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{"title":"Ontological Security: A Critical Analysis of Israel's Normalization With the Gulf Cooperation Council in Exit 7","authors":"Haneen Ghabra, Eisa al Nashmi","doi":"10.1177/01968599231180644","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01968599231180644","url":null,"abstract":"This study employs a postcolonial critique of Middle East Broadcasting Center's Saudi television show, Exit 7, around the issue of normalization. The authors argue that episode 3 of Exit 7 showcases a new shift in Middle Eastern relations with Israel. The show demonstrates a deep-rooted change in ontological security of the Arab region and the globe at large, disrupting the routines of Arab individuals and calling into question their national identity, which for the most part, was anti-Israel. The authors explore ontological security at both a state level and a structural level in terms of the audience's relation to popular culture and the media. Through state-controlled media, they argue that Saudi Arabia can incrementally introduce new narratives that challenge long-standing animosities toward Israel and cultivate a sense of ontological security, which may, over time, further mask the apartheid occurring in Israel.","PeriodicalId":45677,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Inquiry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44026309","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":"Social Justice on the Menu: A Critical Analysis of a Local Restaurant's Branding Strategies and the Paradox of Privilege in Gentrification","authors":"Shoaa Almalki","doi":"10.1177/01968599231179098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01968599231179098","url":null,"abstract":"This critical ethnography builds on the body of research at the intersection of communication studies, branding, and gentrification. The researcher examined a local restaurant's community and social justice-oriented branding in gentrified neighborhoods. Observation logs, newspaper coverage, and Google reviews were analyzed to understand the communication strategies used to create a distinct brand that centers the public sphere and community building at its core. The researcher conceptualizes the commercialized public sphere model as a conscious branding communication strategy that can be replicated in other restaurants or new forms of establishments. By intentionally creating a sense of community focused on fostering diversity and preserving the culture of the gentrified neighborhoods, the restaurant becomes a space where the old meets the new and they both belong. The findings reveal that conscious branding in gentrified neighborhoods is perceived positively by the media and the costumers and may have the potential to forge a space for marginalized communities to thrive.","PeriodicalId":45677,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Inquiry","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41972432","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":"Monetizing Failure: Fyre Fraud, Social Media, and the Normalization of Crisis","authors":"Kristen E. Hoerl, C. Kelly","doi":"10.1177/01968599231180645","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01968599231180645","url":null,"abstract":"This essay analyzes the social media rebranding of the infamous Fyre Festival, a disastrous and fraudulent music concert that went viral in 2017. The posthumous life of the ill-fated festival illustrates the unique confluence of neoliberal crisis and the entrepreneurial logics of social media that enable failed entrepreneurs to exploit their own abject spectacles of fraud and unethical business practices into lucrative opportunities. By looking at how three individuals deeply involved in planning Fyre Fest monetized the media spectacle surrounding the festival's failure through unrelenting spin, ironic self-branding, and the commodification of kitsch, we show how the emerging character of a socially mediated failure industry that revels not only in failure but in the unprincipled nature of risk-taking in the current economy. We conclude by reflecting how the entrepreneurial discourses in the aftermath of the festival are indicative of evolving entrepreneurial logics that normalize the detached and ironic enjoyment of neoliberal spectacles.","PeriodicalId":45677,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Inquiry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43458707","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":"How Do the Young People Picture Out Their Use, Activeness, and Connectivity on Social Media? A Discourse Analysis Approach","authors":"W. Rahmat, R. Tiawati, E. Kemal, Ricci Gemarni Tatalia, Harizqi Azri, Yosi Wulandari","doi":"10.1177/01968599231174848","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01968599231174848","url":null,"abstract":"In the past few years, young people have been using social media platforms to inform, share, and deliver their feelings. However, social media platforms like Facebook lost popularity among the young generations. Now, they prefer to interact via social media sites, such as Instagram, as narrative-based features. This study explores how young people use social media to their daily concerns. This article employs an anthropological methodology and discourse analysis to investigate the social media discourses among Padang's young people. As the capital of West Sumatra, Indonesia, Padang city provides a warm and welcoming environment for the young generation, making it an ideal place to grow spiritually and socially. Therefore, these young people's participation in the platforms