Sourcing Pandemic News: A Cross-National Computational Analysis of Mainstream Media Coverage of COVID-19 on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram

Previous research suggested that news media coverage tone tends to become more negative for successful women in politics (but not for successful men) when compared with less successful and well-known women. This study tests this in 17 countries. Specifically, it examines relationships between greater parliamentary representation of women and the coverage tone in articles on women in that country through a computational analysis of millions of persons’ names in more than 1,000 newspapers. Growth in parliamentary representation of women is associated with more negative coverage, lending support for explanations that suggest reactionary responses to perceived breaching of gendered social hierarchies.

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Media Coverage and Solidarity after Tragedies: The Reporting of School Shootings in Two Nations

Comparative Sociology ◽

10.1163/15691330-12341248 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 11 (6) ◽

pp. 845-874 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

James Hawdon ◽

Atte Oksanen ◽

James Hawdon ◽

Atte Oksanen ◽

...

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Media Coverage ◽

New York Times ◽

Virginia Tech ◽

School Shootings ◽

Considerable Research ◽

National Comparison ◽

The Media ◽

Insight Into ◽

Cross National

Abstract Although considerable research analyzes the media coverage of school shootings, there is a lack of cross-national comparative studies. Yet, a cross-national comparison of the media coverage of school shootings can provide insight into how this coverage can affect communities. Our research focuses on the reporting of the school shootings at Virginia Tech in the U.S. and Jokela and Kauhajoki in Finland. Using 491 articles from the New York Times and Helsingin Sanomat published within a month of each shooting we investigate how reports vary between the nations and among the tragedies. We investigate if one style of framing a tragedy, the use of a “tragic frame,” may contribute to differences in the communities’ response to the events.

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From Ni putes ni soumises to #metoo in the French press: Between the hegemony of Whiteness and the Otherness of Muslims

French Cultural Studies ◽

10.1177/09571558211021704 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 095715582110217

Author(s):

Marion Dalibert

Keyword(s):

Middle Class ◽

News Media ◽

Media Coverage ◽

White Women ◽

Post Colonial ◽

Mainstream Media ◽

The Media ◽

Cultural Power ◽

Majority Groups ◽

Feminist Movements

By questioning the media coverage of the seven feminist movements that have received most publicity in the French mainstream media since the 2000s, this article shows that the media narrative regarding feminism perpetuates the national metanarrative produced in generalist newspapers. This metanarrative reinforces the power of majority groups by portraying them as inherently egalitarian, while those with the least economic, social, political and cultural power, such as Muslim men, are portrayed as the most sexist. It also highlights that racialised collectives are still socially invisible or limited to a visibility that is framed by representations rooted in a (post) colonial imaginary. Non-white women are in fact presented as fundamentally submissive, while (upper)-middle-class white women are the only ones associated with emancipation, which is significant of white and bourgeois hegemony at work in the French news media.

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Violence by any other name: constructing immigration crises, the threat of the sick refugee and rationalising immigration detention through moral panic

Critical and Radical Social Work ◽

10.1332/204986021x16355210292075 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Sarah A. Adjekum ◽

Ameil J. Joseph

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Media Coverage ◽

State Intervention ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Health It ◽

Immigration Detention ◽

Mainstream Media ◽

Health Aid ◽

Political Conditions

This article is concerned with the employment of pathologising discourses of mental health and trauma by the mainstream media as they pertain to the treatment of migrants in detention in Canada. Using critical discourse analysis, this research contrasts mainstream media coverage of four major publications on immigration detention. It explores the media’s role in the (re)creation of refugee discourse, and as a purveyor of racial ideology, which problematises people of colour and demands state intervention in the form of mental health aid. The resulting discourse pathologises the refugee identity and simultaneously obscures the socio-political conditions and violence that necessitates their departure from their home countries. As refugee discourse is infused with biomedical understandings of mental health, it also legitimises the nation state’s practice of coercive social control for these populations through detention.

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Beyond the “Conflict” Paradigm

American Journal of Islam and Society ◽

10.35632/ajis.v33i2.906 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 33 (2) ◽

pp. 90-101

Author(s):

Aziz Douai

Keyword(s):

