Multiplicity Of Platforms Research Articles

Reshaping Sports Journalism Through Innovation: An Analysis of L’Équipe Explore’s Strategies, Practices and Output

ABSTRACT Sports journalism practice faces important challenges deriving from the multiplication of platforms, the acceleration of workflows, the emergence of new entrants and the audiences’ shifting consumption habits. In a bid to overcome those challenges and advance innovation across the board, the French newspaper L’Équipe established a specific unit for that purpose: Explore. By focusing on this case study, this research has examined the formats, output and practices deployed by Explore and evaluated its impact within L’Équipe’s offer. The study is informed by content analysis performed on the projects (N = 201) published by Explore over a 32-month timeframe (May 2021–December 2023), ethnographic work and eight semi-structured interviews with its employees. Findings reveal that Explore stands out as a leading “media lab” in sports journalism. Through a broad range of formats and a multifaceted agenda, Explore occupies a unique position in terms of delivering cultural capital. Explore embraces alternative production modes that invest in freedom and research while rejecting hyper-accelerated cycles and clickbait-oriented approaches. Such proposition has resonated with audiences and positioned Explore as a cornerstone of L’Équipe’s commercial strategy. Solutions articulated by Explore contribute to the broader discussion of how sports journalism practice can be reshaped in the digital age.

The usage of the image in the pages of directed satellite channels on the Instagram website (An analytical study of the photos published on the pages of Al-Hurra and Russia Today in Arabic)

Today ,the image in its various forms and the multiplicity of styles of its publishing and display platforms is the pulse of the modern era due to its intensity in use, especially in social media platforms including Instagram website in particular, as a result of its using by overwhelming mass and interaction between different users categories due to the advantage of availability element of easing the publishing , innovative methods of publishing, additions, and features which make it at the top of the platforms via its continuous updating of the features which enable the user to interact and participate through it and see what is new in a way which summarizes the event. This prompted the media institutions to be present through it to meet their audience, who are using daily events in the form of images in accordance with the nature of the site. According to the above, the researcher has found the development of ways to publish images , the multiplicity of platforms, as some of them, are specialized such as Instagram, in publishing, sharing and editing images, a topic worthy of research, especially after the link of the satellite channels and their official accounts in this platform, including Al-Hurrah channel and RT in Arabic channel, which led to the research problem represented by the main question: (What are the uses of the image for RT and Al-Hurrah channels on Instagram?) as this question had led a set of sub-questions and objectives represented by knowing each of (the methods of the used images, their subjects, the attached elements to them, the used methods of publication, and the time period has been taken in the presentation). The research is descriptive research which adopted the analytical descriptive survey method, with using the comprehensive inventory of the research community represented by the published images in the accounts of RT channels. and Al-Hurrah for the period from (1/5-16/5/2022). One of the most

Life Beyond Clickbait Journalism: A Transnational Study of the Independent Football Magazine Market

In a cluttered and increasingly complex environment characterized by the multiplication of platforms, a constellation of quality football print magazines has emerged as an alternative destination in sports journalism. To trace the expansion of the independent football magazine market, in-depth interviews were conducted with the editors of eight prestigious projects from seven countries: Howler (United States), Panenka and Líbero (Spain), Mundial (United Kingdom), So Foot (France), 11 Freunde (Germany), Offside (Sweden), and Ballesterer (Austria). Independent football magazines position themselves as part of a journalistic counteroffensive to the metric-driven, routinized, and complacent approach that currently shapes mainstream sports media output. In contrast to the primary orientation of sports journalism towards economic capital, their editorial philosophy is built on three core axes aimed at developing cultural capital: (1) a diverse and multifaceted football agenda that embraces unheard voices and far-reaching issues of a sociocultural, geopolitical, and economic nature; (2) the importance of dedicating time and resources to create a visually distinctive output; and (3) a deliberate emphasis on nostalgia and resistance to the seemingly endless commodification of football. As part of their creative approach, gathering and nourishing a community of readers has been fundamental to the growth and sustainability of those projects.

