Internet, digital media and society Books

Book SynopsisHow Jews use media to connect with one another has profound consequences for Jewish identity, community, and culture. This volume explores how the use of media can both create communities and divide them because of how different media shape actions and project anxieties, conflicts, and emotions. Taken together, the essays presented here consider how Jewish use of media at home and in the street, as well as in the synagogue and in school, affects the individual’s sense of ethnic and religious affiliation. They include closely observed case studies, in various national contexts, of the role of popular film, television, records, the Internet, and smartphones, as well as the role of print media, now and historically. They raise fascinating questions about how Jews and Jewish institutions harness, tolerate, or resist media to create their sense of social belonging as Jews within the wider society.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Media, Mediation, and Jewish CommunitySimon J. Bronner and Caspar BattegayPart I. The Impact of Texts on, and in, Jewish Community1. Sixteenth-Century Jewish Makers of Printed Books and the Shaping of Late Renaissance Jewish Literacy Pavel Sládek 2. Settings of Silver: The Feminization of the Jewish Sabbath, 1920--1945Amy K. Milligan3. Contemporary Israeli Midrash and the Construction of a Dialogic Intragroup DiscourseTsafi Sebba-ElranPart II. Media, Performance, and Popular Discourse in the Formation of Jewish Community4. The Jewish Atlantic: Diaspora and Popular MusicCaspar Battegay5. The Hidden Legacies of Jewish Traditions and the Global Allure of Psychotherapy: A Case Study of the Israeli TV Series BetipulDiana L. Popescu6. Propagating Modern Jewish Identity in Madagascar: A Contextual Analysis of One Community’s Discursive StrategiesNathan P. Devir7. Telling Jokes: Connecting and Separating Jews in Analogue and Digital CultureSimon J. BronnerPart III. Virtual Spaces for Jews in a Digital Age8. Going Online to Go ‘Home’: Yizkor Books, Cyber-Shtetls, and Communities of LocationRachel Leah Jablon9. The Second Life of Judaism: A History of Religious Community and Practice in Virtual SpacesJulian Voloj and Anthony Bak Buccitelli10. Rethinking Jewishness in Networked Publics: The Case of Post-Communist HungaryAnna ManchinContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisNext Generation e-book nonfiction 2023 Indie Book Award Prize. While social network analyses often demonstrate the usefulness of social media networks to affective publics and otherwise marginalized social justice groups, this book explores the domination and manipulation of social networks by more powerful political groups. Jeffrey Layne Blevins and James Lee look at the ways in which social media conversations about race turn politically charged, and in many cases, ugly. Studies show that social media is an important venue for news and political information, while focusing national attention on racially involved issues. Perhaps less understood, however, is the effective quality of this discourse, and its connection to popular politics, especially when Twitter trolls and social media mobs go on the attack. Taking on prominent case studies from the past few years, including the Ferguson protests and the Black Lives Matter movement, the 2016 presidential election, and the rise of fake news, this volume presents data visualization sets alongside careful scholarly analysis. The resulting volume provides new insight into social media, legacy news, and social justice.

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Book SynopsisIn Chinese, the term wanghong refers to creators, social media entrepreneurs alternatively known as KOLs (key opinion leaders) and zhubo (showroom hosts), influencers and micro-celebrities. Wanghong also refers to an emerging media ecology in which these creators cultivate online communities for cultural and commercial value by harnessing Chinese social media platforms, like Weibo, WeChat, Douyu, Huya, Bilibili, Douyin, and Kuaishuo. Framed by the concepts of cultural, creative, and social industries, the book maps the development of wanghong policies and platforms, labor and management, content and culture, as they operate in contrast to its non-Chinese counterpart, social media entertainment, driven by platforms like YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitch. As evidenced by the backlash to TikTok, the threat of competition from global wanghong signals advancing platform nationalism.Trade Review“The book’s six chapters cover topics such as policy, platform, and culture of Wanghong industry, providing in-depth analysis of the current popular Chinese Wanghong industry in an accessible way. … the monograph develops a rich and thorough account of the birth and evolution of the Chinese Wanghong industry … . the monograph inspires readers to reflect on the role of government and the state in the cultural and digital industries in the context of a normalized global epidemic.” (Bojia He, Journal of Popular Culture, 2022)Table of Contents1 Introduction.- 2 Policy and Governance.- 3 Platforms.- 4 Creators.- 5 Culture.- 6 Global Wanghong.

