Regulating News and Disinformation on Digital Platforms

Wilding, Derek

doi:10.18080/jtde.v9n2.415

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“…The intimate format of audio storytelling cultivates a sense of personal connection, leading to heightened engagement and loyalty among listeners. (Wilding, 2018).…”

Section: Podcasts: a Rising Trend In Digital Journalismmentioning

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The Use of Multimedia in Newspapers: A Study on the Websites of Emirati Newspapers

Abdallah,

Abokhoza,

Aissani

2024

SMC

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The competition faced by journalistic websites has imposed the necessity of taking advantage of the capabilities offered by the Internet so that it can provide more distinguished journalistic services, to attract the largest number of users, as the strength of a newspaper website is measured by the number of people browsing it on the one hand, and the period that the user spends on it, The research problem is to monitor the use of multimedia websites of Emirati newspapers (Al-Ittihad, Al-Bayan, Al-Khaleej).The study aimed to determine the extent to which Emirati newspapers use multimedia in their websites during the study period (January - March 2023), and the key elements they used to present and publish their news to the audience. This study used the descriptive analytical approach for 14 issues of each newspaper on their websites, and several results were obtained, the most important of which are: The newspapers sampled for the study relied mainly on pictures, using them in 1272 out of 1632 media, with a percentage of 77.9%. The use of audio clips ranked second, with 218 clips out of 1632 media and a percentage of 13.3%. Al-Khaleej newspaper ranked first with 212 clips out of the total clips used, with a large margin of 97.25%, as it distinguished itself by using audio clips in every news story and alongside every video as an additional feature. Al-Ittihad newspaper only used 6 audio blogs, with a percentage of 2.75% out of 218 clips, followed by videos in third place with 100 videos out of the total media used, with a percentage of 6.1%. Infographics came in fourth place in terms of using multimedia, with 42 infographics, accounting for 2.7% of the total multimedia used.

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“…The intimate format of audio storytelling cultivates a sense of personal connection, leading to heightened engagement and loyalty among listeners. (Wilding, 2018).…”

Section: Podcasts: a Rising Trend In Digital Journalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Use of Multimedia in Newspapers: A Study on the Websites of Emirati Newspapers

Abdallah,

Abokhoza,

Aissani

2024

SMC

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“…Media has also transformed world politics by making secret and open information spread like fire. It has an impact on the information revolution with instantaneous communication possible and giving enormous reactions to government activities that touch human rights, security of the populace, democracy and standard of living (Wilding et al , 2018).…”

Section: Media Role On Information Disseminationmentioning

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Media and ethical issues in terrorism reporting and the security implication in Nigeria

Bodunde,

Layefa,

Fasae

2023

JACPR

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Purpose This paper aims to investigate the relationship between media reporting and violent extremism to explain the ethical and security issues emanating from it in Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach This paper draws on security and ethical literature, while a multimethod approach consisting of in-depth and focus group interviews was used. Content analysis was also relied upon from the interviews granted by media experts on terrorism, security and ethics. Findings Findings revealed that journalists are facing problems in areas of freedom of expression, framing, content selection and personal security. Again, this paper opines that elements of public awareness and issues of relevance also push the media to excessive reporting in which ethics and security must stand to play a restraining role. Research limitations/implications The first limitation of this paper is the inability to interview some terrorists and know their reaction to mass media reporting on their activities because nobody is ready to own up that he is a terrorist and to point to an individual as a terrorist is a dangerous phenomenon. Again, not all reporters are ready for interviews because of the fact that they are not prepared for the academic exercise but rather for assignments that can yield fat money such as selling secret information to those who can buy them with huge amounts of money like the politicians. Practical implications There is a threat to life on both sides of the government and terrorists. Favoring one side in their report is an offense from another side. There is also a violation of their human rights in freedom of speech as a result of the political situation in Nigeria where the government is faced with insecurity that hinders media from freedom of the press to publish reports. Moreover, where the ethical issue is suppressed, it makes the government unpopular all over the world because of the lack of press freedom. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this paper is novel as being the first of its kind where media experts are involved in research attempts on media reporting and violent extremism in relation to security and ethical issues in Nigeria.

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“…Despite the associated economic difficulties facing media enterprises, the multiple-channel environment has enabled such an ostensibly miraculous improvement in productivity levels across the media business. If anything, the desire of the audience to obtain material through multiple sources has compelled the media sector to diversify into multiple channels (Wilding et al, 2018). Today's newspaper businesses have access to a wide range of multi-channel distribution options.…”

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Newspapers’ Usage of Multiple Channels in News Dissemination and Its Implication on Their Business Survival

Ikeme,

Olley,

Akpor

2023

IJRSI

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The introduction of internet technology came with multiple channels through which newspaper now distributes their contents to readers to keep them informed to make profits. This study looks at newspapers’ use of multiple channels for news dissemination and the implication for their business survival. To tackle this research work, the survey method with the use of a questionnaire was adopted. The Technological Determinism theory was chosen for this study. Data for the research work were obtained from the staff of The Nation newspaper, a leading national daily in Nigeria. The data obtained were presented, analyzed, and interpreted with the use of the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). The study found that the introduction of multiple channels has affected news production as readers are now used to getting news content from various channels just as the profit from multiple channels is sustaining newspaper enterprises. The study recommended, among other things, that newspaper companies should seize the initiative from digital platforms to create workable online multi-channels to draw large readerships while still retaining their print version, and since it is obvious that readers are now adapting to multiple channels, they should fully adopt the use of multiple channels to stay afloat in business.

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Regulating News and Disinformation on Digital Platforms

Cited by 20 publications

References 14 publications

The Use of Multimedia in Newspapers: A Study on the Websites of Emirati Newspapers

The Use of Multimedia in Newspapers: A Study on the Websites of Emirati Newspapers

Media and ethical issues in terrorism reporting and the security implication in Nigeria

Newspapers’ Usage of Multiple Channels in News Dissemination and Its Implication on Their Business Survival

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