{"title":"White cyber-protest in a Facebook group","authors":"David C. Oh","doi":"10.1075/JAPC.00028.OH","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/JAPC.00028.OH","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This study builds upon a nascent body of scholarship that examines the transnational movement of White Westerners.\u0000 The purpose is to complicate the literature on multiculturalism and globalization by examining the “reverse” migration from,\u0000 rather than to, the West. Specifically, it examines White migrants’ mobilization of online social protest through a Facebook group\u0000 that came together in response to a report broadcast on South Korea’s Munhwa Broadcasting Company (MBC) that was interpreted as\u0000 racist and xenophobic. In response, White residents in Korea organized dissent and engaged in symbolic protest that served a\u0000 collective ego function, creating community around a perceived sense of shared oppression as racialized minorities. To do so, they\u0000 drew on global hierarchies, White supremacy, and heteronormativity to challenge their lack of control over their own\u0000 representations in the local culture.","PeriodicalId":43807,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian Pacific Communication","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2019-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47728644","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":"“Doing this kind of linguistics, you do feel like you’re making a difference in the world”","authors":"N. Daly","doi":"10.1075/JAPC.00034.DAL","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/JAPC.00034.DAL","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Despite the stated importance of fieldwork within the discipline of Linguistics, and the existence of several\u0000 texts about fieldwork (Thieberger, 2012; Bowren,\u0000 2008; Newman & Ratliff, 2001), there is very little literature\u0000 concerning the experience of fieldwork from tertiary students’ perspectives (see Macaulay,\u0000 2012). In this article, the work of four New Zealand postgraduate linguistics students working with fourteen Vanuatu\u0000 teachers to translate reading materials written in Bislama into seven vernacular languages is documented. Findings indicate that\u0000 students were motivated to be involved in the fieldwork by a range of factors including travel, altruism, and commitment to the\u0000 communities and their languages; they drew on and, in some cases, clarified many concepts from their undergraduate studies; and\u0000 that the fieldwork experiences both allowed them to gain confidence in their linguistic skills and influenced their future studies\u0000 in linguistics.","PeriodicalId":43807,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian Pacific Communication","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2019-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49510298","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}
Yunying Zhang, Eun-Jeong Han, Phi Phuong Tran, Alexis S. Tan
{"title":"Stereotype formation","authors":"Yunying Zhang, Eun-Jeong Han, Phi Phuong Tran, Alexis S. Tan","doi":"10.1075/JAPC.00032.ZHA","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/JAPC.00032.ZHA","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The present study aims (1) to study stereotype contents of a target population, and (2) to test the predictive\u0000 power of three contesting theoretical models in the communication framework of who→says what→in which channel→to whom→with what\u0000 effect (Lasswell, 1948). A purposive sample of (N = 291) Vietnamese\u0000 high school and college students found that they have positive stereotypes about Americans in general and a mix of positive and\u0000 negative stereotypes about Black/African-Americans. Of the three theoretical models, the communication model had collectively the\u0000 strongest predictors, followed by the psychological model, and then the contact model. Theoretical as well as practical\u0000 implications of the study is discussed.","PeriodicalId":43807,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian Pacific Communication","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2019-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45270549","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":"What can we learn about social media influence in the Malaysian 14th General Election?","authors":"S. Rahim","doi":"10.1075/JAPC.00033.RAH","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/JAPC.00033.RAH","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Social media as a new tool for political communication influences current developments in political campaigning.\u0000 In combination with mainstream media, social media is increasingly used for purposes such as political marketing, mobilisation of\u0000 voters, and public debate. This paper discusses how social media helped the Malaysian main opposition coalition, Alliance of Hope\u0000 (PH), to topple the ruling party, National Front (BN), which had ruled Malaysia for the last 61 years. Literature on new media\u0000 rarely shows positive relationships between new media usage and voting decisions. At most, social media plays a crucial role in\u0000 extending the dissemination of information to voters. However, PH had to rely solely on social media for their political marketing\u0000 in reaching out to both urban and rural constituencies, as the coalition was denied access to the government-controlled mainstream\u0000 media. With data-based information, PH was able to segment voters and focus on marginalised constituencies, young voters,\u0000 middle-class urban voters, and rural constituencies, which were the ruling party’s main fortress, contributing to 57% of the vote.\u0000 One of the misconceptions many politicians and political parties have is that merely using social media will win them the\u0000 election. Ultimately, what mattered more in this case was whether political parties could register the currents of change\u0000 percolating within an evolving Malaysian society and address voter grievances accordingly, something that BN, even with control\u0000 over mainstream media and superior usage of social media, did not do.","PeriodicalId":43807,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian Pacific Communication","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2019-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42530020","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":"English within Japanese","authors":"Hironori Nishi","doi":"10.1075/JAPC.00031.NIS","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/JAPC.00031.NIS","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The present study examined English textbooks used in Japanese middle and high schools, and analyzed to what extent\u0000 the English words that are included in those textbooks are already integrated into the vocabulary pool of Japanese as loanwords.\u0000 The findings of the present study showed that approximately 80% of the English words introduced in the first four years of English\u0000 education in schools in Japan are already integrated into Japanese as loanwords. Based on this high percentage of English words\u0000 with loanword counterparts in Japanese, the present study has argued that English loanwords in Japanese can be used as a resource\u0000 for learning new vocabulary in the field of EFL education for L1 speakers of Japanese.","PeriodicalId":43807,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian Pacific Communication","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2019-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44534828","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":"On the functions of sort of in New Zealand TV programs","authors":"Peyman G. P. Sabet","doi":"10.1075/JAPC.00020.SAB","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/JAPC.00020.SAB","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 Sort of is a pragmatic particle with a range of functions in different contexts. There are\u0000 different factors which can contribute to its varied functions. Focusing on the media discourse, this study investigates the\u0000 frequency and pragmatic functions of sort of in New Zealand English. Based on the analysis of the data from a\u0000 current affairs TV program, the study shows that sort of is a pragmatic particle under-used in this discourse type. The analysis of its pragmatic functions demonstrates that right amount of information and mitigation fulfill a substantial\u0000 proportion of sort of functions. The other two functions, avoidance and discourse management, are less frequent,\u0000 but still perform important roles in effective media communication.","PeriodicalId":43807,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian Pacific Communication","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2019-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47121925","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}