Media Framework Research Articles

How Sexual Violence Is Portrayed through Social Media

This research paper investigates the portrayal of sexual violence within a social media framework and context. The subject is examined both using literature which has already been released about the subject to generate a contextual background regarding the subject as well as provide information which has already been investigated. This has been divided into two themes which demonstrate that exposure to sexual content did not result in significant detrimental effects in between those who were and those who were not exposed. In addition, the next study presented the fact that that is might a possibility that exposure to sexually violent content may help people process the information in a safe manner to allow them to deal with the real thing later if they ever encounter it. The results of the studies state that social media did have a way of morphing the perceptions of its users through an extension of the influence people exert on each other. A more thorough study is needed, which encapsulates many platforms that are available on the platform in the contemporary period.

Analyzing Foam Injection Dynamics in Porous Media: A Combined Computational and Experimental Approach

The study of foam injection dynamics into porous media holds numerous applications, with its primary use being the optimization of the oil extraction process. Additionally, it finds utility in various other domains, including soil decontamination techniques. This study focuses on evaluating foam injection through low-cost experiments and computational models. The model integrates a classic two-phase immiscible fluid flow in a porous media framework, augmented by a mobility reduction factor to simulate foam’s impact on gas phase mobility. Simple experiments were conducted to assess water displacement using both gas and gas-foam injection methods. Results revealed that while gas injection tends to form preferential paths rapidly, leading to gas disruption, foam injection generates a more compact front, enhancing sweep efficiency by mitigating preferential path formation. The computational model successfully reproduced the experimental findings qualitatively. This research introduces a cost-effective experiment suitable for didactic purposes, illustrating complex concepts and underscoring the complementary nature of experimental and computational methodologies in advancing engineering techniques.

Development and exploration of news media literacy scales in Taiwan

The purpose of the study is to explore how the promotion of news media literacy positively affects media criticism as well as the control and judgment of self-behavior. Potter developed the Chinese News Media Literacy Scale (NMLS), based on his theoretical framework of media literacy cognition. Potter is an outstanding scholar in media literacy. Senior high school students in Taiwan validated the NMLS for reliability and validity. The NMLS consists of 45 questions covering four topics: intellectual skills, personal locus, media knowledge structure, and news context reading. The Chinese version of the NMLS demonstrated good reliability, considerable validity, appropriate discrimination, and an appropriate level of difficulty, making it suitable for Taiwanese students. Female respondents exhibited higher news media literacy than their male counterparts. Public senior high school students showed higher news media literacy compared to those from private schools. The time spent reading news positively correlates with improvements in news media literacy. The findings indicate that news media literacy education significantly enhances students' critical understanding of news and media literacy skills, with varying effects across different genders and types of schools. The limitation of the study is that the sample mainly comes from Taiwan, which may not fully represent other cultural contexts. The findings can guide educational policy in schools, particularly in designing and implementing news media education curricula, taking into account the differences in gender and school types. This research expands the literature on news media literacy, especially in terms of scale development and its application to a specific cultural context like Taiwan, and introduces new insights into the impact of gender and school type on media literacy.

Neither private property nor public service: Critical reflections on the conceptual framework of public service media

Public service media (PSM) have long been seen as the necessary counterweight to the failures of a market model. Given the rise of private corporate power over communications systems, PSM have long been claimed to the be the ‘heart of a heartless world’ – spaces dominated not by the relentless logic of capital but by broader ambitions that involve citizen participation, social improvement and knowledge acquisition. This article offers a different interpretation. It argues that at their very best, PSM have improved an otherwise anaemic commercial landscape; at their worst, they are simply an accessory to state actors and contaminated media markets that reproduce elite power. Media practices and institutions based on the public service idea all too often lack the accountability and indeed the fundamental democratic oversight of the publics in whose name they operate. This article seeks first to contrast the values and structures of public service media with those of wholly commercial models and illustrates some of the ‘defensive’ arguments and initiatives that have been developed in response to threats to PSM. The article then explores a series of arguments that problematise what is often a reflexive defence of PSM. It considers whether being non-commercial necessarily positions an institution as pro-public and focuses on the role of the state in the creation of PSM institutions. It argues that the gap between normative accounts of public service and their institutional structures is not an accident or an aberration but reflects the structural imbalances of power built into PSM. Finally, the article analyses the different ways in which ‘the public’ has been conceptualised and deployed in the operational models of PSM, often as the ‘masses’ or as individuals in need of enlightenment or as sovereign consumers, but rarely as active agents of social change.

