"El artículo plantea un estudio longitudinal de la convergencia periodística en el marco de la radio especializada deportiva española y presenta las sinergias periodísticas establecidas entre Radio Marca, el diario Marca y la web marca.com. Se trata de un análisis del único caso existente en E
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spaña en el que una radio, un periódico impreso y un medio digital se aglutinan bajo la misma marca comercial. Para el estudio se propone una combinación de técnicas cualitativas y cuantitativas que permiten obtener datos objetivos de los procesos de producción del contenido y explicaciones desarrolladas. Para ello, se recurre al análisis de contenido y a un trabajo etnográfico de observación del trabajo periodístico en la redacción de los medios, completado con una serie de entrevistas en profundidad y encuestas realizadas en dos períodos que han conformado dos muestras. Los resultados muestran que las redacciones de los tres medios establecen sinergias periodísticas facilitadas por su ubicación en un mismo espacio físico de trabajo, pero no son resultado de una estrategia empresarial." (Resumo)
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"Risk and crisis communication (RCC) is a complex constellation of multiple actors, platforms, and voices. It involves institutional actors but also laypeople. Participation by social media users can both facilitate and obstruct effective RCC. The present study draws on in-depth interviews with Swed
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ish Facebook users, and explores motivational factors for lay participation in RCC in the context of vaccination utilizing Peter Dahlgren’s (2011) model. The contributions of this study are threefold. First, it identifies three dominant clusters of participation motivations: personal interest, information brokerage, and persuasion. Second, the results show that Facebook sociality is characterized by asynchronous communication, loops, and widespread hostility. Third, degrees of content visibility set up “zones of peace” (backstage, safe communication spaces) and “zones of fight” (frontstage, open sub-arenas where various views on vaccination are debated). Moreover, the study finds that these forms of sociality and levels of visibility can both strengthen and undermine user motivations." (Abstract)
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"This anthology contributes to creating awareness on how digital ageism operates in relation to the widely spread symbolic representations of old and young age around digital technologies, the (lack of) representation of diverse older individuals in the design, development, and marketing of digital
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technologies and in the actual algorithms and datasets that constitute them. It also shows how individuals and institutions deal with digital ageism in everyday life. In the past decades, digital technologies permeated most aspects of everyday life. With a focus on how age is represented and experienced in relation to digital technologies leading to digital ageism, digitalisation's reinforcement of spirals of exclusion and loss of autonomy of some collectives is explored, when it could be natural for a great part of society and represent a sort of improvement." (Publisher description)
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"The purpose of the study was to examine the social-media-related rulings of seven European media councils over the past 10 years. In total, 250 resolutions were analysed. The report highlights the spectrum of ethical issues related to the use of social media as both a source and publishing platform
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of journalism. Unarguably one of the most difficult issues for the media councils has been where to draw the boundaries of their own authority in relation to social media. Thus far, European media councils have taken somewhat different approaches to what type of social media content they consider within their remit. While some councils only accept complaints about content posted on the media outlets’ official accounts, other councils also assess posts by individual journalists on their own social media accounts. Furthermore, of the councils that address content published by individual journalists, some would handle the complaint if the account was used for professional purposes, while others would process the complaint if the post was written in the capacity of a journalist. [...] (Conclusions)
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"In Deutschland existieren seit der Reformation zwei große christliche Kirchen – die evangelische und die katholische. Im öffentlichen Leben sind sie einflussreiche gesellschaftliche Akteurinnen, sei es in den Bereichen Wohlfahrt, Bildung, Medien oder Kultur. Gleichzeitig schwinden ihre Mitglied
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erzahlen rapide und Skandale überschatten Versuche, Reformprozesse umzusetzen und Vertrauen zurückzugewinnen. Die Problemlagen, mit denen die Kirchen in Deutschland konfrontiert sind, erstrecken sich auf verschiedene Themen. So etwa die Aufarbeitung von sexuellem Missbrauch an Kindern und Jugendlichen, wo sich die Frage nach institutioneller Verantwortung stellt. Zudem erschwert der Rückgang von Kirchensteuereinnahmen die Finanzierung kirchlicher Aufgaben. Schließlich birgt die Umnutzung von Kirchengebäuden neue Konflikte und Potenziale." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"This article examines the multilingual audiences of Russian outlet RT on Facebook. RT is a state media outlet known for spreading strategic Kremlin narratives and disinformation in support of Russia’s domestic and foreign policy objectives to large and multilingual global audiences. RT serves as
