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Pitfalls to countering disinformation: Analyzing local newspaper response to the ‘Syrian refugee rape case’ in Twin Falls, Idaho The Communication Review Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Bimbisar Irom
The paper examines the local newspaper’s response to the “Syrian refugee rape case” disinformation campaign in Twin Falls, Idaho, 2016. Drawing upon the pervasive climate of fear surrounding Syrian...
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Cold War Camera The Communication Review Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Nadine Attewell
Published in The Communication Review (Vol. 27, No. 1, 2024)
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Selling the American People: advertising, optimization, and the origins of adtech The Communication Review Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Christine Rose Cooling
Published in The Communication Review (Vol. 27, No. 1, 2024)
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Community-powered change in the Omaha metropolitan area: Examining a digital approach to mental health stigma reduction during the COVID-19 pandemic The Communication Review Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Erika Bonnevie, Fatma Diouf, Jaclyn Goldbarg, Sheena Helgenberger, Ellen Wartella, Brandon Grimm, Sarah Sjolie, Joe Smyser
Mental health stigma is associated with a range of negative health outcomes, and there is a need for more information on how to apply evidence-based digital strategies to various geographic areas. ...
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Mobile phones as an autoethnographic resource for constructing modern gendered subjectivity The Communication Review Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Nancy Cook, David Butz
Most research on the significance of new mobile phone infrastructure for communities in the global South tracks its developmental “impacts.” Our autoethnographic approach to this question rather dr...
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Skilling communication: The discourse and metadiscourse of communication in self-help books The Communication Review Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Yonatan Fialkoff, Amit Pinchevski
ABSTRACT In the past few decades, self-help books on communication have ranked among the top titles on bestseller lists. Offering advice about improving communication skills in a variety of contexts, they both reflect and promote a widespread discourse about the importance of good communication in everyday life, in what is in fact a paradoxical endeavor – solving flawed communication with more communication
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The assimilated secret: Understanding as silence in Japanese LGBT discourse The Communication Review Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Anya Doi-Benson
As discussion of LGBT issues has become mainstream in Japanese society and politics, numerous didactic media materials aim to cultivate public “understanding” of LGBT. But what precise understandin...
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Young climate activists in television news: An analysis of multimodal constructions of voice, political recognition, and co-optation The Communication Review Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Tania R Santos, Mehmet Ali Üzelgün, Anabela Carvalho
Young climate activists around the globe have been raising their voices against the inadequate response of world leaders to climate change. Mainstream media have an important role in bringing young...
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Contexts and dimensions of algorithm literacies: Parents’ algorithm literacies amidst the datafication of parenthood The Communication Review Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Ranjana Das
In this paper, I present contextualizing factors, dimensions, and key markers of algorithm literacies, paying attention to the context of parenting and parenthood amidst datafication. Analyzing dat...
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How U.S.-based children’s news show CNN 10 reproduces neoliberal hegemony: A critical discourse analysis The Communication Review Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Perry Parks
This study critically explores discourses of hegemonic neoliberalism on the digital news show CNN 10, which is explicitly produced for student audiences and shown in classrooms to millions of young...
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The public’s appropriation of multimodal discourses of fake news on social media The Communication Review Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Ahmed Al-Rawi, Devan Prithipaul
This study empirically examines tweets and Instagram posts that reference the hashtag #fakenews in connection to Canadian issues to understand the nature of the public’s political and multimodal di...
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Code: From Information Theory to French Theory The Communication Review Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Ran Deng
Published in The Communication Review (Vol. 26, No. 3, 2023)
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Delineating the concept of (digital) slow journalism and its future through an international Delphi study The Communication Review Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Itsaso Manias-Muñoz, Miren Manias-Muñoz, Gabriel Corral-Velázquez
This study seeks to evaluate the current status of journalism and digital slow journalism and identify its future challenges. A Delphi method has been used, with international experts responding to...
