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To mediate the tensions between state regulation and content-creator incentives, Chinese social media platforms have developed an interesting practice of using platform official accounts to communicate their rules to the creator community. These accounts anthropomorphize platforms, enabling platforms to represent their regulatory bodies using ficti...
China’s showroom livestreaming is highly gender-segregated, in which young women working as showroom livestreamers are often stigmatized and criticized as hypersexual or vulgar. Situating female streamers’ practices in the sociocultural environment of contemporary China and comparing them to other wanghong creators such as fashion or beauty blogger...
The transnationalization of television production has been examined by studies on formats and multinational media companies, which have often highlighted the resilience of the local in the global. This article investigates transnationalization on the micro level of television production, drawing on participant observations in a Dutch production com...
The study of popular culture has always been closely related to the study of class, gender, race, and sexuality. An increasing number of authors have called for an intersectional approach. However, the contradictory, fluid meanings articulated in popular culture render such an approach difficult, and many ignore the call for intersectional analysis...
The editorial for the thematic issue of Media and Communication , “From Sony’s Walkman to RuPaul’s Drag Race : A Landscape of Contemporary Popular Culture,” looks at the prevailing themes of earlier studies of popular culture, from Raymond Williams’ organic culture to the postmodern embrace of commodity culture, in relation to the current cultural...
Television production is championing diversity in representation with record numbers compared to previous years. Netflix’s Sense8 is definitely amongst the highest scoring shows as concerns intersectional representation. Such remarkable representation was worth the 2016 GLAAD Outstanding Drama Series award, a prize granted to the most diverse telev...
Recent global social changes and phenomena like #MeToo and Time’s Up Movement, the visibility of feminism in popular media (e.g., Beyonce or the TV series Orange is the New Black ), the increase of datafication and fake news have not only put pressure on the media and entertainment industry and the content produced, but also generated critique, cha...
To survive contemporary developments in the TV industry and as a result of international mergers and acquisitions, production companies often form transnational media corporations. In this article, we examine TV production groups as global-local networks that pursue competitive advantages of transnational integration. Combining a critical industry...
From the Trump administration’s attempts to narrow down the definition of gender to biologically determined sex at birth to the everyday life gendered performances in digital platforms, from increasing representations of LGBTQI+ in TV programmes to the popularity of PornHub, the relations between gender, sexuality and media are ubiquitous and deepl...
Gender and media have been topics of academic interest for over half a century. Media production, content, and consumption have each given rise to vibrant fields of scholarly research on how to understand them in relation to gender. Specific epistemological and ontological viewpoints on understanding gender and its relation to media marks each of t...
Technology’s place in society is increasingly significant and debated. Although the inclusion of gender in discussions about technology is not novel, striking examples such as sexism (and racism) in artificial intelligence underscore the urgency of the debate. Popular sci-fi TV forms an important arena for the meaning-making on gender and technolog...
Technology's place in society is increasingly significant and debated. Although the inclusion of gender in discussions about technology is not novel, striking examples such as sexism (and racism) in artificial intelligence underscore the urgency of the debate. Popular sci-fi TV forms an important arena for the meaning-making on gender and technolog...
Media's relations to gender have been a topic of academic inquiry since the 1960s. Feminist scholars soon began to criticize the androcentric character of mainstream sciences addressing these relations. Three epistemologies—feminist empiricism, feminist standpoint theory, and feminist postmodernism—emanated from these criticisms, which still inform...
This study aims for a deeper understanding of the TV audience's exposure to TV's moral content and the reception of this content through an innovative methodological design. We combine content analysis data on the moral contents of TV genres and survey data on the moral reflection on moral elements offered by these genres among a representative sam...
Why do some TV genres have the label feminine or masculine? Why do we worry about boys playing video games too much while girls play just as often? Is the TV show Sex and the City empowering or not? Why are recent television shows like Desperate Housewives post-feminist television?
Gender and Media explores these and other complex questions by off...
Despite globalization, television is still bound to the nation-state in several aspects. The international television industry meets the national in the cross-border exchange of television content. Canned programming can hereby run into cultural barriers, which TV formats presumably can overcome, due to localization. Formats are translated to local...
Photovoice, a qualitative research methodology in which participants use photographs in combination with interviews, transcends the (false) binary between visual and verbal communication as images and words work in tandem to tell participants' stories (Novak, 2010). While audiences' reception of media has been explored thoroughly, visual interpreta...
Jaren geleden maakten Fokke en Sukke er al een grapje over: ‘Fokke en Sukke doen tentamen – Hoeveel communicatiewetenschappen zijn er?’ Hoewel het grapje toentertijd cynisch bedoeld was en een geringschattend oordeel uitsprak over een jonge academische discipline, bracht de enorme diversiteit aan onderwerpen in de aanmeldingen voor het Etmaal 2013...
Television as a moral training room. A quantitative exploration of moral reflection induced by television narratives
Television as a moral training room. A quantitative exploration of moral reflection induced by television narratives.
In this article the focus is on a quantitative exploration of different groups of viewers and how they engage in mo...
Even though there are ample voices arguing for the importance of television for building a moral civil society, television is often still assumed to have a negative influence on its audiences’ morality. However, the audiences’ moral activities when watching TV are under-researched. In this article insights from philosophy and cultural media studies...
TONNY KRIJNEN & MARC VERBOORD Television as a moral training room. A quantitative exploration of moral reflection induced by television narratives. In this article the focus is on a quantitative exploration of different groups of viewers and how they engage in moral reflection during or after watching television. Using perspectives derived from lit...
Gendered Transformations offers readers a new foundation from which to reexamine traditional perspectives on gender and media.
Comprising the most current scholarship from leading experts in the fields of gender and media studies, Gendered Transformations offers readers a new foundation from which to re-examine traditional perspectives on gender. Organized into sections concerning representational politics, embodied performance, and social constructions of reality, these e...
Public debates on reality television often address the display of emotion and immoral conduct. Television scholars have recently proposed that while reality television offers its audience an opportunity to learn valuable lessons, they rarely address the issue of the morality of the genre. In this contribution, we analyze the display of emotion and...
Television and its impact on the moral values have been a hot topic among academics the last few years. Most attention for
the relation between morality and television comes from authors in the field of media studies using an active audience approach
to explain how people might actually learn something from the stories television tells us. While Ge...
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In this article, we discuss how primetime programming is unjustly the subject of the moral panic constructed around television, a moral panic that seems primarily useful to maintain the high vs low culture dichotomy. To assess the moral content of primetime television, we used a framework derived from literary culture, since narratives’ content and...
