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.

Temporal affordances in the news

Journalism ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt ◽  
Motti Neiger
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Online News ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Preparation Time ◽  
News Production ◽  
Stability And Change ◽  
Material Conditions ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Over Time

This article develops the concept of temporal affordances as a framework for understanding and evaluating the relationship between news technologies and journalistic storytelling practices. Accordingly, temporal affordances are defined as the potential ways in which the time-related possibilities and constraints associated with the material conditions and technological aspects of news production are manifested in the temporal characteristics of news narratives. After identifying six such affordances – immediacy, liveness, preparation time, transience, fixation in time, and extended retrievability – we examine manifestations of temporal affordances in different journalistic cultures over time, based on a content analysis of Israeli and US news narratives in different technological eras (from 1950 to 2013). The findings point to a consistent pattern of inter-media differences, in accordance with the distinct affordances of print and online news, alongside cross-cultural and cross-organizational variations in the use of these affordances. In addition, we detect complex patterns of stability and change in the use of temporal affordances in print media over time. Implications and directions for future research are discussed.

scholarly journals A framework proposal for digital interventions in perinatal education: the result of a content analysis to WHO intra-partum care recommendations

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla V. Leite ◽  
Ana Margarida Almeida
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Fetal Monitoring ◽  
Well Being ◽  
World Health ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Digital Interventions ◽  
Third Stage Of Labor

Purpose This research proposes a framework to guide the development and analysis of digital interventions, namely, through mobile applications, regarding labor and birth. By complying with current scientific evidence, this paper aims to contribute to the safeness and completeness of perinatal health education targeting expectant parents. Design/methodology/approach A content analysis was conducted on a document containing World Health Organization guidelines for intra-partum, considering the following categories: timeframe, care options, category of recommendation, to create a data set clearly distinguishing between recommendations and non-recommendations. Context-specific and research-context recommendations, details from dosages, measurements and timings, infant care and non-immediate postpartum topics were considered out of the scope of this study. Findings The results were summarized in a table, ready to be used as a data set, including the following 16 care options ranging from health, well-being and/or rights: respect, communication, companionship, pregnant person’s monitoring, status, fetal monitoring, pain relief, pain management, amenities, labor delay prevention, progress, freedom of choice, facilitation of birth, prevention of postpartum hemorrhage, umbilical cord care and recovery. These were distributed across six timeframes: always, admission, first, second and third stage of labor and immediate postpartum. In addition, recommendations and non-recommendations are displayed in different columns. Originality/value This transdisciplinary research intends to contribute to: future research on perinatal education; the creation of digital interventions, namely, m-health ones, targeting expectant parents by providing a framework of content coverage; the endorsement of the rights to Information and to decision-making. Ultimately, when put into practice, the framework can impact self-care through access to perinatal education.

scholarly journals Mapping Emerging and Legacy Outlets Online by Their Democratic Functions—Agonistic, Deliberative, or Corrosive?

2021 ◽  
pp. 194016122110150
Author(s):  
Rainer Freudenthaler ◽  
Hartmut Wessler
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Refugee Camp ◽  
Online News ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Moral Case ◽  
Partisan Media

In this study, we offer a novel approach to research on migration reporting by focusing on the argumentative substance prevalent in different online outlets. Taking German refugee policy as our case in point we map the role that moral, ethical–cultural, legal, and pragmatic argumentations play within journalistic, partisan, and activist outlets; and how these coincide with incivility and impoliteness. Using dictionary-based content analysis on a data set of 34,819 articles from thirty online news outlets published between April 10, 2017, and April 10, 2018, we find that legacy mainstream media, partisan media, and activist media perform vastly different functions for the larger public sphere. We observe that human rights activist media perform an advocatory function by making the moral case for refugees, whereas corrosive partisan media at the fringe—particularly within the contra-refugee camp—often present opponents as inherently illegitimate enemies. Implications for public sphere theory and directions for future research on emerging and legacy media are discussed.

