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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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Running the race : Competition discourse and broadband growth in Aotearoa New…
The objective of this study is to understand key aspects of contemporary discourse surrounding telecommunications development in Aotearoa New Zealand after the privatization of telecommunications in the late 1980s. We identify various characteristics of discourse on competition and telecommunication and trace how competition discourse was rhetorically positioned in attempts to produce economic,…
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- Vol. 33 no. 5, July 2011,pp. 725-742
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Communications and transport : The mobility of information, people and commod…
In a context where the study of communications tends to focus only on the mobility of information, to the neglect of that of people and commodities, this article explores the potential for a closer integration between the fields of communications and transport studies. Against the presumption that the emergence of virtuality means that material geographies are no longer of consequence, the role…
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- Vol. 33 no. 5, July 2011 ,pp. 743-759
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Television news and democratic change in India
This article examines the impact of India’s ‘television news revolution’, or the rapid growth of privately owned television news channels, on substantive democracy, or the ability of ordinary citizens to access social, political, and economic power. Existing scholarship has largely relied upon content analysis (or textual interpretation) and reception studies to address this question. In contra…
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- Vol. 33 no. 5, July 2011,pp. 761-777
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Digital spaces, material traces : How matter comes to matter in online perfor…
This article argues that in order to cultivate a more thorough understanding of how gender, sexuality and embodiment come to ‘matter’ in digital environments, it is necessary to reconsider the notion of the virtual as it relates to everyday reality, in addition to rethinking the digital in relation to our common conception of materiality. To develop such an understanding, the discussion is orga…
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- Vol. 33 no. 4, May 2011,pp. 531-547
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Adjusting for a Mediator in Models With Two Crossed Treatment Variables
In a simple mediation model, the effect of a manipulated variable X on a dependent variable Y over and above the effect of the mediator Me can be estimated by regressing Y on X and Me. The impact of X on Y in such a model is adjusted for the relationship both between X and Me and between Me and Y. The authors examine the adjustment function in the context of a 2 x 2 design with two manipu…
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- Vol. 11, No. 2, Page 224-240
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- 1094-4281
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- Organizational Research Methods
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An Illustration of the Consequences of Meta-Analysis Model Choice
Fixed- and random-effects models represent two different approaches to analyzing and understanding data with meta-analysis. The current article describes the results of a two-part study to illustrate the effect of choice of meta-analytic model on study conclusions. Part 1 illustrates the effect of model choice by analyzing data simulated to conform to either fixed- or random-effects scena…
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- Vol. 11, No. 1, Page 35-53
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- 1094-4281
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Genocide and its aftermath: The case of Rwanda
This article describes the experiences of returnees from exile into Kigali, Rwanda and the efforts of the Government of Rwanda (GoR) and the UNHCR to meet the needs of returnees, and to deal with the aftermath of the genocide. Particular attention is paid to the Gacaca courts and the role of social work therein. We identify gaps in services and make recommendations in respect of the r…
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- Vol. 51, No. 3, Page 324-336
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- 0020-8728
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- International Social Work
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Taming Extremist Parties: Lessons From Europe
A rise in the power of Islamist parties has lent fresh interest to the old question of how revolutionary movements respond to participation in democracy. Pessimists argue that such movements will use any power they gain at the ballot box to subvert democracy, while optimists believe that participation can turn extremists into moderates. The example of 20th century European communist parti…
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- Vol. 19, No. 1, Page 5-18
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- 1045-5736
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- Journal of Democracy
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‘Eternal ephemera’ or the durability of ‘disposable literature’ : The…
Popular and academic discussions of the future of print focus on the electronic formats of books and newspapers but ignore some of the most ubiquitous and historically significant, albeit ephemeral, types of print media. This article argues for taking the flyer, leaflet and pamphlet seriously. These forms of ‘disposable literature’ are in part facilitated by electronic media and in part able to…
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- Vol. 33 no. 4, May 2011,pp. 515-530
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Networks, cultural capital and creative labour in the British independent tel…
This article examines the significance of networking practices as a means of finding work and developing a career in the British independent television production sector (ITPS). The findings are based on qualitative research carried out between 2005 and 2006, based on in-depth interviews with 20 freelancers working in the ITPS. The article studies the importance of networking not only as a mode…
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- Vol. 33 no. 4, May 2011,pp. 549-565
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Towards ethnography of television on the internet : A mobile strategy for exp…
This article aims to expand on the currently popular practice of conducting ethnographic studies of individual online fan groups to find other ways of using the internet ethnographically for television studies. The example of the Antiques Roadshow is used to explore a strategy for ethnographic attention to the diversity of mundane engagements with a particular television text via the internet. …
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- Vol. 33 no. 4, May 2011,pp. 567-582
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Open borders, closed minds : The discursive construction of national identity…
The article investigates the discursive construction of a Turkish Cypriot national identity by the newspapers in North Cyprus. It questions the representation and reconstruction processes of national identity within the press and examines the various practices employed to mobilize readers around certain national imaginings. Using Critical Discourse Analysis, the article analyses news reports of…
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- Vol. 33 no. 4, May 2011,pp. 583-597
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Desirable people : Identifying social values through celebrity news
In this article, we define the notion of ‘celebrity news’, emphasizing the fact that the portrayal of film stars embodies the imitable and the inimitable and, consequently, points towards values. In that context, we discuss the results of a thematic content analysis of a wide corpus of the daily and weekly European, French-speaking printed media to reveal which values are highlighted in celebri…
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- Vol. 33 no. 4, May 2011,pp. 599-618
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Endangered childhoods : how consumerism is impacting child and youth identity
Modern-day children are immersed in cultures of consumption such that every aspect of their lives is touched by a buy-and-consume modality. In particular, children in North America are increasingly experiencing the effects of consumer culture at unprecedented levels of involvement. It becomes necessary, therefore, to examine the impact of consumerism in order to assess identity formation and de…
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- Vol. 33 no. 3, April 2011,pp. 347-362
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