Šių dienų žiniasklaidos raidai labiau nei bet kada anksčiau lemiamos įtakos turi technologiniai pasiekimai – naujienų perdavimas auditorijai tampa vis greitesnis ir prieinamesnis, todėl keičiasi ir pats naujienų turinys bei jo kokybė. Interneto plėtra ir skaitmenizacija žiniasklaidai kelia tam tikrų iššūkių – labai svarbu ne tik kuo objektyviau perteikti informaciją, tačiau tą būtina padaryti ir kaip įmanoma įdomiau bei kokybiškiau, panaudojant kuo įvairesnes raiškos formas: straipsnius, nuotraukas, vaizdo medžiagą. Pastebima, kad šiandien prie šiuolaikinės auditorijos (ypatingai jaunesnės kartos) poreikių greičiausiai prisitaikančių medijų galima laikyti interneto naujienų portalus. Šalia to, kaip pastebi įvairių šalių mokslininkai, naujienų gamyba tiek pasauliniu, tiek lokaliu mastu vienodėja, tampa paklūstanti besikeičiančioms sąlygoms bei naujiems auditorijų poreikiams. Komunikacijos technologijos ir prieiga prie tarptautinių naujienų agentūrų rengiamų žinučių sudaro galimybes lengviau ir greičiau jas perimti ir paskleisti lokalioms auditorijoms. Visgi kaip rodo įvairūs tyrimai, auditorija vis dar renkasi naujienas, atsižvelgdama į artumo kriterijų, todėl globalėjančiame pasaulyje negalima pamiršti ir lokalių vietovių išskirtinumų. Vietinių naujienų patrauklumą lemia bendruomenei priimtinos kultūrinės, socialinės, politinės ir kt. normos, todėl didelį vaidmenį miestuose, rajonuose bei gyvenvietėse atlieka regioninė žiniasklaida, kuri skelbia naujienas, susijusias su... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Technological diffusion and innovations are among the most important developments of contemporary reality that affect media businesses to a great extent. News production process is becoming faster and information is more accessible to audiences. It challenges media companies to react to changing conditions fast, to adapt to them, to deliver news as fast as possible and in various innovative formats, integrating text, visuals and audiovisuals. Studies done all over the world also show that communication and information technologies provide a better access to global information mostly produced by international news agencies. This way more and more international news appear in national media, the same information is spread all over the world making our news agendas more similar (homogeneous). However, other studies show that the proximity is still the most important news value factor for national and local audiences. Attractiveness and importance of local news is mainly determined by local cultural, social, political and other traditions and conditions. Local media, also in new interactive forms (as online news portals or social media channels) preserves its leading role in the cities and regions because it provides news that are substantial to local communities. The main aim of this study is to assess the impact and role of regional online media in Kaunas on the activism and engagement of local communities in public sphere. The basis of analysis is a qualitative focus... [to full text]

This thesis critically investigates how female and male opioid users are represented in local newspapers in Ohio, one of the states which has been most severely affected by the ongoing ‘opioid crisis’ in the United States. Through an analysis of 20 articles from the The Plain Dealer and The Columbus Dispatch, the study aims to highlight how women and men who use opioids are portrayed, and what ideologies are hidden in the texts. Guided by Fairclough’s framework for critical discourse analysis and van Dijk’s sociocognitive approach, the analysis was performed on three levels: text-level, whereby journalists’ word choices, contextualisation and linguistic emphasis were studied; discursive level, which focused on processes involved in the production and consumption of the news pieces, and; sociocultural level, which entailed analysing historical and current developments of drug policy locally and nationally. The study finds that journalists downplay the seriousness of (white) male opioid use by calling men by their nicknames, by portraying them as ‘mischievous’ and by using jokey undertones when referring to their drug use. Female opioid use is constructed as abnormal by use of words such as ‘erratic’ and ‘unruly’ and women are discursively penalised for failing in their roles as caregivers to children. This thesis exemplifies how language use by local journalists’ in Ohio reinforces societal perceptions of male and female opioid users, which may influence counteractive measures by authorities.