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 Weight-Related People-First Language Use and Visual Content Analysis of Images from the Online Coverage of the 2018 Presidential Physical Exam (P04-180-19)

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Seth Klobodu ◽  
Dylan Bailey ◽  
Levi Johnson ◽  
Sydney Carroll ◽  
Courtney Merrick
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
First Language ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Online News ◽  
Physical Exam ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Inclusion Criteria ◽  
Visual Content ◽  
People First ◽  
Google Search

Abstract Objectives Weight-related stigmatization is pervasive in American society with health and social consequences. The public increasingly gets news online and it can influence how they understand health issues, including obesity. Online media has a wide reach and can perpetuate the social acceptability of weight stigma through language and visual content. To combat weight bias, experts recommend the use of People-First Language (PFL) and avoidance of stigmatizing images by the media. Research has not yet analyzed the use of weight-related PFL or images in online coverage of any presidential physical exam. Our first objective was to determine the prevalence of PFL in online news coverage of the 2018 presidential physical exam. Our second objective was to examine the images that accompanied the online coverage. Methods Google search engine was used to identify all US based online news articles that covered the physical exam between December 7, 2017 and February 17, 2018. Articles meeting inclusion criteria were coded for the presence of weight-related language keywords and use of PFL. We then performed a content analysis on the images that accompanied the online news articles. Four coders systematically reviewed the visual content to capture images that may be stigmatizing. Simple descriptive statistics were used to summarize data. Results Exactly 1242 articles were obtained based on keyword searches and 376 met inclusion criteria. After excluding duplicates, 179 articles were included in the final analysis. Use of PFL was observed in 2% (4 of 179 articles) of coverage. Use of the adjective “obese” occurred in 44% of coverage, the condition “obesity” in 19% of coverage and “overweight” in 37% of coverage. About 28% (64 of 227) of images portrayed the president as exercising, but of those, 84% (54 of 64) were portrayed in a stigmatizing way. Of 227 photographs of the president accompanying the online news coverage, 37% (83 of 227) were portrayed in a negative and stigmatizing manner. Conclusions Prevalence of weight-related PFL was low and use of stigmatizing images was noticeable. Exercise should display positive characteristics in an image. However, in our study it was counterintuitively used for stigmatizing portrayals. Future research should identify factors surrounding the lack of PFL and use of stigmatizing images by online news media. Funding Sources LJ received funding from the U.S. Dept. of Education HSI STEM grant.

Particular Features of Istro-Romanian Pronominal Clitics

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 147-158
Author(s):  
Adina Dragomirescu ◽  
Alexandru Nicolae
Keyword(s):  
Language Contact ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Descriptive Account

"Particular Features of Istro-Romanian Pronominal Clitics. Istro-Romanian is a ‘historical dialect’ of Romanian, a severely endangered linguistic variety, spoken in the Istrian peninsula (Croatia) as an endogenous language, and in USA and Canada as an exogenous language. Using the data extracted from the available corpora, the paper offers a descriptive account of the main features of pronominal clitics in Istro-Romanian, focusing on empirical phenomena such as interpolation, verb(-auxiliary)-clitic inversion, (absence of) clitic climbing, and the position of clitics with respect to other elements of the verbal cluster. Some parallels with Croatian are also drawn, and the importance of old Romanian/old Romance inheritance is also briefly assessed. Future research will concentrate on more closely determining what plays a more important role in the syntax of Istro-Romanian: preservation of archaic Romanian/ Romance features or language contact?

Antecedents of Family Conflict in Uganda

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 35-54
Author(s):  
Rogers Matama ◽  
Kezia H. Mkwizu
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Sample Size ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Family Conflict ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Family Conflicts ◽  
The Core ◽  
Quantitative Studies

The purpose of this study was to explore the antecedents of family conflict in Uganda. A qualitative approach was used in this study. A sample size of 139 participants provided data which was subjected to content analysis. Results revealed that the core themes associated with family conflict are finances and priority of resources. Further findings show that differences in tastes and interests, selfishness and lack of communication played a key role as causes of family conflicts. The implication of this study is that finances and priority of resources are antecedents of family conflict in the context of Uganda. Therefore, the antecedents of family conflict that emerged from this study can be understood, defined and analyzed through the lens of social identity theory. Future research may include conducting quantitative studies with a particular demographic using the themes that have emerged from this study.

