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Do we actually understand each other? Moving beyond the language.
Rena Zendedel Agar argues that it is not enough to know the language – that is, words and grammar to be able to communicate – you should also learn the culture. What is in the minds of people you’re communicating with? How does their world look like? Agar compares US migrant workers with little knowledge…
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How can media contribute to genocide?
Tom Powell A defining feature of genocide is numbers: 6 million dead in the holocaust, 1.5 million in Cambodia, 800,000 in Rwanda, 400,000 in Darfur. The mind boggles. Quite literally. To get a feel for these numbers, simply take yourself – in all your singularity, importance, complexity, and love – and multiply this by hundreds…
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Branded apps and purchase behavior
Verena Wottrich Writing a shopping list using the Appie app, checking when the next train arrives with the NS app, searching for the latest fashion trends with the H&M app, or creating and managing one’s own airline with the KLM gaming-app. Nowadays, everyone of us regularly uses mobile apps originating from brands, the so-called branded…
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Is the TV still the first screen?
Claire M. Segijn Attention When using multiple screens simultaneously, it is not possible to focus your eyes on both screens at the same time. People have to switch between the screens. This has consequences for their viewing behavior of both screens. In one study researchers combined a TV with a computer screen and found that…
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Native Advertising. Are consumers being deceived? A new study suggests this is the case.
Ronald Voorn Native advertising is a relatively new word to describe advertiser-sponsored content disguised as editorial content. It is expected that the total spending on native advertising will take a 52% share of the digital display market and reach €13.2 billion by 2020, which is an increase of 156% over year to date (WARC, 2016).…
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Home is where the heart is? The role of identity in populism’s persuasiveness
Michael Hameleers Most scholars agree that populism is a highly persuasive communication strategy. As a reader of this post, you may be inclined to think: not for me, I am not buying the hostile ‘us’ versus ‘them’ oppositions articulated by Wilders, Strache, le Pen, or other members of populist party families. Your resistance makes perfect…
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Trust me, I’m a journalist!?
Nina Steindl The journalists’ uncertain role in fading public trust “Healthy skepticism is good for democracy,” and “trust is necessary for the well-functioning of the political system.” Such ambiguous arguments are often raised when the media, politicians and scholars express their concern about shrinking trust in public institutions. It is true that countries such as…
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Expressing Discontent Online: Freedom of Speech or Damaging for Society?
Michael Hameleers Social media offer an important opportunity for ordinary citizens to express their viewpoints on pressing societal issues, such as the refugee crisis. Recently, a moral discussion on the appropriateness of these expressions emerged. On the one hand, people’s interpretations were regarded as discriminating and overly hostile. On the other hand, people plied for…
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Scandal! What happens to politicians on the public pillory
Philip Baugut At first, there is no doubt that in democracy it is the media’s role to criticize and control politicians. However, it is not always clear in how far politicians in the center of a media scandal have really misbehaved. Anyway, they have no choice: They have to deal with public outrage and find…
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Reporting evil – How to deal with right-wing extremism in mass media
Katharina Neumann The German neo-Nazi scene is a wide network of various ideological currents and groups. One of those is the Skinhead-subculture, but it only represents a small fraction of the right-wing extremist scene. Among others, there are autonomous nationalists looking like Punks, members of the “völkisch movement” dressing like Germans during the Third Empire…
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