scholarly journals A Rhetorical Analysis of English and Persian Online Comments on the News Articles Related to Iran’s Nuclear Issue

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohsen Kafi ◽  
Fatemeh Irajzad ◽  
Hesamoddin Shahriari
Keyword(s):  
Rhetorical Analysis ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Stories ◽  
News Websites ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
News Agencies ◽  
Online Comments ◽  
Nuclear Issue

The comments section of news articles is intended for the public to share their views on posted news stories. Accordingly, this section has been subject to numerous analyses from a wide range of perspectives. The current study analyzes the tone and purpose of comments posted on news articles dealing with Iran’s nuclear issue. The data consisted of 150 online comments in English and 150 in Persian. The comments were taken from three news websites in English and three in Persian. These websites were chosen based on their different political leanings in order to take account of the various approaches to Iran’s disputed nuclear talks. The results did not indicate a significant difference between the tone of English and Persian comments, but the purposes intended by English and Persian comments varied extensively. It was also found that the political leaning of news agencies is a major cause of the observed differences.

Public Spectating and Political Undertones in Durbar The Emirate Court Art of Northern Nigeria as Instrument of Governance

Matatu ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 373-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed Inuwa Umar–Buratai
Keyword(s):  
Western World ◽  
The Political ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Ruling Elite ◽  
The Public ◽  
Performance Artists ◽  
The People ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Many ◽  
Public Exhibition

The discourses of nationhood and nation-building in the developed Western world have been facilitated by the prevalent cultures of writing and documentation. The situation in the developing world has remained largely fragmented because of the absence of such coherent, broadcast, and comprehensive forums for a discourse on 'nationhood'. Different societies articulate their perception of the priorities of nationhood in a range of forms – manifest in ritual visual displays, entertainment and formal rhetoric such as poetry, religious sayings and quotations – which were not dependent on literacy, including the ceremony of durbar. The ordinary people construe the durbar as a spectacle, perhaps because it encompasses a wide range of performance artists drawn from the many groupings within society. However, durbar functions, through its display of martial strength, to reinforce the political and religious power of the ruling elite: durbar within society. The focus in this essay is to examine political undertones of durbar, specifically the ways in which localized participation in the reinforcing ritual of relationships of power provides the people with an opportunity for the public exhibition of individual skills and for the elites an avenue for containing any nascent – or potential – articulation of resistance in society.

scholarly journals ETHICAL FACTORS IN THE COVERAGE OF STATE OF EMERGENCY IN THE NORTH EAST NIGERIA

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bifatife Olufemi Adeyese, ◽  
Ishola Kamorudeen Lamidi
Keyword(s):  
Sampling Technique ◽  
The State ◽  
State Of Emergency ◽  
Systematic Random Sampling ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Stories ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Government

This study examines the extent to which the Nigerian journalists comply with ethical values in the course of their reportage. Two national dailies – The Nation and Daily Trust newspapers were selected for content analysis, using systematic random sampling technique to pick 26 editions per newspaper. A period of six months from 14 December 2014 to 14 June, 2015, covering the 4th phase of the state of emergency was chosen. Tables, figures, and sample percentage counts were employed in making the research data easily understandable. The findings revealed that though the newspapers appeared to be ethically compliant in their reportage, none of the two newspapers was neutral in its reportage of the state of emergency rule. Majority of their stories were considered unpleasant and capable of aggravating the crisis in the troubled states. The hypothesis were tested, one showed that there is a significant difference between the number of news stories and the number of ethical breaches in the selected newspapers; hypothesis two showed a significant difference between ethically breaching and ethically standard reports/content of the selected newspapers; hypothesis three showed a significant difference between the ethical breaching of Daily Trust and those of The Nation –X2 = 0.09; P<0.05, df1. The study therefore, recommends that journalists should always have a healthy regard for the public interest, desist from slavish adulation and join hands with the government in bringing about lasting peace to the troubled states and desist from publishing inflammatory stories.

scholarly journals COVID-19 Vaccine and Social Media in the U.S.: Exploring Emotions and Discussions on Twitter

Vaccines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 1059
Author(s):  
Amir Karami ◽  
Michael Zhu ◽  
Bailey Goldschmidt ◽  
Hannah R. Boyajieff ◽  
Mahdi M. Najafabadi
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Statistical Tests ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Success Factor ◽  
Great Opportunity ◽  
Public Response ◽  
The Public ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Negative Sentiment

