Media Framing on 2018 General Election: A Comparative Content Analysis on Newspapers Coverage Toward Political Parties in Malaysia

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 220-236
Author(s):  
Ainis Azreen Rosli ◽  
◽  
Mohd Azizuddin Mohd Sani ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Media Framing ◽  
General Election ◽  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
Media Ownership ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Political Partisanship ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Comparative Content

This article explores the mainstream media favorability towards political parties in the context of newspaper coverage in Malaysia during the 14th general election in 2018 (GE-14). The newspapers selected for this study are three Malay, two English, two Mandarin and two Tamil newspapers namely: 'Utusan Malaysia,' 'Berita Harian', 'Sinar Harian', 'New Straits Times', 'The Star', 'Nanyang Siang Pau', 'Sin Chew Daily', 'Nanban' and 'Osai'. The background of the newspapers was explored in order to understand the ownerships and approaches in covering the news about GE-14. This study was carried out in two separate phases, in which the data were derived from both periods before and after the GE-14. The data were classified into few categories based on reports on Barisan Nasional (BN), Pakatan Harapan (PH), Gagasan Sejahtera (GS) through the frequencies and percentages of the positive, negative, and neutral forms of coverage. The result of this study implies that in 2018, most of the mainstream media reporting was pro-government, which attributed to the linkage to political parties. Surprisingly, the unprecedented victory of the opposition can be seen to relate to the growth of positive coverage towards Pakatan Harapan, subsequently after the general election. Through content analysis of these selected newspapers, the author discussed gender-related coverage and general issues during the chosen period of the study. Keywords: Mainstream media, media ownership, political partisanship, general election, Malaysia.

scholarly journals Framing international crises: a comparative content analysis of media texts on the collapse of Venezuela

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Berti Olinto
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
International Crises ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
News Agencies ◽  
Media Discourses ◽  
Comparative Content

This research explores mainstream and diasporic media coverage and discourses surrounding the Venezuelan economic and political crisis from late March 2017 until early May 2018. A comparative content analysis was applied to a total of 256 news articles, editorials, and stories from the Toronto Star, one of Canada’s largest newspapers, and from La Portada Canadá, a Spanish-language Latin American newspaper in Toronto. The results demonstrated diasporic media’s appropriation of journalistic biases such as human impact, dramatization, and national interests and the reframing of dominant discourses from international news agencies about the Venezuelan crisis. Whereas there are significant similarities between both media’s content regarding the crisis, La Portada Canadá stressed the transnational component of the Venezuelan diaspora through discourses about political and civic engagement in Canada. The Toronto Star focused more on the economic and political components of the crisis, which are closely linked to the country’s national agenda. Keywords: diasporic media, mainstream media, media coverage, media discourses, international crises, humanitarian crisis, Venezuela, Toronto

scholarly journals �Guarding The Elections Online�: New Practices, Trust, and Empowerment of Citizens Identities

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-28
Author(s):  
Antony Lee
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
General Election ◽  
Civic Culture ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Success Story ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Local Election ◽  
Internet Users

This paper scrutinizes two relatively similar cyber activisms in Indonesia, namely Guard the 2014 General Election and Guard the 2015 Local Election. The two movements serve as cases to study cyber activisms contributions to democracy. Guard the General Election, which received massive support from the internet users, has been acknowledged as a success story of a cyber political crowdsourcing in Indonesia. Guard the Local Election tried to repeat the success a year after, but received fewer supports. By scrutinizing those movements, this writing attempts to answer two connected questions of (1) how can cyber social movements contribute to democracy? (2) Why were some cyber movements received more popular support than the others? This paper argues, these movements have contributed to democratization in the way that the activisms reshaped civic culture; introducing new practices, empowering citizens identities, and strengthening trust. Also, the writing explores arguments that political momentum and mainstream media coverage are influential on determining the successfulness of cyber movements. Methodologically, this paper subscribes to qualitative content analysis as a tool to examine interviews materials as well as online and offline texts.

scholarly journals Influential spreaders in the political Twitter sphere of the 2013 Malaysian general election

