Actors in foreign television news: a comparative analysis

Foreign News about events that takes place in other country Actors are defined as people who appear in the item (as individuals or as representing some entity) speaking or being quoted (directly or indirectly)

Corruption in building the image of politics in television news broadcasts

This work analyses the political news of eight Spanish television channels in order to see what image is built of politics, and particularly how the news of corruption affects the image of politics in Spanish news broadcasts. Different cases of corruption such as Gürtel, Palma Arena and those associated with judge Baltasar Garzón in his final stage in office, occupy part of the study. A new methodology is therefore proposed that enables the quality of the political information emitted from inside and outside the political content of the news programmes to be observed. Particular attention is paid to the news broadcasts of Televisión Española and Cuatro as those which offer a more balanced view of politics, and channels such as La Sexta, which give priority to a narrative construction of politics in the news programmes around causes of corruption.

Cross-Lingual Linking of News Stories using ESA

In this paper, we describe our approach for Cross-Lingual linking of Indian news stories, submitted for Cross-Lingual Indian News Story Search (CL!NSS) task at FIRE 2012. Our approach consists of two major steps, the reduction of search space by using di�erent features and ranking of the news stories according to their relatedness scores. Our approach uses Wikipedia-based Cross-Lingual Explicit Semantic Analysis (CLESA) to calculate the semantic similarity and relatedness score between two news stories in di�erent languages. We evaluate our approach on CL!NSS dataset, which consists of 50 news stories in English and 50K news stories in Hindi.

Summarising News Stories for Children

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Media influence to suicide: The search for solutions

This review explores the influence to suicide in print and electronic media, and considers both real and fictional deaths. The conclusion appears inescapable that reports about celebrities which are multi-modal, repeated, explicit, front page, glorify the suicide, and describe the method lead to an increase in deaths from suicide, particularly in the region in which reports are published. The paper argues that even if there was multi-national agreement to international guidelines, media will continue to report suicide when it is considered to be a matter of public interest. What appears crucial is a collaborative approach between professionals and the media to promote a negative attitude toward suicide without increasing stigma toward those with mental health problems.

Tavallisia tarinoita : rivikansalaiset television uutisjutuissa

Tässä opinnäytetyössä käsittelen tavallisia ihmisiä televisiouutisten jutuissa käyttäen esimerkkeinä uutisjuttuja Nelosen ja MTV3:n kotimaan uutisista. Tavoitteeni on tutkia tavallisen ihmisen rooleja ja tehtäviä television uutisjutuissa, sekä tarkastella ”rivikansalaisten” käyttämistä uutisjutuissa toimittajantyön kannalta. Valotan sitä, mitä MTV3 ja Nelonen uutisillaan tavoittelevat, millaisista lähtökohdista kanavat toimivat ja miten kanavien arvot vaikuttavat tavallisten ihmisen esiintymiseen uutisjutuissa. Esittelen ja analysoin erilaisia juttutyyppejä, joissa tavallisia ihmisiä uutisissa esiintyy, pohdin millaisia tarinoita ja sisältöjä heidän kannaltaan kerrotaan ja millaisissa rooleissa he esiintyvät. Pohdin myös sitä, mitä lisäarvoa tavallisilla ihmisillä uutisjuttuihin haetaan ja sitä, voisiko arjen näkökulmaa laajentaa niistä juttutyypeistä, joissa se nyt jo esiintyy. Tarkastelen omien kokemuksieni pohjalta myös, millaisia käytännöllisiä, moraalisia ja journalistisia pulmia ja mahdollisuuksia tavallisten ihmisten käyttämiseen television uutisjutuissa liittyy. Käsittelen myös sitä, mihin tavalliset ihmiset asettuvat uutisten hierarkiassa, ja miten heidän esiintymisensä uutisjutuissa vaikuttaa uutisen objektiivisuuteen. Tavallinen ihminen on uutisjutussa elävöittävä kokija, toimija tai passiivinen toiminnan kohde. Hän voi esiintyä lähes minkä tahansa tyyppisessä uutisjutussa kuvittajana, kommentoijana, uutiskuorman keventäjänä tai jutulle rakenteen antavana tapauksena. Tavalliset ihmiset esiintyvät televisiouutisten gallupeissa tai avaamassa keskustelunaiheita elämäntilanteellaan. Usein he esiintyvät toimittajan tai toimituksen alter egoina, ottavat kantaa asioihin vapaina uutishuoneen objektiivisen totuuden oletusarvosta. Televisio on arkinen, perhekeskeinen ja tasa-arvoinen väline, joka joutuu taistelemaan huomiosta kodin muiden tapahtumien kanssa. Viihtymisen kannalta on olennaista kuvata ihmiskasvoja, tehdä uutisista tarinoita ja tarjota samaistuttavia elementtejä katsojalle. Vaikka monet tutkijat sijoittavat tavallisen ihmisen uutishierarkian alimmalle portaalle, heillä on uutisjutuissa viihdyttäjän osan ohella tärkeä tehtävä totuudenpuhujina.

