Democratization or censorship?

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-83
Author(s):  
Mariana De Maio

Abstract Using second-level agenda setting, this paper examines the coverage of Argentina’s 2009 media reform. To investigate the attributes the media used, data were collected from three national newspapers’ online publications (Clarín, La Nación, and Página/12). Results from the analysis suggest that the newspapers used different attributes and tone based on their political leanings. Content analysis before and after selected court’s rulings on the new media law demonstrate that La Nación and Clarín tended to converge in the way they used attributes and tone. When the rulings went against the interests of Clarín and La Nación, both newspapers reacted negatively, in tone and attribute, relative to Página/12.

1995 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 412-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guo-Qiang Zhang ◽  
Sidney Kraus

This content analysis of Chinese newspapers before and after the Tiananmen Square protest examines the symbolic representation of the Student Movement of 1989 in China. The study reveals that top leaders manipulated symbols given to the media and that these symbols rigorously highlighted the dominant ideology of the Chinese Communist Party and isolated the movement participants. Officials attempted to legitimize the military suppression of the movement. The press construction of public opinion echoed the hegemonic process created and maintained by the party structure.


Author(s):  
Başak Yavçan ◽  
Hakan Övünç Ongur

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.


2014 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 207-222
Author(s):  
Danusa Santana Andrade

This study presents a content analysis of communication strategies of government of the Presidency of the Republic, a profile outlining the administration of Dilma Rousseff. The research is supported by the concepts of government communication, public opinion, hegemony and agenda-setting. The corpus of this study consists of tools and government communication chan- nels focusing on the presidency website. The study noted that while there is a predominance of political marketing in the past administrations, the administration of President Dilma through the portal, gave greater emphasis to government communication. The research is concluded by briefly discussing the way the presidency to communicate with society, with a different twist on the theme set.


2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
Ana Moreno Sesmero ◽  
Raquel Rodríguez Díaz

Resumen: La preocupación por la salud por parte de los españoles se ha hecho un hueco entre las áreas con­sideradas de mayor interés para los ciudadanos. Este hecho se ha traducido, desde una perspecti­va mediática, en mayor presencia de información sanitaria en los medios. En esta línea, se presen­tan resultados de una investigación que analiza la influencia de los más destacados laboratorios de la industria farmacéutica (Pfizer y Lilly) en introducir en la agenda informativa sus productos y hacer de ellos un tema informativo relevante. El estudio de caso se centra en la disfunción eréctil, que entra en la agenda mediática motivado por el lanzamiento de sus principales fármacos: Viagra y Cialis. El estudio contempla un análisis de contenido en El País y en El Mundo durante el año previo y posterior al lanzamiento de Viagra y Cialis. Los resultados evidencian que un año antes de comercializarse la información sobre la disfunción eréctil era escasa, aumentando cuando la fecha de lanzamiento se aproximaba o ya estaba en el mercado.Palabras clave: Empresa farmacéutica; agenda mediática; agenda setting; gabinete de pren­sa; salud.Abstract:  The Spaniards’ concern about health has carved a niche among the areas considered of major interest to citizens. This increased demand for health information in the media has from a media perspective. In this line with this, we present the results of an investigation that analyzes the in­fluence of two of the leading laboratories in the Spanish pharmaceutical industry (Pfizer and Lilly) in introducing their commercial products in the news agenda and make them a relevant news topic. Tracking the case study focuses on erectile dysfunction, health aspect comes into the media agen­da driven by the launch of two of its major drugs: Viagra and Cialis. The study considers a content analysis in El País and El Mundo in the period before and after the launch of Viagra and Cialis. The results reveal that one year before the release of these products the information related to erectile dysfunction was scarce, it increased as the date of launch of the medicine approached or when it was being marketed.Keywords: Pharmaceutical company; media agenda; agenda setting; press office; health.


Author(s):  
Martin C. Njoroge ◽  
Purity Kimani ◽  
Bernard J. Kikech

The way the media processes, frames, and passes on information either to the government or to the people affects the function of the political system. This chapter discusses the interaction between new media and ethnicity in Kenya, Africa. The chapter investigates ways in which the new media reinforced issues relating to ethnicity prior to Kenya’s 2007 presidential election. In demonstrating the nexus between new media and ethnicity, the chapter argues that the upsurge of ethnic animosity was chiefly instigated by new media’s influence. Prior to the election, politicians had mobilized their supporters along ethnic lines, and created a tinderbox situation. Thus, there is need for the new media in Kenya to help the citizens to redefine the status of ethnic relationships through the recognition of ethnic differences and the re-discovery of equitable ways to accommodate them; after all, there is more strength than weaknesses in these differences.


