K Tenenboim-Weinblatt
Biographic Data
| ID | 53230 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Tenenboim-Weinblatt |
| GIVEN NAMES | K |
| FAMILY NAME | Tenenboim-Weinblatt |
| SIGNATURE | TENENBOIM-WEINBLATT K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9268-3969 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 318 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
An Ecosystem of Collective Futures: How Journalists and Experts Co-Construct Projections in Hybrid Media Environments
Journalists and experts play a pivotal role in communicating risks and helping the public navigate uncertain futures. This study examines the co-construction of projections by journalists and experts across news and social media during the Covid-19 pandemic. Unlike traditional news production, where journalists exercise agency by transforming expert knowledge into news narratives, hybrid media environments involve multi-platform, multi-directiona…
Re-assessing the Dynamics of News Use and Trust: A Multi-Outlet Perspective
Communication research has long explored the association between media trust and news consumption. However, the strength and direction of this relationship have remained elusive. This study suggests a new approach for investigating these complex relations, differentiating between usage and trust associated with different sources over time. Focusing on the 2022 French election and drawing on data from a four-wave panel survey (N = 1,294), we utili…
Projecting Tomorrow’s Challenges: Toward a Temporally Nuanced Framework for Studying Agenda Setting
Traditional agenda-setting research often focuses on the most urgent problems that dominate present public agendas. Challenging the prevalent conflation of importance with urgency in agenda-setting research, this article proposes a shift from a singular to a layered temporal conceptualization of public agendas. The suggested framework distinguishes between the immediate agenda, which addresses problems perceived as most urgent, and the delayed ag…
Journalists as Reluctant Political Prophets
I Hope my Partner Will Keep me up-to-date”: How Couples Navigate News Consumption and Avoidance
In an era of information overload, understanding individuals' news consumption and avoidance necessitates an examination of the specific contexts in which these practices occur. While research in journalism studies has mainly underscored consumption habits at the individual level, limited scholarly attention has been given to news avoidance within the structure of dyadic spousal relationships. This study shifts the focus from individual choices t…
Navigating the seas of inclusivity: A collaborative voyage at the helm of a communication flagship journal
One of us (dre) is a fan of The Who. Part of the refrain from one of their hits is “Well, who are you? I really wanna know. Tell me, who are you?” Long hours were spent during adolescence pondering this question. Now this question is being pondered again regarding the discipline. The question of “who are you?” is a question that has historically plagued our discipline. And it is a question that one contemplates when taking on the editorship of th…
Meaning multiplicity and valid disagreement in textual measurement: A plea for a revised notion of reliability
Reliabilität, operationalisiert als Übereinstimmung zwischen Codie- rern, ist gemeinhin akzeptiert als eine notwendige Voraussetzung für Validität in der quan- titativen Inhaltsanalyse. Diese Sichtweise beruht auf der Annahme, dass für jedes Vorkom- men einer gemessenen Variable exakt eine korrekte Klassifizierung bestimmt werden kann. Entgegen dieser Annahme argumentieren wir hier, dass divergierende Klassifizierungen auch aufgrund von im Text v…
Beyond sentiment: An algorithmic strategy for identifying evaluations within large text corpora
In this paper, we propose a new strategy for classifying evaluations in large text corpora, using supervised machine learning (SML). Departing from a conceptual and methodological critique of the use of sentiment measures to recognize object-specific evaluations, we argue that a key challenge consists in determining whether a semantic relationship exists between evaluative expressions and evaluated objects. Regarding sentiment terms as merely pot…
You’d be Right to Indulge Some Skepticism”: Trust-building Strategies in Future-oriented News Discourse
This paper explores trust-building strategies in future-oriented news discourse, marked by a high degree of uncertainty. While current research mainly focuses on audiences' perceptions of news credibility, this study addresses news trust from a production standpoint. We examine the trust-building efforts of media actors, focusing on their discursive labor within the context of election projections. Drawing on rich data from five election rounds i…
Taking a Break from News: A Five-nation Study of News Avoidance in the Digital Era
This article comparatively examines news avoidance in a rapidly changing media environment. We utilize findings from a large dataset of 488 in-depth interviews with media consumers, conducted in Argentina, Finland, Israel, Japan, and the US. We aim to make a contribution to the study of news avoidance by providing a comprehensive and nuanced understanding of the drivers, practices, and patterns of news avoidance as they occur in and are shaped by…
