This study examines the interdependent relationships among the five dimensions of the World Press Freedom (WPF) Index—legal, political, sociocultural, safety, and economic contexts. Using 2024 WPF data, a three-stage analytical framework integrates expectation–maximization clustering, Bayesian network classification, and partial least-squares connectivity analysis. The results reveal that legal safeguards and journalist safety are the most influential drivers of press freedom, while political and economic contexts function as key mediating mechanisms that transmit institutional and sociocultural effects to overall outcomes. Sociocultural openness also contributes meaningfully to system performance. To enhance policy relevance, importance–performance mapping identifies legal and political dimensions as high-impact yet underperforming priorities for reform. The findings advance media-governance theory by elucidating the systemic architecture of press freedom and provide actionable insights for strengthening institutional safeguards, political transparency, and sustainable media independence worldwide.
As digital media companies pursue sustainable revenue, AI-based strategies like personalized advertising and dynamic paywalls have become prevalent. These monetization models involve different forms of consumer data collection, raising distinct privacy concerns. This study investigates how digital news users perceive privacy trade-offs between these two AI-driven models. Based on Communication Privacy Management Theory and Privacy Calculus Theory, we conducted a survey of 336 Korean news consumers. Findings indicate that perceived control and risk significantly affect users’ willingness to disclose data. Moreover, users with different privacy orientations prefer different monetization models. Those favoring dynamic paywalls tend to be more privacy-sensitive and show a higher willingness to pay for personalized, ad-free content. While personalization benefits are broadly acknowledged, the effectiveness of privacy control mechanisms remains limited. These insights highlight the importance of ethical, user-centered AI monetization strategies in journalism and contribute to theoretical discussions around algorithmic personalization and digital news consumption.
Journalism. The periodical press, etc., Communication. Mass media
La investigación presentada en este artículo analiza cómo el sector seniors de Segovia se comporta en las redes sociales, evaluando su capacidad para gestionar información, crear contenido y percibir seguridad en estos entornos. Además, se examina su habilidad para manejar estafas y fraudes, y cómo su comportamiento virtual afecta la creación y percepción de contenido. El estudio exploratorio emplea un método mixto para un análisis integral, que combina enfoques cuantitativos y cualitativos a través de 318 personas encuestadas y 13 entrevistadas. Los resultados revelan que las redes sociales pueden empeorar o poner en riesgo al sector senior, según cómo interactúan con ellas. En Segovia, WhatsApp es la red más utilizada por los seniors, seguidas de Facebook e Instagram. Su uso diario supera las dos horas, con mayor competencia mediática, dentro de este sector, en los más jóvenes. La confianza en la información varía según la edad y, a nivel de creación de contenido, las mujeres son más activas que los hombres, aunque destacan ellos en las edades más avanzadas. Se incide en la importancia de la alfabetización mediática en el aprendizaje para toda la vida con el fin de mejorar sus competencias técnicas y críticas, promoviendo una ciudadanía más formada y participativa.
Communication. Mass media, Journalism. The periodical press, etc.
This study aims to present a scientometric analysis of the journal titled Cognition for a period of 20 years from 1999 to 2018. The present study was conducted with an aim to provide a summary of research activity in current journal and characterize its most aspects. The research coverage includes the year wise distribution of articles, authors, institutions, countries and citation analysis of the journal. The analysis showed that 2870 papers were published in journal of Cognition from 1999 to 2018. The study identified top 20 prolific authors, institutions and countries of the journal. Researchers from USA have been made the most percentage of contributions.
