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Media policymaking at the core of anthropological concerns in South Asia Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2021-04-24 charusmita c
Preeti Raghunath’s monograph Community Radio Policies in South Asia examines the Community Radio policymaking process in four South Asian countries – India, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka – on Community Radios. This cross-disciplinary project draws from multiple traditions ranging from political economy and history to grounded theory and anthropology and proposes a new theoretical paradigm – the
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Aesthetics, Commons and the Production of the Subject An Interview with Cornelia Sollfrank and Felix Stalder Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2021-03-31 WPCC Editorial Board
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Open Access Models, Pirate Libraries and Advocacy Repertoires: Policy Options for Academics to Construct and Govern Knowledge Commons Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2021-03-31 Melanie Dulong de Rosnay
In this article, I propose exploring open access publishing through the lenses of Knowledge Commons. Instead of focusing on users’ rights to access and reuse the output under open copyright licensing conditions, I study the governance of the academic publishing ecosystem, and its political economy, technical and labour infrastructure. Based on selected examples, I discuss how they comply with the concept
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Scaling Small; Or How to Envision New Relationalities for Knowledge Production Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2021-03-22 Janneke Adema,Samuel Moore
Within the field of open access (OA) publishing, community-led publishing projects are experimenting increasingly with new forms of collaboration and organisation. They do so by focusing on setting up horizontal alliances between independent projects within a certain sector (e.g., scholar-led presses), or vertically across sectors with other not-for-profit organisations (e.g., through collaborations
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The Digital Commons and the Digital Public Sphere How to Advance Digital Democracy Today Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2021-03-22 Christian Fuchs
This paper asks: what are the democratic potentials of the digital commons and the digital public sphere? First, the article identifies ten problems of digital capitalism. Second, it engages with the notion of the digital public sphere. Third, it outlines the concept of the digital commons. Fourth, some conclusions are drawn and ten suggestions for advancing digital democracy are presented.This article
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Viral Culture, Memes in Society and Politics: An Interview with Anastasia Denisova Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2020-01-01 WPCC Editorial Board
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Understanding Authenticity in Digital Cause-Related Advertising: Does Cause Involvement Moderate Intention to Purchase? Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Wilson Ndasi, Ediz Edip Ackay
The paper provides a survey understanding of two dimensions of perceived authenticity in digital cause-related marketing (CRM) display advertising and models the impact on consumers’ responses. It develops a model with a set of six hypotheses and tests them through a multivariate structural equation technique on quantitative data generated by a survey procedure on a UK-based consumer panel. The 465
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The World According to Dave Trott: An Interview Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Carl W. Jones
Considered one of the UK’s advertising’s ‘inspiring minds’ (History of Advertising Trust, 2018) creative director, copywriter and author Dave Trott has worked on iconic campaigns for the likes of Toshiba, Holsten Pils, Ariston and Pepsi and with agencies including Gold Greenlees Trott, Bainsfair Sharkey Trott, Walsh Trott Chick Smith and latterly The Gate. As well as consumer product campaigns, Trott
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Advertising and the Way Forward Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Carl W. Jones
In this editorial for WPCC’s special issue on ‘Advertising for the Human Good’ editor Carl Jones outlines a few milestones demonstrating advertising’s potential via mass media for motivating progressive behaviours in the public. Matching corporate social responsibility ideals and reflecting the social concerns of millennial consumers and audiences is becoming increasingly important for brands and even
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How to Define ‘Viral’ for Media Studies? Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Anastasia Denisova
In this editorial for WPCC’s ‘Viral Media’ issue the author asks whether the metaphor of viral media has held up well since it was coined. Considering the debate she suggests a clear distinction – notwithstanding the major role of technology – of viral media, when compared to biological viruses, which is the role of emotions in driving virality. This is what ‘distinguishes the biological “virus” from
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Viral Media: Audience Engagement and Editorial Autonomy at BuzzFeed and Vice Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Paul Stringer
As organisations ‘native’ to the digital environment, sites like BuzzFeed, Vice, Vox and The Huffington Post have been well placed to take advantage of new technologies and pioneer new approaches to creating and distributing media. Despite this, they remain conspicuous by their absence in contemporary media scholarship. This article will focus on two North American digital-native media organisations:
