Pub Date : 2023-03-29DOI: 10.1080/22041451.2023.2188699
Pablo Moral, Guillermo Marco
ABSTRACT Combining computational and qualitative methods, this research presents a novel approach to the analysis of China’s digital diplomacy. The study explores the main strategic narratives disseminated by the Chinese Communist Party on Twitter during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. To identify the narratives, a sequential design was conducted. First, topic modelling was implemented to a sample of 189,708 tweets in English published by 163 Chinese authorities from January 1st, 2020, to March 11th, 2021. Second, the strategic narratives framework was applied to distinguish thematic and structural patterns among the most representative tweets of the main topics revealed. The findings expose how China tried to rationalise challenging events in accordance with its pre-established system and identity narratives. The antagonism to the West, the promotion of a new style of global leadership, the rejection of criticism, and the legitimation of projects abroad characterised China’s digital endeavours to influence international audiences.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-29DOI: 10.1080/22041451.2023.2188702
M. Imran, Kathryn Bowd
ABSTRACT This article explores relationships between media power and older people in Western and non-Western settings, utilising the examples of Australia and Malaysia. Drawing on Fairclough’s three-dimensional critical discourse analysis and a dataset of articles from Australian and Malaysian newspapers, it reveals that despite differences in journalistic practices in the two countries there is a common thread of disparate representation of voices of older people and elites in news about older people. This demonstrates the exercise of power by journalists – and the influence of broader media and socio-political environments – in sustaining and reproducing social inequalities, including opportunities for people to have their stories and issues portrayed fairly and accurately. While the lack of critical engagement by Malaysian journalists can be linked to social norms and ideas of Asian-based development journalism, the absence of critical engagement from the Australian news media can be seen as conflicting with their Fourth Estate watchdog role.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-17DOI: 10.1080/22041451.2023.2167512
J. Fulton, S. Kerrigan, P. McIntyre
ABSTRACT Quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods designs are accepted approaches to researching the creative industries. However, while these bring a depth of understanding, they do not generally include an understanding of the ‘making’ of a creative artefact; practitioners in the creative industries make creative products. A first-hand examination of the ‘making’, via an approach such as creative practice as research, provides a much-needed account of creative activity in the creative industries. But we take this argument further and provide a rationale for using creative practice as research alongside quantitative and qualitative approaches in a new research approach called extended-mixed methods. This paper discusses this approach and demonstrates that it can be defended within a constructionist epistemology.
{"title":"Extended-mixed methods: a new research paradigm for the creative industries","authors":"J. Fulton, S. Kerrigan, P. McIntyre","doi":"10.1080/22041451.2023.2167512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/22041451.2023.2167512","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods designs are accepted approaches to researching the creative industries. However, while these bring a depth of understanding, they do not generally include an understanding of the ‘making’ of a creative artefact; practitioners in the creative industries make creative products. A first-hand examination of the ‘making’, via an approach such as creative practice as research, provides a much-needed account of creative activity in the creative industries. But we take this argument further and provide a rationale for using creative practice as research alongside quantitative and qualitative approaches in a new research approach called extended-mixed methods. This paper discusses this approach and demonstrates that it can be defended within a constructionist epistemology.","PeriodicalId":10644,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research and Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72932856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-07DOI: 10.1080/22041451.2023.2167509
Martin Kaulback, Elena Maydell
ABSTRACT The development of queer theory in gender studies has provided multiple possibilities to investigate different aspects of gender construction and performance among people who identify as different from the dominant heterosexual norm. This narrative inquiry examines the identities of gay and queer men in Aotearoa New Zealand, as narrated in semi-structured interviews, with most of them recorded via virtual interactions during the COVID-19 lockdown in March-April of 2020. Narrative analysis of the participants’ stories focuses on how gay and queer individuals navigate their lives as non-normative men who are Othered by traditional, hegemonic and hierarchical masculinity. This research explores how these narratives of post-gay identities contest and move beyond heteronormativity, striving for a liberated presentation of individual self where sexuality is no longer a defining characteristic but one of many on a spectrum.
