scholarly journals Overtourism in Iceland: Fantasy or Reality?

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (18) ◽  
pp. 7375
Author(s):  
Anna Dóra Sæþórsdóttir ◽  
C. Michael Hall ◽  
Margrét Wendt
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
Media Analysis ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Satisfaction Level ◽  
Partial Picture ◽  
The Media ◽  
Industry Policy ◽  
Nature Experience

Iceland has been one of the main destinations that have been incorporated into the discourse of overtourism. However, Iceland is different to many other supposed overtourism destinations in that its tourism is based on natural areas. Nevertheless, destination discourses can play an important part in influencing tourist decision-making and government and industry policy making. A media analysis was conducted of 507 online media articles on overtourism in Iceland that were published in 2018, with the main themes being identified via content analysis. The results indicated that the media discourse represented only a partial picture of overtourism and the crowding phenomenon in Iceland, with mechanisms to respond to crowding, the satisfaction level of tourists with their Icelandic nature experience, and local people’s support for tourism being underreported. Some of the findings reflect that of other media analyses. However, there are considerable discontinuities between media representations and discourses of overtourism in Iceland, which highlight the importance of national- or destination-level media analysis. The media analysis illustrates the need for a better understanding of different destination discourses and their influence.

scholarly journals The World capital of reggaeton: Verbal framing of Medellin in online media discourse

Ricercare ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 56-71
Author(s):  
Mariia Mykhalonok
Keyword(s):  
Online Media ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Frame Semantics ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
Musical Genre ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
The City

This article examines linguistic framing of Medellin as the city of the musical genre reggaeton in online media discourse, drawing on Fillmore’s frame semantics theory (1977). The most salient frames applied towards Medellin are those of centrality, home, and music, whereby the city’s global significance as a musical hub is emphasized through the terms belonging to the frame of world. The use of components from the frames of crime and drugs suggests that the drug-related past of Medellin is integrated into its new cultural profile. Another part of the new Medellin brand are the city’s residents themselves, who are credited with supporting local reggaetonero/as, and are typically referred to with overtly positive vocabulary from the frames of love, help, and home. Although some texts evoke negative stereotypes about reggaeton, the media mostly present the Medellin reggaeton scene through the frames of success, power, and business.

scholarly journals MEDIA, STEREOTYPES AND MUSLIM REPRESENTATION: WORLD AFTER JYLLANDS-POSTEN MUHAMMAD CARTOONS CONTROVERSY

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 59-72
Author(s):  
Rūta Sutkutė
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
World View ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Online Media ◽  
The West ◽  
Underlying Assumption ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Quantitative Content ◽  
Negative Images ◽  
The Media

In the 21st century media has become the dominant source of knowledge of Islam and Muslims and selectively decides what the West should know about Islam and what should be hidden. However, the underlying assumption is that, the media as an institution forming stereotypes depends on the local socio-cultural context. The goal of this paper – to find out how media (as the mediator) forms values, world view of a society, creates stereotypes in different cultural environments through analysis of Muhammad cartoons. The objectives are: to define the concepts of Neo-Orientalism, Muslimophobia and Islamophobia; to find out the connection between media representations and negative images of Islam and Muslims in the society; to reveal the main stereotypes of Muslims and Islam in online media in 4 different countries by analysing the case of Muhammad cartoons. The conducted qualitative and quantitative content analysis confirmed the hypothesis that in the specific cultures the same event is presented in different ways while forming value based orientation for a specific audience. Western media seeks to portray Muslims as terrorists / Islamists that are against West, their values and any possibility of integration in Western societies. Meanwhile, Lebanon and India (Kashmir) media does not portray orientalism and Islamophobic views, because audiences are dominated by Muslims. However there are noticeable manifestations of Occidentalism - resistance to the West and the Islamophobic portrayal of public in media. Moreover, information serves as a public mobilization function, so there are reasons to believe that violent protests in Kashmir and Lebanon could have been encouraged by the media.

scholarly journals Voices from the can: McLuhan, the digital absolute and the problem of regressive progress (towards a materialist epistemology of media discourse)

