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Making visible the galamsey scandals in Ghana: Digital media as new technologies of democratic accountability

Traditional artisanal mining used to be the time-honoured and environmentally friendly livelihood activity of rural communities in Ghana. But under the pretext of artisanal and small-scale mining, it has been seized by the power-elites and transformed to the most environmentally and socially catastrophic industry in Ghana. Because of this, the militarized fight by the state against illegal mining is infested by political scandals. In this article, we demonstrate the ways in which the affordances of digital media are making it possible for both traditional and new media to capture and publicise these scandals. We draw mainly on internet sources where news stories, documents, audios, and videos have served as the mediated visibility of galamsey political scandals in Ghana. Zeroing in on the bombshell leakage of the Frimpong-Boateng galamsey report on social media, we argue that digital media is making visible the power-elites hidden in the cloak of the military fight against galamsey to pillage the environment for wealth. The leakage and the public vitriol it generated against the incumbent government of Ghana illustrate the watchdog potential of the affordances of new media in the era of the ICT revolution.

THE USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN GOVERNANCE THROUGH ONLINE MEDIA EVALUATION

As a result of the high value of destructive perceptions of Indonesian government services and the high value of perceptions of corruption in Indonesia, the purpose of this study was to analyse artificial intelligence in Indonesian government governance with the last four-year edition, namely 2018-2022. The research data source reviewed 57 news stories from Indonesian online media. This research data analysis uses the Qualitative Data Software Analysis approach with the NVivo 12 Plus tool and the NCapture feature. The results of the data analysis show that artificial intelligence in Indonesia is seen from four aspects: accountability, transparency, the rule of law, and participation. The results showed that reform and bureaucratic reform from the accountability aspect had the highest percentage, namely 54.55%. Human development and culture from the aspect of participation has a percentage of 33.33%. Ministry of communication and informatics, from law supremacy, has a percentage of 53.85%, and the ministry of health, from the aspect of transparency, has a 21.74%. This study’s findings represent that artificial intelligence systems have efficient and environmentally friendly selling points. However, this research sees that the artificial intelligence system is fundamental and has not been optimised by Indonesian government agencies’ entire scope of work. Even so, it can be seen that the Indonesian government continues to strive for artificial intelligence in the scope of government work so that it is used continuously until people’s satisfaction with the performance of the government system is achieved.

Wearable witnesses: Deathlogging and framing wearable technology data in “Fitbit murders”

Wearable self-tracking devices such as Fitbit and Apple Watch have begun to be featured in high-profile criminal cases such as murder trials for the ways the data from these devices supposedly give access to objective truths about a victim's physiological state and time of death. Drawing from the concepts of deathlogging and datafication, we argue that an examination of media framing around wearables in criminal investigations and court rooms helps demonstrate how technologies become connected to different domains and practices. A discourse analysis of five case studies and 57 news stories showed how the framing of wearables in this context emphasized both enchantment with the capacity for datafication to witness, as well as contestation around how to define and interpret this witnessing. This study demonstrated how reporting around the incorporation of mobile media technologies into institutional practices often reproduced desires for digital technologies to provide access to “the truth” of social reality.

Conspiracy Thinking, Online Misinformation, and Hate: Insights from an Italian News Story Using Topic Modeling Techniques

This study delved into the realm of conspiratorial thinking and misinformation on Twitter, examining the case of Silvia Romano, an Italian aid worker who faced online conspiratorial attacks before and after her release. With the increasing prevalence of conspiratorial narratives on social media, this research investigated the interplay between conspiratorial thinking and the dissemination of misinformation. Two datasets comprising Italian tweets were analyzed, aiming to uncover primary topics, detect instances of conspiratorial thinking, explore broader emerging topics beyond Silvia Romano’s case, and examine whether authors of conspiratorial narratives also engage in spreading misinformation. Twitter served as a critical platform for this study, reflecting its evolving role in news dissemination and social networking. The research employed topic modeling techniques and coherence scores to achieve these objectives, addressing challenges posed by the inherent ambiguities in defining conspiratorial narratives. The findings contribute to a deeper understanding of the complex dynamics of conspiratorial thinking and misinformation in the digital age.

