Category: Law, Policy & Media Ethics
Sensationalism in YouTube Viral Contents: How Heavily Emotion-Loaded Contents Are Ignoring News Standards in Nepal
Sensationalism in YouTube news platforms is common in developing countries given amateur content creators having easy access to produce video contents and unhealthy competitions in going viral. This study explores how viral-going sensational stories have ignored journalistic ethical standards in Nepal. Contents of 20 mostly viewed video stories streamed in 14 YouTube news platforms were …
“Political Fairness” in Japan: A Comparative Analysis with the US Legal Framework
Guided by Social Responsible Theory, the research employs a qualitative media content analysis to compare political fairness regulations towards the press in the US and Japan. While the US abolished the Fairness Doctrine in 1987, Japan has long discussed an expansive interpretation and potential removal of the political fairness clause Article 4 of the Broadcasting …
What Journalists Ask When Channels Are Blocked: A Topic Modeling of Requests on Education via Brazil’s Freedom of Information Act Under Bolsonaro’s Administration
This research examines how the hostile policy of the extreme right-wing Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2023) towards the critical journalism has affected the access to public information by journalists in education. An exploratory data analysis was performed on the public database of requests of the Brazilian Freedom of Information Act (LAI). The years 2019 and …
Popularization of Land Laws Through Legal Communication in Digital Media Platforms
The Supreme Court of the Philippines has identified a lack of publicly accessible information on the courts, judicial process, and legal aid, and one initiative for accessibility is to pursue the development of intelligent platforms for self-help legal services such as TikTok, podcasts, and social media. This is important in the context of the Agricultural …
When Cyber Libel Restrains Press Freedom: The Case of Maria Ressa
Local and international journalism organizations continuously call for the decriminalization of libel, monitor harassment and impunity toward media practitioners, and push for the free speech of media organizations and their journalists. In the Philippines, threats to journalism can hardly disappear when tyrants are elected into government: freedoms of expression and of the press are continuously …
The Presumed Media Influence (Self-perception of the Media Influence) on the Strategic – Professional Toolbox of Litigators in Israeli News Prominent Cases
Scholarship, dealing with efforts to repair the reputation of brands, organizations, and companies, has developed concepts such as ‘Reputation Management’ including message strategies focus on dealing with negative images, such as reducing the crisis, initiating events, or turning liabilities into assets. “Presumed media Influence” (PMI) theory is a branch of “The Third Person Theory” which …
Contributions of the Media to Polarizing Perspectives
This research found that the general public in the United States perceive youth in foster care (YFC) to be negatively presented by the media. We conducted a demographically representative national survey (N=2487 adults) in which the majority of respondents reported that they believed YFC are at least somewhat accurately portrayed as 1) Victims, 2) Survivors, …
From Policy to Curriculum: Analysing Digital and Media Literacy Initiatives in Asia-Pacific Region
Digital media is the inextricable part of our future, a future which literally defined by the way the next generation is being educated. On the one hand, children and young people are commonly assumed as the “digital natives” –the generation who master the technology. Yet, when it comes to risks, they are considered as the …