Use Of Local Media Research Articles

Strategi Komunikasi Politik Pemerintahan Daerah dalam Meningkatkan Partisipasi Masyarakat Pedesaan (Studi pada Desa Karangsari Kec. Bantur Kab. Malang)

This research aims to analyze the political communication strategies implemented by regional governments to increase participation in rural communities, especially in Karangsari Village, Bantur District, Malang Regency. The research method used is a case study with a qualitative approach. Data was collected through in-depth interviews, observation and documentation. The research results show that the Karangsari Village government uses various communication strategies, including direct outreach, use of local media, and community forums. This strategy has succeeded in increasing community awareness and participation in various village development programs. The key factors that support the success of this strategy are community trust in village leaders, openness of information, and active involvement of various stakeholders. This research provides important insights for other local governments in designing and implementing effective political communication strategies to increase rural community participation.

Local elections do not increase local news demand

Abstract Anemic demand for local news has contributed to an industry crisis. We consider whether local elections, which highlight the ability of local television stations and newspapers to provide information that is unavailable from national news outlets, increase local media use. While we show these elections are a time of increased attention to local politics in the news and among the public, we also find local media outlets do not benefit from this when considering behavioral news use measures. Relative to news outlets in cities without an election, local television remains substantively unchanged during local elections. Newspaper website traffic is largely stable, although it falls slightly the month after an election. In both cases these differences are small, even when considering close races and those happening off the federal election cycle. This shows limits on the ability of salient local political events to motivate local news use.

PENCEGAHAN STUNTING MELALUI BUDAYA SEHAT

One of the activities in the Naibonat Village that needs special attention is the prevention of stunting through the application of a healthy culture and the practice of washing hands with soap (CTPS). The history of PkM activities highlights the high incidence of stunting in this kelurahan, reaching 15.8% of the total number of children under five assessed. PkM stunting prevention activities will be carried out in July 2023 with an emphasis on increasing public awareness of stunting, CTPS procedures, use of local media, and the active participation of regional leaders. The results of this Community Service show that effective health education has increased public awareness of stunting from 69.7% to 92.3%. After this program, there was a sharp increase in the use of soap, from 30% to more than 80%. The dissemination of health messages has also benefited from the increased use of local media, particularly leaflets featuring dialects of the local culture. In addition, the community is also increasingly encouraged by community leaders who actively promote good hand washing habits. To ensure the continuity and sustainability of the program in preventing stunting and improving public health in Kelurahan Naibonat, recommendations include increased health education, ongoing collaboration with community leaders, ongoing monitoring and evaluation, and active community involvement.

The significance of football in an urban mosaic

PurposeThis study aims to add to the understanding of the significance of football in cities, where most major football clubs are located. Specifically, this study offers a distinctive perspective on what might be regarded as “football cities” by the study's mobilisation of theories of the urban mosaic, the calculable city and identity. This study contributes to the emergent field of popular culture (Jeacle, 2012) and, within this field of popular culture, the significance of soccer. The particular setting of this study is the city. This paper is a contribution to the established accounting literature on city studies but within the neglected study of football in cities.Design/methodology/approachThis paper's focus is on the significance of football clubs in one city. The theoretical approach adopted is a blending of studies of the urban mosaic (Timms, 1975), the calculable city (Lapsley et al., 2010) and the established trend of identification studies in accounting. This investigation was undertaken in the city of Edinburgh by observation of football in city life. This research is a form of participant observation in which the author lived in the city in this study. The researcher undertook interviews with key actors in both football clubs and city management, made use of local media and scrutinised publicly available documents on both the clubs and the city administrations.FindingsThis research reveals the importance of the city mosaic in explaining the limited significance of football in this city. This approach underlines the merits of contextual studies. However, the evidence presented also reveals the presence of strong identity relationships between football clubs and the clubs' fans. These results reveal an internal perspective on city management and the activities of football clubs and the clubs' host city. The presence of multiple football clubs in a single city offers more diffuse identity relationships, with football clubs fostering stronger identification with the club than with the city. There is also evidence of single, dual and multiple identity relationships in this study which contrasts with the single identity perspectives of prior accounting research.Research limitations/implicationsThe focus of this paper is on the research question posed in the Call for Papers - Is there a Soccer Society? The findings of this study offer only limited evidence of a soccer society.Practical implicationsThere is a need to study other cities with football clubs to determine those which are mosaics and those which are dominated by football.Social implicationsThis a study which embraces the importance of social context in finding meaning in accounting research. This paper introduces the novel concept of the city mosaic which is a novel way of understanding different city contexts.Originality/valuePrior research on football has examined fans' behaviour, financial crises at football clubs and governance structures. This paper extends these earlier analyses by addressing the social context of football clubs in the city. Whilst most accounting research revealed rapid changes in identity during reforms, this study reveals a more complex relationship which aims to build continuity and commitment of fans' identity with the bigger football clubs in this city.

