Newspaper Features Research Articles

Influence of an extreme event-the COVID-19 pandemic-On establishment of and data collection by a citizen science project.

The recent rising incidence of extreme natural events may significantly influence the implementation of citizen science projects, including the success of outreach strategies and the quality and scope of data collection. The MassMammals Watch and subsidiary MassBears citizen science projects, initiated during the height of the pandemic, recruit volunteers to submit sightings of black bears and other mammals. In this study, we evaluated the methods we employed for engaging and retaining community volunteers during a period of intense social restrictions, and we assessed whether such conditions were associated with spatial biases in our collected data. Newspaper features were more likely to recruit volunteers who engaged with the project multiple times, but social media and internet presence were important for reaching a larger audience. Bear sighting submissions peaked in number and were more likely to be in forested areas during 2020, the height of the pandemic, compared to later years, a pattern which we suggest stems from an increased desire to participate in outdoor activities in light of social distancing measures during that year. Such shifts in patterns of data collection are likely to continue, particularly in response to increasing extreme weather events associated with climate change. Here, we both make recommendations on optimal outreach strategies for others initiating citizen science programs and illustrate the importance of assessing potential biases in data collection imposed by extreme circumstances.

Interactive Nature of Social Media’s Comment Feature

Discussions through interactions between contending parties have been known to have minimised, if not completely resolved, many conflicts, and have nipped numerous others in the bud because people were able to express themselves for others to know their stands on issues. Likewise, new media technologies, ably hinged on the Internet, have further created avenues for more interactions among people in different media ecosystems. Given the variegated attributes of the Internet, most newspapers now have online versions which have provisions for readers to make comments at the end of each story or report. The comment feature of online newspapers and social media gives room for interaction among readers and users, hence, commenters are not only using it to comment on what they consume from the media, but they also use it to react and comment on the comments made by other commenters. This brings about a robust social interaction among the commenters, outside the medium that serves as the source of news or topic of discussion. In October 2020, youth in Nigeria embarked on a protest against police brutality tagged #EndSARS, SARS being the acronym for Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the Nigerian police. The youth mobilised themselves nationwide through social media and other Internet platforms to hold rallies and protests, with the major protest taking place at the Lekki Tollgate in Lagos. It is within this context that this paper looked at the social interaction that took place among commenters who commented in Sahara Reporters, Premium Times, and the online version of The Punch newspaper on the #EndSARS issue. The objectives were to find out how many comments were made in the comment sections of these selected online newspapers as they relate to their reports on #EndSARS; to ascertain how many of the comments were socially interactive, and to determine the extent the comments proffered solutions to police brutality in Nigeria. Grounded in the Social Network Theory, the study utilised content analysis and direct observation methods to gather data for evaluation while coding sheets and coding guide were used as data collection instruments. Findings revealed that commenters were engaged in interactive discussions among themselves when expressing their opinions about the #EndSARS protests. It was also discovered that some of the comments proffered solutions to the issue of police brutality, and how it can be addressed. The paper concluded that the comment feature of social media is another unique avenue for citizens to voice out their opinions, and to reach out to, and engage the “high and mighty” in the society, either within or outside government, they might not be privileged to reach through other means. Based on the findings, it was recommended, among others, that those in government, particularly in developing countries such as Nigeria should pay critical attention to the comment sections of various social media to have an idea of what the populace feel about their polices based on the report about them that citizens read in the media.

HISTORY OF TELEVISION LANGUAGE RESEARCH IN KAZAKH LINGUISTICS

The article examines the history of the study of official TV shows in the Kazakh language in the linguistic and stylistic direction. The authors reviews the history of television language research in Kazakh linguistics. Television broadcasts are a synthesized work of art, its means of information dissemination: language is the main means of information dissemination, video material is the main feature of television information dissemination, and audio-information is an auxiliary means of influence.The language of TV news is a two-way process of a monologue type based on a dialogical, discursive character, a special type of mass communication that is officially spoken in a cool voice.Various literary lexical units used in the language of telecasts affect the vocabulary of the receiving group, form their linguistic character, and supplement their vocabulary and composition.Final news is a collective product, its subjects are complex communicative individuals.Linguistic patterns caused by taking into account some extralinguistic factors affecting the language of telecasts are a feature of the language of telecasts in information dissemination.Mass information is delivered to the addressee in various genre forms. There are three types of traditional journalistic genre: analytical, informational and art-publicistic. Breaking news belongs to its informative genre.Broadcasting is a special product of electronic mass media. Its main difference from other types of mass media is that it is possible to watch (visual) and listen (audio) TV broadcasts, thus it is possible to get the most important information quickly, and it will remain in people's memory for a long time. Here, the main features of newspapers and radio are summarized in one place.Linguistic communication in breaking news belongs to the universal type of journalistic discourse, which is called the language of mass communication. Language communication here is oral, formal, monologue, dialogic, public, mass, communicative.

