Internet-based Media Research Articles

Knowledge Sharing in a Creative City

This research aims to explore the knowledge sharing activities within a creative city. Through a case study of Bandung, Indonesia as a creative city, the objective of the paper is to develop model/s of knowledge sharing activities which are conducted by different actors within Bandung. The paper also wants to investigate whether the knowledge sharing activities contribute to the development Bandung as a creative city. The paper uses multiple forms of data consists of interviews, field notes from city observation and participation in community activities, government documents, news on local and national media and written interaction on social media. The finding argues that currently there are three major parties which involved in knowledge sharing activities in Bandung: the city government, the academicians, and the knowledge communities (Komunitas). The parties share a different type of knowledge for public through various media, dominantly via direct interaction like discussion and seminar and also through internet-based media. Interestingly, the research developed one model of knowledge sharing which is applicable to all the three major parties on their activities in relation to the development of Bandung as a creative city.

Moodle-Based Learning Model for Paragraph Writing Class

Today’s language classroom is vastly different from that of the twentieth century. The trends in language learning are moving forward in a way as to empower language learners to interact with others. Time and place boundaries are transcended by internet-based media to facilitate the interaction they are eager to make. Language teachers must now be able to utilize internet for language learning, especially in writing class because most learners assume that writing skill is the hardest part of language to learn, which require learners to practice intensively in order to gain mastery. Moodle (Modular, Object-Oriented, Dynamic, and Learning Environment) is one of many internet-based media through which teachers can work with students, whether in distance mode or as a supplement to face-to-face teaching. There are four basic things teachers and students can do with Moodle, namely: storing, communicating, collaborating, and evaluating. Considering those potentials, this research aimed at developing a Moodle learning model of Paragraph Writing at the university level. The result of the research was the theoretical model and the iconic Moodle learning model. The theoretical model presents the Moodle features that were selected according to their suitability with the theory of paragraph writing as well as with the CALL principles and Gagne’s nine events of instruction. The iconic model was developed by making some revisions based on the results of the expert validation and the user validation. The iconic learning model could be accessed on www.writing2pbi.mdl2.com. DOI: https://doi.org/10.24071/llt.2015.180201

Moodle-Based Learning Model for Paragraph Writing Class

Today’s language classroom is vastly different from that of the twentieth century. The trends in language learning are moving forward in a way as to empower language learners to interact with others. Time and place boundaries are transcended by internet-based media to facilitate the interaction they are eager to make. Language teachers must now be able to utilize internet for language learning, especially in writing class because most learners assume that writing skill is the hardest part of language to learn, which require learners to practice intensively in order to gain mastery. Moodle (Modular, Object-Oriented, Dynamic, and Learning Environment) is one of many internet-based media through which teachers can work with students, whether in distance mode or as a supplement to face-to-face teaching. There are four basic things teachers and students can do with Moodle, namely: storing, communicating, collaborating, and evaluating. Considering those potentials, this research aimed at developing a Moodle learning model of Paragraph Writing at the university level. The result of the research was the theoretical model and the iconic Moodle learning model. The theoretical model presents the Moodle features that were selected according to their suitability with the theory of paragraph writing as well as with the CALL principles and Gagne’s nine events of instruction. The iconic model was developed by making some revisions based on the results of the expert validation and the user validation. The iconic learning model could be accessed on www.writing2pbi.mdl2.com. DOI: https://doi.org/10.24071/llt.2015.180201

BUDAYA INTERNET: PERKEMBANGAN TEKNOLOGI INFORMASI DAN KOMUNIKASI DALAM MENDUKUNG PENGGUNAAN MEDIA DI MASYARAKAT

The emergence of The Internet as a new communication medium has been associated with conflicting claims about the rise of new pattern of social interaction. The idea of virtual communities advanced by the pioneers of social interaction on the Internet. High Internet usage can eventually lead to new social problems, the example problem is excessive use of electronic communication to personal that is reducing the forms of interaction between personal communication, even very unusual we find out personal information to someone published in general use social media status even tough that is very personal problems. Conclusion from the research are: First, the use of Internet-based media in excess will cause a lot of problems ranging from addiction, behavioral changes to crimes cyber world. Second, the Internet culture developed at this time because there is a synergy created from four cultures in it, namely, Technocratic, Hacker, Virtual Communitarians, and Entrepreneurial. Third, Media Education or training in using the media becomes very important to foster media literacy.

