scholarly journals La rielezione di Obama. Un'analisi del voto presidenziale 2012 negli Stati Uniti

2012 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-103
Author(s):  
Marco Morini
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Election ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Democratic Party ◽  
Electoral College ◽  
The Third ◽  
Electoral Campaign ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
The Media ◽  
Mitt Romney ◽  
Political Realignment

This article analyzes the 2012 American Presidential election. It is divided into five sections. The first one is focused on data and numbers of electoral results. The second reflects upon the nature of the Electoral College. The third section examines in depth the vote of women and minorities, which are the two factors that mostly contributed to Barack Obama's re-election. Then, there is a section that scrutinize the electoral campaign, describing the issues, the candidates strategies and the media coverage received by Obama e Mitt Romney. The fifth part concerns the two candidates' fundraising and expenses. Finally we resume the previous analyses and we formulate the hyphotesis that a new electoral bloc is currently under formation: the idea is that there are and political realignment that is going to favour the Democratic Party

On the Ud-ŠU-BALA at Ur towards the end of the third millennium BC

Iraq ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-60
Author(s):  
James Kinnier Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Scientific Explanation ◽  
Severe Weather ◽  
Abrupt Climate Change ◽  
Loss Of Life ◽  
Weather Patterns ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Media ◽  
The City ◽  
Weather Change

SummaryThe media coverage of the severe weather patterns of 1982–3 and 1997–8 has reasserted for the study of history the possible influence of abrupt climate change at transitional periods. Modern theories on the fall of Ur have already looked beyond the Elamite invasion to the evidence of food shortage and failing water supply as preconditions of the event. The present study seeks to enlarge upon this theme, and will suggest that, following a period of storm and flood, a sustained drought brought an unprecedented loss of life to the city of Ur and across Sumer. The paper will finally suggest a modern and scientific explanation of the ud-šu-bala, or “weather change”, of the period.

scholarly journals Positive Discourse Analysis (PDA): Spells the dominant discourse by relating the basic issues of the case study

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
TIKADESTIANINDIA
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
The Third ◽  
Freedom Fighters ◽  
Respective Field ◽  
The Media ◽  
Society Perspective ◽  
Media Practices

Abstract: PDA stands on the text and compares, which text is good and true or do well and get right in experts or society perspective. This research surveys design inisiates to see the strategies framing on marginal discourse in Russian mass mediamedia. This study found some problems related to the Russian-chech conflict. In this conflicte, this study reveals the framing of the media describe Russian people are the ones who violate human rights, while the Chech people are freedom fighters who are cracked down from the Russians. In the first examine the counter-discourse that occurs between the two countries, while in the second part of the case study survey illustrates some of the strategies used in some texts that pertain to mainstream discourse, and in the third section explains more generally as taken from lexicogrammographic analysis, media practices, cognitive linguistics and psychology such as radical reframing and strategies used therein. Related to this research, identifying reframing with the editor is selected for publication can guide academic who want publicized for media coverage in their respective field of expertise or other social problems that appear in the community.Key Word : PDA: Russian Problem

scholarly journals Abkhazia – 2019: from Khajimba to Khajimba

2019 ◽  
pp. 71-82
Author(s):  
V. Novikov
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Election ◽  
The Political ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
The Third ◽  
Electoral Campaign ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
Presidential Election Campaign

The paper considers the course and outcomes of 2019 Presidential election campaign in Abkhazia as well as factors that stipulated its character (postponement of elections because of Aslan Bzhania’s disease, the number of contenders, etc.). The alignment of forces before the campaign is outlined, and the principal contenders are characterized, together with political forces that promoted them. A due attention is paid to the extraordinary polycentrism of Abkhaz politics, in  which not only the authority, opposition and the “third force” but also various electoral competitors of both the authority and the opposition, as well as numerous contenders to the role of the “third force” co-exist. Such disposition led to scattering of the electorate at the presidential election. The course of the electoral campaign is scrutinized with an emphasis put on the analysis of programmatic provisions of the contenders and their political style. The political maneuvers of the authority, opposition and Alexander Ankvab’ team between two rounds of the elections are traced. A special attention is paid to the causes of Raul Khajimba’s victory. The situation after the elections is also considered in the paper, and a prognosis is suggested of possible development.

