Andy Miah
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780262035477
- eISBN:
- 9780262343114
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262035477.003.0011
- Subject:
- Sociology, Sport and Leisure
This chapter focuses on how digital culture is re-making our understanding of citizenship by creating alternative channels of communication, activity, connection, and expression. In particular, it ...
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This chapter focuses on how digital culture is re-making our understanding of citizenship by creating alternative channels of communication, activity, connection, and expression. In particular, it discusses instances of digital resistance around the Olympic Games, arguing that these antagonistic reactions are crucial components that justify the Olympic mission and a crucial means through which the Olympic idea can assert itself as a movement, rather than just a sports event. In this respect, it argues that the Olympic industries must seek to enable such expression, while also ensuring that it does not jeopardize the need for the Olympic Games to remain politically neutral.Less
This chapter focuses on how digital culture is re-making our understanding of citizenship by creating alternative channels of communication, activity, connection, and expression. In particular, it discusses instances of digital resistance around the Olympic Games, arguing that these antagonistic reactions are crucial components that justify the Olympic mission and a crucial means through which the Olympic idea can assert itself as a movement, rather than just a sports event. In this respect, it argues that the Olympic industries must seek to enable such expression, while also ensuring that it does not jeopardize the need for the Olympic Games to remain politically neutral.
Jana Evans Braziel
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496812742
- eISBN:
- 9781496812780
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496812742.003.0008
- Subject:
- Sociology, Culture
This chapter explores the performative politics of the TeleGhetto project as performed by three “princes” in the “port”—Alex Louis, Steevens Simeon, and Romel Jean Pierre. The TeleGhetto project ...
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This chapter explores the performative politics of the TeleGhetto project as performed by three “princes” in the “port”—Alex Louis, Steevens Simeon, and Romel Jean Pierre. The TeleGhetto project address the precarious lives lived in the streets of Port-au-Prince through the creative production of an improvised “Ghetto TV” that embodies an imaginative and performative politics of race, gender, sexuality, and populace that alters the cityscapes, mediascapes, and citizenscapes of the capital. Contextualizing the art performance piece within poststructuralist, feminist, and queer understandings of performativity, the chapter then argues that TeleGhetto is performance speech-act (doing things in words) as well as performance art and alternative media, or citizen journalism—a synergistic mode of creative production that produces social space in and on the streets of Port-au-Prince.Less
This chapter explores the performative politics of the TeleGhetto project as performed by three “princes” in the “port”—Alex Louis, Steevens Simeon, and Romel Jean Pierre. The TeleGhetto project address the precarious lives lived in the streets of Port-au-Prince through the creative production of an improvised “Ghetto TV” that embodies an imaginative and performative politics of race, gender, sexuality, and populace that alters the cityscapes, mediascapes, and citizenscapes of the capital. Contextualizing the art performance piece within poststructuralist, feminist, and queer understandings of performativity, the chapter then argues that TeleGhetto is performance speech-act (doing things in words) as well as performance art and alternative media, or citizen journalism—a synergistic mode of creative production that produces social space in and on the streets of Port-au-Prince.
Tim Markham
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719085284
- eISBN:
- 9781781702642
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719085284.003.0007
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
This chapter deals with recent developments in war reporting, including military media management, technology and the rise of citizen journalism. For pooled journalists, the imposition of a daily ...
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This chapter deals with recent developments in war reporting, including military media management, technology and the rise of citizen journalism. For pooled journalists, the imposition of a daily routine was vocally resisted, but it seems to have effected a structuration of the perceived role of the reporter. For embedded journalists, there is a similar loss of control over broad scheduling and everyday routines, along with a distinct means of signifying one's integrity as a journalist. An alternative future sees news organisations deploying more war correspondents. It is suggested that the correspondent's experience of war is being inexorably transformed from a material to a virtual one. It then considers Salam Pax, who rose to celebrity status by blogging about the invasion of Iraq on his website and in the UK's Guardian newspaper. The future field of war reporting will be shaped by developments in media management, technology and cultural shifts.Less
This chapter deals with recent developments in war reporting, including military media management, technology and the rise of citizen journalism. For pooled journalists, the imposition of a daily routine was vocally resisted, but it seems to have effected a structuration of the perceived role of the reporter. For embedded journalists, there is a similar loss of control over broad scheduling and everyday routines, along with a distinct means of signifying one's integrity as a journalist. An alternative future sees news organisations deploying more war correspondents. It is suggested that the correspondent's experience of war is being inexorably transformed from a material to a virtual one. It then considers Salam Pax, who rose to celebrity status by blogging about the invasion of Iraq on his website and in the UK's Guardian newspaper. The future field of war reporting will be shaped by developments in media management, technology and cultural shifts.
