Media Training Research Articles

O impacto da formação inicial de professores nas apresentações digitais em educação

Esta é uma pesquisa de natureza qualitativa que tem como meta investigar o impacto da formação midiática em dois grupos de licenciandos, especificamente a produção e a reflexividade sobre apresentações digitais educativas. A investigação trata, portanto, dos pressupostos epistemológicos, filosóficos e metodológicos referentes ao debate em torno das apresentações digitais projetadas, com ou sem interferências áudio-scripto-visuais, assim como o uso destes recursos midiáticos em ambiente educacional, a sistemática de produção, a reflexividade dos produtores em relação a superação das dificuldades e desafios, bem como os saberes, as competências e habilidades adquiridas no processo de formação.

Psychiatrists Have Role to Play in Risk Communication

Back to table of contents Previous article Next article Professional NewsFull AccessPsychiatrists Have Role to Play in Risk CommunicationAaron LevinAaron LevinSearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:4 Dec 2015https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.pn.2015.12a14AbstractPsychiatrists can care for communities by understanding the need for and tools of thoughtful risk communication after disasters.Last year’s Ebola outbreak may have tapered off but the lessons learned from the epidemic that sickened more than 28,000 and claimed the lives of 11,000 continue to extend from the villages of West Africa to the streets of New York City, Sander Koyfman, M.D., the medical director for behavioral health at EmblemHealth in New York told an audience gathered at IPS: The Mental Health Services Conference in October.It can take a long time for a community to recover from a disaster, but psychiatrists have the skills to reduce anxiety among individuals and populations, says Sander Koyfman, M.D., president of Disaster Psychiatry Outreach.In West Africa, the Ebola outbreak was a long, slow disaster, perpetuated by a health infrastructure hobbled by poverty, said Koyfman, who is also the president of Disaster Psychiatry Outreach, an organization of volunteer psychiatrists who offer education and training in mental health following disasters. “The damage done by Ebola is hard to reverse,” Koyfman added, but it was further complicated by the fact that those in the communities hit hardest by the virus did not trust the government’s recommendations regarding how to stop the spread of the virus.Even in the United States, where just 11 cases of Ebola and two fatalities were reported, some criticized the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s response to the outbreak, according to Koyfman: “[The agency] was seen as too slow to respond, too muddled in its recommendations, and too mixed in its messages.”Koyfman suggested that such failures may have contributed to the media frenzy that followed the news in October 2014 that Craig Spencer, M.D., a doctor who had returned to New York after treating patients with Ebola in Africa, was hospitalized with an elevated temperature. “Now there is no actual danger to anyone else until the patient is fully symptomatic, but that didn’t keep politicians from calling Spencer ‘irresponsible’ and demanding quarantine orders for all travelers from West Africa,” Koyfman said. “Here was one person in one isolation room in one facility, and news coverage was frenetic.”Politicians and the news media called for scrubbing down the New York City subways where Spencer had traveled while asymptomatic. A bowling alley where he played after returning from his time in West Africa swabbed out bowling balls to allay fears.The overwrought political and media reactions did not match the medical reality, said Koyfman. That division was replicated in the hospital where Spencer was treated. Some staff members volunteered to care for him while others shunned those who did so.Anger and fear can cloud an individual’s ability to accurately assess risk, said Koyfman. But, psychiatrists can help such individuals and communities following disaster by creating a safe environment and encouraging calming, connectedness, coping skills, and hope. Working with the media can also help to relay accurate messages of risk, but should be done only by those with media training to avoid misinterpretation, he said.In fact, there is a science—or certainly a well-developed art—to risk communication, added Grant Brenner, M.D., a psychiatrist in private practice in New York.“Much of risk communication is about trust and credibility, not about data,” said Brenner, the author of Irrelationship: How We Use Dysfunctional Relationships to Hide From Intimacy (Central Recovery Press, 2015).Even so, many of the basic questions likely to be asked by the media or people affected by a disaster can be anticipated in advance, making it possible for experts to gather facts and rehearse what to say and how to say it, said Brenner. “Anticipation, preparation, and practice are key.” ■A first-person account of Craig Spencer’s experience with Ebola can be accessed here. ISSUES NewArchived

