Newspaper Information Research Articles

Assessing journalists’ language tone and sources used in reporting HIV/AIDS information in Tanzanian newspapers

Assessing journalists’ language tone and sources used in reporting HIV/AIDS information in Tanzanian newspapers

Camera consciousness: on Susan Morris’s ‘Concordances’ and ‘Silence (On Prepared Loom)’

Iversen explores the double-sidedness of camera consciousness through a close examination of two works by the British artist Susan Morris. 'Concordances' (2005–ongoing) concerns the production and dissemination of information in newspapers and the generation of clichés, and 'Silence (On Prepared Loom)' (2021) stresses the camera’s receptive indexicality and its power to disrupt our habits of perception.

Knowledge and Perceptions of the Public vis-a-vis Colorectal Cancer Information in Newspapers in Malaysia.

The study examines knowledge and perceptions of colorectal cancer vis-à-vis colorectal cancer information in newspapers in Malaysia. A total of 152 respondents filled in a 76-item questionnaire based on the Health Belief Model. Articles on colorectal cancer in three English newspapers in Malaysia from 1 January to 30 June 2022 were analysed. A majority of the Malaysian respondents had low experiential knowledge of colorectal cancer, high perceived severity, low perceived susceptibility, and low to moderate susceptibility based on self-reported lifestyle and health conditions. The diet factor puts a majority of respondents at risk but smoking, alcohol drinking, and large intestine problems are risk factors for less than 10% of the group. The respondents believed in the benefits of seeking treatment but they were only marginally positive as to whether quitting smoking and losing weight could reduce colorectal cancer risk. They reported strong response efficacy and self-efficacy but the top barriers were lack of knowledge and cost. The strongest cue to action for their health protective intentions was news about colorectal cancer in newspapers, magazines, television and youtube. There were positive moderate correlations among perceived severity, benefits, response efficacy, self-efficacy, cues to action, and intention. Little salience was given to colorectal cancer in the three English newspapers based on the number of articles (N=10). The high frequency of information on severity, susceptibility, and benefits of lifestyle changes and screening in the newspaper articles are reflected in questionnaire results on better knowledge. Lack of information and cost prevented respondents from seeking screening or treatment, despite attempts by the newspaper articles to address barriers. The study suggests a need to heighten cues to action in the mass media and social media by providing information on cost and practical details of colorectal cancer screening and benefits of diet-related risk factors.

Newspaper Coverage of Violence Related to Initiation and Traditional Male Circumcision in South Africa.

This study reports evidence of violence related to initiation and traditional male circumcision (ITMC) in South Africa. Our study conducted a search of the newspaper databases Newsbank and News24 from January 1, 2016, to August 31, 2023, and carried out a content analysis of newspaper articles that referenced violence in South African newspapers. Our initial search yielded 1796 articles; after screening for relevance and duplicates, 41 articles published in 16 South African newspapers and one online source were included in the analysis of the data. Most articles (41%) were published in 2016. Five major types of violence were identified at three unique stages of the ITMC process: (1) bullying; (2) mental and emotional abuse; (3) neglect; (4) physical violence; and (5) gender-based violence. At the pre-initiation stage, the articles reported that boys were forced, abducted, and trafficked into the initiation schools. While at the initiation schools, various forms of bullying, beating, fighting, slapping, assaulting, torturing, burning, neglecting, and physical, mental, and emotional abuse were reported. At the post-initiation stage, physical violence and mental abuse were reported. We noted that some articles reported violence prevention efforts during ITMC. Future research should examine readers' reception of newspaper information about violence associated with ITMC and their awareness of prevention measures. Our findings have implications for public health policy, including the Customary Initiation Act, which provides for the protection of life, the prevention of injuries, and the prevention of all forms of abuse that initiates may be subjected to as a result of initiation practices.

