KOME-An International Journal of Pure Communication Inquiry最新文献

{"title":"Reporting on suicide in Malaysia: Problem characterization and solution advocacy by media","authors":"Y. L. Fong","doi":"10.17646/kome.75672.66","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17646/kome.75672.66","url":null,"abstract":"Rising incidents of suicide capture the attention of healthcare providers, government agencies, non-governmental organizations and media. Furthermore, public conversations about social problems are largely mediated by the media. It is noteworthy that media have the power to shape the way the public thinks about an issue by suggesting what the issue is about, what the cause is, and what should be done as a solution. The current study aims to examine suicide coverage in Malaysia, particularly the problem characterization and solution advocacy by The Star in reporting suicide from 2014 to 2018. The Star is the English-language daily newspaper with the largest circulation in Malaysia. Through content analysis, the study found that there was a statistically significant difference between the number of articles reporting suicide and the different years. Most of the coverage was published in the form of straight news with a negative depiction of suicide. There was reporting on both local and international suicide news. In addition, suicide was linked to various issues (e.g. mental health, relationship or marriage problems, financial problems, workplace stress, etc.) in the coverage. The study also found a significant difference between issue narrative styles and suicide solutions. The practical implications of the findings are discussed with regard to the role of media in raising awareness of suicide, promoting prevention and intervention efforts at the institutional level, as well as undertaking a more robust interpretive approach in addressing the issue.","PeriodicalId":42384,"journal":{"name":"KOME-An International Journal of Pure Communication Inquiry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78120851","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}

{"title":"Prestige and Independence-Controlled Publication Performance of Researchers at 14 Hungarian Research Institutions between 2014 and 2018 : A Data Paper","authors":"J. Tóth, Marton Demeter","doi":"10.17646/KOME.75672.61","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17646/KOME.75672.61","url":null,"abstract":"This data article describes a dataset showing the five-year performance of 471 researchers from 14 Hungarian research institutions, with a total of 3219 observations. Each observation represent items produced between the 1st January 2014 and the 31th December 2018 by a researcher employed in the sampled research institutions from one of six research output types. Due to a prestige and independence-controlled categorization of research output, and the scarcity of easily accessible, well-structured data curated for research performance evaluation, this dataset can play an important role in new research evaluation policies at Hungarian research institutions aiming to enhance global competitiveness by fostering scientific excellence and innovation.","PeriodicalId":42384,"journal":{"name":"KOME-An International Journal of Pure Communication Inquiry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86641865","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}

{"title":"Fractured implicitness : Why implicit populism matters?","authors":"T. Tóth","doi":"10.17646/kome.75672.68","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17646/kome.75672.68","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims to refine a theoretical and methodological approach in social sciences, namely implicit populism. To achieve this goal, the study aims to connect implicit populism and its counterpart, explicit populism to a specific research approach, namely the political communication style and introduce their contributions to the literature. Additionally, the paper introduces implicit populism’s possible effects on content analyses to demonstrate its methodological potential. Finally, the study attempts to provide an aspect by which the antagonist part of implicit populism can be subcategorized. Therefore, new subdimension of antagonism might emerge in populism studies. The first focuses on the articulated enemy by employing, for instance, the signifier of ‘dangerous people.’ The second aims to explore the more sophisticated populist political style embedding the ‘culprit others’ in a concealed way. Consequently, expressions such as ‘danger,’ ‘threat,’ ‘anger,’ and ‘hatred’ are also parts of antagonism representing a universal and unarticulated problem that harmfully affects people.","PeriodicalId":42384,"journal":{"name":"KOME-An International Journal of Pure Communication Inquiry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77997230","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}

{"title":"Dr. Excellent: The Systemic and Personal Conditions for Being an Academic Star in Communication Studies","authors":"M. Goyanes, Márton Demeter","doi":"10.17646/kome.75672.64","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17646/kome.75672.64","url":null,"abstract":"Pursuing excellence is a legitimate ambition of many scholars worldwide. However, between wishful thinking and real facts lies a great leap that can only be bridged using a myriad of resources. We label these the excellence repertoire. Based on 25 interviews with successful communication scholars, we show the key role of accumulating social, economic, and institutional capital in shaping the excellence repertoire. The study argues that the fetishization of productivity might jeopardize the traditional ethos of science, in a context where research excellence may be disconnected from the quality of education.","PeriodicalId":42384,"journal":{"name":"KOME-An International Journal of Pure Communication Inquiry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83004420","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}

