Modern Markets
The Convergence and Conflicts of Internet and Television in East Asia
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Ki Sung Kwak
This paper explores changes in television landscape in the context of Internet-TV convergence in East Asia – Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea. It draws on evidence obtained through an examination of the recent reshaping of the television industry and the new platform industry utilising Internet-based streaming services in the three countries under study, where players and regulators have responded in different ways to the new technology. It argues that the lack of regulation of Internet-based streaming services is an indication of reduced confidence at the state level about where the market should be going.
Every Corporation is a Bit of Media: Mediality as an Attributive Quality of Contemporary Organizations
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Hanna Navumenka
The main theoretical and methodological approaches to the problem of understanding organizational communication are considered. A new approach to organizational communications based on the theories of constructionism and mediatization is proposed. Factors of production of own media in the space of organizational communication are analyzed. It is proposed that the level of development of the organization and its communication management is reflected in the presence or absence of their own media, quality, and degree of mediatization, which ultimately affects the sustainable development of the organization: media affects sustainability. The idea that media is an attributive quality of modern organizational communication in the conditions of information and digital transformation of society is substantiated.
How to Make the Media More Ethical in the Digital Age: Media Monitoring Programme as a Way of Improving Public Debate - Case of Poland
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Filip Gołębiewski
Freedom of speech and press independance are among the most important values of contemporary democracies. However, in recent years we can observe a crisis in worldwide mass media that manifests itself in such phenomena as: fake news, hate speech, disinformation, propaganda, and various forms of manipulation. Institute for Discourse and Dialogue has launched a program of media monitoring by volunteering analysts "INDID MEDIA WATCH" in autumn 2018. It is based on regular tracking of media information messages and analyzing them according to the previously developed and unified methodology, that was consulted with experts – scholars & journalists. In 2018, over 320 studies from Poland were collected on both traditional media (TV, radio, press) and digital (internet portals). This paper presents research results in particular dimensions: (1) partiality, (2) reliability, (3) level of expert statements in messages and their pluralism, (4) legitimacy of the title in relation to the content of the material, and (5) additional remarks about remittances collected by volunteers. The basic principle of the monitoring is applying the same criteria to all media titles, regardless of their editorial lines. The purpose of the paper is also to confront thesis about the programme – as a unique way of measuring media bias level based on intersubjective methodology.
