contrastive rhetorical analysis as a way of understanding different ways through which writers from various cultural backgrounds shape their discourse was officially initiated by the works of kaplan (1966). this study tries to use the methodology to investigate the news reports in two american and iranian widely published newspapers. using the analytical methodologies of contrastive rhetoric an...

We present AwareNews, a context-aware ambient news and awareness display. The aim of the system is to improve the awareness of the members of an organisation about news and activities regarding the organisation itself as well as related topics and general news and events. AwareNews integrates various information sources, filters the information objects and makes them available to the users thro...

Various news sites exist today where internet users can read the most recent news and people’s opinions about. However, usually these sites do not organize comments well and do not filter irrelevant content. Due to this limitation, readers who wonder about people’s opinion regarding some specific topic, have to manually follow relevant comments, reading and filtering a lot of irrelevant text. I...

this paper examines the effect of systematic risk on accounting conservatism. the idea is that in firms with higher systematic risk, managers have higher incentives to delay the recognition of bad news in the hope of future good news. they also face less demand for conservatism from investors and auditors. in this paper, for measuring systematic risk and accounting conservatism, we used beta fr...

This chapter describes the development of the E-News project which examined an interactive journalism approach in Rockhampton, Australia. This project provided an opportunity to examine how the introduction of this new technology into regional media and communication brings into question the traditional roles of the journalist, the editor, the graphic designer and the audience in the production...

Managers are responsible for providing financial statements and they might try to make a good picture of their firm's conditions. Therefore, they try to delay the disclosure of bad news and release the good news as soon as possible. The ten-dency of managers toward hiding bad news increases the stock price crash risk. The protection of investor is one of the factors that can prevent from fallin...

Arguably, information represents the most critical commodity in healthcare settings. Providers and recipients both require timely and accurate information to make the best decisions regarding the recipient’s care. Unfortunately, health outcomes are not always positive. Healthcare providers often find themselves in the position of having to share negative information with their recipients and th...