I would like to thank the editors and anonymous peer-reviewers of the International Journal of Communication, the International Communication Gazette, Journalism, the International Journal of Internet Studies, Journalism Studies, and Political Communication, for their detailed and thoughtful comments and ideas to improve the manuscripts. Earlier versions of some studies presented in the book were published in academic journals. Thank also to Wei Huang, Margarita Garshina, Hamid Zargari, Sarah Turowski, and Tim Pleskac for translating and disseminating the questionnaire on news and memory.įinally, I would like to thank the series editor at Peter Lang Publishing, Lee Becker, for his insightful comments and suggestions, and Mary Savigar, Sophie Appel, and Bernadette Shade who guided and supported me throughout the book production. Similarly, thanks to Charonne Kang, Lars Vogtmann Sørensen, Yunhua Zhai, and Masako Yamaguchi, who helped to build the multilingual databases. Many thanks also to Ursula Fähndrich, Cyrill Hess, Giorgia Corti Cavapozzi, and Ursula Peter, who read, evaluated, and analyzed samples of news items in different languages, contributing to the development of a stable sentiment analysis procedure. I would also like to acknowledge the coordination of Cornelia Bohn and the assistance of Monika Sy, Alexandra Kratzer, Daniel Arold, and Viola Müller from Lucerne University, who facilitated an excellent research environment. I would like to convey my gratitude for this generous support. The studies on the news sentiments and the news-memory nexus presented in chapters seven and eight were partly funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Chapter five is dedicated to all of you with love. Many thanks also to Elihu Katz, Tamar Libes, and Yonatan Fialkoff from the Hebrew University, who together with Menahem Blondheim formed a working group to study the trends of country mentions in the news. His insights helped greatly to improve the structure and flow of the book. With the approval of Maria and Menahem Blondheim, chapter three reports the result of our study on the nature of international news during economic crisis.Ī special thank to Akiba Cohen, who read and commented on the book proposal. Thanks also to Maria Angeles-Cabrera, who thought of studying the economic crisis in Spain. Chapter eight presents with his kind permission the results of our common study on ← ix | x → this subject. Many thanks also to Thomas Hills, who came up with the idea to study the link between memory and news in relation to foreign countries. Her research qualities are admirable and her patience and support throughout this project are immense. This was the basis of all the analyses presented in this book. As a professional terminologist she was also responsible for the construction of the dictionaries and the lists of country names and keywords in all languages. Since then, the collaboration with Menahem yielded many publications, some of which were included with his kind permission in this book.Įndless thanks to Regula Miesch my beloved wife for her thorough and amazingly professional work on our sentiment analysis study as well as on other studies included in this book. He provided me together with the Lady Davis Fellowship the ground for developing the software and conducting the early studies in 2008. Apart from his tremendous involvement in many of the studies presented here, Menahem was always excited about the analytical power of mining of online news, and helped me along the way to understand the deeper and broader theoretical implications of this work. I would like to convey my gratitude and appreciation to my academic father, Menahem Blondheim from the Hebrew University. Following these insights, the author discusses the opportunities and challenges of studying international news flow online in the future, and how this field of research can be further developed theoretically and empirically. In doing so, the book unveils new patterns, meanings and implications of international news on our perception of the world. This book explores the theory of news flow around the world, and analyses many of its dimensions such as the global standing of the United States, the Middle Eastern conflicts as seen around the world, and, the effect of financial news. Segev provides a comparative analysis of the international scope of online newspapers, news portals, and news aggregators in different languages and cultures, using innovative web mining techniques and network analysis. Why are some countries more newsworthy than others? What are the similarities and differences in the scope of international news presented in different languages and cultures? How does international news affect our perception of the world? In this book, Elad Segev explores international news flow on the internet by addressing these key questions.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |