Abstracts from journal Media Watch May 2014

The following is from Mr. Deepak Ranjan Jena. I trust these abstracts will be of great help to media researchers searching for the latest studies for literature review, or to locate concepts for new studies.

  Abstracts: Media Watch May 2014

(Vol. 5, No. 2)

Impact Factor: SJIF 3.276 | IIFS 0.993 | ISRA 0.834

Facebook Culture: Millennial Formation of Social Identity

Hilary K. U’Ren

Portland State University, USA

           

Social Networking Sites have become a rising trend over the past decade as a source of interaction on the internet. Facebook.com, in particular, has become dangerously popular, with over 700 million active users to date. This study examines how Millennial’s use Facebook in order to regulate impression management and gain cultural capital through their virtual networks. Erving Goffman developed the concept of impression management as a method of censoring or altering the literal impression we are projecting to those around us in order to emanate a certain identity. Facebook aids this process by allowing us to actively edit exactly what we say about ourselves on a platform that is connected to everyone we know. Profiles were coded according to the nature of their About Me sections, profile photos, and count of online friends. Through simple random sampling amongst these categories of profiles, interviewees were selected. Each Millennial selected agreed to participate and was interviewed for a period of time ranging between thirty and sixty minutes. From this data, it was found that members of the Millennial generation use the site to manipulate the way they are perceived by various groups, like peers, coworkers, and parents, present on the site.

Offline Goes Online: Does the Internet Implement or Supplement our Communication and Relationships?

Kaja Tampere & Ave Tampere

Tallinn University, Estonia

This paper will be looking at the computer code-mediated communication and relationships between people. Questions, for which answers will be sought in the paper are—Does the Internet supplement or implement our communication and relationships? Supplement by filling in pieces of relationships that we would otherwise be missing out on; implement by creating or sustaining relationships that otherwise would not exist? How are relationships that were formed offline sustained online? How does the Internet change the concept of ‘long-distance’ in terms of communicating relationships? To study the topic of this paper, a literary analysis will be performed. The argument will be based on the example of Facebook. The study will focus on examples and theories covering the Western world where the research has been conducted and claims made.

Social Media and Documentary Cinema: the Arab Spring, the Wall Street Movement, Challenges and Implications for Documentary Filmmakers

Fritz Kohle
Edinburgh University, UK

Used by millions on a daily basis Web 2 and social media have become part of our lives; Facebook arguably developed into the largest online group worldwide with some 800 million users – or one seventh of the world’s population. (Facebook, 2011) This paper reviews social media and provides a general overview of the same from the perspective of an independent documentary filmmaker. The paper investigates use of social media during the Arab Spring and Wall Street Movement (Occupy, 2011) and compares social- with traditional media. Using the example of the documentary ‘God, Church, Pills & Condoms’ (F Kohle, A Cuevas, 2011) the tools social media offers are examined and their applications are discussed. Web 2 is the accumulative sum of print, radio, TV and film, offering an ever-increasing amount of content. What are the implications and challenges for Documentary filmmakers? How can documentary filmmakers explore the full potential of social media? Does social media really offer an alternative to traditional content commissioning, content development and distribution as well as fund raising? The paper concludes by examining future trends for social media and potential applications in documentary filmmaking.

Media Morality in a Postmodern Era: A Model for Ethics Restoration

in the Mass Media

Kingsley Okoro Harbor

Jacksonville State University, USA

This paper develops a chronology of milestones in mass media ethics from inception to contemporary times, demonstrating that media ethics has been on the decline throughout mass media’s history. As a response to the continual decline of ethics in the mass media, this paper proposes a model for restoring ethics to the mass media. The model has four corner stones: (i) journalism and mass communication curricular revision, (ii) student entry placement, (iii) revised training for future journalists, and (iv) journalistic de-collectivization, a term used by this author to describe the act of shielding a journalist from the impact of corporate culture in the newsroom. Essential theoretical frameworks guiding the model include Kohlberg’s moral development theory and Patterson and Wilkins’s ethical news values.

