This study explores the relationship between social media influencers and the online identity of Egyptian youth. The context of this study is Egypt, a developing country in the Arab World which underwent a nation-changing revolution in 2011. Its youth, who represent around 60 per cent of the population, were one of the most impacted groups in the society. They are the heaviest users of social media and represent the biggest number of fans for influencers. The research question focuses on the relationship between social media influencers and the construction of the online identity of their youth fans. The research question is addressed through semi-structured in-depth interviews with nine social media influencers and eighteen of their fans. The analysis revealed that influencers play an indirect role in their fans online identity negotiation and construction.
{"title":"Social media influencers and the online identity of Egyptian youth","authors":"Hanan Ezzat","doi":"10.1386/cjcs_00017_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/cjcs_00017_1","url":null,"abstract":"This study explores the relationship between social media influencers and the online identity of Egyptian youth. The context of this study is Egypt, a developing country in the Arab World which underwent a nation-changing revolution in 2011. Its youth, who represent around 60 per cent\u0000 of the population, were one of the most impacted groups in the society. They are the heaviest users of social media and represent the biggest number of fans for influencers. The research question focuses on the relationship between social media influencers and the construction of the online\u0000 identity of their youth fans. The research question is addressed through semi-structured in-depth interviews with nine social media influencers and eighteen of their fans. The analysis revealed that influencers play an indirect role in their fans online identity negotiation and construction.","PeriodicalId":53977,"journal":{"name":"Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies","volume":"12 1","pages":"119-133"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1386/cjcs_00017_1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42343938","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}
{"title":"Raymond Williams: Cultural Analyst, J. McGuigan (2019)","authors":"R. Gilbert","doi":"10.1386/cjcs_00021_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/cjcs_00021_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Raymond Williams: Cultural Analyst, J. McGuigan (2019)Bristol: Intellect Books, 185 pp.,ISBN 978-1-78938-047-7, p/bk, £22.50","PeriodicalId":53977,"journal":{"name":"Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies","volume":"12 1","pages":"155-156"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66691682","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}
_Technology’s place in society is increasingly significant and debated. Although the inclusion of gender in discussions about technology is not novel, striking examples such as sexism (and racism) in artificial intelligence underscore the urgency of the debate. Popular sci-fi TV forms an important arena for the meaning-making on gender and technology for its audiences. Going beyond ‘gender essentialism’ and ‘technological determinism’, this study investigates gender and technology as represented in Black Mirror. As an anthology series, Black Mirror presents its audiences recognizable technologies and a diverse cast (in terms of gender and race). Employing a mixture of narrative and discourse analysis on all episodes of Black Mirror, how discourses on technology are gendered in Black Mirror is unravelled. Two dominant discourses – the Spectacle and the New Social Contract – show that beyond a manifest gender neutrality of technology, on a latent level patriarchal discourses are dominant in imagined future societies._
{"title":"Through the Black Mirror: Discourses on gender and technology in popular culture","authors":"Chiara Modugno, T. Krijnen","doi":"10.1386/cjcs_00011_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/cjcs_00011_1","url":null,"abstract":"_Technology’s place in society is increasingly significant and debated. Although the \u0000inclusion of gender in discussions about technology is not novel, striking examples \u0000such as sexism (and racism) in artificial intelligence underscore the urgency \u0000of the debate. Popular sci-fi TV forms an important arena for the meaning-making \u0000on gender and technology for its audiences. Going beyond ‘gender essentialism’ \u0000and ‘technological determinism’, this study investigates gender and technology \u0000as represented in Black Mirror. As an anthology series, Black Mirror presents its \u0000audiences recognizable technologies and a diverse cast (in terms of gender and \u0000race). Employing a mixture of narrative and discourse analysis on all episodes \u0000of Black Mirror, how discourses on technology are gendered in Black Mirror is \u0000unravelled. Two dominant discourses – the Spectacle and the New Social Contract \u0000– show that beyond a manifest gender neutrality of technology, on a latent level \u0000patriarchal discourses are dominant in imagined future societies._","PeriodicalId":53977,"journal":{"name":"Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies","volume":"12 1","pages":"3-19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43928253","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}
Daniel Barredo-Ibáñez, Karen Tatiana Pinto-Garzón, Úrsula Freundt-Thurne, Narcisa Medranda-Morales
Interactivity is among the main characteristics of online journalism because it helps to build bridges between the media, journalists and the users to whom the news is directed. This article, based on in-depth interviews with 35 journalists, examines the concept of interaction as understood by media sources in Colombia, Peru and Ecuador. These three countries are culturally and historically similar and have similar levels of Internet access. Most of the journalists indicated that they have adjusted their practice to incorporate some aspects of Internet-based interaction, such as social network presence and increased transparency to users. However, the media organizations for which they work have adopted few such procedures and maintain limited capacity to manage online participation. The journalists expressed their desire for the development of further ways to facilitate interaction with users.
