In this article, we analyse how various macro- and meso-level factors influence news media’s provision of hard news, an important element of media quality. The research draws on a content analysis of more than 100,000 news items between 2015 and 2019 from 53 print, radio, TV, and online news outlets in Switzerland, a small state with three linguistically segmented media markets, each of which is partially influ...
Efficient network support of real-time group communications requires dedicated multiparty networking technologies, such as IP multicast, to send the same content simultaneously to multiple receivers, with intermediate routers duplicating packets as needed. The increasing popularity of group applications introduces new technical challenges to meet the users’ new expectations of accessing them anywhere, anytime, ...