Academic literature on the topic 'Online Media Institutions'
Create a spot-on reference in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and other styles
Consult the lists of relevant articles, books, theses, conference reports, and other scholarly sources on the topic 'Online Media Institutions.'
Next to every source in the list of references, there is an 'Add to bibliography' button. Press on it, and we will generate automatically the bibliographic reference to the chosen work in the citation style you need: APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago, Vancouver, etc.
You can also download the full text of the academic publication as pdf and read online its abstract whenever available in the metadata.
Journal articles on the topic "Online Media Institutions"
1
R. George, Daniel, Lauren Kime, and Timothy D. Riley. "How are healthcare institutions using Facebook to interact with online communities? Results from a case study in Central Pennsylvania." Journal of Hospital Administration 4, no. 3 (2015): 89. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/jha.v4n3p89.
Full textAbstract:
Social media tools and applications are increasingly being integrated into modern medicine. However, little is known about how healthcare institutions are interacting online with their populations. In this case study, we identified a convenience sample of 11 institutions in Central Pennsylvania with Facebook Pages and evaluated their interactions with online communities. From May-June 2013, we noted type of healthcare institution (e.g. hospital, family practice); number of overall “likes” accrued by the healthcare facility; number of overall posts and “likes”, “comments”, and “content shares” associated with those posts; as well as number of location check-ins by “followers”. We thematically categorized each institutional post. Average number of Facebook Page “likes” was 2,261, and average number of overall posts was 28.9, or about one post every three days. On average, each post generated 16 “likes”, 1 comment, and 2.4 shares. Average number of location “check-ins” by visiting patients was 6,348. Most commonly published content across all Pages was advertisements (89%) and institutional news (89%). Patient populations in Central Pennsylvania are seeking out healthcare institutions on Facebook, although most communication appears unidirectional and involves institutional advertising and promotion. There are opportunities for institutions to focus on health promotion and undertake “social” preventive health strategies using social media.
2
Toczyski, Piotr. "Pan-European institutions and new media: pan-European or counter-pan-European media usage?" Postmodern Openings 12, no. 1 (2021): 223–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.18662/po/12.1/256.
Full textAbstract:
Technically, online space seems to be connective beyond national borders and could serve for mass communication between Europeans, both European Union citizens and candidate countries’ citizens. With high internet penetration rates and Web 2.0 tools availability never before had there been such huge potential of growth in communication. Does it mean that European information society emerges? Or contrary: does it seem that pan-European institutions use online tools in non-pan-European or even counter-pan-European ways? Illustrations from Poland's first ten years after EU accession suggest misusing online space fixed website as exemplified by Europa.eu.
3
Hutchinson, Jonathon. "From Fringe to Formalisation: An Experiment in Fostering Interactive Public Service Media." Media International Australia 155, no. 1 (2015): 5–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x1515500103.
Full textAbstract:
The role assumed by institutions that directly develop and support online communities has emerged as a crucial factor in the development of self-governance models for online communities engaging in collaborative practices. Commonly, online communities reject top-down governance models in favour of a meritocracy that positions users in authoritative positions because of their online performance. Scholarly research into online communities suggests that their governance models are horizontal, even where the community platforms are being developed or supported by commercial institutions. Questions of authority and power emerge when institutional, top-down governance models intersect with online community meritocracy in day-to-day communicative activities and while engaging in creative production. This article examines an experiment in fostering interactive public service media by users of the now-defunct ABC Pool through the case study of Ariadne. It tracks how early user-driven ideas for creativity were aligned with the interests of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation through a process of community self-governance alongside cultural intermediation.
4
Tasente, Tanase, and Mihaela Rus. "Donald Trump's Social Media Communication or the voice of a man is stronger than the voice of an institution." Technium Social Sciences Journal 1 (December 1, 2019): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.47577/tssj.v1i1.27.
Full textAbstract:
Social Media (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.) have revolutionized the communication strategies of public institutions in recent years, and communication strategies have understood the different principles on which these new media have been built, compared to traditional means of communication. Beyond the huge openness of these social environments, Social Meda is encouraging users to participate in the in the government process and created a new mechanism through which institution becomes a person, and institutional communication becomes interpersonal communication. This was speculated by many candidates who have won such a high online reputation that their voice can be stronger than the voice of an institution. This study focused on analyzing the Social Media communication strategy of Donald Trump, from 1 July 2018 to 1 July 2019. Thus, we have analyzed the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that facilitate Social Media communication, we have identified and analyzed the messages that generate high engagement from users as well as the dominant reactions generated by the online audience.
5
Davidson, Roei, and Yariv Tsfati. "The contribution of supply and demand factors to the reproduction of hierarchies online: The case of crowdfunding of scientific research." Public Understanding of Science 28, no. 8 (2019): 868–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963662519876535.
Full textAbstract:
We conceptualize mechanisms that explain how social uses of media technologies, especially online platforms and crowds, reproduce, or modify inequalities, and explore these in the context of the crowdfunding of science. We distinguish between “supply side” factors related to the ability of actors given their institutional standing to use this funding approach, and “demand side” factors related to the crowd’s sensitivity to the institutional standing of those actors. We collected data on scientists requesting funding for their studies on Experiment.com , arguably the most popular scientific crowdfunding platform, and investigated the factors contributing to initiation and success. Supply side factors were important: crowdfunding appeals tended to come from scientists affiliated with larger, wealthier, and more active and prestigious institutions. However, demand side factors were not as important at the institutional level. Crowdfunding projects’ success was not predicted by the institution’s status, but rather by the number of appeals from an institution.
6
Stainforth, Elizabeth. "From museum to memory institution: the politics of European culture online." Museum and Society 14, no. 2 (2017): 323–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.29311/mas.v14i2.646.
Full textAbstract:
Museums, libraries and archives have long been considered the retainers of some form of collective memory. Within the last twenty years, the term ‘memory institution’ has been coined to describe these entities, which is symptomatic of the fact that such places are increasingly linked through digital media and online networks. The concept of the memory institution is also part of the vocabulary used to promote broader cultural integration across nations, and appears in discussions of European heritage and in policy documents concerning the digitization of cultural heritage collections. To explore the relationship between cultural heritage, memory and digital technology further, this paper will examine the large-scale digitization project Europeana, under which museums, libraries and archives are re-defined as cultural heritage institutions or memory institutions. My purpose is to trace the conceptual trajectory of memory within this context, and to address how the idea of a European cultural memory structured by technology holds implications for institutions traditionally associated with practices of remembering.Key words: Cultural heritage, collective memory, digitization, network, memory institution, Europe, integration
7
Nazarov, M. M., V. N. Ivanov, and E. A. Kublitskaya. "Media, institutions, and the Russians’ trust." RUDN Journal of Sociology 19, no. 2 (2019): 277–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2313-2272-2019-19-2-277-288.
Full textAbstract:
Media is one of the most important social institutions that mediates the attitude of citizens to other institutions of society. Thus, one of the key features of the contemporary society is the trust of citizens in basic social institutions. The article considers the issue of public trust in the Russian media and focuses on the question to what extent the trust of Russian citizens in the mass media depends on the trust in other state and public institutions. The authors’ conclusions are based on the comparative empirical studies in the metropolitan region conducted in 2016-2018. The data show that people do not really trust in media: about a half of respondents do not trust this institution. This is a common trend for the post-Soviet period in general. The authors used binary logistic regression, and found out that distrust in media is significantly correlated with distrust in other institutions such as the president, State Duma, law enforcement agencies, political parties, church, banks and businesses. Moreover, according to the statistical model, the lack of trust in media is determined by social-economic problems, general dissatisfaction with political system, and negative attitudes to media content and its role in the society. When studying trust in media one should take into account the ongoing transformations of media landscape: today the most trusted media are Internet and television (practically the same level of trust). There is also a clear age differentiation: trust in media generally grows with age, although the situation is opposite considering trust in the Internet. The development of media technologies and online services and networks makes it increasingly difficult to assess the level of public trust in media and other institutions.
