Changing Global Media Landscapes: Convergence, Fragmentation, and Polarization

by Al-Obaidi, Jabbar A.

Author	: Al-Obaidi, Jabbar A.
Publisher	: IGI Global
Total Pages	: 377
Release	: 2024-07-17
Genre	: Social Science
ISBN	:

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With the advancement of technology and the increasing use of digital and social media platforms, we are experiencing an unprecedented era of global connectivity and information sharing. However, alongside these advancements comes a pressing challenge: the rampant spread of misinformation and disinformation, fueling fragmentation and polarization within communities worldwide. As regulations struggle to keep pace with technological innovation, media scholars, experts, and practitioners face a critical need for comprehensive strategies to navigate this complex terrain. Changing Global Media Landscapes: Convergence, Fragmentation, and Polarization offers a solution to the multifaceted challenges of modern media and communication. This book provides a vital platform for scholars and professionals to explore the intricacies of global media technologies and devise actionable strategies to combat misinformation. With a keen focus on media ethics, law, and organizational management, it equips readers with the tools needed to confront the evolving landscape of digital media responsibly and effectively.

Changing Global Media Landscapes

by Jabbar A. Al-Obaidi

Author	: Jabbar A. Al-Obaidi
Publisher	: Information Science Reference
Total Pages	: 0
Release	: 2024-07-17
Genre	: Business & Economics
ISBN	:

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With the advancement of technology and the increasing use of digital and social media platforms, we are experiencing an unprecedented era of global connectivity and information sharing. However, alongside these advancements comes a pressing challenge: the rampant spread of misinformation and disinformation, fueling fragmentation and polarization within communities worldwide. As regulations struggle to keep pace with technological innovation, media scholars, experts, and practitioners face a critical need for comprehensive strategies to navigate this complex terrain. Changing Global Media Landscapes: Convergence, Fragmentation, and Polarization offers a solution to the multifaceted challenges of modern media and communication. This book provides a vital platform for scholars and professionals to explore the intricacies of global media technologies and devise actionable strategies to combat misinformation. With a keen focus on media ethics, law, and organizational management, it equips readers with the tools needed to confront the evolving landscape of digital media responsibly and effectively.

Social Media and Democracy

by Nathaniel Persily

Author	: Nathaniel Persily
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages	: 365
Release	: 2020-09-03
Genre	: Business & Economics
ISBN	: 1108835554

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A state-of-the-art account of what we know and do not know about the effects of digital technology on democracy.

The Oxford Handbook of the Science of Science Communication

by Kathleen Hall Jamieson

Author	: Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Total Pages	: 513
Release	: 2017
Genre	: Psychology
ISBN	: 0190497629

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On topics from genetic engineering and mad cow disease to vaccination and climate change, this Handbook draws on the insights of 57 leading science of science communication scholars who explore what social scientists know about how citizens come to understand and act on what is known by science.

Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Technology and Society

by Qin Gao

Author	: Qin Gao
Publisher	: Springer Nature
Total Pages	: 398
Release	: 2020-07-10
Genre	: Computers
ISBN	: 3030502325

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This three volume set of LNCS 12207, 12208 and 12209 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population, ITAP 2020, held as part of the 22nd International Conference, HCI International 2020, which took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, in July 2020. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The total of 1439 papers and 238 posters have been accepted for publication in the HCII 2020 proceedings from a total of 6326 submissions. ITAP 2020 includes a total of 104 regular papers which are organized in topical sections named: Involving Older Adults in HCI Methodology , User Experience and Aging, Aging and Mobile and Wearable Devices, Health and Rehabilitation Technologies, Well-being, Persuasion, Health Education and Cognitive Support, Aging in Place, Cultural and Entertainment Experiences for Older Adults, Aging and Social Media, Technology Acceptance and Societal Impact.

Global Trends 2040

by National Intelligence Council

Author	: National Intelligence Council
Publisher	: Cosimo Reports
Total Pages	: 158
Release	: 2021-03
Genre	:
ISBN	: 9781646794973

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"The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come." -Global Trends 2040 (2021) Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence Council, is the latest report in its series of reports starting in 1997 about megatrends and the world's future. This report, strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, paints a bleak picture of the future and describes a contested, fragmented and turbulent world. It specifically discusses the four main trends that will shape tomorrow's world: - Demographics-by 2040, 1.4 billion people will be added mostly in Africa and South Asia. - Economics-increased government debt and concentrated economic power will escalate problems for the poor and middleclass. - Climate-a hotter world will increase water, food, and health insecurity. - Technology-the emergence of new technologies could both solve and cause problems for human life. Students of trends, policymakers, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades, will find this report, with colored graphs, essential reading.

Understanding Media

by Marshall McLuhan

Author	: Marshall McLuhan
Publisher	: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages	: 396
Release	: 2016-09-04
Genre	:
ISBN	: 9781537430058

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When first published, Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media made history with its radical view of the effects of electronic communications upon man and life in the twentieth century.

The Media Welfare State

by Ole J. Mjøs

Author	: Ole J. Mjøs
Publisher	: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages	: 165
Release	: 2014-10-22
Genre	: Social Science
ISBN	: 047212031X

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The Media Welfare State: Nordic Media in the Digital Era comprehensively addresses the central dynamics of the digitalization of the media industry in the Nordic countries—Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland—and the ways media organizations there are transforming to address the new digital environment. Taking a comparative approach, the authors provide an overview of media institutions, content, use, and policy throughout the region, focusing on the impact of information and communication technology/internet and digitalization on the Nordic media sector. Illustrating the shifting media landscape the authors draw on a wide range of cases, including developments in the press, television, the public service media institutions, and telecommunication.

After the Arab Uprisings

by Shamiran Mako

Author	: Shamiran Mako
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages	: 307
Release	: 2021-07-22
Genre	: Political Science
ISBN	: 1108429831

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A holistic and cross-disciplinary approach to understanding why a regional democratic transition did not occur after the Arab Spring protests, this accessible study highlights the salience of regime type, civil society, women's mobilizations, and external intervention across seven countries for undergraduate and postgraduate students and scholars.