Online News Research Articles

Mediatised Participation: Citizen Journalism and the Decline in User-Generated Content in Online News Media

The second generation of web tools shook the journalist profession approximately two decades ago with the proactive incorporation of audiences into the media. Citizen journalism and user-generated content arose as an object of interest due to the democratising value of participation attributed to them, with empowered citizens who could emulate the professional and institutional practises of journalists. However, difficulties soon came to the surface, and audience participation in news media began to be limited. Within this context, this article conducts a critical review of studies on audience participation in news media based on a systematic literature review. The results indicate that, in general, audiences showed low interest in the creation of informative content and that their participation has grown increasingly problematic. In addition, journalists are reticent as they defend their professional role above all else, while company strategies have prioritised making participation profitable. For this reason, the idea of citizen journalism that offers user-created content through the media appears to be a thing of the past, with many characteristics that could define it as a failed innovation. Therefore, the text concludes that audience participation in the media could be defined as mediatised participation.

SOCIOLINGUISTIC FEATURES OF CLICKBAIT IN ENGLISH AND ARMENIAN WEBSITES

In this highly developed technological world, newspapers and news shows have mostly been replaced by online news. The world-renowned news agencies, as well as social media platforms, report their news online, providing information to the public. However, readers are sometimes disappointed to find a misleading headline with quite different web content. This deceiving technique called clickbait uses ambiguity to provoke the user into clicking a link. The present article explores the sociolinguistic strategies employed in Armenian and English clickbait headlines by bloggers, vloggers, and news reporters. The study aims at revealing how language is manipulated to engage and persuade users in online media. The exploration conducted from a sociolinguistic perspective unveils the intricate interplay between language, culture, and societal norms in English and Armenian clickbait headlines. The findings contribute to the understanding of how linguistic styles, word choices, and persuasive techniques vary across different languages and cultures. It also emphasizes the importance of distinguishing between clickbait and regular headlines, as well as the potential impact of clickbait on trust and reader engagement in the digital media landscape.

Media representations of the ‘little fresh meat’ phenomenon in China: a feminist critical discourse analysis of the masculine nonconformity discourse

ABSTRACT ‘Little fresh meat’ (LFM or xiǎo xiān ròu), which describes a masculine aesthetic rooted in ‘soft masculinity’, is a phenomenon across Asia that challenges prevailing concepts of masculinity and patriarchal discourse. This study furthers previous research by using feminist critical discourse analysis to evaluate the construction of LFM masculine nonconformity, via data collected from 42 news articles from China’s English-language news media, including: China Daily, Global Times, People’s Daily Online, Shanghai Daily, and Xinhua News Agency. The analysis generated three key themes: (1) market driving a female consumer fan base, (2) challenging hegemonic masculinities when men wear makeup to imitate their ‘idols’, and (3) criticisms of gender stereotypes. These themes show how a masculine nonconformity discourse is developed by using a variety of discursive strategies in China. This study highlights the need for increased awareness and education regarding gender diversity and the harmful impacts of gender stereotypes on Chinese society.

More than news! Mapping the deliberative potential of a political online ecosystem with digital trace data

Does the internet facilitate everyday public deliberation? Previous research on this question has largely focused on specific aspects, such as online news media diets or political discussions on social media. However, increasingly complex media environments are composed of different arenas with different respective potential for democracy. While previous work extensively dealt with the quality of political discussion online, it is a necessary but overlooked step, to consider the upstream features of digital infrastructure and usage. Using digital trace data from Germany, this study maps out which websites are relevant for online public discourse, introduces a measure of deliberative potential along six dimensions (information, communication, participation, connectivity, inclusivity and heterogeneity), and explores different types of websites alongside high level usage patterns. Besides a class of mainstream informational hubs, a class of quality information providers that includes most established public broadcasting sites was found. A third class of niche online forums hosts political discussions among more tightly-knit online communities, supporting previous findings of incidental exposure to political content online. While the mainstream information hubs in the sample attract a much larger volume of clicks, users spend relatively more time consuming political information on quality information sites as well as on niche online forums to engage with politics online. This project takes a more holistic perspective of the diverse ecosystem of online deliberation, while presenting a first quantitative exploration of a deliberative system.

