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- Platform activism and the mediation of electoral process in semi-authoritarian regimes: a Zimbabwean case studyPublication . Tshuma, Lungile Augustine; Matsilele, TrustThis study examines Zimbabwe’s 2023 harmonized elections within the context of digital platforms mediation. In authoritarian regimes with tightly controlled information flow, social media becomes a crucial space for political discourse and challenging hegemonic narratives. Using data mined from X, formerly Twitter, during August 2023, this paper analyses how digital activists framed and discussed the electoral process, focusing on key discourses, influential actors, and activist media platforms. The research explores the intersection of platformization and digital activism. The study also examines the emergence of “platform journalism” and its role in disseminating election-related information. By constructing an electoral crisis narrative, digital activists challenged the credibility of the elections and called for fresh polls. Findings reveal that X users critically scrutinized the electoral process, exposing alleged malpractices and voter intimidation. This paper contributes to understanding the evolving nature of political communication and activism in semi-authoritarian regimes, demonstrating how social media platforms enable citizens to reclaim their political agency and challenge state narratives in contexts of restricted traditional media freedom.
- Translating and popularizing China’s past in Portugal: double foreignness in José de Freitas’s A China antiga e moderna (1941)Publication . Cheung, CharlesThis article proposes ‘double foreignness’ as a methodological prompt for analyzing the writing of a foreign country’s history, where spatiotemporal distance is compounded by cultural-linguistic distance. It examines José de Freitas’s A China antiga e moderna (1941), a Portuguese popular history volume that connects China’s past to the Second Sino-Japanese War for early-1940s readers. Through Lefevere’s ([1992]/2017) concept of rewriting, the study shows how Freitas selectively rewrites francophone sources into Portuguese within a popularizing editorial framework. Drawing on Maitland’s (2017) model of cultural translation, the analysis traces Freitas’s interpretive gestures through which China’s past is made more intelligible to Portuguese readers and framed sympathetically, notably through familiar reference frames and recurrent images of the Chinese as ‘pacifist’ and ‘traditionalist.’ The case suggests that double foreignness can be productively analyzed through the interplay of intertemporal, interlingual, and cultural translation.
- The intermedia influence of X on legacy media coverage of the 2023 harmonised elections in ZimbabwePublication . Tshuma, Lungile A.; Ndlovu, Siphathisiwe M.The legacy media has for many years been instrumental and central in setting news agenda. In Africa, where the majority of the population dwells in rural areas, the centrality of the legacy media in setting news agenda is not in doubt. However, digital platforms have of late been key platforms for news resulting in them competing with the legacy media in setting news agenda. The purpose of this paper is to examine the intermedia relationship between X and legacy media in Zimbabwe within the theoretical framework of agenda-setting. The study sought to find out the intermedia agenda setting between X and the legacy media in Zimbabwe, namely, NewsDay and The Herald. The two publications represent the polarised Zimbabwe media system and the broader socio economic and political landscape. For analysis, Rozelli Campbell’s intermedia agenda cross-lagged correlation method was used. Findings demonstrate that X influenced legacy media’s reportage on elections during the given period. However, there were strong correlations between X and NewsDay as compared to The Herald.
- Translating and popularizing China's past in Portugal: double foreignness in José de Freitas's a China Antiga e Moderna (1941)Publication . Cheung, CharlesThis article proposes “double foreignness” as a methodological prompt for analyzing the writing of a foreign country’s history, where spatiotemporal distance is compounded by cultural-linguistic distance. It examines José de Freitas’s A China antiga e moderna [Ancient and Modern China] (1941), a Portuguese popular history volume that connects China’s past to the Second Sino-Japanese War for early-1940s readers. Through Lefevere’s ([1992] 2017) concept of rewriting, the study shows how Freitas selectively rewrites francophone sources into Portuguese within a popularizing editorial framework. Drawing on Maitland’s (2017) model of cultural translation, the analysis traces Freitas’s interpretive gestures through which China’s past is made more intelligible to Portuguese readers and framed sympathetically, notably through familiar reference frames and recurrent images of the Chinese as “pacifist” and “traditionalist.” The case suggests that double foreignness can be productively analyzed through the interplay of intertemporal, interlingual, and cultural translation.
- The somatechnic hermeneutic: ‘embodying’ the worlds of journalism studyPublication . Novais, Rui Alexandre; Resende, FilipeThis study introduces a somatechnic hermeneutic to bridge the theoretical insights of the bodily turn in journalism studies with the empirical architecture of large-scale survey research, exemplified by the Worlds of Journalism Study (WJS). We argue that indicators such as safety, autonomy, precarity, and role conceptions are not merely abstract variables but proxies for lived, embodied experience. Applying this hermeneutic to Portugal's paradoxical profile - marked by high physical safety alongside acute economic precarity - we identify a state of somatic dissonance, in which the journalistic body is caught between physical protection and systemic strain. Through comparative analysis, we demonstrate how this dissonance fractures professional self-perception, revealing professional role commitments are not only cognitive ideals but also corporeal practices. This approach re-frames perceptual survey data into a narrative of embodied experience and provides a framework for addressing empirical paradoxes, offering a transferable methodology for understanding how the pressures of journalism are somatically registered and endured across diverse media systems.
