New Media

When new technologies are integrated with older media, potential viewers are introduced to these changes in extra-filmic contexts that make this transition visible. In four case studies I argue that the human body acts as a visible interface between machine and images in these moments to create an interactive mode of spectatorship. This is a process manifest in two forms: as a machine-body interaction that places the human body within the mechanisms of imagecreation and as a means of intervention to make new technologies and new images familiar by asserting the spectator's physical presence in their plane of being. This assertion is an insertion, a comingling of the body of the image with the body of the spectator in a kinetic relationship. My first two case studies use late 19 th -and early 20 th century American periodicals to argue that kinetoscope images, motion picture images, and x-ray images, all described as shadow pictures in the popular press, were discursively used as models of thinking via representations of the way the human body and mind were integrated with machines to capture thought. The images produced suggest that moving images functioned as a form of evidence for the unseeable not only in their ability to represent the unseen, but also in representations of thinking that reflect similar kinetic properties. Based on the context I sketch in my first two case studies, I conclude v my work in the silent era by considering how Hugo Münsterberg's neo-Kantian idealism coupled with his work in experimental psychology considers the human body as a form of evidence for the unseeable. This highlights how the origins of American film theory worked within a negotiation between materialism and idealism via recourse to the human body as a primary site from which to consider the mechanisms of cinematic style. Moving to the twenty-first century in my final case study, I argue that, like the discursive materials surrounding early-cinema, Michael Haneke's films represent a corporeality that is joined with the apparatus via the use of video technology that portrays a shortened divide between spectator and on-screen actor by engendering the ability to replay events.

UK general election preview: What to look out for as Britain goes to the polls blogs.lse.ac.uk /europpblog/2017/06/07/uk-general-election-preview-what-to-look-out-for-as-britain-goes-to-thepolls/ The UK's snap election on 8 June initially looked like being a comfortable victory for Theresa May and the Conservatives, but with the polls tightening in the last few weeks, there is now far more uncertainty about the outcome. We asked some of our contributors for their reflections on the campaign and the key things to watch out for when the results come in. Dunleavy: Three things we've learned already from the 2017 campaign turnaround Eunice Goes: Corbyn will lose the election, but he has already changed British politics Thomas J. Leeper: The Brexit election that never was Eleanor Knott: EU citizens -taxation, but no representation Isabelle Hertner: The Liberal Democrats' pro-EU campaign has fallen flat Stuart Brown: The SNP will win in Scotland, but the story of the night might well be the revival of Scottish Labour Julian Göpffarth: The view from Germany -a longing for British pragmatism Patrick Dunleavy: Three things we've learned already from the 2017 campaign turnaround

We present a system and a set of tools for producing special effects in film/video making by applying image processing and human centered computing techniques. A combination of shot detection, object segmentation, background generation, and image warping techniques are used. The user selects the image frame or the object of interest, and the image warp transformation to be used from the GUI. Wrapping can be performed either on a whole image sequence or on an object of interest in the sequence. In the latter, the object is first segmented and its motion tracked. Object segmentation is achieved either by snakes or graph cuts. Steerable Pyramid background generation is then used to fill in the portion cut from the foreground.

In the past five decades, Media Art has evolved into a critical field
at the intersection of art, science and technology, however, a
significant loss threatens this art form due to rapid technological
obsolescence and static documentation strategies. This talk will
give an outline for research, documentation and preservation of
digital art by: a) developing international archive-research
infrastructures, similar to those already available in the natural
sciences, b) contributing to the development of infrastructures
with museums, which are interested in bringing the art of our time
into their collections through concerted networks of scholarly and
mostly technological expertise. In this way relatively small units,
museums, can also deal with the very demanding challenge. The
Archive of Digital Art (ADA) www.digitalartarchive.at addresses
these issues through an innovative strategy of ‘collaborative
archiving’, social Web 2.0, 3.0 features foster the engagement of
the international Media Art community, web 3.0 elements are
integrated through a ‘bridging thesaurus’ linking the extended
documentation of ADA with other ‘traditional’ art history
databases to facilitate interdisciplinary and trans-historical
comparative analyses. ADA informs a needed concerted museum
network, to collect, exhibit and preserve digital art forms.

A media genesis as multimeaningfull phenomenon means its transformation from its initial function as a transmiter of a message and information into an active subject in the process of communication towards a powerful mean of critical opinion. On that road, from the role of information transmition, medias strengtened into a leading factor in shaping critical opinion of a recipient. A project is focused on a communication processes analysis within modern society, revealing dominant feeling of passive dependency of a media content by the recipient and media's active role. During that process, information becomes antipodal entity, which abolishes the meaning and primarily serves as a reminder on an undisputed credibility transfered into a spectacle as an art expression. Within that process, recipient who is supposed to criticaly think about media content transforms into a muted and brainwashed consumer of everything that is presented by media. The art of spectacle becomes reality.

In studies on transnationalism, mobile phones have gained prominent attention as tools that maintain relationships in the event of migration. They have transformed transnational sociality from procedural to a daily event all at the control of the actors who, for example, no longer relies on the post office for letters. Mobile phones provide avenues for social closeness and intimacy, impact social identities, facilitate participation in events dis-embedded from a locality, and help in the expression of belonging and solidarity across national borders. Despite these positive facets, the technology could become a source of discomfort as seen in this contribution, which revolves around the unmet expectations of utilising the device to sustain transnational social closeness. Drawn from a multi-sited study conducted among Cameroonians in Germany and Cameroon, the article demonstrates how the consciousness of the possibilities of direct communication negatively influences an actors’ interp...

