The Effectiveness of Locator Maps in Increasing Reader Understanding of the Geography of Foreign News

1994 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 937-946 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey L. Griffin ◽  
Robert L. Stevenson
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Method ◽  
Common Method ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Effective Technique ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Foreign News ◽  
Geographical Context

This study tested the influence of two techniques of providing contextual geographical information in foreign news stories - the traditional method of weaving it into the text and the increasingly common method of including a map with the story. Results of the experiment indicated that newspaper readers' understanding of the geographical context of a foreign event can be increased either by building geographical information into the text or by including a map, but the most effective technique is the redundant one of providing geographical information both in the text and via a map.

Media Coverage of the 2009 Afghan Presidential Election

2020 ◽  
pp. 562-584
Author(s):  
Christopher Strelluf
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Election ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
News Stories ◽  
News Sources ◽  
Foreign News ◽  
Foreign Governments

This chapter examines news stories about Afghanistan's 2009 presidential election from six Afghan news sources. It characterizes the overall topic selections of Afghan news sources, their election-focused topics, and some of the ways that election stories are framed for readers. It finds that, despite tremendous obstacles that journalists faced in Afghanistan, the news sources leveled a range of critiques against incumbent president Hamid Karzai, the Afghan government, and foreign governments. In particular, accusations of corruption were a prominent and unifying theme. At the same time, foreign news sources and stories focusing on foreign interests were heavily represented in Afghan news sources, leaving doubt as to how much the perspectives and experiences of Afghans were represented in media.

A De-Noising Algorithm Dealing with Spectral Signal in Color Measurement Based on Wavelet Transform

2013 ◽  
Vol 303-306 ◽  
pp. 1043-1047
Author(s):  
Hai Long Li ◽  
Jun Xu ◽  
Wen Jia ◽  
Sheng Zhu ◽  
Sha Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wavelet Transform ◽  
Spectral Data ◽  
Traditional Method ◽  
Spectral Measurement ◽  
Common Method ◽  
Color Measurement ◽  
Spectral Signal

Spectral measurement is a common method for color measurement. Spectral data of color samples gathered by spectrometers contains a series of noises. The traditional de-noising methods have their limitation in dealing with such signal. In this paper, a de-noising method is proposed for spectral signal based on Wavelet Transform. Compared the performance of our de-nosing method with the traditional method, the results show that our method a better effect.

The impact of political context on news coverage: Covering Qatar in the Israeli press

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-29
Author(s):  
Moran Yarchi ◽  
Tal Samuel-Azran ◽  
Yair Galily ◽  
Ilan Tamir
Keyword(s):  
News Coverage ◽  
Political Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Environment ◽  
Contextual Cues ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Foreign News ◽  
Time Frames ◽  
The Impact

Political environment is an important factor in news coverage, both in terms of the news items selected (the amount of coverage) and the tone of the coverage. Through an analysis of news coverage of Qatar in the Israeli press, the current study examines the impact of the political circumstances and the contextual cues in news stories on the framing of foreign news. The analysis includes 1,199 articles appearing in the mainstream online Israeli press in two time frames: summer 2013 and summer 2014 (during the war in Gaza). Findings indicate that, although both the circumstances and the contextual cues had a significant impact on the tone of coverage towards Qatar in the Israeli press, while controlling for the contextual cues in the news stories, coverage of Qatar did not change significantly during the war, which indicates that the framing process is less influenced by the immediate political circumstances than the political cues appearing in the coverage.

scholarly journals Dependency of Mainstream Pakistani English Newspapers on Foreign News Agencies: A Comparative Study of Daily Dawn and the News International

2018 ◽  
Vol III (I) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Muhammad Shafiullah ◽  
Sajjad Ali
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Framing Theory ◽  
Front Page ◽  
Purposive Sampling ◽  
News Stories ◽  
News Agency ◽  
News Agencies ◽  
Foreign News

The aim of this research is to highlight the influence of foreign news agencies on daily Dawn and the News International. Quantities Content analysis has been done, while data collected from two newspapers of three month, 2016. The researcher collected data through purposive sampling technique and coding sheet was used as a tool. The results revealed that both newspapers relied on the foreign news agency. The content analysis explored that daily Dawn was more dependent on front page coverage whereas daily the News International was on the back page. The study also disclosed that daily the News International is giving more value to the foreign wires news than daily Dawn as it has published more news stories in double columns. The result of the research supported the hypotheses and the assumptions of the applied theories including Framing theory and Gatekeeping theory that foreign news agencies are Framing and filtering information.

scholarly journals Automatic Pipeline Route Design with Multi-Criteria Evaluation Based on Least-Cost Path Analysis and Line-Based Cartographic Simplification: A Case Study of the Mus Project in Turkey

