Showing papers in "Journal of Communication Inquiry in 2018"
TL;DR: The 2014 general elections in India marked a new media beginning as discussed by the authors, which catapulted Narendra Modi onto the national political scene through his clever use of digital media space as a form of public discourse.
Abstract: The 2014 general elections in India marked a new media beginning. It catapulted Narendra Modi onto the national political scene through his clever use of digital media space as a form of public rel...
33 citations
TL;DR: A qualitative textual analysis of approximately 300 tweets explores how Twitter users deployed the #MuslimWomensDay hashtag in their posts in order to understand the story users told of what it means to be a Muslim woman as well as what narratives of Islam they had to fight against as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: At the end of Women’s History Month 2017, social media sites were filled with posts using the hashtag #MuslimWomensDay. Muslim women have often been framed in media as either victims of a violent faith and its believers or enablers of that violence, rarely are they given the space to tell their own stories. The #MuslimWomensDay hashtag was designed to draw attention to the stories and experiences of Muslim women. This qualitative textual analysis of approximately 300 tweets explores how Twitter users deployed the #MuslimWomensDay hashtag in their posts in order to understand the story users told of what it means to be a Muslim woman as well as what narratives of Islam they had to fight against.
26 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore urban knitting as a worldwide social movement, rather than solely a kind of “inoffensive urban graffiti” made with knitted fabric, and argue that this movement weaves together elements from craftivism, domesticity, handicraft, art, and feminism.
Abstract: The aim of this article is to explore urban knitting as a worldwide social movement, rather than solely a kind of “inoffensive urban graffiti” made with knitted fabric. Building on the available literature and original research, the article argues that this movement weaves together elements from craftivism, domesticity, handicraft, art, and feminism. It then explores a specific urban knitting initiative, called “Mettiamoci una pezza” (“Let’s patch it”), carried out in L’Aquila, Italy, 3 years after the earthquake that devastated the city in 2009. To analyze the sociopolitical aspects of this initiative, a series of qualitative research studies was conducted over time, to which were added semistructured interviews with the initiative’s local organizers. The findings show that the initiative in L’Aquila clearly exhibits the five original features of the urban knitting movement that emerge from the literature as being characteristic of this movement.
22 citations
TL;DR: More than one million refugees fleeing war-torn areas reached Europe in 2015, making migrant mobility and border dynamics breaking news in media reports as discussed by the authors, and this made traditional news media...
Abstract: More than one million refugees fleeing war-torn areas reached Europe in 2015, making migrant (im)mobility and border dynamics breaking news in media reports. In this context, traditional news media...
13 citations
TL;DR: This paper conducted a textual analysis of metajournalistic discourse published around the intersection of photojournalism and access, and found that the majority of them focused on the access of photos.
Abstract: This study examines metajournalistic discourse published surrounding the intersection of photojournalism and access. Researchers conducted a textual analysis of metajournalistic discourse published...
13 citations
TL;DR: This article used the political economy theory and drew from multimodal critical discourse for black South Africans to decide whether to attend traditional or white weddings, one white and the other traditional, in South Africa.
Abstract: Black South Africans generally celebrate two types of weddings, one white and the second ‘traditional.’ This article uses the political economy theory and draws from multimodal critical discourse a...
11 citations
TL;DR: The uses of blogs speak to articulating and reestablishing a professional reputation, connecting with patients informally, writing for therapeutic reasons, negotiating institutional constraints, and promoting community and health-care reform.
Abstract: In the “Health 2.0” era, digital media has altered how health care is conducted and how patients consume medical information. This article explores the reasons why health-care professionals create ...
10 citations
TL;DR: The authors analyzes how Jamie Oliver's show Jamie's Great Britain represented Scotland in 2012, when the referendum on Scottish independence had already been announced, and follows Anderson, Bourd et al.
Abstract: This article analyzes how Jamie Oliver’s show Jamie’s Great Britain represented Scotland in 2012, when the referendum on Scottish independence had already been announced. It follows Anderson, Bourd...
9 citations
TL;DR: The grotesque protest as mentioned in this paper employs the body fluids to push back against attempts to legislate bodies, and the body's fluids are used to protest the government's control of women's reproductive organs.
