scholarly journals Three Futures Scenarios of Policy Instruments for Sustainable Textile Production and Consumption as Portrayed in the Finnish News Media

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 594
Author(s):  
Laura Virta ◽  
Riikka Räisänen
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Corporate Responsibility ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Textile Production ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Current State ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The Media

This research uses futures studies as background methodology and presents three scenarios for sustainable textile production and consumption based on the data of the Finnish news media. The scenarios extend to 2050, and the emphasis is on recognising policy instruments that can potentially support sustainable textile production and consumption. The first data set included 214 news articles from 2019 that were analysed using theory-guided qualitative content analysis. The second data set consisted of five textile experts’ evaluations of the probability and preferability of claims based on the first data set. As a result, a table of future scenarios was created, including descriptions of the current state and preferable, threatening and probable textile futures. The data show that textile and fashion sustainability issues are strongly presented in the media as part of the comprehensive climate-change-driven criticism of consumerism. The data emphasised a need for a holistic change in production and consumption. The most likely forms of policy instruments appear to be stronger corporate responsibility legislation (regulatory), environmental taxation of goods and services (economic), and eco-labelling of goods and services (information). These help in reaching the preferable scenario for 2050, which suggests a carbon-neutral textile production based on a circular economy.

Mental Illness, the Media, and the Moral Politics of Mass Violence

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (6) ◽  
pp. 766-797 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott W. Duxbury ◽  
Laura C. Frizzell ◽  
Sadé L. Lindsay
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Black Men ◽  
News Media ◽  
White Men ◽  
Mass Shootings ◽  
Mass Violence ◽  
Latino Men ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Moral Politics ◽  
The Media

Objectives: We examine how news media portrays the causes of mass shootings for shooters of different races. Specifically, we explore whether White men are disproportionately framed as mentally ill, and what narratives media tend to invoke when covering mass shootings through the lens of mental illness as opposed to other explanatory frames. Methods: The study examines a unique data set of 433 news documents covering 219 mass shootings between January 1, 2013, and December 31, 2015. It analyzes the data using a mixed methods approach, combining logistic regression with content analysis. Results: Quantitative findings show that Whites and Latinos are more likely to have their crime attributed to mental illness than Blacks. Qualitative findings show that rhetoric within these discussions frame White men as sympathetic characters, while Black and Latino men are treated as perpetually violent threats to the public. Conclusions: Results suggest that there is racial variability in how the media assign blame to mass shooters. While Black men and Latinos are cast as violently inclined, White men are treated as victims or sympathetic characters. Results also indicate that there are noteworthy differences in how blame is assigned to Black men and Latinos.

Journalistic Depictions of Uncertainty about Climate Change

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Painter
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Climate Science ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Many

Media research has historically concentrated on the many uncertainties in climate science either as a dominant discourse in media treatments measured by various forms of quantitative and qualitative content analysis or as the presence of skepticism, in its various manifestations, in political discourse and media coverage. More research is needed to assess the drivers of such skepticism in the media, the changing nature of skeptical discourse in some countries, and important country differences as to the prevalence of skepticism in political debate and media coverage. For example, why are challenges to mainstream climate science common in some Anglophone countries such as the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia but not in other Western nations? As the revolution in news consumption via new players and platforms causes an increasingly fragmented media landscape, there are significant gaps in understanding where, why, and how skepticism appears. In particular, we do not know enough about the ways new media players depict the uncertainties around climate science and how this may differ from previous coverage in traditional and mainstream news media. We also do not know how their emphasis on visual content affects audience understanding of climate change.

Agendamelding and out-group derogation

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 124-144
Author(s):  
Jeffrey K. Riley ◽  
Holly S. Cowart
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Group Formation ◽  
News Article ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
News Sources ◽  
The Social ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
The Media

Abstract This study is a mixed-method quantitative and qualitative content analysis that examined the overlapping presence of agendamelding theory and in-group out-group formation on the social media platform Reddit. The study looked at the top 10 posts for one month (n = 310) on the pro-Donald Trump subreddit /r/The_Donald. The results show that media choice was used to prove membership to the in-group, often by derogating the media used by the out-group. Specific patterns emerged within the derogative language as well. Links to left-wing and neutral news media sites were often commented on and criticized, while the content of the linked news article was ignored or changed. Right-wing news media sites, which were used as news sources rather than commentary, were typically posted without changes, unlike neutral news media sites, which were often posted in a mocking manner. As agendamelding suggests, participants sought to avoid dissonance by posting media to fit within the community.

