scholarly journals Critical thinking of young citizens towards news headlines in Chile

Comunicar ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (54) ◽  
pp. 101-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthieu Vernier ◽  
Luis Cárcamo ◽  
Eliana Scheihing
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
News Media ◽  
Data Science ◽  
Online News ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Social Mobilization ◽  
Brand Name ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
News Headlines

Strengthening critical thinking abilities of citizens in the face of news published on the web represents a key challenge for education. Young citizens appear to be vulnerable in the face of poor quality news or those containing nonexplicit ideologies. In the field of data science, computational and statistical techniques have been developed to automatically collect and characterize online news media in real time. Nevertheless, there is still not a lot of interdisciplinary research on how to design data exploration platforms supporting an educational process of critical citizenship. This article explores this opportunity through a case study analyzing critical thinking ability of students when facing news dealing with the social mobilization “No+APF”. From data collected through 4 online exercises conducted by 75 secondary school students, 55 university students and 25 communication specialists, we investigate to what extent young citizens are able to classify news headlines and ideological orientation of news media outlets. We also question the influence of the media’s brand name and the subjectivity of each participant in regards to the social mobilization “No+APF”. The results underline the importance of group work, the influence of the brand name and the correlation between criticalthinking abilities and having a defined opinion. Fortalecer el pensamiento crítico de ciudadanos frente a noticias de Internet representa un desafío educativo clave. Los jóvenes ciudadanos parecen vulnerables frente a noticias de mala calidad u orientaciones ideológicas poco explícitas. Desde la ciencia de datos se desarrollan técnicas informáticas y estadísticas para recopilar prensa digital en tiempo real y caracterizarla automáticamente. Sin embargo, existe poca investigación interdisciplinar para diseñar plataformas de exploración de datos al servicio de un proceso educativo de ciudadanía crítica. Este artículo investiga esa oportunidad, mediante un estudio de caso en Chile que analiza la capacidad crítica del alumnado frente a noticias de un hecho social relevante: la movilización social «No+AFP». A partir de cuatro tareas en línea ?realizadas por 75 estudiantes de secundaria, 55 estudiantes universitarios y 25 especialistas en comunicación? preguntamos en qué medida los jóvenes son capaces de calificar titulares de prensa y orientaciones ideológicas de medios de comunicación. Por otra parte, analizamos la influencia de la marca del medio y de la subjetividad que, frente al movimiento social «No+AFP», imprime cada participante al pensamiento crítico. Los resultados obtenidos destacan la relevancia del trabajo en grupo, la influencia de la marca del medio de prensa y la correlación entre tener una opinión definida y la capacidad crítica.

Resisting Political Fragmentation on the Internet

Daedalus ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 140 (4) ◽  
pp. 108-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Kelly Garrett ◽  
Paul Resnick
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Online News ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Political Fragmentation ◽  
Software Designers ◽  
The Face ◽  
Desirable Behavior ◽  
Partisan News

Must the Internet promote political fragmentation? Although this is a possible outcome of personalized online news, we argue that other futures are possible and that thoughtful design could promote more socially desirable behavior. Research has shown that individuals crave opinion reinforcement more than they avoid exposure to diverse viewpoints and that, in many situations, hearing the other side is desirable. We suggest that, equipped with this knowledge, software designers ought to create tools that encourage and facilitate consumption of diverse news streams, making users, and society, better off. We propose several techniques to help achieve this goal. One approach focuses on making useful or intriguing opinion-challenges more accessible. The other centers on nudging people toward diversity by creating environments that accentuate its benefits. Advancing research in this area is critical in the face of increasingly partisan news media, and we believe these strategies can help.