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Memories of Our Youth: The Viral Spread of Radio Station Facebook Posts Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Daithí McMahon
Radio and social media have developed a strong relationship in Ireland since the explosion in popularity of the latter from 2008 onward. Although the convergence of radio with Facebook in Ireland has allowed radio stations to reach wider audiences, some stations have been much more successful than others at achieving this. In this article the author presents a case study of Beat, a regional commercial
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Why All the Outrage? Viral Media as Corrupt Play Shaping Mainstream Media Narratives Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Samuel Duncan
The way we use social media can be viewed through the notion of ‘play’. According to Dutch cultural historian and play theorist Johan Huizinga (1950), play is characterised by fun, freedom, spontaneity, and creativity; while not overtly serious, it can have serious outcomes. Huizinga (1950, 8–10) believed that it was in ‘playing’ that we reveal our true selves and thus form genuine, strong, and binding
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Teaching Advertising for the Public Good Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Rutherford, Fiona Cownie
Evidence that citizens and consumers demand meaningful changes from brands and organisations in addressing urgent social and environmental challenges (Porter and Kramer, 2019) grows by the day. Even such traditionally conservative institutions as the Bank of England have warned that companies and industries which do not respond to the demand for environmental activism will be punished by investors
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Changing Perceptions, Changing Lives – Promoting Intercultural Competence and Ethical Creativity through Advertising Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Birgit Breninger, Thomas Kaltenbacher
Few phenomena have incited as much passion as the unravelling of ‘creativity’ and few disciplines have brought about so many controversial expressions of it as advertising. In the bio-cultural framework of Intercultural Competence® the co-emergence of ‘ethical creativity’ is conceived to be pivotal for intercultural expertise. We suspect that interculturally competent individuals more habitually engage
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Changing Masculinity, One Ad at a Time Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Gry Høngsmark Knudsen, Lars Pynt Andersen
This paper takes a rhetorical perspective on how ads address the current debate of toxic masculinity and attempt to change its hegemonic ideals. We compare rhetorical strategies in two purpose branding campaigns, Lynx’s Is it ok for guys (2017) and Gillette’s The Best a Man Can Be (2019), to demonstrate how respective uses of formal and narrative tropes create vastly different narratives about masculinity
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Where Public Interest, Virtue Ethics and Pragmatic Sociology Meet: Modelling a Socially Progressive Approach for Communication Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Jane Johnston
For advertising, public relations and strategic communication to work towards human good they must have a framework. This paper advances such a theoretical framework by drawing on three related but separate fields of theory: public interest from political philosophy; virtue ethics from moral philosophy; public arenas of debate from pragmatic sociology. By exploring these as stand-alone theories and
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How Ambient Advertising is Uniquely Placed to Make Audiences Think Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Miriam Sorrentino
The current body of research has identified that ambient advertising has increased in use, providing advantages for both commercial marketing (Taylor, Franke and Bang, 2006), for campaigning for the social good (Hanson, interview, 15 March 2019) and for activism (Biraghi, Gambetti and Graffigna, 2015; Hanson, 2019; Nelson and Sutherland, interview, 22 February 2019). Yet, there is little empirical
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Complicated Green Advertising: Understanding the Promotion of Clothing Recycling Efforts Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Myles Ethan Lascity, Maryann R. Cairns
The fashion industry, a major global polluter, has been paying more attention to the environmental and ecological impacts of clothing production. A subset of established brands — some supported by the US group Cotton Incorporated — have pushed programmes where denim and other types of clothing can be turned in at a store, collected, and then sent for recycling. Often, these recycling efforts are supported
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Colourism in Commercial and Governmental Advertising in Mexico: ‘International Latino’, Racism and Ethics Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Juris Tipa
By employing a mixed methodology, in-depth interviews with different professionals involved in the development and implementation of advertising projects and a quantitative study (n = 500) of casting requests, in this article the expressions of colourist racism in commercial and governmental advertising in Mexico are analysed. The present study is based on two main axes of analysis: (1) the frequency
