scholarly journals Media Coverage, Public Interest, and Support in the 2016 Republican Invisible Primary

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (02) ◽  
pp. 326-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Reuning ◽  
Nick Dietrich
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Primary Elections ◽  
Primary Election ◽  
Presidential Primary ◽  
Dynamic Relationships

Donald Trump’s success in the 2016 presidential primary election prompted scrutiny for the role of news media in elections. Was Trump successful because news media publicized his campaign and crowded out coverage of other candidates? We examine the dynamic relationships between media coverage, public interest, and support for candidates in the time preceding the 2016 Republican presidential primary to determine (1) whether media coverage drives support for candidates at the polls and (2) whether this relationship was different for Trump than for other candidates. We find for all candidates that the quantity of media coverage had significant and long-lasting effects on public interest in that candidate. Most candidates do not perform better in the polls following increases in media coverage. Trump is an exception to this finding, receiving a modest polling bump following an increase in media coverage. These findings suggest that viability cues from news media contributed to Trump’s success and can be influential in setting the stage in primary elections.

The Myth of the Terrorist as a Lover

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noha Mellor
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Arab Media ◽  
American Media ◽  
Anglo American

This chapter focuses on media coverage of bin Laden and how it depicted his relationship with his wives, particularly the sixth one, Amal Assadah, who was rumored to have shielded bin Laden when the American commandos shot him. It argues that the main difference between the coverage in Arab media versus Anglo-American news media is that the former focused on the issues surrounding bin Laden and his family, foregrounding the wives' support of bin Laden as part of their duty as virtuous Muslim women. Anglo-American media, however, chose to focus on the image of bin Laden as a sexual being, thereby contributing to the myth of bin Laden as a neurotic evil. Both regions focused on these wives as mainly emotionally or religiously motivated to follow bin Laden rather than on their political and ideological motivations. The chapter begins with a brief discussion about the role of myth in the news-making process, focusing on the myths surrounding bin Laden's sexuality. It then presents examples of pan-Arab and Anglo-American coverage.

Covid-19, Media Reporting, and the Role of Bioethicists

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (Special Issue) ◽  
pp. 137-138
Author(s):  
Federico Nicoli ◽  
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Paul J. Cummins ◽  
Joseph A. Raho ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
The Other ◽  
Scientific Uncertainty ◽  
Media Reporting ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Media ◽  
The U.S

"In the aftermath of the 2014 Ebola outbreak, media coverage was scrutinized for sensationalism, weakness in explaining scientific uncertainty, dehumanization of patients, and lack of contextualization. The current COVID-19 crisis presents an opportunity to assess whether the media learned its lesson. Results are mixed. Early reporting on the origin of COVID-19 in “wet markets” indicates that the media continues to do poorly with contextualization. On the other hand, stories on mortality and the infectiousness of COVID-19 indicate there has been improvement. The situation remains fluid as COVID-19 threatens to transform into a pandemic at the time of submission. Data from new countries may alter the reported rates of lethality and infectiousness, and media reporting on these changes may or may not be responsible. The explosion of social media, as a medium to promote reporting, could provide bioethicists a tool to direct the public to reliable stories and criticize inaccurate ones. Using a bioethics perspective, this poster will critically evaluate the quality of U.S. and Italian news media’s reporting on the evolving scientific understanding of COVID-19 and its contextualization. The presentation will employ QR technology to provide links to media coverage of COVID-19 from the U.S. and Italian news media. After critically appraising the quality of COVID-19 reporting, this poster will consider if bioethicists: 1) should provide comment to the media on pandemics; 2) should correct reporting for the public and 3) have a duty to publicly criticize sensationalism in the media. "

scholarly journals Are Experts (News)Worthy? Balance, Conflict, and Mass Media Coverage of Expert Consensus

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Merkley
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Expert Consensus ◽  
News Production ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Content ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Thematic Context

