scholarly journals La investigación sobre comunicación en España en los últimos 25 años (1990-2014). Objetos de estudio y métodos aplicados en los trabajos publicados en revistas españolas especializadas

2019 ◽  
pp. 37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel Martínez Nicolás ◽  
Enric Saperas ◽  
Ángel Carrasco-Campos
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Scientific Activity ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Gradual Improvement ◽  
Media System ◽  
The Media

Tras su institucionalización a comienzos de la década de los 70 con la creación de las primeras facultades de Ciencias de la Información, la investigación española sobre comunicación se consolida como ámbito disciplinar desde los años 90 con la multiplicación de la oferta de estos estudios en la universidad española, que propicia un crecimiento exponencial de la comunidad académica y de la producción científica en este campo. El ingente esfuerzo de metainvestigación realizado en la última década, centrado especialmente en las revistas especializadas, y en menor medida en las tesis doctorales, está permitiendo reconstruir aspectos relevantes de la investigación comunicativa en España en este periodo, pero sin atender de manera suficiente a aquellos elementos que nos permitirían realizar un diagnóstico de la orientación epistemológica general que haya seguido la actividad científica en este ámbito. Este trabajo pretende contribuir en esa dirección mediante un análisis de contenido de una muestra de 1.098 artículos publicados entre 1990 y 2014 por seis revistas españolas especializadas de referencia, con el propósito de describir la evolución de los objetos de estudio y de los dispositivos metodológicos de la investigación española sobre comunicación en este periodo. Los resultados indican la progresiva diversificación de los objetos de estudio; la preeminencia de los trabajos sobre contenidos mediáticos, con una desatención creciente de la dimensión institucional del sistema comunicativo (empresas, profesionales, mercados, políticas públicas, etc.); el decaimiento de la investigación teórica; la mejora paulatina de la calidad metodológica de los trabajos empíricos publicados; y el predominio, cada vez más acusado, de la investigación cuantitativa, y especialmente de los análisis de contenido realizados sobre documentos de origen mediático (noticias, anuncios, series televisivas, etc.). Las tendencias observadas son discutidas apelando al impacto que hayan podido tener en la investigación española sobre comunicación los cambios experimentados por el sistema comunicativo (crecimiento del sector, advenimiento de la digitalización, etc.) y por el renovado contexto institucional (autonomización de las titulaciones de comunicación, implantación del programa Academia de acreditación del profesorado universitario) en el que ha venido desarrollándose la actividad científica en este ámbito disciplinar en el último cuarto de siglo.After its institutionalisation during the early 1970s through the creation of the first faculties of Communication Sciences, Spanish communication research consolidates as a disciplinary field in the 1990s. During this period, the increasing number of universities degrees on communication studies led to an exponential growth of the academic community and, so, of the scientific production in the field. The enormous efforts of meta-research carried out in the last decade, specially focused on the study of peer-reviewed journals, and to lesser extent of PhD theses, have allowed the reconstruction of some relevant aspects of the current communication research in Spain. Nevertheless, these studies have not considered sufficiently those elements which would allow to identify the general epistemological orientation followed by the scientific activity in the field of communication. This paper intends to contribute to this research line. For this purpose, a content analysis has been applied to a sample of 1098 papers published between 1990 and 2014 by six major peer-reviewed communication journals, in order to observe the evolution of the objects of study and the methodological procedures in Spanish communication research during this period. The results show a progressive diversification of the objects of study, the pre-eminence of the studies on media content, a growing neglect of the institutional dimension of the media system (companies, professionals, markets, public policies, etc.), a decreasing interest on theoretical research, a gradual improvement of the methodological standards of empirical research, and a growing dominance of quantitative research, specially by means of content analysis applied to media documents (news, advertisements, television series, etc.). The observed trends are put for discussion considering the consequences that could have be generated on Spanish communication research by the changes of the media system (the growth of the communication sector, the advent of digitalization, etc.) and  by the updated institutional context (the autonomy of university degrees in communication studies, the implementation of the Academia teaching acreditation programme) on which scientific activity has deveolped over the past 25 years.

scholarly journals Development of Communication and Sport in China Based on Mapping of Knowledge Information Visualization

SAGE Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 215824401990017
Author(s):  
Yang Wei ◽  
Huihong Zhang ◽  
Hongsong Yin
Keyword(s):  
Information Visualization ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Research Development ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Sport Communication ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Sports Communication ◽  
Research Objects ◽  
Communication Culture

In China, since the beginning of the 21st century, the study of sports communication has gradually attracted the attention of the academic community, and a number of valuable achievements have emerged. The 2,863 articles that were published by core journals of sport communication from 1982 to 2018 and collected from the CNKI database were chosen as research objects. This article used CitespaceV software to analyze productivity, hot domains, and frontiers in China sport communication research by the methods of bibliometrics method, co-occurrence analysis, and word of frequency analysis. We aimed to grasp the dynamic process of China sport communication research development and provide a valuable reference for its theoretical research and practice. It was shown that first, sport communication researches in China started late but grew fast. Second, the research hotspot of sport communication was related to communication, culture, big data, network, and so on. Third, sport communication research was mainly carried out by universities of sport and communication schools of colleges and universities. Researches were centered around pluralistic, international, and technological aspects with “sport communication” as the focus in drawing experiences from the international sports communication and improve the Chinese sport communication. Rich knowledge and innovative ideas were needed to do the future researches.

