Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.1177/17427665211039964
A. Robertson, N. Schaetz
Moving people comprise both a subject of news reports (of refugees, migrants and other people-on-the-move) and a way of reporting on the issues involved. Viewers can be moved and placed in a discursive relation to the displaced when news stories construct what Arendt called ‘proper distance’. This possibility is explored in the article, which compares coverage of migration issues in 2019 on four global television news channels: Al Jazeera English, BBC World, CNN International and RT. The results provide evidence of approaches that differ in striking and thought-provoking ways, giving global television news consumers different resources for making sense of a complicated global crisis.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-13DOI: 10.1177/17427665211042541
Preeti Raghunath
The 1920s emerged as a landmark decade in the world history of radio, more particularly in South Asia. About a century later, this paper seeks to stitch together a critical historiography of radio governance in colonial South Asia. In doing so, the paper seeks to unravel colonial constructions, norms and rationalities associated with the modern medium of radio in the South Asian context. This paper draws on the works of Pinkerton, Zivin, Brayne, Potter and gleanings in their work of the autobiographical writings of Fielden and Reith, the first broadcasting controller of All India Radio and the general manager of the British Broadcasting Corporation, respectively, besides some official documents cited in these works pertaining to the goings-on in British South Asia and its broadcasting. Ultimately, this paper seeks to not only historicize the eventual decolonization and democratization that occurred, but also sets the stage to locate, understand and move towards sustainable media governance in a post-2015 world.
{"title":"Airing imperium: A historiography of radio governance in South Asia","authors":"Preeti Raghunath","doi":"10.1177/17427665211042541","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17427665211042541","url":null,"abstract":"The 1920s emerged as a landmark decade in the world history of radio, more particularly in South Asia. About a century later, this paper seeks to stitch together a critical historiography of radio governance in colonial South Asia. In doing so, the paper seeks to unravel colonial constructions, norms and rationalities associated with the modern medium of radio in the South Asian context. This paper draws on the works of Pinkerton, Zivin, Brayne, Potter and gleanings in their work of the autobiographical writings of Fielden and Reith, the first broadcasting controller of All India Radio and the general manager of the British Broadcasting Corporation, respectively, besides some official documents cited in these works pertaining to the goings-on in British South Asia and its broadcasting. Ultimately, this paper seeks to not only historicize the eventual decolonization and democratization that occurred, but also sets the stage to locate, understand and move towards sustainable media governance in a post-2015 world.","PeriodicalId":45157,"journal":{"name":"Global Media and Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65501875","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 : 2021-08-23DOI: 10.1177/17427665211038530
Gabriel Pereira, Iago Bueno Bojczuk Camargo, Lisa Parks
Brazilians have adopted WhatsApp as a national media and communication infrastructure over the past several years, although it is controlled by its private US-based owner, Facebook. This article explores the diverse, contentious and influential roles the app played in the country during disruptions to its use from 2015 to 2018. Using content analysis, we critically engage with user-generated memes and news media coverage responding to these disruptions. In these cases, Brazilians self-reflexively questioned the app’s role in their everyday lives and country, reassessing what it means to rely on a national infrastructure owned by an unaccountable global media conglomerate.
{"title":"WhatsApp disruptions in Brazil: A content analysis of user and news media responses, 2015–2018","authors":"Gabriel Pereira, Iago Bueno Bojczuk Camargo, Lisa Parks","doi":"10.1177/17427665211038530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17427665211038530","url":null,"abstract":"Brazilians have adopted WhatsApp as a national media and communication infrastructure over the past several years, although it is controlled by its private US-based owner, Facebook. This article explores the diverse, contentious and influential roles the app played in the country during disruptions to its use from 2015 to 2018. Using content analysis, we critically engage with user-generated memes and news media coverage responding to these disruptions. In these cases, Brazilians self-reflexively questioned the app’s role in their everyday lives and country, reassessing what it means to rely on a national infrastructure owned by an unaccountable global media conglomerate.","PeriodicalId":45157,"journal":{"name":"Global Media and Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43774557","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 : 2021-08-23DOI: 10.1177/17427665211039970
Jane O’Boyle, Carol J. Pardun
A manual content analysis compares 6019 Twitter comments from six countries during the 2016 US presidential election. Twitter comments were positive about Trump and negative about Clinton in Russia, the US and also in India and China. In the UK and Brazil, Twitter comments were largely negative about both candidates. Twitter sources for Clinton comments were more frequently from journalists and news companies, and still more negative than positive in tone. Topics on Twitter varied from those in mainstream news media. This foundational study expands communications research on social media, as well as political communications and international distinctions.
