{"title":"When the exception to the rule proves the rule: Parasite’s paradoxical Academy Awards best picture win and American Cultural Insularity in the Center (ACIC)","authors":"Christof Demont-Heinrich","doi":"10.1177/01968599221120087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01968599221120087","url":null,"abstract":"This paper argues that rather than proving that foreign-language films have somehow finally “arrived” in the United States that an historic win by the South Korean film Parasite in the best picture category at the 92nd Academy Awards proves precisely the opposite: The general rule vis-à-vis non-English-language films in the U.S. is that they continue to languish, and continue to be marginalized, just as they have for the better part of the past 100 years. I use Parasite's historic, exception-to-the-rule win of best picture to illustrate the validity and utility of a larger theory called American Cultural Insularity in the Center (ACIC). According to ACIC, compared to most people in most other countries, large numbers of Americans tend to consume much more of their own cultural media products and much fewer cultural media products produced in other countries than people in other countries typically do.","PeriodicalId":45677,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Inquiry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43398355","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":"Cultural Continuance and Agency in Cherokee Biographical Digital Storytelling","authors":"M. Cox","doi":"10.1177/01968599221120584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01968599221120584","url":null,"abstract":"The concepts of Native American cultural continuance and agency have become critical elements of both preserving, sharing, and extending the culture of Indigenous Americans into the future. Digital media platforms offer Native American nations a new opportunity to reach both a Native audience and society at large and contradict traditional media's cultural stereotypes and misrepresentation. Therefore, this qualitative content analysis of Cherokee Nation digital media explores what elements of cultural continuance and cultural agency are found in biographical digital storytelling. Using the key concepts extracted from the literature (visibility, envisioning a future, creative authority and autonomy, authenticity, and disrupting dominant norms) as the focus, six themes emerged from Cherokee Nation articles and documentaries.","PeriodicalId":45677,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Inquiry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49287085","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":"Race-Conscious Public Health: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Release the Pressure Campaign","authors":"Hayley T. Markovich","doi":"10.1177/01968599221119304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01968599221119304","url":null,"abstract":"In 2020, the Release the Pressure Campaign, a joint public health campaign was started to address the high rates of heart disease, and particularly hypertension, experienced among Black women in the United States. Through a Critical Discourse Analysis of mass media contents related to the campaign, this study sought to answer how the campaign used race to re-center Black women's heart health. Three discourses were determined, focused on embodiment of racism, self-care and community care, and addressing ways Black women treat heart disease. The discourses indicate the campaign is culturally focused and theoretically set up for success as a race-conscious public health campaign that has been advocated for. Future research is also discussed.","PeriodicalId":45677,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Inquiry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45845541","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":"Cultures of Digital Architectures: Power and Positionalities in the Backend of Online Journalism Production","authors":"Robert E. Gutsche","doi":"10.1177/01968599221113989","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01968599221113989","url":null,"abstract":"This essay complicates interpretations of digital architectures in online journalism production in terms of journalistic interlopers and intralopers during an age of increased influence of technologists on online news development. While much normative scholarship revolves around social media, metrics, algorithms, artificial intelligence, VR, and other forms of digital innovation applied to journalism, the essay argues that such work must not focus merely on the actions of today's tech-savvy journalism but should interrogate social and cultural relationships at the center of journalistic production so not to as become distracted away from the embedded practices of ideological incorporation that shapes media messages and reproduces inequalities through what and how journalism covers. In the future, as we approach a notion of the Metaverse, scholars must interrogate the long-standing embedding of elite ideologies into the news as journalists collaborate with technologists (or as journalists become technologists), interact (and re-interact) with elite ideologies at accelerating rates in networked societies, and move into new digital realms we have not yet imagined.","PeriodicalId":45677,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Inquiry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49535809","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}
Theodoros Kouros, Venetia Papa, M. Ioannou, Vyronas Kapnisis
{"title":"Conspiratorial Narratives on Facebook and Their Historical Contextual Associations: A Case Study from Cyprus","authors":"Theodoros Kouros, Venetia Papa, M. Ioannou, Vyronas Kapnisis","doi":"10.1177/01968599221117235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01968599221117235","url":null,"abstract":"Conspiracy theories and their effects have greatly proliferated during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. As in various countries, so in Cyprus, a mobilization of anti-vaxxers organized mainly through Facebook, violently attacked the largest media group of the island, “Sigma”. Taking into consideration local peculiarities and historical contexts, a qualitative research was conducted on comments posted on Sigma Live's Facebook page, spanning between August 2020 and June 2021.The article illustrates how cultural, political, and historical peculiarities are instrumental in the formation of anti-vax movements, and how conspiracy theorizing in general is inextricably bound to such peculiarities. We demonstrate how new publics