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Teaching Journalism Literacy in Schools: The Role of Media Companies as Media Educators in Germany 在学校教授新闻素养:德国媒体公司作为媒体教育者的角色

IF 3.1 2区文学

Media and Communication Pub Date : 2023-03-14 DOI: 10.17645/mac.v11i2.6389

Michael Sengl, E. Heinke

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News Deserts: A Research Agenda for Addressing Disparities in the United States 新闻荒漠:解决美国贫富差距的研究议程

IF 3.1 2区文学

Media and Communication Pub Date : 2023-03-10 DOI: 10.17645/mac.v11i3.6728

Penelope Muse Abernathy

引用次数: 2

Journalism in Democracy: A Discourse Analysis of Twitter Posts on the Ferrerasgate Scandal 民主新闻：费雷斯盖特丑闻推特帖子的话语分析

IF 3.1 2区文学

Media and Communication Pub Date : 2023-02-28 DOI: 10.17645/mac.v11i2.6314

Itziar Reguero-Sanz, Pablo Berdón-Prieto, Jacobo Herrero-Izquierdo

{"title":"Journalism in Democracy: A Discourse Analysis of Twitter Posts on the Ferrerasgate Scandal","authors":"Itziar Reguero-Sanz, Pablo Berdón-Prieto, Jacobo Herrero-Izquierdo","doi":"10.17645/mac.v11i2.6314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v11i2.6314","url":null,"abstract":"This research analyses the discourse on Twitter surrounding the “Ferrerasgate” scandal involving the Spanish journalist Antonio García Ferreras, director and host of the television show Al Rojo Vivo (La Sexta, Spanish TV channel). It examines the main object of criticism, the tone of the discourse, the argumentation made by users, as well as the existence of hate in their rhetoric. The tweets included in the study’s sample (N = 2,846), posted between 5 and 15 July 2022 and extracted on 16 July 2022, were examined in two complementary phases. The first entailed a quantitative content analysis of the messages and the second analysed whether hate speech was found in the sample as a whole. The Sketch Engine tool was used to determine whether “crypto hate speech” existed in the sample as a whole, and to whom it was targeted. The results reveal that “Ferrerasgate” sparked a debate that spilt over into journalism across the board, calling into question the media’s role in a democracy. The most prominent arguments were the condemnation of misinformation, lack of independence, and absence of professionalism in the journalism sector. It should be noted that most of the messages were destructive in tone; hate was found in the tweets analysed, although these did not represent a high percentage in relation to the total sample.","PeriodicalId":18348,"journal":{"name":"Media and Communication","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46189861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 2

All’s Fair in Pandemic and War? A Gendered Analysis of Australian Coverage of Covid-19 《流行病》和《战争》是否公平?澳大利亚Covid-19报道的性别分析

IF 3.1 2区文学

Media and Communication Pub Date : 2023-02-28 DOI: 10.17645/mac.v11i1.6139

Blair Williams, Brent Greer

{"title":"All’s Fair in Pandemic and War? A Gendered Analysis of Australian Coverage of Covid-19","authors":"Blair Williams, Brent Greer","doi":"10.17645/mac.v11i1.6139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v11i1.6139","url":null,"abstract":"The Covid-19 pandemic has repeatedly been framed by politicians and the media alike as this generation’s “Great War.” Metaphors are often used in political reportage as effective discursive tools to influence and persuade readers. War metaphors especially are frequently used in election campaigns, leadership spills, and during times of political unrest to portray politics as a brutal and competitive (masculine) arena. As such, the use of militaristic language and war metaphors to describe the shared challenges during a global pandemic is unsurprising. Framing the pandemic as a war can rally citizens by appealing to their sense of national and civic duty at a moment of crisis. Yet such framing is problematic as it draws on stereotyping cultural myths and values associated with war, reinforcing patriarchal understandings of bravery and service that glorify hegemonic masculinity while excluding women from the public sphere. Using a feminist critical discourse analysis, this article will examine Australian print media coverage of the first six months of the Covid-19 pandemic, focusing on two case studies—the prime minister and “frontline” workers—to further understand the gender bias of mainstream media. We argue that, by drawing on war metaphors in Covid-19 coverage which emphasizes protective masculinity, the media reproduce and re-enforce political and societal gender stereotypes and imbalances.","PeriodicalId":18348,"journal":{"name":"Media and Communication","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49119118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

The Frontlines and Margins: Gendered Care and Covid-19 in the Indian Media 前线与边缘：印度媒体中的性别护理与新冠肺炎

