Pub Date : 2020-04-02DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2020.1797053
Duygu Özsoy, Eyyup Akbulut, Sait Sinan Atılgan, G. Muschert
ABSTRACT Digital divide is among the most important problems required to be overcome by our contemporary information society, where skills are among the principle determinants of such inequalities. This study examines the digital divide in a non-Western population which has not been studied before, and specifically it measures the digital skill levels of the people living in the Northeastern Anatolia region of Turkey. The primary contribution of the study is confirmatory of previous research regarding digital skills, though in the context of a previously-unexamined population. By using a sample representing the region (n = 400), the digital skill levels of the participants were measured. Data were collected through performance tests developed by van Deursen, A.J.A.M., and J.A.G.M. van Dijk (2010. Internet skills and the digital divide. New Media & Society 13, no. 6: 893–911. doi:10.1177/1461444810386774). Findings indicate that the digital skill level of the participants is generally low. The users are most successful at the formal level, followed by operational, informational and strategic skills, respectively. The level of strategic skills is quite low, which hints at the fact that the users studied are not able to translate their Internet use into real-world tangible benefits. It is also found that age, gender, education, household income significantly predict digital skill levels.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-02DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2020.1780244
E. Vartanova, Anna Gladkova
ABSTRACT In this paper, we introduce a collection of articles included into thematic issue on multicultural discourses in ‘Emerging States’. Along with discussing challenges all multicultural and multiethnic societies are facing under ongoing digitalization process (digital divide, challenges to ethnic and community media, etc.), we focus on several themes that deserve further investigation by scholars. Among those are current communication and media policy aimed at supporting offline and online activities of cultural, linguistic and ethnic groups in ‘Emerging States’ as well as intercultural communication; social, political, economic, technological and cultural transformations ‘Emerging States’ evolved in twenty to twenty-first centuries and the way these transformations influenced cross-cultural communication and people’s identities from a cultural discourse studies perspective; digital communication as a dimension of ‘soft power’ in ‘Emerging States’, and many other topics.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-02DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2020.1763370
Faust Maria, Xuelian Jin
ABSTRACT Current research on social time and temporal change theories have not yet investigated the nature of this change in depth through hypothesis testing endeavours. In this paper we respond to this research desiderate through creating quantitative empirical proof for Germany and China. Our findings are based on theories of temporal digital change and the third level of digital divide, i.e. online use vs. non-use concerning time, the rural-urban divide, and the gender divide. We show that digital media enhance the focus on social time, namely 8 out of 9 dimensions of temporal understanding as a specific form of how people deal with and plan time in Germany and China. Moreover, there are significant differences between online users and off-liners both within and across the countries. The degree of urbanization proves to have an influence on temporal digital change, while gender differences were not found to be significant in our study.
{"title":"An empirical verification of social time theories: investigating digitally induced temporal change in Germany and China","authors":"Faust Maria, Xuelian Jin","doi":"10.1080/17447143.2020.1763370","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17447143.2020.1763370","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Current research on social time and temporal change theories have not yet investigated the nature of this change in depth through hypothesis testing endeavours. In this paper we respond to this research desiderate through creating quantitative empirical proof for Germany and China. Our findings are based on theories of temporal digital change and the third level of digital divide, i.e. online use vs. non-use concerning time, the rural-urban divide, and the gender divide. We show that digital media enhance the focus on social time, namely 8 out of 9 dimensions of temporal understanding as a specific form of how people deal with and plan time in Germany and China. Moreover, there are significant differences between online users and off-liners both within and across the countries. The degree of urbanization proves to have an influence on temporal digital change, while gender differences were not found to be significant in our study.","PeriodicalId":45223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Multicultural Discourses","volume":"15 1","pages":"165 - 185"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2020-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17447143.2020.1763370","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45186940","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 : 2020-04-02DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2020.1751648
D. Dunas, Sergey Vartanov
ABSTRACT Digital media is now the dominant influence of peoples’ everyday lives and social behavior in the global culture of twenty-first century society. Contemporary media usage is associated with the need for affection and involvement in social and cultural communities and approval and integration into the emerging digital culture. Thus, it is possible to observe signs of such important processes as socialization and self-actualization in media practices of the youth audience in digital media culture. These needs are strongly related to cultural and social processes and have been normally achieved in an individual’s cultural and social environments. This becomes crucial for the understanding of new digital media culture (DMC). The paper provides a theoretical discussion of this emerging DMC in Russia, conceptualizes Generation Z’s needs and motives and everyday media practices. In order to do this, the study conducted interviews with Russians aged 10–19 years old from Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod and Rostov-on-Don. The authors use mathematical methods to construct a model of Generation Z’s media consumption.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-02DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2020.1756305
S. Jamil
ABSTRACT Drawing on the theory of technological convergence, this study primarily investigates how technological convergence is reshaping the journalists’ practices of news production and distribution in Pakistan’s ethnic news media. This study also comparatively analyses challenges and constraints experienced by the Pakistani journalists from mainstream and ethnic news media to use digital technology (i.e. the use of computers, multimedia, the internet, mobile phones, digital journalism tools, algorithmic or computer-assisted reporting). To achieve these objectives, this study uses the qualitative methods of document-review, in-depth interviews and focus group discussion. Finally, this study offers a thematic analysis of qualitative data.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-02DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2020.1750619
V. Riegel
ABSTRACT This article aims to examine the role of digital communication in the making of cosmopolitan spaces by immigrants in the city of São Paulo. Particularly, the uses of the digital social media Facebook by these individuals are analyzed, in order to reveal the specific mediations through the diverse uses of immigrants living in São Paulo of this platform. São Paulo’s migrants’ communities – established and new –, face uncertainty about their identity formation, as well as about the viability of social formation and multicultural discourses. Hence, we analyze how immigrants in São Paulo mobilize digitally to make cosmopolitan spaces in the city, from the development of local networks in support of migrants, to training into digital skills and the production of visibility within digital media. This study uses a multimethod approach, by investigating digital practices to build cosmopolitan spaces in São Paulo, and by examining the lives of individuals of different migrants’ communities in the city. This discussion aims to dialogue with the perspectives of ‘vernacular cosmopolitanism’ and ‘cosmopolitanism of liberation’ (Georgiou, M. 2013. Media and the city: cosmopolitanism and difference. Cambridge, MA: Polity), of valorization of cultural identities of migrants groups, as well as of dispositions from an ethical and political perspective to openness and recognition of the migrants within the local society.
