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Communication, Culture & Critique
Volume 1(4), 2008

 
CONTENTS
 
Abah, Adedayo Ladigbolu One step forward, two steps backward: African women in Nigerian video-film 335-357
 
  The nearly $300 million a year Nollywood culture industry in Nigeria has become transnational in its access to African audiences all over the world 
 
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africa
critical theory
film
gender
interpersonal
 
 
Cammaerts, Bart Critiques on the participatory potentials of Web 2.0 358-377
 
  The Web log or blog is a recent and relatively popular phenomenon which is deemed to have the potential to promote citizen participation in the media, and in particular in the production of (critical) media content by 'netizens' 
 
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democracy
computer
technologies
 
 
Harrison, Simon J., Todd, Zazie, and Lawton, Rebecca Talk about terrorism and the media: Communicating with the conduit metaphor 378-395
 
  The conduit metaphor is the primary expression of linguistic communication in our culture (M 
 
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language
metaphor
theory
conversation
rhetoric
 
 
Jensen, Robin E. Sexual polysemy: The discursive ground of talk about sex and education in U.S. history 396-415
 
  Communication researchers from a range of methodological backgrounds are studying the relationship between communication and sexual health 
 
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health
history
semiotic theory
 
 
Steeves, H. Leslie Commodifying Africa on U.S. network reality television 416-446
 
  Drawing on postcolonial studies, hegemony theory, Marxian commodification, and previous critiques of Africa's portrayal in colonial narratives, Western news, and tourism advertising, this qualitative study examines Africa's representation through January 2008 on three U.S. network reality television programs: the CBS hits Survivor and The Amazing Race and the FOX talent contest American Idol in its "Idol Gives Back" fundraiser 
 
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critical theory
intercultural
television
broadcasting and media
international development