Media Headlines Research Articles

Framing the shooting of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in English and Arabic news headlines: a critical discourse study

The study aims to investigate the ideological manipulation of language within news media headlines regarding the killing of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. This study employs Van Dijk’s socio-cognitive model of Critical Discourse Analysis to conduct a comparative qualitative analysis of 100 Arabic and 100 English news headlines, exploring linguistic features at both microstructure and macrostructure levels. The analysis delves into identity construction for the victim and perpetrator, revealing the discursive linguistic manifestations of underlying ideologies in two distinct linguistic and cultural contexts. The microstructure analysis reveals the preference of Arabic headlines for active voice structure, rhetorical devices of numeration, emphatic language, and metaphors. On the other hand, English headlines preferred the passive voice structure and the rhetorical device of litotes. The macrostructure analysis unravels the cognitive interplay between news media outlets and their target audience, demonstrating how selective headlines significantly impact public opinion. It shapes their comprehension and interpretation, particularly within the broader context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Ultimately, this research highlights the dynamic interplay between language, ideology, and power in news media, offering key recommendations for understanding their comparative impacts.

Media Content, African Swine Fever, a Trade War, and U.S. Lean Hog Futures

Abstract In 2018 and 2019, China’s outbreak of African swine fever (ASF) and the U.S.–China trade war captured media headlines worldwide. This research uses a unique data set of media headlines and sentiments to estimate the impact of media on U.S. lean hog futures prices for nearby and distant expiration contracts. Findings suggest futures prices are influenced by news media content, with results differing by time to contract expiration and sentiment of the headline. International headlines with positive and negative connotations toward ASF and trade war have more significant effects, indicating sensationalist media creates the greatest price movements compared to neutral headlines.

Second-level agenda-setting effects of news media and public policy on social media discourse across platforms: immigration during the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S.

ABSTRACT Integrating intermedia, second-level agenda-setting, and cross-platform research, this study examines the role of news media attention and public policy decisions in driving the salience of issue attributes on multiple social media platforms. We collected three immigration-related datasets (i.e., social media posts, news media headlines, and policy documents covering the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic that also marked the last year of the Trump presidency) and applied manual coding, automated text analysis, and time series modeling to analyze the relationships. The results show that news media set the public agenda across Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube at the second level, with conservative media elevating travel-related discussion and liberal media driving border- and court-rulings-related discussion on those platforms. Compared to news media, the second-level agenda-setting effect of policy announcements was small and platform-specific. Among the three platforms, public discourse on YouTube was the most responsive to media and policy agendas. These findings advance second-level agenda-setting research, demonstrate partisan differences in news media’s impact, reveal the limited role of public policy, and provide a nuanced portrayal of cross-platform public discourse dynamics.

Modeling Climate Change Issues in Indonesia Based on Media Headlines

Climate change has become a global issue affecting all countries in the last decades. This phenomenon poses a concern to Indonesia as it is one of the climate change’s epicenters. Various studies have shown that climate change can harm multiple community activities, such as unstable agricultural production, decreased people’s health, and global warming. This study tried to model and analyze climate change topics discussed in the media. Finding hidden topics from texts can provide clues and information regarding public conversation surrounding climate change, such as public thoughts, perceptions, and readiness to mitigate the possible adverse effects of climate change. In order to identify hidden subjects from the corpus, this work modeled climate change issues in Indonesia using the latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) algorithm to analyze texts from Indonesian media headlines. As many as 7,000 headline data from five online media were collected from 2017 to 2021 using web scraping techniques. The proposed approach produced eight topics related to climate change, which were determined by the highest coherence value of 0.560. Those topics were renewable energy, carbon emissions, environmental management, development economics, international cooperation, policy/regulation, rehabilitation, and disaster. Based on the results, the model could sufficiently describe the theme of discussion in society and photograph public thoughts and the government’s readiness in the form of policies and regulations in dealing with the climate change phenomenon.

