Analysis Of Media Texts Research Articles

Resisting ritual repression and reclaiming social positions by Dalits in Tamilnadu: a critical discourse analysis of media text

The four-year long struggle of the Dalits in Seshasmudram, a village in Viluppuram District of Northern Tamilnadu, over asserting their right to take the temple car procession through the public road of the village reached its extreme with burning of Dalits’ huts and torching of the temple car by the caste Hindus on 15 August 2015. Despite the court order and permission accorded by the District administration to take the temple car procession, the Dalits of the village were prevented from taking the procession through the public road. The total distance of the procession planned was nearly 175 m, of which the disputed segment is less than 50 m. The reportage of this issue in mainstream Tamil newspapers bring to light the elision and abandonment of fairness and objectivity in a highly nuanced manner. One of the fact-finding committee reports published in the Social Networking Sites was later carried by a mainstream newspaper after vetting, filtering, polishing, moderating, and fine tuning it. This study uses the critical discourse analysis to explore the power structure, relations, and processes to investigate how such practices of controlled and repressed reporting produce events and texts that are shaped by relations of power and struggles over power.

Branding like a State: Establishing Catalan Singularity at the Frankfurt Book Fair

The designation of Catalan culture as guest of honor at the 2007 Frankfurt Book Fair raised controversy over whether Catalan culture is expressed in one language or two. This was an opportunity for elites to promote Catalan industry internationally but also to compete over visions of Catalonia for domestic political purposes. An analysis of media texts from the controversy shows that national branding emerged as a key trope in the official defense of emphasizing Catalan over Castilian-medium literature. As a discourse sanctioned in the global political economy, branding was strategically revoiced by Catalan officials to parry Castilian critics’ free-marketeer accusations of illiberal essentialist protectionism. This analysis uses Silverstein’s concept of indexical order to argue that branding functioned not only as a sign of Catalonia’s distinctiveness in the global marketplace but also at a higher order as a brand in itself to index the Catalan administration’s cosmopolitan, contemporary, and rationalist character.

PPDM: A Privacy-Preserving Protocol for Cloud-Assisted e-Healthcare Systems

E-healthcare systems have been increasingly facilitating health condition monitoring, disease modeling and early intervention, and evidence-based medical treatment by medical text mining and image feature extraction. Owing to the resource constraint of wearable mobile devices, it is required to outsource the frequently collected personal health information (PHI) into the cloud. Unfortunately, delegating both storage and computation to the untrusted entity would bring a series of security and privacy issues. The existing work mainly focused on fine-grained privacy-preserving static medical text access and analysis, which can hardly afford the dynamic health condition fluctuation and medical image analysis. In this paper, a secure and efficient privacy-preserving dynamic medical text mining and image feature extraction scheme PPDM in cloud-assisted e-healthcare systems is proposed. Firstly, an efficient privacy-preserving fully homomorphic data aggregation is proposed, which serves the basis for our proposed PPDM. Then, an outsourced disease modeling and early intervention is achieved, respectively by devising an efficient privacy-preserving function correlation matching PPDM1 from dynamic medical text mining and designing a privacy-preserving medical image feature extraction PPDM2. Finally, the formal security proof and extensive performance evaluation demonstrate our proposed PPDM achieves a higher security level (i.e., information-theoretic security for input privacy and adaptive chosen ciphertext attack (CCA2) security for output privacy) in the honest but curious model with optimized efficiency advantage over the state-of-the-art in terms of both computational and communication overhead.

Iconographic Analysis of Media Texts on Media Literacy Education Classes

Iconographic analysis is associative analysis of the media texts’ images (eg, water, fire -- as symbols of purity and destruction) associated with the semiotic analysis. Art historians, scientists, semiotics, media theorists and practitioners of media education have written thousands of volumes, which convincingly proved that the decoding/decoding of audio-visual images sometimes difficult, requiring considerable knowledge and skills of the process of intellectual and creative work. Iconographic analysis of media texts based on the key concept of media language, and suggests that media education aims to develop knowledge of the ways in which media texts express his idea, and develop the knowledge, improving skills of textual analysis that can be attached to fixed or moving images recorded on the medium of sound or any combination of the above.The initial stage of the iconographic analysis of media texts offer students concentrate on careful perception of audiovisual images on the description of their characteristic features. The audience learns conventional codes of media texts, followed by a smooth transition to the interpretation and evaluation of media texts. As a result, the audience media competence is developing in relation to visual images.

Content Analysis of the Functioning of Media in Society and Media Texts on Media Education Classes in the Student Audience

The author define the content analysis as a quantitative analysis of media texts (the definition of the category of media text, organize facts, conclusions about the types of narratives, symbols, languages, forms, etc.; how often appear certain factors such as stereotypes plot). This also connected with the analysis of media agencies work (volume of transmitted information, selectivity information and so on.). The author substantiates the technology content analysis of media and media texts in the student audience. The article also provides examples of creative tasks and issues related to content analysis of media & media texts.

