Content and validity of claims made about Food Parenting Practices in UK online news articles: Qualitative analysis. (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chloe Patel ◽  
Lukasz Walasek ◽  
Eleni Karasouli ◽  
Caroline Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Nutrition Education ◽  
News Media ◽  
Parenting Practices ◽  
Research Evidence ◽  
Child Outcomes ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Online News ◽  
News Article ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
Parenting Practice

UNSTRUCTURED Objective: The primary objective of the study was to qualitatively summarise the content of online news articles pertaining to food parenting practices and to determine whether this content is substantiated by the scientific literature in this field. Method: News article data were identified and collected from UK online news published during 2010-2017 using the News on the Web corpus. A coding framework was used to categorise the content of news articles to identify food parenting practice related information. Further, claims made about FPPs were extracted from relevant news articles. A claim was defined as a statement that suggested or implied that there was a relationship between a food parenting practice and child or adult outcome. Each claim was then evaluated to determine the extent to which claims were supported by available scientific research evidence by the authors. Results: The study identified ten claims across thirty-two relevant online news articles. Most news articles were published on ‘middle-market’ tabloid news sites (e.g., Daily Mail). Claims made across the news articles reported on the following food parenting practices: restriction, food-based threats and bribes, pressure to eat, and use of food to control negative emotions, food availability, food preparation, and meal and snack routines. No articles were published around food parenting practices aiming to promote child autonomy. Conclusion: Eight out of the ten claims made did not refer to scientific research evidence. News articles frequently lack detail and information from scientific research to explain to readers why and how the use of certain food parenting practices might have a lasting impact on children’s health outcomes. The study also shows the lack of news media reporting on those food parenting practices known to be associated with healthy child outcomes such as nutrition education, and child involvement which may influence social norms and beliefs among parents. Given the influence that news media has on parents and their choice of parenting practices, the reporting of FPPs in news articles should aim to provide a balanced view of the published scientific evidence, and recognise the difficulties and barriers that prevent the use of helpful and healthy FPPs. The results of the study could be used to aid the structure of the dissemination of food parenting practice research findings in the media, inform public health education to influence perceptions of unhelpful food parenting practices and promote parental use of responsive food parenting practices.

scholarly journals Doing stigma: Online commenting around weight-related news media

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (9) ◽  
pp. 3201-3222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phillip Brooker ◽  
Julie Barnett ◽  
John Vines ◽  
Shaun Lawson ◽  
Tom Feltwell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Online News ◽  
Weight Stigma ◽  
News Article ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Complex Issue ◽  
Lifestyle Choice ◽  
Counter Narratives ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Guardian

Weight stigma results from the mediatisation of ‘obesity’: conceptually, a medicalised problem resulting from personal bodily irresponsibility. We undertake a frame analysis of 1452 comments on a thematically related online news article published via The Guardian, about the status of ‘obesity’ as a disability in European Union (EU) employment law. We identify three themes: (1) weight as a lifestyle choice or disability, (2) weight as an irresponsible choice and (3) weight as a simple or complex issue. We contend that the design of the commenting platform prevents counter-narratives from challenging the dominant (‘obesity’) framing for three reasons: (1) content is driven by comments appearing earlier in the corpus, (2) the commenting system primarily supports argument between polarised rhetorical positions and (3) the platform design discourages users from developing alternative terminologies for producing counter-narratives. In this way, we explore how weight stigma is propagated through online media, and how users’ comments intersect with the affordances of the platform itself.

Framing of Papua Under Two Different Medias: Tirto.id and Reuters of United States

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-100
Author(s):  
Almas Rifqi Darmawan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Online News ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
News Article ◽  
International Level ◽  
Human Interest ◽  
Embedded Value

Critical discourse analysis (CDA) is a bridge of interpretations through textual context occurred in the news media. Thus, the 2019 Papua’s issues were getting a huge portray in online news and many news coverages in national and international level that had put Papua issues into bias. Media’s framing influences people perception as a reader. Under CDA and the framing of Papua, the news readers are expected to have their own perception through the media’s perspectives or frames. Qualitative method was used to uncover the frames of the online news media of Tirto.id and Reuters of United States. This research explores how Tirto.id and Reuters are framing the Papua issue in their articles by defining the types of frames occurred in both news media within the period. Following the framing categorization which are conflict frame, human interest frame, responsibility frame, and consequences frame and by focusing on the wordings which showing the category thus classified them based on the embedded value behind the words. Thus, distinguish the differences of the frames used between both media. The result of the analysis is that in both media employed the frames. One news could contain more than one frame employed. The conclusion is that one news article may portray many frames and both media may indicate two different perceptions of Papua issue under two different circumstances Tirto.id and Reuters of United States.

scholarly journals Emotive Language in Online News: The Case of Awani News Channel

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-133
Author(s):  
Hamdi Khalis Kadri ◽  
Nidana Yahya ◽  
Farahnaz Khalib
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Mass Number ◽  
Online News ◽  
News Article ◽  
News Reporting ◽  
The Social ◽  
Newspaper Reporting ◽  
The Subject ◽  
News Writing

