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Reframing Central American Migration From Narrative Journalism
2018
Over the past decade, some journalists and media have addressed Central American migration to the United States from an investigative and narrative reporting perspective, providing a more reliable and accurate portrait of the main characters and their underlying reasons for making the move. This article examines how an ethnographic and analytical approach in combination with narrative techniques can improve the coverage of complex issues such as migration, providing more detailed and complete information than conventional media presents. The qualitative analysis focuses on five projects, including the crossmedia On the Road—with a long-form reportage, a book of photographs, and a documentar…
Flexi(nse)curity in adult webcamming: Romanian women’s experiences selling digital sex services under platform capitalism
2021
The global sex industry has undergone a tremendous transformation, and many different forms of commercial sex have emerged with the growth of digital media. The advent of ‘platform work’ in diverse...
‘Our words are stronger’ : re-enforcing boundaries through ritual work in a terrorist news event
2020
This article investigates the ritual work in terrorist news events, using the Berlin truck attack as a case in point. The article connects with the larger cluster of anthropologically inspired communication research on media events as public rituals in news media and applies digital media ethnography as its method. Fieldwork is conducted in 15 online news sites. The article identifies three key phases through which the ritual work was carried out: the rupture in the news event (ritualised as the strike), the liminal phase (ritualised as the manhunt) and the reconstitution of order following the attack (ritualised as the mourning). The article concludes with an interpretation of the broader …
The ethics of hospitality in changing journalism: The response to the rise of the anti-immigrant movement in Finnish media publicity
2013
This article examines the role of the media in the rise of nationalist populism in Finland. The interplay between social media and mainstream media has facilitated the emergence of anti-immigrant agendas into the public debate, which has strengthened nationalist populist politics, despite mainstream journalism following professional ethics of balanced reporting. The article concludes that the traditional journalistic framework of agenda setting is not morally adequate for the new fragmented media environment. It proposes the ethics of hospitality (Derrida, Silverstone) with an emphasis on transnationalism as a moral goal for a multi-ethnic public sphere where everyone has the right to voic…
Digital Art History at the Crossroads
2022
Information and Communications Technologies, and more specifically online digital media, are revolutionizing the ways to produce and disseminate scientific knowledge. Humanities and social sciences -art history among them- are not alien to this process. The new challenges and opportunities have already generated a body of thinking and abundant case studies. Many of these applications have been exploratory, disconnected, and short-lived, but nonetheless very stimulating. This essay offers a report on the state of the conversation: a meeting at the crossroads, briefly outlining debates, agreements and disagreements, (dis)continuities with the broader framework of the discipline, and future pe…
Educazione del carattere, letteratura per l’infanzia e stile di vita digitale. Un percorso di formazione iniziale degli insegnanti
2017
L’assunto teorico di partenza è stata l’importanza che i futuri insegnanti di scuola primaria siano in grado di sapersi orientare nel panorama contemporaneo della Letteratura per l’infanzia e acquisiscano le competenze metodologiche per progettare percorsi educativi per la formazione del carattere, centrati sulla lettura. Con la progettazione di pratiche innovative, attraverso l’uso delle tecnologie, ci siamo proposti di far individuare agli studenti i principi e le strategie per lo sviluppo del carattere negli alunni di scuola primaria attraverso la letteratura per l’infanzia, facendo riferimento in particolare al “Character Education Movement”. Il campione è composto da 170 studenti del I…
What a Friend We Have in Facebook : Norwegian Christian Churches’ Use of Social Media
2021
This study examines how Christian churches in Norway use social media. The key finding is that the churches do not take extensive advantage of the opportunities for two-way communication offered by the platforms, but primarily use their social media channels to promote church activities or broadcast content without inviting a dialogue. Based on the churches’ own stated appreciation for building relationships, as well as existing research from media and communication studies, media and religion studies, and studies within strategic communication, this article argues for a stronger focus on the ritual and relational aspects of online communication from the church organizations. Pais Open Acce…
Hybrid Engagement: Discourses and Scenarios of Entrepreneurial Journalism
2018
Although the challenge posed by social media and the participatory turn concerns culture and values at the very heart of journalism, journalists have been reluctant to adopt participatory values and practices. To encourage audience participation and to offer journalism that is both trustworthy and engaging, journalists of the future may embrace a hybrid practice of journalistic objectivity and audience-centred dialogue. As innovative and experimental actors, entrepreneurial journalism outlets can perform as forerunners of such a culture. By analysing discourses in the “About Us” pages of 41 entrepreneurial journalism outlets, the article examines the emerging journalistic ethos of entrepren…
Stolen innocence? Observance of the EU Directive on presumption of innocence by Spanish crime reporting
2021
This paper examines the compliance of Spanish crime reporting with the principles of the 2016 EU Directive on presumption of innocence, which aims at preventing the publication of information that might bias the public and the jurors against the suspect. A content analysis applied to a sample of 200 crime news stories published by eleven of the most popular print and online news platforms in 2018 reveals that the Spanish press coverage of crime is centered around the pre-trial and sentence stages, with little attention to the oral trial. The full name and the face portrait of the suspect appear in roughly one-third of the stories, but this overwhelmingly happens in news stories reporting on…
Educational policies in the production and distribution of digital didactic materials
2017
En este artículo abordamos el análisis de las políticas educativas de tres comunidades autónomas (CA) tan diversas geográfca, social y culturalmente como son Canarias, Galicia y Valencia. El trabajo se enmarca en el proyecto de investigación EDU-2015-64593-R, fnanciado por el Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, titulado: «LLa escuela de la sociedad digital: análisis y propuestas para la producción y uso de los contenidos digitales educa - tivos», en el que participan las universidades de La Laguna, Santiago de Compostela y de Valencia. El objetivo fundamental es analizar la situación de los Materiales Didácticos Digitales (MDD) en las citadas CA. En la primera fase del estudio se han e…