News Programs Research Articles

Contributions of Science Fiction to Thinking up (Im)possible Future Societies: Medical Students’ Genetic Imaginary

Science fiction has been an inexhaustible source for the creation of technoscientific imaginary that has marked certain historical periods and influenced the production of subjectivity. This imaginary evokes complex ontological, epistemological, political, social, environmental and existential questions on the present and the future. The aim of this study was to identify and characterize the cultural productions accessed by the public to form an opinion about the genetic manipulation of human beings. A survey about sources of information that influence opinions on the genetic manipulation of human beings was applied to 360 medical students (70.8% female). Movies were the most commonly mentioned source of information, followed by books, documentaries, news programs, television series, informational videos, soap operas and videogames. Science fiction was the most frequent genre and dystopian views of the future of humanity predominated.

Media Participation of Migrant Community: A Case Study of Bản tin tiếng Việt PTS

<p>本文以公視《越南語新聞》及其社群平臺為案例，探討移住社群在公共媒體上的參與模式及其機會與限制。研究顯示，節目團隊的新聞服務定位及通訊傳播科技的中介，令閱聽人得以在編譯的協力下形成草根參與迴路，提供消息線索並影響新聞議題設定。編譯和中間人可經由組織內水平互動在議題設定和內容生產上進行培力或協作參與，但此機會卻受限於節目資源和產製模式。唯個案社群平臺上的隨機論壇可公開近用，容許廣大移民／工為權益發聲。</p> <p> </p><p>To investigate the patterns of media participation of the migrant community as well as the corresponding opportunities and limitations, this paper presents a case study of Bản tin tiếng Việt PTS, a Vietnamese news program in Taiwan. The study demonstrated that the production team regards the provision of essential news for the Vietnamese migrant community as the primary goal and uses information and communication technologies in horizontal communication appropriately. Accordingly, the target audience with which translator-editors collaborate are empowered to develop a grassroots participation avenue through which they can contribute sources and influence the news agenda. Through horizontal communication, the translator-editors and “in-betweeners” can participate in shaping the news agenda and producing news content. However, such opportunities are limited because of insufficient resources and the modes of production. Nevertheless, the forums on the program’s social media platform are publicly accessible, allowing members of the migrant community to voice their opinions.</p> <p> </p>

Producing Radio Programs, Mainstreaming Gender Equity: A Case Study of Radio Sonora Semarang

There has been an increase in discussion about gender mainstreaming-related issues on media. Mass media producers’ awareness about gender equity has remained questionable, even regarded as not presenting gender equity as expected. This study attempts to focus on how the production of news programs in Radio Sonora Semarang regarding the issue of gender equality, particularly to what extent the role of women in the process of radio program production. Using a qualitative approach and conducting interviews with Radio Sonora's journalists and the production program team, the findings have revealed that Radio Sonora Semarang highly upholds the values of gender equality in the production process of its programs. There has been mutual respect amongst media workers both men and women in the radio Sonora during program production process. Indeed, women can take roles equally to men without leaving their nature as women.

The Impact of the Internet News on the Political Awareness of the Youth

The Internet is an interesting source of information for many people today. Many studies investigated the Internet as a means of communication but little attention was given to its role in enhancing political awareness and civic engagement among the youth. Recently the interest in politics is noticeably on the increase, especially among the youth in several countries. This article aims at describing and explaining the role of exposure to the Internet news in promoting political awareness and citizenship among the youth, by providing the Moroccan context as a case study. Over the last decades, communication has become much easier, smoother and less expensive thanks to the Information Communication Technologies (ICT). The Internet as a valuable public sphere provides several avenues that encourage the youth to involve in different disciplines such as education, economics, and politics. Moreover, the advancement of technology has invaded different areas in life; a case in point is the irresistible dominance of the Internet use in the age of digital news and information. Roughly all different types of traditional media, such as television news, radio news programs, magazine advertorials and newspaper articles have extended its version into this new sophisticated field, namely the Internet. Thus, based on an exhaustive review of literature, this article addresses some interesting issues related to civic engagement, the Internet use and political awareness among the youth. Eventually the article ends with some critical insights and directions for prospective research. Keywords: The Internet, political awareness, the youth, democracy, online journalism DOI: 10.7176/NMMC/103-04 Publication date: December 31 st 2022

