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Four provocations for rich digital ethnographic research situated in social media networks Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-13 Agata Stepnik
Scholars engaging in social media research involving direct observation of users draw from a range of research methods, each with their own benefits and challenges. From an ethical perspective, res...
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Devising an ethical ‘death knock’ model: the role of preparations, precursors, and professional identity in mitigating moral injury for journalists Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Alysson Watson
This paper proposes a model for an ethical ‘death knock’, the practice by which a journalist approaches a bereaved family to write a story following a newsworthy death. The practice can cause journ...
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Enhancing transmedia component through world building; the case of Ejen Ali franchise Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Umar Hakim Mohd Hasri, Md Azalanshah Md Syed
This study examines the functional utilities of world building through the analysis of Ejen Ali as a case study of transmedia narrative. It recognises world building as a creative process that stra...
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The demographics of digital disconnection: prevalence, motives and barriers to disconnecting from the Internet in Aotearoa New Zealand Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Alex Beattie, John Kerr, Karaitiana Taiuru
This study explores how often New Zealanders’ deliberately disconnect from the Internet (“digital disconnection”). Utilizing a nationally representative survey of 1,012 participants, the research i...
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Stakeholder engagement and chaotic narrative spaces: Singapore’s COVID-19 outbreak in foreign-worker dormitories Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-11 Elaine Xu, Tania Lim, Howard Lee
In the early months of the coronavirus pandemic, Singapore grappled with an escalation of COVID-19 cases among the low-waged foreign workers living in dormitories. Singapore responded to the outbre...
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“We will not be lectured”: understanding political fandom on TikTok Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-22 Kellie Macnaughtan, Verity Trott
In 2020, the Misogyny Speech resurfaced and went viral on the social media platform TikTok, almost a decade after former Prime Minister Julia Gillard first presented it in Australian Parliament. Th...
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Theme: communicating through chaos: emerging research Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-18 Chris Comerford, Renée Middlemost
In 2022, ‘permacrisis’ was declared word of the year. A portmanteau of ‘permanent’ and ‘crisis’, the term aptly summarises the collective fatigue felt globally following years of COVID-19 lockdowns...
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Politics of the gut: comparative content analysis of Australian political Facebook posts using authenticity and populist frameworks Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-07 Cameron McTernan
Leading to Australia’s 2019 Federal election, then-Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, drew attention for posting images of him making family dinners on Facebook. These ‘curry night’ posts became the s...
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‘Life would have been harder, harder and more in chaos, if there wasn’t internet’: digital inclusion among newly arrived refugees in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-07 Emilie Baganz, Tadgh McMahon, Sukhmani Khorana, Liam Magee, Ingrid Culos
Digital technologies are transforming almost every aspect of people’s lives, with COVID-19 accelerating this transition. For refugees, access and familiarity with these technologies is critical to ...
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Faith in Australian numbers: new pressures on public data communication in Australia as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Samantha Vilkins
Before the pandemic, Australia was already increasingly reliant on statistics for political debate. This was reflected not only in high levels of trust in statistical institutions, but in the privi...
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Ethical implications of Thai ChatGPT public discourses Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Soraj Hongladarom, Suppanat Sakprasert
One of the interesting discourses that has occurred in Thailand as a result of ChatGPT is how the algorithm is exploited in a growing number of workshops and seminars aimed at teaching how to use, ...
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Artificial intelligence: governing Singapore’s smart digital journey Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Terence Lee
Since the 1990s, Singapore has sought to project itself as innovative and technologically cutting-edge through narratives such as ‘intelligent island’, digital ecosystem’, and more recently, ‘smart...
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AI governance in India – law, policy and political economy Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Divij Joshi
Artificial Intelligence technologies have elicited a range of policy responses in India, particularly as the Government of India attempts to position and project the country as a global leader in t...
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Riding the waves over generative AI in Malaysia: policies and responses Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Pauline Leong, Bradley Freeman
Businesses and companies in Malaysia have embraced the use of AI technologies as a catalyst for growth and innovation, and it is increasingly becoming a transformative force from enhancing personal...
