Pub Date : 2022-04-18DOI: 10.1177/01968599221092173
Jessica Birthisel, S. Jankowski, Tara Kelley
During the more than three days stretching between the 2020 U.S. election day and when the presidential race was officially “called” for Democratic candidate Joe Biden, a blizzard of memes snowed down across social media. This project analyzes more than 500 of these “election week limbo” memes, created and shared during a prolonged moment of collective political anticipation and anxiety. What emerged in this sample was a spontaneous, collaborative and evolving moment of meme-based storytelling that mirrored a classic five-act storytelling structure. Meme-ers sustained this narrative for most of a week, not simply to generate new, humorous takes on an iconic photo. Rather, they collectively evolved the shared tale of a distinct political moment during an isolating pandemic, capturing the “election limbo” story memetically as moods shifted, plot twists emerged and unlikely heroes came to the forefront, creating a distinctly collaborative, narrative, and evolving meme storytelling experience.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-18DOI: 10.1177/01968599221095164
Patrick Ferrucci, Erin E. Schauster
This paradigm repair study contributes to advertising ethics research by analyzing discourse from trade publications and press outlets regarding the divisive 2017 Kendall Jenner Pepsi advertisement. After the controversary surrounding the commercial ensued, actors within and outside the advertising industry argued the ad violated the ethical boundaries of the industry because it coopted a social issue, acted as a form of cultural appropriation, and served as an example of brand activism (gone awry). This study examines the reasons why this happened and concludes with an argument for paradigm repair's utility for studying advertising ethics, and with implications for advertising practice.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-18DOI: 10.1177/01968599221089236
I. Aksar, A. Firdaus, Saadia Anwar Pasha
The presentation and performance of women's selfhood and identity in Pakistan, in both the real and the virtual world, is dictated and shaped by the male-dominated cultural mores of Pakistan. Therefore, drawing upon Goffman's notion of self-presentation and everyday performance of selfhood, this paper explores digitally active Pakistani women's selfhood and identity presentation through qualitative interviews with ten Pakistani women from diverse backgrounds. Participants’ narratives revealed identity conflicts between their offline and online identities due to the control exhibited by the prevalent cultural norms and values. Similarly, offline cultural mores of the veil seeping into the online world operate as a patriarchal means of controlling women online akin to the male-protected family and home as a sacred sanctuary providing security to the family women. Pakistani women's experience of the online world is also defined in terms of “digital veil” and “digital sanctuary”. Findings reveal that Pakistani women social media users’ offline self-presentation clashes with their performance of selfhood in their virtual lives. This divergence and resulting identity crisis of selfhood is shaped by cultural regulation which adversely affects Pakistani women's lives. Extended research on social and cyber culture in offline and online identity formation with respect to psychosocial implications is recommended.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-23DOI: 10.1177/01968599221088265
Lucía Gastón-Lorente, Beatriz Gómez-Baceiredo, Antonio Martínez-Illán
The miniseries When They See Us constitutes an example of how a based-on-real-events fiction work can add to its poetic role the ability to participate in shaping democracy. Although journalism is not its central issue, this Netflix series makes a representation of the press in which it shows how the media failed in fulfilling its democratic role and tries to make amends for it. By analyzing 21 scenes dedicated to the media from a narrative perspective, this paper shows how the series represents the press’ failure in acting as watchdog during this case. Moreover, it also shows how this representation of the press turns the series into a watchdog itself.
