Pub Date : 2014-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13216597.2013.872161
Kyle B. Heuett, C. Westerman
Abstract Given that people of different cultures must increasingly interact with each other, the current study investigates the impact of an intercultural interaction as an inoculation against state communication apprehension (CA) and negative attitudes and beliefs about intercultural interactions. Specifically, this study sought to identify differences between Western and Middle Eastern cultures. A pretest–posttest design was used, with a 15-minute intercultural interaction as an intervention. Findings from a cross-cultural sample indicate that both US and Middle Eastern participants experienced a reduction in state CA and an improvement in attitudes and beliefs from pretest to posttest. Further discussion of findings and theoretical implications follow.
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Pub Date : 2014-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13216597.2013.869240
N. Muturi
Abstract Chronic alcohol consumption is among the major public health and socioeconomic burdens in many developing nations. This study focuses on the heavy drinking of unrecorded and unmonitored illicit liquor that has been associated with numerous fatalities in rural Central Kenya in spite of government's efforts to limit its supply and consumption. The communication for social change approach puts emphasis in community engagement, incorporating the unheard voices in defining the problem and designing appropriate interventions. Through focus groups and in-depth interviews to examine rural communities' perspectives on the root cause of the alcoholism problem and their perceive severity of the problem, the study found sociocultural, economic, and environmental factors that need to be addressed for successful alcohol prevention in the region. Although communities are aware of the severity of chronic alcoholism, they may not have proper understanding of the long-term health impact it has on consumers and the overall communities. Such findings are necessary in the design of culture-specific communication interventions that focus on social change beyond individual behavior.
{"title":"Engaging communities in the understanding of excessive alcohol consumption in rural Central Kenya","authors":"N. Muturi","doi":"10.1080/13216597.2013.869240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13216597.2013.869240","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Chronic alcohol consumption is among the major public health and socioeconomic burdens in many developing nations. This study focuses on the heavy drinking of unrecorded and unmonitored illicit liquor that has been associated with numerous fatalities in rural Central Kenya in spite of government's efforts to limit its supply and consumption. The communication for social change approach puts emphasis in community engagement, incorporating the unheard voices in defining the problem and designing appropriate interventions. Through focus groups and in-depth interviews to examine rural communities' perspectives on the root cause of the alcoholism problem and their perceive severity of the problem, the study found sociocultural, economic, and environmental factors that need to be addressed for successful alcohol prevention in the region. Although communities are aware of the severity of chronic alcoholism, they may not have proper understanding of the long-term health impact it has on consumers and the overall communities. Such findings are necessary in the design of culture-specific communication interventions that focus on social change beyond individual behavior.","PeriodicalId":16118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Communication","volume":"20 1","pages":"117 - 98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13216597.2013.869240","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59755427","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 : 2014-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13216597.2014.880362
Deepak Neupane, L. Zeng
Abstract Media professionals in Nepal faced a wide range of threats in recent decades, as a result of the political conflicts among the ruling Communist Party (Maoists) and other interest groups. After the 14-year civil war and the revolution against the King in 2006, the leading political groups in Nepal reached an agreement on establishing a parliamentary system. In April 2008, a Constituent Assembly election was held and an interim constitution was introduced. The Interim Constitution protects the freedom of news and communication. This paper studies the condition of journalists after the 2008 Constituent Assembly election in Nepal. In-depth interviews were conducted with journalists working for popular national newspapers, online news organizations, and commercial television networks. The findings suggest that, despite the written protection of media freedom in the Interim Constitution, implementation of the protected rights remains a mission hardly accomplished. The situation is slightly better in the capital city than it is in other parts of the country. However, journalists nationwide still face threats and assaults as a result of what they report. Pressure comes from different levels, ranging from minority groups, armed forces, and even media owners. The government plays a weak role in providing security service to journalists.
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Pub Date : 2013-08-01DOI: 10.1080/13216597.2013.838906
Eva-Karin Olsson
Abstract Transboundary incidents with the potential to develop into crises transcending geographical, cultural and religious boundaries are becoming increasingly common in today's interconnected world. This development poses new demands on governments to communicate with publics on a transnational level, what is commonly referred to as public diplomacy. Based on an inductive comparative case study, this article suggests a framework for understanding public diplomacy as a crisis communication tool consisting of three core tasks: sense making, networking and messaging. The article ends with a proposal as to how public diplomacy can contribute to crisis mitigation.