Overlooked in analyses of why the public often rejects expert consensus is the role of the news media. News coverage of expert consensus on general matters of policy is likely limited as a result of journalists’ emphasis in news production on novelty and drama at the expense of thematic context. News content is also biased towards balance and conflict, which may dilute the persuasiveness of expert consensus. This study presents an automated and manual analysis of over 280,000 news stories on ten issues where there are important elements of agreement among scientists or economists. The analyses show that news content typically emphasizes arguments aligned with positions of expert consensus, rather than providing balance, and only occasionally cites contrarian experts. More troubling is that expert messages related to important areas of agreement are infrequent in news content, and cues signaling the existence of consensus are rarer still.

scholarly journals The Role of News Media in European Integration : A Framework of Analysis for Political Science

Res Publica ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-227
Author(s):  
Robin B. Hodess
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Political Science ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Information Source ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Eu

The pbenomenon of European integration has received a great deal ofattention from political scientists in the wake of the mid-1980s 'relaunch' ofthe European Union (EU). However, political science's theoretical consideration of West European integration has from the outset failed to include news media as a factor in EU politics. This oversight is linked to the general dismissal of the public and public debate as irrelevant to the integration project. Yet because media have several critical functions in politics - as an information-source, agendasetter, and legitimator - political science treatment of the EU now needs to account for the role of news media. Turning to concepts in normative media theory, the article proposes a framework within which to consider media and suggests empirical analysis of media coverage of the European Union. Such analysis would complement political science study of the democratisation and legitimation of the EU, while acknowledging public discourse as an element crucial to the future course of European integration.

Far from the Madding Cloud: How Social Media Has Changed the Riot Dynamic

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Bannister
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Crowd Management ◽  
Sociological Literature ◽  
Media And Communication ◽  
Shed Light

This paper aims to shed light on the motivations of the students involved in the 2008 Queen’s Homecoming party riot by first reviewing relevant sociological literature, and in doing so defining the term “party riot”, the paper will then analyze the news media coverage of the events, and in comparing the two discuss the factors that influenced these events. Factors explored include: tensions with the larger Kingston community, student unfamiliarity with and distrust of the police, police policies regarding crowd management and dispersal, alcohol consumption, geographical location, university administration policies, and the role of social media and communication technologies. The paper concludes with development of the implications on Homecoming events in the future.

News Media and Economic Inequality

2020 ◽  
pp. 189-212
Author(s):  
Andrea Grisold ◽  
Paschal Preston
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Economic Inequality ◽  
Economic Issues ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Cultural Research ◽  
Cross Country

Chapter 10 provides an overview and a summary reflection on the key findings from the authors’ distinctive, cross-country study of news media coverage of economic inequality, viewed through the lens of journalistic responses to Piketty’s high-profile book on this theme. It examines key findings arising from cross-country empirical research, linking them to broader discourses on economic, material, and discursive aspects of power, public policies, and political economy, as well as cultural research on news media. This chapter also briefly considers the contours of requisite reforms if the present dominance of elite discourses are to be ameliorated when it comes to inequality and other economic issues of wider public interest.

“This Isn’t Just About Us”: Articulations of Feminism in Media Narratives of Athlete Activism

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 692-711 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryl Cooky ◽  
Dunja Antunovic
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
News Media ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
The United States ◽  
Online News ◽  
Equal Pay ◽  
Sports Media ◽  
Media Narratives

Historically, the world of sport has served as a symbolic site for social justice, ushering change in the wider society and inspiring movements that often do not directly or solely tie to sport. Recently, academics and sports journalists have noted a “rebirth” of athlete activism in the United States. Despite the activism of women of color, who have initiated and been at the center of these movements, and sportswomen’s outspokenness on a variety of social justice issues, women’s roles are rendered invisible in narratives that instead privilege sportsmen or men’s professional leagues. We examine articulations of feminism in the context of athlete activism and re-center the role of sportswomen. Drawing upon social media, official statements from athletes, and online news media coverage, we locate feminist narratives in networked communication, specifically in the Women’s National Basketball Association’s activism as it relates to #BlackLivesMatter and the U.S. women’s soccer equal pay lawsuit. Our analytical approach is attuned to how feminism circulates in an economy of visibility, where certain feminisms become more visible than others. Our findings illustrate how narratives of solidarity and collectivism are informed by articulations of intersectional and neoliberal feminisms. This article concludes with a call for sports media scholars to tell stories differently.