PELATIHAN PENDAMPING SOSIAL DALAM MENINGKATKAN KEMAMPUAN FASILITASI PROGRAM KELOMPOK USAHA BERSAMA

Penelitian ini dilatar belakangi oleh ketertarikan penulis akan pelatihan pendamping sosial dalam meningkatkan kemampuan Fasilitasi Program kelompok usaha bersama. Pelatihan pendamping sosial KUBE ini diselenggarakan di BBPPKS Regional II Bandung. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk memperoleh gambaran tentang: 1) Proses pembelajaran pembelajaran pelatihan pendamping sosial KUBE, 2) peningkatan kemampuan fasilitasi pendamping sosial KUBE dan 3) faktor yang mempengaruhi dalam pelaksanaan pelatihan pendamping sosial KUBE di BBPPKS. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitina ini adalah metode deskriptif dan menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dengan subjek penelitian pengelola, widyaiswara, lulusan pelatihan pendamping sosial KUBE dan anggota KUBE. adapun teknik pengumpulan data menggunakan teknik observasi, wawancara, studi dokumentasi dan trianggulasi data di BBPPKS Regional II Bandung. Dari hasil penelitian diperoleh kesimpulan sebagai berikut : (1) Proses pembelajaran pelatihan pendamping sosial KUBE dianalisis dari prosedur, pendekatan, metode, teknik dan media pembelajaran.Proses pembelajaran sudah disesuaikan dengan kebutuhan pelatihan (2) peningkatan kemampuan fasilitasi pendamping sosial kelompok usaha bersama dianalisis dari aspek pengetahuan, sikap dan keterampilan. Terdapat peningkatan yang di rasakan oleh pendamping KUBE yang telah mengikuti pelatihan pendamping sosial KUBE di BBPPKS dan anggota KUBE yang dibimbinginya. (3) Faktor yang mempengaruhi pelaksanaan pelatihan pendamping sosial KUBE. Faktor pendukung diantaranya perencanaan, anggaran, Program pemerintah, sarana prasarana, penggunaan media dan metode bervariatif, kompetensi widyaiswara, menciptakan relasi berbagai pihak, mampu mempererat tali silaturahim dan komunikasi antar pendamping KUBE dalam memecahkan permasalahan program KUBE yang ada. Sedangkan Faktor penghambat pelatihan ini adalah cuaca dingin, kemampuan narasumber atau widyaiswara tidak sama, kemampuan peserta berbedabeda dan jumlah peserta tidak sesuai dengan jumlah yang ditetapkan oleh pemerintah.

Criminal or forensic investigations in Sri Lanka and the media responsibility: the need for substantive media law and enforceable media ethics in Sri Lanka

This paper seeks to discuss the involvement of media in the criminal or forensic investigation process in Sri Lanka and its possible adverse consequences. Further, this paper attempts to build an argument to establish and propagate media legislation in Sri Lanka especially in reference to crime investigations while emphasising the need for media professionalism, training and enforceable set of media ethics for media personnel and units. The author upholds media freedom. Author reiterates media independence and pluralism in media. However, the right to express is not by any means above the rule of law or right to privacy. The media law and media ethics in Sri Lanka especially in reference to crime investigations is in its infancy and require a rapid growth immediately to safe guard the rights of victims, suspects and to promote the rule of law. Sri Lanka Journal of Forensic Medicine, Science & Law Vol.6(1): 25-28 (2015)

Editorial: The public understanding of nursing – time for a step change?

Editorial: The public understanding of nursing – time for a step change?

