What’s love got to do with it? Framing ‘JihadJane’ in the US press

The purpose of this article is to compare and contrast the US press coverage accorded to female terrorist plotter, Colleen LaRose, with that of two male terrorist plotters in order to test whether assertions in the academic literature regarding media treatment of women terrorists stand up to empirical scrutiny. The authors employed TextSTAT software to generate frequency counts of all words contained in 150 newspaper reports on their three subjects and then slotted relevant terms into categories fitting the commonest female terrorist frames, as identified by Nacos’s article in Studies in Conflict and Terrorism (2005). The authors’ findings confirm that women involved in terrorism receive significantly more press coverage and are framed vastly differently in the US press than their male counterparts

Getting Local: How Nonprofit News Ventures Seek Sustainability

Examines eight nonprofit news ventures' mission, audience, reach, and social impact; revenue generation and diversification; and organizational adaptability, innovation, and resource allocation as critical elements of long-term sustainability

A study of the skills, education and qualifications of nurses performing dermatological surgery in the United Kingdom

Background: There has been a significant expansion of the nurse’s role in thefield of dermatological surgery in recent years. Yet, how this role has developedvaries significantly from Trust to Trust, and anecdotal evidence indicates a highdegree of inconsistency in the clinical roles undertaken.Aim: This study aims to explore the skills, education, and qualifications of nurse’s performing dermatological surgery in the United Kingdom. Findings being used to determine the training and supervision needs of nurse surgeons and implications for high quality care provision.Method: Data was collected using an electronic online questionnaire, distributednationally to members of the British Dermatological Nursing Group (BDNG).Specifically, nurses identifying as nurse surgeons were targeted.Results: 56 nurses responded and the findings demonstrate significant variations in the advanced roles adopted, the levels of education undertaken and the clinical supervision provided.Conclusion: It is clear from the findings that there are unacceptable variations inthe support and education offered to nurse undertaking dermatological surgeryin the UK making it difficult to benchmark care services

”Don’t Say Gay” : Critical Discourse Analysis on Discursive Structures and Ideologies in U.S. News Coverage of Florida’s “Parental Rights in Education” Bill

This thesis examines the discourse in U.S. online newspapers about the Parental Rights in Education bill, which passed Florida legislation in March of 2022 and took effect in June of the same year. The bill is labelled as controversial by many media and criticised for being anti-LGBT+. This study uses Critical Discourse Analysis and focuses on the social issues of comprehensive sexuality education and media impact and transparency. Using corpus-collected data of 50 online news articles, this thesis aims to find out what kind of language elements related to sexuality education and related legislation are found in the data and what ideologies these elements indicate. The study also examines directness and indirectness in the language. The methods of the study are modelled and modified after the works of Reisigl and Wodak and van Dijk. The analysis is done manually by reading the data and applying techniques of close reading and examining the language and its broad meanings. The study aims for a triangulated perspective, meaning that the analysis considers not only the findings but also theoretical background and situational, political, and cultural context. The findings of the study show that ideologies are present in the news discourse. Considering the social issue, this thesis argues that comprehensive sexuality education is vital for children’s well-being, and media reporting about such topics have power in how they are perceived, as well as how topic-related laws are interpreted

Crime scripting: A systematic review

The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version.More than two decades after the publication of Cornish’s seminal work about the script-theoretic approach to crime analysis, this article examines how the concept has been applied in our community. The study provides evidence confirming that the approach is increasingly popular; and takes stock of crime scripting practices through a systematic review of over one hundred scripts published between 1994 and 2018. The results offer the first comprehensive picture of this approach, and highlights new directions for those interested in using data from cyber-systems and the Internet of Things to develop effective situational crime prevention measures

Scalable distributed event detection for Twitter

Social media streams, such as Twitter, have shown themselves to be useful sources of real-time information about what is happening in the world. Automatic detection and tracking of events identified in these streams have a variety of real-world applications, e.g. identifying and automatically reporting road accidents for emergency services. However, to be useful, events need to be identified within the stream with a very low latency. This is challenging due to the high volume of posts within these social streams. In this paper, we propose a novel event detection approach that can both effectively detect events within social streams like Twitter and can scale to thousands of posts every second. Through experimentation on a large Twitter dataset, we show that our approach can process the equivalent to the full Twitter Firehose stream, while maintaining event detection accuracy and outperforming an alternative distributed event detection system

The Visual Art Critic: A Survey of Art Critics at General Interest News Publications in America

Examines whether art critics provide sufficient exposure for artists and art institutions, given the recent dynamic growth in the visual arts over the past two decades