Pub Date : 2022-09-21DOI: 10.1080/10714421.2022.2126589
Arianna Bussoletti
ABSTRACT This paper focuses on the American-centric, English-language dominance of Tumblr. It reviews current research on Tumblr culture, transcultural fandom, and linguistic differences in fandom to analyze the ways international fans engage and disengage with U.S.-centric Tumblr and fandom. Through the analysis of 19 interviews to members of a transnational Tumblr anime fandom, the paper addresses their perception and understanding of the platform’s cultural biases as an American corporate owned, English language dominated social network site. The paper then explores the international fans’ motivations to join their English-language Tumblr fandom. It highlights the double nature of their Tumblr transnational fandom as an American-centric but global space in virtue of the use of English as lingua franca. It then analyzes the fans’ engagement and disengagement strategies with different branches of their fandom through the use of different languages and platforms.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/10714421.2022.2085488
Adrien Sebro
{"title":"The generic closet: Black gayness and the Black-cast sitcom","authors":"Adrien Sebro","doi":"10.1080/10714421.2022.2085488","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10714421.2022.2085488","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46140,"journal":{"name":"COMMUNICATION REVIEW","volume":"25 1","pages":"143 - 146"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47131608","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 : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/10714421.2022.2060684
Sara Pereira, Pedro Moura
ABSTRACT YouTube is one of the most popular websites amongst the Portuguese youth and their homegrown stars, the YouTubers, are beloved entertainers. This paper presents a qualitative study based on four focus groups with 36 teenagers, aged 12 to 16 years old, and it has three main objectives: to understand their motivations for using it; how this platform (and its contents and authors) interplay with their identity and socialization; and to acknowledge their perspectives on YouTube and YouTubers. It concludes that the sample is made up of very regular viewers, with critical insights on the platform and its contents and creators, but who, despite this overall popularity amidst friends and the easiness of ways to share their interests, regard YouTube and YouTubers as funny entertainers for more individual practices.
{"title":"Heavy viewers, few interactions: YouTubers’ relevance in the lives of Portuguese teenagers","authors":"Sara Pereira, Pedro Moura","doi":"10.1080/10714421.2022.2060684","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10714421.2022.2060684","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT YouTube is one of the most popular websites amongst the Portuguese youth and their homegrown stars, the YouTubers, are beloved entertainers. This paper presents a qualitative study based on four focus groups with 36 teenagers, aged 12 to 16 years old, and it has three main objectives: to understand their motivations for using it; how this platform (and its contents and authors) interplay with their identity and socialization; and to acknowledge their perspectives on YouTube and YouTubers. It concludes that the sample is made up of very regular viewers, with critical insights on the platform and its contents and creators, but who, despite this overall popularity amidst friends and the easiness of ways to share their interests, regard YouTube and YouTubers as funny entertainers for more individual practices.","PeriodicalId":46140,"journal":{"name":"COMMUNICATION REVIEW","volume":"25 1","pages":"117 - 138"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49001184","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 : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.1080/10714421.2022.2045851
David L. Stamps, Shaniece B. Bickham, Sheryl Kennedy Haydel, J. Broussard
ABSTRACT Newspapers often play a significant role in providing knowledge about political matters and may shape public opinion about political figures. However, a focus on newspaper coverage of some of the first Black mayors of major US cities and themes related to racial identity and policy is under-examined. The current investigation adopts an ethnographic content analysis and examines 30 days of major daily newspaper coverage of Black mayoral campaigns in Los Angeles, Detroit, New Orleans, Newark, and Chicago before each mayoral election. Findings reveal that news coverage draws attention to overt racial narratives and emphasizes racial stereotypes. However, news coverage of the candidates’ policy proposals was present and often nonracialized. The outcomes suggest that the inclusion of racial identity and policies, while not entirely favorable, may increase awareness of each candidate’s policies, potentially contributing to their electability.
{"title":"Black cultural projection: an analysis of major daily news coverage of successful black mayoral campaigns in major US Cities","authors":"David L. Stamps, Shaniece B. Bickham, Sheryl Kennedy Haydel, J. Broussard","doi":"10.1080/10714421.2022.2045851","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10714421.2022.2045851","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Newspapers often play a significant role in providing knowledge about political matters and may shape public opinion about political figures. However, a focus on newspaper coverage of some of the first Black mayors of major US cities and themes related to racial identity and policy is under-examined. The current investigation adopts an ethnographic content analysis and examines 30 days of major daily newspaper coverage of Black mayoral campaigns in Los Angeles, Detroit, New Orleans, Newark, and Chicago before each mayoral election. Findings reveal that news coverage draws attention to overt racial narratives and emphasizes racial stereotypes. However, news coverage of the candidates’ policy proposals was present and often nonracialized. The outcomes suggest that the inclusion of racial identity and policies, while not entirely favorable, may increase awareness of each candidate’s policies, potentially contributing to their electability.","PeriodicalId":46140,"journal":{"name":"COMMUNICATION REVIEW","volume":"25 1","pages":"96 - 116"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49213503","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 : 2022-02-02DOI: 10.1080/10714421.2022.2035165
Moa Eriksson Krutrök, Simon Lindgren
ABSTRACT the immediate aftermath of crisis events, there is a pressing demand among the public for information about what is unfolding. In such moments “information holes” occur, people and organizations collaborate to try to fill these in real time by sharing information. In this article, we approach such gaps not merely as the product of the actual lack of information, but as generated by the algorithmically underpinned social media platforms as such, and by the user behaviors that they proliferate. The lack of information is the result of the noisy and fragmented patchwork of information that social media platforms can generate. In this paper, we draw on a case study of one particular case of a false terrorism alarm and its unfolding on Twitter, that took place in London’s Oxford Circus underground station in November of 2017. Using a combination of computational and interpretive methods – analyzing social network structure as well as textual expressions – we find that certain logics of platforms may affect emergency management and the work of emergency responders negatively.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10714421.2022.2033577
Rebecca (Riva) Tukachinsky Forster, Caitlin Neuville, Sixtine Foucaut, Sara Morgan, Angela Poerschke, Andrea Torres
ABSTRACT The study examines psychological characteristics of dominant group allies (White, cisgender heterosexual individuals) in the context of media consumption. A survey of U.S. Americans (N = 272) examines the relationship between personality traits (openness and empathy) and support for racial and sexual diversity in the media. Both traits were predictive of (1) endorsing media diversity policies and (2) intention to consume diverse media content. However, these effects were largely mediated by the motivation to expand the boundaries of one’s self-concept rather than by social justice views. The findings are discussed in terms of allyship and media psychology.
