Implications Of New Media Research Articles

UK national newspapers' representation of cancer patients and their care during the early part of the COVID-19 pandemic: Invoking and undermining solidarity?

During the COVID-19 pandemic media narratives of solidarity often cast nations like the UK as if at war, while acclaiming health-care workers as heroic and beloved. However, this solidarity was often fragile and fleeting, as concerns and criticism about workers, citizens and services also circulated. In this article we explore these dynamics of solidarity in more depth, analysing framings of cancer patient suffering, private and public provision of health care in news media during the early part of the COVID-19 pandemic. We explore how cancer patients were positioned as victims of failure and abandonment by the state and its health-care providers, and how the private health-care system was presented in a saviour role. We conclude by reflecting on the implications of new media's alignment of appeals to solidarity with highly individualised forms of care and the consequences for state-based services founded on principles of solidarity.

Impact of new media on the reform of physical education teaching in faculty

It is evident that mass media play a significant role in shaping and influencing physical education. Over the years, mass media platforms such as television, the internet, social media, and advertising have increasingly impacted the way individuals perceive and engage with physical activity. Firstly, mass media has the power to create awareness and promote the importance of physical education. Through various mediums, it can highlight the benefits of regular exercise, sports participation, and healthy lifestyle choices. By featuring athletes, fitness programs, and success stories, mass media inspires individuals to adopt an active and health-conscious approach to physical education. Secondly, mass media acts as a platform for disseminating knowledge and information related to physical education. It provides access to a wealth of resources, training tips, instructional videos, and expert advice, enabling individuals to enhance their understanding of different forms of physical activity. This wide availability of information encourages people to explore diverse disciplines, discover new activities, and make informed decisions about their physical education journey. This study was conducted qualitatively. A comprehensive literature review provides an overview of the existing studies on the topic, highlighting the gaps in knowledge and areas requiring further investigation. The research also examines the implications of new media on student motivation, participation, and skill acquisition within the context of physical education. It investigates how digital tools can facilitate active learning, foster collaboration among students, and encourage lifelong engagement in physical activities beyond the classroom setting.

Dakwah Siber dan Pergeseran Religiusitas Masyarakat Kenjeran Surabaya

The emergence of high advanced communication and information technology has shifted the socio-religious traditions and values. This study attempts to describe the shifting of religious behaviour and values within the coastal society of Ken­je­ran, Surabaya City as the implications of new media inter­vention and the rise of cyber-based da'wah. Using a descriptive qualitative method, the results of the study show that the development of the internet and cyber da'wah has changed how Kenjeran community practices and comprehends religious values and rituals currently; first, there has been the frag­mentation within Kenjeran Muslim society's religious teachings and ideology down to the family level; second, there has been a degradation of sacred values in socio-religious activities; third, the way people studying religion tend to ignore the importance of sanad (chain of transmission), which is regarded not relevant with Islamic teachings or ethics.

Implikasi Media Baru Sebagai Media Komunikasi Dan Teknologi Informasi

New media is a term to describe the convergence of digital communication technology that is computerized and connected to a network and cannot be separated from the use of information technology, both network-based and telecommunications. as an example of media that is very representative of new media is the internet. New media is present as a new medium of communication at this time. All the ease of access provided by new media began to shift conventional media as communication media. This study aims to determine the implications of new media as a medium of communication and information technology. The implications of new media as a medium of communication By using new media it is easier for the audience to access things, such as news information that can be accessed in real time, the ease of exchanging information with relatives only by using internet-based devices. The internet is also a form of change in new media. However, the presence of new media as a medium of communication in this era in addition to providing positive implications also has negative implications. The implication of the presence of new media as a communication medium is that with the presence of new media, people's dependence on old media has begun to be replaced by a more real time, effective media, this is one of the positive sides of the new media as communication media and information technology. On the other hand, the negative implication of the presence of new media is that it often results in humans themselves forgetting and ignoring the real world and actually paying more attention to the virtual world, besides that new media are vulnerable to users, especially if new media is consumed by children without adult supervision.

