Multimedia News Research Articles

Los labs como fórmula de innovación en los medios

This study analyzes the characteristics, activities and results of the laboratories –also known simply as labs– promoted in recent years by certain high-quality international news companies. A comparative study of 31 labs was performed, based on the corporate information offered on their websites and on their Twitter accounts. This analysis identifies the prototypical structure, tasks, operations and results of the media-promoted labs as of January 2015. The research identifies four main models: 1) labs that develop applications and digital technologies; 2) labs that explore multimedia news storytelling and data journalism formats; 3) labs that promote business projects and startups; and finally, 4) labs focused on training activities and media literacy programs.

Renegotiating Online News

Abstract Online journalism is negotiated and renegotiated in the newsroom of Journalen, the training website for students in journalism at Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences. Using quantitative and qualitative methods, the paper examines three spring terms of online news production by journalism students, particularly looking at sources, links and their multimedia news production. The findings are compared to the students’ professional peers in four news sites in the same period. All five sites are moving towards a convergent news modality. But the students tend to use more sources than their professional peers.

How did the meanings constructed by Taiwanese pre-service teachers from educational news media affect their beliefs?

The study investigates how Taiwanese pre-service teachers make meaning after reading positive or negative news coverage of educational events and how they construct meaning impact their pedagogical beliefs. An experiment with a two-group pre-test–post-test design, consisting of a positive and negative news group, is conducted. Multimedia news stories of seven educational events were selected and evaluated as positive or negative materials. In total, 215 pre-service teachers were assigned randomly to one of the two groups. Analytical results reveal that pre-service teachers who read positive news preferred inference to construct meaning. Their pedagogical beliefs did not differ when they used interpretation or inference. For negative news, pre-service teachers preferred interpretation; however, belief scores using interpretation were lower than those using inference. Specifically, meanings constructed using interpretation when reading negative news about school administrative engagement severely weakens their pedagogical beliefs. Pre-service teachers should be given sufficient material and training to rationally deal with a wide range of news stories, especially negative educational news stories.

THE GLOBAL JOURNALIST IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

This study presents selected findings related to journalistic competencies or skills from surveys of more than 29,000 journalists working in 31 countries or territories, conducted between 1996 and 2011. The data come from survey studies included in Weaver and Willnat's 2012 book, The Global Journalist in the 21st Century. The study focuses on aspects such as journalists' age and education, working conditions, professional values or orientations, opinions about the importance of different aspects of the job, and attitudes toward new reporting skills that are necessary to cope with a multimedia news environment. The study concludes that there are no clear patterns of such competency among the journalists included in this analysis. However, tendencies were observed for some countries to have younger, less experienced, less formally educated journalists who do not highly value the interpretive or analytical role of journalism, who are less satisfied with their work, who have less freedom in their work, and who lack the multimedia skills necessary in the age of online journalism. The study also calls for systematic content analysis studies that investigate whether self-reported competencies of journalists in each nation actually correlate with the quality of the news products they create.

Autopoiesis in multimedia news messages: A discussion

AbstractAutopoietic theory can be applied to a multimedia news story to assist in understanding the topology of the multimedia and how the multimedia message is created from the relationships between the media. In addition, when a news story is created using autopoietic principles, it helps to create a news story that is clear and coherent, and where the intended message is communicated to the target audience. Therefore autopoietic theory can be used in two ways: as a framework to analyse an existing multimedia text and as a model when creating multimedia so that the target audience interprets the message as intended.

Changing with The Times of India (Bangalore): remaking a post-political media field

This article examines the changing relationship between the elite English-language press and its interface with urban politics in India's best known high-tech centre, Bangalore. Print journalism remains a core feature of India's growing multi-media news field, and this article critically analyses the profound changes in the political role of news in the last two decades. The changing relationship between the dominant news media and the state in the context of the rapid expansion of private news channels reveals the ascendance of what we elaborate in this article as neoliberal newspeak, following transnational trends. We conclude by considering the ways in which contestations over the growing and visible inequalities of a city like Bangalore in the last decade – including the fissures inside the dominant English news media – signal the potential to disrupt the coherence of the definitional power of neoliberal newspeak.

Transcoding the news: An investigation into multimedia journalism published on nytimes.com 2000–2008

Manovich (2001) describes the changes that result from translating an established cultural product into a new technology as ‘transcoding’. This study investigates the form that the journalism of The New York Times takes when transcoded to the Web by evaluating multimedia news packages published on nytimes.com from 2000–2008. The number and sophistication of the multimedia packages grew over time to include new interfaces that incorporated elements native to digital environments such as hypertextual links, interactivity, elements borrowed from digital games and social media tools. Most packages were produced as sidebars to stories published in the newspaper, suggesting that multimedia was used as an extension of the written word, not as a primary storytelling format.