The aim of this study is to examine how a young audience perceives a local newschannel’s radio newscast which has been modified with a jingle. The study is of societaland scientific relevance as journalism should communicate truth and relevance in a waythat gives the audience the ability to independently form an opinion about social issues.The study shows how music is used and can be used in a news context and how itaffects the listener's attention and experience of news broadcasts. The essay’s jingle canbe described as a sound logo, a short melody that is used to draw attention to brands.The essay uses the word jingle synonymously with the word sound logo motivated bythe fact that the term jingle is more established among Swedish media consumers. Byinvestigating the issue on an individual level, the objective is to provide a result that cansupport decisions made during the production process within media companies. Makingthe news content more adapted to promote the attention of the listener can conceivablybenefit the individual listener, the media company that produces the news content andgroups in society that currently do not consume news via radio. The findings may alsoopen up further research on news broadcasting in radio. The reasons people avoid newslay the foundation for the subcategories and themes which answers the researchquestion. News avoidance theories contextualize the current media landscape and whatpeople prefer in their media consumption. The study is conducted with a two-partmethod. The results are mainly based on qualitative interviews done in a semistructured form. GSR-equipment has been used as a triangulation tool to increasecredibility and minimize the risk of faulty or distorted results. The GSR-measurementsshowed the physical reactions of the respondents and created possibilities forsupplementary questions based on these. The measurements only showed when a2respondent reacted and not why, therefore the qualitative interviews were still vital toanswer the research question. The results from the qualitative interviews show that alocal news broadcast modified with a news jingle is perceived as clear and partlycredible. But it is not perceived as entertaining. More specifically, the jingle's role forthe format of the broadcast is perceived as distinguishing news items by highlighting thestart and stop which contributes to clarity. The main reason why the news broadcast isperceived as credible is that it sounds similar to what the respondents have previousexperience with. The study cannot prove that the jingle has any function for theentertainment value.

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有線電視的發展至今已將近半個世紀，隨著觀眾的需求逐漸增加、業者間的競爭日趨激烈，並配合傳播科技的進步，有線電視早已超越原本社區共同天線的原始功能，發展出更多頻道、自製節目、結合直播衛星與雙向互動等週邊功能。台灣地區的有線電視起步稍晚，並且直到民國八十二年才完成立法，到民國八十四年時，全省的用戶已超過三百七十萬戶，普及率在56.2%以上。 　　台灣地區過去長久以來缺乏地方性媒體，造成中央或北部以外的地區，民眾接受資訊的機會相對減少。而有線電視本屬於地方性媒體，因此其地方新聞遲來的出現，或可適時彌補此種缺憾。不過，有線電視台成立地方新聞部或製播地方新聞必須投注鉅額的資金，究竟業者成立新聞部或提供地方新聞能否滿足當地民眾的需求？本研究的主要目的即欲了解地方民眾是否需要有線電的地方新聞報導？其使用的情形若何？是否受到其他媒介行為或人口變項的影響？另外，本研究的次要目的也同時探討有線電視訂戶的特質為何。 　　本研究的結果發現二十歲以上、五十歲以下，本省籍、無特定政黨傾向與偶爾參加地方活動者，對地方新聞的需求最多。而受訪者對地方新聞的使用情形與人口變項、特質及媒介使用行為間無顯著差異。另外，裝設有線電視與年齡間有顯著差異，認為有必要裝設者，主要集中在二十歲以上、五十歲以下之間。

