"Journalists have often been considered the "fourth emergency service". They are first on the scene, alongside paramedics, fi re and police, running towards danger rather than away, and providing independent, veritable and crucial information in the public interest. And yet, unlike frontline workers
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, little (if any) counselling or training is offered to journalists on how to deal with the horrors they witness, and the trauma they absorb from being at the forefront of human suffering. Further, limited to no training is given to student journalists on how to prepare themselves for trauma, be it from war scenes to the everyday "death knock". New research is demonstrating a rise in post-traumatic stress disorder amongst journalists resulting from the "everyday" trauma they encounter. There is also a noticeable increase in reluctance from new journalists to undertake emotionally distressing assignments. Editors in industry are now calling for educators to invest in curricula that centre around understanding how to cope with distress and trauma, and why work like this is vital to facilitate the work journalists do hold power to account. This book investigates the cause and effect of trauma reporting on the journalist themselves and provides a toolkit for training journalists and practitioners to build resilience and prepare themselves for trauma. It draws on national and international experiences enabling readers to gain valuable insight into a range of contemporary issues and the contexts in which they may work. This edited book offers a blend of academic research studies, evidence-based practitioner interviews, and teaching resources drawing on the experiences of journalists and academics nationally and internationally." (Abstract)
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"Social media provide unprecedented opportunities for the distribution of photographs capturing experiences of conflict. Instagram in particular renders conflict photography searchable, whilst also aggregating the memories of traumatised communities. This paper adds to the nascent literature in this
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area by exploring how the photosharing app is used to share photographs of the Northern Irish ‘Troubles’, a low-intensity conflict that resulted in 3,600 fatalities and left many more bereaved, injured and traumatised. Two decades on from the Belfast Agreement, Northern Ireland remains a deeply divided society in which competing narratives over the conflict remain deeply entrenched. This study explored photographic representation of the Troubles, with a specific focus on who was represented in these images and whether they were evoke personal memories of the conflict. A content and narrative analysis of 100 historical images tagged #thetroubles was conducted in order to explore these issues. Results indicate that images showing the ‘peculiarity’ of everyday life during the conflict, such as armed British soldiers standing in close quarters to children playing in the street, were the most prominent visual representations under this hashtag. The memories evoked by such historical photographs reinforce zero-sum narratives on conflict, rather than promote new interpretations that build support for peace in ‘post-conflict’ societies." (Abstract)
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"Western, especially British interventions in Afghanistan, parallel the long history of photography. This article examines the resulting archive and considers its ongoing influence on the traditions of conflict photography through the concept of the ‘Feedback Loop’ coined by photographer Tim Het
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herington. Hetherington’s work is used as a departure point for an examination of the archival legacy of the male-gendered western gaze in ongoing western incursions. It focusses on Hetherington and contemporary practitioners to position and understand a repetitive cycle of photographic witnessing informed by the archive. Its perspective is on western traditions in the context of picturing Afghanistan and explores what underpins such traditions and how contemporary practitioners are rethinking, rememorizing and now restaging Afghanistan as a site of post-imperial ‘conflict’. It argues that what Hetherington identified as a ‘feedback loop’ is part of a much older tradition of picturing conflict and the combatants at its heart." (Abstract)
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"The book highlights the underlying stakes that are involved in the fight against disinformation, from producing smart tools to generalizing their use beyond the journalistic profession. It considers the MIL theories and methodologies at work in the digital era, especially from the perspective of di
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gital visual literacy. Offering a comparative study of four European national experiences (France, Romania, Spain, and Sweden), the authors also make public policy recommendations to improve the fight against disinformation." (Publisher description)
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"Seit dem Terrorangriff der Hamas auf Israel am 7. Oktober 2023 spielen soziale Netzwerke eine bedeutende und vielfach unterschätzte Rolle bei der Verbreitung von Terrorpropaganda, Falschinformationen, Israelhass, Antisemitismus und Verschwörungsnarrativen. Die Bildungsstätte Anne Frank fasst in
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diesem Report, der im Februar 2024 publiziert wurde, die Beobachtungen relevanter Plattformen aus den ersten drei Monaten nach dem Terroranschlag in einer ad-hoc-Analyse zusammen. Der Report legt den Schwerpunkt auf TikTok – das unter Jugendlichen und jungen Erwachsenen beliebteste und reichweitenstärkste Netzwerk– und schildert die drastischen Auswirkungen des TikTok-Konsums auf die politische Meinungsbildung der jungen Zielgruppe." (https://www.bs-anne-frank.de)
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"Desde una aproximación ética, reconocidos profesionales con amplia experiencia en los medios y en organismos, como la Oficina Española de Cambio Climático o la Agencia Estatal de Meteorología, profesores doctores de catorce universidades, entre ellos una decena de investigadores del Observator
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io de la Comunicación del Cambio Climático y el director del Centro Knight de Periodismo Ambiental de la Michigan State University, abordan los asuntos propios de la especialidad aportando reflexión y claves para comunicar sobre medio ambiente y cambio climático de la mejor manera posible." (Tapa posterior)
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"Was ist die DMT? Eine für Deutschland repräsentative, wissenschaftlich fundierte Studie, die neun unterschiedliche Mediennutzungstypen identifiziert. Der Medienkonsum der Deutschen wird dabei als zentraler Bestandteil ihrer Lebenswelt verstanden und damit erklärt. Die DMT Digital Media Types sin
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d die weiterentwickelte Neuauflage der renommierten Mediennutzertypologie (MNT) von ARD und ZDF. Die MNT wurde von 2011 bis 2020 gemeinsam von beiden Rundfunkanstalten durchgeführt.