- Translating and popularizing China's past in Portugal: double foreignness in José de Freitas's a China Antiga e Moderna (1941)Publication . Cheung, CharlesThis article proposes “double foreignness” as a methodological prompt for analyzing the writing of a foreign country’s history, where spatiotemporal distance is compounded by cultural-linguistic distance. It examines José de Freitas’s A China antiga e moderna [Ancient and Modern China] (1941), a Portuguese popular history volume that connects China’s past to the Second Sino-Japanese War for early-1940s readers. Through Lefevere’s ([1992] 2017) concept of rewriting, the study shows how Freitas selectively rewrites francophone sources into Portuguese within a popularizing editorial framework. Drawing on Maitland’s (2017) model of cultural translation, the analysis traces Freitas’s interpretive gestures through which China’s past is made more intelligible to Portuguese readers and framed sympathetically, notably through familiar reference frames and recurrent images of the Chinese as “pacifist” and “traditionalist.” The case suggests that double foreignness can be productively analyzed through the interplay of intertemporal, interlingual, and cultural translation.
- “O olhar chinês sobre nós”: construção de metaimagens em A China vence o passado de José de Freitas e toda a China de António Graça de AbreuPublication . Cheung, Charles Chon NengNeste artigo, explora-se a metaimagem portuguesa na literatura de viagem sobre a China, comparando A China vence o passado (1964), de José de Freitas, e Toda a China (2013-2014), de António Graça de Abreu. Com base na leitura integral e codificação temática, identificam-se 76 segmentos, codificados em cinco valências: “forasteiro bem acolhido”, “indesejável”, “exótico”, “português, povo periférico” e “avançado”. Com apoio dos dados quantitativos da codificação, é realizada uma análise imagológica das metaimagens, examinando e comparando o cenário, as vozes e as condições históricas. Em ambos os relatos, o viajante é interpelado como português, europeu, ocidental e estrangeiro – e é acolhido, rejeitado, exotizado ou desconhecido pelo “olhar chinês”. Freitas privilegia o institucional e o discurso reportado, com predominância de “forasteiro bem acolhido” e “indesejável” e ocorrências de “avançado”; Abreu enfatiza o quotidiano e a autoironia no espaço público, reforçando “exótico” e “português, povo periférico”. O estudo mapeia continuidades e deslocações diacrónicas na construção do “olhar chinês sobre nós”, oferecendo os primeiros dados empíricos para investigações da metaimagem neste par cultural.
- Translating and popularizing China's past in Portugal: double foreignness in José de Freitas's a China Antiga e Moderna (1941)Publication . Cheung, CharlesThis article proposes “double foreignness” as a methodological prompt for analyzing the writing of a foreign country’s history, where spatiotemporal distance is compounded by cultural-linguistic distance. It examines José de Freitas’s A China antiga e moderna [Ancient and Modern China] (1941), a Portuguese popular history volume that connects China’s past to the Second Sino-Japanese War for early-1940s readers. Through Lefevere’s ([1992] 2017) concept of rewriting, the study shows how Freitas selectively rewrites francophone sources into Portuguese within a popularizing editorial framework. Drawing on Maitland’s (2017) model of cultural translation, the analysis traces Freitas’s interpretive gestures through which China’s past is made more intelligible to Portuguese readers and framed sympathetically, notably through familiar reference frames and recurrent images of the Chinese as “pacifist” and “traditionalist.” The case suggests that double foreignness can be productively analyzed through the interplay of intertemporal, interlingual, and cultural translation.
- Translating and popularizing China's past in Portugal: double foreignness in José de Freitas's a China Antiga e Moderna (1941)Publication . Cheung, CharlesThis article proposes “double foreignness” as a methodological prompt for analyzing the writing of a foreign country’s history, where spatiotemporal distance is compounded by cultural-linguistic distance. It examines José de Freitas’s A China antiga e moderna [Ancient and Modern China] (1941), a Portuguese popular history volume that connects China’s past to the Second Sino-Japanese War for early-1940s readers. Through Lefevere’s ([1992] 2017) concept of rewriting, the study shows how Freitas selectively rewrites francophone sources into Portuguese within a popularizing editorial framework. Drawing on Maitland’s (2017) model of cultural translation, the analysis traces Freitas’s interpretive gestures through which China’s past is made more intelligible to Portuguese readers and framed sympathetically, notably through familiar reference frames and recurrent images of the Chinese as “pacifist” and “traditionalist.” The case suggests that double foreignness can be productively analyzed through the interplay of intertemporal, interlingual, and cultural translation.
- Translating and popularizing China's past in Portugal: double foreignness in José de Freitas's a China Antiga e Moderna (1941)Publication . Cheung, CharlesThis article proposes “double foreignness” as a methodological prompt for analyzing the writing of a foreign country’s history, where spatiotemporal distance is compounded by cultural-linguistic distance. It examines José de Freitas’s A China antiga e moderna [Ancient and Modern China] (1941), a Portuguese popular history volume that connects China’s past to the Second Sino-Japanese War for early-1940s readers. Through Lefevere’s ([1992] 2017) concept of rewriting, the study shows how Freitas selectively rewrites francophone sources into Portuguese within a popularizing editorial framework. Drawing on Maitland’s (2017) model of cultural translation, the analysis traces Freitas’s interpretive gestures through which China’s past is made more intelligible to Portuguese readers and framed sympathetically, notably through familiar reference frames and recurrent images of the Chinese as “pacifist” and “traditionalist.” The case suggests that double foreignness can be productively analyzed through the interplay of intertemporal, interlingual, and cultural translation.