scholarly journals The Werther effect of celebrity suicides: Evidence from South Korea

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. e0249896
Author(s):  
Jeongmin Ha ◽  
Hee-Seung Yang
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Poisson Regression Model ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
The Public ◽  
Contagious Nature ◽  
Werther Effect ◽  
Celebrity Suicide ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
Methods Of Suicide

Since 2003 Korea has experienced the highest suicide rate among OECD countries. One of the societal risk factors that triggers suicide is the contagious nature of suicide. This paper empirically examines the effect of celebrity suicide reports on subsequent copycat suicides, using daily suicide data and information of highly publicized suicide stories in Korea from 2005 to 2018. The findings from the Poisson regression model suggest that the number of public suicides soars after media reports on celebrity suicides. On average, the number of suicides in the population increased by 16.4% within just one day after the reports. Further analysis reveals that female and younger subgroups are more likely to be affected by celebrity suicides. Moreover, the public reacts more strongly to suicide incidents of celebrities of the same gender and even imitates the methods of suicide used by celebrities. This paper highlights the significance of careful and responsible media coverage of suicide stories to prevent copycat suicide. For policymakers, it is crucial to implement regulations not only for traditional media but also for new media where younger people can freely access unfiltered information.

scholarly journals Media Leaders Mining Based on Android News Apps

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Sijia Wang ◽  
Miao Zhang
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Mobile Internet ◽  
Major Influence ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
The Public ◽  
Spread Of Influence ◽  
Rapid Dissemination ◽  
Media Reports

<p align="justify">With the rapid development of the mobile Internet, the mobile news apps have become the most important way for the public to obtain news. As a new media carrier and communication platform,the mobile news apps can promote the rapid dissemination of information and the rapid spread of influence.  Some media have a major influence  on the direction of other media reports and the behavioral decisions of the public. These media can be regarded as media leaders. Media leaders are very important in the dissemination of news. By identifying media leaders, companies or governments can promote sales or guide public opinion separately. This article believes that media leaders mainly achieve their own influence by publishing news, so this article uses the news published by the mobile news apps as an entry point. This paper firstly solves the problem of data crawling in mobile news apps, and proposes a data crawling method based on reverse analysis, and obtains the data source. Then, reconstruct the reprinting path of the news, and carry out accurate traceability. Finally, cluster the news based on LDA, and propose an algorithm for mining media leaders from three aspects: influence, activity and preference. Experimental studies of data sets have shown that our algorithms can effectively identify media leaders.</p>

scholarly journals Antibiotics and food in the American press

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antoine Bridier-Nahmias ◽  
Estera Badau ◽  
Pi Nyvall-collen ◽  
Antoine Andremont ◽  
Jocelyne Arquembourg
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Text Mining ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
The Other ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
The Public ◽  
Official Discourse ◽  
American Press ◽  
The Media

AbstractThe emergence of antimicrobial resistant infections from food is well documented in the scientific literature but, in this kind of matter, the public opinion is an important policy driver and is vastly forged by traditional media. Here, we propose a text mining study through about 500 articles from two reference daily U.S. newspapers to assess the media coverage of this issue. Our results indicate that, since the middle of the 80s, the two journals considered here adopted a very different narrative around the issue, echoing civil society concerns in one case and the official discourse in the other.

Media and Politics

2020 ◽  
pp. 416-432
Author(s):  
Thomas Olesen
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Political Process ◽  
The Political ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
The Public ◽  
Media System ◽  
Professional Authority ◽  
System P ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Public Sphere

The chapter’s premise is the social contract between media and democracy, which features strongly in the professional values of Danish journalists. Media have become so central to the political process that many refer to a mediatization of politics. At the same time, research points to a crisis of journalism with declining readership, trust, and professional authority. These challenges have been set in motion at least partly by new media consumption and production patterns. The crisis of journalism prompts two questions: is it reversing the process of mediatization, and does it erode journalism’s role as democratic watchdogs in Denmark? The chapter shows that the crisis of journalism must be considered in a comparative perspective and that the Danish media system demonstrates a degree of resilience to it. It also notes, however, that traditional media have indeed lost their privileged position as organizers of the public sphere. Rather than seeing a reversal of mediatization, it makes more sense to speak of a mediatization 2.0, and rather than identifying an erosion of the media’s watchdog role, it is more accurate to say that they now share it with a host of other agents in the current hybridized media system.

New Media and Political Campaigns

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Owen
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
New Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Political Campaigns ◽  
Political Organizations ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Campaign Strategies ◽  
Form Function ◽  
Creative Research ◽  
American Elections

New media have been playing an increasingly central role in American elections since they first appeared in 1992. While television remains the main source of election information for a majority of voters, digital communication platforms have become prominent. New media have triggered changes in the campaign strategies of political parties, candidates, and political organizations; reshaped election media coverage; and influenced voter engagement. This chapter examines the stages in the development of new media in elections from the use of rudimentary websites to the rise sophisticated social media. It discusses the ways in which new media differ from traditional media in terms of their form, function, and content; identifies the audiences for new election media; and examines the effects on voter interest, knowledge, engagement, and turnout. Going forward, scholars need to employ creative research methodologies to catalogue and analyze new campaign media as they emerge and develop.

