Print media portrayals of giving: exploring national ‘cultures of philanthropy’

Media Portrayals of Suicide

Race and Class Differences in Print Media Portrayals of Crack Cocaine and Methamphetamine By

Despite a growing body of research on moral panic theory, this framework has been largely inattentive to the role of race and class in the creation of moral panics over drug abuse. Using a content analysis of 124 newspaper articles, this study extends moral panic theory by examining whether the race and class of crack cocaine and methamphetamine users and traffickers shaped the print media’s de...

Collective Philanthropy: Describing and Modeling the Ecology of Giving

Reflective of income and wealth distributions, philanthropic gifting appears to follow an approximate power-law size distribution as measured by the size of gifts received by individual institutions. We explore the ecology of gifting by analysing data sets of individual gifts for a diverse group of institutions dedicated to education, medicine, art, public support, and religion. We find that th...

Exploring Interaction: Print and Online News Media Synergies

Synergies between print and online activity in the newspaper industry are not fully understood. Nor is their influence on newspaper circulation rates. Both issues are investigated using data from a small survey of regional newspapers. In particular, we show how cross-media synergies for print and online interaction can be estimated against a simple conceptual model. Also how different combinati...

Does ‘giving’ influence governance? Application of a framework describing the role of private philanthropy in Indian national health priority setting

Introduction Even as philanthropy has played a role in financing public health for centuries, the past few years have seen a significantly increased investment in the health sector in lowand middle-income (LMIC) settings through the interventions of large private philanthropic organizations. This change has been accompanied by widespread tacit approbation in the community of beneficiary academi...