Comparative communication studies within and beyond Great China

2021 ◽  
pp. 174804852110290
Author(s):  
Jun Liu ◽  
Chris Chao Su
Keyword(s):  
Communication Studies ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Chinese Media ◽  
Unit Of Analysis ◽  
Greater China ◽  
The Core ◽  
Media System ◽  
The World ◽  
Analysis Strategy ◽  
Media And Communication

The scholarship on media and communication studies focusing on Greater China has burgeoned in recent years. Yet, little is known about how such scholarship would tackle other sub-fields and the core debates and developments in communication studies beyond the scope of Greater China. In this introduction, we delineate six articles in the Special Issue ‘Comparative Communication Studies Within and Beyond China’ in terms of three layers of comparision consisting of the macro-level unit of analysis, the dimension of comparison, and the design and analysis strategy of comparison. Together, the articles deliver updated investigations about Greater China’s media and communicative environment, provide a comprehensive outlook on the insights to be gained from comparing the Greater Chinese media system with its counterparts across the world, and reflect on both differences and similarities between Greater China and other countries across a spectrum of social, political, and cultural factors.

scholarly journals Introduction: Researching online worlds: challenging media and communication studies

2009 ◽  
Vol 25 (47) ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Kjetil Sandvik
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Asynchronous Communication ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media And Communication

Digital media and network communication technology have not changed this setup, but rather have opened the possibility for encountering and experiencing additional types of worlds and performing additional types of spatial practices. Being situated online and being globally networked with the possibility of both synchronous and asynchronous communication, digitally mediated worlds provide possible interactions between users which are radically more independent of time and place than the ones facilitated by older media. From this perspective, the concept of online worlds both challenges and broadens our understanding of how media shape the world and how the media technology creates new social structures.

scholarly journals Protest communication ecologies

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Mercea
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Growth Area ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Communication Practices ◽  
Media And Communication

The flurry of protests since the turn of the decade has sustained a growth area in the social sciences. The diversity of approaches to the various facets and concerns raised by the collective action of aggrieved groups the world over impresses through multidisciplinarity and the wealth of insights it has generated. This introduction to a special issue of the international journal Information, Communication and Society is an invitation to recover conceptual instruments—such as the ecological trope—that have fallen out of fashion in media and communication studies. We account for their fall from grace and explicate the rationale for seeking to reinsert them into the empirical terrain of interlocking media, communication practices and protest which we aim to both capture with theory and adopt as a starting point for further analytical innovation.

scholarly journals Mobile media beyond mobile phones

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordan Frith ◽  
Didem Özkul
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Radio Frequency Identification ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Autonomous Cars ◽  
Frequency Identification ◽  
Identification Tags ◽  
The Many ◽  
Media And Communication

In this introduction, we argue for an expanded focus in mobile media and communication studies (MMCS) that accounts for the many types of mobile media that affect our lives. We begin by pointing out that mobile phone/smartphone research has dominated MMCS as a field. That focus makes sense, but it runs the risk of MMCS essentially turning into “smartphone studies,” which we argue would limit our impact. To make that case, we identify a few examples of the types of oft-ignored technologies that could add to the depth and breadth of MMCS research (e.g., RFID [radio frequency identification] tags, the Walkman, barcodes). We then summarize the articles in this special issue to categorize the breadth of this research, which ranges from analyses of mobile fans to autonomous cars to mobile infrastructure.

scholarly journals Introduction: Marx is Back – The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Fuchs ◽  
Vincent Mosco
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Marxist Theory ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Marxian Analysis ◽  
Media And Communication

This paper introduces the overall framework for tripleC’s special issue “Marx is Back. The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today”. We point out why there is a return of the interest in Marx (“Marx is back”) and why Marxian analysis is important for Critical Communication Studies today. We also provide a classification of Marxian dimensions of the critical analysis of media and communication and discuss why commonly held prejudices against what Marx said about society, media, and communication are wrong. The special issue shows the importance of Marxist theory and research for Critical Communication Studies today.

