Media Ecology Research Articles

Climatic Media: Transpacific Experiments in Atmospheric Control

Climatic Media: Transpacific Experiments in Atmospheric Control

The individual strategies of Internet users’ media activity

The article is dedicated to the analyses of actual strategies of Internet users’ media activity in the ecosystem of today’s social media (social networks, blogs, hostings, messengers, mobile applications, etc.). The base of the author’s approach that specifies the novelty of the research lies on the analyses of the users’ media activity as a complex of media consumption and production which make a dialectical unity, as well as on the problematization of subject oriented research optics which draws attention to the individual as a direct media subject. The interaction of the individual and media ecosystem is analyzed with the help of a system of incoming and outcoming activity markers. The incoming activity is understood by the authors as a total of institutional and environmental factors of media activity practices realization, the outcoming one is understood as the characteristic of individual’s personal activity in realizing media practices. It is shown that the configuration of the dominant types of incoming and outcoming activity forms the individual media strategy. It is theoretically based and empirically proved by the author’s sociological research with the use of factor analyses (online poll of social network users, N = 1000) that there practically exist four types of individual media strategies: inclusively open, exclusively open, inclusively conservative and exclusively conservative ones. It is found out that the majority of the Internet users (38,3%) use the exclusively open strategy, estimate modern media conditions as too liberal and thus needing control and restrictions. In the conclusion there are shown the perspective directions of the following scientific enquiry on the topic of the research.

Everybody Wants to be a Fascist Online: Psychoanalysis and the Digital Architecture of Fascism

Félix Guattari and Franco Berardi have both argued that media ecologies and psychic ecologies are intimately intertwined and as such, any exploration of the collective unconscious must engage with how the mind is formed with and through media. This understanding of networks of interdependence necessitates an exploration of how platformization has impacted users” collective psyche. Drawing from psychosocial theory, psychoanalysis and the work of Félix Guattari, this article analizes the micropolitics of desire of digital platforms, with an explicit focus on how algorithmic structures amplify extreme Right content, allowing fascisms to metastasis throughout digital spaces. It will first examine the algorithmic architecture of social media platforms, demonstrating how these digital spaces lock in and over-code desire through recursive feedback loops that amplify extremism. Following this will be an exploration of the excess of desire that is cut off and left as a remainder partial object, termed the “fascist abject,” and what role this process plays in the production of subjectivity.

UTILIZATION OF THE NYARIOS SUNDA (NGAMUMULÈ BASA SUNDA) FACEBOOK GROUP SOCIAL MEDIA SITES IN MEETING THE INTERACTION NEEDS OF THE NYARIOS SUNDA COMMUNITY MEMBERS

In general, people need communication as a process of interaction in their socialenvironment. With the many needs needed, they use communication strategies to facilitatetheir activities in achieving goals.This research is a qualitative research with the type of case study research. This researchwill look at the interaction in the Nyarios Sunda community, by utilizing Facebook SocialMedia. This research will answer related to how the interaction patterns that occur in theFacebook Social Media.In this research, the writer uses Media Theory or also known as Media Ecology Theory.The basic concept of this theory was first put forward by Marshall McLuhan and HaroldInnis (1964).The method used is qualitative with a case study approach and in collecting data usedobservations, interviews and documentation. The informants in this study consisted of oneadmin of the Nyarios Sunda facebook group (Ngamumulè Basa Sunda) and three membersBased on the analysis that has been carried out, the results of the research obtained by theauthor are that the pattern of community interactions formed on Facebook Social MediaNyarios Sunda (Ngamumulè Basa Sunda) produces associative interactions, because inthe process they establish a collaboration, there are forms of accommodation and carryout the assimilation process to form a unity. Then the admin of the Nyarios Sunda(Ngamumulè Basa Sunda) facebook group uses an interaction approach as acommunication strategy, and builds and develops productive interactions in everyinteraction that occurs. From this, it aims to build a culture of discussion and exchangeknowledge among community members.