Bollywoodization of the War on Terror

Daya Thussu
University of Westminster, London, UK

In the decade since 9/11, the ‘war on terror’ has been framed in mainstream global media discourses predominantly as a conflict between medievalist Islamic terrorists and the modern West, led by the United States. In India, where the media market has grown exponentially along the lines of the US commercially led model, the media discourse has broadly followed this global trajectory. After providing an overview of terrorism in India, this article focuses on the coverage of the terrorist attacks on Mumbai on 26 November 2008, the most extensively covered terrorism story outside the Western world.  The article shows how during ‘India’s 9/11,’ media and communication technologies intersected to create a tele-visual spectacle, in a fiercely competitive media market, one increasingly shaped by an infotainment-driven news culture. Such ‘Bollywoodization’ of the ‘war on terror,’ the article suggests, contributes to presenting grim realities of political conflicts as a feast of visually arresting, emotionally-charged entertainment – genres skilfully borrowed from India’s bourgeoning film industry, to sustain ratings.

Political Economy of Corporate Power and Free Speech

in the United States

Jeffrey Layne Blevins

University of Cincinnati, USA

This political economic analysis of U.S. Supreme Court jurisprudence broadly examines corporate speech rights in campaigns and elections, in commercial speech, and in conflicts between speech and privacy.  From this examination, it appears that corporate wealth has expressed its dominance within communication space, which was once the primary domain of human liberty.  Moreover, the analysis demonstrates the ‘historical amnesia’ expressed within the Supreme Court about the revolutionary potential of electronic media, as corporate encroachment of communication space is diminishing the value of human speech under the law.

Journalism Ethics: The Uneven Tempo between

International Principles and Local Practice

Kiranjit Kaur & Halimahton Shaari

Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia

Media codes of ethics comprise principles of ethics and good practice.  Though media codes may vary from country to country, the global media and communication profession is guided by principles that share many common values for the simple reason that many social and individual values are universal.  In the journalism profession, as an example, ethical practice would almost always revolve around universal values like accuracy, honesty, truth, objectivity and freedom. Though the Malaysian media adopt and practise many international principles, media practitioners have also to take cognizance of the socio-political sensitivities and sensibilities that shape and influence the workings and contents of the media. Qualitative interviews with media practitioners provide insights into how values and principles, both local and international, either go in tandem or clash and impact on media practices. This paper also studies the practicality and applicability of media codes in the face of rapidly-changing media values, contents and technology.  The media occasionally violate ethical boundaries; however these are sometimes not perceived as digressions by media practitioners as media values and roles undergo a facelift.

Press Coverage of Post Tamil Eelam War in Dinamani

C. J. Ravi Krishnan, C. Pichandy & Francis Barclay
PSG College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore, India

The war for Tamil Eelam and the last battle at northern region of Sri Lanka between the government and LTTE has been seriously viewed and reported by media around the world. However ‘Eelam’ is an issue close to the heart of the Tamils in the world. The present study has chosen the post-war period for two years  from January 2009 to January 2011 to find out how the Tamil print media in Tamil Nadu reacted to the end of the LTTE regime in Sri Lankan northern province and the sentiments of the Tamil population. Editorials and columns of Tamil daily, Dinamani considered for the study. The study revealed that editorials and columns published during that time exposed violations of human rights by Sri Lankan government. The study also found the role played by the Indian and Tamil Nadu government during and after the war period were not satisfactory in the context of dealing the Sri Lankan Tamilian issues. 

Media Effects of Assam State Assembly Elections 2011

Kh. Kabi
Rajiv Gandhi University, India.
Anupa Lahkar
Assam Don Bosco University, India

Election is one of the most significant exercises particularly in a democracy, wherein citizens participate to elect their representative. For the first time in the history of Assam (Northeast India) State Assembly Election, campaign was carried out in the presence of wide media coverage. This study focuses on the impact of media’s coverage of the election campaigns during the last Assam state assembly election held in 2011.  It examined the role of media in setting the agenda of important election issues and its impact on the opinion of the people. Attempts have been made to find out the effects of political campaign on the potential voters in view of their political opinion formation and their decision to participate and vote for a particular party or candidate. The study revealed that majority of them has been impacted by the media coverage to some extent and it has aroused them to participate and vote. However when it came to their voting behavior, it is their personal choice and reasons that matter and not necessarily due to media’s campaign. 