2005 ◽  
pp. 9-69
Author(s):  
Borislav Mikulic
Keyword(s):  
Communication Theory ◽  
Media Analysis ◽  
Integral Approach ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Science And Literature ◽  
Marshall Mcluhan ◽  
The Media ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Media Form

On the basis of selected examples of average lay as well as professional and theoretical discourses on the media phenomenon and the very notion of media, the author seeks to identify moments conducive to constructing a model for media analysis of a social-theoretical bent, and both structural-semiotic and substantive-critical in character. The analysis refers to the media in both the strict (technological) and the expanded (semiological) meaning of the term - as technical devices and semiotic objects, such as discourses of ideology, science and literature. In the first section (I. 1-3), almost entirely devoted to Marshall McLuhan?s brief and legendary text ?The Medium Is the Message?, his basic thesis is put under a discursive-logical analysis of the text and reverted into the seemingly diametrically opposed form, ?The Message Is the Medium?, whose further interpretive possibilities are then explored. In the second section (II. 1-3) McLuhan?s ?integral? approach to media analysis, as a particular theory (communication theory), is examined by placing it in the discursive context along with the ?End of Ideology? thesis from the 1960s and instances of humanistic-scientific discourse on non-technological media forms (hermeneutic theories of perception, psychoanalysis of narrative strategies in fictional discourses). The aim of the discussion is to relocate the phenomenon of conceptual regression (whether substantive, cultural, or ideological) in discourses presupposing absolute innovativeness and progressiveness of their media form. The result of the inquiry shows that regressive ness lies in the ?progressive? media form itself, that is, in the very conceptions (theories, ideologies) of the form.

scholarly journals Mediated Representations of Violence Against Women

Tripodos ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 131-146
Author(s):  
Viktorija Car ◽  
Barbara Ravbar
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Social System ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Online Media ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Common ◽  
Women And Girls

Violence against women and girls in the 21st century remains a common and profoundly consequential violation of women’s human rights. It is part of gender inequality, an integral part of the social system, and linked to other aspects of human and economic development. When reporting about it, the media produce additional damage by continuously highlighting the hostile and violent treatment of women. Representations of gender and sexuality in the news reinforce the common perception that women are sexual objects and therefore disadvantage women, continuously reinforcing imbalances of power between women and men. This study explores media representations in Croatian online media articles about violence against women. The results of analysis show how violence against women is framed as a private problem, how women are addressed as unfaithful wives and prostitutes which gives excuses for the perpetrator while the blame for the violence is partly shifted to the woman. Also, results show how the secondary victimization is manifested in articles, and how violence against women as a topic is exploited to attract the readers’ attention.

Media Representations of Multiracial Athletes

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Deeb ◽  
Adam Love
Keyword(s):  
Racial Identity ◽  
Media Analysis ◽  
Racial Stereotypes ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Substantial Body ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Print News ◽  
The Media ◽  
Multiracial Identities ◽  
White Athletes

There is a substantial body of research examining racialized narratives about Black and White athletes. However, there is an absence of literature that has specifically explored multiracial identities in the sport context. The purpose of the current study was to examine narratives constructed in the media when discussing the race(s) of multiracial athletes. Investigators conducted a qualitative media analysis using 68 online and print news articles that clearly identified athletes as multiracial. Findings indicated that sports journalists are susceptible to perpetuating certain racialized sport stereotypes when covering multiracial athletes. Media members should make an effort to be aware of an athlete’s racial identity and be mindful of not relying on racial stereotypes when writing about multiracial athletes.

scholarly journals The Rhetoric of Recessions: How British Newspapers Talk about the Poor When Unemployment Rises, 1896–2000

Sociology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (6) ◽  
pp. 1005-1025 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel McArthur ◽  
Aaron Reeves
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Economic Crises ◽  
High Unemployment ◽  
Economic Context ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Media ◽  
Unique Dataset

Recessions appear to coincide with an increasingly stigmatising presentation of poverty in parts of the media. Previous research on the connection between high unemployment and media discourse has often relied on case studies of periods when stigmatising rhetoric about the poor was increasing. We build on earlier work on how economic context affects media representations of poverty by creating a unique dataset that measures how often stigmatising descriptions of the poor are used in five centrist and right-wing British newspapers between 1896 and 2000. Our results suggest stigmatising rhetoric about the poor increases when unemployment rises, except at the peak of very deep recessions (e.g. the 1930s and 1980s). This pattern is consistent with the idea that newspapers deploy deeply embedded Malthusian explanations for poverty when those ideas resonate with the economic context, and so this stigmatising rhetoric of recessions is likely to recur during future economic crises.

