Comparing Coverage of Public Events Across Different Types of News Sources

比较不同类型新闻来源对公共事件的报道

基本信息

批准号：
2214160
负责人：
Pamela Oliver
金额：
$ 31.38万
依托单位：
University of Wisconsin-Madison
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2022-07-01 至 2024-06-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2214160&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Comparing Coverage Public Events Across

项目摘要

This study uses rigorous methods to compare mainstream newswires to local specialty newspapers in their coverage of related public events in the 1990s and 2000s, an under-studied period in US history. The project simultaneously develops a catalog of such events–what happened–and a catalog of news stories that shape the impressions a reader would form about what happened. This allows demonstration of how perceptions of controversies based in mainstream national media can differ from those based in more local targeted media sources. Democracy inherently involves conflicts between people with different issue preferences, and this conflict is sometimes expressed publicly. News media shape public perceptions of controversial issues and events, but news sources differ in which issues and events they emphasize and how they cover them. While most events are mentioned only once and receive sparse news coverage, a few events are discussed in dozens of articles and become central to public discussions. Understanding these media differences is an important part of understanding democratic deliberations in a diverse society. Data about the 1990s and 2000s helps provide historical context for understanding current debates. These high-quality data will also be useful to other social scientists, and the new research methods we have developed will improve research in this area.News sources for this project are: (1) Three newswire services archived in the Annotated English Gigaword file available from the Linguistic Data Consortium; and (2) local specialty newspapers archived in Proquest Ethnic Newswatch. The main study period is 1994-2010. This study provides novel and unique data that permit enhanced investigation of the mutual relationship of public events and news coverage. Methodologically, this project develops important innovations in studying social movement events (and public events more broadly) using news sources. The methods emphasize verifiability, error-correction, and the relationality of these events. Relational databases provide rigorous links between events and the articles describing them, which both permits event data to be verified and structures the data to be consistent with theories of the interplay of events and news coverage. Consistent with theory, relational data structures are used additionally to capture the structuring of protests into specific issue clusters and the structuring of some events as complex events with subevents. These data structures permit new lines of research. Comparison across source types permits investigation of the different narratives and collective memories they construct about this period. Special attention is paid to the small number of events that receive disproportionate coverage in news sources and thus dominate public discourses. This new high-quality public event data will inform historical studies of this under-studied period and be useful for secondary analyses by other scholars. The use of relational data structures will improve data collection protocols.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这项研究使用了严格的方法将主流新闻与当地专业报纸进行比较，以介绍1990年代和2000年代相关的公共活动，这是美国历史上研究不足的时期。该项目只是开发了此类事件的目录（发生了什么事），以及新闻报道的目录，这些故事会影响读者对发生的事情的印象。这可以证明基于主流媒体的争议的看法与基于本地针对性的媒体来源的媒体有何不同。民主固有地涉及具有不同问题偏好的人之间的冲突，这种冲突有时会公开表达。新闻媒体塑造了公众对有争议的问题和事件的看法，但是新闻来源是他们强调的问题和事件以及它们如何涵盖的新闻来源。虽然大多数事件仅被提及一次并获得稀疏的新闻报道，但在数十篇文章中讨论了一些事件，并成为公众讨论的核心。了解这些媒体差异是了解多元化社会中民主审议的重要组成部分。有关1990年代和2000年代的数据有助于提供历史背景，以理解当前的辩论。这些高质量的数据也将对其他社会科学家有用，我们开发的新研究方法将改善该领域的研究。该项目的新闻来源是：（1）在语言数据联盟可从可用的注释英语Gigaword文件中存档的三个新闻社服务；（2）当地的专业报纸在Proquest种族Newswatch中存档。主要研究期是1994 - 2010年。这项研究提供了新颖而独特的数据，可以增强公共事件和新闻报道之间相互关系的投资。从方法上讲，该项目在使用新闻来源研究社会运动事件（和公共事件）方面开发了重要的创新。这些方法强调了这些事件的可验证性，错误纠正和关系。关系数据库提供了事件和描述它们的文章之间的严格链接，这两者都允许验证事件数据，并结构数据与事件相互作用和新闻报道的理论一致。与理论一致，使用关系数据结构还用来将抗议活动的结构捕获为特定问题集群的结构，并将某些事件作为带有子事件的复杂事件的结构。这些数据结构允许新的研究线。跨源类型的比较允许对他们在此期间构建的不同叙述和集体记忆进行调查。特别关注少数事件，这些事件在新闻来源受到不成比例的报道，从而占据了公共话语。这个新的高质量公共事件数据将为这一研究不足时期的历史研究提供信息，并有助于其他学者进行辅助分析。关系数据结构的使用将改善数据收集协议。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准来评估被认为是宝贵的支持。