{"title":"Participation of young people in online social communities: an exploration of attitudes among university students in a case study in Spain","authors":"María Cruz López-de-Ayala, Ricardo Vizcaino-Laorga","doi":"10.17646/KOME.75672.63","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17646/KOME.75672.63","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to examine the different dimensions of online citizen participation for the purpose of delving into the types of engagement that are being developed in order for citizens to benefit from the opportunities offered by the Internet. A self-administered survey has been carried out with 420 students from a Spanish public University (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos) from its five campuses in Madrid. A typology of attitudes has been developed, firstly with factor analysis, and then with a varimax rotation. Moreover, a hierarchical linear regression has been applied in order to discover the variables that might predict the typology of participation. The study shows that online participation is a complex phenomenon influenced by multiple personal and social factors. The results have revealed three points of view: 1. Scepticism toward the ability to exert influence; 2. Social networks as a channel for maintaining social contact and expressing opinions; and 3. Capability of empowering users. Certain attitudes toward social networks can predict online participatory behaviour in different types of profiles on these networks. Furthermore, age does not affect online participation, and gender only has an influence on sports and media profiles.","PeriodicalId":42384,"journal":{"name":"KOME-An International Journal of Pure Communication Inquiry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86538643","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}

{"title":"Spiritualreligiosity in the Workplace between Media and Organizational Logics: A French Perspective","authors":"M. Tudor","doi":"10.17646/KOME.75672.58","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17646/KOME.75672.58","url":null,"abstract":"This exploratory research focuses on how mainstream media apprehends religion in the workplace in the specific French socio-cultural and ideological framing through the media coverage analysis of the French Observatory of Religious Phenomenon in Organization’s annual survey, published in September 2018. Findings reveal that media operates with a meaning of religion still subject to a conception of laicitythat corroborate antagonism between science and religion onthe one hand, and, secularization as an indicator of transition from traditional society to modern society on the other hand. Managers and companies implicitly use a more elastic meaning, in accordance with the specificities of the workplace and labor market that has integrated a more deinstitutionalizing vision of religion, in the context of the emergence of new religious representations in touch with alternative spiritualities.","PeriodicalId":42384,"journal":{"name":"KOME-An International Journal of Pure Communication Inquiry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85890546","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}

{"title":"Demeter, Márton: Academic Knowledge Production and the Global South. Questioning Inequality and Under-representation. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 274 pp.","authors":"Z. B. Major","doi":"10.17646/kome.75672.65","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17646/kome.75672.65","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42384,"journal":{"name":"KOME-An International Journal of Pure Communication Inquiry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81643593","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}

{"title":"Development Journalism, Gender Sensitivity and Sustainability in Egypt: Analyzing the Women’s Voices project","authors":"Rasha El-Ibiary","doi":"10.17646/kome.75672.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17646/kome.75672.5","url":null,"abstract":"Examining the concept of “development communication” and “development journalism” in the professional development of women journalists in Egypt, this study analyzes the Women’s Voices Project undertaken by Deutsche Welle Akademy (DWA) in Egypt to develop the professional and gender sensitive skills of young women journalists. The project has taken place through a set of intensive professional trainings, leading to the establishment of the Masr El Nas website, intended to achieve sustainability or “media viability.” Testing the role of this “media development” project in developing the interpersonal and professional skills of women journalists and in promoting “development journalism,” through Masr El Nas, the methods used include in-depth interviews with the project managers, trainers and selected trainees, and a thematic content analysis of Masr El Nas, as a case study of development journalism. Research findings indicate there is no nation-wide impact for the project, since it has operated in a tight media environment with a variety of laws strangulating media freedom, as well as media development projects. The project, as a result, failed to achieve “media viability.” Yet, it could reach many of its small-scale goals, such as developing the interpersonal and professional skills of women journalists, enhancing gender sensitive reporting, using state-ofthe-art technology, reporting on the people, and engaging local communities and attempting to develop them, as the interviews indicated. The content analysis showed that stories about marginalized women were dominant on the website, as well as stories from Upper Egypt, a blind spot for mainstream media.","PeriodicalId":42384,"journal":{"name":"KOME-An International Journal of Pure Communication Inquiry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86572683","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}

