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In the network society the boundaries between media, politics, economy and culture is put under pressure. The media is placed in an increasingly direct competition with the state, private companies, interest organisations etc. about the powers of definition within important spheres of society. This is illustrated by for instance “the Muhammad crisis” and the debate about the documentary “The secret war”. Both cases also show the importance of the legitimacy of the roles played by the media in the network society. This puts forward the old question about the objectivity of journalism, and makes this question important in the debate about the roles of journalism in the network society.

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- Journalism, Political Science, Denmark, News Media
- by Andrew Graan
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- New Media, Media Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Postsocialism

Artificial intelligence (AI) has over the years become a hot topic for debate in Sweden, as the technology presents exciting unique possibilities and challenges for the country and its citizens. Coverage of AI in Swedish news media presents imagined scenarios with both current and future AI that contribute to myths about how the technology is able to radically transform life, that spring out of a central digital sublime. Through a mixed-method study of 55 newspaper items about AI from Svenska Dagbladet from 2017 to 2018, the thesis studies what evident AI myths occur in coverage and how such discourses spring out digital sublime regarding AI. A total of four AI myths are found that revolve around existing and future intelligent computers, robots, machines and vehicles and different perceptions with them. Myths and associated hopes and concerns point to digital sublime regarding AI as a force of intelligent digitization that promises to empower a sublime citizen, economy, and welfare state. Emotional values with sublime AI reflect a Swedish techno-optimism as digital artefacts throughout history have helped Sweden become a prosperous country.

- by Axel Allen
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- Artificial Intelligence, Media Representation, News Media, Technological Sublime

The Media has been playing an active role in the democratic realm since the inception of the country as a nation state. The newspaper that are established during the early years of colonialism are used as potent tools of propagating the ideas of democracy in Nigeria. This study critically assessed the performance of Nigerian mass media in consolidating democracy. This is of the view that the mass media contributed to the return of democracy in Nigeria.Despite Nigerian mass media great performance in promoting democracy, they are faced with challenges which borders on issues of ethnicity, lack of adequate modern communication gadgets, pressure from pressure groups and the government, corruption, security issues among others. The government should truly support the noble profession by creating the right atmosphere for media men to operate without friction.

- by Jimoh Taofik Adekunle
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- Media Studies, New Media, Media Literacy, Mass Communications

‘The Valorisation of a Discursive Style on the BBC’s Westminster hour’, in Turner, K and Fraser, B (eds.) (2008) Language in a Life, and a Life in Languages: Jacob Mey - A Festschrift (Studies in Pragmatics 6) Bingley: Emerald Group... more

In: Acta Universitatis Sapientiae Philologica. Vol. 9, No. 3. 117–134.

In many countries, mobile operators have teamed up with social media platforms to offer free access to specific websites or internet services—including news websites. The most well-known of these offerings, Facebook’s Free Basics, has been explicitly pitched as a way to give citizens in developing countries greater access to news, but Facebook is not the only company touting these so-called “zero-rated” arrangements as a bridge across the digital divide. This report examines whether these arrangements are broadening access to diverse sources of news, as promised, and whether they might have broader consequences for the news market.

- by Dan O'Maley
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- Internet Governance, Developing Countries, The Internet, Platform Studies

This study examines how the first major military incursions in Sarawak, Sabah and Peninsular Malaysia during the Indonesia-Malaysia Confrontation in 1963-1964 were reported in three selected Malaysian English-language newspapers. These newspapers are The Straits Times, published in Singapore, North Borneo News and Sabah Times (hereafter Sabah Times), published in Sabah, and The Sarawak Tribune, published in Sarawak. This study employed a qualitative content analysis of the newspapers to examine their coverage on the issue. The findings show that The Straits Times generally provided the widest coverage on the first major military incursions in Sarawak and Peninsular Malaysia. Sabah Times, on the other hand, provided the most extensive news coverage on the military raid on Sabah. This was probably due to limited manpower and financial strength of the two newspapers and not the lack of concern of both newspapers and their readers of the situation in the affected localities.

- by Wu-Ling Chong
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- History, News Media

With the problem of 'fake news' in the digital media, there are efforts at creation of awareness, automation of 'fake news' detection and news literacy. This research is descriptive as it pulls evidence from the content of online fabricated news for the features that distinguish fabrications from the legitimate political news around the time of the U.S. Presidential Elections (276 articles in total, from November 2016-June 2017). Certain stylistic and psycho-linguistic features of fabrications may be apparent to the news readers: fewer words and paragraphs but longer paragraphs, more slangs, swear words and affective words in the stories. Such features could be used for educational information literacy campaigns for spotting so-called 'fake news'. Other informative features may require specialized analytical tools (or further training) to notice the presence of more words, punctuation marks, demonstratives and emotiveness in fabrications but fewer verifiable facts (or named entities) in their headlines.