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The Palau Legacy Pledge: A Case Study of Advertising, Tourism, and the Protection of the Environment Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Ismael Lopez Medel
Environmental challenges are affecting every aspect of our lives, especially among the world’s largest industry: tourism. This chapter studies the application of creativity to a tourism campaign for the Republic of Palau, an island nation in the Pacific, in need of promoting tourism and educating visitors while protecting the environment. It is the story of four local activists who convinced their
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Social Advertising and Social Change: Campaigns about Racism in Latin America and Mexico Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Fabiola Fernández Guerra
This article discusses the role of social issue advertising as a tool for social change. It especially focuses on the case of campaigns on racism in Latin America, with a specific focus on racism within Mexico. Analysing Latin American campaigns carried out between 2000 and 2017, this article uses a comparative methodology to identify how the campaigns address the issue of racism. This paper also contemplates
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The Deferred ‘Democracy Dividend’ of Citizen Journalism and Social Media: Perils, Promises and Prospects from the Zimbabwean Experience Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Tenford Chitanana,Bruce Mutsvairo
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Nomadic Transmitter: Public Sphere and Aesthetics in Brazilian Media Activism Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Thiago O. S. Novaes, Francisco Antunes Caminati
During the early 2000s a group of free radio activists in Sao Paulo, Brazil, commissioned the construction of an FM radio transmitter with multiple frequencies to offer radio workshops to communities interested in learning about radio language and practice. The transmitter was used by groups across Brazil and several South American countries. This article aims to describe and analyse over ten years
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From High Visibility to High Vulnerability: Feminist, Postcolonial and Anti-Gentrification Activism at Risk Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Anastasia Denisova, Michaela O’Brien
This editorial considers how this special issue on media and activism reflects or extends current debates in the field and how it explores the possibilities for progressive activists around the world to use the media to resist the current rise of the extreme right alongside the disturbing and growing evidence of the techniques of fascism: populism, propaganda and fake news, hate speech and hate crimes
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Do Not Harm in Private Chat Apps: Ethical Issues for Research on and with WhatsApp Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Sérgio Barbosa, Stefania Milan
WhatsApp has remained under the radar for it is scarcely accessible to overt scholarly scrutiny. Encrypted chat apps allow for a certain degree of perceived secrecy. Yet the high frequency of civic engagement makes ethnographic research a time-consuming exercise. This article investigates how digital ethnography inside WhatsApp groups requires up-to-date, innovative ethical guidelines. We suggest a
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Resisting the Creative Economy on Liverpool’s North Shore: Art-Based Political Communication in Practice Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Anthony Killick
The speed and scale at which Liverpool is redeveloping is indicative of global advances in market-driven geo-economic restructuring, while the creative economy model has been one of the central tenets of urban regeneration over the past forty years. This paper focuses on the construction of a new creative quarter on Liverpool’s North Shore Dock, and the modes of creative resistance that are being enacted
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In the Service of Press Freedom or the Imperial Agenda? Negotiating Repression and Coloniality in Zimbabwean Journalism Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Khanyile Joseph Mlotshwa
Ideological differences relating to the normative expectations of media performance in Zimbabwe have, historically, been at the heart of debates and struggles around press freedom and media activism. On one hand, political leaders, who lean towards nationalist politics, have accused the media and media activists who are mostly part of the Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), of undertaking colonial
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The Deferred ‘Democracy Dividend’ of Citizen Journalism and Social Media: Perils, Promises and Prospects from the Zimbabwean Experience Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Tenford Chitanana, Bruce Mutsvairo
The efficacy of digital media on politics, and society at large, has long been a subject of intense scholarly debate. This paper examines the democratisation potential of social media within Zimbabwe’s historically repressive political environment. Since the early 2000s, technological determinists in Zimbabwe saw citizen journalism and social media as a ‘game-changer’ in propping up a democratic project
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From the Streets to the Screen to Nowhere: Las Morras and the Fragility of Networked Digital Activism Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Stuart Davis, Melissa Santillana