8
Mažeikienė, Natalija, Judita Kasperiūnienė, and Ilona Tandzegolskienė. "Framing Nuclearity: Online Media Discourses in Lithuania." Media and Communication 9, no. 2 (2021): 150–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/mac.v9i2.3818.
Full textAbstract:
This article refers to the concept of nuclearity as a broader technopolitical phenomenon that implies a political and cultural configuration of technical and scientific matters. The nuclear media discourses become a site of tensions, struggles, and power relations between various institutions, social groups, and agents who seek to frame nuclear issues. The Bourdieusian concept of a field as a domain of social interaction is employed by the authors of this article seeking to reveal interactions and power configurations within and between several fields: journalism and media, economy, politics, and cultural production fields (cinematography, literature, and art). Commercial and political pressures on media raise a question about the autonomy of this field. Media coverage of nuclear issues in Lithuania during the period 2018–2020, includes media framing produced by different sponsors of the nuclear media discourses and agents from the above-mentioned fields of journalism, nuclear industry, politics, cinematography or arts. The media coverage includes the news and press releases produced within PR and public communication of the atomic energy industry by representing the decommissioning of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant, articles written by journalists about the atomic city Visaginas, and challenges faced by the local community due to the closure of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant. The nuclear discourse includes debates by politicians around the topic of the lack of safety of the construction of the Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant in Belarus, and media coverage of the HBO series <em>Chernobyl</em> representing a strong antinuclear narrative by portraying the Chernobyl disaster crisis and expressing strong criticism of communism. The authors of this article carried out a qualitative content analysis of media coverage on nuclear issues and revealed features of the discourse: interpretative packages, frames, framing devices (Gamson &amp; Modigliani, 1989), and dominating actors and institutions supporting the discourse.
9
Barizki, Rezzi Nanda, and Mayang Riyantie. "Konstruksi Realitas Integritas Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi (KPK) dalam Pemberitaan Media Online." Jurnal Inovasi Ilmu Sosial dan Politik (JISoP) 3, no. 1 (2021): 68. http://dx.doi.org/10.33474/jisop.v3i1.9016.
Full textAbstract:
The aim of this research is to know the construction of the reality of the reporting on the integrity of the KPK from the framing of online media Kompas.com and Detik.com. The paradigm used is constructivist, with the Entman’s framing analysis method, which means that it is preceded by the assumption that reality tends to have multiple faces (multiple reality). Therefore, this research will have a theoretical contribution to the public's understanding about the construction of mass media reality, and public awareness that the aspects of corruption prevention must be started by the actors of KPK itself (the issue of integrity), as well as for strengthening the anti-graft institution. The results showed that the reality construction formed by excellent reputation media such as Kompas.com and Detik.com will gain high public trust, especially in disclosing information on important state institutions, such as KPK. The similarity construction is related to the public criticism and demand about the existence of KPK as Supervisory Board; on the contrary, it oftentimes still stained by the violation allegation of the ethical code of its leaders. Moreover, there was internal conflict, decreased performance and public pessimism. As for the difference, Kompas.com built a positive image by the KPK's actions in overseeing state institutions and investigating several cases, while Detik.com delivered content on sympathetic social action, coordination with regional leaders, appreciation for the existence of KPK by a popular state figure.
10
Gupta, Vipul, Sameer Khanna, and Iljoo Kim. "Personal Financial Aggregation and Social Media Mining." International Journal of Business Intelligence Research 5, no. 4 (2014): 14–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijbir.2014100102.
Full textAbstract:
Consumers have been banking and trading online for several years now. More ambitious and tech savvy consumers have also been constructing an overview of their financial life by using Personal Finance software like Quicken and online tools such as Yodlee and Mint.com. Since late 1999, Personal Financial Aggregators (PFAs) have started offering internet based services to automate this process of account aggregation. This web account aggregation allows individuals to log onto one Web site and view all of their online accounts in one place. Online accounts that can be aggregated include financial sites (bank, credit card, brokerage, insurance, etc.) as well as lifestyle-based sites (travel awards, email, chat rooms, etc.). The idea behind Personal Financial Aggregation is to offer consumers their own personal portal from which they can see all their finances at a glance, balance and rebalance accounts, make investments, pay bills, etc. In addition to this Web data aggregation, consumers are relying on social media sites such as facebook, tweeter and other internet forums to get financial advice from each other and also to critique various financial products and services. As a result, many Financial Institutions (FIs) are using social media analysis and mining to shape their businesses. FIs include consumer banks, brokerages, insurance, wealth management firms, etc. This paper presents a framework for financial institutions that combines social media mining, web mining, online advice engines, and web aggregation. This framework can be utilized by FIs to analyze online buzz about their products/services and combine those insights with web aggregation and online advice to create different revenue streams and to offer personalized bundled products and services. The authors conducted interviews with various executives at the Global Financial institutions and insurance companies to test and validate this framework. A comprehensive review of top service providers and vendors that can enable and drive this framework is also discussed in this paper, followed by managerial implications, benefits and challenges.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Online Media Institutions"
1
Hong, Sounman. "Online Institutions, Markets, and Democracy." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10370.
Full textAbstract:
In this dissertation, I explore the implications of the advances in information and communication technology on democracy. In particular, I examine the roles of online institutions—search engines, news aggregators, and social media—in information readership and political outcomes. In Chapter 1, I show that information consumption pattern is more concentrated and polarized in online news traffic than in offline newspaper circulation. I then show that this pattern occurs not because online traffic better reflects people’s demand, but because online institutions generate a cascade. Using this evidence, I argue that online institutions produce a trade-off between the benefits involved when people access information and the costs of the cascade. In Chapter 3, I compare information consumption pattern on various online institutions. In Chapter 2, I explain why the cascade may become increasingly significant over time. An increase in Internet users suggests not only a reduced digital divide but also an even more concentrated and polarized online information consumption pattern as, ceteris paribus, the magnitude of the cascade will increase with an increase in the number of Internet users. I then empirically show a positive association between the traffic to an online institution and the estimated magnitude of the cascade observed on that site. In Chapter 4, I show that the observed concentrated and polarized online information consumption may affect political outcomes. For instance, if such an information consumption pattern affects political behaviors, we can expect the same pattern in measurable political outcomes. I test this prediction by investigating the association between U.S. Representatives using Twitter and their fundraising. Evidence suggests that, after politicians started using Twitter, their individual collected contributions became more concentrated, ideologically polarized, and geographically diverse. Finally, I discuss the implications of these findings for political equality, polarization, and democracy. In sum, online institutions may result in political outcomes becoming more concentrated and polarized. Given that a significant part of the observed concentration and polarization can be attributed to the cascade effect, this paper challenges the notion that Internet-mediated political actions or communications will necessarily promote democracy.
2
Mangolothi, Brightness. "The use of social media for marketing and communication purpose in institutions of higher learning." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1019698.
Full textAbstract:
Social media have become a widely used tool to communicate with the orgnisations stakeholders. Institutions of higher learning are also venturing into this new way of marketing and communication. This study intended to determine how South African institutions of higher learning are using social media for marketing and communication purposes. Firstly, a literature study was conducted to gain an understanding on how social media are used. Further an empirical study was conducted, which consisted of two phases. The first phase was a case study on NMMU and Stellenbosch University. Structured-interviews, focus groups and observation were used to collect data from the cases. The collected data were then used to construct a questionnaire that was used for a survey. The survey was distributed to all 23 universities, 50 public FET colleges and the 200 private FET college. 92 institutions responded to the survey. The findings prove that there are various opportuntities and challenges in using social media although it should be stressed that the opportunities outweigh the threats. There is no visible difference between colleges social media implementation in relation to institutions of higher learning. Most institutions use more than one social media tool. Facebook is the most widely used social media followed by Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn. Flickr, MXit, Google+ and Blog are the least used social media. The observations of the NMMU and Stellenbosch University show that these two institutions are striving to engage with their target audiences. Although the institutions are using social media, some of the concerns are that institutions are not measuring their social media use. For those who are measuring, most depend on the free measurement tools which focus only on the quantitative measure. The governance of the social media use is none existent. Most respondents stated that they do not have a policy or guidelines informing social media management. Most of the respondents felt that they want to use more social media tools in future although some of the challenges alluded to were lack of capacity, human resources and budget.