Affective forecasting in elections: A socio-communicative perspective
In orienting themselves to the future, people form expectations not only on what will happen but also on how they will feel about possible future occurrences. So far, such affective forecasting—the prediction of future feelings—has been studied mainly from a psychological perspective. This study aims to show the importance of a socio-communicative perspective for understanding the predictors, manifestations, and consequences of affective forecast…
Trust-oriented affordances: A five-country study of news trustworthiness and its socio-technical articulations
Research on trust has come to the forefront of communication studies. Beyond the dominant focus on informational trust and its country-specific articulations, trustworthiness evaluations can relate to the materiality of news and its global manifestations. Especially in digital algorithmic environments, understanding news trustworthiness requires a holistic approach, which combines informational and socio-technical aspects while addressing both in…
Youth Political Talk in the Changing Media Environment: A Cross-National Typology
While political communication scholarship has long underscored the importance of political talk—casual conversations about news and politics that occur in everyday situations—as a way for citizens to clarify their opinions and as a precursor for political engagement, much of this literature tends to depict political talk as uncomfortable and difficult for citizens. Yet, this focus on the challenging aspects of political talk has been informed pre…
Gendered power relations in the digital age: An analysis of Japanese women’s media choice and use within a global context
This study investigates the persistence of gendered choice and use of media, particularly in Japanese domestic settings. It shows how women’s significant presence in the digital media environment does not necessarily translate into substantial changes in gendered power dynamics in choosing and using particular media for certain purposes at home. This project’s authors, researchers from Argentina, Finland, Israel, Japan, and the US, analyzed inter…
From the barbecue to the sauna: A comparative account of the folding of media reception into the everyday life
How and why do people still get print newspapers in an era dominated by mobile and social media communication? In this article, we answer this question about the permanence of traditional media in a digital media ecosystem by analyzing 488 semi-structured interviews conducted in Argentina, Finland, Israel, Japan, and the United States. We focus on three mechanisms of media reception: access, sociality, and ritualization. Our findings show that th…
Speaking Across Communication Subfields
Textual Reservations in Conflict Situations: How the Israeli and Palestinian Media Treat Each Other’s Coverage
Trust is a central element in the relations between journalists and their sources. It becomes especially complicated in conflict situations; while journalists must depend on information flowing from media sources of the opposing side, these sources are often considered unreliable. This study examines how the media of each party in a conflict uses information published by the opposing side. Quantitative and qualitative textual analysis of 600 arti…
Mediating the opponent’s news: A study of inter-media citations in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
By using information sources from the opponent’s side, the media can introduce alternative viewpoints and broaden the discussion on the conflict. One important information source that has received little attention in research is the other side’s media reports. This study explores the practice of inter-media citations by analyzing Israeli and Palestinian news reports published over a span of 10 years. Based on a computerized quantitative analysis …
Be Less of a Slave to the News”: A Texto-Material Perspective on News Avoidance among Young Adults
The distinct media repertoire of young adults in the digital age, especially their increasing ability to bypass the news media, inspires a wealth of research. While previous studies have focused on social- and content-related motivations to avoid the news, we have yet to fully understand the interplay of such motivations with material, technology-related considerations. Drawing on 36 in-depth interviews with Israeli young adults, this paper explo…
Dynamics of (dis)trust between the news media and their audience: The case of the April 2019 Israeli exit polls
This paper explores the dynamics of (dis)trust among experts, journalists, and audiences through the case study of an inaccurate exit poll aired on a leading Israeli television channel. It combines empirical data from the Israeli April 2019 elections with a conceptual view of exit polls as both sources of information and national rituals to address public discourse on the polls and its underlying suspicions. A multi-method approach yielded a corp…
Incidentality on a continuum: A comparative conceptualization of incidental news consumption
This article seeks to contribute to theorizing the dynamics of incidental news consumption. Through an analysis of 200 semi-structured interviews with people in Argentina, Finland, Israel, Japan, and the United States, we show that intentionality in news consumption can be viewed on a continuum, which goes from deliberately setting apart time to access the news on specific outlets to skimming through unsought-for news on social and broadcast medi…
