Vasco Avides Moreira, Jonathan Hendrickx, Aljosha Karim Schapals
This study investigates how Portuguese teenagers (aged 13–18) perceive and prefer the communication characteristics of so-called “newsfluencers” on social media platforms such as Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. Through 20 semi-structured interviews, the research explores how verbal and non-verbal traits shape adolescents’ engagement with news in a media ecosystem increasingly dominated by digital intermediaries. Drawing on literature on brand journalism, the study categorizes preferences into four key elements: <i>character</i>, <i>tone</i>, <i>language</i>, and <i>purpose</i>. The findings reveal that teenagers favor newsfluencers who are inspiring and friendly (character), are honest and direct (tone), use simple and fun speech (language), and aim to educate and inform (purpose). Participants express a desire for journalists who “talk to me as a friend”, emphasizing authenticity, emotional proximity, and conversational clarity over traditional, formal modes of reporting. These insights suggest that effective youth-oriented journalism on social media must balance factual accuracy and emotional engagement, blending education with entertainment. The research contributes to emerging scholarship on social media journalism and youth news consumption by highlighting how relational and affective communication strategies can enhance young audiences’ trust, understanding, and participation in news.
Journalism. The periodical press, etc., Communication. Mass media
The PreprintToPaper dataset connects bioRxiv preprints with their corresponding journal publications, enabling large-scale analysis of the preprint-to-publication process. It comprises metadata for 145,517 preprints from two periods, 2016-2018 (pre-pandemic) and 2020-2022 (pandemic), retrieved via the bioRxiv and Crossref APIs. We selected the two periods to capture preprint-publication dynamics before and during the COVID-19 pandemic while avoiding transitional years. Each record includes bibliographic information such as titles, abstracts, authors, institutions, submission dates, licenses, and subject categories, alongside enriched publication metadata including journal names, publication dates, author lists, and further information. In addition to the main dataset, a version-history subset provides all available versions of preprints within the two selected periods, enabling analysis of how preprints evolve over time. Preprints are categorized into three groups: Published (formally linked to a journal article), Preprint Only (posted on a preprint server), and Gray Zone (potentially published in a journal but unlinked). To enhance reliability, title and author similarity scores were computed, and a human-annotated subset of 299 records was created to evaluate Gray Zone cases. The dataset supports diverse applications, including studies of scholarly communication, open science policies, bibliometric tool development, and natural language processing research on textual changes between preprints and the corresponding journal articles. The dataset is publicly available in CSV format via Zenodo.
This study examines the social media uptake of scientific journals on two different platforms - X and WeChat - by comparing the adoption of X among journals indexed in the Science Citation Index-Expanded (SCIE) with the adoption of WeChat among journals indexed in the Chinese Science Citation Database (CSCD). The findings reveal substantial differences in platform adoption and user engagement, shaped by local contexts. While only 22.7% of SCIE journals maintain an X account, 84.4% of CSCD journals have a WeChat official account. Journals in Life Sciences & Biomedicine lead in uptake on both platforms, whereas those in Technology and Physical Sciences show high WeChat uptake but comparatively lower presence on X. User engagement on both platforms is dominated by low-effort interactions rather than more conversational behaviors. Correlation analyses indicate weak-to-moderate relationships between bibliometric indicators and social media metrics, confirming that online engagement reflects a distinct dimension of journal impact, whether on an international or a local platform. These findings underscore the need for broader social media metric frameworks that incorporate locally dominant platforms, thereby offering a more comprehensive understanding of science communication practices across diverse social media and contexts.
Danilo Albergaria, Pedro Russo, Ionica Smeets
et al.
This study examines the communication of astrobiology and the Search for Life Elsewhere (SLE) in academic papers, press releases, and news articles over three decades. Through a quantitative content analysis, it investigates the prevalence of speculations and promises/expectations in these sources, aiming to understand how research results are portrayed and their potential impact on public perception and future research directions. Findings reveal that speculations and promises/expectations are more frequent in news articles and press releases compared to academic papers. Speculations about conditions for life and the existence of life beyond Earth are common, particularly in news articles covering exoplanet research, while promises of life detection are rare. Press releases tend to emphasize the significance of research findings and the progress of the field. Speculations and promises/expectations in news articles often occur without attribution to scientists and in quotes of authors of the studies, and slightly less so in quotes of outside experts. The study highlights the complex dynamics of science communication in astrobiology, where speculations and promises can generate public excitement and influence research funding, but also risk misrepresenting scientific uncertainty and creating unrealistic expectations. It underscores the need for responsible communication practices that acknowledge the speculative dimension of the field while fostering public engagement and informed decision-making.
