Pub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/10714421.2021.1933311
T. A. Neyazi, Ralph Schroeder
ABSTRACT Research on the reasons for the unexpected outcome of the 2019 national election in India can be divided into two strands: one strand examines the election without recourse to media, arguing that the appeals by parties to different segments of the population, referred to as identity politics, swayed voters. The other strand has made the case that media campaigns, and digital media in particular, were decisive in shaping the electoral outcome. Among the explanations that focus on media, these can be further subdivided into those that make the case for traditional media still playing a more important role than online media, and others that argue that digital media, and perhaps even online disinformation, played a key role. In this paper, we analyze the evidence for these competing accounts, drawing on the available evidence. We argue that an explanation based on combining elements from both strands, plus the interaction between digital media and traditional media and offline mobilization, together explain Modi’s unanticipated election victory.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/10714421.2021.1951534
Baruch Shomron, Amit M. Schejter
ABSTRACT This study investigates how the media-portrayal of Palestinian-Israelis in the context of violence and crime, hinders Palestinian-Israelis’ abilities to realize their capabilities. Capabilities refer to what each individual is able to do or be representing their human freedom and wellbeing. The study presents a quantitative content-analysis of Palestinian-Israeli interviewees who appeared on all news and current affairs programs broadcast on the five Israeli networks during 2016–2017. Additionally, to better understand the implications of these mediated representations on individual’s capabilities, the study also includes semi-structured qualitative interviews with 20 Palestinian-Israeli individuals who consume these networks. Results suggest that essential capabilities for Palestinian-Israelis were typically hindered by the mass media, indicating the media did not fulfill their mission of advancing wellbeing.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10714421.2021.1876485
M. Farinosi
ABSTRACT The paper focuses on a specific form of activism – urban knitting – and analyses “Mettiamoci una pezza” (“Let’s patch it”), an initiative organized by a group of women activists from L’Aquila, Italy, for the 10th anniversary of the earthquake, not only to draw public attention to the state of the city but also to other social and political issues. To analyze the organizational infrastructure of this movement, a qualitative content analysis of the videos produced by the craftivists was conducted, to which was added an analysis of the initiative’s website. The findings show the main characteristics of this collective action, as well as the creation of a particular organizational infrastructure consisting of a network of networks, made possible thanks to digital media. This infrastructure enabled the achievements of outcomes that the organizations could not achieve independently, recomposing a widespread but fragmented activism, based not on a geographical proximity, but on common goals.
摘要本文聚焦于一种特定的激进主义形式——城市编织，并分析了“让我们修补它”（Mettiamoci una pezza），这是一群来自意大利拉奎拉的女性激进主义者在地震十周年之际组织的一项倡议，不仅是为了引起公众对城市状况的关注，也是为了引起其他社会和政治问题的关注。为了分析这场运动的组织基础设施，对手工艺者制作的视频进行了定性内容分析，并对该倡议的网站进行了分析。研究结果显示了这种集体行动的主要特征，以及由网络网络组成的特定组织基础设施的创建，这得益于数字媒体。这一基础设施实现了各组织无法独立实现的成果，重组了一种广泛但分散的行动主义，这种行动主义不是基于地理位置的接近，而是基于共同的目标。
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10714421.2021.1904771
Alessandro Caliandro, Emma Garavaglia, V. Sturiale, Alice Di Leva
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the use of smartphone in older people everyday life and it is based on an empirical research involving 30 Italian smartphone users aged 62–76. The research drawn on the analysis of 75,089 log data, 3 collective and 20 face-to-face interviews. The paper describes the digital practices through which older users use smartphone to construct social relations within their everyday life as well as elaborate their own media ideologies. The article’s findings show that participants use smartphone for a limited amount of time and mainly to access WhatsApp. The smartphone is mainly used as an organizational device for activating momentary social connections to accomplish practical tasks. The ludic use of smartphone is rarely carried out. Specifically, we observed that through the smartphone, participants put into existence three kinds of “social spaces”: 1) a working space (with peers); 2) a space of augmented co-presences (with children); 3) a space of mutual digital education (grandchildren). In conclusion we argue that the forms of sociality participants put into existence through smartphone are marked by degrees of network privatism. While the media ideology they articulate around their everyday use of smartphone can be conceived as social media phobic.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10714421.2021.1908780
