Journal Description
Emerging Media: Technology, Industry and Society (Emerging Media thereafter) is a SAGE open access peer-reviewed scholarly journal. The journal focuses on the exploration of the emerging issues and future development in the field of media and communication, both theoretically and practically. This journal will publish interdisciplinary research articles and leading trend discussions, particularly in conjunction with the field of artificial intelligence (AI), information and communication technologies (ICTs), new media application, computer science, mobile technology, user experience design, data science, aesthetics, ethical and cultural studies, as well as social and psychological perspectives. In addition, this journal is open to a diversity of theoretical paradigms and methodologies.
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- by Melissa GasparottoEmerging Media, Ahead of Print. Data and data modeling practices in natural language processing (NLP) privilege languages with the greatest levels of representation online, leaving behind speakers of the overwhelming majority of the world's languages from enjoying the full benefits of digital inclusion. These dynamics have been explored in the context of historic colonial relationships, with linguists and language activists noting the colonizing discourses around the adoption of language-related technologies, and highlighting problematic research practices among linguists and computational linguists working in the area of digital corpus development for minoritized and Indigenous languages. Such power differentials raise questions about the […]
- by Shilian ShanEmerging Media, Volume 2, Issue 4, Page 776-780, December 2024.
- by Xiaofen MaEmerging Media, Volume 2, Issue 4, Page 636-662, December 2024. Electronic medical records (EMRs) are associated with higher-quality healthcare; however, they also raise concerns about patient information privacy and security. Existing studies have strongly linked these privacy concerns to patients withholding their information, indicating perceived risks with EMRs. Furthermore, studies devoted to EMR usage in hospitals are lacking, particularly those on the EMR system in the contexts of clinical and privacy concerns based on multi-criteria perspectives. The proposed framework is based on how clinical factors and security and privacy determinants influence the use of EMR, utilizing data derived from chronic […]
- by David Duenas-CidEmerging Media, Volume 2, Issue 4, Page 781-784, December 2024.
- by Matthias DegenEmerging Media, Volume 2, Issue 4, Page 673-697, December 2024. Our study investigates how German journalists produce quality journalism on TikTok based on 22 semistructured interviews. Specifically, we explore whether German journalists adhere to established journalistic norms and values, using Lacy & Rosenstiel's quality journalism framework as a theoretical foundation. Given the prominent role of public service media and their legal mandate to contribute to public opinion formation, Germany constitutes an interesting case. Findings suggest that German journalists rely on a mixture of traditional journalistic standards and audience-related news values on TikTok. Moreover, they tailor content to the unique platform […]
- by Saba Rebecca BrauseEmerging Media, Volume 2, Issue 4, Page 581-610, December 2024. Artificial intelligence (AI) has attracted much public interest, inspiring both hopes and fears. As countries define pathways for developing and implementing AI, healthcare is emerging as a priority sector. Sociotechnical imaginaries, which can mobilize public support and attract resources for realising sociotechnical visions, play an important role in the trajectories of emerging technologies. News media, in turn, are central to the negotiation, construction, and promotion of such imaginaries. We analyze how news media construct sociotechnical imaginaries of AI in healthcare in China, Germany, and the United States (US), three countries […]
- by Zhang KeyuEmerging Media, Volume 2, Issue 4, Page 750-775, December 2024. Drawing on Marxist feminism, this article provides general literature analyses and conducts interviews of Chinese participants to explore woman's historical roles as telephone operators, punched card operators, and artificial intelligence (AI) trainers. This article highlights women's significant but marginalized technical labor across different stages of technological revolutions. It examines how patriarchal and capitalist systems confine women to low-end technical roles, perpetuating their invisibility and vulnerability to technological unemployment. In the end, the study advocates that the state should intervene into platform capitalism and promote gender equity through technical education and […]
- by Lianshan ZhangEmerging Media, Volume 2, Issue 4, Page 575-580, December 2024.
- by Christian-Mathias WellbrockEmerging Media, Volume 2, Issue 4, Page 663-672, December 2024. Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed various industries, automating tasks and enhancing productivity. Yet, its impact varies across sectors. In mass communication, AI has notably benefited entertainment, public relations, and advertising. However, it poses a lesser advantage for investigative journalism, where labor-intensive research and other highly specialized activities depend on highly educated journalists. This situation parallels Baumol's concept of a cost disease, which applies to labor-intensive “stagnant” service sectors such as healthcare, education, and the performing arts. These sectors rely heavily on human labor and struggle to achieve significant productivity […]
- by Meng ChenEmerging Media, Volume 2, Issue 4, Page 611-635, December 2024. This article addresses the urgent need for a comprehensive understanding of the global media coverage of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) by conducting a massive-scale analysis using the Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone. With a dataset encompassing 53,967,878 news items from 4,708 online news sources across 67 countries, the study spans the entire trajectory of the pandemic from the first reported case on December 31, 2019, to September 11, 2020. The analysis aims to surpass the limitations of previous research by offering a worldwide perspective on COVID-19 media coverage […]
- by Ebenezer AgbagloEmerging Media, Volume 2, Issue 4, Page 724-749, December 2024. The advancement of technology has seen the growth of online news platforms where users can interact and share their views in the comments section. The comments section, therefore, has become a site for the expression of divergent views, leading to linguistic practices such as verbal attacks. This study sourced data from GhanaWeb, an online news platform that focuses on sociopolitical occurrences in Ghana, to demonstrate how users rely on insults, alongside other strategies like endorsement, irrelevancy claims, ill-wishes and unpalatable questions to create enmity with the out-group and build solidarity […]
- by Jie FengEmerging Media, Volume 2, Issue 4, Page 698-723, December 2024. Despite the significant progress in studies on metadiscourse, scarce attention has been paid to it in the digital context. Social media platforms including Twitter have become arenas for the current Sino-U.S. discourse competition. In this regard, Twitter can be used to observe the diverse usage of metadiscourse by different political figures and uncover the underlying mechanisms. Combining computer-aided metadiscourse extraction and critical discourse analysis, the paper explores metadiscourse markers from the Chinese and American spokespersons’ tweets to reveal their rhetoric and social functions based on Foucault's “power discourse theory.” The […]