Magazine Media Division
Print in a Digital Age: The Changing Production of Singaporean Women’s Magazines • Lydia Cheng • Boczkowski (2004, 2005) identified the production factors of organisational structures, work practices, and representations of users as particularly relevant regarding the digitalisation of newsrooms. Through interviews with 24 journalists from Singaporean women’s magazines, I looked at how technological advances have affected the production factors of these publications. Findings suggest that there is a functional differentiation (Hanusch, 2017) in magazine newsrooms, where journalists enact different values, norms, and behaviours when engaging in print and digital productions.
Analysis of ISIS Publications: Investigation into the Psychological Orientations Exhibited in Dabiq and Rumiya • Mark Kelsey • This study explores the utility of linguistic analysis for terrorism research. Publications of Dabiq (15 issues) and Rumiyah (10 issues), multi-translation online magazines produced by the Islamic State (IS, ISL, ISIS), are analyzed with the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count program (LIWC). Comparisons with ISIS-propaganda literature and psychological literature related to linguistic behavior are elaborated and applied. The comparison of a test independent of subject-matter (the present study) with qualitative investigations dependent upon the same subject matter is of particular interest. Linguistic analyses of the collective works of Dabiq and Rumiyah lead to the following findings: (a) Strong proclivity for hierarchical conceptualization; (b) Predilection to express authority; (c) Guarded stance; (d) Hostile emotionality; (e) Reliance on past and present temporal orientation; and (f) Social emphases.
* Extended Abstract * “Touchin,’ Feelin’ and Lovin’”: A Historical Analysis of Black Love in the Pages of Ebony Magazine • Gheni Platenburg • This study aims to identify and unpack the black love ideologies circulated by legacy Black magazine Ebony throughout its publication. Using a qualitative content analysis, the study examines the Ebony’s messaging about romantic unions as communicated through its written and visual content. Additionally, the researcher examined the presence of unrealistic relationship myths within this content. Early findings show messages fell into the general categories of physical attraction, fellowship, adventure, teamwork and endurance.
Stepping outside of the community rhetoric: The death of the Weekly Standard • Burton Speakman, Kennesaw State University; Marcus Funk, Sam Houston State University • The Weekly Standard was one of the few “Never Trump” magazines claiming to be conservative when it closed late in 2018. This paper examines how conservative and mainstream media framed the closing and also investigates the Twitter conversation surrounding the closure. The article engages in a mixed-method approach to review the topic. The findings suggest that conservatives both in the media and on Twitter took pleasure in the closure of a contrarian conservative publication. This suggests that publications who step outside of the present acceptable conservative frames stand to be punished and ridiculed from within through a form of forced rhetorical hegemony. Meanwhile, many mainstream publications lamented the closure of a publication on their opinion pages that would be have celebrated the closure during the presidency of George W. Bush as the loss of a contrary voice in a conservative movement increasingly shaped by Donald Trump.
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