2015 ◽  
pp. 2132-2153
Author(s):  
Ilona Biernacka-Ligieza

This chapter is an analysis of the voting campaigns in Poland before the local elections in 2002, 2006, and 2010. The 2002 election was chosen as the starting point of the analysis because of the following facts: 1) those were the first direct local elections for mayors/municipality heads, and 2) the number of council members was reduced by law, all of which heralded an interesting competition. The high turnover rate of candidates for councillors across different regions of Poland in 2002, 2006, and 2010 local government elections has been attributed in part to the volatility caused by greater media and public interest in council issues. Many see the media as the most effective way to get voters' attention. Voters also treat media information about candidates as a very important source of knowledge about the candidate, which helps them to vote. However, it is important to check: 1) which medium is the most popular and effective source of information for local public debate; 2) what is the quality of information being published before and after the local elections; and 3) if the “politician activity” and “society response” is only clearly visible during the elections time or maybe “local debate” develops after the election time. The chapter is based on the qualitative and quantitative research. Surveys were carried out in 2002, 2006, and 2010.


2019 ◽  
pp. 175063521989461
Author(s):  
Hanan Badr

Eight years after the ‘Arab Spring’, literature is still marked by techno-deterministic interpretations. This article contributes to examining the role of agenda-building processes just before the outbreak of the Egyptian uprising in 2011 within authoritarian systems. Using the ‘hybrid media system’ concept, the article not only focuses on new media effects but, by including print media, it takes into consideration the media system in its entirety. Focusing on Khaled Said’s case as a counter-issue, the qualitative content analysis investigates how challengers in Egypt successfully pushed the media salience of police torture onto the mainstream media agenda. By reconstructing the issue cycle and intermedia spill-over effects, the author investigates the agenda-building processes within hybrid media systems in Arab authoritarian contexts. The qualitative content analysis includes 415 articles and posts from 12 diverse print, online and social media outlets between June 2010 and January 2011. The central finding is that successful spill-over effects occurred from online media to private print media, even though state media tried to ignore the issue. The coverage transferred the issue’s salience from new media into mainstream media, thus reaching wider non-politicized audiences. These proven interlinkages between old and new media are often an overlooked aspect in the literature on media and the ‘Arab Spring’.


