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UKRI & NIHR Six Projects Funding on Reducing Impact of COVID-19 on BAME people and healthcare professionals
No full textLive BBC News interview on government funding of over £6 million projects to identify underlying risks for higher mortality of ethnic minorities due to COVID-19 outbrea
BBC News: Disposable Planet?
No full textThis BBC News Online six-part series on sustainable development covers the future of the Earth's population, food, cities, waste, tourism, and energy. It addresses what resources can be provided for everyone and what sustainable development is. Readers can access an overview, a short slideshow, and take a quiz to determine their ecological footprint, i.e. how many Earths would be needed if everyone lived as they do. Links to sites with varying viewpoints are provided as well. Miscellaneous BBC News Online articles are provided on international views and lifestyles and the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development is discussed as well. Readers are invited to submit comments. Educational levels: General public
Comments reported in "Pollution clouds Hong Kong's future" (BBC News)
No full textI was interviewed and my comments on my recent analysis of the air quality in Hong Kong comparing with other cities in the world using satellite data were reported. This BBC report was translated and reported by a local newspaper (Ming Pao Daily News) two days later, citing it as a top 10 news in BBC. BBC News | Circulation /Reach: unknown [Ad-Value: unknown] Ming Pao Daily News | Circulation /Reach: 95,578 [Ad-Value: HKD17,070
Routinisation of Audience Participation: BBC News Online, Citizenship and Democratic Debate
No full textLeading up to the 2010 UK general election, Director General of the BBC, Mark Thompson, stressed the importance of the Corporation’s ability ‘to provide a strong and independent space where the big debates can take place, free from political or commercial influence’. ‘In this public space,’ he continued, ‘everyone can have access to the lifeblood of healthy democratic debate – impartial news and information’. Affirming the importance of BBC Online, Thompson described it as ‘being a cornerstone of what the BBC should be about’ (Thompson, 2010). As with previous elections, one of the key strategic priorities for the BBC’s Election 2010 website was to help inform the citizenry about the campaign and empower voters to make an informed choice. In the most traditional sense, this was achieved through the BBC’s journalism and a series of rich background features – e.g. guidance on voting procedures, MPs and parliamentary politics, and comparisons of party manifestos. The BBC election websites have also featured experimentation with various forms of audience engagement, exemplified by different interactive features on the BBC micro websites for the 1997, 2001, 2005 and 2010 UK general elections. This has traditionally been anchored in the Corporation’s public service commitment to facilitating ‘civic engagement’ and providing ‘democratic value’ to British citizens (see also Thorsen et al., 2009, Thorsen, 2010, 2011, Allan and Thorsen, 2010). The BBC’s news website was incredibly popular during the 2010 election according to visitor statistics. On results day, May 7, BBC News Online had 11.4 million individual users, breaking the previous record set on November 5, 2008, for the election of Barack Obama as US President (Herrmann, 2010). Comparing this to 2005, the number of unique visitors to the BBC’s election site on results day, May 6, was 3 million taking the overall BBC News Online total to 4.3 million (Ward, 2006:17). This demonstrates a near three-fold increase in individual users from one election to the next and indicates that whilst the internet might not be perceived as having had a significant impact on the election outcomes, the BBC has certainly had a considerable impact on citizens’ online activities. Based on a larger study into BBC’s election websites involving interviews, observations and textual analysis, this chapter will examine how audience participation had by 2010 become a routinised part of the Corporation’s newsroom. It will begin by providing an historical overview of how public access programming has developed within the BBC and its influence on how the Corporation has sought to facilitate participatory spaces online. Following a discussion of online participatory spaces on the BBC’s election websites, it will offer a critique of how these are operationalized internally. It will argue that despite converged newsroom practices, the scale of the BBC’s operations means facilitation of civic engagement is fragmented between competing stakeholders within the Corporation each with their own routinised practices and perception of its value. This tension has a dramatic effect not only on the dialectic relationship between BBC journalists and its audiences, but also on the type of ‘public space’ the Corporation is able to foster and by extension the empowerment of citizens to engage in ‘healthy democratic debate’
The 'Georgian paradise' hosting the Oasis concerts
No full textManchester's Heaton Park is centre stage this week as about 340,000 fans are expected to watch Oasis perform over five concerts, which kicked off on Friday night.
Dr Peter Lindfield, an architectural historian who has specialised in the city's heritage, says the homecoming gigs will "definitely not" be what the park's Georgian owner Sir Thomas Egerton would have envisaged happening there
News, Citizenship and the Internet: BBC News Online's Reporting of the 2005 UK General Election
No full textThis thesis considers the importance to democracy of online spaces where citizens can engage in dialogue on issues of public concern. Specifically, it evaluates the BBC's news and features provision on its website dedicated to the 2005 UK Parliamentary General Election, entitled Election 2005. Particular attention is given to sections such as the Election Monitor, the UK Voters' Panel and Have your say, to which people were encouraged to submit their views and comments for posting. Given the leading status of BBC News Online in the UK (the remit for which is defined, in part, by its Royal Charter obligation to provide a public service), it is vital to examine the Election 2005 website and its role in the democratic process.
The principal aim of this thesis is to analyse the ways in which BBC News Online deployed its website to facilitate spaces for citizens to engage in dialogue during the 2005 UK General Election. To achieve this aim, the thesis makes use of web dialogue analysis, which is a method proposed and defined for the purpose of this project. The case study is divided into three chapters: the first dealing with online news in which citizen voices were found to be marginalised; the second concerning different genres of online feature articles, wherein citizen voices was the most prominent source; and the third focussing on sections where people were encouraged to submit comments.
Through analysing the nature of source utterances (quotations and paraphrases), and comments submitted to debate sections, the thesis found little dialogue taking place in any of the sections on the BBC's Election 2005 website. It argues this was caused by a) the deliberate intention of BBC staff to discourage dialogue, and instead facilitate a 'global conversation', b) the manual process used to publish comments to the site, and c) people being at the time unaccustomed to participate in any meaningful debate using online forums. In this way, the thesis seeks to contribute to a developing area of scholarship concerned with news media representations of national elections, online journalism and citizenship
Snow Microbes Found at South Pole
No full textIn the online article "Snow Microbes Found at the South Pole" BBC news scientific editor David Whitehorse highlights the identification of polar microbes with DNA sequences similar to a category of bacteria known as Deinococcus. The BBC News; Science and Technology section also includes links to other environmental microbiology related stories and professional sites
Modulation analysis on bbc news website in bilingual column
No full textNazlia Masyhur, NIM: 109026000120, Modulation Analysis on BBC News Website in Bilingual Column. Thesis: English Language and Literature Department, Adab and Humanities Faculty, State Islamic University Syarief Hidayatullah Jakarta, 2014.In this research, the writer analyzes the form of modulation in the BBC News website in bilingual column. The writer also discusses about translation procedure, especially modulation translation and describe about the kinds of modulation.The writer uses qualitative descriptive method in her analysis in order to find out the modulation form in BBC News website in bilingual column. She collected the data by reading the news with source language (English) and the news in target language (Indonesia), marking the kinds of modulation, classifying, selecting, and analyzing them based on the theories of modulation which are taken from some relevant references.As the result, the writer fined 5 types of modulation from 12 data in her analysis. There are, 5 cases of free modulation, 3 cases of reversal of terms, 2 cases of part of the whole, 1 case of active for passive, and 1 case of abstract for concrete.viii, 36 shee
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