A Paper Tiger No More? The Media Portrayal of the Notwithstanding Clause in Saskatchewan and Ontario

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Eleni Nicolaides ◽  
Dave Snow
Keyword(s):  
Policy Issue ◽  
Original Dataset ◽  
Media Portrayal ◽  
The Media ◽  
News Outlet

Abstract Since 2017, four provincial legislatures have introduced bills invoking the controversial notwithstanding clause. We present an original dataset of news articles from 10 different outlets that discussed the clause while these bills were being debated in Saskatchewan and Ontario. Empirically, although the clause is typically portrayed accurately, we find over one-fifth of articles about the clause did not indicate that it must be included in legislation. Normatively, the clause was twice as likely to be portrayed negatively as it was positively, and the type of portrayal was strongly associated with the ideological orientation of the news outlet. The rate of negative portrayals was similar across the two provinces, which suggests that attitudes toward the clause may endure beyond the policy issue itself or the level of media visibility.

Suicide and the Media

Crisis ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 163-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Warwick Blood ◽  
Jane Pirkis
Keyword(s):  
Social Learning Theory ◽  
The Body ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Causal Association ◽  
Media Messages ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Media Portrayal ◽  
The Media ◽  
Actual Suicide ◽  
Multiple Meanings

Summary: The body of evidence suggests that there is a causal association between nonfictional media reporting of suicide (in newspapers, on television, and in books) and actual suicide, and that there may be one between fictional media portrayal (in film and television, in music, and in plays) and actual suicide. This finding has been explained by social learning theory. The majority of studies upon which this finding is based fall into the media “effects tradition,” which has been criticized for its positivist-like approach that fails to take into account of media content or the capacity of audiences to make meaning out of messages. A cultural studies approach that relies on discourse and frame analyses to explore meanings, and that qualitatively examines the multiple meanings that audiences give to media messages, could complement the effects tradition. Together, these approaches have the potential to clarify the notion of what constitutes responsible reporting of suicide, and to broaden the framework for evaluating media performance.

Smart Girls, Dumb Boys!?

2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Latsch ◽  
Bettina Hannover
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Stereotype Threat ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Learning Goals ◽  
School Students ◽  
Compensatory Strategies ◽  
Media Portrayal ◽  
Stereotype Lift ◽  
The Media

We investigated effects of the media’s portrayal of boys as “scholastic failures” on secondary school students. The negative portrayal induced stereotype threat (boys underperformed in reading), stereotype reactance (boys displayed stronger learning goals towards mathematics but not reading), and stereotype lift (girls performed better in reading but not in mathematics). Apparently, boys were motivated to disconfirm their group’s negative depiction, however, while they could successfully apply compensatory strategies when describing their learning goals, this motivation did not enable them to perform better. Overall the media portrayal thus contributes to the maintenance of gender stereotypes, by impairing boys’ and strengthening girls’ performance in female connoted domains and by prompting boys to align their learning goals to the gender connotation of the domain.

A Content Analysis on the Media Portrayal of Characters with Limb Loss

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 170-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Abernethy ◽  
John Chad Duncan ◽  
Walter Lee Childers
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Limb Loss ◽  
Media Portrayal ◽  
The Media

scholarly journals Partisan motivated reasoning and misinformation in the media: Is news from ideologically uncongenial sources more suspicious?

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 129-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Clayton ◽  
Jase Davis ◽  
Kristen Hinckley ◽  
Yusaku Horiuchi
Keyword(s):  
Motivated Reasoning ◽  
News Article ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Fox News ◽  
News Reports ◽  
News Source ◽  
The Media ◽  
News Outlet ◽  
Democrats And Republicans ◽  
Source Cues

AbstractIn recent years, concerns about misinformation in the media have skyrocketed. President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that various news outlets are disseminating ‘fake news’ for political purposes. But when the information contained in mainstream media news reports provides no clear clues about its truth value or any indication of a partisan slant, do people rely on the congeniality of the news outlet to judge whether the information is true or false? In a survey experiment, we presented partisans (Democrats and Republicans) and ideologues (liberals and conservatives) with a news article excerpt that varied by source shown (CNN, Fox News, or no source) and content (true or false information), and measured their perceived accuracy of the information contained in the article. Our results suggest that the participants do not blindly judge the content of articles based on the news source, regardless of their own partisanship and ideology. Contrary to prevailing views on the polarization and politicization of news outlets, as well as on voters' growing propensity to engage in ‘partisan motivated reasoning,’ source cues are not as important as the information itself for partisans on both sides of the aisle.

The Singaporean Paralympics and Its Media Portrayal: Real Sport? Men-Only?