José Luis Martínez Albertos (Vigo, 1930) nació justo el año en que Manuel Graña publicó sus memorables Ejercicios y orientaciones de Periodismo. Algo se veía venir. Durante el bachillerato (que constaba entonces de siete cursos), fue corresponsal del diario Baleares. Al acabar la carrera de Derecho, Martínez Albertos viaja a Madrid y se matricula en la Escuela Oficial de Periodismo. Comienza entonces su inmersión en el ejercicio profesional. Escribe en la revista La actualidad española («ahí me fogueé como reportero», cuenta) y algo más tarde en Nuestro Tiempo, fundada por Antonio Fontán en 1954 y en la que José Luis Martínez Albertos es director entre 1962 y 1963. Después de trabajar como redactor jefe en El Diario de Navarra y El Correo Español, puso en marcha y dirigió el diario La Provincia. En 1968, el Tribunal de Orden Público llegó a pedir para él seis años y un día de cárcel por «difusión de noticias peligrosas» en la revista El Mundo, de Barcelona. Esas «noticias peligrosas» estaban relacionadas con un simple reportaje sobre el sindicato Comisiones Obreras, considerado «subversivo» por el régimen franquista.
Communication. Mass media, Journalism. The periodical press, etc.
El cine, desde sus orígenes, a fines del siglo XIX, centró su atención en el registro de la actividad humana. Hizo del hombre y sus manifestaciones un centro de interés y el objeto de representaciones diversas. En el texto se reseñan algunos de esos acercamientos a través de películas y realizadores que mostraron al hombre naciendo, amando, deseando, tomando decisiones, construyendo sociedades, sintiendo dolor, muriendo entre otros.
Communication. Mass media, Journalism. The periodical press, etc.
Participatory Educational Research journal is one of the journals that contributes to the field of education and indexed in major international databases such as ERIC and Scopus.This study provides the bibliometric characteristic of the total 347 articles published in PER during the period of 2014-2021 using bibliometric analysis. Publish or Perish software to collect citation data from Google Scholar was used as an analysis instrument for the impact of the articles.
Anna Abalkina, Guillaume Cabanac, Cyril Labbé
et al.
The goal is to study the prevalence of citajacked papers: papers in authentic scientific journals citing hijacked journals, in academic literature. A Citejacked detector was designed as a part of the Problematic Paper Screener (https://www.irit.fr/~Guillaume.Cabanac/problematic-paper-screener/citejacked) to trace if the references to articles originating from hijacked journals infiltrate scientific communication. A full-text search was performed between November 2021 and January 2022 in the Dimensions database using the name of 1 of the 12 hijacked journals. The analysis of the bibliography in these articles revealed that 828 of them cite unreliable articles from hijacked journals. During 01.Jan.2021-31.Jan.2022, an average of 2 citejacked articles has been published daily in established journals. Given the limited number of titles included in this study, the phenomenon might be wider and is not yet systematically studied.
Public trust in science depends on honest and factual communication of scientific papers. However, recent studies have demonstrated a tendency of news media to misrepresent scientific papers by exaggerating their findings. Given this, we present a formalization of and study into the problem of exaggeration detection in science communication. While there are an abundance of scientific papers and popular media articles written about them, very rarely do the articles include a direct link to the original paper, making data collection challenging. We address this by curating a set of labeled press release/abstract pairs from existing expert annotated studies on exaggeration in press releases of scientific papers suitable for benchmarking the performance of machine learning models on the task. Using limited data from this and previous studies on exaggeration detection in science, we introduce MT-PET, a multi-task version of Pattern Exploiting Training (PET), which leverages knowledge from complementary cloze-style QA tasks to improve few-shot learning. We demonstrate that MT-PET outperforms PET and supervised learning both when data is limited, as well as when there is an abundance of data for the main task.
We study how publicity, in the form of highlighting in the science press, affects the citations of research papers. After a brief review of prior work, we analyze papers published in Physical Review Letters (PRL) that are highlighted across eight different platforms. Using multiple linear regression we identify how each platform contributes to citations. We also analyze how frequently the highlighted papers end up in the top 1% cited papers in their field. We find that the strongest predictors of medium-term citation impact -- up to 7 years post-publication -- are Viewpoints in Physics, followed by Research Highlights in Nature, Editors' Suggestions in PRL, and Research Highlights in Nature Physics. Our key conclusions are that (a) highlighting for importance identifies a citation advantage, which (b) is stratified according to the degree of vetting during peer review (internal and external to the journal). This implies that we can view highlighting platforms as predictors of citation accrual, with varying degrees of strength that mirror each platform's vetting level.
Charles Manière, Geuntak Lee, Elisa Torresani
et al.