The stigma of autism in china: an analysis of newspaper portrayals of autism between 2003 and 2012

Autism is a highly stigmatized developmental disability in many societies, and the media are major contributors to such stigma. Presented here is the first systematic analysis of Chinese newspapers’ coverage of autism for stigma-causing content. More specifically, this analysis examines the age of autistic people reported, the image of autistic people, and the use of stigma cues (in terms of peril, mark, and shame) and challenge cues (in terms of personification, hope, and fight) in five leading newspapers in China between 2003 and 2012. It finds that while the reportage of autism increases over time, which might contribute to the public’s heightened awareness of the condition, such reportage is often biased. The most common stereotypes about autism in Chinese newspapers are autistic people as children, as patients, or as savants. The most often-used challenge cues are personification and hope, but their uses significantly decrease in percentage from 2003 to 2012. The most often used stigma cues are peril and mark. The use of the shame cue is relatively less frequent, but it increases significantly over the 10-year period. Theoretically, this article provides an application of stigma communication theory in a non-Western context. Practically, it not only contributes to the current knowledge about media representation of autism in China, but also suggests that it is important for media agencies and health care professionals to promote media guidelines and train health journalists for reporting disability issues in a nonstigmatizing way.

The Social Industry

Historical mass media and contemporary social media are typically seen as opposites. “The culture industry” was the term used by the Frankfurt School in the 1940s to explain the emerging commercial mass media. The culture industry was portrayed as a semi-fascist apparatus of indoctrination. It selected cultural products and made them popular based on obscure determinations of economic value. In contrast, the common view of contemporary social media is that it is more democratic. Using voting algorithms and human voting, social media can finally realize widespread participation that was denied to the passive audiences of the mass media system. Social media appear to remove the bottleneck of the mass media system, allowing everyone to aspire to celebrity, or at least popularity. However, despite these appearances, social media have also now evolved into an elaborate system that selects social products and makes them popular based on obscure determinations of economic value. Social media platforms filter, censor, control, and train—and they may do so without the user’s awareness. Advances in computation now make a social media industry possible that is based on individual difference and action rather than sameness and passivity. But in other respects, the social industry resembles the culture industry: the co-option of culture has been superseded by the co-option of sociality. The word “social” may then be the biggest challenge facing those who study social media. Our task is to rescue genuine sociality from the emerging social industry.

Book Review: Media Ethics at Work: True Stories from Young Professionals, edited by Lee Anne Peck and Guy S. Reel

Media Ethics at Work: True Stories from Young Professionals. Lee Anne Peck and Guy S. Reel, eds. Los Angeles, CA: CQ Press, 201 3. 344 pp. $52 pbk.One of the time-tested methods of teaching ethics is through the use of case study. In their book Media Ethics at Work: True Stories from Young Professionals, editors Lee Anne Peck and Guy S. Reel do not deviate from this approach. Instead, they refine it.Along with their twenty-two contributors, the two have created a lengthy body of case studies not from seasoned professionals working for major metropolitan newspapers or big-city television stations. Instead, they have created cases using information from students working for their student media outlets and professionals within a few years of graduation. As such, the authors contend, their cases are more like to resonate with students in college-level ethics classes.As the cases selected cover all the major topics in a typical ethics course, from plagiarism to knowing when a source is off-the-record to digital manipulation of photographs, the book is an excellent text for an ethics course or supplement to a reporting course or for training in a student media environment.The book gets off to a seemingly slow start, reviewing the philosophical theories of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Ross, and Rawl among others. Anticipating a quick jump into the cases, this may seem like an unnecessary delay. However, it proves to be a foundation for the book. Just as the plot of a successful novel recurs throughout the book, the references to the individuals who developed ethical theories recur through this book and becomes part of what makes this book useful and unique.Through twenty-three cases, the authors acknowledge such fundamental ideas as the following: Few ethical dilemmas are clear cut. Standards might include transparency, accuracy and fairness. Making ethical choices is a skill that gets better with experience. Even if you can legally publish such information, that doesn't make it ethical to do so. Acknowledging the tenets of various professional codes of ethics, they add such concepts as [I]t's clearly important to demonstrate care in your professional work, thus avoiding unnecessary harm.The authors also give suggestions on where young professionals can turn in times of crisis, including professional organizations, mentors in the workplace, co-workers and former professors. Both scholarly approaches and professional standards can help a practitioner reach a decision, say the authors in their discussion about a young public relations professional asked to impersonate a twelve-year-old online. Consistent references to the codes of ethics of major and minor media associations will prove a consistent resource to students. …

