scholarly journals Twitter and Non-Elites: Interpreting Power Dynamics in the Life Story of the (#)BRCA Twitter Stream

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 205630511773322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefania Vicari
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Life Story ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Brca1 Gene ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Advocacy Organizations ◽  
News Reporting ◽  
Brca1 Gene Mutation ◽  
Preventive Surgery ◽  
Reporting Mechanism

In May 2013 and March 2015, actress Angelina Jolie wrote in the New York Times about her choice to undergo preventive surgery. In her two op-eds, she explained that − as a carrier of the BRCA1 gene mutation − preventive surgery was the best way to lower her heightened risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer. By applying a digital methods approach to BRCA-related tweets from 2013 and 2015, before, during, and after the exposure of Jolie’s story, this study maps and interprets Twitter discursive dynamics at two time points of the BRCA Twitter stream. Findings show an evolution in curation and framing dynamics occurring between 2013 and 2015, with individual patient advocates replacing advocacy organizations as top curators of BRCA content and coming to prominence as providers of specialist illness narratives. These results suggest that between 2013 and 2015, Twitter went from functioning primarily as an organization-centered news reporting mechanism, to working as a crowdsourced specialist awareness system. This article advances a twofold contribution. First, it points at Twitter’s fluid functionality for an issue public and suggests that by looking at the life story—rather than at a single time point—of an issue-based Twitter stream, we can track the evolution of power roles underlying discursive practices and better interpret the emergence of non-elite actors in the public arena. Second, the study provides evidence of the rise of activist cultures that rely on fluid, non-elite, collective, and individual social media engagement.

scholarly journals The changing role of the citizen in conflict reporting

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 178-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Babak Bahador ◽  
Serene Tng
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Citizen Journalism ◽  
Traditional Role ◽  
News Reporting ◽  
The Times ◽  
Changing Role

New technologies have facilitated the rise of citizen journalism, which promises to dramatically change the role of citizens in conflict reporting from consumers to producers and victims and witnesses to framers and analysts. If this potential is realised, the implications of this new form of journalism are significant, as they stand to challenge the government’s traditional role as the dominant source and interpreter of conflicts. This study examines the degree to which the citizen’s role has changed in conflict reporting through a comparative analysis of the 2008 Mumbai attacks in the New York Times, New Zealand Herald, London Times and the Times of India. The study finds that the rise of event-driven conflict news reporting offers a limited window of opportunity for non-governmental sources, particularly at the beginning of the conflict, to influence media coverage.

Mainstream Media Failure Modes and Self-Healing in a Propaganda-Rich Environment

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yochai Benkler ◽  
Robert Faris ◽  
Hal Roberts
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Failure Modes ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Self Healing ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Public Performance ◽  
News Reporting ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Election Coverage

This chapter examines how mainstream media operated in a propaganda-rich environment by focusing on its failure and recovery modes. In particular, this chapter analyzes two central attributes of mainstream media and professional journalism that shaped election coverage, and in some cases made them particularly susceptible to being manipulated into spreading right-wing propaganda: balance and the scoop culture. The chapter first considers how internal dynamics of news reporting led mainstream media to emphasize the email investigation over substantive discussion of politics. The chapter then shows how Breitbart exploited the hunger for scoops, along with the public performance of objectivity and critical remove of mainstream journalism, to utilize the credibility of the New York Times, and later other major publications, to propagate and accredit the “Clinton corruption” frame. Finally, the chapter describes the failures and corrective mechanisms surrounding the recipients of President Donald Trump’s Fake News Awards for 2017.

scholarly journals Transparency as metajournalistic performance: The New York Times’ Caliphate podcast and new ways to claim journalistic authority

Journalism ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 146488492199731
Author(s):  
Gabriela Perdomo ◽  
Philippe Rodrigues-Rouleau
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
The Public ◽  
Journalism Studies ◽  
Qualitative Thematic Analysis ◽  
Journalistic Field ◽  
The Times ◽  
Journalistic Authority

Transparency is increasingly touted as a strategic tool for elevating journalistic authority. Despite this push, literature has overlooked how transparency can be utilized for authority purposes in audiovisual artefacts. In this paper, we conduct a qualitative thematic analysis of The New York Times’ podcast Caliphate to examine how transparency is strategically weaponized to stake a claim to journalistic authority. Based on the premise that transparency is a metajournalistic performance – a type of journalism about journalism that is performative in acting on people’s perception of journalistic authority – we identify three of those metajournalistic performances in the podcast: Revealing the journalistic process, Constructing the reporter’s persona and Reaffirming the journalistic culture. Together, they exhibit a form of self-celebratory transparency that strategically performs boundary-setting, definitional control and legitimization functions, in a bid to impress audiences and have them recognize the journalistic authority of the Caliphate reporters and The Times. We conclude with the implications of these strategic performances of transparency. First, how it can be used by reporters to reinstate verticality over audiences. Second, how the journalistic culture (norms, values, practices, etc.) can be transparently projected outward (to the public) or inward (to the journalist themself) to elevate authority – a new concept for journalism studies. Third, how metajournalistic performances of transparency may reveal power dynamics within the journalistic field.

