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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Doing more with less? convergence and public interest in the New Zealand news media

Walker, Tamara January 2009 (has links)
The traditional news media is being reshaped by the phenomenon known as media convergence. This thesis, which is presented as a journalistic, multimedia website (see http://www.artsweb.aut.ac.nz/mediaconvergence), explores media convergence in New Zealand. Its primary objective is to gauge the impact of convergence on the extent to which journalism fulfils its public interest duties. To this end, the defining elements of convergence are examined, along with its driving factors and impact on day-to-day newsroom practices. The research project is based on in-depth interviews with news media experts and practitioners and the results of an industry survey. The research findings indicate that convergence poses significant risks to public interest journalism. At present, however, there is more evidence of benefits than detriments.
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Escritura na convergência de mídias

Demoly, Karla Rosane do Amaral January 2008 (has links)
Esta tese é o resultado de uma análise sobre como um grupo de professoras em condições perceptivas distintas escreve, quando se envolvem em uma experiência de escritura na convergência de mídias. Trata-se de um estudo de natureza qualitativa que busca produzir uma análise exploratória embasado principalmente nas Teorias da Biologia do Conhecer de Humberto Maturana e na Teoria da enação de Francisco Varela, no que se referem ao modo de observar e explicar um fenômeno a partir de uma experiência de escritura. A recursividade constitutiva entre escrita e tecnologia é descrita por vários autores, demonstrando que as tecnologias se transformam em ferramentas que modulam os modos de escrever. Situamos o trabalho no campo da Antropologia da Escritura, ao mantermos um diálogo entre alguns de seus autores, dentre os quais destacamos Jack Goody, Jacques Derrida, Roger Chartier e Béatrice Fraenkel. A discussão sobre os modos de viver-conhecer no encontro com diferenças perceptivas visuais e auditivas está embasada principalmente nas obras de Bernard Mottez, Brigitte Garcia, Yves Delaporte e Zina Weygand. O principal foco da investigação foi acompanhar as modalidades de escritura que as professoras – ouvintes e videntes, no encontro com uma professora cega e uma professora surda – realizaram ao se propor a produzir um hiperdocumento coletivo. Para análise da experiência, foi produzido um mapeamento da rede de escrituras tecida pelas professoras em fóruns e salas de bate-papo em ambiente virtual. Os principais marcadores dessa análise qualitativa e exploratória foram as escritas recorrentes e, principalmente, as questões que as professoras formulavam a si e ao grupo na atividade de escrita ou de comentar sobre a escrita feita. Uma diversidade de fonte de informações compõe este mapeamento e subsidiou a análise: filmagens de oficinas organizadas durante a experiência de criação de uma escritura digital, conversações escritas em fóruns e salas de bate-papo na Internet, recortes de diferentes versões da produção de escritas para o hiperdocumento e anotações de campo. As práticas de composição escrita na Internet provocam mudanças nas coordenações de ações, permitindo o encontro entre pessoas que antes não poderiam produzir algo juntas. Estas mudanças nas coordenações de ações, ao envolver um trabalho de manipulação e edição de diferentes mídias - imagens, sons, textos e a Língua de Sinais – faz com que surja uma nova experiência de escritura, implicando em mudanças cognitivas, afetivas e estéticas. Atos de escritura coletiva e digital podem produzir uma convergência interativa na qual existem grandes possibilidades de interlocução entre pessoas com diferentes condições perceptivas, pois mudam os modos sensório-motores de acoplamento com a escrita e as coordenações de ações na rede de conversações escritas tecidas pelas professoras. / This thesis is the outcome of an analysis on how a group of teachers with distinctive perceptive conditions, write when involved in a writing experience with media convergence. It is a study of a qualitative nature and aims to produce an exploratory analysis based, especially in Humberto Maturana’s biology of knowledge and Francisco Varela’s enation theory, and the way they refer to a mode of observation to explain a phenomenon from a writing experience angle. The constituent recursivity between writing and technology is described by many authors, showing that the technologies transform it selves in tools that modulate writing procedures. We situate this work in the field study of Anthropology of Writing with the dialogue established some of its main authors, among which we highlight Jack Goody, J. Derrida, Roger Chartier and Béatrice Fraenkel. The discussion on the livingknowing modes when faced with visual-perceptive and hearing differences is based, chiefly, on the works of Bernard Mottez, Brigitte Garcia, Yves Delaporte and Zina Weygand. The main focus of the investigation was a follow through on the writing modes by which the seeing-writing teachers produced on their encounter with a blind and a deaf teachers in a cognitive hyper-document. For analytic purposes a writing net chart was created to follow the lines produced by these teachers in forums and chat rooms in a virtual ambient. The main markers of the qualitative and exploratory analysis were the recurrent writing processes and, mainly, the questions formulated by the teachers to themselves and the group about the activity of writing itself or on comments on its contents. A variety of information sources consists this charting and base the analysis. The footage of workshop activities organized during the experience of creating a digital writing, thus allowing the encounter of subjects that previously would be unable to produce something together. This shifts in actions coordination, while involving the editing of different media-image, sounds, texts and Sign Language-enable the uprising of a new form of writing, thus implying cognitive, affective and aesthetic changes. Acts of collective digital writing may produce an interactive convergence in which exists great possibilities of interlocution between people with different perceptive conditions once they change the motor-sensorial binding with writing and the action co ordinations on the conversational net weaved by the teachers.
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Escritura na convergência de mídias