Aspect-Driven User Preference and News Representation Learning for News Recommendation

Intelligent human-device interfaces play key roles in fully automated vehicles (FAVs), ensuring smooth interactions and improving the driving experience. Listening to news is a popular method of relaxing during a journey; as a result, travelers require automatic recommendations of preferred news programs. Most existing news recommender systems usually learn topic-level representations of users and news for recommendations while neglecting to learn more informative aspect-level features, resulting in limited recommendation performance. To bridge this significant gap, we propose a novel Aspect-driven News Recommender System (ANRS) built on aspect-level user preferences and news representation learning. In ANRS, a news aspect-level encoder and a user aspect-level encoder are devised to learn the fine-grained aspect-level representations of users’ preferences and news characteristics respectively. These representations are subsequently fed into a click predictor to predict the probability of a given user clicking on the candidate news item. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superiority of our method over state-of-the-art baseline methods.

Big mouth: amplified feminism in Guinea

ABSTRACT In January 2019, the Guinean journalist and feminist activist, Moussa Yéro Bah, was found guilty in a defamation suit. The suit involved a clip on her radio news program, in which she spoke about an ongoing rape case. While she never named the alleged perpetrator, his identity was well known on the street and in social media. He promptly sued Ms. Bah, and won. In this article, I explore this case and activists’ reactions to it, to consider how voice, sound, and listening shape responses to sexual violence. I examine the role of amplification in feminist struggles for gender justice in Guinea and analyse the sound effects of a series of vocal interventions by activists and journalists. My analysis explores how vocal practices, audio technologies, and ways of hearing shape both legal and extra-legal proceedings. As I show, activists strategically sound out their claims in everyday spaces in order to bypass the failures of formal legal systems and create possibilities for more collective, transformative action.

Examining Podcast Listeners’ Perceptions of the Journalistic Functions of Podcasts

Podcasting is a well-established medium with a rapidly growing audience but no established ethical standards or professional practices across a wide variety of genres. Through a representative national survey of American internet users ( n = 1,025), this research examined how much podcast listeners ( n = 529) trust podcasts as a source of news and how they evaluate their journalistic merit. Podcast listeners trust podcasts less than most other sources of information, with the exception of online news and satirical news programs. And though listeners agree that podcasting is a form of journalism, a way to stay informed about news and current events, and a valuable source of information, they’re more skeptical of podcasts when comparing them to traditional news sources of information. Age is the only demographic category that predicts listening frequency.

Waardes, Verwagtings en Bevredigings van Suid-Afrikaanse T elevisienuuskykers

THIS Investigation examines the audience experience with television news in South Africa and presents a process model of uses and gratifications based upon an expectancy-value approach. The prime objective was accomplished when three reliable scales for the measure ment of values attached to television news Items; expectations about finding such news-items; and gratification of these ex pectations were developed. A significant correlation between all three scales was in dicated, although the correlation between values and expectations was much stronger than the correlation between values and gratifications. While the correlation between expectations and gratifications was still significant, it was also much lower than the correlation between values and expecta tions. This finding provides evidence against the criticism that since a gratification is ex pected and sought, it must necessarily be obtained. Instead, it is found that television news programmes in South Africa, while ef fective, are imperfect providers of news related gratifications sought. To cast addi tional light on the relative lower correlation between expectations and gratifications, the degree of dependence on television news as primary source was taken into ac count.

Academic Freedom Is Social Justice: Sex, Gender, and Cancel Culture on Campus.

I teach in and co-direct the undergraduate program in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. During the promotion of my recent book on testosterone and sex differences, I appeared on "Fox and Friends," a Fox News program, and explained that sex is binary and biological. In response, the director of my department's Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging task force (a graduate student) accused me on Twitter of transphobia and harming undergraduates, and I responded. The tweets went viral, receiving international news coverage. The public attack by the task force director runs contrary to Harvard's stated academic freedom principles, yet no disciplinary action was taken, nor did any university administrators publicly support my right to express my views in an environment free of harassment. Unfortunately, what happened to me is not unusual, and an increasing number of scholars face restrictions imposed by formal sanctions or the creation of hostile work environments. In this article, I describe what happened to me, discuss why clear talk about the science of sex and gender is increasingly met with hostility on college campuses, why administrators are largely failing in their responsibilities to protect scholars and their rights to express their views, and what we can do to remedy the situation.

