In this qualitative action research study, the purpose was to explore if the integration of an intercultural communication component (ICC), and its relation to the area of digital war into an undergraduate English course in Kuwait could improve the preparation of students for their future studies and jobs. The study focused on the insufficient acceptance of cultural diversity, besides its relation to the students’ misconceptions about digital war. Areas focused on in this study included; 1) improvement of ICC knowledge, skills, and values of students as well as their understanding of digital war; 2) students perceived the incorporation of the ICC component into English courses with special emphasis on the digital war topic as educational and eye-opening; 3) improvement of intervention methods to ensure results; and 4) student-perceived impact, if any, of the ICC module on student attitudes and behaviours toward other ethnic groups. The Deardorff (2011) model of intercultural competence was used to guide the study. Data were collected using semi-structured interviews and field notes, after content and thematic analysis was conducted.
{"title":"Raising University Students’ Level of Academic and Professional Readiness through Teaching Intercultural Communication and Digital War","authors":"Iman Naser El-Deen Ahmed","doi":"10.4236/ajc.2022.102016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/ajc.2022.102016","url":null,"abstract":"In this qualitative action research study, the purpose was to explore if the integration of an intercultural communication component (ICC), and its relation to the area of digital war into an undergraduate English course in Kuwait could improve the preparation of students for their future studies and jobs. The study focused on the insufficient acceptance of cultural diversity, besides its relation to the students’ misconceptions about digital war. Areas focused on in this study included; 1) improvement of ICC knowledge, skills, and values of students as well as their understanding of digital war; 2) students perceived the incorporation of the ICC component into English courses with special emphasis on the digital war topic as educational and eye-opening; 3) improvement of intervention methods to ensure results; and 4) student-perceived impact, if any, of the ICC module on student attitudes and behaviours toward other ethnic groups. The Deardorff (2011) model of intercultural competence was used to guide the study. Data were collected using semi-structured interviews and field notes, after content and thematic analysis was conducted.","PeriodicalId":405628,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Journalism and Communication","volume":"2015 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121527558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Re-Thinking of History in Glasnost-Period Georgian Official Press","authors":"Khatuna Maisashvili, Natia Svanidze, Natia Bregvadze, Kristina Sajaia, Marianna Asanidze","doi":"10.4236/ajc.2022.101003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/ajc.2022.101003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":405628,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Journalism and Communication","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128579350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
James Gajak Koang Riek, Isaac Joseph Muthotho, R. A. Mohamed
{"title":"Media Framing Women’s Participation in Decision-Making in East Africa: A Case of South Sudan Women in Decision Making","authors":"James Gajak Koang Riek, Isaac Joseph Muthotho, R. A. Mohamed","doi":"10.4236/ajc.2022.104027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/ajc.2022.104027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":405628,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Journalism and Communication","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117120975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This study conducts a small corpus-assisted investigation on the linguistic epistemic markers and attitudinal stance markers of English and Chinese news headlines and discusses the possible similarities and differences. Results show that in the Chinese news headlines, certainty stance markers and evidentiality markers are more frequent, whereas in the English news headlines, hedging stance markers and evaluation stance markers are more common. These differences may be due to the differences in English and Chinese news value and news writing modes.
{"title":"Stance Taking in English and Chinese News Headlines","authors":"Xi Shi, Lifang Wei","doi":"10.4236/ajc.2022.101004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/ajc.2022.101004","url":null,"abstract":"This study conducts a small corpus-assisted investigation on the linguistic epistemic markers and attitudinal stance markers of English and Chinese news headlines and discusses the possible similarities and differences. Results show that in the Chinese news headlines, certainty stance markers and evidentiality markers are more frequent, whereas in the English news headlines, hedging stance markers and evaluation stance markers are more common. These differences may be due to the differences in English and Chinese news value and news writing modes.","PeriodicalId":405628,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Journalism and Communication","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126072209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This study explored how news outlets, China Daily (CD), Cable News Network (CNN), and Daily Mail (DM) have reported the COVID-19 pandemic. Mainstream media is a credible communication path to guide public attention on COVID-19. Computational text analysis contributes to understanding media activities about the pandemic and promotes health information communication. The word frequency statistics and lexical diversity highlighted how pandemic reports changed in the early outbreak. A cluster analysis illustrated the frequency and semantic relationship between the highly frequent words from CD, CNN, and DM reports. Sentiment analysis was based on natural language processing when analyzing the sentiment of all headlines and the sentiment of the different words in the headlines. This study also discussed similarities and differences in the coverage by the three different media outlets at various stages of the outbreak. Three media reported comprehensive coverage of the pandemic. Since they are based in different countries, their focus and the numbers of reports are different at different stages. The richness of the vocabulary and the degree of emotion are related to their media attributes. These results can help health departments exchange information, guide accurate public awareness, and eliminate public fears regarding misconceptions about the pandemic.
{"title":"Media Reports of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Computational Text Analysis of English Reports in China, the UK, and the US","authors":"Shuran Yang, Wenxiang Zhang, Zhao Yuan","doi":"10.4236/AJC.2021.92004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/AJC.2021.92004","url":null,"abstract":"This study explored how news outlets, China Daily (CD), Cable News Network (CNN), and Daily Mail (DM) have reported the COVID-19 pandemic. Mainstream media is a credible communication path to guide public attention on COVID-19. Computational text analysis contributes to understanding media activities about the pandemic and promotes health information communication. The word frequency statistics and lexical diversity highlighted how pandemic reports changed in the early outbreak. A cluster analysis illustrated the frequency and semantic relationship between the highly frequent words from CD, CNN, and DM reports. Sentiment analysis was based on natural language processing when analyzing the sentiment of all headlines and the sentiment of the different words in the headlines. This study also discussed similarities and differences in the coverage by the three different media outlets at various stages of the outbreak. Three media reported comprehensive coverage of the pandemic. Since they are based in different countries, their focus and the numbers of reports are different at different stages. The richness of the vocabulary and the degree of emotion are related to their media attributes. These results can help health departments exchange information, guide accurate public awareness, and eliminate public fears regarding misconceptions about the pandemic.","PeriodicalId":405628,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Journalism and Communication","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127278770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis of the Social Impact of Fandom Culture in “Idol” Context","authors":"Yang Zhao","doi":"10.4236/ajc.2022.104022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/ajc.2022.104022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":405628,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Journalism and Communication","volume":"135 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113970052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Engaging with Engagement”: A New Communications Strategy That Provides Coherence Making Companies More Competitive and Public Institutions More Agile and Accessible","authors":"C. Beaumont, Darrell Berry, J. Ricketts","doi":"10.4236/ajc.2021.94013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/ajc.2021.94013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":405628,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Journalism and Communication","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117195599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spatial Production Analysis of the Film Mr.Six from the Perspective of Spatial Ternary Theory","authors":"Yunlong Dang","doi":"10.4236/ajc.2023.113017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/ajc.2023.113017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":405628,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Journalism and Communication","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126296166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Research on ICS NEWS International Communication Strategy","authors":"Yichun Ren, Fangyi Jin","doi":"10.4236/ajc.2023.113013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/ajc.2023.113013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":405628,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Journalism and Communication","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115144279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How People Show Their Emotions towards COVID-19 on Twitter Platform","authors":"Lu Zhao","doi":"10.4236/ajc.2022.102012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/ajc.2022.102012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":405628,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Journalism and Communication","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134361360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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