International Media Research Articles

Netflix İn Leisure: A Qualitative Research On Users View

The aim of this study is to examine the recreational value and the views on the application from the eyes of individuals who spend time on Netflix, one of the video-on-demand platforms. With these platforms, where digital channels are customer-focused, the products in international media became visible. Diversity, rapid response to demand, individual-specific systematic development of the algorithm, and accessibility without space and time limits have developed sustainable leisure time tracking behavior in the individual.In this study, the "case study" method, one of the qualitative research methods, was used as the basis. The study was conducted using one-on-one, in-depth interview techniques in qualitative research. "Semi-structured interview questions" were used as a data collection tool in the study. 20 Netflx users from different ages, trends, and genders participated in the study on a voluntary basis. In the analysis of the data recorded with voice recorders, the Maxqda-2020 qualitative data analysis program was used. As a result of the analysis of the data obtained from one-on-one, in-depth interviews, 15 codes were revealed. It has been determined that the codes obtained from the interviews are grouped under six themes: motivation, comment, attitude, algorithm, type of program, and participation type.Considering these results, it is predicted that Netflix usage will continue intensively. It has been determined that the motivation elements are directly related to the perception of leisure time boredom and content richness. It has been determined that attitudes are formed by liking or disliking, respect for values, and cultural relations. In addition, it has been stated that they see the application mostly as a method of discharge. In light of these results, the Netflix application is seen and evaluated as a tool for enriching the content, international accessibility, and feedback, as well as a leisure time evaluation tool.Keywords: Leisure, Netflix, Recreation, Watching

ده‌نگدانه‌وه‌ی كۆڕه‌وی (1991)ی باشووری كوردستان له‌ ئاستى ناوه‌نده‌ فه‌رمی و نافه‌رمییه‌كانی ده‌ره‌وه‌دا

Reaction of the 1991 exodus at the level of official and informal institutes in outside the Iraqi Kurdistan Region ، this study presents the reactions to the 1991 uprising in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region at the formal and informal levels. The reactions of the Kurdish Diaspora abroad and the Arab countries, as well as the reflection of the mass exodus on the international media and international decisions has been demonstrated. Such a study highlights the importance of the event that is related to the fate of the legitimate cause of the Kurdish nation in contemporary history. The most important source mentioned in this study is the analysis of witnesses, politicians, intellectuals and academic figures who were involved in the events. We believe that this is the first study with a scientific significance that focuses on the rumors of the exodus event at various official and informal levels abroad.

Каналы и механизмы трансляции идей новых религиозных движений в информационном пространстве социальных медиа

In the article, the authors identify and describe the role of the media in broadcasting content about new religious movements (on the example of the Scientol- ogy movement) on the Russian Internet. The Kribrum social media analysis system is used as a technical tool. The authors put into the project a model that included 80 concepts for the Center of Scientology and 1,242 concepts for Russian social institu- tions. The authors consider the periods 01/01/2018-12/31/2019 (stable social situation) and 01/01/2020-23/02/2022 (coronavirus crisis). The authors identify popular authors who wrote about Scientology in each of the periods. Media are grouped according to their legal status: official state media; private Russian media and bloggers; media and NGOs that are recognized as foreign agents; international media and their affiliates in Russia; other media (entertainment media, bloggers and users). The main channels for broadcasting content about Scientology were private media and bloggers. It was they who explained and broadcast material about Scientology on the Russian Internet. Their publications justified the activities of Scientology in Russia, declared the need for a liberal policy, demonized the state-confessional policy, the political system, the polit- ical system of Russia, and dehumanized academic child psychology. State Russian media in the news gave only the facts of the event, but the news was not interpreted, discussed or distributed.

Pro-Syrian Regime Versus Anti Regime Outlets: A Comparative Critical Discourse Analysis

The Syrian conflict that erupted in 2011 became a global crisis and attracted the international social media attention, leading to the engagement of international superpowers. Based on the assumption that social media discourse is not neutral and impacted by social, political, and economic contexts [1], this paper employs van Dijk’s socio-cognitive approach to investigate the role of social media discourse in protracting the Syrian conflict. It analyzes two main local, anti-, and pro-regime, social media outlets’ posts, and tweets to expose their discursive strategies and embedded ideologies. This article exposes the manipulation practices on the discoursal and linguistic level. It conducts a complex analysis to uncover hidden messages and manipulation techniques that has been delivered and utilized by conflicting parties in Syria, influencing people’s minds, increasing their polarity, altering the Syrian revolution’s conception, and protracting the tragedy. The findings indicate that social media discourse vis-à-vis the Syrian context is biased. Syrian conflicting parties, especially pro-regimes outlets, manipulate discourse with the aim of influencing people’s understandings and beliefs and hence actions. Anti-government actors are always stereotyped as foreign backed, extremists, and terrorists. International outlets, impacted by the local outlets, have contributed to altering the perception of the Syrian conflict, from a popular social movement to a violent civil war.