New Media and Political Campaigns

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Owen
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
New Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Political Campaigns ◽  
Political Organizations ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Campaign Strategies ◽  
Form Function ◽  
Creative Research ◽  
American Elections

New media have been playing an increasingly central role in American elections since they first appeared in 1992. While television remains the main source of election information for a majority of voters, digital communication platforms have become prominent. New media have triggered changes in the campaign strategies of political parties, candidates, and political organizations; reshaped election media coverage; and influenced voter engagement. This chapter examines the stages in the development of new media in elections from the use of rudimentary websites to the rise sophisticated social media. It discusses the ways in which new media differ from traditional media in terms of their form, function, and content; identifies the audiences for new election media; and examines the effects on voter interest, knowledge, engagement, and turnout. Going forward, scholars need to employ creative research methodologies to catalogue and analyze new campaign media as they emerge and develop.

Managing Content in Cross-Cultural Public Relations Campaigns: A Case Study of the Paris Terrorist Attacks

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (6) ◽  
pp. 624-632 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xavier Ginesta ◽  
Enric Ordeix ◽  
Josep Rom
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
English Language ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Media

This article studies how traditional media functions have changed due the new media growth in terms of consumption and influence and how this has affected the public relations (PR) campaigns in terms of storytelling and managing content. The starting point of this article is the media coverage of the Paris attacks on the 13th November, as well as the institutional ceremonies that the French government organized as a tribute to 120 victims. The methodology of this article is based in a sample of the mainstream media in French and English language published in Europe. The analysis indicators are the following: (a) the “message,” as the story based on organizational essentials, values and identity; (b) the publics in a media relations campaign: opinion leaders and opinion makers; (c) the social dimension and the agenda setting; (d) effectiveness versus excellence and vice versa; (e) role of the media: traditional media (or mainstream media) and new media; (f) trends and challenges for professionals. As we will see, new trends of communication are redirecting the media strategy in PR campaigns in terms of influencing other key publics that generates major engagement in institutional reputation. Hence, traditional media functions (setting agenda, transmitting values, and creating opinion) operate in a new digital context of mashup journalism where cross-cultural PR seeks to better align media agenda’s with public and political agenda’s in order to set frames of sociability and community engagement.

scholarly journals Analyzing Media Dependency During Crisis. A case of COVID-19 in Malaysia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faiswal Kasirye
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Media Dependency ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Media ◽  
Conceptual Paper

This conceptual paper deals with how the public depends on the media during a crisis like the current COVID-19 pandemic, whether they prefer traditional media for information or would go with the new media trends for their information seeking and sharing regarding the COVID-19 crisis at hand.

The Press and Classical Populism in Argentina and Brazil

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 109-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ariel Alejandro Goldstein
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
The Public ◽  
American States ◽  
Political Alliances ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Relationship

Comparison of the policies vis-à-vis the press of the classical populist governments of Argentina and Brazil reveals that the populist elites came into conflict with traditional media elites over exclusionary views that modified the contours of the public sphere. Newspapers committed to liberal principles engaged in intransigent struggle with populism, and this struggle created opportunities for new entrepreneurs to form political alliances with these governments to expand their businesses. The relationship between these “mediatized populisms” and the new media entrepreneurs contributed to the patrimonialism that came to characterize the link between the media and Latin American states in subsequent years. Una comparación de las políticas relativas a la prensa por parte de los gobiernos populistas clásicos de Argentina y Brasil muestra que las élites populistas entraron en conflicto con las élites de los medios tradicionales. Dichas desavenencias fueron causadas por puntos de vista excluyentes que alteraban el contorno de la esfera pública. Los periódicos comprometidos con los principios liberales sostuvieron una lucha intransigente con el populismo, lucha que dio la oportunidad a nuevos empresarios de formar alianzas políticas con dichos gobiernos y expandir así sus negocios. La relación entre estos “populismos mediáticos” y los empresarios de los nuevos medios contribuyó al patrimonialismo que asumiría el vínculo entre dichos medios y los Estados latinoamericanos en años subsiguientes.

scholarly journals Analysis on Linguistic Art of Broadcasting in the New Media Era

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 1454
Author(s):  
Chunli Wang
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Development Trend ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
New Era ◽  
The Public ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Media Work

As the information and communication technology increasingly grows, it is very vital that the new media featuring the internet has blazed a new path for the reform of communication and even the evolution of the whole society. This new era brings opportunities and challenges to traditional media work while facilitating this industry. Efforts should be made to upgrade the broadcasting major in order to meet the requirements of society and the public. This paper aims to explore some problems and difficulties of linguistic art of broadcasting in the new era by analyzing its characters and development trend, so as to ensure the quality of broadcasting programs, and even make sound progress in this era.

Tragedy Following Tragedies: Estimating the Copycat Effect of Media-Covered Suicide in the Age of Digital News

2019 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 312-329
Author(s):  
Daniel Ownby ◽  
P. Wesley Routon
Keyword(s):  
Suicide Rate ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
News Websites ◽  
Werther Effect ◽  
Digital News ◽  
Celebrity Suicide ◽  
Positive Shock ◽  
National Trends

The Werther effect is the name given to the observed relationship between celebrity suicide and the national suicide rate. Media-covered suicides are often followed by a positive shock in the national suicide rate. Using a unique time series comprising media coverage variables collected from Google News and major news websites, combined with several U.S. national trends from various sources, we estimate the magnitude of the Werther effect in the age of digital news media, where news of celebrity suicide spreads farther and more rapidly. We find a speeding up of this effect, which in the last century was only observed in the month following news coverage. Now, the effect appears slightly more prominent in the month of coverage, though it still persists in the following month. We also find evidence that the Werther effect has diminished in magnitude, perhaps due to the increased normalization of both suicide and celebrity suicide. JEL Classifications: Z13, Z19, I19

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