A Brief Note On Do Community Media Outlets Interact With Their Audiences?

The discourse community of broadcast journalists is a broad community, but can be narrowed down to smaller groups. As a discourse community journalist come in as novices, but carry the opportunity to ascend in their profession, to become an anchor for a national news network. The fundamental goal of journalists is to educate the public with events that take place daily, both domestically and internationally. With this fundamental goal at hand, news networks run astray, to where they begin to host biased opinions, with means to draw in a certain audience. These biases are presented by the networks reflect a political bias, religious bias, and social bias that can impact the facts of the story

When attention is on the message, constructive conversation is able to develop in an online community from what would normally be stigmatizing topics. Coleman points to cases of medical patients, mothers, anonymous activists, and even victims of hate crime who use the internet to speak out on sensitive subjects without backlash in their personal lives. Another point Coleman makes is that anonymous expression has been a foundation of our political culture since it’s inception. Coleman believes, however, that internet companies should use their platforms to curb harassment and that pending systems be developed to limit derogatory content without invading free

Describe how the media and community could be involved during the four phases of a disaster response. Avoiding panic is listed as a primary goal and relying on leaders that behave in manners that aren’t productive or helpful to any of the citizens of lower class, elderly, or any of the vulnerable residents on how to handle the safety of their families and themselves. Top leaders need to development a plan that will get to the vulnerable residents and aid in their safety. Community and media can work together as one to inform people of the danger ahead and be able to speak to

The spiral of silence theory (Noelle-Neumann, 1974; Noelle-Neumann, 1993) proposes that individuals fear social isolation and only therefore speak out in public if they perceive themselves to be in the present or future majority on an issue. In order to assess the climate of opinion, people closely monitor their social environment via the mass media. The effect of

In their book ‘The Elements of Journalism’ Kovach and Rosensteil highlight this point ‘The news media help us to define our communities and help us create a common language and common knowledge rooted in reality. Journalism also helps identify a community’s goals, heroes and villains.”

The study of media-based interaction started long before the Internet by looking at feedback as a concept (Wiener, 1948; Shannon & Weaver, 1949; Kiousis, 2002). Ultimately, online story comments online connect to the idea of feedback (Wiener, 1948; Nordlund, 1978). As it relates to digital environments people have been more likely to seek feedback online compared to those engaged in person-to-person conversations (Ang & Cummings, 1994). In addition, feedback is one method that community media outlets could use to provide cohesive representation of the community (Lowrey, Brozana, & Mackay, 2008). Feedback loops represent the pattern of communication where journalists produced content and then a member of the public responded, this version

Assessing media and modern journalism is a difficult task. For this paper, I used a wide range of academic sources, along with literature and important websites relevant to the topic. An 2014 article from Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society researches and discusses how social community is a key factor in organizational success. The authors find that strong internal network ties create vital bonds and lead to efficiency. From my personal evaluation, La Gente exhibited traits of a good community, which should pay dividends going forward if they can be fostered long term. I utilized this

Inspired by Standpoint Theory and C. Wright Mills’ critique to mass media, I decided to integrate the idea of valuing audience feedback and their situated knowledge into my work as a journalist. While conducting my independent study at KBIA 91.3 FM, I explored the use of “man-on-the-street interviews" for community engagement purposes. Instead of aiming to get unscripted reactions from the public, my objective of conducting these interviews was to help community members share their own experience and expertise on topical issues. Essentially, I embraced the fault line approach, prioritized listening and understanding in my reporting process, and positioned myself as a conduit for public input. Though I completed the study under

It is the 21st Century and the media has one of the most significant impacts on raising awareness. Domestic Violence is a significant problem in New Zealand, and an alarming cause for concern. In the 20th Century, Domestic violence was acknowledged as a crucial problem within families and our societies. In my opinion, the mainstream media and organisations which fight against domestic violence, have a tendency to distort the problem of domestic violence, misinforming our modern society.

“You look like an ugly slob” “who cares about you”-from no name. These comments are a growing problem. I hope to increase the awareness of media users on the pros and cons of using anonymity online. While elaborating with Guardian opinion editorial topic of anonymity, I will demonstrate the negative aspect of anonymity; cyberbullying, predators ,and unethical behavior. I will also show the positive aspect that anonymity has on privacy.

