scholarly journals The Jallikattu Fiasco: Week Long Protest against the Ban Enforced and the Role Played by Print Media

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Shantharaju S ◽  
Vivian Peter
Keyword(s):  
Urban Communities ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Print Media ◽  
News Story ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
Precise Control ◽  
Sensitive Issue ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Number Of Individuals

As the fourth pillar of democratic governments, media has a significant influence in the formation of general conclusions among the masses. The bull has stomped its way into featured news story in Tamil Nadu several times in the last decade. From the time that people of Tamil Nadu prepared to celebrate Pongal in 2017, a large number of individuals from different urban communities of the state came together in open spaces, such as coastal areas and playgrounds, challenging a Supreme Court directive prohibiting the essentially provincial spectacle of Jallikattu. Convenient conclusions have frequently been drawn with regard to debilitating injuries and even deaths. The ‘game’ has never been directed by anyone with precise control. The present paper is an attempt to understand how a section of media, mostly newspapers, portrayed this sensitive issue. The review conducts a comparison between one English daily and one vernacular daily, both covering the Chennai locale in Tamil Nadu and attempts to examine the stand taken by print media in the projection of Jallikattu.

Authorities Replaced Others

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin G. Barnhurst
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
News Story ◽  
The Press ◽  
News Event ◽  
Number Of Individuals ◽  
Ordinary Citizens

This chapter examines the shift in the roles persons play in the news. Studies of newspapers and newscasts show that by the mid-twentieth century, the number of individuals who take action in a news event, or become the victims of those actions in the press, dropped to less than three in the average crime, accident, or job story. Others took their places. A century ago, an official would appear in only one of four stories. However, the number of officials involved in or having direct responsibility over activities in the news has increased steadily until at least one official appeared in almost every news story. Studies of Internet editions for the same newspapers found that the number of officials continued to be large through 2010. Ordinary citizens and unaffiliated individuals continued to appear in stories, but as news grew longer, it replaced more of them. Political stories from the newspapers and their Internet editions are the most pronounced example: officials and others have come to outnumber individual actors.

scholarly journals Apocalypse Now?

2001 ◽  
Vol 31 (125) ◽  
pp. 603-624 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iris Bünger
Keyword(s):  
Print Media ◽  
September 11 ◽  
The Media ◽  
Discursive Strategy ◽  
The Masses ◽  
The Military

The role played by the media in the construction of societal reality is both – determined by discourse and determines discourse. The media can be regarded as a kind of „magnifying glass” that collects information and focuses it for the masses. The reporting of the BILD-Zeitung, a leading figure in mass print media is analysed after the attacks on US-targets on September 11, 2001. The discursive strategy to define terror as war and to prepare the military counter attacks entailing „unlimited German Solidarity” is demonstrated by illumination of the argumentation strategies and collective symbolism.

The structure of the accident news story

1997 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rick A.M. Iedema
Keyword(s):  
Print Media ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The Other ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
News Story ◽  
Modern Industrial Society ◽  
Writing Practices ◽  
News Writing ◽  
The One ◽  
Media Audience

This paper presents an overview of 150 years of accident news writing as presented in the Sydney Morning Herald, with the aim of uncovering the genesis of the ‘hard’ news story, and locating the practice of news writing in its historical context. This overview will serve as a grounding for a discussion of current news writing practices in general. Parallels will be suggested between the nature of accident stories on the one hand, and the role and concerns of the print media in modern industrial society on the other. The paper concludes that ‘hard’ news writing is concerned with the recontextualization of socially ‘destabilizing’ events (Iedema, Feez and White 1995), as well as with the rendering relevant of these recontextualizations to a diffuse and generalised media audience.

