scholarly journals A FRAMING OF FUTURE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ELECTIONS 2014 IN A SOCIAL MEDIA CONTEXT

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorian Pocovnicu ◽  
Mădălina Manolache ◽  
Gheorghe Epuran
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
European Parliament ◽  
Framing Theory ◽  
Online Chat ◽  
The Media ◽  
New Research ◽  
European Parliament Elections ◽  
Chat Session

Communication in marketing has always been a continuous conceptual hybrid of input from various domains: marketing, P.R., communication, sociology. With the constant transformation of web 2.0. phenomenon, the demarcation lines between these domains and their influence has become more blured and difficult to pinpoint. As a result, specific research methods and theories have become adaptable instruments, laying the path for grounded theory approaches or new research methods. Framing theory, having as basis that the media focuses attention on certain events and then places them within a field of meaning, has shifted towards organisations, and further on, to institutions. Framing is a quality of communication that leads others to accept one meaning over another. Framing theory suggests that how something is presented (the “frame”) influences the choices people make. In online communicative contexts, their own personal framings allows the communicative actors to make use of language and forethought so that specific embodiments of future evolutions may be depicted. In our case, we shall focus on the topic: European Parliament elections, which are to take place in 2014, and on the manner in which it has been framed in two online chat session with three MEPs. It is our intention to identify the framing techniques used, the framing links and the framing alignments.

Hate Speech as Part of Contemporary Public Discourse and Possible Solutions to Support Public Administration: European Parliament Elections in Croatia

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 197-216
Author(s):  
Vlasta Kučiš ◽  
Darja Kupinić Gušić
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
European Parliament ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Normative Framework ◽  
Public Behavior ◽  
The Media ◽  
European Parliament Elections

This article deals with hate speech in public discourse and the media, emphasizing the importance of detecting it in a timely manner in order to remove it. This falls within the scope of the tasks of public administration according to the EU’s normative framework because language is one of the main ways that discrimination is enacted. To this end, the empirical research was carried out in two parts. The first part identifies and analyzes unacceptable public behavior (hate speech), defining types of occurrence as opposed to insults and slander, and identifying the advantages and disadvantages of using language technologies for timely identification. The second part of the research detects occurrences of hate speech in Croatian offline media using the example of the 2019 European Parliament elections, drawing attention to a number of methodological obstacles preventing timely identification of hate speech. The results of this investigation contribute to understanding the linguistic-discursive construction of offline and online hate speech in multicultural communities. It is hoped that regulatory authorities will use the results of this research to facilitate implementation of the EU normative framework.

scholarly journals A Systematic Review of Predicting Elections Based on Social Media Data: Research Challenges and Future Directions

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 1410-1440
Author(s):  
T Heena Fayaz
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Electoral Campaigns ◽  
Regression Methods ◽  
New Research

Abstract: The way politicians communicate with the electorateand run electoral campaigns was reshaped by the emergence and popularization of contemporary social media (SM), such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram social networks (SN). Due to inherent capabilities of SM, such as the large amount of available data accessed in real time, a new research subject has emerged, focusing on using SM data to predict election outcomes. Despite many studies conducted in the last decade, results are very controversial, and many times challenged. In this context, this work aims to investigate and summarize how research on predicting elections based on SM data has evolved since its beginning, to outline the state of both the art and the practice,and to identify research opportunities within this field. In termsof method, we performed a systematic literature review analyzingthe quantity and quality of publications, the electoral context of studies, the main approaches to and characteristics of the successful studies, as well as their main strengths and challenges, and compared our results with previous reviews. We identified and analyzed 83 relevant studies, and the challenges were identified in many areas such as process, sampling, modeling, performance evaluation and scientific rigor. Main findings include the low success of the most-used approach, namely volume and sentiment analysis on Twitter, and the better results with new approaches, such as regression methods trained with traditional polls. Finally, a vision of future research on integrating advances on process definitions, modeling, and evaluation is also discussed, pointing out, among others, the need for better investigating the application of state-of-art machine learning approaches. Index Terms: Elections, Social Media, Social Networks, Machine Learning, Systematic Review

scholarly journals UPAYA GURU MENGEMBANGKAN KREATIVITAS ANAK PRA SEKOLAH MELALUI MEDIA PLAYDOUGH DIKELOMPOK B KOBER MIFTAHUL FALAH

