Reading News Research Articles

Online News Displaces Print Newspaper: Media Students' Preferences and Perceptions

This study extends the uses and gratifications theory to explore the uses of general, time, daily, and weekly news. It also applies the theory of media displacement to investigate the ease, preference, emergency use, credibility perception, and confidence in forming opinions for news from print newspapers and online sources. A survey with 244 students from communication and media disciplines in Lahore's universities revealed that 68% of media students read news for only 30 minutes daily. 65% preferred daily updates and found it easier to access news online (62%). During emergencies, 79% relied on online news, but only 52% considered it authentic. Despite concerns about tree wastage, 67% favoured free access to online news, with only 33% willing to purchase print newspapers. This study supports the media displacement hypothesis, suggesting that online news is displacing print newspapers due to affordability, posing significant implications for newspaper management.

Visualising COVID‐19: Implications for Design Education

AbstractThis paper reports on the findings of a visual text analysis of selected infographics and data visualisations used in news websites during the COVID‐19 pandemic in Sydney, Australia. Infographics and data visualisations used in news website articles disseminated and communicated local and national information to the public about the COVID‐19 pandemic and related social implications. For the first time live data, animation and interaction were used in reporting health and societal information to a general news readership, contributing to the knowledge base and visual literacy of the public. The information presented was not only clear but also aesthetically appealing. This paper examines the styles of news digital infographics and data visualisation of three longitudinal studies using lessons learned from Grainger et al. (2016), Dick (2020) and Tufte (2001) and contextualises the context, narrative, aesthetics, communication, data, functionality and examines the collaboration between communication designers, journalists and the development team. The implications for communication design education are explored in the context of skills, tools and teamwork needed for future communication design students.

Integrating TAM and UGT to Explore Motivations of using Social Media for News Reading among Chinese College Students

Integrating TAM and UGT to Explore Motivations of using Social Media for News Reading among Chinese College Students

Binking Application: Early Detection of Computer Vision Syndrome

Policies regarding the use of gadgets are very necessary at this time, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, because at this time people inevitably have to be willing to learn and use technology such as gadgets / smartphones in order to meet their respective needs, studying, buying goods, reading news and other things, without a policy in the use of this technology will certainly have a negative impact on users such as Computer Vision Syndrome, this journal aims to determine the impact of Computer Vision Syndrome and also create an eye blink detection program which aims to prevent and detect eye blinks so as to avoid the negative effects of Computer Vision Syndrome such as eye disorders. This research was conducted using four students of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Sam Ratulangi University as sample’s data in making this Blink Detection program, the program was made through several references and several improvements until it was finally completed and the program could detect many eye blinks of gadget users and provide warnings to the user.

Few-shot fake news detection via prompt-based tuning

As people increasingly use social media to read news, fake news has become a major problem for the public and government. One of the main challenges in fake news detection is how to identify them in the early stage of propagation. Another challenge is that detection model training requires large amounts of labeled data, which are often unavailable or expensive to acquire. To address these challenges, we propose a novel Fake News Detection model based on Prompt Tuning (FNDPT). FNDPT first designs a prompt-based template for early fake news detection. This mechanism incorporates contextual information into textual content and extracts relevant knowledge from pre-trained language models. Furthermore, our model utilizes prompt-based tuning to enhance the performance in a few-shot setting. Experimental results on two real-world datasets verify the effectiveness of FNDPT.

ANALISIS PENGGUNAAN BAHASA JURNALISTIK PADA MAJALAH EDISI 59 LPM DINAMIKA UNIVERSITAS ISLAM NEGERI SUMATERA UTARA

Given the speed at which technology develops, this does not mean that the development of print media is currently ignored by people. Many people are still interested in reading news through print media such as magazines and tabloids. Of course, not all readers pay attention to their educational background when writing news for magazines, so reporters must have some writing skills in journalistic language. The research focused on the features of the journalism language in the writing of student newspapers, journals published by the UIN SU Dynamics Student Press Institute. How do they use it according to the six characteristics of journalism language: short, concise, simple, straightforward, interesting, and clear. The research was conducted using a qualitative and descriptive method, and a data analysis phase was conducted to understand the use of journalism language in issue 59 of the same magazine dealing with the topic of sexual violence. According to EYD, the journalism languages ​​published in the magazine include features of six journalism languages, including standard language rules for the Indonesian language.

