scholarly journals Intermedia Agenda Setting and Grassroots Collectives: Assessing Global Media’s Influence on Greek News Outlets

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Lambrini Papadopoulou ◽  
Karolos Kavoulakos ◽  
Christos Avramidis
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Front Page ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
The Public ◽  
Intermedia Agenda Setting ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Depth Interviews

This study focuses on a variety of grassroots collectives that emerged during the Greek economic crisis and aims to record activists’ own perceptions regarding the way that domestic media reacted after these collectives featured on the front pages of global news outlets. Drawing on 10 in depth interviews with activists participating in five grassroots collectives, this study brings together social movement and communications theoretical frameworks. Interviewees were asked about their perceptions regarding the role that global elite media coverage may have played in the salience of their endeavors in domestic media. Subsequently, we tested their personal testimonies by implementing a time series analysis on three Greek newspapers for a period of seven days before and after a front page publication in global elite media. Findings suggest that there is a big discrepancy between the perceived and the actual impact of global elite media on the agenda of domestic newspapers. To this end, further research should be undertaken to specify the exact characteristics that influence which grassroots collective will gain prominence in the public realm.

scholarly journals The shift in seasonality of legionellosis in the USA

2018 ◽  
Vol 146 (14) ◽  
pp. 1824-1833 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. M. Alarcon Falconi ◽  
M. S. Cruz ◽  
E. N. Naumova
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Time Interval ◽  
Significant Shift ◽  
The Public ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Related Hospitalisation ◽  
Control And Prevention ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Harmonic Regression ◽  
National Databases

AbstractAccording to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), from 2000 to 2014, reported cases of legionellosis per 100 000 population increased by 300% in the USA, although reports on disease seasonality are inconsistent. Using two national databases, we assessed seasonal patterns of legionellosis in the USA. We created a monthly time series from 1993 to 2015 of reported cases of legionellosis from the CDC, and from 1997 to 2006 of medical claims of legionellosis-related hospitalisation in older adults from the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS). We split the study time interval into two segments (before and after 2003), and applied a Poisson harmonic regression model to each dataset and each segment. The time series of monthly counts exhibited a significant shift of seasonal peaks from mid-September (9.676 ± 0.164 months) before 2003 to mid-August (8.452 ± 0.042 months) after 2003, along with an alarming increase in the amplitude of seasonal peaks in both CDC and CMS data. The lowest monthly reported cases of legionellosis in 2015 (281) exceed the maximum value reported before 2003 (206). We also observed a discrepancy between CDC and CMS data, suggesting that not all cases of legionellosis diagnosed by hospital-based laboratories were reported to the CDC. Improved reporting of legionellosis is required to better inform the public and organise disease prevention.

scholarly journals On Italy’s Flat Tax Needs and Sustainability of the Public Budget

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Marco Mele
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Time Series ◽  
National Accounts ◽  
Public Budget ◽  
Flat Tax ◽  
The Public ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Time Series Approach

This paper aims to empirically investigate the sustainability of Italian national accounts with a hypothetical Flat Tax. After an introduction, where we will describe the Italian situation relatively before and after the euro introduction, we will tackle the problem of high tax pressure. In particular, we use a time series approach and Toda-Yamamoto test to check if the high tax pressure causes low growth in Italy. Finally, with ISTAT’ dataset, we will check sustainability on Italian revenue with a Flat Tax, considered it one of the possible solutions to low Italian economic growth.

香港協助網絡成癮青少年的工作成效評估

2008 ◽  
Vol 42 (01n02) ◽  
pp. 119-134
Author(s):  
穎思 葉 ◽  
志慧 陳 ◽  
錦超 何 ◽  
國良 曾 ◽  
憲正 孔
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationship ◽  
Family Relationship ◽  
Individual Development ◽  
Computer Usage ◽  
Service Development ◽  
Service Users ◽  
The Public ◽  
Christian Service ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Depth Interviews

香港基督教服務處樂Teen會自2004年開始，開展了「網開新一面」計劃，協助沉迷網絡的青少年健康使用網絡，並向各界推廣健康使用網絡之訊息。本論文將分享此計劃中「online特攻–網絡成癮者小組」在2006–2007年掌握到網絡成癮青少年的基本統計資料、使用網絡的形態和服務前後的改變的情況。「 online特攻–網絡成癮者小組」的目的爲協助沉迷網絡的中學生及小學生重拾有節制使用電腦的能力。透過小組前後的個別訪談，計劃發現參加者無論在網絡成癮情況和使用電腦時數兩方面，在統計學上都有明顯改善，證明小組有效地改善組員上網成癮的情況。而且參加者在參與本計劃後，他們均表示在個人發展、人際關係、學業成績及家庭關係上也有所改善。文章除了詳述小組的成效外，亦會分享「網開新一面」計劃的主要內容和當中「online特攻–網絡成癮者小組」模式引發的建議。 "Online New Page Project" has been launched by Hong Kong Christian Service since 2004. The aim of this project was to assist young internet addicts to regain control on computer usage and to disseminate the message of healthy computer use among the public. This study 1) explores the characteristic of young internet addicts, such as their basic demographic information and their pattern of using internet before and after using our service, and 2) evaluates the effectiveness of the therapeutic groups for this group of service users. The results from in-depth interviews before and after the group revealed that service users had improvement on controlling themselves from internet addiction, with a significant decrease in the time spending on the internet daily. The results also indicate significant improvement in individual development, interpersonal relationship, academic performance and family relationship. Furthermore, this study also shares the major service components of "Therapeutic Group for Internet Addicts" under "Online New Page Project" (2004-2007) and reflections gained in the project for further service development.

