scholarly journals Surveying the Landscape of Numbers in U.S. News

Numeracy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
John Voiklis ◽  
Jena Barchas-Lichtenstein ◽  
Elizabeth Attaway ◽  
Uduak Thomas ◽  
Shivani Ishwar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Information ◽  
Health Science ◽  
Quantitative Reasoning ◽  
Health Reporting ◽  
Topic Area ◽  
News Stories ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Single Dimension ◽  
Quantitative Content

The news arguably serves to inform the quantitative reasoning (QR) of news audiences. Before one can contemplate how well the news serves this function, we first need to determine how much QR typical news stories require from readers. This paper assesses the amount of quantitative content present in a wide array of media sources, and the types of QR required for audiences to make sense of the information presented. We build a corpus of 230 US news reports across four topic areas (health, science, economy, and politics) in February 2020. After classifying reports for QR required at both the conceptual and phrase levels, we find that the news stories in our sample can largely be classified along a single dimension: The amount of quantitative information they contain. There were two main types of quantitative clauses: those reporting on magnitude and those reporting on comparisons. While economy and health reporting required significantly more QR than science or politics reporting, we could not reliably differentiate the topic area based on story-level requirements for quantitative knowledge and clause-level quantitative content. Instead, we find three reliable clusters of stories based on the amounts and types of quantitative information in the news stories.

Analisis Penerapan Kode Etik Jurnalistik Pada Pemberitaan Pemindahan Ibu Kota Indonesia di Liputan6.com

Koneksi ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 215
Author(s):  
Wiwin Fitriyani ◽  
Ahmad Junaidi
Keyword(s):  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Freedom Of The Press ◽  
News Reporting ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Quantitative Content ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Right ◽  
Included Article

Freedom of the Press is the right to express, disseminate ideas, organize, and so forth. Freedom of the Press is based on the provisions made by the Press Council called the Journalistic Code of Ethics. The Journalistic Code of Ethics is the professional ethics of journalists. As the party that disseminates information to the public, journalists need to practice the provisions of the Journalistic Code of Ethics which consists of 11 articles, because various news reports that journalists report should have an impact on society. Then, one of the news that received more attention from the public, namely regarding the relocation of the Indonesian capital. At that time, the news received various responses from various parties. Therefore, various media are aggressively producing news related to this, such as Liputan6.com. In this study, the Journalistic Code of Ethics analyzed with the news included article 1, 2, and 3. The purpose of this study was to determine the application of the Journalistic Code of Ethics in reporting the removal of the Indonesian Capital City on Liputan6.com. Theories used include news reporting and the Journalistic Code of Ethics. Then, for the research method used, namely quantitative content analysis using coding sheets to process, and analyze the data. The results of this study indicate Liputan6.com has implemented a Journalistic Code of Ethics, although of the 55 news samples there are still 19 news that do not meet the element of balance.Kebebasan pers merupakan hak untuk berekspresi, menyebarluaskan gagasan, dan berorganisasi. Kebebasan pers dilandasi oleh ketentuan yang dibuat Dewan Pers yang disebut Kode Etik Jurnalistik. Kode Etik Jurnalistik adalah etika profesi wartawan. Sebagai pihak yang menyebarkan informasi kepada khalayak, jurnalis perlu mempraktikan ketentuan Kode Etik Jurnalistik yang terdiri dari 11 pasal. Hal ini karena berbagai berita yang jurnalis laporkan akan memberi dampak pada masyarakat. Salah satu pemberitaan yang mendapatkan perhatian lebih dari masyarakat, yaitu mengenai pemindahan ibu kota Indonesia. Pada saat itu, kabar tersebut mendapatkan berbagai respon dari berbagai pihak. Oleh karena itu, berbagai media gencar dalam memproduksi berita terkait hal tersebut, salahsatunya Liputan6.com. Pada penelitian ini, Kode Etik Jurnalistik yang dianalisis dengan pemberitaan tersebut, antara lain pasal 1, 2, dan 3. Tujuan dari penelitian ini ialah untuk mengetahui penerapan Kode Etik Jurnalistik pada pemberitaan pemindahan Ibu Kota Indonesia di Liputan6.com. Teori yang digunakan diantaranya pemberitaan, dan Kode Etik Jurnalistik. Metode penelitian yang dipakai yakni analisis isi kuantitatif dengan memakai lembar codinguntuk mengolah, dan menganalisis datanya. Hasil dari penelitian ini menunjukan Liputan6.com sudah menerapkan Kode Etik Jurnalistik, meskipun dari 55 sampel berita masih terdapat 19 berita yang tidak memenuhi unsur keberimbangan.

