scholarly journals Competing fantasies of humans and machines: Symbolic convergences in artificial intelligence events coverage

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Hayden Robert Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
New York ◽  
Rhetorical Criticism ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Convergence Theory ◽  
Washington Post ◽  
Fantasy Theme Analysis ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
Artificial Intelligence Technology ◽  
The Wall Street Journal

This research analyzes coverage of major artificial intelligence events representing the thematic concept of "man versus machine." Rooted in grounded theory and rhetorical criticism, this research applies symbolic convergence theory and fantasy theme analysis to reporting from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post immediately surrounding three cultural and scientific milestones in the development of artificial intelligence technology: IBM Deep Blue's 1997 defeat of chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov; IBM Watson's 2011 defeat of Jeopardy! champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter; and Google DeepMind AlphaGo's 2016 defeat of Lee Sedol. This research analyzes how symbolic realities are dramatized in the context of these events such that the competitions themselves represent ideological battles between humanism or technological superiority. This research also demonstrates subtle variations in how fantasy themes and rhetorical visions manifest in coverage from each outlet, amounting to what is effectively a competition for shared consciousness between these two competing ideological constructs.

scholarly journals Polarizing news? Representations of threat and efficacy in leading US newspapers’ coverage of climate change

2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 481-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Feldman ◽  
P. Sol Hart ◽  
Tijana Milosevic
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New York ◽  
Wall Street Journal ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Climate Impacts ◽  
Washington Post ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
Address Climate Change ◽  
The Wall Street Journal

This study examines non-editorial news coverage in leading US newspapers as a source of ideological differences on climate change. A quantitative content analysis compared how the threat of climate change and efficacy for actions to address it were represented in climate change coverage across The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and USA Today between 2006 and 2011. Results show that The Wall Street Journal was least likely to discuss the impacts of and threat posed by climate change and most likely to include negative efficacy information and use conflict and negative economic framing when discussing actions to address climate change. The inclusion of positive efficacy information was similar across newspapers. Also, across all newspapers, climate impacts and actions to address climate change were more likely to be discussed separately than together in the same article. Implications for public engagement and ideological polarization are discussed.

Comparing and contrasting corrected errors at four newspapers

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirstie Hettinga ◽  
Alyssa Appelman ◽  
Christopher Otmar ◽  
Alesandria Posada ◽  
Anne Thompson
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Wall Street Journal ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Washington Post ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
Los Angeles Times ◽  
The Wall Street Journal ◽  
Location Type

A content analysis of corrections (N = 507) from four influential newspapers—the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times—shows that they correct errors similar to each other in terms of location, type, impact and objectivity. Results are interpreted through democratic theory and are used to suggest ways for copy editors to most effectively proofread and fact-check.

Interruptions of time: The coverage of the missing Malaysian plane MH370 and the concept of ‘events’ in media research

Journalism ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Sonnevend
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Washington Post ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
Journalism Studies ◽  
Media Research ◽  
The Wall Street Journal ◽  
Malaysian Airlines

The article makes a case for foregrounding ‘event’ as a key concept within journalism studies before, during, and after the digital age. The article’s first part presents an overview of the existing research on events in philosophy, sociology, historiography, and journalism studies, arguing that the concept of ‘event’ has not received sufficient attention in journalism studies. The article’s second part demonstrates the need to consider ‘event’ as an essential concept of journalism studies through an empirical case study: the news coverage of the disappeared Malaysian Airlines plane MH370 (8 March 2014) in four American news outlets, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and CNN. This article argues that journalists employed two strategies in their coverage: (1) they created and/or covered what the article calls ‘substitute events’, defined as minor events in the present that journalists perceived as new happenings and that led to further reporting and (2) turned to the past and the future for events in their reporting, extending the scope of coverage from the relatively eventless present. Overall, the case study shows that journalists are limited in their narration by the power of events, and they are eager to construct and cover events, even when events are not readily available.

scholarly journals Special Aspects of Military and Political Euphemisms Usage in Modern English Press

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-87
Author(s):  
Marsel Radikovich Nurkhamitov ◽  
Elena Nikolaevna Zagladina ◽  
Irina Zinov'evna Shakhnina
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
English Language ◽  
Print Media ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Washington Post ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The Wall Street Journal ◽  
The Given

