Analysis Of Blogs Research Articles

In-service teachers’ and pre-service teachers’ perceptions of interdisciplinary instruction combining music and mathematics

ABSTRACT This qualitative-phenomenological study explores the perceptions of in-service and pre-service teachers regarding the integration of music and mathematics in elementary education. Using interviews, audio recordings, questionnaires, and blog analysis, the research examines the effects of interdisciplinary teaching. The methodology adopted in this study provides a robust framework for analysis, facilitating a comprehensive exploration of the subject matter. Findings show positive views among four in-service mathematics teachers and one music teacher, who observed increased student engagement, motivation, and creativity. Additionally, 50 pre-service teachers expressed curiosity about this approach, emphasizing the need for better training and resources in teacher education. Despite initial concerns, teachers acknowledged the importance of collaborative planning and instructional support for interdisciplinary learning. This study highlights the potential of integrating music and math to enhance student outcomes and innovation in education.

Biased, Not Balanced Broadcaster! Deconstructing Bias Accusations Toward Public Service Media

Across Europe, Public Service Media (PSM) are increasingly subject to bias accusations in public debates. Excluding academic attention for actual bias in news content, research into the nature of bias accusations is limited. This article studies bias accusations against Dutch PSM in online discourse. Through a qualitative content analysis of tweets and blogs (2017–2022), our analysis develops a novel typology of bias accusations—positional, information, and framing bias—going beyond academic definitions. Bias accusations are diverse in nature, reflect strong perceived intentionality, and refer to heterogeneous social, political groups, yet are easily merged into singular political ideological divides.

Striving Through Adversities of Professional Life to Provide Better Care: A Content Analysis of News Articles and Online Blogs on Deteriorating Mental Health of Medicos

Background: One of the noblest professions is medicine, which comprises ancillary services, medical students, and other paramedics. The challenges faced by the medical fraternity are infinite and uncertain. Aim: This study aims to thoroughly understand the professional challenges faced by medical professionals that can lead to mental health issues. Methods: A content analysis of 64 news articles and online blogs was done. The articles and blogs that addressed mental health issues among medical professionals were shortlisted. The data retrieved was accessed digitally between 2016 and 2024. Frequency analysis was done using QDA Miner Lite (free version). Results: The findings were summarized into six themes and 17 sub-themes, showing a high frequency of rising mental health issues among medicos, lack of organizational support, poor work-life balance, violence, and sacrificed health, with other less frequent codes like toxic seniority, hostile work culture, negative consequences of reporting mental health problems and hiding vulnerability to protect self-efficacy. Conclusion: The data retrieved from various news articles and blogs presents the personal experiences and real-life struggles of medical professionals. The outcome of this study is to understand the key issues affecting medicos at personal, professional, social, emotional, and spiritual levels.

Fantasies of food work and digital entrepreneurialism: postfeminist time panic on food blogs

ABSTRACT In the postfeminist context, discourses of time panic and time scarcity are used to generate a culture of anxiety that justifies gender traditionalism. Food blogs offer unique insights into the ways that these postfeminist discourses of temporality and labour are negotiated in the daily, lived experiences of individual women. I draw on a sample of 19 Saveur Award-nominated food blogs to explore how they respond to concepts of time panic and time scarcity through discussions and depictions of women’s work, retreatism, and postfeminist subjectivity. I perform a thematic analysis in conjunction with an architectural analysis of food blogs’ database narratives to discuss how postfeminist time scarcity—and its attendant anxieties—are rejected through fantasised depictions of domesticity as a creative pursuit and digital entrepreneurialism as an empowering endeavour. While the reading of such fantasised representations is ultimately ambivalent, particularly given the diversity of ways an audience may respond to these positionalities, I find that food blogs tend to reinforce the focus on the individual’s resilience, resourcefulness, and responsibility to make correct choices and resolve postfeminist contradictions, particularly through the affective management of food work.

A multi-dimensional analysis of corporate blogs

Abstract Using a corpus-based multi-dimensional analysis, this study investigates the linguistic features and variation of corporate blogs from four industries: Service industry, the Wholesale and Retail Trade industry, the Manufacturing industry, and Information industry. The primary goal of this study is to examine the linguistic variation in corporate blogs from different industries. The data used for the current study is a 570,745-word corpus consisting of 995 textual posts from 40 top-ranked corporate blogs. In the multi-dimensional analysis, 67 linguistic features in the corpus are tagged, counted and normalized by using a Multidimensional Analysis Tagger (MAT). We imported the output files containing relevant statistical information from the MAT and then to SPSS 25.0 for a further t-test analysis. Overall, the corporate blogs are closest to the text type of general narrative exposition. The study finds that, as a hybrid genre, corporate blogs are basically informationally dense, non-narrative, interactive, and contextually independent. There are some statistically significant differences between four sub-corpora in corporate blogs. In particular, the Wholesale & Retail Trade sub-corpus is the most distinctive one that is significantly different from others on many dimensions, characterized by giving instructions, or telling stories, rather than persuading their audiences to do something.