DIGITAL IMMIGRANTS AND DIGITAL DECEPTION: CONSUMING AND COMBATING FAKE NEWS ONLINE

The present-day digital media ecosystem is defined by the proliferation of fake news. Although the term has become popular recently, its incidence has been exponential, and its omnipresence in the global news media, undeniable. Digital immigrants occupy an important online demographic. They represent individuals who were born prior to internet services becoming ubiquitous. They are projected to be the primary internet users in India by 2025 Statista (2022). Due to the existence of filter bubbles and algorithmic judgement on social media platforms, users get limited perspectives that reiterate their existing ideologies Baptista & Gradim (2020). This study seeks to investigate how digital immigrants understand, encounter, and respond to fake news. By conducting in-depth interviews with Indian digital immigrants, it was found that selective exposure was a predominant reason for fake news to be consumed. Confirmation bias explained why users sought out and remembered information which reinforced their ideas and attitudes, and muted and blocked sources which contradicted them. It is suggested that digital immigrants make concerted efforts such as exploring diverse points of views, undertaking basic training courses in fact-checking and source corroboration, and exhibiting cautiousness when encountering content in order to combat fake news.

Perkembangan, Dinamika, dan Tren Penelitian Jurnalisme di Indonesia Periode 2001-2020

After the authoritarian New Order regime collapsed, the study of journalism as a part of communication studies is projected will develop and helps rehabilitating the ecosystem of Indonesian media. However, there is no meta-analysis study that can prove how the development and dynamics of journalism research in Indonesia, especially after more than two decades of the collapse of the New Order. This study, by analyzing 641 journalism studies articles scattered in authoritative scientific publications on communication in Indonesia, in the span of two decades from January 2001 to December 2020, found that Indonesian journalism scholars were enriching literature reference, and were increasingly connected with other scholars. The findings obtained by this study directly refute many accusations that communication studies, especially in the scope of journalism studies in Indonesia, is dominated by positivistic paradigm. During the 2001- 2020 period, although there was an increase in publications that relied on a quantitative approach, it can be seen the dominance of the qualitative approach has not been deterred. The Ministry of Communication and Information Technology of Indonesia in the second position, as the institution with the highest number of scientific article writers after the Universitas Islam Bandung in first place, even surpassing Universitas Padjadjaran and Universitas Diponegoro shows that researchers from government institutions are one of the agents of production and reproduction of journalism knowledge and discourse in Indonesia. Based on keyword trends, the deliberative vision of journalistic research in Indonesia tends not to develop progressively.
 Keywords: Indonesia, journalism studies, meta-analysis, journalism researc

Information flows from local to national: Evidence from 21 major US cities

Local journalism is in decline in the United States. As one way to assess the state of local journalism, this study examines the information flows between local and national media in the online media ecosystem. Focusing on metropolitan journalism, this paper empirically investigates whether and when a city’s local news coverage can influence national news portrayal of the city. This research draws from intermedia agenda setting (IAS) theory and examines a large news data set related to the most populated 21 US cities. The results suggest that local media are not more likely to transfer the salience of their urban issues to the national media agenda than reversely. In addition, a city’s economic power and the scale of its local journalistic infrastructure, especially the traditional media sector, are significantly correlated with its local media’s power to determine how the city is portrayed in the national media.

The patterns of users’ activity in the media ecosystem: the results of sociological analyses

The article concentrates on the analyses of the content characteristics of the users’ activity patterns functioning in the media ecosystem. Media ecosystem is viewed by the author as information environment of a modern individual which dialectically connects the users’ media activity practices as well as the institutional conditions of their realization. The author refers to such key practices of users’ activity in the media ecosystem as media consumption and media production, notably an important factor of such practices realization are definite patterns and normals, which are the behavior models articulates in the media ecosystem environment. It is shown that these patterns and normals can be localized in such media sources as the news in mass media, fiction texts and program manifestations, technological regulations (exploitation rules, access procedures etc.), society knowledge (etiquette, etc.) of the network community. On the basis of the author’s sociological research, carried out using the content analyses (N=300) method (different types of media sources in the modern media ecosystem were studied), peculiarities of actual patterns and normals of users’ activity in media ecosystem are analyzed. The author shows how the imperative character of the patterns and normals declared reveals in a number of characteristics that are the criteria of the analyses. As a result of the research it was found out that the level of imperativeness of articulated patterns and normals is defined not only by their immediate localization (the type of media source where they were placed) but also by the referentiality of these normals to the unique experience of the users and the prevailing types of media activity.