Journalism and Memory
This chapter considers the past, present, and future of journalism and memory in two senses: first, as time periods in the evolution of the area of research and, second, as thematic elements in the scholarship on journalism and memory. It argues that the need to broaden and fine-tune investigations of journalism and memory in ways that take into account the full range of news temporalities and journalistic forms, systematically compare journalist…
Unpacking Journalists’ (Dis)Trust: Expressions of Suspicion in the Narratives of Journalists Covering the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Despite growing attention to notions of (dis)trust in both journalism studies and conflict studies, the role of suspicion and distrust in the dynamics of conflict coverage has not yet been investigated. This paper explores the various aspects of suspicion in the perceptions of journalists covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, drawing on twenty in-depth interviews with journalists and an interdisciplinary approach to the conceptualization of …
The peace dividend as an intangible benefit in mega-project justification: A comparative content analysis of the Dead Sea-Red Sea Canal
Start Spreading the News: A Comparative Experiment on the Effects of Populist Communication on Political Engagement in Sixteen European Countries
Although populist communication has become pervasive throughout Europe, many important questions on its political consequences remain unanswered. First, previous research has neglected the differential effects of populist communication on the Left and Right. Second, internationally comparative studies are missing. Finally, previous research mostly studied attitudinal outcomes, neglecting behavioral effects. To address these key issues, this paper…
Bridging Collective Memories and Public Agendas: Toward a Theory of Mediated Prospective Memory
While memory can be both retrospective and prospective, referring to either what happened or what needs to be done, scholarship on media and collective memory has focused on retrospective memories. Shifting the focus to the news media as agents of prospective memory, this article develops the notion of mediated prospective memory. This new construct, which encompasses the various media practices by which collective prospective-memory tasks are sh…
Understanding Journalism Through a Nuanced Deconstruction of Temporal Layers in News Narratives: Temporal Layers in News Narratives
This article proposes a nuanced analysis of the temporal spectrum in news narratives, beyond the three conventional temporal orientations (past-present-future), thus affording a more complex understanding of journalism and its varied storytelling patterns. Combining qualitative and quantitative content analysis of print and online news items in the United States and Israel, this framework is used to evaluate and compare different journalistic cul…
Beyond peace journalism: Reclassifying conflict narratives in the Israeli news media
This article presents a general framework for deconstructing and classifying conflict news narratives. This framework, based on a nuanced and contextual approach to analyzing media representations of conflict actors and events, addresses some of the weaknesses of existing classification schemes, focusing in particular on the dualistic approach of the peace journalism model. Using quantitative content analysis, the proposed framework is then appli…
Print Is Future, Online Is Past: Cross-Media Analysis of Temporal Orientations in the News
This article examines the representation of past, present, and future in print and online news, while establishing a link between the temporal orientation of news stories and the constraints of the news cycle. Based on a content analysis of top news stories in the Israeli media, the study shows that a future temporal orientation is more prevalent in print media, which assume the role of projecting upcoming events, analyzing potential outcomes, an…
Be Less of a Slave to the News”: A Texto-Material Perspective on News Avoidance among Young Adults
The distinct media repertoire of young adults in the digital age, especially their increasing ability to bypass the news media, inspires a wealth of research. While previous studies have focused on social- and content-related motivations to avoid the news, we have yet to fully understand the interplay of such motivations with material, technology-related considerations. Drawing on 36 in-depth interviews with Israeli young adults, this paper explo…
Temporal affordances in the news
This article develops the concept of temporal affordances as a framework for understanding and evaluating the relationship between news technologies and journalistic storytelling practices. Accordingly, temporal affordances are defined as the potential ways in which the time-related possibilities and constraints associated with the material conditions and technological aspects of news production are manifested in the temporal characteristics of n…
Start Spreading the News: A Comparative Experiment on the Effects of Populist Communication on Political Engagement in Sixteen European Countries