Akomodasi dan Atribusi Penggunaan Eufemisme dan Disfemisme dalam Pojok Kampung JTV: Kajian Komunikasi Linguistik

The use of language in mass media, especially news programs on television, must follow appropriate linguistic rules in order to maintain the values of politeness and appropriateness, as a spectacle for the general public. However, something different happened to one of the news programs broadcast by JTV, namely Pojok Kampung. Corner Village actually has a typical Suroboyoan linguisticcharacter which is considered very rude, impolite, outspoken, vulgar and egalitarian which can be studied from a linguistic perspective, especially euphemisms and dysphemisms. The methodologyused in this research was the collection of euphemisms and dysphemisms in 39 Pojok Kampung news stories. This research finds out how euphemisms and dysphemisms are accommodated in communication, by looking at the attribution process.

Putting the joy back into teaching early years

Sue Allingham, author, trainer and consultant, discusses some of the latest news stories and headlines about the sector, encouraging us all to put more joy into our practice to allow young children to enjoy learning.

PENGARUH KECAKAPAN DIGITAL SISWA SMP NEGERI 1 BATANG KABUPATEN JENEPONTO TERHADAP HASIL BELAJAR SISWA PADA MATA PELAJARAN BAHASA INDONESIA

Students have smartphones and are able to use every application they have on their smartphones such as communication applications, online games, social media and the like. The aim of this research is to measure the digital abilities or skills possessed by students and how students use them, to show an overview of the implementation of the learning process involving students' digital abilities or skills in Indonesian language subjects and to find out whether there is an influence on the digital skills of students at SMP Negeri 1 Batang Jeneponto Regency on student learning outcomes in Indonesian language subjects. This research was conducted using a quantitative approach with a type of research that used a quasi-experimental type with a method that only used one treatment group and did not use a control group. The sample from this research was 25 students from class VIII. The instruments in this research use questionnaires, tests (assignments) and documentation as support for this research. The questionnaire consists of a pretest given before the learning process is carried out and a posttest given after the learning process is carried out, while the test consists of tasks containing news text and poetry text material. Data analysis uses descriptive statistical analysis and inferential statistical analysis with hypothesis testing using the t-test. Based on the results of data analysis and t-test, the average value of students' abilities and learning outcomes after the implementation of the learning process involving students' digital skills was higher than before the implementation of the learning process involving students' digital skills. All students involve digital skills by using several methods of using search engines and social media in completing assignments with news text and story text material. The results of this research show that there is an influence on the digital skills of students at SMP Negeri 1 Batang Jeneponto Regency on student learning outcomes in Indonesian language subjects.

Metadata for Efficient Management of Digital News Articles in Multilingual News Archives

The digital news preservation and management of low-resource languages are challenging tasks, especially in vast collections. Unique identification of individual digital objects is possible with well-defined attributes to assure efficient management, such as access, retrieval, preservation, usability, and transformability. The metadata element set is required to maximize the available attributes related to the digital objects. To create a comprehensive metadata set that contains all the necessary attributes and data about the digital news objects. It is more challenging and complicated when the archive contains articles from low-resourced and morphologically complex languages like Urdu and Arabic, which is difficult for machines to understand. The study presents challenges in low-resource languages (LRL) and research challenges. This metadata will help to link news articles based on similarity with other news articles stored in the digital news stories archive (DNSA) and ensures accessibility. In this study, we introduced 38 metadata elements set for the digital news stories preservation (DNSP) framework, of which 16 are explicit and 12 are implicit metadata elements. The paper presents how the digital news stories archive (DNSA) is enhanced to a multilingual archive and discusses the digital news stories extractor, which addresses major issues in implementing low-resource languages and facilitates normalized format migration. The extraction results are presented in detail for high-resource languages, that is, English, and low-resource languages (HRL), that is, Urdu and Arabic. The LRL encountered a high error rate during preservation compared to HRL, 10%, and 03%, respectively. The metadata extraction results show that HRL sources support all metadata elements as compared to LRL. The LRL has good support for explicit meta elements and many implicit meta elements with low extraction percentages. The LRL needs a more detailed study for accurate news content extraction and archiving for future access.