迷你剧《当他们看到我们》(When They See Us)是一个例子，说明一部基于真实事件的小说作品如何在其诗歌角色之外，加入参与塑造民主的能力。虽然新闻业不是这部剧的中心议题，但这部Netflix的电视剧展示了媒体在履行其民主角色方面的失败，并试图弥补这一缺陷。本文从叙事的角度分析了21个媒体专用场景，展示了该系列如何体现了媒体在此案中作为看门狗的失败。此外，它还展示了新闻界的这种表现如何将该系列本身变成了一个看门狗。
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Pub Date : 2022-03-23DOI: 10.1177/01968599221086227
Conchi Hernández-Guerra
The aim of this paper is to make a qualitative analysis of the intensifiers used in the Spanish and American opinion columns. The topic chosen has been Weinstein's scandal and the publications during next weeks by different sources. The method followed will be Albelda Marco (2014) in which she divides intensifiers into lexical, semantical and expressions. Euphemisms will also be considered due to the relationship it has in the corpus with intensification. Conclusions try to explain the uneven number of examples in both nations and the reasons.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-09DOI: 10.1177/01968599221085703
A. N. Mohamed
A content analysis of the editorial pages of the Birmingham News from 1960 to 1964 shows that, despite its staunch segregationist stance, the paper's editorial pages, nonetheless, produced strong integrationist narratives. This paradox was borne of discordant interpretations of 14th Amendment rights featured in the Supreme Court's Plessy (1896) and Brown (1954) decisions. Rise of staunch segregationist groups and officials after the Court's 1954 Brown decision drove News editors to embrace greater democratic pluralism. The evolution in editorial approach corresponded to the paper's gradual adoption of Brown's interpretations of 14th Amendment rights. Change in the valence of the paper's narratives supports Condit’s (1987) thesis that rhetorical “crafting” of public morality about race brought about greater tolerance and acceptance of racial equality in America.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.1177/01968599211041106
Todd Nesbitt
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Pub Date : 2022-02-23DOI: 10.1177/01968599221081120
D. Majstorović
The 1960s were a golden age for Vjesnik, the largest publishing house in Yugoslavia, which invested in market research to launch new, successful issues, largely modeled on Western magazines. This paper explores the factors that enabled their emergence and argues they were the product of significant changes occurring in Yugoslav society in the 1960s. Building on the literature on press theory, the development of tourism and consumerism, and Western cultural influences in Yugoslavia, the changes are identified as the following: opening towards the West and changes in work time that enabled the rise of tourism and consumerism; a more liberal media policy, and the implementation of self-management that enabled different sources of media funding and the professionalization of journalism. The main goal is to examine how these changes spurred the development of Vjesnik in view of the launch and characteristics of its successful magazines in the 1960s and early 1970s.
{"title":"Windows Towards the West: Exploring the Emergence of Popular Magazines in Yugoslavia in the 1960s and Early 1970s","authors":"D. Majstorović","doi":"10.1177/01968599221081120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01968599221081120","url":null,"abstract":"The 1960s were a golden age for Vjesnik, the largest publishing house in Yugoslavia, which invested in market research to launch new, successful issues, largely modeled on Western magazines. This paper explores the factors that enabled their emergence and argues they were the product of significant changes occurring in Yugoslav society in the 1960s. Building on the literature on press theory, the development of tourism and consumerism, and Western cultural influences in Yugoslavia, the changes are identified as the following: opening towards the West and changes in work time that enabled the rise of tourism and consumerism; a more liberal media policy, and the implementation of self-management that enabled different sources of media funding and the professionalization of journalism. The main goal is to examine how these changes spurred the development of Vjesnik in view of the launch and characteristics of its successful magazines in the 1960s and early 1970s.","PeriodicalId":45677,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Inquiry","volume":"47 1","pages":"5 - 25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45057502","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 : 2022-02-21DOI: 10.1177/01968599221081118
