Piece Of News Research Articles

Morbidity: discourses about broadcasting and gazing of violence on news

The increasing violence broadcasted by the media is subject of concern and social interest. Hard emissions frequently raise the accusation toward the mass media of fostering a morbid curiosity in the audience just to raise audience ratings. But the concept of morbid curiosity includes wide and imprecise meanings. The object of this paper is to (re)construct the meaning of morbidity and morbid curiosity in relation to the watching of serious violence in TV News programs. 16 focus groups have been object of discourse analysis after the viewing 4 videos of a violent piece of TV news. The analysis shows that the dimension of curiosity and interest vs. illness and evil is structuring the discourse; and the participants highlight the positive and legitimate effects that can be attributed to the “gaze” on violence as much as to the scenes. “Watching” with interest is necessary to get the positive effects of the broadcasting of violent images.

Introduction to Special Issue: New Trends in Fuzzy Set Theory and Related Items

We focus on the articles recently published in the special issue of Axioms devoted to “New Trends in Fuzzy Set Theory and Related Items”.

Exponentially time decaying susceptible-informed (SIT) model for information diffusion process on networks.

Modeling information diffusion on networks is a timely topic due to its significance in massive online social media platforms. Models motivated by disease epidemics, such as the Susceptible-Infected-Removed and Susceptible-Infected-Susceptible (SIS), ones have been used for this task, together with threshold models. A key limitation of these models is that the intrinsic time value of information is not accounted for, an important feature for social media applications, since "old" piece of news does not attract adequate attention. We obtain results pertaining to the diffusion size across the diffusion's evolution over time, as well as for early time points that enable us to calculate the phase transition epoch and the epidemic threshold, using mean field approximations. Further, we explicitly calculate the total probability of getting informed for each node depending on its actual path to the single seed node and then propose a novel approach by constructing a Maximum Weight Tree (MWT) to approximate the final fraction of diffusion, with the weight of each node approximating the total probability of getting informed. The MWT approximation is a novel approach that is exact for tree-like network and is specifically designed for sparse networks. It is also fast to compute and provides another general tool for the analyst to obtain accurate approximations of the "epidemic's" size. Extensive comparisons with results based on Monte Carlo simulation of the information diffusion process show that the derived mean field approximations, as well as that employing the MWT one, provide very accurate estimates of the quantities of interest.

Performance escolar: os exames do 4.º ano na TV

Within the framework of a mode of regulation of the educational system based on the ideology of performativity through an intensified school work, this text focuses on the recent experience of reintroducing the exams in the 4th grade in Portugal. We analyze the voices of children, parents, and teachers found in television news pieces (2012-2015), seeking to understand how they position themselves and how they deal with the exams. Their words reveal that the examinations greatly influence the school and family life, and demand cognitive and emotional effort on the part of these actors, aiming at the preparation of pupils who are able to deal effectively withperformativity at an earlier age.

‘The city is ours, so let’s talk about it’: Constructing a citizen media initiative in Brussels

This article investigates the relationships between citizen media and constructive journalism. It focuses on ‘Dewey’, a nonprofit organization producing citizen content on four hyperlocal online platforms. With an action research approach, the activities, interactions among members, and productions are critically assessed with participants. To do so, semi-directive interviews were conducted among 12 contributors to the platforms. Active participation of 2 years to the Dewey project as well as news pieces produced enriched the analysis. Results indicate that participants’ specific writing practices produce constructive news against stereotypes or against a lack of coverage of certain issues. Furthermore, Dewey’s open (and non-institutional) structure allows individuals to develop their own identities as participants, resulting in different writing styles and approaches to news production. However, this openness created an uneven repartition of responsibilities and a high dependence toward a small number of individuals making the process fragile and slow.

A Novel Embedding Method for News Diffusion Prediction

News diffusion prediction aims to predict a sequence of news sites which will quote a particular piece of news. Most of previous propagation models make efforts to estimate propagation probabilities along observed links and ignore the characteristics of news diffusion processes, and they fail to capture the implicit relationships between news sites. In this paper, we propose an algorithm to model the news diffusion processes in a continuous space and take the attributes of news into account. Experiments performed on a real-world news dataset show that our model can take advantage of news’ attributes and predict news diffusion accurately.

