Media Coverage Research Articles

Exploring the public dialogue on government school costs in Australia: a content analysis of print media

ABSTRACT Objective All children deserve high-quality education. In order to promote inclusive educational policies and practices, understanding barriers to participation in education is necessary. School costs is one potential barrier that has garnered limited attention in the literature to date. The objective of this research was to better understand public dialogue concerning government school costs in Australia. Method We conducted a content analysis of print media coverage on government school costs in Australia between 2011 and 2023. Results In total, 118 print media articles met the inclusion criteria. Six categories were generated: School Costs, School Fees, Payment Approaches, Support Services, Funding of Government Schools, and Impact on Children and Families. Parent voices were the most common in the included articles (30.5%), followed by government officials (17.8%). Conclusion Australian print media has documented that school costs are problematic for families in Australia. The perspectives of parents are central in public dialogue on this issue. There is a need for empirical research to better understand the impacts of school costs on Australian families, particularly those who are experiencing socioeconomic disadvantage.

The political evolutionary process of the Cambodian People's Party from 2008 to 2017: A critical review

This study examines the Cambodian People's Party (CPP), originally founded in 1951 as the Kampuchean People’s Revolutionary Party (KPRP), and traces its political development from 2008 to 2017. It explores the factors that have contributed to the CPP's political resilience, including its surge in popularity in 2008 and the decline it experienced by 2017. The research highlights the party's organizational strengths, patronage networks, and its use of coercive tactics to maintain power. It also looks at the role of socio-economic policies and national stability in the party's success. However, by 2017, the CPP faced growing challenges, particularly from a politically aware youth and dissatisfaction with its increasing authoritarianism, media suppression, and restrictions on opposition. Using a qualitative, descriptive approach, the study draws on secondary sources like academic articles, NGO reports, and media coverage. The findings suggest that while the CPP has managed to maintain its hold on power, its reliance on authoritarian methods may not be sustainable. The study concludes with recommendations for improving governance, encouraging political competition, engaging the youth, and strengthening democratic institutions in Cambodia. Future research could explore the CPP’s post-2017 strategies, the role of digital media in youth political engagement, or the long-term impacts of its socio-economic policies on governance and public trust in Cambodia.

HPV Vaccine Hesitancy and Uptake: A Conceptual Analysis Using Rodgers' Evolutionary Approach.

This study examines the factors contributing to HPV vaccine hesitancy using Rodgers's evolutionary concept analysis, focusing on the impact of uncertainties about the vaccine on HPV-related diseases despite its availability. Rodgers's evolutionary concept analysis was applied to explore factors leading to HPV vaccine hesitancy. The analysis included studies published in English over the past 5 years. Exclusions were studies older than 5 years, non-English publications, and those focusing on other vaccines. A comprehensive literature review was conducted using key databases such as PsycINFO, CINAHL, MEDLINE, and PubMed. Relevant keywords included 'HPV' and 'vaccine hesitancy' to ensure thoroughness. Studies were selected based on their relevance to HPV vaccine hesitancy. Factors contributing to hesitancy were analysed, focusing on antecedents, attributes, and consequences. The analysis identified key antecedents to HPV vaccine hesitancy, including false cultural beliefs, educational level, knowledge, and vaccine availability. Additional factors were insurance/income, perceived risk, and decision-making processes. Key attributes impacting hesitancy included media coverage, environmental and community influences, social factors, trust in healthcare systems, efficacy rates, and safety concerns. The consequences of hesitancy were reduced vaccine uptake, increased HPV-related diseases, and the spread of misinformation. The study highlights the complex interplay of factors contributing to HPV vaccine hesitancy. Understanding these factors is crucial for addressing the challenges posed by vaccine hesitancy and developing effective interventions. Insights from this analysis can guide public health strategies aimed at improving vaccine uptake and reducing HPV-related diseases. Targeted interventions can address misinformation and enhance trust in vaccines, ultimately leading to better public health outcomes. This concept analysis was conducted without the involvement of patients, service users, caregivers, or members of the public.

