Big News Research Articles

Beyond the protest paradigm: Four types of news coverage and America's most prominent social movement organizations

AbstractWhat determines the quality of coverage received by social movement organizations when they appear extensively in the news? Research on the news coverage of social movement organizations is dominated by case studies supporting the “protest paradigm,” which argues that journalists portray movement activists trivially and negatively when covering protest. However, movement organizations often make long‐running news for many different reasons, mainly not protest. We argue that some of this extensive news will lead to worse coverage—in terms of substance and sentiment—notably when the main action covered involves violence. Extensive coverage centered on other actions, however, notably politically assertive action, will tend to produce “good news” in these dimensions. We analyze the news of the twentieth century's 100 most‐covered U.S. movement organizations in their biggest news year in four national newspapers. Topic models indicate that these organizations were mainly covered for actions other than nonviolent protest, including politically assertive action, strikes, civic action, investigations, trials, and violence. Natural language processing analyses and hand‐coding show that their news also varied widely in sentiment and substance. Employing qualitative comparative analyses, we find that the main action behind news strongly influences its quality, and there may be several news paradigms for movement organizations.

Eye Drop Quality Issues: Can the FDA See This One Through?

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has long suffered from a lack of resources limiting their inspection capacity. They have fallen behind on proactive surveillance inspections of foreign manufacturing sites, relying instead on for-cause inspections after a problem has been discovered. Over-the-counter (OTC) products are especially vulnerable because the FDA considers them lower priority. This issue recently made big news after improperly manufactured OTC eye drops harmed users across the country, in some cases causing blindness. To prevent future harm to Americans, it is imperative that the FDA receives enough resources to keep up with their routine inspections.

Utilizing Topic Modeling to Establish Sustainable Public Policies by Analyzing Korea’s Sports Human Rights over the Last Two Decades

Human rights violations in sports reveal that athletes are continuously exposed to violence. In Korea, the negative effects of its sports powerhouse paradigm are increasingly apparent. Although discussions on human rights in sports have progressed, academic research on this has not. Sourcing information from Korea’s Press Foundation’s big data news system from 2006 to 2023, this study used term frequency, term frequency-inverse document modeling, topic term matrix extraction through latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA), and LDAvis to analyze sports human rights issues and policies over time. The results revealed topics in three timeframes: in the first policy establishment period (2006–2010), the topics ranged from “Sports Human Rights Education” to “Minimum Education for Student Athletes”. In the policy transition period (2011–2018), the topics included “Strengthening Sports Human Rights Education”, “Women’s Human Rights Issues in Sports”, and “Government-Level Investigation into Sportsdom Controversies”; and in the second policy establishment period (2019–2023), the topics included “Athlete Harassment”, “Sportsdom #MeToo Movement”, “Guarantee of Student Human Rights Convenience Facilities”, and “Guarantee of Sports Human Rights”. Better mid- to long-term plans, national efforts, and education that improve awareness of human rights in sports are needed for sustainability.

Automobility in the Age of Apocalypse: On the Beach, Nuclear Nostalgia, and Atomic (Im)Mobilities

In the 1966 animated short film What on Earth!, viewers are presented with a news-reel styled broadcast—ostensibly from the ‘National Film Board of Mars’—detailing Martians’ first glimpses of alien life on Earth. As a car enters from the right, the narrator announces: ‘And then, the big news: there is life on Earth!’ The ‘cameras on our orbiting spaceship’ then follow these Earthlings through their daily rituals: ‘at dinner’ (fuelling with petrol), taking ‘shelter for the night’ (parking in a garage), and ‘browsing in curiously designed libraries’ (driving through a region inundated with billboards). Yet this colourful, comedic, slightly surreal animation takes a sinister turn towards its end as we glimpse the human occupants of the vehicle for the first time.

The management of diabetic foot: the new guidelines of the International Working Group on Diabetic Foot

. The management of diabetic foot: the new guidelines of the International Working Group on Diabetic Foot. The publication of the new guidelines on the diabetic foot are an opportunity for a fine-tuning of the (few) new developments, but of the soundness of the evidence and knowledge known so far. Compared to the previous 2019 guidelines, the 2023 update included the analysis of randomised clinical trials only, a more accurate application of the GRADE method, a leaner and more current bibliography, and an update of the strength of some recommendations from low to conditional. The real big news in the 2023 update is the publication of a specific guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of Charcot neuro-osteoarthropathy in people with diabetes, neuropathy and in the absence of skin lesions.