جودة التدريب الإعلامي في الأردن = Quality of Media Training in Jordan

The purpose of this study is twofold. The first is to explore the real aspect of media training in Jordan. The second is to assess the quality of media education and training from a journalist's perspective. In so doing, this study aims at shaping a scientific vision of the reality of training along with the required priorities in an attempt to match the quality standards for media training. This study is based on survey sampling, both descriptive and analytical. A sample of 212 journalists is drawn from all the 1800 Jordanian journalists working in civil, private and public, media institutions. By way of concluding, this study revealed that the level of quality training in Jordan is low from a journalist's perspective. Further, the methods of teaching journalism and media in Jordanian universities are not in line with the standards for quality education and qualification in media sectors. On the side, the problems hindering the development of the quality of media training are the weakness of trainers and trainees, the modesty in spending allocations on training, and poor coordination among the stakeholders of media training. Among other factors is also the absence of national independent institutions of media training. More importantly, this study emphasized that there is a statistical relation between the awareness of journalists of the resources of quality training and the kind of (whether private, contributed, public or governmental) ownership of media outlets

Helping Students Understand Media: Examining the Efficacy of Interdisciplinary Media Training at the University Level

Media literacy interventions offer relatively new and promising avenues for the prevention of risky health behaviors among children and adolescents, but current literature remains largely equivocal about their efficacy. We propose that (a) much of this ambiguity stems from the lack of conceptual clarity in the literature regarding the cognitive process through which media literacy interventions influence their target audience, and (b) that the ability to track this cognitive process by means of valid and reliable measures is necessary to evaluating the effects of media literacy programs on their audience. Accordingly, the primary objective of this study was to develop and test theoretically-grounded measures of audiences’ degree of engagement with the content of media literacy programs based on the recognition that engagement (and not participation per se) can better explain and predict individual variations in the effects of these programs. We tested the validity and reliability of this measure with two different samples of 10th grade high school students (Study I N = 294; Study II N = 171) who participated in a pilot and actual test of a brief media literacy curriculum. Responses to an inventory of items measuring evaluation of the media literacy program underwent an exploratory factor analysis for Study I. Four message evaluation factors (involvement, perceived novelty, critical thinking, personal reflection) emerged and were confirmed through CFA (Study II), demonstrating acceptable reliability as scales as well as item-level convergent validity and convergent and discriminant validity with other measures. We discuss the implications of including process of effect measures in the design and evaluation of media literacy interventions.

Helping Students Understand Media: Examining the Efficacy of Interdisciplinary Media Training at the University Level

Crowded curriculums and restrictive program requirements often mean that comprehensive media literacy education is impractical at the university level, and that media literacy competencies can be addressed only in the form of narrowly focused lessons integrated into existing classes. This study considers the extent to which such limited lessons can lead to the development of broader, well-rounded media literacy competencies. Data gathered from a quasi-experiment involving 118 participants suggests that narrowly focused media lessons can be used to encourage the development of broader media literacy competencies, but that focused instruction remains necessary as well.

Gift solicitation and acceptance in journalism practice: An assessment of Kuwaiti journalists’ perspective

Media ethics generally recommends that journalists should avoid accepting any form of gratification in order to maintain their objectivity and professional integrity. This study investigated the application of this ethical injunction in Kuwait. It surveyed and interviewed Kuwaiti journalists on their attitude toward gratification. Results indicate a breach of this ethical recommendation. Reasons for this include lack of media ethics education and training among journalists and the absence of ethical guidance by media owners. In addition, for a number of Kuwaiti reporters, journalism is a part-time job.

Science journalists' perceptions and attitudes to pseudoscience in Spain.