Things Can Only Get Dickensian: An Analysis of Media Coverage of Britain’s Cost of Living Crisis

The period following the 2008 financial crisis saw the UK enter a period of austerity, exacerbated by the wide-ranging welfare spending cuts of consecutive Conservative governments. Nevertheless, when it appeared that the situation could not become more dire for struggling Britons, the country found itself in the grips of a cost of living crisis precipitated by several concurrent developments such as inflation, an energy crisis, and the fallout from Brexit. Using qualitative thematic analysis, this article examines coverage of the crisis by the British press by exploring how individual newspapers on both the political right and left have chosen to report on the indicators, causes, and victims. The aim is to establish whether the standard political leanings of the papers apply here, or whether the situation is so exceptional in its urgency that the usual stereotypes (strivers/scroungers, deserving/undeserving poor) have been abandoned for a more unified discourse.

The COVID-19 pandemic and journalistic ethics: Spanish citizens’ demand for external control of health communication in the media

The disinformation that threatened media coverage in Spain during the COVID-19 pandemic was perceived as a serious threat by the population, which became a crucial ethical challenge for health information. This nationwide study is part of a global research project whose primary objective was to know and delve further into the behavior of citizens in the face of journalistic information related to COVID-19, to determine the channels used by audiences to learn about the pandemic and their personal informative interaction through social networks (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram). The field sample (June 2022) comprised 1,800 online surveys (carried out using the CAWI system) of persons aged 18 years and older residing in the country. Quotas were established by sex, age and Autonomous Community. The sampling error is ±2.34, with a confidence level of 95.5% and p = q = 0.5. The data collected were processed with the IBM SPSS Statistics 26 package. The results confirm a majority belief (values 4 + 5/5) that journalism pursues the truth (59.5%). They also show in adults the predominance of a high confidence in their ability to detect falsehoods, as opposed to the low self-perception confessed by young people. Inversely proportional is the verifying effort of these population groups. There is no homogeneous agreement that discrimination against vulnerable groups (obese people, smokers, the elderly, migrants) was encouraged despite the medium-high caliber of the assessment (3.35/5.00). The most notorious finding was to confirm the majority social demand (values 4 + 5/5 = 72.6%) to implement some external control on the professional collective that guarantees ethical adequacy and quality in the informative coverage of health issues, which suggests a system of journalistic co-regulation.

How does the French press handle a controversial biotechnology? A psychosocial study of media coverage of human genome editing.

The development of techniques for the modification of the human genome gives rise to heterogeneous communications and representations and is a relevant object for studying the dissemination of scientific innovations within society. Situated within the framework of social representations theory, our study aims to investigate the thematic dimensions of the public debate-as occurring in the French press-on the edition of human embryos. We conducted a lexicometric study of 343 French press articles with a hierarchical descending classification analysis and a correspondence analysis. Results indicate an evolution in the media treatment of human genome editing, from a popularization perspective to a focus on ethical and legislative aspects of genome editing. This study attempts to shed light on the structure and dynamics of information and meanings associated with human genome editing by analyzing the context in which communications surrounding genetic editing are situated and produced.

Beyond social polarisation: Memetic (de)legitimisation and quasi-legitimisation of non-fungible tokens

This paper contributes to the nascent research on Internet memes examined as items of (de)legitimising discourse, its empirical focus being memes addressing NFTs (non-fungible tokens). The mystifying NFT trade became hype in 2021, attracting massive media coverage and stimulating heated discussion across social media, which includes memetic content production. This study explores the multimodal discourses of (de)legitimisation in NFT memes. Based on a dataset of relevant 993 memes extracted manually from an automatically generated corpus of 1628 Twitter memes, a deductive-inductive multimodal analysis proves the original dichotomy (underlying the polarised views expressed through memes) insufficient. Seven memetic patterns dictated by (de)legitimisation stances are identified. In addition to NFT-legitimising and NFT-delegitimising categories, ambiguous equipotential (de)legitimisation memes, two categories of memes with blended (de)legitimising stances and two categories of elusive-stance memes are distinguished. The notion of ‘quasi-legitimisation’ is proposed to capture the memetic categories that normalise the thorny concept of NFTs.

A Valid Transport Related SVEIHR Stochastic Epidemic Model with Coverage and Time Delays

The ability of people to move freely between cities is thought to be a major factor in accelerating the spread of infectious diseases. To investigate this issue, we propose a SEVIHR stochastic epidemic model, which emphasizes the effects of transport related infections and media coverage. At the same time, the time delay caused by the information time difference is considered. Firstly, we study the existence and uniqueness of the global positive solution of the model by means of Lyapunov function and stopping time, and obtain sufficient conditions for the extinction and persistence of the disease. Secondly, in order to control the spread of the disease in time and effectively, appropriate control strategies are formulated according to the stochastic optimal theory. Finally, the extinction and persistence of the disease were simulated by MATLAB.