The Digital Mind: How Computers (Re)Structure Human Consciousness

Technologies of communication condition human sense-making. They do so by creating the social environment we inhabit and extending their structural biases and logics through human use. As such, this essay inquires into the prevailing habits of mind in the digital era. Employing a media ecology of communication, I argue that digital computers and microprocessors are defined by three structural properties and, hence, underlying logics: digitization (binary code), algorithmic execution (input/output), and efficiency (machine logic). Repeated exposure to these logics cultivates a digital mind, a model of thinking, communicating, and sense-making characterized by intransigence, impertinence, and impulsivity. I conclude the essay by exploring the broader implications of a digital mind, paying particular attention to the challenges it poses to democratic politics.

The media ecologies of Norwegian instapoet Trygve Skaug: tracing the post-digital circulation process of (insta)poetry through participatory-made Instagram archives

ABSTRACT The name instapoetry – or Instagram poetry – suggests a specific attachment of poetry to Instagram. But how bound is instapoetry to Instagram? This article uncovers the relationship between instapoetry and Instagram by analysing the participatory-made exhibits of Norwegian instapoet Trygve Skaug. By investigating the various media instantiations of Skaug’s poetry, the article discusses how instapoetry is platform-dependent and shows how the poetry binds to many different contexts and materialities by existing in multiple media ecologies. Based on this, the paper introduces the post-digital circulation process of poetry as constituting instapoetry’s medial constitution. This process focuses on the emergence of “new media”-cultural approaches to poetry as a post-digital, but still platformed, state of cultural production, interlocking with “old media” ways, as well as creating a setting for the dominance of a platformed lyric poetry.

Media, interpersonal communication, personal characteristics and online participation for climate change: structural equation modelling to determine digital discourse in Pakistan

Purpose The purpose of this study is to fill the gap by researching the direct effects of media and personal characteristics on online participation in climate change, indirect effects when mediated by interpersonal communication and personal characteristics as predictors of media communications as sources of information about climate change. Design/methodology/approach A structured questionnaire is distributed to collect data about the uses of communication sources and online responses toward climate change by using a quota sampling technique. The structural equation modeling by using Smart PLS 4 is used to explore the effects’ size. Findings Small levels of direct and indirect effects are found. Direct effects are found in online newspapers, YouTube, television news, personal relevance toward climate change and political interest in online participation in climate change. Indirect effects are found of WhatsApp on online climate participation through interpersonal communication. Personal relevance toward climate change has motivated respondents to take information about climate change from Facebook. Climate skepticism is found among respondents who have received information from television news/talk shows, printed newspapers and WhatsApp. Practical implications University teachers in Pakistan will have to work on educational strategies to increase the knowledge of university students about energy generation through carbon and renewable energy sources. Originality/value The results of this study highlight the communicative-cultural dimensions of online discourse about climate change in the context of the less-researched country of Pakistan. This is the first study of researchers’ knowledge that comprehensively defines the digital media ecology in the context of climate change considering Pakistan.

Semiotics from a Media Ecology Point of View and McLuhan’s Notion that “The Medium is the Message”: A Probe

Semiotics and media ecology are compared and an attempt is made to reconcile semiotics and media ecology and translate the terminology of semiotics into that of media ecology and vice versa that of media ecology into semiotics. An attempt is also made to create a bridge between these two closely related studies of communication to create a hybrid study of the media ecology of semiotics and the semiotics of media ecology.

