Media guidelines on the reporting of suicide

There is strong evidence for the existence of the Werther effect, or the phenomenon of an observer copying suicidal behavior he or she has seen modelled in the media. As a consequence, a number of countries have developed guidelines that promote responsible reporting of suicide. Using nine such guidelines as examples, this paper demonstrates that they tend to have similar content (emphasizing, for example, that suicide should not be,glamorized or sensationalized and that explicit descriptions should be avoided, and stressing the importance of providing information about help services), but differ in the way in which they have been developed (e.g., the extent to which media professionals have been involved) and implemented (e.g., whether their roll-out has involved a considered dissemination strategy). The paper also reviews the evidence from evaluations of media guidelines, and concludes that it is too limited to determine whether the guidelines have had an impact on the behavior of media professionals or on completed and attempted suicide rates. It makes recommendations for further evaluative work, and suggests that the lessons from well-designed evaluations should be shared.

The relationship between media reporting of suicide and actual suicide in Australia

This study aimed to determine whether media items about suicide were associated with differential increases in actual suicides. Data were available on 4635 suicide-related items appearing in Australian newspapers and on radio and television news and current affairs shows between March 2000 and February 2001. These data were combined with national data on completed suicides occurring during the same period, by a process that involved identifying the date and geographical reach of the media items and determining the number of suicides occurring in the same location in selected weeks pre- and post-item. Regression analyses were conducted to determine whether the likelihood of an increase in post-item suicides could be explained by particular item characteristics. We found that 39% of media items were followed by an increase in mate suicides, and 31% by an increase in female suicides. Media items were more likely to be associated with increases in both male and female suicides if they occurred in the context of multiple other reports on suicide (versus occurring in isolation), if they were broadcast on television (versus other media), and if they were about completed suicide (versus attempted suicide or suicidal ideation). Different item content appeared to be influential for males and females, with an increase in male suicides being associated with items about an individual's experience of suicide and opinion pieces, and an increase in female suicides being associated with items about mass- or murder-suicide. Item prominence and quality were not differentially associated with increases in male or female suicides. Further research on this topic is required, but in the meantime there is a need to remain vigilant about how suicide news is reported. Mental health professionals and suicide experts should collaborate with media professionals to try to balance 'public interest' against the risk of harm. (c) 2005 Published by Elsevier Ltd.

O jornalismo português "incorporado": circunstâncias, experiências e percepções

Dissertação apresentada à Escola Superior de Comunicação Social como parte dos requisitos para obtenção de grau de mestre em Jornalismo.

Rotinas, jornalistas e fontes na era digital: o caso da agência Lusa

Relatório de estágio apresentado à Escola Superior de Comunicação Social como parte dos requisitos para obtenção de grau de mestre em Jornalismo.

Cooperação Portugal-PALOP no Domínio da Comunicação Social

The paper examines the cooperation between Portugal and the African Portuguese Speaking Countries (APSC: Angola, Cabo Verbe, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and S. Tomé and Príncipe) in media-relevant fields. It starts off with an outlook into cooperation activities undertaken by various countries in the APSC in such a field and assesses those initiatives in terms of linguistic and cultural significance. Next, I review the Portuguese institutional framework and the legal instruments for this kind of cooperation. The central aspect of the paper is a critical analysis of measures and projects related to training of journalists and other media professionals. The goal is to identify sensitive aspects and difficulties. I conclude with a global assessment of the Portuguese cooperation in the field of media and advance some suggestions for improvement.

Osaamisen jatkuva muutos : mediatoimittajan työn ja uutistuotannon kehitysnäkymiä YLE Uutisissa

Opinnäytetyössä tutkitaan YLE Uutisissa työskentelevien mediatoimittajien työnkuvaa ja sen kehitystä. Lisäksi työssä kartoitetaan mediatoimittajan työn ja ammattinimikkeen historiaa sekä lähtökohtia. Muita tärkeitä teemoja ovat mediatoimittajan moniosaaminen sekä uutistyön jatkuvat muutokset. Mediatoimittajien työtä ja sen muutoksia arvioivat he itse sekä heidän keskeiset työtoverinsa. Tutkimuksesta on rajattu pois Yleisradion alueuutiset. Tämä opinnäytetyö koskee vain YLE Uutisten tekijöitä, jotka työskentelevät tv-uutisissa ja Aamu-tv:ssä Helsingissä. Opinnäytetyössä ei myöskään käsitellä YLE:n uutistoiminnan taloutta, uutistyössä käytettäviä työvälineitä tai erilaisia mediatoimittajan työvuoroja tehtävineen. Opinnäytetyössä esitellään uutistuotannon prosessia, jossa jokainen osatekijä vaikuttaa lopputulokseen. Keskeisenä tutkimusmenetelmänä käytettiin kyselyhaastattelua, joka toteutettiin sähköpostikyselynä. Kyselyyn osallistui kuusitoista uutisten tekijää, joista kymmenen on mediatoimittajia. Muita ammattiryhmiä edustivat neljä toimittajaa, ohjaaja ja apulaisohjaaja. Lisäksi esimies- ja asiantuntijanäkökulmaa aiheeseen saatiin kahdesta puhelinhaastattelusta ja yhdestä sähköpostihaastattelusta. Tekijän omaa työkokemusta YLE Uutisissa on myös jossain määrin hyödynnetty. Tutkimuksen kirjallisina lähteinä on yksi opinnäytetyö, kaksi pro-gradua, yksi loppuraportti sekä verkkosivustoja. Tiedonhankinnassa on myös hyödynnetty YLE:n tiedotteita, työvuorolistoja, kirjallisia ohjeistuksia sekä YLE:n kanavien ohjelmakaavioita. Mediatoimittajien työnkuva kehittyy YLE Uutisten teknisten ja organisatoristen tarpeiden mukaan, joita on vaikea tarkasti ennakoida. Mediatoimittajat itse kokevat työn teknistyneen ja pelkäävät työn monipuolisuuden kaventuvan. Myös kiire vaikuttaa monen mielestä liikaa työn laatuun. Mediatoimittajien monipuolista osaamista tarvitaan vielä useassa työtehtävässä. He itse toivoisivat lisää haasteita ja vaikutusmahdollisuuksia työnsä sisältöön sekä syventävää täydennyskoulutusta.