IF 3.1 2区文学

Media and Communication Pub Date : 2023-02-28 DOI: 10.17645/mac.v11i1.6104

U. Raman, Sumana Kasturi

{"title":"The Frontlines and Margins: Gendered Care and Covid-19 in the Indian Media","authors":"U. Raman, Sumana Kasturi","doi":"10.17645/mac.v11i1.6104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v11i1.6104","url":null,"abstract":"Among the many stories that emerged out of India during the pandemic, one was somewhat buried under the media discourse around the migrant crisis, lockdown regulations, and economic fallout. This was the story of striking accredited social health activist workers asking for fair wages, improved benefits, and better working conditions. The Covid-19 crisis highlighted the poor health infrastructure and the precarious, and often, stigmatized nature of frontline work, managed at the community level by paramedical workers, a significant proportion of whom are women. There has been considerable attention paid by feminist groups as well as health-related civil society organizations on the gender-based inequities that have emerged during the pandemic, particularly in relation to care work. This study explores how care work performed by the accredited social health activists was framed in the mainstream media, through an examination of articles in three selected English daily newspapers over one year of the pandemic. Drawing on theoretical work deriving from similar health crises in other regions of the world, we explore how the public health infrastructure depends on the invisible care-giving labor of women in official and unofficial capacities to respond to the situation. The systemic reliance on women’s unpaid or ill-paid labor at the grassroots level is belied by the fact that women’s concerns and contributions are rarely visible in issues of policy and public administration. Our study found that this invisibility extended to media coverage as well. Our analysis offers a “political economy of caregiving” that reiterates the need for women’s work to be recognized at all levels of functioning.","PeriodicalId":18348,"journal":{"name":"Media and Communication","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48819651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 2

Career, Covid-19, and Care: (Gendered) Impacts of the Pandemic on the Work of Communication Scholars 职业、Covid-19和护理:大流行对传播学者工作的(性别)影响

IF 3.1 2区文学

Media and Communication Pub Date : 2023-02-28 DOI: 10.17645/mac.v11i1.6050

Kathrin Friederike Müller, C. Peil, F. Weder

{"title":"Career, Covid-19, and Care: (Gendered) Impacts of the Pandemic on the Work of Communication Scholars","authors":"Kathrin Friederike Müller, C. Peil, F. Weder","doi":"10.17645/mac.v11i1.6050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v11i1.6050","url":null,"abstract":"The study at hand analyzes the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and related restrictions on scholars in the area of media and communication studies. It aims to highlight inequalities in the negative effects of the pandemic on academic output by examining the working conditions of scholars, taking into account gender, parenthood, and the partnership-based division of professional and care work. The quantitative survey was directed at communication scholars in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. The findings show that there are no significant gender differences in terms of changes in academic output during the first 15 months of the pandemic; instead, disadvantages were observed in terms of parenting, regardless of the gender of the parents. Gender-specific effects could be detected concerning family situations and partnerships. Here, male participants are more often found in relationships in which the partner only works half-time, than women who mostly live with a partner who works full-time. The data suggest that gender differences related to changes in the time allotted for professional and care work and academic output are leveled out by the characteristics of the academic career model in which German-speaking scholars work. Nevertheless, gendered structures in academia and partnerships shape how the impact of the pandemic on professional work is experienced.","PeriodicalId":18348,"journal":{"name":"Media and Communication","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41900472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

“You Can Do Better Than That!”: Tweeting Scientists Addressing Politics on Climate Change and Covid-19 “你可以做得更好！”：推特科学家应对气候变化和新冠肺炎政治

IF 3.1 2区文学

Media and Communication Pub Date : 2023-02-22 DOI: 10.17645/mac.v11i1.5961

Kaija Biermann, Nicola Peters, Monika Taddicken

{"title":"“You Can Do Better Than That!”: Tweeting Scientists Addressing Politics on Climate Change and Covid-19","authors":"Kaija Biermann, Nicola Peters, Monika Taddicken","doi":"10.17645/mac.v11i1.5961","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v11i1.5961","url":null,"abstract":"Climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic are global challenges in which scientists play a crucial role, and immediate political actions are necessary. However, in contrast to climate change, strong governmental actions have been taken during the pandemic. While climate change has been on the public agenda for several decades, the pandemic is a rather new issue. In such cases, social media offer scientists the potential to disseminate scientific results to the public and express calls to action and their personal views towards politics. Thus far, little is known about the extent to which scientists make use of this option. In this study, we investigated the similarities and differences between visible German climate experts and visible German Covid-19 experts regarding advocacy and assessments of policies and political actors on Twitter. We conducted a manual content analysis of tweets (N = 5,915) from 2021 of the most visible climate experts (N = 5) and the most visible Covid-19 experts (N = 5). The results show that climate experts addressed politics more often than Covid-19 experts in their tweets. The selected climate experts more often expressed negative evaluations, the degradation of competence and blaming. The Covid-19 experts, however, made more political calls for action. We assume that an issue’s history and context will affect scientists’ public assessments of politics. Our comparative study provides insight into the interrelations between science and politics in digital communication environments and elucidates visible scientists’ communication behaviours towards different socio-scientific issues.","PeriodicalId":18348,"journal":{"name":"Media and Communication","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49594178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 2

