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Lipari, Lisbeth. "Journalistic Authority: Textual Strategies of Legitimation." Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 73, no. 4 (December 1996): 821–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/107769909607300405.
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To the extent that news texts participate in social and political discourse, they also participate in constructing social and political life. This paper examines one textual strategy of news, the journalist's use of stance adverbs. The analysis illustrates how stance adverbs operate as a strategy of legitimation that can augment or diminish the legitimacy of knowledge claims, masquerade as evidence, and steer readers toward a preferred interpretation of the news. As with other aspects of news work, textual strategies such as stance adverbs can serve to enhance and conceal both journalistic and social authority.
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Ghane, Mohammad Hossein, and Fatemeh Mahdavirad. "Journalistic Stance in Newswriting on Iranian Nuclear Issue." International Journal of English Linguistics 6, no. 6 (November 24, 2016): 118. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijel.v6n6p118.
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<p>Regarding the role of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) in discovering the way ideology is crystalized through the prevalence of various discourses, the present study is an attempt to examine how the journalistic personal and institutional ideologies and political positions are realized through certain textual and intertextual features. Using Perrin’s (2012) progression model, journalistic stancing with regard to the Iranian nuclear issue at three levels of micro, meso, and macro was investigated. The study of claims of unpeacefulness in the Western media texts under investigation reveals a systematic ideological bias towards portraying a negative presentation of Iranian nuclear policy. The Iranian journalists, however, tend to highlight the peaceful nature of the Iranian nuclear program and the West’s double standards as well as Iran’s efforts in order to come to a mutual agreement. Implications of the insights provided by the study for confirming the premises of CDA and applications of the findings for teaching are explained in brief.</p>
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Fahmy, Shahira S., Basma Mostafa Taha, and Hasan Karademir. "Journalistic Practices on Twitter: A Comparative Visual Study on the Personalization of Conflict Reporting on Social Media." Online Media and Global Communication 1, no. 1 (February 14, 2022): 23–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/omgc-2022-0008.
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Abstract Purpose Using a mixed-method approach, this comparative study unpacks the way journalists personalized the controversial Yemen Civil War by examining the patterns of visual framing on Twitter. It further explores the influence of the individual level factor (home country or foreign identity of the journalist) and organizational level factor (countries affiliated with news organizations directly or indirectly involved in the conflict), on images shared on the Twitter platform. Design/methodology/approach A content analysis and a semiotic analysis of 2880 image tweets were used to investigate the different visual narratives related to the conflict and the extent of personalized journalism on Twitter. Findings The content analysis showed that while journalists offered some personalized reporting, by and large, they preferred to adopt a neutral stance when reporting the conflict. The semiotic analysis complemented the findings and identified more broadly that the image tweets analyzed emphasized the classic war-as-a-tragedy narrative, while at the same time shedding some light on the political conflict. Practical implications Researchers are given guidance into journalistic practices on social media and a deeper understanding of the extent and role of personalized journalism of conflict on Twitter. Social implications This study captured the fluctuating role of journalists on Twitter. Journalists occasionally fluctuated in their visual roles between being neutral observers and moral agents. These fluctuations were likely influenced by an array of factors, including the journalist’s home country or foreign identity and the country affiliation of news organizations they were working for. Originality/value This is the first study to show that journalists from different backgrounds have remained somehow obliged to carry on with their journalistic roles on Twitter. It also sheds light on different levels of influences on personalized war coverage on social media and extend the hierarchy of influence model (Shoemaker, Pamela & Stephen Reese. 1996. Mediating the Message; Theories of influence on mass media content. New York: Longman) in the context of personalized reporting on Twitter. It thus adds to the growing body of knowledge on how this model plays out in an online-first era, especially in non-western contexts.
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Chan, Joseph Man, and Chin-Chuan Lee. "Shifting Journalistic Paradigms: Editorial Stance and Political Transition in Hong Kong." China Quarterly 117 (March 1989): 97–117. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305741000023663.
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Since the signing of Sino–British Joint Declaration in September 1984 Hong Kong has entered a transitional phase, preparing for its ultimate return to China in 1997. This transition is characterized by a drastic redistribution of power and authority, and a realignment of social forces. Most significantly, a dualistic power structure has emerged, signifying a rapid decline of traditional British colonial dominance and a corresponding rise in the influence of the People's Republic of China in Hong Kong.
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Hussain, Shabir. "Analyzing the war–media nexus in the conflict-ridden, semi-democratic milieu of Pakistan." Media, War & Conflict 10, no. 3 (February 8, 2017): 273–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750635216682179.
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This study combined the key findings of a dozen empirical studies with an original qualitative investigation aimed at understanding the dynamics of conflict journalism in Pakistan. The author devised an original contextual model and tested its applicability in five different conflicts of varying intensity. The study found that conflict journalism is dependent on the interaction between two key factors: the journalistic assessment of a conflict in terms of its seriousness of threat to national security and the resultant flak that stems from various sources that significantly influence professional reporting. The article concludes that journalists working in the semi-democratic, conflict-marred settings of Pakistan adopt a more vigilant and independent stance if they perceive a conflict to be posing an enormous threat to national security, for example the Taliban conflict, and that their critical stance erodes to a more compromising position in the case of a medium-level threat in conflicts such as the one in Balochistan and the ethno-political conflict in Karachi; their reporting further diminishes to a more sensational stance in the case of a low-level threat conflict due to the preponderance of the commercial interests of media industries.
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Fahy, Declan, and Matthew C. Nisbet. "The science journalist online: Shifting roles and emerging practices." Journalism 12, no. 7 (September 8, 2011): 778–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1464884911412697.
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Science reporters today work within an evolving science media ecosystem that is pluralistic, participatory and social. It is a mostly online environment that has challenged the historically dominant and exceptional role of science reporters as privileged conveyers of specialist information to general audiences. We map this science media environment, drawing on interviews with journalists and writers from nationally prominent US and UK media organizations, describing the shifting roles and emerging practices of science journalists online. Compared to a decade ago, this occupational group, driven by economic imperatives and technological changes, is performing a wider plurality of roles, including those of curator, convener, public intellectual and civic educator, in addition to more traditional journalistic roles of reporter, conduit, watchdog and agenda-setter. Online science journalists have a more collaborative relationship with their audiences and sources and are generally adopting a more critical and interpretative stance towards the scientific community, industry, and policy-oriented organizations.
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Rocci, Andrea, and Margherita Luciani. "Economic-financial journalists as argumentative intermediaries." Argumentation in Journalism 5, no. 1 (March 24, 2016): 88–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jaic.5.1.05roc.
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The paper offers a single-case analysis of newsmaking discourse, considering the source, the writing process and the news product from the vantage point of argumentation. The case study examines how a journalist of the business-finance desk of a generalist newspaper copes with the argumentative and persuasive nature of the corporate press releases on financial results on which he depends for his reporting. The paper contributes to the understanding of journalistic practices in the economy-finance desk showing that even within the constrained genre of hard news reporting and despite the epistemic and practical limitations of newsmaking practices the journalist does not renounce to a critical stance towards the argumentation in the source. This is done without fully and explicitly assuming the argumentative roles of antagonist and protagonist of alternative standpoints but rather by rhetorically framing the reader in these roles. Methodologically, the paper showcases a two-way cross-fertilization between argumentation theory and the ethnography of newsmaking. The newsmaking process joining the press release and the newspaper article is analyzed in vivo thanks to the ethnographic methodology of Progression Analysis (PA). Progression Analysis provides a new kind of evidence for argumentative reconstruction, while argumentative reconstruction provides an explicit framework for comparing source and product texts and for laying down the reasoning behind the journalist’s decision making as elicited by (PA).