in social media platforms may dispute media outlets’ representations through using the official channels of these outlets, highlighting an understudied facet of participatory media. The paper advocates for more context-bound theoretical analyses of conspiracy theorizing, which delve deeper into the meaning-making, interpretative, and discursive practices of conspiracists against media outlets.","PeriodicalId":45677,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Inquiry","volume":"47 1","pages":"422 - 439"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43894797","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":"“If You Were a Horse, You Would Have Been Shot”: A Thematic Analysis of Medical Professionals’ Communication with Mothers","authors":"D. Milman, Miglena M. Sternadori","doi":"10.1177/01968599221116389","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01968599221116389","url":null,"abstract":"This study expands the concept of motherhood as a social construction, grounded in Jung’s Great Mother and the Terrible Mother archetypes, to the context of medical communications. By analyzing 254 mothers’ responses to an online survey, we determined the primary themes in their recollections of medical professionals’ communications identified by the participants as having affected their sense of stress related to “good mother” norms. Some of the statements recalled by participants enforced socially constructed norms; others challenged the normativity of intensive mothering or encouraged mothers to parent on their own terms. The findings reinforce the notion that a mother's perceived failure to rise to the standards of a “good mother,” and the resulting guilt and shame, are part of an ever-evolving normative system that is frequently, though unwittingly, upheld by those it oppresses.","PeriodicalId":45677,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Inquiry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45534166","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":"McLuhan Plays Golf: Optimizing Technology to Make Golf More Accessible, Affordable, and Sustainable","authors":"Noah Franken","doi":"10.1177/01968599221112112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01968599221112112","url":null,"abstract":"Golf is a global game that is dominated by technology. Even in times of economic hardship, golfers flock to golf courses around the world, and the golf industry continues to churn out advancements in golf technology with the promise of making players better and the game more enjoyable. Nonetheless, golf has its barriers and challenges. For example, it is a game that is exclusive, expensive, requires a lot of time, and puts a strain on the environment. Grounded in Media Ecology Theory, this article examines the relationship between golf and technology by taking a McLuhanesque trip to the world of TopGolf, the popular chain of electronic driving range entertainment centers, and arguing that TopGolf demonstrates one way in which technology is being used to make the game more accessible, affordable, and sustainable.","PeriodicalId":45677,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Inquiry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44479891","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":"Book Review: Locked out: Regional Restrictions in Digital Entertainment Culture by Evan Elkins","authors":"Ryan Stoldt","doi":"10.1177/01968599221111103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01968599221111103","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45677,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Inquiry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49194801","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":"Lilleker, D. G., Coman, I. Miloš, G., & Novelli, E. (Eds.), Political communication and covid-19: Governance and rhetoric in times of crisis","authors":"K. Biddle","doi":"10.1177/01968599211054392","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01968599211054392","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45677,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Inquiry","volume":"46 1","pages":"316 - 318"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65202041","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":"Rebecca L. Stein, Screen Shots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine","authors":"Mehrnaz Khanjani","doi":"10.1177/01968599221105097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01968599221105097","url":null,"abstract":"Screen Shots by Rebecca L. Stein is a book about political dreams and their breakdowns tied to digital photography in the fi rst two decades of the twenty- fi rst century. By con-ducting interviews and ethnographic observations, Stein shows how those dreams were shaped in the hands of various and opposite groups and how they were broken down by various obstacles in the way of those dreams. This book is about the story of dreams ’ failures for various groups from Palestinian video activists to the Israeli military. Palestinian video activists and human rights workers failed when the results were more restrictions, repressive military policy, and an endless cycle of violence with different audiences ’ framing from what they expected. The Israeli military failed since their pho-tographs faced a narratively stronger opponent whose pain was a reminder of colonial times. This book is a must-read for scholars of political and international communication interested in the dialectic of media and political dreams. While this book indicates we are moving forward in the pursuit of social justice with widespread media devices, it also shows that there are no political guarantees for winning the reality. The fi rst chapter of the book is about the memories of two Israeli soldiers, Noam and Eitan, who served in the West Bank in the waning years of the second Palestinian uprising and brutal military crackdown. One of them photographed for personal ends and the other served as his unit ’ s of fi cial camera operator. Later, both of them became the founding members of the Israeli anti-occupation NGO, Breaking the Silence. This NGO was founded by former Israeli combatants who were radicalized by the brutality military service. This chapter shows how these soldiers were changed during their service only regarding their photography also regarding the that recruited Years later, soldiers gured","PeriodicalId":45677,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Inquiry","volume":"47 1","pages":"115 - 117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42704317","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}