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses the hot topic in audiovisual translation (AVT) of video game localization through the unique perspective of dubbing, an area which has so far received relatively little scholarly focus. The author analyses the main characteristics of video game localization within the context of English-Spanish dubbing, and emphasizes the implications for research and localization as a professional practice. The book will appeal to translation studies scholars and students, as well as AVT professionals looking to understand localization processes from a systematized approach.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Videogames as Modern Multimodal Products.- Chapter 2: The History of Localization and Dubbing in Video Games.- Chapter 3: Game Localization: Stages and Particularities.- Chapter 4: Dubbing in Video Games.- Chapter 5: Dubbing Analysis through Game Situations: Four Case Studies.- Chapter 6: Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book, geared towards both students and professionals, examines the synthesis of artificial intelligence (AI) and psychology in detecting mis-/disinformation in digital media content, and suggests practical means to intervene and curtail this current global ‘infodemic’. This interdisciplinary book explores technological, psychological, philosophical, and linguistic insights into the nature of truth and deception, trust and credibility, cognitive biases and logical fallacies and how, through AI and human intervention, content users can be alerted to the presence of deception. The author investigates how AI can mimic the procedures and know-hows of humans, showing how AI can help spot fakes and how AI tools can work to debunk rumors and fact-check. The book describes how AI detection systems work and how they fit with broader societal and individual concerns. Each chapter focuses attention on key concepts and their inter-connection. The first part of the book seeks theoretical footing to understand our interactions with new information and reviews relevant empirical findings in behavioral sciences. The second part is about applied knowledge. The author looks at several known practices that guard us against deception, and provides several real-world examples of manipulative persuasive techniques in advertising, political propaganda, and public relations. She provides links to the downloadable executable files to three AI applications (clickbait, satire, and falsehood detectors) via LiT.RL GitHub, an open access repository. The book is useful to students and professionals studying AI and media studies as well as library and information professionals. Examines how artificial intelligence (AI) and psychology can aid in detecting mis-/disinformation and the language of deceit in digital media content; Suggests practical computational means to intervene and curtail the global ‘infodemic’ of fake news; Presents how AI can sift, sort, and shuffle digital content, to reduce the amount of content needed to be reviewed by humans. Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Infodemic in the Digital Media Content.- Part I. Human Nature of Deception and Perceptions of Truth.- Psychology of Mis-/Disinformation and Language of Deceit.- Library and Information Science on Credibility and Trust in Computing.- Philosophies of Truth.- Part II. Applied Practices and Artificial Intelligence (AI).- Investigation in Law Enforcement, Journalism, and Sciences.- Manipulation in Marketing, Advertising, and Public Relations.- Artificially Intelligent Solutions: Detection, Debunking, Fact-Checking.- Lessons for Infodemic Control and Future of Digital Content Verification.- Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis Open Access book examines the ambivalences of data power. Firstly, the ambivalences between global infrastructures and local invisibilities challenge the grand narrative of the ephemeral nature of a global data infrastructure. They make visible local working and living conditions, and the resources and arrangements required to operate and run them. Secondly, the book examines ambivalences between the state and data justice. It considers data justice in relation to state surveillance and data capitalism, and reflects on the ambivalences between an “entrepreneurial state” and a “welfare state”. Thirdly, the authors discuss ambivalences of everyday practices and collective action, in which civil society groups, communities, and movements try to position the interests of people against the “big players” in the tech industry. The book includes eighteen chapters that provide new and varied perspectives on the role of data and data infrastructures in our increasingly datafied societies.Table of ContentsNew Perspectives in Critical Data Studies: The Ambivalences of Data Power—An Introduction.Part I Global Infrastructures and Local Invisibilities.Data Power and Counter-power with Chinese Characteristics.Transnational Networks of Influence: The Twitter Presence of the Quantified Self and Maker Movements’ Organizational Elites.The Power of Data Science Ontogeny: Thick Data Studies on the Indian IT Skill Tutoring Microcosm.Fighting the “System”: A Pilot Project on the Opacity of Algorithms in Political Communication.Indigenous Peoples, Data, and the Coloniality of Surveillance.Part II State and Data Justice.The Datafied Welfare State: A Perspective from the UK.The Value Dynamics of Data Capitalism: Cultural Production and Consumption in a Datafied World.Mapping Data Justice as a Multidimensional Concept Through Feminist and Legal Perspectives.Reconfiguring Education Through Data: How Data Practices Reconfigure Teacher Professionalism and Curriculum.Public Values and Technological Change: Mapping how Municipalities Grapple with Data Ethics.Welfare Data Society? Critical Evaluation of the Possibilities of Developing Data Infrastructure Literacy from User Data Workshops to Public Service Media.Part III Everyday Practices and Collective Action.(Not) Safe to Use: Insecurities in Everyday Data Practices with Period-Tracking Apps.Community Rankings and Affective Discipline: The Case of Fandometrics.Affinity Spaces as an Analytical Lens for Attending to Temporality in Critical Data Studies: The Case of COVID-19-Related, Educational Twitter Communication.“Party like it’s December 31, 1983”: Supporting Data Literacy at CryptoParties.Researching Public Trust in Datafication: Reflections on the Deliberative Citizen Jury as Method.Worker Perspectives on Designs for a Crowdwork Co-operative.Counting, Debunking, Making, Witnessing, Shielding: What Critical Data Studies Can Learn from Data Activism During the Pandemic.

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Book SynopsisThe Ministry of Truth scrutinizes the information market in the era of the attention economy calling on citizens, public educators and politicians to action in averting the role of BigTech in critical infrastructure. Through phenomena such as influencers, ‘fake news’, and covid conspiracies, the authors reveal how social platforms control facts, feelings and narratives in our time to such a degree that they are the de facto arbiters of truth. BigTech seemingly controls the information infrastructure and also decides what we pay attention to. The authors suggest hope for a more democratic internet through their systematic analysis of the largest players of the information age. The aim is to amplify human agency for a robust deliberative democracy — not version 2.0 — but a lasting version with staying power. This book appeals to the general interest reader and professional invested in the mobilization of responsible technological development.Vincent F. Hendricks is Professor of Formal Philosophy at The University of Copenhagen. He is Director of the Center for Information and Bubble Studies (CIBS) funded by the Carlsberg Foundation.Camilla Mehlsen is Digital Media Expert and Spokesperson for the Danish child organization Children’s Welfare. She is author of several books on digital literacy and her work on digital media has been published in various newspapers and magazines.Table of ContentsPrologue. BigTech, Big ProblemsChapter 1. From Citizen to User in the Marketplace of IdeasChapter 2. From User to Product in the Era of Attention EconomyChapter 3. Designed Denial: Infodemics and Fake NewsChapter 4. Boobs and Borderline ContentChapter 5. Influencers and SuperspreadersChapter 6. Clandestine CasinoChapter 7. Arbiters of TruthChapter 8. What Now!?