{"title":"How Twitter drives the global news agenda: Tweets from Brazil, Russia, India, China, the UK and US and online discourse about the 2016 US presidential election","authors":"Jane O’Boyle, Carol J. Pardun","doi":"10.1177/17427665211039970","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17427665211039970","url":null,"abstract":"A manual content analysis compares 6019 Twitter comments from six countries during the 2016 US presidential election. Twitter comments were positive about Trump and negative about Clinton in Russia, the US and also in India and China. In the UK and Brazil, Twitter comments were largely negative about both candidates. Twitter sources for Clinton comments were more frequently from journalists and news companies, and still more negative than positive in tone. Topics on Twitter varied from those in mainstream news media. This foundational study expands communications research on social media, as well as political communications and international distinctions.","PeriodicalId":45157,"journal":{"name":"Global Media and Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49516492","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 : 2021-08-19DOI: 10.1177/17427665211040212
Lukasz Nowacki
This study analyses generic frames exhibiting varying strength when in a competitive context in an effort to identify the most recurring and repeated patterns and schemata in the framing of global news. The two-level analysis revealed six recurring attributes (official and/or credible sources, repetition, journalistic lexical bias, proximity hype, episodic nature of frame and negativity bias) that are believed to encompass frames and influence their power of persuasiveness. Special focus is placed on proximity hype with its three dominant angles recurring in the publications, which implies a common use of this aspect in the framing of news content.
{"title":"Proximity hype as a frame attribute in the reporting on North Korea: Frame strength in competitive contexts","authors":"Lukasz Nowacki","doi":"10.1177/17427665211040212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17427665211040212","url":null,"abstract":"This study analyses generic frames exhibiting varying strength when in a competitive context in an effort to identify the most recurring and repeated patterns and schemata in the framing of global news. The two-level analysis revealed six recurring attributes (official and/or credible sources, repetition, journalistic lexical bias, proximity hype, episodic nature of frame and negativity bias) that are believed to encompass frames and influence their power of persuasiveness. Special focus is placed on proximity hype with its three dominant angles recurring in the publications, which implies a common use of this aspect in the framing of news content.","PeriodicalId":45157,"journal":{"name":"Global Media and Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49008488","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 : 2021-08-06DOI: 10.1177/17427665211017358
Zhou-Sung Yang
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Pub Date : 2021-08-06DOI: 10.1177/17427665211018869
Zhou-Sung Yang
Laborie’s chapter illuminates this point by discussing the formation in 1947 of the International Telephone Consultative Committee (CCIF), an effort to separate the political from the technical spheres; however, the entanglement of these two arenas wasn’t quite eased. The political struggle over technical standards surrounding data networks is also illustrated by Valérie Schafer, a case which the international standard for videotex was contested by states fighting for competitive advantage in this new market, with the ITU – through its Consultative Committee on International Telephony and Telegraphy (CCITT) – playing a central role in this techno-diplomacy; though, like Winseck, Schafer notes the diminished role of the ITU over the internet. These three themes in the volume are far from mutually exclusive; rather they are tightly intertwined, though the elements are unevenly emphasized throughout the chapters as the authors offer an in-depth exploration of the complex processes of “techno-diplomacy” within the ITU. Balbi and Fickers’ edited volume is more than the history of the ITU and politics of technological change. By locating the ITU as a nexus of transnational politics surrounding ICTs, it uncovers the making of global telecommunications from the 19th century to the present. Historians and media scholars have long studied the history of telecommunication from the point of view of states, militaries, multinational corporations and financiers;3 however, this book offers that history from a transnational perspective which adds another dimension to the inquiry that widens the current scholarship.
{"title":"Book review: Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn, and the Lives of China’s Workers","authors":"Zhou-Sung Yang","doi":"10.1177/17427665211018869","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17427665211018869","url":null,"abstract":"Laborie’s chapter illuminates this point by discussing the formation in 1947 of the International Telephone Consultative Committee (CCIF), an effort to separate the political from the technical spheres; however, the entanglement of these two arenas wasn’t quite eased. The political struggle over technical standards surrounding data networks is also illustrated by Valérie Schafer, a case which the international standard for videotex was contested by states fighting for competitive advantage in this new market, with the ITU – through its Consultative Committee on International Telephony and Telegraphy (CCITT) – playing a central role in this techno-diplomacy; though, like Winseck, Schafer notes the diminished role of the ITU over the internet. These three themes in the volume are far from mutually exclusive; rather they are tightly intertwined, though the elements are unevenly emphasized throughout the chapters as the authors offer an in-depth exploration of the complex processes of “techno-diplomacy” within the ITU. Balbi and Fickers’ edited volume is more than the history of the ITU and politics of technological change. By locating the ITU as a nexus of transnational politics surrounding ICTs, it uncovers the making of global telecommunications from the 19th century to the present. Historians and media scholars have long studied the history of telecommunication from the point of view of states, militaries, multinational corporations and financiers;3 however, this book offers that history from a transnational perspective which adds another dimension to the inquiry that widens the current scholarship.","PeriodicalId":45157,"journal":{"name":"Global Media and Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/17427665211018869","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45741335","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 : 2021-08-01DOI: 10.1177/17427665211002228
M. Esfandiari, Bohdan Fridrich, Junxi Yao
This study examines the visual content of Twitter posts, including photos and videos, published during the 2018 protests in Iran. Our main objective is to understand how these protests were visually represented on Twitter. The theoretical framework of this study is drawn from the ‘dynamic dual path way model of approach coping’ that categorizes responses of collective action in emotion-focused and problem-focused coping. Our findings reveal that visual content with efficacy-eliciting characteristics was posted more often than emotion-arousing content. Furthermore, visual content with more protest activity is more likely to be retweeted.
