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Promoting newsafety from the exile : the emergence of new journalistic roles in diaspora journalists’ networks

Porlezza, Colin ; Arafat, Rana

In: Journalism practice, 2021, p. 23

Diaspora journalists and digital media play an important role as stakeholders for war-ridden homeland media landscapes such as Syria. This study analyzes, from a safety in practice perspective, the physical and digital threats that challenge the work of Syrian citizen journalists examining the role of three online advocacy networks created by Syrian diaspora journalists to promote newsafety....

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Securing whistleblowing in the digital age : SecureDrop and the changing journalistic practices for source protection

Di Salvo, Philip

In: Digital Journalism, 2021, vol. 9, no. 4, p. 443-460

Information security tools have gained prominence and importance in the journalism field and are now being adopted more frequently by newsrooms and investigative journalists. SecureDrop, an opensource software for operating whistleblowing platforms, is now a common component of the toolboxes of journalists willing to work with stronger levels of security, especially in regard to source...

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The mediatization of the air : wireless telegraphy and the origins of a transnational space of communication, 1900-1910s

Rikitianskaia, Maria ; Balbi, Gabriele ; Lobinger, Katharina

In: Journal of communication, 2018, vol. 68, no. 4, p. 758–779

Airspace today is densely penetrated by Wi-Fi networks, GPS services, and broadcasting and mobile phone signals. This process, what we call the mediatization of the air, is not so new, as it began in the first two decades of the 20th century, with the advent of wireless telegraphy. Based on archival research, this paper shows that wireless telegraphy mediatized the air and made it a matter of...

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Using audiovisual TV interviews to create visible authors that reduce the learning gap between native and non-native language speakers

Terry Inglese ; Richard E. Mayer ; Francesca Rigotti

In: Learning and Instruction, 2007, vol. 17, no. 1, p. 67-77

Can archives of audiovisual TV interviews be used to make authors more visible to students, and thereby reduce the learning gap between native and non-native language speakers in college classes? We examined students in a college course who learned about one scholar's ideas through watching an audiovisual TV interview (i.e., visible author format) and about another scholar's ideas through reading...

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Zwischen guten Absichten und unerwarteten Nebenfolgen : Die Implementierung der Quotenregelung am Beispiel der europäischen Richtlinie “Fernsehen ohne Grenzen” = Tra buone intenzioni ed effetti inattesi : L’implementazione delle quote europee nel caso della direttiva UE “Televisione senza Frontiere”

Besio, Cristina ; Hungerbühler, Ruth ; Morici, Luca ; Prario, Benedetta

In base agli accordi bilaterali sottoscritti dalla Svizzera, a partire dal 1 gennaio 2006 anche le emittenti svizzere devono rispettare le quote imposte dalla direttiva europea “Televisione senza frontiere”. Questo studio consiste in un’analisi comparata della trasposizione della direttiva nella regolamentazione di diversi Paesi europei e dei processi d'implementazione delle quote culturali...