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sj-docx-1-nms-10.1177_14614448221137016 – Supplemental material for جمال_خاشقجي# #JamalKhashoggi: Unraveling multilingual Twitter sentiment dynamics in a longitudinal comparative analysis of tweets in Arabic and English
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-nms-10.1177_14614448221137016 for جمال_خاشقجي# #JamalKhashoggi: Unraveling multilingual Twitter sentiment dynamics in a longitudinal comparative analysis of tweets in Arabic and English by Nour Zeid, Thomas Frissen and Sebastian Scherr in New Media & Society</p
R3.NMS_OnlineSupplement_submission – Supplemental material for Equal access to online information? Google’s suicide-prevention disparities may amplify a global digital divide
No full textSupplemental material, R3.NMS_OnlineSupplement_submission for Equal access to online information? Google’s suicide-prevention disparities may amplify a global digital divide by Sebastian Scherr, Mario Haim and Florian Arendt in New Media & Society</p
sj-docx-3-hpq-10.1177_13591053241245263 – Supplemental material for What motivates information (non-)seeking behaviors about a healthy diet?
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-3-hpq-10.1177_13591053241245263 for What motivates information (non-)seeking behaviors about a healthy diet? by Yijia Zhu, Nour Zeid, Dominik J Leiner and Sebastian Scherr in Journal of Health Psychology</p
sj-docx-2-hpq-10.1177_13591053241245263 – Supplemental material for What motivates information (non-)seeking behaviors about a healthy diet?
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-2-hpq-10.1177_13591053241245263 for What motivates information (non-)seeking behaviors about a healthy diet? by Yijia Zhu, Nour Zeid, Dominik J Leiner and Sebastian Scherr in Journal of Health Psychology</p
sj-docx-4-hpq-10.1177_13591053241245263 – Supplemental material for What motivates information (non-)seeking behaviors about a healthy diet?
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-4-hpq-10.1177_13591053241245263 for What motivates information (non-)seeking behaviors about a healthy diet? by Yijia Zhu, Nour Zeid, Dominik J Leiner and Sebastian Scherr in Journal of Health Psychology</p
sj-docx-1-hpq-10.1177_13591053241245263 – Supplemental material for What motivates information (non-)seeking behaviors about a healthy diet?
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-hpq-10.1177_13591053241245263 for What motivates information (non-)seeking behaviors about a healthy diet? by Yijia Zhu, Nour Zeid, Dominik J Leiner and Sebastian Scherr in Journal of Health Psychology</p
Episode 35: Alexis Castellanos, Author of “Isla to Island”, and Her Panel Presentation during the Operación Pedro Pan Two-Day Event
No full textIn Part 1 of “Operación Pedro Pan: The Voices and Stories of Cuba’s Child Exodus—A Knights HistoryCast Mini-Series,” the Department of History’s Sebastian Garcia talked with Alexis Castellanos, an author, illustrator, graphic novelist, and a panelist at the esteemed, conspicuous, and powerful “Operación Pedro Pan: Honoring the Cultural, Historical Legacy of Cuba’s Child Exodus” Two-Day Program that Florida Humanities, UCF’s Department of English and Department of Modern Languages and Literatures sponsored (see https://cah.ucf.edu/pedro-pan/ for more details on sponsors and the program in general).
Sebastian structured this specific episode on Alexis Castellanos’ Isla to Island, a wordless graphic novel grounded by her personal family history and the history of Operación Pedro Pan (Operation Peter Pan). By analyzing such a historic event through the medium of fiction, Sebastian argued that this is one of the most unique Knights HistoryCast episodes of all time. Naturally, their conversation expanded to what she talked about during her panel presentation in Panel One, Day 1 of the event that featured “internationally renowned scholars that discussed the political, historical, and cultural legacy of Operación Pedro Pan (1960-1962).” (https://cah.ucf.edu/pedro-pan/)
To purchase Isla to Island (strongly recommend), check out: https://islatoisland.com/.
To find out more about Alexis and her professional work, check out her website at https://alexiscastellanos.com/https://stars.library.ucf.edu/knightshistorycast/1034/thumbnail.jp
Hard and soft news: A review of concepts, operationalizations and key findings
No full textOver 30 years, a large body of research on what is often called ‘hard’ and ‘soft news’ has accumulated in communication studies. However, there is no consensus about what hard and soft news exactly is, or how it should be defined or measured. Moreover, the concept has not been clearly differentiated from or systematically related to concepts addressing very similar phenomena – tabloidization and ‘infotainment’. Consequently, the results of various studies are hard to compare and different scientific discourses on related issues remain unconnected. Against this backdrop, this article offers a conceptual analysis of the concept based on studies in English and other languages. We identify key dimensions of the concept and make suggestions for a standardized definition and multi-dimensional measurement of harder and softer news. In doing so, we propose to distinguish thematic, focus and style features as basic dimensions that – in their combination – make up harder and softer types of news
Scherr, Sebastian (2016). Depression – Medien – Suizid. Zur empirischen Relevanz von Depressionen und Medien für die Suizidalität. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. 301 S., 39,99 €.
