Pub Date : 2023-12-24DOI: 10.1177/09732586231206913
Zafar Abbas, Robina Khan, Muhammad Zubair Khan, Muhammad Imran
All the democracies in the world have universally recognised the right to privacy and freedom of expression as fundamental human rights. It is fundamental to the preservation of all human rights, a basic element of democracy and a vital part of human dignity. Governments and governmental agencies frequently violate internationally accepted human rights, norms and standards under the cover of legislation. Media censorship is a worldwide issue that has existed for centuries. Censorship is often justified on the grounds of maintaining public order, but the underlying motive is to keep the people uninformed of governmental activities. It is argued that civil society, media personnel and the common people are working under pressure in Pakistan due to cyber and media laws. In the name of national security, the state has been working, intentionally, to put in place the best possible surveillance systems to establish a sort of watchdog over activists, bloggers, journalists and the general public.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-24DOI: 10.1177/09732586231209608
Maria Saju, Vinod Balakrishnan
This paper investigates spectator dynamics in the offline and online performances of stand-up comedians, Vir Das and Kenny Sebastian. It studies the performer–comedian relationship through the media theory of John Fiske and John Hartley, the Rasa Box of Richard Schechner and Group Phenomenon of psychology. Media and performance aspects, such as stage setting, lighting, script, identity, complaisance and techniques, are theorised to arrive at insights into spectatorship in stand-up comedy.
{"title":"Laughing Online: Indian Stand-up Comedy as Spectator Sport","authors":"Maria Saju, Vinod Balakrishnan","doi":"10.1177/09732586231209608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09732586231209608","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates spectator dynamics in the offline and online performances of stand-up comedians, Vir Das and Kenny Sebastian. It studies the performer–comedian relationship through the media theory of John Fiske and John Hartley, the Rasa Box of Richard Schechner and Group Phenomenon of psychology. Media and performance aspects, such as stage setting, lighting, script, identity, complaisance and techniques, are theorised to arrive at insights into spectatorship in stand-up comedy.","PeriodicalId":43888,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Communications","volume":"247 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139161143","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 : 2023-12-22DOI: 10.1177/09732586231198960
Lynette Shultz, Carrie Karsgaard
A contested concept that finds multiple theorisations and practices in relation to various ideological, geographical and cultural positionings, global citizenship education (GCE). has taken flight in the formal and non-formal education sectors over the past two decades, bringing together education-focused actors from government and civil society in dynamic relationships. With the proliferation of social media, GCE actors have taken to platforms such as Twitter for educational and communicative purposes, leading to the emergence of an attention economy surrounding GCE. This article utilises issue mapping to trace and visualise the performance of GCE by organisations in the Global North, comparing their formal organisational definitions with their communication of their GCE work over Twitter. While organisational public education and communications have long functioned within a competitive, neoliberal economy, this article focuses specifically on how the attention economy of Twitter contributes to the diffusion or capture of particular understandings of global citizenship through a GCE issue network.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-18DOI: 10.1177/09732586231205069
Jayesh Patel, Anuj Sharma, Yupal Shukla, Kallol Das
Culture has been considered the primary motivator affecting consumers’ decisions for years. Despite the importance of consumer culture, the systematic review of literature studying consumer culture is less and remains highly fragmented. This study uses a topic modelling approach to explore the role of culture in marketing literature to propose a way forward for future researchers interested in this domain. The study helps to synthesise cultural impact in marketing with a specific focus on dominant research topics and key themes, presenting clarity to the extant knowledge base. This study offers two potential contributions to the research community. First, this study demonstrates the application of structured topic modelling as a text analytics method that helps to report the evolution and thematic structure of this rapidly expanding domain. Second, the scientometric analysis in this study maps the conceptual structure of research with interconnected research themes hidden in this domain.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-14DOI: 10.1177/09732586231204205
Vanlal Chhanchhuahi, Junali Deka
Mizoram, one of the smallest states in India, has a very dynamic and flexible culture. The internet reached the state during the late 1990s; the general public started accessing it by the early 2000s. Digital enhancement, facilitated by technological devices, is becoming a reality in various professions as well as daily life. The problem of the digital divide—tangible availability of computers and internet connections as well as issues of content, language, skills and social resources—is yet challenging to eradicate. Whilst a group called the ‘choose nots’ are not interested in engaging with technology, several questions arise—Will digital know-how be useful in bridging the gap of the digital divide? Can digital understanding outdo the divide demarcated by the native–immigrant separation? Or does digital enhancement widen the gap by endowing the ‘haves’ while the ‘have-nots’ keep adding numbers to the ‘digital left behind’? This study focuses on the influence of the internet on Mizo culture, nature of the digital divide, and traces the internet history of Mizoram while trying to map the perceived difference in communication behaviour before and after the existence of the internet among digital immigrants.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-22DOI: 10.1177/09732586231193571
Shubhda Arora, Noorie Baig, Nidhi Kalra