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Contextures of hate: Towards a systems theory of hate communication on social media platforms The Communication Review Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Niklas Barth, Elke Wagner, Philipp Raab, Björn Wiegärtner
ABSTRACT We inquire into different perspectives and patterns of problematizing online hate speech within the social sciences from a systems-theoretical perspective. Our results identify five different research perspectives adopted by studies on the issue: (1) systematic perspectives on problems of operationalizing (online) hate speech; (2) intentionalist perspectives on actors and their motives; (3)
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‘Vaccinfluencers’: a study of influential voices criticizing COVID-19 vaccination efforts and negative vaccine information discourse on Twitter The Communication Review Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Catherine E. Slavik, Niko Yiannakoulias, Charlotte Buttle, J. Connor Darlington
ABSTRACT In late 2020, the large-scale rollout of COVID-19 vaccines to combat the global pandemic ignited a firestorm of debates and media discourse on vaccines. We conducted a discourse analysis of tweets (n = 875) criticizing the COVID-19 vaccination process and/or containing negative vaccine information (NVI) authored by influential Twitter accounts receiving the highest user engagement. Results
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“Maybe I should get rid of it for a while…”: Examining motivations and challenges for social media disconnection The Communication Review Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Minh Hao Nguyen
ABSTRACT This study explores the motivations for why people disconnect from social media and the challenges they experience in doing so. Drawing on 30 in-depth interviews with current and past social media users aged 21–39, the study finds that people discontinue, take breaks from, or change their use of social media for various reasons (e.g., lack of interest, overuse and overload, privacy concerns
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The “Great Awokening”: Racial narratives in reporting on the working class in White leftist and Black newspapers during the 2016 United States presidential election The Communication Review Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Michael C. Thornton, Jeff Tischauser
ABSTRACT Recent events in the United States galvanized by race have purportedly had a significant effect on the wider society’s appreciation of systemic racism, some calling this the “Great Awokening.” Some social commentators assert that it is now the norm for “leftists” to reveal “not a strain of racism,” while others argue that they are now farther left than average Black voters. We critique this
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Racialized Media: The Design, Delivery, and Decoding of Race and Ethnicity The Communication Review Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Maryann Erigha Lawer
Published in The Communication Review (Vol. 26, No. 2, 2023)
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Re-Understanding Media: Feminist Extensions of Marshall McLuhan The Communication Review Pub Date : 2023-03-10 Eden Rea-Hedrick
Published in The Communication Review (Vol. 26, No. 2, 2023)
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Reviewing the impact of Facebook on civic participation: The mediating role of algorithmic curation and platform affordances The Communication Review Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Venetia Papa, Nikandros loannidis
ABSTRACT Datafication changes variables of our society within the political and cultural realms. In this study, we argue that platform affordances and algorithmic curation can impact users’ civic participation through filtering and classifying users’ online political content. Scholars from various disciplines – among them communication, computational studies, and political science – are working on
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Redrawing the lines of veracity in the Sharpiegate affair: “Pre-truth” claims in a Post-truth order The Communication Review Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Christian Pentzold, Conrad Zuber, Florian Osterloh, Denise J. Fechner
ABSTRACT Looking back at the 2019 Sharpiegate affair, the article investigates the articulation of “pre-truth,” which became evident when a willful ambivalence toward factual evidence dovetailed with a juxtaposition of provisional, future-oriented truth claims. In general, the maneuver works by taking predictive statements from the past and characterizing them as accurate from the standpoint of the
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What we talk about when we talk about digital Holocaust memory: A systematic analysis of research published in academic journals, 2010–2022 The Communication Review Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Noam Tirosh, Roni Mikel-Arieli
ABSTRACT In recent years, digital technologies have presented new opportunities for innovative Holocaust commemoration and education. Accordingly, scholars across disciplines have focused on “digital Holocaust memory” as a new frontier in both research and practice. But what exactly do they mean when they use this term? This article provides a systematic analysis of the literature regarding digital