How Sewage Sud Denly became a Dirty Word

Sewage pollution is big news in the UK with water companies facing record fines for leaks while the UK government imposes stringent legislation prompting major investment. Here we examine the background and what is being done to prevent it.

How to poach the talents? Role of social capital and contextual knowledge base

Why do some talent mobility events succeed with big news while others result in silent failure? Recruiting experienced inventors is an important way for hiring firms to get information and reach external knowledge to gain a competitive advantage in the digital era. This research considers learning-by-hiring (LBH) to be a process of knowledge transfer from the recruit to the hiring firm and identifies the influential factors in this process. We develop an integrated model to depict the relationship among the social capital of the recruit, knowledge base of the hiring firm, and corresponding knowledge transfer performance. By combining PATSTAT and COMPUSTAT databases, we identify 25,618 interfirm mobility events. Empirical models are developed to examine the theoretical hypotheses. The analyses indicate that a firm can acquire more knowledge through hiring when they poach a recruit who has more individual social capital. Interestingly, the knowledge breadth of the hiring firm strengthens the positive effect of relational embeddedness and weakens the impact of structural embeddedness. Conversely, knowledge depth weakens the effects of relational embeddedness and strengthens the effects of structural embeddedness. This study advances our understanding of LBH, and also enriches the interplay between recruits and hiring firms from a knowledge transfer perspective.

Letters to the editor: reporting disasters and creating identity in the late nineteenth century Philippines

ABSTRACT A revolution in how news was reported occurred in the Philippines during the late nineteenth century with the publication of daily newspapers, the establishment of a postal system, and the construction of a telegraph network that allowed correspondents in the provinces to give timely accounts of what was happening in country towns and their hinterlands. Many of these reports graphically described the typhoons, floods, fires, tremors and the like that all too frequently afflicted rural communities. These descriptions mainly took the form of letters written to the editors of Manila-based newspapers, such as El Comercio, Diario de Manila and La Oceania Española. Who were these correspondents, where were they, what were their concerns and what did they have to say? Looking in depth at the newspaper accounts of one year, 1881, a singly uneventful year in terms of ‘big news’, this article provides a snapshot into rural life and its vicissitudes towards the end of the Spanish colonial era. It also explores how reporting the news began to build a collective consciousness of the Philippines as a nation.

토픽모델링과 시계열 회귀분석을 활용한 헬스케어 분야의 뉴스 빅데이터 분석

토픽모델링과 시계열 회귀분석을 활용한 헬스케어 분야의 뉴스 빅데이터 분석

The Construction of Reality of Media Regarding Ustadz Abdul Somad's Refusal to Enter Singapore

Media shapes the reality perceived by the readers. The issue discussed by the reader is based on how the media report the case. In the case about Ustadz Abdul Somad’s (UAS’s) refusal to enter Singapore was framed differently by two big online news portal: kompas.com and detik.com. Those two media were chosen since they are considered as the big and most-read news portal. The objective of the study is to analyze how the media framed the reality of UAS’s refusal to enter Singapore. The data used in this study were the news published by kompas.com and detik.com during 16-23 May 2022. The news articles were analyzed using the framing analysis method by Pan and Kosicki. This study found out that those two media constructed the reality differently. Kompas.com reported the news in more balance manner in a sense that they took the source both from UAS’s and Singapore’s side. On the other hand, detik.com tended to construct this event on more provocative way: they took the source more on UAS’s side or those who were in the same side of him.
 Keywords: constructing reality, framing, news

Large-Scale Estimation and Analysis of Web Users' Mood from Web Search Query and Mobile Sensor Data.

The ability to estimate the current mood states of web users has considerable potential for realizing user-centric opportune services in pervasive computing. However, it is difficult to determine the data type used for such estimation and collect the ground truth of such mood states. Therefore, we built a model to estimate the mood states from search-query data in an easy-to-collect and non-invasive manner. Then, we built a model to estimate mood states from mobile sensor data as another estimation model and supplemented its output to the ground-truth label of the model estimated from search queries. This novel two-step model building contributed to boosting the performance of estimating the mood states of web users. Our system was also deployed in the commercial stack, and large-scale data analysis with >11 million users was conducted. We proposed a nationwide mood score, which bundles the mood values of users across the country. It shows the daily and weekly rhythm of people's moods and explains the ups and downs of moods during the COVID-19 pandemic, which is inversely synchronized to the number of new COVID-19 cases. It detects big news that simultaneously affects the mood states of many users, even under fine-grained time resolution, such as the order of hours. In addition, we identified a certain class of advertisements that indicated a clear tendency in the mood of the users who clicked such advertisements.