Framing of Israel and Palestine Conflict in RT news, Al-Jazeera, CNN & BBC News

The study analyzes the framing of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the leading international broadcast media. For this purpose, RT News, Al-Jazeera, BBC, and CNN were selected. Using Framing as theoretical work, the study examined slants and thematic frames with help of content analysis. The timeframe of the study was from Jult-2019-July2022. By using systematical sampling, the 100 news stories each from the News Channels about the conflict were selected for data analysis. The RT and Al-Jazeera gave more coverage to the Pro-Palestine frame whereas BBC and CNN gave more Pro-Israel Coverage. The RT and Al-Jazeera gave more coverage to the human interest frame while BBC and CNN gave more coverage to the conflict frame. Similarly, the responsibility frame got more coverage on Aljazeera and RT though the least coverage was witnessed on BBC and CNN for this Frame.

Amini Protestoları: Devlet ve Toplum Arasında Yeni Bir Mutabakat Sözü

This article aims to contextualize Iran’s recent protests, following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini while in the custody of Iran’s so-called morality police. The protests have amounted to be one of the most serious challenge to the regime’s uninterrupted legitimacy. The protests have been recorded as the longest standing one compared to the White Wednesdays Movement. Protesters have taken over the streets across the country to stand up for requesting equal rights for women. The attempt has been argued by critics and academics as posing a serious security challenge to presence of Islamic Republic. This courageous experiment could spur more significant developments in Iran over the coming days and weeks and the protesters may pose a major challenge to Iran’s entrenched leadership, however prediction of whether the survival of the government is at stake or not, is still very much debatable issue. In the article, distinctive features and reasons of Amini protests and the effects of launching dialogue channels among different segments of the society have been analyzed through main components of political process theory. In this framework of op-eds, reviews and reports which have been published in Iran national and international media platforms were interpreted.

Working Practices Of Local Journalists Covering Internal Conflict In Swat, Pakistan (From 2006 To 2012)

This paper examines local journalists’ practices and routines in a state of war in the Swat district of Pakistan. In the backdrop of the U.S.-led “war on terror,” Pakistan launched lingering ‘counter-terror operations’ targeting a militant network called the Taliban. Based on in-depth interviews with journalists in Swat and its surrounding troubled districts, this research investigates the challenges local journalists went through while reporting death and destruction. It investigates how local journalists dealt with the trauma of visceral violence in their local, national, and international media coverage. Using Pierre Bourdieu’s Field Theory, especially its concepts of ‘capital’, ‘habitus’, and ‘doxa’, this research situates journalists and their routines at the center of troubled social life without distinguishing between the professional world and the newsroom from the community and its challenges. The paper argues that these journalists possess enough cultural and social capital; however, reporting was a challenging task as these journalists compromised journalistic principles of neutrality, objectivity, and professionalism.

Speech Acts Used in Covid-19 English and Arabic News Reports

For the past three years, Covid-19 has been the dominant topic in international media. It has been the central topic of various researches and studies. Accordingly, this study aims at presenting the theoretical background of pragmatics, media discourse, and the relation between the two. In addition, it aims at identifying and uncovering the speech acts used in selected Covid-19 English and Arabic news articles following Searle (1979) taxonomy. The selected articles are published by different local and international digital newspapers, including USA Today, The Guardian, Daily Mail, Almada Newspaper, BAGHDADTODAY.NEWS, and Asharq Al-Awsat Newspaper. The findings of the study prove that speech acts are used more in the English reports than in the Arabic reports. Also, the most frequently used category is assertive speech acts in the two types of data.

Ukraine War as a Cause of Food Crisis: A Framing Analysis of Three Giant International Media

Food availability is one of the important things that any state must fulfill so that its people can live healthy and active lives. Currently, the world is encountered with food insecurity that threatens human welfare. The world, which has not yet recovered from the domino effects of climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, and most recently the Russia-Ukraine war, is becoming increasingly unprepared for a global food crisis. Malnutrition, mass starvation, and famine will become major problems if this crisis continues. Warnings on a global food crisis that are often ignored have put the global food system on the verge of collapse. With the increasing level of hunger, the issue of food crisis has become a hot topic of discussion again. Foreign media are competing to report on the food crisis particularly the causes of the rapidly developing food crisis. The purpose of this study is to find out how the media has framed the causes of the food crisis. This study will take samples from three major regional media, namely Al Jazeera, Asia Times, and Washington Post, during the period of April 2020 to June 2022. This research applies a qualitative research method using the content of foreign news. The data was processed using the N Vivo 12 Plus and analyzed using media framing theory and food insecurity. The findings of this study show that the issue of war between Russia and Ukraine is the most widely used form of framing by the three media. This is because the war disrupts not only world food production but also food distribution. This research is expected to be developed using more news samples to get more varied results.