[...] Wie profitieren Sie von der DMT? Die DMT liefert Ihnen aktuelle und tiefe Einblicke in die Lebenswelten gegenwärtiger Mediennutzungsgruppen. Mit dem Wissen können Sie: Medienprogramme für spezifische Nutzertypen schaffen; Serien und Podcasts mit Relevanz entwickeln; User-Reichweite erhöhen; digitale Werbewirkung und Strategien optimieren; die Performance von Produktplatzierungen steigern; Zielgruppen-Targeting für Dienstleistungen und Produkte verbessern; Medienforschung vertiefen.
Welche Inhalte bietet die DMT? 1. Medienkonsum: Im Fokus der DMT steht die Mediennutzung neun verschiedener Typen mit besonderem Augenmerk auf digitalen und sozialen Medien. „Klassische“ Medien wie Radio und TV kommen aber auch nicht zu kurz. DMT covert auch die Nutzung von Streamingdiensten sowie einem breiten Spektrum an Online-Medien. 2. Freizeitaktivitäten & Themeninteressen: Neben der Mediennutzung bildet die DMT auch die präferierten Freizeitaktivitäten und Themeninteressen der neun Typen ab. Diese reichen beispielsweise von Aktivitäten in der freien Natur über kulturelle Veranstaltungen bis hin zu Gaming. Die Themen erstrecken sich von Politik & Geschichte über Familie, Partnerschaft und Kinder bis hin zu Geschlechterfragen und Gleichberechtigung. 3. Werte & Einstellungen: Die DMT zeigt zudem, wie die neun verschiedenen Typen „ticken“: Wonach richten sie ihr Leben aus, was ist ihnen wichtig, welche Haltung haben sie zu bestimmten Themen. Die DMT ist eine Typologie, die die einzelnen Medien-Zielgruppen „mittendrin“, in ihrer Lebenswelt abholt, beschreibt – und deshalb für Anwendergruppen der Typologie so greifbar und wertvoll macht!
