scholarly journals Issue and game frames in the news: Frame-building factors in television coverage of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum

Journalism ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (11) ◽  
pp. 1588-1607 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Dekavalla
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Strategic Game ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Frame Building ◽  
Current Affairs ◽  
Political Sources ◽  
Building Factors ◽  
The Media ◽  
Scottish Independence ◽  
Television Coverage

This article explores frame building in Scottish television coverage of the 2014 independence referendum. It uses content analysis of news and current affairs coverage and semi-structured interviews with broadcasters and their sources to explain how factors internal and external to the media may be specifically connected to the prominence of generic issue and game frames in the coverage. It argues that broadcasters’ perception of their role in this event and the powerful influence of political sources were factors that encouraged policy-focused coverage, while the journalistic routine of balance and media organizations’ perceptions of what would attract audiences favoured the strategic game frame.

scholarly journals Media-Analytics.org: A Resource to Research Language Usage by News Media Outlets

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 03004
Author(s):  
David Rozado
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
Language Usage ◽  
Liberal Democracies ◽  
Current Affairs ◽  
The Media ◽  
Human Skills ◽  
Textual Content ◽  
Strength Of Association

Most citizens in modern liberal democracies regularly consume news media content to inform themselves about current affairs. Thus, content analysis of news and opinion articles from popular media outlets can provide rich insight about the cultural milieu where such textual artifacts originated. Combining computational tools for content analysis with human led finesse can help an analyst exploit the capabilities of scalable computational methods while also leveraging human skills and expertise to guide the analysis. This work introduces an online tool, the http://media-analytics.org website, that empowers researchers by providing modern analytics tools to study language usage in textual content from news and opinion articles of major media outlets. Due to the diachronic nature of news articles, the Media-Analytics.org website allows the exploration of temporal dynamics in word frequency usage and strength of association between word pairs. It is the hope of the author that these tools can help other researchers gain insights about the temporal flux in language usage by major news media organizations.

scholarly journals Is Anyone Listening? Audience Engagement through Public Media Related to the Scottish Independence Referendum

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 246
Author(s):  
Agirreazkuenaga-Onaindia ◽  
Larrondo-Ureta ◽  
Peña-Fernández
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
British Broadcasting Corporation ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Audience Engagement ◽  
Political Event ◽  
Public Media ◽  
Current Affairs ◽  
Run Up ◽  
Scottish Independence

This paper explores perspectives from which citizen participation in media debates on civic issues can be reconsidered by means of a review of the existing literature on this subject and a qualitative study of how one particular public service media programme facilitated audience engagement and involvement in public discussion leading up to a major political event. The first section provides a general discussion of what media organisations do to engage the public they serve on political and social issues, the challenge of stimulating audience involvement and the ways in which editors and producers attempt to give average citizens a voice on topics normally framed by elites. The second offers a case study based on semi-structured interviews and content analysis of public participation in Morning Call, a weekday British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Radio Scotland phone-in news and current affairs show (the only programme of its type broadcast in Scotland) during the run-up to the 2014 Scottish independence referendum. Focus has been placed on determining what programmes of this nature can and cannot achieve in terms of civic engagement and which practices implemented by public broadcasting networks best stimulate audience engagement.

Media framing of immigrants in Central Europe in the period surrounding the refugee crisis: Security, negativity, and political sources

2022 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Kovář
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Media Framing ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Quantitative Content ◽  
Political Sources ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Cultural Frames

Abstract This article investigates how all the main quality and tabloid newspapers and the television newscasts of the main broadcasters in Czechia and Slovakia framed immigrants, what the tone of the employed frames was, and who the main framing actors were before and during the EU refugee crisis (2013–2016). Using quantitative content analysis (N = 7,910), we show that security and cultural frames are most commonly employed while the victimization frame is much less common. Whereas tabloids use the security and cultural frames more often, the victimization, economic and administrative frames are more often invoked in quality media. We also show that the framing of immigrants is predominantly negative, and that the security and cultural are the most negatively valenced frames. Finally, we document a dominance of political actors and the practical invisibility of immigrants and refugees in the media coverage.

scholarly journals Journalists and Science 2: diversity in the media coverage of the 2009 pandemic flu vaccine’s safety in France

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Keith Ward
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Flu Vaccine ◽  
The Media ◽  
Health Journalism ◽  
Pandemic Flu ◽  
Shed Light