Impact of resources on the teaching and learning of English Language of learners with visual impairment at ‘O’ Level in an inclusive set-up

This paper explores the impact of resources on teaching and learning of English Language of learners with visual impairment at ‘O’ Level in an inclusive set-up. It identifies various strategies necessary to improve the performance of learners with visual impairment in English Language. A qualitative approach was adopted. Fifteen learners and four teachers were purposively selected for the study. Thematic data analysis was used. The findings revealed that there is a shortage of teaching and learning resources from Musimeki High schools which include Braille books, Braille computers, tape recorders, audiobooks and DVDs. Supplementary reading materials in Braille, such as novels, magazines and newspapers are also not available. Inclusivity has an advantage in that sighted learners read for the VI on printed books since there are no Braille books and on computers, since schools do not have computers with jaws software. The sighted also assisted during group work tasks since they have access to supplementary reading materials. The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education is recommended to liaise with press organisations to put information in newspapers and magazines in brailed. Press organisations are recommended to employ VI school leavers without jobs to do braille work.

Detection of landslide events using logistic regression and support vector machine

This research explores newspaper records regarding earthquake events during the Dutch colonial period in Padang, West Sumatra. This note is vital amidst the difficulties in acquiring historical statistical data for studying disasters in the past. The method used in this research is the historical method by integrating information in newspapers, particularly those that discuss the situation of society and the policies of the Dutch colonial government in dealing with various earthquakes taking place in the city of Padang during the colonial period. This research is expected to open new insights for developing the discipline of disaster science and provide access to the development of historical disaster studies in disaster-prone countries, in this case, in Indonesia.

Earthquakes in Padang during the colonial period

This research explores newspaper records regarding earthquake events during the Dutch colonial period in Padang, West Sumatra. This note is vital amidst the difficulties in acquiring historical statistical data for studying disasters in the past. The method used in this research is the historical method by integrating information in newspapers, particularly those that discuss the situation of society and the policies of the Dutch colonial government in dealing with various earthquakes taking place in the city of Padang during the colonial period. This research is expected to open new insights for developing the discipline of disaster science and provide access to the development of historical disaster studies in disaster-prone countries, in this case, in Indonesia.

The audiovisual translation of social media texts: New trends and analysis

In the context of the rapid development of technologies and various methods of communication, as well as the growing role of information in the life of society, information genres in different types of media are of particular importance. Currently, they are experiencing a stage of serious competition with new technological possibilities of forms for obtaining and creating information. The basis of progress in human society is recognized as a well-founded entity such as verbal communication. Human society today is most interested in the information that the media presents to it. The modern world is characterized by the active use of various information technologies, as they save time. Television messages are responsible for obtaining the necessary information in a short time. In other words, a person tends to emphasize information mainly from the Internet, television messages, from newspaper information. Television news releases often contain news blocks in English that need to be translated. Today, it is an urgent need, and it is valid and necessary in a variety of ways. This and many other factors explain the urgency of this problem. One of the main goals of knowing the world is the need for information. It is due to the subconscious desire of people to understand what is happening around – the desire in which the instinct of self-preservation and the orienting reflex that guides human development manifest themselves. At the moment, the media have such a significant impact on the life of society, on the consciousness and ideas of people. Modern mass media have a substantial effect on the life of society, on the consciousness and ideas of people. Society constantly needs to receive new information about what is happening globally.

Content Analysis of Chhattisgarh Based Newspapers in Special Reference to Science & Technology Beat

The emergence of science and technology communication is generally attributed to the invention and dissemination of the information about fire churning technology. The objective of the study was to find out the coverage and space given to scientific and technological information in newspapers of Chhattisgarh. The result indicates that science gets very little space in newspapers and English newspapers cover science more prominently than Hindi newspapers. It also reveals that the health is the most preferred topic in Indian newspapers followed by environment. However, news is the most favored format for disseminating scientific information in Indian print media.

