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Business
Karen Miller Russell
Summary: The qualitative content analysis of 74 novels featuring public relations characters in the United States reveals that the mystery genre does not aim to replicate reality, but rather reflects debates surrounding honesty, confidentiality, and the value of negative publicity. Public relations practitioners are portrayed in various traditional mystery character roles, particularly as sleuths, where their access to information and influential individuals allows them to solve mysteries but also presents moral dilemmas between their clients and the public interest. This study confirms the significance of understanding popular culture representations of public relations within their narrative and generic context, as argued by Fitch (2015).
PUBLIC RELATIONS REVIEW
(2024)
Article
Business
Da-young Kang, Eyun-Jung Ki
Summary: This study examines the relationship cultivation strategies used by organizations in the metaverse using the organization-public relationship approach. It also explores the immersive features of metaverses, both in terms of system and narrative immersion. Through a content analysis of 101 existing metaverses, the study finds that networking, positivity, and assurance are the most commonly used strategies, highlighting the unique advantages of the metaverse. The findings suggest that organizations effectively leverage the immersive properties of the metaverse to establish and cultivate relationships with their publics.
PUBLIC RELATIONS REVIEW
(2024)
Article
Communication
Martin Lundqvist
Summary: This study examines how memes about rioting in present-day Belfast are perceived by their audiences. The research fills a gap in meme studies by exploring audience engagement, moving beyond the concepts of 'imagined audience' and ideological 'directionality'. Through semi-structured interviews with 19 respondents, the study reveals that the 'imagined audience' concept is overly simplified as interviewees did not blindly follow the ideological direction when interpreting memes. The findings also highlight how meme audiences value the pop-cultural form of memes, perceive the 'imagined author', view memes as a site for identity work, and emotionally engage with memes.
MEDIA CULTURE & SOCIETY
(2023)
Article
Communication
Jane B. Singer, Seth C. Lewis, Karin Wahl-Jorgensen
Summary: This article explores the evolution of journalism as a profession and journalism studies as a field of scholarly inquiry through the pages of the Journalism Quarterly over the past century. By analyzing the changing debates and the expansion of knowledge, the article aims to provide insights into the origins, development, and current state of journalism scholarship.
JOURNALISM & MASS COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY
(2023)
Article
Communication
Gabriella M. Pruitt Santos
Summary: Democracy in Central America is declining, with oppressive policies and constraints on journalists leading to violent censorship of media. However, social media provides an opportunity for alternative journalists in Central America to overcome economic constraints and become influential actors in political communication.
ATLANTIC JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION
(2023)
Article
Communication
Mia Moody-Ramirez, Carolyn Byerly, Suman Mishra, Silvio R. Waisbord
Summary: In this analysis, the struggle of marginalized groups in media content and careers is highlighted, with a focus on the historical shifts in the representation and treatment of women and minorities. The lack of opportunities for advancement, management issues, and systemic inequities perpetuated by media content and practices are emphasized.
JOURNALISM & MASS COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY
(2023)
Article
Communication
Robert L. Kerr, Ahran Park, Kyu Ho Youm
Summary: This article reviews over 300 media law articles published in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (JMCQ) since 1924, highlighting the journal's vital role in research on freedom of the press and speech. It discusses the expanded focus of scholars in the field, the journal's openness to international and comparative law, and the declining number of published media law articles in recent years.
JOURNALISM & MASS COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY
(2023)
Article
Communication
Samantha Marie Walkden
Summary: This essay details the author's personal process of being diagnosed with endometriosis, including her experience of medical gaslighting and societal attitudes toward period pain. The author highlights the dismissive attitudes and trivialization of symptoms faced by many individuals with excessive menstrual pain, and emphasizes the burden of proof placed on patients in the outdated medical system. The author argues that people experiencing this condition are experts-by-experience who advocate for rewriting societal narratives on menstrual pain.
HEALTH COMMUNICATION
(2023)
Article
Cultural Studies
Maria Sigridur Finnsdottir
Summary: Social media has provided powerful tools for radical right parties to expand their influence and connect with concerned voters. However, women politicians on the radical right continue to face gendered stereotypes and are only rewarded online when conforming to these stereotypes.
