Academic journal is a periodical devoted to disseminating original research and commentary on current developments in a specific discipline, sub discipline, or field of study usually published in quarterly, bimonthly, or monthly issues sold by subscription (Reitz, 2007). Popular new publication are contrary from the academic journal even it also is one type of serials but it cover on current news or stories which written by the journalist or not an expert in that particular field with the purpose of give information about certain subject or issues. To begin, if seen from the definition above, it can be said that both of these two types of publication are different from each other because of its purpose and characteristic. It also may have some similarity in some aspect. In order to examine and explain the similarities and differences of these two different types of publication, I choose two materials as an example of the publication on the same subject which is on foodborne disease or also known as food poisoning. The example of popular news publication entitles “facing food poisoning” and for academic article is entitles “foodborne viruses”.
The similarities between academic journal and popular news publication
Firstly, start with the similarities of the publications. The similarity of these two types of publication is the subjects its covers. Both materials are covering on the subject of foodborne disease. The subject content of both article are discussing on foodborne disease however the scope are different. The popular news publication is covering on the general information and do not have many sub subjects on what is actually foodborne or food poisoning. The author give plain definition of foodborne, and then describe...
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...between academic journal and popular news publication. The aspects of features that are similar between the two resources are the subject it covers and the type of publication. Differences between the academic journal and popular news publication are in term of the authorship, information content, audience and target group, purposes, format and structure, language, length, visual presentation style, editors, and bibliographies.
Works Cited
Diong, Swee Hoon. (2005, May 29). Facing food poisoning. The star online. Retrieved January 19, 2011 from http://thestar.com.my/health/story.asp?file=/2005/5/29/health/11049056&%3Bsec=health
Koopmans, M., Von Bonsdorff, C., Vinje, J. & De Medic, D. (2002). Foodborne viruses. FEMS Microbiology Reviews,26(2), 187-205.
Reitz, J. (2007). Dictionary for library and information science. California: Libraries Unlimited.
...s to why these newspapers each covered the topic of rising popularity in canning, but these perspectives of this as a trend do not provide the complete picture. In relation to Foodies, the magazines used by Johnston and Baumann are indicative of certain trends within the food movement, but also are susceptible to limits of perspective.
Many say that history repeats itself, and throughout history, the spread of food-borne diseases has been constantly threatening humans. Salmonella, a disease which attacks numerous people a year, has returned, infected, and put people under panic of what they are eating. According to Foodborne Diseases, it is stated that “Salmonella comprises a large and diverse group of Gram-negative rods. Salmonellae are ubiquitous and have been recovered from some insects and nearly all vertebrate species, especially humans, livestock, and companion animals” (Gray and Fedorka-Cray 55). Because of the flexibility and the ability to reproduce rapidly, this infamous disease still remains as one of the most common threats in our society as well as an unconquerable problem that humans face these days.
Investigative Journalism is the strongest factor for health in the food industry, both for the lives in the past, as well as today. Before the turn of the 20th century, there were cases of extreme health concerns exposed by investigators. The most widely known food investigator is Upton Sinclair, who uncovered the horrors of the meat-packing industry in 1904. Investigative journalists have uncovered the dirt and corruption in many food businesses, which has led to the creation of new and widely improved food and drug legislations, as well as the making of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Norovirus is a major cause of morbidity in the general population. Children, the elderly and individuals with compromised immune systems and co-morbidities (McCabe-Sellers & Beatte, 2004) are particularly vulnerable to the effects of the virus. The economic burden of foodborne norovirus is significant (Painter et al., 2013). Researchers examined 14 foodborne pathogens that account for 95% of all confirmed foodborne illnesses and associated hospitalizations and 98% of deaths in the United States. One of the 14 pathogens evaluated was norovirus.
...plications, the public is able to share and obtain information before the morning newspaper is delivered. In addition, the media today continues to dramatize public events. Cases such as the Zimmerman Trial or foreign incidents in Ukraine remain headlines on news articles for months. Each source presents bias and influences its audience differently.
Depending on what you are reading you will notice that the audience that an author writes for varies from genre to genre. The scholarly article had aimed for an audience that was studying the same thing as they were writing about; while, the mass media article had got an audience that was very general. It was easy to point out the differences between the two articles because in the mass media the speak broadly about the topic, in a language that everyone will know instead of only words psychology doctors would know. The article “Do Att...
Viruses have emerged as causes of foodborne disease, according to data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Viruses cause a wide range of diseases in plants, animals and humans. These infections do not occur at random: each group of viruses has its own typical host range and cell preference. Viruses were probably always a cause of food borne disease; however with recent developments in detection we are now able to confirm the presence of viruses. Previously, those outbreaks may have been recorded as having an unknown causative agent.
The decision to examine the print news media was driven by the nature of the issue being explored. Previous research indicated (Nelkin, 1991; Stroman & Seltzer, 1989) that when it comes to complex and ambiguous issues (e.g., AIDS-HIV), print news provides more in-depth information than broadcast news. News consumers tend to consult print news for the details, whereas broadcast news provides the broad strokes. For instance, the Princeton Survey Research Associates (1996) study of AIDS coverage by the U.S. media found that the print media accorded more analytical coverage when compared to broadcast offerings.
What is Foodborne Illness? According to a medical dictionary, foodborne illness is an acute gastrointestinal infection caused by consuming food contaminated with pathogenic, bacteria, toxins, viruses, prions or parasites. Such contamination was caused by improper food handling, preparation or storage of food. Contacts between food and pests, especially flies, cockroaches and rodents are a further cause of contamination of food. Foodborne illness can also be caused by adding pesticides or medicine to food or consuming or by accidentally consuming naturally poisonous substances. That is why foodborne illness can also be called food poisoning.
News stories are covered several times and most of us do not even realize it. Although more recently many people get news in more similar mediums such as on the Internet because of the decline of newspapers. “Since 1940, the total number of daily newspapers has dropped more than 21 percent” (McIntosh and Pavlik, 119). Many times we do not realize the same story we read online was covered on our local news station and in our local newspaper, even further than that this same story is being covered in many different news stations, newspapers, and news sites all over the country and even the world. So what makes these stories different? Each time you read a news story from a different source something different happens to it. The different views and frames used by the source gives the reader a different take every time. I saw that first hand in my two stories. In my project I compared the same story of Mya Lyons, a nine year old girl who was stabbed to death.
In conclusion, while selecting articles to use for this research, these particular articles proved to be very useful. They both met the criterion for the purpose of research information, as well as having current information on the topics.
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