scholarly journals News Values on Instagram: A Comparative Study of International News

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 305-320
Author(s):  
Ahmed Al-Rawi ◽  
Alaa Al-Musalli ◽  
Abdelrahman Fakida

This study employs the news values theory and method in the examination of a large dataset of international news retrieved from Instagram. News values theory itself is subjected to critical examination, highlighting its strengths and weaknesses. Using a mixed method that includes content analysis and topic modeling, the study investigates the major news topics most ‘liked’ by Instagram audiences and compares them with the topics most reported on by news organizations. The findings suggest that Instagram audiences prefer to consume general news, human-interest stories and other stories that are mainly positive in nature, unlike news on politics and other topics on which traditional news organizations tend to focus. Finally, the paper addresses the implications of the above findings.

Journalism ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (9-10) ◽  
pp. 1435-1451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xianwen Kuang ◽  
Rining Wei

This study investigates how party and nonparty newspapers in China frame sensitive political issues differently, depending on their geographic relevance. Extant studies indicate that political control influences how news organizations present an issue. The assumption is that the framing of nationally sensitive issues is similar across Chinese news outlets, while the framing of locally sensitive issues diverges. An examination of the news frames used by six newspapers in Guangzhou in their coverage of a nationally sensitive issue and a locally sensitive issue confirms this assumption. In the coverage of the nationally sensitive issue, all newspapers use more leadership frames and factual information than responsibility, conflict and human interest frames. Contrastingly, the party newspapers use more leadership frames, whereas nonparty newspapers use more conflict frames in the reporting of the locally sensitive issue.


2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mesnan Silalahi ◽  
Agus Santoso ◽  
Dudi Hidayat

<p>This paper describes the results of scientometric studies in the energy sector, especially in the field of biofuel and or biodiesel in Indonesia using a mixed method. Quantitative research using bibliometric basics and content analysis with text mining is triangulated with the results from in-depth interview with several prominent researchers in this field. Content analysis is done with topic modeling method using abstract of papers indexed in Scopus. This article reports on the results of research scientometric study in the energy sector especially in the field of biofuel and or biodiesel in Indonesia, which is expected to provide input and recommendations in the national priority program energy research policies and strategies. The impact is the making of national research policies based on evidence.</p>


2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-151
Author(s):  
Deivison Henrique de Freitas Santos ◽  
Francisco Paulo Jamil Marques ◽  
Giulia Sbaraini Fontes

This article compares editorial and news agendas considering O Estado de S. Paulo, Folha de S. Paulo, and O Globo newspapers during the second round of the 2018 Brazilian presidential election. We study to what extent the convergence between both agendas discloses some of the political interests sponsored by news organizations. By using content analysis, we examined the thematic convergence between 144 editorials and news. The hypotheses are: H1) The news and opinion sections within each newspaper converge thematically, indicating a political instrumentalization of the journalistic practices; H2) Newspapers differ from each other when considering the topics covered in their editorials, which is not the case when their main cover stories are at stake. The results indicate that the newspapers do not present a strong convergence within their intern sections. However, there is similarity between the opinionated agenda between the news organizations, which doesn’t happen with the news coverage.O objetivo deste trabalho é comparar as agendas editorial e noticiosa dos jornais O Estado de S. Paulo, Folha de S.Paulo e O Globo durante o segundo turno da eleição presidencial de 2018. Pretende-se, especificamente, compreender em que medida as semelhanças entre as referidas agendas podem revelar, pelo menos em parte, os interesses políticos das publicações. A análise de conteúdo de 144 textos permitiu observar o nível de sintonia temática entre as peças jornalísticas. As hipóteses são: H1) As seções noticiosa e opinativa internas a cada jornal convergem tematicamente, indicando instrumentalização político-eleitoral da atividade jornalística; H2) Os jornais divergem entre si quando são diretamente comparados os temas abordados em seus editoriais, o que não ocorre em suas principais matérias de capa. Descobriu-se que os periódicos não apresentam convergências expressivas em suas seções internas. Todavia, há convergência entre as agendas opinativas dos jornais, diferentemente do que acontece em suas notícias.Este artículo compara las agendas editoriales y de noticias de O Estado de S. Paulo, Folha de S.Paulo y O Globo durante la segunda vuelta de las elecciones presidenciales brasileñas de 2018, buscando identificar si hay similitudes entre ellas. El análisis de contenido de 144 editoriales y noticias nos permitió observar la armonía temática entre los textos. Las hipótesis son: H1) Las secciones de noticias y opinión dentro de cada periódico convergen temáticamente, lo que indica la instrumentalización político-electoral de la actividad periodística; H2) Los periódicos difieren entre sí cuando los temas de sus editoriales se comparan directamente, lo cual no es el caso en sus principales portadas. Se encontró que no hay convergencias temáticas expresivas en las secciones de cada publicación. Sin embargo, los resultados indican cierta convergencia entre las agendas de opinión de los periódicos, lo que no se percibe con la misma intensidad en las noticias.


2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 188-202
Author(s):  
Xianwen Kuang ◽  
Hui Wang

This research explores the variations between Chinese party and non-party newspapers in the framing of trans-edited international news. Existing studies on the framing of Chinese domestic news show that the variations depend on the sensitivity of news, which invokes government control. However, it is not clear how strictly the government would control international news and whether party and non-party news organizations would show similarities or variations in the framing of it. To address these issues, we conducted a comparative quantitative content analysis of 806 pieces of trans-edited international news from one party newspaper and one non-party newspaper. The findings show that the party and non-party newspapers show similarity on the use of three frames but small variations on the other four. This implies a strong control of the Chinese government on the reporting of international news. By comparison, the government control has stronger effects on the party newspaper than on its non-party counterpart.


2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 607-631
Author(s):  
Kate Wright ◽  
Martin Scott ◽  
Mel Bunce

How do journalists working for different state-funded international news organizations legitimize their relationship to the governments which support them? In what circumstances might such journalists resist the diplomatic strategies of their funding states? We address these questions through a comparative study of journalists working for international news organizations funded by the Chinese, US, UK and Qatari governments. Using 52 interviews with journalists covering humanitarian issues, we explain how they minimized tensions between their diplomatic role and dominant norms of journalistic autonomy by drawing on three – broadly shared – legitimizing narratives, involving different kinds of boundary-work. In the first ‘exclusionary’ narrative, journalists differentiated their ‘truthful’ news reporting from the ‘false’ state ‘propaganda’ of a common Other, the Russian-funded network, RT. In the second ‘fuzzifying’ narrative, journalists deployed the ambiguous notion of ‘soft power’ as an ambivalent ‘boundary concept’, to defuse conflicts between journalistic and diplomatic agendas. In the final ‘inversion’ narrative, journalists argued that, paradoxically, their dependence on funding states gave them greater ‘operational autonomy’. Even when journalists did resist their funding states, this was hidden or partial, and prompted less by journalists’ concerns about the political effects of their work, than by serious threats to their personal cultural capital.


2021 ◽  
pp. 073953292110135
Author(s):  
Kirstie Hettinga ◽  
Elizabeth Smith

The New York Times “streamlined” its editing process in 2017 and reduced the editing staff by nearly half. Through content analysis on corrections (N = 1,149), this research examines the effects of these cuts. Analysis revealed the Times published more corrections before the changes, but that corrections appeared more quickly after the original error occurred and there were more corrections for content in the A section following the staffing cuts. The A section includes national and international news and thus often contains political content, which is rife for heightened scrutiny in an age of media distrust. Practical and theoretical implications are discussed.


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