Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/17513057.2019.1646789
A. Gilmore
ABSTRACT Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution saw some of the city's busiest streets transformed into temporary sites of artistic expression and freedom. This essay explores the everyday items were turned into in-situ tools of protest – in particular, the subversive use of double-decker buses. I analyze how a number of double-decker buses were transformed from a form of moving rhetoric into static, vernacular monuments representing Hong Kong's history and serving as democratic billboards. Through the display of Hong Kong's present (mainlandization), past (colonization), and future (democracy), the city's protesters were, I suggest, able to communicate their fears about the increasing effects of mainlandization in an attempt to shift Hong Kong's political possibilities.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/17513057.2019.1618893
Fei Jia, E. Koku
ABSTRACT This study investigates music listening of Chinese international students and examines: (1) how listening to music in different languages (English or Chinese) affects Chinese international students’ uses of music, and (2) whether listening to music in a different language (English or Chinese) predicts their cultural adaptation to host culture. Using a self-reported survey, the study found that Chinese international students listened to more English songs than Chinese songs in the US. Listening to English songs more often in the US is also related to higher uses of music for identity, and higher rates on cultural adaptation; whereas listening to Chinese songs more often predicts higher uses of music for negative mood management. The results indicate the important role of the languages of song in the functions of listening to music and suggest the potential of English songs in helping Chinese international students better adapt American culture during their enculturation process.
{"title":"Music listening and cultural adaptation: How different languages of songs affect Chinese international students’ uses of music and cultural adaptation in the United States","authors":"Fei Jia, E. Koku","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2019.1618893","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2019.1618893","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study investigates music listening of Chinese international students and examines: (1) how listening to music in different languages (English or Chinese) affects Chinese international students’ uses of music, and (2) whether listening to music in a different language (English or Chinese) predicts their cultural adaptation to host culture. Using a self-reported survey, the study found that Chinese international students listened to more English songs than Chinese songs in the US. Listening to English songs more often in the US is also related to higher uses of music for identity, and higher rates on cultural adaptation; whereas listening to Chinese songs more often predicts higher uses of music for negative mood management. The results indicate the important role of the languages of song in the functions of listening to music and suggest the potential of English songs in helping Chinese international students better adapt American culture during their enculturation process.","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":"71 1","pages":"291 - 308"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86241172","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: 10.1080/17513057.2019.1627483
Melissa B. Adams, Melissa A. Johnson
ABSTRACT This quantitative visual content analysis investigated the use of acculturation, pluralism, empowerment, and resistance-themed messages and images in nonprofit strategic communication and digital intercultural communication. The study analyzed data from 135 U.S.-based Latino nonprofit websites. Based on study findings, the authors argue that these nonprofits may be missing opportunities to strengthen relationships and cultural ties with target publics. This analysis applies acculturation theory to visual communication and extends the literature on digital intercultural public relations.
{"title":"Acculturation, pluralism, empowerment: Cultural images as strategic communication on Hispanic nonprofit websites","authors":"Melissa B. Adams, Melissa A. Johnson","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2019.1627483","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2019.1627483","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This quantitative visual content analysis investigated the use of acculturation, pluralism, empowerment, and resistance-themed messages and images in nonprofit strategic communication and digital intercultural communication. The study analyzed data from 135 U.S.-based Latino nonprofit websites. Based on study findings, the authors argue that these nonprofits may be missing opportunities to strengthen relationships and cultural ties with target publics. This analysis applies acculturation theory to visual communication and extends the literature on digital intercultural public relations.","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":"19 1","pages":"309 - 327"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91077718","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: 10.1080/17513057.2019.1649710
Maya Blair, Meina Liu