{"title":"Interaction and user-generated content on online informative platforms: A comparison of journalists in Colombia, Peru and Ecuador1","authors":"Daniel Barredo-Ibáñez, Karen Tatiana Pinto-Garzón, Úrsula Freundt-Thurne, Narcisa Medranda-Morales","doi":"10.1386/cjcs_00016_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/cjcs_00016_1","url":null,"abstract":"Interactivity is among the main characteristics of online journalism because it helps to build bridges between the media, journalists and the users to whom the news is directed. This article, based on in-depth interviews with 35 journalists, examines the concept of interaction as understood by media sources in Colombia, Peru and Ecuador. These three countries are culturally and historically similar and have similar levels of Internet access. Most of the journalists indicated that they have adjusted their practice to incorporate some aspects of Internet-based interaction, such as social network presence and increased transparency to users. However, the media organizations for which they work have adopted few such procedures and maintain limited capacity to manage online participation. The journalists expressed their desire for the development of further ways to facilitate interaction with users.","PeriodicalId":53977,"journal":{"name":"Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies","volume":"12 1","pages":"99-117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48248989","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}
{"title":"Drifting with Debord, David Archibald and Carl Lavery (dir.) (2020), UK","authors":"Núria Araüna","doi":"10.1386/cjcs_00024_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/cjcs_00024_5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53977,"journal":{"name":"Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47414520","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}
Patricia Zamora-Martínez, P. Durántez-Stolle, R. Martínez-Sanz, María Hernández-Herrarte
Nowadays, Twitter is used by politicians to communicate directly with citizens, due to the Internet’s ability not only to inform, but to establish a dialogue and mobilize publics. The present research explores the use of Twitter as a medium of communication and debate in the rise of the Catalan independence movement. To attain this objective, the official profile of the Generalitat’s ex-president Carles Puigdemont is studied during the month before the referendum date. Through a quantitative and qualitative analysis of his tweets, it is observed if he seeks to mobilize the audience, as well as influence their opinion on the right to decide, and their voting intention. In addition, we aim to approach the response he obtains from the social audience. Based on citizens’ reactions to his tweets, the research analyses these users’ impressions; whether they support the separatist theses, and if the consequent debate entails a tone of rupture or tension.
{"title":"The language of secessionist activism: Discourse and dialogue on Twitter1","authors":"Patricia Zamora-Martínez, P. Durántez-Stolle, R. Martínez-Sanz, María Hernández-Herrarte","doi":"10.1386/cjcs_00014_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/cjcs_00014_1","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, Twitter is used by politicians to communicate directly with citizens, due to the Internet’s ability not only to inform, but to establish a dialogue and mobilize publics. The present research explores the use of Twitter as a medium of communication and debate in the rise\u0000 of the Catalan independence movement. To attain this objective, the official profile of the Generalitat’s ex-president Carles Puigdemont is studied during the month before the referendum date. Through a quantitative and qualitative analysis of his tweets, it is observed if he seeks to\u0000 mobilize the audience, as well as influence their opinion on the right to decide, and their voting intention. In addition, we aim to approach the response he obtains from the social audience. Based on citizens’ reactions to his tweets, the research analyses these users’ impressions;\u0000 whether they support the separatist theses, and if the consequent debate entails a tone of rupture or tension.","PeriodicalId":53977,"journal":{"name":"Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies","volume":"12 1","pages":"59-78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46100146","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}
Review of: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, S. Zuboff (2019)New York: PublicAffairs, 704 pp.,ISBN 978-1-61039-570-0, h/bk, $38, p/bk, $19.99
{"title":"The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, S. Zuboff (2019)","authors":"I. Tortajada","doi":"10.1386/cjcs_00020_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/cjcs_00020_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, S. Zuboff (2019)New York: PublicAffairs, 704 pp.,ISBN 978-1-61039-570-0, h/bk, $38, p/bk, $19.99","PeriodicalId":53977,"journal":{"name":"Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies","volume":"12 1","pages":"153-154"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47921368","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}
Broadcasting journalists use short, ad hoc interviews for newsworthy events. Because these interviews typically last for just a few minutes, it is a challenge for both journalist and interviewee to address the audience. This study explores journalistic questioning techniques in sixteen live broadcast interviews with athletes carried out by Estonian journalists during the 2018 Olympic Winter Games plus a few examples from sports interviews collected from the Spanish, Italian, Finnish, German and American television. Analysis shows the questioning technique of journalists does not help interviewees to provide well-focused and interesting explanations. The main problems are related to the scope of the questions, blurred focus and the journalists’ inability to use listening-based questioning. As a result of the analysis, we propose a universal model that would help journalists in any field (not just sports journalism) to carry out better ad hoc questioning.
