Emerging MediaPub Date : 2024-08-10DOI: 10.1177/27523543241267960
Rachel G. A. Thompson, E. Agbaglo, Mohammed Yakub
{"title":"“…you were reared”: Response Comments on Verbal Attacks in Political Discourse on GhanaWeb","authors":"Rachel G. A. Thompson, E. Agbaglo, Mohammed Yakub","doi":"10.1177/27523543241267960","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/27523543241267960","url":null,"abstract":"This article focuses on response comments related to the use of offensive language in Ghanaian political discourse on GhanaWeb ( www.ghanaweb.com ). Data were obtained from the Corpus of GhanaWeb Comments on Ghana's 2016 Election (CGCGE16). The article examines the various ways some commenters react to inappropriate use of language on this online platform. It demonstrates that although interaction on GhanaWeb is characterised by pseudonymity and asynchronicity, there are some commenters who play the role of regulatory figures and traditional gatekeepers of appropriate communicative behaviour as they disapprove of the use of abusive language. Practically, these commenters do not contribute to the topic under discussion in a comment thread. Rather, they focus on the negative communicative practice of others and attempt to reinforce the social expectation that Ghanaians must exercise the right to freedom of speech within the limits of their socio-cultural norms and values. This research can serve as a springboard for further research on this communicative behaviour in other socio-cultural contexts.","PeriodicalId":470466,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Media","volume":"8 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141921413","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}
Emerging MediaPub Date : 2024-02-25DOI: 10.1177/27523543241231823
P. Ip, Chen Fan
{"title":"Reinventing Fashion as an Affective Apparatus by China's Youth: Bilibili, Danmaku Commentaries, and the Online Hanfu Ceremony During the COVID-19 Outbreak","authors":"P. Ip, Chen Fan","doi":"10.1177/27523543241231823","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/27523543241231823","url":null,"abstract":"Hanfu, an attire newly reinvented by China's youth, has been revived as traditional Chinese attire and further reconstructed as a symbol of China's emerging cultural identity. During the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020, the annual National Costume Day, launched in 2018 by the Chinese Communist Youth League, transitioned into an online event on Bilibili, an emerging media platform in China. Known as the online Hanfu ceremony, this National Costume Day comprised self-produced short films contributed by Hanfu supporters who created videos during the lockdown. This article employs a case study approach focusing on the online Hanfu ceremony to delve into the impacts of such an event in the wake of a national health crisis. Its results indicate that Hanfu served as an affective apparatus to gather Chinese people online, evoking feelings of nationalism through the notion of cultural confidence. By assembling as a community online via Bilibili, younger Chinese people were able to experience a sense of belonging and affective moments of attachment. Such positive affective sentiments provided solace and cohesion, aiding individuals in navigating the collective ordeal of COVID-19, thereby serving the nation through configuring Hanfu as an affective apparatus—a tool for constituting solidarity.","PeriodicalId":470466,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Media","volume":"36 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140433418","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}
Emerging MediaPub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.1177/27523543231210140
Po-Chien Chang, Yu-Ping Chiu
{"title":"Factors Influencing Switching Intention and Customer Retention of Over-the-Top (OTT) Viewing Behavior in Taiwan: The Push–Pull– Mooring Model","authors":"Po-Chien Chang, Yu-Ping Chiu","doi":"10.1177/27523543231210140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/27523543231210140","url":null,"abstract":"The proliferation of over-the-top (OTT) platforms, offering a wide array of on-demand content accessible through the Internet, has reshaped the media landscape and transformed viewing habits. This has led to a decline in traditional cable TV subscriptions and reduced revenue for telecom operators who often bundle TV services with their broadband offerings. The acquisition of customers and retention of existing ones are critical objectives of OTT service providers in Taiwan, and understanding consumer switching behavior can assist them in maintaining their competitiveness. Therefore, the current study applied the push–pull–mooring model to delineate the determinants of users’ switching and retention intention on OTT services. An online survey of 500 individuals was conducted to collect data for this research. This study investigates the factors that affect users who switch or stay in OTT services to gain a specific understanding of how push (service value and customer satisfaction), pull (attractiveness of alternatives and social influence), and mooring (switching costs and habit) effects shape their behavior. Our empirical model provides compelling rationales for understanding the principal antecedents of switching and retention intentions. In addition to push and pull effects, this study also highlights the importance of examining the moderating effects of OTT switching behaviors, such as switching costs and habit experience. Moreover, this study empirically and theoretically extends the understanding of push, pull, and mooring effects on OTT service-switching decisions.","PeriodicalId":470466,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Media","volume":"14 3-4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135222254","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}
