Coverage of violence against children in Serbian daily newspapers

Violence against children arouses significant public interest as a phenomenon that opposes the most appreciated social interests. Media coverage of this topic has been conditioned by the need of the public for complete and truthful reporting, and, at the same time, by the need of media to survive in the increasingly saturated media market. The question is whether the race for the most current and intriguing media content endangers fulfillment of obligations related to the protection of interests of minors and obligations stipulated by the law. The aim of this paper is to point to the aspects of reporting on violence against children that could be improved in the future. Therefore, after the introductory considerations about violence against children and media reporting on this topic and after the review of scientific literature in this field, the central part of the paper is devoted to the analysis of media coverage of three Serbian daily papers on violence against children. The author concludes that positive regulations and professional codes are respected, but that reporting does not always serve an educational and preventive purpose, and that the protection of the dignity of victims is not at a satisfactory level at all times.

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Climate Change and Sustainability Issues in Indian Newspapers

Handbook of Research on Recent Developments in Internet Activism and Political Participation - Advances in Public Policy and Administration ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-4796-0.ch012 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 189-206

Author(s):

Nirmala Thirumalaiah ◽

Arul Aram I.

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Media Coverage ◽

Human Life ◽

News Coverage ◽

The Public ◽

Daily Newspapers ◽

News Stories ◽

Change Communication ◽

Regional Newspapers ◽

The Times

Climate change conferences had wide media coverage – be it on newspaper, radio, television or the internet. The terms such as ‘climate change', ‘global warming', and ‘El Nino' are gaining popularity among the public. This study examines the news coverage of climate change issues in the major daily newspapers—The Times of India, The Hindu in English, and the Dina Thanthi, Dinamalar, and Dinamani in regional language (Tamil)—for the calendar years 2014 and 2015. This chapter describes how climate change influences nature and human life, and it is the basis for social and economic development. The news coverage of climate change and sustainability issues helps the reader better understand the concepts and perspectives of environment. Climate change communication in regional newspapers and local news stories may increase the public's interest and knowledge level regarding climate change and sustainability issues.

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Antibiotics and food in the American press

10.1101/634337 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Antoine Bridier-Nahmias ◽

Estera Badau ◽

Pi Nyvall-collen ◽

Antoine Andremont ◽

Jocelyne Arquembourg

Keyword(s):

Civil Society ◽

Text Mining ◽

Media Coverage ◽

Scientific Literature ◽

The Other ◽

Traditional Media ◽

The Public ◽

Official Discourse ◽

American Press ◽

The Media

AbstractThe emergence of antimicrobial resistant infections from food is well documented in the scientific literature but, in this kind of matter, the public opinion is an important policy driver and is vastly forged by traditional media. Here, we propose a text mining study through about 500 articles from two reference daily U.S. newspapers to assess the media coverage of this issue. Our results indicate that, since the middle of the 80s, the two journals considered here adopted a very different narrative around the issue, echoing civil society concerns in one case and the official discourse in the other.

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SEPARATE ISSUES OF PROVIDING LEGAL ASSISTANCE IN PROTECTING THE PUBLIC INTEREST

Вестник Тверского государственного университета ◽

10.26456/vtpravo/2020.4.110 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 110-115

Author(s):

Владимир Михайлович Андрианов

Keyword(s):

