نتایج جستجو برای: media policy

تعداد نتایج: 535208  

2002
David Strömberg

Mass media affect both who receives political information, and what information is received. This influences policy formation since politicians tend to favor informed voters and well covered issues. Politicians do so for good reasons, not only are well informed voters more likely to vote than uninformed voters,1 but also more likely to vote for the candidate who furthers their interests.2 Voter...

Journal: :Tobacco control 2014
Sarah Hill Amanda Amos David Clifford Stephen Platt

OBJECTIVE We updated and expanded a previous systematic literature review examining the impact of tobacco control interventions on socioeconomic inequalities in smoking. METHODS We searched the academic literature for reviews and primary research articles published between January 2006 and November 2010 that examined the socioeconomic impact of six tobacco control interventions in adults: tha...

2014
Christopher E. Politis Michelle H. Halligan Deb Keen Jon F. Kerner

Healthy public policy plays an essential role in a comprehensive public health approach to preventing cancer and chronic disease. Public policies spread through the 'policy diffusion' process, enabling governments to learn from another's enacted policy solutions. The Prevention Policies Directory (the Directory), an online database of municipal, provincial/territorial, and federal cancer and ch...

2001
Fang Yu Qian Zhang Wenwu Zhu Ya-Qin Zhang

For efficently caching mixed-media, this paper discusses several network-adaptive cache management schemes. Considering the characteristics of different types of media, we first proposed a multi-level page-size management scheme. Then, a media-characteristic-weighted replacement policy is presented to improve the hit ratio of mixed media including continuous and non-continuous media. Lastly, a ...

Journal: :New Media & Society 2004
Andrew Calabrese

The drama and scope of government policy affecting new media and society may not be accurately captured if we look only at what has happened since 1999. If we look back just a few years earlier, to the Telecommunications Act of 1996, just about any US media policy action before or since pales by comparison (Aufderheide, 1999). This is not to say that there have been no important events shaping ...

Journal: :Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis 2005
Joe Smith

This article explores the role of broadcast news media decision makers in shaping public understanding and debate of climate change risks. It locates the media within a "tangled web" of communication and debate between sources, media, and publics. The article draws on new qualitative research in the British context. The main body of it focuses on media source strategies, on climate change story...

2010
Yannis Charalabidis George Gionis Enrico Ferro Euripidis Loukis

This paper describes a methodology for the systematic exploitation of the emerging web 2.0 social media by government organizations in the processes of public policies formulation, aiming to enhance e-participation, in combination with established simulation modeling techniques and tools. It is based on the concept of ̳Policy Gadget‘ (Padget), which is a micro web application combining a policy...

2006
Mark W. Frank

This paper uses an unusually rich sample of liquor brands in the U.S. over the period 1994 to 2004 to test substitutability of advertising media. The liquor industry in the U.S. has experienced a substantial increase in case sales and advertising expenditures since the mid-1990s, raising numerous public policy concerns. Moreover, the mix of advertising media used by liquor brands also changed s...

Journal: :International Breastfeeding Journal 2008
Jane D Brown Sheila Rose Peuchaud

The mass media have the potential to be powerful friends or foes in promoting breastfeeding. The media could help by putting the issue of breastfeeding on policy agendas and by framing breastfeeding as healthy and normative for baby and mother. Currently, however, it looks as if the media are more often contributing to perceptions that breastfeeding is difficult for mothers and potentially dang...

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