{"title":"Beneath the bias, the crisis: The press, the independent media and the Scottish referendum","authors":"Mike Wayne","doi":"10.1386/MACP.12.3.323_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/MACP.12.3.323_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the coverage of the Scottish referendum of 2014 by the press in the context of a multi-nation state with diverging political cultures. Evidence of press bias is assessed but the article argues that the more interesting question is why, despite the bias, there was considerable neutrality or even pro-independence views, given that the referendum posed an existential threat to the British state? The article argues that the political crisis was also a crisis for some sections of the press, who in a complex and contradictory context had their un-reflexive unionism mitigated. Signs of historic re-alignments among the Scottish electorate – especially the working class vote – threw the press on the defensive. The article also considers the impact of the independent media and the use of the Internet and social media to facilitate a grassroots campaign for independence, which again made the press look out of touch with popular currents. The political and media crisis is situated in the context of the contest between neo-liberalism and social democracy and draws on a Gramscian framework to analyse this.","PeriodicalId":306936,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121921405","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":"Elysium as a critical dystopia","authors":"Tanner Mirrlees, Isabel Pedersen","doi":"10.1386/macp.12.3.305_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/macp.12.3.305_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":306936,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics","volume":"134 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122343114","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":"‘That’s politics!’ A critical commentary on the mediation of democracy in Orange is the New Black","authors":"Amy Walker","doi":"10.1386/MACP.12.3.377_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/MACP.12.3.377_7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":306936,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127971791","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":"Magazines and the Making of America: Modernization, Community and Print Culture, 1741-1860","authors":"David Finkelstein","doi":"10.1386/MACP.12.3.389_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/MACP.12.3.389_5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":306936,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128031026","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":"Tailoring nirvana: Appropriating yoga, resignification and instructional challenges","authors":"M. Antony","doi":"10.1386/MACP.12.3.283_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/MACP.12.3.283_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":306936,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121485425","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":"Prospective journalism redux: The new life of political magazines in the digital age","authors":"Francisco Seoane Prez","doi":"10.1386/macp.12.3.357_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/macp.12.3.357_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":306936,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114563159","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":"Consciously populist: Deconstructing the discourse of Podemos’ Pablo Iglesias","authors":"Pablo Gómez Iniesta","doi":"10.1386/macp.12.2.257_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/macp.12.2.257_7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":306936,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123480858","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":"East to east: Cultural politics and fandom of Korean popular culture in Eastern Europe","authors":"Sunny Yoon","doi":"10.1386/MACP.12.2.213_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/MACP.12.2.213_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":306936,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114418092","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":"International careers and cross-border cultural exchanges: Transition or continuity in the Baltic art worlds from 1960 until present?","authors":"Emma Duester","doi":"10.1386/MACP.12.2.229_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/MACP.12.2.229_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":306936,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116205445","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":"Construction of the female global top manager in The Economist","authors":"Seppo Poutanen, Anne Kovalainen, Jatta Jännäri","doi":"10.1386/MACP.12.2.193_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/MACP.12.2.193_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":306936,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122750661","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}