Wikileaks and the duration of the journalism
Site Leaks Wikileaks are important and do not represent a failure of journalism, but of media companies. This was considered Guillermo López García, a professor at the University of Valencia and speaker at a panel discussion entitled "Wikileaks and journalism of the century", held this morning at the School of Journalism at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) Cuenca. The debate also included the participation of Juan Miguel Ortega, a professor of International Law at the UCLM, and Delia Rodriguez, a freelance journalist author of the blog ' Trending Topics' to El Pais Digital, which agreed on the increase visibility of power led by Julian Assange leaks, the controversial founder of Wikileaks.
Although governments have tried to downplay the revelations of Wikileaks, López García considers relevant for two reasons: because "we are told how the power when you are not observed" and that have been uncovered as the exclusive real alleged U.S. pressure to develop the "law Sinde" against illegal downloads on the Internet or the alleged attempts to silence the inquest into the death of Jose Couso, a English cameraman hit by a U.S. in the Iraq war. "If anyone doubts the importance of Wikileaks," said the professor at the University of Valencia, "has test the reaction of governments, which have placed emphasis on the rape allegations leveled against Assange and pressured-successfully-to the company that hosts the Wikileaks website (Amazon) or facilitated by citizen donations cards (Visa and Mastercard).
According to López García, Wikileaks no evidence the failure of journalism, but of media companies. "For what Wikileaks says have any effect need of traditional journalism," professionals who are able to digest the vast amount of data filtered by Assange and verify the accuracy of the information. In fact, says teacher, the impact of Wikileaks is due largely to the "mainstreaming" and "centrality" of mainstream media as The Country, The New York Times , Der Spiegel, Le Monde or The Guardian , who acted as relay amplifiers without which Wikileaks leaks could hardly have come to monopolize the agenda of public discussion. Paradoxically, in his view, the case Wikileaks exposes the dereliction of duties of traditional media companies that avoid publishing scandals involving large companies or related to political power. "Journalism and companies journalism are not the same, "he said López García. Fallacy argument
Juan Miguel Ortega elaborated on the importance, in their opinion, deserve the revelations of Wikileaks. "Governments tell us that what he says Assange already knew, but that argument is fallacious," he said. "More than knowing it sensed the difference is that now we have proof of what we suspected." For Professor of International Law UCLM Wikileaks means a preference for anonymous reporting on freedom of expression, which in his opinion reveals the weakness of Western democracies, whose mass media Traditional come to be confused with institutional political power.
Delia Rodriguez, for whom Wikileaks leaks are "the big world news over the last thirty years," Assange papers labeled the "poisoned gift" to the media. As a result of the weaknesses of traditional journalism, Wikileaks has made the major news media, highlighting their lack of independence and economic weakness due to the absence of a viable business model for journalism in the digital age. Rodriguez believes however that the Wikileaks case is also "a lesson in good journalism," in which professional mediators have made a considerable effort of synthesis and contextualization. "Having the roles of Wikileaks is like having a $ 500 ticket for bus fare," said freelance journalist to explain the challenge for journalists is the overabundance of information on the website of Assange. "Wikileaks is the epitome of what the Internet is, for better or for worse," said Rodriguez. "It's the equivalent of 'Save Me' on TV," the ultimate expression of the virtues and excesses of the media in question. The author of the blog 'Trending Topics' to El Pais Digital recommended reading Julian Assange profile published by the magazine Vanity Fair , piece that revealed that the founder of Wikileaks reached an agreement with several conventional media as a result of a calculated strategy, but to prevent their leakage were known from another source that had been sent to British newspaper The Guardian their own files.
From the audience, one of the journalism students asked the participants at the round table who said, Julian Assange would ask if given the opportunity to interview. For Delia Rodriguez, the hottest issue relates to the promised revelations about the Bank of America: "I wonder why they have not gone yet."
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Monday, February 14, 2011
Tongue Dry When Sleeping
Comparative Political Communication: Workshop in Madrid ACOP ECREA and Elihu Katz in Segovia
The Political Communication section of the European Communication Research & Education Association (ECREA) and Association for Communication Policy (ACOP) join forces to organize a workshop on the comparative study of political communication. Be held in Madrid on 20 and 21 October 2011. Proposals for presentations, summaries of which should not exceed 500 words should be sent to the address info [@] compolitica.com, to the attention of Professor María José Canel Crespo, before May 16, 2011.
