Government Media Research Articles

Research on the effect of government media and users' emotional experience based on LSTM deep neural network.

Different government media have different communication effects and users' emotional experience. It carries on a comparative research on government media selecting three different types of government media which include China’s Police Online, Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, and China’s Fire Control in the context of public health emergencies. Based on the deep learning technique, the emotion classification model of long-term memory network is constructed to analyze the emotion of the users’ comments of different government media; taking the number of contents, the number of retweets, the number of praises, and the number of comments as evaluating indicators to do comparative analysis to cross platform government medias. Through the comparative results, it is found that different types and platforms of government media have great differences in users’ emotional experience; the emotion performance of users’ comments is strongly related to the information communication power and effectiveness of government media.

The Communication Characteristics and Intervention of Terrorism-related Public Opinion An Analysis of Manchester Bombing Terrorist Attack

[Purpose / Significance] The crisis of misinformation will increase in 5G.The spread of terrorism-related information in sudden violent and terrorist incidents in social networks has a great impact on national security and counter-terrorism work. The communication characteristics and impact of terrorism-related information is the guarantee of counter-terrorism work. The construction of counter-terrorism intelligence intervention strategy is in line with the scope of national security, which also is the embodiment of the national security governance system and counter-terrorism capabilities. [Methods/Procedures] Based on the social network analysis method and analyzing the communication characteristic of terrorism-related information and the factors of intervention, this paper proposed an intervention mechanism for terror-related information based on online social network. The proposed mechanism consists of three aspects: communication topic, communication structure and opinion leaders. [Results/Conclusion] The study finds out that we should strengthen the role of opinion leaders in information diffusion of news and government media, in terrorist incident, the network structure is loose and free on the whole, the spread of information influences the network structure and interaction. Government should supervise a real-time control on information emotional trend and hot topic according to different types of network structure characteristics, guiding the positive information and cooling down the harmful ones.

언론유형과 정보원유형이 중국 공중들의 기사신뢰도에 미치는 영향 분석 : 관영과 민영언론, 의견선도자와 일반인경험자 정보원 차이 중심

커뮤니케이션 학계에 신뢰도 관련 연구가 많지만 중국을 대상으로 진행한 기사신뢰도 연구는 많지 않다. 또한, 중국의 언론 환경에 맞춰서 언론 주체를 관영언론과 민영언론으로 구분해서 진행된 연구도 많지 않다. 따라서 본 연구는 중국의 특수한 정치환경에서 언론유형과 정보원유형이 기사신뢰도 전반에 있어 어떻게 작용하고 있는지를 실증적으로 규명하고자 하였다. 먼저, 중국 언론을 관영언론과 민영언론으로 구분하고, 언론유형에 따라 공중들이 느끼는 기사신뢰도에 차이가 있는지 연구하였다. 또한, 정보원에 따라 커뮤니케이션 효과에 차이가 존재할 수 있기 때문에 본 연구에서는 또 다른 독립변수로 의견선도자나 일반인경험자의 인용 여부를 설정하였다. 또한, 언론유형별 이용정도에 따라서 독립변수들의 효과가 조절되는지도 함께 분석하였다. 실험연구는 2(언론유형: 관영언론/민영언론) * 3(정보원유형: 인용없음/ 의견선도자 인용/ 일반인경험자 인용) 피험자 간 요인분석으로 설계하였다. 실험자극물로는 대교붕괴위기 이슈를 사용하였다. 분석 결과, 정부의 책임문제와 관계되어 있는 위기이슈 기사를 게재할 때 관영언론에 게재한 기사는 민영언론에 게재한 기사보다 더 낮은 신뢰도를 받는 것으로 나타났다. 또한, 일반인경험자를 인용하는 기사는 인용이 없는 기사와 의견선도자를 인용하는 기사보다 더 높은 기사신뢰도를 나타냈다. 그러나 인용이 없는 기사와 의견선도자를 인용하는 기사 사이에 통계학적으로 유의미한 차이는 나타나지 않았다. 또한, 언론유형별 이용정도에 따라서 언론유형이 기사신뢰도에 미치는 영향이 조절되는 것으로 나타났다. 민영언론과 일반인경험자 인용의 경우 더 높은 기사신뢰도를 형성할 수 있다는 연구 결과는 향후 위기 상황에서 신뢰를 형성하기 위해서 어떤 접근방법이 필요한가에 대한 이론적인 시사점을 제공한다.

