Going negative by metaphors: The Donbass conflict in the Russian and the Ukrainian press

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1 and 2-2018) ◽  
pp. 7-34
Author(s):  
Ganna Diedkova ◽  
Christ'l De Landtsheer
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Military Conflict ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Military Conflicts ◽  
Critical Metaphor Analysis ◽  
The Media ◽  
News Outlet ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Suitable Case

Previous research has established the importance of metaphors as conceptual devices (Semino, 2008; Zinken & Musolff, 2009). This article builds upon existing research and extends the insight into how media use metaphors in their coverage of military conflicts. The media coverage of the ongoing Eastern Ukrainian military conflict (Donbass conflict) presents a suitable case for this investigation. The strength of this study lies in the nature of the data that have been collected, namely articles that appeared in a Russian and a Ukrainian news outlet (September 2014 until January 2015) covering the same stories (same date, same event). Thereby, we investigate metaphor as a conceptual device and an element of framing that contributes to the distinct representation of the conflict in the selected outlets from the two countries. This research follows a qualitative research design, relying on Critical Metaphor Analysis (Charteris-Black, 2004), and Metaphor Power Taxonomy (De Landtsheer, 2015; Beer & De Landtsheer, 2004). We conclude that the selected Russian and Ukrainian media used metaphors for enemy construction, in particular the hostile imagery with “Colony” (Russian outlet) and “Fear” (Ukrainian outlet) as major source domains.

Media Coverage and Solidarity after Tragedies: The Reporting of School Shootings in Two Nations

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 845-874 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Hawdon ◽  
James Hawdon ◽  
Atte Oksanen ◽  
James Hawdon ◽  
Atte Oksanen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Virginia Tech ◽  
School Shootings ◽  
Considerable Research ◽  
National Comparison ◽  
The Media ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Cross National

Abstract Although considerable research analyzes the media coverage of school shootings, there is a lack of cross-national comparative studies. Yet, a cross-national comparison of the media coverage of school shootings can provide insight into how this coverage can affect communities. Our research focuses on the reporting of the school shootings at Virginia Tech in the U.S. and Jokela and Kauhajoki in Finland. Using 491 articles from the New York Times and Helsingin Sanomat published within a month of each shooting we investigate how reports vary between the nations and among the tragedies. We investigate if one style of framing a tragedy, the use of a “tragic frame,” may contribute to differences in the communities’ response to the events.

scholarly journals Director’s perspectives on the meaning and dimensions of corporate reputation

2012 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 29-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Reddiar ◽  
N. Kleyn ◽  
R. Abratt
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Corporate Reputation ◽  
Intangible Asset ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Competitive Industry ◽  
Clear Insight ◽  
Key Dimensions ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Insight Into

The purpose of this research is to explore the perspectives of directors to determine how they define, perceive, value, build and manage corporate reputation. A qualitative research design was employed. In order to gauge director’s perspectives, 12 semi-structured, in-depth interviews were conducted with the directors of a multi-national company based in South Africa. The company operates in a highly regulated and competitive industry. The findings demonstrate that corporate reputation is indeed acknowledged as a key, intangible asset. Whilst the directors did not possess clear insight into building and managing corporate reputation, several key themes emerged. We report on their perceptions of the definitions, key dimensions and value ascribed to corporate reputation. By demonstrating the value that is associated with corporate reputation and by ascertaining that directors are indeed the appropriate custodians of corporate reputation, there will be better acceptance in introducing corporate reputation as a board room agenda item, that is well understood and implemented.

scholarly journals Pesan-Pesan Dakwah Akun Instagram @sahabat_islami Dalam Meningkatkan Kesadaran Keagamaan (Studi Pada Mahasiswa Komunikasi dan Penyiaran Islam (KPI) Fakultas Dakwah dan Komunikasi UIN Ar-Raniry)

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 56
Author(s):  
Lisa Seri Wahyuni
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Negative Comment ◽  
The Media ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
Research Type ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Gaining Insight

This article examines the message of preaching in the Instagram media @sahabat_islami, because along with the development of the era, the netizens use Instagram media as a media in reviewing about the Islamic, with the media, the messages will be delivered quickly to the followers. This study uses a qualitative research type with a descriptive approach. It is used to examine the design as a whole, while the approach is a descriptive approach with the goal of being able to describe comprehensively the research results obtained in the field. The results of the discussion say that the messages of Da'wah through the media istagram @sahabat_islami contain the message of Aqidah, sharia message, and Akhlak. Netizen comments on the post are positive and negative. Positive comments are helpful for gaining insight into Keislaman, a negative comment saying that the account is indicated by the business. The message of preaching on the Instagram account @sahabat_islami in raising religious awareness is, since becoming an Instagram follower they have an impact in the better direction, and often practice about the knowledge gained through the postings on the account.

