International Newspapers Research Articles

A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW ON THE IMPACT OF E-TAILING ON INDIAN RETAIL INDUSTRY

The paper initially focusses on the growth and issues concerning internet retailing in India. The study also aims to explore exhaustively on the growth potential of internet retailers and their prospects in the Indian retail market. The profile of the country's customers is also discussed in detail including their expectations and the complications posed by their demography. The study also intends to analyze the challenges confronting the e-tail players, their hardships, and investments. Using a meta-analysis framework study reviewed articles from national and international journals, newspapers, and books on drivers of e-tail growth in India, E-tail players in India, and Indian E-tail customers. In the results and discussions, more was spoken about the advent and opportunity exposed by the digital wallets to promote internet retailing. In the summary and conclusions investigators talked about the digital learning mania and the dynamic online shopping behavior exercised by the subscribers of e-tailing.

Cultural Linguistics as a Unique Basis for Language Data Interpretation

The article is devoted to the solution of several issues. The first one is the consideration of cultural linguistics as a modern science studying features of culture which are reflected in the specific language of the specific country. The second issue concerns studying and analyzing linguistic units used to create the image of V.V. Putin in British, American and Spanish news articles not older than three years. The article presents some cases of cultural influence on linguistic units chosen by the authors to describe V. Putin’s image. The reason for the choice is explained by the high frequency of V. Putin’s name referring in international news agencies, newspapers and magazines and historical and cultural features of two different cultures that have a serious impact on the way of perceiving and describing V. Putin. The article shows some particularities of the variation of the English and Spanish languages used to make the image of V. Putin. The article provides some information on the numbers of English and Spanish native speakers. The research is held by means of modern journalistic English and Spanish languages. Contrastive-comparative and contextual analysis, lingo-stylistical and continuous sampling and content methods were used in the research.

“Balenciaga and la vie d́un chien”

This article offers data, hitherto unpublished, about the professional life of Cristóbal Balenciaga during the years following the official announcement of his retirement from the world of fashion in May 1968. These are contributions that help understand some of the issues that are reflected, either in the words of the journalist, or in those of the designer himself in the interview he granted to Prudence Glynn of The Times in August 1971, and that the newspaper decided to publish under the surprising heading of “Balenciaga and la vie d’un chien,” taking the same expression used by the designer himself during the interview. This interview has transcended to this very day as a singular chapter in the biography of Balenciaga, since the granting of interviews was quite unusual throughout his life and, taking into account this peculiar headline, which serves as a shocking expression that corresponded to the aura of enigma that hung over Balenciaga. However, and in light of the new data provided, the designer expressed himself in the context of the experience he lived until his retirement, and especially in the context of realities he was suffering precisely during that August of 1971. The information provided comes from research in Spanish and French archives, in national and international newspapers, as well as interviews with people who belonged to the Balenciaga circle during their final years of his life.

Framing Political Populism: The Role of Media in Framing the Election of Jair Bolsonaro

ABSTRACT Based on the concept of populism and its relation to media, this paper analyzes the construction of frameworks in editorials from the Brazilian and international press on the election of Jair Bolsonaro as President of Brazil. Our objective is to understand the degree to which these interpretative frameworks of the new Brazilian president express semantic categories of populist rhetoric. Using a methodology based on theories of media framing, we conducted a qualitative study of 22 editorials from the following Brazilian newspapers published during a two-week span in which the first and second rounds of the 2018 presidential election were held: O Globo, O Estado de S. Paulo and Folha S. Paulo; and the following international newspapers: El Pais, The Guardian, Público, Le Monde, Liberátion and The New York Times. The study tests two main hypotheses: (i) the newspapers adopted categories of populism to qualify and politically frame the candidacy of Jair Bolsonaro and (ii) the Brazilian media tried to “normalize” the Bolsonaro candidacy by taking on a less assertive position than that of the international press, which has always framed him as a populist leader.

Disease surveillance using online news: Dengue and zika in tropical countries.