CONTINUUM-JOURNAL OF MEDIA & CULTURAL STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Communication
Sebastian Valenzuela, Ingrid Bachmann, Regina G. Lawrence, Homero Gil de Zuniga
Summary: Based on computerized and manual content analyses, this study examines the theories, methods, topics, and authors' backgrounds of empirical articles on politics and media published in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (JMCQ) over the course of its 100-year history (N = 424). The findings indicate that agenda-setting, framing, and selective exposure are the most common theories utilized, with quantitative methods being dominant and single-country studies more prevalent than comparative analyses. The research primarily focuses on political news, particularly during campaigns. Male and U.S.-based authors are predominant, but there has been an increase in female-authored work in recent years. Challenges remain in terms of enhancing the global generalizability of research on politics and media in JMCQ.
JOURNALISM & MASS COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY
(2023)
Article
Communication
Mary Beth Oliver, Arthur A. Raney
Summary: This article analyzes media effects articles published in JMCQ from 1954 to 2020. While the focus is primarily on news, various other topics such as attitude change, media selection, and sharing of media content are also examined. The findings suggest a mix of traditional and broader conceptualizations of media effects research, highlighting the active role individuals play in selecting, processing, evaluating, and even creating media content.
JOURNALISM & MASS COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY
(2023)
Article
Communication
Esther Thorson
Summary: This article provides an overview of advertising studies in JMCQ over the past 100 years. It identifies four distinct eras with unique features. The article compares the advertising studies in JMCQ with recent journal overviews in Journal of Advertising and International Journal of Advertising.
JOURNALISM & MASS COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY
(2023)
Article
Communication
Dongjing Kang, Ziyu Long
Summary: This study offers a decolonial intervention in organizational communication by foregrounding nonwestern languages, cultures, and philosophies. Through ethnographic research on two marginalized women organizing actors in China, the study proposes the theoretical framework of Tong to privilege subaltern knowledge and organizing praxes.
MANAGEMENT COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY
(2023)
Article
Communication
David M. Markowitz, Jeffrey T. Hancock
Summary: Humans and AI both have a truth-bias, believing that most information is true.
JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Communication
Aimee Bailey, Jai Mackenzie
Summary: This article examines the representations and media coverage of Mermaids, a charity supporting transgender youth and their families. The study finds that initially the press paid little attention to Mermaids, portraying them positively as a helpful support resource. However, starting from 2018, negative and misleading portrayals of Mermaids increased, coinciding with a rise in public interest and funding. The media began presenting Mermaids as a powerful and controversial organization, instead of a support group for families. The article argues that the excessive and polarized reporting on Mermaids indirectly delegitimizes and attacks the lives of transgender young people.
CRITICAL DISCOURSE STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Communication
Shagun Jhaver, Amy X. Zhang
Summary: This study examines social media users' preferences for platform-wide moderation and user-controlled, personalized moderation tools to regulate norm-violating content. The study finds that preference for personal moderation settings is influenced by perceived negative effects on others and support for freedom of expression.
NEW MEDIA & SOCIETY
(2023)
Article
Communication
Charnell Peters, Sebastiaan Gorissen
Summary: This article analyzes the partnership between Ancestry DNA and Spotify in creating DNA-based playlists and how the public responds to them. The analysis shows how these companies construct a sense of self that is biologically determined, technologically mediated, and culturally expressed. However, the public perceives these media through a dystopic lens, critiquing invasions of privacy and genetic determinism.
NEW MEDIA & SOCIETY
(2023)
Article
Communication
Osei Appiah, William P. Eveland Jr, Christina M. Henry
Summary: The study found that in conversations about race, the discussants' political party is more important than their race in shaping participants' expectations and intentions to engage in cross-group conversations. White participants were more inclined to avoid conversations with White discussants from a different political party, but this was not the case for Black discussants from a different party, Black discussants from the same party, or White discussants from the same party.
HUMAN COMMUNICATION RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Communication
Gregory P. Perreault, Samuel M. Tham
Summary: This study examines the relationship between employees and their supervisors in the context of journalism, based on interviews with 27 US journalists. The findings suggest that great leadership in journalism is attributed to a combination of strong cultural capital and symbolic capital within the field.
Article
Communication
Pinar Ergin
Summary: This article examines the changing possibilities of media entertainment, focusing on the elements of enjoyment and fun in the increasingly individualized viewing experience. It argues that video streaming services, which prioritize enjoyment but exclude fun, fail to provide a complete entertainment environment. The concept of "incomplete entertainment" is introduced to describe the viewing experience characterized by isolation and the absence of social interaction.
MEDIA CULTURE & SOCIETY
(2023)