Andy Miah
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780262035477
- eISBN:
- 9780262343114
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262035477.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Sport and Leisure
Digital technology is changing everything about modern sports. Athletes and coaches rely on digital data to monitor and enhance performance. Officials use tracking systems to augment their judgment ...
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Digital technology is changing everything about modern sports. Athletes and coaches rely on digital data to monitor and enhance performance. Officials use tracking systems to augment their judgment in what is an increasingly superhuman field of play. Spectators tune in to live sports through social media, or even through virtual reality. Audiences now act as citizen journalists whose collective shared data expands the places in which we consume sports news. Sport 2.0 examines the convergence of sports and digital cultures, examining not only how it affects our participation in sport but also how it changes our experience of life online. This convergence redefines how we think of about our bodies, the social function of sports, and it transforms the populations of people who are playing. Sport 2.0 describes a world in which the rise of competitive computer game playing—e-sports—challenges and invigorates the social mandate of both sports and digital culture. It also examines media change at the Olympic Games, as an exemplar of digital innovation in sports. Furthermore, the book offers a detailed look at the social media footprint of the 2012 London Games, discussing how organizers, sponsors, media, and activists responded to the world’s largest media event.Less
Digital technology is changing everything about modern sports. Athletes and coaches rely on digital data to monitor and enhance performance. Officials use tracking systems to augment their judgment in what is an increasingly superhuman field of play. Spectators tune in to live sports through social media, or even through virtual reality. Audiences now act as citizen journalists whose collective shared data expands the places in which we consume sports news. Sport 2.0 examines the convergence of sports and digital cultures, examining not only how it affects our participation in sport but also how it changes our experience of life online. This convergence redefines how we think of about our bodies, the social function of sports, and it transforms the populations of people who are playing. Sport 2.0 describes a world in which the rise of competitive computer game playing—e-sports—challenges and invigorates the social mandate of both sports and digital culture. It also examines media change at the Olympic Games, as an exemplar of digital innovation in sports. Furthermore, the book offers a detailed look at the social media footprint of the 2012 London Games, discussing how organizers, sponsors, media, and activists responded to the world’s largest media event.
David Tewksbury and Jason Rittenberg
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780195391961
- eISBN:
- 9780190252397
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780195391961.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics, American Politics
Online news sites play an ever-pervasive role in the daily gathering and flow of political information. Media has always played an intermediary role in the way that citizens receive and process news, ...
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Online news sites play an ever-pervasive role in the daily gathering and flow of political information. Media has always played an intermediary role in the way that citizens receive and process news, but, with the speed of information transmission, the segmentation of news sources, and the rise of citizen journalism, issues of authority, audience, and even the definition of “news” have shifted and become blurred. This book synthesizes research on developing and current patterns of online news provision with the literature on traditional, offline media to create a conceptual map for understanding the way that public affairs and news are presented and consumed on the Internet. The book looks at the dual role of the Internet as a source of authoritative news and as a vehicle for citizens in contemporary democracies to create and share political information. Throughout, it addresses the tension between the benefits of Internet news provision, specifically increased citizen engagement, and the negative, perhaps counterintuitive, effects: the fragmentation of knowledge and polarization of opinion in contemporary democracies. The book focuses on these points of conflict and contradiction in the online news environment and offers conclusions and predictions for how these phenomena will develop in the future.Less
Online news sites play an ever-pervasive role in the daily gathering and flow of political information. Media has always played an intermediary role in the way that citizens receive and process news, but, with the speed of information transmission, the segmentation of news sources, and the rise of citizen journalism, issues of authority, audience, and even the definition of “news” have shifted and become blurred. This book synthesizes research on developing and current patterns of online news provision with the literature on traditional, offline media to create a conceptual map for understanding the way that public affairs and news are presented and consumed on the Internet. The book looks at the dual role of the Internet as a source of authoritative news and as a vehicle for citizens in contemporary democracies to create and share political information. Throughout, it addresses the tension between the benefits of Internet news provision, specifically increased citizen engagement, and the negative, perhaps counterintuitive, effects: the fragmentation of knowledge and polarization of opinion in contemporary democracies. The book focuses on these points of conflict and contradiction in the online news environment and offers conclusions and predictions for how these phenomena will develop in the future.
