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This paper is concerned with the analysis of the print media (specifically newspapers) impact on public policy making. The study examines the communications function the newspaper performs for societal groups that influence the allocation of resources via the political mechanism, It compares bureaus, interest groups, industry and plain citizens in their use of the press and analyzes differences among them, It also generates hypotheses which suggest how individual groups structure their relationships with newspapers. We expect to find that some groups have greater success at getting their policy goals published in the print media, This is because each group will face different opportunity costs and constraints from that process. The narrow hypothesis I wish to focus upon is that bureaus will have less relative costs than other groups have and that they are constrained from employing other methods of influencing policy which are available to other groups, This makes the net benefits of publicity through media higher for bureaus than for other groups. Therefore, we expect to find bureaus disproportionately represented in newspaper articles and publication views. The hypothesis was tested using data obtained from the Los Angeles Times which dealt with air and water pollution. The results are generally favorable and suggest that the approach is fruitful. / Ph. D.

A person's right to publicity may often contradict with another person's rights under the First Amendment. While a person's legal protection over their right of publicity is relatively new in the eyes of our court, this topic of law and other related matters seem to be at the center of attention in current large profile civil litigation cases. The First Amendment seeks to promote speech, whereas the right of publicity laws seeks .to limit speech. If civil action is brought against a defendant for violating the plaintiffs right of publicity, a First Amendment exception may apply as a valid defense. This contradiction in the nature of these laws is forcing our court system to review applicable cases on a case by base basis, resulting in some degree of unpredictability in the courts. Because many of the parties in these cases are large commercial companies, more money is at stake as suits of misappropriation are filed. The issue of what direction(s) the courts should take in this matter spawns opposing views. While some views suggest that bright lines be drawn within right of publicity laws in order to avoid redundant and excessive cases and appeals, opposing views contend that bright lines cannot be drawn given the unique and sometimes artistic expression protected under the First Amendment. Our courts have applied the basic framework of copyright law in order to aid in their decision-making. Courts must weigh the right of publicity against the First Amendment.

近年来，中国内地市场化报纸纷纷开设"报网互动栏目"来常规性吸纳和利用网络用生成内容。本文试图对这一现象作出描述、分析和解释。本研究从新闻常规和新闻内容两个面向，对作为中国"报网互动栏目"范例的《S报》"网"版进行了考察。考察围绕以下问题展开："报网互动"栏目的新闻常规是什么？它与一般新闻常规有何异同？这些新闻常规是如何形成的，又发挥了怎样的作用？是否帮助"报网互动栏目"突破中国媒体在践行传媒公共性上的局限？为什么会出现这样的情况？以往对用生成内容、新闻常规以及传媒公共性三者关系的研究都主要产生于自由主义传统的社会。本研究将为此提供一个新的参照，其背景是像中国内地这样的非自由主义传统的社会。 / 本研究通过对《S报》"网"版的考察发现，"网"版在吸纳用生成内容时因应出一定的以公共性为导向的新常规，这些常规主要存在于新闻生产的发现、选择、报道以及撤稿等环节。在这些常规的作用下，"报网互动栏目"重视吸纳与公共利益相关、尤其是与监督公权力相关的用生成内容，并在报道中彰显出鲜明的民间立场。但是，《S报》同时保留了既定的对传媒公共性具有破坏作用的新闻常规。这些新闻常规限制了"报网互动栏目"对传媒公共性追求，使其难以突破过往中国媒体在践行传媒公共性上的局限性。 / 中国内地市场化报纸"报网互动栏目"所展示出的局限的公共性是国家、市场、新闻专业主义和互联网技术等多重因素共同作用的结果。其中，国家、市场、新闻专业主义均不同程度地发挥了促进和破坏传媒公共性的双面作用。因此，尽管互联网科技为传媒提供了提升自身公共性的可能性，但这种可能性在特定的权力结构中被消解。 / In recent years, market-driven newspapers in China have increasingly established the "Press-Internet Interaction Section [Baowang Hudong Lanmu]" to regularly incorporate user-generated content. This dissertation tries to describe, analyze, and explain this phenomenon. The study examines the news routine and news content of one exemplary section, "The Net Section" of S-News. The exploration focuses on the following questions: What is the news routine in this "Press-Internet Interaction Section"? Is it different from established newspaper routines? How is it formed? How does it work? Does the news routine promote the publicness of the news content? And why? So far most existing literature on this topic examines cases in societies with liberal traditions of news-making. This study provides a new point of reference in the contexts of societies outside the liberal traditions such as in China. / This study finds that S-News has established several new public-oriented routines to appropriate the user-generated content. Meanwhile, the newspaper also retains some established routines that threaten the publicness of media. These two types of news routines make the news content of "Press-Internet Interaction Section" only show limited publicness as other Chinese media. / The performance of "Press-Internet Interaction Section" is the result of a confluence of factors. The factors include the state, the market, the journalistic professionalism and the Internet. Except the Internet, all three other factors construct and destruct the publicness of media to varying degrees. As a result, the possibility provided by the Internet to increase the publicness of media has been minimal within established power structures. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / 張偉偉. / Thesis (Ph.D.) Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2014. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 265-283). / Abstracts also in English. / Zhang Weiwei.

by York-kee So. / Thesis (M. Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1982. / Bibliography: leaves 106-114.

Thesis (M.P.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 98-102).

Thesis (M.P.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 98-102). Also available in print.

Just prior to the opening of the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games, a 21-year-old Georgian luger died after his sled left the Whistler Sliding Centre track travelling at 140 kilometres an hour. The following paper uses Critical Discourse Analysis and the Bahktinian notion of intertextuality to examine how Canadian media discursively constructed social media users and their sharing of the images, video, and opinions following the tragedy. The results show traditional media discursively constructed social media as outsiders, separate from the audience, and further argued they need to follow traditional media norms in order to be responsible citizens. In considering this discursive construction within the political economy of traditional media, it is suggested that one tactic employed is the creation of flak, which attempts to discredit what it opposes. Traditional media discourse, sometimes itself the target of flak, here uses flak against social media which are impinging on the political economy of the traditional media. Keywords: audience, critical discourse, flak, intertextuality, Olympics, political economy, social media, traditional media

The work analyses the principle of publicity of judicial proceedings as established in both international and national legislation.The content of the principle of publicity is defined and its components are identified,i.e.the open hearing,the pasing and pronouncing of a sentence at the hearing,the publicity and accessibility of a case file,and the publication of the court decisions.The exceptions from the principle of publicity related to the criminal acts committed by minors,protection of private life of the participants in the proceedings,and witnesses or suffered parties to whom anonymity is applied, are examined in greater detail.