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Larry Gross
USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
Managing Editor
Arlene Luck
USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
Book Review Editors
Gustavo Cardoso
University of Lisbon
Josh Kun
USC Annenberg School
Jack Linchuan Qiu
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Editorial Board
Sean Aday
George Washington University
Jonathan David Aronson
USC Annenberg School
Sandra Ball-Rokeach
USC Annenberg School
Svetlana Balmaeva
Liberal Arts University
Sarah Banet-Weiser
USC Annenberg School
Howard S. Becker
San Francisco
Yochai Benkler
Harvard Law School
Lance Bennett
University of Washington
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UC Santa Barbara
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Northwestern University
Jennings Bryant
University of Alabama
Manuel Castells
USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
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University of Michigan
John D.H. Downing
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Oxford University
Richard Dyer
University of London
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Lingnan University
Oscar Gandy
Annenberg/ University of Pennsylvania
Dilip Gaonkar
Northwestern University
Ian Glenn
University of Cape Town
Trudy Govier
University of Lethbridge
Sergio Godoy
Universidad Catolica de Chile
Larry Grossberg
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Universidad Iberoamericana
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University of Illinois-Chicago
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Annenberg/ University of Pennsylvania
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UCLA
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London School of Economics
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London School of Economics
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University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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University of California, Riverside
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USC Annenberg School
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Northeastern University
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University of Georgia
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University of Southern California
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University of Pennsylvania
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Northwestern University
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Centre for Media Studies, New Delhi
Michael Renov
USC Cinematic Arts
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USC Cinematic Arts
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Columbia University
Jonathan Sterne
McGill University
John Thompson
Cambridge University
Yariv Tsfati
University of Haifa
Ingrid Volkmer
University of Melbourne
Simon J. Wilkie
USC Economics
Barbie Zelizer
Annenberg/ University of Pennsylvania
Yuezhi Zhao
Simon Fraser University

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The International Journal of Communication is an online, multi-media, academic journal that adheres to the highest standards of peer review and engages established and emerging scholars from anywhere in the world. The International Journal of Communication is an interdisciplinary journal that, while centered in communication, is open and welcoming to contributions from the many disciplines and approaches that meet at the crossroads that is communication study. We encourage readers to REGISTER now. International Journal of Communication is proud to be indexed on the following indexing sources: Thomson Reuters Social Sciences indexing to include SSCI, SCI, ISI — EBSCOhost (EBSCO) — Elsevier — Genamics Journal Seek (GJS) — Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) — Google Scholar — International Association for Media & Communication Research (IAMCR) — IGT Knowledge Center — Scholarly Exchange — Univerciencia.

Vol 6 (2012)

Table of Contents

Articles

The Membership Life Cycle in Online Support Groups Abstract PDF
Galit Nimrod 23 pgs.
Who Participates and How? Twitter as an Arena for Public Debate about the Data Retention Directive in Norway Abstract PDF
Hallvard Moe 23 pgs.
Collective Memory and the Stranger: Remembering and Forgetting the 1918 Finnish Civil War Abstract PDF
Piotr M. Szpunar 21 pgs.
Managing Unexpected Publics Online: The Challenge of Targeting Specific Groups with the Wide-Reaching Tool of the Internet Abstract PDF
Daren C. Brabham 20 pgs.
Media at the Margins: Policy and Practice in American, Canadian, and British Community Television Abstract PDF
Christopher Ali 20 pgs.
Face and Facework: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Managing Politeness Norms in U.S. and Korea Abstract PDF
Wonsun Kim, Xiaowen Guan, Hee Sun Park 19 pgs.
Media and Transitional Justice: Toward a Systematic Approach Abstract PDF
Monroe Price, Nicole Stremlau 23 pgs.
Who Do They Think They’re Talking To? Framings of the Audience by Social Media Users Abstract PDF
David Russell Brake 21 pgs.
Notes on Hype Abstract PDF
Devon Powers 17 pgs.
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Special Sections

Info Capacity| Introduction—How to Measure “How Much Information”? PDF
Martin Hilbert 14 pgs.
Info Capacity| Tracking the Flow of Information into the Home: An Empirical Assessment of the Digital Revolution in the U.S. from 1960–2005 Abstract PDF
W. Russell Neuman, Yong Jin Park, Elliot Panek 20 pgs.
Info Capacity| International Production and Dissemination of Information: Results, Methodological Issues and Statistical Perspectives Abstract PDF
David Bounie, Laurent Gille 21 pgs.
Info Capacity| Measuring Consumer Information Abstract PDF
Roger Bohn, James E. Short 21 pgs.
Info Capacity| How to Measure the World’s Technological Capacity to Communicate, Store and Compute Information? Part I: Results and Scope Abstract PDF
Martin Hilbert, Priscila López 24 pgs.
Info Capacity| How to Measure the World’s Technological Capacity to Communicate, Store and Compute Information? Part II: Measurement Unit and Conclusions Abstract PDF
Martin Hilbert, Priscila López 20 pgs.
Info Capacity| The Volume and Value of Information Abstract PDF
Andrew Odlyzko 16 pgs.
Info Capacity| One in a Million: Information vs. Attention Abstract PDF
Michael Lesk 13 pgs.
Info Capacity| A Meta Study of 26 “How Much Information” Studies: Sine Qua Nons and Solutions Abstract PDF
István Dienes 33 pgs.
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Features

