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 ha...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.展开更多
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...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.展开更多
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 sough...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.展开更多
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 US...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.展开更多
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 copie...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展开更多
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 ...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.展开更多
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 T...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.展开更多
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 conve...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.展开更多
What can be conveniently and effectively used as readingmaterials in our extensive reading classroom(ERC)?Now thatthey are living in an information era,students need to absorb allsorts of knowledge and information wit...What can be conveniently and effectively used as readingmaterials in our extensive reading classroom(ERC)?Now thatthey are living in an information era,students need to absorb allsorts of knowledge and information within the shortest possibletime.Compared with other reading materials,newspapers andmagazines published in China have their own unique advantagesto be recommended as a main reading source.This paperillustrates this idea in four parts:introduction,merits ofemploying English newspapers and magazines in the ERC,waysof making use of English newspapers and magazines at hand toorganize communicative activities,conclusion.展开更多
文摘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.
文摘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.
文摘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.
文摘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.
文摘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
文摘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.
文摘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.
文摘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.
文摘What can be conveniently and effectively used as readingmaterials in our extensive reading classroom(ERC)?Now thatthey are living in an information era,students need to absorb allsorts of knowledge and information within the shortest possibletime.Compared with other reading materials,newspapers andmagazines published in China have their own unique advantagesto be recommended as a main reading source.This paperillustrates this idea in four parts:introduction,merits ofemploying English newspapers and magazines in the ERC,waysof making use of English newspapers and magazines at hand toorganize communicative activities,conclusion.
