Linda Jean Kenix
Biographic Data
| ID | 284923 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Linda Jean Kenix |
| GIVEN NAMES | Linda Jean |
| FAMILY NAME | Kenix |
| SIGNATURE | KENIX L J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Canterbury |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8462-5152 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Noninformation and Nationalism
Portions of the public remain confused as to the cause, effect and responsible agent of climate change. Researchers have noted that ‘misinformation’ appears responsible for this confusion, but there continues to be a scarcity of research exploring this issue and what constitutes that ‘misinformation’. This research aims to explore information about climate change coverage in news from the top carbon-emitting countries: China, the United States, I…
A Transnational Network Analysis of Refugees in Crisis
Over 3,000 articles from 2012–2022 in Spanish and English across the US, Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Honduras were manually coded to better understand how refugees in crisis were framed in both home and destination countries. This study uses a detailed frame analysis and a broad transnational network analysis to highlight each refugee attribute on the media agenda that then informs policy across nations. While there is wide var…
The Role of Social Media Platforms in Contemporary New Zealand LGBTQ + Movements
This paper explores the shifting dynamics of what constitutes a contemporary social movement and the pros and cons that emerge after movements have gone online. This paper is premised on in-depth interviews with twenty-nine interviewees regarding how social media has brought changes to the contemporary LGBTQ + movement in New Zealand among both Māori and Pākehā (white New Zealanders) communities. The interviewees testified to the shifting nature …
Measuring Perceptions
Recognizing the importance of images and perceptions in international politics conceptually and practically, our chapter places specific emphasis on the methodology of combining low and high inference approaches to data analysis in the field of international political communication. In the latter perspective, we engage with the Rasch Measurement Model that integrates rigorous statistical methods with rich qualitative descriptions to provide meani…
The coverage of clashes between migrants and authorities at the U.S.–Mexico border
This paper analyses news articles covering the clashes between the migrant caravan and border authorities at the Mexico–United States border in American and Central American print media outlets. On the 26th of November 2018, the migrant caravan, who had walked from Central America towards the United States, was stopped by American authorities with the use of rubber bullets and tear gas. This paper examines the language used in newspapers to addre…
Representations of refugees in their home countries and abroad
In October 2018, Honduran citizens started walking toward the American South border looking to be allowed entry into the United States due to not having work opportunities nor humanitarian aid in Honduras. More people joined them and this group was named la caravana migrante, the migrant caravan. Our content analyses of articles in five U.S. and five Central American newspapers sought to find similarities and differences in reporting. Despite dif…
A comparative analysis of social media messaging by African-centred LGBT refugee NGOs
Approximately 40 per cent of countries categorize homosexuality as illegal. However, refugee status is still granted largely on the basis of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, which found that a refugee is a person who has a ‘well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion’. On that basis, few countries allow sexual orientation as g…
Exploring national culture through international media The publication of a viral pro-LGBT image compared against a nation’s wealth, level of religion, and democracy
Gay marriage is now legal in 22 countries around the world. However, homosexual acts remain punishable by death in 10 countries and are now illegal in a further 65 countries. Thus, there appears to be very clear national cultural distinctions in how local cultures consider the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people. In 2016, an image of a 12-year-old boy who stood against a sea of anti-LGBT marriage protesters in Celaya, M…
You are either with us or with us
Much research examining the mediated construction of national identity is qualitatively focused, exploring limited factors, asserting that exclusion/inclusion is essential for its formation, and based within the host country. This study creates a framework of micronarratives to quantitatively measure the constructed national identity of a small Pacific Island from three geographically distinct news outlets. This study suggests that the mediated c…
A Converging Image
Visual imagery, while largely overlooked in mass communication research, is central to how organizations represent themselves, make meaning, create identities, and communicate with the rest of the world. This research explores visual differences between alternative and mainstream news websites along the conceptual categorization of deviance. More deviant groups have historically represented themselves through alternative media with themes of conf…
The Traitor and the Hedonist
Two recent child abuse cases in New Zealand flooded the local media spotlight and captured the public's attention. In both cases, the mothers were not charged with murdering their children. Yet both mothers received extensive scrutiny in the media. This qualitative analysis found two central narratives in media content: that of the traitor and that of the hedonist. In drawing upon such archetypal mythologies surrounding motherhood, the media cons…
Alternative and Mainstream Media
Alternative media have historically been a central force in social change. Kenix argues, however, that they do not uniformly subvert the hierarchies of access that have always been fundamental to mainstream media. In fact, their journalistic norms and routines have always drawn on the professional standards of the mainstream. Through comparative analysis Kenix posits the perception of 'mainstream' and 'alternative' as a misconception arguing that…
