scholarly journals A NEW STANDARD OF PROOF? DISCOURSES ON VISUAL DATA AFTER THE 2017 G20-PROTESTS

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Venema ◽  
Katharina Lobinger
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Blind Spot ◽  
The Political ◽  
Visual Data ◽  
Parliamentary Debates ◽  
Standard Of Proof ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
Algorithmic Analysis

A broad body of literature has described contemporary societies as “surveillance societies” or “surveillance cultures” and has expanded on the implications of an increasing “datafication” of society. To date, little attention has been paid to the role of visual data and their analysis in these processes. However, visual data and advancing algorithmic and facial recognition tools can provide particularly rich insights, that may imply both, important potentials and possible tensions. The contribution uses the case of controversial police investigations after the 2017 G20-summit to discuss intersections of datafication, dataveillance and visual communication and to provide insight into how different authorities and stakeholders legitimate and contest the collection of visual data and their algorithmic analysis in the political and public realm. Therefore a qualitative content and discourse analysis of news media articles, tweets, experts’ reports, police statements and minutes of parliamentary debates and committee hearings was conducted. Findings indicate that concrete practices of visual data collection and analysis remained obscure and a critical blind spot in the general media coverage. In turn, they triggered heated debates in the political realm and in specialized media coverage in which trust played a striking key role. Police authorities characterized visual data and algorithmic tools as a "new standard of proof" and thus as particularly powerful, objective and specifically trustworthy. However, indiscriminate practices of visual data collection and analysis also triggered fundamental concerns about the role and the trustworthiness of police authorities in datafied societies.

Political Agenda Setting

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcus Maurer
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
News Media ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Decision ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Media Agenda ◽  
Political Decision Making

Political agenda setting is the part of agenda-setting research that refers to the influence of the media agenda on the agenda of political actors. More precisely, the central question of political agenda-setting research is whether political actors adopt the issue agenda of the news media in various aspects ranging from communicating about issues that are prominently discussed in the news media to prioritizing issues from the news media agenda in political decision making. Although such effects have been studied under different labels (agenda building, policy agenda setting) for several decades, research in this field has recently increased significantly based on a new theoretical model introducing the term political agenda setting. Studies based on that model usually find effects of media coverage on the attention political actors pay to various issues, but at the same time point to a number of contingent conditions. First, as found in research on public agenda setting, there is an influence of characteristics of news media (e.g., television news vs. print media) and issues (e.g., obtrusive vs. unobtrusive issues). Second, there is an influence of characteristics of the political context (e.g., government vs. oppositional parties) and characteristics of individual politicians (e.g., generalists vs. specialists). Third, the findings of studies on the political agenda-setting effect differ, depending on which aspects of the political agenda are under examination (e.g., social media messages vs. political decision making).

Analysing Famine

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-27
Author(s):  
Daniel Maxwell ◽  
Peter Hailey
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Data Quality ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Severe Malnutrition ◽  
The Political ◽  
Excess Death ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
Technical Capacity

Famine means destitution, increased severe malnutrition, disease, excess death and the breakdown of institutions and social norms. Politically, it means a failure of governance – a failure to provide the most basic of protections. Because of both its human and political meanings, ‘famine’ can be a shocking term. This is turn makes the analysis – and especially declaration – of famine a very sensitive subject. This paper synthesises the findings from six case studies of the analysis of extreme food insecurity and famine to identify the political constraints to data collection and analysis, the ways in which these are manifested, and emergent good practice to manage these influences. The politics of information and analysis are the most fraught where technical capacity and data quality are the weakest. Politics will not be eradicated from analysis but can and must be better managed.

scholarly journals Those who have the power get the coverage – Female politicians in campaign coverage in Austria over time

Journalism ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 146488492091635
Author(s):  
Lore Hayek ◽  
Uta Russmann
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Role ◽  
Quantitative Content ◽  
Low Visibility ◽  
Female Politicians ◽  
Campaign Coverage ◽  
Election Coverage ◽  
Over Time

Politics in Austria is still a male business. Even though in 2017, women occupied 34 percent of the seats in Austria’s Nationalrat, female MPs are still underrepresented. Moreover, previous studies have shown that women receive substantially less media coverage than men do and this, for instance, disadvantages female politicians to male politicians in election campaigns. Our study seeks to contribute to this debate by adding a longitudinal perspective and substantially underpinning it with empirical data. We use quantitative content analysis to examine whether the election coverage of female politicians in Austrian news media has changed between 2008 and 2017. Our findings show low visibility of female politicians in Austrian campaign coverage that is even decreasing over time; furthermore, the political role a female politician occupies plays a crucial role for her media visibility.

