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Vol 15 (2021)
Table of Contents
Articles
Co-Constructing a Print Media Narrative: Interviews With LGBTQ Activists From the 1960s and 1970s in New Zealand |
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Linda Jean Kenix, Suvojit Bandopadhyaya |
18 pgs. |
Revisiting Cultivation as a Gravitational Process: A Cross-National Comparison of the Cultivation of Fear and Mistrust |
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Matea Mustafaj, Jan Van den Bulck |
26 pgs. |
The Event-Centered Nature of Global Public Spheres: The UN Climate Change Conferences, Fridays for Future, and the (Limited) Transnationalization of Media Debates |
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Antal Wozniak, Hartmut Wessler, Chung-hong Chan, Julia Lück |
27 pgs. |
Affect, Curiosity, and Positionality in Context: Watching Television Entertainment in Argentina and the United States |
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María Celeste Wagner, Pablo J. Boczkowski, Eugenia Mitchelstein |
20 pgs. |
Bystander Intervention in Cyberbullying and Online Harassment: The Role of Expectancy Violations |
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Nicholas Brody |
21 pgs. |
Challenges and Opportunities for Regional Public Service Media: A Singular Case Study in Europe |
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Jessica Izquierdo-Castillo, Juan Carlos Miguel-de-Bustos |
22 pgs. |
Olympian Surveillance: Sports Stadiums and the Normalization of Biometric Monitoring |
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Brett Hutchins, Mark Andrejevcic |
20 pgs. |
Giving by Taking Away: Big Tech, Data Colonialism, and the Reconfiguration of Social Good |
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João Carlos Magalhães, Nick Couldry |
20 pgs. |
What Is the Power of Balancing Power? Exploring Perceived Discrepancy in Relational Power and Its Effects |
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Lisa Tam, Soojin Kim |
23 pgs. |
Media Platforms and Political Learning: The Democratic Challenge of News Consumption on Computers and Mobile Devices |
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Kim Andersen, Jesper Strömbäck |
20 pgs. |
The Conditional Indirect Effects of Political Social Media Information Seeking and Expression on Government Evaluation in Hong Kong: Revisiting the Communication Mediation Model |
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Yan Su, Danielle Ka Lai Lee, Porismita Borah |
23 pgs. |
WhatsApp Marketing: A Study on WhatsApp Brand Communication and the Role of Trust in Self-Disclosure |
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Brahim Zarouali, Anna Brosius, Natali Helberger, Claes H. de Vreese |
25 pgs. |
Reporting on Political Acquaintances: Personal Interactions Between Political Journalists and Politicians as a Determinant of Media Coverage |
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Emma S. van der Goot, Toni G.L.A. van der Meer, Rens Vliegenthart |
23 pgs. |
An Agenda for Comparative Social Media Studies: The Value of Understanding Practices From Cross-National, Cross-Media, and Cross-Platform Perspectives |
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Mora Matassi, Pablo Boczkowski |
22 pgs. |
How Facebook Users Experience Political Disagreements and Make Decisions About the Political Homogenization of Their Online Network |
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German Neubaum, Manuel Cargnino, Jeanette Maleszka |
20 pgs. |
From Ignorance to Resonance: Analysis of the Transformative Potential of Dissensus and Agonistic Deliberation in Sustainability Communication |
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Franzisca Weder, Denise Voci |
24 pgs. |
The Identity of LGBTQ Communication Research: From the Anglo-Saxon Effervescence to the Spanish-Speaking Barrenness |
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Leonarda García-Jiménez, Juan José Sánchez-Soriano, Marta Prego-Nieto |
20 pgs. |
The Growing Up Asian American Tag: An Asian American Networked Counterpublic on YouTube |
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Dasol Kim |
20 pgs. |
De-Westernizing Platform Studies: History and Logics of Chinese and U.S. Platforms |
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Mark Davis, Jian Xiao |
20 pgs. |
Framing Protest in Online News and Readers’ Comments: The Case of Serbian Protest “Against Dictatorship” |
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Jelena Kleut, Ana Milojevic |
21 pgs. |
Imaginaries About Brazil in the Media Consumption of LGBTIQ+ Immigrants and Refugees in the City of São Paulo |
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Hadriel Theodoro, Denise Cogo |
21 pgs. |
84 Lumber’s Constrained Polysemy: Limiting Interpretive Play and the Power of Audience Agency in Inspirational Immigrant Narratives |
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Litzy Galarza, Lars Stoltzfus-Brown |
20 pgs. |
Journalists’ Awareness and Understanding of Climate Change in Tanzania |
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Emmanuel Frank Elia |
19 pgs. |
Choosing a Social Media Platform: Genre and Social Ties in Urban Malaysia |
