Kay Richardson
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- May 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195374056
- eISBN:
- 9780199776177
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195374056.003.0005
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
This is the second of two chapters that situate television dramatic dialogue in a wider social context by looking at how it (a) comes into being and (b) is received and used by audiences. This ...
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This is the second of two chapters that situate television dramatic dialogue in a wider social context by looking at how it (a) comes into being and (b) is received and used by audiences. This chapter focuses on the ways that audiences respond to the dialogue they witness as part of television productions: how they use it to create their understandings of particular characters in dramatic works, how they show their appreciation of it in blogs and other online forums, how they create their own dialogue in fan fiction, and how certain expressions join the ranks of cultural catchphrases and take on a new life in that context.Less
This is the second of two chapters that situate television dramatic dialogue in a wider social context by looking at how it (a) comes into being and (b) is received and used by audiences. This chapter focuses on the ways that audiences respond to the dialogue they witness as part of television productions: how they use it to create their understandings of particular characters in dramatic works, how they show their appreciation of it in blogs and other online forums, how they create their own dialogue in fan fiction, and how certain expressions join the ranks of cultural catchphrases and take on a new life in that context.
Philip N. Howard
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199736416
- eISBN:
- 9780199866441
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199736416.003.0006
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics, Democratization
One of the most important changes over the last decade has been in the business and practice of journalism in countries with large Muslim communities. This chapter reviews the ways in which the ...
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One of the most important changes over the last decade has been in the business and practice of journalism in countries with large Muslim communities. This chapter reviews the ways in which the internet has changed the organization of the newsrooms and the resources available to journalists. It documents the rise of an important new political actor—citizen-journalists. Equipped with a cell-phone camera or blog, they have had tangible impacts on the local and global news supply during political and security crises.Less
One of the most important changes over the last decade has been in the business and practice of journalism in countries with large Muslim communities. This chapter reviews the ways in which the internet has changed the organization of the newsrooms and the resources available to journalists. It documents the rise of an important new political actor—citizen-journalists. Equipped with a cell-phone camera or blog, they have had tangible impacts on the local and global news supply during political and security crises.
Joshua A. Braun
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780300197501
- eISBN:
- 9780300216240
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300197501.003.0010
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This chapter examines how the blog of The Rachel Maddow Show (TRMS) was born. Rachel Maddow reportedly disliked the appearance of the blogs generated by MSNBC's obsolete Community Server software. ...
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This chapter examines how the blog of The Rachel Maddow Show (TRMS) was born. Rachel Maddow reportedly disliked the appearance of the blogs generated by MSNBC's obsolete Community Server software. Furthermore, Microsoft's branding and visual identity guidelines, mandated for all MSN-affiliated sites, put limits on what a new Newsvine-powered blog design could look like. This chapter comments on the hiring of Laura Conaway as a TRMS web producer and the level of integration among the show's various products that she promised. It also considers MSNBC.com's launch of a Newsvine blog, the weblog for NBC News's Elkhart Project, along with the creation of the Maddow Blog and the extensive heterogeneous engineering that turned it into a complete website. Finally, it describes the major changes in the digital distribution strategy for MSNBC.com and MSNBC TV after TRMS launched its own blog.Less
This chapter examines how the blog of The Rachel Maddow Show (TRMS) was born. Rachel Maddow reportedly disliked the appearance of the blogs generated by MSNBC's obsolete Community Server software. Furthermore, Microsoft's branding and visual identity guidelines, mandated for all MSN-affiliated sites, put limits on what a new Newsvine-powered blog design could look like. This chapter comments on the hiring of Laura Conaway as a TRMS web producer and the level of integration among the show's various products that she promised. It also considers MSNBC.com's launch of a Newsvine blog, the weblog for NBC News's Elkhart Project, along with the creation of the Maddow Blog and the extensive heterogeneous engineering that turned it into a complete website. Finally, it describes the major changes in the digital distribution strategy for MSNBC.com and MSNBC TV after TRMS launched its own blog.
Teresa Pepe
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781474433990
- eISBN:
- 9781474460231
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474433990.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Middle Eastern Studies
Six years before the Egyptian revolution of January 2011, many young Egyptians had resorted to blogging as a means of self-expression and literary creativity. Some of these bloggers have not only ...
