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Coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war on Brazilian TV news: The case of Jornal Nacional International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Liziane S Guazina, Fernando O Paulino, Fernanda Vasques, Bruno Araújo
This article presents the main findings of a content analysis of the coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war in the Brazilian TV news program, Jornal Nacional, undertaken as part of an international study of coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war on television news in nine countries. Jornal Nacional was selected as the first news program to be broadcast nationwide in Brazil, which is still the country's market
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Covering the invasion of Ukraine on Russia's evening TV news International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Svetlana Pasti
This article examines the coverage of the first few weeks of the invasion of Ukraine by Russian TV in the evening news program, Vremya ( Time) on the Russian prostate Channel One. The purpose of the study was to find out how Russia's main news program built its agenda and what its message was for the audience. For this, the study conducted a content analysis of the news, measuring the type, frequency
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COVID-19 and government trust: A spiral of silence analysis in South America International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Stephen M Croucher, Anthony Spencer, Sandra Bustamante, Thao Nguyen, Oscar Gomez
The COVID-19 pandemic has uncovered prejudices, systemic inequities and critical feelings about governmental institutions around the globe. Since the start of the pandemic, the 12 nations that make...
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Analyzing intermedia citations in the press of India and Pakistan International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Shabir Hussain, Mohammad Ashraf Wani, Haseeb ur Rehman
In this study, the researchers have investigated the practice of intermedia citations in the leading newspapers of India and Pakistan over an extending time period from 2005 to 2022. The case of th...
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“It's the ideology, stupid!”: Trust in the press, ideological proximity between citizens and journalists and political parallelism. A comparative approach in 17 countries International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2023-04-09 Luigi Curini, Diego Garusi, Sergio Splendore
Matching national surveys with the dataset offered by the Worlds of Journalism Study network (2012–2016), this article presents an analysis of trust in the press covering 16 European countries and ...
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Ethics principles for social and behavior change communication International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Tom Jacobson, Nicole Lemire Garlic
The field of social and behavior change communication (SBCC) has a history reaching back to the period of decolonization following World War II. Since that period, much has been learned about theor...
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A “regional halo effect”: Media use and evaluations of America's strategic relationships with five Middle East countries International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Justin D. Martin, Mariam Alkazemi, Krishna Sharma
Countries in the Middle East go to considerable lengths using mass media to try to maintain or improve their images among the U.S. public. The same countries often engage in negative media campaign...
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Transnational soap operas and viewing practices in the digital age: The Greek fandom of Turkish dramas International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Dimitra Laurence Larochelle
The viewing of Turkish soap operas in Greece is a stigmatized activity not only for reasons intrinsically related to the nature of soap operas per se, but also for reasons related to the historical...
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Pandemic populism and permanent campaigning: How Central American presidents build political legitimacy on Facebook International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2023-03-20 María Fernanda Salas, Ignacio Siles
This article examines how Carlos Alvarado and Nayib Bukele, presidents of Costa Rica and El Salvador, respectively, employed Facebook throughout 2020 to communicate about the COVID-19 pandemic. The...
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News framing of the 2014–15 Ukraine conflict by the BBC and RT International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Zixiu Liu
This article explores the dynamic relationship between international news organisations and politics in the United Kingdom and Russia. Using the 2014–15 Ukraine conflict as its case study, this res...
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Content is power: Cultural engineering and political control over transnational television International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Ece Algan, Yesim Kaptan
Since the 2000s, the television industry in Turkey has emerged as a transnational business and as one of the largest TV program exporters worldwide. However, Turkish television is still largely nat...
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Embedding Crimea in Russia(n Empire): Russian views on Crimea in the series ‘Kurt Seyit and Shura/Alexandra’ International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Diliara Brileva
Despite the Russian viewers’ interest in Turkish TV series, only a few Turkish TV series got aired on a federal channel in Russia. One of them is ‘Kurt Seyit and Shura.’ It was broadcast in Turkey ...
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Selling Turkish quality: Multiple proximities and Turkish format exports in the post-streaming era International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Şebnem Baran
A close analysis of puhutv’s Şahsiyet (Persona, 2018) and its Mexican adaptation for HBO Max Latin America (HBO Max Latinoamérica), Asesino del Olvido (Before I Forget, 2021) reveals that the show’...