Around the world in tropical areas, certain vector-borne diseases have become endemic and hyperendemic. Among the developing nations, there are common difficulties in establishing the incidences of various diseases, especially vector-borne diseases with complex etiologies and a broad spectrum of presentations. One alternative approach to characterization of the disease outbreaks examines the possibilities of developing proxy information from online news articles. Such sources are being evaluated for applications to disease surveillance, early outbreak detection, and epidemiology research. Our study here looks to examine the potential of news articles in elucidating outbreaks of dengue in India and zika disease in Brazil. This study is designed to assess the potential usefulness of news articles in tracking case numbers of dengue and zika through an improved understanding of how news outlets report on disease. We specifically examine the possibilities of providing near real-time reporting on the development of outbreaks of dengue and zika. Newspaper articles related to dengue fever and zika disease in India and Brazil, respectively were extracted from the LexisNexis database. We targeted news articles available from five popular international news sources and two local newspapers in each country. The news articles were processed to provide yearly and weekly time series in the number of articles concerned with dengue and zika to test their potential suitability as proxies for disease prevalence. The collections of articles were analyzed using a text mining tool-kit that subdivides a collections of news articles into smaller clusters to study the topical focus of articles and their relevance to tracking diseases. For dengue fever in India, the local newspapers provide a better source of information than international newspapers. The multi-year analysis (2010-2016) suggests that the numbers of dengue cases are strongly correlated with the numbers of news reports, with an R2 value of 0.88. For zika disease in Brazil, the news reports provided useful information on the timing of the zika outbreak. Reporting increase sharply at the beginning of 2016, peaked in weeks 5 to 8, and decreased sharply. The numbers of articles remained low for the remainder of 2016 and 2017. Comparisons with reported case again show article numbers to be a useful proxy of prevalence of zika in Brazil. The paper describes a strategy that applies newspaper as proxies to monitor outbreaks of infectious diseases and to study the epidemiology. It has potential applicability in some developing countries and regions with relatively poor medical infrastructures and records. Clearly, large national newspapers in India provide a better source of information on diseases than international outlets. This approach has potential with selected diseases in a few selected countries. Article numbers internationally appear to vary in proportion to the perceived health impact.

Media Sentiment on Monetary Policy: Determinants and Relevance for Inflation Expectations

We construct a new indicator to capture media sentiment about the European Central Bank monetary policy and its relevant environment by analyzing 25,000 articles from five major international newspapers. Using named entity recognition and part-of-speech tagging, we propose a methodology to dissociate the dissemination of the central bank's official communications from the media comments. The resulting -daily- index correlates with some -monthly- standard measures of economic sentiment but reveals idiosyncratic information on monetary policy. Analyzing the determinants of our index, we find that both press conference and inter-meeting communications of the president significantly affect media sentiment. We then show that, controlling for a large range of factors, daily changes in media sentiment have predictive power on financial markets’ inflation expectations.

Critical Care Nurses as Frontline Warriors During COVID-19 in Pakistan

BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic resulted in several short-term and long-term impacts on the physical, social, and psychological health of every individual globally, especially among frontline workers including nurses working in the critical care settings. In Pakistan, 85,264 confirmed cases have been identified and 1,770 deaths are reported so far. The death rate is 2.0% as compared to Europe (14.6%) and the United States (5.7%) per 100,000 population. Frontline workers are the most vulnerable population during this pandemic. Nearly 440 frontline staff including nurses, doctors, and other health workers have been infected with COVID-19 with 8 confirmed deaths reported in different provinces of Pakistan. These numbers are continuously increasing posing a serious threat for the health and well-being of the healthcare professionals especially nurses working in the critical care settings.ObjectiveThe paper outlines the challenges and experiences of critical care nurses working in acute hospital settings of a low resourced country Pakistan during a pandemic.MethodsLiterature search using CINAHL, MEDLINE, PubMed databases, local and international news papers, magazines, websites, international nursing colleagues and personal experiences/insights are included in the paper.ResultsFindings include common challenges such as lack of staff, lack of personal protective equipment (PPE), limited knowledge regarding standard infection control practices, isolation protocols, lack of administrative support, transportation, accommodation, childcare facility, and so forth. As a result, most nurses are reporting symptoms of fear, anxiety, depression, post-traumatic symptoms, spiritual, and moral distress. Nurses often become targets of violence and harassment by the general public in the Pakistani healthcare system, due to lack of awareness, cultural beliefs, low status/image of nurses, low literacy levels, and poverty.ConclusionTargeted interventions and policies are needed to maintain safety and protect physical, social, psychological, and spiritual health and well-being of nurses. Health authorities in Pakistan should take the responsibility in creating awareness, providing adequate guidance, and support to enhance nurses' well-being and quality of life during the pandemic.

