Papers by Andrea Hickerson
Media Practice and Education
Pembelajaran merupakan kegiatan progresif dan inovatif. Oleh sebab itu, pengembangan terhadap seg... more Pembelajaran merupakan kegiatan progresif dan inovatif. Oleh sebab itu, pengembangan terhadap segala sesuatu yang berhubungan dengan pembelajaran dibutuhkan untuk meningkatkan kualitas pembelajaran. Salah satu kegiatan untuk meningkatkan kualitas pembelajaran adalah pengembangan bahan ajar. Pengembangan bahan ajar sebagai sumber pegangan oleh guru dan siswa dalam pembelajaran seharihari membutuhkan suatu landasan pendidikan. landasan tersebut berupa kurikulum. kurikulum yang digunakan dalam pembelajaran saat ini ialah kurikulum 2013. Kurikulum 2013 merupakan tindak lanjut dari kurikulum berbasis kompetensi (KBK). Yang berarti, kurikulum 2013 berbasis pada kompetensi. Namun, pada buku ajar pembelajaran bahasa Arab kelas VI Madrasah ibtidaiyah yang digunakan saat ini belum memaparkan kompetensi pada kurikulum 2013, yang mencakup kompetensi dasar dan kompetensi inti. Selain berbasis pada kompetensi, kurikulum memiliki tujuan yaitu pendidik dapat menilai hasil belajar peserta didik dalam proses pembelajaran, berupa penguasaan dan pemahaman peserta didik terhadap materi pembelajaran. Namun isi buku ajar pembelajaran bahasa Arab kelas VI Madrasah ibtidaiyah yang digunakan saat ini belum mencakup materi untuk mencapai tujuan tersebut. Hal ini dapat dilihat dari isi buku yang belum mencakup materi berupa pola kalimat, yang mana materi tersebut berguna untuk memudahkan siswa dalam mempraktikan kemahiran berbahasa Arab. Buku ajar pembelajaran bahasa Arab kelas VI Madrasah ibtidaiyah yang digunakan saat ini memiliki kesalahan bahasa dan tulisan. Kesalahan tersebut menujukkan bahwa bahan ajar yang digunakan berkualitas rendah dan akan berakibat pada rendahnya perolehan prestasi belajar siswa. Oleh karena itu, tulisan ini memaparkan deskripsi pengembangan bahan ajar pembelajaran bahasa Arab berbasis kurikulum 2013 untuk siswa kelas VI Madrasah Ibtidaiyah.
Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2019
There is heightened concern over deliberately inaccurate news. Recently, so-called deepfake video... more There is heightened concern over deliberately inaccurate news. Recently, so-called deepfake videos and images that are modified by or generated by artificial intelligence techniques have become more realistic and easier to create. These techniques could be used to create fake announcements from public figures or videos of events that did not happen, misleading mass audiences in dangerous ways. Although some recent research has examined accurate detection of deepfakes, those methodologies do not generalize well to real-world scenarios and are not available to the public in a usable form. In this project, we propose a system that will robustly and efficiently enable users to determine whether or not a video posted online is a deepfake. We approach the problem from the journalists' perspective and work towards developing a tool to fit seamlessly into their workflow. Results demonstrate accurate detection on both within and mismatched datasets.
Construction of refugees in news has been extensively researched. Less researched is the link bet... more Construction of refugees in news has been extensively researched. Less researched is the link between refugees and the construction of the receiving country’s national identity. This discourse analysis of letters to the editor in Australia, Canada, and the United States found wide variance in the way refugees and refugee policy were linked to the construction of national identity. Letters were selected if they referred to refugees and fell within a few news cycles of the respective national holidays. These tight criteria yielded a sample manifesting multiple discourses including the nation as protector, the nation as normative leader, the nation among nations, and the nation as a site of individual identity construction.