Integrated women's football teams can attract larger stadium crowds

ABSTRACT Research Question Women's sports have seen a trend of diversification recently, with women's and men's teams merging to form integrated football clubs. While such integrated clubs (e.g. Paris Saint-Germain), in particular, have determined the media headlines with record attendances, governing bodies have begun drafting policies to accelerate such strategic integrations. However, empirical evidence on whether integrated women's football teams (which may benefit from brand spillover effects, among other things) attract larger crowds to their stadiums is limited at best. Naturally, this raises the question of whether being an integrated football club matters for women's football stadium attendance demand. Research Method Using ordinary least squares regression with season-level fixed effects with a dataset of 1,506 games played over 11 seasons before and after the COVID pandemic in Germany, France, and Sweden, we are the first to present robust evidence on the association between being an integrated football clubs and stadium attendance demand for European women’s football across multiple markets. Results and Findings We find that integrated women's football teams can attract larger crowds. Intriguingly, such demand synergies, however, are not a given emerging from a strong brand effect, per se. Instead, women's football club executives must proactively unlock these synergies to avoid adverse effects. Implications Our findings suggest that women’s football may achieve a higher potential through integration, but only if the women’s team is managed as more than an ancillary second team. As such, despite being formulated with the best intentions, forced integration policies might backfire.

Analysis of hoax news about Russia’s Special military operations (SMO) in the Indonesian media

INTRODUCTION. Russian-Ukrainian military conflict often makes headlines in media globally, including media in Indonesia. In Introduction the number of news related to the military conflict from February 23 to April 10, 2022 reached described as 143,809 which shared via the Indonesian network 2,509,741 times. The object of the study is Indonesian media coverage of the Special military operation, and the government’ retaliatory measures to those media who publish fake news.MATERIALS AND METHODS. Materials and Methods of research are based on questionnaires which were distributed between two different groups of respondents in two waves: 329 respondents from the first group and 339 respondents from the second.RESULTS AND DISCUSSION. Results and Discussion focuses on location analyses carried out in Indonesia using data collection techniques through observation in various media in Indonesia showed at least several reports that were suspected to be fake about Ukrainian Soldiers on Snake Island Killed, China assistance to Russia, etc.CONCLUSION. In Conclusion pointed out about 70 % of responded netizens stated that the news in the media in Indonesia regarding modern Russia was positive news, though fake news or hoaxes came from https://kabar24.bisnis.com/, https://www.kompas.com/ and other sources. The taken measures had an impact on reducing the number of fakes regarding the current Russian-Ukrainian military conflict.

Media framing xylazine as a “zombie drug” is amplifying stigma onto people who use drugs

Amid increasing efforts to understand xylazine-associated harms, examining the potentially catastrophic role of stigma resulting from media outlets framing xylazine as the “zombie drug” is imperative. Zombies are cinematically depicted as soulless, dangerous, and required to be killed off entirely for public safety, making the “zombie” analogy especially grave amid the fatal overdose crisis. Xylazine is called the “zombie drug” due to its heavy sedative effect and associated-severely infected skin ulcers. We surmise that wide-scale media framing of xylazine as the “zombie drug” has increased stigmas onto people who use drugs as their likening to zombies reifies subhuman status. The present commentary highlights many media headlines and quotes that use “zombie” terminology when writing about xylazine, and examine how this expansive media framing amplifies stigmas. Xylazine's proliferation in the illicit drug market will likely increase infected ulcers needing medical attention. People who use drugs are often reluctant to seek medical care due to experiences of medically-institutionalized stigma. Based on the media's extensive depiction of xylazine as the “zombie drug,” it is plausible that medical practitioners have been exposed to this stigmatizing framing, which could unknowingly detrimentally impact provision of medical care. Strategies to offset harms of xylazine-associated stigmas are proposed, including that medical practitioners undergo evidence-based training to reduce stigmatizing responses to severe xylazine-associated ulcers as any indication of enacted stigma can be internalized by the person seeking treatment, which in turn can perpetuate harms like sepsis or overdose. Author ethnographic observations of xylazine presence are included, which encompass three distinct urban settings that span North America. Finally, we suggest approaches media outlets could adopt to reflect on how referring to xylazine as the “zombie” drug amplifies stigmas onto people already surviving under structural conditions heightening physical and mental trauma, and use language instead that could aid in lessening these harms.

