Kind Of Journalism Research Articles

Press and Politics: Contributions of Sol Plaatje to South African Journalism

The article looks into the journalism of Solomon Thekisho Plaatje (popularly known as Sol Plaatje) and his contributions to the early South African black press and politics. Sol Plaatje remains one of South Africa’s most important political and literary figures. He was a pioneer of black press in South Africa. He was a spokesman of his people and an opinion leader among them. He was the first Secretary of the South African Native National Congress (SANNC) which later became the African National Congress (ANC), the current ruling political party in South Africa. His services to war correspondents as secretary, typist or interpreter and ‘liaison officer’ (to war correspondent Vere Stent) laid the foundation for his careers in journalism and writing. Plaatje edited/published a number of Setswana/English newspapers such as Koranta ea Becoana ( Bechuana Gazette), Tsala ea Becoana ( Bechuana Friend) which later became Tsala ea Batho ( Friend of the People) and Our Heritage. He also wrote regularly for English language newspapers such as Star, Pretoria News, Cape Times, Cape Argus and Diamond Fields Advertiser. The study seeks to find out the interplay between Sol Plaatje’s journalism and politics and his contributions to South African journalism as a pioneer of the black press. The study adopts the historical research method. Data gathered for the study were qualitatively analysed. Sol Plaatje’s kind of journalism was developmental as it was geared towards defending his people and re-orientating them to better ideals while at the same time trying to build cohesion with the white populace. The study is a contribution to the reconstruction of media history in the post-apartheid South Africa.

A Happy Farewell

A Happy Farewell JCMS In Summer 2018, we introduced ourselves as the new editorial team behind Cinema Journal by issuing a demand—and a promise—to decolonize the journal, the field, and the way the journal constituted the field. By its next issue, Cinema Journal had become the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (JCMS). That name change was itself a pledge to become a new kind of journal. It was the first of many transformations we initiated in pursuit of greater equity and inclusion in academic publishing and film and media studies, broadly construed. We all devoted years of our lives to this project, because we believed and believe that the Society for Cinema and Media Studies' (SCMS) journal of record must reflect its membership's personal and disciplinary diversity and that the best way to express our love for cinema and media studies is by "constantly calling into question received ideas about that field and embracing new voices and concepts."1 So much has changed about Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. The cover of Cinema Journal 57, no. 4. Cover art by Scott Richmond. [End Page 1] the journal since the Summer 2018 issue that we felt it incumbent upon us to reflect briefly on those changes—and the future transformations they anticipate—as we joyfully hand JCMS over to its new editors. To develop an editorial agenda organized around professional equity and respect for diversity, we demanded recognition of an unfortunate and uncomfortable truth: "many of our fellow [SCMS] members do not feel recognized by SCMS or its journal."2 As the publication of a learned society, JCMS belongs to the SCMS membership—period. Its area of inquiry is whatever film and media studies means to them—period. And if members feel that the journal is inhospitable to their subfield, then the journal needs to change—period. We recognized that we as editors not only needed to reach out to members of historically underrepresented groups and fields; we needed to apologize and hold ourselves accountable for the journal's past exclusionary practices. Consequently, we changed the journal's review procedures to include revision and resubmission so we could work with authors on developing their ideas for publication. We implemented new submissions management software to accelerate the review process. We separated book reviews from the In Focus topics in order to prioritize books by precariously employed scholars and scholars from underrepresented groups, showcase books from less industrially prominent presses, and promote important new titles in a timely fashion. Book Review Editor Laura Isabel Serna worked hard to spread the service of reviewing and ensure that senior scholars as well as junior scholars and graduate students lent their insights to this important endeavor. We also made our book reviews open access, so that more scholars could benefit from our reviewers' insights. We added two Co-editors of Outreach and Equity, who spearheaded the JCMS Publishing Initiative and a Facilitated Peer Review process to pair minority scholars with senior mentors prior to submission to help them prepare their work for publication. The Co-editors of Outreach and Equity also commissioned a study of the journal's publication record over the past twenty years.3 Led by digital humanities scholars Yelana Sims and Nina Lorenz—with contributions from all seven SCMS caucuses—this study documents the journal's long-standing biases and establishes a foundation for further accountability and transparency. Frankly, it doesn't make us look very good, which was precisely the point. We needed to own our shortcomings so we could do better. We also felt compelled to improve the accessibility of the journal—and indeed the society it represents—for film and media studies scholars around the globe. We switched publishers in order to pursue a digital-forward publishing model that would make JCMSjournal.org the locus for all our paywalled and open access content while also preserving quarterly print issues for those who choose to receive them. On our website, we launched [End Page 2] an annual Fifth Issue of peer-reviewed research articles featuring work by authors who either chose or were compelled by funding structures to publish open access. (Prior to...

