Browsing by Author "Tiripelli, Giuliana"

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    Community Ethics and Effective Communication, sharing knowledge for re-building communities after the COVID-19 pandemic
    (2021-03-03) Furmonaviciene, Ruta; Tiripelli, Giuliana
    On Monday 1st March, 2021, Dr Ruta Furmonaviciene (Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Science/Immunology), and Dr Giuliana Tiripelli (Senior Lecturer in Digital Journalism and Media Discourse) run a free online event about ‘Community Ethics and Effective Communication’ with biomedical and journalism students at De Montfort University. The aim of the event was to illustrate the main myths about vaccinations, with a focus on Covid-19, and to analyse the reasons for the presence of these myths. The event also aimed to introduce the science behind the vaccination, and to point towards the reliable information sources available to the public. Finally, the event aimed to stimulate critical reflections on how journalism contributes to shape the vaccination debate.
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    Constructive Information Practices after Training: feasibility, aspects, and effects in Peace Journalism media production
    (Routledge, 2022) Tiripelli, Giuliana; Lynch, Jake
    This chapter examines the extent to which Peace Journalism training can have an impact on the adoption of alternative practices of information production in a professional context. The results show that journalists and communication practitioners who receive training can apply Peace Journalism in a variety of ways. In turn, these Peace Journalism applications can have various impacts on professional contexts and communities, in addition to stimulating post-publication media effects. The chapter thus shifts the focus from the effects of information circulation to media effects produced prior to publication, and it reveals the variety of impacts of constructive media practices. In this way, the chapter enriches multilevel media evaluation tools developed in research about communication for development and social change.
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    Il ruolo dei media in tempi di crisi
    (2021-05-02) Tiripelli, Giuliana
    This is a commissioned report for the Assembly of the Council of Europe, Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media. It was presented and discussed at the official hearing on the 21th of May, 2021.
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    Improving media discourses about medical diets: representations of food allergies in British newspapers and medical blogs, and the role of technology in reshaping knowledge and experiences of medical dieting
    (2021-09-15) Furmonaviciene, Ruta; Tiripelli, Giuliana; Richardson, Rhys; Umradia, Hiren
    This paper explores the characteristics of British news coverage of food allergies, and narratives about food allergies in top British medical blogs. Previous research has analysed the media portrayal of laws and policies about food allergy and anaphylaxis (Rachul and Caulfield 2011), but the many ways in which food allergies are discussed in the media are less explored, although they remain very relevant in shaping public understanding of medical dieting. Research exploring the relation between cultural dietary requirements (e.g. veganism) and media is widely available and multidisciplinary, but there is a lack for research exploring news coverage of dietary requirements originating from medical conditions. The aim of the paper is to investigate which representations of food allergies are given priority in the media, how, and in which contexts and circumstances, and to compare these journalistic representations to medical narratives online. To do this, the paper presents the results of a pilot content analysis of one year of coverage of food allergies in British newspapers, and a narrative analysis of a top medical blog about food allergies. The final part of our paper will reflect on how the results of the media analysis can inform the development of new digital apps for individuals with food allergies. This project intends to cement a multidisciplinary collaboration investigating food allergies communication and the role of technology in innovating food experiences for people with medical dietary requirements, in collaboration with Zess, a British-based company that helps people make food choices for their health, wellbeing and the environment using medical science and innovative digital technology. In particular, this study aims to prepare academics, citizens, and businesses to engage constructively with the debate about Natasha's Law, which will come into effect from October 2021 in the UK. The new law will include stricter requirements for the allergens labelling of foods, and it will provide an important occasion for knowledge exchange about food allergies in this country and globally. In these ways, this multidisciplinary project provides the basis for a discussion about media language and narratives that can enrich the debate about food allergies in society, and normalise social interactions where food allergies are present.
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    The Language of Peace in Conflict Transformation. A Critical Analysis of the New York Times’ Coverage of the Israeli–Palestinian Peace Agreement and Its Role in the Discursive Context of the Oslo Negotiations.