2019 ◽  
Vol 119 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hong-liang Sun ◽  
Eugene Ch’ng ◽  
Simon See
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
General Election ◽  
The Political ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Political Sphere ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Election Results ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Propagation Network

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate political influential spreaders in Twitter at the juncture before and after the Malaysian General Election in 2013 (MGE2013) for the purpose of understanding if the political sphere within Twitter reflects the intentions, popularity and influence of political figures in the year in which Malaysia has its first “social media election.” Design/methodology/approach A Big Data approach was used for acquiring a series of longitudinal data sets during the election period. The work differs from existing methods focusing on the general statistics of the number of followers, supporters, sentiment analysis, etc. A retweeting network has been extracted from tweets and retweets and has been mapped to a novel information flow and propagation network we developed. The authors conducted quantitative studies using k-shell decomposition, which enables the construction of a quantitative Twitter political propagation sphere where members posited at the core areas are more influential than those in the outer circles and periphery. Findings The authors conducted a comparative study of the influential members of Twitter political propagation sphere on the election day and the day after. The authors found that representatives of political parties which are located at the center of the propagation network are winners of the presidential election. This may indicate that influential power within Twitter is positively related to the final election results, at least in MGE2013. Furthermore, a number of non-politicians located at the center of the propagation network also significantly influenced the election. Research limitations/implications This research is based on a large electoral campaign in a specific election period, and within a predefined nation. While the result is significant and meaningful, more case studies are needed for generalized application for identifying potential winning candidates in future social-media fueled political elections. Practical implications The authors presented a simple yet effective model for identifying influential spreaders in the Twitter political sphere. The application of the authors’ approach yielded the conclusion that online “coreness” score has significant influence to the final offline electoral results. This presents great opportunities for applying the novel methodology in the upcoming Malaysian General Election in 2018. The discovery presented here can be used for understanding how different players of political parties engage themselves in the election game in Twitter. The approach can also be adopted as a factor of influence for offline electoral activities. The conception of a quantitative approach in electoral results greatly influenced by social media means that comparative studies could be made in future elections. Originality/value Existing works related to general elections of various nations have either bypassed or ignored the subtle links between online and offline influential propagations. The modeling of influence from social media using a longitudinal and multilayered approach is also rarely studied. This simple yet effective method provides a new perspective of practice for understanding how different players behave and mutually shape each other over time in the election game.

scholarly journals Regional media framing of the Confederate flag debate in South Carolina

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-105
Author(s):  
Christopher Frear ◽  
Jane O’Boyle ◽  
Sei-Hill Kim
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Regional Differences ◽  
Media Framing ◽  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
Symbolic Meaning ◽  
Legislative Process ◽  
News Stories

Content analysis of 400 news stories in three South Carolina newspapers examines the frames used about the Confederate flag debate in the first 25 days after the 2015 Charleston church massacre. Stories focused on the legislative process in removing the flag more than the flag’s symbolic meaning or the shootings. The three newspapers cited reasons to support removal nearly three times more often than reasons to oppose and showed some distinct regional differences. About two thirds of stories in Charleston and Columbia had a favorable tone (support) toward flag removal, whereas the Greenville newspaper coverage was largely neutral.

scholarly journals Debatable sphere: Major party hegemony, minor party marginalization in the UK leaders’ debate

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 189-203
Author(s):  
Ceri Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
General Election ◽  
Major Party ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Power Differentials ◽  
New Development ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The Uk

The United Kingdom political landscape has historically been dominated by the two main political parties: Labour and the Conservatives. However, by the 2010 General Election, their vote share had dropped to 65%. The 2010 election also saw a new development enter the UK political landscape—televised leaders’ debates, which featured the leaders of the three largest political parties. Discussions before the 2015 General Election resulted in a decision to repeat the debate experiment, but this time, partly due to changes in projected vote shares, seven leaders were invited to the main debate. Using content analysis of the debate, this research questions the presentation of the debate as a deliberative event. Participatory parity was not achieved in the debate—far from it. Instead, the debate served to reinforce extant power differentials between the leaders of parties of differing political standings.