Microwave Pressing is a promising way to reduce microwave sintering temperatures and stabilize microwave powder materials processing. A multi-physics simulation was conducted of the regulated pressure-assisted microwave cavity. This simulation took into consideration resonance phenomena and the nonlinear temperature-dependent material parameters of zirconia. The intrinsic behaviors of microwave systems and zirconia make the regulation of the microwave pressing difficult. However, the same phenomena can be used to activate flash sintering. Flash microwave sintering uses high electric fields of the resonant microwave profile, the Negative Temperature Behavior (NTC) of zirconia resistivity, and the mechanical pressure applied to the powder via a die compaction configuration. The resulting flash microwave pressing still needs improvement in terms of the processed material structure homogeneity, but it has the capacity to become the fastest sintering treatment as it allows room temperature activation where the total process time only takes a few seconds. In addition, this 10-20s processing technique has shown good potential for improving the transparency of alumina pre-sintered specimens.
Scholars in science and technology studies and bibliometricians are increasingly revealing the performative nature of bibliometric indicators. Far from being neutral technical measures, indicators such as the Impact Factor and the h-index are deeply transforming the social and epistemic structures of contemporary science. At the same time, scholars have highlighted how bibliometric indicators are endowed with social meanings that go beyond their purely technical definitions. These social representations of bibliometric indicators are constructed and negotiated between different groups of actors within several arenas. This study aims to investigate how bibliometric indicators are used in a context, which, so far, has not yet been covered by researchers, that of daily newspapers. By a content analysis of a corpus of 583 articles that appeared in four major Italian newspapers between 1990 and 2020, we chronicle the main functions that bibliometrics and bibliometric indicators played in the Italian press. Our material shows, among other things, that the public discourse developed in newspapers creates a favorable environment for bibliometrics-centered science policies, that bibliometric indicators contribute to the social construction of scientific facts in the press, especially in science news related to medicine, and that professional bibliometric expertise struggles to be represented in newspapers and hence reach the general public.
The ever-increasing competitiveness in the academic publishing market incentivizes journal editors to pursue higher impact factors. This translates into journals becoming more selective, and, ultimately, into higher publication standards. However, the fixation on higher impact factors leads some journals to artificially boost impact factors through the coordinated effort of a "citation cartel" of journals. "Citation cartel" behavior has become increasingly common in recent years, with several instances being reported. Here, we propose an algorithm -- named CIDRE -- to detect anomalous groups of journals that exchange citations at excessively high rates when compared against a null model that accounts for scientific communities and journal size. CIDRE detects more than half of the journals suspended from Journal Citation Reports due to anomalous citation behavior in the year of suspension or in advance. Furthermore, CIDRE detects many new anomalous groups, where the impact factors of the member journals are lifted substantially higher by the citations from other member journals. We describe a number of such examples in detail and discuss the implications of our findings with regard to the current academic climate.
I propose a new tool to characterize the resolution of uncertainty around FOMC press conferences. It relies on the construction of a measure capturing the level of discussion complexity between the Fed Chair and reporters during the Q&A sessions. I show that complex discussions are associated with higher equity returns and a drop in realized volatility. The method creates an attention score by quantifying how much the Chair needs to rely on reading internal documents to be able to answer a question. This is accomplished by building a novel dataset of video images of the press conferences and leveraging recent deep learning algorithms from computer vision. This alternative data provides new information on nonverbal communication that cannot be extracted from the widely analyzed FOMC transcripts. This paper can be seen as a proof of concept that certain videos contain valuable information for the study of financial markets.
В стaтье рaссмaтривaется роль медиaгрaмотности в формировaнии медиaкультуры. В сов ременных условиях медиaсреды и aктивности социaльных сетей рaспрострaнение фейковых новостей стaло обычным явлением. В тaких условиях видится целесообрaзной проверкa рaсп рострaняемой информaции.
Цель и основнaя идея рaботы – покaзaть необходимость медиaгрaмотности в современном обществе. Зaдaчи: изучение эмпирических дaнных, трудов зaрубежных и отечественных ученых; aнaлиз зaрубежных и отечественных инструментов исследовaния информaции; оценкa совре менного состояния медиaгрaмотности в Кaзaхстaне.
Объект исследовaния – медиaгрaмотность кaк основa медикультуры. Предмет исследовaния
– публикaции СМИ и социaльных сетей.
Нaучную ценность рaботы предстaвляют aнaлиз понятийного aппaрaтa медиaгрaмотности, определение необходимости исследовaния состояния медиaгрaмотности кaк основы медиaкуль туры. С прaктической точки зрения, дaнный труд может быть полезен кaк для рaботников СМИ и социaльных сетей, тaк и для общественности.