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Early adolescents’ views of gender on YouTube in the context of a critical media literacy program The Communication Review Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Erica Scharrer, Alina Ali Durrani, Nora Suren, Yena Kang, Yuxi Zhou, Emma Butterworth
ABSTRACT YouTube is popular among early adolescents who engage with the platform, in part, to explore and express their identity. Yet very little is known about the ways in which early adolescents approach representation and identity expression on YouTube with a critical lens. This qualitative study details an in-school media literacy program conducted with a sample of 54 sixth graders (ages 11 and
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Fragmented narrative: Telling and interpreting stories in the Twitter age The Communication Review Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Ye Tian
Published in The Communication Review (Vol. 26, No. 1, 2023)
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Dislike-Minded: Media, Audiences, and the Dynamics of Taste The Communication Review Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Mel Stanfill
Published in The Communication Review (Vol. 26, No. 1, 2023)
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Navigating the Urban-Rural Divide: A Case Study of a Small-City Newspaper in the United States, 1920 - 1929 The Communication Review Pub Date : 2023-01-04 Caitlin Cieslik-Miskimen
ABSTRACT Through a case study and historical textual analysis, this article explores how small-city newspapers offer a window into urbanism and identity formation in the early twentieth century. These newspapers pursued a content and circulation strategy that combined publishing characteristics associated with the mass circulation dailies and industrial journalism of major metropolitan areas with more
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(De)constructing societal threats during times of deep mediatization The Communication Review Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Paul Reilly, Virpi Salojärvi
Published in The Communication Review (Vol. 25, No. 3-4, 2022)
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A Systemic Functional Linguistics Approach to Analyzing White Supremacist and Conspiratorial Discourse on YouTube The Communication Review Pub Date : 2022-11-09 Olivia Inwood, Michele Zappavigna
ABSTRACT Since the 2016 US Presidential Election, extreme right-wing communities have gained extensive popularity on YouTube, spreading discourses of white supremacy and conspiracy. This paper focuses on how methods drawn from Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) can be used to analyze this communication and contribute to research interests within the field of media and communication studies. SFL
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Internet regulation and crisis-related resilience: from Covid-19 to existential risks The Communication Review Pub Date : 2022-10-06 Gregory Asmolov
ABSTRACT A broad literature on Internet regulation relies on imaginaries of the Internet as a socio-political technology. Deep mediatization of everyday life, however, increases the role of the Internet as a critical system for crisis response and mitigating global catastrophic risks. This article offers a theoretical contribution to exploring the role of regulation in crises through critical engagement
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Bored ghosts in the dating app assemblage: How dating app algorithms couple ghosting behaviors with a mood of boredom The Communication Review Pub Date : 2022-10-05 Gregory Narr, Anh Luong
ABSTRACT Research on ghosting has focused on individual user experiences, psychological dispositions, and attachment styles. We add to this scholarship by broadening the level of analysis to encompass what we call the “dating app assemblage” – entailing users, moods, and algorithms. Through in-depth interviews and the “walkthrough” method, we argue the dating app assemblages of Tinder and Bumble foster
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Framing the Macedonian name dispute in Greece: nationalistic journalism and the existential threat The Communication Review Pub Date : 2022-09-27 Minos-Athanasios Karyotakis
ABSTRACT In the Macedonian Name Dispute (MND), the Greek media promoted the country’s main nationalistic narrative that treats the compromise between Greece and its neighboring country (now-named North Macedonia) as a national crisis that could even lead to an existential threat to Greece and its people. To investigate the recent events related to the MND, this study examined 615 news articles throughout
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“Tumblr is dominated by America:” a study of linguistic and cultural differences in Tumblr transnational fandom The Communication Review Pub Date : 2022-09-21 Arianna Bussoletti