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Marin Arrese, J. I. "Epistemicity and stance: A cross-linguistic study of epistemic stance strategies in journalistic discourse in English and Spanish." Discourse Studies 17, no. 2 (January 28, 2015): 210–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461445614564523.
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Marín Arrese, Juana Isabel, and Begoña Núñez Perucha. "Evaluation and engagement in journalistic commentary and news reportage." Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, no. 19 (November 15, 2006): 225. http://dx.doi.org/10.14198/raei.2006.19.13.
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This paper explores the expression of evaluation and the treatment of 'the same event' in news reportage and journalistic commentary in two languages (English, Spanish). In our analysis of the evaluative dimension, we draw on the framework of Appraisal Theory (Martin 2000; Martin and White 2005; White 2003, White 2004, inter alia), and elaborate on the analysis of the categories of evaluation, subsumed under the notion of Engagement, in relation to writer stance and to the dimension of subjectivity and intersubjectivity. The paper reveals the presence and patterning of the various linguistic resources for the expression of evaluation in these subgenres of journalistic discourse, and establishes comparisons across languages.
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Böhm, Verónica. "Speaker’s stance and subjectivity in the epistemic modal and evidential use of the Spanish imperfecto in journalistic texts." Current Visions of TAML2 8, no. 1 (December 31, 2019): 84–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/dujal.19012.boh.
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Abstract This study contributes to the analysis of the epistemic modal and evidential use of the Spanish imperfecto with regard to the speaker’s stance and subjectively (rather than grammatically) motivated decision to use the Spanish imperfecto as an evidential strategy in journalistic texts: The speaker uses the Spanish imperfecto to express or tell a state of affairs from his perspective as a ‘narrator’, implying that he is not the author of such information and referring to third sources without mentioning it. The corpus data were obtained from the Corpus de la Real Academia Española (CREA) from the section ‘written journalistic texts’ of the standard Iberian Spanish to guarantee the authenticity of examples and avoid any case of misunderstanding it as a variety of Spanish.
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Vertommen, Bram, Astrid Vandendaele, and Ellen Van Praet. "Towards a multidimensional approach to journalistic stance. Analyzing foreign media coverage of Belgium." Discourse, Context & Media 1, no. 2-3 (June 2012): 123–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2012.06.003.
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Van Hout, Tom, Bram Vertommen, and Gabrina Pounds. "Analyzing the view from here, there and nowhere: Discursive approaches to journalistic stance." Discourse, Context & Media 1, no. 2-3 (June 2012): 55–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2012.10.003.
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Dulwahab, Encep, Aceng Abdullah, Eni Maryani, and Asep Saeful Muhtadi. "Media Strategy in Covering Religious Conflicts: A Case Study of Ahmadiyah Conflict in West Java, Indonesia." Jurnal Komunikasi: Malaysian Journal of Communication 37, no. 2 (June 30, 2021): 98–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.17576/jkmjc-2021-3702-07.
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The Ahmadiyah conflict in Indonesia is often publicised by the Indonesian mass media at local and national level. The media plays an important role in covering conflict and there is a great interest among media and communication researchers to investigate media portrayals of these events. Most studies focused on the role of the media and journalists in the conflict. Very limited study however focused on media approach or analysing media strategies in covering the conflict. This research aims to explore strategies by two newspapers i.e: the Pikiran Rakyat (the biggest newspapers in West Java) and Republika (one the biggest newspapers in Indonesia) in reporting the Ahmadiyah religious conflict in Indonesia. Applying a qualitative approach, using a case study method, this research revealed that both media outlets applied four strategies in covering the Ahmadiyah conflict. These strategies are: (1) Building and maintaining good relations with news sources, which includes people involved in the conflict and witnesses; (2) Establishing a basecamp in which the journalists can focus on covering the conflict for a longer period; (3) Conducting interviews with news informants and making efforts to be accepted by the local people by mingling with the community and showing their neutrality stance; (4) Presenting and maintaining the accuracy of news. The result of this study is expected to contribute to the emerging literature on media and conflict, as well as understanding journalistic practice in covering various religious conflicts in Indonesia and beyond. Keywords: Media, journalist, coverage, conflict, Ahmadiyah religious community.
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Ethelb, Hamza. "The People or the Police: Who to Blame? A Study Investigating Linguistic and Textual Devices Journalists Use in Framing News Stories." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 6, no. 12 (December 1, 2016): 2245. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.0612.02.
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One news event may be represented differently by different news organizations. Research in news representation remains sparse in Arabic. This article investigates some of the linguistic and textual devices used in journalistic texts. It looks at the way these devices are used to influence public opinion. This gives rise to significance of conducting this research. This study uses these devices within the framework of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). For the purpose of this study, four news articles produced by Aljazeera and Al-Arabiya were examined under CDA in order to show how journalists structure their news stories to imply an ideological stance. The analysis showed that Aljazeera and Al-Arabiya represented the people and the police differently, each according to their ideological and political leanings. This resulted in the public having different opinions of the event.
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Moavia, Hasan. "Interaction in Business Discourse: A Comparative Study of the Journalistic Stance in Pakistani English Newspapers." Pakistan Social Sciences Review 1, no. II (December 31, 2017): 89–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2017(1-ii)08.
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Song, Yang. "Multimedia news storytelling as digital literacies: An alternative paradigm for online journalism education." Journalism 19, no. 6 (May 13, 2016): 837–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1464884916648093.
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This article analyzes a journalism student’s multimedia news storytelling project in the format of audio slideshows as required by an introductory course on online journalism. Combining classroom ethnography, semi-structured interviews, content and textual analysis, the study focuses in detail on how the student designs a character-driven, audio-visual story through the theoretical lens of digital literacies and multimodality. The findings reveal the complexity of multimodal and generic design made by the journalism student. It is also found that the design process helps her to assert an authorial stance as an emergent online journalist who negotiates heterogeneity of journalistic professional Discourses. This article proposes a genre-aware, semiotic-aware, critical framework informed by digital literacy studies and embeds a case study in the theoretical framework in order to understand the ‘literacies’ as required and performed in multimedia news storytelling. Theoretical and pedagogical implications are also discussed at the end of the article.
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Koivunen, Anu, Antti Kanner, Maciej Janicki, Auli Harju, Julius Hokkanen, and Eetu Mäkelä. "Emotive, evaluative, epistemic: A linguistic analysis of affectivity in news journalism." Journalism 22, no. 5 (February 23, 2021): 1190–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1464884920985724.
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In this article, we introduce a linguistic approach to studying affectivity as a fundamental feature of news journalism. By reconceptualising affectivity beyond emotive storytelling, intentional stance-taking or evaluative expression, we propose a methodology that highlights how conventions related to mediating, modulating and managing affectivity permeate journalistic genres. Drawing from conversation analysis, Bakhtinian theory of language as dialogical and notion of affective meaning-making, we investigate how selected linguistic forms and structures – namely evidential and epistemic modals and lexical items signalling affective intensity (such as emotive and evaluative words and metaphorical expressions) – participate in affective meaning-making in news journalism. A scalable computational methodology is introduced to study multiple linguistic structures in conjunction. In investigating a case study – the news reporting and commentary on a highly charged, year-long political conflict between the right-wing conservative government and the trade unions in Finland (2015–2016) – the approach allows a focus on the ways in which affectivity operates in journalistic texts in response to both generic expectations of the audience and journalistic conventions. Our findings include identification of the intertwining of strategic rituals of objectivity and emotionality, recognition of metaphoricity as a key source of affectivity and detection of different news article types having their own conventions for managing affectivity. We also observe a connection between emotive and evaluative words and the grammatical constructions used to express degrees of certainty, which suggests these modal constructions play an important part in how affectivity informs journalistic texts.