Systematic Readability Analysis of Medical Texts on Websites of German University Clinics for General and Abdominal Surgery

Background: Besides the function as one of the main contact points, websites of hospitals serve as medical information portals. As medical information texts should be understood by any patients independent of the literacy skills and educational level, online texts should have an appropriate structure to ease understandability. Materials and Methods: Patient information texts on websites of clinics for general surgery at German university hospitals (n = 36) were systematically analysed. For 9 different surgical topics representative medical information texts were extracted from each website. Using common readability tools and 5 different readability indices the texts were analysed concerning their readability and structure. The analysis was furthermore stratified in relation to geographical regions in Germany. Results: For the definite analysis the texts of 196 internet websites could be used. On average the texts consisted of 25 sentences and 368 words. The reading analysis tools congruously showed that all texts showed a rather low readability demanding a high literacy level from the readers. Conclusion: Patient information texts on German university hospital websites are difficult to understand for most patients. To fulfill the ambition of informing the general population in an adequate way about medical issues, a revision of most medical texts on websites of German surgical hospitals is recommended.

The Analysis of Stereotypes of Politically Engaged Media Texts in Media Studies in Student Audience (by the Example of Renny Harlin's Films 'Born American' (1986) and 'Five Days of War' (2011)

The development of skills for the analysis of media texts is an important task of media education. However, media literacy practice shows that students have problems with the discussion/analysis of some genres in the early stages of media studies, for example, the difficulties in the process of understanding and interpreting the author's conception, plot and genre features. This article substantiates the methodological approaches to the analysis of politically engaged media texts in media studies in the student audience.

'The Little School Orchestra': A Sample of the Hermeneutic Analysis of Media Texts in Student Audience

The hermeneutic analysis of the cultural context is the investigation of the interpretation of media texts, cultural and historical factors influencing the views of the media agency/author and the audience’s point of view. The hermeneutic analysis of media text comprehension involves a comparison of the cultural tradition and reality, insight into the logic of a media text, media text analysis through comparison of artistic images in historical and cultural contexts. Thus, the object of the analysis is the media system and its functioning in the society, the interaction with the person, the media language and its use. This article uses the film of Alexander Muratov and Nikolay Rasheev "The Little School Orchestra" (1968) as an example of the hermeneutic analysis of media texts in student audience.

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The author of the article agrees that sociological researches of the levels of media literacy/competence of different groups of citizens are very timely today. However such researches require a significant shift of emphasis: the most important indicator should be the audience's ability to analyze and evaluate media messages and media's role in society (including a media text's analysis); only afterwards such skills as creation and communication of own media production and skills to use media technology should follow. The article attempts to illustrate that otherwise the findings of sociological surveys on media competence will display a common flaw - the overestimation of user's skills. The author emphasizes that media literacy does not benefit from its reduction as a technical matter.

Multiraciality, Haunting, and “People Like Us”

Multiraciality, Haunting, and “People Like Us”

Opting out of corporate careers: portraits from a women's magazine

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to critically explore media representations of opting-out and how these present particular professional identities as appropriate career choices for women. Through an examination of a UK women's magazine the paper looks at how opting-out in favour of work based on traditionally female housewifery skills and attributes is communicated and justified in the texts.Design/methodology/approach– The paper adopts a social identity approach to a qualitative content analysis of 17 consecutive monthly magazine features.Findings– While the magazine frames women's career choices as unlimited, identity is presented as gendered, biologically fixed and therefore inescapable. The magazine presents opting out as an appropriate route for women based on a “female identity” grounded in traditional female attributes of caring, hosting, baking, etc. However, this leaves women's work open to potentially negative interpretations of these traditional female attributes. The texts appeal to a post-feminist discourse and imply that problems experienced by women in public sphere careers are partly the outcome of the feminism of the 1960s and 1970s.Research limitations/implications– Future research should study how readers interpret the texts.Originality/value– The paper demonstrates the explanatory potential of using of a social identity approach in the analysis of media texts.

On the political sideline? The institutional isolation of donor organizations in Jordanian hydropolitics

Fresh water availability is very low in Jordan. Current water usage is unsustainable and structures of water resource governance are inadequate. Drawing on expert interviews and the analysis of media texts, this study shows that patterns and privileges of water consumption sustain specific political and social orders, aggravating Jordan's suboptimal water resource deployment. Many of these long-established modes of water distribution are not commensurate with new resource governance structures fostered by international development cooperation. This puts pressure on Jordan's political elite: the flow of foreign aid stabilizes the regime as does the preservation of existing privileges. It is argued here that maintaining two opposed but coexisting ‘resource realities’, i.e. governance structures and usage patterns of water resources, allows the regime to escape this dilemma. Donor organizations are thus bound to operate in an institutionally isolated sphere in Jordan with only a marginal ability to penetrate the relevant actor groups to trigger profound effects on either resource reality.