All World Media: a new business model (cases A and B)

Synopsis This failure case study tells the story of All World Media, a start-up offering internet-based media planning and buying tool created by ambitious Estonian entrepreneurs in 2011. A few years earlier the two founders had come up with an idea that in their opinion would revolutionize the process of media planning and buying for advertisers. They had noticed that the industry worked in an intransparent and inefficient way. Based on their own extensive experience in various internet ventures and following first consultations with key industry players they were confident that the market was ready for a self-service online media marketplace. Research methodology The (A) case focusses on the initial business idea and on the events before the launch of the internet platform. The case includes the entrepreneurs' concept, the main contents of the business plan, and the operational steps until the launch of the service on the market. The (B) case outlines the events after the launch of the online service, analyzes the possible reasons for the failure of the original business model and discusses potential strategic alternatives that are still open for the entrepreneurs. Relevant courses and levels The two-case sequence can be used for a 90-minutes session in marketing, entrepreneurship or strategic management courses in graduate and executive programs. The case is accompanied by an instructor's manual which also includes suggested assignment questions and proposed session plan.

Identifikasi Faktor Organisasional Dalam Pengembangan E-Governance Pada Organisasi Pengelola Zakat Di Kabupaten Banyumas

This study aims to identify organizational factors which focused on the SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) in order to develop e-governance to strengthen transparency and accountability in the management of zakat in Zakat Management Organization in Banyumas. Data were collected through interviews and focus group discussion (FGD) technique. With snowball sampling, nine zakat management organizations in Banyumas were selected. The analytical method used is descriptive qualitative. The results showed that the organization of zakat in Banyumas have strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and obstacles in managing zakat. Other results showed the lack of using of internet-based media in the dissemination of programs and accountability in managing of zakat.

Information obtained through Internet-based media surveillance regarding domestic public health emergencies in 2013

To analyze the information obtained through Internet-based media surveillance in 2013 on domestic public health emergencies and to compare with the related data reported through Chinese Public Health Emergency Management Information System (PHEMIS), and to study the role of Internet-based Media Surveillance Program (IBMSP) in the detection of public health emergencies. A descriptive analysis was conducted based on the database of the information on domestic public health emergencies. Information was obtained through the Internet-based media surveillance in 2013. A total of 752 pieces of information regarding domestic public health emergencies in 31 provinces were obtained, through the IBMSP, run by the China CDC in 2013. 53.46% of all the information were categorized as initial ones on public health emergency while another 22.07% were considered as updated ones. 41.62% of the information were related to infectious diseases with another 24.73% to food poisoning. 27.53% of the information were from official websites of governments and professional organizations, with the rest 72.47% were from media. As for corresponding public health emergencies, 41.79% were food poisoning and 18.66% were infectious diseases. 22.39% of them occurred in schools, 18.16% in other organizations and 16.92% in households. 28.86% were reported through Chinese PHEMIS. For the 116 public health emergencies that both related to information obtained through Internet-based media surveillance in 2013 and reported through PHEMIS, the median days of interval between illness onset of the first case as well as reported by media, interval between onset of the first case as well as reported through PHEMIS, were 2.5 days and 2.0 days respectively. 19.83% of the emergencies were first reported by media than through PHEMIS. Internet-based media surveillance programs had become an important way to detect public health emergencies and could serve as the supplement to the classic surveillance programs on public health emergencies.

Evaluating the Utility of HealthMap as a Supplementary Surveillance Tool

This session discusses an assessment of the outbreak detection utility of HealthMap, a publically available event-based biosurveillance system utilizing various internet-based media resources to identify outbreaks, at the state and local level. Results may help determine whether HealthMap should be monitored more closely as a supplementary surveillance tool.

A Comparative Analysis of User Preferences for Four Major Internet Based Education Means in China

Internet based education media are developing at an amazing rate and being seen as an upstart that will likely take the place of traditional education means worldwide in the future. This paper presents the results of a comparative analysis on user preferences for four major categories of internet-based media used in China. In this paper, we first sort the current pervasive media into four different types and summarize their different characteristics, then we classify the users by two-step clustering analysis, based on which we finally figure out the preference of each user cluster and identify the major influencing factors.