Abstract The given article is dedicated to consideration of military euphemisms used by the English language print media to describe various conflict-ridden actions in the course of military developments across the globe. Significance of the given research is stipulated by the vivid interest to the matters of euphemy penetrated into all areas of activity, especially in mass media language style. The aim of this paper is to examine the concept and the essence of euphemy and to reveal various military-political euphemisms widely used in press. Methods used to study the subject of the given paper were as follows: theoretical literature study within the given theme, a descriptive method, followed by the method of sampling euphemisms from Anglophone print media. The main result of the present study appears to be the finding, that euphemization presents a significant process of enormous importance in communication. The usage of euphemistical examples in the contemporary English-speaking press, namely, the New York Times, the Sun, the Telegraph, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post served as the main data for the given research.

BALANCE OF OPINION IN NEWSPAPERS THROUGH EDITORIAL AND OP-ED GENRES

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (105) ◽  
pp. 78-86
Author(s):  
EKATERINA A. NIKONOVA
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Wall Street Journal ◽  
Republican Party ◽  
Democratic Party ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
White House ◽  
The Wall Street Journal

The article deals with the analysis of the balance of opinion in the newspaper, which is originally realized through editorial and op-ed genres. We analyzed 20 articles from “The Wall Street Journal” and “The New York Times” in the genres of editorial and op-ed about events in Afghanistan in August 2021, which were interpreted differently in mass media due to the role of the White House. The findings prove that in the context of new digital reality the op-ed has lost its original function of conveying alternative positions to the ones stated in the editorial; at the same time newspapers tend to advocate the positions shared by the political parties they have historically developed close relations with: “The Wall Street Journal” - with the Republican Party, “The New York Times” - the Democratic Party.

eSports as a News Specialty Gold Rush

2021 ◽  
pp. 303-320
Author(s):  
Gregory P. Perreault ◽  
Mildred F. Perreault
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Dominant Role ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Gold Rush ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
The Wall Street Journal ◽  
Business Journalism

The news coverage of eSports presents an attractive avenue to a new audience for business, sports, and gaming journalists. The audience's interest is understandable given the financial vibrancy of the hobby. This chapter reflects an analysis of news articles (n=406) published in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes, and Business Insider from January 2018 to December 2020. Researchers analyzed these articles for specific marketing and public relations messages and identified how various entertainment businesses were reflected in the news coverage of eSports. This chapter argues that eSports represents a topic typically covered through lifestyle journalism that has instead been dominated by traditional business reporting. Both gaming and sports are predominantly lifestyle specialties—hence, the dominant role of business journalism in reporting the specialty means that the emphasis on the niche has primarily been on awards and financing.

scholarly journals O Plano Real visto de fora

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. e35207
Author(s):  
Bruno Henz Biasetto
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Wall Street Journal ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
The Wall Street Journal ◽  
America Latina

O presente artigo pretende analisar como as quatro mais importantes publicações econômicas do mundo (The Economist, Financial Times, New York Times e The Wall Street Journal) perceberam a implementação do Plano Real em 1994. O objetivo central do artigo é analisar a percepção anglo-americana sobre o Brasil da época, com foco nas questões políticas e econômicas do país. A análise das publicações aqui realizada compreende os anos de 1993 e 1994, com um olhar detalhado para as eleições presidenciais de 1994. A pesquisa vem a evidenciar os vícios de análise das publicações, bem como os valores anglo-saxônicos influenciam a percepção sobre a América Latina.

scholarly journals Crisis discourses

Diacrítica ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 199-219
Author(s):  
Georgina Abreu ◽  
Marcin Kleban
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
European Union ◽  
Wall Street Journal ◽  
English Language ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
The Wall Street Journal ◽  
The Guardian

Taking the whole European Union (EU) as background, the present study discusses the way a corpus of English language media articles has represented the 2009-2016 crisis and austerity policies in Poland and Portugal, the home countries of the authors. The selected corpus comprises 68 articles from mainstream English language media, namely the newspapers The Financial Times, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and the economics magazine The Economist. The theoretical framework draws on the Bakhtinian notions of polyphony and heteroglossia, as well as on Gramsci's theory of hegemony. It thus juxtaposes and interprets the different voices and conflicting meanings within crisis discourses, relating them to issues of power and ideology. The Conclusion shows that despite rhetorical diversity, common politically contingent voices were identified which underpin the discourses dominating the crisis narrations in these two economically and geographically distant countries of the European Union.

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