scholarly journals Valencian Politicians under the spotlight of the À Punt TV network: A study of television coverage of the 2019 regional elections

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 67-84
Author(s):  
Alvar Peris Blanes ◽  
Benjamín Marín Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Regional Government ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Television Network ◽  
Public Media ◽  
Political Partisanship ◽  
New Public ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
The One ◽  
Television Coverage ◽  
Regional Elections

Despite repeated failures by the former Valencian television network — Canal 9 [Channel 9] — to live up to its public broadcasting duties, the station’s closure in 2013 still came as a shock. The step by the regional government (then run by the Conservative Partido Popular — PP) had a huge public impact, depriving Valencians of their public TV network at a stroke. That is why Valencian society had high hopes when a new public media platform — Punt Mèdia — was launched. Among other things, politicians and broadcasters needed to show that a more even-handed, professional approach could be taken to media reporting. The 2019 Regional Elections were a wonderful opportunity to prove this. On the one hand, it was a chance to usenew audiovisual methods to better convey political information to citizens. On the other hand, it gave the network and its masters the chance to renounce the shameless political partisanship that had so marred Canal 9’s history. This paper looks at the extent to which these goals were attained. It does so by examining À Punt's coverage of the election. Specifically, we focused on political interviews with candidates, and on the electoral debates. Various methodologies, both quantitative and qualitative, were used. We found that both the form and depth of news stories were fairly balanced. Nevertheless, the network showed a surprising lack of ambition despite À Punt’s stated aspiration to be Valencia’s leading TV station.

Welfare State Values and Public Service Media in the Era of Datafication

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaarina Nikunen ◽  
Jenni Hokka
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Social Solidarity ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
The Public ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
Data Practices ◽  
Public Media ◽  
New Public

Welfare states have historically been built on values of egalitarianism and universalism and through high taxation that provides free education, health care, and social security for all. Ideally, this encourages participation of all citizens and formation of inclusive public sphere. In this welfare model, the public service media are also considered some of the main institutions that serve the well-being of an entire society. That is, independent, publicly funded media companies are perceived to enhance equality, citizenship, and social solidarity by providing information and programming that is driven by public rather than commercial interest. This article explores how the public service media and their values of universality, equality, diversity, and quality are affected by datafication and a platformed media environment. It argues that the embeddedness of public service media in a platformed media environment produces complex and contradictory dependencies between public service media and commercial platforms. The embeddedness has resulted in simultaneous processes of adapting to social media logics and datafication within public service media as well as in attempts to create alternative public media value-driven data practices and new public media spaces.

Regionální disparity ve voličském chování: Prostorová analýza voličské podpory České pirátské strany v krajských volbách

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pavel Maškarinec
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Data ◽  
Regional Policy ◽  
Regional Governance ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Spatial Data Analysis ◽  
Regional Government ◽  
Regional Politics ◽  
Electoral Support ◽  
Regional Elections

The presented paper deals with the regionalization of the electoral support of the Czech Pirate Party (Pirates) in regional elections using methods and techniques of spatial data analysis. The aim is to answer the question whether the territorial distribution of Pirate electoral support allows this party to participate in governance at the regional level and thus influence the form of regional policy in individual regions. The results of the analysis show that the spatial distribution of Pirates’ electoral support in regional elections differed quite significantly not only from the pattern found in the elections to the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Parliament and elections to the European Parliament, but also between individual regional elections. This suggests the current lack of anchorage of Pirates’ electoral support in regional politics, but at the same time, it may have its origins in the second-order character of regional elections and the candidacy of many local and regional entities in regional elections. On the other hand, the results of the regional elections in 2020 meant that the Pirates received seats in all regional councils, but especially in nine of the thirteen regions they joined the regional government (similarly to two years earlier when they joined government of capital city of Prague), gaining the opportunity to influence, with regard to its priorities, the form of regional governance in most Czech regions.

scholarly journals WADUL-E AS THE IMPLEMENTATION OF E-SERVICE IN THE NEW PUBLIC SERVICE PARADIGM

