Media Hype Research Articles

Talking about public good for the second quantum revolution: analysing quantum technology narratives in the context of national strategies

The ‘second quantum revolution’ has been the subject of substantial speculation, investment by public and private sectors, and media hype. We investigate some of this hype in the form of three national strategies for quantum technology. In the course of analysing these strategies, we ask: how can we ensure new quantum technologies benefit the societies they are used in and are a part of ? To help clarify this question, we posit a public good test for quantum research requiring diversity in research agendas, social orders, and research-society networks.

The Relationship between Peer Influence and Teenagers’ Celebrity Worship Phenomenon

Celebrity worship phenomenon is increasingly prevalent among Chinese Adolescents, and it has impact on adolescents behaviourally and psychologically. This paper aims to clarify the role that peers play in the popularity of the celebrity worship phenomenon among teenager through discussing about the relationship between peer influence and teenagers’ involving in celebrity worship in four aspects: teenagers’ need for interpersonal relationships with peers, observational learning from peers, peer pressure and conformity, and accessibility of the Internet and the effect of media hype. By investigating the reasons behind, it helps us to better understand what teenagers are experiencing in peer fan groups, it can also be illuminating and meaningful to teachers and parents in adolescent education. This paper also gives possible suggestions to avoid negative effects of the teenagers’ celebrity worship.

¿El principio del fin de la identificación por sexo?

In this document we analyze the problems that could be caused by the approbation of the trans law that is being prepared by the government, which draft leaking has caused a huge media hype, as the most controversial provisions, such as the age limit to self-request gender change or the suppression of the medical requirements’ fulfillment to change gender’s registration mention. Will it be the end of gender identification?

MEDIA WAVES AND MORAL PANICKING: THE CASE OF THE FIFA WORLD CUP 2010

1. Introduction In the run-up to the FIFA World in South Africa, human made headline news in 27 South African newspapers. This resulted in series of news waves pertaining to perceptions of forced prostitution and child to come during the World Cup. Evocative headlines capitalising on societal fears appeared in the local media. Out of 350 articles covering human in South African newspapers between 2006 and 2010, 82 (or 24 per cent) directly linked this sporting event with human trafficking. A sample of headlines included: Flesh trade fear for World Cup (Citizen 2006); casts shadow over (Sunday Independent 2007); may escalate ahead of World Cup--report (The Weekender 2008); Warning on child in (Cape Argus 2008); 2010 exploitation: Human traffickers ready for World Cup (Daily News 2009); red alert: Women, children under threat as World sees prostitution demand rocket (Daily News 2010). As with previous international sporting events, the threat of human quickly became part of public consciousness. Advocacy organisations, such as Molo Songololo, Justice Acts, Not for Sale, Doctors for Life, STOP (Stop Trafficking of People) (1) and politicians (2) publicly repeated inflated estimates of numbers of women and children who would be trafficked, brutalised and forced into life of sexual servitude in order to meet the demands of hordes of sexually deviant, inebriated football fans. It was erroneously portrayed that large sporting events--particularly football--attracted and facilitated the demand and supply of illicit sex. Based on the myth of 40 000 sex slaves who were imported from Eastern Europe into Germany, resultant media hype and moral panic, became part of the South African World discourse. We claim that media hypes based on constructed moral panics might be recycled in similar scenarios demonstrating the staying power of such media hypes and the utility of moral panics. As Vasterman (2005: 517) claims: [M]edia coverage can be self-fulfilling prophecy. A situation becomes real crisis because it is described as crisis; condition becomes an important social problem because it is described in terms of sudden deterioration of the situation. In this way media-hype can create new realities, independent from other non-mediated realities. 2. The dark side of sex, football and South Africa Up until 2008, South Africa was ranked as Tier 2 (Watch List) country for the fourth consecutive year by the United States (US) TIP Report for failing to with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking (UNHCR 2008). According to the report, the government failed to provide adequate data on (cases investigated and/or prosecuted), and deported and/or prosecute suspected victims without providing appropriate protective services (UNHCR 2008). Although South Africa was taken off the watch list in 2009, the report noted that it still did not comply with the minimum standards. This assessment remained the same in the report. To date, formulation and harmonisation of legislation in accordance with the prescripts of the Protocol have yet to be fulfilled. The TIP Report, identified South Africa as a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children subjected to in persons, specifically forced labour and forced commercial sexual exploitation (US Department of State 2010). An exploratory study by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) released in March on the dimensions of human in southern Africa supported the findings of previous studies that suggested South Africa is key destination and, to lesser extent, country of origin and transit for people trafficked to and from Africa, globally, and internally (HSRC 2010). …

