Pub Date : 2021-01-17DOI: 10.1080/17513057.2020.1869287
Uche Onyebadi, Mohamed A. Satti
ABSTRACT Newspapers publish the most important stories on their front pages. In this study, the authors analyzed front-page news stories in the Kuwait Times, between 2017 and 2019, to determine whether local news was more prevalent than international stories or vice versa. The study also categorized and examined the front-page stories published in that period. Results show that the Kuwait Times published fewer local (31.7%) than international stories (68.3%). Stories about government and politics (46.8%) were most prominent. These findings contradict the expectation that newspapers generally publish more local than international stories. The caveat is that Kuwait’s expatriate population is about three times that of locals.
{"title":"Does local news always dominate newspaper front-page news? A study of the Kuwait Times, 2017–2019","authors":"Uche Onyebadi, Mohamed A. Satti","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2020.1869287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2020.1869287","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Newspapers publish the most important stories on their front pages. In this study, the authors analyzed front-page news stories in the Kuwait Times, between 2017 and 2019, to determine whether local news was more prevalent than international stories or vice versa. The study also categorized and examined the front-page stories published in that period. Results show that the Kuwait Times published fewer local (31.7%) than international stories (68.3%). Stories about government and politics (46.8%) were most prominent. These findings contradict the expectation that newspapers generally publish more local than international stories. The caveat is that Kuwait’s expatriate population is about three times that of locals.","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":"23 1","pages":"204 - 221"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82314918","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 : 2021-01-10DOI: 10.1080/17513057.2020.1870709
Xiwen Zhang
ABSTRACT American superhero movies are generally perceived as primarily targeted at a male audience. In China, however, females far outnumber males in the genre’s fan community. This phenomenon suggests that a popular text’s local negotiation can take on different paths when the text is consumed transnationally. To explore this process, this study examines how Chinese consumers of the Marvel franchise negotiate their gendered fandom in a global context. Drawing from in-depth interviews with 29 Chinese fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, this study considers the power dynamics at work in the franchise’s global spread and local consumption.
{"title":"Why most Chinese fans of American superhero movies are girls: A gendered local fandom of a global Hollywood icon","authors":"Xiwen Zhang","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2020.1870709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2020.1870709","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT American superhero movies are generally perceived as primarily targeted at a male audience. In China, however, females far outnumber males in the genre’s fan community. This phenomenon suggests that a popular text’s local negotiation can take on different paths when the text is consumed transnationally. To explore this process, this study examines how Chinese consumers of the Marvel franchise negotiate their gendered fandom in a global context. Drawing from in-depth interviews with 29 Chinese fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, this study considers the power dynamics at work in the franchise’s global spread and local consumption.","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":"7 1","pages":"148 - 164"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72772089","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 : 2020-12-17DOI: 10.1080/17513057.2020.1857426
Terrie Siang-Ting Wong
ABSTRACT This essay takes a postcolonial approach to trouble the celebratory notion that Crazy Rich Asians is unequivocal progress for Asian/American media representation. Using textual analysis, the essay reads Asian subjectivities portrayed in the movie in the context of race relations in the United States, in Singapore, and between the United States and Asia. The essay concludes by discussing how yellowface mockery and ambivalence center whiteness in different ways for Asia-Asians and Asian Americans, and it argues for the continued relevance of yellowface theorizations for unpacking representations of Asian/American subjectivities in filmic texts that are produced by, for, and with Asians.
{"title":"Crazy, rich, when Asian: Yellowface ambivalence and mockery in Crazy Rich Asians","authors":"Terrie Siang-Ting Wong","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2020.1857426","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2020.1857426","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay takes a postcolonial approach to trouble the celebratory notion that Crazy Rich Asians is unequivocal progress for Asian/American media representation. Using textual analysis, the essay reads Asian subjectivities portrayed in the movie in the context of race relations in the United States, in Singapore, and between the United States and Asia. The essay concludes by discussing how yellowface mockery and ambivalence center whiteness in different ways for Asia-Asians and Asian Americans, and it argues for the continued relevance of yellowface theorizations for unpacking representations of Asian/American subjectivities in filmic texts that are produced by, for, and with Asians.","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":"1 1","pages":"57 - 74"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86432374","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 : 2020-12-08DOI: 10.1080/17513057.2020.1854329
Wenlin Liu
ABSTRACT The challenge for multiethnic communities to recover from disasters is well noted. Yet, research on which types of resources can help communities recuperate remains scarce. The current study explores how community-level communication resources—including interpersonal connections, local media storytelling, community-based organizations, and official emergency management communication—may function as a resource network for residents from diverse backgrounds to navigate the strenuous process of post-disaster recovery. Results based on a community survey confirm the positive link between disaster communication ecology and individuals’ disaster-coping outcomes. Findings further identify ethnicity-based divergence where certain communication resources play a more important role than others.
