116 research outputs found
How did the British media represent European political parties during the European parliament elections, 2014: a Europeanized media agenda?
The European Parliament election of 2014 generated much interest on account of the rise of a whole array of populist âanti-EUâ parties. This was widely reported in the British media but did that coverage give British news consumers an insight into the character of these parties, where they stood in relation to one another and where they stood in relation to Britainâs own UKIP? This paper sets out to examine not only how much coverage there was in the British media about European political parties but also whether that coverage enabled citizens to get a sense of the political positioning of populist anti-EU parties. These questions touch on the extent to which British media reflect and comment on populist parties, European affairs and hence on the Europeanization of the news agenda
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Political Communication
The term "strategic communication" traditionally has been understood as referring to external corporate communication, such as public relations, marketing communication, and advertising, with insufficient consideration beyond its role as a tool of persuasive influence. In recent years, however, the field of strategic communication has evolved to be more holistic in its approach and its role within sociocultural contexts. Articles, textbooks, and handbooks have attempted to define the scope, purpose, and nature of the concept, but as the first major comprehensive work of its kind, The International Encyclopedia of Strategic Communication captures the full scope of contemporary theory and practice in strategic communication.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Substantiating a political public sphere in the Scottish press : a comparative analysis
This article uses content analysis to characterize the performance of the media in a national public sphere, by setting apart those qualities that typify internal press coverage of a political event. The article looks at the coverage of the 1999 devolved Scottish election from the day before the election until the day after. It uses a word count to measure the election material in Scottish newspapers the Herald, the Press and Journal and the Scotsman, and United Kingdom newspapers the Guardian, the Independent and The Times, and categorizes that material according to discourse type, day and page selection. The article finds a number of qualities that typify the Scottish sample in particular, and might be broadly indicative of a political public sphere in action. Firstly, and not unexpectedly, it finds that the Scottish newspapers carry significantly more election coverage. Just as tellingly, though, the article finds that the Scottish papers offer a greater proportion of advice and background information, in the form of opinion columns and feature articles. It also finds that the Scottish papers place a greater concentration of both informative and evaluative material in the period before the vote, consistent with their making a contribution to informed political action. Lastly, the article finds that the Scottish sample situates coverage nearer the front of the paper and places a greater proportion on recto pages. The article therefore argues that the Scottish papers display features that distinguish them from the UK papers, and are broadly consistent with their forming part of a deliberative public sphere, and suggests that these qualities might be explored as a means of judging future media performance
Paedophiles in the community: inter-agency conflict, news leaks and the local press
This article explores the leaking of confidential information about secret Home Office plans to house convicted paedophiles within a local community (albeit inside a prison). It argues that a politics of paedophilia has emerged in which inter-agency consensus on the issue of âwhat to doâ with high-profile sex offenders has broken down. Accordingly, the article situates newspaper âoutingâ of paedophiles in the community in relation to vigilante journalism and leaked information from official agencies. The article then presents research findings from a case study of news events set in train following a whistle-blowing reaction by Prison Officersâ Association officials to Home Office plans. Drawing from a corpus of 10 interviews with journalists and key protagonists in the story, the article discusses both the dynamics of whistle blowing about paedophiles and also what happens after the whistle has blown
Public engagement in local government: the voice and influence of citizens in online communicative spaces