Watching Together: Local Media and Rural Civic Engagement*

AbstractCivic engagement involves active participation in political and nonpolitical contexts in one's community. Research consistently demonstrates that sociodemographic factors, neighborhood context, community size, and media use are all important antecedents of robust civic engagement. This paper focuses on the intersection between these latter two factors. My paper draws on multiple streams of research in the rural sociology and communication literature to develop a theoretical framework where rural individuals' use of local media promotes greater civic engagement. Using data from the 2018 Local News Survey, results show that the use of local newspapers and online news websites for local news and information leads to a higher probability of participation in local activities and local groups in one's community. However, results also show that getting local news and information from traditional formats such as local TV stations may no longer be associated with an increased probability of being an active citizen in rural communities.

Exploring the impacts of media use and media trust on health behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic in China.

The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of traditional media, social media, and media trust on people's compliance with health behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic in China. A total of 3000 Chinese adults filled online questionnaire using quota sampling method. Results show that use of central government media and use of WeChat are positively related to compliance with health behaviors, while use of local media and use of Weibo are negatively related to the levels of compliance. In addition, trust in the media amplified the effects of media use on levels of compliance.

Educação em saúde através dos meios de comunicação: contribuindo para a formação dos estudantes de enfermagem

Este estudo tem como objetivo relatar uma experiência sobre a utilização de mídias (rádio e jornal) para difusão e acesso a informações seguras sobre cuidado em saúde, enquanto estratégia extracurricular na formação de enfermeiros. Teve como arcabouço conceitual metodológico a Literacia em Saúde, processo constituído por: compreensão e avaliação crítica das informações a serem difundidas e empreendimento de informações seguras sobre saúde capazes de apoiar a tomada de decisão. Iniciou-se em 2013 utilizando-se de veículos comunicacionais locais e universitários. Publicações dos textos informativos e dos assuntos reproduzidos na rádio foram definidas pelos acadêmicos. De forma geral, a difusão de informações seguras em saúde tem sido considerada prática potencial à transformação das condições de vida das populações. A utilização de mídias locais contextualiza a linguagem ao público alvo, permitindo maior amplitude de acesso das populações às informações. Sendo esta uma atividade extracurricular, possibilitou-se aos graduandos vivenciarem espaços de tecnologias inovadoras para a promoção da saúde.

Intersectoral action for health: the experience of a Danish municipality.

The aim was to build up evidence on intersectoral action for health at local government level by identifying both challenges and facilitating factors in collaboration between sectors when developing and implementing an intersectoral health policy in Varde, Denmark. The study was carried out in 2011 using the case-study method. Approximately 500 pages of documents from the period 2007-2011 were analysed, and semi-structured interviews were carried out with nine key informants. The following challenges were identified: the policy was perceived as an additional task by employees outside the health sector; initially no direct funding was allocated to intersectoral projects; the level of ambition was not balanced between sectors; there was a lack of ownership of the policy; baseline measures were lacking and the policy had no clear objectives. Facilitating factors were considered to be: significant political support; public involvement; use of local media; establishment of a 'Fund for Health'; establishment of 'Health Networks' within sectors; and collaboration with a research group. Important practical lessons can be drawn from this experience for other cities planning to introduce similar formal intersectoral health policies in order to increase the chance of successful intersectoral action in further development and implementation of the intersectoral health policy in varde in the future, the challenges and facilitating factors identified in this study should be considered more evidence is required on the long-term health impacts of such policies.

The elderly population and community engagement in the Republic of Korea: The role of community storytelling network

The current study examined how Korean elders' use of local media, connections to local organizations, communication with neighbors, length of residence, and homeownership contribute to the development of neighborhood belonging, collective efficacy, and volunteering behaviors in the community. A self-administered paper survey was conducted among the Korean elderly in Daegu, a metropolitan city in Korea. A total of 255 valid responses were collected for analysis. Results found that Korean elders who used media frequently, connected with local organizations, and had conversations with neighbors often were actively involved in neighborhood activities and volunteering. Length of residence was positively related to neighborhood belonging. Homeownership was a positive predictor of collective efficacy. The results suggest that frequent communication with neighbors, media, or members in local organizations may offer Korean elders an opportunity to live active community lives.

