09:00-10:15 PANEL 2: ACTIVISM AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS (Large auditorium)
Moderator: dr.Viktorija
Car, University
of Zagreb, Faculty of Political Science
Viktorija
Car is Assistant Professor at the University of Zagreb, Journalism
Department at the
Faculty of Political Science. She teaches Public Service Media and Media Text Research Methods at MA
level, and Visual Culture at BA
level. In focus of her researches are public service media, digital media, digital activism,
television, narratives in media texts, etc. She was member of the
Croatian public service radio-television (HRT) Program
Council. Recently, she has published the report on Mapping Digital Media in Croatia.
Social Media Revolutions: A comparison between Egypt and Moldova’s online social movements
Bogdan Ivascu, National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania
Technological inovations in
the IT and mobile communication fields transformed the means of communication
between individuals. This fact allowed the growth of the individual’s
adaptability to unforseen situations within the network society model (Van Dijk:1991, Castells:1996). Social media offers to the individual the
possibility of action upon social reality from within an artificial zone. In
recent years, social movements and support groups found within social media a
new environment of expression, from where to voice their objectives and
coordinate their actions without the need of spatial proximity. This study
proposes to identify some aspects of the relation between civic engagement and
the role played by social media, specifically the social networking site Twitter,
during the social movements in Moldova (April 2009) and Egypt (January 2011).
The rapid emergence and worldwide
proliferation of social movements, organized and coordinated through the
Internet, raised a number of questions that require rethinking social movement
theory. The electronic networks that
made contemporary globalization possible also led to the emergence of “virtual
public spheres” and “Internetworked
Social Movements.”
Digital Activism: Real, Virtual or Surrogate Civic Engagement?
Dr. Viktorija Car, University of Zagreb,
Croatia
Neven Benko, University of Zagreb, Croatia
The question
is: what is, or is there any difference between digital activism, online activism, cyberactivism, internet
activism, digital campaigning or digital advocacy?
This kind of activism has become a normal,
everyday reality in democracies where it attracts the
attention of governments, corporations and citizens. Different
communication theories try to explain this 21st
century movement, like public sphere theory, social
movement theory, the culture industry concept, cultural studies, etc. The aim is to give the answers on: How real
digital activism is, and is it possible to measure its effects?
Traditional or virtual? The media chosen by the Israeli tent protest movement and its relations to the respondents' level of involvement and activism
Dr. Amir Hetsroni, School of Communication,
Ariel University Center, Israel
Hila Lowenstein, School of Communication,
Ariel University Center, Israel
Study based on a survey
conducted face to face with individuals at the Israeli social protest
movement's Tel Aviv Rothschild Boulevard tent compound during the summer of 2011, in order to
determine the type of media which provided information to the protestors, and
detect potential differences in the involvement and activism of protestors who
chose traditional mass media and those who used online social networks.
Among the control variables
it was found that socio-demographic background and religiosity of individuals
did not consistently affect their involvement with the protest goals or
activism, but a socialist worldview was significantly related to both of these
variable.
New technologies and civic engagement
Dr. Dragan Ćalović, Megatrend University,
University of Belgrade, Serbia
Development of new
technologies transformed conventional forms of democratic activism. The use of
social networking tools in online political action has power to mobilize
civically engaged individuals. Many citizens who have turned away from politics
ans civic institutions find in social media the tools they need to identify
problems and develop solutions. The coincidence of contemporary technological
development and concern with the nature of engagement is leading author of this
paper to examine the possibility of linkages between different ways of creative
use of technology and citizenship. The paper shows that different creative
approaches to the use of Internet and social media can be seen as a powerful
force facilitating new forms of cross-national public engagement.
10:15-10:30 COFFEE BREAK
10:30
-12:30 PANEL3: COMMUNICATION, JOURNALISM AND MEDIA (Large
auditorium)
Moderator: dr.sc. Mato Brautović
Dr.sc. Mato Brautović is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Dubrovnik. He is also a subcontractor at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Montenegro and College of Journalism and Communication University of Florida.