scholarly journals Når politik bliver underholdning

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurits Harmer Lassen ◽  
Søren Kjellberg Ishøy
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
The Media ◽  
Usa Today ◽  
Political Game

The article describes the American presidential election in the two largest American and Danish newspapers: USA Today, New York Times, Jyllands-Posten and Politiken. Two weeks of news about the election have been analysed and showed that around 60 to 70 percent of all stories focused on the political processes contrary to the political substance. At the same time the analysis show that in broad terms the Danish and American newspapers coverage are quite similar. On the basis of theories of democracy the article makes a critique of the media coverage and give possible explanations of, why the focus is more on the political game than on the political substance.

COVID-19 and the Mass Media

2021 ◽  
pp. 509-518
Author(s):  
Subir Sinha
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Graphical Representation ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
The Government

COVID-19 is the cause of the greatest pandemic of the century that affects almost every nation of our globe. In India, mass media has played a significant role in this pandemic situation. The media coverage revealed fearlessly the condition of COVID-19 and provides a pictorial view of the situation in front of the readers and viewers. The main objectives of these fearless journalistic works were to provide the public valuable authentic information, create awareness among the public, eliminate fake propaganda and fake news, highlight the problem face by the ordinary public, and to provide the government a medium to speak with the public for the public interest. Mass media served as a vital weapon to fight against COVID-19. The valuable information and instructions provided by mass media created awareness among the public and which played a major role to deescalate the graphical representation of active COVID-19 cases. The outbreak of COVID-19 and the dogmatic approaches of the mass media in the pandemic situation have recalled the concept of media as the third pillar of democracy.

Why Are American Presidential Election Campaign Polls So Variable When Votes Are So Predictable?

1993 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 409-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Gelman ◽  
Gary King
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Party Identification ◽  
Opinion Poll ◽  
Campaign Strategy ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Media ◽  
Opinion Polls ◽  
Presidential Election Campaign

As most political scientists know, the outcome of the American presidential election can be predicted within a few percentage points (in the popular vote), based on information available months before the election. Thus, the general campaign for president seems irrelevant to the outcome (except in very close elections), despite all the media coverage of campaign strategy. However, it is also well known that the pre-election opinion polls can vary wildly over the campaign, and this variation is generally attributed to events in the campaign. How can campaign events affect people's opinions on whom they plan to vote for, and yet not affect the outcome of the election? For that matter, why do voters consistently increase their support for a candidate during his nominating convention, even though the conventions are almost entirely predictable events whose effects can be rationally forecast?In this exploratory study, we consider several intuitively appealing, but ultimately wrong, resolutions to this puzzle and discuss our current understanding of what causes opinion polls to fluctuate while reaching a predictable outcome. Our evidence is based on graphical presentation and analysis of over 67,000 individual-level responses from forty-nine commercial polls during the 1988 campaign and many other aggregate poll results from the 1952–92 campaigns.We show that responses to pollsters during the campaign are not generally informed or even, in a sense we describe, ‘rational’. In contrast, voters decide, based on their enlightened preferences, as formed by the information they have learned during the campaign, as well as basic political cues such as ideology and party identification, which candidate to support eventually. We cannot prove this conclusion, but we do show that it is consistent with the aggregate forecasts and individual-level opinion poll responses. Based on the enlightened preferences hypothesis, we conclude that the news media have an important effect on the outcome of presidential elections – not through misleading advertisements, sound bites, or spin doctors, but rather by conveying candidates' positions on important issues.

scholarly journals Positive Discourse Analysis (PDA): Spells the dominant discourse by relating the basic issues of the case study

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
TIKADESTIANINDIA
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
The Third ◽  
Freedom Fighters ◽  
Respective Field ◽  
The Media ◽  
Society Perspective ◽  
Media Practices

