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  • Patterns of digital uses among Israeli Arabs – between citizenship in modern society and traditional cultural roots

    • Authors: Sabina Lissitsa (2015)

  • This study examines the digital divide between the Jewish majority and Arab minority in Israeli society as manifested by Internet access and patterns of use. The goals of this paper were to examine the digital divide between these two groups and to identify the factors that influence these gaps. The study is based on data from the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics Annual Social Survey, collected in 2011 through face-to-face interviews of 5872 interviewees aged 20–65 years. Jews were found to have an advantage over Arabs in terms of Internet access and in terms of the two types of uses: capital-enhancing and recreational. Our important conclusion is that, theoretically, with background variables being the same, the first-level digital divide between Jews and Arabs can be considered...
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  • Negotiating class, ethnicity and modernity: the ‘Malaynisation’ of P. Ramlee and his films

    • Authors: Mahyuddin Ahmad; Yuen Beng Lee (2015)

  • Early Malaysian national cinema disseminates a social reconstruction process aimed at reconstructing Malay supremacy at the centre of a specific geographical, political, economic and cultural space. Aptly termed as ‘Malaynisation’, this process occurred during the Golden Age of Malaysian cinema through the films of P. Ramlee. While existing as a capitalist film culture located within an ethnically diverse society, early Malaysian cinema through Ramlee have produced a significant number of mono-ethnic representations solely focused on the culture, language and lifestyles of the Malays. As such, the articulation of the politics of inclusion and exclusion in Ramlee’s films articulates a right-wing nationalist sentiment that upholds the sovereignty of the dominant Malays while undermini...
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  • A cross-cultural comparison of cognitive and affective mediators in the relationship between media use and body image disturbance: focusing on US and Korean women

    • Authors: Kyung Bo Kim; Jennifer Stevens Aubrey (2015)

  • This study examined whether the relationship between cumulative thin-ideal media and body image disturbance is mediated by (1) cognitive variables, including beliefs about normative thinness and thinness prevalence and (2) affective variables, including dejection and agitation. Also, this study tested whether mediating effects would be different across cultures. Results revealed that perception about normative thinness mediated the relationship between thin–ideal media use and body image disturbance among both US and Korean participants and the effect was stronger for Korean participants. Thinness prevalence estimation did not mediate thin-ideal media use and body image disturbance in either Korean or US participants. Dejection was a statistically significant mediator for the relati...
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  • Framing the crisis by one's seat: a comparative study of newspaper frames of the Asiana crash in the USA, Korea, and China

    • Authors: Yan Yan; Yeojin Kim (2015)

  • This study compared newspaper frames of the 2013 Asiana Airlines crash in the three countries involved: the USA, Korea, and China. The results revealed distinct patterns of news coverage under the particular influence of national interests. The responsib-ility frame was the most frequently used, but the attribution of responsibility varied across the three countries. US newspapers overwhelmingly attributed the causation to pilot error, Korean media framed the causation as being open to multiple explana-tions, and Chinese newspapers were less likely to speculate about causation before the final official conclusion was reached. US and Korean media maintained a negative tone toward each other, while Chinese newspapers took a similar standpoint as the US media but were slightly less neg...
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  • Staying abreast of breast cancer: examining how communication and motivation relate to Singaporean women's breast cancer knowledge

    • Authors: Edmund W. J. Lee; Shirley S. Ho (2015)

  • Numerous health communication studies have highlighted the importance of factual knowledge as an antecedent to health behavior, but few have explored other dimensions of health knowledge, such as structural knowledge. This study seeks to fill this gap by investigating conceptual differences between these two kinds of knowledge in the context of breast cancer in Singapore, and find out how communication and motivational factors are related to them. Using a nationally representative random-digit-dialing survey of women aged 30–70 (N = 802), results showed that interpersonal communication and elaboration were associated with both knowledge types. Attention to online health news and the level of risk perception were positively associated with structural knowledge but not factual knowled...
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  • Professional intervention and organizational incorporation: examining journalistic use of microblogs in two Chinese newsrooms

    • Authors: Di Cui; Trisha T.C. Lin (2015)

  • Existing research has widely accounted the influence of microblogs on traditional news production, but less attention has been paid to how microblogs are socially constructed in newsrooms. Taking the social constructivist approach, this study explored the professional and organizational construction of journalistic use of microblogs. We conducted 33 in-depth interviews with news workers at two local newspapers in China and a textual analysis of their microblog posts. We found that Chinese news workers heavily stressed professional values and journalistic authority, which set limits to information appropriation and self-expression on microblogs. Production culture, organization policy, and organization culture were also found to shape journalistic use of microblogs. The highly censo...
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  • Effects of emotional exemplars in responsibility attribution-framed news reports on perception and evaluations of social issues

    • Authors: Hongsik Yu; Jingren Si; Jaehee Cho (2015)

  • This study investigated the separate and combined effects of emotion-laded exemplars and responsibility frames on readers’ perceptions and evaluations. Two hundred and sixty-nine students participated in an experiment involving a news story that dealt with the social issue of homelessness in South Korea. Six versions of a news story differed in emotion-laden exemplars with textual information (anger-evoking, sympathy-evoking) and responsibility news frames (attribution of responsibility to society, attribution of responsibility to individual, and no frame). This study found that, compared to the responsibility frames, emotion-laden exemplars significantly affected readers’ moral evaluations toward the target individuals and their perceptions of the social issue’s severity. The resul...
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  • Women's employment and professional empowerment in South Korean dramas: a 10-year analysis

    • Authors: Jiyeun Lee; Sung-Yeon Park (2015)

  • This study examined how Korean dramas portray the relationship between women’s life and work. Men were shown as more affluent, more educationally privileged, older, and yet less likely to be married than women. Far more men than women were employed outside the home and holding a professional occupation or managerial position. Among young adult characters, marriage increased men’s employment but decreased women’s. Married men were also the most likely to be professionals or managers whereas it was highly unlikely for women, whether married or single. The negative effects of being a parent on employment and on holding a professional or managerial position were consistent for women and men. Examination of women and men’s employment and professional empowerment for the past 10 years in ...
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  • Describing discourse: a practical guide to discourse analysis

    • Authors: Bahram Kazemian (2015)

  • This enthralling book written by Woods is a practical guideline for all researchers involved in investigating any types of discourses in terms of Discourse Analysis, Criti-cal Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Systemic Functional Linguistics, etc. It accommo-dates a wealth of devices and strategies in five discourses to scrutinize any texts and talks from different angles and to evaluate how these tools in political or other dis-courses are disposed tactically for certain reasons and specific addressees. It concen-trates particularly on five professional fields including the discourses of advertising, politics, law, medicine and education and it equips researchers with different lenses with which they can sift through any sorts of texts in terms of grammatical, lexical and rhetorical devi...