Welche Typen verbergen sich hinter „DMT“? Die untenstehende Grafik der DMT-Typen zeigt, welchen prozentualen Anteil jeder DMT-Typ in der Gesamtbevölkerung ab 14 Jahren ausmacht. Ein Beispiel: Der Anteil der Verantwortungsvollen an der Gesamtbevölkerung liegt bei 15%. Die Position auf der horizontalen Achse beschreibt den Digitalisierungsgrad der DMT Types, auf der vertikalen die Soziale Teilhabe. Außerdem verdeutlicht die Nähe und Distanz innerhalb der Verortung, dass es Überschneidungen zu bestimmten Typen gibt. Die Sicherheitsorientierten weisen zum Beispiel in einigen Dimensionen Ähnlichkeit mit den Neokulturellen auf. Auf der anderen Seite haben die Verantwortungsvollen wenig mit den Ablenkungssuchenden gemein. Weitere Informationen zu den einzelnen Typen finden Sie unter „DMT Types“. (https://www.digital-media-types.de/de/ueber-dmt.html)
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"Este libro reúne un conjunto de investigaciones que desde diferentes perspectivas, problemáticas y objetos de estudio hacen uso de la oralidad para la escritura de la historia. Es fruto del trabajo realizado en el XV Encuentro Nacional y IX Congreso Internacional de Historia Oral. Pasado, present
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e y futuro de la historia oral en Argentina y América Latina, llevado a cabo en la ciudad de Mar del Plata en agosto de 2023. Aunados por la valoración del testimonio como una puerta de entrada privilegiada para la reconstrucción de relatos del pasado, los trabajos aquí compilados dan cuenta de la pluralidad de abordajes que la historia oral integra en la actualidad. Así, esta obra ilustra los principales aportes al desarrollo del campo a través de experiencias, proyectos e investigaciones en curso tanto en Argentina como en Latinoamérica." (Descripción de la casa editorial)
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"This book offers an in-depth view of how intricate and intractable conflicts can be and how the communicative aspects of conflict are equally challenging. The author reviews and guides readers through classic and contemporary analysis in the field, providing a truly interdisciplinary work. Handbook
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of Conflict and Peace Communication is divided into five navigable sections - Theory Development, Method Development, Traditional/Digital Media and Peace and Conflict, Case Studies, and Innovative Approaches - that help illuminate workable and innovative peace communication strategies relevant to today's conflicts. Readers will also find: informative contributions from a collection of outstanding scholars, practitioners, and activists; comprehensive explorations of past conflict communication theory in the context of contemporary theory; practical tools to navigate complex local and global conflicts; in-depth examinations of strategies of peace communication from the margins that acknowledge and elevate solutions for and from the most vulnerable." (Publisher description)
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"News consumers have come to expect and demand the unprecedented immediacy of experience and coverage of breaking news offered by photographs, video clips, audio recordings, tweets, commentary: content created by ordinary citizens. The use of user-generated content is a salient aspect of how journal
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ists and news organizations are responding to technological changes in the twenty-first century. Eyewitness Textures examines the far-reaching changes in journalism spurred by the growing importance of user-generated content. Bringing together the voices and experiences of professional journalists and academic researchers from across five continents, this collection explores news production practices, changing skills among editors and journalists, and corporate and newsroom restructuring. Chapters by practitioners collectively reflect the newsroom experiences of major global media organizations, while the academic contributions address issues of industrial transformation, political influence, truth and verification, aesthetics, and ideological implications. Both perspectives combine to deepen our understanding of what constitutes the conditions and creation of good journalism, as well as the implications of how the profession should be taught to future journalists." (Publisher description)
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"This volume addresses the concept of “(in)nocent lies” in the media – beyond the concept of misleading information online, this extends to a deliberate effort to spread misinformation, disinformation and conspiracy theories – and proposes a critical approach to tackle the issue in related i
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nterdisciplinary fields. The book takes a multidisciplinary and international approach, addressing the digital divide and global inequality, as well as algorithmic bias, how misinformation harms vulnerable groups, social lynching and the effect of misinformation on certain social, political and cultural agendas, among other topics. Arranged thematically, the chapters paint a nuanced and original picture of this issue." (Publisher description)
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"Investigative journalism is expensive. Partnerships and grants can help but can also introduce conditions or stall proceedings. Could crowdfunding, where audience members donate to support an investigation, offer an alternative? “Crowdfunding serves as a crucial revenue source in investigative jo
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urnalism, enabling funding for stories that might otherwise remain uncovered,” says Tanja Aitamurto, the author of “Crowdfunding for Journalism” and an assistant professor in communication at the University of Illinois Chicago. “These crowdfunded stories often emerge outside mainstream media and large newsrooms, contributing significantly to journalism by diversifying producers and voices.” To explore the opportunities and challenges of crowdfunding investigations, GIJN spoke with three newsrooms pioneering the model: Noteworthy in Ireland, a community-led newsroom where readers pitch and fund investigation proposals, and Portuguese investigative podcast Fumaça and Brazil’s Agência Pública, which both operate membership models and have experimented with crowdfunding campaigns." (Introduction)
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"Traces of audience responses to propaganda in the Third Reich are particularly sparse given that the public sphere was so highly regulated. By taking an interdisciplinary and innovative approach to found historical sources of audiences' responses, the contributions to Audiences of Nazism critically
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approach the effectiveness of the Nazi media. The volume presents a comprehensive array of case studies including, but not limited to, Jewish responses to anti-Semitic media, personal reports from Nazi party rallies, responses to "degenerate art" exhibitions, and the afterlife of visual documentations of Nazi crimes. It uncovers the target groups of certain Nazi media products; how effective these products were in disseminating propaganda; and their chances to win over readers, listeners, and spectators not yet convinced of Nazism." (Publisher description)
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