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Mediated public diplomacy and peace journalism: International public news agencies on the Syrian crisis International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2023-01-31 Metin Ersoy, Emre İşeri
As the liberal international order has been falling, the heteropolar order coupled with politics of uncertainty has been rising. In this context, illiberal regimes of status-seeking powers have rea...
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Asymmetrical discursive competition: China–United States digital diplomacy in Africa International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2023-01-27 Maria Repnikova, Keyu Alexander Chen
This article examines China–US competition for narratives by analyzing whether and how Chinese and American diplomats engage each other in routine diplomatic outreach to African audiences on Twitte...
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Protest reporting across clientelist media systems International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2022-12-29 Summer Harlow, Lindita Camaj, Ivanka Pjesivac
Most protest paradigm studies examining news media's portrayals of protesters are based on an assumption that the way the paradigm operates within the U.S. media system is similar around the globe....
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Perceptions of media influence and performance among politicians in European democracies International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2022-12-21 Peter Maurer
This study explores politicians’ subjective views of the mediatisation of politics and the implication it has for their satisfaction with democracy. Based on previous research, we hypothesise a neg...
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Do sex and violence sell internationally? A moderating role of cultural differences in the mediation effect of age ratings on the relationship between films’ content elements and worldwide box office performance International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2022-12-18 Guangchao Charles Feng, Nan Luo
Although the determinants of films’ box office performance have been extensively examined in the past, there is a gap in the literature with regard to how the mediation effect of age ratings for mo...
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Sticking to the status quo with a twist: Western media representations of fiscal negotiations during the Greek economic crisis International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Tryfon Boukouvidis
In a volatile global economic system, the need for comprehensive media portrayal of economic crises intensifies. Crises expose the deficiencies of existing financial systems and present opportuniti...
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Empirical support for the Al-Jazeera Effect notion: Al-Jazeera's Twitter following International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Tal Samuel-Azran, Ilan Manor
Globalization scholars argue that the launch of Al-Jazeera has promoted a fairer horizontal news flow as a non-Western perspective entered the global public sphere leading to the Al-Jazeera Effect....
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Micro media systems International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Signe Ravn-Højgaard
In this article, the concept of “micro media system” is introduced to describe the relations between media and politics in microstates and societies. Drawing on ideas from the literature on democra...
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Organizational artefacts in European student radio: Exploring the organizational culture of student radio in Europe International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Ari Hautaniemi
Organizational culture manifests in core beliefs, values and cultural artefacts. This study examines the organizational artefacts, for example, management practices, stance with the outside world, ...
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Journalistic role orientations in Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Karen McIntyre, Meghan Sobel Cohen
This study examines how journalists in Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya perceive their journalistic role orientations in light of the countries’ differing political systems, Rwanda representing the nation ...
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Covering the EU at local level: A multiple-case study in Germany, the UK and Spain International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2022-10-22 Rubén Rivas-de-Roca, Francisco J. Caro-González, Mar García-Gordillo
In recent years, European journalists show a preference for opinionated stories in a growing movement triggered by the acceleration of the political information cycle in the digital sphere. This re...
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The Dissident: ‘Sawing’ political activism by media corporation? International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2022-10-19 Aliaa Dakroury
Premiered in 2020, and although representing a grim story to narrate the Khashoggi story – a Saudi prominent journalist – who was ambushed, killed, and his body dismembered in his own country's con...
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Spatial dimensions within hierarchy of influences: How re-conceived notions of space in networked societies impact Latin American journalists International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2022-10-13 Vanessa de Macedo Higgins Joyce, Summer Harlow, Amy Schmitz Weiss, Rosental Calmon Alves
Local, national, regional and global networks of power intersect in this digital era, raising questions of how re-conceived notions of space in networked societies impact journalism. This study sur...
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Consumption of true crimes and perceived vulnerability: Does the cultural context matter? International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2022-10-11 María T. Soto-Sanfiel, Diego F. Montoya-Bermúdez
This qualitative research explores how true crime documentaries (TCDs) are received in cultural settings with different crime rates. It identifies and compares motivations for watching TCDs, percei...
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Transitions to nowhere: Western teleology and regime-type classification International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Afonso de Albuquerque
Comparative Political Communication studies often take the same basic regime-type Stage of Democracy Development (SDD) classification as a basis for analysis. In this model, societies can fall into...
