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Spin-doctoring in French television series: The art of emotional labor Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-21 Benoît Verdier
This article aims to question the spin doctor’s representations on television series. If it is easy to recognize on television series medical professionals because of their white coat and their diverse accessories for example, how can we distinguish a spin doctor who looks like an advisor like any other? Based on the analysis of four French television series ( Baron Noir, Les Hommes de l’ombre, Hénaut
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Tweet no harm: Offer solutions when alerting the public to voter suppression efforts Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Katherine Haenschen, Bethany Albertson, Sharon Jarvis
Voter suppression was a major issue during the 2018 U.S. Midterm elections. Civil rights organizations, advocacy groups, and celebrities used Twitter to urgently warn voters about potential problems at the polls. However, in raising awareness of these normatively problematic matters, these messages had the potential to negatively impact key measures of democratic health. We conduct a survey experiment
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Populist politicians’ representations of the people: A comparative visual content analysis of candidates’ Instagram posts in 2023 Turkish general elections Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-10 Ömer Faruk Zararsiz, Emrah Ayaşlioğlu
Social media posts play a key role in understanding how the concept of “the people,” which is a critical concept for populist politicians, is constructed and presented. This study examines how the two leading candidates, as right and left populist figures in Türkiye’s 2023 general elections, portrayed “the people” in their Instagram posts. The Instagram posts of two leaders were coded according to
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Women governors in the United States use more communal language than male governors in their State of the State addresses and tweets and achieve greater policy success Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Kara Alaimo
This study draws on framing theory to argue that the language used by women politicians may make them more effective in achieving their goals. Large numbers of voters around the world perceive men to be more effective political leaders than women. However, this study of the communications of women and male governors in the United States finds that the opposite is true and that women governors emphasize
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Investigating the relationship between knowledge of the media industry and media trust in a government-owned and government-controlled media system Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-16 Huu Dat Tran, Pham Phuong Uyen Diep
We examined the influence of news media literacy, focusing on knowledge of the media industry, on media trust in Vietnam—a distinctive media environment subject to governmental control and ownership. Results from 307 survey responses ( N = 307) indicated that knowledge of media categorizations negatively predicted multiple dimensions of media trust. In addition, online newspapers, the only media category
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Multimodality and appraisal choices in Nigerian coronavirus-related WhatsApp memes Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Oluwabunmi O Oyebode, Foluke Olayinka Unuabonah
This article explores coronavirus-related internet memes in the Nigerian WhatsApp space, to examine how multimodal elements are used for evaluation and intersubjective positioning. The theory utilises Kress and van Leeuwen’s visual grammar and Martin and White’s appraisal theory. The data, which comprise 147 purposively selected internet memes, were analysed qualitatively. The findings indicate that
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The dark side of smartphone application’s smart push function: Exploring its impact on fear of missing out and smartphone addiction Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Qiuyue He, Zhonglu Zeng
This article aims to investigate the negative effects of smart push technology, which is becoming increasingly popular in digital devices and online services, particularly in smartphone-based applications (apps). Specifically, empirical relationships among the features of the app content delivered by smart push technology, fear of missing out, and smartphone addiction are explored by constructing an
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COVID-19 vaccines and vaccinations coverage on news portals: Framing, Tone, and Source Analysis Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 John Demuyakor, Stevens Justice Avenyo, Adwoa Sikayena Amankwah
A comparative quantitative content analysis was adopted to explore the frames, tones, and information sources for the coverage of COVID-19 vaccines and vaccination in four countries in Africa. The news portals and countries for this study were purposively sampled based on the World Press Freedom Index released by Reporters Without Borders for 2021. Namibia, South Africa, Ghana, and Botswana are among
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The rise of digital platforms as a soft power apparatus in the New Korean Wave era Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Dal Yong Jin
By employing digital soft power as a theoretical framework, this article examines the increasing role of domestic digital platforms in the New Korean Wave and their contributions to cultural diplomacy. It discusses the ways in which digital soft power becomes the primary vehicle in cultural diplomacy related to the Korean Wave. As there are tensions and conflicts between these private platforms and
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Editorial Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Yi-Hui Christine Huang, Yu Hong, Fen Lin, Zhao Alexandre Huang, Jian Lin
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The path from participatory culture to participatory politics: A critical investigation—An interview with Henry Jenkins Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Henry Jenkins, You Jie
In this interview, Henry Jenkins critically reviews his theorization of the logical and practical connection between participatory culture and participatory politics, which is enabled and facilitated by the civic imagination of various social groups strategically and affectively deploying popular culture resources for different political purposes. Henry Jenkins emphatically discusses the democratic
