Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture

Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture (WPCC) is a peer-reviewed journal, published four times a year in hard copy and online.

WPCC recognises the interdisciplinary nature of the field of Media and Cultural Studies, and therefore deliberately encourages diverse methods, contexts and themes.

Particular interests include, but are not limited to, work related to Popular Culture, Media Audiences, Political Economy, Promotional Culture, New Media, Political communication, Migration and Diasporic Studies.

A major goal of the WPCC is to help develop a de-westernised and transcultural sphere that engages both young and established scholars from different parts of the world in a critical debate about the relationship between communication, culture and society in the 21st Century.

WPCC invites contributions from all scholars; particularly those at the beginning of their careers.

Editor: Anthony McNicholas

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Vol 9 issue 2 - The role of social media in the Arab uprisings – past and present

• The role of social media in the Arab uprisings – past and present FULL - 0.6 Mb

Vol 9 issue 1 - Encountering the real-virtuality: digital games in media, culture and society

• Volume 9 Issue 1 - Full download - 0.8 Mb
• Editorial - Philip Lin - 0.0 Mb
• Game Studies' Material Turn - Thomas H. Apperley & Darshana Jayemane - 0.1 Mb
• We Used to Win, We Used to Lose, We Used to Play - Steven Conway - 0.1 Mb
• The System and Self-reference of the App Economy - Chih-Wen Cheng - 0.3 Mb
• Talking to Gaymers - Adrienne Shaw - 0.1 Mb
• Player Experience - Jasper van Vught & Gareth Schott - 0.1 Mb
• Categorization of Digital Game Experiences - Karolien Poels, Yvonne de Kort & Wijnand IJsselsteijn - 0.1 Mb
• The Game Generation and its Leisure Capital - Yu-Pei Chang - 0.3 Mb
• Email Interviews in Player Research - Hanna Wirman - 0.1 Mb
• Book Review on NOISE CHANNELS - Dale Leorke - 0.0 Mb

Vol 8 issue 3 - Media for and by women: an historical perspective

• Volume 8 issue 3 - Full download - 1.2 Mb
• Editorial - Kristin Skoog - 0.2 Mb
• An interview with Maria Dicenzo - Kristin Skoog - 0.2 Mb
• Hear our plea - Christy Mesaros-Winckles - 0.2 Mb
• Internationalization or nationalization by communication? - Susanne Kinnebrock - 0.2 Mb
• Power to the women? - Josef Seethaler and Christian Oggolder - 0.3 Mb
• What women want on television - Mary Irwin - 0.2 Mb
• Attitudes to women in the BBC in the 1970s - Suzanne Franks - 0.2 Mb
• A public sense of ourselves - Barbara M Freeman - 0.2 Mb
• Book review - Christoph Hilgert - 0.1 Mb

Vol 8 issue 2

• Volume 8 issue 2 - Full download - 0.7 Mb
• Editorial - Caroline Dover - 0.1 Mb
• Media and Transition in Latin America - Colin Sparks - 0.2 Mb
• Public Radio Broadcasting and Cultural Pluralism - South Africa’s case of ‘Holy Cultural Matrimony’ - Brilliant Mhlanga - 0.2 Mb
• The Use of the Internet by Islamic Social Movements in Collective Action: The Case of Justice and Charity - Mohamed Ben Moussa - 0.2 Mb
• ‘You Can’t Hide from the Things that You’ve Done Anymore’: Battlestar Galactica and the Clash of Civilizations Debate - Eric Repphun - 0.1 Mb
• Doing Media History in 2050 - Gabriele Balbi - 0.2 Mb
• Women Candidates and Arab Media: Challenging Conservatism in Bahraini Politics - May Al Otaibi and Amos Owen Thomas - 5.4 Mb
• Book review - Carlos Barreneche - 0.1 Mb

