A FrontPage Online News Analysis: An Opinion Mining Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Ogbuju ◽  
V. Yemi-Peters ◽  
T. Osumah ◽  
J. Agbogun ◽  
V. Ejiofor
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Opinion Mining ◽  
Online News ◽  
Bad News ◽  
Online Newspapers ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Analysis ◽  
Bowel Disorders ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Media Channels

The advent of the internet with its attendant democratization of data and deluge of information had given rise to the avalanche of news media agencies. These agencies publish news articles with varying emotional reports especially stories conveying bad sentiments to the public. As major news agencies operate micro-blogging websites and establish their presence on social media channels, the distribution of bad news increases. It has been shown that constant exposure to bad news presented in a body of texts, graphics, and videos/audios contribute to increase in high blood pressure, anxiety attacks, bowel disorders, stroke and/or heart failure. In this work, we presented a sentiment analysis framework to extract news articles from FrontPage of online newspapers and generate contextual wordlists to support positive news broadcasting. Using a set of 12 Nigerian online news channels, we employed a hybrid method of dictionary and corpus-based lexicon approaches to achieve the wordlist derivation. The result advocates for an alternative way of reporting negative news to reduce the adverse impact it has on the masses.

scholarly journals Julkinen kaivoskeskustelu diskursiivisena välienselvittelynä

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Veera Kangaspunta
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Online News ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Online Newspapers ◽  
The Public ◽  
Analytical Tools ◽  
Unique Part

The aim of this article is to approach one specific environmental topic and the public debate around this topic from a user-oriented perspective – through online news comments. The article analyses online news and comments sections from three Finnish online newspapers concerning the mining accident of Talvivaara company in November 2012. Discourse and discursive legitimation strategies are used as analytical tools with the focus of critical discourse analysis. The study aims to solve what kind of discourses the public debate contains and how these discourses are connected to certain legitimation strategies. In addition, the article also continues the conceptual deliberation about the concept of the public as a group of people participating in public discussion. The study shows that Talvivaara news and news comments consist four main strategies, authorization, rationalization, moral evaluations and mythopoiesis, used for legitimation, relegitimation and delegitimation. However, the parties differ in the way they utilize these strategies and different discourses. Consequently, online news commenting appears as a unique part of the public debate about the topic, rather than remaining marginal flaming. The users tend to absorb the role of the public as a part of the public showdown about the shared issue.

scholarly journals Social engineers and myth-busters: A comparative research on Lithuanian, Norwegian and Serbian language experts

2020 ◽  
pp. 292-344
Author(s):  
Vuk Vukotić
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Language Ideologies ◽  
Great Majority ◽  
Online News ◽  
The Other ◽  
Striking Similarity ◽  
The Public ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The One

This article compares the language ideologies of language experts (both academic and non-academic) in online news media in Lithuania, Norway and Serbia. The results will reveal that language is understood in diametrically opposed ways amongst Lithuanian and Serbian academic experts on the one, and Norwegian academic experts on the other hand. Lithuanian and Serbian academic experts are influenced by modernist ideas of language as a single, homogenous entity, whose borders ideally match the borders of an ethnic group. Norwegian academic experts function in the public sphere as those who try to deconstruct the modernist notion of language by employing an understanding of language as a cognitive tool that performs communicative and other functions. On the other hand, non-academic experts in all the three countries exhibit a striking similarity in their language ideologies, as the great majority expresses modernist ideals of language.

scholarly journals Corpus-based Comparative Study of Online News Reporting of the COVID-19 Outbreak in the Philippines and Malaysia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gio Eiron Villanueva
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Early Period ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Online News ◽  
Personal Hygiene ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
News Reporting ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Reports ◽  
The Government

When faced with new and threatening events like a global health crisis, the public tends to draw inferences from news media to make sense of the uncertainties of the situation. This study explores how online news media in the Philippines and Malaysia depicted the outbreak of COVID-19 during the early period of its spread. The study analyzes the discourse around the outbreak based on a large corpus of Facebook news posts between January and March 2020. Using a corpus-based approach called Keyness Analysis, salient themes & topics, and framings around the disease were identified and interpreted. The results show the differences in the reporting of the outbreak between the two countries. News reports in the Philippines depicted the disease in an enigmatic lens which explains the alarmist angle of news reports and the reassuring tone of the government, versus the war framing of Malaysian news that depicted the disease as an enemy to be fought and defeated. In reporting about the bid to contain the spread of the virus, Philippine news reports dealt mostly with the restrictions and regulations of movement while the Malaysian news covered more issues on personal hygiene and safety protocols. Lastly, concerns for Filipino seafarers and Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) that needs to be repatriated was a recurring theme in Philippine news reports regarding COVID-19, while concerns for the economy was prominent in the Malaysian news reports. The study therefore shows that the depiction of COVID-19 in Malaysia and the Philippines are shaped by each country’s present social and political conditions.

