New issue of World of Media is out
28.03.2024
In 2024, the first issue of World of Media. Journal of Russian Media and Journalism Studies brings together four research papers on the issues related to the Russian media communication industry, factors that motivate fake news sharing, media framing of the terrorism insurgency in Mozambique, and discursive and ecosystemic features of opinion cumulation in the discourse on Russian Telegram.
The lead article Macroeconomic indicators of Russia’s media communication industry in 2000-2020: Quantitative analysis is authored by Dr. Sergey Vartanov, professor at the EI department, MIEM and at the Media Department, SPbSAH, NRU HSE, and Edgar Vardanyan, a member of the scientific and experimental laboratory of technical means of journalism, Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University. The authors consider the media communication industry, underlying its integration into the national and global economy and interaction with other sectors of the economy and the world media system. In their study, researchers propose the results of statistical analysis of the joint dynamics of macroeconomic indicators and those of the Russian media communication industry over the past 20 years, and reveal how the macroeconomic situation affects the media industry and vice versa.
Dr. Youngkeun Choi, Assistant Professor at the College of Business, Sangmyung University (South Korea) became the author of the scientific paper A study of modelling the antecedent factors of fake news sharing and the moderating effect of SNS dependency. Using hierarchical multiple regression analysis to explore and understand the relationships between variables in data collected from 352 social media users in South Korea through a survey method, the researcher examines relationships between behavioral factors and fake news sharing, and explores the moderating effect of social networking sites (SNS) dependency on those relationships. In this study, the results show that the more self-expression, social tie strength, or parasocial interaction participants perceive online, the more favorable fake news sharing they have. At the same time status-seeking is not significantly associated with fake news sharing. A positive relationship between self-expression and fake news sharing is stronger for participants with high rather than low SNS dependency.
The third article entitled South African media’s framing of the terrorist insurgency in Mozambique is authored by Dr. Blessing Makwambeni and Dr. Trust Matsilele, Cape Peninsula University of Technology (South Africa). In their paper, the authors appeal to South African media’s framing of the terrorism insurgency in Mozambique. Having analyzed materials published in South Africa’s flagship online publications (News24, TimesLive, and IOL), Dr. Blessing Makwambeni and Dr. Trust Matsilele identify five prominent frames of insurgency, noticing that their use in the construction of the terrorism attacks in Mozambique limit the South African media’s ability to provide a nuanced picture of the complex and multi-faceted nature of the terrorist insurgency in Mozambique. In conclusion, the authors notice that future studies and news stories could be enhanced by looking at multiple stakeholders, including affected communities, to get a broader understanding of the causal effects and possible solutions to terrorism.
The closing article of the issue Unhealthy communication on health: Discursive and ecosystemic features of opinion cumulation in the anti-vaccination discourse on Russian Telegram is authored by Svetlana S. Bodrunova, professor at the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, St. Petersburg State University and Dmitry Nepiyushchikh, Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Control Processes, St. Petersburg State University. The paper examines the deliberative counter-productivity of communities where vaccination denialists’ (‘antivaxxers’) irrational views resided and grew. The researchers consider @anti_covid21, the largest Russian pandemic antivaxxer community on Telegram, to explore by what means destructive opinions accumulate in this community. A sample includes all posts and comments from @anti_covid21 of six months, January to June 2021, with 1,185 posts and more than 282,000 comments altogether. In the study, the authors conclude that @anti_covid21 was a reactive community centered around one-sided anti-vaccination content that left no room for multi-view discussion, and identify two stable micro-patterns of accumulation of distrust triggered by both the published content and user behavior.
The new issue is available here.
The scientific journal World of Media. Journal of Russian Media and Journalism Studies has been published by the Faculty of Journalism of Lomonosov Moscow State University since 2009. World of Media represents a collection of original research in the field of media and journalism studies conducted by authors from diverse cities and institutions. World of Media is aimed at promoting the development of media and journalism studies in both national and global contexts, and stimulating a wider public interest in the journalism theories, methods, findings and applications generated by research in communication and allied fields.