Drawing on a case study of Mexico City-based feminist media producers Las Morras, this article addresses both the potentialities of digital media activism for raising awareness about gender-based harassment and its limits for facilitating social/political transformations. Las Morras drew international attention in 2016 when they released a series of YouTube videos of group members with hidden GoPro
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The Power and the Story: The Global Battle for News and Information by John Lloyd, (2017) London: Atlantic Books Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Dani Madrid-Morales
Most journalists around the world will agree that a central element of their jobs is to be as truthful as possible to the events they are covering. However, as John Lloyd writes in The Power and the Story, staying loyal to the truth is not always an easy task. In authoritarian regimes, the State’s shadow looms large over journalistic freedom, dissenting voices are suppressed and mainstream media are
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Journalism Conundrum: Perceiving Location and Geographic Space Norms and Values Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Amy Schmitz Weiss
Journalists have been incorporating geographic space into their news work for centuries (Carey, 1987; Tuchman, 1978; Gasher, 2007; Mersey, 2009). The location of where the fire occurred, the parade took place, or the soccer match was played has always been a part of the story. However, in the process of incorporating geographic space into the story, how does that location of the news event matter to
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New Visualities of Space and Place: Mapping Theories, Concepts and Methodology of Visual Communication Research on Locative Media and Geomedia Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Cornelia Brantner
The integration of geolocative data and locative photography generates a new way of seeing: what is called ‘emplaced visuality’. This article explores the features and the research advancements in the direction of the visual aspects of locative media and geomedia to expand on the understanding of what appears to be a new visual regime. To do this, the text explores the developments of locative media
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Disrupting the Old Periphery: Alternative Media, Inequality and Counter-Mapping in Brazil Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Helton Levy
Media discourse on the periphery in Brazil has historically mirrored the country’s socioeconomic divides. The periphery used to be where precarious dwellings predominate: a way of ‘behaviour’ of the poor, their social class, or an aspect at one’s appearance. Semi-structured interviews conducted with alternative media producers based across the country have produced insights into many attempts to change
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Did You Find the World or Did You Make it Up? Media, Communications and Geography in the Digital Age Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Doug Specht
Geography, media, and communications have been closely linked since the 16th Century. Just as the advent of the printing press and new modes of measurement changed the media landscape, so too did it change that of geography and cartography. Now, in the digital age we are presented with ever more instruments of measurement (big data, algorithms, UGC, VGI etc.), ever more far-reaching versions of the
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Form Follows Feedback: Rethinking Cartographic Communication Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Alexander J. Kent
Communication was the first paradigm to gain widespread acceptance amongst the international cartographic community. Drawing on aspects of information theory to rationalise the process of transferring knowledge from the map-maker to the map-user, its aim was to optimise ‘map effectiveness’ by treating the map as a vehicle for communication. From the emergence of the first map communication models of
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‘All Kinds of Everything’? Queer Visibility in Online and Offline Eurovision Fandom Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Jamie Halliwell
The annual televisual spectacle, the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) is an international media event that is a nexus around which questions surrounding identity surface. This paper focuses specifically on the contest’s active promotion of queer visibility, that intersects through national stage performances and its international fan base. It untangles the relationship between the contest and its problematic
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Navigational Mapping Practices: Contexts, Politics, Data Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Michael Duggan
Maps communicate meaning to the practices and experiences of navigation in everyday life. This is ever more the case in a world where GPS, geo-spatial and locative mapping technology has become embedded in more devices. And yet such mediations are not neutral. Rather, they are entangled with cultural and political practices, and increasingly with the accumulation of spatial big data. Put together,
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Digital Cartography Enterprise: Neoliberalism, Governmentality and Digital Infrastructure Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Holly Randell-Moon
The Gigatown competition (2013–2015) was a joint initiative between the telecommunications company Chorus and the New Zealand government to award a New Zealand town ‘the fastest internet in the Southern Hemisphere’ through a social media competition. In this paper, I argue the competition stimulated a range of activities that cohere with creative and smart city policies, the growth of information and
