media Innovation
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Competition, Change, and Coordination and Collaboration: Tracing News Executives' Perceptions About Participation in Media Innovation
ABSTRACT Technological disruptions and increasing competition in the digital mediascape have fundamentally altered the market conditions for news media companies, raising corresponding concerns about the future of journalism. News media firms can adapt their business models by more purposefully focusing on media innovation, or the development and implementation of new processes, products or services. Specifically, this article focuses on innovation centric coordination and collaboration namely, coordination of knowledge and innovation activities among social actors in news media organizations. In doing so, this article builds on the knowledge based view (KBV) of the firm and its core argument that coordination of knowledge is essential for organizational innovation. It presents findings from a series of cross sectional surveys with newspaper executives carried out bi annually from 2011 to 2017, examining executives' perceptions of collaborative potential for digital media innovation at the intersection of editorial, business, and information technology (IT) departments. The findings suggest that there has been a significant increase in perceived collaboration more recently, and that the IT department is perceived to have become more important to innovation over time.
Oscar Westlund Arne H Krumsvik Seth C Lewis
216225842
Media Innovation and Social Change: Introduction to the Special Issue
Our purpose with this Special Issue is to present and contribute to a body of research that critically explores the relationship between media innovation and social change. In doing so, we also outline the contours of a research agenda to further develop this emerging field. Our motivation arises from a review of research published in the nine previous editions of this journal, where we explored how research about media innovations engaged with the topic of social change. We find that research in the field of media innovations has tended to focus on business and economic imperatives for media innovation, following the paradigm of research on digitalisation introduced by von Hippel's theories of 'democratizing innovation' (2005) Chesbrough's 'open innovation' (2006) or Tapscott and Williams, 'Wikinomics' (2011) As a consequence, digitalisation and the introduction of new technologies is usually unquestioningly presented as a business imperative for media industry stakeholders.
Niahmh Ni Bhroin Stefania Milan
146030920
Interactive learning media innovation: utilization of augmented reality and pop up book to improve user's learning autonomy
This study discusses the design of innovative learning media based on Augmented Reality (AR) and its development for students of Higher Education. Innovative Learning Media is now an important part of improving the quality of learning. Utilization of mobile device technologies such as android tablets and smartphones with camera features to run AR technology is the main point. Several students and expert of learning media were involved in this research and development. Questionnaires are used as measuring instruments. The results of this study are AR based interactive learning media to improve user's learning autonomy and recommendations for further development.
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Hakkun Elmunsyah Wahyu Hidayat Khoirudin Asfani
147021014
Developing an Index of Media Innovation in a National Market
From a global vision of journalism innovation, this article presents a matrix that analyses and measures an innovation index of market specific media initiatives, providing a valuable tool for comparative analysis. A method has been designed that consists of (1) sample collection and selection, and (2) the quantitative and qualitative analysis of each innovation identified in the cases studied. With the aim of generating an Index of Media Innovation, 25 of the most innovative cases within the field of reference in Spain were studied during the period 2013 2014 through a database consisting of 196 innovations that were analysed as a function of area, degree and technological basis. The results indicate that, in Spain, journalism innovation occurs at the margins of the traditional news industry and, for the most part, innovation is expanding among digital native media outlets, niche initiatives and start ups.
Jose A Garcia-Aviles Miguel Carvajal-Prieto Alicia De Lara-Gonzalez Felix Arias-Robles
186917891
Media Innovation Meets the Marketplace
Abstract This chapter examines the marketplace context for media innovations. This includes factors that have been well researched and about which much is known, for example, pricing and early adopters, as well as marketplace elements and patterns that are not so thoroughly understood but are nonetheless very important in understanding the process of adoption, for example, the role of serendipity. It reviews patterns of adoption that were prevalent in the twentienth century but which have changed in the twenty first century, for example, how word of mouth has been transformed by social media. Declines and failures as well as successes along with the international scope of media innovations, including in developing countries, are accessed. The advantages and disadvantages of large and small companies creating media innovations are reviewed as are the respective roles of content creation and distribution. The concluding discussion section describes the contexts for media innovations today, including concerns about their privacy, use of media in public places, filters for new media innovations to identify likely successes, and the importance of teams in developing media innovations.
John Carey
169366787
Media: Innovation, Self production, Creativity
Jean Paul Simon
8085165
Twitter's diffusion in sports journalism: Role models, laggards and followers of the social media innovation
The roles of sports journalists have been affected considerably by the influence of Twitter, but what is not known is how the social media application has been adopted across a range of sports newsrooms in different countries. Employing Rogers' diffusion of innovations theory, this study examines how Twitter has been accepted or rejected on the sports desks of six broadsheet/quality news organisations in Australia, India and the United Kingdom. A mixed methods approach is employed, combining 36 in depth interviews with a content analysis of 4103 print and online articles. This allows a comprehensive analysis of issues such as when and why sports journalists adopt this innovation, and how much Twitter related content appears in the sports pages. Twitter adoption contains many benefits for individuals and their organisations, and the results from this study have implications for sports journalism in other nations at various stages of diffusion.
New Media Soc.
Peter English
114891159
Ambidextrous Tensions Dynamics of Creative Work in the Media Innovation Process
This article analyses creative work in one of Europe's largest media organizations, in which a newly formed development team was tasked with creating a new multi platform media product. The objective of this article is to explore the dynamics of team creativity in the process of developing and managing media content innovation. To do this, this study utilizes the concept of ambidexterity for understanding multi level tensions between the on going media production work and innovation processes typically co existing in media operations. The results of the analysis indicate that, due to pressures created by the routine media production, media innovations require specific focus and prioritization to succeed. This requires recognizing, balancing and managing the ambidextrous tensions between exploration and exploitation in creative media work. In addition to practical implications for management of media innovations, this study contributes to research on media innovations, particularly from the perspectives of creative work and organizational creativity.
Sari Virta Nando Malmelin
148764909
The role of frames and cultural toolkits in establishing new connections for social media innovation
Abstract It has been suggested that social media foster innovative outcomes by facilitating communication with a vast network of new connections. In this paper we argue that forming new social connections on social media is a crucial first step in the innovation process that is not straightforward to achieve. We report on the findings of a qualitative study of 31 owner managers in the UK who were attempting to make new connections in order to inspire innovation in their firms. The findings suggest that a lack of available social cues on social media creates a sense of uncertainty that can stifle the innovation process. In our case, the respondents addressed these difficulties by using frames as proxies for missing social stimuli. We argue that such framings guide the selection of well established cultural tools needed to turn mental maps into action. A key implication of our findings is that social media is not necessarily an equitable space for innovation since the process still relies upon established networks and styles of behaviour, which are not readily accessible to all.
Technological Forecasting and Social Change
Michelle Richey M N Ravishankar
145138359
From TV Personality to Fans and Beyond: Indexical Bleaching and the Diffusion of a Media Innovation
This article focuses on the role of indexical social meaning in the adoption, circulation, and diffusion of a mass media innovation. The analysis is a case study of the phrase "lady pond," a euphemism for women as objects of desire. The phrase's use was popularized by a television personality on the cable network Bravo and has spread beyond those who demonstrate recognition of its media origins. Through a detailed analysis of the phrase in use on Twitter, I investigate the properties of the phrase as it "travels" from Bravo to Bravo fans and beyond. I show that the phrase is used with the same form and meaning as on Bravo, and it is semantically and stylistically integrated into users' repertoires. However, it loses its indexical links to Bravo through "indexical bleaching," which I argue is an outcome of the phrase's recontextualized circulation and a facilitator of its further diffusion.
Lauren M Squires