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Book SynopsisThis book argues that there are constant formations of online public spheres in present-day China, prompted by never-ending news. It contends that these publics are chronic, although individually they are usually transient. They are networked, which enables them to go viral in hours, and they may engender unexpected consequences. These features explain why online public spheres survive in China even though censorship and information manipulation are pervasively and strategically maneuvered to guide or manufacture “public opinion”. The book also proposes that there are deeply entangled structural factors bolstering China's online news-prompted public spheres: the continuous flow of news information, the countless public spaces facilitated by China’s digital infrastructure and the rise of rights-conscious netizens. Pushing forward a new way of conceptualizing the idea of public spheres, this book contends clearly that public spheres are most often sparked by chronic news in today's media-saturated societies. Delving into the life cycles of public spheres, it goes beyond static analysis of individual public spheres and instead studies their five qualities, which, except for the networked quality, have never been systematically addressed in scholarship. Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The Theory of News-Prompted Public Spheres and their Features.- Chapter 3. The Application of Public Sphere Theory in China.- Chapter 4. Structural Factors Fostering China’s Online NewsPrompted Publics.- Chapter 5. Everyday News-Prompted Publics on WeChat.- Chapter 6. Surprise.- Chapter 7. Ephemerality.- Chapter 8. Networked Public Spheres.- Chapter 9. Unintended Consequences.- Chapter 10. Rethinking Online News-Prompted Public Spheres./

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Book SynopsisThis open access book presents an interdisciplinary approach to reveal biases in English news articles reporting on a given political event. The approach named person-oriented framing analysis identifies the coverage’s different perspectives on the event by assessing how articles portray the persons involved in the event. In contrast to prior automated approaches, the identified frames are more meaningful and substantially present in person-oriented news coverage. The book is structured in seven chapters: Chapter 1 presents a few of the severe problems caused by slanted news coverage and identifies the research gap that motivated the research described in this thesis. Chapter 2 discusses manual analysis concepts and exemplary studies from the social sciences and automated approaches, mostly from computer science and computational linguistics, to analyze and reveal media bias. This way, it identifies the strengths and weaknesses of current approaches for identifying and revealing media bias. Chapter 3 discusses the solution design space to address the identified research gap and introduces person-oriented framing analysis (PFA), a new approach to identify substantial frames and to reveal slanted news coverage. Chapters 4 and 5 detail target concept analysis and frame identification, the first and second component of PFA. Chapter 5 also introduces the first large-scale dataset and a novel model for target-dependent sentiment classification (TSC) in the news domain. Eventually, Chapter 6 introduces Newsalyze, a prototype system to reveal biases to non-expert news consumers by using the PFA approach. In the end, Chapter 7 summarizes the thesis and discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the thesis to derive ideas for future research on media bias. This book mainly targets researchers and graduate students from computer science, computational linguistics, political science, and further social sciences who want to get an overview of the relevant state of the art in the other related disciplines and understand and tackle the issue of bias from a more effective, interdisciplinary viewpoint.Table of Contents1. Introduction.- 2. Media Bias Analysis.- 3. Person-Oriented Framing Analysis.- 4. Target Concept Analysis.- 5. Frame Analysis.- 6. Prototype.- 7. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book on infodemic management reviews the current discussions about this evolving area of public health from a variety of perspectives. Infodemic management is an evidence-based practice underpinned by the science of infodemiology that offers guidance to better manage pandemic and epidemic risks and more quickly tackle new and resurgent health threats. Infodemic management has added much visibility and recognition for the importance of social-behavioural sciences, health communication, participatory and human-centered approaches, and digital health as complementary scientific and practical approaches that also must be strengthened in public health practice through a whole-of-society and whole information ecosystem approach. This volume makes a case that health of the information ecosystem in the digital age has emerged as the fourth ecosystem that public health is challenged by, along with the triad of environment-human-animal health. The book brings together scientists and practitioners across disciplines to offer insights on infodemic management. The tools, methods, analytics, and interventions that they discuss in the context of acute health events also can be applied to other public health areas. Topics covered include: People's Experience of Information Overload and Its Impact on Infodemic Harms Smart Health! Expanding the Need for New Literacies To Debunk or Not to Debunk? Correcting (Mis)information Partnering with Communities for Effective Management of Health Emergencies Managing Infodemics in the 21st Century is required reading for public health practitioners in need of an overview of this evolving field of practice that has made major scientific and practical leaps forward since early 2020. Global, regional, and local health authorities are increasingly recognizing the need to expand their capacities for infodemic management in their efforts to better prepare for future health emergencies. This book is the resource they need to build toward a mature infodemic management process. The text also can be used as supplemental reading for graduate programs and courses in public health.Table of ContentsChapter 1 - Infodemic management in the 21st century · Sylvie Briand · Sarah Hess, · Tim Nguyen · Tina D. Purnat Chapter 2 - Key concepts and definitions in infodemic management · Atsuyoshi Ishizumi and Brian Yau Chapter 3 – People’s Experience of Information Overload and Its Impact on Infodemic Harms · Theresa M. Senft · Sharon Greenfield Chapter 4 – The Information Environment and Its Influence on Misinformation Effects · Claire Wardle · AbdelHalim AbdAllah Chapter 5 - Fighting the Fallacies - The ‘infodemic’ and the European Commission · Marcos Barclay · Istvan Perger · Matteo Salvai Chapter 6 - Smart Health! Expanding the Need for New Literacies · Kristine Sørensen Chapter 7 - To Debunk or Not to Debunk? Correcting (Mis)information · Emily K. Vraga · Ullrich K. H. Ecker · Iris Žeželj · Aleksandra Lazić · Arina Anis Azlan Chapter 8 - Prebunking against misinformation in the modern digital age · Cecilie S. Traberg · Trisha Harjani · Melisa Basol · Mikey Biddlestone · Rakoen Maertens · Jon Roozenbeek · Sander van der Linden Chapter 9 - Addressing Mis- and Disinformation on Social Media · Guilherme Canela · Annina Claesson. · Rachel Pollack Chapter 10 - Partnering with Communities for Effective Management of Health Emergencies: Four Case Studies · Julienne N. Anoko · Anton Schneider · Parfait D. Akana · R. Umamaheshwari

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive Handbook explores the multiple ways in which people experience digital life. It maps the transitions in human civilization generated by such digital technologies as the internet, mobile telephony, artificial intelligence, the metaverse, social media platforms and algorithms. It explores how the scarcity or abundance of digital affordances impacts access, governance and livelihoods in various parts of the world. The book’s 27 chapters are organised in five sections: Social Media and Digital Lifeworlds; Digital Affordances and Contestations; Digital Divides and Inclusion Strategies; Work, Culture and Digital Consumption, and New Media and Digital Journalism. The present and future of digital transitions are interrogated in the context of everyday social production and consumption. Table of Contents

