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International Journal of Communication

Volume 3(1), 2009


CONTENTS

Berger, Dan	Defining democracy: Coalition politics and the struggle for media reform	3-22

	The corporate consolidation of media has sparked a national bipartisan coalition struggling for media reform

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Snorton, C. Riley	New beginnings: Racing histories, democracy and media reform	23-41

	Elaborating on some of Edward Said's key theories on writing, this paper interrogates the historical periodizations that serve to constitute communication and antecedents of media reform

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Jackson, John L.	Media reform, 2008's presidential election, and the sportification of politics	42-46

	I was supposed to read these two pieces before America's historic election on November 4, 2008

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McChesney, Robert	Understanding the media reform movement	47-53

	When Riley Snorton and Dan Berger asked me to participate in a symposium on the media reform movement, I was delighted to accept

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Themba-Nixon, Makani	Mainstreams and margins: A critical look at the media reform "story"	54-56

	The media reform movement, as it has been dubbed by its chief architects, is a textbook example of the importance of mainstream rhetoric in shaping a politically compelling narrative

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Dahlgren, Peter	Realistic politics, uncomfortable knowledge: Living creatively with dissonance	57-60

	The media reform movement in the U.S. is of great interest to many of us on the other side of the Atlantic; we follow and support it, with a sense of its profound importance for the U S

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Collins, Richard	Trust and trustworthiness in the fourth and fifth estates	61-86

	The high contemporary salience in the social sciences of the topics of "trust" and "trustworthiness" has focused attention on the mass media's putative role in eroding trust

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Ibroscheva, Elza, and Raicheva-Stover, Maria	Development of digital TV in Bulgaria: Opportunities and problems	87-107

	This study aims to provide an in-depth overview of the state of digital conversion in the European Union, using Bulgaria as a case study

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Bolin, Goran, and Westlund, Oscar	Mobile generations: The role of mobile technology in the shaping of Swedish media generations	108-124

	It is often argued that young people are among the first to adopt new media technologies, and that they are especially keen on taking on all new features connected with mobile technology and the Internet

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Sjovaag, Helle, and Moe, Hallvard	From fermentation to maturity? Reflections on media and communication studies. An interview with Todd Gitlin, Jostein Gripsrud & Michael Schudson	130-139

	25 years after the Journal of Communication published a special issue entitled "Ferment in the Field", Professors Todd Gitlin, Michael Schudson and Jostein Gripsrud reflect on the state of the field of media and communications research

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Oyedemi, Toks Dele	Social inequalities and the South African ICT access policy agendas	151-168

	This paper discusses how social disparities and inequalities affect access to ICTs

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Movius, Lauren B., and Krup, Nathalie	U.S. and EU privacy policy: Comparison of regulatory approaches	169-187

	While the Internet can be viewed as a global network of networks, many elements of Internet law remain delineated by sovereign nations, creating the potential for regulatory conflict and spillover

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Meng, Bingchun	Articulating a Chinese commons: An explorative study of creative commons in China	192-207

	In this article, I use the introduction of the Creative Commons approach to China as a lens through which to examine the processes of framing arguments in a way that shape public attitudes

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Crain, Matthew	The rise of private equity media ownership in the United States: A public interest perspective	208-239

	This article examines the logic, scope, and implications of the influx of private equity takeovers in the United States media sector in the last decade

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Park, David W.	Blogging With authority: Strategic positioning in political blogs	250-273

	Blogs have quickly become prominent parts of the Internet landscape

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Smith, Christopher Holmes	Bling Was a bubble	274-276

	For the past decade, the American zeitgeist has been defined by a successive series of asset bubbles that have ranged from property and credit to commodities and emerging market equities

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Kjus, Yngvar	Idolizing and monetizing the public: The production of celebrities and fans, representatives and citizens in reality TV	277-300

	Reality TV has inspired ongoing scholarly analysis of how formerly passive audience members are turned into active participants or even empowered citizens, but the actual encounters between media producers and media participants have been little explored

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Gordon, Nickesia Stacy Ann	Globalization and cultural imperialism in Jamaica: The homogenization of content and Americanization of Jamaican TV through programme modeling	307-331

	There is a great deal of discussion about the globalization of media, particularly television, especially as it is being driven by the spread of satellite technology and cable

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Katz, Yaron	Protecting local culture in a global environment: The case of Israel's broadcast media	332-350

	The research examines the tensions in Israeli broadcasting between the commitment to local culture and the counter-pressures stemming from commercial competition, new technology, and global markets

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Henningsen, David Dryden, Serewicz, Mary Claire Morr, and Carpenter, Christopher	Global and molecular equity as predictors of comforting communication in romantic relationships	351-368

	The ability to provide adequate comforting is valued in close relationships

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Fuchs, Christian	Some theoretical foundations of critical media studies: Reflections on Karl Marx and the media	369-402

	Marshall McLuhan and Jean Baudrillard have claimed that Marx had nothing important to say on media, communication, and culture

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Tenenboim-Weinblatt, Keren	Jester, fake journalist, or the new Walter Lippmann? Recognition processes of Jon Stewart by the U.S. journalistic community	416-439

	How does the journalistic community negotiate its identity, boundaries, and authority in relation to individuals and cultural forms that challenge the definitions of who is a journalist and what constitutes journalism? And how does it do so against the background of a growing academic validation of these alternative news venues? This study focuses on the figure of Jon Stewart, host of Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and on the stages and strategies by which Stewart was embedded into mainstream journalistic discourse, and in which journalists negotiated Stewart's definition, authority, and position vis-a-vis the U.S

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Khamis, Sahar	Multiple meanings, identities, and resistances: Egyptian rural women's readings of televised family planning campaigns	443-490

	This feminist, ethnographic audience study analyzes how different groups of Egyptian rural women struggled to construct and reflect their subjectivities and identities, both as women and mothers, while making meaning of the messages in a televised governmental family planning campaign

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Cottle, Simon	Global crises in the news: Staging new wars, disasters and climate change	494-516

	We live in a world increasingly defined by global crises

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Zhang, Juyan, and Fahmy, Shahira	Color revolutions in colored lenses: A comparative analysis of U.S. and Russian press coverage of political movements in Ukraine, Belarus and Uzbekistan	517-539

	This study compared The New York Times' and The Moscow Times' coverage of the political movements in three former Soviet republics

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Becker, Howard S.	How to find out how to do qualitative research	545-553

	In March 2009, the National Science Foundation issued a report on a conference about qualitative methods (Lamont & White, 2009)

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Hanke, Bob	Reflections on the academic milieu of media studies	551-577

	This essay draws on one of Foucault's lectures to discuss his concept of the "milieu" in order to transport this concept into an analysis of the academic milieu of media studies

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