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Lesage, Frédérik, and Robert A. Hackett. "Between Objectivity and Openness—The Mediality of Data for Journalism." Media and Communication 1, no. 1 (January 30, 2014): 39–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/mac.v1i1.73.
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A number of recent high profile news events have emphasised the importance of <em>data </em>as a journalistic resource. But with no definitive definition for what constitutes data in journalism, it is difficult to determine what the implications of collecting, analysing, and disseminating data are for journalism, particularly in terms of objectivity in journalism. Drawing selectively from theories of mediation and research in journalism studies we critically examine how data is incorporated into journalistic practice. In the first half of the paper, we argue that data's value for journalism is constructed through mediatic dimensions that unevenly evoke different socio-technical contexts including scientific research and computing. We develop three key dimensions related to data's mediality within journalism: the problem of scale, transparency work, and the provision of access to data as 'openness'. Having developed this first approach, we turn to a journalism studies perspective of journalism's longstanding "regime of objectivity", a regime that encompasses interacting news production practices, epistemological assumptions, and institutional arrangements, in order to consider how data is incorporated into journalism's own established procedures for producing objectivity. At first sight, working with data promises to challenge the regime, in part by taking a more conventionalist or interpretivist epistemological position with regard to the representation of truth. However, we argue that how journalists and other actors choose to work with data may in some ways deepen the regime's epistemological stance. We conclude by outlining a set of questions for future research into the relationship between data, objectivity and journalism.
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Lesage, Frédérik, and Robert A. Hackett. "Between Objectivity and Openness—The Mediality of Data for Journalism." Media and Communication 2, no. 2 (July 1, 2014): 42–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/mac.v2i2.128.
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A number of recent high profile news events have emphasised the importance of data as a journalistic resource. But with no definitive definition for what constitutes data in journalism, it is difficult to determine what the implications of collecting, analysing, and disseminating data are for journalism, particularly in terms of objectivity in journalism. Drawing selectively from theories of mediation and research in journalism studies we critically examine how data is incorporated into journalistic practice. In the first half of the paper, we argue that data's value for journalism is constructed through mediatic dimensions that unevenly evoke different socio-technical contexts including scientific research and computing. We develop three key dimensions related to data's mediality within journalism: the problem of scale, transparency work, and the provision of access to data as 'openness'. Having developed this first approach, we turn to a journalism studies perspective of journalism's longstanding "regime of objectivity", a regime that encompasses interacting news production practices, epistemological assumptions, and institutional arrangements, in order to consider how data is incorporated into journalism's own established procedures for producing objectivity. At first sight, working with data promises to challenge the regime, in part by taking a more conventionalist or interpretivist epistemological position with regard to the representation of truth. However, we argue that how journalists and other actors choose to work with data may in some ways deepen the regime's epistemological stance. We conclude by outlining a set of questions for future research into the relationship between data, objectivity and journalism.
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Komarytsia, Mariana. "SOFIA PARFANOVYCH’S ARTISTIC AND JOURNALISTIC LEGACY: WORD – PERSONALITY – AGE." Proceedings of Research and Scientific Institute for Periodicals, no. 11(29) (2021): 307–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.37222/2524-0331-2021-11(29)-14.
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The article focuses on the journalistic and literary achievements of Sofia Parfanovych – a doctor, writer, opinion journalist, editor, and a public figure – in the context of interdisciplinarity. Her active public stance as one of the leaders of the Ukrainian temperance society Vidrodzhennia, a member of the Ukrainian Medical and Hygienic Society, and Shevchenko Scientific Society encouraged educational activities in the Galician interwar press. She collaborated with periodicals such as Vidrodzhennia, Zhinocha Dolia, Likarskyi Vistnyk, Narodnie Zdorovlia, Nova Khata, etc. They published articles, stories, and discussions on a healthy lifestyle, healthy eating and threats posed by tobacco and alcohol, special attention was given to women’s health and child care. Many publications combined journalism and literature. For purely literary works – short stories and essays – O. Parfanovych used her experience as a medical practitioner. They were first published in the press (Nazustrich, Dilo, etc.), and later were included in the collections Tsina Zhyttia (Lviv, 1937) and Inshi Dni (Augsburg, 1948), producing strong reverberations in the Ukrainian literary environment. The article elaborates on a broad panorama of reception – i.e., reviews published in 1937 in the periodicals such as Dzvony, Zhinocha Dolia, Nova Zoria, Nova Khata, and Ukrayinska Knyha, written by by M. Hnatyshak, O. Duchyminska, O. Mokh, M. Rudnytskyi, as well as reviews by Yu. Sherekh and V. Nesterovych of the MUR (Artistic Ukrainian Movement) era. Critics argued that the first collection mostly includes «observations of life», and the second focuses on studying the laws of life with greater philosophical and psychological depth. The reviewers’ debates are analysed on a comparative basis, factors associated with mentality and gender are shown to account for differences in approaches while emphasizing the clear-cut national principles of the writer’s creative work. Keywords: Sofia Parfanovych, Galician interwar press, medicine, abstinence, literary criticism, interdisciplinarity.
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Gates Tapia, Anna M., and Douglas Biber. "Lexico-grammatical stance in Spanish news reportage." Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 27, no. 1 (August 8, 2014): 208–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/resla.27.1.09gat.
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The small South American country of Ecuador has recently come to international attention for perceived threats to journalistic freedom: first a major defamation lawsuit against El Universo (filed in March 2011) for unfounded criticisms of President Correa, and more recently passage of a highly controversial law of communications in June, 2013. Due to these developments, there is reason to believe that media reportage in Ecuador will currently be highly circumspect in the expression of opinions and evaluations, discourse functions that have been investigated under the umbrella of ‘stance’ in previous linguistic investigations. However, the situation of media language use in Ecuador is further interesting in that there are both government newspapers as well as privately owned newspapers competing on the open market. Presumably these different newspapers will not be affected in the same ways by the legal actions of the last few years. To investigate that possibility, the present study documents the lexico-grammatical expression of stance in a large corpus of Ecuadorian newspaper reportage, comparing and contrasting the expression of stance in two major newspapers: El Telégrafo, controlled by the government, and El Comercio, a privately owned outlet. The study focuses on two major types of lexico-grammatical features used to express stance: que-complement clauses and adverbials. Although the two newspapers are quite similar in the devices preferred for the expression of stance, the analysis also identifies systematic patterns of difference. Surprisingly, the results show that it is the government-controlled newspaper that consistently expresses stance to a greater extent than the privately-owned paper. These results are interpreted relative to the recent legal events in Ecuador, perhaps indicating increased scrutiny of media reportage in the private sector than in the public sector.
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Vlasov, Aleksei. "Franco-Prussian campaign of 1870-1871 in perception of the novice British war correspondent A. Forbes." Genesis: исторические исследования, no. 7 (July 2020): 101–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-868x.2020.7.33521.
