Party News Research Articles

Covering the Campaign: Computational Tools for Measuring Differences in Candidate and Party News Coverage With Application to an Emerging Democracy

How does media coverage of electoral campaigns distinguish parties and candidates in emerging democracies? To answer, we present a multi-step procedure that we apply in South Africa. First, we develop a theoretically informed classification of election coverage as either “narrow” or “broad” from within the entire corpus of news coverage during an electoral campaign. Second, to deploy our classification scheme, we use a supervised machine learning approach to classify news as “broad,” “narrow,” or “not election-related.” Finally, we combine our supervised classification with a topic modeling algorithm (BERTTopic) that is based on Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT), in addition to other statistical and machine learning methods. The combination of our classification scheme, BERTTopic, and associated methods allows us to identify the main election-related themes among broad and narrow election-related coverage, and how different candidates and parties are associated with these themes. We provide an in-depth discussion of our method for interested users in the social sciences. We then apply our proposed techniques on text from nearly 100,000 news articles during South Africa’s 2014 campaign and test our empirical predictions about candidate and party coverage of corruption, the economy, health, public infrastructure, and security. The application of our method highlights a nuanced campaign environment in South Africa; candidates and parties frequently receive distinct and substantive coverage on key campaign themes.

“You know, there are ‘hidden rules’”: Chinese female journalists’ gendered experiences in different work settings

ABSTRACT This study explores the gendered experiences of 17 Chinese female journalists across different working environments (i.e., party news outlets, commercial news organisations, and the freelance market). It found that female journalists employed by news organisations suffered from and were variously implicated in workplace sexual harassment and assault, a lack of professional autonomy in regard to women’s issues, and institutional discrimination due to pregnancy and motherhood. Freelance female journalists, by comparison, while largely escaping the negative impact of gendered workplaces, face other forms of sexual harassment and sexism due to precarious working conditions (e.g., gendered earning uncertainty, a lack of institutional and social security, and harassment from male sources and readers which is often sexual in nature). Here, gender and unstable working arrangements interact. Providing first-hand accounts of these issues, these interviews allow us to understand how Chinese female journalists’ gendered experiences are shaped by the environments in which they work. This article thus argues that such gender issues should not be viewed in isolation, but rather analysed in relation to the nature and structural environments of female journalists’ specific work units.

The News Media Bargaining Code: Impacts on Australian journalism one year on

AbstractThe Australian News Media Bargaining Code (NMBC) is the first successful legislative attempt to compel digital platforms to pay news media organisations for third party news content. This paper focuses on the NMBC after its first year to explore whether the Code was successful in meeting one of its publicly stated purposes; supporting public interest journalism. We argue that the Code delivered outcomes that met the ACCC's policy objectives around an industry power imbalance, but there are several issues that remain unaddressed. Using semi‐structured interviews from Australian news media executives involved in negotiations with Meta and Google during the initial implementation of the Code, we explore: (a) how news organisations used financial compensation provided by agreements under the Code, (b) how individual organisational priorities were framed and articulated, and (c) whether these actions have supported public interest journalism in Australia. Our findings indicate that many of issues with the Code have emerged mostly from the unintended impacts of the Code, including: lack of designation of platforms within the legislation, the registration criteria for news outlets eligible to enter negotiation, and the definition of stakeholder relationships within the legislation.

Third- and First-Person Effects of COVID News in HBCU Students’ Risk Perception and Behavioral Intention: Social Desirability, Social Distance, and Social Identity

ABSTRACT With COVID-19’s unprecedented impact and ongoing debates on prosocial social distancing and antisocial beach crowd gathering, this study examined the roles of social desirability, social distance marked by race, and social identity in the third-person effect (TPE) of COVID-related news concerning risk perception among Historically Black College and University (HBCU) students. The findings confirmed third- and first-person effects with the perceived influence of antisocial (beach partying) news greater for others than themselves, whereas the self was perceived to be more responsive to the influence of prosocial (social distancing) news. A symmetric interaction between social desirability and social identity indicated that the racial out-group, non-HBCU students in Florida were perceived as more affected by antisocial beach party news, whereas the in-group HBCU peers were perceived as more influenced by desirable social distancing warning news and COVID news in general. The first-person perception and shrunk self-other gap in COVID news influence on HBCU students” concerns may be associated with perceived personal vulnerability and responsibility as well as a political reflection on the government’s handling of COVID. While they presumed favorable media influence on self and the in-group to preserve collective self-esteem, they made realistic threat judgments from perceiving undesirable media influence on their in-group peers’ risky behavior tendency and intended to take preventive actions (staying home) to avoid the health risk. Further, it was the first-person perceptual gap between themselves and the out-group, non-HBCU students that influenced them to heed social distancing warnings.

