Browsing by Author "Hanska Ahy, Maximillian"
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How the ubiquity of eyewitness media changes the mediation and visibility of protests in the news
Hanska Ahy, Maximillian; Bode, Mike (Book chapter)This chapter examines how eyewitness footage travels from the street, through verification procedures in newsrooms, or diffusion on social media until it reaches our screens, and whether its ubiquity, the fact it is now ... -
International journalism and the emergence of transnational publics: Between cosmopolitan norms, the affirmation of identity, and market forces
Hanska Ahy, Maximillian (Article)Much has been written about transnational public spheres, though our understanding of their shape and nature remains limited. Drawing on three alternative conceptions of newswork as public communication, this paper explores ... -
Journalism Between Cultures: Ethical Ideologies and the challenges of international broadcasting into Iran
Hanska Ahy, Maximillian (Article)Drawing on interview data from research with Persian language international broadcasters (IBs), this paper asks which ethical ideologies journalists draw on when their work is dislocated between contexts? IBs are both ... -
Networked communication and the Arab Spring: Linking broadcast and social media
Hanska Ahy, Maximillian (Article)A plethora of media platforms were involved in communicating recent protests across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), though it remains unclear exactly how these interacted. This qualitative article, based primarily ... -
Social Media & Journalism: Reporting the world through user generated content – an interview essay
Hanska Ahy, Maximillian; Wardle, Claire; Browne, Malachy (Book chapter)Nowadays, social media are ubiquitous, offering many opportunities for people to share and access information, to create and distribute content, and to interact with more traditional media. For news organisations ... -
Social Media & the Arab Spring: How communication technology shapes socio-political change
Hanska Ahy, Maximillian (Article)Although social media was not insignificant, we need to take a wider view examining the interac- tion between interpersonal communication, social media, and satellite TV to understand how the Arab Spring was documented and ... -
Technical Images and Visual Art in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: From GOFAI to GANs
Poltronieri, Fabrizio Augusto; Hanska Ahy, Maximillian (Conference)Artificial Intelligence (AI) and art share a common past, where artists employed AI algorithms to generate art. This paper explores the early days of AI-generated images, using Harold Cohen’s AARON software as a paradigm ... -
#ThisIsACoup and Greece’s Bailout: Geo-mapping the emergence of a hashtag across Europe’s twittersphere
Hanska Ahy, Maximillian; Bauchowitz, Stefan (Book chapter)Social media allow disparate groups to spontaneously coordinate in support of a common cause. At the height of Europe’s sovereign debt crisis in 2015, as Greece was negotiating its third bailout and was about to be saddled ... -
Who's Reporting the Protests? Converging practices of citizen journalists and two BBC World Service newsrooms, from Iran's election protests to the Arab uprisings
Hanska Ahy, Maximillian; Shapour, Roxanna (Article)The 2009 protests in Iran and the 2011 Arab uprisings took place in complex and fast evolving media ecologies. The BBC's Persian and Arabic language services, which reach millions, drew heavily on content created by ordinary ...