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 Journalist As Professional Versus Employee A Case Of Koran SINDO In Censuring News On Trump’s Travel-Ban Policy

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tjipta Lesmana
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Media Theory ◽  
Early Years ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Print News ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Media ◽  
Specific Reason

Freedom of the press worldwide faces serious threat from owners of the media. Theoretically, journalist is independent and able to write whatever he or she wants to print. News is anything that fits to print, the jargon outcried in early years of Libertarian Media Theory. It is the journalist who has the  power to give criteria for “fitting” to print. Now the jargon has changed drastically: “He who pays the piper calls the tune’’. Newsroom  is nowaday not beyond owner’s interventionOwners run news media for specific reason. If they decide that a commentary or a news report goes against their beliefs or their interests or if they consider them biased, they certainly will want to intervene.The case of daily Koran SINDO is interesting to be investigated. While most media in the world, including those in Indonesia, heavily exposed President Donald Trump’s controversial policy in banning people from 6 midle-east and African countries from entering the US, daily Koran SINDO totally blocked the news. Not any single news criticising Trump’s policy is printed at the paper owned by Hary Tanoesudibjo. How the daily “plays the game” the author makes a simple research using qualitative content analysis.

scholarly journals De-contextualisation fuels controversy: the double-edged sword of humour in a hybrid media environment

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 49-64
Author(s):  
Sara Ödmark
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Young Women ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Media Framing ◽  
Social Boundaries ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
The Media

Humour has a unique way of delineating social boundaries, and comedy can function as a double-edged sword; it can strengthen bonds and bring people together, or divide through provocation and violation of social norms. As a consequence, humour controversies are telling events that contain the possibility of highlighting cultural and political sensibilities – even more in the current political landscape, with increasing media fragmentation. This study analysed four humour functions through the theoretical lens of media framing, via three cases of humorous content that caused controversies in the Swedish news media. These cases were one divisive radio roast of a politician, one TV satire segment that was received as racist, and one audio podcast with young women who challenged a Swedish political consensus climate. Framing is the power of media to select and highlight certain aspects of issues, and by extension, shape public opinion. By subjecting the media coverage of these three controversies to a qualitative content analysis, the framing was examined and discussed in the light of four humour functions: identification, clarification, enforcement, and differentiation (Meyer 2000). Furthermore, the study examined the media context and the role it played in the framing of the controversies. One main finding was that the most uniting humour function of identification could be transformed into the most dividing humour function of differentiation through a shift in media context.

scholarly journals THE CURRENT STATE OF EUROPE'S ENVIRONMENTAL BURDEN DUE TO THE EMERGENCE OF A CIRCULAR ECONOMY

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Žilinčíková ◽  
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Gradual Transition ◽  
The European Union ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Media ◽  
Set Up

The aim of this article is to point out the tools and means used to improve circular economy in Slovakia and the European Union and at the same time to present possible variants of processing and reuse of products that are at the end of their life cycle. The first part focuses on the emergence and gradual transition from environmental policy to the circular economy. With the help of legislative initiatives of the European Union, it is possible to reduce and prevent extreme pollution of the air, water, earth. Environmental policy instruments that help to achieve the goal of environmental protection. It is feasible to set up the daily functioning of the whole society with minimal environmental pollution. This article deals with the modern direction, namely the circular economy called the circular economy. The given topic has recently been heard not only in the media, schools, state institutions, but also on social networks. The elaboration of this topic resulted from the topicality and the very expansion of the topic at present and the wide-ranging information of the public. It is important to note that in initiatives and promotion of the circular economy, there is an appropriate selection of literature, data and statistics.