Manipulation of lexical choice aspects in the creation of stereotypes and ideas in Russian propaganda

The aim of the research is to analyse the mechanisms of manipulation of lexical choice aspects in the creation of mass stereotypes and ideas in Russian propaganda (based on examples of the analysis of Russian mass media and blogs). The research employed the methods of quantitative, comparative, and statistical analysis. In the course of the study, results were obtained in the form of a count of lexical units used in five sources of Russian propaganda and an assessment of their meaning. The results give reason to draw a conclusion about the use of certain lexical choices (euphemisms, emotionally charged vocabulary, slogans, hate speech, historical myths and falsifications) by Russian propaganda to redefine military realities and justify the war crimes of the Russian occupation army. The academic novelty of the study is the selected various academic sources to illustrate the imperial thinking of Russian mass media correspondents. Prospects. Further research may diversify the materials for the lexical analysis of the mechanisms of Russian propaganda in mass media.

Technologies of Performative National Identity Construction (The Case Study of the Russian-Language Social Network)

The construction of national identity in the digital society is increasingly shifting to social networks, which have become stages for self-expression, where it acquires the character of a virtual performance. Being X means playing the role of X so convincingly that the audience will believe it. At the same time, the role can represent a person in varying degrees - from a mirror reversal to a simulacrum, i.e. a symbol without a real signifier. The digital role, divorced from self-awareness, can be motivated both by a commercial strategy for the struggle to expand the audience and / or fulfill an order, or by the official functions of an official, manager or activist who are tasked with creating the moods necessary for the customer in the networks.The article presents the results of an empirical study of technologies for representing national identity in Russian-Language social network TikTok. The aim is to study the tools for constructing national identity in a digital society. Empirical data was collected using the analysis of blogs, where the unit of analysis is a blog as a case. National identity is performed with the help of a systematic demonstration of national self-identification, language, costume, cuisine; music; scenery (nature / house interior, etc.), national rituals and everyday customs, tourist preferences. The need for national self-identification increases, firstly, in a multicultural context or in minority status, and secondly, in situations of national conflicts, when the need to mark the boundary between “us” and “them” with the help of symbols increases.

Understanding the Dynamics of Life Satisfaction in the Swedish Welfare State: A Multifaceted Analysis Integrating Quantitative, Qualitative, and Discourse Approaches

This interdisciplinary study investigates life satisfaction in the context of the Swedish welfare state, employing a mixed-methods approach to offer a comprehensive understanding. Quantitative analyses, utilizing World Values Survey data, reveal significant associations between work importance, household financial situation, and life satisfaction. However, the explanatory power of the models remains modest at 15.3%. The study emphasizes the need for a holistic approach, recognizing the interconnectedness of work and financial well-being with other determinants of life satisfaction. Qualitative insights, derived from interviews and focus groups, explore individual experiences, uncovering nuanced perspectives on well-being. Participants highlight the importance of resources, welfare benefits, work, and personal freedom, aligning with the capability approach. The conceptualization of well-being incorporates Chambers' notion of capabilities, Sen's emphasis on freedom, and Nussbaum's consideration of how individuals’ function. Discourse analysis enriches the study by examining language as a constitutive force, shaping perceptions, and influencing actions. A focus group discussion and blog analysis reveal diverse views on life satisfaction, emphasizing the significance of freedom and choice. The findings contribute to the broader understanding of life satisfaction, calling for future research that integrates quantitative, qualitative, and discourse analysis approaches. The study underscores the complexity of life satisfaction and its multifaceted determinants, urging policymakers and practitioners to adopt comprehensive strategies in promoting well-being in welfare states like Sweden.

