Pub Date : 2020-04-01DOI: 10.1177/1742766520912177
Tabassum Khan
Baron NS (2015) Words Onscreen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World. New York: Oxford University Press. Chartier R (1995) Forms and Meanings: Texts, Performances, and Audiences from Codex to Computer. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. Innis H (1951) The Bias of Communication. Toronto, ON, Canada: University of Toronto Press. Mullaney TS (2017) The Chinese Typewriter: A History. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Ong W (1982) Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. London: Methuen & Co. Osborn JR (2017) Letters of Light: Arabic Script in Calligraphy, Print, and Digital Design. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-01DOI: 10.1177/1742766519871694
Falk Hartig
China’s global communication activities are mainly perceived as sinister propaganda to mislead international audiences, and related discussions exemplify Western unease about China’s global communication efforts. While not trivializing these efforts, this article objects to some of the assessments and argues in favour of a critical but open-minded engagement with China’s global communication activities. Such an approach should pay attention to potential audiences and should closely scrutinize the real-life circumstances of China’s communicative practices and put them into perspective for its audiences. The article highlights these aspects by analysing the screening of a video in New York City’s Times Square in Summer 2016 and one version of the China Daily supplement, China Watch.
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Pub Date : 2020-03-27DOI: 10.1177/1742766520912167
Matthew S. Lindia
This book is based on rich firsthand and secondhand materials. By weaving together a number of key actors in China’s informal and formal digital media economy, the book contributes to the field of Chinese Internet studies, digital labor studies, platform studies and, more broadly, communication and media studies. The author consistently and carefully links on-the-ground practices to macro-level political and socio-economic milieux where these practices take shape. By doing so, Zhao sheds light on the larger theoretical issues. Overall, the author should be applauded for writing such an excellent book.
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Pub Date : 2020-03-27DOI: 10.1177/1742766520912166
A. Li
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Pub Date : 2020-02-25DOI: 10.1177/1742766519900303
Sheng Zou
This article examines the practice of egao, or online parody, in China as an act of cultural citizenship. Looking at user-generated parodies derived from a viral meme called Mom Please Hit Me Once More, it explores how young netizens negotiate their collective identity, memory and social changes through participatory cultural production online. Broadening the purview of citizenship practice while highlighting its cultural and affective dimension, this article reveals how the Internet provides a space for creative modes of civic expression and lifestyle politics – a hybrid space where entertainment and politics converge, while tensions between tradition and modernity play out.
这篇文章探讨了在中国作为一种文化公民行为的恶搞行为。通过对一个名为“妈妈请再打我一次”(Mom Please Hit Me again)的病毒表情包的恶搞，它探讨了年轻网民如何通过参与式的网络文化生产来协商他们的集体身份、记忆和社会变革。本文拓宽了公民实践的范围，同时强调了其文化和情感维度，揭示了互联网如何为公民表达和生活方式政治的创造性模式提供了一个空间——一个娱乐与政治融合的混合空间，同时传统与现代之间的紧张关系也在发挥作用。
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Pub Date : 2020-02-22DOI: 10.1177/1742766519899123
Burçe Çelik
The majority of current political communication studies focus on discursive dimensions of communications and disregard how communications partake in the governing of populations through economic, material and institutional practices. By focusing on Turkey’s case, here I move beyond this approach and examine the role of communications in the development of neoliberal capital accumulation, authoritarian welfare politics, political repression and the production of popular support. The article provides an empirical analysis of policy developments and plans and the restructuring of ownership and control of networks between 2002 and 2016 in Erdoğan’s Turkey.
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Pub Date : 2020-02-22DOI: 10.1177/1742766519899118
Lyombe Eko, L. Hellmueller
This study analyses British and Turkish media conceptualizations of the Charlie Hebdo affair. Editorial decisions to republish or not to republish the Mohammed cartoon cover reflected the politico-cultural pressures on the journalistic fields in both countries. The controversy demonstrated that the editorial autonomy of the British media outlets enabled them to engage in ‘eclectic neutrality’, the right to decide to republish or not to republish the cartoons. Despite the severely constrained journalistic environment of Turkey, where expectations of respect for religion take precedence over freedom of expression, the Turkish media engaged in symbolic acts of resistance in furtherance of freedom of expression.
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Pub Date : 2020-02-22DOI: 10.1177/1742766519899116
S. Rao, Y. Rodny-Gumede
This article analyses female journalists’ perceptions of their own role, their power in the newsroom, their influence over the news agenda and the challenges they face on a daily basis in two large media-saturated countries and emerging democracies, India and South Africa. India and South Africa are both nations that are trying to overcome historical legacies of patriarchal structures and gendered attitudes about women’s role. The authors conclude that female journalists articulated their experiences of newsroom culture as hegemonically masculine. While it appears that female journalists believe that women have made some strides in covering political news, they still see their influence as limited and continue to battle pre-existing professional stereotypes.
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Pub Date : 2020-02-20DOI: 10.1177/1742766519900308
Ya-Chi Chen
This article explores the interaction between media policy and the development of minority language media, in this case, Hakka language radio stations. It examines how media policy has been caught between neo-liberal economic development and election politics and delineates the extent to which media policy has impacted the establishment, programming and performance of minority language media, especially in the context of political democratization. This article argues that the mission to promote cultural diversity and to ‘make more voices heard’ should not fall on minority language media alone, and that the government and mainstream media ought to take the lead if this goal is to be achieved.
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Pub Date : 2020-02-19DOI: 10.1177/1742766519900329
T. Flew
In the context of a perceived crisis of globalization, this article outlines key features of the globalization paradigm that bore influence in media and communication studies, observing two recurring and related weaknesses: underestimation of the continuing significance of nation-states, and overestimation of the extent to which cultures and identities had become ‘post-national’ and cosmopolitan. The rise of populism could lead to a post-global era, but it is more likely that it marks a reassertion of national policy and political priorities into the operations of global corporations and multilateral institutions. This raises the question of whether global communication studies need to be more concerned with national policy questions rather than with ‘the global’ as an entity in its own right.
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