BERITA MALAM DI MEDIA TELEVISI DAERAH TENTANG PEMBANGUNAN INFASTRUKTUR Analisis Framing Zhongdang Pan dan Gerald M Kosicki Pada Berita Malam Cenderawasih Wiputra Mandiri (CWM) News Kota Sorong Papua Barat

This research aims to find out how CWM News is framing news about Infrastructure Development that is currently happening in Sorong City since the 2021 period, it will be information disclosure about the active Sorong city government in carrying out development, News framing carried out by local TV CWM News really conveys information. accurate and open to the people in the city of Sorong and can be a function of control between the government and the community in the development process, therefore the role of the local television media is very important in providing objective information in the community. This study aims to analyze the framing of television media coverage on infrastructure development in the city of Sorong.
 The research method used in this research is descriptive-qualitative using the framing analysis approach to the framing analysis model introduced by Zhongdang Pan and Gerald M. Kosicki. The results showed that news framing in the evening news program CWMNews, regarding the process of infrastructure development in the City of Sorong for the 2021 period with the presence of local television media so that it can help the community get accurate information about infrastructure development in the City of Sorong. By journalistic framing news on CWM TV about infrastructure development as a form of concern from the Sorong City Government regarding infrastructure development, infrastructure development in Sorong City seems to present several achievements that have reached a point. The implication of this research is for the audience or viewers to receive information directly from the source. This can be seen in the news narrative, pictures, and the selection of sources that give a positive image to the evening news.

“Yes, We Do Want to Subvert and Corrupt Young People”

In 1992, the British television news program Dispatches aired clips from a video described as the first ever, eyewitness proof of satanically motivated child abuse. Days later, newspapers reported that the video was misrepresented. The clips were drawn from First Transmissions, an experimental video produced by Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth (T.O.P.Y.) a geographically disperse occult collective committed to subverting mainstream media. This article provides a detailed history of this incident. First, it uses the event as an entrée into T.O.P.Y.’s magickal media activism. Second, it locates the groups’ inadvertent appearance on Dispatches within sweeping changes to the late-20th-century media landscape. Providing this context demonstrates how new possibilities in the production and circulation of audiovisual media provoked religious conflicts and concerns for radical occultists and conservative television journalists alike. While T.O.P.Y.’s uses of media were intended to enable individual self-actualization and to undermine established institutions, their detractors on Dispatches figured underground media economies as sites of satanic conspiracy and worked to discipline their creators.

PERSEPSI PENONTON ANAK-ANAK TERHADAP VISUALISASI ANIMASI ACARA SI OTAN DALAM MUATAN KONSEP EDUTAIMENT


 
 
 Generally, television programs are divided into two parts, which are popular entertaining program called entertainment program and information called news program Television station provides as how that covers the two elements which is known as edutainment. Si Otan program is an edutainment program that explains about animal world. Based on that, to know how far Si Otan program gives influence so that it can broaden knowledge and change perception about animal world. The data of the research were reviewed by using learning theory by Jerome Bruner, the theory that emphasizes the way how people choose, maintain, and actively transform the information. Knowing that Si Otan program can be well accepted by children, so they can understand and draw the information they get from the program. Qualitative research method wasused to know directly the children's perceptions based on their learning process. The result of the research showed that edutainment program that involved animation attracted children's learning interestso that the obtained information became a useful knowledge.
 
 

Misleading Advertising of Health-Related Products in Ecuador during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Background Media coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic increased tuning ratings during this time. The aim of this study was to identify misleading advertising of health-related products on Ecuadorian television during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods Television channels were monitored for 111 h in the months of June and October 2020. Verbal, nonverbal and context content were analyzed from each advertising spot according to ethical standards for the promotion of products for human health Results A total of 667 spots were analyzed. Most, 90%, involved misleading advertising of health-related products. Products for gastrointestinal conditions were the most publicized (17.8%) during the period analyzed. Newscasts most often advertised products intended to improve sexual potency (22.9%) and to a lesser degree those intended to prevent and treat respiratory problems (1.8%); this relationship was reversed when compared to general programming (p < 0.05). Conclusions Most of the health-related products advertised on Ecuadorian television are advertised misleadingly, with news programs having the highest number of such advertisements per hour of programming.

