scholarly journals News coverage and attitudes on immigration: Public and commercial television news compared

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 642-660 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Jacobs ◽  
Cecil Meeusen ◽  
Leen d’Haenens
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Television News ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Negativity Bias ◽  
Commercial Television ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Balanced Information ◽  
Over Time

Public and commercial news follow distinct logics. We evaluate this duality in television news coverage on immigration. First, by means of a large-scale content analysis of Flemish television news ( N = 1630), we investigate whether immigration coverage diverges between both broadcasters. Results show that, despite an overall negativity bias and relative homogeneity between the broadcasters, commercial news contains slightly more sensational and tabloid characteristics than public news. The latter promotes a more balanced view of immigration. These differences are stable over time. Second, using cross-sectional and panel data, we assess whether a preference for public versus commercial news is associated with an attitudinal gap in anti-immigrant attitudes. Findings demonstrate that individuals who prefer commercial news are more negative towards immigrants. We suggest that differences in news content may explain this attitudinal gap. In light of the debate around ‘public value’ offered by public service media across Europe, we tentatively conclude that public broadcasters have the potential to foster tolerance and provide balanced information by prioritizing a normative view over a market logic. The linkage between news coverage and the gap in attitudes between commercial and public news viewers warrants closer investigation in the future.

scholarly journals Changes in Occupational Tasks and Their Association with Individual Wages and Occupational Mobility

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. e295-e328
Author(s):  
Alexandra Fedorets
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Occupational Mobility ◽  
Wage Growth ◽  
Panel Survey ◽  
Proximity Measure ◽  
Wage Dynamics ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Occupational Tasks ◽  
Over Time

Abstract This study provides novel evidence on the relevance of task content changes between and within occupations to wage dynamics of occupational changers and stayers. I use individual-level, cross-sectional data featuring tasks performed on the job to compute a measure of proximity of job contents. Then, I merge this measure to a large-scale panel survey to show that occupational changers experience a wage growth that is declining when the accompanying alterations in task contents are big. For occupational stayers, alterations in task contents generate a positive wage component, beyond tenure effect. However, the results are not robust with respect to the choice of proximity measure and over time.

Newsworthiness and story prominence: How the presence of news factors relates to upfront position and length of news stories

Journalism ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 146488491989931
Author(s):  
Mark Boukes ◽  
Natalie P Jones ◽  
Rens Vliegenthart
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Production Process ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Television News ◽  
Front Page ◽  
Scale Analysis ◽  
News Production ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Large Scale Analysis ◽  
News Outlet

The presence of news factors in journalistic products has been abundantly researched, but investigations into their actual impact on the news production process are scarce. This study provides a large-scale analysis of why news factors matter: Whether, how, and which news factors affect the prominence of news items and does this differ per outlet type? A manual content analysis of print, online, and television news demonstrates that a larger total number of news factors in a story positively predict an item’s length and likelihood of front-page publication or likelihood of being a newscast’s opening item. News factors ‘conflict’ and ‘eliteness’ have the strongest impact, mixed evidence was found for ‘proximity’ and ‘personification’, whereas relationships with ‘negativity’, ‘influence and relevance’, and ‘continuity’ were mostly insignificant. Fewer differences than expected emerged between outlet types (popular vs quality press). Especially for television news, outlet type (public vs commercial broadcaster) hardly mattered.

Framing Standing Rock: Market orientation and television news

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 233-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gino Canella ◽  
Patrick Ferrucci
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
North Dakota ◽  
Market Orientation ◽  
Television News ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
News Organization ◽  
Ethnographic Content Analysis

This article analyses news coverage by CNN and Democracy Now! of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests at Standing Rock, North Dakota. Through an ethnographic content analysis (ECA) of a strongly and weakly market-oriented television news organization, we examine frames, sources used and time devoted to the story, to understand how market orientation may influence the journalistic decisions of television news outlets. We find that although both outlets framed the story primarily through the lens of protest and violence, the ways in which this was done differed significantly.

scholarly journals The Integrative Complexity of Media Reports of Natural Disasters: A Preliminary Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 601-605
Author(s):  
Hayley McCullough ◽  
Michael J. Kalsher
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Television News ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Dependent Measure ◽  
Integrative Complexity ◽  
Intellectual Style ◽  
Information Problem Solving ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
News Networks

Integrative complexity is a measure of the intellectual style used by individuals or groups in processing information, problem-solving, and decision making. Research generally shows that integratively complex thinkers are better able to reach mutually advantageous solutions to complex problems, although they may also be less likely to act when necessary. A substantial portion of the published research on integrative complexity comes from political scientists who have focused on examining linguistic distinctions across the liberal-conservative political spectrum. In this research, we assessed integrative complexity in a sample of news stories concerning natural disasters (hurricanes, wildfires and floods) from three television news networks that span the liberal-conservative spectrum. The results showed that the news coverage of the network considered to be more liberal in its reporting scored significantly higher in integrative complexity than the news coverage of the more conservative network. These findings align with previous research that has used integrative complexity as a dependent measure. We discuss the practical implications of these findings as they relate to the quality of decisions made by relevant officials that typically precedes and follows large-scale natural disasters.