The theoretical debate about the role played by the media in controversies over science and technology has mostly died out since the beginning of the 2000s. The emergence of a neo-institutionalist sociology of journalism and the application of Bourdieu’s field theory to this subject provide sociologists of science with new tools to make sense of journalists’ work in controversies. This paper draws on this literature to shed light the media coverage of the controversy over the safety of the 2009 pandemic flu vaccine. Using semi-structured interviews with journalists who covered this issue for the French agenda-setting news-media and content analysis of the coverage proposed by a sample of these media, it analyses the diversity in the media coverage of this issue. I show that journalists presented a variety of conceptions of their role during this crisis. This was reflected in significant variations in how the issue was covered in the French news media. These variations are linked to journalists’ professional trajectories, their media’s position in the market and the overall evolution of the field of health journalism. These results contrast with the traditional account of why vaccine criticism emerges in the news that presents journalists on the whole as being favourable towards the “antivaccine movement” and as interested in fostering controversies on vaccination.

scholarly journals TERRITORIALIZAÇÕES DISCURSIVAS E DISPUTAS NARRATIVAS: Aldeia TabokaGrande e os carnavais de Taquaruçu em pauta

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-38
Author(s):  
Anna Karolyne Souza Miranda ◽  
Ana Carolina Costa dos Anjos
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Social Imaginary ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Similarities And Differences

RESUMO Seguindo a perspectiva de invenção de tradições de Eric Hobsbawm (2012) que, na contemporaneidade, conta com o discurso midiático como um elemento constitutivo do imaginário social, que produzimos esse artigo. Desse modo, apresentamos e discutimos três narrativas sobre a Aldeia TabokaGrande e eventos carnavalescos, no distrito Taquaruçu, da capital tocantinense, Palmas. As frentes que constroem o território discursivo são as do próprio produtor do evento, criador e idealizador da Aldeia, a dos moradores de Taquaruçu e o discurso midiático. Para tanto, se vale de uma criatividade metodológica com uso de Análise de Conteúdo, Análise de Discurso, Entrevistas semi-estruturadas e Análise de Discurso do Sujeito Coletivo e encontra semelhanças e diferenças dessas frentes discursivas, demonstrando como há projetos distintos para narrativa da recente história de Taquaruçu, Palmas e Tocantins.   PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Disputa Narrativa; Discurso Midiático; Carnaval de Taquaruçu.     ABSTRACT From the perspective of invention of traditions of Eric Hobsbawm (2012) who relies on media discourse as a constitutive element of social imaginary in contemporary times, this article was developed.  Thereby, we present and discuss three narratives about the Aldeia TabokaGrande and carnival events in the Taquaruçu district of the Tocantins capital, Palmas. The fronts that build the discursive territory are those of the event's own producer, creator and creator of the Aldeia, the residents of Taquaruçu and the media discourse. To this end, it uses methodological creativity using Content Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Semi-structured Interviews and Collective Subject Discourse Analysis and finds similarities and differences in these discursive fronts, demonstrating how there are distinct projects for the narrative of recent history of Taquaruçu, Palmas and Tocantins.   KEYWORDS: Narrative Dispute; Media speech; Taquaruçu Carnival.     RESUMEN Siguiendo la perspectiva de invención de tradiciones de Eric Hobsbawn (2012) que, en la contemporaneidad, cuenta con el discurso mediático como un elemento constitutivo del imaginario social, producimos este artículo. Deste modo, presentamos y discutimos tres narrativas acerca del pueblo TabokaGrande y eventos carnavalescos en el distrito de Taquaruçu, de la capital de Tocantins, Palmas. Las frentes que constituyen el territorio discursivo son las del propio productor del evento, creador y idealizador del pueblo, la de los moradores de Taquaruçu y el discurso mediático. Para tanto, nos valemos de una creatividad metodológica con el uso de la Análisis de Contenido, Análisis del Discurso, Entrevistas semi-estructuradas y Análisis del Discurso del Sujeto Colectivo, y encuentra semejanças y diferencias entre esas frentes discursivas, demostrando como hay proyectos distintos para la narrativa de la reciente historia de Taquaruçu, Palmas y Tocantins.   PALABRAS CLAVE: Disputa Narrativa;. Discurso Mediático; Carnaval de Taquaruçu.    

