BACKGROUND Newspaper stories can impact behaviours, particularly in relation to research participation. It is therefore important to understand the narratives presented and ways in which these are received. Some work to date assumes journalism transmits existing medical knowledge to a passive audience. This study aimed to explore how newspaper articles present stories about medical research and...

Objective To evaluate health-related messages in printed media pertaining to diabetes care in Qatar during Ramadan. Methods Qatar national newspapers (Arabic and/or English) published 6 weeks prior to and 4 weeks during Ramadan 2012 were reviewed. Health-related content was identified and characterized according to four different categories including presence of messages pertaining to both diab...

The present study focuses on coverage of science and technology in major Hindi and English newspapers of India. The objective of the study was to find out the space given to scientific and technological information in newspapers. The comparison has also been made in Hindi and English newspapers in terms of coverage, their preferences in dealing with the subjects, the formats being used in disse...

This paper examines the role of Chinese social media in three areas: organizing collective action, surveillance of government offi cials, and propaganda. Our study is based on a data set of 13.2 billion blog posts published on Sina Weibo — the most prominent Chinese microblogging platform — during the 2009-2013 period. We find millions of posts discussing explicit corruption allegations and col...

The article is devoted to the study of issues and problems urban self–government in Russia during period 1870 – first half 1914 reflected on pages Yaroslavl liberal newspapers. In context recent growing interest self– government, publicists’ position this issue most vivid development self-government late XIX early XX century especially significant.
 
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This talk will focus on the need for a “marriage” between social science and applied science in e-government projects. The adoption of a user needs approach will be examined in particular, focusing on applications at the community level. A survey of selected social science research projects will be given in the areas of user needs and technology assessment. Connections will be shown to selected...