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.

scholarly journals ‘Battle of the sixes’: Investigating print media representations of female professional golfers competing in a men’s tour event

2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (6) ◽  
pp. 664-684 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Bowes ◽  
Niamh Kitching
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Print Media ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Media Representation ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Professional Golfers

In May 2018, the men’s European Tour invited five female professional golfers to compete in its GolfSixes event in England, against 27 professional male players. This was significant, particularly given the female struggle for equality of access, participation, employment and decision making in golf settings. This research investigates the print media representation of these five female professional golfers competing in this male domain. Using the Nexis database, data were collected from print newspapers in the United Kingdom and Ireland over six days before, during and after the event. Following thematic analysis, findings highlight a double-edged sword with regard to media coverage of female athletes competing against men: women received greater media coverage when in the male sport spotlight, but the coverage was framed by gendered discourses. The results document a slow shift towards more equal and equitable print media coverage of female athletes, whilst drawing attention to the problematic ways in which sportswomen are represented.

scholarly journals Media Representations of Official Declarations and Political Actions in Brazil During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diogo Lopes de Oliveira ◽  
Erick Moreno ◽  
Bruce V. Lewenstein
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Communication Complexity ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Media Messages ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Understanding Of Science ◽  
Political Actions

Our case study situates science communication within the interaction of the COVID-19 disease, scientific research about the disease, public statements by relevant officials, media messages, political actions, and public opinion. By studying these interactions in the Brazilian context, we add to the understanding of science communication complexity by studying a context less easily available to the English-speaking research community. Methodologically, we identified key moments in Brazil during the pandemic using tools such as Google Trends, and content analysis of influencers' Twitter and Instagram accounts and digital newspapers. These episodes are then explored as case studies, using both quantitative and qualitative content analysis of messages to identify message emphasis frames and political agendas. The results introduce issues rarely explored in previous science communication research, especially ones associated with nationalism and political populism and national inequalities of privilege, income, and trust.

scholarly journals The takeover of science communication: how science lost its leading role in the public discourse on carbon capture and storage research in daily newspapers in Germany

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Carbon Capture ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Carbon Capture And Storage ◽  
Steel Production ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Daily Newspapers ◽  
And Storage

Abstract. CCS (carbon capture and storage) is an important issue within the context of climate-change mitigation options and has played a major role in the agendas of scientists, researchers, and engineers. While media representations of CCS in Germany from 2004 to 2014 demonstrated the significant mediatization of the topic, this cannot be ascribed to science. Instead, CCS media coverage in Germany has been dominated by other stakeholder groups. While CCS is linked to various industry sectors, such as cement and steel production, the German debate has dominantly focussed on the coal and energy branches. This study looks at the role of science and science public relations (PR) within the German public debate by analysing the media coverage of CCS in daily newspapers from 2004 to 2014. If science wishes to remain proactive within science communication, new approaches for future science PR have to be deduced to strengthen, once again, the role of science communication. Among these approaches, it is important to pursue a more differentiated understanding of target audiences and regional concerns. Science PR has to accept that science itself is no longer the only stakeholder and actor within science communication.

scholarly journals Social Media and Trust in Scientific Expertise: Debating the Covid-19 Pandemic in The Netherlands

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 205630512098105
Author(s):  
José van Dijck ◽  
Donya Alinead
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Information Flows ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
The Public ◽  
Institutional Contexts ◽  
Scientific Expertise ◽  
Institutional Model

This article examines the role of social media dynamics in the public exchange of information between scientists (experts), government (policy-makers), mass media (journalists), and citizens (nonexperts) during the first 4 months after the Covid-19 outbreak in the Netherlands. Over the past decade, the institutional model of science communication, based on linear vectors of information flows between institutions, has gradually converted into a networked model where social media propel information flows circulating between all actors involved. The question driving our research is, “How are social media deployed to both undermine and enhance public trust in scientific expertise during a health crisis?” Analyzing the public debate during the period of the corona outbreak in the Netherlands, we investigate two stages: the emergency response phase and the “smart exit strategy” phase, discussing how scientific experts, policy-makers, journalists, and citizens appropriate social media logic to steer information and to control the debate. We conclude by outlining the potential risks and benefits of adopting social media dynamics in institutional contexts of science communication.

scholarly journals What Do You Expect? Linguistic Reflections on Empathy in Science Communication