Sepsis: the importance of an accurate final diagnosis

Sepsis: the importance of an accurate final diagnosis

The Psychological Impact of the Covid-19 Lockdown on Medical Students of a College in North India

In response to COVID 19 spread Government of India imposed lockdown across the country to preventthe spread of virus and thus protecting the health of the community. This happened with restrictions tobe at home and between the media hype of pandemic which may lead to a rise in the stress, anxiety, anddepression among the community. Universities started online classes in between lockdown. Online classeswould not solve the purpose of the students are not in a status to absorb the learnings and concepts. So beforestarting the online classes an online survey was done among the medical students to observe any distress andhelp them to come out of it to make online classes successful.An online questionnaire was made using the Impact of event scale- revised (IES-R) to assess the stressamong medical students. The questionnaire was posted on the batch WhatsApp group of students across allsemesters with a message showing the purpose of the study and how to approach the form. The decision offilling the form was kept completely on a volunteer basis.The response was received from a total of 331 medical students among them 130(39.3%) and 201(60.7%)were males and females respectively. The mean score was 21.60 still 38.95 students were prone to be victimsof Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and there was no significant difference between males and females.Involvement with family was found to be inversely associated with stress, possible financial instability inthe future, and uncertainty about the duration of MBBS and exams were positively associated with stress.

Financial Transparency, Media Coverage, and Momentum in China

ABSTRACT This paper digests the influences of financial transparency and media coverage in the Chinese stock market. In China, media performs under a regulatory system and media information is regarded as the direction of news. In addition, the Chinese market is dominated by retail investors and financial information is always manipulated, so the reliability of financial information is quite intriguing. The effect of ostensible financial information on the stock market through the media hype is a crucial issue. We employ media and transparency to analyze over 3,000 stocks in China. First of all, the Chinese stock market is characterized by significantly negative momentum profit and thus exhibits price reversal. However, when high media coverage and high transparency jointly come into play, the significantly negative momentum profit turns to be significantly positive. This dramatic change alters the price reversal to be price momentum. By contrast, low media coverage and low transparency still result in price reversal.

‘Every time I dress myself, it go motherfuckin’ viral’: Post-verbal flows and memetic hype in Young Thug's mumble rap

AbstractHip-hop studies have historically centred on issues of the ‘street’ or virtuosic lyricism and flow, foregrounded as evidence of the ‘seriousness’ of the genre. While these have undoubtedly been valuable theoretical approaches, the prominence of social networking in the 2010s (with its vast implications for communication and identity politics) has sculpted a generation of rappers whose vocal style and self-representation disintegrate prior assumptions about hip-hop identity. These artists, who have flourished in tandem with the rise of streaming services, have been disparagingly dubbed ‘mumble rap’ by traditionalists owing to the apparent indecipherability of their vocals and a lack of emphasis on observational or poetic lyricism. In this article I argue that this myopic label undervalues the groundbreakingly post-verbal nature of the music being created by these rappers, and highlights the innovations of mumble rap, exploring the centrality of social media, memes and streaming to its existence while critically examining its protagonists’ unconventionally stylised vocals. After analysing the impact of streaming, information overload and audience participation (through social media hype and memes) on contemporary hip-hop, I survey the growth of melodic Auto-Tuned vocals and repetitive lyricism in the work of pioneering mumble rappers such as Future, before turning to an extended examination of Atlanta's Young Thug, whose controversially malleable vocal style, which prioritises experimentation with vocal textures while confounding the rules of hip-hop flow, is mirrored by his impulsive exploitation of social media and androgynous fashion sense, establishing him as the most revolutionary archetype of so-called mumble rap.