ABSTRACT This paper focuses on the American-centric, English-language dominance of Tumblr. It reviews current research on Tumblr culture, transcultural fandom, and linguistic differences in fandom to analyze the ways international fans engage and disengage with U.S.-centric Tumblr and fandom. Through the analysis of 19 interviews to members of a transnational Tumblr anime fandom, the paper addresses
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The generic closet: Black gayness and the Black-cast sitcom The Communication Review Pub Date : 2022-06-06 Adrien Sebro
Published in The Communication Review (Vol. 25, No. 2, 2022)
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Chick TV: antiheroines and time unbound The Communication Review Pub Date : 2022-06-03 Margaret Tally
Published in The Communication Review (Vol. 25, No. 2, 2022)
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Heavy viewers, few interactions: YouTubers’ relevance in the lives of Portuguese teenagers The Communication Review Pub Date : 2022-04-06 Sara Pereira, Pedro Moura
ABSTRACT YouTube is one of the most popular websites amongst the Portuguese youth and their homegrown stars, the YouTubers, are beloved entertainers. This paper presents a qualitative study based on four focus groups with 36 teenagers, aged 12 to 16 years old, and it has three main objectives: to understand their motivations for using it; how this platform (and its contents and authors) interplay with
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Black cultural projection: an analysis of major daily news coverage of successful black mayoral campaigns in major US Cities The Communication Review Pub Date : 2022-03-01 David L. Stamps, Shaniece Bickham, Sheryl Kennedy Haydel, Jinx Coleman Broussard
ABSTRACT Newspapers often play a significant role in providing knowledge about political matters and may shape public opinion about political figures. However, a focus on newspaper coverage of some of the first Black mayors of major US cities and themes related to racial identity and policy is under-examined. The current investigation adopts an ethnographic content analysis and examines 30 days of
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Media users as allies: personality predictors of dominant group members’ support for racial and sexual diversity in entertainment media The Communication Review Pub Date : 2022-02-05 Rebecca (Riva) Tukachinsky Forster, Caitlin Neuville, Sixtine Foucaut, Sara Morgan, Angela Poerschke, Andrea Torres
ABSTRACT The study examines psychological characteristics of dominant group allies (White, cisgender heterosexual individuals) in the context of media consumption. A survey of U.S. Americans (N = 272) examines the relationship between personality traits (openness and empathy) and support for racial and sexual diversity in the media. Both traits were predictive of (1) endorsing media diversity policies
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Social media amplification loops and false alarms: Towards a Sociotechnical understanding of misinformation during emergencies The Communication Review Pub Date : 2022-02-02 Moa Eriksson Krutrök, Simon Lindgren
ABSTRACT the immediate aftermath of crisis events, there is a pressing demand among the public for information about what is unfolding. In such moments “information holes” occur, people and organizations collaborate to try to fill these in real time by sharing information. In this article, we approach such gaps not merely as the product of the actual lack of information, but as generated by the algorithmically
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The Hall of Shame: Reconstituting Dominant Masculinities in The New York Times’ Representation of U.S. #MeToo Offenders’ Apologias The Communication Review Pub Date : 2022-01-30 Chiaoning Su, Rebecca Mercado Jones, Valerie Palmer-Mehta
ABSTRACT In a powerful journalistic moment of 2018, The New York Times published the article, “After Weinstein: 71 Men Accused of Sexual Misconduct and Their Fall from Power.” It presented one collective effect of the #MeToo movement: a compendium of elite men compelled to leave their jobs due to their sexual misconduct. Shifting from the scrutinizing focus on survivors, the article created a hall
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Towards ‘romantic media ideologies’: digital dating abuse seen through the lens of social media and/or dating in teenage narratives The Communication Review Pub Date : 2022-01-27 Francesca Belotti, Francesca Ieracitano, Stellamarina Donato, Francesca Comunello
ABSTRACT The article addresses the teenagers’ perception of those forms of teen dating violence that occur on digital media (i.e., ‘digital dating abuse,’ DDA), such as snooping around, controlling behaviors, and aggravated sexting. It contributes to the strand of studies on DDA and those on the mutual shaping relationship between technology and society by focusing on the interplay between social media
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Book review of social media communication: trends and theories by Zhong The Communication Review Pub Date : 2021-11-26 Lin Zhu
(2021). Book review of social media communication: trends and theories by Zhong. The Communication Review: Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 320-321.