3
Panagiotopoulos, Panagiotis J. C. "An institutional perspective on information and communication technologies in governance." Thesis, Brunel University, 2011. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/6437.
Full textAbstract:
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are becoming increasing relevant in policy making and governance activities. However, the broad effects of digital governance have not been adequately conceptualised; conflicting assumptions vary from rather optimistic accounts of empowered citizens to even completely dismissing the potential of engagement through technical means. This research attempts to reposition the impact of ICTs on policy making and political communities. Drawing from institutional studies, an integrated perspective is synthesised to guide case investigations in three main directions: (1) the way influences from the institutional environment are understood and balanced locally, (2) the co-evolution of institutional and technological configurations and (3) the dynamic response of institutional actors to the challenge of online engagement. The empirical part focuses on two different contexts (local government authorities and a trade union federation) that cover the holistic objective of this study. The findings inform on the extent to which ICTs are actually merging with existing governance structures. Both studies show that policy making is fundamentally different from other activities at the general intersection of Internet and politics. Citizens form online communities to organise ad hoc around single issue movements. However, this does not necessarily translate into sustainable and meaningful participation in formal politics. Hence, adapting institutional structures emerges as a complicated challenge beyond fitting technical means into existing engagement activities. On this basis, the thesis questions the extent to which policy making mechanisms are able to enact engagement from the grassroots, as for example encouraged by the social media collaboration philosophy. Implications for practice show how the alignment between new tools and the existing norms has the potential to identify paths of least resistance, and then exploit them to accomplish positives changes whose beneficial effects should not be taken for granted.
4
Raviola, Elena. "Paper meets web : how the institution of news production works on paper and online." Doctoral thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, ESOL (Entrepreneurship, Strategy, Organization, Leadership), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-13828.
Full textAbstract:
The dissertation investigates the institution of news production at work, on paper and online, through an ethnographic study at the largest Italian financial newspaper Il Sole-24 Ore. Building on institutional theory and taking inspiration from Bordieu’s theoretical apparatus describing how cultural capital works, the dissertation presents a framework for the way institutions work, a framework that echoes Mary Douglas’ How Institutions Think (1987). In the space created by the relationships between objects, practices and labels, institutions are at work in the alignments, disarrangements, re-alignments and new alignments among objects, practices and labels. This study examines the encounter between old and new to aid in the understanding of the workings of institutions, because the workings of institutions are made more visible in this encounter between aliens. Empirically, the occasion is the encounter between the newspaper and the website in the framework of the newspaper-website integration project at Il Sole-24 Ore. The main story line develops as follows: An old alignment around the newspaper (old object), to which old practices called journalistic (label) were aligned, is disarranged by the encounter with the website (new object), which is alien to the newspaper and carries new practices for making news. As a consequence of this encounter, the newspaper and the website vacillate between old and new practices and new alignments and realignments are formed: In these movements the institution of news production can be seen at work. This study offers a new perspective on the way institutions work, with serious consideration for the material, practical, and linguistic dimensions of institutions. It opens the black box of institutions, unpacking their workings in an attempt to clarify how stability of institutions results from the work of practices, objects and labels, which are products of institutions and at the same time produce them. Regarding news production in practice, this study aims at inspiring a reflection around what a newspaper is, a question at the very core of the industry transformation at the turn of the 21st century. By focusing on a highly debated topic, the study also offers reflections on the broader societal implications of new media for politics, business, knowledge, and professions.
5
Lê, Patrick Lâm. "Does Clark Kent tweet ? Structure, Agency and Materiality in Institutional Theory." Thesis, Jouy-en Josas, HEC, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015EHEC0001/document.
Full textAbstract:
Cette thèse examine deux questions de recherche: Comment l’adoption des technologies en ligne impacte-t-elle le comportement des acteurs et leur reproduction des institutions ? Quels rôles jouent la structure, l’agence et la matérialité dans ces changements ? Ma principale conclusion est que les acteurs font preuve d’une forme d’agence pratique en tirant avantage d’une situation émergente qui est caractérisée par de nouvelles conditions matérielles. La thèse s’articule autour de trois essais. Le premier essai examine comment les normes professionnelles et les caractéristiques matérielles de Twitter guident la gestion des rôles endossés par les journalistes. Le second essai analyse les dynamiques de la construction de sens et leur relation au contexte institutionnel. Le troisième essai consiste en une revue de littérature systématique portant sur la méthode de l’ethnographie en ligne. Dans le dernier chapitre de ma thèse, après avoir présenté ses limitations et des pistes pour des recherches futures, je souligne les implications pratiques de mes travaux<br>This dissertation examines two main research questions: How does the adoption of online technology impact actors’ behavior and their enactment of institutions? What roles do structure, agency and materiality play in this change? Its main conclusion is that actors mostly exhibit a form of practical-evaluative agency by taking advantage of an emergent situation which is characterized by new material conditions. The dissertation is articulated around three essays. In the first essay, I investigate how professional norms and the material features of Twitter guide journalists’ online boundary management behavior. In the second essay, I examine the dynamics of meaning construction and their relation to the institutional context. In the third essay, I systematically review online ethnography and its boundary challenges. Finally, in the last chapter of the dissertation, after presenting its limitations and avenues for future research, I highlight the practical implications of my work
6
Benabid, Mohamed. "Pratiques de consommation et processus de changement organisationnel : cas du marché de l'information en ligne." Thesis, Paris 8, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PA080044.
Full textAbstract:
La littérature sur le changement ne rend pas suffisamment compte de l’influence de déterminants micro-organisationnel comme ceux des pratiques de consommation. En mobilisant deux cadres théoriques, celui de la théorie néo-institutionnelle (TNI) et celui du modèle d’acceptation technologiques, et en s’appuyant sur le marché de l’information en ligne au Maroc, notre thèse vise à mieux prendre en compte cette perspective. Notre recherche est à visée compréhensive et explicative et utilise une méthodologie mixte qualitative-quantitative dans le cadre d’un positionnement épistémologique pragmatique. Nos résultats permettent de constater que le changement catalysé par le consommateur de l’information en ligne n’est pas animé par un agenda institutionnel ou pour le dire autrement par une volonté d’infléchir le cours des événements. Il semble plutôt n’être qu’un effet collatéral de ses activités. Notre recherche fait par ailleurs ressortir le statut institutionnel des pratiques de consommation, celles-ci étant portées par des piliers institutionnels réglementaires, normatifs et cognitifs. Si le pilier cognitif de la gratuité de l’information apporte des opportunités organisationnelles de changement dans le contexte de la presse électronique, il continue en revanche de défier la question de la monétisation. Les résultats de notre analyse quantitative suggèrent également l’existence de relations significatives entre l’intention d’achat de l’information d’actualité en ligne et des construits d’ordre cognitif : mentalité du gratuit, équité perçue, crédibilité perçue. Nous montrons par-là que la question de la monétisation tient à la fois à des facteurs techniques et psychosociaux qui continuent de faire barrière aux enjeux du modèle économique<br>The literature on change does not adequately capture the influence of micro-organizational determinants such as consumption practices. By mobilizing two theoretical frameworks, the neo-institutional theory (NIT) and technology acceptance model, and relying on the online information market in Morocco, our thesis aims to better take into account this perspective. Our research is comprehensive and explanatory and uses a mixed qualitative-quantitative methodology through a pragmatic epistemological positioning. Our results show that consumer-driven change in online information is not motivated by an institutional agenda or, to put it another way, by shifting the course of events. It seems to be only a collateral effect of his activities. Our research also highlights the institutional status of consumer practices, which are driven by regulatory, normative and cognitive institutional pillars. While the cognitive pillar of free information provides organizational opportunities for change in the context of the electronic press, it continues to challenge the issue of monetization. The results of our quantitative analysis also suggest the existence of significant relationships between the intention to purchase online news and cognitive constructs: the free mentality, perceived fairness, perceived credibility. We show that monetization is a question of both technical and psychosocial factors that continue to be a barrier to the challenges of the economic model
7
Arthur, Emily D. "The performance and production of bisexual identity work online." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/1808.