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Interactions of Filipino platform workers with AI systems: implications for design and governance of labour platforms Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Cheryll Ruth R. Soriano
A crucial feature underpinning labour platforms that attract vast numbers of workers globally are artificial intelligence and algorithmic systems that perform labour management roles. Research in h...
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What is news? Exploring differences in how younger and older cohorts use news in today’s media environment Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Kirsty J. Anderson
This study investigated how younger and older cohorts used news to meet their needs. It used diaries and focus groups with 25 New Zealanders to examine their news sources, characteristics of news t...
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The rise of TikTok elections: the Australian Labor Party’s use of TikTok in the 2022 federal election campaigning Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-29 Susan Grantham
TikTok is an influential social media platform. During the 2022 Australian Federal election, the major political parties used TikTok as a campaigning tool. This research analysed the TikTok videos ...
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Age of techno-innovative journalism: a systematic mapping of entrepreneurial journalism research, 2000 – 2022 Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-27 Abdullateef Mohammed, Lateef A. Adelakun, Adeola Abdullateef Elega, Aisha Sule-Otu, Murtada Busair Ahmad
As scholars try to make sense of the intersection between entrepreneurship and journalism in today’s increasingly digital world, a burgeoning body of research has surfaced in the past couple of yea...
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Editorial: welcome to Volume 10 Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Terence Lee
Published in Communication Research and Practice (Vol. 10, No. 1, 2024)
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Unveiling the intricate dynamics of user engagement in social media: the triad co-evolution through affordances and emotional attachment Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Chun-Kuang Wu, Chih-An Lin, Yu-Ming Hsu
This study empirically examines the complex dynamics between social media entities, brands, and users, advancing user engagement and emotional attachment. It introduces a novel affordance perspecti...
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“I know my work has effect.”– the rise of the woman citizen journalist in India Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Paromita Pain
Using in-depth interviews with 65 participants from the CGNet Swara and the Video Volunteers, two citizen journalism organisations, this study investigates how citizen journalism in India is encour...
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An engaging decade for Communication Research and Practice Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Terry Flew
As the founding editor of Communication Research and Practice, I look back on some of the key drivers of the journal’s development and issues faced for the future. It is noted that the journal has ...
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“Shut up and take my money” – narrating state funding, independent journalism, and public trust in Singapore Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Howard Lee
In May 2021, Singapore Press Holding (SPH), the country’s newspaper conglomerate, announced its restructuring into a not-for-profit entity in response to the global decline of the news industry. Th...
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Singapore media and novel foods: how new innovations and food categories are made and negotiated through mainstream and social media Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Keri Matwick
Through a media discourse analysis, this study draws upon quantitative and qualitative data to gain insights into how new food categories are made and negotiated through mainstream and social media...
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The custodians of childrens’ online privacy: extending the APCO framework to parental social media sharing Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Elizabeth Stoycheff, James Stoycheff
This study examines parental social media sharing, or ‘sharenting’, about their young children by extending the antecedents-privacy concerns-outcomes (APCO) framework. Using a large, international ...
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Children’s reading and screen media use before, during and after the pandemic: Australian parent perspectives Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Katherine Day, Wonsun Shin, Sybil Nolan
This study investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children’s mediascape through a repeated cross-sectional study involving primary caregivers of children aged 7–13 in Australia. Survey...
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Measuring digital skills in community adult learning settings – implications for Australian policy development Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Amber Marshall, Michael Dezuanni, Kim Osman, Amy Schoonens, Peta Mitchell
Social and economic participation is increasingly dependent on the proficient use of digital technologies in everyday life. Digital skills, alongside literacy and numeracy, are now foundational ski...
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Care workers in elder care: the Four Flows of constituting care organisations on social media Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Vilja Levonius, Anu Sivunen
This qualitative study delves into the impact of social media within a private elder care organisation, where its daily use was mandatory. It examines how care and care organizations take shape thr...