Social Movements and Women's Participation in Brazil

1985 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 297-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Alterman Blay
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Civil Liberties ◽  
Present Situation ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Public Role ◽  
Women's Participation

To understand the present situation of Brazilian women, this article sets out to examine the way it has evolved in the past 20 years. The change of regime in 1964 led to an exacerbation of the economic crisis for the ordinary people of Brazil. This was accompanied by a restriction of civil liberties. Thus deprived of formal channels of negotiation, women formed a new movement. They began to play a public role, motivated by a desire for a better life for their children, the release of imprisoned relatives, and higher wages. In this way, they began to penetrate the public realm.

scholarly journals 6 Feet Apart: Spaces and Cultures of Quarantine

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 216-220
Author(s):  
Rob Shields ◽  
Michael Schillmeier ◽  
Justine Lloyd ◽  
Joost Van Loon
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Public Places ◽  
The Public ◽  
Blind Review ◽  
Global Spread ◽  
Before And After

Introduction to Spaces and Cultures of Quarantine. This special issue assembles a set of short interventions selected by internal blind review from submissions in response to a call for papers. The contributors document the first phase of the pandemic from February to May 2020, reflect on and respond to the first few months of the global spread of COVID-19, its arrival in communities and its personal impacts and effects on the public realm, from travel to retail to work and civil society. They encompass many continents, from Latin America to Asia. Staying six feet apart provides a rubric for the spatial experience and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on urban life, our understanding of public interaction, crowd practice, and everyday life at home under self-isolation and lockdown. Time changed to a before and after of COVID-19. The temporality of pandemics is noted in its present and historical popular forms such as nursery rhymes (Ring around the Rosie). Place ballets of avoidance, passing by, long days under lockdown and hurried forays into public places and shops create a new social performativity and cultural topology of care at a distance.

Framing genetically modified mosquitoes in the online news and Twitter: Intermedia frame setting in the issue-attention cycle

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (8) ◽  
pp. 937-951 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weirui Wang ◽  
Lei Guo
Keyword(s):  
Genetically Modified ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Online News ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
The Public ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Intermedia Agenda Setting ◽  
Issue Attention ◽  
Genetically Modified Mosquitoes ◽  
Over Time

We investigate how the online news and Twitter framed the discussion about genetically modified mosquitoes, and the interplay between the two media platforms. The study is grounded in the theoretical frameworks of intermedia agenda setting, framing, and the issue-attention cycle and combines methods of manual and computational content analysis, and time series analysis. The findings show that the Twitter discussion was more benefit-oriented, while the news coverage was more balanced. Initially, Twitter played a leading role in framing the discussion about genetically modified mosquitoes. When the public learned about the issue, online news gained momentum and led the Twitter publics to discuss the risks of genetically modified mosquitoes. Based on the findings, we argue that the intermedia frame setting may change its direction over time, and different media outlets may be influential in leading different aspects of the conversation.

“We've toiled without end”: Publicity, Crisis, and the Suicide “Epidemic” in Greece

2015 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 1007-1036 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Davis
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Suicide Rate ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
International Media ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Many ◽  
Historical Difference

AbstractThis paper addresses the rising suicide rate in Greece since the economic crisis began in 2008. By 2011, Greek and international media were reporting the Greek suicide rate as the fastest rising in Europe; dozens of “spectacular” public suicides were taken as symptoms of an “epidemic.” In this paper, I explore different accounts of this “epidemic”: statistical studies and press reports on suicide since the crisis; notes written by people who committed or attempted suicide in public during the crisis; and narratives of suicidality from psychiatric patients before the crisis, in dialogue with local psychiatric epidemiologies. These accounts summon three axes of comparison around suicide in Greece: historical difference, defined by the economic crisis and the time before; locale, contrasting the public sphere of media coverage and consumption with a particular region distinguished by its “suicidogenic” features; and evidence, moving from the public discourse on suicide to clinical ethnographic research that I conducted in northeastern Greece a decade ago. I show that each way of accounting for suicide challenges the epistemologies and evidence at work in the others; the tensions and the interactions among them are signs of indeterminacy in suicide itself, taken as an object of inquiry. In the public discourse on the Greek crisis, the many meanings of suicide have been condensed and fixed as a politics of protest. Yet, I argue, comparison among epistemologies of suicide and recognition of its indeterminacy generate a space for thinking about suicide beyond the publicity of the crisis.

scholarly journals Evaluasi Tingkat Kesehatan Keuangan Bank Studi Kasus pada BPRS XYZ

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 343
Author(s):  
Hartiwi Prabowo ◽  
Mohamad Azhar
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Banking System ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Public Trust ◽  
Analytical Technique ◽  
The Public ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Performance Report ◽  
Conventional Banks ◽  
The Impact

The impact of the financial crisis started from the US hits other countries, and expands into a global economic crisis that has been felt since the second semester of 2008. In the midst of the development which has deterioted and the declining of the public trust in national banking system, banks with Shariah principles become an alternative to the public in obtaining banking services. The research objective is to determine the level of health, funding development, and financing development of BPRS XYZ, before and after the economic crisis in Indonesia. The data collecting technique is secondary data (2006-2009 performance report). Analytical technique used to assess the health of a bank is CAMEL analysis focusing on Capital, Assets, Management, Earning, and Liquidity. From the analysis, it is concluded that BPRS XYZ has improved in health, though in a small percentage. Nevertheless, after the crisis in 2008-2009, it decreased in the ratio of health and increased slightly at the end of 2009. In terms of funding before and after the crisis, BPRS XYZ increased in funds because of the public trust in the transition from conventional banks to Shariah banks. From the financing side, BPRS XYZ developed a very significant financial from 2006 to 2009. Yet, it had not able to meet all the financial requests, due to limited funding.

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