Emerging MediaPub Date : 2023-10-03DOI: 10.1177/27523543231205343
Benqian Li
{"title":"Emerging media: Opening a new era in future communication","authors":"Benqian Li","doi":"10.1177/27523543231205343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/27523543231205343","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":470466,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Media","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135696059","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}
Emerging MediaPub Date : 2023-10-03DOI: 10.1177/27523543231205608
Liangwen Kuo
{"title":"Book Review: <i>AI for Everyone? Critical Perspectives</i> by Peter Verdegem","authors":"Liangwen Kuo","doi":"10.1177/27523543231205608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/27523543231205608","url":null,"abstract":"the affordance and effectiveness of the latest developing technologies of arti-fi cial intelligence","PeriodicalId":470466,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Media","volume":"121 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135696057","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}
Emerging MediaPub Date : 2023-09-12DOI: 10.1177/27523543231198540
J. Sonia Huang, Foo Nin Ho
{"title":"The Role of Open Business Models in Times of OTT Video Innovation: Evidence from Taiwanese Platforms","authors":"J. Sonia Huang, Foo Nin Ho","doi":"10.1177/27523543231198540","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/27523543231198540","url":null,"abstract":"Watching over-the-top (OTT) video has become the mainstream of daily life worldwide. Except for a few cultural exporters, most countries have experienced a threat of global OTT giants sweeping local audiences. How do local OTT platforms protect local cultures and retain local audiences? From the perspective of media industry studies, this study uses data from four Taiwanese OTT platforms to explore this question and found that Taiwanese OTT platforms are starting to open their business models to external ideas or partners, but the degree of openness has not yet reached the integrated nor the adaptive types. Moreover, we identify six common practices of open business models: (1) cooperation with suppliers, (2) outbound licensing, (3) strategic alliances, (4) buyer–supplier integration, (5) co-opetition, and (6) joint ventures.","PeriodicalId":470466,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Media","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135885103","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}
Emerging MediaPub Date : 2023-09-10DOI: 10.1177/27523543231188274
Patrice Marie Buzzanell
{"title":"Risk, resilience, and ethical considerations in artificial intelligence","authors":"Patrice Marie Buzzanell","doi":"10.1177/27523543231188274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/27523543231188274","url":null,"abstract":"In a multi-institutional National Science Foundation artificial intelligence grant application, we generated ideas for an institute that can leverage intelligent agents for cybersecurity. My own role, as co-principal investigator, concerned communication involving risk, safety, ethics, and inclusion (broadly diversity, equity, inclusion, and accountability, or DEIA) based on my resilience scholarship and prior National Science Foundation funding in ethical development, ethical design, and professional formation of engineers. This essay does not present the grant itself (that is being revised for resubmission), but outlines some considerations with regard to risk, resilience, and ethics in artificial intelligence.","PeriodicalId":470466,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Media","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136072095","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}
Emerging MediaPub Date : 2023-09-10DOI: 10.1177/27523543231196206
Rich Ling
{"title":"Nascent, Liminal, and Emerging Technologies","authors":"Rich Ling","doi":"10.1177/27523543231196206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/27523543231196206","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, I consider how innovations emerge. I first look into what constitutes an innovation by asking about who benefits from the innovation and how it changes the institutional structure of society. I then trace the process of emergence as innovation moves through a liminal stage where different social groups work to interpret and perhaps contain the trajectory of the innovation. The discussion is illustrated by considering the path of different technologies such as printing, steam, digitalization, and artificial intelligence.","PeriodicalId":470466,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Media","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136073160","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}