The Gambia: Citizenship and Civic Consciousness

Citizens are an important component of national development enterprise. This is because citizenship is crucial to the promotion of nationhood. But being a citizen alone means very little if it does not come with certain responsibilities and civic consciousness. Through the historical lens of The Gambia, this paper argues, an understanding of citizenship and civic consciousness is necessary for sustained national development. It draws an interrelation among these concepts. Therefore, supports for responsible citizenship through education and emphasizes education’s role in attaining national development. Also, refers to primary and secondary sources. It uses oral interviews, content analysis of government publications, academic journals, books, and media reports to provide context to the paper. The article suggests some viable strategies for sustainable national development in The Gambia such as free and fair election, informed citizenry, visionary leadership and vibrant civil society organizations.

Socio-economic implications of COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria

After half of a century as a major oil producer, the Nigerian economy is yet to diversify; thus, remains dominated by primary activities. Whereas oil and gas activities directly employ a negligible number of Nigerians, the industry impacts on the overall economy of the country. However, with large resource windfalls, limited technical capacity, and weak check and balances, the scope for inefficiency, corruption, and elite capture of Nigeria‘s oil-driven economy is substantial. Consequently, the arrival of COVID-19 further exposed the fragility of the economy. As a theoretical paper, the researcher relied on data from secondary sources which yielded quantitative and qualitative information. The secondary data were derived mainly from journals, books and empirical case studies on the impact of pandemics on global production of petroleum, the Nigerian economy, and the overall social sector. News media analysis, government bulletins, and relevant data from civil society organizations, State Security Forces, and Corporate organizations on the debilitating consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic were also reviewed. The paper revealed that the socio-economic implications of the pandemic derived from fall in global oil price, policy interventions by the government such as bans on certain types of activities, closure of borders, state lockdowns, school closure and social distancing policies, all of which resulted in disruptions felt in all the sectors of the economy and society. Thus, it is suggested here that efforts must be made to address poverty just as there is an urgent need to improve on the healthcare sector. Unemployment should be tackled positively while government should place greater emphasis on technology and other modern methods of imparting knowledge.

Association Between Public Opinion and Malaysian Government Communication Strategies About the COVID-19 Crisis: Content Analysis of Image Repair Strategies in Social Media.

BackgroundThe COVID-19 health crisis has posed an unprecedented challenge for governments worldwide to manage and communicate about the pandemic effectively, while maintaining public trust. Good leadership image in times of a health emergency is paramount to ensure public confidence in governments’ abilities to manage the crisis.ObjectiveThe aim of this study was to identify types of image repair strategies utilized by the Malaysian government in their communication about COVID-19 in the media and analyze public responses to these messages on social media.MethodsContent analysis was employed to analyze 120 media statements and 382 comments retrieved from Facebook pages of 2 mainstream newspapers—Berita Harian and The Star. These media statements and comments were collected within a span of 6 weeks prior to and during the first implementation of Movement Control Order by the Malaysian Government. The media statements were analyzed according to Image Repair Theory to categorize strategies employed in government communications related to COVID-19 crisis. Public opinion responses were measured using modified lexicon-based sentiment analysis to categorize positive, negative, and neutral statements.ResultsThe Malaysian government employed all 5 Image Repair Theory strategies in their communications in both newspapers. The strategy most utilized was reducing offensiveness (75/120, 62.5%), followed by corrective action (30/120, 25.0%), evading responsibilities (10/120, 8.3%), denial (4/120, 3.3%), and mortification (1/120, 0.8%). This study also found multiple substrategies in government media statements including denial, shifting blame, provocation, defeasibility, accident, good intention, bolstering, minimization, differentiation, transcendence, attacking accuser, resolve problem, prevent recurrence, admit wrongdoing, and apologize. This study also found that 64.7% of public opinion was positive in response to media statements made by the Malaysian government and also revealed a significant positive association (P=.04) between image repair strategies utilized by the Malaysian government and public opinion.ConclusionsCommunication in the media may assist the government in fostering positive support from the public. Suitable image repair strategies could garner positive public responses and help build trust in times of crisis.

