Nowadays mass media plays a crucial role in people’s lives. Online newspapers constitute part of discourse, which makes for extremely important bodies text the purposes research discourse analysis. In news headlines, careful and sensitive use is made linguistic devices order to make headlines unique different, influence readers, create trust newspaper, and, most importantly, invite encourage re...

The dot.com and telecoms meltdown have led to claims in the popular press that e-commerce and e-business may have gone as far as they can. In practice, of course, the rationalisation of the internet-based marketplace has really only meant that sound business practices are now required for online companies, as well as for their more conventional brethren in the physical world. As companies and i...

BACKGROUND Low mood is a common mental health problem with significant health consequences. Studies have shown that cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is an effective treatment for low mood and anxiety when delivered one-to-one by an expert practitioner. However, access to this talking therapy is often limited and waiting lists can be long, although a range of low-intensity interventions that ...

We previously proposed a summarization system, GREEN, for Japanese newspaper editorials. However, GREEN is not suitable for summarizing ordinal newspaper articles which are different from newspaper editorials. To participate in subtasks A-1 and A-2 of TSC (text Summarization Challenge) in NTCIR-2, we developed a new summarization system from scratch which copes with both ordinal articles and ed...

A newspaper content management system has to deal with a very heterogeneous information space as the experience in the Diari Segre newspaper has shown us. The greatest problem is to harmonise the different ways the involved users (journalist, archivists...) structure the newspaper information space, i.e. news, topics, headlines, etc. Our approach is based on ontology and differentiated universe...

In this paper we describe a PD approach applied in a context of designing a future everyday IT artifact with limited resources. In the DigiNews project we aim at proposing design suggestions for the future e-newspaper, i.e. a newspaper based on epaper technology. The PD approach includes future workshop, scenario and mock-up techniques and focus groups. Based on eleven workshops with readers, n...

©AsiaPacific MediaEducator Issue No.11 July Dec. 2001 T paper discusses some fundamental assumptions about pluralism in the Australian print media. Pluralism, the number of print media outlets available to the public, and known as structural diversity, can be considered as one of two elements of media diversity. The other is the variety of views presented by those outlets, known as content dive...