Ease of doing business in BRICS–A Comparative study

The goal of this study is to assess the ranking of the BRICS countries to understand the ease of doing business in these countries. More specifically, the objective of the paper is to answer the question: How easy is it to carry out the business in BRICS? The study has been carried out by adopting descriptive research using reliable secondary data sources like reports published by World Bank, research and international organisations, newspapers and various articles. Findings of the research shows that ease of doing business as well as starting a company in Russia is best among BRICS nations, while South Africa and Brazil are lagging behind in a business-friendly environment. In terms of doing business, China and India are put in the 2nd and 3rd position respectively. This research will assist the MNCs decide on the markets based on business-friendliness. In order to be a business target nation, India, Brazil and South Africa need to decrease the amount of processes and the amount of days to set up a company.

The role of ideology in the international mainstream news media framing of refugees: A comparison between conservative and liberal newspapers in United States, United Kingdom and Australia*

This research examines coverage of refugees in an attempt to further understand how media frames are actively, and perhaps ideologically, constructed. Articles between 2010 and 2015 were analysed in accordance with their publication in sixteen different news publications from the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom. The newspapers were selected from opposite ends of the ideological political spectrum. This research explores the consequences of these findings for the international community and for objective international newspaper reporting.

Risk, Stigma, Trustworthiness, and Citizen Participation—A Multifaceted Analysis of Media Coverage of Dioxin Contamination in Midland, Michigan

In the United States, more than 200 communities are designated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as areas of concern for dioxins. Informing the public about potential risks associated with dioxins and delivering information about how to avoid such risks are essential activities. News coverage of environmental and health problems affects how members of the public assess those problems in terms of both severity and how they are understood, as well as the extent of attention given to the problem by policy-makers. To contextualize public and institutional responses to dioxin contamination and remediation in a dioxin-affected community, we assessed 176 newspaper articles published over 30 years concerning dioxin contamination in Midland, Michigan, in terms of risk, trust in institutions, environmental stigma, and citizen participation. Articles about dioxin contamination and remediation in Midland appeared in both domestic and international newspapers. Domestically, both national and local newspapers covered this issue. The risks for human health and the environment caused by exposure to dioxins were widely covered, with much less media attention given to the trustworthiness of the organizations responsible for managing the risk, environmental stigma, and citizen participation. News coverage of these four themes also changed significantly overtime. Overall, our findings highlight the important role of local news media in communicating risk information, guiding safe behaviors, and facilitating community-level decision-making.

Celebration of Liberal Values in Gurcharan Das’ Works of Drama and Fiction

Gurcharan Das is a regular columnist for The Times of India and other national and international Newspapers and magazines. He is a versatile personality which has shown his remarkable talents in different genres of literature. Along with his maiden novel A Fine Family (1990), he has published three plays Larins Sahib (1968), Mira (1970) and 9 Jakhoo Hill (1996) and many non-fictional works such as India Unbound: From Independence to the Global Information Age (2000), The Elephant Paradigm: India Wrestles with Change (2002), The Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma (2009) and India Grows at Night: A liberal case for a Strong State (2012).

A Little History of Life and Death: Six Photographs of Nermin Divović in Sarajevo Under Siege

