This study examines NewsLink Indiana, an innovative convergence news organization at Ball State University. The first chapter briefly introduces the organization and the study. The second chapter reviews relevant literature and poses the research question: How do the stakeholders in NewsLink Indiana construct their memberships in the group in light of their memberships in other groups? Methods of data collection and analysis are described in the third chapter. Transcribed interviews from fourteen members of the NewsLink Indiana organization were examined. The fourth chapter describes the four themes that emerged as results of this study. The final chapter provides conclusions, contributions, limitations, and suggestions for future research in this area. / Department of Communication Studies

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 1998. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 106-110). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

Thesis (M.A.)--Rhodes University, 2005. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on May 6, 2006). Includes bibliographical references (p. 124-135).

To fully comprehend the complex process of news making, we must first understand that the events we read about everyday in the newspaper are not merely a reflection of the world in which we live. News does not just happen. Rather, it is a socially constructed product in which events are “made to mean” (Hall, 1978). Thus, the news plays a fundamental role in shaping our interpretations of reality - our perceptions of the world as we know it. Informed by a structuralist approach to news making, this research provides a detailed ethnographic study of the determinants that shape and produce news in the South African print media. I provide examples of the influence various factors, operating at all levels, exert within the news making process. The research focuses on the news production process at East Cape News Pty. Ltd. (ECN) a small news agency operating in the peripheral news region of South Africa’s Eastern Cape. It considers the journalistic routines and interests of the ECN reporters; how these reporters select events and turn them into news, how they interpret their significance and how they formulate them as news stories. The research also considers the second stage of selection ECN news must pass before it is read by the public - the “gates” of external newspapers. In this section, the study is primarily concerned with which ECN news stories succeed past the gates of national newspapers as these are the newpapers that play an influential role in shaping national perceptions of the marginalised Eastern Cape region. A province burdened with devastating rural poverty, unstable government, and little economic growth, the Eastern Cape warrants little coverage from the national, Johannesburg-based news market. As a result, little news of the Eastern Cape is published nationally, further perpetuating the region’s perceived insignificance on a national level. This point also demonstrates the fact that news both shapes, and is shaped by, our ideologies. News, therefore is ideological (Fishman, 1977). My findings reinforce many of the observations of other media researchers informed by a structuralist approach in the field of news making. However, some elements of news making emerge which appear to be unique in terms of other studies of news making. These elements are primarily a result of ECN’s informal organisational structures which allow the journalists a greater level of autonomy than a larger more bureaucratic organisation might. Thus, in addition to considering the structures that shape the news, I also discuss the role of human agency in making the news.

This dissertation examines the agendas and frames used by the Ethiopian News Agency (ENA) and Reuters in their coverage of issues and actors of the May 2005 Ethiopian Elections, by employing agenda-setting and framing theories. The study applies quantitative and qualitative methods and examined fifty news stories from each news agency, and forwards five main findings: One, ENA and Reuters differed in setting agendas. While ENA focused on the legitimacy, Reuters emphasised on the killings and arrests of the electoral process. Second, ENA and Reuters differed in their motives to make some actors more salient than others. Third, ENA framed Elections processes as rightful, while Reuters framed them as disfigured. Fourth, ENA framed government parties as visionary and indomitable, and the oppositions as wrongdoers. Contrastingly, Reuters framed the oppositions as victims, and the government parties as brutal actors. And finally, by so doing, both agencies reflected their respective interests. / Communication Science / MA (International Communication)

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:24:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2012-07-27Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:26:40Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 kondlatsch_r_me_bauru.pdf: 1073632 bytes, checksum: dc83b955465bd04c48d2e6de64e140bb (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / As redes e as mídias sociais têm avançado como formas de comunicação rápida e eficaz no ambiente da Internet. Sua facilidade de divulgação de dados e informações permite que usuários desses dispositivos tenham em mãos eficiente armas para a criação de acontecimentos no ciberespço. Diante de tal facilidade os mass media enfrentam um desafio de saber dosar a utilização dessas ferramentas tanto como fonte de informação noticiosa quanto como veículo para transmissão de notícias, principalmente no webjornalismo. O objetivo dessa pesquisa é discutir essa relação entre os jornalistas e a informação nascida no Twitter enquanto material de trabalho. Para cumprir essa proposta foram levantadas questões relativas ao jornalismo online, a notícia como construção social da realidade com destaque para as atividades do gatekeeping e gatewatcher, além do Twitter como fonte de informação para os jornalistas. Para exemplificar o perigo que as mídias e redes sociais representam para os profissionais da imprens, caso não sejam tomadas as devidas precauções de apuração das informações, esse trabalho faz um estudo do caso da falsa morte do promoter Amin Khader, ocorrido em junho do ano passado, quando a Rede Record, a partir e notícias de circulação na Internet, erroneamente noticiou a morte de seu próprio funcionário. Por meio de estudo do caso e de uma análise de conteúdo das mensagens veiculadas pela emissora, foi confirmada a falha da equipe de jornalismo por levar em conta apenas uma nota no Twitter e as reportagens divulgadas na Internet, o que resultou em uma gafe moral da emissora, algo que seria evitado com um rigoroso processo de apuração da informação / Networks and social media have advanced forms of communication as quickly and effectivelly in the Internet environment. Their ease of dissemination and distribution of data and information allows users of these devices area effective weapons to create events in cyberespace. Faced this facility the media are confronted a challenge to learn how to dose the use of these tools both as a source of news information and as a vehicle for transmission of news, especially in webjournalism. The objective of this research is to discuss the relationship between journalists and information on Twitter born while working material. To accomplish this proposal, questions were raised regarding online journalism, the news as a social construction of reality with emphasis on the activities of gatekeeping and gatewatcher, and twitter as an information source for journalists. To ilustrate the danger that the media and social networks pose to media professionals, if not taken proper precautions of verifying information, this paper makes a case study of false promoter Amin Khader's death, which ocurred in June of last year when the Rede Record, from news circulating on the Internet, erroneously reported the death of his own employee. Through the case study and a content analysis of messages transmitted by the broadcaster, confirmed the failure of journalism team by talking into account only a note on Twitter and the reports published on the Internet resulting in a moral blunder of issuing something that would be avoided by a rigorous process of assessment information

