Virginia Massignan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1494033 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Virginia Massignan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Virginia |
| FAMILY NAME | Massignan |
| SIGNATURE | MASSIGNAN V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7414-095X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Moscow Spin: Assessing Russia Today's (RT) Framing of Media Systems Across Languages
By utilizing Hallin and Mancini’s four media systems criteria as a baseline interpretive lens, this study expands understandings of how Russian global media challenge existing international institutions. It illustrates how Russia Today (RT) frames Russia's media system vis-à-vis the West to online audiences. It examines 5 years of media-related posts (prior to Meta's ban) on RT's Arabic, English, French, and Spanish Facebook pages to reveal how a…
International media coverage of the 2023 Gaza War: A hybrid methodological approach to cross-cultural visual analysis
Death portrayals can not only influence memories, identify enemies, and prompt moralistic judgments, but can also fuel conflict. Whereas non-Western media are more likely to disseminate death photographs, Western outlets tend to utilize impending death photographs as alternatives to graphic imagery of corpses. Using a hybrid methodological approach, this study cross-culturally compares death and impending death depictions in seven global news out…
Image Content Indicators of Extremist Group Evolution: A Comparative Study of Mena-Based and Far-Right Groups
Policymakers, researchers, and responders alike focus on the evolution of terrorist and other groups associated with political violence. This study offers a comparative analysis of the images of ISIS and U.S. far-right groups’ use of flag images, as such emblems contribute to community building, heighten emotional responses, and have political import. It adds to previous work by comparing groups across the ideological spectrum, by recognizing dif…
Signalling media professionalism: Comparative social constructions of RT and CGTN
The messaging content of Russia Today (RT) and China Global Television Network (CGTN) provides alternatives to those offered in mainstream western media. Comparative studies point to RT’s aggressive, ideological rhetoric and CGTN’s more tacit, celebratory, and culture-focused approach. This study adds to these understandings by examining how messaging strategies construct media professionalism – one of the four historic pillars of media systems a…
Mediated Public Diplomacy and RT on Instagram: Role of International Institutions, Audience Engagement, and Online Account Bans
Changes in the global media environment now challenge relationships between and within states. To expand understandings of mediated public diplomacy, this study examined 13,500 Instagram posts distributed on RT's non-Russian accounts from September 2021–September 2022. It used LDA to identify RT topics across language accounts, explored the topics' relation to UN statehood, examined audience engagement levels, and compared their frequency before …
Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?” The Wizarding World of Harry Potter as a constructed site of (artificial) collective memory, identity, and resistance
This essay positions the “magic” of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando, Florida as residing at the distinctive confluence of multimodal rhetorics, memory, and fandom identity, with ramifications reaching into current socio-political realities of resistance, democracy, and communication. The Wizarding World, as a site central to the Harry Potter fandom’s collective memory and identity, reifies the values of inclusivity, equality, anti-…
News media framing of social protests around racial tensions during the Donald Trump presidency
Media framing of social protests can influence public opinion and governmental response. An extensive line of scholarly work had pointed to the existence of two alternative news frames; public order and debate. We argue that prior work may have been limited by the reliance on deductive strategies using predefined, theoretically-driven frames. Using a data-driven computational method, the Analysis of Topic Model Networks (ANTMN), we examine mainst…
News media framing of social protests around racial tensions during the Donald Trump presidency
Media framing of social protests can influence public opinion and governmental response. An extensive line of scholarly work had pointed to the existence of two alternative news frames; public order and debate. We argue that prior work may have been limited by the reliance on deductive strategies using predefined, theoretically-driven frames. Using a data-driven computational method, the Analysis of Topic Model Networks (ANTMN), we examine mainst…
Mediated Public Diplomacy and RT on Instagram: Role of International Institutions, Audience Engagement, and Online Account Bans
