Chasing Sustainability on the Net : International research on 69 journalistic pure players and their business models

This report outlines how online-based journalistic startups have created their economical locker in the evolving media ecology. The research introduces the ways that startups have found sustainability in the markets of ten countries. The work is based on 69 case studies from Europe, USA and Japan. The case analysis shows that business models can be divided into two groups. The storytelling-oriented business models are still prevalent in our findings. These are the online journalistic outlets that produce original content – news and stories for audiences. But the other group, service-oriented business models, seems to be growing. This group consists of sites that don’t try to monetize the journalistic content as such but rather focus on carving out new functionality. The project was able to identify several revenue sources: advertising, paying for content, affiliate marketing, donations, selling data or services, organizing events, freelancing and training or selling merchandise. Where it was hard to evidence entirely new revenue sources, it was however possible to find new ways in which revenue sources have been combined or reconfigured. The report also offers practical advice for those who are planning to start their own journalistic site

Transformative Education in a Broken World: Feminist and Jesuit Pedagogy on the Importance of Context

This chapter relates the concept of positionality from feminist theory and pedagogy to the Ignatian paradigm to show how its focus on the individual, at the expense of the structural, fails to acknowledge the unequal power relationships that disadvantage students from minority groups. Focusing on the positionality of gay and lesbian students in the author\u27s classroom at a Jesuit college, it explores how becoming attentive to our own positions with respect to our students allows us better to examine how relationships of domination and subordination between members of oppressed and privileged groups in larger social and ecclesial contexts are re-created at the micro-level in the classroom

The Digital Electronic Media Methods in Communication with the Public: BBC Website as a Model

The study aimed to explain most of the digital electronic media methods in communication with the public on the BBC Arabic website. To achieve the objectives of the research, the qualitative descriptive method was used by content analysis and observation.  The results of the research found that the design of the BBC Arabic site is easy to use because of the logic of organizing the content. There is easy access to information and news on the site.  The Multimedia is one of the most important additions to the website, especially the news sites. The most important multimedia used in news sites is the process of integrating text, graphics, sound, image, links, and tools that allow the user to interact and communicate. Moreover, the BBC website contains a diversifying the content by providing multimedia that includes text, still images, video, audio, descriptive features of all images, audio and video clips. As well as, the BBC Arabic site features a distinctive style in its multimedia display by using playable files with more than one player such as Real Player, Player or Windows Media. Also, the news sites are interested in providing a variety of information materials: texts, audio clips, videos, photo albums and more. In addition to several copies of their sites in languages other than Arabic. Finally, the interactive services on the BBC News website help attract users and build a trust-based relationship between the site and its audience. The research recommended creating the appropriate climate, adequate resources, and appropriate cooperation to improve the digital electronic media methods across the Arab world as a primary for communication with the public Keywords: BBC News Website, BBC Arabic, Digital Electronic Media, Multimedia DOI: 10.7176/NMMC/81-08 Publication date:June 30th 2019

Online Participatory Journalism: A Systematic Literature Review

This article presents a systematic literature review of 378 studies (1997–2017) on online participatory journalism, i.e., audience participation in the professional news production process. Participation can challenge established understandings of journalism and affect the relationship between journalists and audience members as peripheral actors due to the increasingly blurred boundaries between these actors and the renegotiation of authority and power. The review captures research practices regarding the theoretical, conceptual and empirical approach as well as results pertaining to the impact participation has on the journalist–audience relationship and is both interdisciplinary and global in nature. The results show that research mostly focuses on journalism in Europe and North America and examines participation in the interpretation stage rather than in the formation or dissemination stage of the news production process. Longitudinal and comparative studies, examinations of regional and local participation, in-depth audience studies as well as analyses of participation in all three production stages are rare. 121 studies explicitly deal with participation’s impact on the journalist–audience relationship and produce conflicting results: 51% see journalists retaining control over news production process; 42% see shared power; and 7% see mixed results. Notably, power structures differ depending on the examined world region, production stage, and actor perspective. The review illustrates the status quo of research practices as well as the role the audience as peripheral actors play in the news production process and concludes with five observations about the field as well as future avenues to close identified research gaps

Issues with archiving community data

Transportation in Indianapolis is evolving. The bicycle, two-wheeled agitator of a similar transportation revolution across the United States in the 1890s, is back. The city landscape, overwhelmingly distinguished by auto-centric design, is increasingly being reshaped to support cycling as the economic impact of these alterations changes perceptions and the cycling movement gains momentum. How to document the impact of an urban landscape in flux from the perspective of a loosely codified community centered on cycling is a considerable challenge worthy of consideration by archivists and information professionals in general