Journal of Media Critiques COMING Special Issue

This third issue of the IAFOR Journal of Media, Communication & Film has a truly international scope, featuring contributions from authors of eight different nationalities. The ambition was to create, to adapt Benedict Anderson’s term, an “imagined community” of international scholars, brought together, virtually, by the impulse to deconstruct the texts and images that shape our understanding of the modern world. The notion of community is, moreover, the overarching theme of this issue’s articl

TABLE OF CONTENTS Bollywoodization of Foreign Policy: How Film Discourse Portrays Tension between States 11 AZMAT RASUL - MUDASSIR MUKHTAR An Essay on Actor, Actress in Turkish Cinema, Human Ans Sector Ethics in the 21st Century 29 NEVİN ALGÜL Digital Media Platforms and Education: The Uses of Social Networking in the UAE and China 47 BADREYA ALJENAIBI Are you cup of joking? : The “latte salute”, American President Barack Obama’s Visual Rhetoric 91 JENNIFER ANNE GEHRISCH Advertising in Virtual Worlds: The Example of Second Life 103 DİNÇER ATLI - TUNCER CAN Semiotic Analysis of E-Newspapers Interface Views within the Scope of Advertisements 117 BAHAR DİNÇAKMAN Interactivity and Political Communication: New Media Tools and their Impact on Public Political Communication 131 BURTON SPEAKMAN Uses and Effects of Myspace among Christian Teens and Young Adult 145 MICHAEL S. JEFFRESS A Narrative Criticism of Lifestyle Reality Programs 167 TRAVIS LOOF

The current study focuses on the social construction of definitions of quality in the field of the television drama series in Israel. By doing that, this work challenges Pierre Bourdieu's claim that since artifacts of 'popular culture' industries are not regarded as 'autonomous', according to the autonomy-of-art ideology, they cannot be consecrated as works of art. Bourdieu's thesis was challenged before, but the television field has not yet been extensively studied from this point of view. My study of the broad empirical corpus, including television reviews and interviews with acclaimed Israeli television creators, reveals that artistic quality and commercial appeal show less tension than Bourdieu had suggested. Furthermore, my findings indicate that the autonomy-of-art ideology can be reconfigured to accommodate commercial (e.g. capitalist) considerations. Within this reconfiguration, the 'quality' television series can be redefined to include elements of 'autonomous' art, such as authenticity, innovation and the input of 'genius' creators, alongside such capitalist requirements as profitability.

IAFOR Journal of Media, Communication and Film, Volume 4 - Issue 1, 2017

Volume 4 of the IAFOR Journal of Media, Communication and Film

The French Journal of Media Studes, 2021

Dunkerque and Dunkirk (Christopher Nolan, 2017). An interview with Jean-Yves Frémont, town councillor in employment, economic development and tourism, and Sabine l'Hermet, director of Dunkerque tourist office.

Mass Communication and Society, 2008

Used with permission. Chattopadhyay 1 Angharad N. Valdivia, Ed. A Companion to Media Studies. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005, 590 pp., .

This issue’s theme is documentary in the digital age. A trilogy of articles develop a strong sub-theme, namely the treatment of women and the subaltern on the Indian subcontinent. Coupled with excellent writings on some contemporary documentaries are probing interviews with talented young filmmakers.

2013

ECREA 2012, the 4 th European Communication Conference (ECC), organised by the European Communication Research and Education Association, took place from October 25 to 27, 2012, in Istanbul and was cohosted by the Turkish Communication Association (ILAD). The ECREA conference is primarily seen as an opportunity for a wide range of communications and media scholars to present their academic work to the broader field within which they are working. This led to many a headache for the conference organisers who did their best to cluster the various presentations and to find appropriate titles for the often inevitably eclectic panels. With six panels and twenty-six scheduled presentations, the film studies section was among the smaller sections of the conference (along with such sections as philosophy of communication and radio research), but succeeded as well as any other section to excel in diversity. In an attempt to capture its essential features, this report will offer a day-by-day review of the papers presented within the section.

2012