Policy Narratives across Two Languages: A Comparative Study using the Narrative Policy Framework

The Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) focuses on the role of narratives, drawing from a rich scholarship in narrative, language, and culture. Despite the understanding that narratives are constructions of language and that narrative construction differs across languages, NPF studies have not focused on policy narratives in languages other than English. Language characteristics of narratives are important to assess the stability of policy narratives when there are multiple dominant languages in a political system. This study investigates the use of narrative elements in policy narratives in agricultural biotechnology policy in India across Hindi and English media coverage to examine the NPF assumption that narratives have generalizable narrative elements irrespective of variation in linguistic context and, specifically, tests the transportability of narrative elements. Findings validate the transportability of narrative elements in Hindi narratives, indicate variation in the use of narrative elements over time, and have implications for applying NPF across languages.     

The devil we know and the angel that did not fly: An examination of devil/angel shift in twitter fracking “debates” in NY 2008–2018

Recent work has applied the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) to examine narrative strategies in policy debates on social media platforms. We contribute to the literature by applying the NPF to fracking policy debates in New York using well-established Natural Language Processing tools, including sentiment analysis. We combine this computational approach with a qualitative hand-coding of pro- and antifracking Twitter influentials. This approach allows us to consider a much larger corpus of tweets over a much longer time frame than has been done thus far. We adapt and test NPF propositions related to the use of the devil/angel shift strategies before and after a major state-wide policy change, that is, a state-wide moratorium on high volume hydraulic fracturing or fracking. Overall, we find evidence for the use of the devil shift narrative strategy by the pro-fracking coalition aimed at the Governor prior to the moratorium. After the moratorium, the relative percentage of Tweets containing devil shift sentiments decreases as the pro-fracking coalition generally downshifts in its use of angel shift language without a corresponding increase in devil shift language, whereas, conversely, the anti-fracking coalition generally downshifts in its use of devil shift language without a general increase in angel shift language. When we shifted our analysis to Tweets containing fracking and the Governor, we found a similar postban decrease in devil shift language among anti-fracking users. Our findings offer lessons for using computational tools in the NPF as an approach to expand analytic ability and for the operationalization of concepts such as narrative strategies and policy entrepreneurs.     

新媒体对青少年价值观形成影响的调查

新媒体来势汹汹,铺天盖地始料不及,一夜之间改变了我们,尤其是青少年的生活方式,特别是对青少年的价值观形成带来了不可估量的冲击和影响。为了确保青少年价值观健康形成,首先要:第一,优化媒介环境。当前的媒介环境存在着媒体引导偏移、文化煽情引导、报道失当等伦理错位。建立健全青少年价值观形成中新媒体信息监管机制,对新媒体的价值影响实施有效的监控和合理的引导,以先进的文化和思想给青少年健康成长创造新媒体环境。第二,提高青少年新媒体媒介素养。作为生存在数字化一代的青少年来说,媒介素养的高低尤为重要。通过引导的方法和新媒体伦理教育,强化青少年的媒体道德意识和法制观念,促使青少年树立自律意识和正确使用新媒体观念,培养和提高青少年拒绝诱惑能力,自觉遵守媒体规范与道德,合理使用新媒体。第三,以新媒体为平台,构建价值观引导网络。新媒体为青少年价值观引导提供了广阔的平台,其虚拟性和匿名性为传统价值观引导提供全新的视角。加强平台网站文化建设,凸显主流文化,增强主流文化吸引力和感召力,使价值观引导新媒体平台成为满足青少年需要的主渠道和主窗口。第四,加强高中阶段青少年使用新媒体的引导。     

版权制度与新媒体技术之间的裂痕与弥补

传统的版权法制度是属于新媒体技术之前的法律制度,其特征是制造稀缺、专家法律制度以及国家主权特征明显。但是新媒体的特征是媒体充裕、消费者多重角色以及作品传播的无国界化。这使得传统的版权法制度与新媒体之间产生了明显的裂痕,这种裂痕的存在导致版权权利人、新媒体与消费者之间产生了严重的紧张与冲突。目前有三种尝试来试图弥补这一裂痕:一是改造新媒体,通过技术手段使新媒体的这三个特征得到消减或者控制;二是修改版权法,使新的版权法适应新媒体环境;三是通过建立新的商业模式,尤其是广泛使用法定许可制度来消弱三者之间的冲突。但是,这三种尝试至今都不是非常成功,因此,如何应对版权法制度与新媒体之间的裂痕还需要进一步研究与观察。     