Water availability and vulnerability of 225 large cities in the United States

This study presents a quantitative national assessment of urban water availability and vulnerability for 225 U.S. cities with population greater than 100,000. Here, the urban assessments account for not only renewable water flows, but also the extracted, imported, and stored water that urban systems access through constructed infrastructure. These sources represent important hydraulic components of the urban water supply, yet are typically excluded from water scarcity assessments. Results from this hydraulic‐based assessment were compared to those obtained using a more conventional method that estimates scarcity solely based on local renewable flows. The inclusion of hydraulic components increased the mean availability to cities, leading to a significantly lower portion of the total U.S. population considered “at risk” for water scarcity (17%) than that obtained from the runoff method (47%). Water vulnerability was determined based on low‐flow conditions, and smaller differences were found for this metric between at‐risk populations using the runoff (66%) and hydraulic‐based (54%) methods. The large increase in the susceptible population between the scarcity measures evaluated using the hydraulic method may better reconcile the seeming contradiction in the United States between perceptions of natural water abundance and widespread water scarcity. Additionally, urban vulnerability measures developed here were validated using a media text analysis. Vulnerability assessments that included hydraulic components were found to correlate with the frequency of urban water scarcity reports in the popular press while runoff‐based measures showed no significant correlation, suggesting that hydraulic‐based assessments provide better context for understanding the nature and severity of urban water scarcity issues.

Resisting the revelatory scanner? Critical engagements with fMRI in popular media

Functional neuroimaging is charged with revealing thoughts and intentions, the source of mental dysfunction, and the basis of fundamental human traits. Critics have argued that situating the mind in a brain scan risks essentializing contested social and psychiatric categories, encourages deterministic perspectives, and diverts attention from non-biological ways of understanding the mind. Here, I review these critical discourses and ask whether they are reflected in popular media, through a discourse analysis of print and online reports of functional neuroimaging research deriving primarily from the United Kingdom. In contrast to earlier studies, I found diverse challenges to the expertise of the scanner, ranging from explicit polemic to assertions of lay expertise. Brain images themselves were often manipulated, mislabelled or omitted in favour of photographic representations of mental function, posing new questions about the rhetorical power of the scan. These findings caution against premature conclusions concerning the reductive impact of popularized neuroimages, but I also argue for caution regarding the reach and novelty of the critical engagements I observed. Finally, I argue that qualitative analysis of media texts is essential to understanding the developing discourse surrounding functional neuroimaging, and discuss possible implications for science communication and public engagement practice.

When Leaders Fail: A Typology of Failures and Framing Strategies

In an era characterized by the widespread availability and accessibility of information and growing concerns over ethical and “authentic” leadership, business leaders are increasingly required to answer to public concerns about their past and present failures. Failure in the existing scholarly literature is largely confined to quantifiable measures of poor performance of a leader’s direct actions.This article offers a more elaborate typology of leaders’ failures and the framing strategies regularly employed by leaders, based on a discourse analysis of media texts. The author presents a framework through which the ways in which leaders actively construct and negotiate images of leadership style, effectiveness, and authenticity can be systematically explored.

Semiotic analysis of a media text the Lord of the Rings : The Fellowship of the Ring.

The Lord of the Rings movie by Peter Jackson was an interesting genre for semiotic analysis. This brief analysis was looking at the manner of intertextuality, style and form, as well as a syntagmatic analysis. It also discussed the aspect of signs and the signified. The signs employed by filmmaker Peter Jackson in constructing this media text can be categorized into social codes, technical codes and representational codes. Key words: Semiotic; Analysis; Lord of the Rings; Fellowship Resume: Le film Le Seigneur des Anneaux de Peter Jackson est un cas interessant pour l'analyse semiotique. Cette analyse breve se penche sur la maniere de l'intertextualite, le style et la forme, ainsi qu’une analyse syntagmatique. Elle a aussi examine l'aspect de la signalisation et des signifies. Les signes employes par le cineaste Peter Jackson dans la construction de ce media texte peuvent etre classes dans les codes sociaux, les codes techniques et les codes de representation. Mots-Cles: semiotique; analyses; Le Seigneur des Anneaux; communaute

Neurolinguistic approach to natural language processing with applications to medical text analysis

