Time's up: Recognising sexual violence as a public policy issue: A qualitative content analysis of sexual violence cases and the media

Media coverage can affect audiences’ perceptions of immigrants, and can play a role in determining the content of public policy agendas, the formation of prejudices, and the prevalence of negative stereotyping. This study investigated the way in which immigrants are represented in the Danish media, which terms are used, what issues related to immigrants and immigration are discussed and how they are described, and whose voices are heard. The data consisted of media articles published in the two most widely read Danish newspapers in 2019. Inductive qualitative content analysis was conducted. The portrayal of immigrants was generally negative. Overall, immigrants were portrayed as economic, cultural and security threats to the country. The most salient immigrant groups mentioned in the media were non-Westerners, Muslims, and people ‘on tolerated stay’. Integration, xenophobia and racial discrimination were the three immigrant-related issues most frequently presented by the media. The media gave voice mainly to politicians and immigrant women. The material showed that Danes have a strong affinity for ‘Danishness’, which the papers explained as a major barrier to the integration and acceptance of immigrants in Denmark.

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“Involuntary self‐employment” as a public policy issue: a cross‐country European review

International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research ◽

10.1108/13552551011027002 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 16 (2) ◽

pp. 112-129 ◽

Cited By ~ 45

Author(s):

Teemu Kautonen ◽

Simon Down ◽

Friederike Welter ◽

Pekka Vainio ◽

Jenni Palmroos ◽

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Keyword(s):

Public Policy ◽

Policy Issue ◽

Public Policy Issue ◽

Self Employment ◽

Cross Country ◽

European Review

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Media, Culture and Indigenous Languages in Pakistan: A Critical Review

Global Language Review ◽

10.31703/glr.2020(v-iv).04 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol V (IV) ◽

pp. 27-33

Author(s):

Irem Sultana ◽

Malik Adnan ◽

Muhammad Imran Mehsud

Keyword(s):

Content Analysis ◽

Qualitative Content Analysis ◽

Indigenous Languages ◽

Media Culture ◽

Native Languages ◽

Mainstream Media ◽

Study Results ◽

The Media ◽

Depth Interviews

This research paper inspected the role of Pakistani media to protect indigenous languages and culture in Pakistan. The study examined the situation; if Pakistani media outpours concern with the native languages or not. The article also checked the media landscape, its language-wise segregation and scenario of literacy in different areas of the country. The outcomes of the study showed that Pakistani media is neglecting the indigenous languages. The study results exhibited clearly that media houses’ focus on protecting native languages, is not profound. The findings also showed that foreign ownership of Media houses plays a role in neglecting indigenous language promotions. The current study presented that Pakistani mainstream media is damaging the local and native languages. The study was the outcome of qualitative content analysis and in-depth interviews of senior communication experts.

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The Case of “Illicit Appropriation” in the Use of Technology

Technology for Facilitating Humanity and Combating Social Deviations ◽

10.4018/978-1-60960-094-5.ch012 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 210-229

Author(s):

Eduardo H. Calvillo Gámez ◽

Rodrigo Nieto-Gómez

Keyword(s):

Public Policy ◽

Human Computer Interaction ◽

Policy Issue ◽

Final Conclusion ◽

Public Policy Issue ◽

Use Of Technology ◽

Current Events ◽

Technological Means ◽

The Individual ◽

Computer Interaction

In this chapter, the authors play the devil‘s advocate to those who favor strict government supervision over technology itself. The authors’ argument is that technology is a “neutral” mean to an end, and that the use of technology to detract social deviations is dependent on public policy and social behavior. To elaborate their argument they propose the concept of “illicit appropriation”, based on the Human Computer Interaction concept of appropriation. The authors argue that sometimes appropriation can be geared towards activities that can be considered as illicit, and in some cases criminal. They illustrate the use of illicit appropriation through a series of case studies of current events, in which they show that either a state or the individual can rely on illicit appropriation. The authors’ final conclusion is that the use of technology to combat social deviations is not a technological problem, but a public policy issue, where a delicate balance has to be found between the enforcement of the law by technological means (approved by legislation), the user experience, the civil liberties of the individual and the checks and balances to the power of the state. This chapter is written from the expertise of the authors on Human Computer Interaction and Security Studies.

