Engagement and interaction with online news: a case study of housing affordability discussions on Facebook

2018 ◽  
Vol 168 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-47
Author(s):  
Michael Vaughan ◽  
Ariadne Vromen ◽  
Fiona Martin
Keyword(s):  
Data Access ◽  
Online News ◽  
Housing Affordability ◽  
User Engagement ◽  
Capital Cities ◽  
News Reporting ◽  
The Public ◽  
Facebook Pages ◽  
Policy Solutions

Concerns about housing affordability in Australian capital cities have captured the public and political imagination. How, then, do ordinary citizens discuss the causes of and solutions to the increasing unaffordability of housing? This article examines evidence that branded Facebook channels provide a space for citizens to engage in everyday engagement and interaction on housing issues. We argue that studying branded, public Facebook pages, despite data access limitations, is an important way of tapping into broad citizen sentiment and understanding media influence on topical issues. We also find that different ways of framing housing affordability within news reporting are associated with different patterns of citizen engagement and interaction on Facebook. In particular, generational frames (critically linking housing affordability to either older people’s entrenched economic advantage or young people’s inability to save) are associated with high levels of user engagement, but the lowest level of discussion about policy solutions within dominant comment threads.

scholarly journals Assessment of the opportunities for increasing the availability of EU data on consumer product-related injuries

2020 ◽  
pp. injuryprev-2020-043677
Author(s):  
Anita Radovnikovic ◽  
Otmar Geiss ◽  
Stylianos Kephalopoulos ◽  
Vittorio Reina ◽  
Josefa Barrero ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Access ◽  
Online News ◽  
Consumer Products ◽  
Product Safety ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Consumer Product ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
Online Data ◽  
The Public ◽  
Wide Range

The availability of data on consumer products-related accidents and injuries is of interest to a wide range of stakeholders, such as consumer product safety and injury prevention policymakers, market surveillance authorities, consumer organisations, standardisation organisations, manufacturers and the public. While the amount of information available and potentially of use for product safety is considerable in some European Union (EU) countries, its usability at EU level is difficult due to high fragmentation of the data sources, the diversity of data collection methods and increasing data protection concerns. To satisfy the policy need for more timely information on consumer product-related incidents, apart from injury data that have been historically collected by the public health sector, a number of 'alternative' data sources were assessed as potential sources of interest. This study explores the opportunities for enhancing the availability of data of consumer product-related injuries, arising from selected existing and 'alternative' data sources, widely present in Europe, such as firefighters’ and poison centres’ records, mortality statistics, consumer complaints, insurance companies’ registers, manufacturers’ incident registers and online news sources. These data sources, coupled with the use of IT technologies, such as interlinking by remote data access, could fill in the existing information gap. Strengths and weaknesses of selected data sources, with a view to support a common data platform, are evaluated and presented. Conducting the study relied on the literature review, extensive use of the surveys, interviews, workshops with experts and online data-mining pilot study.

scholarly journals Implementing Social Media - Practical Reflections from County Governments During Hurricane Matthew

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Emergency Management ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Public Agencies ◽  
Media Content Analysis ◽  
County Governments ◽  
Content Creation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Facebook Pages

Social media is an important avenue for information dissemination and public communication in emergency management. Through social media content analysis and in-depth interviews, this study explores how county level emergency management agencies use their Facebook pages to communicate with the public, using Hurricane Matthew as a case study. The findings reveal some areas of congruence between literature and practitioner experience. The results suggest that public agencies integrate flexible social media strategies, which emphasize one-way communication when the public expects larger volumes of information and directions, and two-way communication when the public might have individualized needs. Furthermore, the findings show that visual content (e.g. pictures) are more likely to garner higher levels of public engagement on Facebook. Last, the study provides several practical suggestions for content creation and interaction on social media for emergency purposes.

scholarly journals Participation and deliberation: a case study of readers’ comments to news stories on the Brazilian presidential campaign

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 96-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marisa Torres da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Online News ◽  
Presidential Campaign ◽  
Audience Participation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
News Stories ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Civic Forum

The Internet has created new “dialogical spaces” (Oblak, 2005) where issues of common concern can be discussed, serving to democratize the public sphere. As a potential deliberative section and a civic forum, readers’ comments in newspapers’ websites constitute a locus for public debate and ideas exchange provided by the mainstream media. As a case study, this article intends to assess the quality of audience participation in online news sites, by analysing the readers’ comments in the news about the Brazilian presidential campaign (September-November 2010) in the online versions of two Portuguese newspapers.

scholarly journals Corpus-based Comparative Study of Online News Reporting of the COVID-19 Outbreak in the Philippines and Malaysia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gio Eiron Villanueva
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Early Period ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Online News ◽  
Personal Hygiene ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
News Reporting ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Reports ◽  
The Government

