Pub Date : 2022-11-17DOI: 10.1177/1329878x221139581
X. Li, Juan Feng
This article investigates the ways a nation brand is constructed by elite and non-elite actors on social media using the case of Australia in China through the lens of security. The mixed-method analysis unveils the collaborative process in the security realm driven by digital technologies does not enable vernacular discussions to produce an alternative understanding of the national brand of the Other crafted by the pro-state actors. The narratives centering around societal security to citizens strategically served to prompt the population's interactions and nationalistic support for the state's agendas. Uncovering the contribution of digital nationalism to the mean-making of securitization in the participatory media space, this article advances the engagement between security and nation branding from a critical vantage point. It enriches the strategies of harnessing the dynamics between people, digital media, and identity politics to create a unified response from the community to a security threat.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-16DOI: 10.1177/1329878x221134207
Lawrie Zion, T. Marjoribanks, P. O’Donnell
For the past two decades, understandings of the scale of digital disruption in journalism work in post-industrialised countries have relied on data about newspaper closures, newsroom job losses and the creation of new full-time jobs in journalism. Yet, the digital economy has fostered new employment and work arrangements, and there is less secure employment in journalism, making it more difficult to define who is a journalist now. Using a case study of Australian journalists seeking re-employment after newsroom job loss, this article examines some of the emerging patterns of atypical journalism work. It concludes that attempts to measure the current extent of journalism work need to explicitly account for hybrid careers characterised by professional activities at the margins of or outside of traditional newsroom work. In the digital economy, journalists may undertake a range of journalism and non-journalism work simultaneously or sequentially.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-15DOI: 10.1177/1329878X221139567
P. English, J. Burgess, C. Jones
Sports podcasting has spread rapidly over the past decade and reflects how sports media have been quick to embrace new technologies. Despite being a relatively recent medium, podcasts have expanded the sports field with their format and content. The rise in podcast shows and episodes has been noticeable, but less is known, particularly in an academic context, about the audience's desire for sports news and information. Utilising the audience of The Final Word, a global podcast focusing on cricket, this study will examine perceptions of media engagement and news consumption through a survey of 333 listeners. The Final Word is a popular podcast that has gained critical acclaim for its content and format, and is hosted by two cricket writers, who are based in Australia and the United Kingdom. The findings provide important global insights and descriptive results of the habits and perceptions of listeners in relation to media engagement and news consumption of a journalistic podcast
体育播客在过去十年中迅速传播,反映了体育媒体如何迅速接受新技术。尽管播客是一种相对较新的媒体,但它的形式和内容已经扩展了体育领域。播客节目和剧集的增加是显而易见的,但人们对观众对体育新闻和信息的渴望却知之甚少,尤其是在学术背景下。这项研究将利用专注于板球的全球播客“the Final Word”的受众,通过对333名听众的调查,研究他们对媒体参与和新闻消费的看法。The Final Word是一个广受欢迎的播客,它的内容和形式获得了评论界的好评,由澳大利亚和英国的两位板球作家主持。这些发现提供了重要的全球见解和描述性结果,说明了听众在媒体参与和新闻播客新闻消费方面的习惯和看法
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Pub Date : 2022-11-13DOI: 10.1177/1329878x221136921
Andrew Morran
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Pub Date : 2022-11-13DOI: 10.1177/1329878x221136583
Mania Alehpour, M. Melin, E. Talaee
This study applies a participatory design approach including the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of a participative website in media literacy for Iranian teachers. In the design cycle, we utilized collaboration with Iranian teachers formulating basic inceptive design in three workshops identifying needs and requirements in media literacy. The development process was through paper-based prototyping of design components of the website by participants embodying particular design guidelines and ideated design concepts for the website. In the implementation step, the website was launched based on guidelines and prototypes taken from participants in the workshops. The website was evaluated by teachers based on four factors including being educational, facilitating networking, being engaging, and user-friendly. The result of this research informs researchers about the benefit of a participatory design approach to design a platform in media literacy for teachers. We argue that the process of applying participatory design and the design components prototyped by teachers for designing a website in media literacy can be a guide for researchers and all other agents who are active in media literacy education.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-11DOI: 10.1177/1329878X221136931
N. Lee, Jeehyun Kim, Chang-Shin Kim
The purpose of this study is to examine whether journalistic norms of objectivity and practices of gatekeeping are observed in news and current-affairs podcasts. By analyzing 101 episodes from three different types of news and political podcasts, which included 13,237 sentences related to the 2022 presidential election in South Korea, the findings showed that journalistic norms and practices were often blurred in podcasts. Specifically, this study measured objectivity norms in three ways: (1) expression of opinion and first-person narration; (2) types of evidence/grounds employed; and (3) transparency of evidence/grounds. The results showed that 15.8% of sentences included opinions and 3.1% included first-person narrations. Three out of 10 episodes (31.7%) included no evidence. Only half the evidence/grounds were transparent (56.4%). Also, the gatekeeping role was shared by inviting outsiders as interviewees (71.3%). Importantly, the findings showed that the observation of norms and practices differed depending on whether podcast hosts were affiliated with mainstream media.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-07DOI: 10.1177/1329878X221136922
I. Holcombe-James, J. Flore, N. Hendry
This article critically interrogates the promissory discourse underpinning the cultural sectors’ ‘digital pivot’ in the wake of COVID-19 restrictions in 2020 and 2021; namely, that artistic and creative work could be done lucratively online, offer equal opportunities for all, and assure ongoing audience consumption. Drawing on empirical data from two research projects with arts and culture workers in Australia during COVID-19 restrictions, we investigate the intersection of this promissory discourse with individual and institutional practices of digital disengagement. We contend that, rather than a panacea to lost work and income and the assurance of continued cultural consumption, digital disengagement meant that the pivot prohibited, multiplied, and negated artistic and cultural labour. By considering disengagement that was imposed upon, resourcing contingent, and that actively pushed back, this article complicates our understanding of digitalised arts and cultural labour.
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