News Agency Website Agenda on Religion. Comparative Analysis on Mediafax.ro and Agerpres.ro
News Agency Website Agenda on Religion. Comparative Analysis on Mediafax.ro and Agerpres.ro

Summary/Abstract: According to the “Global Index of Religiosity and Atheism” (WIN-Gallup International, 27July 2012, retrieved 24 August 2012), which was a global 2012 poll, the reports label 59% of the world'spopulation as “religious” and 36% as not religious, including 13% who are atheists, with a 9% decreasein religious belief from 2005. Thereto, religion is an important issue of inherent influence in the medianowadays. Despite the ongoing secularization process that we are facing these days, humans still feelthe need to refer to religion within their attempt to construct one’s own outlook on life, and to makesome sense out of existence in general (Max Weber, 1920)2. A comparative content analysis onMediafax.ro and Agerpres.ro, performed for an almost nine-and-a-half-month time span (1st Januaryto 13th October 2015), showed interesting facts on how press agency journalists relate to religion as amedia topic, both in terms of quality (key words and key topics) and in terms of quantity. A comparisonbetween the Orthodox religion of the majority of the Romanians, and other denominations, alsoaccounted for intriguing research findings.

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