Stoking the Fires of Participation: Extending the Gamson Hypothesis on Social Media Use and Elite-challenging Political Engagement

The present study examines the conditional and differential effects of social media use on elite-challenging political participation, such as petitions, demonstrations, and protests. It applies the Gamson hypothesis (i.e., a combination of high internal political efficacy and low political trust creates optimal conditions for political mobilization) and extends the differential political implications of new media. This study demonstrates how two types of social media use (i.e., capital-enhancing use and recreational use) and the trust-efficacy typology jointly affect political participation, with empirical reference to three Asian societies (i.e., mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan). Results from a comparative survey echoed previous literature indicating that capital-enhancing social media use facilitated political engagement, whereas recreational use might dampen engagement. The Gamson hypothesis was supported in the Taiwan sample: Dissidents who had high political efficacy and low political trust were more politically active, and for these people, capital-enhancing social media had a stronger political impact. In mainland China, the recreational use of social media had a stronger political implication for Assureds, who were politically self-efficacious and had stronger political trust.

Literature in the first media age: Britain between the wars

The period between the World Wars was one of the richest and most inventive in the long history of British literature. Interwar literature, David Trotter argues, stood apart by virtue of the sheer intelligence of the enquiries it undertook into the technological mediation of experience. After around 1925, literary works began to portray communication by telephone, television, radio, and sound cinema--and to examine the sorts of behavior made possible for the first time by virtual interaction. And they filled up, too, with the look, sound, smell, taste, and feel of the new synthetic and semi-synthetic materials that were reshaping everyday modern life.New media and new materials gave writers a fresh opportunity to reimagine both how lives might be lived and how literature might be written. Today, Trotter observes, such material and immaterial mediations have become even more decisive. Communications technology is an attitude before it is a machine or a set of codes. It is an idea about the prosthetic enhancement of our capacity to communicate. The writers who first woke up to this fact were not postwar, postmodern, or post-anything else: some of the best of them lived and wrote in the British Isles in the period between the World Wars. In defining what they achieved, this book creates a new literary canon of works distinguished formally and thematically by their alertness to the implications of new media and new materials.

The fourth screen: Mediatization and the smartphone

Smartphones have enjoyed nearly unprecedented rates of adoption, and within a short time they have quickly become a uniquely important mobile communication device, especially among young people. While such observations are compelling, they lack a conceptual context. This paper theorizes the smartphone in the general terms of mediatization. Emphasis is on existing and emerging technologies of the mediatization process and the consequent “intercorporeal” relationships users construct with the smartphone. Empirical findings about the often intensely personal usage of the smartphone document this phenomenology. The paper concludes by introducing three provocative implications of new media like the smartphone, which are both indicators and motors of mediatization, as focuses for future study: technogenesis, or the coevolution of people and their information machines; embodied and extended cognition, the intensifying interweaving of mind and thinking machines; and the subjectifying process of individualization, ever more dependent on digital self-creation and self-maintenance.

Net Inclusion: New Media’s Impact on Deliberative Politics in China

What is the role of new media in driving political change in China? How do we understand the interaction of rapid increases in connectivity, regime censorship and democratic outcomes? This article seeks to assess the democratic implications of new media in China through the lens of three key and nested criteria derived from general theories of deliberative democracy: information access, rational-critical deliberation and mechanisms of vertical accountability. The key finding is that connectivity expands political opportunity. How this opportunity is exploited is up to users, who often vary widely in their political preferences, values, and norms of behaviour. The results are multiple mechanisms of change taking place simultaneously and the development of a more interactive and pluralistic public sphere. While China obviously still has to develop far more formalised and institutionalised mechanisms for managing state-society relations, political pluralism in the form of online deliberation might be considered a foundational condition for a more interactive and liberalised political order rooted in greater public deliberation and societal feedback. Moderate forms of discourse and societal feedback are tenuous and increasingly exist in a chaotic and diversified online discourse defined equally as much by new methods of authoritarian propaganda and virulent nationalist ideas.