When faced with new and threatening events like a global health crisis, the public tends to draw inferences from news media to make sense of the uncertainties of the situation. This study explores how online news media in the Philippines and Malaysia depicted the outbreak of COVID-19 during the early period of its spread. The study analyzes the discourse around the outbreak based on a large corpus of Facebook news posts between January and March 2020. Using a corpus-based approach called Keyness Analysis, salient themes & topics, and framings around the disease were identified and interpreted. The results show the differences in the reporting of the outbreak between the two countries. News reports in the Philippines depicted the disease in an enigmatic lens which explains the alarmist angle of news reports and the reassuring tone of the government, versus the war framing of Malaysian news that depicted the disease as an enemy to be fought and defeated. In reporting about the bid to contain the spread of the virus, Philippine news reports dealt mostly with the restrictions and regulations of movement while the Malaysian news covered more issues on personal hygiene and safety protocols. Lastly, concerns for Filipino seafarers and Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) that needs to be repatriated was a recurring theme in Philippine news reports regarding COVID-19, while concerns for the economy was prominent in the Malaysian news reports. The study therefore shows that the depiction of COVID-19 in Malaysia and the Philippines are shaped by each country’s present social and political conditions.

scholarly journals Viral News on the Coronavirus: Does it Contribute to Health Communication?

Tripodos ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (47) ◽  
pp. 49-66
Author(s):  
Rachel E. Khan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Health Communication ◽  
News Media ◽  
Online News ◽  
Online Media ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Sources

From a century to a decade ago, the news media played a crucial role in providing the public with valuable in­formation, especially during a crisis. However, the advent of social media has brought about a change in ac­cess and distribution of the news and this may have resulted in less effec­tive health communication during this global coronavirus pandemic. These days, social media can have a great­er public reach and therefore, be the best tool to disseminate information. At the same time, there is the ques­tion of whether the important or trivial information is being shared. The aim of this paper is to explore the role of social media in providing the public with important information during the height of the coronavirus pandemic. Using Great Britain as a case study, the research analysed the kind of content on the coronavirus that had gone vi­ral in online news sources in the Unit­ed Kingdom to determine whether the information that was being shared contributed or not to effective health communication. Keywords: news, viral news, online media, journalism, crisis communica­tion, coronavirus.

scholarly journals Press Release by Medco E&P Malaka on Serambi Indonesia Online News Coverage

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Suraya Mansur ◽  
Sari Anggaraini Harsono
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Online News ◽  
Press Release ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
The Public ◽  
A Company

<em>The study aims to analyze the public relations work suitability of PT Medco E&amp;P Malaka related to community empowerment and social responsibility on Education and Training of 40 Acehnese Children in PPSDM-Cepu. International Standard Ambulance given for Pidie Jaya and the support from Medco E&amp;P Malaka in the event Sail Sabang 2018 conducted by the company and press-released by Serambi Indonesia online in 2018. A qualitative approach with a case study method was employed in this study. The results showed that the point of view of journalists/media is dissimilar from the point of view of a company in writing a text. When media tend to publish articles based on a press release distributed by a company, then the company’s image and reputation will be affected and become positive.</em>

La representación eufemística de la relación gay en el periodismo serio | Euphemistic representation of the gay relationship in serious journalism

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adolfo Carratalá
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Concrete Case ◽  
News Reporting ◽  
The Public ◽  
Same Sex Couples ◽  
Plane Crash ◽  
The Media ◽  
Medios De Comunicacion ◽  
Sobre Todo

ResumenLa visibilidad de las relaciones homosexuales ha logrado un espacio considerable y una cobertura relativamente digna en los medios de comunicación social, tanto en contenidos informativos como de entretenimiento. Sin embargo, esta representación continúa sufriendo un tratamiento estigmatizador en determinados discursos periodísticos, que emplean el eufemismo como recurso para aludir a las parejas formadas por dos hombres o dos mujeres, sobre todo en noticias que abordan asuntos considerados especialmente sensibles o serios como las grandes tragedias o el fallecimiento de personas ilustres. Este trabajo, que pretende conocer qué consecuencias tiene esta práctica en las características propias de la información periodística, aplica el análisis del discurso y de la desigualdad para abordar este fenómeno a partir del estudio de un caso concreto: la cobertura de un trágico accidente aéreo en el que fallecieron dos hombres que mantenían una relación amorosa. La muestra está compuesta por medios de comunicación españoles, italianos y franceses. Los resultados obtenidos demuestran que predominan los ejemplos en los que la relación gay aparece oculta o enmascarada bajo términos eufemísticos. Este hecho supone incoherencias en el mensaje de los medios, impide a los lectores una exacta comprensión de los hechos y confirma que el contexto cultural continúa privilegiando la sexualidad hegemónica en el espacio público.Palabras clave Discurso periodístico; obituarios; eufemismo; homosexualidad; veracidad; identidad.Abstract The visibility of homosexual relations has gained considerable space and relatively decent coverage in the media, in both the realms of news and entertainment. However, this representation continues to suffer from stigmatizing treatment in certain journalistic discourses, employing the euphemism as a resource to refer to same-sex couples, especially in news items that address issues considered particularly sensitive or serious such as great tragedies or the death of famous people. This work, which aims to identify the consequences of this practice in the characteristics of news reporting, applies discourse and inequality analysis to approach this phenomenon by means of a concrete case study: the coverage of a tragic plane crash that killed two men who were having an affair. The sample consisted of items from the Spanish, Italian and French media. The results show that the examples in which the gay relationship appears hidden or masked in euphemistic terms predominate. This fact leads to the message becoming incoherent, prevents readers from obtaining an accurate understanding of the facts and confirms that the cultural context continues to favor the hegemonic sexuality in the public domain.Keywords Journalistic discourse; obituaries; euphemism; homosexuality; veracity; identity.