‘Local (People) Mean the World to US’: Australia's Regional Newspapers and the ‘Closer to Readers’ Assumption

2005 ◽  
Vol 115 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqui Ewart ◽  
Brian L. Massey
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Print Media ◽  
Local People ◽  
News Story ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Australian State ◽  
Regional Newspapers ◽  
The World

The intersections between journalism and democracy are explored in this paper through an analysis of the ‘voices’ through which the news is ‘told’ by specific segments of the Australian print media. We argue that evidence of the extent to which a newspaper fulfils its roles to democracy and society is partially found in the range of sources quoted in the news stories it publishes, and in the prominence and dominance it gives to various types of sources in those stories. Our goal was to quantify the validity of the widely held assumption that, in Australia, regional newspapers are closer than metropolitan newspapers to their readers. This suggestion guided our content analysis of the types of news story sources quoted or paraphrased in the general news published in four regional newspapers and one metropolitan newspaper in one Australian state. The assumption of closeness to readers for Australian regional newspapers did not hold up well in this test.

scholarly journals A note on the population status and threats on two endemic and Endangered species of Garcinia of Agasthyamalai Biosphere Reserve, Tamil Nadu, India

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 10839
Author(s):  
G. Manikandan ◽  
R. Ramasubbu
Keyword(s):  
Endangered Species ◽  
Forest Ecosystem ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Biosphere Reserve ◽  
Population Status ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Medicinal Properties ◽  
Number Of Individuals ◽  
Effective Conservation ◽  
Female Flowers

The genus Garcinia comprises c. 35 species in India many of which are endemic and economically important with immense medicinal properties.  The two species viz., Garcinia imberti and G. travancorica are lesser-known endemic medium-sized straight-stemmed trees with horizontal branches.  The trees are distributed in the restricted forest areas (700–1,500 m) of Agasthyamalai Biosphere Reserve.  Both the species are dioecious trees and have male and female flowers in two different individuals, sometimes at a distance of a few kilometers from each other.  A large number of mature individuals of these species have been over-exploited from Agasthyamalai Biosphere Reserve and therefore a few mature individuals and seedlings alone exist.  The populations were severely fragmented and exist in a few locations of natural forest areas.  The number of mature individuals recorded in G. imbertI and G. travancorica was 127±14 and 112±14 respectively in the entire distributional areas.  There was an extreme fluctuation observed every year in the case of flowering and fruiting and also in the number of individuals due to the disturbance in the forest ecosystem.  Both species have been included under IUCN threatened category and therefore they need effective conservation measures.

scholarly journals Urban Open Space as a Place for Social and Physical Well-being: Narratives from two Different Urban Settings of Kathmandu, Nepal

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Krishna Prasad Timalsina
Keyword(s):  
Urban Communities ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
Urban Settings ◽  
Urban Open Space ◽  
Urban Greenery ◽  
Conversational Interviews

Increasing population and densification of the cities lead to increasing land value by the high demand of land for housing and other infrastructure developments are the reasons that tend to decreasing open spaces in Kathmandu Valley in general, and Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) in particular.  Urban open space has been considered as a place that is accessible to all residents and is important in the urban context as such space provides an opportunity as a place for social interaction, networking, recreation, and various physical health exercises. However, different social and economic contexts of the society reflect different patterns of its uses. Two different urban settings (core urban area having indigenous dominant population and fringe urban areas having migrants’ dominant population) have been taken as a basis for analysis in this paper to look at how different urban societies use open spaces differently. Open spaces are not only important for maintaining urban greenery and beauty but are valued for accumulating social capital and enhancing physical well-being to the urban communities. These issues are analyzed through the interpretative research methodology by collecting the data through in-depth interviews, key informants’ interviews, informal conversational interviews, and non-participatory observation from two different urban settings of KMC. 

scholarly journals ISLAMIC PARTIES BETWEEN PRAGMATISM VS. IDEOLOGICAL PRINCIPLE: THE CASE OF 2017 JAKARTA GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 1011-1017
Author(s):  
Ari Ganjar Herdiansah ◽  
Widya Setiabudi ◽  
Danis Saputra ◽  
Anugrah Saputera
Keyword(s):  
Religious Issues ◽  
Sensitive Issue ◽  
Religious Issue ◽  
Electoral Impact ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Islamic Parties ◽  
Gubernatorial Election ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Final Round

