Focus Of Media Research Articles

The Rise of Her Economy in the New Media Era: An Innovative Study of Women's Consumption Power and Marketing Strategies

With the advent of the new media era, the rise of her economy has become a phenomenon that cannot be ignored, and the economic influence of women in the consumer market is also increasing. Starting from the perspective of consumer culture and based on domestic and international research results, this paper explores the behaviours and preferences of female consumers in the digital realm, derives the study of the alienation of female aesthetics and consumption in the consumer society, and grasps the behavioural characteristics of female consumption in general by linking theory to practice, as well as analyzing the effects of marketing strategies on social media platforms to reveal the evolution of the relationship between women, new media and the consumer market. The results of this study demonstrate the key role of new media in shaping women's consumption behaviour and highlight the importance of flexible marketing strategies in effectively engaging the female consumer base. Finally, the article reflects on the negative impact of the media's focus on women's issues in an era of proximity to the female psyche. The study provides practical insights for a deeper understanding of the she-economy phenomenon and for companies wishing to capitalise on the growing power of the female consumer in the digital age. In turn, it promotes socially virtuous consumption and the realisation of a truly equal, respectful and caring consumer market.

Shifting Roles of Media in Tanzania: From Development Communication to Watchdog Journalism

This study examines the implementation and challenges associated with development communication in mainland Tanzania, focusing on news articles and programs from eight media organizations. Surveys, interviews, and focus group discussions were conducted to gather perspectives from journalists, editors, and news consumers. Prior to 1992, Tanzania's media landscape was oriented towards promoting the national development agenda. However, policy changes influenced by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund's Structural Adjustment Program shifted the media's focus towards watchdog journalism, aimed at monitoring government performance. This shift impacted both private and state-owned media entities. Presently, the media landscape in mainland Tanzania is rapidly evolving into a profitable industry, serving as a tool for accountability, government communication, and revenue generation. It's crucial for Tanzanian consumers to actively engage with the diverse media options available, rather than passively consuming information primarily designed to attract advertisers.
 The transformation of Tanzania's media landscape from development-oriented to watchdog journalism has significant implications for both media organizations and consumers. While this shift promotes accountability and transparency, it also raises concerns about the role of media in advancing development goals. The findings indicate a need for media organizations to balance their roles as watchdogs and promoters of development. This requires a reevaluation of editorial priorities and a commitment to providing accurate and balanced information to the public. Furthermore, there is a pressing need to enhance media literacy among Tanzanian consumers to empower them to critically evaluate and navigate the diverse media landscape. This includes providing education on media literacy in schools and communities and promoting digital literacy skills to enable access to online information.

Before the Court and in the Press: Newspaper Coverage of Creationism and School Prayer Movements' Legal Framing

During the last century, social movement organizations have mobilized around what role religion should play in school. These struggles have focused on teaching creationism and evolution in the science classroom and the appropriateness of school prayer and Bible reading in public schools. Court cases like Scopes and Engel are infamous in American history, while others are much less well-known. This project explores media coverage of social movements that do not engage in typical protest activity and instead choose to operate in more institutional contexts. This paper will begin by presenting the coverage patterns of each movement across the twentieth century, illustrating how the media's focus is primarily influenced by movements either initiating legal action, being compelled to appear in court, or reacting to judicial proceedings. Next, it will present a typology of coverage that these legal-based movements received. A movement's legal framing is carried in and through the media, and sometimes, the framing is all that is reflected in media attention, making this type of reporting so attractive to movement organizations. The legal constraints over framing and legitimate actors account for some of the media exposure, which was likely to be equitable in tone and quantity to both the creationism and school prayer movements. To understand media coverage of social movements, scholars must begin to account for the cycles and patterns of coverage likely to occur when a movement ends up in court.

Social Media Instagram, Tiktok, dan X Dalam Pengungkapan Pelanggaran Hukum Dalam Konflik Antara Palestina Dan Israel

This research explores the role of social media (Instagram, TikTok, and Platform X) in exposing legal violations during the Palestine-Israel conflict. The study aims to understand the impact of these three platforms through the Instagram account @suarasurabayamedia. The findings indicate that Instagram accelerates information dissemination and visual impact, TikTok creates mass awareness through short video formats, and Platform X provides space for diverse perspectives. The social media's focus on Israeli atrocities influences public opinion, supports international solidarity movements, and triggers international pressure and UN resolutions. The impact of social media involves information dissemination, support, amplification of marginalized voices, but also carries the risk of inaccurate information and criticism from authorities. Therefore, the use of social media needs to be balanced with responsibility to prevent the spread of harmful information or worsening conflict situations.