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The Role of Cognitive Responses as Mediators of Alcohol Warning Label Effects

Journal of Public Policy & Marketing ◽

10.1177/074391569501200106 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 57-68 ◽

Cited By ~ 22

Author(s):

J. Craig Andrews ◽

Richard G. Netemeyer ◽

Srinivas Durvasula

Keyword(s):

Public Policy ◽

Policy Issue ◽

Policy Implications ◽

Future Research ◽

Cognitive Responses ◽

Warning Label ◽

Public Policy Issue ◽

Future Research Directions ◽

The Relationship

The authors examine an important public policy issue, namely, the effectiveness of federally mandated and proposed alcohol warning labels. Specifically, warning label cognitive responses are tested as mediators of effects of five different alcohol warning label types on label attitudes. On the basis of requirements for ANOVA-based mediation, net support arguments mediated 76% of the warning label treatment effect on label attitudes. Following requirements for regression-based mediation, net support arguments mediated the relationship from attitude toward drinking to label attitudes. Public policy implications and future research directions are provided.

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Public policy and media in Turkey

Policy Analysis in Turkey ◽

10.1332/policypress/9781447338956.003.0015 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 255-270

Author(s):

Başak Yavçan ◽

Hakan Övünç Ongur

Keyword(s):

Field Theory ◽

Public Policy ◽

Content Analysis ◽

Agenda Setting ◽

Media Content Analysis ◽

Issue Area ◽

Governmental Power ◽

The Media ◽

Media Outlet ◽

Turkish Case

This chapter addresses the different roles played by the mass media in its relationship with policymaking within the Turkish case, including agenda-setting, framing and the panoptical reflected by public policy. Based on Pierre Bourdieu's field theory, this chapter demonstrates that media as a semi-autonomous field can reflect and refract public policy with respect to varying conditions and argues in particular that this role depends on the level of consolidation of the governmental power, the ideological positioning of the media outlet, and the issue area under discussion. Methodologically, a template is established for a media content analysis of the Turkish media and its role in policymaking. This template has been implemented by collecting data across five different Turkish newspapers between 1995-2013 as a framework for future studies and the analysis confirms the expectations.

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Matter Unmoored: Trash, Archaeological Consciousness and American Culture and Fiction in the 1980s

Journal of American Studies ◽

10.1017/s0021875816000578 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 51 (2) ◽

pp. 553-571 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

TIM JELFS

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Public Policy ◽

Policy Issue ◽

Cultural Significance ◽

Mass Consumption ◽

Public Policy Issue ◽

Late Twentieth ◽

The Relationship ◽

Late Twentieth Century ◽

Epistemological Complexity

This article considers the cultural significance of the garbage panics of the 1980s, including the voyage of the infamous Mobro 4000 “garbage barge.” The article argues that the trash at the centre of these panics is important to our understanding of both the 1980s and the present because it demanded – and still demands – that Americans see and understand it as a class of matter unmoored from temporal as well as spatial boundaries. The alarming durability of the supposedly ephemeral refuse of a culture of mass consumption invoked an “archaeological consciousness” prone to muse upon the longevity of material remains. This consciousness was expressed in various cultural and discursive arenas throughout the 1980s, revealing that durable detritus was not just a pressing public policy issue but a marker of cultural anxieties emerging out of the operations of archaeological consciousness. From concerns about contingency of the mass-consuming culture of the late twentieth-century United States to reflections on trash's own epistemological complexity, trash spoke in unexpected ways throughout the 1980s, raising important questions about the relationship between producers of culture and their audience, whose receptiveness to the urgencies of archaeological consciousness suffers from a frustrating transience as far as trash is concerned.

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Assessing the media visibility of China’s President Xi Jinping’s first 3-year governance in The New York Times

Global Media and China ◽

10.1177/2059436417690738 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 1 (4) ◽

pp. 467-480

Author(s):

Xiaoqun Zhang

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Content Analysis ◽

Qualitative Content Analysis ◽

New York Times ◽

Composite Measure ◽

The New York Times ◽

Quantitative Content ◽

The Media ◽

Multiple Frames ◽

Two Parameters

This study assessed the media visibility, a composite measure of attention and prominence, of China’s President Xi Jinping’s first 3-year governance in The New York Times. The assessment was based on the content analysis of 317 news articles focusing on Chinese President. Qualitative content analysis was used to identify three major frames, 12 mid-level frames, and 18 sub-frames. Quantitative content analysis was used to measure the attention, prominence, and the combination of these two parameters of these frames. The findings showed that The New York Times employed multiple frames to report Chinese President, and the two frames with the highest media visibility are (Domestic) Campaigns and Strategies and China-United States (relations), rather than Human Rights.

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