scholarly journals Discussion Analysis Based on the Symlog Model: A System for the Multiple Level Observation of Groups

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (11) ◽  
pp. 203-209
Author(s):  
Nuramila
Keyword(s):  
Online News ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Multiple Level ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Knowledge And Beliefs ◽  
The Media ◽  
Data Collection Technique ◽  
Main Instrument ◽  
The Many ◽  
Terrorism Discourse

News about acts of terrorism has colored many media. Terrorism has been identified with taboo activities in actions that often threaten the peace and tranquility of the community, which always threaten and cause many casualties. One of the media that reports on terrorism are the online news portal Republika.co.id. Of the many reports that exist, the researcher tries to examine how the media, especially online portals, report the reality of terrorism events using the SYMLOG (method of discourse analysis A System for the Multiple Level Observation of Groups). Critical discourse is a series of knowledge and beliefs that are constructed by certain communities in discourse (in this case terrorism discourse) with the hope that their goals can be achieved. Behind the choice of words, phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs, and texts hidden ideology and power. Based on this background, the problems in this research are formulated, namely: (1) How is the construction of terrorism discourse using the SYMLOG model in thenews media Republika.co.id? (2) How is the linguistic representation in the discourse of terrorism in thenews media Republika.co.id?. The approach used in this study is a qualitative approach. Then the type of research used in this research is descriptive research. The primary data in this study is the entire research subject studied. In this case, the researcher took 10 news stories on Republika.co.id related to terrorism. The researcher acts as the main instrument in this research. The data collection technique used in this research is to use documentation, listening techniques, and recording. Based on the results of the study, it was found that the construction of the SYMLOG model of terrorism discourse in thenews media Republika.co.id used the form of verbal behavior, pro values, contra values, setbacks, conflicts, sympathy, achievements. Linguistic representations in the discourse of terrorism in thenews media Republika.co.id are at the level of verbs, clauses, sentences, adjective phrases, verb phrases, noun words, and noun phrases.

scholarly journals Framing science: How opioid research is presented in online news media

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Matthias ◽  
Alice Fleerackers ◽  
Juan Pablo Alperin
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Online News ◽  
Science Journalism ◽  
Related Research ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Media ◽  
Understanding Of Science

Through their coverage and framing, popular news media play an instrumental role in shaping public perception of important issues like the opioid crisis. Using a detailed coding instrument, we analyzed how opioid-related research was covered by US and Canadian online news media in 2017 and 2018, at the height of the crisis. We find that opioid-related research is not frequently mentioned in online news media, but when it is, it is most often framed as valid, certain, and trustworthy. Our results also reveal that the media predominantly present research findings without context, providing little information about the study design, methodology, or other relevant details—although there is variability in what kind of news stories mention opioid-related research, what study details they provide, and what frames they use. Potential implications for the future of science communication and science journalism, as well as the public perception and understanding of science, are discussed.

scholarly journals There is no liberal media bias in which news stories political journalists choose to cover

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (14) ◽  
pp. eaay9344
Author(s):  
Hans J. G. Hassell ◽  
John B. Holbein ◽  
Matthew R. Miles
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Media Bias ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Political News ◽  
News Stories ◽  
The Media ◽  
Large Scale Survey ◽  
Political Journalists ◽  
The Many

Is the media biased against conservatives? Although a dominant majority of journalists identify as liberals/Democrats and many Americans and public officials frequently decry supposedly high and increasing levels of media bias, little compelling evidence exists as to (i) the ideological or partisan leanings of the many journalists who fail to answer surveys and/or identify as independents and (ii) whether journalists’ political leanings bleed into the choice of which stories to cover that Americans ultimately consume. Using a unique combination of a large-scale survey of political journalists, data from journalists’ Twitter networks, election returns, a large-scale correspondence experiment, and a conjoint survey experiment, we show definitively that the media exhibits no bias against conservatives (or liberals for that matter) in what news that they choose to cover. This shows that journalists’ individual ideological leanings have unexpectedly little effect on the vitally important, but, up to this point, unexplored, early stage of political news generation.

scholarly journals The ethics of news media reporting on coronavirus humor

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 305-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan Miczo
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Early Phase ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Online News ◽  
Ethical Principles ◽  
Media Reporting ◽  
News Stories ◽  
The Media

Abstract This essay explores the news media’s portrayal of humor during the early phase of COVID-19-related lockdowns. Examining a collection of online news articles reveals the media tended to frame the issue as an ethical one (e.g., “is it okay to laugh at the coronavirus?”). After reviewing work on humor ethics, a qualitative content analysis of 20 news media articles is presented. Three issues from the news stories are identified, allowing comparison of the media’s claims against the ethical principles articulated. The essay concludes with a consideration of how news media’s coverage of humor fits within a broader pandemic narrative.

