scholarly journals Agenda setting in the world of online news: New questions for new environment

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (38) ◽  
pp. 47-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danka Ninkovic-Slavnic
Keyword(s):  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Online News ◽  
The World

scholarly journals Punching above Weight: How the African Union Commission Exercises Agency in Politics

2021 ◽  
pp. 000203972199039
Author(s):  
Thomas Kwasi Tieku
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
International System ◽  
African Union ◽  
African Continent ◽  
International Organisations ◽  
The World ◽  
International Issues ◽  
Decision Making Rule

Conventional narratives suggest that the African Union Commission (AUC), like most international public administrations and international organisations (IOs) housed in the less materially endowed regions of the world, exercises no meaningful agency on international issues. This article however seeks to show that the AUC is neither a glorified messenger and docile follower of orders of governments nor is it an empty vessel that timidly goes where the wind of governments blows. Rather, the AUC exercises significant agency on issues that affect not just the African continent but also the broader international system. The AUC is often at the heart of international agenda-setting, norm development, decision-making, rule creation, policy development, and it sometimes offer strategic leadership. The article demonstrates six pathways through which the AUC acts like a tail wagging a dog.

scholarly journals Communicative Blame in Online Communication of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Computational Approach of Stigmatizing Cues and Negative Sentiment Gauged With Automated Analytic Techniques

10.2196/21504 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (11) ◽  
pp. e21504
Author(s):  
Angela Chang ◽  
Peter Johannes Schulz ◽  
ShengTsung Tu ◽  
Matthew Tingchi Liu
Keyword(s):  
Language Processing ◽  
Social Stigma ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Ethnic Discrimination ◽  
Online News ◽  
World Health ◽  
Discussion Forums ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
The World ◽  
Negative Sentiment

Background Information about a new coronavirus emerged in 2019 and rapidly spread around the world, gaining significant public attention and attracting negative bias. The use of stigmatizing language for the purpose of blaming sparked a debate. Objective This study aims to identify social stigma and negative sentiment toward the blameworthy agents in social communities. Methods We enabled a tailored text-mining platform to identify data in their natural settings by retrieving and filtering online sources, and constructed vocabularies and learning word representations from natural language processing for deductive analysis along with the research theme. The data sources comprised of ten news websites, eleven discussion forums, one social network, and two principal media sharing networks in Taiwan. A synthesis of news and social networking analytics was present from December 30, 2019, to March 31, 2020. Results We collated over 1.07 million Chinese texts. Almost two-thirds of the texts on COVID-19 came from news services (n=683,887, 63.68%), followed by Facebook (n=297,823, 27.73%), discussion forums (n=62,119, 5.78%), and Instagram and YouTube (n=30,154, 2.81%). Our data showed that online news served as a hotbed for negativity and for driving emotional social posts. Online information regarding COVID-19 associated it with China—and a specific city within China through references to the “Wuhan pneumonia”—potentially encouraging xenophobia. The adoption of this problematic moniker had a high frequency, despite the World Health Organization guideline to avoid biased perceptions and ethnic discrimination. Social stigma is disclosed through negatively valenced responses, which are associated with the most blamed targets. Conclusions Our sample is sufficiently representative of a community because it contains a broad range of mainstream online media. Stigmatizing language linked to the COVID-19 pandemic shows a lack of civic responsibility that encourages bias, hostility, and discrimination. Frequently used stigmatizing terms were deemed offensive, and they might have contributed to recent backlashes against China by directing blame and encouraging xenophobia. The implications ranging from health risk communication to stigma mitigation and xenophobia concerns amid the COVID-19 outbreak are emphasized. Understanding the nomenclature and biased terms employed in relation to the COVID-19 outbreak is paramount. We propose solidarity with communication professionals in combating the COVID-19 outbreak and the infodemic. Finding solutions to curb the spread of virus bias, stigma, and discrimination is imperative.