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 446-465 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Brooke
Keyword(s):  
Women Athletes ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Sexual Objectification ◽  
Media Portrayal ◽  
Disabled Women ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
The Media ◽  
Paralympic Sport ◽  
Dual Burden ◽  
Discursive Representations

This article explores the discursive representations of Paralympians in South East Asia, particlarly in Singapore. One goal is to look at the extent and nature of media coverage of the Paralympics. Another goal of the research is to examine whether female Paralympians are exposed to the dual burden of sexist and ablest ideology in the media. Over 2 years, data from 100 articles were collected from three local Singaporean and Asian media sources; additionally, interviews and a survey were conducted with both Paralympians and citizens from the disabled community as well as a cohort of nondisabled Singaporean citizens. Findings suggest that coverage of Paralympic sport is significantly low, and that patriotism is more starkly linked to the Paralympics than the Olympics. Findings also suggest that othering (presenting the disabled as passive as well as challenged), or the supercrip narrative is apparent. Disabled women athletes tend to be overrepresented in passive poses out of the sport field. Finally, and more positively, the study finds that there are many images of Paralympian women as sophisticated and attractive without being sexually provocative. Therefore, evidence of sexual objectification or presentation of asexual disabled women tends not to be as present, as other similar studies have found.

scholarly journals A calibrated measure to compare fluctuations of different entities across timescales

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Chołoniewski ◽  
Julian Sienkiewicz ◽  
Naum Dretnik ◽  
Gregor Leban ◽  
Mike Thelwall ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Scaling Law ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
High Reactivity ◽  
Political Orientation ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
The Media ◽  
Using Data ◽  
News Outlet ◽  
Fluctuation Scaling ◽  
Associated Variables

AbstractA common way to learn about a system’s properties is to analyze temporal fluctuations in associated variables. However, conclusions based on fluctuations from a single entity can be misleading when used without proper reference to other comparable entities or when examined only on one timescale. Here we introduce a method that uses predictions from a fluctuation scaling law as a benchmark for the observed standard deviations. Differences from the benchmark (residuals) are aggregated across multiple timescales using Principal Component Analysis to reduce data dimensionality. The first component score is a calibrated measure of fluctuations—the reactivityRA of a given entity. We apply our method to activity records from the media industry using data from the Event Registry news aggregator—over 32M articles on selected topics published by over 8000 news outlets. Our approach distinguishes between different news outlet reporting styles: high reactivity points to activity fluctuations larger than expected, reflecting a bursty reporting style, whereas low reactivity suggests a relatively stable reporting style. Combining our method with the political bias detector Media Bias/Fact Check we quantify the relative reporting styles for different topics of mainly US media sources grouped by political orientation. The results suggest that news outlets with a liberal bias tended to be the least reactive while conservative news outlets were the most reactive.

scholarly journals Examining the Media Portrayal of Obesity Through the Lens of the Common Sense Model of Illness Representations

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 430-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aoife De Brún ◽  
Mary McCarthy ◽  
Kenneth McKenzie ◽  
Aileen McGloin
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
Illness Representations ◽  
Common Sense Model ◽  
Media Portrayal ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Common ◽  
Sense Model

scholarly journals A Case Study: Mada Masr—A Progressive Voice in Egypt and Beyond

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 275-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadia Leihs
Keyword(s):  
Role Model ◽  
Online News ◽  
Global Changes ◽  
English Edition ◽  
Critical Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
News Outlet ◽  
Egyptian Government ◽  
Privately Owned

This article questions the role of the media in times of political transformation. In doing so, it draws on theories on the interconnectedness of the different fields of society to explain the sets of roles that media outlets and journalists adopt during phases of transition. Before 2011, the Egyptian media mostly acted as collaborators of the ruling regime and rarely as an agent of change. Journalists took over the latter role more often following the advent of privately-owned media outlets, thus helping to pave the way for the events of the so-called Arab Spring. This case study focuses on the development of the online news portal <em>Mada Masr</em> and therefore traces the development of two newsrooms. Starting as the English edition of a privately-owned Arabic newspaper in 2009 and changing its status to an independent news outlet in 2013, <em>Mada Masr</em> is one of the few voices which still openly criticise the Egyptian government. Founded in a time of political turmoil and struggling against an increasingly authoritarian environment, the outlet implements innovative ways of producing content, securing funding, and reaching out to its readers. A group of young Egyptian and international journalists make use of new spaces for expression that have opened through the global changes in communication infrastructure while struggling with frequent attacks by representatives of the ruling regime. As such, <em>Mada Masr</em> is a role model for small and regime-critical media outlets.

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