Journalism & Mass Communication Educator
For communication instructors charged with safely and constructively educating students, incorpor... more For communication instructors charged with safely and constructively educating students, incorporating social media in communication coursework presents a variety of problems. Among them are how to grade social media and how to respond to students’ social media mistakes, knowing these mistakes and corrections could follow students into their careers. This project surveyed journalism faculty ( n = 125) and students ( n = 323) to learn how each assess the challenges and opportunities of using social media in journalism coursework. Both groups expressed concerns about privacy, but faculty were also concerned about the legal consequences of students making mistakes publicly online.
Journalism & Mass Communication Educator, 2015
Social media use has become essential for journalists. Although previous research has explored ho... more Social media use has become essential for journalists. Although previous research has explored how journalists use social media, less is known about how journalism and mass communication programs incorporate social media in their coursework. Based on our survey of 323 students and 125 faculty in American universities, this study offers a comparative analysis of social media use among journalism faculty and students, both personally and in coursework. Faculty and students in our sample report using Facebook more frequently for personal reasons, whereas Twitter is the main platform required by faculty members for class assignments. We also found that students’ majors and faculty’s experience in the industry influenced not only how they evaluated the utility of social media in coursework but also how they utilized various platforms in classes.
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 2014
American Journalism and International Relations: Foreign Correspondents from the Early Republic t... more American Journalism and International Relations: Foreign Correspondents from the Early Republic to the Digital Age. Giovanna Dell'Orto. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 287 pp. $99 hbk.Today's highly partisan political environment easily lends itself to binary assessments of the media. Depending on your political orientation, certain media organizations may be perceived as either an excellent watchdog or a conniving government collabo- rator. Historically speaking, the media have been both. In her sweeping and ambitious book, American Journalism and International Relations: Foreign Correspondents from the Early Republic to the Digital Age, Giovanna Dell'Orto documents both roles, but argues that the substance of media coverage of foreign correspondence is less important than the fact that the coverage exists at all.In a dense introduction, Dell'Orto, a former reporter for the Associated Press and currently an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota, explicates a constructivist approach to mass media and international relations. Artfully drawing on theory from both fields, she views mass media narratives as a mediator of foreign policy due to their ability to shape a shared global discourse. Dell'Orto argues that using a constructivist approach, one that acknowledges the socially constructed and historical features of discourse, facilitates making causal claims "supported by a secondary analysis of social, political, and insti- tutional practices."In the next four chapters of the book, Dell'Orto reports on a discourse analysis of two thousand news articles spanning twenty international incidents described by American foreign correspondents between 1848 and 2008. Notably and understand- ably, Dell'Orto does not look at conflicts the United States was directly involved in, arguing in such circumstances, "war correspondence is essentially domestic news." In the final main chapter before the conclusion, Dell'Orto offers a call to action for the future of foreign correspondence, essentially arguing for its sustainability despite the cost-cutting measures pursued by major news organizations.Dell'Orto is at her best explaining her historical case studies. She offers a model of cultural history, prefacing each chapter with an overview of the political, social, cul- tural, and economic realities of a period before delving into specifics. Her choice of case studies are engaging and cover some lesser studied periods of American foreign correspondence, including the Boxer Rebellion and the Russian Revolution. It is fas- cinating to read how early foreign correspondents inserted their own eyewitness nar- ratives into stories while still offering valuable analysis. …
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 2013
