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The technological evolution of the newspaper industry has revolutionized journalism. Now the telephone has overcome the spatial barrier and information can be accessed anywhere and at any time, edited and created, and consume audio or video in any of its modalities. The latest surveys indicate that more than 90% of users connect via telephone to consume journalistic information. The design, edition and writing of the information undergoes a significant change: the concept of the traditional journalistic genre for new narratives that force the professional to acquire new skills. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Due to the visual turn in journalism and the emergence of mobile journalism, many newspaper journalists have had to change the way they work and learn to use new tools. To face these changes, traditional news organizations apply different strategies to increase staff competencies in using new production tools and creating innovative content in new formats. In this paper, we investigate how a specific training arrangement was experienced by a group of 40 print editors and journalists in a German regional publishing house. The journalists were introduced to audio-visual storytelling and reporting with smartphones in a 2-week training course. The training arrangements were studied using participant observation and in-depth interviews, followed by a thematic analysis of the data. The study indicates that for print journalists and editors, the transition from the print to the mojo mindset depends on three dimensions: (i) mastering mojo skills, (ii) adopting visual thinking and (iii) integrating ethical and legal awareness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article discusses how Shosana Zuboff’s critical theory of surveillance capitalism may help to understand and underpin responsible practice and innovation in mobile journalism. Zuboff conceptualizes surveillance capitalism as a new economic logic made possible by ICT and its architecture for extracting and trading data products of user behavior and preferences. Surveillance is, through these new technologies, built into the fabric of our economic system and, according to Zuboff, appears as deeply anti-democratic and a threat to human sovereignty, dignity, and autonomy. In Europe, the framework of responsible research and innovation is promoted as an approach and a meta-concept that should inform practice and policy for research and innovation to align with societal values and democratic principles. Within this approach, ICT is framed as a risk technology. As innovation in mobile journalism is inextricably tied to the technologies and infrastructure of smartphones and social media platforms, the apparent question would be how we can envision responsible innovation in this area. Zuboff provides a critical perspective to study how this architecture of surveillance impedes the practice of mobile journalism. While the wide adoption of smartphones as a key tool for both producing and consuming news has great potential for innovation, it can also feed behavioral data into the supply chain of surveillance capitalism. We discuss how potentially harmful implications can be met on an individual and organizational level to contribute to a more responsible adoption of mobile technologies in journalism.

Mobile devices have acquired an increasingly prominent role within the media arena. The consolidation of smartphones as the preferred platforms to access digital journalistic information has led to a number of changes in how the news is produced, distributed and eventually consumed. This article describes an evolving model of journalistic content for mobile devices to contribute to the theory of mobile media already set in motion by other peer researchers. Framed within the media ecology, the actor-network theory and the study of the society-technology relationship, we start with a bibliographic review to analyse innovations in the mobile digital ecosystem that are related to semantics (new formats and content genres) and social aspects (new forms of appropriation of media and technologies) whilst also identifying the main actors currently operating in this ecosystem. This approach makes it possible to reconstruct the emergent process that affected mobile technologies, devices, uses, platforms, products and services on a multidimensional timeline. A new stage in mobile journalism was defined and characterized from 2015 onwards. The consolidation phase for journalistic content on mobile devices is defined by the rise of social networks and micro-formats, personalization, video, audio, newsletters and news alerts, wearables, smart speakers and automation. At this stage, the production of informative content specifically designed to be distributed through various mobile devices was normalized, which led to the adaptation of old formats and the appearance of new ones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aimed to understand the impact of ethical codes on Saudi journalists' perceptions toward mobile journalism (MOJO). Three major ethical dimensions were examined, including seeking truth, minimizing harm, and being accountable in news coverage. A survey link created with SurveyMonkey was transmitted via social media avenues, such as Twitter and WhatsApp, where Saudi journalists can complete the questionnaire and then share the link with other Saudi journalists. A total of 124 Saudi journalists were recruited by this snowball sampling approach, while the Codes of Ethics of Society of Professional Journalists was adapted as major measurements for three ethical dimensions, including seeking truth, minimizing harm, and being accountable. Results found that all three ethical dimensions of professional journalists generated significant influences on Saudi journalists' perceptions toward MOJO. Specifically, minimizing harm was found as the most powerful factor that affected Saudi journalists' perceptions toward MOJO, followed by being accountable and seeking truth, indicating that Saudi journalists who were more likely to seek truth, minimize harm, and be accountable would exhibit more positive perceptions toward MOJO. Although using smartphone as a journalistic tool was a key factor toward Saudi journalists' MOJO perceptions, it was not as powerful as three ethical dimensions that affected their MOJO