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Authors: Shaojung Sharon Wang (2015) - The goal of this study was to explore the tendency for people to keep friends on Facebook whom they do not maintain frequent or regular contact with. Drawing upon theories on self-consciousness and self-presentation and individual differences, the paths from the Big Five personality traits and the tendency to keep friends through public self-consciousness and Facebook self-presentation were examined. The paths from Facebook voyeurism to public self-consciousness and Facebook self-presentation were particularly salient. The direct and indirect effects further provide empirical support for understanding the fluid and unsettling notion of mediated voyeurism.
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Authors: Jingrong Tong (2015) - This article examines how journalists defend their boundaries and epistemic authority in the face of the challenges from user-generated content (UGC). It investigates the issue through exploring 51 Chinese journalists’ views of UGC producers and journalism. The interviews reveal that in this case study, Chinese journalists’ commitment to their social identity as ‘people of work units’ (danwei ren), i.e. their identity is defined by the employment relationship between journalists and news organisations, forms the ground of demarcating the boundaries between journalists and UGC producers. As a result, this group of Chinese journalists reinforces their conventional journalistic norms and identity as ‘organisational men/women’ and keeps old-fashioned journalism alive. In the meantime, h...
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Authors: Ti Wei; Fran Martin (2015) - Taking one of the most representative subgenres of lifestyle TV, the cooking show, as a case study, in this article, we examine the history and changing cultural meanings of this televisual genre in the context of Taiwan’s postwar social history and TV industry.
We conduct textual analyses of Taiwanese cooking shows across three different historical stages: Fu Pei Mei’s shows (the 1960s–1980s), Chen Hong’s shows (the 1990s), and Metrosexual Uber-Chef with Master Ah-Ji (the 2000s), in order to advance a critical exploration of the complex relationships between these popular media texts and their social and industrial contexts. We argue that, in line with the ongoing transformations in Taiwan’s society and television industry over the postwar era, the cooking show essentially shifted...
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Authors: Lukasz Szulc; Kevin Smets (2015) - In this paper, we analyze the Turkish film Zenne Dancer (2012), which is largely based on what has been called a first gay honor killing in Turkey. We employ a framing analysis to both the film’s content and its Western reviews to compare how different media texts frame the murder. The results indicate that while both the film and the reviews recognize tradition, understood here as native and archaic values as well as Islamic religion, as a key factor behind the murder, they locate this tradition quite differently: the film relegates it to the eastern Turkey, and thus implicitly to Kurds, while the reviews tend to extend it to the entire country or even the whole Middle East. We relate these results to the Western progressive narrative that positions the West as a civic and moral id...
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Authors: Julian Hopkins (2015) - The advent of the Internet has enabled a disruption of the Malaysian government’s long-standing control of media content. However, there are also opportunities for the government to extend into the Internet what Cherian George has called ‘narrow tailoring’ policies, designed to ensure ‘hegemonic consensus.’ Demonstrating the interconnections of intraparty factional rivalry, blogging and newspaper management, as well as the extension of government influence into online content, this paper discusses three cases: the transformation of a bloggers association; the organisation of ‘cybertroopers’ by the dominant governing party; and, the use of a blog, Facebook, and Twitter by the prime minister (PM), Najib Razak. Each of the cases highlights particular ‘blog affordances’, a concept used ...
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Authors: Cari An Coe (2015) - This article explores the framing mechanisms used by an embedded civil society network of urban planners, architects, and journalists in the burgeoning city of Hanoi, Vietnam, to structure the terms of debate in a controversy over the use of public space in Reunification Park. The network drew on the values of collectivism, modernization, and nationalism propagated under the socialist government’s ‘civilized city’ campaign in order to pressure the city government to preserve green space in its largest park and cease development plans for a hotel. By analyzing the content of the investigative reporting on the SAS hotel investment controversy in Reunification Park covered by the online journal of the Vietnam Urban Planning and Development Association, this article demonstrates how thi...
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Authors: Carol M Liebler; Wei Jiang; Li Chen (2015) - This study examines gender constructions of the main characters in Chinese top-grossing feature films, 2002–2011, and the sex of content creators in relation to film content. Content analysis of 332 characters reveals that women are more likely than men to be young, sexualized, and conform to an ideal image. Male characters are older and reflect traditional Chinese norms of masculinity. Women are rarely present among content creators and are most likely to be writers or producers. Findings indicate that Chinese film content reflects the growing Chinese beauty economy.
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Authors: Yang Liu (2015) - With increased research attention being paid to the relationship between information and communication technologies (ICTs) and social movements during the Arab Spring, the role of new and social media in promoting social movements in China is examined in depth. Focusing on the most popular social media platform in China, Weibo, this research includes a review of new scholarship about ICTs and social movements, analysis of Chinese grassroots social movements organized via Weibo, and the limitations of these social movements. The guiding question here is how individual Chinese citizens strategically used Weibo to facilitate social movements.
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Authors: David Tan (2014) - Interdisciplinarity has become a transforming force in legal studies, and its advantages have been well canvassed. How might cultural studies be useful to law? One often equates cultural studies with the theory and politics of ideology, identity, and difference, and with the 3D’s of deconstruction, demythologization, and demystification (Rojek, 2007, pp. 27–28), but new discursive opportunities often present themselves when cultural studies moves ‘towards a model of articulation as “transformative practice”’ (Grossberg, 1996, p. 88).
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Authors: Trần Thị Phương Anh; Trần Văn Đại (2023-10) - Qua xử lý các số liệu thống kê thu thập được từ các nguồn quốc gia và địa phương, bài viết cung cấp một số thông tin cơ bản về tình hình đạo Tin Lành trong đồng bào dân tộc thiểu số sinh sống trên địa bàn tỉnh Lai Châu. Những kết quả đáng chú ý là trong những năm gần đây, đã có sự phát triển nhanh chóng của một số tôn giáo ở vùng đồng bào dân tộc thiểu số, đặc biệt là đạo Tin Lành. Cùng với nhân tố nhà nước, các tôn giáo đã góp phần làm thay đổi nhiều mặt trong đời sống của các cộng đồng dân cư địa phương. Bên cạnh đó, sự gia tăng của tín đồ tôn giáo là người dân tộc thiểu số đã hình thành nên các cộng đồng dân tộc - tôn giáo mới mẻ. Ở tỉnh Lai Châu, mặc dù tỷ lệ người theo tôn giáo chưa phải là cao, nhưng trong bối cảnh có nhiều biến đổi kinh tế - văn hóa - xã hội và sự suy thoái c...
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