Full textAbstract:
Employing institutional ethnography as an analytic frame, this study explicates the
disjuncture felt by bisexual-identified individuals between their lived actualities and the textual realities stemming from the binary model of sexuality. This study also explores the role of online journal communities, including the capabilities and limits of this type of venue, as a rolling text that coordinates the narratives created there around bisexuality and bisexual-identification. Finally, this study critically examines the collaborative development of an experience-based discourse on bisexuality as produced by text-based
identity work. Through the coordination of bisexual identity work taking place online,
the venue facilitates the production of an alternative discourse that is differentiated from other sexuality discourses in its demonstration of fluidity, multiplicity, and resistance to order. In its differences from, rather than its similarities to, governing sexuality discourses, this bisexual discourse-in-production creates the possibility for a radical reconceptualization of sexuality and sexual-identification.
8
Čuprová, Michaela. "Uchazeč o studium v placených programech jako cílová skupina online persvaze FSV UK." Master's thesis, 2020. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-435481.
Full textAbstract:
The subject of the diploma thesis is the process of online persuasion in the case of higher education applicants for bachelor's and master's programmes at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University (FSV UK) subject to tuition fees. The selected programmes form a specific class within the set of study programmes offered by the faculty resulting in necessity of different promotion strategies. The specificity of these programmes lies in the primary focus on multidisciplinarity, specific target group and the requirement of tuition fee payment. Online marketing and the recipient's persuasion being an effective tool gaining attention rapidly in recent years is the focus of this thesis. The attitudes of the main actors involved in the online persuasion in case of FSV UK are analyzed employing both quantitative (a questionnaire survey) and qualitative (semi-structured interviews with applicants and students) approaches. A SWOT analysis is performed based on a theoretical framework of information from universities, university marketing, marketing mix of universities and the persuasive principles and tools used to persuade the applicants to apply for studies at FSV UK. The work concludes with a summary of results obtained in a proposal of marketing strategy optimization for the Department of Public...
9
Barbosa, Marta Isabel Eusébio. "A comunicação online da Entidade Reguladora para a Comunicação Social: reflexões sobre performance comunicativa de instituições públicas." Master's thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1822/23315.
Full textAbstract:
Dissertação de mestrado em Ciências de Comunicação (área de especialização em Publicidade e Relações Públicas)<br>Compreender as instituições é pensá-las nos contextos em que se inserem. Mais do que
índice, a comunicação torna-se a marca performativa dos conceitos basilares da instituição.
Tendo surgido em fevereiro de 2006 (longe de consensos), a Entidade Reguladora para a
Comunicação Social (ERC) é a instituição portuguesa cuja missão é implementar os princípios da
regulação mediática. Contudo, num contexto em mutação, as noções de regulação e de
governance mediáticas tomam contornos modeladores no que respeita aos organismos
reguladores. Esta dissertação pretende, por isso, à luz da criação da sua dimensão
organizacional, perceber a estratégia adotada para a comunicação externa da ERC, percebendo,
desde logo, a concentração desta atividade num pólo digital: o site.
Através da recolha de critérios performativos dos sistemas hipermédia, construindo uma
grelha de análise de websites institucionais, foi possível estabelecer um conjunto de indicadores
de análise, de maneira a perceber se a ERC está preparada para as necessidades inerentes a
uma responsabilidade pública de comunicação externa, assim como se está apetrechada para
fomentar a aproximação aos públicos, de modo a criar forças de legitimação da Entidade
Reguladora no espaço público. Atendendo a valores tático-estratégicos, critérios de
acessibilidade, navegabilidade, conteúdos ou usabilidade, na hora de ponderar os pontos fracos
e fortes na balança, a performance da Entidade Reguladora parece afastar-se dos indicadores
positivos que lhe permitiriam pôr em prática um sistema de regulação mediática apropriado às
sociedades democráticas modernas, na partilha e intercâmbio com a sociedade civil.<br>To understand the institutions in general we must think of them in their contexts. More
than a manifestation, the communication becomes the performative mark of institution’s primary
concepts. Born in Frebruary 2006 (and far from consensus) the Regulatory Entity for the Media
(ERC) is the Portugueses institution on charge for the implementation of media regulation
principles. However, in a changing context, the concepts os regulation and governance have been
taking a modeling shape function when it concerns to regulatory bodies action. Understanding
reality from an organization perspective, this dissertation aims to understand ERC’s strategy to
communicate externally. The concentration of ERC’s communication activity on the digital world
was, from the beginning, a research entry point.
Through out the collect of hypermedia systems performative criteria and the creation of
an analysis grid for institutional websites, it was possible to establish a set of indicators. These
indicators helped to understand if ERC was prepared for the external communication public
responsibility duties, as well as if the organization had the skills to provide a close relationship
with the publics, promoting legitimation forces in the public sphere. Our study is based on
tactical-strategic values, accessibility, navigability, contents and usability criteria. Taking the
strenghs and the weaknesses, the Regulatory Entity for the Media seems to settle away from the
positive indicators which were capable to provide a modern and democratic media regulatory
systems, oriented to the sharing and the exchange of experiences with the civil society.<br>Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) - Projeto PEst-
OE/COM/UI0736/2011 - “A Regulação dos Media em Portugal: O Caso da ERC” (PTDC/CCI-COM/104634/2008)
10
Rodrigues, Tatiana Filipa Paiva Valdágua. "O efeito das redes sociais das câmaras municipais na criação de confiança no cidadão." Master's thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/90078.
Full textAbstract:
Dissertação de Mestrado em Marketing apresentada à Faculdade de Economia<br>As redes sociais são uma das formas de comunicação mais utilizadas atualmente entre pessoas. Devido a esse facto as instituições cada vez mais criam o seu espaço online, especialmente nas redes sociais, para chegar ao seu público. É consensual entre autores e especialistas que a comunicação é essencial em qualquer organização para a construção da sua notoriedade e reconhecimento. Também a confiança é vista como um elemento chave para o sucesso de qualquer instituição sendo que ela influencia o envolvimento do público com a instituição assim como a forma como a divulga para o restante público. Nesta dissertação, o objetivo foi estudar o efeito da presença das câmaras municipais na rede social Facebook na criação de confiança do cidadão nessas instituições. Para fazer esta investigação foi criado um modelo conceptual que inclui 6 variáveis e 7 hipóteses de ligação. As variáveis avaliadas no processo de construção de confiança foram a intensidade da utilização das redes sociais, o engagement nas atividades das redes sociais das instituições, a identificação institucional, os incentivos de grupo, a propensão para confiar e o confiar nas instituições. Os dados analisados foram recolhidos através de um questionário online divulgado nas redes sociais, incluindo no Facebook de algumas câmaras municipais que colaboraram nesta etapa da investigação. O método estatístico utilizado para este estudo foi as equações estruturais, que demonstraram que todas as hipóteses levantadas são estatisticamente suportadas. Torna-se, assim, esta dissertação um contributo para a investigação da criação de confiança nas câmaras municipais através das redes sociais, sendo um ponto de partida para futuros estudos com o objetivo de diminuir a lacuna que existe na análise deste tema.<br>Currently, social media is one of the communication forms more used between people. Because of that, institutions increasingly create their own online space, specially on social media, to reach their audience. It is consensual between authors and specialists that communication is essential in any organization to build their notoriety and recognition. Also, trust is seen as a key element for the success of any institution being that it influences the audience's involvement with the same, just as the way as it releases it for the remaining audience. In this dissertation, the goal was to study the effect of the presence of town halls on social network Facebook in the built of trust of the citizen in these institutions. To do this investigation, it was created a conceptual model that includes 6 variables e 7 connection hypothesis. The variables evaluated in the process of building that trust were the intensity of the use of social network, the engagement in the activity of the institutions social network, the institutional identification, group incentives, a propensity to trust e actually trusting these institutions. The analyzed data was collected through an online questionnaire spread on social media, including Facebooks of some town halls that cooperated in this investigation stage. The statistic method used for this study were the structural equations, who showed that all the hypotheses are statistically supported. This dissertation becomes this way a contribution for the investigation of creating trust in town halls though social media, being a starting point for future studies with the goal of decreasing the gap that exists in the review of this topic.
