Feminist Killjoys and Women Scorned: An Analysis of News and Commentary on the Sexual Violence Allegations Against Julian Assange

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Harrington
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Flash Point ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Digital News ◽  
Reader Comments ◽  
The Guardian

This article examines digital media debate over sexual violence by analyzing news reports and reader comments on the rape allegations against WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange. Through analysis of the Guardian and New York Times, the article shows how this case became a flash-point for debate about feminist constructions of sexual violence. News reports amplified Assange’s defense that the allegations stemmed from feminist influence on Swedish law and would not be criminalized in England, provoking feminist and anti-feminist commentary. Thus, this article illuminates the salience of feminist constructions of sexual violence for digital news and points to broader social contestation over the meaning of rape fostered by digital media.

LEXICAL AND SEMANTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF ABBREVIATIONS IN MODERN ENGLISH NEWSPAPER DISCOURSE AND TRANSLATION STRATEGIES

2021 ◽  
pp. 131-136
Author(s):  
С.Б. Фомина
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
English Language ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Powerful Means ◽  
Typical Type ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Lexical Composition ◽  
The Guardian

В статье рассматриваются лексико-семантические характеристики сокращений современного англоязычного газетного дискурса на материале англоязычных электронных изданий The New York Times, The Guardian, Forbes, The Independent, The Telegraph, Sunday-Times, особенности их функционирования. Газетный дискурс представлен как сфера функционирования различных сокращений, а именно контракций, усечений, блендинга, аббревиаций. Предметом выступают сокращенные лексические единицы, их функционирование в современной прессе и стратегии их передачи с английского языка на русский. Обработка фактического материала позволяет произвести количественный анализ лексики и определить наиболее характерный тип аббревиаций для текстов СМИ, определить их функции. Анализ материала позволяет фиксировать тот факт, что среди рассмотренных лексических единиц, именно аббревиатуры преобладают в современном газетном дискурсе, что подтверждает влияние событийности на изменение лексического состава языка и является мощным средством его пополнения. Функционирование образно-оценочных и культурно-маркированных сокращений в газетном дискурсе может как облегчать, так и усложнять восприятие информации. Однако сокращенные лексические единицы содержат широкий информационный потенциал, что позволяет фиксировать основное значение текста в памяти получателя и влияет на восприятие информации в нужном автору направлении. Словарь, включенный в текст, приобретает как информативное, так и эмоционально-оценочное значение. ____________________________ © Фомина С.Б., 2021 The article observes the lexical and semantic characteristics of abbreviations of the modern English-language newspaper discourse based on material of the English-language electronic publications from of The New York Times, The Guardian, Forbes, The Independent, The Telegraph, Sunday-Times, discusses the functioning of abbreviations. Newspaper discourse is presented as the sphere of functioning of various abbreviations, such as contractions, clipping, blending, abbreviations. The subject is abbreviated lexical units, their functioning in the modern press and strategies for their transfer from English into Russian. Factual material analysis allows carrying out a quantitative analysis of the vocabulary and determine the most typical type of abbreviations for media texts, their functions. The analysis of the material proves quantitative superiority of abbreviations that prevail in modern newspaper discourse that confirms the influence of eventfulness on the change in the lexical composition of the language and is a powerful means of replenishing it. The functioning of figurative and evaluative and culturally-marked abbreviations in newspaper discourse facilitates and complicates the perception of information at the same time. However, abbreviated lexical units contain a wide information potential, which allows fixing the main meaning of the text in the receiver's memory and affects the perception of information in the direction the author needs. The vocabulary included in the text acquires informative and emotionally evaluative value as well.

Global Warming as a Socioscientific Controversy

2016 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Craig O. Stewart ◽  
Claire Rhodes
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Policy Responses

Socioscientific controversies are “extended argumentative engagements over socially significant issues … comprising communicative events and practices in and from both scientific and nonscientific spheres” (Stewart, 2009, p. 125). While global warming is not controversial among the vast majority of climate scientists, socioscientific controversies over global warming abound in various media, as citizens, politicians, journalists, and others discuss and weigh the scientific evidence for and appropriate policy responses to global warming. In this chapter, the authors investigate the lexical choices used in the New York Times in straight news articles reporting on controversies about global warming from 2001-2006, as partisan differences on this issue became more pronounced. Specifically, using DICTION 5.0, the authors analyze 87 news reports, comparing those focused on science issues with those focused on policy issues. These statistical lexical comparisons are supplemented with qualitative discourse analyses.

