Why Diverse Zines Matter: A Case Study of the People of Color Zines Project

Historically, zines have been an alternative outlet for niche topics, or writers and writing, that are ignored by mainstream media. Zines are significant because they offer the opportunity for connection, community, and networking between those interested in these diverse topics. The developments in digital technology have enabled zines to extend into the online sphere: this increased access has resulted in increased participation (by readers and writers). This paper will focus on (digital) zines that are created by people of colour (POC). In recent years, there has been much discussion and media coverage about the lack of diversity in cultural output, and various campaigns, to promote diverse writing have followed. Through a case study of the POC Zines Project—a community-building project that promotes zines by POC—this paper will look at how creators of zines are experimenting with digital formats and social platforms, and will consider what mainstream publishers can learn from this. As Radway (in: Anouk (ed) From codex to hypertext. University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, 2012) outlines “zine-ing is a social phenomenon, a form of social action driven by desires for new forms of sociability and new ways of being in the world” (p. 140): this paper will highlight the important of social collaboration and production on opening up the creative process and offering a response to the under-represented in traditional publishing.     

Soviet Rock Collection and International Counterculture Archive at the Global Resources Center of the George Washington University Libraries

ABSTRACT

This memoir is my personal story about how I created and came to curate on the International Counterculture Archive collection, which is held in the Global Resources Center of the George Washington University’s (GWU) Gelman library. The first person narrative relates my first encounters with Soviet rock culture and describes how I turned my initial interest into a Ph.D. dissertation on the subculture of Soviet hippies and traditions of Soviet rock music, which subsequently led to my later work as a librarian and curator. I tell the story of my initial encounters with the members of Soviet/Russian rock music subculture and other countercultural personalities and activists during my first trip to Moscow in 1993 to collect samples of Soviet rock music recordings and rock music zines for the European Division of the Library of Congress. During this formative trip I met with a number of counterculture producers and collectors who were instrumental in helping me build the International Counterculture Archive. Upon leaving the Library of Congress, I continued collecting Soviet/Russian countercultural materials on behalf of the Global Resources Center of GWU’s Gelman Library. I talk about the process of creating the Archive at Gelman library, about bureaucratic and financial aspects of this work, and about my many acquisition trips to Moscow, former Soviet republics, and East Central Europe. Much of the narrative centers on my work with Russian collectors and content producers and describes the type of materials that are included in the collection. I also describe how I built the collection of historical Soviet/Russian rock music recordings, focusing on the phenomenon of Soviet/Russian rock music zines and the history of the unique zine collection within the International Counterculture Archive.     

Gregory Bateson,Niklas Luhmann,and Ecological Communication

Cognizant of the evolving academic discipline of ecological communication (EC), I offer this essay as a follow-up to my previous publication—a critical exegesis of Niklas Luhmann's Ecological Communication (1989)—in this journal. Hoping to throw more light on Luhmann's formulations, I introduce and interpret those writings of Gregory Bateson that apparently influenced the former—and/or attempted to link ecology with communication. While I do not necessarily advocate either of these two thinkers' overall philosophical frameworks, I believe that they deserve attention—at the least insofar as they provide a measure of contrast to the contemporary academic discourse of EC (which remains shallow, intellectually parochial, and nonrigorous). That aside, many specific ideas developed by these two thinkers will interest a wide range of constituencies—especially those devoted to the study of information, communication, and ecology.     

The Staging of Agency in Girls Gone Wild

This paper addresses the ambivalence produced by Girls Gone Wild (GGW) as both text and social practice by interrogating the ways in which it functions hegemonically by staging an effect of agency. I draw on Bakhtin's notion of the carnivalesque as a means to examine how contradictory spatio-temporal contexts of GGW function as spaces that offer the opportunity to momentarily transgress—yet simultaneously reify—white, bourgeois norms of femininity. The videos reinforce a neoliberalist mentality of personal responsibility through the inclusion of the consent—and dissent—processes on camera. After analyzing how postfeminist discourses emphasizing “individual choice” justify GGW as a mode of female empowerment, I turn to a complementary textual analysis of GGW's role-reversal counterpart, Guys Gone Wild (2004), in an effort to show the ways in which this “mirror image” text ultimately reinforces the structure of exploitation in the original.     

The zine anthology as archive: archival genres and practices

Jessie Lymn is a PhD Candidate at University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and a casual academic in the Information Studies programs at both UTS and Charles Sturt University. Her doctoral research focuses on the archival practices of subcultural communities and how this furthers temporal and spatial understandings of archives.

Building on Eichhorn’s concept of ‘archival genres’, this article considers the recent spate of zine anthologies published in Australia and the United States as examples of these genres. It proposes that the anthologies are archives of content, form and practice, given that they commonly reproduce entire zines as visual material, not just text, and are produced by members of zine communities. This article argues that the anthologies’ narratives, presentation and distribution preserve ideologies of zine culture and that archival genres create spaces for the preservation of practices.     