RETHINKING ITALIAN TELEVISION STUDIES

The field of television studies has undergone significant changes in recent years because of technological innovations that have dramatically altered the very concept of television reception. The shift from ‘broadcasting’, through the introduction of niche targeting, to ‘narrowcasting’ has quickly led, thanks to the multiplication of platforms through which television has now become available, to the era of ‘me-casting’. As viewers increasingly turn to Digital Video Recorders and online platforms (Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime), replacing their TV set with a laptop, a tablet, a game console, or a mobile phone, television schedules have virtually become obsolete structures imposed on viewers who have learned to bypass them through the flexibility offered by new forms of media consumption. Once merely considered a ‘flow’ (as Raymond Williams’ famously noted) as television’s continuous output existed without and in absence of the viewer, television has now become a virtual ‘quilt’ whose programming blocks can be extracted and time-shifted indefinitely, so as to be enjoyed by viewers at their own leisure, on a number of varied viewing platforms. Such an epochal shift in broadcasting and consumption should indeed be mirrored by a shift in the reconception of the very methods of television studies, which once identified in the ‘flow’ a core element against which all analyses of television were to be structured, foregrounding the centrality of institutional discourse and conditions of production in all viable critical readings. The era of ‘me-casting’ has shifted the critic’s attention from the producer to the product, from the time of broadcasting to that of consumption, from the flow to the actual programme. One of the most indirect consequences of this shift, in the academic field of television studies, has been a gradual widening of the objects of analysis, which were once almost always strictly limited to the broadcasting practices of the country in which the analyst resided. The sole exception to this rule was, of course, US television because of its unique global distribution. In the days of ‘me-casting’, however, television studies finds no methodological resistance in the analysis of programmes and broadcasting practices ex-loco and adopts textual approaches akin to those common in film studies. Although rigorous analyses of television programmes will always need to take into proper consideration questions of production and institutional discourse, the increased broadcasting of so-called ‘quality television’ paired with the diverse modes of its reception justifies critical approaches long associated with film studies. The work of showrunners such as Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing, The Newsroom), Alan Ball (Six Feet Under, True Blood), David Chase (Northern Exposure, The Sopranos), or Shonda Rhimes The Italianist, 34. 2, 260–262, June 2014

Transformation of expression intensities across generations of Affymetrix microarrays using sequence matching and regression modeling

The utility of previously generated microarray data is severely limited owing to small study size, leading to under-powered analysis, and failure of replication. Multiplicity of platforms and various sources of systematic noise limit the ability to compile existing data from similar studies. We present a model for transformation of data across different generations of Affymetrix arrays, developed using previously published datasets describing technical replicates performed with two generations of arrays. The transformation is based upon a probe set-specific regression model, generated from replicate measurements across platforms, performed using correlation coefficients. The model, when applied to the expression intensities of 5069 shared, sequence-matched probe sets in three different generations of Affymetrix Human oligonucleotide arrays, showed significant improvement in inter generation correlations between sample-wide means and individual probe set pairs. The approach was further validated by an observed reduction in Euclidean distance between signal intensities across generations for the predicted values. Finally, application of the model to independent, but related datasets resulted in improved clustering of samples based upon their biological, as opposed to technical, attributes. Our results suggest that this transformation method is a valuable tool for integrating microarray datasets from different generations of arrays.

Special Issue Commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the ASME CIE Division

Special Issue Commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the ASME CIE Division

Relative positioning of multiple moving platforms using GPS

To obtain subdecimeter level accuracy in relative kinematic positioning, the use of double differenced GPS carrier phase measurement with carrier phase ambiguities fixed to their correct integer values must be adopted. If multiple platforms are available in the configuration, the redundancy provided by the multiplicity of platforms can speed up the time to integer ambiguity fixing while at the same time improve the reliability of the solution. An approach to effectively construct ambiguity constraints through the multiplicity of platforms is presented herein. The use of these ambiguity constraints to position multiple moving platforms with respect to each other is then discussed. A series of simulations and field tests are designed and conducted to investigate the effects of different system parameters on this approach, with a configuration of up to 10 moving platforms. The test results show that the use of ambiguity constraints can improve the time to integer ambiguity fixing by up to 67%, relative to the case when no constraints are used. In addition, the use of ambiguity constraints is found to enhance the ability of the multiple platform system to detect wrong ambiguity fixes.