Resistance Narratives in Radical, Alternative Media
This research examines the discursive conventions and resistance narratives of Earwig, a New Zealand alternative magazine that began publication in 1969. This work reappropriates previous examinations of narrative fragments and constitutive functions that have been found to coalesce upon a physical anarchist gathering and suggests that such an approach can help to explain meta-narratives of meaning across the lifetime of a specifi c publication. …
Ethnic Minorities, Electronic Media, and the Public Sphere
Blogs as Alternative
It has been argued that blogs, as an extension of 1960s 'New Journalism,' have become an important form of alternative media. At their idealized best, blogs can report news without the constraints of censure or the pressures of advertising. This argument suggests that blogs can therefore offer a deeper analysis, based upon a diverse range of sources and contributing citizen commentators, which is not possible through modern corporate, mainstream …
The Internet as a tool for democracy? A survey of non-profit Internet decision-makers and Web users
Although research has urged scholars and practitioners to develop the Internet as a democratic tool, little research has examined how users actually use the Internet and how the Internet is conceptualized by those who create its content – particularly in the non-profit sector where questions of democracy, interconnected communication and information gathering are often central to survival. This research surveys 688 people associated with non-prof…
Nonprofit Organizations' Perceptions and Uses of the Internet
This research examines how nonprofit organizations perceive and utilize the internet through the framework of Habermas's theory of the public sphere. In seven focus groups across the country, 52 people responsible for creating internet strategy and/or web content for nonprofit organizations participated. Claims of sweeping improvements in democratic participation through the internet were not supported. Almost no organizations utilized the techno…
Framing Science
The public learns about climate change through the media. While mainstream media have been found to inadequately report on this issue in the United States, little research has examined how alternative media frame climate change, or how mainstream press in other countries are dealing with this important issue. In 2007, Professor Tim O’Riordan, the British Sustainability Commissioner and an advisor to British Prime Minister Tony Blair, gave a publi…
In search of Utopia
This research explores the practical application of a widely held, utopian belief that the \nInternet remains a strong democratizing tool because of its inherent interactive capabilities. Through \nan analysis of 70 non-profit web pages, this study examines how these organizations utilize the \nInternet as a deliberative public sphere; an opportunity for activism; an avenue for advertising and \nfundraising revenue; a space for marginalized voice…
Stereotypical Portrayals of Emotionality in News Photos
This research content analyzed the news photographs of a major U.S. daily newspaper to examine the emotional portrayals of individuals in different gender, age, and ethnic subgroups. A multidimensional measure of emotion (pleasure, arousal, dominance) was used. A total of 1,595 individuals were coded. The results demonstrate that emotionality was stereotyped to some degree, particularly in relation to women, ethnic minorities, and senior citizens…
Choosing an Endorser for a Women’s Sporting Event
Alternative and Mainstream Media
Alternative media have historically been a central force in social change. Kenix argues, however, that they do not uniformly subvert the hierarchies of access that have always been fundamental to mainstream media. In fact, their journalistic norms and routines have always drawn on the professional standards of the mainstream. Through comparative analysis Kenix posits the perception of 'mainstream' and 'alternative' as a misconception arguing that…
Blogs as Alternative
It has been argued that blogs, as an extension of 1960s 'New Journalism,' have become an important form of alternative media. At their idealized best, blogs can report news without the constraints of censure or the pressures of advertising. This argument suggests that blogs can therefore offer a deeper analysis, based upon a diverse range of sources and contributing citizen commentators, which is not possible through modern corporate, mainstream …
Choosing an Endorser for a Women’s Sporting Event
Stereotypical Portrayals of Emotionality in News Photos
This research content analyzed the news photographs of a major U.S. daily newspaper to examine the emotional portrayals of individuals in different gender, age, and ethnic subgroups. A multidimensional measure of emotion (pleasure, arousal, dominance) was used. A total of 1,595 individuals were coded. The results demonstrate that emotionality was stereotyped to some degree, particularly in relation to women, ethnic minorities, and senior citizens…
Framing Science
The public learns about climate change through the media. While mainstream media have been found to inadequately report on this issue in the United States, little research has examined how alternative media frame climate change, or how mainstream press in other countries are dealing with this important issue. In 2007, Professor Tim O’Riordan, the British Sustainability Commissioner and an advisor to British Prime Minister Tony Blair, gave a publi…
Nonprofit Organizations' Perceptions and Uses of the Internet
This research examines how nonprofit organizations perceive and utilize the internet through the framework of Habermas's theory of the public sphere. In seven focus groups across the country, 52 people responsible for creating internet strategy and/or web content for nonprofit organizations participated. Claims of sweeping improvements in democratic participation through the internet were not supported. Almost no organizations utilized the techno…