Vol 8 issue 1 - Re-visiting Latin American cultural and media studies

• Editorial - Yennué Zárate - 0.1 Mb
• The Intellectual Impasse of Cultural Studies of the Media in Latin America: How to Move Forward - Mónica Szurmuk and Silvio Waisbord - 0.2 Mb
• From Latin America: Diversity, Globalization and Convergence - Jesús Martín-Barbero - 0.2 Mb
• Noticiero Univision: Coverage of the Arizona Law as a Case Study about the Construction of Diasporic Public Spheres - Gabriel A. Moreno Esparza - 0.4 Mb
• Rethinking Latin American Communicology in the Age of Nomad Culture: Transnational Consumption and Cultural Hybridizations - Jéssica Retis and Francisco Sierra Caballero - 0.1 Mb
• Latin American Urban Cultural Studies: Unique Texts, Ordinary Cities - Alejandra García Vargas and Patria Román Velázquez - 0.1 Mb
• Rediscovering the Latin American Roots of Participatory Communication for Social Change - Alejandro Barranquero - 0.2 Mb
• Media and Democracy in Brazil - Carolina Matos - 0.1 Mb
• Book review - Castells, Manuel (2009) Communication Power - 0.1 Mb
• Book review - Perlman, Janice (2010) Favela. Four Decades of Living on the Edge in Rio de Janeiro - 0.1 Mb

Vol 7 issue 2 - Ambiguities of censorship. An international perspective

• Editorial - Benedetta Brevini, Katharina Nötzold - 0.1 Mb
• Censorship and Orwell’s Legacy. Interview with Jean Seaton - Benedetta Brevini - 0.1 Mb
• Ambiguities and Imperatives of Market Censorship: The Brief History of a Critical Concept - Sue Curry Jansen - 0.2 Mb
• Untold Stories. European Funding of Middle Eastern Films - Irit Neidhardt - 0.2 Mb
• The Full Repertoire: News and Press Management vs. Media Watchdog - Rui Alexandre Novais - 0.2 Mb
• Canadian Mines, Indigenous Communities and Accountability in Guatemala.: What Role for the Media? - Cara Haberman - 0.5 Mb
• Justifying Self-censorship: A Perspective from Ethiopia - Terje Skjerdal - 0.3 Mb
• Political Interferences on the Airwaves: The BBC Broadcasts to Portugal during the Second World War - Nelson Ribeiro - 0.2 Mb
• Book review - Freedom of Speech Abridged? Cultural, Legal and Philosophical Challenges - Lawrie Hallett - 0.1 Mb

Vol 7 issue 1 - Chinese media: Culture, autonomy and the state

• Editorial - George Dawei Guo - 0.1 Mb
• A Cultural Approach to DRM Implementation in China - Benjamin J. Bates and Tao Liu - 0.2 Mb
• Digital Television Switchover: China Goes Its Own Way - Michael Starks - 0.2 Mb
• Alliance and Tactics among Government, Media Organizations and Journalists: A Description of Public Opinion Supervision in China - Wusan Sun - 0.2 Mb
• How Big is the Cage? An Examination of Local Press Autonomy in China - Haiyan Wang - 0.2 Mb
• Chinese TV Changes Face: The Role of Independents - Bonnie Rui-Liu - 0.2 Mb
• Cultural Encounters between China and Britain: Key Factors in the Formation and Transfer of Ideas and Values - Greg Philo - 0.2 Mb
• Book review - Fake Globalization - Philip_Lin - 0.1 Mb

Vol 6 issue 2 - The Herman-Chomsky propaganda model 20 years on

• Editorial - Andrew Mullen - 0.2 Mb
• The Propaganda Model after 20 Years: Interview with Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky - Andrew Mullen - 0.2 Mb
• Manufacturing Consistency: Social Science, Rhetoric and Chomsky’s Critique - Alison Edgley - 0.2 Mb
• The Propaganda Model: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations - Jeffery Klaehn - 0.2 Mb
• ‘Smooth Operator?’ The Propaganda Model and Moments of Crisis - Des Freedman - 0.4 Mb
• Market Manipulation? Applying the Propaganda Model to Financial Media Reporting - Peter A Thompson - 0.3 Mb
• Is it Either Or? Professional Ideology vs. Corporate-media Constraints - Florian Zollmann - 0.2 Mb
• A Political Economy of News Media in the People’s Republic of China - Jesse_Owen Hearns-Branaman - 0.3 Mb
• A Propaganda Model for Hollywood - Matthew Alford - 0.2 Mb
• Book review - Newspeak in the 21st Century - Lawrie Hallett - 0.1 Mb