More information on the web ECREA -section recently opened, by the way-that allows download the Call for Papers in PDF format .
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The Political Communication section of the European Communication Research & Education Association (ECREA) and Association for Communication Policy (ACOP) join forces to organize a workshop on the comparative study of political communication. Be held in Madrid on 20 and 21 October 2011. Proposals for presentations, summaries of which should not exceed 500 words should be sent to the address info [@] compolitica.com, to the attention of Professor María José Canel Crespo, before May 16, 2011.
More information on the web ECREA -section recently opened, by the way-that allows download the Call for Papers in PDF format .
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Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Is Propolyn Glycol Bad?
Elihu Katz, professor at the Annenberg School at UPenn and outstanding disciple of the legendary sociologist Paul F. Lazarsfeld, will deliver the inaugural lecture of the regional seminar that the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR) held in Segovia from 17 to 18 March under the sponsorship of IE University and Professor Magdalena organization Wojcieszak.
program (reproduced below from the conference web ) provides presentations by distinguished researchers in political communication from Robert Entman to Shanto Iyengar, young but settled through values \u200b\u200bthat do not hide my admiration and Matthew Hindman or Talia Stroud. pure intellectual delicatessen.
Katz In December 2008 he traveled to Leeds, England, to commemorate the beginnings of communication research with colleague Jay G. Blumler. The interventions of both the summarized in this report .
Take this opportunity to remember that the documentary The long road to Decatur (Glenda Balas, 2008), which details the difficult gestation of the legendary studio of Katz and Lazarsfeld, Personal Influence (1950), you can download online for free. Katz himself told me during his visit to Leeds for the existence of a recent French edition of the famous book with an introductory study of the French sociologist Éric Maigret .
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Agenda for the second edition of the symposium Transnational Connections
Segovia, 17-18 March 2011
(also available PDF format)
Day 0. March 16 - Madrid
20:00 Welcome remarks from Begoña González Cuesta (Dean of IE School of Communication) and Patricia Moy (World Association of Public Opinion Research) (Serrano 105, S-001 and S-002, IE Business School , Madrid)
Day 1. March 17 - Segovia
8:00 Bus to Segovia, NH Leaving from Zurbano (Zurbano, 79-81, Madrid, 28003, 914 414 500)
10:00 to 10:15 Welcome from Magdalena Wojcieszak, the symposium organizer IE School of Communication
KEYNOTE SPEAKER 10:15 to 11:15 Elihu Katz, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
"Some Dilemmas of Deliberative Democracy" PANEL PRESENTATIONS
11:15 to 11:45 COFFEE BREAK
11:45 to 13:15 MEDIA, NETWORKS, AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Dave Karpf, Rutgers Univ
"Internet-Mediated Organizations and the Changing Public Sphere "
José Manuel Robles, Stefano de Marco, Mirko Antino, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
" Political participation, Internet, digital activism and collective action "
Cristancho-Mantilla Camilo, Autonomous University of Barcelona
"Protest Mobilization and Disagreement in online issue networks"
Daniel Mutibwa, University of Leeds
"Romantic, Missionary-like and Oppositional: Gauging the Significance of Third Sector Media As Sites of Grassroots Organising. A Comparative Study of Britain and Germany”
11:45 - 13:15 MEDIA FRAMES AND PUBLIC OPINION
Richard Doherty, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
“Economic gain or ecological sustainability? Framing, environmental movements, and communication theory
Rita Figueiras & Barbora Petrova, Masaryk Univ.
“Mixed-gender campaigning communication: Comparing in Portugal and Slovakia”
Janet Takens, Anita van Hoof & Jan Kleinnijenhuis, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
“The effect of process oriented and personalized news on the strength of vote determinants “
Porismita Borah, Maryville Univ., USA
“Does it matter where you read the news story? Interplay of news frames and incivility in the political blogosphere -- influence of incivility and news frames on willingness to participate, attitude certainty, open-mindedness and information seeking”
11:45 - 13:15 METHODOLOGICAL AND MEASUREMENT ISSUES AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS
Wolfgang Donsbach, Dresden Univ. of Technology
“Have you heard about…? Measuring political knowledge and news sources on a day-to-day basis”
Dan Cassino, Farleigh Dickinson Univ.'s PublicMind Poll
“Bias in legislative generic ballot questions: building a better House election forecast”
Patricia Goerman, Leticia Fernández, Rosanna Quiroz, U.S. Census Bureau
“Translation of Survey Items on Country Specific Programs: The Case of Translating U.S. Educational Level Questions into English”
Pawel Sobkowicz
“Computer simulations of opinions in a three state networked society”
13:15 - 14:15 LUNCH
14:30 - 16:00 UNDERSTANDING PUBLIC OPINION POLLS
Katarzyna Staszynska, Kozminski Univ., Poland
“Perception of public opinion polls in a developing democracy”
Miguel Vicente-Marino, Univ. of Vallodid-Segovia Campus, Spain
“Public and published opinion about climate change: who is the one to blame?”