Bridging State and Society: The Origins of 1970s Congressional Reform

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian E. Zelizer
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Institutional Reform ◽  
The Political ◽  
Congressional Reform ◽  
System P ◽  
State And Society ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
The 1960S

This chapter examines the origins of congressional reform in the 1970s and how the struggle over institutional reform during the period presents historians an excellent opportunity to reconceptualize the way in which we study Congress. It considers three forces outside Congress in the 1960s that established a strong foundation for congressional reform in the 1970s: the Supreme Court and voters, the news media and its coverage of congressional scandals, and the political discourse about institutional reform. It shows that electoral reform, changing media coverage on congressional scandal, and the discourse about institutional reform converged to establish a strong foundation for reform in the next decade by focusing new attention on how Congress operated, who ran Congress, and how Congress fit within the larger needs of the nation's political system.

scholarly journals Scandal mining: political nobodies and remediated visibility

2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (6) ◽  
pp. 893-908 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Trottier
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Accountability ◽  
Federal Election ◽  
First Pass ◽  
Media Channels

This article considers the 2015 federal election in Canada as the emergence of seemingly citizen-led practices whereby candidates’ past missteps are unearthed and distributed through social and news media channels. On first pass, these resemble citizen-led engagements through digital media for potentially unmappable political goals, given the dispersed and either non-partisan or multi-partisan nature of these engagements. By bringing together journalistic accounts and social media coverage alongside current scholarship on citizenship and visibility, this case study traces the possibility of political accountability and the political weaponisation of mediated visibility through the targeted extraction of candidate details from dispersed profiles, communities and databases.

scholarly journals Investigations of a journalistic blind spot

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (s3) ◽  
pp. 71-87
Author(s):  
Tine Ustad Figenschou ◽  
Elisabeth Eide ◽  
Ruth Einervoll Nilsen
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Blind Spot ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Labour Movement ◽  
Quantitative Content ◽  
Over Time

Abstract Recent studies argue that the contemporary working class has largely disappeared from the news media. Another strand of literature demonstrates that the traditional labour beat has lost newsroom prestige due to changes in the established news media and crisis in the labour movement. Analysing how traditional working-class sectors are covered in mainstream newspapers and trade union magazines over time, we conduct a systematic, quantitative content analysis of 18 months of coverage from 1996–2017. We find a steady decline in media coverage throughout the period, indicating that the labour beat as an established specialisation is disappearing. Studying topical emphasis and source practices demonstrates marked differences between the newspapers and the trade union magazines: The mainstream newspapers are elite- and conflict-oriented (although not hostile in their coverage), while the trade union magazines largely reflect power structures and the interests of the labour movement. In the discussion, the main findings from the content analysis are explained by practitioners, to contextualise and provide insider perspectives on the findings.

scholarly journals ALLAHYARHAM HASAN BIN MAT SAMAN: A SCHOLAR OF KELANTAN

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 104-113
Author(s):  
Ahmad Mujahideen Haji Yusoff ◽  
Huzaini Hashim ◽  
Abdullah Awang Kechik3 ◽  
Mohd Zaki Che Deraman
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Arena ◽  
Religious Knowledge ◽  
Islamic Medicine ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
Interview Methods ◽  
Great Scholar ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Shed Light

The emergence of the scholars regarded as extensions of the continuity of knowledge in the Malay world. In Pondok Lati, Pasir Mas, Kelantan has settled a great scholar and a man of his own privileges, Allahyarham Hasan bin Mat Saman or more famous by the call of Pak Chu Hasan Tok Wali. However, the character of this scholar is not well known because there is not much research on him. Therefore, this article aims to shed light on the background of this scholar. This article is fully qualitative using data collection and analysis methods involving library and interview methods. This article explains that Allahyarham Hasan bin Mat Saman, better known as Pak Chu Hasan, was a Malay Muslim scholar who have miracles from Pasir Mas, Kelantan, who was educated than Pondok Lati and Pondok Lubuk Tapah. He has spread religious knowledge in Kelantan and in the South of Thailand and has served many people especially in Islamic medicine and was involved in the political arena by becoming a candidate in the 1982 General Election.

scholarly journals HYPER REALITAS SIMULAKRA TAGAR #2019GANTIPRESIDEN DALAM PEMILIHAN PRESIDEN INDONESIA 2019

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 249
Author(s):  
Dani Fadillah
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Mass Movement ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The Political ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Masses