Working with current methodologies of art, biology, and genetic technologies, the stated aims of artists working in this area include attempts both to critique the implications and outcomes of genetic technologies and to forge a new art practice involved in creating living beings using those technologies. It is this last ambition, the development of a new art practice involved in creating living beings, that this essay will particularly take to task by questioning the ethics of that goal and the uses of biotechnology in reaching it.

Türk kültür ve edebiyat tarihinin köklü ifade biçimleri arasında mizah ve hiciv, hem estetik hem de düşünsel boyutlarıyla öne çıkan iki güçlü gelenektir. Mizah, incelikli bir zekâ ile toplumsal olguları işaret eden, kimi zaman gülümsetirken derin bir sorgulamaya davet eden bir söylem biçimidir. Hiciv ise, keskin üslubu ve eleştirel tavrıyla, bireysel ya da toplumsal davranış biçimlerini, siyasal ve kültürel yapıları, estetik formlar içinde tenkit eden bir ifade alanı oluşturmuştur. Her iki gelenek de yüzyıllar boyunca hem halkın sesini yansıtmış hem de entelektüel üretimin önemli taşıyıcıları arasında yer almıştır.
Bu özel sayı, Türk mizahı ve hicvini tarihsel süreklilik içinde, disiplinlerarası bir perspektifle ele almayı amaçlamaktadır. Hiciv; Divân edebiyatındaki nükteli beyitlerden halk şiirinin taşlamalarına, modern edebiyatın eleştirel metinlerinden görsel sanatlarda ve medyada yer alan çağdaş örneklere kadar geniş bir yelpazede incelenebilir. Bu bağlamda hiciv, yalnızca bir estetik tür değil; toplumsal bilinç üretiminin ve kültürel eleştiri geleneğinin sürekliliğini sağlayan bir ifade biçimidir.
Mizah ise, meddah ve ortaoyunu gibi geleneksel sözlü kültür formlarından günümüzün dijital platformlarına uzanan çok katmanlı bir yapıya sahiptir. Gündelik hayatın gözleminden doğan mizah, toplumsal belleğin aktarımında, bireysel kimliklerin ifadesinde ve kültürel kimliğin yeniden üretiminde işlevsel bir araç olmuştur. Toplumsal ilişkilerde gerilimleri yumuşatan, düşünce üretiminde yaratıcı ufuklar açan bu ifade biçimi, psikolojik, sosyolojik, edebî ve iletişimsel açılardan değerlendirilmelidir.
Dergimizin bu sayısında, mizahın yalnızca güldüren değil; düşündüren ve düşüncenin dönüştüren boyutunu; hicvin ise estetik ve entelektüel işlevlerini odağa alan özgün akademik çalışmalara yer verilecektir. Çalışmaların tarih, edebiyat, sosyoloji, iletişim, kültürel çalışmalar ve ilgili diğer disiplinlerle kesişen analizler sunması teşvik edilmektedir.
Bu sayımızda amacımız; mizahın ince, ironik zekâsıyla hicvin keskin eleştirel üslubunu yan yana getirerek, hem tarihsel mirası hem de çağdaş kültürel dinamikleri ilmî bir zeminde tartışmaya açmaktır. Böylelikle, sözün estetik kudreti ile düşüncenin derinlikli muhasebesini buluşturan özgün bir akademik çerçeve kurmayı hedefliyoruz.
Çelebi’nin bu sayısında, taşlamanın sivri dilinden nüktenin zarif inceliğine, karikatürün çarpıcı ifadesinden edebî hicvin entelektüel derinliğine uzanan geniş bir yelpazede, Türk mizahı ve hicvinin köklü damarlarını takip ettik. Mizahı yalnızca gülmenin değil, tefekkür aracı da olarak gören kalemlerin izinde, geleneğin bereketli mirasını günümüzün fikriyat iklimiyle buluşturduk.
Karanlık zamanlarda bir ferahlık, zor vakitlerde bir direnç kaynağı olan umudumuz Çelebi’yi; Gazze ve Doğu Türkistan’daki mazlum kardeşlerimizin feryadına, yüreğimizi kavuran orman yangınlarının acısına ve aziz şehitlerimizin aziz hatırasına ithaf ediyor; hepsini derin bir hürmet ve minnetle selamlıyoruz.
Dosyada emeği geçen kıymetli hocalarımız; Murat Kağan Atalay’a, Cem Ozan Avcı’ya, İbrahim Daş’a, Zafer Saraç’a, Kudret Yaren Yiğitalp’e, Dr. Bircan Kayacan’a, Mehmet Gökdoğan’a, Türkan Alpay’a ve Başak Derin’e şükranlarımızı sunarız.