The understanding of the public response to COVID-19 vaccines is the key success factor to control the COVID-19 pandemic. To understand the public response, there is a need to explore public opinion. Traditional surveys are expensive and time-consuming, address limited health topics, and obtain small-scale data. Twitter can provide a great opportunity to understand public opinion regarding COVID-19 vaccines. The current study proposes an approach using computational and human coding methods to collect and analyze a large number of tweets to provide a wider perspective on the COVID-19 vaccine. This study identifies the sentiment of tweets using a machine learning rule-based approach, discovers major topics, explores temporal trend and compares topics of negative and non-negative tweets using statistical tests, and discloses top topics of tweets having negative and non-negative sentiment. Our findings show that the negative sentiment regarding the COVID-19 vaccine had a decreasing trend between November 2020 and February 2021. We found Twitter users have discussed a wide range of topics from vaccination sites to the 2020 U.S. election between November 2020 and February 2021. The findings show that there was a significant difference between tweets having negative and non-negative sentiment regarding the weight of most topics. Our results also indicate that the negative and non-negative tweets had different topic priorities and focuses. This research illustrates that Twitter data can be used to explore public opinion regarding the COVID-19 vaccine.

Liberal hospitality

The Athenaeum ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 133-156
Author(s):  
Michael Wheeler
Keyword(s):  
Public Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Science Literature ◽  
Religion And Science ◽  
New Members ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Social Backgrounds

This chapter assesses the Athenæum's 'hospitality' towards a wide range of ideologies and social backgrounds among candidates and members. Non-partisan politically, it accommodated both sides in the Reform debates of the 1830s, with members engaging in pamphlet wars rather than calling for resignations, as happened at the political clubs. Similarly, the pattern of early Rule II elections indicates a willingness to introduce new members of outstanding ability in science, literature, and the arts who were known to be the chief antagonists of equally prominent existing members. The chapter looks at some of the flashpoints in the club's history between 1860 and 1890, when liberal opinion in politics, religion, and science assumed the ascendancy in Britain, and the Athenæum strove to maintain its tradition of tolerance and balance. It is at these flashpoints, and at times when conservative sexual mores influenced public life, that the relationship between national developments and the life of the club, conducted on the margins between the private and the public, is most revealing.

scholarly journals Political Participation by Political Bloggers in Hong Kong: A Case Study of the 2014 Umbrella Movement

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-166
Author(s):  
Waikeung Tam
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Political Action ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Blogs ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Websites ◽  
Political Spectrum ◽  
Political Blog

Political blogs have played an increasingly more important role in Hong Kong politics. However, research on this topic remains scarce. This analysis examines how political bloggers in Hong Kong used their blogs to participate in politics through a detailed content analysis of 960 political blog articles published on two major news websites – House News Bloggers and Speak Out HK – during the 2014 Umbrella Movement. This study found that “soapbox” stood out as the most popular function hereof, as political bloggers on both ends of the political spectrum actively used their blogs to influence the legitimacy of the Umbrella Movement in the public discourse. A substantial number of blog articles from House News Bloggers also included the functions of “transmission belt,” “informing readers,” and “mobilising political action.” Finally, only a small proportion of the articles from House News Bloggers and Speak Out HK included the function of “conversation starter.”

scholarly journals Introduction

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-33
Author(s):  
Antje Missbach ◽  
Melissa Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Public Discourse ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Economic Incentives ◽  
The Political ◽  
Irregular Migration ◽  
Political Will ◽  
The Public ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Regional Agreements ◽  
Empirical Case Studies

There has been growing pressure on states to “solve” the phenomenon of irregular migration. Destination countries have transferred this pressure onto transit countries, which are assumed to have the political will, ability, and means to stop irregular migration. This special section looks at the ways in which transit countries respond to challenges, pressures, and compromises in matters of irregular migration policies through a number of empirical case studies. Making transit countries the main focus, this special section aims to scrutinize domestic policy discourses in the transit countries, which are influenced by regional agreements and economic incentives from abroad but are also shaped by local interests and a wide range of actors. Of special interest is to understand whether the logics of destination countries that favor deterrence and exclusion have been adopted by politicians and the public discourse within transit countries.