Latent Toxoplasmosis Effects on Rodents and Humans: How Much is Real and How Much is Media Hype?

Toxoplasma gondii is a ubiquitous, intracellular protozoan parasite with a broad range of intermediate hosts, including humans and rodents. In many hosts, T. gondii establishes a latent long-term infection by converting from its rapidly dividing or lytic form to its slowly replicating and encysting form. In humans and rodents, the major organ for encystment is the central nervous system (CNS), which has led many to investigate how this persistent CNS infection might influence rodent and human behavior and, more recently, neurodegenerative diseases. Given the interest in this topic, here we seek to take a global approach to the data for and against the effects of latent T. gondii on behavior and neurodegeneration and the proposed mechanisms that might underlie behavior modifications.

Neat Science in a Messy World: The Global Impact of Human Behavior on Phage Therapy, Past and Present.

The scientific potential of bacteriophage (phage) therapy is gaining recognition in the global fight against antimicrobial resistance (AMR). However, phages are not well understood by the general population in the West and this is a major barrier to phage therapy. This piece takes an interdisciplinary approach to public "acceptability," highlighting the significant impact that human behavior has had on the development of bacteriophage science to date, before addressing what current human factors might impact on the future exploitation of this scientific field. It argues that the history and status of phage therapy are not identical across the world, and that more understanding of different cultural attitudes in different places is essential. In addition, it argues that from a Western perspective, human issues relating to phage therapy make this science particularly susceptible to media hype and misunderstanding. Further study of the human dimensions is, therefore, crucial in any future development of phage therapy as a response to AMR.

Judicial Interpretation of Reasonableness in Use of Force Cases: An Exploratory Analysis

Throughout the history of police-community encounters, the use of force has always been an issue that has raised strong emotional reactions. Indeed, given the media hype and other forms of sensationalism, it is little wonder that the issue draws so much scrutiny. The community, law enforcement and the judiciary have varying definitions of what is an acceptable level of force in the line of duty. Given the Courts findings, the ultimate goal is to reach an objective definition of use of force that the community, law enforcement and the judiciary can agree. This article examines prior Supreme Court cases and examines the decisions rendered, challenges in developing definitions regarding the use of force, as well as the implications that are associated with those decisions.

Saudi Women Driving Change? Rebranding, Resistance, and the Kingdom of Change

ABSTRACTIf the lifting of the Saudi women’s driving ban on June 24, 2018 was so momentous, why did so few women embrace the opportunity to drive? Answers to this question are considered in the following pages, informed by two months of fieldwork (June–August 2018) in the Kingdom, during which interviews, participant observation, and the author’s own June 2018 driving experiences, reveal that despite the media hype, and the significance of the event, only a handful of women in Saudi Arabia are driving. Even more than a year after lifting the ban, it is still a novelty to see women driving in the Kingdom (Lulwa Shalhoub, “Saudi Arabia: My Experience as Female Driver: One Year On,” BBC News, June 24, 2019, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-48661233).This article argues that the government’s new gender inclusive driving policy embodies a rebranding effort from the top, rather than responsiveness to Saudi women’s rights activism, or public opinion. The arrest of a number of Women2 Drive activists before June 24 sends a clear message that such changes are not the beginnings of an intended “pink revolution” (Ghazanfar Ali Khan, “Three Million Saudi Women on the Roads by 2020,” Arab News, June 24, 2018, http://www.arabnews.com/node/1326991/saudi-arabia). On the contrary, allowing women to drive fulfills several of Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman’s immediate Vision 2030 goals for economic and social reform in the kingdom.The impact of a projected 3 million female drivers in the kingdom by 2030, however, will not only potentially “empower women” and “change the employment landscape of the country,” but also may result in a host of unintended consequences enabled by enhancing women’s access to capital, mobility and autonomy (Thomas Oriti and Laura Brierly Newton, “Women in Saudi Arabia Have a Long Way to Go in Order to Be Free, Says Manal al Sherif,” ABC News, February 11, 2018, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-08/saudi-women-revolution-has-a-long-way-to-go-says-manal-al-sharif/9396306, accessed online November 29, 2018). The biggest barrier to women’s advancement in the Kingdom, nonetheless, is the guardianship law, not the inability to drive a car.

