Selective Reporting of International Media in Africa A Case Study of the 2008 Anti-Government Riots in Cameroon

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huifen Liu ◽  
Manzie Vincent Doh
Keyword(s):  
Selective Reporting ◽  
International Media

scholarly journals Leadership and Crisis Communication During Covid-19: The Case of Brunei Darussalam

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 97
Author(s):  
Li Li Pang
Keyword(s):  
Crisis Communication ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Institutional Practices ◽  
International Media ◽  
Brunei Darussalam ◽  
National Leaders ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Local Transmission

National leaders’ responses to the Covid-19 pandemic globally have shown that while the definition of leadership is still debatable in academia, in times of crisis, it is easily identifiable and seen. The world has seen different responses by national leaders to curb the spread of the virus, Covid-19, which has claimed more than a million lives, affecting 189 countries worldwide since January 2020. Developed countries’ successes in dealing with the pandemic are widely reported by international media, but the successes made by developing countries are not. One such country is Brunei Darussalam, where her success, even regionally in Southeast Asia, was downplayed. This paper is a qualitative case study, highlighting Brunei Darussalam’s success in handling the pandemic. Brunei Darussalam began to ‘flatten the curve’ since March 29, 2020 and there was no local transmission since May 7, 2020. The paper will show how leadership, effective crisis communication together with advances in telecommunication technologies, existing institutional practices, and a supportive public have helped Brunei Darussalam curb the spread of the virus within the country.

How can CDA unravel power relations in media representations of conflict in the Middle East?

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 584-612 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samia Bazzi
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
International Media ◽  
News Reporting ◽  
The Media ◽  
A Site

Abstract This study attempts to show the role of translation in giving meaning to conflicts whether by reproducing the dominant political beliefs of a particular media society or by resisting counter-ideologies that come from foreign sources of information. It utilizes Critical Discourse Analysis as an effective method for the analysis of power relations behind news reporting. The research uses a corpus from international media and their equivalent texts into Arabic between 2013 and 2017. The data covers events on conflicts in Syria, Iraq, Bahrain and Yemen, each article reporting issues about conflict and its impact on arenas of struggle. Through this case study of transediting, I will explore how textual analysis can unravel power relations and hegemonic orders of discourse. The study shows that translation is a site of conflict and has much to say about reasons for conflict and the complex relationship between language and power. The proposed tools of analysis in this study are based on functional language analysis and will show how language structuring, in particular transitivity analysis, articulates the logic created by the media outlet regarding reasons for conflict. The case study concludes that different media structure the current wars in the Middle East in different chains of causal dependence that can impact the reading positions of the readers.

World of Matter. An Eco-aesthetic Approach to the Complex ‘Ecologies’ of Matter

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Varas Ibarra
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Entertainment Industry ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Media Art ◽  
Multidisciplinary Research ◽  
International Media ◽  
Social Aesthetics ◽  
Critical Aspects ◽  
Research Collective

Whereas corporate media and the entertainment industry present an endless stream of apocalyptic scenarios where environmental catastrophe is our unavoidable fate, the new wave of eco-aesthetics aims to bring to the foreground the complex ‘ecologies’ of global forces which contributed to the transition to the new geological epoch. This paper concentrates on the case study World of Matter, an international media, art, and multidisciplinary research collective that investigates the synergies of social, political, environmental, and economic spheres. Touching upon critical aspects of decolonial critique, this paper argues that World of Matter presents new stances to the understanding of the environmental crisis, the democratisation of the Anthropocene discourse, and brings a new kind of social aesthetics to the foreground.

scholarly journals The Reproduction of “Petro-Nationalism” in Ethnic Media: A Case Study of WeChat Public Accounts’ Coverage of the Trans Mountain Pipeline Controversy

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sibo Chen
Keyword(s):  
Minority Groups ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Research Report ◽  
Ethnic Minority Groups ◽  
Ethnic Media ◽  
International Media ◽  
The Past ◽  
Change Mitigation

Over the past 2 decades, Alberta’s bitumen industry has emerged as a major point of contention in Canadian politics, with the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion (TMX) project being a recent controversy that has attracted both domestic and international media attention. This brief research report focuses on news coverage of TMX in a rarely studied form of ethnic media: WeChat newsfeeds (known as “public accounts”) targeting Chinese diasporas across Canadian metropolises. A thematic analysis of TMX-related WeChat articles published between January 2016 and May 2021 reveals an overall negative attitude toward the project’s opponents. This stance is mainly due to WeChat public accounts’ heavy reliance on the Canadian mainstream media’s framing of TMX. As a result, the Canadian mainstream media’s downplay of the climate emergency and decarbonization sets the news agendas of the surveyed WeChat public accounts. Accordingly, there is an urgent need to develop non-English alternative media to engage ethnic minority groups in broader public conversations on climate change mitigation.