New product success in the consumer packaged goods industry: A shopper marketing approach

Marketing activities that influence shoppers along the various stages of their path-to-purchase are gaining attention from both manufacturers and retailers. Using a dataset with detailed information on 105 new products (NPs) launched in the U.K. by 44 leading brands and sold across 13 major retail banners, we provide strong support for the prominent role of both upper- and lower-funnel marketing actions that influence consumers before (upper) or during (lower) their shopping trip. We show which of these shopper-marketing instruments have the largest effect on NP performance at a retailer, and whether and how their effect is moderated by the retailer's store context. When it comes to NP success, the lifeblood of CPG companies, the lower-funnel marketing actions targeting shoppers directly at the point-of-purchase predominantly decide your fate. Thus, manufacturers should work ever harder to collaborate with retailers and push the store-specific shopper-marketing instruments in a favorable direction through information sharing and tailoring of their marketing program to individual retailers. Indeed, not all news is bleak for brand manufacturers. We identify five pieces of good news that brand manufacturers can use to their advantage.

Ideología y Prensa Escrita: la Guerra Cristera en la Prensa Vasca

El objetivo del presente trabajo es describir de qué manera fue dada a conocer laguerra cristera mexicana en la prensa del País Vasco. Para ello hemos escogido dos mediosimpresos que representan dos tendencias ideológicas distintas: El Lib eral y La Gaceta delNorte, los cuales eran los de mayor circulación en la segunda década de este siglo en esaregión. Mediante el análisis de los contenidos y de sus características formales no sóloratificamos la tendencia ideológica de las publicaciones, sino también la caracterización quese conforma sobre los protagonistas de los sucesos, a partir de la ideología sostenida por cadamedio; el grado de interés que un hecho tan lejano geográficamente despertó en la prensavasca y los posibles motivos para que así ocurriera.

Book Review of Manning and Kendall’s Intelligence Arabic

The book titled Intelligence Arabic, which may be translated into لسان المخابرات (Intelligence Tongue), is a unique publication bringing to spotlight an Arabic jargon which has been locked away in modern Arab history in the mazes of secrecy in intelligence headquarters and centers across the Arab World. The Arabic trilateral root /kh b r/ originally involved a connotation-free process of derivation producing words like yukhbir 'to inform', khabar 'a piece of news', khibrah 'experience', etc. With the establishment of 'modern' Arab states, this tri-consonantal root has given us some negatively-nuanced terms in Modern Standard Arabic, namely 'istikhbaaraat/mukhaabaraat 'intelligence' and mukhbir/ mukhbiruun 'mole/moles'. For the Arab masses, these words have become extremely taboo and scary due to the ill-reputed practices of the intelligence services which have been mainly institutionalized by Arab dictatorships to spy on and persecute their own peoples rather than protect national security, the way it is in western democracies. However, as a result of complications of regional and world politics, especially with the ever-increasing phenomenon of terrorism worldwide, such intelligence services have started to assume an instrumental role in regional as well as world security.

“Tuk-Tuk Thailand”: A High-Stakes Mission for Miss Universe Thailand 2015?

Being favorable to the judges of the Miss Universe Thailand Pageant and Thai media, Ms. Aniporn Chalermburanawong was honorably and gracefully crowned Miss Universe Thailand in July 2015. A few months later, the beauty queen was blasted with huge criticism on her disgraceful image of Tuk-Tuk Thailand, the plastic outfit designed by the inspiration of the Thai tricycle cab, which she expected to be a major highlight of the national costume contest of the Miss Universe 2015 Contest held in Las Vegas, the United States. The author of this article has paid close attention to the incident critically reported on the Internet and has carefully analyzed existing issues by drawing crucial information from some pieces of online news and other related discussions. The concept of gender and popular culture are employed for data analysis. The result of the national costume contest unavoidably made Ms. Chalermburanawong a sex object of beauty. At some certain level, it demystifies the sex myth created by the signification of the Tuk-Tuk Thailand image and also directs the Thai society to explore a critical meaning of Thai popular culture.

