1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910793549703321

Autore

Breen Michael <1983->

Titolo

Resilient reporting : media coverage of Irish elections since 1969 / / Michael Breen, Michael Courtney, Iain McMenamin, Eoin O'Malley, Kevin Rafter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2019

©2019

ISBN

1-5261-1998-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 176 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s)

Disciplina

324.94170824

Soggetti

Elections - Press coverage - Ireland

Press and politics - Ireland

Communication in politics - Ireland

Politics

Media, Information & Communication Industries

POLITICAL SCIENCE / General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

List of figures -- List of tables -- List of authors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Resilient reporting: An introduction -- 2 Ireland: political, economic, and media systems -- 3 The media and political change -- 4 The role of the economy in media coverage -- 5 Gender bias and Irish election coverage -- 6 Party leaders and personalisation of politics -- 7 Commercialism and election coverage -- 8 Economy and crisis coverage -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: An overview of elections in Ireland since 1969 -- Appendix 2: Data and methodology -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines how election news reporting has changed over the last half century in Ireland by means of a unique dataset involving 25m words from newspapers as well as radio and television coverage. The authors examine reporting in terms of framing, tone and the distribution of coverage.They also focus on how the economy has affected election coverage as well as media reporting of leaders and personalities, gender and the effect of the commercial basis of media



outlets. The findings - drawn from a machine learning computer system involving a huge content analysis study - will interest academics as well as politicians and policymakers internationally.

"Media hostility towards politicians and the political system, and its impact on democracy, has long attracted the interest of scholars of political communication. It is also the subject of political discourse and rhetoric, with the media attracting the ire of political leaders around the globe: Donald Trump, for one, has repeatedly called journalists 'the worst people in the world.' Trump is not the first, nor will he be the last, leader to seek to focus our attention on the role of the media in electoral politics.   Resilient reporting  examines how election news reporting has changed over the last half-century in Ireland by means of a unique dataset involving 25 million words from newspapers, as well as radio and television coverage. In a timely and revealing study, the authors examine reporting in terms of framing, tone, and the distribution of coverage. They also focus on how the economy has affected election coverage as well as media reporting of leaders and personalities, gender, and the effect of the commercial basis of media outlets.  The authors evaluate three broad hypotheses about Ireland's election coverage since 1969: the extent to which the norms of critical impartiality have survived, whether the media has shifted towards  hypercritical infotainment , and the extent to which content has been influenced by  exogenous factors  - that is, political, social, and economic factors outside the media itself.   The findings, which are drawn from a machine-learning computer system involving a huge content analysis study, will interest academics as well as politicians and policymakers internationally." --Back cover.



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996218678003316

Autore

Lawton Julia <1969, >

Titolo

The dying process : patients' experiences of palliative care / / Julia Lawton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000

ISBN

1-134-58866-6

0-203-13027-8

1-134-58867-4

0-203-17013-X

1-280-40116-8

9786610401161

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Disciplina

362.1/75

Soggetti

Palliative treatment

Terminal care

Death

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-222) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction; Day care: a safe retreat; Preface to Chapters 3 and 4; changing contexts: entering the hospice; 'Body-subject' to 'body-object': hospice care and the dying patient; Inpatient hospice care: the sequestration of the unbounded body and 'dirty dying'; Invisible suffering: the social death; Final reflections; Appendix A; Appendix B; Notes; Bibliography; Name index; Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

Taking as its focus a highly emotive area of study, The Dying Process draws on the experiences of daycare and hospice patients to provide a forceful new analysis of the period of decline prior to death.Placing the bodily realities of dying very firmly centre stage and questioning the ideology central to the modern hospice movement of enabling patients to 'live until they die', Julia Lawton shows how our concept of a 'good death' is open to interpretation. Her study examines the non-negotiable effects of a patient's bodily deterioration on their sense of self and, in so doing,