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purpose: The purpose of this research is to provide a model of transparency in the Islamic Council of the Islamic Republic of Iran (with the approach of digital governance in the context of information technology). Method: The type of research is based on the fundamental objective, which is a mixed approach (qualitative and quantitative) with an exploratory design. In this article, only the qualitative part is mentioned. in the qualitative part with a phenomenological approach, the seven-step theoretical method of Kleizeri and the Delphi technique have been used. The statistical population of this research in the qualitative part includes experts in the field of transparency, whose number is 24 people. The data collection tool of this research was conducted in the qualitative part through individual, in-depth, semi-structured interviews, and then the data was processed. Findings: The model of transparency in the Majlis of the Islamic Council of Iran consists of five main categories, which are: informational, financial, supervisory and accountable, ethical and professional, which not only achieved the dimensions of transparency in the Islamic Council, but also the factors affecting the establishment The success of transparency, the consequences of establishing transparency, the obstacles to establishing transparency, as well as possible damages in the Islamic Council in case transparency is not established will also be discussed.

The following reflection is the result of recent research, through which the transition from the sound archive to the digital multimedia archive is observed as a contemporary phenomenon that is placed in the digital ecosystem. The article is introduced with the etymological origin and evolution of the notion of archive. The evolution of this term as a result of the technological evolution of the last century is presented and its relationship with the emergence and evolution of sound archives is presented. The conceptual differences between the notions of library and digital archive are then established. It analyses the changes to which the sound archive has been subjected in recent decades and how they have impacted on the notion of the document and the transition from digital sound archiving to multimedia

The main objective of this work is to carry out a comparative analysis between thirteen digital media websites that have won the Online Journalism Awards (ONA) and the World Digital Media Awards (WDMA) regarding the dimensions of interactivity, searchability and web visibility, through the application of an analysis protocol with nine parameters designed specifically for digital journalism (Santos Hermosa et al. 2021;2022). In this sense, it is an innovative methodological proposal applied to a real case study in digital communication. The results show different levels of achievement of the dimensions of interactivity, navigability and visibility in the awarded digital media; that allows establishing a ranking from highest to lowest score. Some outstanding trends are also identified with respect to each dimension of study. This shows a series of successful strategies and weaknesses linked to interactivity, searchability and web visibility. The application of the protocol turns out to be useful not only for researchers but also for digital journalism professionals, providing data for the creation of new services and products focused on the user experience.

The dominance of social media platforms, applications, and new communication channels, in addition to the blend of commercial and social interactions and the integration of information, misinformation, and news, all compel us to think more broadly and creatively about the discipline of communication sciences.

After recalling the conditions under which the communication sciences (also known as communication studies or information and communication sciences) have developed and progressively imposed themselves as a new discipline, the author shows that their scientific productions, although real, would benefit from being less sectorial and fragmented. He also suggests what could be a research methodology and proposes to group them around six major axes that he specifies successively. These six axes seem necessary considering that the first two decades of this century have seen an unprecedented advance of digital techniques, ensuring the oligopolistic domination of the five digital giants and some allies and reinforcing surveillance in societies, practically without adapted regulatory measures.

The discovery of Tutankhamen’s tomb in 1922 was a major media event in Spanish newspapers at the beginning of the 20th century. The photographic contributions of newspapers to the discovery are analyzed, classifying the news according to the type of media coverage.

The archive and library of the Asociación de la Prensa de Madrid is the largest library specializing in communication and press in Spain. The article describes its services, its bibliographic collection, the activities and institutional relationships that are carried out.

This paper reviews the presence of Spanish women photographers in Wikipedia. For this purpose, it studies the coverage in the Spanish Wikipedia of Spanish women photographers, as well as those foreign-born women as well as those born abroad who worked in the country, born up to 1960. In order to achieve the proposed objectives, an exploratory, prospective study has been carried out using the case study technique.