Demoly, Karla Rosane do Amaral January 2008 (has links)
Esta tese é o resultado de uma análise sobre como um grupo de professoras em condições perceptivas distintas escreve, quando se envolvem em uma experiência de escritura na convergência de mídias. Trata-se de um estudo de natureza qualitativa que busca produzir uma análise exploratória embasado principalmente nas Teorias da Biologia do Conhecer de Humberto Maturana e na Teoria da enação de Francisco Varela, no que se referem ao modo de observar e explicar um fenômeno a partir de uma experiência de escritura. A recursividade constitutiva entre escrita e tecnologia é descrita por vários autores, demonstrando que as tecnologias se transformam em ferramentas que modulam os modos de escrever. Situamos o trabalho no campo da Antropologia da Escritura, ao mantermos um diálogo entre alguns de seus autores, dentre os quais destacamos Jack Goody, Jacques Derrida, Roger Chartier e Béatrice Fraenkel. A discussão sobre os modos de viver-conhecer no encontro com diferenças perceptivas visuais e auditivas está embasada principalmente nas obras de Bernard Mottez, Brigitte Garcia, Yves Delaporte e Zina Weygand. O principal foco da investigação foi acompanhar as modalidades de escritura que as professoras – ouvintes e videntes, no encontro com uma professora cega e uma professora surda – realizaram ao se propor a produzir um hiperdocumento coletivo. Para análise da experiência, foi produzido um mapeamento da rede de escrituras tecida pelas professoras em fóruns e salas de bate-papo em ambiente virtual. Os principais marcadores dessa análise qualitativa e exploratória foram as escritas recorrentes e, principalmente, as questões que as professoras formulavam a si e ao grupo na atividade de escrita ou de comentar sobre a escrita feita. Uma diversidade de fonte de informações compõe este mapeamento e subsidiou a análise: filmagens de oficinas organizadas durante a experiência de criação de uma escritura digital, conversações escritas em fóruns e salas de bate-papo na Internet, recortes de diferentes versões da produção de escritas para o hiperdocumento e anotações de campo. As práticas de composição escrita na Internet provocam mudanças nas coordenações de ações, permitindo o encontro entre pessoas que antes não poderiam produzir algo juntas. Estas mudanças nas coordenações de ações, ao envolver um trabalho de manipulação e edição de diferentes mídias - imagens, sons, textos e a Língua de Sinais – faz com que surja uma nova experiência de escritura, implicando em mudanças cognitivas, afetivas e estéticas. Atos de escritura coletiva e digital podem produzir uma convergência interativa na qual existem grandes possibilidades de interlocução entre pessoas com diferentes condições perceptivas, pois mudam os modos sensório-motores de acoplamento com a escrita e as coordenações de ações na rede de conversações escritas tecidas pelas professoras. / This thesis is the outcome of an analysis on how a group of teachers with distinctive perceptive conditions, write when involved in a writing experience with media convergence. It is a study of a qualitative nature and aims to produce an exploratory analysis based, especially in Humberto Maturana’s biology of knowledge and Francisco Varela’s enation theory, and the way they refer to a mode of observation to explain a phenomenon from a writing experience angle. The constituent recursivity between writing and technology is described by many authors, showing that the technologies transform it selves in tools that modulate writing procedures. We situate this work in the field study of Anthropology of Writing with the dialogue established some of its main authors, among which we highlight Jack Goody, J. Derrida, Roger Chartier and Béatrice Fraenkel. The discussion on the livingknowing modes when faced with visual-perceptive and hearing differences is based, chiefly, on the works of Bernard Mottez, Brigitte Garcia, Yves Delaporte and Zina Weygand. The main focus of the investigation was a follow through on the writing modes by which the seeing-writing teachers produced on their encounter with a blind and a deaf teachers in a cognitive hyper-document. For analytic purposes a writing net chart was created to follow the lines produced by these teachers in forums and chat rooms in a virtual ambient. The main markers of the qualitative and exploratory analysis were the recurrent writing processes and, mainly, the questions formulated by the teachers to themselves and the group about the activity of writing itself or on comments on its contents. A variety of information sources consists this charting and base the analysis. The footage of workshop activities organized during the experience of creating a digital writing, thus allowing the encounter of subjects that previously would be unable to produce something together. This shifts in actions coordination, while involving the editing of different media-image, sounds, texts and Sign Language-enable the uprising of a new form of writing, thus implying cognitive, affective and aesthetic changes. Acts of collective digital writing may produce an interactive convergence in which exists great possibilities of interlocution between people with different perceptive conditions once they change the motor-sensorial binding with writing and the action co ordinations on the conversational net weaved by the teachers.
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Re-ver TV: um estudo sobre os processos e estratégias de deigitalização da televisão no Brasil / Re-ver TV: um estudo sobre os processos e estratégias de deigitalização da televisão no Brasil