Media (re)presentation of a black woman esports player: The case of Chiquita Evans in the NBA 2K League

This study investigates the media construction of Chiquita Evans, the first woman to participate in the NBA 2 K League, uncovering a complex interplay of gender norms and power dynamics. Explored through Foucauldian discourse analysis, her identity negotiation within this unique space, where sport, gaming, and media converge, is illuminated. Evans emerges as a trailblazer who challenges and reshapes established gender conventions in the male-dominated esports arena. While her defiance of gender norms is evident, the media's focus on her physicality inadvertently perpetuates gendered expectations. Moreover, Evans’ participation showcases her navigation of racial and gender norms, exposing lingering biases. The intersection of sport and media logic demonstrates evolving dynamics while also highlighting challenges faced by women players. Overall, the media construction of Evans works to encourage acceptance while reproducing established stereotypes, suggesting that increased representation may not inherently challenge power dynamics.

Investors' Responses to Management Getting Out Ahead of Negative Media Stories: The Moderating Effects of Management's Action Plan and the Media's Focus

ABSTRACTCrisis communications experts commonly advise managers to get out ahead of the media to increase management's credibility. We use an experiment to examine how investors' responses to management getting out ahead of a negative media story are moderated by management's action plan and the media's focus on the company. When the company is the focus of the media's lede, investors respond more negatively when the company gets out ahead of the media with plans to change, instead of stay, the course to handle the negative issue. Yet, investors respond more positively when the company responds after the media with plans to change, instead of stay, the course. In contrast, when the media does not focus on the company in its lede, but instead only mentions the company in the story, we find that investors' responses are not sensitive to management's strategic disclosure choices that we examine.

Privacy Preserving with Surfed Social Media Content

The world is going to become more digital day by day. A lot of data has been collected from Web Site users on how they think about society and what they believe in. we are targeting generalized part(content based retrieval) in Youtube surf material, in the proposed stage the data collection is more important and making of uncertain data to certain term, like find the sentimental relation between the contents and other equivalent structure of data to be identified, kind of group formulation and removing the out layers of uncertain data with privacy preserving, in such aspect we can able to achieve the correct content over area of people interest which can be used to improvise the surfing contents for any sectors. In order to obtain priority, information must be classified according to the approximate value of three variables. First, the frequency in which a subject appears in the mainstream media over time is a significant factor that can be referred to as the topic’s media focus (MF). Second, the topic’s temporal prominence in social media means that it has a high level of consumer interest (UA). Finally, the social media interaction between users who mention the topic reflect the intensity of the group debating it, and could be considered as user interaction (UI) with the subject. SociRank increases the consistency and variety of topics that are automatically listed, according to our tests.

Analyzing and Ranking Prevalent News over Social Media

Since the growth of social media, news outrage over mass through social media has become evident and its control over all information sources has increased significantly. Social media services such as twitter collects enormous amounts of information and allows media companies to publish news related information as tweets. Every other big news company has its twitter account to public news in form of tweets. Beside news social media platforms has enormous amount of news attached to them as well. To make correct and better information reach to users we have to filter noise and segregate the content based on similarity and content’s respective value. Even after filtering noise, information payload exists in data so to prioritize information must be ranked in order of considered factors. In our proposed work, news are filtered and ranked based on three factors. First, media focus (MF) which tells the temporal prevalence of a particular topic in news media. Second, user attention (UA) which tells how mass is responding to the topic. Last, is the user interaction which tells how users are forming view over the topic. Our proposed work introduces an unsupervised machine learning framework which identifies news topics prevalent in both social media and the news media, and then ranks them ordering them using their degrees of MF, UA, and UI.

