‘The Most Successful Writer of the Netherlands’

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sander Bax
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Literary Field ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Media

Since the success of his bestseller novel The Dinner in 2009, Dutch literary writer Herman Koch has been branded as ‘the most successful writer of the Netherlands’. In his media coverage, we encounter a narrative about his career that has all the characteristics of the ‘success myth’ of the contemporary celebrity. What can the construction of Koch’s success myth tell us about the norms that actors and institutions of the public media use when they talk about literature? How do Koch and his critics deal with the tension between different ways of contributing value in the literary field? And does Pierre Bourdieu’s conceptualization of the ‘economic world reversed’ still suffice to describe the distribution of capital in today’s literary fields?

Stakeholder group influence on media reputation in crisis periods

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 322-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Vogler ◽  
Mario Schranz ◽  
Mark Eisenegger
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Single Item ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Crisis Period ◽  
The Public ◽  
Stakeholder Groups ◽  
Public Media ◽  
Media Reputation ◽  
The Impact

Purpose – The concept of media reputation is a well-documented field in communication research. However, it often remains unclear how the process of reputation formation takes place exactly. The purpose of this paper is to analyze which stakeholder groups are the driving forces in the process of reputation constitution of the Swiss banking industry and how it was affected by the financial crisis in 2008. Design/methodology/approach – Given that mass media are the main source of information about an organization in crisis for the public, media reputation serves as a valuable concept for analyzing the effects of crises on organizations. This study is therefore based on a content analysis of Swiss newspapers published between 2004 and 2010. Findings – Data shows that the influence of political stakeholder groups on media reputation of Swiss banks is higher in times of crisis. In addition the focus in media coverage changes from economic topics in pre-crisis period to social topics in crisis period. The increased importance of political stakeholder groups and social topics in crisis lead to a more negative and less controllable media reputation. Originality/value – This study aims at a better understanding of the impact of stakeholder groups on corporate media reputation in crises. Instead of defining reputation as a single item this approach allows a more differentiated analysis of the process of reputation constitution.

Public Media Coverage of Rare Diseases and Disorders

2020 ◽  
pp. 179-199
Author(s):  
Yolanda Berdasco-Gancedo
Keyword(s):  
Rare Diseases ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Health Condition ◽  
Great Effort ◽  
The Public ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
Radio Broadcasting ◽  
Public Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
High Level

Rare diseases and disorders are, as the names suggest, a strange or unusual health condition, and so the coverage given by the media is not as extensive as it could be. However, researchers point out that this situation is changing little by little, and there is now more information about those who suffer from these conditions, and their experience. It is quite interesting to see how the public media, especially in the case of Spain, are making a great effort to give a voice and space to people affected by such diseases. In the case of public media, there are many other aspects to be considered. Firstly, the Spanish Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Televisión Española (RTVE) is not tied to private finance. Secondly, these channels are expected to be more independent and, subsequently, there may be no additional pressure to reach high audience share or obtain external funding from private media companies. This is especially interesting in the case of radio broadcasting, as it tends to be a medium with a high level of credibility, and closeness to the audience.

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.

Influence of content, events and culture on the public discourse about medical genetics in Switzerland – A quantitative media content analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-106
Author(s):  
Bettina Maria Zimmermann ◽  
Steffen Kolb ◽  
Fabian Zimmermann ◽  
Bernice Simone Elger ◽  
David Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Print Media ◽  
Medical Genetics ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Media Content Analysis ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Media ◽  
News Agencies ◽  
French Speaking

Medical genetics is a broad and expanding field with many important implications for society, but knowledge about media coverage of this topic from recent years is lacking. This study aims to identify topics in medical genetics emerging in print media coverage in Switzerland by quantitatively analysing their occurrence in the public media discourse and assessing culturally conditioned differences between two Swiss language regions. We conducted a quantitative media content screening of print media and news agencies in the German- and French-speaking regions of Switzerland, and eight topics were identified. They demonstrate the large variety of topics in medical genetics present in public discourse. Coverage was dominated by legislative voting on genetics issues and by the preventive surgeries of the Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie. We found only small differences between the language regions, and coverage was strikingly similar for most variables.