La modification des pratiques journalistiques et du contenu des nouvelles télévisées, du quotidien à la situation de crise : analyse France/Québec

Thèse réalisée en cotutelle avec l'Institut d’études politiques d'Aix-en-Provence, École doctorale de Sciences Po, Programme doctoral en sciences de l’information et de la communication

Entre o ler e o assistir: experiências de leitura de textos em movimento do telejornalismo news na escola

Pós-graduação em Educação - FFC

Amazônias na TV: a presença local no telejornalismo nacional

A presente pesquisa analisa as representações sobre a região amazônica expressas em dois telejornais exibidos no horário nobre da televisão brasileira. A partir da perspectiva das representações sociais e das teorias do telejornalismo, foram analisados quatro parâmetros: os conceitos de Amazônia adotados nas notícias e reportagens; as representações dos estados da Amazônia Legal e sua relação com a região; os temas segundo os quais a Amazônia aparece em rede nacional; e as diferenciações nas matérias jornalísticas conforme a ausência e presença dos Núcleos de rede locais no processo de produção dos conteúdos. Para tal foram observados os telejornais exibidos entre 14 de junho e 09 de outubro de 2010, totalizando 101 textos jornalísticos. As representações sobre a região parecem estar, neste período, intimamente relacionadas as discursões de desenvolvimento sustentável.

Gestão de imagens em movimento de matérias jornalísticas em banco de dados na TV Digital

Pós-graduação em Televisão Digital: Informação e Conhecimento - FAAC

Espaços de exclusão e subjetividades do exílio: sobre Angu, de sangue, de Marcelino Freire

The paper aims to examine the work of Marcelino Freire, Angu de sangue (2000), from a poetic of identity with the black narratives and experiences of characters who participate in a space of exclusion, violence and social exile. Overall, the book deals with death and violence so raw and without idealizations. The characters struggle to survive in a cruel formo f life and denote the suffering and despair of those marked by peripheral situation. By proposing an analysis of tales of Angu de sangue, the work presented here reflects on a poetics of exclusion that runs the seventeen tales that make up the work in dialogue with images and internal references (through the images that illustrate the stories), and on the other hand, with pictures and references to the urban context of the excluded, represented on the pages of newspapers, magazines and television news.

Representations of workplace psychological harassment in print news media

OBJECTIVE: To analyze discourses on workplace psychological harassment in print media. METHODOLOGICAL PROCEDURES: Documental study on workplace psychological harassment that analyzed news stories published in three major newspapers of the State of Sao Paulo (southeastern Brazil) between 1990 and 2008. Discourse analysis was performed to identify discursive practices that reflect the phenomenon of psychological harassment in today's society, explanations for its occurrence and impact on workers' health. RESULT ANALYSIS: This theme emerged in the media through the dissemination of books, academic research production and laws. It was initially published in general news then in jobs and/or business sections. Discourses on compensation and precautionary business practices and coping strategies are widespread. Health-related aspects are foregone under the prevailing money-based rationale. Corporate cultures are permissive regarding psychological harassment and conflicts are escalated while working to achieve goals and results. Indifference, embarrassment, ridicule and demean were common in the news stories analyzed. CONCLUSIONS: The causal explanations of workplace harassment tend to have a psychological interpretation with emphasis on individual and behavioral characteristics, and minimizing a collective approach. The discourses analyzed trivialized harassment by creating caricatures of the actors involved. People apprehend its psychological content and stigmatization which contributes to making workplace harassment an accepted practice and trivializing work-related violence.