How to Report Quantitative Information in News Stories

2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Coy Callison ◽  
Rhonda Gibson ◽  
Dolf Zillmann
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Information ◽  
News Stories

Encoding polysemy in the news

Journalism ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 146488492110459
Author(s):  
Lillian Boxman-Shabtai
Keyword(s):  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
News Stories ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Media Audience

Although media-audience encounters are always potentially open to different interpretations, little is known about the textual mechanisms that encourage polysemy. Focusing on a story about a CEO who pledged to drastically cut his pay to increase his employees’ salaries, this study compared news reports that covered the same event but were met by different levels of polysemy in their reception. Through a combination of frame and semiotic analysis, the study pinpoints differences in content and style between news stories that were met by interpretive convergence from audiences (low polysemy) and those that were met by interpretive divergence (high polysemy). Based on these differences, a typology of three textual mechanisms is offered to explain the range of polysemy in the news: the attributes and representation of characters, the use of empiricism versus mythology in structuring conflict, and the level of closure versus uncertainty in the story’s conclusion.

Spiritualism and the Resurgence of Fake News

2020 ◽  
pp. 222-237
Author(s):  
Kristy A. Hesketh
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Fake News ◽  
News Stories ◽  
News Reports ◽  
The World ◽  
Spirit World ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
False News

This chapter explores the Spiritualist movement and its rapid growth due to the formation of mass media and compares these events with the current rise of fake news in the mass media. The technology of cheaper publications created a media platform that featured stories about Spiritualist mediums and communications with the spirit world. These articles were published in newspapers next to regular news creating a blurred line between real and hoax news stories. Laws were later created to address instances of fraud that occurred in the medium industry. Today, social media platforms provide a similar vessel for the spread of fake news. Online fake news is published alongside legitimate news reports leaving readers unable to differentiate between real and fake articles. Around the world countries are actioning initiatives to address the proliferation of false news to prevent the spread of misinformation. This chapter compares the parallels between these events, how hoaxes and fake news begin and spread, and examines the measures governments are taking to curb the growth of misinformation.

Statistical Literacy and Quantitative Reasoning

2019 ◽  
pp. 66-71
Author(s):  
Gail Burrill
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Information ◽  
Statistical Information ◽  
Quantitative Reasoning ◽  
National Council ◽  
Statistical Literacy ◽  
Process Information ◽  
Informed Decisions ◽  
Professional Perspective ◽  
Core Concepts ◽  
The Right

Given a world awash with data, students of today will be consumers of statistical information whatever their future. What can we do to make them critical consumers as articulated by researchers such as Gal and Steen and as suggested in the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Catalyzing Change, able to process information, ask the right questions and make informed decisions? This paper explores what it means to be statistically literate able to reason with quantitative information in today’s world and why it is important from both a personal and professional perspective. Examples from several fields illustrate features of essential core concepts that should be components of the curriculum for all students if we are to have statistically literate citizens capable of thinking and reasoning in quantitative situations. The discussion will also address some of the challenges we face in making this recommendation a reality.

