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The coverage of science in television news programs in Brazil and Colombia: a comparative study of media constructs

Overview of attention for article published in História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos, September 2016
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Title
The coverage of science in television news programs in Brazil and Colombia: a comparative study of media constructs
Published in
História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos, September 2016
DOI 10.1590/s0104-59702016005000019
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Authors

Marina Ramalho, Tania Arboleda, Daniel Hermelin, Gabriela Reznik, Luisa Massarani

Abstract

This study analyzes and compares the science and technology coverage in Brazil's main television news program (Jornal Nacional) and its Colombian counterpart (Noticias Caracol). Using content analysis, we investigated a corpus of news stories broadcast from April 2009 to March 2010. We found that Jornal Nacional presented over twice as many reports on science and technology as Noticias Caracol, and that its levels of reporting remained fairly stable throughout the year. The Brazilian reports were also longer, were featured more prominently, and used more visual resources. Even so, some similarities were found: news about health and medicine was most frequent; the reports focused primarily on announcing new research; scientists were the main sources cited; and national research was prioritized.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 13 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 4 31%
Researcher 3 23%
Professor > Associate Professor 2 15%
Student > Bachelor 1 8%
Other 1 8%
Other 1 8%
Unknown 1 8%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 5 38%
Environmental Science 2 15%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 8%
Arts and Humanities 1 8%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 1 8%
Other 1 8%
Unknown 2 15%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 03 May 2022.
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#4,210,305
of 25,457,858 outputs
Outputs from História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos
#285
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#64,514
of 331,437 outputs
Outputs of similar age from História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos
#2
of 23 outputs
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