Reassessing Twitter’s Agenda-Building Power

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 469-483 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bethany A. Conway-Silva ◽  
Christine R. Filer ◽  
Kate Kenski ◽  
Eric Tsetsi
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Agenda Building ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Reciprocal Relationships ◽  
Presidential Primary ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Issue Emphasis

This study examined the relationship between elite news media agendas and campaign agendas during the 2016 presidential primary season. Computer-assisted content analysis was used to assess issue emphasis within Twitter feeds of U.S. presidential primary candidates and their campaigns as well as the nation’s top newspapers. The relationship between the overall Twitter agenda and that of newspapers, as well as the influence of front-runners Clinton, Cruz, Sanders, and Trump, was investigated using time series analysis. Aggregate and candidate-specific findings reveal some reciprocal relationships, but overall greater influence of newspapers on the Twitter agenda was detected. Findings suggest that Twitter has the potential to break free from and influence traditional media gatekeeping.

Understand corporate social responsibility from an agenda setting perspective: a cross-national analysis of newspaper using computer-assisted content analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yafei Zhang ◽  
Chuqing Dong
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
News Media ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Content Type ◽  
News Sources ◽  
National Analysis ◽  
Corporate Social

Purpose This study aims to explore multifaceted corporate social responsibility (CSR) covered in popular English newspapers in the UK, USA, mainland China and Hong Kong from 2000 to 2016 via a computer-assisted analytical approach. This study moves the understanding of CSR away from corporate self-reporting to the mass media and raises interesting questions about the role of the news media in presenting CSR as a multifaceted, socially constructed concept. Design/methodology/approach Data were retrieved from CSR-related news articles from 2000 to 2016 that were archived in the LexisNexis database. Guided by the theoretical framework of agenda setting, a computer-assisted content analysis (Latent Dirichlet Allocation) was used to analyze 4,487 CSR-related articles from both business and non-business news sources. Analysis of variance was used to compare salient CSR topics in each country/region. Findings This study identifies newspapers as an alternate to corporations’ attempts to distribute CSR information and construct CSR meaning. The findings revealed that the news communicates a variety of CSR issues that are aligned or beyond what CSR was defined in corporate CSR reporting, as suggested in previous studies. In addition, CSR news coverages differ between the business and nonbusiness news sources. Furthermore, the media tone of CSR coverage significantly differed across the regions and between the business and nonbusiness newspapers. Social implications Emerging topics in CSR news coverage, such as business education, could help companies identify untapped CSR realms in the market. Originality/value This study contributes to CSR communication research by adding a non-corporate perspective regarding what CSR means and should be focused on. The news media presents CSR using a heterogeneous approach as they not only provide surface reports on corporations’ CSR activities but also offer in-depth discussions.

Between Coronavirus and COVID-19: Influence of Nigerian Newspapers’ Headline Construction on Audience Information-Seeking Behaviour

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. R. Ojebuyi ◽  
M.I. Lasisi ◽  
U.O. Ajetunmobi
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Information Seeking Behaviour ◽  
Key Terms ◽  
The Relationship

Since the onset of the new coronavirus, the mass media, across the globe, have continued to draw special attention to the disease by adopting different pragmatic and rhetoric strategies. In Nigeria for instance, the news media have continued to draw people’s attention to the virus by using COVID-19 and coronavirus as synonymous lexical entities in the headlines of their news stories. These lexical choices are believed to have some influence on how the audience understand and seek information about the virus. However, existing studies in media and health communication have not copiously explored the relationship between the lexical choices by media to report the COVID-19 pandemic and people’s information-seeking behaviour about the virus. This study was, therefore, designed to investigate how Nigerian journalists used coronavirus and COVID-19 as the key terms to report the virus and how the pragma-semantic implicatures of the lexical choices influenced audience information-seeking behaviours. Pragmatic Acts and Information-Seeking theories were employed as the theoretical framework while online survey and content analysis were adopted as methods. Findings show that although Nigerian journalists used coronavirus (SD=2.090) more often than COVID-19 (SD=1.924) in the headlines, the audience employed COVID-19 (M=2.23, SD=.810) more than coronavirus (M=1.88, SD=.783) while searching information about the virus. Besides, journalists’ use of COVID-19 in the headlines to educate (Chi-square =37.615, df=11, P<.000), warn (Chi-square =26.153, df=11, P<.006), assess (Chi-square= 24.350, df=11, P<.011) and sensitise (Chi-square =24.262, df=11, P<.012) facilitated audience interest in seeking information about the virus than when coronavirus is used as a keyword in the headlines. The lexical choices made by journalists to report a health crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic have implications for citizens’ knowledge about the crisis.

Picture Perfect? The Role of Instagram in Issue Agenda Setting During the 2016 Presidential Primary Campaign

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 484-499 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terri L. Towner ◽  
Caroline Lego Muñoz
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Time Series Analysis ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Presidential Campaign ◽  
Reciprocal Relationship ◽  
Series Analysis ◽  
Presidential Primary ◽  
Newspaper Articles

Instagram emerged as a pivotal campaign tool in the 2016 presidential campaign. This study examines the agenda-setting effects between the presidential primary candidates’ Instagram posts and articles published in the mainstream newspapers during the primary period. A reciprocal relationship between Democratic and Republican candidates’ Instagram posts and newspaper articles is expected. A content analysis of issues recorded daily issue frequencies in each medium which were then examined using a time-series analysis. Results offer evidence of a relationship between Democratic and Republican candidates’ Instagram posts and newspapers on some of the top issues in the primary campaign. However, the findings also reveal that candidate Instagram posts independently predicted newspapers’ issue agendas on certain issues with no reverse effects.