Mohamed Zayani
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780190239763
- eISBN:
- 9780190239800
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190239763.003.0007
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics, Democratization
This chapter maps out online micro-practices that favored the inconspicuous entry of the youth into the political arena. Focusing on the immersive use of social media platforms like Facebook, it ...
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This chapter maps out online micro-practices that favored the inconspicuous entry of the youth into the political arena. Focusing on the immersive use of social media platforms like Facebook, it identifies alternative forms of political action and highlights the emergence of media-induced counter-politics that appealed to a generation of aspiring digital natives who resented the state’s intrusion in their everyday lives. Having mapped out the extent to which social media took hold among a segment of the population, this chapter then shifts the focus to the popular protests that swept Tunisia at the end of 2010 and the beginning of 2011, paying special attention to the way media was used and consumed during the revolution. The chapter also explores the significance of a new communication environment that is defined by the increased interpenetration between social media networks, citizen journalism, and satellite television. Focusing on how Al Jazeera’s antiestablishment inclination and openness to new information and communication technologies connected with cyber-activism, the chapter also demonstrates how hybrid communication practices that involve new and legacy media are redefining the category of the political.Less
This chapter maps out online micro-practices that favored the inconspicuous entry of the youth into the political arena. Focusing on the immersive use of social media platforms like Facebook, it identifies alternative forms of political action and highlights the emergence of media-induced counter-politics that appealed to a generation of aspiring digital natives who resented the state’s intrusion in their everyday lives. Having mapped out the extent to which social media took hold among a segment of the population, this chapter then shifts the focus to the popular protests that swept Tunisia at the end of 2010 and the beginning of 2011, paying special attention to the way media was used and consumed during the revolution. The chapter also explores the significance of a new communication environment that is defined by the increased interpenetration between social media networks, citizen journalism, and satellite television. Focusing on how Al Jazeera’s antiestablishment inclination and openness to new information and communication technologies connected with cyber-activism, the chapter also demonstrates how hybrid communication practices that involve new and legacy media are redefining the category of the political.
Zeynep Devrim Gürsel
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780520286368
- eISBN:
- 9780520961616
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520286368.003.0007
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This chapter discusses Perpignan, the world's largest celebration of photojournalism, held in southern France in early autumn. Visa Pour l'Image celebrates artistic and subjective vision ...
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This chapter discusses Perpignan, the world's largest celebration of photojournalism, held in southern France in early autumn. Visa Pour l'Image celebrates artistic and subjective vision simultaneously with the belief in an indisputable visual truth-telling. Importantly, it is also a celebration of mobility, both of images and of photographers. Based on Visa 2003 and 2004, this chapter looks at photojournalism's confrontation with the amateur threat posed by the rise of citizen journalism and the abuse photographs taken by US soldiers at Abu Ghraib, which are considered by many to be the definitive images of the war in Iraq. It focuses on the production of ideals of authorship and individual ways of seeing, “personal vision,” alongside the differentiation between local photographers who document specific news events and cosmopolitan photojournalists praised for their masterful storytelling.Less
This chapter discusses Perpignan, the world's largest celebration of photojournalism, held in southern France in early autumn. Visa Pour l'Image celebrates artistic and subjective vision simultaneously with the belief in an indisputable visual truth-telling. Importantly, it is also a celebration of mobility, both of images and of photographers. Based on Visa 2003 and 2004, this chapter looks at photojournalism's confrontation with the amateur threat posed by the rise of citizen journalism and the abuse photographs taken by US soldiers at Abu Ghraib, which are considered by many to be the definitive images of the war in Iraq. It focuses on the production of ideals of authorship and individual ways of seeing, “personal vision,” alongside the differentiation between local photographers who document specific news events and cosmopolitan photojournalists praised for their masterful storytelling.
Hirotsugu Koike
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781847429841
- eISBN:
- 9781447311515
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847429841.003.0015
- Subject:
- Political Science, Public Policy
Although Japanese media has played an important role in the country’s public policy analysis, it is becoming difficult to do so because of financial difficulty. It is facing tough challenges, ...
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Although Japanese media has played an important role in the country’s public policy analysis, it is becoming difficult to do so because of financial difficulty. It is facing tough challenges, especially how to cope with the digital revolution. It is time for Japanese media to fully use the digital technology to meet readers’ needs and cooperate with NPO and universities to keep and enhance the ability of the investigative reporting to check the government’s activities.Less
Although Japanese media has played an important role in the country’s public policy analysis, it is becoming difficult to do so because of financial difficulty. It is facing tough challenges, especially how to cope with the digital revolution. It is time for Japanese media to fully use the digital technology to meet readers’ needs and cooperate with NPO and universities to keep and enhance the ability of the investigative reporting to check the government’s activities.