Re/constructing politics through social & online media

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michał Krzyżanowski ◽  
Joshua A. Tucker
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Political Research ◽  
Political Ideologies ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Media And Communication

Abstract In recent years, the connection between online and in particular social media and politics has become one of the central ones in contemporary societies, and has been explored very widely in political research and media and communication studies. Against such growing body of research, this Special Issue foregrounds the role of language as a key carrier of political ideologies and practices on social and online media. It aims to advance the scholarly understanding of contemporary political and democratic dynamics by postulating the need for a broader, problem-driven look at how political practices and ideologies are articulated on social and online media. It illustrates the value of a cross-disciplinary take that allows overcoming both the classic (e.g. qualitative vs. quantitative) and the more recent (e.g. small vs. big data) divides in explorations of the language of online and politics.

scholarly journals Introduction: Marx is Back – The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Fuchs ◽  
Vincent Mosco
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Marxist Theory ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Marxian Analysis ◽  
Media And Communication

This paper introduces the overall framework for tripleC’s special issue “Marx is Back. The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today”. We point out why there is a return of the interest in Marx (“Marx is back”) and why Marxian analysis is important for Critical Communication Studies today. We also provide a classification of Marxian dimensions of the critical analysis of media and communication and discuss why commonly held prejudices against what Marx said about society, media, and communication are wrong. The special issue shows the importance of Marxist theory and research for Critical Communication Studies today.

scholarly journals Socialist Constitutional Legacies

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 8-25
Author(s):  
Sergei Belov ◽  
William Partlett ◽  
Alexandra Troitskaya
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Core Values ◽  
Legal Institutions ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
Russian Law ◽  
Political Structures ◽  
The Cold War

With the end of the Cold War, many assumed that socialism, together with the specific constitutional values and political structures was dead (or dying). This article will challenge these assumptions. Post-Cold War reality did not, however, follow these assumptions. Some countries, especially in Asia, continue to adhere to socialist constitutional approaches. Some cannot fully overcome their socialist legacy. And still others include socialist values in their constitutions and practice. These values and ideas warrant study. Most notably, socialism carries with it a certain set of values and, consequently, a corresponding pressure on legal institutions. The authors, guest editors of this special issue of the Russian Law Journal on the socialist legacies in the world constitutions, outline a general approach for the study of socialist constitutional legacies. The article therefore addresses (a) the methodology of socialist constitutional legacies analysis, (b) the core values of the socialist constitutions and (c) ways in which socialist constitutional ideas and concepts can be combined with the principles of constitutionalism. This analysis raises a number of important – but under-researched questions. One is the extent to which these socialist ideas or concepts are actually socialist. Another is the extent to which these ideas can be included in constitutional discourse.

scholarly journals Advancing digital disconnection research: Introduction to the special issue

2021 ◽  
pp. 135485652110575
Author(s):  
Stine Lomborg ◽  
Brita Ytre-Arne
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Methodological Development ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Critical Response ◽  
The Past ◽  
Tourism Studies ◽  
The Face ◽  
Media And Communication

Over the past decade, scholarly interest in “digital disconnection” and related concepts has grown in media and communication studies, and in related disciplines. The idea of digital disconnection explicitly references digitalization as a key societal development, creating conditions of intensified and embedded media involvement across social life. The notion of digital disconnection thereby represents a critical response to mediated conditions that characterize our societies and permeate our everyday lives. In this special issue, we take stock of the contributions, challenges, and promises of digital disconnection research. We showcase how digital disconnection scholarship intersects with other developments in media and communication research, and is part of debates and empirical analysis in related disciplines from tourism studies to psychology. We argue that one of the key strengths of the emergent work is the variety of social domains and conceptual debates that are included and explored in digital disconnection research. On the other hand, we also point to the need for further methodological development, conceptual consolidation, and empirical diversity, particularly in the face of global inequalities and ongoing crises.

scholarly journals Leading and Organising Education for Citizenship of the World

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lejf Moos ◽  
Elisabet Nihlfors ◽  
Jan Merok Paulsen
Keyword(s):  
General Education ◽  
The Other ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
The Core ◽  
Language History ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
Point Of Departure

This special issue discusses governance, leadership and education in the light of Nordic ideas about general education and citizenship of the world. Particular focus is placed on the battle between two very different discourses in contemporary educational policy and practice: an outcomes/standard-based discourse, and a general education-based discourse of citizenship of the world.Our point of departure is that we need to analyse the close relations between the core and purpose of schooling (the democratic Bildung of students) and the leadership of schools and relations to the outer world. On the one hand, society produces a discourse based on outcomes, with a focus on the marketplace, governance, bureaucracies, account-ability and technocratic homogenisation. On the other hand, society focuses on culture in the arts, language, history, relations and communication, producing a discourse based on democratic Bildung and citizenship of the world.

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