We show that citation metrics of journal articles in many of the online-only Springer Nature journals and associated ones are distorted, going back to articles from 2001. We find that most likely due to an API response error, there are many incorrect references which typically lead to Article Number 1 of a given Volume. Among others, the issue affects journals such as Scientific Reports, Nature Communications, Communications journals, Cell Death & Disease, Light: Science & Applications, as well as many BMC, Discovery and npj journals. Beyond the negative effect of introducing incorrect reference information, this distorts the citation statistics of articles in these journals, with a few articles being massively over-cited compared to their peers, while many lose citations; e.g. both in Scientific Reports and in Nature Communications, 5 of the 10 top cited articles have article numbers of 1. We validate the distorted statistics by assessing data from multiple scientific literature databases: Crossref, OpenCitations, Semantic Scholar, and the journals' websites. The issue primarily arises from the inconsistent transition from page-based referencing of articles to article number-based referencing, as well as the improper handling of the change in the publisher's article metadata API. It seems that the most pressing problem has been present since approximately 2011, which we estimate affects the citation count of millions of authors.
Sadat Shahriar, Navid Ayoobi, Arjun Mukherjee
et al.
The local news landscape, a vital source of reliable information for 28 million Americans, faces a growing threat from Pink Slime Journalism, a low-quality, auto-generated articles that mimic legitimate local reporting. Detecting these deceptive articles requires a fine-grained analysis of their linguistic, stylistic, and lexical characteristics. In this work, we conduct a comprehensive study to uncover the distinguishing patterns of Pink Slime content and propose detection strategies based on these insights. Beyond traditional generation methods, we highlight a new adversarial vector: modifications through large language models (LLMs). Our findings reveal that even consumer-accessible LLMs can significantly undermine existing detection systems, reducing their performance by up to 40% in F1-score. To counter this threat, we introduce a robust learning framework specifically designed to resist LLM-based adversarial attacks and adapt to the evolving landscape of automated pink slime journalism, and showed and improvement by up to 27%.
Arnold Clemens Ap was born on 1 July 1946 on Numfor Island in Biak, at the time, part of the Dutch colony of Netherlands New Guinea. After schooling at church missions in Biak, he studied geography at the Teacher Training School of Cenderawasih University in Abepura, Jayapura, between 1967 and 1973. That year, he was appointed as the curator of the university’s museum, known as Loka Budaya, which became a centre for West Papuan cultural revival. His work to collect and perform songs in Papuan languages played a vital role in the development of a West Papuan national identity, transcending colonial boundaries and inter-tribal conflicts. He was murdered by Indonesian special forces in 1984. This year, 26 April 2024, marked the 40th anniversary of the death of this charismatic cultural leader. For West Papuans, in exile and at home, it has been an important time for commemoration.
Communication. Mass media, Journalism. The periodical press, etc.
Minna Koivula, Tuomas Rouvali, Johanna Rantanen
et al.
Koronaviruspandemia muovasi media-alalla tehtävää työtä perustavanlaatuisella tavalla pakottaessaan mediaorganisaatiot siirtymään etätyöhön. Tarkastelemme tässä tutkimuksessa media-alan työntekijöiden kokemuksia etätyöstä pandemian aikana ja kysymme, miten heidän kokemuksensa työstä ja työhyvinvoinnista muuttui pandemian alkuvaiheessa. Tarkastelemme näitä kysymyksiä määrällisesti ja laadullisesti Journalistiliiton jäseniltä 2019 ennen koronapandemiaa ja 2020 koronapandemian aikana kerätyn seurantakyselyaineiston (n = 355) avulla. Seurantakyselyaineiston määrälliset analyysit osoittavat, että media-alan työntekijöistä 98 prosenttia koki pandemian vaikuttaneen työhönsä, ja heistä 37 prosenttia koki muutoksen negatiivisena. Toisaalta työhyvinvoinnin indikaattorien – työn imun ja kognitiivisten stressioireiden – vertailu vuosien 2019 ja 2020 välillä osoitti, että työn imu ei heikentynyt merkittävästi vastaajajoukon keskuudessa pandemian alkamisen jälkeen ja kognitiiviset stressioireet jopa vähenivät. Seurantakyselyn sisältämien avovastausten laadullisessa analyysissa nousivat esiin toisaalta asiantuntijatyölle ominainen työn tehokkuuden paraneminen etätyössä ja toisaalta media-alalle keskeinen työyhteisön vuorovaikutuksen heikkeneminen, jonka koettiin hankaloittavan luovaa prosessia. Tulostemme perusteella etätyö koronapandemian aikana media-alalla näyttäytyi tasapainotteluna, jossa yksittäinen työntekijä kävi vaihtokauppaa työn luovuuden ja tehokkuuden välillä.