Jean-Paul II et la communication sociale de l'Église catholique

Jean-Paul II a été favorable à une bonne utilisation des moyens de communication sociale pour renforcer les activités missionnaires de l'Église catholique dans un monde davantage sécularisé. Plusieurs autres auteurs qui seront mentionnés dans ce mémoire célèbrent ce rapport positif que le pape entretient avec les médias et les professionnels des médias. Toutefois une relecture des textes de Jean-Paul II permet de conclure que ce rapport aux médias prend en compte les problèmes associés aux effets négatifs des médias. Certes, son usage et sa compréhension des médias se trouvaient motivés largement par les avantages certains qu'ils offrent, dont il se servira avec habileté, mais aussi par les effets débilitants sur l’annonce de l'Évangile dans le monde actuel qu'ils provoquent. Ambivalent, ce pape réussira tout de même à tirer son épingle du jeu et tentera par tous les moyens de convaincre les Catholiques de l'importance des médias, toutes les formes de médias. Dans le but d'éclaircir ce rapport ambivalent, le mémoire formule deux questions sur lesquelles les analyses sont centrées : 1. Quels sont les enjeux problématiques des médias sous-entendus dans les réflexions de Jean-Paul II en matière de communication sociale ? 2. Quelles approches a-t-il utilisées en réponse à ces enjeux ? En définitive, ces questions permettent, du moins nous semble-t-il, de saisir des aspects fondamentaux concernant les apports de Jean-Paul II en communication sociale.

Vozes ativas das favelas 2.0: autorrepresentações midiáticas numa rede de comunicadores periféricos

Se, ao longo do século XX, as favelas foram representadas sob a ótica de atores externos, o século XXI marca o surgimento das autorrepresentações, trazendo à tona a perspectiva de habitantes de territórios populares. Neste contexto, o presente estudo investiga a categoria dos “comunicadores periféricos” que participam da renovação contemporânea das representações de favelas e bairros de periferia urbana no campo midiático. A partir da análise da rede de colaboradores do website “Viva Favela 2.0”, ativo entre 2010 e 2013, destacando as autorrepresentações inseridas nas páginas de “perfil” dos usuários cadastrados, a pesquisa identifica um grupo de moradores de favelas e periferias produtores de conteúdo jornalístico e cultural em diversas linguagens, articulados em múltiplas redes, com ensino superior iniciado ou concluído e dispostos a tomar parte no diálogo social não apenas como profissionais mas também como militantes pelo desenvolvimento de suas comunidades.

Jornalismo online: a construção da notícia a partir do twitter no caso da falsa morte de Amin Khader

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Avaliação dos impactos das propagandas políticas Amigos da Escola no âmbito escolar

Pós-graduação em Educação - FFC

Samba em fascículos: vertentes do gênero na coleção História da Música Popular Brasileira em tempos de consolidação da indústria cultural brasileira

Pós-graduação em História - FCLAS

O AGENDAMENTO DE TELEJORNAIS BRASILEIROS EM SITES NOTICIOSOS DE CONTEÚDO COLABORATIVO

The thesis investigates if with the free news production, people who post information on collaborative content sites, known as interacting, tend to reproduce information that was scheduled for Tv news. This study is a comparison of the collaborative content vehicles Vc reporter, Vc no G1 and Eu reporter with TV news SBT Brasil, Jornal Nacional, Jornal da Record and Jornal da Band. We sought to determine whether those newscasts guide the collaborative platforms. The hypothesis assumes that Brazilian TV news have been building over time a credible relationship with the viewer, so it is possible to think that the interacting use the same criteria for selecting the broadcasts and reproduce similar information in collaborative content sites. The method used was content analysis, based on the study of Laurence Bardin and the type of research used was quantitative. This research concluded that, within a small portion of the universe surveyed, there are schedules of television news across the collaborative content.