Vol 6 issue 1 - Media laws and arab news

• Counter-terrorism Laws: How They Affect Media Freedom and News Reporting - Lawrence McNamara - 0.2 Mb
• The War on Ideas: Alhurra and US International Broadcasting Law in the War on Terror - William Youmans - 0.3 Mb
• Testing Legal Boundaries within Arab Media Hubs: Reporting, Law and Politics in Three Media Cities - Pawel Krzysiek - 0.2 Mb
• Arab Citizen Journalism in Action: Challenging Mainstream Media, Authorities and Media Laws - Naila Hamdi - 0.2 Mb
• Forum - Responsible Freedom: The Arab States Charter for Satellite Broadcasting - Hussein Y.Amin - 0.1 Mb
• Forum - The Arab Charter for Satellite Broadcasting A Reply to Hussein Amin - Hani Shukrallah - 0.1 Mb
• Book review - Arab Media Power and Weakness - Sune Haugbolle - 0.1 Mb
• 002In Democracys Shadow: The New Independent Press and the Limits of Media Reform in Morocco - Aziz Douai - 0.2 Mb
• 001Editorial - Katharina Nötzold - 0.1 Mb

Vol 5 issue 3 - Media and foreign policy

• Editorial - Janne Halttu - 0.1 Mb
• Unamerican Views: why US-developed models of press-state relations do not apply to the rest of the world - Cristina Archetti - 0.3 Mb
• What third world? Changing photographic representation of international news in Slovene elite press (1980-2006) - Ilija Tomani Trivunda - 0.2 Mb
• BBCs Panorama, war coverage and the Westminster consensus - David McQueen - 0.2 Mb
• Surveying the Battlefield: Mapping the different arguments and positions of the Iraq War debate through Frame Analysis - Ian Taylor - 0.2 Mb
• Template Revolutions: Marketing US Regime Change in Eastern Europe - Gerald Sussman and Sascha Krader - 0.2 Mb
• Book review - Filmosophy - Sylvie Magerstadt - 0.1 Mb

Vol 5 issue 2 - News journalism and transition

• Editorial - Mascha Brichta and Sofia Johansson - 0.1 Mb
• Understanding Journalism as Newswork: How it Changes, and how it Remains the Same - Mark Deuze - 0.2 Mb
• User Generated Content in the Newsroom: Professional and Organisational Constraints on Participatory Journalism - Steve Paulussen and Pieter Ugille - 0.2 Mb
• Drifting Apart? European Journalists and their Audiences - Monika Metykova - 0.2 Mb
• The Reluctant Audience: Online Participation in the Swedish Journalistic Context - Annika Bergström - 0.2 Mb
• Online Methodology: Analysing News Flows of Online Journalism - Robert Kautsky and Andreas Widholm - 0.2 Mb
• Book review - American Carnival: Journalism Under Siege in an Age of New Media - Mattias Hessérus - 0.1 Mb
• Book review - Flat Earth News - Kristin Bredemeier-Garson - 0.1 Mb
• Book review News as Entertainment: The Rise of Global Infotainment - Lothar Mikos - 0.1 Mb

