In relation to journalism, the concept of ‘emotion’ is consistently undertheorized. Employed with commonsensical discernment, it is conflated with tabloid practices, sensationalism, bias, commercialization, and the like. Consequently, when discussed, emotion is often treated dismissively; a marker of unprincipled and flawed journalism. Yet hard, self-styled objective, ‘just the facts’ journalis...

in this article the possible effects of the translation technologies on the critical thinking and translation ability of the students of the translation studies would be studied through a pre-experimental method of research. the participants of this research were thirty one iranian senior translation studies students at the age group of 20-26 who were selected based on their age, educational le...

The move to Internet news publishing is the latest in a series of technological shifts which have required journalists not merely to adapt their daily practice but which have also – at least in the view of some – recast their role in society. For over a decade, proponents of the networked society as a new way of life have argued that responsibility for news selection and production will shift f...

A review of research suggests that the desire for opinion reinforcement may play a more important role in shaping individuals’ exposure to online political information than an aversion to opinion challenge. The article tests this idea using data collected via a webadministered behavior-tracking study with subjects recruited from the readership of 2 partisan online news sites (N = 727). The resu...

Topic segmentation, which aims to fmd the boundaries between topic blocks in a text, is an important task for semantic analysis of texts. Although different solutions have been proposed for the task, many limitations and difficulties exist in the approaches. In particular most of the methods do not work well for such case as short texts, internet news and student's writings. In this paper, we f...

In the provincial towns of England purely local medical journals have not been either numerous or successful. The history of Scottish and Irish medical journalism is outside my province ; but it should be recalled that in 1774 a Society of Physicians in Edinburgh started the Medical and Philosophical Commentaries modelled on the Commentarii de rebus in scientia naturali et medicina gestis that ...

This paper aims at determining the effect of e-news brand trust and the consequences of e-news brand trust. The model used in this study were tested on two news brands online, namely Detik.com and Kompas.com. Total sample of this study is accounted for 418 respondents, of which 239 respondents are kompas.com reader and 179 respondents’ reader of Detik.com. Results of this study indicate that bo...

In the event of breaking news, a wealth of crowd-sourced data, in the form of text, video and image, becomes available on the Social Web. In order to incorporate this data into a news story, the journalist must process, compile and verify content within a very short timespan. Currently this is done manually and is a time-consuming and labour-intensive process for media organisations. This paper...