The take a break campaign? National print media reporting of the election

The take a break campaign? National print media reporting of the electio

The North East Regional Assembly Campaign : a media content analysis

The Electoral Commission commissioned an analysis of media coverage during the referendum campaign on the proposal for a Regional Assembly in the North East of England in November 2004. The Communication Research Centre of Loughborough University (LUCRC) was awarded the tender to the design, conduct and analyse this research

Same campaign, differing agendas : analysing news media coverage of the 2005 General Election

This analysis of the 2005 general election focuses on the way the formal campaign was reported, in their different ways, by national and local broadcasters and newspapers. Having assessed how much attention the various news media devoted to the election, Norris et al’s (1999) tri-partite distinction between the so-called ‘stop watch’, ‘agenda’ and ‘directional’ balances is applied to explore the relative prominence and positive/negative attention given to competing actors and issues. The analysis also compares how the major respective broadcasters and newspapers covered the campaign from their national (UK wide, Scottish and Welsh) and local (East Midlands) perspectives. There is further discussion of how the rival sectors (i.e. ‘popular’, ‘mid-market’ and ‘quality’ press, radio and television) reported the election in quite distinctive ways for their particular audiences. Various other themes, notably the ‘presidential’, ‘soundbite’, partisan and gendered nature of the coverage are considered. It is demonstrated how certain news media promoted the issues of ‘Iraq’, ‘Immigration and Asylum’ and ‘Impropriety’ onto the agenda at different stages during the campaign. By comparison other important policy areas were largely neglected. The conclusion discusses whether it is still possible to conceive of a singular ‘media agenda’ during a general election campaign

The BBC’s reporting of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

The purpose of this report is to provide evidence in the form of a content analysis of the BBC’s reporting of what the BBC calls the ‘Israeli-Palestinian conflict’. The report, commissioned by the BBC’s Board of Governors, is intended to aid the Independent Panel, appointed by the BBC’s Board of Governors, to come to a judgment concerning whether the BBC’s reporting of this subject is impartial. It is informed by our experience of news media content analysis in many fields, and is designed to provide accurate and robust data on the content of BBC and other media news coverage of this conflict in a defined period

Reporting the 2005 U.K. General Election

This report presents the findings of an extensive audit of media coverage of the 2005 UK General Election conducted by the Communication Research Centre, Loughborough University on behalf of the Electoral Commission. The report is organised into the following chapters: Chapter 1: Mapping Media Coverage of the 2005 UK General Election: the results of the quantitative analysis of media content (pages 7-43) (David Deacon, Dominic Wring & Peter Golding). Chapter 2: Politics as an Appearance and Reality Show: the results of the analysis of qualitative aspects of coverage (pages 44-59) (Michael Billig). Chapter 3: The Internet and the UK General Election (pages 60 - 71) (John Downey and Scott Davidson). Chapter 4: Women’s Magazines during the election (pages 72 - 75) (Dominic Wring and David Deacon)

The digital face and deepfakes on screen

Though long fundamental to portraiture, cinema, television, and surveillance, the human face is emerging as a central object of critical ambivalence in the digital era. Tensions across the face’s many functions as biological fact and image, as social identity marker, as interface between private self and public space, as site of self-revelation, as mask, and as commodity, are increasingly troubled. On the one hand, the face’s biometric coordinates act as passwords for devices, and identity markers to track our activities and movements through security checkpoints and shopping malls. On the other, the face as image and its intimate, inviolable connection to the human subject is becoming more and more fluid and unstable, due to the rise of digital imaging and manipulation technologies. The transformative and transfiguring powers of makeup and masks have long been with us, but on our screens, both large and intimate, the face can now be filtered, copied, iterated, de-aged, deepfaked, and swapped, with or without our permission. The digital face is now a central figure and a key question for everything from big budget Hollywood blockbusters and the porn industry to mundane face apps for the idly curious. De-aged actors with million-dollar digital faces populate our cinema screens, legal battles are waged over non-consensual face replacement, while video calls are disrupted by pranksters with novelty face filters

Snow flies self-amputate freezing limbs to sustain behavior at sub-zero temperatures

