ABSTRACT This article examines the print and radio journalism of the South African writer and broadcaster Nontando Jabavu in the mid-20th century, positioning her as a central yet overlooked figure in debates about race, imperial belonging and South Africa’s place within the post-war Commonwealth. Born into a prominent South African family but shaped by formative years in Britain, Jabavu engaged a range of Commonwealth-orientated cultural and civic institutions, offering sceptical reflections on the monarchy’s role in sustaining Commonwealth unity alongside incisive commentary on apartheid, race-relations and the future of the Commonwealth in decolonising Africa. As an African woman intellectual operating across metropolitan and imperial circuits, her career also illuminates the gendered dimensions that shaped authority and participation within these spaces. By situating Jabavu’s print and broadcast work within the broader intellectual history of the Commonwealth, the article advances the concept of ‘Commonwealth cosmopolitanism’ to capture the ambivalent yet productive ways African intellectuals appropriated imperial platforms to contest racial domination and interpret African politics for metropolitan and Commonwealth audiences.

The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed the media industry and encouraged journalists to adapt to new forms of digital collaboration. This study aims to analyze how journalists at Pikiran Rakyat Media Network Bandung (PRMN) adapt to AI in their journalistic practices, identify factors influencing its adoption, and examine strategies for maintaining journalistic credibility. This research employed a qualitative descriptive approach using data triangulation through in-depth interviews, non-participant observation, document analysis, and expert informant interviews. Data were analyzed using the Miles and Huberman model and interpreted through Rogers' Diffusion of Innovation Theory. The findings show that PRMN integrates AI into three stages of the journalistic workflow: News Collecting, News Processing, and News Publishing. AI adoption has increased productivity, accelerated content production, and expanded analytical perspectives while remaining under human editorial control. The adoption process is driven by perceived benefits, institutional support, and search engine optimization (SEO) demands. To mitigate risks, PRMN implements evaluation forums, double verification procedures, AI-content labeling, and strict adherence to journalistic ethics. The study concludes that AI serves as a supporting tool that enhances journalists' capabilities rather than replacing their professional roles, highlighting the importance of adaptive capacity in successful AI adoption.

A traditional print journal is not ideal for the dissemination of computer code and related data. Without the actual code and data, reproducibility cannot be assessed, and there can be no validation of the premise of such an article. Fortunately, there are inexpensive modern ways to share both data and code while providing for explanatory text: GitHub and Google Colaboratory. This article introduces both and provides 3 different examples for the reader to experience.

This article analyses how Brazil’s early Internet was represented in two distinct sectors of its cultural field: television drama and print journalism. Focusing on Glória Perez’s Explode Coração (Rede Globo, 1995–96) and Maria Ercília’s Netvox column in Folha de São Paulo, it applies Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory to explain how media institutions with different forms of autonomy and capital framed the same technological event. The comparison is not empirical excess but a theoretical strategy to reveal how field positions may condition representations of technology. While Globo presented the Internet as a space of emotional release and consumer aspiration, Folha approached it as a question of market forces versus the State and national dependency. Both cases show how long-standing beliefs in modernisation as redemption persisted under different guises. By identifying this continuity as a national doxa of modernisation, the article demonstrates how imported technologies become locally meaningful within Brazil’s field of cultural production. The study contributes to the global history of the Internet by showing how peripheral contexts rework technoscientific imaginaries according to their own symbolic hierarchies and historical aspirations.

At the height of Japan’s occupation of the Philippines, among the major priorities of the Japanese government was to bring back a sense of normalcy, to pull the Filipinos into their fold, and to support their war causes. This was done through various means, such as wartime propaganda through the control and censorship of Philippine media. The Tribune was one news publication that fell under Japanese control, and its contents, including its comic strips, were heavily censored during the war. This study analyzes the historical and artistic contents of the comic strip “The Kalibapi Family.” Penned by Antonio “Tony” Velasquez, the strip was published by the Tribune from 1943 to 1944. This study seeks to answer the following questions: How did Tony Velasquez illustrate the conditions and different aspects of life under the Japanese Occupation through “The Kalibapi Family” comic strips? Did Velázquez try to satirize the Japanese? Did he put some elements of resistance in the comic strips? Data for the study were gathered through the online archives of the Filipinas Heritage Library and the National Library of Australia. After a process of purposive sampling, 30 strips were selected and explored through content and discourse analysis. The study found that although “The Kalibapi Family” was initially dismissed as propaganda, the comic was generally more pro-Philippine Republic. Velasquez presented a nuanced perspective where he showed how a Filipino artist could portray the real situation at that time in a more comical manner that the general public can understand.