You are either with us or with us
Much research examining the mediated construction of national identity is qualitatively focused, exploring limited factors, asserting that exclusion/inclusion is essential for its formation, and based within the host country. This study creates a framework of micronarratives to quantitatively measure the constructed national identity of a small Pacific Island from three geographically distinct news outlets. This study suggests that the mediated c…
The Role of Social Media Platforms in Contemporary New Zealand LGBTQ + Movements
This paper explores the shifting dynamics of what constitutes a contemporary social movement and the pros and cons that emerge after movements have gone online. This paper is premised on in-depth interviews with twenty-nine interviewees regarding how social media has brought changes to the contemporary LGBTQ + movement in New Zealand among both Māori and Pākehā (white New Zealanders) communities. The interviewees testified to the shifting nature …
Exploring national culture through international media The publication of a viral pro-LGBT image compared against a nation’s wealth, level of religion, and democracy
Gay marriage is now legal in 22 countries around the world. However, homosexual acts remain punishable by death in 10 countries and are now illegal in a further 65 countries. Thus, there appears to be very clear national cultural distinctions in how local cultures consider the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people. In 2016, an image of a 12-year-old boy who stood against a sea of anti-LGBT marriage protesters in Celaya, M…
A Converging Image
Visual imagery, while largely overlooked in mass communication research, is central to how organizations represent themselves, make meaning, create identities, and communicate with the rest of the world. This research explores visual differences between alternative and mainstream news websites along the conceptual categorization of deviance. More deviant groups have historically represented themselves through alternative media with themes of conf…
The Traitor and the Hedonist
Two recent child abuse cases in New Zealand flooded the local media spotlight and captured the public's attention. In both cases, the mothers were not charged with murdering their children. Yet both mothers received extensive scrutiny in the media. This qualitative analysis found two central narratives in media content: that of the traitor and that of the hedonist. In drawing upon such archetypal mythologies surrounding motherhood, the media cons…
In search of Utopia
This research explores the practical application of a widely held, utopian belief that the \nInternet remains a strong democratizing tool because of its inherent interactive capabilities. Through \nan analysis of 70 non-profit web pages, this study examines how these organizations utilize the \nInternet as a deliberative public sphere; an opportunity for activism; an avenue for advertising and \nfundraising revenue; a space for marginalized voice…
Stereotypical Portrayals of Emotionality in News Photos
This research content analyzed the news photographs of a major U.S. daily newspaper to examine the emotional portrayals of individuals in different gender, age, and ethnic subgroups. A multidimensional measure of emotion (pleasure, arousal, dominance) was used. A total of 1,595 individuals were coded. The results demonstrate that emotionality was stereotyped to some degree, particularly in relation to women, ethnic minorities, and senior citizens…
Choosing an Endorser for a Women’s Sporting Event
The Internet as a tool for democracy? A survey of non-profit Internet decision-makers and Web users
Although research has urged scholars and practitioners to develop the Internet as a democratic tool, little research has examined how users actually use the Internet and how the Internet is conceptualized by those who create its content – particularly in the non-profit sector where questions of democracy, interconnected communication and information gathering are often central to survival. This research surveys 688 people associated with non-prof…
Nonprofit Organizations' Perceptions and Uses of the Internet
This research examines how nonprofit organizations perceive and utilize the internet through the framework of Habermas's theory of the public sphere. In seven focus groups across the country, 52 people responsible for creating internet strategy and/or web content for nonprofit organizations participated. Claims of sweeping improvements in democratic participation through the internet were not supported. Almost no organizations utilized the techno…
Framing Science
The public learns about climate change through the media. While mainstream media have been found to inadequately report on this issue in the United States, little research has examined how alternative media frame climate change, or how mainstream press in other countries are dealing with this important issue. In 2007, Professor Tim O’Riordan, the British Sustainability Commissioner and an advisor to British Prime Minister Tony Blair, gave a publi…
Blogs as Alternative
It has been argued that blogs, as an extension of 1960s 'New Journalism,' have become an important form of alternative media. At their idealized best, blogs can report news without the constraints of censure or the pressures of advertising. This argument suggests that blogs can therefore offer a deeper analysis, based upon a diverse range of sources and contributing citizen commentators, which is not possible through modern corporate, mainstream …
Resistance Narratives in Radical, Alternative Media
This research examines the discursive conventions and resistance narratives of Earwig, a New Zealand alternative magazine that began publication in 1969. This work reappropriates previous examinations of narrative fragments and constitutive functions that have been found to coalesce upon a physical anarchist gathering and suggests that such an approach can help to explain meta-narratives of meaning across the lifetime of a specifi c publication. …
Ethnic Minorities, Electronic Media, and the Public Sphere
The Traitor and the Hedonist
