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…

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The totalitarian destruction of the public sphere? Newspapers and structures …

Using the example of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR), this study deals with the public sphere in Eastern European countries before 1989. It supports the thesis that even the ‘guided’ and controlled daily press enabled the readers (even in a limited way) to observe the process of communication and to make up their own minds. The article is based on two main sources: files from the Fe…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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. …

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…