Cross-language adaptation

The article is devoted to the study of the phenomenon of collocations on the example of media texts. We analyzed phrases in Turkish, English, and Russian texts based on the frequency and semantic unity of the units. The relevance of the research is that we have done comparative work in unrelated languages. The significance of the article is confirmed by the results obtained. Often being nonquivalent relative to another language, collocations require special attention from translators. The applied task of the research is to identify patterns of collocation functioning in a certain language and cultural environment. The media's focus on texts is explained by the fact that they act as a mirror of a living language. We also tried to distinguish the term in English, Russian and Turkish linguistics.

Exploring Design Principles for Sharing of Personal Informatics Data on Ephemeral Social Media

People often do not receive the engagement or responses they desire when they share on broad social media platforms. Sharers are hesitant to share trivial accomplishments, and the emphasis on data often results posts that audiences find repetitive or unengaging. Ephemeral social media's focus on self-authored content and sharing trivial accomplishments has the potential to ameliorate these challenges. We explore design principles for incorporating personal informatics data like steps, heart rate, or duration in data-driven stickers as a first step towards integrating these data into ephemeral social media. We examine the effect of a sticker's presentation style, domain, domain-relevance, and background through three surveys with 506 total participants. We uncover the importance of domain-relevant backgrounds and stickers, identify the situational value of stickers styled as analogies, embellished, and badges, and demonstrate that data-driven stickers can make ephemeral content more informative and entertaining, discussing implications for platforms and tools.

The opioid-impaired provider: A call for national guidance to maximize rehabilitation while protecting patient safety.

The opioid-impaired provider: A call for national guidance to maximize rehabilitation while protecting patient safety.

A new approach of ranking prevalent news topics from social media using unsupervised techniques

The precious data from online origin has developed into a extended research. The mass media and news media provides the daily events to the common people. Huge amount of information is been achieved by an online social media suchlike Twitter, which contains more information about news-associated content. It is necessary to find a way to filter noise, for these resources to be useful and grab the content that is depend on the similarity to news media. Despite after the noise is eliminated the excessive data still remain in the data so it is essential to prioritize it for utilization. We are introducing three factors for prioritization. The unsupervised technique finds the news topics that are common in the pair of social media and news media, and then ranks them by the applicability factors such as MF, UA and UI. Initially the temporal prevalence of the appropriate topic in news media focus (MF). Secondary the temporal prevalence of the appropriate topic in social media illustrates the user attention (UA). Finally the interconnection among the social media users who specify this topic demonstrates the power of the society who is discussing; it is termed as the user interaction (UI).

News Rank: Ranking News Topics based on Social Media Factors

All media sources, particularly the news media have educated the everyday news. These days, internet based media like twitter gives us an immense amount of information that is created by client, which potentially contains news related information. These sources to be helpful we should remove undesirable information and concentrate just the information which is like the news media. Indeed, even though the unwanted information can still exist, so which is vital to give need to its usage. For this prioritization, information must be positioned utilizing three components. First Media Focus(MF) of the Topic which principally centers around both internet based life and news media, Next User Attention(UA) which depends on clients’ interests and User Interaction(UI), which is on how client responds to that specific topic. This is an unsupervised framework News Rank--- which find the news topics which is applicable in both news media and internet based life and after that ranking the news topics utilizing degree of three elements.

BlogNewsRank: Finding and Ranking Frequent News Topics Using Social Media Factors

In early days, mass media sources such as news media used to inform us about daily events. Now a days, social media services such as Twitter huge amount of user-generated data, which has a great potential to contain informative news-related content. For these resources to be useful, we have to find a way to filter noise and capture the content that, based on its similarity to the news media, is considered valuable. Even after noise is removed, information overload may still exist in the remaining data. Hence it is convenient to prioritize it for consumption. To achieve prioritization, information must be ranked in order of estimated importance considering mainly three factors. First, the temporal prevalence of a particular topic in the news media is a factor of importance, and can be considered the media focus (MF) of a topic. Second, the temporal prevalence of the topic in social media indicates its user attention (UA). Last, the interaction between the social media users who mention this topic indicates the strength of the community discussing it, and can be regarded as the user interaction (UI) toward the topic. We propose an unsupervised framework—BlogNewsRank—which identifies news topics prevalent in both social media and the news media, and then ranks them by relevance(frequency) using their degrees of MF, UA, and UI.