ABSTRACT While many studies on international/interracial adoptees were conducted quantitatively with adoptees, or by various research methods from the perspective of adoptive parents, this study seeks to gain an in-depth understanding of how Chinese born, American adopted individuals perceive, make sense of, and negotiate their bicultural identities as they transition into adulthood by exploring the narratives of 10 such women. Grounded in the interpretive paradigm and framed by co-cultural communication theory, our findings not only illustrate the diversity of communication strategies used by these women to negotiate their multifaceted identities while navigating through various situational contexts and life stages, but also unveil the perceived role of adoptive parents in shaping their identity (re)construction. The numerous instances of contradiction throughout each woman’s retrospective sense-making reveals the ambivalences, vulnerabilities, nuanced complexities, and ongoing negotiations that they must engage in as a uniquely positioned co-cultural group.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-24DOI: 10.1080/17513057.2020.1782453
Mia Fischer, K. Mohrman
ABSTRACT This article scrutinizes shifts in media coverage of soccer player Mesut Özil during the 2018 World Cup and his subsequent resignation from the German national team. Our analysis highlights the dominance of a multicultural integration discourse that connotes a particularly German understanding of multicultural diversity as only valuable when it is subordinate to an individual’s integration into German culture. Multicultural integration implicitly constructs Germanness as white through dubious claims of the “civilizational superiority” of Western/Christian secularism and a rejection of non-Western/Islamic religiosity as fundamentally “inferior” or “un-democratic.” The shifting treatment of Özil from an exemplar of multicultural integration to a symbol of its failure illustrates the underlying racialized-religious foundation of the discourse and Germany’s remaining attachments to whiteness vis-à-vis Christianity.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-16DOI: 10.1080/17513057.2020.1789692
David Stamps
ABSTRACT Robust literature identifies news media’s sordid history of presenting disparaging depictions of Black identity and its subsequent influence on non-Black audiences. However, research addressing Black viewers, their varied group identities, and protective factors that minimize this influence, has received limited attention. Accordingly, this study examines the relationship between Black individuals’ political identities, news media consumption, critical media literacy skills, and their collective influence on audiences’ self and group esteem as well as news media’s perceptions of the group. Results posit a favorable relationship between variables, specifically, consumption of news media, increased media literacy, and Black viewers’ esteem.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/17513057.2019.1617332
Michael Lechuga
ABSTRACT This essay reads the Latina/o/x migrant vernacular discourses that emerge out of pro-migrant activism. Anzaldúa’s notion of mestizaje – a logic of border consciousness – is put into conversation with Deleuze’s notion of nomad thought – a logic of movement – to inform a rhetorical strategy for reading the vernacular archive of social movement discourse. The “No Papers, No Fear” is one such social movement that demonstrate the logic of mestizaje/nomadism in their communication strategies. This study illuminates three tensions that define the ways Latina/o/x migrants in the US navigate the spaces of citizenship: tensions between movement/stasis, migrant identity/national identity, and fear/safety.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/17513057.2019.1620837
Michelle L. Colpean
ABSTRACT This essay considers the activist group FEMEN and the online reactions to their “International Topless Jihad Day” protests. Specifically, I analyze the vernacular discourses present in the Facebook group Muslim Women Against FEMEN and their counter-protests as they articulate their dissatisfaction with FEMEN’s imperialist feminism. I argue that online spaces can provide meaningful sites for Muslim women to reassert their agency alongside of, rather than despite of, their Muslim identity. Tensions over the boundaries of feminist activism help us understand how digital spaces can aid in developing a more capacious understanding of agency that actively decolonizes imperialist feminist politics.
本文探讨激进组织FEMEN及其“国际无上装圣战日”抗议活动引发的网络反应。具体来说，我分析了Facebook群组“穆斯林女性反对女性主义”(Muslim Women Against FEMEN)中的白话话语，以及她们的反抗议，因为她们表达了对女性主义的帝国主义女权主义的不满。我认为，网络空间可以为穆斯林女性提供有意义的网站，让她们在重申自己的身份的同时，而不是无视自己的穆斯林身份。女权主义活动边界上的紧张关系有助于我们理解数字空间如何帮助我们更广泛地理解主动去殖民化帝国主义女权主义政治的机构。
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/17513057.2019.1610187
Anan Wan, Leigh Moscowitz, Linwan Wu
ABSTRACT Bullet-screen technology, an innovative way of interacting with online videos, allows viewers to contribute comments that simultaneously appear over videos. Popular in East Asia, the technology is making its way to American audiences. This study employed a comparative qualitative focus group approach to explore how American and Chinese viewers responded to and interacted with this new format of online videos. Three themes emerge from this investigation: (1) the unique affordances of this technology; (2) barriers to adoption and usage; and (3) cultural differences that impact the user experience. The theoretical and practical implications for bullet-screen technologies are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/17513057.2019.1614206
S. Hartnett, Patrick Shaou-Whea Dodge, Lisa B. Keränen
ABSTRACT This essay examines the contested dynamics of postcolonial remembering in Taiwan. Focusing on the long-suppressed 228 massacre in particular and the White Terror period in general, we bring Taiwan’s postcolonial remembering into international and intercultural communication studies by analyzing two contemporary sites: Taipei’s 228 Memorial Museum and the Cihu Memorial Sculpture Park. As our case studies demonstrate, Taiwan’s postcolonial remembering offers unique indications of how public memory work can help move a culture toward a sense of reconciliation, thus promoting what one of our collaborators called “the end of fear.”
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