“…According to a study, Israeli users consider Facebook to be the fourth and Palestinians living in occupied territories, the seventh most important information source (Chaban et al, 2019, p. 2). Chaban et al (2019) and Aharoni & Tenenboim-Weinblatt (2019) also focused traditional media to lay out impact analysis. Baden and Tenenboim-Weinblatt (2018) in their study analyzed the coverage pattern of traditional media during violence and period of calm by comparing the contents of 66 domestic and foreign leading media outlets across six selected conflicts including Palestine-Israel (Baden & Tenenboim-Weinblatt, 2018, p. 25).…”
Section: Scholarship On Traditional and Social Media Coverage Of Palestine-israel Conflictmentioning
The news coverage of conflicts has transformed with the introduction of digital media. The available literature on media coverage of Palestine-Israel conflict is mainly focused on traditional news coverage or social media dimension of the conflict information. There exists a literature gap on social media coverage of Palestine-Israel conflict by the traditional news organizations. This study explores the changing pattern of traditional media’s coverage of the longstanding conflict in the wake of new communication technologies through appraisal of the existing literature. The analysis revealed that the traditional news organizations have adopted social networking platforms as a business model to cover Palestine-Israel conflict. It was found that the traditional news outlets use the new media because it is cost-effective and have instantaneous outreach to maximum number of netizens. The new tools of communication offer multimedia platforms where conflict-related text, videos and images can be posted simultaneously. The study proposes to conduct future research on media-conflict relationship by focusing the use of new communication tools by the traditional media.
“…According to a study, Israeli users consider Facebook to be the fourth and Palestinians living in occupied territories, the seventh most important information source (Chaban et al, 2019, p. 2). Chaban et al (2019) and Aharoni & Tenenboim-Weinblatt (2019) also focused traditional media to lay out impact analysis. Baden and Tenenboim-Weinblatt (2018) in their study analyzed the coverage pattern of traditional media during violence and period of calm by comparing the contents of 66 domestic and foreign leading media outlets across six selected conflicts including Palestine-Israel (Baden & Tenenboim-Weinblatt, 2018, p. 25).…”
Section: Scholarship On Traditional and Social Media Coverage Of Palestine-israel Conflictmentioning
The news coverage of conflicts has transformed with the introduction of digital media. The available literature on media coverage of Palestine-Israel conflict is mainly focused on traditional news coverage or social media dimension of the conflict information. There exists a literature gap on social media coverage of Palestine-Israel conflict by the traditional news organizations. This study explores the changing pattern of traditional media’s coverage of the longstanding conflict in the wake of new communication technologies through appraisal of the existing literature. The analysis revealed that the traditional news organizations have adopted social networking platforms as a business model to cover Palestine-Israel conflict. It was found that the traditional news outlets use the new media because it is cost-effective and have instantaneous outreach to maximum number of netizens. The new tools of communication offer multimedia platforms where conflict-related text, videos and images can be posted simultaneously. The study proposes to conduct future research on media-conflict relationship by focusing the use of new communication tools by the traditional media.
“…The perception of Europe, both from inside and from abroad, has been studied in a qualitative manner in several studies [13], [9], [5], [6], [14]. Typical for the qualitative approach, the focus is on interviews and the analysis of small data samples.…”
Section: Background and Related Workmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Apart from these general themes, the current GDELT system also identifies several specific themes (e.g., TAX FNCACT CARTEL is a special case of TAX FNCACT). Altogether the system identifies a total of 56,840 themes combining general and specific ones 5 .…”
Section: Datasetmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the international sphere, the problem of divergent internal and external popular images is of more direct concern for the DPMs. For example, in cases where it endangers their influence, bilateral economic and cooperative treaties, or the effectiveness of public diplomacy towards conflicted neighbors [5], [6]. At a global level, incomplete presentation of facts or their filtering to advance a narrative may transform a natural phenomenon such as migration into a problem for countries of origin, migrants, as well as for target countries.…”
Our perception of the situation in a country or a region is strongly influenced by the reflection of this situation in mass and social media channels. This effect is even more pronounced for geographically and culturally distant regions, for which no first hand experience is available. To avoid information overload, news outlets typically filter the available news from foreign countries based on the expected interest of the target audiences. Such filtering imposes an inherent bias in the reporting and can create a distorted perception of a region among the consumers of news of other regions. This might lead to misunderstandings between countries and unsubstantiated political and individual decisions (e.g., in the context of migration). In this paper, we systematically analyze the bias created in news reports. We consider Europe, or more precisely the European Union (EU) as our zone of concern, and examine its image in the media (news outlets) of other regions, EUROPE(NON-EU), AFRICA, ASIA, MIDDLE-EAST, AMERICA, and OCEANIA. An analysis of the year 2018 (January-December 2018) of news published in those regions reveals marked differences in the editorial policies and presented narrative when dealing with EU-related news. We observe a significant variation in the sentiment polarity of the reported EU-related stories between European and other regional news outlets. We further analyze the polarity variation among different sub-regions of large geographical areas such as AFRICA, ASIA, and AMERICA. We observe a contrasting difference in their editorial policies. This trend also holds for news related to different topics such as politics, business, economy, health, international relation etc.
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