Representing insect sexualities in Life in the Undergrowth and Green Porno

What does it mean to represent insect sexualities? What are the technologies that one uses to make insect bodies visible? In this article, I examine two series in order to examine representations of insect sexualities. In the documentary Life in the Undergrowth, famed British broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough’s hushed tones tell us that new technologies of seeing are making new worlds visible. In the second, Isabella Rossellini stars in the series Green Porno, in which she uses biologically accurate costumes to blow up insect bodies to human size, using the costumes as technologies of seeing to help her audience visualize how insects have sex. Here, the costumes themselves become ways of knowing insect bodies while simultaneously rendering them as spectacular media moments. I rely upon feminist media studies of representations of wildlife to ask how assumptions around gender and sexuality continue to shape contemporary depictions of the insect world in Sir David Attenborough’s series Life in the Undergrowth, whereas I argue that Green Porno represents a queering of traditional documentaries on insects and examine what possibilities this might provide us with for rethinking insect sexualities—from monogamy and heterosexual reproduction to S/M, queer sex, and polyamory.     

Vocational Anticipatory Socialization of Adolescents: Messages,Sources, and Frameworks That Influence Interest in STEM Careers

By high school, many students have dropped out of the pipeline that will lead to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) occupations. We examine the role of vocational anticipatory socialization (VAS)—the types of messages adolescents receive, message sources, and adolescents' frameworks—on youth's educational and vocational interests. Adolescents (37 focus groups, N = 229) reported that they received two types of VAS messages: personal fulfillment (advising students to prioritize their well-being) and career detail (advising students about specific aspects of an occupation). Adolescents used three career frameworks (enjoyment, ability, and goal) that filtered and often magnified VAS messages and experiences. We extend VAS research by identifying two primary purposes of the career advice embedded in VAS messages and three career frameworks. Practical implication are that parents can affect adolescents' beliefs about their abilities and potential enjoyment of STEM careers by supplementing personal fulfillment messages with career detail messages. Individuals in STEM occupations are in the best position to encourage adolescents by offering career detail, discussing how their career can be rewarding and how math and science classes can influence their career attainment.     

Reframing the Domestic Angel: Real Simple Magazine's Repackaging of the Victorian-Era “Angel in the House” Narrative

In this essay, I argue that a contemporized version of the “Angel in the House” narrative is present in Real Simple magazine. I demonstrate that nineteenth-century domestic themes have been reframed in Real Simple so that the home is no longer identified as a site intended for the pleasure of men; instead, it is identified as a personal sanctuary for the contemporary woman's respite and pleasure. I contend that while this revamped notion of the domestic angel may provide the reader with agency to privilege her own needs and desires, the modified narrative nevertheless reinforces the ideological notion of separate spheres—that the home is a woman's domain.     

U.S. government documents‐our annual review

A. Executive and Independent Agencies

1991 STATISTICAL REPORT, RURAL TELEPHONE BORROWERS (July 1992, 204 pp.—$15.00)

1993 ANNUAL REPORT (1993, 90 pp.)

GUIDE TO TELECOMMUNICATIONS MARKETS IN LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN (May 1992, 162 pp.)

FEDERAL SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT: A GUIDE TO THE NTIA PROCESS (August 1991, SP‐91–25, 23 pp.)

GLOBALIZATION OF MASS MEDIA (January 1993, SP‐93–290, 228 pp. plus appendices—$20.00)

1994 RADIO GRANT PROGRAMS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES (no date, 28 pp., free)

1992 ANNUAL REPORT: VOICES OF CHANGE (1993, 79 pp., free)

STANDARDS AND TRADE IN THE 1990s (1992, S/N 008–020–01294–7, $13.00)

INFORMATION SEEKERS GUIDE: HOW TO FIND INFORMATION AT THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (October 1992, 47 pp., free)

STATISTICS OF THE COMMON CARRIERS 1991/ 92 EDITION (1993, 325 pp.—$19.00)

CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS: TELECOMMUNICATION, TITLE 47 is revised annually as of October 1st and includes the ten‐current version of all FCC rules and regulations. The five 1992 volumes in this title are:

—Parts 0–19 includes general FCC rules (658 pp.—$22.00)

—Parts 20–39 covers Title II common carrier regulations (660 pp.—$22.00)

—Parts 40–69 also deals with Title II common carrier (321 pp.—$12.00)

—Parts 70–79 focuses on Title III electronic mass media (612 pp.‐$21.00)

—Parts 80‐End covers cable (Title VI) and NTIA rules (737 pp.—$24.00; this is already badly dated given the flurry of FCC cable

B. Congressional Support Agencies

UNESCO: STATUS OF IMPROVEMENTS IN MANAGEMENT, PERSONNEL, FINANCIAL, AND BUDGETING PRACTICES (June 1992, GAO/NSIAD‐92–172, 76 pp.)

VOICE OF AMERICA: MANAGEMENT ACTIONS NEEDED TO ADJUST TO A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT (July 1992, GAO/NSIAD‐92–150, 58 pp.)

