How user comments affect news processing and reality perception: Activation and refutation of regional prejudice

An experiment (N?=?177) examined how user-generated comments on a crime news article, which attribute the reported crime to the local residents’ predispositions, affect individuals’ processing of the news and their reality perception. Participants who viewed the regionalism-invoking comments estimated the crime rates of the featured region to be higher than those exposed to regionalism-irrelevant or regionalism-counterbalancing comments, and such effects were more pronounced for those with a stronger regional self-identity. Moreover, those who read regionalism-related comments, either regionalism-invoking or regionalism-counterbalancing, (a) recalled better the locations featured in the focal and the subsequent, yet unrelated, news articles and (b) attributed greater responsibility to news media coverage for the persistence of regionalism, as compared to those who viewed regionalism-irrelevant comments.     

清末白话文报纸的一朵奇葩——《京话日报》的“儿童解字”栏目

清末北京白话文报纸《京话日报》有一个"儿童解字"栏目。这个栏目继承和发展传统蒙学中的汉字教育,在切实帮助当时下层社会民众和儿童少年学习应用汉字的同时,进行爱国维新的宣传教育,体现了"开启民智"的办报宗旨。"儿童解字"是百年之前具有特色的汉字启蒙教材,值得研究。     

The Interaction of Issue and Image Frames on Political Candidate Assessment

This study examined the combined effect of character and policy coverage about a political candidate in news media on voters’ evaluations and thoughts about the candidate. A 2 (issue coverage: present/absent) × 2 (image coverage: present/absent) between-subject factorial experiment was conducted whereby participants (N = 134) read a version of an editorial article that varied in the coverage of a candidate’s character and policy positions. Results indicated that issue and image coverage, each in isolation, enhanced perceptions of the candidate’s image strength and issue strength. However, issue and image coverage when presented in combination compared to in isolation did not enhance perceptions of the candidate and in some cases hindered perceptions of candidate strength. When both coverage types were present, issue coverage dominated image coverage when participants formed image evaluations, whereas image coverage dominated issue coverage when they formed issue evaluations. Similar findings resulted for issue- and image-relevant thoughts. Implications about the effects of multicoverage political messages are discussed.     

Visual Framing,Stigmatization, Race,and Obesity: Examining Television News Presentation of Stories about Obesity and Stories about Health

This study conducted a content analysis to examine how weight and race/ethnicity impacted how people were portrayed in the imagery accompanying broadcast and cable television news stories about obesity compared to stories about health. Five hundred and seven people were analyzed in 135 stories. Results showed that people who were overweight were often shown as an isolated body part, but their portrayal was not entirely stigmatizing. Overweight people were often shown exercising, which combats weight stereotypes. Additionally, race/ethnicity did not make the portrayal more stigmatizing. The results of the content analysis are discussed with an emphasis on the larger implications of the findings.     

新闻出版业经济影响测算：以河南省为例

在构建的河南省文化产业投入产出表的基础上,利用投入产出分析的方法测算新闻出版业的经济效益、新闻出版业投资的后向总效应和后向净效应。研究结果表明,新闻出版业具有较大的直接经济效益和前向完全经济效益,后向完全经济效益处于社会平均水平;新闻出版业投资对自身的后向效应最大,除自身外,受其投资影响较大的三个部门是文化产品生产的辅助生产部门,住宿和餐饮业,交通运输、仓储和邮政业,非文化用纸、教育和体育用品部门的总产出增量受其投资的影响较大。     

The Partisan Affect of News Seekers vs. Gatekeepers: Linguistic Differences in Online vs. Front-Page News in Campaign 2012

This article examines if patterns in online news seeking privilege stories featuring more linguistic markers of partisan affect than those positioned by traditional gatekeepers on the print front page. Online “most-read” and print front-page stories covering 8 weeks of the 2012 presidential campaign were submitted to computer-assisted text analysis (n = 302). Guided by research on online and partisan affect, this study hypothesizes that (a) “most-read” stories will feature more supportive language than stories placed on the front page by traditional gatekeepers when the news outlet has a reputation for supporting the incumbent party; and (b) “most-read” stories will feature more antagonistic language than those placed on the front page by traditional gatekeepers when the news outlet has a reputation for supporting the challenger party. The findings show how online audiences opted for stories that featured more linguistic markers of preferred partisan affect than journalists and editors placed on Page One.     

对电视民生新闻栏目主持人的冷思考

民生新闻是近年来各种媒体关注的热点.在电视民生新闻中，其主持人与节目唇齿相依，对节目的成败意义重大.面对着民生新闻节目一哄而上的热潮，如何正确处理好自己与节目的关系，使之产生良性互动，是电视民生节目主持人必须慎重考虑的问题。     

视听说课程框架内的视觉素养培养研究

该研究旨在现有的课程框架体系内,运用行动研究法,在教学常态下进行研究,目的在于探索扩充英语专业视听说课程的教学内容,改革教学方式和考核方式,将视觉素养和思想素养的教育融入语言课堂,实现语言与文化、素质与能力的双赢。     

浅论新闻媒体中的女性形象

传播媒体在公正、均衡、持续地反映和表现女性形象方面做得还远远不够,尤其在维吾尔语新闻传播方面,无论是宣传数量和宣传角度、内容,与女性在社会生产中实际发挥的作用都是不相称的。本文主要以讨论新闻报道中的女性形象以及它对社会女性的影响为目的,试图对如何改变这种现象进行探讨。     

When facts,truth, and reality are God‐terms: on journalism's uneasy place in cultural studies

This article tracks the uneasy coexistence of journalism and cultural studies, arguing that the tensions between the two fields have worked to mutual disadvantage. The article suggests that rethinking the ways in which journalism and its inquiry might be made a more integral part of cultural studies could constitute a litmus test of sorts for cultural studies. Figuring out how to embrace journalism's god‐terms of facts, truth, and reality alongside its own regard for subjectivity and construction could help move cultural studies into further degrees of maturation as a field.