For novel issues like food nanotechnology, media can play an important role in shaping the awareness and mental associations that underlie public opinion. Seeking to complement recent research exploring public opinion formation about food nanotechnology, this study tracks the evolution of U.S. newspaper coverage of food nanotechnology, identifying the descriptive and thematic traits that have c...

Editorial staff play an essential role as gatekeepers within professional journalism. Citizen journalism has the potential to depart from routine journalistic practices and allow for more democratic posting of unmoderated content. Nonetheless, many citizen journalism web sites do have an editorial staff and no existing research has explored the contributions of editors to citizen journalism web...

Social media allow journalists to incorporate additional information into their journalistic inquiry. However, journalists often cannot be certain of the quality of information from social media. IS research has yet to sufficiently address this issue. Most notably, there is no information system that supports searching for social media content about a specific topic while considering journalist...

We predicted the average and perceived journalistic objectivity in online news articles based on the text of the article and data collected on the individual user reading the article, in order to better understand both how journalistic bias relates to the text of an article alone, and how reader demographics and political leanings influence the perceived objectivity of a given article. Using su...

This article offers a corpus-based analysis of locative inversion in journalistic writing. The study focuses on the construction press reportage dealing with cultural, sports, financial, political and spot news Present-Day English. On basis data retrieved from six different corpora, it is argued that distribution these texts related to degree writer’s involvement each text style. Results show m...