Television has been dominating the Russian media system with large audiences and attracting the major advertisers in recent decades. The digital transformation as an inevitable process affects all media companies, advertising market and media regulation. That is why the transformation of the traditional broadcasting is of particular interest of the researchers. The aim of this paper is to understand how the process of digitalization influenced the business strategies of the main television companies in Russia. Based on the eight in-depth inter views conducted with the top managers of the TV companies the authors came to the conclusion that the development of digital strategies is a priority for most television companies, but the processes are very slow and their understanding is still at a low level.

The paper proposes an evaluation of the impact of paywalls on information. A new media model based on digital platforms and paywalls is the theoretical basis. A literature review shows that currently many newspapers operate some kind of paywalls; however, the choice of free and/or paywalled content is not obvious. We study the cases of three Swiss newspapers and three French newspapers. The types of paywalls and the subscription prices are described. Data concerning free and paid articles are analysed for some main sections. Results show differentiation between free and paid articles concerning the authors and the types of articles. Different strategies appear, particularly at the level of different sections of a newspaper. Finally, we discuss the idea of a kind of “Gresham’s law” of information.

Over the last twenty years, advertising has recognized a new market segment: gay consumers now constitute a niche market which is large and affluent enough to deserve more media and marketing attention. Drawing on gender and queer studies, the article will analyse the representation of male homosexuality in German advertisements will identify socioeconomic reasons for the changing representations of homosexuality in German society – bearing in mind that advertisements featuring homosexuality still tend to provoke controversial reactions in Germany, even though gay marriage was permitted in October 2017. While at the beginning of the 21st century, homosexuality was still represented in a covert way in subsequent years these media portrayals changed considerably: the representation of male homosexuality is now openly supported by well-known brands. Moreover, in recent advertising, signs and symbols are used which openly identify the portrayed men as homosexuals, while at the same highlighting the 'naturalness' of homosexuality and gay relationships.

This paper examines the intersection between visual and software cultures, in which the software becomes responsible for the production of the visual content. The first part of the paper defines visual culture as a continuation of the classic capitalist mode of production which re-creates everything in terms of outputs but avoids reinvention of the means of production. The second part of the paper presents the analysis of the software culture and its ongoing trend to modify human practices with technological extensions which dramatically alters the means of production. The third part of the paper describes the consequences of the collision of the two cultures. In particular, we consider iPhone Portrait Mode as a consumer-oriented example of micro-automation which helps to valorize the mobile photography, and Instagram as a medium of the aesthetic visual communication which provides users with tools to edit photos with filters, mixture them into stories, furnish with metadata, and deploy to the global informational network.

Global academics and media professionals have recently gathered at Northwestern University in Qatar (NU-Q) for the international conference on media management, innovation, and industry wide developments. The International Media Management Academic Association’s (IMMAA) 2019 conference was the first-ever international conference hosted by NU-Q in Doha. It welcomed participants from 15 countries, including France, Germany, India, Iran, Italy, Kuwait, Portugal, Russia, Spain, South Korea, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States.

The fourth edition of the XESCOM 2019 (International Symposium on Communication Management) was hosted by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto on April, 26 and 27 in the city of Oporto, Portugal. It was organized with the collaboration between the University of Porto, IMMAA (International Media Management Academic Association) and PIMENED (Integrated Mentor Project, Enterprise Spirit and Business Models in Digital Edition). On this edition new topics related to the creative industries and entrepreneurship in the digital era were added to the main areas of study,

PIMENED is a program aiming to produce, create and transfer knowledge through studies, seminars, conferences and publications in order to promote the transfer of knowledge and development of the publishing market in the northern region of Portugal. Report on three seminars: 1) “Management, Organization, Innovation and Running of Academic Publications” by Tomàs Baiget; 2) “Challenges of Media, Journalism and Entrepreneurship in the northern region of Portugal and Galicia" by Paulo Faustino, João Palmeiro, Manuela Azevedo, Valentín-Alejandro Martínez, and Francisco Campos-Freire; 3) “Management, Distribution and Business Models of Journalism Companies”, by Paulo Faustino, Ricardo Flamingo, Valentín Martínez, and Francisco Campos-Freire.

We are living through a period of immense disruption in the media industry. The creation of the internet and social media and all that it has wrought – networked interactivity, immediacy, and fragmented audiences – has set in motion the destruction of the old business models that supported traditional media companies in the past such as broadcast TV, commercial radio, and newspapers.