TV News: From Information to Entertainment

In the course of the long history of journalism, its development and transformation, certain rules for writing a news story have developed. It should not include argumentation or personal view of the reporter, but only facts. These rules have existed for many years in the history of journalism and are valid today. However, since the 1980s of the 20-th century, a transformation in the presentation of news began, as the audience was tired of complex and “heavy” topics. Television producers realized that viewers wanted simple, accessible, and entertaining information. This is how the concept of “infotainment” (news as entertainment) originated. The materials differ in language style, the behavior of a journalist or presenter in the frame, a manner of shooting and an increase in the number of various graphic elements. To date, news TV programs in a digital multi-channel multiplatform environment cannot compete with the blogosphere. Therefore, news is increasingly adapting to this format. The study examined the opinions of Russian and foreign researchers on the development of infotainment on television. Using a systematic method, the author analyzed the changes that have taken place in the television news of Russian and western broadcast programming. We studied the news programs of the «Channel One», «Russia 1», «Moscow 24», «360°», «CBS», «NBC» and «TF 1». The author found that the number of infotainment elements in television news is increasing every year. TV channels choose the means of infotainment depending on their audience and financial capabilities. At present, there are no boundaries for the introduction of more and more new forms of informing and entertaining viewers.

Comparative analysis between a respeaking captioning system and a captioning system without human intervention

People living with deafness or hearing impairment have limited access to information broadcast live on television. Live closed captioning is a currently active area of study; to our knowledge, there is no system developed thus far that produces high-quality captioning results without using scripts or human interaction. This paper presents a comparative analysis of the quality of captions generated for four Spanish news programs by two captioning systems: a semiautomatic system based on respeaking (system currently used by a Spanish TV station) and an automatic system without human interaction proposed and developed by the authors. The analysis is conducted by measuring and comparing the accuracy, latency and speed of the captions generated by both captioning systems. The captions generated by the system presented higher quality considering the accuracy in terms of Word Error Rate (WER between 3.76 and 7.29%) and latency of the captions (approximately 4 s) at an acceptable speed to access the information. We contribute a first study focused on the development and analysis of an automatic captioning system without human intervention with promising quality results. These results reinforce the importance of continuing to study these automatic systems.

TRANSLATION OF LACUNA IN SUBTITLES FROM GERMAN INTO UKRAINIAN

This article deals with the concept of «linguistic lacunarity» and the analysis of the translation of lacuna, or the so-called «white spots» of the translation, from German into Ukrainian in the subtitles of television news programs of the German TV channel ZDF is carried out. Lacuna are lexical units, for the translation of which there is no direct equivalent. This is caused by different linguistic pictures of the world. They are also called non-equivalent vocabulary. E. Koseriu believes that the translation of lacuna is firstly the translation of a communicative situation, which the translator must first understand, and then qualitatively reproduce in the translation. And therefore, the most common strategy for the reproduction of lacuna is, in his opinion, descriptive translation. Modern translation studies is aimed at solving this problem, which covers various spheres of human life. In particular, this article examines the lacunae found in journalism. Firstly, the current topic of the coronavirus pandemic, economy and politics is investigated. The relevance of this study lies in the insufficient study of the issue of lacunarity in the German-Ukrainian language pair and the translation of lacuna in subtitles. In addition, audiovisual translation, subtitling has certain technical and contextual features that must also be taken into account. The study showed that descriptive translation, transcoding methods (transcription and transliteration) with and without explanation, full and partial calque are used to translate lacuna. In order to create an adequate and understandable translation for the recipient, the translator requires not only a high level of language skills and knowledge of cultural features, but also the ability to use search engines, erudition and creativity.