The Influence of Motives for Media Use, News Selection, and Attractiveness Level of Online Media on Reader Engagement

Efforts to increase online media traffic can be realized by increasing reader engagement. The high frequency and intensity of readers and interactions in reading news online, such as commenting and sharing the article, indicate a high level of reader involvement. The article attempts to show the influence between the motives of using online media, news selection, and news attractiveness on the level of reader involvement. Through distributing questionnaires to 95 students, the study uses a survey method with an explanative quantitative approach. Data are analyzed using multivariate analysis techniques with correlation coefficient test and multiple linear regression. The results show a strong and positive correlation between the motive for media use, news selection, the level of media attractiveness, and the level of reader involvement of 0.659. The multiple linear regression test also proves a significant influence between the three independent variables on the level of reader involvement with an influential contribution of 43.4%.

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Effectiveness of Students’ Use of Library: A Case of Public Secondary Schools in Ilala District, Tanzania

The study pursued to establish the extent of school library use in improving students’ reading habits among the public secondary schools of Ilala District. Descriptive-correlation design was employed to describe the effectiveness of students’ use of school libraries in their schools, to describe the ratings of the students’ reading habits in their schools as well as to explain the relationship between the use of libraries and the reading habits of students. Out of 3954-targeted students, 363 students were randomly sampled to participate in this study. Self-administered questionnaire forms were distributed to 363 students and 357 forms were filled and returned for analysis. The collected data was analyzed with the help of the Statistical Package for Social Science software. The study found that library usage among the secondary students of Ilala District is lower since the majority of the students were less effective in utilizing the libraries in their schools. Secondly, it was established that the student's reading habit is yet unsatisfactory since the majority of the students read occasionally. The primary purpose of reading among the majority of the students is for entertainment because if they happened to visit the libraries, they were fond of reading news about sports and games. The study therefore recommends that school administration, teachers and education policymakers see to it that library and library facilities become a mandatory requirement.

Kaltim Post Editorial Strategy in Maintaining the Existence of the Media Business in the Digital Era

Currently, print media is starting to be abandoned because most people have digital media as a place to find news. This is felt by Kaltim Post which indirectly requires it to adapt to changes in behavior in society in reading news today. For this reason, this research aims to determine the Kaltim Post Editorial Strategy in Maintaining Existence in the Digital Media Era. This research uses qualitative research methods with data collection techniques in the form of interviews. In data collection, this research had five key informants. The results obtained in this research are that Kaltim Post is proven to have used a media conversion strategy to be able to maintain their existence in the current digital era.

Threat Construction and Framing of Cyberterrorism in the U.S. News Media

This research aims to explore the influence of news media on the fear of cyberterrorism and how cyberterrorism is framed in the media. Using a mixed-method approach as a research strategy, this paper reports on two studies that explore the influence of news reading on the fear of cyberterrorism. The first study analyzed survey responses from 1,190 participants and found that increased exposure to reading news media was associated with increased fear of cyberterrorism. The second study, built on the first, sought to investigate how cyberterrorism is framed and constructed as a threat by the US local and national newspapers. The framing and portrayal of cyberterrorism in US newspapers are discussed.

THE USE OF NATURAL DISASTER NEWS TEXT IN MODELLING STAGE TO COMPOSE NEWS ITEM TEXT: AUTHENTIC MATERIAL IN THE SECOND STAGE OF GENRE-BASED APPROACH

This study aims to investigate how the news item texts composed by students are based on a natural disaster news text, and how they respond to the use of natural disaster news text as a learning media to compose news item text. Based on these aims, this study uses a qualitative study by means of observation, document analysis, and questionnaire. Data collection was carried out on students twelfth grade from one of the Vocational High Schools in Garut, West Java. The results of the observation showed that under the direction of the teacher there are four steps that students took in composing news item text based on a natural disaster news text: 1) students understand the social function, linguistic elements, and structure of the news item text, 2) students open a web news link about natural disaster, 3) students write down the information they get from reading news on the web, 4) students compose a news item text based on the information. Based on the results of document analysis, it showed that the news item text composed by students fulfills the aspects of writing news item text. In addition, based on the results of the questionnaire, it showed that students gave positive responses to the use of authentic material in the form of natural disaster news texts in learning to compose news item texts. Therefore, as an effort for students to achieve the goals of learning English successfully, it is hoped that teachers can use authentic materials as learning media in the classroom.