Legal System ◽

Public Interest ◽

Scientific Literature ◽

Legal Assistance ◽

International Level ◽

The Public ◽

Public Interest Law ◽

National Legal System ◽

Legal Costs ◽

To Receive

Актуальность исследования обусловлена активизацией на международном уровне деятельности, связанной с защитой коллективных и групповых интересов, о чем свидетельствует целый ряд принятых международных актов. Указанное обстоятельство обусловливает необходимость введения соответствующих механизмов в национальную правовую систему. В статье предпринята попытка обратить внимание на особенности предоставления правовой помощи при защите общественного интереса, опираясь на зарубежный опыт. С учетом анализа научной литературы автор делает вывод, что на доктринальном уровне сформировалось два подхода к пониманию правовой категории «право общественного интереса»: широкий и узкий. Также указывается на необходимость решить ряд вопросов практического характера: определить субъектов, уполномоченных на ее предоставление, включая формы подтверждения их полномочий, а также лиц, имеющих право на ее получение и урегулировать особенности несения судебных расходов. The relevance of the study is due to the activation at the international level of activities related to the protection of collective and group interests, as evidenced by a number of adopted international acts. This circumstance necessitates the introduction of appropriate mechanisms into the national legal system. The article attempts to draw attention to the specifics of providing legal assistance in protecting public interest, based on foreign experience. Taking into account the analysis of scientific literature, the author concludes that at the doctrinal level, two approaches to understanding the legal category of «public interest law» have been formed: broad and narrow. It also points to the need to resolve a number of practical issues: to determine the entities authorized to provide it, including the forms of confirmation of their powers, as well as persons entitled to receive it and to settle the peculiarities of incurring legal costs.

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COVID-19 and the Mass Media

Handbook of Research on Representing Health and Medicine in Modern Media - Advances in Linguistics and Communication Studies ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-6825-5.ch031 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 509-518

Author(s):

Subir Sinha

Keyword(s):

Mass Media ◽

Significant Role ◽

Public Interest ◽

Media Coverage ◽

Graphical Representation ◽

The Public ◽

The Third ◽

The Media ◽

The Mass Media ◽

The Government

COVID-19 is the cause of the greatest pandemic of the century that affects almost every nation of our globe. In India, mass media has played a significant role in this pandemic situation. The media coverage revealed fearlessly the condition of COVID-19 and provides a pictorial view of the situation in front of the readers and viewers. The main objectives of these fearless journalistic works were to provide the public valuable authentic information, create awareness among the public, eliminate fake propaganda and fake news, highlight the problem face by the ordinary public, and to provide the government a medium to speak with the public for the public interest. Mass media served as a vital weapon to fight against COVID-19. The valuable information and instructions provided by mass media created awareness among the public and which played a major role to deescalate the graphical representation of active COVID-19 cases. The outbreak of COVID-19 and the dogmatic approaches of the mass media in the pandemic situation have recalled the concept of media as the third pillar of democracy.

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Representations of dementias in the press (2001-2010)

Sociologia Problemas e Práticas ◽

10.7458/spp2013732805 ◽

1970 ◽

Author(s):

Eduardo Cintra Torres

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Media Coverage ◽

World Health Organisation ◽

World Health ◽

First Year ◽

Negative Stereotypes ◽

The Public ◽

Daily Newspapers ◽

Printed Media ◽

The Press

In the first year of the 21st century, the World Health Organisation added itsweight toWorld Mental Health Day, with a view to stimulating interest in mentaldisorders, particularly through media coverage. This paper presents the resultsof a quantitative study on representations of types of dementia in threePortuguese daily newspapers between 2001 and 2010. The author did not wantto limit the study to the articles in the health sections and therefore looked at thewhole of the newspapers. This revealed a regular coverage of the topic in every section of the papers, especially with regard to Alzheimer’s disease, and with alarge variety of sources, protagonists and specific subjects. It also demonstratedthe existence of an inclusive attitude that is concomitant with an objective handlingof the topic. As a whole, Portuguese printed media news about dementias isfree of negative stereotypes and tends to give readers enough information andto include dementia among the themes that are both consensual in and importantto the public space.

