From Church and Mosque to WhatsApp—Africa Check’s Holistic Approach to Countering ‘Fake News’

False claims and misinformation spread in Africa not only on Facebook, in WhatsApp groups or on the dark web, but also in political meeting rooms, churches, mosques, and community gatherings. To reduce the harms caused by misinformation, Africa Check, the leading independent fact-checking organisation on the continent, believes a four-pronged, or holistic approach is needed: identifying and reducing the circulation of harmful misinformation; ensuring accurate information is more widely available; ensuring a more accurate understanding of topics it covers; and fostering fact-checking skills among the public. To achieve this, it reaches out and engages with a wide range of on- and offline communities and networks. The UK could learn from this approach to tackle the ways that misinformation continues to spread offline today.     

略论新闻媒体与法律服务行业的互动

近年来,我省新闻媒体法制报道出现了新的发展动向.部分法制报道逐步重视普法功能,突出向大众传播法律知识、提供法律服务.与此同时,随着司法改革后大众维权意识的逐年提高,我省法律服务行业对社会和百姓生活的影响越来越大.基于社会和大众的法律需求,本着"共生、双赢"的目标,新闻媒体与法律服务行业之间良好的互动关系正在形成.     

论西部农业现代化与农村土地流转

推进西部地区的农业现代化,破解二元经济结构,促进城乡协调发展是西部大开发的重要目标。加快农村土地流转,实现农业生产适度规模经营是西部农业现代化的重要前提条件。当前西部地区农村土地流转总体状况不理想,既有制度机制不健全、政府职能缺位等外部因素制约,也有非农就业比重低、生产效率低以及地块细碎等内部因素障碍。要从统一思想认识、加快基础设施建设、强化科技支撑、培育土地流转市场、发展各类专业合作社、规范政府管理、加强社会保障体系建设等方面入手加以整体推进,才能加快西部地区农村土地流转。     

民生新闻的价值实践——浅谈安徽电视台《第一时间》得与失

民生新闻是当今媒体报道的一种主要形式,其新闻价值的特点主要表现在时新性、接近性、显赫性等方面。对其新闻价值的分析和实践运作的研究,有助于对民生新闻概念的理解。本文试通过对安徽电视台《第一时间》栏目的分析来说明这一问题。     

The (In)stability of Voters’ Perceptions of Competence and Associative Issue Ownership: The Role of Media Campaign Coverage

Recent work has suggested that issue ownership has a competence and an associative dimension and that both dimensions are less stable than originally assumed. This study is the first attempt to directly compare the stability and change of voters’ perceptions on both dimensions. Using data from the 2015 Swiss Election Study, linking data from a combined panel/rolling cross-section survey with an extensive media analysis, this study finds that voters are more likely to maintain their issue ownership perceptions if the party they identify as the issue owner before the campaign receives a higher share of media campaign coverage. This stabilizing effect is conditional on the importance of the issue for the voter, and it is stronger for voters’ competence evaluations than for their party-issue associations, which proved to be more stable. Thus, the results confirm the literature’s previously untested assumption that voters’ associative ownership perceptions are more stable than their competence ownership evaluations.     

以国家安全为视角论新闻自由的法律规制

新闻自由是作为法人的新闻媒体所享有的对于事实真相客观公正地报道不受阻碍的权利,新闻传播对于国家安全有着巨大的影响,如果新闻自由被滥用,会对一国的国家安全产生负面影响,威胁一国的国家安全。中国现有的对于新闻自由的限制性、禁止性规定较为分散,未形成系统的法律规范,且法律效力较低。因此,应当完善我国的立法,制定效力更高、更为系统的法律规定,以维护我国的国家安全。     

Mobilising support when the stakes are high: Mass emails affect constituent-to-legislator lobbying

Mass emails are frequently used by advocacy groups to mobilise supporters to lobby legislators. But how effective are they at inducing constituent-to-legislator lobbying when the stakes are high? We test the efficacy of a large-scale email campaign conducted by the UK's main anti-Brexit organisation. In 2019, the group prominently displayed a ‘Write to your MP’ tool on their website and assigned 119,362 supporters represented by legislators with incongruent views to one of four email messages encouraging them to write to their MP or a control condition (no email). Messages varied across two factors: whether the MP's incongruent position was highlighted, and if urgency was emphasised. We find that 3.4 per cent of treatment subjects contacted their representative, compared to 0.1 per cent of those in the control, representing an additional 3,344 emails sent to MPs. We show that there was no substitution away from the most frequently used online legislator contact platform in the United Kingdom. While, on average, position and urgency cues had no marginal effects above the standard email, the most engaged supporters were more mobilised when informed that their MP held incongruent views. This study shows that advocacy groups can use low-cost communication techniques to mobilise supporters to lobby representatives when the stakes are high.     

新闻自由权在新闻立法中的地位及其保障

对新闻自由权的保障包括对其合理边界的确定和对边界内权利的切实保护。新闻自由权的合理保障是我国新闻立法中的核心问题。我国对新闻自由权的保障应当加强。我们应在新闻法律体系的完善过程中,尤其是在新闻立法中更好地保障新闻自由权。     

新世纪公安新闻传播的人文精神

新世纪公安新闻传播的人文精神在于其正义性，激浊扬清，扬善惩恶，以及对弱势群体的关怀与保护；公安新闻传播的人文精神还在于其为人民群众提供有效服务．合理地满足人民群众的知情权，以及其平民性与亲和性。新世纪公安新闻传播强调人文精神，要把实现最广大人民的根本利益作为出发点和落脚点，始终坚持尊重人、理解人、关。人。进一步加大公平公正、诚信友爱的传播力度，使正义与和谐的理念成为全警全社会的重要价值取向。     

Reforming campaign finance in the nineties: a case study of Spain

This paper analyzes the reforms of the Spanish electoral finance regulatory system during the nineties. We present a number of indexes to measure the impact of the reforms on parties and campaign spending. We also suggest a game theoretical model to explain why the two main parties agreed to support the legal changes in the nineties. A principal outcome of the reforms was to establish an effective limit to campaign expenses. In our view this would have not been feasible in the late seventies or eighties. Then the parties were trapped in a prisoner’s dilemma in which each party had to spend more in order to prevent other parties from gaining electoral advantage. But in the nineties the main parties, ridden with problems of soaring electoral debts and disgruntled voters, used the reform of political finance as a coordination device to achieve a Pareto efficient equilibrium.