scholarly journals Response and responsibility: Mainstream media and Lucy Meadows in a post-Leveson context

Sexualities ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 31-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kat Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Media Representation ◽  
News Reporting ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Pronoun Use ◽  
The Media ◽  
Newspaper Articles

In this article, I focus on misgendering through pronoun use through a case study of news reporting on Lucy Meadows. I collect two corpora of newspaper articles and use these to identify keywords – words that occur more frequently in the Lucy Meadows texts than might be expected from examining the collection of general news texts. I explore patterns of pronoun use in the media representation of Lucy Meadows, and argue that press misgendering can take more subtle forms than the reporter’s use of ‘inappropriate pronouns or placing the person’s identity in quotation marks to dismiss the veracity of the subject’s identity’ (Trans Media Watch, 2011: 11). This article offers a detailed examination of strategies accounting for the majority of male pronoun use: selective quotation of key interviewees, repetition and metacommentary.

scholarly journals Media Representation of Children’s Privacy in the Context of the Use of “Smart” Toys and Commercial Data Collection

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (18) ◽  
pp. 6-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tijana Milosevic ◽  
Patricia Dias ◽  
Charles Mifsud ◽  
Christine W. Trueltzsch-Wijnen
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Media Representation ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Follow Up Study ◽  
The Media ◽  
Children’S Voices ◽  
Privacy Risks

The growing use of “smart” toys has made it increasingly important to understand the various privacy implications of their use by children and families. The article is a case study of how the risks to young children’s privacy, posed by the commercial data collection of producers of “smart” toys, were represented in the media. Relying on a content analysis of media coverage in twelve European countries and Australia collected during the Christmas season of 2016/2017, and reporting on a follow-up study in selected countries during the Christmas season of 2017/2018, our article illustrates how the issue of children’s privacy risks was dealt with in a superficial manner, leaving relevant stakeholders without substantive information about the issue; and with minimum representation of children’s voices in the coverage itself.

scholarly journals Using the president’s tweets to understand political diversion in the age of social media

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan Lewandowsky ◽  
Michael Jetter ◽  
Ullrich K. H. Ecker
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
Increased Activity

Abstract Social media has arguably shifted political agenda-setting power away from mainstream media onto politicians. Current U.S. President Trump’s reliance on Twitter is unprecedented, but the underlying implications for agenda setting are poorly understood. Using the president as a case study, we present evidence suggesting that President Trump’s use of Twitter diverts crucial media (The New York Times and ABC News) from topics that are potentially harmful to him. We find that increased media coverage of the Mueller investigation is immediately followed by Trump tweeting increasingly about unrelated issues. This increased activity, in turn, is followed by a reduction in coverage of the Mueller investigation—a finding that is consistent with the hypothesis that President Trump’s tweets may also successfully divert the media from topics that he considers threatening. The pattern is absent in placebo analyses involving Brexit coverage and several other topics that do not present a political risk to the president. Our results are robust to the inclusion of numerous control variables and examination of several alternative explanations, although the generality of the successful diversion must be established by further investigation.

scholarly journals The Vienna New Years Concert as a media phenomenon

New Sound ◽  
2013 ◽  
pp. 139-149
Author(s):  
Marija Maglov
Keyword(s):  
Media Representation ◽  
Television Network ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Relationship

This paper is aimed at drawing attention to the problem of the media representation of artistic music, through the case study of the television broadcast of the New Year's Concert in Vienna. The text contains a brief historic summary of the concert and its broadcast within the European television network, Eurovision. Using this year's broadcast (2013) as an example, certain aspects are marked that potentially represent a starting point for further interpretations of the New Year's Concert and, generally, the relationship between artistic music and media.

scholarly journals Automated News in Brazilian television: a case study on the AIDA system (Globo-Brazil)

2019 ◽  
pp. 255-274
Author(s):  
Renato Essenfelder ◽  
João Canavilhas ◽  
Haline Costa Maia ◽  
Ricardo Jorge Pinto
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Competitive Environment ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Television Network ◽  
Secondary Role ◽  
Media Ecosystem ◽  
The Media

