An Automatic Method to Identify Citations to Journals in News Stories: A Case Study of UK Newspapers Citing Web of Science Journals

Purpose: Communicating scientific results to the public is essential to inspire future researchers and ensure that discoveries are exploited. News stories about research are a key communication pathway for this and have been manually monitored to assess the extent of press coverage of scholarship.Design/methodology/Approach: To make larger scale studies practical, this paper introduces an automatic method to extract citations from newspaper stories to large sets of academic journals. Curated ProQuest queries were used to search for citations to 9,639 Science and3,412 Social Science Web of Science(WoS) journals from eight UK daily newspapers during2006–2015. False matches were automatically filtered out by a new program, with 94% of the remaining stories meaningfully citing research.Findings: Most Science(95%) and Social Science(94%) journals were never cited by these newspapers. Half of the cited Science journals covered medical or health-related topics,whereas 43% of the Social Sciences journals were related to psychiatry or psychology. From the citing news stories, 60% described research extensively and 53% used multiple sources,but few commented on research quality.Research Limitations: The method has only been tested in English and from the ProQuest Newspapers database.Practical implications: Others can use the new method to systematically harvest press coverage of research.Originality/value: An automatic method was introduced and tested to extract citations from newspaper stories to large sets of academic journals.

Implications of NIE Project to Development of Newspapers about Agriculture,Countryside and Farmers

Through analyzing current situations of newspapers about agriculture,countryside and farmers and problems impairing development of these newspapers,this paper presents constructive recommendations for combination with NIE project at operational level.In China,NIE project should not copy foreign experience,but should proceed from rural realities,expend its intension and enrich its extension,and extend coverage of newspaper to all levels in rural areas.In addition,it is recommended to explore new approaches and find a new development road of newspapers about agriculture,countryside and farmers through transforming the publishing mode.

Suicide in Nigeria:observations from the content analysis of newspapers

Background Suicide is a global public health problem and Nigeria is one of the epicentres of suicide in the world.However,there is a dearth of research exploring the epidemiological aspects of suicide in Nigeria.Aim To examine the demographic information and precipitating events for suicides in Nigeria by analysing the contents of newspaper reports of suicide.Methods We searched,collected,and analysed published news reports about suicide from 10 English newspapers in Nigeria.A total of 350 suicide reports were assessed between January 2010 and December 2019 after screening and sorting.Results The mean(SD)age of the reported cases was 36.33(15.48)years.Majority of the reported cases were male(80.6%),married(51.8%),students(33.6%),living in a semi-urban area(40.3%)and among the age group of 25-34(25.3%).Hanging(48.6%)and poisoning(32.2%)were the most commonly reported methods of suicide.Financial constraints and marital conflicts were most commonly assumed precipitating factors.Conclusion This study suggests that being male,married,or living in semi-urban areas are associated with suicide in Nigeria.Further community-based studies are warranted to generalise the findings and adopt appropriate preventive strategies.

Opportunities and Challenges:Chinese Newspapers in Transition

Chinese newspaper industry has entered into a new historical period;the prospect of newspaper is becoming an important topic of academic and industrial.Facing the media ecological reconstruction brought by media convergence,mobile circumstance,and internet plus,the norm of newspaper media in the past has been broken,facing new adjustment.Newspaper explored with hard since it confronted both opportunities and challenges.This article summarizes the basic situation and main advantages of newspaper media development.By analyzing newspaper transformation practice,this paper tries to discuss the future direction and what newspaper media can achieve in view of the current main difficulties.The analysis of the essence and effect of newspaper transformation,as well as the rationalization proposals,will be beneficial for newspaper media to recognize the situation,find the correct position,and create expression,so as to meet both opportunities and challenges.