Rodrigo Eduardo Botelho Francisco 14 August 2009 (has links)
Este trabalho tem como objetivo, no contexto da implantação da TV Digital no Brasil, promover uma reflexão sobre o conceito de interatividade na sociedade contemporânea e, considerando as possibilidades dos novos suportes tecnológicos, contribuir para o desenvolvimento de novos formatos e conteúdos de produtos audiovisuais que, de fato, contribuam para a democratização da comunicação. Para tanto, realiza uma revisão bibliográfica que busca não só um embasamento teórico, mas também referendar a argumentação de que o conceito de interatividade sofre um processo de banalização e necessita ser depurado. A partir disso é apresentado um quadro sobre o conceito que ressalta a existência de uma diversidade de terminologias e definições. O projeto, em particular, faz a opção pelas caracterizações como reativa e mútua para interação mediada por computador e as usa num estudo de caso de programas interativos para televisão digital brasileira. Além disso, descreve vários outros aspectos técnicos que envolvem a estruturação de documentos hipermídia com o intuito de enveredar pelos caminhos da informática e suas concepções, já que isso passa a interferir sobremaneira nos processos produtivos audiovisuais. O resultado dessa trajetória não é conclusivo, assim como não parecem ser quaisquer estudos relacionados aos impactos do paradigma digital sobre os meios de comunicação, mas, de certo, explora as intersecções existentes entre TV e Interatividade, questões-chave que refletem as inquietações desta dissertação. / This work aims to, in the context of the implementation of the digital TV in Brazil, promote reflexion on the concept of interactivity in current society, and, by considering the possibilities created by new technological supports, to contribute to the development of new formats and contents of hypermedia documents that truly contribute to the democratization of communication. In order to do that it carries out bibligraphic review which pursues not only theoretical support but also validation of the argument that the concept of interactivity goes through a process of banalization and needs depurating. Upon this is built a picture of the concept that stresses an existing diversity of terminology and definitions. The project itself opts for the characterizations of computer mediated interaction as reactive and mutual and use them in a case study of interactive programs for Brazilian digital television In addition to this it describes many other technical aspects involving the structuring of hypermedia documents, aiming to move through the paths of informatics and its concepts since this interferes meaningfully in the audiovisual productive processes. This journey leads to no-conclusive results, just as other studies related to the impacts of digital paradigm to the means of communication do not either, but it certainly explores the intersections that exist between TV and interactivity key questions that reflect the questioning of this dissertation.
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Escritura na convergência de mídias

