scholarly journals Mediatization and journalistic agency: Russian television coverage of the Skripal poisonings

Journalism ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 146488492094196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vera Tolz ◽  
Stephen Hutchings ◽  
Precious N Chatterje-Doody ◽  
Rhys Crilley
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Real Time ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Russian Government ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Professional Credibility ◽  
Narrative Control ◽  
Television Coverage ◽  
Global Communications

The 2018 Skripal poisonings prompted the heavy securitisation of UK-Russian relations. Despite the ensuing tight coordination between the Russian government and state-aligned television, this article argues that in today’s mediatised environment – in which social and political activities fuse inextricably with their own mediation – even non-democracies must cope with the shaping of global communications by media logics and related market imperatives. With a range of media actors responding to events, and to each other, on multiple digital platforms, no state could assert full narrative control over the Skripal incident. Counterintuitively, Russian journalists’ journalistic agency was enhanced by mediatisation processes: their state sponsors, seeking to instrumentalise reporting, delegated agency to journalists more attuned to such processes; yet commercial imperatives obliged them to perform independence and professional credibility. These competing forms of agency clashed with one another, and with that of the audiences engaging in real time with the journalists’ outputs, ultimately undermining the Russian state’s efforts to harness news coverage to its political and security goals. The article concludes that in today’s global communications environment, mediatisation substantially constrains the ability of non-democracies to micro-manage journalists’ treatment of major events relating to national security.

scholarly journals State regulation and development of digital educational platforms

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 956-965
Author(s):  
Valentina B. Salakhova ◽  
Maria A. Erofeeva ◽  
Elena V. Pronina ◽  
Natalia V. Belyakova ◽  
Natalia Zaitseva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
World Market ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Educational Organizations ◽  
Russian Government ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Digital Ecosystem

The introduction of digital platforms influences all areas of social development, including the education sector. The Russian government, in a bid to take advantage of this, has encouraged the development of a solid educational system that can support digitalization’s effect on the economy. The paper aims to analyze the development of Russian digital platforms in general and educational platforms, as a decisive factor in economic competitiveness on the world market. The study was a descriptive research and Russia was the main population for the study. The research made use of secondary data from national and international sources. An analysis of modern practices in the field of digital educational platforms shows that educational organizations cannot independently use digital technologies at the new level of requirements. For this purpose, a functioning digital ecosystem is needed that would be able to provide a variety of new technologies in education.   Keywords: state development, digital educational platforms, digital learning, digital educational environment.

The Collective Organization of Delivery Workers in Brazil during the covid-19 Pandemic: A View Based on Social Media

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Helena Strecker ◽  
Ana Luiza Sampaio ◽  
Juan Buriticá ◽  
Laura Aroso ◽  
Karina Rubin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Work Organization ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Work Conditions ◽  
Food Delivery ◽  
Intervention Strategies ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Professional Category ◽  
Data Survey

Abstract This essay presents the results of a study on the work organization of food-delivery workers that use digital platforms in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The covid-19 pandemic exacerbated and increased the visibility of the precarious work conditions experienced by these workers, who have organized collectively throughout Brazil to demand better conditions. Based on the field of workers’ health and sociological analyses of work’s uberization, the study used a qualitative methodology with a data survey in online social networks and news coverage during the pandemic, complementing research-intervention strategies involving dialogues with delivery workers before the pandemic. The results feature the delivery app workers’ collective mobilization and the trend in their identification as a professional category in the midst of contradictions and complexities of this process, which became emblematic with the two national strikes held in July 2020.

Television News and the Making of the Boston Busing Crisis

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 218-234
Author(s):  
Matthew Delmont
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Television News ◽  
School Desegregation ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Local Television News ◽  
Production Techniques ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Television Coverage

People outside of Boston came to know and care about the city’s “busing crisis” because television news featured the story regularly and this essay examines how television news framed this story for national audiences. This essay illuminates the production techniques of a medium that framed the “busing crisis” in Boston for millions of national viewers. First, I examine how the television coverage of Boston busing in the mid-1970s focused on reports, analysis, and predictions regarding antibusing protests and violence. This day-to-day focus on current and emergent scenes of crisis ignored the history of desegregation efforts since the 1960s, including those that received television coverage in earlier years, like the community-funded Operation Exodus program to bus black children to schools in other neighborhoods and the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare’s suspension of federal school aid to Boston for violating the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Second, I consider how television news framed the use of force in the Boston busing story. Much of the footage from Boston focused on confrontations between antibusing protestors and authorities from the Boston Police and other law enforcement. Third, I look at how television news offered viewers background reports on two of the places at the center of the busing story, South Boston and Charlestown. Finally, I analyze how local television news programs in other cities presented busing in Boston as a failed policy and regularly replayed the archived footage from Boston to underscore efforts to educate viewers on the importance of upholding the law and avoiding violence. Boston was neither the first nor the last city to witness violent resistance to school desegregation, but extensive television news coverage fixed Boston as the emblematic busing crisis and shaped popular conceptions of the history of busing for school desegregation.

scholarly journals Criticism of the Police in the News

2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ester Pollack ◽  
Sigurd Allern
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Policy Decisions ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
The Public ◽  
Content Analyses ◽  
Police Action ◽  
Television Coverage ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
The Way