scholarly journals Made/maid in the media: narrative discourses surrounding Filipina nannies in the live-in caregiver program.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holly Dae Edejer
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Minority Group ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Global Migration ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Media ◽  
Domestic Labour

This paper explores the various narratives and media representations surrounding Filipinas in Canada’s Live-In Caregiver Program. This study draws upon existing scholarship in global migration of (gendered, racialized, and class-based) domestic labour, as well as theories of postcolonialism and media studies. Using critical discourse analysis, the content of 132 news articles from 1988 to 2014 in the Toronto Star are coded and discussed. The five main categories in which these Filipina live-in caregivers – ‘or Filipina nannies’ – are constructed are identified as foreigners, mothers, workers, victims, and activists. The research findings suggest that representations of Filipina live-in caregivers are framed by notions of difference and social hierarchy in Canada’s most widely disseminated newspaper. Thus this newsprint media discourse reproduces the subaltern status and dual in/visibility of this minority group in Canadian society.

scholarly journals Online Media Analysis in Tourism Reporting: Policy Study of Detik Travel Redaction And Tribunnews Travel

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 123
Author(s):  
Farid Rusdi
Keyword(s):  
Information Search ◽  
Editorial Policy ◽  
Media Analysis ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Web Traffic ◽  
The Media ◽  
Tourism Information ◽  
News Event ◽  
Traffic Optimization

Media editors that focused on tourism news have different routines than editors of political, legal, economic, or news event have. This study aims to analyse the role of online mass media, specifically one, which focused on tourism news (travel) in preparing its redaction policy. This research utilizes the pattern of information search by tourists from Pan, editorial policy, and web traffic optimization. Online media that acted as the object of this research is Detik Travel and Tribunnews Travel. The research approach used is qualitative descriptive by interview with executing editor from both media. This study reveals the editorial of both online media think through the needs of end-users in presenting the content. To find out the users’ needs, editors conduct a research on Google Trend, and social media. In addition, the two editors of the online media involve them, the tourists, in contribute to the content and become a community of travellers on the media, so that the editor can acquire the latest information and surely needed by tourism information enthusiasts.

scholarly journals Discourse media analysis of risk and responsibility for environmental pollution

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (02) ◽  
pp. R02
Author(s):  
Jennifer Metcalfe
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Media Analysis ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
The Media ◽  
China And Japan ◽  
Media Discourses

This book examines the media discourses about environmental pollution in Australia, China and Japan. The book's authors focus on the actors involved in discussions of risk versus those involved in responsibility for environmental pollution. The authors use novel and traditional means of analysis that combine techniques from a variety of disciplines to examine case studies of media discourse. The book provides an interesting, if at times simplistic, overview of the pollution issues facing each country. The conclusions made from the media analysis are relevant to those researching and practicing science communication in the context of such important environmental issues.

scholarly journals The Rhetoric of Recessions: How British Newspapers Talk about the Poor When Unemployment Rises, 1896–2000

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron Reeves ◽  
Daniel McArthur
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Economic Crises ◽  
High Unemployment ◽  
Economic Context ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Media ◽  
Unique Dataset

Recessions appear to coincide with an increasingly stigmatising presentation of poverty in parts of the media. Previous research on the connection between high unemployment and media discourse has often relied on case studies of periods when stigmatising rhetoric about the poor was increasing. We build on earlier work on how economic context affects media representations of poverty by creating a unique dataset that measures how often stigmatising descriptions of the poor are used in five centrist and right-wing British newspapers between 1896 and 2000. Our results suggest stigmatising rhetoric about the poor increases when unemployment rises, except at the peak of very deep recessions (e.g. the 1930s and 1980s). This pattern is consistent with the idea that newspapers deploy deeply embedded Malthusian explanations for poverty when those ideas resonate with the economic context, and so this stigmatising rhetoric of recessions is likely to recur during future economic crises.

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