21 research outputs found
Onsite actors’ agency within international media development
No full textInternational efforts aimed at developing a specific region’s or country’s media sector commonly involve both onsite actors (usually from the Global South) and external actors (usually from the Global North). Dependency theory suggests that onsite actors are (stuck) in a relationship with development agencies and donors in which “Western” notions of journalistic ethics, communi-cation and democracy are imposed on them – and not necessarily to their advantage. Bureaucratic imperatives and institutional dynamics especially within funding agencies have been identified as strong determinants of media development practice. Yet, recent empirical insights point to local ac-tors’ ability to assert their own strategies in the face of donor power which can be interpreted as agency. Therefore, this paper suggests making use of structuration theory to get a clearer picture of how onsite actors enact international media development practice. Structuration theory acts on the assumption that social practice is produced and reproduced as part of a dynamic interplay between agency and structure. Applied to media development practice, it allows for the analysis of the inten-tions and motivations of the agents involved, the conscious or subconscious rules they act upon and also the allocative and authoritative resources at their disposal. Against this background, this contri-bution presents the methodological design and preliminary results of a qualitative interview study on how onsite actors in the target countries of international media development perceive and nego-tiate their scope of action. Online interviews were conducted with participants from various world regions such as Middle East, South Asia as well as South-East Asia. The results suggest that the cul-tivation of long-term relationships and a diversification of international partners allow onsite actors to strengthen their agency within international media development
Grüne, Anne/Hafez, Kai/Priyadharma, Subekti/Schmidt, Sabrina (Hrsg.): Media and transformation in Germany and Indonesia: asymmetrical comparisons and perspectives
No full textA Chance for Dialogical Journalism? Social Web Practices and Handling of User Comments at Deutsche Welle
No full textThe value of online user comments is a much-debated issue. In journalism, the newly arising possibility for readers and viewers to easily and instantaneously share their views on journalistic output was welcomed at first. Compared to the conventional letter to the editor it represented a democratized form of audience feedback. News organizations increased their presence in the social web and gained more and more experience with user comments. Over time, however, discontent towards the quality of online user comments seemed to grow. But what is the responsibility of journalism in this respect? How do news organizations use the social web? How do they handle online user comments? To what extent do they tap the dialogical potential of the social web for facilitating exchange and understanding between different viewpoints? This study pursues these questions by investigating the case of Germany’s international public service broadcaster Deutsche Welle with its explicit dialogical mandate. It provides an in-depth examination of a transition period in which the news organization is grappling with its self-conception as a serious news provider in the casual social web environment, in which social media editors struggle for recognition from their established colleagues, and in which "stepping back and letting the discussion unfold on its own" serves as a strategy to avoid censorship accusations from users. Based on a specially developed analytical grid the study offers a democracy-theoretical evaluation of the user comments and their handling by Deutsche Welle
The FAIR Funder
No full textA place to keep resources related to the FAIR Funder Implementation Study (formerly the FAIR Funder Pilot https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.11162
GO TRAIN Pillar
No full textGO FAIR activities are organized by 3 Pillars: GO CHANGE, GO TRAIN, and GO BUILD. OSF "projects" have been created for each Pillar, and can be used to store and share documents, other materials, and links. Implementation Networks (INs) operating within these Pillars, can be given separate project "components"
FFIS User Scenario
No full textUser Scenario for the FAIR Funder Implementation Study, co-authored by the FFIS Collaboration:
GO FAIR International Support and Coordination Office, Leiden, Netherlands
E. A. Schultes 0000-0001-8888-635X
H. Pergl Sustkova 0000-0002-4462-6465
Health Research Board, Dublin, Ireland
A. Montesanti 0000-0003-0413-2003
ZonMw, The Hague, Netherlands
S. M. Bloemers 0000-0003-3710-3188
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
M. A. Musen 0000-0003-3325-793X
J. B. Graybeal 0000-0001-6875-5360
Oxford e-Research Centre, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
S-A Sansone 0000-0001-5306-5690
P. McQuilton 0000-0003-2687-1982
Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Information Technology, Czech Republic
R. Pergl 0000-0003-2980-4400
Castor EDC, Amsterdam, Netherlands
S. L. Knijnenburg 0000-0002-2475-6254
Purple Polar Bear, Utrecht, Netherlands
A.C. van Arkel 0000-0003-4668-2580
GO FAIR Foundation, Leiden, Netherlands
B. Meerman 0000-0002-0071-266