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Six years before the Egyptian revolution of January 2011, many young Egyptians had resorted to blogging as a means of self-expression and literary creativity. Some of these bloggers have not only received big popularity within the online community, but have also attracted the interest of independent and mainstream publishing houses, and have made their way into the Arab cultural field.
Previous research on the impact of the Internet in the Middle East has been dominated by a focus on politics and the public sphere, while its influence on cultural domains remains very little explored. Blogging From Egypt aims at filling this gap by exploring young Egyptians’ blogs as forms of digital literature. It studies a corpus of 40 personal blogs written and distributed online between 2005 and 2016, combining literary analysis with interviews with the authors. The study reveals that the experimentation with blogging resulted in the emergence of a new literary genre: the autofictional blog. The book explores the aesthetic features of this genre, as well as its relation to the events of the “Arab Spring”. Finally, it discusses how blogs have evolved in the last years after 2011 and what is left of the blog in Arabic literary production. The book includes original extracts and translation from blogs, made available for the first time to an English-speaking audience.Less
Six years before the Egyptian revolution of January 2011, many young Egyptians had resorted to blogging as a means of self-expression and literary creativity. Some of these bloggers have not only received big popularity within the online community, but have also attracted the interest of independent and mainstream publishing houses, and have made their way into the Arab cultural field.
Previous research on the impact of the Internet in the Middle East has been dominated by a focus on politics and the public sphere, while its influence on cultural domains remains very little explored. Blogging From Egypt aims at filling this gap by exploring young Egyptians’ blogs as forms of digital literature. It studies a corpus of 40 personal blogs written and distributed online between 2005 and 2016, combining literary analysis with interviews with the authors. The study reveals that the experimentation with blogging resulted in the emergence of a new literary genre: the autofictional blog. The book explores the aesthetic features of this genre, as well as its relation to the events of the “Arab Spring”. Finally, it discusses how blogs have evolved in the last years after 2011 and what is left of the blog in Arabic literary production. The book includes original extracts and translation from blogs, made available for the first time to an English-speaking audience.
Jon L. Mills
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195367355
- eISBN:
- 9780199867400
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195367355.003.0006
- Subject:
- Law, Human Rights and Immigration
An examination of the legal tools available for redress of invasion of privacy claims demonstrates the complexity and difficulty courts face when analyzing these cases. This chapter uses intriguing ...
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An examination of the legal tools available for redress of invasion of privacy claims demonstrates the complexity and difficulty courts face when analyzing these cases. This chapter uses intriguing and infamous real-life examples that show that privacy intrusions can come from different perpetrators. From public access to autopsy photographs, to tell-all Web logs, the examples listed exhibit the complex issues involved in privacy cases. Outcomes are unpredictable and sometimes outrageous in these cases. These cases demonstrate the real life difficulty of facing privacy intrusions and the necessity for new and more comprehensive remedies.Less
An examination of the legal tools available for redress of invasion of privacy claims demonstrates the complexity and difficulty courts face when analyzing these cases. This chapter uses intriguing and infamous real-life examples that show that privacy intrusions can come from different perpetrators. From public access to autopsy photographs, to tell-all Web logs, the examples listed exhibit the complex issues involved in privacy cases. Outcomes are unpredictable and sometimes outrageous in these cases. These cases demonstrate the real life difficulty of facing privacy intrusions and the necessity for new and more comprehensive remedies.
Kiri Miller
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199753451
- eISBN:
- 9780199932979
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199753451.003.0006
- Subject:
- Music, History, American, Ethnomusicology, World Music
This chapter addresses “amateur-to-amateur” (A2A) online pedagogy. Despite the limitations of current media platforms, millions of people are turning to YouTube, blogs, and other web-based social ...
