scholarly journals A ‘NEW NORMAL’ OF CODE-SWITCHING: COVID-19, THE INDONESIAN MEDIA AND LANGUAGE CHANGE

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Mannix Foster ◽  
Alistair Welsh
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Language Change ◽  
Code Switching ◽  
New Normal ◽  
Quantitative Content ◽  
Lexical Effects ◽  
Sample Data

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed behavioural norms and how people conceptualise everyday life. It has led to prolific use of specific terminology that is new or was previously outside the lexical boundaries of common use. Terms like ‘social distancing’, ‘lockdown’ and ‘new normal' were previously jargon limited to specialist fields. The COVID-19 pandemic which spread globally in 2020 has led to great social change and an associated lexical influence. To study this phenomenon, we examine the lexical effects of COVID-19 on the Indonesian language, through analysis of two well-known Indonesian national newspapers – Kompas and Suara Pembaruan, for the month of May 2020. This was at a time of growing awareness of COVID-19 in Indonesia, that included a partial lockdown in Jakarta. As such, there was a great deal of attention to COVID-19 in the mass media. To study this, we apply quantitative content analysis to the sample data to identify the range and frequency of words borrowed from English. We examine this use of code-switching to also undertake qualitative analysis, exploring the various socio-linguistic dimensions of those borrowed terms. Some usage was found to address lexical gaps in Indonesian language, where other usage appeared more for stylistic, emphatic purposes, drawing on the semiotic power of English in the Indonesian context. Code-switching reiteration was particularly prominent in the sample data. We argue that through code-switching reiteration, the print media can introduce new foreign vocabulary to Indonesian readers, which subsequently generates opportunities for language change. COVID-19 has expedited this process, meaning that there has been an increased likelihood of Indonesian language change during 2020.

OPINI PUBLIK TERHADAP PENERAPAN NEW NORMAL DI MEDIA SOSIAL TWITTER

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-26
Author(s):  
AWAD BIN MUHAMMAD ALKATIRI ◽  
ZHAFIRA NADIAH ◽  
ADINDA NADA S. NASUTION
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
New Normal ◽  
Quantitative Content ◽  
The Social

Social media is popular with all ages, people in young and old age groups can access social media. Social media is a place for information and opinion exchange. Twitter is one of the social media that is actively used in Indonesia. The new normal phenomenon that is currently being applied is wanted to be further known by researchers by referring to the hashtag #newnormalindonesia on Twitter. Researchers want to find out how public opinion is formed based on the hashtag #newnormalindonesia on Twitter. This research uses the concept of public opinion which is categorized into positive, negative, and neutral. In the research method, researchers use quantitative content analysis, the analysis unit uses thematic analysis units with the operationalization of concepts using the concept of public opinion. Coding sheets are used as instruments in data collection techniques, then in testing the validity and reliability using inter-coder reliability. The results showed that the twitter posts with the #newnormalindonesia hashtag tendto be negative by not supporting the implementation of new normal.

scholarly journals A changing climate of skepticism: The factors shaping climate change coverage in the US press

2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 498-513 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Schmid-Petri ◽  
Silke Adam ◽  
Ivo Schmucki ◽  
Thomas Häussler
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United States ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Print Media ◽  
The United States ◽  
Quantitative Content ◽  
The Us ◽  
One Year

Skepticism toward climate change has a long tradition in the United States. We focus on mass media as the conveyors of the image of climate change and ask: Is climate change skepticism still a characteristic of US print media coverage? If so, to what degree and in what form? And which factors might pave the way for skeptics entering mass media debates? We conducted a quantitative content analysis of US print media during one year (1 June 2012 to 31 May 2013). Our results show that the debate has changed: fundamental forms of climate change skepticism (such as denial of anthropogenic causes) have been abandoned in the coverage, being replaced by more subtle forms (such as the goal to avoid binding regulations). We find no evidence for the norm of journalistic balance, nor do our data support the idea that it is the conservative press that boosts skepticism.

scholarly journals The concept of «crisis» as an instrument of articulation of political interests in the socio-political discourse (by the example of Russian federal and regional mass media)

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 56-74
Author(s):  
Mihail Martynov ◽  
D. Serdyukov
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
The Political ◽  
Symbolic Politics ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
Crisis Situations

The article analyzes the concept of «crisis» as an attribute of symbolic politics, which is reflected in the socio-political discourse. The aim was to study the concept of «crisis» as a tool for the struggle of discourses depending on the political interests of actors. The most important source of modern socio-political discourse is the mass media. In this regard, the study of the manifestations of the concept of «crisis» was carried out using the tools of content analysis and qualitative analysis of the text. As a result of the analysis of the content of the Russian federal and regional mass media, the hypothesis that the concept of «crisis» is used in the struggle of discourses, taking semantic meanings determined by the political interests of actors, were confirmed. The predominance of crisis content in the federal press is recorded. It is also noted that the federal and regional media do not so much broadcast a picture of reality, as they take part in the transformation of ideas about this reality. The data and conclusions obtained as a result of the study allow us to further more objectively assess the motivational and substantive aspects of the escalation of crisis situations in the public field.