A Literature Review on the Publicness of Chinese Social Organizations

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-107
Author(s):  
Yina Geng
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Social Organizations ◽  
Political Discourses

Abstract In the transformation of the Chinese society, the production and continuity of the publicness of social organizations affect the process and direction of social publicness. It is found out in this article through the review of relevant literature at home abroad that about the concept formulation of the publicness of social organizations the academic community has two directions: “what is” and “what ought to be.” The concepts of the publicness of social organizations are mainly classified according to social practices and political discourses. The production modes of the publicness of social organization mainly include the endogenous type and the exogenous type. Scholars believe that the alienation, incompleteness and contradiction in the publicness of social organizations are the main current crises and challenges, which are mainly attributed to the internal and external environments of social organizations. Therefore, scholars have put forward paths for fostering the publicness reproduction of social organizations. Based on the perspectives of different disciplines such as politics and sociology, researchers have adopted different approaches and methods. In the future, more efforts should be made to study the publicness of social organizations in elaborating research topics, deepening theoretical research, promoting qualitative research, and strengthening quantitative research.

The Catalan Political Process for Independence: An Example of the Partisan Media System

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 428-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josep-Lluís Micó ◽  
Josep-Maria Carbonell
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Federal System ◽  
Radio Stations ◽  
International Media ◽  
Media System ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Ramon Llull

Since 2012, Catalonia has been undergoing a complex political process in which a broad segment of the population has shown itself to be in favor of seceding from the Kingdom of Spain. This phenomenon is not new, given that during the 20th century, the relationship between the two territories was a source of instability and controversy, especially during the Civil War (1936-1939). However, the enormous popular dimension and the massive participation of hundreds of thousands of citizens have represented a remarkable new occurrence in recent times. Based on this situation, the primary aim of the present article is to describe the main reasons for this radicalization in the process of a hypothetical secession in which Catalonia breaks away from Spain. It also seeks to analyze and interpret the role that the media is playing in the so-called “Catalan Process.” Achieving this second objective has been possible thanks to research undertaken by Blanquerna School of Communication and International Relations (Ramon Llull University) based on more than 7,000 journalistic pieces published or broadcasted in more than 100 newspapers, magazines, television stations, radio stations, and cybernewspapers in seven different languages. The most significant conclusion of this study, based on content analysis of the aforementioned sample, is that the media are not being neutral in their coverage of the process. Thus, they have identified to varying degrees with one of the three possible outcomes of the conflict: the maintenance of the unity of Spain, the preferred option of much of national and international media; the independence of Catalonia, the choice of a high percentage of media in Catalonia itself; or a new relationship based on a federal system in Spain that would include Catalonia, the possibility with the least level of support in the three geographical areas studied.

scholarly journals Before the ‘Arab Spring’: How challengers pushed counter-issues in Egypt’s hybrid media system

2019 ◽  
pp. 175063521989461
Author(s):  
Hanan Badr
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
New Media ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
Print Media ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Agenda Building ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Media System ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Arab Spring

Eight years after the ‘Arab Spring’, literature is still marked by techno-deterministic interpretations. This article contributes to examining the role of agenda-building processes just before the outbreak of the Egyptian uprising in 2011 within authoritarian systems. Using the ‘hybrid media system’ concept, the article not only focuses on new media effects but, by including print media, it takes into consideration the media system in its entirety. Focusing on Khaled Said’s case as a counter-issue, the qualitative content analysis investigates how challengers in Egypt successfully pushed the media salience of police torture onto the mainstream media agenda. By reconstructing the issue cycle and intermedia spill-over effects, the author investigates the agenda-building processes within hybrid media systems in Arab authoritarian contexts. The qualitative content analysis includes 415 articles and posts from 12 diverse print, online and social media outlets between June 2010 and January 2011. The central finding is that successful spill-over effects occurred from online media to private print media, even though state media tried to ignore the issue. The coverage transferred the issue’s salience from new media into mainstream media, thus reaching wider non-politicized audiences. These proven interlinkages between old and new media are often an overlooked aspect in the literature on media and the ‘Arab Spring’.