Il contributo ricostruisce, attraverso una serie di test ripetuti nel tempo tra il novembre 2023 e il giugno 2025, alcune caratteristiche dei testi prodotti da ChatGPT in lingua italiana e le confronta con quelle dei testi prodotti da Copilot, Gemini e Claude. Questa analisi empirica a campione consente di tracciare un quadro di progressivo affinamento della qualità dei testi prodotti dagli LLM in lingua italiana. A una sostanziale scomparsa di sviste grammaticali e interferenze con l’inglese, fa riscontro una capacità sempre maggiore di gestire anche specifiche varietà diatopiche, diafasiche e diamesiche e di riconoscere errori linguistici legati anche ad aspetti semantici e di coerenza. Di conseguenza, la soglia d’attenzione verso questi strumenti tende a spostarsi dalla correttezza alla creatività. Nel test più recente si richiede ai quattro LLM di scrivere un nuovo racconto nello stile delle Città invisibili di Italo Calvino, lo scrittore che già nel 1967 si domandava: «Avremo macchine capaci di ideare e comporre poesie e romanzi?».
Parole chiave: Intelligenza Artificiale, IA, AI, LLM, italiano telematico, testi generati, ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini

A Brief (but Intense) History of AI-talian. The Italian language in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
This article presents the results of a series of tests carried out between November 2023 and June 2025 on texts written in Italian by ChatGPT, and compares them with those generated by Copilot, Gemini, and Claude. The analysis offers a snapshot of how the quality of Italian texts produced by large language models (LLMs) has gradually improved. Grammatical errors and interference from English have almost disappeared, while the models are now better able to handle different regional, stylistic, and communicative varieties of Italian. They also show increasing sensitivity to semantic and coherence-related mistakes. As a result, attention is shifting from simply checking the correct-ness of these texts to evaluating their creativity. In the most recent test, all four LLMs were asked to write a new story inspired by Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino—the author who, already in 1967, was asking: “Will we have machines capable of imagining and composing poems and novels?”
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, IA, AI, LLM, digital Italian, generated texts, ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini

The aim of this essay is to explore the influence of the New Media upon the meanings of representation, both the ones that stay dormant in the minds of citizens and the ones that become explicit, even dominant, in public discourse. In part 2, I present the classic analysis of the concept of representation by Hanna Pitkin together with the more recent analysis of Jane Mansbridge. In part 3, I use the conceptual categories of Pitkin and of Mansbridge in order to systematise my observations on the impact of the New Media upon the concept(s) of representation. I first assess the relevance of information, communication, dialogue, and deliberation in each concept. Then, I expound some more general observations concerning these four elements in the Information Society. This prepares the ground for my analysis of the influence of the New Media upon the concept(s) of representation. The major theme of my observations is the resilience of symbolic representation in the information age, in apparent contradiction to the promise of the New Media for more dialogic forms of political communication. In part 4, the conclusions, I expound some brief thoughts about the importance of conceptual work and about the possible role of parliaments as sites of counter-power which could countervail the dominance of symbolic representation.

This research paper examines 48 Latin American fact-checking websites through qualitative textual analysis, focusing on their mission statements and epistemologies. All organizations describe their role as combating disinformation, but independent units take a more active approach: empowering and educating citizens, monitoring power, enhancing public debate, and improving journalism. These independent NGOs make a stronger impact in the region. Platforms tied to regional media conglomerates, despite incorporating the fact-checking genre, are less transparent about their methods, with some exceptions. Factcheckers' democratic engagement, associated with data-driven empirical methods, relies on a pragmatic understanding of objectivity that values contextualization and interpretation.

Access to cultural exhibits is a central issue in museums and exhibition galleries that is recently This approach to cultural heritage access presents a high degree of novelty as well as a number of technical and conceptual issues and challenges. This paper discusses these issues while analyzing the expected benefits and expectations from visitors, the community, and the museums.

Myślę o tym, może raczej wyobrażam sobie, czy można byłoby stworzyć idealny (?) system, w którym kształcenie przyszłych artystów posługujących się nowymi mediami i nowymi technologiami byłby zaprojektowany całościowo i koherentnie? Z wszystkimi wymogami spełniającymi normy ministerialne oraz liczby punktów ECTS, zaliczeniami z przedmiotów obowiązkowych i dużą liczbą różnorodnych zajęć z pogranicza rozmaitych dziedzin humanistyki, sztuki, technologii, które można byłoby wpisać w rejestr edukacji artystycznej. Ale zaraz po tym wyobrażeniu zdaję sobie sprawę, że ta wizja jest nie tylko pozbawiona większego sensu, ale po prostu niedopasowana do rzeczywistości, w której i ja od wielu lat funkcjonuję. A ta charakteryzuje się niezwykłą wprost zmiennością, która wymaga nieustannych korekt, remiksowania ustalonych założeń, szybkiego reagowania na wyzwania stawiane przez dynamiczne procesy fundujące "nowy cyfrowy porządek" (a new digital deal).

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El artículo explora el proyecto artístico y conceptual “La Ciudad Hidroespacial”, de Gyula Kosice, artista multidisciplinario que, a través de su obra, desarrolló una forma de articular imaginación de futuro e invención. La obra aboga por una ciudad flotante ubicada en la tropósfera, y reimagina la vida social y urbana más allá de la Tierra. Conceptualmente, Kosice desafía las nociones tradicionales de utopía, argumentando que su ciudad no es un proyecto utópico, sino un proceso en constante evolución, abierto a lo imprevisible y no limitado a una estructura estática o predeterminada, donde la proyección de posibilidades y la invención son fundamentales. Apoyándose en autorxs que se han preocupado por las relaciones entre utopía, imaginación de futuro, imprevisibilidad e invención, el artículo busca precisar los sentidos en que esa disposición estratégica, a la que denomina “posutópica y porvenirista”, se despliega en La Ciudad Hidroespacial. Para ello, repasa aspectos claves de la obra: sus propuestas arquitectónicas y residenciales, su relación con las tecnologías y las ciencias del último medio siglo, su noción económica del agua, en un diálogo histórico y conceptual que involucra al pensamiento utópico, el cosmismo ruso y el diseño. Para finalizar, el artículo pretende valorar una posible utilidad, para nuestra coyuntura policrítica, de los modos en que Kosice concibió la relación entre proyecto e imprevisibilidad, imaginación y desconocimiento, futuro y porvenir, propiciando una “imaginación transindividual y sin metas prefijadas de antemano” y buscando socializar las condiciones de invención y creación.