Developing a framework for equitable media literacy practice: Voices from the field

Abstract The article presents a framework for equitable media literacy practice (EMLP), which changes structure, action, and agency in service of an imagined and inclusive future and makes space for equitable civic and educational experiences. We derived this framework from 28 in-depth interviews with media literacy practitioners across the US. We asked these practitioners what EMLP would mean to them and what challenges and opportunities for EMLP emerge within their individual and organizational contexts. Interviewees acknowledge that equity is difficult to achieve given daily individual, community, and social concerns but is an important component of civic engagement.

Conceptual Frameworks for Social Media in Graduate Medical Education

Conceptual Frameworks for Social Media in Graduate Medical Education

E-consultation as existential media: Exploring doctor-patient 'digital thrownness' in Danish general practice.

In this article we use an existential media framework to explore the asynchronous, written and digital form of GP-patient communication that takes place through e-consultations in a Danish general practice context. This approach acknowledges e-consultation as more than a tool for information delivery and frames GP and patient not as skilful media users but as dependent co-existers: Both thrown into and trying to navigate the digital healthcare ecology. Through a thematic analysis of 38 semi-structured qualitative interviews with patients and GPs we carve out three themes unpacking the existential dimensions of e-consultation: 1. Patient and GP are placed in a Culture of non-stop connectivity and we show the ambivalences arising herein fostering both relief, reassurance and new insecurities. 2. Ethical challenges of responsible co-existence points to dilemmas of boundary setting and caring for self and co-exister in the digital encounter. 3. We-experiences illustrates the potential of e-consultation to signal GP presence, even when the GP is silent. We also discuss the existential ethics of care emerging from the contemporary digital healthcare ecology and call for empirically grounded studies of the existential dimensions tied to encounters in contemporary digital care infrastructures.

Meshless method for wave propagation in poroelastic transversely isotropic half‐space with the use of perfectly matched layer

AbstractNumerical investigation of wave propagation in transversely isotropic poroelastic half‐space with the use of a new stretched coordinate system through the Meshless Local Petrov–Galerkin (MLPG) formulation is presented in this paper. To this end, the u−p formulation of Biot is adopted as the framework of the porous media. One approach to numerically solve the infinite domain problems is the use of an absorber layer in which the whole half‐space is divided into two parts, that is (i) a finite part, in which the responses are interested, and (ii) the remaining semi‐infinite part, which is replaced by a Perfectly Matched Layer (PML). The stretched coordinates in the PML are introduced in such a way that the wave propagating in it does not generate spurious reflection to the finite part. Comparing the numerical results with some existing exact solutions and evaluating the norm of error demonstrate that the response functions in the finite part are achievable as precise as desired. Some new results are also presented which show the validity of the numerical approach in poroelastic transversely isotropic domain.

Czy czasopisma konserwatywne Gazeta Polska i Najwyższy Czas! pogłębiają rasistowskie schematy myślenia? Kryzys migracyjny na granicy polsko-białoruskiej w świetle teorii Étienne’a Balibara

The aim of the research was to determine whether Polish conservative opinion magazines (Gazeta Polska and Najwyższy Czas!) may be responsible for the deepening of racist patterns of thinking. The research context included the issue of migration from the countries of the Middle East and Africa based on the example of events on the Polish‑Belarusian border. The main research method was content analysis, including discourse analysis (media framework). The research sample consisted of a total of 109 texts (GP 86 and NC 23). In formulating the research theses, the theory of the French philosopher Étienne Balibar was used, especially considerations regarding racism and the concept of border. The research results gave a positive answer to the main research problem. The comparative analysis showed similarities between both magazines in terms of the rhetoric used towards migrants (anti-immigrant narrative, the “us-them” division, linguistic treatments that are part of the exclusion strategy), as well as the multiplicity of the border topos, which is understood as: the external border of the territory of Poland, the zoopolitical border and the mental border. The element that differentiated the examined magazines was the political context – GP supported PiS policy and used the conflict to deepen internal polarization, while NC criticized the United Right government’s actions.

