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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Political news"”.
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Reading between the (party) lines : how political news is seen and shared
… uses mixed methods and datasets to explore how political news is perceived and shared within and across party lines in the context of the 2016 US presidential elections. We begin by examining the impact of political context versus article content on the reader through a crowdsourced study, and …
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A conversation analytic examination of alignment and disalignment in broadcast political news interviews
… how interviewers and interviewees display political alignment or disalignment with each other in news interviews. It looks at interviewers’ use and design of questions: negated questions; prefaced questions; disjunctive and prefaced questions. It, then, examines both interviewers’ and …
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Novel weapons: the invasion of fake news and the evolution of political news ecosystems
… question: how are recent attempts to insert fake news into political news ecosystems similar to and different from previous attempts? To this end, I present a historical timeline of major technological shifts that have altered political news ecosystems, create a new framework for analyzing how …
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A comparative appraisal analysis of political news in The Namibia and New Era newspapers from 2015 to 2018
The thesis is a comparative Appraisal analysis of political news from two Namibian English newspapers (The Namibian and New Era), particularly focusing examining the propagation of journalistic attitudinal biases in political ‘hard news’ stories and journalistic ‘objectivity’. The research compares …
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Political Satire and Political News: Entertaining, Accidentally Reporting or Both? The Case of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (TDS)
… independent or critical reading of the news. Through a multilayered textual analysis of the primary and tertiary texts of the show, the research presented here asked, "How does TDS' comedic narrative (primary text) work as a vehicle of televised political news?" and "How does TDS' …
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The impact of news on the South African sovereign bond market
… sovereign bond yield curve react to headline news. Abnormal return dates in the zero-coupon yields are identified using GARCH models on the daily return series and news items that are classified into categories using supervised machine learning. A regression model is fitted to determine the …
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“According to social media…” Examining the influence of social media on political reporting within Zimbabwe’s mainstream media
… of online alternative media that carries political content, that democratisation can be technology-led. Given that the question of source selection is connected to the democratising potential of the Internet (Lecheler and Kruikemeier, 2016) by some scholars – this study interrogated the …
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What does it all meme? : a look into gender stereotypes and traits in the 2016 presidential primary campaign.
… have been added to the new paradigm of American political news consumption. Along with framing theory, the researcher used feminist communications and media theories to analyze the 2016 presidential election and Democratic primary candidates, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, as well Republican …
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Living for the city : Drum magazine's journalism and the popular black press
… first non-partisan black publications to make political news accessible to a mass audience and the study argues that Drum's coverage of black politics has been overlooked and sometimes underestimated.
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Die aanbieding van politiek as nuusonderwerp in Sarie, Rooi Rose en Fair Lady (1994-2005)
… discusses the presentation of politics as news topic in the South African women's magazines Fair Lady, Rooi Rose and SARIE in selected years from democratisation in 1994 to 2004. The basic assumption of the study is that the media has the pertinent function to inform and educate society to …
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What is citizen journalism? A critical analysis from the perspective of the South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation.
… the street are increasingly participating in the news media more than ever before. Early speculations about the influence of citizen journalism imbued the practice with an almost messianic ability to save both journalism and democracy. Whilst these suggestions were influenced by a small amount of …
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Rethinking the informed citizen in an ago of hybrid media genres : Tanner '88, K-Street, and the fictionalization of news
… how one might become informed about real-life political news by viewing entertainment programs that combine fiction with actual current political events, issues, and figures. In his book The Good Citizen, Michael Schudson claims that mere factual recall does not necessarily indicate that one is …
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Effects of Social Media Use on Political Polarization
21st century political science has seen a growing field of research focused around the idea of political polarization. While authors like Fiorina and Abramowitz have been debating the existence of such polarization, the literature has come to understand that perhaps the root of the issue lies in …
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Three essays on informed trading
… profitably in stocks that are more sensitive to political news. This essay examines the hypothesis that hedge fund managers gain an informational advantage in securities trading through their connections with lobbyists. Using data sets on the long-equity holdings and lobbyist connections of hedge …
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Mining novel sources of knowledge to identify causal information in text
… information for several day to day social and political activities. Though the plenty of information on the internet is of great use, it takes lot of time to go through a number of text articles to understand events and the causal relations between events that build a particular social or …
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Understanding Persuasive Communication: The Role of Heuristic Thinking, Context, and Debiasing in the Evaluation of Online Political Information
… such platforms as their main source for news, including political news. Given such an informative role, SNPs have attracted increasing attention regarding the proliferation of propaganda – definable as information that, though not necessarily fabricated, is specifically designed to rally …
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Vulnerability to Online Political Misinformation: The Role of Non-clinical Schizotypal Traits
… differences associated with receptivity to socio-political conspiracy theories, the current project sought to explore schizotypal personality traits as potential predictors of belief and engagement toward online political misinformation. The project also sought to investigate the potential …