COMPARISON OF K-NEAREST NEIGHBOR AND NAIVE BAYES METHODS FOR CLASSIFICATION OF NEWS CONTENT

With the development of technology, news reading via the internet or digital tends to increase. In addition, there are about 300 to 400 news articles in one month and many categories of news articles in a web portal. It makes the editor's performance more and more because an editor must be able to edit articles from various channels and at the same time have to categorize articles one by one manually into several specified categories. This study aims to compare the K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) and Naive Bayes methods to classify news content in order to obtain the best method. The data used in this study are news articles from the web portal kaltimtoday.co from January 2022 to March 2022. Therefore 576 data are obtained. The results showed that the application of the KNN and Naive Bayes methods could be used to classify news content. The KNN method is able to produce a higher accuracy value than Naïve Bayes, reaching 86% and 51% with test data of 100 news articles.

Digital Literacy: The Right Solution to Overcome the Various Problems of Meaning and Communication on Social Media

Problems with meaning arise when symbols interact in digital communication on social media between users. Different messages may be interpreted differently due to symbolic exchanges between social media users. This paper examines how message meaning relates to current social media challenges. The data used to address the issue was obtained from an online survey of social media users, and the semiotics method was employed (denotation and connotation). This study concludes that people who utilize social media have a higher propensity to read the news and become more authentic by sharing it. To read social media text messages denotatively has ideological consequences for users and connotative implications. Social media messaging's ideological impact creates the purpose of action (change of view on an issue, for example, COVID-19 vaccination). This paper contributes to digital media literacy, which develops critical thinking abilities based on digital knowledge by choosing to read news content. Besides, this paper contributes to the capacity to critically create content based on digital culture (positive news content) and offer critical commentary based on digital ethics (politeness in providing language). This article discusses the benefits and importance of news content comments and the ability to share news content critically based on digital safety by safely evaluating information before sharing it.

An Innovation in Planning Management for Learning Arabic at Islamic Boarding Schools

The purpose of this study: first, to find out the type of language boarding program at the Salafiyyah Syafi'iyyah Islamic Boarding School in Situbondo. Second, to find out the planning of programs offered in the language boarding house Salafiyyah Syafi'iyyah Sukorejo Situbondo. This study uses qualitative research with descriptive methods. The data collection is done by observation and interview with the head of the language boarding house. Data analysis in this study consisted of 3 stages: data condensation, data display, and conclusion drawing/verification. The results of this paper inform several things: 1) The type of activity: mufrodat, al-barqi, khitobah (khitobah, khitobah rolling, khitobah akbar), reading books, memorizing, insha ', club studies, competitions (reading books by examining memorization from Arbain and mufrodat and mc traditions, reading news, advertisements, khitobah, debates, and drama). 2) Arabic language program in language boarding house using a SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) with the type of short-term planning that is within a year in the form of operational plans to achieve long-term goals.

Mobile Curated News Readers’ Intention to Read Full-length Articles: Focusing on Heuristic and Systematic Factors

Background: Mobile curated (shortened) news is now increasingly popular. Each curated news article is accompanied by a link that readers can click to read the full-length article on the news provider’s website. To date, little empirical research has examined the factors that influence mobile newsreaders’ intentions to read full-length articles from their curated short forms. To address this gap, this study employs the Heuristic-Systematic Model (HSM) of information processing and examines: 1) how the heuristic and systematic factors of online curated news influence newsreaders’ intention to read full-length articles; and 2) how newsreaders’ language proficiency levels moderate these effects. Method: A survey was conducted with 195 participants recruited from Amazon MTurk. The participants first read a sample curated news item developed for this study and then filled out the questionnaire to measure the variables of interest. To test the hypotheses, a partial least square method was used with SmartPLS 4.0. Results: Our results showed that people have stronger intentions to read full-length articles when they perceive the curated news to have highly relevant information, an attractive title, a credible source, or less understandable information. Furthermore, newsreaders' language proficiency level has a moderating impact on some of these effects. The effects of these factors can be attributed to how they influence newsreaders’ reading behaviors and their heuristic or systematic processing of the curated news. Conclusion: The curated news can be properly designed to motivate newsreaders’ intention to read full-length articles. The findings contribute to the body of knowledge on HSM and mobile news adoption. The findings also provide mobile-curated news service providers and online full-length news media platforms with valuable practical implications.