Understanding the experience of family caregivers of patients with leukemia: a qualitative analysis of online blogs

Although family caregiving is a demanding task, it has the potential to increase the significance and satisfaction of the caregiving process, while also enabling better response to the patient’s condition. This study aims to qualitatively explore, describe and analyze the experiences of family caregivers who are taking care of patients with leukemia. With an inductive thematic analysis, data collected from 997 online blog posts generated by 32 Chinese family caregivers of both adult and pediatric patients with leukemia were thoroughly examined. Through a detailed analysis of the blog posts, three main themes were identified: (1) family caregivers’ (FCGs’) reactions to the leukemia diagnosis, (2) challenges faced in caregiving, and (3) effective coping strategies. The study reveals significant implications for improving the quality of life for family caregivers and enhancing health services for patients with leukemia. Gaining a comprehensive understanding of challenges and hardships faced by FCGs can shed light on enhancing the current medical services. A detailed account of the financial and psychological burdens experienced by FCGs offers valuable insights that can influence the decision-making of healthcare institutions and policymakers, facilitating the implementation of effective medical reforms. The findings underscore the importance of addressing the psycho-social needs of family caregivers, thereby suggesting the need of improved implementation of effective psycho-social support to enhance their overall quality of life. It is recommended that future research focus on developing more socially integrated approaches specifically tailored for family caregivers of patients with leukemia. While this study is primarily exploratory and descriptive, it forms a foundation for further investigation and understanding of the comprehensive family caregiving system for patients with leukemia.

Blogging at the end-of-life: Anticipatory grief, losses, and positive experiences in facing terminal illness

This paper explores the experiences of people who blog about their own terminal illness and dying through the lens of anticipatory grief. Anticipatory grief is a concept which is frequently applied to those people who will be bereaved by death, rather than those who are themselves dying. Ethnographic content analysis of terminal illness blogs of two Australian women clearly narrate experiences of loss and grief which can be understood through the frame of anticipatory grief. Yet they also document positive experiences of growth and connection which can be conceptualized as resilience rather than a demonstration of denial of death.

Stigma and self-stigma among women within the context of the german “zero alcohol during pregnancy” recommendation: A qualitative analysis of online forums and blogs

BackgroundIn many countries, including Germany, it is recommended to abstain from alcohol during pregnancy to avoid harm to the baby. In this qualitative research study, analysis of online forums was conducted to explore women's perception of the German “zero alcohol during pregnancy” recommendation with regard to stigma and self-stigma. MethodsWe used a grounded theory approach to analyze online forum discussions on alcohol use during pregnancy. Data consisted of 9 discussion threads from 5 different forums and blogs involving 115 participants in total. We used key concepts developed during analysis and the theory of stigma to interpret the posts. ResultsWe identified five key themes: (1) Low alcohol health literacy as a breeding ground for stigmatization; (2) The widespread assumption that maternal abstinence is a prerequisite for being considered a “good mother”; (3) Interpersonal role conflicts and a guilty conscience as a result of stigmatization or self-stigmatization; (4) Paying little attention to the role of psychosocial factors in alcohol consumption, especially regarding partner responsibility during pregnancy.; (5) Understanding the “zero alcohol during pregnancy” recommendation as a complete ban, associated with loss of autonomy. ConclusionThe current method of communicating the “zero alcohol during pregnancy” recommendation may have unintended consequences. Specifically, misconceptions about the harm associated with low alcohol consumption and setting high expectations of motherhood are factors that can contribute to stigma or self-stigma and potentially undermine self-efficacy, help-seeking behavior, and overcoming the barriers to alcohol health literacy.

Perekhodya granitsy. Rossiyskiy stendap: lokalnye i globalnye smysly

Stand-up comedy is one of the brightest youth scenes of modern Russia, rapidly gaining popularity over the last decade. This genre of modern laugh culture rarely gets the attention of either foreign or domestic scholars and researchers. This article focuses on the career strategies of stand-up comedians, the peculiarities of their communication with audiences in the context of the formation of the stand-up scene in contemporary Russia in comparison with the formats of humor and laugh culture characteristic of the Soviet and post-Soviet times. The uniqueness of the Russian stand-up experience will be revealed through the analysis of characteristic style markers associated with the genre: the liminality / transboundary nature of the emerging culture, the high mobility of stand-up artists, creative collaborations, and touring exchanges within and between cities in their native regions. As a theoretical framework, the construct of youth cultural scene is used as the most adequate to the case under the study. The empirical base of the article is 15 semi-structured interviews with participants in the stand-up scene, non-participant observation of stand-up performances, and the textual analysis of blogs of stand-up comedians. The case study material was collected as part of a large-scale research project aimed at tracing the migration strategies and life plans of talented young people in the Northwestern Federal District of Russia.