Kiersten Brockman
In Mediated Intimacy , Barker, Gill and Harvey present us with a thorough investigation of sex advice in the media, past and present. The first three chapters of the book comprise an overview of the state of sex advice in the media, covering its history and a range of contemporary debates and representations of sex and sexuality – as well as providing an overview of existing academic research in the field. The remaining chapters focus on particular case studies, including magazine and newspaper advice columns, television programmes, sex manuals, public health information, apps and online environments.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10714421.2020.1853491
Ryan Broussard, W. Heath, M. Barnidge
ABSTRACT Incidental exposure, also called inadvertent exposure, has grown more important in recent years because it has the potential to engage news “dropouts” and expose partisans to the “other side” in political communication. Televised sports media are becoming an important venue for this type of unintentional exposure to political content, with the rise in the last decade of a new age of athlete activism not seen since the ‘60s and ‘70s, and the accompanying perception from some conservatives that sports media be a “politics-free zone.” Relying on a representative, online panel survey of adult internet users in the United States (N = 1,493), this study assesses the extent to which Americans are incidentally exposed to political content in televised sports media. It analyzed demographic, political, and communicative antecedents of such exposure. Results suggest low-but-substantial levels of incidental exposure in sports media, and highlight the demographic, psychographic, and behavioral profiles who report exposure. Results are discussed in light of important public conversations about the role of sports media in the political sphere.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/10714421.2020.1829307
A. Hunsaker, M. Nguyen, Jaelle Fuchs, Gökçe Karaoglu, Teodora Djukaric, E. Hargittai
ABSTRACT While the stereotypical older adult is one who is clueless about technology, research on this age group paints a different picture. Adding to the literature about older adults’ varying tech savvy, this paper focuses on the technological support-giving abilities of those in later stages of life based on interviews conducted in four countries. Far from being dependent bystanders, some older adults serve as helpful sources of support to their peers. We also find mutual support – support given to each other – an important domain for how people in this age group give and get assistance when they encounter technical problems. That such a prominent amount of support providers exist in this age group implies that peer-led technical support approaches may be especially salient and effective in helping older adults use digital media. While some participants did not provide help with digital technology because they lacked confidence to do so, others believed they could, but were never asked. These individuals have the potential to play a critical role in digital media support that may be more acceptable to their peers than help from other age groups. Further investigation of how to harness this support is warranted.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/10714421.2020.1829303
Mariah L. Wellman
ABSTRACT While recent research has explored influencers within the fashion, beauty, fitness, and travel industries, few studies have examined influencers within physique sports like bodybuilding. Drawing on observation, informal interviews, and semi-structured interviews with members of Gold’s Gym Venice, this study analyzes how bodybuilders, trainers, and influencers define labor and how they construct their identities as members of the bodybuilding subculture. The findings suggest bodybuilders and trainers believe influencers are not authentic members of the subculture and instead are sexualized laborers. The findings also explicate a misunderstanding among bodybuilders and trainers about how social media use is a productive form of labor for influencers. Influencers attempt to insert themselves into the subculture while bodybuilders and trainers simultaneously attempt to discredit their digital labor in favor of the physical. Gold’s Gym Venice connects these stakeholders by offering both a symbolic and historical credibility, validating forms of labor through subcultural belonging.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/10714421.2020.1848993
Katherine Fusco
Opening with an analysis of an Onion article in which a man, against his better judgment, peers between his fingers to look at the news on his smartphone, the new edited volume Unwatchable provokes...
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