La educación financiera, la BNCC y el currículo: contextos y desafíos de las escuelas públicas brasileñas

2021 ◽  
pp. 79-115
Author(s):  
Alessandra Camargo Godoi ◽  
Sandra Zita Silva Tiné
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Financial Education ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Term Effect ◽  
Medium Term ◽  
Brazilian Government ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Education In Brazil

Financial education has gradually been extending its reach, upported through the efforts of the Brazilian government and organized civil society, in the face of the social and economic challenges besetting the world. Like any educational process, financial education requires planning, engagement and mobilization, even considering that the results do not necessarily have a short- or medium-term effect. Considering the trajectory of financial education in Brazil, this text aims to discuss it within an educational context and describe its trajectory up to incorporation into the National Common Curricular Base (BNCC), highlighting its recognition in this important and most current curricular document in Brazilian education.

scholarly journals The TV contents and the social control of its quality: the weblogs, a new interactive tool

Comunicar ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (25) ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco-Javier Ruiz-San-Miguel ◽  
Sonia Blanco
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobilization ◽  
Emergent Phenomenon ◽  
The Social ◽  
Tv Media ◽  
The Face ◽  
Sociedad Civil ◽  
Hierarchical Communication ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Source Of Information

Nowadays the tv media are in the face of an emergent phenomenon as it is the appearance of a new no organic lobby that questions the veracity of the television contents exercising at the time a strong quality control on the same ones. It is the new inspection of the interactive screen (computer-internet) above the directive screen (television). That that up to now was a passive viewer, subject of a vertical and hierarchical communication, passes to be involved in the information that receives and also becomes creator of contents, correcting and questioning the credibility of traditional television means and getting at the time a high influence level. Examples of this influence would be the recent resignations of two important American communicators as Dan Rather, consecrated journalist newsreader in the channel 'CBS', and Eason Jordan, director of information of the 'CNN' until his resignation. Both withdrawals were caused basically by the social mobilization taken place in a new generation that, from the blogosphere, makes hear its voice. The disorganization of this new influence group in the civil society, far from supposing an obstacle, guarantees in certain way its independence, in front of other organizations and viewers' associations whose effectiveness could be questioned bearing in mind the current situation of the television contents. The present television faces the challenge than means the level of exigency from a new generation of spectators for who, they are no longer the main source of information, but only a member more of an universe of global communication multi-screen and therefore will have to fight for their primacy in a world in which the user have the opportunity to access to a very superior informative offer, even changing from passive receiver to emitting agent able to carry out an interesting work facing the control of quality of the audio-visual products that spread from the different commercial and/or public broadcasters. El pasado año, el Instituto Nacional del Consumo realizó un sondeo sobre los hábitos de consumo de la televisión y de nuevas tecnología de la infancia y la juventud que desvelaba datos tan significativos como que el consumo solitario de la televisión se va consolidando, frente al tradicional consumo en familia. Así mismo destacaba el hecho de que la ausencia (o escasa presencia) de una programación infantil dirigida específicamente a la infancia, no impide que los niños se estrenen como «consumidores» de televisión a edades muy tempranas: la mayoría entre los 2 y los 3 años. Por otro lado, en las Jornadas de Política y Periodismo llevadas a cabo en la ciudad de Estepona el pasado 13 de julio, se destacó el hecho de que hay una franja de edad entre los 17 y 25 años para quienes la televisión se ha convertido en un medio marginal como fuente de información. En este marco, parece adecuado cuestionarse la calidad de los contenidos televisivos y como los receptores de esos contenidos puede influir en ellos con algo más que con unos determinados índices de audiencia que, salvo excepciones, en nada se corresponden con los criterios de calidad exigibles a un servicio público. Por ello, en este artículo se verá cómo en la actualidad los medios televisivos se encuentran ante un novedoso fenómeno emergente: la aparición de un nuevo lobby no orgánico que cuestiona la veracidad de sus contenidos, ejerciendo de esta manera un fuerte control de calidad sobre los mismos. Es la nueva fiscalización de la pantalla interactiva (ordenador-internet), sobre la pantalla directiva (televisión). Lo que hasta ahora era un telespectador pasivo, sujeto a una comunicación vertical y jerarquizada, está pasando a involucrarse en la información que recibe y además se convierte en creador de contenidos, corrigiendo y cuestionando la credibilidad de medios televisivos tradicionales y consiguiendo al tiempo un elevado nivel de influencia. Ejemplos de dicha presión serían las recientes dimisiones de dos importantes comunicadores estadounidenses como Dan Rather, consagrado periodista presentador de informativos en la cadena CBS, y Eason Jordan, director de información de la CNN hasta su retirada. Ambos abandonos fueron provocados básicamente por la movilización social producida en una nueva generación que, desde la blogosfera hace oír su voz. La desestructuración de este nuevo grupo de influencia en la sociedad civil, lejos de suponer un obstáculo, garantiza en cierto modo su independencia, frente a otras organizaciones y asociaciones de telespectadores cuya efectividad podría ser cuestionada a tenor de la situación actual de los contenidos televisivos. La televisión actual se enfrenta hoy día al reto de asumir una nueva generación de espectadores, para quienes ya no es su única fuente de información, sino sólo un miembro más de un universo de comunicación global multipantalla, y por tanto tendrá que luchar por su primacía en un mundo en el que el usuario accede a una oferta informativa muy superior, incluso mutando de receptor pasivo a agente emisor capaz de desempeñar una interesante labor de cara al control de calidad de los productos audiovisuales que se difunden desde las diferentes emisoras comerciales y/o públicas.

