Interest In Journals Research Articles

Public money well spent? Unintended consequences and challenges arising from Trans-Tasman public journalism funds

ABSTRACT This paper identifies various issues associated with the increase in direct public funding of news media across Australasia. We conduct a comparative analysis of outcomes from two Trans-Tasman public interest journalism funds: the Public Interest Journalism Fund (PIJF) in New Zealand and the Public Interest News Gathering Fund in Australia (PING). By investigating the allocation of funding, the paper identifies risks and unintended consequences arising from the direct public funding of private media. It also raises issues that policymakers need to address when drafting media policies in the future as government support can lead to negative outcomes. While a substantial proportion of the public money of the two funds was aimed at retaining newsroom roles, redundancies and newsroom closures have continued, highlighting the limitations of these specific government interventions.

Digital and Precision Technologies in Dairy Cattle Farming: A Bibliometric Analysis.

The advancement of technology has significantly transformed the livestock landscape, particularly in the management of dairy cattle, through the incorporation of digital and precision approaches. This study presents a bibliometric analysis focused on these technologies involving dairy farming to explore and map the extent of research in the scientific literature. Through this review, it was possible to investigate academic production related to digital and precision livestock farming and identify emerging patterns, main research themes, and author collaborations. To carry out this investigation in the literature, the entire timeline was considered, finding works from 2008 to November 2023 in the scientific databases Scopus and Web of Science. Next, the Bibliometrix (version 4.1.3) package in R (version 4.3.1) and its Biblioshiny software extension (version 4.1.3) were used as a graphical interface, in addition to the VOSviewer (version 1.6.19) software, focusing on filtering and creating graphs and thematic maps to analyze the temporal evolution of 198 works identified and classified for this research. The results indicate that the main journals of interest for publications with identified affiliations are "Computers and Electronics in Agriculture" and "Journal of Dairy Science". It has been observed that the authors focus on emerging technologies such as machine learning, deep learning, and computer vision for behavioral monitoring, dairy cattle identification, and management of thermal stress in these animals. These technologies are crucial for making decisions that enhance health and efficiency in milk production, contributing to more sustainable practices. This work highlights the evolution of precision livestock farming and introduces the concept of digital livestock farming, demonstrating how the adoption of advanced digital tools can transform dairy herd management. Digital livestock farming not only boosts productivity but also redefines cattle management through technological innovations, emphasizing the significant impact of these trends on the sustainability and efficiency of dairy production.

50 Years of Context Effects: Merging the Behavioral and Quantitative Perspectives

Abstract Over the past 50 years, consumer researchers have presented extensive evidence that consumer preference can be swayed by the decision context, particularly the configuration of the choice set. Importantly, behavioral research on context effects has inspired prominent quantitative research on multialternative decision-making published in leading psychology, management, economics, and general interest journals. While both streams of research seem to agree that context effects are an important research area, there has been relatively limited interaction, communication, and collaboration between the two research camps. In this article, we seek to initiate an active dialogue between the two sides. We begin by providing a critical overview of the two literatures on context effects, discussing both their strengths and weaknesses, as well as disparities and complementarities. Here, we place particular emphasis on deepening consumer researchers’ understanding of context effects by drawing on prominent quantitative research published in non-marketing journals over the last decades. Importantly, we provide a roadmap for the future that can inspire further research and potential collaborations between the two camps, overcoming silos in knowledge creation.

RECORDING AND REPRESENTATION OF WAR CRIMES OF THE RUSSIAN ARMY ON THE TERRITORY OF UKRAINE: EXPERIENCE OF UKRAINIAN JOURNALISTS

The article emphasizes that journalists play an important role in the process of recording war crimes and in the further processing of the collected material for representation in specific genre formats available for perception by the audience. The coverage of war crimes by the Russian military, on the one hand, problematizes the bloody Russian-Ukrainian war, reflecting the tragic experience that Ukrainian society is currently living, and at the same time – it records the evidence base regarding Russia’s disregard of international conventions, in particular the general rules and customs of warfare, as well as in the context protection of the civilian population during the war, treatment of prisoners of war, etc. This problem needs to be fixed, understood, evaluated, updated and explained both for the Ukrainian audience and the world community, which explains the professional interest of Ukrainian and foreign journalists, the rapid increase in the number of publications on this topic. It is emphasized that journalists must have special training, that is, a basic understanding of International Humanitarian Law, international conventions, as well as be able to navigate freely in the recommendations for covering the stories of victims and victims of war crimes.