This paper is aim to describe how a hashtag appearing in the dynamics of communication on social media is capable of creating a very massive mass movement in the real world. As well as troublesome rulers and authorities to set it up Because it considered a political charge that is in the hashtag could potentially provide a surge of turmoil that is great for the holder of the status quo of the political power of the homeland. By the election of the President of the Republic of Indonesia 2019 was presented with a viral hashtag on social media, the hashtags that were first administered twitted by prosperous Justice Party (Partai Keadilan Sejahtera) politician Mardani Ali Sera, raised the spirit of the masses The number is not minimal not to elect the general election which took place in April 2019. Even until the polls have done, the hashtag still has strong political magic to unite the opposition forces because the reunited was elected to become President of the Republic of Indonesia until 2022. This paper contains the results of qualitative research by making the idea of Jean Baudrillad about Simulacra, simulation, and artificial Phenomenon as his analysis knife. Here the author collects various literary sources in the different news media coverage of the hashtag #2019GantiPresiden then conduct a study of the messages that have a variety of information given to the hashtag Using the turbulent analytical knife of Jean Baudrillad above. Finally, the conclusion of this paper is necessary to fight massive efforts to resist the enormous surge of hashtags #2019GantiPresiden in the homeland in a variety of ways so that the focus is not more significant and to discuss the interests of Political authorities.

scholarly journals News Media Coverage of Mass Shootings: How the Political Stance of News Media Influences the Coverage of Mass Shooters

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joyce Zheng ◽  
Franco Scardino
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Health Issue ◽  
The Political ◽  
Mass Shootings ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods

Gun violence is a major public health issue in the United States and the news media has the power to sway the public’s opinions and beliefs on cases of mass shootings. The purpose of this research was to find “to what extent does the political bias of news media sources influence their portrayal of mental illness and violence when covering mass shootings?” The study followed an exploratory design, combining qualitative and quantitative methods for data collection and analysis. This study looked at 20 mass shootings listed on an open-sourced database from 2012-2016 and includes 108 news articles from 6 news media from the political spectrum. The relative frequency bar graphs showed that no news media outlets have a higher or more significant mention of “dangerousness” of mass shooters and the portrayal of mental illness in news articles. The Chi-Square test demonstrated that there was no substantial evidence to establish if there was or was not a link between the keyword use and median political leaning. Though the result does not support the hypothesis, the result does show news media in general does have a correlation with an increased stigma against mental illness. This knowledge can determine the roots of the misrepresentation of mental illness in relation to violence to educate the public and the news media better to stem the stigma against people with mental illness and more effective gun policies.

scholarly journals News media coverage of COVID-19 public health and policy information

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharine J. Mach ◽  
Raúl Salas Reyes ◽  
Brian Pentz ◽  
Jennifer Taylor ◽  
Clarissa A. Costa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Risks ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
The United States ◽  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
The Political ◽  
Scientific Quality ◽  
Policy Information ◽  
Policy Failures

AbstractDuring a pandemic, news media play a crucial role in communicating public health and policy information. Traditional newspaper coverage is important amidst increasing disinformation, yet uncertainties make covering health risks and efforts to limit transmission difficult. This study assesses print and online newspaper coverage of the coronavirus disease COVID-19 for March 2020, when the global pandemic was declared, through August 2020 in three countries: Canada (with the lowest per-capita case and death rates during the study timeframe), the United Kingdom (with a pronounced early spike), and the United States (with persistently high rates). Tools previously validated for pandemic-related news records allow measurement of multiple indicators of scientific quality (i.e., reporting that reflects the state of scientific knowledge) and of sensationalism (i.e., strategies rendering news as more extraordinary than it really is). COVID-19 reporting had moderate scientific quality and low sensationalism across 1331 sampled articles in twelve newspapers spanning the political spectrums of the three countries. Newspapers oriented towards the populist-right had the lowest scientific quality in reporting, combined with very low sensationalism in some cases. Against a backdrop of world-leading disease rates, U.S. newspapers on the political left had more exposing coverage, e.g., focused on policy failures or misinformation, and more warning coverage, e.g., focused on the risks of the disease, compared to U.S. newspapers on the political right. Despite the generally assumed benefits of low sensationalism, pandemic-related coverage with low scientific quality that also failed to alert readers to public-health risks, misinformation, or policy failures may have exacerbated the public-health effects of the disease. Such complexities will likely remain central for both pandemic news media reporting and public-health strategies reliant upon it.

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