Interactive Nature of Social Media’s Comment Feature

Discussions through interactions between contending parties have been known to have minimised, if not completely resolved, many conflicts, and have nipped numerous others in the bud because people were able to express themselves for others to know their stands on issues. Likewise, new media technologies, ably hinged on the Internet, have further created avenues for more interactions among people in different social milieus or media ecosystems. Given the variegated Internet attributes, most newspapers now have online versions that have provisions for readers to make comments at the end of each story or report. The comment feature of online newspapers and social media gives room for interaction among readers and users, hence, commenters are not only using it to comment on what they have listened to or watched or read online, but they also use it to react and comment on the comments made by other commenters. This brings about a robust social interaction among the commenters, outside the medium that serves as the source of news or topic of discussion. In October 2020, youths in Nigeria embarked on a protest against police brutality tagged #EndSARS, SARS being the acronym for Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the Nigerian police. The youths mobilised themselves nationwide through social media, online newspapers, and other Internet platforms to hold rallies and protests, with the major one taking place at the Lekki Tollgate in Lagos. It is within this context that this paper looked at the social interaction that took place among commenters who commented in Sahara Reporters, Premium Times, and the online version of The Punch newspapers on the #EndSARS issue. The objectives were to find out how many comments were made in the comment sections of these selected online newspapers as they relate to their reports on #EndSARS; to ascertain how many of the comments were socially interactive, and to determine the extent the comments proffered solutions to police brutality in Nigeria. Grounded in the Social Network Theory, the study utilised content analysis and direct observation methods to gather data for evaluation while coding sheets and coding guide were used as data collection instruments. Findings revealed that commenters were engaged in interactive discussions among themselves when expressing their opinions about the #EndSARS protests. It was also discovered that some of the comments proffered solutions to the issue of police brutality, and how it can be addressed. The paper concluded that the comment feature of social media is another unique avenue for citizens, especially the youth, to voice out their opinions, and to reach out to, and engage the “high and mighty” in the society, either within or outside government, they might not be privileged to reach through other means. Based on the findings, it was recommended, among others, that those in government, particularly in developing countries such as Nigeria should pay critical attention to the comment sections of various social media to have an idea of what the populace feels about their policies based on the report about them that citizens read in the media.

‘The Wider Aspects of “Kampong Kirkby”’: A New Window on the Malayan Teachers’ Training College in Lancashire, England, 1952–1962

In 1952 the first intake of student teachers from Malaya arrived at Kirkby training college in the north of England. This was the beginning of a remarkable eleven-year international and transnational project to help meet a shortage of staff in Malayan schools. Widely available reminiscences of former students and local residents exist but this article gives a fuller picture by referencing newspaper features and other sources. These show that, despite the generally positive memories of individuals, there were criticisms of the scheme in Malaya. Exploration of these complaints provides a wider context for the history of the college than is currently available and shows that the dissatisfaction often mirrored wider concerns within the Malayan population and illustrates the disapproval with which some people regarded the students and the scheme. This negativity was sometimes because of perceived unwarranted glamour attached to Kirkby and sometimes because of a wish to promote the quality of Malaya-based teacher training. The Kirkby scheme existed during the very last years of Malaya’s place in the former British Empire and came to an end a few years after Britain’s control of Malaya concluded in 1957. During twenty-first century re-evaluations of the Empire, this investigation sheds light on a colonised nation’s attitudes towards Britain.

Gathering up the Social

In the 1920s, the modern “nightlife” column emerged as a regular feature of metropolitan newspapers in the United States and other countries. This article looks at nightlife columns in the African-American press. Its central focus is the coverage of the urban night in the Inter-State Tattler, a weekly periodical published in Harlem between 1922 and 1932. It suggests that, in the African-American press more generally, during this period, one sees the emergence of many of the varieties of the nightlife column. This emergence is particularly evident in the writing of the journalist Geraldyn Dismond, whose writing is a central focus of the article.