A different playbook for the same outcome? Examining Google’s and Meta’s strategic responses to Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code

In March 2021, Australia enacted the News Media Bargaining Code (NMBC) legislation, which compels Google and Meta to pay for third-party news content on their platforms. To date, Australian newsrooms have made deals with both platforms totalling approximately AUD$200 million (US$126.4 million). The 1-year review of the Code has prompted questions about not just the legislation but also the lack of public detail about the deals made between news organisations and the platforms. This article seeks to critically analyse the strategic positions both Google and Facebook took in supporting public interest journalism before and after the introduction of the Code. Using a mixed methodological approach, we find that both platforms differed in their strategic engagement with Australian media organisations before and after the introduction of the NMBC and that the Code, as it stands, risks increasing platform influence in the Australian news market.

The role of investigative media in providing dimensions of public interest journalism in the Kurdistan Region

The role of investigative media in providing dimensions of public interest journalism in the Kurdistan Region

Contribution of hospitals and clinical services to global warming: protocol for a scoping review

IntroductionClimate change is one of the greatest threats to public health today, placing considerable pressure on the healthcare sector. During patient care processes, hospital facilities contribute to greenhouse gas emissions...

The News Media Bargaining Code: Impacts on Australian journalism one year on

AbstractThe Australian News Media Bargaining Code (NMBC) is the first successful legislative attempt to compel digital platforms to pay news media organisations for third party news content. This paper focuses on the NMBC after its first year to explore whether the Code was successful in meeting one of its publicly stated purposes; supporting public interest journalism. We argue that the Code delivered outcomes that met the ACCC's policy objectives around an industry power imbalance, but there are several issues that remain unaddressed. Using semi‐structured interviews from Australian news media executives involved in negotiations with Meta and Google during the initial implementation of the Code, we explore: (a) how news organisations used financial compensation provided by agreements under the Code, (b) how individual organisational priorities were framed and articulated, and (c) whether these actions have supported public interest journalism in Australia. Our findings indicate that many of issues with the Code have emerged mostly from the unintended impacts of the Code, including: lack of designation of platforms within the legislation, the registration criteria for news outlets eligible to enter negotiation, and the definition of stakeholder relationships within the legislation.

Perceived challenges among campus press at the height of the pandemic

The Covid-19 pandemic has created various challenges that allowed academic stakeholders to reflect on the concerns encountered by school administrators, teachers, and students. Many studies focused on the challenges of professional journalists. However, only a few studies on student journalists were explored. In this regard, this study aimed to describe and analyze the challenges of student journalists at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. A qualitative research design was used in this research. Grounded in this study were the student journalists’ personal experiences and narration of their expressed challenges as writers of the Nation Builder, the official student publication of a state university. Thematic analysis using Braun and Clarke’s (2006) Model was used to analyze the qualitative data gathered. Findings show that there were five identified themes such as health-related issues, ICT-related issues, connectivity-related issues, adaptability-related issues, and journalism-related issues. There are action plans that need to be implemented to sustain the interest of student journalists to write newsworthy articles. Training programs and capacity-building activities could be organized to boost the confidence of the students in coping with the pandemic.

Introduction


 The aim of this dossier is to show the interest of the periodical press of the Enlightenment in medicine, based on contributions from several European countries (Great Britain, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and France). In the eighteenth century, discourse on health was more present in the public sphere. In addition, physicians, who played a more prominent role in literary and academic circles, took an interest in journals. The purpose of this dossier is to look more closely at periodicals as mediators of news and medical knowledge; at doctors as journals editors; and finally, at the role of periodicals in discussions or in highlighting health debates and medical innovations.

Art Historians about the Works of Anna Myronova: Impressions and Contradictions

The reaction of Ukrainian art critics on the works of Anna Myronova as one of the leading representatives of modern Ukrainian art is analyzed in the article. Anna Myronova is one of the most active (about twenty personal exhibitions and more than a hundred group exhibitions) and the most honored contemporary Ukrainian young artists. In particular, her name is stated in the Forbes rating (among 25 personalities) The Most Successful Representatives of Modern Ukrainian Art under the Age of Forty (2016). The press attention to the artist’s works is a separate phenomenon. Starting with Shadows of the Grass (2012), each new project of A. Myronova arouses permanently the keen interest of art critics and journalists. Articles about her are published regularly in the official edition of the National Union of the Artists of Ukraine Fine Arts, the Science and Society edition of the Knowledge of Ukraine Association, the Museum Lane magazine, on serious Internet portals, and leading researchers of contemporary art write about her. But the number of texts, their emotionality and sincerity, cannot hide some kind of confusion of the authors. After all, comments and explanations to the artist’s works are given not even different, but opposite in content. Thus, the haiku and sonnets of C. Baudelaire, the philosophy of I. Kant and M. Heidegger are used, A. Huxley and the names of great artists of the past (Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt, Claude Monet) are mentioned for a better understanding of her projects (such as Drought (2012–2013), Disorientations (2013), Heat (2014), Heraldry of the Poor (2014), Arms of Reminiscences (2014), Still Project (2015), Simple Actions, Simple Things (2015), Fragments? (2016), Between Touches (2017), Space (2018), Along the Current (2018), CUT (2019), Against the Light (2020), Geotexts (2021), etc.). She is considered to be free from social issues or prejudiced to them, one of the brightest representatives of eco-art in Ukraine, a peculiar but unquestionable urbanist. After all, in her projects they see a deep spiritual meaning, an original artistic meditation, a way of connecting with the forces and energies of the universe. The main ways and methods of researching A. Myronova’s works are revealed in the article, and its purpose is to confirm or refute the fruitfulness and expediency of these methods.