ABSTRACT This study investigates how stigma surrounding depression is subtly produced in news discourse and how such communicative practices frame public representations of mental health. Drawing on a corpus-based discursive news values analysis integrated with multimodal analysis, we examine English-language media coverage of depression in China and the United States. Rather than relying on overtly negative labeling, stigma is enacted through implicit communicative strategies: expert voices dominate while people with lived experience are marginalized, referential patterns repeatedly associate depression with postpartum women and suicide, and visual resources index emotional distance and role-bound femininity. Together, these discursive and visual configurations constitute what we term silent stigma—a mode of meaning-making that constrains interpretive possibilities, structures audience stance, and normalizes limited social representations of depression. Cross-national comparison further reveals culturally patterned strategies. Chinese media tend to externalize depression through foreign exemplars and symbolic imagery, while U.S. media personalize it through maternal identity and individual narratives, reflecting different communicative logics of distancing versus individualization. The findings suggest communicative considerations for mental health reporting, including broadening narrative voices, avoiding narrow demographic framing, and adopting culturally responsive textual and visual strategies. The study thus contributes to health communication scholarship by showing how everyday media practices discursively configure the visibility and legitimacy of depression in public news discourse.

The study aimed to determine the impact of ICTs on the performance of Nigerian newspapers and magazines in carrying out their functions. The study employed the survey research method using questionnaire and interview, and Binary Logistic Regression was used to test the hypothesis. It was revealed that the use of ICT forms has significant impact on the performance of journalists in the Nigerian print media.The dominant ICT forms in use by print journalists undeniably impact on the operations of the print media in the areas of in-depth and speedy coverage of events, improved picture quality, wider readership and circulation as well as more advertising revenue.

The increasing spread of misinformation on social platforms has made it necessary to develop automated and accurate fake news detection systems. Traditional methods that focus solely on textual content are ineffective in dealing with more complex fake news that mimic authentic writing styles. This research introduces a novel multi-modal deep learning architecture for fake news detection that achieves a more comprehensive understanding of the content by intelligently integrating non-textual clues (including statistical and behavioral features) and deep textual features. In the proposed model, news features are extracted from distinct modalities: statistically engineered features and behavioral-communicational characteristics of news publishers, character-level features (to deal with misspellings and words outside the vocabulary), as well as word-level semantic features using the Word-level features (Word2Vec) model. Each of these information modalities is processed by a dedicated deep network to produce compact and rich representations of each one. Then, in an innovative step, these representations are intelligently merged using a Multi-Head Self-Attention (MHSA) mechanism to dynamically determine the weight and importance of each modality. Finally, the fused feature vector is used by a SoftMax classifier to finally detect whether the news is fake or authentic. The evaluation results of the proposed method, which were performed on two valid GossipCop and PolitiFact datasets, demonstrated remarkable efficiency. On the GossipCop dataset, accuracy values of 0.99 and F-measure of 0.98 were achieved by the proposed method, demonstrating the high ability of the model in identifying news accurately and completely. Similarly, on the PolitiFact dataset, values of accuracy of 0.96 and F-measure of 0.95 were acquired. This high performance on both datasets indicates an evident dominance over the comparative approaches and confirms the validity and performance of the proposed multi-modal technique for detecting fake news.

The 2023 ASEAN Summit in Labuan Bajo, Indonesia, issued a declaration to combat technology-based trafficking across the ASEAN region. The emergence of this declaration is an immediate response of ASEAN members, especially Indonesia, to current cases of human trafficking in which perpetrators have utilized technology. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, criminal syndicates are forcing hundreds of thousands of people into online criminal activities in Southeast Asia, ranging from illicit gaming to cryptocurrency fraud and romance investment schemes. Individuals who are compelled to labor in these fraud operations are subjected to inhuman treatment while being made to commit crimes. This article aims to investigate the motivation behind the declaration through social media users and online news publishers. The collected data is from selected online news sources: Antara News, Jakarta Globe, Kompas, Reuters, Tempo.co, The Diplomat, and Viva.co.id, along with comments from YouTube and Instagram. Following that, data analysis is conducted using NVivo 12. The paper applies Albert Bandura's social cognitive theory. The declaration was motivated by observational learning and self-efficacy. Then, public opinion, in the context of social cognitive theory, is understood as a form of social persuasion.