Oxytocin: From aHormone for Birth to aSocial Hormone : The Hormonal Governance of Sociability aka Society

In the mass media, the hormone Oxytocin is currently being debated as the biochemical basis of sociability and apowerful neuropharmacological solution for (re-)establishing societal cohesion. Given its beginning as a'bodyhormone' early in the 20thcentury, this article will trace the extraordinary career of Oxytocin from aregulator of birth to aregulator of society. What makes so strong aclaim intelligible and acceptable? Our analysis of the scientific discourse on Oxytocin (1906-1990), the mass media discourse since the 1990s, and its repercussions for the scientific discourse during the same period, suggest aseries of re-configurations of scientific theories and practices, as well as of the conception of the substance itself. Oxytocin became established in the first half of the 20thcentury, and as aneurohormone as early as the 1950s, yet during the following decades attracted little scientific attention. Only following the mass media's focus on the suggested effects of Oxytocin on love and bonding did the substance increasingly become the focus of empirical research. This work argues that the reception of Oxytocin as apotential neurohormonal basis for individual sociability strongly relies on the mass media discourses, biopolitical linkages that had already been made in the first half of the 20thcentury aiming at the regulation of life, and atechnoscientific mode of research on Oxytocin. At their intersection Oxytocin emerged as asocial hormone.

SociRank: Identifying and Ranking Prevalent News Topics Using Social Media Factors

Mass media sources, specifically the news media, have traditionally informed us of daily events. In modern times, social media services such as Twitter provide an enormous amount of user-generated data, which have great potential to contain informative news-related content. For these resources to be useful, we must find a way to filter noise and only capture the content that, based on its similarity to the news media, is considered valuable. However, even after noise is removed, information overload may still exist in the remaining data—hence, it is convenient to prioritize it for consumption. To achieve prioritization, information must be ranked in order of estimated importance considering three factors. First, the temporal prevalence of a particular topic in the news media is a factor of importance, and can be considered the media focus (MF) of a topic. Second, the temporal prevalence of the topic in social media indicates its user attention (UA). Last, the interaction between the social media users who mention this topic indicates the strength of the community discussing it, and can be regarded as the user interaction (UI) toward the topic. We propose an unsupervised framework—SociRank—which identifies news topics prevalent in both social media and the news media, and then ranks them by relevance using their degrees of MF, UA, and UI. Our experiments show that SociRank improves the quality and variety of automatically identified news topics.

Review: Towards a Typology of Soviet Mass Housing: Prefabrication in the USSR 1955–1991, by Philipp Meuser and Dimitrij Zadorin

Philipp Meuser and Dimitrij Zadorin Towards a Typology of Soviet Mass Housing: Prefabrication in the USSR 1955–1991 Berlin: DOM, 2015, 456 pp., ca. 1,000 illus. $79.95 (cloth), ISBN 9783869224466; $59.95 (paper), 9783869223922 Between the mid-1950s and its collapse in the early 1990s, the Soviet Union organized the largest mass housing construction campaign in human history. The transformation was momentous: in three decades, approximately thirty million families were ushered into modern living as the socialist welfare state provided them for the first time with their own individual apartments, most of them industrially built and equipped with amenities like central heating and running water. The endeavor was epic, its sheer scope greatly exceeding such iconic modernization projects as the Haussmannization of Paris. Like Haussmannization, the Soviet housing campaign produced its own architectural icons, most notably the so-called khrushchevka, a simple bar of three to five stories developed under Nikita Khrushchev's reign. Yet, despite its success at accommodating tens of millions in a relatively short time, the Soviet mass housing program acquired a distinctly bad reputation. Notorious for shoddy construction, cramped spaces, and drab urban environments, the buildings came under fire both from professional circles and from the public long before the collapse of the Soviet Union. Despite the many practical and theoretical revisions aimed at improving the standards of design and construction, the negative image of the program's housing prevailed, becoming entrenched as a global stereotype of soulless urban monotony, even though comparable industrially produced housing was constructed across the world, regardless of political and ideological divisions. In the past several years, scholars have started challenging the simplistic image of Soviet mass housing as an unqualified failure, bringing to light the project's emancipatory dimension as well as its social, political, and economic complexities.1 Such scholarly efforts resonate with the simultaneous resurgence of popular interest in the built environments of the former socialist world, most obviously manifested through the mass media's focus on the more …