Cross-Media Ownership: Would It be Really Curbed?

Shivaji Sarkar

India has been debating the issue of cross-media ownership for the last over 60 years. It is not that it is being raised by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) at the behest of the ministry of information and broadcasting for the first time. In fact, TRAI in its paper expresses limitation on checkmating cross-media ownership. Rather softly it has given it up. TRAI chairman Rahul Khullar said the regulator would, with the help of the Competition Commission of India, attempt to ensure that there are a minimum number of mergers and acquisitions. A consultation paper will spell out restrictions, make mandatory disclosure requirements, spell out levels of market share which will ensure plurality and diversity, list general disqualifications, recommend how cross media ownership can be dealt with, set rules for disaggregated markets, and ensure minimum mergers and acquisitions.

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ACMC International Conference in Hong Kong November 13 to 15, 2014

Following from Prof.(Dr.) Biplab Loho Choudhury

THE 2014 ASIAN CONGRESS FOR MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE HONG KONG
13,14,15 November 2014,
The City University of Hong Kong

CALL FOR PAPERS

“Media, Communication, Culture and the Dynamics of Change”

2014  ACMC International Conference

in partnership with the

Department of Media and Communication, City University of Hong Kong

Rationale

As technology continues to develop, platforms of communication and paradigms of communicating are changing at a faster rate than ever before. From linear to non-linear, from single levels of engagement to multi-level structures that can prove challenging in the delivery of the message. McLuhan’s dictum “the media is the message,” has become the mantra of the new media even as communication channels continue to shift from the traditional mass media to the Internet and to mobile media.  

At the same time, the development of a whole new virtual world – from virtual offices to virtual classrooms to virtual stores – are changing the way people work, study and do business. Theoretically, we can have multiple identities with more communication taking place online than our daily face-to-face interactions.  New virtual community groups have taken shape, forming a generation of members defined by their unique creative interests and special terminology for in-group communication. The theme of the 2014 conference seeks to address the challenges that emerging media pose to the study and use of media.

Indeed, what does this change mean for teaching communication and languages in the global virtual realm? How does one bridge the real world with the virtual in the teaching of communication and language? What should the universities’ priorities be? What steps should faculties take so as to be in tune with this fast paced development?  How can communication be planned, packaged and managed? What would the implications be for researchers of media studies and communication practitioners in Public Relations, Creative Industries and Advertising?

SUB‐STREAMS include but are not limited to:

·         new media literacies

·         media innovations, influence and impact

·         ethnicity, race and religion

·         media and gender

·         linguistics and the global classroom

·         language, identity, representation

·         advertising in the new media 

·         public relations in a digitized world   

·         cross‐cultural networking

·         media, human rights and empowerment

·         socio-cultural challenges and the new media

·         social media, social responsibility

·         new media ethics

·         health, disaster and environment

·          virtual world versus real world

·         gaming as communication

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION OF PAPERS AND ABSTRACTS

Abstracts due: MAY 20, 2014  

Abstract acceptance: (on or before) May 30, 2014

Full papers due: September 30, 2014

Participation payment due: September 30, 2014

CONFERENCE FEE

Early Bird (on or before September 30, 2014) :

non-members               USD350

ACMC members           USD175 

Regular Rate: USD450

On-site Rate: USD550

Membership Rate (on-site): USD250

Undergraduate Student Rate: USD100 (attendance only)

Conference fees include participation fee and IC, lunches, coffee breaks, certificates and conference kits.

To be submitted via email <acmc2014@asianmediacongress.org>.  Papers should NOT to be emailed to personal emails of ACMC officers or conference organizers.  

The conditions are as follows:

All submissions will undergo a blind review. You will be notified a month after submission of your paper if it qualifies for the conference and/or the ACMC Journal. Papers that do not qualify for publication in the Journal, may still be eligible for ORAL Presentation at the conference and will be published in the ACMC Online conference website.   

  

FORMAT FOR ABSTRACT:  

1. Indicate “Abstract Submission” in the subject line of your email

2. Email should contain the following:  

a. Conference Stream to which it belongs

b. Paper title

c.  Author name, position, institution   

d. Short biography of Author (100 ‐ 150 words)

e.  Paper Abstract (300‐500 words)

  

FORMAT FOR PAPER:

Papers intended for the refereed stream should be academically rigorous (e.g. theoretically and methodologically sound, thoroughly researched and referenced) but also accessible to anyone interested in communication and its implications. Refereed articles will appear in the ACMC Online Conference proceedings that will be publicly accessible, and which provide a showcase of the

 relevance of ACMC and communication research to a wider audience, so please write clearly. Use plain English and, if you must use jargon, clearly explain its meaning. We reserve the right to edit your work should it be chosen for publication in the

ACMC Journal.

Full paper should be a Microsoft Word document. Re‐submit title of the paper and an abstract of 150‐ 300 words on the first page.

The body of the paper should be double‐spaced, justified. Quotations should be in “double quotation marks” (not ‘single’) and paragraphs of cited text longer than 20 words should be indented. Please number all pages of your manuscript in the top right header.  

Word count: 4000 to 7000 words.  

Referencing: Papers must be referenced in the APA style. Information on the APA

style can be found at http://www.apastyle.org/pubmanual.html or at

http://www.citewrite.qut.edu.au/cite/apa/index.jsp.   

OTHER INFORMATION

Registration: All presenters need to register to attend the conference. In the case of multi‐authored papers, at least one of the listed authors must attend in order for the paper to be included in the ACMC 2014 Conference program.  

Disclaimer: Successfully refereed articles will be published online. It is authorsʹ  responsibility to ensure that articles and accompanying materials submitted for ACMC2014 are accurate, and are not offensive, defamatory, or otherwise injurious to any person or organization before submission. Authors should ensure that all ideas and work not their own are fully referenced. Authors are also responsible for ensuring that articles and accompanying charts, graphs, photographs, illustrations, trade literature, data, etc., are free of copyright or ownership restrictions and may be published online without encumbrance.

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FOR QUESTIONS AND INQUIRIES

Please contact the Secretariat at or visit our website for more details and updates

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Indian contact:

Prof.(Dr.) Biplab Loho Choudhury
Center For Journalism & Mass Communication
Visva - Bharati, Santiniketan
West Bengal, India
&
Country Director (India),
Asian Congress for Media & Communication (ACMC),
+918670681901,+913463264332(Residence)

Associated Press polices story length

Following from Mahesh Vijapurkar

By Erik Wemple Updated: May 12 at 2:25 pm

Citing a “sea of bloated mid-level copy,” Associated Press Managing Editor for U.S. News Brian Carovillano last week instructed fellow editors at the wire service to limit most “daily, bylined digest stories” to a length of between 300 and 500 words. Top stories from each state, Carovillano directed, should hit the 500 to 700-word range, and the “top global stories” may exceed 700 words but must still be “tightly written and edited.”

Carovillano’s memo itself references the driving force behind the limits: “Our members do not have the resources to trim the excess to fit shrinking news holes,” notes the editor.

Paul Colford, a spokesman for AP, notes that a “common concern” among AP members and subscribers is that stories are too long. In recent months, says Colford, the wire service has been trimming stories in Europe and the outcome has been “successful.”

For context, consider that the AP produces 2,000 stories per day (2013 output). The stories affected by the Carovillano memo cover the majority of stories produced for both state and global audiences, says Colford. However, those constraints don’t apply to the royalty in AP’s investigative division, who aren’t bound by the directive.

There are 1,400 daily U.S. newspapers that make up the AP cooperative, not to mention a number of radio stations, TV stations and web-based news properties such as Yahoo and MSN.

Here are a few additional motivations for the story-length directive, per Carovillano’s memo:

We are failing to exercise important news judgment when our stories are overlong and not tightly edited;
We give our competitors an opening to make inroads with our members and subscribers when our stories are too long;
Our digital customers know readers do not have the attention span for most long stories and are in fact turned off when they are too long;
Our regional desk editors are spending a lot of time cutting stories; they can give better, more comprehensive, faster-to-the-wire edits to stories that are more tightly written.

