Media Objects Research Articles

Analysis of Communication and Leadership Style on Employee Loyalty and Performance

The article Effects of Communication and Leadership Style on Employee Loyalty and Performance is a scientific literature study within the scope of Human Resource Management science. This article aims to build a research hypothesis on the influence between variables, which can later use in further research. In addition, this study aims to see the effect of communication within the organization and leadership style on employee loyalty and performance. Research objects in online libraries, Google Scholar, Mendeley and other academic online media. A descriptive qualitative method, library research, from e-books and open access e-journals. Sourced from previous research that is relevant to this research. The results of this article are: 1) Communication affects Employee Loyalty; 2) Leadership Style influences Employee Loyalty; 3) Communication has an effect on Employee Loyalty; 4) Leadership Style influences Employee Performance; and 5) Employee Loyalty influences Employee Performance.

Review: Refugees and Migrants in Contemporary Film, Art and Media, edited by Deniz Bayrakdar and Robert Burgoyne

Review: <i>Refugees and Migrants in Contemporary Film, Art and Media</i>, edited by Deniz Bayrakdar and Robert Burgoyne

Media and extraction: A brief research manifesto

This short essay is a polemical exploration of recent scholarship on media and resource extraction, with remarks on the necessary revisions this work entails to the purview and practice of studying cinema and media. Drawing on emergent works that elucidate the significance of media’s embeddedness in extractivist logics, we reflect on the ideas that propel them and the future conversations we hope they will provoke. As old disciplinary configurations no longer fit the task of understanding the technological instrumentalization of life in the face of climate breakdown, we consider the ways in which reckoning with modernity’s dependence on extractive industries and modes of labour reformulate media histories, the disciplinary study of media objects, our horizons of thought and our ways of being.

“What does it mean to make a picture of the now?”

“What does it mean to make a picture of the now?”

Destruction of Cult Buildings in Kharkiv during the Russian Military Aggression: Public Perception and Rethinking of Cultural Heritage

The article considers the ways in which public reaction to the destruction of cult buildings in Kharkiv during the full-scale Russian invasion is reflected in Ukrainian-language online media. The author examines how the religious nature of a cultural heritage object affects the perception of its destruction, how the significance of cult objects is reinterpreted in this situation, and to what extent the destruction of cult objects combines religious, ethnonational, and other connotations. Drawing on the theoretical studies of cultural memory by Aleida Assmann, the author establishes which factors influence the actualization of particular aspects of the history of damaged cult objects in the mass media. It is noted that, despite the fairly high level of secularization in Ukrainian society, the collective imagination continues to perceive churches and other religious buildings as sacred objects, the destruction of which is seen as a blasphemous act. The artistic and historical significance of damaged cult objects is actualized much less often in the texts the author analyzes. This is in line with the tendencies described by José Casanova as part of the theory of postsecularism. The specific denominational affiliation of damaged religious buildings remains of secondary importance to the mass media, which may be interpreted as a manifestation of “spontaneous religiosity,” in which the sacral nature of cult objects is recognized, but without serious reflection, awareness of denominational boundaries, or regular immersion in spiritual practices. Furthermore, in this way, respect for believers of different confessions is demonstrated: the special significance of cult objects is recognized first and foremost because of their significance for others. The article also considers the impact of the religious affiliation of cult objects on the ways in which damage done to them is reported in some Ukrainian media.

МНОГОМОДОВЫЙ СКАНИРУЮЩИЙ МИКРОСКОП ИОННОЙ ПРОВОДИМОСТИ С СИСТЕМОЙ ПЬЕЗОИНЕРЦИАЛЬНОГО ПЕРЕМЕЩЕНИЯ

A scanning ion conductance microscope (SICM) has been developed, operating in several modes: DC mode, current modulation mode, and hopping mode. SICM employs a piezoelectric-inertial movement system. The nanoprobes, in the form of glass nanopipettes with an internal radius of r ~ 50 nm, have been created and tested. The current-voltage characteristics I (V) and current dependences on the distance between the probe and the sample I (z) (approach/withdrawal curves) were measured. Images of a polymeric test object with a periodic structure and a biological object (CHO cell) were obtained, their quality was assessed, and the features of the SICM operation in various modes are discussed. The multimode SICM provides non-destructive, non-contact visualization of soft objects in a liquid conducting medium with nanometer spatial resolution in various measuring modes and can be used in biology, cytology, electrochemistry, and medicine when studying inorganic soft objects, biological objects in buffer media, etc.