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The object of this article is professional activity of the British war correspondent Archibald Forbes during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871. The subject is the perception and reflection of military realities (1870-1871) by the novice journalist. The goal consists in determination of the mechanisms of perception of participants and realities of the Franco-Prussian confrontation of 1870-1871 by the British correspondent A. Forbes. Intellectual history and imagological approach comprise the methodological framework of this research. Based on the analysis of documentary evidence left by A. Forbes, which describes the events of 1870-1871, the author was able to trace the evolution of Forbes’ perception of the Franco-Prussian campaign of 1870-1871. The conclusion is made on gradual changes in Forbe’s perception and reflection of war realities. The initial admiration was replaced by the professional subject-object description. However, his stance on parties to the conflict remained unchanged. The author assumes that A. Forbes had particular personal attitudes, but his perception of the war of 1870-1871 has evolved. The acquired results may be valuable in studying journalistic practice, as well as mutual perception of European ethnoses. The scientific novelty lies in a comprehensive approach towards the phenomenon at hand: the author examines not only the mechanisms of perception as such, but also their transformation influenced by various factors. This research made a transition from the widespread study of biographies and activity of correspondents of the XIX century to an extensive culturological and intellectual approach in consideration of professional practice of journalists of the past.
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Nash, Chris. "Reporting controversy in health policy: A content and field analysis." Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa 15, no. 2 (October 1, 2009): 35–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v15i2.983.
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This article reports on the research and analysis of editorial attitudes and news reporting in two prominent Sydney newspapers—The Daily Telegraph (DT) and The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH)—about the establishment and operation of the Medically Supervised Injecting Room (MSIC) in Kings Cross from January 1999 to December 2006. The establishment of the MSIC was highly controversial and generated strongly partisan attitudes among politicians, experts, local businesses and the general community. The research compares the editorial stance of these newspapers towards the injecting room and the reporting practices of the newspapers, in particular the range of sources used by the journalists; it deploys a content analysis to identify positive and negative attitudes in the preferred readings of the texts, the usage of sources within the reports and the partisan affiliations of those sources. It reveals stark differences in the reporting of the controversy by the two newspapers, and that the reporting differences were aligned with the respective editorial policies of the mastheads. The interpretation of these empirical findings using field theory is located within the debates in the journalism studies literature about the power relationship of journalistic practices to the interests of sources.
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Moratón, Lara, and Julia Lavid. "STANCE AND ENGAGEMENT IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH JOURNALISTIC TEXTS: TOWARDS A RELIABLE ANNOTATION SCHEME FOR LINGUISTIC AND COMPUTATIONAL PURPOSES." Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis 135, no. 1 (2018): 29–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/20834624sl.18.003.8163.
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Alipour, Mohammad, and Parastoo Jahanbin. "A comparative study of proximity in Iranian and American newspaper editorials." Russian Journal of Linguistics 24, no. 4 (December 15, 2020): 796–815. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2687-0088-2020-24-4-796-815.
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The study is aimed at gaining further insight into the concept of proximity and its contribution to text development in general and newspaper editorials in particular. It also furthers our understanding of cross-linguistic differences in the use of metadiscourse. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate and compare proximity elements in Iranian and American newspaper editorials. Following Hyland's proximity model (2010a) which comprises five major elements, organization, argumentative structure, stance, engagement, and credibility , we focused on a detailed analysis of proximity features in two corpora, Iranian newspaper editorials and American newspaper editorials. To this aim, 240 newspaper editorials, including 120 editorials from each category, were collected. The outcomes revealed that there were significant differences in the use of proximity elements in the mentioned corpora. It was demonstrated that stance markers were considerably more recurrent in the American data than their Iranian counterpart. Unlike the American editorials, the Iranian ones contained a larger number of engagement markers. The key reasons behind such discrepancies are discussed in terms of differences in cultural, social, and political backgrounds. This study can be helpful for English for Specific/Academic Purposes (ES/AP) learners who study journalistic English to become familiar with proximity.
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Yakovlev, S. A. "Another earth and sky. Vladimir Korolenko and Igor Dedkov in the chaos of revolutions." Voprosy literatury, no. 4 (August 22, 2019): 13–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2019-4-13-28.
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The writer Vladimir Korolenko (1853–1921) and literary critic Igor Dedkov (1934–1994) became witnesses and active participants of Russia’s two ‘fateful’ historical upheavals: one at the beginning of the 20th c., and the other at its end. The article examines the values system of the civic stance assumed by these preeminent literary figures at the time of such opposite political U-turns. Quoted in the article are V. Korolenko’s journals and his letters to A. Lunacharsky. The article analyses I. Dedkov’s perception of Korolenko’s works as expressed in his diaries from the 1950s–1980s and journalistic pieces. The author comes to a paradoxical conclusion that while Korolenko and Dedkov represented nominally antagonistic political systems, their ultimate goals do not contradict each other. United by the ideals of narodnichestvo, Korolenko and Dedkov abhorred the changes brought about by the contemporary revolutions, which explains the heavy political charge of this paper.
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TOTTIE, GUNNEL. "From pause to word: uh, um and er in written American English." English Language and Linguistics 23, no. 1 (September 4, 2017): 105–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1360674317000314.
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This article describes and discusses the appearance and increasing frequency of uh, um and er in American English journalistic prose from the 1960s to the early 2000s as part of the colloquialization of the language. The three variants uh, um and er are shown to have different uses in writing than in speech; in writing they can be shown to qualify as words, while their status in speech appears to be on a cline of wordhood. In writing, they belong to the class of stance adverbs, serving metalinguistic purposes. Two types are distinguished, depending on sentence placement: in initial position, uh, um and er are attitude adverbs and in medial position, they are style adverbs. Although er is dispreferred in initial position and preferred for correction of previously used words, every variant can be used for all discourse-pragmatic functions, which supports classifying them as one lexeme.
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Orna-Montesinos, Concepción. "The discourses of sustainability in news magazines." Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 28, no. 2 (December 31, 2015): 442–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/resla.28.2.04orn.
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Sustainability has become a key concept in the debate over global environmental challenges. With the view that at the heart of the environmental debate is undoubtedly the text, this paper examines the rhetorical construction of text and provides linguistic insights into how the concept of sustainability is textualized. Corpus findings show that the discourse of sustainability is constructed by interwoven discourses which depict sustainability as a goal, as a problem, or as an object of analysis or study and implemented by companies and institutions. The rhetorical construction of the argumentation of the discourses of sustainability further suggests that the news magazines convey a multiplicity of obvious or hidden communicative purposes. This paper critically examines how resources such as evaluation, hedging or intertextuality are used in journalistic discourse to convey the author’s stance towards sustainability, trying to position the audience and thus to shape the public awareness and acceptance of sustainability.
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Ballesteros-Lintao, Rachelle. "Investigating the Evaluative Language in Philippine and Chinese News Reports on the South China Sea Disputes." Advances in Language and Literary Studies 9, no. 6 (December 28, 2018): 66. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.9n.6p.66.
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This study examined a cross-cultural perspective on how the top popular press in the Philippines and China portray an evaluative stance as regards the current South China Sea tensions. It set out to reveal the news writers’ positions through examining Martin and White’s (2005) appraisal framework particularly the attitude category. The analysis of the media reports from the two countries culled from a three-year period (January 2013-December 2016) focused on how the news writers construed their attitudinal judgment and positions. Findings reveal that the high occurrences of appreciation resources in both corpora provide subtle or indirect expressions of behavioral judgment in the course of journalistic writing where conventions relating to objectivity are necessary. Even if dominated by appreciation evaluative language that construes value of phenomenon relating to aspects of the disputes, affect (manifesting emotions) and judgment (relating to behavior) evaluative resources are employed to reflect or represent the socio-cultural and political contexts, government policy and even capture the local sentiment in which the news reports are written. As regards the difference between the two, the Chinese news reports lean towards a more diplomatic stance through the noteworthy use of evaluative affect and appreciation resources that underscore enhancement of relationship, partnership and accord while the Philippine news reports are more inclined to express implied negative subjective attitudinal stance on the issue. This paper set out the significance of language in framing positions, sentiments, opinions and policies in which meanings are construed in news reports. Examining media discourse from the lens of the appraisal system or evaluative language underscores how subjectivity occurs where beliefs, notions and values in a society are generated.
