Narrative transparency and credibility: First–person process statements in video news

2021 ◽  
pp. 135485652110278
Author(s):  
Mary Angela Bock ◽  
Allison Lazard
Keyword(s):  
Online News ◽  
First Person ◽  
Ethical Imperative ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Distinct Variable ◽  
Audience Effects ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
Reporting Process ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

Journalism critics have argued that transparency about the reporting process is an ethical imperative. Convergence offers news organizations opportunities for changed writing styles that may foster more transparency, especially as they embrace video storytelling. This project used two experiments to investigate the impact of transparent language on the way online news consumers perceive the credibility of video news reports. The study operationalized transparency in narrative as the use of first-person statements and references to the newsgathering process. Subjects noticed transparency statements but this had no significant effect on their assessment of the credibility of a story or reporter. The results suggest that transparency is a distinct variable with a complicated relationship to other audience effects.

Short Note: Rape A Consequence of Covid-19 Quarantine on Children and The Elderly: A Call for Action

2021 ◽  
Vol SI ◽  
pp. 85-95
Author(s):  
Grace Emmanuel Kaka ◽  
Muhamad Helmi Md Said ◽  
Shahrul Mizan Ismail
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Short Note ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Online News ◽  
News Reports ◽  
High Prevalence ◽  
The Government ◽  
Good Policy ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
The Impact

The novel coronavirus (Covid-19) led to a shift in the social structure of global cities leading to self-isolation and social/physical distancing to curb the spread of the virus. While these two are stand as good policy, they are greeted by domestic violence and rape as the most prevalent consequences. The researchers examined the impact of lockdown on domestic violence in Nigeria based on frequency of news reports using content analysis of two online news reports and discovered a high prevalence of rape on children (0 - 17 years) and elderly (60 years and above). Hence it is suggested that the government should always be prepared for emergencies. Also, future polices should consider the interest of the most vulnerable in the society by providing safety measures.

Games and Quizzes in Online Journalism

2016 ◽  
pp. 329-355
Author(s):  
Bartosz W. Wojdynski
Keyword(s):  
Online News ◽  
The State ◽  
Online Journalism ◽  
News Content ◽  
Interactive Games ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Viral Nature ◽  
The Impact ◽  
To Receive

The competition for online news page views increasingly involves strategies designed to promote the “viral” nature of content, and to capitalize on the content's spread by ensuring that the content does not quickly lose timeliness or relevance. As a result of the pressure for these stories, news experiences which can be revisited by consumers are at a premium. In this ecosystem, interactive games and quizzes which can be played to receive different feedback or reach a different ending offer promise for news organizations to receive ongoing and widespread reward for their efforts. This chapter provides an overview of the state of gamification in journalism, challenges and opportunities for the growth of games in online news, and discusses evidence for the impact of increasingly gamified news content on how users process and perceive news information.

Games and Quizzes in Online Journalism

2019 ◽  
pp. 667-693 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bartosz W. Wojdynski
Keyword(s):  
Online News ◽  
The State ◽  
Online Journalism ◽  
News Content ◽  
Interactive Games ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Viral Nature ◽  
The Impact ◽  
To Receive

The competition for online news page views increasingly involves strategies designed to promote the “viral” nature of content, and to capitalize on the content's spread by ensuring that the content does not quickly lose timeliness or relevance. As a result of the pressure for these stories, news experiences which can be revisited by consumers are at a premium. In this ecosystem, interactive games and quizzes which can be played to receive different feedback or reach a different ending offer promise for news organizations to receive ongoing and widespread reward for their efforts. This chapter provides an overview of the state of gamification in journalism, challenges and opportunities for the growth of games in online news, and discusses evidence for the impact of increasingly gamified news content on how users process and perceive news information.

scholarly journals Emotional risk assessments in the field: Leaving Tanzania during the COVID-19 pandemic

