The media agenda-setting on Indonesian forest fires: Content analysis study on three Indonesia online news 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 ethics of news media reporting on coronavirus humor

Humor - International Journal of Humor Research ◽

10.1515/humor-2021-0011 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 34 (2) ◽

pp. 305-327 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

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.

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Eventless news: Blindspots in journalism and the 'long tail' of news content

Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies ◽

10.1386/ajms_00003_1 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 291-310 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Helle Sjøvaag ◽

Nina Kvalheim

Keyword(s):

Content Analysis ◽

News Media ◽

Agenda Setting ◽

Social Issues ◽

International Crime ◽

Long Tail ◽

Bottom Up ◽

News Content ◽

News Value ◽

The Media

The news media is frequently criticized for ignoring, missing or overseeing important, socio-politically relevant news. Such journalistic blindspots are often part of the 'long' news agenda, requiring resources, in-depth knowledge and investigation. In this article, we analyse what news topics are most infrequently covered by the media ‐ the micro-categories of content analysis. A content analysis of 70 news outlets in Norway (n=8182) reveals that the news topics receiving less than 1 per cent of coverage are social issues, international crime and the economy. This bottom-up perspective demonstrates that under-reported news constitutes predominantly 'eventless' issues, sustaining event-centredness as an agenda-setting news value. Finding that more than half of the content categories in the Norwegian corpus receive less than 1 per cent coverage, we propose, however, that the sum of these blindspots engenders a 'long tail' of journalistic coverage that together facilitates news diversity.

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Candidate Choice in Political Advertising: What Determines Who Gets Attention?

World Political Science ◽

10.2202/1935-6226.1099 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Jonas Lefevere ◽

Régis Dandoy

Keyword(s):

Content Analysis ◽

Political Parties ◽

Mass Media ◽

Agenda Setting ◽

Political Advertisements ◽

Media Agenda ◽

The Media ◽

Dominant Actor ◽

Run Up ◽

Regional Elections

In the run up to the elections, parties have several ways of communicating with voters. In this article, we focus on one piece of the puzzle: advertisements of political parties in the mass media. More specifically, we are interested in the choice of candidates within these advertisements. In countries where parties are the dominant actor, they are faced with a choice: not all candidates can be promoted in the campaign, as this would be too costly and inefficient. Thus, the first question we want to answer is which factors determine candidate choice in political advertisements? Secondly, does candidate choice in political advertisements have an effect on the subsequent coverage in media as well? Agenda setting research has shown that as far as issues are concerned, advertisements do set the media agenda. We use a content analysis of seven magazines and newspapers that was collected in the run up to the 2009 regional elections in Flanders, the largest region of Belgium. The results indicate that both internal party hierarchy, as well as external visibility of candidates determines candidate choice in political advertisements. Furthermore, the agenda setting effect of political advertisements is confirmed as well.

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Environmental Realities: Evaluating Climate Change Coverage of Philippine Online News Media

Jurnal Studi Komunikasi (Indonesian Journal of Communications Studies) ◽

10.25139/jsk.v3i1.1293 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Marc Agon Pacoma

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Content Analysis ◽

News Media ◽

Human Life ◽

Relative Increase ◽

Online News ◽

Paris Agreement ◽

The Media ◽

Information Media

Climate change is one of the most pressing issues at the present time, imposing great threats to human life and society. With issues surrounding climactic information, media seemed to play the most important role in addressing this problem. The inadequacy of researches on climactic coverage by media had motivated the researcher to embark on this exploration. This content analysis compared daily coverage of online news portals (Philippine Daily Inquirer, Manila Bulletin and Philippine Star) on climate change and climactic science-related issues from 2015-2016. The results indicated that there was a relative increase on climate change coverage by the media in a span of two years. Environmental frames, government sources, the Paris Agreement, the news section, and wired photos were the dominant themes that emerged during the coding process, which reflects and resonates similar findings of research inquiries on climate change coverage.

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The Intermedia Agenda Setting of Interpersonal Violence Cases in the Malaysian Mainstream Online News, Independent News Portal and Social Media

Jurnal Komunikasi Malaysian Journal of Communication ◽

10.17576/jkmjc-2021-3703-11 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 37 (3) ◽

pp. 186-207

Author(s):