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:24:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2012-08-24Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:51:18Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 costa_h_me_bauru.pdf: 557444 bytes, checksum: 67167a57912938d426e3eddd9129c20c (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Neste trabalho, o objetivo é analisar de que forma o site Mercosul News, de Ponta Porã, Mato Grosso do Sul, noticiou o Exército do Povo Paraguaio - EPP, no período entre outubro de 2009 e outubro de 2010. Através dessa análise, pretende-se, ao final do trabalho, traçar u m perfil noticioso de acordo com a abordagem que o veículo de comunicação deu ao tema. Para alcançar esse resultado, são usados métodos pertinentes à técnica do estudo de caso combinados à análise de enquadramento e de dados quantitativos referentes à inserção do EPP no periódico virtual. O resultado desse processo teórico culmina num estudo sobre as representações que um objeto pode ter dentro do processo de comunicação midiática, que se dá na busca da transmissão de informações entre determinado meio de veiculação de notícias e o receptor. Nesse sentido, a relação do Mercosul News com o EPP serve como exemplo de uma maneira possível dessa representação do real dentro do jornalismo / This work aims to analyze how the site Mercosul News, from Ponta Porã, Mato Grosso do Sul, reported the Paraguayan People's Army - PPA, in the period between October 2009 and October 2010. Through this analysis, it is intended, at the end of research, to trace a news profile according to the approach which the communication vehicle has given to the theme. To achieve this result, appropriate methods are used to the technique of the case study matched to analysis of the framework and quantitative data regarding the inclusion of PPA in the virtual journal. The result of this process culminates in a theoretical study of the representation that an object can have in the process of mediatic communication which occurs in pursuit of transmitting information between certain new's broadcasting mean and its receiver. In that sense, the relationship of Mercosul News with PPA servesas an exemple of one possible way of representation of reality in journalism

Orientador: Mauro de Souza Ventura / Banca: Laan Mendes de Barros / Banca: Maria Cristina Gobbi / Resumo: Neste trabalho, o objetivo é analisar de que forma o site Mercosul News, de Ponta Porã, Mato Grosso do Sul, noticiou o Exército do Povo Paraguaio - EPP, no período entre outubro de 2009 e outubro de 2010. Através dessa análise, pretende-se, ao final do trabalho, traçar u m perfil noticioso de acordo com a abordagem que o veículo de comunicação deu ao tema. Para alcançar esse resultado, são usados métodos pertinentes à técnica do estudo de caso combinados à análise de enquadramento e de dados quantitativos referentes à inserção do EPP no periódico virtual. O resultado desse processo teórico culmina num estudo sobre as representações que um objeto pode ter dentro do processo de comunicação midiática, que se dá na busca da transmissão de informações entre determinado meio de veiculação de notícias e o receptor. Nesse sentido, a relação do Mercosul News com o EPP serve como exemplo de uma maneira possível dessa representação do real dentro do jornalismo / Abstract: This work aims to analyze how the site Mercosul News, from Ponta Porã, Mato Grosso do Sul, reported the Paraguayan People's Army - PPA, in the period between October 2009 and October 2010. Through this analysis, it is intended, at the end of research, to trace a news profile according to the approach which the communication vehicle has given to the theme. To achieve this result, appropriate methods are used to the technique of the case study matched to analysis of the framework and quantitative data regarding the inclusion of PPA in the virtual journal. The result of this process culminates in a theoretical study of the representation that an object can have in the process of mediatic communication which occurs in pursuit of transmitting information between certain new's broadcasting mean and its receiver. In that sense, the relationship of Mercosul News with PPA servesas an exemple of one possible way of representation of reality in journalism / Mestre