P-CURVING AS A SAFEGUARD AGAINST P-HACKING IN SLA RESEARCH

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Seth Lindstromberg
Keyword(s):  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Salient Feature ◽  
Selective Reporting ◽  
Reporting Practices ◽  
Common Term ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Research Stream ◽  
Better Than

Abstract It is important to be able to identify research results likely to have been arrived at by means of “p-hacking,” a common term for research and reporting practices (such as the selective reporting of results) that are biased toward finding p < α. This paper discusses and demonstrates “p-curving,” a means of checking a set of primary studies within a specific research stream for signs of p-hacking. A salient feature of p-curving is that it is based entirely on significant p-values. Because of the potential usefulness of p-curving and because it has been little used by SLA researchers, a case study illustrates the construction and analysis of a p-curve as a complement to meta-analysis. The focal p-curve in this study relates to published (quasi)experimental studies that addressed the research hypothesis that for low and middle proficiency learners L1 glosses facilitate vocabulary learning during reading better than L2 glosses do.

On ‘Asian’ Distinctiveness and Race as a Variable: The Case of Ophthalmic Epidemiology in Singapore

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 252-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catelijne Coopmans ◽  
Margaret Tan Ai Hua
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Ethnic Difference ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Biomedical Science ◽  
Biomedical Sciences ◽  
International Media ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Study Programme ◽  
Racial Ethnic

The notion that Singapore’s multi-ethnic population provides a unique and quintessentially ‘Asian’ asset for its biomedical sciences initiative has been part of the discourse in local and international media coverage of that sector. It has also been highlighted by scholars as a feature of Singapore’s political economy. This article discusses how ‘racial/ethnic difference’ was initially central but then became peripheral to one high-profile research programme: the Singapore Epidemiology of Eye Disease (SEED) Study Programme. The case study is offered as an example of the flexible deployment and situational enactment of racial/ethnic difference in biomedical science, by demonstrating how it gets entangled with and disentangled from the creation of scientific capital and legitimacy, as well as complicates the notion of ‘Asian’ science.

scholarly journals A RESEARCH ON THE ROLE PLAYED BY LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL MEDIA INTO CONFLICT MANAGEMENT

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-54
Author(s):  
Ibrahim T.I. Ukka ◽  
Bienmali Kombate
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Conflict Management ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
International Media ◽  
Local Media ◽  
Research Gap ◽  
Potential Tool

While several scholar had drew their study focusing on the role of media into conflict management, Hume et al. (2014) few have pay to attention to the types, levels, and phases of the conflict, Hyland and Makowsky (2006). Looking to fulfill the research gap, this study was aimed to investigate the effect of media into conflict management focusing on the level of media. Israel and Palestine conflict was used as a case study and to frame the analysis, the research data were collected through a series of questionnaires. As concluded by Kim, Amouzegar, and Ao 2016), local media are a potential tool deescalating in global conflict, our finding show that local media are source of peace building and conflict deescalating however international media interfere into conflict management according to his national interest and as an instrument of influencing foreign policy to the parties involve. We finally concluded that the current and future relationship and level of tension between Israel and Palestine can be predicted by Al jazera.

For the Cinderella of the New South, the Shoe Just Didn’t Fit: The “Most Exceptional” Games of 1996

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 465-486 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Rivenburgh
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
New South ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Global Media ◽  
International Media ◽  
Broadcast Media ◽  
International Image ◽  
Multimethod Approach ◽  
Harsh Criticism

The 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games was a sporting and financial success, yet an international image disaster. Atlanta’s goal to shine on a global stage was met with harsh criticism and stereotypical portrayals by media nationally and around the world. What happened? Using a multimethod approach, including content analyses of print and broadcast media in 27 countries, review of institutional reports, and observation of media operations during the Games, this study identifies four key factors largely responsible for Atlanta’s image disaster as Olympic host. In doing so, it provides an exemplar case study of the complex challenges faced by hosts of global media events in their efforts to garner favorable international media coverage. A secondary purpose of this case study is to summarize the preparations, process, and innovations related to media use in the Atlanta Games. Such an account of Atlanta 1996 is missing in the current Olympics literature.

TigerSwan at Standing Rock: Ethics of Private Military Use Against an Environmental-Justice Movement

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Kandice Grossman
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Indigenous Rights ◽  
Environmental Groups ◽  
International Media ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Federal Land ◽  
Us Federal Government ◽  
Justice Movements

In 2016, thousands of people, led by Oceti Sakowin Tribal members, gathered at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota in an attempt to stop the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The movement aroused international media attention, mass support from a wide range of individuals and environmental groups, and political debates regarding Indigenous rights, climate change, fossil fuel reliance, water protection, and corporate power. Ultimately, 10 months into the movement, it was halted by the US federal government and the pipeline was installed. During the movement, state and federal military forces worked alongside a private military and security contractor (PMSC), TigerSwan, hired by owners of the pipeline, Energy Transfer Partners. This case study addresses the ethics of the use of private military against Indigenous-led environmental activists at Standing Rock. Readers will review the modern rise and use of privatized militia, examine specific tactics used by TigerSwan at Standing Rock, and consider the ethics surrounding principles of transparency, accountability, regulation, and the potential risk for increased violence against citizens. A brief historical overview of Oceti Sakowin’s political resistance to US federal land appropriation and corporate exploitation is provided, as well as an analysis of future implications for Indigenous-led environmental justice movements. With this case study, instructors, students, and researchers can debate and analyze the ethical dilemmas regarding the use of PMSCs to target environmental justice movements.

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