The shifting role of journalism in a digital age has affected long-standing journalistic norms across media platforms. This reinvigorated discussion on how work online newsrooms compares to other platforms that differ affordances and forms. Still, more studies are needed whether those differences translate into distinct practices, especially when examining cross-national studies. Based the seco...

This paper addresses responses to news about the imposing of a local lockdown in UK city. The opposition measure shows it be controversial as does associated rejection grounds for taking action against covid more generally, which comes alongside devaluing expertise, resistance public health responses, proliferation conspiracy theories and misinformation harm that can caused by focussing on non-...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to look at the different claims made about hip resurfacing arthroplasty in the popular UK print media and how this relates to findings in the scientific literature. METHODS A review of UK popular print media from January 1992 to June 2011 was performed using the Lexis(®) Library online news database. Only articles discussing the clinical results of hip ...

This paper focuses on newspapers as a scientific research source in the humanities. The purpose of this paper is to present a portion of the results obtained in the nationwide study which explored how Croatian humanities academics and scholars perceive and use (historical and current) newspapers. The study presented in this paper focused on two groups of researchers, historians and linguists, a...

The constantly growing data volume at the companies along with the necessity for finding information for the shortest possible time span involves methods of information search different from the ones conventionally used. The semantic technologies, developed in the late 90s and the beginning of the new century, are viewed as a new generation of databases and as text analyzing technologies. The p...

Correlates and consequences of newspaper accounts of research on sex differences were examined. In Study 1, articles from high-circulation newspapers were coded for the degree to which biological factors were used to explain sex differences. Results showed that political conservatism and traditional attitudes toward gender roles coded from other newspaper sections predicted greater use of biolo...

“Doc, I read in the paper that painkillers can give you high blood pressure. What do you think?”My patient was a 49 year old man with rheumatoid arthritis. His disease had previously been severe, but it had been improving in recent months with etanercept and intraarticular corticosteroids. In trying to answer his question, I began by explaining the cardiovascular risks of non-steroidal anti-inf...

This article hypothesized that the possibility to construct intellectual meaning of a terrorist attack (i.e., whether participants can cognitively understand why the perpetrators did their crime) reduces the negative psychological consequences typically associated with increased terrorist threat. Concretely, the authors investigated the effect of intellectual meaning (induced by providing addit...

We investigated the effects of appearance of emotionally neutral faces and the context in which the faces are encountered on incidental face memory. To approximate real-life situations as closely as possible, faces were embedded in a newspaper article, with a headline that specified an action performed by the person pictured. We found that facial appearance affected memory so that faces perceiv...