Satellite Television and Local Media Use Among Viewers in Satellite TV Households in the Southeast Geopolitical Zone of Nigeria

The basic objective of this work was to examine the influence of satellite television broadcasting on local media use among viewers in satellite television households in the southeast geopolitical zone of Nigeria. It adopted the survey research method in studying a sample size of 384 respondents. Among the null hypotheses tested in the study was that there is no significant difference between the level of exposure to satellite TV and local TV by viewers in satellite TV households, and there is no significant relationship between age and level of exposure to satellite TV among viewers in satellite TV households. The study revealed among others that viewers in satellite TV households tend to watch more satellite TV than local TV basically due to high quality programme production, and a variety of exciting programmes offered by the satellite TV channels, though the difference in exposure level was not significant. It was recommended among others that broadcast media houses in Nigeria should strive to improve programme content and production quality with a view to competing effectively with foreign DBS channels. Key words: Satellite television; Local media; Uses and gratifications theory

A Malaysia–United States free trade agreement: Malaysian media and domestic resistance

AbstractThis article examines Malaysia's civil society resistance to a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States, focusing specifically on the role played by domestic mainstream and alternative media in raising awareness of trade negotiations. While challenges to a Malaysia–United States FTA may appear muted – especially if compared with the outpouring of dissent witnessed on the streets of Thailand and South Korea against similar deals with the United States – Malaysia's civil society agents have employed a range of mechanisms to oppose the agreement. Although these activists have focused their efforts on different sections of the proposed FTA – from intellectual property rights to food sovereignty to government procurement procedures – all share a common call for greater transparency in the negotiation process and greater public and parliamentary consultation. This article takes a critical look at who is involved in these resistance efforts, their key issues of concern, limitations to their success, and, most importantly, their relationship with and use of local media.

Candles in the Wind: Resisting Repression in Liberia (1979–2003)

Scholars have been extending social-movement analysis beyond its base in the industrialized West to Latin America and Asia, but rarely to Africa. Social movements resisting repression in nondemocratic settings have usually had the help of external “opportunities” or favorable circumstances. This study, however, examines a peaceful social movement in Liberia, a movement that resisted repression under two regimes, advocating for human rights and democratic freedom without such “opportunities.” How did this happen? The study finds four explanations: the formation of a microsocial movement with no formal leadership and only loosely connected strands of resistance, which were harder to control; a high level of commitment by participants; the skillful use of local media and international organizations to put pressure on the regime; and historical roots of resistance, especially in the 1970s.

Assessing the Role of Information-Processing Strategies in Learning From Local News Media About Sources of Social Capital

This study examines the mediating effects of information-processing strategies on the relationship between use of local news media, informational use of the Internet, and sources of social capital: interpersonal trust, reciprocity, and associational membership. Analyses of a telephone survey data (n = 546) of American adults show that even though local news media were influential, information-processing strategies were more powerful than attention in explaining learning from local news media about social norms at the individual level. These findings support the usefulness of the cognitive mediation model of information-processing behaviors in examining learning from local news media about social norms. Of the two strategies, elaborative processing played a more important role than active reflection in the mediating process. Informational use of the Internet had a significant and independent effect on associational membership, after demographic, structural anchoring, local media use, and information-processing measures were statistically controlled.

Conversations about local media and their role in community integration

Abstract For decades, scholars have been interested in the relationship between community integration and local media use. Some have argued that the use of the local media furthers integration. Others have seen integration into a community as a prerequisite for attention to the media. In this study, a survey explored whether a relationship between the two dimensions actually exists and whether personal conversations about media topics could link both phenomena. The results show that social integration is not only related to media use, but also to conversations specifically about media content. Thus, the media's contribution to community integration could be an indirect one, by facilitating conversations and by helping integrate individuals socially through conversational topics.

