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Communication
Marika Luders, Vilde Schanke Sundet
Summary: This article examines the experiential affordances of watching online TV, highlighting the balance between personalized viewing and television viewing as a social activity. Self-scheduling viewing ties in with deliberate action, while programed paths replacing flow schedules restrict the agency of viewers.
TELEVISION & NEW MEDIA
(2022)
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Communication
Reece Peck
Summary: This article compares populist media styles on US cable news and online video, focusing on the contrast between Fox News and the Young Turks (TYT). The study finds that TYT shares a similar style with Fox News, driven by a commercial-economic logic that values loyal viewership and intense engagement. Additionally, the article explores TYT's role in media activism and its contribution to the creation of the Justice Democrats.
TELEVISION & NEW MEDIA
(2023)
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Communication
Jacob Ormen, Andreas Gregersen
Summary: This article explores the ways in which content creators on YouTube adapt to or resist institutional pressures, and finds that diversification is supported in the management of their presence on the platform.
TELEVISION & NEW MEDIA
(2023)
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Communication
Chiara Valli, Alessandro Nai
Summary: This article examines various resistance strategies individuals use to defend their attitude against persuasion attack and finds that overall effort to resist and cognitive elaboration play important roles in defending individuals' attitude.
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Communication
Joe F. Khalil, Mohamed Zayani
Summary: The article examines the territoriality and cultural politics negotiation of emerging digital entertainment media in the Global South, using the Middle East-based video streaming platform Shahid as a case study. These ventures simultaneously inhabit geographic nation-state borders and transversally closed bordered spaces, potentially leading to reconfigurations of power dynamics.
TELEVISION & NEW MEDIA
(2022)
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Communication
Emma Pullen, Daniel Jackson, Michael Silk
Summary: Despite the successful transition of the Paralympics from relative obscurity to a global mega-event, little is still known about how it is consumed by audiences. This study uses survey and focus group data from UK Paralympic audiences to identify the audience demographics, perceptions of coverage, and the impact of watching the Paralympics on attitudes towards disabled people.
TELEVISION & NEW MEDIA
(2022)
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Communication
Gavin Feller, Benjamin Burroughs
Summary: This paper examines the emerging shifts in YouTube, advertising, and children's digital media industries through a case study of Pocket Watch. The analysis highlights how Pocket Watch transforms YouTube stars into global brands through strategic use of legacy media industry power and expertise, while also raising concerns about the exploitative advertising practices of its advertising division. The strategies implemented by Pocket Watch and similar companies may serve as a test for the impact of governmental regulation and platform policy changes on the evolving landscape of children's digital media.
TELEVISION & NEW MEDIA
(2022)
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Communication
J. P. Kelly
Summary: This article examines recent changes in the technological composition and market logics of television, and discusses their impacts on television's preservational qualities and our understanding of television history. The article highlights that the ephemerality of television is intensifying and diversifying, posing methodological challenges. It also places these developments within the historical context of debates on preserving digital media and the possibility of a digital dark age, aiming to learn from the past for the preservation challenges of the present.
TELEVISION & NEW MEDIA
(2022)
Article
Cultural Studies
Peter English, Richard Murray
Summary: The reopening of the border hotline between North and South Korea marked the start of a unified nation at the 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony, known as the 'Peace Games'. Media representations of North Korea at the Olympics in six significant nations showed varying narratives, often intertwining sport with political elements. This demonstrates how political concerns often overshadow sporting achievements in news coverage of the 2018 Winter Olympics involving North Korea.
CONTINUUM-JOURNAL OF MEDIA & CULTURAL STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Cultural Studies
Jian Xu, Xinyu Zhao
Summary: The article examines how Chinese international students practice vlogging during the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting their creativity in citizen journalism and counternarrative production as a way to actualize digital citizenship. The research emphasizes the importance of understanding the concerns, needs, and resilience of international students' everyday digital practices to better support this vulnerable group in uncertain times.
CONTINUUM-JOURNAL OF MEDIA & CULTURAL STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Film, Radio, Television
Sarah Cooper
Article
Communication
Chunmeizi Su
Summary: This study argues that online productions in China are contingent not only on platforms, but on government policies. The limitations placed on grassroots content have led creators to thrive on other platforms, contributing to the growth of short video platforms.
TELEVISION & NEW MEDIA
(2023)
Article
Film, Radio, Television
Ewa Mazierska
Summary: This article engages with recent debates about Polanski's personal conduct and its impact on the reception of his films. It highlights the increasing significance of an artist's personal conduct, particularly sexual conduct, in evaluating their work and connecting with audiences. The article also explores the relationship between authorship, moral values, and aesthetic appreciation.
STUDIES IN EASTERN EUROPEAN CINEMA
(2022)
Article
Communication
Bo Ruberg, Johanna Brewer
Summary: This article serves as an introduction to a special issue of Television and New Media, focusing on gender and sexuality in live streaming. Live streaming is a vital part of contemporary digital media and plays a central role in shaping culture, entertainment, and labor online. The special issue explores various aspects of gender and sexuality in live streaming, emphasizing the importance of interdisciplinary research and the need to consider the roles of identity, power, embodiment, and intimacy in these technologies.
TELEVISION & NEW MEDIA
(2022)
Article
Film, Radio, Television
Cristina Johnston
Summary: This article analyses the circulation of objects in director Celine Sciamma's first four films, focusing on the significance of this circulation and the importance of the objects themselves. It examines Sciamma's queer ethics through the objects that enable relationships between marginalized bodies, rather than through analysis of bodies and embodiment.
FRENCH SCREEN STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Cultural Studies
Grace Sharkey
Summary: Despite being condemned by feminism and the media, the group known as 'incels' can disrupt traditional political projects in new, generative ways. By thinking through an affirmative feminist framework, it is possible to take a different perspective on incels and potentially find new solutions.
CONTINUUM-JOURNAL OF MEDIA & CULTURAL STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Communication
Ruobing Li, Lijiang Shen
Summary: This study experimentally investigated the potential effects of topic and source legitimacy on reactance. The results showed that the behavioral topic influenced the magnitude of psychological reactance and forms of freedom restoration simultaneously.
JOURNAL OF BROADCASTING & ELECTRONIC MEDIA
(2022)
Article
Film, Radio, Television
Sara M. Grady, Ralf Schmaelzle, Joshua Baldwin
Summary: The study found that there are similarities in brain activity among audiences watching Pixar short films, and this similarity varies at different stages of the story plot. As the story progresses, the similarity in brain activity shows a clear increasing trend, and this shared response is also present across different age groups, although weaker in younger children.
PROJECTIONS-THE JOURNAL FOR MOVIES AND MIND
(2022)
Article
Film, Radio, Television
Bo Ruberg
JCMS-JOURNAL OF CINEMA AND MEDIA STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Communication
Sheng Zou
Summary: This article examines the role of short videos in shaping the rural performativity in line with official ideology, through idyllic displays of rural lifestyles and landscapes. It also highlights the limitations and inherent optimism of the urban-rural contact zone.
TELEVISION & NEW MEDIA
(2023)