scholarly journals Youth’s Trust in Online News Media About The Corona Virus Issues

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 216
Author(s):  
Andini Nur Bahri
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Online News ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
The Public ◽  
Corona Virus ◽  
News Websites ◽  
News Website ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Selection Of

<p><em>News and information about the corona virus has become the topic most often consumed by the public lately despite the declining public trust in the media both traditional media and online media. It also affects the younger generation in consuming media and trusting the credibility of a media. This study aims to determine the trust of students who have studied science related to the media, namely students of Islamic communication and broadcasting UINSU on online news websites about the corona virus and how is the relationship between the selection of online news website with trust in media. This study uses descriptive correlational methods with as many respondents 228 people. This research found that most of the students chose national online news websites in getting news about corona and there was no significant relationship between online news site selection and students' belief that the online news websites  published accurate facts about corona virus.</em></p>

Education and Media Discourses

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Mockler
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Discourses ◽  
Assisted Analysis ◽  
The Relationship

Over the past 30 years, a growing field of scholarship has explored the relationship between education and the media. Scholars within this field have explored representations of education, schooling, teachers’ work and students in print and other news media, utilizing approaches that include critical discourse analysis, news framing analysis and, more recently, corpus-assisted discourse analysis. The relationship between these representations, public understandings of education and education policy has also been explored in the research literature, with a focus on the complex interplay between media discourses and public policy around education. The emergence of social media and the engagement of both educators and members of the general public on social media around issues related to education has seen this relationship shift in the first two decades of the 21st century. This, along with the growth of computer-assisted research approaches (including corpus-assisted analysis and network analysis, for example) has brought new theoretical and methodological possibilities to bear on the field.

scholarly journals The coverage of cultured meat in the US and UK traditional media, 2013–2019: drivers, sources, and competing narratives

2020 ◽  
Vol 162 (4) ◽  
pp. 2379-2396
Author(s):  
James Painter ◽  
J. Scott Brennen ◽  
Silje Kristiansen
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Cultured Meat ◽  
Industry Sector ◽  
The Us ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Previous Scholarship ◽  
Growing Population

Abstract ‘Cultured’ meat has attracted a considerable amount of investor and media interest as an early-stage technology. Despite uncertainties about its future impact, news media may be contributing to promissory discourses, by stressing the potential benefits from cultured meat to the environment, health, animal welfare, and feeding a growing population. The results from a content analysis of 255 articles from 12 US and UK traditional media from 2013 to 2019 show that much of the coverage is prompted by the industry sector, whose representatives are also the most quoted. Positive narratives about cultured meat are much more prominent than cautionary ones. Our findings support previous scholarship on other emerging technologies which concluded that with important variations, media treatments are largely positive.

scholarly journals Crisis Frame Dynamics: Frame Diversity in News Media and the Role of Governmental Actors

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-180
Author(s):  
Fynn Gerken ◽  
Toni van der Meer
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Press Releases ◽  
Frame Alignment ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Automated Content Analysis ◽  
Time Series Analyses

This study aims to understand the dynamic evolvement of frames in news media coverage of the Ebola crisis (2014–2015) and their interplay with narratives put forth in press releases from governmental organizations (GOs). An automated content analysis was applied to U.S. newspapers and GOs’ press releases on the Ebola epidemic. Time series analyses illustrate how the scope of frames in news media becomes narrower (decreased diversity) with the presence of immediate and problem-focused crisis frames and wider (increased diversity) with more progressive frames. Additionally, the results imply that a level of shared interpretation (frame alignment) between media and GOs fosters the openness of news media for a variety of frames, which in turn might lead to a communicative shift that eases the crisis atmosphere.

scholarly journals Power interplay and newspaper digitization: Lessons from the Pengpai experiment

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 497-510 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alain Peter ◽  
Mengshu Chen ◽  
Silvia Carrasco
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Negotiation Process ◽  
The State ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Contemporary China ◽  
The Public ◽  
Technological Modernization ◽  
Media Practices ◽  
The Relationship

This study looks at Pengpai ( The Paper), the first news app launched in China by a traditional media organization, in order to understand how media practices in the context of contemporary China have shifted. The case of Pengpai, which was released in July 2014, is not only about economical and technological modernization but also relates to the re-negotiation of the relationship between the state, professionals and the public. Drawing on interviews with journalists, content analysis, a newsroom observation and Pengpai’s coverage of certain events, this research sheds light on the covert power interplay at work in newspaper digitization in China. The ambivalent accomplishment of Pengpai reveals the relationship between the state and journalists as a negotiation process that includes dialogue and conflict.

Of Frames and Cultures - A Cross-Cultural Comparison of TV Newscasts

2006 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 160-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Senokozlieva ◽  
Oliver Fischer ◽  
Gary Bente ◽  
Nicole Krämer
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Comparison ◽  
Explorative Study ◽  
Cross Cultural Comparison ◽  
Tv News ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract. TV news are essentially cultural phenomena. Previous research suggests that the often-overlooked formal and implicit characteristics of newscasts may be systematically related to culture-specific characteristics. Investigating these characteristics by means of a frame-by-frame content analysis is identified as a particularly promising methodological approach. To examine the relationship between culture and selected formal characteristics of newscasts, we present an explorative study that compares material from the USA, the Arab world, and Germany. Results indicate that there are many significant differences, some of which are in line with expectations derived from cultural specifics. Specifically, we argue that the number of persons presented as well as the context in which they are presented can be interpreted as indicators of Individualism/Collectivism. The conclusions underline the validity of the chosen methodological approach, but also demonstrate the need for more comprehensive and theory-driven category schemes.

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