Where to next with Australia’s News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code?

Abstract Taken at face value the introduction in 2021 of Australia’s News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code (“the Code”) may appear “world leading,” innovative, and, in general, a productive and strategic intervention to reverse the decline of public interest journalism. It is claimed that in the Australian news industry context, an annual transfer of around $200 million between two platform companies – Google and Meta – and news businesses has now been put in place (Sims, 2022). All major news media companies in Australia, if not smaller more independent ones, have greatly benefitted from the new Code, and anecdotally it appears that the funding has resulted in the creation of significant numbers of new journalists being hired. Yet the exact investment destination and ultimate beneficiaries of the funding are not known beyond the corporate walls of the recipients. The article points to the transparency and sustainability problems inherent to the new Code, arguing that an alternative approach to funding public interest journalism might be a levy funded by the platforms.

Examining the Social, Civic, and Political Impact of Local Newspaper Closure in Outback Australia

Scholars across the globe have focused intently on mapping news deserts and gaps where public interest journalism is lacking or in peril. However, little attention is paid to understanding the impacts and changing media-related practices of people who live in communities that lose a designated news service—notably a local newspaper. This article draws on a focused ethnographic study of a small outback mining town, Lightning Ridge (population 2,284), in central New South Wales, Australia. The research was conducted over a two-month period and involved participant observation, 31 interviews with residents and relevant stakeholders, and examination of several media platforms relevant to the town. The article begins with an overview of Australian policy interventions to address the decline of public interest journalism. It then discusses the impact of a local newspaper’s closure via three themes—social, civic, and political. This is important because much of the policy focus in Australia is on the threat “news gaps” present to democracy. However, it is also necessary to understand the nuances of local media’s role in shaping everyday social connections and ritualistic practices and elevating issues to local networks of power. The article concludes by considering how current policy interventions can learn from failed attempts to fill the news gap in Lightning Ridge.

Global Digital Lords and Privatisation of Media Policy: The Australian Media Bargaining Code

After two decades of regulatory vacuum, powerful digital platforms such as Google and Meta/Facebook, also known as the “Digital Lords” (Brevini 2020), have faced growing criticism worldwide. They are accused of possessing excessive economic, political, and ideological influence while evading public accountability. Although there have been calls to address their monopolistic market dominance, such as antitrust measures to break their stranglehold on data, the most tangible interventions have focused on policy tools to make the Digital Lords contribute to journalism. With governments hesitant to allocate public funds for public interest journalism, policymakers in various countries are exploring avenues to make these wealthy and tax-avoiding Digital Lords pay for the news they distribute. The “Journalism Competition and Preservation Act” is presently being deliberated in Congress in the United States, with the objective of aiding small and mid-sized news organizations in their negotiations with digital platforms for fair compensation for the utilization of their content. The European Union has implemented a copyright reform granting press publishers the right to be remunerated by Digital Lords for the use of newspapers and magazines. One widely discussed policy tool in this regard is the Australian “News Media Bargaining Code.” This article examines the successes and failures of the code, adopted a year and a half ago, in addressing Australia's journalism crisis and its pressing issues of media diversity and news scarcity. Ultimately, it argues that the Australian Media Bargaining Code exemplifies the progressive privatization of media policy.

The Effect of the Social Responsibility Theory in forming Public Interest Journalism

This research focuses on the theory of social responsibility in forming public interest journalism which is currently considered to be a new and effective form of journalism, it has a predominant impact on public interest, common welfare, and serving humanity. This research is a scientific endeavor to understand the social responsibility theory of the media, and to what extent media organizations adhere to this responsibility, to create public interest journalism.
 The research highlights the important aspects of public interest journalism, including social responsibility, ethics, and professionalism, in addition to the role of investigative journalism in forming public interest journalism.
 The research aims to show the level of reliance on social responsibility, its relation, and its influence in forming public interest journalism. It identifies to what extent adherence to social responsibility, and its association, contributes to raising and instructing professional journalists to build public interest journalism. Moreover, illustrates to what degree social responsibility results in complying with the principles of work ethics in creating public interest journalism.
 The results of this study have shown that the theory of social responsibility has a positive impact on Furthermore, the results indicate that theory of social responsibility is a theory of reform and gives journalists the ability to work in terms of professionalism and to follow the ethical principles of media work to serve the public interest. This theory is not opposed to the positive values of societies, the values the media promulgates for is for bringing the world's nations closer, or the values that demand independence and an end to war (Cold War). This theory believes in the independence of rights and duties of the society and according to, the principles of this theory society should feel this freedom. This means that media institutions should be professional, and ethical, and show legal responsibility towards society.

