scholarly journals Degrading Bodies in Pandemic Times: Politicizing Cruelty During the COVID-19 and Obesity Crises

2021 ◽  
pp. 019685992110434
Author(s):  
Lee F. Monaghan
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Culture Wars ◽  
Campus Culture ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Mass Communications ◽  
Fat Studies ◽  
Nationalist Discourse ◽  
Media Platform

Mass communications frame fatness and COVID-19 as a dual threat. This discourse furthers well-established tendencies to degrade bodies labelled overweight or obese, positioning them as deficient and requiring correction. Empirically, this article draws from an online US right-wing news media platform, Campus Reform, including readers’ comments (n = 135) on an article denouncing professors working in fat studies during the COVID-19 lockdown. This status degradation ceremony—backed by ‘big money’ that funds campus culture wars—not only targeted fat people but also academic disciplines, expertise, universities and social justice agenda. Analytically, this study draws from ethnomethodology and literature on media and bodyweight, meddling or health fascism, weaponized stigma and the politics of cruelty. Going beyond the flesh and a particular case study, it also challenges the ways in which cruelty enacted towards those deemed fat (especially women) can spiral into corrosive nationalist discourse in pandemic times.

scholarly journals Employing a Chatbot for News Dissemination during Crisis: Design, Implementation and Evaluation

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodora A. Maniou ◽  
Andreas Veglis
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
News Media ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
Wide Audience ◽  
Crisis Situation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Alternative Means ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
Technical Effort

The use of chatbots in news media platforms, although relatively recent, offers many advantages to journalists and media professionals and, at the same time, facilitates users’ interaction with useful and timely information. This study shows the usability of a news chatbot during a crisis situation, employing the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic as a case study. The basic targets of the research are to design and implement a chatbot in a news media platform with a two-fold aim in regard to evaluation: first, the technical effort of creating a functional and robust news chatbot in a crisis situation both from the AI perspective and interoperability with other platforms, which constitutes the novelty of the approach; and second, users’ perception regarding the appropriation of this news chatbot as an alternative means of accessing existing information during a crisis situation. The chatbot designed was evaluated in terms of effectively fulfilling the social responsibility function of crisis reporting, to deliver timely and accurate information on the COVID-19 pandemic to a wide audience. In this light, this study shows the advantages of implementing chatbots in news platforms during a crisis situation, when the audience’s needs for timely and accurate information rapidly increase.

Mediated Public Diplomacy Redefined: Foreign Stakeholder Engagement via Paid, Earned, Shared, and Owned Media

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (12) ◽  
pp. 1665-1683 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guy J. Golan ◽  
Ilan Manor ◽  
Phillip Arceneaux
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Stakeholder Engagement ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Public Diplomacy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
Definition Of

Mediated public diplomacy literature examines the engagement of foreign audiences by governments via mediated channels. To date, scholars have examined the competitive contest between global rivals in promoting and contesting one another’s frames as reflected in global news media coverage. Recognizing the meaningful impact of social media platforms, along with the global rise of government-sponsored media organizations, the current study builds on previous mediated public diplomacy scholarship by expanding the scope of the literature beyond the earned media perspective to also include paid, shared, and owned media. The article presents a revised definition of the term mediated public diplomacy along with a case study of government to foreign stakeholder engagement via the social media platform, Twitter.

Agendamelding and out-group derogation

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 124-144
Author(s):  
Jeffrey K. Riley ◽  
Holly S. Cowart
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Group Formation ◽  
News Article ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
News Sources ◽  
The Social ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
The Media

Abstract This study is a mixed-method quantitative and qualitative content analysis that examined the overlapping presence of agendamelding theory and in-group out-group formation on the social media platform Reddit. The study looked at the top 10 posts for one month (n = 310) on the pro-Donald Trump subreddit /r/The_Donald. The results show that media choice was used to prove membership to the in-group, often by derogating the media used by the out-group. Specific patterns emerged within the derogative language as well. Links to left-wing and neutral news media sites were often commented on and criticized, while the content of the linked news article was ignored or changed. Right-wing news media sites, which were used as news sources rather than commentary, were typically posted without changes, unlike neutral news media sites, which were often posted in a mocking manner. As agendamelding suggests, participants sought to avoid dissonance by posting media to fit within the community.

