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A Call to go in Between the Sheets: Finding Power and Significance in Studying Sex and Sexuality in Communication Research Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Patrick R. Johnson
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Press Freedom, State Interests, and a Murder Case: Editorial Coverage of Jamal Khashoggi in the Washington Post Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Amani Ismail, Gayane Torosyan
The October 2018 killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was a highly publicized event worldwide, shedding light on critical issues such as journalists’ safety, US-Saudi relations, press freedom, and democratic values. This study is a critical discourse analysis of editorials published in the Washington Post after Khashoggi's disappearance. Key themes emerging from the analysis include the dilemma
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Book Review: Evaluation Across Newspaper Genres: Hard News Stories, Editorials and Feature Articles by Jonathan Ngai Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Ying Wang, Tianhua Wang
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On “Othering” Cuties: The Politicization of Contemporary Black Girlhood in The Digital Era Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Lisa D. Lenoir, Raquel S. Arias Labrador
Senegalese-French filmmaker Maïmouna Doucouré's resistance project, Cuties (2020), aimed to alert adults about the dangers of hypersexualization on social media and its harm to young girls. However, the film content and its suggestive Netflix marketing campaign led to it being misinterpreted and maligned as “child pornography.” This study examines these controversies, arguing that the heightened gaze
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In Bed With Bob Guccione: Me, #MeToo, and the Ethical Challenges of Writing Porn History Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Carolyn Bronstein
Can we separate art from the artist who created it? This essay discusses the debate over art created by morally problematic men, especially those revealed through the lens of #MeToo activism as sexual abusers. From a historical perspective, how should we regard the pornography produced by men like Bob Guccione, whose Penthouse magazine reached millions of readers from 1965 on and became one of the
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Journalism and its Response to Crisis: Understanding the Role of Place and Community in Journalism Studies Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Patrick R. Johnson
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“Psychic Poisons” or Emerging Medicines: A Thematic Analysis of Cannabis Representations in Australian Nineteenth-Century Periodicals Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Hannah Adler, Clare J Burnett
This interdisciplinary study investigates representations of cannabis in 386 Australian newspaper reports from the latter-part of the nineteenth century. During this time, periodicals were the primary means of information circulation, and the Australian press shared much of its reporting with other jurisdictions. Using a reflexive thematic analysis, this research reveals that in this period, in which
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Paralleling the Gay Man's Trauma: Monkeypox Stigma and the Mainstream Media Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Rachel Grant, Alan Halaly
Mainstream media portrayed monkeypox as a sexually transmitted disease through government guidance and increased a sense of hypersexualization and stigma among gay men and men who have sex with men (MSM). The purpose of this study is to understand how the US mainstream media perpetuated stigma toward gay and bisexual men (MSM) in its coverage of monkeypox in 2022. This article, therefore, contributes
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Remembering the Recession: Marketplace and Status Quo Journalism Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Diane L. Cormany
Ten years after the 2008 Great Recession, US media recalled the experiences and lessons learned from its aftermath. Among these was Marketplace's Divided Decade project, which spanned calendar year 2018 and included 66 discrete stories covering the impact on individuals and different sectors. The project cut across both Marketplace Morning and its evening broadcast Marketplace, both syndicated by American
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“Belief Initiates and Guides Action—Or it Does Nothing”: An Exploration of the Political Functions of Watching and Reading Dystopian Fiction Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Mayte Donstrup
This article addresses the question of how dystopian fiction can produce civic and ideological connections among audiences. To this end, we have drawn from different theoretical perspectives on public connectivity to show how audience involvement with fictional entertainment can forge clear links with the political sphere. In short, we offer a qualitative reception study that has yielded six features
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Toward an Understanding of Centralized Intertextual Fortification: The Case of Commercially Oriented Qanon Content Creators Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Joshua D. Atkinson, Matthew Dorr, Vamsi Chaitanya Pedasanaganti, Shudipta Sharma
In this research, we engaged in a cyber-archaeology of interactive media utilized by Qanon content creators to determine if the concept of diffused intertextual production was present in their work. Most of these content creators were engaged in commercial endeavors with their content. Through our research, we found a communicative strategy similar to diffused intertextual production was utilized by
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Don’t Fear Artificial Intelligence, Question the Business Model: How Surveillance Capitalists Use Media to Invade Privacy, Disrupt Moral Autonomy, and Harm Democracy Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Joseph Jones
