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dc.contributor.advisorRudmin, Floyd Webster
dc.contributor.authorStefansson, Jon Karl
dc.date.accessioned2014-09-03T07:41:16Z
dc.date.available2014-09-03T07:41:16Z
dc.date.issued2014-06-02
dc.description.abstractTwo studies examined partisan word-connotations in news reports. They focused on what, if any, normative judgements were conveyed through the choice of referent terms of key agents and examined if the usage of terms differed systematically in emotional connotations according to which agents they were applied to. Study 1 used content analysis of every article posted on the Norwegian state news media’s webpage in a one year period from 16th February 2011 to 16th February 2012 (N = 689) on the topic of Libya. Study 2 used semantic differential measures of the most frequently occurring referent terms accumulated from Norwegian subjects (N = 316). This made possible quantitative comparisons of the reference terms depending on the emotional connotations of these words and on what agent they were applied to. The research found evidence for considerable bias in word-connotations. It is suggested that biased word associations are used to convey normative judgement towards news report agents and that these associations can influence readers’ attitudes towards these agents.en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/6606
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:no-uit_munin_6214
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisherUiT Norges arktiske universiteten
dc.publisherUiT The Arctic University of Norwayen
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dc.rights.holderCopyright 2014 The Author(s)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)en_US
dc.subject.courseIDPSY-3900en
dc.subjectVDP::Social science: 200::Psychology: 260::Social and occupational psychology: 263en
dc.subjectVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Psykologi: 260::Sosial- og arbeidspsykologi: 263en
dc.subjectAffective meaningen
dc.subjectattitudinal impacten
dc.subjectmedia-biasen
dc.subjectpersuasionen
dc.subjectsemantic differentialen
dc.subjectword associationsen
dc.subjectcontent analysisen
dc.titleQuantitative measure of evaluative labeling in news reports: Psychology of communication bias studied by content analysis and semantic differentialen
dc.typeMaster thesisen
dc.typeMastergradsoppgaveen


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