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This chapter addresses “amateur-to-amateur” (A2A) online pedagogy. Despite the limitations of current media platforms, millions of people are turning to YouTube, blogs, and other web-based social media in the pursuit of new corporeal skills, experiences, and knowledge. This chapter presents three case studies of A2A transmission: a conga lesson series created by a Virginia college student of Puerto Rican descent; piano lessons that cater to beginners who want to learn to play songs by the Beatles and Billy Joel; and ashtanga yoga transmission in a “cybershala” built out of online videos and blog posts. Each sheds light on how people are using interactive digital media to teach and learn embodied practices with established histories of actual-world pedagogy and performance.Less
This chapter addresses “amateur-to-amateur” (A2A) online pedagogy. Despite the limitations of current media platforms, millions of people are turning to YouTube, blogs, and other web-based social media in the pursuit of new corporeal skills, experiences, and knowledge. This chapter presents three case studies of A2A transmission: a conga lesson series created by a Virginia college student of Puerto Rican descent; piano lessons that cater to beginners who want to learn to play songs by the Beatles and Billy Joel; and ashtanga yoga transmission in a “cybershala” built out of online videos and blog posts. Each sheds light on how people are using interactive digital media to teach and learn embodied practices with established histories of actual-world pedagogy and performance.
Gena R. Greher and Jesse M. Heines
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- November 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780199826179
- eISBN:
- 9780197563182
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780199826179.003.0013
- Subject:
- Computer Science, Audio Processing
All students know that different professors grade differently. We’d be willing to bet that your experiences in this area mirror ours, and that you’d agree that the ...
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All students know that different professors grade differently. We’d be willing to bet that your experiences in this area mirror ours, and that you’d agree that the differences go much deeper than we could have imagined. It’s not just a question of one professor being a tough grader while the other is easy, or one grading on established intervals (93–100 = A, 90–92 = A–, 87–89 = B–, 83– 86 = B, etc.) while the other grades “on the curve.” It’s more a question of style: how much feedback students receive on their work and in what form, how the various components in any individual assignment are evaluated to make up an overall grade for that assignment, and how final grades are computed, especially if the computing involves grades of differing weights. There also appear to be quite different “cultures” concerning grades in the sciences and the arts. While students in all disciplines are understandably concerned about their grades—if for no other reason than to maintain the grade point average (GPA) required to keep their financial aid or to avoid a clash with parents—those in the sciences seem to desire more precise accounting than those in the arts. Add to these factors that students in an interdisciplinary course are, by definition, constantly being put into situations outside their comfort zone, and it’s easy to see that the wave of students complaining about grading can be a tsunami waiting to happen. One can discuss grading philosophies forever, but we begin from the premise that if students put reasonable amounts of effort into the coursework, they should get “paid” with a decent grade, which we consider to be B– or better. In fact, one of us believes that all students walk in with an A and it’s the student’s responsibility to maintain that grade. This is especially true in an experimental course such as our Sound Thinking, where we know that some of the assignments and our expectations of students’ work may come across as a bit “fuzzy.”
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All students know that different professors grade differently. We’d be willing to bet that your experiences in this area mirror ours, and that you’d agree that the differences go much deeper than we could have imagined. It’s not just a question of one professor being a tough grader while the other is easy, or one grading on established intervals (93–100 = A, 90–92 = A–, 87–89 = B–, 83– 86 = B, etc.) while the other grades “on the curve.” It’s more a question of style: how much feedback students receive on their work and in what form, how the various components in any individual assignment are evaluated to make up an overall grade for that assignment, and how final grades are computed, especially if the computing involves grades of differing weights. There also appear to be quite different “cultures” concerning grades in the sciences and the arts. While students in all disciplines are understandably concerned about their grades—if for no other reason than to maintain the grade point average (GPA) required to keep their financial aid or to avoid a clash with parents—those in the sciences seem to desire more precise accounting than those in the arts. Add to these factors that students in an interdisciplinary course are, by definition, constantly being put into situations outside their comfort zone, and it’s easy to see that the wave of students complaining about grading can be a tsunami waiting to happen. One can discuss grading philosophies forever, but we begin from the premise that if students put reasonable amounts of effort into the coursework, they should get “paid” with a decent grade, which we consider to be B– or better. In fact, one of us believes that all students walk in with an A and it’s the student’s responsibility to maintain that grade. This is especially true in an experimental course such as our Sound Thinking, where we know that some of the assignments and our expectations of students’ work may come across as a bit “fuzzy.”
Karen Exell
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- November 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780198753537
- eISBN:
- 9780191917004
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198753537.003.0019
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Mortuary Archaeology
From 2006 to 2009, Manchester Museum, University of Manchester, UK, was one of the leading institutions promoting the debate surrounding the ethics of ...