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a comparative perspective on the technological, economic, and political aspects of Internet development in the post-Soviet countries. In doing so, international experts analyze similarities and differences in various countries throughout the chapters.The volume consists of two parts. The chapters of the first part examine the post-Soviet area as a whole. The second part includes specific case studies on the development of the Internet, either in individual countries or in groups of countries. Countries analyzed are Estonia, Ukraine, Russia as well as three Central Asian countries: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Topics covered in the volume include, but are not limited to measurement, dynamics, and structure of each national Internet audience; the history of the Internet in the post-Soviet countries; development of infrastructure; Internet regulation and institutional aspects; online markets such as telecommunications, online advertising, e-commerce, and digital content; social and cultural aspects; as well as the transformation of the national media systems. This book is a must-read for students, researchers, and scholars of political science and economics, as well as policymakers and practitioners interested in a better understanding of Internet development in the post-Soviet area. Table of Contents1. Introduction.- PART 1. CHARACTERIZING THE POST-SOVIET INTERNET.- 2.Representation of the Post-Soviet Countries in the Global Online Information Space in 2020-2021: Frequency of Mention, Media Dynamics, Mood Characteristics.- 3. Legal Regulation of the Internet around Post-Soviet Space.- 4. Cancel Culture and Novaya Etika in Russian Public Discourse.- 5. Online coping strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic: the case of Izoizolyacia flash mob.- PART 2. POST-SOVIET COUNTRIES: SPECIAL FOCUS.- 6. Developing an Advanced Digital Society: An Estonian Case Study.- 7. Uanet through Socio-Political Perspectives.- 8. Media Generations of the Russians in the Digital Media Environment: Opportunities for Intergenerational Communication.- 9. Elite Students in Kazakhstan: Complexities of the Internet and the International Arena.- 10. Measuring Media Literacy Level: A Case of Central Asia

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Book Synopsis​This book offers a platform for the analysis of commemorative and archiving practices as they were shaped, expanded, and developed during the Covid-19 lockdown periods in 2020 and the years that followed. By offering an extensive global view of these changes as well as of the continuities that went with them, the book enters a dialogue with what has emerged as an initial response to the pandemic and the ways in which it has affected memory and commemoration.The book aims to critically and empirically engage with this abundance of memory to understand both memorialization of the pandemic and commemoration during the pandemic: what happened then to commemorative practices and rituals around the world? How has the Covid-19 pandemic been archived and remembered? What will remembering it actually entail, and what will it mean in the future? Where did the Covid memory boom come from? Who was behind it, how did it emerge, and in what social configurations did it evolve?Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: Unlocking Memory Studies: Understanding Collective Remembrance During and of Covid-19.- Part I Can We Speak of a Covid Memory Boom?.- Chapter 2. “It seemed right to keep some sort of history”: Performances of Digital Memory Work by Young Women in London During Covid-19.- Chapter 3. Picturing Lockdown in the UK: Memorializing anOngoing Crisis.- Chapter 4. #Mémoriascovid19: Reimagining and Narrating Trauma in the Core of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Brazil.- Chapter 5. The Danger of a Single Story: Epic-Pandemic Narratologies and Memorials of COVID-19 in Nigeria.- Chapter 6. Pandemic from the Margins: How United-States-Based College Students Think the Pandemic Should Be Remembered.- Part II Commemorative Events Between Memory Politics and Protests: What Has Changed During the Lockdowns?.- Chapter 7. “No quarantine to workers’ rights”: Recontextualizing Labour Day Commemoration in the Semiotic Landscape of a Pandemic Demonstration.- Chapter 8. The Struggle to Remember Tiananmen Under COVID-19 and the National Security Law in Hong Kong.- Chapter 9. “Memory Does Not Quarantine”: COVID-19, Remembering the Coup, and the Struggle for Democracy in Bolsonaro’s Brazil.- Chapter 10. Human Rights Day: Grassroots Commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of the Sharpeville Massacre Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic Restrictions in South Africa.- Part III Memorial Museums and National Days: Did DigitalPractices Transform Commemoration in Times of the Pandemic?.- Chapter 11. “Le goût d’un jour de fête”? Commemorating the End of the Second World War on Twitter During the Lockdown: A Comparison Between France and Italy.- Chapter 12. #Hashtag Commemoration: A Comparison of Public Engagement with Commemoration Events for Neuengamme, Srebrenica, and Beau Bassin During Covid-19 Lockdowns.- Chapter 13. #DigitalMemorial(s): How COVID-19 Reinforced Holocaust Memorials and Museums’ Shift Toward Social Media Memory.- Chapter 14. Holocaust Remembrance on Facebook During the Lockdown: A Turning Point or a Token Gesture?.- Chapter 15. Epilogue: Did the Pandemic Change the Future of Memory?./

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a comprehensive investigation of the ways in which social media has affected change to the constitution of mainstream journalism. The volume does this in a unique way – by tracing the links between the different changes social media has brought to individual journalism practice, organisational processes and policies and institutional understandings of journalism. The role of social media platforms in the changing professional landscape of journalism is explored, both in terms of the changes that social media platforms have impacted on journalism, but also the way in which journalistic use of social media has impacted on particular uses of these platforms. Therefore, Journalism and Social Media is not simply a description of changed journalistic practices, but endeavours to encapsulate a complex and integrated techno-social relationship, incorporating both the individual practices of journalists, as well as the larger organisational and institutional changes that have occurred due to the increasing use of social media to investigate, present and disseminate news. Table of ContentsChapter one. Journalism and Social Media: An Introduction.- Chapter two. Social media and Journalism Practice.- Chapter three. Journalism and social media audiences.- Chapter four. Social media and the newsroom: new relationships, new policies, new practices.- Chapter five. Big data, algorithms and the metrics of social media news.- Chapter six. Shifting values, new norms: Social media and the changing profession of journalism.- Chapter seven. News in social media environments: Journalism in a ‘post-truth’ world.- Chapter eight. Where to from here for professional journalism?.