Scholarly publishing of research on management and business topics is organized in a stratified organizational field, where limited access to authorship and homogenized research practices are institutionalized in a metricized system of quality assessment that amplifies inequality. The system privileges authors from core regions of a knowledge network and favors Western norms of knowledge production. This article explores diversity and stratification in 16 management research journals grouped into four different tiers, comparing subscription print journals and Open Access publishing across two grades of quality status. Analysis of authorship location and the use of normative Western research practices provides evidence that inequality is pervasive in the field. It is suggested that management scholars, journal editors, and universities can counteract inequality by initiating global research collaborations that engage deeply with the context of diverse forms of scholarship and knowledge and aim to disseminate in diversified publication outlets.

Abstract Czech Television, the leading public news broadcaster in the Czech Republic, has partnered with the Ministry of Defence and its expert institution, the Military History Institute Prague (VHÚ Praha), to produce and broadcast an eight-part series about contemporary military reenactment in the Czech Republic. Entitled Present – Arms! , the series, which aired in early 2024, was billed as a documentary and went well beyond the usual features of such programmes. The author argues that the series presents a discourse on war and warfare that differs significantly from the official version publicly professed by the state’s military institutions that co-sponsored the series. The series is based on the so-called revelatory concept of military culture, which emphasises the ultimate nature of direct combat experience and its epistemological benefits, allegedly providing deep insight into human nature and soldier identity. Other underlying concepts characterised in the programme include the Czech nation as a primordial martial race that exists beyond the constraints of time and space and is bound by a Totenkult -style cult of the dead. By contrast, the current official Czech discourse on war and warfare adheres to the so-called honorary concept of military culture, insisting that waging war and engaging in combat are meaningful and praiseworthy only if these acts conform to certain cultural values, such as defending and promoting democracy, human rights, and humanitarian concerns. The following article analyses and interprets the new concept presented in the TV series in question and highlights its potential sociocultural consequences.

With the high-speed development of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AIGC), Generative Artificial Intelligence has changed the trend of news public opinion and the information dissemination environment. This paper explores the application of AIGC in journalism, and finds that it improves the efficiency of news production while causing public opinion security issues, public opinion ethics and public opinion law issues. Through literature research and typical case analysis, the study analyzes the status of AIGC in news reports and its influence on public opinion, and concludes that AIGC has advantages in information production and transmission speed, with outstanding personalized recommendation performance, and also has risks such as misinformation and manipulation of public opinion. Young people can be confused when faced with such information, and the content of dehumanized processing also makes the public opinion reception gradually change, resulting in the gradual disintegration of social consensus. Policymakers, industry leaders and educators need to take active countermeasures, relevant departments need to build effective regulatory systems, and the governance structure needs to be constantly improved. College students are the group that should be cared for, strengthening media literacy education, improving information judgment ability is a necessary way for college students to adapt to the new information environment. The study on the influence of AIGC on the guidance of news public opinion, new ideas, lay a theoretical foundation for the construction of ethical and legal system in the future, and have both academic significance and reference value.

The digital transformation of mass communication has significantly changed the legal landscape governing freedom of expression and the functioning of the media. Legal frameworks designed for print and broadcast journalism are now grappling with challenges posed by social media platforms, online news portals, algorithm-based content, artificial intelligence, misinformation, deep fakes, and the misuse of personal data. This paper critically examines the current state of media law in India by analyzing constitutional provisions, statutory regulations, and judicial responses affecting digital media governance. The study employs a theoretical and qualitative analytical research methodology, drawing upon constitutional texts, statutes, judicial precedents, and scholarly literature. The analysis reveals that while regulatory mechanisms have expanded to address emerging digital threats, constitutional courts are playing a crucial role in preventing excessive restrictions on freedom of expression. This paper argues that inconsistent regulation can undermine democratic communication and journalistic autonomy. It concludes by advocating for a balanced, transparent, and rights-oriented media law framework that is capable of responding to technological shifts while upholding fundamental democratic principles.