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From City Hall to Twitter: Navigating political context in US mayors’ online engagement Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Minshuai Ding
Twitter has become an indispensable tool for politicians and officials, including US mayors as heads of local governments, to engage with constituents in real time and convey their political agendas. However, there is limited research on the relationship between the political context associated with the role of mayor and their ways of communication on Twitter. This study explores the Twitter usage
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The Republic of Kakao goes on hiatus: The public cost of platform monopolies in South Korea Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Siho Nam
In the wake of the recent nationwide service outage of Kakao, this article questions the cost that the Korean public may have to bear when private platform monopolies imbue all facets of public lives. Using cultural political economy as both a theoretical framework and a mode of inquiry, it seeks to unravel the ways in which platform monopolies are legitimized and defended by a mix of institutional
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Mediatized politics in Palestine: Online platforms’ influence on framing of politicians’ messages Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Shadi Abu-Ayyash
Based on a theoretical framework of mediatization and framing, this article examines the communication behaviors of leaders from the prominent Palestinian party, Fatah, on social media, with a specific focus on the general election decree of 2021. It involves interviews with journalists and an analysis of social media content to explain how politicians’ online behavior is influenced by the formats
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Message (in)congruence: Tweeting while competing for donations Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Jamie Levine Daniel, Cali Curley, Marlene Walk
Nonprofit organizations rely on social media to build relationships with their stakeholders and solicit the resources they need to provide their programs and services. This online activity takes place in an increasingly competitive environment. We draw on the situational theory of publics, stakeholder theory, giving motivation, and gamification to examine this question: When organizations engage in
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The platformation and transformation of the digital public sphere: An introduction Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Ming Xie
This article introduces the complex landscape of social media platforms and their evolving integration within social and political contexts. Focusing on the concept of platform society, this article discusses the emergence and growth of new platforms as well as the localization trends of mobile communication. This article examines the interplay between technological structures and social, cultural
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Influence of social bots in information warfare: A case study on @UAWeapons Twitter account in the context of Russia–Ukraine conflict Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Qian Li, Qian Liu, Shaoqiang Liu, Xinyue Di, Siyu Chen, Hongzhong Zhang
During the Russia–Ukraine conflict, social media has become an outlet for public opinion; therefore, besides the hot war, information warfare is also taking place. It was discovered that a large nu...
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A template for mapping emotion expression within hashtag publics Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Chamil Rathnayake, Daniel D Suthers
Current literature on networked publics lacks research that examines how emotions are mobilised around specific actors, and quantitative analysis of affective phenomena is limited to vanity metrics...
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Partisan selective exposure and politically polarized attitudes toward disruptive protest Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Kyle John Lorenzano, Soo Jung Moon, Porismita Borah
While many Americans support the right to protest, increased animus has recently been directed at protesters themselves, often along partisan ideological lines and in partisan media content. Howeve...
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Identification and political advertising: Exploring the role of ethnic identification in political advertising campaigns Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Azmat Rasul, Mian Muhammad Asim
Issues of race and ethnic diversity have emerged as important consideration in campaigning and developing political advertising. This study examines the moderating effect of the strength of ethnic ...
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Examining the role of social media and mobile social networking applications in socio-political contestations in Nigeria Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Temple Uwalaka, Bigman Nwala
Social media platforms continue to flourish as practices encompassing them become deeply embedded in many cultures. As more people embrace social media platforms, their affordances and opportunitie...
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Differentiation and unity: A Cross-platform Comparison Analysis of Online Posts’ Semantics of the Russian–Ukrainian War Based on Weibo and Twitter Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Wei Tao, Yingtong Peng
The current Russian–Ukrainian War sparked a new wave of misinformation across social media. However, there is a lack of cross-platform research approaches around war events. This article followed t...
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Photographs and COVID-19: The therapeutic quality of shared narratives and collective memory Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Allison Kwesell, Yufei Wu, Dechen Lama, Shuyang Lin
Mainstream media photographically documented intimate and difficult moments of COVID-19 while also publishing hopeful images. These spanned from intubation, death, and facial bruising from personal...
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Global political economy, information technologies, and a people’s history of telecommunications: A dialogue with Dan Schiller Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Dan Schiller, Min Tang
In this academic conversation, Professor Dan Schiller, a critical political economy scholar and historian of information and communications, first shares his up-to-date observation and analysis of ...