Jornalismo automatizado em notícias sobre acidentes de trânsito: despejo de informações de serviços de emergência

Abstract In this work, the process of producing news about events in the Spanish digital press has been studied. A content analysis was carried out on news related to the main external causes of mortality (traffic accidents, accidental falls, drowning and suicides) published in the six main Spanish digital media ( elpais.com , elmundo.es , abc.es , lavanguardia.com , elconfidencial.com and 20minutos.es ) during the period 2010-2020. The selected news items ( \begin{equation}n=5,727\end{equation} n = 5 , 727 ) were obtained through the digital newspaper library Mynewsonline . A qualitative study has also been carried out (in-depth interviews with professionals and a focus group). The results show a high number of news items published on traffic compared to other external causes of death with higher mortality. It is also appreciated that the media automatically transfer the information they receive from the emergency services. It has even been detected that most of the news events coded in this study are exact copies that are published on the same day in different media (headlines and the body of the news).

War memes: language transformations after the Russian invasion of Ukraine

The study of media viruses and memes that have emerged as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine represents a relevant interdisciplinary approach that brings together philology, cultural studies, history, psychology, social communications and social sciences. Memes ("bavovna", "zeleni cholovichky") have become not only symbols-viruses, but also effective means of mass communication and expression of national identity. The study of memes includes the following aspects: a selection of headline titles with a meme component, analysis of their semantics; disclosure of the social and cultural context and history of events that led to their emergence; study of perceptions and reactions to memes, their impact; determination of the role of memes in order to form public consciousness. The study of the "bavovna" and "zeleni cholovichky" memes was carried out on the basis of online media headlines in Ukrainian, Polish, Lithuanian and English, which provides a wide range of analysis and clarification of the impact of these memes on different cultures and societies, interpretation of events and realities related to the war in Ukraine. The use of memes as components of media headlines demonstrates the importance of the information space and its impact on the perception of geopolitical events and threats. The media use these symbols to emphasise the seriousness of issues, shape positions, and provoke discussion. This approach helps to understand better the important factors of society, the relationship with historical events and political realities, the specifics of the emergence of new memes, algorithms for their transformation into viruses, and the peculiarities of development, spread and transformation in social media.

EMERGING SECURITY CONCERNS BECAUSE OF AI USAGE

Recently, there has been a lot of hype surrounding AI, bringing urgent concerns along with lots of myth, as the future of AI is still uncertain. While social media headlines warn that AI is about to outperform humans in near future, there's a good chance that attacks made possible by the increased application of AI will be very potent, precisely targeted, hard to identify, and likely to take advantage of holes in AI systems. This article analyzes the emerging security issues that are forming in the way AI is used in practice.

‘What they’re not telling you about ChatGPT’: exploring the discourse of AI in UK news media headlines

This study analyses the discursive representation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and ChatGPT in UK news media headlines from January to May 2023. A total of 671 headlines were collected and analysed using inductive thematic analysis, theoretically informed by Agenda-Setting theory and Framing theory. The results offer an initial picture of how recent technological advances in the fields of AI have been communicated to the public. The results show that there is a complex and at times paradoxical portrayal of AI in general and ChatGPT as well as other Large Language Models (LLMs), oscillating between promising potential for solving societal challenges while simultaneously warning of imminent and systemic dangers. Further to this, the analysis provides evidence for the claim that media representations of AI are often sensationalised and tend to focus more on warnings and caution to readers, as only a minority of headlines were related to helpful, useful, or otherwise positive applications of AI, ChatGPT, and other Large Language Models (LLMs). These findings underscore the pivotal role of media discourse in shaping public perceptions of AI. The study prompts reflections on news media practices in the United Kingdom and encourages future research to further examine the influence of social, cultural, and political contexts on AI representation during a period of technological change. This research provides relevant insights for policymakers, AI developers, and educators to support public engagement with AI technologies.