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Yayu Rahayu ◽  
Yeni Heryani
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Media

Creativity has a very important role in the lives of children. Through kerativitas, children can be creative in accordance with the talent or ability, the child can solve a problem and can improve the quality of life in the future. Therefore, stimulation is needed that can develop the creativity of children, one of them through mengguanaan media playdough. In early childhood creativity has not developed well, early childhood has not been smooth in expressing idea idea idea. The purpose of this assessment is to describe the level of early childhood creativity by applying playdough media, differences in early childhood creativity levels before and after applying media playdough. Methods used in this study are classroom action research methods (PTK). The subjects of this study were children aged 4-5 years kober miftahul falah which amounted to 14 children consisting of 9 women and 5 men. The results of this study indicate a positive impact in improving creativity of children by 25.83% based on evaluation results from cycle I and cycle II.Dengan, it can be concluded that the media playdough provide a significant influence. So that can be recommended for teachers to use media playdough can be used as an alternative to develop creativity in children effectively. For schools to be able to facilitate by providing other learning media that can enhance the creativity of young children.

Facebook Photographic Images

2016 ◽  
pp. 229-252
Author(s):  
Camelia Cmeciu
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Visual Presentation ◽  
European Parliament ◽  
Media Campaign ◽  
Framing Analysis ◽  
Photographic Images ◽  
Religious Symbols ◽  
Visual Framing ◽  
European Parliament Elections

“Act, react, impact” was the slogan of the 2014 European Parliament elections. A social media campaign focused on a solid informing practice may constitute the first step in attaining European citizens' actions and reactions. This chapter explores the visual Facebook presence of winning and losing Romanian candidates who stood for the 2014 EP elections. The visual framing analysis shows that the Romanian winning politicians preferred to visually promote themselves as statesmanlike candidates being surrounded by national influentials or by campaign entourage whereas the losing candidate framed themselves either as populist campaigners in the middle of larger audiences or as compassionate candidates interacting with individuals. The analysis of the visual categories highlights that both winning and losing EP candidates in Romania used a hybrid message. Despite the attempt to provide a visual presentation of European campaign paraphernalia, national identity features rendered through religious symbols and traditional elements prevailed.

Anti-racist Feminism or Barbarism

2020 ◽  
Vol 119 (3) ◽  
pp. 629-636
Author(s):  
Pastora Filigrana
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Single Body ◽  
Gang Rape ◽  
The Media

In September 2017, feminist assemblies began meeting on the eighth day of each month in multiple cities and towns across Spain to prepare for the feminist strike in the country. That same fall, the trial is held for the “wolf pack,” the gang rape that occurred during the festival of San Fermín in 2016: once again, the woman who was raped is put on trial, and not the rapists. With the slogans, “I believe you” and “Listen, sister, here is your pack,” the call goes viral, filling streets, plazas, and social media. This viral call is repeated in April when the sentence in announced that only condemns the members of the group for “abuse” and not for rape, and with even one vote from a judge who dared to say that there was enjoyment on all sides. The streets are dyed a feminist purple: a capillary feminism that reacts as a single body against each piece of news of sexist violence. In that atmosphere, and following a massive feminist strike on March 8, the denunciation of sexual abuse presented by several seasonal strawberry pickers in Huelva leaps into the media. Some collectives call for a march, expecting it to go viral again. However, the response it not at all the same either in number or in intensity. What happened? Debates catch fire. There are accusations: the feminism organized around March 8 and that was expressed in the protests against the wolf pack is racist. The answer is more complex, but there is no doubt that the feminist defiance of the seasonal strawberry workers challenges organized feminism and the unions in an unprecedented way. It speaks of the capillary quality of feminist sensibility, but also of its limits and paradoxes.

scholarly journals Leadership in the Research: Determinants of Quality, Standards and Best Practices

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-56
Author(s):  
Henryk Dźwigoł
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Added Value ◽  
The Third ◽  
Bartlett’S Test ◽  
Methods And Techniques ◽  
New Research