Carovillano urges his people to take the following steps to implement brevity:

- The reporter and editor should have a discussion about the appropriate length of stories at the outset of reporting — and stick to it;
- Consider using alternative story forms either to break out details from longer stories, or in lieu of a traditional text story.

That all sounds grim. Sticking to a predetermined story length short-shrifts the whole idea of reporting — namely, that you discover various wrinkles that a full and comprehensive report demands.

C K Sardama's book on PR

Pl visit the following for Review of book on PR by C.K. Sardana published in VIDURA

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A refresher course in Centre for Mass Communication, Jaipur

Following from Prof Sanjeev Bhanawat:

Centre for Mass Communication of University of Rajasthan is planning to organise

a refresher course in Journalism and Mass Communication from June 16 to July 5, 2014

at UGC Academic Staff College, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur.

A large number of media educators from different parts of the country will be likely

to participate in this refresher course. This will be fifth refresher course to be organised

by Centre for Mass Communication. The feedback of the earlier courses was overwhelming

in terms of rich inputs provided by eminent academicians and professionals from the

industry.

I therefore request you to kindly inform interested teachers of your institution to

participate in the refresher course. The application form can be downloaded from ASC

website www.uniraj.ac.in/asc.

Your's faithfully

(Prof. Sanjeev Bhanawat)

Head

Young Media Professionals Wanted

Following forwarded by Prof. Mrinal Chatterjee:

Wanted: Young, energetic and creative mass communication and multimedia professionals and candidates from general background for different positions in our company covering the domains like Online and Digital Media and AV Productions. Please find details in the attachment.

The positions include:

1. Sr. Reporter/Reporter

2. Producer/Asst. Producer

3. Content Writer & Translator

4. Manager - Business Development

5. Executive - Marketing

6. Audio Production Asst.

Positions 1 and 3: Good at Communication. Good at writing in both Odia and English. Exposure to Online and Social Media. Passion for AV & Multimedia Communication. Aim to pursue career in Media and Entertainment industry.  

Requesting you to circulate this info across your students and alumni and other professionals whom you know. I will be very happy if you can directly recommend us some candidates. Tell them to send their CVs to me at ceo@medialearning.in, as soon as possible.

Salary as per market standard and capability of the candidate. 

Both freshers and experienced guys can apply.

Regards,

Nilambar     

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Nilambar Rath

Founder Director and CEO, Academy for Media Learning Private Limited

Editor-in-Chief, 'OdishaLIVE' (www.odishalive.tv)

(The First Web Channel Network of Odisha)

Co-Chairman, Media and PR Committee, Data Bank Committee

& Member, CSR Committee

Utkal Chamber of Commerce and Industry (UCCI)

Tel: +91-93371 41944, 0674-6003311

Email: rath.nilambar@gmail.com, ceo@medialearning.in

Website: www.aml.edu.in

Web Channel: www.odishalive.tv

You Tube Partner Channel: www.youtube.com/odishalive

Personal: www.nilambarrath.com

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How This Blogpost Was Useful

I reproduce this mail from Joseph Aloysius for the information to all our colleagues. I am really glad that the blog is useful to most of us who may not have otherwise received the info about the Poynter University workshop.

Thanks Mr Joseph for sharing the link that contains all the presentations and handouts. We have been publishing the blogposts with this spirit of sharing and collaborating:

Dear Dr. Kiran Thakur,

Greetings from Chennai! This Joseph Aloysius, Assistant Professor of Visual Communication, Guru Nanak College Chennai. I am following your blog for quite a sometime. I find it very useful. Thank you so much for your valuable selfless service. I am also a freelance journalist for a magazine. 

I found the information on Poynter university Journalism workshop in your blog and registered. I got a chance to participate in Poynter Journalism training Workshop in Bangalore (Couldnt make it in Chennai). It was really very interesting . 

The main theme was " Strengthening Journalism in 21 century". They concentrated on journalism using digital tools, Ethics, Business collaboration and so on. They have shared all the presentations in PDF format. 

I thought, you may find it interesting and useful, so I am sharing the link. Here is a link to all the presentations and handouts.

http://www.poynterevents.org/poynter-india/handouts-resources-chennai/

Regards 

Aloysius