Pub Date : 2019-08-30DOI: 10.1080/10714421.2019.1659703
Giuliana Sorce
ABSTRACT The goal of this article is to illustrate how an existing sociological methodology “institutional ethnography” (IE), coined by Canadian sociologist Dorothy E. Smith, can inform qualitative research projects in communication and media studies. In introducing IE to our field, I hope to equip communication and media studies researchers with a qualitative methodology that opens up opportunity to map the undergirding ruling relations and institutionalized processes that shape the many aspects of human and mediated communication. Upon explaining IE’s methodological anchoring in feminist ontology and epistemology, I detail several methods for data gathering (participant observation, interviewing, textual analysis) and put forward suggestions to analyze IE data. I then offer potential avenues for IE in communication and media scholarship across the journal’s three perspectives – communication and culture, communication as a social force, and communication and new media – and close by discussing some of IE’s methodological opportunities and limitations for our discipline’s diverse research agenda.
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Pub Date : 2019-08-07DOI: 10.1080/10714421.2019.1651154
Lassane Ouedraogo
ABSTRACT This article discusses how young Muslim women negotiate their multiple identities within the context of a predominantly Muslim, secular nation. It focuses on female members of the Association des Élèves et Étudiants Musulmans au Burkina Faso (AEEMB), a nationwide Muslim youth organization, and especially those commonly referred to as “Adja,” in reference to their sartorial choice. Although there might not seem to be any malice associated with this common nickname, Adja, given to women who adopt this pious fashion, the experiences of some of these women provide a much more nuanced understanding of media, Muslimhood, womanhood, and dress. Drawing data from an ethnographic study on Muslim youth civic, economic, and social engagement in Burkina Faso, the article discusses how the identity expectations and identity performances of Adjas are constructed, deconstructed, and reconstructed along their sartorial choice. It further places the “Adja construct” within the broader discourse on Islam, post-coloniality, modernity, and gender in Burkina Faso.
本文讨论了年轻的穆斯林女性如何在一个以穆斯林为主的世俗国家中协商她们的多重身份。它的重点是全国穆斯林青年组织布基纳法索穆斯林协会(Association des Élèves et Étudiants Musulmans au Burkina Faso, AEEMB)的女性成员，尤其是那些通常被称为“Adja”的女性成员，因为她们的服装选择。虽然Adja这个普通的绰号似乎没有任何恶意，但这些女性中的一些人的经历让我们对媒体、穆斯林、女性和服装有了更细致入微的理解。本文从一项关于布基纳法索穆斯林青年公民、经济和社会参与的民族志研究中获取数据，讨论了阿贾德人的身份期望和身份表现如何随着他们的着装选择而被建构、解构和重建。它进一步将“Adja结构”置于布基纳法索关于伊斯兰教、后殖民、现代性和性别的更广泛的话语中。
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10714421.2019.1651153
Amani Ismail, G. Torosyan, M. Tully
ABSTRACT This study investigates the site of intersection between legacy and social media, whereby it asks how local legacy media (St Louis Post-Dispatch and Richmond Times-Dispatch) invoked social media (Facebook and Twitter) discourse within their coverage of the Ferguson (2014) and Charlottesville (2017) events. It thus explores how gatekeeping is manifested and, consequently, how the protest paradigm emerged in a news landscape of proliferating social media. Thematic textual analysis indicates that coverage of Charlottesville and Ferguson clearly relied on indulging the social media sphere in important ways. Common themes of social media as multipurpose platforms, as interfacing with law and order, and as reconciling material and digital modes culminating in social activism were revealed. The study shows that the protest paradigm that has long characterized legacy media’s coverage of social protest is not as “pure” as it may once have been, since a social media component is helping define the contours and content of legacy media’s landscape.
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10714421.2019.1658335
Olivia Warfield
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10714421.2019.1651595
A. Novak, Olguta Vilceanu
ABSTRACT The 2017 Equifax data breach left 144.5 million users digitally vulnerable to identity theft and future hacks. The organization’s failure to provide ongoing communication and information regarding the attack, motivated users to form crisis communities within the Twitter platform. This study examines the discourses present within the platform as users discussed the data breach. Digital crisis communities provide researchers opportunities to study how public users respond and react to a digital threat, particularly one that impacts online security and privacy. Through a qualitative analysis of tweets from the 3 weeks after the breach was announced, three discourses emerged that represented user frustrations and reactions to the security violation. These include breaking news, anger and outrage, and blame attribution. The findings of this study are relevant for those studying crisis communication, the Twitter platform, and online communities.
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10714421.2019.1658334
Jessica Elkaim
There’s no lack of scholarship concerned with the primacy of digital mediation and its repercussions on how we now constitute ourselves as subjects. However, less attention has been devoted to the ...
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10714421.2019.1647726
Angelos Kissas
ABSTRACT This article discusses the mediatization of politics and its theorization as a process of transformation in the making of (political) meaning through three different theses, presented as evolutionist, intended, and imagined transformation. These theses differ from each other not as much on what they describe as meaning-making transformation – the personalization, conversationalization, and dramatization of politics – as on what they consider to be the causes, extent, and consequences of this transformation. By examining their differences, the article argues that mediatization cannot be fully explained with reference either to a single-universal media logic (as in the thesis of evolutionist transformation) or actor-perceived media logics (as in the thesis of intended transformation). It is seen (in the thesis of imagined transformation), instead, as being catalyzed by the imaginary of media omnipresence, the overwhelming sense that media are everywhere, and therefore potential media effects must be anticipated, which intensifies the fusion of public with private spheres of political life. At the same time, this private-public fusion takes place through existing, institutionalized practices of media performativity, such as the performativity of charisma (personalization), ordinariness (conversationalization) and spectacle (dramatization), bearing implications for the exercise of power and democratic practice in our societies.
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Pub Date : 2019-04-03DOI: 10.1080/10714421.2019.1607999
R. Hegde, A. Pasek
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Pub Date : 2019-04-03DOI: 10.1080/10714421.2019.1599666
S. Cooper, Amy Schumer, Wanda Sykes
ABSTRACT In this paper, I discuss audience reactions to stand-up clips by Amy Schumer, Wanda Sykes, and Margaret Cho. Women’s comedy is arguably at the height of its popularity, but there is a seeming lack of research on audience interpretations of humor produced by women. This research builds on and extends current notions of “referential viewing” in audience research. Utilizing focus group analysis, I elaborate audience decoding practices and the role of identity in layers of referential viewing. Audiences in this research centered their discussions on identification of the comedians, identification of the targets of jokes, and identification of whom they perceive to be the intended audience. Discussed are implications for how audiences understand various power dynamics through humor and distinctions created between comedy that “laughs with” or that “laughs at.”
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