Demoly, Karla Rosane do Amaral January 2008 (has links)
Esta tese é o resultado de uma análise sobre como um grupo de professoras em condições perceptivas distintas escreve, quando se envolvem em uma experiência de escritura na convergência de mídias. Trata-se de um estudo de natureza qualitativa que busca produzir uma análise exploratória embasado principalmente nas Teorias da Biologia do Conhecer de Humberto Maturana e na Teoria da enação de Francisco Varela, no que se referem ao modo de observar e explicar um fenômeno a partir de uma experiência de escritura. A recursividade constitutiva entre escrita e tecnologia é descrita por vários autores, demonstrando que as tecnologias se transformam em ferramentas que modulam os modos de escrever. Situamos o trabalho no campo da Antropologia da Escritura, ao mantermos um diálogo entre alguns de seus autores, dentre os quais destacamos Jack Goody, Jacques Derrida, Roger Chartier e Béatrice Fraenkel. A discussão sobre os modos de viver-conhecer no encontro com diferenças perceptivas visuais e auditivas está embasada principalmente nas obras de Bernard Mottez, Brigitte Garcia, Yves Delaporte e Zina Weygand. O principal foco da investigação foi acompanhar as modalidades de escritura que as professoras – ouvintes e videntes, no encontro com uma professora cega e uma professora surda – realizaram ao se propor a produzir um hiperdocumento coletivo. Para análise da experiência, foi produzido um mapeamento da rede de escrituras tecida pelas professoras em fóruns e salas de bate-papo em ambiente virtual. Os principais marcadores dessa análise qualitativa e exploratória foram as escritas recorrentes e, principalmente, as questões que as professoras formulavam a si e ao grupo na atividade de escrita ou de comentar sobre a escrita feita. Uma diversidade de fonte de informações compõe este mapeamento e subsidiou a análise: filmagens de oficinas organizadas durante a experiência de criação de uma escritura digital, conversações escritas em fóruns e salas de bate-papo na Internet, recortes de diferentes versões da produção de escritas para o hiperdocumento e anotações de campo. As práticas de composição escrita na Internet provocam mudanças nas coordenações de ações, permitindo o encontro entre pessoas que antes não poderiam produzir algo juntas. Estas mudanças nas coordenações de ações, ao envolver um trabalho de manipulação e edição de diferentes mídias - imagens, sons, textos e a Língua de Sinais – faz com que surja uma nova experiência de escritura, implicando em mudanças cognitivas, afetivas e estéticas. Atos de escritura coletiva e digital podem produzir uma convergência interativa na qual existem grandes possibilidades de interlocução entre pessoas com diferentes condições perceptivas, pois mudam os modos sensório-motores de acoplamento com a escrita e as coordenações de ações na rede de conversações escritas tecidas pelas professoras. / This thesis is the outcome of an analysis on how a group of teachers with distinctive perceptive conditions, write when involved in a writing experience with media convergence. It is a study of a qualitative nature and aims to produce an exploratory analysis based, especially in Humberto Maturana’s biology of knowledge and Francisco Varela’s enation theory, and the way they refer to a mode of observation to explain a phenomenon from a writing experience angle. The constituent recursivity between writing and technology is described by many authors, showing that the technologies transform it selves in tools that modulate writing procedures. We situate this work in the field study of Anthropology of Writing with the dialogue established some of its main authors, among which we highlight Jack Goody, J. Derrida, Roger Chartier and Béatrice Fraenkel. The discussion on the livingknowing modes when faced with visual-perceptive and hearing differences is based, chiefly, on the works of Bernard Mottez, Brigitte Garcia, Yves Delaporte and Zina Weygand. The main focus of the investigation was a follow through on the writing modes by which the seeing-writing teachers produced on their encounter with a blind and a deaf teachers in a cognitive hyper-document. For analytic purposes a writing net chart was created to follow the lines produced by these teachers in forums and chat rooms in a virtual ambient. The main markers of the qualitative and exploratory analysis were the recurrent writing processes and, mainly, the questions formulated by the teachers to themselves and the group about the activity of writing itself or on comments on its contents. A variety of information sources consists this charting and base the analysis. The footage of workshop activities organized during the experience of creating a digital writing, thus allowing the encounter of subjects that previously would be unable to produce something together. This shifts in actions coordination, while involving the editing of different media-image, sounds, texts and Sign Language-enable the uprising of a new form of writing, thus implying cognitive, affective and aesthetic changes. Acts of collective digital writing may produce an interactive convergence in which exists great possibilities of interlocution between people with different perceptive conditions once they change the motor-sensorial binding with writing and the action co ordinations on the conversational net weaved by the teachers.
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Rádio, convergência midiática e desenvolvimento local : análise das apropriações da proposta do projeto Riachos do Velho Chico pelos jovens comunicadores do município de Triunfo - PE

