This article aims at analyzing the "Espaço Cultural Agnaldo Borges Pinto", located in Araguaína-Tocantins, founded on the concepts provided by Orlandi (1999) and Ultramari (2019). We assume that the ...construction of such a cultural space relates to the order of the "urban discourse". That is to say that the urban discourse produces conflicts and a certain kind of urban "organization". In order to achieve our aim, we take two institutional journals to construct our corpus, namely "Prestando contas a comunidade (2000), and Araguaína - História e atualidade (2000). They were both edited by the City Hall of Araguaína. In addition, data were also collected in local press between 2011 and 2020. By analyzing these records, the way this cultural space was meant was problematized. We especially highlighted how the circulation of meanings about "Espaço Cultural Agnaldo Borges Pinto" occurred locally. Specifically, the analysis dealt with utterances found in the interviews extracted from the journals and from the sites visited. Thus, we were able to map the designations and the process of adjectivation through which the construction of the space was textually and discursively signified. As a consequence, we were also able to reflect about the effects of this so called "order of urban discourse", mainly to what concerns the category of "organization". The idea of intra-urban space, as understood by Villaça (2001), allowed us to improve our analysis. Results have shown that there is an institutionalized discursivity in conflict. The construction and the conclusion of "Espaço Cultural Agnaldo Borges Pinto" is meant to be part of a bigger Project of constructing similar spaces, not only in Brazil but also in other parts of the world.
This study uses 48 in-depth interviews with managers, editors, and reporters at local and regional newspapers and their parent companies in four countries (Finland, France, Germany, and the United ...Kingdom) to examine how they discuss changes to their business models and the ways their news organizations are adapting to emerging audience-consumption trends in the digital environment. The results show that interviewees continue to prioritize the economic importance of their print products, despite declines in advertising and subscriptions. They also believe that for local news to continue, journalists must better understand the business strategies of their news organizations. Finally, they acknowledge the value of experimenting with new approaches to monetization, including implementing paywalls and using analytics to personalize content. In balancing the merits of their print products with their desire to develop new digital offerings, local newspapers seek to operate as ‘ambidextrous organizations’ that exploit the products of the past while exploring innovations that may help sustain them in the future.
This study presents a generalized elastodynamic theory, based on fractional-order operators, capable of modelling the propagation of elastic waves in non-local attenuating solids and across complex ...non-local interfaces. Classical elastodynamics cannot capture hybrid field transport processes that are characterized by simultaneous propagation and diffusion. The proposed continuum mechanics formulation, which combines fractional operators in both time and space, offers unparalleled capabilities to predict the most diverse combinations of multiscale, non-local, dissipative and attenuating elastic energy transport mechanisms. Despite the many features of this theory and the broad range of applications, this work focuses on the behaviour and modelling capabilities of the space-fractional term and on its effect on the elastodynamics of solids. We also derive a generalized fractional-order version of Snell's Law of refraction and of the corresponding Fresnel's coefficients. This formulation allows predicting the behaviour of fully coupled elastic waves interacting with non-local interfaces. The theoretical results are validated via direct numerical simulations.
The political economy perspective suggests that the organization and financing of mass media influence media content. This research examines how the regional revenue and expenditure budget (APBD) ...financing has affected (the quality of) content and public communication. The study was conducted in Yogyakarta and Bali. This study uses qualitative methods. Data is collected through in-depth interviews and observations of the news. In-depth interviews were conducted with journalists, academics, and media analysts in Yogyakarta and Bali. This research found that the APBD significantly contributes as the revenue source of local media, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Some media outlets even exhibit high dependency on APBD, as indicated by the sum of APBD they received. This has weakened the role of local media as a watchdog for local government while also creating a crisis for local public communication. Public communication today is predominantly filled with news emphasizing publicity rather than critical and investigative coverage of local issues. As a result, efforts to create an informed society as a prerequisite for democracy would be difficult to realize. The community’s involvement in local democracy is greatly defined by the quality of information they receive.
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This study examines local government reporting in the English provincial press from 1900 to 1950. It has two main findings—firstly, that the press moved from verbatim council reports in the early ...part of the century to selective news stories that were designed to maximise news values and commercial revenues. City council meeting reports were re-shaped, re-focused and re-formulated to resemble news stories, often featuring on the front pages. They conformed to journalistic news values such as drama, conflict and personalities and provide evidence of a move to a more news-driven approach to local government reporting.The paper also demonstrates the often-invisible commercial links between some elected representatives and the local press, on whose boards of management they sat. Overall, it provides a challenge to the conventional wisdom that the provincial press interest in municipal issues declined in the twentieth century.
Suzhou City in East China is well known within the country for its booming economy and rich culture but less so internationally. This study focuses on a comparative analysis of the construction of ...Suzhou's image in different cities and countries through multiple media platforms to explore the variations in themes, narrative styles and promotion strategies. Adopting the quantitative approach, the authors selected 1265 texts from 2015 to 2020 for a content analysis. Findings show that both the local and global media often report on Suzhou as a tourist city. However, Suzhou's local media report more on the city's history and lifestyle than their global counterparts, while the global media more on the city's culture and arts. Moreover, Suzhou's local media preferred adopting narrative styles that created visual symbols and used corporates, brands and activities for place branding, while the global media would use personal storytelling more for interaction with its target audiences.
Fake information about COVID-19 continues to circulate widely, including false causes and cures. The current study examined the (a) relationship between information gathering sources and ...misperceptions; (b) association between literacy variables and misperceptions; and (c) the moderating role of political ideology on these relationships. Conservative ideology, younger age, conservative media use, information gathering from social media, and information gathering from Donald Trump were positively associated with COVID-19 misperceptions. Meanwhile, information gathering from local media, CDC, and scientists was negatively related to COVID-19 misperceptions. Interaction models showed critical conditional patterns with political ideology. For example, liberals with higher media literacy for content held lower COVID-19 misperceptions, but this did not hold true for conservatives. The results revealed a need to facilitate more exposure to alternative viewpoints to counteract the echo chamber of misinformation that conservatives appear to trust regardless of self-reported media literacy.
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.
This research investigates the effect of local media on lifestyle in Bojnourd city through correlation and applied methods. The sample size was 380 people by cluster random sampling method. The ...purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of local media on lifestyle in Bojnourd and to examine the components of local media on lifestyle in Bojnourd and seeks to answer two questions, so that local media on lifestyle in Bojnourd What effect do local media components have on lifestyle? Smart statistical software and structural equations were used to analyze the data. The hypotheses were tested by calculating Pearson correlation coefficient and modeling structural equations with a partial least squares approach. The research results showed; The average lifestyle and local media are average. Also, the correlation between local media and lifestyle variables is equal to 0.026. The value of Cronbach's alpha coefficients and combined reliability for all variables in the study is more than 0.7 and for data analysis, SPSS and PLS software were used. According to the results of the study, local media on the lifestyle of citizens in the city. Bojnourd is effective.
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