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Studying incidental news : Antecedents, dynamics and implications
2020
In light of concerns about decreasing news use, a decline in interest in political news or even active avoidance or resistance of news in general, the idea of ‘incidental news’ has been seen as a possible remedy. Generally, ‘incidental news’ refers to the ways in which people encounter information about current events through media when they were not actively seeking the news. However, scholars studying incidental news through different theoretical and methodological perspectives have been arriving at differing evaluations of the significance and implications of this phenomenon – to the extent of downright contradictory findings. This introductory piece posits the aim of this special issue…
News consumption repertoires among Finnish adolescents : Moderate digital traditionalists, minimalist social media stumblers, and frequent omnivores
2022
Abstract Young people are perceived as heavy consumers of social media and less avid consumers of news. That notion, however, deserves nuance: Many factors, such as the national context, media system, trust in news, intentionally or incidentally encountering news from different sources, and interest in politics, influence how young people consume news. This study explores news consumption among Finnish adolescents through a representative survey of 15–19-year-olds. We seek to answer two research questions: What are the news repertoires of Finnish adolescents? And what factors predict different news repertoires? Latent profile analysis reveals three distinct news repertoires: 1) moderate dig…
Playful approaches to news engagement
2020
From crossword puzzles and quizzes to more complex gamification strategies and serious newsgames, legacy media has long explored ways to deploy playful approaches to deliver their content and engage with the audience. We examine how news and games fit together when news organizations, game creators and news audiences welcome gameful forms of communication and participation. Moreover, we reflect on the theoretical and empirical significance of merging news with games as a way to reformulate normative assumptions, production practices and consumption patterns. As a result, the boundaries between journalism and game’s logics start to erode, and they begin to find new ways of converging.
Modelling Quoting in Newswriting : A Framework for Studies on the Production of News
2019
The Mediated Social Communication (MSC) approach considers mass media a venue for opposing and complementary societal groups to publicly negotiate socially relevant topics. This negotiation is conducted through representatives of these groups and mediated by journalists. Inspired by the MSC approach, this paper presents an empirically grounded model that structures the mediating process through the process of quoting. By identifying the key phases of newswriting as sub-processes of quoting, the paper argues that journalists (1) decide on a topical issue to be addressed (topicalisation), (2) identify groups of people who are linked to this issue (societal localisation), (3) pick some people …
Exploring the Anatomy of an Academic Myth
2015
This paper contributes to the discussion on so-called academic myths by analysing the idea of silence as characteristic of a Finnish communication style. By reviewing contemporary research literature and earlier sources, we illustrate how the concept of the silent Finn has emerged and how it endures, reproduced in both public and academic discourses while lacking empirical evidence. Our analysis proposes six key characteristics to academic myths: that they are built on shaky grounds, widely circulated, used as an expedient, intuitively appealing, resistant to change, and self-replicating. The paper addresses possible reasons behind the persistence of such myths and their implications for ac…
Pratiques, discours et représentation autour du café en France et en Allemagne,
2016
International audience; Sous ce mot banal « café », tant il fait partie de la vie quotidienne, se cache un terme riche de sens, à la fois par sa polysémie et par les diverses expériences qu’il souligne. Analyser ce qui est, et ce qui fait sens dans cet univers où les ressemblances avec l’œnologie sont sensibles, permet de décrypter les systèmes de signes de nature hétérogène qui s’y rattachent. Dimension spatiale (synonyme de bistrot), il est également dimension temporelle (pause-café) ou atemporelle (à toute heure) qui se charge d’une forte empreinte sociale (échange autour d’un café) et constitue pour certains un véritable rite autour de la machine à café, nouveau totem. Signe des temps, …
Sensible et communication.
2016
Les sensations prennent sens sur le fond identitaire du rapport à soi et aux autres. Du symbolique au sensoriel, l'inscription sociale et culturelle des situations de communication (normes, rites, codes, processus culturaliste) contribue à préfigurer un monde de sensations et d'émotions à partir d'images et de valeurs pré-existantes.Le sensible marque la passage de l'incantation à l'incarnation, du discours et des effets de langage à la mis une forme, en scène, en actes, de la communication. Cet ouvrage propose de mettre cette approche à l'épreuve, à travers des valeurs, des discours, des univers d'expérience qui, sous l'attrait du sensible et de son pouvoir de figurativité, donnent vie et …
Physiotherapists’ validating and invalidating communication before and after participating in brief cognitive functional therapy training : Test of c…
2021
Objective The aim of this study was to investigate physiotherapists’ validating and invalidating communication, before and after brief Cognitive Functional Therapy (CFT) training that included a session on validation skills. Associations between validation/invalidation and the characteristics of the interviews and physiotherapists were also explored. Methods Eighteen physiotherapists treating patients with low back pain participated in the study. The study had a within-group design in which validation and invalidation for physiotherapists were rated before and after training using a reliable observational scale. We also collected data on interview length and physiotherapists’ and patients’ …
Utility of Alternative Effect Size Statistics and the Development of a Web-Based Calculator: Shiny-AESC
2018
Alternative displays of effect size statistics can enhance the understandability and impact of validity evidence in a variety of applied settings. Arguably, the proliferation of alternative effect size statistics has been limited due to the lack of user-friendly tools to create them. Common statistical packages do not readily produce these alternative effect sizes and existing tools are outdated and inaccessible. In this paper, I introduce a free-to-use web-based calculator (https://dczhang.shinyapps.io/expectancyApp/) for generating alternative effect size displays from empirical data. This calculator requires no mathematical or programming expertise, and therefore, is ideal for academics …
Valor da relação, compromisso, TIC e lealdade no canal de comercialização
2009
En el actual contexto empresarial altamente competitivo, gran número de organizaciones tienden a reducir el número de proveedores para centrarse en establecer relaciones estrechas y duraderas con un número reducido de ellos. Si bien las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TIC) ofrecen grandes ventajas en las relaciones entre empresas, el vínculo entre la inversión en dichas tecnologías y el valor de la relación no es claro. En el presente trabajo pretendemos analizar la influencia del uso de diversas aplicaciones tecnológicas del proveedor sobre el valor de la relación, el compromiso y la lealtad hacia el mismo desde el punto de vista de la empresa cliente. A través de la estim…