Misinformation from Web-based News Media? Computational Analysis of Metabolic Disease Burden for Chinese

2020 ◽  
pp. 52-62
Author(s):  
Angela Chang
Keyword(s):  
Metabolic Disease ◽  
News Media ◽  
Disease Burden ◽  
Computational Analysis ◽  
Web Based

Mild autonomous cortisol excess in adrenal incidentalomas - metabolic disease burden and urinary steroid metabolome in 1201 prospectively recruited patients

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Prete ◽  
Angela E Taylor ◽  
Alice J Sitch ◽  
Lorna C Gilligan ◽  
Dimitra Vassiliadi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Metabolic Disease ◽  
Disease Burden ◽  
Adrenal Incidentalomas ◽  
Urinary Steroid

scholarly journals Scientists and science communication: a Danish survey

2007 ◽  
Vol 06 (01) ◽  
pp. A01
Author(s):  
Kristian Hvidtfelt Nielsen ◽  
Carsten R. Kjaer ◽  
Jørgen Dahlgaard
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Target Groups ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Mixed Feeling ◽  
The One ◽  
Current Science ◽  
Danish Survey

This paper summarizes key findings from a web-based questionnaire survey among Danish scientists in the natural sciences and engineering science. In line with the Act on Universities of 2003 enforcing science communication as a university obligation next to research and teaching, the respondents take a keen interest in communicating science, especially through the news media. However, they also do have mixed feeling about the quality of science communication in the news. Moreover, a majority of the respondents would like to give higher priority to science communication. More than half reply that they are willing to allocate up to 2% of total research funding in Denmark to science communication. Further, the respondents indicate that they would welcome a wider variety of science communication initiatives aimed at many types of target groups. They do not see the news media as the one and only channel for current science communication.

scholarly journals “Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire”: A Content Analysis of Print and Web-Based News Media Reporting of the Philip Morris–Funded Foundation for a Smoke-Free World (Preprint)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Watts ◽  
Becky Freeman
Keyword(s):  
Tobacco Control ◽  
News Media ◽  
Free World ◽  
Control Policies ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Media Reporting ◽  
Print News ◽  
Tobacco Control Policies ◽  
Philip Morris ◽  
The Impact

BACKGROUND In September 2017, the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World (FSFW), a not-for-profit organization with a core purpose “to accelerate global efforts to reduce deaths and harm from smoking” was launched. However, the legitimacy of the FSFW’s vision has been questioned by experts in tobacco control because of the organization’s only funding partner, Philip Morris International (PMI). OBJECTIVE This study aimed to examine the response to the FSFW in Web-based and print news media to understand how the FSFW and its funding partner, PMI, were framed. METHODS News articles published within a 6-month period after the FSFW was announced were downloaded via Google News and Factiva and coded for topic, framing argument, slant, mention of tobacco control policies, and direct quotes or position statements. RESULTS A total of 124 news articles were analyzed. The news coverage of the FSFW was framed by 6 key arguments. Over half of the news articles presented a framing argument in opposition to the FSFW (64/124, 51.6%). A further 20.2% (25/124) of articles framed the FSFW positively and 28.2% of articles (35/124) presented a neutral debate with no primary slant. The FSFW was presented as not credible because of the funding link to PMI in 29.0% (36/124) of articles and as a tactic to mislead and undermine effective tobacco control measures in 11.3% of articles (14/124). However, 12.9% of articles (16/124) argued that the FSFW or PMI is part of the solution to reducing the impact of tobacco use. Evidence-based tobacco control policies were mentioned positively in 66.9% (83/124) of news articles and 9.6% (12/124) of articles presented tobacco control policies negatively. CONCLUSIONS The Web-based and print news media reporting of the formation of the FSFW and its mission and vision has primarily been framed by doubt, skepticism, and disapproval.

A Computational Analysis of News Media Bias

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurenz A. Cornelissen ◽  
Lucia I. Daly ◽  
Qhama Sinandile ◽  
Heinrich de Lange ◽  
Richard J. Barnett
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Computational Analysis ◽  
Media Bias

scholarly journals Author-sourced capture of pathway knowledge in computable form using Biofactoid

eLife ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey V Wong ◽  
Max Franz ◽  
Metin Can Siper ◽  
Dylan Fong ◽  
Funda Durupinar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Full Advantage ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Computational Analysis ◽  
Chemical Compounds ◽  
Knowledge Sources ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Scientific Papers ◽  
Machine Readable

Making the knowledge contained in scientific papers machine-readable and formally computable would allow researchers to take full advantage of this information by enabling integration with other knowledge sources to support data analysis and interpretation. Here we describe Biofactoid, a web-based platform that allows scientists to specify networks of interactions between genes, their products, and chemical compounds, and then translates this information into a representation suitable for computational analysis, search and discovery. We also report the results of a pilot study to encourage the wide adoption of Biofactoid by the scientific community.

The price of greater representation: A cross-national analysis of parliamentary representation and media coverage sentiment for women

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 455-468
Author(s):  
Eran Shor ◽  
Alex Miltsov
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Computational Analysis ◽  
Women In Politics ◽  
Social Hierarchies ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
Successful Women ◽  
National Analysis ◽  
Cross National

Previous research suggested that news media coverage tone tends to become more negative for successful women in politics (but not for successful men) when compared with less successful and well-known women. This study tests this in 17 countries. Specifically, it examines relationships between greater parliamentary representation of women and the coverage tone in articles on women in that country through a computational analysis of millions of persons’ names in more than 1,000 newspapers. Growth in parliamentary representation of women is associated with more negative coverage, lending support for explanations that suggest reactionary responses to perceived breaching of gendered social hierarchies.

Culturomics 2.0: Forecasting large-scale human behavior using global news media tone in time and space

First Monday ◽  
2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kalev Leetaru
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
News Media ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Computational Analysis ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Northern Pakistan ◽  
World Today ◽  
The World ◽  
The Stability

News is increasingly being produced and consumed online, supplanting print and broadcast to represent nearly half of the news monitored across the world today by Western intelligence agencies. Recent literature has suggested that computational analysis of large text archives can yield novel insights to the functioning of society, including predicting future economic events. Applying tone and geographic analysis to a 30–year worldwide news archive, global news tone is found to have forecasted the revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya, including the removal of Egyptian President Mubarak, predicted the stability of Saudi Arabia (at least through May 2011), estimated Osama Bin Laden’s likely hiding place as a 200–kilometer radius in Northern Pakistan that includes Abbotabad, and offered a new look at the world’s cultural affiliations. Along the way, common assertions about the news, such as “news is becoming more negative” and “American news portrays a U.S.–centric view of the world” are found to have merit.

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