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Pastāvošā stāvokļa analīze Eirāzijas cietuma kapelānu profesionālo vajadzību noteikšanai
2020
Pētījums veikts ar mērķi veikt Eirāzijas cietumu kapelānu situācijas analīzi, lai sekmīgi apzinātu cietuma kapelānu vajadzības gan pašreizējā, gan turpmākajā attīstības posmā. Darbības pētījumā tika izmantoti mērķu-orientētas projekta plānošanas un loģiskās struktūras pieejas koncepti un iesaistīti dalībnieki no sešiem Eirāzijas reģioniem. Darba pētījumā tika pielietotas šādas datu vākšanas metodes - intervija, dienasgrāmatu piezīmes, anketēšana, dokumentu analīze, kā arī veikta ieinteresēto personu (cietuma kapelānu) un problēmu tabulas analīze. Literatūras izpētē un darbības pētījuma rezultātos redzama savstarpēja atbilstība, kas norāda uz precīzu cietuma kapelāna personisko un profesionā…
Journalistic practices of science popularization in the context of users’ agenda: A case study of „New Scientist”
2017
The article includes a discussion of two models which describe contemporary communication processes in journalism: agenda-setting and news value, indicating the need to expand their research tools to include qualitative methods, and merging the analyses of the reception and the message. It also includes indications as to the possibility, or even the social relevance, of the methods for applying those research perspectives to analysing journalism popularising science. Later, I present the results of an analysis of the content of a sample of 500 most read popular science texts available on the New Scientist website. I demonstrate which thematic areas were valued by the readers, and what value…
Frame building and frame sponsorship in the 2011 Spanish election: the practices of polarised pluralism
2017
ABSTRACTThis study assesses if the well-established polarised pluralism of the Spanish news media system translated into frame sponsorship during the 2011 Spanish General Election. After reviewing the historical and cultural influences that shaped the 2011 Spanish electoral campaign, I conduct a qualitative discourse analysis of 96 news releases issued by the 2 main Spanish political parties, the Socialist Party and the People’s Party, to identify their sponsored diagnostic and prognostic frames. I then compare the partisan news releases with 27 El Pais and El Mundo editorials that evaluated the party-sponsored frames to explore if and to what extent both Spanish leading newspapers adopted …
The prince and the pauper: Journalistic culture and Paralympic games in the Spanish print press
2016
The Paralympic Games are one of the world’s most important multisport events, maybe second only to the Olympic Games. However, research conducted to date shows that the media do not devote as much space to them as would accordingly be expected. This article proposes, through a case study, a new way of approaching this hypothetical discrimination by comparing the attention that the London Paralympic Games received from the Spanish print press with the attention that other sports received (football, basketball, tennis, cycling, motor sports and other minority sports) while those Games were being held. The main finding of our study is that over the period analysed, the Spanish press devoted l…
Controlling the image of the teacher’s body under authoritarianism: the case of Soviet Latvia (1953–1984)
2017
The ideal of the Soviet teacher can be revealed in Soviet mass media, but historians are challenged by the question “what was the actual reality”? Therefore, we addressed the reality of the Soviet ...
Automatically Detecting Incivility in Online Discussions of News Media
2018
Detecting biased language in written discourse is a highly relevant area of research in political communication and other social sciences, given the large quantity of information exchanged in public online platforms. In this abstract, we discuss an approach based on the concept of "incivility"-assessing biased text on the Facebook pages of established news media. News outlets are forced to put increasing efforts into preventing heated debates from turning into disrespectful discussions on their social media platforms. By scaling the analysis from a few thousand manually coded samples to more than a million comments, we take a step towards supporting media outlets in (semi-)automatizing the …
The news from the televisions by Internet: analysis of web site of Tele5 and Antena3
2005
Este trabajo propone realizar un análisis comparativo de los contenidos informativos proporcionados por las televisiones generalistas españolas a través de su página web. Aunque Internet aún no ha experimentado el desarrollo suficiente para que una mayoría de usuarios pueda acceder a los contenidos audiovisuales a través del ordenador en condiciones de calidad y velocidad equiparables a la televisión, las televisiones sí han comenzado a aprovechar las posibilidades actuales de la Red para proporcionar a sus usuarios diversos contenidos relacionados con su programación (series de producción propia, novedades, resúmenes de los programas ofrecidos cada día…) e incluso contenidos configurados e…
From decoding a graph to processing a multimodal message: Interacting with data visualization in the news media
2020
Abstract Data visualisation – in the forms of graphs, charts, and maps – represents a text type growing in prevalence and impact in many cultural domains; education, journalism, business, PR, and more. Research on data visualisation reception is scarce, particularly that related to interactive and dynamic forms of data visualisation in digital media. Taking an approach inspired by grounded theory, in this article I investigate the ways in which young students interact with data visualisations found in digital news media. Combining observations from reading sessions with ten in-depth interviews, I investigate how the informants read, interpreted, and responded emotionally to data visualisati…
A View from the Inside: The Dawning Of De-Westernization of CEE Media and Communication Research?
2015
The Editorial outlines some characteristics of the development of the Central and Eastern European (CEE) media and communication scholarship during the past 25 years. In the majority of CEE countries, the media and communication research was re-established after the collapse of communism. Since then, a critical mass of active scholars has appeared who form an integral part of the larger European academia. A gradual integration of East and West perspectives in media and communication research is taking place along with moving away from the barely West-centred approach, and utilizing the research done by CEE scholars. Certain 'de-westernization' and internationalization of the research in ter…