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Zou, Hang, and Ken Hyland. "Reworking research: Interactions in academic articles and blogs." Discourse Studies 21, no. 6 (July 27, 2019): 713–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461445619866983.
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The blog is an increasingly familiar newcomer to the panoply of academic genres, offering researchers the opportunity to disseminate their work to new and wider audiences of experts and interested lay people. This digital medium, however, also brings challenges to writers in the form of a relatively unpredictable readership and the potential for immediate, public and potentially hostile criticism. To understand how academics in the social sciences respond to this novel rhetorical situation, we explore how they discoursally recontextualize in blogs the scientific information they have recently published in journal articles. Based on two corpora of 30 blog posts and 30 journal articles with the same authors and topics, we examine the ways researchers carefully reconstruct a different writer persona and relationship with their readers using stance and engagement model. In addition to supporting the view that the academic blog is a hybrid genre situated between academic and journalistic writing, we show how writers’ rhetorical choices help define different rhetorical contexts.
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Makarova, Natalia Ya. "DATA JOURNALISM AS A DRIVER OF THE MEDIA DEVELOPMENT AND JOURNALISTIC EDUCATION." RSUH/RGGU Bulletin. "Literary Theory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies" Series, no. 6 (2020): 55–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2020-6-55-64.
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Data journalism has become a stable trend in the development of the global media system. The article is devoted to the key competencies that a data journalist should possess. Examples of the foreign and Russian publications prepared on the basis of data analysis are considered. Special attention is paid to the training of data journalists. The system of journalistic education is not ready to fully meet the challenges of the media market: we can safely say that there are very few educational programs on data journalism in Russia.
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Samir El-Falaky, May. "Murder in the Consulate: The Grammar of Transitivity in the Headlines of News Reports about Jamal Khashoggi." Advances in Language and Literary Studies 10, no. 3 (June 30, 2019): 11. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.10n.3p.11.
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The present study explicates the nature of the lexicogrammatical choices made in journalistic discourse about the death of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The case is internationally represented in the mostly circulated newspapers. The online versions of the four newspapers Arab News (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia), Hürreyat Daily News (Turkey), New York Times (United States of America) and Tehran Times (Iran) are selected for the study. Proceeding within the framework of the transitivity system, the paper intends to expound how the four newspapers express the stances and viewpoints about the case. The analysis positions the newspapers writing technique within an ideological bifurcation of the legitimized US and the delegitimized THEM. The use of the transitivity system as an approach for analysis of the headlines unveils how journalists’ attitudes steer readers toward the opinions preferred by the national policies of their countries.
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Hussain, Jam Sajjad, Ghulam Shabir, Nasir Hameed, and Shahid Afzal Durrani. "Pressure Groups and Free Press: Downsizing in News Organizations and Future of Traditional Media in Pakistan." Sustainable Business and Society in Emerging Economies 3, no. 4 (December 31, 2021): 545–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.26710/sbsee.v3i4.2069.
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Purpose: News media in third world countries remained under social, religious, political and military pressure. Developing countries in presence of pressure groups cannot enjoy the fruits of a democratic setup. So, the purpose of study is to explore factors of downsizing in traditional media organizations and their future in wake of pressure groups, which create hindrance in freedom of expression.
Design/ Methodology/ Approach: Qualitative approach was employed to explore the causes behind the undesired downsizing. Researchers chosen 15 respondents working on senior positions in different traditional media organization from different stations of Pakistan including Islamabad, Lahore, Multan, Bahawalpur and Karachi based on purposive sampling.
Findings: Results revealed the incumbent government changed its stance on freedom of expression and adopted each modus operandi to silence the voices from journalistic corners. The government promoted selective part of freedom of expression by highlighting the anchors speaking in favor of the party.
Implications/ Originality/ Value: So, the study concluded traditional media organizations should be reorganized and government should extend its democratic support for protecting freedom of expression. The study recommended the government should remain impartial and provide space to traditional news organizations so that the citizens should be provided with right to know.
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Connolly, Johnny. "Illicit drug markets, systemic violence and victimisation." Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly 68, no. 4 (December 21, 2017): 415–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.53386/nilq.v68i4.54.
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A common theme that runs throughout much of the literature on drug markets, drug-related crime and also the impact of drug law enforcement is how limited our understanding of them is. In the absence of research and reliable evidence, certain ‘taken for granted’ assumptions or stereotypes have emerged to fill the gaps in knowledge. Journalistic and television exposés, present a Hobbesian spectacle of an inherently violent world populated by ‘evil drug dealers’. These representations have also influenced legislative responses, particularly since 1996. In the Republic of Ireland, following the murder of journalist Veronica Guerin, a plethora of new draconian laws were introduced. This led to a form of legislation by ‘moral panic’ particularly in response to drug-related crime. Prior to the mid-1990s, Northern Ireland had largely avoided the growth in heroin consumption of the type associated with Dublin since the 1980s. High levels of police and military security and the anti-drug stance of many paramilitary organisations had a suppression effect on the importation, distribution and consumption of serious drugs. The Good Friday Agreement of 1998 led to the dismantling of the state security apparatus and a reduction in police numbers. This period also marks the beginning of a period of increased drug consumption and the establishment of heroin hotspots in a number of urban areas.
Despite this increased policy attention, drug use in Ireland has been found to be associated with increased levels of systemic violence: fights over organisational and territorial issues; so-called ‘gangland’ murders; disputes over transactions or debt collection; and the intimidation of family members and the wider ‘host’ communities in which local drug markets tend to take hold. Much of this victimisation remains hidden as fear of reprisal from those involved with the drug trade and a lack of confidence in the criminal justice system discourages reporting. This article reviews recent research evidence in this area and examines the implications for future policy responses.
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Zrinščak, Siniša, Mateja Čehulić, and Dario Čepo. "What a Difference Does Time Make? Framing Media Discourse on Refugees and Migrants in Croatia in Two Periods." Hrvatska i komparativna javna uprava 20, no. 3 (November 12, 2020): 469–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.31297/hkju.20.3.3.
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There is plenty of research on media framing of marginalized and “othered” groups, including refugees and migrants. A lot has been said about the 2015– 2016 refugee crisis, but much less scholarly interest has been put on the 2018– 2019 re-emergence of refugees and migrants on outer borders of the EU and the ways member states have responded to the problem. This paper is focused on analysing similarities and differences in framing of refugees and migrants in the Croatian media in two distinct time periods: 2015–2016 and 2018. The paper is based on applying content analysis and descriptive statistics to articles from four daily newspapers in order to find out how the people coming to Croatia were presented in the media; what they were called, in which sense (positive, neutral, negative) they were presented to the public, and how the media presentation changed over time. The analysis has shown a certain degree of specific political, economic, and societal contexts mediated to, and in turn mediated by, the media’s framing of refugees/migrants. While the predominant frame remained neutral, as per norms of journalistic profession, the change in ideological stance of the government - from social democrats, who put humanitarian elements first, to conservatives, whose focus was security-based - coincided with the relative rise in the number of articles with a negative portrayal of the migrant issue.
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Ahmed Awad, Ph.D, Dr Heba Gouda, and Prof Laila Abd Al Maged Ibrahim. "Journalist’s Relationship with Political Authority in Egypt Case Study from 1960-2011." Advances in Social Science and Culture 4, no. 1 (February 27, 2022): p49. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/assc.v4n1p49.
