The loss of mainstream newspapers in the past decade combined with the decline of the minority press has created ongoing discussion of the news desert crisis in U.S. journalism and around the world. ...While hundreds of communities go without access to local news, long-term solutions remain elusive. This research examines three case studies of U.S. journalism schools where student journalists operate digital startups in news desert communities. Through oral histories, this study explores how these college students belonging to "Generation Z" view their roles as journalists compared to normative professional conceptualizations and explores the practical implications of such. Students involved with these news desert startups placed greater emphasis on service or altruistic roles of journalism than the watchdog role often emphasized by professional journalists and other student media. Furthermore, many of these students embrace a more historical purview of what encompasses a news desert by emphasizing racial inequalities in traditional journalistic coverage. These student-run online newspapers illustrate not only a potential solution for addressing news deserts but a reimagining of the conceptual and practical roles of student journalists.
•A clustering-annotation-classification strategy is proposed for harvesting business events.•Effect of headline and lead of online news on event detection is studied.•The proposed method can well ...solve the problems of event definition and event detection.•The proposed method outperformed all of the baseline methods.
Massive online news articles can be a good data resource for detecting the information of business events, which may be useful in many real-world applications. In this paper, we propose a three-step process of “clustering-annotation-classification strategy to extract high-quality information about business events from massive online news headlines and leads. To that end, we first introduce the word embeddings method to represent all the terms in a corpus into word vectors, based on which, we cluster the verbal terms into groups. Then, we introduce an expert to annotate each group of terms with a corresponding business events. Finally, we utilize the extracted information of business events as a classifier to detect the potential events from online news headlines and leads. By evaluating our approach with several state-of-the-art classification algorithms, the results show that our approach offers a competitive performance than the baselines in detecting business events from online news articles.
Findings indicate that the verbal terms in headlines of online news article have a significant effect on identifying business events by improving the performance of our method on Recall and F−value. On the contrary, the verbal terms in leads provide a more stable performance on Precision. As a result, the strategy of combining the headline of an online news article with its lead is a viable option for detecting event information from massive online texts.
Modern societies provide an abundance of opportunities, which could lead to acceleration and time poverty, thereby paradoxically limiting well‐being. This study examines this issue using social ...distancing measures introduced during the COVID‐19 pandemic. We analyzed a data set of over four million responses, collected by the German online newspaper “ZEIT ONLINE,” where people responded to the question “How are you today?” with “good” or “bad,” assessing subjective well‐being, and an optional self‐descriptive adjective of mood. The results showed that subjective well‐being significantly increased with the onset of social distancing regulations. This increase was closely accompanied by a rise in adjectives associated with deceleration, the daily usage of which best predicted daily well‐being during COVID‐19. Factor analysis showed that Factor 1 best predicted daily well‐being and was effectively described by adjectives associated with deceleration. An analysis of potential mechanisms of deceleration during the pandemic revealed lower stress levels during workdays and weekends, as well as better sleep. These findings provide large‐scale support to theories suggesting that acceleration and time poverty in modern societies may impair well‐being.
Through metaphor, we gain distinctive perspectives on reality and communicate in new ways, especially when we use metaphor intentionally. The COVID-19 pandemic broke out in early 2020, causing ...significant harm to people's lives worldwide. This article moves the focus from the ubiquitous war metaphor used in the pandemic to other deliberate metaphors identified in five Chinese news media, i.e., China Daily, People's Daily, Huanqiu, Cankaoxiaoxi, and Xinhuanet. 59 Chinese online newspaper editorials were collected between 22 January 2020 and 22 July 2020. Using quantitative and qualitative methods, we investigate season, disease and medicine, and homework metaphors. We contend that (a) originating from common bodily experiences in the physical environment, season metaphors have emotional valences and promoted public confidence when the epidemic was severe and urged caution when it was mitigated, (b) connecting physical and socio-cultural worlds, disease and medicine metaphors could simplify and evaluate social issues besides formulating editorials' political stances, and (c) based on shared socio-cultural knowledge, homework metaphors call for more democratic and practical governance in disease control. This study reveals how these metaphors accomplish useful pragmatic purposes in the pandemic in particular contexts.