Representation of National Identity on the Net

Introduction. The purpose of the article is to study and construct the typology of situations of the national identity actualization of young people in the digital space. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the study of the constructing national identity process as a result of the assimilation of institutional nation-building, passed through the filters of personal attitudes, that can be observed in the variability of representing national identity ways in various social situations. The relevance is conditioned by modern socio-political conditions and the need for in-depth study of the category of national identity.Methodology and sources. The research methodology is based on the approaches of social constructivism (the nation as an “imaginary community” by B. Anderson), symbolic interactionism (the dramatic approach of I. Goffmann), ethno-symbolism (everyday nationalism of J. Hutchinson) and memory studies (cultural memory of J. Assman). The research method is a discourse analysis of blogs in TikTok and Instagram, the unit of analysis is a blog as a case, sample size made up 127 cases. The collection of empirical data took place from 01.26.2022 to 03.10.2022.Results and discussion. The digital space provides the conditions for the maximum degree of intensity of the national identity representation, which can be represented in social networks by a wide variety of forms (costume, text, music, image, scenery, etc.). The following types of representation of national identity in the network have been identified: national identity as a “profession”, as “fandom”, national identity in the context of constant updating (migrants, intercultural marriage), in the context of everyday life, situational national identity, lack of a specific national identity.Conclusion. The conducted empirical research allows to construct the typology of situations of national identity of young people representations in the network. The typology is based on the degree of intensity of national identity representation. The typology can be represented as a continuum, on one pole of which there is a vivid representation of national identity, on the other - an active blurring and confusion of national markers.

Using Patient Blogs on Social Media to Assess the Content Validity of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures: Qualitative Analysis of Patient-Written Blogs.

Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are questionnaires that measure patient outcomes related to quality of life, health, and functioning, and are increasingly used to assess important outcomes from the patient's perspective. For PROMs to contribute to better health and better care, it is vital that their content validity be adequate. This requires patient involvement in various steps of PROM development. PROM developers not only recognize the benefits of patient involvement but also report difficulties in recruiting patients and experience patient involvement as time-consuming, logistically challenging, and expensive. This study seeks to explore different strategies for disclosing the experiential knowledge of patients, namely through analyzing patient stories on the web and social media. The research questions are as follows: (1) how do bloggers living with a disease experience their health-related quality of life? (2) How are these experiences reflected in the domains and items of PROMs related to their disease? First, a qualitative analysis of blogs written by patients was performed. Second, subthemes and underlying codes resulting from this qualitative analysis were systematically compared with the domains and items in PROMs for the respective diseases that the bloggers write about. Blogs were identified via the Google search engine between December 2019 and May 2021. Bloggers describe a wide range of experiences regarding their physical functioning and health; mental well-being; social network and support; daily life, education, work, and leisure; coping; and self-management. Bloggers also write about their positive and negative experiences with health care delivery, the organization of health care, and health care professionals. In general, patients' experiences as described in blogs were reflected in the domains and items of the PROMs related to their disease. However, except for diabetes mellitus, in all the sets of PROMs, potentially missing topics could be identified. Similarly, with the exception of Parkinson disease, all PROMs address issues that patients did not write about in their blogs and that might therefore be redundant. Web-based patient stories in the form of blogs reveal how people living with a certain disease experience their health-related quality of life. These stories enable analyses of patients' experiences that can be used to assess the content validity of PROMs. This can be a useful step for researchers who are looking for sets of measuring instruments that match their purposes.

Hybrid News (in the) Making: A Content and Corpus-Based Discourse Analysis of Political Live Blogs on the 2020 US Presidential Debates

ABSTRACT Political journalism continues to be the main source of political information in deliberative democracies. However, the advent of hybrid media systems during the last decade(s) has altered how journalists cover politics and how audiences consume relevant content. In this context, live blogging has emerged as a web-based alternative to traditional TV broadcasting. To explore whether and in which forms the trend toward hybrid media systems is empirically traceable in current journalism practice, the present study focuses on political live blogging from four popular media outlets covering the two 2020 US presidential TV debates. It applies a discourse-oriented, mixed-methods, corpus-based approach and specifically considers sourcing practices as well as the normalization of professional role conceptions and practices of objectivity. Results suggest that political live blogging establishes multi-layered and multi-authored discourse that places strong emphasis on accountability and disclosure transparency by updating and linking information, while maintaining the journalistic gatekeeping/gatewatching function. It further emerges that political live blogs are characterized by an informal tone but also by a continuation of traditional news media practices as regards objectivity, as instantiated by the salience of debate topics and political terms and by a clear delineation of information from opinion and contextualization.

