The inter-media agenda-setting influence of social media activism on Egyptian news sites: a case study of violence against women (VAW)
<p>This study has three main aims which are to examine the first level of inter-media agenda-setting between social media activism & Egyptian news sites regarding VAW issues, to determine if there is a role for social media activism in setting the news sites’ issue agendas & to...
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| author | Nourhan Moustafa El-Sherbiny Hanan Mohamed Youssef Eman Essam |
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| description | <p>This study has three main aims which are to examine the first level of inter-media agenda-setting between social media activism & Egyptian news sites regarding VAW issues, to determine if there is a role for social media activism in setting the news sites’ issue agendas & to identify news sources types used by news sites. The study conducted interviews with five Egyptian journalists and a content analysis over one month with high social media activism regarding VAW in 2022 between a purposive sample of posts on Facebook (N=238) & Instagram (N=406) and news from three popular news sites with different ownership types; Bawbat Al-Ahram (N=134), Al-Watan (N=232) & Bawbat Al-Wafad (N=126). It applied rank order & cross-lagged correlation analyses along with Rozelle-Campell baseline. Findings show there is a kind of similarity between all issue agendas of the platforms and news sites in terms of rank order but there is a weak influence of social media activism regarding VAW issues on the Egyptian news sites’ agendas. This can be illustrated by that there is no any kind of transfer of salience from Instagram to any of the news sites but there is a transfer of issue salience in one of the time spans only from Facebook to Al-Watan, private news site. However, journalists’ mentioned that social media activism content can affect their news sites’ agendas after this content meet certain conditions. Also, findings reveal that the most used news sources by the news sites & journalists are external news sources especially security officials. </p><p> </p><p><strong>Received: 03 April 2023</strong></p><p><strong>Accepted: 14 April 2023</strong></p><p><strong>Published: 15 May 2023</strong></p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3cf5ae758cac460ea8c8c45ed393f7032024-09-02T22:46:58ZengAcademy Publishing CenterInsights into Language, Culture and Communication2812-49012812-491X2023-05-013110011710.21622/ilcc.2023.03.1.100284The inter-media agenda-setting influence of social media activism on Egyptian news sites: a case study of violence against women (VAW)Nourhan Moustafa El-Sherbiny0Hanan Mohamed Youssef1Eman Essam2Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT) – Alexandria, Egypt.Professor of Mass Communication and Dean of College of Language and Communication, Smart Village, AASTMT.Assistant Professor, The College of Language and Communication, Arab Academy For Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Cairo, Egypt.<p>This study has three main aims which are to examine the first level of inter-media agenda-setting between social media activism & Egyptian news sites regarding VAW issues, to determine if there is a role for social media activism in setting the news sites’ issue agendas & to identify news sources types used by news sites. The study conducted interviews with five Egyptian journalists and a content analysis over one month with high social media activism regarding VAW in 2022 between a purposive sample of posts on Facebook (N=238) & Instagram (N=406) and news from three popular news sites with different ownership types; Bawbat Al-Ahram (N=134), Al-Watan (N=232) & Bawbat Al-Wafad (N=126). It applied rank order & cross-lagged correlation analyses along with Rozelle-Campell baseline. Findings show there is a kind of similarity between all issue agendas of the platforms and news sites in terms of rank order but there is a weak influence of social media activism regarding VAW issues on the Egyptian news sites’ agendas. This can be illustrated by that there is no any kind of transfer of salience from Instagram to any of the news sites but there is a transfer of issue salience in one of the time spans only from Facebook to Al-Watan, private news site. However, journalists’ mentioned that social media activism content can affect their news sites’ agendas after this content meet certain conditions. Also, findings reveal that the most used news sources by the news sites & journalists are external news sources especially security officials. </p><p> </p><p><strong>Received: 03 April 2023</strong></p><p><strong>Accepted: 14 April 2023</strong></p><p><strong>Published: 15 May 2023</strong></p>http://apc.aast.edu/ojs/index.php/ILCC/article/view/629egyptian news sites, inter-media agenda-setting, social media activism, violence against women. |
| spellingShingle | Nourhan Moustafa El-Sherbiny Hanan Mohamed Youssef Eman Essam The inter-media agenda-setting influence of social media activism on Egyptian news sites: a case study of violence against women (VAW) Insights into Language, Culture and Communication egyptian news sites, inter-media agenda-setting, social media activism, violence against women. |
| title | The inter-media agenda-setting influence of social media activism on Egyptian news sites: a case study of violence against women (VAW) |
| title_full | The inter-media agenda-setting influence of social media activism on Egyptian news sites: a case study of violence against women (VAW) |
| title_fullStr | The inter-media agenda-setting influence of social media activism on Egyptian news sites: a case study of violence against women (VAW) |
| title_full_unstemmed | The inter-media agenda-setting influence of social media activism on Egyptian news sites: a case study of violence against women (VAW) |
| title_short | The inter-media agenda-setting influence of social media activism on Egyptian news sites: a case study of violence against women (VAW) |
| title_sort | inter media agenda setting influence of social media activism on egyptian news sites a case study of violence against women vaw |
| topic | egyptian news sites, inter-media agenda-setting, social media activism, violence against women. |
| url | http://apc.aast.edu/ojs/index.php/ILCC/article/view/629 |
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