Media, Culture & Society

Media, Culture & Society

April 2016; Vol. 38, No. 3

Original Articles Opening the news gates? Humanitarian and human rights NGOs in the US news media, 1990–2010 Matthew Powers The challenge of flow: state socialist television between revolutionary time and everyday time Sabina Mihelj and Simon Huxtable The emergence of the Human Flesh Search Engine and political protest in China: exploring the Internet and online collective action Li Gao Managing collective trauma on social media: the role of Twitter after the 2011 Norway attacks Moa Eriksson The revival of live TV: liveness in a multiplatform context Inge Ejbye Sørensen Performing for the young networked citizen? Celebrity politics, social networking and the political engagement of young people Brian D Loader, Ariadne Vromen, and Michael A Xenos ‘We don’t need no stinking smartphones!’ Live stadium sports events, mediatization, and the non-use of mobile media Brett Hutchins

Crosscurrents The Chinese dream shattered between hard and soft power? Jan Servaes This American Franchise: This American Life, public radio franchising and the cultural work of legitimating economic hybridity Eleanor Patterson Is ‘mediatization’ the new paradigm for our field? A commentary on Deacon and Stanyer (2014, 2015) and Hepp, Hjarvard and Lundby (2015) Peter Lunt and Sonia Livingstone

Book Reviews Book Review: The Poverty of Television: The Mediation of Suffering in Class-Divided Philippines Matthijs Punt Book Review: Broadcasting the End of Apartheid: Live Television and the Birth of a New South Africa Ron Krabill Book Review: Television and the Meaning of Live: An Enquiry into the Human Situation Tarik Sabry