{"title":"Disaster communication ecology in multiethnic communities: Understanding disaster coping and community resilience from a communication resource approach","authors":"Wenlin Liu","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2020.1854329","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2020.1854329","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The challenge for multiethnic communities to recover from disasters is well noted. Yet, research on which types of resources can help communities recuperate remains scarce. The current study explores how community-level communication resources—including interpersonal connections, local media storytelling, community-based organizations, and official emergency management communication—may function as a resource network for residents from diverse backgrounds to navigate the strenuous process of post-disaster recovery. Results based on a community survey confirm the positive link between disaster communication ecology and individuals’ disaster-coping outcomes. Findings further identify ethnicity-based divergence where certain communication resources play a more important role than others.","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":"285 1","pages":"94 - 117"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76860276","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 : 2020-12-02DOI: 10.1080/17513057.2020.1849773
Haneen Ghabra
ABSTRACT The author deploys a cultural critique that extends the work of White femininity and the application of the Intersectional nature of Whiteness to critiques of the reaction to the New Zealand terrorist attacks. The attacks invite audiences to consider how the ethics of Whiteness works intersectionally through masculinity, allyship and the nation state. By analyzing Jacinda Ardern’s speech to Parliament, the author aims to contribute to the understanding of how the rhetoric of Whiteness can be cloaked in allyship.
{"title":"Don’t say his name: The terror attacks in New Zealand and the ethics of White allyship","authors":"Haneen Ghabra","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2020.1849773","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2020.1849773","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The author deploys a cultural critique that extends the work of White femininity and the application of the Intersectional nature of Whiteness to critiques of the reaction to the New Zealand terrorist attacks. The attacks invite audiences to consider how the ethics of Whiteness works intersectionally through masculinity, allyship and the nation state. By analyzing Jacinda Ardern’s speech to Parliament, the author aims to contribute to the understanding of how the rhetoric of Whiteness can be cloaked in allyship.","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":"35 1","pages":"1 - 16"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87661299","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 : 2020-12-02DOI: 10.1080/17513057.2020.1849774
Trine Kvidal-Røvik, Ashley Cordes
ABSTRACT In 2019, Disney released the animated film Frozen 2 and included depictions of Indigenous Sámi peoples, landscapes, and lifeways. Communication scholars have critiqued relationships between Disney and Indigenous cultures. However, with Frozen 2 Sámi consultants initiated a new mode of collaboration with Disney to combat cultural appropriation, linguistic erasure, and misrepresentations. This resulted in almost unanimously positive media praise by Sámi individuals and communities in Scandinavia. By drawing upon an Indigenous listening methodology, we articulate ways Sámi communities discuss the degree to which Disney’s Frozen 2/Jikŋon 2 is a transformative agent (or not) in treatment of Indigenous communities in film.
{"title":"Into the unknown [Amas Mu Vuordá]? Listening to Indigenous voices on the meanings of Disney’s Frozen 2 [Jikŋon 2]","authors":"Trine Kvidal-Røvik, Ashley Cordes","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2020.1849774","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2020.1849774","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In 2019, Disney released the animated film Frozen 2 and included depictions of Indigenous Sámi peoples, landscapes, and lifeways. Communication scholars have critiqued relationships between Disney and Indigenous cultures. However, with Frozen 2 Sámi consultants initiated a new mode of collaboration with Disney to combat cultural appropriation, linguistic erasure, and misrepresentations. This resulted in almost unanimously positive media praise by Sámi individuals and communities in Scandinavia. By drawing upon an Indigenous listening methodology, we articulate ways Sámi communities discuss the degree to which Disney’s Frozen 2/Jikŋon 2 is a transformative agent (or not) in treatment of Indigenous communities in film.","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":"78 1","pages":"17 - 35"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75617509","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 : 2020-12-02DOI: 10.1080/17513057.2020.1850844
P. Banerjee, Stacey K. Sowards
ABSTRACT As environmental communication grows as an area of study, international and environmental justice issues increasingly need attention. Sustainability, climate change, habitat erosion, water access, and a number of other issues disproportionately affect rural and marginalized communities around the globe. For researchers working in and with such communities, the ethics of interviewing local and/or non-academic people requires much thought and consideration. One of the authors has worked in Indonesian and Spanish, and the other in Hindi, Nepali, and Bengali. Questions such as what voice means, in relationship to postcolonial/decolonial theories, are especially important. Furthermore, how such interviews are recorded, transcribed, and then translated also raise significant ethical considerations. This paper explores how environmental communication researchers might rethink approaches to ethnography and interviews across cultures, languages, and other aspects of difference.