scholarly journals Key Words Associated with the COVID-19 Pandemic. Comparing the Media and the Public Agenda

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2 (40)) ◽  
pp. 5-25
Author(s):  
Dana Raluca BUTUROIU ◽  
Mihai GAVRILESCU
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Online News ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Public Agenda ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
The Media ◽  
Setting Theory

Based on recent ramifications of the traditional agenda-setting model, this paper aims at analyzing the convergence of the media and the public agenda in times of crisis. Specifically, drawing upon the network agenda-setting theory, this article explores the main key words associated with COVID-19—related topics in both the media and the public agendas. Main findings suggest that the media used context dependent key words to refer to the pandemic. At the beginning of the pandemic, in March 2020, both television and online news stories referred to issues related to the vi- rus itself, to the measures taken to limit its spread, and to some medical conditions, while in January 2021 media focused on key words related to vaccination and immunization. In terms of public agenda, results show that people tended to refer to pandemic-related issues mainly in negative terms, due to both media exposure and, presumably, personal experiences. These results offer valuable insights into the dynamics of both media and public agenda in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, providing fertile ground for better understanding how media shape several public attitudes and behaviors.

scholarly journals Media Coverage in Times of Crisis. Intermedia Agenda-setting of COVID-19 – related Topics

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Dana Raluca Buturoiu ◽  
Ana Voloc
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Television News ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Online News ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Intermedia Agenda Setting ◽  
The Media

In times of crisis, the media play a crucial role in offering people information and updates related to the ongoing events. Thus, the media implicitly shape public opinion on the issues they cover and, as a result, influence public attitudes and behaviors. In this context, this paper aims at analyzing the media coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, by means of quantitative content analysis (N=1511) conducted on both television and online news stories released during March 18-31 2020, this study sheds light on the agenda-setting effects of the media and the phenomenon known as intermedia agenda-setting. Main results show that, in spring 2020, both television and online news stories extensively covered COVID-19 topics, focusing on domestic issues such as decisions taken by the authorities in order to manage the pandemic, effects of the virus, and statistics. Furthermore, results show a relatively high intermedia agenda-setting effect within the Romanian media environment. Content published online (either in the form of social media content or online stories) is frequently “borrowed” and cited in both online and television news stories, leading us to the idea that digital media might have become mainstream information sources.

scholarly journals CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF THE NEWS OF COVID-19 CORPSE SNATCHING PATIENT IN THE I-NEWS

2022 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-186
Author(s):  
Rika Astari ◽  
Abdul Mukhlis ◽  
Muhammad Irfan Faturrahman
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Online News ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Discursive Practice ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
The Media

The diction used in the news of corpse snatching of COVID-19  varies and has caused the public to panic. This study aims to show the structure of the media language used in The News of Corpse Snatching of COVID-19 patients in Pasuruan and the factors that caused the hundreds of people attempting to take the deceased's body forcefully. The primary data are the news of corpse snathing of COVID-19 patients in Pasuruan, uploaded on YouTube and the online news media i-News, and comments from netizens in the comments column. In addition, informant interviews were conducted to show the factors causing Corpse Snatching. Critical discourse analysis (CDA) is used for content analysis by describing three dimensions: text, discursive practice, and social practice. It was concluded that the media language used in the news text of the corpse Snatching in Pasuruan tends to use vocabulary that shows negative rather than positive actions. Moreover, the media emphasizes negative actions more than describing solution actions to become government policy steps. Based on informants and studies of the third dimension, hundreds of people who conducted the Corpse Snatching were caused because people hardly accept COVID-19 protocols since they hold Kejawen Islamic funeral traditions.

scholarly journals THE CHRONOTOPE OF EVENTS IN ONLINE NEWS STORIES (COVERAGE OF THE SYRIAN CRISIS IN THE RUSSIAN MEDIA)

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (6/1) ◽  
pp. 109-116
Author(s):  
Iman Ali Iman ◽  
Galina N. TROFIMOVA
Keyword(s):  
Online News ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Media Image ◽  
Maximum Expansion ◽  
News Stories ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Syrian Crisis ◽  
The Media ◽  
Number Of Publications

