New Media Environment Research Articles

‘What will the lawyers say?’: Australian newsroom perspectives on journalism ethics and naming criminal suspects in a digital world

This article examines journalism ethics and identifying criminal suspects in Australian news coverage. This study builds off our previous research, which established that naming is so commonplace, it is occurring on a daily basis in the state of Victoria, even in cases with little public interest justification. A survey of 410 Australian news media professionals, as well as twelve semi-structured interviews, found journalists believe naming is an ethical decision, but it is not high on their agenda with naming treated as their default position. Media lawyers play a key role in newsroom naming practices with the legal strongly influencing what is deemed ethical. These findings are significant because it is the first empirical data from Australia and the findings are in stark contrast with news reporting practices in other countries. This article argues for stronger ethical guidelines in a digital news media environment where naming is now global and forever.

Conversations on ‘making the news’: A citizen journalism-oriented tool for empowering citizen advocates of journalism

This article explores an avenue for fostering a model of citizen journalism that is empowered by community dialogue about ‘making the news,’ interactive engagement with local news actors, and advocacy for journalism. The research effort features two key focal points. First—from a normative standpoint—it emphasizes a broader conceptualization of citizen journalism that includes citizen contributions to discussions about, and advocacy for, quality journalism in one’s community. Understanding that such empowerment necessitates (a) a basic belief that journalism has a degree of value/relevance to oneself and (b) a sense of agency in helping to improve the health of the local news media environment, this study draws on the concepts of citizen academies, Perceived News Media Importance, and self-efficacy. Second—representing an empirical focal point—this study initiates exploration of the utility of a journalism-themed citizen forum initiative (in the model of citizen academies) for fostering the community interactive dimension of “citizen journalism” outlined herein. Building on existing research of citizen forums, initial findings support the assertion that such initiatives have the capacity to reinforce the importance of news work (especially related to investigative journalism) while mitigating citizens’ self-perception of inefficacy in helping to support the local news media environment. Our discussion considers how future initiatives might be strengthened to most effectively motivate and empower citizens to advocate for this model of citizen journalism.

Korean Ethnic Newspapers at a Crossroads

abstract: Ethnic and local news media face critical challenges due to the loss of traditional subscribers and relatively fewer resources in comparison with national and global news media companies. Responding to the changing news media market and environment, this article deals with the current challenges of ethnic news media and projects some possible future plans.

Analysis on the Phenomenon of "Disconnection" among Young People under the Background of New Media

With the rapid development of Internet technology, new media, as a new mode of communication, has profoundly changed people's production, life and way of thinking. In this context, young people as the backbone of society, their behavior characteristics and values are also profoundly affected by new media, and the phenomenon of modern young people's parental disconnection has increasingly attracted people's attention. This paper aims to explore the phenomenon of parental disconnection among young people under the environment of new media, analyze its causes, and explore the influence of new media on this phenomenon. Focusing on family education, social policies and new media environment, a better understanding of the characteristics and needs of young people will help us better understand and cope with the phenomenon of disconnection of young people in the new media era, and provide theoretical support and practical guidance for family relations, adolescent education and mental health.

Decoding the News Media Diet of Disinformation Spreaders.

In the digital era, information consumption is predominantly channeled through online news media and disseminated on social media platforms. Understanding the complex dynamics of the news media environment and users' habits within the digital ecosystem is a challenging task that requires, at the same time, large databases and accurate methodological approaches. This study contributes to this expanding research landscape by employing network science methodologies and entropic measures to analyze the behavioral patterns of social media users sharing news pieces and dig into the diverse news consumption habits within different online social media user groups. Our analyses reveal that users are more inclined to share news classified as fake when they have previously posted conspiracy or junk science content and vice versa, creating a series of "misinformation hot streaks". To better understand these dynamics, we used three different measures of entropy to gain insights into the news media habits of each user, finding that the patterns of news consumption significantly differ among users when focusing on disinformation spreaders as opposed to accounts sharing reliable or low-risk content. Thanks to these entropic measures, we quantify the variety and the regularity of the news media diet, finding that those disseminating unreliable content exhibit a more varied and, at the same time, a more regular choice of web-domains. This quantitative insight into the nuances of news consumption behaviors exhibited by disinformation spreaders holds the potential to significantly inform the strategic formulation of more robust and adaptive social media moderation policies.