Of the many news and personal photographs, international and local newspaper front pages, posters, and makeshift stoves and heaters that Sarajevans fashioned during the siege of Sarajevo—now displayed in the Historical Museum of Bosnia-Herzegovina’s permanent exhibition, Sarajevo Under Siege —one object stands out. It is a small blue-and-white striped handknit sweater that belonged to Nermin Divovic, a Sarajevan killed by a sniper on November 18, 1994, when he was seven years old.1 Donated to the museum by Divovic’s family, it lies stretched out under a glass case with a matter-of-fact caption printed on a rectangle of white paper resting atop. “Nermin Divovic was a boy killed in 1994 by sniper fire, in the street Zmaja od Bosne,” it reads. “The bullet first passed through the body of the boy’s mother and then shot him in the head. Nermin’s sister, who was with them, escaped the bullet, because she was just one step ahead of them. Nermin loved drawing, football and toy cars. He was a pupil at elementary school ‘Edhem Muladbdic.’” Exhibited nearby is a black-and-white photograph by Spanish photographer Gervasio Sanchez: a portrait of Nermin wearing the sweater, holding a snowball in one hand in December 1993, during the height of the almost four-year-long siege of Sarajevo (1992–96). The same caption that accompanies the sweater is posted on another white rectangle of paper underneath this photograph [Image 1]. IMAGE 1. Nermin Divovic’s sweater, Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, July 2018; photograph by Joscelyn Jurich. Since 2016, visitors to the Historical Museum of Bosnia-Herzegovina, itself located just a hundred meters from where Nermin was killed, have been able to see this moving artifact that has inspired works of art such as Paul Coldwell’s Seven Sweaters for Nermin Divovic (2018), a series of seven handknit sweaters …

The interface between homicide and the Internet. A classification

Abstract It has been argued that the Internet presents numerous new opportunities for crime, including homicide. So far, empirical scholarly research in this domain is rather limited. In order to discover how perpetrators have used the Internet in the homicides they have committed, we conducted an international newspaper search (2006–2017). Based on this analysis, we identify five distinct types of Internet use in homicides, namely Internet as an encyclopedia, Internet as a platform, Internet as a trigger, Internet as a market place, and Internet as a meeting place. Our findings indicate that these types do not significantly differ from key characteristics of homicides in general to the degree that they constitute unique forms of homicide. Rather, Internet-related homicides constitute a replication, or facilitation of already existing forms of homicide assisted through new technological means.

Authority, politicization, and alternative justifications: endogenous legitimation dynamics in global economic governance1

Recent mobilization against core tenets of the liberal international order suggests that international institutions lack sufficient societal legitimacy. We argue that these contestations are part of a legitimation dynamic that is endogenous to the political authority of international institutions. We specify a mechanism in which international authority increases the likelihood for the public politicization of international institutions. This undermines legitimacy in the short run, but also allows broadening the justificatory basis of global governance: Politicization allows civil society organizations (CSOs) to transmit alternative legitimation standards to global elite discourses. We trace this sequence for four key institutions of global economic governance – the IMF, the World Bank, the WTO, and the NAFTA – combining data on authority and protest counts with markers for CSOs and legitimation narratives in more than 120,000 articles in international elite newspapers during 1992–2012. The uncovered patterns are consistent with a perspective that understands legitimation dynamics as an endogenous feature of international authority, but they also show that alternative legitimation narratives did not lastingly resonate in the global discourse thus far. This may explain current backlashes and calls for active re-legitimation efforts on part of international institutions themselves.

The “Readiness” of Timor-Leste: Narratives about the Admission Procedure to ASEAN

This article is based on an empirical research with an inductive approach about the admission of Timor-Leste (TL) to Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). We examined a corpus of international newspapers ( n = 48) which forms a debate over this case on the Internet. The articles are reproduced in English and are currently the most representative form of debating the membership delay which takes place since 2011. Throughout the observation of our gathered data, we discovered one main narrative that is reproduced by several authors: The Readiness of TL to join the Southeast Asian grouping. Hence, built through three rationalities (preparedness, ambivalence, and conflict), the Narrative of Readiness reveals a common sense among the agents. Built on two constructs, scattered agents and International Online Media, we propose an eventual International Imagined Community in the making. This article raises the possibility that TL plays a test role in the identity of ASEAN, even though the delay of the TL admission to ASEAN still raises further questions.

The Political Assassination of Kim Jong Nam: A Comparative Analysis of US and South Korean News Coverage

North Korea is one of the most secretive and closed countries in the world that is still under communist rule. This paper presents a comparative content analysis of the overall framing in the online news coverage of the assassination of Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, from The New York Times and Chosun Ilbo (N = 154). Results showed that while U.S. and South Korean newspapers displayed considerable similarities among the use of texts, visuals, sources, and news frames, differences existed in the use of hyperlinks and news tones. This study not only adds to the body of work in framing theory by examining the coverage of Kim Jong Nam’s sudden death from the lens of two different news media, but also contributes to international communication by exploring how international newspapers covered the same event related to North Korean political figures. The implications are discussed.

