Pub Date : 2021-12-28DOI: 10.51480/1899-5101.14.2(29).7
Rebeca Suárez-Álvarez, A. García-Jiménez, Manuel Montes-Vozmediano
This study examines whether gender is a key factor when producing and uploading audio-visual content to this social network. The research has been carried out using content analysis methodology applied to a sample of 300 videos uploaded to YouTube by adolescents aged 11-17 years, which were collected and analysed during the state of emergency in Spain (13 March – 21 June of 2020) as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Contents uploaded by these YouTubers are amusing, and their topics differ significantly depending on the author’s gender. Boys focus mainly on playing games, while the range of topics among girls is more diverse. There are no significant differences in the way both genders approach the topic of COVID-19. Channels oriented toward girls are protected from comments their followers might make about them, whereas boys are more exposed to members of the public who view their audio-visual productions.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-28DOI: 10.51480/1899-5101.14.2(29).4
O. Smirnova
The article explores COVID-19 related Internet memes and treats them as samples of creolized text in a study of the way ethnic and cultural peculiarities of memes are perceived by representatives of two radically different cultural paradigms: the Russians and Chinese. A survey is used as a method of the investigation. Russian and Chinese students, and visual arts experts evaluated Russian and Chinese COVID-19 memes according to several criteria concerning their content, verbal constituent element and visual characteristics. The study concluded that the social and culture-specific components mostly contribute to forming the opinion of the meme and its appreciation. Awareness of both the cultural background and the current social and nation-specific situation is required to decode a full amount of information contained in a meme. Equally important is the visual component in understanding the meme. Thus, the study contributes not only to studying event-specific memes but also broadens the scope of research on memes as a sample of visual culture.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-28DOI: 10.51480/1899-5101.14.2(29).1
Rosella Rega
The article investigates media organizations’ strategies to adapt to the new media ecology in which Twitter is renewing traditional news-production routines. Two main strategies are identified: a traditional approach aimed at one-way news dissemination, and a journalistic model that recasts the relationship with the audience and uses Twitter as a community building tool. It has been assumed that media outlets’ endeavours to gain centrality in the information system are associated with their ability in using the appropriate communication tools of Twitter and the implementation of strategies based on interaction with users. Based on a comparative analysis of Twitter uses by newspapers in 31 countries, the study shows that the ability to manage the structural elements of the platform is widespread among media organizations. Concurrently, the relational strategy, i.e. the investment in community-building, although less widespread, is present in many countries and leads to an increase level of user involvement.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-28DOI: 10.51480/1899-5101.14.2(29).11
Paweł Baranowski
This is the review of the book by Francesco Marconi "Newsmakers: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Journalism."
这是对弗朗西斯科·马可尼的书《新闻人物:人工智能和新闻业的未来》的评论。
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Pub Date : 2021-12-28DOI: 10.51480/1899-5101.14.2(29).12
G. Buoncompagni
{"title":"Gladwell M. (2019). Talkng to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know","authors":"G. Buoncompagni","doi":"10.51480/1899-5101.14.2(29).12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51480/1899-5101.14.2(29).12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40610,"journal":{"name":"Central European Journal of Communication","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48013844","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}
Pub Date : 2021-12-28DOI: 10.51480/1899-5101.14.2(29).9
Alicja Waszkiewicz
{"title":"Lev Manovich (2020). Cultural Analytics","authors":"Alicja Waszkiewicz","doi":"10.51480/1899-5101.14.2(29).9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51480/1899-5101.14.2(29).9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40610,"journal":{"name":"Central European Journal of Communication","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47503269","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}
Pub Date : 2021-12-28DOI: 10.51480/1899-5101.14.2(29).8
Jacek Mikucki, Lev Manovich
{"title":"Age of Algorithms","authors":"Jacek Mikucki, Lev Manovich","doi":"10.51480/1899-5101.14.2(29).8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51480/1899-5101.14.2(29).8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40610,"journal":{"name":"Central European Journal of Communication","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42943575","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}
Pub Date : 2021-06-21DOI: 10.51480/1899-5101.14.1(28).12
Agnieszka Węglińska
{"title":"Dmitry Chernobrov (2020). Public Perception of International Crises Identity, Ontological Security and Self-Affirmation. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 256 pp., ISBN: 978-1786610034.","authors":"Agnieszka Węglińska","doi":"10.51480/1899-5101.14.1(28).12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51480/1899-5101.14.1(28).12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40610,"journal":{"name":"Central European Journal of Communication","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45148049","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}
Pub Date : 2021-06-21DOI: 10.51480/1899-5101.14.1(28).10
J. Jakubowski
{"title":"Sergey Davydov (Ed.) (2020). Internet in Russia. A Study of the Runet and Its Impact on Social Life. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 298 pp., ISBN 978-3-030-33015-6.","authors":"J. Jakubowski","doi":"10.51480/1899-5101.14.1(28).10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51480/1899-5101.14.1(28).10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40610,"journal":{"name":"Central European Journal of Communication","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41859878","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}