FBI: ADVANCED COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES POSE WIRETAPPING CHALLENGES (July 1992, GAO/IMTEC‐92–68BR, 23 pp.)

FTS 2000 OVERHEAD: GSA SHOULD REASSESS CONTRACT REQUIREMENTS AND IMPROVE EFFICIENCY (August 1992, GA)/IMTEC‐92–59, 18 pp.)

PERCEIVED BARRIERS TO EFFECTIVE INFORMATION RESOURCES MANAGEMENT: RESULTS OF GAO PANEL DISCUSSIONS (September 1992, GAO/IMTEC‐92–67, 17pp.)

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY ISSUES (December 1992, GAO/OCG‐93–5TR)

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: CELLULAR SERVICE COMPETITION (January 1993, GAO/T‐RCED‐93–3, 13 pp.)

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: INTERRUPTIONS OF TELEPHONE SERVICE (March 1993, GAO/RCED‐93–79FS, 35 pp.)

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: FCC'S HANDLING OF FORMAL COMPLAINTS FILED AGAINST COMMON CARRIERS (March 1993, GAO/RCED‐93–83, 15 pp.)

FTS 2000: GSA'S PRICE REDETERMINATION YIELDS A REASONABLE DECISION AND LOWER PRICES (March 1993, GAO/IMTEC‐93–22, 8 pp.)

U.S. BANKS AND INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS (October 1992, OTA‐BP‐TCT‐100, 36 pp.—$3.00)

THE 1992 WORLD ADMINISTRATIVE RADIO CONFERENCE: TECHNOLOGY AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS (May 1993, OTA‐TCT‐549, 190 pp.—$11.00)

ADVANCED NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES (June 1993, OTA‐BP‐TCT‐101, 79 pp.—$5.00)

C. House of Representatives

102–567, NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION COMPUTER NETWORK (June 16, 1992, 5 pp.)

102–628, CABLE TELEVISION CONSUMER PROTECTION AND COMPETITIVE ACT OF 1992 (June 29, 1992, 189 pp.)

102–780, PART I, AUDIO HOME RECORDING ACT OF 1992 (August 4, 1992, 81 pp.)

102–782, PART I, RURAL ELECTRIFICATION IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1992 (August 4, 1992, 47 pp.)

102–850, ANTITRUSTREFORMACTOF1992 (August 2, 1992, 127 pp.)

102–862, CABLE TELEVISION CONSUMER PROTECTION AND COMPETITION ACT OF 1992 (September 14, 1992, 104 pp.)

102–873, PART I, AUDIO HOME RECORDING ACT OF 1992 (September 17, 1992, 41 pp.)

102–873, PART 2, AUDIO HOME RECORDING ACT (September 21, 1992, 32 pp.), see comment immediately above.

102/N, HIGH DEFINITION INFORMATION SYSTEMS (July 1992, 24 pp.)

103–19, EMERGING TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES ACT OF 1993 (February 23, 1993, 27 pp.)

103–20, CONSUMER PROTECTION TELEMARKETING ACT (February 24, 1993, 11 pp.)

103–51, GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE ELECTRONIC INFORMATION ACCESS ENHANCEMENT ACT OF 1993 (April 1, 1993, 10 pp.)

REVIEW OF THE RURAL ELECTRIFICATION ADMINISTRATION: HEARINGS (May 1, June 20, August 1, 1991, S/N 552–070–12065–3, 351 pp.—$11.00)

DEPARTMENTS OF COMMERCE, JUSTICE, AND STATE, THE JUDICIARY, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1993, PART 5: RELATED AGENCIES: HEARINGS (February 18–20, 25, March 11, 1992, 1,601 pp.—$34.00)

DEPARTMENTS OF COMMERCE, JUSTICE, AND STATE, THE JUDICIARY, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1993, PART 6: RELATED AGENCIES: HEARINGS (March 17–19,25,31, April 1,2, 1992, 1,334 pp.‐$37.00)

FCC: COMMON CARRIERS: HEARING (June 19, 1991, S/N 552–070–11881 ‐1, 266 pp.‐$8.50)

MODIFIED FINAL JUDGMENT: HEARINGS (July 11, October 23,24, 1991, S/N 552–070–12588–4, 901 pp.—$30.00)

COMPETITION POLICY IN THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY: A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH (PART 1): HEARING (August 1, 1991, S/N 552–070–13747–5, 487 pp.‐$16.00)

EMERGING TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES (PART 2): HEARING (October 9, 1991, S/N 552–070–12401–2, 120 pp.‐$3.75)

COMPETITION POLICY IN THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY: A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH (PART 2): HEARING (February 19, 1992, S/N 552–070–13857–9, 573 pp.—$20.00)

COMPETITION POLICY IN THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY: A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH (PART 3): HEARING (March 18, 1992, S/N 552–070–13889–7, 337 pp.—$12.00)

DIGITAL AUDIO RECORDING: HEARING (March 31, 1992, S/N 552–070–13406–9, 137 pp.—$4.75)