An Overview on IoT and Its Impact on Marketing

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dora Simões ◽  
Sandra Filipe ◽  
Belem Barbosa
Keyword(s):  
Product Placement ◽  
Purchasing Behavior ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Content Development ◽  
Marketing Application ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The Media ◽  
Brand Perception ◽  
Persona Development ◽  
The Internet Of Things

The internet of things (IoT) is attracting increased attention from researchers, practitioners, consumers, and the media, and it is expected to change dramatically the production and consumption of goods and services, as well as the interaction between organizations and their customers. This chapter explores the challenges of IoT for marketing management. The authors present the main concepts associated to the theme based on the extant literature, considering information management, technological and ethical aspects of its adoption by corporations and consumers, and they discuss the expected impacts on different marketing application domains such as product placement, purchasing behavior, storytelling and communication, customer experience and consumer' brand perception, real-time persona development, and product and content development, among others.

IMPACT OF HYPERLOCAL MEDIA ON LOCAL COMMUNITIES

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 401
Author(s):  
Sandra Murinska
Keyword(s):  
Community Involvement ◽  
News Media ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Local Television ◽  
News Source ◽  
The People ◽  
News Websites ◽  
The Media

Nowadays one of the channels to get information about the local environment is hyperlocal news media. It is another way to reach an audience online,  as a number of users of local television, radio and newspapers is decreasing. Hyperlocals come in many different forms, but their main characteristics show them as a news source. Hyperlocal news media have much in common with weekly community newspapers – these sites focus on a small, geographically defined area, as theoretical literature about local media say. Such news sites are becoming an important part of information space because of their fastness, digital possibilities and variety of content authors. Thus, uncertainty of staff raises questions about values, behaviours and ethics of journalism.The aim of the paper is to examine the types and functions of hyperlocal news media to clarify what kind of content is produced in hyperlocal news media and what their role is in a local community in Latvia. There were seven Latvian hyperlocal news websites analysed; the quantitative and qualitative content analysis was made to explore research questions.An analysis of the content of the hyperlocal news media showed that it was primarily an initiative of people working in the media, not an initiative of the people themselves. Hyperlocal news media mainly inform about what is happening in the city, municipality or village, but community involvement is minimal. Overall, function to give information dominates, but the personification with the local community is not common, so it is difficult for the community to identify themselves with the media, and thus with the community.  

scholarly journals GOVERNMENT COMMUNICATION AND INTERNET RESPONSES: PROFILE OF PRIME MINISTER KRIŠJĀNIS KARIŅŠ IN SELECTED DIGITAL MEDIA USERS’ COMMENTS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 78-83
Author(s):  
Vineta Kleinberga
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Online News ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Learning Program ◽  
Digital Tool ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Government Communication

Perceptions play a pivotal role in assessment of efficiency of government communication. Informed by the strategic narrative conceptual framework this study looks at perception of government communication in Internet comments during three essential dates in conquering the COVID-19 pandemic in Latvia: introduction of emergency situations on March 12 and November 6, 2020, and introduction of a curfew on December 29, 2020. The study uncovers how often and how the main spokesperson in government communication – the Prime Minister of Latvia Krišjānis Kariņš – is framed in comments of three online news media in Latvia (Apollo, Delfi, Tvnet) in Latvian and Russian. Using a digital tool for online comments analysis - the Index of Internet Aggressiveness (IIA), a data set is created of 244 comments, containing a key word “Kariņš” in various cases in Latvian and Russian. Qualitative content analysis is applied to extract and to compare the frequency of appearance and the framing of Kariņš over the course of the pandemic in Latvia. The findings reveal that Kariņš appears in comments significantly more after news in Latvian than in Russian, and has been commented five times more in Delfi than in Tvnet and Apollo together. The comments in Latvian are more aggressive than in Russian, and their emotional tone increases towards the end of 2020. In majority of comments the framing is negative involving attributes of irresponsibility, superficiality, indecisiveness and danger; yet positively framed rigidity and decisiveness of Kariņš can be observed too.IIA is an online comment analysis tool, incorporating a machine learning program, which analyses users’ comments on news on online news sites according to pre-selected keywords to grasp the commenters’ verbal aggressiveness. In March 2021 the IIA data set consists of ~25.08 million comments; ~ 616.62 million word usage in written commenting and ~ 1357.40 thousand news. 

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