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From 2006 to 2009, Manchester Museum, University of Manchester, UK, was one of the leading institutions promoting the debate surrounding the ethics of preserving and displaying the dead in museums. The discussion in this chapter analyses the activities of Manchester Museum in relation to human remains within the context of a critical assessment of recent developments in museum practice and the continuing cultural significance of the museum. In particular, the discussion will pay particular attention to the omission of any acknowledgement of the individuals responsible for exhibitions and related events, i.e. the authors of its public discourse. Two case studies will be used to illustrate the discussion: the exhibition, Lindow Man: A Bog Body Mystery (2008–9), and the incident of the ‘covering the mummies’ in April 2008 where three of the twelve Egyptian embalmed bodies on display were fully covered, resulting in a public outcry (Jenkins 2011a; Exell 2013a). Both the exhibition and the ‘covering the mummies’ formed part of a series of high-profile activities related to human remains that took place at Manchester Museum at this time. At the time, I was in post as Curator of Egyptology, and this discussion also illustrates the changing role of subject-specialist curators in relation to exhibition production and other aspects of a museum’s public communications (see Farrar 2004). … ‘There are, as far as we know, no a priori reasons for supposing that scientists’ scientific practice is any more rational than that of outsiders.’ (Latour and Woolgar 1986: 29) ‘Another word for “local knowledges” is prejudice.’ (Sokal 2008: 108)… Working on the public consultation process during the period 2008–10 for the new archaeology and ancient Egypt galleries at Manchester Museum, opened as the Ancient Worlds galleries in October 2012, the general lack of understanding of the exhibition and gallery development process amongst museum visitors became evident. From discussions with participants in the various consultation events (Exell and Lord 2008; Exell 2013a,b), it emerged that people in the institution either regarded the decision-making process as being the sole responsibility of the most relevant subject-specialist curator, or somehow the result of a monolithic and neutral institutional mind (Arnold 1998: 191).
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From 2006 to 2009, Manchester Museum, University of Manchester, UK, was one of the leading institutions promoting the debate surrounding the ethics of preserving and displaying the dead in museums. The discussion in this chapter analyses the activities of Manchester Museum in relation to human remains within the context of a critical assessment of recent developments in museum practice and the continuing cultural significance of the museum. In particular, the discussion will pay particular attention to the omission of any acknowledgement of the individuals responsible for exhibitions and related events, i.e. the authors of its public discourse. Two case studies will be used to illustrate the discussion: the exhibition, Lindow Man: A Bog Body Mystery (2008–9), and the incident of the ‘covering the mummies’ in April 2008 where three of the twelve Egyptian embalmed bodies on display were fully covered, resulting in a public outcry (Jenkins 2011a; Exell 2013a). Both the exhibition and the ‘covering the mummies’ formed part of a series of high-profile activities related to human remains that took place at Manchester Museum at this time. At the time, I was in post as Curator of Egyptology, and this discussion also illustrates the changing role of subject-specialist curators in relation to exhibition production and other aspects of a museum’s public communications (see Farrar 2004). … ‘There are, as far as we know, no a priori reasons for supposing that scientists’ scientific practice is any more rational than that of outsiders.’ (Latour and Woolgar 1986: 29) ‘Another word for “local knowledges” is prejudice.’ (Sokal 2008: 108)… Working on the public consultation process during the period 2008–10 for the new archaeology and ancient Egypt galleries at Manchester Museum, opened as the Ancient Worlds galleries in October 2012, the general lack of understanding of the exhibition and gallery development process amongst museum visitors became evident. From discussions with participants in the various consultation events (Exell and Lord 2008; Exell 2013a,b), it emerged that people in the institution either regarded the decision-making process as being the sole responsibility of the most relevant subject-specialist curator, or somehow the result of a monolithic and neutral institutional mind (Arnold 1998: 191).
Duncan Faherty and Ed White
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780252042232
- eISBN:
- 9780252050978
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252042232.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
Duncan Faherty and Ed White describe the history and evolution of their project, Just Teach One, which recovers neglected early American texts and provides free, downloadable editions of out-of-print ...