Twitter Users’ Displays of Affect in the Global Warming Debate

2021 ◽  
pp. 004728162110078
Author(s):  
Shanna Cameron ◽  
Alexandra Russell ◽  
Luke Brake ◽  
Katherine Fredlund ◽  
Angela Morris
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Technical Communication ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Climate Change Research ◽  
Quantitative Content ◽  
Twitter Users

This article engages with recent discussions in the field of technical communication that call for climate change research that moves beyond the believer/denier dichotomy. For this study, our research team coded 900 tweets about climate change and global warming for different emotions in order to understand how Twitter users rely on affect rhetorically. Our findings use quantitative content analysis to challenge current assumptions about writing and affect on social media, and our results indicate a number of arenas for future research on affect, global warming, and rhetoric.

scholarly journals An approach to emerging optical and optoelectronic applications based on NiO micro- and nanostructures

Nanophotonics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
María Taeño ◽  
David Maestre ◽  
Ana Cremades
Keyword(s):  
Gas Sensors ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Electrochromic Devices ◽  
Fuel Cell Electrodes ◽  
Magnetic Devices ◽  
Optical Microresonators ◽  
Optical Limiters ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Potential Applicability

Abstract Nickel oxide (NiO) is one of the very few p-type semiconducting oxides, the study of which is gaining increasing attention in recent years due to its potential applicability in many emerging fields of technological research. Actually, a growing number of scientific works focus on NiO-based electrochromic devices, high-frequency spintronics, fuel cell electrodes, supercapacitors, photocatalyst, chemical/gas sensors, or magnetic devices, among others. However, less has been done so far in the development of NiO-based optical devices, a field in which this versatile transition metal oxide still lags in performance despite its potential applicability. This review could contribute with novelty and new forefront insights on NiO micro and nanostructures with promising applicability in optical and optoelectronic devices. As some examples, NiO lighting devices, optical microresonators, waveguides, optical limiters, and neuromorphic applications are reviewed and analyzed in this work. These emerging functionalities, together with some other recent developments based on NiO micro and nanostructures, can open a new field of research based on this p-type material which still remains scarcely explored from an optical perspective, and would pave the way to future research and scientific advances.

scholarly journals The COVID Connection: Pandemic Anxiety, COVID-19 Comprehension, and Digital Confidence

2021 ◽  
pp. 000276422110031
Author(s):  
Laura Robinson ◽  
Jeremy Schulz ◽  
Øyvind N. Wiborg ◽  
Elisha Johnston
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Models ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sociodemographic Factors ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Lower Probability ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Digital Inequality ◽  
Partner Status ◽  
General Anxiety ◽  
Nationally Representative

This article presents logistic models examining how pandemic anxiety and COVID-19 comprehension vary with digital confidence among adults in the United States during the first wave of the pandemic. As we demonstrate statistically with a nationally representative data set, the digitally confident have lower probability of experiencing physical manifestations of pandemic anxiety and higher probability of adequately comprehending critical information on COVID-19. The effects of digital confidence on both pandemic anxiety and COVID-19 comprehension persist, even after a broad range of potentially confounding factors are taken into account, including sociodemographic factors such as age, gender, race/ethnicity, metropolitan status, and partner status. They also remain discernable after the introduction of general anxiety, as well as income and education. These results offer evidence that the digitally disadvantaged experience greater vulnerability to the secondary effects of the pandemic in the form of increased somatized stress and decreased COVID-19 comprehension. Going forward, future research and policy must make an effort to address digital confidence and digital inequality writ large as crucial factors mediating individuals’ responses to the pandemic and future crises.

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