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• Rebecca G. Adams

  University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA

• Ron Anderson

  University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, USA

• Denise Anthony

  Dartmouth College, USA

• Alejandro Artopoulos

  Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina

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  Illinois State University, USA

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  Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina

• Grant Blank

  Oxford Internet Institute, UK

• Geoffrey Bowker

  Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, USA

• Casey Brienza

  City University London, UK

• Jonathan Bright

  Oxford Internet Institute, UK

• Manuel Castells

  University of Southern California, USA

• Mary Chayko

  Rutgers University, USA

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  University of Texas, Austin USA

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  University of Denver, USA

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  James Madison University, USA

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  University of the West Indies in Jamaica, Jamaica

• Jennifer Earl

  University of Arizona, USA

• Hernan Galperin

  Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina

• Joshua Gamson

  University of San Francisco, USA

• Blanca Gordo

  University of California at Berkeley, USA

• Tim Hale

  Partners Center for Connected Health and Harvard Medical School, USA

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  University of California, Los Angeles, USA

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  University of British Columbia, Canada

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  Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

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  RMIT University, Australia

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  University of North Texas, USA

• Samantha Nogueira Joyce

  St. Mary’s College of California, USA

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  Rutgers University, USA

• Nalini Kotamraju

  IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

• Robert LaRose

  Michigan State University, USA

• Sayonara Leal

  University of Brasilia, Brazil

• Brian Loader

  University of York, UK

• Monica Martinez

  Universidade de Sorocaba, Brazil

• Noah McClain

  Illinois Institute of Technology, USA

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  University of Haifa, Israel

• Sonia Virgínia Moreira

  Universidade do Estado Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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  University of Washington, USA

• Christena Nippert-Eng

  Illinois Institute of Technology, USA

• Hiroshi Ono

  Texas A&M University, USA

• Heloisa Pait

  Universidade Estadual Paulista

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  University of Oregon, USA

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  Texas A&M University, USA

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  University of Western Ontario, Canada

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  University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

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  University of Redlands, USA

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  The New School, USA

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  University of Chicago, USA

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  The University of Texas at Austin, USA

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  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA

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  NetLab, University of Toronto, Canada

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  George Mason University, USA

• Julie B. Wiest

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania, USA

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  University of Liverpool, UK

Title Page

Studies in Media and Communications Volume 16

Media and Power in International Contexts: Perspectives on Agency and Identity

Editors

Apryl A. Williams

Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Susquehanna University, USA

Ruth Tsuria

Department of Communication, Journalism, and PR, Seton Hall University, USA

Laura Robinson

Department of Sociology, Santa Clara University, USA

ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Aneka Khilnani

Department of Physiology, Georgetown University, USA

United Kingdom – North America – Japan India – Malaysia – China

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Contents

Editor Biographies

Contributor Biographies

Naziat Choudhury is an Associate Professor at the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh. She received her Masters from University of Calgary, Canada and PhD from Monash University, Australia. Her research interests include intercultural communication as well as the social and cultural aspect of social media and internet use. She is currently working on social media in the context of China.

Hilde G. Corneliussen is a Senior Researcher at Vestlandsforsking/Wester Norway Research Institute. She has a MA in History and a Doctoral degree (2003) in Humanistic Informatics from University of Bergen, where she was an Associate Professor from 2003 to 2016. Corneliussen’s main research interest is in gender, identity, and technology, including topics like computing history, computing education, and computer games and with focus on mechanisms of exclusion and strategies for inclusion of women and minorities. Her publications include the edited anthology Digital Culture, Play, and Identity: A World of Warcraft Reader (MIT Press, 2008) with co-editor Jill W. Rettberg and the monograph Gender-Technology Relations: Exploring Stability and Change (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), and more recently articles on games, social media, and programming for children.

Marissa Joanna Doshi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Hope College. Her research draws on feminist perspectives to examine the creative and cultural dimensions of media and technology practices. She is also interested in intercultural communication and issues of representation in mass media. Her work has been published in journals such as Journal of Communication Inquiry, Communication Research, and Journal of International and Intercultural Communication.

Carol Azungi Dralega is an Associate Professor in Media Studies at NLA University College and Senior Researcher at Western Norway Research Institute. She received her MPhil and PhD from the Media Studies Department, University of Oslo, Norway. Her research interests include media, information and communication technologies, marginalization and social change, changes and continuities in relation to gendered careers within and outside academia in the context of technology driven economies – such as Norway. She is currently working on gaming, gender, intersectionality, and technology in the context of Norway.

Haley Gentile works with FSU’s Victim Advocate Program as an on-call Advocate who serves students who have survived power-based personal violence. In 2015, she completed her Masters of Science in Sociology at Florida State University, where her research interests included social movements, political sociology, and inequality. She has co-authored articles in Symbolic Interaction and Sociological Perspectives, a co-authored book chapter in Letting Go: Feminist and Social Justice Insight and Activism (Vanderbilt University Press, 2015), and a solo-authored chapter in the forthcoming second volume of Embodied Resistance.