From hydroxychloroquine to ivermectin: how unproven “cures” can go viral

From hydroxychloroquine to ivermectin: how unproven “cures” can go viral

Sanitary and Epidemiological Situation in Kyiv in Conditions of Social Instability on the Pages of the City Press at the End of the End of the 19th – Beginning of the 20th Century

The article is devoted to the study of the issue of health care and urban economy, on the pages of periodicals: “Kievlyanin”, “Kievskie Vesti”, “Kievskaya Mysl”, “Yuzhnaya Kopeyka”. at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. The study of the historical experience of the city in times of pandemics acquires special importance, and the study of the communication process in times of social upheaval acquires new relevance. The analysis of newspaper periodicals, as a key communication space of the 19th and early 20th centuries, makes it possible to find out the informational potential of newspaper messages in the study of the city's health care system, to determine the prerequisites of epidemic outbreaks in Kyiv. For more professional processing of newspaper information, content analysis was used, the essence of which is the selection, fixation and measurement of the frequency of the usage of repeated text fragments. Processing of newspaper materials made it possible to: identify problematic areas of work of the city government in the sanitary and communal spheres, namely, inadequate control over compliance with hygienic standards in places of social activity, the inadequacy of the city economic system to the needs of the time, underdevelopment of water supply and sewerage systems, spontaneous landfills, an increase in the number of homeless people and other marginal representatives. These factors were a prerequisite for infectious outbreaks in the city. The analysis of reference data makes it possible to compare the logic of the presentation of sanitary and medical information, and, in addition, to monitor the dynamics of the course of epidemics, to establish specific diseases for each district of the city, depending on their location, population quota, placement of objects that are centres of epidemic and social instability, namely, prisons, bazaars, cemeteries, hospitals.

Epidemics and diseases in reports of the manuscript press on the second half of the 18th century

The advancement of medical knowledge in Europe and Poland of the Enlightenment did not completely eliminate the recurring epidemics of infectious diseases. The plague, which gave way from Western Europe to reappear on Polish soil several times in the second half of the 18th century. The study is devoted to the problem of presenting epidemics and diseases to the public, or rather to the process of informing the public about them, also about other human diseases, such as typhus or smallpox, but also mental ailments in the so-called written newspapers, edited cyclically for specific recipients. It was a characteristic information medium that existed alongside the titles of the printed press. For this reason, apart from the analysis of the dominant narrative of the handwritten press, reference was also made to reports of its printed counterpart during the great plague epidemic of the early 1770s. The newspaper information concerned mainly the specter of the plague threat from the south-eastern borderlands of the country, mainly the areas of Podolia or Volyn, which, however, triggered preventive measures and quarantine even in Warsaw, but also descriptions of local outbreaks of this deadly disease. The first was also mentioned reports on vaccinations. Epizooties, mainly mass cattle sickness, are discussed separately.

News coverage of drug development: implications for the conveyance of health information

BackgroundTechnical information regarding health-related advances is sometimes esoteric for the general public. News media, therefore, plays a key role in public health promotion via health information conveyance. In this study, we use China as a sample country and analyze the claims and frames in news coverage of health-related advances, with special focus on news coverage of the development and performance of newly developed or tested drugs.MethodsA keyword search was performed to retrieve news articles from four representative news agencies in China. In total, 3029 news reports were retrieved, of which 128 were selected for further analysis.ResultsFour aspects of news coverage of drug development were identified: (1) the characteristics of new drugs covered, (2) the sources of information, (3) the accuracy of health information in newspapers, and (4) textual features of news coverage.ConclusionsOur findings reveal that guidelines should be established to facilitate more systematic news reporting on health-related advances. Additionally, literacy among the general public and professionalism in health information conveyance should be promoted to negate the “illusion of knowing” about health-related advances.

