Presidential Rhetoric and Nationalism: Evidence from Russia and Ukraine

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Nataliia Kasianenko
Keyword(s):  
News Coverage ◽  
Presidential Rhetoric ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Leadership Frames ◽  
Economic Issues ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Saliency Theory

Abstract This article leverages saliency theory to explore how regimes may use state-controlled media to intensify nationalism and gain legitimacy. I explore mainstream news coverage in Russia and Ukraine with a particular emphasis on how political leadership frames nationalist rhetoric in the two countries to emphasize certain issues over others. I focus on relevant media content that contains nationalist rhetoric before and after the invasion of Russia into Ukraine’s territory in the spring of 2014. Content analysis suggests that political leaders in both countries have focused on political issues, while largely ignoring economic issues in their nationalist rhetoric. The analysis also shows that state leaders can successfully promote nationalism by emphasizing cultural issues and concerns.

scholarly journals Social Media: A Security Threat amongst Adolescents in Buea, Cameroon?

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 77
Author(s):  
Kingsley L. Ngange ◽  
Vera T. Fonkem ◽  
Stephen N. Ndode
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Security Threat ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
West Region ◽  
Violent Content ◽  
Share Information

Social media provide a platform through which societies can either be constructed or destabilized. In view of the ongoing bloody conflicts in Cameroon, this study examines the extent to which social media could pose as a security threat (with particular focus on community security) amongst adolescents in Buea, capital of the South West Region in Cameroon. The study uses a quantitative approach, through the collection of data from adolescents in four communities in Buea (Muea, Bomaka, Mile 16, and Molyko). These four areas are selected because the current socio-political crisis rocking the two Anglophone regions of the country – Northwest and Southwest, is particularly severe in these communities. Social media (notably Facebook and WhatsApp) spread dangerous content, and adolescents are vulnerable to such content. Findings indicate that there is a high rate of social media use (Facebook and WhatsApp) amongst adolescents surveyed. Also, the most discussed items on social media are socio-cultural issues (68%), as opposed to political issues (17.8%). Respondents were receptive to discussions on socio-cultural issues like dressing, language and relationships. Results also show that though adolescents come across violent content on social media, they have distanced themselves from being involved in the production, consumption, and dissemination (for instance, share information as received) of such violent content, partly because of the judicial consequences of doing so, as contained in the country’s Terrorism Law of December 2014. The implication here is that, since the adolescents are not yet intoxicated (whether advertently or inadvertently) with destructive social media content, need exists for the effective education of the adolescents, to enable this vulnerable and younger population to continue desisting from negative social media content. Emphasis should be on the consumption of positive social media content that helps in the moral and psychological growth of adolescents.

scholarly journals http://jibas.org/index.php/jibas/article/view/7

JIBAS ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-36
Author(s):  
Fizza Ahmed ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Issues ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
The Real ◽  
Economic Issues ◽  
Women In Islam ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Difficult Situations ◽  
Present World

This research is all about the rights of women. Women in the present world, before and after, in every era of life have suffered through many problems and obstacles. They have been dealing with difficult situations in every aspect of life, educational issues, social issues, cultural issues, economic issues but they have found a useless solution to their issues, instead of focusing on Islam, they have been looking forward towards secular and liberal feminists which don’t even guide them to a nearly sensible solution. Feminism is a present day issue; women and men as well are suffering through. This research is to clearly define them the true importance of women in Islam and that to every problem; Islam gives you the best solution. I have raised this issue to aware the people of the “The Real Feminism”. Being Muslims, it is our duty to make the women realize that what they are doing and what should they do. If the teachings of Islam are being practiced all around the world, there is no gainsaying the fact that the world would witness a peaceful atmosphere and women will realize what true freedom is.

scholarly journals Issue characterization of electoral change (and how recent elections in Western Europe were won on economic issues)

2021 ◽  
Vol 84 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-67
Author(s):  
Davide Angelucci ◽  
Lorenzo De Sio
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Logistic Regression Models ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Economic Issues ◽  
Party Manifestos ◽  
Electoral Change ◽  
The Individual