No full textDer Werther-Effekt ist weithin bekannt – und geistert immer wieder als Schlagwort, Befürchtung oder Ermahnung durch öffentliche Diskussionen, wenn (prominente) Selbstmorde mediale Beachtung finden und damit möglicherweise unangemessen oder unverantwortlich umgegangen wird. Das Vorhandensein dieses Effektes wird landläufig als gegeben angenommen, wenngleich in der Forschung noch drastische Lücken klaffen – was etwa die Frage nach der Art der Berichterstattung angeht, die Frage nach dem Einfluss verschiedener medialer Kanäle oder auch die Frage nach einem Zusammenhang von medialer Berichterstattung und psychischen Erkrankungen wie Depressionen, die häufig auch Suizidalität beeinflussen.
Sebastian Scherr knüpft in seiner Dissertation an diese Fragestellungen an, wirft einen umfassenden Blick sowohl auf die bestehende Forschungslage zu Medien und Suiziden als auch auf den Zusammenhang von Depression und Suizidalität sowie die Wechselwirkungen zwischen Depression und Mediennutzung. Darauf aufbauend wertet er eine repräsentative Telefonbefragung sowie eine flankierende Online-Befragung aus, in denen Muster im Mediennutzungsverhalten sowie der Depressivität und Suizidalität der Befragten erhoben wurden. In der sehr umfangreichen Befragung mit insgesamt mehr als 3.000 Teilnehmenden verifiziert Scherr Befunde zur Depressivität und Suizidalität in Deutschland, die bereits vorlagen. Auch nimmt er neu die Zusammenhänge zwischen Mediennutzung, Depressivität und Suizidalität in den Blick und arbeitet Handlungsmuster heraus, die so bisher nicht belegbar waren.
Für die Forschung zu Mediennutzung und Suizidalität – hoffentlich aber auch für den praktischen Umgang von Medienanbietern mit den Themenkomplexen psychischer Erkrankung und Selbstmord – ist die Studie daher ein spannender und aufschlussreicher Beitrag. ej
"Cronica der Turckey" Sebastian Franck's Translation of the "Tractatus de Moribus, Condicionibus et Nequitia Turcorum" by Georgius de Hungaria
No full textThe Tractatus de moribus, condicionibus et nequitia Turcorum is one of the most important first-hand accounts of life in fifteenth-century Turkey known to modern scholarship. It is the work of a Christian former slave of the Turks, writing after his return to the West. Although the author does not name himself, he can be identified as a
Dominican priest, Georgius de Hungaria, who died in Rome in 1502. His Tractatus is conceived as a work of anti-Islamic polemic, yet it contains a surprisingly unbiased appraisal of Turkish customs.
First printed c.1480 when European apprehension in the face of Ottoman expansion was at its height, the Tractatus was reprinted in numerous editions, and was widely used as a
source by other authors. Luther edited the text in 1530, using the positive account of Turkish customs and religious observance as a weapon in his polemic against the Roman
Catholic Church: if heathens could perform such exemplary works, who could fail to doubt the efficacy of works as a means of salvation?
Sebastian Franck in his German translation of the Tractatus went further: replacing Georgius' commentary with his own, he used the text to attack institutional religion as a
whole and to promote his concept of a non-dogmatic, spiritual Church of individuals united with each other only through their union with God -a Church which was not closed to Moslems or members of any other creed. This translation or adaptation, the Cronica der Türckey, marks Franck's decisive break with the Lutheran cause and the beginning of his lonely path as a 'spiritual individualist'. Franck reworked his translation of the Tractatus for his major geographical work, the Weltbuch of 1534.
This thesis concerns itself primarily with Franck's Cronica, providing the first modern critical edition of this text, in a near-diplomatic transcription with an extensive glossary. The thesis also includes transcriptions of the Tractatus; of Türckei, an anonymous translation of the Tractatus, and of relevant additional material from Franck's Weltbuch. None of these texts has been published in full in a modern edition.
In the Introduction Franck's Cronica is compared in detail with the Tractatus, highlighting the changes that occur in translation; the character and the significance of these changes are then discussed. It is established that Franck, whilst being unwilling to reverse any of Georgius' value judgements on Islam and Turkish culture, is highly selective in his choice of material for translation, and frequently gives the text new nuances and adds his own
comment. The question of the Tractatus' influence on Franck's further development as a writer and thinker is also raised.
The investigation then turns to Franck's use of the Tractatus material in his Weltbuch. His eclecticism becomes apparent in this text, in which Georgius' account is juxtaposed - but not synthesised - with material from other sources, often of lesser veracity and greater anti-Islamic bias. Franck's distortion of the Tractatus material to suit his own line of argument is clearly discernible: from the unique phenomenon presented in the Tractatus the Turks
become one more example of the general human tendency to externalise and dogmatise faith.
In addition, the transmission of Cronica and Türckei is examined, and the relationship between these two translations is clarified: Franck certainly used Türckei in writing his Cronica, but is unlikely to be the author of the anonymous work
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