Exploring Risk Factors of Suicidal Behaviour among Medical Professionals in the UK: A Retrospective Analysis of Online News Portals

Suicide is a significant global health burden. The demanding nature of the healthcare profession, combined with unique stressors and challengses, puts medical professionals at risk of mental health difficulties, including suicidal ideation and attempts. This study aims to investigate suicidal behaviour among medical professionals in the United Kingdom by reviewing online news portals and focusing on the risk factors associated with suicide. Seven online news portals from the UK were purposefully selected for the study, focusing on news reports of suicides among medical professionals. Only English online news portals were chosen, as English is the standard language in the country. Out of the 61 reports, 37.7% of the reported suicides were among males, and 62.3% were among females. The age distribution of the suicide reports revealed that the majority of the cases are within the 20-30 age range (42.6%). Mental health issues and fear of losing their job were also prominent reasons (24.6%). Suicide among healthcare professionals in the United Kingdom has drawn little attention. Suicide is more prevalent in early adulthood and among female professionals. Nurses, doctors, and junior doctors are more likely to commit suicide.

Is it about “them”? leveraging big data research to understand anti-immigrant discourse

The paper explores the potential of big data analytics for researching anti-immigrant discourse. We emphasize contextualization as an essential element of research and follow a hybrid approach inspired by best practices of computational content analysis, combining human hermeneutic expertise with supervised machine learning to classify a corpus of comments in online news communities in Singapore over 6 months ( N = 399,225). The paper highlights how big data analytics can provide a nuanced and critical apprehension of immigrant-related discourse in large social media datasets.

The Changes in Online News Headlines in 2013 and 2023: A Discourse Analysis Study

The Changes in Online News Headlines in 2013 and 2023: A Discourse Analysis Study

Analyzing the Merits and Drawbacks of Multilingual Text Detection Datasets for Videos

In recent years, video contents have observed a massive growth with online lecture, news channels, and media contents and with short clips. These contents have objects, texts in them. The majority of the time, multilingual datasets are not available as per the need and have to utilize YouTube videos with multiple languages as a source . This study proposes a systematic structure for the generation of multilingual datasets and explains the purpose for their creation. Additionally, the study demonstrated the difficulties in creating the data set, like segregating data that is multilingual, etc. Lastly, discusses the effects of creating multilingual datasets because of various difficulties. As a result, the research's contribution is the multilingual dataset that was created using the suggested systematic structure, which also practically shows its limitations and benefits. Key Words:, Data Set, Multilingual, Text detection, challenge, consequences

Discursive and photographic representations of migrants in the media: the case of Ceuta and Melilla

ABSTRACT The Spanish autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla have long been sites of undocumented migration to Spain. Owing to both anti-immigration attitudes often perpetuated in political discourse and the challenges involved in blocking migration in cities that are geographically separated from Spain’s mainland, this migratory context has been heavily debated in Spain. However, it is critical to examine attitudes towards migrant populations of different legal statuses, and particularly essential to look at widely disseminated discourse such as mass media, which has the power to be impactful in shaping popular opinions. In this study, I analyse such discourse, and examine how migrants are represented in Spanish media. Using critical discourse analysis (Fairclough 2003) and media framing (Littlejohn, Foss, and Oetzel [2021]. “The Medium.” In Theories of Human Communication, 151–154. Waveland Press), this study looks at 100 online news articles published over a 10-year period (2013–2022). Findings indicate that news outlets use both text and photos to dehumanise and criminalise migrant populations.

Hyperlocal digital news media in Indian languages: creating value propositions for the audience, but what’s holding them back in sustaining their ventures?

This paper examines the emerging phenomenon of hyperlocal digital news outlets in Indian languages, run from small towns and villages by former or active local journalists using social platforms and websites to deliver news in regional languages to their communities. India has 22 scheduled languages and thousands of unofficial languages and dialects. Currently, 95% of online news in India is consumed in regional languages, and it is expected to grow to 750 million by 2025 from 467 million in 2021. This paper analyzes the content of eight outlets and interviews with 21 Indian hyperlocal digital news publishers. It explores how they create value for audiences and the challenges they face in revenue generation. The paper argues that hyperlocal outlets fill a gap in Indian news coverage, with mainstream media mostly focusing on the capital city. However, hyperlocals are still searching for a sustainable model separate from the mainstream.

The Same Views, the Same News? A 15-Country Study on News Sharing on Social Media by European Politicians

The Same Views, the Same News? A 15-Country Study on News Sharing on Social Media by European Politicians

Audience evaluations of news videos made with various levels of automation: A population-based survey experiment

The use of automation in news content creation is expanding from the written to the audio-visual medium with news organizations including Reuters turning to video automation services provided by companies such as Wibbitz. Although researchers have explored audience perceptions of text-based news automation, to date no published study has examined how news consumers perceive automated news videos. We conducted a between-subjects online survey experiment to compare how a socio-demographically representative sample ( n = 4200) of online news consumers in the UK perceived human-made, partly automated, and highly automated short-form online news videos on 14 different story topics. Our findings show that human-made videos received on average more favourable responses on some evaluation variables, although the differences were not large. We also found some significant differences in the relative evaluation of automated and human-made news videos across different individual stories. For practitioners our results suggest partly automated news videos with post-automation human editing can be well received. For researchers our results show the need to use reasonably large sets of experimental stimuli, and suggest that ensuring socio-demographic variation within samples of respondents is worthwhile.