{"title":"Selfie and Interpellation - A Preliminary Study of the Role of Ideology in the Social Construction of Reality, Self and Society in the Digital Age","authors":"Matteo Stocchetti","doi":"10.17646/kome.75672.37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17646/kome.75672.37","url":null,"abstract":": In this essay, I present a preliminary analysis of selfying that combines the social construction of the self with the critical approach to scientific knowledge. Althusser’s concept of ‘interpellation’ and the works of Goffman and Barthes offer useful conceptual tools for a radical engagement with the social significance of selfying. This preliminary analysis mainly concludes that selfying is a distinctive and ambivalent form of ‘interpellation from below’, addressing but also reproducing the challenges pertaining to the construction of the self in the symbolic universe of the neoliberal agenda . On semantic grounds, the most significant aspect of this process is that the ‘signifier’ creates its ‘signified’, and the social construction of the self is framed within the confines of capitalist ideology and its symbolic forms of expression of the relationship between reality, the individual and society. The relevance of this approach is at least twofold. On theoretical grounds, I am trying to combine Kenneth J. Gergen’s approach to the social construction of the self and Jürgen Habermas critique of the ideology of science with Barthes’ insights on the problems of meaning, Goffman’s understandings of the ‘problems of the real’, and Althusser’s notion of interpellation. On practical grounds, the ambition is to increase awareness and knowledge of the dilemmas associated with the presentation of the self in the digital age, and to inspire more emancipative responses to these dilemmas: responses more independent of and possibly challenging the ideological project of neoliberalism.","PeriodicalId":42384,"journal":{"name":"KOME-An International Journal of Pure Communication Inquiry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89422201","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}

{"title":"Media practices of young Australians: Tangible and measurable reflections on a digital divide","authors":"L. Gaspard, H. Horst, Edgar Gómez Cruz, S. Pink","doi":"10.17646/kome.75672.42","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17646/kome.75672.42","url":null,"abstract":": This paper presents findings on the household availability of digital media devices and the uses made of this technology by young people aged 12 to 18 living within the Greater Melbourne area of Australia. Drawing upon questionnaire data from a purposive sample of 860 students frequency analysis of this data indicates three dominant factors shape a young person’s media experience: gender, siblings present within the home, and parents’ highest level of education 1 . Moreover, when examining the types of software programs and the social network services used by young people age emerges as an additional layer to understanding these practices. In order to help contextualise these digital engagements, a comparative analysis with youth in the UK and the USA is undertaken to explore the ongoing validity of previous research claiming Australian youth as being some of the most digitally connected youth in the world. This paper presents findings from Australian data collected as part of a larger European Union Horizon 20/20 funded eight-nation research project entitled Transmedia Literacy: Exploiting transmedia skills and informal learning strategies to improve formal education . Analysing questionnaire data collected from young people living in Melbourne, Australia, patterns emerge to the types of media used and the types of activities engaged. Three distinct factors emerge as shaping the media engagement throughout this cohort: a participant’s gender, whether they have siblings within the household and parents’ highest level of education; while age and gender are also essential to understanding the types of software programs and the social network services (SNS) they use. In order to contextualise the practices of these Australian youth comparative analysis is performed against data from youth in the UK and USA over a similar period to examine the commonality and differences to media engagements of young people within the world’s three principle Anglophone nations. Outside of government and state regulatory funded research bodies (i.e. the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA)) findings presented here add to the limited body of work providing large-scale analysis to the media practices of Australian youth 2 . Similarly, this work adds to previous research, which establishes how the term gradation rather than divide better defines the digital media","PeriodicalId":42384,"journal":{"name":"KOME-An International Journal of Pure Communication Inquiry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75337140","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}