Media presentations of Vietnam's cybersecurity law: A comparative approach with corpus-based critical discourse analysis

The study uses corpus-based critical discourse analysis to examine the divergent framing and positioning of cybersecurity issues and Vietnam's Cybersecurity Law by state-sponsored media and international media through topic modeling, bigram and trigram collocation, and concordance analyses. The findings reveal that Vietnam's national media tend to justify the law by emphasizing human-related cyber threats, legitimizing national security, and delegitimizing opposing forces. In contrast, international media outlets focus on providing critical comments, criticism, and real-life events of human rights violations in the country to question and confront the law's legitimacy. The study also analyzes the competitive and tense nature of the discourses, characterized by antagonistic responses between the two media sources.

Violence against a backdrop of colours? Ethnographic insights into tensions between urban transformation and ongoing violence in marginalised neighbourhoods

Since the early 2000s, the two largest cities in Colombia have been lauded as success stories of urban transformation. However, there is a tension between urban transformation narratives disseminated in international media and political discourse, and the realities of ongoing violence and insecurity. Drawing on ethnographic research following creative arts projects, this article offers empirical detail on how people negotiate this tension in marginalised urban neighbourhoods, which are often the most affected by overlapping forms of violence while being key sites of transformation policies. Through in-depth interviews and participant observation in Bogotá and Medellín, we show the complexities of how grassroots creative projects both mobilise transformation politics and negotiate violence in everyday life. By focusing on the local scale, we consider both the important gains that have been made since urban transformation became a key tenet of local government policy, particularly around challenging stigma, and the challenges that local populations continue to face. Ultimately, we argue that the experiences of the creative organisations we speak to reflect the need to negotiate ongoing structural violence and fluctuating support from the state. In contrast to depoliticised transformation narratives, this has implications for understanding the state’s role in the reproduction of violence in everyday life and appreciating the limitations of aesthetic transformation in marginalised urban communities.

Presentation of Racial Discrimination: A Transitivity Analysis of Meghan Markle’s Interview at The Oprah Winfrey Show

The transitivity analysis of Meghan Markle’s interview at “The Oprah Winfrey Show” has been carried out to see how the experience of racial discrimination has been presented in language. It is descriptive-qualitative research where Hallidayan Transitivity Model, from SFG, has been employed to explore the meanings construed in utterances. SFG looks at the functions of language and transitivity deals with experiences narrated and conveyed through language. The analysis of the data reveals that the utterances construe an experience of racism as Meghan had a Black American identity. Her unborn child was mocked for his/her complexion, and was denied security, title, and an equal status in the Royal family. She also experienced bullying at the international level through international media and had to leave the UK. The most dominant processes found through the analysis are mental and verbal processes. The mental processes show that she understood, perceived, and therefore got affected by racism. The verbal clauses show that she was bullied, verbally, and questioned by the family. While the material and behavioural processes show her effective response towards racism and discrimination based on that racism, while the relational clauses identify it. The language is highly objective since circumstances are used thereby bringing validity and detail to her experiences.

Terror without training: First-hand experiences of student journalists covering the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings

In 2019, 51 people were killed in terror attacks at two mosques in Christchurch, a city on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand with a population of around 400,000 people. It was the deadliest mass shooting in the country’s history and the first terror attack of its kind on home soil, attracting extensive international media attention. Given the city’s relative isolation, early coverage was by local media and included local journalism students who had responded to a developing event. This study explores the first-hand experiences of these undergraduate broadcast journalism students who, just a few weeks into a new academic year, covered the news story for national and international media. Using mini focus groups, this descriptive study sheds light on how students with little to no trauma training coped with reporting on such an extreme and unprecedented event and the crucial role soft skills played in guiding their actions.

Public Involvement & Engagement in health inequalities research on COVID-19 pandemic: a case study of CIDACS/FIOCRUZ BAHIA.