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Local news and audiences’ wellbeing: the roles of motivation, satisfaction, and trust Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Sora Park, Jee Young Lee, Sonia Curll, Caroline Fisher, Kerry McCallum, Paul Tyrrell, Lisa Levesque, Alex Mihalovich
Local news plays an important role in generating a sense of community attachment. However, the relationship between local news and wellbeing is less explored. Based on a national survey of 6,367 Au...
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Echoing the local voices: supporting local good governance through community radio in Indonesia Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Dian Wardiana Sjuchro, Ute Lies Siti Khadijah, Nuryah Asri Sjafirah
This article investigates the role of community radio in fostering good governance at the local level in the setting of Indonesia. Using the example of PASS FM Radio, this article demonstrates how ...
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Platformization of the Korean Wave: a critical perspective Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Dal Yong Jin, Kyong Yoon, Benjamin Han
By employing the platformization of cultural production from a critical political economy approach, this article analyzes the transition of the Korean cultural industries to the platform-driven pha...
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What role does Entertainment-Education play in the adoption and maintenance of sustainable behaviours: a case study of reusable coffee cups in millennials Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Rachael Vorwerk, Danie Nilsson
Entertainment-Education interventions can be influential communication strategies to help facilitate audiences to live more sustainable lifestyles. Understanding the process of influencing viewers’...
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Our new Editorial Board Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Terence Lee
Published in Communication Research and Practice (Vol. 9, No. 3, 2023)
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On-demand online video streaming services: a bibliometric analysis and future research agenda Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Richa Kalpesh Saxena
An exponential increase in online video streaming literature on OTT platforms during and post-COVID indicates the growing popularity of streaming services. The present bibliometric review analyses ...
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De/Constructing the soft power discourse in Hallyu Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Kyong Yoon
ABSTRACT This study examines the discourse surrounding the transnational flows of South Korean popular culture, known as Hallyu (the Korean Wave), and its relationship to the country’s soft power through a discourse analysis of Korean news and social media. Specifically, the study explores how Hallyu was addressed as Korea’s soft power tool during the COVID-19 pandemic, when it gained even greater
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Bridging intercultural communication divides: examining technology use by dispersed research teams working in South East Asia Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Wesley S. Ward, Lisa M. Given, Alison F. Southwell
Multinational agricultural research teams operating in low-income countries must overcome communication challenges to address agricultural problems and rural poverty. Collaborations between dispers...
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An hibernal update Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Terence Lee
Published in Communication Research and Practice (Vol. 9, No. 2, 2023)
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University students’ communication in learning settings and basic psychological needs: a latent profile analysis of their interrelationships Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Georgeta M. Hodis, Flaviu A. Hodis, Nilanjana R. Bardhan
ABSTRACT This research investigated the intertwined nature of university students’ communication in learning settings and their satisfaction/frustration of basic psychological needs. To do so, it collected data from 307 university students and explored the communication patterns defined by interrelationships among achieving communication goals, feeling confident about communicating in learning settings
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Consumer trust and pharmaceutical advertising strategies: physiological responses to ‘Actor Portrayal’ versus ‘Real Patient’ disclaimers Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Laura Crosswell
ABSTRACT Americans often learn about important health issues through pharmaceutical advertisements. Unfortunately, public trust in the pharmaceutical industry historically registers at low levels. Therefore, it is important to examine different aspects of commercial elements that may promote or prevent audience trust. This study combines different levels of viewing experience (comparing implicit micro-level
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Your growth is my growth: examining sharenting behaviours from a multiparty privacy perspective Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Zhao Peng
ABSTRACT Sharenting, a behaviour that parents share children’s personal information online, has brought about multiple privacy concerns and risks. Parents are criticised for violating children’s privacy and putting their identities at risk of being stolen. Existing sharenting studies tried to explain the sharenting behaviour based on the assumption that shared content is solely owned by children. This