In the academic 2009/2010. year was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the College of Journalism and Communication, University of Florida. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Zagreb on characteristics of new media for online journalism, a master's degree at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Zagreb on Internet terrorism and information security.
He teaches courses in computer application in journalism and public relations, online journalism, public relations and the Internet, new media theory, new media and interactive media. He is the author of 4 books, 3 book chapters, and 12 scientific papers.
Alternative Journalism Movement in Opposition to Mainstream Journalism: 140journos as a Tweet News Platform
Dr. Murad Karaduman, Faculty of Communication,
Akdeniz University, Turkey
The rapid spreading of
internet all over the world brought many changes in media. This change
that first started on the axis of internet journalism and continued with civic
journalism movement in which users created content and news. Civic journalism
that started with internet blogs and developed further in social media
environments was able to create “alternatives” despite the “limited” journalism
of mainstream media. Many important developments in the world and in Turkey
were first announced via social media environments. 140journos was founded as a
tweet news website in 2012 with a promise of uncensored news in response to
filtered mainstream journalism. In this study will be discussed whether
filtered journalism may be surpassed via internet journalism by examining the
various news of 140 journos during various demonstrations and protests and
questioning whether these news found place in mainstream media.
Impact of Social Media on Television Media
Beatrice Züll, University of Zagreb,
Croatia/Germany
Over past decades traditional media broadcast
has been the main entertainment focus. But something has changed. Television
world has been disrupted driven by the internet and new technologies. The
internet has increased the amount of interpersonal communication. New
participation of TV audiences in social media leads to an integration of TV
consumption within the social media context. The audience can share, discuss,
comment and vote about certain programs. Attention has been divided between several
devices and applications. Competition for eyeball has started.
Decreasing public media – increasing alternative information (changing structure of media and the political system) in Central-Eastern Europe
Dr. József Herman, Hungary
What reasons lies behind in disappearing
mono-centric political systems, and what other kinds of economic , and
technological reasons can come up? Should still the public media be loyal to
the ever-never government, or should it express the opinion and interests of
the public? Defects and advantages of money-minded commercial media. It is
divided in the two section: past and future.Crisis in economy may result in
crisis of EU, involving possible effects on democracy - and on freedom of
expressions.
Evaluating the usability of Croatian media mobile apps
Low-cost real-time monitoring of public opinion using readers' comments on news web portals
Duje Bonacci, School of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb & Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of Croatia, Croatia
Public opinion is arguably among the most
ubiquituous and important concepts not just in political theory, media studies
and marketing but also in everyday public discourse. The work first
demonstrates that the number of people involved in commenting media reports
posted on news Internet portals is significant in the sense that they can
indeed be taken as representative of the 'general population'. Further itargues
that already from the pure quantitative parameters a number of conclusions
regarding public opinion on particular topics can be drawn, and in a fraction
of cost that traditional methods would take and at practically no cost once the
software implementing analytic methodology is set up. Finally, the advanced
possibilities offeredby the content analysis of the readers’ comments are
discussed as a way to draw much richer and deeper information regarding
long-term trends as well as very detailed insights into causes of public
opinion shifts on particular issues.
Journalists' perception of the significance of social networks in the production of media contents
Dr. Ksenija Žlof, Croatia
Slobodan Hadžić, Croatia
Zlatko Herljević, Croatia
It is impossible to imagine media
communication without using social network. Goal of this lecture is to explore
perception of journalists about importance of social network in product of
media content. We assume that social
network influences producing media content. So, they wanted to determine
impact of social network on journalist work. Also, what about checking of
credibility of published content? What
is the role of social network in crisis communication? They explored how much
time journalists spend on social network and what is the impact of that.
Local online journalism: Online media in Dubrovnik
Anuška Fjorović, University of Dubrovnik,
Croatia
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