Books on the topic "Online Media Institutions"
1
Gomes, Catherine, Lily Kong, and Orlando Woods, eds. Religion, Hypermobility and Digital Media in Global Asia. Amsterdam University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463728935.
Full textAbstract:
Digital media is changing the ways in which religion is practiced, understood, proselytised and countered. Religious institutions and leaders use digital media to engage with their congregations who now are not confined to single locations and physical structures. The faithful are part of online communities which allow them a space to worship and to find fellowship. Migrant and mobile subjects thus are able to be connected to their faith -- whether home grown or emerging -- wherever they may be, providing them with an anchor in unfamiliar physical and cultural surroundings. As Asia rises, mobilities associated with Asian populations have escalated. The notion of ‘Global Asia’ is a reflection of this increased mobility, where Asia includes not only Asian countries as sites of political independence, but also the transnational networks of Asian trans/migrants, and the diasporic settlements of Asian peoples all over the world. This collection features cutting edge research by scholars across disciplines seeking to understand the role and significance of religion among transnational mobile subjects in this age of digital media, and in particular, as experienced in Global Asia.
2
Ulrich, Saxer, ed. Medien als Institutionen und Organisationen: Institutionalistische Ansätze in der Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft. Nomos, 2013.
Find full text
3
Immigration and Social Capital in the Age of Social Media: American Social Institutions and a Korean-American Women's Online Community. Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2016.
Find full text
4
Khan, Nadia. American Muslims in the Age of New Media. Edited by Jane I. Smith and Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199862634.013.005.
Full textAbstract:
The article explores how American Muslim activists increasingly use the power of social media to change the discourse about American Muslims. First, it provides a sketch of the American Muslim web presence, followed by an exploration of the American Muslim webscape’s topography. Second, it investigates how American Muslim religious leaders operate online. While some posit that the Internet can erode their authority, American Muslim religious leaders and institutions have leveraged new media to expand their following online. Third, it examines how the Internet not only fosters linkages between American Muslims and their coreligionists abroad but also, more importantly, how American Muslims use the Internet to emphasize their identity as diverse, law-abiding citizens. Finally, it shows how American Muslims use the Internet—not simply to propagate their faith but to deflect anti-Muslim sentiment and make claims for equal citizenship.
5
Benkler, Yochai, Robert Faris, and Hal Roberts. The Origins of Asymmetry. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190923624.003.0011.
Full textAbstract:
This chapter examines the origins of asymmetry in the American public sphere by charting the rise of second-wave right-wing media. Taking a political economy approach, this chapter investigates how institutions, politics, culture, and technology combine to explain why Rush Limbaugh, televangelism, and Fox News were able to emerge as mass media when they did, rather than remaining, as first-generation right-wing media after World War II had, small niche players. The chapter also considers how the emergence of the online right-wing media ecosystem followed the offline media ecosystem architecture because of the propaganda feedback loop. It shows that asymmetric polarization precedes the emergence of the internet and that even today the internet is highly unlikely to be the main cause of polarization, by comparison to Fox News and talk radio.
6
Barnhurst, Kevin G. News Online Reentered Modern Time. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040184.003.0015.
Full textAbstract:
This chapter considers changing perspectives of modern time. It argues that newspapers are stuck in late-nineteenth-century modern time, raising complaints and objections to the new time regime. In contrast, television news is mired in mid-twentieth-century modern time, and the web editions of legacy media, after a moment of turbulence, returned to reflect the modernist time of an institutional memory they share. New interactive and mobile technologies create for news media a space of temporal discomfort. The modern sense of time empowered practitioners, giving them clear tools for selection and sequence, the discipline of deadlines, and the competition of the scoop and the exclusive, with the underlying assumption that time is money. The new sense of time removes their illusion of some control in a political life formerly attuned to their own news cycles.
7
Douglass, Susan L. Developments in Islamic Education in the United States. Edited by Jane I. Smith and Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199862634.013.003.
Full textAbstract:
This chapter describes efforts by the Muslim community in the United States to educate Muslims and the public about Islam. Historical background on the earliest forms of teaching in mosques, homes, and Islamic schools is introduced. The chapter surveys the most numerous Muslim educational institutions in the United States, namely, weekend schools and K‒12 full-time Islamic schools, analyzing issues such as the number of schools in operation, their curriculum, accreditation, physical plant, teacher certification, and funding. Other institutional developments surveyed include homeschooling, design and publication of educational media, higher education, and online education. Finally, teaching about Islam in US public schools is discussed in terms of the First Amendment guidelines, a voluntary framework for all religious curricula and standards as well as the textbooks that provide the content to which students are exposed.
8
Benkler, Yochai, Robert Faris, and Hal Roberts. Epistemic Crisis. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190923624.003.0001.
Full textAbstract:
This chapter describes the contours of the epistemic crisis in media and politics that threatens the integrity of democratic processes, erodes trust in public institutions, and exacerbates social divisions. It lays out the centrality of partisanship, asymmetric polarization, and political radicalization in understanding the current maladies of political media. It investigates the main actors who used the asymmetric media ecosystem to influence the formation of beliefs and the propagation of disinformation in the American public sphere, and to manipulate political coverage during the election and the first year of the Trump presidency, , including “fake news” entrepreneurs/political clickbait fabricators; Russian hackers, bots, and sockpuppets; the Facebook algorithm and online echo chambers; and Cambridge Analytica. The chapter also provides definitions of propaganda and related concepts, as well as a brief intellectual history of the study of propaganda.
9
Mallapragada, Madhavi. Conclusion. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038631.003.0006.
Full textAbstract:
This concluding chapter revisits the key arguments developed in each of the four chapters and points to key implications of undertaking a study of home in the age of networks. It argues for a reconsideration of the contours of belonging in contemporary contexts of new media and transnationalism through its specific study of Indian immigrant cultures online. It contends that the question of belonging must be applied more thoroughly to the institutional contexts of online media, for not doing so would neglect a very significant alliance between capital and citizenship in the neoliberal, digital age. Furthermore, in the United States, especially since 2001, immigrants, racial and religious minorities, women of color, and the working class have found themselves at the receiving end of the disciplinary practices of neoliberal states and globalization practices. These institutional contexts shape belonging as much as the textual and hypertextual practices that generate categories of exclusion and inclusion in online media.
10
Mallapragada, Madhavi. Introduction. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038631.003.0001.
Full textAbstract:
This introductory chapter sets out the book's purpose, which is to examine the textual, institutional, and discursive politics of online media that target, speak to, and are shaped by Indian immigrant cultures. The main emphasis is on the idea of home, and its many reconfigurations online through the concept of the homepage. The book critically evaluates how homepages anchor the ideals and ideologies of belonging online in relation to two dominant imaginaries traditionally associated with the time–space of the home, namely the domestic, familial household and the public, national homeland. The book argues that online media play a crucial role in the ongoing struggles over belonging and citizenship for diverse groups within the Indian American community by representing, reconstructing, and reimagining the Indian immigrant household and homeland (which include India and/or the United States). An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.
Book chapters on the topic "Online Media Institutions"
1
Giaretta, Elisa, and Giusy Chesini. "‘Share this pic!’: A Picture of the Adoption of Online Social Media by Italian Banks." In Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions. Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16295-5_7.
Full text
2
de Bakker, Frank G. A. "Online Activism, CSR and Institutional Change." In Civic Engagement and Social Media. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137434166_2.
Full text
3
Heffernan, Valerie, and Katherine Stone. "International Responses to Regretting Motherhood." In Women’s Lived Experiences of the Gender Gap. Springer Singapore, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1174-2_11.