{"title":"Working across languages/cultures in international and environmental communication fieldwork","authors":"P. Banerjee, Stacey K. Sowards","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2020.1850844","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2020.1850844","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT As environmental communication grows as an area of study, international and environmental justice issues increasingly need attention. Sustainability, climate change, habitat erosion, water access, and a number of other issues disproportionately affect rural and marginalized communities around the globe. For researchers working in and with such communities, the ethics of interviewing local and/or non-academic people requires much thought and consideration. One of the authors has worked in Indonesian and Spanish, and the other in Hindi, Nepali, and Bengali. Questions such as what voice means, in relationship to postcolonial/decolonial theories, are especially important. Furthermore, how such interviews are recorded, transcribed, and then translated also raise significant ethical considerations. This paper explores how environmental communication researchers might rethink approaches to ethnography and interviews across cultures, languages, and other aspects of difference.","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":"1 1","pages":"36 - 56"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90741534","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 : 2020-10-15DOI: 10.1080/17513057.2020.1829675
Shinsuke Eguchi, Keisuke Kimura
ABSTRACT This essay examines im/possibilities of Queer Eye: We’re in Japan! that represents the concept of Japaneseness. More precisely, this essay is concerned with how Queer Eye: We’re in Japan! reinserts U.S. exceptionalism while the Fab Five perform the makeovers of the four Japanese nominees (S1E1–S1E4). However, this essay also examines possibilities of Queer Eye: We’re in Japan! that transgress issues of gender, sexuality, and the body. In so doing, we orient an intersectional queer-of-color critique as our analytic to intervene the logic of American liberal capitalism that circulates the patriotic imaginaries of homonationalism in the historical continuum of globalization. The overall goal is to critique Queer Eye: We’re in Japan! that showcases im/possibilities of Japaneseness.
{"title":"Racialized im/possibilities: Intersectional queer-of-color critique on Japaneseness in Netflix’s Queer Eye: We’re in Japan!","authors":"Shinsuke Eguchi, Keisuke Kimura","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2020.1829675","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2020.1829675","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay examines im/possibilities of Queer Eye: We’re in Japan! that represents the concept of Japaneseness. More precisely, this essay is concerned with how Queer Eye: We’re in Japan! reinserts U.S. exceptionalism while the Fab Five perform the makeovers of the four Japanese nominees (S1E1–S1E4). However, this essay also examines possibilities of Queer Eye: We’re in Japan! that transgress issues of gender, sexuality, and the body. In so doing, we orient an intersectional queer-of-color critique as our analytic to intervene the logic of American liberal capitalism that circulates the patriotic imaginaries of homonationalism in the historical continuum of globalization. The overall goal is to critique Queer Eye: We’re in Japan! that showcases im/possibilities of Japaneseness.","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":"10 1","pages":"221 - 239"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86669193","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 : 2020-10-14DOI: 10.1080/17513057.2020.1829676
Hamza R’boul
ABSTRACT The dominant “Western” episteme in intercultural communication knowledge exemplifies the ascendancies and silences produced by modern science that grants credibility to northern “regimes of truth”. This paper makes a case for meta-intercultural ontologies as a frame of reference that is informed by the principles of post-colonial theory and intercultural philosophy. This orientation is underpinned by 1) the reconsideration of intercultural communication knowledge at the epistemological level to expand the horizons of knowledge production; 2) critique the historical Western hegemony over knowledge production and dissemination by examining the impact of power hierarchies and sociopolitical circumstances on academic practices.
{"title":"Postcolonial interventions in intercultural communication knowledge: Meta-intercultural ontologies, decolonial knowledges and epistemological polylogue","authors":"Hamza R’boul","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2020.1829676","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2020.1829676","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The dominant “Western” episteme in intercultural communication knowledge exemplifies the ascendancies and silences produced by modern science that grants credibility to northern “regimes of truth”. This paper makes a case for meta-intercultural ontologies as a frame of reference that is informed by the principles of post-colonial theory and intercultural philosophy. This orientation is underpinned by 1) the reconsideration of intercultural communication knowledge at the epistemological level to expand the horizons of knowledge production; 2) critique the historical Western hegemony over knowledge production and dissemination by examining the impact of power hierarchies and sociopolitical circumstances on academic practices.","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":"60 1","pages":"75 - 93"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77236382","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 : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/17513057.2019.1653953
Kirstie McAllum
ABSTRACT Refugee resettlement organizations hope that, by acting as intercultural mediators who navigate multiple cultural perspectives and translate them for others, volunteers will foster reciprocal adaptation by refugees and host nationals. However, intercultural mediation is challenging when divergent cultural frameworks generate discomfort or misunderstanding. Based on interviews with refugee resettlement volunteers, this study documents how volunteers positioned themselves in their narratives of interactions with and about refugees and how they attributed authority about what constituted appropriate cultural practices. Analysis of the varied “self” positions that volunteers adopted reveals that even motivated, knowledgeable individuals who want to respect diversity may inadvertently hinder adaptation.
{"title":"Refugee resettlement volunteers as (inter)cultural mediators?","authors":"Kirstie McAllum","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2019.1653953","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2019.1653953","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Refugee resettlement organizations hope that, by acting as intercultural mediators who navigate multiple cultural perspectives and translate them for others, volunteers will foster reciprocal adaptation by refugees and host nationals. However, intercultural mediation is challenging when divergent cultural frameworks generate discomfort or misunderstanding. Based on interviews with refugee resettlement volunteers, this study documents how volunteers positioned themselves in their narratives of interactions with and about refugees and how they attributed authority about what constituted appropriate cultural practices. Analysis of the varied “self” positions that volunteers adopted reveals that even motivated, knowledgeable individuals who want to respect diversity may inadvertently hinder adaptation.","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":"37 1","pages":"366 - 383"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80630791","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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