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Durmaz ◽  
Erdinç Ünal ◽  
Cevdet Aydın
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Traditional Method ◽  
Gas Pipeline ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Least Cost Path ◽  
Natural Gas Pipeline ◽  
Route Design ◽  
Pipeline Route ◽  
Optimum Route ◽  
Automatic Pipeline

The design of a natural gas pipeline route is a very important stage in Natural Gas Transmission Pipeline projects. It is a very complicated process requiring many different criteria for various areas to be evaluated simultaneously. These criteria include geographical, social, economic, and environmental aspects with their obstacles. In the classical approach, the optimum route design is usually determined manually with gathering the spatial references for suitable places and obstructions from the ground. This traditional method is not effective because it does not consider all the factors that affect the route of the pipeline. Today, the powerful tools incorporated in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) can be used to automatically determine the optimum route. An automatic pipeline route finder algorithm can calculate the best convenient route avoiding geographic and topological obstructs and selecting suitable places depending on their weights. In this study, an automatic natural gas pipeline design study was carried out in the east western region of Turkey. At the end of the study, an automatic natural gas pipeline route was determined using GIS and a least cost path algorithm, and an alternative study was conducted using a traditional method. In addition, a cartographic line simplification process with a point removal algorithm was used to eliminate the high vertex points and a simplified route was determined. The results were compared with the results of a finished Muş natural gas project constructed by The Turkish Petroleum Pipeline Corporation (BOTAŞ) and the negative and positive effects were evaluated. It was concluded that the use of GIS capabilities and the lowest cost path distance algorithm resulted in a 20% reduction of the cost through the simplification.

Media Coverage of the 2009 Afghan Presidential Election

2016 ◽  
pp. 143-164
Author(s):  
Christopher Strelluf
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Election ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
News Stories ◽  
News Sources ◽  
Foreign News ◽  
Foreign Governments

This chapter examines news stories about Afghanistan's 2009 presidential election from six Afghan news sources. It characterizes the overall topic selections of Afghan news sources, their election-focused topics, and some of the ways that election stories are framed for readers. It finds that, despite tremendous obstacles that journalists faced in Afghanistan, the news sources leveled a range of critiques against incumbent president Hamid Karzai, the Afghan government, and foreign governments. In particular, accusations of corruption were a prominent and unifying theme. At the same time, foreign news sources and stories focusing on foreign interests were heavily represented in Afghan news sources, leaving doubt as to how much the perspectives and experiences of Afghans were represented in media.

scholarly journals International news flow theory revisited through a space–time interaction model: Application to a sample of 320,000 international news stories published through RSS flows by 31 daily newspapers in 2015

2019 ◽  
Vol 82 (3) ◽  
pp. 231-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claude Grasland
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Interaction Model ◽  
Quantitative Model ◽  
United Nations Security Council ◽  
Common Language ◽  
International News ◽  
Daily Newspapers ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Elite Status ◽  
Foreign News

This article proposes a quantitative model of the circulation of foreign news based on a gravity-like model of spatial interaction disaggregated by time, media, and countries of interest. The analysis of international RSS news stories published by 31 daily newspapers in 2015 demonstrates, first, that many of the laws of circulation of international news predicted half a century ago by Galtung and Ruge and by Östgaard are still valid. The salience of countries in media remains strongly determined by size effects (area, population), with prominent coverage of rich countries (GDP/capita) with elite status (permanent members of United Nations Security Council, the Holy See). The effect of geographical distance and a common language remains a major factor of media coverage in newsrooms. Contradicting the flat world hypothesis, global journalism remains an exception, and provincialism is the rule. The disaggregation of the model by media demonstrates that newspapers are not following exactly the same rules and are more or less sensitive to distance, a common language or elite status. The disaggregation of the model by week suggests that the rules governing foreign news can be temporarily modified by exceptional events that eliminate the usual effects of salience and relatedness, producing short periods of “global consensus” that can benefit small, poor, and remote countries. The residuals of the model help to identify countries that are characterized by a permanent excess of media coverage (like the US or the Australia in our sample) or media that received a coverage more important than usual during several months (Yemen, Ukraine) or years (Syria, Greece) because a situation of long-term political or economic crisis.

scholarly journals Semantic Study on Network News Texts in Mode of “Distant Reading”

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 256-268
Author(s):  
Yanxin Chen ◽  
Qinling Jing
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Distant Reading ◽  
Web Based ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Network Media ◽  
Text Reading ◽  
Foreign News ◽  
Analysis Platform ◽  
Logical Semantic

The corpus adopted in this study is from the official news texts of Chinese and foreign network media collected and processed by researchers. By Voyant, a web-based text reading and analysis platform, the study finds and analyzes the semantic differences of lexical chunk Chinese culture in Chinese and foreign news stories under the semantic view of systematic-functional grammar with the digital humanistic mode “distant reading” as the semantic analysis research means. the study explores the implicit semantic deviation and its logical semantic relationship between Chinese and foreign news texts.

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