Pub Date : 2021-06-10DOI: 10.1177/17427665211021617
Mette Mortensen, Nina Grønlykke Mollerup
This article studies the virality and assigned iconicity of visual icons by examining the roles and interplays between photographers and other media actors contributing to early phases of making and sharing the Omran Daqneesh images from Aleppo, 2016. We draw on theoretical frameworks concerning the mobilization of iconic imagery in today’s digitalized and globalized media landscape as well the interpretive continuum of documentary evidence and emotional appeal typically applied to iconic imagery of children. Empirically, we take our point of departure in interviews with photographers, NGO workers, editors and journalists involved in facilitating, producing and initially disseminating the Omran Daqneesh imagery, to explore how – in contrast to the seemingly straightforward communication offered by visual icons – they are in effect the result of an intricate interplay between these actors, which in different ways and for different reasons contribute to spreading the images and determining their significance and meaning.
{"title":"The Omran Daqneesh imagery from the streets of Aleppo to international front pages: Testimony, politics and emotions","authors":"Mette Mortensen, Nina Grønlykke Mollerup","doi":"10.1177/17427665211021617","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17427665211021617","url":null,"abstract":"This article studies the virality and assigned iconicity of visual icons by examining the roles and interplays between photographers and other media actors contributing to early phases of making and sharing the Omran Daqneesh images from Aleppo, 2016. We draw on theoretical frameworks concerning the mobilization of iconic imagery in today’s digitalized and globalized media landscape as well the interpretive continuum of documentary evidence and emotional appeal typically applied to iconic imagery of children. Empirically, we take our point of departure in interviews with photographers, NGO workers, editors and journalists involved in facilitating, producing and initially disseminating the Omran Daqneesh imagery, to explore how – in contrast to the seemingly straightforward communication offered by visual icons – they are in effect the result of an intricate interplay between these actors, which in different ways and for different reasons contribute to spreading the images and determining their significance and meaning.","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/10.1177/17427665211021617","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47461618","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 : 2021-05-25DOI: 10.1177/17427665211017359
Shinjoung Yeo
{"title":"Book review: The History of the International Telecommunication Union (Itu): Transnational Techno-Diplomacy from the Telegraph to the Internet","authors":"Shinjoung Yeo","doi":"10.1177/17427665211017359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17427665211017359","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45157,"journal":{"name":"Global Media and Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/17427665211017359","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45175272","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 : 2021-04-19DOI: 10.1177/17427665211001894
Albaraa F. Altourah, Khin-Wee Chen, Ali A. Al-Kandari
This paper examines the link between attitudes and perceptions and feelings of dissatisfaction predicating the Arab Spring uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen and their correlation to various media use. World Value Survey Report data show choice of media directly predicts governance preference and indirectly predicts governance preference through the creation of certain perceptions. Democratic rule preference is strongly linked to the use of the internet, mobile phones and newspapers. Mobile phones indirectly correlate (negatively) to dictatorial governance but directly correlate to army rule acceptance. Newspapers contribute directly and indirectly to the acceptance of a dictatorial regime and tolerance of army rule.
{"title":"The relationship between media use, perceptions and regime preference in post-Arab Spring countries","authors":"Albaraa F. Altourah, Khin-Wee Chen, Ali A. Al-Kandari","doi":"10.1177/17427665211001894","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17427665211001894","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the link between attitudes and perceptions and feelings of dissatisfaction predicating the Arab Spring uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen and their correlation to various media use. World Value Survey Report data show choice of media directly predicts governance preference and indirectly predicts governance preference through the creation of certain perceptions. Democratic rule preference is strongly linked to the use of the internet, mobile phones and newspapers. Mobile phones indirectly correlate (negatively) to dictatorial governance but directly correlate to army rule acceptance. Newspapers contribute directly and indirectly to the acceptance of a dictatorial regime and tolerance of army rule.","PeriodicalId":45157,"journal":{"name":"Global Media and Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/17427665211001894","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49472504","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 : 2021-04-19DOI: 10.1177/17427665211009935
Thérèse Roux
The purpose of this article is to expand knowledge about the gratification obtained from women’s magazines using the Uses and Gratifications Theory and the Expectation Confirmation Theory. A mobile-administered survey instrument was used to collect data from 520 magazine readers in South Africa. Key findings indicate that women’s magazines – queens of the newsstands – remain effective mechanisms in delivering inspiration for how females explore ways to improve themselves and for their social-oriented gratifications. The perceived gratification for the inspirational self-oriented dimension was higher than for the social-oriented dimension. There is also a significant difference between the satisfaction levels of readership behaviour groups.