Using interviews and questionnaires, we explored the perceptions and attitudes of 49 Spanish science journalists regarding pseudoscience. Pseudoscience, understood as false knowledge that endeavours to pass as science, is a controversial and complex matter that potentially poses a risk to society. Given that concern over this issue has grown in recent years in Spain, our aim was to evaluate how pseudoscience operates in journalistic practice in Spanish media. Our data reveal not only a lack of editorial policies in regard to pseudoscience, but also the existence of a significant number of science journalists who make light of the potential threat implied by the pseudosciences in the media. Some journalists point to the lack of scientific training of editors and media managers as one of the reasons for the proliferation of the pseudosciences.

Professional role perceptions among Iraqi Kurdish journalists from a ‘state within a state’

Twenty years after a foreign intervention in Iraqi Kurdistan during Saddam Hussein’s authoritarian rule, this study found that Kurdish journalists’ professional role perceptions appear, to an extent, to reflect liberal democratic news media values. The study used the hierarchy-of-influences framework to examine determinants of professional role perceptions among Iraqi Kurdish journalists ( N = 175), who interacted with democratic institutions more than a decade longer than the rest of the country. The ‘Watchdog’ role perception model was the strongest of eight models in the study with influences including Western news media training, Internet use frequency, and ‘democrat’ political ideology over ‘Nationalist’. Furthermore, the ‘Islamist’ ideology had a stronger influence than ‘democrat’ on ‘Watchdog’ role perceptions, potentially indicating these perspectives, at times, may be embraced by groups not within the ruling parties.

The Importance of Media Training and Crisis Planning for Today’s Modern Utility Executive: How to NOT Say Stupid Things During Your Media Interview

The Importance of Media Training and Crisis Planning for Today’s Modern Utility Executive: How to NOT Say Stupid Things During Your Media Interview

Experts as facilitators for the implementation of social media in the library? A social network approach

Purpose– Based on the social capital theory, the authors assume that personal and professional experts are both relevant to people's competence development. However, to date, there is little empirical evidence of how professional experts can support, or impede, people in learning how to deal with social media. The purpose of this paper is to examine the role and position of social media experts in the distribution of information on social media within the library as organization.Design/methodology/approach– The paper draws upon social network and qualitative methods, within three public libraries located in Belgium.Findings– The findings suggest that as the most central actors, social media experts in a library play a significant role in either supporting or constraining the distribution of information on social media.Research limitations/implications– While the sample size was chosen to conduct a mixed methods study that would explore how the position of a social media expert in an organization such as the library facilitates or prevents the exchange of social media information, the authors acknowledge the need for large-scale empirical studies that can substantiate the findings in larger and more diverse samples.Originality/value– This unique study explores how the role and position social media experts in Belgian public libraries can support, or impede, librarians in learning how to deal with social media. This study is useful for other public libraries who want to implement social media, establish a social media policy and/or provide social media training.

Take the Media Plunge: Become an Expert, Enhance Your Practice, Engage Your Patients

Program Description: Unprecedented availability of health-related information on the Internet, television, radio, and print has empowered our patients to play larger roles in medical decision making. Increasingly, to help educate a knowledge-hungry public and to help build their practices, otolaryngologists must interact with journalists. Formal media training is often lacking in residency or fellowship, making this task seem daunting. This miniseminar reveals the multitude of media opportunities, including those on the Academy Web site, and how to best interact with journalists and the public. Speakers include renowned television and print health journalists and otolaryngologists with media experience. Audience participation is encouraged. Educational Objectives: (1) Improve their communication with journalists. (2) Recognize the opportunities within and outside the Academy for print, television, radio, and online media exposure. (3) Increase involvement with the media to enhance your practice and educate your patients.