Partial, falsified and adverse print media reporting: studying 2015 xenophobic violence

ABSTRACT South Africa in the 21st century has experienced a limping economy characterised by poor governance, corruption, massive unemployment, high cost of living and unhealthy competition to access limited economic resources for both locals and the millions of foreign nationals. During the period between 2008 and 2015, the country has experienced xenophobic attacks and perpetual factional fights between the locals and the foreign nationals. The country’s government linked the events to criminality and a ‘third force’ when dealing and disseminating information to the media. The xenophobic attacks have in most cases occurred before or during election periods with politicians and print media reporters opting for the populist and rhetoric route of characterising foreigners as a scapegoat to challenges facing the local population which is central to social ills and economic hardships. In the last decade, the country’s print media have been filled with stories that were anti-immigration and xenophobic which have resulted in the exacerbation of attacks by Black South Africans against immigrants of African origin. This paper draws viewpoints from government agencies and media reporters on how the print media narrated the xenophobic attacks of 2015 in South Africa.

How government-controlled media shifts policy attitudes through framing

AbstractResearch shows that government-controlled media is an effective tool for authoritarian regimes to shape public opinion. Does government-controlled media remain effective when it is required to support changes in positions that autocrats take on issues? Existing theories do not provide a clear answer to this question, but we often observe authoritarian governments using government media to frame policies in new ways when significant changes in policy positions are required. By conducting an experiment that exposes respondents to government-controlled media—in the form of TV news segments—on issues where the regime substantially changed its policy positions, we find that by framing the same issue differently, government-controlled media moves respondents to adopt policy positions closer to the ones espoused by the regime regardless of individual predisposition. This result holds for domestic and foreign policy issues, for direct and composite measures of attitudes, and persists up to 48 hours after exposure.

Influence of Information Dissemination about New Government Media

Influence of Information Dissemination about New Government Media

Television News Coverage of COVID-19 Pandemic in Nigeria: Missed Opportunities to Promote Health Due to Ownership and Politics

This study examined Television news coverage of COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria from February 2020 to July 2020. The focus was on African Independent Television (AIT), a privately owned TV, and Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), a government-owned TV. We also interviewed ( n = 30) participants to understand their view on media coverage of the pandemic. We found that the TV stations paid adequate attention to the issues of COVID-19. However, the private media allocated more prominence to the coverage of COVID-19. By implication, the private media had more COVID-19 stories telecasted on its headline which also appeared as the first headline in many cases. Furthermore, they had more stories that were aired 61 seconds and above. The findings also showed that the government media outlet cited more of government officials while the private media dueled more on the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). The private media had more negative tone stories, and most of its stories used visual and motion footages. Overall, our findings suggest that media ownership and politics play a large role in the coverage of COVID-19 in Nigeria. This has affected the attitude of the public as many of them no longer see the pandemic as something serious, but rather politically motivated virus to highlight the failings of the political party in power.

A COMPARISON OF INDONESIAN AND SINGAPORE’S POLITICAL SYSTEMS

<p>The purpose of this study was to illustrate the comparison of the political systems of Indonesia and Singapore. The research method in this paper is a literature study sourced from a collection of books, national and international journals, relevant government pages, and actual news on an official government media pages described descriptively. The results show that Singapore's political system tends to be better than Indonesia because it has clear rules on the source and transparency of the use of political party funds. Through the review of a number of journals, it is expected that Indonesia can implement the Singapore government's policy of regulating political party funds so as to prevent corruption of political party funds. </p><p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0778/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

Design of Professional Laboratory Exercises for Effective State-of-the-Art OSINT Investigation Tools - Part 1: RiskIQ Passive-Total

Open-source technologies (OSINT) are becoming increasingly popular with investigative and government agencies, intelligence services, media companies, and corporations. These OSINT technologies use sophisticated techniques and special tools to analyze the continually growing sources of information efficiently. There is a great need for professional training and further education in this field worldwide. After having already presented the overall structure of a professional training concept in this field in a previous paper [25], this series of articles offers individual further training modules for the worldwide standard state-of-the-art OSINT tools. The modules presented here are suitable for a professional training program and an OSINT course in a bachelor’s or master’s computer science or cybersecurity study at a university. In this part 1 of a series of 4 articles, the OSINT tool RiskIQ PassivTotal [26] is introduced, and its application possibilities are explained using concrete examples. In part 2 the OSINT tool Censys is explained [27]. Part 3 deals with Maltego [28] and Part 4 compares the 3 different tools of Part 1-3 [29].