The price of freedom: Open access, editorial labour, and prestige in academic publishing

This paper discusses tensions in journal editing and management, particularly for non-fee charging open access (diamond open access) journals. Even diamond open access journals and other journals published on a non-commercial basis are subject to financial and labour costs. Because diamond open access journals do not gain income from subscriptions or article processing charges (APCs), every published paper presents additional costs. Whereas commercially published journals depend upon substantial free academic labour, unfunded or underfunded diamond open access journals depend upon both substantial free academic labour and free non-academic labour. This encourages editors to be selective about the kinds of submissions on which they spend their time. The importance of maintaining a journal’s prestige, as measured through inclusion in bibliometric indices, incentivises further selectivity. Different kinds of papers are suitable for different kinds of journals. Even publications like Island Studies Journal that are radically accessible to authors and readers in diverse financial circumstances must make difficult choices when deciding what material to publish.

Иновационна журналистика – между идеята и реалността

The current text examines the attempts at imposing innovation journalism in media practice as an independent journalistic beat. It is an example of how academic efforts could be harnessed for legitimization of a qualitatively new kind of journalism. However, some factors opposed the efforts of scientists and practitioners who strongly supported the idea, and therefore innovation journalism, for which a new scientific field was formed in the first decade of the 21st century, has frozen between the idea and the realization.

Editorial: Evolution from AI, IoT and Big Data Analytics to Metaverse

Time flies. Since I took over the Editor-in-Chief position from this journal's founding Editor-in-Chief, Professor Fei-Yue Wang in 2018, five years has past just like a second. Looking back from today, as a team, we, including editorial board members, editorial staff members, our early career advisory board members, all contributing authors and all reviewers, should be proud of what this journal has achieved. This journal is the first of its kind of journals, resulting from IEEE’ s collaboration with Chinese Association of Automation-an outside-USA professional organization/institution. We have overcome many barriers and difficulties, and well proven that we, united and working together, can accomplish a challenging mission. We indeed set a great example for IEEE and its many societies to pursue more and more collaboration with other publishers, organizations and institutions from not only China but also such countries as India, Brazil, and Japan.

BLOG ETHICS - ETHICAL PRINCIPLES AND CODES

Abstract. Technology development facilitates numerous changes in different areas - social, economic, scientific, etc. New kinds of journalism have appeared, along with numerous questions and ethical problems. Citizens become prosumers, and the need for media literacy is growing. The author explores ethical aspects of media literacy. This research primarily focuses on the ethical regulation of blogs as one of the most widespread forms of expressing opinions among people. Blogging is a tool of citizen journalism which impacts the public sphere; it requires a critical reflection and ethical regulation. The pioneer of blogging, Tim Dunlop (2003), points out that blogs revive the art of argumentation and the idea of public debates. By using descriptive methods, the author analyzes ethical values - credibility, authenticity, justice and objectivity. At the end of the paper, the author compares the ethical Codes for Bloggers with the ethical Codes for Journalism in Norway with the aim of finding commonalities and differences among principles. The conclusion is that it is useful to the welfare of societies to ethically regulate blogs, which has already been done in certain countries. It is important to disseminate knowledge about the importance of ethics for bloggers to young people and journalists because they belong to public spheres. The Blogging Codes are akin to Codes for Journalists, since in both Codes basic ethical values prevail. Keywords: media literacy, weblog, citizen journalism, ethical values, ethical codes

Where to submit: a guide to publishing intelligence studies articles

ABSTRACT As intelligence studies has grown as a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary field, publication venues have proliferated. This article surveys journals that publish primarily intelligence studies articles to provide scholars and researchers with an understanding of where to submit their papers for publication. It could also provide librarians, students, and the public with an understanding of how to access knowledge about intelligence. It does so by constructing a typology of different kinds of journals that publish intelligence studies articles and evaluates the tradeoffs of each kind of publication outlet.

