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    • Not all Wikipedias are the same: The Italian Wikipedia’s unique approach to the Ukrainian war

      https://doi.org/10.1386/macp_00099_1
      Available online: 31 October 2025

      This article investigates the delayed publication of the Italian Wikipedia entry on the Russian–Ukrainian war. While most language versions of Wikipedia promptly published articles on the conflict, the Italian version exhibited a notable delay. This study explores the reasons behind this delay, revealing that it was not driven by political pressures but rather by a distinct editorial philosophy within the Italian Wikipedia community. Unlike other language versions, Italian Wikipedia editors uphold a more conservative interpretation of what is appropriate for an encyclopaedia, favouring stability and verification over immediacy. Through a qualitative analysis of talk pages and sixteen semi-structured interviews with editors, this research highlights how these editorial norms shaped the approach to covering the war. The findings contribute to a broader understanding of how different Wikipedia communities negotiate knowledge production, emphasizing the role of cultural and epistemic values in shaping collaborative digital platforms.

    • Film narratives about crisis and austerity in Portugal: Context, production and distribution conditions

      https://doi.org/10.1386/macp_00101_1
      Available online: 31 October 2025

      Documentary films have emerged as potent tools for shaping public discourse and influencing societal and political agendas. Despite the growing acknowledgement garnered by Portuguese cinema at international festivals, its impact on public debate still needs to be explored. This article undertakes a comprehensive examination of how the financial crisis and austerity measures have been portrayed in Portuguese documentary production from 2010 to 2020. The analysis corpus includes 169 feature-length documentary synopses. We conducted a content analysis of films whose synopses explicitly mentioned crisis or austerity and addressed issues such as poverty, unemployment, the elderly, loneliness, territorial asymmetries and migrations. The narrative, visual choices, sound, time and space portrayed and the approach to the crisis were aspects considered in the analysis of the films. The findings reveal a limited emphasis on the portrayal of the crisis, which is seen from different perspectives, times and spaces as if permeating the national daily life. Defective distribution mechanisms also limit the ability of films to impact public debate.

    • Pandas as new icons of Koreanness: Childbirth, growth and family-making at a South Korean zoo

      https://doi.org/10.1386/macp_00100_1
      Available online: 14 October 2025

      During the pandemic, panda craze had made waves in South Korea and beyond, with the giant panda Fu Bao becoming a zoo celebrity and icon of Korean popular culture. This article examines , a South Korean documentary featuring the growth story of Fu Bao, and the 2023 photo-essay collection . I ask how the Korean media has represented birth, childcare and early education as experienced by the pandas and how such representations are intertwined with anxieties over mass migration, gender norms and economic prospects in modern-day South Korea. Through discourse analysis, I find that while media representations of foreign species and interspecies encounters in South Korea often seek to alienate the foreign ‘other’ and problematize foreign masculinity, they are not categorically the same with popular representations of migrant workers and foreign brides. Unlike migrant workers and foreign brides whose cultural citizenship remains ambiguous at the discursive level, pandas as a foreign species are represented as constitutive of rather than external to ‘Koreanness’, thus complicating and contesting South Korea’s ethnocentric and metrocentric discourses.

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