scholarly journals Introduction to “Refugee Crises Disclosed: Intersections between Media, Communication and Forced Migration Processes”

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vasiliki Tsagkroni ◽  
Amanda Alencar
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Thematic Issue ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Cultural Frameworks ◽  
Media And Communication ◽  
Cross National

<p class="normal">This editorial serves as an introduction to the <em>Media and Communication</em> thematic issue on “Refugee Crises Disclosed: Intersections between Media, Communication and Forced Migration Processes”. This thematic issue presents an integrated look at forced migration through the spectrum of media studies and communication sciences. The eleven articles in this volume offer a comparative research approach on different focuses that involve cross-national, cross-disciplinary, cross-cultural frameworks, as well as multi-actor perspectives and methodologies. Altogether, the contributions featured in this thematic issue offer inspiring insights and promote innovative research on the way we perceive implications of media and communication in the field of migration. To conclude, a reflection on the presented research is also included.</p>

scholarly journals Comparative quantitative study on national identity in contemporary social psychology

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 22-31
Author(s):  
M.S. Fabrykant
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Interdisciplinary Studies ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Cognitive Mechanisms ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
Cross National

The article presents a review of quantitative comparative cross-cultural studies on national identity conducted by psychologists during the last two decades. It considers the relation of theoretical and methodological grounds of these studies with the general agenda of the contemporary social psychology, interdisciplinary studies on nations and nationalism, and empirical resources of cross-national surveys. The relevant publications demonstrate the prevalence of descriptive approach in psychological studies, while sociology and political science mostly use the explanatory research approach on factors affecting the national identity. Nevertheless, the explanatory research results reveal the underestimated cross-cultural variability of correlations between national identity components and the correspondence of these components to essentially different cognitive mechanisms. To fulfil the potential of their discipline, cross-cultural psychologists studying national identity should explore relations of national identity with basic values and attitudes with paying a special attention to cross-level interaction effects and social dynamics.

scholarly journals Neoliberalism, Voice and National Media Systems: An Interview with Terry Flew

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Dawes ◽  
Terry Flew
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Nation State ◽  
National Media ◽  
Media Systems ◽  
National Systems ◽  
Cross National

In this interview, Terry Flew discusses the continued relevance of the nation-state and national media systems in an era of globalization, and the need for cross-national comparative research in media studies. He also discusses the benefits of the concepts of ‘voice’ and ‘participation’ over ‘citizenship’ for evaluating media systems, and criticises the overblown and dismissive use of ‘neoliberalism’ as a rhetorical flourish, in favour of developing it as an analytical concept grounded in empirical evidence. Drawing on Foucault’s work on both Weber and neoliberalism, Flew argues, helps us recognise the need for comparative work on institutions and national systems of government.

scholarly journals Social Navigation and the Refugee Crisis: Traversing “Archipelagos” of Uncertainty

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 300-302
Author(s):  
Melissa Wall
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
Thematic Issue ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Information Uncertainty ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Social Navigation ◽  
Forced Migrants

This reflection considers the thematic issue “Refugee Crises Disclosed: Intersections between Media, Communication and Forced Migration Processes” through the lens of social navigation which takes into account the fluidity and uncertainty of the refugee and forced migrant condition whether in flight, emplaced, or at a temporary stopping point. Refugees who are able to “read” their social environment will be more successful in developing practices to navigate through unpredictable migration processes, including responding to information uncertainty. Yet even as some of the displaced adapt, other actors—particularly those part of the refugee regime—are also operating in unstable conditions such that the actions of refugees/forced migrants may in turn keep the circumstances of those purporting to help also in flux.

Afterword

2019 ◽  
pp. 229-238
Author(s):  
Carole M. Cusack ◽  
Massimo Leone ◽  
Jeffrey Sconce
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Film And Media Studies ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Media And Communication ◽  
The Relationship

In this afterword, three leading scholars, whose work explores the intersections of media, communication, and religion from different viewpoints, enter in dialog on the subject. Carole Cusack is a historian of religion and the author of groundbreaking works about the relationship between religion, imagination, and popular culture. Massimo Leone is a semiologist whose work has stretched the boundaries between the study of religion and the study of signs, both linguistic and nonlinguistic. Jeffrey Sconce is a scholar in film and media studies whose pioneering monograph, Haunted Media (2000), placed the theme of the supernatural at the forefront of studies in media and communication. Their responses provide a map of potential trajectories to further explore the connections between digital media and the supernatural.

scholarly journals Focus Groups as a Questionnaire Pretest for Surveys in Cross-Cultural and Cross-National Comparative Research

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 475-488
Author(s):  
Dmitry Sergeevich Grigoryev
Keyword(s):  
Focus Groups ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Cross Culture ◽  
The Social ◽  
Construct Equivalence ◽  
Interpersonal Environment ◽  
Cross National

