The effect of toxicity on COVID-19 news network formation in political subcommunities on Reddit: An affiliation network approach

Political polarization remains perhaps the “greatest barrier” to effective COVID-19 pandemic mitigation measures in the United States. Social media has been implicated in fueling this polarization. In this paper, we uncover the network of COVID-19 related news sources shared to 30 politically biased and 2 neutral subcommunities on Reddit. We find, using exponential random graph modeling, that news sources associated with highly toxic – “rude, disrespectful” – content are more likely to be shared across political subreddits. We also find homophily according to toxicity levels in the network of online news sources. Our findings suggest that news sources associated with high toxicity are rewarded with prominent positions in the resultant network. The toxicity in COVID-19 discussions may fuel political polarization by denigrating ideological opponents and politicizing responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, all to the detriment of mitigation measures. Public health practitioners should monitor toxicity in public online discussions to familiarize themselves with emerging political arguments that threaten adherence to public health crises management. We also recommend, based on our findings, that social media platforms algorithmically promote neutral and scientific news sources to reduce toxic discussion in subcommunities and encourage compliance with public health recommendations in the fight against COVID-19.     

新闻传媒时代下乒乓球运动的发展路径与策略

新闻传媒时代下,乒乓球运动的传播渠道被拓展,影响力也逐年攀升。且该时期新闻媒体形态多元,印刷媒体、广播媒体及互联网媒体,都是新闻传媒的基本构成要素。而不同的新闻媒体,都成为乒乓球运动扩大影响力的平台,使得更多乒乓球运动的爱好者和群众可以从多元新闻渠道中感受到乒乓球运动的魅力。本研究从乒乓球运动的发展优势着手,为新闻传媒时代下乒乓球运动的发展指明方向,探索发展路径与方向。     

试论我国新闻语言中字母词的易读性测量

本文以近几年大量出现在新闻语言中的字母词为例．探讨其对汉语新闻语言的易读性有什么影响，并对其做易读性测量。据此，提出关于提高字母词易读性的策略性规则。     

Probable Pasts and Possible Futures

This article examines the ways in which the news of the siege and fall of Heidelberg in 1622 was conveyed, both in printed news pamphlets and in the regular letters of news written by the Cambridge scholar Joseph Mead. Through this, it investigates the ways in which contemporaneity (to use Brendan Dooley’s term) is produced, and complicated, by the time taken to transport international news in the early modern period. Reports of the fall of Heidelberg arrived in England some time behind events, and often unconfirmed, promising confirmation and further crucial details to follow. The awareness of contemporaneity across European space fostered by the availability of foreign news was complicated by its belatedness. Furthermore, as Mead’s letters demonstrate, international and domestic news networks could be subject to disruption and delay, making the forward projection of serialised news texts fraught with uncertainty.     

A Critical Discourse Analysis of News Discourse

This paper aims to explore the underlying ideologies as well as the relationship between news discourse and ideology by analyzing a news report on Saddam Hussein's capture in New York Times from the perspective of critical discourse analysis. While making the analysis, this paper studies the details of linguistic features, transitivity, modality and thematic choice which are based on the three metafunctions of language proposed by Halliday in systemic-functional grammar, so as to reveal how news discourse is used by powerful groups to reinforce dominant ideologies, and to gain profound insights about the stance and attitude maintained in news reports.     

“我对于这死亡有大欢喜”——论《朝花夕拾》的死亡意识

死亡一直是鲁迅作品中常谈深论的一个问题。在中国现代文学史上,鲁迅先生最深最广地涉足了死亡世界。鲁迅的作品从来都是直面任何“死亡”的暗示与明宣。生与死几乎贯穿其作品思想中心,他希望一切在死亡中得到生存。在《朝花夕拾》这个回忆散文集中,我们可以看到鲁迅的死亡意识标志着人的觉醒和个体生命的成熟,他的死亡意识浸染着对个体生命的深刻思考,反映其面对死亡的坦然超脱,直视死亡而后反顾自省的深沉回思。反抗死亡折射出反抗绝望的人生主题。     

电视新闻深度报道的故事性情节在舆论监督与导向功能中的作用——《新闻调查》节目叙事手法分析

《新闻调查》是国内最有影响力和最具代表性的电视新闻调查性报道专题节目。《新闻调查》通过多角度多方位地开掘故事性因素,运用各种叙事手法,吸引观众的注意,达到了良好的舆论导向和舆论监督作用,取得了良好的传播效果。     

范长江西北采访成功之外因探析

外部环境对范长江西北采访之成功起了不可忽视的促进作用：《大公报》的“光晕”效应；胡政之的“伯乐”作用；范长江的采访成果达到了人们对新闻记者的“角色期望”标准。范长江西北采访的成功实际上是个人、工作环境、社会环境互动作用的结果。     

试析新闻定义的“本位观”及“过程性”问题——对陆定一、范长江、宁树藩观点的再商榷

关于新闻定义的讨论一直是学术界关注的问题，针对较有影响的陆定一、范长江、宁树藩三位学术前辈关于新闻定义的观点进行了再讨论，分析其中值得借鉴与尚有欠缺之处，并提出了新闻定义中的受众本位观问题和强调“过程性”的定义思维，最终在有理有据的分析基础上给出定义：“新闻是及时公开报道的新近发生或发现的受众应知而未知或欲知而未知的信息”。     

春晚语言类节目的社会功能

本文针对春晚语言类节目的社会功能进行分析,指出其对年度流行语、对地域方言、对地方艺术的影响以及它们之间的相互联系。