Since Trajan and Decebalus: online media reporting of the 2010 GayFest in Bucharest

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 268-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian E. Bartoş ◽  
Marius A. Balş ◽  
Israel Berger
Keyword(s):  
Online Media ◽  
Media Reporting

scholarly journals New perspective? Comparing Frame Occurrence in Online and Traditional News Media Reporting on Europe’s “Migration Crisis”

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian S. Czymara ◽  
Marijn van Klingeren
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
News Media ◽  
Print Media ◽  
Online News ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Media Reporting ◽  
Machine Learning Methods ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Key Events

News media have shape-shifted over the last decades, with rising online news suppliers and an increase in online news consumption. We examine how reporting on immigration differs between popular German online and print media over three crucial years of the so-called immigration crisis, from 2015 to 2017. We extend knowledge on framing of the crisis by examining a period covering start, peak and the time after the intake of refugees. Moreover, we establish whether online and print reporting differs in terms of both frame occurrence and variability. Crises generally create an opening for the formation of new perspectives and frames. These conditions provide an ideal test to see whether the focus of media reporting differs between online and print sources. We extract the dominant frames in almost 18,500 articles using machine-learning methods. While results indicate that many frames are, on average, more visible in either online or print media, these differences do not appear to follow a systematic logic. Regarding diversity of frame usage, we find that online media are, on average, more dominated by particular frames compared to print and that frame diversity is largely independent of important key events happening during our period of investigation.

scholarly journals Social Media Responses to Online Suicide-Related News Articles

Crisis ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Tiana Edwards ◽  
Michelle Torok ◽  
Lauren McGillivray ◽  
Trent Ford ◽  
Katherine Mok ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Random Sample ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Reporting Guidelines ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Media Reporting ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Contagion Effects ◽  
Digital News ◽  
Media Responses

Abstract. Background: Responsible media reporting of suicide is important to prevent contagion effects. Online media reporting is increasingly becoming the primary source of news information for many people. Aims: This study aimed to assess compliance with responsible media reporting guidelines, and whether social media responses were associated with compliance. Method: A random sample of Australian digital news articles over a 9-month period were coded for compliance to Mindframe suicide reporting guidelines. Social media responses (number of shares and number of comments) were collected via Facebook. Results: From the sample of 275 articles, articles were compliant with a median of seven of the nine recommendations. Articles compliant with more than seven recommendations were shared more frequently (median: 93 vs. 38 shares, p = .017) but no difference was observed in the number of comments (median: 0 vs. 0, p = .340). Limitations: Other factors associated with individual events and articles are also likely to contribute to the response on social media. Although no difference in the number of comments was observed, the nature of these comments may differ. Conclusion: Improved understanding of how to maximize dissemination of positive messages may help minimize contagion effects.

scholarly journals Online media reporting of suicidal behaviour in Ghana: Analysis of adherence to the WHO guidelines

2020 ◽  
pp. 002076402091978
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Nii-Boye Quarshie ◽  
Johnny Andoh-Arthur ◽  
Kwaku Oppong Asante ◽  
Winifred Asare-Doku
Keyword(s):  
Suicidal Behaviour ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
World Health ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Who Guidelines ◽  
Media Reporting ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Media Outlet ◽  
Publicly Owned

Background: Irresponsible media reporting of suicide is a potential risk for copycat suicide. There is a paucity of studies from sub-Saharan Africa on the quality of media reporting of suicide. Objectives: We assessed the compliance of Ghanaian online media outlets with the World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines for media reporting of suicide. Methods: We searched 10 local media outlets with strong online presence in Ghana, to identify suicide-related news reports from 2000 through 2019. We applied summative content analysis and chi-square [Formula: see text] test to the data. Results: We included 288 news reports, of which 261 (90.6%) were completed suicides, 7 (2.4%) were attempted suicides and 20 (6.9%) were homicide suicides. Most of the news reports failed to comply with the WHO guidelines: 92.7% mentioned the specific method of the suicide act, 82.6% included ‘suicide’ in the headline and 55.6% included photos of the victims. The [Formula: see text] tests indicated that privately owned media outlets were more likely than publicly owned to post a photo of the victim, [Formula: see text] = 17.37, p < .001, and report the incident location in the headline, [Formula: see text] = 15.00, p < .001. However, generally, there were no statistically significant relationships between the quality of reporting and media outlet ownership. Each of the 288 reports failed to mention any of the potentially helpful features recommended by the WHO guidelines. Conclusion: Regardless of the ownership of the media outlet (whether private or publicly owned), mostly, the online reportage of suicidal behaviour in Ghana deviates sharply from the international recommended best practice by the WHO.

