scholarly journals Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric, Shifting Ideologies and the Criminalisation of the "Other": An Analysis of Migrant Crime and Threat Discourse in the Norwegian Print Media from 2000 to 2014

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie Elizabeth Nilsen
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Violent Crime ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Print Media ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
The Other ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Threat Theory

This paper examines the construction of "immigrants" and "threat" in violent crime media coverage in Norway, by drawing upon themes from McCombs and Shaw‘s (1972) agenda-setting hypothesis, and Blalock‘s (1967) race-threat theory. Results from the thematic qualitative analysis and the themes identified suggest an escalating anti-immigrant rhetoric in the Norwegian media, with an agenda that demonises deviant 'others' (i.e. immigrants, particularly of the 'non-Western‘ variety). The current study is limited to print media, however, future research in this field should examine other media mediums, including visual media and social media, as well as comparing and exploring the themes of this paper within other national contexts.

scholarly journals Strategi Pengarang Ghosty’s Menghadapi Persaingan Komik Digital (Studi pada Komik Ghosty’s)

Prologia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Elias Benny Alricoh ◽  
Sinta Paramita ◽  
Nigar Pandrianto
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Print Media ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Technology Products ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

Technology is developing rapidly, technology products are created to provide convenience to the community, which is new media. When through the development of technology, the spread of comics is also widely spread, comics that were originally using print media are now developing using digital media. To disseminate comic content, digital comic authors now using social media to promote their comics to a large extent. So digital comic authors need a strategy to disseminate digital comic content, attract readers, and get collaborative offers to raise their name. In this research the authors used a descriptive qualitative analysis method, to find out the strategies used by Ghosty's comic authors in spreading, and raising their names. The author collected data by interviewing the author of Ghosty's Comic, and his friends at once readers to get the data needed in this research. The results of this reserach illustrate that it is important to use strategies to create interesting digital comic content so that the Ghosty's comics can get collaborations such as Tokopedia, Orang Tua Group, Line Webtoon.Teknologi berkembang dengan pesat, banyak produk teknologi diciptakan untuk memberikan kemudahan pada masyarakat, salah satunya adalah media baru. Saat melalui perkembangan teknologi medium penyebaran komik juga meluas, komik yang semula menggunakan media cetak kini berkembang menggunakan media digital. Untuk menyebarkan konten komik, pengarang komik digital kini menggunakan media sosial untuk mempromosikan komiknya ke kalangan yang luas. Maka pengarang komik digital memerlukan sebuah strategi untuk melakukan penyebaran konten komik digital, menarik pembaca, dan mendapatkan tawaran kolaborasi untuk membesarkan namanya. Pada penelitian ini penulis menggunakan metode kualitatif deskriptif analisis,  untuk mengetahui strategi yang digunakan pengarang komik Ghosty’s dalam menyebarkan, dan membesarkan namanya. Penulis mengumpulkan data dengan melakukan wawancara dengan pengarang komik Ghosty’s, dan teman sekaligus pembacanya untuk mendapatkan data yang diperlukan dalam penelitian ini. Hasil dari penelitian ini menggambarkan bahwa pentingnya menggunakan strategi untuk membuat konten komik digital yang menarik sehingga dengan besarnya nama komik Ghosty’s bisa mendapatkan kolaborasi seperti Tokopedia, Orang Tua Group, Line Webtoon.

scholarly journals Using the president’s tweets to understand political diversion in the age of social media

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan Lewandowsky ◽  
Michael Jetter ◽  
Ullrich K. H. Ecker
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
Increased Activity

Abstract Social media has arguably shifted political agenda-setting power away from mainstream media onto politicians. Current U.S. President Trump’s reliance on Twitter is unprecedented, but the underlying implications for agenda setting are poorly understood. Using the president as a case study, we present evidence suggesting that President Trump’s use of Twitter diverts crucial media (The New York Times and ABC News) from topics that are potentially harmful to him. We find that increased media coverage of the Mueller investigation is immediately followed by Trump tweeting increasingly about unrelated issues. This increased activity, in turn, is followed by a reduction in coverage of the Mueller investigation—a finding that is consistent with the hypothesis that President Trump’s tweets may also successfully divert the media from topics that he considers threatening. The pattern is absent in placebo analyses involving Brexit coverage and several other topics that do not present a political risk to the president. Our results are robust to the inclusion of numerous control variables and examination of several alternative explanations, although the generality of the successful diversion must be established by further investigation.