Online multimedia news in print media: A lack of vision in Slovenia

Using the case of two Slovenian print media as an example, this article examines how online multimedia news has been adopted, what role different newsroom organization models play in online multimedia news production, and what multimedia news formats have emerged on news websites of Slovenian print media organizations. In the last decade, different multimedia news content has been emerging rapidly within news websites of print media organizations with online production organized differently and multimedia news formatted distinctly. A review of scholarly debates and research in media and journalism studies reveals that the particular institutionally structured features of online news production, and the technical and organizational attributes which influence what gets represented in the medium and the manner in which it is done have not yet emerged. Furthermore, on the basis of news format analysis, participant observation, and problem-centered interviews, the article concludes that there is a lack of vision in furthering the evolution of online production organization and news formats in Slovenian print media arena, which signals the present marginal significance of online multimedia news.

HOW AND WHY JOURNALISTS CREATE AUDIO SLIDESHOWS

Almost all newsroom staff now create content specifically for the Web. Only a handful of studies address aspects of multimedia news production, and no studies have focused on the increasingly popular audio slideshow format. This paper reports the results of an exploratory, qualitative survey of 38 newspaper workers who produce audio slideshows to understand better how and why journalists use them. Although videos are published by a greater percentage of newspapers than audio slideshows, the survey respondents by-and-large prefer the latter as a storytelling medium. Many reported newsroom contention regarding how video verses audio slideshows should be used and feel pressure to focus on the quantity, rather than quality, of multimedia news stories.

On-line video abstract generation of multimedia news

The amount of video content available nowadays makes video abstraction techniques a necessary tool to ease the access to the already huge and ever growing video databases. Nevertheless, many of the existing video abstraction approaches have high computational requirements, complicating the integration and exploitation of current technologies in real environments. This paper presents a novel method for news bulletin abstraction which combines on-line story segmentation, on-line video skimming and layout composition techniques. The developed algorithm provides an efficient, automatic and on-line news abstraction method which takes advantage of the specific characteristics of news bulletins for obtaining representative news abstracts.

Chinese Newspaper Ownership, Corporate Strategies, and Business Models in a Globalizing World

This study takes Beijing Youth Daily (BYD), Beijing's largest newspaper in terms of advertising revenue and second largest in terms of circulation, as a case study to examine and analyze how globalization influences the ownership, corporate strategies, and business models of local newspaper organizations in China; and, thus, accelerates Chinese-style capitalism and media convergence. Declining advertising revenue and the loss of readers due to the digital revolution and the availability of multimedia news channels are global challenges that face newspapers around the world. BYD is no exception. In response, BYD has shifted from an exclusively state ownership model to a split or dual-track management model that has allowed foreign capital into the business operations while the party/state still retains ideological control over the news content. BYD has reoriented its corporate strategies and carried out structural reforms, building a media conglomerate via new titles, acquisitions, concentrations, and convergences; and developed its business models with advertising as a major revenue source. All these measures are market-oriented and intended to maximize newspaper profits by pursuing economies of scale and scope.

Multimedia news exploration and retrieval by integrating keywords, relations and visual features

Multimedia news may be organized by the keywords and categories for exploration and retrieval applications, but it is very difficult to integrate the relation and visual information into the traditional category browsing and keyword-based search framework. This paper propose a new semantic model that can integrate keyword, relation and visual information in a uniform framework. Based on this semantic representation framework, the news exploration and retrieval applications can be organized by not only keywords and categories but also relations and visual properties. We also proposed a set of algorithms to automatically extract the proposed semantic model automatically from large collection of multimedia news reports.

Emerging Models of Multimedia Journalism: A Content Analysis of Multimedia Packages Published on nytimes.com

Conventional wisdom dictates that the future of newspaper journalism is online. But what does this new form of journalism look like? Using the Web site of the New York Times as an exploratory case study, the author conducted a content analysis on 45 multimedia news packages published between 2000 and 2007, coding for narrative qualities, news values, and media format in an effort to begin to understand the emerging characteristics of multimedia Web journalism. The packages in this exploratory study demonstrated little of the hypertextual structures defined by theorists of the Web, perhaps reflecting the transitional nature of the period. First-person narrative, by both journalists and nonjournalists, was the most common point of view. More than one fourth of the multimedia packages consisted of first-person accounts by nonjournalists accompanied by traditional stories written by reporters published in the print edition of the New York Times, presenting an interesting model for professional–citizen collaborations across media.