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The study of the journalist’s relation with political authority in Egypt from 1960 to 2011 seeks to reveal, describe, analyze and interpret the journalist’s relation with political authority in Egypt during this period and to reach a model that explains the factors affecting the journalist’s relation with political authority. This is by exposing the political, legislative, social and cultural factors affecting the journalist’s relationship with political authority during the period of study. And to reveal the personal characteristics of successive political leaders during the period of study, and their role in shaping the relationship between the journalist and the political authority in Egypt. In addition to revealing the social development, personal characteristics and professional gradations of a sample of prominent journalists during the course of the study, and the role these factors played in shaping the relationship between the journalist and the political authority in Egypt. The study found that the media in general, and the press in particular, play a role in political life, whether by expressing interest groups and opinion leaders, or by relying political systems on them to reach out to the public and promote their policies at home and abroad alike. Media has also proved to be the link between the public on the one hand and political decision makers on the other. The results also confirmed that the media helps the political systems to create public opinion in favor of their policies or to mobilize public opinion against those opposing their policies, which in both cases is a dangerous and vital role. The study also revealed that the mass media can influence the minds and emotions of the public and change their attitudes and behavior in a way that serves their policies and achieves the interests and goals of the political authority. The results of the study also confirmed that the legislation and laws prevailing in each country determine the form of the relationship between the press and the political authority. The results of the study also showed that the forms of relations between journalists and politicians vary, sometimes they are confused, and sometimes stable.
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Zaitseva, Irina P., and Sergey V. Nicolayenko. "The interaction of closely related languages in modern journalism as a way to increase the expressiveness of a communicative-speech work." Philological Sciences. Scientific Essays of Higher Education 2, no. 6 (November 2020): 210–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.20339/phs.6-20.210.
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The article analyzes the method of including elements of closely related languages (Ukrainian and Belarusian) in the modern journalistic text in Russian based on a number of popular periodicals in Ukraine and the Republic of Belarus (Ukrainian weekly “2000” and the regional newspaper “Vitebskie Vesti”), which is one of the manifestations of language interaction in conditions of closely related bilingualism. The main types of appeal to this technique by authors-journalists are identified and systematized: introduction of individual words, expressions (including those of a stable nature), fragments of other texts of a closely related language, as well as options for their author’s presentation (design by means of the source language or Russian). The functional significance of the implemented technique is analyzed, which, as the observations show, is primarily used to Supplement the text with figurative and concretizing elements and increase its expressiveness, which contributes to a more effective implementation in a journalistic work as an influencing function (first of all), and as an informative function. In addition, this technique, which is obviously focused on the perception of the bilingual reader, actualizes the socio-cultural context common to the author of the work and its addressee, helps to establish closer contact between them, and also expands the journalist’s opportunities to express their own position by individual stylistic means.
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Berridge, Susan. "‘Doing it for the kids’? The Discursive Construction of the Teenager and Teenage Sexuality inSkins." Journal of British Cinema and Television 10, no. 4 (October 2013): 785–801. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2013.0175.
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The teen series is often regarded by television scholars as an inherently American genre. Indeed, the genre is marked by US constructs, such as the cheerleader, jock, homecoming dance and prom and, in turn, teen television scholarship has focused almost exclusively on US texts. However, more recent years have seen the emergence of British teen drama series, most notably Skins (E4, 2007–), which has been so successful that it has spawned an (albeit short-lived) US version which aired on MTV. In an attempt to redress the dearth of academic study of British teen dramas, this article explores Skins in more detail. Journalistic discourse on the programme has frequently emphasised the series’ nihilism in contrast to the didacticism that characterises its US generic counterparts, which the series’ creators justify by claims for its authenticity. This article moves beyond the authentic/inauthentic debate to explore instead the discursive construction of the teenager and teenage sexuality in the specific context of broadcasting in the UK. Thus, after situating Skins in relation to the history of youth programming in Britain and, specifically, on Channel 4, the article will explore issue-led storylines involving teenage sexuality in more detail. It will argue that despite the programme's nihilistic ethos, Skins is underpinned by more conservative ideologies, particularly regarding the depiction of gender and sexuality. In turn, this ambivalence makes it difficult to discern the programme's ideological stance on sexual issues.
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Mast, Jelle, Roel Coesemans, and Martina Temmerman. "Constructive journalism: Concepts, practices, and discourses." Journalism 20, no. 4 (June 1, 2018): 492–503. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1464884918770885.
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Constructive journalism as a (news) philosophy and practice is gaining ground around the globe as both new journalistic ventures and legacy news media variously experiment with so-called ‘constructive’ approaches, and specialized (nonprofit) organizations and training programs have been established. While scholarly interest in the subject has steadily grown accordingly, constructive journalism as a research field in its own right is arguably still in need of further development. Therefore, we set out to explore, advance, and shape a research agenda, and to build a theoretical and empirical foundation for constructive journalism, providing a 360° view by bringing together an international body of scholarship approaching the topic and the issues raised through different disciplinary, conceptual, and methodological lenses. As such, we aim, first, to contribute to the conceptual development of constructive journalism by refining its roots in positive psychology and carefully delineating its position along related and divergent types of journalism, identifying its core values and principles, the lineages and digressions. Second, we seek to advance theory building in this nascent research domain based on empirical data and insights variously derived from quantitative and qualitative methodological approaches exploring, describing, and testing through large-scale or in-depth analyses, how constructive journalism can be interpreted and put in practice, how it materializes and with what effect. In doing so, we adopt an overall stance of ‘critical appreciation’ toward the subject, engaging in foundational thinking while not shying away from an assessment of the potential and effective critique or controversy stirred by this proliferating ‘alternative’ branch of journalism.
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Sánchez-Fernández, Manuel-Alejandro, Alfonso Medina-Urrea, and Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno. "Latent semantic analysis for tagging activation states and identifiability in northwestern Mexican news outlets." Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems 42, no. 5 (March 31, 2022): 4463–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/jifs-219235.
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The present work aims to study the relationship between measures, obtained from Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) and a variant known as SPAN, and activation and identifiability states (Informative States) of referents in noun phrases present in journalistic notes from Northwestern Mexican news outlets written in Spanish. The aim and challenge is to find a strategy to achieve labelling of new / given information in the discourse rooted in a theoretically linguistic stance. The new / given distinction can be defined from different perspectives in which it varies what linguistic forms are taken into account. Thus, the focus in this work is to work with full referential devices (n = 2 388). Pearson’s R correlation tests, analysis of variance, graphical exploration of the clustering of labels, and a classification experiment with random forests are performed. For the experiment, two groups were used: noun phrases labeled with all 10 tags of informative states and a binary labelling, as well as the use of two bags-of-words for each noun phrase: the interior and the exterior. It was found that using LSA in conjunction with the inner bag of words can be used to classify certain informational states. This same measure showed good results for the binary division, detecting which sentences introduce new referents in discourse. In previous work using a similar method in noun phrases in English, 80% accuracy (n = 478) was reached in their classification exercise. Our best test for Spanish reached 79%. No work on Spanish using this method has been done before and this kind of experiment is important because Spanish exhibits a more complex inflectional morphology.
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Iman, Iman Ali, and Galina N. TROFIMOVA. "THE CHRONOTOPE OF EVENTS IN ONLINE NEWS STORIES (COVERAGE OF THE SYRIAN CRISIS IN THE RUSSIAN MEDIA)." Historical and social-educational ideas 10, no. 6/1 (January 18, 2019): 109–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.17748/2075-9908-2018-10-6/1-109-116.