Expert Media Content: Creation and Use in Modern Media

Expert media content in the face of uncertainty and instability is becoming more and more in demand: we are talking about the mutual interest of journalists and the audience in obtaining better and more professional content, at the same time accessible for understanding and perception without special training. An important factor stimulating active interaction of journalists and experts was a significant decrease in the level of citizens' trust in the media in the face of information overload and rapid spread of fake news. The relevance of this article is due to the widespread practice of the media to attract experts, and its research task is to describe the options for obtaining and using expert media content and, based on the criterion for its use, to propose a typology of modern media projects. We used the following methods: 1. content analysis of media with an audience of more than half a million; 2. expert interviews of professional journalists and editors of mass media. The interviewees were selected based on the principle of having five years of experience and professional education, involvement in the news agenda (7 in total); 3. experiment and self-reflection of expert activity in the media (mainly on a digital platform Pressfeed.ru) the authors of the article. The study found: 1. Expert media content is socially significant content that is in demand by the target audience of the media resource, has an educational focus, received by the media from a specialist in a narrow field of knowledge. 2. The need for socio-political media to receive expert comments in the shortest possible time while maintaining the high quality of content actualizes the use of specialized digital platforms such as Pressfeed.ru. 3. The media are characterized by a difference in the place in them of expert content related to their specifics; Information-centric people use expert commentary as an addition to journalistic content to reflect the current socio-political agenda. Expert-centric build the entire media project on expert content — these are educational projects, resources of useful advice and media professional communities. The scientific discussion concerning the problem of expert knowledge in the media points to the transformation of the roles of the journalist/editor and the audience and the inclusion of artificial intelligence in the media sphere.

Staying Informed of Best Evidence to Guide Practice

Staying Informed of Best Evidence to Guide Practice

Prospects for Women in Journalism in Bangladesh

This study explores the Women journalists’ contributing to the society for economic prosperity and changing the attitude towards the concept of the process of development in Bangladesh. They are protecting and talking outside when facing any discrimination in their journalistic profession. Despite the barriers, women journalists are showing strong interest in journalism as a career. The findings show that women journalists are facing many barriers like family pressure, societal problem, pay‑allowances, gender discrimination, sexual harassment and even lack of workplace. It is possible to survive if you have passion, professionalism, and love to this profession. In recent time Bangladesh is encouraging her women to work outside of home. Currently a significant change has come into the social attitude which is represented by women’s advancement in journalism sector of Bangladesh. This study uses survey questionnaire from 120 female journalists in television, online and print media journalists to find out a fruitful result.

The dark sıde of cryptocurrency markets: an integrated bibliometric analysis

Purpose- The aim of this study is to reveal the publications that shed light on the dark side of the cryptocurrency markets with a systematic approach. Methodology- For this purpose, 369 publications in the Scopus database between 2014-2022 were determined as samples. In the publications provided by the database, the keywords "cryptocurrency" and "fraud", "scam", "phishing", "ponzi", "crime" were scanned over the publication title, abstract and keywords, and an integrated bibliometric analysis was employed. The R program was used in the analysis, and the "Biblioshiny" application in the RStudio program was employed to visualize the findings. Findings- The analysis reveals that the number of publications, the number of citations and the interest in the field have increased especially in recent years. The rate of increase in the number of publications in the field and the fact that most of these publications are at the stage of notification have shown that the field is an important developing field. The most intense interest in the field has been shown from universities in China. On the other hand, it was seen that the most interest in the field was from computer sciences and the interest of journals in the field of finance remained weak. It has been determined that the topics that may attract attention in the future are digital forensics, digital assets, fraudulent cryptocurrencies, corruption prevention, mining and cyber attacks. Conclusion- The study reveals the evolution of the dark side of cryptocurrency markets in academic research. The findings provide researchers interested in the field with the opportunity to explore themes and issues that may be on the agenda in the future. Keywords: Cryptocurrency, fraud, ponzi, crime, bibliometric analysis JEL Codes: G11, G19

Why We Cannot Safeguard Public Interest Journalism through Copyright Alone

Why We Cannot Safeguard Public Interest Journalism through Copyright Alone