Adolfo Mora (PhD, The University of Texas at Austin, 2017) is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Schreiner University. His main research interests lie in the mediated representations of ethnicity/race, gender, and social class from an audience perspective. He also studies information and communication technologies by understanding the digital divide and digital inclusion efforts. His scholarship has been published in the Communication Review, Howard Journal of Communication, and open-access venues like the Journal of Media Critiques.

Alexandra Olsen is a graduate student working on her PhD in Sociology at the University of California, Irvine, where she also received her master’s degree in 2017. Her master’s research examined social problem, social control, and social institutional explanations for the differing diffusion patterns of reforms to state-level drug laws. Her more recent scholarship examines racial and socioeconomic inequality in access to drug treatment and harm reduction interventions. She makes considerable efforts to connect her research to policy discussions and to help develop new policy ideas; currently she is holding focus groups to understand how communities of color in Los Angeles have been affected by both drug use and recent local policy changes that move toward a health-centered (rather than criminal justice centered) approach to addressing problematic drug use. She also collaborates on projects looking at the relationship between children’s health outcomes and Adverse Childhood Experiences.

Rebecca A. Redmond received her PhD in Sociology from Florida State University in 2016, where she taught courses and conducted research on the role of gender in work–family balance and well-being over the life course. She joined the Duke University School of Medicine’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion as an Analyst in 2017, where she leads efforts to research and evaluate progress toward the school’s inclusion initiatives. Along with her work in institutional research, she collaborates on projects exploring gender and race/ethnicity equity in the professions, with a focus on hiring, productivity, work/life balance, and advancement.

Deana A. Rohlinger is a Professor of Sociology at Florida State University. She studies mass media, political participation, and politics in America. She is the author of Abortion Politics, Mass Media, and Social Movements in America (Cambridge University Press, 2015) as well as dozens of book chapters and research articles on social movements and mass media. Her new book, New Media and Society, will be published in 2018 by New York University Press.

Jason A. Smith is a Doctoral Candidate in Public Sociology at George Mason University whose research centers on the areas of race and media. His dissertation examines the federal communications commission and policy decisions regarding diversity for communities of color and women in the media landscape. Along with Bhoomi K. Thakore, he is a co-editor of Race and Contention in Twenty-first Century U.S. Media (Routledge, 2016). Previous research has appeared in the Journal of Black Studies, the International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, Sociation Today, and Ethnic and Racial Studies. He is on twitter occasionally (@jasonsm55).

Tara Stamm is a Teaching Faculty in Sociology and Graduate Program Director at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). She holds a PhD in Sociology from Florida State University, an MA in Practical Philosophy and Applied Ethics, and a BA in English Literature. She has been instrumental in the development and implementation of the first of its kind master’s degree in Digital Sociology at VCU. Broadly, her research and teaching spotlights the experiences and depictions of young mothers, the importance of emerging mixed-methodological techniques, and intersections of gender, education, and media in popular culture.

Melissa M. Yang, PhD, is an Associate Professor at Endicott College’s School of Communication. She is interested in research and theories on how children and families navigate and negotiate within the context of screen technologies. Her on-going research on parental mediation tries to understand how parent–child interaction shapes children’s media experiences and family dynamics. She is a true believer in community-engaged research by regularly partnering and volunteering with non-profit organizations around the Greater Boston area. She has spoken to parents and community groups about the importance of media and digital literacy. Her research has appeared in the Human Communication Research, the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, and the Encyclopedia of Media Violence. Melissa received her PhD in Communication from the Ohio State University.

Acknowledgments

All of the Emerald Studies in Media and Communications (ESMC) editorial staff extend our appreciation to the many individuals who have contributed to this volume. We would like to call attention to the often unseen work of the many individuals whose support has been indispensable in publishing all volumes in the series and this volume in particular. Regarding the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology Section in the American Sociological Association, we thank the Council for the section’s sponsorship of the series. We also thank Casey Brienza for inviting ESMC to organize the closing plenary of the 2017 Media Sociology Preconference in Montréal where panelists Wenhong Chen (UT Austin), Jeffrey Lane (Rutgers), Anabel Quan-Haase (University of Western Ontario), and Casey Brienza (Conference Founder and Organizer) shared insightful commentary. Our thanks also go to our Editorial Board members for their service disseminating our outreach and publicity. In particular, at Emerald Publishing, we deeply appreciate Jennifer McCall’s support of the series and the Emerald editorial staff’s contributions in bringing the volumes to press. Finally, we recognize Ruth Tsuria who shared her invaluable expertise and Associate Editor Aneka Khilnani for her excellent work.