Results of the last electoral season in Western Europe have been mostly seen in the light of the success of challenger, anti-establishment parties. According to this narrative, past elections have been overwhelmingly dominated by cultural issues such as immigration and the EU. However, these accounts suffer from several limitations. First, they generally focus on the determinants of the static component of electoral results (i.e. vote choice) rather than the factors leading to vote change (i.e. the individual-level component of aggregate electoral change). Second, relying on party manifestos and programmatic platforms, they usually offer a party-based reconstruction of the general climate of elections. As a consequence, they provide only an indirect, at best limited, overview of the actual political issues that might have driven electoral results. To overcome these limitations, in this paper we introduce a new methodological strategy to characterize electoral results in comparative perspective. To do so we leverage an issue-rich public opinion dataset to estimate individual-level vote change towards each party as a function of issue-based party-voter affinity measures in 6 European countries. Relying on 38 logistic regression models (one for each party), our results contradict many current interpretations of electoral results in Western Europe, in fact showing that economic issues, rather than broad cultural ones, emerged as the most relevant predictors of vote inflows. Furthermore, it also demonstrates the relevance of “cross-ideological” mobilization across all the 6 countries covered in this study.

scholarly journals The Death of May’s Law: Intra- and Inter-Party Value Differences in Britain’s Labour and Conservative Parties

2021 ◽  
pp. 003232172199563
Author(s):  
Alan Wager ◽  
Tim Bale ◽  
Philip Cowley ◽  
Anand Menon
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Party Competition ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Value Differences ◽  
Economic Issues ◽  
Members Of Parliament ◽  
Significant Disagreement ◽  
Party Members ◽  
First Time

Party competition in Great Britain increasingly revolves around social or ‘cultural’ issues as much as it does around the economic issues that took centre stage when class was assumed to be dominant. We use data from surveys of members of parliament, party members and voters to explore how this shift has affected the internal coalitions of the Labour and Conservative Parties – and to provide a fresh test of ‘May’s Law’. We find a considerable disconnect between ‘neoliberal’ Conservative members of parliament and their more centrist voters on economic issues and similarly significant disagreement on cultural issues between socially liberal Labour members of parliament and their more authoritarian voters. We also find differences in both parties between parliamentarians and their grassroots members, albeit that these are much less pronounced. May’s Law, not for the first time, appears not to be borne out in reality.

LAW, RELIGION, AND THE POLITICIZATION OF SEXUAL CITIZENSHIP IN KENYA

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-129
Author(s):  
Damaris Seleina Parsitau
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Sexual Difference ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Sexual Orientations ◽  
Before And After

AbstractIn Kenya, debates about sexual orientation have assumed center stage at several points in recent years, but particularly before and after the promulgation of the Constitution of Kenya in 2010. These debates have been fueled by religious clergy and by politicians who want to align themselves with religious organizations for respectability and legitimation, particularly by seeking to influence the nation's legal norms around sexuality. I argue that through their responses and attempts to influence legal norms, the religious and political leaders are not only responsible for the nonacceptance of same-sex relationships in Africa, but have also ensured that sexuality and embodiment have become a cultural and religious battleground. These same clergy and politicians seek to frame homosexuality as un-African, unacceptable, a threat to African moral and cultural sensibilities and sensitivities, and an affront to African moral and family values. Consequently, the perception is that homosexuals do not belong in Africa—that they cannot be entertained, accommodated, tolerated, or even understood. Ultimately, I argue that the politicization and religionization of same-sex relationships in Kenya, as elsewhere in Africa, has masked human rights debates and stifled serious academic and pragmatic engagements with important issues around sexual difference and sexual orientation while fueling negative attitudes toward people with different sexual orientations.

China’s Soft Power in Pakistan: The Representation of the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor in Local Newspapers

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (04) ◽  
pp. 5-18
Author(s):  
Zahid Shahab AHMED ◽  
Ahsan HANIF ◽  
Baogang HE
Keyword(s):  
Soft Power ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Belt And Road Initiative ◽  
Local Newspapers ◽  
Newspaper Reporting ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
The Belt And Road

This article conducts a case study of China’s influence on Pakistan by collecting and analysing news coverage from two prominent English and Urdu newspapers in Pakistan for a five-year period between 2013 and 2018. It compares the changes in newspaper reporting before and after the launch of the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) in 2015. Analysis has shown a significant increase in positive reporting on the CPEC and China. The case of Pakistan is representative of its recognition of China’s soft power in a developing country, thus offering a new perspective on China’s goodwill vis-à-vis the Belt and Road Initiative.

