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Global Media and Communication

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Global Media and Communication


Global Media and Communication is an international refereed journal launched as a key forum for articulating critical debates and developments in the continuously changing global media and communications environment.

As a pioneering platform for the exchange of ideas and multiple perspectives, the journal addresses fresh and contentious research agendas and promotes an academic dialogue that is fully transnational and transdisciplinary in its scope.

With a network of ten regional editors around the world, the journal will offer a global source of material on international media and cultural processes. Special features will include interviews, reviews of recent media developments and digests of policy documents and data reports from a variety of countries.

Global Media and Communication is essential and exciting reading for academics, researchers and students engaged in the international aspects of: communication studies, media studies, cultural studies, anthropology, telecommunications, sociology, politics, public policy, migration and diasporic studies, economics, geography/urban studies, transnational security and international relations.

“With today’s expanded and upgraded networks, the need to probe and explicate relations between communications systems and political-economic power has never been greater. Global Media and Communication promises a welcome venue for expert analyses of these profound changes in structure, policy, and cultural practice.” Dan Schiller University of Illinois at Urbana, USA

“Global Media and Communication provides a platform for a rigorous debate on global media at an absolutely crucial moment in their development. Congratulations to the editors for creating this fascinating new journal.” Damian Tambini University of Oxford, UK

All issues of Global Media and Communication are available electronically on SAGE Journals Online.

Journal Feed

  • Digital dissent: How Indonesian and Filipino journalists converge with virtual communities to face state repression
    by Nurul Hasfi
    Global Media and Communication, Volume 20, Issue 3, Page 329-356, December 2024. Online protest movements have facilitated researchers to access real-time data of microblogging, user metadata associated with accounts, message content, and enabled insights into complex links between social media use and protest movements. Employing emerging computational techniques and conventional qualitative approaches, this study examines the effectiveness of online protest movements in Indonesia and the Philippines. Simultaneously deployed, these protests were organized by journalist groups against repressive state actions that muzzled the press in these countries. The study compares the strategies of the two movements to illustrate the success factors […]
  • Hollywood, a platform for shaping cultural coherence/divergence: A critical textual analysis of the representation of Iranians in contemporary Hollywood action films
    by Talayeh Ghofrani
    Global Media and Communication, Volume 20, Issue 3, Page 357-375, December 2024. This study critically analyses how the film industry shapes cultural norms and values, particularly through political agenda-setting. Using Edward Said’s concept of orientalism and neo-orientalist discourse, it examines Hollywood’s portrayal of Iran and Iranians. While past research has focused on dominant themes, this paper explores ‘minor moments’ linked to Iran and ‘minor characters’ identified as Iranians in films where the central narrative is unrelated. By addressing these depictions, the paper seeks to understand Hollywood’s role in shaping perceptions of Iranians as non-Arab, Muslim, oriental ‘others’.
  • The fluidity of soft power in YouTube’s broadcast of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games
    by Joaquin Lopez-Mugica
    Global Media and Communication, Volume 20, Issue 3, Page 311-328, December 2024. In an era of heightened geopolitical tension, marked by a dynamic power shift between the West and China, the 2022 Winter Olympic Games emerged as a focal point of diplomatic contention. Several Western nations signalled their dissent through diplomatic boycotts, while China, conversely, seized this platform to strategically enhance its soft power. This paper explores how the Chinese government utilized the 2022 Winter Olympic Games’ opening ceremony as a canvas for the portrayal of its national image, and examines the resonance of this portrayal with the global audience. […]
  • Social inequality and news media repertoires in seven MENA countries
    by Robin Leuppert
    Global Media and Communication, Volume 20, Issue 3, Page 273-294, December 2024. Social inequality shapes peoples’ chances and strategies to keep informed about current affairs. We study citizens’ news media repertoires – individual patterns of combining selected news media – in a world region of extreme social inequality within and between countries: the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA). We report a secondary analysis of a large-scale survey in seven MENA countries to develop news user typologies. We explore how digital forces shape news media repertoires to determine the influence of social inequality on the population’s information routines regarding current […]
  • ‘Mediatized Diaspora’: Modelling the transnational influences of media in diaspora
    by Mostafa Shehata
    Global Media and Communication, Volume 20, Issue 3, Page 255-272, December 2024. This article seeks to model the socio-political influences of media use in diaspora. Participant observation and semi-structured interviews were used to collect data from Tunisian diaspora members residing in France, Denmark and Sweden. The article proposes ‘mediatized diaspora’ as a new model explaining the transnational intertwining between media and politics in the diaspora. Four sets of influences enabled by multimodal communication were defined and discussed as components of the model: (1) aspirations for the country of origin; (2) political meaning-making; (3) engaging in political actions; and (4) perceptions […]
  • The presence of hostile media phenomenon in Ethiopian private, federal and regional television channels
    by Bereket Wondimu Wolde
    Global Media and Communication, Volume 20, Issue 3, Page 295-310, December 2024. Since Ethiopia’s 2018 transition, sporadic ethnic and political violence and conflict and inter-group divisions have brought the nation to its knees. This study aims to assess the presence of the Hostile Media Phenomenon (HMP) among audiences of Ethiopian private, regional and federal television channels. Survey data were gathered from 600 participants living in Addis Ababa City, Amhara and Oromia regional states and were purposely chosen based on their historical and political dominance in the country. The study examined six different television channels found in the three regions: Oromia […]
  • Corrigendum to The impact of the platformization of Arab news websites on quality journalism
    Global Media and Communication, Ahead of Print.