The dialectical relationship between the authorial and the collaborative in contemporary documentary: Perspectives from three case studies

This article discusses the intersections between authorial and collaborative work in the scope of ethnographic documentary departing from three case studies: two research projects and one citizen collective of participatory media. All case studies were developed in Porto, Portugal, between 2013 and 2020, focusing on the city’s invisibilities and everyday experiences, searching for alternative narratives to the mainstream media when portraying its people and places. This article aims to reflect on how authorial documentary work, followed by self-criticism and self-reflection, can be incorporated into participatory media frameworks in productive ways. The challenges faced by the three cases are intrinsically related and have influenced each other throughout this period, addressing issues related to the representational crisis; the legitimation of subjectivity and the exploration of different styles within documentary; as well as the relationships between the filmmaker, the camera, the subject/character portrayed and the audience. These themes are explored through a series of first-person field reports and the study of authors and directors in the field of documentary filmmaking.

YouTube as a source of education in perioperative anesthesia for patients and trainees: a systematic review.

Online video sharing platforms like YouTube (Google LLC, San Bruno, CA, USA) have become a substantial source of health information. We sought to conduct a systematic review of studies assessing the overall quality of perioperative anesthesia videos on YouTube. We searched Embase, MEDLINE, and Ovid for articles published from database inception to 1 May 2023. We included primary studies evaluating YouTube videos as a source of information regarding perioperative anesthesia. We excluded studies not published in English and studies assessing acute or chronic pain. Studies were screened and data were extracted in duplicate by two reviewers. We appraised the quality of studies according to the social media framework published in the literature. We used descriptive statistics to report the results using mean, standard deviation, range, and n/total N (%). Among 8,908 citations, we identified 14 studies that examined 796 videos with 59.7hr of content and 47.5 million views. Among the 14 studies that evaluated the video content quality, 17 different quality assessment tools were used, only three of which were externally validated (Global Quality Score, modified DISCERN score, and JAMA score). Per global assessment rating of video quality, 11/13 (85%) studies concluded the overall video quality as poor. Overall, the educational content quality of YouTube videos evaluated in the literature accessible as an educational resource regarding perioperative anesthesia was poor. While these videos are in demand, their impact on patient and trainee education remains unclear. A standardized methodology for evaluating online videos is merited to improve future reporting. A peer-reviewed approach to online open-access videos is needed to support patient and trainee education in anesthesia. Open Science Framework ( https://osf.io/ajse9 ); first posted, 1 May 2023.

Media Framework and Enterprise Management Analysis under Emergencies: “Earth Pit Pickled Cabbage” Incident as an Example

Media Framework and Enterprise Management Analysis under Emergencies: “Earth Pit Pickled Cabbage” Incident as an Example

Design of a Trusted Content Authorization Security Framework for Social Media

Artificial intelligence-generated content (AIGC) technology has had disruptive results in AI, representing a new trend in research and application and promoting a new era of AI. The potential benefits of this technology are both profound and diverse. However, the benefits of generative tools are accompanied by a series of significant challenges, the most critical of which is that it may cause AI information pollution on social media and mislead the public. Traditional network security models have shown their limitations in dealing with today’s complex network threats, so ensuring that generated content published on social media accurately reflects the true intentions of content creators has become particularly important. This paper proposes a security framework called “secToken”. The framework adopts multi-level security and privacy protection measures. It combines deep learning and network security technology to ensure users’ data integrity and confidentiality while ensuring credibility of the published content. In addition, the framework introduces the concept of zero trust security, integrates OAuth2.0 ideas, and provides advanced identity authentication, fine-grained access control, continuous identity verification, and other functions, to comprehensively guarantee the published content’s reliability on social media. This paper considers the main issues of generative content management in social media and offers some feasible solutions. Applying the security framework proposed in this paper, the credibility of generated content published on social media can be effectively ensured and can help detect and audit published content on social media. At the operational level, when extracting key information summaries from user-generated multimodal artificial intelligence-generated content and binding them to user identity information as a new token to identify user uniqueness, it can effectively associate user identity information with the current network status and the generated content to be published on the platform. This method significantly enhances system security and effectively prevents information pollution caused by generative artificial intelligence on social media platforms. This innovative method provides a powerful solution for addressing social and ethical challenges and network security issues.