scholarly journals Negotiating Media ‘Balance’ in Malaysia's 2013 General Election

2013 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross Tapsell
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
General Election ◽  
Citizen Journalism ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Radio Industry

This article will discuss recent trends in Malaysia's media surrounding the 2013 general election (GE13). It will argue that the GE13 produced two important trends in the media industry. First, there was increased political-party participation in social media, citizen journalism and blogging. In fact, it practically led to a ‘cyberwar’ between political parties, making the realm of the online and social media increasingly polarised and partisan. Second, many mainstream media outlets in Malaysia successfully pursued a platform of more ‘balanced’ coverage, suggesting an increased space of negotiation and contestation amongst the previously muzzled print, television and radio industry. This article will conclude with an assessment of the future trends in the media industry in Malaysia post GE13.

scholarly journals The value of Muslim and non-Muslim life: A comparative content analysis of elite American newspaper coverage of terrorism victims

Journalism ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 146488492092238
Author(s):  
Mohamad Hamas Elmasry ◽  
Mohammed el-Nawawy
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Double Standard ◽  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Terror Attacks ◽  
Internal Conflicts ◽  
Majority World ◽  
Muslim Majority ◽  
Comparative Content

A spate of terrorist attacks in the Muslim-majority world and the non-Muslim-majority West has sparked debates about an alleged double standard in Western news coverage of terrorism victims, with critics alleging Western news outlets are less concerned with Muslim victims than non-Muslim victims. This content analysis comparatively examined American newspaper framing of two terror attacks occurring in the non-Muslim West with three attacks occurring in the Muslim-majority world. Findings show American papers covered attacks in non-Muslim-majority societies prominently and framed them as acts of terrorism, and covered attacks in Muslim-majority societies scantily and framed them as internal conflicts.

scholarly journals Framing international crises: a comparative content analysis of media texts on the collapse of Venezuela

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Berti Olinto
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
International Crises ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
News Agencies ◽  
Media Discourses ◽  
Comparative Content

This research explores mainstream and diasporic media coverage and discourses surrounding the Venezuelan economic and political crisis from late March 2017 until early May 2018. A comparative content analysis was applied to a total of 256 news articles, editorials, and stories from the Toronto Star, one of Canada’s largest newspapers, and from La Portada Canadá, a Spanish-language Latin American newspaper in Toronto. The results demonstrated diasporic media’s appropriation of journalistic biases such as human impact, dramatization, and national interests and the reframing of dominant discourses from international news agencies about the Venezuelan crisis. Whereas there are significant similarities between both media’s content regarding the crisis, La Portada Canadá stressed the transnational component of the Venezuelan diaspora through discourses about political and civic engagement in Canada. The Toronto Star focused more on the economic and political components of the crisis, which are closely linked to the country’s national agenda. Keywords: diasporic media, mainstream media, media coverage, media discourses, international crises, humanitarian crisis, Venezuela, Toronto

scholarly journals What’s in a frame? A comparative content analysis of American, British, French, and Russian news articles

2016 ◽  
Vol 78 (8) ◽  
pp. 777-801 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amélie Godefroidt ◽  
Anna Berbers ◽  
Leen d’Haenens
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Similar Pattern ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Chemical Weapon ◽  
Human Interest ◽  
Quantitative Content ◽  
Daily Telegraph ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Comparative Content

Drawing on the agenda-setting and framing literature, this quantitative content analysis examines how le Figaro, the Daily Telegraph, the New York Times, and the Moscow Times covered the Syrian war before and after the chemical weapon attack of 21 August 2013. Overall, the nationalization frame was most frequent, followed by the responsibility and conflict frames. Despite the large impact of the conflict, the morality, human interest, and economic impact frames were hardly present. Although all newspapers followed a similar pattern, the Daily Telegraph was the most heavily framed. Moreover, the stories barely provided any context while discussing several solutions largely in keeping with the suggestions of the governments. These findings raise questions about the neutrality of the newspapers and their impact on public opinion.

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