This paper analyzes the causes, consequences, and logic of surveillance capitalism, delineating how behavioral surplus became the latest form of accumulation and questioning its ethical, legal, and material implications. The purpose of this project is to provide a decisively human response to an otherwise reductive, totalizing political economic system that uses equally reductive technology. Using
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“This is Not a Slippery Slope” Versus “The Queer Sex Panic is Just Beginning”: Discourse About FOSTA-SESTA in Ideologically Diverse U.S. Mass media, 2017–2023 Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Chelsea Reynolds
This research analyzes mass media coverage of The Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA) and Stop Enabling Online Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA), two landmark 2018 bills that changed how sexual content is moderated by internet service providers in the United States. Using critical discourse analysis, I compare the framing of 101 news stories about FOSTA-SESTA published in
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Kinder-Conspiracy Theories: Disney's Gravity Falls and the Conspiracy Genre in Children's Television Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Ryan Neville-Shepard, Amy Whiteside
This essay suggests that there is a variant of what Stephanie Kelley-Romano calls the “conspiracy genre on American television,” a subgenre targeting children that we call kinder-conspiracy theories. Treating Disney's Gravity Falls as an exemplar of the subgenre, we argue that kinder-conspiracy theories differ from the larger genre in three ways. First, while inspiring social mistrust like most conspiracy
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Postracial Queer Romance: A Close Reading of Anthony Bowens and Michael Pavano's Interracial Relationship in YouTube (and Beyond) Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Shinsuke Eguchi
This essay is a close reading of YouTube's Michael & Anthony's video content in which mixed-race Black male pro wrestler Anthony Bowens and his white boyfriend Michael Pavano's romance is represented. The goal is to deploy queer of color critique to unpack how the interracial aspects of Bowens and Pavano's romance offer moments to question, critique, and reimagine the queer politics of interracial
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Risk Narratives on Immigration During the COVID-19 Crisis in Italy: A Comparative Analysis of Facebook Posts Published by Politicians and by News media Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-04-09 Luca Serafini, Anita Gottlob, Francesco Pierri, Francesca Ieva, Stefano Ceri
This work explores how the narrative on immigration changes when society is threatened by “real” risks, i.e., during the COVID-19 health crisis. We compared the frequency and engagement of over 348...
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Anufɔ-English Codeswitching in Informal Settings Among the Anufɔ People of Ghana Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Daniel Oppong-Adjei, Joseph Peter Yaw-kan
In Ghana, most of the recent studies on codeswitching (CS) have largely considered formal settings like religious centers (specifically the church) and the educational arena (specifically classroom...
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“With Pride:” Media Coverage of Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union's Black Parenting of Zaya Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-03-14 Rachel Grant, Diane Ezeh Aruah
In 2020, former NBA player Dwyane Wade discussed how his child, Zaya came out as transgender. He used his platform to generate discussions about Black parenting specifically parenting a child in th...
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Untapped Potential? Exploring the ‘Latent’ Local Newspaper Reader in Digital Spaces Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-02-05 Kristy Hess, Angela Blakston, Jerry Lai, Alison McAdam, Lisa Waller
When it comes to understanding news audiences in rural areas, scholars often focus on declining readership and the challenge of how to encourage existing audiences to pay for content. There too has...
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Smart Assistants for Smart Living: Ideology and Mythology in AI-Powered Smart Speaker Advertising Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Suman Mishra, Rebecca Kern-Stone
This study examines advertising of top-selling voice-activated smart speakers in the United States to understand how advertisers are promoting these devices to consumers. The study identifies four ...
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The Death of Fordism and the Family Wage in Labor Documentaries: A Feminist Analysis Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-02-05 Kathryn A. Cady
This paper analyzes three labor documentaries released from 1989 to 1991, which depict the United States’ assumed transition from a Fordist to post-Fordist economy. Feminist textual analysis focuse...
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Political Purpose and the Development of Mediatisation: Considering Media Representations and News Management During the Coal Dispute of 1984-5 Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Frances Myers
One major contestation of mediatisation is insufficient empirical historiography of its development, particularly in light of claims for its value in understanding political and social change and t...
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Nigerian Military Strategic Use of Social Media During Online Firestorms: An Appraisal of the NDA Terrorist Attack Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-01-17 Temple Uwalaka
This study appraises how the Nigerian military used social media platforms to provide a counter narrative and quell the online firestorm regarding the Nigerian Defence Academy's (NDA’s) terrorists’...