David Tewksbury and Jason Rittenberg
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780195391961
- eISBN:
- 9780190252397
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780195391961.003.0003
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics, American Politics
This chapter focuses on how online news is generated and presented. It compares the content of online news with that created for the offline media (for example, newspapers, radio and television), and ...
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This chapter focuses on how online news is generated and presented. It compares the content of online news with that created for the offline media (for example, newspapers, radio and television), and whether the distinction between offline and online news remains a meaningful one. It also examines the extent with which news appearing on the Internet reflects traditional notions of the importance of issues and events, along with the novel ways that online news content can be disseminated to the audience. The role of citizen journalism such as blogs and news feeds in the news environment is considered. The chapter concludes by discussing how the creation and presentation of news online can affect the way citizens understand events, issues, and public policy.Less
This chapter focuses on how online news is generated and presented. It compares the content of online news with that created for the offline media (for example, newspapers, radio and television), and whether the distinction between offline and online news remains a meaningful one. It also examines the extent with which news appearing on the Internet reflects traditional notions of the importance of issues and events, along with the novel ways that online news content can be disseminated to the audience. The role of citizen journalism such as blogs and news feeds in the news environment is considered. The chapter concludes by discussing how the creation and presentation of news online can affect the way citizens understand events, issues, and public policy.
Mark Dery
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816677733
- eISBN:
- 9781452948324
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816677733.003.0014
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This chapter explores the reasons why people blog. “Blog,” short for “weblog”. There’s the gnawing fear that anyone who blogs is fated to become one of those tub-thumping Alpha Wonks who have given ...
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This chapter explores the reasons why people blog. “Blog,” short for “weblog”. There’s the gnawing fear that anyone who blogs is fated to become one of those tub-thumping Alpha Wonks who have given the medium a bad name. The best thing about blogging isn’t that it’s “citizen journalism”; it’s that it’s not journalism. Or if it is, it’s a viral strain of journalism, one that resembles no journalism we know. While blogging-as-grassroots journalism can serve as a corrective to the ideological blind spots and commercial orientation of the corporate media monopoly, bloggers who really want to remedy what ails the corporate McMedia monopoly should grab a clue from lone-wolf warbloggers like Chris Allbritton, who reported the Iraq war on his readers’ PayPal dime, or “backpack journalist” Kevin Sites, who did the same at KevinSitesReports.com.Less
This chapter explores the reasons why people blog. “Blog,” short for “weblog”. There’s the gnawing fear that anyone who blogs is fated to become one of those tub-thumping Alpha Wonks who have given the medium a bad name. The best thing about blogging isn’t that it’s “citizen journalism”; it’s that it’s not journalism. Or if it is, it’s a viral strain of journalism, one that resembles no journalism we know. While blogging-as-grassroots journalism can serve as a corrective to the ideological blind spots and commercial orientation of the corporate media monopoly, bloggers who really want to remedy what ails the corporate McMedia monopoly should grab a clue from lone-wolf warbloggers like Chris Allbritton, who reported the Iraq war on his readers’ PayPal dime, or “backpack journalist” Kevin Sites, who did the same at KevinSitesReports.com.
Mohamed Zayani
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780190239763
- eISBN:
- 9780190239800
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190239763.003.0008
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics, Democratization
The book’s concluding chapter discusses post-revolutionary developments in Tunisia’s digital spaces of contention as the country attempted to build a democratic system. It explores the mutations and ...
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The book’s concluding chapter discusses post-revolutionary developments in Tunisia’s digital spaces of contention as the country attempted to build a democratic system. It explores the mutations and adaptations the voices of contention have undergone since the revolution and reflects on their significance. More specifically, it looks at the extent to which those who played a role in digital contention prior to the revolution effected and were affected by the changes the country witnessed since 2011 and asks whether they lost their relevance or became embedded; whether they were marginalized or developed the ability to shape the emergent media systems and enhance democratic engagement.Less
The book’s concluding chapter discusses post-revolutionary developments in Tunisia’s digital spaces of contention as the country attempted to build a democratic system. It explores the mutations and adaptations the voices of contention have undergone since the revolution and reflects on their significance. More specifically, it looks at the extent to which those who played a role in digital contention prior to the revolution effected and were affected by the changes the country witnessed since 2011 and asks whether they lost their relevance or became embedded; whether they were marginalized or developed the ability to shape the emergent media systems and enhance democratic engagement.