The Causes of Youths' Low News Consumption and Strategies for Making Youths Happy News Consumers

Based on the uses and gratifications theory and the Delphi technique, this study did an in-depth investigation among 28 college and high school students on youths' rationales behind their news consumption behavior. The study concludes that, in years to come, the news industry needs to realize a true convergence online by providing to the younger generation an experience of consuming multimedia news that is customizable and relevant to them with an opportunity for participatory journalism.

Media General and the Balanced Scorecard (B)

Media General and the Balanced Scorecard (A) (UVA-C-2283) describes the impetus for and the process of implementing a balanced scorecard (BSC) in a large, publicly held, multimedia news organization. The B case (UVA-C-2284) presents a situation where a business-unit manager turns to his region’s BSC to evaluate the possible reasons for a quarterly revenue shortfall. These cases can be used in an undergraduate, graduate, or executive-education setting to introduce the BSC topic.

Inside the changing newsroom: journalists' responses to media convergence

PurposeThis article aims to report on research conducted inside British national media organisations. The research was designed to investigate the impact on the working practices of journalists of the process of production convergence – the trend towards news reporting in more than one medium in formerly single‐medium organisations. The article describes the changes that are taking place and the ways journalists are reacting to them.Design/methodology/approachInterviews were conducted with 20 journalists during 2002 and 2003. The interviews were with journalists working in newsrooms at the BBC, Sky News,The Guardianand theFinancial Times.FindingsThe data show that while multimedia news is becoming well established, the multimedia journalist has been slow to arrive. This is because of the pressures that multi‐media working adds to the journalist's daily routine and a concern over the impact on the quality of output.Research limitations/implicationsThe media environment is evolving rapidly and research findings on this topic quickly go out of date, but the findings presented here offer valuable insights into the news production processes operating in British national media organisations and the ways journalists are adapting to, and are likely to continue to adapt to, changes in production technologies and changed systems of working.Originality/valueThe paper is the first to focus on journalistic practice in a converging media environment.

HyMN-injection-based multimedia content distribution in hybrid wireless networks

Infrastructured networks typically employ centralized approaches for group management and information provisioning. In contrast to that, in multi-hop ad hoc networks each node acts as a router as well as sender and receiver. In pure ad hoc networks, no Internet access is available. An additional challenge is to deal with mobility that causes network partitioning and re-organizations. Technically, these problems can be tackled by providing additional uplinks to a backbone network. Those can be used to access resources in the Internet as well as to inter-link multiple ad hoc network partitions, creating a hybrid wireless network. In this paper, we present HyMN, a prototypically implemented hybrid wireless network system optimized for multimedia content providing. Within the ad hoc network, adequate devices are elected to maintain uplinks to a backbone, which can provide for instance multimedia news from certain sports events like Football Championships, Olympic Games and alike. In order to efficiently manage the ad hoc communicating devices, a weighted clustering algorithm is employed.

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A Prioritized Resource Reservation Scheme with QoS-Violation Assessment

Multimedia applications such as video conferencing, multimedia news and distance learning require stringent quality of service (QoS) that the current Internet cannot provide. Specifications of differentiated services (DiffServ) were proposed with the hope that the services of legacy Internet and third generation (3G) networks present opportunities to offer end-to-end QoS guaranteed multimedia applications and services. In this paper we propose a prioritized resource reservation scheme for real-time applications. This scheme has the capability of QoS-violation assessment for interactive best-effort users. The probability of resource starvation is predicted by analyzing the traffic behavior of call requests. Such a scheme allows for providing Internet services to end users over DiffServ, and regulates network utilization by means of the prediction of resource starvation to avoid QoS violation.

A Framework for the Integration of Multimedia Data.

In this paper, we propose a unified framework, that we call UniMedia, for semanticsbased integration and management of multimedia data. The framework is an adaptation and extension of the federated database technology that has been developed during the past three decades for integrating disparate data sources of alphanumeric data. In particular, we propose a multimedia data model, that we call XML/M, which encompasses diverse types of multimedia data and captures semantic relationships among them. We develop the concept of container objects which cluster relevant multimedia data and customize them according to users’ preferences. Further, we augment the concept of container objects with a version management technique. To validate utility of the UniMedia framework, we have implemented a prototype multimedia news management system.