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The article explores the artistic and conceptual project The Hydrospatial City by Gyula Kosice, a multidisciplinary artist who, through his work, developed a way of articulating future imagination and invention. The work advocates a floating city located in the troposphere and reimagines social and urban life beyond Earth. Conceptually, Kosice challenges traditional notions of utopia, arguing that his city is not a utopian project but a constantly evolving process, open to the unpredictable and not limited to a static or predetermined structure, where the projection of possibilities and invention are fundamental. Relying on authors who have been concerned with the relationships between utopia, imagination of the future, unpredictability, and invention, the article seeks to specify the ways in which this strategic disposition, which it calls “post-utopian and porvenirist,” is deployed in The Hydrospatial City. To this end, it reviews key aspects of the work: its architectural and residential proposals, its relationship with the technologies and sciences of the last half-century, its economic notion of water, in a historical and conceptual dialogue involving utopian thought, Russian cosmism, and design. Finally, the article aims to assess the possible usefulness, for our polycritical conjuncture, of the ways in which Kosice conceived the relationship between project and unpredictability, imagination and ignorance, future and future, promoting a “transindividual imagination without predetermined goals” and seeking to socialize the conditions of invention and creation.

Este artículo está publicado en Estudios Posthumanos, Año 3, Número 2, (2024), ISSN: 2953-4089, 72-111

The paper deals with the presentation of the media system as not only a platform enabling mass social interaction but also spreading hate-speech regarding promoting the superiority of one's group (such as ethnicity, nationality, values or other). The article focuses on the topic of spreading ethnic stereotypes (e.g. those related to Jewish ethnicity). Attention is also focused on the issue of the credibility of such media content and its creators. The authors use a theoretical base to clarify several innovative possibilities brought not only technologically, but also culturally reformed "new digital age", the so-called Web 2.0, or Web 3.0. in Central European context.

The paper presents the complex problems of preparation of pedagogy students to work as teachers in the context of their readiness to use ICT in the didactic process. The complexity of this subject matter has been proved by the current, ongoing, discussion about the direction of the expected transformations of contemporary schools and the prospective teachers education system in the age of prevalent digitization. Considering the complexity of conditions, the main research problem has been formulated as follows: Conditions of what type affect the preparation of prospective teachers

During recent years, the concept of mediatization has made a strong impact on media and communication studies, and its advocates have attempted to turn it into a refined and central theoretical framework for media research. The present article distinguishes two forms of mediatization theory: a strong form based on the assumption that a ‘media logic’ increasingly determines the actions of different social institutions and groups, and a weak form that questions such a logic, though the latter form emphasizes the key role of the media in social change and singles out mediatization as a central ‘meta-process’ today. Exponents of the weak form have convincingly criticized the notion of media logic. However, the weaker version of mediatization is itself problematic, as its advocates have failed to produce a clear explanatory framework around the concept. We argue that, although the analytical status of mediatization is unclear, fascination with the concept will, in all probability, contin...

Abstract: This article critically discusses the intellectual and conceptual shifts that have occurred in information society theories (and also policies) in the previous four decades. We will examine the topic by focusing on the work of Daniel Bell and Manuel Castells, arguably two of the most important infor-mation society theorists. A key element in the academic shift from “post-industrial ” (Bell) thinking to the discourse on “network society ” (Castells) is that it has brought forward a different way of under-standing the role of the state vis-a-vis the development of new information and communication tech-nologies, as well as a new assessment of the role of the state in the economy and society at large. Against the Keynesian undertones of Bell’s ideas, Castells ’ network society theory represents a ne-oliberally restructured version of “information society ” that is associated with the rise of flexibility, indi-viduality and a new culture of innovation. We argue that these chan...

He ara hou ka tū mai means “A new pathway before (us)”. This Māori phrase succinctly summarises the position in which NZ educational institutions find themselves. As digital literacy continues to increase in importance as a key skill in every discipline and profession (New Media Consortium and EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative, 2011, p. 3), so the demands of our students and the demands of education precipitate us along this new pathway into virtual worlds.

