scholarly journals Writing in the Margins: Mainstream News Media Representations of Transgenderism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas J Billard
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
News Media ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Perceptions ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Arena ◽  
Daily Newspapers ◽  
Do So

This study examines representations of transgender individuals and identity in mainstream American newspapers in an effort to understand the extent to which the transgender community is legitimized or delegitimized by news media. To do so, 200 articles from 13 of the 25 most circulated daily newspapers in the United States were coded for the presence or absence of Legitimacy Indicators. The study finds that mainstream newspaper coverage of the transgender community is extremely limited. What coverage existed, however, contains a significant amount of delegitimizing language, which it is argued will detrimentally impact both the projected legitimacy of transgender claims in the political arena and public perceptions of the transgender community.

Trumpery: A Farrago of Fragments

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-76
Author(s):  
Graham Francis Badley
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
Global Community ◽  
Community Needs ◽  
Do So

In this essay of fragments, I provide a moderate and occasionally mocking qualitative rant about some of the main links between trumpism and trumpery. I do so because I believe that the global community needs to become more aware of the political and social dangers embodied in the power wielded by, especially, the 45th president of the United States.

scholarly journals Krisis Legitimasi Politik Donald Trump Sebagai Ancaman Supremasi Amerika Serikat Dalam Politik Global

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 122
Author(s):  
Ahmad Sahide
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Legitimacy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Order ◽  
The Political ◽  
Legitimacy Theory ◽  
Political Arena ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Political Impact ◽  
Vladimir Putin

Donald Trump is the 45th President of the United States who was sworn in on January 20, 2017. Donald Trump's victory shook the global political order because a number of his statements and political policies were very controversial. A number of controversial Trump policies include the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, the closeness of relations with Vladimir Putin, to protectionist policies that get resistance from within and outside the country. The author uses the legitimacy theory in this study to see the political impact of the policies taken by Trump. The results of this study see that Donald Trump's policy controversy has an impact on the crisis of political legitimacy which results in the threat of US political supremacy in the global political arena.

Important Features of the Perception of Russia in the Modern American Elite

2021 ◽  
pp. 5-19
Author(s):  
Dmitry V. Mosyakov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
International Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Arena ◽  
Global Player ◽  
Key Issues

The article examines some of the key issues that most directly affect the prevailing attitude towards Russia in the United States. In particular, it is argued that the sharpness of contradictions in relations with Russia is largely due to the fact that the American elite has proved largely unable to recognize its own assertions about the “final collapse” and weakening of Russia and perceive it not as a “departing nature”, but as a global player who has regained his strength on the political arena. In this, the Americans were far from China, which even in the “darkest” period of the Russian turmoil was convinced that Russia will return and influence the development of international relations in the most decisive way.

The Impact of Race on Political Behaviour in Britain

1985 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 528-539 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Welch ◽  
Donley T. Studlar
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Ethnic Politics ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
Multivariate Methods ◽  
Political Arena ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Political Behaviour ◽  
The Impact

In contrast to the United States, where analyses of the political behaviour of blacks number in the hundreds, if not more, substantial studies of the political attitudes and behaviour of Britain's non-white minority are fairly scarce. As non-whites have become more visible in the political arena, however, attention by academics has increased. But as yet there have been few countrywide, empirical, and systematic investigations of the political behaviour and attitudes of this population. Our Note uses multivariate methods to investigate the extent of political participation of Britain's non-white minorities in the 1979 election. We focus on a wide variety of political activities and a few selected issue concerns. We attempt to place our findings in the context of some theories of ethnic politics that have developed to explain black political behaviour in Britain and in the United States.

Prevalence of Prejudice-Denoting Words in News Media Discourse: A Chronological Analysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 089443932110314
Author(s):  
David Rozado ◽  
Musa Al-Gharbi ◽  
Jamin Halberstadt
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
News Media ◽  
Religious Orientation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Perceptions ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Opinion Survey ◽  
Public Opinion Survey ◽  
Usage Frequency

This work analyzes the prevalence of words denoting prejudice in 27 million news and opinion articles written between 1970 and 2019 and published in 47 of the most popular news media outlets in the United States. Our results show that the frequency of words that denote specific prejudice types related to ethnicity, gender, sexual, and religious orientation has markedly increased within the 2010–2019 decade across most news media outlets. This phenomenon starts prior to, but appears to accelerate after, 2015. The frequency of prejudice-denoting words in news articles is not synchronous across all outlets, with the yearly prevalence of such words in some influential news media outlets being predictive of those words’ usage frequency in other outlets the following year. Increasing prevalence of prejudice-denoting words in news media discourse is often substantially correlated with U.S. public opinion survey data on growing perceptions of minorities’ mistreatment. Granger tests suggest that the prevalence of prejudice-denoting terms in news outlets might be predictive of shifts in public perceptions of prejudice severity in society for some, but not all, types of prejudice.

scholarly journals Protecting Teachers or Protecting Children? Media Representations of Vergara v. California

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 163
Author(s):  
Jeanne M. Powers ◽  
Kathryn P. Chapman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
News Media ◽  
The United States ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
State Courts ◽  
Media Content Analysis ◽  
Political Spectacle ◽  
Print News ◽  
Political Conflicts ◽  
State Statutes

Over the past five years, the laws governing teachers’ employment have been at the center of legal and political conflicts in state courts and elections across the United States.  Vergara v. California challenged five California state statutes that provide employment protections for teachers.  Drawing on the theory of political spectacle, we conducted a media content analysis of 42 print news media articles published prior to the court’s decision in June 2014.  Two aspects of political spectacle, the use of metaphor and the illusion of rationality were the most salient and deployed in ways that were more closely aligned with the student plaintiffs’ claims than the statutes’ defenders.  We conclude by highlighting how the framing of these and other similar stories may shape subsequent debates about public education in the United States.

