Utilizing invisible 2-dimensional codes and digital audio players with 2-dimensional code scanner, two types of new auditory testing media were developed in our previous works. This paper presents the result of experimental evaluation of the new testing media. The result shows that, in addition to existing special arrangements such as large-print-format test and braille-format test, the introdu...

This paper contributes to the growing literature on how “new media” is influencing “old media” by tracking references to an extensive list of political blogs in stories run by seventeen prominent print media outlets during the last ten years. The findings presented here show that although journalists frequently use political bloggers as sources in their news coverage, they only reference certai...

This study used the concepts of comparison credibility and magnitude credibility to assess perceived news media credibility in China. It also investigated which sources people trusted more when they encountered conflicting reports regarding different kinds of stories including entertainment news, disaster news and political news. A random sample from three major metropolises (n = 1,844) were te...

Over the past year, the steady drumbeat of reported breaches has escalated into a hail storm of media attention. From mainstream mass publications to the trade press, the number of stories and the depth of coverage on security have ballooned as the media seeks to shed light on the shadowy, evolving threat landscape. While stories about “hackers” and “breaches” have captured the public‟s imagina...

This paper presents methods for real-time automated media segmentation, interactive audiovisual analysis, and media search in composition and performance tasks. In addition, we detail a use case where these tools have been deployed successfully as part of high profile public, national broadcast events, installations and exhibitions. These tools utilise a combination of data-mining and informati...

The constant demands of citizens to be informed in real time have made Twitter an ideal tool for mass use. This social network has originated a new user communication, and is used present public images appeal the population, at same that it displacing pre-eminence traditional communication media. During national strike Ecuador October 2019, alternative conventional media this platform inform, g...

A reliable newspaper should accommodate heterogeneity regarding geographical and psychological readers. The wider the coverage area of a newspaper, more heterogeneous its readers will be. By putting concerns on these two dimensions, is expected to be in neutral position. This impartiality or neutrality mass media becomes intriguing topic when it associated with theory arguing that language cann...