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Beyond Laughter: An Analysis of Phonological Joke in A. B. Crentsil's Atia and Osookoo Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Samuel Ato Bentum, Daniel Oppong-Adjei
Phonological joke is an area that appears to be under-studied especially in its application to the analysis of humor in a given setup such as Ghana. This study explores the concept of phonological ...
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Adoption of Social Media during Covid-19 Pandemic by African Presidents: A Cross-Sectional Study of Selected Facebook Accounts Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Janet Aver Adikpo
This paper examined the adoption of social media to disperse information at the beginning of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Content analysis was employed to identify and select relevant posts fo...
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Theoretical and Social Implications of Alternative ‘Feminist’ Media: Sexual Harassment and Intersectional Advocacy in India Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Ishani Mukherjee, Priya V. Shah, Tina E. Dexter
What makes alternative digital media ‘alternative’ is critical content and being a ‘prosumer’ platform that champions social justice and change. An Indian digital zine, and our present case study f...
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Syria and Political Cartoons from the Perspective of the Cartoonist Ali Ferzat Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Salud Adelaida Flores Borjabad
Political cartoons play an important role in society as an alternative media. This study aimed to explore the democracy in, and politics of, Syria drawing upon political cartoons as a reference The...
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The Role of Social Media Platforms in Contemporary New Zealand LGBTQ + Movements Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-12-04 Suvojit Bandopadhyaya, Linda Jean Kenix
This paper explores the shifting dynamics of what constitutes a contemporary social movement and the pros and cons that emerge after movements have gone online. This paper is premised on in-depth i...
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Autonomous Movements and Their Media Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Mitch Perkins
Social movements respond and adapt to the social and historical environment, and global connections have allowed activists to envision an array of alternatives. This has led present-day movements t...
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Mad Men (2007–15), not “Rad Men”: Or, from Brothel Pickpocket to Transcendental Advertiser Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Brian Michael Goss
Mad Men is often assumed to be “subversive” in the academic literature whereas this investigation interprets the astutely promoted series as questioning capitalism before it ratifies market relatio...
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“I Don’t Want to Die in Here”: Absence and Vulnerability in COVID-19 News Coverage of Prisons Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-11-27 Adina Schneeweis, Katherine A. Foss
This research examines how news constructed vulnerability in the coverage of COVID-19 and populations in prisons and jails. Focused on key moments during the moral panic around the pandemic, the an...
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American Cultural Insularity and Global Online Video: Are Netflix, Amazon Prime and Other Digital Streaming Platforms Broadening Americans’ Foreign Film Consumption Horizons? Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Christof Demont-Heinrich
The United States has long been characterized by American Cultural Insularity (ACI). According to a theory of ACI that I have developed in previous work ( Author 2019, 2020), compared to most peopl...
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Approaching “Data Feminism”: Visualizations to Shed Light on Inequality Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Ziyin Li
Data feminism theory believes data visualization that embraces feminism can be used to reshape the world and powerfully reveal inequalities around women, people of color, and other disadvantaged gr...
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The Political Branding of a Powerless Nation: A Historical Account of the Branding of Kuwait During the Reign of Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salem (1950–1965) Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-11-07 Ali A. Dashti, Ali A. Al-Kandari, Talal M. Almutairi, Albaraa F. Altourah, Abdulmohsen Jamal
This study explores the political branding of a powerless small state, the state of Kuwait during the reign of Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salem, from 1950 to 1965. The study uses models developed by Anholt...
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The Attraction of Anti-intellectualism: Appropriation of Journalism Ideology in Media Education Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-10-26 Michael McDevitt
This study considers the possibility that students are subversive actors in a hidden curriculum of anti-intellectualism. Mass communication provides the arena in which intellectuals are held up to ...
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Towards a Definition of Hate Speech—With a Focus on Online Contexts Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-10-05 Mika Hietanen, Johan Eddebo
As legislators and platforms tackle the challenge of suppressing hate speech online, questions about its definition remain unresolved. In this review we discuss three issues: What are the main chal...
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Polling, Partisanship, and Promoting Violence: New Developments in Impression Management From Candidate and Super PAC Advertisements Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-10-03 Nathan Katz
Super PACs have become a pivotal force in U.S. elections, often working in tandem with political campaigns to create cohesive messages in advertisements that serve as a tool for impression manageme...
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The Constructed Meaning of Suicide: A Relational Dialectics Theory Analysis of Online Suicide Chats Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-09-25 Jordan B. Conrad, Carol Coohey
Examining synchronous chats from an online suicide crisis intervention, we used contrapuntal analysis to identify competing discourses of meaning among online suicide chat users. Contrapuntal analy...