TELECOMMUTING: HEARING (July 29, 1992, S/N 552–070–13475–1, 94 pp.—$3.25)

AUDIENCE FOR U.S. GOVERNMENT INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING: HEARING (September 23, 1992, S/N 552–070–14124–3, 79 pp.—$3.00)

CRITICAL TECHNOLOGIES:HEARING (February 21, 1992, S/N 552–070–12580–9, 194 pp.—$6.50)

MANAGEMENTOFNSFNET:HEARINGS (March 12, June 4,10, 1992, S/N 552–070–12848–4, 186 pp.‐$6.50)

INNOVATION IN TELEMARKETING FRAUDS AND SCAMS: HEARING (June 21, 1991, S/N 552–070–11566–8, 298 pp.‐$10.00)

INNOVATIVE TELEMARKETING AND CONSUMER FRAUD IN OREGON AND THE NORTHWEST; HEARING (February 24, 1992, S/N 552–070–13199–0, 299 pp.‐$11.00)

D. United States Senate

102–294, AUDIO HOME RECORDING ACT OF 1991 (June 1992, 76 pp.)

102–451, AM RADIO IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1991 (October 1992, 5 pp.)

COMMERCE, JUSTICE, AND STATE, THE JUDICIARY, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS, FY93, PART 1: HEARINGS (February, March, April, May 1992, S/N 552–070–12898–1, 811 pp.‐$28.00)

NOMINATION OF JAMES H. QUELLO: HEARING (June 13, 1991, S/N 552–070–11580–3, 10 pp.‐$1.00)

S. 1462, THE AUTOMATED TELEPHONE CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT OF 1991; S. 1410, THE TELEPHONE ADVERTISING CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT; AND S.857, EQUAL BILLING FOR LONG DISTANCE CHARGES: HEARING (July 24, 1991, S/N 552–070–13862–5, 67 pp.‐$2,50)

COMPUTERIZED TELEPHONE SALES CALLS AND 900 SERVICES: HEARINGS (October 10, 11, 1991, S/N 552–070–13788–2, 75 pp.—$2.75)

CABLE‐INSTRUCTIONAL TV AND S. 1200 COMMUNICATIONS COMPETITIVENESS AND INFRASTRUCTURE MODERNIZATION ACT OF 1991: HEARING (February 28, 1992, S/N 552–070–12886–7, 165 pp.—$6.00)

RADIO OVERSIGHT AND S. 1101, THE AM RADIO IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1991: HEARING (March 11, 1992, S/ N 552–070–13242–2, 114 pp.‐$4.00)

REAUTHORIZATION OF THE NATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION: HEARING (June 23, 1992, S/N 552–07013761 ‐1, 15 pp.—$1.00)

MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS: HEARING (July 1, 1992, S/N 552–070–13963–0, 135 pp.—$4.75)

SPECTRUM REALLOCATION OF THE 2 GHz BAND: HEARING (July 3, 1992, S/N 552–070–13616–9, 111 pp.—$4.00)

TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND EDUCATION: HEARING (July 29, 1992, S/N 552–070–14085–9, 144 pp.—$5.00)

TELEMARKETING FRAUD:HEARING (July 30, 1992, S/N 552–070–14061 ‐1, 54 pp.—$2.25)

PARTIAL REVISION (1988), RADIO REGULATIONS, RELATING TO SPACE RADIO COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES: MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT (Treaty Document 102–27, April 2, 1992, 402 pp.)

PARTIAL REVISION (1985), RADIO REGULATIONS, RELATING TO BROADCASTING SATELLITE SERVICES IN REGION 2: MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT (Treaty Document 102–28, April 2, 1992, 448 pp.)

SEVEN COMMUNICATIONS TREA TIES: HEARING (May 12, 1992, S/N 552–070–13348–8, 32 pp.—$1.50)

AUDIO HOME RECORDING ACT OF 1991: HEARING (October 29, 1991, S/N 552–070–13741–6, 287 pp.‐$11.00)

MOTION PICTURE ANTIPIRACY ACT OF 1991: HEARING (July 24, 1991, S/N 552–070–13258–9, 293 pp.—$11.00)

STAR SCHOOLS FOR ALL OUR STUDENTS: HEARING (April 24, 1991, S/N 552–070–11624–9, 139 pp.—$4.25)

LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SERVICES FOR LITERACY, PRODUCTIVITY AND DEMOCRACY: HEARING (July 11, 1991, S/N 552–070–11595–1, 130 pp.—$4.00)

EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY IN THE CLASSROOM: HEARING (October 31, 1991, S/N 552–070–12073–4, 309 pp.‐$10.00)     

Karol Estreicher (1827–1908) and his Bibliografia polska: Negotiating a National Bibliography in Nineteenth-Century Poland

Karol Estreicher (1827–1908) compiled Bibliografia polska [Polish bibliography], an extraordinary retrospective national bibliography of the body of written works of Poland. Chronologically covering the entire history of printing in Poland up to 1900, it consisted of three distinct parts: the nineteenth century; a universal chronological bibliography of Polish publications; and pre-nineteenth century, conventionally called Bibliografia staropolska [Bibliography of old Poland]. So far a total of 56 volumes of Bibliografia polska have been published. That total includes the 35 volumes that constitute parts 1, 2, and 3; the four volumes that, covering 1891–1900, were published outside the framework of the three parts; and the seventeen volumes that constitute the second edition of part 1, the nineteenth-century bibliography. It was an exhaustive but also complicated bibliographic opus. A prolific writer and literary scholar himself, Estreicher devoted—with remarkable endurance and resilience—50 years of his life to its making. Much of the complexity of his bibliography reflected the cultural and intellectual roots of the author and the way he interpreted the meaning of his project.     