In 2024, the first issue of World of Media. Journal of Russian Media and Journalism Studies brings together four research papers on the issues related to the Russian media communication industry, factors that motivate fake news sharing, media framing of the terrorism insurgency in Mozambique, and discursive and ecosystemic features of opinion cumulation in the discourse on Russian Telegram.The lead article Macroeconomic indicators of Russia’s media communication industry in 2000-2020: Quantitative analysis is authored by Dr. Sergey Vartanov, professor at the EI department, MIEM and at the Media Department, SPbSAH, NRU HSE, and Edgar Vardanyan, a member of the scientific and experimental laboratory of technical means of journalism, Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University. The authors consider the media communication industry, underlying its integration into the national and global economy and interaction with other sectors of the economy and the world media system. In their study, researchers propose the results of statistical analysis of the joint dynamics of macroeconomic indicators and those of the Russian media communication industry over the past 20 years, and reveal how the macroeconomic situation affects the media industry and vice versa.
Dr. Youngkeun Choi, Assistant Professor at the College of Business, Sangmyung University (South Korea) became the author of the scientific paper A study of modelling the antecedent factors of fake news sharing and the moderating effect of SNS dependency. Using hierarchical multiple regression analysis to explore and understand the relationships between variables in data collected from 352 social media users in South Korea through a survey method, the researcher examines relationships between behavioral factors and fake news sharing, and explores the moderating effect of social networking sites (SNS) dependency on those relationships. In this study, the results show that the more self-expression, social tie strength, or parasocial interaction participants perceive online, the more favorable fake news sharing they have. At the same time status-seeking is not significantly associated with fake news sharing. A positive relationship between self-expression and fake news sharing is stronger for participants with high rather than low SNS dependency.
The third article entitled South African media’s framing of the terrorist insurgency in Mozambique is authored by Dr. Blessing Makwambeni and Dr. Trust Matsilele, Cape Peninsula University of Technology (South Africa). In their paper, the authors appeal to South African media’s framing of the terrorism insurgency in Mozambique. Having analyzed materials published in South Africa’s flagship online publications (News24, TimesLive, and IOL), Dr. Blessing Makwambeni and Dr. Trust Matsilele identify five prominent frames of insurgency, noticing that their use in the construction of the terrorism attacks in Mozambique limit the South African media’s ability to provide a nuanced picture of the complex and multi-faceted nature of the terrorist insurgency in Mozambique. In conclusion, the authors notice that future studies and news stories could be enhanced by looking at multiple stakeholders, including affected communities, to get a broader understanding of the causal effects and possible solutions to terrorism.
The closing article of the issue Unhealthy communication on health: Discursive and ecosystemic features of opinion cumulation in the anti-vaccination discourse on Russian Telegram is authored by Svetlana S. Bodrunova, professor at the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, St. Petersburg State University and Dmitry Nepiyushchikh, Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Control Processes, St. Petersburg State University. The paper examines the deliberative counter-productivity of communities where vaccination denialists’ (‘antivaxxers’) irrational views resided and grew. The researchers consider @anti_covid21, the largest Russian pandemic antivaxxer community on Telegram, to explore by what means destructive opinions accumulate in this community. A sample includes all posts and comments from @anti_covid21 of six months, January to June 2021, with 1,185 posts and more than 282,000 comments altogether. In the study, the authors conclude that @anti_covid21 was a reactive community centered around one-sided anti-vaccination content that left no room for multi-view discussion, and identify two stable micro-patterns of accumulation of distrust triggered by both the published content and user behavior.
The new issue is available here.
The scientific journal World of Media. Journal of Russian Media and Journalism Studies has been published by the Faculty of Journalism of Lomonosov Moscow State University since 2009. World of Media represents a collection of original research in the field of media and journalism studies conducted by authors from diverse cities and institutions. World of Media is aimed at promoting the development of media and journalism studies in both national and global contexts, and stimulating a wider public interest in the journalism theories, methods, findings and applications generated by research in communication and allied fields.