Book Review: The Survival of the Soap Opera: Transformations for a New Media Era

The Survival of the Soap Opera: Transformations for a New Media Era. Sam Ford, Abigail De Kosnik, and C. Lee Harrington, eds. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2011. 344 pp. $50.00 hbk. $30.00 pbk. or e-book.The writings in The Survival of the Soap Opera: Transformations for a New Media Era explore the tensions regarding the current (dismal) state of soap operas from production to the implications of new media on the genre. With one of the goals of the book being to investigate why the shows have lost their appeal, which prompted the cancelation of the majority of U.S. soap operas, the collection raises questions of how the genre can capitalize on what makes it unique to survive. It is the elements that make the genre unique, editors argue, that make it a significant part of television programming that would be missed.To make this argument, the book presents essays and interviews regarding key aspects that help define the genre: the narrative history, the ability to experiment with production, and the audience community surrounding the shows. Essentially, the chapters work together to build the argument that the daytime serial drama does work in ways no other show has done; it can tell a story that spans generations, has a rich history, and builds a community based on the interest of a variety of age groups. One can easily imagine that the intended audience for the collection incorporates the entire soap opera community, given that the authors include a wide range of scholars and professionals who have worked in the genre.The book includes pieces by thirty-eight scholars, soap opera producers and actors, fans, and others, including essays by the three editors. Sam Ford is director of Digital Strategy with Peppercom Strategic Communications and an affiliate with both the Program in Comparative Media Studies at MIT and the Popular Culture Studies Program at Western Kentucky University; Abigail De Kosnik teaches in the Berkeley Center for New Media at the University of California, Berkeley; and C. Lee Harrington is a sociology professor at Miami of Ohio.One of the strengths of The Survival of the Soap Opera is that the collection does discuss the traditional factors of soap viewing while showing how these elements can be used to recapture the lost glory of the shows. In essence, the recommendation is what the shows have done in their story telling: build on the past while looking toward the future. Take, for example, the chapter regarding the presentation of the history of Tom Hughes of As the World Turns. This textual analysis discusses areas of contention for viewers, such as Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome (SORAS), to areas of viewer pleasure, such as using prominent characters over a significant period of time to anchor the show.As seen through several of the chapters, the genre does embrace consistency and longevity through characters and storyline, but it also reacts to change. Historically, the soap has been known for being able to embrace change on a variety of levels ranging from production to narratives of social consciousness. What many may not want to acknowledge, however, is that in the case of the serial daytime drama, change may not always have been a good thing. For example, in the chapter on daytime budget cuts, the shows adapting to the lower budget due to falling ratings affected their ability to keep iconic characters and forced some actors to take significant pay cuts. …

Framing digital humanities: The role of new media in humanities scholarship

The phrase “digital humanities” refers to a range of new media applications that converge at the intersection of technology and humanities scholarship. It is an evolving notion and conveys the role of information technologies in humanities scholarship. Based on a qualitative case study approach, this paper interprets the concept by eliciting the diverse perspectives — which nevertheless express several discernible themes — of a group of humanities scholars. It synthesizes the wide range of opinions and assumptions about information and communication technologies (ICTs) held by these humanists by using Bijker’s (1995) notion of a technological frame. The digital humanities domain is interpreted through three lenses: digital media as facilitator of scholarly communication; digital media as a platform for creative expression and artistic endeavors; and, digital media as context for critical studies of digital culture. The article concludes that, while technologies are being positioned as driving forces behind academic innovation, it is more important than ever to understand the cultural, social, and political implications of new media and how they are perceived and used by humanities scholars.

International Relations 2.0: The Implications of New Media for an Old Profession1

The International Relations (IR) profession has not fully taken stock of the way in which user-driven information technologies—including Blogger, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Wikipedia—are reshaping our professional activities, our subject matter, and even the constitutive rules of the discipline itself. In this study, we reflect on the ways in which our own roles and identities as IR scholars have evolved since the advent of “Web 2.0”: the second revolution in communications technology that redefined the relationship between producers and consumers of online information. We focus on two types of new media particularly relevant to the practice and the profession of IR: blogs and social networking sites.

Character education, new media, and political spectacle

Ontario’s new Character Development Initiative is analyzed to determine whether it can be characterized as political spectacle. Examination of official policy texts, media reports, speeches, web pages, webcasts, and events at the Character Development Symposium suggests that the Initiative contains many elements of political spectacle; however, the policy has received little coverage in traditional media. Media coverage is considered as an essential component of political spectacles. In this case, media coverage is limited to digital media produced by the Ontario government itself. This raises questions about the implications of new media forms for the theory of political spectacle. I demonstrate that digital media offer new means for bringing political spectacles to citizens and enable governments to have greater control over their content. Since political spectacles facilitated by traditional media promote the status quo and make critical analysis of public policy difficult, government‐produced digital media might put democracy at even greater risk. Alternatively, government websites post texts that can be analyzed by citizens and used to promote democracy in education. I conclude that the strategic use of language and illusions of democracy, whether brought to citizens through digital or traditional media, are essential components of political spectacle.