The significance of small differences: Cultural diversity and broadcasting in Ireland

This article is concerned with a comparative assessment of public service and commercial broadcast media in Ireland, specifically in relation to their respective capacities to reflect and promote migration-related diversity and migrant integration. The core material drawn upon in the article derives from the findings of a recent exploratory, pilot-level European research project (‘Media for Diversity and Migrant Integration’, MEDIVA) involving Ireland and five other partner-European Union member states which sought to identify and assess the form and extent of diversity management practices in the media at the different levels of journalistic production with special reference to Third Country Nationals or persons without European Union citizenship. In this article, we first consider how processes of cultural diversification in European countries are reflected in broadcasting policies, before fixing our focus on public service broadcasting in the ‘local’ context and the changing broadcasting landscape in Ireland. We then move to our empirical-level study which examines the MEDIVA findings regarding the roles and representations of Third Country Nationals in the context of RTE and TV3, comparatively. The performance of these broadcasters in this respect is assessed and examined in terms of programme production processes, recruitment practices, media training and content output. The transformations that Irish society have experienced in terms of the demographics of its population over the past two decades make Ireland a very interesting if not unique case study here. We then consider the extent to which the Irish setting resonates with the broader European context, and seek to identify specific points of correspondence and difference between the Irish broadcasting experience and that of the other countries participating in the MEDIVA project. While the nature of the differences in the approach of public service and commercial broadcasters to migrant diversity may prove to be relatively minor, they nevertheless demonstrate an interesting and significant divergence when considered from a range of perspectives.

International Nurses Day and press coverage in South Africa

In some countries, nursing's appeal as a profession is diminishing, partly due to poor press coverage and the media's portrayal of an over-loaded, poorly paid profession. The media is important for shaping public perceptions and raising policy issues. International Nurses Day gives nurses an opportunity to profile their critical contribution to quality health care. To determine the influence of this commemorative day on press coverage about nursing by examining whether there was a difference in the proportion of South African press articles on nursing between January-April and May-June 2010. A quantitative content analysis was conducted of all press articles mentioning 'nursing' or 'nurse/s' in the South African lay press from 1 January-31 June 2010. Articles were coded for theme, slant and prominence, and inter-coder reliability was assessed. Descriptive statistics with chi square or Fisher's exact tests were used to compare the two time periods. We identified 242 articles in 95 publications. The month of May had almost double the press coverage of January. International Nurses Day articles were mainly positive, and appeared in May to June in weekly community publications rather than in daily national and regional newspapers. When they were excluded, most articles portrayed nursing negatively. The 6-month period may not be representative of the entire year. Only the dominant topic was coded, which possibly influenced the analysis. International Nurses Day positively influenced the extent and slant of press coverage. Efforts to sustain coverage beyond the event through strategic partnerships and media engagement should be strengthened. The media's portrayal of nurses and nursing may influence the choice of nursing as a career. International Nurses Day is an opportunity to portray nursing positively. Media training may help nurses to advocate for their profession in the media.

Retrospective Study of the Impact of Fellowship Training on Two Quality and Safety Measures in Uterine Artery Embolization

To measure the impact of 1-year interventional fellowship training on fluoroscopic time and contrast media utilization in uterine artery embolization (UAE). Retrospective single institution analysis of 323 consecutive UAEs performed by 12 interventional fellows using a standardized protocol. Fluoroscopy time and contrast media volume were recorded for each patient and correlated with stage of fellowship training. Preprocedure uterine volume (using MRI or ultrasound) was used as a measure of procedural complexity. Regression analysis was conducted per trainee factoring in duration of training, procedure number, supervising radiologist, uterine volume, and outcome variables of fluoroscopy time and contrast media volume. Median number of patients treated per trainee was 27 (range, 16-43) with mean fluoroscopic time 24.5 minutes (range, 4-90 min) and mean contrast volume 190 mL (range, 50-320 mL). Increasing uterine volume had no significant effect (P > .05) on fluoroscopic time but significantly increased (P < .001) contrast media volume. Significant training effect was identified with decrease in fluoroscopic time (P < .001) and decrease in contrast volume (P= .02) over training. Over the course of a 1-year fellowship, these summed toadecrease of 12 minutes in UAE fluoroscopy time and 17 mL less contrast. A significant (P < .05) training effect that is clinically relevant was demonstrated over the course of a yearlong interventional radiology fellowship program in performance of a standardized protocol for UAE. This data supports fellowship training as a basis for UAE credentialing and privileging.