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{"title":"Exploring Transcultural Communication via Perceived Social Distance and Intergroup Acceptance toward K-Pop and Asian Culture","authors":"Carolyn A. Lin, Suji Park, Xiaowen Xu, Yukyung Yang","doi":"10.1080/10646175.2023.2274101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10646175.2023.2274101","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45915,"journal":{"name":"Howard Journal of Communications","volume":"48 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135871392","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":"Facilitated Contact: Building the Container for Interracial Conversations about Race","authors":"Devon Geary, Valerie Manusov","doi":"10.1080/10646175.2023.2274939","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10646175.2023.2274939","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45915,"journal":{"name":"Howard Journal of Communications","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136103709","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":"<i>Men Sharea El Haram</i> : The Ethics of Masculinity and its Vernacular discourse in Kuwaiti Television","authors":"Haneen Shafeeq Ghabra","doi":"10.1080/10646175.2023.2274921","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10646175.2023.2274921","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThis paper provides a cultural analysis of the popular Kuwaiti TV series Men Sharea El Haram (translated as From Haram Street). Combining religion, class, race, nationality, and patriarchy, Haram Street showcases pertinent issues that today’s Kuwaiti society has to face. Attending to the scarcity of previous research on vernacular communities and their salient concerns, this paper explores the following research questions: How does Men Sharea El Haram capture the intersecting nature of women’s resistance? What does a feminist Kuwaiti vernacular look like, and how does it intersect with privilege?The analysis outlines how Men Sharea El Haram touches upon several silenced themes in the conservative Kuwaiti society of Kuwait, showing the many and varied ways in which Kuwaiti women are oppressed and showcasing the ways in which women can—and do—resist. Together, the findings provide a deeper understanding of several central issues in Kuwaiti society, especially around masculinity.Keywords: feminismintersectionalityKuwaitmasculinityMiddle Eastpatriarchyvernacular discourse Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Notes1 The hegemonic dimensions of the Men Sharea El Haram series, which are duly acknowledged here, are however beyond of the scope of this paper.2 While I invested much effort into conveying the meaning in English as close to the Arabic original as possible, I am aware of the risks associated with translation and have translated the script as accurately as possible without losing the meaning.","PeriodicalId":45915,"journal":{"name":"Howard Journal of Communications","volume":"61 8","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136068273","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":"COVID-19 Frames the News: An Examination of Race and Pandemic Frames in Newspaper Coverage","authors":"Monica L. Ponder, Salima Kasymova, Loren Saxton Coleman, Jasmin M. Goodman, Christin Smith","doi":"10.1080/10646175.2023.2263737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10646175.2023.2263737","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45915,"journal":{"name":"Howard Journal of Communications","volume":"33 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136157083","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":"Creativity or Objectification Women? Readings of Selected Mambo’s Chicken Adverts","authors":"Rutendo Mpariwa, Payidamoyo Nyoka","doi":"10.1080/10646175.2023.2263751","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10646175.2023.2263751","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThis study explores whether Mambo’s Chicken advertisements objectify women or not. Guided by the Magic Meaning theory in advertising, the study explores the discourses that emanate from Mambo’s Chicken’s advertisements’ portrayal of women. Methodologically, this study is qualitative. Data was collected using digital archival research and analyzed using Mazid’s approach to Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). The study establishes that indeed, Mambo’s Chicken ads are sexist and objectify women. While Mambo’s Chicken ads exude creativity based on trending issues and scandals, Mambo’s Chicken creates gender stereotypes that objectify women. The thigh (sex) and yellow bone discourses portray women as sex toys born and bred solely for men’s pleasure.KEYTERMS: Fast food outletsgenderMambo’s Chickenobjectification Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThe authors received no direct funding for this research.","PeriodicalId":45915,"journal":{"name":"Howard Journal of Communications","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135884571","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":"Til Death Do Us Part: Kendrick Lamar, “The Heart Part 5,” and Black Male Vulnerability","authors":"Damariyé L. Smith, Nicholas B. Lacy","doi":"10.1080/10646175.2023.2264218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10646175.2023.2264218","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractHip-Hop