(Mis)representing terrorist threats: Media framing of Bill C-51

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca I M Foley
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Emergency Preparedness ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Media Framing ◽  
House Of Commons ◽  
Research Software ◽  
News Sources ◽  
The Media

On Friday, 30 January 2015, Steven Blaney, Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, introduced Bill C-51, also known as the Anti-Terrorism Act in Canada’s House of Commons. This article delineates research into the media coverage of Bill C-51 in the month after its introduction, prior to its legislation. A qualitative content analysis of 23 articles from five Canadian news sources ( National Post, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, The Tyee, and rabble.ca) was conducted. Data were coded and analysed using the qualitative research software NVivo 10. Themes that arose from the data include: terrorism and our need for protection; production and reinforcement of fear; oversight, accountability, and abuses of power; and dystopic future and ‘big’ government. Findings show that the differences between alternative and commercial news sources were not as evident as much of the literature regarding the differences between the types of media would hypothesize.

scholarly journals AN ANALYSIS OF METAPHOR IN ONE DIRECTION ALBUM

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 239
Author(s):  
Tuti Dwi Agustin ◽  
Amri Tanduklangi ◽  
Yulius Tandi Sapan
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Figurative Language ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
True Meaning ◽  
The Media ◽  
Song Lyrics ◽  
Contextual Meaning

Lyrics in song are intended to send a message to the audience or music lovers.  Composers use figurative language as the media to convey their message. One of the figurative languages that is mostly used in song’s lyrics is Metaphor. This study was intended to investigate the types of metaphor used in One Direction Album. The objective of this study to identify the types of metaphor found in the song lyrics and to analyze metaphor meaning in One Direction song. This study adopted a descriptive qualitative research design. Three songs by One Direction had been chosen as the data of this study; Story of My Life, Steal My Girl and Drag Me Down. The data were analyzed its metaphor by using Lakoff and Johnson theory, while in investigating the meaning, Chaer’s theory of contextual meaning was used. The result of the study showed that based on the three types of metaphor, structural metaphor becomes the most frequently used in the song lyrics, meanwhile 2 of 3 songs used all of the three types of metaphor; Orientation, Structural and Ontological Metaphor. In answering the second research question about the meaning of each metaphor, each lyric has been analyzed through content analysis to know the true meaning of what the song writer want to express in his/her lyrics and each lyric has different contextual meaning which is elaborated further in this study. Keywords: Metaphor, Meaning, One Direction’s Album

scholarly journals Functional Features of Onomastic Units in the Military Discourse of the Donbass Conflict

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 237-250
Author(s):  
Valery A. Amirov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
General Picture ◽  
Military Conflict ◽  
Military Discourse ◽  
Functional Aspects ◽  
The Media ◽  
Functional Features ◽  
The Military

The article explores the modalities and features of onomastic units in the media coverage of the Eastern Ukraine military conflict in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Based on large empirical data of printed and online publications in Russian and Ukrainian media reporting on the hostilities in Donbass extensively for several years, the author has collected, classified, and analyzed the corpus of onomastic units of the military media discourse. These include place names, such as Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR), Luganda, Donbabwe, Debaltsevo pocket, Ilovaysk pocket, ORDLO (“separate districts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions”), Novorossiya, “Odessa Khatyn,” as well as the nicknames of field commanders that have become deeply associated with the conflict — Motorola, Bes, Givi. The study examines functional aspects of proper names usage in the media, and their role in shaping a general picture of the Donbass armed conflict for the readers. A special emphasis is made on the weight of onomastic units (militaronyms, toponyms, and anthroponyms) as constructive elements of the military discourse in Eastern Ukraine. In this regard, the presented analysis and its results can contribute to further studies of the media discourse related to armed conflicts of various etiologies and intensities.

scholarly journals Person Deixis in English Translation of Summarized Shahih Al-Bukhari Hadith in the Book of As-Salat

