Journal of International and Intercultural Communication最新文献

{"title":"Best of both worlds or refusal to comply? The rich kids of Tehran on Instagram","authors":"L. P. Partain","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2019.1611905","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2019.1611905","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article offers a textual analysis and semiotic reading of the Rich Kids of Tehran's (RKOT’s) Instagram page. Contributing to scholarship on Iranian youth media practices, this article interrogates how the RKOT navigate urban and rural space to engage in everyday processes of resistance against global and local systemic oppression. Grounding their visual representations on Instagram in historical and cultural context, the author questions how and when quotidian actions are transformed into political transgressions when posted on social media. This article emphasizes the RKOT's agency in shaping their brand by analyzing representations of gender performance, intertextuality, and national identity on Instagram.","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":"8 1","pages":"216 - 237"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76318023","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":"Virtual exchanges for intercultural communication development: Using can-do statements for ICC self-assessment","authors":"Chesla Ann Lenkaitis","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2020.1784983","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2020.1784983","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In a 6-week synchronous virtual exchange, 106 participants self-assessed themselves on proficiency benchmarks and performance indicators before and after the exchange by answering open-ended questions and utilizing Can-Do Statements for Intercultural Communication (NCSSFL-ACTFL. 2017a. NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do statements proficiency benchmarks. https://www.actfl.org/sites/default/files/CanDos/Intercultural%20Can-Do_Statements.pdf ). This study laid groundwork for the NCSSFL-ACTFL (2017a. NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do statements proficiency benchmarks. https://www.actfl.org/sites/default/files/CanDos/Intercultural%20Can-Do_Statements.pdf ) Can-Do Statements as this was the first study to utilize them for intercultural communication. Qualitative data showed how this exchange promoted twenty-first-century Skills for today’s learner (Partnership for 21st Century Skills. 2011. 21st century skills map. Washington, DC. https://www.actfl.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/21stCenturySkillsMap/p21_worldlanguagesmap.pdf ) while quantitative results showed significant average differences between pre- and post-surveys for 7 of the 10 Can-Do categories.","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":"28 1","pages":"258 - 274"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85297479","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":"In principle or in practice? Investigation of Japanese university students’ perceptions and attitudes toward multiculturalism in Japan","authors":"E. Stockwell","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2020.1772343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2020.1772343","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study aims to understand the perceptions and attitudes of Japanese young people toward multiculturalism and immigrants in Japan. Different variables such as the perceived threat from the influx of immigrants and the degree of national identity and pride were measured and analyzed. How these variables affect perceptions of and attitudes toward multiculturalism and immigrants were also explored. The study was conducted in three universities in Tokyo and the main sample comprised 332 Japanese students who had no migration background. According to the results, Japanese students showed very divergent attitudes toward cultural diversity, equality, and equal opportunity in multiculturalism.","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":"Suppl 1","pages":"164 - 183"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86411800","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":"Bt cotton and the voices of the widows in the face of farmer-suicides","authors":"Ashwini Falnikar, M. Dutta","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2020.1764611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2020.1764611","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article deploys the culture-centered approach to foreground the everyday constructions of farmer-suicides amid the agrarian epidemic among the farmer-widows to attend to the everyday structures that constitute the meanings of the suicides. The depictions of the patriarchal structures of decision-making in agriculture are intertwined with the broader erasure of the interplays of inequality in farmers’ experiences from the discursive sites of neoliberal agriculture. Furthermore, the voices of the widows disrupt the monolithic construction of agricultural technologies as tools of modernization and progress dominant in the development communication scholarship, instead, depicting the ways in which new technologies (such as Bt cotton) are constituted within, and reproduce, the overarching inequalities.","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":"129 1","pages":"95 - 111"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86502533","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":"A thematic analysis of international teaching assistants’ stigma experience in a U.S. university: English-proficiency determinism","authors":"Yi Zhu, M. Bresnahan","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2020.1762110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2020.1762110","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The current study adopted a thematic-analysis approach to investigate 14 international teaching assistants’ (ITAs) stigma experience in a U.S. university. Link and Phelan’s (2001. Conceptualizing stigma. Annual Review of Sociology, 27(1), 363–385) model of four components of stigma is adopted in this article to analyze how these ITAs experienced labeling, stereotypes, separation, and status loss-discrimination. The findings suggested that some ITAs experienced stigma from domestic students, their supervisors, their departments, and even themselves. Such stigma experiences result in English-proficiency determinism that overgeneralizes ITAs’ expertise and learning-teaching experiences based on English proficiency levels alone. The practical implications for improving ITAs’ communication experiences are discussed in the paper.","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":"5 1","pages":"146 - 163"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91354043","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":"Urban upheavals as practices of new sexual ethics: “Kiss of Love” movement in India","authors":"T. T. Sreekumar","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2020.1760918","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2020.1760918","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The