“Workplace Bullying” Before and After Enforcement of the Revised Labor Standards Act in 2019 Exploration of Changes and Characteristics of Phenomena: Analysis of Media Articles Using The Korea Press Foundation’s BIGKinds from 2017 to 2022

This study aims to analyze the changes and characteristics of workplace bullying by examining news articles in the media before and after the implementation of the Labor Standards Act workplace bullying prohibition system, which was enforced in 2019. In particular, big data news analysis was attempted using BIGKinds, the integrated database of news articles from the largest in Korea provided by the Korea Press Foundation. As a result of the analysis, firstly, it was found that from January 1, 2017, to December 31, 2022, there were 1,353 press articles on bullying at work, showing a 6.8-fold increase from 42 in 2017 to 286 in 2022. This highlights the persistent issue of human rights violations in the workplace despite the implementation of the revised Labor Standards Act. Secondly, the increase in media coverage after the implementation of the Workplace Bullying Prevention Act indicates the media

Quantum double models coupled to matter fields: A detailed review for a dualization procedure

In this paper, we investigate how it is possible to define a new class of lattice gauge models based on a dualization procedure of a previous generalization of the Kitaev Quantum Double Models. In the case of this previous generalization that will be used as a basis, it was defined by adding new qudits (which were denoted as matter fields in reference to some works) to the lattice vertices with the intention of, for instance, interpreting its models as Kitaev Quantum Double Models coupled with Potts ones. Now, with regard to the generalization that we investigate here, which we want to define as the dual of this previous one, these new qudits were added to the lattice faces. And as the coupling between gauge and matter qudits of the previous generalization was performed by a gauge group action, we show that the dual behavior of these two generalizations was achieved by coupling these same qudits in the second one through a gauge group co-action homomorphism. One of the most striking dual aspects of these two generalizations is that, in both, part of the quasiparticles that were inherited from the Kitaev Quantum Double Models become confined when these action and co-action are nontrivial. But the big news here is that, in addition to the group homomorphism (that defines this gauge group co-action) allows us to classify all the different models of this second generalization, this same group homomorphism also suggests that all these models can be interpreted as two-dimensional restrictions of the 2-lattice gauge theories.

The United Nation’s double roles in the Ukraine

Generally, when one thinks about the United Nations (which is not very often) one tends to think of the institution as a whole. One thinks of the United Nations. Any positive or negative thoughts about it tend to taint the whole Organization. One either likes or dislikes the UN as a whole. And, because most media focus is on the big news and the big events, then most of our thoughts are dominated by the activities of the Security Council. And because most of the news is about the Big Five vetoing each other’s proposals then we are left with the impression that the UN gets nothing done, that it is not very useful. Through a revision of the case of the current war in Ukraine, the purpose of this essay is to show that this is neither correct nor helpful.

Best-Selling Author to Discuss How Psychiatrists Can Help Create More Equitable World

Best-Selling Author to Discuss How Psychiatrists Can Help Create More Equitable World

Big Data ML-Based Fake News Detection Using Distributed Learning

Users rely heavily on social media to consume and share news, facilitating the mass dis-semination of genuine and fake stories. The proliferation of misinformation on various social media platforms has serious consequences for society. The inability to differentiate between the sev-eral forms of false news on Twitter is a major obstacle to effective detection of fake news. Researchers have made progress toward a solution by placing a greater emphasis on methods for identifying bogus news. The dataset FNC-1, which includes four categories for identifying false news, will be used in this study. The state-of-the-art methods for spotting fake news are evaluated and compared using big data technology (Spark) and machine learning. The methodology of this study employed a decentralized Spark cluster to create a stacked ensemble model. Following feature extraction using N-grams, Hashing TF-IDF, and count vectorizer, we used the proposed stacked ensemble classification model. The results show that the suggested model has a superior classification performance of 92.45% in the F1 score compared to the 83.10 % F1 score of the baseline approach. The proposed model achieved an additional 9.35% F1 score compared to the state-of-the-art techniques.