Media Coverage ◽

Culture Media ◽

The Other ◽

Western World ◽

Clash Of Civilizations ◽

The West ◽

Mainstream Media ◽

Power Game ◽

Nuanced Understanding ◽

Zero Sum

Western-Muslim relations have experienced long periods of peaceful coexistence,fruitful co-operation, and close interactions that have enriched both civilizations.And yet an alien observer of our mainstream media could be forgivenfor concluding that “Islam” and the “West” can never co-exist in peace becausethey seem to have nothing in common. In fact, the intermittent violence interruptingthese long peaceful interactions – from the Crusades to the “War onTerror” – has constituted the core of most mainstream media coverage and“scholarship” purporting to “study” and “explain” these relations.In a zero-sum power game, these dominant frameworks emphasize thatsuch a “clash” is inevitable. Samuel Huntington’s “Clash of Civilizations”theory has become the best known articulation and deployment of “conflict”as an “explanatory” framework for understanding current and past Muslim-West interactions. Simply put, existential, cultural, and religious chasmshave put the Muslim world on a collision course with the western world, aproblem that is most exacerbated by the presence of “Islam” and Muslimcommunities in western societies (Huntington, 1993).1 His thesis appearsto ignore each civilization’s internal diversity and pluralism and to be willfullyoblivious to the inter- and intra-civilizational interactions and centuriesoldco-existence, as Edward Said argued in his rebuttal: “Clash of Ignorance”(2001). Beyond the broadest generalizations, after all, what do “Islam” and the“West” mean? How long can we afford to “ignore” the “porousness” and “ambiguity”of their geographical and cultural borders? Is “conflict” between thesetwo realms inevitable? How about the centuries-old dialogue between thesecivilizations, the “Self” and the “Other”? How can researchers and intellectualsdeploy their inter-disciplinary insights and scholarship to address both thereal and the perceived civilizational “chasms”?These questions constitute the overarching themes of some very importantscholarship published in three recent books: Engaging the Other: Public Policyand Western-Muslim Intersections, edited by Karim H. Karim and MahmoudEid; Re-Imagining the Other: Culture, Media, and Western-Muslim Intersections,edited by Mahmoud Eid and Karim H. Karim; and the Routledge Handbookof Islam in the West, edited by Roberto Tottoli. With rich methodologicalapproaches, broad theoretical lenses, and diverse topics, these three books offera unique platform to build both a holistic and nuanced understanding of thecontingencies and intricacies surrounding “Islam” and the “West.” ...

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Framing international crises: a comparative content analysis of media texts on the collapse of Venezuela

10.32920/ryerson.14657571 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Berti Olinto

Keyword(s):

Content Analysis ◽

Latin American ◽

Media Coverage ◽

Political Crisis ◽

International Crises ◽

National Interests ◽

Mainstream Media ◽

News Agencies ◽

Media Discourses ◽

Comparative Content

This research explores mainstream and diasporic media coverage and discourses surrounding the Venezuelan economic and political crisis from late March 2017 until early May 2018. A comparative content analysis was applied to a total of 256 news articles, editorials, and stories from the Toronto Star, one of Canada’s largest newspapers, and from La Portada Canadá, a Spanish-language Latin American newspaper in Toronto. The results demonstrated diasporic media’s appropriation of journalistic biases such as human impact, dramatization, and national interests and the reframing of dominant discourses from international news agencies about the Venezuelan crisis. Whereas there are significant similarities between both media’s content regarding the crisis, La Portada Canadá stressed the transnational component of the Venezuelan diaspora through discourses about political and civic engagement in Canada. The Toronto Star focused more on the economic and political components of the crisis, which are closely linked to the country’s national agenda. Keywords: diasporic media, mainstream media, media coverage, media discourses, international crises, humanitarian crisis, Venezuela, Toronto

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Young adults know that their issues are not represented in the news: Israeli young adults and mainstream news media

Journal of Information Communication and Ethics in Society ◽

10.1108/jices-02-2021-0026 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Benny Nuriely ◽