paper probes the historical and cultural-utopian rationale behind the wide acceptability of “Kiss of Love” (KoL) movement in India that sprang up during 2015 and assesses its theoretical significance as a heterotopic social movement. Heterotopia embodies tensions between place and non-place in public spaces. In the Indian context, streets have been places of extreme social segregation in terms of caste, gender and sexuality. Heterotopia does not mark “liberation” or “confinement,” but produces sites porous with openings so that the possibilities of alternate lives remain open. In this reconstitution of public spaces for resistance, “a passion for improvisation” articulates acts of resistance in the mediated environments of post-civil society social movements that remain absorbent, always in flux, always contested and never predetermined.","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":"40 1","pages":"112 - 127"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82260469","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":"“Good job, but Bulgarian”: Identifying “Bulgarian-ness” through cultural discourse analysis","authors":"Nadezhda Sotirova","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2020.1760919","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2020.1760919","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT By using cultural discourse analysis and ethnography, naturally occurring talk and interviews were examined for local constructions of “Bulgarian-ness” in order to formulate explicit and implicit cultural propositions about being “Bulgarian,” and cultural premises about being (“Bulgarian-ness” as problematic) and emotion (anger, frustration) as connected. This article illustrates the notion of the phrase as a local cultural symbol within Bulgarian discourse that evokes deep cultural meanings for a way of being (“Bulgarian-ness” and the West/East dichotomy), emotions (frustration, hopelessness), and a social world (the “Bulgarian situation”) as continuously negotiated in relation to conceptualizations of “Balkanism.”","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":"27 1","pages":"128 - 145"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87005040","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 invitations and possibilities","authors":"B. Calafell","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2020.1748881","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2020.1748881","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":"104 1","pages":"1 - 2"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79528832","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 subcontinent speaks: Intercultural communication perspectives from/on South Asia","authors":"S. Sastry, Srividya Ramasubramanian","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2020.1745440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2020.1745440","url":null,"abstract":"That this special issue has seen the light of day is primarily due to the vision of Todd Sandel, the outgoing editor of the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, who readily identified the relative lack of visibility of South Asia focused intercultural communication research, suggested a special issue, and offered us total editorial discretion over the details. Thanks are also due, in equal part, to the many colleagues and peers who reviewed the articles that comprised this issue. We are proud to have had the opportunity to edit this special issue focused on intercultural research from/on South Asia. In the call for papers for this issue, we asked potential contributors to “showcase the multiple, contested and conflicting understandings around culture, identity, and power that inhabit the South Asian context.” One of our primary goals for this special issue is complicating and broadening the academic discourse on South Asia. This was a primary objective in selecting the articles that comprise this issue. As we explain below, the six articles respond to this call in important and intersecting ways. If critical intercultural studies in Communication refers to a set of practices that explore how “power, context, socio-economic relations, and historical/structural forces [constitute] and shape culture and intercultural encounters, relationships and contexts” (Halualani & Nakayama, 2013, p. 2), then the broad rationale of this issue is to crystallize these practices within the South Asian context. The point, of course, is not to engender some sort of fundamental South Asian exceptionalism, but to contemplate on how the abovementioned set of practices are manifest within that region. Here, we recognize that we stand on the shoulders of scholars before us – this move to de-parochialize the “inter” in intercultural communication has a long and storied history, and we recognize the work of the many scholars in our discipline that have allowed for the articulation of what we are attempting here. But first, a bit of context on terminology – the terms “Indian subcontinent” (or simply, “subcontinent”) and “South Asia” are often used interchangeably to refer to the region that corresponds to the nation-states of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. However, the difference between the terms is worth pause – the Indian subcontinent is primarily a geological term (referencing the peninsula created from the collision between Indian and Asian tectonic plates in the Cenozoic era), while South Asia is used in a political sense to refer to the contemporary nationstates that comprise the region and the relationships among them – consider the multilateral South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, or SAARC, as an exemplar for this","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":"43 1","pages":"93 - 97"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79081278","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":"Anti-media populism: Expressions of media distrust by right-wing media in India","authors":"P. Bhat, Kalyani Chadha","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2020.1739320","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2020.1739320","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Criticism of mainstream media as being “biased” has emerged as a defining characteristic of right-wing discourse all over the world. Such expressions are coupled with the establishment of right-wing news outlets that seek to undermine professional journalism. But while scholars have examined the operation of such outlets in the context of Western democracies, anti-media populism in the Global South has received little scholarly attention. Through a thematic analysis of articles published on OpIndia.com- a right-wing news site in India, this paper seeks to address this gap in the literature and identify the discursive strategies employed by the right-wing media to discredit the mainstream press in India.","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":"96 1","pages":"166 - 182"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73855853","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}