“Have Car, Can Travel”: Journalistic Practice, Oil Entanglements and Climate Reportage in Aberdeen, Scotland

This article recounts the practice of producing a commercial newspaper feature for a major American outlet on energy transition and the end of the oil boom in Aberdeen, Scotland. Speaking to both media and energy geographies, it pursues journalistic practice as a form of energy ethnography, exposing how entangled journalism practitioners are with the systems they report with reference to the concept of petroculture. Narrating 48 hours spent on the ground in the oil city, it discusses the invisible processes behind the commercial publication of a transition narrative and the experience of working in the field to construct the story. By focusing on questions of transnational power and gatekeeping, the concept of the energy city, and the role of oil in both visible and invisible forms, it uses its unique dual practitioner/academic perspective to speculate on the possibility of moving beyond market friendly “good news” transition narratives to more meaningful interrogations of energy.

How Irish food criticism reflected and helped shape a changing nation, 1988-2008

ABSTRACT The perception and practice of eating out are linked to larger socioeconomic patterns. Newspaper restaurant reviews provide evidence of these trends which can be traced along a specific timeline. The early 1980s in Ireland were a difficult time for restaurants due to high taxes on food, a national recession and a lack of positive restaurant reviews. The economic upturn in the following decade contributed to unprecedented developments in the restaurant industry. Dining out became a regular activity – fuelled in part by restaurant criticism by Irish food journalists, which joined pre-existing theatre, music and book reviews as regular features in national newspapers. The restaurant scene was burgeoning as Irish society experienced a new self-confidence bolstered by the growing economy. Data from restaurant reviews published from 1988–2008 in three national newspapers reveals the Dublin-centric middle-class nature of dining reflected in critics’ reviews, alongside changes in Irish society.

Teaching media in studying collocation for increasing students’ language intuition

Background: Teaching collocation to the students is not as easy as teaching grammar. Mastering collocation helps students to understand well the lesson given by the teachers and to use language to express their ideas properly. Purpose: This study aims to investigate to what extent text used as teaching media for studying collocation. Design and methods: A library research was done to gather information on teaching media for students that suitable for studying collocations for increasing language intuition. Results: The texts that commonly contain collocation is a newspaper feature, a film review, a website for tourists, conversations, lectures, songs, and films.

Interactivity Features of Online Newspapers: Use and Effect on Gratification Among Zambian Readers

Interactivity Features of Online Newspapers: Use and Effect on Gratification Among Zambian Readers

La prensa religiosa en Argentina y México como herramienta moderna de la reforma ultramontana. 1840-1870

Se estudian rasgos comunes de periódicos religiosos de México y Argentina editados entre las décadas de 1840 y 1870. En la primera sección se señalan indicadores de modernización en las formas y el contenido de los periódicos analizados que dan cuenta de una adaptación a los hábitos de lectura y la sensibilidad religiosa de un público nuevo. En la segunda se identifican las notas donde sus redactores abogan por una salida ultramontana en la disputa interna sobre las formas de autoridad de la Iglesia y su relación con el poder temporal.

Analisis Kesalahan Penggunaan Bahasa dalam Rencana Akhbar

The medium that unites newspapers with its readers is correct language usage. Errors in language usage need to be minimized so that the message being conveyed is easily understood and accepted by the readers. This study was conducted to analyse the errors of language usage in newspaper feature articles, especially in terms of word choices and sentence formations by observing the criteria suggested by Waterhouse (1989). Using systematic sampling, a total of 20 newspaper feature articles in Berita Harian and Utusan Malaysia from 1 October to 30 November 2016 were studied. The results of the content analysis revealed that there were 128 errors related to the usage of language in the chosen newspaper feature articles. The errors related to sentence formation was the highest, with 60 errors, whereas the usage of synonym was the lowest, around three. Overall, the findings did not observe the criteria of an effective journalism writing, particularly in word choices and sentence formations, suggested by Waterhouse’s (1989). Poor word choices might cause ambiguity and confusion among the readers while long-winded sentences and excessive explanations might cause the reader to lose focus thus failed to understand the content of the articles.

Mass media representation of suicide in a high suicide state in India: an epidemiological comparison with suicide deaths in the population

ObjectivesSuicide rates in India are among the highest in the world, equating to over 200 000 suicides annually. Reports of suicides are a routine feature in major newspapers in India,...

