This article discusses the role of evidence-based media advocacy in the promotion of tobacco control policies. Evidence is a driving force for campaigns seeking to implement a tobacco control policy. An effective campaign is based in evidence that demonstrates why a policy should be implemented, and what the potential benefits are. Media advocacy is the process of disseminating information thro...

Effects of dividend policy on corporate financial growth, is a major concern of most entities. Whether dividends have an influence on the value of the firm, is an important question in dividend policy. This study aimed at investigating the effects of dividend policy on financial growth of media firms. The study was conducted in Nairobi at The Nation media Group Headquarters. Respondents were se...

Social Media Aggregator (SMA) applications present a platform enabling users to manage multiple Social Networking Sites (SNS) in one convenient application, which results in a unique concentration of data from several SNS accounts in addition to the user’s mobile phone data available to them. We describe a three-step methodology to assess how privacy is considered in these applications: 1) We i...

Research suggests that the representation of scientific and medical issues in the traditional media such as newspapers, TV and radio is an important determinant of public opinion and related public policy outcomes, particularly with regard to attitudes toward stem cell research. With the emergence of social media, the discursive space around public policy issues has expanded to include a new de...

Media advocacy is a new strategy that is emerging in the public health community. It has been particularly visible in communities of color. Media advocacy is defined as the strategic use of mass media to advance public policy initiatives. Media advocacy is rooted in community advocacy and has as its goal the promotion of healthy public policies. It can be differentiated from traditional mass me...

The objective of the project reported here is to examine the process of formation of media policy in Bulgaria in the light of the policy models exhibited by western democracies. The main premise of the study is that the specific features of the political, economic and cultural situation in Bulgaria, a small postcommunist state, have to be taken in consideration when elaborating the framework of...

Public sector organisations seem to be embracing social media for information dissemination and engagement, but less is know about their value as information sources. This paper draws from the notion of the imagined audience to examine how policy teams in the UK Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) conceptualise the value of social media input. Findings from a series of int...