Political consumerism, young citizens and the Internet

Evidence suggests that purchasing products for ethical or political reasons?also known as political consumerism?may be gaining in importance. With (young) people’s declining voting rates and a general disinterest in political institutions, scholars and political elites alike are speculating on the evolution of citizenship. Research shows that citizens in countries like the UK see issue and life…

The border-crossing of habitus : media consumption, motives, and reading stra…

Drawing on Bourdieu’s concepts of cultural capital and habitus, this study investigates media consumption, motives of media use, and reading strategies among Asian immigrant women in South Korea. The interview data from this study reveal that the total sum of media consumption among Asian immigrant informants tends to increase after immigration and that their media consumption can be regarded a…

Google ads and the blindspot debate

This article renews Dallas Smythe’s ‘blindspot’ argument by examining the economy of Google advertising. I argue that Google sells at least three types of commodities: keywords, statistics of keywords, and search results. Through a vertically integrated system, Google sells to advertisers commodities that have no exchange value outside the Google ads system. Moreover, Google creates an ideology…

Inside, outside, and beyond media logic : journalistic creativity in climate …

In order to accomplish more multi-dimensional analyses of media logic one needs to study how journalists grapple with news issues in their expanding development, such as the revolutionary development of the climate issue in the news. The present analysis is based on interviews with 14 Swedish environmental journalists from various news media, who have been part of editorial concentrations on cl…

The battle over the FCC Blue Book : determining the role of broadcast media i…

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Vol. 33 no. 2, March 2011 ,pp. 171-191

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01634437

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Media Culture Society

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Policy process, policy learning, and the role of the provincial media in China

This article examines the multifaceted roles of provincial media and officials in China’s Guangdong province in the national policy process, and their patterns in articulating policy influence through policy implementation and learning. Key issues are (1) the role of the province in policy formulation, implementation and learning; (2) the mechanism whereby provincial media can influence nationa…

The media and the literacies : media literacy, information literacy, digital …

With the advent of digital technologies, awareness of media is acquiring crucial importance. Media literacy, information literacy and digital literacy are the three most prevailing concepts that focus on a critical approach towards media messages.This article gives an overview of the nature of these literacies, which show both similarities to and differences from each other. The various context…

Is family a moral capital resource for female politicians? The case of ABC’…

Being perceived as family-engaged is assumed to benefit politicians, augmenting moral capital they can trade for votes and power. Moral capital benefits of family engagement are particularly salient for male politicians, whose relationship to family generally invokes responsibility and strength. Is family engagement a moral capital resource for female politicians, whose stereotypical associatio…

Inverting film policy : film as nation builder in post-Soviet Russia, 1991-2005

The collapse of the Soviet Union marked the beginning of a search for a national identity in Russia. This article investigates whether the Russian State recognized cinema as a cultural good for nation-building purposes. On the basis of qualitative and quantitative methods, it is demonstrated that after 1994, films with a national claim became more likely than other films to obtain state support…

Commodifying Asian-ness : entrepreneurship and the making of East Asian popul…

This article examines the linkage between entrepreneurship and the making of popular culture in East Asia. The central argument presented here is that the notion of entrepreneurship is central for understanding and conceptualizing the process of constructing trans-national markets for popular culture and for building new circles of ‘Asian’ recognition. In other words, entrepreneurial vision is …

Inside the lives of three Sudanese women performers : negotiating gender, the…

This article provides a discursive space for the voices of three Sudanese women singers who have different life experiences and have different agencies regarding their subject positions as ghanayaat/fananaat (performers) and as women. The article explores how the fananaat negotiate their position as female singers through highlighting their perceptions of the songs they perform which are referr…

Whispering : the murmur of power in a lo-fi world

As the Industrial Revolution and the Electric Revolution turn our acoustic environment into a ‘lo-fi’ soundscape, modern communication tends to evolve into an escalating ‘volume war’ where one shouts, yells, cries and screams. This article challenges the assumption that ‘volume is power’ and explores an alternative mode of vocal emission — the whisper. Weak in volume and yet persistent in reson…

Forbidden fruit or conventional apple pie? A look at Sex and the City’s rev…

HBO’s Sex and the City is a programme known for its controversial portrayal of gender issues. Yet one should question whether its polemical stylings in relation to gender ascription are deserved or perhaps inflated. Employing aspects of both media- and gender-based theory, this article analyses character, dialogue and cinematographic imagery in regard to the show’s gender messaging in efforts t…

Telenovelas and representations of national identity in Brazil

The article analyses the representations of national identity in the fictional programming of TV Globo, Brazil’s dominant media conglomerate. A textual analysis of telenovelas (soap operas) broadcast in the last four decades of Brazil’s political history shows that they build compelling visions of the nation through ‘microcosms’, the imagined locations in which the stories take place. Based on …

Who moved my conversation? Instant messaging, intertextuality and new regimes…

The article investigates the shift of much interpersonal communication from phone or face-to-face interaction to instant messaging, especially among teenagers. This objectification of conversation enabled changes in myriad social practices, as well as in regimes of intimacy and truth: new, invisible audiences are introduced to hitherto intimate situations for real-time consultations; intimacy, …

Reporting and the transformations of the journalistic field : US news media, …

How have journalistic ideals of public service arisen? To what extent do journalists live up to these ideals? Can we make any claims as to the social conditions that this performance depends on? Using Bourdieu’s theory of fields of cultural production, this article addresses these questions with evidence from the history of journalism in the United States. What is most distinctive about modern …

‘Not an act of God’ : anger and citizenship in press coverage of British …

Anger motivates people to engage in political action, fuelling collective struggles for justice and recognition. However, because of its close association with irrationality and aggression, the public expression of anger has historically been discouraged. This article focuses on expressions of anger in British disaster coverage between 1952 and 1999. In particular, we look at the relationship b…

No Country for Young Men : Deteriorating Labor Market Prospects for Low-Skill…

The labor market fate of the nation’s male teens and young adults (ages 20—29) has deteriorated along most employment, weekly wages, and annual earnings dimensions in recent decades. The employment rates reached new post—World War II lows in 2009, with the less well educated faring the worst. The deterioration in the labor market well-being of these young men has had a number of adverse consequ…

Young Disadvantaged Men as Fathers

This article reviews current theory and empirical evidence regarding young disadvantaged men’s involvement with children. It first chronicles the major theoretical perspectives on fathers’ involvement among resident (married and cohabiting) biological fathers, resident social fathers (unrelated romantic partners of children’s mothers), and nonresident biological fathers. Second, it provides a b…

The Relationship Contexts of Young Disadvantaged Men

Recent improvements in data collection offer unprecedented insight into the romantic partnerships of disadvantaged men, revealing higher levels of instability, complexity, and commitment than previously understood. Young disadvantaged men are often involved in casual romantic relationships that result in pregnancy. When this occurs, most men remain involved with the mother, are optimistic about…