scholarly journals Undifferentiated optimism and scandalized accidents: the media coverage of autonomous driving in Germany

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (04) ◽  
pp. A02
Author(s):  
Lena Jelinski ◽  
Katrin Etzrodt ◽  
Sven Engesser
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Social Acceptance ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Autonomous Vehicle ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Autonomous Driving ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Mass Media

When, to what extent and under what conditions autonomous driving will become common practice depends not only on the level of technical development but also on social acceptance. Therefore, the rapid development of autonomous driving systems raises the question of how the public perceives this technology. As the mass media are regarded as the main source of information for the lay audience, the news coverage is assumed to affect public opinion. The mass media are also frequently criticized for their inaccurate and biased news coverage. Against this backdrop, we conducted a content analysis of the news coverage of autonomous driving in five leading German newspapers. Findings show that media reporting on autonomous driving is not very detailed. They also indicate a slight positive bias in the balance of arguments and tonality. However, as soon as an accident involving an autonomous vehicle occurs, the frequency of reporting, as well as the extent of negativity and detail increase. We conclude that well-informed public opinion requires more differentiated reporting — irrespective of accidents.

Political Agenda Setting and the Mass Media

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefaan Walgrave ◽  
Peter Van Aelst
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
The Individual

Recently, the number of studies examining whether media coverage has an effect on the political agenda has been growing strongly. Most studies found that preceding media coverage does exert an effect on the subsequent attention for issues by political actors. These effects are contingent, though, they depend on the type of issue and the type of political actor one is dealing with. Most extant work has drawn on aggregate time-series designs, and the field is as good as fully non-comparative. To further develop our knowledge about how and why the mass media exert influence on the political agenda, three ways forward are suggested. First, we need better theory about why political actors would adopt media issues and start devoting attention to them. The core of such a theory should be the notion of the applicability of information encapsulated in the media coverage to the goals and the task at hand of the political actors. Media information has a number of features that make it very attractive for political actors to use—it is often negative, for instance. Second, we plead for a disaggregation of the level of analysis from the institutional level (e.g., parliament) or the collective actor level (e.g., party) to the individual level (e.g., members of parliament). Since individuals process media information, and since the goals and tasks of individuals that trigger the applicability mechanism are diverse, the best way to move forward is to tackle the agenda setting puzzle at the individual level. This implies surveying individual elites or, even better, implementing experimental designs to individual elite actors. Third, the field is in dire need of comparative work comparing how political actors respond to media coverage across countries or political systems.

scholarly journals Batalhas nas ruas, guerra nas redes: notas sobre a cobertura midiática da violência em manifestações │ Battles on the streets, war on the networks: notes on the media coverage of violence at protests

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur Coelho Bezerra ◽  
Carolina Christoph Grillo
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Analytical Description ◽  
Police Violence ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Mass Media

RESUMO Com referência à eclosão de protestos no Brasil desde junho de 2013, este trabalho analisa o modo como a violência deflagrada durante as manifestações é narrada pela grande mídia e coletivos midiativistas, atentando-se para os interesses expressos nas narrações dos fatos. Constatamos que a imprensa corporativa tende a não problematizar a violência policial e a enfatizar a atuação de “vândalos”, ao passo que os midialivristas costumam culpar a polícia pela ocorrência de confrontos e representar positivamente as ações associadas à tática Black Bloc. O texto apresenta uma descrição analítica da guerra de narrativas travada por estes dois segmentos do jornalismo.Palavras-chave: Mídia; Midiativismo; Violência; Manifestações; Polícia.ABSTRACT Regarding the outbreak of protests in Brazil since June 2013, this paper analyses how violence unleashed during demonstrations is narrated by the mass media and mediactivist collectives, focusing on the interests expressed in the narration of facts. We found that corporative press tends to take police violence as unproblematic and to emphasize the actions of so-called “vandals”, while mediactivists usually blame police for the emergence of clashes and positively represent actions associated to the Black Bloc tactics. The text presents an analytical description of the war of narratives fought between these two segments of journalism.Keywords: Media; Mediactivism; Violence; Protests; Police.

COVID-19 and the Mass Media

2021 ◽  
pp. 509-518
Author(s):  
Subir Sinha
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Graphical Representation ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
The Government

COVID-19 is the cause of the greatest pandemic of the century that affects almost every nation of our globe. In India, mass media has played a significant role in this pandemic situation. The media coverage revealed fearlessly the condition of COVID-19 and provides a pictorial view of the situation in front of the readers and viewers. The main objectives of these fearless journalistic works were to provide the public valuable authentic information, create awareness among the public, eliminate fake propaganda and fake news, highlight the problem face by the ordinary public, and to provide the government a medium to speak with the public for the public interest. Mass media served as a vital weapon to fight against COVID-19. The valuable information and instructions provided by mass media created awareness among the public and which played a major role to deescalate the graphical representation of active COVID-19 cases. The outbreak of COVID-19 and the dogmatic approaches of the mass media in the pandemic situation have recalled the concept of media as the third pillar of democracy.