La accidentalidad laboral y su prevención en prensa digital española

La accidentalidad laboral y su prevención son aspectos que han entrado en el día a día de las empresas ante un grave problema humano, social y económico. Los medios de comunicación tradicionalmente han primado la fatalidad del accidente, principalmente mortal. El objetivo de este trabajo es estudiar como los periódicos nativos digitales abordan el tema. Metodología. Para realizar el análisis se han tomado las inserciones periodísticas relativas a la accidentalidad laboral y su prevención durante dos años y siete meses en cinco de los principales diarios digitales. Posteriormente se han estudiado haciendo uso de la metodología de framing a través de técnicas estadísticas de minería de texto. Resultados y conclusiones. Se evidencia una reacción reactiva de los medios digitales ante la accidentalidad laboral, al igual que la prensa en papel, aunque se aprecian diferencias importantes en el tratamiento de la temática en función de la línea de cada diario.

Nuevos documentos sobre Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra hallados en el Archivo del Reino de Valencia (1580-1581)

Damos a conocer siete documentos inéditos cervantinos que aportan novedades referentes a la biografía del escritor en el momento de su llegada y estancia de un mes en Valencia, en noviembre de 1580. Sobresale la testificación que hizo nuestro escritor ante el tribunal de Justicia Criminal, ofreciendo noticias sobre un joven pescador valenciano, al que se daba por asesinado por unos mallorquines, los cuales se hallaban presos en Valencia, siendo así que el pescador estaba vivo y cautivo en Argel. Las novedades que ofreció a unos mercaderes mallorquines, defensores de la inocencia de los presuntos asesinos, sirvieron para que se celebrasen unas famosas apuestas, en las que se apostaron elevadas cantidades de dinero sobre la vida y muerte de Jeroni Planelles, que así se llamaba dicho pescador. Estos documentos dan a conocer también las relaciones mantenidas con los cautivos, a los que escribe cartas y con los mercaderes y redentores a los que proporciona datos para la localización de los cautivos en vistas a su liberación. De paso se dan a conocer algunas fuentes de ingresos de Cervantes. Se descubre una mentira del escritor. Los documentos también nos proporcionan la firma autógrafa más antigua del mismo que ha llegado a nosotros.

Blood on Boylston: Digital Memory and the Dramatisation of Recent History in <em>Patriots Day</em>

Blood on Boylston: Digital Memory and the Dramatisation of Recent History in <em>Patriots Day</em>

Personalized Recommendation for Online Social Networks Information: Personal Preferences and Location-Based Community Trends

Microblogs, such as Twitter, are a way for users to express their opinions or share pieces of interesting news by posting relatively short messages (corpus) compared with the regular blogs. The volume of corpus updates that users receive daily is overwhelming. Also, as information diffuses from one user to another, some topics become of interest to only small groups of users, thus do not become widely adopted, and could fade away quickly. This paper proposes a framework to enhance user’s interaction and experience in social networks. It first introduces a model that provides better subscription to the user through a dynamic personalized recommendation system that provides the user with the most important tweets. This paper also presents TrendFusion, an innovative model used to enhance the suggestions provided by the social media to the users. It analyzes, predicts the localized diffusion of trends in social networks, and recommends the most interesting trends to the user. Our performance evaluation demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed recommendation system and shows that it improves the precision and recall of identifying important tweets by up to 36% and 80%, respectively. Results also show that TrendFusion accurately predicts places in which a trend will appear, with 98% recall and 80% precision.

Pursuit of Power: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the CNN and China Daily South China Sea Reports

With the value of news report prominently increasing, the issue of South China Sea has drawn attention from plenty western media and the public and consequently become a hot topic reported by presses around the globe. CNN and China Daily, the two representative English-language presses from the U.S. and China, tend to adopt different dictions while they report the same event or news from the same source, in order to convey their own attitudes to readers and inculcate different value judgments in an imperceptible way. In this article, with relevant theories and methods of Critical Discourse Analysis and from the perspective of word selection, the author compared and analyzed two pieces of typical news in seven aspects, revealed the inconspicuous ideologies and power factors in the texts so as to help readers cultivate their rational thinking and take critical reading of news reports.

Entre a editorialização e a riqueza informativa: o papel dos implícitos no texto jornalístico informativo.