When the media goes to war: How Russian news media defend the country’s image during the conflict with Ukraine

Using the country image repair framework, this study analyzed two opinion columns in major Russian state-controlled media outlets with content related to the Russian–Ukraine conflict, Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik, from 24 February 2022 to 20 May 2022. A thematic content analysis was used to examine 60 articles by RT and 70 articles on Sputnik. Results from the analysis determined that the five strategies of country image repair, except for mortification, were used in an attempt to legitimize the conflict in Ukraine and restore the image of Russia. Theoretical and practical implications of the results are discussed in the context of a repressive news media environment.

News portals as a gateway to civic engagement: the case of South Korea

Applying the communication mediation model and the communication infrastructure theory in the Korean news media environment, the current study investigates the potential of news portals as a gateway to civic engagement through online discussion. Specifically, this study distinguishes the active use of news portals for information about community issues and public affairs (e.g. commenting, passing along and searching for information) from the passive use of news portals (i.e. simple reception of information). An analysis of a national survey of 1294 Korean adults shows that active, not passive, use of news portals positively predicts online community discussion to subsequently increase cognitive, psychological, and behavioral dimensions of civic engagement: neighborhood belonging, collective efficacy, and civic participation. Importantly, active portal use's indirect positive relationship with civic engagement through online community discussion is stronger among people with higher news portal credibility. Implications are further discussed in the context of Korean news portals.

Confusing Content, Platforms, and Data: Young Adults and Trust in News Media

News media trust, and the lack thereof, has been a prominent topic of discussion among journalism scholars in recent years. In this article, we study young adults’ trust in news media from the perspectives of platformisation and datafication. For the empirical study, we collected interview data from 23 Finnish 19–25-year-old young adults and analysed it inductively with applied thematic analysis. Our analysis reveals that trust negotiation is relational and entails not accepted, but forced vulnerability in relation to news media and the platforms on which they operate. Unclarity about the agency of news media on social media platforms causes young adults to experience powerlessness and anxiety in the face of data collection, which in practice translates into indifference toward their data being used by both news media and social media platforms. We show that young adults face a variety of challenges when navigating the online (news) media environment, which as we identify, can result in three trust-diminishing confusions about content, platforms, and data. This may have profound effects on how journalism is viewed as a cornerstone of a democratic society.

Exploring How to Take Advantage of Short Videos to Improve the Conditions for Cultivating Cultural Safety Awareness among College Students

With the development of information technology, short videos have gradually entered people's lives and profoundly influenced their production life and way of thinking. College students are the main participants and influencers of the short video community. Strengthening the cultural security awareness cultivation of this group is not only helpful for them not to be eroded by certain noisy environment of new media, but also helpful for them to establish correct cultural concepts and build a protective barrier for national security. Based on the research on the current situation of cultivating cultural security awareness among college students in the field of short video, this paper starts from improving the conditions of cultivating cultural security awareness among college students with the advantages of short video, analyzes the causes of the current situation in depth, and proposes the cultivation strategies such as strengthening technical construction, improving laws and regulations, strengthening supervision and social monitoring, and stimulating media self-discipline. It is expected that through the implementation of the above strategies, the cultivation effect of college students' cultural safety awareness in the short video domain will be further improved.

Creative Class Visibility Exhibition on Short Video Platforms, Taking Douyin as an Example

With the continuous development of Internet technology and mobile communication technology, the penetration of video websites and video apps is increasing. In the environment of new media, mobile video has become the most popular social platform due to its low creation threshold, easy homogenization, and information fragmentation. If video creators want to gain online traffic, they must optimize their strategies and increase visibility of their videos. Therefore, in such a short video era, this paper investigates how the creative class uses video platforms to compete for visibility and get more traffic. Through the lens of the uses and gratifications theory, it finds that due to China's unique cultural background, Douyin's algorithmic recommendation mechanism gives priority to content in line with mainstream social values. The emergence of short video as a medium has brought great changes to Internet users.

Advancing a qualitative turn in news media trust research

AbstractThe contemporary media environment represents the greatest challenge ever to journalism's legitimacy. Surveys conducted in different parts of the world highlight a decline in trust in news media. Due to the numerous changes in the news media environment, different investigative tools are required to grasp the mechanisms underlying news media trust from those adopted so far. This article provides a review of existing media trust research and argues that it is necessary to investigate news media trust (also) from a qualitative perspective because today understanding media trust is as crucial as measuring it.