Social sciences (General), Communication. Mass media
Journal field classifications in Scopus are used for citation-based indicators and by authors choosing appropriate journals to submit to. Whilst prior research has found that Scopus categories are occasionally misleading, it is not known how this varies for different journal types. In response, we assessed whether specialist, cross-field and general academic journals sometimes have publication practices that do not match their Scopus classifications. For this, we compared the Scopus narrow fields of journals with the fields that best fit their articles' titles and abstracts. We also conducted qualitative follow-up to distinguish between Scopus classification errors and misleading journal aims. The results show sharp field differences in the extent to which both cross-field and apparently specialist journals publish articles that match their Scopus narrow fields, and the same for general journals. The results also suggest that a few journals have titles and aims that do not match their contents well, and that some large topics spread themselves across many relevant disciplines. Thus, the likelihood that a journal's Scopus narrow fields reflect its contents varies substantially by field (although without systematic field trends) and some cross-field topics seem to cause difficulties in appropriately classifying relevant journals. These issues undermine citation-based indicators that rely on journal-level classification and may confuse scholars seeking publishing venues.
La investigación científica toma el pulso de la pandemia global de la Covid 19, e indica que este proceso sigue evolucionando, mientras, la investigación en comunicación está inmersa en un entorno complejo de adaptación, transformación e innovación, camino a la endemia global. Y en ese caminar, la comunicación es cada vez más multidimensional, dinámica, flexible, digital, y atenta a los cambios que se generan en la producción de contenidos, su distribución y el consumo de los mismos, ante las necesidades informativas y de entretenimiento de las audiencias, en una sociedad cada vez más globalizada.
Communication. Mass media, Journalism. The periodical press, etc.
A key feature of questionable journals is a lack of adequate peer review of their articles. Content of thus unknown quality may be utilised by unsuspecting practitioners or incorporated into peer-reviewed research, becoming legitimised. It is therefore necessary to examine the citation patterns of articles in questionable journals to understand the impact and reach of research in questionable journals. Similar research has tended to focus on authors from low- and middle-income countries. As such, this study investigates the profile and impact of research in questionable journals by authors in Germany. Questionable journals were identified by matching journals with articles by authors at German institutions from Dimensions to Cabell's Predatory Reports. Metadata for these articles and a comparative sample of articles in non-questionable journals were extracted from Dimensions and the 3 year citations, self-citations, uncited rate, profile of co-authoring and citing countries, and institution type of authors were compared between groups. Nearly 600 articles in 88 questionable journals were published by German authors in 2010-2020. Three-quarters were in the medical and health sciences. Medical articles in questionable journals received significantly fewer citations than similar articles in non-questionable journals. However, articles in questionable journals were still extensively cited in 1,736 primarily non-questionable journals. Self-citations accounted for only 12% of these citations. Authors from non-university medical facilities were over-represented in articles in questionable journals. System-level changes are necessary to eliminate questionable journals and shift high-quality research into reputable venues.
The author's productivity is assessed based on publications, which requires a lot of motivation and time. Manuscripts get through several steps before being accepted and published. The purpose of this paper is to understand the time gap between acceptance to the publication of manuscripts in reputed journals of Library and Information Science. This paper is useful to contemporary researchers for knowing the journal publication duration. In this paper, we discussed the refereed and index journals in the field of library and information science. For this study, we collected the data from six LIS journals which were published from the 2020 January to December Asian region. The study focuses on detailed analyses of journal processing and publishing duration. The major contribution of this study gives the six LIS journal processing time they are: author manuscript submitted to accepted, accepted to published, and submitted to published period.