Design of Professional Laboratory Exercises for Effective State-of-the-Art OSINT Investigation Tools - Part 2: Censys

Open-source technologies (OSINT) are becoming increasingly popular with investigative and government agencies, intelligence services, media companies, and corporations. These OSINT technologies use sophisticated techniques and special tools to analyze the continually growing sources of information efficiently. There is a great need for professional training and further education in this field worldwide. After having already presented the overall structure of a professional training concept in this field in a previous paper [25], this series of articles offers individual further training modules for the worldwide standard state-of-the-art OSINT tools. The modules presented here are suitable for a professional training program and an OSINT course in a bachelor’s or master’s computer science or cybersecurity study at a university. In part 1 of a series of 4 articles, the OSINT tool RiskIQ PassivTotal [26] is introduced, and its application possibilities are explained using concrete examples. In this part 2 the OSINT tool Censys is explained [27]. Part 3 deals with Maltego [28] and Part 4 compares the 3 different tools of Part 1-3 [29].

Be Media Smart

This paper presents Ireland’s public awareness campaign –‘Be Media Smart’-which was launched in Spring 2019 to combat misinformation and fake news and encourage people of all ages to stop, think, and check that information they see, read or hear across any media platform is reliable. Be Media Smart is an initiative of Media Literacy Ireland (MLI), an independent group facilitated by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) to enhance Irish people’s understanding of, and engagement with, media. Group members include large media and social media companies, Government bodies, libraries, academia and voluntary sector organisations. The paper will provide an overview of this national campaign particularly in terms of how a range of organisations includingall library sectors worked together to help empower Irish citizens to make informed media choices about the media content and services that they consume, create, and disseminate across all platforms.Some of the key observations and findings of the Be Media Smart campaign will be presented including the role of libraries and the value of the cross-sector collaborative approach. Challenges, lessons learned and future development plans will also be outlined. ‘Be Media Smart’ provides a best practice exampleof how a unique Irish initiative has helped to advance media and information literacy at national level.

Strategic Responses on Combating Covid-19 Pandemic In Bhutan

COVID-19 which is a global public health emergency of current time has been creating big impact to the social and economy welfare across globe despite its far-reaching casualties since 2019. There are growing concern with surges in the cases, casualties, and economic recession because of this global pandemic. Times, efforts, and resources have been pumped to the actions including early detection, isolations, care, and vaccines or medicines against COVID-19.This study which is focused on Bhutan is a qualitative research that made use of authentic secondary data. It was established in the form of published records from government report, media, and website along with relevant literatures as the base reference resources. Small country Bhutan has its own story to tell. Its conditions and impacts as visible are not that alarming as expected by this deadly global pandemic. Bhutan has more of success story to share in case of its strategic approaches with holistic planning and effective implementations in its actions towards the control and combating COVID-19 which have proven to be successful. The favorable outcome from this study is a realistic goal can be fulfilled with collective plans and actions in times of needs.

Information Source, Media Credibility, and Epidemic Control in COVID-19 Pandemic

Based on classic media theories and typical case studies, this paper analyzed the main media types and information sources in COVID-19 infections and the impacts on media trust and social trust, as well as the effects on public health prevention and national epidemic control. It found that news media, social media, aggregated media, medical media, and government media were the five main media types people used in this pandemic. News media performed well on professionalism, timeliness, closeness to public, and social support. Aggregated media and medical media also deserved public trust on error recovery, closeness to public, unselfishness, etc. The fake news on social media, inconsistent data, and information disclosure lag impaired public trust on media. Medical media promoted the health preventive behavior of the public. News media greatly influenced the agenda setting, public opinion, and national epidemic control in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Media Attention of Charitable Donations and Enterprise Innovation

