scholarly journals COVID-19 NEWS AND AUDIENCE AGGRESSIVENESS: ANALYSIS OF NEWS CONTENT AND AUDIENCE REACTION DURING THE STATE OF EMERGENCY IN LATVIA (2020–2021)

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 141-147
Author(s):  
Anda Rozukalne ◽  
Vineta Kleinberga ◽  
Normunds Grūzītis
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Online News ◽  
The State ◽  
State Of Emergency ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Verbal Aggressiveness ◽  
News Content ◽  
Audience Reaction ◽  
Online News Sites

This research focuses on the interrelation between news content on COVID-19 of three largest online news sites in Latvia (delfi.lv, apollo.lv, tvnet.lv) and the audience reaction to the news in the Latvian and Russian channels during the state of emergency. By using a tool for audience behaviour analysis, the Index of the Internet Aggressiveness (IIA), for analysis of audience comments, the study aims to uncover how and whether news about COVID-19 affect the level of audience aggressiveness. The study employs two data collection methods: news content analysis and IIA data analysis, in which ten index peaks are selected in each of the two emergency periods (spring 2020, fall and winter 2020/21). The study data consists of content analysis of 400 news items and analysis of ~80,000 comments, identifying the level of aggressiveness, the number and structure of comment keywords. The results show that the level of public aggressiveness is only partially formed by the attitude towards COVID-19 news: less than half of the most aggressively commented news is devoted to information about COVID-19. An increase in the level of aggressiveness of the audience of online news sites can be observed at the end of 2020 and at the beginning of 2021 when it is higher than over the course of 2020.IIA is an online comment analysis platform, which analyses user-generated comments on news on online news sites according to pre-selected keywords, allowing to grasp the dynamics of commenters’ verbal aggressiveness. In addition, IIA exploits a machine learned classifier to recognize not only potentially aggressive keywords but also to analyse the entire comments. In January 2021, the IIA data set consists of ~24.89 million comments (~611.97 million words) added to ~1.34 million news articles. 

scholarly journals Incivility and disrespectfulness in online political discussion

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 278
Author(s):  
Angga Prawadika Aji ◽  
Ari Sapto
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Online News ◽  
Political Discussion ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Political News ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Online News Sites

Reader’s comment columns on online political news pages are locations where political discussions between citizens can emerge and develop. The reader comment column is a standard feature of almost all media sites because of its ability to initiate discussion and promote a particular article or issues within the news site. Unfortunately, in its development, the online comment column’s discussion process is often filled by incivility and disrespectful expressions, such as sentences containing insults, condemnation, or expressions full of anger. Such sentences have the potential to undermine the discussion process and encourage pointless arguments, especially in articles that discuss political polarity. This study aims to determine the extent to which incivility and disrespectful expressions appear in readers’ comments columns of online news sites, especially on polarized political issues. This study uses content analysis techniques on 403 comments in political news on Detik.com, one of Indonesia’s main news portals. The results show that although the incivility expression shows a small number, the form of disrespectful shows a high number in the readers’ comments. The highest form of the expression of disrespectful is the expression tat contains name-calling (23%), followed by hyperbole (15.6%) and the use of sarcasm (6.2%). The high number of disrespectful expressions seems to be related to the comment column service feature that allows users to use anonymous identities.

scholarly journals METAPHORS IN THE HEADINGS OF KALTIM POST NEWS

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 97-110
Author(s):  
Inderi Mira Saputri ◽  
Iwan Setiawan
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Study Data ◽  
The Political ◽  
Intended Meaning ◽  
Daily News ◽  
Political News ◽  
News Content ◽  
Limited Space

 Metaphors used in the political news published in Kaltim Post Daily News are analyzed in this study.  The objectives of the analysis are to see kind of metaphors and their intended meaning in the context of news.  Content analysis is used for the design in this study.  Data are collected from available news for two months. Criteria of metaphors as proposed by Wahab (1995) are used for analysis.  This study identified two kinds of metaphors among three kinds proposed by Wahab (1995).  The first kind is nominative metaphors used as a subject of a sentence.  The second kind is predicative metaphor used for an predicate of a sentence.  In the context of lead presentation in of news in publication, the use of nominative and predicative metaphors are relevant to the uses of precise dictions in the limited space of publication.             