Ethnography ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 146613812110028
Author(s):  
Gerda Kuiper
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perceptions ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
Online News ◽  
Sharp Contrast ◽  
Risk Assessments ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Emotional Risk ◽  
Narrative Account ◽  
The Way

This article provides a narrative account of one anthropologist's experiences in the field at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The account is based on the researcher's field diary and digital communication, supplemented by online news reports from the period March to May 2020. The researcher's emotional assessments of the risks that COVID-19 posed to herself and others around her stood in sharp contrast to the way her interlocutors in the field responded to the virus. The article makes a case for the empirical value of a researcher's emotions, especially in moments of confusion and feelings of disconnection, in order to understand varying risk perceptions. This article moreover draws attention to the experiences of people living outside the initial epicentres of the pandemic. Many Tanzanians perceived COVID-19 as just one risk among many in their already uncertain daily lives.

scholarly journals The Role of Language Ideology in Translating News Media: The Case of the Syrian War

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
Andree Affeich
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Language Ideology ◽  
Online News ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

The objective of this study is to examine the role of ideology in translating news media, and the representation of language in the media. The framing approach and the framing of realities through the process of translation will be examined whereby ‘changes’ are made for ideological purposes in response to the attempts of the group of receptors and to ‘the norms’ of those receptors. The impact of language ideology on translation and the way in which translation serves cultural, political, religious or literary concepts continues to grow nowadays. Ideology is affecting the translation of the source texts in many types of discourses, among them the journalistic discourse which constitutes the subject of this study. How does ideology work? How is ideology conveyed through the translation of news media? What is its role and impact on the target texts? How does ideology influence the choices of translators? These are some of the questions which will be dealt with throughout this paper. The representation of language in media will be also studied with a particular attention to be given to the use of lexical choices that show how ideology appears in the source texts and the target texts, and to the validity and legitimacy of language which carries an ideological stamp. For the purpose of this study, a corpus of online news articles in English highlighting the war in Syria will be used in parallel with the translation of this corpus into Arabic by two opposite media outlets: the pro-regime and the anti-regime.

Tenses in translation: Benveniste’s ‘discourse’ and ‘historical narration’ in the first-person novel

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 244-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clara Mallier
Keyword(s):  
First Person ◽  
Great Gatsby ◽  
The Great Gatsby ◽  
General Linguistics ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way ◽  
Passe Compose

This article deals with Emile Benveniste’s theory of enunciation (see ‘Subjectivity in Language’ and ‘The Correlations of Tense in the French Verb’ in Problems in General Linguistics, 1971 [1966] and ‘L’appareil formel de l’énonciation’ in Problèmes de linguistique générale, tome 2, 1970), in particular his distinction between historical narration and discourse, and the way it applies to the translation of first-person fiction. In French narratives, the main tense of discourse is the passé composé, which is related to the time of enunciation, while the tense of historical narration is traditionally the passé simple, which is related to the moment of the events reported. The passé composé thus draws attention to the narrating I’s retrospective gaze, while the passé simple reflects the experiencing I’s perspective within the story. This raises complex issues of translation because the narrative use of the passé composé has no equivalent in English, so that the distinction between the perspectives of the retrospective narrator and of his former self are expressed differently in the two languages. This article explores the impact of this phenomenon on four different French translations of Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (Llona, 1926; Tournier, 1996; Wolkenstein, 2011 and Jaworski, 2012).

Exploring Australian journalism discursive practices in reporting rape: The pitiful predator and the silent victim

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 241-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Dunne Breen ◽  
Patricia Easteal ◽  
Kate Holland ◽  
Georgina Sutherland ◽  
Cathy Vaughan
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Online News ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
News Reporting ◽  
Reporting Practices ◽  
News Stories ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Victim Impact Statement ◽  
The Impact