perceptions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The processes of production, circulation and consumption of news through mobile devices and the investigations in the field of mobile journalism emerged, especially, from the beginning of the 2000s. The purpose of this article is to identify the characteristics of mobile journalism research developed in Brazilian Postgraduate Programs. The corpus of this work consists of sixty (60) studies - sixteen (16) theses and forty-four (44) dissertations - completed between the years of 2005 and 2020. It is a descriptive-analytical article that combines qualitative and quantitative techniques. The theses and dissertations are evaluated regarding six categories: year of completion, Postgraduate Programs, Brazilian region, themes, supports and journalistic organizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses how Shosana Zuboff's critical theory of surveillance capitalism may help to understand and underpin responsible practice and innovation in mobile journalism. Zuboff conceptualizes surveillance capitalism as a new economic logic made possible by ICT and its architecture for extracting and trading data products of user behavior and preferences. Surveillance is, through these new technologies, built into the fabric of our economic system and, according to Zuboff, appears as deeply anti-democratic and a threat to human sovereignty, dignity, and autonomy. In Europe, the framework of responsible research and innovation is promoted as an approach and a meta-concept that should inform practice and policy for research and innovation to align with societal values and democratic principles. Within this approach, ICT is framed as a risk technology. As innovation in mobile journalism is inextricably tied to the technologies and infrastructure of smartphones and social media platforms, the apparent question would be how we can envision responsible innovation in this area. Zuboff provides a critical perspective to study how this architecture of surveillance impedes the practice of mobile journalism. While the wide adoption of smartphones as a key tool for both producing and consuming news has great potential for innovation, it can also feed behavioral data into the supply chain of surveillance capitalism. We discuss how potentially harmful implications can be met on an individual and organizational level to contribute to a more responsible adoption of mobile technologies in journalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The fast and global way which has characterized the presence of mobile phones in society has sparked the interest of several sectors of activity, including journalism. From the early stages of production to distribution, and then through the characteristics of content and consumption patterns, numerous changes have been introduced by these mobile devices in an activity that has been undergoing one of the most uncertain moments in its long history. This uncertainty has stemmed from the decrease in income which was caused by the emergence of new competitors, such as the online press and social networks. This bibliographic review aims at identifying the changes caused by smartphones in the production distribution and consumption of news, analyzing its effect on the epistemology of journalism. We attempt to ascertain if the increasing influence of mobile technologies in the journalistic activity has changed its nature, improving the production of knowledge. Upon closer reading of the bibliography, it can be concluded that the versatility of mobile devices has facilitated a set of new possibilities not only for journalists, namely more autonomy and a reduction in the time spent between the event and the publication, but also for consumers, who can do a mobile and personalized consumption on their screens. Due to its ability to continuously adapt to the rhythm of contemporary society, mobile journalism has become more universal and has been confirmed as a form of knowledge insofar as it responds more effectively to consumers' expectations, in particular young people's, who are moving away from journalism and thus prevent the generational renewal of readers, something which is fundamental for the media business model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Every day, we carry in our pockets a device that is currently no longer designed just for telephoning or sending messages, but contains a variety of other functions. This has also helped modern journalism – smartphones are for journalists what a pen and paper once were. They can use it to take notes, as well as record respondents' statements, shoot pictures or stream live through a social network. News can thus get to the viewers or listeners almost immediately, by simple sharing. Current smartphones have integrated cameras, which are approaching the resolution of a professional single-lens reflex camera. What place do smartphones have in journalism? Doesn’t the fact that they can technically never reach single-lens cameras due to absence of a chip disqualify them? And aren’t the boundaries between a professional and amateur photographer becoming blurred? In the following article, we will try to find answers to these questions and demonstrate the findings on examples of foreign and local photojournalists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper, which is part of the field of immersive journalism studies, compares the narrative of contents published in El País VR, Folha 360°, Estadão RV and NYT VR, specific applications for 360-degree productions of the newspapers El País (Spain), Folha de S. Paulo and Estado de S. Paulo (Brazil) and New York Times (United States). In addition to identify the main characteristics of 51 publications, the main of this study is to verify the level of immersion these contents provide to the users. Due to this, a content analysis has been carried out, based on methodological contributions by authors from different countries. The final result points out that the spatial immersion level is much higher than the sensory level in most of the sample, which leads to a relative virtual reality experience for the user. Hence, with the exception of the content of NYT VR, the user does not usually feel involved psychologically about to immerse totally in the story and forget reality. Therefore, it is necessary to encourage the creation of more innovative initiatives with