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Exploring the Spanish youth audience’s interpretation of loving relationships
This study examines the extent to which Spanish youth audiences appropriate television fiction and engage in the acceptance and construction of loving stereotypes. It specifically looks at how they identify different kinds of loving relationships. It also explores the intertextual and extratextual interactions they establish in their interpretations. The methodology undertaken is the focus grou…
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- Volume 37, Issue 6 September 2015, pages 813-833
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User production and law reform: a socio-legal critique of user creativity
This article argues that recent scholarly attempts to prescribe creative agency to a user subject rarely consider how the user functions in a broader legal and cultural context. I suggest that the user is a complex subject defined by various cultural and legal discourses, following a critical body of scholarship that calls for a more nuanced approach to the issue of user production. I show how …
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- Volume 37, Issue 5 Juli 2015, pages 753-767
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Unveiling television’s apparatus on screen as a ‘para-interactive’ stra…
Broadcast television faces new challenges in the rapidly changing media environment. This article proposes ‘para-interactivity’ as a concept that identifies the ways television addresses its audiences in the digital age. Para-interactivity is a term that brings together several salient elements in contemporary television texts as well as positing a contemporary context for established and famil…
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- Volume 37, Issue 5 July 2015, pages 737-752
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The regulation of television sports broadcasting: a comparative analysis
Based on seven different sports broadcasting markets (Australia, Brazil, Italy, India, South Africa, United Kingdom and the United States), this article provides a comparative analysis of the regulation of television sports broadcasting. The article examines how contrasting perspectives on television and sport – economic and sociocultural – have been reflected in two main approaches to the regu…
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- Volume 37, Issue 5 July 2015, pages 720-736
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People just don’t care : practices of text messaging in the presence of others
The demands of flexible labour and the technologization of social networks are currently being felt in profound shifts in the ways in which we spend time with others. This article analyses the everyday communicative practices of adults living in Sydney surrounding their use of text messaging in shared social spaces. Asking the research participants when, how and why they rely on text messaging …
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- Volume 37, Issue 5 July 2015, pages 703-719
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Authority, resistance, and representing national values in the Brazilian tele…
This article examines how politics, class, family, and morals form discourses of authority and resistance in the Brazilian television mini-series’ representations of national values. The Brazilian mini-series is first placed in a global perspective of genres and formats, including soap opera, the telenovela, the Brazilian series, and film. Following a methodological discussion, the article cons…
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- Volume 37, Issue 5 July 2015, pages 686-702
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Prohibition and production of the past: Representation of the Cultural Revolu…
The Cultural Revolution ended more than three decades ago and is generally concluded to have been a disaster and trauma; however, it kept resurfacing at different points throughout the past and being interpreted from different perspectives addressing contemporary concerns. TV, one of the most important channels for political communication in China, is closely supervised by the censoring mechani…
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- Volume 37, Issue 5 July 2015, pages 671-687
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Evaluating journalism through popular culture: HBO’s The Newsroom and publi…
While HBO’s The Newsroom presents itself as fictional television, its narrative is driven by critiquing American cable news culture and contemporary journalism ethics. This article analyses popular reflections on the programme to identify what these discourses reveal about public evaluations of the state of the US news media. Based upon 1115 lengthy audience posts and discussions and 49 news ar…
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- Volume 37, Issue 4 May 2015, pages 602-619
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The ongoing significance of national media systems in the context of media gl…
This article argues that the concept of national media systems, and the comparative study of media systems, institutions, and practices, retains relevance in an era of media globalization and technological convergence. It considers various critiques of ‘media systems’ theories, such as those which view the concept of ‘system’ as a legacy of an outdated positivism and those which argue that the …
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- Volume 37, Issue 4 May 2015, pages 620-636
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Imaging Egypt’s political transition in (post-)revolutionary street art: on…
This article offers a conceptualization of the interrelations between street art and social media in (post-)revolutionary Cairo by focusing on the reasons as to why certain politically engaged young people in Egypt select graffiti as their medium for political expression in a time in which many other media of communication, most notably social media, are available. It contends that the particul…