Newspaper Coverage of Adverse Childhood Experiences and Toxic Stress in the United States, 2014–2020: Consequences, Causes, and Solutions

2021 ◽  
pp. 152483802110294
Author(s):  
Jonathan Purtle ◽  
Sarah Bowler ◽  
Maura Boughter-Dornfeld ◽  
Katherine L. Nelson ◽  
Sarah E. Gollust
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
News Media ◽  
Adverse Childhood Experiences ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
The United States ◽  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
Toxic Stress ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Adverse Childhood

News media can shape public opinion about child adversity and influence the translation of research into public policy. Research about adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and toxic stress has increased dramatically in recent years, but little is known about how these concepts are covered in news media. We reviewed how newspapers in the United States have portrayed the consequences of, causes of, and solutions to address ACEs and toxic stress, examined trends in newspaper coverage, and assessed differences in coverage of ACEs versus toxic stress. Quantitative content analysis was conducted of 746 newspaper articles mentioning “adverse childhood experience(s)” and/or “toxic stress” published in 25 U.S. newspapers between January 1, 2014, and May 30, 2020. κ statistics of interrater reliability were calculated, and variables with κ ≥ .60 were retained for quantitative analysis. We found that newspaper coverage of ACEs and toxic stress increased dramatically between 2014 and 2018 and then sharply declined. Only 13.3% of articles mentioned both ACEs and toxic stress. There were many statistically significant ( p < .05) differences in the causes, consequences, and solutions identified in articles focused on ACEs versus toxic stress. Coverage of both concepts predominantly focused on consequences for individuals, not society. However, 54.6% of articles identified a structural cause of ACEs and/or toxic stress. Increased volume in newspaper coverage about ACEs and toxic stress could increase public awareness about the relationship between childhood adversity and adult outcomes. There is a need to portray ACEs and toxic stress as complementary concepts more coherently in news media.

scholarly journals ¿Somos tan diferentes? El intervencionismo militar en España, en Reino Unido y Estados Unidos

Araucaria ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 431-456
Author(s):  
Roberto Muñoz Bolaños
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Political Decision ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Political Decision Making ◽  
Do So

The aim of this research is to carry out a comparative study of military interventionism in Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The thesis on which it is based is that armies intervene when the conditions are created for them to do so. There is no such thing as a dichotomy between interventionist and non-interventionist armies in the political decision-making process.

scholarly journals News media coverage of COVID-19 public health and policy information

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharine J. Mach ◽  
Raúl Salas Reyes ◽  
Brian Pentz ◽  
Jennifer Taylor ◽  
Clarissa A. Costa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Risks ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
The United States ◽  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
The Political ◽  
Scientific Quality ◽  
Policy Information ◽  
Policy Failures

AbstractDuring a pandemic, news media play a crucial role in communicating public health and policy information. Traditional newspaper coverage is important amidst increasing disinformation, yet uncertainties make covering health risks and efforts to limit transmission difficult. This study assesses print and online newspaper coverage of the coronavirus disease COVID-19 for March 2020, when the global pandemic was declared, through August 2020 in three countries: Canada (with the lowest per-capita case and death rates during the study timeframe), the United Kingdom (with a pronounced early spike), and the United States (with persistently high rates). Tools previously validated for pandemic-related news records allow measurement of multiple indicators of scientific quality (i.e., reporting that reflects the state of scientific knowledge) and of sensationalism (i.e., strategies rendering news as more extraordinary than it really is). COVID-19 reporting had moderate scientific quality and low sensationalism across 1331 sampled articles in twelve newspapers spanning the political spectrums of the three countries. Newspapers oriented towards the populist-right had the lowest scientific quality in reporting, combined with very low sensationalism in some cases. Against a backdrop of world-leading disease rates, U.S. newspapers on the political left had more exposing coverage, e.g., focused on policy failures or misinformation, and more warning coverage, e.g., focused on the risks of the disease, compared to U.S. newspapers on the political right. Despite the generally assumed benefits of low sensationalism, pandemic-related coverage with low scientific quality that also failed to alert readers to public-health risks, misinformation, or policy failures may have exacerbated the public-health effects of the disease. Such complexities will likely remain central for both pandemic news media reporting and public-health strategies reliant upon it.

Representations of Foreign versus (Asian) American Identity in a Mass-Shooting Case

2012 ◽  
Vol 89 (2) ◽  
pp. 244-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angie Chuang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Asian American ◽  
News Media ◽  
The United States ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Immigrant Services ◽  
Mass Shooting ◽  
Asian American Identity

Scholarship on media representations of Asian minority identity has established that historic constructions of the Other perpetuate a conflation of ethnic with foreign. Previous studies of Seung-Hui Cho and the 2007 Virginia Tech shootings concluded that though Cho was a South Korean national, news media overemphasized his foreign identity, despite his living in the United States most of his life. This study examines newspaper coverage of the 2009 mass shooting at an immigrant-services center in Binghamton, New York, and of perpetrator Jiverly Wong, who immigrated from Vietnam, had lived in the United States for two decades, and was a naturalized U.S. citizen.

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