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 40
Author(s):  
Siska Pratiwi
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Design ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
The Third ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Third Person ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Third Person

The dominant topic in investigating pragmatics which used to understand the meaning of certain words and phrases requires contextual information is the phenomenon of deixis. The researcher limited this study on person deixis which aimed to identify and classify kind of person deixis in English translation of Summarized Shahih Al-Bukhari Hadith , especially in the book of As-Salat (the prayer) that translated by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan. This study used Stephen Levinson’s framework of deixis for the analysis of distinct types of person deixis elements. The researcher adopted qualitative research design as the method for this analysis. In this study, the researcher found that the dominant deixis used in Hadith  was the third person singular deixis especially the word “He” that dominantly refers to “Prophet Muhammad SAW in which shows that Hadith  is the media to reveal the action, provisions, approvals and utterances of Prophet Muhammad SAW and his companions.

Summaries

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
News Production ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Hype ◽  
Insight Into

Bertijn van der Steenhoven The media coverage of fake news, a hype? This article provides insight into the intensified media attention for fake news in Dutch newspaper articles between May 2016 and April 2017 from the perspective of Vasterman’s (2005) theory of media hypes. It was found that speculations about the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States as a result of the spread of fake news caused a news wave. This news wave consists mainly of meta news and contains few news articles about the disclosure of fake news. The news production is mainly driven by meta news and by news about qualifications of the media as ‘fake news’. This article calls for further research into the media attention for fake news in other media than newspapers in the Netherlands as well as in other countries. Keywords: fake news, media hype, news wave, key event, hoax

scholarly journals Events That Matter: Specific Incidents, Media Coverage, and Agenda-Setting in a Ghanaian Context

2003 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kwamena Kwansah-Aidoo
Keyword(s):  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Culturally Specific ◽  
Linear Fashion ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
The Media ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract: Traditional agenda-setting research has convincingly demonstrated that the media's agenda influences the public's agenda in a somewhat linear fashion. Following from that, agenda-setting researchers are now investigating the attributes of culturally specific agendas. Their studies provide insight into what appears to be a complex process that may be affected by factors beyond those already documented. This paper similarly examines the intricate connections between media, specific events, and agenda-setting in Ghana. In this context it considers two specific events with significant sociocultural implications - events that were framed by the media to produce agenda-setting effects. The paper argues that the media's framing of those events provided their audience with certain ready-made patterns of cognition, thereby enhancing the possibility of agenda-setting. Résumé : La recherche traditionnelle sur la fonction d'agenda (« agenda setting ») a démontré de manière convaincante que les priorités des médias ont une influence sur les priorités du public de manière quelque peu linéaire. Dével-oppant leur approche, les chercheurs sur la fonction d'agenda sont en train d'étudier celle-ci par rapport à son impact culturel. Leurs études révèlent ce qui paraît être un processus complexe que peuvent influencer des facteurs peu documentés à ce jour. À l'instar de cette approche culturelle, cet article examine les rapports complexes entre la fonction d'agenda, les médias et des événements particuliers au Ghana. Dans ce contexte, il considère deux événements spécifiques dont les conséquences socioculturelles ont été significatives - des événements présentés par les médias de manière à produire des effets de type « fonction d'agenda ». Cet article soutient que la manière de présenter ces événements, étant congruente avec les manières de percevoir du public, augmente la possibilité que la fonction d'agenda produise un effet dans ces cas-ci.

Generating Publicity and Engaging with the Media to Promote Academic Research

2019 ◽  
pp. 622-639
Author(s):  
Mark David Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Public Intellectual ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Public Scholarship ◽  
The Media ◽  
Public Exposure ◽  
Insight Into

This chapter provides insight into ways for academics and researchers to generate media coverage for their research and communicate knowledge to the public through mainstream print, online, radio, and television media. Despite growing scholarly interest in social media and public scholarship, public engagement through mainstream media remains a prestigious form of outreach that can result in significant public exposure. While there has been recent scholarly discussion of types of academic media engagement and public intellectualism in an increasingly democratized digital media landscape, little attention has been paid to practical approaches to generating media publicity for research from an academic’s perspective. This chapter draws on the author’s experience of media engagement as an Australian film scholar with a specific focus on the importance of media releases and processes involved in working with different media. The chapter frames aspects of the public intellectual, discusses planning for media engagement, and offers approaches to publicizing research outcomes.

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