scholarly journals Different actors, different factors? A comparison of the news factor orientation between newspaper journalists and civil-society actors

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Schmid-Petri ◽  
Thomas Häussler ◽  
Silke Adam
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Quantitative Content Analysis ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Quantitative Content ◽  
Selection Processes ◽  
General Relevance

AbstractNews factors can be conceptualized as general relevance indicators guiding the attention of all humans. However, that doesn’t mean that they are the only factors influencing selection processes or that all news factors have the same importance across different actor types. Within the concept of news factors it is still unclear to what degree those news factors also apply to the communication outside of traditional mass media. We therefore ask whether and how actors with varying degrees of professionalization employ news factors in their communication differently. To answer our research question, we conducted a quantitative content analysis and compared the coverage in traditional newspapers with the communication of civil society actors with varying degrees of professionalization. We analyzed the relevance of news factors within the presentation of a specific issue, namely climate change in Germany. Our results show that news factors are – at least partly – also applied by non-journalist actors. The mass media and the more professionalized civil society actors do not apply news factors more strongly to their communication than do non-professionalized civil society actors. Instead, we find that different actors focus on different news factors.

Family Resemblances: Remnants of Populism in Portuguese 2017 Regional Elections

2021 ◽  
pp. 000276422110165
Author(s):  
Mafalda Eiró-Gomes ◽  
Ana Raposo
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Quantitative Content Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Content ◽  
Exploratory Approach ◽  
Family Resemblances ◽  
The Media ◽  
Regional Elections

In September of 2017 during the Portuguese regional elections, the mass media began reporting an emergence of a populist movement or, at least, started to label one of the candidates as a populist leader. To understand this phenomenon and see if significant rhetorical aspects of populism were present in the candidate’s discourse as according to the media, we analyzed the four primary Portuguese newspapers. As a first, exploratory approach to the research question, we developed a quantitative content analysis. We found that the newspapers became resonance boxes, not only of this particular candidate but also from all Western society, underlining some of the main rhetorical aspects of the populist discourse used by the candidate.

scholarly journals Research on the readability of the chosen General Insurance Terms and Conditions on the Polish market

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 73-85
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Barczuk-Grędzińska
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Insurance Contract ◽  
Short Text ◽  
Insurance Contracts ◽  
General Insurance ◽  
Consumer Contracts ◽  
Polish Language ◽  
Readability Formulas

Readability and the study of complexity of functional texts are of interest to many contemporary researchers. Nowadays, in the age of miniaturization, simplification of our everyday life components, portability, and domination of short text forms in the mass media, we can observe a decrease in interest in reading larger texts or those containing specialized, difficult to understand vocabulary. This is how consumer contracts (including insurance contracts) are perceived. The purpose of this article is, therefore, to examine and evaluate the readability of the General Insurance Terms and Conditions (hereinafter referred as: Insurance GTC) — an integral part of the insurance contract. In order to determine whether the language of the Insurance GTC is easy to understand, precise and clear for consumers, a quantitative and qualitative analysis was carried out using readability formulas, in particular FOG-PL — fully adapted to the specificity of the Polish language. The Insurance GTC corpus from four different insurance groups was examined, and its level of language “fogginess” was compared with other utility texts.

scholarly journals FREQUENCY OF AGGRESSION IN THE MASS MEDIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-105
Author(s):  
Aychurok Zayyrbekova
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Random Sample ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
The Third ◽  
Great Gatsby ◽  
Quantitative Content ◽  
The Great Gatsby ◽  
The Media ◽  
Human Psyche

The article examines the frequency of the content of aggression in the media and its impact on the human psyche. The article presents the results of a study of the frequency of manifestation of aggression in the media, using the method of quantitative content analysis, which is based on the study of the content of any documents, media materials, literature, works of art, personal and official documents. As an object of research, we identified the frequency of manifestation of aggression, the material of the study is a random sample of 7 films ("The Great Gatsby", "Pompeii", "State Councilor", "The Third Extra", "The Diary of Memory", "Law Abiding Citizen" and "Bruce omnipotent"). The units under study are movie episodes, which we have divided into 7 categories: open manifestation of aggression (verbal and non-verbal); display of humor; unreal situations (fantasy); manifestation of sentimentality; neutral and positively oriented neutral plots; narration; manifestation of fear. Having considered all the units of study of a random sample of movies, we came to the following conclusion: aggression is one of the most common categories on television. According to the results of the study, it can be assumed that one of the reasons for the aggressiveness of modern society is the presence of a large amount of negative information in the media, this is due to the fact that a person tends to "absorb" and copy forms of behavior "from the screen", in particular, this applies to children aged up to 12 years old.

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