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Book SynopsisAs research continues to accumulate on the connections between media and crime, #Crime explores the impact of social media on the criminal legal system. It examines how media influences our perceptions of crime, the perpetration of crime, and the implementation of punishment, whilst emphasizing the significance of race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality. It offers an accessible and in-depth examination of media and in each chapter there are case studies and examples from both legacy and new media, including discussions from Twitter that are being used to raise awareness of criminal legal issues. It also includes interviews with international scholars and practitioners from Australia, Belgium, and the United States to voice a range of global perspectives. This book speaks broadly to those interested in criminology, criminal justice, media and culture, sociology, and gender studies.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2: #Crime: The Theoretical Underpinnings.- Chapter 3: #CSIEffect: How Media Impacts the Criminal Legal System.- Chapter 4: #CrimingWhileWhite: Media’s Construction of the Criminal.- Chapter 5: #Notallmen: Media and Crime Victimization.- Chapter 6: #FutureCrime: What is Crime in the Age of New Media?.- Chapter 7. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThe handbook provides tips and practical guidance on copywriting for the Internet and intranet, moving images and podcasts, social networks and communities, forms and formats of the medium, and content management processes. How does one become an online journalist? Where do online journalists work? What do they need to know: journalistic craft, Internet skills, online law? How do you write teasers? How do you integrate user activities? What role do audio and video play in the cross-media web offering? How do you ensure that your content is found (search engine optimization)?This book is a translation of an original German 5th edition Online-Journalismus by Gabriele Hooffacker, published by Springer VS, imprint of Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature in 2020. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors.Table of ContentsThe profession: activities and fields of work.- The medium.- Online users.- Hypertext and storyboard.- Forms of presentation and multimodal formats.- Participative forms and formats.- The law.- Education and training.- Technical terms.

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Book SynopsisDie Automatisierung dient als eine wesentliche Komponente in der Wirtschaft, um Unternehmensziele mit qualitativ und quantitativ besseren Ergebnissen zu erreichen. Auch im Bereich des Desktop-Publishings (DTP) ist der Einsatz von Automatismen unabdingbar, um die Kosteneinsparung im Unternehmen und die Verbesserung der Endergebnisse durch Standardisierungen und Fehlerreduzierungen sowie die Entlastung der Mitarbeiter bezüglich aufwendiger und monotoner Aufgaben zu erreichen. Das vorliegende essential setzt das Ziel, die vielfältigen Möglichkeiten der Automatisierung im Bereich des DTP zusammenzufassen und legt dabei den Fokus auf sich wiederholende Artwork-Prozesse in der Druckvorstufe.Table of ContentsEinleitung.- Desktop-Publishing.- Automatisierung.- Automatisierung von Artwork-Prozessen.

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Book SynopsisDesinformation, Fake News zerstören Vertrauen und ver- oder behindern die rekonstruktive Konstruktion von Wirklichkeit mit weitreichenden Folgen für das individuelle Lernen und das gesellschaftliche Handeln. Die Arbeit beschreibt und definiert vor dem Hintergrund einer theoretisch-analytischen Auseinandersetzung mit dem Wahrheitsbegriff das Realphänomen der Fake News. Im empirischen Teil wird die deutschsprachige Impfkommunikation der Jahre 2018-2019 in ausgewählten Printmedien und auf YouTube im Rahmen einer Inhaltsanalyse unter anderem auf Fake News hin untersucht. Ebenfalls wird die Moral Foundations Theory genutzt, um moralische Inhaltsbezüge zu dekodieren und ihren Zusammenhang mit Fake News herzustellen. Kapitel zur Gesundheitskommunikation und zur Geschichte der Impfgegner bieten weiteren Kontext zur Deutung der Ergebnisse.Table of ContentsEinleitung.- Theoretisch-analytische Grundlegung.- Traditionelle Printmedien und Social Media (YouTube): eine Beschreibung.- Impfen: Gesundheitskommunikation und gesellschaftliche Diskussion.- Analyse der Berichterstattung und von Fake News zum Thema „Impfen“ in deutschen Printmedien und auf YouTube mit Fokus auf moralische Bezüge..- Überblick über die Hypothesen und Ergebnisse.- Desiderate.- Fazit und Ausblick.- Literatur und Online-Quellen.

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Book SynopsisLive, digital und hybrid - Das New Normal steht für die Integration analoger und digitaler Kanäle. Die Beiträge in diesem Konferenzband gehen auf die erfolgreiche Verknüpfung von Medien im Umgang mit den aktuellen Herausforderungen in einem pandemischen Umfeld ein. Vor diesem Hintergrund zeigen Forscher und Branchenexperten Trends und Strategien der Event- und Messewirtschaft im Umfeld der Krise auf, beleuchten hochaktuelle Themen zur Nachhaltigkeit und diskutieren die zukünftigen Entwicklungen der Veranstaltungsbranche in den bevorstehenden Monaten und Jahren. Die Beiträge in diesem Tagungsband bieten vielfältige Handlungsempfehlungen für die Branche und geben Impulse für Forschung und Wissenschaft.Table of Contents„ZÄHL DAZU“.- Next Level Marketing.- BOCOM.- Wie funktionieren Messen und Veranstaltungen in fünf Jahren?; Messestand der Zukunft.- Die RECHTLICHE Normalität bei anlogen, hybriden und digitalen Events.- Digitale Konferenzformate.- Sind digitale Events per se nachhaltiger…oder worauf kommt es an? - Status der Wissensvermittlung zum Thema Nachhaltigkeit in Eventmanagement-Studiengängen an Hochschulen in Deutschland und deren Notwendigkeit für die Beratungskompetenzen im Eventmanagement.- Digitale und hybride Events als Chance für Erwachsenenbildung.- Quo Vadis.- S.A.F.E.- Nach der Krise ist vor der Krise.- Neue Möglichkeiten zur Bewältigung von Verlusterfahrungen durch app-basierte Co-Creation Prozesse.- Bedeutung von Destinationen in der Live-Kommunikation.- Quo vadis MICE- und Tourismus-Destinationen in Deutschland post Corona.