scholarly journals Imagining big data: Illustrations of “big data” in US news articles, 2010–2016

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Pentzold ◽  
Cornelia Brantner ◽  
Lena Fölsche
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Big Data ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Dominant Mode ◽  
Washington Post ◽  
Cultural Impact ◽  
News Reports ◽  
The People ◽  
Physical Form ◽  
Abstract Data

Imagining “big data” brings up a palette of concerns about their technological intricacies, political significance, commercial value, and cultural impact. We look at this emerging arena of public sense-making and consider the spectrum of press illustrations that are employed to show what big data are and what their consequences could be. We collected all images from big data-related articles published in the online editions of The New York Times and The Washington Post. As the first examination of the visual dimension of big data news reports to date, our study suggests that big data are predominantly illustrated with reference to their areas of application and the people and materials involved in data analytics. As such, they provide concrete physical form to abstract data. Rather than conceiving of potential ramifications that are more or less likely to materialize, the dominant mode of illustration draws on existing, though often trite, visual evidence.

scholarly journals Political Routines in Press Translation

2013 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 1013-1028 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petros Kontos ◽  
Maria Sidiropoulou
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Multidisciplinary Approach ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Background Knowledge ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Information Selection ◽  
The Guardian ◽  
Cultural Shifts

The paper aims at showing that the journalist-translators’ decision-making with respect to what is to be included or left out of a target text, in the limited space provided by target newspapers, is governed by background knowledge considerations which reveal awareness of current political routines – in addition to generic constraints, narrative priorities, language-specific preference, etc. This is a pragmatic level of meaning which contributes to realizing the intention of the text producer. The paper examines two source text/target text pairs of articles on Tony Blair’s premiership, from The Guardian and The New York Times (2007), translated into Greek for Η Καθημερινή (I Kathimerini) broadsheet newspaper. It presents an overview of linguistic/cultural shifts which ensure acceptability in the target text, and shows that information selection/reduction adheres – inter alia – to political theoretical background knowledge: in this case, it assumes perception of the notion of political representation, which may vary across cultures, and awareness of the features of presidentialism according to Heywood, which parliamentary executives’ conduct often exhibits. Findings underline the multi-faceted task of journalist-translators and call for a multidisciplinary approach to news translation, which would encompass political theory perspectives, in addition to linguistic and journalistic perspectives to variation.

scholarly journals lexical Means of Language Personality (Based on the Material of Speeches by American Politicians)

2020 ◽  
pp. 89-92
Author(s):  
Irina Sergeevna Golovanova ◽  
Elena Valerevna Bolotova
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Republican Party ◽  
English Language ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Political Life ◽  
World Language ◽  
Political Speeches ◽  
American Society ◽  
The Guardian

The authors of the article outline that in modern linguistics, the role of human character in language and speech is studied, new concepts such as the conceptual picture of the world, language portrait, speech portrait, the ratio of language and speech, etc. are defined. The relevance of the article is presented in the linguistic description of the speeches by politicians of the Republican party in connection with the increased international interest in political life. The language features of speeches by American politicians are reviewed. The goal-directed factor of the research is to determine the lexical features of political speeches that characterize representatives of the Republican party as well-known political figures. Methods. Accordingly, the description of the lexicon of politicians, which acts as a lexical analysis in this work, is the main method of research, which is inextricably linked with semantic analysis. The language base for the research is English-language publications, such as The Guardian, the Washington Post, and the New York Times. The results of the study are associated with the identification of words used in political speeches that show the attitude of Republicans to the needs and values of American society, special abbreviations, expressions related to political, military, and social spheres of activity. It is concluded that the lexical and semantic characteristics influence the formation of ideas about the communicative and personal qualities of politicians.

scholarly journals Pautas de redacción y análisis de contenido en noticias sobre suicidio en la prensa española e internacional: efecto Werther&Papageno y seguimiento de las recomendaciones de la OMS