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Julian Hopkins, Chris Hooi Koon Tan |
21 pgs. |
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New Feminist Studies in Audiovisual Industries | New Feminist Studies in Audiovisual Industries: Feminism, Gender, Ageism, and New Masculinities in Audiovisual Content – Introduction |
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Maria Pilar Rodriguez, Miren Gutierrez, Maria J. Pando-Canteli |
9 pgs. |
New Feminist Studies in Audiovisual Industries | The Fourth Wave in Audiovisual Content: A True Achievement of Feminism? |
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María Silvestre Cabrera, María López Belloso, Raquel Royo |
23 pgs. |
New Feminist Studies in Audiovisual Industries| Algorithmic Gender Bias and Audiovisual Data: A Research Agenda |
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Miren Gutierrez |
23 pgs. |
New Feminist Studies in Audiovisual Industries | The Portrayal of Men and Women in Digital Communication: Content Analysis of Gender Roles and Gender Display in Reaction GIFs |
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Diego Álvarez, Alejandro González, Cristina Ubani |
31 pgs. |
New Feminist Studies in Audiovisual Industries | “Menvertising” and the Resistances to New Masculinities in Audiovisual Representations |
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Maria J. Pando-Canteli, Maria Pilar Rodriguez |
21 pgs. |
New Feminist Studies in Audiovisual Industries | Employer Femvertising: Women Empowerment in Employer Brand Messages |
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Lorena Ronda, Garazi Azanza |
31 pgs. |
New Feminist Studies in Audiovisual Industries| The Shifting Image of Hegemonic Masculinity in Contemporary Television Series |
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Lisa Cuklanz, Ali Erol |
18 pgs. |
New Feminist Studies in Audiovisual Industries| Ageing and the Creative Spirit of Women in the Audiovisual Market: The Case of Olive Kitteridge (2014) |
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Asunción Bernárdez-Rodal, Maria Isabel Menendez Menendez |
18 pgs. |
New Feminist Studies in Audiovisual Industries| Gender Representation in Subscription Video-On-Demand Spanish TV Series |
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María Marcos Ramos, Beatriz González-de-Garay |
24 pgs. |
New Feminist Studies in Audiovisual Industries| Female Leadership Represented in Animation for Children and the Sociocognitive Learning of 21st-Century Girls |
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Maria Del Rosario Neira-Piñeiro, M. Esther Del Moral Pérez, Lourdes Villalustre |
20 pgs. |
More Special Sections
Book Reviews
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Meredith Broussard, Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World |
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Reviewed by
Mary Heath |
3 pgs. |
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Lindsay Palmer, The Fixers: Local News Workers and the Underground Labor of International Reporting |
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Reviewed by
Ryan Stoldt |
3 pgs. |
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Stephen Bates, An Aristocracy of Critics: Luce, Hutchins, Niebuhr, and The Committee That Redefined Freedom of the Press |
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Reviewed by
Sue Curry Jansen |
3 pgs. |
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Magda Konieczna, Journalism Without Profit: Making News When the Market Fails |
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Reviewed by
David Cheruiyot |
4 pgs. |
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S. Craig Watkins, Andres Lombana-Bermudez, Alexander Cho, Jacqueline Ryan Vickery, Vivian Shaw, and Lauren Weinzimmer, The Digital Edge: How Black and Latino Youth Navigate Digital Inequality |
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Reviewed by
Zelly Claire Martin |
4 pgs. |
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Victor Pickard, Democracy Without Journalism? Confronting the Misinformation Society |
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Reviewed by
Jacob L. Nelson |
4 pgs. |
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John P. Wihbey, The Social Fact: News and Knowledge in a Networked World |
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Reviewed by
Alexandra Hill |
3 pgs. |
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Łukasz Bogucki and Mikołaj Deckert (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Audiovisual Translation and Media Accessibility |
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Reviewed by
Siwen Lu, Sijing Lu |
3 pgs. |
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Emeka Umejei, Chinese Media in Africa: Perception, Performance, and Paradox |
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Reviewed by
Gregory Gondwe |
3 pgs. |
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Louise Amoore, Cloud Ethics: Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others |
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Reviewed by
Catherine Jeffery |
3 pgs. |
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ISSN: 1932-8036