Drinking in the Mass Media: A Nine-Year Project

1984 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 655-664 ◽  
Author(s):  
Warren Breed ◽  
James R. De Foe ◽  
Lawrence Wallack
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Soft Drinks ◽  
Drinking Patterns ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Daily Newspapers ◽  
Random Samples ◽  
National Media ◽  
Content Analyses ◽  
Consultation Intervention ◽  
College Newspapers

A nine-year study involved content analyses of five types of national media. Using stratified random samples, television, magazines, daily newspapers, college newspapers, and comic books were studied. Emphasis was placed on drinking patterns as well as on quantitative frequency and distribution measures. Alcohol appearances took a variety of forms. Depictions and discussions of alcoholism were infrequent; more common were alcohol appearances as unplanned and “taken for granted.” Many appearances were minor. Frequency was considerable; however, in television series, use of alcohol was more frequent than use of coffee, tea, soft drinks and water combined. Each medium had its own manner of presentation. Using a process called “cooperative consultation” intervention with media personnel to change alcohol-relevant materials was shown to be possible.

Honni soit qui mal y pense

2020 ◽  
pp. 163-216
Author(s):  
Gerd-Rainer Horn
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Daily Newspapers ◽  
Nazi Occupation ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Considerable Detail ◽  
Production Facilities

The challenges to traditional ante-bellum or ante-Mussolini ways of ruling and running societies were perhaps most visible in the area of fundamental changes affecting the most popular mass media at that time: newspapers. Virtually all across Europe, the vast majority of hitherto operating daily newspapers were shut down at the moment of liberation, and a new antifascist press often took over production facilities vacated by their compromised former owners. After some cursory glances at the politics of the post-liberation press in Germany and Italy, I then go into considerable detail in the case of France. For it was in France where the challenges to published opinion in the wake of Nazi occupation went further and deeper than anywhere else. In France, however, too, within very few years the power of money regained the upper hand, turning back the clock to the status quo ante bellum.

scholarly journals Mass media representation of suicide in a high suicide state in India: an epidemiological comparison with suicide deaths in the population

BMJ Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. e030836 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory Armstrong ◽  
Lakshmi Vijayakumar ◽  
Jane Pirkis ◽  
Mala Jayaseelan ◽  
Anish Cherian ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Case Fatality ◽  
Epidemiological Data ◽  
Prevention Education ◽  
Daily Newspapers ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
Newspaper Articles

ObjectivesSuicide rates in India are among the highest in the world, equating to over 200 000 suicides annually. Reports of suicides are a routine feature in major newspapers in India, and reporters may selectively present ‘newsworthy’ suicide stories. The aim of this paper was to systematically investigate whether mass media reports of suicides reflect the epidemiological data on suicide in a high suicide state in India.DesignWe undertook a content analysis study to extract sociodemographic data on suicides reported among nine of the most highly read daily newspapers in the high suicide southern state of Tamil Nadu between June and December 2016. A total of 1258 newspaper articles were retrieved containing reports on 1631 suicides. Two-tailed binomial tests on aggregate frequencies assessed whether the sociodemographic characteristics of suicides in the newspaper articles were different to the population suicide statistics for Tamil Nadu.ResultsWe identified some statistically significant discrepancies between suicide characteristics in the population and the media. Suicides involving females (p<0.001), those aged under 30 years (p<0.001), separated or widowed males (p<0.001), unmarried females (p<0.001), those using methods with a higher case fatality rate (ie, hanging (p<0.001), jumping off high structures (p<0.001) and coming under vehicles (p<0.001) and those who were students (p<0.001) or working in the agricultural sector (p<0.001) were significantly over-reported relative to their occurrence in the broader population. Suicides involving men (p<0.001), those aged over 30 years and above (p<0.001), those who were married and suicides by poisoning (p<0.001) were significantly under-reported relative to their occurrence in the broader population.ConclusionsThe suicide characteristics in the print media were not entirely representative of suicides in the broader Tamil Nadu population, which may lead the general public to develop misunderstandings about suicide in their state. The discrepancies we identified will inform tailored suicide prevention education for media professionals.