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Journalism education, research, and practice in Africa: Toward a transformative approach International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2022-09-16 Levi Obijiofor, Marie M’Balla-Ndi Oelgemoeller
Western conceptualisation of journalism as a profession and an academic discipline fundamentally represents systemic challenges to how journalism could be theorised, researched, and practised in wa...
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Preparing to publish: How journalists negotiate content restrictions in semi-authoritarian states International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2022-08-24 Ruth Moon
Journalists act strategically in response to their political environments, using practices like self-censorship to avoid negative repercussions from powerful actors. But what does self-censorship l...
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Forbidden fruit or soured grapes? Long-term effects of the temporary unavailability and rationing of US news websites on their consumption from the European Union International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2022-07-15 Neil Thurman, James Sly, Bartosz Wilczek, Richard Fletcher
In May 2018, hundreds of websites located outside the European Union (EU), including USAToday.com, became completely or partially unavailable to EU citizens as a number of publishers decided to com...
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Communicating for social change: A model of communicative power International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2022-07-14 Lauren Kogen
There are two fundamental concerns about global communication for social change (CSC) research and practice that guide the present study. The first is whether CSC researchers are collecting evidenc...
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At the intersection of two countries: A comparative critical analysis of COVID-19 communication in Australia and New Zealand International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2022-07-11 Petra Theunissen, Katharina Wolf
This research provides critical, comparative insights into the public communication responses employed by Australia and New Zealand during the first twelve months following the World Health Organiz...
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Mapping participation in ICT4D: A meta-analytic review of development communication research International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2022-07-05 Michael Dokyum Kim, Kyung Sun Lee
We conducted a meta-analytic study of recent (2009 to 2020) information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) research in the field of development communication. Our aim was to exp...
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Discursive diversion: Manipulation of nuclear threats by the conservative leaders in Japan and Israel International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2022-06-02 Kohei Watanabe, Elad Segev, Atsushi Tago
We study how leaders of parliamentary democracies attempt to trigger the “rally-around-the-flag” effect through the mass media. We have collected news articles on North Korea and Iran published by ...
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Beyond the humanitarian savior logics? UNHCR's public communication strategies for the Syrian and Central African crises International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2022-05-06 David Ongenaert, Stijn Joye, David Machin
Forcibly displaced people often face restrictive migration policies and stereotypical discourses. Therefore, this study analyzes UNHCR's public communication strategies towards the Syrian and Centr...
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The politics of international broadcasters: A comparison between Indonesia and Australia International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2022-05-03 Masduki
Seeking to assess the current state of international broadcasters (IBs) within the framework of public diplomacy, this paper assesses the relevance of state-sponsored IBs within the contemporary pu...
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Fictional politainment: Exposure to international television drama and attitude toward female politicians International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2022-05-02 Azmat Rasul, Donghee Shin, Park Beede
We examine the relationship between media use motivations and attitudes toward female politicians by proposing a conceptual model explaining the role of key mediating variables such as identification, narrative transportation, enjoyment, and political self-efficacy in influencing the attitude of the viewers of international TV drama towards female role models (politicians). We investigated the direct
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Globalisation, media trust, and populism: A comparative study of the US and Germany International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Pu Yan, Ralph Schroeder
Globalisation is an area where supporters and non-supporters of left- and right-wing parties disagree, both for domestic and international policies. Populists see metropolitan elites as ‘corrupt’ and oppose policies that encourage globalisation in trade, immigration, and multi-culturalism. Media play important roles in providing pro- and anti-globalisation content, both in traditional and digital media
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Rethinking civic education in the digital era: How media, school, and youth negotiate the meaning of citizenship International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Weiyu Zhang, Zhuo Chen, Jia Ying Neoh, Yeow-Tong Chia
This study clarifies the evolving notion of civic education that resulted from technological advancement. We investigated Singaporean young people's views on civic education by contrasting the roles of schools, families and friends, and social media in shaping their understanding. Through focus groups, we found that there are contentions on the definitions, approaches, and meanings of civic education
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Digital citizenship in Asia: A critical introduction International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2022-04-13 Audrey Yue, Annisa R. Beta
