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The researchers analyzed how Pakistani media report issues relating to transgender people in their routine news coverage. After selecting the reputed English-language newspapers Dawn and The News, the researchers employed content analysis to examine the media approach toward transgender people thoroughly. The findings of the study revealed a 'soft approach' of media toward this marginalized group, as both newspapers highlighted their issue more favorably, supporting the stances of transgender people, especially regarding the security or threats being faced by them. According to Gillig et al. (2018), watching stories about transgender people decreased the [negative] impact of political ideology on the opinions of viewers. As a result, the main findings of this study reflect the supportive attitude toward transgender people in Pakistani media. This approach of media in Pakistan will help to reduce negative perceptions about transgender people because more conservative viewers' perceptions have changed as a result of seeing more positive media representations of these individuals. Nonetheless, there is a need for more positive news coverage because transgender related issues received a minimal amount of coverage—106 news stories over a year in both of the selected newspapers—which appears to be an insufficient amount of coverage of this population.

Social media and digital methods provide people with mechanism that allows them to organise themselves around collective issues and to manage social and infrastructural resources in new collaborative ways. Knowledge of the best practices in the application of social media in the process of urban planning, design and social networking was gained under the Short-Term Scientific Mission (STSM) under the COST Action 1306, and these are discussed, together with a comparison of common public activities in Amsterdam and Sofia. It has been proven that with the possibility to support better understandings of the connection between technology, public needs and spatial development, a visual approach could bring valuable knowledge and information. In Amsterdam and in Sofia, there were similar physical activities undertaken by common people and there was not wide use of technology detected, except use of smart-phones. In Sofia, from one side there was not enough knowledge and experience in technology application for urban open space development and, on the other hand, citizens are willing to learn more about Amsterdam's good practices in urban regeneration by actively supporting social media and playful games. The study is an attempt towards understanding the complex relationship between mobile media, citizens' experience, possible changes in their lifestyles and possible spatial development and planning. ; Funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union. ; peer-reviewed

The media influence society's understanding of gender and other social phenomena including how we view
fatherhood. Fatherhood is rarely presented positively in both visual and print media. Through an analysis of newspaper
articles from The Sowetan, City Press, The Daily Sun and The Pretoria News, this article shows how shaming is used to
represent fatherhood and child support in the South African print media. These representations, the article argues are
limiting and provide fewer positives for fathers and fail to account for socio-economic challenges experienced in relation
to fatherhood. In conclusion, the article illustrates that the media could play an important role in presenting a balanced
sense of fatherhood, where affirmation of positive fatherhood is used as a more effective way of representing fatherhood
in the media.

This book is about exploring both the potential and the limits of communication -of using communication both as a tool and as a way of articulation processes of development and social change, improving averday lives, and empowering people to influence their own lives and those of their fellow community members. The essence is communication. The dilemma is that communication will not solve every problem, althought it can contribute in some ways to problem- solving -we just need to get better at knowing how. The discipline of communication to development is currently at a crossroads, and the approaches taken over the last few decades require serious rethinking. Technologies are evolving on everthing -and communication concerned with debates and issues relating to development and change in society. The aim of this book is a contribute to the critical reflection about how communicaction works in process of change within the contexts of globalization. ; Index Foreword Oscar Hemer & Thomas Tufte Introduction: The challenge of the glocal Oscar Hemer & Thomas Tufte Part I. Globalization, media and culture Chapter 1 How can the glocal be local? Islam, the West and the globalisation of identity politics Thomas Hylland Eriksen Chapter 2 New complexities of transnational media cultures Kevin Robins & Asu Aksoy Chapter 3 Writing the world Oscar Hemer Communication and social change Chapter 4 Five key ideas: coincidences and challenges in development communication Silvio Waisbord Chapter 5 Participatory communication: the new paradigm? Jan Servaes & Patchanee Malikhao Chapter 6 Communicating for what? How globalization and HIV/AIDS push the ComDev agenda Thomas Tufte Methodology Chapter 7 The diffusion and participatory models: a comparative analysis Nancy Morris Chapter 8 Communication for empowerment. The practice of participatory communication in development Maria Celeste Cadiz Chapter 9 Entertainment-education in development communication Between marketing behaviours and empowering people Thomas Tufte Part II Mapping the field Chapter 10 Media, democracy and the public sphere James Deane Chapter 11 From NWICO to global governance of the information society Ulla Carlsson Chapter 12 Media policy, peace and state reconstruction Tim Allen & Nicole Stremlau Chapter 13 Participatory and cultural challenges for research and practice in health communication Rafael Obregon & Mario Mosquera Chapter 14 Communication for sustainable development: applications and challenges Paolo Mefalopulos Chapter 15 Out of focus: gender visibilities in development Karin Gwinn Wilkins Chapter 16 The information society: visions and realities in developing countries Madanmohan Rao Chapter 17 Assessing ICT in development: a critical perspective Manne Granqvist Chapter 18 'We were nobody, we were nothing': art, communications and memories of underdevelopment Sarat Maharaj & Gilane Tawadros Part III Case studies Chapter 19 Miners' radio stations. A unique communication experience from Bolivia Alfonso Gumucio-Dagron Chapter 20 The citizen, media and social change in Namibia Ullamaija Kivikuru Chapter 21 Missed opportunities in post-war Bosnia Kemal Kurspahic Chapter 22 Radio in Afghanistan: socially useful communications in wartime Gordon Adam Chapter 23 From the Sandinista revolution to telenovelas: the case of Puntos de Encuentro Clemencia Rodríguez Chapter 24 SiMchezo! magazine. Community media making a difference Minou Fuglesang Chapter 25 Young voices travel far: a case study of Scenarios from Africa Kate Winskell & Daniel Enger Chapter 26 Communication function in an evolving context of rural development Ricardo Ramírez Chapter 27 Bridging digital divides. Lessons learned from the IT initiatives of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh Arvind Singhal, Peer J. Svenkerud, Prashant Malaviya, Everett M. Rogers & Vijay Krishna Chapter 28 Theatre for Development in Africa Christopher Kamlongera Notes on the authors References

