As information and communication technology developed, online sphere connected with Internet network appeared. That is, many elements of the existing offline sphere have moved to online without time and space restrictions. For example, various activities ranging from simple communication with...

The rising popularity of webtoons, a popular type of digital content, led to emergence of an interesting phenomenon known as transcreation. Transcreation indicates fans' twofold activity of translating and recreating webtoons into a new language, while maintaining originality of the content....

This study quantitatively examines how the term "fake news" is being portrayed by the Japanese news media using semantic network analysis. It uses newspapers as the representative as they are still one of the most influential news media in Japan. The data set consists of 624 newspaper articles...

Generally, the mass media perform the following social functions: information function, agenda setting, control function and criticism of social structures and institutions, educational function and function of socialization and integration (Jurcic, 2017). Through the digital revolution the...