N. Irawan, A. Tambunan, Dian Rianita, R. Setyaningrum
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Pub Date : 2022-02-10DOI: 10.1177/01968599221080295
T. Adams
April’s issue of the Journal of Communication Inquiry includes five original research articles and one book review. This issue begins with J. David Wolfgang’s article titled “When Fringe Hate Goes Mainstream: How White Nationalist Discourse Manifests in Online News Commenting.” Wolfgang explains that days after protestors in Charlottesville, Virginia clashed over the planned removal of a confederate general statue, President Trump did not decry white nationalists. Wolfgang analyzes white nationalism through the online comments that emerged after this event. By using conceptions of ideology, discourse, and framing, Wolfgang explores questions such as “in what ways does white nationalist discourse emerge in mainstream news commenting sections?” and “how do commentors respond to white nationalism in mainstream news commenting sections?” The author notes that if white nationalist discourse is unchallenged, “this trend could prompt more sympathizers to speak out and could further legitimize white nationalism in mainstream society.” In the second article, titled “Attribution of Responsibility for Pick Up Artist Issues in China: The Impacts of Journalist Gender, Geographical Location, and Publication Range,” Shilin Xia and Tianen Chen explore how issues related to pick-up artists (PUAs) who use evolutionary psychology strategies to exploit women emotionally, sexually, and financially, have been portrayed in Chinese online news media. The authors give particular focus to the attribution of responsibility. Analysis for this study includes a content-analysis of 115 Chinese online news articles. “Afrofuturism Revelation and Revolution; Voices of the Digital Generation” by Peggy Peattie investigates contemporary voices of Afrofuturists “at the intersection of Afrofuturism, social justice, and digital tech.” Peattie argues that the voices of artists are absent from past Afrofuturism analyses. Further, the author notes that “the digital generation has the potential to introduce this unique art movement and all that it embodies to a greater audience than has previous generations.” Next, Brant Burkey explores cultural heritage institutions (namely, museums, libraries, archives, and historical societies) and how digital heritage initiatives creates fresh ecosystems for both cultural heritage and collective remembering in the article “From Bricks to Clicks: How Digital Heritage Initiatives Create a New Ecosystem for Cultural Heritage and Collective Remembering.” Burkey notes that when cultural heritage institutions use digital heritage initiatives and social media platforms to connect, a fresh Editorial
四月号的《传播探究杂志》包括五篇原创研究文章和一篇书评。本期杂志从J. David Wolfgang的文章《当边缘仇恨成为主流:白人民族主义话语如何在网络新闻评论中体现》开始。沃尔夫冈解释说，在弗吉尼亚州夏洛茨维尔的抗议者因计划拆除联邦将军雕像而发生冲突的几天后，特朗普总统没有谴责白人民族主义者。沃尔夫冈通过这次事件后出现的网上评论分析了白人民族主义。通过使用意识形态、话语和框架的概念，沃尔夫冈探讨了诸如“白人民族主义话语以何种方式出现在主流新闻评论区?”以及“评论人士如何回应主流新闻评论区的白人民族主义?”作者指出，如果白人民族主义言论不受挑战，“这种趋势可能会促使更多的同情者站出来说话，并可能进一步使白人民族主义在主流社会合法化。”在第二篇题为《中国泡妹艺人问题的责任归属:记者性别、地理位置和出版范围的影响》的文章中，夏士林和陈天恩探讨了中国网络新闻媒体如何描述泡妹艺人(PUAs)的相关问题，这些人利用进化心理学策略在情感、性和经济上剥削女性。作者特别关注责任的归属。本研究的分析包括对115篇中国网络新闻文章的内容分析。“非洲未来主义:启示与革命;佩吉·皮蒂(Peggy Peattie)的《数字一代的声音》(Voices of the Digital Generation)调查了当代非洲未来主义者“在非洲未来主义、社会正义和数字技术的交叉点上”的声音。皮蒂认为，艺术家的声音在过去的非洲未来主义分析中是缺席的。此外，作者指出，“数字一代有潜力将这种独特的艺术运动及其所体现的一切介绍给比前几代人更多的观众。”接下来，Brant Burkey探讨了文化遗产机构(即博物馆、图书馆、档案馆和历史学会)，以及数字遗产倡议如何为文化遗产和集体记忆创造新的生态系统，这篇文章名为“从砖块到点击:数字遗产倡议如何为文化遗产和集体记忆创造新的生态系统”。伯基指出，当文化遗产机构利用数字遗产倡议和社交媒体平台进行联系时，一篇新的社论
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