scholarly journals When attack meets debate. Presence of conflict in the framing of the 2018 and 2021 Mexican federal elections

2022 ◽  
Vol 2022 (0) ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Carlos Muñiz ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Election Campaigns ◽  
Legislative Elections ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Mass Media

During election campaigns the mass media favor political debate, giving relevant issues a particular framing. In this coverage the use of the conflict frame stands out, and although it usually presents politics as an exercise of confrontation and attack, it can also show it as a process of discussion and the exchange of opinions. A content analysis was conducted on television and press news during the 2018 presidential and the 2021 federal legislative elections in Mexico. The findings confirm the existence of two differentiated frames, that of “conflict” and that of “discussion and political agreement”. Furthermore, a connection between the two frames was detected in the media coverage of the campaigns.

scholarly journals Relasi Tingkat Kepercayaan Khalayak Terhadap Pemberitaan di Media Massa dengan Budaya Membandingkan Informasi

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 131
Author(s):  
Feri Ferdinan Alamsyah ◽  
Diana Amaliasari ◽  
Imani Satriani
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Positive Direction ◽  
Pocket Money ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
The City ◽  
Media Audience

The purpose of this study was to find out the characteristics of students in the city of Bogor which is a mass media audience, and to know the relation between the level of audience trust in the news in the mass media and the culture of comparing information. This study uses descriptive quantitative correlational methods. The population in this study were students who enrolled in the city of Bogor, determining the sample using incidental sampling technique. The results showed that the characteristics of the mass media audience in this study were students who were dominated by women with a ratio of 61.2 percent with 38.8 percent. Generally they (61.9 percent) are between 19 and 21 years old. Their purchasing power or pocket money a month is worth Rp. 500,000-1,000,000 with a total of 49.3 percent. Students who become respondents in this study are dominated by students from level 4 or students who study between the 7th and 8th semesters, that is, 50 percent. They generally (69.4 percent) have a cumulative index (GPA) 4. In the essence of the news indicator with knowledge, attention, and interpretation there is a real and significant relationship with a positive direction. While indicators of communicators or news deliverers with knowledge, attention, and interpretation there is no relationship, meaning that respondents do not care about the identity of the source of information they receive. Indicators of the number of news with knowledge and interpretation there is a real and very significant relationship with the direction of the relationship that is in the same direction or positive. However, there is no relationship between the amount of news and student attention in the media coverage.  Tujuan penelitian ini adalah mengetahui karakteristik mahasiswa di Kota Bogor yang merupakan khalayak media massa, dan mengetahui relasi tingkat kepercayaan khalayak terhadap pemberitaan di media massa dengan budaya membandingkan informasi. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode deskriptif kuantitatif korelasional. Populasi dalam penelitian ini adalah mahasiswa yang berkuliah di Kota Bogor, penentuan sampel menggunakan teknik incidental sampling. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa karakteristik khalayak media massa dalam penelitian ini adalah mahasiswa yang didominasi oleh kalangan perempuan dengan perbandingan 61,2 persen dengan 38,8 persen. Umumnya mereka (61,9 persen) berusia antara 19 hingga 21 tahun. Daya beli atau uang saku mereka perbulan rata-rata senilai Rp. 500.000-1.000.000 dengan jumlah 49,3 persen. Mahasiswa yang menjadi responden dalam penelitian ini didominasi oleh mahasiswa dari tingkat 4 atau mahasiswa yang berkuliah di antara semester 7 dan 8, yakni sejumlah 50 persen. Mereka umumnya (69,4 persen) mempunyai indeks prestasi kumulatif (IPK) 4. Pada indikator esensi berita dengan pengetahuan, perhatian, dan penafsiran terdapat hubungan yang nyata dan signifikan dengan arah yang positif. Sementara indikator Komunikator atau penyampai berita dengan pengetahuan, perhatian, dan penafsiran tidak terdapat hubungan, artinya responden tidak peduli dengan indentitas sumber informasi yang mereka terima. Indikator jumlah berita dengan pengetahuan dan penafsiran terdapat hubungan yang nyata dan sangat signifikan dengan arah hubungan yang searah atau positif. Namun, antara jumlah berita dengan perhatian mahasiswa dalam pemberitaan di media massa tidak terdapat hubungan.

scholarly journals Polish Mass Media Coverage and Public Opinion on E-democracy

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (23) ◽  
pp. 2-18
Author(s):  
Magdalena Musiał-Karg ◽  
Izabela Kapsa
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Universal Access ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Media Content Analysis ◽  
Modern Democracy ◽  
The Public

