Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1177/02673231221111915
Isabel Fernández Alonso
This article analyses political power's media capture strategies in Spain by addressing the central government's and several regional governments' actions between 2016 and 2021. The policies implemented by parties from across the political spectrum are studied, with similar behaviours that continue to pursue or even reinforce strategies from previous eras being observed. This confirms the trait of strong government interventionism that is typical of Polarised Pluralist media systems. This article specifically takes an in-depth look at control over public media's governing bodies, the fragility of independent regulators, and opaqueness and indicators of instrumentalisation in the management of institutional advertising. The conclusions are of a propositional nature. Potential solutions to the forms of capture highlighted throughout the article are proposed. The legal reform of the General Audiovisual Communication Law—in progress at the time of writing—does not contemplate such solutions.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1177/02673231231163220b
Andrew T. Kenyon’s
countries navigate outside threats? How did the involvement of Nordic actors in interand post-war international institutions such as theUnitedNations andNATO impact the use of communicative strategies in the Nordic countries? In what way did media from other parts of the world contribute to Nordic citizens’ self-understanding?’ (p. 20). The final part, ‘Internationalism and Environmentalism’, consists of five chapters exploring how ‘landscapes, landmarks and machines function to articulate a mediated notion of, for instance, long-lasting social democratic-oriented projects to domestic and foreign publics in different media? How did different actors collaborate on public information campaigns related to cross-border issues like economic growth and environmental challenges? How did Nordic foreign aid organizations convey their work to domestic audiences, and how did this contribute to the image of the Nordic region as internationalist?’ (p. 21). All in all, this is a rich and coherent volume.
{"title":"Book notes: Dismantling Cultural Borders Through Social Media and Digital Communications: How Networked Communities Compromise Identity","authors":"Andrew T. Kenyon’s","doi":"10.1177/02673231231163220b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02673231231163220b","url":null,"abstract":"countries navigate outside threats? How did the involvement of Nordic actors in interand post-war international institutions such as theUnitedNations andNATO impact the use of communicative strategies in the Nordic countries? In what way did media from other parts of the world contribute to Nordic citizens’ self-understanding?’ (p. 20). The final part, ‘Internationalism and Environmentalism’, consists of five chapters exploring how ‘landscapes, landmarks and machines function to articulate a mediated notion of, for instance, long-lasting social democratic-oriented projects to domestic and foreign publics in different media? How did different actors collaborate on public information campaigns related to cross-border issues like economic growth and environmental challenges? How did Nordic foreign aid organizations convey their work to domestic audiences, and how did this contribute to the image of the Nordic region as internationalist?’ (p. 21). All in all, this is a rich and coherent volume.","PeriodicalId":47765,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Communication","volume":"38 1","pages":"210 - 211"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44826611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1177/02673231231163220f
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1177/02673231231163220d
B. Geoghegan, rober baron philanthropies, C. Lévi-Strauss
italism and the ‘common investment in intersectional thinking and suspicion of hierarchy, including patriarchal marriage and family’ with feminism as well as indigenous political thinking with anticolonialism’ (p. 2). The book is split into Introduction and four very long substantial chapters – on printers and presses, epistolarity, radical study, and intersectionality and third power. Ferguson argues that anarchism is not ‘a nice idea in theory but one that could never work in practice’ but rather that ‘the theory needs some work, but the practices have much to offer’ (p. 12). All in all, this is a fascinating exploration into the history of anarchist print culture that also counteracts a lot of myths about anarchism as a movement.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1177/02673231231163220e
B. Geoghegan, rober baron philanthropies, C. Lévi-Strauss
italism and the ‘common investment in intersectional thinking and suspicion of hierarchy, including patriarchal marriage and family’ with feminism as well as indigenous political thinking with anticolonialism’ (p. 2). The book is split into Introduction and four very long substantial chapters – on printers and presses, epistolarity, radical study, and intersectionality and third power. Ferguson argues that anarchism is not ‘a nice idea in theory but one that could never work in practice’ but rather that ‘the theory needs some work, but the practices have much to offer’ (p. 12). All in all, this is a fascinating exploration into the history of anarchist print culture that also counteracts a lot of myths about anarchism as a movement.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-20DOI: 10.1177/02673231231163704
Isabel Villegas Simón, J. S. Sánchez Soriano, Rafael Ventura
There are currently more trans characters than ever in television series, while at the same time scrutiny of trans people is intensifying in social and public debate, and the correspondence between this increased presence in the media and improvements in the trans community's rights is in dispute. This research aims to find out how trans audiences relate to their portrayal in TV series, to learn about their perceptions and opinions, and to understand how these depictions affect their everyday lives. A qualitative analysis was conducted of 19 trans people in two focus groups and nine semi-structured interviews. The findings show that the participants perceive a clear distance between their realities and the most popular narratives about trans lives. They identify cispassing as a transversal element that drives the production, creation, and distribution of media narratives, leading to a transnormative representation. Consequently, the trans audience demands the inclusion of trans people in the (audiovisual) cultural circuit in order to combat the ‘cis gaze’ and to create more diverse narratives.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-20DOI: 10.1177/02673231231163220
E. Stjernholm, C. Thomson
This book, as the title suggests, offers a history of propaganda andpersuasion inNordicmedia in the classic Nordic welfare epoch between the 1930s and the 1980s. The editors structure it around three key themes: cultural diplomacy and public information, politics and security as well as internationalismand environmentalism.Themain researchquestion is ‘howwere propaganda and persuasion practices, as well as their associated ideas and the results they generated, shaped and reshaped by transnational entanglements within the Nordic region and beyond?’ (p. 6). The book draws on Garth S. Jowett and Victoria O’Donnell’s inclusive definition of propaganda as ‘“the deliberate, systematic attempt to shape perceptions,manipulate cognitions, and direct behavior to achieve a response that furthers the desired intent of the propagandist”’ (p. 6). Persuasion, on the other hand, is defined as ‘a complex, continuing and reciprocal process inwhich both parties are dependent on one another, a process that focuses both on influencing a given attitude or behaviour and on the co-creation ofmeaning’ (p. 6). The book focuses on propaganda and persuasion because according to the editors:
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Pub Date : 2023-03-12DOI: 10.1177/02673231231163750
S. Coleman
We academics tend to write about democracy in two quite different ways: empirically and normatively. Empirical accounts of existing democratic systems focus upon institutionalised arrangements, describing them in a ‘realist’ spirit and offering explanations for patterned and predictable events, trends and behaviour based upon what are conceived as being ‘value-free’ modes of investigation. Typically, empirical scholars of democracy pursue an instrumentally rationalist approach to political motivation and interaction. For them, democracy as a research object is not that different from the study of the planetary system by astronomers. They stick to what’s there – ‘the facts’ – beyond the bounds of which they leave matters to the theoretical conjectures of philosophers. Normative writings about democracy are prescriptive and evaluative. They highlight the values upon which democratic claims are made and justifications legitimised. They offer propositions about what democracies should be like. They do not eschew idealbased theory, arguing that it is only on the basis of normative qualities that empirical democracies can distinguish themselves from other political arrangements. In the political science literature – and especially that sub-field focused upon the study of political communication – empirical and normative accounts of democracy have not tended to sit together easily. Proponents of each complain about the limited vision of the other. Normative scholars of democracy sometimes wonder whether the relentless Review Essay
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