Full textAbstract:
AbstractRecent debates about maternal regret, prompted by the publication of Israeli sociologist Orna Donath’s (2015) research with mothers who admit to regretting their motherhood, have manifested differently in different cultural contexts. This chapter situates Tiina Sihto and Armi Mustosmäki’s analysis of a discussion of regret among contributors to an online forum for mothers in Finland (see Chap. 10.1007/978-981-16-1174-2_10) within the international context by comparing the Finnish discussion to similar media debates in Spain and the Anglophone countries. Our analysis reveals that while the idea that a woman might regret her motherhood is more readily accepted in countries where institutional support for mothers is lacking, there is a general acceptance that the inordinate pressures placed on mothers in neoliberal societies to negotiate the competing demands of family and paid employment make it inevitable that some women will experience regret. Moreover, we find evidence that the open conversation about regret triggered by Donath’s research is perceived as a further step towards destabilizing traditional attitudes towards gender roles.
4
Agozzino, Alisa. "Building and Maintaining Relationships through Social Media." In Building Online Communities in Higher Education Institutions. IGI Global, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-5178-4.ch004.
Full textAbstract:
In recent years, social media tools such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and blogs have rocked the higher education world. No longer is just being present on these mediums enough. Integration of social media tools into daily practices through monitoring, teaching, and collaboration allows those in higher education to build and maintain relationships with key publics. From devising social media goals and objectives to monitoring channels and evaluating efforts, social media can be integrated into the higher education arena. In this chapter, multiple dimensions of social media tools and the various ways those in higher education can integrate those tools into operation are exposed and elaborated upon. In an effort to provide readers with best practices, ideas are shared to present those in higher education with optimal ways to connect, build, and maintain relationships with others both internally and externally.
5
Moss-Wellington, Wyatt. "Enthymemes Online." In Cognitive Film and Media Ethics. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197552889.003.0009.
Full textAbstract:
The final chapter addresses current issues in news and social media, as well as the tandem problems of public trust in journalism, democratic institutions, and everyday personal communications inaugurated by digital media’s proliferating resources for fabrication and obfuscation. After introducing a cognitive-rhetorical model for identifying promotional enthymemes online, this chapter carefully considers the ways in which media criticism is taught in higher education; it questions traditional methods of interrogation and deconstruction that individualize the ethics of media engagement and have the potential to breed further mistrust within already trust-poor cultures. Alternative modes of analysis are considered for their pedagogical merits, including the uses of postcritique and surface readings of media texts. Ultimately, I make the case that there is an imperative to guide a hopeful, forward-looking, normative search for solutions in our classrooms, in addition to describing the political problems we currently confront. The alternative is to prescribe a disempowering culture of suspicion for the next generation, who will be the inheritors of a fraught media ecology that scholars continue to document as it unfolds.
6
Massamba, Guy-Maurille. "Institutionalism, Social Media, and Democracy in Africa." In Advances in Social Networking and Online Communities. IGI Global, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4718-2.ch012.
Full textAbstract:
This study focuses on the process of institutional change with regard to the capabilities of African political systems to embrace the conditions that instill and support democracy in the context characterized by pervasive social media consumption. The author wonders in what way institutions and individual behaviors can integrate social media in order to consolidate democracy. In other words, is social media-supported democracy sustainable in Africa? The study analyzes the patterns of social media consumption in its functionality for democratic change in Africa. It examines patterns of institutional change on the basis of the impact of social media consumption in African politics. It highlights two theories of institutional change—structured institutional change and evolutionary institutional change—based on their relevance to the impact of social media consumption in African political settings.
7
Hai-Jew, Shalin. "Multimodal Mapping of a University's Formal and Informal Online Brand." In Social Media Marketing. IGI Global, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5637-4.ch052.
Full textAbstract:
With the popularization of the Social Web (or Read-Write Web) and millions of participants in these interactive spaces, institutions of higher education have found it necessary to create online presences to promote their university brands, presence, and reputation. An important aspect of that engagement involves being aware of how their brand is represented informally (and formally) on social media platforms. Universities have traditionally maintained thin channels of formalized communications through official media channels, but in this participatory new media age, the user-generated contents and communications are created independent of the formal public relations offices. The university brand is evolving independently of official controls. Ex-post interventions to protect university reputation and brand may be too little, too late, and much of the contents are beyond the purview of the formal university. Various offices and clubs have institutional accounts on Facebook as well as wide representation of their faculty, staff, administrators, and students online. There are various microblogging accounts on Twitter. Various photo and video contents related to the institution may be found on photo- and video-sharing sites, like Flickr, and there are video channels on YouTube. All this digital content is widely available and may serve as points-of-contact for the close-in to more distal stakeholders and publics related to the institution. A recently available open-source tool enhances the capability for crawling (extracting data) these various social media platforms (through their Application Programming Interfaces or “APIs”) and enables the capture, analysis, and social network visualization of broadly available public information. Further, this tool enables the analysis of previously hidden information. This chapter introduces the application of Network Overview, Discovery and Exploration for Excel (NodeXL) to the empirical and multimodal analysis of a university's electronic presence on various social media platforms and offers some initial ideas for the analytical value of such an approach.
8
Westhoff, Dirk, and Maximilian Zeiser. "Measuring the World." In Multigenerational Online Behavior and Media Use. IGI Global, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7909-0.ch025.
Full textAbstract:
The authors claim that location information of stationary ICT components can never be unclassified. They describe how swarm-mapping (crowd sourcing) is used by Apple and Google to worldwide harvest geo-location information on wireless access points and mobile telecommunication systems' base stations to build up gigantic databases with very exclusive access rights. After having highlighted the known technical facts, in the speculative part of this article, the authors argue how this may impact cyber deterrence strategies of states and alliances understanding the cyberspace as another domain of geostrategic relevance. The states and alliances spectrum of activities due to the potential existence of such databases may range from geopolitical negotiations by institutions understanding international affairs as their core business, mitigation approaches at a technical level, over means of cyber deterrence-by-retaliation.
9
Cook, Sarah. "Online Activity and Offline Community: Cultural Institutions and New Media Art." In Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage. The MIT Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262033534.003.0007.
Full text
10
Donnellan, Elizabeth G. "If You Build It, They Will Come." In Building Online Communities in Higher Education Institutions. IGI Global, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-5178-4.ch009.
Full textAbstract:
Students attending traditional or online universities will benefit from membership in a virtual club. This chapter provides specific information about tools used to create, administer, and motivate participation in virtual college clubs. To enhance the club experience, suggestions are offered for creating interactive clubrooms, utilizing specific social media tools, and providing unique club events all as a virtual experience. A case study is included to demonstrate how students of a major online university participate in virtual club events. Results of this case study indicate a correlation between students who can easily access club tools and events and participation. Further, students who participate in events report greater satisfaction with their overall university experience.
Conference papers on the topic "Online Media Institutions"
1
Raileanu, Olga. "Psychopedagogical conditions for optimizing online learning." In Condiții pedagogice de optimizare a învățării în post criză pandemică prin prisma dezvoltării gândirii științifice. "Ion Creanga" State Pedagogical University, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.46728/c.18-06-2021.p128-132.
Full textAbstract:
This article reflects the importance of highlighting the conditions for optimizing online learning, the defining aspects of the challenges to which the educational process has been subjected. In the same context, the possibilities of forming the resilience of the educational system in the face of the changes caused by the Covid pandemic 19 are described. It addresses the issue of streamlining online learning by capitalizing on the digital skills of learners, more efficient use of resources in the environment in which the child lives and learns, the possibilities of community institutions and media, but also the use of distance/ online learning technologies for special or unpredictable situations.
2
Fosu, Agyei. "Readiness of Universities for the 21st Century Digital Economies: A Look at Selected Lecturers from Universities in Buffalo City Metropolitan in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa [Abstract]." In InSITE 2020: Informing Science + IT Education Conferences: Online. Informing Science Institute, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/4593.
