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Mapping the European Public Sphere
Mapping the European Public Sphere combines theoretical and empirical perspectives to address three relevant issues that are marking the European communicative landscape: the role of media and journalism in shaping the European debate, the function of public communication in promoting institutional activities, and the implications of processes of inclusion to and exclusion from the public sphere. The volume offers a timely reflection on the communicative arenas that are structuring the discourse on Europe and its future and provides a map of existing communicative spaces to provide a better understanding of the development of a European Public Sphere and to identify critical issues. Situated in a timely debate and providing well-grounded empirical evidence, the book will be particularly valuable to social scientists researching European integration issues. At the same time, the book is relevant to those actors who are studied in the research, in particular European institutions, media groups and NGOs.
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Media in Motion
Owing to increased migration dating from the 1990s, Nordic countries have gone through substantial cultural and social changes, resulting in increased debate surrounding the politics of multiculturalism. One of the central realms of the discussion around multiculturalism in the Nordic region concerns the media, which is considered to be a vital factor in the construction of society's values, as well as an essential tool in the integration process of migrants, providing as it does a symbolic arena for learning about and becoming part of society. This collection draws together the latest research from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden to look at different aspects of the relationship between media and migration in the Nordic region. Exploring the role played by the media in nation building and the power of the media in the definition of who 'belongs' in society, Media in Motion examines the practices of inclusion and exclusion that characterise mainstream media representations. The book also examines the manner in which recent technological changes suggest the emergence of a transnational and cosmopolitan media landscape; a space which blurs the boundaries of the national and transnational, as well as between the public and the private, with significant implications for the ways migrants may take and become part of society. As such, it will be of interest to those working in the fields of media, race and ethnicity, colonialism and postcolonial studies, and migration.
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Transcultural communication
In Transcultural Communication, Andreas Hepp provides an accessible and engaging introduction to the exciting possibilities and inevitable challenges presented by the proliferation of transcultural communication in our mediatized world.
* Includes examples of mediatization and transcultural communication from a variety of cultural contexts
* Covers an array of different types of media, including mass media and digital media
* Incorporates discussion of transcultural communication in media regulation, media production, media products and platforms, and media appropriation
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Empires of Entertainment
Empires of Entertainmentintegrates legal, regulatory, industrial, and political histories to chronicle the dramatic transformation within the media between 1980 and 1996. As film, broadcast, and cable grew from fundamentally separate industries to interconnected, synergistic components of global media conglomerates, the concepts of vertical and horizontal integration were redesigned. The parameters and boundaries of market concentration, consolidation, and government scrutiny began to shift as America's politics changed under the Reagan administration. Through the use of case studies that highlight key moments in this transformation, Jennifer Holt explores the politics of deregulation, the reinterpretation of antitrust law, and lasting modifications in the media landscape.
Holt skillfully expands the conventional models and boundaries of media history. A fundamental part of her argument is that these media industries have been intertwined for decades and, as such, cannot be considered separately. Instead, film, cable and broadcast must be understood in relation to one another, as critical components of a common history.Empires of Entertainmentis a unique account of deregulation and its impact on political economy, industrial strategies, and media culture at the end of the twentieth century.
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From Isolation to Radicalization: Anti-Muslim Hostility and Support for ISIS in the West
What explains online radicalization and support for ISIS in the West?
Over the past few years, thousands of individuals have radicalized
by consuming extremist content online, many of whom eventually
traveled overseas to join the Islamic State. This study examines
whether anti-Muslim hostility might drive pro-ISIS radicalization in
Western Europe. Using new geo-referenced data on the online behavior
of thousands of Islamic State sympathizers in France, the United
Kingdom, Germany, and Belgium, I study whether the intensity of
anti-Muslim hostility at the local level is linked to pro-ISIS
radicalization on Twitter. The results show that local-level
measures of anti-Muslim animosity correlate significantly and
substantively with indicators of online radicalization, including
posting tweets sympathizing with ISIS, describing life in
ISIS-controlled territories, and discussing foreign fighters.
High-frequency data surrounding events that stir support for
ISIS—terrorist attacks, propaganda releases, and anti-Muslim
protests—show the same pattern.
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Metaverse through the prism of power and addiction: what will happen when the virtual world becomes more attractive than reality?
New technologies are emerging at a fast pace without being properly analyzed in terms of their social impact or adequately regulated by societies. One of the biggest potentially disruptive technologies for the future is the metaverse, or the new Internet, which is being developed by leading tech companies. The idea is to create a virtual reality universe that would allow people to meet, socialize, work, play, entertain, and create.Methods coming from future studies are used to analyze expectations and narrative building around the metaverse. Additionally, it is examined how metaverse could shape the future relations of power and levels of media addiction in the society.Hype and disappointment dynamics created after the video presentation of meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg have been found to affect the present, especially in terms of certainty and designability. This idea is supported by a variety of data, including search engine n-grams, trends in the diffusion of NFT technology, indications of investment interest, stock value statistics, and so on. It has been found that discourse in the mentioned presentation of the metaverse contains elements of optimism, epochalism, and inventibility, which corresponds to the concept of future essentialism.On the other hand, power relations in society, inquired through the prism of classical theorists, indicate that current trends in the concentration of power among Big Tech could expand even more if the metaverse becomes mainstream. Technology deployed by the metaverse may create an attractive environment that would mimic direct reality and further stimulate media addiction in society.It is proposed that future inquiries examine how virtual reality affects the psychology of individuals and groups, their creative capacity, and imagination. Also, virtual identity as a human right and recommender systems as a public good need to be considered in future theoretical and empirical endeavors.
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Foreigners welcome? Categorizing change in German mass media discourse with Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA)
Mass media is often investigated for its influence on public opinion. However, media analysis often relies on measuring term prevalence, elements of framing, and determining bias. New approaches to media analysis are advantageous to the social sciences. Leveraging the German General Social Survey (GGSS), we utilize Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) to categorize and compare discourse for key points of time (2006, 2010, 2012, 2016, 2021), with over 10,000 media articles from several German media outlets. We focus on the migration and integration of foreigners in Germany and the competing discourse narratives surrounding these events. We adapt the term “foreigner” (Ausländer) in media text; German compound variations such as Ausländerproblem (foreigner problem) and Ausländerintegration (foreigner integration) are central to the discourse analysis. Based on semantic meaning and co-occurrence, these compound terms are grouped into four categories: Administration and Policy, Social Integration, Xenophobia, and Limiting Migration. Results demonstrate that Social Integration discourse becomes more prevalent over time. A subsequent sentiment analysis reveals that Social Integration discourse is not positive but neutral – other categories reflect a negative bias. We therefore discuss computational applications for the enhancement of media analysis, as well as challenges to contextualizing survey data.
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Hope speech detection in YouTube comments
Recent work on language technology has tried to recognize abusive language such as those containing hate speech and cyberbullying and enhance offensive language identification to moderate social media platforms. Most of these systems depend on machine learning models using a tagged dataset. Such models have been successful in detecting and eradicating negativity. However, an additional study has lately been conducted on the enhancement of free expression through social media. Instead of eliminating ostensibly unpleasant words, we created a multilingual dataset to recognize and encourage positivity in the comments, and we propose a novel custom deep network architecture, which uses a concatenation of embedding from T5-Sentence. We have experimented with multiple machine learning models, including SVM, logistic regression, K-nearest neighbour, decision tree, logistic neighbours, and we propose new CNN based model. Our proposed model outperformed all others with a macro F1-score of 0.75 for English, 0.62 for Tamil, and 0.67 for Malayalam.
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