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Authors: Peter English (2017) - Journalists with social media accounts can face conflict between the personal nature of their posts while operating as representatives of their news organisations. The addition of another publishing platform has also continued to change the role of the journalist as gatekeeper, with more decisions to be made over dissemination choices in traditional, online and social media. This comparative study of sports journalists in India and Australia examines gatekeeping influences at individual and organisational levels. It combines in-depth interviews with 22 sports journalists with a content analysis of 2085 Twitter posts from sports journalists covering the Australia–India Test cricket series of 2014–2015. The results highlight how multi-media gatekeeping has become a factor for contempo...
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Authors: Lai Fong Yang; Antoon De Rycker (2017) - This study aimed to conduct a framing analysis on the coverage of the Law Yat incident, whereby a theft case was escalated into racist brawl in Malaysia. The study compared the coverage of mainstream Malay-, English- and Chinese-language as well as alternative newspapers. The findings indicated that the newspapers reported the incident with different intensity, prominence, news sources, news frames and valence. It was found that the Law Yat incident has been highly racialized by irresponsible bloggers, social media users and politicians in the country. The findings also reflected that race and ethnicity issues remain highly politicized in Malaysia.
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Authors: Chunfeng Lin (2017) - Propaganda has been perceived as ‘poison’ in the field of communication study. Xuanchuan, propaganda’s counterpart in China with a master metaphor of ‘seeder,’ however, has different histories and traditions that do not fit into the ideology-charged theoretical framework. Drawing upon Chinese thought and scholarship on xuanchuan/propaganda, the author demonstrates a deep conceptual and perceptual gap, rooted in culture, between propaganda and xuanchuan. Revelation of the gap is of paramount importance for studying China’s propaganda, both theoretically and empirically.
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Authors: Hoàng Cầm; Đỗ Thị Thu Hà; Phạm Đặng Xuân Hương (2023-11) - Bài viết này trình bày một số đặc điểm chính của bản thể luận vật linh của người Thái cũng như những thách thức của bản thể luận này trong các chiều tương tác đương đại. Dựa trên nguồn tư liệu điền dã và sử dụng cách diễn giải mới, bài viết chỉ ra rằng, trong bản thể luận vật linh của người Thái, mọi sự vật, hiện tượng tự nhiên, giống như con người, đều có nhân tính [personhood], đạo đức, cảm xúc và tính chủ thể tự quyết [agency], Mối quan hệ giữa con người và “các thực thể người khác” [other-non-humans], vì vậy, không hoàn toàn khu biệt, vô cảm mà có quan hệ tương liên, bình đẳng và có cảm xúc. Sự xuất hiện và phát triển của bản thể luận khoa học nhấn mạnh đến khu biệt giữa con người và tự nhiên được gieo cấy thông qua các chương trình phát triển được triển khai từ những năm 1960 đ...
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Authors: Nguyễn Xuân Kính; Trần Hồng Hoa (2023-11) - Văn hoá Đại Việt là một nền văn hoá truyền thống được bắt đầu từ khi Ngô Quyền dựng nước (939) cho đến khi triều đình nhà Nguyễn kí với Pháp hiệp ước Patơnốt (1884). Thời kì này có hai dòng văn hoá, văn nghệ song song tồn tại là dân gian và bác học. Trước Cách mạng tháng Tám năm 1945, nhìn chung vãn hoá, văn nghệ dân gian bị đánh giá thấp, thậm chí bị kì thị. Sau Cách mạng, các nhà giáo, nhà khoa học đầu ngành khẳng định có phần thái quá đối với văn hóa, văn nghệ dân gian; hạ thấp, xem thường văn hoá bác học. Thực ra, trong thời kì Đại Việt, cả hai dòng dân gian và bác học đều rất quan trọng, đều thể hiện bản sắc, tâm hồn dân tộc; trong không ít trường hợp, văn hóa, văn nghệ bác học đóng vai trò quyết định. Ngay ở những trường hợp đó, vẫn cần có sự tham gia tích cực của văn hóa, văn...
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Authors: Jiyoon (Karen) Han; Seungae Lee; Maxwell McCombs (2017) - The Sewol ferry tragedy was a major event in South Korea in 2014. This study examines the agenda-setting links between a Korean online newscast (Naver) and a Korean online community (Daum). Although each portal initially focused on different crisis attributes and stakeholders regarding the ferry tragedy, their agendas became more alike over time. Notably, the cross-lagged analysis shows significant influence of the online community (Daum) on the online newscast (Naver). This study also expands on Son and Weaver’s [2006, Another look at what moves public opinion: Media agenda setting and polls
in the 2000 U.S. election. International Journal of Public Opinion
Research, 18(2), 174–197] theoretical model for a stratified agenda, providing a more nuanced look at attribute agenda setti...
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Authors: Lily El Ferawati Rofil; Md Azalanshah Md Syed; Azizah Hamzah (2016) - This study explores the uses of Islamic television content in bridging the gap between Javanese and Malay identity among the Malay women of Javanese descent in Malaysia. Malaysian religious television programmes have constantly promoted the Islamic identifications of Malayness, enabling the Malay audience to reconstruct the culturally religious identity. While the reconstruction of Islamic identity through television viewing simply represents a lived experience for the majority of the Malay society, it has some cultural meanings for certain Malay sub-ethnic communities, such as the Javanese. This ethnographic study on a Malaysian Javanese community reveals that the interpretive engagement of this particular community in Islamic television viewing serves the purpose of negotiating Mal...
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Authors: Purba Das (2016) - This paper seeks to understand the dominant civic discourses of accusation of racism leveled against the Australians as expressed by the victims of racist attacks and Indian Government officials in the Times of India and Outlook India news magazines. The aim of the paper is to understand how the logics of the discourses have constituted the racially motivated attacks on the Indian diaspora in Australia, and how the nationalistic sentiments are fostered among the diasporic Indians and the Indians in India. The paper argues that there is a mutual production of diasporic and homeland nationalism in the face of a crisis that hits the Indian diaspora in Australia. This analysis also brings to fore the ideology of multiculturalism in Australia.
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Authors: Bijie Bie; Lu Tang; Debbie M. Treise (2016) - Marrying the psychometric paradigm with the community structure theory, this paper examines the coverage of a superbug (NDM-1) in newspapers in India, the UK, and the USA. It identifies several community structure characteristics: level of vested economic interest, level of health care available, and size of health care stakeholders as factors influencing how risks of NDM-1 are portrayed in terms of the level of dread, controllability, familiarity, and uncertainty. The finding provides baseline data for the scientific community and public health professionals in creating more effective messages to inform the public about the risks of superbugs.
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Authors: Yi Mou; Carolyn A. Lin (2017) - This study investigated how social media use and online social capital might have influenced social trust and risk perception of a public health crisis in China. It also tested the validity and reliability of the online social capital measurement in the context of a Chinese food-safety crisis. Study findings validated the impact of online social capital on social trust and risk perception. In addition, two new dimensions of online social capital scale were identified; these two dimensions are in parallel to Putnam’s [2000.
Bowling alone: The collapse and revival of american community.
New York: Simon and Schuster] conception of ‘bonding social capital’ and ‘bridging social capital.’ Social and policy implications of the study results are discussed.
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