Interactivity Features of Online Newspapers:Use and Effect on Gratification Among Zambian Readers

Interactivity in online newspapers is the focus of this chapter in eliciting readers’evaluation of Zambian online newspapers.This aspect of the study investigates and characterises the motivations(gratification sought)for use of interactivity features(“process motivation”)and how widely they are used.It also attempts to ascertain the gratification obtained from their use among readers.The probable relationships between use of the interactivity features(“audience interactivity”)and gratification obtained from them(“process gratification”)and the impact of the perceived credibility of the online newspapers on gratification are also examined.Past studies present mixed results on use of interactivity and gratification obtained from it.This study finds that use of interactivity in Zambian online newspapers is at a low level,although among the three broad categorisations of features of online newspapers,interactivity attracts greater use than hyper-textuality and multi-mediality.Human interactivity features-“knowing what others think about an issue”,“chat on the Facebook page of the newspaper”,“ability to navigate on the Facebook page of the newspaper”,and“posting own comments on stories”-are the main motivations for use of online newspapers,the most frequently used,and the most gratifying to the readers.While readers express an interest in interacting with other readers via online newspapers,they seem less interested in posting their own stories as“citizen journalists”and linking up with the publishers and editors.This finding challenges the notion that all new media are catalysts of participatory and cyclic communication.

Media Response to Health Emergencies:An Analysis of International Newspapers Coverage of Early Days of COVID-19 Breakout in China

This study investigated the dominant perception triggered among the foreign residents in China by international newspapers’coverage of early months of COVID-19 outbreak in China.In total,12 leading newspapers from USA,UK,Malaysia,Nigeria,Australia,and Tanzania,with two selected from each country;and 10 samples are taken from each newspaper,totalling 120 samples.Two focus groups of seven members each were created and each of the groups separately discussed the samples listing their perception of the newspapers’articles.A control group of 13 participants was also created.Also,the views of 247 foreigners resident in China during the outbreak were sampled.Results from the study showed that in the early months of COVID-19 newspapers from USA,UK,and Australia sensationalized most of their news while some of their reports showed some political slant.However,most news reports from Nigeria,Tanzania,and Malaysia were less sensational.The results from the study and control groups were also backed by the results from the survey sample where most of the respondents said the news reports created fear and panic among them while containing less educative information.This study recommends prioritization of media social responsibility in the coverage of health emergencies.

Respect to the Tradition or Saliency to the Might?——Analysis of the Naming Mechanism of British-American and American-British Newspapers and Periodicals

This paper analyzes the positions and developing situation of the USA and the UK in the field of journalism by statistical comparison of titles consisting "American and British"or"British and American"in 28 teaching materials and other publications concerning newspapers and periodicals; based on the order principle of compound nouns,this paper further explores the naming mechanism of"American and British"and"British and American"newspapers periodicals.

Topic Models to Analyze Disaster-Related Newspaper Articles: Focusing on COVID-19

Major media outlets have run many articles on the COVID-19 pandemic.Since the public suffers cognitive and emotional effects related to COVID-19 from such reports,we analyzed and reviewed the topics of news reports.We searched newspaper articles with the term‘COVID-19’term in four Korean daily newspapers from January 20,2020,when thefirst patient in Korea was found,to June 15,2020.Topic modeling analysis was conducted through text mining using R.Five themes were found:“Changes in people’s everyday life,”“Socio-economic shock,”“Trends in infection,”“Role of the government and business,”and“Increased psychological anxiety,”which all showed sharp increases in articles from mid-February to early March and then decreased.Despite the increased psychological anxiety people suffered from the COVID-19 pandemic,this topic showed the fewest articles.“Changes in people’s everyday life”showed the most,focusing attention on stimulating lifestyle articles of general interest.Since the COVID-19 pandemic can lead to mental health problems due to severe changes and isolation in everyday life,a comprehensive response to the news focusing on the impact on the mental health of the population around the world should be made.

Do You Read Newspapers Every Day? Why?