The Park, the Penguin, and the Gas: Performance in Progress in Gezi Park

2014 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 39-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arzu Öztürkmen
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Expression ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
Iconic Images ◽  
Public Imagination

The performances that were part of the Gezi Park protests in Istanbul, Turkey, during the summer of 2013, proliferated via social media and helped spread the protests throughout Turkey and the world. A wide range of performance forms emerged as an urgent public expression of the political frustrations with increasing authoritarianism. From these expressive forms, iconic images caught the public imagination and spread from one genre and media to the next.

scholarly journals Occurrence ofCryptosporidium hominisin cattle bordering the Lake Mburo National Park in Kiruhura district, Western Uganda

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Gift Witto ◽  
Clovice Kankya ◽  
Anne Kazibwe ◽  
Gloria Akurut ◽  
Sylvester Ochwo
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Fluorescent Microscopy ◽  
Livestock Waste ◽  
The Public ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Risk Source ◽  
Western Uganda ◽  
First Time ◽  
Southwestern Uganda

AbstractBackgroundCryptosporidiumis an emerging opportunistic zoonotic pathogen that causes diarrheal illness in a wide range of hosts including livestock and humans. Globally there is exponential increase in livestock production to meet the worlds’ demand for animal protein as well as for financial reasons. However, there is raised concern of the public health threat due to contamination of the environment by livestock waste carrying zoonotic pathogens such asCryptosporidium. This study set out to establish the prevalence ofCryptosporidiumas well as the circulating genotypes in order to elucidate the potential role of cattle in the spread of human cryptosporidiosis. We collected rectal coprological samples from 363 cattle in 11 households in Kiruhura district, Southwestern Uganda. The samples were screened for presence ofCryptosporidiumoocysts using the phenol auramine staining method followed by fluorescent microscopy. DNA was then extracted from the microscopy positive samples and the COWP gene amplified using PCR. Amplified gene products were sequenced and subjected to phylogenetic analysis.ResultsThe overall animal level prevalence ofCryptosporidiumwas 7.7% (95% CI: 5.1-10.9), and herd level prevalence was 33.3% (95% CI: 18.5-52.2). We found a statistically significant difference (p=0.02) between infection in bulls as compared to cows. There was however no significant difference in the prevalence among the different cattle breeds sampled, with the following prevalence’s observed in Crosses 9.2%, Ankole 5.7%, Friesian 7.1%, and Boran 2.8% respectively. The COWP gene was successfully amplified from 20 of the 28 microscopy positive samples. All the sequenced DNA amplicons were confirmed to beC. hominis, with 98%-100% identity to sequences in the GenBank.C. hominiswas the only genotype isolated from this study, further asserting that cattle could be a potential high risk source of human cryptosporidiosis.ConclusionThis study represents the first time naturally occurringC. hominishas been isolated from cattle in Uganda. This further provides evidence of cattle possibly being biological reservoirs forC. hominisand cattle could be a potential high risk source of human cryptosporidiosis.

Economic ‘Stagflation’ and Public Support for the Political System

1984 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Stephen Weatherford
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Political System ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Political Trust ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Public ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Index Level

Declining trust in politicians and political institutions is one of the most dramatic and well-documented trends in American public opinion. Confidence in religious, educational and other institutions has also waned, but emphasis has focused on diminished political trust, both because it may summarize a wide range of diffuse grievances and because it might indicate an increased potential for disruptive action, political violence and instability. In the decade from 1968 to 1978, the level of political trust (measured by the conventional five-item CPS/NES index) was halved, the proportion of the public expressing moderate or high levels of trust falling from 64 to 33 per cent. The greatest decline in the index level (a drop of 14 points) occurred between 1972 and 1974.

When Fringe Hate Goes Mainstream: How White Nationalist Discourse Manifests in Online News Commenting

2021 ◽  
pp. 019685992110408
Author(s):  
J. David Wolfgang
Keyword(s):  
American History ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Online News ◽  
Nationalist Discourse ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Online Comments ◽  
White Culture ◽  
White Nationalism

After protestors clashed in Charlottesville, Virginia over the planned removal of a statue of a Confederate general, President Trump refused to condemn white nationalists. Over the following days, numerous news stories were written about the protests, allowing the public to discuss white nationalism through online comments. Using theories on ideology, discourse, and framing, this study considers how white nationalist discourse emerged in those comments. The findings show broad support for white nationalism, including complaints about threats to white culture, reinterpretation of American history to support white nationalist ideas, and rejection of the idea that marginalized people face oppression. However, the study also shows a burgeoning force of critical commenters struggling to challenge white nationalism’s emergence in public spaces.

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