Julia Lefkowitz

• DPhil Candidate
• PhD Student at University of Oxford

This article engages with recent debates on “tabloidization,” applying a corpus linguistic approach to examine diachronic shifts in the language and values of quoted speech in tabloid and “quality” newspapers. While “tabloidization” is often portrayed as a spreading of tabloid news values to “quality” publications, empirical data depict a process o...

Since internationally renowned film director Roman Polanski was arrested on six charges of misconduct directed at a minor in 1977, his legal case has drawn strong reactions in connection to a range of political, social, and moral issues. Responses to the scandal have differed sharply across French and American national lines and as such, prestige p...

This paper, drawn from my Master’s thesis, applies critical discourse analysis to examine French prestige press coverage of the brand Shang Xia, evaluating the salience of ‘authenticity’ as a new journalistic norm. Whereas ‘modern’ era journalism prioritized facts and truth, as conveyed through the value of ‘objectivity’ (Schudson), I argue that in...

In recent years, the rise of communications and social media technology has granted the individual vast exposure to information and tools that enable instant but surface social interactions. These developments have affected cultural ideologies, the political economy of media corporations, and everyday experiences and processes that influence indivi...

This summarizes the initial results from the 2019 wave of the Oxford Internet Survey (OxIS).

Key findings of the 2019 Oxford Internet Survey include: • After many years of rapid change, parts of the Internet are stabilising • Internet users have rapidly increased banking, commercial and entertainment activity • Generally, there are small or no increases in content-production activities like posting pictures, commenting, reviewing, ma...