Anis Wahdati, Farah Fadillah Syaufii, Elsa Vani Mawaddah
et al.
A new problem in the field of health sciences in the form of the Covid-19 outbreak has an impact on other sectors, one of which is the economic sector. This research is a literature review approach. The impact of the emergence of the Covid-19 outbreak was felt by Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises. Where Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises that contribute to the economy in the form of employment up to 97% have to rack their brains to survive in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. The main challenge that must be faced by Indonesia regarding the creative economy industry is related to the quality of human resources, capital and policies related to creative economy businesses. The Government of Indonesia through the ministry of tourism and creative economy as well as in collaboration with related parties provides various solutions to the problems faced by Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in every sub-sector of the creative economy industry. Various policies and activities were carried out to maintain the creative industry in the midst of the viciousness of the Covid-19 outbreak. Starting from providing operational funding assistance to registered Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, conducting training, to events in every sub-sector of the creative economy.
Henk F. Moed, Felix de Moya-Anegon, Vicente Guerrero-Bote
et al.
Nationally oriented scientific-scholarly journals are considered from a methodological-informetric viewpoint, analysing data extracted from Scimago Journal Rank based on Scopus. An operational definition is proposed of a journal's degree of national orientation based on the geographical distribution of its publishing or citing authors, and the role of international collaboration and a country's total publication output. A comprehensive analysis is presented of trends up until 2019 in national orientation and citation impact of national journals entering Scopus, extending outcomes in earlier studies. A method to analyse national journals of given countries is applied to the set of former USSR republics and Eastern and Central European states which were under socialism, distinguishing between domestic and foreign national journals. The possible influence is highlighted of factors related to a journal's access status, publication language and subject field, international scientific migration and collaboration, database coverage policies, the size of a national research community, historical-political factors and national research assessment and funding policies.
Este trabajo tiene como objetivo analizar el estado actual en el que se encuentra la Comunicación Interna en las organizaciones y la relevancia que, especialmente, se le otorga a la Comunicación Interpersonal, todo ello relacionado con las competencias profesionales y académicas que se contemplan en la formación universitaria. Se ha desarrollado una metodología triangular basada en técnicas cualitativas y cuantitativas. Por un lado se llevaron a cabo entrevistas semiestructuradas a directivos de comunicación corporativa y comunicación interna en consultoras y asociaciones, así como a docentes e investigadores en universidades públicas y privadas. En segundo lugar se ha llevado a cabo un exhaustivo análisis de contenido de los planes de estudio, guías docentes y competencias relativas al objeto de la investigación. El estado de la cuestión aborda las teorías de las relaciones públicas y la comunicación corporativa así como el estudio de la comunicación interpersonal. Los resultados recogen un aumento de la relevancia de la comunicación interna en las organizaciones pero, en contraposición, se observa la necesidad de aumentar los contenidos en la formación universitaria para responder a esta demanda.
Communication. Mass media, Journalism. The periodical press, etc.
For the many journalists who use data and computation to report the news, data wrangling is an integral part of their work.Despite an abundance of literature on data wrangling in the context of enterprise data analysis, little is known about the specific operations, processes, and pain points journalists encounter while performing this tedious, time-consuming task. To better understand the needs of this user group, we conduct a technical observation study of 50 public repositories of data and analysis code authored by 33 professional journalists at 26 news organizations. We develop two detailed and cross-cutting taxonomies of data wrangling in computational journalism, for actions and for processes. We observe the extensive use of multiple tables, a notable gap in previous wrangling analyses. We develop a concise, actionable framework for general multi-table data wrangling that includes wrangling operations documented in our taxonomy that are without clear parallels in other work. This framework, the first to incorporate tablesas first-class objects, will support future interactive wrangling tools for both computational journalism and general-purpose use. We assess the generative and descriptive power of our framework through discussion of its relationship to our set of taxonomies.