Mediatization in Pakistan: Perceptions of media influence on a fragile democracy

Journalism ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (7) ◽  
pp. 934-958 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence Pintak ◽  
Brian J Bowe ◽  
Syed Javed Nazir
Keyword(s):  
Evolution Theory ◽  
Media Effect ◽  
Mixed Effect ◽  
Positive View ◽  
Media Agenda ◽  
The Media ◽  
Policy Community ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Developed World ◽  
The Impact

A survey of Pakistani journalists, members of the policy community and media academics found that the mediatization of Pakistan is having a mixed effect on the stability of the country’s fragile democracy. Members of the policy community generally have a more positive view of the impact of the media on Pakistani society than those who work in the profession and say they take media reaction into account before making decisions, although all groups said the media are still unable to fulfill its watchdog role without fear of retribution. The results are in line with studies in the developed world that found that the more politicians believe in a stronger media effect, the more susceptible they become to media agenda setting. The findings also bolster the ‘co-evolution’ theory that argues media gain influence as democracy stabilizes in post-autocratic environments.

Translation, interpreting and the genealogy of conflict

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Pérez-González
Keyword(s):  
Special Issue ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
The Public ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
Public Consciousness ◽  
The Media ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The Impact

While the growing ubiquitousness of translation and interpreting has established these activities more firmly in the public consciousness, the extent of the translators’ and interpreters’ contribution to the continued functioning of cosmopolitan and participatory postmodern societies remains largely misunderstood. This paper argues that the theorisation of translation and interpretation as social phenomena and of translators/interpreters as agents contributing to the stability or subversion of social structures through their capacity to re-define the context in which they mediate constitutes a recent development in the evolution of the discipline. The consequentiality of the mediators’ agency, one of the most significant insights to come out of this new body of research, is particularly evident in situations of social, political and cultural confrontation. It is contended that this conceptualisation of agency opens up the possibility of translation being used not only to resolve conflict and tension, but also to promote them. Through a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches, the contributing authors to this special issue explore a number of sites of linguistic and cultural mediation across a range of institutional settings and textual/interactional genres, with particular emphasis on the contribution of translation and interpreting to the genealogy of conflict. The papers presented here address a number of overlapping themes, including the dialectics of governmental policy-making and translation, the interface between translation, politics and the media, the impact of the narrative affiliation of translators and interpreters as agents of mediation, the frictional dynamics of interpreter-mediated institutional encounters and the dynamics of identity negotiation.

The Media Agenda

2019 ◽  
pp. 271-281
Author(s):  
Rens Vliegenthart ◽  
Stefaan Walgrave
Keyword(s):  
Agenda Setting ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
International Context ◽  
Vast Amount ◽  
Media Agenda ◽  
The Media ◽  
Western European ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Research Studies

This chapter discusses what role the media agenda has played in (comparative) agenda research. Studies into the characteristics of the media agenda demonstrate that, compared to other agendas, the media agenda is characterized by high levels of responsiveness and volatility and that various outlets that jointly constitute the agenda strongly influence each other. In recent years, a vast amount of research has considered the impact of the media agenda on the parliamentary agenda (political agenda-setting) and how the size of this impact depends on a wide variety of contingent factors. Our empirical example uncovers considerable overlap in media agendas across various Western European countries, reflecting the importance of the international context in the construction of news.

CHILDREN AND TELEVISION: THE LOOMING MEDIA EFFECT IN KENYA

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-226
Author(s):  
Jerry Agalo ◽  
Joyce Agalo
Keyword(s):  
Lake Victoria ◽  
Terrorist Attack ◽  
Shopping Mall ◽  
Media Effect ◽  
African Child ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
Children's Behavior ◽  
The People ◽  
The Media ◽  
Developed World

The debate on children's behavior as competent television viewers and also cultural viewers today continues unabated in research. In the developed world, much of research has focused on the effects of television exposure on children's behavior and attitude formation. Other researches however, focused on effects on cognition. Yet the African child has been left out in such researches that continue to be conducted in developed world. Indeed, media research in Africa may not be meaningful without giving regard to Africanity among the children. This gives an open window through which one sees the peculiarities of the local culture in which African children grow as they get exposed to the media. While a number of Kenyan narratives celebrate the virtues of television including the discourses on coverage of the infamous terrorist attack in West Gate Shopping Mall in Nairobi, 21st September,2013,it appears that the role of television in Kenyan society is catapulting into political discourses with attempts in enhancing approaches to quality  governance. On the contrary,a country with over 40 million population with nascent capitalist economy, there is need for enhancement of local communities and increased opportunities for education which will not lead to the hegemony of one social group and subordination of others. Of these40 million people , 43% of them are children aged between five and sixteen. Thispaper concentrates its focus on the social milieu of the people living around the lake Victoria region, majority of whom are mostly fishermen.