PDA stands on the text and compares, which text is good and true or do well and get right in experts or society perspective. This research surveys design inisiates to see the strategies framing on marginal discourse in Russian mass mediamedia. This study found some problems related to the Russian-chech conflict. In this conflicte, this study reveals the framing of the media describe Russian people are the ones who violate human rights, while the Chech people are freedom fighters who are cracked down from the Russians. In the first examine the counter-discourse that occurs between the two countries, while in the second part of the case study survey illustrates some of the strategies used in some texts that pertain to mainstream discourse, and in the third section explains more generally as taken from lexicogrammographic analysis, media practices, cognitive linguistics and psychology such as radical reframing and strategies used therein. Related to this research, identifying reframing with the editor is selected for publication can guide academic who want publicized for media coverage in their respective field of expertise or other social problems that appear in the community.key word: PDA : Russian Problem

Het einde van het persbericht in zicht? Een analyse van persberichten en mediaberichtgeving in de verkiezingscampagne van 2012

2014 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Knut De Swert ◽  
Rens Vliegenthart ◽  
Stefanie de Ruiter
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Press Releases ◽  
Emotional Information ◽  
The Public ◽  
Electoral Campaign ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Logic ◽  
National Newspaper ◽  
Positive Factor

The end of press releases? An analysis of press releases and media coverage in the Dutch 2012 electoral campaign The end of press releases? An analysis of press releases and media coverage in the Dutch 2012 electoral campaign In recent years, social media like Facebook and Twitter have dramatically increased possibilities for politicians to communicate directly with the public. Does that mean they do not use the classical press release as a way of communicating? This study shows that press releases are still a well-used campaign tools in the Netherlands, although not all parties use them equally, and one (VVD) does not at all. Looking at factors determining the success of press releases (i.e. to get covered in a national newspaper in the Netherlands), we did not find evidence for elements of political logic (e.g. inclusion of policy texts) to decrease the success, and hardly any evidence for elements of the media logic (e.g. including personal or emotional information about the politician) to boost success of press releases. Only the use of horse race terms turns out to be positive factor. All in all, press releases are still alive, they do get covered in the media, and the factors determining their success remain largely unaccounted for.

Media Coverage of Immigration and White Partisanship

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marisa Abrajano ◽  
Zoltan L. Hajnal
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Democratic Party ◽  
Party Identification ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
The Public ◽  
Time Period ◽  
The Media

This chapter examines the role of news media in driving white fears regarding immigration. In particular, it explores the relationship between media coverage of immigration and aggregate shifts in white party identification. It first considers how the media influences public opinion before discussing the media's profit-driven incentives to frame immigration in a negative manner. Content analysis of immigration-related articles from the New York Times from 1980 to 2011 shows that when the issue of immigration is brought to the attention of the public, it is generally with an emphasis on the negative consequences of immigration. This negative coverage leads to important effects on white macropartisanship. Across this time period, the chapter finds that the reliance on the Latino threat narrative by the media is correlated with significant defection away from the Democratic Party along with increases in the proportion of the public that identifies as Republicans and Independents.

scholarly journals ‘They are just children!’ The Symbol of Childhood in Political Mobilization of Modern Russia

2021 ◽  
pp. 188-197
Author(s):  
Tat'yana Ryabova ◽  
Lyudmila Kleschenko
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Political Rhetoric ◽  
Political Mobilization ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One

The first part of the paper describes the theoretical aspects of the issues regarding the politicization of childhood. The authors demonstrate that the representation of childhood in political rhetoric, on the one hand, reflects the ideas about it existing in society, and on the other hand, is its significant forming factor. The second part provides the analysis of the symbol of childhood along with the media coverage of 2017—2019 protest movement in Russia. The third part provides for the study of public opinion on the participation of minors in politics and the use of the symbol of childhood by political actors, based on interviews conducted by the authors. The authors conclude that according to the public opinion there is a need for minors to participate in political life. At the same time, in the course of using the image of childhood by political actors, the majority of informants is aware of its manipulative nature.

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