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Corporate policies to protect against disinformation for young audiences: the case of TikTok 防止针对年轻受众的虚假信息的企业政策：TikTok 案例

Frontiers in Communication Pub Date : 2024-06-14 DOI: 10.3389/fcomm.2024.1410100

N. Quintas-Froufe, A. González-Neira, Carlota Fiaño-Salinas

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Inside a corporate affairs conference: the race for a social license 企业事务会议内幕：争夺社会许可证

Frontiers in Communication Pub Date : 2024-06-13 DOI: 10.3389/fcomm.2024.1419959

Katherine Cullerton, D. Patay

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Legitimacy through representation? Media sources and discourses of offshore wind development 通过表述获得合法性？海上风电开发的媒体来源和论述

Frontiers in Communication Pub Date : 2024-06-12 DOI: 10.3389/fcomm.2024.1401172

Emily P. Diamond, Nikol Damato, Tiffany Smythe, David Bidwell

{"title":"Legitimacy through representation? Media sources and discourses of offshore wind development","authors":"Emily P. Diamond, Nikol Damato, Tiffany Smythe, David Bidwell","doi":"10.3389/fcomm.2024.1401172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2024.1401172","url":null,"abstract":"The choice of which individuals and entities to include as sources in newspaper articles is an important decision for journalists, in large part because they can shape how readers understand the issue and which arguments become most salient. This is particularly important for issues that are relatively new or unknown to readers. The growing topic of offshore wind in the United States is a prime example of an issue that many people are encountering for the first time via media reporting. This issue has also proven to be highly divisive, with heated oppositional arguments being promoted by different entities. This study seeks to understand which entities are being represented in media coverage of offshore wind, and the different framing strategies that various entities use in quotes about the first two large-scale projects in the United States, South Fork Wind and Vineyard Wind I.We use a newspaper content analysis to identify and code the sources quoted in articles reporting on South Fork Wind and Vineyard Wind I from 2013-2022, as well as the emphasis frames used by each entity.We find that coverage varies in the two cases, but developers and political officials are quoted most frequently. As these entities tend to use frames highlighting the benefits of offshore wind more frequently than the risks, those perspectives dominate news coverage. Meanwhile, perspectives of community members and impacted industries such as the fishing industry are represented less frequently in news coverage.These findings help explain the dominance of certain frames and perspectives in offshore wind, and they raise important questions about which voices are legitimized through representation in news media.","PeriodicalId":507157,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Communication","volume":"59 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141353256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Systematizing destigmatization in the context of media and communication: a systematic literature review 媒体和传播背景下的系统化去污名化：系统文献综述

Frontiers in Communication Pub Date : 2024-06-11 DOI: 10.3389/fcomm.2024.1331139

Deborah Kunze

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Evolutionary regulatory dynamics in a pluralist and polarized journalism landscape: a case study of the normative framework in Spanish media 多元化和两极化新闻业格局中的监管动态演变：西班牙媒体规范框架案例研究

Frontiers in Communication Pub Date : 2024-06-10 DOI: 10.3389/fcomm.2024.1424096

Raquel Seijas Costa, Daniel Barredo Ibáñez, Nereida Cea Esteruelas

{"title":"Evolutionary regulatory dynamics in a pluralist and polarized journalism landscape: a case study of the normative framework in Spanish media","authors":"Raquel Seijas Costa, Daniel Barredo Ibáñez, Nereida Cea Esteruelas","doi":"10.3389/fcomm.2024.1424096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2024.1424096","url":null,"abstract":"Within the European Union, the pluralist polarized journalistic model suggests the presence of journalistic cultures rooted in the connections between political parties and media organizations. In this classical framework, the state exerts significant intervention to influence a media system characterized by lower levels of professionalization. In this regard, Spain serves as a well-examined example of a pluralist polarized Western democracy. Our study entails a systematic review based on two distinct dimensions. Firstly, we scrutinized all legal documents pertaining to media regulation in Spain published between the Spanish transition and the present 1977–2024. From this perspective, we propose a chronological evolution to categorize this extensive collection of norms. Secondly, we complement our primary source assessment with an examination of secondary sources to validate the proposed evolution. Our findings indicate that the Spanish media regulation is evolving due to two pivotal factors: the influence of the European Union and the preservation of the narrative established during the transition to democracy. While contemporary communication grapples with issues such as the rise of artificial intelligence, journalistic instability, algorithmic communication, and fragmented user consumption, these areas are only addressed peripherally within the Spanish media normative context.","PeriodicalId":507157,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Communication","volume":"113 33","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141361175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Expressive syntax matters for second-order false belief: a study with hearing-impaired children 表达性句法对二阶错误信念的影响：对听障儿童的研究