- by Toluwase Asubiaro
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- Information Literacy, News Literacy, News Media, News media literacy

The use of chatbots in news media platforms, although relatively recent, offers many advantages to journalists and media professionals and, at the same time, facilitates users' interaction with useful and timely information. This study shows the usability of a news chatbot during a crisis situation, employing the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic as a case study. The basic targets of the research are to design and implement a chatbot in a news media platform with a twofold aim in regard to evaluation: first, the technical effort of creating a functional and robust news chatbot in a crisis situation both from the AI perspective and interoperability with other platforms, which constitutes the novelty of the approach; and second, users' perception regarding the appropriation of this news chatbot as an alternative means of accessing existing information during a crisis situation. The chatbot designed was evaluated in terms of effectively fulfilling the social responsibility function of crisis reporting, to deliver timely and accurate information on the COVID-19 pandemic to a wide audience. In this light, this study shows the advantages of implementing chatbots in news platforms during a crisis situation, when the audience's needs for timely and accurate information rapidly increase.

- by Andreas Veglis and +1
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- Communication, Journalism, Reporting, News Media

This summarizing study examines how contemporary young people use news and news media and how is this news consumption related to the level of their civic engagement. While findings of many studies suggest that today’s youth are not interested in current affairs news at all, others show a more complicated picture: young people haven't lost interest in current affairs, but they differ in their access to information and in the way how they move in the media environment. The study discusses the reasons for this media behavior and the implication for the civic engagement of the young generation.

- by Marek Šebeš
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- Political Socialization, Youth Civic Engagement, Citizenship, News Media

When disasters strike, journalism can save lives. Affected communities need information during disasters. What has happened? What can be expected? Where are the safe places? Who should survivors contact? What should they do? What should they not do? There are many questions that people need answers for, and the timely dissemination of information is important to save lives, reduce trauma, and facilitate smooth relief and rehabilitation works. Good communication is also required to enhance the relationship among the government, national and international organisations, and the civil society—before, during, and after a disaster. In all this, the news media play a crucial role. The importance of disaster journalism in Nepal, hence, cannot be overstated. Situated in one of the world’s most disaster-prone areas, the nation is particularly vulnerable to calamities. As the 2015 earthquake showed, it is also ill-prepared. Enhancing the disaster preparedness of news media personnel is theref...

- by Nirjana Sharma
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- Media Studies, Journalism, Political Science, Nepal
- by Maxwell McCombs
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- Public Opinion, Framing, News Media, Agenda Setting Theory

This paper is a critical evaluation of how Gramsci's theory of hegemony can be applied to how the British Media treats the Royal Family. This paper explores notions of capitalism, nationalism and British identity as they pertain to Britain's most popular family as well as an overview of hegemony conceptually. The primary focus of this paper is to assess the validity and relevance of Gramsci's theories in the contemporary media landscape through qualitative content analysis and critical discourse analysis.

- by JACK ROSS
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- Critical Theory, Nationalism, Capitalism, Gramsci
- by Shauna Brock
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- Intelligence Studies, Intelligence, Digital Media, Social Media

In the world of technology-mediated communication (TMC), the involvement of audiences with media texts takes very diverse forms. The participation is shaped by multiple factors ranging from the genre of the media text (e.g., the news article as opposed to the radio phone-in program), the general participatory situation (e.g., before/after a story or event and within/outside of the text), to the interactive affordances of the individual media platforms (print, radio, TV, online).
Adopting a combined media linguistic and socio-pragmatic perspective, this chapter explores the types of interactivity and interaction that occur in the media. Focusing on online news media, it explains how media interactivity can translate into actual interaction with the recipients, thereby affecting the overall participation framework of the media discourse event. Finally, the chapter outlines several current trends (customization of content, remediation, dispreferred participation, etc.) and points out some potential problems associated with these participatory phenomena.

- by Jan Chovanec
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- Participatory Media, Pragmatics, Stylistics, Computer-Mediated Communication

Researchers have explored the role of organizational and personal branding in journalism, paying particular attention to digital media and social network sites. While these studies have observed a rise in the incorporation of branding practices among journalists, they have largely avoided questions about the implications such shifts in practice may have on the personal identities of journalists. This study addresses that gap, drawing on interviews with 41 reporters and editors from US newspapers. The findings suggest that as reporters incorporate branding into their routines, they may feel as though they are sacrificing the ability to simultaneously maintain a personal identity online. For their part, editors seem to sympathize with journalists’ loss of personal identity but defer to organizational policies.