Orientador: Maximiliano Martin Vicente / Banca: Maria Cristina Gobbi / Banca: Isildinha Martins / Resumo: As redes e as mídias sociais têm avançado como formas de comunicação rápida e eficaz no ambiente da Internet. Sua facilidade de divulgação de dados e informações permite que usuários desses dispositivos tenham em mãos eficiente armas para a criação de acontecimentos no ciberespço. Diante de tal facilidade os mass media enfrentam um desafio de saber dosar a utilização dessas ferramentas tanto como fonte de informação noticiosa quanto como veículo para transmissão de notícias, principalmente no webjornalismo. O objetivo dessa pesquisa é discutir essa relação entre os jornalistas e a informação nascida no Twitter enquanto material de trabalho. Para cumprir essa proposta foram levantadas questões relativas ao jornalismo online, a notícia como construção social da realidade com destaque para as atividades do gatekeeping e gatewatcher, além do Twitter como fonte de informação para os jornalistas. Para exemplificar o perigo que as mídias e redes sociais representam para os profissionais da imprens, caso não sejam tomadas as devidas precauções de apuração das informações, esse trabalho faz um estudo do caso da falsa morte do promoter Amin Khader, ocorrido em junho do ano passado, quando a Rede Record, a partir e notícias de circulação na Internet, erroneamente noticiou a morte de seu próprio funcionário. Por meio de estudo do caso e de uma análise de conteúdo das mensagens veiculadas pela emissora, foi confirmada a falha da equipe de jornalismo por levar em conta apenas uma nota no Twitter e as reportagens divulgadas na Internet, o que resultou em uma gafe moral da emissora, algo que seria evitado com um rigoroso processo de apuração da informação / Abstract: Networks and social media have advanced forms of communication as quickly and effectivelly in the Internet environment. Their ease of dissemination and distribution of data and information allows users of these devices area effective weapons to create events in cyberespace. Faced this facility the media are confronted a challenge to learn how to dose the use of these tools both as a source of news information and as a vehicle for transmission of news, especially in webjournalism. The objective of this research is to discuss the relationship between journalists and information on Twitter born while working material. To accomplish this proposal, questions were raised regarding online journalism, the news as a social construction of reality with emphasis on the activities of gatekeeping and gatewatcher, and twitter as an information source for journalists. To ilustrate the danger that the media and social networks pose to media professionals, if not taken proper precautions of verifying information, this paper makes a case study of false promoter Amin Khader's death, which ocurred in June of last year when the Rede Record, from news circulating on the Internet, erroneously reported the death of his own employee. Through the case study and a content analysis of messages transmitted by the broadcaster, confirmed the failure of journalism team by talking into account only a note on Twitter and the reports published on the Internet resulting in a moral blunder of issuing something that would be avoided by a rigorous process of assessment information / Mestre

Orientador: Adriana Maria Bernardes da Silva / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Geociências / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-23T13:37:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Pasti_AndreBuonani_M.pdf: 9971086 bytes, checksum: b34a0724e3163eba2127df705c65fe00 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: As agências transnacionais de notícias surgiram no século XIX e, desde então, operam como "atacadistas" globais de notícias e comandam os fluxos de informações noticiosas pelo mundo. Com a reorganização da divisão do trabalho informacional no atual período, houve uma adaptação das agências transnacionais e um aumento do uso de suas informações nos círculos de notícias no território brasileiro. Nesse sentido, o presente trabalho pretende contribuir na análise, a partir do território usado, das hierarquias dessas redes informacionais e das transformações e permanências na histórica centralização do comando dos círculos de informação. Para tanto, analisamos o status da variável informação e os usos atuais do território, realizamos uma investigação da gênese e expansão das redes dessas agências, uma análise mais detida dessa dinâmica no período da globalização e uma problematização das repercussões do comando dos círculos informacionais por essas agências para a reorganização do território brasileiro, sobretudo a partir dos eventos, da psicosfera e da noção de alienação do território / Abstract: The transnational news agencies were created in the nineteenth century and, since then, they operate as global news "wholesalers" and perform a command on global news flows. The reorganization of the informational labor division, in the present period, caused an adaptation of transnational news agencies and an increase in the use of their information in news circles in Brazil. In such sense, the present work aims to contribute to the analysis, from the used territory, of the hierarchies of these information networks, and of the transformations and continuities in historical centralization of command of these information flows. Therefore, we analyzed the status of information and the current uses of the territory; we conducted an investigation of the genesis and expansion of the networks of these agencies; we studied its dynamic in the period of globalization and we problematized the implications of the command of the information circles for the reorganization of the Brazilian territory, especially since the events, the psychosphere and the notion of alienation of the territory / Mestrado / Análise Ambiental e Dinâmica Territorial / Mestre em Geografia