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Television Loses Ground in Serbia
Posted by Marko Nedeljkovic in New Media & Web 2.0 on February 21, 2012
Despite remaining the dominant form of media in Serbia, television’s influence on the local audience has decreased while the Internet is more widely used than ever.
A research study entitled “Young People and the New Media” („Mladi i novi mediji“), conducted last year by Ipsos Strategic Marketing, indicates that the influence of the Internet is growing stronger as the Web has become the primary source of information for 18 percent of Serbian citizens. At the same time, the significance of television is more limited, especially among young people, although it’s still watched every day by 82 percent of citizens – which is five percent less than in 2010. Results of the latest research show that 56 percent of the population aged 12 or more use the Internet (around 3.6 million citizens), while 41 percent use it every day. This percentage is twice as large within the population segment aged 12-29, of which no less than 81 percent use the Internet every day – which constitutes a 13 percent increase in comparison with 2010.
New trends are slowly breaking ground in Serbia, as evidenced by the fact that 40 percent of users read news on the Web every day. However, at the same time, two- thirds of users have never posted a comment on blogs, news sites or forums they, Read the rest of this entry »
Profession at the Crossroads
Posted by Milica Jevtic in Media Policy, New Media & Web 2.0 on February 14, 2012
A recent research initiative focuses on the journalistic profession in Serbia.
“Profession at the Crossroads – Journalism at the Doorstep of the Information Society,” conducted by the Media Center of the Faculty of Political Science in Belgrade from July 2010 through June 2011 (heads of project: Prof. Dr. Miroljub Radojkovic and Prof. Dr. Snjezana Milivojevic) explores the hypothesis that journalism in Serbia lacks the adequate resources for an appropriate response to the technological, economic and social challenges radically transforming the profession. The results paint a gloomy picture of Serbian journalism, grappling with extremely low salaries and digital advances.
A long period of transition and the primacy of existential issues in Western Balkan countries have removed the emphasis from the challenges of contemporary journalism. Unsuccessful privatization, increasing concentration of ownership, development of the media market and the economic crisis – these are the characteristics defining the Serbian media scene.
Most Serbian journalists work for electronic media outlets (60%) and the press (30%), while others work in news agencies, Read the rest of this entry »
Condition ONE
Posted by Fabio Forin in New Media & Web 2.0 on January 27, 2012
*Article courtesy of the European Journalism Centre
Is immersive storytelling the next big step in conflict reporting?
“If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough,” the influential war photographer Robert Capa once said. Now, a new tablet application allows photographers to shoot 180-degree frameless stories straight from the frontlines. “Condition ONE will let people witness a story first-hand like never before,” promises its creator, American photojournalist and filmmaker Danfung Dennis.
Dennis explains that it all started from the frustration of not being able to report the real sense of what he had experienced as a war photographer in Iraq and Afghanistan. “Even though my images and documentary film were published and distributed widely, they were still a passive window into the reality I was witnessing, constrained by the frame,” he says.
Slow News: Chew Before Swallowing
Posted by Kate Nacy in Ethics & Quality, New Media & Web 2.0 on January 23, 2012
“Shut off the TV when you know more than the anchorman.”
Such a recommendation, almost comically obvious, invites the recipient to ponder a number of scenarios in which its application could be startlingly judicious. In his latest book Slow News: A Manifesto for the Critical News Consumer (published in Italian by Sironi in Milano, with an American version to follow in 2012), Peter Laufer’s tokens of wisdom for the contemporary news consumer follow suit: they are rational, easy to abide and equally easy to overlook while managing a shrill world of tweets, feeds and perpetually breaking updates.
Laufer, an award-winning journalist toting a rich career in broadcast, documentary filmmaking, reporting and academia, offers readers a sensible set of guidelines for managing an ever-expanding info blitzkrieg. “We’re in danger of missing the story because of the noise,” he warns.
Convinced we must learn new ways to interpret a hyperactive news media, Laufer stresses his own motto: “Yesterday’s news tomorrow.” Unless you happen to be at the center of a particular news story yourself, just how imperative is it to gather straightdowntotheminute details chronicling an event occurring far Read the rest of this entry »
Minority Voices on Social Media Networks
Posted by Larisa Rankovic in New Media & Web 2.0 on January 8, 2012
*Article courtesy of the European Journalism Centre
While an increasing number of studies analyse the role of social media as platforms for contact, cooperation and socialisation, little research has been done on their implications for the specific case of minority groups.
The European Centre for Minority Issues, a research and policy institution based in the town of Flensburg on the German-Danish border, recently welcomed a group of European researchers and web analysts on minority issues from Hungary, Russia, Poland, Romania, Germany, Denmark, Belgium and Serbia to discuss the use of social media networks by ethnic, linguistic, immigrant and sexual minorities.
The workshop entitled Minorities and New Social Media showed that along with the great variety of types of minorities in Europe, there is an even greater variety in the ways these communities are present on the Internet in general and on social media platforms in particular.
Ethnic and language minorities
An ethnic minority living in a given region of Europe may use new media platforms in order to strengthen its identity awareness, language, cultural production and historic heritage. The Kashubian minority living in the area around the Polish town Read the rest of this entry »
Latvia Introduces Internet Aggression Index
Posted by Liga Ozolina in Ethics & Quality, New Media & Web 2.0 on December 26, 2011
On November 16, UNESCO’s International Day for Tolerance, communication researchers from Riga Stradins University (RSU) presented the first aggression index of Internet commentaries in Latvia.
Researchers introduced a special method designed to provide a selection of aggressive and abusive key words while measuring the intensity of their usage in commentaries.
In an analysis of more than 65,000 words used in Internet commentaries, experts selected 900 key words displaying emotional aggression and abuse. Anda Rozukalne, the chair of RSU’s Communication Studies Department explained that the words were then divided into three groups: aggressive, mid-aggressive and very aggressive. Using a specially designed IT program developed by the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science (University of Latvia), researchers then measured the intensity of the usage of these words.
The Pursuit of Change
Posted by Marlis Prinzing in Ethics & Quality, New Media & Web 2.0 on December 12, 2011
Change takes time, a fact that does not always agree with the human tendency to be impatient.
At the beginning of the year, we were enthusiastic about the progressive events taking place in Arab regions. Dictators were removed and hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets to voice their struggle for democracy and freedom. And as the season of change continues, here it’s hardly a whimper.
Karim El-Gawhary, a freelance Middle East correspondent for several German-speaking newspapers and head of the Middle East bureau for the Austrian public broadcaster ORF in Cairo, shared some interesting insights on the vicissitude, or lack thereof. In 2010 El-Gawhary saw a storm brewing due to a flurry of activity on the Internet. “This could not be conveyed to Germany, until the subject was on the international media agenda.” In his opinion, certain catchphrases are needed to draw the interest of international media outlets: anything with “Muslim,” “Islam” or “Al-Qaeda.”
Or, perhaps, “bikinis.” Throughout German media outlets, conjectures were made that in the case of a Muslim Brotherhood victory in the general election on November 28, bikinis would be banned from the shores of the Red Sea. The Egyptian Minister of Tourism claimed that the media was blowing the issue out of proportion and that travelers could confidently pack their bikinis and book their vacations. Read the rest of this entry »
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