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Diaosi as infrapolitics: scatological tropes, identity-making and cultural in…
This article examines a recent bizarre phenomenon on China’s Internet – the enormous popularity of a scatological Chinese neologism called diaosi, which literally translates as ‘dick string’. Seeing the diaosi phenomenon as a case of ‘infrapolitics’, a space of nuanced discursive practices mediating overt online politics and benign online entertainment, we analyse the ways in which an infrapoli…
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- Volume 37, Issue 2 March 2015, pages 197-214
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Power Politician or Fighting Bureaucrat: gender and power in German political…
This study interrogates the relationship of gender and power in the journalistic coverage of leading politicians. As an exemplar, we compare the coverage of German chancellor Angela Merkel and her (then) male counterpart, the social-democrat Frank-Walter Steinmeier. In a qualitative textual analysis of news and entertainment print media, we explain how politics is inscribed as a male field whil…
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- Volume 37, Issue 2 March 2015, pages 180-196
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Media events, spectacles and risky globalization: a critical review and possi…
We review the research conducted to date on media events and media spectacles. We posit that the main phenomena challenging the current conceptualizations of media event and media spectacle are (1) the understanding of risk, (2) the context of disasters and (3) globalization and the mediation of news in the context of transnational and transitional societies. We suggest that more research on di…
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- Volume 37, Issue 2 March 2015, pages 162-179
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You Media : audiencing as marketing in social media
Recent scholarship has offered a modification to audience labour theory in the context of social media, suggesting that rather than merely working by watching advertisements, social media users also produce data, which is commodified by social media companies. This article offers a further analysis of audience labour in social media using Facebook’s Sponsored Stories as a case study. Sponsored …
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- Volume 48, Issue 1 January 2015, 50-67
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Transcending the medical/media opposition in research on news coverage of hea…
Health and medicine are major topics of news coverage, but research on health and medical reporting has remained mainly confined to specialist subfields, with less impact on broader academic fields, including journalism studies, than would seem warranted by its importance. This article argues that assumptions implicit in much of this literature have limited the development of a wider tradition …
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- Volume 37, Issue 1 Januari 2015, pages 85-100
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Exploring the Hidden-Profile Paradigm: A Literature Review and Analysis
Much of our knowledge of team information processing has been influenced by the hidden-profile paradigm. In this review, we employ the input–mediator–outcome (IMO) team effectiveness framework to organize a systematic and comprehensive review of the knowledge accumulated in this area during the last three decades. The use of the IMO framework highlights important aspects of team dynamics that h…
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- Volume 46, Issue 5 Oktober 2015, pages 489-535
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Isles of Wonder : performing the mythopoeia of utopic multi-ethnic Britain
Within this article, I interrogate the mediated ‘narratives of nation’ told through the London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony. Such narratives are not just pedagogic, they are political and ideological processes that require us to pose questions about the place of the past in the present and with regard to who is entitled to speak that past. I suggest that the ceremony performed an ‘aesthetic of…
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- Volume 37, Issue 1 Januari 2015, pages 68-84
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Personality and Small Groups An Interdisciplinary Perspective
This review illuminated the need for interdisciplinary integration of research on personality and groups. Network analysis of references cited in 13 previous reviews showed that this literature is fragmented; the disciplinary base has narrowed over time; is dominated by psychology, organization studies, and small group studies; and is poorly integrated with other relevant disciplines. Research …
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- Volume 46, Issue 5 Oktober 2015, pages 5-36-575
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The augmented newsbeat: spatial structuring in a Twitterized news ecosystem
This article deals with the intertwining of digital and nondigital spaces of news reporting. It focuses specifically on how Twitter affects spatial and temporal orderings of news ecosystems. At the New York state government, actors within the space permeate informational barriers through Twitter while enabling others to follow and engage in events from remote locations. The always-on mentality …
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- Volume 37, Issue 1 Januari 2015, pages 3-18
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Israeli drama: constructing the Israeli ‘quality’ television series as an…
The current study focuses on the social construction of definitions of quality in the field of the television drama series in Israel. By doing that, this work challenges Pierre Bourdieu’s claim that since artifacts of ‘popular culture’ industries are not regarded as ‘autonomous’, according to the autonomy-of-art ideology, they cannot be consecrated as works of art. Bourdieu’s thesis was challen…
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- Volume 37, Issue 1 Januari 2015, pages 19-34