A identificação de conteúdos implícitos em textos jornalísticos do gênero informativo pode ser tratada como editorialização, expressão indevida e/ou escusa de conteúdos opinativos. O objetivo do artigo é mostrar que os textos do gênero informativo são constituídos a partir de vários e diferentes tipos desses conteúdos, gerados a partir da relação do uso da linguagem natural e de contextos específicos. A partir de um estudo bibliográfico e documental, avalia-se uma notícia, formato representativo do gênero informativo, e mostra-se que esses significados implícitos de fato têm um papel importante na construção da riqueza informacional e na constituição de uma textualidade eficiente dos textos, sem necessariamente caracterizar um processo de editorialização

The practice of praising one’s own child in parent-to-parent talk

This study examines an underexplored area of self-praise: parents praising their own children. An examination of a corpus of Korean telephone conversational data reveals that the act of praising one’s own child is prevalent in parent-to-parent talk despite the social and interactional constraints on behavior that might be viewed as biased or bragging. In fact, such self-praise is not always treated as interactionally problematic and is often initiated by co-participants of the talk. This conversation analytic study identifies routine features and structures of this type of self-praise and shows when they emerge, how they are formulated and how they are responded to by recipients. The analysis shows what makes the self-praise possible or appropriate in interaction and highlights two common practices. In one, a praiseworthy matter about the speaker’s child is brought up by a co-participant, and the speaker takes the opportunity to praise the child. Thus, rather than directly praising the child, the speaker acts as an informant who is simply supplying more noteworthy details to add to the co-participant’s favorable account. In the other practice, a speaker conveys a praiseworthy matter as a piece of news about the child. By doing so, the speaker provides a rationale (informing the recipient) while at the same time eliciting the recipient’s uptake (assessment or appreciation). The study illustrates how self-praise plays an integral role in parental communities as parents engage in sharing and celebrating children’s milestones, achievements, or growth.

A donzela estereotipada: um estudo de recepção do Grupo Iron Maiden nos portais G1 e R7

Neste trabalho, apresentamos um estudo de recepção acerca de duas reportagens exibidas pelos portais de notícia G1e R7 sobre o grupo inglês de rock Iron Maiden. Lançando mão de uma postura crítica, histórica e dialética, adotamos como marcos teórico-metodológicos os pressupostos de Guillermo Orozco Gómez (2000; 2003), Stuart Hall (2003), Douglas Kellner (2001), Roland Barthes (1993) e John Thompson (1995). O corpus analítico cobre a vinda da banda ao Brasil, em março de 2016, para realizar shows de lançamento do seu mais novo trabalho, The book of souls, lançado em setembro de 2015.

O ciberespaço e o posicionamento ideológico em comentários <i>on-line</i>

Buscamos relacionar as noções de ciberespaço, tecnologias e práticas sociaiscontemporâneas partindo da compreensão de que os espaços on-line permitem outras formas de expressão e interação, que contribuem para a formação e manutenção de identidades do sujeito. Para tanto, empreendemos uma análise dialógica, com base em Bakhtin, da interação entre usuários no campo de comentários de uma notícia de um grande portal de notícias.--- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22409/cadletrasuff.2017n54a400

The Origins of Football in Spain: From the First Press Appearance to the Constitution of the First Clubs (1868–1903)

This research focuses on the origins of football in Spain and seeks to show how and where it was introduced in the country, to comprehend the historical context, and to understand why it took roots so rapidly despite the rivalry with the well-established tradition of bullfighting. The period of study spans from 1868 (first news piece on football in Spain) to 1903 (celebration of the first football championship in the country). The methodology focused primarily on identifying the primary sources and selecting the secondary sources, followed by the interpretative analysis and the mapping of football associations created in Spain in the sport’s early days. The large urban cities led the process of creating football clubs from 1889: Barcelona (61), Madrid (15), and Bilbao (9) steered the process of legitimization and institutionalization of football in the country. In the last 11 years of the nineteenth century (1889–1899), 29 clubs were created in 12 different cities. In the first four years of the twentieth century (1900–1903), a further 103 clubs mushroomed all over the country. Thus a total of 132 clubs were founded between 1889 and 1903 in Spain, which laid the necessary foundations for the implantation and legitimization of football.