Full textAbstract:
[The full paper was previously published in the International Journal of Community Development & Management Studies, 3, 65-77.] Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study is to expand the knowledge base on factors likely to impede implementation and adoption of web-based learning management systems to blend with traditional methods of lecturing in universities to cater for the next generation of learners in Africa and Eastern Cape Province South Africa in particular. Background: The shift from the industrial economies to 21st century digital and knowledge-based economies, fueled by rapid Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) such as Internet, YouTube, Chartrooms, Skype, Social media networks and its introduction to the educational system not only resulted in a new teaching approach globally but also paved way to usher in new generation of learners (anytime, anywhere learners) in the higher education system. Despite the fact that universities and other institutions of higher education in developed countries and some Africa countries have since recognized that the 21st century global digital and knowledge-based economies evolution has ushered in the next generation of learners, and as a result have taken the necessary steps to blend the traditional method of lecturing in higher education with web-based learning management systems in order to accommodate these learners. However, in Africa not much research has been done on the readiness of higher education institutions in terms of blending web-based learning management systems with the traditional method of lecturing to cater for the next generation of learners. Methodology: Quantitative and two non-probability sampling methods, namely, quota and purposive sampling was used to investigate the technological skills of selected lecturers from universities within Buffalo City Metropolitan as one of the core component to check the readiness of their faculty for the next generation of learners. Contribution: This research will add to the growing knowledge about the blending of web-based learning management with the traditional style of lecturing in higher education in the 21st century digital economies. Findings: The results indicated that the participating lecturers need to be trained and supported in the skills of using of the ICTs and computer programs applicable to enhance web-based learning in teaching and learning environment in higher education in order to cater for the next generation of learners associated with the 21st century digital economies. Recommendations for Practitioners: Much as there is a need for increased in investment in infrastructure within higher education institutions to support teaching and learning, continuous support and training for academics to be technologically literate and also be abreast on rapidly evolving field of ICTs is paramount as it can expedite the teaching and learning process in higher education. Recommendations for Researchers: There is the need to explore in depth the other two components suggested by Mishra and Koehler that can serve as barriers for successfully integration of technology into teaching and learning by locus of knowledge. Impact on Society: The research will assist stakeholders, policy makers and agencies tasked with transforming institutions of higher learning to identify the barriers likely to hinder transformation efforts and address them accordingly. Future Research: Checking technological skills of students are critical in this context.
3
Brink, Henning, and Sven Packmohr. "Comparing Pre- and Intra-Covid-19 students’ perception of the digitalization of higher education institutions." In Seventh International Conference on Higher Education Advances. Universitat Politècnica de València, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/head21.2021.13044.
Full textAbstract:
Higher education institutions (HEIs) are significantly progressing, especially to external affordances caused by Covid-19. Digital assets are an opportunity during the pandemic to secure social distance and enhance the students’ learning experience at the same time. Also, student administration might benefit from new digitally-enhanced opportunities. There is no uniform procedure for the use of digital media in teaching and student services. Thus, HEIs need to ascertain students’ attitudes toward the technologies used. To compare attitudes before and during the pandemic, we surveyed students about their perceptions. The first round of surveys was completed in a blended learning setting in fall 2019 before the global pandemic of Covid-19. The second round was conducted in an online learning setting in February 2021 after nearly one year of higher education under Covid-19. Our results show that students’ perceptions toward digitalization at HEIs differ in many aspects due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Students during the pandemic are more critical of the effects on their learning success. The study indicates that the adoption has taken place more quickly in the area of services. Still, teaching concepts and the learning culture lag behind.
4
Santi, Matej. "Was erzählt Fritz Kreislers Geige?" In Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung 2019. Paderborn und Detmold. Musikwissenschaftliches Seminar der Universität Paderborn und der Hochschule für Musik Detmold, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.25366/2020.109.
Full textAbstract:
This short contribution shows the relevance of audiovisual sources for the history of 20th century music. It traces the role played by the violinist Fritz Kreisler (1875–1962) in shaping the widespread cliché of the “Viennese sound” via an examination of audiovisual sources. The sources stored in different online archives or social media portals play a key role, but the traceability of a given agent is not guaranteed. For this reason, controlled vocabularies and a digital tool which enable the addition of new metadata to already existing sources should be developed in the near future. This would enable researchers to trace agents, such as institutions and artists, and to connect them with places, repertoires and cultural topoi.
5
Zeng, Yue. "Community response to public health emergency and thoughts on improving the resilience of community planning, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen." In Post-Oil City Planning for Urban Green Deals Virtual Congress. ISOCARP, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.47472/nyzh4125.
Full textAbstract:
Communities are the front lines facing Covid-19, in addition to city entrances. This paper uses four mega cities in China as the cases, which are Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. It uses a text-mining method to express online news about the anti-Covid-19 measures of communities in these case cities, and conducts a qualitative research on 1207 press releases, which are published by official media, institutions and self-media from January 2020 to September 2020. According to the analysis, the main anti-Covid-19 measures in community level include strengthening publicity by using mobile social media; clarifying the situation of every household; intensifying the management of neighbourhood entrance; upgrading epidemic prevention and public health management; cooperation with all social forces; shortening the distance between daily necessities and residents, and preliminary applications of smart technology. On this basis, this article attempts to propose thoughts on enhancing community resilience, including orienting from space to human; using mobile social network apps to promote public participation; enhancing the flexibility of community planning; integrating risk management thinking into community planning and refining community governance with the help of smart technology.
6
Tammaro, Rosanna, Iolanda Sara Iannotta, and Concetta Ferrantino. "THE TEACHER TRAINING DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY ABOUT ONLINE LABORATORIES QUALITY." In International Conference on Education and New Developments. inScience Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36315/2021end111.
Full textAbstract:
The spread of novel Corona Virus and the resulting Covid-19 Pandemic has had a profound impact in our lives and most of daily activities have been upset. Negative effects crushed education and all around the world schools, universities and tertiary institutions had to shut down moving to Distance Learning. Distance Learning was in fact the global answer to continue educational activities and preserve students’ right to education. The United Nations Organization for Culture and Education (UNESCO) reports that ten months after rising pandemic, more than 331 million students worldwide are affected by the Pandemic and in 28 countries the schools are still closed (updated 09.12.2020). During the months of the first contagion curve, only 15% of teaching activities were delivered remotely, globally, thanks to Distance Learning. More than 1.5 billion students worldwide are or have been touched by the closure of schools and universities due to the Covid-19 Pandemic. Teachers and instructors world-wide had to find the best solution to fix the pedagogical challenge. For this reason, teaching strategies, methods and materials have been adapted to the online learning environment. Distance Learning refers to an electronic learning environment; generally, it is used if time and/or geographic conditions do not allow a direct contact between educators and students (King, Young, Drivere-Richmond & Schrader, 2001). UNESCO (2002) asserts that Distance Learning includes learning process carried out separately in time and space, through artificial electronic or print media; this holds also for a part of the educational process. Distance Learning requires specific evaluation procedures throughout qualitative and quantitative methodologies, focusing the performance assessment and the learning process (Benigno & Trentin, 1999). This article is a part of a wider research that wants to investigate the students’ experience about online Laboratory classes during Pandemic crisis. Based on a quantitative, non- experimental and ex-post-facto research, this article specifically investigates the strategies used during remote Labs students attended during the sanitary emergency. Data was collected through a no-tested research survey administered with an online free app. A voluntary response sample from 749 Single-cycle Primary Teacher Education students, from first year course to the fifth, attending university in one of the most important athenaeums in Southern Italy, at the end of their last second semester. Results from the closed-response questions show the use of a variety of strategies whose effectiveness should be assessed based on empirical evidence.
7
Wang, Wen. "Risk Reporting in the Chinese News Media in Response to Radiation Threat From the Fukushima Nuclear Reactor Crisis." In ASME 2013 15th International Conference on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste Management. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icem2013-96360.