Integrating System Dynamics Modeling to Explore the Role of EM Technology for Sustainable Development with respect to Water Resources

The pollution of the aquatic ecosystem by hazardous chemicals and other pollutants has assumed harmful proportions due to their toxicity and accumulative behavior. At least 200 million Indian citizens do not have access to safe water, which further results in various critical diseases for that particular community. Moreover, such diseases negatively impact the workforce, health, productivity, and efficiency of the local residents, which becomes a major challenge for sustainable development. To analyze the above-stated problem researchers have collected wastewater from three different sites of the Yamuna river for the experiment, whereas secondary data has been collected from various sources; published research articles from national and international journals, books, reports, newspaper articles, and websites. The wastewater was characterized for different Physico-chemical parameters before and after biological treatment. The results of the study revealed that there is significant variation in the quality of wastewater after treating with Effective Microbes technology. Moreover, researchers have developed a replicable dynamic model of sustainable development, comprising challenging and influencing determinants of development.

The front page as a time freezer: An analysis of the international newspaper coverage after the Charlie Hebdo attacks

This article argues that the front page plays an important temporal and explicative role for audiences, especially when it comes to journalistic work during a disruptive media event such as the Charlie Hebdo attacks. As a special agent of mediatization, the front page offers the possibility of ‘freezing’ the very often long-lasting live coverage of the (ongoing) happenings. It does not stand in opposition to faster communication of news but the front page is a very special journalistic form that opens interesting ways to contemplate news temporalities on another level. Based on a thematic content analysis of 1017 international front pages, this article develops their typology in order to analyze how the event was covered globally and locally, all by pointing out the different journalistic forms that are utilized. The study shows that the type of front page that is emerging allows us to grasp the coexistence of shared visual and textual regimes without leading to a false idea of a totalizing uniformity of information and thus of future social memories.

Transforming the Media Exposure of a City through Star Architecture Projects?

Can star architecture projects contribute to repositioning their respective cities? Based on the idea that star architecture projects cannot be read at ground level, and instead, the media is their primary site (Foster 2008) of reading, this paper focuses on the role that these special projects play in transforming the media exposure of their respective cities. The circulation of the “Bilbao effect” (Ponzini 2010), an urban policy in motion (Gonzáles 2011), paved the way for this idea; that is, build flagship architecture by a star architect, and thereby disrupt or transform the image of a city. Making use of case studies of three public cultural facilities commissioned to star architects and put into use in three medium-sized European cities in the past ten years, this paper “reads” these projects in the media. It investigates the extent to which a transformation of exposure in the print media has accompanied the development of star architecture projects in their respective cities. Findings regarding quantitative research of selected international and national newspapers and media platforms are presented.

GRAMMATICAL COHESION IN THAI CAVE RESCUE NEWS IN INTERNATIONAL NEWSPAPERS

This research aimed to identify the types of grammatical cohesion, as well as to describe the realizations of grammatical cohesion used in international newspapers. The data of this research were clauses, phrases, and words. This study departed from the theory of grammatical cohesion from Halliday & Hasan (1976) and the theory of conjunctive system by Halliday & Matthiesen (2014). The sources of data were Thai Cave Rescue news in British Broadcasting Corporation, Russia Today, France 24, Voice of America and China Central Television newspapers. The method used in this research was qualitative. It provided the types that reference (43%) was predominant with personal and comparative reference, was realized by anaphoric and cataphoric. Conjunction (42%) with the additive, temporal, adversative, matter, clarifying, conditional, varying and cause conjunction, was realized by the conjunctive system. Substitution (10%) with nominal and verbal substitution was realized by replacing one item by another. Ellipsis (5%) with clausal and nominal ellipsis, was realized by eluding a noun, verb or clause and recovering it by referring to an element in the preceding text. The finding revealed that the news texts seldom use other types of the grammatical cohesion especially the use of ellipsis and substitution which were possible to be used in writing because most researchers stated that both ellipsis and substitution were commonly found in speaking.Keywords:grammatical cohesion, Thai cave rescue news, international newspaper