This study is a critical policy analysis on broadcasting reform in Ghana between 1992 and 2008 with a particular interest in critically tracking and examining the changes that occurred in broadcasting policy and regulation. Beyond the intrinsic value and relevance of policy and regulation, this study focuses on the factors and forces that are generative of the changes as occurring within the context of a defunct military regime to a more pluralistic, multi-party and open participatory democratic political system. Also, in focus are the ways in which the policy and regulatory changes occurred, the impact of the changes on the Ghanaian broadcasting system and its structures. The study not only examined and corroborated related policy and regulatory documents from primary and secondary sources but also garnered insights of policy-making "actors" interviewed. Finally, the study determines the policy and regulatory gaps in an attempt to provide recommendations for a new broadcasting policy and regulatory direction for the country. v Acknowledgement I first acknowledge Almighty ALLAH, the most Gracious, the most merciful and to whom I commit my life and soul and believe has empowered me to finally accomplish what seemed like a near impossibility having been suddenly struck with liver failure on my very first research information gathering trip to Ghana and later had to undergo a critical transplant surgery at the Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre in Johannesburg after one and half years of hospitalization. I owe a debt of gratitude to many a person. It is difficult to acknowledge the varied assistance I received from each of them: for some it was their precious time, valuable research material, willingness and availability for personal in-depth interviews, discussions, proof reading, comments and suggestions. For others it was words of encouragement, hope and support. I reserve a special mention to my wife Barikisu, who roundly stood by me despite the odds throughout the entire research process. I also recognize the emotional support from my aunt Khadija Musah, my sister Ramatu Ahmed, my brother Rashid Amadu, and my Pro-Vice Chancellor Professor Kwesi Yankah and my trusted friend and brother Abdallah Ali Nakyea. On a more academic level, my indefatigable, energetic, and enthusiastic supervisor, the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities Professor Tawana Kupe deserves a unique mention for his incisive and constructive comments and guidance which stimulated my desire and quest for knowledge which sharpened my mind on critical thinking, analysis and problem-solving. Professor Tawana Kupe was indeed my giant and tower of academic excellence during the research and on whose shoulders the future of the broadcasting policy and regulation landscape in Ghana was clearly and unambiguously captured in this thesis for posterity as a trail blazer.

This study investigates the language of "citizen sociolinguists," everyday users of social network sites (SNS) who contribute to the discourses about language on Twitter, Reddit, and Tumblr, platforms with distinctive user demographics and technological affordances. The data were collected through keyword searches for mansplain, whitesplain, richsplain and thinsplain, metapragmatic neologisms which are lexical blends of the verb explain and one of four social categories. Disputes of macro-level ideologies are revealed by users' creative meaning-making strategies and metapragmatic awareness of micro-level texts and utterances. Making use of the linguistic practices of the SNS, as well as the concisely-compacted semantic and pragmatic meanings of the four splain words, users come to evaluate communicative dynamics between speakers who differ from or relate with others in their experiences of sex, skin color, economic status, and physical form. Drawing on elements of Citizen Sociolinguistics (Rymes & Leone, 2014) with Critical Discourse Analysis and Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis , I question how users make metapragmatic judgements to convey varying meanings of the four focal words, and how the uses of [x]splain and the surrounding discourses illuminate socio-ideological values about language, about its intersection with gender, race, class, and body size, and the authority to speak on topics that are macro-contextually situated in discourses of privilege, power, and inequality. Lastly, I compare the findings across the three SNS platforms to understand how competing discourses differ in relation to each site's user demographics, technological affordances and limitations, and subsequent linguistic practices.

This editorial provides background considerations for challenging the long taken-for-granted narrative of the passing of television in the digital era, thus inviting scholars to re-interrogate the place of the medium in the new technology-saturated environment from perspectives that are not informed by the unquestioned assumption that the age of television is over.

Television Truths is a complex and engaging work, inspired by an ambitious project of knowledge -a distinctive characteristic of this original and farsighted scholar. Somewhat out of ritual, I will begin my review with an apparent digression through a fresh success story of an entertainment program on Italian TV. Taking my cue from a localized case of reality format, I wish to give a (very selective) account of Hartley's book, beginning from the interconnected definitions of "democratainment" and "plebiscitary television" (or formats). These are integral parts of the theoretical discourse the author has developed and unfolded in many writings over recent years with intellectual resourcefulness, terminological inventiveness, and a comprehensive vision of the present-day mediasphere. These concepts intersect or

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The purpose of this paper is to propose a combined data mining approach for analyzing and profiling customers in video on demand (VoD) services. The proposed approach integrates clustering and association rule mining. For customer segmentation, the LRFMP model is employed alongside the k-means and Apriori algorithms to generate association rules between the identified customer groups and content genres. The applicability of the proposed approach is demonstrated on real-world data obtained from an Internet protocol television (IPTV) operator. In this way, four main customer groups are identified: ''high consuming-valuable subscribers'','' less consuming subscribers'','' less consuming-loyal subscribers'' and ''disloyal subscribers''. In detail, for each group of customers, a different marketing strategy or action is proposed, mainly campaigns, special-day promotions, discounted materials, offering favorite content, etc. Further, genres preferred by these customer segments are extracted using the Apriori algorithm. The results obtained from this case study also show that the proposed approach provides an efficient tool to form different customer segments with specific content rental characteristics, and to generate useful association rules for these distinct groups. The proposed combined approach in this research would be beneficial for IPTV service providers to implement effective CRM and customer-based marketing strategies.

Pakistan's media landscape has witnessed transformational change since 2002, with more than 90 private and liberalized satellite television channels growing from just three state-run channels. These flourishing transnational television channels broadcast news, views, sports, religious, glamour and entertainment programs in the Urdu language; not only for the local audience but also catering to the Pakistani diaspora around the globe. Through the 'Uses and Gratification' theoretical approach, this paper investigates the consumption and motivation of viewers watching transnational television channels. The study used qualitative data collected from focus groups comprising various members of the Pakistani diaspora in Canada. Interviews with Pakistani viewers suggest that television watching is goaloriented. The specific gratifications derived included cognitive, affective and, at times, social ones. Analysis of focus group interviews suggests that the audience did not find emotional relaxation or tension release. Age and gender were found to be significant factors in shaping patterns of media consumption and gratification.

In our quest to find ways to make journalism more interactive and engaging, the JoLT team at American University concluded that the design principles that make gaming so captivating and lucrative can be applied to the challenges facing the news industry.