- by Avery Holton
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- Media Studies, Journalism, Digital Humanities, Social Identity

A decentralized news network backed by incentives for individuals to create, review, and consume news. The primary innovation of blockchains is a verifiable and cryptographically secured global ledger that can lead to new types of incentive structures. Developers can take advantage of the Ethereum blockchain to build applications that are not only architecturally and politically decentralized, but are underpinned by tokens of value. We propose a network in which writers produce news content that is reviewed by fact-checkers before being published on the network without the risk of being taken down. All parties involved in publishing a factual article will be rewarded with tokens in a self-sustaining environment that thrives on tangible activity and accuracy of content rather than on advertising revenue and corporate interests.

- by Dondrey Taylor and +1
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- Journalism, News Media, Blockchains

In the age of media consumption, digital platforms are part of everyday life and are transforming audiences' practices (Nielsen, 2014). The patterns of media consumption are increasingly cross-media (Schrøder, 2015). Specially, regarding the younger generations, studies document that they express particular behaviors due to the penetration of digital consumption into their daily life. In order to better understand these practices, these research analyses the media consumption profiles of Portuguese university students using the concept of "media repertoires" by Hasebrink and Popp (2006). Specifically, it is intended to define these audiences preference profiles, identify practices, analyse the relationship with the media and patterns of use of technology to access information. The specific objectives are the following: (i). classify information consumptions; ii). describe media preferences; iii). assess forms of access to information; iv). gauge the type of content consumed in different media; v). identify if there are media consumptions in cross-media; vi). analyse the information consumption practices in social media. The methodological approach to empirical research is operationalised through a quantitative strategy using the questionnaire survey. The sample is of convenience (n = 100), not being statistically representative of the population. Data processing uses descriptive statistical analysis to identify global trends and media consumption profiles. The data reveal that there is uniformity in media consumption in terms of media type and that the mobile devices and social media are very important for the younger generations and are part of their everyday life.

- by Patrícia Silveira
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- Media Studies, Journalism, Media Literacy, Social Media

This article summarises contributions to an ASEN-Edinburgh (Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism, Edinburgh Branch) symposium held the day after the 2017 Catalan referendum on independence. Daniel Cetrà describes a referendum disputed between legal and democratic legitimacy and grounded on competing visions of nationhood. Elisenda Casanas-Adam argues that there are alternative interpretations of the Spanish constitution which could accommodate Catalan request and highlights the questionable legality of the Spanish authorities' forceful response. Mariola Tàrrega argues that the Catalan referendum reveals a worrying context where news media become political advocates of opposing worldviews and politicians attribute to news media an overstated capacity to shape nation-building projects.

- by Daniel Cetrà and +1
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- Nationalism, Legitimacy, National Identity, Nations and nationalism

Materi anti hoax merupakan materi mengenai pengertian berita hoax, sejarah, ciri-ciri, cara menangani, dan cara melaporkan konten hoax. Disampaikan ketika program Perkenalan Kehidupan Kampus bagi Mahasiswa Baru Fakultas Pertanian UPN... more

- by Anwar Sholihin
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- Digital Media, Indonesia, Social Media, Agriculture
- by Libby Lester
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- Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Environmental Communication, Manuel Castells

This paper gives an investigation of the print news and online news utilization design. Purpose of input has been inferred on both mass and customized media in particular print and its online rendition. By utilizing multi different investigation ANNOVA essential information, taking sample size of (N=400) the respondents were asked for to give data on the recurrence, timing and place of use of every medium and were made a request to report their input on the helpfulness of these media. The different statistic factors are related with media use designs. The fundamental discoveries of the investigation propose that the web is nearly more used among the media. Online/internet is underutilized as a result of absence of mindfulness and non accessibility of flag.

- by Interal Res journa Managt Sci Tech
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- Social Media, Newspapers, News Media

This landmark volume opens with the valid premise that media anthropologists have so far neglected the study of the news media and journalism in favour of entertainment media such as radio, television and film. The book sets out to rectify this situation by bringing together leading scholars in the field with contributions published here for the first time. The aim is to reach out not only to other anthropologists but also to students and scholars in media, communication and journalism studies. Describing news as a form of ‘cultural meaning making’ or ‘cultural storytelling’ the editor, Elizabeth Bird, argues that anthropologists have an important contribution to make to the long overdue de-Westernisation of this interdisciplinary field. The book consists of an Introduction followed by three sections of varying length: Part 1 (eight chapters) on the ethnography of news production, Part 2 (five chapters) on everyday news practices and Part 3 (three chapters) on news in the new media era.

