Browsing by Subject "online news"
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(2023)The sixth wave of mass species extinction currently threatens biodiversity and life on Earth as we know it. Conservationists seeking to protect threatened species are tasked with raising awareness and achieving funding for these protections, often by appealing to the public. In modern-day conservation research, digital data holds an increasingly important role in understanding conservation goals, messaging, and impacts. The media especially is a key player in disseminating information to the public about conservation. The data for this thesis was retrieved by an automated pipeline that collects Google News articles on species in Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) (Di Minin & Kulkarni 2021). I used a descriptive approach to assess species information and popularity online, as well as the location and temporality of that information and popularity. I supplemented the dataset with metrics from Facebook to investigate article popularity, Google to investigate species popularity, and Wikipedia to investigate temporal trends in species interest. The quantitative results show an expected bias towards large, terrestrial mammals. Large cats are cited frequently across all data metrics. Popular headlines employ emotional or political language to attract readers. Frequently used words in titles of popular articles highlight diminishing populations, new or rare species, and certain species like whales, pangolins, rhinos, and turtles. The majority of the news organizations in the dataset are based in the United States. The United States is also most frequently mentioned in the text of the articles, though India and China lead with the highest number of species with native ranges in their countries. Wikipedia pageviews reveal the fluctuations in online species interest, and possible reasons are investigated through the article titles. The results reveal that charismatic, large mammals receive the highest attention in the media, and among the public. Results also showcase the potential of the pipeline and database for further development and addressing research gaps. Overall, the investigations in this thesis provide avenues to improve conservation messaging and address conservation biases.
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(2023)More and more words are being borrowed into English, owing to multilingualism, English as a Lingua Franca, and contact between people from different backgrounds (Kiaer, 2018, pp. 20, 25). A recent statement from the Oxford English Dictionary (2021) indicates increased borrowing from Korean to English. This development has been facilitated by the Korean Wave, online communication, and global subcultures (Kiaer, 2018, pp. 25-27). In recent years there has been an increase in academic interest in Korean borrowings (e.g., Ahn, 2021a; Khedun-Burgoine & Kiaer, 2022; You, Kiaer & Ahn, 2020). This study examines Korean borrowings in the context of online news, using frequency data from the News on the Web corpus (Davies, 2016-). The specific borrowings under study are taekwondo, kimchi, hallyu, chaebol, gochujang, soju, bulgogi, bibimbap, hanbok, Juche, oppa, mukbang, banchan, galbi, kimbap, manhwa, noona and hangul. The purpose of the study is to gain insight into what the overall frequency trajectories of the 18 borrowings are like from 2010 to 2021, and what the geographical distribution of the use of taekwondo, kimchi, hallyu, chaebol and gochujang is like in 2010 and 2021. The results show tendencies for overall increase from 2010 to 2021, and higher-frequency periods in 2012-2013 and 2020-2021. The trajectories indicate significant fluctuation in the use of Korean borrowings. Geographically, the highest frequencies occurred in Southeast Asian countries, while African countries had the lowest frequencies. In 2010 the use of Korean borrowings was observed in 1-11 countries. By 2021, the number of countries with perceptible use of the borrowings increased by seven to eleven, depending on the specific borrowing, indicating a significantly wider geographical spread of Korean culture.
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(2021)Avhandlingen ser på ekonomisk brottslighet (white-collar crime, på svenska ofta kallat manschettbrottslighet) speciellt i formen av förskingringar, och hur de visar sig i välfärdsstater såsom Finland och Sverige. Avhandlingen ger även en översikt över kriminologisk teori, manschettbrottslighet och dess kopplingar till globalisering. I ljuset av avhandlingens källmaterial är en kort diskussion beträffande kriminaljournalistik även inkluderad. Teorimässigt ligger fokus på hur manschettbrottslighet och kriminologiska teorier har utvecklats genom åren. Avhandlingens källmaterial och fallen som analyseras samlades genom användning av internetbaserade nyhetsmedier i januari och februari 2021. Som sökmotor användes Google, där sökningen begränsats till www.yle.fi och www.svt.se. Finland och Sverige blev valda tack vare deras många likheter samt relativt lätta jämförbarhet. Det som skiljer avhandlingen från andra studier inom samma område är dess fokus på Finland och Sverige, samt dess metod för datainsamling, vilket ter sig unikt, eftersom en liknande analys mellan länderna inte gjorts tidigare. Forskningens resultat visar på en variation mellan gärningsmannens ställning och tillvägagångssätt, där brottsmetoden ofta var överraskande enkel. Dessutom kan man i analysen finna påfallande likheter mellan Finland och Sverige. Några uppenbara slutsatser på globaliseringens direkta inverkan på själva brottet förblir dock tvetydigt. Hursomhelst kan det ändå konstateras att medan globalisering i sig inte är källan till allt det onda, är det ändå ofrånkomligt att fenomenet globalisering samt allt vad det innebär nog underlättat genomförandet av en del former av ekonomisk brottslighet. Dock visar även avhandlingens slutsatser på att den stereotypiska manschettbrottslingen som en manlig medelålders chef inte stöds av källmaterialet. Poängteras bör ändå också att definitionen av manschettbrottslighet, som den används i denna avhandling, samt omfattningen av vad som räknats som förskingring, tvingar betydelsen av denna traditionella, och aningen konservativa, stereotypen att minska i värde.
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