The Trends of Digital Da’wah: Cyber Media Analysis on Instagram Account

The transformation of da'wah from time to time has entered the joints of technology. Da'wah, primarily conducted face-to-face, has now turned digital, especially through social media such as Instagram. @Ngajikyaigusbaha is an Instagram account that engages in da'wah activities through videos. The contents are delivered using video compilations of da'wah by Gus Baha. They are conveyed in an attractive and straightforward visual presentation, making it easier and more understandable for the audience. This research's objective is to find out and analyze the forms of digital da'wah trends on the @ngajikyaigusbaha account. This research data was collected from virtual interviews, observation, and documentation. The data were analyzed using cyber media analysis, including four unit levels; media space, media archive, media object, and experience. The results showed the digital da'wah trend on the @ngajikyaigusbaha account at each level as follows: 1) The media space level; the da'wah adopted the preaching of Gus Baha and gained 93,6 thousand followers. 2) The media document level; the content contains the real-life phenomenon within society in videos, either in video recordings or attractive visuals, up to 3-4 contents in a day covering messages of aqidah, morality, and syariah. 3) Media object level; there are interactions between users and admins. 4) Media experience level; the uploaded contents are relevant to real life and experienced by almost all followers.

“It’s cleaner, definitely”: Collaborative Process in Audio Production

Working from vague client instructions, how do audio producers collaborate to diagnose what specifically is wrong with a piece of music, where the problem is and what to do about it? This paper presents a design ethnography that uncovers some of the ways in which two music producers co-ordinate their understanding of complex representations of pieces of music while working together in a studio. Our analysis shows that audio producers constantly make judgements based on audio and visual evidence while working with complex digital tools, which can lead to ambiguity in assessments of issues. We show how multimodal conduct guides the process of work and that complex media objects are integrated as elements of interaction by the music producers. The findings provide an understanding how people currently collaborate when producing audio, to support the design of better tools and systems for collaborative audio production in the future.

On the Road: Emergent Spatiality in #Vanlife

‘Vanlife’ is a term utilised on social media sites, including YouTube, to denote images and videos that represent a lifestyle centred around long-distance travel using converted vans. The Vanlife phenomenon demonstrates the potential for networked culture and storytelling to combine to create emergent spaces, fostered not only by individual digital media objects but also the connected digital networks they occupy. In this article I ask how digital media practices are used by Vanlife travellers in order to construct such emergent spaces, and what the characteristics of these spaces might be. This investigation has a particular focus on the capacity for the creative practices used to tell visual stories online to combine representations of ‘real world’ experiences and environments, with the individual and communal desires, rhetoric and, at times, fictions, of the burgeoning Vanlife alternative lifestyle. Taking a netnographic approach (Kozinets, 2002), and guided by Henri Lefebvre’s trialectic model of space (1974), I conduct analysis of a set of Vanlife YouTube videos and explore the construction of different layers of spatiality as well as the productive tensions that arise between these. As Vanlifers undertake and document their freewheeling travels, their production of spaces serves to establish the unending road trip as a viable alternative lifestyle. Vanlife videos also work to formulate new cultural and aesthetic dimensions for the areas their creators explore, destabilising and redefining the meanings of the spaces, experiences and communities its travellers encounter. Equally, the idealised spaces of Vanlife are themselves disrupted by jarring intrusions from the external world and its everyday problems, a tension that further illustrates the continually negotiable nature of spatial meanings and highlights the role digital media might play in accentuating and accelerating this fluidity.

Review: Rubens in Repeat: The Logic of the Copy in Colonial Latin America, by Aaron M. Hyman; Clothing the New World Church: Liturgical Textiles of Spanish America, 1520–1820, by Maya Stanfield-Mazzi

Review: <i>Rubens in Repeat: The Logic of the Copy in Colonial Latin America</i>, by Aaron M. Hyman; <i>Clothing the New World Church: Liturgical Textiles of Spanish America, 1520–1820</i>, by Maya Stanfield-Mazzi

Towards automatic placement of media objects in a personalised TV experience

Towards automatic placement of media objects in a personalised TV experience

A Body Downwind of the Atomic Attack at Trinity: Mediations of Atomic Coloniality in Nuevo México