The main aim for the study is to design a distance Turkish learning program for the Erasmus Exchange students who will study for one semester in Turkey and provide them with a chance to be able to practice beginning Turkish for daily communication through authentic visual and auditory language materials. Another aim is to develop a Turkish language learning model for the orientation of Erasmus exchange students in which the scripts deliberately employed convey cultural clues for the foreign Turkish learners.

A long held complaint of university education has been that it produces students that lack real world skills. Conceptually, authentic learning stresses a shift of learning aims, from the mastery of passing examinations, to the acquisition of competency (Honebein et al 1993). ...

This study advances research on using language in online communication. It intended to analyze texting on WhatsApp in terms of linguistic and paralinguistic characteristics, the identity of interlocutors, and uses of emojis. Adopting a corpus-based approach to the study of language variation, data were collected from WhatsApp chat group of six male students enrolled in a Master"s program at a graduate school in the Midwestern region of the United States. A total of 195 messages were garnered over a period of three months. Results showed laudable features of online texting which are deviant of the formal English orthographically, morphologically, syntactically, and phonologically. This supports previous claims that texting has adversely affected the structure of formal language. It was also found that emojis were used to complement words, impose additional meaning that mere words cannot convey or supplant written forms. Additionally, the way interlocutors used text messages reveals information about their identities. It also gives clues about their cultural, religious, and educational backgrounds.

Purpose: This research examines the role of social media as a tool for political engagement, focusing on its impact on women politicians. It aims to explore how women in politics use social media to enhance visibility, overcome gender biases, and influence public opinion.
Methodology: A qualitative research design is employed, utilizing an in-depth study of various documents of women politicians from various political backgrounds. Content analysis of their social media posts is also conducted to assess engagement strategies and public reception.
Findings: The study finds that social media significantly amplifies women’s political voices, allowing them to reach broader audiences and challenge traditional gender barriers. However, it also highlights ongoing challenges such as online harassment and gendered stereotypes, which persist despite the potential for empowerment.
Research Limitation: The study is limited by its geographic scope and the focus on a select group of women politicians, which may not fully represent the broader population of women in politics.
Practical Implication: Women politicians can use social media more effectively for political engagement, while political organizations must develop strategies to counter online harassment and support women’s digital empowerment.
Social Implication: This research underscores the transformative power of digital platforms in promoting gender equality in politics, highlighting the importance of an inclusive online environment.
Originality: This study contributes to the understanding of how social media can serve as a transformative tool for women in politics, filling a gap in the literature on digital engagement and political participation.

FİLİSTİNLİ HABERCİLER: EPİSTEMİK MUVAKEMET, HAKLILIĞIN GASPINI ÖNLEMEK VE TANIK OLARAK VAROLMAK
Küre ölçeğindeki tüm aktörlerin özgüvenle ve katılımcı şekilde söz konusu düzen arayışına ve habercilik standartlarına katkıda bulunması gerektiğini en iyi anlatan örnek, yerleşimci sömürgeci, ırkçı,
apartheid soykırımcı bir rejim olarak İsrail’in Filistin’de ve tüm bölgede güce dayalı yok edici politikalarının haberleştirilmesidir. Bu çabayı da dikkate alarak “haklılığın gaspı”nı önleyecek bir habercilik terminolojisi,
meslekî ilkeler ve bunların uygulanabilirliğini de sağlayan kurumsallaşmış bir medya yapısı oluşturulması temel bir ihtiyaç ve gerekliliktir.

7 Ekim 2023 ve sonrasında yürüyen, 1948 hatta 1916‘dan itibaren başlayan bir coğrafyanın yok edilişi,
işgal, ırkçılık ve sömürgecilik meselesi ve bunun hikâyesini anlatabilecek terminoloji üretme, bu terminolojiyi haber kalıpları içerisinde kullanabilmek, hem İsrail’in derinleştirdiği Filistin soykırımı özelinde haklılığın gaspını hem de bundan sonraki muhtemel soykırımları önleyici habercilik pratiğini de üretebilir.

Mevcut sektörel uygulamaların diliyle akademik bilgi birikiminin yeniden değerlendirmeye imkân verecek şekilde sömürgecilik, emperyalizm, Avrupa merkezcilik, etnosentrizm, antikolonyalizm, sömürge karşıtı başkaldırı/direniş kavramlarıyla ilişkilendirerek “adil ve etkili bir medya ve iletişim düzeni” arayışının odakta olduğu yeni bir örneklik olarak Filistin gazetecilerini konuşmak, Filistinli habercilerin hakkını teslim açısından da değerlidir.

ArtScience is emerging as one approach for creating novel ways of seeing and new ways of knowing. We propose a role for ArtScience research and creative work in contributing to the necessary shifts to go beyond the current crisis of representation. We specifically describe DataRemix, a recombination and reappropreation practice intended to trigger novel subjective experiences and associations. The narratives framing data creation and representation circumscribe what we can see and know, and how we see and know. How do we see and know beyond what our instruments, algorithms, representational schemas and training guide us to see and know? How do we look for what we don’t know we’re looking for when we can only examine at most a tiny fraction of the available data? Our argument is grounded in and will be illustrated by experience with several ArtScience collaborations spanning genomics, astrophysics, new media, and holographic sound design.