Michael Traugott, Univ. of Michigan, USA
“Understanding the causes of problems of pre-election polls in cross-national comparison”
Robert Luskin, James Fishkin, & Kyu Hahn, University of Texas at Austin, USA
“Deliberation and Net Attitude Change”
14:30 - 16:00 MEDIA, KNOWLEDGE AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION
Lilach Nir, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem
“Do Shared News Environments Reduce Barriers to Political Engagement?”
Lisa Mueller & Bruno Wuest, Univ. of Zurich
“Bringing the Media In: How the Press System Affects Electoral Participation in Established Democracies”
Marta Fraile, European Univ. Institute
“Testing the Knowledge Gap: A Comparison of Traditional Media and Internet in Finland and Spain”
Marina Popescu, Univ. of Essex, UK
“Can Mass Media Inform Citizens? How Media Systems Influence Citizens’ Political Knowledge and Knowledge Inequalities”
14:30 - 16:00 POLITICAL COMMUNICATIONS AND THE INTERNET AROUND THE GLOBE
Matthew Hindman, George Washington Univ., USA
“Online News and the Red Queen: Power Laws, Traffic Churn, and Why Saving Journalism Is Harder Than We Think”
Jorge Luis Salcedo Maldonado, Univ. Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain
“Conflicts about the regulation of intellectual property in Internet: comparing the issue networks in UK and Spain”
Jennifer Brundidge, Homero Gil de Zúñiga, Univ. of Texas at Austin, Kelly Garrett , Hernando Rojas
“Mobilization and Demobilization among Liberals and Conservatives: The Impact of Political Blogs o Voter Choice and Participation in the 2008 Election Cycle”
Marko M. Skoric, Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore
“Media, New and Old, and Civic and Political Participation in Singapore”
16:00 - 16:30 COFFEE BREAK
THEMATIC WORKSHOPS
16:30 - 18:30 KNOWLEDGE, IGNORANCE, AND MISINFORMATION: QUESTIONS OF DEFINITION, MEASUREMENT AND EXPLANATION
Led by Robert Luskin, Univ. of Texas, Austin
16:30 - 18:30 PERCEPTIONS OF THE MEDIA & THE PUBLIC
Led by Albert Gunther & Hernando Rojas, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
16:30 - 18:30 NEW MEDIA AND THEIR SOCIOPOLITICAL IMPACT
Led by Matthew Hindman, George Washington Univ.
18:30 - 18:40 Thank you and the end of Day 1
Day 2. March 18 - Segovia
09:00 - 09:30 2 simultaneous campus tours: by Juan José Prat and Miguel Larrañaga
PANEL PRESENTATIONS
09:30 - 11:00 MEDIA INFLUENCES ON PERCEPTIONS
Krzysztof Zagorski, Kozminski Univ., Poland
“Impact of economic news on evaluation of nation’s and family’ s conditions”
Mariano Torcal & Fabiola Mota, Universidad Pompeu Fabra
“English Public Opinion on the Models of the State: The role of partisan elite in shaping public opinion”
Maria Jose Canel, Univ. Complutense de Madrid, Spain
“Who is responsible for this? Public perceptions of public policies and their implications for government communication”
Philemon Bantimaroudis & Stelios Zyglidopoulos, Univ. of Aegean, Greece
“Cultural Agenda Setting”
09:30 - 11:00 POLITICAL DELIBERATION
Joseph Chan & Baohua Zhou, Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong
“Expressive Behaviors across Discursive Spaces and Issue Types”
Ernesto Ganuza, Regina Lafuente, Fernando Garrido, Francisco Frances, IESA/CSIC, Spain
“How deliberation influences on individual attitudinal net”
Wenjie Yan & Zhongdang Pan Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
“Entrapment of One’s Blind Spot: Perceptions of Bias in Others and Deliberative Prospect”
Magdalena Wojcieszak, IE Univ.