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Janich
Keyword(s):  
Social Communication ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Essential Role ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Science And Society ◽  
Scientific Expertise ◽  
Understanding Of Science ◽  
Emotional Level

This linguistics article, which draws additionally on interdisciplinary insights, discusses whether and to what extent more empathy could facilitate and promote the exchange of knowledge between science and society. The existence of the Internet as a knowledge resource has made it necessary, especially in online communication, to renegotiate (scientific) expertise and roles such as ‘expert’ and ‘layperson.’ A discourse linguistics case study of a science blog shows that these negotiations quickly take on the character of an emotionally charged relationship between writer and respondent and are by no means limited to the level of fact or disinterested scholarly debate. The reason for this—so this article argues—is that reciprocal expectations and expectations of expectations play an essential role in science communication, as in any social communication. This hypothesis is supported by an analysis of interviews with scientists about their expectations of the public’s understanding of science. Against this background, empathy seems to be a suitable means to better meet the expectations of one’s interlocuter (or at least to avoid disappointed expectations) and to move from a more emotional level back to a more rational one. Empathy and its role in science communication should therefore be investigated more closely—on an interdisciplinary basis.

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 The Takeover of Science Communication – Science Lost its Leading Role in the Public Discourse of Carbon Capture and Storage Research in Daily Newspapers in Germany

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Carbon Capture ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Carbon Capture And Storage ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
The Public ◽  
Daily Newspapers ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
The Media

Abstract. CCS is an important issue that has played a major role in the agenda of scientists, researchers, and engineers. While the media representations of CCS in Germany from 2004 to 2014 showed significant characteristics of a medialization of the topic, this cannot be ascribed to science. Instead, CCS media coverage in Germany was dominated by other stakeholder groups. If Science will stay a pro-active element of science communication, new approaches for future science PR have be deduced to re-strengthen the role of science communication. Among these is the pursuit of a more differentiated understanding of target audiences and regional concerns. Science PR has to accept that the science itself is no longer the only stakeholder and actor within science communication.

scholarly journals A Qualitative Analysis of Self-Harm and Suicide in Sri Lankan Printed Newspapers

Crisis ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Jane Brandt Sørensen ◽  
Melissa Pearson ◽  
Gregory Armstrong ◽  
Martin Wolf Andersen ◽  
Manjula Weerasinghe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Middle Income Country ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Self Harm

Abstract. Background: Media reporting may influence suicidal behavior. In-depth exploration of how self-harm and suicide are portrayed in newspaper articles in a middle-income country such as Sri Lanka is lacking. Aims: We aimed to explore how self-harm and suicide are portrayed in Sri Lankan printed newspapers. Method: Seven English- and Sinhala-language Sri Lankan newspapers were screened for articles reporting on self-harm and suicide (December 1, 2014 to January 31, 2015). A thematic analysis was conducted. Results: In the 78 articles identified for analysis, certain aspects were overemphasized (inappropriate behavior) and others underemphasized (alcohol and complexities of self-harm). Explanations of self-harm were one-sided and a suicide prevention narrative was lacking. Limitations: Another time-frame and inclusion of Tamil newspapers as well as social media and online publications would provide additional understanding. Conclusion: The study found an indication of simplistic reporting. Greater focus on prevention and a nuanced portrayal of self-harm could reduce stigma and imitative behavior.

INSTAGRAM SEBAGAI SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING DALAM MEMBANGUN BRAND AWARENESS FAKULTAS EKONOMI DAN BISNIS ISLAM

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Oktaria Ardika Putri
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Social Media Marketing ◽  
Brand Awareness ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Business People ◽  
Marketing Tool

Instagram is a social media application that is currently very popular in the community, especially among artist, politicians, and business people. Companies or advanced business must quicly adapt to the advancement of information technology in the form of social media as a marketing tool. Instagram social media also necessary to developing educational institutions. One of the educational institution that ae currently developing is the newly established Faculty of Economics and Business Islam (FEBI) at the Kediri State Islamic Institute (IAIN Kediri). This writing aims to examine the importance of Instagram as social media marketing to building FEBI IAIN Kediri Brand Awareness. Instagram social media is considered more effectives to embrace students and the community, so it is expected to facilitate marketing and communication between FEBI IAIN Kediri with the students or other agencies. The method of this reasearch is a qualitative analysis which reference libraries are used as a basis. Keywods:  Instagam,  social media, Faculty of Economics and Business Islam, IAIN Kediri

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