S. Pradhan, Sherrie Pradhan, Sean Laraway, Susan Snycerski
{"title":"“No Laughing Matter”: The Influence and Necessity of the Laugh Track on Humor and Enjoyability in a Comedic Sitcom","authors":"S. Pradhan, Sherrie Pradhan, Sean Laraway, Susan Snycerski","doi":"10.18848/2470-9247/cgp/v06i04/1-14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18848/2470-9247/cgp/v06i04/1-14","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":276370,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Communication and Media Studies","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129795546","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}
Fatma Al Kalbani, Nabhan Al Harrasi, Maha Khamis Al Balushi
{"title":"Making an Informed Decision in Advertising: An Empirical Study of Advertisers and the Media in Oman","authors":"Fatma Al Kalbani, Nabhan Al Harrasi, Maha Khamis Al Balushi","doi":"10.18848/2470-9247/cgp/v08i02/11-25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18848/2470-9247/cgp/v08i02/11-25","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":276370,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Communication and Media Studies","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133258617","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":"China’s Digital Nationalism: Search Engines and Online Encyclopedias","authors":"Dechun Zhang","doi":"10.18848/2470-9247/cgp/v05i02/1-19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18848/2470-9247/cgp/v05i02/1-19","url":null,"abstract":"Search engines play a vital role in positioning, organizing, and disseminating knowledge in China. Although there is a growing interest in China’s search engines, relatively few researches systematically examine their role involving nationalism. In order to address the research gap, this article compares the top thirty search results,from Baidu, 360 Search, Sogou Search, and Google regarding the “Meng Wanzhou Incident” while focusing on the overlap, ranking, and bias patterns. Furthermore, this study also analyses the differences between Wikipedia and China’s online encyclopedias concerning the “Meng Wanzhou Incident” in terms of content, structure, sources, and their main arguments. This article finds: 1) Chinese search engines favor their own services, thereby offering a unique and selective content bias; 2) Chinese search engines and online encyclopedias only provide Chinese sources that provide national biased knowledge, which raises search bias concerns; and 3) Chinese online encyclopedias offer a strong one-sided argument that is positive to China. Overall, this study finds that China’s search engines service the Chinese government’s self-interest by rendering overly biased social realities; moreover, they produce a logic of “imagined communities” to promote and stimulate feelings of nationalism.","PeriodicalId":276370,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Communication and Media Studies","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116598533","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 Theoretical Wedding of Spiral of Silence and Echo Chambers: Theoretical Convergence","authors":"Yirgalem A. Haile","doi":"10.18848/2470-9247/cgp/v08i01/25-41","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18848/2470-9247/cgp/v08i01/25-41","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":276370,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Communication and Media Studies","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123458939","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":"Space in Contemporary Cinema: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Manchester by the Sea, and The Shape of Water","authors":"A. Haque","doi":"10.18848/2470-9247/CGP/V04I01/23-31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18848/2470-9247/CGP/V04I01/23-31","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":276370,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Communication and Media Studies","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121505152","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":"Deliberation in Dysfunctional Democracies: The Global Need for Critically Renewing Habermas’s Public Sphere Concept","authors":"M. Hofmann","doi":"10.18848/2470-9247/CGP/V04I03/47-67","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18848/2470-9247/CGP/V04I03/47-67","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":276370,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Communication and Media Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132675620","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":"Question of Freedom: Muslim Women and Image Reproduction in the West","authors":"Nada Alfeir","doi":"10.18848/2470-9247/cgp/v08i01/75-89","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18848/2470-9247/cgp/v08i01/75-89","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":276370,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Communication and Media Studies","volume":"114 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121015972","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":"Toward a Governance Model for the Caribbean Film Industry: An Exploration of the Jamaican Film Industry","authors":"Alpha Obika","doi":"10.18848/2470-9247/cgp/v08i02/1-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18848/2470-9247/cgp/v08i02/1-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":276370,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Communication and Media Studies","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134164289","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":"Human Identity through the Ecoempathetic Looking Glass: Situating McLuhan in the Techno-Human Continuum","authors":"Blair Miller","doi":"10.18848/2470-9247/cgp/v07i01/29-43","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18848/2470-9247/cgp/v07i01/29-43","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":276370,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Communication and Media Studies","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131843821","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":"Memory and Perception in the Digital Context from the Philosophy of Henri Bergson","authors":"Douglas Rossi Ramos","doi":"10.18848/2470-9247/cgp/v07i01/67-88","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18848/2470-9247/cgp/v07i01/67-88","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":276370,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Communication and Media Studies","volume":"262 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133275951","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}