International Communication

U.S. TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES IN EUROPEAN MARKETS (Washington: Office of Technology Assessment, August 1993—$14.00, paper, S/N 052–003–01334–7, 220 pp.)

MEDIA INDUSTRY IN EUROPE edited by Antonio Pilati (London: John Libbey, 1993—$48.00, paper, ISBN 0–86196–398–9, 246 pp.)

BEYOND NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY: INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION IN THE 1990s edited by Kaarle Nordenstreng and Herbert I. Schiller (Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1993—price not provided, paper, ISBN 0–89391–960–8, 483 pp.)     

A Dialectic With the Everyday: Communication and Cultural Politics on Oprah Winfrey's Book Club

This essay explores the cultural politics of television talk-show host Oprah Winfrey's Book Club. Because women constitute both the primary Oprah television audience and the largest United States book buying public, it focuses specifically on women's involvement in the club and their modes of engagement with its selections. The Book Club's astonishing success was attributable in part to the carefully considered communication strategies through which participants, Winfrey, and Oprah producers collectively articulated the value of books and reading specifically for women. Their de-emphasizing of purely literary considerations, I contend, enabled women to strategize how to use Book Club selections simultaneously to distance themselves from and to engage more intensively with the demands of living in a patriarchal and otherwise socioeconomically stratified society – a relationship I call a “dialectic with the everyday.” This essay thus traces the communicative processes/practices through which those involved in Oprah's Book Club articulated a highly sophisticated economy of cultural value around books and reading and the implications of that economy to a possible feminist cultural politics.     

Queer Imag(in)ing: Liminality as Resistance in Lindqvist's Let the Right One In

This essay explores queer imag(in)ing by analyzing a contemporary vampire text, Let The Right One In, by John Ajvide Lindqvist. As I argue, the rhetorical act of humanizing vampires is inherently limiting for (queer) audiences and indicative of processes that seek to clarify, assimilate, and tame—in short, normalize, which as Michel Foucault states “imposes homogeneity” by stamping out difference. Furthermore, I argue that a text can actively resist moments of normalization with the strategic use of what Victor Turner calls liminality—a (queer) rhetorical tactic that resists while seemingly/simultaneously buttressing a liberal humanist belief wherein difference is denied thus displacing and denying the significance of the Other.     

Blinded by the Light: How a Focus on Statistical “Significance” May Cause p-Value Misreporting and an Excess of p-Values Just Below .05 in Communication Science

Publication bias promotes papers providing “significant” findings, thus incentivizing researchers to produce such findings. Prior studies suggested that researchers’ focus on “p < .05” yields—intentional or unintentional—p-value misreporting, and excess p-values just below .05. To assess whether similar distortions occur in communication science, we extracted 5,834 test statistics from 693 recent communication science ISI papers, and assessed prevalence of p-values (1) misreported, and (2) just below .05. Results show 8.8% of p-values were misreported (74.5% too low). 1.3% of p-values were critically misreported, stating p < .05 while in fact p > .05 (88.3%) or vice versa (11.7%). Analyzing p-value frequencies just below .05 using a novel method did not unequivocally demonstrate “p-hacking”—excess p-values could be alternatively explained by (severe) publication bias. Results for 19,830 p-values from social psychology were strikingly similar. We conclude that publication bias, publication pressure, and verification bias distort the communication science knowledge base, and suggest solutions to this problem.     

A space for countering colorblind discourse: constructions of police-perpetrated homicides of African-American males

This qualitative study assesses how police-perpetrated homicides of African-American males are constructed in the public sphere. Similar studies on the discourse surrounding the topic have focused on newspaper articles as the discourse unit. In this article, I argue that the opinion-editorial (op-ed) pages of newspapers are a space for challenging colorblind frames invoked the discourse about police use of force that dominates in the print media. To demonstrate this point, I conducted an ethnographic content analysis of 168 op-eds from five different U.S. newspapers: Contra Costa Times, New York Times, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Salt Lake Tribune, and Washington Post. The op-eds focused on the police-perpetrated homicides of Eric Garner, Michael Brown, and Tamir Rice in 2014. The findings from this study indicate that the op-ed pages provide a unique opportunity for Black voices to be heard, as well as a space for dominant frames about police-perpetrated homicides to be challenged. Paradoxically, the results also impugn the sequestering of Black voices into the openly subjective spaces of print media.     