scholarly journals KEBERLANJUTAN JURNALISTIK SEHAT DI ERA KONVERGENSI DARING SUARASURABAYA.NET DENGAN PENDEKATAN ENGAGEMENT PYRAMID

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (02) ◽  
pp. 177
Author(s):  
Anak Agung Istri Prihandari Satvikadewi ◽  
Irmasanthi Danadharta ◽  
Bambang Aprianto
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Online Journalism ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Creation

<p>ABSTRACT</p><p>The approach of engagement pyramid, which is a response to the increasingly complex relations between consumers and producers in the digital era, offers a solution so that the sustainability of an organization, product or a particular brand can be maintained, through one key concept: engagement. Applying the approach of the engagement pyramid in online journalism enables the creation of a healthy journalistic process, because the demands of high speed verification and curation procedure of the news or other journalistic products can still be fulfilled through the stages of engagement. The stages of engagement include watching, sharing, commenting, producing and curating. This article is a summary of research on the application of engagement pyramid in the news media portal http://suarasurabaya.net. With the case study method, Suara Surabaya dot Net was chosen as a subject based on meeting criteria as convergent media. As a result, the pyramid engagement approach has implications for the continuity of good relations between the media and listeners, which also have consequences on the structure of the writings as the product of online journalism, considering that media platform used (radio, portal, social media and micro blogging) each has specific characteristics.</p><p><strong>Keywords: Engagement Pyramid, Healthy Journalistic, Online Convergence, Suarasurabaya.net.</strong></p><p>ABSTRAK</p><p>Pendekatan engagement pyramid yang merupakan respon terhadap semakin kompleksnya relasi antara produsen di era digital dan konsumen, menawarkan jalan tengah agar keberlanjutan sebuah organisasi, produk maupun brand dapat terjaga, melalui satu konsep kunci yaitu keterlibatan. Pendekatan piramida keterlibatan dalam jurnalisme daring memungkinkan terciptanya proses jurnalistik yang sehat, karena meskipun dalam tuntutan kecepatan yang tinggi, verifikasi dan kurasi berita atau produk jurnalistik lainnya tetap tetap bisa dilakukan melalui tahap-tahap keterlibatan. Tahap-tahap keterlibatan tersebut meliputi watching, sharing, commenting, producing dan currating. Artikel ini merupakan ringkasan dari penelitian tentang penerapan engagement pyramid di media portal berita http://suarasurabaya.net. Dengan metode studi kasus, Suara Surabaya dot Net dipilih sebagai subjek berdasarkan pemenuhan kriteria sebagai media konvergen. Hasilnya, pendekatan engagement pyramid selain berimplikasi pada keberlanjutan hubungan baik antara media dengan pendengar juga berkonsekuensi pada struktur penulisan produk jurnalistik, mengingat masing-masing platform media yang digunakan (radio, portal, media sosial dan micro blogging) memiliki karakteristik yang spesifik.</p><p><strong>Kata Kunci: Engagement Pyramid, Jurnalistik Sehat, Konvergensi Daring, Suarasurabaya.net.</strong></p>

Trans-mediatized terrorism: The Sydney Lindt Café siege

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saira Ali ◽  
Umi Khattab
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Moral Panic ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Exclusion ◽  
Media Narratives

This article presents an empirical analysis of the Australian media representation of terrorism using the 2014 Sydney Lindt Café siege as a case in point to engage with the notion of moral panic. Deploying critical discourse analysis and case study as mixed methods, insights into trans-media narratives and aftermath of the terrifying siege are presented. While news media appeared to collaborate with the Australian right-wing government in the reporting of terrorism, social media posed challenges and raised security concerns for the state. Social media heightened the drama as sites were variously deployed by the perpetrator, activists and concerned members of the public. The amplified trans-media association of Muslims with terrorism in Australia and its national and global impact, in terms of the political exclusion of Muslims, are best described in this article in the form of an Islamophobic Moral Panic Model, invented for a rethink of the various stages of its occurrence, intensification and institutionalization.

scholarly journals Dynamics of (dis)trust between the news media and their audience: The case of the April 2019 Israeli exit polls

Journalism ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 146488492097810
Author(s):  
Tali Aharoni ◽  
Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt ◽  
Christian Baden ◽  
Maximilian Overbeck
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Exit Poll ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Multi Method Approach ◽  
Media Narratives