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Blogosphere, vulnerability news and users’ engagement: The contribution of blogs in the reporting of internally displaced persons in Nigeria Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Oberiri Destiny Apuke, Celestine Verlumun Gever, Naziru Alhaji Tukur
This study examines blog coverage (October 2018 to October 2019) and its engagement with citizens regarding internally displaced persons in Nigeria. Approximately 85 stories of internally displaced...
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The promotional regime of visibility: Ambivalence and contradiction in strategies of dominance and resistance Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-29 César Jiménez-Martínez, Lee Edwards
In this article, we explore the tensions and blurred boundaries between dominance and resistance in promotional contexts by critically examining the notion of ‘visibility’, a commonly used yet larg...
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Climate communication: How researchers navigate between scientific truth and media publics Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Donya Alinejad, José Van Dijck
Recent attacks on scientific authority have intensified calls for climate scientists to seek out a more active stake in public engagement. Yet, today’s media landscape presents scientists with the ...
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Digitalization of public diplomacy: Concepts, trends, and challenges Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-10 Ilan Manor, Zhao Alexandre Huang
Dr. Ilan Manor is a leading scholar in the digitalization of public diplomacy and a senior lecturer at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev. From the beginning of his academic career, Dr. Manor i...
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Between universes: Fan positionalities in the transnational circulation of K-pop Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-07 Kyong Yoon
Transnational fans of South Korean pop music (K-pop) are known for their cosmopolitan sense of belonging and community beyond geocultural boundaries. Academics who are also fans (i.e. aca-fans) and...
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Presidential discourse, the public and recurring themes: A political communication analysis of the 2019 State of the Nation Address in Ghana Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-10-10 Godwin Etse Sikanku
The State of the Nation Address is one of the most important public speeches of a president because it sets the tone, framework and plans of the administration in any given year. This research cont...
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The third way of global Internet governance: A dialogue with Terry Flew Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-09-12 Terry Flew, Fen Lin
In this dialogue, Terry Flew first outlines “a synoptic history” of the dominant discourses on Internet regulation. By exploring the global experiences over the past decades, Flew then articulates ...
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‘I wanna kill my rapist’: Margaret Cho’s #12DaysofRage campaign as promotional digital activism Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-07-22 Madison Trusolino
On November 1, 2015, comedian Margaret Cho announced a two-part campaign inspired by her history as a sexual-abuse survivor, to promote her new music video ‘I Wanna Kill My Rapist’. This included t...
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The internal dynamics of “scaling up” deliberative mini-publics Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-07-01 John Rountree, Chris Anderson, Justin Reedy, Matthew C Nowlin
Recent deliberative systems research has emphasized the need to “scale up” deliberative mini-publics by exploring connections between mini-publics and broader arenas of policymaking. Less is known,...
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Deplatformization, platform governance and global geopolitics: Interview with José van Dijck Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-05-19 José van Dijck, Jian Lin
In this interview, José van Dijck distinguishes the concept of deplatformization from deplatforming and platformization. It describes the phenomena of the systematic pushing back of controversial p...
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The blame game in a child abuse incident in Vietnamese online news media: A framing analysis Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-28 Nguyễn Yến-Khanh
This study examined the Vietnamese online news media discourse of a child abuse incident at a private autism center. Using framing analysis, the study found the news media frame the child abuse dom...
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Editorial Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-12 Yi-Hui Christine Huang, Yu Hong, Fen Lin, Zhao Alexandre Huang, Jian Lin
The year 2022 marks the publication of the seventh volume of Communication and the Public (CAP). Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the context for our reflections on communication has become more sophisticated and contradictory than ever. Over the past 2 years, we have had to understand anew the importance of communication as a fundamental social process and its institutional significance in coordinating
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The bias of Twitter as an agenda-setter on COVID-19: An empirical research using log data and survey data in Japan Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-02-22 Tsukasa Tanihara
This study investigates the bias of Twitter as an agenda-setter during COVID-19. Specifically, we analyze the agenda-setting function of Twitter (Study 1) and characteristics of information dissemi...
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Revisiting public diplomacy in a postpandemic world: The need for a humanity-centered communication logic Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-02-10 R S Zaharna, Zhao Alexandre Huang
Professor R. S. Zaharna is a leading scholar in international communication and public diplomacy. She has witnessed the rapid development of public diplomacy since 2001 and has been committed to re...