This article draws on the qualitative research component of a mixed-methods project exploring the Australian news media’s representation of violence against women. This critical discourse analysis is on print and online news reporting of the case of ‘Kings Cross Nightclub Rapist Luke Lazarus’, who in March 2015 was tried and convicted of raping a female club-goer in a laneway behind his father’s nightclub in Sydney, Australia. We explore the journalism discursive practices employed in the production of the news reports about the Lazarus trial. Our analysis shows how some lexical features, quoting strategies and structuring elements serve to minimise the victim’s experience while emphasising the adverse effects of the trial on the accused. Furthermore, we demonstrate how such practices allow for the graphic representation of the attack in a salacious manner while minimising the impact of the crime on the victim by selectively referencing her victim impact statement. We found some differences between print and online news stories about this case, some of which may be attributable to the greater space available to the telling of news stories online. We conclude that in news reporting of the Lazarus case, routine journalism discursive practices, such as the inverted pyramid news-writing structure and decisions about who and what to quote, serve simultaneously to diminish the victim’s experience while objectifying her. These results build on international findings about media reporting practices in relation to violence against women and add substantially to what we know about these practices in Australia.

Appraising through someone else’s words: The evaluative power of quotations in news reports

2011 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 766-780 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula M. Jullian
Keyword(s):  
Online News ◽  
Western World ◽  
Appraisal Theory ◽  
Nobel Peace Prize ◽  
News Reporting ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Prize Award ◽  
External Sources ◽  
The Way

This article explores the inclusion of external voices in news reports, especially looking at the way these are exploited for appraising purposes. It is argued that attributions are not evaluation outlets for sources only, but indirect means of appraisal for the journalists as well, who support – and reinforce – the points they want to make through these voices. In this way, quotations help them imprint their personal views on the events and ultimately serve an ideological function in the text. The study compares the use of attributed material in various pieces of online news reporting on the announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize award to the Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. Taking some elements of Appraisal Theory, the article examines the role of external sources in two corpora representing opposite ideological positions concerning this event – China and the Western world – in order to explore how such material is used by the writer to engage in an ideological–evaluative activity.

Narrative, Intertext and Allusion in the Qur'anic Presentation of Job

1999 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. H. Johns
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Complex Network ◽  
Key Words And Phrases ◽  
Divine Revelation ◽  
Western Tradition ◽  
Islamic Tradition ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

Job (Ayyūb) is a byword for patience in the Islamic tradition, notwithstanding only six Qur'anic verses are devoted to him, four in Ṣād (vv.41-4), and two in al-Anbiyā' (vv.83-4), and he is mentioned on only two other occasions, in al-Ancām (v.84) and al-Nisā' (v.163). In relation to the space devoted to him, he could be accounted a ‘lesser’ prophet, nevertheless his significance in the Qur'an is unambiguous. The impact he makes is achieved in a number of ways. One is through the elaborate intertext transmitted from the Companions and Followers, and recorded in the exegetic tradition. Another is the way in which his role and charisma are highlighted by the prophets in whose company he is presented, and the shifting emphases of each of the sūras in which he appears. Yet another is the wider context created by these sūras in which key words and phrases actualize a complex network of echoes and resonances that elicit internal and transsūra associations focusing attention on him from various perspectives. The effectiveness of this presentation of him derives from the linguistic genius of the Qur'an which by this means triggers a vivid encounter with aspects of the rhythm of divine revelation no less direct than that of visual iconography in the Western Tradition.

Invention of Judaism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John J. Collins
Keyword(s):  
Way Of Life ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

Judaism is often understood as the way of life defined by the Torah of Moses, but it was not always so. This book identifies key moments in the rise of the Torah, beginning with the formation of Deuteronomy, advancing through the reform of Ezra, the impact of the suppression of the Torah by Antiochus Epiphanes and the consequent Maccabean revolt, and the rise of Jewish sectarianism. It also discusses variant forms of Judaism, some of which are not Torah-centered and others which construe the Torah through the lenses of Hellenistic culture or through higher, apocalyptic, revelation. It concludes with the critique of the Torah in the writings of Paul.

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