Никифорова С.В., Покатилова И.В., Харлампиева Н.Р. Номадические сингулярности актуального искусства Якутии

The relevance of the study is due to the fact that museum and exhibition activities in the region are not sufficiently diverse. Rare precedents of modern practices of contemporary art of Yakutia in the media hype, do not become the object of scientific research. The purpose of the proposed study is to consider the specifics of the organization of the exhibition space (2013), which has become a platform producing new meanings and forms of symbols of the traditional culture of Sakha (Yakuts). The subject of the study is the specifics of building a cultural text in the exhibition space, which allows practitioners of contemporary art to initiate artist-viewer interaction. The analysis of the reception of the inclusion of signs of traditional culture in the modern environment is proposed. The nomadology strategy chosen by the curators allows artists and viewers to transform the structural orderliness of traditional forms of culture into a nomadism unfolding before their eyes. The novelty of the research lies in the fact that contemporary art in the region is taking its first steps and has not yet become the subject of research. For the first time, the postmodern methodology is used on the material of contemporary Yakut art. We have considered one aspect of the exhibition "Prelude to Siberia" - the organization of the exhibition space as an unpredictable unfolding of a nomadic singularity and a provocative clash of traditional and postmodern discourse in regional culture.

Do Investors Use the Olympics as a Category for Investment and Should They?

We investigate whether media coverage of mega-sports events can have spill-over effects in the stock market. Specifically, we focus on the Olympics and we analyze whether the media attention and hype surrounding the Olympics encourages investors to use the Olympics as a way to classify stocks for investment. We examine two Olympic hosting countries: China (2008) and the UK (2012) and identify stocks that media outlets list as either directly or indirectly involved in the Olympics (Olympic stocks). These stocks come from a broad range of industries and vary considerably in the level and timing of their involvement in the Olympics. We find that in both countries, Olympic stocks exhibit increases in comovement of returns after the announcement of the winning bid and declines in comovements after the games are played. However, Olympic stocks do not have superior financial performance and their fundamentals (earnings and cash flows) do not exhibit strong co-movement over the Olympic time period. This evidence suggests that the changes in return comovement are not driven by underlying fundamentals. Our evidence instead suggests that the combination of media attention and a mega-sports event can lead to transitory and sentiment-driven stock categorization.

Prosthetic Soul Mates: Sex Robots as Media for Companionship

Prosthetic Soul Mates: Sex Robots as Media for Companionship

Online, Anytime.

When Pediatrics in Review was first published 40 years ago, I was in diapers, and Visual Diagnosis was still 2 decades from conception. At its 20-year mark, I was unaware that Pediatrics in Review was beginning to publish content online. I was keenly aware of the shifting tides from traditional media to online information; after all, I was starting a career in multimedia production. However, I was still several years from discovering my second calling in pediatric medicine, so I was not yet a Pediatrics in Review reader.When I finally discovered Pediatrics in Review, it was the online version that worked best for my learning style. It has always been difficult for me to focus on reading textbooks, and the Pediatrics in Review search box solved that problem. I found that I could quickly access content relevant to my practice on demand, which made the topics come alive and allowed me to apply the knowledge to real patients.For Pediatrics in Review, the birth of online publishing opened opportunities to create additional material, and Visual Diagnosis was born in March of 2000. It was initially printed, but the format of a presenting image followed by the diagnosis and discussion allowed for a smooth transition to online-only publication. Dr Joe Zenel was the inaugural editor of this section and wrote the first article, titled “An Infant Who Has Fever and Rash.” Dr Zenel built the foundations of Visual Diagnosis and eventually became editor-in-chief. It is an honor for me to learn from him and to continue his legacy with the Visual Diagnosis feature.Dr Zenel concluded the first Visual Diagnosis article with this question: “…will the clinician-in-training recognize measles in the patient presenting with fever, cough, coryza, conjunctivitis, and a red maculopapular rash?” Given the fact that measles was eradicated from the United States in that same year, it was a valid question.Today, pocket-sized computers and excessive media hype can induce irrational fears in anxious parents. I suspect that many of you have received photographs via text message from parents asking if something looks like measles, a spider bite, or fungus. Luckily, for today’s clinicians and clinicians-in-training, there is a vast library of Visual Diagnosis cases available to access when you find yourself confronted with an unusual fever and rash. Pediatrics in Review will continue to move forward, adding to this library and offering expert content to pediatricians for many generations to come.