Understanding written or spoken language presumably involves spreading neural activation in the brain. This process may be approximated by spreading activation in semantic networks, providing enhanced representations that involve concepts not found directly in the text. The approximation of this process is of great practical and theoretical interest. Although activations of neural circuits involved in representation of words rapidly change in time snapshots of these activations spreading through associative networks may be captured in a vector model. Concepts of similar type activate larger clusters of neurons, priming areas in the left and right hemisphere. Analysis of recent brain imaging experiments shows the importance of the right hemisphere non-verbal clusterization. Medical ontologies enable development of a large-scale practical algorithm to re-create pathways of spreading neural activations. First concepts of specific semantic type are identified in the text, and then all related concepts of the same type are added to the text, providing expanded representations. To avoid rapid growth of the extended feature space after each step only the most useful features that increase document clusterization are retained. Short hospital discharge summaries are used to illustrate how this process works on a real, very noisy data. Expanded texts show significantly improved clustering and may be classified with much higher accuracy. Although better approximations to the spreading of neural activations may be devised a practical approach presented in this paper helps to discover pathways used by the brain to process specific concepts, and may be used in large-scale applications.

Basic medical documentation with ID DIACOS as an instrument for quality assurance

Standardized methods and instruments of medical documentation are prerequisites for quality assurance in medicine. Support for quality assurance measures at present can be attained by the programme systems ID DIACOS (encoding of diagnoses into ICD-9 and procedures into ICPM-GE) for daily clinical routine documentation. Administrative statistics, e.g. the L1-statistics of diagnoses according to section 16 Federal Statutory Instrument on Hospital Care Rates (BPflV) can be compiled without waste by aggregation. Supplementations of the programme system are planned caused by the introduction of new forms of Hospital reimbursement with changed classification patterns. An increasing need for computer-aided encoding will also result by the implementation of new classifications, e.g. ICD-10 and by the requirements concerning a scientific basic documentation (Selbmann, 1990; Mau, 1990) based partly on nomenclatures. The connection of the programme systems ID DIACOS and SNOMED (empirical and morphological analysis of medical texts) is possible and will be carried out (Hultsch, Diekmann, Ruhl, 1990).

The hysteric's revenge: French women writers at the fin de siecle

Hysteric's considers fin-de-siecle French women writers in the context of prevailing cultural anxieties about female intellect. During the years that overlap between the fin de siecle and the Belle Epoque, women began to write in record numbers, due to a number of factors including educational reforms and demographic shifts. This trend terrified many male literary critics, who described it as the crisis of women's in a series of efforts to circumscribe the perceived problem. Such critics frequently linked women's writing to sexual depravity. According to popular medical theories, the fragile confluence of the female mind and body might steer the woman writer towards illicit sexual behavior when she exercised her intellect. This book argues, however, that the fear of sexual abandon - though real - veiled an even more insidious fear: that women might be capable of intellectual equality with men and thus pose a threat to the most basic structures of French patriarchal society. In demonstrating the pervasiveness of this anxiety through analysis of nineteenth-century medical texts, literary criticism, and fiction, The Hysteric's Revenge brings into relief a critical relationship between the female mind and body that is essential to understanding the discursive position of the turn-of-the-century woman writer. novels presented here confront this mind/body problem through a wide variety of styles and genres that challenge conventional fin-de-siecle notions of femininity. From the compelling autobiography of Liane de Pougy - one of Paris's most renowned courtesans - to Colette's frank discussions of female pleasure in one of her early novels, to the violent creativity of Rachilde's androgynous heroine, Mesch demonstrates how both canonical and non-canonical writers promoted women's intellectual authority through the development of a sexual counter-discourse. In engaging the relationship between women's minds and bodies, these novels challenge the conclusions of a century of doctors who sought to prove a physiological basis for female intellectual inferiority. At the same time, they point the way towards later French feminists who sought to subvert patriarchal structures through literary explorations of sexuality.

The Paradox of the State-Run Media Promoting Poor Governance in China: Case Studies of a Party Newspaper and an Anticorruption Film

ABSTRACT This essay draws on the analysis of media texts and ethnographic fieldwork to present case studies of the production, distribution, and consumption of two kinds of media products in China that are used for educating cadres about official policies, law and morality, namely, a Party-produced prefectural newspaper and an anticorruption film. Such pedagogic media products merit study because they are consumed by a huge audience of cadres who are entrusted with interpreting and implementing state policy and with carrying out the daily work of the different institutions that make up the Party-state. The case studies show that the internal circulation of pedagogic media products within the Party-state apparatus works in two ways to reinforce “organizational involution,” which causes poor governance. First, the content of the media products and their methods of distribution buttress the norms and institutional practices that entrench unchallenged power, corruption, and official malfeasance within the system. Examples include the role of top-down administrative fiat in determining the content of the media products and the ways in which individuals and institutions are compelled to purchase materials and participate in pedagogic activities to secure their positions. Second, state pedagogy deflects attention away from the structural failings of the Party-state system. The pedagogic products enable the Party-state to portray itself as the leading crusader in the fight against corruption, despite the corrupting consequences of its continuing unsupervised monopoly on power. Meanwhile, self-improvement exhortations in the media texts sidestep the question of systemic political reform.