NOUN PHRASEOLOGISMS IN MEDIA HEADLINES: SEMANTIC AND GRAMMATICAL ASPECT

The article is devoted to clarifying the peculiarities of the implementation and functioning of phraseological units in the headlines of Ukrainian electronic media, where they show their power while simultaneously accumulating a broad generalized experience of generations, fill the emotional dominant, and also comprehensively reflect the actual content of the message. The purpose of the research was to identify and describe the lexical-grammatical features of phraseological units (FU), namely noun (substantive) phrases, which required the following tasks: to identify an array of media headlines with a phraseological component; to define noun FUs and find out their semantic content and structure. The object of the study was headlines with phraseological units in Ukrainian electronic editions of national and regional media, the subject was the lexical-grammatical specificity of noun phraseological units in the structure of the title. To achieve the goal, the work used a descriptive method, elements of component analysis (using which the semantic structure of the meaning of phraseological units was established); quantitative method, which made it possible to compare and generalize the obtained results. As a result of the research, it was found that the most frequent in newspaper headlines are nominal phraseological units of abstract semantics to denote the phenomena of the surrounding world; idioms that name a person are also actively used, namely, character traits, character traits of a person, since the main object of the message is a person, occasionally - FU to denote objects or things of the material world. Substantive FUs are most often represented by the combination of a stem noun with the following parts of speech: a possessive adjective, qualitative and relative adjectives and adverbs, numerals, a noun in the genitive case, a noun in the form of other indirect cases with prepositions. According to the structure, the studied noun phraseological units were mostly represented by two-component models, sometimes three-component, which meets the main requirements of mass media - to inform and influence the audience as succinctly and accurately as possible.

Perspectives of Future Russo-Georgian War: Real Possibility or Speculation

Perspectives of Future Russo-Georgian War: Real Possibility or Speculation

Pushing and shoving: Tales of contestation at selected satellite schools in Zimbabwe

Satellite schools are a relatively new phenomenon within the context of education in Zimbabwe. At the turn of the century, Zimbabwe dominated media headlines because of the land reform. Land reform saw the redistribution of land from commercial farms owned by a minority of white commercial farmers. Resultantly, the land reform created a demand for schools in the former commercial farms that led to the establishment of satellite schools. The researchers drew from the Social Identity Theory of leadership to unpack the contestations faced by administrators at the selected satellite schools. Data for this study were generated using conversational interviews that were triangulated with focus group discussions. The researchers made use of mini-focus group discussions. A purposive sample of six mother school heads and six satellite school heads was selected for this study. The researchers utilised thematic analysis to analyse data from the conversational interviews and focus group discussions. The researchers established that there were contestations between the mother school head and the acting head of the satellite school. Further contestations were evident between the satellite school acting head and the traditional leadership. Additionally, there was contestation between political parties for influence at satellite schools. The researchers contend that some of the sources of the contestations at the selected satellite schools were attributable to the social identities of the acting heads of the satellite schools. From the study findings, the researchers recommend the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education must adopt a clearer organogram concerning the supervision of satellite schools.