As a research method, focus groups have methodological advantages for understanding the views and behavior of group members or for understanding the social system as a whole, since it covers the interaction between people, groups, and the interpersonal environment quite well that widely recognized in the social sciences. These advantages are introduced in the context of mixed-methods, including conducting a survey together with focus groups as a pretest questionnaire in a comparative perspective in cross-national and cross-culture research. Focus groups provide to reach construct equivalence and elaborate an appropriate context-oriented language for questionnaire questions. Using the focus groups in this way can be an effective approach to overcoming the initial limited ability of surveys to valid measure more complex socially constructed concepts, the meaning of which can vary significantly from one group to another, especially from a comparative perspective in cross-national and cross-culture research. Using focus groups, data is collected in a more natural way, that is, more close to the real world, while the generalization is ensured by a detailed description of specific conditions, participants, and research environment. In addition, the discussion group is a miniature thinking society, and unlike dyadic interviews or surveys, focus group discussions give participants the opportunity to express their opinions, discuss their views and opinions with other participants, listen to other peoples opinions, disagree or to develop thoughts by reasoning out loud - this is similar to what happens in real life. This increased awareness about the described advantages of the approach for cross-cultural and cross-national comparative research likely contributes to its more active employ.

Media, communication technologies and forced migration: Promises and pitfalls of an emerging research field

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 582-593
Author(s):  
Tristan Mattelart
Keyword(s):  
Forced Migration ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
European Context ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
Media And Communication ◽  
European Migration

In this article, we identify some of the main axes structuring the emergent research field of ‘Media, communication technologies and forced migration’, whose development has been greatly stimulated by the so-called European ‘migration crisis’. In consonance with the cross-cutting theme of this Special Issue, we study more specifically, concentrating mainly on the European context, how, within this research field, media and communication technologies have been represented either as contributing to the building of symbolic borders or, on the contrary, as tools facilitating the circumvention of symbolic and territorial borders. Basing our argument on some of the main works that have given shape to this research field, we assess – with no claim for exhaustiveness – some of the latter’s main contributions and limitations.

scholarly journals A Comparative Research Between Italian and Turkish Journalists: Professionalism, Autonomy, Clientelism, and Ethic

SAGE Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 215824402110101
Author(s):  
Xheni Simaku
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Research ◽  
Global Dynamics ◽  
Global Society ◽  
Media And Politics ◽  
Media System ◽  
National Media ◽  
Media Systems ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Cross National

The global society which we live in nowadays makes us rethink about media system, global dynamics, and the operation of the influences that these dynamics have on national media systems. Starting from the book by Hallin and Mancini’s (2004) Comparing Media Systems: Three Models of Media and Politics, and under the Polarized Pluralist Model they proposed, the aim of this work is to compare Turkish and Italian journalists’ professionalization. This research has been conducted under the concept of professionalization that these authors suggested in their work and, more specifically, under the Polarized Pluralist Model, in which Hallin and Mancini recognize countries like Italy have the main characteristics described by the model; Turkey can also be included. The main goal of this work is to underline not only the similarities but also the differences that are encountered in these two countries in the journalistic professionalization. The methodology used is in-depth interviews with 10 journalists: five Italian and five Turkish journalists chosen from the biggest journals in their respective countries. Main topics taken into consideration were autonomy, clientelism, and professionalization in journalism based on ethics values. Even if the Polarized Pluralist Model seems to fit in both countries from a macro perspective, with the in-depth interviews, it is clearly seen that different cross-national nuances come out.

scholarly journals The Greek vs. the Cypriot guaranteed minimum income schemes: an exploratory comparative analysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Varvara Lalioti ◽  
Christos Koutsampelas
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Research ◽  
Developmental Trajectories ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Minimum Income ◽  
Welfare Systems ◽  
Key Variables ◽  
Guaranteed Minimum Income ◽  
Shed Light

Abstract This exploratory paper utilises a comparative research approach to shed light upon the developmental trajectories of the Greek and Cypriot guaranteed minimum income (GMI) schemes. Our analysis indicates that, despite similarities (e.g. in the emergence of the two schemes, as part of the extensive reforms imposed during the financial crisis on the Greek and Cypriot welfare systems), there are also significant differences. These mainly relate to implementation and, ultimately, the “success” of the two schemes in attaining their declared goals. Moreover, we argue that the developmental paths followed by the Greek and Cypriot GMI schemes should be interpreted in the light of key variables (“functionalist,” “political” and “institutional”), often used to explain the establishment and further evolution of such schemes. Within this context, the relatively “superior” performance of the Cypriot GMI, compared with the Greek scheme, is largely attributed to factors such as government effectiveness and political stability.

Interviewing Political Elites in Cross-Cultural Comparative Research

1964 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
William H. Hunt ◽  
Wilder W. Crane ◽  
John C. Wahlke
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Research ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Political Elites
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