<p><span>All living things are profoundly affected by temperature. In spite of the thermodynamic constraints on biology, some animals have evolved to live and move in extremely cold environments. Here, we investigate behavioral mechanisms of cold tolerance in the snow fly (<em>Chionea</em> spp.), a flightless crane fly that is active throughout the winter in boreal and alpine environments of the northern hemisphere. Using thermal imaging, we show that adult snow flies maintain the ability to walk down to an average body temperature of -7 °C. At this supercooling limit, ice crystallization occurs within the snow fly's hemolymph and rapidly spreads throughout the body, resulting in death. However, we discovered that snow flies frequently survive freezing by rapidly amputating legs before ice crystallization can spread to their vital organs. Self-amputation of freezing limbs is a last-ditch tactic to prolong survival in frigid conditions that few animals can endure. Understanding the extreme physiology and behavior of snow insects is important at this moment when the alpine ecosystems they inhabit are rapidly changing due to anthropogenic climate change.</span></p><p>Microsoft Excel is required to open data files. </p><p>Funding provided by: Kinship Conservation Fellows<br>Crossref Funder Registry ID: https://ror.org/05pt1d114<br>Award Number: </p><p>Funding provided by: Esther A. & Joseph Klingenstein Fund<br>Crossref Funder Registry ID: https://ror.org/01q222b25<br>Award Number: </p><p>Funding provided by: Pew Charitable Trusts<br>Crossref Funder Registry ID: https://ror.org/02xhk2825<br>Award Number: </p><p>Funding provided by: McKnight Foundation<br>Crossref Funder Registry ID: https://ror.org/003ghvj67<br>Award Number: </p><p>Funding provided by: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation<br>Crossref Funder Registry ID: https://ror.org/052csg198<br>Award Number: </p><p>Funding provided by: New York Stem Cell Foundation<br>Crossref Funder Registry ID: https://ror.org/03n2a3p06<br>Award Number: </p><p>Funding provided by: University of Washington<br>Crossref Funder Registry ID: https://ror.org/00cvxb145<br>Award Number: </p><p>This dataset was collected using the FLIR T860 thermal camera and the FLIR ResearchIR program to record body temperatures and behavior of snow flies and other crane flies during experimental trials.</p&gt

Biosynthetic Crossover of 5-Lipoxygenase and Cyclooxygenase-2 Yields 5-Hydroxy-PGE2 and 5-Hydroxy-PGD2

Biosynthetic crossover of 5-lipoxygenase (5-LOX) and cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) enzymatic activities is a productive pathway to convert arachidonic acid into unique eicosanoids. Here we show that COX-2 catalysis with 5-LOX derived 5-hydroxy-eicosatetraenoic acid yields the endoperoxide 5-hydroxy-PGH2 that spontaneously rearranges to 5-OH-PGE2 and 5-OH-PGD2, the 5-hydroxy analogs of arachidonic acid derived PGE2 and PGD2. The endoperoxide was identified via its predicted degradation product, 5,12-dihydroxy-heptadecatri-6E,8E,10E-enoic acid, and by SnCl2-mediated reduction to 5-OH-PGF2a. Both 5-OH-PGE2 and 5-OH-PGD2 were unstable and degraded rapidly upon treatment with weak base. The instability hampered detection in biologic samples which was overcome by in situ reduction using NaBH4 to yield the corresponding stable 5-OH-PGF2 diastereomers and enabled detection of 5-OH-PGF2a in activated primary human leukocytes. 5-OH-PGE2 and 5-OH-PGD2 were unable to activate EP and DP prostanoid receptors suggesting their bioactivity is distinct from PGE2 and PGD2. </p

Same Campaign, Differing Agendas: Analysing News Media Coverage of the 2005 General Election

This is a post-peer-review, pre-copy edit version of an article published in the journal, British politics [© Palgrave Macmillan]. The definitive publisher-authenticated version is available online at: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/bp/index.htmlThis analysis of the 2005 general election focuses on the way the formal campaign was reported, in their different ways, by national and local broadcasters and newspapers. Having assessed how much attention the various news media devoted to the election, Norris et al’s (1999) tri-partite distinction between the so-called ‘stop watch’, ‘agenda’ and ‘directional’ balances is applied to explore the relative prominence and positive/negative attention given to competing actors and issues. The analysis also compares how the major respective broadcasters and newspapers covered the campaign from their national (UK wide, Scottish and Welsh) and local (East Midlands) perspectives. There is further discussion of how the rival sectors (i.e. ‘popular’, ‘mid-market’ and ‘quality’ press, radio and television) reported the election in quite distinctive ways for their particular audiences. Various other themes, notably the ‘presidential’, ‘soundbite’, partisan and gendered nature of the coverage are considered. It is demonstrated how certain news media promoted the issues of ‘Iraq’, ‘Immigration and Asylum’ and ‘Impropriety’ onto the agenda at different stages during the campaign. By comparison other important policy areas were largely neglected. The conclusion discusses whether it is still possible to conceive of a singular ‘media agenda’ during a general election campaign

Two Types of Global Environmental Change. Definitional and spatial-scale issues in their human dimensions

Clarification of several issues in the human dimensions of global environmental change is essential to the creation of a balanced research agenda. Global environmental change includes both systemic changes that operate globally through the major systems of the geosphere-biosphere, and cumulative changes that represent the global accumulation of localized changes. An understanding of the human dimen sions of change requires attention to both types through research that integrates findings from spatial scales ranging from the global to the local. A regional or meso-scale focus represents a particularly promising avenue of approach. © 1990