Digital Storytelling as Technique of Woman Politician Improving the Perception and Their Political Status

In Albania's increasingly hypermediated political landscape, digital interactive storytelling has emerged as a widely utilized technique in political communication. Despite persistent gender biases shaped by stereotypical prejudices and a public opinion strongly influenced by male-dominated opinion leaders, digital interactive storytelling has the potential to enhance women's public image and standing within the political arena. This medium enables women in politics to communicate directly with audiences, bypassing intermediaries and mitigating potential message distortions, while harnessing storytelling elements like narrative, imagery, and the intrinsic appeal of a compelling, well-told story. This research investigates how digital interactive storytelling helps women in Albanian politics shape their public image. Specifically, it examines whether there is a qualitative and quantitative difference in how women are represented on their social media profiles versus traditional Albanian media outlets. We monitored the Instagram profiles of five Albanian parliament members, all chairing parliamentary commissions, observing their posts over the past year. We also analyzed coverage in Panorama Online, a prominent and influential media outlet in Albania, to examine how these digital narratives are portrayed in the media. Our findings indicate that digital storytelling has heightened the visibility of women in Albanian politics, with media coverage reflecting these figures in alignment with their chosen strategic narratives. Media portrayal largely emphasizes these women as experts in their fields and as advocates of their respective parties' ideological platforms. Received: 12 August 2024 / Accepted: 16 November 2024 / Published: 3 December 2024

Who thinks the media is hostile?! An examination of individual differences predicting the hostile media effect concerning news media coverage of individuals with a migratory background in Germany

AbstractThe present study explores individual differences related to the perception of the media coverage of immigrants as biased. Building on previous research, relations with the extremity in preexisting attitudes toward immigrants and in affective ratings of non-immigrants versus immigrants are examined. Additionally, the present study extends previous work by investigating dogmatism and intellectual humility, including their potential moderating roles on the relations of extremity in attitudes and affective ratings with perceived media bias. A sample of N = 212 (59% men) individuals from the general German population completed self-reports on their preexisting attitudes and affective ratings, as well as dogmatism and intellectual humility online. Moreover, participants rated their perception of news media coverage of immigrants as biased against their views. Results indicate that particularly more extreme negative attitudes toward immigrants and affective ratings favoring non-immigrants relative to immigrants are positively associated with perceiving the media coverage of immigrants as biased. No robust relations of dogmatism, intellectual humility, or their interactions with the extremity scores with perceived media bias were found. These findings underline the importance of negative extremity in (out) group-related attitudes and affect in perceiving the media coverage as biased. New approaches investigating media perceptions from a group-related perspective are discussed.

Advocacy campaigns and gender bias in media coverage of elections

Abstract An unresolved aspect of women's underrepresentation in politics is the media portrayal of female candidates. This paper studies how advocacy campaigns may affect potential bias, leveraging the 2019 Swiss federal elections, which were shaped by two nation-wide, cross-party campaigns advocating for gender equality. The empirical analysis compares the 2015 and 2019 election campaigns, relying on an original dataset of the mentions that all candidates (over 3,700 respectively 4,600) received in over 2.2 million news articles. The analysis produces three main results. First, although in both elections male candidates received more media attention than female candidates did, the gender gap was significantly smaller in 2019 than in 2015. Second, in both elections, male and female candidates tended to be mentioned in conjunction with gender-stereotypical topics. Third, the gender gap in media attention before and after a key women's rights event was similar to that between the corresponding periods in 2015. These findings suggest that the differences observed between 2015 and 2019 are linked to the political campaign at large rather than to a specific event, despite its historical dimensions. The results contribute to the understanding of how advocacy campaigns can change bias in media coverage and, methodologically, to measuring and understanding gendered media coverage of politics.

Political Relations and Media Coverage

We study the impact of political relations on media coverage. Using a sample of 3,290 American Depository Receipts (ADRs) from 45 countries, we find that deteriorating political relations between the US and an ADR firm's home country induce negative coverage by the US media of the ADR firm. To alleviate endogeneity, we adopt France's and Germany's opposition to the Iraq War and the inauguration of the US president as two shocks to bilateral political relations between the US and foreign countries. In placebo tests, we show no negative effect of political relations on ADR firms’ press releases or non-US media coverage. We further document the three economic mechanisms underlying the impact of political relations on media coverage: US journalists’ country sentiment, a country's popularity among US readers, and the US media's political beliefs. Finally, we document two consequences of negative coverage by the US media: investors respond less to negative news of firms from countries with deteriorating political relations with the US, and negative coverage leads to a greater likelihood of firms terminating their ADRs.