Frontiers in Communication Pub Date : 2024-06-10 DOI: 10.3389/fcomm.2024.1401576

Elisabet Serrat, A. Amadó, Stéphanie Durrleman, Alaitz Intxaustegi, F. Sidera

{"title":"Expressive syntax matters for second-order false belief: a study with hearing-impaired children","authors":"Elisabet Serrat, A. Amadó, Stéphanie Durrleman, Alaitz Intxaustegi, F. Sidera","doi":"10.3389/fcomm.2024.1401576","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2024.1401576","url":null,"abstract":"While children with typical language development may capitalize on general language skills to grasp the content of others’ minds, those with challenges in mind-reading could rather rely more specifically on complementation structures. However, most studies investigating mind-reading have focused on first-order false-belief reasoning, while much less is known about second-order false-belief, particularly for children that may present language difficulties, such as children with hearing impairment. This study aims to explore the link between language development and second-order false-belief in hearing-impaired children compared to their hearing counterparts. It seeks to ascertain whether mastering second-order false-belief requires the comprehension of complements or other language skills in hearing-impaired children, and if a distinct pattern emerges in their hearing peers. Children with hearing-impairment (n = 22) and a chronological age-matched control group (n = 25), ages 8–12, were administered a second-order false-belief task (carefully avoiding use of complements and highly visual). Alongside this, they completed assessments of expressive vocabulary, receptive and expressive syntax, recalling sentences, and a recursive sentential complements task. Correlational analysis revealed that in the control group only productive syntax was related to performance on the second-order false-belief task, while in the hearing-impaired group, expressive vocabulary, recalling sentences and sentential complements were related to second-order false-belief performance. These results show that vocabulary, recursive complements and expressive syntax are particularly important aspects for second-order false-belief success in children with hearing-impairment as compared to their hearing peers. These results shed light on how language and second-order false-belief understanding are related in their development.","PeriodicalId":507157,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Communication","volume":" 45","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141365823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Persian compounds in the mental lexicon 心理词典中的波斯复合词

Frontiers in Communication Pub Date : 2024-06-10 DOI: 10.3389/fcomm.2024.1293401

Bahareh Yousefzadeh, G. Libben, S. Segalowitz

{"title":"Persian compounds in the mental lexicon","authors":"Bahareh Yousefzadeh, G. Libben, S. Segalowitz","doi":"10.3389/fcomm.2024.1293401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2024.1293401","url":null,"abstract":"Compound words exhibit properties of both single words and phrases, raising the question of the extent to which compounds are processed as single units or as word combinations. Most studies have addressed this in Germanic languages (English, German and Dutch) which have the similar compound structure of modifier-head ordering. To see whether this limits our understanding of compound word processing and to examine compound decomposition in another language, we presented Persian stimuli auditorily in a paradigm involving typing out stimuli. We examined the effects of semantic transparency, modifier-head ordering and the potential differences between attached compounds written without spaces and those with a space between the constituents. We report the inter-keystroke-interval times, yielding letter-by-letter production of compound structures produced by 31 native speakers of Persian. Results analyzed in a linear mixed-model regression analysis suggested that, for all compounds, typing speed is slowed at the boundary between the constituents of Persian compound words. These effects, which we interpret to be evidence of morphological decomposition, were present for both semantically transparent and opaque compounds, for both head-initial and head-final compounds, and for both attached and spaced compounds. We observed greater morphological decomposition effects in semantically transparent (versus opaque) compounds. We also observed that the way transparency influences the degree of decomposition is moderated by headedness. Thus, this first report for the written production of compound words confirms previous observations of significant decomposition at morphological boundaries in English compounds, but with variation specific to Persian.","PeriodicalId":507157,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Communication","volume":" 64","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141365813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Improving masked communication: the case for transparent masks 改进屏蔽通信：透明屏蔽的理由

Frontiers in Communication Pub Date : 2024-06-05 DOI: 10.3389/fcomm.2024.1371142

Sarah D. McCrackin, Jelena Ristic

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World futures through RT’s eyes: multimodal dataset and interdisciplinary methodology RT 眼中的世界未来：多模态数据集和跨学科方法论

Frontiers in Communication Pub Date : 2024-04-24 DOI: 10.3389/fcomm.2024.1356702

Anna Wilson, Irina Pavlova, Elinor Payne, I. Burenko, Peter Uhrig

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Oedipus and the cabal: conspiracy theories and the decline of symbolic efficiency 俄狄浦斯与阴谋集团：阴谋论与象征效率的衰落

Frontiers in Communication Pub Date : 2024-04-23 DOI: 10.3389/fcomm.2024.1376085

Brian Hughes

{"title":"Oedipus and the cabal: conspiracy theories and the decline of symbolic efficiency","authors":"Brian Hughes","doi":"10.3389/fcomm.2024.1376085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2024.1376085","url":null,"abstract":"Conspiracy theories are a means by which people make sense of vastly complex webs of cause and effect, contingency, and random chance. Impersonal operations of a political economy thus become personified in the figure of sinister puppet masters controlling the world. Overdetermined historical events become narrativized as plots executed with clockwork timing and perfect secrecy. This study proposes a model for the motives and mechanisms by which complex and ambiguous systems are made fodder for paranoid interpretation in the form of a conspiracy theory. By employing an exegetical close-reading methodology and psychoanalytic interpretation, three meta-conspiracies are identified as symptoms of the process described above: antisemitic theories of globalization, the “Deep State” as seen from the political Left, and vulgar UFOlogy. This study will argue that the impenetrable complexity of our globalized, financialized, hypermediated world agitates our experience of the Symbolic order, that is, the realm of language, logic, law, which acts as the scaffolding to the individual’s psychic sense of place in society. Lacan associates entry into the Symbolic order with the reconciliation of the Oedipal conflict and the Symbolic itself with the figure of the Father. However, the complexity and ambiguity of the Symbolic in our contemporary world produce a crisis in this dynamic, which some have described as a “decline in Symbolic efficiency.” This is particularly acute around events, which give rise to conspiracy theories. The will of the Father becomes unknowable, and the order upon which he insists appears dark and chaotic. Conspiracy therefore refers to turning away from this chaotic order and a “dark return” to the pre-symbolic maternal state, via the recession of the Symbolic into the Real, as a chaotic totalized presence (the conspiracy) stretching to occupy every corner of reality.","PeriodicalId":507157,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Communication","volume":"118 15","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140669641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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