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a central pillar of the Russian information influence apparatus, and an instrument of both ‘soft’ and ‘sharp power’, the latter describing the use of information manipulation to interfere with foreign public spheres. While many studies have concentrated on the English-language content of RT to understand its impact on Western democracies, in this article, we examine the sharing of RT content across all six RT languages, and we investigate what audiences from the six language communities share RT content on Facebook. We find ideologically diverging patterns across these communities, with particular resonance for RT content targeting the political faultlines in different regions and countries and conclude that RT’s role as a tool for sharp power is now dominant." (Abstract)
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"Der Beitrag präsentiert und diskutiert die Ergebnisse einer umfassenden Befragung und mehrerer Dokumentenanalysen zu Personal-und Forschungsstrukturen sowie Lehrprogrammen in der deutschen Kommunikationswissenschaft im Hinblick auf deren „tiefe Internationalisierung“ bzw. kosmopolitische Ausri
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chtung. Darunter verstehen wir eine umfassende Anerkennung und Einbindung globaler Vielfalt in die Wissensproduktion und messen dies entlang der Inhalts- und Raumdimension des Forschungs-und Lehroutputs der Professuren und der mit ihnen verbundenen Stellenstrukturen. Die Befunde zeigen, dass die deutsche Kommunikationswissenschaft einen großen Nachholbedarf hat, was eine kosmopolitische Wissensproduktion angeht. Vor dem Hintergrund der Relevanz globaler Werte, globalen Wissens und Global Governance werden aber auch Potentiale aufgezeigt sowie hochschulpolitische Maßnahmen diskutiert, die eine inhaltliche Internationalisierung der deutschen Kommunikationswissenschaft vorantreiben können." (Zusammenfassung)
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"The amount of Electrical and Electronic Equipment (EEE) Placed on Market (POM) in the Western Balkans region increased from 0.16 Mt (9 kg/inhabitant) in 2010 to 0.21 Mt (13 kg/inhabitant) in 2021. Likewise, the regional e-waste generated nearly doubled from 0.09 Mt (5.3 kg/inhabitant) in 2010 to 0.
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15 Mt (9.0 kg/inhabitant) in 2021. Large Equipment (Category IVa(1)) and Small Equipment (Category V) are the largest categories of both EEE POM and e-waste generated, at 65% (Category IVa 40%, Category V 25%) and 59% (Category IVa 29%, Category V 30%), respectively. The e-waste generation growth rates in all countries of the region are generally positive, with the exception of Lamps, Small IT, and Screens and Monitors. The Western Balkan countries collected and managed 38.4 kt (2.4 kg/inhabitant) of e-waste in an environmentally sound manner in 2021, which yields a total collection rate of 27%. Environmentally sound e-waste management may be defined as taking all possible steps to ensure that end-of-life products and waste are managed in a manner that will protect human health and the environment, and it involves the separate collection, dismantling, and pollution of hazardous substances and recycling of valuable materials, while other waste-related activities include waste dumping, waste-picking, disposal, etc. and may include the informal sector(2,3). All Western Balkan countries have specific legislation on this currently in force, supporting the environmentally sound management of e-waste. In practice, the environmental sound management of e-waste in the Western Balkans occurs mainly in Serbia, North Macedonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina." (Executive summary, pages 14-15)
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"Spiele sind durch Produktion, Distribution und Konsumption in politische Strukturen eingebunden. Sie spiegeln nicht nur ihre Umwelt wider, sondern werden auch maßgeblich durch diese geformt. Die Beiträger*innen fragen transdisziplinär nach der Analyse solcher "Politiken des Spiels": Innerhalb we
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lcher rechtlichen, gesellschaftlichen und politischen Regeln findet das Spiel statt? In welchen Machtverhältnissen stehen die am Spiel beteiligten Akteur*innen? Und wie geht die Branche mit aktuellen politischen Diskursen um? Dabei betrachten sie zahlreiche Formen des Spiel(en)s in diachroner sowie synchroner Perspektive und machen deutlich: Spielen ist ein hochpolitischer Akt." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"Sesame Street tells the history of how the American show became a global brand. The book argues that because domestic production was not financially viable from the beginning, Sesame Street became a commodity forcefully marketed all over the world. It is based on archival research in seven countrie