scholarly journals From the Deeming Rule to JUUL—US News Coverage of Electronic Cigarettes, 2015–2018

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (10) ◽  
pp. 1816-1822 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivia A Wackowski ◽  
Jennah M Sontag ◽  
Binu Singh ◽  
Jessica King ◽  
M Jane Lewis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Electronic Cigarettes ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
High Volume ◽  
The United States ◽  
Online News ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Sources ◽  
Over Time

Abstract Introduction News media may influence public perceptions and attitudes about electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes), which may influence product use and attitudes about their regulation. The purpose of this study is to describe trends in US news coverage of e-cigarettes during a period of evolving regulation, science, and trends in the use of e-cigarettes. Methods We conducted a content analysis of e-cigarette topics and themes covered in US news articles from 2015 to 2018. Online news databases (Access World News, Factiva) were used to obtain US news articles from the top 34 circulating newspapers, four national wire services, and five leading online news sources. Results The number of articles increased by 75.4% between 2015 and 2018 (n = 1609). Most articles focused on policy/regulation (43.5%) as a main topic, followed by health effects (22.3%) and prevalence/trends (17.9%). Discussion about flavor bans quadrupled (6.1% to 24.6%) and discussion of youth e-cigarette use was most prevalent (58.4%) in 2018, coinciding with an increase in coverage about JUUL. JUUL was mentioned in 50.8% of 2018 articles. Across years, articles more frequently mentioned e-cigarette risks (70%) than potential benefits (37.3%). Conclusions E-cigarettes continue to be a newsworthy topic, with coverage both reflecting numerous changes and events over time, and providing repeated opportunities for informing the public and policymakers about these novel products. Future research should continue to track how discourse changes over time and assess its potential influence on e-cigarette perceptions and policy changes. Implications E-cigarette news coverage in the United States increased between 2015 and 2018 and predominantly focused on policy and regulation. Notable spikes in volume were associated with some but not all major e-cigarette events, including the FDA’s deeming rule, Surgeon General’s report, and release of the National Youth Tobacco Survey data in 2018. Coverage of the 2018 National Academy of Medicine, Engineering, and Sciences report on the Public Health Consequences of E-cigarettes received minimal news coverage. The high volume in 2018 was driven in large part by coverage of the e-cigarette brand JUUL; over half of news articles in 2018 referenced JUUL specifically.

Presidential Leadership, the News Media, and Income Inequality

2017 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha ◽  
Ronald J. McGauvran
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
News Media ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Online News ◽  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
Network Television ◽  
Federal Policies ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Websites

Most research on media in the post-broadcast age of politics focuses on how media affect the public, not on the interinstitutional relationships between the presidency and news media. This study tackles this important topic by studying news coverage of and presidential attention to the issue of income inequality. We use web scraping and text analysis software to build a dataset of weekly news coverage from 1999 through 2013, across traditional and nontraditional media, including newspapers, broadcast and cable television transcripts, and online news websites. The data show that presidential attention to income inequality influences the income inequality news agenda across all sources except network television and affects the tone of newspaper coverage. Presidential influence of tone is especially pronounced on income inequality issues that have an international focus. The implications of this paper are significant not only for understanding how media and the presidency interact in the post-broadcast age but also for the prospects for federal policies that may combat income inequality.

scholarly journals Neuroendocrine Tumor Awareness Program in Taiwan

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement 2) ◽  
pp. 137s-137s
Author(s):  
S. Tsai
Keyword(s):  
Neuroendocrine Tumor ◽  
News Media ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Online News ◽  
Online Marketing ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Cancer Awareness ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Outdoor Advertising ◽  
The Public

Background and context: Neuroendocrine tumor (NET) is difficult to detect. It's often presented with symptoms common to other diseases. To raise awareness and improve the understanding of NET, the International Neuroendocrine Cancer Alliance (INCA) announced 10th November as the World NET Cancer Day. HOPE FOUNDATION for CANCER CARE has joined the advocacy events since 2011. Aim: To raise awareness and to improve the understanding of NET. Strategy/Tactics: To raise the awareness of the 10 symptoms of NET. To provide correct information about NET. To improve the understanding of NET. Program/Policy process: We held a series of campaigns in November 2017, including: theme decorations in 11 hospitals, 3 parades and shows at public places, a new animation with online marketing and outdoor advertising. By combining online and offline events, we have reached as many people as possible to increase the awareness and improve the knowledge of NET. We built the first as well as the only NET Mandarin Web site ( www.net.org.tw ) Outcomes: We cooperated with 11 hospitals in Taiwan to display educational posters and wall stickers. The information of NET cancers not only reached the public but also oncologists. This event had 3 newspaper reports and 16 online news reports. We conducted 3 educational parades and shows with zebra theme in three main cities in Taiwan. The parade in capital city Taipei gained total 86 reports including 71 online news media, 8 television channels and 7 newspapers. We cooperated with a celebrity artist to create a zebra mascot, which represents international symbol for NET. In addition, we created awareness lightbox advertising and animated video with the mascot to attract public attention and raise awareness of NET. This animated video was published on YouTube platform, and had 504,209 impressions and 208,427 views by 31st December 2017. Moreover, it was broadcasted on taxis in Taiwan as well. It was broadcasted 1,163,248 times during the promotion period. We also implemented an online advocacy plan through Facebook. This plan was designed with 4 posts, which contained a comic strip, an online memory game, a profile picture frame and an animated video. This plan totally had 332,625 impressions and reached 154,089 people on the Internet. What was learned: According to our experience with cancer patients, we realize that utilizing mascot characters to deliver educational information is more easily perceived by the public. This year we designed a new mascot of NET which was applied to animated video and outdoor advertising. Also, we conducted 3 educational parades with zebra theme and traditional Taiwanese features, which opened up a new dimension in advocacy for cancer awareness. Overall, these events received good response from the public and oncologists. The NET Mandarin Web site also showed a significant result with an increase of 98% of monthly page views and 69.7% of new visitors views.