National network television news coverage of contraception — a content analysis

Contraception ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth W. Patton ◽  
Michelle H. Moniz ◽  
Lauren S. Hughes ◽  
Lorraine Buis ◽  
Joel Howell
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Television News ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Network Television ◽  
National Network

scholarly journals Trajectories of engagement: a repeated cross-sectional investigation of student perceptions of an online learning environment

2012 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Palmer ◽  
Dale Holt
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Student Perceptions ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Online Learning Environment ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
System Use ◽  
Over Time

Evaluations of online learning environments (OLEs) often present a snapshot of system use. It has been identified in the literature that extended evaluation is required to reveal statistically significant developments in the evolution of system use over time. The research presented here draws on student OLE evaluations surveys run over the period 20042011 and include nearly 6800 responses exploring students’ perceptions of importance of, and satisfaction with elements of their OLE. Across the survey period, satisfaction ratings with all OLE elements rose significantly, suggesting a positive student engagement with the OLE over time. The corresponding ratings of importance of OLE elements generally rose significantly, though a number of elements registered no significant difference in the first two years of the survey, suggesting that short period surveys may struggle to reveal statistically significant trends. OLE element use appeared to be closely linked to perceived value. The OLE elements with the highest mean importance and satisfaction ratings related to student access of online learning resources. Other detailed results are also reported. We demonstrate a method for, and one large-scale case study of, quantifying and visualising the trajectories of engagement that students have had with an institutional OLE over time.Keywords: online learning environment; learning management system; repeated cross-sectional evaluation; student survey(Published: 24 September 2012)Citation: Research in Learning Technology 2012, 20: 17143 - http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/rlt.v20i0.17143

scholarly journals Serving the populist agenda. How German public media broadcasters inadvertently facilitate populist movements by evoking fear and anger

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 482-515
Author(s):  
Kimon Kieslich ◽  
Frank Marcinkowski
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
News Media ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Emotional Reactions ◽  
Communication Styles ◽  
Commercial Television ◽  
News Reporting ◽  
Mass Migration ◽  
Public Media ◽  
Populist Movements

The term Media Populism is used to indicate a ‘involuntary complicity’ between news media and populist movements based on the convergence of commercial media logic and populist communication style. It grants populists and their messages a high degree of media visibility. According to the literature, this applies more to tabloid media and infotainment content in commercial television than to upmarket media outlets and news programs. In this paper, we refer to another form of involuntary collaboration between news media and populists that is not based on similar communication styles, but simply on the fact that news media have to report on topics which populists claim issue ownership for. This applies foremost to upmarket media and public service broadcasting, which are obliged by their own quality standards or legal mandate to report completely and comprehensively on all topics of public concern. We are especially interested in the emotional response of German audiences to news coverage on two topics: mass migration and the role of Islam in Germany. With the help of two experiments, we demonstrate that public service news reporting on these issues provokes strong negative emotional reactions. What is more, our results indicate that media induced fear and anger lead to increased support for anti-migration and Islam-critical demands. Hence, German public service broadcasters may not only be ‘secret accomplices’ in creating negative emotions towards Muslim migration, but also facilitate populist movements.

Public Salience of Foreign Nations

1992 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 623-632 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael B. Salwen ◽  
Frances R. Matera
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Telephone Survey ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
The United States ◽  
Dade County ◽  
Over Time

There is a relationship between media mentions of certain foreign nations and reader/viewer learning. A study in Dade County, Florida, matched a content analysis of major media with results of an extensive telephone survey within the context of agenda-setting hypotheses. Cumulative correlations over time suggest that the amount of news coverage devoted to various nations was accurately perceived by the audience. Media coverage, however, did not appear to influence public assessments of foreign nations as friends or enemies of the United States.

scholarly journals Online News Coverage of the Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Tax in Malaysia: Content Analysis (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Faiz Mohd Hanim ◽  
Budi Aslinie Md Sabri ◽  
Norashikin Yusof
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Online News ◽  
Positive Health ◽  
Sugar Sweetened Beverages ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Robust Solution ◽  
Sweetened Beverages

BACKGROUND In Malaysia, the Sugar-Sweetened Beverages (SSBs) tax was announced during the parliament's 2019 Budget Speech. The tax was slated to be enforced by April 2019 but was later postponed to July 2019. The announcement has since generated significant media coverage and public feedback. OBJECTIVE This study presents a qualitative and quantitative cross-sectional study using netnography to examine how Malaysian online news articles responded to the SSBs tax after the announcement and postimplementation. METHODS Online news articles published on popular online news platforms from November 2018 to August 2019 were downloaded using NCapture and imported into NVivo for analysis using the inductive approach and thematic content analysis following the initial SSBs implementation announcement. RESULTS A total of 62 news articles were analyzed. Most of the articles positively portrayed the SSBs tax (46.8%) and highlighted its health impacts (76%). There were 7 key framing arguments identified in the articles. The positive arguments revolved around incentivizing manufacturers to introduce healthier products voluntarily, positive health consequences, the tax’s impact on government revenue, and the use of the generated revenue toward beneficial social programs. The opposing arguments included increased operating costs to the manufacturer, the increased retail price of drinks, and how the SSBs tax is not a robust solution to obesity. The top priority sector considered in introducing the tax was the health perspective, followed by economic purposes and creating policies such as regulating the food and drinks industry. CONCLUSIONS The majority of online news articles positively reported the implementation of the SSBs tax in Malaysia. This suggests media played a role in garnering support for the health policy. As such, relevant bodies can use negative findings to anticipate and reframe counteracting arguments opposing the SSBs tax.

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