Abstract: The grotesque protest—emboldened through social media—employs the body’s fluids to push back against attempts to legislate bodies. Although social media use is commonly understood as engaging audie...
8 citations
TL;DR: In many Anglophone developing countries, the language of most public service advertising is English, a language that is second rather than primary for audiences as discussed by the authors, which is not the primary language for many English speakers.
Abstract: In many Anglophone developing countries, the language of most public service advertising is English, a language that is second rather than primary for audiences. Set in a dual-language context wher...
8 citations
TL;DR: The authors examines the literary celebrity of Indian author Chetan Bhagat and his paratextual articulations in India's English-language media, and seeks to deconstruct the role of these paratesxts.
Abstract: This article examines the literary celebrity of Indian author Chetan Bhagat and his paratextual articulations in India’s English-language media. It seeks to deconstruct the role of these paratexts ...
TL;DR: Identity is embedded not just in language but in the communicative and interactional singularities of language and in the linguistic habitus that speakers bring to bear in their relational and discursive domains as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Identity is embedded not just in language but in the communicative and interactional singularities of language and in the linguistic habitus that speakers bring to bear in their relational and disc...
TL;DR: The authors of as mentioned in this paper use a diasporic critique of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movements to argue that some of these movements undermine chances for two-state solutions.
Abstract: The authors use a diasporic critique of Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movements to argue that some of these movements undermine chances for two-state solutions. The authors,...
TL;DR: In this article, the nascent advertising industry in British Mandatory Palestine and how it was influenced and transformed by German Jewish immigrants, who arrived between 1933 and 1939, in the early 1940s.
Abstract: This research focuses on the nascent advertising industry in British Mandatory Palestine and how it was influenced and transformed by German Jewish immigrants, who arrived between 1933 and 1939, in...
TL;DR: The events, festivals, and happenings of the late 1960s, especially those in the West coast areas of the United States, were predominantly music focused as discussed by the authors, and during this period, and alongside these eve...
Abstract: The events, festivals, and happenings of the late 1960s, especially those in the West coast areas of the United States, were predominantly music focused. During this period, and alongside these eve...
TL;DR: Even after resettling in a new country, the trauma and resentment caused by the conflict experienced in their homeland are passed on from generation to generation among diaspora communities as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Even after resettling in a new country, the trauma and resentment caused by the conflict experienced in their homeland are passed on from generation to generation among diaspora communities. One of...
TL;DR: This paper examined the news coverage of two immigration stories involving Haitian migrants that made international headlines and found that the deportation of Dominicans of Haiti was one of the major news stories of the 1990s.
Abstract: This study examined the news coverage of two immigration stories involving Haitian migrants that made international headlines. Those two news stories were (a) the deportation of Dominicans of Haiti...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a narrative constructions of these illness experiences that are built upon one of the following three types of narratives: one-dimensional, three-dimensional and four-dimensional.
Abstract: Illness narratives are stories that focus on, or are inspired by, the sometimes life-altering experience of illness. Most narrative constructions of these illness experiences are built upon one of ...
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TL;DR: The politically-oriented Anglo-American popular music of the 1960s was notable for its ability to inspire activism in cultures around the globe, and as mentioned in this paper focus on the relationship between popular music and political activism in Wales, and suggest that 1968 was but one brief point on a much longer timeline.
Abstract: The politically-oriented Anglo-American popular music of the 1960s was notable for its ability to inspire activism in cultures around the globe. In this paper I focus on the relationship between popular music and political activism in Wales, and suggest that 1968 was but one brief point on a much longer timeline: an arbitrary marker in local political terms, but part of a larger global motion toward radical social change.
TL;DR: Temporary visa-status migrants initially might be perceived as emancipated mobilities who are privileged enough to enter and exit the United States without taking any major risks as mentioned in this paper...
Abstract: Temporary visa-status migrants initially might be perceived as emancipated mobilities who are privileged enough to enter and exit the United States without taking any major risks. This article exam...
TL;DR: In response to the editorial call to examine the legacy of 1968 and critical intellectual formations, the authors maps some of the feminist intellectual practices in and out of the university campus in a short paper.
Abstract: In response to the editorial call to examine the legacy of 1968 and critical intellectual formations, this short paper maps some of the feminist intellectual practices in and out of the university ...