continues to be one of the most influential music genres in the modern era. Such impact necessitates scholars to engage in Hip-Hop discourses to comprehend its power in shaping and understanding various individuals’ experiences, attitudes, values, and beliefs. To that end, this essay explores the rhetoric of Black male vulnerability as it is expressed in Hip-Hop by Black male artists. We contend that studying the rhetoric of Black male vulnerability articulated by Hip-Hop artists assists in better understanding the realities and sensibilities of Black men and boys, one of the most vulnerable populations. To accomplish this task, we analyze Kendrick Lamar’s “the Heart Part 5” to explore how he constructs a rhetorical definition of Black male vulnerability. Our analysis asserts that Lamar recognizes the vulnerabilities of Black males through lyrically conveying their relationship to emotional suffering and death, oxymoronic peer networks, and illuminating Black males’ varied reactions to trauma. We conclude that attending to the vulnerabilities of Black males as articulated in Hip-Hop propels scholars to move beyond understanding Black males as deviant, toxic, and the racialized counterparts of white males. Such a nuanced understanding of Black male culture may improve their life chances in a white supremacist society.KEYTERMS: Black male studiesBlack male vulnerabilityHip-Hop rhetoricKendrick Lamar Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s)Notes1 In postcolonial and anti-racist engagement, this study uses a lowercase “w” when referring to white individuals and capitalizes Black when referring to Black individuals to combat historical writing conventions that perpetuate white supremacy (see Bauder, Citation2020; Lanham & Liu, Citation2019).","PeriodicalId":45915,"journal":{"name":"Howard Journal of Communications","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136142927","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":"Creating a Place in Middle America: How Spanish-Language Local News Serves the Hispanic Community","authors":"Margarita H. Tapia, Chris Anderson, Jill A. Edy","doi":"10.1080/10646175.2023.2265857","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10646175.2023.2265857","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractA fraction of Hispanic people in the U.S. uses Spanish-language news because a language barrier prevents them using English-language news. Functional theory suggests ethnic media serve ethnic community needs ignored by mainstream media. Research on how Spanish-language news serves U.S. Hispanic communities and differs from English-language news typically studies large, politically liberal cities with large Hispanic populations, neglecting Hispanic people living elsewhere. Content analysis of local newscasts to assess differences between network-affiliated, English-language television stations and the Telemundo affiliate serving a mid-sized, midwestern, politically conservative market addresses these limitations. An analytic framework derived from functional theory categorizes community needs as informational and representational. Results show significantly different agendas between Spanish- and English-language news. Spanish-language news airs more human interest and government stories and fewer crime stories. It addresses unique informational needs, helping orient newcomers and airing government stories that sustain ties to Spanish-speaking countries. Regarding representation, results show Hispanic people are invisible to a greater extent than they are negatively portrayed in English-language news. Thus, Spanish-language local television news serves the Hispanic community by making it visible to itself. However, Spanish-language news focuses on the Hispanic community rather than being a general news source, supplementing rather than substituting for English-language news.Keywords: Ethnic mediafunctional theorylocal newsminority representationSpanish-language newstelevision news AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to thank Joseph Trujillo Falcón and David Candy for their help with data collection and coding. They would like to thank Patrick C. Meirick for his help with data analysis.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).","PeriodicalId":45915,"journal":{"name":"Howard Journal of Communications","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135918132","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":"Using Cultural Variance Framework to Promote Vaccine Confidence among African Americans: A Qualitative Content Analysis of “We Can Do This” COVID-19 Vaccine Campaign","authors":"Sean J. Upshaw, Olga Idriss Davis, Brad Love, Shoaa Almalki","doi":"10.1080/10646175.2023.2263211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10646175.2023.2263211","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThe study examines ways the cultural variance framework (CVF) enhances vaccine confidence messaging among African American healthcare consumers concerning coronavirus. The main emphasis lies in the “We Can Do This” campaign, which employs CVF to develop tailored social media, advertising, and televised commercials to actively involve African Americans and advocate for the advantages of the coronavirus vaccine. This qualitative study seeks to fill a gap in health communication literature by