Data and notebook of publication - Grasland (2019) Intrnational news flow revisited by spatial interaction models
Claude GRASLAND
10.21942/uva.9729227.v1
https://uvaauas.figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Data_and_notebook_of_publication_-_Grasland_2019_Intrnational_news_flow_revisited_by_spatial_interaction_models/9729227
<div>The deposit is made of the appendix, data and notebook (R programs) of the communication published by International communication Gazette</div><div><br></div><p>Summary of the related publication : <br></p><p>This paper proposes a quantitative model of the circulation of
foreign news based on a gravity-like model of spatial interaction disaggregated
by time, media and countries of interest. The analysis of international RSS news
stories published by 31 daily newspapers in 2015 demonstrates, first, that many
of the laws of circulation of international news predicted half a century ago
by Galtung and Ruge and by Östgaard are still valid. The salience of countries
in media remains strongly determined by size effects (area, population), with
prominent coverage of rich countries (GDP/capita) with elite status (permanent
members of UNSC, the Holy See). The effect of geographical distance and a common
language remains a major factor of media coverage in newsrooms. Contradicting
the flat world hypothesis, global journalism remains an exception, and
provincialism is the rule. The disaggregation of the model by media demonstrates
that newspapers are not following exactly the same rules and are more or less
sensitive to distance, a common language or elite status. The disaggregation of
the model by week suggests that the rules governing foreign news can also be
temporarily modified by exceptional events that eliminate the usual effects of
salience and relatedness, producing short periods of “global consensus” that
can benefit small, poor and remote countries. The residuals of the model help to identify countries that
are characterized by a permanent excess of media coverage (like the US or the
Australia in our sample) or media that received a coverage more important than
usual during several months (Yemen, Ukraine) or years (Syria, Greece) because a
situation of long-term political or economic crisis. </p>
2019-08-26 08:38:32
Spatial analysis
media coverage
world case studies
flows
Agenda setting
newspapers
mapping analyses
cartographic information
international news
Social Science
Language, Communication and Culture
Information and Computing Sciences