Early atomic media, infrastructures, and the atomic attack (a phrase I take up instead of the ambiguous and occluding term atomic test) at the Trinity site in Nuevo México remain surprisingly unexamined through the lens of coloniality (Quijano 2000). This essay proposes “mediations of atomic coloniality” as a “creative mediation” (Kember and Zylinska 2012, 200) to investigate the public facing discourses around the world’s earliest nuclear infrastructures at Trinity. This critical approach is multimodal and (1) uses a site visit by the author to highlight the public discourses that circulate at the Trinity landmark; (2) explores early atomic documentary cinema and their spatialization of Nuevo México; and (3) looks at the emergence of what the author terms downwind media as taken up by local community activists in the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium. Mediations of atomic coloniality as an approach engages with mediation as composed of dynamic processes that interlink diverse forms of media ranging from radioactive bodies to lands, films, and current regional media activism stemming from Trinity. This approach moves beyond notions of the first atomic bomb as exceeding traditional forms of mediation. Instead, it both sheds light on the role of media objects in the bolstering of dominant Eurocentric discourses of the early atomic age in Nuevo México and follows the dispersed accounts of radioactive and racialized “slow violence” (Nixon 2013) articulated by local communities of color. Ultimately, this essay explores what is gained in understanding the nuclear infrastructures at Trinity through a broader media ecology and, relatedly, how mediation might also function as a praxis in environmental justice efforts.

Online-Offline in Religion; Observing Islamic Learning Patterns in Online Media

This study aims to unravel the phenomenon of digital society in understanding and learning Islam through the internet. The current human tendency to rely on information available through smartphones has given birth to the reality of shifting learning patterns that do not have to meet directly with the teacher. Even the presence of a virtual teacher is considered sufficient to justify an excellent religious way. This study uses a qualitative method with a netnographic approach that intends to reveal social phenomena in cyberspace. This method uses a particular analytical technique offered, AMS (Siber Media Analysis), which goes through 4 levels: Media room level, media document level, media object level, and experience level. This study found that online internet users can access information about religious rituals and procedures for doing them. So, internet users are part of the world's religious adherents who carry out the same religious creed. On the other hand, religious authority as a source of knowledge in learning Islam on the internet is not always institutional but can also be individual. As a result, the Islamic pattern of understanding Islam among netizens is more accessible, inclusive, egalitarian, and shows multidimensional interactions between individuals and other religious groups.

Depth estimation of protoporphyrin IX objects in turbid media considering the fluorescence intensity ratio between two wavelengths of light for application in invasion diagnosis of gastric cancer

Depth estimation of protoporphyrin IX objects in turbid media considering the fluorescence intensity ratio between two wavelengths of light for application in invasion diagnosis of gastric cancer

Time to DTR: fan paratextualization about Game of Thrones last season

Purpose: Media products meaning lies on the interpretation of its content. As productive consumers, fans reframe them. In the process, they produce new texts on these products, known as paratexts. The research aims to understand how fan’s paratexts (re)produces discourses to re-signify media products’ (para)texts. For such, we look at fan paratextualization of Game of Thrones (GoT), an economic and cultural phenomenon with huge repercussions on social media. Design/methodology/approach: Through a Foucauldian Archeology, we collected and analyzed comments posted by GoT fans on promotional videos published on the TV series' official YouTube channel. Findings: The fans' paratextual production presents different positions on the consumed cultural product: a public tribute highlighting its cultural legacy that is based on feelings of nostalgia and frustration with the conclusion of its plot. We conclude that these paratexts worked as a reckoning for the TV series’ fans. Broadly, it is possible to interpret paratexts as marketing content that allow fans to act as prosumers of media products, the entertainment industry, and fans' culture. Originality/value: The study presents how the fans’ productive consumption is materialized through the paratext (re)production that both establish the resonance of media objects in the culture of fans and lead them to assume the role of co-authors of the texts they consume. This role reinforces how fans should be understood as consumers who can act freely in relation to marketing actions. Moreover, it implies that paratexts can be produced to stimulate the discursive production that works as prosumer performance of fans.