The article is devoted to the study of the problem of formation of space-time coordinates of the media image of the event presented in the news reports on the online feeds of online media. The authors rely on the research of scientists from around the world devoted to the problem of changing and identifying such a thing as a chronotope in a literary text. Considering the theory of the chronotope, put forward by M.M.Bakhtin through the prism of journalistic activity, the authors reveal significant correspondences and the possibility to apply the main provisions of this theory to the study of the features of the event coverage in journalistic texts. Thus, in their opinion, the chronotope of the crisis event at its initial presentation in the online media space at the information and news alert level has specific characteristics, to which the author refers multifragmentary media reflection, representativeness, narrative and semantics. As a result, the authors come to the conclusion that the time component of the chronotope of the media image of this event is stable, but the intensity of its development is confirmed by the number of publications per unit time. The spatial component of the chronotope of this event is formed through the information resources that report the event. The maximum expansion of the space (25 sources) was on the 2nd and 8th hours, and the most stable wide boundaries of the space had from the 8th to the 12th hours (18-20 sources). According to the Bakhtin’s theory, the supertext essence of the chronotope, namely, “the impression that is fixed in the reader’s consciousness in the process of perceiving the author’s narrative strategies”, is essentially nothing more than an image of the event formed by a journalist or journalists in the process of covering the event in the media.

scholarly journals Shame on You: The Role of Shame, Disgust and Humiliation in Media Representations of ‘Gender-Fraud’ Cases

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 118-135
Author(s):  
Allison Moore
Keyword(s):  
Online News ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Media Representation ◽  
Legal Cases ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Legal Discourses ◽  
The Media ◽  
21St Century Tools ◽  
The Uk

In September 2015, Gayle Newland became the fourth person to be convicted of ‘gender-fraud’ since 2012 in the UK. This article offers a critical analysis of the media representation of these four cases and considers the extent to which the defendants are subjected to shaming and humiliation processes and presented as objects of disgust. The significance of media representation of legal cases is that it provides an insight into the ways in which legal discourses are interpreted, reinterpreted and often over simplified by those outside the legal profession. It highlights how legal discourses sit within a network of wider discourses and, therefore, illustrates the intertextuality of the law. Cheung (2014 : 301) has suggested that, whilst the role of shame punishments in the criminal justice system has been subject to considerable academic scrutiny, ‘social policing by shaming transgressions via the internet’ has been under researched. This article will demonstrate that online news stories and the readers’ comments that accompany them are important 21st century tools in the shaming and humiliation of those who have transgressed socially constructed gender norms.

scholarly journals Negativity In Online News Coverage Of Vaccination Rates In Serbia: A Content Analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Lazić ◽  
Iris Zezelj
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Herd Immunity ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Vaccination Rate ◽  
Online News ◽  
News Story ◽  
Vaccination Rates ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Immunization Rates ◽  
The Media

The news media can influence how the public and policymakers feel about vaccination. Perhaps under the impression that such messages can be fear-inducing and thus mobilizing, the media often laments low immunization rates. This could, however, activate a powerful descriptive social norm (“many people are not getting vaccinated”) and may be especially ill-advised in the absence of a herd-immunity explanation (that if enough people have immunity through vaccination, the virus is contained). To identify typical media practices, we analyzed the content of 160 vaccination-related news stories by nine highest-trafficked news websites in Serbia, published July–December 2017, around the start of the measles outbreak. We coded both the news story as a whole and every vaccination-rate mention (N = 339). News stories framed current vaccination rates and changes in vaccination rates in a predominantly negative way (175/241 and 67/98, respectively) (e.g., “only 50% vaccinated”, “fewer parents vaccinating their children”). A total of 24/86 of news stories mentioning vaccination rates did not provide any numerical values. Reference groups for vaccination rates were rarely specified. Out of the 32 news stories mentioning the term herd or collective immunity, 11 explained the effect. We show that even routine communication of vaccination rates can be biased through (often negatively valenced) attribute frames and imprecise descriptions. We provide initial recommendations for news media organizations and journalists, including strategies to promote positive dynamic norms and prescriptive norms and explain benefits of herd immunity.

Sexually Degrading Music Videos and Lyrics

2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric L. Sprankle ◽  
Christian M. End ◽  
Miranda N. Bretz
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Rape Myths ◽  
Music Videos ◽  
Sexual Content ◽  
Sexual Stereotypes ◽  
Male Undergraduate ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Many ◽  
Sexually Degrading ◽  
Music Lyrics

Utilizing a 2 (lyrics: present or absent) × 2 (images: present or absent) design, this study examined the unique effects of sexually degrading music videos and music lyrics on males’ aggressive behavior toward women, as well as males’ endorsement of rape myths and sexual stereotypes. Under the guise of a media memory study, 187 male undergraduate students were randomly assigned to one of four conditions. Despite the many psychological theories predicting an effect, the presentation of sexually degrading content in a visual or auditory medium (or combination thereof) did not significantly alter the participants’ aggression and self-reported endorsement of rape myths and sexual stereotypes. The null findings challenge the many corporate and governmental restrictions placed on sexual content in the media over concern for harmful effects.

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