The rapid development of new technologies and their impressive communication capacity has fundamentally changed modern democracy by providing easy and universal access to information, as well as increasing participation and accessibility of political involvement tools. One of the electoral participation tools is e-voting which has been used in only a few countries. The main aim of the paper is to explore whether and how e-voting has been presented in Polish mass media (1), as well as to investigate people’s opinions about e-voting against certain political factors (2). The research is based on a media content analysis (quantitative and qualitative), data collected via the Content Analysis System for Television (CAST) and a quantitative analysis of data from a survey conducted by the authors (2018, sample: 1717 Poles). The results of the analyses show that the debate on the implementation of e-voting is rather poor, but the support for e-voting among Poles remains considerable. The public media rhetoric is interlinked with attitudes towards political parties. To some extent, determinants are reflected in the public opinion on the implementation of e-voting since Poles declare both their support for the introduction of e-voting and willingness to vote online.

scholarly journals Poverty and the media : mainstream newspaper coverage of anti-poverty activism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Butler
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
North America ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
First Century ◽  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Mass Media

In the twenty-first century, the mass media is increasingly seen as having a very pervasive influence: the extent and reach if it simply cannot be ignored. In communities large and small, and in countries all over the world, the mass media has the ability to set agendas and influence public opinion. In North America, the mass media is particularly ubiquitous; from television, to the internet, to newspapers, it has become difficult to avoid mass media products.

The Mass Media and the Policy Process

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annelise Russell ◽  
Maraam Dwidar ◽  
Bryan D. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Political System ◽  
The Political ◽  
Mass Public ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Mass Media

Scholars across politics and communication have wrangled with questions aimed at better understanding issue salience and attention. For media scholars, they found that mass attention across issues was a function the news media’s power to set the nation’s agenda by focusing attention on a few key public issues. Policy scholars often ignored the media’s role in their effort to understand how and why issues make it onto a limited political agenda. What we have is two disparate definitions describing, on the one hand, media effects on individuals’ issue priorities, and on the other, how the dynamics of attention perpetuate across the political system. We are left with two notions of agenda setting developed independently of one another to describe media and political systems that are anything but independent of one another. The collective effects of the media on our formal institutions and the mass public are ripe for further, collaborative research. Communications scholars have long understood the agenda setting potential of the news media, but have neglected to extend that understanding beyond its effects on mass public. The link between public opinion and policy is “awesome” and scholarship would benefit from exploring the implications for policy, media, and public opinion. Both policy and communication studies would benefit from a broadened perspective of media influence. Political communication should consider the role of the mass media beyond just the formation of public opinion. The media as an institution is not effectively captured in a linear model of information signaling because the public agenda cannot be complete without an understanding of the policymaking agenda and the role of political elites. And policy scholars can no longer describe policy process without considering the media as a source of disproportionate allocation of attention and information. The positive and negative feedback cycles that spark or stabilize the political system are intimately connected to policy frames and signals produced by the media.

scholarly journals Pan-Turkism and geopolitical identity in modern Eurasia: the analysis of representations in the media

2021 ◽  
pp. 25-38
Author(s):  
Anna Milyukova ◽  
Alla Vladimirovna Kovaleva ◽  
Ekaterina Vladimirovna Valyulina
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Regional Cooperation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Political Crises ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
Qualitative Characteristics

The subject of research is quantitative and qualitative characteristics of representation of the issue of Pan-Turkism in the Mass Media. The authors study two trends of development of the Pan-Turkism ideas: on the other hand, marginalization, on the other hand - actualization, which corresponds with the periods of crises (wars, epidemics, political crises). As an alternative to separatist movements, the authors name the increase of the role of transborder cooperation in the context of Eurasian integration with the help of the Eurasian Economic Union, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Eurasian Economic Community, and the project of transborder regional cooperation Big Altai. The purpose of the research is to characterise the main media trends of presentation of the Pan-Turkism issue in the Mass Media. The authors demonstrate the assessment of quantitative and qualitative characteristics of media coverage of the ideas of Pan-Turkism (the dynamics of referring; the activity of media in the number of messages and mediaindex, the level, categories, genres, the most remarkable newsworthy events; the role of international social, religious, educational organizations; the position of countries, regions, public figures, government and social organizations and institutions in the media coverage of the Pan-Turkism ideas). The scientific novelty consists in the fact that the context of references to the Pan-Turkism ideas in the media, as well as the media trends in this field which are being formed, almost haven’t been studied. The main conclusions of the research are about the information agenda, formed mainly by the Russian federal Internet media, aimed at the coverage of the Pan-Turkism issues. The most active in the formation of the Pan-Turkism agenda are the Russian pro-government and pro-Armenian media. Turkey, Armenia, Syria, Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh have a negative image in the media materials in the context of Pan-Turkism. Russia, the U.S., China. Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, as well as such political figures as Recep Erdoğan, Vladimir Putin, Ilham Aliyev and Nikol Vovayi Pashinyan are referred to in a positive context.   

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