scholarly journals HIV cure research: print and online media reporting in Australia

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 229-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Power ◽  
Bianca Fileborn ◽  
Gary W. Dowsett ◽  
Jayne Lucke ◽  
Graham Brown ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Online Media ◽  
Hiv Cure ◽  
Media Reporting ◽  
Hiv Cure Research

scholarly journals New perspective? Comparing frame occurrence in online and traditional news media reporting on Europe’s “Migration Crisis”

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian S. Czymara ◽  
Marijn van Klingeren
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Print Media ◽  
Online News ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Topic Modelling ◽  
Media Reporting ◽  
News Consumption ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Key Events

Abstract News media have transformed over the last decades, there being increasing numbers of online news suppliers and an increase in online news consumption. We examine how reporting on immigration differs between popular German online and print media over three crucial years of the so-called immigration crisis from 2015 to 2017. This study extends knowledge on the framing of the crisis by examining a period covering the start, peak, and time after the intake of refugees. Moreover, we establish whether online and print reporting differs in terms of both frame occurrence and variability. The period of the crisis provided an ideal test to see whether the focus of media reporting differed between online and print sources. Employing a most- similar- cases design based on (autonomous) online and print versions of three major German news outlets, we extract the dominant frames in almost 18,500 articles using algorithm-based topic modelling. While results indicate that many frames are more visible in either online or print media, these differences often do not follow theoretical expectations. Furthermore, online media are dominated by particular frames and, hence, show less diversity than print media. However, important key events happening during our period of investigation do not affect overall diversity of frames.

scholarly journals "Did you read about Berlin?" Terrorist attacks, online media reporting and support for refugees in Germany

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander W. Schmidt-Catran ◽  
Christian S. Czymara
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Attitude Change ◽  
Online News ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Media Reporting ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Websites ◽  
Strong Focus ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Media Data

We analyze whether the Islamist terror attack on the Christmas market in Berlin in 2016 had an impact on public opinion toward immigration in general and, since the attacker has entered Germany to apply for asylum, toward refugees in particular. An analysis of this natural experiment reveals a negative shift regarding the latter, while no differences are observed for the former. To shed more light on the driver of attitude change, we combine these findings with a quantitative content analysis of online media reporting about refugees before and after the attack. Mass media have long been considered to have an impact on exclusionary attitudes toward ethnic minorities. However, empirical evidence on this relationship remains largely anecdotal. We draw upon unsupervised machine learning to quantify the developments in reporting in three popular German online news websites. Results reveal that the attack had significant impact on media reporting on these websites. However, the strong focus on the attack was only short lived, quickly decreasing already in the second week after the attack. Linking media data to the public opinion data reveals no clear connection between reporting and attitudes. In contrast to theoretical expectations, descriptive evidence even shows that both follow almost opposite trends, since people changed their attitudes only weeks after the attack. We discuss potential explanations of these, at first sight, counterintuitive findings.

scholarly journals “Did you read about Berlin?” Terrorist attacks, online media reporting and support for refugees in Germany

Soziale Welt ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 71 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 201-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander W. Schmidt-Catran ◽  
Christian S. Czymara
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Attitude Change ◽  
Online News ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Media Reporting ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Websites ◽  
Strong Focus ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Media Data

We analyze whether the Islamist terror attack on the Christmas market in Berlin in 2016 had an impact on public opinion toward immigration in general and, since the attacker has entered Germany to apply for asylum, toward refugees in particular. An analysis of this natural experiment reveals a negative shift regarding the latter, while no differences are observed for the former. To shed more light on the driver of attitude change, we combine these findings with a quantitative content analysis of online media reporting about refugees before and after the attack. Mass media have long been considered to have an impact on exclusionary attitudes toward ethnic minorities. However, empirical evidence on this relationship remains largely anecdotal. We draw upon unsupervised machine learning to quantify the developments in reporting in three popular German online news websites. Results reveal that the attack had significant impact on media reporting on these websites. However, the strong focus on the attack was only short lived, quickly decreasing already in the second week after the attack. Linking media data to the public opinion data reveals no clear connection between reporting and attitudes. In contrast to theoretical expectations, descriptive evidence even shows that both follow almost opposite trends, since people changed their attitudes only weeks after the attack. We discuss potential explanations of these, at first sight, counterintuitive findings.

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