"Deliberation Reconsidered: What Happens When People with Extreme Views Encounter Disagreement?"
11:00 - 11:30 COFFEE BREAK
PANEL PRESENTATIONS
11:30- 13:00 SELECTIVITY & ITS EFFECTS
Michael Meffert, Leiden Univ
“Partisan Selectivity for Information and Media Sources”
Natalie (Talia) Jomini Stroud, Univ. of Texas at Austin
“Perceptions of bias in the media”
Jan Kleinnijenhuis, Janet Takens, Wouter van Atteveldt, Anita van Hoof, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
“Partisan news exposure and news effects: A ten‐wave longitudinal study”
Albert Gunther, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
“Information or Affirmation? Partisan Selective Exposure and the Hostile Media Effect”
11:30- 13:00 JOURNALISM: CONTEXT AND CONTENT
Regina Lawrence, Louisiana State Univ.
“Debunking Sarah Palin: Mainstream News Coverage of “Death Panels”
Ibrahim Al-Marashi, IE Univ.
“Reporting on the ‘Shia Bomb:’ Relationship between IR Theory and mainstream U.S. and Middle Eastern news coverage of Iran's nuclear program”
Minha Kim, Sungkyunkwan Univ., South Korea
“Conversational News & Peace Journalism Approach to Media Portrayals of Conflicts”
Motti Neiger, Eyal Zandberg, Oren Meyers, Netanya Academic College, Israel
“Serving the enemy? - Conceptualizing journalistic criticism and public opinion toward it during war and conflict”
11:30- 13:00 POLITICAL PARTICIPATION INTERNATIONALLY
Andrew Rojecki, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, USA
“Tea Party Politics: Making Virtue of Necessity and Necessity of Virtue
Jacob Groshek &Jiska Engelbert, Erasmus Univ. Rotterdam,Netherlands
“A Cross-National Comparison of Populist Political Movements and Media Uses in the United States and the Netherlands”
Joan Font Fábregas, CSIC, Clemente Navarro, Univ. Pablo Olavide, Spain
“Closeness and the evaluation of participatory instruments in English cities”
Weiyu Zhang, Tan Tarn How, Chung Siyoung, National Univ. of Singapore
“Political cynicism and political communications in an authoritarian society”
13:00 - 14:15 LUNCH
PANEL PRESENTATIONS
14:15 - 15:45 POP POLITICS
Gianpietro Mazzoleni, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy
“The success of “pop politics events” in Italy: structural determinants and peculiar audiences”
Michael Xenos, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison & Patricia Moy, Univ. of Washington USA
“The Daily Showand the Nightly News: Agenda Overlap between Political Entertainment and Traditional News Outlets”
Katja Friedrich, Ludwig Maximilians Universitat-Munchen
“Spaces of the (un-)political: Political effects of entertainment media”
Katy Parry, Univ. of Liverpool
“Comedy, Political Subjectivity and the Formation of ‘Public Opinion’”
14:15 - 15:45 NEW WAYS OF LOOKING AT POLITICAL COMMUNICATION
Robert Entman, George Washington Univ., USA
“Polarization and Asymmetric Partisan Warfare”
Kevin G. Barnhurst,Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, USA
"The New “Media Affect” and Representation in Political Communication."
Lance Holbert, Ohio State Univ
"The Shifting of Explanatory Principles in Political Communication Research: A Call for Diversification" Shanto Iyengar
, Stanford Univ, USA
"Future Directions in Political Communication Research: Experimentation with Online Panels."
Thematic
WORKSHOPS 16:15 to 18:15 Led by Shanto Iyengar polarization, Stanford Univ
16:15 to 18:15 AGENDA SETTING IN THE REAL WORLD Led by Roland Schatz, Media Tenor
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Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Chi Straighteners On Sale In Salons Chicago
Democracy? No thanks
a couple of years ago, during a summer, I met a young politician who worked for a European foundation in the Middle East. Although the objectives of the Foundation included the promotion of peace and democratic values, the young diplomat surprised me with a comment that, years later, I have to share: "The last thing you need to Jordan is a democratic government. With democracy, the most radical Islamists would take power and stability of the country and the region would be endangered. "
Where democracy does not dim with liberalism (protection of individual and minority rights, separation of powers, religious freedom charter, property Private ...), the resulting system can be hell for the minority loses. The religious factor also counts. As the political philosopher Pierre Manent , the correlation between Christian societies and liberal Democrat is no coincidence: Christianity, unlike Islam, it presupposes a separation between the kingdom of God and men. The kingdom of Christ, in fact, not of this world. Islam, however, blurs the distinction between civil law and religious law. For Manent typical political form of Christianity is the nation-state, while the political form of Islam is the rule.