Vol 5 issue 1 - Community radio

• Editorial - Salvatore Scifo - 0.1 Mb
• Sounds like a whisper: Australian Community Broadcasting hosts a quiet revolution - Kerrie Foxwell, Jacqui Ewart, Susan Forde and Michael Meadows - 0.2 Mb
• What makes you happy? Insights into feelings and muses of community radio practitioners - Stefania Milan - 0.4 Mb
• Reinventing the Wheel vs. Grinding the Same Old Axe: An Ethnographic View of the Students and Community Members at a Massachusetts College Radio Station - Dickie Wallace - 0.3 Mb
• The Politics of Talk on German Free Radio Stations - Jan Pinseler - 0.2 Mb
• Turkish Radio broadcasts in The Netherlands: Community Communication or Ethnic Market? - Ozden Cankaya, H.Serhat Gney and M.Emre Kksalan - 0.2 Mb
• Book review - The Alternative Media Handbook and Understanding Alternative Media - Lawrie Hallett - 0.1 Mb
• Book review - Other Voices. The Struggle for Community Radio in India - Fredrik Stiernstedt - 0.1 Mb

Vol 4 issue 4 - Comparing media histories

• Editorial - Daniel Day - 0.1 Mb
• Contesting Media History - Allison Cavanagh - 0.2 Mb
• Selling the Authentic Past: The New York Times and the Branding of History - Carolyn Kitch - 0.2 Mb
• The 1940 Soviet Coup-dtat in the Estonian Communist Press: Constructing History to Reshape Collective Memory - Tiiu Kreegipuu and Epp Lauk - 0.3 Mb
• Watching Television in Australia: A Story of Innocence and Experience - Susan Bye - 0.2 Mb
• Media History in a Peripheric Modernity: Television in Argentina 1951-1969 - Mirta Varela - 0.2 Mb
• Welcome to the Sitcom School: A Globalized Outlook for the Study of Television History - Sharon Shahaf - 0.2 Mb
• Book review - The Parlour and The Suburb. Domestic Identities, Class, Femininity and Modernity - Kristin Skoog - 0.1 Mb

Vol 4 issue 3 - Broadcasting policy and globalisation

• Editorial - Alessandro D'Arma - 0.1 Mb
• Global and Local Forces for a Nation-State Yet to be Born: The Paradoxes of Palestinian Television Policies - Helga Tawil-Souri - 0.2 Mb
• From Isolation to Consensus: The UKs Role in the Revision Process of the Television Without Frontiers Directive - Granville Williams - 0.2 Mb
• Trade Liberalisation and Australias Television Cultural Policy: Power and Interest in National Television Policy - Nick Herd - 0.2 Mb
• Broadcasting Reforms in Southern Africa: Continuity and Change in the Era of Globalisation - Nkosi Ndlela - 0.2 Mb
• The Regulation of Pay Television in East Asia: A Comparative Study - Ki-Sung Kwak - 0.2 Mb
• Devolution in Policy and Practice: A Study of River City and BBC Scotland - Lynne Hibberd - 0.2 Mb
• Book review - Islam in Urban America: Sunni Muslims in Chicago - Mohamed Ben Moussa - 0.1 Mb

Vol 4 issue 2 - The media and phenomonology

• Editorial - Anthony McNicholas and Tarik Sabry - 0.1 Mb
• An Interview with Professor Paddy Scannell, Oxford, July 2006 - Tarik Sabry - 0.2 Mb
• What happens when I turn on the TV set? - Lars Nyre - 0.2 Mb
• Televisions Liveness: A Lesson from the 1920s - Wendy Daviss - 0.2 Mb
• Seven Decades of Radio Listening in Nepal - Shekhar Parajulee - 0.2 Mb
• Extending and Refining the Propaganda Model - Colin Sparks - 0.2 Mb
• Open Access scientific, electronic publishing and Bakhtinian dialogism - Robert W.Vaagan - 0.2 Mb
• Book review - New News out of Africa: Uncovering Africas Renaissance - Suzanne Franks - 0.1 Mb

