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- Convenors:
-
Oguljamal Yazliyeva
(Charles University, Prague)
Karlyga Myssayeva (Al-Farabi Kazakh National University)
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- Theme:
- MED
- Location:
- Posvar 3911
- Start time:
- 28 October, 2018 at
Time zone: America/New_York
- Session slots:
- 1
Long Abstract:
This panel will examine the professional values of journalists working in a new media economy, in particular scrutinizing case studies of entrepreneurial journalism in post-soviet countries. Topics include entrepreneurial journalism and modernization of curriculum. The principle of entrepreneurship becomes integral in the system of journalistic education and journalism practice. The panel will provide comparative analysis of motivations to open journalist start-ups, illustrate particular stories with the help of an interactive online-media map of post-soviet countries, and discuss what mission in the profession journalists entrepreneurs perceive.
Panelists will discuss the following questions: How does media entrepreneurship changes the concept of Journalism education? What are motivations for the establishing online startups? What business models emerge and how to achieve sustainability of startups? What job place journalists chose: Corporation or Entrepreneurship? How journalists conceive their professional success in the digital news ecosystem? How media entrepreneurship supports journalism education? What are the Regional Journalism in the Context of Modern Media Research? Panelists will focus on the importance of international experience in the entrepreneurial journalism education. They represent post-soviet countries, such as Russia, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine.
Accepted papers:
Session 1Paper long abstract:
This paper uses the Circuit of Culture model to analyze a case of miscommunication on social media that was magnified and amplified in the international public sphere. On Dec.31, 2015 Michael McFeat, a Kumtor welding contractor serving his shift in Kyrgyzstan, posted on his Facebook page a photograph of chuchuk, the Kyrgyz traditional horse meat delicacy, mislabeling it as "horses penis" (sic). The post immediately became viral as many Kyrgyz people were insulted by the representation or passed it on as an insensitive joke, while many people outside of Kyrgyzstan were sharing the post out of curiosity and gullibility. On Jan.2, about 1,300 Kyrgyz employees of Kumtor started a strike, demanding McFeat to be arrested for incitement of ethnic hatred, which is a criminal offence according to the Kyrgyz Law, punishable by imprisonment of up to five years. McFeat had to be smuggled out of the Kumtor site in an ambulance to Balykchy and then to Bishkek, where he was arrested, transferred to Karakol for a speedy trial and deported on Jan.5 with no right to return Kyrgyzstan. Using the Circuit of Culture model, the paper looks at the case through all the five moments constituting the model: Regulation (how the Kyrgyz Criminal Law and traditions were used to frame the case within the incitement of ethnic hatred provisions), Representation (what McFeat's original post represented for various groups involved in the case), Production (how the post was produced, attempted to be mitigated through a follow-up apology, and ultimately deleted), Consumption (how the post was interpreted by various groups inside and outside of Kyrgyzstan), and Identity (what are the deeper underlying identity issues that affected the case interpretation and outcome). As a case study, the paper will use archival documents, media coverage, and expert interviews to analyze the events and phenomena of the case. It will also present recommendations for how this case could have been prevented in the first place from the intercultural communication and international public relations perspectives.
Paper long abstract:
The problem of the labor market in journalism and business of media education in Kazakhstan is universally valid, it reflects the diverse state of the media in the post-Soviet media model. Firstly, the search for a national identity. Secondly, market competition. Thirdly, the reform of the system of journalistic education in the conditions of state independence and the transition from the ideology of communism to a democratic society. The President of the country sets the goal of "training personnel adapted to the global competition in the field of knowledge."
In these conditions, the principle of entrepreneurship becomes relevant in the system of journalistic education. However, there is an acute lack of a planned educational tradition in the field of teaching the basics of entrepreneurial journalism. The author of the article discuss this new understanding of media journalism. Relevant issues are the update of educational programs, activities in the field of professional development as journalists.
At present there are 2,286 media in Kazakhstan. Of these, printed - 86%, electronic 11%, news agencies - 3%. State media about 30%, the rest of the media are non-state.
At present, 77% of the population has access to the Internet in the country. Mobile communication provides access to information, influences the platform for receiving news. Advertising passes, as elsewhere from traditional printed media to online, the state subsidy is mainly reserved only for state-owned media -29.8%.
Journalism practice shows that now there are three main areas of media activity: support from one of the oligarchs; "yellowness" of the publications; state order or state subsidy. The development of entrepreneurial journalism can be an incentive for the creation of civil journalism.