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Afif Al Farizi ◽  
Dian Suluh Kusuma Dewi ◽  
Insyira Yusdiawan Azhar
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Regional Government ◽  
Real Situation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Servant ◽  
New Public ◽  
Service Paradigm

This study aims to determine how the application of the New Public Service concept to the WADUL-E Service (Aspiration and Electronic Complaints Forum) in Pacitan Regency. This study used a qualitative approach and the determination of informants using the purposive sampling technique. The results showed that the concept of the New Public Service was not fully applicable to the Pacitan WADUL-E Service, because the researchers did not find data related to the 6th indicator, which is serving not directing which contains the position of the leader here, not as the owner but as a public servant or public servant. However, the rest of the concept of the new public service is in accordance with the real situation in the Pacitan Wadule Service. Hence, it is necessary to have in-depth research to find out the leadership side in the service. Based this research, it can be conculed that it is one of the public innovation efforts created by the Pacitan Regency Government is to provide Complaint Services in the form of WADUL-E Services of Pacitan Regency which was formed and inaugurated on March 14, 2018. By utilizing this service, it is hoped that the aspirations and complaints of the Pacitan citizens are connected to regional government. Keywords: E-Service, New Public Service, WADUL-E Pacitan

Why They Fight: How Perceived Motivations for Military Service Shape Support for the Use of Force

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald R Krebs ◽  
Robert Ralston ◽  
Aaron Rapport
Keyword(s):  
Military Service ◽  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Good Citizen ◽  
Political Partisanship ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract What shapes public support for military missions? Existing scholarship points to, on the one hand, individuals’ affiliations and predispositions (such as political partisanship and gender), and, on the other hand, factors that shape a rational cost–benefit analysis (notably, mission objectives, the prospects for victory, and the magnitude and distribution of costs). We argue that public opinion is also shaped by beliefs about why soldiers voluntarily enlist. Using novel survey data and an experiment, deployed to a nationally representative sample of Americans, we test how four conceptions of soldiering affect support for a prospective military operation. We find, in observational data, that believing that a soldier is a good citizen or patriot bolsters support for the mission, while believing that a soldier has enlisted because he wants the material benefits of service or has “no other options” undermines support. These results support our causal argument: Americans’ attitudes toward military missions are shaped by their perception of whether the soldier has consented to deployment rather than by feelings of social obligation. This article has implications for debates on the determinants of public support for military missions and the relationship between military service and citizenship in democracies.

Pandemic year in Spain. Political outcome

2021 ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
Alexandra Kurakina-Damir
Keyword(s):  
Political Communication ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Image Point ◽  
Legislative Process ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Parliamentary Elections ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
The One ◽  
Regional Elections

Despite well-founded doubts about the viability of the coalition (which had insufficient support of the deputies for the adoption of important laws), a well-built strategy of political communication during the pandemic allowed the cabinet of ministers not only to withstand, but also to strengthen its positions. Over the past year, a number of strategically important decisions, both from a political and image point of view, have been adopted. The coronavirus pandemic has had a significant impact on the legislative process. The solution to the Catalan problem faded into the background. In part, this was due to the need for early parliamentary elections in the region and the alleged regrouping of political forces. The revealed facts of possible financial abuse of the honorary king hurt the image of the Crown, but the measures taken today to restore prestige are bearing fruit. Among the electoral trends noted, it is worth highlighting the strengthening of positions of socialists and rightwing populists (especially following the results of early regional elections in Catalonia), as well as a decline in support for left-wing populism. Ciudadanos' position remains unstable: on the one hand, it managed to slightly regain its position in early 2020, but further growth in support stalled, and poor results in the Catalan elections once again raised the question of whether the party has a future. Conservatives, by contrast, have established themselves as the leader of the bloc. Having lost a share of supporters at the beginning of the study period, they tried with all their might to restore the balance, periodically changing the strategy of actions.