The French-ruled territory of New Caledonia, or Kanaky, as Indigenous pro-independence campaigners call their cigar-shaped islands, voted on their political future on 4 November 2018 amid controversy and tension. This was an historic vote on independence in a 'three-strikes' scenario in the territory ruled by France since 1853, originally as a penal colony for convicts and political dissidents. In the end, the vote was remarkably close, reflecting the success of the pro-independence Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS) in mobilising voters, particularly the youth. The referendum choice was simple and stark. Voters simply had to respond 'yes' or 'no' to the question: 'Do you want New Caledonia to attain full sovereignty and become independent?' In spite of prophecies of an overwhelming negative vote, the 'no' response slipped to a 56.4 percent vote while the 'yes' vote wrested a credible 43.6 percent share with a record turnout of almost 81 percent. New Caledonia is expected to face two further votes on the independence question in 2020 and 2022. The author of this article reported as a journalist on an uprising against French rule in the 1980s, known by the euphemism 'les Évènements' ('the Events'). He returned there three decades later as an academic to bear witness to the vote and examine the role of digital media and youth. This article reflects on his impressions of the result, democracy and the future.

Elite integration has been a central topic within research an elites. In this paper, theoretical ideas about factors behind elite cohesion are discussed and empirically tested. The analyses presented in the paper Show that ideological integration is strongest in elite groups where the share of members with upper/upper middle class origin is highest. This finding is valid whether the elite groups are located to the left or to the right in the political landscape. Various explanations of the finding are discussed.

'andererseits' provides a forum for research, commentary, and creative work on topics related to the German-speaking world and the field of German Studies. Works presented in the publication come from a wide variety of genres including book reviews, poetry, essays, editorials, forum discussions, academic notes, lectures, and traditional peer-reviewed academic articles. In addition, we welcome contributions by journalists, librarians, archivists, and other commentators interested in German Studies broadly conceived. As a specifically transatlantic endeavor, we also highlight select topics in American Studies that impact German Studies. By publishing such a diverse array of material, we hope to demonstrate the extraordinary value of the humanities in general, and German Studies in particular, on a variety of intellectual and cultural levels. This issue features sections about German Studies approaches to media literacy, Stephen Dowden's book "Modernism and Mimesis" and the poetics of ambiguous memory.

From the moment they were announced, the Beijing Games were a major media event and the focus of intense scrutiny and speculation. In contrast to earlier such events, however, the Beijing Games are also unfolding in a newly volatile global media environment that is no longer monopolized by broadcast media. The dramatic expansion of media outlets and the growth of mobile communications technology have changed the nature of media events, making it significantly more difficult to regulate them or control their meaning. This volatility is reflected in the multiple, well-publicized controversies characterizing the run-up to Beijing 2008. According to many Western commentators, the People's Republic of China seized the Olympics as an opportunity to reinvent itself as the ""New China""—a global leader in economics, technology, and environmental issues, with an improving human-rights record. But China's maneuverings have also been hotly contested by diverse global voices, including prominent human-rights advocates, all seeking to displace the official story of the Games. Bringing together a distinguished group of scholars from Chinese studies, human rights, media studies, law, and other fields, Owning the Olympics reveals how multiple entities—including the Chinese Communist Party itself—seek to influence and control the narratives through which the Beijing Games will be understood