This research explores how legacy media institutions can facilitate an environment where innovation is possible. Using media innovation and the dynamic capabilities theoretical framework, the research looks at the specific case of the Al Jazeera media network, a pre-eminent broadcaster in the Middle East. The paper uses the case-study approach combined with personal interviews with media professionals and experts to understand the way innovation unfolds for a legacy media institution. While media transformation and innovation research is predominantly located in the western world, this research provides an empirical perspective from the global south. It finds in resource management and corporate adaptability the mechanisms of innovation adopted by Al Jazeera, and these mechanisms are not specific to the global south.

The paper deals with the influence of the “Internet of Things” and its opportunities for the publishing business model. It offers a contribution for scientific research in media management to establish the relevance of data-centric business models. The aim of the paper is to work out the increasing relevance of data for the publishing business model. Potentials under the influence of the “Internet of Things” for the publishing business model with regard to four dimensions of business models are worked out: Value creation, value proposition, earnings mechanics and customers. These dimensions show the opportunities that publishers can exploit by integrating intelligent everyday objects as a content channel. Additionally, the author points out that publishing houses operate in a data-centric environment with the integration of intelligent everyday objects as a content channel. The data-centered publishing business model is analysed on the basis of features, in particular with regard to its potential.

This essay intends to put forward some preliminary thoughts for academic research built on empirical data. The key question guiding this research is: How will COVID-19 drive innovation in the creative industry’s business model, and its marketing and communication strategies? Today, because of the crisis caused by the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), humanity is being “forced” to make significant behavioural changes. In the creative and media industry, COVID-19 is already acting as an accelerator of innovation in several domains, from production to delivery and monetization. And the creative and media industry has no choice but to face the reality of COVID-19’s innovation accelerator effect on online and offline platforms. Technology must be seen as a complement to the business objectives of the creative and cultural activities, products and experiences. Also, analogue media and other creative and cultural products are not doomed; they have to be repositioned. It implies the adoption of technology and understanding that the basis of innovation lies in the way (i) a company organizes itself, (ii) its products are monetized and (iii) are delivered and promoted.

This study reviews the scholarly literature on participatory journalism and mediatized audience engagement as two emergent perspectives of digital journalism studies. We discuss four propositions drawn from an interdisciplinary literature. We find that a review and critical discussion of the nexus of relations and impacts of these perspectives provides valuable insights to the transformation of journalism and the news media industry. Furthermore, we believe that thinking about participatory journalism and mediatized audience engagement can be fruitfully applied to various novel approaches regarding research on the fundamental transformation of journalism in the digital age.

This study strives to shed light on the potential impact of technological advances on specific aspects of corporate and marketing communication. It is based on an international survey among experts from different professional backgrounds (n=470) and a follow-up group discussion of the survey results with selected media industry experts to identify required actions by companies to cope with various aspects of change. Our foresight approach with a time horizon until about 2030 suggest that artificial intelligence (AI), virtual, mixed, or augmented reality, new human machine interfaces in general as well as internet of things (IoT) and blockchain will have the most substantial effects alongside with the increasing complexity and need for integration of various communication activities. Furthermore, content creation will become automated to a considerable extent in this decade and thus will require process innovation to get it organized. As a result, companies should build internal expertise on AI at decision making level to avoid dependencies on external consultancy and set-up a proactive partnering with suppliers of the other key technologies.

The growth of fake news makes users insecure when they consume information. While text-based news is perhaps the most widespread, video is gaining ground quickly, and has been transformed into informative content that can be manipulated, leading to misinformation among users. This article analyses 63 applications for mobile devices that enable the creation of deepfakes. An analysis of the apps is carried out by examining 16 indicators across three dimensions: description of the application, treatment of the image, and data protection. Each application has its peculiarities regarding the modification of the physiognomy of a person, especially their face. In some cases, the legality of the applications is questionable as they can impact people’s fundamental rights. The results demonstrate that, in many cases, the user is not informed of the technology used by the applications, nor the types of data that are collected. In conclusion the apps allow the generation of fake videos by manipulating the physiognomy of people, however, there is a lack of information surrounding the privacy policies of the data they collect. In addition, the use of these applications can damage the image and/or reputation of a person and even supplant their identity.