Two recent child abuse cases in New Zealand flooded the local media spotlight and captured the public's attention. In both cases, the mothers were not charged with murdering their children. Yet both mothers received extensive scrutiny in the media. This qualitative analysis found two central narratives in media content: that of the traitor and that of the hedonist. In drawing upon such archetypal mythologies surrounding motherhood, the media cons…
Alternative and Mainstream Media
Alternative media have historically been a central force in social change. Kenix argues, however, that they do not uniformly subvert the hierarchies of access that have always been fundamental to mainstream media. In fact, their journalistic norms and routines have always drawn on the professional standards of the mainstream. Through comparative analysis Kenix posits the perception of 'mainstream' and 'alternative' as a misconception arguing that…
A Converging Image
Visual imagery, while largely overlooked in mass communication research, is central to how organizations represent themselves, make meaning, create identities, and communicate with the rest of the world. This research explores visual differences between alternative and mainstream news websites along the conceptual categorization of deviance. More deviant groups have historically represented themselves through alternative media with themes of conf…
You are either with us or with us
Much research examining the mediated construction of national identity is qualitatively focused, exploring limited factors, asserting that exclusion/inclusion is essential for its formation, and based within the host country. This study creates a framework of micronarratives to quantitatively measure the constructed national identity of a small Pacific Island from three geographically distinct news outlets. This study suggests that the mediated c…
A comparative analysis of social media messaging by African-centred LGBT refugee NGOs
Approximately 40 per cent of countries categorize homosexuality as illegal. However, refugee status is still granted largely on the basis of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, which found that a refugee is a person who has a ‘well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion’. On that basis, few countries allow sexual orientation as g…
Exploring national culture through international media The publication of a viral pro-LGBT image compared against a nation’s wealth, level of religion, and democracy
Gay marriage is now legal in 22 countries around the world. However, homosexual acts remain punishable by death in 10 countries and are now illegal in a further 65 countries. Thus, there appears to be very clear national cultural distinctions in how local cultures consider the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people. In 2016, an image of a 12-year-old boy who stood against a sea of anti-LGBT marriage protesters in Celaya, M…
Representations of refugees in their home countries and abroad
In October 2018, Honduran citizens started walking toward the American South border looking to be allowed entry into the United States due to not having work opportunities nor humanitarian aid in Honduras. More people joined them and this group was named la caravana migrante, the migrant caravan. Our content analyses of articles in five U.S. and five Central American newspapers sought to find similarities and differences in reporting. Despite dif…
Measuring Perceptions
Recognizing the importance of images and perceptions in international politics conceptually and practically, our chapter places specific emphasis on the methodology of combining low and high inference approaches to data analysis in the field of international political communication. In the latter perspective, we engage with the Rasch Measurement Model that integrates rigorous statistical methods with rich qualitative descriptions to provide meani…
The coverage of clashes between migrants and authorities at the U.S.–Mexico border
This paper analyses news articles covering the clashes between the migrant caravan and border authorities at the Mexico–United States border in American and Central American print media outlets. On the 26th of November 2018, the migrant caravan, who had walked from Central America towards the United States, was stopped by American authorities with the use of rubber bullets and tear gas. This paper examines the language used in newspapers to addre…
The Role of Social Media Platforms in Contemporary New Zealand LGBTQ + Movements
This paper explores the shifting dynamics of what constitutes a contemporary social movement and the pros and cons that emerge after movements have gone online. This paper is premised on in-depth interviews with twenty-nine interviewees regarding how social media has brought changes to the contemporary LGBTQ + movement in New Zealand among both Māori and Pākehā (white New Zealanders) communities. The interviewees testified to the shifting nature …
A Transnational Network Analysis of Refugees in Crisis
Over 3,000 articles from 2012–2022 in Spanish and English across the US, Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Honduras were manually coded to better understand how refugees in crisis were framed in both home and destination countries. This study uses a detailed frame analysis and a broad transnational network analysis to highlight each refugee attribute on the media agenda that then informs policy across nations. While there is wide var…
Noninformation and Nationalism
Portions of the public remain confused as to the cause, effect and responsible agent of climate change. Researchers have noted that ‘misinformation’ appears responsible for this confusion, but there continues to be a scarcity of research exploring this issue and what constitutes that ‘misinformation’. This research aims to explore information about climate change coverage in news from the top carbon-emitting countries: China, the United States, I…
Sociology (18 works) · Political science (17 works) · Media studies (12 works) · Social Media and Politics (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Media Studies and Communication (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Newspaper (6 works)