Analysis of the Hotspots and Trends of New-media Ideological and Political Research: Citespace Visual Analysis Based on the Literature from 2012 to 2021

Nowadays, the rapid development of Internet technology and the wide application of new media technology have brought unprecedented challenges and opportunities to the ideological and political work in colleges and universities. Against this background, promoting the high integration of traditional advantages of ideological and political work with information technology is conducive to enhancing ideological and political education’s keeping pace with the times and its appeal. To this end, based on the analysis of Citespace visual data of related literature from 2012 to 2021, this research investigates the frontier hotspots and theoretical focus of new media ideological and political research in China. As a whole, the discussion on the research trend of ideological and political work based on the new-media environment reveals that future related research will focus on the new-media turn of traditional ideological and political work, encompassing the transformation of concepts, the innovation of paths, as well as the cultivation of talent teams.

VIDEOGAMES AS A SPACE FOR RECONSTRUCTING MYTHOLOGICAL STRUCTURES

The article is dedicated to the cultural-philosophical study of the video game space as a place for the reconstruction of archaic mythological structures. The study of narrative video games, which emerged in the early 1980s, represents new media that interactively transmit mythological motifs into the gaming experience. To identify and study mythological elements in video games, the methodological basis includes the works of C.G. Jung and C. Kerényi, who developed concepts of archetypes in culture. Also utilized is the concept of the monomyth by J. Campbell, which involves the realization of the hero's journey cycle initially in legends and myths, and later in narrative artistic structures. The novelty of the study is determined by the low level of research into the replication of mythological elements in the environment of new interactive media. Analyzing the universality of myth in gaming realms is part of a comprehensive approach to studying the phenomenon of video games and is an important element of the non-reductionist concept in the field of Game Studies. The relevance of the work lies in the need to comprehend the video game experience as a practice of personal living through history by the player, rather than passive contemplation. The study identified trends in constructing plots in narrative games according to the principles of the monomyth. In narrative games of the late 20th century, we find more primitive expressions of monomyth elements, often associated with technological limitations in construct implementation. Instead, video games of the past two decades reflect the monomyth in its entirety, characterized by complications and repetitions of the hero's journey stages. Equally pronounced are the reconstructions of archetypes and archetypal figures in the video game space. Thus, among the first archetypal figures in the gaming industry are the images of the hero, translated into the player's avatar, the damsel in distress - as a plot-forming element, and the gatekeeper, realized in level bosses. Modern narrative games allow for the differentiation of additional archetypes, such as the mentor, shadow, or ally. The main feature of reconstructing mythological structures in the gaming space is recognized as interactivity and the ability to experience events in a virtual world, which creates a new type of experience for the player in actively realizing universal mythological motifs through playing myths, rather than simply observing them.

Product Development and Application of Chinese Traditional Art Derivatives in the Context of New Media

The relevance of the study lies in the fact that relying on the development of the modern media environment, the traditional culture of China can re-enter the vision and life of people against the background of a new era, and the excellent intangible cultural legacy will be continuously transmitted from generation to generation. Therefore, it is important to delve into the traditional techniques and artistic characteristics of products to properly use the unique elements and symbols of art derivatives, boldly combining them with the cultural background and features of the current era that are being introduced into people's daily lives. The purpose of the study is to analyse the role and importance of combinations of art derivatives in cultural and creative products and to consider their subsequent development in the environment of new media. The following techniques were used to achieve the purpose of the study: deduction, descriptive, and comparative methods. The results determined that by involving Chinese traditional art derivatives, it is possible to develop more diverse, innovative products in the context of modern mass media that consider the aesthetics and functionality of the product and allow satisfying aesthetic emotions and vital needs of modern people. Derivative arts follow from the concept of financial derivatives and refer to many extended services and products designed and manufactured in accordance with culture. Taking cultural elements as a creative basis, a profit-making model that uses its potential resources develops peripheral creations and then brings them to market for sale. The high added characteristics of cultural derivatives play a role in improving the cultural taste and cultural image of the country, acting as a true embodiment of the external appearance and inner spirit, historical and realistic culture. The practical importance lies in the use of the results and conclusions of the study in the development of products that include the traditions and legacy of the Chinese people.

Nyelv, kommunikáció, média

Language, Communication, MediaGábor SzécsiThe article argues that the expansion of new communication technologies leads to a globally perceptible semantic development. The essence of this is that in the environment of new media, orality and multimediality, which are gaining an increasing role in communication, lead to the image of language in the sense of meaning, and to the development of new language usage habits that determine both the process of thinking and the structure of consciousness.These language usage habits significantly contribute to the rapid changes in community roles associated with multi-channel communication, the convergence of different community languages and communication situations, the blurring of community boundaries, i.e. the mediatization of communities. What's more, the birth of the new concept of community and the creation ofnew community forms is also the source of the language that is transforming in the medium of new media, whose figurative nature leaves deep traces in the structure of the consciousness of the communicating person, in his image of himself and the community relations that determine his communicative actions. As I try to highlight in this essay, all of this presupposes the development of hitherto unknown patterns of linguistic creativity. Using language games, abbreviations, humor, picture-word combinations, which are becoming more and more common tools with the use of new communication technologies, everyday language users communicate with each other as creative designers of language meaning. Linguistic creativity becomes acommunity-forming phenomenon of everyday language use.