ABSTRACT Social scientists find that many young adults get their news and political information from algorithmically curated platforms such as TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. Despite this important insight, scholars often fail to distinguish between young adults who turn to algorithmically curated news or directly sourced news (like legacy news publications) when evaluating their political and civic participation. We obtained a nationally representative sample of 1,000 U.S. residents ages 18 to 29 and examined their preferred news medium and their past – and intended future – political and civic engagement. Using a series of ANCOVAs, we explore the effect of primary news media (e.g., directly sourced vs algorithmically driven) on both past political and civic engagement and intended future engagement. We found a significant relationship between primary news medium and political and civic engagement, such that individuals who indicated getting their news primarily from directly sourced news sources (on or offline), as opposed to social media, reported engaging in more political and civic acts in the past and intending to engage in more these behaviors in the future. These findings suggest that the source of news is related to young adults’ past engagement and intentions for future engagement when examined with a nuanced conceptualization of media.

Among the people of Southwestern Nigeria, Oríkì in a broad perspective is one of the Yorùbá orature, flexible in use at different contexts of ceremonial events. Therefore, this study takes into consideration the relevance and the use of Oríkì performative art as a form of Yorùbá presentation with its fluidity and context of use. However, taking a critical survey of the Yorùbá orature as an art, the paper reviews its presentation forms, structure, features, and people involved in the art, prior to, and currently in this modern age. This is with a mind to interrogating the use of Yorùbá Oríkì art as evident on social-media platforms, and its transformative shift from what it was in the indigenous settings. The source(s) of data for this study shall include social-media platforms such as the Facebook, Instagram, Tik-Tok, U-Tube, and WhatsApp among others, while other relevant information shall be extracted through print journals, and interview which is gender sensitive of selected artists, performers, and a sizeable number of users of the platforms. While interrogating the effects of the use of Oríkì on social-media platforms, the paper further examines the level of creativity of youths in the use of Yorùbá performative arts as a source of solving socio-economic issues and socio-cultural relevance as aided by technology. The paper attempts to answer some queries of retrogression or positive transformation of the art and how it improves the lives of people. Issues of fixed form and fluidity of some Yorùbá orature, as found classified in works of scholars (Olatunji (1974), Barber (1980), Ogúndèjì (1991) among others shall be reviewed duly. Reception and Socio-cultural theories shall premise the theoretical framework for proper analysis. The study with copious data and analysis, showcases the relevance of the upsurge of youths’ involvement, and interest in engaging social media platforms for the promotion and preservation of O rikì arts through live or recorded performances. The study concludes with a view that as nefarious as some posts on social media platforms may be, the same social media platform continue to create outlet for youths to booster their socio-cultural and socio-economic essence. Through several important tools that are available technology is enabled on social media, youths are further encouraged to engage the platforms to transform life positively, shape life better, towards becoming the best to the public space, and for promotion and preservation of culture to the world at large. Keywords: Yorùbá orature , Social-media platforms, Creativity , Youths and Yorùbá Cultural promotion DOI: 10.7176/NMMC/111-01 Publication date: January 30 th 2025

This study aims to elucidate the pediatric oncology nurses' knowledge, attitudes, and practices towards research engagement in Egypt. A cross-sectional study was conducted involving 300 pediatric oncology nurses. Data were collected using a structured questionnaire that assessed nurses’ knowledge, attitude, and the practice of research engagement. About 10% of the participants were under 25 years old. The ratio of bachelor's degree holders to postgraduate studies holders is about 3:1. 45% of the nurses have at least 5 years’ experience. The majority of the nurses (66%) were females. The median knowledge score is 8 points (out of 10). The attitude towards research is highly positive. 83% of respondents are interested in research engagement. Only 20% of respondents believe that research has insufficient influence on government and policies. 66% of participants have conducted research either fully or partially. Participants have reported that journal websites and print journals are the primary sources of research articles. Participants who have never participated in research before have, on average, a knowledge score that is 0.49 (95% confidence interval [CI]: -0.85 to -0.12; P=0.009) points lower than those who have previously participated in research, holding all other variables constant. In addition, participants with 2 to 5 years of experience score, on average, 0.56 points (95% CI: 0.1 to 1.0; P=0.018) higher in the knowledge score compared to those with ≤ 2 years of experience, holding all other variables constant. The findings underscore the need for targeted interventions such as ongoing education, mentorship programs, and organizational policies to enhance research participation among pediatric oncology nurses. Promoting research engagement is essential to translate evidence into practice and improve the quality of care for children with cancer.

