scholarly journals Mediating Public Issues in Romanian Broadcast Talk: Personalized Communication Strategies

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camelia Beciu ◽  
Mirela Lazăr ◽  
Irina Diana Mădroane
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Talk Shows ◽  
Talk Show ◽  
Public Issues ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Talk ◽  
Ordinary Person

The article examines emerging practices of personalization in political talk shows on Romanian television. Our interest lies in the reconfiguration of the role of critical journalist, as performed by talk show hosts on private TV channels, in the context of increasing commercialization and instrumentalization of the Romanian media in postcommunism. This development consists of the strategic use of personalization, achieved through the talk show dispositive, for the enactment of positions of journalistic interpretation, adversarialness, and intervention on behalf of the citizens. The findings indicate shifts in the symmetry/asymmetry relationships between journalists, guests, politicians, and publics, as well as new ways of constructing and understanding public issues. Two main patterns of personalization have been identified: the journalist as a fully engaged voice, effectively substituting itself for the public opinion, and the journalist as an ordinary person, who has the capacity to see through and expose dominant public discourses.

Le Cirque Politique à la Russe

2020 ◽  
pp. 150-166
Author(s):  
Gulnaz Sharafutdinova
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Talk Shows ◽  
Effective Practices ◽  
Moral Outrage ◽  
Political Talk ◽  
Russian Media ◽  
Media Professionals ◽  
Political Legitimation ◽  
Western Media

This chapter advances further the analysis of media as a political legitimation mechanism in Russia by delving into the role of political talk shows in controlling public opinion in Russia. Borrowing most effective practices from Western media and American “outrage industry,” the Russian media professionals create TV programming focused on the personalities of their hosts and driven by moral outrage, anger, and other uncivil techniques. The analysis zooms in on Vladimir Solovyev’s talk shows, considered most crucial for the Kremlin-based propaganda efforts, and pays specific attention to the toolkit used by Solovyev and other media personalities in service of the Kremlin.

Deep Structured Learning for Natural Language Processing

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Yong Li ◽  
Xiaojun Yang ◽  
Min Zuo ◽  
Qingyu Jin ◽  
Haisheng Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Food Safety ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Early Warning ◽  
Conditional Random Field ◽  
Semantic Features ◽  
Related Sequence ◽  
The Public ◽  
Network Public Opinion

The real-time and dissemination characteristics of network information make net-mediated public opinion become more and more important food safety early warning resources, but the data of petabyte (PB) scale growth also bring great difficulties to the research and judgment of network public opinion, especially how to extract the event role of network public opinion from these data and analyze the sentiment tendency of public opinion comment. First, this article takes the public opinion of food safety network as the research point, and a BLSTM-CRF model for automatically marking the role of event is proposed by combining BLSTM and conditional random field organically. Second, the Attention mechanism based on vocabulary in the field of food safety is introduced, the distance-related sequence semantic features are extracted by BLSTM, and the emotional classification of sequence semantic features is realized by using CNN. A kind of Att-BLSTM-CNN model for the analysis of public opinion and emotional tendency in the field of food safety is proposed. Finally, based on the time series, this article combines the role extraction of food safety events and the analysis of emotional tendency and constructs a net-mediated public opinion early warning model in the field of food safety according to the heat of the event and the emotional intensity of the public to food safety public opinion events.

10. The role of media and public opinion

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piers Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
War On Terror ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
Persuasive Communication ◽  
The Public ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
The Media

This chapter examines the relevance of media and public opinion to our understanding of foreign policy and international politics. It first considers whether public opinion influences foreign policy formulation, as argued by the pluralist model, or whether the public are politically impotent, as argued by the elite model. It then explores whether the media can influence foreign policy formulation, as argued by the pluralist model, or whether the media are fundamentally subservient to the foreign policy process, as argued by the elite model. It also integrates these competing arguments with theoretical frames used in the study of international relations: namely, realism, liberalism, and critical approaches (including constructivism and post-structuralism). The chapter concludes by discussing contemporary debates concerning organized persuasive communication and the ‘war on terror’.

Role of Images in Constructing Public Opinion About Environmental Matters in Malaysia

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-130
Author(s):  
Mohamad Saifudin Mohamad Saleh ◽  
Harald Heinrichs ◽  
Nik Norma Nik Hasan
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Environmental Information ◽  
Quantitative Content Analysis ◽  
The Public ◽  
Quantitative Content

This paper provides a discussion on the perception of Malaysian media and environmental non-governmental organisations (ENGOs) on the role of images in shaping the public's mind about environmental matters. Two methods were employed for this study. First, a total of 24 participants from the Malaysian media and ENGOs were interviewed. Second, a total of 2,050 environmental articles on media newspapers and ENGOs newsletters from the period of 2012 to 2014 were collected for the quantitative content analysis. The findings from interview confirmed that pictures were labelled by journalists and ENGOs staff as the most important tool in presenting the reality of the environmental problems to the public. This is because, upon seeing the pictures accompanying environmental articles, readers will gain more trust of the environmental information. This was in harmony with the results of the quantitative content analysis, where more than 60% of pictures were found on environmental articles.