scholarly journals The Normalization of Hatred: Identity, Affective Polarization, and Dehumanization on Facebook in the Context of Intractable Political Conflict

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 205630512091398
Author(s):  
Tal Orian Harel ◽  
Jessica Katz Jameson ◽  
Ifat Maoz
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
The Other ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Physical Separation ◽  
Intractable Conflict ◽  
Echo Chamber

Our study uses a qualitative analysis of social media discourse on a Facebook page to demonstrate how the phenomena of affective polarization and dehumanization are manifested through participation in a homogeneous enclave, or echo chamber. We employ Northrup’s theory of identity in intractable conflict to show how users express their desire for psychological and physical separation from the other and use dehumanizing language that normalizes potentially dangerous levels of hatred during their participation on a Facebook page. This study contributes to our understanding of the link between identity, affective polarization, and dehumanization.

scholarly journals Social Media coverage of “Maspero”: Solidarity between Muslims and Christians post The Egyptian Uprising

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Amal Bakry ◽  
Mariam F Alkazemi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Print Media ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Muslim Country ◽  
Military Forces

The current study examines the print and social media coverage of the “Maspero” massacre in Egypt, in which military forces attacked Coptic Christians in a predominantly Muslim country. By employing a qualitative content analysis, the authors examine the role of media in inducing a state of social cohesion. Data were collected from a state-owned newspaper, Al-Ahram, and an independent newspaper, Al-Masry Al-Youm. Data were also collected from a blog that compiles testimonies of witnesses to the “Maspero” massacre as well as three of Egypt’s best-known online activists: Alaa Abd El Fattah (@alaa), Salma Said (@salmasaid), and Rasha Azab (@RashaPress). The results reveal the themes of print and social media coverage of the events, with the suggestion that social media was much more effective in inducing social cohesion than the print media.

scholarly journals A survey of social media use in emergency situations: A literature review

2020 ◽  
pp. 026666692091389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Najeeb Gambo Abdulhamid ◽  
Daniel Azerikatoa Ayoung ◽  
Armin Kashefi ◽  
Boyce Sigweni
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Emergency Response ◽  
The Other ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Emergency Situations ◽  
Research Stream ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Areas Of Interest

This study reviews literature on the use of Social Media (SM) in emergency response operations while identifying gaps in this research stream that need attention from Information Systems (IS) researchers. The research is grounded in past works and attempts to build on research on the application of SM in emergencies. It focuses on understanding the role of SM in the prevention, management and response to emergencies. The review contains a detailed literature exposition of IS and disasters journals. The appraisal of such research stream led the review to focus on the concept of digital volunteerism as an offshoot of crowdsourcing initiatives. Findings from the review reveal that previous studies overlooked the interfacing challenges between formal and traditional aid agencies on one hand and digital humanitarians on the other. Consequently, we identify gaps in the extant literature and propose areas of interest for future research.

Fauda television series and the turning of asymmetrical conflict into television entertainment

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (8) ◽  
pp. 1245-1260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nahuel Ribke
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
The Other ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Television Drama ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Civilian Population ◽  
Military Control ◽  
Israeli Occupation

Since its release in February 2015, television drama/action series Fauda has attracted enormous public attention and debate, first in Israel and then abroad, following its global release on Netflix. The story of an Israeli undercover unit chasing an infamous Palestinian terrorist, the series was praised for its ‘realistic’ depiction of the conflict and empathetic portrayal of the opposing sides, as well as for the frenetic rhythm and suspense of the plot. On the other hand, the series has faced criticism for downplaying and obscuring the realities of the Israeli occupation, focusing on a cat and mouse thriller rather than the hardships incurred by a civilian population under military control. Based on a qualitative analysis of media coverage in Israel and abroad, this article analyzes the complex relationship between an ongoing asymmetrical conflict and its representation in fictional television entertainment.

