Table of Contents “...: race-baiting and social categorization in recent U.S. immigration debates / Shiao-Yun Chiang -- Global media and cultural identies: the case of Indians in Post-Amin Uganda / Hemant Shah -- Representing and reconstructing Chinatown: a social semiotic analysis of place names in urban planning policies of Washington, D.C. / Jackie Jia Lou -- Sexual citizenship and suffering subjects: media disclosure about teenage homosexuality in South Korea / Hae Yeon Choo and Myra Marx Ferree -- Hidden sexualities: behind the veil and in the swamps / Sanya Osha -- The bad and the good (queer) immigrant in Italian mass media / Valentina Pagliai -- The surplus of paradoxes: queering images of sexuality and economy / Antke Engel -- Positioning the veiled woman: an analysis of Austrian press photographs in the context of the European headscarf debates / Ricarda Drüeke, Susanne Kirchoff, and Elisabeth Klaus -- Constructing and being the "other": young men's talk on ethnic and racist violence / Kjerstin Andersson -- Language as a means of "civilizing" the Kurdish women in Turkey / Ebru Sungun -- Contested identify: transgendered people in Malaysia / Caesar DeAlwis, Maya Khemlani David, and Francisco Perlas Dumanig -- Language and identify: Turkish soap operas and language policy in the Bulgarian mediascape / Nadezhda Georgieva-Stankova -- Tiny Netizens mocking the great firewall: discourse, power, and the politics of representation in China, 2005 to 2010 / Weizhun Mao -- Framing extreme violence: the collective memory-making of Argentina's dirty war / Roberta Villalón -- The changing dynamics of political discourse about orphans in Soviet and post-soviet periods / Margarita Astoyants....”