Suchergebnisse

The way how radio and television operators cover an electoral campaign has been and remains a subject of discussion in order to improve their performance and editorial offices meet the professional and deontological requirements. Evaluation and analysis of specific subjects, or of the market in general is made with the monitoring of broadcast contents. The main focus of this paper is precisely on aspects of the monitoring process of audio and audio-visual media during the electoral process in Albania, the carried over or new features and phenomena. Referring specifically to the campaign event of local elections of 21 June 2015. By addressing the applied methodology, the management method, what market part the calculation of indicators of campaign coverage includes, in duration and contents of information and messages addressed to the public, etc. By identifying and analysing the concrete dynamics of how the monitoring infrastructure works and how much effect it has, the work is also an effort for proposals and ideas that improve the situation, in order to achieve a comprehensive and qualitative monitoring, also in response to the process of transfer of audio-visual broadcasts from analog to digital.

Introduction

This book began life with the inaugural conference of the international
research project 'The healthy self as body capital: Individuals, market-based
societies, body politics and visual media in the twentieth century Europe',
held in Strasbourg from 23 to 25 February 2017. The editors would like to
thank all participants for their stimulating input during this outstanding
event. The presentations and discussions influenced this book in many ways.
The research project and the book are funded by the European Research
Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and
innovation programme (grant agreement No. 694817) and receive significant
support from the University of Strasbourg, the Research Unit SAGE (UMR
7363), and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development Berlin (Center
for the History of Emotions). We owe gratitude to Tricia Close Koenig, Thérèse
Vicente, Lionel Boutton, Fatima Gomis, and Assia Hammali for material
support with our research and Elisabeth Fuchs for translation work and
subtitling (all University of Strasbourg). We would also like to thank our
editor at Amsterdam University Press, Maryse Elliott, for her support in
the production of the book.
Moreover, we thank our contributors for their inspiring ideas and indepth
research. We would like to thank the artists VALIE EXPORT for her
collaboration with one of the chapters and Sascha Kürschner for working
with us on the book cover. We hope that his drawing 'FEELING REAL' from
his series 'PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS' provides a fitting visual prelude to an
interesting read.

Discourses around human rights frequently treat media as transparent delivery systems for testimony and spectacles of atrocity. Such views detract from the degree to which media circuits shape human rights claims, in which aesthetic strategies transform a vast and distant horror into sympathetic cause, and systems of exhibition channel sentiment into action. This article's study of Ravished Armenia and the early film advocacy of Near East Relief in the Armenian case yields not only the contributions of media to claims‐making process and humanitarian action but also Christian underpinnings of human rights movements. The evangelical legacy produced missions that provided the transnational infrastructure for sharing visual testimony and administering aid and offered an instrumental iconography of suffering that shaped an early "rights imaginary."

Abstract
Over the past two decades, society has seen incredible advances in digital technology, resulting in the wide availability of cheap and easy-to-use software for creating highly sophisticated fake visual content. This democratisation of creating such content, paired with the ease of sharing it via social media, means that ill-intended fake images and videos pose a significant threat to society. To minimise this threat, it is necessary to be able to distinguish between real and fake content; to date, however, human perceptual research indicates that people have an extremely limited ability to do so. Generally, computational techniques fair better in these tasks, yet remain imperfect. What's more, this challenge is best considered as an arms race – as scientists improve detection techniques, fraudsters find novel ways to deceive. We believe that it is crucial to continue to raise awareness of the visual forgeries afforded by new technology and to examine both human and computational ability to sort the real from the fake. In this article, we outline three considerations for how society deals with future technological developments that aim to help secure the benefits of that technology while minimising its possible threats. We hope these considerations will encourage interdisciplinary discussion and collaboration that ultimately goes some way to limit the proliferation of harmful content and help to restore trust online.