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- Volume 37, Issue 4 May 2015, pages 581-601
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Class, trust and confessional media in Austerity Britain
This article situates The Jeremy Kyle Show, a television talk show broadcast in the United Kingdom, in wider narratives of austerity politics in order to explore the reinforcement and legitimation through reality television of neoliberal measures for economic crisis management. In the first section, it is argued that technologies of confession – lie detectors, paternity tests, drug testing – ar…
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- Volume 37, Issue 4 May 2015, pages 566-580
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Social network websites as information channels for the US Social Forum
In this article, I examine the use of social network website (SNS) as an influential factor for offline protest activities and organizational memberships. The properties of SNSs may help encourage interpersonal interaction, broaden social ties, and provide valuable information about how to become civically and politically involved. I test these hypotheses using data from a survey of attendees f…
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- Volume 37, Issue 4 May 2015, pages 547-565
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Everybody’s team The national narrative in the Hebrew press covering Israel…
Sports media offer a unique discourse site because the nationalistic nature of reporting is often radicalized and in most cases ‘the national flag is waved with eternal enthusiasm’. Therefore, this study examined changes in the coverage of the Israeli national soccer team between 1949 and 2006 through an exploration of the identity of the journalistic narratives’ storytellers and protagonists. …
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- Volume 37, Issue 4 May 2015, pages 530-546
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Speaking up for the suffering (br)other: Weibo activism, discursive struggles…
More than two decades after China was first connected to the Internet, scholars still debate the political impact of online media. Yet, the debate is stalled by a limited view of both politics and the media’s role in political contestation. In order to offer a more nuanced account of the relationship between online media and politics, this article proposes a theoretical framework that pays atte…
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- Volume 37, Issue 4 May 2015, pages 513-529
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Intellectual property enclosure and economic discourse in the 2012 London Oly…
Special legislation associated with mega sporting events has enabled new forms of cultural enclosure, effectively commoditising aspects of cultural expression that previously remained in the public domain. In this article, the authors examine the tension between economic and political justifications for hosting the Olympics and the intellectual property enclosures that are imposed upon host nat…
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- Volume 37, Issue 3 April 2015, pages 409-421
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Open culture and innovation: integrating knowledge across boundaries
What does open source mean for culture? For knowledge? As cultural production has come to be characterized by contribution as well as consumption and as alternative modes of intellectual property transfer challenge the ‘dominant paradigm’ that knowledge and information should be protected and monetized, the logic of ‘open sourcing’ has extended into many cultural spheres. This article positions…
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- Volume 37, Issue 3 April 2015, pages 376-393
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Battle for control? Copyright, football and European media rights
The position of copyright in the arena of sports content rights and property rights of sporting organizations is a highly contested area of legal and commercial interest in the digital age. At its core is the issue of whether copyright can be incorporated into sports rights contracts as it has been for many years. This article identifies the ramifications of this debate for the existing busines…
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- Volume 37, Issue 3 April 2015, pages 359-375
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Copyright and musicians at the digital margins
While there is research into consumer attitudes to copyright and downloading, and the music industry has made clear its own views in evidence to the Hargreaves Review and other forums, relatively little is known about musicians’ attitudes to copyright. This article reports on those musicians who are negotiating the new terrain created by digitization and its accompanying business models. Are th…
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- Volume 37, Issue 3 April 2015, pages 342-358
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Editorial: IP, copyright and cultural production
This editorial outlines the important role that IP issues are increasingly playing across the media industries. It identifies some of the key sectors discussed in this issue of the journal and why particular media industries face specific IP challenges even in an age of converging media.
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- Volume 37, Issue 3 April 2015, pages 339-341
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Radio in the workplace: a liminal medium between work and leisure
The article analyses the presence of radio in the workplace. Victor Turner’s work concerning the liminal sphere in social life provides the theoretical underpinning for examination of the specific features of radio communication in the context of the blurring boundary between work and leisure. Radio appears the medium best suited to the workplace, on one hand creating an environment conducive t…
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- Volume 37, Issue 2 March 2015, pages 270-287
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