The use of anglicism in French and Quebec media headlines

RÉSUMÉ. L'anglicisme est traité par des règles et politiques pour maintenir la pureté de la langue française. Cette étude vise à déterminer les motifs des médias de gauche français et québécois utilisant l'anglicisme dans leurs titres. Cette étude qualitative utilise les théories morphologiques de Tamine (1990) et Meney (2017), syntaxique de Le Querler (1994) et le concept de mots d'emprunt de Hudson (1996). Bien qu’ils partagent la même idéologie, les deux médias ont des différents motifs. Le Monde outrepasse les règles comme la stratégie marketing ; tandis que La Presse tend à les suivre pour maintenir le français comme l'identité du Québec. Ainsi, cette étude appuie les recherches précédentes de Febrianne Miranda (2018) et Kautsar Miranda (2021): le Québec maintient mieux la souveraineté de la langue comparé au gouvernement français qui est flexible utilisant l'anglicisme en fonction de l'évolution de la politique étrangère et l'idéologie de son gouvernement. Mots-clés : anglicisme, morphologie, le monde, la presse, titre ABSTRACT. Anglicism is handled through rules and policies in order to maintain the purity of the French language. This study aims to determine motives of French and Quebec leftist media for using anglicism through their headlines. This qualitative study uses Tamine (1990) and Meney (2017) morphological theory, Le Querler’s syntactic theory (1994) and Hudson's concept of loanwords (1996). Despite the same ideology, the two media have different motives in using anglicism. Le Monde overrides the rules as a marketing strategy; while La Presse tends to follow them to maintain the French language as the identity of Quebec. Thus, this study supports previous research by Febrianne Miranda (2018) and Kautsar Miranda (2021) that Quebec is better in maintaining the French language sovereignty than the French government who is flexible in dealing with anglicism depending on the development of foreign policy and the ideology of its government.Keywords: anglicism, headlines, le monde, la presse, morphology

Environmental mainstreaming: facets and theoretical concepts

The environment assumes a pivotal role in today's world, one that transcends the escalating number of natural disasters and environmental crises featuring in media headlines. Indeed, it embodies a multifaceted domain of knowledge, marked by profound interdisciplinary breadth and flexibility, capable of connecting diverse phenomena. Its influence extends to the cognitive systems of individuals, permeating every arena where they interact and engage. Although environmental studies have traditionally centered on rigorous scientific assertions regarding climate change and physical transformations of our surroundings, humanities disciplines persist in dissecting the individual-environment dynamic through multidimensional lenses. This approach facilitates the exploration of empirical and pragmatic perceptions that can yield systemic insights and solutions. Consequently, this paper aims to present a scholarly analysis of the most influential humanities branches that project a symbiotic viewpoint of the environment. These branches significantly shape our conduct, both on an individual level and as part of a holistic, systemic thought process. Specifically, we have curated the most relevant aspects from a range of disciplines, including ecological anthropology, ecolinguistics, environmental journalism, literary ecocriticism, environmental racism, eco-literacy, and textual genres, for this paper. These facets provide a deeper, enriched perspective on environmental studies, underscoring the integral and interconnected nature of our relationship with the environment.

Манипулятивные приемы в кликбейтных заголовках интернет-СМИ

The paper deals with manipulative means in clickbait headlines of online media. The aim of the article is to distinguish and examine the used in implicit clickbaits manipulative means which help to cultivate the reader’s interest and make them pass to the article. The relevance of the current investigation is determined by a wide spread of clickbaits in media cyberspace, the users’ negative attitude to them and their constant evolvement for concealment and formal conformation to the criteria of non-blocked headlines. The analysed material comprises the clickbait headlines in online media whose announcements are presented on large Russian news aggregators. The material was selected within 2018-2022. The overall number of investigated materials is 3050 units. The material is analysed using such methods as introspection, conceptual modelling, unselected and purposive samplings and interpretative analysis. The analysed material shows that according to the degree of connection with the article clickbat headlines can be divided into 4 types: 1) clickbait headlines of “universal” wording applicable to texts with any content; 2) clickbait headlines which are not connected with the content of the article, 3) clickbait headlines connected with the content of the article via their non-sensational parts; 4) clickbait headlines reflecting the content of the article. Three first types are considered obvious clickbaits while the last one is an implicit clickbait. The manipulative means which give an opportunity to make a clickbait implicit include manipulation with word meanings, stylistic and grammatical manipulations, provoking logical mistakes, reticence, overstatement, neglecting the time factor, taking a statement out of context, substitution of concepts, assimilation of headlines to typical associations.