German communications titles

Karikaturisten‐Lexikon / CARTOONISTS'DICTIONARY by Kurt Fleming (München: Saur 1993—DM 198, ISBN 3–598–10932–6,325 pp)

Allensbacher Jahrbuch der Demoskopie 9: 1984–1992 / ALLENSBACH YEARBOOK OF PUBLIC OPINION RESEARCH, Vol. 9: 1984–1992 edited by Elisabeth Noelle‐Neumann and Renate Kocher (München: Saur; Allensbach: Verlag fur Demoskopie 1993—DM 380, ISBN 3–598–20718–2, 1,207 pp.)

Der Befragte Leser: Buch und Demoskopie / THE POLLED READER: BOOK AND PUBLIC OPINION RESEARCH Edited by Ludwig Muth (Munchen: Saur 1993—DM 128, ISBN 3–598–11131–2, 220 pp.)

Die Wiener Tageszeitungen: Eine Dokumentation. 3: 1918–1938I THE DAILY NEWSPAPERS OF VIENNA: A DOCUMENTATION, Vol. 3: 1918–1938 edited by Gabriele Melischek and Josef Seethaler. (Frankfurt: Lang 1992— DM 74,‐ ISBN 3–631 ‐44409–5, 263 pp.)

Zeitungsland Nordrhein‐Westfalen: Geschichte. Profil. Struktur / NEWSPAPER COUNTRY NORTH RHINE‐WESTPHALIA: HISTORY, PROFILE, STRUCTURE edited by Bernhard Boll et. al. (ZV Zeitungs‐Verlag Service, Riemenschneiderstra_e 10, D‐53175 Bonn—DM 49,80, ISBN 3–929122–02–2, 692 pp.)

Deutsche Programmpresse 1923 bis 1941/ GERMAN PROGRAM JOURNALS 1923 TO 1941 by Thomas Bauer (München: Saur 1993—DM 98, ISBN 3–598–21575–4, 454 pp.)

Amerikanische Zeitschriften in deutscher Sprache: 1945–1952 / AMERICAN JOURNALS IN GERMAN: 1945–1952 by Birgit Bödeker. (Frankfurt: Lang 1993—DM 98,‐ ISBN 3–631 ‐45443–0, 378 pp.)

Die Volkskorrespondentenbewegung der SED‐Bezirkspresse/ THE PEOPLE'S CORRESPONDENTS MOVEMENTOFTHE REGIONAL PRESS OFTHE SOCIALIST UNITY PARTY by Sigrun Richter (Frankfurt: Lang 1993— DM 168,‐ ISBN 3–631–45456–2, 803 pp.)

Leserbriefe in Tageszeitungen der DDR/ LETTERS TO THE EDITOR IN DAILY NEWSPAPERS OF THE GDR by Ellen Bos (Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag 1993—DM 54, ISBN 3–531–12376–9, 311 pp.)

Für Deutschland und Europa: Der Deutschlandfunk / FOR GERMANY AND EUROPE: THE DEUTSCHLANDFUNK by Frank Capellan (München: Saur 1993—DM 98, ISBN 3–598–21576–2, 492 pp.)

Europas Fernsehen im Wandel: Probleme einer Europäisierung vonOrdnungspolitik und Programmen/EUROPE'S TELEVISION IN CHANGE: PROBLEMS OF EUROPEANIZATION OF POLITICS AND PROGRAMS by Jochen Zimmer (Frankfurt: Lang, 1993— DM 89, ISBN 3–631 ‐45642–5, 373 pp.)

Amerikanische Einstellung: Deutsches Fernsehen und US‐amerikanische Produktionen / AMERICAN ANGLE: GERMAN TELEVISION AND US‐AMERICAN PRODUCTIONS edited by Irmela Schneider. (Heidelberg: Winter, 1992—DM 150, ISBN 3–533–04555–2, 327 pp.)

Aneignungen: Ausländisches Fernsehen und nationale Kultur / ACQUISITIONS: FOREIGN TV AND NATIONAL CULTURE by Barbara Gentikow (Aarhus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 1993— no price given, ISBN 87–7288–408–8, 346 pp.)

Fernsehen und Angstbewältigung: Zur Typologie des Zuschauerverhaltens / TELEVISION AND THE MASTERING OF ANXIETY: TOWARDS A TOPOLOGY OF VIEWER BEHAVIOR by Peter Vitouch (Opladen: Westdeutscher Verl., 1993— DM 44, ISBN 3–531–12287–8, 221 pp.)

Fernsehwanderungen: Eine empirische Untersuchung zum Zapping / TELEVISION WALKING: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF ZAPPING by Michael Jäckel (München: R. Fischer, 1993—DM 28, ISBN 3–88927–123–5, 108 pp)

Geschichte des deutschen Films /HISTORY OF GERMAN FILM edited by Wolfgang Jacobsen, et. al. (Stuttgart: Metzler, 1993— DM 58, ISBN 3–476–00883–5, 596 pp.)

