{"title":"Deciding What's True: The Rise of Political Fact-Checking in American Journalism","authors":"David Greenberg","doi":"10.1111/jcom.12329","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jcom.12329","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48410,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication","volume":"67 6","pages":"E1-E3"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2017-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/jcom.12329","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73301959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Communication, Social Movements, and Collective Action: Toward a New Research Agenda in Communication for Development and Social Change","authors":"Rafael Obregón, Thomas Tufte","doi":"10.1111/jcom.12332","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jcom.12332","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The growing emphasis on collective action raises new questions for research and practice in communication for development and social change. What actors drive processes of collective action? What are the communication features of their interventions? What type of social change processes do they enhance? What evidence demonstrates the impact of collective action processes? What theoretical frameworks inform our understanding of collective action and social change? What is the role of communication scholarship in this context? In this article, we address these questions, review the contexts of contemporary transformation and key debates in communication for development and social change, and propose a research agenda for an interdisciplinary field of inquiry.</p>","PeriodicalId":48410,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication","volume":"67 5","pages":"635-645"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2017-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/jcom.12332","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77124781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Presidential Communication About Marginalized Groups: Applying a New Analytic Framework in the Context of the LGBT Community","authors":"Kevin Coe, Robert J. Bruce, Chelsea L. Ratcliff","doi":"10.1111/jcom.12335","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jcom.12335","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Scholars have long observed that presidential communication about a marginalized group can help shape that group's reality. Yet most analyses of such communication focus on a relatively small number of texts, making it difficult to identify important changes over time and analyze factors that might explain those changes. The present study proposes an analytic framework that specifies 4 measurable parameters of presidential communication about marginalized groups, as well as 4 explanatory factors. We use this framework to analyze the census of presidents' formal communications about the LGBT community. Results highlight presidents' limited communicative engagement with the LGBT community and the roles that political party, rhetorical context, public opinion, and sociocultural touchstones play in explaining presidential communication about this important group.</p>","PeriodicalId":48410,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication","volume":"67 6","pages":"851-873"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2017-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/jcom.12335","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75223135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Katherine R. Dale, Arthur A. Raney, Sophie H. Janicke, Meghan S. Sanders, Mary Beth Oliver
{"title":"YouTube for Good: A Content Analysis and Examination of Elicitors of Self-Transcendent Media","authors":"Katherine R. Dale, Arthur A. Raney, Sophie H. Janicke, Meghan S. Sanders, Mary Beth Oliver","doi":"10.1111/jcom.12333","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jcom.12333","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Despite the increased attention to eudaimonic media experiences, to date scholars have paid little attention to the specific portrayals responsible for those experiences. Study 1 of this project reports the first systematic content analysis of self-transcendent media—a particular type of eudaimonic media—using a sample of 100 “inspirational” YouTube videos. The presence of 20 specific elicitors associated with self-transcendent emotions was examined and reported. In Study 2, respondents provided real-time self-transcendent emotional reactions while viewing 3 “inspirational” videos. As expected, ratings significantly increased immediately following exposure to each specific elicitor. Thus, this project reports the first empirical evidence directly linking specific representations to content identified as “inspirational” and directly linking those representations to self-transcendent emotional reactions.</p>","PeriodicalId":48410,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication","volume":"67 6","pages":"897-919"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2017-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/jcom.12333","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76921157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest","authors":"Molly Sauter","doi":"10.1111/jcom.12331","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jcom.12331","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48410,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication","volume":"67 6","pages":"E4-E6"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2017-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/jcom.12331","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83644366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom","authors":"Kent Alan Ono","doi":"10.1111/jcom.12330","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jcom.12330","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48410,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication","volume":"67 5","pages":"E9-E11"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2017-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/jcom.12330","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89194476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wild Public Networks and Affective Movements in China: Environmental Activism, Social Media, and Protest in Maoming","authors":"Elizabeth Brunner","doi":"10.1111/jcom.12323","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jcom.12323","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the following essay, I offer and explain the concept of <i>wild public networks</i> as a tool for social movement scholars interested in taking a network approach to contemporary protests via poststructuralism. <i>Wild public networks</i> offer scholars a means of approaching social movements that moves past binaries to productively incorporate affect. In so doing, the concept of <i>wild public networks</i> advances an ontological shift for social movement scholars that also alters <i>what</i> we examine and <i>how. Wild public networks</i> consider how the movement of the social can be witnessed in changes to relationships between actants and the configurations of networks. To explicate this new concept, I turn to contemporary environmental protests in Maoming, China.</p>","PeriodicalId":48410,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication","volume":"67 5","pages":"665-677"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2017-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/jcom.12323","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77189323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Toward an Interaction-Centered Approach to Media Events: Mediated Public Intimacy on the Reality TV Show Big Brother","authors":"Danny Kaplan, Yoni Kupper","doi":"10.1111/jcom.12322","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jcom.12322","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Scholarship on media events has rarely considered how interpersonal interactions between participants mobilize collective feelings of solidarity. Drawing on a study of <i>Big Brother Israel</i>, we demonstrate how several structural-interactional features of the show encourage viewers to shift from a position of bystanders to one of confidants and companions of the contestants. We analyze this shift through the lens of mediated “public intimacy”—the staging of exclusive interactions in front of a third party. The emergent sense of collective complicity affects everyday interactions between viewers and public discourse on social media. We conclude that beyond the public staging of self, it is the staging and concretization of social relations in media events that serves to reaffirm the collective's solidarity.</p>","PeriodicalId":48410,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication","volume":"67 5","pages":"758-780"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2017-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/jcom.12322","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74948872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}