Health inequalities in Brazil have deepened on Covid-19 pandemic, and the most vulnerable people were the more affected. A multidisciplinary team from Cidacs/Fiocruz Bahia developed a Social Disparities Index for Covid-19 (IDS-COVID-19) to support the evaluation of effects of health inequalities on the pandemic in Brazil. Public Involvement and Engagement were the pillars of this research because they allowed us to access first hand experiences about the social context in our country. This paper aims to describe our Public Involvement and Engagement experience by analysing our challenges, strategies, activities, results, and lessons learned during the construction of IDS-COVID-19. The basis of the IDS-Covid-19 public engagement model was the participation of different social groups through methods and techniques that allow dialogue. Several activities and communication products supported the continuous interactions. Another guideline was the inclusion and the welcoming of participants from the beginning of the project to ensure that the participant's contributions could drive decision-making about the research. Participants made several contributions to the research as a new layer of information to the Index, and improvements were made to the interactive panel. They also compromised to support the dissemination and use of the product. Eight representatives of community groups and 29 policymakers participated in our engagement activities during the project. More than 500 people were in our open webinars. In addition, more than 140 news items about IDS-Covid-19 were published in national and international media. We highlight as lessons learned the adaptation of some dissemination formats to the public, and the necessity of being flexible and accessible to participants. We strengthened the relationship with relevant stakeholders by exploring individual conversations by phone, WhatsApp, email, and interviews to produce a documentary that registered this whole experience. Cidacs/Fiocruz Bahia has also embedded public engagement and involvement in the study agenda.

Editorial

The Interactive Film and Media Journal advances scholarly and creative discourse on the intersection of interactivity and various media forms. This issue features contributions from the IV International Interactive Film and Media Conference (2022), coordinated by a diverse group of academics. The conference theme, Interactive Epistemology, Listening, and Ecomedia, facilitated an exploration of knowledge-building, listening, and ecological consciousness within interactivity. Emphasizing the importance of listening as a mode of knowledge production, the issue promotes a holistic understanding of interactivity across different research areas. The contributions address the role of interactivity in media, such as books, films, games, and real-time streaming, along with virtual and augmented reality. They provoke thought on interactivity's embodied and affective aspects and explore interactive technologies' influence on power relations and ecological concerns. The papers in this issue converge on themes like empathy and responsibility, illuminating the power of interactive digital media to reshape the understanding of social issues. For instance, interactive narratives, VR and games employ participatory elements to bring nuanced portrayals of migration experiences to the forefront. This approach encourages critical reflection and social responsibility. This issue also explores the transformative potential of interactive documentaries in varied contexts, highlighting their effectiveness in altering perceptions of history, socio-political phenomena, and power dynamics. These documentaries foster inclusivity and dialectical reflection, urging viewers to engage in complex narratives embedded in various landscapes. Some papers explore the impact of digital and artistic mediums on shaping space, narrative, and community engagement. The issue showcases how machine learning and public art can address mimetic trauma and discrimination and how digital comics and web-based artworks can redefine concepts of spatial interactions and narrative structures. A particular emphasis is placed on immersive technologies like VR and immersive journalism in civic engagement, underlining the power of these mediums in addressing social and environmental concerns. Exploring art and interactive documentary, specifically in the context of historical violence and colonial legacies, adds a significant dimension to the issue. This second set of papers from the 2022 Interactive Film and Media Conference highlights the transformative power of interactivity in reshaping narratives, promoting critical reflection, and fostering social responsibility. It emphasizes the crucial role of interactive media in fostering a more inclusive, empathetic, and informed society.

Hope Springs Eternal

When South Africa is covered in the Swedish media, the focus is often on the history of South Africa, the role of Sweden in theanti-apartheid movement and, in more recent years, the political and socio-economic landscape of postapartheid South Africa, marked by increased wealth gaps, social unrest, and corruption. How South Africa is covered by foreign media is important and politicians, as well as businesses and organisations such as Investment South Africa, Brand South Africa, and South African Tourism, keep a keen eye on the media as a gauge for maintaining diplomatic relations, as well as for attracting foreign investment. As a former journalist who has covered South Africa for Scandinavian media, I have had ample opportunity to ponder and research the media coverage of SouthAfrica and the African continent in the Swedish media, as well as Scandinavian and wider international media. Drawing upon my own experience, as well as an analysis of coverage of South Africa in the Swedish news media, I ask what the image of South Africa isin the Swedish media, how this has changed over the last 30 years and, importantly, what this might mean for South African-Swedish relations?

