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Bearing witness, journalism and moral responsibility
While the dimensions of what it means to ‘witness’ are interrogated within recent scholarship on ‘media witnessing’, what it means to ‘bear witness’ is rarely explained. Bearing witness conceptually organizes what journalism does, and names a subject position for audiences other than voyeurism, but what it means requires clarification. I detail the plasticity of bearing witness within the disco…
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- Vol. 33 no. 8, November 2011,pp. 1220-1235
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‘Act now and sign our joint statement!’ What role do online global group …
The article focuses on a frequently used but under-researched protest medium through which transnational movement networks express their collective demands – what are termed here ‘global group petitions’ (GGPs), and activists themselves call ‘sign-on statements’ or ‘joint statements’. GGPs are online petitions typically framed as ‘global’ and linking sometimes hundreds of advocacy groups behind…
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- Vol. 33 no. 8, November 2011,pp. 1236-1253
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News media encoding of racial reconciliation : Developing a peace journalism …
Peace journalism has been developing as a field since the 1970s. However, confusion remains about its central theoretical problematics, its core methodologies and its political project. In this article, we aim to contribute to the development of peace journalism in two ways. Theoretically, we develop peace journalism theory to support analyses of ‘cold’ conflicts by incorporating insights drawn…
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- Vol. 33 no. 7, October 2011,pp. 989-1007
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Orientations of entertainment media workers : entertainment media workers –…
Although entertaining media content is considered to be highly influential on values and norms shared by the recipients, little is known about the orientation and self-perceptions of entertainment media workers conveying these values and norms. This article offers an overview of existing research on TV entertainment workers and concludes that the common stereotype of a primarily commercial orie…
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- Vol. 33 no. 7, October 2011,pp. 1009-1026
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Media coverage of women in politics : The curious case of Sarah Palin
Decades of research on media coverage of the campaigns of women running for high public office have identified several patterns of gendered reporting that supposedly have discouraged citizens from voting for women candidates, discouraged them from contributing to women’s campaigns and dissuaded women from entering politics. This study examines the ways in which each of the patterns was evident …
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- Vol. 33 no. 7, October 2011,pp. 1027-1041
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Nationalism, gender and the multivocality of war discourse in television news
War discourse is typically characterized by a confluence of nationalist and sexist discourses, and tends to reduce the multiple identities and affiliations of human beings to a black-and-white contrast of ‘us’ and ‘them’. Yet, as argued in this article, we should be wary of over-emphasizing the homogeneity and monovocality of war discourse. While the onset of conflict certainly narrows the rang…
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- Vol. 33 no. 7, October 2011,pp. 1043-1059
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Durable participants : A generational approach to reality TV’s ‘ordinaryâ…
The expansion of reality programming across television’s changing landscape has been the result of industrial strategies that seek out specific types of real people in order to cast them on particular types of shows. In the US, this practice has resulted in the reconfiguration of ordinary people into durable forms of talent. This paper adopts a generational model in order to contextualize the e…
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- Vol. 33 no. 7, October 2011,pp. 1061-1076
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Devaluing and revaluing seriality : The gendered discourses of media franchising
Gender anchors cultural negotiations over what media franchising is and how its serial production practices and narratives are valued. Cultural tensions between the economic viability and cultural legitimacy of seriality are both smoothed and exacerbated by the gendered discourses of media franchising. These discursive interventions are evidenced through examination of popular and trade talk ab…
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- Vol. 33 no. 7, October 2011,pp. 1077-1093
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Tuned to the nation’s mood : Popular music as a mnemonic cultural object
This article explores the concept of sonic memory via the investigation of popular music that constitutes a radio playlist. Our case study focuses on the songs aired on Israel’s Memorial Day for the Holocaust and the Heroism during the state’s first decade of local-commercial radio broadcasting (1993–2002). The critical analysis sought to understand what makes certain songs so identifiable with…
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- Vol. 33 no. 7, October 2011,pp. 971-987
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Not seeing the joke : the overlooked role of humour in researching television…
This article argues that humour can provide researchers with a unique access point into the professional cultures of media producers. By reconsidering an earlier case study, and reviewing relevant literature, it illustrates how humour can fulfil several functions in media production. Importantly, humour is a central means of performing the ‘emotional labour’ that increasingly precarious media w…
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- Vol. 33 no. 6, September 2011,pp. 819-833