are influenced by the issues reflecting their daily life. Nevertheless, it is considered that some of their behaviors can be explained by the trend of increased social media usage among their citizens.","PeriodicalId":45677,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Inquiry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47113869","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":"Editor's Introduction","authors":"M. Frankline","doi":"10.1177/01968599231175246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01968599231175246","url":null,"abstract":"This issue of the Journal of Communication Inquiry includes first two original research articles cohering around the role of digital media toward social change. Part two of the issue includes three original articles and a book review that coheres around digital media and power, hegemony, and cultural imperialism. This issue starts with the article titled “Mobile Payment in China: A Study from a Sociological Perspective,” by WeiMing Ye, Weirong Chen, and Leopoldina Fortunati. The paper looks at the adoption of mobile money in China. The authors of this study focused on the macroand meso-level reasons why people in China are adopting mobile money. This is different from most studies which have focused on mobile payment functionality and the microlevel reasons of adoption. This paper is divided into five sections with the first section looking at mobile phone as the new locus of payment. The second section looks at the structure, evolution, and policies that influence mobile payment, while the third section explains the reconstruction of socioeconomic premises for the development of mobile payments in China with a point of reference to the USA. The authors argue that China’s mobile money market is the fastest growing and the largest market, 204 times bigger than that of the USA. They argue that the USA has lagged most likely because of the high inertia produced by credit cards’ use. Lastly, the fourth section focuses on the socioeconomic reasons for the rapid development of mobile money, while the fifth section looks at how social relationships have shaped the development of mobile money. In their conclusion on why mobile payment has become a locus form of payment in China, the authors argue that with mobile phones becoming the closest to the human body, mobile phones are now an important tool as a payment method as well as forming relationships. The second paper by Jessica Maddox and Shaheen Kanthawala is titled, “The Revolution Will Be Forwarded: Interrogating India’s WhatsApp Imaginary.” The article looks at WhatsApp as one of the most popular social media apps, as well as one of the most popular chat-based, closed platforms in India. The authors conducted 19 in-depth interviews taking a cultural perspective of WhatsApp’s ritual communication, with the aim of understanding how WhatsApp users make sense of its usage in their daily lives. While focusing on individual who are 40 years and older, the authors of this article tapped into the underrepresented populations which shared insights on what life was like before WhatsApp. Hence, they approached the paper as a ritual communication analyzing how past and present views of communication Editorial","PeriodicalId":45677,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Inquiry","volume":"47 1","pages":"219 - 221"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43023474","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":"Medicalized Motherhood and Normalized Autism: A Legacy of the Eugenic Ideology in Media Stories in Authoritarian Vietnam","authors":"Nguyễn Yến-Khanh","doi":"10.1177/01968599231176494","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01968599231176494","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines a mother's stories which might have prominently set the tone for the narratives about autism in Vietnam. The study analyses the media representation of her family life with a child on the autism spectrum with the terrified and anguished experience of coping with the severe autistic behavior of her son and triumphantly helping him to become a human (sic). The article critiques the medicalization, normalization, eugenicism, and responsibilization ideologies embedded in the media frames that autistic challenges belong to the individuals and must be fixed, through the family's efforts, without holding state institutions accountable for addressing this public health issue. The episodic frames to represent autism as a personal medical issue and family problem demotivated the urgency of advocating for a right-based social policy to accommodate individuals with autism, while the warrior-hero's narratives driven by fears might backfire when other parents cannot afford to do the same. The combination of framing analysis and critical discourse analysis with an emphasis on the cultural political economy fills the gap in global media and communication studies to contextualize how pervasively the structural factors in an authoritarian country might impact the media framing practice.","PeriodicalId":45677,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Inquiry","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135791839","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":"“Tell Me Who You Are and I’ll Tell You What You Are”:Postcolonial Theory and Representations and Perceptions of Ethnic Minority Groups. The Case of Mizrahim and Israeli Arabs on Israeli Television","authors":"Nissim Katz","doi":"10.1177/01968599231177783","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01968599231177783","url":null,"abstract":"This theoretical article shows