scholarly journals From robots to social robots. Trends, representation and Facebook engagement of robot-related news stories published by Italian online news media

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Righetti ◽  
Marco Carradore
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Online News ◽  
Social Robots ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Social Relevance ◽  
News Stories ◽  
The Social ◽  
Major Interest ◽  
Over Time

In recent decades, robots, social robots and artificial intelligence have increasingly entered daily life, affirming their presence not only in traditional spheres such as industrial production, but also gaining access to social reproduction, expressive functions and domestic activities. Considering the social relevance robots have now acquired, this essay aims at investigating their cultural representations in Italian online news media. More specifically, the study investigates trends of robot-related topics in online newspaper coverage and Facebook engagement over time, and analyzes news topics through text mining techniques. The study relies on a dataset of about 3,000 news stories published between 2014 and 2018 by some 100 different Italian news media. Results show a constant increase in news relating to robots, a major interest in work issues and a thematic shift over time: more recent topics describe the social-reproduction functions of robots. Finally, some suggestions for future research are outlined.

scholarly journals Movilización social y determinantes sociales de la salud: proceso educativo en comunidad rural de Jalisco, MéxicoSocial mobilization and social determinants of health: educational process in rural community of Jalisco, Mexico

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (46) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Laureano Eugenio ◽  
Martha Leticia Mejía Mendoza ◽  
Isabel Valadez Figueroa ◽  
José Mario Márquez Amezcua
Keyword(s):  
Rural Community ◽  
Social Determinants ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Social Mobilization ◽  
Primary Group ◽  
Educational Work ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
The Social ◽  
Group 3

El artículo describe proceso y resultados de trabajo educativo en comunidad rural, sustentado en la educación popular. Ello como estrategia para lograr la movilización social e incidir en los determinantes sociales del contexto. Consistió en cuatro etapas: 1. conocimiento de la comunidad, 2. conformación de grupo primario, 3. movilización social con integración de comisiones de trabajo, 4. crecimiento del proceso con distintas modalidades de participación. El modelo educativo, a tres años de trabajo, ofrece la posibilidad de lograr la movilización social a manera de demanda pública organizada hacia organismos e instituciones de salud, educación y desarrollo social, con el empoderamiento comunitario y fortalecimiento del entramado social para incidir en los determinantes sociales.AbstractThe article describes the process and results of educational work in rural community, based on the popular education, as a strategy for achieving the social mobilization and influence on the social determinants of context. Consisted of four stages: 1. Knowledge of the community, 2. Formation of Primary Group, 3. Social mobilization with integration of working commissions, 4. Growth process with different modalities of participation. The educational model, to three years of work, offers the possibility of achieving social mobilization by way of public demand toward organized agencies and institutions of health, education, and social development with the community empowerment and strengthening the social fabric to make an impact on the social determinants.

