Showing papers in "Communication Theory in 2018"
TL;DR: This article analyzed the relationship between right-wing populism and the media from a social-theoretical perspective and found that populism is a reaction to structures of modern society, and the ambiguous role of the media in a populist worldview.
Abstract: How does populism understand society and the role of the media, and how can the relationship between populism and the media be interpreted from a perspective of social theory? This article compares an ideal-typical right-wing populist worldview to a social-theoretical perspective and populism is interpreted as a reaction to structures of modern society. It theorizes the ambiguous role of the media in a populist worldview, with regard to anti-media populism and the reaction of non-populist media to right-wing populism. Conclusions as to the more general links between populism and the media are drawn and the present analysis is contextualized as part of a more encompassing research program on this relationship.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors conceptualize what constitutes dominant group theory and define five premises, six factors of dominant group communication, nine communication orientations, and twenty-one specific dominant group strategies.
Abstract: Through this theoretical essay, we conceptualize what constitutes dominant group theory. We review existing literature on two essential aspects of dominant group theory: (1) power, privilege, and communication, and (2) co-cultural theory. Drawing from data from two recent studies, we then use the conceptual framework of co-cultural theory to generate an extension that explores the communicative strategies of majority group members. More particularly, we describe five premises, six factors of dominant group communication, nine communication orientations, and twenty-one specific dominant group strategies, all of which represent the key building blocks of dominant group theorizing. Finally, we conclude by offering strengths, limitations, and heuristic implications of this new line of theorizing.
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TL;DR: In the late 1950s, Latin American communication studies have become increasingly institutionalized and thematically diverse as mentioned in this paper. This evolution, however, has circulated to a limited number of researchers.
Abstract: Since their origins in the late 1950s, Latin American communication studies have become increasingly institutionalized and thematically diverse. This evolution, however, has circulated to a limited ...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce a theoretical model of adolescent romantic parasocial attachment called Adolescent Romantic Parasocial Attachment (ARPA), designed to facilitate a comprehensive, developmentally-based line of research that improves our understanding of the ways adolescents experience parasocial romance and the influence their experiences may have on their lives.
Abstract: Relationships with media figures—referred to as parasocial relationships—provide a means for adolescents to explore and define their romantic and sexual identities (Boon & Lomore, 2001; Engle & Kasser, 2005; Karniol, 2001). However, more often than not, adolescents’ romantic attachments to media figures are ignored or dismissed as frivolous in the scholarly literature on youth development (Caughey, 1984; Jenkins, 1992; Willis, 1972). In this paper, we introduce a theoretical model of Adolescent Romantic Parasocial Attachment (ARPA), designed to facilitate a comprehensive, developmentally-based line of research that improves our understanding of the ways adolescents experience parasocial romance and the influence their experiences may have on their lives. Implications for the study of adolescent romantic development and future research directions are proposed.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors posit a theory of organizational communication design logics aimed at clarifying how collectives intervene in their own communication, and argue that collective communication design (CCD) is comprised of individuals' overlapping communication designs, focused on goals and governed by communication design logs, and the fit, function and fragmentation of collectives' communication proposals and choices.
Abstract: Theorizing communication as design can support the development of theories of intervention by focusing attention not just on how groups, organizations, and communities communicate, but also on how they make and try to enact choices about their communication. We posit a theory of organizational communication design logics aimed at clarifying how collectives intervene in their own communication. We argue that collective communication design (CCD) is comprised of (a) individuals’ overlapping communication designs, focused on goals and governed by communication design logics, and (b) the fit, function, and fragmentation of collectives’ communication proposals and choices. Future research guided by this theoretical framework should explore the communication skills associated with CCD and the influence of power, authority, emotion, and temporality in CCD.
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TL;DR: Theories on mediatization have been developed in Latin America in parallel to those flourishing in the Global North as discussed by the authors, while keeping an eye on the more available theoretical production in English-speaking publications.
Abstract: Theories on mediatization have been developed in Latin America in parallel to those flourishing in the Global North. This article analyzes the former while keeping an eye on the more available theoretical production in English-speaking publications. The main part of the article covers Eliseo Veron’s initial reflections on the semantization of violence to his later development of an evolutionary approach to mediatization. The article then introduces the contributions made by Latin American researchers who have followed in Veron’s wake during the last decade. The article concludes with an overview of the parallelisms between the two theoretical strands, and considers their complementarities as well as the possible exchanges between them.
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TL;DR: The authors argue that attempts to define journalism are often normative in nature but do not add to our theoretical understanding of what journalism is, and that there is a need for journalism scholarship to recognize explicitly the need for a critical understanding of journalism.
Abstract: Attempts to define journalism are often normative in nature but do not add to our theoretical understanding of what journalism is. There is a need for journalism scholarship to recognize explicitly ...
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TL;DR: Anselmino et al. this paper presented a paper on Raimondo Anselminó, N. Natalia, et al., this paper, the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas Científicas y Tecnicas.
Abstract: Fil: Raimondo Anselmino, Natalia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas. Centro Cientifico Tecnologico Conicet - Rosario; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Rosario; Argentina