FERREIRA, Daniel José do Nascimento 06 February 2015 (has links)
Submitted by Mario BC (mario@bc.ufrpe.br) on 2016-09-01T12:08:09Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Daniel Jose do Nascimento Ferreira.pdf: 1838181 bytes, checksum: e670c325d2f16500f4e558acb462789d (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-09-01T12:08:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Daniel Jose do Nascimento Ferreira.pdf: 1838181 bytes, checksum: e670c325d2f16500f4e558acb462789d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-02-06 / This research analyzes the radio as a media convergence regarding the construction of local development. This is a study related to radio appropriations in media convergence situation for young communicators in a radio program called “Young Sowing Knowledge in Sabia Center” in the city of Triunfo -– PE, Sertão of Pajeú. This study aims to comprehend how these young people use the radio in convergence with other media in the “Old Chico Creeks” Project and identify how these young communicators contributes to local community development where they live. The theoretical referential was based on the Cultural Studies by Martín-Barbero and García Canclini. The debate correlated to radio media was based on Ortriwano, Peruzzo, Ferrareto and Cebrian Herreros. The discussion about media convergence is based on Jenkins, Bianco , Fausto Neto, Salaverría and Negredo, e Matínez-Costa. The approach concerning local development is based by Buarque, Franco Jara and Tauk Santos. Castro, Carneiro and Abromoway were used to support the perspective on rural youth. In the process of investigation, two different routes of semi-structured interviews were drawn up, the first intended for technicians and coordinators of Sabiá Center and the second intended for the young communicators to analyze radio appropriations in media convergence situation. The research showed that even though the youth came from rural popular contexts and all limitations and "contingence on the access to cultural goods and materials", they operate the radio in situation of media convergence contributing to the construction of local development of communities where they live. / Esta pesquisa analisa o rádio em situação de convergência midiática na perspectiva da construção do desenvolvimento local. Trata-se de um estudo sobre as apropriações do rádio em situação de convergência midiática pelos jovens comunicadores do programa de rádio Jovens Semeando Conhecimento do Centro Sabiá, em Triunfo no Sertão do Pajeú, Pernambuco. Este estudo objetiva compreender como esses jovens utilizam o rádio em convergência com outras mídias no âmbito do projeto Riachos do Velho Chico e identificar de que maneira o trabalho desses jovens comunicadores contribui para o desenvolvimento local da comunidade onde vivem. A fundamentação teórica apoia-se nos Estudos Culturais, via Martín-Barbero e García Canclini. O debate sobre rádio é fundamentado por Ortriwano, Peruzzo, Ferrareto e Cebrian Herreros. A discussão sobre convergência midiática está ancorada em Jenkins, Bianco, Fausto Neto, Salaverría e Negredo, e Matínez-Costa. A abordagem sobre desenvolvimento local fundamenta-se em Buarque, Franco, Jara e Tauk Santos. Na perspectiva sobre juventude rural, foram utilizados Castro, Carneiro, Wanderley e Abromoway. No processo de investigação, foram elaborados dois diferentes roteiros de entrevistas semi-estruturadas, sendo o primeiro destinado aos técnicos e coordenadores do Centro Sabiá e o segundo voltado para os jovens comunicadores, além da análise documental e de conteúdos. A pesquisa evidenciou que apesar dos jovens serem oriundos de contextos populares rurais, diante de todas as limitações e “contingências no acesso aos bens culturais e materiais”, operam o rádio em situação de convergência midiática contribuindo para a construção do desenvolvimento local das comunidades e do município que vivem.
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More than Meets the Eye : Transmedial entertainment as a site of pleasure, resistance and exploitation