Old media like broadcasting, print, and film created a consumer culture in the public. Participants would consume the media they could find, and that was the extent of their engagement with a piece of media. But during the digital age, participatory culture has exploded. Participatory culture is a concept coined by Henry Jenkins where consumers take part in both the consumption and the production of media. The advent of computers facilitates a low barrier of entry for creation of digital media and its propagation. With the availability of personal computers and consumer level software to manipulate media as well as the popularity of the internet to spread content, fans have become more engaged with the media they consume. In turn, participants can create forms of that media that comment and expand upon the original content. Participants who used to only consume media now have the avenues to become producers of media. In this essay, I will explore participatory culture through the lense of Lev Manovich’s Five Principles of New Media: Numerical Representation, Modularity, Automation, Variability, and Transcoding.

This dissertation takes a step forward from prior research projects that conducted surveys to gauge a person’s willingness to comment or submit UGC through the use of content analysis in an attempt to gauge how much UGC community newspaper websites actually publish. In addition, the survey of community newspapers website managers offered some context to what choices might occur behind the scenes including the percentage of content submitted by the audience community media actually publishes. The expectation was that the percentage of UGC published would be high based past research that community media would make the gatekeeping choice to use UGC as a way of interacting with the public (Rennie, 2007). However, the results indicated that

The difference in mass media coverage and alternative media coverage is that mass media focuses more on a broader relationship between the Call of Duty franchise and the USDoD; however, alternative media goes more in-depth to the subject. When accessing mass media sources, their content often filled with positive ‘takes’ of the subject because they are usually funded by the company. For instance, game developers would not want bad reviews of their content out on mass media sources like CNN because it reduces the profit. Also it appeals to most retailers, such as Gamestop, Wal-Mart, or Target. On the other hand, alternative media gives a more closely look of the contents of the game. The Call of Duty franchise – in this case, Advanced Warfare – and the USDoD have been working with each other in making the FPS game. The technology applied in the game are currently ideas from the USDoD. For example, the weapons, the exoskeleton, and the style. They are ideas from DARPA as well. There are many different technologies presented in Advance Warfare. For instance, the use of the Tac-19, which blast energy instead of slug or buckshot. These type of technology is influence by the USDoD or DARPA because without their collaborations of such weapons, Advance Warfare may result to using weapons available today. For example, assault rifles like the M-19 or Scar-H.

The public receives a growing percent of their information online. Furthermore, as Lauterer (2006) noted, community newspapers, because of their size, are actually uniquely situated to experiment online because their lower cost portends lower potential costs for online operations. It should be noted, that the small size of community newspapers also provides a clear potential detriment for online experimentation as well. The staff may simply not have the time or expertise for website experimentation. Digital interaction also places community journalists in a potential conundrum as it relates to both gatekeeping and interactivity theories. Community journalists could engage in the type of frequent interaction online that seems to occur in local media using more traditional forums (Lauterer, 2006). However, increased interaction takes time, and the small staffs at community media outlets (Kirkpatrick, 2001) could make that challenging. Interaction might take time and resources away from more profitable measures linking that would seem to place interactivity theory and gatekeeping choices potentially at odds.

In this era, the popularity of citizen journalism has spread throughout all over the world. As a matter of fact, more and more people are starting to take benefit of content publishers. This can be seen in Television news, such as winter snow photos, traffic accidents or local sporting events. However, it leaves a question, what exactly is news anyway? What do you need to be a citizen journalist? What is its impact on today's fast-paced society? Basically, a lot of people think this is a great thing and it can be a good tool for promoting interaction between the media community and the community. There are pros and cons of citizen journalism, we need to face this issue critically and dialectically (Techopedia, 2017). On the one hand, citizen journalism has some benefits that professional journalism can not provide. Firstly, comparing with professional journalism, citizen journalism provides a wider range of news and fills the gaps in mainstream media. The main body of the dissemination of citizen journalism is ordinary citizens rather than professional journalists or professional media. People can through the Facebook, microblog,Twitter to publish news which happened around their life. Delicacy, beautiful scenery, sports events, entertainments, political commentary can be seen in Weibo, Twitter, Facebook and so on. Secondly, citizen journalism could stimulate the interest of audience. Most audiences enjoy reading