Without the despotic mandate Mubarak is a dictator, or without the fragile balance between religious sects in Lebanon can be seen, pure and simple democracy would put in power the more radical (the Muslim Brotherhood and Hezbollah, respectively). This, once again highlights the taboos advanced by controversial political scientist Carl Schmitt , who saw democracy as a regime based on homogeneity. Liberalism has allowed us to live in ethnically heterogeneous democratic societies, but to be seen whether a majority government to advocate the conflation between civil and religious law is able to respect minorities nonbelievers or followers of other faiths.
Digressions
political theory aside, what really attracted the attention of experts in political communication is the role of new media in the revolutions of Tunisia and Egypt, both for its use within the respective countries, for their alleged effect snowball throughout the Middle East. Interestingly, they agree on the market two books that, to some extent contradictory. The first, more likely to judge the Internet as a means of democratic liberation, is due to Philip N. Howard: The origins of digital democracy: Information technology and Political Islam (Oxford, 2010). The second, entitled The net delusion: The dark side of Internet freedom (PublicAffairs, 2011) and written by Evgeny Morozov, says the network has become a tool for authoritarian regimes to suppress and now able to monitor more effectively with civil society.
A careful reading of these volumes certainly provide a more weighted on the true role of new technologies in the alleged wave of democratization in the Middle East.
Recommended Links:
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a couple of years ago, during a summer, I met a young politician who worked for a European foundation in the Middle East. Although the objectives of the Foundation included the promotion of peace and democratic values, the young diplomat surprised me with a comment that, years later, I have to share: "The last thing you need to Jordan is a democratic government. With democracy, the most radical Islamists would take power and stability of the country and the region would be endangered. "
Where democracy does not dim with liberalism (protection of individual and minority rights, separation of powers, religious freedom charter, property Private ...), the resulting system can be hell for the minority loses. The religious factor also counts. As the political philosopher Pierre Manent , the correlation between Christian societies and liberal Democrat is no coincidence: Christianity, unlike Islam, it presupposes a separation between the kingdom of God and men. The kingdom of Christ, in fact, not of this world. Islam, however, blurs the distinction between civil law and religious law. For Manent typical political form of Christianity is the nation-state, while the political form of Islam is the rule.
Without the despotic mandate Mubarak is a dictator, or without the fragile balance between religious sects in Lebanon can be seen, pure and simple democracy would put in power the more radical (the Muslim Brotherhood and Hezbollah, respectively). This, once again highlights the taboos advanced by controversial political scientist Carl Schmitt , who saw democracy as a regime based on homogeneity. Liberalism has allowed us to live in ethnically heterogeneous democratic societies, but to be seen whether a majority government to advocate the conflation between civil and religious law is able to respect minorities nonbelievers or followers of other faiths.
Digressions
political theory aside, what really attracted the attention of experts in political communication is the role of new media in the revolutions of Tunisia and Egypt, both for its use within the respective countries, for their alleged effect snowball throughout the Middle East. Interestingly, they agree on the market two books that, to some extent contradictory. The first, more likely to judge the Internet as a means of democratic liberation, is due to Philip N. Howard: The origins of digital democracy: Information technology and Political Islam (Oxford, 2010). The second, entitled The net delusion: The dark side of Internet freedom (PublicAffairs, 2011) and written by Evgeny Morozov, says the network has become a tool for authoritarian regimes to suppress and now able to monitor more effectively with civil society.
A careful reading of these volumes certainly provide a more weighted on the true role of new technologies in the alleged wave of democratization in the Middle East.
Recommended Links:
- Web Project on Information Technology and Political Islam.
- article Philip Howard for the Huffington Post.
- Interview to Philip Howard on his new book .
- Video of Philip Howard conference at Duke University.
- Morozov's review of the book by Craig Calhoun , professor of sociology at New York University.
- Morozov's review of the book in The Economist.
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