Changes in the global media environment now challenge relationships between and within states. To expand understandings of mediated public diplomacy, this study examined 13,500 Instagram posts distributed on RT's non-Russian accounts from September 2021–September 2022. It used LDA to identify RT topics across language accounts, explored the topics' relation to UN statehood, examined audience engagement levels, and compared their frequency before …
Image Content Indicators of Extremist Group Evolution: A Comparative Study of Mena-Based and Far-Right Groups
Policymakers, researchers, and responders alike focus on the evolution of terrorist and other groups associated with political violence. This study offers a comparative analysis of the images of ISIS and U.S. far-right groups’ use of flag images, as such emblems contribute to community building, heighten emotional responses, and have political import. It adds to previous work by comparing groups across the ideological spectrum, by recognizing dif…
News media framing of social protests around racial tensions during the Donald Trump presidency
Media framing of social protests can influence public opinion and governmental response. An extensive line of scholarly work had pointed to the existence of two alternative news frames; public order and debate. We argue that prior work may have been limited by the reliance on deductive strategies using predefined, theoretically-driven frames. Using a data-driven computational method, the Analysis of Topic Model Networks (ANTMN), we examine mainst…
Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?” The Wizarding World of Harry Potter as a constructed site of (artificial) collective memory, identity, and resistance
This essay positions the “magic” of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando, Florida as residing at the distinctive confluence of multimodal rhetorics, memory, and fandom identity, with ramifications reaching into current socio-political realities of resistance, democracy, and communication. The Wizarding World, as a site central to the Harry Potter fandom’s collective memory and identity, reifies the values of inclusivity, equality, anti-…
Signalling media professionalism: Comparative social constructions of RT and CGTN
The messaging content of Russia Today (RT) and China Global Television Network (CGTN) provides alternatives to those offered in mainstream western media. Comparative studies point to RT’s aggressive, ideological rhetoric and CGTN’s more tacit, celebratory, and culture-focused approach. This study adds to these understandings by examining how messaging strategies construct media professionalism – one of the four historic pillars of media systems a…
Mediated Public Diplomacy and RT on Instagram: Role of International Institutions, Audience Engagement, and Online Account Bans
Changes in the global media environment now challenge relationships between and within states. To expand understandings of mediated public diplomacy, this study examined 13,500 Instagram posts distributed on RT's non-Russian accounts from September 2021–September 2022. It used LDA to identify RT topics across language accounts, explored the topics' relation to UN statehood, examined audience engagement levels, and compared their frequency before …
Image Content Indicators of Extremist Group Evolution: A Comparative Study of Mena-Based and Far-Right Groups
Policymakers, researchers, and responders alike focus on the evolution of terrorist and other groups associated with political violence. This study offers a comparative analysis of the images of ISIS and U.S. far-right groups’ use of flag images, as such emblems contribute to community building, heighten emotional responses, and have political import. It adds to previous work by comparing groups across the ideological spectrum, by recognizing dif…
The Moscow Spin: Assessing Russia Today's (RT) Framing of Media Systems Across Languages
By utilizing Hallin and Mancini’s four media systems criteria as a baseline interpretive lens, this study expands understandings of how Russian global media challenge existing international institutions. It illustrates how Russia Today (RT) frames Russia's media system vis-à-vis the West to online audiences. It examines 5 years of media-related posts (prior to Meta's ban) on RT's Arabic, English, French, and Spanish Facebook pages to reveal how a…
International media coverage of the 2023 Gaza War: A hybrid methodological approach to cross-cultural visual analysis
Death portrayals can not only influence memories, identify enemies, and prompt moralistic judgments, but can also fuel conflict. Whereas non-Western media are more likely to disseminate death photographs, Western outlets tend to utilize impending death photographs as alternatives to graphic imagery of corpses. Using a hybrid methodological approach, this study cross-culturally compares death and impending death depictions in seven global news out…
Media Studies and Communication (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Content analysis (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Frame analysis (2 works) · Narrative (2 works)