Pro-anorexia/bulimia censorship and public service announcements: the price o…

Individuals, particularly women, are fixated on weight loss, driven by the goal of achieving a ‘skinny’ female physique that is desirable in western/ized cultures. There are online forums where individuals refer to themselves or their eating disorders as ‘pro-ana’ and ‘pro-mia’; their posts on these sites both align with, and challenge, what medical and mental health professionals define as ser…

The exercise of symbolic power by women’s magazines from the 1960s to the p…

This study analyses alcohol-related articles appearing in Finnish women’s magazines from the 1960s to the present day. Women’s magazines are approached as institutions constituting feminine publicities that address issues of interest as well as problems and contradictions in women’s everyday life. Influenced by Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of field, habitus and capital, data analysis focuses arou…

Losing focus: goal displacement at an alternative newspaper in El Salvador

This study examines whether a Salvadoran alternative newspaper maintained its critical, independent, and alternative position after the country’s first leftist president was elected and the newspaper no longer was in opposition to the government. Via a content analysis and in-depth interviews that drove the content analysis, this study improves our understanding of ‘alternativeness’ in a non-US…

Media encoding in science fiction television: Battlestar Galactica as a site …

We examine the television show Battlestar Galactica (BSG) through interviews with creative people working on the show to illustrate the production context of the show and the science fiction (sf) genre. Media scholars suggest sf stories are critical stories about our political systems and our anxieties about new technologies, social change, race, gender, class, and religious conflicts. We inves…

The discursive construction of ‘good parenting’ and digital media – the…

This article investigates ways discourses which are present on the virtual world gaming websites and in popular press produce constructions of ‘good parents’ and ‘good websites’ for children, and in the process create distinctions which position other parental practices and online media as undesirable. The article includes a discussion of historical constructs of parenting in relation to screen…

Media, pluralism and democracy: what’s in a name?

Media pluralism has become a buzzword in public, political, and academic discourses. However, it is generally unclear what is meant by referring to pluralistic media content or how pluralistic media should operate within democratic societies. The goal of this article is to distinguish between different conceptual and normative assumptions about media, pluralism, and democracy that demarcate the…

Behind the newspaper paywall – lessons in charging for online content: a co…

This article examines one response to the financial ‘crisis’ of print newspapers addressing the rise of digital paywall systems to monetise journalism. It analyses selected daily mastheads’ paywalls in the United States, Britain and Australia, comparing the type, pricing and audience uptake. This article reviews scholarly and industry literature to identify international newspaper paywall trend…

Newsroom moves and the newspaper crisis evaluated: space, place, and cultural…

Across the United States, newspapers are physically relocating their headquarters to smaller spaces, often away from the centers of downtown. This is the latest manifestation of the newspaper crisis manifest through a tangible and visible public manner. This article investigates these newsroom moves through a discussion of space, looking at why these moves matter by examining their impact on ho…

Theorizing media production: the poverty of political economy

This article argues that the Political Economy of Communication (PEC) has generally failed to develop theories of media production. Such theory as exists has been heavily influenced by accounts of mass production and flexible specialization in Hollywood. Hollywood film production has been viewed as paradigmatic of media production in general, in the same way as Ford was for manufacturing, and t…

Resilience 2.0: social media use and (self-)care during the 2011 Norway attacks

Departing from the understanding that resilience is a technique of self-organization during emergencies, this article provides a study on the way in which the use of social media influenced and engendered societal resilience practices during the 2011 Norway attacks. It builds on the concepts of governmentality and mediality to discuss how the interplay between social media and its users created…

Desentralisasi kewenangan pertanahan, kelautan dan pendidikan

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1st print

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979-97654-0-4

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ill., xx, 251p.; 20,5 cm

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352, SUH, d

Desentralisasi dan otonomi daerah: naskah akademik dan RUU usulan LIPI

Apabila tujuan akhir tuntutan reformasi adalah tercapainya demokrasi, kesejahteraan, dan keadilan bagi seluruh rakyat, maka arah kebijakan otonomi daerah harus dipandang sebagai bagian dari agenda demokrasi. Otonomi daerah bukanlah tujuan, melainkan cara demokratis untuk mewujudkan keadilan dan kesejahteraan bagi semua unsur bangsa tanpa kecuali. Implementasi otonomi daerah yang mengabaikan age…

Otonomi daerah : masalah, pemberdayaan dan konflik

Edition

1st print

ISBN/ISSN

979-99791-3-7

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vi, 162p.; 20 cm

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352, CHA, o

Keindahan yang menipu: partisipasi dalam penganggaran daerah di Indonesia

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1st print

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xii, 148p.; 22 cm

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336.41, BAS, k

Simulation games, popular factual media and civic engagement: an audience stu…

Asylum: Exit Australia is a first-person simulation game that puts the player in the shoes of an asylum seeker. Produced to accompany the television series Go Back to Where You Came From it seeks to make a new kind of intervention in a divisive social debate. This paper considers simulation games in terms of their ability to foster civic engagement. Locating simulation games within the broad fi…

Procter & Gamble, mass media, and the making of American life

Owing to its unmatched sponsorship of commercial broadcasting and the ubiquity of its homemaking goods, Procter & Gamble (P&G) has had a profound impact on culture and society in the United States. From a critical political economy approach, this article documents P&G’s historical contributions to the commercial system of broadcasting in the United States. At the nexus of entertainment, industr…

The spectre of censorship: media regulation, political anxiety and public con…

This article focuses on contemporary discussions around media regulation and Internet regulation in India and examines in particular certain events from 2011 to 2013. The aim is to present a composite narrative and historical account, a rendering of the important proposals, arguments and judicial proceedings that came about at a time of political upheaval and increased media ‘activism’. It conc…

Otonomi daerah dan otonomi award dua provinsi

Buku ini merupakan bagian dari advokasi sekaligus media diseminasi bahwa otonomi daerah sangat dibutuhkan bangsa Indonesia. Betapa tidak, dengan semangat otonomi kreativitas-kreativitas daerah dalam mengelola tata pemerintahan dan memberikan pelayanan publik tidak lagi bergantung pada pusat. Kreativitas-kreativitas itulah yang kami sebut dengan inovasi. Niat tulus dari buku ini adalah menampil…

Non-participation in digital media: toward a framework of mediated political …

This article explores the notion of digital non-participation as a form of mediated political action rather than as mere passivity. We generally conceive of participation in a positive sense, as a means for empowerment and a condition for democracy. However, participation is not the only way to achieve political goals in the digital sphere and can be hampered by the ‘dark sides’ of participator…

Menilai otda dari kemajuan pelayanan publik

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-

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iv, 48p.; 29 cm

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352, SAD, m