- by John Postill
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- Social Change, Media Studies, Journalism, Media Anthropology

Journalistic organizations are currently undergoing rapid change. One striking feature of this transformation is the increased influence of managerial discourse in the newsroom. Editorial leadership is proving to be more professionalized, standardized and accentuated than before, which could affect journalistic autonomy and status. In this article we investigate the shifting power balance in news production by focusing on the management–staff relationship in Swedish newspapers and discussing the possible consequences of this development for the professional autonomy of journalists. Empirical support is drawn from two national surveys and a small interview study of Swedish newspaper journalists. The results indicate a move towards managerial dominance in the newsroom during the last decade, but also that journalists to some extent seem to approve of this development. Even so, the results may be another indication of a de-professionalization of journalists to the benefit of the managerial group in the news business.

- by Ulrika Andersson and +1
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- Journalism, Professionalism, Journalists, News Media
- by Michael Karlsson and +1
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- Journalism, Digital Journalism, Mobile Journalism, Newsgames, Gamification

This paper investigates how Facebook has exerted its power over news media. Using a political economy of communication model, we analyze in detail the ways in which Facebook, eager to maintain the growth of its user base and the advertising revenue associated with it, has implemented a deliberate policy aimed at convincing media to use the resources provided by its platform. Based on a corpus of documents produced by Facebook itself in the US editions of its “Newsroom” and its blog “Facebook for Media,” we first describe some of the general features of its policy of expansion. We then consider the strategies that have been taken, within this context, towards news media. We study how Facebook has invested considerable effort in establishing its platform as a major nexus for news distribution and for converting media into news content suppliers working, among other suppliers, for its benefit. We also explore the different initiatives Facebook has undertaken to influence the nature of news content in order to impose itself as a key player in the online news environment at the expense of media, which finds itself in an asymmetrical position of dependence.

- by Tristan Mattelart
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- Journalism, Digital Media, Social Media, Facebook

Engaging normative theories of the press and research examining the evolution of privacy coverage, this study examines press coverage of mobile app privacy issues between 2013 and 2016. The research sheds light on how the press frames privacy concerns within the mobile app context. Since such coverage can define the norms circumscribing the flows of users’ personal information, this study contributes to the debate about the role of the press in alerting the public to privacy issues that carry significant public interest implications. Ultimately, mobile privacy coverage favors certain solutions over others, emphasizes privacy tradeoffs over privacy rights, and balances user powerlessness with mobile app convenience and innovation, with implications for privacy discourses in public and policy arenas.

- by Pawel Popiel
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- Privacy, Media Framing, News Media, Mobile Privacy

Preventing capture, and ensuring that the media can perform their
societal function, requires an understanding of the myriad and
sometimes subtle ways the media can be compromised by the
very actors they are supposed to monitor. To that end, this chapter
proposes four somewhat overlapping forms of capture–(a) ownership,
(b) financial incentives, (c) censorship, and (d) cognitive capture–
arguing that a broader view of what constitutes capture usefully
highlights less obvious but equally insidious threats to journalistic
independence.

Globally and nationally, teachers and their work are key to realizing equitable, quality, and lifelong learning for all. Teachers are considered key determinants of education quality – playing a vital role in nation building and identity construction and providing meaningful learning to young children and youth – responsive to changing global and national economic, social, and cultural imperative. This recognition and increased attention on teachers and their work feature prominently in public and policy discourses. Yet very little attention has been paid to how teachers are framed and positioned in such discourses. It is this gap which this chapter seeks to address by considering the discourses that inflect and infuse teachers and their work in the public media and policy text across three countries of South Asia: Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. The chapter maps out the common themes and ideas that frame teachers and their work in diverse national policy texts in the South Asian region, and specifically in the media, using discourse analysis. At the level of national policy, the chapter focuses on the comparative analysis of policy of the National Education Policy 2010 in Bangladesh, the draft National Education Policy in India 2019, and the National Education Policy 2009 and 2017 in Pakistan to argue that policy and popular media project contradictory, multiple, and contested statements of the work of teachers in the South Asian region, oscillating between portrayals of teachers as villains or saviors. Moreover, the work of teachers is increasingly subject to tightening regulations which challenge teacher professional identity and autonomy.