The Influence of Local Media Use and Participation in Community Relations Activities on Community Ties and Involvement

The Influence of Local Media Use and Participation in Community Relations Activities on Community Ties and Involvement

ORIGINAL RESEARCH—ED PHARMACOTHERAPY: The South Australian Couples Sildenafil Study: Double-Blind, Parallel-Group Randomized Controlled Study to Examine the Psychological and Relationship Consequences of Sildenafil Use in Couples

ABSTRACT Introduction The South Australian Couples Sildenafil (SACS) study sought to look more closely at the role of sexual functioning in couples by exploring the impact of treatment for erectile dysfunction (ED) with sildenafil. Aim The SACS study investigated the individual and dyadic impact of the drug sildenafil (Viagra) on couples over a 6-month period. Main Outcome Measures A range of outcome measures were utilized including the Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS), the International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF), and the Erectile Dysfunction Inventory of Treatment Satisfaction. Methods Couples were recruited through the use of local media and general practitioners. Couples were randomly allocated to placebo or active drug with the option of using up to one study tablet per day for 6 months. Couples were reviewed at 2 weeks, 4 weeks, 8 weeks, 3 months, and 6 months. Results There were 108 couples who were eligible for the study with the eventual analysis including 49 couples in the active treatment group and 47 in the placebo group with similar demographic and background profiles found in both groups. A large number of psychosocial, quality-of-life, and sexual measures were recorded at the end of the trial for both male subjects and their female partners. Predictably, the erectile response in the active treatment group showed a significant improvement as measured by the IIEF although no change was found between the active and placebo groups in relationship functioning as measured by the DAS scores. Conclusions The SACS study found no difference between treatment arms with regard to relationship functioning after the use of sildenafil for ED. Potential contributing factors to a “no change” result are discussed. The SACS study adds to the available literature on psychological and interpersonal factors in the treatment of ED which have not been sufficiently investigated until recently.

Public Health Communication Theory and Strategies for Interpersonal Violence Prevention

ABSTRACT The article reviews experience and lessons learned from public health communication to identify promising strategies for interventions seeking to promote interpersonal violence prevention. A public health perspective highlights multiple levels of analysis in tandem with concomitant communication theory invoking social, institutional, community, and individual change processes. Points of emphasis include a long-term perspective for social change and the importance of achieving high levels of exposure to communication efforts. Alternative communication strategies such as social mobilization, the use of local media, and media advocacy may foster incremental legal reform and service provision, as well as transformed social expectations and norms.

Media Use and Civic Participation in the African-American Population: Exploring Participation among Professionals and Nonprofessionals

Empirical research has shown a positive relationship between local news media use, community integration, and political participation for the general population. This study examined whether the media serve such functions for African-American professionals and nonprofessionals. Both samples included fairly heavy media users; however, there was no significant relationship between local media use and civic participation. Church involvement, however, was a strong predictor of participation. Two major findings emerged: (1) local news media do not serve the civic information needs of African Americans, and (2) when compared with local news media, interpersonal networks more strongly influence African Americans' civic participation.

Understanding Deliberation

Participation in a deliberative forum has received relatively little scrutiny as opposed to more traditional forms of participation. This study examines direct and indirect effects of discussion network characteristics on willingness to participate in a deliberative forum. Using data collected in a telephone survey of 416 respondents in Madison, Wisconsin, in the fall of 1997, the authors employ structural equation modeling techniques to explore the roles that local media use, interpersonal discussion of local politics, and reflection of information play in mediating the relationship between discussion networks and participation in public forums. Findings show that network heterogeneity directly influences forum participation, suggesting that membership in heterogeneous networks ensures greater nontraditional participation. Also, having more discussion partners makes frequent discussion of issues and higher levels of local public affairs media use more likely. Communication processes lead to reflection about local issues, which enhances forum participation. Finally, normative implications are addressed.

Three-Nation Comparison on Mayors' Policy Preferences: Korea, Japan, and the USA

This paper reviews different political culture and policy preferences among mayors in Korean, Japan and the United States. In doing so, this paper introduces the New Political Culture (NPC) perspective as a frame of reference, in which the NPC is characterized by public-oriented politics and austere fiscal spending. This paper expects that Korean mayors will exhibit relatively low NPC-orientation vis-à-vis Japanese and US mayors. Using the data set collected by Fiscal Austerity and Urban Innovation project, this paper examines mayors' NPC-orientation in several aspects, including mayors' dependency on conventional political parties, mayors' use of local media to appeal the constituents, and mayors' fiscal policy preferences. The results of the comparison support the expectation of the NPC perspective. The Korean mayors are more dependent on the conventional political parties, less appealing to the citizens directly, and more supporting the increase of city expenditure than the Japanese and US mayors.