scholarly journals Elections, news cycles, and attention to disasters

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 471-478 ◽  
Author(s):  
Candace Forbes Bright ◽  
Braden Bagley
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Election ◽  
Disaster Response ◽  
Baton Rouge ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Media Agenda ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
The Impact

Purpose Political elections, especially presidential elections, have a tendency to overshadow other events, including disasters. Response to disasters during elections, such as Hurricane Matthew and the Baton Rouge flooding in 2016, are often dependent on attention given to them from the media, as well as prominent political figures and political candidates candidates. The purpose of this paper is to explore how election cycles affect government response to disasters and ultimately demonstrate the dependency of crisis communication on media agenda-setting for presenting saliency of disaster risk and needs. Design/methodology/approach Responses from presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, as well as President Barack Obama, in regards to the Baton Rouge flooding and Hurricane Matthew, were observed using media reports and social media accounts. These results were matched with key events from the presidential election timeline. Findings There is a positive relationship between news exposure and attention, and also between attention and civic response. In regards to the 2016 presidential election, news coverage of the release of the Donald Trump-Billy Bush tape distracted national attention from the approach, landfall, and recovery of Hurricane Matthew. Information subsidies provided by the candidates directed the media agenda away from the needs of the communities and individuals impacted by these disasters. Originality/value Disasters are often assumed to be value-free because they are “blind to politics.” Here, it is argued that this was not the case in relation to these two disasters. Thus, the authors encouraged more research be conducted to clarify the impact that political elections have on strategic news coverage of disasters and ultimately on disaster response.

Twitter as a tool for agenda building in election campaigns? The case of Austria

Journalism ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (8) ◽  
pp. 1087-1107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josef Seethaler ◽  
Gabriele Melischek
Keyword(s):  
Conservative Party ◽  
Agenda Building ◽  
Press Releases ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Media Agenda ◽  
News Releases ◽  
The Media ◽  
Personal Accounts ◽  
The Impact ◽  
First Time

During the 2017 Austrian national election campaign, political parties that had traditionally focused on press releases and conferences to influence the media’s agenda made extensive use of Twitter for the very first time. This study examines the impact of the parties’ Twitter campaigns on the substantive issue agendas of five leading legacy media outlets. Compared with the impact of parties’ news releases, the results show that, on an aggregated level, Twitter feeds significantly increase the parties’ agenda-building power, but are not influenced by the media agenda – with the exception of the personal accounts of the top candidates (particularly the new leader of the winning conservative party), who follow the media agenda to a significant extent. On an individual level, incumbent parties are the most successful in using Twitter, while small parties suffer from interactions with other parties in communicating their issue priorities (which is in line with the ‘normalisation thesis’).

Media and Architecture Media Effect on the Formation of Architectural Identity

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 174-197
Author(s):  
Basim Hasan Al- Majidi ◽  
Ahmed Hashim Al-Aukabi ◽  
Zainab Khalid Rashad
Keyword(s):  
Research Problem ◽  
The Other ◽  
Media Effect ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Cognitive Framework ◽  
The Media ◽  
Basic Vocabulary ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
People’S Perceptions

        The general cognitive literatures have been studied several concepts which have different effects  on the field of architecture and its basic vocabulary, such as the concept of the media and its impact in highlighting the general features of architecture of the modern era, according to reality and the available circumstances on one hand and on the establishment for a balanced and stable identity within the overall architectural field, and within formulas and many varied forms in many levels within the general theoretical cognitive framework for all of them on the other hand. The research aims to define the general principles for the cognitive vision of the concept of the media and its role and influence in the field of architecture and in the formation of architectural identity, which forms the cognitive research problem and that comes as (there is lack in clarity for the cognitive perception about the effect of the concept of media on architecture in general and its role in building and shaping the architectural identity in particular). The research methodology takes the Literatures which concern with general cognitive of the concept of the media and its relationship to the concept of architectural identity within theoretical frameworks and of specific vocabulary, then the research goes to apply these frameworks to specific applications in the field of information and analysis of the results of this application and explore the verification cases of such frameworks indicators, then introduces the final conclusions highlighted the importance of the media's role in the monitoring of issues and topics of architectural and processed through two-parts (technical and humanitarian) in order to change people's perceptions to the fact that architecture and the preservation of the identity of a society from the impact of globalization as well as the evolution towards global through equilibrium between technology and investment and between culture and traditions.

