Vassiliki Cossiavelou

Revisiting the Gatekeeping Model: Gatekeeping Factors in European Wireless Media Markets

Mediation in news industries has received significant attention by researchers for more than half a century. Gatekeepers decide which information should be delivered to different audiences. The Shoemaker/ReeseGatekeeping Model identifies five different filters of content processing: individual influences, professional routines, the organization, extra-media influences and ideology. Journalism practices, intra-organization and extra-media-related procedures and strategic alliances, including culture and ideology, add more complexity in the contemporary globalized media landscape. Gatekeeping is being processed through out all the above mentioned pillars. ICT technologies related to the media have influenced the interactivity among the pillars and wireless technologies have influenced the digital media landscape. The European Union has experienced dramatic changes in its regulation environment and spectrum resources allocation. In this article, the authors examine the impact of wireless technology on gatekeeping practices in the context of EU news markets.

Mediation of the message in a wireless global environment: Revisiting the media gatekeeping model

Mediation in news industries is being revisiting. Gatekeepers decide which information should be allowed to be delivered into a particular audience. In the modern globalized media landscape, journalists are subject to various influences -- intra-organization and extra-media pressures interplay with cultural and ideological factors. Gatekeeping is a process that interconnects people, routines, institutions, extra-media pressures, and the ideological environment. ICTs related to media technologies influence interactivity among these pillars and wireless technologies have changed the global media gatekeeping landscape. The European Union has experienced dramatic changes in its member-states regulation environment and has initiated processes for the allocation of spectrum resources.

Digital Dividend Aware Business Models for the Creative Industries: Challenges and Opportunities in EU Markets

EU counties have a historically unique opportunity to enable their creative industries to promote the knowledge societies, applying new business models to their media content and networks markets, that are digital dividend (DD) aware. This new extra-media gatekeeping factor could shape new alliances and co operations among the member states and the global media markets, as well.

News Corporation: Facing the Wireless World of the 21st Century

A new generation of media consumers has arisen this century that is becoming more and more accustomed to content that is delivered via a wireless network. News Corporation, a global media industry giant, is taking on this challenge of providing sports, news, and other content to these consumers in a variety of ways. This chapter looks at the investments and strategies employed by News Corporation in delivering content via a wireless means for both today and in the future.

An Examination of Select Wireless Technologies in the Asia-Pacific Market

The Asia-Pacific region is poised to be the most important region in the world for wireless communications. Wi-Fi represents an important technology in the evolution of wireless communications from pricey corporate applications to affordable, consumer-friendly solutions for home and mobile computing/communications. UWB soon promises to be an important technology in the region as well due to the sheer fact that most consumer electronics are manufactured in the area

The symbiotic media and wireless global communications industries: From media gatekeeping model to wireless media business models

This paper explores the influence of wireless communications technologies on the global media industry infrastructure, and how the updated media gatekeeping model contributes to decision-making processes to produce media content. The authors argue that the telecommunications industries, especially the wireless sector, play a decisive role in media communications worldwide. Both qualitative and quantitative data were gathered to investigate media gatekeeping processes. The results show the role of an updated media gatekeeping model, while outlining decision-making processes among emerging symbiotic global industries.

News corp: Preparing for the wireless media world of 2050

Huge changes in the world are occurring at a pace never experienced by our ancestors. These changes which will reshape the human experience in the 21st century which will be covered by the media industry are going to impact not only countries, societies and industries, but also the media industry. Just as the world is changing, the media must adapt accordingly in order to follow suit. The new generation of media consumers that has arisen demands content delivered when they want I and how they want it. The emerging wireless- driven generation, is the force behind the knowledge revolution in the media industry which is relying more and more on state-of-the-art technologies to deliver the free flow of information. News corporation is an example of one media organization which is preparing to face the brave new wireless media world.