Infanticide in 19th-Century England

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolá Goc
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Fallen Woman ◽  
News Stories ◽  
News Reports ◽  
News Discourse ◽  
The Times ◽  
History Of Journalism ◽  
Insight Into

Throughout the history of journalism the notion of a mother killing her infant child—committing an act of infanticide—has always been high on the news values scale. In the 19th century, sensational news reports of illicit sexual liaisons, of childbirth and grisly murder, appeared regularly in the press, naming and shaming transgressive unmarried women and framing them as a danger to society. These lurid stories were published in broadsheets and the popular press as well as in respectable newspapers, including the most influential English newspaper of the century, The Times of London. In 19th-century England, The Times played a powerful role in influencing public opinion on the issue of infanticide using lurid reports of infanticide trials and coronial inquests as evidence in stirring editorials as part of their political campaign to reform the 1834 New Poor Law and repeal its pernicious Bastardy Clause, which had led to a large increase in rates of infanticide. News texts, because of their ability to capture one view of a society at a given moment in time, are a valuable historical resource and can also provide insight into journalism practices and the creation of public opinion. Infanticide court and coronial news reports provided details of the desperate murderous actions of young women and also furnished potent evidence of legal and government policy failures. The use of critical discourse analysis (CDA) in studying infanticide reports in The Times provides insight into the ways in which infanticide news stories worked as ideological texts and how journalists created understandings about illegitimacy, the “fallen woman,” infanticide, social injustice, and discriminatory gendered laws through news discourse.

scholarly journals Profil Penalaran Kuantitatif Siswa SMP Ditinjau dari Gender

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-74
Author(s):  
Dzikra Fu'adiah
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Quantitative Information ◽  
Quantitative Reasoning ◽  
Male Participant ◽  
Female Participant ◽  
School Students ◽  
Ability Test ◽  
Geometry Method ◽  
Algebra Method

ABSTRAKPenelitian kualitatif deskriptif ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan profil penalaran kuantitatif siswa SMP ditinjau dari gender. Untuk mencapai tujuan tersebut, digunakan tiga instrumen, yaitu tes kemampuan matematika untuk menentukan subjek penelitian dan tugas penalaran kuantitatif dan pedoman wawancara untuk mengumpulkan data profil penalaran kuantitatif subjek penelitian. Profil penalaran kuantitatif ditinjau dari gender adalah sebagai berikut: (1) subjek perempuan dan subjek laki-laki memahami informasi kuantitatif dengan berbagai bentuk; (2) subjek laki-laki merumuskan persamaan dari hasil interpretasi informasi kuantitatif yang diberikan secara implisit; (3) dari hasil interpretasi, subjek perempuan menyebutkan terdapat dua kuantitas sedangkan subjek laki-laki menyebutkan terdapat tiga kuantitas yang terlibat dalam masalah soal dan keduanya menyebutkan beberapa hubungan kuantitas-kuantitas tersebut; (4) subjek perempuan menggunakan metode geometri dengan menerapkan suatu sifat, sedangkan laki-laki menggunakan metode aljabar dengan menyusun dan menyelesaikan suatu persamaan; (5) keduanya memperkirakan jawaban dan memeriksa kemasuk-akalannya dengan berbeda sesuai dengan metode yang digunakan; (6) keduanya mengkomunikasikan informasi kuantitatif secara lisan maupun tulisan; (7) kedua subjek mengenali keterbatasan metode yang digunakan dalam menyelesaikan soal.ABSTRACTThis research was a descriptive qualitative reseach. The research objectives were to describe profile of the quantitative reasoning of female and male junior high school students. To reach this objective, the reseacher employed three instruments, namely a mathematical ability test to determine participants and quantitative reasoning tasks and a interview guidance to collect data of profile of the quantitative reasoning of the students. Profile of the quantitative reasoning based on gender were: (1) the both of participants understand quantitative information given in various formats; (2) the male participant can formulate an equation as a product of interpreating quantitative information which given implicitly; (3) as a result of interpratation, the female participant said that there were two quantities, whereas the male participant said there were three quantities involved in a problem and both of them mentioned several relationships among the quantities; (4) the female employed the geometry method by applying the properties of parallel lines and a two-line intersection, whereas the male employed algebra method by formulating and solving an one-variable linear equation to solve a problem; (5) both of them estimated answers and checked its reasonableness in different ways appropriate to the method that each employed; (6) both of them communicated quantitative information in verbal and written ways; (7) both of participants recognised a limitation of each own method that they umployed to solve a problem.Quantitative Reasoning, Gender

scholarly journals Framing of immigrants and refugees : a content analysis of mainstream and partisan news coverage of immigration