scholarly journals Media Agenda and Press Conferences on COVID-19 in Mexico: An Analysis of Journalists’ Questions

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (22) ◽  
pp. 12067
Author(s):  
Julio C. Aguila Sánchez ◽  
Ninón Llano Guibarra ◽  
Pamela Pereyra-Zamora
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Attribution Of Responsibility ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Media Agenda ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Media ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
Socially Relevant ◽  
The Impact

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need to strengthen health communication in times of crisis. This study aims to analyze the media agenda of press conferences on COVID-19 in Mexico during the first two phases of the pandemic, based on journalists’ questions. The study is based on framing theory. The method used was content analysis from a quantitative perspective. This method was explicitly applied to the final section of the conferences, which dealt with “questions from the press.” The results show that at the beginning of the pandemic, the press was more interested in the government’s management of the health crisis than in issues such as the prevention of the disease itself or the economic impact of the crisis on the country. Moreover, the main characteristic of the questions was that they were generally socially relevant. In conclusion, we found that in the media agenda of the Mexican conference, the frame of attribution of responsibility was prominent but in combination with the frames of conflict, human interest, morality, and economic consequences.

The More Control, the Better?

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeeyun Oh ◽  
Mun-Young Chung ◽  
Sangyong Han
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Design ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Story Structure ◽  
Content Type ◽  
High User ◽  
User Control ◽  
Rigorous Research ◽  
Control Versus ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Impact

Despite of the popularity of interactive movie trailers, rigorous research on one of the most apparent features of these interfaces – the level of user control – has been scarce. This study explored the effects of user control on users’ immersion and enjoyment of the movie trailers, moderated by the content type. We conducted a 2 (high user control versus low user control) × 2 (drama film trailer versus documentary film trailer) mixed-design factorial experiment. The results showed that the level of user control over movie trailer interfaces decreased users’ immersion when the trailer had an element of traditional story structure, such as a drama film trailer. Participants in the high user control condition answered that they were less fascinated with, absorbed in, focused on, mentally involved with, and emotionally affected by the movie trailer than participants in the low user control condition only with the drama movie trailer. The negative effects of user control on the level of immersion for the drama trailer translated into users’ enjoyment. The impact of user control over interfaces on immersion and enjoyment varies depending on the nature of the media content, which suggests a possible trade-off between the level of user control and entertainment outcomes.

Dietary Vitamin and Stability of Oral Anticoagulation: Proposal of a Diet with Constant Vitamin K1 Content

1997 ◽  
Vol 77 (03) ◽  
pp. 504-509 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah L Booth ◽  
Jacqueline M Charnley ◽  
James A Sadowski ◽  
Edward Saltzman ◽  
Edwin G Bovill ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dietary Intake ◽  
Vitamin K ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Case Reports ◽  
Food Composition ◽  
Dietary Guidelines ◽  
Dietary Vitamin ◽  
Vitamin K1 ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The Impact

SummaryCase reports cited in Medline or Biological Abstracts (1966-1996) were reviewed to evaluate the impact of vitamin K1 dietary intake on the stability of anticoagulant control in patients using coumarin derivatives. Reported nutrient-drug interactions cannot always be explained by the vitamin K1 content of the food items. However, metabolic data indicate that a consistent dietary intake of vitamin K is important to attain a daily equilibrium in vitamin K status. We report a diet that provides a stable intake of vitamin K1, equivalent to the current U.S. Recommended Dietary Allowance, using food composition data derived from high-performance liquid chromatography. Inconsistencies in the published literature indicate that prospective clinical studies should be undertaken to clarify the putative dietary vitamin K1-coumarin interaction. The dietary guidelines reported here may be used in such studies.

The impact of news coverage of Russia in the media on export—import activities

2019 ◽  
pp. 30-44
Author(s):  
Elena A. Fedorovau ◽  
Svetlana O. Musienko ◽  
Igor S. Demin ◽  
Fedor Yu. Fedorov ◽  
Dmitriy O. Afanasyev
Keyword(s):  
News Coverage ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Impact
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