The mediated discourse and voice of euthanasia: the Israeli media as a case study

2021 ◽  
pp. medhum-2020-012097
Author(s):  
Baruch Shomron
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Content Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Content ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Social Debate ◽  
Civil Participation

Euthanasia is an important social and quality of life issue. However, it is highly controversial and thus continuously debated especially given its legitimacy and legality differ between countries. Little is known about the role media plays concerning this topic. To fill this gap, this study applies a mixed methods approach to a case study of Israeli media, including a quantitative content analysis of news articles (to measure the discourse of ‘civil participation’), a thematic analysis of news articles (to examine the ‘voice’) and a quantitative content analysis of Facebook comments (to measure ‘being heard’). Results indicate that while the media highly enables the media capability of ‘voice’ (both ‘voicing’ and ‘being heard’), it limits the media capability of ‘civil participation’ to a narrow array of discourse, hindering the social debate. These results reveal the role the media plays regarding euthanasia, integral to individuals’ quality of life through the realisation of their media capabilities, and in relation to the act of euthanasia itself.

scholarly journals Brazilian Children’s Understanding of the Quality of Life in Their Living Environment: A Qualitative Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (14) ◽  
pp. 5101
Author(s):  
Camilla Aparecida Silva de Oliveira ◽  
Andréa Maria Duarte Vargas ◽  
Fernanda de Morais Ferreira ◽  
Efigênia Ferreira e Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Social ◽  
Graphic Elements

(1) Objective: To understand the perception of Brazilian children about the Quality of Life (QoL) considering their living environment. (2) Methods: This is a qualitative study conducted with children aged 6–10 years, from a medium-sized Brazilian municipality, recruited from public and private schools. An adaptation of the “draw, write, and say” method was used to collect data. At first, all children (n = 252) drew a “neighborhood with QoL”. On the same day, the researcher analyzed the graphic elements of the representations and intentionally selected the two best-detailed drawings from each class (n = 49) and the children were invited to narrate them. The narratives were analyzed through content analysis. (3) Results: Two major themes emerged from the content analysis, namely, the physical environment and social environment. The first included the needs to live in a community, such as housing, places of leisure, essential services, and natural elements. The second was relationships with family and friends. (4) Conclusion: The children presented the meaning of an environment with QoL, pointing out essential items to have this ideal environment. The social environment and the physical environment were perceived interdependently; that is, any change in one of these aspects may affect children’s QoL.

Source Use In a “News Disaster” Account: A Content Analysis of Voter News Service Stories

2002 ◽  
Vol 79 (3) ◽  
pp. 539-558 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randall S. Sumpter ◽  
Melissa A. Braddock
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Factual Information ◽  
Quantitative Content Analysis ◽  
The Past ◽  
Quantitative Content ◽  
News Service ◽  
The Media ◽  
Source Use

This quantitative content analysis examines source use for an eleven-week period in a “news disaster” story. The frequency of similar stories, which explain to readers, viewers, and listeners how the media do their work, has grown in the past forty years, and media observers are unsure what the change means. In this study, source affiliations and themes are evaluated in a census of stories about errors made by the media in reporting election night returns for the 2000 presidential race. News workers and other media-affiliated sources initially dominated the stories. They commonly explained how the reporting errors occurred or related factual information about the coverage. These sources and themes effectively blocked other affiliated and unaffiliated sources from evaluating the media's performance until later.

scholarly journals Targeting dominant publics: How counterpublic commenters align their efforts with mainstream news

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 2011-2027 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florian Toepfl ◽  
Eunike Piwoni
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Study Design ◽  
Common Currency ◽  
Quantitative Content Analysis ◽  
Electoral Success ◽  
Case Study Design ◽  
Alternative Für Deutschland ◽  
Quantitative Content ◽  
News Websites

This study illustrates how the emphasis structure of counterpublic discourses surfacing online can be predicted by that of the dominant publics that these counterpublics—at the argumentative level—so resolutely oppose. Deploying a single common case study design, the article scrutinizes a counterpublic discourse that surfaced in the comment sections of Germany’s opinion-leading news websites in the week after the surprising electoral success of a new anti-Euro party, the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). Quantitative content analysis identifies 75% of all comments posted ( N = 2955) to all articles about the AfD ( N = 19) as part of an anti-Euro counterpublic. While this counterpublic sharply opposed the editorial lines of Germany’s unanimously pro-common-currency media, it still aligned its efforts closely with this dominant public—albeit at a deeper level. As the findings demonstrate, the frequencies with which commenters adopted six emphasis frames were significantly predicted by the frequencies of these frames in mainstream news.