{"title":"Gratifications and readership of women’s magazines in South Africa","authors":"Thérèse Roux","doi":"10.1177/17427665211009935","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17427665211009935","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this article is to expand knowledge about the gratification obtained from women’s magazines using the Uses and Gratifications Theory and the Expectation Confirmation Theory. A mobile-administered survey instrument was used to collect data from 520 magazine readers in South Africa. Key findings indicate that women’s magazines – queens of the newsstands – remain effective mechanisms in delivering inspiration for how females explore ways to improve themselves and for their social-oriented gratifications. The perceived gratification for the inspirational self-oriented dimension was higher than for the social-oriented dimension. There is also a significant difference between the satisfaction levels of readership behaviour groups.","PeriodicalId":45157,"journal":{"name":"Global Media and Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/17427665211009935","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45393797","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 : 2021-04-16DOI: 10.1177/17427665211009930
Aleksandra Urman, Mykola Makhortykh
The paper examines ideological segregation among Ukrainian users in online environments, using as a case study partisan news communities on Vkontakte, the largest online platform in post-communist states. Its findings suggest that despite their insignificant numbers, partisan news communities attract substantial attention from Ukrainian users and can encourage the formation of isolated ideological cliques – or ‘echo chambers’ – that increase societal polarisation. The paper also investigates factors that predict users’ interest in partisan content and establishes that the region of residence is the key predictor of selective consumption of pro-Ukrainian or pro-Russian partisan news content.
{"title":"There can be only one truth: Ideological segregation and online news communities in Ukraine","authors":"Aleksandra Urman, Mykola Makhortykh","doi":"10.1177/17427665211009930","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17427665211009930","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The paper examines ideological segregation among Ukrainian users in online environments, using as a case study partisan news communities on Vkontakte, the largest online platform in post-communist states. Its findings suggest that despite their insignificant numbers, partisan news communities attract substantial attention from Ukrainian users and can encourage the formation of isolated ideological cliques – or ‘echo chambers’ – that increase societal polarisation. The paper also investigates factors that predict users’ interest in partisan content and establishes that the region of residence is the key predictor of selective consumption of pro-Ukrainian or pro-Russian partisan news content.</p>","PeriodicalId":45157,"journal":{"name":"Global Media and Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138540294","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 : 2021-02-08DOI: 10.1177/1742766521990417
María-Ángeles Chaparro-Domínguez, Marta Pérez-Pereiro, Ruth Rodríguez-Martínez
The mass media is increasingly promoting public participation. Taking as a starting point the participatory transparency concept enunciated by Karlsson (2010), our research studies the audience’s active role in holding Spanish media to account through a range of online tools. We study the role of the audience by analyzing the perceptions of two main actors: journalists and citizens. A two-fold methodology was adopted: a questionnaire survey of 228 active journalists in Spain and six focus group panels with media users. The main results show that the journalists are not optimistic about the effectiveness of accountability instruments used by the audience. The users value positively being able to participate in the journalistic process, although they believe that journalists should ultimately perform the role of fact-checkers of user-generated content.
{"title":"Media accountability in the age of social media: Participatory transparency of the audience in Spain","authors":"María-Ángeles Chaparro-Domínguez, Marta Pérez-Pereiro, Ruth Rodríguez-Martínez","doi":"10.1177/1742766521990417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1742766521990417","url":null,"abstract":"The mass media is increasingly promoting public participation. Taking as a starting point the participatory transparency concept enunciated by Karlsson (2010), our research studies the audience’s active role in holding Spanish media to account through a range of online tools. We study the role of the audience by analyzing the perceptions of two main actors: journalists and citizens. A two-fold methodology was adopted: a questionnaire survey of 228 active journalists in Spain and six focus group panels with media users. The main results show that the journalists are not optimistic about the effectiveness of accountability instruments used by the audience. The users value positively being able to participate in the journalistic process, although they believe that journalists should ultimately perform the role of fact-checkers of user-generated content.","PeriodicalId":45157,"journal":{"name":"Global Media and Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1742766521990417","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43757719","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 : 2021-01-21DOI: 10.1177/1742766520988035
Dhiman Chattopadhyay, Sriya Chattopadhyay
This exploratory study examined the twitter feeds of ten senior Indian journalists during a specific event of national importance to understand what type of tweets led to greater follower engagement. Further, we examined how followers engaged with congruent and incongruent messages. Analysis of tweets about a specific developing event – the arrest and release of a student activist – indicated that journalists largely tweeted opinions, and that this type of tweet attracted more follower engagement than purely factual tweets. Analysis of each editor’s most commented upon tweets indicated that followers showed a higher level of engagement with incongruent messages than with messages with which they agreed. Practical and theoretical implications are discussed.
{"title":"#Kanhaiya: Exploring Indian journalists’ use of Twitter to share developing news and audience engagement with different types of tweets","authors":"Dhiman Chattopadhyay, Sriya Chattopadhyay","doi":"10.1177/1742766520988035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1742766520988035","url":null,"abstract":"This exploratory study examined the twitter feeds of ten senior Indian journalists during a specific event of national importance to understand what type of tweets led to greater follower engagement. Further, we examined how followers engaged with congruent and incongruent messages. Analysis of tweets about a specific developing event – the arrest and release of a student activist – indicated that journalists largely tweeted opinions, and that this type of tweet attracted more follower engagement than purely factual tweets. Analysis of each editor’s most commented upon tweets indicated that followers showed a higher level of engagement with incongruent messages than with messages with which they agreed. Practical and theoretical implications are discussed.","PeriodicalId":45157,"journal":{"name":"Global Media and Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1742766520988035","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46634943","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 : 2020-12-23DOI: 10.1177/1742766520982016
Moeen Koa
This article examines how social movements attempt to repair a tarnished image and win the hearts and minds of the public. It studies the Muslim Brotherhood’s political communication campaign post-July 2013. A content analysis of a census of the Brotherhood’s communiqués issued during a 5-year period was performed. Considering social movement theory, this case study reveals that strategic framing can be employed as a strategy to win the hearts and minds of the target audience and to repair tarnished images. It also argues that legitimacy is a critical moral resource that lies at the heart of Islamist movements’ communication campaigns.