Fast, Karin January 2012 (has links)
Today’s converging entertainment industry creates ‘transmedial’ brand worlds in which consumers are expected to become immersed. Integrated marketing campaigns connected to these worlds encourage various kinds of consumer productivity and invite consumers to partake in brand-building processes. Consumers, thus, are increasingly counted on to act as co-producers of contemporary entertainment. While such an altered consumer identity has been taken as evidence of enhanced consumer agency, it has also been recognized as a source of consumer exploitation.  This thesis aims to further our understanding of the increasingly ambivalent power-relationship that exists between agents in the entertainment industry and their most dedicated customers – the fans. The study employs a multiperspectival theoretical framework, in that cultural studies theory is enriched with perspectives from political economy. This integrated approach to the object of study yields a better understanding of the values of consumer activity, and fan productivity in particular, to industry and consumers respectively. The study applies existing theory on transmedial textuality, branding, and fandom to one particular franchise, Hasbro’s Transformers. This brand world, home of both industrial and fan-based creativity, is studied through analyses of official and unofficial contents, and through interviews with professionals and fans. The focus is on the brand environment established around the first live action film ever made within the franchise. Special attention is given to the all-encompassing film marketing campaign that contributed to forming this environment and to fan productivity taking place in relation to it.  The case study shows that companies and fans contribute to the building and promotion of the Transformers brand world – in collaboration and in conflict. While fan productivity occasionally takes place without direct encouragement from the companies involved, it is also largely anticipated and desired by marketing campaigns. The findings suggest that consumer enjoyment potentially translates into industrial benefits, including free brand promotion. Ultimately, the thesis acknowledges transmedial worlds of entertainment as concurrent sites of pleasure, resistance, and exploitation.
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The Role of Social Media Journalists in TV News:Their Effects on the Profession and Identity of TV Journalism, the Quality of News, and theAudience Engagement

AL Yousufi, Yousuf Humiad 28 June 2019 (has links)
Spurred by the rapid influence of social media in the news industry, an increased number of TV news stations have started assigning dedicated social media journalists (SMJ) in newsrooms to monitor, gather, verify, share news, and engage with audiences on the streams of social media. Consequently, drawing on the diffusion of innovation theory, the present study probes into TV journalists’ perceptions of the implications of the role of this new type of TV professionals in the identity and profession of journalism, the quality of news pertaining to the verification of misinformation, and the news audiences’ attractions and viewership by capitalizing on audience engagement affordances. Moreover, based on an online survey delivered primarily via LinkedIn to a broad spectrum of TV journalists consisting of broadcast, website, and social media journalists in three varied regions of the world—the U.S, Western Europe, and the Middle East—the study demonstrates some concerns about the effects on the code of ethics of journalism. However, most of the surveyed journalists believed that the role of social media journalists SMJ is consistent with the general principles tethered to the professional identity of journalists. Additionally, the study underlines the weight of this role to verify information gleaned from social media before being used in TV news and asserts the significance of engaging with TV audiences to increase the news viewership and enhance their attractions. Accordingly, the study argues that espousing the role of SMJ has become an inevitable fashion in social media-embedded newsrooms. However, the research documents that many TV news channels have broadcast misinformation spread on social media. Furthermore, it unfolds that far less attention has been paid in many TV newsrooms to the potentially positive and beneficial utility of the role of SMJ concerning audience engagement. It signals that a lack of time, tools, strategy, and training causes the dilution of the role quality of SMJ, thereby suggesting that news channels can aggressively tap into this role if these obstacles are conquered. Finally, since research on this concern is still scant at its initial stage, the study shows some venues for future studies in this direction.
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The Role of Social Identity in the Convergence Process: A Study of a Shared College Newsroom

Bailey, Evan B. 07 December 2009 (has links)
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'Even if it is not your fault, it is your responsibility': Livestreaming as means of civic engagement. A case study of citizen journalism in Egypt and Syria

Bengtsson, Rebecca January 2013 (has links)
A well-functioning media is a given part of any society, and can be a valuable tool in the democratising process of a country. The media is traditionally given the role of providing citizens with information about political events in society, and as a result enabling them to make informed decisions. Before the 1990s most of the Middle Eastern and North African media was controlled by governments and because of that they often failed in their responsibility as information providers. As new media such as the internet and satellite television were introduced to the region, the media paradigm shifted and a new arena for public debate arose and has continued to grow ever since. During the 2010-2011 uprisings in the region social media platforms were used by citizens to spread news about demonstrations and political moves, not only within countries, but also globally. Livestreaming applications in particular were used successfully, and videos filmed by citizen journalists were broadcast on international media channels This thesis focuses on the use of livestreaming by citizen journalists in Egypt and Syria to accomplish a social change, and on citizen journalism as an act of civic engagement. To provide an analytic frame, this thesis uses the work of Dahlgren (2009) and his six modes of civic engagement, to better and understand the role of citizen journalists in changing society. Through a number of qualitative interviews with citizen journalists, traditional journalists and Bambuser, this thesis concludes that citizen journalism did play and still plays an important role when it comes to civic engagement in Egypt and Syria although weather or not it might be able to take the role of traditional media in society remains to be seen. The interviews with citizen journalists were conducted in Cairo, Egypt and funded through a Minor Field Study grant.

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