Scholars from the political economy of communication described the ongoing commercialisation of the media as one of the main causes for the decrease of journalistic quality. They depict the incentives, which the comme...
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Scholars from the political economy of communication described the ongoing commercialisation of the media as one of the main causes for the decrease of journalistic quality. They depict the incentives, which the commercial business model sets to journalism, as a serious threat to the democratic functions of the media - and thereby to democracy itself. It was against this backdrop that Nichols and Mc Chesney formulated a radically alternative business model for private media, which they call the citizenship news voucher model. This model implies a demand-based distribution of media subsidies that, according to the authors, would ultimately should foster the journalistic quality. This thesis examines that model for the Swiss media landscape by analysing three focus groups (N=18), each representing a different media stakeholder cleavage. The main question that this study answers is how do Swiss media consumers evaluate the opportunities and challenges of the citizenship news voucher model with regard to an improvement of the democratic functions of the media. Although most of the participants agreed that the decreasing journalistic quality in Switzerland is problematic, they could not entirely be convinced by the model since some of its implications are still obscure.
Although much of the analysis conducted in qualitative research falls within the broad church of thematic analysis, the wide scope of qualitative enquiry presents the researcher with a number of choices regarding data...
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Although much of the analysis conducted in qualitative research falls within the broad church of thematic analysis, the wide scope of qualitative enquiry presents the researcher with a number of choices regarding data analysis techniques. This review, the third in the series, provides an overview of a number of techniques and practical steps that can be taken to provide some structure and focus to the intellectual work of thematic analysis in nutrition and dietetics. Because appropriate research methods are crucial to ensure high-quality research, it also describes a process for choosing appropriate analytical methods that considers the extent to which they help answer the research question(s) and are compatible with the philosophical assumptions about ontology, epistemology and methodology that underpin the overall design of a study. Other reviews in this series provide a model for embarking on a qualitative research project in nutrition and dietetics, an overview of the principal techniques of data collection, sampling and quality assessment of this kind of research and some practical advice relevant to nutrition and dietetics, along with glossaries of key terms.
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