as Signifier: Considering the Semantic Field of School Literacy

1998 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Dressman ◽  
Laurie McCarty ◽  
Jonathan Benson
Keyword(s):  
Whole Language ◽  
Public University ◽  
Semantic Field ◽  
Daily Newspapers ◽  
Interpretive Analysis ◽  
Local Newspaper ◽  
Tv News ◽  
The Us ◽  
National Media ◽  
Literacy Research

This article examines the use of the term <whole language> within the educational and national media and by the newspaper and interested parties in 1 college town. Data collected include articles in literacy journals; a search of 5 daily newspapers in the US and other periodicals and TV news; a search of 1 local newspaper; and interviews with 70 teachers, administrators, university faculty, and “concerned citizens” in a mid-sized city in the Southwestern us with a major public university. Using the “discourse-centered approach to culture” proposed by Sherzer (1987) as a revision of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, our interpretive analysis of the data argues that the disputes surrounding the term <whole language> have as much to do with cultural, political, and economic issues confronting the US, and in particular the Southwest, as they do with any philosophical or professional conversation about the “best way” to teach children to read. The implication is that if literacy research is to retain both its legitimacy and its relevance within discussions about literacy, researchers need to become more open about their own cultural and political biases in the stands they take, and more aware of how those positions might be perceived and used by others and by the national media.

scholarly journals Kontestasi Frame Surat Kabar National dalam Liputan “Aksi Bela Islam”

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
Nfn Karman
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Legal Issue ◽  
Democratic Values ◽  
Problem Complexity ◽  
Daily Newspaper ◽  
Political Issue ◽  
Daily Newspapers ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
The Media

This article deals with how daily newspapers of Indonesia frame reality of the collective action of Muslims. That action becomes a magnet for national and international mass media because involving a large number of Muslim, and has a problem complexity (legal, politic, religion) and political interests (contestation for Jakarta governor). The media gets involved in that complexity because they are harnessed as a political instrument, by conducting framing. This study aims to find daily newspaper frame by analyzing the content qualitativly. Those newspapers are Kompas, Republika, Suara pembaruan, and Media Indonesia during November 2016. By analyzing their editorials, we find that their frames regarding Muslim collective action are different to each other. Even, frames of Republika and Suara Pembaruan are contested. Republika regards the Muslim action as a respond to get justice and basic right because of their religion blasphemy. Republika considers it as a legal issue. Suara Pembaruan views the Muslim action as a political issue (governor election of DKI Jakarta), which makes use of religion issue. Media Indonesia sees the action as a political issue as well. Kompas regards it as political and religion issue. We conclude that although expected to be impartial –as part of democratic values, mass media keep in-partiality in crucial issues e.g., religion. This study gives our understanding that mass media can be partial in the certain contexts. Tulisan ini membahas bagaimana surat kabar harian membingkai realitas aksi umat Islam. Aksi tersebut menarik pemberitaan media massa nasional dan internasional karena melibatkan muslim dalam jumlah besar, memiliki kompleksitas persoalan (hukum, politik, agama, dan kepentingan), yaitu kontestasi pemilihan gubernur Jakarta 2017. Media terlibat dalam kompleksitas tersebutdan digunakan sebagai instrumen, yaitu politik pemberitaan. Kajian ini bertujuan menemukan bingkai surat kabar harian nasional dengan melakukan analisis isi kualitatif terhadap surat kabar nasional, yaitu: Kompas, Republika, Suara Pembaruan, dan Media Indonesia selama periode November 2016. Dengan menganalisis tajuk rencana mereka, kajian menemukan bahwa frame surat kabar di Indonesia berbeda satu sama lain. Frame surat kabar Republika dan Suara Pembaruan bahkan saling bertentangan. Republika menganggap aksi umat Islam sebagai respon untuk memperoleh keadilan dan hak asasi karena penistaan agama mereka (masalah hukum). Suara Pembaruan melihat aksi sebagai masalah politik (pemilihan gubernur DKI Jakarta) yang menggunakan isu agama. Media Indonesia melihat aksi juga sebagai masalah politik. Kompas melihat aksi sebagai persoalan agama dan politik. Kajian  menyimpulkan bahwa walaupun diharapkan tidak memihak sebagai bagian dari nilai-nilai demokrasi, media massa tetap saja memihak dalam isu yang krusial seperti agama. Penelitian ini memberikan pemahaman bahwa media umum sekalipun bisa menjadi media partisan pada konteks tertentu.