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Duncan Faherty and Ed White describe the history and evolution of their project, Just Teach One, which recovers neglected early American texts and provides free, downloadable editions of out-of-print materials for classroom use. The project also provides an on-site blog for teachers to share resources and discuss their methods for teaching the recovered texts on the site. The chapter analyzes the data about the sixty-five faculty participants who took part in JTO across its first five semesters and imagines the potential evolution of the project, including the development of a new platform to encourage students from multiple institutions to collaborate as they read each JTO text.Less
Duncan Faherty and Ed White describe the history and evolution of their project, Just Teach One, which recovers neglected early American texts and provides free, downloadable editions of out-of-print materials for classroom use. The project also provides an on-site blog for teachers to share resources and discuss their methods for teaching the recovered texts on the site. The chapter analyzes the data about the sixty-five faculty participants who took part in JTO across its first five semesters and imagines the potential evolution of the project, including the development of a new platform to encourage students from multiple institutions to collaborate as they read each JTO text.
Nicole N. Aljoe, Eric Gardner, and Molly O’Hagan Hardy
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780252042232
- eISBN:
- 9780252050978
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252042232.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
Nicole J. Aljoe, Eric Gardner, and Molly O’Hagan Hardy describe the development of Just Teach One Early African American Print and its focus on texts excluded from critical and historical narratives ...
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Nicole J. Aljoe, Eric Gardner, and Molly O’Hagan Hardy describe the development of Just Teach One Early African American Print and its focus on texts excluded from critical and historical narratives of black literature. The chapter describes JTO: EAAP’s plans to link its work with other DH projects like the Early Caribbean Digital Archive and the Colored Conventions Project, and to build bridges to lesser-known collections, including historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and church collections, in order to aid text sharing, identification, preservation, and technological engagement. Recognizing its responsibility to preserve black cultural heritage, the essay describes JTO: EAAP’s decision to use TEI standards to encode texts on the site and provides an extended example from Aljoe’s classroom project on “Theresa: A Haytien Tale.”Less
Nicole J. Aljoe, Eric Gardner, and Molly O’Hagan Hardy describe the development of Just Teach One Early African American Print and its focus on texts excluded from critical and historical narratives of black literature. The chapter describes JTO: EAAP’s plans to link its work with other DH projects like the Early Caribbean Digital Archive and the Colored Conventions Project, and to build bridges to lesser-known collections, including historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and church collections, in order to aid text sharing, identification, preservation, and technological engagement. Recognizing its responsibility to preserve black cultural heritage, the essay describes JTO: EAAP’s decision to use TEI standards to encode texts on the site and provides an extended example from Aljoe’s classroom project on “Theresa: A Haytien Tale.”
Trevorow Ens
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816677948
- eISBN:
- 9781452948379
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816677948.003.0042
- Subject:
- Education, Philosophy and Theory of Education
This chapter first describes the author’s public course blog, which served as a common place to think aloud and work together publicly. The blog was not simply a supplement to the course; rather, it ...
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This chapter first describes the author’s public course blog, which served as a common place to think aloud and work together publicly. The blog was not simply a supplement to the course; rather, it played a cognitive role in the distributed structure of the class, moving it from knowledge consumption to knowledge production. It helped disseminate the thinking that happened in class beyond those who registered to take the course at American University. The chapter then discusses the potential value that can come from new students in new iterations of the course “inhabiting” the same course blog in the future.Less
This chapter first describes the author’s public course blog, which served as a common place to think aloud and work together publicly. The blog was not simply a supplement to the course; rather, it played a cognitive role in the distributed structure of the class, moving it from knowledge consumption to knowledge production. It helped disseminate the thinking that happened in class beyond those who registered to take the course at American University. The chapter then discusses the potential value that can come from new students in new iterations of the course “inhabiting” the same course blog in the future.
Khairudin Aljunied
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781474408882
- eISBN:
- 9781474430432
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474408882.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Islam
This chapter scrutinises the virtual world as a space where people coming from different backgrounds gather to share, socialise, and partake in discussions about the pertinent issues of their time, ...