scholarly journals Primaries and Candidates: Examining the Influence of Primary Electorates on Candidate Ideology

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 397-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsay Nielson ◽  
Neil Visalvanich
Keyword(s):  
Ideal Point ◽  
The United States ◽  
Primary Elections ◽  
Science Literature ◽  
Primary Election ◽  
Point Estimates ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Ideal Points ◽  
Selection Of

Primary elections in the United States have been under-studied in the political science literature. Using new data to estimate the ideal points of primary election candidates and constituents, we examine the link between the ideological leanings of primary electorates and the ideological orientation of US congressional candidates. We use district-level data from the Cooperative Congressional Election Study and ideal point estimates for congressional primary election candidates to examine the role of primary electorate ideology in the selection of party nominees. We find that more extreme Republicans are more likely to win their party’s primary and that Republican and Democratic candidates are responsive to different electoral constituencies.

scholarly journals Public interest in the neo-liberal order: The role of the EU austerity model in the morphing of the Portuguese media landscape

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-65
Author(s):  
Rita Figueiras
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
News Media ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Free Play ◽  
External Resources ◽  
Degree Of Control ◽  
National Governments ◽  
Supranational Institutions ◽  
The Eu

In this article, I examine the role of the EU austerity model in the morphing of the Portuguese media landscape by analyzing it in relation to the growing dependency of the Portuguese democracy on external resources and to the associated issues concerning public interest and capital interests. Portugal’s case illustrates well the conflict between capitalism and democracy in the neo-liberal era. It demonstrates how governments no longer have the degree of control they once had over their own state due not only to the presence of supranational institutions, but also to their dependence on investors – which has led to the increasing political power of large corporations over national governments and over national public interest. In this process, the state plays an active role in promoting the free play of market forces through public policy. Against this backdrop, one may also suggest that the news media might no longer be an adequate agent of public interest under the neo-liberal order.

The 140 Characters AreSetting the Agenda of the Day: A Critical analysis of Role of twitter in Lalitgate

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amit Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Online Source ◽  
The Social ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
The Face ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
The Media

The face of a news room in India has been changed radically with the ever growing popularity of social media, where it sets agenda for the news organizations to follow. The #Lalitgate is a classical example, where the Ex IPL Commissioner, Lalit Modi, who has gained a notorious image due to his controversies, broke news on twitter, from there it has been picked up by 24x7 news channels, subsequently online portals do a piece on it, again there is a prime time discussion on that news, followed by a morning coverage by the news papers. As a person gain ability to create sensationalism, he utilizes the ability of social media to create some dialogues, with a larger worldwide audience, which was earlier not possible due to the monologue approach of traditional media. The ability of that piece of information to get retweeted by followers allows it to trend high on twitter. As the number become astonishing some time, it automatically qualifies for the attention of the editors of media organizations and eventually sets the agenda of the day. The social media platforms; Twitter, Facebook, Whatsapp etc. have become the essential tool of news gathering of a modern news room. Twitter with its 302 million followers worldwide, eventually became a credible online source of news gathering as the tweets are usually came through a first person, citing his/her views or, opinion on a subject matter. This research paper aims to critically analyze the role of twitter as an agenda setting tool in #Lalitgate, where, the cricket administrator turned whistleblower, Lalit Modi, used twitter effectively for his revelations, and he not only trolled successfully on twitter but news media as well. The scope of this paper is limited to the media coverage by English medium news channels and papers only.

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