{"title":"Post-gay identities: narrative analysis of homomasculinity among gay and queer men in Aotearoa New Zealand","authors":"Martin Kaulback, Elena Maydell","doi":"10.1080/22041451.2023.2167509","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/22041451.2023.2167509","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The development of queer theory in gender studies has provided multiple possibilities to investigate different aspects of gender construction and performance among people who identify as different from the dominant heterosexual norm. This narrative inquiry examines the identities of gay and queer men in Aotearoa New Zealand, as narrated in semi-structured interviews, with most of them recorded via virtual interactions during the COVID-19 lockdown in March-April of 2020. Narrative analysis of the participants’ stories focuses on how gay and queer individuals navigate their lives as non-normative men who are Othered by traditional, hegemonic and hierarchical masculinity. This research explores how these narratives of post-gay identities contest and move beyond heteronormativity, striving for a liberated presentation of individual self where sexuality is no longer a defining characteristic but one of many on a spectrum.","PeriodicalId":10644,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research and Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74965920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-07DOI: 10.1080/22041451.2023.2167510
Nguyễn Yến-Khanh
ABSTRACT This paper examines news media coverage on autism, a public health issue in Vietnam. Computational corpus analysis and framing analysis of Vietnamese digital news media of over 580,000 words are deemed useful methods for big data analysis. The language patterns, extracted by WordSmith software, suggest autism is framed primarily as a medical problem and a family issue, not a matter of social policy or an aspect of human diversity. Noticeably, individuals with autism are expected to integrate to fit in with the community, not the other way around, where the society acts as an agent to accommodate autism diversity within an inclusive environment. The study finds the under-represented voices of individuals with autism and family actors, and the dominant voices of healthcare, education, and other professionals, along with the absence of government authorities in the media corpus.
{"title":"Representation of autism in Vietnamese digital news media: a computational corpus and framing analysis","authors":"Nguyễn Yến-Khanh","doi":"10.1080/22041451.2023.2167510","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/22041451.2023.2167510","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper examines news media coverage on autism, a public health issue in Vietnam. Computational corpus analysis and framing analysis of Vietnamese digital news media of over 580,000 words are deemed useful methods for big data analysis. The language patterns, extracted by WordSmith software, suggest autism is framed primarily as a medical problem and a family issue, not a matter of social policy or an aspect of human diversity. Noticeably, individuals with autism are expected to integrate to fit in with the community, not the other way around, where the society acts as an agent to accommodate autism diversity within an inclusive environment. The study finds the under-represented voices of individuals with autism and family actors, and the dominant voices of healthcare, education, and other professionals, along with the absence of government authorities in the media corpus.","PeriodicalId":10644,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research and Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85730622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1080/22041451.2023.2167513
Juan Liang
ABSTRACT This study explored the communication of Predator Free 2050 (PF2050), a biodiversity conservation programme promoted by the New Zealand government. Drawing on semi-structured interviews and an online survey, the study found that the information about PF2050 was made available by diverse contributing agencies but ineffectively disseminated to the public who believed PF2050 provided insufficient or unclear communication. These were experienced as barriers to public engagement with PF2050. A coordinated approach is judged vital to communicate PF2050 to the public. A key to this coordination is effective engagement with Māori as Treaty partners to ensure the success of PF2050. This study provides valuable insights into the features provoking and sustaining public engagement with biodiversity preservation in Aotearoa New Zealand and highlights the need for environmental movements worldwide to improve communication publicity and visibility. It contributes to our understanding of prioritising both inclusiveness and cultural sensitivity if communication strategies are to inspire collaborative actions of the public.
{"title":"Igniting public engagement with biodiversity conservation: exploring the communication of Predator Free 2050 in Aotearoa New Zealand","authors":"Juan Liang","doi":"10.1080/22041451.2023.2167513","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/22041451.2023.2167513","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study explored the communication of Predator Free 2050 (PF2050), a biodiversity conservation programme promoted by the New Zealand government. Drawing on semi-structured interviews and an online survey, the study found that the information about PF2050 was made available by diverse contributing agencies but ineffectively disseminated to the public who believed PF2050 provided insufficient or unclear communication. These were experienced as barriers to public engagement with PF2050. A coordinated approach is judged vital to communicate PF2050 to the public. A key to this coordination is effective engagement with Māori as Treaty partners to ensure the success of PF2050. This study provides valuable insights into the features provoking and sustaining public engagement with biodiversity preservation in Aotearoa New Zealand and highlights the need for environmental movements worldwide to improve communication publicity and visibility. It contributes to our understanding of prioritising both inclusiveness and cultural sensitivity if communication strategies are to inspire collaborative actions of the public.","PeriodicalId":10644,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research and Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76383730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-30DOI: 10.1080/22041451.2023.2167514
Hagos Nigussie
ABSTRACT This paper examined the use of extension agents in connecting rural people to food security programs in the Irob and Gulomekeda districts, in eastern Tigray, Ethiopia. This study employed qualitative research involving 50 semi-structured interviews, 10 focus group discussions, and 15 hours of personal observation. Extension agents use public meetings to transfer agricultural technologies to rural people. However, results showed that public meetings are ineffective to connect rural people to food security programs. This has limited peoples’ power to voice their concerns and restrained their agency to sanction their choices and negotiate the structures. Besides, the food security implementation procedures are not inclusive limiting people’s participation in the strategy design and strategy implementation procedures. Study results also showed that administrative challenges and personal incompetence have affected extension agents from undertaking their duties effectively. Overall, despite Ethiopia invests in agricultural extension systems, little has been achieved to improve rural food security.