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This chapter scrutinises the virtual world as a space where people coming from different backgrounds gather to share, socialise, and partake in discussions about the pertinent issues of their time, thereby attaining clarity about what is at stake for themselves and their societies. The attention here is on Muslim blogs that are aimed at transcending the ideological differences within the Muslim community, the bloggers' strategies in combating Islamophobia, and their promotion of ethical conduct online. The chapter emphasises discussions aimed at bridging ties between people of varying persuasions, in order that they eventually appreciate the universalist and inclusivist proclivities in Islam.Less
This chapter scrutinises the virtual world as a space where people coming from different backgrounds gather to share, socialise, and partake in discussions about the pertinent issues of their time, thereby attaining clarity about what is at stake for themselves and their societies. The attention here is on Muslim blogs that are aimed at transcending the ideological differences within the Muslim community, the bloggers' strategies in combating Islamophobia, and their promotion of ethical conduct online. The chapter emphasises discussions aimed at bridging ties between people of varying persuasions, in order that they eventually appreciate the universalist and inclusivist proclivities in Islam.
Corinna Nicolaou
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780231173940
- eISBN:
- 9780231541251
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231173940.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
Recounting the article about her project that appears in the Los Angeles Times and her subsequent blog, the author struggles with the public reception of her journey into faith as a religious None. ...
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Recounting the article about her project that appears in the Los Angeles Times and her subsequent blog, the author struggles with the public reception of her journey into faith as a religious None. She weighs her different options, wondering which she might pick. Ultimately, she decides None is a perfectly valid religious affiliation and, in fact, may herald a sea change-for-the-better in the religious landscape.Less
Recounting the article about her project that appears in the Los Angeles Times and her subsequent blog, the author struggles with the public reception of her journey into faith as a religious None. She weighs her different options, wondering which she might pick. Ultimately, she decides None is a perfectly valid religious affiliation and, in fact, may herald a sea change-for-the-better in the religious landscape.
Jessa Lingel
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780691188904
- eISBN:
- 9780691199887
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691188904.003.0002
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
This chapter describes craigslist's transformation from an e-mail list to a massively popular online marketplace. It starts with the role of the San Francisco Bay Area in the development of ...
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This chapter describes craigslist's transformation from an e-mail list to a massively popular online marketplace. It starts with the role of the San Francisco Bay Area in the development of craigslist's purpose and ideology. During this early phase of the tech industry, democratic values of openness and access held sway, values that have shaped craigslist's look and feel ever since. Using interviews and textual analysis of craigslist's public-facing blog, the chapter describes the site's basic features and rules, as well as the company's values and policies. The goal here is to explain how the San Francisco tech scene shaped craigslist's ideas about online publics and politics.Less
This chapter describes craigslist's transformation from an e-mail list to a massively popular online marketplace. It starts with the role of the San Francisco Bay Area in the development of craigslist's purpose and ideology. During this early phase of the tech industry, democratic values of openness and access held sway, values that have shaped craigslist's look and feel ever since. Using interviews and textual analysis of craigslist's public-facing blog, the chapter describes the site's basic features and rules, as well as the company's values and policies. The goal here is to explain how the San Francisco tech scene shaped craigslist's ideas about online publics and politics.
Cui Weiping
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9789888139064
- eISBN:
- 9789882209732
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888139064.003.0005
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This chapter is an account of how Cui Weiping collated the first reactions of intellectuals and artists to Liu Xiabo's conviction and eleven-year sentence. Spurred into action by her own outrage and ...
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This chapter is an account of how Cui Weiping collated the first reactions of intellectuals and artists to Liu Xiabo's conviction and eleven-year sentence. Spurred into action by her own outrage and sense of injustice, Cui moved to collect these comments in the form of “Tweets” — short, concise summaries of what people told her over the phone — and later posted them online on her blog. Together, they make for a fascinating testimony to the mood of the intellectual elites in that consequential moment.Less
This chapter is an account of how Cui Weiping collated the first reactions of intellectuals and artists to Liu Xiabo's conviction and eleven-year sentence. Spurred into action by her own outrage and sense of injustice, Cui moved to collect these comments in the form of “Tweets” — short, concise summaries of what people told her over the phone — and later posted them online on her blog. Together, they make for a fascinating testimony to the mood of the intellectual elites in that consequential moment.