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Military buzz: race, robots and insects The Communication Review Pub Date : 2021-09-03 Shoshana Magnet
ABSTRACT Claiming to “let evolution do the thinking for you,” biologists are teaming up with roboticists and computer engineers in the emerging field of biomimetics to build animal-machines. One of the outcomes of these interdisciplinary collaborations is the development of biomimetic robot-insects: robots inspired by insect life. Biomimetic scientists assert that their technologies will be cleaner
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Public opinion polarization on immigration in Italy: the role of traditional and digital news media practices The Communication Review Pub Date : 2021-09-16 Laura Iannelli, Bianca Biagi, Marta Meleddu
ABSTRACT Public opinion polarization on immigration can hinder social cohesion, integration policies and economic growth. Political campaigns and partisan news media systems have long been investigated in terms of potential drivers of mass polarization, often through a focus on one news media. Utilizing survey data collected by the Pew Research Center, the purpose of the present study is twofold: first
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Disinformation in the Brazilian pre-election context: probing the content, spread and implications of fake news about Lula da Silva The Communication Review Pub Date : 2021-10-05 Tatiana Dourado, Susana Salgado
ABSTRACT This research scrutinizes the content, spread, and implications of disinformation in Brazil’s 2018 pre-election period. It focuses specifically on the most widely shared fake news about Lula da Silva and links these with the preexisting polarization and political radicalization, ascertaining the role of context. The research relied on a case study and mixed-methods approach that combined an
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Those were the days? Dimensions of nostalgia in media coverage of the Norman Lear reboots The Communication Review Pub Date : 2021-10-01 Ronald Bishop, Maggie Fedorocsko
ABSTRACT A narrative analysis was performed on a group of print and online news stories, along with accompanying pictures and videos, from the lead-up to and reviews of the reboots of Norman Lear’s revered series All in the Family, The Jeffersons, and Good Times. Coverage of the reboots furnished a compelling opportunity for media critics, reporters, and the audience to engage in nostalgia for the
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Aggro-truth: (Dis-)trust, toxic masculinity, and the cultural logic of post-truth politics The Communication Review Pub Date : 2021-08-22 Jayson Harsin
ABSTRACT Advancing theorizations of communication in post-truth politics, where computational/big data or cognitive bias approaches often dominate the description of and proposed solutions to the problem, this article aims to theorize the cultural production of social trust, which underpins public truth-making. It argues that performing mediated trust is preconditional to public truth-making (oft-overlooked
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Violence and crime as inhibitors of capabilities: the case of Palestinian-Israelis and Israeli mass media The Communication Review Pub Date : 2021-07-12 Baruch Shomron, Amit Schejter
ABSTRACT This study investigates how the media-portrayal of Palestinian-Israelis in the context of violence and crime, hinders Palestinian-Israelis’ abilities to realize their capabilities. Capabilities refer to what each individual is able to do or be representing their human freedom and wellbeing. The study presents a quantitative content-analysis of Palestinian-Israeli interviewees who appeared
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The World Computer: derivative conditions of racial capitalism The Communication Review Pub Date : 2021-08-22 Cengiz Salman
(2021). The World Computer: derivative conditions of racial capitalism. The Communication Review: Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 192-195.
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Experiencing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: children, peace communication and socialization The Communication Review Pub Date : 2021-07-20 Jon Simons
(2021). Experiencing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: children, peace communication and socialization. The Communication Review: Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 196-198.