Text Analytics Approach to Examining Corporate Social Responsibility

This research article explores a text analytics approach to assess corporate social responsibility prominence of 554 Singapore listed firms through content analysis of news. Instead of relying on publications by the respective firms, third party news coverage is used to decrease potential biasedness through over reporting. A dataset of news articles is crawled based on the respective firm’s financial years of 2015 and 2016 and their content are parsed to search for content related to corporate social responsibility. Graph theory is then used to demonstrate the collaborative network of listed firms for corporate social responsibility activities. The results highlight a more automated and scalable means to assess prominence of corporate social responsibility as well as potential “influencers” within the corporate landscape.

PENGARUH TERPAAN IKLAN PARTAI PERINDO DAN BERITA SEPUTAR PARTAI PERINDO DI TELEVISI TERHADAP PERSEPSI PEMILIH PEMULA MENGENAI PARTAI PERINDO

ABSTRACTIndonesia is a democratic and multiparty system or system that allows more than two political parties. It is guaranteed in Law No. 2 of 2008 on political parties where it is stated that freedom of association, assembly and expression of thoughts and opinions is a human right recognized and guaranteed by the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia. With multiparty system and guarantees of the law, many emerging new political parties in Indonesia. One of them is Partai Persatuan Indonesia or abbreviated as Perindo. The party declared in 2015 is a party formed by Hary Tanoesoedibjo. As a new political party, Perindo Party must have support from the community. Some of the things that are done is to show the party ads and news about the party on television. According to data from the KPU, the largest number of voter-age voters is that the information in advertisements and news about Perindo Party on television is designed in such a way as to appeal to beginner voters. This study aims to determine how much influence the exposure of Perindo Party advertising and exposure of news about the Perindo Party on television to the perception of beginner voters regarding the Perindo Party. Theories used are the Advertising Exposure Theory, Informastion Exposure Theory, and the Uses and Gratification Theory. The population used is Diponegoro University FISIP students who have never participated in the election. While the sample taken is 60 people with purposive sampling method. Based on the analysis of regression analysis on Perx for Perindo Party Ads on Television (X1), Exposure of News Perindo Party on Television (X2), and Perception of Beginner Voters Regarding Perindo Party (Y), the result of regression coefficient value is 71,3% significance of Sig value. = 0.000 which means> significant criterion (0,05), Thus model of regression equation influence of variable X to variable Y is very high and significance between variables based on research data is very significant. Then it shows that there is a strong influence between Perpaan Iklan Perindo Party on Television (X1) and Terpaan Berita Seputar Perindo Party in Television (X2) to Perception of Beginner Voters Regarding Perindo Party (Y). The higher the exposure of Perindo Party advertisement on television and the exposure of Perindo Party news on television, the higher the perception of the beginner voters regarding Perindo Party. It is suggested that the advertising and information designs in the Perindo Party report be improved so that the results are better than now.Keywords: Ad Inclusion, Information, Perception, Beginner Voters, Perindo Party

Research of Title Party News Identification Technology Based on Topic Sentence Similarity

Research of Title Party News Identification Technology Based on Topic Sentence Similarity

Campaign Agenda Formation: The News Media in the Korean Congressional Election of 2000

The present study, as an international application of an agenda-setting model, investigates how campaign agendas of issues are constructed in an election. The Korean Congressional election of 2000 provided rich empirical data for this study; the political party agenda, the civic agenda, and the news agenda were measured in terms of issue salience at two different data points in time during the official campaign period. The results of the cross-lagged rank-order correlations between different agendas indicated the following. First, the party agenda as a whole had little impact on the formation of the news agenda. The party–news relationship, however, showed a different pattern at an individual newspaper level. Specifically, a more conservative newspaper was more susceptible to those parties’ agenda-setting than was its progressive rival. Second, a nationwide civic movement for political reforms slightly influenced the formation of the news agenda, especially that of the reformist newspaper agenda. Both newspapers, on the other hand, substantially influenced the civic campaign's issue emphases. Finally, there existed no significant interactions between the party and the civic agendas.

Heralding Economic and Political Independence: Danville, Virginias Newspaper Editors Adopt James Gordon Bennett's Penny Press Model during the Civil War

This study examines a reporting model change in Danville, Virginia newspapers between 1860–1865. As the Civil War approached, the town's newspaper editors began using railroad and telegraph to report the latest events in their community, state, and nation. This marked a change from traditional southern antebellum reporting, which consisted of political party news, dated articles clipped from other publications, and strong editorial comment. With telegraph linking their town with Richmond in November 1860, Danville's editors eventually adopted a reporting model more consistent with James Gordon Bennett's penny press model, making their reporting a timely commodity.