scholarly journals Algorithms and the News: Social Media Platforms as News Publishers and Distributors

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-285
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Cetina Presuel ◽  
José Manuel Martínez Sierra
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Online News ◽  
Great Power ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Right To Information

With billons of users, social media platforms (e.g. Facebook) are dominant players in a highly-concentrated online news market. They have great power over the distribution of information to their users, and over the organizations and individuals that produce it. Social media platforms use algorithms to perform functions traditionally belonging to news editors: deciding on the importance of news items and how they are disseminated. However, they do not acknowledge the role they play in informing the public as traditional news media always have and tend to ignore that they also act as publishers of news and the responsibilities associated with that role. This paper argues that it is essential for social media platforms to understand and embrace their role as both news publishers and distributors and highlights the essential responsibilities they must undertake so they can satisfy the information needs of their audiences and protect the public’s right to information.

scholarly journals Viral News on the Coronavirus: Does it Contribute to Health Communication?

Tripodos ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (47) ◽  
pp. 49-66
Author(s):  
Rachel E. Khan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Health Communication ◽  
News Media ◽  
Online News ◽  
Online Media ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Sources

From a century to a decade ago, the news media played a crucial role in providing the public with valuable in­formation, especially during a crisis. However, the advent of social media has brought about a change in ac­cess and distribution of the news and this may have resulted in less effec­tive health communication during this global coronavirus pandemic. These days, social media can have a great­er public reach and therefore, be the best tool to disseminate information. At the same time, there is the ques­tion of whether the important or trivial information is being shared. The aim of this paper is to explore the role of social media in providing the public with important information during the height of the coronavirus pandemic. Using Great Britain as a case study, the research analysed the kind of content on the coronavirus that had gone vi­ral in online news sources in the Unit­ed Kingdom to determine whether the information that was being shared contributed or not to effective health communication. Keywords: news, viral news, online media, journalism, crisis communica­tion, coronavirus.

scholarly journals An exploration of the portrayal of the UK soft drinks industry levy in UK national newspapers

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (17) ◽  
pp. 3241-3249
Author(s):  
Gemma Bridge ◽  
Stuart W Flint ◽  
Ralph Tench
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Soft Drink ◽  
Individual Responsibility ◽  
Sugar Consumption ◽  
Sugar Sweetened Beverage ◽  
The Public ◽  
Reduce Sugar ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Media Channels

AbstractObjective:News media play a role in politics through the portrayal of policies, influencing public and policymaker perceptions of appropriate solutions. This study explored the portrayal of sugar and sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) taxes in UK national newspapers. Findings aid understanding of the role newspapers play in shaping understanding and acceptance of policies such as the UK Soft Drink Industry Levy (SDIL).Design:Articles discussing sugar or SSB taxes published in six UK national newspapers between 1 April 2016 and 1 May 2019 were retrieved from the LexisNexis database. Articles were thematically analysed to reveal policy portrayal.Setting/Participants:Analysis of UK newspaper articles.Results:Two hundred and eighty-six articles were assessed. Sugar and SSB taxes were discussed across the sample period but publication peaked at SDIL announcement and introduction. Themes were split according to support for or opposition to taxation. Supportive messaging consistently highlighted the negative impacts of sugar on health and the need for complex actions to reduce sugar consumption. Opposing messages emphasised individual responsibility for health and the unfairness of taxation both for organisations and the public.Conclusions:Sugar and SSB taxes received considerable media attention between 2016 and 2019. All newspapers covered arguments in support of and opposition to taxation. Health impacts of excess sugar and the role of the soft drink industry in reducing sugar consumption were prevalent themes, suggesting a joined-up health advocacy approach. Industry arguments were more varied, suggesting a less collaborative argument. Further research should investigate how other media channels portray taxes such as the SDIL.

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