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Who does (not) read newspapers today and why? Is the Bulgarian press doomed or its Renaissance is achievable – albeit online? The present study tries to answer these questions analyzing the attitude, habits and expectations of the audience. The results demonstrate the dimensions of the newspaper crisis – loss of readers, “dawn” of the reading ritual, young public alienation and problematic mediamorphosis. At the same time, data outlines possible positive scenario for the Bulgarian newspapers – which requires emphasis on quality media content and user experience in the digital environment.
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The purpose of the article. To open and to analyze the place of digital and internet technologies in the frames of informative support of political parties activity. The methodology of the research is based on using the general scientific methods (analysis, synthesis, generalizing, and a logical method), systemic, structural-functional, social-communicative, social-informative approaches. Applying these methods and approaches gives the possibility to define the place of digital and internet technologies in the informative support of political parties’ activity. The scientific novelty of the research work is in the statement according to which the nearest perspective of accumulation and development of communicative and network potential of the internet technologies, allow to consider them as the factors of increasing the effectiveness of political parties’ activity as the institute of the representation interests of social groups, as the powerful informative resource which is actively working on the party brand consolidation and is the real means of party informative policy realization. Conclusions. Analysis of the world tendencies gives the reason to confirm and predict that the next decade will be under the sign of the further change of Ukrainian political parties activity into the Internet in the period of electoral activity (during the election campaign) and also in the inter-election period. In the conditions of the Internet politicization and the politics internetization and mediatization the party ideologists and technologists are increasingly turning to tools in the course of providing their own information work, which includes modern digit and internet technologies: official websites, projects-satellites, special electoral internet projects, Internet – television, webinars, video hosting, electoral funding, technologies Big Data, volunteers recruiting tools, monitoring and projecting the electoral dynamics, viruses and incorrect (black) political internet technologies, etc.
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In this essay, the author greets Zsolt Szabó, associate professor at the Faculty of Political, Administrative and CommunicationSciences, on the occasion of his 75th birthday, evoking several meetings and conversations with him. Events from the studentcamp in Rimetea/Torockó, trips to Stana/Sztána are mentioned.
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The purpose of the article is to analyze the main problems of functioning the information-analytical centers (IAC) of Ukraine on the modern stage. The methodology of the research is based, firstly, on multifactorial analysis which is directed on the complex studying of internal and external factors of IAC work with the purpose of revealing its key problems, and, secondly, on methods of generalization and typology, thanks to which is possible to form and separate closely connected blocks of problems. The scientific novelty of the work is in separation the key blocks of problems of IAC functioning in Ukraine nowadays: 1) financial (absence of stable financing from the state, lack of institutional grants, problems of legislative regulation of diversification of sources of income, etc.); 2) communicative (absence of the proper level of communication between IAC, power institutions, and business, between different subjects of analytical activity); 3) institutional-regulatory (“hybrid” and situational type of activity of major agents of the information-analytical market, absence of Ukrainian IAC association, etc.); 4) educational-scientific (“staff shortage” which is closely connected with the absence of educational centers of analysts’ advanced training); 5) reputational (low level of Ukrainian IAC integration into the global analytical community, non-system work in raising the level of Ukrainian society trust to IAC, weak presence on the regional level, non-effective media activity, etc.). Conclusions. It is affirmed that the IAC NET of Ukraine as the basis for the effective intelligent platform for the management decisionmaking process which, is still on the stage of evolution and formation, nonetheless, its activity is not only possible but also is effective, even note the closed nature of the political system and the risk of increasing social tensions, given the unresolved nature of many socio-economic problems in Ukraine nowadays.
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The purpose of the article. The study examines the transformational processes of the genre of television interview in the modern media space, in particular, the "migration" of television interviews on Youtube. The methodology consists of the application of such general scientific methods as: synthesis, analysis, generalization, comparison, which allowed to explore the features of the genre of television interview in the context of social communications, as well as the transformation processes of the genre. The scientific novelty of the work is that the article clarifies the place and role of television interviews in the mass media, outlines the transformational processes of the studied genre, substantiates the "migration" of the TV interview genre to the online platform YouTube, also comprehends the new principle of using the TV genre. interviews - as part of author's programs using infotainment techniques. Conclusions. Recently, due to the rapid growth of the Internet, YouTube has become the largest user-friendly online video hosting service that allows users to share video content. You can also create your own video content with YouTube. YouTube allows you to interact with other users through the exchange of textual information through comments, to be in contact with a large number of people who are interested in similar issues. YouTube easily syncs with popular social networks, further disseminating information. Modern television is deprived of all this. Therefore, social networks such as YouTube, create new social dynamics and play a special role in disseminating information, as well as cause the transformation processes of certain genres.
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Using examples from comment sections in the Swiss online news site watson.ch, we investigate the question whether such online reader communities show traces of communal relationships (in the sense of Max Weber) and if such an understanding is compatible with the concept of discourse communities. To this end, we first outline the conflicting theoretical assumptions that linguistic and sociological understandings of communities imply for the concept of discourse communities. Afterwards, we use selected online reader comments to show how traditional features of community formation can be detected empirically in the comment section. To conclude, we argue that Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory can serve as a framework to integrate different types of community formation processes on an empirical and a theoretical level.
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The article addresses a narrative of communanlity stemming primarily from feelings of responsibility. Referencing selected media reports on Carola Rackete’s sea rescue operation in 2019, the article discusses the circumstances under which a society calls on its individual members to act in a spirit of responsibility for their community - and at which point this common hope actually results in common action. The paper focuses on what constitutes responsible communities real and imagined, i.e. the discursive processes by which a community is invoked through the attribution of feelings of responsibility. The article employs methodological elements from linguistic and social science discourse research.