Law and Media Ecology at a Tea Party: Engaging With the Invisibilities Within the Law

Law and Media Ecology at a Tea Party: Engaging With the Invisibilities Within the Law

The Clicking Economics of Media and Shifts in News Content: The Case of North Cyprus Online Media

The new media ecology has resulted in shifts in news content. The audience metrics that provide data about the preferences, expectations, and habits of the audiences based on clicks bring about the creation of new strategies and business models to increase income. The theory of the political economy of media says that just as economic relationships shape the whole of society, they also affect the production, distribution, and consumption of media content, forming the theoretical infrastructure of this study. On this basis, the study aims to reveal how the news content of Northern Cyprus’ internet newspapers is shaped according to the number of clicks. The social media pages of four online newspapers in North Cyprus were analyzed using the content analysis method. On this basis, the aim of this article is to reveal how shifts occur in news content depending on consumer participation, social media, and clicks that have emerged with the development of internet technology. Content analysis was conducted considering the multimedia infrastructure of Internet journalism, and the coding was done by taking different media formats such as news text, video, and photography. The results show that the production phase, topic, and content of the news are affected by audience interaction data.

Media Ecology and Transnational Electronics Brands Affecting the Natural World: A Perspective of Ecolinguistics

Media Ecology and Transnational Electronics Brands Affecting the Natural World: A Perspective of Ecolinguistics

Mapping the Reservoirs of Media Ecology: A Review of Paolo Granata’s Introduction to Media Ecology: Thinkers, Schools of Thought, Key Concepts

Mapping the Reservoirs of Media Ecology: A Review of Paolo Granata’s Introduction to Media Ecology: Thinkers, Schools of Thought, Key Concepts

Live, visual, social, and mobile: media ecology in emergencies and ordinary times

Live, visual, social, and mobile: media ecology in emergencies and ordinary times

Study of the propagation characteristics and narrative strategy of knowledge-sharing short video

The presentation and propagation of knowledge is always carried by media carrier, and the media form and technologies determine the knowledge form and the narration evolution. With the development of Internet technology and the arrival of 5G era, great changes have taken place in the information acquisition habits of users, while paperless reading and visual reading have become more and more normalized ways of information acquisition. At this all--media era, short video combined with knowledge propagation which can meet users’ need of information acquisition under an information environment with fragmented knowledge and time is becoming a new direction of promoting knowledge transfer and improving citizens’ scientific literacy. Though knowledge-sharing short videos have been one of the important content categories in current We Media ecology, their development history is still short, so it is lack of systematic research in academic circle yet. This paper chose some typical knowledge-sharing short video samples from short video platforms, summarized the propagation characteristics of them, and analyzed the narrative strategy of knowledge-sharing short video from narrative subject, time, space, discourse and so on.

Semiotics on music charts: The signification of late-blooming hits in contemporary popular music

Eliseo Verón’s approach to circulation focuses on the gap between production and recognition and the consideration of texts in relation to their contexts of production and consumption. In this paper, we employ Veron’s concepts of grammar of production and grammar of recognition to examine popular songs that reached their peak of success several years after their release. Drawing our case studies from the Hot 100 American singles chart, we combine social semiotics and semiotics of popular music to examine the contexts of the initial songs’ release and their eventual commercial peak while considering changes in the media ecology and how these songs re-entered popular culture. The corpus of songs examined is split into three major categories: Songs that re-entered popular culture after their performer’s passing, recurring Christmas- themed songs, and hits featuring in audiovisual productions like films and television series.

ITrust News Certificate: A Blockchain-Based Solution for News Verification and Reputation Management

The proliferation of fake news and misinformation in the digital era poses a significant challenge to news organizations and content creators. In this paper, we introduce the iTrust News Certificate, the architecture of an online blockchain-based solution designed to combat fake news, enhance news verification, and maintain reputation within the media ecosystem. Unlike previous attempts, iTrust News Certificate focuses on user friendly features while ensuring transparency and reliability. By leveraging blockchain technology, iTrust News Certificate establishes a decentralized and immutable ledger for storing news-related metadata. This ledger ensures the integrity and traceability of news articles, making it extremely difficult for malicious actors to tamper with or propagate false information.