A Comparative Analysis of Adjective Types and Functions in Print Media: The Star Newspaper and Reader’s Digest Magazine Headlines

Headlines play a crucial role in capturing reader attention in print media, often employing adjectives to create compelling content. Despite their importance, adjectives remain under-researched in comparison to other lexical categories, and their use in print media such as newspapers and magazines has received limited attention. This study aims to identify the types and functions of adjectives in The Star newspaper and Reader’s Digest magazine headlines, focusing on their semantic categories and syntactic functions based on the classification framework proposed by Biber, Conrad, and Leech. Data were collected through textual analysis of 20 print media samples, comprising The Star newspapers and Reader’s Digest magazines. Adjectives were sorted according to semantic categories and further classified based on their syntactic functions in headlines. A total of 651 adjectives were identified in 574 headlines from The Star newspapers, with 426 functioning as descriptors and the remaining 225 as classifiers. In 208 Reader's Digest magazine headlines, 228 adjectives were identified, of which 189 were descriptors and 39 classifiers. Most headlines in both print media predominantly featured emotive, miscellaneous, and size/quantity/extent descriptors. Regarding syntactic functions, 548 adjectives in The Star newspaper headlines functioned as attributive adjectives, followed by 76 as subject predicative, while in Reader’s Digest magazine headlines, 199 adjectives functioned as attributive adjectives and 17 as subject predicative. This research underscores the importance of print media-based analysis and provides valuable insights for future researchers interested in exploring the use of adjectives in print media.

Sentiments toward use of forest biomass for heat and power in canadian headlines

Replacement of fossil fuels with bioenergy, often in concert with carbon capture and storage, plays an important role in published low-emission pathways from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and other agencies. National and regional net-zero greenhouse gas emission commitments have caused a dramatic increase in forest biomass consumption globally, and the rise has been accompanied by debates in the scholarly literature and in society at large about the ecological and climate change impacts of forest biomass. This paper presents a quantitative analysis of media headlines about forest bioenergy published in 75 Canadian newspapers from 2010 to 2020. Using a lexicon and rules-based sentiment analysis tool, we explore negative and positive media headlines about forest biomass. Despite our finding that Canadian headlines about forest bioenergy were twice as likely to be positive as negative, media items document reversals away from forest biomass-generated domestic electricity. Our analysis found that increases in electricity costs following the introduction of forest biomass as a fuel type for Canadian electricity generation was a primary cause of these reversals. Headlines also critiqued the expanded production of wood pellets, citing forest ecological impacts and the debate about the net carbon impacts of forest biomass-generated energy. Safety issues, including stories about workplace injuries, and pellet plant fires, and economic issues, such as fiber supply and mill closures, were also featured. This research contributes a social science lens to understand perceptions over time about forest biomass for heat and power.

Polydiscursivity of the Internet meme as a realization of its linguo-creative potential

The Internet meme as a unit of information and semantic exchange, having a polycode structure and the status of a precedent text, has a high linguo-creative potential. The linguistic creativity of a meme is formed due to the mechanisms of indirectly derived nomination, which provides a multi-layered cognitive structure and is conditioned by the type and topic of discourse, which determines its wide demand and life cycle. The analysis of the array of Internet memes testifies to the stability of those units whose content plan is permanently relevant for users, corresponds to their cultural base. At the same time, according to the authors, it is the linguo-creative potential of the meme, the ability to change, that provides a long time cycle of its existence. In the article, based on representative material, possible directions of meme creative development are identified, including the expansion of the component composition of the original unit; replacement by another unit within the lexico-semantic group; actualization of evaluative or expressive components of its semantics. Memes with the dominance of the verbal part demonstrate great linguistic and creative potential, which leads to high variability in the selection of illustrations, the possibility of textual transformations. The text part in such memes freely participates in the contamination of memes, the creation of metamemes. Such memes can demonstrate great potential in generating new communicative units, going beyond meme accounts and Internet discourse. At the functional level, the linguo-creative potential is manifested in the use of memes in media headlines, in business account posts, in naming, advertising texts and TV products (including TV series). The authors come to the conclusion that anchoring in discourses of various types is also one of the key factors that allow a meme to remain in the information space for a long time.