这个看似简单的问题,要回答好却并不容易。学生在回答时的主要问题归纳起来有以下三个,现略作分析如下:1.简单化:回答如答记者问,以一两句简单的句子一答了之。这一现象在学生用英语回答其他问题时同样存在,这属于习惯问题。平时说惯了中文,一下子要用英文,不免觉得不习惯,至少会感到不自然。

Local Newspapers in Britain

Visitors to Britain are sometimes surprised to learn that newspapers there have a large circulation(发行量). The “Daily Mirror”(《每日镜报》) and the“Dajly Express”(《每日快报》) both sell ahout four million copies every day. British familes generally buy a newspaper every morning and frequently take two or three on Sundays. Apart from the

Local Newspapers in Britain

Visitors to Britain are sometimes surprised to learn that newspapers there have a large circulation (发行量)..The "Daily Mirror" (《每日镜报》)and the "Daily Express" (《每日快报》)both sell about four million copies every day.British familes generally buy a newspaper every morning and frequently take two or three on Sundays.

改进Mask R-CNN的馆藏报纸图像内容分割

开展馆藏报纸图像内容分割研究,能提升文字识别准确率,对促进机器识别取代人工操作、提高图书馆数字化工作效率具有重要意义。文章根据报纸图像呈现的特征,提出一种基于改进MaskR-CNN的算法,实现报纸图像内容分割。首先,通过优化锚框比例和损失函数,对原始MaskR-CNN算法进行改进。其次,采用数据增强、调整训练参数开展样本训练。最后,通过实验的方式对改进后的MaskR-CNN算法训练模型和原始算法训练模型进行比较,并采用AP_bbox和AP_segm评价指标对实验结果进行评估,改进后的算法训练模型AP_bbox为0.935,AP_segm为0.943,均超过原始算法训练模型。实验结果表明,改进后的MaskR-CNN算法能够实现报纸图像内容有效检测与分割。

中共中央早期机关报《前锋》与陈独秀关系述论

中共三大后出版的《前锋》月刊是中共中央理论机关报。目前涉及该刊的各类著述,多侧重其与主编瞿秋白的关系,而实际上,时任中共中央负责人陈独秀是该刊性质、定位的主要设计者。中共二大后陈独秀已计划创办类似于《前锋》这一讨论“国内外政治经济问题”的理论刊物,体现了他在共产国际影响下对中央党报宣传体系化运作的构想。在《前锋》出版过程中,陈独秀是重要撰稿人,亦参与了编辑、出版工作。该刊致力于从政治、经济层面阐发国民革命的同时,陈独秀等亦对思想文化界动向予以关注,他提出“思想革命上的联合战线”表明其在政治革命的论政场域,仍力图在思想文化运动中有所建树。

从新发现资料论民国时期顾随词的报刊传播及其在平津文化界的影响

从新发现报刊资料可见,民国时期报刊是顾随词传播的主要途径之一。顾随《无病词》《味辛词》经《大公报》的介绍而被平津文化界了解,之后其《荒原词》《留春词》《霰集词》等词集中的词作,多在《大公报》《燕大月刊》《清华周刊》《覆缻》等平津报刊中刊载。《大公报·文学副刊》主编吴宓将顾随词纳入到近代自黄遵宪以来“以新材料入旧格律”的诗词革新序列中,并将顾随视为王国维之后的承继者。顾随词的报刊传播,引发文艺观念相近的报刊编者与读者的共鸣,20世纪30年代在平津校园产生一股顾随词热,影响到郑因百、杨敏如等青年师生,形成风格相近的词学流派。顾随词对平津词学界产生较为持久的影响,甚至成为当时人评论诗词的一个准则。

论民国赋作中的抗战书写

抗战赋从多个方面真实记录了抗战经过,反映了整个中华民族反抗外侮、争取民族与国家独立的伟大斗争,堪称赋史。与前代同类赋作不同,抗战赋慷慨激昂,充满必胜的信念。同时,抗战赋雅俗并存,充分发挥了报刊文学的宣传、鼓动功能,尤其是通俗之作,语言通俗、押韵自由、骈散随意,在一定程度上消解了赋的文体规范。以上三个方面反映了抗战赋对古代同类赋作的超越,不仅体现了抗战赋的价值,也体现了传统赋体写作的现代转型。