This study offers a critical textual analysis of trans* representation in two popular Hindi web series Sacred Games (Luegenbiehl & Motwane (Executive Producers), 2018–2019, Sacred Games [TV series]) and Paatal Lok (Sharma et al. (Executive Producers), 2020–Present, Paatal Lok [TV series]). We probe how trans* representations function to maintain normative agendas in a heteropatriarchal nation-state. Further, we examine their potential to reify dominant stereotypes in popular media. Our analysis reveals discourses surrounding hegemonic heterosexuality (Yep, 2003, Journal of Homosexuality, 45(2–4), 11–59), transnormativisation (Puar, 2015, Social Text, 33(3 (124)), 45–73) and homohindunationalism (Upadhyay, 2020, Interventions, 22(4), 464–480) based on two trans* characters—Kukkoo and Cheeni. We argue that the characters are conceptualised through a cis-heteropatriarchal imagination in a right-wing nation-state achieved through gendered and racialised othering. We uncover several mediated failures. First, how persistent male gaze functions to centre cis-heteronormative tropes that marginalise trans*ness and the trans* characters. Second, the dual pressures of Puar’s theorisation of ‘passing’ and ‘piecing’ create normativised trans* bodies that are unable to break out of the gender binary. Lastly, we argue that the Hindu-nationalist state works to co-opt and nullify progressive portrayals of trans* characters through its legal and biopolitical machinery.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-22DOI: 10.1177/09732586231206651
Nicholas Palmer, Harsha Chandir
The marriage of twenty-first-century horizons of technology and the global ideal constitutes techno-global rationality as it reflects contemporary impulses, frames and teleologies. Fast-paced automation, the importance of cosmopolitanism and the colonial legacy have come to dominate educational discourse and drive calls for streamlined educative practice. Although such efficiency models empower a transactional/linear mode of teaching and learning, they do little to privilege integrative voices, deliberation and intersubjective care found in global citizenship education (GCE) definitions. We argue such rationality has exacerbated a neo-colonial ethic that promulgates economic, political and cultural pressure to control and narrow otherwise diverse learning opportunities. Drawing from recent research into technology and GCE in two International Baccalaureate international schools, we note the importance of communicative outreach and agency in diversity. We also highlight the distorting effects of hyper-rationalised neo-colonial interpretations of global agency. This article will interest those seeking to develop global educational policy and practice along with revitalising interpretations of technology integration.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-14DOI: 10.1177/09732586231202610
Mamta S. Solanki, Joby Thomas
Social media is an effective communication and information-sharing tool for tourism enterprises and organisations. Tourism marketing shall tap the growing popularity of social media and internet users, embracing a technological shift by optimising the potential of social media. This research study evaluates the academic journal articles related to social media in the tourism industry published on EBSCOhost, ScienceDirect and Google Scholar academic databases from 2005 to 2022. The article adopts a content analysis approach to review the articles and to evaluate the present state of knowledge of social media marketing in academic literature. Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) is used for reporting and screening the review papers. The articles were coded and categorised under six major themes: Marketing, Destination experience/image, Tourism recovery, Smart tourism, Communication and Promotion. The research analysis has identified two major areas: (a) Travellers’/tourists’ Perspective which has a focus on their behavioural attitude and (b) Tourism Agencies’ Perspective which has a functional approach. Based on the review of the literature to give direction for further research, an improvised version of the definition for the term ‘social media’ with the inclusion of more specific terms in it has been proposed with theoretical and practical implications.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-14DOI: 10.1177/09732586231201090
Nattawaj Kijratanakoson
This study seeks to examine the representation of men in rape coverage produced by Thai media. The analysis is theoretically triangulated between Biber et al.’s markers of stance and Mellado’s journalistic role performance. Methodologically, corpus-assisted discourse analysis is adopted. The corpus consists of 167 news articles with a total number of 126,150 words. The period of publication ranges from 2007 to 2022. Findings indicate that male perpetrators are discursively vilified through discourse structures which signify augmented agency to inflict harm upon victims. To illustrate, the lexical item rape is made to occur simultaneously with other material verb processes which intensify an act of violence such as bludgeon and kill. In contrast, the agency of male victims is downplayed. This is evidenced in the fact that their voice is expressed through other parties such as witnesses and NGO officers instead of emanating from the victims themselves. Possible ways to humanise the representation are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-29DOI: 10.1177/09732586231199576
Shrinkhala Upadhyaya, Srinivas R. Melkote
The aim of this study was to broaden development communication on how it deals with building the capacity of people to live meaningful and expressive lives. We examined users of Facebook and Instagram who exhibit body dissatisfaction beliefs and eating disorder (ED) behaviours. An important objective was to examine the prevalence of body dissatisfaction among young adult users of social media. Another objective was to examine if body dissatisfaction among these users is associated with ED behaviours. The target population for the study constituted students at a midsize university in the United States. A self-administered web survey was used to collect information about individuals’ use of social media and its relation to body dissatisfaction, and consequently the prediction of ED behaviours. Correlational analyses were performed to answer the research question and test H 2 . Hierarchical regression was run to test H 1 . Regressions corresponding to the path model were run to test H 3a and H 3b . This study showed the prevalence of body dissatisfaction among users of social media, an association between body dissatisfaction and unhealthy eating behaviours, and further provided empirical evidence that attitude, norms and behaviour control exert an influence on intentions, which then influence disordered eating behaviour. The need for the present study was precisely to establish such a theory-based premise. This study then demonstrated how social media may be used as sites for development communication to combat and mitigate unhealthy physical appearance-based feelings and ideas, and potentially stop them from developing into more serious problems such as EDs.
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