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Entertainment politics: Brazilian celebrities’ transition to politics, rece…
This article proposes to analyse the transition of Brazilian media celebrities into the political sphere during the last three decades by examining five paradigmatic cases of famous figures who have made forays into politics between the years 1982 and 2012. Global changes in the relationship between the media and the political system, as well as contemporary Brazilian history, have been taken i…
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- Volume 37, Issue 1 Januari 2015, pages 35-49
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Efficacy Assessment of an Intervention Program With Batterers
This study examines the efficacy of an intervention program with male batterers. Twenty-six batterers who attended the intervention and 19 batterers who did not attend the intervention were compared using self-report measures. Batterers who attended the intervention showed significant reductions in abusive behaviors, in attitudes toward domestic violence, in risk of future violence, and in psyc…
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- Volume 46, Issue 4 Agustus 2015, pages 455-482
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How Individual Self-Regulation Affects Group Regulation and Performance: A Sh…
This study explored the relationship between individual self-regulated learning (SRL), socially shared regulation of learning (SSRL), and group performance plus the effect of an intervention promoting SSRL. We hypothesized that SRL would influence SSRL and group performance as groups with high SRL students will be better regulated and that the intervention would promote SSRL over time. The resu…
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- Volume 46, Issue 4 Agustus 2015, pages 431-454
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The Role of the Star Player in a Cohesive Group
Based on social learning theory, we explore when the most competent member in the group leads to high group performance. We argue that the most competent member in the group increases group performance in high cohesive groups where members interact more frequently and maintain closer relationships with one another. To examine this, we used multisource data collected in two waves from an organiz…
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- Volume 46, Issue 4 Agustus 2015, pages 415-430
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Sex Composition Disrupts the Accuracy of Women’s Metaperceptions of Partners
The effects of sex composition of dyads and surrounding others in groups on the accuracy in women’s expected evaluations (metaperceptions) were investigated using the Group Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (GAPIM). The dataset comprised 26 groups of four to six previously unacquainted participants who completed an unstructured social interaction followed by round-robin evaluations and metape…
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- Volume 46, Issue 4 Agustus 2015, pages 395-414
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The Trajectory of Emergence of Shared Group-Level Constructs
By examining 20 years of research conducted on groups (and teams), in field, academic, and laboratory settings, we used statistical aggregation indices to evaluate arguments that in newly formed groups, (a) evidence of the emergence of group-level shared constructs should be minimal and (b) evidence of the emergence of such constructs should increase over time/interaction. Puzzlingly, we found …
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- Volume 46, Issue 3 June 2015 352-390
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Emotional Intelligence, Information Elaboration, and Performance The Moderat…
This article explores the effects of emotional intelligence (EI) in a team setting. Informational diversity is theorized to moderate the relationship between team EI and performance. I propose that EI increases the ability of team members to engage each other in information elaboration and that elaboration leads to better performance when teams are informationally diverse. In a laboratory study…
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- Volume 46, Issue 3 June 2015 324-351
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Dynamic Interplay Between Norms and Experiences of Anger and Gratitude in Groups
Emotions of task group members tend to be congruent, yet the processes that lead to this congruence are not well understood. In this study, we longitudinally followed the convergence of anger and gratitude in 68 task groups, and investigated the role of emotion norms in achieving this convergence. Over time, individual members’ emotions influenced the group’s emotions, and, conversely, the grou…
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- Volume 46, Issue 3 June 2015, pages 300-323
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Rethinking Virtuality and Its Impact on Teams
We propose an extension of the Hollenbeck, Beersma, and Schouten team context model to include a fourth dimension: virtuality—the distance between team members. Based on an analysis of 29 unique approaches to conceptualizing virtuality and a critical comparison of these approaches with the Hollenbeck et al. framework, we recommend that virtuality be measured, along with skill differentiation, a…
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- Volume 46, Issue 3 June 2015, pages 267-299
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A Multilevel Examination of the Impact of Team Interpersonal Processes
This study examined factors that affect individuals’ intentions to remain with their current organization, as well as team-level, manager-rated effectiveness, using a sample of 78 teams from a large grocery store chain within the Baltic region. The results suggest that team interpersonal processes play a key mediating role in facilitating both outcomes. Specifically, interpersonal processes had…
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- Volume 46, Issue 2 April 2015, pages 227-262
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