论新媒体环境下大学生思想政治教育面临的新机遇

新媒体环境下,大学生思想政治教育既面临着新的挑战,也面临新的机遇。各类新媒体给高校思想政治教育客体的学习生活带来了积极影响,极大地丰富了思想政治教育的内容,增强了其时效性、互动性和针对性,拓宽了思想政治教育的范围和空间,有利于思想政治教育新的方式方法的运用。     

传播全球化对发展中国家的影响及其对策

国际广播、卫星电视、国际互联网络、跨国传播公司的扩张发展，使传播范围日益全球化，它对发展中国家在促进经济文化的繁荣发展、科技进步和政治民主化进程，缩小与发达国家差距等方面起到良好的促进作用，但同时在抢占媒介市场、冲击文化传统、干预社会意识形态以至内政外交等方面，也对发展中国家形成了挑战。制定和实行相关信息化政策，加强国际间的合作与交流，加快本国新闻传播媒体现代化、国际化步伐，是发展中国家迎接挑战的对策，而最根本的还是提高本国的经济实力。     

工人群体的媒介形象与话语表达——基于《人民日报》和《华西都市报》工人报道的内容分析

工人阶级是当前中国最大的社会群体,改革开放以来中国工人对社会、经济建设作出了巨大的贡献,但学界一直缺乏对媒介工人报道进行系统的研究.工人议题新闻报道的变迁可以为宏观社会研究或社会变迁研究提供一个微观的语言学视角,中共中央机关报《人民日报》和建国后中国第一份市场化报纸《华西都市报》改革开放以来关于工人的报道,报道量偏小,与工人群体现状有很大差距,工人议题报道在新闻源、工人媒介形象、工人媒介话语上表达具有固定的框架和模式,工人议题报道新闻源主要来自官方,工人议题报道中工人群体的话语表达比较缺乏且多正面,虽然各时期工人报道重点与工人群体状况变迁基本吻合,但是工人媒介形象和话语表达的固定框架影响工人舆情渠遘的畅通和媒介接近权.     

略论编辑把关

编辑 ,不仅仅是精神食粮的加工生产 ,还是复杂精妙的艺术创造和智慧活动 ;“把关”,始终贯穿于信息资料的收集、甄别、鉴定、选择、加工、校改、设计等业务过程中。如何搞好编辑把关是提高大众传播质量 ,实现大众传播宗旨的中心课题 ,其中在政治思想上、传媒战略策略上、逻辑思维和语言文字上的把关尤为重要     

Framing Trade‐offs: The Politics of Nuclear Power and Wind Energy in the Age of Global Climate Change

This article outlines recent debates over nuclear energy and wind farms in an age of growing concern about climate change. Proponents of these technologies have used “trade‐off” frames to promote these technologies in the face of current and potential opposition to them. This article examines the nature and limits of the trade‐off frames being used and their probability of success. We argue that using the language of trade‐offs is generally a suboptimal framing strategy: trade‐off frames remind the public of the costs associated with particular policies, and therefore play into the hands of policy opponents. However, policy advocates may turn to them when the costs of a technology are well known and are perceived as high. In such cases, trade‐off frames may help to justify controversial policy solutions. Like any frames, the trade‐off frames used in the debate over climate change solutions both illuminate and obscure the deeper issues involved in energy policy reform.     

新闻立法迫在眉睫

我国目前只是依靠零星散见的法律条款和新闻政策来调整新闻信息传播活动。这就造成了新闻诉讼纠纷案例的激增。而尚无新闻法,使媒体的舆论监督权与公民的权利保护在一定程度上存在着失衡。所以,为了公平起见,使媒体市场走向良性发展,国家必须加快出台新闻法,以保障媒体乃至公民的权利。