This article is focused on the study of coverage and priority of crime issues in Nepali daily newspapers, which is done by analyzing the content during a one-month period of time, representing three daily newspapers (Kantipur, Himalayan Times, and Gorkhapatra). The objective of this study is to analyze the media coverage on crime reporting in Nepali Daily Newspapers. This study is mainly based on a descriptive research design. For the descriptive information, statistical tools like percentage, frequency, pie-chart, bar diagram, etc., were used as per the nature of the variables. For KIIs, interviews are taken with the reporters, editors, police investigators, and experts. The content analysis of this study reveals that among the three National Daily Newspapers, Gorkhapatra has given less priority than Kantipur and Himalayan Times on the publication of crime-related news on the front page. Among 276 crime-related news published on three daily newspapers, 141 (51.1%) were personal crime news, 55 (19.9%) were property crime news, 24 (8.7%) were inchoate crime news, 49 (17.8%) were statutory crime news, and interview and articles related to crime was published 7 (2.5%) times in November. The maximum of personal crime news published in the newspaper was homicide/murder, rape/sexual assault, body missing, etc. The maximum of property crime news is bribery and robbery, most of the inchoate news is related to conspiracy, and most of the statutory crimes were gambling, illegal weapons, bombs, smuggling, drug-related crime, etc. Study shows that daily newspapers are published event-based and incident crime issues rather than investigation-based issues; the follow-up of successful crime news is also unsatisfactory. Reporters are found to be more dependent upon press statements and police sources. However, the study reveals that print media are also playing a positive role in the publicity of hidden issues, crime, etc.

This article, based on the realization of the Chinese Dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, comprehensively expounds from six aspects what constitutes the unique spirit of an educator in China. To deepen the understanding of the meaning of the spirit of educators, based on the theory of metaphor, the author intends to construct a metaphor for the spirit of educators. By grasping the important discourse on education by leaders, educational works, authoritative public news and other text collections, the author aims to appreciate the traditional culture of the teaching profession and the background of the construction of the teaching staff in the new era. Combined with practical experience and the intuition of scholars, Specific meanings such as “anchor” and “beacon” were selected from the source domain, and the “six major metaphors” were constructed strictly in accordance with the principle of system mapping, with the aim of providing a new perspective for understanding and promoting the spirit of educators.

This study presents a comparative analysis of news headlines in social media and print media, focusing on Urdu newspaper in Pakistan. News headlines play a crucial role in shaping readers’ initial understanding and response to news content. With the rapid expansion of social media, the stylistic and linguistic nature of headlines has significantly changed. While print journalism emphasizes clarity, brevity, and informational balance, social media headlines often rely on emotional appeal, curiosity, and sensational language to attract attention. Using a qualitative approach, the study examines selected Urdu news headlines from print newspapers and social media platforms. The analysis highlights differences in linguistic choices, stylistic patterns, and narrative strategies, along with their impact on readers’ comprehension and opinion formation. The findings suggest that social media headlines tend to produce immediate but superficial reactions, whereas print journalism encourages more reflective understanding. Positioned within the linguistic and cultural context of Urdu journalism, the study emphasizes the importance of headline discourse in shaping public opinion and social consciousness.

The rapid development of portal sites represented by Naver has brought about a fundamental transformation in the way news enters the public sphere. In this context, issues such as the influence of algorithmic recommendation systems on news dissemination, media organizations' strategic choices within platform environments, content homogenization, and the resulting crisis of publicness have emerged as some of the most prominent research topics in journalism and media studies. This study adopts a mixed research approach combining literature review and case analysis. The research sample consists of 30 news articles published on the Naver platform between February and August 2025 concerning the issue of “raising the age threshold for free subway rides for older adults.” Using content analysis, the study empirically examines media content homogenization through indicators such as keyword repetition rates, temporal distribution of coverage, and the number of content frames. The findings indicate that, in order to secure greater platform visibility, media organizations strategically adjust news headlines, content frames, and publication timing, which in turn intensifies news homogenization and leads to a marked contraction of news diversity and deliberative space within the public sphere. Based on these results, the study constructs a theoretical analytical framework of ‘algorithmic recommendation-media strategies-content homogenization-crisis of publicness.’ The study argues that the ecrisis of publicness is not the result of media organizations voluntarily abandoning their social responsibility, but rather an inevitable outcome of an algorithmically driven media environment. Accordingly, it proposes that the publicness and diversity of digital journalism should be reconstructed through the coordinated advancement of platform governance, adjustments in media strategies, and institutional regulation,