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Gendered self-representation and empowerment on social media in the United Arab Emirates The Communication Review Pub Date : 2021-08-03 Bouziane Zaid, Don Dongshee Shin, Sarah Waled Kteish, Jana Fedtke, Mohammed Ibahrine
ABSTRACT Social networking sites (SNSs) provide a set of affordances that allow young adults to represent various aspects of their gendered identities and construct their identity-related experiences. This paper adopts Goffman’s concepts in relation to social media and his dramaturgical theories of the self as a framework for the study of online self-presentation. The paper uses the Explanatory Sequential
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The strategic use of incivility in contemporary politics. The case of the 2018 Italian general election on Facebook The Communication Review Pub Date : 2021-07-05 Rossella Rega, Rita Marchetti
ABSTRACT The study addresses central issues in contemporary politics in response to growing concern about the impoverishment of political discourse that has become increasingly uncivil. In particular it analhyzes citizens’ reactions to leaders’ uncivil posts on Facebook during the 2018 Italian General Election, by adopting a theoretical-operational model based on a dual approach (top down – bottom
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Was the 2019 Indian election won by digital media? The Communication Review Pub Date : 2021-06-23 Dr. Taberez A. Neyazi, Ralph Schroeder
ABSTRACT Research on the reasons for the unexpected outcome of the 2019 national election in India can be divided into two strands: one strand examines the election without recourse to media, arguing that the appeals by parties to different segments of the population, referred to as identity politics, swayed voters. The other strand has made the case that media campaigns, and digital media in particular
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Older people and smartphone practices in everyday life: an inquire on digital sociality of italian older users The Communication Review Pub Date : 2021-03-28 Alessandro Caliandro, Emma Garavaglia, Valentina Sturiale, Alice Di Leva
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the use of smartphone in older people everyday life and it is based on an empirical research involving 30 Italian smartphone users aged 62–76. The research drawn on the analysis of 75,089 log data, 3 collective and 20 face-to-face interviews. The paper describes the digital practices through which older users use smartphone to construct social relations within their
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Mediated intimacy: sex advice in media culture The Communication Review Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Kiersten Brockman
(2021). Mediated intimacy: sex advice in media culture. The Communication Review: Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 83-85.
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A network of yarns, a network of networks: exploring the evolution of the urban knitting movement The Communication Review Pub Date : 2021-01-25 Manuela Farinosi
ABSTRACT The paper focuses on a specific form of activism – urban knitting – and analyses “Mettiamoci una pezza” (“Let’s patch it”), an initiative organized by a group of women activists from L’Aquila, Italy, for the 10th anniversary of the earthquake, not only to draw public attention to the state of the city but also to other social and political issues. To analyze the organizational infrastructure
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Incidental exposure to political content in sports media: antecedents and effects on political discussion and participation The Communication Review Pub Date : 2021-01-03 Ryan Broussard, Will Heath, Matthew Barnidge
ABSTRACT Incidental exposure, also called inadvertent exposure, has grown more important in recent years because it has the potential to engage news “dropouts” and expose partisans to the “other side” in political communication. Televised sports media are becoming an important venue for this type of unintentional exposure to political content, with the rise in the last decade of a new age of athlete
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Unwatchable The Communication Review Pub Date : 2020-11-22 Katherine Fusco
(2020). Unwatchable. The Communication Review: Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 342-344.
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Problematic news framing of #MeToo The Communication Review Pub Date : 2020-10-01 Lisa Cuklanz
ABSTRACT Mainstream US news coverage of #MeToo reprises some of the central limitations of news coverage of rape and sexual assault from prior decades. However, #MeToo coverage also includes some indications of the contributions of corporate culture and rape culture to the abuses of power that have taken place. Through a close analysis of New York Times and Washington Post coverage of two cases, those
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What it means to be a bodybuilder: social media influencer labor and the construction of identity in the bodybuilding subculture The Communication Review Pub Date : 2020-10-01 Mariah L. Wellman
ABSTRACT While recent research has explored influencers within the fashion, beauty, fitness, and travel industries, few studies have examined influencers within physique sports like bodybuilding. Drawing on observation, informal interviews, and semi-structured interviews with members of Gold’s Gym Venice, this study analyzes how bodybuilders, trainers, and influencers define labor and how they construct
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Unsung helpers: older adults as a source of digital media support for their peers The Communication Review Pub Date : 2020-10-01 Amanda Hunsaker, Minh Hao Nguyen, Jaelle Fuchs, Gökçe Karaoglu, Teodora Djukaric, Eszter Hargittai
ABSTRACT While the stereotypical older adult is one who is clueless about technology, research on this age group paints a different picture. Adding to the literature about older adults’ varying tech savvy, this paper focuses on the technological support-giving abilities of those in later stages of life based on interviews conducted in four countries. Far from being dependent bystanders, some older