HEADLINE AND PHOTO PORTRAYALS OF RAPED PERSONS IN SELECT EDITIONS OF NIGERIAN DAILIES: A TEXTUAL ANALYSIS

Author(s):  
Emmanuel Idakwo ◽  
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Obuzor Mezewo ◽  

As a social plague that has been with mankind for all time, rape has left many stereotyped, stigmatised, and sometimes, irreparably damaged. The act is an evil that defies the age, race, location, and social status of its sufferers. Despite the heavy legal penalties that this crime attracts in many parts of the world, its occurrence has, nonetheless, been on the increase. Research reveals that many rape cases go unreported by their sufferers for fear of further harm from their attackers and for fear of stigma. In Nigeria, even when they are reported to the police, the authorities do too little to bring perpetrators to justice - a misnomer that gives the rapists more impetus to repeat their act. The few of these cases that are carried by the mass media, ostensibly, project the sufferers as hopeless and pitiable individuals, whose lives are ruined. Theoretically situated within the framing ideology, this paper adopted the textual analysis method to establish that Nigerian newspapers exploit the use of headlines and photos to re-victimise raped persons in the ways they are portrayed. Rather than ameliorate the effects of the evil done to such individuals, these texts present them and their loved ones as hopeless victims. This paper holds that rapists should be portrayed as the ones needing of pity and help. Although the paper agrees that both the rapist and the raped need dissimilar psychosocial (and medical) rehabilitations, it recommends that Nigerian newspapers should deemphasise angles that throw pity parties for those affected by the incidents, while the rapists should be projected as the real victims of themselves and of their acts.

INFORMASI ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 139
Author(s):  
Mubarok Mubarok ◽  
Diah Wulandari

In various parts of the world terror events and the perpetrators became news materialof interest to the media. The news about terrorism is also a part of the constructionprocess. It is no less important in the effort to eliminate terrorism in Indonesia is acounterterrorism movement that emphasizes aspects of prevention rather than theact of terror. This study aims to see how the mass media in Indonesia to constructcounterterrorism messages. The paradigm of this research is a constructivist paradigmthat differs from other paradigms in epistimology, ontology, axiology, and methodology.Framing analysis, as an analytical technique in this study, belongs to the paradigm ofconstructivism. This research uses framing analysis method of Pan and Kosicki. Theresults showed Framing Detik.com emphasized the news hardnews in the news ofterrorism during the year 2017. Metrotvnews.com put forward the testimony of thenews with resource persons manta perpetrators of terror as a counterterrorism effort.Kompas.com put forward the ofcial source of the police and BNPT in constructing themessage kontraterosime. Viva.co.id praised the police performance and emphasized theaspect of lone wolf (single terrorist) as the exception of structured terrorism handling  Di berbagai belahan dunia peristiwa teror dan pelakunya menjadi bahan berita yang menarik bagi media. Pemberitaan tentang terorisme juga merupakan bagian yang tidak terlepas dari proses konstruksi. Hal yang tidak kalah penting dalam upaya menghapus terorisme di Indonesia adalah gerakan kontraterorisme yang menekankan aspek pencegahan daripada penindakan terror. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk melihat bagaimana media massa di Indonesia melakukan konstruksi pesan kontraterorisme. Paradigma penelitian ini adalah paradigma konstruktivis yang berbeda dengan paradigma lain dalam hal epistimologi, ontology, aksiologi, dan methodology (Guba dan Lincoln 2005). Analisis framing, sebagai teknik analisis dalam penelitian ini, termasuk ke dalam paradigm konstruktivisme. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode analisis framing Pan dan Kosicki. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan Framing Detik.com menekankan pemberitaan hardnews dalam pemberitaan terorisme selama tahun 2017. Metrotvnews.com mengedepankan testimony pemberitaan dengan narasumber manta pelaku terror sebagai upaya kontraterorisme. Kompas.com mengedepankan sumber resmi dari kepolisian dan BNPT dalam mengkonstruksi pesan kontraterosime. Viva.co.id memuji kinerja kepolisian dan menekankan aspek lone wolf (teroris tunggal) sebagai pengecualian penangan terorisme yang terstruktur.


2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eko Wahyono ◽  
Rizka Amalia ◽  
Ikma Citra Ranteallo

This research further examines the video entitled “what is the truth about post-factual politics?” about the case in the United States related to Trump and in the UK related to Brexit. The phenomenon of Post truth/post factual also occurs in Indonesia as seen in the political struggle experienced by Ahok in the governor election (DKI Jakarta). Through Michel Foucault's approach to post truth with assertive logic, the mass media is constructed for the interested parties and ignores the real reality. The conclusion of this study indicates that new media was able to spread various discourses ranging from influencing the way of thoughts, behavior of society to the ideology adopted by a society.Keywords: Post factual, post truth, new media


Author(s):  
Fahira Fejzić Čengić

In our era, the epoch of the mass media, the simplest and the most complex knowledge and experience is being increasingly presented or jointly shaped by young journalists, junior editors or relatively young media owners. The state of youth generally corresponds with more insufficiently articulated bright and classic, literary and timeless knowledge. Furthermore, the state of youth, which dominates the mass media scene in our environment, does not have enough field of experience as important guideline of a good professionalism. In theory, good information is a result of three journalist’s experience: the experience of a specific message (event), the earlier experience and pervious level of education. Now, how to compensate the leak of one of those elements on everyday basis? I am going to analyse a very simple, generally known and very important example in the „world of life” – the matter of „weather forecast” or „weather information”. It is becoming important yet even more sensational. For media credibility, even regarding this information, the classic and background knowledge is exceedingly important in addition to modern views „through telescopes-satellites”.


