Critical Studies in Media Communication最新文献

{"title":"Rebirthing a nation: White women, identity politics, and the internet","authors":"Cecilia Salomone","doi":"10.1080/15295036.2023.2225580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15295036.2023.2225580","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47123,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Media Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73625944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mediating Maggie: Margaret Thatcher, leadership, and gender in The Iron Lady and The Crown","authors":"Leland G. Spencer, Timothy S. Forest","doi":"10.1080/15295036.2023.2229898","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15295036.2023.2229898","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Political women who lead with firmness get castigated as heartless. Margaret Thatcher represents that stereotype, most concisely captured in the sobriquet “Iron Lady.” We argue that the film The Iron Lady and the Netflix series The Crown offer versions of Thatcher that critique Thatcher’s supposed failures of femininity. Rather than centering their framing of Thatcher on the harms of her policies, these texts excoriate her for her parenting and her inappropriately masculine style. We conclude by asking how we might remember public figures in ways that offer critical analyses of policies without resorting to sexist tropes.","PeriodicalId":47123,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Media Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81167985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Understanding transnational decontextualization-recontextualization through Shingeki no Kyojin: The perils and possibilities surrounding Japanese manga and anime","authors":"F. Montgomery, Megu Itoh","doi":"10.1080/15295036.2023.2228390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15295036.2023.2228390","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Japanese anime has continued to gain recognition as one of the strongest cultural influences in a globalized world. We examine how the transnational process of decontextualization-recontextualization can shift the messages of popular culture texts as situated in differing collective memories. To highlight this process, we analyze Shingeki no Kyojin (known to English-speaking audiences as Attack on Titan). Shingeki no Kyojin provides insightful grounds for analysis given its tremendous popularity in both Japan and beyond, its message of resistance against U.S. militarism, and its recontextualized uptake by the American alt-right, even including an Arizona congressman. Our analysis reveals the importance of understanding popular culture alongside context and the impact of decontextualized-recontextualized transformations of meaning on transnational processes of collective memory discourse.","PeriodicalId":47123,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Media Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85029628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Peace journalism in East Africa: A manual for media practitioners","authors":"Gao Jingquan","doi":"10.1080/15295036.2023.2225572","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15295036.2023.2225572","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47123,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Media Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76804077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Quare vernacular discourse: vulnerability, mentorship, and coming out on YouTube","authors":"K. J. Rudrow","doi":"10.1080/15295036.2023.2229418","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15295036.2023.2229418","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay argues that coming out narratives shared by Black queer youth on YouTube can be understood as a quare vernacular discourse that captures their rhetorical moves, illuminates their material realities, and participates in Black queer worldmaking. Recognizing that much remains uncharted about how Black queer youth use social media, I extend quare vernacular discourse to examine the material intersections of race and sexuality, and expand quare theory to include these otherwise hidden rhetorics. First, I work from 27 coming out narratives on YouTube to argue that narrators use their stories to articulate how they navigate quare material vulnerability. Second, I contend that narrators’ quare vernacular discourse illuminates how Black queer boys and young men are motivated to share their stories, helping to sustain a quare vernacular community. Expanding quare possibilities and adding to an online communal knowledge pool, narrators, much like mentors, use their stories to guide vulnerable Black queer youth who may have few role models or no support structures.","PeriodicalId":47123,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Media Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80704487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Caster Semenya as a “can-do” hero for “at-risk” girls: analyzing Nike’s neoliberal postfeminist advertisements","authors":"Anna Posbergh, Samuel M. Clevenger, Caitlin E. Kane","doi":"10.1080/15295036.2023.2228382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15295036.2023.2228382","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT To solidify itself as a socially progressive global brand, the U.S.-based sports apparel corporation Nike produces and distributes advertisements featuring women from around the world as empowered, independently motivated athletes, capable of transcending all boundaries through their pursuit of athletic excellence. Some advertisements feature celebrity non-Western athletes such as South African track and field star Caster Semenya as part of an overall marketing message founded on the purportedly universal ideal of “girl power.” This article argues that Nike’s global pro-women advertising can be understood as a Western-centric, neoliberal, postfeminist branding strategy that reinforces existing social inequalities and reproduces the economic exploitation endemic to contemporary capitalism. The article analyzes three of Nike’s advertisements from 2018 featuring Caster Semenya, focusing on how each universalize and normalize particularly Western, neoliberal, postfeminist ideals. Attention is given to the advertisements’ reliance on the specific neoliberal postfeminist themes of individual empowerment and Western-centered gender norms.","PeriodicalId":47123,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Media Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73036968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The COVID-19 pandemic as a challenge for media and communication studies","authors":"Guodong Jiang, Mengyuan