scholarly journals Social Perceived Value on Social Media and Online News Portal: Benefits to The Aborigines Women in Malaysia

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (04) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Hasmah Zanuddin ◽  
Nursyamira Shaid
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Perceived Value ◽  
Internet Access ◽  
Online News ◽  
Orang Asli ◽  
The Social

Online news media and social media applications recorded an unprecedented success in just few of the recent years. However, online news media and social media domain are still little understood in term of usage among aborigines or Orang Asli in Malaysia. Thus, this research is to see the social perceived value on social media and online news portal among Orang Asli. A quantitative research design is used based on data will be collected via questionnaire from Orang Asli at Kampung Batu 12, Gombak, Selangor, at the outskirt of Kuala Lumpur. Questionnaires were distributed to 50 Orang Asli aged 15 and above. Factor analysis was used to examined the data. Exploratory factor analysis was used to extracts new factor, Online media usage impact. The social values perceived (16 items) factor was examined. After identifying the component based on an examination of eigenvalues and scree plot, rotation was done by varimax method. The items with 0.5 loadings or greater are considered practically significant.  The findings showed that most of the Orang Asli gathered current information and news from the social media and social media is the gateway to online news portal. Furthermore, despite of financial circumstances, they willing to spend in order to have the internet access as it gave positive social values in their life, plus the applications internet access were all user friendly.

scholarly journals SOCIAL ACTOR REPRESENTATION ANALYSIS ON THE JAKARTA POST ONLINE NEWS OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 56
Author(s):  
Nuri Hidayatus Sholihah ◽  
Agwin Degaf
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Online News ◽  
Social Actor ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Post Online ◽  
Identification Strategy

<p>Social actor representation (SAR) is an interesting topic to be analyzed. Through the analysis of the social actor in the news, it invites readers to have critical thinking. In this research, the social actors proposed are the two pair candidates of the 2019 presidential election; Jokowi- Ma’ruf and Prabowo- Sandi. The research has consisted of two research questions. First is, how are the exclusion strategy used in the Jakarta Post online news to represent the social actor. Second is how are the inclusion strategy used in the Jakarta Post online news to represent the social actor. By using the theory of Van Leeuwen (2008), the result of this research shows that the journalist of the Jakarta Post mostly used inclusion strategy rather than the exclusion strategy.The identification strategy is mostly used to get support from the public. The identification is practical in figuring out and portraying a social actor. Journalists represent related to the identity that exists in a figure. The portrayal of the social actors through the identity attached to them can certainly invite more attention to readers.</p>

scholarly journals A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF LANGUAGE USE ON FACEBOOK: A STUDY OF PREMIUM TIMES NEWS HEADLINES

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Bossan ◽  
Gideon Abioye Oyedeji
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Online News ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
National Unity ◽  
Strategic Plans ◽  
The Social ◽  
News Headlines

Attaining national unity and cohesion is a function of deliberate strategic plans of different facets of human endeavour in a nation. The language front has important role to play in fostering national unity and cohesion in any country. The Nigeria and Africa situation is not an exception. The chaos and rivalry that have become an intrinsic experience for us in Nigeria and in fact, Africa is partly a function of careless and unchecked language use in the social media. This paper, therefore, explores the use and misuse of language on social media. The study examines the comments of Facebook users to online news headlines posted on Premium Times Facebook handle. A corpus of a week screenshot samples of these comments are collected out of which nine (9) were purposively selected for the analysis. These nine (9) data are grouped into five (5) texts. The selected data were analysed using Dell Hymes’ Ethnography of Speaking complemented by Theo van Leeuwen’s Identities and Subjectivity Model of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). The paper uses the SPEAKING acronym as the theoretical insight and discussion was based on the postulations of the CDA model adopted. The study found that the responses from readers are mostly tilting towards their individual affiliations. Also, instances of arguments and rebuttals by readers reflect a situation where the polarity tilts in bidirectional positive in-group - “us” and negative out-group – “them” among the different affiliations the users represent. The study further found that copious use of vulgar expressions pervades the comments of readers. This study therefore concludes that such use of language cannot help Nigeria and Africa in its quest for unity. The study recommends that media literacy be taught in schools in order to entrench civility in the discussions of people on social media.

