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Agenda setting: probing the issues during the 13th general election
No full textThis study discusses the development of agenda setting and its application in political communication
especially in general elections in Malaysia. The vast majority of studies on Agenda Setting have found
widespread support for a media influence on issue salience despite studies used different
methodologies and issues. The theory postulates that people were simply led to think about the
agenda as set by the media. The salience of the media agenda would then be reflected as the people
agenda, measured through rank correlation. With the emergence of technologies, questions arise
among scholars about whether the theory on Agenda Setting would remain viable in later years and
whether people would continue to obtain their news from a given number of media outlets, given
the range of new media channels being made available over the years. The discussion of this study
contributes to a better understanding of agenda setting in current Malaysian media landscape
Setting the media agenda: a study of the 2010 Sudanese presidential elections
No full textThis research investigates the influence of new media agendas on traditional news media according to the theoretical framework of intermedia agenda-setting during the 2010 Sudanese presidential elections. Upon applying content analysis, cross-lagged correlation analysis, and Rozelle-Campbell Baseline analysis, the paper provides evidence of intermedia agenda-setting in Sudanese media across a number of dependent variables. Sudanese newspapers influenced the agenda of Sudanese blogs whilst blogs have an increasing impact on the agenda of the newspapers. Our content analysis found that the agendas of socio-political blogs were strongly correlated with those of the newspapers. The findings also presented evidence of intermedia agenda-setting between socio-political blogs and citizen journalism
IIUM at 25: the path travelled and the way forward
Get PDFThis commemorative book is published in conjunction with the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the International Islamic University Malaysia
Public relations profile: report on Malaysian Practitioners 2018
No full textThe PR profile 2018 is the fifth report on the PR practitioners in Malaysia. Previous studies were conducted in 1977, 1992, 2003, and 2011. This report illustrates the current development of PR practitioners in Malaysia specifically on the following areas :
-The demographic profile of practitioners
-The roles of practitioners
-The ethical values and professionalism
-Job satisfaction
-Social media usage
-PR and crisis management
-PR and corporate social responsibilit
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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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