Pub Date : 2023-05-29DOI: 10.1177/02673231231175623c
{"title":"Book notes: The Currency of Truth: Newsmaking and the Late-Socialist Imaginaries of China’s Digital Era by Emily H. C. Chua","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/02673231231175623c","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02673231231175623c","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47765,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Communication","volume":"38 1","pages":"324 - 325"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45002545","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 : 2023-05-29DOI: 10.1177/02673231231175623a
{"title":"Book notes: Eating Disorders in Public Discourse: Exploring Media Representations and Lived Experiences by Laura A. Cariola (Editor)","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/02673231231175623a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02673231231175623a","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47765,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Communication","volume":"38 1","pages":"323 - 324"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44180322","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 : 2023-05-29DOI: 10.1177/02673231231175623d
{"title":"Book notes: The Dancer’s Voice: Performance and Womanhood in Transnational India by Rumya Sree Putcha","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/02673231231175623d","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02673231231175623d","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47765,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Communication","volume":"38 1","pages":"325 - 326"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45022362","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 : 2023-05-29DOI: 10.1177/02673231231175623b
{"title":"Book notes: Architecture, Media, Populism … and Violence: Reification and Representation II by Graham Cairns (Editor)","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/02673231231175623b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02673231231175623b","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47765,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Communication","volume":"38 1","pages":"324 - 324"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48734931","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 : 2023-05-21DOI: 10.1177/02673231231176966
Christina Holtz-Bacha
Although the European Union has been pursuing media policy for decades, its legal competence for the media sector remains limited. Since its inception in the 1980s, the EU had to base its media policy on its responsibility to enforce the internal market and the direct application of competition law, which has led to a one-sided economic perspective on the media. With references to the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, the enshrinement of European values in the EU Treaty, the rule of law mechanism, and driven by the European Parliament, the EU Commission has recently shown a new direction in its media-related activities, which acknowledge the important role of the media in democracy and increasingly place media freedom and media pluralism at the center of its media policy. The draft European Media Freedom Act presented by the Commission in autumn 2022 brings together the numerous activities aimed at protecting the freedom of the media and their independence, and at the same time seems to test the limits of the scope for its media policy.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-17DOI: 10.1177/02673231231175274
Péter Bajomi-Lázár
it, for the sophistication through which this text carries its arguments leaves little room for anything but appreciation. In that sense, it is a genuine tour de force for the field and makes one wonder if anything will be the same after. The writing is comprehensive, convincing and utterly compelling. A rather impressive aspect of this volume is the lack of engagement with popular perspectives of ‘all powerful’ global communication, for example approaches from scholars such as Thussu (2020), Herman and McChesney (1997), Hamelink (2015), Jin (2019) and others. For some, this perhaps equates to a refusal to acknowledge or polemicize, for others, simply taking the discussion elsewhere. Instead, we find carefully traced and described conclusions such as ‘The Internet is far more a localizing than a globalizing medium. The world’s political and cultural boundaries are being reproduced on the internet’ (p. 185). Simple and clearheaded notions, along with related reminders that, for example, news is inherently local and domesticated with very few exceptions, encourage us to consider if we are being honest with ourselves about the real nature of global communication, or whether we remain drunk on possibility that it has never really transformed into reality. With this book, Hafez and Grüne have made a towering contribution to the academy, destined to influence scholarship on global media and communication for some time to come in the foreseeable future. The way we look at cross-border communication desperately needs to change, and by more exactingly considering processes at work in social systems and lifeworlds, we may now have a more realistic empirical footing to stand on. Finally, the student of mine, looking for that global communication job, might now be able to have a clearer understanding of what global communication really is, or isn’t.
