Reporting on violence against women in Germany

The study “Isolated Incidents. Media Reporting on Violence Against Women in the German Press” by Christine E. Meltzer from University of Music, Drama and Media, Hanover, looked at how media reports violence against women in Germany. According to the World Health Organization, about one in three women have suffered from sexual or physical violence since … Continued


Empirical proof for Al-Jazeera Effect in Twitter

The study “Empirical support for the Al-Jazeera Effect notion: Al-Jazeera’s Twitter following” by Tal Samuel-Azran and Ilan Manor from Reichman University, Israel empirically studied the Al-Jazeera Effect, the notion that Al-Jazeera has promoted fairer horizontal news flow by the inclusion of non-Western perspective. It did so by analyzing its Twitter following. The Al-Jazeera effect actually … Continued