Josef Trappel / Hannu Nieminen / Lars Nord (2011): The Media for Democracy Monitor. A Cross National Study of Leading News Media. Göteborg: Nordicom

Review of: Comparing Gender and Media Equality across the Globe: A Cross-National Study of the Qualities, Causes and Consequences of Gender Equality in and through the News Media, Monika Djerf-Pierre and Maria Edstrom (eds) (2020) Göteburg: Nordicom, 338 pp., ISBN 978-91-88855-33-6, p/bk, €28.00 ISBN 978-91-88855-32-9, PDF, €28.00 Available as Open Access at http://norden.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1502571/FULLTEXT02.pdf.

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Paternal Involvement and Perception Toward Fathers' Roles:

Journal of Family Issues ◽

10.1177/019251394015001002 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

pp. 30-48 ◽

Cited By ~ 39

Author(s):

MASAKO ISHII-KUNTZ

Keyword(s):

Paternal Involvement ◽

National Study ◽

Japanese Men ◽

Child Interaction ◽

Different Types ◽

National Comparison ◽

The Media ◽

Children’S Views ◽

Cross National Study ◽

Cross National

Using a representative sample of Japanese and American fathers and their adolescent children, this cross-national study examines the extent of paternal involvement and fathers' and children's perception toward their relationships. Consistent with the media image of involved fathers, we found that American fathers spend more time with their children than their Japanese counterparts. However, although American children's perception toward their fathers is associated with such interaction, Japanese children's views toward their fathers are not strongly related to the quantity of father-child interaction. Concerning fathers' evaluations, both American and Japanese men consider themselves understanding and feel closer to their children when they interact more frequently with their offspring. We conclude that a cross-national comparison of paternal involvement and perception toward fathers' roles must take into account different types of activities rather than aggregate time of father-child interaction. Several explanations for the observed findings are discussed and suggestions for future cross-national research on fatherhood are offered.

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Newspaper reporting of hazards in the UK and Sweden

Public Understanding of Science ◽

10.1088/0963-6625/9/1/304 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 59-78 ◽

Cited By ~ 59

Author(s):

Gene Rowe ◽

Lynn Frewer ◽

Lennart Sjöberg

Keyword(s):

Safety Culture ◽

Public Understanding ◽

National Study ◽

Spongiform Encephalopathy ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Newspaper Reporting ◽

The Media ◽

The Uk ◽

Cross National Study ◽

Cross National

Public understanding of risks is likely to be informed by the media. We report a cross-national study looking at how newspapers in Sweden and the United Kingdom characterize a variety of risks, focusing on two months around the 10th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident. Approximately four times as many reports about risks were found in Sweden as in the U.K., possibly reflecting a Swedish safety culture. The Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) crisis dominated reporting in both countries, especially in the U.K. The proportion and pattern of reports on Chernobyl was similar across countries. However, in Sweden, there was an increase in reports about other nuclear hazards after the anniversary, suggesting that generalization of media concern may have occurred. Generally, BSE was discussed using a greater number of characterizations in the U.K., while Chernobyl was reported using more characterizations in Sweden. Reports about hazards tended to be alarmist rather than reassuring, and rarely used statistics to express degrees of risk.

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Who's Afraid of Conflict? The Mobilizing Effect of Conflict Framing in Campaign News

British Journal of Political Science ◽

10.1017/s0007123413000525 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 46 (1) ◽

pp. 177-194 ◽

Cited By ~ 46

Author(s):

Andreas R.T. Schuck ◽

Rens Vliegenthart ◽

Claes H. De Vreese

Keyword(s):

News Media ◽

General Information ◽

National Study ◽

Panel Survey ◽

Media Content Analysis ◽

Parliamentary Elections ◽

Conflict Framing ◽

Cross National Study ◽

The Eu ◽

Cross National

The ability of the news media to mobilize voters during an election campaign is not well understood. Most extant research has been conducted in single-country studies and has paid little or no attention to the contextual level and the conditions under which such effects are more or less likely to occur. This study tests the mobilizing effect of conflict news framing in the context of the 2009 European Parliamentary elections. The unique multi-method and comparative cross-national study design combines a media content analysis (N = 48,982) with data from a two-wave panel survey conducted in twenty-one countries (N = 32,411). Consistent with expectations, conflict framing in campaign news mobilized voters to vote. Since the effect of conflict news was moderated by evaluations of the EU polity in the general information environment, conflict framing more effectively mobilized voters in countries where the EU was evaluated more positively.

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