digital avatar narratives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The objective of this paper is to present the experience of the application practiced through the use of mobile devices in the process of producing a special video report. The activity was developed through the pre-production, production and postproduction stages of the special report "Elxs no longer fit in the closet", held at the UFPB Journalism Course. The work was produced and recorded using a smartphone. We found that mobile technologies offer journalists different possibilities and make it easier to get closer to sources, as they become less invasive than a professional camcorder during the recording of personal subjects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We employ a mixed-methods approach to examine the state of mobile web publishing among U.S. local newspapers. Analysis of the mobile version of news websites (N = 100) across the 50 states yields an uneven picture, with innovation lagging in key areas. A survey with local owner-operators (N = 77) in a large U.S. state suggests that devoting attention to mobile audiences may be associated with revenue opportunities, and the ability to innovate is not necessarily associated with firm size. We explore implications for the viability of local news. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mobile journalism is one of the fastest areas of growth in the modern journalism industry. Yet mobile journalists find themselves in a place of tension, between print, broadcast, and digital journalism and between traditional journalism and lifestyle journalism. Using the lens of field theory, the present study conducted an online survey of mobile journalists (N = 39) from six countries representing four continents on how they conceive of their journalistic role, and how their work is perceived within the newsroom. Participants were journalists in television, print, magazine, and digital local and national newsrooms. The present study sought to understand how mobile journalists see mobile production as a part of their journalistic role, and what field theory dimensions influence mobile production in their newsrooms. While prior research has established a growing prevalence of lifestyle journalism, the present study finds that the growth of mobile journalism represents the development of lifestyle journalism norms, such as content driven by the audience, within even traditional journalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A radiography of the state of digital media between 2015 to 2017 is presented. The main points discussed are: the media against technological platforms as Facebook and Google, the rise of the mobile reading of news and the problem of fake news. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

More and more journalistic content for smartphones is no longer based on other vehicles of the company, analogic or digital, and become appropriate for the new mobile environment. The card-based news design presents itself as a good solution for creating native mobile interfaces. In this work we discuss the major contributions of the "card" type interfaces for news applications for smartphones and describe an evaluation model for this type of content in order to offer a tool for systematizing and classifying researches in the areas of journalism, design, among others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After two decades of content syndication on legacy media’s online platforms, longforms such as scrollytelling, web documentaries, and selective multimedia stories take advantage of Internet-specific qualities. However, due to the high amount of resources needed for the production, media managers are challenged to judge their journalistic and economic potential. Hence, this paper suggests integrating the concept of Internet-specific quality and the relevance of the user’s expectations towards quality to focus on potentials of content innovation into media management research. We draw on the relevance of Internet devices within the recipient’s media repertoire for background information and the use of digital longforms. Based on the frequency of use, results of a quantitative face-to-face survey representative for German mobile Internet users (n = 248) indicate that stationary and mobile Internet devices are already an inherent part. However, there is a lack of strategic marketing. Not all digital longforms are well known; most recognised is scrollytelling. Second, we draw on the user’s expectations on Internet-specific qualities and attitudes towards advertisement and paid content. As our data show, recipients prefer multimedia, selectivity, and intuitive usability, not wishing to become part of the story through interactive and participative features. Furthermore, users are willing to pay for longform journalism that suits their interests, but media companies have to offer single purchase options instead of subscriptions. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Little is known about how audiences read, watch, or otherwise consume the content in digital longform journalistic works such as the New York Times's "Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek." These projects often contain thousands of words, as well as photographs, videos, information graphics, and even news applications. There are so many places for the users' eyes to travel on the digital page that critics have called these longform, multimedia works distracting, showy, and ineffective. To examine how readers feel about such work--and to determine how both the type and arrangement of elements affect readers' experience of these projects--my research partners and I conducted an eye-tracking study of fifteen millennial readers of digital longform journalism in Ohio during the fall of 2015. Although researchers have been tracking people's eye movements to discover how they read since the late 1800s, eye tracking has evolved from studying how people read printed words to examining how they interact with words, images, video, and other multimedia elements on websites and mobile devices. In this essay I describe the evolution of eye tracking, as well as the equipment and process used to record the eye movements of the Ohio study's participants, all of whom interacted with longform digital journalism on iPads. I focus on what we learned about what kind of writing millennials read