In Social Media and Hate, Shakuntala Banaji and Ramnath Bhat explore the problem of hate speech on social media platforms, offering case studies of India, Brazil, Myanmar and the UK. The book is a timely and insightful exploration of the intersection of misinformation and social media hate in contemporary societies, writes Deshdeep Dhankhar. If you … Continued

In a crucial sense, all machines are time machines. The essays in Media Infrastructures and the Politics of Digital Time develop the central concept of "hardwired temporalities" to consider how technical networks hardwire and rewire patterns of time. Digital media introduce new temporal patterns in their features of instant communication, synchronous collaboration, intricate time management, and continually improved speed. They construct temporal infrastructures that affect the rhythms of lived experience and shape social relations and practices of cooperation. Interdisciplinary in method and international in scope, the volume draws together insights from media and communication studies, cultural studies, and science and technology studies while staging an important encounter between two distinct approaches to the temporal patterning of media infrastructures, a North American strain emphasizing the social and cultural experiences of lived time and a European tradition, prominent especially in Germany, focusing on technological time and time-critical processes. With contributions by Geoffrey Bowker, Marisa Cohn, Wolfgang Ernst, Sumanth Gopinath, James Hodge, Yuk Hui, Andrew Johnston, Alexander Monea, Eva-Maria Nyckel, Isabell Otto, Britt Paris, John Durham Peters, Gabriele Schabacher, Florian Sprenger, Nicole Starosielski, Kyle Stine, Andreas Sudmann, and Axel Volmar. ; Kyle Stine, Axel Volmar: Infrastructures of Time: An Introduction to Hardwired Temporalities Part I: Media Philosophies of Time Pattering John Durham Peters: The Suspension of Irreversibility: The Fundamental (and Futile) Task of Media Gabriele Schabacher: Time and Technology: The Temporalities of Care Yuk Hui: Problems of Temporality in the Digital Epoch Wolfgang Ernst: Suspending the "Time Domain": Technological Tempor(e)alities of Media Infrastructures Part II: Microtimes Isabell Otto: Infrastructuring Leap Seconds: The Regime of Temporal Plurality in Digitally Networked Media Geoffrey C. Bowker: Life at the Femtosecond Andrew R. Johnston: Artificial Intelligence and the Temporality of Machine Images Florian Sprenger: Intervals of Intervention : Micro-Decisions and the Temporal Autonomy of Self-Driving Cars Part III: Lifetimes Nicole Starosielski: Grounded Speed and the Soft Temporality of Network Infrastructure Marisa Leavitt Cohn: Unruly Bodies of Code in Time James J. Hodge: Screwed: Anxiety and the Digital Ends of Anticipation Sumanth Gopinath: Beep: Listening to the Digital Watch Part IV: Futures Alexander Monea: Captured Time: Eye Tracking and the Attention Economy Eva-Maria Nyckel: Ahead of Time : The Infrastructure of Amazon's Anticipatory Shipping Method Andreas Sudmann: Artificial Neural Networks, Postdigital Infrastructures and the Politics of Temporality Britt S. Paris: Technics of Time: Values in Future Internet Development

Die Auseinandersetzung mit den Grenzen und Grenzüberschreitungen vernünftigen Verstehens ist ein wesentlicher Bestandteil von phantastisch-spekulativen Erzählungen in populären Medienkulturen.Populärkulturelle Wissensproduktionen entfalten sich häufig im unaufgelösten Spannungsfeld von Wissen und Glauben, Realität und Simulation, Natürlichem und Übernatürlichem. Sie bleiben grundlegend spekulativ.»Pop & Mystery« untersucht anhand von Film, Fernsehen, Musik und Internet, wie spekulative Wissensproduktionen und Wissensirritationen einerseits inszeniert und diskutiert werden - und wie sie sich andererseits medial, technisch, gesellschaftlich und kulturell auswirken.Hierbei spielen populärkulturelle Medienkulturen mit den Regeln der Fiktionen und Fiktionsdiskurse und setzen dabei Normen mimetischer Konventionen außer Kraft.

AbstractThe purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between the use of mass media by immigrant women in Korea and their capacity to form and build social capital, centering on their use of media such as; television, newspapers and the Internet. To achieve this research goal, the concept of social capital was reviewed and the relationship between trust, civic engagement and socio-political participation, which are components of social capital, were investigated.The study (n=335) measured the effects of consuming major media types on the formation of social capital within the sample population and identified the relationship between generic consumption patterns associated with individual media and the formation of social capital. In addition, this paper sheds light on the notion that a person's socio-demographic background affects the formation and building of social capital and that trust and civic engagement affects socio-political participation.