- by Sahana Udupa
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- Journalism, Indian studies, South Asian Studies, Jurgen Habermas

Esta investigación analiza el tratamiento del tema feminicidio en la prensa mexicana. El objetivo es estudiar cuales son los aspectos del conflicto que se destacan en la información de prensa. Se extrajeron los marcos periodísticos multimodales, las fallas de contexto y los discursos ideológicos diseminados. Además analizamos la representación de los movimientos sociales contra el feminicidio como actor y las oportunidades discursivas alcanzadas, en comparación con la representación de las autoridades. Escogimos tres periódicos de circulación nacional tomando en cuenta las preferencias de la audiencia para elegir los más leídos en su versión impresa y por medios electrónicos. Durante un periodo de 41 meses se recabaron todos los artículos que informan feminicidio como tema principal o secundario, y los artículos sobre asesinatos de mujeres en los que no se ha comprobado si tenían motivos de género o no. Obtuvimos 2,527 artículos y se codificaron todos manualmente. Se utilizó la metodología de análisis de contenido cuantitativo textual y análisis de las imágenes para extraer los elementos de los marcos periodísticos multimodales, de acuerdo con la teoría de Entman: la denominación del problema, actores principales, la evaluación moral, la atribución de responsabilidad y el tratamiento recomendado. Cada elemento contiene diversas variables que se agruparon en conglomerados por orden de incidencia. La representación de los movimientos sociales se midió con las características del ‘paradigma de la protesta’ y analizamos el grado en que se adhiere a esta teoría. Utilizamos las mismas variables para medir las oportunidades discursivas del movimiento. Encontramos que la atención mediática al conflicto ha aumentado vertiginosamente en los 3 diarios, diseminando la idea de que la severidad del problema también aumenta; sin embargo, la representación de las víctimas tiende a ser negativa y se reproducen discursos discriminatorios.

- by Mariana Aldrete
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- Content Analysis (Research Methodology), Frame Analysis, News Media, Femicides
- by Cynthia Carter
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- Domestic Violence, Violence & Media, Sexual Violence, Gender

As digital convergence marks the transition from print to screen culture, translation plays an increasingly important role of in the production and dissemination of the news. The translation of information in the news media is a pervasive set of practices that affects the daily consumption of the news and a topic of relevance to scholars in several areas of the humanities and the social sciences. This book provides a wide-ranging and accessible introduction to research in news media translation practices, products and processes, illustrating and discussing historical, theoretical and descriptive perspectives. Inter- and multi-disciplinary research spans fields such as Translation Studies, Linguistics, Journalism and Media Studies, and includes approaches from Critical Discourse Analysis and narrative theory to Systemic Functional Linguistics and Corpus Linguistics. The book also offers first-hand analyses of news texts in English and Italian, approaching news translation from an ethnomethodological perspective.

- by Federico Zanettin
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- Journalism, Translation Studies, Journalism History, Translation

Instructions: Respond to each numbered item in the short list here as either “True” or “False” for you. A “True” response may identify a potential area for training. Reflect on whether an item identifies a problem or issue in the way you manage your anger. Anger requires boundaries, and a moral value (e.g. OK or not OK) can be assigned to strengthen boundaries for anger. Assess whether you believe the following:

- by Daniel M Keeran MSW
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- Business, Management, Business Administration, Psychology

THIS IS YOUR CUE: TIME TO TAKE ACTION
Call upon the community or general public, parents and youths, mental health professionals, physicians and nurses, educators, Facebook and other internet social media, religious groups, athletes, celebrities, secular and SBNR, school administrators, news media, Hollywood, academia, scientists, employers and employees, business owners and managers, private individuals and public officials, to join their talents, opportunities, and influence to support student mental health and end school shootings. Sharing this article is one way you can help https://www.academia.edu/35809557

- by Daniel M Keeran MSW
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- Creative Writing, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Robotics

Secara bahasa, pelecehan seksual merupakan sebuah gabungan dari dua kata yang terdiri dari “pelecehan” dan “seksual”. Menurut Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI), pelecehan berasal dari kata “leceh” yang artinya menghinakan, memandang rendah, meremehkan, dan mengabaikan sedangkan seksual berasal dari kata “seks” yang artinya jenis kelamin (secara biologis) atau hal yang berhubungan dengan alat kelamin.

- by Faiza Widya Ramadhanti
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- Online news, News Media, Artikel and Jurnal
- by Yuriko Furuhata
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- Journalism, Porn Studies, News Media, Post-war Japanese Cinema

The topic “Politics, Civil Society and Participation” is dedicated to the fundamental question: How do media and communications practices within European cultures change with their environment? This volume consists of the intellectual work of the 2015 European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School, organized in cooperation with the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) and a consortium of 21 European partner universities at the ZeMKI, the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research of the University of Bremen, Germany. The chapters cover relevant research topics, structured into four sections: “Policies and politics of communication”, “Civil participation in and through the media”, “Media representations and usages” and “On methods”.

- by Leif Kramp and +9
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- Communication, Media Studies, Journalism, Television Studies

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