A Letter From the Editor: Intelligent Systems Now

Editor in Chief Fei-Yue Wang discusses the recent IEEE Computer Society Magazine Operations Committee Workshop, the implications of new media for academic publishing, and the future of IEEE Intelligent Systems.

Indigenous communities and new media: questions on the global Digital Age

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to look at some of the issues surrounding access to and the use of new media technologies by Indigenous people in Australia and question why this is an area of study that receives a marginal focus in academic work.Design/methodology/approachDrawing on previous literature in the area of information and communications technology (ICT) adoption and social exclusion, this paper combines the methodological frameworks adopted by hegemony research and more general studies of new media.FindingsThe paper discusses the impacts of new media use by Indigenous communities, within the framework of discussions about a “global Digital Age”. The paper also briefly looks at the social implications of new media adoption.Originality/valueIt questions the assumption that adoption and use of new media is for the “good” or “benefit” of all. It will be of value to researchers of ICT adoption by Indigenous communities.

Theorizing the Cultural Quality of New Media

The past thirty years have witnessed the emergence of new media: interactive, computer-based devices like multimedia PCs, digital (mobile) telephones, the Internet, hand-held computers and game computers. All of these are made possible through new advances in information technology. These devices are now regularly used at work or at home by a majority of people, and their influence has extended deeply to all sectors of society, including work, leisure, education, health care, government and the arts. New media have become new mass media, contrasting with “old” electronic and print media, like the radio, television, telephone and newspaper. It is widely recognized that the social, cultural and political implications of new media are significant, and it has even been argued by many that their rise has enabled the emergence of a new, postindustrial model of society, the information society, with its own principles of social and economic organization and cultural practices (Castells, 1996). The social, cultural and political implications of new media have now become a major topic in academic research, in both the social sciences, humanities and arts. In recent years, an interdisciplinary field of new media studies has even emerged (Lievrouw & Livingstone, 2002; Lister et al., 2003; ardrip-Fruin & Montfort, 2003).

Toolforthoughts: Reexamining Thinking in the Digital Age

In this article we argue that new computational tools problematize the concept of thought within current sociocultural theories of technology and cognition by challenging the traditional position of privilege that humans occupy in sociocultural analyses. We draw on work by Shaffer and Kaput (1999) and Latour (1996a, 1996b, 1996c) to extend the analytical reach of "activity theory" (Engestrom, Miettinen, & Punamaki, 1999; Nardi, 1996b), "mediated action" (Wertsch, 1998) and "distributed cognition" (Hutchins, 1995; Pea, 1993; Salomon, 1993) by adopting a stronger form of the concepts of distribution and mediation in the context of cognitive activity. For rhetorical purposes, we posit this stronger form of the distribution of intelligence across persons and objects as a theory of distributed mind. Previous theories of cognition and technology show that persons and artifacts both contribute to meaningful activity. Here we explore how understanding the pedagogical implications of new media may require creating a new analytic category of "toolforthoughts". The result of such a shift in thinking provides a view of the relationship between technology and cognitive activity appropriate to the emerging virtual culture of the digital age. We suggest that this may provide a useful perspective from which to analyze pedagogical choices in the context of rapid expansion of powerful cognitive technologies. Theorizing the cognitive agency of tools provides a means to evaluate (in the fullest sense of the word) the educational consequences of new technologies.

Evaluating implications for new media and information technologies

Many of the predictions regarding future implications of new media and information technologies appear to be made with very limited supporting rationale. Too often the excitement of a novel technology is associated with the belief that “new rules” apply. Alternatively, this paper proposes that evaluation of these predictions can be aided by employing a number of certainties of human nature. Discussion of these constants will include the issue of just how consumers use information to make decisions, and will highlight the possibility that access to additional information often increases consumer uncertainty. In addition, learnings drawn from our understanding of human need for intimate social interaction, group acceptance, and conformity to group norms will be employed to question the viability of proposals such as future growth of virtual communities and significant expansion in the range of media programming content.