discusses the possibility of recognizing Telegram channels as a new form of media in legal and philosophical aspects. The research is based on an analysis of the current legislation of the Russian Federation and scientific and philosophical approaches to the researching of the media.

Teaching Game AI as an Undergraduate Course in Computational Media

We need to teach AI to students in and outside of traditional computer science degree programs, including those designer-engineer hybrid students who will design and implement games or engage in technical games research later. The need to rethink AI curriculum is pressing in a design education context because AI powers many emerging practical techniques such as drama management, procedural content generation, player modeling, and machine playtesting. In this paper, we describe a 5-year experimental effort to teach a Game AI course structured around a broad and expanding set of roles AI can play in game design (e.g., Adversary and Actor, as well as Design Assistant and Storyteller). This course sets up computer science and computer game design students to transform practices in the game industry as well as create new forms of media that were previously unreachable. Our students gained mastery over the relevant techniques and further demonstrated (via novel prototype systems) many new roles for AI along the way.

The types and expressions of new media fashion film

A new form of media is changing the expression and content of fashion. In this paper, fashion films that have appeared since 2010 - when digital fashion communication was increasing - will be discussed and explored to consider how technological transitions in fashion media are changing the appearance and role of fashion. A literature review was conducted to derive characteristics, types, and expressive elements of new media fashion films, which were defined for this study as fashion films produced and distributed since 2010 using digital media. Films were categorized into three types: promotional, editorial, and independent fashion films. Furthermore, elements of the films were identified as fashion mise-en-scene, auditory structure, and content structure. Types and expressions of digital fashion images in 40 fashion films were analyzed according to these elements. The results showed that promotional fashion films maximize various narrative and sensory effects on fashion products, whilst editorial fashion films strengthen the role of entertainment. Independent fashion films expand the area of fashion and promote the diversification of fashion systems. Moreover, the results show that fashion films are not a secondary form of media that just expresses fashion; they provide a tool for the creation of new fashion content. New media fashion films promote the expansion of expressive spectra and boundaries, offering various multisensory experiences of fashion, and enhancing creativity and the aesthetic values of fashion.

Empathie of sensatiezucht?

Abstract Empathy or sensationalism? The shipping disaster of the ‘Berlin’ in 1907 and its aftermath In the early morning of February 21, 1907, during a fierce storm, the ferry ‘Berlin’ crashed on the pier of Hook van Holland. With 128 victims, it still is the largest maritime disaster off the Dutch coast in peacetime. Due to the enormous interest of the population, the media and the Dutch royal house, it became a major media disaster in Dutch history. How did that happen? The disaster occurred at a time when a new era was dawning by the dissemination of many new forms of media, such as film, photography and illustrated magazines. In addition, there was the special attention paid by Prince Hendrik, Queen Wilhelmina’s husband. His arrival in Hook van Holland was unprecedented, because he not only came to watch the rescue attempts, but also actively contributed to it. That made the disaster one with two faces; on the one hand, that of the lower class with the population of Hook of Holland and the brave saviors and, on the other hand, one of the upper class because of the attention paid to Prince Hendrik. All this ensured that the disaster was experienced intensely, more intensely than before.

Interventions to improve human papillomavirus vaccination among Chinese female college students: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

BackgroundWhile the HPV vaccines have been approved by the US FDA since 2006, in recent years an increasing number of women are living with cervical cancer globally. Among them, Chinese women have a higher cervical cancer incidence and mortality rate than the global average, with mortality rates being almost twice the global average. However, the current approach of HPV vaccination in China is not satisfactory given the high disease burden of cervical cancer. The current study is a randomized controlled trial designed to identify the barriers and facilitators of HPV vaccination among Chinese female students. This study will also test a health intervention measure via a popular form of new media in order to improve the HPV vaccine uptake under the framework of Information-Motivation-Behavioral skill Model (IMB).MethodsThis investigation is a multicenter, school-based, prospective, randomized, parallel group, double-blind, blank-controlled trial involving a 7-day education intervention with a further 6-month follow-up. We will enroll at least 3360 participants older than 18 years. The enrolled participants will be randomly divided into two groups (1:1 ratio). The intervention group will be offered a 7-day mobile health education, and participants in both groups will fill out 4 questionnaires at the baseline, 1 month, 3 months and 6 months after the intervention. The primary outcome is the difference in HPV vaccination or reservation for the HPV vaccine between the intervention and control groups. Secondary outcomes will include the comparison of (1) knowledge, attitudes, motivation, beliefs and behavioral skill about HPV and cervical cancer prevention, and (2) the willingness to uptake HPV vaccination.DiscussionThis study will examine the theory-based intervention in improving HPV vaccination among Chinese female college students. We will conduct the randomized controlled trial to provide scientific evidence on the potential effect of the IMB theory-based intervention. Findings from this study will contribute to a growing research field which assesses the effectiveness of mobile-based, school-targeted and theoretically guided interventions for promoting HPV vaccination in adolescents.Trial registrationChinese Clinical Trial Registry (ChiCTR), ChiCTR1900025476; Registered on 27 August 2019.

Into the Wild: The Effects of 360° Immersive Nature Videos on Feelings of Commitment to the Environment

ABSTRACT Pro-environmental attitudes and behavior are declining as people become increasingly disconnected from nature. The growing disconnection from nature is thought to be due to cultural shifts, such as the increasing use of electronic media. However, mediated nature contact through new forms of media may also strengthen feelings of environmental connectedness. Therefore, this experimental study (N = 56) investigated whether viewing immersive 360° nature videos can influence individuals’ commitment to the environment. According to the theory of spatial presence, immersive videos are perceived as unmediated nature experiences. The results indicate that immersive nature videos promote stronger feelings of spatial presence and commitment to the environment than regular nature videos. The participants’ need for affect was incorporated as a moderator of the impact of immersive nature videos on commitment to the environment, but a negative interaction was observed in contrast to the hypothesized effect.