Representative Bureaucracy: The Nepalese Perspective

The purpose of this paper is to reflect the issue of representation of the disadvantaged people in the bureaucracy in terms of the country’s contemporary demographic composition. It also intends to scrutinize the current trends of representation of women along with indigenous community, Madhesi, Dalit, disabled people and people from backward areas in the bureaucracy since the application of a reservation system in Nepal since 2007. Descriptive method has been used for analysis and the results are based on quantitative method used for the analysis and interpretation of the data. This article is based on the secondary data. The content and trend analysis have been made from the published and unpublished data and information in national reports, journals, thesis, newsletters and newspapers. Time series (since 2007) secondary data has been used for the study. The results of the study show that the country’s population consists of 49.50% male and 51.50% female. However, only 25.94% female are being represented and rest 74.06% males are still in dominant in the civil service system of Nepal in 2020. The data depicts that, the civil service has as high as 63.50% Khas/Arya but only 0.60% Muslim, 2.50% Dalit, 15.40% Madhesi and 19.5% indigenous people representations. Moral preference and commitment in recruitment and promotion to retirement is said to be the main reason behind the increasingly mono-ethnic involvement in the civil service of Nepal. Traditionally, males were over-represented in the civil service at all levels. However, the trend has been reconciled in recent years due to the continuing preponderance of female graduates and hence applicants for government jobs. Therefore, the concern over the representativeness of the Nepalese bureaucracy is less on class but more on gender and ethnicity representations. The growing trend of women and other class and ethnicity in civil servants in the recent years is positively expected to achieve the representativeness of bureaucracy with the national face. This article argues that the increasing ration of the representativeness in bureaucracy would ensure equitable, responsiveness, strengthen capacity and legitimacy of the government in the diverse society.

PENGARUH FREKUENSI MEDIA DAN KETERPAPARAN INFORMASI TENTANG KB TERHADAP PERSEPSI JUMLAH ANAK IDEAL: ANALISIS DATA SDKI 2017

The National Population and Family Planning Board of North Sumatra Province continue to socialize the ideal number of children in a family of 2, but the TFR is still high at 2.9. Information about the Family Planning (KB) program expected to change people's thinking patterns about the number of children. Ideal. The research objective was the influence of media frequency and exposure to information about kb on the perception of the ideal number of children. This study is a further analysis of the 2017 IDHS using a cross-sectional. The population in this study were all women of childbearing age 15-49 years. The sample in this study was 2300 WUS — bivariate analysis using cross-tabulation and chi-square test. The results of this study indicate that the respondents who stated the ideal child were 1-2 people as many as 48% while 52% stated that the ideal child was ≥ three people. There is a relationship between the frequency of reading newspapers (p = 0.01), listening to the radio (p = 0.028), watching TV (P <0.001), using the internet (P <0.001), reading exposure to family planning programs in newspapers (0.001), the radio (0.005), exposure to seeing family planning programs on TV (0.001) with the ideal number of children. The National Population and Family Planning Board of North Sumatra Province must be able to choose effective information media to increase public perceptions about the ideal number of children, such as urban communities better use radio and internet media and rural communities use newspaper information media.

LEMKO EMIGRATION DURING THE INTERWAR PERIOD AS REFLECTED BY "NASH LEMKO"

Summary. The purpose of the study is to find out the peculiarities of the coverage of Lemko emigration by the newspaper "Nash Lemko". The article uses the following methods and approaches: systematic, comparative and critical analysis of the source base represented by large text arrays. The application of the content analysis method made it possible to carry out the correct interpretation of various genres of newspaper information. The scientific novelty of the article is a comprehensive analysis of the emigration discourse of the newspaper "Nash Lemko". Conclusions. According to the study, the emigration theme was one of the dominant ones on the pages of "Nash Lemko". Such popularity was caused by the importance of emigration in the life of the Ruthenian community: the possibility of earning more money in a foreign land opened up prospects to change miserable life circumstances. Lemkos abroad were usually almost the last hope for exhausted by poverty fellow villagers. Therefore, the newspaper wrote mostly about the causes and destinations of emigration, as well as covered the life of the Lemko diaspora in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Uruguay, Peru and others. The newspaper provided detailed information about the social and cultural-educational life of foreign Ruthenians: cultural institutions, concerts, exhibitions and radio programs. However, in a short time, emigration as a means of economic modernization became the means for leaving the country completely, transforming into the main threat to Lemko’s existence in their native lands. Therefore, "Nash Lemko" justifiably initiated anti-emigration sentiments: instead of searching for new "promised" lands, it called for their creation in their native mountains. Along with the adoption of protectionist laws by most countries at the time, this agitation significantly slowed down resettlement processes. This did not save Lemkivshchyna from denationalization because the winners of World War II determined its fate in a completely different way.