Common institutional ownership and opportunistic insider selling: Evidence from China

We examine the relationship between common institutional ownership and opportunistic insider selling. Using an unbalanced panel of 32,858 firm-year observations of Chinese A-share listed firms from 2007 to 2021, we find that common institutional ownership inhibits opportunistic insider selling, supporting the synergistic governance view. Our evidence indicates that information economies of scale and industry power acquired from shareholding networks enable common owners to exert positive governance effects. Designating directors and officers, voting at shareholders' meetings, and promoting information disclosure are the three essential channels through which common owners perform effective monitoring. Furthermore, the synergistic governance effect is more pronounced in firms with headquarters located in regions with a stronger altruistic culture, better independent director governance, and wider media coverage. Heterogeneity analyses show that non-pressure-sensitive, stable, and transactional common institutional investors effectively inhibit opportunistic insider selling, whereas pressure-sensitive common owners exhibit attenuated effects. Additional tests indicate that common owners significantly reduce the profitability of opportunistic insider trading. Our findings highlight the social attributes and ethical aspects of how common institutional shareholders restricts insider opportunism in emerging markets.

Shaping and Reshaping Narratives: Media Coverage of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games

Shaping and Reshaping Narratives: Media Coverage of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games

Analisis Komunikasi Pariwisata Disbudpar Kota Tangerang dalam Event Pariwisata Festival Cisadane 2024

The Cisadane Festival is an annual event organised with the aim of preserving culture in Tangerang City. This festival is one of the large and lively tourist agendas because there are various interesting events presented. Thus, it needs to be promoted to increase the number of tourist visits. This research aims to analyse and find out how the Tourism Communication of the Tangerang City Culture and Tourism Office in promoting the Cisadane Festival held in Tangerang City, as well as to examine the obstacles that exist in the promotion process carried out. This research uses the theory of integrated marketing communication, with the method used in this research is descriptive qualitative. The results showed that tourism communication used by Disbudpar Tangerang City in promoting the Cisadane Festival integrated the promotion mix. This can be seen from the utilisation of various types of media: print media such as Live magazine and Kota Benteng newspaper, outdoor media such as banners and billboards, and electronic media which includes online media coverage and social media content. Barriers to promotional activities are due to marketing budget factors, urgent event readiness, and the lack of optimisation of the Tangerang Live service application.

Attention to biodiversity and stock returns

Our study empirically explores how public interest in biodiversity influences the financial performance of novel investment solutions that specifically promote biodiversity. We consider three distinct metrics capturing public attention to biodiversity: the daily Google Search Volume index for “biodiversity”, the daily media coverage of biodiversity, and the daily visits to the “biodiversity” page on Wikipedia. We also use the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 15) as quasi-natural experiment. Our econometric analyses reveal a positive association between attention to biodiversity and excess stock returns on biodiversity stock indices. This suggests a growing investor preference for companies with the lowest biodiversity footprints when attention to biodiversity is particularly intense. These fresh insights offer important financial and policy implications.

Voluntary Disclosure of Workforce Gender Diversity

ABSTRACT We examine managerial incentives to disclose the gender diversity of a firm’s workforce. We exploit information from employees’ online profiles to infer the gender diversity of nondisclosing firms. Within industry, we find that firms are more likely to disclose gender diversity when women comprise a higher proportion of their workforce, consistent with managerial incentives to disclose favorable information. However, disclosure is more prevalent in industries with a lower proportion of female employees, consistent with a poor gender diversity environment making a firm’s gender diversity appear relatively more favorable. Regarding the potential benefits of disclosure, disclosing firms enjoy more favorable media coverage of the firm’s diversity and attract a larger number of gender-lens ESG funds. Disclosing firms with a higher proportion of female employees enjoy greater benefits. Overall, our study broadens our understanding of the evolving corporate disclosure landscape by providing evidence on firms’ incentives to disclose workforce gender diversity. Data availability: All data used in this study are publicly available from sources identified in the manuscript. JEL Classifications: G10; G20; M41.