Moti Gigi ◽

Yuval Gozansky

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Young Adults ◽

Content Analysis ◽

Social Relations ◽

News Media ◽

Media Coverage ◽

Online News ◽

Content Type ◽

Mainstream Media ◽

The Media

Purpose This paper aims to analyze the ways socio-economic issues are represented in mainstream news media and how it is consumed, understood and interpreted by Israeli young adults (YAs). It examines how mainstream media uses neo-liberal discourse, and the ways YAs internalize this ethic, while simultaneously finding ways to overcome its limitations. Design/methodology/approach This was a mixed methods study. First, it undertook content analysis of the most popular Israeli mainstream news media among YAs: the online news site Ynet and the TV Channel 2 news. Second, the authors undertook semi-structured in-depth interviews with 29 Israeli YAs. The analysis is based on an online survey of 600 young Israelis, aged 18–35 years. Findings Most YAs did not perceive mainstream media as enabling a reliable understanding of the issues important to them. The content analysis revealed that self-representation of YAs is rare, and that their issues were explained, and even resolved, by older adults. Furthermore, most of YAs' problems in mainstream news media were presented using a neo-liberal perspective. Finally, from the interviews, the authors learned that YAs did not find information that could help them deal with their most pressing economic and social issue, in the content offered by mainstream media. For most of them, social media overcomes these shortcomings. Originality/value Contrary to research that has explored YAs’ consumerism of new media outlets, this article explores how YAs in Israel are constructed in the media, as well as the way in which YAs understand mainstream and new social media coverage of the issues most important to them. Using media content analysis and interviews, the authors found that Young Adults tend to be ambivalent toward media coverage. They understand the lack of media information: most of them know that they do not learn enough from the media. This acknowledgment accompanies their tendency to internalize the neo-liberal logic and conservative Israeli national culture, in which class and economic redistribution are largely overlooked. Mainstream news media uses neo-liberal discourse, and young adults internalize this logic, while simultaneously finding ways to overcome the limitations this discourse offers. They do so by turning to social media, mainly Facebook. Consequently, their behavior maintains the logic of the market, while also developing new social relations, enabled by social media.

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The Funhouse Mirror

Blogging in the Global Society ◽

10.4018/978-1-60960-744-9.ch004 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 55-71 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Marie Hardin ◽

Bu Zhong ◽

Thomas F. Corrigan

Keyword(s):

Title Ix ◽

Media Coverage ◽

Female Athletes ◽

Professional Sports ◽

Federally Funded ◽

Mainstream Media ◽

Survey Results ◽

Education Amendments Of 1972 ◽

Sports Commentary ◽

Masculine Hegemony

Depictions of professional sports and athletes in U.S. mainstream media have generally been indicted for reinforcing masculine hegemony and ignoring women’s and amateur sports. This study explored the attitudes and values of independent sports bloggers in relationship to gender and, more specifically, to Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex in federally funded institutions. A survey of 200 independent sports bloggers was conducted to determine whether the sports blogosphere provides an alternative to depictions of sports offered through mainstream media coverage. Survey results demonstrate that the sports blogosphere has yet to become a truly alternative, egalitarian space for sports commentary. The analysis suggests that increased participation of female bloggers who are willing to cover female athletes and advocate for women’s sports can alleviate the situation. Otherwise, the sports blogosphere will merely replicate old-media values.

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Media, Social Media, and the Securitization of Mental Health Problems in Nepal

Research Anthology on Mental Health Stigma, Education, and Treatment ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-8544-3.ch049 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 838-859

Author(s):

Sudeep Uprety ◽

Rajesh Ghimire

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Social Media ◽

Media Coverage ◽

Mental Health Problems ◽

Health Problems ◽

Health Issues ◽

Mainstream Media ◽

Mental Health Issues ◽

Securitization Theory ◽

Journalistic Professionalism

This chapter attempts to unfold the trend and nature of mainstream and social media coverage on mental health issues in Nepal through suicide case of Yama Buddha, a popular musician. Using the securitization theory and concepts of threat construction and threat neutralization, major findings through content analysis and key informant interviews reveal reputed mainstream media following cautious route towards threat neutralization and therefore, maintaining a level of journalistic professionalism. However, especially in the other online media, blogs, and other social media, there were sensationalist words and tone used to attract the audience, triggering various sorts of emotional responses, thereby fulfilling the act of securitization. Major recommendations from this chapter include more awareness and understanding about the nature and type of mental health problems; capacity building of journalists and media professionals to better understand and report on mental health problems; development and proper implementation of media guidelines on reporting mental health issues.

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The igniter and the megaphone: Perceptions of Facebook’s role in activism

Convergence The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies ◽

10.1177/1354856518792869 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 26 (3) ◽

pp. 577-592 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Azi Lev-On

Keyword(s):

Significant Role ◽

Media Coverage ◽

Added Value ◽

The Internet ◽

Mainstream Media ◽

Early Stages ◽

Public Recognition ◽

Central Regions

The study examines perceptions of the significance and roles of new and mainstream media in protests, using interviews with 31 individuals involved in the 2011 protests in Israel: Activists and Campaigners, who organized the protests ‘on the ground’; Techies, who operated the digital presence of the protests; and Journalists, who covered the protests. Findings indicate that the perceptions of media’s significance and roles varied greatly. While Techies attributed a significant role to the Internet, Activists and Journalists placed greater emphasis on the enduring dominance of mainstream media. In addition, interviewees argued that the Internet, particularly Facebook, has a greater added value in supporting protests associated with peripheral than central regions. Finally, most interviewees argued that the Internet, particularly Facebook, was highly significant to the success of the protest in its early stages, but mainstream media coverage is necessary for achieving wider public recognition and legitimacy in subsequent stages.

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