本文旨在研究数字通信在圣保罗市移民创造国际空间中的作用。特别地，分析了这些人对数字社交媒体Facebook的使用情况，以便通过生活在圣保罗市的移民对该平台的不同使用来揭示具体的中介。圣保罗的移民社区——无论是已经建立的还是新的——都面临着身份形成的不确定性，以及社会形成和多元文化话语的可行性。因此，我们分析了圣保罗的移民如何通过数字手段在城市中创造国际化的空间，从支持移民的本地网络的发展，到数字技能的培训和数字媒体中知名度的产生。本研究采用了多种方法，通过调查数字实践在圣保罗建立国际化空间，并通过研究城市中不同移民社区的个人生活。本讨论旨在从“乡土世界主义”和“解放世界主义”的角度进行对话(Georgiou, M. 2013)。媒体与城市:世界主义与差异。剑桥，麻萨诸塞州:Polity)，移民群体的文化认同的价值增值，以及从伦理和政治角度对当地社会中移民的开放和承认的倾向。
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Pub Date : 2020-03-30DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2020.1745212
Anna Gladkova, E. Vartanova, Massimo Ragnedda
ABSTRACT The paper draws linkages between ethnic diversity of the eight federal districts of Russia and their technological development (access and use of ICTs, digital literacy, etc.). We show that although there is no universal correlation between ethnic composition of the regions and the level of their technological advancement, regions where Russians constitute the majority (i.e. Central and Northwestern) more often tend to be the country's leaders in terms of technological development. Following up on this, we use purposive sample of 398 Internet users based in Russia, showing how the level of digital capital of users varies depending on their ethnicity (here we will distinguish between two large groups – Russians and non-Russians, based on self-identification of survey participants) and their place of living. Results of the digital capital study, despite being indicative, show that those belonging to the ethnic majority (in our case Russians) and those living in big cities tend to have a higher level of digital capital. We argue that although ethnicity solely does not define the level of users' digital capital, it is still an important and understudied issue. This is particularly true for big multiethnic societies, such as the Russian society, where digital divide across various groups and regions remains a serious problem.
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Pub Date : 2020-03-22DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2020.1744612
Raymund Vitorio
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Pub Date : 2020-03-19DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2020.1743296
Bart Cammaerts
ABSTRACT In this article, I set out to deconstruct the main nodal points of the neo-fascist discourse, using a multi-cultural political discourse analysis of Trump and Modi. Subsequently, mechanisms of the normalisation of the neo- fascist discourse will be discussed. I will argue that mediation plays a pivotal role in this process, which implicates both traditional as well as social media. Central to the normalisation of neo-fascism is a politics of provocation and a deep-rooted cultivation of victimhood. Whereas media and neo fascist politics often operate in an antagonistic relationship, neo-fascists create drama, emotion and consternation, which works well in the context of the current business model of media. Likewise, social media also profit from the self-mediation practices of neo-fascism. Using radical democratic theory and normative media and communication theory, I argue that journalists and social media companies have a moral duty to combat neo-fascism and its normalisation.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2019.1701678
V. Dubravac, Nadja Skopljak
ABSTRACT Not being subject to various restrictions common to more formal contexts and thus establishing complete control, users are ready for a considerable investment in the target language use, in this case the English language use, on social sites. Their investment here is motivated by the desire to assume the identity of a global citizen, the identity of unique individuals deserving the attention of the target social group. In that attempt they start playing with language, foreign and multilingual language play presenting appropriate means of creating the desired identity positions. The present study, exploring the use of English by young adult Bosnian speakers on Facebook and Instagram and the reasons underlying it, aimed at investigating the aforementioned claims. Using English the participants tried to show they possess the attributes associated with English as the global language, such as modern, trendy, omnipresent, etc. Moreover, they seemed to find being both local and international, traditional and modern, and above all unique and creative more important than being correct following native-like norms. The study is expected to broaden the understanding of the interrelation between the language use and identity negotiation, and contribute to awakening a stronger interest into the potential of language play.
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