Global Displacement of ISIS Activities and the Effectiveness of Police Arrests as a Means of Deterrence

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ismail Onat ◽  
Serdar San
Keyword(s):  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Online News ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
News Source ◽  
The World ◽  
Significant Achievement ◽  
The U.S

U.S.-led coalition forces liberated all of the territory ISIS held in Syria and Iraq in the first quarter of 2019. Although the defeat was a significant achievement, ISIS continues its activities outside the Syria and Iraq region. Turkey matters to ISIS because the group carries out attacks and uses the country to move fighters and supplies. However, Turkey relies heavily on police crackdowns to deter terrorism. Drawing on data from the Armed Conflict Event and Location Database, the Turkish Ministry of Interior, and an online news source, the current study first analyzed trends in ISIS attacks around the world. Then, it explored the extent to which police arrests prevent ISIS from further deadly attacks in Turkey. Results from the study suggest that ISIS activities are likely to decrease in Syria and Iraq after the U.S.-led military operations but increase in other countries. Also, mass arrests were ineffective in preventing subsequent deadly attacks in Turkey. Policy implications are discussed.

A matter of cultural distinction: News consumption in the online media landscape

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 116-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonas Ohlsson ◽  
Johan Lindell ◽  
Sofia Arkhede
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
National Survey ◽  
Online News ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Relative Lack ◽  
News Consumption ◽  
News Sources ◽  
Reverse Pattern ◽  
The World

The world of online news is a world where news consumers must make choices among a plethora of different news sources. Previous research points towards a fragmentation of news consumption across the citizenry. However, not enough attention has been paid to class, in particular cultural capital, and how it shapes how groups in society develop preferences for different categories of online news. Drawing upon a representative national survey in Sweden ( N = 11,108), a country historically known for its egalitarian news consumption, we show that cultural capital engenders patterns of taste and distaste for different online national news providers. This is manifested in that those rich in cultural capital are more inclined to consume ‘quality’ news and to neglect ‘popular’ news. A relative lack of cultural capital is associated with a somewhat reverse pattern. News consumption in the online media landscape is a matter of cultural distinction.

Administrative Reform: Opportunities, Drivers, and Barriers

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony B.L. Cheung
Keyword(s):  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Administrative Reform ◽  
Political Order ◽  
Institutional Factors ◽  
Reform Agenda ◽  
Implementation Processes ◽  
Negotiated Settlement ◽  
The World ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Two Sides

Administrative reform has become an almost permanent feature of most governments across the world driven by the pursuit of efficiency, responsiveness and performance and sometimes induced by domestic or external crises. The paradigms and priorities of reform vary at different times in tandem with the dominant ideological currents. Despite similarities in the vision, rhetoric and tools of reform engaged, regional and national variations can be observed attributable to historical, cultural, political and institutional factors. These factors mediate the specific reform agenda setting and implementation processes, resulting in distinct national reform hybrids. The realpolitik of reform cannot be devoid of the prevailing political order and structures of power and resources, which determine institutional interactions such as between politicians and bureaucrats, between the center and localities, and between the executive and legislature. Forces for and against change interplay in the domains of politics, bureaucracy and society to ultimately make or break reform. Opportunities for change are rooted in the same setting as the resistance to reform, such that the drivers of and the barriers to reform are paradoxically two sides of the same coin. All reform junctures comprise elements of both preservation and innovation or renovation, mostly ending in a negotiated settlement and mixed results.

The Art of Political Science: Spatial Diagrams as Iconic and Revelatory

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 311-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry E. Brady
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Political Competition ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Party Systems ◽  
Voting Systems ◽  
Demand Curves ◽  
The World ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
Better Than

Spatial diagrams of politics could and should be iconic for political science in much the same way as supply-and-demand curves are in economics. Many fundamental problems of political science can be connected with them, and many different concepts—such as ideological constraint, cross-pressures, framing, agenda-setting, political competition, voting systems, and party systems, to name just a few—can be illuminated through spatial diagrams. Spatial diagrams raise questions and provide insights. They suggest political maneuvers, possible realignments, and political problems. They provide us with revealing images that aid memory and facilitate analysis. They are a powerful way to think about politics, and we could not do better than to feature them in our textbooks, to use them in our research, and to exhibit them as our brand—as our distinctive way of thinking about how the world works

scholarly journals Impact of COVID-19 on People with Disabilities

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Smriti Pant ◽  
Saugat Koirala ◽  
Madhusudan Subedi
Keyword(s):  
Online News ◽  
The Body ◽  
Narrative Review ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
The World ◽  
People With Disability ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Mainstream Society ◽  
The Impact