scholarly journals The Deepfake Challenges and Deepfake Video Detection

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 789-796
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Short Term Memory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Generative Adversarial Networks ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Detection Accuracy ◽  
Detection Techniques ◽  
Eye Blinks ◽  
Adversarial Networks ◽  
Cross Platform

Deepfake is a combination of fake and deeplearning technology. Deep learning is the function of artificial intelligence that can be used to create and detect deepfakes. Deepfakes are created using generative adversarial networks, in which two machine learning models exit. One model trains on a dataset and then creates the deepfakes, and the other model tries to detect the deepfakes. The forger creates deepfakes until the other model can't detect the deepfakes. Deepfakes creating fake videos, images, news, and terrorist events. When deepfake videos, and images increase on social media people will ignore to trust the truth. Deepfakes are increasingly affecting individuals, communities, organizations, security, religions, and democracy. This paper aims to investigate deepfake challenges, and to detect deepfake videos by using eye blinking. Deepfake detections are methods to detect real or deepfake images and videos on social media. Deepfake detection techniques are needed original and fake images or video datasets to train the detection models. In this study, first discussed deepfake technology and its challenges, then identified available video datasets. Following, convolutional neural networks to classify the eye states and long short term memory for sequence learning has been used. Furthermore, the eye aspect ratio was used to calculate the height and width of open and closed eyes and to detect the blinking intervals. The model trained on UADFV dataset to detect fake and real video by using eye blinking and detects 18.4 eye blinks per minute on the real videos and 4.28 eye blinks per minute on fake videos. The overall detection accuracy on real and fake videos was 93.23% and 98.30% respectively. In the future research and development needs more scalable, accurate, reliable and cross-platform deepfake detection techniques.

scholarly journals Media Representations of Science during the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Analysis of News and Social Media on the Island of Ireland

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (18) ◽  
pp. 9542
Author(s):  
Cliodhna O’Connor ◽  
Nicola O’Connell ◽  
Emma Burke ◽  
Ann Nolan ◽  
Martin Dempster ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Images Of Scientists ◽  
Scientific Expertise ◽  
Understanding Of Science ◽  
Communication Challenge

COVID-19 is arguably the most critical science communication challenge of a generation, yet comes in the wake of a purported populist turn against scientific expertise in western societies. This study advances understanding of science–society relations during the COVID-19 pandemic by analysing how science was represented in news and social media coverage of COVID-19 on the island of Ireland. Thematic analysis was performed on a dataset comprising 952 news articles and 603 tweets published between 1 January and 31 May 2020. Three themes characterised the range of meanings attached to science: ‘Defining science: Its subjects, practice and process’, ‘Relating to science: Between veneration and suspicion’ and ‘Using science: As solution, policy and rhetoric’. The analysis suggested that the COVID-19 pandemic represented a platform to highlight the value, philosophy, process and day-to-day activity of scientific research. However, the study also identified risks the pandemic might pose to science communication, including feeding public alienation by disparaging lay understandings, reinforcing stereotypical images of scientists, and amplifying the politicisation of scientific statements.

Unpacking (the) secret: Anonymous social media and the impossibility of networked anonymity

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (11) ◽  
pp. 4177-4194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tzlil Sharon ◽  
Nicholas A John
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Anonymous Communication ◽  
The Real ◽  
The One ◽  
Depth Interviews

This study focuses on the perceptions and practices of anonymous communication with friends enabled by tie-based anonymous apps. Based on qualitative analysis of in-depth interviews with users of the application Secret, the strategies deployed by interviewees in order to de-anonymize other users are emphasized and placed within the broader context of the real-name web. The article shows that Secret was not only based on pre-existing social networks but also drew on the network as a structure of thought. The concept of networked anonymity is introduced to account for the ways that anonymous actors imagine one another as “someone,” rather than as an unknown “anyone.” As such, the survivability of this communicative model is inherently limited by competing forces—the drive to connectivity, on the one hand, and to anonymity, on the other.

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