Resisting the Revolutionary Call

Many people argued that Black Panther was a revolutionary film, a claim that somewhat obscures that it was success under capitalism that made Black Panther seem more radical in content than it actually was. Placing director Ryan Coogler within the ranks of radical filmmaking ironically undercuts the challenge of sustaining a successful Black commercial vision that can still contain interesting ideas about Black life. This essay explores the differences between framing Black Panther as an example of independent Third Cinema vs. commercial Hollywood cinema and argues that the conditions of production make radicalism unlikely, but that does not mean that the loved media object is not politically interesting, or that the tension between adhering to ideology and resisting means it is less important than a radical and disruptive cultural production.

Universal CMAF Container for Efficient Cross-Format Low-Latency Delivery

<italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Current implementations of low-latency adaptive streaming over HTTP utilize a diversity of presentation formats, containers, origins, and caching behaviors. For efficient delivery, a common origin and a single set of cacheable media objects provide the highest performance and scalability across a delivery system. This article introduces a means of leveraging the Common Media Application Format (CMAF) as a standardized container format, combined with specific content encoding constraints and addressing mode constraints in low-latency HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) (LL-HLS) and low-latency Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) (LL-DASH), to provide a cross-format solution that maximizes edge cache efficiency and minimizes origin storage costs and client request rate</i> .

Reforming Prank Content as a Media for Da'wah on Youtube Channels

The prank phenomenon has mushroomed in modern society, especially in a cyber society. Prank content is a joke, joke, or comedy activity for both personal and communal, which has become a trend among Indonesian people, especially since 2019. Prank content as a communication message aims to provide entertainment (entertainment) to other people or (communicant). Even for contemporary preachers, prank content is used as 'reform' for da'wah media, for example, on Gus Aldi's Youtube channel. The purpose of this study is to analyze how to reform the content of prank content as a medium of propaganda on Gus Aldi's Youtube channel. The researcher uses a virtual ethnography method with the Cyber Media Analysis (AMS) technique which consists of the media room level, media documents, media objects, and experiences. The results of the study concluded that; 1) the content of prank content on Gus Aldi's Youtube channel represents the productivity and creativity of preachers in cyberspace; 2) the selection of Youtube media as a stimulus for the object of da'wah (message recipients); 3) determining the material for da'wah (Shalawat Nabi) to be a 'reinforcement' in the spiritual fulfillment and religiosity of cyber society.

RENDAHNYA TINGKAT OBJEKTIVITAS PEMBERITAAN SEPUTAR AGAMA DAN UMAT KRISTEN PADA ERAMUSLIM.COM

In a news, the facts presented by the media are second-hand reality and can be vulnerable to media agenda intervention. In the end, agenda media capable to separates the fact reconstruction process from journalistic procedures: the principle of objectivity. As a mass media with an Islamic supremacy viewpoint, Eramuslim.com often discusses religious sentiments through its news coverage, especially towards Christianity and its people. Eramuslim.com was even blocked by the Kementrian Komunikasi dan Informatika (Kominfo) twice, in March 2015 and January 2016, because it was considered as a site that supports radicalism or radicalism sympathizers. This research is based on agenda setting theory, and the concept of media objectivity. The research is based on a quantitative approach, with content analysis methods. The results shows, the level of objectivity of news related to Christianity published by Eramuslim.com during January 28, 2016 to May 24, 2021 was low. Only 3 news or 1.8% news of the 169 news researched, met the principle of objectivity.

Do media objectivity and frequency of informing mediate the relationship between traditionalist social attitudes and COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs?

ABSTRACT In this study, we hypothesized that traditionalist social attitudes (conservatism, religiousness, and authoritarianism) significantly predict COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs (Hiding Information and Harmless Virus), as well as conspiracy mentality in general. We also hypothesized that these relationships are mediated by the objectivity of the media through which individuals inform themselves, and the frequency with which people informed themselves about the pandemic. The sample consisted of 341 participants from Serbia (mean age 33.51 years), of which 40.5% were women. The results revealed that conservatism predicts both conspiracy belief sets and conspiracy mentality, authoritarianism only COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs, and religiousness only beliefs that the virus is harmless. Media objectivity does not mediate these relationships. The frequency of informing is a significant mediator only of the relationships between authoritarianism, and conspiracy beliefs and conspiracy mentality, indicating that the role of seeking information is in reducing the threat perceived by more authoritarian individuals. The study reveals that media objectivity might not play a role in reducing conspiracy beliefs. An explanation might be found in the importance of the perceived credibility of the media.