Le reportage de fait divers diffusé au Journal Télévisé (JT) est questionné dans cette recherche d’un point de vue « pathémique », c’est-à-dire à travers l’analyse des figures rhétoriques propres à émouvoir le public. Ces figures sont élaborées autour d’une absence d’images explicites, absence paradoxale pour la télévision. Pour analyser la rhétorique émotionnelle construite autour de cette absence iconique — de ce creux —, on a sélectionné une sous-catégorie du fait divers privilégiée par les médias : le drame personnel.La partie I analyse la position du drame personnel vis-à-vis du fait divers ainsi que ses ressorts émotionnels, mettant en évidence l’imaginaire pathémique du fait divers. La recherche se focalise ensuite sur les contextes de production et de présentation des reportages du JT de 20 heures de TF1 (partie II). Le contexte de production renvoie à la part invisible du dispositif, aux différents paramètres symboliques et techniques qui jouent un rôle dans l’élaboration du texte. Le contexte de présentation fonde les cadres instituants de l’information qui guident la lecture du reportage. Tenant compte du sujet raconté et du dispositif chargé d’en rendre compte, la recherche aborde alors l’écriture du drame et les mises en scène télévisuelles à visée dramatisante (partie III). Cette analyse morphologique questionne les enjeux communicationnels et émotionnels d’une forme générique du fait divers au JT. Favorisant l’imagination et l’appropriation du texte, la forme symbolique du drame — composée d’images allusives et banales — vient compenser la singularité des faits exposés. / This research analyses human interest stories on television news from a “pathemic” point of view, namely through the analysis of rhetorical figures aiming to move an audience. These figures are constructed around the absence of explicit images, which is a paradox for the television world. In order to analyze the emotional rhetoric constructed around this iconic absence, we have selected the most popular subcategory in the media, which we have called personal drama.The first part of this research analyzes the position of personal drama in relation to human interest stories and its emotional mainsprings. The second part of the research focuses on the contexts of production and presentation. The production context refers to the invisible part, that is to say, the technical and symbolic parameters which play a central role in the elaboration of the report. Whereas the presentation context acts as a framework which guides the audience in reading the report in a certain way. Considering the event being related and the means to do so, the ultimate aim of the research is to analyse the actual writing of the news story and its dramatization for TV. This morphological analysis questions the communicational and emotional stakes of a generic form of human interest stories on television news. Favouring the imagination and the appropriation of the text, the symbolic form of the drama - composed of allusive and mundane images - compensate for the singular nature of the facts being exposed.

This research explores to what extent the community newspaper, Fourways Review, which is distributed to a geographically demarcated area in Johannesburg’s northern suburbs, is fulfilling the community’s expectations; how community members use the newspaper and how Fourways Review’s community journalists define their roles. The research uses a qualitative approach to collect data through face-to-face, in-depth interviews with a sample of 30 community members and eight news team members; and one week of participant observation in the newsroom. Data is analysed through a constant comparative technique. The research finds Fourways Review is accepted in the community but is not as community-minded as a community newspaper should be, which affects how the community members use the publication. Community member respondents attribute the criticism to the influence of a market-driven approach to reporting. This is echoed by the news team respondents who say news production is influenced by community, advertising and inter-departmental pressures. / Communication Science / M.A. (Communication Studies)

ČERNÁ, Michaela. Tištěné obecní zpravodaje v okrese Praha-východ. Praha, 2012. 221 s.: Diplomová práce (Mgr.) Univerzita Karlova, Fakulta sociálních věd, Institut komunikačních studií a žurnalistiky. Katedra mediálních studií. Vedoucí diplomové práce Doc. PhDr. Barbara Köpplová, CSc. ABSTRACT Municipal bulletins are specific type of local media, which are not described enough in the Czech Republic. Theses Printed Municipal Bulletins in Prague-East District (Theses) should extend the work, which is necessary for an objective understanding of the functioning of this part of media landscape. The content of Theses is the description of municipal bulletins in the selected region. In the first part, Theses summarizes the theoretical knowledge about municipal bulletins. It presents the basic terminology, legal aspects of municipal bulletins, functions of local media including municipal bulletins and ethical aspects of their publishing. Furthermore, Theses briefly defines researched region and describes methodology, which is used in the practical part of Theses. The practical part of Theses examines municipal bulletins in the Prague-East district. It brings together the list of them and analyzes some of them in detail. On this selected sample of municipal bulletins of Prague-East district Theses elaborates how are...

Sweden is a multi cultural country, where almost twenty percent of the population come from another cultural background. This study examines to what extent people with a foreign origin appear in two local, Swedish newspapers, Barometern and Östra Småland, and what role they are given. Do they appear as foreigners or immigrants or do they figure as any Swede, irrespective of their origin background? We have made a review by studying pictures of people with a foreign origin, based on name and appearance. During the time period, March 1st – April 30 th 2010, there were 2206 articles with pictures of people where 189 of them did show people with a foreign origin. Although, only 22 of these persons occurred in their role as foreigner or immigrant, the remaining majority occurred due to personal character or competence. Thus, the origin background did not matter in the context.