Poppies, Tommies and remembrance

The centenary of WWI has produced a plethora of activities and events, building upon the cultural obsession with remembrance that emerged in Britain in the last 30 years and in which the media plays a significant role. WWI frames contemporary practices of remembrance, but politicians, organisations and individuals contest the meanings of Remembrance Sunday and the Poppy. Remembrance, narratives, myths and memories of WWI are tied up with constructions of nationhood and recently there has been a blurring in the public imagination between contemporary conflicts and WWI. Broadcast media's focus on private lives and personal stories have led the Tommy to emerge as a new working class hero, a victim as well as a and family member and enabled those in the armed forces to have an increasingly central place in British cultural life. Questions remain about how this will shape Britain's military involvement in the current volatile global situation.

What are the barriers which discourage 15-16 year-old girls from participating in team sports and how can we overcome them?

Given the clear benefits of regular physical activity (such as reduced risks of cardiovascular disease and obesity, as well as other benefits including those related to mental health), exploration of the reasons that adolescent girls give for not taking part in team sports may be particularly valuable for enhancing later rates of participation. We combined questionnaires (n = 60) and semistructured interviews (n = 6) to assess the barriers that prevent 15-16-year-old girls from participating in extracurricular team games and what can be done to overcome these barriers and improve physical activity levels. Four barriers became prominent as to why girls in this sample do not participate: Internal Factors, Existing Stereotypes, Other Hobbies and Teachers. Methods to overcome these barriers were identified; changing teachers' attitudes and shifting the media's focus away from male sport. Following the successful summer Olympics and Paralympics in the UK, and the resulting positive focus on some of the nation's female athletes, a shift in focus may be possible. However, this needs to be maintained to allow girls more opportunities, role models and motivation to participate in sport.

Book Review: Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights: The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done to Fix It

Robert McChesney and Victor Pickard, eds. Will the Lost Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights: Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done to Fix It. New York, NY: New Press, 201 1. 372 pp.Readers who value journalism may be excused for wishing, about third of the way through this anthology, that it came with antidepressants. But keep reading.Robert McChesney (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Victor Pickard (New York University) have compiled thirty-two essays and articles, about third of which were published previously. essays are divided into three sections. first ten are organized under the heading The Crisis Unfolds, followed by The American Traditions and The Way Forward.Contributors include McChesney and John Nichols, his coauthor on Death and Life of American Journalism, plus Pickard, Craig Aaron, Eric Alterman, the late C. Edwin Baker, Yochai Benkler, Federal Communications Commission member Michael J. Copps, Leonard Downie Jr. and Michael Schudson, Thomas Frank, Todd Gitlin, Chris Hedges, Janine Jackson, Pamela Newkirk, Clay Shirky, David Simon, and Paul Starr.While there is great deal of consensus among the authors, McChesney and Pickard have, happily, included essays that diverge from the consensus. end result is thought-provoking collection that reflects much conventional and unconventional wisdom about what is wrong with American journalism and what could be done to improve it.In parts I and II, essayists offer variety of explanations for how the news got into its current predicament. Much material about the financial travails of the legacy media is familiar, although there are some fresh perspectives. For example, Janine Jackson suggests that hearing that advertisers no longer wish to subsidize the news is like learning that foxes have decided to get out of the henhouse-protection business (p. 204).Jackson's comment represents general consensus throughout the book that commercial interests and independent public affairs reporting do not mix well. Readers of McChesney's earlier work, most notably Rich Media, Poor Democracy, will not be surprised that profit-driven journalism has few fans here. Journalist Matt Welch speaks for many contributors when he argues that the mainstream news media's focus on a dreary roll call of depressing statistics (p. 214) about the news ignores the opportunities that await journalists and audiences in the emerging media environment.Beyond the financial challenges, contributors also address the structural failings of modern journalism. Todd Gitlin, for example, says that declining circulation and revenue are only two of five crises facing the media. others are declining attention because of more competition, declining authority to set the public agenda, and longpracticed deference to authority that has led to rampant (p. 99).Similarly, Chris Hedges attributes public distrust to the news media's devotion to the ideal of objectivity. rules of objectivity led to an overreliance on sources in the and the formula of balancing opposing views, even when some of those views were clearly crackpot. Hedges writes that once the power elite became incompetent and morally bankrupt, the press, along with the power elite, lost its final vestige of credibility (p. …