scholarly journals Political TV debates: how to get more power and damage the opponent’s face?

2020 ◽  
pp. 82-98
Author(s):  
Eglė Žurauskaitė
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Propositional Content ◽  
Parliamentary Elections ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
Power Construction ◽  
Zero Sum ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
Game Metaphor

The paper aims to reveal the process of face and power construction in the context of political TV debates in Lithuania and to analyse face threatening acts (FTAs) in terms of propositional content and orientation to the addressee’s face. This study adopts the qualitative content analysis approach to analyse 360 minutes of political debates broadcasted before the 2016 Lithuanian parliamentary elections. The current paper presents the concept of impoliteness, which is later applied in the empirical analysis to address two main objectives: (a) to analyse the process of face and power construction in political TV debates and (b) to study FTAs in terms of propositional content and orientation to the addressee’s face. The results of the study have revealed that politicians seek to get more power by producing FTAs towards their opponents; a zero-sum game metaphor can be used to describe this process. Also, the analysis of FTAs has demonstrated that politicians tend to apply both negative and positive impoliteness strategies. The analysis of FTAs in terms of propositional content has shown that politicians are mostly described as the ones who are lying, hiding the truth, and have performed wrong and ineffective actions in the past. This suggests that participants in Lithuanian political TV debates seek to damage their rival’s face in a way which does not harm their own face by applying indirect – positive and negative – impoliteness strategies and by negatively describing their opponents’ professionalism and general competencies.

Fear of Islam in Greece: migration, terrorism, and “ghosts” from the past

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 511-523 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandros Sakellariou
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
State Policies ◽  
Greek Orthodox ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
Rhetorical Tropes ◽  
Over Time

The article explores the “fear of Islam” through a specific series of political debates about Islam and the future of the Greek-Orthodox national identity. The analysis is based on the method of qualitative content analysis, which makes use of thematic categories and draws on the proceedings of the Greek parliament. The main questions the article will try to address are: How have Greek political parties reacted to public demand for the construction of a mosque? What have been the rhetorical tropes they use? How have they capitalized on current and old fears about Islam? What have been the implications of this discourse on state policies toward Islam? Have there been any differences in this discourse over time? The analysis highlights the role of historical interpretations of Greek national identity and contemporary problems related to new waves of migration due to Greece's place on the border with Turkey and with the broader Islamic world.

scholarly journals Government Activities on Facebook: A Content Analysis of Selected Government Ministries’ Facebook pages in Bangladesh

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaharima Parvin
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Government ◽  
Types Of Information ◽  
Microsoft Office ◽  
Facebook Pages

Social media sites are the world’s biggest information dissemination platform and today’s we cannot imagine to share our any information without these sites. It has been a leading manifestation in our lives in the past several years. Various profit and non-profit organization in Bangladesh are using Facebook to promote their services and highlight their roles to community. Now, government different ministries have accepted the opportunities of using Facebook to deliver better services as well as engage with citizens. The present study intends to examine the government ministries’ Facebook pages in Bangladesh to explore what types of information are disseminated on their Facebook pages, how effective these pages are in reaching out to citizens as well as engagement. Qualitative content analysis of four selected government ministries’ Facebook pages has conducted to fulfill the research aims. Content analysis allows describing the material only on selected aspects, on the other hand method is highly flexible as coding frame is always adjustable to the material. The researcher has selected four ministries Facebook pages and among these pages, two are verified and another two pages are not verified. The researcher has developed the categories and codes according to fulfill the research aims. Data collection has started by identifying the usage Facebook of each ministries and found that each ministries has incorporated Facebook logo in their website. After that, the information provided on ‘about’ section was put down, the number of likes/followers, the existence of profile picture, cover photo, and other applications has been identified. The data collection for content analyses was conducted in six months posting messages between October 2017 to March 2018 were recorded as well as organized and analyzed by using Microsoft Office Excel program.

scholarly journals Prevention of Rabies by Application of Lytta vesicatoria (Ḏarārīḥ) in Persian Medicine Texts in Islamic Civilization

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mostafa Moallemi ◽  
Mohammad Yousofpour ◽  
Assie Jokar
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Skin Diseases ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Human History ◽  
The Past ◽  
Persian Medicine ◽  
Islamic Civilization ◽  
Rabid Animal

Rabies is one of the most lethal diseases in human history. From the past, various drugs have been used to prevent the contraction of the disease when being bitten by a rabid animal. An insect called Ḏarārīḥ (Lytta vesicatoria), although poisonous, has in some cases been medically used. Greeks and Romans have used venomousness of this insect to treat skin diseases, but it has not been used to prevent rabies. This is a summative qualitative content analysis that focused on Persian Medicine (PM) texts from 2th to 13th AH centuries. Literature was searched during centuries 4th to 13th AH, by using this key words: ذراریـح) Ḏarārīḥ), قنثاریـدس) Cantharis/cantharides), and ئشـفث Lytta vesicatoria and after extracting the data and analyzing them, the results were presented. In TPM texts, this insect was used to prevent rabies. This study has shown that the use of ḏarārīḥ (Lytta vesicatoria) in the prevention of rabies has been one of the innovations of the practitioners of Islamic civilization. The innovation proves that scholars in the period of Islamic civilization were not merely consumers or custodians of Roman, Greek, Indian, and Iranian knowledge, but added to it while preserving that knowledge.