{"title":"Media users as allies: personality predictors of dominant group members’ support for racial and sexual diversity in entertainment media","authors":"Rebecca (Riva) Tukachinsky Forster, Caitlin Neuville, Sixtine Foucaut, Sara Morgan, Angela Poerschke, Andrea Torres","doi":"10.1080/10714421.2022.2033577","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10714421.2022.2033577","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The study examines psychological characteristics of dominant group allies (White, cisgender heterosexual individuals) in the context of media consumption. A survey of U.S. Americans (N = 272) examines the relationship between personality traits (openness and empathy) and support for racial and sexual diversity in the media. Both traits were predictive of (1) endorsing media diversity policies and (2) intention to consume diverse media content. However, these effects were largely mediated by the motivation to expand the boundaries of one’s self-concept rather than by social justice views. The findings are discussed in terms of allyship and media psychology.","PeriodicalId":46140,"journal":{"name":"COMMUNICATION REVIEW","volume":"25 1","pages":"54 - 79"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45504417","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 : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10714421.2022.2031444
C. Su, Rebecca Mercado Jones, Valerie Palmer-Mehta
ABSTRACT In a powerful journalistic moment of 2018, The New York Times published the article, “After Weinstein: 71 Men Accused of Sexual Misconduct and Their Fall from Power.” It presented one collective effect of the #MeToo movement: a compendium of elite men compelled to leave their jobs due to their sexual misconduct. Shifting from the scrutinizing focus on survivors, the article created a hall of shame that placed the perpetrators and their abridged apologias in the spotlight. Using feminist rhetorical criticism and Benoit’s image repair theory, we argue that, while the article succeeds in highlighting the perpetrators’ occupational disruptions, the apologias reify antiquated understandings of gender and rape culture, illuminating the constitutive power of image repair rhetoric in reasserting toxic masculinity and rape logic in the #MeToo era. Moreover, we intervene in Benoit’s theory, which focuses on delineating the efficacy of strategies by which elites regain their influence. By offering a critical feminist apologiast approach, we compel critics to also interrogate the diachronic rhetorical and ideological scaffolding that benefits the interests of powerful, white, western, hetero-cis-male citizens while rendering the lives of the marginalized precarious and denying them cultural recognition.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10714421.2022.2033576
Francesca Belotti, Francesca Ieracitano, Stellamarina Donato, F. Comunello
ABSTRACT The article addresses the teenagers’ perception of those forms of teen dating violence that occur on digital media (i.e., ‘digital dating abuse,’ DDA), such as snooping around, controlling behaviors, and aggravated sexting. It contributes to the strand of studies on DDA and those on the mutual shaping relationship between technology and society by focusing on the interplay between social media usage practices and dating practices among teenagers narrating DDA. We carried out 7 focus groups in Rome with 43 high school students aged 14–16 years, in order to explore whether and how the negotiation with social media platforms and the interaction between dating partners affect the adolescents’ perception of DDA. The thematic analysis reveals that participants refer to idioms of practice informed by media ideologies when seeing DDA as an issue related to social media, or to dating scripts supported by romantic ideologies when seeing it as an issue related to dating. They oscillate between these two interpretative ‘lenses,’ thus intertwining the platform social usage norms and broader societal beliefs surrounding dating relationships. In doing so, they give rise to ‘digital dating scripts’ and ‘romantic media ideologies’ which nowadays rule their dating relationships in a very specific way.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/10714421.2021.2004859
Lin Zhu
Although there are a plethora of titles dedicated to teaching people how to use different social media networking sites, a systematic examination of the mechanisms underlying social media but not limited to any specific platforms is overdue. Social Media Communication: Trends and Theories by Zhong (2021) fills the gap as a multidisciplinary book that combines theory with practical cases, and a book that not only teaches what it is or how it is, but why it is. The book takes a historical perspective in examining social media technology. Putting social media in historical context helps the reader not only understand the media’s current use and impact, but also their future development. The book also takes a global perspective. In today’s society, it is virtually impossible to ignore social media’s application outside the U.S. when discussing the media, considering that social media platforms often extend across national boundaries. Zhong’s book provides original research and insights from around the globe. Finally, the author offers a critical assessment of social media’s benefits and challenges. Zhong did not hide his excitement about social media’s potentials in shaping human society in positive ways, but he does not shy away from the risks and pitfalls inevitable with the use of social media either. The book consists of two parts. Part I discusses the theoretical foundation of social media use. Chapter 1 focuses on the power of social media. The message is clear: No one can afford to resist social media use. The author also introduces adoption models of media technologies, highlighting the differences between the adoption model of social media technologies and traditional media technologies (e.g., television, radio). Chapter 2 traces human civilization in terms of technological advances. Social media technology is situated in the current era of internet civilization, following the era of information civilization. Chapters 3 to 5 examine the implications of social media in interpersonal and group communication and the impact of social media on information processing and cognition. Chapters 6 to 8 focus on some
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