This paper situates the theory and practice of digital citizenship in general, and Asia in particular. It surveys four extant thematic clusters: (1) the democratizing potential of information and communication technologies; (2) the role of digital citizenship education; (3) the power structures of technology in shaping citizen participation, and; (4) the digital emancipation of marginalized groups
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Digital sexual citizenship and LGBT young people's platform Use International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2022-04-13 Audrey Yue, Ryan PA Lim
Drawing on original interviews and digital ethnography conducted with 20 LGBT young people, and using critical platform studies and a design-centric approach, this paper demonstrates how platform use has enabled LGBT young people maintain sexual identity authenticity, normalise fluidity, reimagine community through allied algorithmic mediation, negotiate the threat of peer surveillance, and refuse
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What drives changes in expressive social media use for generational cohorts? International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2022-04-12 Natalie Pang, Yue Ting Woo
Extant literature has often focused on digital citizenship amongst youths in particular instances and contexts, but is limited in addressing how such citizenship compare to other generational cohorts. Examining political expression as a particular form of actualising citizenship, the paper utilises a longitudinal approach to explore the effects of changes in political efficacy, media use, political
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Soft news in soft war: Maximum pressure, Voice of America, and outrage media in Iran International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2022-03-23 Gilda Modjtahedi, Piotr M. Szpunar
The US Maximum Pressure campaign, a conglomeration of diplomatic, economic, and military sticks, was ostensibly designed to force Iran into renegotiating the 2015 nuclear deal; critics say the real aim is regime change. The auxiliary media efforts in support of the policy are part of an ongoing soft war. One dimension of these efforts is the export of a popular American media format, the outrage genre
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The role of social psychological processes in journalist's war and peace journalism attitudes International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2022-02-04 Huri Yontucu, Shenel Husnu, Metin Ersoy
Previous studies have shown factors including media ownership, socio-political censorship, ethnic division and, the lack of professional training as obstacles to practising Peace Journalism principles. This research explored how social psychological processes including intergroup contact and outgroup attitudes influence Peace Journalism attitudes. Turkish Cypriot (TC) and Greek Cypriot (GC) journalists
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Media Policies in Chile and Mexico. A Comparative Analysis in the Context of the Pacific Alliance (2012–2018) International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2022-01-28 Rodrigo Gómez, Chiara Sáez
This article presents a comparative study of media policies in Chile and Mexico as members of the Pacific Alliance agreement, using media clientelism as an articulating concept, assuming that it takes a particular form in the neoliberal countries of the continent. For this, five dimensions are compared: a) decrees and the implementation of laws; b) distribution and allocation of broadcasting licenses;
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Do journalists cater to audience's social identity? Assessing the alignment of news content with readers’ national identity orientations International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2021-12-29 Miki Tanikawa
This study investigated the use of national stereotypes and home cultural referents (so-called “domestication”) in foreign news reporting, in relation to social identity theory which posits that individuals are drawn to information/assessments that positively describe the social groups to which they belong. Through a content analysis of influential newspapers from three different countries, this study
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Audiovisual policy transfer between Mercosur and the European Union has gone offtrack International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2021-12-20 Marina Rossato Fernandes, Jan Loisen, Karen Donders
This article analyses the Audiovisual Mercosur Program as a case of policy transfer between Mercosur and the European Union. A qualitative document analysis, expert interviews and the use of policy transfer theory and its constraints made possible the critical evaluation of the program and its impacts. By focusing on the constraints that led to an incomplete and uninformed transfer, we were able to
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Africa's global media image in a digital world as an exclusive western preserve? International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2021-12-14 Chikaire Wilfred Williams Ezeru
Who constructs Africa's global media image? That is the main focus of this longitudinal study. It looks at both the journalists and the news sources applied in the British press coverage of Africa between 1992 and 2017. Four British national newspapers (The Guardian, Financial Times, The Times, and Daily Mail) and a mixed research approach (content analysis and semi-structured interviews) were used
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Migrant Racialization on Twitter during a border and a pandemic crisis International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2021-11-24 Maria Avraamidou, Eftychios Eftychiou
This work examines how the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic reshaped the migration debate on Twitter. Through co-hashtag network analysis, time-frequency and content analysis, it shows that the pandemic was related with positive (humanitarian) and negative (threat) stances about migration. The positive side focused on the need to protect refugees stranded at camps in Greece from COVID-19. The negative