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Cultural Phenomenon and Cognitive Semantic Analysis of Children's Blogs Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-09-21 Khaleel Al-Said, Tatyana Galich, Rufina Khanova
The research proposes the cognitive semantic analysis of 50 children's blogs. Using cognitive semantic analysis and the experiment method, the research identifies lexical-semantic domains based on ...
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Selling Yoga ‘Off the Mat’: A 10-year Analysis of Lifestyle Advertorials in Yoga Journal Magazine Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-09-15 Nandini Bhalla, Jane O’Boyle, Leigh Moscowitz
Scholars have critiqued popular media representations of yoga as largely emphasizing thin, white, upper-class female practitioners donning expensive apparel and accessories, exemplifying many aspec...
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Aesthetic Subjectification Through Ambivalent Play: Exploring a Ludic Theory of Popular Propaganda Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-09-10 Sheng Zou
Propaganda research was central to the coalescence of communication studies into a modern social science field in the early twentieth century. Positivist and behaviorist in its orientation, traditi...
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Becoming Celebrity Girl Activists: The Cultural Politics and Celebrification of Emma González, Marley Dias, and Greta Thunberg Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-08-24 Spring Duvall
Young girls have historically been symbols to be conjured by social movements to garner sympathy for social causes, but are frequently silenced as political agents. This study addresses the celebri...
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Religious Identity, Politics, and the Media: What White Evangelical Christian Women's Religious Identity Reveals About Their Endorsement of Donald J. Trump and Distrust of News Outlets Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-08-24 Gayle Jansen Brisbane
This research examines white evangelical Christian women's social/religious identity and how this distinctiveness influences their political standpoints, voting behaviors, and opinions of perceived...
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Editor’s Introduction Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-08-19 Frankline Matanji
This October's issue of the Journal of Communication Inquiry includes an interview, original articles, and book reviews.
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When the exception to the rule proves the rule: Parasite’s paradoxical Academy Awards best picture win and American Cultural Insularity in the Center (ACIC) Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-08-17 Christof Demont-Heinrich
This paper argues that rather than proving that foreign-language films have somehow finally “arrived” in the United States that an historic win by the South Korean film Parasite in the best picture...
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Cultural Continuance and Agency in Cherokee Biographical Digital Storytelling Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-08-17 Megan M. Cox
The concepts of Native American cultural continuance and agency have become critical elements of both preserving, sharing, and extending the culture of Indigenous Americans into the future. Digital...
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Race-Conscious Public Health: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Release the Pressure Campaign Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-08-08 Hayley T. Markovich
In 2020, the Release the Pressure Campaign, a joint public health campaign was started to address the high rates of heart disease, and particularly hypertension, experienced among Black women in th...
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Cultures of Digital Architectures: Power and Positionalities in the Backend of Online Journalism Production Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-08-01 Robert E. Gutsche, Jr
This essay complicates interpretations of digital architectures in online journalism production in terms of journalistic interlopers and intralopers during an age of increased influence of technolo...
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Conspiratorial Narratives on Facebook and Their Historical Contextual Associations: A Case Study from Cyprus Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-07-29 Theodoros Kouros, Venetia Papa, Maria Ioannou, Vyronas Kapnisis
Conspiracy theories and their effects have greatly proliferated during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. As in various countries, so in Cyprus, a mobilization of anti-vaxxers organized mainly through Facebook, violently attacked the largest media group of the island, “Sigma”. Taking into consideration local peculiarities and historical contexts, a qualitative research was conducted on comments posted on
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“If You Were a Horse, You Would Have Been Shot”: A Thematic Analysis of Medical Professionals’ Communication with Mothers Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-07-27 Daisy Milman, Miglena Sternadori
This study expands the concept of motherhood as a social construction, grounded in Jung’s Great Mother and the Terrible Mother archetypes, to the context of medical communications. By analyzing 254 mothers’ responses to an online survey, we determined the primary themes in their recollections of medical professionals’ communications identified by the participants as having affected their sense of stress
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McLuhan Plays Golf: Optimizing Technology to Make Golf More Accessible, Affordable, and Sustainable Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-07-11 Noah Franken
Golf is a global game that is dominated by technology. Even in times of economic hardship, golfers flock to golf courses around the world, and the golf industry continues to churn out advancements in golf technology with the promise of making players better and the game more enjoyable. Nonetheless, golf has its barriers and challenges. For example, it is a game that is exclusive, expensive, requires