Three shades of dismemberment anxiety about Armenians in Turkish politics

2021 ◽  
pp. 001139212110576
Author(s):  
Türkay Salim Nefes
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
The Past ◽  
Turkish Politics

This article explores the significance of perceived threats about dismemberment in Turkish politics, also called the Sèvres syndrome. Relying on a qualitative content analysis of Turkish parliamentary records, it scrutinises how the syndrome influences the debates about Armenians between 1983 and 2018. It demonstrates that Turkish politicians refer to the syndrome in three manners: (1) Armenians had tried to dismember; (2) Armenians could create conditions to dismember again and (3) Armenians are actively attempting to dismember. The study concludes that the syndrome presents an obstacle to a peaceful Turkish–Armenian relationship by recalling Turkish victimhood in the past and relating it to contemporary contexts.

Multinational tax journalism: Devolved UK coverage of corporation tax rates in Scotland and Northern Ireland

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean Tunney
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Government Revenue ◽  
Tax Rates ◽  
Corporation Tax ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Uk

This article addresses how business and political journalists have covered transnational tax policy, an under-researched area. It analyses coverage of corporate taxation specifically where the power to decide on tax levels is devolved within a multinational state. The work considers how the UK press treated the plans to devolve and reduce corporation tax in Scotland and Northern Ireland, in the context of continued UK-wide reductions. A quantitative and qualitative content analysis illustrates that the sampled opinion and editorial framed around this issue was limited typically to the devolved territories’ ‘hybrid’ editions of the English/UK titles. This was despite the broader impact of varying rates on press readers in the rest of the United Kingdom. Journalists tended to adopt an ‘investor perspective’. A majority of commentary framed around corporation tax was focused on reducing the rate, while rarely considering the implications for government revenue. Nevertheless, importantly, Scottish coverage was bound up with broader political debates on independence.

scholarly journals “We Dissect Stupidity and Respond to It”: Response Videos and Networked Harassment on YouTube

2021 ◽  
Vol 65 (5) ◽  
pp. 735-756
Author(s):  
Rebecca Lewis ◽  
Alice E. Marwick ◽  
William Clyde Partin
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Affordances ◽  
Audience Behavior ◽  
The Relationship

Over the past decade YouTube “response videos” in which a user offers counterarguments to a video uploaded by another user have become popular among political creators. While creators often frame response videos as debates, those targeted assert that they function as vehicles for harassment from the creator and their networked audience. Platform policies, which base moderation decisions on individual pieces of content rather than the relationship between videos and audience behavior, may therefore fail to address networked harassment. We analyze the relationship between amplification and harassment through qualitative content analysis of 15 response videos. We argue that response videos often provide a blueprint for harassment that shows both why the target is wrong and why harassment would be justified. Creators use argumentative tactics to portray themselves as defenders of enlightened public discourse and their targets as irrational and immoral. This positioning is misleading, given that creators interpellate the viewer as part of a networked audience with shared moral values that the target violates. Our analysis also finds that networked audiences act on that blueprint through the social affordances of YouTube, which we frame as harassment affordances. We argue that YouTube’s current policies are insufficient for addressing harassment that relies on amplification and networked audiences.

scholarly journals The reputation of horticulture – an internal view of the industry

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-247
Author(s):  
Marike Isaak ◽  
Iris Brenneke ◽  
Wolfgang Lentz
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Food Products ◽  
Likert Scale ◽  
Internal View ◽  
The Past ◽  
Category Formation ◽  
Strategic Resource

The reputation of an industry represents an important strategic resource and this has already been highlighted in the past for the horticulture sector. However, the heterogeneity of horticulture makes it difficult for the industry to be perceived by society. An online survey was conducted to identify the most important characteristics of horticulture and to identify the reasons for its good or bad reputation. For this purpose, 102 experts – consultants from the horticultural industry – were asked to describe horticulture and the reputation of the industry. An evaluation of the survey, based on a qualitative content analysis using inductive category formation, indicated that horticulture is primarily associated with its diverse activities and various product groups. In terms of the product groups, the focus is on food products. The reputation of the industry is rated as ‘slightly positive’ on a 7-point Likert scale, with an average of 4.4.

A Qualitative Content Analysis of Gender Transitions in the Workplace

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melanie E. Brewster ◽  
Esther N. Tebbe ◽  
Brandon L. Velez
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis
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