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Examining perceptions towards war/peace journalism: A survey of journalists in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2021-06-07 Shabir Hussain, Araz Ramazan Ahmad
Following seminal study on journalistic attitudes towards wars and peace journalism, in this study we investigated the perceptions of conflict reporters in the three most deadly countries in the world including Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. A total of 317 journalists participated in this study. Though generally we found support for the earlier study, the analysis shows journalists engage in wider
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Framing Syrian refugees: US local news and the politics of immigration International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2021-03-28 Aziz Douai, Mehmet F Bastug, Davut Akca
The article investigates news coverage and media framing of the Syrian refugee debate as a public opinion issue in US local news in 2015. The sheer number of refugees created an unprecedented humanitarian crisis as millions of civilians settled in neighboring countries, and a significant number of them embarked on a perilous journey to seek refuge in European countries. The political response to the
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From echo chambers to ‘idea chambers’: Concurrent online interactions with similar and dissimilar others International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2021-02-16 Justin D Martin, George Anghelcev, Noor Abunabaa, Fouad Hassan, Sarah Shaath
Countering conventional theory, this study found that online homophily and heterophily—connectivity with both similar and dissimilar others—are not necessarily countervailing phenomena, among representative surveys of internet users from five Arab countries: Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Lebanon, Qatar, and UAE (N = 4,198). Respondents who said the Internet has increased their contact with politically and
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Globalizing male attractiveness: Advertising in men’s lifestyle magazines in India International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2021-02-07 Suman Mishra
This study examines the construction of new models of masculinity in men’s lifestyle magazine advertising in India. Using textual analysis of advertisements, the study shows how certain kinds of western masculine ideals and body aesthetics are being adopted and reworked into advertising to appeal and facilitate consumption among middle and upper-class Indian men living in the urban centers of India
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A corpus-based study of representation of Islam and Muslims in American media: Critical Discourse Analysis Approach International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2021-01-27 Ke Li, Qiang Zhang
Media representations have significant power to shape opinions and influence public response to communities or groups around the world. This study investigates media representations of Islam and Muslims in the American media, drawing upon an analysis of reports in the New York Times over a 17-year period (from Jan.1, 2000 to Dec. 31, 2016) within the framework of Critical Discourse Analysis. It examines
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C’est quoi post-truth, new era or time-immemorial? Conceptual reflections for democracy, power and free speech International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2020-12-28 Dilara Asardag, Karen Donders
As the hyped concept of post-truth began occupying various discourses of politicians, commentators and journalists in the recent years especially in the West, this article attempts to bring a critical reflection to the concept by carrying out an integrative literature review. Our aim is to critically examine and analyse the literature and main perspectives and relationships of the issue. Therefore
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Press freedom in 10 African nations: Citizen attitudes and global rankings International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2020-11-16 Meghan Sobel Cohen
Press freedom is said to be a necessary pillar of democracy. As many sub-Saharan African nations move towards creating or strengthening democracies, examining their levels of press freedom may be a...
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Interplay between media-related perceptions and perceptions of hostility in international conflicts: Results from a study of German and Greek citizens International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2020-11-03 Marco Dohle, Ole Kelm, Uli Bernhard, Björn Klein
During the European debt crisis, German and Greek media frequently reported on the political conflict between the two countries. This article examines to what extent the media coverage in one count...
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Special issue: The legacy of Paulo Freire. Contemporary reflections on participatory communication and civil society development in Brazil and beyond International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2020-08-01 Ana Cristina Suzina, Thomas Tufte, César Jiménez-Martínez
This text works as an introduction for the special issue “The legacy of Paulo Freire. Contemporary reflections on participatory communication and civil society development in Brazil and beyond”. The text outlines the contribution that each of the six articles constituting this issue makes, examining how they state the relevance of Paulo Freire’s ideas for the development and understanding of a notion
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Freire’s vision of development and social change: Past experiences, present challenges and perspectives for the future International Communication Gazette (IF 1.863) Pub Date : 2020-07-31 Ana Cristina Suzina, Thomas Tufte
This article proposes to view Freire’s thinking beyond a pedagogical method and rather as a model or even paradigm of development and social change. To build this as an original argument we firstly outline Freire’s ontological call, presenting and discussing his underlying five principles, of which one in particular, dialogue, situates Freirean thinking within communication theory. Secondly, we trace