Although populist communication has become pervasive throughout Europe, many important questions on its political consequences remain unanswered. First, previous research has neglected the differential effects of populist communication on the Left and Right. Second, internationally comparative studies are missing. Finally, previous research mostly studied attitudinal outcomes, neglecting behavioral effects. To address these key issues, this paper…
Journalistic transformation: How source texts are turned into news stories
In the scholarly debate, ideals of original reporting are commonly contrasted against the churnalistic reproduction of source content. However, most news making lies between these poles: Journalists rely on but transform the available source material, renegotiating its original meaning. In this article, we define journalistic transformation as those interventions journalists make in their use of third-party textual material in the pursuit of craf…
The search for common ground in conflict news research: Comparing the coverage of six current conflicts in domestic and international media over time
In its search for media influences in violent conflict, most existing scholarship has investigated the coverage of specific, salient conflict events. Media have been shown to focus on violence, sidelining concerns of reconciliation and disengaging rapidly as time proceeds. Studies have documented ethnocentric bias and self-reinforcing media hypes, which have been linked to escalation and radicalization. However, based on the existing studies, it …
Incidentality on a continuum: A comparative conceptualization of incidental news consumption
This article seeks to contribute to theorizing the dynamics of incidental news consumption. Through an analysis of 200 semi-structured interviews with people in Argentina, Finland, Israel, Japan, and the United States, we show that intentionality in news consumption can be viewed on a continuum, which goes from deliberately setting apart time to access the news on specific outlets to skimming through unsought-for news on social and broadcast medi…
Where Is Jack Bauer When You Need Him?” The Uses of Television Drama in Mediated Political Discourse
This article explores the myriad uses of television drama in mediated political discourse using the case study of 24, Fox's counterterrorism drama. It examines references to 24 in articles and columns of nine major daily newspapers, magazines, and political Web sites from 2001 to 2007 and demonstrates how the show was invoked to support and express different political opinions, how political identity and media preferences were reconciled, and how…
Viewpoint, Testimony, Action: How journalists reposition source frames within news frames
In the production of news, the frames presented by selected sources play a critical role. However, to create coherent, authoritative, and relevant news stories from the selected input, journalists need to actively transform the available material and fit it within a journalistic news frame. In our study, we investigate how Israeli, Palestinian, and foreign (US, UK, German) newspapers made use of highly salient source statements in their coverage …
The management of visibility: Media coverage of kidnapping and captivity cases around the world
This article examines the journalistic practices associated with the management of visibility of kidnapping and captivity stories, based on a comparative study of the media coverage of seven cases of Colombian, French, Israeli, and US citizens who were taken captive in the first decade of the 21st century. Differences in the general level of visibility given to these stories are identified and explained, followed by an analysis of three patterns …
Dynamics of (dis)trust between the news media and their audience: The case of the April 2019 Israeli exit polls
This paper explores the dynamics of (dis)trust among experts, journalists, and audiences through the case study of an inaccurate exit poll aired on a leading Israeli television channel. It combines empirical data from the Israeli April 2019 elections with a conceptual view of exit polls as both sources of information and national rituals to address public discourse on the polls and its underlying suspicions. A multi-method approach yielded a corp…
Trust-oriented affordances: A five-country study of news trustworthiness and its socio-technical articulations
Research on trust has come to the forefront of communication studies. Beyond the dominant focus on informational trust and its country-specific articulations, trustworthiness evaluations can relate to the materiality of news and its global manifestations. Especially in digital algorithmic environments, understanding news trustworthiness requires a holistic approach, which combines informational and socio-technical aspects while addressing both in…
Unpacking Journalists’ (Dis)Trust: Expressions of Suspicion in the Narratives of Journalists Covering the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Despite growing attention to notions of (dis)trust in both journalism studies and conflict studies, the role of suspicion and distrust in the dynamics of conflict coverage has not yet been investigated. This paper explores the various aspects of suspicion in the perceptions of journalists covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, drawing on twenty in-depth interviews with journalists and an interdisciplinary approach to the conceptualization of …
