March 6, 2012 •
Digital News •
by Susanne Fengler
Participatory journalism: An engine for journalistic diversity or a marketing instrument for media companies? Newsrooms around the world are turning to social media in attempts to bolster user participation. Several models have been tested...
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February 28, 2012 •
Digital News •
by Philip Di Salvo
Bad news arrived recently from India, in what some see as a new threat to the world’s largest democracy. Google admitted to blocking content deemed offensive to Indian politics and religion at the behest of an Indian tribunal. Muslim...
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February 21, 2012 •
Digital News •
by Marko Nedeljkovic
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...
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February 14, 2012 •
Digital News, Media and Politics •
by Milica Jevtic
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...
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January 27, 2012 •
Digital News •
by Fabio Forin
*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...
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January 23, 2012 •
Digital News, Ethics and Quality •
by Kate Nacy
“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 rather judicious. In his latest book Slow...
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January 8, 2012 •
Digital News •
by Larisa Rankovic
*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...
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December 26, 2011 •
Digital News, Ethics and Quality •
by Liga Ozolina
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...
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December 12, 2011 •
Digital News, Ethics and Quality •
by Marlis Prinzing
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...
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