Media communities
Münster; New York:
Waxmann
(2006), 342 pp.
ISBN 978-3-8309-1599-7
"This book analyzes the different ways in which media are being used for community building and it also critically interrogates the concept of community itself. The authors do that from a variety of different perspectives, ranging from fundamental philosophical questions regarding community, to the role of journalism, the possibilities of community building on a local, national and global level, online media communities as means of empowerment for marginalized groups, the representation of communities in the media, and the formation of learning communities. Although there is a clear dominance in focusing on the chances and possibilities opened up by the Internet, the role of more traditional media like magazines, radio and television is being examined as well. Both sides, the media representations with the identity positions they offer as well as the interpretations and meaning productions that take place by the users of the media, are taken into account to cover the full range of media as cultural tools of connectivity." (Publisher)
Contents
Introduction: Media Communities - Current Discourses and Conceptional Analyses / Engine Hipfl & Theo Hug, 9
I. MEDIA COMMUNITIES - EXPLORING THE FIELD
Journalism's Virtual Communities: The Case of A!-Jazeera / Stuart Allen, 35
The Question of Community in the Tradition of Western Art: From Romanticism to the Internet / janjagodzinski, 47
Wishful Thinking: Questioning the Operative Fiction of Media Communities / Guido Zurstiege, 65
Communities as Catalysts of Media Change / Gebhard Rusch, 75
II. COMMUNITIES, GLOBALIZATION AND NATIONAL/REGIONAL IDENTITY
Global Private Spaces and Local Public Spheres / Christina Slade, 95
Banal Transnationalism: Turkish Perspectives on Television and Imagined Community / Asu Aksoy & Kevin Robins, 123
Community of Sameness: Political Celebrity and the Creation of the National Ordinary / Breda Luthar, 143
ICTs and the Construction of "Imagined African Communities" Online / Tokunbo Ojo, 167
Community Radio's Impact on Community Building: Case Studies from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa / Ruth Teer-Tomaselli, 189
III. MEDIA COMMUNITIES AND GENDER
Girls in Cyberspace: An Evaluation of an Online Community Supervised by Media Educationalists / Angela Tillmann, 211
Virtual Communities: The Gender-Political Meaning Behind the Occupation of Virtual Spaces by Girls and Women / Christina Schachtner, 231
Back in the Early Days: A Gay Man's Perspective on the Changes from 1999-2004 in Purposes of and Participation at Gay.com / Karen Keifer-Boyd, 253
IV. MEDIA COMMUNITIES, EDUCATION AND NARRATION
Working and Thinking Together in Media Communities: An Open-Source Case Study / Andrea Hemetsberger & Christian Reinhardt, 273
(In)Forming Virtual Learning Communities through Group Portraits / Karen Keifer-Boyd, 293
Using a Non-linear Narrative Framework in an Online Community / Ken Newman, 307
Digital Stories in the Liberal Arts Environment: Educational Media Communities at the Margins / Barbara Ganley & Hector J. Vila, 321
I. MEDIA COMMUNITIES - EXPLORING THE FIELD
Journalism's Virtual Communities: The Case of A!-Jazeera / Stuart Allen, 35
The Question of Community in the Tradition of Western Art: From Romanticism to the Internet / janjagodzinski, 47
Wishful Thinking: Questioning the Operative Fiction of Media Communities / Guido Zurstiege, 65
Communities as Catalysts of Media Change / Gebhard Rusch, 75
II. COMMUNITIES, GLOBALIZATION AND NATIONAL/REGIONAL IDENTITY
Global Private Spaces and Local Public Spheres / Christina Slade, 95
Banal Transnationalism: Turkish Perspectives on Television and Imagined Community / Asu Aksoy & Kevin Robins, 123
Community of Sameness: Political Celebrity and the Creation of the National Ordinary / Breda Luthar, 143
ICTs and the Construction of "Imagined African Communities" Online / Tokunbo Ojo, 167
Community Radio's Impact on Community Building: Case Studies from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa / Ruth Teer-Tomaselli, 189
III. MEDIA COMMUNITIES AND GENDER
Girls in Cyberspace: An Evaluation of an Online Community Supervised by Media Educationalists / Angela Tillmann, 211
Virtual Communities: The Gender-Political Meaning Behind the Occupation of Virtual Spaces by Girls and Women / Christina Schachtner, 231
Back in the Early Days: A Gay Man's Perspective on the Changes from 1999-2004 in Purposes of and Participation at Gay.com / Karen Keifer-Boyd, 253
IV. MEDIA COMMUNITIES, EDUCATION AND NARRATION
Working and Thinking Together in Media Communities: An Open-Source Case Study / Andrea Hemetsberger & Christian Reinhardt, 273
(In)Forming Virtual Learning Communities through Group Portraits / Karen Keifer-Boyd, 293
Using a Non-linear Narrative Framework in an Online Community / Ken Newman, 307
Digital Stories in the Liberal Arts Environment: Educational Media Communities at the Margins / Barbara Ganley & Hector J. Vila, 321