Cancel Culture within the Framework of New Media's Memorial Discourse: A Critical Analysis

The article addresses the issue of historical memory transformation in the digital era. Its aim is to critically analyze the “cancel culture” as a tool for shaping and transmitting historical identity in the digital realm and beyond. The realm of new media where the cancel culture phenomenon emerged, is selected as the field of research. Consequently, the article seeks to bridge conceptual topics in memory studies with media theory.
 New media exhibit significant differences from traditional media, influencing a shift in discursive rules and leading to the reorganization of discursive spaces. The traditional vertical paternalistic discourse structure is replaced by a horizontal, rhizomatic one, and the rigid dichotomy between the author and the reader dissipates. These shifts in discursive rules bring about changes in discursive practices, impacting not only discourse itself but also the broader social fabric, including the realm of historical memory. Digitalization introduces novel forms of memory existence while retaining some traditional functions like identity formation.
 New media serve as platforms for identity formation, offering opportunities for constructing and continuously reassembling identities. This article views “cancel culture” as a symbol of this reassembly, acting both as a mode of expression and a source of identity. The critical analysis underscores both the negative and positive aspects of cancel culture, elucidating its paradoxical nature and frequency in contemporary reality.

A Backward-Forward Non-uniform Wavelet Forecasting Quality of Life Model in Digital Media Framework

A Backward-Forward Non-uniform Wavelet Forecasting Quality of Life Model in Digital Media Framework

Exploring the impact of beauty vloggers’ credible attributes, parasocial interaction, and trust on consumer purchase intention in influencer marketing

The growing usage of digital platforms has made influencer marketing the most cost-effective marketing tool, especially for products consumed by young digital natives. Among other products, these include fashion and beauty-related items such as cosmetics, whose online marketing has created a particular category of influencers called ‘beauty vloggers.’ By applying the source credibility model, this study investigates whether beauty vloggers’ credible attributes (trustworthiness, expertise, and attractiveness) help consumers build trust towards them and whether followers’ trust leads to desirable marketing outcomes (increased purchase intention). Prior literature used the source credibility model in a fragmented manner. However, this study enhances the holistic framework of social media influencers’ impact on purchase intention by investigating all three credible attributes. It specifically addresses the significance of cultivating trust between beauty vloggers and followers, exploring the impact of vloggers’ credible attributes on consumer purchase intention. Additionally, beauty vloggers periodically engage in parasocial interactions to increase closeness with their audiences, affecting consumer behaviour. This study addresses the limited research on the consequences of parasocial interactions in an emerging market context, examining the impact of beauty vloggers’ repeated interactions on consumer behaviour, contributing to a comprehensive understanding of purchase intention using parasocial interaction as an antecedent. The research was conducted on consumers belonging to the age group of 16–45 who use social media platforms daily. Using structural equation modelling via SmartPLS software, the statistical analysis was done on 357 North Indian respondents. The study explores the influence of beauty vloggers on consumers’ purchasing behaviour in the Indian context. The results demonstrate that beauty vloggers’ credibility traits help in influencing consumer behaviour. The findings also revealed that trust partially mediates the impact of credible attributes of beauty vloggers and consumers’ purchase intention. Additionally, the results show that customers’ purchasing decisions might be influenced by repeated parasocial interactions done by beauty vloggers if they perceive them as credible information sources. The findings of the study contribute to help industrial marketers and practitioners of cosmetic companies use influencer marketing strategically in order to increase market sales.

SimLivA–Modeling ischemia‐reperfusion injury in the liver: A first step towards a clinical decision support tool