《妇女时报》早期办报特色及对女性教育认知的概述

《妇女时报》早期办报特色及对女性教育认知的概述

A MEDIA SYSTEM DEPENDENCY THEORY PERSPECTIVE ON ICONOGRAPHIC EUROCENTRISM AMONG THE YOUTH IN KENYAN UNIVERSITIES

Recent years have witnessed the youth immerse themselves in the consumption of media for various uses and gratifications. Icons (celebrities) have continued to dominate the pages of magazines and newspapers. This study introduces print media consumption amongst the youth as a predictor of celebrity content in their consumer activities. The youth have unwittingly accommodated and imitated these icons. Considering the growing interest of youth in the magazines and newspaper features, it becomes necessary to examine how these celebrities influence the choices the youth make. The principle questions this article addresses is whether icons’ presence in the media fosters a new dependency, in other words diversifies dependency among the youth. This article is premised on the uses and gratifications theory, the use of dependency and reception theories in understanding the youth’s choices. The article is organized as follows; - firstly, I focus on the uses and gratifications and the dependency theory, which postulates dependency relations between individuals and media based consumerism. Secondly, I explore related literature on iconography. Succeeding sections of the article develop the research method, present the findings and discussion, the conclusion and, lastly, the recommendations. The results show the existence of Eurocentric implications and a negation of Afrocentrism. The study employed a desktop systematic paper review method. Article visualizations:

Introduction: Copying and Copyright, Publishing Practice and the Law

This article introduces a special issue of Victorian Periodicals Review on the subject of copyright law and publishing practice in the nineteenth-century newspaper and periodical press. The introduction situates the special issue in relation to recent scholarship that has studied the history of copyright law in relation to the customs and practices of authors and publishers. Using the example of Wyatt v. Barnard (1814), an early copyright case involving periodicals, the introduction discusses some of the features of newspapers, magazines, and other periodicals that created challenges for those who sought to protect them under British copyright law. Some of the important questions were how to register a periodical, what components of a periodical were eligible for copyright, and how best to allocate rights between contributors and publishers. After introducing the essays that make up the special issue—contributed by historians, literary scholars, legal scholars, and digital humanists—the introduction suggests some possibilities for future research.

Food for Thought in Restaurant Reviews

Coverage of food journalism has increased in contemporary media and restaurant reviews are a regular feature in newspapers. The reaction to a rating of zero for a restaurant in The Weekend Australian newspaper in 2016 highlighted the role and expectations of critics. It also raised the issue of whether this form of lifestyle journalism included traditional journalistic objectives, or was influenced more by commercial factors. In this environment, it is therefore valuable to explore whether restaurant reviews are more aligned with detached journalism or an extension of marketing. Utilising a content analysis, this pilot study examines the ratings of food critics in four broadsheet/quality newspapers in Australia and the United Kingdom. During the three years of the data collection, 550 restaurant reviews were coded. The pattern of review marks suggested more supportive judgements than critical ones, and was consistent with the softer side of journalism.

Interactivity features of Online Newspapers: from a facsimile model to a multimedia model one. Interactivity in online journals.

The purpose of this article is to know the current interactivity options in online newspapers. To do this, we analyze the concept of (structural) interactivity and establish a measuring tool based on some previous methodologies. This model includes a classification of newspapers into stages of development. In this way, we provide a tool, which allows media firms to know the degree of interactivity in newspapers, assessing what dimensions and parameters are being incorporated. It was applied to a sample of 21 online newspapers. Results show poor implementation of participation and customization options. There is a niche to be covered by sections of user-generated content and closer collaboration journalists-citizens. It will require a real adaptation to the new possibilities of interaction with readers at different levels of involvement and participation. The majority of newspapers are classified in a digital stage and some of them are close to the multimedia phase.

Stylistic features of rural print media in Ghana

Abstract Rural print media journalists in Africa tap into perceptions about their readers to produce newspapers. The evolving aesthetic perceptions of the rural print media in Ghana have in turn produced social domains of consumption and affiliation with the newspapers and print media. The style of Ewe-language newspapers produced in Ghana has generated different newspaper-reader affiliations and discursive spheres. This article examines some of the stylistic features of Ewe newspapers, investigating the way in which rural print media consumers and producers use these to articulate perceptions of the language domain of Ghanaian rural newspapers and print media.

The “red door” controversy—Middlesbrough's asylum seekers and the discursive politics of racism

AbstractThis article explores some of the ways in which the current refugee “crisis” has played out in the North East of England, with a particular focus on media coverage of asylum in Middlesbrough, the town with the highest proportion of asylum seekers in the country. In January 2016, Middlesbrough made national headlines when it was claimed that the homes of asylum seekers in the town had been made identifiable through the distinctive colour of their houses' front doors, leading to occupants being singled out for violence and abuse. Drawing on critical discourse analysis of national and local newspaper features and online media content, the article examines contrasting constructions of racism, place, and class in the media's coverage of the “red door” controversy. It is argued that even these humanised constructions of asylum seekers draw on discourses that obscure the existence of elite‐driven cultural and institutional racisms that are a defining feature of Britain's asylum process. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.