The Happiness Game| Introduction — The Pursuit of Happiness PDF
Paddy Scannell 8 pgs.
The Happiness Game| The Happiness Game: Notes on the Katz Canon PDF
John Durham Peters 7 pgs.
The Happiness Game| Mail and Females at the Bureau: The Happiness Game in the Gendered Contexts of Early U.S. Communications Research PDF
Peter Simonson 13 pgs.
The Happiness Game| In Pursuit of an MA PDF
Elihu Katz 7 pgs.
The Happiness Game| "THE HAPPINESS GAME" A Content Analysis of Radio Fan Mail (1950) PDF
Elihu Katz 149 pgs.
The Murdoch Media Empire and the Spectacle of Scandal PDF
Douglas Kellner 32 pgs.
Transnational Connections Symposium: Challenges and Opportunities for Political Communication Research | Introduction PDF
Magdalena Wojcieszak 11 pgs.
Transnational Connections| Shifting Contours in Political Communication Research PDF
Patricia Moy, Bruce Bimber, Andrew Rojecki, Michael A. Xenos, Shanto Iyengar 8 pgs.
Transnational Connections| On the Dichotomies of Political Communication PDF
Patricia Moy, Gianpietro Mazzoleni, Hernando Rojas 6 pgs.
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Book Reviews

Dan Breznitz & Michael Murphree, The Run of the Red Queen: Government, Innovation, Globalization, and Economic Growth in China PDF
Reviewed by Bei Yan, Ramya Mushti 5 pgs.
Jason Farman, Mobile Interface Theory: Embodied Space and Locative Media PDF
Reviewed by Dan Hassoun 3 pgs.
Television as a Site, Place, and Space PDF
Reviewed by Micky Lee 7 pgs.
Kenneth J. Gergen, Relational Being: Beyond Self and Community PDF
Reviewed by Zizi Papacharissi 4 pgs.
Standing Out in a Crowded Field—The Global Media Anthology Turns 15 PDF
Reviewed by Nitin Govil 6 pgs.
Media and Communication Activism PDF
Reviewed by Micky Lee 6 pgs.
David J. Grimshaw and Shalini Kala (Eds.), Strengthening Rural Livelihoods: The impact of information and communication technologies in Asia PDF
Reviewed by Diana Nicholson 3 pgs.
Benjamin Shepard, Play, Creativity, and Social Movements: If I Can't Dance, It's Not My Revolution PDF
Reviewed by Stephen Duncombe 3 pgs.
Roopali Mukherjee and Sarah Banet-Weiser, Commodity Activism: Cultural Resistance in Neoliberal Times PDF
Reviewed by Stephen Duncombe 4 pgs.
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Vol 5 (2011)

Table of Contents

Articles

Climate Airwaves: Community Radio, Action Research and Advocacy for Climate Justice in Ghana Abstract PDF
Blane Harvey 24 pgs.
Catharsis and Community: Divergent Motivations for Audience Participation in Online Newspapers and Blogs Abstract PDF
Eugenia Mitchelstein 21 pgs.
Fans, Romans, Countrymen: Soccer Fandom and Civic Identity in Contemporary Rome Abstract PDF
Matthew Guschwan 24 pgs.
Determinants of Internet Use in Iraq Abstract PDF
Firas H. Al-Hammadany, Almas Heshmati 23 pgs.
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Special Sections

Network Theory | Prologue to the Special Section| Network Multidimensionality in the Digital Age PDF
Manuel Castells, Peter Monge, Noshir Contractor 6 pgs.
Network Theory| Introduction to the Workshop: The Promise of Network Theory PDF
Manuel Castells 2 pgs.
Network Theory| A Network Theory of Power Abstract PDF
Manuel Castells 15 pgs.
Network Theory| Fuzziness of Inclusion/Exclusion in Networks Abstract PDF
Karine Nahon 17 pgs.
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Features

Academic Labor| The Politics of Academic Labor in Communication Studies: A Re-Introduction PDF
Jonathan Sterne 20 pgs.
Academic Labor| Academic Labor and the Literature of Discontent in Communication PDF
Thomas A. Discenna 10 pgs.
Academic Labor| The Contingency of (Some) Academic Labor: Communication Studies and the Cognitariat PDF
Toby Miller 6 pgs.
Academic Labor| The Uneasy Institutional Position of Communication and Media Studies and Its Impact on Academic Labor PDF
Michael Griffin 10 pgs.
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Book Reviews

Carrie A. Rentschler: Second Wounds: Victims’ Rights and the Media in the U.S. PDF
Reviewed by Jennifer Petersen 3 pgs.
Journalism’s Future: “Collapse” Versus “Transformation” PDF
Reviewed by Katherine Fink 4 pgs.
Strategies of Civility and Incivility PDF
Reviewed by G. Thomas Goodnight 4 pgs.
Wendy S. Hesford: Spectacular Rhetorics PDF
Reviewed by Erin Kamler 3 pgs.
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