{"title":"Book review: The Journalism Manifesto by Barbie Zelizer, Pablo J. Boczkowski and C. W. Anderson","authors":"Péter Bajomi-Lázár","doi":"10.1177/02673231231175274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02673231231175274","url":null,"abstract":"it, for the sophistication through which this text carries its arguments leaves little room for anything but appreciation. In that sense, it is a genuine tour de force for the field and makes one wonder if anything will be the same after. The writing is comprehensive, convincing and utterly compelling. A rather impressive aspect of this volume is the lack of engagement with popular perspectives of ‘all powerful’ global communication, for example approaches from scholars such as Thussu (2020), Herman and McChesney (1997), Hamelink (2015), Jin (2019) and others. For some, this perhaps equates to a refusal to acknowledge or polemicize, for others, simply taking the discussion elsewhere. Instead, we find carefully traced and described conclusions such as ‘The Internet is far more a localizing than a globalizing medium. The world’s political and cultural boundaries are being reproduced on the internet’ (p. 185). Simple and clearheaded notions, along with related reminders that, for example, news is inherently local and domesticated with very few exceptions, encourage us to consider if we are being honest with ourselves about the real nature of global communication, or whether we remain drunk on possibility that it has never really transformed into reality. With this book, Hafez and Grüne have made a towering contribution to the academy, destined to influence scholarship on global media and communication for some time to come in the foreseeable future. The way we look at cross-border communication desperately needs to change, and by more exactingly considering processes at work in social systems and lifeworlds, we may now have a more realistic empirical footing to stand on. Finally, the student of mine, looking for that global communication job, might now be able to have a clearer understanding of what global communication really is, or isn’t.","PeriodicalId":47765,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Communication","volume":"38 1","pages":"317 - 319"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42291985","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 : 2023-05-16DOI: 10.1177/02673231231175623
Michael S. Jeffress, Joy Cypher, J. Ferris, Julie-Ann Scott-Pollock, Laura A. Cariola
much forms of mass communication but rather ‘a kind of currency’—‘texts that are produced and circulated less for their impact on any public than for the private transactions and relationships that their circulation can engender’ (p. 4). The examples she provides are of journalists who might write articles to please their editors for the benefit of their career or managing executives promoting articles praising party officials who later on provide some form of political protection for the newspaper. In her view, professional ideals are shaped by various influences—in addition to Party doctrines, there is also the influence of Western theories and models as well as reprises of Confucianism. Her conclusion is that ‘news, in this contemporary construction, is a medium of truth-claims that are always doing more particular things for more particular actors than they let on’ (pp. 4–5). The book is split into Introduction, five chapters, and Epilogue. Chapter 2, ‘A Contested Medium,’ provides a history of the ‘institution of news’ (p. 27) in China. Chapter 3, ‘From Propaganda to Publicness,’ explores the newsmaking practices of the journalists working in the Politics section of the newspaper the book is about. Chapter 4, ‘An Ethic of Efficacy,’ then focuses on some habits and practices that might be perceived as unprofessional and unethical. Chua argues that ‘these dispositions are the elements of a novel newsmaking ethic that is centered not on the value of truthfulness but on the value of efficacy—that is, on the journalists’ ability to use their news assignments to sustain and support their newsmaking practice’ (p. 27). Chapter 5, ‘News as Currency,’ develops the book’s main argument of news as currency. Chapter 6, ‘The Newsmakers’ Jianghu,’ is based on the term Jianghu, which literally translates as ‘rivers and lakes’ but it has its roots in Chinese martial arts literature, and is ‘commonly used to describe the realm of interpersonal alliances and rivalries that are known to pervade China’s business and professional worlds, and to have a great degree of influence on the trajectories of the individuals who participate in them’ (p. 119). All in all, although focused on China, the book’s ethnographic insights and theoretical framing of news as currency would be of interest to researchers from around the world.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-12DOI: 10.1177/02673231231175273
Todd Nesbitt
{"title":"Book review: Foundations of Global Communication by Kai Hafez and Anne Grüne","authors":"Todd Nesbitt","doi":"10.1177/02673231231175273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02673231231175273","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47765,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Communication","volume":"38 1","pages":"314 - 317"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47106511","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 : 2023-05-12DOI: 10.1177/02673231231175300
B. Özçetin
Communication is among the most used and least theorized concepts across various disciplines, including communication studies. There are many communication theories and models, most of which take communication for granted, only as a name and an unproblematic/self-evident concept. The concept’s ambiguity relates to the definition of borders and the discipline’s content. In ‘Communication theory and the disciplines’, Jefferson D. Pooley (2016a) presents an exhaustive list of disciplines that relate or are sensitive to communication theory, including sociology, psychology, political science, geography, economics, philosophy, history, literary studies, and cognate fields such as cultural studies, visual studies, game studies, popular music studies, gender studies, and LGBT studies. Located at the intersection of various disciplines, communication studies host a plethora of analytical frameworks, epistemological paradigms, and research interests. However, ‘what it gained in intellectual richness . . . it lacked in disciplinary focus and shared identity’ (Waisbord, 2019). Labeling communication studies as a post-discipline, Waisbord points to ontological plurality, theoretical heteroglossia, hyper-specialization of contemporary scholarship, and the overall decline of grand theories as the main reasons for the identity crisis. Communication is defined as connection, dialogue, expression, information, persuasion, and symbolic interaction (Waisbord, 2019). However, the ontological status of communication as such has not been adequately elaborated. What defines communication scholarship? What is the object and subject of communication? Most important of all, what is communication? These questions are and seem to remain valid in the foreseeable future. Two brilliant contributions discussed in this review article address this plurality and identity crisis in their ways: Igor E. Klyukanov’s Communication: A House Seen from Review Essay
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Pub Date : 2023-05-12DOI: 10.1177/02673231231175287
Khaled Imran
{"title":"Book review: Data Cartels: The Companies that Control and Monopolize our Information by Sarah Lamdan","authors":"Khaled Imran","doi":"10.1177/02673231231175287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02673231231175287","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47765,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Communication","volume":"38 1","pages":"320 - 322"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48237019","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}
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