scholarly journals A first glance at the work of Dorothy Blumenstock Jones

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Rafiza Varão
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
The United States ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Film Analysis ◽  
Biographical Data ◽  
History Of ◽  
Important Position

Despite having occupied an important position in the United States Office of War Information (OWI) and having actively participated in a decisive period of Communication Research, Dorothy Blumenstock Jones is a name almost forgotten in the history of the field of communication. All we know about her biography is like some puzzle pieces, although she made significant contributions to the study of movies in the 20th century. This paper seeks to portray not only biographical data about Jones but especially to map her work and its proposals related to the development of film analysis and content analysis - and to place her on the list of pioneers of communication studies.

scholarly journals MEMBONGKAR ISI PESAN DAN MEDIA DENGAN CONTENT ANALYSIS

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (33) ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
Gusti Yasser Arafat
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Media Effect ◽  
Social Construct ◽  
Quantitative Content ◽  
The People ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Difference

Content analysis in a quantitative research tradition is a method of communication science research and also for some of another social sciences branch. The quantitative content analysis is in the scope of positivistic paradigm that put its researcher as a neutral scientist who do not take a side and forbidden prohibited to product opinion. The researcher is only need to collect and then categorizing meaning of a content such as text, image, sign, and symbol. Content analysis is also able to test a hipotetic using deductive methode by series of statistic test. In communication sciences, this research methode model would powerful to answer how the media effect which impact to public and analyzing the people all at once. The difference between social construct in society and the recontructed reality by the media would being explained using this great methode. Content analysis is capable to measure the accuracy level of message producer and where it’s inclined.

scholarly journals A typology of alternative online political media in the United Kingdom: A longitudinal content analysis (2015–2018)

Journalism ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 146488492110595
Author(s):  
Declan McDowell-Naylor ◽  
Stephen Cushion ◽  
Richard Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Alternative Media ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Media System ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Political Cycle ◽  
Content Analyses ◽  
The Media ◽  
Political Media

Alternative online political media (AOPM) have become increasingly prominent elements of the media system in many countries. In response, numerous academic studies have examined the nature of these newer forms of alternative media. In line with this recent scholarship, in this study we carry out a longitudinal and systematic content analysis of nine AOPM websites in the United Kingdom (UK) ( N = 3452) between 2015 and 2018. Overall, we found a diversity of content, contrasting values and degrees of partisanship, which we develop into a typology of outlets. This includes four overlapping areas: electoral hyperpartisans, cultural partisans, political cycle specialists and vernacular macro-blogs. We conclude by recommending that scholars need to develop more detailed content analyses in order to better understand online alternative media, their interactions with the wider media system, and the system itself.

IMAGE OF THE REPUBLIC OF MORDOVIA IN THE MEDIA VOLGA FEDERAL DISTRICT (BASED ON CONTENT ANALYSIS OF NEWS PUBLICATIONS)

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 44-52
Author(s):  
LARISA ZAITSEVA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Information Content ◽  
Federal District ◽  
Information Space ◽  
Political News ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Number Of Publications

The territorial image is formed both purposefully by the subjects of image-making, and spontaneously-based on the influence of information content published in various media. The purpose of the research is to analyze the image of the Republic of Mordovia in the information space of the Volga Federal district. The image of the territory formed by external target audiences by means of news materials is studied using the method of case study and content analysis of publications: “Volga news”, “Federal Press” news of the PFD, “Pravda PFD”. The authors conclude that modern reality is perceived through the prism of the information field created by mass media. The media creates images filled with certain data, facts, colored by emotions, on the basis of which representations, opinions, judgments, and assessments are subsequently formed. The media play a significant role in shaping the territorial image, especially for external target audiences who are not familiar with the region and do not have their own assessment knowledge and experience. Most of the information content about the Republic in the studied media is related to the main thematic blocks: politics, economy, social sphere, culture (art, sports). Moreover, if in the publications “Volga news” and “Pravda PFD” mention of the region prevails in the economic block, then in the publications “Federal Press” and “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” - in the political one. The Volga news publication significantly dominates the rest in terms of the number of publications about Mordovia. The content of publications is mostly positive and neutral related to the issues of economic development of the territory and the preparation and holding of the world football championship. Pravda PFD mentions the Republic in the context of news from neighboring territories, most of the publications date back to 2018, but here the context is related to the Republic's positions among the regions of the PFD in various ratings. The publication “Federal-Press” forms a generally reflective image of the territory, focusing on the negative aspects of regional life. “Nezavisimaya Gazeta”, giving priority to political news, maintains a neutral and reflective context of publications, paying attention to the key problems of the territory. Thus, the desired image of the region is counter-dictated to the image broadcast by the media through various information channels, so it is necessary to constantly monitor the information space and timely correction of the broadcast materials.

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