Debunking the Myth of ‘Super Bowl Sex Trafficking’: Media hype or evidenced-based coverage

A large body of scholarship has described the narrow set of media narratives used to report trafficking for sexual exploitation to the public. This article examines US media coverage of human trafficking in relation to the Super Bowl, American football’s championship game. Available empirical evidence does not suggest that major sporting events cause trafficking for sexual exploitation. Yet, we find that 76 per cent of US print media from 2010 to 2016 propagated the ‘Super Bowl sex trafficking’ narrative. Local coverage of the 2018 Super Bowl in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was different, presenting a sceptical stance toward this narrative. The article describes how this substantial shift resulted from our research group and anti-trafficking stakeholders employing an action research approach to craft a Super Bowl communication strategy that aligned with empirical evidence. Although sensationalist narratives are difficult to dislodge, the Minnesota case shows that evidence on trafficking can be effectively used to inform media and impact public perceptions, when researchers work with stakeholders on the ground. Lessons learnt are shared to enable others to replicate these results.

Peter VASTERMAN (dir.) (2018), From Media Hype to Twitter Storm: News Explosions and Their Impact on Issues, Crises and Public Opinion

Peter VASTERMAN (dir.) (2018), From Media Hype to Twitter Storm: News Explosions and Their Impact on Issues, Crises and Public Opinion

Deconstructing Indian Media Strategy to Demonize Kashmir Movement

The study critically examines Indian approach to use media as a key tool to demonize mass resistance movement in Jammu and Kashmir. Referring to different phases of the movement in Kashmir – 1947, 1965, 1971, 1987, 2000 and 2010 – it argues that India has employed media as a tool to portray Kashmir movement as an instigated one and those who run and support it are mere miscreants and violence mongers. While dubbing the uprising in Kashmir as terrorism, Indian media went overboard to justify massive killings and violations of human rights by the armed forces under the guise of different laws and, to a great extent, succeeded in hoodwinking the attention of international community and human rights organizations from the real situation on the ground. The findings of this study captured six frames of self-determination movement in electical dialecticism theoretical prism. The study sets the course of the line for investigators to study media effects. Keywords: Media in occupation, Peace and state terrorism, Elite media, Media ethics, Dispute, Resolution, Media hype, Democracy, Plebiscite.

In flag-rante: Julia Gillard and the infamous ‘flag scene’ in ABC’s At Home with Julia

Abstract In 2011, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation financed and produced a controversial sitcom based on the life, characteristics, and politics of incumbent Prime Minister Julia Gillard. At Home with Julia (2011) examined Gillard’s private life by fictionalizing her de facto relationship with partner Tim Mathieson. Before, during, and after it aired, the series became a media spectacle as print, digital and broadcast journalists debated the propriety of the parody/satire. Media hype peaked in response to a fleeting scene in which the main characters appear cuddling under the Australian flag. Drawing on scholarship about postfeminism, this article examines the representation of single/unmarried women in popular culture and the characterization of political women in television dramas. The media commentary surrounding At Home with Julia denounced the ‘flag scene’ in the strongest terms, yet this reportage also conveyed an underlying unease towards the series’ candid depiction of sexuality. Most significantly, journalists collectively failed to adequately distinguish between Gillard, the prime minister, and ‘Julia’, the fictional character. Such a failure, this article suggests, enabled and excused the media’s subsequent and far more visceral sexualization of Australia’s first female prime minister. Although the public clearly understood the fictional premise of At Home with Julia, the Australian media fabricated a ‘sex’ scandal that came to be read onto the body of Gillard herself.