when they look at digital longform journalism, as well as how they regarded the writing in the projects chosen for the study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyses narrative elements of journalistic texts written for a locative mobile platform. The locative platform prototype called LocaNews works as a framework for writing and reading location-dependent locative news. The system requires that the journalist write three different versions of each story addressed to one of three corresponding proximity zones that makes this locative journalism location-dependent and tailored to the users' position. The journalists had to pay attention to the spatial surrounding elements in order to tailor these news stories to the users’ position. Thus, the article argues that locative journalism is more than a technical platform and should be considered as a journalistic skill. This locative approach affects the texts and the extensive use of several of the text narrative elements might represent a different kind of journalistic storytelling than journalism, as we know it. Three narrative elements stand out and are found particularly important when analysing 738 texts in this form of locative news. These elements are second-person address, the movement imperative and utility formulations. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This student newsroom ethnography examines the emergent culture and values of a group-created news and information content with a mobile-first focus. Using semi-structured interviews from 12 participants working on a mobile-optimized summer news project, the study provides insights on the work practices of the digital student newsroom. Validated through the use of textual analysis and member checks, these findings offer four key values that are applicable as part of a reflexive pedagogy in student digital media production. This study offers insights that can be scaled for a journalism program of any size. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Location, locality, and localism have long been important characteristics of news, but their functions have been given a dramatic twist with the advent of locative, mobile media. The capabilities of mobile media devices to determine, sense, incorporate, and conjure with the relative locations of reporting and audiences have emerged as key to alternative, small- and large-scale networked news-gathering and dissemination ventures. This paper explores the kinds of places and spaces these mobile worlds of news-making and consumption entail—and how news is being located in and through such new mobilities. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The impact of new technologies in journalism dates back to early the XXI century, when the introduction of the Internet brought in newsrooms changes affecting the processes of production, transmission and reception of information. Digitization forced to restructure newsrooms and journalists to rethink new content distribution strategies. This phenomenon of mutations, known as the convergence is intensified at present with the advent of mobile devices in the communications landscape. Smartphones allow the production and consumption of information is performed, for the first time, anywhere, while on the move. The technological evolution of the small screens placed the devices as important platform for the media industry. The goal is present the strengths, weaknesses, challenges and the impact of mobile telephony in the area of communication. We present also the lines of action that are following the main European media in this area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The following article aims to discuss the way journalism presents itself in the contemporary society, through its presence on mobile technologies. First, it will present a brief contextualization about smartphones, as well as theoretical premises to its investigation. Then it will be presented an analysis based on eight news apps available for Apple's smartphones. This analysis is focused on interactives aspects found in these softwares. This initial investigation shows that mobile media technological interactional possibilities are not fully explored. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Seldom unpacked in the notion of ‘citizen journalism’ is its difference to ‘citizen media’ and ‘alternative journalism’, and the same applies to the convergence of ‘citizenship’ and ‘journalism’. This article examines these issues in general and in the light of experience at Grocott’s Mail newspaper in South Africa, which operates a project to encourage youth participation in media. The first phase of this initiative (2008–2009) highlighted how specifically mobile ‘citizen journalism’ raises issues about the meanings of journalism, citizenship, identity and a local public sphere, especially in a developing country context. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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Over the past decade, mobile news production has had a growing prevalence and has been established as a new type by modern journalism industry. Journalists understand content capturing and sharing as parts of their role in newsrooms. Mobile journalism (mojo) is an evolving form of reporting in which where people use only a smartphone to create and file stories, and it has been gaining ground during the last decade. This paper aims to examine the difficulties, issues, and challenges in real-world mojo scenarios, analyzing the efficacy of prototype machine-assisted reporting services (MoJo-MATE). A usability evaluation is conducted in quantitative and qualitative terms, paying attention to the media literacy support provided through implemented tools and the proposed collaborations. Students of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, along with postgraduate-level researchers and professional journalists, form the sample for this investigation, which has a two-folded target: To guide the rapid prototyping process for system development and to validate specific hypotheses by answering the corresponding research questions. The results indicate the impact of mobile/on-demand support and training on journalistic practices and the attitudes of future journalists towards specialized technology in the era of constantly evolving digital journalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]