Fact vs Fiction: Journalism and American Modernism

Abstract Journalism offered an apprenticeship to many established American novelists from the post-Civil war period to pre-World War II. Many of them engaged in different kinds of journalism, but most of them wrote articles for newspapers by filling factual gaps with fiction. In exchange, they employed conventions drawn from journalism in their fiction writing. The paper focuses on two of these canonical writers: Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos to discuss how journalism was used to keep them in a direct dialogue with contemporary issues and with the innovative techniques of the new media. This interplay between their fiction writing and journalism contributed to a redefinition of American modernism.

“Thinking With” When Peer Reviewing: Introduction to the PoLAR Online Emergent Conversation on Peer Review

“Thinking With” When Peer Reviewing: Introduction to the <i>PoLAR Online</i> Emergent Conversation on Peer Review

Another Way to Tell the News, Another Way to Read the News: Immersion and Information in Narrative Journalism

Abstract While Paul Ricoeur's Time and Narrative (1990) was only concerned with fictional and historical narratives, its influence on narrative theory has been much broader. Ricoeur's reflections expanded into the field of journalism, among other areas, notably through the notion of media narrative (or récit médiatique) as defined by Marc Lits (1997a). Following Lits, Ricoeur's legacy—and, more specifically, the distinction it inspired between immersive and informative narratives (Baroni 2018)—has been used to shed light on a specific kind of journalism often referred to as narrative journalism, that is, journalism that uses the writing techniques of fiction to tell news stories. This article further examines the dialectic between immersion and information in narrative journalism by exploring both journalists’ goals when writing their texts and receivers’ experiences when reading them. First, interviews with journalists show that they are largely aware of this dialectic and purposefully use an immersive form to help readers better understand information. Then, an exploratory study with readers reveals that they claim to look mostly for information yet seem to favor immersive narratives.

Poetry and Journalism Revisited: Toward an Affective Dimension of Journalism Culture

Abstract This article seeks to reconcile disparate conceptions of thinking and feeling in journalism by foregrounding an affective dimension of news epistemology through the example of journalistic poetry. Drawing from Archibald MacLeish’s classic 20th-century lecture linking knowledge and the imagination, and locating Postema and Deuze’s continuum of journalism and the arts within Hanitzsch’s broader framework of journalism culture, I explore the generative spectrum in which certain kinds of journalism are best performed as poetry, and certain kinds of poetry are simply affective journalism by another name. The argument draws on historical, cultural, and literary scholarship to define the relationship between poetry and journalism, review historical uses of poetry in newspapers, show how poetry developed as a boundary object that “objective” news has defined itself against, and present four mini-case studies of poetry doing journalistic work in the 21st century.

Generational Change in Chinese Journalism: Developing Mannheim’s Theory of Generations for Contemporary Social Conditions

Abstract This article develops Karl Mannheim’s theory of generations as a tool to analyze the profound changes that journalism is experiencing in the mainland of China. The article begins with a discussion of generational theory. It demonstrates that the development of critical journalism that occurred in the late 1990s and early 2000s was the result of a unique combination of circumstances. A range of factors, including the introduction of digital technologies and shifts in the political atmosphere, have restricted that kind of journalism. Young people entering journalism today confront different circumstances and their resultant views, as well as their journalistic activities, are significantly different, and less engaged, than those of their seniors. The article concludes by discussing the theoretical modifications which are essential to make the original theory more suitable for contemporary conditions.

Hate as a ‘hook’: The political and affective economy of ‘hate journalism’

The article looks to identify and contextualise the shift of journalism towards emotion in terms of broader socio-political shifts. It focuses on ‘hate journalism’, a term we use to describe a new kind of journalism that emerged in Greece during the debt crisis years and is ideologically close to neo-fascist, and ethnonationalist political positions. We understand hate as an action oriented socio-cultural practice and examine the conditions of production and deployment of hate through focusing on Makeleio, the most successful example of this kind of journalism. Within this context, hate is produced and circulated as a ‘hook’ to attract and entice users, by mirroring their emotions; it further constitutes a means of producing and diffusing ideology by helping readers manage uncertainty through putting forward authoritarian solutions. In doing so, hate journalism is involved in social reproduction processes by which (Greek) society produces and sustains itself as ethnically pure, culturally Christian, and gendered as masculine and virile. Readers are invited to recognise themselves and their practices and vernacular, to be consoled and offered solace and comfort within an unmoored world. They, in turn, offer support to this journalism through consuming it.