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The article is devoted to the study of the problem of formation of space-time coordinates of the media image of the event presented in the news reports on the online feeds of online media. The authors rely on the research of scientists from around the world devoted to the problem of changing and identifying such a thing as a chronotope in a literary text. Considering the theory of the chronotope, put forward by M.M.Bakhtin through the prism of journalistic activity, the authors reveal significant correspondences and the possibility to apply the main provisions of this theory to the study of the features of the event coverage in journalistic texts. Thus, in their opinion, the chronotope of the crisis event at its initial presentation in the online media space at the information and news alert level has specific characteristics, to which the author refers multifragmentary media reflection, representativeness, narrative and semantics. As a result, the authors come to the conclusion that the time component of the chronotope of the media image of this event is stable, but the intensity of its development is confirmed by the number of publications per unit time. The spatial component of the chronotope of this event is formed through the information resources that report the event. The maximum expansion of the space (25 sources) was on the 2nd and 8th hours, and the most stable wide boundaries of the space had from the 8th to the 12th hours (18-20 sources). According to the Bakhtin’s theory, the supertext essence of the chronotope, namely, “the impression that is fixed in the reader’s consciousness in the process of perceiving the author’s narrative strategies”, is essentially nothing more than an image of the event formed by a journalist or journalists in the process of covering the event in the media.
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Miller, Dorota. "Make leave, not war. Intertextual references in the British press coverage of Brexit." Topics in Linguistics 22, no. 2 (December 1, 2021): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/topling-2021-0007.
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Abstract In the so-called Brexit referendum which took place on 23 June 2016, a slim majority of British citizens voted in favour of the United Kingdom leaving the EU. Following this decision, the United Kingdom officially withdrew from the European Union on 31 January 2020. On both occasions, British newspapers responded with a series of articles and front pages where they elaborated on various arguments for and against Brexit and declared sides in the Brexit campaign. The following study, which focuses on the UK’s withdrawal from the EU, is based on Brexit-related front pages and articles from print and online editions of British newspapers published in both June 2016 and late January/early February 2020. The analysed periodicals represent diverging viewpoints: some argued against Brexit, whereas others backed the Leave campaign. The main points of interest are the intertextual techniques implied in the analysed media texts, ranging from direct quotation to (visual) allusion. They are viewed and discussed as means of (1) revealing the stance of the analysed newspapers; (2) extending the meaning of a given text; (3) attracting attention; and, last but not least, (4) “infotainment”, i.e. involving and entertaining the readership. The conducted analysis proves visual allusions based on British and European national symbols as well as structural allusions to films, songs and works of literature, proverbs and fixed phrases to be a widely applied journalistic strategy in the British media coverage of Brexit. Carefully targeted by producers of media and appropriately decoded by the readership not only do they fulfil a meaning-making and evaluative function but first and foremost provide entertainment, enhance the attractiveness and thus maintain and/or increase the circulation of the newspaper in question.
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Thornborrow, Joanna, Mats Ekström, and Marianna Patrona. "Question design and the construction of populist stances in political news interviews." Discourse & Communication 15, no. 6 (December 2021): 672–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/17504813211026572.
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This paper focuses on the relationship between journalism and right wing populist discourses in the context of broadcast news interviews. We analyse a specific feature of question design in which the public is invoked as a source of opinionated positions in adversarial interviewing. Analysing data from a range of socio-political contexts, we identify a shift in adversarial questioning along a scale of ‘soft’ populism, that is the attribution of views and concerns to a generic public ‘in crisis’, to ‘hard’ populism, where interviewers construct hypothetical scenarios in which populist positions are attributed to ‘some people’. We argue that the democratic role of journalists as public watchdogs, holding politicians and public figures accountable on behalf of the public, is challenged by this normalisation of populist moral order discourses in a routine journalistic practice, both drawing on and contributing to the propagation of populist agendas and anti-democratic populist rhetoric.
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Biriukov, Dmitry. "The Sinuosity of “Byzantism” in Russian Thought of the Middle 19th and the Early 20th Centuries. Part 1 Alexander Herzen, Alexey Khomyakov, Ivan Kireevsky, Terty Filippov." Philosophy. Journal of the Higher School of Economics VI, no. 1 (March 31, 2022): 41–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.17323/2587-8719-2022-1-41-64.
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The paper traces the formation and development of the image of Byzantium and the concept “byzantism” in the Russian journalistic literature of the mid-second half of the 19th century. It is shown that the impetus for the formation of this concept was in the essays by Alexander Herzen, where “byzantism” was loaded with negative connotations. The article starts from Pavel Annenkov's scheme, which suggests that Alexei Khomyakov, a thinker equal to Herzen but of the opposite charge, was, in contrast to Herzen, an admirer of Byzantium. It is argued that Ivan Kireevsky carried out the Byzantine-centric line within the Slavophile circle, and it was his point, which, as I believe, Annenkov had attributed to Khomyakov. While, as it is shown in the article, Byzantinocentrism is characteristic of the only one among various lines in Kireevsky's attention to Byzantium. In this context, three versions of Kireevsky's historiosophy are distinguished. Its context is the historiosophical scheme of François Guizot. Following this scheme, the early Kireevsky still did not pay attention to Byzantium; later, using the same scheme, but changing his optics, Kireevsky drew a Byzantine-centric picture; however, soon he, under the influence of Khomyakov, changed his mind and started to perceive Byzantium as a bipolar civilization with light and dark sides. It is shown that the two last views on Byzantium were reflected in the controversy about the Greek-Bulgarian question of that time. Within its framework, the Byzantinocentric view, considering the Byzantine civilization as the wholeness, as I believe, under the influence of Kireevsky, was led by Terty Filippov, a defender of the Greeks within the Greek-Bulgarian dispute. Another view, suggesting the bipolarity of the Byzantium, was stated by Khomyakov, whose stance within the dispute was opposite to Filippov's one. At the same time, in Khomyakov's interpretation, this view incorporated an anticlerical component, which was not typical for Kireevsky's interpretation of the bipolar view of Byzantium.
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Camaj, Lindita. "Between a rock and a hard place: Consequences of media clientelism for journalist–politician power relationships in the Western Balkans." Global Media and Communication 12, no. 3 (November 4, 2016): 229–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1742766516675649.
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This comparative study examines the power relationship between journalists and political elites in South-Eastern Europe, emphasizing the clientelistic ties under which these interactions take place. It is based on 60 in-depth interviews with journalists from Albania, Kosovo and Montenegro. The results suggest that the journalist–politician relationship in these countries has gradually evolved into two-way communication marked by cooperation and conflict. On one hand, the clientelist ties at the inter-organizational level have subordinated journalists to the political elites in power who negotiate the news agenda with media owners. On the other hand, journalists often serve as tools to combat political and economic enemies, leading to the exposure of corruption and scandals. However, this is done selectively, based on the media owner’s agenda. Overall, the study implies the lack of a uniform relationship between journalists and political elites, challenging previous assumptions that media clientelism in Eastern Europe is a stable system that exerts predictable relationships.
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Valdeón, Roberto A. "(Un)stable sources, translation and news production." Target. International Journal of Translation Studies 27, no. 3 (October 12, 2015): 440–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/target.27.3.07val.
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This article discusses the distinction stable versus unstable sources, which Hernández Guerrero has suggested in her book on news translation. It starts with a short overview of news translation as a subfield within the discipline of translation studies, emphasizing the role of translation in news production since the emergence of the journalistic profession. The next section discusses the concepts of ‘stable’ and ‘unstable’ sources, and moves on to introduce framing, a key concept in communication studies, defined as the central organizing idea that allows news consumers to make sense of events. The term will be related to the mechanisms that journalists resort to in order to produce source texts, which, in turn, can also affect the selection and de-selection processes undertaken by news producers when relying on articles published in other languages. The final sections will consider the translated economic columns of Paul Krugman, originally published in the New York Times and in Spanish by the daily El País, to reflect on the usefulness of the binary opposition stable versus unstable sources, and will show that, in some media, certain unstable texts can turn stable.