Enterprises have a strong incentive to seek and obtain the attention and support from many stakeholders including the market and the government. Specifically, by actively publicizing their social responsibility behaviors, enterprises can improve the confidence of their investors, maintain corporate reputation and acquire key resources including brand, talent introduction and social trust. First of all, the media attention and focus on charitable donations will form a “brand effect” on private entrepreneurs, which can strengthen the long-term orientation of enterprise development, promote enterprises to pay more attention to projects that will affect their future development, and invest more resources in economic activities such as technological innovation and environmental protection. Secondly, more media attention of charitable donations can help enterprises to enhance organizational legitimacy, thus attracting and acquiring key resources from stakeholders to promote enterprise innovation. Therefore, the media attention of charitable donation drives enterprise innovation. From the perspective of situational factors, through the publicity of charitable donations, enterprises acquire more important opportunities for the establishment of technical cooperation network, improvement of technical cooperation quality and acquisition of external knowledge. Moreover, political reputation can convey to the outside world the information that the enterprise has been recognized by the government, so the public signal of the enterprise’s charitable donations strengthens the government-enterprise bond established by the political reputation, helps the enterprise to obtain the necessary production and innovation resources, and thus promotes the innovation activities of the enterprise. Based on the above analysis, this paper focuses on the private listed enterprises from 2008 to 2016, analyzes how the media attention of charitable donations influences enterprise innovation, and studies the situational factors of the impact of media attention of charitable donations on enterprise innovation from the perspective of technology networks and political reputations. This paper concludes that the media attention of charitable donations can promote enterprise innovation, and the investigation on the background different from news media shows that the attention from the government media plays a greater role in promoting enterprise innovation. Further research shows that in respect to enterprises that need to establish technical cooperation networks and political reputations, the media attention of charitable donations plays a greater role in promoting enterprise innovation. The contribution of this paper to the research is embodied in the following aspects: Firstly, focusing on the new perspective of “media attention of charitable donations”, this paper studies the role of media, an important information medium, in promoting enterprise innovation. On this basis, this paper further reveals the economic effects and mechanism of action of the media attention of philanthropy, expands the research framework of related theory of the innovation and development, and enriches the research in the field of corporate social responsibility. Secondly, modern philanthropy cannot be separated from the involvement of media, because the publicity and supervision of the news media have become an important part of the modern philanthropic system. The conclusion of this paper provides scientific reference from the micro enterprise level for the government to formulate charity management policies and realize the win-win pattern between enterprise charity and innovative development, and provides important enlightenment for policy-makers.

Effect of Social Media Usage in Government Agencies’ Communication Effort

The main objective of this study is to review the effect of the relationship between social media characteristics and users’ continuance to use the govenment social media in disseminating information to the public. The conceptual part consists of an extensive search and analysis of academic articles and government publications related to government social media. This paper mainly based on secondary sources of information, through references and review of articles in selected journals on government social media. A conceptual framework has been proposed which links to the dimensions used from the past studies. The study highlights past studies on characteristics of government social media and the relationship of continuance to use the govenment social media. The review address the gaps from past studies. This study helps the government agencies to review the usage and effect of social media in government. This research will add to the existing literature reviews of government social media towards the communication effort in government agencies.

The Framing of Economic Corruption in Ethiopian Media: Revealing or Concealing?

This study aimed to examine the ‘key framing strategies’ used to depict ‘corruption issues’ in Ethiopian media. A mixed research approach has been employed using qualitative and quantitative content analysis and framing analysis as data gathering and analysis methods. The study focused on two state and two private media. The news stories and articles were gathered in the specified time frame and evaluated using checklists of ‘episodic’ and ‘thematic’ frames. The findings show, the private media mainly applied the ‘episodic framing’ covering specific court reports and custody of individual, but the government media outlets employed ‘thematic framing’ strategy, adding ‘policy discussion’ and ‘news analyses and detailed contexts and public opinions’.

Lessening Anti-Jewish Hate Speech in Service of the Egyptian Regime: State Media under Mubārak, Re-Examined

Abstract This article aims a spotlight at an unusual chapter in the development of the Egyptian regimes’ policy toward antisemitism in the state media. While the various regimes allowed anti-Jewish speech in the governmental media since its nationalization by the Nasserite regime and used it for acquiring legitimacy, this article points to a different policy adopted by the Mubārak regime, following 11 September 2001. From the end of 2002, the Egyptian regime redirected the journalistic editing guidelines to cease anti-Jewish hate speech, resulting in a considerable decrease in the volume of anti-Jewish expressions and desecration of the Holocaust memory, until Mubārak’s downfall in 2011. This change was motivated by the regime’s concern for its political survival and economic interests, which were endangered by the democratization policy of the Bush Administration that linked the effort to combat terrorism and anti-Americanism in the Middle East with the struggle against antisemitism.