Shocking secret you won’t believe! Emotional arousal in clickbait headlines

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (7) ◽  
pp. 1136-1150
Author(s):  
Supavich (Fone) Pengnate
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Emotional Arousal ◽  
Online News ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Pupillary Dilation ◽  
Initial Attempt ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Unobtrusive Measure ◽  
Tracking Device ◽  
News Headlines

Purpose Clickbait has become a popular strategy for attracting online users by enticing them to follow the link to a particular website to read further. The purpose of this paper is to fill a gap in the literature by providing empirical evidence of how clickbait headlines affect online users’ emotional and behavioral responses, specifically emotional arousal and intention to read news. In addition, it is an early attempt to examine pupillary dilation response as an indicator of emotional arousal in the online news context. Design/methodology/approach An experiment was conducted primarily to examine the levels of emotional arousal evoked by two treatment groups of online news headlines, news and clickbait, compared to a neutral control group. Emotional arousal was assessed using two approaches – pupillary dilation response recorded by an eye-tracking device and the Self-Assessment Manikin (SAM) – and the results were compared. The influence of emotional arousal on intention to read news was hypothesized and tested. Findings The level of emotional arousal evoked by the headlines varies. In general, clickbait headlines generate a higher level of emotional arousal than do the neutral headlines but a lower level than the news headlines. The results also indicate that the level of emotional arousal measured by pupillary dilation response and by SAM are somewhat consistent. Emotional arousal appears to be a significant predictor of intention to read news. Originality/value This study is an initial attempt to investigate how clickbait headlines influence online users’ perceptions and responses, which will be of interest to researchers and news media publishers. The current study also provides evidence for adopting pupillary dilation response, an unobtrusive measure of emotional response, as an alternative methodology for future studies that investigate emotional arousal related to textual information in the online news context.

scholarly journals Emotive Language in Online News: The Case of Awani News Channel

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-133
Author(s):  
Hamdi Khalis Kadri ◽  
Nidana Yahya ◽  
Farahnaz Khalib
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Mass Number ◽  
Online News ◽  
News Article ◽  
News Reporting ◽  
The Social ◽  
Newspaper Reporting ◽  
The Subject ◽  
News Writing

Employing emotive words in news writing is one of the most common strategies in today’s newspaper reporting. Emotive words are usually used in writings to evoke readers’ emotion on the subject. It is important for a reader to be aware of this phenomenon so they would not be easily manipulated by provoking news articles. However, in Malaysia where the news media is still being controlled strictly by regulations and ethics, are emotive words the commonly employed strategy by journalists? This study intends to discover the usage of emotive words in news reporting in Awani News. The data for this study are the ‘viral’ news articles on one of the social media, Twitter. The tweets with mass number of engagements were taken and the article from the link attached with those tweets were analysed. From the analysis, the researcher found that generally, Awani News was able to keep their objectivity in reporting the news article but not in the headlines. However, there were also some instances where the news channel used emotive words heavily in their news reporting. Out of 14 news articles analysed, there were 13 headlines that contained emotive words/phrases and 32 emotive words/phrases within the news articles. But, the employment of emotive words in the news articles is not even as there are news articles that have 9 emotive words/phrases and there are also news articles that do not contain any of them.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document