Spiritualism and the Resurgence of Fake News

2020 ◽  
pp. 222-237
Author(s):  
Kristy A. Hesketh
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Fake News ◽  
News Stories ◽  
News Reports ◽  
The World ◽  
Spirit World ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
False News

This chapter explores the Spiritualist movement and its rapid growth due to the formation of mass media and compares these events with the current rise of fake news in the mass media. The technology of cheaper publications created a media platform that featured stories about Spiritualist mediums and communications with the spirit world. These articles were published in newspapers next to regular news creating a blurred line between real and hoax news stories. Laws were later created to address instances of fraud that occurred in the medium industry. Today, social media platforms provide a similar vessel for the spread of fake news. Online fake news is published alongside legitimate news reports leaving readers unable to differentiate between real and fake articles. Around the world countries are actioning initiatives to address the proliferation of false news to prevent the spread of misinformation. This chapter compares the parallels between these events, how hoaxes and fake news begin and spread, and examines the measures governments are taking to curb the growth of misinformation.

Israeli Society and National Security

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles D. Freilich
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
West Bank ◽  
Israeli Society ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
The West ◽  
Public Media ◽  
Major Exception ◽  
Societal Changes ◽  
The One ◽  
Effective Case

Chapter 5 presents the primary societal changes in Israel in recent decades and their ramifications for its national security. The motivation to serve and bear the defense burden, national security consensus, and societal resilience remain strong. Conversely, Israel has become two societies, one at the forefront of international technology; the other, largely the ultra-orthodox and Arab populations, lags behind and may cause an economic crisis. Deep divisions over the West Bank, the one major exception to the national security consensus, and fundamental cleavages over domestic issues erode Israel’s societal strength. Public, media, judicial, and market considerations increasingly constrain national security decision-making, as does the institutionalization of casualty aversion into the process. When an effective case is made, however, Israeli society remains highly supportive of military operations. Israeli politics have been stalemated over the West Bank issue for decades, and Israel has been unable to chart a clear national course.

scholarly journals ‘Whose context collapse?’: Ethical clashes in the study of language and social media in context

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 169-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Georgakopoulou
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Wide Distribution ◽  
The Other ◽  
Contextual Analysis ◽  
News Stories ◽  
The Social ◽  
Communication Practices ◽  
Media Research ◽  
The One

AbstractThe longstanding tradition of the examination of language and discourse in context has not only spurred the turn to issues of context in language and new media research but it has also led to numerous methodological and analytical deliberations, for instance regarding the roles and nature of digital ethnography and the need for an adaptive, ‘mobile’ sociolinguistics. Such discussions center around social media affordances and constraints of wide distribution, multi-authorship and elusiveness of audiences which are often described with the term ‘context collapse’ (Marwick and boyd 2011; Wesch 2008). In this article, I argue that, however helpful the insights of such studies may have been for linking social media affordances and constraints with users’ communication practices, the ethical questions of where context collapse leaves the language-in-context analysts have far from been addressed. I single out certain key challenges, which I view as ethical clashes, that I experienced in connection with context collapse in my data of the social media circulation of news stories from crisis-stricken Greece. I argue that these ethical clashes are linked with context collapse processes and outcomes on the one hand and sociolinguistic contextual analysis priorities on the other hand. I put forward certain proposals for resolving these clashes arguing for a discipline-based virtue ethics that requires researcher reflexivity and phronesis.

scholarly journals The Character of the Polish Local and Regional Elections – Polytonality

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 22-40
Author(s):  
Łukasz Kubisz-Muła
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Regional Government ◽  
The Government ◽  
Regional Elections

Abstract Contemporary Polish local and regional elections serve the purpose of electing the government on the level of a municipality, county, and the voivodeship, and therefore represent a particular type of elections which could be referred to as polytonal. A unique quality of polytonal elections is the fact that the separate elections for each of the levels of local/regional government that take place on a single day are quite distinctive in terms of the behaviour of voters, politicians, political parties, and other organisations participating in the elections. As a consequence, we can indeed observe differences in the results of the elections on the level of municipality, county, and voivodeship.

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