Kritik der medienethischen Vernunft: Die ethische Diskussion uberden Film in Deutschlandim 20.Jahrhundert/CRITIQUE OF MEDIA ETHICAL REASONING: ETHICAL DIMENSIONS OF 20TH CENTURY GERMAN FILM by Thomas Hausmanninger (Munchen: Fink, 1993—DM 98, ISBN 3–7705–2805–0, 647 pp.)

Sehsucht: Das Panorama als Massenunterhaltung des 19. Jahrhunderts / ADDICTION TO LOOK: THE PANORAMA AS ENTERTAINMENT FOR THE MASSES IN THE 19TH CENTURY edited by Kunst‐ und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. (Frankfurt: Verlag Stroemfeld/ Roter Stern, 1993—DM 59, ISBN 3–87877–408–7, 367 pp.)

Medienrechtliche Entscheidungen: Höchstrichterliche Rechtsprechung zum Presse‐ und Rundfunkrecht / LEGAL DECISIONS ON MEDIA: SUPREME COURT JURISDICTION ON PRESS AND BROADCAST LA W edited by Klaus Berg et. al. (Konstanz: Universitätsverlag Konstanz, 1992—DM 228, ISBN 3–87940–2,962 pp.)

Verfassungsrecht und Rundfunk: Die 7 Entscheidungen des Bundesverfassungsgerichts: 1961 ‐1991 / CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND BROADCASTING: THE SEVEN DECISIONS OF THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONAL COURT: 1961–1991 edited by Friedrich‐Wilhelm von Sell (Berlin: Vistas Verlag, 1992— DM 48, ISBN 3–89158–074–6, 311 pp.)

Existenzgrundlagen öffentlich‐rechtlicher und privater Rundfunkveranstalter nach dem Rundfunkstaatsvertrag / BASICS OF EXISTENCE OF BROADCASTING STATIONS UNDER PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LAW ACCORDING TO THE BROADCASTING TREATY by Udo Becker (Baden‐Baden: Nomos Verlag., 1992—DM 68, ISBN 3–7890–2611–5, 307 pp.)

Die Rundfunkordnung in den netien Bundesländern / THE ORDER OF BROADCASTING IN THE NEW FEDERAL STATES by Hermann Kresse (Stuttgart: Schäffer‐Pöschel, 1992—DM 89, ISBN 3–8202–0832–1,295 pp.)

Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle der Presse: Eine länderübergreifende Untersuchung / VOLUNTARY SELF‐CONTROL OF THE PRESS: AN INTERNATIONAL SURVEY by Verena Wedemann (Gütersloh: Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung, 1992—DM 12, ISBN 3–89204–056–7, 270 pp.)     

Intermedia Attribute Agenda Setting in the Context of Issue-Focused Media Events

On April 24, 2015, Olympic gold medalist Caitlyn Jenner confirmed her transgender identity on the 20/20 Special: Bruce Jenner—The Interview with Diane Sawyer and started her own reality show, I am Cait. This study identifies patterns of second-level intermedia agenda setting in the framing of transgender issues, examining the extent to which Jenner’s high-profile planned media events about her gender transition influence how national print newspapers and television report transgender-related stories and the salience of certain story attributes. More specifically, through a comparative quantitative content analysis, this study found that transgender-related reports appearing after Jenner’s interview were more likely to (1) mention alternative non-binary gender discourses to highlight transgender subjectivity, (2) take the intersectionality perspective to address the complexity of transgender issues from the aspects of race, class, and sexuality differences, (3) differentiate transgender issues from LGB (lesbian, gay, and bisexual) issues, and (4) take in-depth approaches to report the stories.     

Popular culture

READING MATTER: MULTIDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON MATERIAL CULTURE by Arthur Asa Berger (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 1992 — $24.95, ISBN 0–88738–435–8, 148 pp.)

MEN, MASCULINITY, AND THE MEDIA edited by Steve Craig (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1992 — $42.00/19.95, ISBN 0–8039–4162–5 hard, 0–8039–4163–3 soft, 271 pp.)

13TH GEN: ABORT, RETRY, IGNORE, FAIL? by Neil Howe and Bill Strauss (New York: Vintage, 1993 — $10.00, paper, ISBN 0–679–74365–0, 229 pp.)

ENLIGHTENED RACISM: THE COSBY SHOW, AUDIENCES, AND THE MYTH OF THE AMERICAN DREAM by Sut Jhally and Justin Lewis (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1992 — $39.95/14.95, ISBN 0–8133–1418–6 hard, 0–8133–1419–4 soft, 152 pp.)

POPULAR WRITING IN AMERICA: THE INTERACTION OF STYLE AND AUDIENCE, 5th ed. edited by Donald McQuade and Robert Atwan (New York: Oxford, 1993 — $22.95, paper, ISBN 0–19–507308–8, 735 pp.)

