In the last decade, journalism scholars expanded the scope of journalism studies by seriously researching soft news. However, the value of studying soft news remains controversial based on the thesis that soft news is incompatible with the ‘higher’ journalistic values. Today, there is evidence showing that soft news can, indeed, entertain and serve ‘higher’ journalistic purposes, such as the reduction of racial/ethnic prejudice. Yet, empirical evidence remains limited to a few soft news genres. To broaden the evidence base for the compatibility thesis, the study provides an educative case study from the soft news genre of celebrity news (CN). CN was selected because it is one of the increasingly popular soft news genres and it lacks empirical evidence for the compatibility thesis. Further, the subgenre of celebrity scandal news (CSN) was selected because of the high expected relatability to personal, social, cultural, and economic issues. The ‘Logan Paul Suicide Forest Scandal’ (LPSFS) was selected because it is timely (2018), highly covered (according to Google Trends, Logan Paul was the fourth most-searched person in 2018), thematically complex (involving suicide) case. A purposeful sample of online news articles was collected and thematically analyzed. The study is a vivid empirical demonstration of the compatibility thesis based on the CN articles that use the LPSFS to explore related serious issues concerning suicide, attention economy and digital culture. Ultimately, research, social and practical implications for future celebrity journalism are discussed based on constructive journalism and transmedia journalism.
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The widespread adoption of social media has engendered notable changes in who is involved in the production, dissemination, and reformulation of market-relevant information. Building on this idea, this study posits that different types of accounting information networks feature different types of actors who produce and disseminate different types of information and thus have different market effects. This study specifically conceptualizes three types of Twitter-based accounting information networks – firm-to-investor networks, stakeholder-to-investor networks, and investor-to-investor networks – and tests for the direct and interactive effects these networks have on abnormal returns around SEC Form 8-K filing events. The results confirm the broad proposition that the three online information networks play distinct roles in the market for information. In an era of social media-driven “truthiness,” “clickbait,” “information silos,” “firestorms,” and “fake news,” it is important to better understand how different types of online information communities are influencing the capital markets; this study helps propel research further in this direction.
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Today in the beginning of the 21st century in India e-banking is setting new dimensions & larger platform to the banking industry. Banking is no longer confined to the consumers visiting branch to deposit, withdraw cash or cheque nor to request for their statements of accounts. Major banks have started providing the internet banking facility to enhance their own services and improvise their consumer base. With the success of the ATM’s across the country, today the leading banks have gear up to provide the banking services through mobile phones with wide range of access to their products & services. Large consumers have taken an advantage of this banking initiative & to them banking is just a sip of coffee. This paper makes an attempt to find out the consumer awareness levels and usage of e-banking transactions through the mobile phones.
{"title":"Consumer Awareness and Usage of E-Banking Transactions Through Mobile Phones","authors":"Yogesh Khandre","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3590039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3590039","url":null,"abstract":"Today in the beginning of the 21st century in India e-banking is setting new dimensions & larger platform to the banking industry. Banking is no longer confined to the consumers visiting branch to deposit, withdraw cash or cheque nor to request for their statements of accounts. Major banks have started providing the internet banking facility to enhance their own services and improvise their consumer base. With the success of the ATM’s across the country, today the leading banks have gear up to provide the banking services through mobile phones with wide range of access to their products & services. Large consumers have taken an advantage of this banking initiative & to them banking is just a sip of coffee. This paper makes an attempt to find out the consumer awareness levels and usage of e-banking transactions through the mobile phones.","PeriodicalId":153103,"journal":{"name":"CommRN: Other Applied Communication (Topic)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133093594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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