BBC News – creating audience in the digital era

Constructing the Audience Constructing the News

Each new medium (from print to television) has introduced a series of ratings technologies which, predominantly, quantifies the audience as passive commodity, i.e., as a number which is “delivered” by the broadcasters and “bought” by the advertisers. New electronic media demand a representation of audience that breaks with the traditional audience-as-commodity representation. Contemporary telev...

Distance Education in the Digital Era and Connectivism Theory

Background: With the arrival of the industrial Century, the educational system changed and different forms of education, including distance Education were created. Firstly, distance education based on traditional learning theories, but because that these theories are not able to respond and solve the challenges facing the education system in the modern century connectivism theory was creat...

Digital Preservation and BBC Domesday

The CAMiLEON Project [1] was initiated in 1999 at the Universities of Leeds (JISC funded) and Michigan (NSF funded) to explore, develop and evaluate technical strategies [2] for use in digital preservation. In particular, CAMiLEON was tasked with getting to grips with a proposed strategy called Emulation. An emulator is a software program that mimics the function of another computer. In a digit...

The Comparative Study of White Marriage News based on Effective News Components in the Persian Section of Al-Alam, Persian BBC and Voice of America News Sites

Purpose: The aim of present research was the comparative study of white marriage news based on effective news components in the Persian section of Al-Alam, Persian BBC and Voice of America news sites. Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was quantitative. The research community was the white marriage news of Persian section of Al-Alam, P...

Alt-News and Post-Truths in the "Fake News" Era