Qi Wang
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199737833
- eISBN:
- 9780199345014
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199737833.003.0006
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
Starting with the one-child policy in China as an example, this chapter discusses the development of the autobiographical self in a historical context and highlights the dynamic, transient nature of ...
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Starting with the one-child policy in China as an example, this chapter discusses the development of the autobiographical self in a historical context and highlights the dynamic, transient nature of culture in shaping this development. Through examining the phenomena of living-in-history effect, flashbulb memory, and reminiscence bump, it argues further that the autobiographical self is shaped by the social, political, and economic characteristics of a society. Then by analyzing the distinct characteristics of the autobiographical self constructed in social media such as blogs and Facebook, it discusses the implication of Internet technologies for the modern self.Less
Starting with the one-child policy in China as an example, this chapter discusses the development of the autobiographical self in a historical context and highlights the dynamic, transient nature of culture in shaping this development. Through examining the phenomena of living-in-history effect, flashbulb memory, and reminiscence bump, it argues further that the autobiographical self is shaped by the social, political, and economic characteristics of a society. Then by analyzing the distinct characteristics of the autobiographical self constructed in social media such as blogs and Facebook, it discusses the implication of Internet technologies for the modern self.
Dorothy Wai Sim Lau
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781474430333
- eISBN:
- 9781474460040
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474430333.003.0002
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter inquires Donnie Yen’s martial arts body in blogosphere. It analyses that Yen’s kinetic body, often the focus of bloggers’ interest, is not only the corporeal entity that appears in ...
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This chapter inquires Donnie Yen’s martial arts body in blogosphere. It analyses that Yen’s kinetic body, often the focus of bloggers’ interest, is not only the corporeal entity that appears in individual films he starred in and become famous for, such as SPL: Sha Po Lang, Ip Man, and Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen. It is also an outcome of sundry participatory forces, bridging the martial arts body to the elements in extra-diegetic settings such as Hollywood sci-fi genre, martial arts culture and hip hop culture. It, hence, appears as an intertextual phenomenon which bloggers keep reworking and renegotiating Chinese nationalism in tandem with cyber legends of Ip Man, Bruce Lee, and Chen Zhen. This chapter also pursues to discuss how the Chinese body of Yen is further questioned and complicated when users mix symbolic components drawn from Chinese or non-Chinese systems, and how the offscreen existence of Yen shows both resonance and incongruity to his screen personae complicating his martial arts image. This chapter ultimately argues that these new forms allow bloggers to revisit, represent, and contend the ethnic representation of Yen.Less
This chapter inquires Donnie Yen’s martial arts body in blogosphere. It analyses that Yen’s kinetic body, often the focus of bloggers’ interest, is not only the corporeal entity that appears in individual films he starred in and become famous for, such as SPL: Sha Po Lang, Ip Man, and Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen. It is also an outcome of sundry participatory forces, bridging the martial arts body to the elements in extra-diegetic settings such as Hollywood sci-fi genre, martial arts culture and hip hop culture. It, hence, appears as an intertextual phenomenon which bloggers keep reworking and renegotiating Chinese nationalism in tandem with cyber legends of Ip Man, Bruce Lee, and Chen Zhen. This chapter also pursues to discuss how the Chinese body of Yen is further questioned and complicated when users mix symbolic components drawn from Chinese or non-Chinese systems, and how the offscreen existence of Yen shows both resonance and incongruity to his screen personae complicating his martial arts image. This chapter ultimately argues that these new forms allow bloggers to revisit, represent, and contend the ethnic representation of Yen.
Edmundo Paz Soldán
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846310614
- eISBN:
- 9781846313462
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846313462.017
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
This chapter analyses the extent to which the Internet has changed literary practice in Latin America. It suggests that the blog in Latin American cyberspace may well take on the key role that the ...
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This chapter analyses the extent to which the Internet has changed literary practice in Latin America. It suggests that the blog in Latin American cyberspace may well take on the key role that the chronicle has performed in print literature in the region since the late nineteenth century. The arrival of the Internet has reinvented the mediatic environment. It has affected the creation of several literary texts. The chapters in this book have generally defined the emerging canon of Latin American writers in cyberspace.Less
This chapter analyses the extent to which the Internet has changed literary practice in Latin America. It suggests that the blog in Latin American cyberspace may well take on the key role that the chronicle has performed in print literature in the region since the late nineteenth century. The arrival of the Internet has reinvented the mediatic environment. It has affected the creation of several literary texts. The chapters in this book have generally defined the emerging canon of Latin American writers in cyberspace.