scholarly journals Impact of Sport Activity on the Quality of Life of Saudi Woman

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 343
Author(s):  
Huda AbdlAziz Aldegheiry
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Elderly Women ◽  
Sport Activity ◽  
Saudi Women ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sport Activities ◽  
The Media ◽  
Fitness And Health ◽  
The Impact

The present research paper aims to identify the impact of sport activity on the quality of life of Saudi women (i.e., fitness and health, social aspects, psychological aspects, moral aspects, and mental aspects). It also aims to develop mechanisms to activate the sport activity to improve the quality of life of Saudi women. The sample consisted of (N= 384) Saudi women in Riyadh. The author applied a questionnaire to collect data. The results showed that sport activity has a high impact on fitness and the psychological and moral aspects and a high to moderate impact on the social and mental aspects of the Saudi woman. The study recommends activating the media role in disseminating sport culture and awareness among (children- teenager- elderly) women by publishing a sport activity supervised-bulletin to cover the sport activities, objectives, programs, as well as time and place of practice. In turn, this could promote positive aspects towards the practice of sport activities.   Received: 29 March 2021 / Accepted: 26 May 2021 / Published: 8 July 2021

Environmental visualization of selected Czech regions: analysis of geography textbooks

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petr Trahorsch ◽  
Roman Kroufek
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Quantitative Content Analysis ◽  
Landscape Type ◽  
Quantitative Content ◽  
Historical Heritage ◽  
Lower Secondary Schools

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the quality of environmental visualization of selected regions in Czech geography textbooks for primary and lower secondary schools. The method of quantitative content analysis of visuals was used. The categories of quantitative analysis were defined based on the content of the environmental and geographical curriculum, for example landscape type, emotional charge etc. The results show a relatively similar structure of environmental visualization between textbooks: emotionally positive visuals showing the protection of cultural-historical heritage and protection of nature dominate. The exception is the Moravskoslezský kraj, which is visually presented in a negative way compared to other regions. In textbooks there are a minimum of abstract visuals or visuals showing the tendencies of environmental components.

scholarly journals A DANÇA COMO INSTRUMENTO DE EMPODERAMENTO FEMININO APLICADA EM MULHERES PARTICIPANTES DA ASSOCIAÇÃO FAMÍLIA PELA VIDA-AFAVI, DA CIDADE DO CAPÃO DO LEÃO-RS

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Neighborhood Association ◽  
The Social ◽  
Qualitative Nature ◽  
The City ◽  
South Zone

The dance has been increasingly sought as a practice of alternative physical activity to improve the quality of life and valorization of self-esteem among other benefits. This work is a study conducted in a neighborhood association in the city of Capão do Leão-RS. The aim of this study was to investigate the benefits of dance related to quality of life, relating the empowerment of women when practicing dance. The research is of a qualitative nature, with a bibliographical character using a questionnaire as an instrument. The methodology of the case study conducted in the Associação Família Pela Vida (AFAVI) founded more than two years ago, is located in the city of Capão do Leão-RS, in the neighborhood Jardim América in the South zone of the state. In this space are provided activities for the community in general, among which we highlight the dance classes (rhythms) with a class of 22 women, these classes have the purpose of socialization, quality of life and integralization. According to the results it is concluded that these activities can really influence in the lives of these women valuing the social, emotional side and fighting the sedentarism in their daily life.

scholarly journals Politics, opinion and controvesy: Gazeta do Povo´s strategies on Facebook and the relation with the readers

Intexto ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 226-250
Author(s):  
Camilla Quesada Tavares ◽  
Michele Goulart Massuchin
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Content Distribution ◽  
The Political ◽  
Quantitative Content Analysis ◽  
Political News ◽  
The Public ◽  
Quantitative Content ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Way

This paper aims to identify the way Gazeta do Povo has used Facebook as a content distribution platform. After the restructuring of the journal in June 2017, the social network has been shown to be an important channel for the dissemination of the material produced by the communication vehicle. So the research seeks to understand the logic of using the tool, based on the most explored themes, as well as the genre and the coverage of the posts, relating these characteristics to the return in relation to the number of likes, comments and sharing. The research analyzes the destined space to the political questions and those subjects classified as controversial, identifying how they present themselves in the coverage from the journalistic genre. The methodology used is the quantitative content analysis, and the variables were created from Larsson (2016) and Weber (2014), for the categorization of 820 posts carried out during 15 days of coverage through Facebook fanpage. The results indicate that the vehicle chooses to post policy news and that the public tends to comment more on controversial political news.

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