Integrated Marketing Communication Strategy of PT. Syngenta Indonesia in Increasing Corn Farming Productivity Through the Use of Digital Technology for PeTani Apps

The emergence of the peTani Apps represents PT. Syngenta Indonesia’s innovative response to enhancing corn farming productivity through digital technology utilization. In 2023, the user base of the peTani Apps reached 28,600, a significant increase from the previous year. This research aims to examine the integrated marketing communication (IMC) process undertaken by PT. Syngenta Indonesia in boosting corn farming productivity through digital technology, particularly via the peTani Apps, employing Kotler and Keller's (2016) IMC strategy concept. The research method employed is qualitative descriptive with a post-positivist paradigm and data triangulation method. The findings reveal that PT. Syngenta Indonesia effectively implements IMC strategy to enhance corn farming productivity through the peTani Apps. The company has conducted extensive promotional efforts through various online news portals and social media, alongside sales promotion programs offering discounts and special deals. Through participation in agricultural events and collaboration with stakeholders, the company has expanded reach and heightened awareness of the application. Support is also provided through direct marketing, digital marketing focus, and the use of specialized teams for farmer education

Affecting the future: A multi-method qualitative text and discourse analysis of emotions in Australian news reporting on climate change and climate anxiety

Eco-anxiety and associated emotions are on the rise. International estimates range from 25–68% prevalence. Australians now regard climate change as their top concern for the future, with some young people reconsidering their intentions to become parents. The emotional sequela from climate change is becoming clearer. How it is conceptualised, responded to, and reinforced within public discourse requires further consideration. This paper presents a multi-method qualitative text and discourse analysis of Australian online news articles published in 2022 reporting on emotions and our ecological future. Drawing on sociological theories of emotions and Foucauldian conceptualisations of discourse, we present insights into the potency of emotions and discourses within online news media. We identify four differing conceptualisations of emotions, interpret what these discourses can do, and conclude with ways in which the public can reclaim agency in resisting discourses that engender passivity in the context of future ecological threats.

Critical Linguistics of The Crimea Bridge Explosion on The Guardian and CNN Online News

This research focuses on analyzing the types of grammar and ideological representations in the news texts of The Guardian and CNN online news using the Critical Linguistics analysis model of Roger Fowler et.al (1979). Then the Discourse Historical Approach from Ruth Wodak (2001) is used to know the historical background of this topic. This research uses a descriptive qualitative method to find out what types of grammar are contained in the news text and how the grammar represents the ideology of the news. The explosion occurred as a result of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. This topic has attracted public attention, therefore, online news media such as The Guardian and CNN are discussing it. At this time online news media plays an important role in disseminating information, but in fact the language used in online news media can contain certain ideologies that benefit one group and harm other groups. Based on the results of Critical Linguistics analysis from Roger Fowler et.al (1979), it is found that the ideology of the two online media is anti-Russian and pro-Ukrainian. The findings of this study show that there are 28 types of grammar in The Guardian and 17 grammatical strategies in CNN. The type of grammar that often appears from both media is transitivity grammar. In representing their ideology, both online media often use negative lexical choices to give negative references to the Russian side. Future researchers can develop their analysis by using different theoretical studies and objects.

Peningkatan Kualitas Produk Hukum di Kampung Wasur Melalui Pelatihan dan Pendampingan Penyusunan Produk Hukum Yang Responsif Melibatkan Gerpamat (Gerakan Partisipasi Masyarakat Adat)

The importance of rules in the order of organizational life means that each village should have its own rules according to the specifics and potential of that village. Village regulations issued in Wasur Village sometimes do not take into account the needs or conditions of the village and do not match the level of drafting of statutory regulations such as the level of preparation, determination, implementation, assessment and reintegration of finished products. With all the problems, the resulting Village Regulations are not in accordance with the procedures for their formation.Assistance in drafting village regulations, the ultimate goal is to realize the quality and quantity of Wasur village regulations by involving the village head, village deliberation body and also facilitating gerpamat (indigenous community participation movement.The Training Program is implemented through Socialization, Training and Technical Guidance activities. Techniques for Preparing Village Regulations are implemented through Socialization and Training activities including the development of training materials, Lectures from Resource Persons, Case Studies, Brainstorming.The result of this activity is the achievement of an independent/local village that is able to make good village regulations that are in accordance with legal principles and village conditions by involving the Indigenous Community Participation Movement (Gerpamat), so that peace is guaranteed in Wasur village. The outcomes of the achievements of this activity are 1) increasing the knowledge of community members 2) publication of articles in the accredited Service Journal Sinta 3 (Jurnal of Service, 3) activities that have been carried out can be published through the Arafura News newspaper, both print and online and 1 Village Regulation legal product