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When rites go wrong: the impact of failed rituals of news sharing Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Andrew Duffy, Kym Campbell
ABSTRACT When people share news stories on social media, they appeal to transcendent values: showing care, creating a community, seeking certainty, or demonstrating competence. This places news sharing in the realm of ritual actions. This is not always successful, however. This paper argues that failure of these rituals indicates their importance and shows how news-sharing rituals adapt to maintain
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Falsehood and satire on social media: does partisan-motivated reasoning influence fake news sharing? Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Yanfang Wu, Bruce Garrison
ABSTRACT This study seeks to uncover the mechanism of partisan-motivated reasoning acting on fake news evaluation and social media sharing through an online experiment. We found that, although political identification influences trustworthiness of news source and perceived levels of satire in fake news, Democrats view news outlets as more trustworthy than Republicans, and Republicans view fake news
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Rowling, Potterheads and why ‘The best way to manage a crisis is to prevent one’: Twitter communication analysis Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Hannah Ravell
ABSTRACT Since 2007, celebrity author J.K. Rowling has disseminated retroactive reconstruction (retcon) statements via social media that seemingly seek to expand character diversity in her transmedial Wizarding World of the Harry Potter franchise. In response, fans have used Twitter to call out the difference between Rowling’s assertions of diversity and actual diversity they consider authoritative
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Rejuvenation: a call for new editorial board members Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Terence Lee
Published in Communication Research and Practice (Vol. 9, No. 1, 2023)
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Imagining resistance: Māori audiences resist trauma and reimagine representations in television dramas Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Angela Moewaka Barnes
ABSTRACT Television drama has implications beyond providing entertainment and beyond immediate audience reactions and responses. Māori focus group participants in my research on local television dramas were acutely aware of how they were represented on screen. As an audience they were deeply affected and worked hard to pre-empt and address what they saw or expected to see. Against a backdrop of colonisation
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Passivity and exclusion: media power in the construction of the aged-care debate in Australia and Malaysia Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Muhammad Asim Imran, Kathryn Bowd
ABSTRACT This article explores relationships between media power and older people in Western and non-Western settings, utilising the examples of Australia and Malaysia. Drawing on Fairclough’s three-dimensional critical discourse analysis and a dataset of articles from Australian and Malaysian newspapers, it reveals that despite differences in journalistic practices in the two countries there is a
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Discourse analysis after the computational turn: a mixed bag Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Donald Matheson
ABSTRACT This paper seeks to clarify a methodological agenda for combining discourse analysis with corpus analysis. It details four concerns. Firstly, it argues that corpus-assisted discourse analysis can quite drastically narrow the view on discourse, if used on its own and without accompanying theoretical tools for exploring social practice. Secondly, corpora are of more value in helping researchers
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Pacific-based newspaper reporting on violence against women and girls Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Kate Power
ABSTRACT Pacific Island women and girls experience violence at over double the global average rate, partly because violence is often legitimised as an expression of male power. This article presents a critical discourse analytic study of newspaper reporting on violence against women and girls (VAWG) in leading English-language newspapers from 11 Pacific Island nations. Using content analysis, I mapped
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Extended-mixed methods: a new research paradigm for the creative industries Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Janet Fulton, Susan Kerrigan, Phillip McIntyre
ABSTRACT Quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods designs are accepted approaches to researching the creative industries. However, while these bring a depth of understanding, they do not generally include an understanding of the ‘making’ of a creative artefact; practitioners in the creative industries make creative products. A first-hand examination of the ‘making’, via an approach such as creative
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Representation of autism in Vietnamese digital news media: a computational corpus and framing analysis Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Nguyễn Yến-Khanh
ABSTRACT This paper examines news media coverage on autism, a public health issue in Vietnam. Computational corpus analysis and framing analysis of Vietnamese digital news media of over 580,000 words are deemed useful methods for big data analysis. The language patterns, extracted by WordSmith software, suggest autism is framed primarily as a medical problem and a family issue, not a matter of social
