This article focuses on user experiences on reading location-aware news on the mobile platform and aims to explore what experiences this kind of locative journalism generates and how such experiences change the users‟ social interaction with news. We produced a specially designed mobile application and tailored news stories specific to this project called LocaNews in order to explore participan...

In order to make news management in the journalism domain affordable it is necessary to make machines aware of a greater part of the underlying semantics. However, things can not change from one day to the next. Newspapers have made great investments in their current news management systems and there have been also great standardisation efforts in order to facilitate interoperation. The wish is...

introduction: self-citation is considered as one of the greatest shortcomings of citation analysis. although self-citation is natural for journals, its excessive use would eliminate the journal from evaluations made by databases. this study examined the rate of self-citation of iranian scientific medical journals in english indexed in scopus citation index during 2005-2009. methods: this descri...

In their daily practice, editors face different problems and questions. To handle these situations, there are many policies and guidelines established by well-known influential organizations such as World Association of Medical Editors, International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, Committee on Publication Ethics, Council of Science Editors, European Association of Science Editors, and Ea...

greater transparency. Powerful pressure is being exerted on journalism itself, they observe, which must now serve multiple global audiences, many of whom are equipped with sufficient information from alternative media to challenge mainstream news reports. Professionals have been placed in dialogue with citizens, the latter with their own forms of expression distributed easily through online pla...

An attempt is made to study the social network site, Vahid Online, pseudonym of a leading Iranian activist who has the largest social media followership online. Vahid Online is Iran’s leading distributor of information about social and political news about Iran, a source of information used by citizens and journalists. Similar to Twitter, Vahid Online posts, shares, and communicates news in sho...

Big data is a social, cultural, and technological phenomenon—a complex amalgamation of digital data abundance, emerging analytic techniques, mythology about data-driven insights, and growing critique about the overall consequences of big-data practices for democracy and society. While media and communication scholars have begun to examine and theorize about big data in the context of media and ...

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This research with the title (Impacts of Computer Technology on Journalism Editing; a Descriptive and Comparative Study between (Kurdistan Nwe) (Awena) Newspapers) is about revealing role computer technology stages editing. study taking viewpoints editors “Kurdistan Nwe” “Awene” newspapers effectiveness computers in facilitating speeding up process In framework theoretical field aspects, refere...