2019 ◽  
pp. 123-131
Author(s):  
Akbar NURMATOV

Ушбу мақолада мустақиллик йилларида ОАВ ва медиа соҳасидаги тараққиёт ва унинг ҳозирги кундаги ҳолати кенг таҳлил этилади. Унда замонавий медиа назариялар, уларни тадқиқ қилиш муаммоси ўртага ташланади. Бундан ташқари замонавий инсон ҳаёти ва ижтимоий тараққиёт жараёнларида рақамли медианинг ўрни ҳам катта аҳамият касб этиши ҳақида фикр юритилади. Журналистиканинг фан сифатида узоқ вақт мустақил академик мақомга эга бўлмаганлиги, яъни илмий соҳанинг маълум қисмига, филология ва тарих фанлари таркибида бўлиб, университетларнинг фақат филология йўналишида фаолият юритиб келганлиги таъкидланади.Мақолада Ўзбекистон журналистикаси назарияси ҳам жаҳон масс медиаси билан трансформациялашув жараёнларини бошдан кечираётгани таҳлил этилади. Журналистика бўйича академик илм соҳасига янги-янги терминлар: “Прагматизм”, “Кун тартибини ўрнатиш” (Agenda-Setting), “Манфаат топмоқ ва эҳтиёжларни қондирмоқ” (Uses and Gratifications), “Ижтимоий таълим” (Social Learning), “Медиация назарияси” (Mediation Models) ва ҳоказоларнинг кириб келиши ва уларнинг ишлатилиши ҳақида мақолада фикр юритилади. Медиаиндустрия мавжуд бўлгандан бери техник инновациялар унинг тараққиётига тўртки бериб келаётганлиги, бу эса турли даврларда турлича кечганганлиги: босма дастгоҳдан тортиб, телеграф, кабел тармоқлари, телевидение, “бутун дунё ургимчак тури” ихтиросигача давом этиб келганганлиги таъкидланади. Янги медиани шакллантирган омиллар — Интернет, рақамли технологиялар ва назарий қарашларни соҳа назарияси ва амалиётида намоён бўлиши кўриб чиқилади.Янги медианинг асосий хусусияти, у тармоққа уланиши билан чексиз географик маконга эга бўлиши таҳлил этилади. Бугунги кунда янги медиа деганда рақамли, яъни интернет, гибрид рақамли, телекоммуникация, мобил телефон тармоқлари, ОАВ ташкилотининг контентини етказувчилари эканлиги айтилади.Мақолада журналистик таълимда бир эмас, бир неча хорижий тилларни чуқурлашган тарзда ўқитишни йўлга қўйиш зарурлиги, ўшанда булғуси мутахассислар жаҳон оммавий коммуникация ва янги медиа соҳасида юз бераётган ўзгаришлардан ўз вақтида бохабар бўлишлари, ёш олимларни янги медиа назарияларини тадқиқ этишга қизиқтириш ва бу борада янгиликларни олиб кирган олимларни ўз вақтида рағбатлантириб бориш каби хулоса ва тавсияларни берган. В статье представлен всесторонний обзор средств массовой информации и прогресса, достигнутого за годы независимости нашей страны. Возникают современные медиатеории,и необходимо проведение их исследования. Также считается, что роль цифровых медиа в процессе современной человеческой жизни и социального развитияогромна. Отмечается, что журналистика как наука давно не имеет самостоятельного академического статуса, то есть в определенной части научной области она выступает как часть филологии и истории, а университетская журналистика работает исключительно в области филологии.В статье анализируется теория журналистики Узбекистана и говорится о том, как глобальные медиа претерпевают трансформацию. Появились новые термины в академической журналистике: прагматизм, определение повестки дня (Agenda-Setting), поиск интереса и удовлетворение потребностей (Uses and Gratifications), социальное обучение, теория медиации (Mediation Models)и так далее. Отмечается, что технические инновации привели к развитию медиаиндустрии и она менялась в разные времена: от печатного станка до телеграфа, кабельных сетей, телевидения и изобретения «начального мира». В статье рассмотрено появление новых медиа —Интернета, цифровых технологий — и их влияние на теорию и практику отрасли.Главной особенностью новых медиа является то, что они будет иметь неограниченное географическое пространство при подключении к сети. Сегодня говорят, что новые медиа являются цифровыми провайдерами контента, а именно: Интернет, гибридная цифровая связь, телекоммуникации, сети мобильной связи и медиаорганизаций.В статье подчеркивается необходимость углубленного обучения более чем одному иностранному языку в области журналистского образования, при этом будущие профессионалы должны знать об изменениях, происходящих в мире средств массовой информации и новых медиа. This article provides a comprehensive overview of the media and the progress made since our country's independence. There are problems of modern media and their research. It is also believed that the role of digital media in the process of modern human life and social development is also huge. It is noted that journalism as a science has no independent academic status for a long time, that is, in a certain part of the scientific field it acts as a part of Philology and history, and University journalism works exclusively in the field of Philology.The article analyzes the theory of journalism in Uzbekistan and talks about how global media are undergoing transformation. There are new terms in academic journalism: Pragmatism, agenda Definition (Agenda-Setting), Search for interest and satisfaction of needs (Uses and Gratifications), Social learning, Theory of mediation (Mediation Models) and so on. It is noted that technical innovations have led to the development of the media industry and it has changed at different times: from the printing press to the Telegraph, cable networks, television and the invention of the "initial world". We will consider the emergence of new media — the Internet, digital technologies — and their impact on the theory and practice of the industry.The main feature of the new media is that they will have unlimited geographical space when connected to the network. Today it is said that new media are digital content providers, namely: Internet, hybrid digital communications, telecommunications, mobile networks and media organizations. The article emphasizes the need for in-depth training in more than one foreign language in the field of journalistic education, while future professionals should be aware of the changes taking place in the world of media and new media, encouraging young scientists to learn new theories of media.


2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (6) ◽  
pp. 1588-1612
Author(s):  
Enrico Borghetto ◽  
Julie Sevenans ◽  
Emiliano Grossman

Abstract One of the functions of parliamentary questions in modern legislatures is to pressure executives to pay attention to specific issues. But can these questions effectively influence executive decisions? There is surprisingly little empirical research in this area. Adopting an agenda-setting perspective, this article examines the extent to which issue attention in oral parliamentary questions influences the issues addressed in the weekly meetings of the Council of Ministers in three countries (Belgium, France and Portugal). Our findings suggest that the agenda-setting power of parliaments vis-à-vis the executive is usually weak in the contexts studied here. In Belgium, we find evidence that the executive does pick up on issues debated in parliament but that the media seems to play a crucial role in focusing attention. These conclusions testify to the dominance of the executive power in many Western democracies. The findings also demonstrate that agenda-setting patterns are more complex than single-country studies often suggest, and that comparative research is the way forward.


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