Any condition of the body or mind that makes it more difficult for the person with the condition to do certain activities and interact with the world around them is known as a disability. Despite the various efforts being done to ensure their rights and equity of the disabled, they still suffer more during various crises like conflicts, natural disasters and pandemics. The purpose of this narrative review is to access the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on People with disability (PWD). For writing this narrative review, Google, Google Scholar, Pub Med and online news portals were searched by using various combination of the following terminologies; “Disability”, “Differently “Disabled”, “Disable”, “People with Disability”, “PWD” “Impact”, “COVID-19”, “Corona Pandemic”, “Challenges”, “Issues”, “Policies”, “Social”, and “increased risk”. The pandemic has created many challenges for people with disability. They not have greater risk of contracting COVID-19, but also have problems accessing health services. It has also had various social impacts like problems related to education, employment as well as discrimination. The COVID pandemic has exposed gaps in the health system that make the poor, marginalized and disabled population more vulnerable to neglect and mistreatment. Proper implementation and monitoring of policies should be done to ensure that PWD feel included and respected. It is important to continually integrate PWD into the mainstream society while minimizing their risks of contracting COVID-19. The caretakers should use the necessary PPE when attending to their needs.

scholarly journals Mother Nature’s Revolution and the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Scooping Review of COVID-19 and the Environment

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (19) ◽  
pp. 100
Author(s):  
Endurance Uzobo ◽  
Stanley E. Boroh
Keyword(s):  
United States Of America ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
The United States ◽  
Online News ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Web Page ◽  
Environmental Behaviour ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
The World ◽  
Almost All

Many studies have solely focused on the negative impact of the coronavirus while ignoring the fact that the coronavirus was also a blessing in disguise to certain institutions. This study focuses on an exploration of some of the environmental-related benefits accruing from the outbreak of the coronavirus, which eventually led many countries of the world to declare a national lockdown. The study utilised secondary sources from 21 articles gleaned from hand-searched literature from various web pages and online news, accessed through google web page (google.com) between March to September 2020. Key search words used in the search were COVID-19 and the environment, benefits of COVID-19 to the environment, the environmental impact of COVID-19, and the environmental behaviour during COVID-19. The study reported that some positive benefits of COVID-19 concerning the environment from China, the United States of America, Europe, and Africa. Findings from the review indicated that almost all the continents in the world have experienced improve environmental quality as a result of the outbreak of the coronavirus. The study further added that one of the most important dividends arising from the outbreak is the positive change in behaviour in people towards the environment. It was, therefore, recommended that there is a need for nations of the world to leverage the window of opportunity provided by the coronavirus to encourage green economic behaviour to save the environment.

scholarly journals Comparative analysis of online news content objectivity on Covid-19 between Detik.com and Kompas.com

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 127-139
Author(s):  
Silvia Pristianita ◽  
Rino Febrianno Boer ◽  
Yohanes Nugroho Widiyanto ◽  
Amanda Mercedes ◽  
Marta Rustono Farady
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Online News ◽  
Important Condition ◽  
Real Situation ◽  
Quantitative Content ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Negative Impacts

Since March 11, 2020, COVID-19 has been declared as a global pandemic. The case of the COVID-19 has become the major topic of the media around the world because it didn’t only threaten human life, it also gave negative impacts on various sectors. Many kinds of news about COVID-19, which its context started from information about the disease until it is been associated with politics and economics, have been published every day, especially in this globalization era, where information can be instantly accessed. The news about COVID-19 became overflow, at the point, various interests lead media for not being objective. While generating the news, journalists are expected to make the news objectively as it is the most important condition in journalism. Objectivity aims at presenting the real situation of some reporting events based on fact, relevance, and neutrality, which became the main factors of objective news. At the same time, it is been known that media have the power to construct social reality depending on how they created the news. This research used quantitative content analysis and was conducted in six phases from January 30th until March 15, 2020. The purpose of this research was to explain the comparative objectivity of two main online news in Indonesia (namely, detik.com and kompas.com.) on reporting COVID-19.

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