TRIUMPH OF THE IMAGE: THE MEDIA'S WAR IN THE PERSIAN GULF — A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE edited by Hamid Mowlana, George Gerbner, and Herbert I. Schiller (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1992 — $55.00/19.95, ISBN 0–8133–1532–8 hard, 0–8133–1610–3 soft, 269 pp.)

POPULAR CULTURE: AN INTRODUCTORY TEXT edited by Jack Nachbar and Kevin Lause (Bowling Green, OH: BGSU Popular Press, 1992 — $45.95/23.95, ISBN 0–87972–571–0 hard, 0–87972–572–9 soft, 504 pp.)

VIDEO ICONS & VALUES edited by Alan M. Olson, Christopher Parr and Debra Parr (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1991 — $59.50/18.95, ISBN 0–7914–0411–0 hard, 0–7914–0412–9 soft, 189 pp.)

POPULAR ENTERTAINMENT RESEARCH: HOW TO DO IT AND HOW TO USE IT by Barbara J. Pruett (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1992 — $62.50, ISBN 0–8108–2501–5, 592 pp.)

WATERGATE IN AMERICAN MEMORY: HOW WE REMEMBER, FORGET, AND RECONSTRUCT THE PAST by Michael Schudson (New York: Basic Books, 1992 — $24.00, ISBN 0–465–09084–2, 282 pp.)

THE MADONNA CONNECTION: REPRESENTATIONAL POLITICS, SUBCULTURAL IDENTITIES, AND CULTURAL THEORY edited by Cathy Schwichtenberg (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1992 — $55.00/17.95, ISBN 0–8133–1396–1 hard, 0–8133–1397‐X soft, 336 pp.)

WEST OF EVERYTHING: THE INNER LIFE OF WESTERNS by Jane Tompkins (New York: Oxford, 1992 — $21.95, ISBN 0–19–507305–3, 245 pp.)

MEDIAMERICA, MEDIAWORLD: FORM, CONTENT, AND CONSEQUENCES OF MASS COMMUNICA TION (5th ed.) by Edward Jay Whetmore (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1993 —$36.00, paper ISBN 0–534–17934–7, 492 pp.)

HARDBOILED IN HOLLYWOOD: FIVE BLACK MASK WRITERS AND THE MOVIES by David Wilt (Bowling Green, OH: BGSU Popular Press, 1991 — $40.95/19.95, ISBN 0–87972–525–7 hard, 0–87972–526–5 soft, 189 pp.)

ADOLF HITLER AND THE THIRD REICH IN AMERICAN MAGAZINES, 1923–1939 by Michael Zalampas (Bowling Green, OH: BGSU Popular Press, 1989 — $35.95/18.95, ISBN 0–87972–461–7 hard, 0–87972–462–5 soft, 266 pp.)     

Camping the “post-” on Scream Queens

In September 2015, Scream Queens premiered on FOX. In the show, mass murderers at the fictional Wallace University brutalize and torture college students. At first glance, Scream Queens shows promise to disrupt heteronormativity, as the show’s lead characters include an overtly feminist university Dean, an acerbic and bright sorority president, and a gay scholar athlete. I argue that when the camp aesthetic enters the show’s post-(feminism and sexuality) context what emerges is “pop-camp”—an affected form of camp bereft of resistive promise. This analysis extends previous explorations of pop-camp to ask how camp may restore sexism and homophobia through discourses of the post- infused with an impulse toward nostalgia. The post- presents a distorted view of past inequality. When combined with humor, satire, and irony, this camping of the post- can be outright dangerous in restoring sexism and homophobia. This analysis of Scream Queens explores how camp responds to the post- rhetoric that has come to define contemporary times.     

Negotiating boundaries of knowledge: Discourse analysis of Wikipedia's Articles for Deletion (AfD) discussion

Although previous research has revealed factors that affect Wikipedia editors' decisions regarding content retainment and deletion,¹1. J. Schneider, A. Passant, and S. Decker, “Deletion Discussions in Wikipedia: Decision Factors and Outcomes,” WikiSym '12 (2012); and D. Taraborelli, and G. L. Ciampaglia, “Beyond Notability. Collective Deliberation on Content Inclusion in Wikipedia,” 2010 Fourth IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshop (2010): 122–25.View all notes there has been little research on the editors' discussion that is involved therein as a linguistic process. In this article, I study Wikipedia's Articles for Deletion (AfD) talk pages and conceptualize each discussion as a conflictual language game.²2. L. Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, 3rd ed. (Oxford, UK: Basil Blackwell, [1953] 1967).View all notes I study, by using discourse analysis interpretively and critically, how participants (especially first movers) frame the discussion direction—either as an invitation to collaborate or with cascading arguments (leaving little room for casual chit-chat). Finally, I study entire AfD discussions and find two coexisting language games: the discussion game and the consultation/enforcement game. I find that the closing admins of AfD discussions function as policy experts rather than consensus facilitators. Hence, AfD discussions contain both sets of game rules, but ultimately the power of the decision is nonetheless vested in the admins. This brings background power dynamics into the grammar of language games in the struggle for the generation and sustenance of the dominant knowledge or narratives of our information society.