Talking It Personally: Features of Successful Political Posts on Facebook
While the centrality of Facebook as a political arena has been widely acknowledged, only scant attention has been given to what makes some political posts more successful than others. Addressing this gap, we analyzed a corpus of political posts written by diverse political actors in Israel. We explored, in particular, two main groups of factors that have been associated with major attributes of Facebook usage: content engagement and self-presenta…
Youth Political Talk in the Changing Media Environment: A Cross-National Typology
While political communication scholarship has long underscored the importance of political talk—casual conversations about news and politics that occur in everyday situations—as a way for citizens to clarify their opinions and as a precursor for political engagement, much of this literature tends to depict political talk as uncomfortable and difficult for citizens. Yet, this focus on the challenging aspects of political talk has been informed pre…
From the barbecue to the sauna: A comparative account of the folding of media reception into the everyday life
How and why do people still get print newspapers in an era dominated by mobile and social media communication? In this article, we answer this question about the permanence of traditional media in a digital media ecosystem by analyzing 488 semi-structured interviews conducted in Argentina, Finland, Israel, Japan, and the United States. We focus on three mechanisms of media reception: access, sociality, and ritualization. Our findings show that th…
Projecting Tomorrow’s Challenges: Toward a Temporally Nuanced Framework for Studying Agenda Setting
Traditional agenda-setting research often focuses on the most urgent problems that dominate present public agendas. Challenging the prevalent conflation of importance with urgency in agenda-setting research, this article proposes a shift from a singular to a layered temporal conceptualization of public agendas. The suggested framework distinguishes between the immediate agenda, which addresses problems perceived as most urgent, and the delayed ag…
Journalists as Reluctant Political Prophets
I Hope my Partner Will Keep me up-to-date”: How Couples Navigate News Consumption and Avoidance
In an era of information overload, understanding individuals' news consumption and avoidance necessitates an examination of the specific contexts in which these practices occur. While research in journalism studies has mainly underscored consumption habits at the individual level, limited scholarly attention has been given to news avoidance within the structure of dyadic spousal relationships. This study shifts the focus from individual choices t…
Meaning multiplicity and valid disagreement in textual measurement: A plea for a revised notion of reliability
Reliabilität, operationalisiert als Übereinstimmung zwischen Codie- rern, ist gemeinhin akzeptiert als eine notwendige Voraussetzung für Validität in der quan- titativen Inhaltsanalyse. Diese Sichtweise beruht auf der Annahme, dass für jedes Vorkom- men einer gemessenen Variable exakt eine korrekte Klassifizierung bestimmt werden kann. Entgegen dieser Annahme argumentieren wir hier, dass divergierende Klassifizierungen auch aufgrund von im Text v…
You’d be Right to Indulge Some Skepticism”: Trust-building Strategies in Future-oriented News Discourse
This paper explores trust-building strategies in future-oriented news discourse, marked by a high degree of uncertainty. While current research mainly focuses on audiences' perceptions of news credibility, this study addresses news trust from a production standpoint. We examine the trust-building efforts of media actors, focusing on their discursive labor within the context of election projections. Drawing on rich data from five election rounds i…
The peace dividend as an intangible benefit in mega-project justification: A comparative content analysis of the Dead Sea-Red Sea Canal
We will get through this together: Journalism, trauma and the Israeli disengagement from the Gaza Strip
Using the case study if the Israeli disengagement from the Gaza Strip in August 2005, this article explores the role of news images in moving collectives through contested and potentially traumatic events. It examines the coverage of the disengagement process in the three major Israeli daily newspapers, and argues that the Israeli press took upon itself the role of healing the potential collective trauma as the events themselves were unfolding
Where Is Jack Bauer When You Need Him?” The Uses of Television Drama in Mediated Political Discourse
This article explores the myriad uses of television drama in mediated political discourse using the case study of 24, Fox's counterterrorism drama. It examines references to 24 in articles and columns of nine major daily newspapers, magazines, and political Web sites from 2001 to 2007 and demonstrates how the show was invoked to support and express different political opinions, how political identity and media preferences were reconciled, and how…
Mediated Negotiations: A Case Study of a Transcultural Exchange between Lebanon and Israel