Games and Quizzes in Online Journalism

2016 ◽  
pp. 329-355
Author(s):  
Bartosz W. Wojdynski
Keyword(s):  
Online News ◽  
The State ◽  
Online Journalism ◽  
News Content ◽  
Interactive Games ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Viral Nature ◽  
The Impact ◽  
To Receive

The competition for online news page views increasingly involves strategies designed to promote the “viral” nature of content, and to capitalize on the content's spread by ensuring that the content does not quickly lose timeliness or relevance. As a result of the pressure for these stories, news experiences which can be revisited by consumers are at a premium. In this ecosystem, interactive games and quizzes which can be played to receive different feedback or reach a different ending offer promise for news organizations to receive ongoing and widespread reward for their efforts. This chapter provides an overview of the state of gamification in journalism, challenges and opportunities for the growth of games in online news, and discusses evidence for the impact of increasingly gamified news content on how users process and perceive news information.

scholarly journals METAPHORS IN THE HEADINGS OF KALTIM POST NEWS

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-68
Author(s):  
Irma Soleha
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Study Data ◽  
The Political ◽  
Intended Meaning ◽  
Daily News ◽  
Political News ◽  
News Content ◽  
Limited Space

  Metaphors used in the political news published in Kaltim Post Daily News are analyzed in this study.  The objectives of the analysis are to see kind of metaphors and their intended meaning in the context of news.  Content analysis is used for the design in this study.  Data are collected from available news published in October to November 2008.  Criteria of metaphors as proposed by Wahab (1995) are used for analysis.  This study identified two kinds of metaphors among three kinds proposed by Wahab (1995).  The first kind is nominative metaphors used as a subject of a sentence.  The second kind is a predictive metaphor used for a predicate of a sentence.  In the context of lead presentation in of news in publication, the use of nominative and predicative metaphors are relevant to the uses of precise diction in the limited space of publication.               Keywords:  metaphors, predicative, nominative, news, lead. 

Games and Quizzes in Online Journalism

2019 ◽  
pp. 667-693 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bartosz W. Wojdynski
Keyword(s):  
Online News ◽  
The State ◽  
Online Journalism ◽  
News Content ◽  
Interactive Games ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Viral Nature ◽  
The Impact ◽  
To Receive

The competition for online news page views increasingly involves strategies designed to promote the “viral” nature of content, and to capitalize on the content's spread by ensuring that the content does not quickly lose timeliness or relevance. As a result of the pressure for these stories, news experiences which can be revisited by consumers are at a premium. In this ecosystem, interactive games and quizzes which can be played to receive different feedback or reach a different ending offer promise for news organizations to receive ongoing and widespread reward for their efforts. This chapter provides an overview of the state of gamification in journalism, challenges and opportunities for the growth of games in online news, and discusses evidence for the impact of increasingly gamified news content on how users process and perceive news information.

scholarly journals Is there Critical Thinking in Popular Comments? A Descriptive Examination through Content Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Daron Benjamin Loo ◽  
Linda Lagason
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Online News ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Analytical Protocol ◽  
Descriptive Account ◽  
Syrian Conflict

This study provides a descriptive account of popular comments (n=57) extracted from four published news articles on an online news platform. This was done through a content analysis on the level of critical thinking found in readers’ comments deemed popular by other readers through the number of responses and likes. Comments from four news articles reporting on the Syrian conflict were analysed using the Newman, Webb, and Cochrane’s (1995) analytical protocol. Results showed that although there were clear indicators of critical thinking in the popular comments, specifically by providing justification and synthesizing comments with external materials. These indicators were of high frequency and common, perhaps due to the nature of the news items under analysis – which is concerned with an ongoing conflict that has political and social bearing on the readers. We conclude by suggesting future research to introduce relevant critical thinking indicators based on contextually-familiar news topics and a bigger data set.

Childhood Intelligence Predicts Adult Trait Openness

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Furnham ◽  
Helen Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation Modeling ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Direct Effects ◽  
Data Set ◽  
National Child Development Study ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
The Uk

Abstract. This study used a longitudinal data set of 5,672 adults followed for 50 years to determine the factors that influence adult trait Openness-to-Experience. In a large, nationally representative sample in the UK (the National Child Development Study), data were collected at birth, in childhood (age 11), adolescence (age 16), and adulthood (ages 33, 42, and 50) to examine the effects of family social background, childhood intelligence, school motivation during adolescence, education, and occupation on the personality trait Openness assessed at age 50 years. Structural equation modeling showed that parental social status, childhood intelligence, school motivation, education, and occupation all had modest, but direct, effects on trait Openness, among which childhood intelligence was the strongest predictor. Gender was not significantly associated with trait Openness. Limitations and implications of the study are discussed.

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