investigating how CVF, as a sub-feature of audience-centered messaging, engages with African Americans, encouraging their active engagement in vaccine participation. The findings reveal that contextual specificity, cultural identity, and characteristic features of the CVF play a significant role in fostering vaccine confidence among African Americans using culturally tailored messaging. The study explicates conceptual implications for future interventions prioritizing African Americans regarding health disparities.KEYTERMS: African AmericanCOVID-19cultural variance frameworkhealth communicationvaccine confidence Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 African American refers to persons with Sub-Saharan African ancestral origins with Brown or Black complexion. The term Black or African Americans’ signifies a geographical origin of African descent with attempts to describe a cultural group (Agyemang et al., Citation2005).2 COVID-19 vaccination data may differ upon the presentation of new data as the pandemic continues at the time of manuscript development.3 Health disparity refers as a health difference, based on one or more health outcomes characterized by a pattern of poorer health outcomes, indicated by the overall rate of disease incidence, prevalence, morbidity, mortality, or survival in the population as compared to the health status of the general population (Danka-Mullan et al., Citation2021).Additional informationFundingThe authors declare that no funds, grants, or other support were received during the preparation of this manuscript.","PeriodicalId":45915,"journal":{"name":"Howard Journal of Communications","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135854779","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":"Toward an African Media Typology: Preliminary Reflections","authors":"Levi Obonyo","doi":"10.1080/10646175.2023.2264231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10646175.2023.2264231","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractAfricans’ voices and contributions to communication scholarship are of interest to many Africanists. Some discourses have explored reasons for this interest. This article continues this conversation. It recognizes the challenges contributing to the limited influence of the African voice in global communication scholarship and contributes to the theorizing of the African media. There are a range of factors impeding robust African engagement in global communication scholarship. These factors are explored in this paper. However, African scholars should look beyond these factors. The first part of the article explores reasons for the lack of active African input in this discussion. The second part of the paper explores the peculiarities of Africa that should form building blocks for the emergence of African media typologies. The extant normative media theories fail to consider the realities of African governance structures and philosophies. These should lead to a media framework more reflective of the realities of Africa. Indeed, the article proposes a conversation of four media typologies that closely match the continental conditions: pragmatic authoritarianism, pragmatic progressive, pragmatic libertarianism, and civil society.KEYTERMS: African mediaAfrican theoriesAfrican valuesAfrocentricitymedia typologiesubuntu Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).","PeriodicalId":45915,"journal":{"name":"Howard Journal of Communications","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135197624","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":"Exploring and Navigating the Chasm: The Incompatibility of Western Gatekeeping Theory with Akwa-Cross Akata Indigenous Media","authors":"Unwana Samuel Akpan","doi":"10.1080/10646175.2023.2264227","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10646175.2023.2264227","url":null,"abstract":"The global practice of journalism which is a Western conception stipulates that any media content meant for public consumption must go through the process of ‘Gatekeeping’ by ‘Gatekeepers’ before it is featured on any media channel. This quality assurance process ensures that media contents that could insult public sensibilities and unfit for public consumption are sorted out and discarded. Ironically, it is believed that this principle applies globally across media terrains. The Akata indigenous media, of the Akwa-Cross (Akwa Ibom and Cross River States) rural communities does not have ‘Gatekeepers’ who ensure that the quality of information churned out is fit for public consumption, free of legal issues and defamation. This study basically examines the sharp contrast, the incompatibility and unsuitability of the Western theoretical concept of Gatekeeping with the traditional African ‘Akata’ masquerade which serves as the traditional media for West African natives (Akwa Ibom and Cross River States communities in Nigeria). A qualitative methodology using focus group discussion as the procedure to elicit data from members of the Akata masquerade was used in this study. To ascertain the contextual relevance and significance of this cult, several Afrocentric theories were employed to examine the phenomenon.","PeriodicalId":45915,"journal":{"name":"Howard Journal of Communications","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135591790","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}