THE SOFT POWER OF RUSSIA

The original concept of "soft power", as thought by Joseph Nye, is organized around the principle of attraction. Accumulating and projecting one's "power gentle", it is above all to try to make it attractive to people and targeted governments abroad, primarily mobilizing resources from civil society. This approach prevails in most liberal democracies and generally applies to their instruments of “public diplomacy”: cultural institutes, international media, NGOs, creative industries or design agencies public relations. However, adopting the concept and practices of soft power by illiberal, semi-authoritarian or authoritarian states, invites us to question interpreting Nye's concept and redefining its priorities outside the framework democratic-liberal.

Bioelectricity: A Multifaceted Discipline, and a Multifaceted Issue!

BioelectricityVol. 5, No. 2 EditorialFree AccessBioelectricity: A Multifaceted Discipline, and a Multifaceted Issue!Mustafa B.A. Djamgoz and Michael LevinMustafa B.A. DjamgozMustafa B.A. Djamgoz, PhD, Co-Editor-in-Chief E-mail Address: m.djamgoz@imperial.ac.ukhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1435-8540Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.Search for more papers by this author and Michael LevinMichael Levin, PhD, Co-Editor-in-Chief E-mail Address: michael.levin@tufts.eduTufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, USA.Search for more papers by this authorPublished Online:16 Jun 2023https://doi.org/10.1089/bioe.2023.0022.editorialAboutSectionsPDF/EPUB Permissions & CitationsPermissionsDownload CitationsTrack CitationsAdd to favorites Back To Publication ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail Dear bioelectricity communityIt has been a busy few months in the field. The publication of Sally Adee's book on “We Are Electric: The New Science of Our Body's Electrome” caused a significant stir in the international media. There is a review of the book in this issue, and even school kids have been asking “how can we learn more about bioelectricity?”! The publication of Adee's book coincided complementarily with our cracking special issue on “bioelectricity of plants” published in March (and continued in a special section here). This special issue highlighted among several topics the role of bioelectric interactions in the life-sustaining process of photosynthesis.The current issue contains articles emphasizing as ever the impact of electricity in a range of biological phenomena from bacteria and yeasts to human cancer. Yet, we would like to further broaden our coverage and attract more articles on medical, engineering, and industrial matters relating to bioelectricity. Our newly established formal association with the International Society for Electroporation-Based Technologies and Treatments (ISEBTT) has already brought out several exciting facets.One intriguing example is how electroporation of grape mash can enhance the polyphenol content of the juice (including wine) that may subsequently be made into a healthier product. We hope to cover several aspects and applications of “electroporation” in future special issues. We would also like to do justice to the rich bioelectricity of the immune system. In short, we would keenly welcome suggestions from potential guest editors to oversee special issue on such important topics. We are optimistic of the future with the COVID-19 pandemic officially over and research laboratories back to buzzing with activity.This month promises to be another landmark in the journal's 5-year history—any day now (if not already by the time you read this), we should be receiving our first impact factor (IF). Even then, however, we shall be taking this with a pinch of salt at a time when the relevance of journal IFs is recently being hotly debated, as these may be playing an indirect part in the ongoing plethora of article retractions! Needless to say, keeping up the quality and sustainability of Bioelectricity is the utmost priority of us as coeditor-in-chiefs and the editorial board as a whole.We wish you all a healthy and fruitful summer.FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Volume 5Issue 2Jun 2023 InformationCopyright 2023, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishersTo cite this article:Mustafa B.A. Djamgoz and Michael Levin.Bioelectricity: A Multifaceted Discipline, and a Multifaceted Issue!.Bioelectricity.Jun 2023.75-75.http://doi.org/10.1089/bioe.2023.0022.editorialPublished in Volume: 5 Issue 2: June 16, 2023PDF download

ده‌نگدانه‌وه‌ی كۆڕه‌وی (1991)ی باشووری كوردستان له‌ ئاستى ناوه‌نده‌ فه‌رمی و نافه‌رمییه‌كانی ده‌ره‌وه‌دا

Reaction of the 1991 exodus at the level of official and informal institutes in outside the Iraqi Kurdistan Region ، this study presents the reactions to the 1991 uprising in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region at the formal and informal levels. The reactions of the Kurdish Diaspora abroad and the Arab countries, as well as the reflection of the mass exodus on the international media and international decisions has been demonstrated. Such a study highlights the importance of the event that is related to the fate of the legitimate cause of the Kurdish nation in contemporary history. The most important source mentioned in this study is the analysis of witnesses, politicians, intellectuals and academic figures who were involved in the events. We believe that this is the first study with a scientific significance that focuses on the rumors of the exodus event at various official and informal levels abroad.

Present Pasts of Colonial Modernity: Embroideries by Lucie Kamuswekera

Present Pasts of Colonial Modernity: Embroideries by Lucie Kamuswekera