One of the obligatory elements of any scientific research is a methodical toolkit, the diversity of which determines the reliability of the obtained results and ability to solve the tasks set in the work. The purpose of the article is to identify the factors defining the scientific research process and affect the quality of the results. The methodological tools of the study include questionnaires and factor analysis (Bartlett’s test for sphericity, KMO test (Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin sampling adequacy measure), and MSA test (sampling adequacy measure)). The object of research is 401 scientists and 196 practitioners in the field of management and quality sciences. The questionnaire for practitioners consisted of four parts. The first part includes general issues about the research process, methods and techniques used in it; the second deals with the importance of using methods and techniques in the scientific research in the field of management and quality sciences; the third – provides questions on improving the quality of research; the fourth is demographic. The questionnaire for scientists consists of three parts. The first part addresses the importance of approaches, processes, methods and techniques in research in the field of management and quality sciences; the second – includes questions on improving the research process; the third is demographic. The results are summarized on a five-point Likert scale. Based on the generalization of practitioners’ answers, the main factor of scientific research is the “concept of the research methodology model”, defined as a measure of the scientific research process effectiveness. The results of the analysis help conclude the need to develop new research methods that can increase its effectiveness by managing, planning, organizing and verifying the research process in the field of management and quality sciences. The factors determining the research process and affecting its quality include constant changes in the market. It necessitates the use of various research methods that can form a holistic basis for empirical analysis. The research process quality means checking the degree of implementation and consistency of the objectives in the article with the research problem and the conclusions in it. For the effective functioning of the research process, it is proposed to develop an “algorithm of behavior” of the researcher, which will (after determining the appropriate gap between research methods and features of the research problem) ensure their coordination and increase the added value of the results.

scholarly journals When Social Media Doesn’t Determine All: The Topics and Narratives of Latvian Political Parties on Facebook During the 2019 European Parliament Elections Campaign

Tripodos ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 151-165
Author(s):  
Mārtiņš Pričins
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
European Parliament ◽  
Party Leaders ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
European Parliament Elections ◽  
Research Period

Over the last decade, the implementation of campaigns by political parties and their candidates on social media platforms has become an integral part of political communication. Political communication studies have long indicated that elections are becoming personalized, with more focus on party leaders or individual candidates. But studies on communication by political parties to understand the identity of parties and their potential in communication with voters remain relevant. The aim of the paper is to analyse the visual election materials of the political parties from Latvia on the social network Facebook during the 2019 European Parliament (EP) election campaign. The research period is two weeks before elections. The subject of the study is election materials on Facebook accounts of the parties representing the national parliament of Latvia. A codebook for analysis has been developed, containing common and specific variables, designed to explore the verbal and visual dimensions. The results of the study allow us to draw conclusions about the changing success of new populist and traditional parties, as well as to look at the role of Facebook in elections in a little-studied country.

scholarly journals On the scientific and methodological support of laboratory studies in the production of forensic – medical examination

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (3 (67) p.1) ◽  
pp. 135-137
Author(s):  
N. A. Romanko
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Laboratory Studies ◽  
Biological Objects ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
New Research ◽  
And Control ◽  
New Criteria

This paper assesses the state of the normative-legal base of the Russian Federation, regulating the procedure for making an examination of corpses, survivors, case materials and biological objects. The author comes to a conclusion about a need for an adaptation of the normative and methodological base for new research methods and for new types of examinations with the use of the high-tech equipment; the development of new criteria enabling, to regulate the production load and control the quality of a research.

scholarly journals Hardly Seen and Rarely Heard? European Commission Generated Presence on Polish Social Media

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-159
Author(s):  
Konrad Niklewicz
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
European Union ◽  
European Commission ◽  
Corporate Communication ◽  
Communication Campaign ◽  
The Social ◽  
Media Ecosystem ◽  
The Media ◽  
Interdisciplinary Concept

This paper discusses the importance of social media as a new channel to communicate European Union activities and policies to the general public. The author examines the fast-growing position of social platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, in the media ecosystem. Their opinion making and agenda setting roles are discussed in the context of deep mediatisation theory – a relatively new, interdisciplinary concept, combining the perspectives of sociology and media sciences. Based on analysis of the social media activity of the European Commission Representation in Poland, the author examines the Commission’s presence in the new channels, within the framework of a new corporate communication campaign, launched in September 2016. The results of the research indicate that that efforts undertaken so far, contrary to intuition, have not yielded a substantial increase in social media activity. However, some promising elements were detected: the quality of users’ engagement with the content published by the European Commission has improved.

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