In the last decades, neuroscience has provided an excellent comprehension of the impact of marketing outputs on cognitive and emotional processing. Understanding what constitutes the neurobiology of consumer decision-making has been the aim of neuromarketing since the beginning. New notions regarding the value of emotions in consumer preferences have changed the way companies develop their actions towards marketing and communication. Nostalgia has emerged as an effective strategy for reinforcing the positioning of established brands. Because of the nature of emotions in nostalgia and the trendy relation ship between neuromarketing and emotions in business, this research offers an exploratory bibliographic review to set the guidelines that help in understanding the interplay between retro marketing, nostalgia, and neuromarketing on marketing consumption. This review was carried out in 3 phases: a) review of unstructured information, b) analysis, organization, and synthesis of content, and c) conclusions. Nostalgia is manifested through marketing stimuli that arise from people’s internal memory and, therefore, the feelings derived from cognitive responses (attitudes) followed by a particular behavioral reaction. Research points out the lack of literature/studies regarding neuroscientific methodology into nostalgic empirical research.

The film and audiovisual sectors play a crucial role in the European societies, and by extension, also in Portugal. This paper proposes a conceptual change centered on mapping the film and audiovisual (AV) industries in Portugal as a creative sector instead of a cultural one. We argue that this approach enables a more rigorous measurement of the value of these industries in the creative economy, besides allowing for more accessible connections between the creative industries and other areas. This conceptual change is based on an innovative approach to the “creative trident.” We argue that the value of the film and AV sector must be rooted in a flourishing creative workforce, and we propose that entrepreneurship education can be a path forward in unlocking the sector’s tremendous creative potential. We suggest an innovative research agenda to link all these elements in the context of the audiovisual and film creative industries.

The aim of this research was to explain the importance of sport in the use of digital media services on mobile devices. Relevant factors related to mobile TV usage were identified and the strength of their influence was analyzed to show that sport is a driving force for mobile TV usage. Inspired by service-dominant logic (SDL) and the sport value framework (SVF), an innovative research model was specified and tested empirically among three samples from Australia, Germany, and the U.S.A. SDL and SVF suggest value is always co-created and context dependent. Thus, usage situations were integrated as contextual factors in a structural equation model with interest in sport and other psychological factors as independent variables and mobile TV usage intention as dependent variable. This study is one of the first empirically testing what motives lead to mobile sport viewing and how interest in sport drives mobile TV usage. The empirical findings imply that consumer interest in sport is highly relevant for media technology usage. They further demonstrate that usage context really matters.

The photographic making has become, in recent decades, a tangle of practices, techniques, and modes of circulation, which makes it a challenge to define what is a photograph today, after all. In this text, we propose a reflection on how to observe contemporary photographic images in networked environments through the concepts of Interface Photography and the Web of Imaginariness. We suggest an approach that emphasizes not only the surfaces of the images but also considers the surroundings that integrate with them, helping to unearth other memory images that are part of their constitution. Furthermore, it’s also reflected on the role of the medium – the Instagram image sharing platform – as a device that conditions and promotes the agency of memorial and aesthetic relationships between circulating networked photographic images.

There seems to be a certain consensus among the scientific and medical community that Covid-19 is becoming less of a pandemic and more of an endemic disease. In this sense, we’ll have to be able to adjust our lives taking into consideration the coexistence with the virus until it is possible to normalize its negative impact following a prophylactic approach in a medium to long-term basis, recurring to vaccines and other antiviral medication that are gradually at our disposal. However, as a result of Covid-19’s impact, many personal and professional routines have changed, in some cases quite substantially. One of the most (negatively) affected activities are precisely the ones of the cultural and creative industry worldwide. This is due, in part, to the fact that its foundations and reason of being depend on social and physical interaction: entertaining, informing, inform, socializing and experiencing.