Employing emotive words in news writing is one of the most common strategies in today’s newspaper reporting. Emotive words are usually used in writings to evoke readers’ emotion on the subject. It is important for a reader to be aware of this phenomenon so they would not be easily manipulated by provoking news articles. However, in Malaysia where the news media is still being controlled strictly by regulations and ethics, are emotive words the commonly employed strategy by journalists? This study intends to discover the usage of emotive words in news reporting in Awani News. The data for this study are the ‘viral’ news articles on one of the social media, Twitter. The tweets with mass number of engagements were taken and the article from the link attached with those tweets were analysed. From the analysis, the researcher found that generally, Awani News was able to keep their objectivity in reporting the news article but not in the headlines. However, there were also some instances where the news channel used emotive words heavily in their news reporting. Out of 14 news articles analysed, there were 13 headlines that contained emotive words/phrases and 32 emotive words/phrases within the news articles. But, the employment of emotive words in the news articles is not even as there are news articles that have 9 emotive words/phrases and there are also news articles that do not contain any of them.

Opportunities for Qualitative Analysis of Social Media Platforms in Dietetic Research and Practice

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Meghan Lynch ◽  
Irena Knezevic ◽  
Kennedy Laborde Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Online News ◽  
News Article ◽  
Discussion Forums ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
The Public ◽  
Related Data ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Article Comment

To date, most qualitative knowledge about individual eating patterns and the food environment has been derived from traditional data collection methods, such as interviews, focus groups, and observations. However, there currently exists a large source of nutrition-related data in social media discussions that have the potential to provide opportunities to improve dietetic research and practice. Qualitative social media discussion analysis offers a new tool for dietetic researchers and practitioners to gather insights into how the public discusses various nutrition-related topics. We first consider how social media discussion data come with significant advantages including low-cost access to timely ways to gather insights from the public, while also cautioning that social media data have limitations (e.g., difficulty verifying demographic information). We then outline 3 types of social media discussion platforms in particular: (i) online news article comment sections, (ii) food and nutrition blogs, and (iii) discussion forums. We discuss how each different type of social media offers unique insights and provide a specific example from our own research using each platform. We contend that social media discussions can contribute positively to dietetic research and practice.

Statistical literacy and the news media

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Gelman ◽  
Deborah Nolan
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
News Article ◽  
Introductory Statistics ◽  
News Story ◽  
Statistical Literacy ◽  
Process Information ◽  
Statistics Course ◽  
Reported Study ◽  
Original Report

An important theme in an introductory statistics course is the connection between statistics and the outside world. Described in this chapter are assignments that can be useful in getting students to learn how to gather and process information presented in the news and scientific reports. These assignments seem to work well only when students have direction about how to do this kind of research. Three versions of the assignment are provided. In all three, students read a news story and the original report on which the article was based, and they complete a worksheet with guidelines for summarizing the reported study. In some versions students are supplied the news story and report and in another each student finds a news article and tracks down the original report on her own. Included here are our guidelines, example instructional packets, and the process we use to organize each type of assignment.

Online News Media as Interactive Community Bulletin Boards

Media Asia ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 197-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Y. L. Lee
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Online News ◽  
Bulletin Boards

Resisting Political Fragmentation on the Internet

Daedalus ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 140 (4) ◽  
pp. 108-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Kelly Garrett ◽  
Paul Resnick
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Online News ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Political Fragmentation ◽  
Software Designers ◽  
The Face ◽  
Desirable Behavior ◽  
Partisan News

Must the Internet promote political fragmentation? Although this is a possible outcome of personalized online news, we argue that other futures are possible and that thoughtful design could promote more socially desirable behavior. Research has shown that individuals crave opinion reinforcement more than they avoid exposure to diverse viewpoints and that, in many situations, hearing the other side is desirable. We suggest that, equipped with this knowledge, software designers ought to create tools that encourage and facilitate consumption of diverse news streams, making users, and society, better off. We propose several techniques to help achieve this goal. One approach focuses on making useful or intriguing opinion-challenges more accessible. The other centers on nudging people toward diversity by creating environments that accentuate its benefits. Advancing research in this area is critical in the face of increasingly partisan news media, and we believe these strategies can help.

Partisan media effects beyond one-shot experimental designs

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Kathleen Searles ◽  
Joshua P. Darr ◽  
Mingxiao Sui ◽  
Nathan Kalmoe ◽  
Raymond Pingree ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Media Effects ◽  
News Media ◽  
Online News ◽  
Repeated Exposure ◽  
Experimental Designs ◽  
Fox News ◽  
Partisan Media ◽  
News Effects ◽  
Partisan News

Abstract Previous study demonstrates that partisans perceive in-party news outlets as fair, and out-party news outlets as unfair. However, much of this study relies on one-shot designs. We create an ecologically valid design that randomly assigns participants to news feeds within a week-long online news portal where the balance of in-party and out-party news outlets has been manipulated. We find that sustained exposure to a feed that features out-party news media attenuates Democrats' beliefs that Fox News is unfair, but the same is not true for Republican's perceptions of MSNBC's fairness. Unexpectedly, repeated exposure to in-party news did increase Republicans' beliefs that Fox News is unfair. This study updates our understanding of partisan news effects in a fragmented online news environment.

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