This study aims to understand the factors and actors of Hallyu (Korean Wave) in Turkey in the context of the characteristic cultural and technological conditions of network society. Two contextual factors -time and space-motivate this particular case study. While the consumption of Korean pop cultural products in European countries has noticeably increased, few studies were conducted on Hallyu in the European continent. Especially, network media technologies including blog, SNS, and various online communication platforms enable the international fans to consume Korean cultural products across the time and spatial barriers. In addition, this case study is also interesting because of the shared historical and cultural heritages maintaining and developing cultural linkages between South Korea and Turkey. Thus, this study contextualizes the Hallyu phenomenon in the context of historical, cultural, and technological relations between the two countries.

This study aims to understand the factors and actors of Hallyu (Korean Wave) in Turkey in the context of the characteristic cultural and technological conditions of network society. Two contextual factors -time and space- motivate this particular case study. While the consumption of Korean pop cultural products in European countries has noticeably increased, few studies were conducted on Hallyu in the European continent. Especially, network media technologies including blog, SNS, and various online communication platforms enable the international fans to consume Korean cultural products across the time and spatial barriers. In addition, this case study is also interesting because of the shared historical and cultural heritages maintaining and developing cultural linkages between South Korea and Turkey. Thus, this study contextualizes the Hallyu phenomenon in the context of historical, cultural, and technological relations between the two countries.

These days, we repeatedly hear the phrase -social media‖ from different sources, ranging from our nearest friends to the mass media we follow. We also hear that social media catalyzed and organized demonstrations in countries where recent revolutions broke out. But the actual role social media played in such socio-political contexts is, in most circumstances, blurred. To avert such problems, comprehending the theoretical ideals that can help us to understand such media's overall potential has a paramount significance. This paper thus aimed at assessing the theories of mediation and mediatization as alternative ways of conceptualizing the role of social media by reviewing some literatures

This collection represents a maturing discipline and the culture that brought post-secondary games education from the backrooms and basements of academic institutions to the frontispiece of internationally recognized programs. Collections such as these are a reminder of the strength of the collaborative, earnest, and cooperative character of game academics. It is this history in game-focused education that helped establish the legitimacy of such work in sometimes adversarial and skeptical environments. The work enclosed here is evidence of a community that aims to support quality education by fostering an open and transparent community of pedagogic discourse. These syllabi not only reflect the instructional goals of their authors, but they are also informed by the perpetual post-mortem of being an effective educator. They are the product of successful and unsuccessful experiments in improving student outcomes, addressing learning objectives, and working within the set of constrains common to all education. They are outlines of lessons learned to meet the common goal of providing a game-focused education. They also demonstrate the many foci of a complete ludic education. What is shown here is variety. A variety of disciplinary practices, a variety of institutions, and a variety of ways to help students examine the characteristics that makes games engaging, meaningful, and socially relevant media. From assessment tools to rubrics, and timelines to philosophies, the diversity here is evidence of a thriving community strengthened by entangling disciplines. For those who helped create the first generation of games degree programs, this is the collection we needed. Before such a collection, administrators, lead faculty, and committees effectively scrounged for such resources, tapping their network to understand what had been done. This collection simplifies that task by offering a single resource, much wider and more inclusive than those supported by traditional peer networks and organic web searches. It is a much-needed resource for any kind of starting -a new course, a new program, or a new take on a topic that educators know well. It is also a reminder that there is no one right way to teach games. Instead, like all interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary work, there are a variety of solutions to help move the entire practice foreword. It is a collection not unlike what those of us who have created game programs start with -a collection of syllabi from a wide-ranging faculty. This treasure trove is collected in a way that reduces redundancy and supports a wide view. This collection is also important as educators consider the evolving space of media literacy and global engagement. There are countless ways to interpret the study of games. When educators move viii TEACHING THE GAME away from the practice of teaching it the way they were taught, they often have an opportunity to improve the instructional value of their course. Having access to other syllabi facilitates a wider view of pedagogic solutions, references, assignments, resources, and teaching philosophies. While many early-generation faculty teaching games did not have this resource, its contents support both experienced and inexperienced faculty. It provides heuristics from the field. In this case, the field is the classroom. In these pages, foci vary from recognizing games as media artifacts or as technical experiments to commercial, artistic, or pragmatic products. There is study of the economics, history, operations, and more in the context of games. The breadth of study in itself serves as heuristic on how games act as both case study for a variety of disciplines and how the ludic pervades so much of life. Unsurprisingly, there are faculty using the canon of commercial games, while others aim for global, independent, and artistic intersections. Some focus on the technological, others on media or aesthetics. Ultimately, the mere aggregation of this knowledge lends perspective to the many approaches to teaching games. While this collection offers obvious practical resource in demonstrating how people educate others on games, it also serves as a snapshot of a time and space for games pedagogy. While in the short term it is useful to consider how such syllabi might support educator needs, it is also a tool for understanding what needed to be taught in the contemporary. For this reason, it remains a long-term resource. It provides evidence of that which needed to be taught when it was taught. That evidence is useful in capturing the shifts apparent in wider education. Where once there were collegiate courses to introduce the web, eventually the Internet's pervasiveness and technological simplicity rendered different needs for such courses. There is a chance that some of what is listed here will become so fundamental to the experience of all learners, it will not warrant a college level course. What will be left instead is an archive like this, that helps map how education itself changed over time. Ultimately the health of any environment, whether academic or natural, is in its ability to thrive. Where those less informed about games education might perceive a monoculture, the syllabi collected here offer evidence of a much healthier community. Resting in these pages is humanist pedagogy among technology, media studies mingled with education, narrative alongside ethics. It is evidence of a community that is thriving in its diversity of subject and resources. As academic environments shift, this diversity of focus helps insulate games education from the disruption that could prove detrimental to less diverse topics. Readers are invited to not only review the contents of this book as an encyclopedic reference, but also as an artifact. As a way of seeing more globally the ways in which games, broadly, are taught. In so doing, readers' pedagogical approaches may broaden or even be inspired in entirely new directions. At the least, reading through the resources presented here gives an opportunity to peek into another instructor's classroom, learn what they are doing, and help the community grow through a kind of informal, asynchronous class visit. Reading such a collection comes with a responsibility. Readers are encouraged to continue to contribute to the practice in an equally generous way. Just as this collection provides evidence of a collaborative, earnest, and cooperative character in game academics, it also calls forth the reader to continue that tradition. Games, for all their social pervasiveness and potential, are not always educationally accessible to many communities. The momentum of games education has been its hallmark for decades. As educators examine this collection and use it in their own planning it seems a self-evident responsibility to continue that commitment. The practice and strength of the community grows not from the darkness of obscuring our work behind closed doors, but instead by generously sharing it widely, freely, and with the light available to all. Just as the contributors and editors have given you this valuable resource to support the strength of games education, you are invited to continue contributing, collaborating, and working to make the opaque more transparent. Give light to academic rhizomes as they rise and leave space for them to grow in full support of our shared strength.