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Nature conservation in a brave new (post-truth) world: arguments for and against public advocacy by conservation biologists

Pacific Conservation Biology ◽

10.1071/pc17018 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 25 (1) ◽

pp. 7 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Paul I. Boon

Keyword(s):

Public Interest ◽

Scientific Literature ◽

Conservation Policy ◽

Natural World ◽

Policy Formulation ◽

The Public ◽

Primary Responsibility ◽

Alternative Facts ◽

The Face ◽

Individual Self

Conservation biologists are obliged to function in a ‘post-truth’ environment in which ‘alternative facts’ are used by those who oppose meaningful action to conserve the natural world. Objections to public advocacy by scientists are usually based on the inter-related assumptions that (1) advocacy calls into question the objectivity of scientific advice and its special place in policy formulation; (2) conservation biologists are no better qualified to advise on conservation topics than anyone else in the community; (3) advocacy leads to conservation science being politicised; and (4) the conflation of advocacy with individual self-promotion. These objections are shown to fall short in the face of two obvious conservation failures: (1) the manifest inability of current approaches to generate globally sustainable fisheries; and (2) the lack of success in convincing the wider public about anthropogenic climate change. Instead of refraining from public advocacy, conservation biologists should acknowledge their primary responsibility in a civil society as informed citizens possessing specialised knowledge and experience that most other citizens lack. They should aim to influence conservation policy and on-ground works through a multitude of channels: (1) traditionally, through peer-reviewed articles in the scientific literature; (2) through formal input into professional advisory panels to inform government; and (3) through public advocacy. The positions adopted with regard to contentious issues by practitioners in other branches of scientific enquiry can provide useful guidance as to how conservation biologists can contribute meaningfully to discourse in the public interest without compromising their professional standing.

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Climate Change and Sustainability Issues in Indian Newspapers

10.4018/978-1-6684-3686-8.ch038 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 780-798

Author(s):

Nirmala Thirumalaiah ◽

Arul Aram I.

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Media Coverage ◽

Human Life ◽

News Coverage ◽

The Public ◽

Daily Newspapers ◽

News Stories ◽

Change Communication ◽

Regional Newspapers ◽

The Times

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Athletes’ rights under the World Anti-Doping Code: A legitimate public interest?

Alternative Law Journal ◽

10.1177/1037969x18783292 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 43 (3) ◽

pp. 197-202

Author(s):

Daniel Goldsworthy

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Public Interest ◽

Strict Liability ◽

International Human Rights ◽

The Public ◽

Social Interests ◽

The World ◽

World Anti Doping Agency ◽

International Human ◽

Human Rights Standards

World Anti-Doping Agency considers doping transgressions strict liability offences. Strict liability offences that restrict human rights may be morally justified where legitimate social interests outweigh the rights of individuals. The World Anti-Doping Agency Code is currently under review, with a revised Code expected to be issued in January 2021. This article critically examines whether the Code conforms to international human rights standards, and whether strict liability can be ethically justified on the basis that they are in the public interest. It also considers how the principles of anti-doping policy may be shaped by and for athletes through a Rawlsian critique of anti-doping regulation.

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The Takeover of Science Communication – Science Lost its Leading Role in the Public Discourse of Carbon Capture and Storage Research in Daily Newspapers in Germany

10.5194/gc-2018-6 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Simon Schneider

Keyword(s):

Media Coverage ◽

Carbon Capture ◽

Science Communication ◽

Public Discourse ◽

Carbon Capture And Storage ◽

Media Representations ◽

The Public ◽

Daily Newspapers ◽

Leading Role ◽

The Media

Abstract. CCS is an important issue that has played a major role in the agenda of scientists, researchers, and engineers. While the media representations of CCS in Germany from 2004 to 2014 showed significant characteristics of a medialization of the topic, this cannot be ascribed to science. Instead, CCS media coverage in Germany was dominated by other stakeholder groups. If Science will stay a pro-active element of science communication, new approaches for future science PR have be deduced to re-strengthen the role of science communication. Among these is the pursuit of a more differentiated understanding of target audiences and regional concerns. Science PR has to accept that the science itself is no longer the only stakeholder and actor within science communication.

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

Communication & Medicine ◽

10.1558/cam.34832 ◽

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.

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