Zhu","doi":"10.1080/15295036.2023.2229424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15295036.2023.2229424","url":null,"abstract":"and conflict reduction. Based on the continuous popularization of network technology, modern media has become a powerful tool for creating peace. Peace journalists should also pay attention to the discursive power of mainstream media. Ogenga discusses the lack of public discourse in the mainstream print media in Kenya, the original intention of which was to reduce conflicts. In practice, however, it often brings about a surge in confrontation (Chapter 4). The book introduces the case of using the media to intervene in the conflict in Abakuria in Kenya to acknowledge that the media can both achieve peace and provoke conflict. Establishing media that can respond rapidly to changing conditions is often the best practice for media frameworks (Chapter 5). But there are still some problems with the attainment of the ideal of peace journalism beyond those addressed in this book. First, the realization of peace journalism relies on journalists with good morality and peaceful inclinations. It is difficult for journalists to achieve both objective and fair reporting, and the responsibility to speak out for vulnerable people. At the same time, the government or both sides in a conflict will often mobilize powerful media forces to suppress the community influence of peace journalism and to reduce or eliminate its influence on public opinion. Finally, journalists of peace are not necessarily local to conflict areas. If foreign journalists collect media materials in the name of peace journalism, will they be mistrusted and suspected of interfering in the internal politics of high-conflict countries? Human nature, the trade-off of professional ethics, the evaluation of media power, and the avoidance of political and personal risk should be given priority in future research. Only with love for the media profession and ardent desire to resolve conflicts and seek peace can peace journalists truly help the people of East Africa to live peaceful and stable lives.","PeriodicalId":47123,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Media Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83201132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"TV (Object Lessons)","authors":"A. Darrah","doi":"10.1080/15295036.2023.2195480","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15295036.2023.2195480","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47123,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Media Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80662472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Not You Too”: Drake, heartbreak, and the romantic communication of Black male vulnerability","authors":"Damariyé L. Smith","doi":"10.1080/15295036.2023.2204132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15295036.2023.2204132","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Recently, there has been a resurgence of academic interest in the lived experiences of Black males. One way that scholars have approached the field of Black male studies is by examining the susceptibility of Black men and boys in various contexts, commonly referred to as Black male vulnerability. In this essay, I utilize the song “Not You Too” by the Hip-Hop/R&B artist Drake as a case study to explore the ways Black men, through music, may communicate their vulnerability in the context of romantic relationships. Through a rhetorical analysis, I argue that Drake (re)articulates the notion of Black masculinity by communicating his vulnerability through recognition of his struggles of trust, willingness to forgive, and critical reflection of the power dynamics within his romantic relationship. I conclude by asserting that it is vital to study the communicative realities and sensibilities of Black men by engaging in both interpretative and empirical analysis to liberate Black males.","PeriodicalId":47123,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Media Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90417293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Review of Social Media and Hate","authors":"Y. Arifani, Nur Hidayat, Nur Naily, N. Asyik","doi":"10.1080/15295036.2023.2204140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15295036.2023.2204140","url":null,"abstract":"cosmopolitanism and consumerism. The first case study focuses on Alex, a gay Australian nurse in the RTÉ medical drama The Clinic (2003–2009), who is framed as modern, cosmopolitan, and neoliberal. The second case study, crime drama Proof (2004–2005), analyzes two characters on the fringes of the Celtic Tiger economy who, through their portrayal as marginal, challenge stereotypical narratives around gay culture prevalent in The Clinic. In the conclusion, it is argued that LGBTQ activism created much of the media visibility achieved during the successful 2015 same-sex marriage referendum. Respectability and mainstreaming are shown to have been mainstays of the campaign, similar to activist strategies of the 1970s. Kerrigan concludes by calling for more diverse approaches in queer media research and expresses concern that transgender people, bisexuals, and lesbians remain underrepresented in such research. This book is an excellent contribution to the fields of queer studies and media studies and breaks new ground in its sophisticated analysis of LGBTQ visibility in Irish media. Through focusing on the interplay of visibility and normalization, it highlights the tensions surrounding respectability politics and minority representation. Despite the complexity of the theoretical material, the book is very readable and Kerrigan makes masterful use of diverse primary sources. While acknowledging the need to limit the scope of any study, the claim in the title to cover media is somewhat misleading, given that this is a book almost entirely about television, or in fact RTÉ alone. Given that dominance, the decision in Chapter 4 to briefly sidestep into the queer press and independent documentaries (which ended up being shown on RTÉ anyway) is tokenistic. It would have been preferable to present this as a book about RTÉ while providing an overview of other media in the introduction. For instance, the diverse Irish pirate radio scene in the 1980s and licensed community media since the 1990s both provided innovative spaces for queer representation. Similarly, Kerrigan gives no credit to Irish language television channel TG4, which included a gay couple in its soap opera when it launched in 1996. A discussion of such material would enrich the analysis about the reframing of Irish national identity during the Celtic Tiger era broached in Chapter 6.","PeriodicalId":47123,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Media Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79412614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}