The Role of User Comments in Estimation of the Public Opinion Climate and Perceived Support for One’s Opinion

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 569-585
Author(s):  
Oren Soffer ◽  
Galit Gordoni
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Perceived Support ◽  
Online Experiment ◽  
Public Discussion ◽  
The Public ◽  
User Comments ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Negative Comments

Abstract This article examines how user comments influence assessment of public opinion climate and perceived support for one’s opinion. The effects of user-comment sentiment (positive vs. negative) and of user-comment content (with or without personal exemplification) were tested with an online experiment (n = 1,510). Results show that user-comment effects on estimates of public opinion depend mainly on the sentiment of the comments and not on their framing as opinions with or without personal exemplification. Negative comments significantly reduce readers’ estimation of public opinion support of the issue dealt with by the article and affect the perceived support of one’s opinion. Study results refer to the possible dangers in user comments deliberate manipulation in democratic public discussion.

Shaping Public Opinion and Community Mobilisation: The Role of Urdu Language Media in India

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 216-257
Author(s):  
Fahad Hashmi
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Community Mobilisation ◽  
Daily Newspaper ◽  
The Public ◽  
Democratic Practice ◽  
Indian State ◽  
The Public Sphere

Considering the role played by Rashtria Sahara, an Urdu daily newspaper that took recourse to the democratic practice of questioning and challenging the hegemonic formation of the maligned image of Islam and the faith community vis-à-vis terrorism in the discursive arena, that is, the public sphere, this article tries to understand the role of the Urdu language media in shaping the public opinion and mobilising people from within the community. To this end, first, the article seeks to comprehend the present configuration of the Indian public sphere keeping in view its colonial origin. Moreover, the ‘othering’ of Muslims in postcolonial India that has colonial roots, too, has been understood through the idea of ‘interior frontiers’. Second, the role and practices of the Indian state towards Muslims have been taken into account. And, the final section analyses strategies that were put to use by the newspaper to contest the hegemonic formation, which paved the way for social movement to emerge.

scholarly journals Recontextualising partisan outrage online: analysing the public negotiation of Trump support among American conservatives in 2016

AI & Society ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Right Wing ◽  
Rhetorical Strategy ◽  
The Public ◽  
Commercial Media ◽  
Media Institutions ◽  
Political Talk ◽  
Us Presidential Election ◽  
Contemporary United States ◽  
Creative Construction

AbstractThis article conceptualises the role of audience agency in the performance of American conservative identities within a hybridised outrage media ecology. Audience agency has been under-theorised in the study of outrage media through an emphasis on outrage as a rhetorical strategy of commercial media institutions. Relatively little has been said about the outrage discourse of audiences. This coincides with a tendency to consider online political talk as transparent and "earnest," thereby failing to recognise the multi-vocality, dynamism, and ambivalence—i.e., performativity—of online user-generated discourse. I argue the concept of recontextualisation offers a means of addressing these shortcomings. I demonstrate this by analysing how the users of the American right-wing partisan media website TheBlaze.com publicly negotiated support for Donald Trump in a below-the-line comment field during the 2016 US presidential election. These processes are situated with respect to the contested, dynamic, and creative construction of partisan identities in the contemporary United States.

scholarly journals Liking the sound of their own voices: A case of TV anchors and their shows

2019 ◽  
Vol 03 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hassan Shehzad ◽  
Dr Muhammad Zaman ◽  
Shane Zahra
Keyword(s):  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Talk Shows ◽  
Law And Order ◽  
Systematic Random Sampling ◽  
The Public ◽  
Percent Time ◽  
Political Reality ◽  
One Year ◽  
The Relationship

The aim of this research paper was to tap the role of anchorpersons of talk shows in promotion of media agenda and shaping political reality through measuring correspondence between time consumed by the anchorpersons and panel of experts. For the purpose, systematic random sampling technique has been used to select prime time talk shows of Geo News for one year. On the basis of wide coverage, three issues memo gate, law and order and corruption were selected to gauge the relationship between the variables. The results show a significant correlation between slant for the issues and time consumed by the anchors has been observed on all the three issues. The results showed that more the time grabbed by anchorpersons, more the programs remained in unfavorable state towards government. The results also revealed that 71% of total talk shows’ time was grabbed by the anchorpersons while panel of experts allotted 29% percent time in the issues. Anchorpersons remained unfavorable and biased in its deliberations towards government to a great extent by snatching the maximum time of the programs for molding the public opinion in a certain direction.

scholarly journals IMPLEMENTATION OF COMMUNICATIVE PROTECTION STRATEGY IN UKRAINIAN POLITICAL TALK-SHOWS

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (2(22)) ◽  
pp. 29-35
Author(s):  
Lyubov Zavalska
Keyword(s):  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
Talk Shows ◽  
Defensive Strategy ◽  
Communicative Behavior ◽  
Protection Strategy ◽  
Defense Strategy ◽  
Political Talk ◽  
Speech Interaction ◽  
Communicative Strategy

The article examines the manifestation of the communicative strategy of protection, which is used as a reaction of the addressee in the case of the interlocutor's choice of conflicting strategies of speech interaction in political talk-shows. An overview of approaches to defining and distinguishing communication strategies is presented and a detailed analysis of defense strategy in interactive political discourse is presented. It is argued that the defensive strategy is related to the communicative behavior of the addressee of a political conflict, who has a weaker position, less convincing to theaudience, but defends his beliefs by opposing the position of the speaker. Under such conditions, the addressee reacts to the aggressive speech behavior of the speaker, but does not agree with him, does not seek to understand, but on the contrary - inflates the conflict and acts as a political opponent. The defense strategy was found to be represented by communicative tactics of justification, evasion of response and counteractionto provocation.

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