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Social Media in Political Campaigning Around the World: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges
Full text linkThis is a manuscript of an article published as Dimitrova, Daniela V., and Jörg Matthes. "Social Media in Political Campaigning Around the World: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges." Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly 95, no. 2 (2018): 333-342. DOI: 10.1177/1077699018770437. Posted with permission.</p
Analysis of the BBC News online coverage of the Iraq War
Full text linkThe BBC and its coverage of the 2003 Iraq War have received much criticism as well as much praise around the world. Some observers have attacked the news coverage of the BBC, claiming it was clearly biased in support of the war, serving as a propaganda tool for the British government. Others have credited the BBC for its in-depth reporting from the war zone, juxtaposing it to the blatantly patriotic U.S. news coverage. This chapter examines the news coverage the BBC provided on its Web site during the 2003 Iraq War and analyzes the themes and Web-specific features used to enhance war reporting.This book chapter is published as Dimitrova, Daniela V. "Analysis of the BBC News online coverage of the Iraq War." In Cybermedia Go to War: Role of Converging Media During and After the 2003 Iraq War (Ralph D. Berenger, ed.). (2006): 92-102. Spokane, WA: Marquette Books. Posted with permission.</p
The conditionality of source use: Comparing source use in U.S. and Swedish television news
Full text linkWhile there is scholarly consensus regarding the importance of news sources, there are rather few comparative studies on how the media use sources. In addition, most of these focus mostly on the coverage of specific events, and are primarily based on print media. To go beyond these limitations and test the conditionality of source use, this study compares the use of sources in routine news coverage in television news in the United States and Sweden. The results show several differences in source use in Swedish and U.S. television news, but also a more complicated pattern of source use than anticipated. Most importantly, the results point towards the conditionality of source use depending on the type of news story and topic covered. The study warns against tendencies to generalize too far from single country-studies on source use or from comparative studies that are based on the media coverage of specific events or a single medium only.This article is published as Dimitrova, Daniela V., and Jesper Strömbäck. "The conditionality of source use: Comparing source use in US and Swedish television news." Journal of Global Mass Communication 2, no. 1/2 (2009): 149-166. Posted with permission. Posted with permission.</p
Fact-checking and the 2016 presidential election: News media’s attempts to correct misleading information from the debates
Full text linkThe 2016 presidential race was unprecedented in many ways and brought to the center of public discussion the role the news media must play in correcting information provided by political figures. Unfortunately, the campaign season made Americans too familiar with slanted campaign statements, false claims made by both presidential candidates, and the rise of fake news (Patterson, 2016). The slew of misleading information has highlighted the importance of a specific type of journalism meant to weed out the truth-namely, fact-checking. Looking back at the 2016 presidential campaign, some media critics have questioned how well the media performed, and some even blamed the media for the election outcome (Benton, 2016). In light of these criticisms, the goal of our study is to take a systematic look at the media's attempt to fact-check the presidential candidates during the final stretch of the 2016 race for the Oval Office. We examine how the news media performed their watchdog role by looking at several established criteria for fact-checking in the aftermath of the three presidential debates.This book chapter is published as Dimitrova, Daniela V. & Nelson, Kimberly. "Fact-checking and the 2016 presidential election: News media’s attempts to correct misleading information from the debates." In Benjamin R. Warner, Dianne G. Bystrom, Mitchell S. McKinney, and Mary C. Banwart, editors. An Unprecedented Election: Media, Communication and the Electorate in the 2016 Campaign. Santa Barbara, California: Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC. (2018): 134-150. https://products.abc-clio.com/ABC-CLIOCorporate/product.aspx?pc=A5618C. Posted with permission.</p
Online Journalism and the War in Cyberspace: A Comparison between U.S. and International Newspapers
Full text linkThe 2003 Iraq War was the first military conflict in which online media played a significant role. Traditional news organizations from around the world provided extensive coverage of the conflict on their websites, reaching global audiences and adding new dimensions to traditional war reporting. This study explores how the Internet disseminated news about the war by comparing 26 international newspaper sites (N = 791) and their use of Web-specific features such as hyperlinks, animations, multimedia content, and interactive elements. By proposing a three-stage model of online journalism and applying it to the online war coverage, the analysis suggests that online journalism has not yet reached the state of convergence. The differences in online news coverage between the United States and international websites and their implications are also discussed.This article is published as Dimitrova, Daniela V., and Matt Neznanski. "Online journalism and the war in cyberspace: A comparison between US and international newspapers." Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 12, no. 1 (2006): 248-263. DOI: 10.1111/j.1083-6101.2006.00324.x. Posted with permission.</p
The First Hours of Online Coverage of “Operation Iraqi Freedom”
Full text linkPresident George W. Bush announced military action in Iraq on March 19, 2003, at 10:19 p.m. EST. This chapter analyzes the coverage of online news sites from around the world in response to this attack. It focuses on the immediate coverage of the event by looking at how the Iraq War was framed on the home pages of leading international news Web sites.
While there were some differences in the framing of the event, the majority of the coverage focused on the military conflict frame. However, U.S. online news sites did not incorporate prognostic and responsibility issues as often as their international counterparts. Journalists around the world abstained from using value-laden terms such as “aggression” or “invasion” but often incorporated more subtle cues in their visuals and choice of themes.This book chapter is published as Dimitrova, Daniela V., Lynda Lee Kaid, and Andrew Paul Williams. "The first hours of the war: Online news coverage of Operation 'Iraqi Freedom.'” In Global Media Go to War: Role of News and Entertainment Media During the 2003 Iraq War (Ralph D. Berenger, ed.). (2004): 255-264. Spokane, WA: Marquette Books. Posted with permission.</p
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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