The Impact of Anadolu Agency News as a News Source on Arab Media and Arab Public Opinion

Global news agencies continue to play a fundamental role as news providers not only for media outlets but also for individuals by making the instant dissemination and consumption of news possible and promoting an experience of global connectedness. The globalization of the media has led to a few global news agencies dominating the world's media; thus, the influence of these agencies can spread across countries without regard to political boundaries. As part of the international race to win the Arab public opinion and consolidate their dominance in the Arab world, the big global news agencies are seeking to present their programs and news in Arabic language. In recent years, Turkey as an important regional power in the Arab world has taken some initiatives to communicate with the Arab public through the press, the most important of which is the Arabic Department of the Anadolu (News) Agency. On this basis, the study aims to examine the level and nature of the media presence of Anadolu Agency's Arabic Department in the Arab world and how Anadolu Agency can become a reliable news source for the largest Arab media outlets. In this study, on the one hand, a quantitative approach was adopted in which the researchers collected data on the daily and the monthly number of news quoted by Arabic newspapers from the Arabic Department of Anadolu Agency. On the other hand, in the qualitative analysis, the study relies on the analysis of some surveys and previous Arabic studies to identify the factors that contribute to the success and development of the Arabic Department of the Anadolu Agency in the Arab world. The study showed that the common cultural, religious, and historical ties between Turkey and the Arab world have greatly facilitated the active presence of Anadolu Agency in the Arab geographies and the regions.

Lifting the Veil on the Use of Big Data News Repositories: A Documentation and Critical Discussion of A Protest Event Analysis

ABSTRACT This paper presents a critical discussion of the processing, reliability and implications of free big data repositories. We argue that big data is not only the starting point of scientific analyses but also the outcome of a long string of invisible or semi-visible tasks, often masked by the fetish of size that supposedly lends validity to big data. We unpack these notions by illustrating the process of extracting protest event data from the Global Database of Events, Language and Tone (GDELT) in six European countries over a period of seven years. To stand up to rigorous scientific scrutiny, we collected additional data by computational means and undertook large-scale neural-network translation tasks, dictionary-based content analyses, machine-learning classification tasks, and human coding. In a documentation and critical discussion of this process, we render visible opaque procedures that inevitably shape any dataset and show how this type of freely available datasets require significant additional resources of knowledge, labor, money, and computational power. We conclude that while these processes can ultimately yield more valid datasets, the supposedly free and ready-to-use big news data repositories should not be taken at face value.

Will there be large or small gifts to PDM3 attendees and EJTM authors in March and June 2023?

The fall of 2022 approaches with the need to finalize our plans for next year. This is urgent for the 2023 Meeting of the Padua Days of Muscle and Mobility Medicine, (PDM3) to be held March 29 to April 1, 2023 at the Hotel Petrarca in the Thermae of Euganean Hills (Padua), Italy, but there are also news related to the inclusion of the European Journal of Translational Myology (EJTM) in the Web of Science: Emerging Sources Citation Index – Clarivate (ESCI) database. A preliminary PDM3 flyer is almost ready with session program, organzers and keynote speakers. Some are the traditional organizers of the PDM3 sessions dedicated to molecular and cellular myology, but there will also be interesting new entries, including those of Rehabilitation Sessions. No doubt that PDM3 2023 will be a great gift for all Participants, as is the tradition of PDM3. The other big news scheduled for June 2023 is the Impact Factor 2022 that Clarivate will release next year. It could be a big or small gift. As Authors who publish in other Magazines, but even more as Referees we could contribute in the next months of 2022 to make a small gift from Clarivate bigger. In any case, it will be a great gift that has been awaited for many years for one of us, who is approaching 80 years of age next February 2023.

Whistleblower: How One Man Tried to Stop a Famous Cancer Center from Suppressing an Effective Treatment

While working at Sloan Kettering Institute (SKI) in the 1970s, Ralph Moss discovered that the top research scientist there was impressed with the anti-cancer properties of amygdalin, the synthetic form of which is laetrile. At that time, laetrile was a topic of national interest as a low-cost way of treating cancer. It would have been big news if SKI announced that laetrile was effective in animal studies and then conducted human trials of its efficacy. But due to pressure from unknown sources, Moss’s superiors chose to publicly deny the validity of their scientist’s research. Moss and other dissenting staff tried to gain press attention for the cover-up going on at SKI, but their efforts failed. In 1979, the FDA ban on the interstate sale of laetrile was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, effectively ending the common use of it. It has been classified by the cancer establishment as a classic case of “quackery,” meaning that those who claim it has anti-cancer properties are frauds. Thus, this case study shows how easily information about potentially effective cancer treatments can be suppressed by a handful of people in positions of authority. It also shows how politics can change the scientific information available to the public.