Teresa Pepe
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781474433990
- eISBN:
- 9781474460231
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474433990.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Middle Eastern Studies
This chapter presents the main topic of the study and the theoretical and methodological framework used in the book. First, it argues that, so far, the debate concerning blogs has tended to consider ...
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This chapter presents the main topic of the study and the theoretical and methodological framework used in the book. First, it argues that, so far, the debate concerning blogs has tended to consider them as forms of diary, i.e. non-fiction while few scholars have looked at blogs as a new literary genre. In the Arab world, blogs have mainly been studied as tools for political activism, while some attention has been given to blogs turned into books. Therefore, the theory of ‘autofiction’ is introduced as a possible interpretative framework to understand the literary features of some blogs. Focusing on Arabic literature, the chapter shows that that although the term ‘autofiction’ was coined in France in 1970s, the practice of fictionalizing the self has a long tradition in Arabic literature. Finally, since Internet literature is a relatively new field of research, the chapter briefly illustrates the methodology and challenges adopted in this study, and in particular: the selection of primary sources; the benefits of combining close reading with interviews, and the researcher’s ethical stances concerning Internet material and interviews in time of a popular revolution and military censorship.Less
This chapter presents the main topic of the study and the theoretical and methodological framework used in the book. First, it argues that, so far, the debate concerning blogs has tended to consider them as forms of diary, i.e. non-fiction while few scholars have looked at blogs as a new literary genre. In the Arab world, blogs have mainly been studied as tools for political activism, while some attention has been given to blogs turned into books. Therefore, the theory of ‘autofiction’ is introduced as a possible interpretative framework to understand the literary features of some blogs. Focusing on Arabic literature, the chapter shows that that although the term ‘autofiction’ was coined in France in 1970s, the practice of fictionalizing the self has a long tradition in Arabic literature. Finally, since Internet literature is a relatively new field of research, the chapter briefly illustrates the methodology and challenges adopted in this study, and in particular: the selection of primary sources; the benefits of combining close reading with interviews, and the researcher’s ethical stances concerning Internet material and interviews in time of a popular revolution and military censorship.
Teresa Pepe
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781474433990
- eISBN:
- 9781474460231
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474433990.003.0007
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Middle Eastern Studies
The chapter discusses the relation between these blogs and the events of the 25th January uprising. It recounts how bloggers imagined a revolution in their writing long before the actual political ...
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The chapter discusses the relation between these blogs and the events of the 25th January uprising. It recounts how bloggers imagined a revolution in their writing long before the actual political events of 2011; how they relate to the uprisings in their blog; how blogs have evolved in the years after 2011, and what is left of the blog in Arabic literary production. Here it shows that blogging continues to be an important phenomenon in the Arab world, even though blogging practices have changed following the spread of social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. In addition, the blog continues to impact Arabic print literature, in terms of young authors’ access to the literary field, their experimentation with language and genre, and the importance of the visual. The novel Istikhdam al-Haya (Using Life, 2014) by Ahmed Naji, mentioned before, and Youssef Rakha’s novel Bawlu (Paulo, 2016) are analysed to discuss the link between the blog, the dystopic novel and new literary styles in Egypt.Less
The chapter discusses the relation between these blogs and the events of the 25th January uprising. It recounts how bloggers imagined a revolution in their writing long before the actual political events of 2011; how they relate to the uprisings in their blog; how blogs have evolved in the years after 2011, and what is left of the blog in Arabic literary production. Here it shows that blogging continues to be an important phenomenon in the Arab world, even though blogging practices have changed following the spread of social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. In addition, the blog continues to impact Arabic print literature, in terms of young authors’ access to the literary field, their experimentation with language and genre, and the importance of the visual. The novel Istikhdam al-Haya (Using Life, 2014) by Ahmed Naji, mentioned before, and Youssef Rakha’s novel Bawlu (Paulo, 2016) are analysed to discuss the link between the blog, the dystopic novel and new literary styles in Egypt.