Understanding policy and practice of peripheral journal publishing in Indonesian higher education context

Understanding policy and practice of peripheral journal publishing in Indonesian higher education context

Journalism and science as alternatives for defending Colombian journalists

Colombia is one of the Latin American countries with the most human rights violations directed toward journalists. This article presents a brief review that identifies the main characteristics of Colombian journalism, among others its connections with powerful corporate and political sectors that have facilitated the development of an official kind of journalism that is comfortable with those in power. We also identified another facet, represented by critical journalists, not aligned with official institutions and that have suffered various kinds of violations to their rights, censorship and have even been murdered. Finally, we highlight initiatives that have strived to protect Colombian journalists and we present a proposal for linking science, the academia and investigative journalism.

Measuring the impact of research

Measuring the impact of research

Organic Semiconducting Materials Based on BDOPV: Structures, Properties, and Applications

What are the major current research activities of your group?To develop high performance organic semiconducting and conducting materials and also to understand their structure‐property relationships. We are also interested in the effect of the aggregation states of the conjugated polymers on their electronic properties, the doping process and mechanism.What is the most important personality for scientific research?Curiosity and the desire to learn. Meanwhile, one should enjoy and be happy in the process of scientific exploration.Could you please share some experiences with young researchers in starting up their career?Keeping in mind that doing research is never a torturous course but always a process with pleasure, during which your curiosity gets satisfiedand you can better understand about the science under the experiment. Meanwhile, one will get a sense of achievement whenever you solve a problem or overcome the challenge.How do you supervise your students?A supervise should share joys and tears with them, and give them a hand when they need help.What's your hobbies?I enjoy anything that makes me think, like reading. And I prefer cooking.Which kinds of journals do you think are outstanding journals?There is no need for us to evaluate a commercialized journal. One should focus on the research process they are conducting instead of the publications.Organic semiconductors have achieved remarkable development due to their promising applications in low‐cost, lightweight, and flexible electronics. Both n‐type and p‐type semiconductors with comparable performance are necessary for high quality p‐n junctions, complementary circuits. However, compared with their p‐type counterparts, in which the hole mobilities are even up to 40 cm2·V–1·s–1, only few n‐type semiconductors exhibited electron mobilities surpassing 1 cm2·V–1·s–1. Recently, benzodifurandione‐ based oligo(p‐phenylene vinylene) (BDOPV)‐based small molecules and polymers have exhibited outstanding electronic performance and ambient‐stability: the highest electron mobility is up to 14.9 cm2·V–1·s–1. In addition, BDOPV‐based polymers exhibit great potential applications in thermoelectric devices, biomedicine, etc. In this review, we provide a comprehensive insight into BDOPV derivatives from rational design, structure‐property relationships, morphology control, and their applications.

The Growth of Poorly Cited Articles in Peer-Reviewed Orthopaedic Journals.

In general, journals can be divided in three categories: subscription-model, open-access, and hybrid (that is, open-access by choice). One measure of an article's impact is the number of citations it receives after publication. Open-access publishing may make articles more widely available because there is no financial barrier to a reader seeing the full-text version. As a result, we wondered whether articles published in fully open-access journals would be more likely to be cited than articles in other kinds of journals. We assessed the yearly number and proportion of poorly cited articles published in orthopaedic journals and compared the proportion of poorly cited articles that were published in subscription-model journals with the proportion of poorly cited articles that were published in open-access and hybrid journals. We identified all original articles (n = 135,029) published in orthopaedic peer-reviewed journals (n = 204) that were active from 2002 to 2012 and indexed in the Scopus® citation database. For each journal, we recorded the type of access (subscription-model, open-access, or hybrid journal), their most-recent CiteScore, the number of well- and poorly cited articles per year (more than five versus five or fewer citations after publication) calculated from the date of publication until December 31, 2017 (data collection April 2018), and then calculated if the journals themselves were poorly cited per year (defined as journals that published 75% or more articles ranked as poorly cited per year). We compared the proportion of poorly cited articles in subscription-model journals with the proportion of poorly cited articles in open-access journals. Additionally, we compared these with hybrid journals. In total, 48,133 (36%) articles were classified as poorly cited. The total number and proportion of poorly cited articles increased over the years, from 2121 of 7860 (27%) in 2002 to 6927 of 16,282 (43%) in 2012. The proportion of poorly cited articles in subscription-model journals increased from 226 of 395 (57%) in 2002 to 411 of 578 (71%) in 2012. The proportion of poorly cited articles in open-access journals decreased from 264 of 434 (61%) in 2002 to 296 of 801 (37%) in 2006, and then increased again to 1387 of 2259 (61%) in 2012. When we compared yearly proportions of poorly cited articles in subscription-model versus open-access journals using Mann-Whitney U tests, we only found a difference in 2012, with a higher proportion of poorly cited articles in subscription-model journals that year (median [IQR] of poorly cited article proportions for open-access, 0.61; IQR, 0.38-0.96 and subscription-model journals, 0.92; IQR, 0.54-1.0; p = 0.049). Comparisons of poorly cited articles for all three types of access showed lower proportions of poorly cited articles in hybrid journals for each year, with the lowest proportion found in 2002 (0.20; IQR, 0.09-0.67; p = 0.003). We found no difference in the likelihood that an article would be cited based on whether the article appeared was published in a subscription-model journal or an open-access journal. A future study might compare open-access and paywall articles on similar topics published in the same journal or investigate the characteristics of poorly cited articles, so that researchers and editorial staffs might understand which topics are more impactful and to determine if any important work is less-well appreciated. Additionally, an article-by-article analysis will provide more insight in citation rates for articles published within hybrid journals. Level III, therapeutic study.