A Serbian Jewish Perspective on Media and Musical Transmission

This study of the intersections of media and musical transmission spotlights the activities of Sephardic Jewish synagogue prayer leaders in Belgrade, Serbia. The essay traces the reconstruction of Jewish synagogue singing in the past 50 years and outlines motivations for utilising media as an addition to, or replacement for, person-to-person transmission. Music, as a crucial element of weekly synagogue services, played a significant role in the reconstruction of observance. By tracing the narrative of reconstruction, I demonstrate that the meeting of music and media is a dynamic nexus situated within social experience. It was not until the 1970s that a small group of people in Belgrade began a process of reconstructing religious Jewish observance after the near-extermination of local Jewish life between 1941 and 1942. From that time until the present, prayer leaders altered methods of musical transmission as a response to shifting political circumstances. By choice or necessity, print, audio and Internet-based media now play essential roles in teaching and learning Jewish synagogue singing in Belgrade and media-based methods of transmission have transcended person-to-person learning. Over the course of this narrative, I describe both how musicians perceive certain methods of learning as aids or hindrances, and those musical changes that resulted from transition in method.

Constituting and Engaging in Transnational (Media) Activism Locally: The Case of Hong Kong In-media

In the last decade or so, concomitant with the spread of the global justice movement, there has been an emergence of transnational media activism—a rapid rise of Internet-based media activisms around the globe, which has posed increasing challenges to the political-economic establishments and media status quo. This paper is a case study of a media activists organisation in Hong Kong, i.e. Hong Kong In-media. Through an analysis of its historical developments, it discusses how local media activism has been situated in the broader landscape of transnational media activism. The connections between the local and transnational media activisms have been manifested in the local media activists’ appropriation of movement ideas and practices from the global exemplars, and in their attempts to mobilise transnational movement resources by forging tangible cooperations with the counterparts elsewhere. The local media activists’ contributions to transnational media activism in particular and transnational activism in general will be discussed.

The Changing Landscape of Local Information Space in the Czech Republic: Consequences for Local Political Communication

Abstract Due to the emergence of Internet-based media channels the character of local information spaces in the Czech Republic has undergone a remarkable change. Traditionally, dominant information sources: daily newspapers and municipally-owned media have become challenged by a variety of online sources run by groups of active citizens. Based on a systemic analysis of the local media sector and interviews conducted with representatives of local activist groups this paper discusses the consequences of these processes for local political communication. From the activists’ perspective, the new communication environment has significantly influenced the character of the mutual relationship between different participants in local political communication. Trust between journalists and activists: the basis for their cooperative relationship, faces decline, whereas the self-confidence of activists in negotiations with politicians has increased. Online media also allow the activists to break the existing information monopoly and engage citizens in public affairs. These changes have resulted in the professionalisation of communication skills for the activists, who are thus able to become more important participants in political communication.

Az internetes média szerepe a rendőrség iránti bizalom befolyásolásában

Focusing on the policing of anti-government riots in 2006 in Hungary, the author shows how internet-based media may affect trust in the police.

Hybrid additive watermarking and its decoders

With the rapid development of Internet-based media consuming, the piracy issue becomes urgent, which makes copyright protection a hot research topic. There exist various watermarking methods that are regarded as potential solutions to copyright protection. However, most of watermarking methods have different properties, and the combinatorial method is expected to make use of different methods' advantages and to get a good tradeoff. In this paper, a novel hybrid watermark embedding rule is proposed to select the general additive embedding rule or the special additive embedding rule securely. The selection is controlled by a secret key, and the watermark is embedded into the Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) domain. With respect to the hybrid embedding rule, the novel optimum and locally optimum hybrid additive decoder is proposed, which is based on the minimum Bayesian risk criterion. And simultaneously, the performance of the optimum hybrid decoder is theoretically analyzed, with the DWT coefficients modelled as the generalized Gaussian distribution. Furthermore, the security of the proposed hybrid watermarking scheme is proved higher than that of existing schemes. Finally, empirical experimental results are given to prove the validity of theoretical analysis.

