The different writing systems of English and Persian makes translation of acronyms, initialisms and abbreviations challenging. This study aimed at finding which strategies were applied most frequently in translating acronyms, initialisms and abbreviations from English to Persian especially in journalistic texts. The study was done based n Descriptive Translation Study of Toury and strategies pr...

We report an in-depth, longitudinal study of a freelance music journalist writing a feature article. Our analysis attends to the participant’s activities from initiation to completion, and the ways in which she established structure using tools and artefacts to support cognitive effort. We observed five work stages: establishing an initial idea; preparing for an interview; interviewing; plannin...

Aalto University, P.O. Box 11000, FI-00076 Aalto www.aalto.fi Author Stina Westman Name of the doctoral dissertation Journalistic Image Access: Description, Categorization and Searching Publisher School of Science Unit Department of Media Technology Series Aalto University publication series DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS 87/2011 Field of research Media Technology Manuscript submitted 14 June 2011 Manu...

An experiment is described in which reporters captured realworld news stories as semantically structured representations of journalistic events and narratives, and preliminary results from the experiment are discussed. The experiment was conducted using the Structured Stories prototype platform, which provides a library of abstractions of journalistic events grounded in frame semantics. Realwor...

Ethical decision making is increasingly emphasized in daily media practice. The pervasive reportage of disaster is a ready context to analyze journalistic ethical orientations. This study examines several classic approaches and their applications in covering disaster, in order to develop a comprehensive ethical framework (an ethical coordinate) for researchers to examine journalistic ethical or...

Facilitating general access to data from sensor networks (including traffic, hydrology and other domains) increases their utility. In this paper we argue that the journalistic metaphor can be effectively used to automatically generate multimedia presentations that help non-expert users analyze and understand sensor data. The journalistic layout and style are familiar to most users. Furthermore,...

This article examines the effectiveness of using wikis for collaborative projects in college journalism classrooms, with the principles of andragogy as a framework. The use of wikis in two journalism courses at a large university in the American Midwest illustrates how wikis can encourage learners to become more selfdirected by engaging in online collaborative writing about how best to produce ...

This study examines journalistic writing styles in Covid 19 pandemic reporting on Malaysian online news portals through content analysis. The discussion is divided into research questions, such as (1) what the pattern of style used portals, (2) how Malaysia Kini and Malay Mail source frame 19. Content analysis were to examine trends use patterns. found that patterns covid delivery descriptive, ...

This paper discusses the implications of Sarah Josepha Hale’s polarizing opposition to franchise women on her legacy award, given many authors since its inception, but most notably contemporary writers whom Hale likely would have rejected. In 2019, award went Jodi Picoult, an author who bridges journalistic writing topics such as abortion, white supremacy, and gun violence, among others, with f...