Financialized growth regime and capital accumulation in Brazil: geopolitical and institutional factors of the recent collapse and beyond by Miguel Bruno, Denise Gentil

“…The recession that started in 2015, coupled with the social discontent stimulated by mainstream media, was conveniently used by national economic groups aligned with the geopolitical interests of the hegemonic nation, the US and its allies. …”
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THE NEW WORLD INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION ORDER DEBATE AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY IN NIGERIA by BECKY ADE ALIEGBA

“…This will hopefully expand the readership base of the mainstream media in terms of affordability and subscriptions. …”
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Arithmetic of the sound of silence by Robert Madoi Nasaba

“…However, this article argues that the blur of mainstream media and web 2.0 allows men to assume a superior status to women – especially in the global South. …”
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Understanding Gender Expertise in the Post-Truth Era: Media Representations of Gender-Based Analysis Plus in Canada by Stephanie Paterson, Francesca Scala

“…We demonstrate that GBA+, and the gender expertise informing it, was often represented in mainstream media as either a “political intervention” or as a “technical tool”, both of which reinforce traditional representations of policy expertise, including political neutrality and professional competence, which, in the past, have been used to justify the exclusion of “other” forms of knowledge. …”
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Fake news and the political economy of the media: A perspective of Ghanaian journalists by Paul Achonga Kabah Kwode, Nkosinathi Selekane

“…For these architects to fully achieve their goal, social media and affiliated mainstream media were used as instruments to propagate fabricated content against their opponents, especially during the 2020 general elections. …”
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Ciclo de protestos de 2013: construção midiática das performances de contestação by Camila Farias da Silva, Eduardo Georjão Fernandes

“…This article presents a study on the cycle of protests of 2013, specifically on the forms of public manifestation of collective demands and their implications in the construction of meanings realized by the mainstream media. The purpose of this study is to identify the frameworks constructed by media vehicles regarding the public contentious performances composed by violent actions occurred in the cycle of protests of 2013. …”
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Syrian Refugees’ Perceptions About the Representations of Syria and Syrians on Turkish News Media by Engin Dağdeviren

“…Most of the participants say they quit using social media and following the mainstream media not to be offended after some point.…”
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SPEAKING BODIES, VISIBLE VOICES: NARRATIVE TENSION IN COPPOLA’S APOCALYPSE NOW: REDUX (2001) by Alifa Syauqina Mori, Aquarini Priyatna, Ari J Adipurwawidjana

“… Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now: Redux (2001), a 2001 re-release of his 1979 Vietnam War epic, sparked significant discussions among both academic scholars and mainstream media. The extended version, which features almost an hour-long addition of new scenes, challenged the question of the film’s continued relevance within the evolving Hollywood industry. …”
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Dancing to the Bhangra in New York City by Anjali Gera Roy

“…The recognition of Basement Bhangra and DJ Rekha by mainstream media, academia and policymakers signals the claims of desis to the space of New York city through the performance of a vibrant South Asian youth subculture that originated in the villages of Punjab in North India. …”
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Nigerian blogosphere and identity change of women by Angela Nkiru Nwammuo, Abiodun Salawu

“…The study recommends that since the mainstream media have failed to give voices to African women, it is high time women take it upon themselves and better their identities through the opportunities offered by the internet. …”
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Ordinary Women and Conservative Talk Radio in the US: A Comparative Study of Women Callers on The Rush Limbaugh Show and The Laura Ingraham Show (2004 -2010) by Sébastien Mort

“…By offering a forum for the expression of conservative ideas which hitherto had been underrepresented in mainstream media, CTR has operated as a powerful instrument of dissent. …”
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Searching for elusive journalism values in the era of fake news by Stanley Tsarwe

“…Firstly, results show that to some extent the Association inculcated a sense of identity and belonging which bind members’ commitment to the group’s core values such as being balanced, independent, truthful, accurate and responsible. Mainstream media organisations, bloggers, vloggers and animators can use the power of their professional identity to coalesce as a buffer against fake news. …”
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Dynamics and triggers of misinformation on vaccines. by Emanuele Brugnoli, Marco Delmastro

“…Our study uncovers misinformation not as a parasite of the news ecosystem that merely opposes the perspectives offered by mainstream media, but as an autonomous force capable of even overwhelming the production of vaccine-related content from the latter. …”
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Conflits, féminité et identités diasporiques. Le pouvoir de la représentation chez Pratibha Parmar et Gurinder Chadha by Amandine Ducray

“…(Gurinder Chadha, 1989) brought the peripheral minorities to the centre of the mainstream media. While challenging commonly-held perceptions of citizens from Asian descent, such committed cinema denounced racism, encouraging a spirit of resistance to the traditional ‘Us’ vs ‘Them’ relations of power in British society.Yet as the twenty-first century approached, both directors have embraced a more consensual view of British race relations. …”
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COVID-19 CONSPIRACISM IN THE AGE OF POST-TRUTH by Ömer Ersin Kahraman

“…However, although social media facilitates the diffusion of conspiracism, it cannot be taken as the major reason seeing the fact that people have chosen to use social media platforms as their information sources because of their distrust against the mainstream media insomuch as information itself has been commodified in the age of information. …”
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Rationalization of Evil through Media: A Twitter Discourse Analysis on Israel's Genocide against Palestine after October 7 by Filiz Orhan Çağlayan

“…The bureaucratic and rational presentation of Israel's conflict with Palestine through antisemitism is effective in legitimizing Israel's victims and actions in the mainstream media. For this reason, since October 7, the tweets of B. …”
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Poison, lies, war: A mixed methods content analysis of posts about COVID-19 vaccination on Gab Social by Alice Marianne Fritz, Andrea M. Smith

“…Key findings include the observation that Gab users frequently frame the COVID-19 vaccination decision as one of whether the vaccines do more harm than good (i.e. helping vs. hurting frame) and that adverse reactions to the COVID-19 vaccines are not being truthfully reported on by mainstream media. Moreover, posts often display an antagonistic “Us vs. …”
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Severe Metabolic Acidosis: A Case of Triple Hit with Ketogenic Diet, Vinegar, and Metformin in an Obese Patient by Abdul Mughees Rana, Kannan Mansoor, Salman Assad, Mahmoud Abouzid, Iheanyichukwu Ogu, Ghassan Salim Issa Bandak

“…There are limited data available for most of these supplements contrary to the claims laid by the mainstream media. Due to lack of awareness, this patient population is at high risk of adverse effects. …”
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Fishing on Facebook: Using Social Media and Citizen Science to Crowd-Source Trophy Murray Cod by Matthew O’Connell, Dirk Spennemann, Jennifer Bond, R. Keller Kopf, Nicole McCasker, Paul Humphries

“…This was complemented with social and mainstream media promotion, a research website, and an e-survey. …”
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Is it Time to Recognize Political Anxiety as a Social Determinant of Health? by Brandon Ambrosino

“…Easier said than done. Social and mainstream media are an inescapable feature of life in 2024. …”
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