{"title":"A decade of WikiLeaks: So what?","authors":"C. Christensen","doi":"10.1386/MACP.10.3.273_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/MACP.10.3.273_1","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, I consider how WikiLeaks has gone through a series of metamorphoses: from a small, relatively unknown website devoted to giving whistleblowers space to release their material to on ...","PeriodicalId":306936,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133299487","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":"When the villain remains unpunished: Unintended effects of the social mediation of young children’s TV viewing","authors":"K. Kruuse, Veronika Kalmus","doi":"10.1386/MACP.10.3.355_3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/MACP.10.3.355_3","url":null,"abstract":"Television viewing is a regular everyday activity for most children in the modern world. Despite the steady rise of new media, television has remained the most dominant medium in an increasingly media-rich environment among preschool children for whom watching TV is the most time-consuming activity other than sleep (Vandewater et al. 2007). According to a widely accepted theoretical view within the media effects research tradition, time spent in front of the television influences children’s emotional and cognitive development. On the positive side, TV viewing is related to improved creative ability, better school-readiness and higher ambitions (Anderson et al. 2001), greater interest in books, wider vocabulary and language-learning (Krcmar 2007), and pro-social attitudes and positive moral lessons (Hardy and Claborne 2007). On the negative side, studies have linked excessive TV viewing with poor fitness and overweight (Hancox 2004), sleeping disorders (Feiss and Hoges 2000), and immorality, aggression and diminished social skills (Lemish 2007; Vandewater et al. 2007). Television is 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.","PeriodicalId":306936,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116713704","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":"Between ‘indiewood’ and ‘nowherewood’: American independent cinema in the twenty-first century","authors":"Yannis Tzioumakis","doi":"10.1386/MACP.10.3.285_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/MACP.10.3.285_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":306936,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127270744","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":"Political Participation on Social Media Platforms in Sweden today : Connective Individualism, Expressive Issue-Engagement and Disciplined Updating","authors":"J. Svensson","doi":"10.1386/MACP.10.3.347_3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/MACP.10.3.347_3","url":null,"abstract":"Political Participation on Social Media Platforms in Sweden today : Connective Individualism, Expressive Issue-Engagement and Disciplined Updating","PeriodicalId":306936,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121103853","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 study of the political economy of the media in the twenty-first century","authors":"J. Wasko","doi":"10.1386/MACP.10.3.259_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/MACP.10.3.259_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":306936,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124020278","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":"Scholar-practitioner collaboration in media-related interventions: A case study of Radio La Benevolencija in Rwanda","authors":"Lauren Kogen, M. Price","doi":"10.1386/MACP.10.3.301_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/MACP.10.3.301_1","url":null,"abstract":"What methodological, ethical or other issues arise in ‘media development’ projects that are collaborations between practitioners and scholars? This article uses as a case study a project led by Radio La Benevolencija (RLB) that sought to address interethnic conflict in Rwanda through a radio drama programme – a Romeo and Juliet story of a forbidden love between members of two conflicting tribes. The intervention was unique in its attention to theories of communication and psychology in its design and implementation, and in its efforts to bring in academics throughout the course of the project to aid in design and evaluation. The authors, commissioned to conduct an evaluation of RLB’s past ten years of work, analyse the intervention in the context of Rwanda’s history and the organization’s use of theory, research and evaluation in their programmes. The authors find that, based on the RLB experience as well as evidence provided by communication and media research, the RLB model for peacebuilding through the media can be usefully adapted to other contexts, given particular parameters. The article concludes by arguing that the collaboration provides evidence of the fruitful ground that can and should exist between practice, theory and research, while problematizing challenges involved in such collaborations. In context after context, the irresponsible use of media has hardened antagonisms; at times it has nourished wild storms of genocidal activity. Media scholars play a role in investigating these processes of incitement. In this essay, we look at a Rwanda-based case study where uses of media deepened hate with world-shaking consequences and, in the wake of disaster, practitioners, governments, funders and scholars worked together in processes of repair and restoration. It is the aspect of collaboration in the difficult process of healing that attracts us. Our case study is an effort that persisted for a decade (and continues), and one that is distinctive because of its grounding in theory, with a deep set of psychological justifications. We do not enter the debates about the relationship between peacebuilding and transitional justice: whether advancing one, for example, hinders the opportunity for the other (Sriram et al, 2013). The Rwanda intervention we describe here deals more fundamentally with changes in underlying attitudes and how theorizing about that subject influenced practice (and how involvement in practice influenced research). What we do here cannot be exhaustive, but we hope it sparks further discussion about these interrelationships.","PeriodicalId":306936,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics","volume":"239 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124627299","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":"Despite Scotland's response, Catalonia still aspires towards independence","authors":"C. Perales","doi":"10.1386/MACP.10.3.331_3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/MACP.10.3.331_3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":306936,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121027116","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":"Press coverage and civic engagement during the euro crisis:Reporting the Indignados","authors":"M. Kyriakidou, José Javier Olivas Osuna","doi":"10.1386/MACP.10.2.213_3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/MACP.10.2.213_3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":306936,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics","volume":"362 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132431407","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}