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Book SynopsisKann Verständlichkeit zum Erfolg der Presse- und Medienarbeit beitragen? Oder anders gefragt: Welche Rolle spielt Verständlichkeit bei der journalistischen Nachrichtenauswahl? Ausgehend vom Konzept der Mediatisierung argumentiert die Studie, dass die Beachtung grundlegender Verständlichkeitsregeln als ein strategisches Mittel zur Beeinflussung der medialen Aufmerksamkeit angesehen werden kann. Denn Verständlichkeit als journalistisches Qualitätskriterium ist Teil der Medienlogik. Wer diese Medienlogik bei der Gestaltung der eigenen Kommunikation berücksichtigt, schreibt im Sinne der Medien und entspricht journalistischen Vorstellungen darüber, was überhaupt berichterstattenswert ist und wie über entsprechende Ereignisse zu berichten ist. Grundlage zur empirischen Überprüfung dieser Annahme ist eine input-output-analytische Untersuchung von Pressemitteilungen DAX-notierter Unternehmen sowie der daraus resultierenden Berichterstattung in ausgewählten Medien. Mit einer Kombination manueller und automatisierter Formen der Inhaltsanalyse wird dabei die sprachliche Komplexität der Pressemitteilungen bestimmt und die Wirkung dieser Komplexität auf den journalistischen Umgang mit den Pressemitteilungen untersucht.Table of ContentsEinleitung.- (Text-)Verständlichkeit: eine Einführung und Eingrenzung.- Verständlichkeit im Nachrichtenauswahlkontext.- Empirische Befunde zur Verständlichkeit in der Wirtschaftskommunikation.- Zusammenfassung, Forschungsfragen und Hypothesen.- Methode.- Ergebnisse.- Diskussion und Ausblick.

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Book SynopsisDieses Open-Access-Buch untersucht mit Fokus auf einzelne Bürger*innen fallspezifisch und empirisch den Handlungs- und Wirkungszusammenhang von Straßenprotest und Online-Aktivismus im Bereich der Umweltschutz-Bewegung. Eine ganze Bandbreite von Online- und Offline-Protestpraktiken erlaubt es Bürger*innen heutzutage, sich in politische Prozesse einzumischen, Öffentlichkeit für bestimmte Themen zu erzeugen und Politiker*innen und Unternehmen unter Druck zu setzen. Online ist hierbei jedoch nicht zwangsläufig Ersatz für Offline. In vielen Situationen von Protestpartizipation ergänzen sich Elemente beider Sphären. Warum entschließen sich Bürger*innen, ganz spezifischen Praktiken – online wie offline – nachzugehen und anderen Praktiken nicht? Welche Vor- und Nachteile benennen sie für die einzelnen ihnen zur Verfügung stehenden Formate? Die Arbeit steht im Schnittfeld unterschiedlicher politikwissenschaftlicher Forschungsfelder wie der Protestforschung, der politischen Partizipationsforschung und der Forschung rund um das Thema Digitalisierung. Basierend auf 18 Leitfaden-Interviews und einer ausführlichen Analyse werden sechs Typen von Protest-Aktivist*innen gebildet.Table of ContentsEinleitung.- Wandel von Protestpartizipation im Zuge der Digitalisierung.- Methode.- Forschungsgegenstand und historische Einordnung.- Voraussetzungen und Motive für Protestpartizipation in der Umweltschutz-Bewegung – Empirische Befunde.- Praktiken: Die Protest-Aktivist*innen der Umweltschutz-Bewegung auf der Straße, im Web 1.0 und im Web 2.0.- Einstellungen zu Straßenprotest und Netzaktivismus.- Typen von Protest-Aktivist*innen.- Wandel von Bürgerschaft? Ein Fazit zur Online- und Offline-Protestpartizipation.

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Book SynopsisDigitale Selbstvermessungsangebote wie Schrittzähler, Ernährungs-Apps oder Sport-Tracker machen den Körper als Objekt von Daten, Zahlen oder Graphen sichtbar. So bieten sie ihren Nutzer*innen laufend Anlässe, eigene Gewohnheiten, Ziele und Leistungen zu evaluieren und selbstbestimmt zu intervenieren. Diese qualitative Aneignungsstudie beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, in welcher Wechselwirkung diese Objektivierung des Körpers zum Körperselbstbild und Wohlbefinden der Nutzer*innen steht. Praktiken der digitalen Selbstvermessung werden im alltäglichen Gebrauch fester Bestandteil etablierter Körperpraktiken und Medienrepertoires, beeinflussen diese durch ihre spezifischen Potenziale aber auch nachhaltig. Die Integration in lebensweltliche Gewohnheiten wird als individueller Balanceakt nachgezeichnet, bei dem die oft mit solchen Angeboten verbundenen Verheißungen der Kontrolle und Selbstermächtigung eng mit Gefühlen des Erwartungsdrucks oder der Insuffizienz verbunden sind. Die vielfältigen Aneignungsweisen sowie deren Konsequenzen für das Wohlbefinden werden schließlich in einer Typologie zusammengeführt, um so den Blick auf die individuellen Kompetenzen zu lenken, die zu disruptiven oder protektiven Momenten der Mediennutzung beitragen können.Table of ContentsDie Mediatisierung des Leibes – Das Phänomen Self-Tracking als Ausdruck einer neuen Sichtbarkeit des Körpers.- Körperselbstbild als kommunikativer Prozess: Wohlbefinden und digitale Selbstvermessungsangebote.- Forschungsperspektive: Digitale Selbstvermessung als mediatisierte Praxis der körperlichen Selbstsorge.- Technologische und kulturelle Bedingungen der Selbstsorge.- Mediatisierung und die neuen Sichtbarkeiten des Körpers.- Digitale Abbilder als Fenster der Selbst- und Fremdwahrnehmung: Kategorien und forschungsleitende Unterfragestellungen.- Methodenkapitel.- Ergebnisteil.- Konklusion.- Quellenverzeichnis.

