Relative Political and Value Proximity in Mediated Public Diplomacy: The Effect of State-Level Homophily on International Frame Building

Sheafer, Tamir; Shenhav, Shaul R.; Takens, J.; Atteveldt, Wouter van

doi:10.1080/10584609.2013.799107

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“…Techniques used for this purpose include part-of-speech tagging and named entity recognition. To be able to understand which word is a proper noun, and thus refers to a potentially interesting actor, or to distinguish between "Israel attacked Hamas" and "Hamas attacked Israel" (Sheafer et al 2014) can be of vital importance to a researcher. A possible application for journalism researchers could lie in studies that do not only measure whether actors are mentioned, but also precisely in what context they are referred to.…”

Section: Unsupervised Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Taking Stock of the Toolkit

2015

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When analyzing digital journalism content, journalism scholars are confronted with a number of substantial differences compared to traditional journalistic content. The sheer amount of data and the unique features of digital content call for the application of valuable new techniques. Various other scholarly fields are already applying computational methods to study digital journalism data. Often, their research interests are closely related to those of journalism scholars. Despite the advantages that computational methods have over traditional content analysis methods, they are not commonplace in digital journalism studies. To increase awareness of what computational methods have to offer, we take stock of the toolkit and show the ways in which computational methods can aid journalism studies. Distinguishing between dictionary-based approaches, supervised machine learning, and unsupervised machine learning, we present a systematic inventory of recent applications both inside as well as outside journalism studies. We conclude with suggestions for how the application of new techniques can be encouraged.

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Section: Unsupervised Methodsmentioning

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2015

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“…Huntington's (1996) arguments have been controversial, we follow Sheafer et al (2014) in arguing that we are simply interested in the idea that there may be differences…”

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The view from above (and below): A comparison of American, British, and Arab news coverage of US drones

Sheets¹,

Rowling

Jones

2015

Media, War & Conflict

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In recent years, the United States has significantly expanded its use of drone warfare. Experts are divided: some defend drones as a legal, effective way to target terrorists while others suggest drones are inaccurate and contribute to anti-Americanism. In addition, international public opinion differs starkly with Americans largely supportive of the program while publics across the globe condemn it. Suspecting news coverage might play a pivotal role in these differences, the authors explored the framing of the US drone program in American, British, and Arab news coverage. Consistent with research on social identity theory and ethnocentrism in news, they find that US coverage was more likely to frame the policy favorably -emphasizing its legality, strategic value and technological sophistication while downplaying civilian deaths -while British and, to a greater extent, Arab coverage was more critical. The authors discuss how these findings build on existing theory and explore the implications for US drone policy.

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“…News outlets decide which events are worthy of their attention, how to devote their scarce resources to cover the events, and how they interpret the events for their target audience. Previous scholarship on international news flows demonstrates systematic patterns of foreign news coverage, where factors such as the status of a country [12][13][14][15]; economic development [16][17][18]; geographical proximity [16,19,20]; the presence of troops [16]; population size [19]; international trade [21][22][23]; and news agency accessibility [21] influence the spread of information from newsworthy events to more distant communities. While this literature explains the frequency and distribution of foreign news, it offers less insight into how local news organizations cover foreign events [24].…”

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How Development Affects News Media Coverage of Earthquakes: Implications for Disaster Risk Reduction in Observing Communities

Jamieson

Belle

2019

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Previous research suggests that lesson-drawing news coverage of disasters can create windows of opportunity for policy learning in the observing communities. This is especially important for cities facing similar vulnerabilities to disaster-affected communities, where they can learn from their events to pursue disaster risk reduction policies to mitigate against those risks at home. However, little is known about the conditions under which newspapers in at-risk communities provide the type of news coverage necessary for policy learning. Using logistic regression to analyze an original dataset produced from a content analysis of five newspapers’ coverage of five earthquakes, we demonstrate that the level of development of the disaster-stricken community systematically influences the nature of news coverage in at-risk communities. These results have important implications for the understanding of urban disaster risk reduction, suggesting that the conditions for bottom-up policy learning are more likely to occur following disasters in wealthier countries.

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Relative Political and Value Proximity in Mediated Public Diplomacy: The Effect of State-Level Homophily on International Frame Building

Cited by 73 publications

References 46 publications

Taking Stock of the Toolkit

Taking Stock of the Toolkit

The view from above (and below): A comparison of American, British, and Arab news coverage of US drones

How Development Affects News Media Coverage of Earthquakes: Implications for Disaster Risk Reduction in Observing Communities

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