Vol 4 issue 1 - Media and religion

• Editorial - Anthony McNicholas - 0.1 Mb
• He Who Has Ears to Hear, Let Him Hear: Christian Pedagogy and Religious Broadcasting During the Inter-War Period - Michael Bailey - 0.2 Mb
• Coverage of Complex Theoretical Content. The Case of Dominus Iesus - Diego Contreras - 0.2 Mb
• Catholicism and Nationalism in Ireland: From Fusion in the 19th Century to Separation in the 21st Century - Timothy J. White - 0.2 Mb
• Religion in Nigerian Home Video Films - Dominica Dipio - 0.2 Mb
• Mass Media and Religion in Japan: Mediating the Leaders Image Mass Media and Religion in Japan: Mediating the Leaders Image - Erica Baffelli - 0.2 Mb
• Book review - Religion and Film: An Introduction - Maria Way - 0.1 Mb
• Book review - Religion in a Changing Europe: Between Pluralism and Fundamentalism - Maria Way - 0.1 Mb

Vol 3 issue 3 - Narrations and narrators of Europe

• Editorial - Burcu Sumer and Aybige Yilmaz - 0.1 Mb
• Balkanism in Political Context: From the Ottoman Empire to the EU - Andrew Hammond - 0.2 Mb
• Immigration and European Integration in Greece: Greek National Identity and the Other Within - Antonis Sapountzis et al - 0.2 Mb
• Narrating the Ghetto, Narrating Europe: From Berlin, Kreuzberg to the Banlieues of Paris - Maria Stehle - 0.3 Mb
• What Does It Mean to Be an EU Citizen? How News Media Construct Civic and Cultural Concepts of Europe - Sanna Inthorn - 0.2 Mb
• The Whole Greater than the Sum of Its Parts: An Investigation into the Existence of European Identity, Its Unity and Its Divisions - Ruxandra Trandafoiu - 0.2 Mb
• Book review - Advertising's War on Terrorism - Nadia Kaneva - 0.1 Mb
• Book review - The Soap Opera Paradigm - Anthony McNicholas - 0.1 Mb

Vol 3 issue 2 - Islam and the media

• Editorial - Anthony McNicholas - 0.1 Mb
• Religion and Media in Iran: The Imperative of the Market and the Straightjacket of Islamism - Gholam Khiabany - 0.2 Mb
• What it Means to be a Shiite in Lebanon: Al Manar and the Imagined Community of Resistance - Dina Matar and Farah Dakhlallah - 0.2 Mb
• Contesting Megawati: The Mediation of Islam and Nation in Times of Political Transition - Sonja van Wichelen - 0.2 Mb
• To Veil or Not to Veil: Gender and Religion on Al-Jazeera's Islamic Law and Life - Dima Dabbous-Sensenig - 0.3 Mb
• Mediated Nationalisms and 'Islamic Terror': The Articulation of Religious and Postcolonial Secular Nationalisms in India - Srinivas Lankala - 0.2 Mb
• Press Freedom and Religious Respect: A Debate Over the Publication of the Cartoons of the Prophet in Jyllands-Posten - Rania Al-Malky, Steven Barnett, Des Freedman, Ajmal Masroor, Julian Petley, Anthony McNicholas - 0.2 Mb
• Book review - Implications of the Sacred in (Post) Modern Media - Maria Way - 0.1 Mb

Vol 3 issue 1 - Media and china

• Editorial - Xin Xin - 0.1 Mb
• Exporting Chinese Culture: Industry Financing Models in Film and Television - Michael Keane - 0.2 Mb
• The Concept of 'Local' in Local Chinese Television: A Case Study of Southwest China's Chongqing Television - Zhang Xin - 0.2 Mb
• A Small Chinese Town Television Station's Struggle for Survival: How a New Institutional Arrangement Came into Being - Sun Wusan - 0.2 Mb
• Guiding Hand: The Role of the CCP Central Propaganda Department in the Current Era - Anne-Marie Brady - 0.2 Mb
• Constructing the Hero: Nationalistic News Narratives in Contemporary China - Peter C. Pugsley - 0.2 Mb
• Chinese Women in the Official Chinese Press: Discursive Constructions of Gender in Service to the State - Cara Wallis - 0.2 Mb
• Book review - Media and Globalization - Daya Thussu - 0.1 Mb
• Book review - Destructing Despotism:Research on Neo-people-oriented Thought in Late Ming & Early Qing Dynasty - Xia Qianfang - 0.1 Mb