Norizzati Saifuddin ◽

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Hasmah Zanuddin ◽

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Content Analysis ◽

Agenda Setting ◽

Interpersonal Violence ◽

Online News ◽

Online Media ◽

Analysis Study ◽

Agenda Setter ◽

Intermedia Agenda Setting ◽

Chi Square Analysis

Media plays an important role in illustrating the issue of interpersonal violence. Online media such as news portals and social media platforms are highly used in spreading the information virtually and digitally. However, the issue of interpersonal violence is still growing and has recently shown a significant spike. There are not many studies analyzing the exchange of information between these platforms digitally due to online news portals, which are operated by traditional media, and social media being treated as different entities. Yet, real-time posting may lead to an exchange of contents as they follow each other's agenda. A study on intermedia agenda-setting (IAS) - through issues published, agenda-setter, and sentiment - will enable us to understand how agenda setting plays a role in illustrating the issue of interpersonal violence. A content analysis study was conducted on six selected online media, consisting of mainstream and independent news portals and social media. A total of 815 samples of online news, articles and social media postings from five distinct issues were extracted to investigate the content and every 40 relevant comments from each news item were selected to identify how public opinion the portrayal of the issue in these selected online media. In-depth interview was conducted to eight field experts to gain clarification of the result from the content analysis study. Chi-square analysis on three hypotheses were significantly associated. Results revealed that public officials played a major role as the agenda setter. The Star which represents mainstream online news led in setting the agenda on interpersonal violence issues while Facebook which represents social media followed next in setting the agenda. During the process of intermedia agenda-setting, negative sentiments were hugely expressed and exchanged which indicated the uneasiness, feeling disturbed and dissatisfaction on the interpersonal violence cases, which in the end resulted in the sharing and exchanging of news between mainstream news portals and social media. The agenda on social media was set by the public. This confirmed the effects of the flow of elite--non-elite-elite on IAS. Hence, this study contributed to the understanding of the agenda pattern used that also coexisted in different types of media which were created through the intermedia process. Keywords: Intermedia agenda setting, interpersonal violence, mainstream online news, independent news portal, social media.

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The Media Agenda

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199793471.013.37 ◽

2014 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

David H. Weaver ◽

Jihyang Choi

Keyword(s):

News Media ◽

Agenda Setting ◽

Agenda Building ◽

Media Audiences ◽

The Public ◽

Media Agenda ◽

News Sources ◽

Joint Product ◽

Setting Process ◽

The Media

This chapter provides an overview of media agenda setting, also known as agenda building. Although much of the agenda-setting research tradition has focused on how media affect the public agenda, agenda building examines how the media’s agenda comes about. The chapter considers five possible influences on the news media agenda: influential news sources, other media, journalistic norms and traditions, unexpected events, and media audiences. Research to date indicates that there is no one decisive factor that determines the media agenda. Instead, media agendas are built as a joint product of these influences. The chapter concludes by offering suggestions for future areas of research that would refine understanding of the media agenda-setting process.

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How the news media set the agenda

Doxa Comunicación Revista interdisciplinar de estudios de comunicación y ciencias sociales ◽

10.31921/doxacom.n2a13 ◽

2004 ◽

pp. 217-223

Author(s):

Maxwell McCombs ◽

Iris Chyi ◽

Spiro Kiousis

Keyword(s):

News Media ◽

Agenda Setting ◽

Empirical Studies ◽

The United States ◽

Public Affairs ◽

The Public ◽

Media Agenda ◽

The Media ◽

Setting Theory ◽

News Event

The agenda-setting role of the news media is a powerful influence on what we pay attention to and how we understand the vast world of public affairs that lies beyond our personal experience. Subsequent to the seminal Chapel Hill study in 1972, agenda setting theory has expanded beyond the influence of the news media on the public to elaborate the broader process of agenda setting. The scope of the theory now extends from the elements that shape the media agenda to the consequences of agenda-setting effects for attitudes and opinions. This article presents the results of two empirical studies recently published in the United States that further elaborate this process. One explicates how the press shifts its spotlight from one aspect to another of a major news event to build the prominence of that event on the media agenda. The second explicates the implications of prominence on the media agenda for the public’s attitudes and opinions about public figures.

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Agenda Setting and Journalism

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication ◽

10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.013.777 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Sebastián Valenzuela

Keyword(s):

Digital Media ◽

News Media ◽

Agenda Setting ◽

The United States ◽

Radio Stations ◽

Journalism Studies ◽

Psychological Mechanisms ◽

Media Agenda ◽

The Media ◽

Digital Algorithms

People use the news media to learn about the world beyond their family, neighborhood, and workplace. As news consumers, we depend on what television, social media, websites, radio stations, and newspapers decide to inform us about. This is because all news media, whether through journalists or digital algorithms, select, process, and filter information to their users. Over time, the aspects that are prominent in the news media usually become prominent in public opinion. The ability of journalists to influence which issues, aspects of these issues, and persons related to these issues, are perceived as the most salient has come to be called the agenda-setting effect of journalism. First described by Maxwell McCombs and Donald Shaw in a seminal study conducted during the 1968 elections in the United States, agenda-setting theory has expanded to include several other aspects beyond the transfer of salience of issues from the media agenda to the public agenda. These aspects include: the influence of journalism on the attributes of issues and people that make news; the networks between the different elements in the media and public agendas; the determinants of the news media agenda; the psychological mechanisms that regulate agenda-setting effects; and the consequences of agenda setting on both citizens’ and policymakers’ attitudes and behaviors. As one of the most comprehensive and international theories of journalism studies available, agenda setting continues to evolve in the expanding digital media landscape.

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The President and Media in the Agenda-Setting Process: Who Sets the Policy Agenda?

Korean Journal of Policy Studies ◽

10.52372/kjps20103 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

pp. 49-63

Author(s):

Eunyi Kim

Keyword(s):

Content Analysis ◽

Agenda Setting ◽

Policy Agenda ◽

Media Agenda ◽

News Broadcasts ◽

State Of The Union ◽

Causal Direction ◽

Setting Process ◽

Building Process ◽

The Media

This study explores one of the recurrent questions in agenda-setting studies: who sets policy agendapolitical leaders or the media? A content analysis was conducted by coding the texts of six of President Clinton's State of the Union addresses and three networks' (ABC, CBS, and NBC) evening news broadcasts. The results do not provide strong evidence of a causal direction between the media agenda and president's agenda because both coefficients are statistically significant and similar in degree. This study suggests, however, there may be a variance among different media actors in their roles and involvement in the agenda-setting (building) process.

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