Justification and knowledge

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 323-344
Author(s):  
Hamideh Molaei
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Political Knowledge ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Political Talk ◽  
Opinion Expression ◽  
High Level

Abstract Everyday political talk, a significant type of political participation, is an important democratic activity. In this regard, the primary objective of this paper is to investigate the level of justification and knowledge in Indonesians’ informal political talk on Facebook. While previous studies addressed different aspects of informal political discussions such as their impact on political knowledge, influence on public opinion expression and relationship with news media use, they do not provide guidelines for analysing the modality of them. This study proposes an analytical framework for examining the users’ level of justification and knowledge. A qualitative content analysis reveals that only a small number of comments had a high level of justification and knowledge. In addition, some indications of the influence of Indonesian mainstream news media content were found on people’s arguments in discussions.

scholarly journals By any memes necessary? Small political acts, incidental exposure and memes during the 2017 UK general election

2020 ◽  
pp. 136914812093059
Author(s):  
Liam McLoughlin ◽  
Rosalynd Southern
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Political Knowledge ◽  
Political Campaigns ◽  
General Election ◽  
Political Information ◽  
Incidental Exposure ◽  
Policy Information ◽  
High Level

Following the 2017 UK general election, there was much debate about the so-called ‘youthquake’, or increase in youth turnout (YouGov). Some journalists claimed it was the ‘. . . memes wot won it’. This article seeks to understand the role of memes during political campaigns. Combining meta-data and content analysis, this article aims to answer three questions. First, who creates political memes? Second, what is the level of engagement with political memes and who engages with them? Finally, can any meaningful political information be derived from memes? The findings here suggest that by far the most common producers of memes were citizens suggesting that memes may be a form of citizen-initiated political participation. There was a high level of engagement with memes with almost half a million shares in our sample. However, the level of policy information in memes was low suggesting they are unlikely to increase political knowledge.

scholarly journals It's Crowded at the Bottom

2022 ◽  
pp. 49-72
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Fetterolf
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Response Time ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Search Results ◽  
High Level

Trust, visibility, and the deepening of existing inequalities are major themes within the platform care work literature. However, no study to date has applied these themes to an analysis of worker profiles. I investigate both how workers communicate trustworthiness through their profiles on Care.com, the world’s largest care work platform, and which of these profiles are rendered more and less visible to clients. Through a qualitative content analysis of profiles (n=60) sampled from the top and bottom search results in three different US zip codes, I find that visibility is often related to connectivity, response time, and positive reviews, and who is rendered visible mirrors preexisting inequalities. The language of “passion” for the job is common across top and bottom profiles, indicating a contradiction between the deemphasis on professionalization and the high level of connectivity and responsiveness present in top profiles.

Avatars of Eurocentrism in international political economy textbooks: The case of the Middle East and North Africa

Politics ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 026339572110547
Author(s):  
Hannes Baumann
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Middle East ◽  
North Africa ◽  
International Political Economy ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Other World ◽  
The Ideal

The project to decolonise the curriculum revolves around rethinking margin and centre of the discipline. To the extent that the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is at the margin of international political economy (IPE), it is the ideal entry point to decolonise the curriculum. I conduct a summative content analysis of the six most commonly used IPE textbooks. To what extent do they reproduce or challenge Eurocentric tropes in their treatment of MENA? The region is largely absent from IPE textbooks, suggesting it is accorded little agency in the making of the global political economy. To the extent that it is ‘brought in’, it is ‘ghettoised’ in a specialist chapter. A qualitative content analysis suggests the authors avoid overt orientalism but exceptionalise the region as a failure with too little democracy and economic growth and too much war. They acknowledge the role of continued colonialism in these failures but also deny agency of the colonised. They miss an opportunity to de-provincialise the Middle East by fostering ‘ecologies of knowledge’. The article provides an analytical framework for research on how IPE textbooks treat other world regions and of syllabi.

scholarly journals Are newspapers’ news stories becoming more alike? Media content diversity in Belgium, 1983–2013

Journalism ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (12) ◽  
pp. 1665-1683 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Beckers ◽  
Andrea Masini ◽  
Julie Sevenans ◽  
Miriam van der Burg ◽  
Julie De Smedt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Media Ownership ◽  
Similar Profile ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Content Diversity ◽  
Group Concentration ◽  
Over Time

In recent years, communication scholars have expressed concerns about the diversity of news media content. While we live in an era of ‘news abundance’ – the number of outlets and channels has increased enormously – the available news is argued to have become more of the same, but has it? As empirical evidence is lacking, this article verifies whether newspapers in Flanders (Belgium), over time, have indeed become less diverse in terms of the news stories they cover. Based on data from a longitudinal content analysis of nine Flemish newspapers at four points in time (1983, 1993, 2003, and 2013), it shows that (1) newspapers, in general, have not become more alike in terms of news stories; (2) newspapers with a similar profile (elite/popular) are less diverse than newspapers with dissimilar profiles; and (3) newspapers owned by the same media group (concentration of media ownership) are more alike than independently owned newspapers.