Perioperative pain nursing from 2012 to 2017 in China: a bibliometric analysis

Objective To systematically analyze the research status and development trend of perioperative pain nursing in China, so as to provide an evidence-based basis and research direction for perioperative pain nursing. Methods We built the literature review data base and analyzed the perioperative pain nursing related literatures included by China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) , WanFang data and VIP database from 2012 to 2017 with the method of bibliometrics. Results A total of 1 467 literatures were retrieved. The number of literatures was increasing year by year and then declined slightly. The literature sources were main in journal articles published in 269 kinds of journals. The types of literatures focused on clinical trials followed by reviews and case analysis. There were 191 (13.08%) literatures cited more than 5 times and the highest times cited were 165 times. There were 85 literatures supported by research fund accounted for 5.79%. Conclusions In recent years, perioperative pain nursing has attracted much attention by researchers in China. However, the group of core authors has not be built. Besides, study types were unbalanced and the overall quality of literatures was low. Researchers should increase the breadth and depth of perioperative pain nursing and explore more perioperative pain nursing plans, which are applicable to our country. Key words: Perioperative nursing; Pain; Bibliometrics

YENİ KAMU YÖNETİMİ VE KÜRESEL YÖNETİŞİM KAPSAMINDA TÜRKİYE’DE KALKINMA GAZETECİLİĞİ

The purpose of this study is to examine the press within the framework of 'development journalism', a kind of journalism which is responsible for informing the public about the administrative changes and transformation processes experienced by the country, by considering the implementation of ‘new public management’ concept in Turkey within the domain of the ‘global governance’ and ‘globalization’ phenomenon affecting the nation states. It was assumed in the design of the study that long or short term social problems could only be observed in a time tunnel and that the dense break points were spread over time. When some anti-systematic tendencies are examined in the historical process, it can be seen that the order settled in the administrative area can be suddenly reversed by causal relation. Issues in the background of the current problems in Turkey, has been characterized by a feature of uncertainty under the influence of populist politics that have been exhibited over time by different governments coming to power since the cold war. There are many reasons for the historical background of some of the disruptions seen in the administrative application practices of the new public administration approach. These include the late arrival of modernism to Turkey; followed by dependence on international aid programs under the US and EU; being a party to international economic and military agreements; the time required to adapt the definitions of internal law to domestic law; informing citizens about the change and assimilating the transformation. There fore the relations between 'administration and the media' have been tried to be handled in connection with the global order. In many non-Western countries, utilitarian practices of the new governance conception that developed after the abandonment of open or hidden colonial practices have also created an impact on the development of journalism and the differentiation of journalism genres. 'Development journalism' has played an important role in reflecting public administrative changes in Turkey to the public, which was never subjected to colonial rule by the West. In this study, only a descriptive situation is detected. It is expected to be useful for studies on the ‘administration’ and the media relations to be carried out later, during the change and transformation process of Turkey to a presidential system. 'Governance’ and media relations are handled together within the scope of new public administration practices and ‘global governance’ concept, which makes this work original.