The Mediation Model: How Non-Moderate Nonhuman Animal Advocacy Organizations Get the Media Coverage They Want

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Erin M. Evans ◽  
Edwin Amenta ◽  
Thomas Alan Elliott
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Local Level ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Mediation Model ◽  
Advocacy Organizations ◽  
Animal Advocacy ◽  
The Media ◽  
Human Animal

Abstract In the 1970s and 1980s, there was a marked increase in non-moderate, or “radical,” non-human animal advocacy organizations. Social movement scholars argued that these organizations have greater difficulty than “moderate” ones in receiving substantial news coverage. But forms of substantive news coverage have increased for both moderate and non-moderate animal advocacy organizations. To address this, media analyses were conducted using content coding of The New York Times articles from 1946–2011. Logistic regression and qualitative, comparative analyses examined the conditions under which both moderate and non-moderate organizations had their demands in news coverage. Aligned with an augmented political mediation model, the findings indicated that non-moderate organizations are more likely to get substantive coverage when they target non-governmental entities on a local level through “assertive collective action.” The conclusion was that non-human animal advocacy organizations that have radical goals or tactics do not compromise the quality of media coverage in the long-term.

Trends in science coverage: a content analysis of three US newspapers

1997 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianne G. Pellechia
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Significant Finding ◽  
News Reporting ◽  
Daily Newspapers ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Science News ◽  
Time Frames

This paper describes a content analysis of science news reporting in three major daily newspapers, the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, during the last three decades. It was found that although science articles represent only a small percentage of the total number of articles printed, this percentage has steadily increased with each time period. The results also show that, at least in the newspapers analysed, science coverage does not differ substantially in terms of the range of topics covered, as well as information that has been both included and omitted from science news accounts. Although there were some differences between articles appearing in the different time frames, in general science news reporting has not changed significantly in terms of the comprehensiveness of accounts. An especially significant finding is that articles frequently omitted methodological and contextual information, features most often mentioned as critical for a complete journalistic account of science.

The New York Times’ Australian expansion and its internal contradictions

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-223
Author(s):  
Nikki Usher
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Third World ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Global Media ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
World Power ◽  
American Journalism ◽  
First World ◽  
Do So

The New York Times needs to expand to global audiences if it is to grow its digital subscription base. However, to do so it must balance difficult questions of colonial intentions with demands for inclusivity. By juxtaposing the case of the Times’ Australian expansion with its approach to global journalism as a whole, the power dynamics of American journalism imported from abroad to grow markets is explored. But the context is different from what most scholars critique as media imperialism: there is no capital surplus, the Times is not a global media firm, and in the case of Australia, traditional concerns of ‘first-world/third-world’ power flows are not present, although different modes of domination nonetheless prevail.

scholarly journals Representation of Social Actors in Sexual Violence Issue in The New York Times and The Jakarta Post Newspapers: A Critical Discourse Analysis

TEKNOSASTIK ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
Widya Evayani ◽  
Akhyar Rido
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Active Agent ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
News Reporting ◽  
Social Actors

Sexual violence was a social issue that arises comprehensive responses and can happen to all layers of society regardless of position, age, or other social factors. The objective of this study is to reveal how social actors are represented in news reporting of sexual violence. The data were collected from the official website of The Jakarta Post and The New York Times. The findings show that to detach the actor (exclusion), both of newspaper mostly presented the actor especially the victim as a passive agent and the perpetrator as an active agent. The salient differences were found in the use of inclusion strategy. This confirms that The Jakarta Post presented the actor as specific individual such as by their gender, age, and occupation while The New York Times presented them by their surname and title such as “Professor”.Keywords: exclusion, inclusion, sexual violence, social actor

Inhaltsanalyse elektronisch gespeicherter Massendaten der internationalen Presse

2003 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 98-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Galliker ◽  
Jan Herman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times

Zusammenfassung. Am Beispiel der Repräsentation von Mann und Frau in der Times und in der New York Times wird ein inhaltsanalytisches Verfahren vorgestellt, das sich besonders für die Untersuchung elektronisch gespeicherter Printmedien eignet. Unter Co-Occurrence-Analyse wird die systematische Untersuchung verbaler Kombinationen pro Zähleinheit verstanden. Diskutiert wird das Problem der Auswahl der bei der Auswertung und Darstellung der Ergebnisse berücksichtigten semantischen Einheiten.

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