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Rethinking Privacy: A Feminist Approach to Privacy Rights after Snowden Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2017-10-31 Lindsay Weinberg
Tim Cook’s message to Apple customers, regarding Apple’s refusal to provide the FBI with a backdoor to the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone, typifies the corporate appropriation of privacy rights discourse. In light of this appropriation, I propose a reconsideration of the sovereign subject presupposed by privacy rights discourse through a comparative approach to the US and EU’s treatments of privacy
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Undressing with the Lights On: Surveillance and The Naked Society in a Digital Era Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2017-10-31 Doug Specht
In a year when the United States, under Trump, has scrapped their Internet Privacy Law (Lee, 2017), all the while decrying, in an ill-informed manor, wiretapping (MacAskill, 2017); the UK’s Home Secretary, Amber Rudd has called for an equally ill-informed backdoor to WhatApp (Haynes, 2017); and German parents are told to destroy their children’s dolls amid spying fears (Oltermann, 2017), it perhaps
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Rethinking Privacy and Freedom of Expression in the Digital Era: An Interview with Mark Andrejevic Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2017-10-31 Pinelopi Troullinou
Mark Andrejevic, Professor of Media Studies at the Pomona College in Claremont, California, is a distinguished critical theorist exploring issues around surveillance from pop culture to the logic of automated, predictive surveillance practices. In an interview with WPCC issue co-editor Pinelopi Troullinou, Andrejevic responds to pressing questions emanating from the surveillant society looking to shift
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What is a Good Secure Messaging Tool? The EFF Secure Messaging Scorecard and the Shaping of Digital (Usable) Security Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2017-10-31 Francesca Musiani, Ksenia Ermoshina
In today’s diverse and crowded landscape of messaging systems, what are the most secure and usable tools? The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a digital rights group based in San Francisco, CA, has been considering this question for a long time. Their most prominent initiative in this regard has been the 2014 release of the Secure Messaging Scorecard (SMS), a 7-criteria evaluation of ‘usable security’
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Privacy Shields for Whom? Key Actors and Privacy Discourses on Twitter and in Newspapers Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2017-10-31 Cristín O’Rourke, Aphra Kerr
The sharing of data across borders is core in informational economies. However, the Schrems case against Facebook in 2014 raised important questions about the capacity of existing ‘safe harbour’ policies and practices of multinational corporations in Europe and North America to protect the privacy of individuals’ data. The EU–US ‘Privacy Shield’ framework was subsequently developed to increase data
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Redesigning or Redefining Privacy? Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2017-10-31 Shabnam Moinipour, Pinelopi Troullinou
Snowden’s revelations of 2013 have shifted attention to societal implications of surveillance practices and in particular privacy. This editorial reflects on key concepts and research questions raised in the issue. How can privacy be defined? Can it be designed? Considering such developments, this editorial asks if the public’s attitudes to the sharing of data have moved towards, ‘nothing to hide,
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Visibility, Power and Citizen Intervention The Five Eyes and New Zealand’s Southern Cross Cable Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2017-10-31 Ally McCrow-Young
In a quiet suburb of New Zealand in 2013, an unknown artist installed his artwork on a seemingly ordinary cable pole; the artwork proclaimed ‘Five Eyes Network – Surveillance Outpost’. Unbeknownst to the public, the post marked the landing point of the Southern Cross Cable, the only undersea cable connecting New Zealand to the outside world, carrying all of the country’s internet traffic. How does
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Radio, Communities and Social Change Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2017-09-05 WPCC Editorial Board
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Invisible Revolutions: Free Radio Music Programming in Barcelona Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2017-09-05 Lola Costa Gálvez
Music plays a central role in free radio but what motivates unpaid free radio music programme practitioners in Barcelona? Drawing on in-depth interviews conducted in 2016 with personnel working at four long-standing stations in Barcelona – Contrabanda FM, Radio Bronca, Radio Linea IV and Radio RSK – this commentary outlines some of the context and impetus for their activities. Frequently showcasing
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Freedom Waves: Giving People a Voice and Turning It Up! Tuning into the Free Radio Network in the Basque Country Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2017-09-05 Jason Diaux, Ion Andoni del Amo, Arkaitz Letamendia
In this article we propose a historical chronicle about the role of the free radios and community spaces of social communication in the Southern Basque Country, analysing recent changes in this field and its implications. The Basque case is meaningful in two ways: quantitatively, because of the high number of these free radio stations since the eighties; and also, because of the current changes in