2017 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 133-148
Author(s):  
Jolanta Jabłońska-Bonca

“THE EFFECT OF AUREOLE” AND “EFFECT OF PARTICIPATION” IN THE LIGHT OF INDEPENDENCE OF LAWYERS-SCIENTISTSThe purpose of the text is to signal the need to investigate the conditions for the preserva­tion of the independence of lawyers who practice and simultaneously engage in science. Research independence is understood in the text as loyalty to the principles of methodology and ethics of research. There have been, and will be, lawyers-scientists who are creative, well-skilled to do re­search, and also autonomous, capable of criticizing the status quo, striving for truth no matter what the consequences. In the 21st century, being in such aposition is getting harder and harder. This is due to the fact that many lawyers-scientists concurrently perform important social and occupational roles besides scientific research. The article focuses on two examples of conditions that hinder the preservation of independence and entice lawyers-scientists into the world of politics and ideology. It is: a the activity of lawyers-scientists in the mass media and the consequences of the so-called “aureole effect”, as well as b the “dual occupancy” and the meaning of “participation effect”.


Author(s):  
Avaz Khamitovich Mirzajonov ◽  

The article is devoted to the analysis of changes in the communication processes of the late XX - early XXI centuries, reflecting the powerful impact on the real life of modern mass media, the problems associated with understanding media text in the condition of Mass Media convergence, clarifying the role of the Mass Media in forming society and individual recognition and how far their influence extends on modern man.


Res Publica ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-193
Author(s):  
Jos Bouveroux

During the last years the mass media have paid less and less attention to parliamentary activities. That is so because the real decision making, the real power, has shifted from the legislature to the executive. There are also other reasons for the declining interest in parliament: its complicated functioning, the limited interest of parliament in topical subjects, the often lengthy and technical debates.  Parliament and mass media could, however, try to bridge the gap between eachother, e.g. by broadcasting special programmes on parliamentary activities.  This might give the parliament a chance to reconquer a portion of its lost power.  However, it remains to be proved that there is a genuine political willingness to restore the legislature as the dominant political power centre. The mass media cannot and may not be a party to this conflict. They can only be a tool.


2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (Special Issue) ◽  
pp. 138-151
Author(s):  
Farah Ayuni Mohd Husni ◽  
Rahmah Ahmad H. Osman ◽  
Nurhaziqah Fadzli ◽  
‘Aqilah Mohd Noor

As time passed, Arabic Language has become a worldwide language which it has become one of the five most spoken language in the world. Among them is Malaysia, where Arabic Language is widely taught in schools and universities. Especially we can see the widespread use of Arabic Language in the mass media of Malaysia and constantly relate with religious content especially Islamic content. This study’s aims are to highlight the contributions of Arabic Language in Islamization of mass media in Malaysia. In the end, the results showed that Arabic Language indeed is one of the main reasons for the islamisation in Malaysia with emergence of Javanese writing, and the use of Arabic Language on television for Islamic shows and so on.


Author(s):  
Brian Tochterman

Assessing the landscape since the 1960s in the pages of Dissent, Marshall Berman noted that “things that happen in New York are beamed instantly all over America, indeed, the world, thanks to all the mass media that are located here. Facts become symbols instantly—often long before they are understood.” During the urban crisis, “New York came to symbolize ‘urban violence.’” These words appeared in the Fall 1987 issue, “In Search of New York,” after ten years of postcrisis restructuring under Mayor Edward Koch. ...


2012 ◽  

This volume completes the valuable work of cataloguing carried out on the correspondence of Giuseppe Dessí conserved in the 'Alessandro Bonsanti' contemporary archive of Florence. The research, launched by Chiara Andrei in 2003 with the edition of the Corrispondenze familiari (Firenze University Press) and continued in 2009 by Francesca Nencioni with the publication of Lettere di amici e lettori (Firenze University Press), has its third result in this work by Francesca Nencioni, who has indexed the unpublished editorial and professional material, providing it with exhaustive references. The letters make it possible to trace a profile of the writer from his youth through to the 70s, illustrating the historic, political and cultural backdrop against which the events and activities of both his first and second profession developed. This casts light not only his complex professional career, but also on Dessí's collaboration with newspapers and journals, his relations with publishers and his contacts with the world of the mass media. Of particular importance is the appendix of unpublished letters, meticulously edited by Monica Graceffa, comprising the correspondence with two seminal journals of the 1930s and 40s «L'Orto» and «Primato». In the background are the figures of Bottai and Vecchietti and the complex coexistence between the intellectuals of the time and the regime.


Politeja ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 12 (2 (34/1)) ◽  
pp. 215-228
Author(s):  
Marina Tereszczuk

Media Aspects of Nation Branding: Challenges for Ukraine Developing coherent and comprehensive nation brand is of vital importance for Ukraine today. Building the strong nation brand requires active use of available tools and resources, amongst which one of the key places is occupied by the mass media. This article explores how Ukraine uses the trans-border media to create and represent self-image for the world. The mass media (such as television and internet) as well as governmental websites that are focused on promoting the image (brand) Ukraine abroad were analyzed. This paper concentrates on the key problems and disadvantages of this practice.


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