{"title":"Extension agents as liaisons: connecting rural people to food security programs?","authors":"Hagos Nigussie","doi":"10.1080/22041451.2023.2167514","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/22041451.2023.2167514","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper examined the use of extension agents in connecting rural people to food security programs in the Irob and Gulomekeda districts, in eastern Tigray, Ethiopia. This study employed qualitative research involving 50 semi-structured interviews, 10 focus group discussions, and 15 hours of personal observation. Extension agents use public meetings to transfer agricultural technologies to rural people. However, results showed that public meetings are ineffective to connect rural people to food security programs. This has limited peoples’ power to voice their concerns and restrained their agency to sanction their choices and negotiate the structures. Besides, the food security implementation procedures are not inclusive limiting people’s participation in the strategy design and strategy implementation procedures. Study results also showed that administrative challenges and personal incompetence have affected extension agents from undertaking their duties effectively. Overall, despite Ethiopia invests in agricultural extension systems, little has been achieved to improve rural food security.","PeriodicalId":10644,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research and Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87945324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/22041451.2023.2188693
A. Barnes
ABSTRACT Television drama has implications beyond providing entertainment and beyond immediate audience reactions and responses. Māori focus group participants in my research on local television dramas were acutely aware of how they were represented on screen. As an audience they were deeply affected and worked hard to pre-empt and address what they saw or expected to see. Against a backdrop of colonisation and negative stereotypes that pervade Māori representations, they undertook multiple forms of meaning making and negotiated complex responses. Colonial trauma emerged as a deeply felt response to representations that reminded participants of the effects of colonisation; for example, the denigration of te reo Māori (Māori language) and issues of identity. When viewing troubling depictions, participants deployed strategies of resistance, including a response I termed ‘Imagining Resistance’ where, they created backstories and interpretations for characters’ motivations and behaviours.
{"title":"Imagining resistance: Māori audiences resist trauma and reimagine representations in television dramas","authors":"A. Barnes","doi":"10.1080/22041451.2023.2188693","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/22041451.2023.2188693","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Television drama has implications beyond providing entertainment and beyond immediate audience reactions and responses. Māori focus group participants in my research on local television dramas were acutely aware of how they were represented on screen. As an audience they were deeply affected and worked hard to pre-empt and address what they saw or expected to see. Against a backdrop of colonisation and negative stereotypes that pervade Māori representations, they undertook multiple forms of meaning making and negotiated complex responses. Colonial trauma emerged as a deeply felt response to representations that reminded participants of the effects of colonisation; for example, the denigration of te reo Māori (Māori language) and issues of identity. When viewing troubling depictions, participants deployed strategies of resistance, including a response I termed ‘Imagining Resistance’ where, they created backstories and interpretations for characters’ motivations and behaviours.","PeriodicalId":10644,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research and Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79368903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/22041451.2023.2193464
Terence Lee
{"title":"Rejuvenation: a call for new editorial board members","authors":"Terence Lee","doi":"10.1080/22041451.2023.2193464","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/22041451.2023.2193464","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10644,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research and Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73709148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/22041451.2023.2190531
Donald Matheson
ABSTRACT This paper seeks to clarify a methodological agenda for combining discourse analysis with corpus analysis. It details four concerns. Firstly, it argues that corpus-assisted discourse analysis can quite drastically narrow the view on discourse, if used on its own and without accompanying theoretical tools for exploring social practice. Secondly, corpora are of more value in helping researchers identify the symbolic resources that people have available to them than at understanding how they use those resources. Thirdly, they must be approached through a renewed appreciation of communication as a human accomplishment and corpora must, therefore, be reconnected to the producers of that discourse. And fourthly, corpora are of greater value when extended beyond lexical analysis. Underpinning these points is a commitment to discourse analysis as a tool to understand in close detail how people use language to do things in their lives.
{"title":"Discourse analysis after the computational turn: a mixed bag","authors":"Donald Matheson","doi":"10.1080/22041451.2023.2190531","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/22041451.2023.2190531","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper seeks to clarify a methodological agenda for combining discourse analysis with corpus analysis. It details four concerns. Firstly, it argues that corpus-assisted discourse analysis can quite drastically narrow the view on discourse, if used on its own and without accompanying theoretical tools for exploring social practice. Secondly, corpora are of more value in helping researchers identify the symbolic resources that people have available to them than at understanding how they use those resources. Thirdly, they must be approached through a renewed appreciation of communication as a human accomplishment and corpora must, therefore, be reconnected to the producers of that discourse. And fourthly, corpora are of greater value when extended beyond lexical analysis. Underpinning these points is a commitment to discourse analysis as a tool to understand in close detail how people use language to do things in their lives.","PeriodicalId":10644,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research and Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91369636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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