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Making neo-nationalist subject in Japan: The intersection of nationalism, jingoism, and populism in the digital age Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-02-04 Satofumi Kawamura, Koichi Iwabuchi
This article considers how digital media communication reconfigures a “neo-nationalist subject” in the Japanese context. A neo-nationalist subject is not the so-called modern national subject that ...
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Oscillating scale and articulating regions: Power geometries and multi-scalar publics in People’s Tribune’s coverage of Benton Harbor, Michigan Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-01-29 Joshua P Ewalt
This essay explores the mapping of power geometries as public rhetoric within People’s Tribune’s coverage of Benton Harbor, Michigan. In doing so, the essay demonstrates three techniques for mapping power geometries: that they (a) oscillate between spatial scales, thereby managing a tension between framing place as unique and common to a broader geography; (b) articulate regions so as to locate the
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The more you know, the less you like: A comparative study of how news and political conversation shape political knowledge and affective polarization Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2021-12-28 Jiyoun Suk, David Coppini, Carlos Muñiz, Hernando Rojas
The contemporary communication ecology contributes to affective polarization by presenting us with extreme exemplars of disliked groups. News exposure that is associated with political discussion networks is related to greater political knowledge, yet unlike previous eras where political knowledge and tolerance went hand in hand, this is no longer the case. We employ a comparative design to examine
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The curious absence of cybernationalism in Latin America: Lessons for the study of digital sovereignty and governance Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2021-10-05 Martin Becerra, Silvio R Waisbord
In this article, we are interested in examining the factors that drive cybernationalism and digital governance in media policies. As scholars with a long-standing interest in media industries and policies in Latin America, we start with a simple empirical observation: the curious absence of debates and strong efforts to regulate digital media in the region grounded on nationalistic arguments. It is
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The BTS sphere: Adorable Representative M.C. for Youth’s transnational cyber-nationalism on social media Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2021-09-20 Dal Yong Jin
BTS fandom has been one of the strongest, and many Adorable Representative M.C. for Youth members have dedicated themselves to protect BTS from numerous controversies, while promoting the group’s messages, which can be identified as cyber-nationalism. By employing a critical discourse analysis on BTS fans’ social media posts and their online activities surrounding a few incidents, this article attempts
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Media diversity and the analysis of qualitative variation Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2021-05-10 David Deacon, James Stanyer
Diversity is recognised as a significant criterion for appraising the democratic performance of media systems. This article begins by considering key conceptual debates that help differentiate types and levels of diversity. It then addresses a core methodological challenge in measuring diversity: how do we model statistical variation and difference when many measures of source and content diversity
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“Give me Liberty or Give me Covid-19”: Anti-lockdown protesters were never Trump puppets Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-12-08 Jen Schradie
Dismissing conservative participants in protests as duped fools or ranting ideologues who have fallen prey to fake news is a dangerous reaction that fails to recognize the essential and grassroots role they play in profoundly effective conservative messaging that continues to outfox progressive information campaigns. This article uses the collective action against Covid-19 stay-at-home orders and mask
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Data capitalism and the counter futures of ethics in artificial intelligence Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-11-12 Ezekiel Dixon-Román, Luciana Parisi
Ethics in data science and artificial intelligence have gained broader prominence in both scholarly and public discourse. Much of the scholarly engagements have often been based on perspectives of transparency, politics of representation, moral ethical norms, and refusal. In this article, while the authors agree that there is a problem with the universal model of technology, they argue that what these
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Introduction to Special Forum on Digital Culture and Society Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-11-10 Guobin Yang
The 10 essays in this special forum were based on presentations at two recent conferences. The essays by Min Jiang and Francis Lee were their keynote speeches delivered at the preconference on “Social Media, Algorithms, News, and Public Engagements in the Asia-Pacific and Beyond” of the 2020 annual conference of International Communication Association. The other essays were presented at the “Symposium
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An ethics of pace in digital culture Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-11-10 Moya Bailey
As Elodie and 35,000 other Congolese children negotiate dangerous working conditions that impair their health, some Western consumers enjoy the fruits of their debilitating labor to fight for their own rights in the ableist infrastructure of the West. Americans and people around the world benefit from the cooling power of an aquifer in South Carolina, water that is in the ground traditionally stewarded
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Detecting astroturf lobbying movements Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-11-02 Brieuc Lits
Astroturf lobbying refers to the simulation of grassroots support for or against a public policy. The objective of this tactic is for private interests to pretend they have public support for their cause. However, omitting to disclose the real sponsor of a message renders the communication unauthentic and undermines democratic and pluralist values. This article seeks to develop a method to detect astroturf