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Book SynopsisWitzig, unterhaltend, transparent – Zuschreibungen, die vor wenigen Jahren für die Außendarstellung der Polizei undenkbar waren. Dank Social Media gehören diese Eigenschaften nun zum festen Kommunikationsrepertoire der Polizei. Wie die Polizei in Deutschland konkret auf Social Media kommuniziert, war bisher allerdings nahezu unerforscht. Ebenso war wenig bekannt über die Ziele und Strategien, die die Polizei in Sozialen Netzwerken verfolgt. Das Buch beantwortet diese Fragen mit der Hilfe von qualitativen Leitfadeninterviews mit Social-Media-Verantwortlichen der Polizei und einer quantitativen Inhaltsanalyse von Posts auf Facebook, Twitter und Instagram sowie von Instagram-Storys. Die Ergebnisse ermöglichen einen detaillierten Blick auf die strategische und inhaltliche Social-Media-Kommunikation, die das Berufsfeld der Polizei-PR grundlegend verändert. Einerseits kann die Polizei durch Social Media unabhängiger denn je in Meinungsbildungsprozesse der digitalen Welt eingreifen, andererseits erheben Hate Speech, Fake News und Influencer völlig neue Ansprüche an die Kommunikationskompetenz. Die Ergebnisse liefern damit nicht nur einen gesamtheitlichen Einblick in die polizeiliche Kommunikationsweise, sondern auch einen wichtigen Impuls für die gesamtgesellschaftliche Debatte darüber, wie Polizeikommunikation auf Social Media in unserer Demokratie bewertet werden kann.Trade Review“... Graßl legt mit seiner Untersuchung eine sehr ausdifferenzierte Analyse vor. Besonders hervorzuheben ist die Einbeziehung der drei größten Netzwerke (Twitter, Instagram und Facebook) sowie der Methodenmix zwischen Experteninterviews und quantitativer Inhaltsanalyse polizeilicher Posts. Gerade die Leitfadeninterviews geben einen aufschlussreichen Einblick in das Innenleben der Social-Media-Dienststellen der Polizei. Wer sich aus kriminologischer oder polizeiwissenschaftlicher Perspektive mit der Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit befasst, sollte zu dieser Monografie greifen ...” (Karsten Lauber, in: Polizei Newsletter, polizei-newsletter.de, 29. Juli 2023)Table of Contents1 Relevanz des Themas und Aufbau der Arbeit.- 2 Polizei in der heutigen Gesellschaft.- 3 Polizei in der heutigen Wissenschaft.- 4 Polizeikommunikation zwischen PR und Journalismus.- 5 Polizei als Kommunikationsakteur einer sich neujustierenden Öffentlichkeit.- 6 Polizei als Kommunikationsakteur auf Social Media.- 7 Empirische Untersuchung: Methodenwahl und Forschungsdesign.- 8 Ergebnisse Teilstudie I.- 9 Teilstudie II: Die quantitative Inhaltsanalyse.- 10 Ergebnisse Teilstudie II.- 11 Fazit der Arbeit.

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Book SynopsisDie Bilder erblicken uns. Sie speisen sich aus unseren Wünschen und Gewohnheiten. Sie steuern unseren Blick. Durch die voranschreitende Digitalisierung findet zunehmend auch eine Umkehrung des Blickes statt. KI-gesteuerte Algorithmen analysieren unsere Blicke und generieren auf uns persönlich abgestimmte Bilder. Zugleich können wir mit neuen Technologien multiperspektivische und multisensorische Metabilder erzeugen, die unseren bisherigen Bildbegriff sprengen und uns modellhaft Wahrscheinlichkeiten über die Welt vermitteln.Von prähistorischen Handabdrücken über Passbildportraits bis hin zu KI-generierten Bildern, die wie Fotos erscheinen, spannt Marcus Kaiser einen Bogen durch unsere Kultur des Lebens mit Bildern. Das Buch enthält zahlreiche Abbildungen von Fotografien und künstlerischen Werken Marcus Kaisers. Im Gespräch mit dem Kommunikationswissenschaftler Mario Donick wird deutlich, wie der Autor die Wechselseitigkeit des Blicks erforscht. Er zeigt, wie Bilder und besonders Fotografien auch aufgrund ihrer technischen Grundlagen Weltanschauungen implizieren und auf uns projizieren. Leser*innen erfahren neben verschiedenen Konzepten der Bildgebung, wie wir analytisch und kritisch reflektierend mit Bildern umgehen und forschend mit dem Ziel des Erkenntnisgewinns Bilder herstellen können. Das wird angesichts der Möglichkeiten der durch Künstliche Intelligenz gesteuerten Bildgenerierung künftig eine wichtige Fähigkeit sein.Table of ContentsDie Allgegenwart von Bildern - Bildkulturen, Bildpraktiken und deren gesellschaftliche Funktionen - Bildformen in sozialen Medien - Reflexion von Gesellschaft und Umwelt durch Fotografie - Zur Ausstellung von ‚Welt‘bildern im Bild - Die Frage nach dem Wirklichkeitsbezug von Bildern

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Book SynopsisIn einer sich ständig wandelnden Welt beleuchtet der Leitfaden die ökonomischen, kulturellen und organisatorischen Aspekte der digitalen Transformation in der Filmindustrie. Es wird untersucht, wie Streaming-Plattformen Geschäftsmodelle beeinflussen und welche Vorteile Produzenten daraus ziehen können. Mit Beiträgen von Alexander Thul und René Jamm, entwickelt im Dialog mit Branchenexperten, bietet das Buch Strategien und Kenntnisse, um in der digitalen Medienlandschaft erfolgreich zu navigieren und von der digitalen Transformation zu profitieren.Table of ContentsEinleitung.- Digitale Transformation: Grundlagen.- Die Filmindustrie vor und nach der Digitalisierung.- Geschäftsmodelle, Wertschöpfungsketten und Plattformökonomie.- Digitale Technologien und ihre Anwendung.- Leitfaden zur digitalen Transformation.- Schluss.

