Studying translations during the time of conflict has gained currency in the recent decade in translation studies. One of the cases in which conflict manifests itself is in the way different countries choose to name an event or a geographical location, for example. This study set out to understand how translation of rival names and labeling was carried out in Iranian state-run news agencies. To...

Despite numerous calls for improving scientific literacy, many American adultsshow a lack of understanding of experiments, scientific study, and scientific inquiry.News media is one important avenue for science learning, but is inconsistent in thepresentation of scientific research limitations, potentially impacting reader understanding.In this study, members of the public (...

Presenting relevant information via web-based user friendly interfaces makes the information more accessible to the general public. This is especially useful for sensor networks that monitor natural environments. Adequately communicating this type of information helps increase awareness about the limited availability of natural resources and promotes their better use with sustainable practices....

This experimental research examines how different presentation modalities in presidential debates and post-debate spin influence the ability to form evaluations about candidates’ character, shape perceptions of their incivility, and alter judgments of political trust and news credibility. Results indicate that these experimental factors work together to encourage character judgments, diminish p...

A High Yield Investment Program (HYIP) is an online Ponzi scheme, a financial fraud that pays outrageous levels of interest using money from new investors. We call this fraud ‘postmodern’ in that sophisticated investors understand the fraud, but hope to profit by joining early. These investors support ‘aggregators’ – reputation websites that track the status of HYIPs. We examine 9 months of agg...

An experiment is described in which reporters captured realworld news stories as semantically structured representations of journalistic events and narratives, and preliminary results from the experiment are discussed. The experiment was conducted using the Structured Stories prototype platform, which provides a library of abstractions of journalistic events grounded in frame semantics. Realwor...

The rapid growth of on-line information including multimedia contents during the last decade caused a major problem for Web users there is too much information available, most of it poorly organized and hard to find. To help a user to find proper information, web news search functions are devised and developed. Although those search engines provide some solutions, users still suffer from readin...

An experiment investigates the impact of fan identification on the cognitive and emotional processing of sports-related news media. Two coaches were featured; one conceptualized as negatively valenced the other positively. Participants completed a fan identification scale before stimuli presentation. While watching the press conferences, heart rate, skin conductance, and corrugator muscle activ...

This study provides experimental evidence regarding the existence of order effects related to the presentation of positive and negative qualitative information in annual reports. Specifically, the effect of information order in the president’s letter is examined. The president’s letter in an annual report is an important vehicle for management to persuade investors that the company is a worthwh...