scholarly journals Implementing Social Media

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Wanzhu Shi ◽  
Pamela Medina
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Emergency Management ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Public Agencies ◽  
Media Content Analysis ◽  
Content Creation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Facebook Pages ◽  
Depth Interviews

Social media is an important avenue for information dissemination and public communication in emergency management. Through social media content analysis and in-depth interviews, this study explores how county level emergency management agencies use their Facebook pages to communicate with the public, using Hurricane Matthew as a case study. The findings reveal some areas of congruence between literature and practitioner experience. The results suggest that public agencies integrate flexible social media strategies, which emphasize one-way communication when the public expects larger volumes of information and directions, and two-way communication when the public might have individualized needs. Furthermore, the findings show that visual content (e.g. pictures) are more likely to garner higher levels of public engagement on Facebook. Last, the study provides several practical suggestions for content creation and interaction on social media for emergency purposes.

scholarly journals Social media power for protest in Indonesia: The Yogyakarta’s #gejayanmemanggil case study

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 541
Author(s):  
Ariza Fuadi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Online News ◽  
The Public ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Media Power ◽  
The Impact

Hashtag #GejayanMemanggil (Gejayan is Calling) became a trending topic on social media one day before the protest against several problematic laws, and the bills that were going to be passed. At that time, activists had successfully circulated the issues to the public through social media. As a result, at least 5000 protesters had joined in the protest in Yogyakarta. This phenomenon showed activeness of Indonesia’s civil society in the movement by involving digital media technologies. The author argued that social media allows the citizens, either communal or individual, to disseminate the issue and encourage others to join the protest in such short notice. This article aims to describe the role of social media and the impact of mobilisation through social media through the hashtag #GejayanMemanggil in the Yogyakarta movement. The qualitative method was employed to examine the phenomenon of the protests and to describe the role of social media. The data in this study was taken from online news, the official account of the movement, and blog posts. The results indicated that social media has the potential to trigger Indonesians to express their willingness and participate in activism.

Efektivitas Layanan Darurat Jakarta Siaga 112 dalam Penanganan Kebakaran oleh UPT. Pusat Data & Informasi Kebencanaan BPBD Provinsi DKI Jakarta

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Musa Musa
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Service ◽  
Fire Management ◽  
Emergency Services ◽  
The Public ◽  
Information Center ◽  
Disaster Data ◽  
In Fire ◽  
Document Review

This research was conducted to determine the Effectiveness of Jakarta Siaga 112 Emergency Services in Fire Management by UPT. Disaster Data & Information Center of BPBD DKI Jakarta Province by paying attention to aspects contained in the Effectiveness of the Jakarta Siaga Emergency Service Program 112. The research method was carried out with a case study method with data collection techniques using interview methods and document review. Interviews were conducted on 10 (ten) key informants, document review focused on documents related to the Jakarta Emergency Alert Service 112 Effectiveness research in Fire Management. The results showed that the Effectiveness of Jakarta Siaga 112 Emergency Services in Fire Management by UPT. The Center for Disaster Data & Information BPBD DKI Jakarta Province Its effectiveness is still low, due to the Implementation of Emergency Services Jakarta Standby 112 in Fire Management implemented by UPT. Disaster Data & Information Center of BPBD DKI Jakarta Province in terms of the Target Group Understanding of the Program, the Achievement of the Program Objectives aspects, and the Program Follow-up aspects. It is recommended to continue to disseminate this Emergency Service to the public, it is necessary to increase the firm commitment of the Head of 8 SKPD related to fire management so that all units play a role in accordance with the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for Fire Management and the evaluation and follow-up of program services that are held periodically 3 once a month.Keywords: Effectiveness, Emergency Services, Fire Handling

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