{"title":"Visual content of Twitter during the 2018 protests in Iran: Analysis of its role and function","authors":"M. Esfandiari, Bohdan Fridrich, Junxi Yao","doi":"10.1177/17427665211002228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17427665211002228","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the visual content of Twitter posts, including photos and videos, published during the 2018 protests in Iran. Our main objective is to understand how these protests were visually represented on Twitter. The theoretical framework of this study is drawn from the ‘dynamic dual path way model of approach coping’ that categorizes responses of collective action in emotion-focused and problem-focused coping. Our findings reveal that visual content with efficacy-eliciting characteristics was posted more often than emotion-arousing content. Furthermore, visual content with more protest activity is more likely to be retweeted.","PeriodicalId":45157,"journal":{"name":"Global Media and Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49519481","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 : 2021-06-17DOI: 10.1177/17427665211023984
Tuukka Ylä-Anttila, V. Eranti, Anna Kukkonen
We argue that ‘topics’ of topic models can be used as a useful proxy for frames if (1) frames are operationalized as connections between concepts; (2) theme-specific data are used; and (3) topics are validated in terms of frame analysis. Demonstrating this, we analyse 12 climate change frames used by NGOs, governments and experts in Indian and US media, gathered by topic modeling. We contribute methodologically to topic modeling in the social sciences and frame analysis of public debates, and empirically to research on climate change media debates.
{"title":"Topic modeling for frame analysis: A study of media debates on climate change in India and USA","authors":"Tuukka Ylä-Anttila, V. Eranti, Anna Kukkonen","doi":"10.1177/17427665211023984","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17427665211023984","url":null,"abstract":"We argue that ‘topics’ of topic models can be used as a useful proxy for frames if (1) frames are operationalized as connections between concepts; (2) theme-specific data are used; and (3) topics are validated in terms of frame analysis. Demonstrating this, we analyse 12 climate change frames used by NGOs, governments and experts in Indian and US media, gathered by topic modeling. We contribute methodologically to topic modeling in the social sciences and frame analysis of public debates, and empirically to research on climate change media debates.","PeriodicalId":45157,"journal":{"name":"Global Media and Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/17427665211023984","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44064625","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 : 2021-06-10DOI: 10.1177/17427665211023978
R. Allam
The Egyptian public broadcaster, newly named the National Media Council (NMC), has been under pressure to undergo comprehensive restructuring. Many changes have taken place recently to enable this transformation. Through analysing financial reports, evaluating the new regulatory framework and conducting in-depth interviews, this study examines the likelihood of the NMC adapting to the recent changes and the extent to which the new regulatory framework promotes a public service system suggesting a model for implementation. Findings show that the NMC must respond to four main challenges: lack of strategic vision and identity, a centralized regime power structure, an acute financial deficit, and a weak digital presence. Interviewees evaluated the new regulatory framework as inexhaustive with an intention to maintain grip on power. Interviewees proposed an integrated decentralized model that combines the public service mission with private partnership.
{"title":"From flabby to fit: Restructuring the public broadcasting system in Egypt","authors":"R. Allam","doi":"10.1177/17427665211023978","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17427665211023978","url":null,"abstract":"The Egyptian public broadcaster, newly named the National Media Council (NMC), has been under pressure to undergo comprehensive restructuring. Many changes have taken place recently to enable this transformation. Through analysing financial reports, evaluating the new regulatory framework and conducting in-depth interviews, this study examines the likelihood of the NMC adapting to the recent changes and the extent to which the new regulatory framework promotes a public service system suggesting a model for implementation. Findings show that the NMC must respond to four main challenges: lack of strategic vision and identity, a centralized regime power structure, an acute financial deficit, and a weak digital presence. Interviewees evaluated the new regulatory framework as inexhaustive with an intention to maintain grip on power. Interviewees proposed an integrated decentralized model that combines the public service mission with private partnership.","PeriodicalId":45157,"journal":{"name":"Global Media and Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/17427665211023978","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47782981","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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