Framing socio-political controversy: The 2012 Spanish labor reform as a case study of cascading activation

2021 ◽  
pp. 026732312110547
Author(s):  
Sergio Álvarez Sánchez ◽  
Alfredo Arceo Vacas
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Labor Reform ◽  
Activation Model ◽  
Frame Building ◽  
Political Controversy ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Government ◽  
Political Agents ◽  
Cascading Activation

In February 2012, the Spanish Government approved an aggressive labor reform. Many political agents committed to emphasis framing, highlighting certain aspects of the topic to persuade their publics with their definitions of the situation. Some generic frames suggested an individualistic approach to the labor market, while some others called for collective action. Following the cascading activation model, this research attempted to identify the flows of frames from the elites to the media outfits. A content analysis was conducted with the materials disseminated in February 2012 by the government, the two main Spanish unions, the confederation of employers, and four print media. Differences and similarities were found through bivariate analyses between the categories of the codebook. Although clear cascades emerged from the unions to the online daily Público.es, and from the government to Larazón.es, generally the media frame building processes did not limit to just depicting the frames of an elite.

The Interface Between Media Funding and Agenda Setting: The Conduit for Media Independence

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-53
Author(s):  
Jacob Nyarko ◽  
Ruth Elizabeth Teer-Tomaselli
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Print Media ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Fourth Estate ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact

The media was accorded the status of the fourth estate with the objective of making it autonomous of society players like the government and corporate entities. However, its funding questions the independence of these entities. Using an exploratory mixed method that combines semi-structured interviews with the content analysis of newspapers, this study investigated the impact of media funding on the independence of government and private print media outlets in Ghana, tagging advertising as a revenue-generating source to determine agenda-setting patterns. In Ghana’s media economy, government and corporate entities influence editorial autonomy and favour state-owned papers than private outlets.

IMAGE OF THE REPUBLIC OF MORDOVIA IN THE MEDIA VOLGA FEDERAL DISTRICT (BASED ON CONTENT ANALYSIS OF NEWS PUBLICATIONS)

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 44-52
Author(s):  
LARISA ZAITSEVA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Information Content ◽  
Federal District ◽  
Information Space ◽  
Political News ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Number Of Publications

The territorial image is formed both purposefully by the subjects of image-making, and spontaneously-based on the influence of information content published in various media. The purpose of the research is to analyze the image of the Republic of Mordovia in the information space of the Volga Federal district. The image of the territory formed by external target audiences by means of news materials is studied using the method of case study and content analysis of publications: “Volga news”, “Federal Press” news of the PFD, “Pravda PFD”. The authors conclude that modern reality is perceived through the prism of the information field created by mass media. The media creates images filled with certain data, facts, colored by emotions, on the basis of which representations, opinions, judgments, and assessments are subsequently formed. The media play a significant role in shaping the territorial image, especially for external target audiences who are not familiar with the region and do not have their own assessment knowledge and experience. Most of the information content about the Republic in the studied media is related to the main thematic blocks: politics, economy, social sphere, culture (art, sports). Moreover, if in the publications “Volga news” and “Pravda PFD” mention of the region prevails in the economic block, then in the publications “Federal Press” and “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” - in the political one. The Volga news publication significantly dominates the rest in terms of the number of publications about Mordovia. The content of publications is mostly positive and neutral related to the issues of economic development of the territory and the preparation and holding of the world football championship. Pravda PFD mentions the Republic in the context of news from neighboring territories, most of the publications date back to 2018, but here the context is related to the Republic's positions among the regions of the PFD in various ratings. The publication “Federal-Press” forms a generally reflective image of the territory, focusing on the negative aspects of regional life. “Nezavisimaya Gazeta”, giving priority to political news, maintains a neutral and reflective context of publications, paying attention to the key problems of the territory. Thus, the desired image of the region is counter-dictated to the image broadcast by the media through various information channels, so it is necessary to constantly monitor the information space and timely correction of the broadcast materials.

“We Speak the Truth!”

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-80
Author(s):  
Sari Hanafi
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Science ◽  
The Political ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
The Social ◽  
Academic Qualifications

This study investigates the preachers and their Friday sermons in Lebanon, raising the following questions: What are the profiles of preachers in Lebanon and their academic qualifications? What are the topics evoked in their sermons? In instances where they diagnosis and analyze the political and the social, what kind of arguments are used to persuade their audiences? What kind of contact do they have with the social sciences? It draws on forty-two semi-structured interviews with preachers and content analysis of 210 preachers’ Friday sermons, all conducted between 2012 and 2015 among Sunni and Shia mosques. Drawing from Max Weber’s typology, the analysis of Friday sermons shows that most of the preachers represent both the saint and the traditional, but rarely the scholar. While they are dealing extensively with political and social phenomena, rarely do they have knowledge of social science

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