scholarly journals Analysis of Lavender Aroma and Guided Imagery on Insomnia in Lansia in Technical Specific Unit Social Tresna Wherda Glenmore District Banyuwangi

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-72
Author(s):  
Grenda Aprilyawan
Keyword(s):  
Sleep Quality ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Guided Imagery ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Cochran Test

Naturally the elderly is experiencing a decline both in terms of physical, biological and mental and this is not independent of economic, social and cultural issues. Sleep disorders is one of the health problems often faced by the elderly. The elderly require good sleep quality to improve health and restore the condition of the illness. There are several ways to deal with insomnia can be done in 2 ways: pharmacology and non pharmacology. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of lavender and guided imagery on insomnia in elderly in Technical Implementation Unit (UPT) of Social Tresna Werdha Glenmore Sub-district of Banyuwangi Regency. In this research, the research design used is True experimental research design. The population of the study were all elderly people who experienced insomnia of 36 people and sample of 33 people by using simple random sampling. Data collection using checklist sheet then analyzed using Cochran test. The results showed that significant probability value of Cochran test of 0,032 <0,05 means there is significant difference between giving of lavender scent, guided imagery and control group to insomnia. While the treatment before and after the lavender scent there is a significant influence on insomnia (p: 0.008 <0.05). Treatment before and after guided imagery there is a significant effect on insomnia (p: 0,016 <0,05). Treatment before and after the control group there was no significant effect on insomnia (p: 0,500> 0,05). Based on the results of this study non pharmacology treatment can be maintained and continued for better sleep quality. Whether using aroma therapy or guided imagery lavender because it has been proven to reduce insomnia.

Microblogging and the News

2014 ◽  
pp. 128-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Wallsten
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Media Effects ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Online News ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Political Leaders

A particularly important question that has yet to be addressed about microblogging is the extent to which tweeting from politicians influences the traditional media's news coverage. This chapter seeks to address this oversight by tracking print, broadcast, and online news mentions of tweets from political elites during the five-and-a-half years since microblogging started. Consistent with previous research into “new media” effects and journalistic sourcing patterns, the authors find that although reporters, pundits, and bloggers are increasingly incorporating tweets into their news discussions, the group of Twitterers who are consistently quoted is small and drawn almost exclusively from the ranks of nationally recognizable political leaders. In addition to contributing to the emerging literature on Twitter, the analysis presented here suggests a new way of conceptualizing influence on the site. Rather than focusing strictly on Twitter-centric measures of message diffusion, the findings of this chapter suggest that researchers should begin to consider the ways that tweets can shape political discourse by spreading beyond the fairly narrow world of microblogging.

Presidential Rhetoric and News Rhetoric

2018 ◽  
pp. 9-23
Author(s):  
Ying Roselyn Du
Keyword(s):  
News Coverage ◽  
Presidential Rhetoric ◽  
Analysis Software ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Media Agenda ◽  
State Of The Union ◽  
News Source ◽  
Shaping Process ◽  
The Media

This study examines the role of U.S. presidents as a news source in the media agenda shaping process. DICTION text-analysis software was used to analyze transcripts of U.S. presidents' state of the union addresses and related news coverage from 1981 to 2007. DICTION software calculated scores for five major dimensions of content in the addresses and related news stories. Results revealed that the addresses and related news coverage contained dissimilar rhetoric, suggesting that, overall, the presidents had little influence on independent media outlets in that regard.

Challenging the Models of Terrorism Discourse in the News: European and Islamic Values in the French and Italian Press

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 384-413
Author(s):  
Lorenzo Ugolini ◽  
Dario Fanara
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Social Role ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Media Content Analysis ◽  
Potential Threat ◽  
The Social ◽  
Terrorism Discourse ◽  
Islamic Values

The aim of this paper is to reflect on the social role of European journalists as they cover the issue of terrorism, which is a potential threat to European society itself. For this purpose, the paper presents the results of a qualitative media content analysis related to the news coverage of the aftermath of three major terrorist attacks. Specifically, the research focuses on the values involved in the coverage of the event rather than on the strict report of what happened. The authors observe that both liberal/‘trustee’ and polarized pluralist/‘advocacy’ models engender a double paradox concerning the interest of citizens in being informed or being protected by news media. Nonetheless, the liberal value of responsibility emerges as fundamental, in order to face and resolve this paradox.

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