{"title":"Communication strategies of winning hearts and minds: The case of the Muslim Brotherhood’s political communication campaign post Morsi’s downfall","authors":"Moeen Koa","doi":"10.1177/1742766520982016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1742766520982016","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines how social movements attempt to repair a tarnished image and win the hearts and minds of the public. It studies the Muslim Brotherhood’s political communication campaign post-July 2013. A content analysis of a census of the Brotherhood’s communiqués issued during a 5-year period was performed. Considering social movement theory, this case study reveals that strategic framing can be employed as a strategy to win the hearts and minds of the target audience and to repair tarnished images. It also argues that legitimacy is a critical moral resource that lies at the heart of Islamist movements’ communication campaigns.","PeriodicalId":45157,"journal":{"name":"Global Media and Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41806056","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 : 2020-12-18DOI: 10.1177/1742766520982324
Chun-Pin Su, T. Flew
The Chinese digital technology giants, Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent (BAT), dominate over their competitors in China across platforms that include e-commerce, digital entertainment, e-finance and artificial intelligence (AI). To understand BAT’s corporate power and their strategic role working with the government – in this case, their involvement in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) – this paper unveils the capabilities of these three oligopolies and discusses their international expansion in relation to the BRI. The BRI is being constructed on two layers, the physical and digital infrastructure, and the BAT are contributing to the latter. This paper examines the interrelations between BAT and the state through case studies, observing the tensions and potential contradictions arising from the reliance of the Chinese state on the BAT to build digital infrastructure, while the BAT seek to minimize direct state regulation for their data-driven business models.
{"title":"The rise of Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent (BAT) and their role in China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)","authors":"Chun-Pin Su, T. Flew","doi":"10.1177/1742766520982324","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1742766520982324","url":null,"abstract":"The Chinese digital technology giants, Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent (BAT), dominate over their competitors in China across platforms that include e-commerce, digital entertainment, e-finance and artificial intelligence (AI). To understand BAT’s corporate power and their strategic role working with the government – in this case, their involvement in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) – this paper unveils the capabilities of these three oligopolies and discusses their international expansion in relation to the BRI. The BRI is being constructed on two layers, the physical and digital infrastructure, and the BAT are contributing to the latter. This paper examines the interrelations between BAT and the state through case studies, observing the tensions and potential contradictions arising from the reliance of the Chinese state on the BAT to build digital infrastructure, while the BAT seek to minimize direct state regulation for their data-driven business models.","PeriodicalId":45157,"journal":{"name":"Global Media and Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1742766520982324","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49483159","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 : 2020-12-18DOI: 10.1177/1742766520979729
Eylem Yanardağoğlu
Audiences’ media use and news consumption behaviour are constantly shifting. Some scholars note that the growing decline in youth’s news consumption raises concerns about the future of democracy in various media systems. This research explores the factors that influence college students’ news consumption behaviour in the United Kingdom and Turkey through an interpretative approach. The data are based on qualitative in-depth interviews with around 50 students studying in major universities in London and Istanbul. The findings show overarching common trends such as increased mobile news access, incidental exposure to news on social media, irregular snacking and verifying of news that drive youth’s news consumption behaviour. Findings also show that traditional media use for news has almost been replaced by online media and the modality of traditional media do not easily fit in with youth’s daily routine of studies, work and commute.
{"title":"‘Just the way my generation reads the news’: News consumption habits of youth in Turkey and the UK","authors":"Eylem Yanardağoğlu","doi":"10.1177/1742766520979729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1742766520979729","url":null,"abstract":"Audiences’ media use and news consumption behaviour are constantly shifting. Some scholars note that the growing decline in youth’s news consumption raises concerns about the future of democracy in various media systems. This research explores the factors that influence college students’ news consumption behaviour in the United Kingdom and Turkey through an interpretative approach. The data are based on qualitative in-depth interviews with around 50 students studying in major universities in London and Istanbul. The findings show overarching common trends such as increased mobile news access, incidental exposure to news on social media, irregular snacking and verifying of news that drive youth’s news consumption behaviour. Findings also show that traditional media use for news has almost been replaced by online media and the modality of traditional media do not easily fit in with youth’s daily routine of studies, work and commute.","PeriodicalId":45157,"journal":{"name":"Global Media and Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1742766520979729","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44768176","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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