Research on the Creative Communication Mode of Advertising under the New Media Perspective

With the continuous development of new media technology and the increasing number of audiences, the effect of new media advertising gradually exceeds the advertisements published in traditional media such as newspapers, television, radio, magazines, etc. Under the influence of the new media era, the way advertising art is disseminated has also undergone tremendous changes. It is necessary to keep up with the pace of the times and make the advertising model close to the taste of the masses. This article first introduces the characteristics of advertising mode in the era of new media. Under the influence of new media, the advertising industry must make changes and enhance innovation, so as to effectively conform to the trend of social development, achieve the established development goals, and enhance the core competitiveness of the advertising market. How to adapt to the advertising environment of new media and survive in the new media environment has become a major difficulty facing the advertising industry. Advertising practitioners must explore the expression of new media advertising creativity in order to maximize the dissemination of advertising information. Advertising creative designers need more attempts to enhance creative interactivity, create a creative cultural atmosphere, and improve creative quality.

Ideological Acceleration of Schoolchildren as an Effect of New Media: Formulating the Question

The early ideological socialization of schoolchildren is manifested in their increasing involvement in political (including protest) activities. In Russia, school students’ involvement in political processes hasn’t been properly studied, despite similar studies being conducted abroad since the middle of the last century. Meanwhile, in the information age, the students’ political participation should be considered in close connection with the younger generation’s digital socialization carried out in online communities and social networks. In this regard, the purpose of this article is to raise the question of the methodology for studying what until recently seemed insignificant in the minds of schoolchildren: fully formed ideological attitudes influenced by the ideological language of new media. To solve this methodological problem, we need to clarify the concepts of political and ideological socialization projected on the school; formulate the problem of ideological acceleration of schoolchildren; methodologically substantiate the concept of ideological socialization and describe the environment of new media as the main “accelerator” of the schoolchildren’s ideological socialization. The authors note the need for a political study of the issue, using the achievements of interdisciplinary research in the fields of linguistics, cognitive science and ideologies. They propose an approach based on the theory of metaphorical framing (J. Lakoff) and the authors’ concept of cognitive ideological matrices. The authors emphasize that new media act as an intermediary in the formation of cognitiveideological matrices in the individual and group consciousness of schoolchildren, as well as a catalyst for earlier ideological socialization.

Piano Teaching in Colleges and Universities in the Environment of New Media

With the comprehensive and rapid development of information technology, new media has become widely used in college education and teaching practice. The piano course is key and important in music education in colleges and universities. The study of piano courses will lay a strong foundation for college music students' future music learning path. However, students often have problems with low efficiency in practicing piano, often playing wrong notes, inaccurate rhythms, and difficulties in memorizing music during the learning process of piano courses . To better improve students’ music literacy and comprehensively improve their piano skills, we must actively change the education and teaching methods of piano courses in colleges and universities, skillfully use new media technology, constantly enrich and expand the teaching methods of piano courses in colleges and universities, and better improve the teaching quality. With reference to the ac tual situation of piano teaching courses in colleges and universities, t his study discusses the development of college curriculum teaching in the new media environment. Keywords: course teaching; development new media environment; piano courses in colleges and universities

Characteristics of Political Communications in NewMedia Environment: Campaign for Presidential Elections in the Republic of Srpska/B&H 2018

Characteristics of Political Communications in NewMedia Environment: Campaign for Presidential Elections in the Republic of Srpska/B&H 2018

Research on the Driving Factors of Digital CulturalIndustry under the New Media Environment

The digital cultural industry is an industry under the fusion of technology and culture. It is also an important field for 
 the cultural industry development and avitalpart of the digital economy in today’s China. Under the environment of new media, 
 technological innovation has showned multiple possibilities for the digital cultural industry. The digital operation of excellent 
 culture provides plenty of ways for cultural display. Meanwhile, the introduction of digital cultural policies is also a national 
 level of support for the digital cultural industry, and the promotion of demand for capital has become a strongdriving force for the 
 continuous innovation of the digital cultural industry as well.