OBJECTIVE To identify and describe vaccine safety in US newspaper articles. METHODS Articles (1147) from 44 states and Washington, DC, between January 1, 1995, and July 15, 2005, were identified by using the search terms "immunize or vaccine" and "adverse events or safety or exemption or danger or risk or damage or injury or side effect" and were coded by using a standardized data-collection ...

Synopsis – Based on newspaper and magazine articles, the present paper explores the status of the New Reproductive Technologies in India. The important aspect that is observed is the remarkable difference in the coverage that is given to “test-tube babies” versus sex-determination tests. While on the one hand the arrival of “test-tube babies” receives a lot of fanfare and glorification in the m...

OBJECTIVE To analyze discourses on workplace psychological harassment in print media. METHODOLOGICAL PROCEDURES Documental study on workplace psychological harassment that analyzed news stories published in three major newspapers of the State of São Paulo (southeastern Brazil) between 1990 and 2008. Discourse analysis was performed to identify discursive practices that reflect the phenomenon ...

All media provide media specific methods of access to information and therefore media change affects also these methods of access. But the change of media and hence access methods also raises the question of legitimacy of doing this, in terms of scholarly working as well as in terms of justification in the face of the funding general public financing research either directly by the government o...

OBJECTIVE To use ecological momentary assessment techniques to measure the association of major depressive disorder (MDD) with media use. DESIGN Data were collected using an ecological momentary assessment protocol with cellular telephone-based brief interviews. SETTING Participants received as many as 60 telephone calls from a trained staff member during 5 extended weekends in an 8-week pe...

This article examines the role of letters to the editor in advancing and sustaining non-standard narratives about climate change in the print media. The letters page is a unique section of the newspaper that is subject to distinct functional and normative pressures. It is also a place where standard media norms are weakest and non-journalistic narratives have an opportunity to leak in. Using re...