“Because I have my phone with me all the time”: The role of device access in developing Singapore adolescents’ critical news literacy

AbstractGiven constant online access to information, critical news literacy, or the ability to access and critically evaluate the news, is essential for adolescents to learn about the world and obtain civic knowledge to participate as national and global citizens. Although there has been much research focusing on how youths critically read and produce media, less attention has been paid to the issue of access as an essential element of news literacy. Drawing on survey data (N = 5732) and focus group discussions (N = 67) with Singapore adolescents aged 13–17 years old, this study examines (1) whether adolescents access the news and if so, via what technologies, and (2) the factors that influence their news access. Findings show that adolescents prefer to read news online and that older adolescents (aged 15–17 years old) read more than younger adolescents (aged 13–14 years old). Factors shaping access to news include technological (portability, personalization, curation, and notifications), social (families, peers, and schools as sponsors), and personal factors (active seeking of news vs. incidental news exposure). Policymakers, scholars, and educators should consider the physical, social, and curatorial dimensions of news reading to implement policies and design practices to encourage news access and exposure. Educators can foster adolescents' motivation to read news by engaging them with news of interest to them, creating opportunities for them to receive the news through their smartphones and other devices, and developing their civic knowledge base.

THE EFFECT OF LANGUAGE STYLE SELECTION IN DETIK.COM ONLINE NEWS HEADLINES ON READING INTEREST OF GEN Z

Gen Z as a generation that can influence the development of the country better makes gen Z obliged to increase literacy, especially literacy about the latest news about things happening in society around the world. Therefore, gen Z need to develop an interest in reading news. Technology that continues to evolve makes gen Z use mobile phones more often and every news already post on online media. One of the growing media nowadays is Detik.com. expected from various kinds of online news, gen Z would be able to keep up with the times by reading it often. For that, the author examines the effect of using style language in Detik.com online news titles against reading interest of gen Z. Choosing the right style language allows gen Z to be more interested in reading news. Result from this research is that choosing the right style of language in Detik.com online news titles, has affected the growth reading interest of gen Z. The most interesting news gen Z to read is Detik.com online news whose news titles uses contradictory style.

“A Simple, Short, and Exact Account of the Facts”?

AbstractThis article examines how material constraints thought to stifle political news' production in France actually encouraged a small number of Jansenist priests, their lay defenders, and book-trade workers to develop new printing methods and a sophisticated print distribution system that enabled them to skirt policing in the production and distribution of the Nouvelles ecclésiastiques (1728–1803). The existence of the Nouvelles ecclésiastiques outside the official book trade liberated its authors to include content that no other paper could. The dense religious dispute about which it sought to inform readers, coupled with its uninitiated target audience, encouraged its authors not just to report the news but also to explain it in highly partisan terms. In so doing, the Nouvelles ecclésiastiques provided many readers with an initiation into news reading. While the news reported concerned a religious controversy, it worked to reshape how readers thought about religion and politics in early eighteenth-century France.

A Literature Survey on “Misinformation Flagging System”

Abstract: Many people rely on social media as their main information source these days. But it has two sides to it. The cheap cost, simple access, and quick information distribution encourage consumers to read news on social media. But it also facilitates the dissemination of incorrect information without any malicious intent and disinformation can go unnoticed. As publishing news online is inexpensive and spreading it through social media is much simpler and faster than through traditional channels, a lot of misinformation is created on the internet for a number of reasons, such as financial benefits and political benefits of many different parties. The ecology of the news industry's authenticity check might be upset by fake news. Consumers are purposefully led to believe inaccurate or biased information via fake news. Propagandists typically use fake news to spread political ideas or exert influence. Some fake news is simply designed to incite people's mistrust and confound them, making it difficult for them to tell what is genuine from what is not.