The rise of the internet and the subsequent global reach of digital platforms has provided entirely new participatory opportunities for citizens and created new types of content and services in both national and global media landscapes. At the same time, we have witnessed serious new challenges to individuals, organizations, and society, including political polarization, rampant and viral mis- and disinformation, diminishing trust in knowledge institutions, and the like. In this article, we introduce a citizen-centric model of four communication rights as a normative-evaluative framework for assessing the impact of this so-called platformization as it pertains to small nations, with the case of Finland as an empirical illustration.

This paper explores the regulatory aspects of the Bulgarian democratic media system as an example of the transition of an Eastern European media system from communism to democracy. The new media institutions in Bulgaria came into being after the democratic changes in the country in 1989 that replaced the totalitarian propaganda media. The democratic media system has continued to develop and diversify until today encompassing traditional and new media. Media regulation is not an element of the media system, is a crucial factor of in creating media channels and the independence of the media system. Media regulation is a guarantee of media freedom and the autonomy of media institutions. The purpose of this paper is to conclude to what extent the law has been an effective tool for strengthening the media system to the public interest in Bulgaria, provided that in any period of the transition, the interference of political and economic forces in media activities has been looming.

As I write this editorial, the war going on the air space and on the field and over communication (invasion or the special military intervention, in the words of the Russian government in Ukraine by Russia continues. A situation that would be unthinkable to happen in the 21st century where humanist values seem to follow a path of increasing strength; at least in most continents, although the democratic political system is largely a minority in the world; dictatorships or autocracies are dominating the political landscape, especially in Asia, the Middle East and Africa. We must not forget this! I believe that even analysts and experts in international relations, including the ones in the countries with sophisticated espionage systems like USA or Great Britain, would be far from predicting a conflict of this intensity and negative impact on humanity: more than three million refugees and thousands of deaths (both amongst military and civilians) in both countries. Even in the most Machiavellian and fictional scenario this was unexpected. And it seems, so far, that there is no light at the end of the tunnel – despite diplomatic negotiations and the theatre of communication. On the contrary, there is even the risk of stepping right in front of the train meaning pressing the nuclear bomb button. No, that cannot happen! There must be room for diplomacy and human rights and respect for the cultural and artistic expression of all people. The 2 months since the war started already show a great civilizational regression.

Previously unknown online users posting videos have recently achieved a kind of stardom. Such “Social Media Celebrities” (SMC) are “influencers” impacting on content consumption as well as on purchase decisions. By producing new types of content based on their creativity and monetizing it via social media platforms in innovative ways, they also became digital media entrepreneurs. This explorative study draws from global audience data as well as from video content in international comparison and a representative survey on gratifications sought by its consumption and quality criteria is applied. The findings suggest that a perceived quality is based on the celebrities’ credibility and the sympathy that users feel for them, with gratifications sought much like for traditional media. Users are aware that advertising is an integral part of the content, leading to stronger affiliation of them with SMCs and brands alike, providing challenges and opportunities for users themselves but also for the incumbent media.

In this work I focus on presenting the term "magazinization" to account for the process of imitation of the Caras y Caretas format that newspapers carried out at the beginning of the 20th century. The appearance of this illustrated magazine in 1898 was a crucial moment in the history of the Argentine periodical press, and due to its success, newspapers had to rethink themselves in order to compete with it, within the framework of visual culture. Here we will analyze some sporadic attempts at “magazinization” carried out by La Nación during 1901, especially the incorporation of graphic news and illustrated literature.

Publications produced by the team technique, since the 1950s, have been an instrument to support these methodologies, socializing knowledge, as well as for the professional updating of the technical staff. Considering the significant volume of Incaper's editorial production, the Editorial Coordination, together with the team from the Technology and Knowledge Transfer Management (GTTC) and professionals from the Research and Ater areas of the Institute, considered it important to evaluate the effectiveness and effectiveness of this production, especially related to access, content and language of publications, in accordance from the perspective of the target audience (internal and external). The research aimed to verify the perception of the Institute's employees, in relation to the publications and audiovisual materials used in the socialization of technologies generated and/or recommended by the Incaper technical team. As deployment, the purpose was also to improve scientific dissemination and support the transfer of technologies in action planning as a tool in knowledge management in Government of State.