Self–Other Differences in H1N1 Flu Risk Perception in a Global Context: A Comparative Study Between the United States and China

Extending research on self–other differences in perception to a global health risk, this study compares U.S. and Chinese college students’ perceived H1N1 flu risk at four levels: personal, group, societal, and global. It also examines how personal experience, interpersonal communication, traditional and Internet-based media, and self-efficacy affect perception at four levels, as well as the self–other differences between the personal level and each of the other three levels. An online survey in both countries reveals an “ascending pattern,” showing higher perceived risk for others than for selves. Chinese respondents perceive higher risk than U.S. respondents at all levels. Interpersonal communication predicts risk perception at four levels in the United States and at the group and societal levels in China. New media exposure exerts influence on all but the group level in China, while social networking sites (SNS) exposure predicts group- and societal-level risk perception in the United States. The overall attention paid to H1N1 information in the media affects all levels in both countries. Interaction between media exposure and attention is influential at all levels in the United States. Self-efficacy is negatively associated with risk perception in China except at the global level. Attention to media in the United States, and SNS exposure in China, explain the self–other differences in three comparisons, along with self-efficacy, which decreases the self–other gap in the United States while increasing the gap in China.

Internet-based media, Europe and the political public sphere

Internet-based media, Europe and the political public sphere

Dynamic Network Logistic Regression: A Logistic Choice Analysis of Inter- and Intra-Group Blog Citation Dynamics in the 2004 US Presidential Election

Methods for analysis of network dynamics have seen great progress in the past decade. This article shows how Dynamic Network Logistic Regression techniques (a special case of the Temporal Exponential Random Graph Models) can be used to implement decision theoretic models for network dynamics in a panel data context. We also provide practical heuristics for model building and assessment. We illustrate the power of these techniques by applying them to a dynamic blog network sampled during the 2004 US presidential election cycle. This is a particularly interesting case because it marks the debut of Internet-based media such as blogs and social networking web sites as institutionally recognized features of the American political landscape. Using a longitudinal sample of all Democratic National Convention/Republican National Convention–designated blog citation networks, we are able to test the influence of various strategic, institutional, and balance-theoretic mechanisms as well as exogenous factors such as seasonality and political events on the propensity of blogs to cite one another over time. Using a combination of deviance-based model selection criteria and simulation-based model adequacy tests, we identify the combination of processes that best characterizes the choice behavior of the contending blogs.

Media messages and the needs of infants and young children after Cyclone Nargis and the WenChuan Earthquake

Infants and young children are vulnerable in emergencies. The media plays an important role in aid delivery and has a positive impact when reports are accurate. However, the media has been implicated in encouraging harmful aid in the form of donations of infant formula and other milk products. Internet-based media reports were collected after Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar and the WenChuan Earthquake in China (2008) and examined for content related to infant and young child feeding. Common messages identified included that: babies are vulnerable; stress prevents breastfeeding; and providing infant formula saves lives. Messages rarely reported included that: artificial feeding is dangerous; and breastfeeding protects infants. This analysis suggests that current patterns of media reporting may encourage harmful aid and increase child morbidity and mortality. Aid organisations should encourage the media to report accurately on the needs of infant and young children in emergencies so as to improve aid delivery.

Mundane Citizenship: New Media and Civil Society in Bulgaria

This essay examines the new forms of civic and political engagement that the increasing accessibility of internet-based media has precipitated in the Bulgarian context. It discusses the results of three case studies which focus respectively on online forum discussions of a significant political event; a campaign of eco-protests; and the activism emerging from a website and forum dedicated to motherhood. The essay argues that new media have brought civic and political issues and the possibility to deliberate and act on them into the everyday lives of Bulgarians. As a result, the voice of Bulgarian civil society has grown stronger and has been able to penetrate the sphere of formal politics, sometimes with important consequences.

Assessing Political Dynamics in Contemporary Malaysia: Implications for Democratic Change

This article examines political dynamics in Malaysia and assesses the prospects for change in the direction of greater political liberalization. It focuses on the 12th General Election of 2008 and its implications for opportunities and challenges for liberal democratic change in Malaysia. It discusses the role of the internet-based new media in shaping an emerging public sphere, and some factors affecting the changing role of non-Malay voters in the political process. This article argues that democratization in Malaysia is already occurring, albeit at a gradual pace; it is being pushed by the new political forces of civil society actors, newly empowered opposition parties, and the internet-based media. The boundaries of this emerging democratic space is simultaneously being shaped and contested by the political competition between status-quo and reformist forces in this society. Some institutional changes have expanded the parameters of democratic space, although the entrenched dominant institutions of the ruling regime continue to wield sufficient amounts of institutional capacity to subvert any consolidation of these democratic changes for now.