| Title |
“Like Throwing a Bowling Ball at a Battle Ship” Audience Responses to Australian News Stories about Alcohol Pricing and Promotion Policies: A Qualitative Focus Group Study
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, June 2013
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0065261 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Andrea S. Fogarty, Simon Chapman |
| Abstract |
Policies affecting alcohol's price and promotion are effective measures to reduce harms. Yet policies targeting populations are unpopular with the public, whose views can be influenced by news framings of policy narratives. In Australia, alcohol taxation receives high news coverage, while advertising restrictions have not until recently, and narratives are highly contested for each. However, research specifically examining how audiences respond to such news stories is scant. We sought to explore audience understanding of news reports about two alcohol policy proposals. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 17 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | 9 | 53% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 18% |
| United States | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 4 | 24% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 12 | 71% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 4 | 24% |
| Scientists | 1 | 6% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 70 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |
| Australia | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 67 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 11 | 16% |
| Student > Master | 8 | 11% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 7 | 10% |
| Other | 6 | 9% |
| Student > Bachelor | 5 | 7% |
| Other | 12 | 17% |
| Unknown | 21 | 30% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 14 | 20% |
| Social Sciences | 13 | 19% |
| Psychology | 6 | 9% |
| Computer Science | 2 | 3% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 2 | 3% |
| Other | 9 | 13% |
| Unknown | 24 | 34% |