La evolución de los periódicos digitales frente a los convencionales como soporte publicitario

Research performed in this thesis studies the growth and evolution of advertising investment in digital media compared to traditional printed media, in particular daily newspapers. By means of advertising inserts in printed newspaper and online newspapers, the study’s objective was to confirm that digital media consolidate as an advertising platform. Throughout this study we used different quantitative and qualitative tools to demonstrate the starting hypothesis of this thesis. We used a combined methodology that included: a) joint analysis of printed newspaper “El Mundo” and online newspaper “elmundo.es” advertising content; b) analysis of advertising investment state-of-the-art; c) deep interviews to different media professionals, including advertisers, publicists, media planning, and researchers. A comparative study between the printed newspaper “El Mundo” and the online newspaper “elmundo.es” supported the analysis of contents in a realistic situation. Therefore a deep study of advertising inserts in both the printed and online version of “El Mundo” was performed. The main goal of this work was to show how advertising invesment is moving from traditional printed media to digital media The results of this study reveal that investment in digital media increases, meanwhile investment reduces in traditional media. At the same time, new reading habits along with technological innovation attracts readers to digital platforms. As a consequence, traditional printed newspapers have the immediate need to somehow engage online-newspaper readers into printed platforms. Hence, many advertisers already invest large sums of money in digital media, with marketing strategies and plans focused to online advertising campaigns in Internet. It is also true that in recent years printed and online media stopped “fighting”, which lead to the possibility of joint marketing and communication strategies between the aforementioned digital and online media. This research has different implications, one of them is that printed media seems to be a bussiness model which needs to be reinvented to adapt itself to the media’s current situation in order to be profitable and not to disappear. On the other hand, digital media must have a well-defined strategy with concrete and viable goals in online investment. Finally, it is important that new readers are taken into account by newspapers, this is: new readers mostly use digital platforms, thus interaction between readers and newspapers is much different than what it used to be when only printed newspapers existed. Media must go and be where the new reader is.

La comunicación en la red de pacientes con enfermedades raras en España

Introducción: Este estudio se centra en la estrategia de comunicación de las organizaciones de pacientes con enfermedades raras en internet. Objetivo: Analizar la utilización de las herramientas de comunicación en internet. Métodos: Se examinaron 143 organizaciones de pacientes nacionales. Se ha realizado un análisis de contenido de cada una de las webs de las organizaciones, redes sociales y blogs. Y se han llevado a cabo encuestas telefónicas a 90 organizaciones con las que se contactó, el 63% del total. Resultados: El 84% de las web está gestionada por miembros de las organizaciones sin formación específica y el 16% por profesionales. Se dirigen en la misma proporción a pacientes y allegados que al resto de la población, pero no utilizan herramientas que les permitan una comunicación más fluida. Discusión y Conclusiones: Los resultados muestran la necesidad de contar con personal especializado y con espacios habilitados en la red para comunicarse con el resto de la población.

From Underground to Elite: Egyptian Bloggers before and after the 2011 Uprising

This research looks at how the shift in the status of Egyptian bloggers from underground dissident voices to mainstream political and media players affected the plurality they add to the public space for discourse in Egypt’s authoritarian settings. The role of the internet – and more recently social media and bloggers – in democratic transition has been studied by various media scholars since the introduction of the worldwide web and especially after the Egyptian and Tunisian uprisings of 2011. But no work has been done to study how bringing those once-underground bloggers into the public and media spotlight affected the nature of the blogosphere and the bloggers themselves. Star bloggers were not only covered by the media after January 25th, 2011, they also started joining the media as column writers; a move that had various effects on them and the blogosphere but was never examined in media studies. The plurality the blogosphere adds to the Egyptian public space for discourse in light of those changes as well as in light of the financial and practical sustainability of blogging was hence never looked at in a context similar to Egypt’s. Guided by modified theories of the public sphere and theories of hegemony and manufacturing consent, I look at whether bloggers have been co-opted into the historical bloc in the process of renewing the social order and how this affects them and the online sphere. Also, guided by theories of power and media elites, I look at bloggers’ backgrounds to assess whether they come from power elites and are transforming into media elites, thus limiting the plurality of the online sphere. Finally, guided by theoretical works on institutionalizing and commercializing the internet, I look at how those shifts into mainstream affect the independence and freedom of the blogs and microblogs. The research uses a comparative study to assess how those changes affect prominent versus less prominent bloggers and compare their backgrounds. The study uses quantitative content analysis and framing analysis of chosen media outlets and interviews with bloggers, marketeers and media professionals. The findings trace an increase in media coverage of bloggers post January 25th, 2011, especially in the prominent bloggers category, and an overall positive framing of bloggers post the uprising. This led to the mainstreaming of bloggers into the media as well as public work, which had various implications on the freedom they had over their content and voice, both online and offline. It also points to a dramatic decrease in bloggers’ activity on their blogs in favour of mainstream and social media and due to star bloggers becoming more career-oriented and their failure to make blogs financially sustainable. The findings also indicate that more prominent bloggers seem to come from more elite backgrounds than others and enjoy luxuries that allow them the time, technology and security to post online. This research concludes that the shifts in bloggers’ status post-January 25th have limited the plurality they add to the discourse in Egypt.