Pub Date : 2023-06-08DOI: 10.1080/13688804.2023.2221273
Scott Koga-Browes
Between 1930 and 1943 over 400 public radio receiver installations were erected by Japan’s national broadcaster in public parks around Japan. They were intended to bring radio broadcasting, during this period the voice of the state, to a wider audience and to play a part in Japan’s home-front mobilisation efforts. The majority of installations seem to have been destroyed during or shortly after World War Two but roughly 40 are known to be extant, these have yet to receive systematic attention from either Japanese or foreign academics, they thus offer a fresh focus for research into the relationships between the interwar Japanese state and the listening publics. This paper aims primarily to draw attention to the existence of these little—known objects, it also offers a sketch of the media landscape into which they emerged, and covers two significant contemporary social developments—the growth of coordinated mass sport and exercise, and the ‘year 2600’ celebrations of 1940—which contributed to the spread of radio towers.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-07DOI: 10.1080/13688804.2023.2221291
Elza Ungure
This paper offers an overview of specific characteristics of newspaper output and publishing trends in Latvia, aiming to assess whether the newspaper output in Latvia plays the roles theoretically ascribed to newspapers, namely, the roles related to democracy and community building. It is argued that media pluralism is crucial for executing these roles. The assessment of pluralism is based on an exploratory analysis of quantitative data on newspaper output in Latvia. The analysis is accompanied by a discussion of challenges experienced in the newspaper publishing field in Latvia and elsewhere that can potentially hinder the ability of newspapers to execute the roles theoretically ascribed to them. Finally, insights gained during the research process are shared regarding research required to further the analysis of newspaper output in terms of plurality in the sense of access to different news sources and, by extension, perspectives and public representation.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/13688804.2023.2220196
Michael de Nie
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/13688804.2023.2220191
P. Sinnema
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/13688804.2023.2220197
T. Smits
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/13688804.2022.2054409
Yi-Peng Guo
Inspired partly by the Academy Awards for Best Actress at Hollywood, the public elections of China’s movie queen in 1933 and 1934 were more than just splendid entertainment spectacles. Rather, a historical examination of the campaigns help us understand Chinese fandom and celebrity culture as well as providing insight into the social mentality of 1930s China. Using two major Chinese actresses, Butterfly Wu and Chen Yumei, as case studies, this article argues that the election campaigns were a product of negotiation between what was globally available and what was locally demanded. They point to an unravelling of an ‘extra-filmic discourse’ that converged with discourses on semi-colonialism, democracy, feudalism, and morality. These overlapping discourses were often gendered, revealing conflicting social expectations and responsibilities of actresses.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/13688804.2023.2220195
Marguérite Corporaal
representations of ‘the same world’ to readers inhabiting very different parts of the globe. Did a picture of the 1851 Great Exhibition in the Illustrated London News mean the same thing to an ILN reader in Australia or New Zealand—crown colonies that ‘ascribed enormous cultural and political influence’ to the paper (p. 43)—as it did to a subscriber residing in the metropolis itself who had the opportunity to stroll through the Crystal Palace? A similar question could be asked of whether an image of Parisian revolutionaries at the barricades in an 1848 issue of l’Illustration might have been apprehended differently by a French reader than by a resident of one of the many countries or distant territories where that newspaper was aggressively retailed—the United States, Sweden, Russia, the Netherlands, Spain, or South America. Ultimately, the question Smits’ book leaves me asking is how seeing a pictorial representation of the world might generate in viewers a sensible conviction of that world’s monolithic ‘sameness’ across space and time.
向居住在全球不同地区的读者呈现“同一个世界”。《伦敦新闻画报》(Illustrated London News)上刊登的1851年万国博览会的图片，对于澳大利亚或新西兰的《伦敦新闻画报》读者——这些英国殖民地“对报纸产生了巨大的文化和政治影响”(第43页)——和对居住在大都市、有机会漫步于水晶宫的订阅者来说，意义是一样的吗?一个类似的问题也可以被问到，1848年一期《插图》上巴黎革命者站在街垒上的图片，法国读者和那些在美国、瑞典、俄罗斯、荷兰、西班牙或南美等许多国家或遥远地区的居民，是否会有不同的理解?最终，Smits的书留给我的问题是，观看世界的图像表现如何让观众产生一种合理的信念，即世界在空间和时间上是单一的“同一性”。
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Pub Date : 2023-03-21DOI: 10.1080/13688804.2023.2183826
Åsa Bharathi Larsson
This article explores exotic and orientalized motifs in the Swedish illustrated press at the end of the nineteenth century. I argue that one way to be part of the European colonial project was to engage in colonial practices, and among these were the mass production of exotic and Oriental motifs through the illustrated press that became prevalent throughout Scandinavia. Furthermore, I describe how illustrations were part of a broader media landscape in late nineteenth-century Sweden than previously perceived. To understand its relevance today I discuss briefly how Swedish artists have been engaged with colonial and exotic motifs. The article concludes that the various colonial visual media cultures have a long tradition in Swedish media culture which still engage questions of race and representation.
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