This paper explores the dynamics of (dis)trust among experts, journalists, and audiences through the case study of an inaccurate exit poll aired on a leading Israeli television channel. It combines empirical data from the Israeli April 2019 elections with a conceptual view of exit polls as both sources of information and national rituals to address public discourse on the polls and its underlying suspicions. A multi-method approach yielded a corpus consisting of focus groups with citizens, in-depth semi-structured interviews with journalists, pollsters and experts, and qualitative textual analysis of news reports. Using inductive-qualitative analysis, we identified three types of public narratives, each casting blame for the erroneous exit poll projection on a different type of actor. The statistical and biased-media narratives tally with declining trust in the news media and assume misbehavior by pollsters and news creators respectively. The deception narrative, on the other hand, suggests that right-wing voters systematically sabotaged the exit poll projections. By extending trust beyond journalistic information, this narrative foregrounds the cultural meaning of election night rituals. Taken together, the narratives found in this study delineate (dis)trust as an interplay of active participants in the creation, reception, and interpretation of news. Our findings thus touch upon key attitudes towards both media and democracy and have implications for further studies on collective rituals and information evaluations in an era of eroding trust.

Political Knowledge and Misinformation in the Era of Social Media: Evidence From the 2015 UK Election

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Kevin Munger ◽  
Patrick J. Egan ◽  
Jonathan Nagler ◽  
Jonathan Ronen ◽  
Joshua Tucker
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
News Media ◽  
Political Knowledge ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Political Information ◽  
The Political ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Social Media Platform ◽  
Media Platform

Abstract Does social media educate voters, or mislead them? This study measures changes in political knowledge among a panel of voters surveyed during the 2015 UK general election campaign while monitoring the political information to which they were exposed on the Twitter social media platform. The study's panel design permits identification of the effect of information exposure on changes in political knowledge. Twitter use led to higher levels of knowledge about politics and public affairs, as information from news media improved knowledge of politically relevant facts, and messages sent by political parties increased knowledge of party platforms. But in a troubling demonstration of campaigns' ability to manipulate knowledge, messages from the parties also shifted voters' assessments of the economy and immigration in directions favorable to the parties' platforms, leaving some voters with beliefs further from the truth at the end of the campaign than they were at its beginning.

Populism and Religion in Brazil: The View from Education Policy

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Catarina Ianni Segatto ◽  
Mário Aquino Alves ◽  
Andrea Pineda
Keyword(s):  
Education Policy ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Welfare Services ◽  
National Congress ◽  
Over Time

This article is a case study of Brazil, a country where Catholic-based organizations have historically played a key role in providing education and welfare services. Since the 1980s, these organizations have supported progressive changes at both the national and subnational levels. Nevertheless, the influence of religion on education policy has shifted in the last few decades. Pentecostal and Neopentecostal groups have gained prominence through representatives in the National Congress, and, in 2018, formed a coalition enabling the election of a right-wing populist President. We analyse the trajectory of religious groups’ influence on Brazil’s education policy over time (colonization to the 1980s, the 1980s to the beginning of the 2000s, and the 2000s until now) through a qualitative-historical analysis of primary and secondary data. This article argues that both Catholic and Protestant groups have influenced progressive changes in Brazil’s education policy, but they also share conservative ideas impeding further advances.

scholarly journals Global online platforms, COVID-19, and culture: The global pandemic, an accelerator towards which direction?

2021 ◽  
pp. 016344372199453
Author(s):  
Antonios Vlassis
Keyword(s):  
Soft Power ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Major Development ◽  
The Us ◽  
Media Platform

The article proposes to consider the COVID-19 global pandemic as new major development for cultural industries and policies and to highlight timely and crucial trends due to the lockdown measures. Thus, it attempts to stimulate the scholarship debate regarding the consequences of the pandemic to the action of global online platforms, as well as to policy and economic aspects of cultural sectors. Taking as case study the audio-visual sector, the article explores whether the US global streaming platforms are the winning players of the lockdown measures and emphasizes the multifaceted strategies developed by US-based platforms in order to strengthen their soft power. Focusing on China and the European Union, the article also argues that the overwhelming action of US-based online platforms triggers the potential emergence of media platform regionalization in the context of COVID-19 pandemic. Finally, it highlights the regulatory challenges and how the new empirical trends are expected to shape the current audio-visual policy framework. The analysis focuses on the period between the beginning of global pandemic in Asia-Pacific in January 2020 and the progressive easing of lockdown measures in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific in July 2020.

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