Negotiating Care Work: Gendered Network Structures of Pandemic Care Discourses on Twitter in Germany 协商护理工作：德国推特上流行病护理话语的性别网络结构

IF 3.1 2区文学

Media and Communication Pub Date : 2023-02-15 DOI: 10.17645/mac.v11i1.6032

Miriam Siemon, Wolfgang Reißmann

{"title":"Negotiating Care Work: Gendered Network Structures of Pandemic Care Discourses on Twitter in Germany","authors":"Miriam Siemon, Wolfgang Reißmann","doi":"10.17645/mac.v11i1.6032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v11i1.6032","url":null,"abstract":"Precarious conditions of care work are contested and deeply gendered issues all over the globe. The Covid-19 pandemic both intensifies the (national) care crises and makes care work more visible as a public issue. In this article, we ask for the opportunities, structural conditions, and limitations of voice and visibility in emerging publics beyond established media organizations. Applying the concept of performative publics and using social network analysis, we reconstruct and compare the constitution of publics around the two German language Twitter hashtags 0#systemrelevant and #CoronaEltern. In a comparative design, we ask which actor groups and what kind of genders gain visibility, and in which speaker positions women, men, and non-binary people appear. The comparison of the two case studies reveals rather different network structures and asks for more nuanced, issue-based “medium data” analyses in the linkage of gender media studies and computational methods. Whereas the public discourse on professional paid care work resembles gendered power structures, the public discourse on privatized, unpaid care work shows shifted patterns concerning female visibility. These findings are discussed critically as gendered discourse spaces of professional and privatized care work stay rather separated and thus risk reproducing traditional private/public boundaries. Furthermore, findings emphasize the importance of “invisible” relational work which keeps hashtags running. Ratios of paying attention from women to men and vice versa are unequally distributed. Females either invest more communicative effort than males or receive less attention for the equal amount of reaching out to others.","PeriodicalId":18348,"journal":{"name":"Media and Communication","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45911346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

Does Social Media Use Matter? A Case Study of the 2018 Irish Abortion Referendum 社交媒体的使用很重要吗？2018年爱尔兰堕胎公投案例研究

IF 3.1 2区文学

Media and Communication Pub Date : 2023-01-31 DOI: 10.17645/mac.v11i1.6653

T. Reidy, Jane Suiter

引用次数: 1

Beyond Brexit? Public Participation in Decision-Making on Campaign Data During and After Referendum Campaigns 脱欧之后？全民投票期间和之后公众参与竞选数据决策

IF 3.1 2区文学

Media and Communication Pub Date : 2023-01-31 DOI: 10.17645/mac.v11i1.6200

J. Rone

{"title":"Beyond Brexit? Public Participation in Decision-Making on Campaign Data During and After Referendum Campaigns","authors":"J. Rone","doi":"10.17645/mac.v11i1.6200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v11i1.6200","url":null,"abstract":"While the Brexit referendum campaign has been extensively researched, media, regulatory bodies, and academics have often talked at cross-purposes. A strong focus on Cambridge Analytica’s role in the 2016 referendum, despite official investigations concluding the company had only limited involvement in the campaign, has distracted attention from more mundane but highly controversial data practices, including selling voters’ data to third parties or re-using campaign data without consent from data subjects. This empirical case study of data-driven referendum campaigning around Brexit raises two broader theoretical questions: First, moving beyond the current focus on transparency and accountability, can public participation in the ownership and management of campaign data address some of the problematic data practices outlined? Second, most academic literature on data-driven campaigning, in general, and referendum campaigns, in particular, has often overlooked the key question of what happens with campaigning data once campaigns are over. What legal safeguards or mechanisms of accountability and participation are there to guarantee consent when it comes to further re-use of people’s data gathered during campaigns? Ultimately, the article raises the question of who should have a say in how “people’s data” is used in referendum campaigns and afterwards and makes a case for democratising such decisions.","PeriodicalId":18348,"journal":{"name":"Media and Communication","volume":"53 21","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41249858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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