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s and contains detailed analyses of how local receptions and rejections related to the global sales strategies and the American ideals it built on. Contrary to the producers' often publicized claims of Sesame Street's universality the book demonstrates how the show was heavily shaped by a fixed set of assumptions about childhood, education, and commercial entertainment. This made sales hard as Sesame Street met both skepticism and direct hostility from foreign television producers who did not share these ideals. Drawing on insides from childhood studies and media history, the book lays bare a cultural clash of international proportions rooted in divergent approaches to children's television. In doing so, the book provides a reflective backdrop to the many debates about children's media still happening today. By contrasting the positive receptions and the rejections of Sesame Street the book shows that it was only after substantial rethinking of Sesame Street's aims and business model that the program ended up on many broadcasting schedules by the mid-1970s. Along the way, this rethinking and the constant negotiations with potential international buyers created and shaped the business and corporate brand that paved the way for the Sesame Street we know today." (Publisher description)
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"Das gezielte Aufdecken geheimer Informationen durch Insider („Whistleblowing“) wird innerhalb von Unternehmen, Organisationen und Behörden oft kritisch gesehen, die Enthüllung von Staatsgeheimnissen häufig sogar strafrechtlich verfolgt. Auch demokratische Rechtsstaaten tun sich schwer mit Wh
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istleblowern und ihrem Tun. In fast allen Mitgliedsstaaten der Europäischen Union gibt es mittlerweile sogenannte Hinweisgeberschutzgesetze, mit denen eine entsprechende EU-Richtlinie zum Schutz von Whistleblowern in nationales Recht umgesetzt wird. Nicht nur das deutsche Umsetzungsgesetz nimmt dabei die Weitergabe von Geheiminformationen, die wesentliche Sicherheitsinteressen des Staates berühren, von diesem Schutz aus." (https://www.bpb.de)
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"Unruly Speech explores how Uyghurs in China and in the diaspora transgress sociopolitical limits with "unruly" communication practices in a quest for change. Drawing on research in China, the United States, and Germany, Saskia Witteborn situates her study against the backdrop of displacement and sh
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ows how naming practices and witness accounts become potent ways of resistance in everyday interactions and in global activism. Featuring the voices of Uyghurs from three continents, Unruly Speech analyzes the discursive and material force of place names, social media, surveillance, and the link between witnessing and the discourse on human rights. The book provides a granular view of disruptive communication: its global political moorings and socio-technical control. The rich ethnographic study will appeal to audiences interested in migration and displacement, language and social interaction, advocacy, digital surveillance, and a transnational China." (Publisher description)
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"Chayka.lv is an independent media outlet established in 2019 that provides free, high-quality, politically neutral information to the Russian-speaking community of the Latvian city of Daugavpils, including news, entertainment, human-interest and other factual content. It started as pages on the Fac
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ebook and OK.ru social media platforms, then an online news portal, before expanding to other platforms including Instagram, VK, Telegram, and YouTube. It has been supported to develop its journalistic capacity, expand its audience and progress towards financial sustainability by Internews’ project Supporting Independent Media in the Baltics Action (SIMBA), which was funded by the US Department of Human Rights and Labor between 2019 and 2022. In August 2021, Internews commissioned the Market Research Center to conduct a detailed research study into Chayka.lv’s impact on the media landscape of Daugavpils. This report is the product of that study, and highlights how Chayka.lv was the city’s third most popular Russian-language media outlet at the time of writing, that survey respondent’s viewed Chayka.lv as the only politically neutral source of information in Daugavpils, that it has a significant female following and that Internews’ support correlates with growth and expansion." (Publisher description)
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"Der öffentlich-rechtliche Rundfunk steht fast überall in Europa unter Druck, auch in Deutschland steht er in der Kritik. Diese reicht vom Vorwurf, verschwenderisch mit Beitragsgeldern umzugehen, bis hin zur Unterstellung, parteipolitisch dominierte Rundfunkräte beeinflussten unzulässig Personal
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- und Programmentscheidungen. Auch wenn viele dieser Vorwürfe unbegründet erscheinen, zeigen die Reformdiskussionen, dass Veränderungsbedarf besteht. Dabei zeigt der vergleichende Blick ins europäische Ausland, wie vorbildlich der öffentlich-rechtliche Rundfunk in Deutschland grundsätzlich funktioniert. Seine institutionell gesicherte Staatsferne, die weitgehend entpolitisierte Festsetzung des Rundfunkbeitrags und sein nach wie vor gehaltvolles Informationsangebot haben ihn, mit maßgeblicher Unterstützung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts, zu einer wichtigen Stütze der Demokratie werden lassen." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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