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The aim of the article is to determine parameters for the analyzing the roles of internet users in online discourse. The interactions in new media are shaped by roles and the intentional multimodal actions of the online discourse participants, which create interaction profiles (Pędzisz, 2017, pp. 216–232). Based on the theoretical approach, the multidimensionality of the role-based profile of the blog interaction can be reconstructed. The focus is one type of action BLOGKOMMENTIEREN (p. 73), which becomes the type of action ONLINE-KOMMENTIEREN on the macro level of the online discourse. The model that describes roles of internet users in blog interactions includes research questions aimed at determining blog interaction participants, as function holders, individuals, and members of the languages, communication and discourse community (Adamzik, 2002).
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The Internet has become an increasingly used tool in research, and the COVID-19 pandemic has increased its applicability. Researchers rely in their studies on the many benefits of the Internet- saving resources (e.g. time, money, energy), rapid dissemination to a large number of people, indefinite storage of data collected in the virtual environment. However, the use of this tool in research brings with it new challenges. The authors conducted an analysis of data published in the literature to identify the ethical challenges associated with the use of the Internet in different fields of research and the ways in which they could be overcome. The Internet can be used in any of the stages of a research: from the dissemination of the announcement, to the recruitment of participants and to the collection of data, including the dissemination of the results in specialized publications available in electronic format. The Internet generates ethical challenges in all areas of research in which it is used and which have increasingly broad boundaries: social sciences and humanities, arts, medicine, engineering. The main ethical challenges mentioned in the literature refer to respecting the autonomy of research participants (privacy, confidentiality, informed consent), risk-benefit balance (maximizing benefits and minimizing social, physical or psychological risks for participants) and justice (transparency, honesty towards participants). Online research brings both advantages and challenges; the acknowledgment and the prevention of the latter create the premises for conducting research in the appropriate ethical framework, in safe conditions for all participants.
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The infectious disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 virus has spread rapidly worldwide, just 48 days after the first case appeared in China (January 30, 2020), becoming a major public health problem. 1/3 of the world’s population has been forced into quarantine, the pandemic causing massive restrictions and consecutively substantial social, psychological and economic harms.Researchers and experts have highlighted the benefits of various digital resources use, with the aim of collection, analysis and correlation of individual data as strategy in the management of the COVID-19 pandemic.Digital surveillance is accompanied by legal and ethical risks and concerns, thus civil rights organizations and data protection authorities are highlighting the risk of intensified digital surveillance even after the pandemic situation. They emphasize the need to meet basic conditions (legality, proportionality of data processing) but also the need for social justice and equity that must not be overlooked in the urgency of this crisis.The digital sources used in response to this pandemic include data from telephone towers, various mobile phone applications, Bluetooth connections, video surveillance, and more. We identified four main categories of digital technologies used to manage the pandemic: proximity and contact tracking, symptom monitoring, quarantine control, and individuals flow monitoring.Although digital technology seems to demonstrate its importance in flattening the incidence curve of SARS-CoV-2 virus infection, notable technical limitations have also been emphasized, such as accuracy, data quality and last but not least the existence of risks related to cybersecurity.
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The press’s language is based on different pragmatic procedures to manipulate and misinform the readers; and, as a consequence, achieve the objectives set by the media and its government. A good example of its effectiveness was its use in the “Operation Iraqi Freedom”, considered the first preventive war in history. In this article, we will address the issue of how the United States and its allies, by using: metaphor, numbers game, euphemism, dysphemism, dichotomy and personification, justified the attack to overthrow the Iraqi regime.
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The article analyses the representation of the newspaper medium in The Unfortunates – the fourth novel by the post-war British avant-garde author, B. S. Johnson. The narrator’s job as a football reporter is discussed with reference to other themes and the unconventional form of the novel. Special attention is paid to the section called “The pitch worn”, which presents the process of writing the report. The aim is to see how the chapter resonates within the whole work and what it reveals as regards Johnson’s views on precision, honesty, liveliness and the author-reader relationship. Literary analysis is accompanied by references to journalism and media studies.
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Nicola Barker’s H(A)PPY (2017) depicts a dystopian future in which all speech is monitored and regulated. Politically dubious topics are flagged, metanarratives like religion and history are censored, and even words expressing heightened emotional states are marked as dangerous. Barker uses innovative techniques to visualise the warping of language under conditions of totalitarian surveillance. In analysing Barker’s novel, this paper applies the findings of digital discourse studies to the novel’s content while arguing that its experimental techniques reflect a distinct break from the digital information stream. Barker’s innovations are a formal route to escape the deadlock of our current politics
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This article presents an attempt to adapt new research techniques in the field of small & big data to the analysis of social phenomena. This task was carried out on the example of media communication conducted by the Polish Teachers' Union (ZNP) on Twitter during the preparation and realisation of the teachers' strike in 2019. The strike was widely commented in traditional media and on internet social networks, and the spontaneity of the discussion and the involvement of the general public blurred the information message of each party, making it difficult to objectively assess this social phenomenon. The main research problem has been reduced to the question about the elementary contents that make up the ZNP’s media message addressed to the public. The detailed questions concerned: the most frequently discussed topics in the discourse, slogans proclaimed by members of the union and the position that students and state exams have in the messages. The analytical part was based on text mining – a method analogous to the classic content analysis, but using the small & big data possibilities. The database consisted of 488 unique tweets gathered from three official ZNP’s Twitter accounts for the period 2019-01-01–2019-04-23. The study assumed that the frequency of keywords or particular topics in posts should correlate positively with the importance attached by the sender to the given issues. The actual survey was carried out in almost real time, i.e. over a period of several days during the strike.
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