Revealing Media Neutrality

Independence and neutrality are ideologies that must be applied in a news story. The media has rights and obligations to ensure these two ideologies match events. The media has also experienced convergence from several types of print news to transforming into digital media online. Reporting current issues, which is the media's function, is exciting to discuss. Here, the researcher analyzes the case of Richard Eliezer's revocation of protection by the LPSK, which was very hotly discussed by the public last March. This study uses qualitative methods and analysis (DNA) with application support dna-2.0-beta25, visone-2.15, and JavaSetup8u321. Researchers found that six media portals analyzed in the reporting of Richard Eliezer's revocation of protection by LPSK, namely Kompas TV, TV One, Metro TV, CNN, Republika, and Tribune, have different alignments. Three of the six media above tend to be neutral; two other portals are pro, and one is contra. In this way, each media has its alignment according to the interests of related parties, which have a background unknown to the public. Keywords: Neutrality, Media, Revoking, Bharada E’s Protection

Patterns of Journalistic Role Performance during Public Health Crises: Covering COVID-19 in the UK

ABSTRACT While journalism scholarship has long been exploring how journalistic role performance (“JRP” thereafter) varies in different scenarios, seldom have studies captured how JRP during public health crises reflects the all-around influence of such crises on journalism practice. To fill the gap, our study examined the patterns of JRP in UK news coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic. We draw on a content analysis of 4,184 news stories from 15 UK national news outlets across television, radio, print, and online platforms in 2020. Our results indicate that UK journalism emphasised the performance of the service role by providing news of use to the public, the civic role by (partially) inviting the public into political life, and the interventionist role by explicitly bringing to the fore journalists’ voices. UK journalism also suppressed the infotainment role. The power relations between UK journalists and the government showed a more complicated picture. UK journalists performed a watchdog role by maintaining a seemingly sceptical and distant approach to government sources, yet also showed traces of cooperation with government agendas in ensuring compliance with public health messaging. These findings are discussed in relation to ongoing debates in health and crisis news, and journalistic role performance.

The Role of Science in Foreign Policy: Science Diplomacy of Jordan

Objectives: This study aimed to increase knowledge about the ways in which science diplomacy is viewed and practiced in Jordan. Methods: A qualitative case study approach was used to accurately describe science diplomacy in terms of three empirical dimensions: (1) science for diplomacy, (2) science in diplomacy, and (3) diplomacy for science. A combination of scientific journal articles, official domestic and international documents, reports, and news stories was chosen from which to obtain data. An in-depth content analysis of documents and databases related to the topic was adopted to find predefined key terms used in science diplomacy, which were coded to indicate the conceptual dimensions of science diplomacy related to Jordan. Results: Based on the findings, numerous themes relevant to the practice of science diplomacy were identified. First, Jordan employs the three dimensions of science diplomacy. Second, it is aware of the importance of science diplomacy in promoting better relations and tackling global challenges. Third, the related local institutions employ science diplomacy as part of the overall political strategy in Jordan. Conclusions: The study’s findings suggest that Jordan will likely take advantage of the practice of science diplomacy but that making progress in science diplomacy in Jordan requires more effort.

The balance between text and image in TV news editing The example of the 8:00 PM news bulletin on NRT & K24 Analytical and comparative research

This research entitled (The Balance between text and image in TV news editing) is an attempt to clarify the balance between two main elements, which are text and image in the TV news editing process on Kurdish satellite channels. The research explores how TV channels use text-image balance in news broadcasting.
 
 The main objective of this study is exploring the methods of balancing between text and image in news editing. The researcher relies on descriptive and content analysis methods to achieve its objectives. The research follows some methods of collecting data including monitoring and note-taking, interviews, surveys. 
 