Amateur Images and Global News. Kari Anden-Papadopoulos and Mervi Pantti, eds. Bristol, UK: Intel... more Amateur Images and Global News. Kari Anden-Papadopoulos and Mervi Pantti, eds. Bristol, UK: Intellect, 2011. 213 pp. $40 pbk.It is easy to get caught up in the idea that the Internet has changed everything. Despite regularly assigning my History of Journalism students Michael Schudson's 1997 JMCQ article, "Toward a Troubleshooting Manual for Journalism History," I still occasionally find myself unconsciously arguing for the technological determinism of the Internet and, increasingly, smartphones.But I think I've turned the corner after reading the engaging Amateur Images and Global News, edited by Kari Anden-Papadopoulos and Mervi Pantti. Anden- Papadopoulos is an associate professor in the Department of Journalism, Media and Communication at Stockholm University, and Pantti is an associate professor in the Department of Social Research, Media and Communication Studies at the University of Helsinki. Their carefully selected chapters historicize and contextualize the use and circulation of amateur photographs in a nuanced way that ultimately leads to more provocative questions not about how the Internet has supported amateur photographers, but about how the web has changed and will continue to change the distribution and meaning of amateur and professional photographers alike.The book begins with three chapters exploring the historical use of amateur photographs in the pre-Internet, pre-video era. For example, in chapter 1, Karin Becker describes how private family photos of Titanic victims were incorporated into mainstream newspapers. Then Stuart Allan describes the early history of war reporting in a chapter that will become required reading the next time I teach journalism history. Allan's contribution, paired with Liam Kennedy's later chapter on the distribution of personal photos by soldiers in the war in Iraq, highlights that although pocket cameras have been marketed to soldiers since World War I, authorship is now more transparent and mechanisms of distribution and publication are more diverse.Part II of the book, which includes a chapter by the editors on the incorporation of citizen footage of Iran's Green Movement in the international press, presents a series of case studies on how various news organizations organize and describe amateur photographs and videos. Here the establishment of journalistic authority is expressed vis-a-vis the contributions of eyewitness amateurs, whose pictures may lack the aesthetic quality of professional journalists.Finally, part III includes contributions on the dissemination of citizen media and their interpretation by audiences. We learn that, in general, audiences are more supportive of citizen journalists than the mainstream media. Liina Puustinen and Janne Seppanen conclude in chapter 10 that audience reading of user-generated content as more authentic "reflects a more profound cultural condition in which authenticity works as a part of late modern life politics. …
British Journalism Review
... But just whose side is God on in international conflicts? ... Additionally, religion allows f... more ... But just whose side is God on in international conflicts? ... Additionally, religion allows for the easy deployment of the seven devices of propaganda as outlined by Alfred McClung Lee and Elizabeth Briant Lee (1939) in The Fine Art of Propaganda. ...
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing
Journal of Creative Communications
We propose that emotional responses to a media stimulus (e.g., a news article), in addition to pr... more We propose that emotional responses to a media stimulus (e.g., a news article), in addition to presumed influence, can help explain one’s evaluation of the media stimulus. Our model was evaluated using data collected from 261 college students who read a news article discussing the harmful effects of multitasking. Structural equation modelling (SEM) analysis revealed that the participants’ emotional feelings (i.e., anger, guilt and happiness) after reading the message and perceptions of how professors and administrators’ perceived the researchers interviewed in the article directly predicted the evaluation of the news article. Presumed influence of the news article on neutral Americans and professors and administrators on campus did not directly predict participants’ evaluation of the news article, the influence of which was mediated by anger. Message evaluation and select emotions explained 58 per cent and 26 per cent of the variance in supporting publication of the article and inte...
Oxford Bibliographies Online Datasets, 2000
Oxford Bibliographies Online Datasets, 2000
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 2011
Drawing on the literature related to indexing and sourcing, this study analyzes portrayals and so... more Drawing on the literature related to indexing and sourcing, this study analyzes portrayals and sourcing patterns of New York Times coverage of Abu Ghraib and invocations of the events during Alberto Gonzales' nomination as U.S. Attorney General. Content analysis of all 760 articles published revealed that journalists overwhelmingly consulted official, though not necessarily partisan, sources during the pre-nomination, nomination, and hearing phases leading up to Gonzales' confirmation. Despite introducing the idea of “scandal” into coverage of Abu Ghraib, which suggests press independence, journalists consulted routine sources and increasingly relied on congressional sources over time.
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