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Television, Brands, and the Pandemic: How Spanish TV Channels Treated the Brands Most Valued for Their CSR During the COVID-19 Lockdown Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-06-12 Antonio Sanjuán Pérez, José Juan Videla Rodríguez, Teresa Nozal Cantarero, Sandra Martínez Costa
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in March 2020, the Spanish Government announced a total lockdown of the population and the interruption of all nonessential economic activity. From this point, televisions adapted their programming schedules by reducing their usual informative content, such as sport or economic segments. In this context, it would be reasonable to assume that the overall television coverage
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Image War: Interview with Marie-José Mondzain Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-06-06 Briankle G. Chang, Zervoudaki Nefeli Forni
In this interview, Marie-José Mondzain, prominent French philosopher, historian, and cultural critic, discusses some of the key concepts in critical visual studies central to her work. In her typical keen, learned fashion, Mondzain demonstrates the unbreakable relationships among image, desire, subjectivity, collective identity, and the broader sociocultural milieu, in which image making and unmaking
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The Unsaid or Empty Speech: The act of Being Silenced: Language of Silence of Women and its Implications in Amma Darko’s Beyond the Horizon and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-05-25 Yaw-kan Joseph Peter
This paper explored how women are silenced in Amma Darko’s Beyond the Horizon and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. It drew on Parpart’s (Rethinking silence, gender and power in insecure sites: Implications for feminist security studies in a postcolonial world. Review of International Studies, 46(3), 315–324. https://doi.org/10.1017/S026021051900041X) insight that a person who is silenced, who cannot
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Rape, Popular Culture, and Nirbhaya: A Study of India's Daughter and Delhi Crime Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-05-23 Benson Rajan, Devaleena Kundu, Sahana Sarkar
The brutal gang rape of Jyoti Singh (Nirbhaya) on a bus in New Delhi became worldwide news in 2012. Widely known as the Nirbhaya rape incident, it was a landmark case that led the Indian government to amend existing criminal laws on sexual violence and rape. The rape also came to transform the media landscape into a space of social activism. Despite that popular cultural representations of the incident
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Hacking Culture Not Code: How American Racism Fuels Russia's Century-Long Memetic Disinformation Campaign Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-05-23 Bobbie Foster Bhusari, Krishnan Vasudevan, Sohana Nasrin
This study develops upon recent scholarship about the Russian government's digital influence campaign to cultivate Black Americans during the 2016 election by rooting their efforts within a century-long strategy to exploit racial inequality to discredit and damage American democracy. Guided by Shifman’s (2013) construct of memetics, we employed a novel methodology that combined journalistic fact-checking
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Facts Do Care about Your Feelings: The “Assertive Turn” in Emergent Attributes of the Contemporary U.S. Public Sphere Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-05-03 Joshua Foust, Burton St. John, III
After the January 6th, 2021, riots at the U.S. Capitol, it seemed clear that the public sphere in the U.S. was being challenged by political extremists. Yet, existing public sphere normative theories provide unsatisfying tools for explaining why the riots occurred. Participants in the contemporary U.S. public sphere do not seem to recognize the legitimacy of their political opponents, and there is
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Community Media Coverage of Gender Issues: Struggles and Successes in Rural India Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-05-02 Annapurna Sinha
The study explores the struggles and successes of community media journalists in covering gender issues and violence against women in remote rural areas in India. The article introduces some small-scale community newspapers from the country's hindsight and presents an elaborative case study of Khabar Lahariya that prioritise gender issues in the content. The study records the presence and efforts of
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Representational Politics in the Film Series “Asian Americans”: The Contestation of Identity Essentialism Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Anh A. T. Nguyen
This paper highlights counternarratives of identity essentialism (re)producing representational conflations to normalize the existing system of social hierarchies. Analyzing anti-hegemonic discourses of identity in the film series “Asian Americans”, I propound how anti-essentialist critiques work as a rhetorical vehicle for constructing coalitional possibilities. This essay reinstates the importance
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The Revolution Will Be Forwarded: Interrogating India's WhatsApp Imaginary Journal of Communication Inquiry (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-04-24 Jessica Maddox, Shaheen Kanthawala
WhatsApp is one the world's most popular social media apps, as well as one of the most popular chat-based, closed platforms. Utilizing the insights from 19 in-depth interviews, we approach WhatsApp from a cultural perspective of ritual communication, seeking to understand how people make sense of WhatsApp use in their daily lives. We found WhatsApp is largely used to maintain community and fellowship