The Grammatical Cohesion Analysis of News Texts on The Russia-Ukraine War

Grammatical cohesion is research that analyzes how each word, phrase, or sentence is connected in a text. The researcher conducted this study to identify the types of grammatical cohesion and know how these types work in news texts. Researchers chose to use a qualitative descriptive approach in conducting this research. The data source in this study is an online news text published on Wednesday, 19 October 2022, by The Jakarta Post entitled "Russia Bombs Cities Across Ukraine at Rush Hour in Apparent Revenge Strikes." To examine the news text, researchers used the theory of grammatical cohesion developed by Cutting (2002). After conducting the analysis, the researcher found thirty-five (35) forms of grammatical cohesion out of the thirty-three (33) datums found in news texts. Of the total findings, thirty-two (32) are reference forms, and the remaining three (3) are ellipsis types. On the other hand, substitution is not found in the war news text. The type of reference most often used is the endophora in the form of anaphora (13), followed by exophora (10), associative endophora (7), and endophora in the form of cataphora (2). From these findings, each type of grammatical cohesion has its role in the news text. The reference type works as a tool to refer to a reference point in the text. Meanwhile, the ellipsis type works as a tool to remove words or phrases that are deemed unnecessary. Even so, both types of grammatical cohesion function to avoid word repetition.

Instrumentation of the Nigeria network of seismological stations

“Living in fear of Nigeria biggest Earthquake” is a sub-heading of the Punch daily newspaper of Nigeria, dated, 21st of August, 2016, reported the earthquake/tremor recently witnessed in the ancient town of Saki, accompanied by a series of aftershock events that lasted for about three (3) months (March/May, 2016) southwest Nigeria[1]. Similarly, roughly five (5) years later, another series of earthquakes/tremors occurred again in Saki town, which was reported by an online news vendor named “Ripples Nigeria” dated September 8, 2021, under the sub-heading of “earth tremor rocks Saki in Oyo state”[2]. However, these events were not captured nor recorded by any of the functional seismological stations in Nigeria. The nearest seismological station located at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) Ile-Ife, also failed to capture the events. We therefore seek to examine the instrumentation of the Nigerian National Network of Seismographic Stations. This is necessary to understand the functionalities and the capabilities of the deployed seismometers in each of the seismic stations. Therefore, we evaluated the bandpass limit of the seismic wave frequency for the respective seismic stations in Nigeria through the computation of the amplitude-frequency response curve, phase response curve, and count to cm/sec.

The polarizing content warning: how the media can reduce affective polarization

Abstract Past research suggests that journalists can (unintentionally) exacerbate affective polarization when reporting on growing levels of polarization in society. However, is there a way for journalists to report on the realities of growing political polarization without dividing people further? In our research with five pre-registered experimental studies (N = 3,414), we develop the polarizing content warning which, based on inoculation theory, warns readers that scientific research suggests reading news content about political polarization may drive further affective polarization. Results indicate that the polarizing content warning can be used both with online news articles and on social media sites, and is able to indirectly reduce affective polarization of readers. Additionally, the polarizing content warning is beneficial both when presented alongside news content and beforehand, and reduces readers’ perceptions of societal polarization, in turn reducing affective polarization. This warning allows journalists to report on societal polarization without further dividing people.

Analysis of village development issues in regional online news media

The media and village development are two subjects that remain relevant and important to discuss. The article aimed to further examine village development issues in regional online news media. Suka (a fictitious name is adopted in this study to disguise the real name of the online news media), as a regional online news media, plays a strategic role in disseminating the regional government's agenda, helping monitor and evaluate regional policies, and providing information on the ideal village development measures. This study used a content analysis approach. The results of this study indicate that, in 2021, Suka reported seven news stories containing content with the keyword of village development. Those stories suggested four main issues of village development, namely sustainable village development, tourism village development, involvement of people with disabilities in village development, and the role of women and universities in village development. In these four main issues, a number of policy values in village development should be addressed by policymakers in formulating village development policies, namely integrated and sustainable development, utilization of local resources in development, along with increasing the role of the disabled people, women, and universities in village development.