Learning Politics From Social Media: Interconnection of Social Media Use for Political News and Political Issue and Process Knowledge

Drawing on a national survey of 1,157 South Korean adults, the present study finds that social media use for political news is positively associated with knowledge about political issues, but not with knowledge about political processes. Professional media use for political news is significantly associated with both political issue knowledge and political process knowledge. The impact of social media for news on political issue knowledge increases with the additive role of professional media news use. This study also finds that political talk strengthens the positive association between social media use for news and political issue knowledge.     

浅论“说新闻”节目的类型与特征

近年来,“说新闻”成为电视新闻节目播报的一种主要形式。文章以此为对象,归纳出“说新闻”的三种类型,并进一步分析了“说新闻”的特征及原则,提出主持人在“说新闻”要注意拉近与观众之间的心理距离,注重外在形象、巧用态势语,提升新闻品位。同时指出,“播新闻”“说新闻”各有特色,要相辅相成,相互结合。     

浅析新闻“烂尾”现象

当舆论热点沦为“烂尾”新闻,最为受益的便是事件的相关责任人和单位。“烂尾”新闻的出现,与媒体舆论监督不到位和职能部门未尽其责有关系。解决这一问题,需要社会各界的共同努力,相关职能部门和媒体要履行好各自的责任与义务。     

马克思主义新闻观的重大命题－学习江泽民关于新闻出版工作的重要论述

学习江泽民关于新闻出版工作的重要论述，着重理解江泽民总书记关于政治论、党性论、导向论、大局性、服务论、根底论等方面的重要命题及对马克思主义新闻观的重大历史贡献和对新闻工作的现实指导意义。     

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.     

Reimagining Newsroom Collaboration: How Two European News Nonprofits Are Inviting Citizens In

ABSTRACT

News nonprofits in the U.S. have been proliferating over 15 years as a way of addressing troubles in the business model for news. For these newsrooms, collaboration, with each other and with mainstream news, has emerged as a key way to build readership and attain relevance in a crowded media space. Still, past research has told us that the strong connection to mainstream news has constrained these organizations’ critique of journalism. In Europe, nonprofit news remains nascent and represents a response to declining trust in and engagement with journalism, and rising populism across the continent. Against this very different context, this study examines two players at the forefront of the European news nonprofit movement. It demonstrates the path dependency inherent in the origins of these organizations: In Europe, they are a response to a different societal change, and thus developed rather differently than did their peers in the United States, with a focus on redefining the idea of collaboration and the role of their audiences by seeing citizens as collaborators, both in the creation and in the dissemination of news. By seeing citizens as collaborators, not just readers, they work to empower and build news audiences as well as participants.     

《美国新闻与世界报道》2000年涉华报道透视

《美国新闻与世界报道》是美国三大新闻周刊之一 ,在美国社会有着较大的影响。本文分析了该周刊 2 0 0 0年的 3 5篇涉华报道 ,并与以往的涉华报道和该杂志对其他国家如日本和俄罗斯的报道进行比较 ,试图找到该杂志以及美国主流媒体在涉华报道上的议题设置、报道用词与技巧 ,及其最近的一些新变化。这些变化有助于我们正确认识美国媒体及其涉华报道的态度和方法。     

基于主题句相似度的标题党新闻鉴别技术研究

针对目前网络上的标题党新闻,提出一种标题党新闻自动识别的算法。通过分析新闻网页构成的特点,抽取出新闻标题和新闻正文;以句子关系矩阵为基础,提出一种以语句为单位的主题句抽取算法;根据句子相似度计算结果来进行判断。实验表明,本方法的识别精度可达到80%,是一种有效的方法。     

从面向“受众”到面对“用户”——试论传媒业态变化对新闻编辑的影响

新媒体的崛起与媒体融合的推进改变了传媒业态,也促使新闻编辑面对新的工作环境和工作任务。新闻实践表明,从单媒体内容生产向多种媒体内容生产转移使新闻编辑面对更加细分的用户,大众媒体与社会化媒体的相互嵌入要求编辑重视传播活动中的用户体验。在新形势下,编辑的专业素质和技术能力需要进一步提高。     

新媒介生态下的香港报业转型研究

在互联网引发的新媒介生态下,香港报业呈现出两种转型模式:一是以星岛新闻集团为代表的免费内容与规模效益模式:免费报通过对收费报新闻的再加工,降低采编成本,实现规模效益。二是以壹传媒有限公司为代表的产品深加工与免费增值模式:大部分新闻产品实行免费以增加人气,少部分深加工的新媒体内容微收费,以实现盈利。香港报业转型中遭遇的最根本的困境在于,高成本生产的新媒体产品难以盈利。免费成为新媒介生态下唯一的内容生存之道。