Abstract Mediated descriptions of reality are tremendously important to the way the public - and policymakers - perceive the police. The present article analyses how leading news outlets reported and commented on complaints against the Norwegian police during the period 2005-2008. The study is based on content analyses of press and television coverage, with special emphasis on a publicly debated police action in which a student of African origins lost his life. In most cases, news coverage of the police and the investigators of the police is event-driven, and the picture of the police seldom points to institutional or organizational problems. The story is too often one about individual wrongdoings alone. Unfortunately, such media pictures matter and influence policy decisions, especially when they become the point of departure for political debate

RUSSIAN PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS ACTIVITIES IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 1990S AND THE ISSUE OF THE COUNTRY’S NATIONAL SECURITY PROTECTION

2014 ◽  
pp. 52-58
Author(s):  
E. V. Shturba
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
National Security ◽  
International Cooperation ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Russian Government ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Vector Direction

The article considers the new approach of the Russian government in the sphere of foreign integration and cooperation with international organizations in the second half of the 1990s. Based on the analysis of factual and documentary proved data the reasons for the transfer of the country’s foreign policy into multi-vector direction and its diversification have been explained. The author’s evaluation of the attempts of Russia to integrate into multipolar world and the role of international cooperation in this process has been given.

"BRINGING YOUR VISION TO LIFE": PRODUCTION PLATFORMS AND INDUSTRY UNITY

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris J. Young ◽  
David B. Nieborg ◽  
Daniel J. Joseph
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Regulatory Control ◽  
Business Strategies ◽  
Business Partnerships ◽  
Promotional Material ◽  
Industry Data ◽  
Production Distribution ◽  
The Impact

In this paper, we introduce the notion of production platforms by exploring the political economy of the real-time animation platform Unity by Unity Technologies. Contributing to the debate on the ‘platformization of cultural production’ by examining the penetration of Unity’s economic, infrastructural, and governance extensions beyond its platform boundaries, we argue Unity has become the de facto default for the development of apps thereby impacting the production and circulation of immersive content. To explore the impact of Unity’s role in the wider process of platformization we draw on an archive of corporate documentation and promotional material, news coverage, and industry data. We situate the platform within Unity Technologies’ culture and business strategies, which enrolls and keeps developers ‘tethered’ to its proprietary platform. We found Unity’s diffusion and growth has evolved along three lines, economic expansion, infrastructural integration, and regulatory control through a series of acquisitions and business partnerships with industry-specific technologies. While there are competing real-time animation platforms, Unity Technologies’ focus on economic and infrastructural integration with industry-specific technologies and companies has made it indispensable for real-time animation workflows. As a result, global businesses such as Disney, Toyota, and Nintendo use Unity in their design process. Our analysis signals a broader shift in the cultural production of apps where a small group of production platforms shape the production, distribution, and circulation of real-time animation products. In many ways, Unity not only animates the life of the internet, but it also brings to life visions of the material world around us.

Toward the Design of a Robust Bioterrorism Information System to Enhance National Security

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leila Shokrizadeh Arani
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
National Security ◽  
Real Time ◽  
National Level ◽  
Security Measures ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
Security Threat ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
Objective Sense ◽  
Security Components

In an objective sense, security measures the absence of threats to acquired values, whereas, in a subjective sense, it refers to the absence of fear that such values will be attacked. Bioterrorism is a threat. Therefore, any threat to the country's vital goals and security components, such as population, land, and property, is a national security threat. Establishing a robust information system is critical for detecting Bioterrorism outbreak, which is considered a threat to national security. Real-time surveillance and monitoring, fast communication, data collection, and analysis at the regional and national level are the main functions of this information system. Early detection of bioterrorism is an important step in national security promotion. If the BIS is appropriately designed based on critical factors such as multidimensional, real-time, manage by the security agency, and have the capability for pattern recognition and detection, it will more effectively manage bioterrorism attacks by relying on its capabilities, features, and technologies. Therefore, this study investigates the features and capabilities of the Bioterrorism Information System (BIS) in national security improvement and promotion.

Toward the Design of a Robust Bioterrorism Information System to Enhance National Security

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leila Shokrizadeh Arani
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
National Security ◽  
Real Time ◽  
National Level ◽  
Security Measures ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
Security Threat ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
Objective Sense ◽  
Security Components

In an objective sense, security measures the absence of threats to acquired values, whereas, in a subjective sense, it refers to the absence of fear that such values will be attacked. Bioterrorism is a threat. Therefore, any threat to the country's vital goals and security components, such as population, land, and property, is a national security threat. Establishing a robust information system is critical for detecting Bioterrorism outbreak, which is considered a threat to national security. Real-time surveillance and monitoring, fast communication, data collection, and analysis at the regional and national level are the main functions of this information system. Early detection of bioterrorism is an important step in national security promotion. If the BIS is appropriately designed based on critical factors such as multidimensional, real-time, manage by the security agency, and have the capability for pattern recognition and detection, it will more effectively manage bioterrorism attacks by relying on its capabilities, features, and technologies. Therefore, this study investigates the features and capabilities of the Bioterrorism Information System (BIS) in national security improvement and promotion.

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