Purpose: This article seeks to analyze how Islamic parties act in the event of electoral competition filled by religious issues. On the other side, this article also tries to show the electoral impact of each Islamic parties’ decision on the candidates. Methodology: The study conducted through the interview with several Islamic parties’ figures and examining the exit poll survey. Result: The result reveals that even though there was a sensitive issue, the decision of Islamic parties was not solely stirred by the constituent expectation. Other factors such as elites and the organization’s interests were also influenced the decision-making process. However, the impact of its decision on electability indicates that religious issue was prominent, except for PAN. PKB and PPP that support Ahok-Djarot tend to have lessened rate, while PKS got higher electability. The case of Jakarta shows that the constituent principle or ideological is still significant if there are sensitive religious issues. In cases where religious issues have an outburst of support from the roots of the masses, Islamic parties are likely to benefit as long as there is a strong bond between the party's decision and its supporting root militancy. Applications: This research can be used for universities, teachers, and students. Novelty/Originality: The 2017 Jakarta gubernatorial election was highlighted by the issue of Islam blasphemy by Ahok, the powerful candidate. The issue became a national concern and invited thousands of protesters from various Islamic groups to Jakarta. Interestingly, not all Islamic parties against Ahok. In the final round, PKB and PPP chose to back Ahok-Djarot while PKS and PAN supported Anis-Sandi, a favorable candidate to them who feel disrupt by Ahok.

scholarly journals Evaluative aspects of print media texts

2020 ◽  
pp. 12-23
Author(s):  
Igor Lakić
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Print Media ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
News Story ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
News Discourse ◽  
Proper Interpretation

This paper revisits the concept of macrostructure, i.e. the thematic and organizational structure of texts, in this case that of the news discourse and its link with Critical Discourse analysis (CDA). Special focus is put on the Evaluation as a part of the news story macrostructure. The paper presents the author’s model of news structure in print media, based on the models of van Dijk (1988a, 1988b) and Bell (1994). The following parts of the macrostructure are identified: (1) Headline, (2) Lead, (3) Main Event(s), (4) Background of the Event, (5) Verbal Comment(s), (6) Evaluation, and (7) Results of the Event. The author also points out that pure linguistic analysis itself cannot lead to proper interpretation of news discourse. Based on these two aspects, the paper specifically focuses on Evaluation as a part of the macro structure and its linguistic exponents on the microstructure level. Evaluation includes attitudes, opinions or the evaluation of the event by the journalist or the newspaper he/she writes for. It is the Evaluation that gives sense or meaning to the text. Evaluation will be discussed in terms of its explicit presence in the text, as a distinctive unit in the schematic structure of news, but also in its implicit form, very often hidden behind other parts of macrostructure such as Headline, Lead, Main Event or Verbal Comments. The examples of Evaluation will be taken from a corpus comprising examples from three British and three Montenegrin dailies reporting on the NATO airstrikes against former Yugoslavia.

scholarly journals A Research on Influence of Social Media Communications on Selection of Hotels Among Domestic Tourists in Tamil Nadu

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S3) ◽  
pp. 1091-1096
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Media Communications ◽  
Tourism Destinations ◽  
Selection Of

In the context of tourism, tourists are generally using social media for getting information, putting their contents and messages and sharing their stay related experiences in hotels, connecting with other tourists across various tourism destinations and exploring new choices of hotels in tourist places. Half of domestic tourists realize that the level of social media communications about hotels is high and significant difference is prevailing among profile of domestic tourists and their view on social media communications about hotels. Ratings of hotels by others, review of others about hotels, experience of others about hotels, user generated contents about hotels, services and products of hotels and location of hotels provided by social media communications have positive and significant influence on selection of hotels among domestic tourists. To improve selection of hotels among domestic tourists, social media should share picture of hotels and must give complete details on services and products of hotels

scholarly journals Sanitation Practices during Early Phases of COVID-19 Lockdown in Peri-Urban Communities in Tamil Nadu, India

2020 ◽  
Vol 103 (5) ◽  
pp. 2012-2018
Author(s):  
Sania Ashraf ◽  
Jinyi Kuang ◽  
Upasak Das ◽  
Cristina Bicchieri
Keyword(s):  
Urban Communities ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Early Phases
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