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Radio as a Recruiting Medium in Zimbabwe’s Liberation Struggle Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2017-08-22 Everette Ndlovu
Revolutionaries have long embraced the potential of radio as a tool for ideation and emancipation. As Ndlovu (2014) indicates radio has the power to win the hearts and minds of the people, even establish a mandate to govern them. Radio can transcend geographical and political boundaries, making it a vital tool with which to penetrate restricted environments and reach out even to illiterate people,
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History of Struggle: The Global Story of Community Broadcasting Practices, or a Brief History of Community Radio Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2017-07-04 Gretchen King
Embracing the de-Westernizing debate in communication research (Wang, 2013) and the call to decolonize media studies (Thussu, 2009), this article contextualizes the practices of contemporary community radio stations through internationalizing the history of community broadcasting. In contrast to other histories of community media (Lewis, 1984; Milan, 2013; Rennie, 2006; Rodriguez, 2001), this research
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Twitter or Radio Revolutions? The Central Role of Açık Radyo in the Gezi Protests of 2013 Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2017-06-16 Tiziano Bonini
Radio has been employed as a communication tool during all the social movements and protests of the last decades of the past century, from the student movements of May 1968 in Paris and Mexico City to the 1999 Seattle WTO protests, while the political protests and uprisings at the beginning of the twenty-first century have mostly been supported by social media (Howard and Hussain, 2013). Is Twitter
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Reframing Media and Cultural Studies in the Age of Global Crisis Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2017-01-30 Tarik Sabry
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The Return of the Popular Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2017-01-30 Paolo Gerbaudo
What is the appropriate research agenda for media studies after the financial crisis of 2008 and how might it be located in the ‘Popular’? This contribution emphasises the extent to which the present is an exceptional historical phase and represents a seismic shift in terms of paradigm. Major economic consequences have led to improvrishment of large sections of populations and a sense of insecurity
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Mediatization, Suffering and the Death of Philosophy Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2017-01-30 Tarik Sabry
In this brief intervention the contributor makes the case that our preoccupation with media and cultural analysis has alienated/detached us, as scholars of media and cultural studies, from a key experiential moment: a philosophical pre-moment. In a world of chronic crises (economic, ideological, ecological), we have forgotten what it means to encounter suffering through the face of the sufferer. We
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Media and Communication as a Field of Research Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2017-01-30 Kaarle Nordenstreng
The field has been characterized by enormous expansion and diversification with abundance and popularity not resulting in integration. This contribution considers the roots of the discipline to be very long leading back to the enlightenment, early democracy and diverse international sources such as the first freedom of information bill in Sweden's Diet in 1766 and the nineteenth century as Hardt
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What is to Be Done? The Role of the New and the Old in Media Theory – The Moment for Critical Digital and Social Media Studies Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2017-01-30 Christian Fuchs
Debates exist around whether we live in a new Web 2.0 post-industrial era, or whether little has changed in capitalist society. This contribution queries the relationship between new and old, arguing Hegelian dialectics helps explain how change and continuity can operate at different levels (Bhaskar, 1993). New and old reappear as categories shaping a field in which Nordenstreng’s (2007) distinction
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Encountering the Anthropocene: Geology, Culture, Ethics Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2017-01-30 Joanna Zylinska
What does the proclamation of the Anthropocene – an epoch in which the human is said to have become a geological agent and who’s had irreversible impact upon our planet (Kolbert, 2014; Klein, 2014) – mean for media and cultural studies? Reflecting on the crisis of human and nonhuman life as manifested in ongoing multispecies extinction, this contribution discusses how media and cultural studies can
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Difficult Questions: Trends in Communication Studies – A South African View Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2017-01-30 Viola Milton
Speaking from the viewpoint of Communicatio (1975–) and other South African communication journals this contribution highlights three trends: lack of control over – and concerns with – media representation; a move from a sense of being in Africa not from Africa to ‘I am a African’; and increased efforts to understand how internationalising processes play out in specific contexts not just read from