 The main finding of this research is: K24 keeps balance between text and image in news stories related to political, economic, partisan, governmental, military, environmental, and religious. In contrast, NRT follows balancing only in news stories involving governmental, partisan, and organizational. The results show that K24 is using balance more than NRT. This research also shows that both channels are working on that breaking news and current affairs by using description and showing the images when available. In their news editing they show the same angles and frames that are new and they use different sources. They use more (Cut effect) in editing, which is one of the crucial and suitable effects of news editing on TV.

YEREL BASINDA TURİZM HABERLERİ TARAMASI: MEDYA KEŞAN GAZETESİ ÖRNEĞİ

YEREL BASINDA TURİZM HABERLERİ TARAMASI: MEDYA KEŞAN GAZETESİ ÖRNEĞİ

Data Journalism and Its Changing Role in News Gathering and Writing in the 21st Century

In the rapidly evolving landscape of journalism in the 21st century, data journalism has emerged as a transformative force, reshaping the way news is gathered and written. In light of the above, this study examines data journalism and its changing role in news gathering and writing in the 21st century. The researcher embarked on this study basically to examine the roles of data journalism in news gathering and writing, examine the extent to which data-driven storytelling has influenced the credibility, engagement, and audience perception of news stories and explore the challenges and ethical considerations faced by journalists in integrating data-driven content into their reporting. This study is anchored on the uses and gratification theory. The researcher adopted the secondary method of data collection. Findings reveal that data journalism plays crucial roles in news gathering and writing, revolutionising how stories are researched, reported, and presented. The study also found that data-driven storytelling has significantly influenced news stories' credibility, engagement, and audience perception, reshaping how information is presented and received. This study concludes that data journalism has emerged as a transformative force in news gathering and writing in the 21st century. With advancements in technology and the increasing availability of data, journalists have begun harnessing their power to uncover meaningful stories and provide accurate and insightful reporting. Based on this study's findings, this study recommends that journalists should prioritise ongoing training and skill development in data analysis, visualisation tools, and storytelling techniques. This will empower them to work with data effectively, create engaging visualisations, and craft compelling narratives that resonate with modern audiences.

Does Climate Change News Matter?

We explore the importance of climate change as a news topic and examine the relationship between climate change news and financial returns using a large news database that consists of more than 4 million news stories. We use multinomial inverse regression—a Bayesian approach capable of handling the multi-dimensionality of our data—to translate news into a quantifiable input. We also build a climate change dictionary from different sources to identify climate change related words. We find that climate change is a persistent topic in our news universe, which indicates that it is a relevant news topic. This relevance is supported by the non-zero contribution of climate change related trigrams (CCRTs) in the constructed news index. However, our sample does not show an increasing trend of the relative daily presence of CCRTs, which signals that the news are unlikely the source that furthers the perceived increasing awareness of climate change. Lastly, we determine the salient CCRTs present during good and bad days of the market. This result highlights the presence in the news of topics related to fuel and energy, emission, climate change, disaster, and fiscal policy.

How open access boosts the societal impact of humanities and social sciences research

In this poster, we’ll share findings from our open access partnerships in different countries (including the Nordics), showing measurable benefits such as facilitating interdisciplinary collaboration to help solve the world’s most pressing issues. We’re also keen to work with the research community on other innovative ways to accelerate the transition to OA and boost research impact for institutions in Europe. We’ll also present a few case studies of how research influences policy and improves lives, such as: Addressing socio-economic challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic Investigating the socio-cultural impact of UK gendered school sport uniform The article ‘The Impact of long COVID on the UK workforce’ (Reuschke & Houston 2022) was published OA by the University of Southampton through the Jisc Agreement UK in July 2022. It provides evidence of the profound impact of Long COVID on national labour supply. The article has been cited by at least one policy document, published jointly by the think tank Demos and The Physiological Society (Dawson & Phillips 2022). The article ‘Practical, professional or patriarchal? An investigation into the socio-cultural impacts of gendered school sports uniform and the role uniform plays in shaping female experiences of school sport’ (Howard 2023) was published OA by Durham University through the Jisc Agreement on 6 April 2023. It explores how school sport uniform directly impacts female sporting experiences and participation in physical activity, and how uniform policy could be changed to promote greater female sport participation. By 26 April, less than three weeks after publication, the article had already been mentioned in 17 news stories. Although it's too early to measure citations in research and policy documents, the research has already led to new inclusive kit regulations in domestic hockey. We’ll use a collection of datasets as evidence to support our argument that publishing open access increases the visibility and impact of research. It encourages innovation and collaboration and boosts public engagement. As the largest humanities and social sciences publisher in the world, Taylor & Francis is committed to supporting sustainable routes to OA for HSS research communities, who typically have less funding for OA publishing than their peers in STEM.

