A retrospective evaluation of attitudinal, behavioural and knowledge change among diverse stakeholder groups was conducted in Limpopo Province of South Africa to assess the effectiveness of a series of values clarification (VC) interventions. Telephone and face-to-face interview (193) results revealed that over two-thirds (70.2%) reported behavioural changes and 93.2% reported increased compass...

We have developed a news portal site called Fair News Reader (FNR) that recommends news articles with different sentiments for a user in each of the topics in which the user is interested. FNR can detect various sentiments of news articles, and determine the sentimetal preferences of a user based on the sentiments of previously read articles by the user. While there are many news portal sites o...

This themed issue provides a comprehensive overview of journalism scholarship that variously builds on, develops, and re-examines the conceptual methodological framework “news values” research in digital age. As such, it purports to demonstrate, explore reflect on its distinctive merits limitations, both actual potential, as approach understanding ideas, practices, experiences “newsworthiness”,...

This study investigates the epistemological implications of appropriation audience analytics in a data-driven news culture. Focussing on two central aspects epistemology, epistemic value and practices, we ask overall questions (1) How are metrics balanced reconciled relation to other standards justification as valuable knowledge? different practices research presentation, truth-seeking truth-te...

This paper investigates whether adaptive learning and news shocks, operating in tandem, can generate business cycle dynamics that match the data. In doing so, this paper adopts expectational stability (“E-stability”) as a natural criterion for rationality: plausible equilibria should arise from an adaptive learning formulation where agents form forecasts from a correctly specified model whose p...

This study traces the rhythms of news storytelling on Twitter via the #egypt hashtag. Using computational discourse analysis, we examine news values and the form of news exhibited in #egypt from January 25 to February 25, 2011, preand post-resignation of Hosni Mubarak. Results point to a hybridity of old and newer news values, with emphasis on the drama of instantaneity, the crowdsourcing of el...

─Abstract─ This paper proposes an information retrieval method for the economy news. The effect of economy news, are researched in the word level and stock market values are considered as the ground proof. The correlation between stock market prices and economy news is an already addressed problem for most of the countries. The most well-known approach is applying the text mining approaches to ...