Semantic Structure of a Movie Hero Favored by Teenagers

The authors used the psychosemiotic content analysis, projective method, personal differential, and factor analysis to study the semantics of a movie character preferred by teenagers. An incomplete-sentence test and a blog analysis revealed eight categories and nineteen corresponding analysis units based on the occurrence / non-occurrence of selected units in the text and their frequency. Osgood’s matrices revealed the measure of the random coincidence of classification units (≥ 70 %) with other categories. The integrative semantic structure of the favored movie hero was determined by such categories and content units as a) gender (male); b) appearance (look); c) intellect (mental abilities); d) interaction (relations with other people); e) character traits (moral and volitional qualities, attitude to others, attitude to work); f) actions (struggle for justice, readiness to do something for others); g) attitude to the family (willingness to sacrifice with something for the family).

Super-highways and Infrastructure Development in Kenya: The Political Economy of Kenya-China Road Development Projects Since 2013

BACKGROUND:In the last two decades, Kenya’s development agenda has focused on Vision 2030’s aim of transforming the country into an industrialised, modern-middle-income state. To fulfill this desired economic growth, the government has emphasised infrastructure improvement, a move that has prompted heavy borrowing, especially from China. Despite the numerous studies on China’s involvement in road construction, there has been no attempt to look at how the Kenya Road Classification System can inform and influence the choice of road projects. In addition, limited studies have illustrated the theoretical standpoint of China-Kenya road improvement projects. OBJECTIVE:Therefore, this paper explores the interest of China in road construction in Kenya through the analysis of the Kenya road classification system. In addition, it examines how the Kenya-China road construction projects can be described from a neoliberal standpoint. METHOD:The paper draws from an analysis of grey literature, including newspapers, blogs, and internet archives, and ethnographic fieldwork on national infrastructure projects, particularly roads in Kenya. CONCLUSION:The findings suggest that China’s primary focus is on trunk roads (class ‘A’ roads), which play a critical role in regional access to resource-rich regions and provide strategic geopolitical and territorial positioning. We argue that the Kenya National and Highway Authority’s Road Classification System can reveal the political and economic interests in road construction.

Constructing clickable criminal trials: framing trials and legal professionals in digital news reports

Journalistic live blogging entails the conundrum of capturing emotions in a context where they should be absent, snapping up the sensational in the subtle drama of the courtroom and presenting it in a way that attracts readers, thus making it clickable. Applying an inductive frame analysis of live blogs and drawing on criteria of newsworthiness and an emotion sociological framework, this article shows two frames of understanding criminal trials are constructed in live blogs: prosecutorial power and teamwork. These frames serve to construct and reconstruct understandings of criminal trials in Sweden. The frames are partially embedded in the legal sphere thereby reproducing the ideological underpinnings of unemotional rationality while concomitantly conveying a more contemporary understanding wherein reason and emotion are conflated. The study shows further that the media frame shapes how criminal trials are reported in live blogs leading to a somewhat distorted understanding of trials being conveyed. Legal professionals are made newsworthy by drawing on news values, particularly emotionalisation, which constitutes a crucial tool for the live blogging journalist.

Bio-citizens online: A content analysis of pro-ana and weight loss blogs.

Current neoliberal ideology in Western society encourages individuals to self-monitor their body to control population health. The resulting self-surveillance includes weight management, promoted as a marker of health. Disordered eating, like anorexia, is framed as a health disorder. However, weight loss is framed as a health initiative; we argue that these framings are engaging with the same body project, encouraging thinness as a marker of health and good bio-citizenry. Using content analysis to compare online blog context created by individuals engaged in weight loss and individuals who identify as pro-anorexia, we argue and evidence that both groups are engaged in body projects with shared parameters. Findings suggest each group is striving to embody a thin ideal through weight management. Specifically, weight loss bloggers and pro-ana bloggers demonstrate similar diet and exercise behaviours in online diaries detailing their weight loss experiences. Thus, weight loss and anorexia exist on the same spectrum of responsible bio-citizenry.

Event tourist experience value: multi-item scale development and validation

Purpose No study to date has addressed the construct of event tourist experience value and there is no well-accepted value measurement method. This study aims to examine the underlying dimensions of event tourist experience value from a holistic perspective. Design/methodology/approach The research process consists of two steps. First, the dimensions of event tourist experience value are investigated by using grounded theory and content analysis of travel blogs. The second step is to explore and verify the scale of event tourist experience value. Findings The items show that event tourist experience value can be comprehensively understood from three dimensions: functional value (functional factors); hedonic value (relaxation, escape, restoration and interaction); and symbolic value (social prestige, belonging and self-transcendence). Practical implications The findings are useful indicators explaining events attendance, and can help event organizers and destination managers to better understand the needs of tourists and design event experiences in a more sophisticated way. Originality/value This work integrates a series of varied events to suggest a holistic view of event tourist experience value, which provides a theoretical basis for other scholars to compare and monitor findings in this field.