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Book SynopsisThis book is a collection of chapters penned by practitioners from around the world on the impact that disinformation and fake news has had in both the online and social sphere.While much has been said about individual disinformation campaigns in specific countries, this book offers a panoramic view of how these campaigns are conducted, who they target, and how they are spread. By bringing together research on specific countries and international data mined from questionnaires and online studies, the understanding of the term 'fake news' is greatly expanded and the issues we face are brought to light. The book includes contributions by experts such as Jean-Baptiste Vilmer (Macron Leaks), and includes case studies from Asia, such as Singapore and Myanmar, written in an accessible manner for the general interested reader, practitioners and policymakers in the field.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction.- Part I: Overview of Disinformation.- Chapter 2. How news audiences think about misinformation across the world.- Chapter 3. Tools of Disinformation: How fake news gets to deceive.- Chapter 4. Disinformation as a threat to national security.- Part II. Disinformation in Context.- Chapter 5. Building digital resilience ahead of elections and beyond.- Chapter 6. Hate speech in Myanmar: The perfect storm.- Chapter 7. Fighting information manipulation: The French experience.- Chapter 8. Disinformation and cultural practice in Southeast Asia.- Part III. Countering Disinformation.- Chapter 9. NATO amidst hybrid warfare threats- effective strategic communications as a tool against disinformation and propaganda.- Chapter 10. Lithuanian Elves and countermeasures.- Chapter 11. Fake News and Disinformation: Singapore perspectives.

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on geospatial information in living spaces, providing many examples of its collection and use as well as discussing the problems of how it is used and its future prospects.Geospatial information science is in the process of evolving and being systematized, with the technical and usage aspects of the real world stimulating each other. This book systematizes the technical aspects of positioning; of geography, which manages and represents what is measured in units of earth coordinates; and of data science, which aims to efficiently express and process geographic information, all by introducing contemporary examples that are systematized with regard to their use in our living spaces. Examples of geospatial information used in almost all aspects of our lives, including urban areas, transportation, disaster prevention, health and medical care, agriculture, forestry and fisheries, culture, ecology, and topography, are presented, along with examples of their use in each area. One of the major features of this book is that it describes the use of data from earthquake disasters that is unique to Japan, as well as the use of open data and personal data in Japan, which is a trend that is gaining attention in many countries. In this way the book systematically describes events and circumstances in living spaces that are revealed by the expression and analysis of geospatial data, with case studies and discusses their use in the IoT era.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Fundamentals and Applications of Geospatial Information (Yasuhiro Kawahara, Yoshihide Sekimoto).- Part I Expression of Geospatial Information.- Chapter 2. Base Map Development and Surveying in Japan (Toshikazu Seto).- Chapter 3. Various Representations and Processing Techniques of Geospatial Information - Appropriate Control of Big Data Behind (Yoshihide Sekimoto).- Part II Mobile Communications and Positioning.- Chapter 4. Ground-based and Space-based Positioning (Yasuhiro Kawahara).- Chapter 5. Observation from Space - Remote sensing (Masahiko Nagai).- Part III Utilization of Geospatial Information in Daily Life.- Chapter 6. Applications in Urban Facility and Land Management - from Urban Facility Management to Smart Cities (Yoshihide Sekimoto).- Chapter 7. Applications in Transportation Systems and Mobile Devices - Capturing the Movement of People (Yoshihide Sekimoto).- Chapter 8. Applications in Crime Prevention (Ikuho Yamada).- Chapter 9. Applications in Health and Healthcare (Ikuho Yamada).- Chapter 10. Application in Times of Disaster - Through the Great Hanshin Earthquake, the Great East Japan Earthquake, and Covid-19 (Yoshihide Sekimoto).- Chapter 11. Utilization in Agriculture, Forestry, and Marine Management (Masahiko Nagayama, Yasuhiro Kawahara).- Chapter 12. Utilization in Behavior, Ecology, and Cultural Property Surveys (Yasuhiro Kawahara).- Chapter 13. International Applications (Yoshihide Sekimoto).- Part IV Open Data and Personal Data in the Use of Geospatial Information.- Chapter 14.The advent of a participatory data society and the use of open data (Toshikazu Seto).- Chapter 15. Future geospatial information in harmony with advanced technology and human life (Yoshihide Sekimoto, Yasuhiro Kawahara).

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Book SynopsisThis book consists of nine chapters, each an in-depth case study into a specific non-mainstream or marginalized online community in Malaysia. The authors come from diverse backgrounds to talk about how new media can both assist and hinder maligned minorities, ignored ethnicities or the often attacked migrants in their day to day lives. The book makes a strong contribution to Malaysian studies which highlights the other and represents minority viewpoints to challenge the belief that Malaysia’s online space is monolithic and limited to several mainstream discourses in Malaysian scholarship.Table of Contents1. Introduction.- Part 1: Indigenous rights and representation.- 2. Native Customary Rights land titles and thwarting deforestation: Digital acts of resistance among Sarawak’s indigenous peoples.- 3. ‘Some Orang Asli still think Najib is PM’: Representations and self-representations of the Orang Asli in the Cameron Highlands byelection.- Part 2: Migrant and refugee discourses.- 4. Romance through digital avatars: Online courtship, representation and ‘catfishing’ amongst irregular female migrants in Sabah.- 5. Grateful politics: Rohingya and social media in the time of the pandemic.- Part 3: The “Othered” minorities.- 6. Confronting Malaysian Indian stereotypes and state neglect: The ‘SuguPavithra’ episode within mainstream national discourse.- 7. ‘Our online-ness matters’: The construction of social media presences by Malaysian LGBTQ Communities.- 8. A ‘blue ocean’ for marginalised radical voices: Cyberspace, social media and extremist discourse in Malaysia.

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