Technological advancements have created a media ecosystem in which traditional journalism sees its existence strongly threatened by the emergence of new players. Social networks have created a competitive environment that, whether due to its dispersion or its capillarity, has relegated the mainstream media to a secondary role in the media ecosystem. Ironically, the technologies that threaten traditional journalism are also those that can save it; provided they are used correctly. Journalism, weakened by the economic crisis and with increasingly smaller newsrooms, has artificial intelligence as an opportunity to recover a certain centrality in the media ecosystem. This paper studies AIDA, a project from the Brazilian television network Globo. This project looked to automation as a way to avoid errors and ambiguities in the news. The study of the AIDA case, complemented by interviews, presents the challenges to achieve the automatization of news regarding electoral polls.

How can CDA unravel power relations in media representations of conflict in the Middle East?

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 584-612 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samia Bazzi
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
International Media ◽  
News Reporting ◽  
The Media ◽  
A Site

Abstract This study attempts to show the role of translation in giving meaning to conflicts whether by reproducing the dominant political beliefs of a particular media society or by resisting counter-ideologies that come from foreign sources of information. It utilizes Critical Discourse Analysis as an effective method for the analysis of power relations behind news reporting. The research uses a corpus from international media and their equivalent texts into Arabic between 2013 and 2017. The data covers events on conflicts in Syria, Iraq, Bahrain and Yemen, each article reporting issues about conflict and its impact on arenas of struggle. Through this case study of transediting, I will explore how textual analysis can unravel power relations and hegemonic orders of discourse. The study shows that translation is a site of conflict and has much to say about reasons for conflict and the complex relationship between language and power. The proposed tools of analysis in this study are based on functional language analysis and will show how language structuring, in particular transitivity analysis, articulates the logic created by the media outlet regarding reasons for conflict. The case study concludes that different media structure the current wars in the Middle East in different chains of causal dependence that can impact the reading positions of the readers.

scholarly journals Framing migration and the process of crimmigration: A systematic analysis of the media representation of unauthorized immigrants in the Netherlands

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jelmer Brouwer ◽  
Maartje van der Woude ◽  
Joanne van der Leun
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Corpus Linguistics ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Media Representation ◽  
Popular Belief ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
The Media ◽  
Newspaper Articles

In this article we examine whether the proposal to criminalize illegal stay in the Netherlands was preceded by increased negative media attention for unauthorized immigrants. Using a corpus linguistics approach, we carried out a quantitative discourse analysis of all newspaper articles on unauthorized migrants over a period of 15 years. Our results show that the amount of media coverage actually strongly decreased in the years before the proposal, and this coverage was moreover increasingly less negative. This study thus nuances the somewhat popular belief that unauthorized migrants are increasingly portrayed in negative ways and shows that the framing of migrants as criminals is a more diffuse process in which the media seem to follow rather than fuel politics and policy.

When an FDA Drug Approval Makes Mainstream News: The Announcement of Zulresso, A Media Case Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Moira Gunn
Keyword(s):  
Financial Markets ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Drug Approval ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Fda Approval ◽  
The Media ◽  
Drug Approvals ◽  
Novel Drug ◽  
Two Sectors

Media coverage following U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) drug approvals is generally found in two sectors: bioindustry news and the financial markets. The March 19, 2019 FDA announcement of its approval of the postpartum anti-depression biopharmaceutical Zulresso from Sage Therapeutics also elicited unusually high levels of media response in the mainstream media. This case study (1) details the total media news response following the FDA approval announcement regarding Zulresso, (2) compares that media response with the mainstream media coverage for Aimovig, a Novartis and Amgen treatment, which received the most mainstream coverage in the group of 2018 FDA novel drug approvals, and (3) compares the media coverage for three recent FDA drug approvals, Mayzent, Dovato and Evenity, to demonstrate a normative media response pattern. Findings include demonstration of Zulresso coverage across all major mainstream media outlets, well in excess of its mainstream media comparator, Aimovig. The three recently-announced comparators received the anticipated media coverage in the bioindustry and financial markets segments, while the two mainstream candidates, Zulresso and Aimovig, both received more and/or more timely media coverage in the bioindustry and financial markets media sectors three recent drug approval comparators. No determination could be made as to whether the mainstream media response to Zulresso was a singular incident, or the signaling of a sea change due to the maturation of the biotechnology industry.