This paper reports on an action research project with public sector organisations in the UK which experimented with a range of digital methods (social media data mining, social network and issue network mapping, data visualisation), in order to explore their potential usefulness for the public engagement activities of these organisations. We argue that there is a need for small-scale, qualitative studies of cultures of large-scale, quantitative data like ours, to open up spaces in which to reflect critically on the methods with which such data is produced. However, in the paper we highlight the difficulties we had enacting through action research a commitment to both the potential (which might be seen as the action part of action research) and the problems (which might be seen as the research part of action research) of digital methods. Following , we suggest that an equal balance between action and research may always be difficult to sustain, in both action research and the use of digital methods. Despite this, we argue that critical discussion of digital methods needs to extend beyond academic spacesthrough this move, we suggest, we might open up a space in which to reflect on how these methods might be used for the public good.

With a background in computer science and extensive experience in professional digital media production, his current research interests include the relationship between digital technologies, interpersonal communication and citizenship. Recent projects have developed digital methods and analysed their application to the study and practice of digital citizenship and political communication in online, mobile and digital spaces. Responding to the increased quantification of people and public, current efforts include investigations into methods of knowing and describing humans using data and numbers and the impacts of such descriptions on the subjects themselves.

In Italy, as in any occidental "advanced" country, the theme/problem of the selection and training of teachers is one of the focus of political and pedagogical debate. It is also one of the most popular and interesting "strands" of pedagogical and educational research. h e aim of this paper is to rel ect on issues and problems related to the selection and the education of future teachers from the perspective of their university training, starting from consideration of legislative and regulatory aspects and providing some analyses moving from, even considering the early stage of data collection, empirical evidence from the admission test. So, the following rel ections are to address -although, in summary -legislative aspects, critical analysis, pedagogical perspectives of admission test for primary teacher degree. We are pursuing a research, that will be illustrated in the following pages -at the present time, we warn again, in the initial phase -, which takes place starting to focus on University of Macerata and it is part of at least a i ve-year survey project, which plans, as its object of study, the selection of future teachers of kindergarten and primary, put in relation to school curriculum, development of university training, access/entrance to/in the teaching profession, with attention to both legislative developments and pedagogical perspectives. h e objective is proposing to experience evaluations for college studentsand future teachers -in line with the Dublin descriptors and in a clear and stable legal framework. At the same time, we consider it is necessary to study the relevant legislation -and its interpretation and evolution -because university education and training cannot avoid, i rst of all, the issue of rules of access to the teaching profession. h ese issues were presented and discussed at an international conference. h e positive results of the admission tests and the excellent outcomes of examinations of the i rst year of graduation course at University of Macerata led to rel ect about pedagogical and educational aspects of the teacher-student relationship and university teaching. So, in the last part, the paper draws attention to the need to think/discuss -in pedagogical perspective -about the failure in studies, to avoid problems during the studies and provide adequate guidance and tutoring.

This issue investigates the layered temporalities, shifting modalities, and evolving infrastructures of tele-visions – a plural, hyphenated term designating the spectrum of remote viewing technologies that have shaped, and continually reshape, how images travel and appear across distances. From early optical telegraphs and nineteenth-century electromagnetic signal relays to today’s ubiquitous digital environments, these systems condition how we think about, imagine, and experience the televisual. One element emerges as a particularly fruitful entry point into the archeology of tele-visions: the wireless. In many ways, the integration of Hertzian waves into telecommunications at the close of the nineteenth century marked an epistemic shift – a profound reordering of the technical, perceptual, and conceptual frameworks through which reality is organised and understood. The present issue explores the historical, technical, and artistic dimensions of that transformation, which, beyond the mere absence of cables, ushered in a new media paradigm whose political, philosophical, and environmental ramifications continue to be redefined with each successive wave of wireless innovation.

In this technical demonstration, we demonstrate a Web-based application called Jiku Director that automatically creates a mashup video from event videos uploaded by users. The system runs an algorithm that considers view quality (shakiness, tilt, occlusion), video quality (blockiness, contrast, sharpness, illumination, burned pixels), and spatial-temporal diversity (shot angles, shot lengths) to create a mashup video with smooth shot transitions while covering the event from different perspectives.