{"title":"Disasters Foreseen: Tragedy and Camp in President Richard Nixon’s Antidrug Campaign","authors":"Claire D. Clark","doi":"10.1177/1522637918787816","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1522637918787816","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":147592,"journal":{"name":"Journalism & Mass Communication Monographs","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129605488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rural Social Movements in Contexts of War: The Colombian Agrarian Strike of 2013","authors":"O. Durán, C. Rodríguez","doi":"10.1177/1522637918770427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1522637918770427","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":147592,"journal":{"name":"Journalism & Mass Communication Monographs","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114151785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Sublime of Digital Activism: Hybrid Media Ecologies and the New Grammar of Protest","authors":"Emiliano Treré","doi":"10.1177/1522637918770435","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1522637918770435","url":null,"abstract":"Research on the relationships between social movements and digital communication technologies has grown exponentially in the last few years, following episodes of increasingly intense contention around the globe. This inquiry has produced not only several valuable and illuminating insights but also many superficial and flawed accounts of the role of (digital) technology within contemporary protests. In this commentary, I will tackle some of the key points raised by Lim’s monograph. I start by addressing her claim that the Internet has become more “local” in contemporary movements. Then, I provide a socioeconomic excursus on the crisis of the middle class under financial capitalism that can integrate her reflections on the propelling role of middle classes in recent contentious episodes. To escape the enchantment of technological novelty, I also address the need to examine the historical communicative conditions of movements. I reflect on the radical media imagination, media imaginaries, and the sublime of digital activism. Next, I focus on multidimensionality of media hybridity within contemporary movements. I conclude by offering my perspective on the emergence of a new digital grammar of protest and on the enduring role of precarious bodies in the space of appearance.","PeriodicalId":147592,"journal":{"name":"Journalism & Mass Communication Monographs","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134308254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Roots, Routes, and Routers: Communications and Media of Contemporary Social Movements","authors":"M. Lim","doi":"10.1177/1522637918770419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1522637918770419","url":null,"abstract":"This monograph is an interdisciplinary analysis of the complexity of communications and media as they are embedded in the making and development of contemporary social movements, in three parts. The first part, Roots, provides a broad context for analyzing communications and media of contemporary social movements by tracing varied and multifaceted roots of the wave of global protests since 2010. The second part, Routes, maps out the routes that social movements take, trace how communications and media are entangled in these routes, and identify various key mechanisms occurring at various junctures of movements’ life cycles. The last part, Routers, explores roles of human and nonhuman, fixed and mobile, traditional and contemporary, digital and analog, permanent and temporal routers in the making and development of social movements. These analyses of roots, routes, and routers are mutually intertwined in broadening and deepening our understanding of the complexity of communications and media in contemporary social movements.","PeriodicalId":147592,"journal":{"name":"Journalism & Mass Communication Monographs","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116570135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Latino/a Gender Mobilizations in Times of Social Media","authors":"María Martinez","doi":"10.1177/1522637918770434","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1522637918770434","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":147592,"journal":{"name":"Journalism & Mass Communication Monographs","volume":"139 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124371743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In Other Spaces: Contestations of National Identity in “New” India’s Globalized Mediascapes","authors":"K. Goel","doi":"10.1177/1522637917750131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1522637917750131","url":null,"abstract":"The sense of a nation as a cohesive entity bound by a distinct language, culture, and traditions has been increasingly challenged in the age of globalization. Any discussion of national identity unfolds on a ground which is complicated and fluid. It is often defined by mass migrations across volatile regions and immigration debates within most organized societies, and also contingent upon unforeseen roles played by social media in crucial fields of politics, democratic participation, and communication. India’s national identity has undergone a drastic transformation in the era of globalization and media proliferation. This monograph examines conspicuous spaces and moments of material and digital life in the National Capital Region to understand the underlying momentum for the metaphorical construction of a “New India” and to provide an analytical framework for political and cultural transactions that have defined the nation’s journey toward a new identity and national imagination. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork in India, print and new media analysis, and archival research, I examine globalization’s uneven effects and how global culture has often destabilized, but numerously reinforced, various power structures within the nation.","PeriodicalId":147592,"journal":{"name":"Journalism & Mass Communication Monographs","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114943600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Split Narratives and the Clash of Indias","authors":"R. Hegde","doi":"10.1177/1522637917750140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1522637917750140","url":null,"abstract":"Newness, a prized claim in the global economy, adds value to commodities and drives nations to rebrand themselves. Premised on a particular reading of the present, newness offers a vision of an imagined future and a promise of exhilarating possibilities. The new stands apart from the old precisely as a result of its assumed potential to reconfigure and transform. As India refashions itself in cosmopolitan terms, establishing contrasts between new and old identities is a national preoccupation. Koeli Moitra Goel’s monograph offers a compelling account of the multiple ways in which the mantra of newness is recited, repeated, and reproduced in a range of material and digital sites encompassing the political and social life of the nation. The overarching objective that drives Goel’s monograph, as she states, is to examine the sources of metaphorical construction of a “new” identity for India. The monograph cogently describes how the dichotomous categories of old and new are mobilized and overlaid on other polarities such as global/local or modern/traditional. Guided by a deft theoretical engagement drawn from interdisciplinary sources, Goel introduces us to the discursive framing and the material contestations that accompany the evocation of the nation and citizen as new. Meanwhile, the monograph prompts a broader discussion of globalization.","PeriodicalId":147592,"journal":{"name":"Journalism & Mass Communication Monographs","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130086474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Caste to Faith: Contemporary Identity Politics in a Globalized India","authors":"Kalyani Chadha","doi":"10.1177/1522637917750132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1522637917750132","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":147592,"journal":{"name":"Journalism & Mass Communication Monographs","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126626485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Imagining, Imaging, and Implementing the New India","authors":"Radhika Parameswaran, P. Rao","doi":"10.1177/1522637917750148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1522637917750148","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":147592,"journal":{"name":"Journalism & Mass Communication Monographs","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128221291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Objectivity in Other Places and New Times","authors":"J. Singer","doi":"10.1177/1522637917734215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1522637917734215","url":null,"abstract":"In her excellent and provocative essay, Stephanie Craft effectively argues that uncritical adherence to “professional” journalism ethics, particularly as enacted in misguided service of objectivity, does journalists and the public much more harm than good. Indeed, objectivity has become something of a straw man in academic circles, posited mainly for the purpose of being discredited. It is widely seen as a foundational norm of U.S. journalism but is an inherently flawed concept: Typically misconstrued by both practitioners and audiences, more likely to lead to false equivalence than to meaningful explanation, almost laughably ill-suited to a digital information environment, and in any case unattainable by actual human beings. As Craft points out, objectivity as a dominant professional norm also is historically and culturally specific. In this commentary, I would like to extend her ideas in both place and time. She focuses on American journalism, yet in many other Western democracies, journalistic work is not explicitly linked to objectivity. And she takes us through the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States. But the story continues beyond that seminal moment, in ways that seem to me striking and significant.","PeriodicalId":147592,"journal":{"name":"Journalism & Mass Communication Monographs","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120917350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}