Inaccuracies and exaggerations (Health Coverage)

Inaccuracies and exaggerations (Health Coverage)

The Severity of Environmental Pollution in the Developing Countries and Its Remedial Measures

Environmental pollution has a great impact on human health, ecosystems, and financial development. This paper depicts the recent studies on the severity of environmental pollution in developing countries. Its remedial measures were based on a questionnaire survey in the polluted sites, which collected data and information on the types, causes, effects, sources, and duration of environmental pollution, obtained from available publications and newspaper information reported in recent years. A total of 400 respondents from 10 zones of Dhaka City Corporation, Bangladesh, were interviewed as a case study via a semi-structured questionnaire survey. The results revealed that only 39.0% of respondents had explicit knowledge about environmental pollution. Air pollution was identified by 73.8%, noise pollution by 63.0%, water pollution by 55.2%, and soil pollution by only 6.5% of respondents in their surroundings. Automobiles, domestic activities, municipal garbage, and vehicle horns are significant sources of environmental pollutions. Around 49.0% of the respondents did not understand the effectiveness of currently conducted environmental programs. A discussion regarding the urgency of forming a local level environmental committee, the mass media’s active role, and monitoring the development activities was presented.

The first private newspaper of the Taurida Governorate– "Crimean Leaflet"

This article examines the establishment of private periodical press of the Taurida Governorate in the late XIX century. The object of this research is the first private newspaper – “Crimean Leaflet”. The author explores the socioeconomic processes and censorship conditions, which affected the emergence of the Crimean private periodicals. An overview is given to the historiography and sources used in this work. The first part of the article studies the sociopolitical and cultural-historical prerequisites for the emergence of mass media in the governorate. The second part examines the process of opening and operation of the newspaper, its outline, biography of the publisher, as well as composition of the editorial board. The third part reveals the subject matter of the published materials and the peculiarities of interaction of the newspaper with the provincial administration and censorship authorities. The author also analyzes the reasons why the newspaper was shut down. In conclusion, the author reviews the role of the newspaper in formation of private provincial press, and its impact upon public relations in the Taurida Governorate. The scientific novelty consists in introduction into the scientific discourse of previously unstudied archival materials, as the historiography virtually had no records on the newspaper and the personality of the publisher. This work contributes to studying the development of private press in the Taurida Governorate, as well as reveals certain details of state policy with regards to provincial press in the late XIX century.

Representation of 212 rallies in the Jakarta Post articles: A hybridity of CDA and SFL analysis

For decades, newspapers have become a daily need for people across the globe to update information. There is a tendency of the people to believe in the news published in newspapers, for media is considered neutral. In Indonesia, 212 rallies are the events that were widely reported as headlines for weeks by national and international newspapers. This study showcases the brief portrait of The Jakarta Post representations on the 212 rallies by its use of linguistic properties, to see whether The Jakarta Post is impartial in delivering the news. This study employs Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) strategies and applies the analytical tools drawn from Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG). The data were taken from sixteen 212 rallies related news, including seven headlines, collected from The Jakarta Post archives. The result of this study reveals that by using transitivity and conceptual metaphor, The Jakarta Post tends to stand on the side of the one being protested, and oppose the rallies. This finding suggests newspaper readers to read the information in newspapers more critically, to understand the use of lexicon as well as the structure of sentences to conclude the right interpretation of the news and to realize the representation. By doing so, newspaper readers will not simply accept the news they read.