    (Cambridge University Press, 2022-04-28) Tiripelli, Giuliana
    This chapter provides a qualitative analysis of news coverage of peace, in a context of changing relations between historical enemies in an internationally relevant conflict. It focuses on the coverage of the first six months of the Israeli–Palestinian Oslo peace process by the New York Times. By means of a media content analysis, the chapter shows how this important newspaper covered developments during the first months of the political negotiations on its front page, and how it framed the meaning of peace. These results are then discussed through a critical analysis of the discourses of peace available at the time.
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    Media and peace in the Middle East. The Role of Journalism in Israel-Palestine
    (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) Tiripelli, Giuliana
    In exploring the dynamics and narratives of peace in journalism, this book explains the media's impact on the transformation of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. It discusses the perspectives of peace activists who have been involved in grassroots action since the first Intifada, and examines how their relation with the mainstream media has evolved over time. It compares these views with those of professional journalists who have been covering the conflict, and their sense of the difficulties inherent in practicing a different kind of journalism. The interviews included in this study contribute towards the model of Peace Journalism, with a view to facilitating its successful application to this conflict. Highlighting both the obstacles and opportunities associated with this endeavour, Tiripelli offers suggestions for the strategic application of this model.
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    Overcoming the Peace Journalism paradox: A case study in journalist training as media development aid
    (Intellect, 2022-06-01) Tiripelli, Giuliana; Lynch, Jake
    Peace journalism (PJ), originally proposed by Johan Galtung as a set of ideational distinctions in representations of conflict, has served as the organizing principle for both scholarly research and practical application. Much of the latter has come through media development aid, generally taking the form of professional training courses for editors and reporters. The effectiveness of such schemes depends on activating and galvanizing journalistic agency to change the content of reporting. This highlights a paradox: PJ is the policy response to Galtung’s landmark 1965 essay, published with Mari Holmboe Ruge, ‘The structure of foreign news’, which, instead, attributed the chief influences on news content to the political economy of media. This article presents and considers two sets of data. One comes from interviews with sixteen alumni of PJ training courses, in which they disclose which aspects proved most readily applicable in their work. The other is based on a survey of 55 articles from The Peace Journalist, a biannual magazine published by the Global Peace Journalism Center at Park University, Missouri, which, between them, report on training courses in 33 countries over ten years. It shows which aspects of PJ are most often emphasized in such initiatives, and in what kind of conflict contexts. The two data sets are then compared and cross-referenced to show how both trainers and trainees set out to supplement and circumvent structural constraints and thus overcome the PJ paradox.
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    Punishment, legitimacy and taste: The role and limits of mainstream and social media in constructing attitudes towards community sanctions.
    (2018-05-07) Tiripelli, Giuliana; Happer, Catherine; McGuiness, Paul; McNeil, Fergus
    Although criminologists have studied public attitudes to community sanctions, and there has also been some attention to media representations of them, there has been no serious examination of the relationships between media and public understandings. This article presents an interdisciplinary analysis (drawing on sociology, media and communications and organizational studies) of the potential influence of media consumption practices on penal tastes among diverse participant groups. We aim to develop a clearer understanding of how these processes shape the public legitimacy of community sanctions. In particular, we report on original research employing innovative methodologies to explore the dynamic set of practices deployed by audiences in the process of making meaningful the media landscape on punishment and community sanctions. Our findings offer some confirmation of the primacy of the prison in the popular imagination; the media profile of community sanctions is delimited by their perceived banality, in turn leading to confusion surrounding their purpose and potential. However, this study suggests that the legitimacy problem for community sanctions may be far more complex than ‘newsworthiness’. Community sanctions, we argue, may be subject to appraisal in line with penal ‘tastes’ in which the function of moral censure is of central significance. However, we also uncover some evidence about how traditional markers of taste are disrupted by processes of media convergence (of appropriation, circulation, response) in ways which can operate to limit deliberation even amongst more liberal audience groups, and conversely open it up amongst those who are more punitive.
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    The role of the Media in Times of Crisis
    (2021-05-02) Tiripelli, Giuliana
    This is a commissioned report for the Assembly of the Council of Europe, Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media. It was presented and discussed at the official hearing on the 21th of May, 2021.
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    Sociology of the media: towards an ideal journalistic practice
    (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) Tiripelli, Giuliana