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Tagging the Emirate: Language, Coordination and the Taliban's Digital Pursuit of Legitimacy

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how political actors leverage social media in Afghanistan as a tool for political legitimation. Framing social media as a potential supply of legitimacy, it analysed X (formerly known as Twitter) content posted by the former Afghan government, humanitarian and Taliban political accounts between January 2020 and December ...
Hannah Oates
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The “Star” Correspondent and Parachute Diplomacy: CNN’s Clarissa Ward in Myanmar and Afghanistan

International Journal of Communication
This study examines the framing and positioning patterns in CNN Chief International Correspondent Clarissa Ward’s on-the-ground coverage of two conflicts in 2021: the February 1st coup in Myanmar and the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in August ...
Lisa Brooten, Syed Irfan Ashraf
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Social constructivism and its implications for critical media studies [PDF]

Conflict & Communication Online, 2006
While media critics maintain that war coverage has a strong bias toward promoting conflict escalation, their opponents claim that the concept of distorted reality cannot be upheld.
Wilhelm Kempf
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Hannah Arendt and the political : the contemporary challenges posed by sovereignty, nationalism and imperialism

, 2015
This thesis seeks to show how the reassessment of Arendt’s thought for contemporary international political theory must be grounded in her first major published work, The Origins of Totalitarianism, and, more specifically, in the concept of the political
Nicholas, Donna
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‘The White Hordes From the West’: Race and Refuge in Australian Media Commentary About White Rhodesians During Zimbabwe's Decolonisation

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores Australian media commentary on white Rhodesians migrating to Australia, focusing on the period of Malcolm Fraser's prime ministership (1975–1983). The main argument is that the Australian media debates about whether to classify white Rhodesians as ‘migrants’ or ‘refugees’ were not merely semantic but reflected a deeper ...
George Bishi, Ana Stevenson
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Global Communication and the Scalar Politics of Race: Tensions in Transnational Articulations of (Anti)-Racism(s)

International Journal of Communication
The media and cultural imperialism paradigm’s reliance on Marxist world-system analysis and class, alongside the globalization paradigm’s faith in cosmopolitanism, has made debates on race relatively uncommon in global media and communication studies ...
Wendy Willems
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The economic foundations of powersharing: Evidence from Africa

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract How—and with whom—do rulers share power? Existing research focuses on the strategic logic of powersharing. In this paper, we analyze its economic foundations. Powersharing is modeled as a subnational fiscal contract, in which rulers allocate political representation based on constituencies’ revenue potential. Empirically, we combine historical
Yannick I. Pengl, Philip Roessler
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The Outsiders: Principled Withdrawal, Whiteness, and Power in the Los Angeles Food Justice Movement

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article draws on understandings of whiteness and the misconstrual of South Central Los Angeles to analyze the power dynamics between “outsider” activists and residents of South Central as they worked toward a more equitable food system.
Hanna Garth
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Children's media engagement and media literacy in platformized environments: primary school teachers' perspectives

Frontiers in Psychology
IntroductionThis study explores primary school teachers' interpretations of children's media engagement, the ways media content is reflected in children's values and behaviors, and the pedagogical positioning of media literacy within platform-dominated ...
Şükran Calp, Pınar Bulut
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Imperilaism of Media and Developing Countries The Concept of Communication Imperialism

, 2020
During the history of mankind imperialism basically was in the forms of politics and economy. But due to the information revolution media emerged as the central mean and cause of domination not only for politics and economy but culture as well.
Munawar Sabir
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