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (45) ◽  
pp. 139-159
Author(s):  
Melani Lois-Barcia ◽  
Icía Rodríguez-Arias ◽  
Miguel Túñez
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Washington Post ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The Guardian ◽  
Medios De Comunicacion

En España fallecen por suicidio el triple de personas que en accidente de tráfico, pero la muerte intencional sigue siendo un asunto que en las redacciones informativas se silencia por considerar que su visibilidad fomenta el aumento de conductas imitativas. La Organización Mundial de la Salud promueve desde 2000 una guideline para el abordaje informativo del suicidio en la que se proponen comportamientos diferentes: informar con  responsabilidad y de modo que se colabore en dinámicas de prevención. Esta investigación revisa libros de estilo o códigos de conducta de FAPE, de los nueve colegios profesionales de España y de 23 organizaciones profesionales internacionales y analiza las noticias online durante seis meses en una muestra intencional de 11 periódicos de referencia (El País, El Mundo, La Vanguardia, La Voz de Galicia y El Periódico, The Guardian, Le Monde, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Corrieri della Sera y Público) para identificar si existen pautas que orienten el abordaje informativo e intentar determinar si la política informativa apuesta por fomentar el efecto Werther (silencio) o el efecto Papageno (prevención).PALABRAS CLAVE: Medios de comunicación, responsabilidad social,prensa, suicidio.

scholarly journals Нормы и правила поведения журналистов в социальных сетях (анализ редакционных стандартов ведущих англоязычных СМИ)

MediaAlmanah ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 106 (5) ◽  
pp. 88-95
Author(s):  
Диана Юрьевна Кульчицкая ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
The Guardian

В статье рассматриваются правила поведения журналистов зарубежных СМИ в социальных сетях, закрепленные в редакционных стандартах компаний. Автор изучает внутренние документы шести ведущих англоязычных редакций: CNN, BBC, AP, Reuters, The Guardian, The New York Times. Как показало исследование, медиамененджеры чаще видят в соцсетях угрозу для профессиональных стандартов и реже отмечают потенциальные позитивные стороны использования социальных медиа в практике журналистов.

scholarly journals Valor-experiência no contexto do jornalismo experiencial

2019 ◽  
pp. 82-95
Author(s):  
Raquel Ritter Longhi ◽  
Kati Caetano
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
The Guardian

Resumo Um sobrevoo rápido nas estratégias contemporâneas do jornalismo aponta para um reforço nas ideias de “experiência” e de “experimentação”. A recorrência com que tais conceitos têm sido empregados em vários domínios científicos e profissionais atesta sua importância em relação a conteúdos ciberjornalísticos, especialmente utilizando Realidade Virtual e Realidade Aumentada. Este artigo discute a experiência neste panorama, levando em conta duas esferas: uma, que diz respeito à experimentação do jornalismo enquanto âmbito de produção, e a segunda, no que concerne à experiência do leitor/usuário enquanto fruidor de conteúdos. A análise foi realizada em jornais de referência como Folha de S. Paul, The New York Times e The Guardian. A conclusão aponta que se manifesta uma instância na produção e fruição de conteúdos jornalísticos que podemos definir como valor-experiência.

Investigating status hierarchies with media analysis: Muslims, Jews, and Catholics in The New York Times and The Guardian headlines, 1985–2014

2018 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 239-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Bleich ◽  
Hasher Nisar ◽  
Cara Vazquez
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Media Analysis ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Media Portrayals ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Highly Sensitive ◽  
The Guardian ◽  
The Impact

Media analyses can help expand our understanding of how hierarchies are expressed and of how they evolve across time and place. In this article, we compare coverage of Muslims, Jews, and Catholics in The New York Times and The Guardian headlines over a 30-year time period. In aggregate, our data show that media portrayals of groups are relatively stable over the span of decades rather than highly sensitive to the impact of events at any given point in time. In keeping with the findings of surveys, Muslims are generally associated with more negativity than Catholics or Jews. At the same time, our data also reveal information that nuances what traditional surveys have shown. For example, Jews are portrayed consistently more positively than Catholics in our analysis; in addition, while headlines about Catholics are more positive than those about Muslims in The New York Times, the tone of headlines about the two groups is indistinguishable in The Guardian. The methods and the findings introduced here contribute to the research agenda of scholars concerned with identifying, tracking, and understanding status hierarchies.

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