SummaryThe SIMulation supported LIVer Assessment for donor organs (SimLivA) project aims to develop a mathematical model to accurately simulate the influence of mechanical alterations in marginal liver grafts (specifically steatotic ones) and cold ischemia on early ischemia‐reperfusion injury (IRI) during liver transplantation. Our project tackles significant research challenges, including the co‐development of computational methodologies, experimental studies, clinical processes, and technical workflows. We aim to refine a continuum‐biomechanical model for enhanced IRI prediction, collect pivotal experimental and clinical data, and assess the clinical applicability of our model. Our efforts involve augmenting and tailoring a coupled continuum‐biomechanical, multiphase, and multi‐scale partial differential equation‐ordinary differential equation (PDE‐ODE) model of the liver lobule, allowing us to numerically simulate IRI depending on the degree of steatosis and the duration of ischemia. The envisaged model will intertwine the structure, perfusion, and function of the liver, serving as a crucial aid in clinical decision‐making processes. We view this as the initial step towards an in‐silico clinical decision support tool aimed at enhancing the outcomes of liver transplantation. In this paper, we provide an overview of the SimLivA project and our preliminary findings, which include: a cellular model that delineates critical processes in the context of IRI during transplantation; and the integration of this model into a multi‐scale PDE‐ODE model using a homogenized, multi‐scale, multi‐component approach within the Theory of Porous Media (TPM) framework. The model has successfully simulated the interconnected relationship between structure, perfusion, and function—all of which are integral to IRI. Initial results show simulations at the cellular scale that describe critical processes related to IRI during transplantation. After integrating this model into a multiscale PDE‐ODE model, first simulations were performed on the spatial distribution of key functions during warm and cold ischaemia. In addition, we were able to study the effect of tissue perfusion and temperature, two critical parameters in the context of liver transplantation and IRI.

The Soviet and Post-Soviet Anthrobscenes: Speculations from Cheburaska to Khulkulya

This paper seeks to investigate the representation of and presence of non-human animals through the framework of new media theorist Jussi Parikka's conceptualization of the "Anthrobscene."Additionally, an examination of Marxist-Leninist thought concerning both environmentalist policies and practices of early childhood education is essential to formulating a well-rounded understanding of the innate political nature of these anthropomorphic representations and, in turn, how the treatment of animals, both domestic and wild, are considered reflexively by the Soviet state and the current Russian Federation through both a Soviet example (Cheburashka the abstracted and unspecified mouse-cat-primate creature) and a more modern environmentalist mascot (Khokhulya the Russian desman), both of which are duly reflective of their political contexts and social imaginings. Through an analysis of historical contextualizations and the modern mascot representation of the animal as a means of either social or philosophical change as well as practical environmentalist aims under the new capitalistic system post-1990s, Cheburashka and Khokhulya respectively serve to articulate and exemplify a comparison between the ideological functions of both economic systems within the broader field of animal and early childhood media studies.

Social Media’s Influence on Tourists’ Choice of Destination

Social media are web-based communication platforms that let users communicate and exchange information with one another. It is an online communication network that facilitates online engagement, content sharing, community feedback, and collaboration. This study mainly explores how vital social media is in influencing the tourists’ choice of destination. The study aims to assess tourists’ social media engagement, factors affecting reliance on it for travel planning, its impact on destination choice, the correlation between social media reliance and destination choice, and propose a framework for social media’s influence on destination selection. A quantitative correlational research method was used in this study. Further, the research is a population study where all the respondents were tourism management students of Saint Mary’s University. As for the data collection method, the researchers used survey questionnaires. The results revealed that Facebook is the most popular social media network, and most respondents said they used TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram for more than five hours each, while tourists spent less than 1 hour on Pinterest. Additionally, most of the respondents rely on social media to provide them with information about new travel locations. Images of popular tourist sites shared on social media platforms indicate the amount to which social media influences their destination selections. As a result, the two variables had a significant relationship, implying that tourists’ extensive reliance on social media for travel-related information also has a significant impact on the destinations tourists choose. Moreover, as illustrated in the framework created by the researchers, the social media that the respondents utilized, their reliance on social media for travel information, and social media’s influence on decision-making are all interrelated to travel planning.

Internet Public Opinion on Media Report Semantics of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Visit to Taiwan

On August 2, 2022, the U.S. House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan. China expressed strong dissatisfaction, triggering the 4th Taiwan Strait Crisis. We investigated the differences in the frameworks constructed by the news media and the public opinion about the “event of Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan”. Semantics and “public opinions” associated with the report contents of Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan were analyzed using the online news media of major newspapers in Taiwan, as well as the social media PTT Gossiping. The Python programming language was used for web crawling, and the word frequency database snowNLP in Python was adopted as a sentiment analysis tool. The research results showed that the emphasis of different media in different periods was slightly different. The topics of netizens in PTT Gossiping were often affected by the topic framework of the news media. However, the public developed their discussion topics. News media reports did not have a framing effect on the emotional changes of common words used by the public about the issues.