{"title":"Profit Over Privacy: How Surveillance Advertising Conquered the Internet. By Matthew Crain","authors":"Emily M. West","doi":"10.3138/cjc.2022-07-01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/cjc.2022-07-01","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45663,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Communication","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46550148","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":"Blackpill Science: Involuntary Celibacy, Rational Technique, and Economic Existence under Neoliberalism","authors":"Anthony G. Burton","doi":"10.3138/cjc.2022-07-25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/cjc.2022-07-25","url":null,"abstract":"Background: This article explores the “scientific blackpill,” used by those in contemporary digital incel communities to describe living as involuntarily celibate. To take the scientific blackpill is to both see and develop a rigid social hierarchy that attempts to explains the incel’s sexual and social lacks. Analysis: Through a discourse analysis of the largest web forum for self-identified “incels,” this article finds that the “scientific blackpill” acts as a Foucauldian “technology of the self,” designed to both explain and reverse the incel’s perceived social oppressions. Conclusion and implications: Designed in an attempt to emulate the objectifying behaviour of masculinity under neoliberalism, the blackpill legitimates the very social behaviours that devalue the incel’s social existence.","PeriodicalId":45663,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Communication","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44045077","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":"Lost in the Information Maze: Understanding the Multiple Drivers of QAnon Online Conspiracy Theories","authors":"Jaigris Hodson, Chandell Gosse","doi":"10.3138/cjc.2022-07-26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/cjc.2022-07-26","url":null,"abstract":"Background: The conspiracy community known as QAnon rose to prominence in the mainstream media over the last several years. To curb its spread, social media platforms have blocked QAnon-related activity. Analysis: This article demonstrates why QAnon cannot be addressed as a problem of information. Instead, it argues in favour of an ecological approach, which highlights the forces that make people vulnerable to QAnon-related conspiracies and other types of misinformation. Conclusion and implications: This article demonstrates why QAnon cannot be addressed as a problem of information. Instead, it argues in favour of an ecological approach.","PeriodicalId":45663,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Communication","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48973570","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":"Deciphering the Decline: A Computational Analysis of Two Decades of Canadian Newspaper Op-Eds on Freedom of Information","authors":"Alex Luscombe, Kevin Walby","doi":"10.22230/cjc.2022v47n2a4207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22230/cjc.2022v47n2a4207","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Newspaper op-eds are an underexplored mode of communication that frame social, cultural, and political issues. Analysis: This article uses an unsupervised machine-learning approach called structural topic modelling to map changes in the content of a corpus of Canadian newspaper op-eds on freedom of information (FOI) law spanning a 20-year period. This makes it possible to investigate changes in the content of newspaper op-eds over time and to decipher trends in the kinds of topics that national, regional, and local newspapers publish. Conclusion and implications: Computational approaches to analyzing news texts are used, and recommendations are offered for future research on FOI and political communications.","PeriodicalId":45663,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Communication","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46253625","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 Black Canadian Media Studies: A Conversation with Cheryl Thompson","authors":"C. Thompson, C. Russill","doi":"10.22230/cjc.2022v47n1a4351","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22230/cjc.2022v47n1a4351","url":null,"abstract":"On February 17, 2022, the Canadian Journal of Communication met with Cheryl Thompson (2021) via Zoom to discuss her latest book, Uncle: Race, Nostalgia, and the Politics of Loyalty, and the possibilities of a Black Canadian media studies. Dr. Thompson is a professor in the School of Performance in X University,1Toronto, Canada, and author of Beauty in a Box: Detangling the Roots of Canada’s Black Beauty Culture. She has published articles in Emergent Feminisms: Challenging a Post-Feminist Media Culture, the Journal of Canadian Studies, Canadian Journal of History Annales canadiennes d’histoire (CJH / ACH), and Feminist Media Studies. She has also published in The Conversation, Toronto Star, Montreal Gazette, Spacing, Herizons, Halifax Coast, and Rabble.ca. Thompson grew up in Scarborough and currently resides in Toronto. She is working on a book that addresses Canada’s history of blackface.","PeriodicalId":45663,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Communication","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47142459","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":"Work","authors":"Nicole L. Cohen","doi":"10.22230/cjc.2022v47n2a4341","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22230/cjc.2022v47n2a4341","url":null,"abstract":"Work has plagued us during the COVID-19 pandemic. Essential work. Work from home. Being worked to death. Some have had no work; others have had too much. Some of us longed to work as children clung to us (I tried and failed multiple times to write this article during numerous COVID-19-related school and daycare closures). Front-line workers. Remote workers. The Great Resignation reflects great resignation.","PeriodicalId":45663,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Communication","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41618517","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":"Guide de visionnement critique des médias, tome 1 : par la réflexion individuelle et en groupe.","authors":"François Lord","doi":"10.22230/cjc.2022v47n2a4203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22230/cjc.2022v47n2a4203","url":null,"abstract":"Le Guide de visionnement critique des médias d’Ina Motoi s’ouvre sur cette question : « Vivons-nous dans un monde où le temps passé devant les écrans peut facilement dépasser, pour de plus en plus d’individus, le temps écoulé sans écrans ? » (p. 1). Selon la professeure en travail social au Département de développement humain et social à l’Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, les individus passent de plus en plus de temps à utiliser des plateformes médiatiques. Ce phénomène tend à s’amplifier, notamment avec la crise sanitaire de 2020-2022 qui contraint une grande partie de la population à travailler, à se divertir et à communiquer avec ses proches à l’aide d’écrans. Cette surexposition médiatique ne serait pas, selon l’auteure, sans impact sur les individus.","PeriodicalId":45663,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Communication","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45610517","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":"Smart City Toronto: Extraction, Enclosure, Rentier Capitalism","authors":"Barbara L. Jenkins","doi":"10.22230/cjc.2022v47n2a4185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22230/cjc.2022v47n2a4185","url":null,"abstract":"Background: The failure of Sidewalk Labs’ smart city initiative in Toronto provides insight into the imperatives and contradictions of platform capitalism. Analysis: A political economy analysis reveals why this Alphabet subsidiary sought to expand the project beyond the parameters of the initial plan, stepping into a vacuum created by neoliberal forms of governance. Ultimately, the company’s expansionism resulted in a political backlash that scuttled the plan. Conclusion and implications: This case study highlights the political contradictions of platform capitalism, emphasizing the diversification of corporate strategies characterized by the extraction of data, enclosure of platforms, and accumulation of rentier profits.","PeriodicalId":45663,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Communication","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46118805","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":"Ontario’s Right-Wing Populism “Will Cost You”: A Propaganda Analysis of Ford’s Sticker Act and Canadian Journalism’s Response","authors":"Sydney L. Forde","doi":"10.22230/cjc.2022v47n2a4231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22230/cjc.2022v47n2a4231","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Political environments shaped by ascendant populism and growing anxieties over globalization have been compared to the early twentieth century, including concerns about the power of state-sponsored propaganda. The revisiting of propaganda analysis as a tool for analyzing government campaigns is thus warranted. Analysis: This article applies propaganda analysis to populist Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s Federal Carbon Tax Transparency Act. Canadian journalism’s response is then measured through a comparative frequency analysis alongside the premier’s sensationalized “buck-a-beer” campaign. Conclusion and implications: The applicability of a reinstated propaganda analysis is solidified in the current Canadian context, and journalism prioritizing profit over democracy is discussed.","PeriodicalId":45663,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Communication","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47822053","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}
M. Lithgow, P. Garrison, Esther Han Beol Jang, Nico Pace
{"title":"Network Wisdom: The Role of Scaffolding in Expanding Communities of Practice and Technical Competencies in Community Networks","authors":"M. Lithgow, P. Garrison, Esther Han Beol Jang, Nico Pace","doi":"10.22230/cjc.2022v47n2a4235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22230/cjc.2022v47n2a4235","url":null,"abstract":"‹ Volume 47 Issue 2, May 2022, pp. 271-291 › Articles Network Wisdom: The Role of Scaffolding in Expanding Communities of Practice and Technical Competencies in Community Networks Michael LithgowRelated informationAthabasca University Philip GarrisonRelated informationUniversity of Washington Esther Han Beol JangRelated informationUniversity of Washington Nicolas PacéRelated informationAlterMundi Michael Lithgow is Associate Professor at Athabasca University. Email: michael.lithgow@athabascau.ca. Philip Garrison is a PhD Candidate in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. Email: philipmg@cs.washington.edu. Esther Han Beol Jang is a PhD candidate in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. Email: infrared@cs.washington.edu. Nicolas Pacé is Community Networks Movement Builder at AlterMundi. Email: nicopace@altermundi.net Abstract Full Text References PDF EPUB Background: One of the key tensions to emerge from research on community owned and operated information and communications technology networks (“community networks”) is why some networks flourish while others fail. Analysis: These findings are based on interviews with 15 community network participants from four rural community networks in Córdoba, Argentina. Community network longevity is shaped by practices of scaffolding—knowledge sharing practices that expand what Étienne Wenger describes as “fields of negotiability” within communities of practice. Conclusion and implications: Network longevity was supported by scaffolding practices that decentralized technical capacities while encouraging deeper involvement among network participants. The network wisdom demonstrated in these cases appears to offer a promising strategy for community networks struggling to achieve longevity.","PeriodicalId":45663,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Communication","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42034530","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}