scholarly journals Media Representation of Extreme Event Attribution: A Case Study of the 2011–17 California Drought

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 847-862 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shannon Osaka ◽  
James Painter ◽  
Peter Walton ◽  
Abby Halperin
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Extreme Event ◽  
Climate Impacts ◽  
Media Representation ◽  
Extreme Weather Events ◽  
Weather Events ◽  
Event Attribution ◽  
The Media

AbstractExtreme event attribution (EEA) is a relatively new branch of climate science combining weather observations and modeling to assess and quantify whether and to what extent anthropogenic climate change altered extreme weather events (such as heat waves, droughts, and floods). Such weather events are frequently depicted in the media, which enhances the potential of EEA coverage to serve as a tool to communicate on-the-ground climate impacts to the general public. However, few academic papers have systematically analyzed EEA’s media representation. This paper helps to fill this literature gap through a comprehensive analysis of media coverage of the 2011–17 California drought, with specific attention to the types of attribution and uncertainty represented. Results from an analysis of five U.S. media outlets between 2014 and 2015 indicate that the connection between the drought and climate change was covered widely in both local and national news. However, legitimate differences in the methods underpinning the attribution studies performed by different researchers often resulted in a frame of scientific uncertainty or disagreement in the media coverage. While this case study shows substantial media interest in attribution science, it also raises important challenges for scientists and others communicating the results of multiple attribution studies via the media.

scholarly journals The Representation of Roma in the Romanian Media During COVID-19: Performing Control Through Discursive-Performative Repertoires

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ionut Chiruta
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Critical Social Theory ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Discourses ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Town

This article investigates the narratives employed by the Romanian media in covering the development of COVID-19 in Roma communities in Romania. This paper aims to contribute to academic literature on Romani studies, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe, by adopting as its case study the town of Ţăndărei, a small town in the south of Romania, which in early 2020 was widely reported by Romanian media during both the pre- and post-quarantine period. The contributions rest on anchoring the study in post-foundational theory and media studies to understand the performativity of Roma identity and the discursive-performative practices of control employed by the Romania media in the first half of 2020. Aroused by the influx of ethnic Romani returning from Western Europe, the Romanian mainstream media expanded its coverage through sensationalist narratives and depictions of lawlessness and criminality. These branded the ethnic minority as a scapegoat for the spreading of the virus. Relying on critical social theory, this study attempts to understand how Roma have been portrayed during the Coronavirus crisis. Simultaneously, this paper resonates with current Roma theories about media discourses maintaining and reinforcing a sense of marginality for Roma communities. To understand the dynamics of Romanian media discourses, this study employs NVivo software tools and language-in-use discourse analysis to examine the headlines and sub headlines of approximately 300 articles that have covered COVID-19 developments in Roma communities between February and July 2020. The findings from the study indicate that the media first focused on exploiting the sensationalism of the episodes involving Roma. Second, the media employed a logic of polarization to assist the authorities in retaking control of the pandemic and health crisis from Romania. The impact of the current study underlines the need to pay close attention to the dynamics of crises when activating historical patterns of stigma vis-à-vis Roma communities in Eastern Europe.

scholarly journals The media representation of the Drina river fish stocking project: The case study

2013 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-52
Author(s):  
Natasa Simeunovic-Bajic ◽  
Ljiljana Manic ◽  
Aleksandra Majdarevic
Keyword(s):  
Media Representation ◽  
Fish Stocking ◽  
The Media ◽  
River Fish
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