Mohamed Zayani and Suzi Mirgani (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190491550
- eISBN:
- 9780190638597
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190491550.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Middle Eastern Politics
Bullets and Bulletins takes a sobering and holistic look at the intersections between media and politics before, during, and in the wake of the Arab uprisings. It is a multi-disciplinary approach to ...
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Bullets and Bulletins takes a sobering and holistic look at the intersections between media and politics before, during, and in the wake of the Arab uprisings. It is a multi-disciplinary approach to the topic, with the research backed up by in-depth and rigorous case studies of the key countries of the Arab uprisings. The protests were accompanied by profound changes in the roles of traditional and new media across the Middle East. What added significantly to the amplification of demands and grievances in the public spheres, streets and squares, was the dovetailing of an increasingly indignant population—ignited by the prospects of economic and political marginalisation—with high rates of media literacy, digital connectivity, and social media prowess. This combination of political activism and mediated communication turned popular street protests into battles over information, where authorities and activists wrestled with each other over media messages. Information and communication technologies were used by both government authorities and protestors as simultaneous tools for silencing or amplifying dissent. Bullets and Bulletins offers original insights and analysis into the role of traditional and new media in what is undoubtedly a most critical period in contemporary Middle Eastern history.Less
Bullets and Bulletins takes a sobering and holistic look at the intersections between media and politics before, during, and in the wake of the Arab uprisings. It is a multi-disciplinary approach to the topic, with the research backed up by in-depth and rigorous case studies of the key countries of the Arab uprisings. The protests were accompanied by profound changes in the roles of traditional and new media across the Middle East. What added significantly to the amplification of demands and grievances in the public spheres, streets and squares, was the dovetailing of an increasingly indignant population—ignited by the prospects of economic and political marginalisation—with high rates of media literacy, digital connectivity, and social media prowess. This combination of political activism and mediated communication turned popular street protests into battles over information, where authorities and activists wrestled with each other over media messages. Information and communication technologies were used by both government authorities and protestors as simultaneous tools for silencing or amplifying dissent. Bullets and Bulletins offers original insights and analysis into the role of traditional and new media in what is undoubtedly a most critical period in contemporary Middle Eastern history.
Robert Barnett
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824846817
- eISBN:
- 9780824868116
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824846817.003.0006
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
Media and culture in Tibet had already been radically transformed by cheap cassette technology a decade or more before digital equipment spread rapidly there in the early years of the new century. ...
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Media and culture in Tibet had already been radically transformed by cheap cassette technology a decade or more before digital equipment spread rapidly there in the early years of the new century. The new technology made it easier for Tibetans to produce home videos of cultural events and religious teachings, civic videos designed to benefit the broader community, and export videos designed to win support from abroad. But it also led to a wave of independent documentaries and fiction films by Tibetans, and in these it made possible the articulation of complex and significant debates about identity and collective meaning. The themes of these discussions include the pain experienced as a result of the modernity-tradition divide, a pervasive sense of loss and absence, the invisibility or erasure of China and the Chinese, and the trope of self-reconstruction or redemption as found in the story of the eleventh-century hermit-poet Milarepa. DV films by Tibetans thus far, particularly those by Chenaktshang Dorje Tsering and Pema Tsedan, suggest a shared politics of recovery and reconstruction rather than one of revenge or militarism, a concern about internal threats to culture and self-belief rather than about an external enemy, and acute anxieties about masculinity and the role of gender.Less
Media and culture in Tibet had already been radically transformed by cheap cassette technology a decade or more before digital equipment spread rapidly there in the early years of the new century. The new technology made it easier for Tibetans to produce home videos of cultural events and religious teachings, civic videos designed to benefit the broader community, and export videos designed to win support from abroad. But it also led to a wave of independent documentaries and fiction films by Tibetans, and in these it made possible the articulation of complex and significant debates about identity and collective meaning. The themes of these discussions include the pain experienced as a result of the modernity-tradition divide, a pervasive sense of loss and absence, the invisibility or erasure of China and the Chinese, and the trope of self-reconstruction or redemption as found in the story of the eleventh-century hermit-poet Milarepa. DV films by Tibetans thus far, particularly those by Chenaktshang Dorje Tsering and Pema Tsedan, suggest a shared politics of recovery and reconstruction rather than one of revenge or militarism, a concern about internal threats to culture and self-belief rather than about an external enemy, and acute anxieties about masculinity and the role of gender.