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Haley Reed
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Immigrants And Refugees ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Quantitative Content ◽  
Muslim Immigration ◽  
Partisan News

This study examined the content that shaped people's perspective about Muslim immigration during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. A quantitative content analysis was performed to identify the primary and secondary frames in the sample of content and to identify if the members of the Islamophobia network were used as sources or mentioned in each selected story. The news articles with the highest engagement on Facebook about Muslim immigration from the first GOP debate on Aug. 5, 2015 to the inauguration of President Trump on Jan. 27, 2017 were analyzed using a content analysis tool, Buzzsumo. 50 news stories from 10 news outlets were analyzed. The news outlets consisted of mainstream, right-leaning and left-leaning partisan news outlets. Results showed that right-leaning news outlets were more likely to frame immigrants and refugees as a risk to Western society and America, while left-leaning news outlets framed immigrants and refugees in news stories regarding their human rights. The members of the Islamophobia network were not found as sources in the sample of content. Further research found the presence of the Islamophobia network in news articles that received lower Facebook engagement than articles included in this study. A call for further research between the connection of the Islamophobia network and politicians concludes this study.

scholarly journals Portrayal of civil and military leadership of Pakistan: Content analysis of Newspapers of UK and USA during PPP regimes

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 134-152
Author(s):  
Shahzad Ali ◽  
Ahmer Safwan ◽  
Muhammad Makkey Bhutta
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Print Media ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Military Leadership ◽  
Washington Post ◽  
Quantitative Content Analysis ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Quantitative Content

Civil and military leadership of Pakistan have always played tremendous role and formulating and executing different policies regarding every issue of state. The significance of mainstream print media cannot be neglected as it forms public option regarding civil and military institutions in all countries. There, the research has been designed to analyse portrayal of Pakistani civil and military leadership by four newspapers of UK and USA (Telegraph, Guardian, New York Times & Washington Post) during tenures of PPP (1995-1996 & 2008-2013). Quantitative content analysis has been adapted as research methodology to analyse features/articles, editorials and news stories in 9 major categories and 13 sub-categories with total 4053 published items in domain of civil & military leadership of Pakistan regarding different issues of the tenures of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP). Findings have divulged that British and American newspapers covered news stories against of military leadership of Pakistan especially in category of terrorism while greater pro-civilian coverage has been found in comparison of pro- military coverage in tenures PPP. Mr. Asif Ali Zardari has been covered with more negative representation before in power as compared to his regime as President of Pakistan. On the basis of cumulative representation in all categories, overall impression of Pakistan has been reflected negative and unfavourable in British and American Print Media.

The Bias of Provocation Narratives in International News

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 314-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandrine Boudana ◽  
Elad Segev
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North Korea ◽  
The United States ◽  
International News ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Political Bias ◽  
The Core ◽  
Quantitative Content ◽  
News Corpus ◽  
Global Threat

This paper explores how provocation narratives introduce political bias in international news. It is based on a two-step methodology. First, a network analysis of country co-mentions in American, British, French, and German news corpus shows that core countries (e.g., the United States) and their opponents (e.g., North Korea, Russia, Iran) are the most frequently cited in provocation narratives. Focusing on the case where provocation narratives are the most prominent, the Korean conflict, we then employ a quantitative content analysis to identify the relationships between the countries involved in news stories using provocation narratives, and the role played by the provocation in those news stories. Our findings show that bias is introduced in many instances where journalists, while repeatedly identifying one country, North Korea, as the provocateur, omit key information such as the reasons behind North Korea’s provocations or the identity of the provoked country. This indicates that provocation narratives adopt the core countries’ geopolitical views and portray their enemies as a global threat.

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