{"title":"Journalists interviewing elite athletes: Dumb answers or bad questions?","authors":"Viivika Eljand-Kärp, H. Harro-Loit","doi":"10.1386/cjcs_00015_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/cjcs_00015_1","url":null,"abstract":"Broadcasting journalists use short, ad hoc interviews for newsworthy events. Because these interviews typically last for just a few minutes, it is a challenge for both journalist and interviewee to address the audience. This study explores journalistic questioning techniques in sixteen\u0000 live broadcast interviews with athletes carried out by Estonian journalists during the 2018 Olympic Winter Games plus a few examples from sports interviews collected from the Spanish, Italian, Finnish, German and American television. Analysis shows the questioning technique of journalists\u0000 does not help interviewees to provide well-focused and interesting explanations. The main problems are related to the scope of the questions, blurred focus and the journalists’ inability to use listening-based questioning. As a result of the analysis, we propose a universal model that\u0000 would help journalists in any field (not just sports journalism) to carry out better ad hoc questioning.","PeriodicalId":53977,"journal":{"name":"Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies","volume":"12 1","pages":"79-97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48257358","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}
{"title":"Principal frames for interpretation of the Catalan independence challenge to Spain","authors":"A. Dowling","doi":"10.1386/cjcs_00009_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/cjcs_00009_7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53977,"journal":{"name":"Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41645987","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}
This article aims at enriching the debate on the role of political satire when politics becomes troublesome. It takes an ethnographic approach to the production of the TV programme Polònia, which has been broadcast weekly in Catalonia since 2006 and consists of satirical impersonations of politicians. The first section tries to understand the role programme-makers attribute to Polònia within Catalan politics. Participants regard themselves as a central part of the political institutions in Catalonia and recognize a commitment with democratic values. This contests the normative approach in political communication studies which does not assign a role for entertainment in fostering democratic dialogue. The second section has to do with the main characteristic of Polònia’s language: experiential metaphors. Politics is ‘re-described’ in terms of everyday situations by transposing politicians into situations easily recognisable for the audience. It is concluded that Polònia uses a verisimilitude-oriented language rather than the veracity-oriented language of journalism.
{"title":"Metaphors for comic relief: Satirists’ self-reported contribution to democratic dialogue in difficult times","authors":"Mario Álvarez Fuentes","doi":"10.1386/cjcs_00006_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/cjcs_00006_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article aims at enriching the debate on the role of political satire when politics becomes troublesome. It takes an ethnographic approach to the production of the TV programme Polònia, which has been broadcast weekly in Catalonia since 2006 and consists of satirical impersonations\u0000 of politicians. The first section tries to understand the role programme-makers attribute to Polònia within Catalan politics. Participants regard themselves as a central part of the political institutions in Catalonia and recognize a commitment with democratic values. This contests\u0000 the normative approach in political communication studies which does not assign a role for entertainment in fostering democratic dialogue. The second section has to do with the main characteristic of Polònia’s language: experiential metaphors. Politics is ‘re-described’\u0000 in terms of everyday situations by transposing politicians into situations easily recognisable for the audience. It is concluded that Polònia uses a verisimilitude-oriented language rather than the veracity-oriented language of journalism.","PeriodicalId":53977,"journal":{"name":"Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44008303","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}
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