Dear OURMedia members,
Welcome to the second issue of PLATFORM: Journal of Media and
Communication, an online academic journal edited and comprised of work by
a global community of graduate media and communications emerging scholars.
PLATFORM: Journal of Media and Communication
Volume 2 Issue 1 (January 2010)
OUT ONLINE!
http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/platform/vol2_1.htm
::: CONTENTS :::
1. Editorial
Amira Firdaus and Dale Leorke. University of Melbourne, Australia
2. 'Cultural Globalisation and Challenges to Traditional Communication
Theories'
Lauren Movius. University of Southern California, USA
This article reviews existing traditional media theories, and analyses the
challenges that the current developments of globalisation present to them.
The article provides a short history of the concept of globalisation, and
reviews the primary theoretical approaches to globalisation that are
critical to communication scholars. The article also examines how
globalisation challenges the ways in which media and communication have
traditionally been theorised. Specifically, the cultural imperialism
theory is discussed, as well as the main challenges to the theory.
Audience reception studies, which focus on how audiences negotiate meaning
differently in specific cultural contexts, are highlighted as the key
critique of cultural imperialism.
3. “Tonight’s Secret Ingredient Is...”: Iron Chef America as Media Ritual
Christopher Bell. University of Colorado-Boulder, USA
The Food Network program Iron Chef America creates a media ritual space in
which public displays of virtuosity and the engendering of parasocial
relationships combine to present both the media ritual itself (the cooking
competition) and the media ritual it engenders (the viewing of and
parasocial interaction with the cooking competition). These rituals though
separate and distinct are inextricably tied together. Couched in the
ritual tropes and memes of sporting events, Iron Chef America is an
attempt to mediate mundane activity by transforming it into competitive
action. As a result, the program ritualises the ‘deep play’ aspect of
cooking as spectator sport, and in the process, reinforces the ritual
structures of American society, celebrating the triumph of skill,
determination, and hard work so valued in contemporary USA.
4. Interview with Daniel Dayan
'Bearing Witness - Between the Professional and the Personal: An Interview
with Daniel Dayan'
Esther Chin. University of Melbourne, Australia
In this stimulating interview by Esther Chin, Dayan discusses his lifelong
passion bearing witness to history as it is made. In addition to
discussing contemporary applications of ‘media events’, Dayan provides us
with a comprehensive introduction to his areas of interest, discussing
anti- Semitism, transformations in the discourse of terrorism, ‘visuality’
and ‘witnessing’, among other thought provoking topics. Dayan also
reflects on his early academic career, taking us back to his exposure as a
student to distinguished scholars at the Sorbonne and L’Ecole des Hautes
Etudes en Sciences Sociales in France, and at Stanford University in the
US. Dayan also shares with us how his personal life experiences are
intertwined with his professional work.
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PLATFORM is a new international peer-review graduate journal, available
online through open-access.
PLATFORM is refereed by an international board of established and emerging
scholars working across diverse paradigms in Media and Communication. It
is edited by graduate students at the University of Melbourne, and
published by the School of Culture and Communication, University of
Melbourne.
The aims of PLATFORM include:
* To provide a platform for media and communications graduate student
researchers to showcase, share, and support the work of one
anotherthrough publication, peer-review, and comments;
* To provide a platform for emerging media and communications scholars
to build a publication record and to contribute subsequently to other
academic publications;
* To increase scholarly appreciation of media and communications
research across diverse theoretical, methodological, and empirical
interests; and
* To encourage international awareness and collaboration through the
discussion of issues associated with the rising significance of
multiple media and communications platforms for societies and
individuals in and across various globalised and localised
environments.
[EDITORS]
Esther Chin (Founding Editor, Editor-in-Chief, Vol. 1)
Amira Firdaus (Editor-in-Chief, Vol. 2 Issue 1)
Dale Leorke (Editor-in-Chief, Vol. 2 Issue 2)
Gin Chee Tong
Sandy Joy Watson (Essay Section)
Elias Mokua Nyatete
[WEBSITE, DESIGN & CREATIVE EDITOR]
Gin Chee Tong
[COPY EDITORS]
Marie Christoulaki
Siobhan Argent
[COPYRIGHT & EXTERNAL LIASION]
Blaise Murphet
[JOURNAL MANAGER]
Akina Mikami
[ADVISROY BOARD]
Ingrid Volkmer, University of Melbourne, Australia
Sean Cubitt, University of Melbourne, Australia
Jenny Lee, University of Melbourne, Australia
Brian Fitzgerlad, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
[EDITORIAL BOARD]
Benjamin De Cleen, Young Scholars Network, ECREA
Joanna Redden, Young Scholars Network, ECREA
Tamara Witschge, Young Scholars Network, ECREA
Stefania Milan, Emerging Scholars Network, IAMCR
Michele Cheng Hoon Khoo, Student Board, ICA
Malte Hinrichsen, Student Board, ICA
Diana Bossio, ANZCA
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