Основу исследовaния состaвляет aнaлиз информaционных потоков, пути определения фей ковых новостей, которые могут иметь серьезные негaтивные последствия. Методологической основой дaнной рaботы стaл комплекс методологических подходов, позволивших нa теорети ческом и прaктическом уровнях проaнaлизировaть состояние медигрaмотности нa современном этaпе. Применены общенaучные методы исследовaния зaгрязненности медиaсреды и осведом ленности общественности о фейковой информaции. В ходе исследовaния использовaны нaучные труды отечественных и зaрубежных специaлистов, мaтериaлы нaучных конференций, обзор и мониторинг СМИ, a тaкже результaты медиaизмерений.
Сохрaнение норм медиaкультуры нaпрямую зaвисит от этических принципов журнaлистов и бло геров. Допускaя к публикaции непроверенный мaтериaл или домыслы, они создaют блaгоприятную среду для рaспрострaнения слухов, пaники, искaженной информaции. Журнaлистский текст – не только коммуникaтор информaции, это и средство социaльной ориентaции, которое формирует общественное мнение. Фейковые новости зaгрязняют информaтивное прострaнство, формируют негaтивное общественное мнение и стереотипы. Поэтому сегодня быть медиaгрaмотным стaновит ся неотъемлемой чaстью жизнедеятельности человекa. Для чего видится необходимой дисциплинa «Медиaгрaмотность» в школaх и вузaх. Тaкже хорошим подспорьем в обучении общественности оп ределения фейковой информaции стaли бы сaйты и обучaющие мaтериaлы по фaктчекингу.
Vivian Li, Alon Halevy, Adi Zief-Balteriski Ph. D
et al.
We introduce Jo, a mobile application that attempts to improve user's well-being. Jo is a journaling application--users log their important moments via short texts and optionally an attached photo. Unlike a static journal, Jo analyzes these moments and helps users take action towards increased well-being. For example, Jo annotates each moment with a set of values (e.g., family, socialization, mindfulness), thereby giving the user insights about the balance in their lives. In addition, Jo helps the user create reminders that enable them to create additional happy moments. We describe the results of fielding Jo in a study of 39 participants. The results illustrate the promise of a journaling application that provides personalized feedback, and points at further research.
The purpose of this article is to assess the value of law journals as sources for a critical period of transition in modern Irish history. This is the years between 1916 and 1922 that witnessed the secession of most of the island of Ireland from the United Kingdom. The main source for this analysis is a journal known as the Irish Law Times which, in this period, was the only major law journal in existence on the island. A number of other publications, of lesser significance as historical sources, will also be included in this analysis such as the Irish Law Society Gazette, a minor publication that was exclusively aimed at Irish solicitors. The first purpose of this article is to introduce this useful source material for the years of upheaval in Ireland between 1916 and 1922 that has not previously come under close scholarly analysis. Historians and political scientists often overlook legal source material in analyses of particular historical periods. It is hoped that this interdisciplinary analysis will provide a general guide to these sources for scholars interested in particular aspects of this period of revolution. The second purpose of this analysis is to examine the response of the Irish legal professions to these important years of revolution and upheaval. This response is of wider historical interest because the Irish legal professions spanned traditional political divisions between Irish unionists, who wished to maintain links with the United Kingdom, and Irish nationalists, who wished for substantial autonomy or complete independence from the United Kingdom. Consequently, Irish law journals had to maintain a difficult balancing act between these viewpoints during a difficult period of bitter conflict.
Прессa не только источник информaции, но и сферa существовaния, функционировaния языкa, формировaния прaвильной кaзaхской речи и письмa.
Прессa зaнимaет особенную роль в формировaнии специaльных слов, терминов в сфере нaуки, техники и промышленности. Авторы стaтьи предприняли попытку рaссмотреть функции прессы в формировaнии кaзaхской терминологии. В этой связи объектом исследовaния стaли гaзеты, нaчинaя с первых кaзaхских гaзет до современных. Печaтные издaния рaзных периодов и термины, используемые в них, были рaссмотрены отдельно. Было выявлено, кaкие методы и приемы были использовaны в обрaзовaнии терминов нa стрaницaх гaзет последних лет.
В стaтье тaкже изучaются термины, состaвленные по звуковым особенностям и еще не переведенные нa нaционaльный язык. Тaкже были определены ошибки журнaлистов, допущенные в процессе формировaния терминов.
Ключевые словa: термин, терминология, язык, кaзaхскaя прессa, гaзетa, терминообрaзовaние.
This research aims to clarify the joints and structure of a standard media image analysis. It is argued a) that the image is a symbolic footprint; b) that the subject of the image is a person, an organization (group, enterprise, people, nation), institution or product, and c) that the image appears, is being built, deconstructed and can be shed from communication processes. The steps of a standard media image analysis and the information tiles that are used within it are specified. Finally, a case study illustrates practically how such an analysis is carried out.