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‘You’re all a bunch of pinkos’ : Rupert Murdoch and the politics of Har…
News Corporation is one of the most closely studied international media conglomerates, headed by the world’s most famous media proprietor. Yet, despite its prominence in the academic literature, little attention has been paid to the company’s book publishing operations. This article seeks to rectify this oversight. It investigates some of the more controversial book deals made by HarperCollins,…
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- Vol. 33 no. 6, September 2011,pp. 835-850
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The management of emotion in British journalism
This article reports on a study which aimed to assess how much attention journalism training and practice currently pay to the idea of emotional literacy, to explore what need news journalists and current affairs filmmakers see for closer evaluation of the emotional dimensions of their work, and to outline a strategy for enhancing emotional literacy in journalism training. While focused on enco…
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- Vol. 33 no. 6, September 2011,pp. 851-867
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The media as ‘home-making’ tools : life story of a Filipino migrant in Milan
According the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) there are 850 million international passenger arrivals each year; and according to the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), in 2008 there were 42 million refugees across the globe. The condition of mobility, in all its spatial and temporal variations is a condition of daily life in a globalized world. Even those who are lucky enough not to be f…
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- Vol. 33 no. 6, September 2011 ,pp. 869-883
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A system in chaos? Knowledge and sense-making on immigration policy in public…
This article shows how press selection and presentation of knowledge and expertise relate to processes of sense-making over contemporary political dilemmas. It develops an approach that combines framing analysis with theoretical insights from the literature on narrative and complexity. It demonstrates the value of this approach through quantitative and qualitative analysis of media coverage of …
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- Vol. 33 no. 6, September 2011,pp. 885-904
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Entertaining ideas : social issues in entertainment television
The educational potential of entertainment television has been acknowledged, with varying degrees of enthusiasm, through research into entertainment-education strategies, intersections of politics and popular media, and the mediated public sphere. This article explores educational possibilities of entertainment programming through a consideration of British television programmes that challenge …
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- Vol. 33 no. 6, September 2011,pp. 905-921
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Protest 2.0 : online interactions and Aboriginal activists
Social movements, like every other aspect of life, have become increasingly reliant on the internet for networking, information sharing and coalition building. This is the case even for disadvantaged groups with few resources and less capacity for utilizing computers and the internet. Aboriginal activists in Townsville have been slow to exert their presence on the web, but are gradually becomin…
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- Vol. 33 no. 6, September 2011,pp. 923-940
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Telenovela writers under the military regime in Brazil : Beyond the cooption …
This article aims to analyse the strategic choices made by left-wing telenovela writers during the military regime in Brazil, their complex relationships with their employer, Globo Network, and the regime’s various forms of censorship. The arrival of many critical cultural producers in the television industry during the authoritarian period in Brazil (1964—85) and the alleged close links betwee…
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- Vol. 33 no. 5, July 2011,pp. 659-673
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Symbolic power and the internet : The power of a ‘horse’
It is a common perception that as long as people have the resources to access the internet, they are in a position to make their voice heard. In reality, however, it is obvious that the vast majority of internet users are not really able to make themselves ‘visible’ and that their concerns receive little attention. Thus, it is more accurate to suggest that the internet offers ordinary people th…
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- Vol. 33 no. 5, July 2011,pp. 675-691
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Audience labor in the new media environment : A Marxian revisiting of the aud…
The contemporary dynamics of mass communication necessitate a reassessment of the received notions of audience labor. To that end this article revisits Dallas Smythe’s seminal audience commodity theory through the lens of a two-sided class analysis. A number of his key conceptualizations are critiqued including audience power, audience measurement, media content as a free lunch, audiences as a …
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- Vol. 33 no. 5, July 2011,pp. 693-708
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Creating digital enclaves : Negotiation of the internet among bounded religio…
This article examines the motivation behind bounded groups’ creation of digital enclaves online. Through in-depth interviews with 19 webmasters and staff of selected Israeli Orthodox websites three critical areas of negotiation are explored: (1) social control; (2) sources of authority; and (3) community boundaries. Examining these tensions illuminates a detailed process of self-evaluation whic…
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- Vol. 33 no. 5, July 2011, pp. 709-724
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