The quality of television news in Indonesia

This research aims to explore the watching patterns of the people of Indonesia with a specific focus on how they consume news programs on television. Indonesian democracy condition is draining much information energy every year. The war for information among broadcasting institutions has stirred worry among the general public regarding the quality of the content broadcast by national television stations. Virtually no medium is safe from the touch of politics, and news programs, in particular, are often highly political. Due to the urgency of this research to measure the quality of programs, not the number of viewers, the informants of this study are industry experts and academics. Their knowledge, experience, and insight into the television industry make them exceptionally qualified to assess television programs' quality critically. The results of the evaluation and deepening of the experts can be concluded by several aspects of the quality of news programs: The intervention of media owners is still evident and even conspicuous in the balance of news in an industry where broadcasting institutions are explicitly manipulating news content, especially when it concerns political issues. Concerning critical power, several news programs fail to arouse a critical rationale. News is delivered from one perspective only. The supervision aspect is still deficient because the shocking and horrible are intrinsically appealing. Subjectiveness in the news is widespread, especially in the selection of titles and narratives that simply justify the reporters' words.

Polarized disinformation. The coverage of US presidential election by Polish TV

RESEARCH OBJECTIVE: Analysis of how the 2020 US presidential election was covered and framed by Polish television news programs, and whether the polarization of media and politics in Poland was reflected in the studied content, influencing its bias.&#x0D; THE RESEARCH PROBLEM AND METHODS: The analysis of the coverage of the US presidential campaign by three nationwide TV news programs – TVN, TVP and Polsat by using content analysis with elements of framing analysis and comparative analysis.&#x0D; THE PROCESS OF ARGUMENTATION: The article consists of four parts: the first explains the methodology of the study, the second discusses how presidential elections are covered and framed and what influences the national media being interested in covering foreign events. The third part presents the results of the study, and the last contains the discussion and conclusions.&#x0D; RESEARCH RESULTS: The coverage was dichotomous and there was a correlation between the political affiliation of the media and their choice of framing. The media used a combination of game, strategy and conflict framing that highlighted differences between Trump and Biden in terms of the election results and their personal attributes. We found that the electoral rivalry was portrayed as a conflict between the candidates and that the Polish media constructed “enemy” images of candidates and voters depending on their political sympathies.&#x0D; CONCLUSIONS, INNOVATIONS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS: The polarization of media and politics in Poland was reflected in the coverage of the US election. The broadcasters placed Polish political conflicts in the context of the US campaign. It shows that foreign events may be covered by national media through the prism of political bias.

Investigating Heterogeneous Media Multitasking Behavior: A Latent Class Analysis Approach

This study focuses on media multitasking (MM) tendency while accounting for the heterogeneity of the store visits and purchase behaviors of media multitaskers. We employed a latent class model to identify several consumer segments and investigate the effect of behavioral traits on segment membership. Based on the results, we identified three segments and labeled them Apathetic, E-shopper, and E-buyer segments. Apathetic consumers show no interest in MM, store visits, and online purchases. The E-shopper segment records the highest MM, store visit probability, and low transaction rate, while the E-buyers exhibit the opposite behavior pattern. Furthermore, the results revealed that people who frequently use the Internet or television and watch more news programs are more likely to belong to the &amp;ldquo;E-shopper&amp;rdquo; segment. We also observed that people in the &amp;ldquo;E-buyer&amp;rdquo; segment are less probable to zap and watch variety shows more frequently. These findings are helpful for marketers to understand their customers better and devise more efficient marketing strategies.

One Voice Many Languages, Colonial Radio in India

Languages knit people together, but at All India Radio we witness the reverse trajectory. Radio's first 20 years, 1927–47, coinciding with the last 20 of British rule, saw the subcontinent's kaleidoscopic linguistic profile creating havoc. Three emotive stumbling blocks emerged, affecting radio: did a nation need a single language or was a multilingual state sustainable; could an alien language gain acceptance; and could there be consensus on a language imposed for institutional convenience. With heavy dependence on English, the dominant language of broadcast, station directors, had the authority to allocate rest of the time to prevailing languages, juggling diverse vernaculars. Complications surfaced at most stations, but most prominent at northern stations where language from being socio-cultural indicators became religious pointers, Hindi associated with Hindus and Urdu with Muslims. All India Radio adopted Hindustani, the confluence of both for practical reasons; instead of two languages, it was easier to cater in just one. This espousal led to heated disputes, with Hindi supporters alleging that radio's Hindustani leaned heavily towards Arabic, and the Urdu clique seeing a definite predisposition towards Sanskrit. The epicentre of controversy were the news programmes. The radio policy of British India was generally to be cautious and to avoid needless controversy.