The communications and engagement strategies of local councils play an important role in contributing to the public's understanding of local democracies, and their engagement with local issues. Based on a study of the local authority in the third largest city in the UK, Leeds, this article presents an empirically based analysis of the impact of new opportunities for public engagement afforded by digital media on the Council's communication with citizens. Drawing on over 20 face-to-face semi-structured interviews with elected politicians, Council strategists, Council communications specialists, mainstream journalists, and citizen journalists, the article explores perceptions of the Council's engagement and communication with citizens from the perspective of a range of actors involved in the engagement process. The research asks what the differing motivations behind the Council's communications and engagement strategies mean for the way that digital media are and might be used in the future to enhance the role of citizens in local governance. The research suggests that while there are no grounds for expecting digital media to displace existing channels of public engagement, digital media are beginning to play an important role in defining and reconfiguring the role of citizens within local governance
The professionals speak: Practitionersâ perspectives on professional election campaigning
Faced with some fundamental changes in the socio-cultural, political and media environment, political parties in post-industrialized democracies have started to initiate substantial transformations of both their organizational structures and communicative practices. Those innovations, described as professionalization, become most obvious during election campaigns. In recent times, the number of empirical studies measuring the degree of political partiesâ campaign professionalism has grown. They have relied on a broad spectrum of indicators derived from theory which have not been tested for their validity. For the first time, we put these indicators to a âreality checkâ by asking top-ranked party secretaries and campaign managers in 12 European countries to offer their perceptions of professional election campaigning. Furthermore, we investigate whether any differences in understanding professionalism among party campaign practitioners can be explained by macro (country) and meso (party) factors. By and large, our results confirm the validity of most indicators applied in empirical studies on campaign professionalism so far. There are some party- and country-related differences in assessing campaign professionalism too, but the influence of most factors on practitionersâ evaluations is weak. Therefore, we conclude that largely there is a far-reaching European Union-wide common understanding of professional election campaigning
Science competitions using technology: a study of the behavior of the participating schools in the CNC in Portugal
Neste trabalho investiga-se a dinĂąmica de escolas do 3Âș ciclo do Ensino BĂĄsico em Portugal, na preparação e participação em uma competição desenvolvida em ambiente computacional sobre conteĂșdos curriculares de MatemĂĄtica, PortuguĂȘs, FĂsico-QuĂmica e Geologia. Foi realizada uma anĂĄlise fatorial exploratĂłria de dados empĂricos relativos Ă s 143 escolas participantes nas competiçÔes realizadas em 2015, analisando-se as suas caraterĂsticas de atuação. Foram identificados quatro fatores latentes descrevendo o comportamento das escolas: Treino quantitativo, Treino qualitativo, Prestação e Utilizadores, constatando-se que: (i) a participação na competição de MatemĂĄtica Ă© predominante; (ii) escolas participantes em duas ou trĂȘs competiçÔes apresentam diferentes dinĂąmicas de preparação; (iii) escolas que participam apenas em MatemĂĄtica e FĂsico-QuĂmica parecem adotar estratĂ©gias pedagĂłgicas mais articuladas e eficientes. Reconhece-se que, embora as escolas participantes desenvolvam trabalhos de preparação, existe uma tendĂȘncia para as escolas apresentarem estratĂ©gias distintas de atuação consoante a combinação de grupos disciplinares presentes nas competiçÔes oficiais.In this work we investigate the dynamics of 143 schools of the 3rd cycle of Basic Education in
Portugal, regarding the preparation and participation in online science competitions on curricular contents
of Mathematics, Portuguese, Physics and Chemistry and Geology. An exploratory factorial analysis of
empirical data concerning the competitions in 2015 was carried out, to analyze the characteristics inherent
to schoolsâ performance. Four latent factors describing the schoolsâ behavior were identified: Quantitative
Training, Qualitative Training, Proficiency and Users, which allowed us to verify that: (i) participation in
mathematics competition is predominant; (ii) schools participating in two or three competitions present
different preparation dynamics; (iii) schools involved only in Mathematics and Physics and Chemistry
competitions seem to adopt a more articulated and efficient pedagogical strategy. Although all schools
develop a preparatory work before competitions, the strategies used seem to be related to the combination
of distinct disciplinary groups participating in the competitions.Trabalho subsidiado por fundos portugueses através do Centro de Investigação e
Desenvolvimento em Matemåtica e AplicaçÔes (CIDMA) da Universidade de Aveiro, e da
Fundação para a CiĂȘncia e a Tecnologia (FCT), dentro do projeto UID/MAT/04106/2013.publishe
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