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Shadursky, Vladimir V. "Perception of Avvakum in the Works of Mark Aldanov." Vestnik slavianskikh kul’tur [Bulletin of Slavic Cultures] 65 (2022): 208–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2022-65-208-220.
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What attracted Aldanov to the heritage of Archpriest Avvakum? The brilliant personality of a man who was involved in events in the history of Russia and was instrumental in transforming the Russian literary tradition. Features of a number of Avvakum’s works are to be found in Aldanov’s journalistic publications — “Armageddon,” “Fire and Smoke” — in his literary works — “Soviet People (in Cinematography)”, “Punch Vodka”, “A Tale of Death” — and in his philosophical treatises — “A Night in Ulm”. Aldanov sees the archpriest as a writer of genius, while simultaneously recognizing him as one who destroyed the traditions of history’s natural course. In Aldanov’s works one observes a dichotomy of opposing worldviews. While he rejects Avvakum’s ideological struggle to preserve the traditions, he is also opposed to Lenin, whose ideology stresses extirpating past traditions. In Aldanov’s view, these two historical personages are linked by their passion for destruction. They are distinctive the one from the other, however, in that Avvakum, steeped in delusions, is a mild-mannered, persecuted martyr, while Lenin, who lives by hatred, is the fountainhead of social and political evil. Aldanov recognizes Avvakum as a writer of genius but also considers him dangerous as a force for influencing the minds of men. His negative perception of Avvakum consists in his rejection of the latter’s stance; recognizing the “primordial” nature of his rebellion, he points up the absence of enlightenment. Avvakum’s less than intelligent energy, his influence, obstinacy, and his deliberate attempt to fracture his society are features that recur and are intensified in the character and behavior of Vladimir Lenin. If one compares the approach to Avvakum of D. P. Svyatopolk-Mirsky and A. M. Remizov with that of Aldanov, the ambivalent stance of Aldanov’s representation of the archpriest is clarified. Another consideration involves the delight of Avvakum’s style, how Aldanov uses leitmotifs of the archpriest’s works in his own prose. In the novella “Punch vodka”, while summing up the life of M. V. Lomonosov, Aldanov cites Avvakum’s works, by way of expressing his idea about the unique happiness of a genius, unattainable by ordinary people. In the novel “A Tale of Death”, Aldanov uses a leitmotif from “The Life of Archpriest Avvakum, As Written By Himself”: the image of the wife of Leyden. She suffers as a result of her husband’s actions, while unaware of the paramount calamity of his life, on analogy with the situation in which the wife of the archpriest finds herself. As early as his first published articles Aldanov formulates his approach to the image of Avvakum, but that image is not static. Over the years his attitude toward the archpriest changes. Aldanov does not create Avvakum as a literary personage; rather, he invokes the personality of a writer, with whom a continuous dialogue is carried on. As his literary prose develops we see less of the Avvakum as hatemongering schismatic and precursor of the Bolsheviks, and more of the man who aids us in understanding the meaning of life (“Punch vodka”). His words and images also help Aldanov to display the development of Russian literature (“A Night in Ulm”) and to create literary characters in his novels (“A Tale of Death”, “Delirium”).
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Sidiropoulos, Efstathios A., and Andreas A. Veglis. "Computer Supported Collaborative Work trends on Media Organizations: Mixing Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches." Studies in Media and Communication 5, no. 1 (April 23, 2017): 63. http://dx.doi.org/10.11114/smc.v5i1.2279.
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There is a growing concern in the financial world regarding the lack of resources for the sustainability of media related enterprises. The increasing cost of computing resources and data storage have crucially established the deployment of cost-saving and high-effective technologies. The aim of these technologies should be the support of teamworking. The work environments of the media organizations typically remain stable despite the development of internet. Our purpose was to investigate journalists’ and media professionals’ beliefs regarding Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and groupware effectiveness in work routines, based on their experiences. We used a mixed method analysis in the participants’ sample. The participants were randomly selected senior and junior journalists/media professionals, head officers, chief editors and assistants, in two groups of 11 and 12 participants each. In conclusion, the need to improve our understanding of groupware in journalism practice has been recognized, not least because of the risk of “technology illiteracy”, unemployment and isolation. Simply importing training techniques from non-journalistic disciplines has not resulted in improved news publishing.
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Pentzold, Christian, and Lena Fölsche. "Data-driven campaigns in public sensemaking: Discursive positions, contextualization, and maneuvers in American, British, and German debates around computational politics." Communications 45, s1 (November 18, 2020): 535–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/commun-2019-0125.
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AbstractOur article examines how journalistic reports and online comments have made sense of computational politics. It treats the discourse around data-driven campaigns as its object of analysis and codifies four main perspectives that have structured the debates about the use of large data sets and data analytics in elections. We study American, British, and German sources on the 2016 United States presidential election, the 2017 United Kingdom general election, and the 2017 German federal election. There, groups of speakers maneuvered between enthusiastic, skeptical, agnostic, or admonitory stances and so cannot be clearly mapped onto these four discursive positions. Coming along with the inconsistent accounts, public sensemaking was marked by an atmosphere of speculation about the substance and effects of computational politics. We conclude that this equivocality helped journalists and commentators to sideline prior reporting on the issue in order to repeatedly rediscover the practices they had already covered.
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Palmieri, Rudi, and Johanna Miecznikowski. "Predictions in economic-financial news." Argumentation in Journalism 5, no. 1 (March 24, 2016): 48–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jaic.5.1.03pal.
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Compared to other domains of media discourse, economic-financial news contain a considerable amount of speech acts regarding future events, in particular predictions. This can be explained by their specific institutional context, financial markets, where investors constantly seek to single out gain opportunities and to correctly assess their risk. One of the crucial factors making economic-financial predictions worthy of being considered in investment decisions is argumentation, in particular the extent to which the predicted proposition follows from a plausible and acceptable reasoning. Starting from a corpus of 50 articles of the Italian economic-financial press, we consider the inferential dimension of prediction-oriented arguments, focusing on the locus, i.e. the ontological relation on which the connection between the argument(s) and the predictive conclusion rests. All predictions found in the corpus were manually annotated with the software UAM Corpus Tool. For each of them we identified the source, which could be either the journalist him/herself or a third party, typically financial analysts or corporate actors. We distinguished mere predictive opinions from predictive standpoints, i.e. predictions for which the journalist advances one or more supportive arguments (either confirmatory of refutatory). For the latter category, we identified the locus referring to an adaptation of the taxonomy outlined by Rigotti (2009). The findings highlight in particular the following three interesting aspects: (1) in predictions, journalists reinforce their stance by plausible justifications, but weaken it at the same time by marking it as uncertain and/or by using reported speech or evidential means to reduce their responsibility for the predictive speech act; (2) the justification of a predictive standpoint, by the journalist or by third parties, is mostly based on loci of causality, in particular on the locus from efficient cause, the locus from final cause and complex forms of causality where the involvement of rational agents is implied but defocused; (3) moreover, journalists refer to the predictive opinions of experts or corporate insiders to activate the locus from authority, either by explicit argumentation or implicitly, by reporting speech from reliable sources. Our study suggests that the role of predictions in financial news is not so much that of giving any straightforward advice to investors, but rather that of providing chunks of sound argumentative reasoning, including both supportive evidence and rebuttals or refutatory moves, that the investor-reader might apply and combine in the highly uncertain context of financial markets. Overall, our findings shed light on how financial journalists fulfil the function of information intermediaries in finance.