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DRAG THEM: A brief etymology of so-called “cancel culture” Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-10-16 Meredith D. Clark
The term “cancel culture” has significant implications for defining discourses of digital and social media activism. In this essay, I briefly interrogate the evolution of digital accountability praxis as performed by Black Twitter, a meta-network of culturally linked communities online. I trace the practice of the social media callout from its roots in Black vernacular tradition to its misappropriation
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Making enemies with media Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-10-12 Jeremy Packer, Joshua Reeves
This article examines the role of media technology in determining preconstitutive enemies of the political order. To do so, it analyzes how discipline-specific methods of enemy detection, analysis, and neutralization correspond to different media environments. Media have a diagnostic and prescriptive significance: not only do they locate enemies that conform to their own unique standards of measurement
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Keeping it peaceful: Twitter and the Gezi Park movement Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-10-05 Fatih Demir, Mehmet F Bastug, Aziz Douai
Over the last decade, social media platforms have become the leading communication tools for activists and protesters all over the world. Understanding protesters’ motivations and reasons for using social media is a challenging issue for researchers. In this article, we analyzed the use of Twitter during the anti-governmental protests in Istanbul that was launched in May 2013. We examined 13,794 tweets
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Stepping back to move forward: Centering capital in discussions of technology and the future of work Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-10-05 Benjamin Shestakofsky
Some researchers have warned that advances in artificial intelligence will increasingly allow employers to substitute human workers with software and robotic systems, heralding an impending wave of technological unemployment. By attending to the particular contexts in which new technologies are developed and implemented, others have revealed that there is nothing inevitable about the future of work
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Algorithmic ethnography, during and after COVID-19 Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-09-30 Angèle Christin
Social scientists are increasingly turning to digital interactions as a primary source of qualitative data. Online activities in turn typically take place on algorithmically mediated platforms, which shape what people do and say in crucial ways. Here, I offer a toolkit for what I call algorithmic ethnography, that is, the ethnographic study of how computational systems structure online activities.
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Algorithmic precarity in cultural work Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-09-30 Brooke Erin Duffy
While work in the media and cultural industries has long been considered precarious, the processes and logics of platformization have injected new sources of instability into the creative labor economy. Among the sources of such insecurity are platforms’ algorithms, which structure the production, circulation, and consumption of cultural content in capricious, enigmatic, even biased ways. Accordingly
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Pained publics Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-09-10 Donovan Conley, Benjamin Burroughs
In her contribution to the Quarterly Journal of Speech’s centennial issue, “Pathologia,” Jenny Rice suggests, “pathology does not only or always reveal something broken. Rather, the experience of pathology also reminds us that rhetoric’s sensorium is working—really working” (p. 35). Yes, and in a time of pandemic turbulence, we are reminded that the sensorium of civic life works in ways that shape
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The wound’s future Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-09-10 Jenny Rice
While we so commonly frame our public/civic wounds as past (or passed), we are used to talking about healing and mending existing wounds. This language also affects how we conduct deliberative discourse around current crises. However, I am more curious about the wound’s future. Specifically, I want to explore the wound’s future as it emerges in two different types of deliberation: prescriptive deliberation
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Deliverance Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-08-31 Donovan Conley
This essay proposes thinking about civic wounds as assemblages. It draws on the historical case of antebellum Cincinnati, where the physical contagion of cholera entangled with the social contagion of slavery in ways that articulated across both cultural and physical domains of activity at once. Taking this approach reveals the ways rhetoric’s pharmakon mediates the operations of delivery within assemblages;
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Consensual attending Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-08-31 Nathaniel A Rivers
Consensual attending addresses the ecological and relational conditions in which any act of assent or dissent materializes. I argue that consent is not an act undertaken by individuals, but is a relational endeavor that individuates. Any solitary act of assent—of thinking, perceiving, feeling—is predicated upon prior and ongoing consensual acts. The terms of consensual attending modulate one another:
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Colonizing cuts of labyrinth mythology, a tangling parable of white sensibilities Communication and the Public (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-08-26 Diane Marie Keeling
This article demonstrates the way wounds, and affects generally, are figured by the writing of history. It traces patterns of thinking about the labyrinth primarily in histories, theories, and myths of the past 150 years to demonstrate how the labyrinth has been cut by colonization. From the Mycenaean colonization of Indigenous Cretans (inaccurately named “Minoans”) to the emergence of white feminism