World of MediaPub Date : 2018-09-01DOI: 10.30547/WORLDOFMEDIA.3.2018.3
K. Chobanyan
{"title":"Shift to political topics as the main content strategy of American cable news","authors":"K. Chobanyan","doi":"10.30547/WORLDOFMEDIA.3.2018.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30547/WORLDOFMEDIA.3.2018.3","url":null,"abstract":"The content strategies of American 24-hour news channels are undergoing significant transformations in the digital environment. While TV so far remains one of the most preferred news sources for Americans, it still has to find the new ways to attract and to keep the audience (especially younger audience). One of the transformation trends that proved to be successful for cable news has been the shift to mostly political coverage. The author focuses on the highest rated prime time cable shows and explores the extent of political items and strategies of their presentation.","PeriodicalId":36142,"journal":{"name":"World of Media","volume":"56 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91048733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
World of MediaPub Date : 2018-09-01DOI: 10.30547/worldofmedia.3.2018.1
Fei Fan
{"title":"Are online influencers trustworthy? The virtual audience’s response to online influencers’ endorsement in China","authors":"Fei Fan","doi":"10.30547/worldofmedia.3.2018.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30547/worldofmedia.3.2018.1","url":null,"abstract":"Although ‘go-social’ becomes an important part of the public’s daily life in China, online users suffer from information overload increasingly when they get exposed to different online contents shared through various social media communication channels today. To compete on digital audience’s attention and increase online communication effectiveness, online influencers are commonly employed by communication practitioners. However, questions like how powerful online influencers are and to what extent digital audience can be motivated by online influencers have not be answered appropriately. Hence, a 2x2 online experiment was used in this pilot study to identify how the use of online influencer endorsement with various social powers affected virtual audience’s response toward the message and their decision-making. A total of 86 participants were voluntarily recruited from mainland China. The study indicated that the use of referent power and expert power could positively predict virtual audience’s perception toward the promotional message. However, if online campaign would like to call for action and influence audience’s behavior, the use of online influencers with expert power could be more effective than that with referent power.","PeriodicalId":36142,"journal":{"name":"World of Media","volume":"245 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76580780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
World of MediaPub Date : 2018-09-01DOI: 10.30547/worldofmedia.3.2018.2
M. Miasnikova
{"title":"Regional TV content in the process of transformation: From syncretism to multimedia","authors":"M. Miasnikova","doi":"10.30547/worldofmedia.3.2018.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30547/worldofmedia.3.2018.2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36142,"journal":{"name":"World of Media","volume":"55 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82096566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}