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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"soft news"”.
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Textual analysis, information diffusion, and asset returns
… retrieve additional information from financial news. Various software and methods of news analytics are used to quantify textual information. Text sentiment extracts text’s attitude by counting negative words and has proved extremely useful in a variety of contexts. The literature interprets it …
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Laughing Our Way To Stronger Democracy: Political Comedy's Potential To Equalize Political Interest And Political Knowledge In Community College Students
<p>Political comedy is the one off-line news source – albeit soft news – that young adults access in higher rates than older adults. They are tuning into political comedy to be entertained, but while watching, they also get a healthy dose of politics. For otherwise apolitical young people, does …
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Campaigning for authenticity
… nomination and election processes. The growth of soft news, human interest, and television talk shows required candidates to become personally available in order to connect with voters intimately.</p><p>This dissertation examines the role of candidate image in recent American presidential …
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Data journalism practises in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states.
… analysis of data journalism stories from several news outlets. Phase two sought to understand the practices underpinning data journalism in these GCC countries to understand the characteristics that have emerged in the region. This was done through conducting a semi-structured interview with data …
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An Evaluation of the Impact of the Digital Platform on Hard News Storytelling at the BBC and SABC Online News Sites
Digital technologies are impacting news cultures across the globe in various ways. In this thesis, I explore specifically how the digital platform is influencing hard news reporting practices at the online news websites of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and the South African …