Vol 2 special issue

• Editorial - Winston Mano - 0.1 Mb
• The rise of patriotic journalism in Zimbabwe and its possible implications - Terence Ranger - 0.1 Mb
• Political journalism the Zimbabwean way: Experiences from the 2000 election campaign - Ragner Waldahl - 0.2 Mb
• Media games and a shifting of spaces for political communication in Zimbabwe - Eric M. Mazango - 0.2 Mb
• Press freedom, professionalism and proprietorship: Behind the Zimbabwean media divide - Winston Mano - 0.2 Mb
• The African paradigm: The coverage of the Zimbabwean crisis in the Norwegian media - Nkosi Ndlela - 0.2 Mb
• Remnants of empire? British media reporting on Zimbabwe - Wendy Willems - 0.2 Mb
• The 'independent press' and the fight for democracy in Zimbabwe: A critical analysis of the banned Daily News - Dumisani Moyo - 0.2 Mb
• Reporting Africa: Problems and perspectives - Suzanne Franks - 0.1 Mb

Vol 2 issue 2 - Mediating celebrity

• Editorial - Sofia Johansson - 0.1 Mb
• 'Starring Dyer?': Re-visiting Star Studies and Contemporary Celebrity Culture - Su Holmes - 0.2 Mb
• EastEnders and the Manufacture of Celebrity - Anthony McNicholas - 0.2 Mb
• The Undead: Life on the D-List - Gareth Palmer - 0.2 Mb
• Media Darlings and Falling Stars: Celebrity and the Reporting of Political Leaders - Kathie Muir - 0.2 Mb
• Brand "W" and the Marketing of an American President: Or, Logos as Logos - Jeremy Hockett - 0.5 Mb
• Experiencing Television Fandom: Notes on the Tension Between Singularization and Massification in Brazil - Maria Claudia Coelho - 0.2 Mb
• Book review - Radio in New Zealand - Rosser Johnson - 0.1 Mb
• Book review - Television and Sexuality - Henrik Ornebring - 0.1 Mb

Vol 2 issue 1 - Alternative and political media practice

• Editorial - Pantelis Vatikiotis and Anastasia Kavada - 0.1 Mb
• Communication Theory and Alternative Media - Pantelis Vatikiotis - 0.3 Mb
• Where the 'Hyper Local' and the 'Hyper Global' Meet: Case Study of Indymedia Radio - Kate Coyer - 0.2 Mb
• Protest email as Alternative Media in the 2004 U.S. Presidential Campaign - D.Travers Scott - 0.2 Mb
• Exploring the Role of the Internet in the 'Movement for Alternative Globalization': the Case of the Paris 2003 European Social Forum - Anastasia Kavada - 0.2 Mb
• Low Conspiracy? Government Intervention in the BBC - Peter Goodwin - 0.2 Mb
• Book review - NGOs in Africa - Winston Mano - 0.1 Mb
• Book review - White Weddings in Taiwan - Aybige Yilmaz - 0.1 Mb
• Book review - Cinema and Memory - Barbara Knorpp - 0.1 Mb

Vol 1 issue 1 - Media and migration

• Editorial - Tarik Sabry - 0.1 Mb
• `Looking for a more modern life...' The role of television in the Albanian migration to Italy - Nick Mai - 0.2 Mb
• Young Japanese "Cultural Migrants" and the Construction of their Imagined West - Yuiko Fujita - 0.2 Mb
• Young Amazighs, the Land of Eromen and Pamela Anderson as the embodiment of modernity - Tarik Sabry - 0.2 Mb
• Rethinking the concept of diaspora: mobility, connectivity and communication in a globalised world - Roza Tsagarousianou - 0.2 Mb
• Victims, Villains and Guardian Angels Batman suicide stories - Aybige Yilmaz - 0.3 Mb
• Love and Communication: A Review Essay - Paddy Scannell - 0.1 Mb
• Book review - Ian Goodwin - 0.1 Mb