scholarly journals Headlines against Democracy: Operational Code Analysis of the Serbian Daily Informer’s Headlines in Relation to the Anti-Government Protests’ First Phase (2018–2019)

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3 (41)) ◽  
pp. 23-41
Author(s):  
Srđan Mladenov JOVANOVIĆ ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Authoritarian Regime ◽  
Whole Body ◽  
Daily Newspaper ◽  
Scholarly Research ◽  
Code Analysis ◽  
Operational Code ◽  
Indirect Control ◽  
The Media

Since late 2019, Serbia has been gripped in a wave of protests against, as scholarly research has dubbed it, the semi-authoritarian regime of President Aleksandar Vučić. Having in mind that the President’s regime has by known been uncovered to rule by direct and indirect control of the media, the arguably main government-supporting daily newspaper, the Informer, has been covering the protests avidly, and with significant vitriol. With the understanding a headline is seen by the reader more commonly than the whole body of the article and having in mind the Informer’s pro-clivity towards exaggeration and hyperbole, we have analyzed all of the daily’s headlines that refer to the protests, protesters, or protest/opposition leaders during the so-called ‘First phase of the protests’ via the methodo-logical position of Operational Code Analysis. The paper shows a fairly extreme OPCODE for the Informer.

Sinn Féin and the life and death of the republican newspaper

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paddy Hoey
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
Daily Newspaper ◽  
Tectonic Plates ◽  
Sinn Fein ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
The Troubles ◽  
The People ◽  
The Media ◽  
Authentic Voice

Sinn Féin’s far reaching commitment to activist materials since the late 1960s included a devotion to the newspapers An Phoblacht/ Republican News. It was almost quixotically committed to producing AP/ RN and the paper became a far-reaching organ of political identity. During the Hunger Strikes of 1980/ 81 it was the authentic voice of those on the protests. Later, during the reforms of Peace Process era it articulated the changes in policy. However, Sinn Féin activists were keen to develop a mainstream vehicle for the newly dominant and optimistic strand of republicanism, one that might compete against the media outlets that had been overtly critical and hostile towards the party dating back to the beginning of the Troubles. The Belfast Media Group whose primary paper, the Andersonstown News, became associated with articulating Sinn Féin’s position throughout the 1990s and 2000s launched the republican daily newspaper Daily Ireland in 2005 in competition with the Irish News, the paper that has traditionally captured sales among the nationalist population of Northern Ireland. It was an experiment in assessing how far the shifts in the cultural and political tectonic plates of nationalism played into the media consumption habits of the people.

Nigeria, Football, and the Return of Lord Lugard

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 451-465 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chuka Onwumechili
Keyword(s):  
Frame Analysis ◽  
Sports Fans ◽  
Daily Newspaper ◽  
Satellite Television ◽  
Complementary Method ◽  
Football Fans ◽  
The Media ◽  
European Football ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Depth Interviews

This qualitative research investigated the meaning of the European football leagues’ domination of the Nigerian football market. It finds that the media use a frame of “Nigeria as colony” to report football. In essence, the media interpret Europe as center of modern football and Nigeria as periphery. The study uses 2 methods: (a) a frame analysis of 2 daily sports newspapers, 1 national daily newspaper, and a satellite television sports channel and (b) in-depth interviews of 10 Nigerian football fans. Each complementary method helps confirm results obtained by the other. The frame analysis discovers 4 themes and the interviews found 5 related themes. Each theme logically links to the archetype frame of Nigeria as colony. The results of the study confirm valence framing, demonstrating the impact of the frame on Nigerian sports fans.

Culture and Foreign Policy Analysis

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Grove
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Explanation ◽  
Foreign Policy Analysis ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Code Analysis ◽  
Operational Code ◽  
Systemic Constraints

There are several conceptions of culture which have become dominant in foreign policy analysis (FPA) in particular: culture as the organization of meaning, culture as value preferences, and culture as templates for human strategy. Prior to the 1990s, the Cold War constraints of bipolarity had left little room for idiosyncratic domestic-level variables such as culture to affect FP. However, once systemic constraints lessened and the decision making milieu became more ambiguous, scholars increasingly turned to questions about culture and identity. Using classic frameworks as a jumping off point, early work on national role conception and operational code analysis incorporated culture as a significant filter for decision making. Operational code analysis is another early approach that had elements of culture as part of the decision making context. In addition, there are a few works that investigate culture and FP with a different focus than FPA. But perhaps one of the most notable elements of FPA studies exploring culture is the idea that it need not be viewed as explaining whatever cannot be explained by anything else. Instead of merely an alternative theoretical explanation of state behavior, use of culture in the post-Cold War revival and today reflects an effort not so much to refute neorealism but to look at different questions.

Companionship in the Classifieds: The Adoption of Personal Advertisements by Daily Newspapers

1996 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 219-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debra L. Merskin ◽  
Mara Huberlie
Keyword(s):  
Telephone Survey ◽  
Romantic Partners ◽  
Daily Newspaper ◽  
Mate Finding ◽  
Media Dependency ◽  
Daily Newspapers ◽  
Adoption Of Innovation ◽  
Innovation Model ◽  
The Media ◽  
Do So

This study investigates advertising for romantic partners in the daily newspaper. A telephone survey of U.S. daily newspapers shows that mate finding is becoming a matter of mediated information, suggesting a new function for the media. Media dependency theory predicts that individuals will tend to turn to the mass media for this information. The adoption of innovation model explains the process needed to do so.

Greek media group may yet escape government clutches

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Tax Evasion ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Bank Loans ◽  
Economic Decline ◽  
Daily Newspaper ◽  
Checks And Balances ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Media Control ◽  
The Media

Significance That Greece’s largest-selling daily newspaper Ta Nea (established in 1931) and DOL’s flagship Sunday newspaper To Vima (established in 1922) have suspended publication has sent shock waves through society and the media. It is a turning point in the long-term economic decline of the Greek media, which have been hard hit by the crisis. The decline has coincided with the more recent drive of the Syriza/Independent Greeks (Anel) coalition government for media control. Last month, DOL owner Stavros Psycharis, who faces charges of tax evasion and money laundering, appealed to the board of Syriza party newspaper Avgi for help. Impacts The government's efforts to control the media will undermine the anti-establishment rhetoric it employed before coming to power. Long-term dependence on bank loans and tax breaks and economic decline will aggravate the media’s lack of independence. DOL’s troubles will have wider ramifications as it holds shares in the popular Mega TV channel. If government attempts to control more of the media fail, it will show that checks and balances still exist in Greece’s democracy.

The Politics of Fear, Mobility, and Media Discourses

Transfers ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa Stjernborg ◽  
Mekonnen Tesfahuney ◽  
Anders Wretstrand
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mental Maps ◽  
Daily Newspaper ◽  
The Media ◽  
Politics Of Fear ◽  
Media Discourses ◽  
The City

This study focuses on Seved, a segregated and socioeconomically “poor” neighborhood in the city of Malmö in Sweden. It has attracted wide media coverage, a possible consequence of which is its increased stigmatization. The wide disparity between perceived or imagined fear and the actual incidence of, or exposure to, violence attests to the important role of the media in shaping mental maps and place images. Critical discourse analysis of daily newspaper articles shows that Seved is predominantly construed as unruly and a place of lawlessness. Mobility comprises an important aspect of the stigmatization of places, the politics of fear, and discourses of the “other.” In turn, place stigmatization, discourses of the other, and the politics of fear directly and indirectly affect mobility strategies of individuals and groups.

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