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Study on press coverage about the exodus of Spanish nurses to the United Kingdom
2019
Resumen: Objetivo: Analizar la representación mediática del éxodo de las enfermeras españolas al Reino Unido a través de los diarios de información general. Métodos: Análisis de contenido, cuantitativo y cualitativo. Se localizaron con operadores booleanos los documentos publicados en los diarios ABC, El País, El Mundo y La Razón, sobre «emigrantes», «enfermeras» y «sanitarias emigrantes», desde el 1 de enero de 2007 hasta el 31 de diciembre de 2016. El periodo seleccionado se corresponde con el inicio de la crisis económica y concluye con el año de la celebración del referéndum del Brexit en el Reino Unido. Tras aplicar los descriptores se obtuvieron 9559 textos. Una vez eliminado el «ruid…
Medical Metaphors in Economics News Articles in English and Italian
2017
As Lakoff and Johnson (1980: 3) state in Metaphors We Live by, “our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.” From a linguistic point of view, metaphors not only exist in everyday language but in specialized discourse too, where they are frequently the result of interdisciplinary borrowings. The language of economics, replete with medical metaphors, is one of the most representative examples of this phenomenon. This paper offers a quantitative and qualitative analysis of medical metaphors in English and Italian economics news discourse, as no research seems to have been conducted so far on the topic from a cross-linguistic…
Patterns of successful media production
2016
While it has been acknowledged that convergence is a multidimensional phenomenon, the convergence of media production processes has received little attention from researchers so far. In this article, we address this research gap with a qualitative study of production processes in different types of media. Our starting point is that independent of the media type, common product characteristics can be identified, that promote success in the audience market. We ask whether the same is true for process characteristics; whether there are converged processes that promote audience success independent of the media type. The study is based on n = 39 interviews in the German-speaking markets. Our fi…
Between idiosyncratic self-interests and professional standards: A contribution to the understanding of participatory journalism in Web 2.0. Results …
2012
Not much is known about participatory journalists in Germany or further afield. We conducted a standardized quantitative online survey of participatory journalists at the German-language website myheimat, a German-based hyperlocal participatory journalism portal with about 37,000 contributors (as at September 2010). The purpose of the survey was to examine the individual characteristics of participatory journalists (sociodemographics, expertise, qualification and gender aspects). The survey also explored why they write articles for myheimat (societal/individual motivations), what they think about their role and function as grassroots journalists (identity/self-concept), what they know and …
The geography of foreign news on television
2012
Since the advent of television in the middle of the 20th century, news has been an essential ingredient in TV programming. Often these newscasts are the most heavily viewed programmes, and by and large they are the main source of information for many people. This is particularly true for news from other countries and regions in the world. This immense significance of TV news has made it an important field in communication research. The article presents a new study that is formed from a multinational project. The project investigated foreign TV news in 17 countries from five regions in the world: Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Egypt, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, Japan, Poland,…
Infotainment and the Construction of a Community in Sport-News
2010
The community of sport expresses aggression, competition and solidarity when consuming or (re)producing social events and identity (gender, ethnicity, sexuality) plays an important role (Kassing et al., 2004) in the construction of a community (Magnane, 1964; Colovic, 1999). This paper presents a case study of two online sport commentaries that have been analysed in order to explore the ways in which identity is constructed and communicated within these two epistemic communities and to both identify and verify which linguistic strategies are used by the epistemic communities in order to support (their claims to) objective knowledge. Cross-cultural comparisons can be made in relation to conv…
Palīgteikumu lietojums tiešsaistes laikrakstu rakstos
2021
Līdz šim ir veikti daudzi pētījumi par laikrakstiem un to analīzi, taču pētījumu par šaurāku tēmu – pakārtojuma teikumiem un to izmantošanu laikrakstos ir maz vai vispār nav. Tāpēc šis pētījums tika veikts, lai noteiktu, kā pakārtojuma teikumi tiek izmantoti laikrakstu rakstos, analizējot to veidu un novietojumu teikumā. Pētījums tika veikts, izmantojot kvalitatīvās un kvantitatīvās pētījumu metodes. Pēc diskursa analīzes tika secināts, ka 25 izvēlētajos tekstos no laikraksta The Baltic Times pakārtojuma palīgteikums teikumā visbiežāk tika pozicionēts beigās, un visbiežāk izmantotā pakārtojuma palīgteikums ir finīta, ziņojuma formā. Šī forma visbiežāk lietota, kādu citējot, tādējādi sniedzo…
News values as evaluation. Main naming practices in Violence Against Women news stories in contemporary Spanish newspapers: El País vs. El Mundo (200…
2021
Violence Against Women (VAW) is a very sensitive, and highly ideological, topic in the Spanish society, as well as in Western societies generally. In Spain, media accounts of VAW are very closely related to two quality newspapers, El País and El Mundo, providing a variety of naming practices for VAW, with differing ideological and evaluative implications. In this paper, I compare and contrast these two dailies in their use of the three main naming practices —violencia de género ‘gender-based violence’, violencia doméstica ‘domestic violence’ and violencia machista ‘male violence’— used in VAW news. To do so I resort to the news values approach proposed by Bednarek and Caple (2012, 2014, 201…
How social network sites and other online intermediaries increase exposure to news
2020
Research has prominently assumed that social media and web portals that aggregate news restrict the diversity of content that users are exposed to by tailoring news diets toward the users’ preferences. In our empirical test of this argument, we apply a random-effects within–between model to two large representative datasets of individual web browsing histories. This approach allows us to better encapsulate the effects of social media and other intermediaries on news exposure. We find strong evidence that intermediaries foster more varied online news diets. The results call into question fears about the vanishing potential for incidental news exposure in digital media environments.
Navigating high-choice European political information environments : a comparative analysis of news user profiles and political knowledge
2021
The transition from low- to high-choice media environments has had far-reaching implications for citizens’ media use and its relationship with political knowledge. However, there is still a lack of comparative research on how citizens combine the usage of different media and how that is related to political knowledge. To fill this void, we use a unique cross-national survey about the online and offline media use habits of more than 28,000 individuals in 17 European countries. Our aim is to (i) profile different types of news consumers and (ii) understand how each user profile is linked to political knowledge acquisition. Our results show that five user profiles – news minimalists, social m…