COMPETITION IN MASS MEDIA MARKET: FROM TV TO SOCIAL NETWORKS

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tetiana Shalman ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Social Communication ◽  
Competitive Environment ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Information Product ◽  
Network Expansion ◽  
National Media ◽  
Media Channels

The importance of competition in mass media industry is constantly increasing, which results from globalization of information space, the growing number of media channels, network expansion and upgraded systems of information carriers. The article explores the notion of competition in the mass media sector as well as looks into the way competition influences the quality of media content. The research studies sectoral and cross-sectoral competition in media production, examines types of competition, ways of using competitive environment as effective resource in social communication. Attention is also paid to the peculiarities of influence exerted on the target audience by national and regional media channels. The author argues that regional local producers of mass media content cannot compete with national media channels, which limits the target audience’s scope of knowledge. The data show that competition influences content of an information product and encourages its producers to extend the system of information carriers, i.e. they start iversifying it by using social media, sites, YouTube channels in order to attract larger target audiences and advertisers.

scholarly journals Dyskursywna kategoryzacja subregionów Europy w prasie chorwackiej i serbskiej po 2007 roku

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piotr Mirocha
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Semantic Field ◽  
Daily Newspapers ◽  
Semantic Domain ◽  
Random Samples ◽  
East West ◽  
Large Corpus

The paper analyses categorisation of the semantic field ‘Europe’ in Croatian and Serbian daily newspapers between 2007 and 2017. A large corpus of articles is used to select keywords and examples for analysis. Random samples of concordances featuring the syntagms ‘Eastern Europe’ and ‘Central Europe’ are then analysed to reconstruct their semantic extensions and connotations. The widespread use of metonyms ‘EU’ – ‘Europe’ is evidenced, as well as strong synonymity of these collocations and ‘post-socialist countries’. The analysed examples also suggest that the choice between binary (East – West) and ternary categorisation (East – Centre – West) is heavily dependent on the semantic domain and genre of a given text.

scholarly journals The Frequency of Expressions and Proverbs in Different Iranian Generations' Speech Styles

2015 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 13-19
Author(s):  
Mohammad Saber Khaghaninejad ◽  
Saharsaadat Hadigheh
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Speech Community ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Speech Styles ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Aged Subjects ◽  
Female Teenagers

Change is one of the fundamentals of every language. Every community consists of different generations with various perspectives toward life. The difference among different generations’ vernaculars are so drastic that it would not be an exaggeration to claim that every generation of a society or a speech community has its own language or vernacular which distinguishes it from other generations or age-groups of the society in lexico-grammatical terms. This study put the frequency of expressions and proverbs in different generations' speech styles under investigation. Hence, inspired by stratified randomization technique, the researcher randomly selected a group of 24 middle-aged and similarly a group of 24 teenager participants of the two genders. Each of the age-groups consisted of 12 male and 12 female subjects in order to provide the possibility to determine the role of gender on expression or proverb usage. All the subjects were individually interviewed for elicitation of the needed data then their sentences were recorded and accurately transcribed for further investigation. By counting the expressions or proverbs in sentences of male/female teenagers' and middle-aged subjects of the research, their expression and proverb usage frequencies were illuminated. The study's results suggested that middle-aged speakers of Iranian community employed expressions and proverbs more than teenagers. This implies that the older would have a stronger relationship with the literature and are more satisfied with their culture and identity. Middle-aged subjects used those expressions which were deeply rooted in the literature and culture while teenagers were highly in use of those expressions and proverbs which were suddenly entered into the lexicon of the society by the advent of new television series or expanded advertisements of mass media, for example. Furthermore, it was found that males generally were more interested in using expression and proverb in their daily conversations than females.

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