Full textAbstract:
On March 11, 2011, the northeastern coast of Japan was struck by 9.0-magnitude earthquake that triggered a devastating tsunami. Aside from the huge toll in people’s lives and severe damages to property, the tremor sent the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant on a tailspin, causing hydrogen explosions in three reactors, and sending radioactive materials into the air and bodies of water. Declared the largest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl, the crisis threatened neighboring countries, including China (International Business Times, 2011). On March 28, low levels of iodine-131, cesium-137 and strontium, believed to have drifted from Japan, were detected in the air over Heilongjiang province in the northeast part of China and in seawater samples collected in the eastern coastal areas (Qianjiang Eve News, 2011). Because these chemicals can enter the food chain and adversely affect human health (Ifeng.com, 2011), people became understandably anxious and the government had to avert panic. This study asks: How did the Chinese media report the risks attendant to this event? A content analysis of 45 straight news reports published by the Chinese press from March 16, 2011 to April 25, 2011 was conducted. The analysis focused on how the media explained the risk, portrayed potential harm, reported on government actions to safeguard public health, and provided suggestions to reduce public fear. The sources of information cited in the reports were also identified. The articles examined were collected from People.com, a comprehensive online archive of news reports, using “Fukushima” and “nuclear radiation” as search terms. The results indicated journalistic practices that left much to be desired in terms of risk reporting. First, the articles explained little about the technical aspects of the radiation leaks and failed to give audiences a general indication of levels of risk. Second, the media over-emphasized the government’s position that the environment was safe despite the more rampant word-of-mouth reports to the contrary, a slant that may have done nothing to allay public fear. Third, there was a dearth of information about what the government intends to do to alleviate the situation and suggestions about what people can do to protect themselves. The themes of news reports may be attributed to experts from research institutions and government officials who were the most frequently cited sources of facts, analyses, interpretations, and opinions. Scientists and nuclear experts were cited the most in the news reports.
8
Xiao Hui, Hup, and Ker Yuek Li. "AN INVESTIGATION OF ONLINE NEWS CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOUR OF A MALAYSIAN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION: A CASE STUDY OF SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE." In World Conference on Media and Mass Communication. The International Institute of Knowledge Management - TIIKM, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.17501/24246778.2018.4203.
Full text
9
"An Examination of Gen Z Learners Attending a Minority University." In InSITE 2018: Informing Science + IT Education Conferences: La Verne California. Informing Science Institute, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/3955.
Full textAbstract:
Aim/Purpose: [This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2018 issue of the Interdisciplinary Journal of e-Skills and Lifelong Learning, Volume 14] This presentation presents the preliminary findings of a survey that sought to examine the technology uses, needs, interests, career goals, and professional expectations of Generation Z college students Background: Students entering college today are part of Generation Z born in the late 90’s through 2016 making the oldest among them 20 or so years old. They already outnumber millennials and are the first true digital natives being born during the age of smart phone. They are the first generation that used a tablet before they could ride a bike, the first to have childhood friends that they engaged with electronically, and the first to have their baby photos and youthful milestones shared on social media. Their minds, relationships, learning preferences, emotional health, sense of self, have all been inexplicably shaped by constant exposure to screens and networked digital technologies, which the research shows in high doses changes the neural circuitry of developing brains, leading to shorter attention spans, stunted social skills and a heightened ability to multitask Methodology: In the fall of 2017 an online student perception survey was administered to students enrolled at a mid-Atlantic minority serving institution. The survey included a combination of dichotomous, Likert-scaled, and ranking questions. The survey was administered to students following completion of core computer concepts courses and explored their technology backgrounds, skills, perceived computing self-efficacy, and the role they predict technology will play in their future career Contribution: As Generation Z descends on college campuses, with their technology dominated backgrounds and different communications, learning, and social preferences, it is important to better understand this generation whose needs and expectations will help shape the future of higher education. Additionally, this study also provides research on a population (first-generation minority college students) that is expanding in numbers in higher education and that the literature, reports is impacted negatively by the digital divide and educational inequalities. This paper is timely and relevant and helps to extend our understanding of Generation Z. Findings: The findings show that Generation Z learners enjoy computer classes, feel that using computers comes easy to them; are experts in the use of social media, mobile operating systems, using a smart phone, searching the Web, and email. They reported that they want to be more technologically literate, want to be more skilled in computer software applications, and are interested in learning about cyber security. In terms of the future, most also believe that their career will require them to analyze information to inform decision making. Additionally, most believe that information security will be important to their future career. Finally, results affirmed that college computing courses remain important and that college students recognize that technology will play an important role in their career and that employers want to see job applications with strong technology skills. Recommendations for Practitioners: Generation Z learners enrolled in higher education need, and want, a wide range of technology courses available to them in order to help them meet the rapidly evolving demands of tomorrow’s workplace. Students overwhelmingly see the value in enhancing their technology skills especially in such areas as computer software applications, information management, and cyber security. Recommendation for Researchers: Institutions of higher education should invest in thorough and ongoing examinations of the information and technology literacy skills, needs, and perceptions of students. Impact on Society: Understanding the interests and needs of Generation Z learners is imperative to the future of higher education. Future Research: This survey is a work in progress that is part of a pilot study that is being used to help guide a much more sizable examination of Generation Z learners.
10
Faust, Maria. "Revitalizing Eastern and Western Online Communication: A Micro-Meso-Macro Link of Temporal Digital Change." In GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2019. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/cala2019.2-2.
Full textAbstract:
This paper explains in a de-westernized sense (Gunaratne, 2010) how internet-mediated communication changes the way we deal with and plan time both individually and culturally in Germany and China. Therefore, it blends Western and Eastern culture and media theories. The paper focuses on two distinct phenomena: temporal change due to social media, and Online journalism, as the core of Internet-mediated communication (for Germany 39% communication, media use 24% Projektgruppe ARD/ZDF-Multimedia, 2016; for China 90.7% instant messaging, 82% Internet news China Internet Network Information Center, 2017), with other temporal change via smart devices touched upon (Ash, 2018). General research on time in post modern societies, recently more focused on media’s temporal change phenomena (e.g. Barker, 2012; Barker, 2018; Castells, 2010; Eriksen, 2001; Hartmann, 2016; Hassan, 2003; Innis, 2004; Neverla, 2010a, 2010b; Nowotny, 1995; Rantanen, 2005; Wajcman, 2010; Wajcman and Dodd) has not yet linked the different societal and cultural levels of temporal change. Thus, we suggest the following to fill this research gap: For a micro perspective the notions of network theories (e.g. Granovetter, 1973; Schönhuth, 2013), media synchronicity (Dennis, Fuller, and Valacich, 2008) and the idea of permanent connectivity (Sonnentag, Reinecke, Mata, and Vorderer, 2018; van Dijck, 2013; Vorderer, Krömer, and Schneider, 2016) are linked. On a meso level, institutional change in Online journalism with a focus on acceleration is modeled (Ananny, 2016; Bødker and Sonnevend, 2017; Dimmick, Feaster, and Hoplamazian, 2011; Krüger, 2014; Neuberger, 2010). On a macro level, mediatization theory (Couldry and Hepp, 2017; Krotz, 2001, 2012) and recent acceleration theory (Rosa, 2005, 2012, 2017) is discussed. The levels are systematically linked suggesting a micro-meso-macro-link (Quandt, 2010) to then ask if and how many of the dimensions of the construct temporal understanding (Faust, 2016) can be changed through Internet-mediated communication. Temporal understanding consists of nine dimensions: General past, general future, instrumental experience (monochronicity), fatalism, interacting experience (polychronicity), pace of life, future as planned expectation and result of proximal goals as well as future as trust based interacting expectation and result of present positive behavior. Temporal understanding integrates the anthropological construct of polychronicity (Bluedorn, Kalliath, Strube, and Martin, 1999; Hall, 1984; Lindquist and Kaufman-Scarborough, 2007), pace of life (Levine, 1998) and temporal horizon (Klapproth, 2011) into a broader framework which goes beyond Western biased constructs through the theory driven incorporation of Confucian notions (Chinese Culture Connection, 1987). Finally, meta trends are laid out.