This article examines the strategies and practices by which the Israeli news media negotiated and (re)appropriated a Lebanese documentary that was produced in cooperation with a French company and was purchased and broadcast by an Israeli commercial channel. Using this transnational textual event, the article explores the dynamics, opportunities and pitfalls associated with transcultural exchanges that take place in a conflictual, translocal cont…
The management of visibility: Media coverage of kidnapping and captivity cases around the world
This article examines the journalistic practices associated with the management of visibility of kidnapping and captivity stories, based on a comparative study of the media coverage of seven cases of Colombian, French, Israeli, and US citizens who were taken captive in the first decade of the 21st century. Differences in the general level of visibility given to these stories are identified and explained, followed by an analysis of three patterns …
Bridging Collective Memories and Public Agendas: Toward a Theory of Mediated Prospective Memory
While memory can be both retrospective and prospective, referring to either what happened or what needs to be done, scholarship on media and collective memory has focused on retrospective memories. Shifting the focus to the news media as agents of prospective memory, this article develops the notion of mediated prospective memory. This new construct, which encompasses the various media practices by which collective prospective-memory tasks are sh…
The Path to Political Substance: Exploring the Mediated Discourse Surrounding Controversial Media Texts
This article proceeds from the assumption that entertainment texts—particularly controversial ones—function in a broad intertextual field and that their political significance does not lie solely in their value as stand-alone texts, or in their direct influence on political knowledge, attitudes, opinions, and behaviors, but in their ability to instigate politically relevant discussions in other media venues. Focusing on the mediated discourse sur…
Journalism and Memory
Counting Time: Journalism and the Temporal Resource
‘Time affects the work of every institution, but few so substantially as the news media.’ This statement by political scientist Thomas Patterson (1998: 56) underscores the significance of time for understanding journalism and its challenges (see also Barnhurst, 2011). Concurrently, it exposes the prevailing view about the direction of the relationship between time and journalism. In scholarly, journalistic and popular discourse, time is commonly …
The Construction of Participation in News Websites: A five-dimensional model
Audience participation has become a salient component of contemporary digital news environments, challenging traditional boundaries between readers and journalists. In this paper, we present an analytical framework for the evaluation of participation features in news websites, consisting of five axes: Chronology—the stage of news production; Visibility—transparency and prominence; Agency—users' and editors' level of activity; Integration—segregat…
Print Is Future, Online Is Past: Cross-Media Analysis of Temporal Orientations in the News
This article examines the representation of past, present, and future in print and online news, while establishing a link between the temporal orientation of news stories and the constraints of the news cycle. Based on a content analysis of top news stories in the Israeli media, the study shows that a future temporal orientation is more prevalent in print media, which assume the role of projecting upcoming events, analyzing potential outcomes, an…
Making News at The New York Times , by Nikki Usher
Viewpoint, Testimony, Action: How journalists reposition source frames within news frames
In the production of news, the frames presented by selected sources play a critical role. However, to create coherent, authoritative, and relevant news stories from the selected input, journalists need to actively transform the available material and fit it within a journalistic news frame. In our study, we investigate how Israeli, Palestinian, and foreign (US, UK, German) newspapers made use of highly salient source statements in their coverage …
Understanding Journalism Through a Nuanced Deconstruction of Temporal Layers in News Narratives: Temporal Layers in News Narratives
This article proposes a nuanced analysis of the temporal spectrum in news narratives, beyond the three conventional temporal orientations (past-present-future), thus affording a more complex understanding of journalism and its varied storytelling patterns. Combining qualitative and quantitative content analysis of print and online news items in the United States and Israel, this framework is used to evaluate and compare different journalistic cul…
Journalistic transformation: How source texts are turned into news stories
In the scholarly debate, ideals of original reporting are commonly contrasted against the churnalistic reproduction of source content. However, most news making lies between these poles: Journalists rely on but transform the available source material, renegotiating its original meaning. In this article, we define journalistic transformation as those interventions journalists make in their use of third-party textual material in the pursuit of craf…