the benefits of using postcolonial theory in research of presentations and perceptions of ethnic minority groups on television. It introduces postcolonial theory and applies it to two minority ethnic groups in Israel: The Mizrahim and Israeli Arabs, analyzing their representations on mainstream Israeli television shows. This article also offers using a psychological theory called “media boundary situation” in order to discover perceptions of ethnic minority groups based on research of Mizrahim and Israeli-Arabs. The article assesses how postcolonial theory can be used to attain a better understating the unique representations of an ethnic groups and to develop an understanding of the perceptions of them.","PeriodicalId":45677,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Inquiry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46294508","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 Vernacular of Disaster: The Rhetoric and Memory of Volcanic Eruption at Museum Gunung Merapi, Indonesia","authors":"Desideria Cempaka Wijaya Murti","doi":"10.1177/01968599231171931","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01968599231171931","url":null,"abstract":"This study analyzes the vernacular rhetoric of disaster in a volcanic eruption museum. Using the Mount Merapi Museum (Museum Gunung Merapi or MGM) in Indonesia, the research investigates how the site has become a public memorial for volcanic disasters through archival work, textual analysis, and in-the-field methods. The findings show that MGM materializes a “vernacular rhetoric of disaster” through the socio-cultural aspect. It emphasizes the juxtaposition of mythological stories, scientific descriptions, and everyday discourses produced by the disasters, centering on the philosophy of eling or the act of remembering in Javanese society. Finally, the paper offers observational frameworks to understand the museum. Those are the situational setting of the museum's location culturally and socially, the building design, and the connection of everyday life to the surrounding contexts. This framework is helpful to be applied in another setting.","PeriodicalId":45677,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Inquiry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47520003","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":"Risk Narratives on Immigration During the COVID-19 Crisis in Italy: A Comparative Analysis of Facebook Posts Published by Politicians and by News media","authors":"L. Serafini, Anita Gottlob, Francesco Pierri, F. Ieva, S. Ceri","doi":"10.1177/01968599231167939","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01968599231167939","url":null,"abstract":"This work explores how the narrative on immigration changes when society is threatened by “real” risks, i.e., during the COVID-19 health crisis. We compared the frequency and engagement of over 348,684 posts published on Facebook between December 2019 and November 2020 by Italian politicians and news media. We identified two waves of  “tangible crisis” assuming that in these two periods the risk stemming from COVID-19 was strongly perceived by the Italian population, contrasting our observations to the periods preceding the first wave and between both waves. Our findings suggest that the political discourse and risk narratives on immigration decreased during times of “tangible crises” for right-wing populist parties and news media. This happened at a time when key policies regarding immigration and regularization of migrants were highly discussed by the Italian government, receiving unexpectedly low reactions. This leads us to theorize that anti-immigrant communication decreases during times of “tangible crises.” ","PeriodicalId":45677,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Inquiry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44736354","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":"Anufɔ-English Codeswitching in Informal Settings Among the Anufɔ People of Ghana","authors":"Daniel Oppong-Adjei, Joseph Peter Yaw-kan","doi":"10.1177/01968599231164137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01968599231164137","url":null,"abstract":"In Ghana, most of the recent studies on codeswitching (CS) have largely considered formal settings like religious centers (specifically the church) and the educational arena (specifically classrooms). Such studies show that CS is common in the classroom and churches and has academic and religious implications. In the general Ghanaian context, most of the CS situations among the major indigenous languages like the Akan, Ga, and Ewe investigated also report the effects of this language phenomenon on such languages. The CS situation among the “not widely spoken” indigenous languages such as Anufɔ is still opened to scholarship. The paper scrutinizes the employment of CS in informal settings among the Anufɔ people in Ghana. It employs ethnographic data collection techniques for the analysis. The analysis is framed within the Markedness Model of using CS in conversations. The study reveals that CS involving Anufɔ and English is linguistically and sociopsychologically motivated by such factors as: (i) vocabulary/lexical gap; (ii) language incompetence; (iii) preference for English; (iv) clarity and repetition; and (v) unintentional/subconscious habit. The effect of this CS situation is the emergence of a kind of Anufɔ/English language. This study is a contribution to the CS studies in Ghana.","PeriodicalId":45677,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Inquiry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49442466","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}