Sport-Related-Concussions Pilot Study: Athletic Training Students’ Media Use and Perceptions of Media Coverage

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-94
Author(s):  
Tywan G. Martin ◽  
Jessica Wallace ◽  
Young Ik Suh ◽  
Kysha Harriell ◽  
Justin Tatman
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Athletic Training ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy ◽  
American Football ◽  
Athletic Training Students ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Media

The purpose of this study was to examine athletic training students’ media consumption to advance our understanding of the role the media play in reported incidences of sport-related concussion (SRC) and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in American football and how media coverage of those injuries may potentially influence public perception. Participants who consumed more hours of television per day were more likely to disagree with the statements that reporting on SRC has helped to accurately educate the public, H(2) = 11.06, p = .01, and that reporting on CTE has helped to accurately educate the public, H(2) = 8.67, p = .01. Respondents who consumed more hours of Internet per day were more likely to disagree with the statements that accurate terminology is used to report SRC, H(2) = 7.78, p = .02, and that reporting of SRCs has helped to accurately educate the public, H(2) = 8.27, p = .02.

scholarly journals Writing for Impact in Service Research

2021 ◽  
pp. 109467052110247
Author(s):  
Chahna Gonsalves ◽  
Stephan Ludwig ◽  
Ko de Ruyter ◽  
Ashlee Humphreys
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Service Research ◽  
Text Analytics ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Public ◽  
Academic Advancement ◽  
Formidable Challenge ◽  
Public Media ◽  
Academic Publications ◽  
Article Impact

For service researchers, contributing to academic advancement through academic publications is a raison d’être. Moreover, demand is increasing for service researchers to make a difference beyond academia. Thus, service researchers face the formidable challenge of writing in a manner that resonates with not just service academics but also practitioners, policy makers, and other stakeholders. In this article, the authors examine how service research articles’ lexical variations might influence their academic citations and public media coverage. Drawing on the complete corpus of Journal of Service Research ( JSR) articles published between 1998 and 2020, they use text analytics and thereby determine that variations in language intensity, immediacy, and diversity relate to article impact. The appropriate use of these lexical variants and other stylistic conventions depends on the audience (academic or the public), the subsection of this article in which they appear (e.g., introduction, implications), and article innovativeness. This article concludes with an actionable “how-to” guide for ways to increase article impacts in relation to different JSR audiences.

Welfare State Values and Public Service Media in the Era of Datafication

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaarina Nikunen ◽  
Jenni Hokka
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Social Solidarity ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
The Public ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
Data Practices ◽  
Public Media ◽  
New Public

Welfare states have historically been built on values of egalitarianism and universalism and through high taxation that provides free education, health care, and social security for all. Ideally, this encourages participation of all citizens and formation of inclusive public sphere. In this welfare model, the public service media are also considered some of the main institutions that serve the well-being of an entire society. That is, independent, publicly funded media companies are perceived to enhance equality, citizenship, and social solidarity by providing information and programming that is driven by public rather than commercial interest. This article explores how the public service media and their values of universality, equality, diversity, and quality are affected by datafication and a platformed media environment. It argues that the embeddedness of public service media in a platformed media environment produces complex and contradictory dependencies between public service media and commercial platforms. The embeddedness has resulted in simultaneous processes of adapting to social media logics and datafication within public service media as well as in attempts to create alternative public media value-driven data practices and new public media spaces.

Public perceptions of who counts as a scientist for controversial science

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (7) ◽  
pp. 797-811 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brianne Suldovsky ◽  
Asheley Landrum ◽  
Natalie Jomini Stroud
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
Genetically Modified Organisms ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Perceptions ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Us ◽  
Science Media

In an era where expertise is increasingly critiqued, this study draws from the research on expertise and scientist stereotyping to explore who the public considers to be a scientist in the context of media coverage about climate change and genetically modified organisms. Using survey data from the United States, we find that political ideology and science knowledge affect who the US public believes is a scientist in these domains. Our results suggest important differences in the role of science media attention and science media selection in the publics “scientist” labeling. In addition, we replicate previous work and find that compared to other people who work in science, those with PhDs in Biology and Chemistry are most commonly seen as scientists.

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