ANALISIS FRAMING TENTANG PEMBERITAAN PEMINDAHAN IBU KOTA NEGARA PADA MEDIA ONLINE REPUBLIKA.CO.ID DAN KOMPAS.COM

Discussions on moving the State Capital (IKN) in early 2019 became one of the hot topics in the country and media attention in Indonesia. Framing is the framing of information used by a media. The selection of the news portals Republika.co.id and Kompas.com is not without reason. kompas.com occupies the 9th position and Republika.co.id occupies the 34th position, included in the category of the top 50 sites in Indonesia. This research intends to identify the framing of national mass media coverage of the decision to move the State Capital (IKN) to Kalimantan. This research is a type of qualitative descriptive research, using the Zhongdang Pan and Gerald M. Kosicki framing analysis model which has four analytical tools, namely syntax, script, thematic, and rhetorical. Data collection techniques in this research use techniques through primary data and secondary data. This research was conducted through observing online news texts on the media Republika.co.id and kompas.com by selecting 5 stories in each media for the period March to April 2022. Based on the data that has been found from 5 news stories in both media, there are each one news that does not meet the elements of completeness of the news. The comparison of framing in the information that sticks out by Republika.co.id and kompas.com is most often seen in the way the facts are presented and the selection of sources. The results of this study show that Republika.co.id constructs more of a government figure in following up on issues in the process of transferring IKN.

“Remember that?” A temporal perspective on how audiences make sense of the news

Despite its recent turn towards audience studies, journalism and political communication research rarely considers how meanings are made from news in the context of everyday life. The relationships between news consumption and time are also understudied, except when the emphasis is on speed. In this study, I seek to answer the question: how do one’s past news engagements (and sometimes, anticipations of future events) shape how this person interprets a news story? I present findings from fieldwork conducted with 42 participants in the Chinese-Canadian community in the Toronto area, including more than 80 hours of in-depth interviews and 42 “news diaries” collected from each participant. The findings are organized into a typology of news meaning-making in time: gathering, threading, weaving, and fitting. Implications of this typology for understanding perceptions of misinformation and promoting public engagement with the news are discussed.

Becoming a critical consumer: Does this work for my children?

Sue Allingham, author, trainer and consultant, discusses some of the latest news stories from the sector, encouraging us to be critical of suggested improvements to practice while still open to learning from what is happening elsewhere in the world.

A corpus-based discourse analysis of China’s national image constructed by environmental news in The New York Times

The persuasive function of topoi—the conclusion rules connecting the arguments and claims—in national image construction through news discourse has been relatively under-researched. This article presents findings from a corpus-based discourse analysis of 21 China-related environmental news stories in The New York Times to address this gap. The corpus analysis of frequency was utilized to find out recurrent and characteristic topics in the news discourse, while the concordance analysis revealed the discourse prosody in the news stories. Topoi in the reported speech was scrutinized to uncover the persuasive intentions in the coverage and the press’s opinion of China’s pro-environmental actions. The findings demonstrate that China is constructed as a country pursuing economic growth at the expense of the environment and a country that is good at showing resolution of governance but with poor governance capacity. The paper suggests that China should spread environmental-related information more transparently using a vigorous international discourse system and diversify means of communication to offer the world more ways to see China’s pro-environmental actions.