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Post-gay identities: narrative analysis of homomasculinity among gay and queer men in Aotearoa New Zealand Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Martin Kaulback, Elena Maydell
ABSTRACT The development of queer theory in gender studies has provided multiple possibilities to investigate different aspects of gender construction and performance among people who identify as different from the dominant heterosexual norm. This narrative inquiry examines the identities of gay and queer men in Aotearoa New Zealand, as narrated in semi-structured interviews, with most of them recorded
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Igniting public engagement with biodiversity conservation: exploring the communication of Predator Free 2050 in Aotearoa New Zealand Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Juan Liang
ABSTRACT This study explored the communication of Predator Free 2050 (PF2050), a biodiversity conservation programme promoted by the New Zealand government. Drawing on semi-structured interviews and an online survey, the study found that the information about PF2050 was made available by diverse contributing agencies but ineffectively disseminated to the public who believed PF2050 provided insufficient
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Extension agents as liaisons: connecting rural people to food security programs? Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Hagos Nigussie
ABSTRACT This paper examined the use of extension agents in connecting rural people to food security programs in the Irob and Gulomekeda districts, in eastern Tigray, Ethiopia. This study employed qualitative research involving 50 semi-structured interviews, 10 focus group discussions, and 15 hours of personal observation. Extension agents use public meetings to transfer agricultural technologies to
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Transition is continuous Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Terence Lee
Published in Communication Research and Practice (Vol. 8, No. 4, 2022)
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A qualitative study of latent reasons for internet non-and limited user Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Jee Young Lee
ABSTRACT Although much of the accumulated quantitative data on non-use of the internet has consistently highlighted the most obvious reasons for not using the internet (a lack of interest and relevance), the limitations in our understanding of non-users have also started to be recognised. This study aims to provide deeper insights into digital inclusion from the perspective of the digitally excluded
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“You’re putting words in my mouth!”: Interaction as mutual ventriloquation Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-23 François Cooren, Boris H. J. M. Brummans, Lise Higham
ABSTRACT The accusation that someone is putting words in someone else’s mouth can be heard in everyday conversations, but what does this phenomenon reveal about the ways human beings communicate? This paper aims to show that it is useful to view putting words in someone’s mouth as a form of ventriloquation. By theorising this phenomenon, this paper explicates how people discover a version of what they
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Framing, agency, and optimistic bias: message design considerations for the opioid crisis Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-21 Braden Hale Bagley, Kathryn Anthony, Steven Venette
ABSTRACT While vastly overshadowed by the COVID-19 pandemic, America’s deadly opioid crisis worsened dramatically in recent years. Despite the deadliness of these drugs, the lifesaving medication Narcan (a naloxone product) has saved more than 93.5% of potential victims from an overdose death. However, several factors have contributed to a lack of uptake of the medication. The current study explored
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Navigating the terrain: a typology of mapping in journalism studies Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-21 Alison McAdam, Kristy Hess
ABSTRACT There is increasing scholarship marking a geographic turn in journalism studies. It focuses on examining the digital and physical terrain that audiences, sources and newsmakers traverse, and emphasises the spaces and places of news and knowledge production. This paper complements the trend by exploring how journalism scholars have adopted the idea of ‘mapping’ in this contemporary research
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It’s not enough to be seen: exploring how journalists show aged care in Australia from 2018-2021 Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-21 TJ Thomson, Sarah Johnstone, Jen Seevinck, Evonne Miller, Sarah Holland-Batt
ABSTRACT Older Australians, particularly those in aged-care settings, are frequently targets of persistent discrimination and marginalisation. Media portrayals of older people contribute to how broader society sees and values this demographic. Acknowledging this, the present study analyses how journalists visually cover ageing and the aged care sector during a critical event ‘frame’: the calling of
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User acceptance of 360-degree video news: an integrated model of extended TAM and U&G perspectives Commun. Res. Practice (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Yunju Kim, Heejun Lee
ABSTRACT Adopting a uses and gratifications (U&G) approach, this study identified user motivations for watching 360-degree video news: pursuit of entertaining information, social conformity, and pursuit of usefulness. The current study also proposes a model that captures key antecedents and consequences of audiences’ motives for consuming 360-degree video news by extending the technology acceptance