Pub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2020.1884481
A. Fattal
This is the story of Pacifista. Pacifista is a left-leaning, youth-focused, pro-peace digital-native journalism initiative (meaning it is not the digital version of an established publication) in Colombia. It has been an important outlet that has worked to bridge the breach between urban youth culture and the war-torn countryside in Colombia. Yet, despite its novel editorial approach to timely subject matter, vibrant graphic design and potentially lucrative ability to connect with millennial audiences in Colombia, it struggles to survive financially. This article is about that struggle. As a more freewheeling digital journalism comes to supplant traditional reporting, questions about how digital media’s political economy influences the stories it produces and circulates are vital to understanding transformations in the digital public sphere. In parsing the case of Pacifista, I want to suggest that the same pressures that scholars have identified in allowing corporate interests to subtly condition legacy media’s news production through their advertising budgets are at work in digital-native media. A key difference is that online editorial projects, like Pacifista, often lack the institutional culture and protocols to mediate inevitable conflicts between the editorial and advertising sides of the news business.1 The argument is not intended to be a critique of Pacifista as much as an alarm about the lack of a stable funding model for novel digital journalism projects that cut against the grain of corporate interests. While other scholars have made similar arguments in Western contexts, in less wealthy countries, where subscription models are less viable, such projects are even more vulnerable.2 In the last WhatsApp message that one of my interlocutors at Pacifista sent me, he urged me to publish my article soon “Before Pacifista dies, jajajaja” adding in the next bubble “It’s going broke.” I hope that, by the time you are reading this, the publication will still be posting.
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Pub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2020.1884477
A. Gardner
This set of images seeks to provide viewers with a window into Doha, Qatar, and into the urban heart of the modern Middle East that’s arisen on the Arabian Peninsula. Designed as an exhibit of photography, the images include overlapping themes that explore particular facets or threads of the urban landscape and life therein. In the final accounting, the collection as a whole is intended as an ode to the city itself. Doha is both an astounding and confounding city. A century ago, it was a sleepy and sweltering seaside village on the shores of the Persian Gulf. The small port of Doha was a minor regional hub inhabited by a seafaring merchant class connected to the
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Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2020.1824760
Jenny Huberman
Every now and then a book comes along that forces one to radically question the way the world works. The power of such books stems from their ability to expose the hidden “laws of motion” that anim...
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Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2020.1824854
K. Coelho, M. Krishnamurthy
Distancing, isolation and the thinning out of public spaces in Indian cities have offered up new pastoral landscapes of delight for the urban dweller—clean air, summer blooms, windswept highways an...
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Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2020.1824764
D. Bond
Published to near-universal acclaim, The Topeka School is awash in praise from local bookstores, celebrity tweets and literary critics alike. “A high-water mark in recent American fiction,” as Gart...
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Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2020.1825305
Miloš Todorović
As the world is slowly attempting to return to normal and hoping there won’t be a second wave of COVID-19, experts from all fields are trying to figure out what the future might hold. It is impossi...
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Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2020.1824859
D. Griffith
Crises tend to expose extremes. Following hurricanes, predatory capitalism and altruism compete with one another as people respond to and recover from the storm. War often exacerbates gender divisi...
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Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2020.1825310
Daniel D. Miller
I am pretty sure I am not supposed to say this, but when I first shifted into social anthropology from archaeology, having realised I had a general preference for people who were still alive, I had...
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