scholarly journals The ethics of news media reporting on coronavirus humor

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 305-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan Miczo
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Early Phase ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Online News ◽  
Ethical Principles ◽  
Media Reporting ◽  
News Stories ◽  
The Media

Abstract This essay explores the news media’s portrayal of humor during the early phase of COVID-19-related lockdowns. Examining a collection of online news articles reveals the media tended to frame the issue as an ethical one (e.g., “is it okay to laugh at the coronavirus?”). After reviewing work on humor ethics, a qualitative content analysis of 20 news media articles is presented. Three issues from the news stories are identified, allowing comparison of the media’s claims against the ethical principles articulated. The essay concludes with a consideration of how news media’s coverage of humor fits within a broader pandemic narrative.

scholarly journals Public Participation in Smart-City Governance: A Qualitative Content Analysis of Public Comments in Urban China

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhe Gao ◽  
Siqin Wang ◽  
Jiang Gu
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Urban China ◽  
Private Governance ◽  
Negative Comments ◽  
Urban Problems

Public participation is crucial in the process of urban governance in smart-city initiatives to enable urban planners and policy makers to take account of the real public needs. Our study aims to develop an analytical framework using citizen-centred qualitative data to analyse urban problems and identify the areas most needed for urban governance. Taking a Chinese megacity as the study area, we first utilise a web-crawling tool to retrieve public comments from an online comment board and employ the Baidu Application Programming Interfaces and a qualitative content analysis for data reclassification. We then analyse the urban problems reflected by negative comments in terms of their statistical and spatial distribution, and the associative factors to explain their formation. Our findings show that urban problems are dominantly related to construction and housing, and most frequently appear in industry-oriented areas and newly-developed economic development zones on the urban fringe, where the reconciling of government-centered governance and private governance by real estate developers and property management companies are most needed. Areas with higher land price and a higher proportion of aged population tend to have less urban problems, while various types of civil facilities affect the prevalence of urban problems differently.

scholarly journals De-contextualisation fuels controversy: the double-edged sword of humour in a hybrid media environment

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 49-64
Author(s):  
Sara Ödmark
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Young Women ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Media Framing ◽  
Social Boundaries ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
The Media

Humour has a unique way of delineating social boundaries, and comedy can function as a double-edged sword; it can strengthen bonds and bring people together, or divide through provocation and violation of social norms. As a consequence, humour controversies are telling events that contain the possibility of highlighting cultural and political sensibilities – even more in the current political landscape, with increasing media fragmentation. This study analysed four humour functions through the theoretical lens of media framing, via three cases of humorous content that caused controversies in the Swedish news media. These cases were one divisive radio roast of a politician, one TV satire segment that was received as racist, and one audio podcast with young women who challenged a Swedish political consensus climate. Framing is the power of media to select and highlight certain aspects of issues, and by extension, shape public opinion. By subjecting the media coverage of these three controversies to a qualitative content analysis, the framing was examined and discussed in the light of four humour functions: identification, clarification, enforcement, and differentiation (Meyer 2000). Furthermore, the study examined the media context and the role it played in the framing of the controversies. One main finding was that the most uniting humour function of identification could be transformed into the most dividing humour function of differentiation through a shift in media context.

Production perspectives on audience participation in television: On, beyond and behind the screen

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 1140-1154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marleen te Walvaart ◽  
Alexander Dhoest ◽  
Hilde Van den Bulck
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Production Process ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Audience Participation ◽  
Television Programs ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Do So ◽  
The Way

This article adds an empirical production perspective to the widely discussed concept of audience participation. It studies how audiences are integrated in the production of television and what motivations producers have to do so. Increased opportunities for audiences to produce or contribute to media content may change the way television is produced, as audience perspectives can be more easily integrated. Theoretically, the notions of corporate and political participation are discussed as a basis for a qualitative content analysis, focusing on a range of nonfictional television programs in Flanders, combined with in-depth interviews with editors-in-chief to study their motivations, looking at audience participation on screen, beyond the screen and behind the screen. Results show that producers mostly integrate the audience in the production process within a corporate understanding of participation, although some producers have integrated political forms of participation as well. However, rather than focusing on participation, a central motivation for producers is to engage the audience.

scholarly journals Shaping the perception of African conflicts through framing: A case study of the African diasporic press in the UK

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 421-433
Author(s):  
Ola Ogunyemi
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Content ◽  
International News ◽  
Advertising Revenue ◽  
Dynamic Relationship ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Background Context

Framing studies consistently conclude that the international news media represent African conflicts negatively and stereotypically. Owing to their focus on media content, however, most framing studies fail to examine the dynamic relationship between journalists’ cognitive role (what they say they do) and their practice role (what they actually do). Using parallel content analysis, this study compares what African diaspora journalists write about African conflicts with what they say about them. The analysis reveals that they show a preference for a factual style and a governing frame, and less preference for a judgmental style, which aligns with what they say, and a slight preference for background context which marginally aligns with what they say. However, low newsroom budgets and advertising revenue could undermine their attempts to de-Westernize the portrayal of African conflicts.

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