Many approaches have been introduced to solve the authorship verification problem, including the use of machine learning techniques. These techniques proved to be effective in detecting a person's ...distinctive way of speaking or writing. The main aim of this study was to show that every writer has an idiolect which is presented through the use of several types of stylometric features unique to individual authors. For this purpose, 120 online opinion articles written by non-native speakers of English were chosen from four newspapers published in the Arab world, while 145 articles written by native speakers of English were taken from other four newspapers. All of these articles were classified and compared using the SMO and MLP algorithms via a tool called 'JStylo'. The proposed framework achieved a competitive performance with an accuracy of 80% using the SMO classifier. The results of the study indicate that each author has an individual style of writing (idiolect), and that idiolect is not shown by one group of writers better than the other, namely the native and non-native authors.
This paper interrogates a shift in patriarchal media discourse related to women leaders' recognition and legitimation in the UK. We conduct a multimodal discourse analysis of an online newspaper ...article about the UK politician and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, Angela Rayner, and analyzed public responses. Understanding the media as a means to distribute power and enable the challenging of norms, we contribute a theory of intersectional misrecognition in media's representation of women political leaders. This reveals an enduring and dynamic subordinate status of women leaders, shown specifically through the intersection of gender and class. We theorize that while women leaders continue to be misrecognized in the media, destabilizing their legitimacy, there is a demonstrable flexing of patriarchal discourse combined with stronger and accelerated resistance to ongoing sexism. We identify this resistance as productive in its call for consequences and a redistribution of cultural values, reflecting a discursive shift toward a productive resistance of resilient gender norms, evident in the intersection of gender with class. Intersectional misrecognition has value in making inequalities explicit for women leaders and where there may be productive tensions with potential to mobilize for change.
This article uses the gender perspective to compare the 2020 Belarus protests and the Arab Spring and its aftermath in Egypt (2011–13). It argues that in both cases authoritarian militarized ...hegemonic masculinities, articulated through authoritarian body politics, attempted to suppress the protest movements. The latter, in turn, drew on a number of gendered images and symbols to perform its counter-hegemonic practices of resistance. The study employs discourse analysis and visual analysis methods and draws on a broad selection of data from Egyptian and Belarusian online newspapers and social media for the respective periods. The article concludes that, despite historical and cultural differences between the two countries, there are notable similarities in the ways gender is politicized and performed by both the regimes and the protest movements. These findings suggest a close connection between authoritarianism and militarized hegemonic masculinities, which can be established cross-regionally and cross-culturally.
Objective: The purpose of the article research the types of evidence sources in Vietnam`s civil procedure, points out several limitations, shortcomings, and propose recommendations to complete the ...legal system concerned. Theoretical framework: The research employs theories about types of evidence sources in Vietnam`s civil procedure, regulations on types of evidence sources, and mechanisms apply to types of evidence sources in Vietnam. Method: The research employs three common methods in legal science research: (1) Legal analysis method; (2) Legal efficiency evaluation method; and (3) Comparative legal method. The above research methods help compare and contrast theories of types of evidence sources in Vietnam`s civil procedure and bring out some essential findings. Results and conclusion: Some valuable findings have been revealed such as the formulation and development of types of evidence sources in Vietnam's civil procedure, some theoretical issues, and limitations on regulations on types of evidence sources. Implications of the research: The article proposes some tasks remaining undone, and further tasks will be fulfilled in the future. The article may support many develop future research in Vietnam. Originality/value: The research on the types of evidence sources in civil procedure become more and more urgent and very important in Vietnam.
PurposeThe paper examines academic historians' information interactions with material from digital historical-newspaper collections as the research process unfolds.Design/methodology/approachThe ...study employed qualitative analysis from in-depth interviews with Finnish history scholars who use digitised historical newspapers as primary sources for their research. A model for task-based information interaction guided the collection and analysis of data.FindingsThe study revealed numerous information interactions within activities related to task-planning, the search process, selecting and working with the items and synthesis and reporting. The information interactions differ with the activities involved, which call for system support mechanisms specific to each activity type. Various activities feature information search, which is an essential research method for those using digital collections in the compilation and analysis of data. Furthermore, application of quantitative methods and multidisciplinary collaboration may be shaping culture in history research toward convergence with the research culture of the natural sciences.Originality/valueFor sustainable digital humanities infrastructure and digital collections, it is of great importance that system designers understand how the collections are accessed, why and their use in the real-world context. The study enriches understanding of the collections' utilisation and advances a theoretical framework for explicating task-based information interaction.
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