{"title":"Public diplomacy as a crisis communication tool","authors":"Eva-Karin Olsson","doi":"10.1080/13216597.2013.838906","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13216597.2013.838906","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Transboundary incidents with the potential to develop into crises transcending geographical, cultural and religious boundaries are becoming increasingly common in today's interconnected world. This development poses new demands on governments to communicate with publics on a transnational level, what is commonly referred to as public diplomacy. Based on an inductive comparative case study, this article suggests a framework for understanding public diplomacy as a crisis communication tool consisting of three core tasks: sense making, networking and messaging. The article ends with a proposal as to how public diplomacy can contribute to crisis mitigation.","PeriodicalId":16118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Communication","volume":"19 1","pages":"219 - 234"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13216597.2013.838906","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59755366","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 : 2013-08-01DOI: 10.1080/13216597.2013.833537
M. Odine
Abstract Women's inequality in the Arab world is associated with culture in the societies, subjugating them to second-class citizens based on gender and dictates of the patriarchal establishment. Consequently, women face discrimination in education, employment and in the home, and are victims of domestic violence. Inequality is more draconian in conservative societies where women are not allowed to vote or drive, nor can they travel or work without the man's permission. Aware of lack of societal support for their causes, women have turned to modern information technology, particularly social media in the forms of Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and smart phones because they are virtual and free from stifling government controls. Remarkable progress has been recorded, including media positions and eventual reportage addressing women's inequality issues. More women are enrolling at universities and daring to enter even fields that heretofore were reserved for men. The gate is open, too, for careers that society deemed unacceptable for women because they required communicating with non-family males. To sustain initiatives to counter inequality and plan for the future, Arab women's organizations have sprung in the region, focusing on capacity building to enable women to acquire necessary know-how to effectively use media to address pervasive inequality.
{"title":"Arab women use media to address inequality","authors":"M. Odine","doi":"10.1080/13216597.2013.833537","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13216597.2013.833537","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Women's inequality in the Arab world is associated with culture in the societies, subjugating them to second-class citizens based on gender and dictates of the patriarchal establishment. Consequently, women face discrimination in education, employment and in the home, and are victims of domestic violence. Inequality is more draconian in conservative societies where women are not allowed to vote or drive, nor can they travel or work without the man's permission. Aware of lack of societal support for their causes, women have turned to modern information technology, particularly social media in the forms of Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and smart phones because they are virtual and free from stifling government controls. Remarkable progress has been recorded, including media positions and eventual reportage addressing women's inequality issues. More women are enrolling at universities and daring to enter even fields that heretofore were reserved for men. The gate is open, too, for careers that society deemed unacceptable for women because they required communicating with non-family males. To sustain initiatives to counter inequality and plan for the future, Arab women's organizations have sprung in the region, focusing on capacity building to enable women to acquire necessary know-how to effectively use media to address pervasive inequality.","PeriodicalId":16118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Communication","volume":"05 1","pages":"167 - 181"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13216597.2013.833537","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59755331","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 : 2013-08-01DOI: 10.1080/13216597.2013.833535
Debao Xiang
Abstract This study analyses the image of China as it is represented on international English-language social media. A content analysis was performed on items collected from Wordpress, Technorati, Digg, Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Topix, NowPublic and CNN iReport sources. The analysis finds that international English-language social media presents a more neutral and diverse China in terms of economy, culture and technology than does the international mainstream media. Social media depicts China as a rising economic power whereas constructs such as ‘Fascinating China’ and ‘Innovative China’ represent the country's cultural and technological image. However, the analysis also finds that international social media uncritically repeats stereotyped Chinese social, political, religious and ethnic images it captures from the international mainstream media.