News Framing of the 2022 Russian-Ukrainian Conflict: A Comparative Analysis of CNN (USA) and CCTV (China) from a War and Peace Journalism Perspective

Framing analysis is a widely employed method for examining multiple narratives in media reporting to investigate potential political orientations and possible influences on viewers. However, there has been a lack of extensive investigation into the 2022 Russian-Ukrainian Conflict, specifically regarding the analysis of Western and Eastern media coverage from a war journalism and peace journalism perspective. To fill this vacancy, this study applied the Framing theory and the peace journalism model developed by Lee & Maslog (2005) to identify multiple strategies related to the themes, sources and war/peace journalism applied by CNN for America and CCTV for China. Analysing how CNN and CCTV present the conflict from WJ/PJ perspectives helps to facilitate an understanding of how two different media systems might shape their respective audiences’ perceptions according to different ideologies. The findings revealed that CNN mainly focused on “Humanitarian Crisis and Civilian Impacts” and “Military Operations and Strategic”, whereas CCTV predominantly centred on the themes of “Military Operations and Strategic” and “Political Reactions and Stances”. Additionally, CNN’s coverage overwhelmingly relies on Ukrainian sources and international voices, while CCTV is significantly centred on Russian sources and also includes considerable Ukrainian voices. Finally, CNN and CCTV both use a war journalism frame, but CCTV’s use of a peace journalism frame is slightly higher than CNN’s. This study displays similarities and differences in portraying international conflicts to diverse viewers, offering valuable insights into how Western and Eastern media influence perceptions of worldwide conflicts.

Press coverage and public perception of crested porcupines in urban and rural areas of Italy

Amongst species well-adapted to urban environments, crested porcupines are increasingly encountering humans in cities, creating a need to understand public attitudes towards this species. If – on one side – porcupines are attractive and charismatic because of their unmistakable aspect, on the other side their closeness may trigger conflicts with humans, as being regarded as a crop pest. In this work we applied a sentiment analysis to test the general perception towards this large-sized rodent in urban areas. In this work, we analyzed 73 articles from 16 major Italian newspapers. We employed a mixed approach for sentiment analysis: human classification (positive, negative or neutral) and automatic emotion recognition using a lexicon. Sentiment analysis revealed a varied public perception: 43 % negative, 41 % positive, and 16 % neutral. News coverage primarily focused on encounters in human-dominated environments, with urban areas being the most frequent setting. Media attention on crested porcupines surged in recent years, especially focusing on their increasing presence in human-dominated environments. Social perception reflected the dualism between the surprise of detecting this species in urban areas, and the potential conflicts which may arise, without a net prevalence of either positive or negative attitudes toward the species. Our work represents a reproducible approach to tackle the complexity of human-wildlife coexistence in urban areas, besides shedding light on the importance of including media coverage and public perception within the human dimension of wildlife conservation, particularly in urban areas.

Peningkatan Literasi Teknologi Guru melalui Pelatihan E-Evaluation Berbasis HOTS di SMAS Muhammadiyah Kota Bima: Dampak pada Efektivitas Evaluasi Pembelajaran

The implementation of E-evaluation based on Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) in private high schools remains limited. Observations from the Community Service Team revealed several issues, including the minimal use of E-evaluation in Muhammadiyah High Schools. Interviews with the principal and several teachers indicated that evaluations are still predominantly paper-based. In 4.0 era, it is essential for both teachers and students to adapt the technological advancements, especially in the evaluation process. E-evaluation serves as an effective tool for assessment at the high school level. The goals of this initiative are to: 1) enhance the technological skills of teachers at partner private schools, 2) improve teachers' understanding of E-evaluation, 3) develop HOTS-based E-evaluation products, and 4) increase teachers’ knowledge about crafting questions that promote Higher Order Thinking Skills. The methods used include presentations, demonstrations, and hands-on practice. The proposed steps for working with teachers are: 1) FDG, 2) training and mentoring, 3) monitoring, and 4) evaluation. The outcomes of this activity include: (1) 90% teacher participation, (2) 80% teachers grasping how to formulate HOTS-based questions, (3) 90% understanding the use of E-evaluation, (4) 90% of students gaining familiarity with courses in Human and Computer Interaction, Teaching Strategies, and Learning Evaluation, (5) the creation of an E-evaluation module/guidebook, (6) certificates for teachers who develop E-evaluation questions, (7) visual materials such as posters, (8) published articles in the Abdi Insani journal, (9) media coverage of activities in online platforms, and (10) activity videos uploaded to the STKIP Taman Siswa YouTube channel. So, the practical significance for teachers is improving the quality of education using E-evaluation Technology in Private schools