the purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of weblog task assessment on iranian efl learners’ reading ability. to this purpose, a group of 30 english language students (both male and female) in rozaneh language institute in najafabad were selected based on their performance on the opt. the researchers tried to select a homogeneous sample in terms of age factor and proficiency level...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of weblog task assessment on Iranian EFL learners’ reading ability. To this purpose, a group of 30 English language students (both male and female) in Rozaneh Language Institute in Najafabad were selected based on their performance on the OPT. The researchers tried to select a homogeneous sample in terms of age factor and proficiency level...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of weblog task assessment on Iranian EFL learners’ reading ability. To this purpose, a group of 30 English language students (both male and female) in Rozaneh Language Institute in Najafabad were selected based on their performance on the OPT. The researchers tried to select a homogeneous sample in terms of age factor and proficiency level...

A convergent work method within the 24/7 deadline environment has created a need for digitalization and process automation. In order to realize that work method, an increasing number of media uses newsroom computer systems. Those systems are useful for the entire process of news production. Basic characteristics are enabling news gathering, article and scenario writing, communication, video vie...

A journalist reports to a voter on an unknown, policy-relevant state. Competing special interests can make claims that contradict the facts but seem credible to the voter. A reputational incentive to avoid taking sides leads the journalist to report special interests' claims to the voter. In equilibrium, the voter can remain uninformed even when the journalist is perfectly informed. Communicati...

Digital tools have the potential to both semi-automate science journalist tasks including incorporation of more diverse voices in journalism. This paper reports new design research that developed then elicited first feedback on one digital prototype with algorithms semi-automated selected journalism tasks. The revealed almost all participating journalists were comfortable increased automation a...

Wolf Rainer Wendt 1 Zur Einführung . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1 .1 Über Gesundheit verfügen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1 .2 Wirtschaft und Gesundheit – in welcher Beziehung? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1 .3 ...

This paper describes our participation at RepLab 2014, a competitive evaluation for reputation monitoring on Twitter. The following tasks were addressed: (1) categorisation of tweets with respect to standard reputation dimensions and (2) characterisation of Twitter profiles, which includes: (2.1) identifying the type of those profiles, such as journalist or investor, and (2.2) ranking the autho...