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Pub Date : 2013-08-01DOI: 10.1080/13216597.2013.819371
V. Bonomi, Po-Lin Pan
Abstract This study examined news coverage of diplomatic relationship between the United States and Venezuela in three major US newspapers— the New York Times, Washington Post and Christian Science Monitor. This content analysis was conducted over two distinct stages that represented the first hundred days of the first and second presidential periods of Hugo Chavez. Data found that news coverage of diplomatic relationship between the US and Venezuela was characterized by a positive tone that described the bilateral relation in the first period. The tone had changed drastically when a negative portrayal of this relationship was covered in the second period. The most frequently cited sources included Venezuelan government officials and US government officials. Moreover, news themes relevant to Hugo Chavez were consistent across Chavez as a military man and leftist.
{"title":"Framing of the US-Venezuela diplomatic relationship in major US newspapers","authors":"V. Bonomi, Po-Lin Pan","doi":"10.1080/13216597.2013.819371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13216597.2013.819371","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study examined news coverage of diplomatic relationship between the United States and Venezuela in three major US newspapers— the New York Times, Washington Post and Christian Science Monitor. This content analysis was conducted over two distinct stages that represented the first hundred days of the first and second presidential periods of Hugo Chavez. Data found that news coverage of diplomatic relationship between the US and Venezuela was characterized by a positive tone that described the bilateral relation in the first period. The tone had changed drastically when a negative portrayal of this relationship was covered in the second period. The most frequently cited sources included Venezuelan government officials and US government officials. Moreover, news themes relevant to Hugo Chavez were consistent across Chavez as a military man and leftist.","PeriodicalId":16118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Communication","volume":"19 1","pages":"235 - 251"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13216597.2013.819371","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59755237","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 : 2013-08-01DOI: 10.1080/13216597.2013.784209
S. Kerrigan, Pieter Aquilia
Abstract This paper outlines the results of a study examining student collaborative practice in screen production courses in Singapore and Australia. Of particular interest, is how the Australian curriculum, originally designed for graduates of a Western liberal higher education system, would translate to a culturally diverse group of students in Asia. The study was informed by the hypothesis that students in Asia would adopt an Eastern collective collaborative style and students in Australia would adopt a Western individualistic collaborative style. The survey was based on a US film-making questionnaire, which used Bilby's Wheelbook, a tool for assessing screen production personality types. The survey results demonstrated strong similarities in the collaboration styles of the two cohorts, revealing that a majority of students from both Australia and Singapore display traits of individualism, but acknowledging the importance of collaborative skills. The similarities suggest that globalization has had a significant impact on film-making practices, and that future curriculum planning should more clearly articulate these collaborative practices helping students to manage deadlines, resolve conflicts and sustain team dynamics.
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Pub Date : 2013-08-01DOI: 10.1080/13216597.2013.833536
E. Parks
Abstract The majority of academic discussion involving signed languages has focused on linguistic analysis, the language origin debate and deaf education. Signed languages, however, offer a rich domain of study for understanding communication in broader spheres than just these but have been largely overlooked in interdisciplinary discussion. In this article, I explore how signed languages are currently situated within the field of International Communication through analysis of EBSCOhost's ‘Communication & Mass Media Complete’ database in December 2012. Within the 770 journals included in this database, four journals that focused on deaf community and signed languages captured the majority of the international signed language articles. However, only about 34 articles incorporated signed languages internationally in 28 additional ‘mainstream’ journals. Applying Semati's framework of six themes within the field of International Communication, I show how international signed language research is only minimally addressed in three of the six themes related to nationalization, globalization and development communication, but how it offers new lenses for these areas. Finally, I argue that inclusion of signed language can expand the scope of International Communication as a whole, offering as a first example the Internet's unique role in transborder information flow among signed language users.
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Pub Date : 2013-08-01DOI: 10.1080/13216597.2013.775070
Craig Hayden
Abstract This article examines the evolving concept of power in the rhetorical assumptions warranting US public diplomacy and strategic communication as evidenced in contemporary policy discourse. The shift toward ‘engagement’ across US institutions responsible for international communication increasingly reflects some awareness of how crucial audiences for public diplomacy are organized in relation to the media they consume, and how audiences are connected as networks. These developments may necessitate wholly different forms of persuasive discourse that account for the network context of influence in public diplomacy. The rhetoric of a mediated public diplomacy would account for the changing ecology of international communication, and likewise reflect different conceptions of what is strategically possible: how public diplomacy can accommodate or manage foreign policy objectives.
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