Beyond peace journalism: Reclassifying conflict narratives in the Israeli news media
This article presents a general framework for deconstructing and classifying conflict news narratives. This framework, based on a nuanced and contextual approach to analyzing media representations of conflict actors and events, addresses some of the weaknesses of existing classification schemes, focusing in particular on the dualistic approach of the peace journalism model. Using quantitative content analysis, the proposed framework is then appli…
Convergent News? A Longitudinal Study of Similarity and Dissimilarity in the Domestic and Global Coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Domestic and Global Coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian C…
News coverage of the same events is simultaneously driven by homogenizing and heterogenizing influences. In this paper, we assess whether and when conflict news in different media become more similar or dissimilar by analyzing the coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in 13 leading Israeli, Palestinian, and international media over almost 10 years. We distinguish between drivers of enduring similarity, gradual convergence and temporary (di…
The search for common ground in conflict news research: Comparing the coverage of six current conflicts in domestic and international media over time
In its search for media influences in violent conflict, most existing scholarship has investigated the coverage of specific, salient conflict events. Media have been shown to focus on violence, sidelining concerns of reconciliation and disengaging rapidly as time proceeds. Studies have documented ethnocentric bias and self-reinforcing media hypes, which have been linked to escalation and radicalization. However, based on the existing studies, it …
Temporal affordances in the news
This article develops the concept of temporal affordances as a framework for understanding and evaluating the relationship between news technologies and journalistic storytelling practices. Accordingly, temporal affordances are defined as the potential ways in which the time-related possibilities and constraints associated with the material conditions and technological aspects of news production are manifested in the temporal characteristics of n…
Start Spreading the News: A Comparative Experiment on the Effects of Populist Communication on Political Engagement in Sixteen European Countries
Although populist communication has become pervasive throughout Europe, many important questions on its political consequences remain unanswered. First, previous research has neglected the differential effects of populist communication on the Left and Right. Second, internationally comparative studies are missing. Finally, previous research mostly studied attitudinal outcomes, neglecting behavioral effects. To address these key issues, this paper…
Talking It Personally: Features of Successful Political Posts on Facebook
While the centrality of Facebook as a political arena has been widely acknowledged, only scant attention has been given to what makes some political posts more successful than others. Addressing this gap, we analyzed a corpus of political posts written by diverse political actors in Israel. We explored, in particular, two main groups of factors that have been associated with major attributes of Facebook usage: content engagement and self-presenta…
Journalism and Memory
This chapter considers the past, present, and future of journalism and memory in two senses: first, as time periods in the evolution of the area of research and, second, as thematic elements in the scholarship on journalism and memory. It argues that the need to broaden and fine-tune investigations of journalism and memory in ways that take into account the full range of news temporalities and journalistic forms, systematically compare journalist…
Unpacking Journalists’ (Dis)Trust: Expressions of Suspicion in the Narratives of Journalists Covering the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Despite growing attention to notions of (dis)trust in both journalism studies and conflict studies, the role of suspicion and distrust in the dynamics of conflict coverage has not yet been investigated. This paper explores the various aspects of suspicion in the perceptions of journalists covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, drawing on twenty in-depth interviews with journalists and an interdisciplinary approach to the conceptualization of …
The peace dividend as an intangible benefit in mega-project justification: A comparative content analysis of the Dead Sea-Red Sea Canal
Speaking Across Communication Subfields
Textual Reservations in Conflict Situations: How the Israeli and Palestinian Media Treat Each Other’s Coverage
Trust is a central element in the relations between journalists and their sources. It becomes especially complicated in conflict situations; while journalists must depend on information flowing from media sources of the opposing side, these sources are often considered unreliable. This study examines how the media of each party in a conflict uses information published by the opposing side. Quantitative and qualitative textual analysis of 600 arti…
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