Kevin Korsyn
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195104547
- eISBN:
- 9780199868988
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195104547.003.0009
- Subject:
- Music, Theory, Analysis, Composition
This chapter focuses on how our formation as subjects in a media culture affects what can be said about music. It addresses questions about technology: how do various communications media — ...
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This chapter focuses on how our formation as subjects in a media culture affects what can be said about music. It addresses questions about technology: how do various communications media — technologies, from the book to the computer, that store, transmit, or process symbols, images, and sounds — affect what can be said about music? How do such media, by creating new modes of thinking, perceiving, and feeling, new ways of conceptualizing time, space, memory, and ourselves, change the frameworks within which musical research operates? The works of Eugene Narmour and Wayne Koestenbaum are analyzed.Less
This chapter focuses on how our formation as subjects in a media culture affects what can be said about music. It addresses questions about technology: how do various communications media — technologies, from the book to the computer, that store, transmit, or process symbols, images, and sounds — affect what can be said about music? How do such media, by creating new modes of thinking, perceiving, and feeling, new ways of conceptualizing time, space, memory, and ourselves, change the frameworks within which musical research operates? The works of Eugene Narmour and Wayne Koestenbaum are analyzed.
Beng Huat Chua and Koichi Iwabuchi (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789622098923
- eISBN:
- 9789882206885
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789622098923.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
In this book, an international group of contributors provide a multi-layered analysis of the emerging East Asian media culture, using the Korean TV drama as its analytic vehicle. This collection of ...
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In this book, an international group of contributors provide a multi-layered analysis of the emerging East Asian media culture, using the Korean TV drama as its analytic vehicle. This collection of essays is also the result of a workshop organized by the Cultural Studies in Asia Research Cluster at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. The aim of the Cluster is to promote collaborative research in contemporary cultural practices which are influenced by intensifying transnational exchanges across historical, linguistic and cultural boundaries in Asia.Less
In this book, an international group of contributors provide a multi-layered analysis of the emerging East Asian media culture, using the Korean TV drama as its analytic vehicle. This collection of essays is also the result of a workshop organized by the Cultural Studies in Asia Research Cluster at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. The aim of the Cluster is to promote collaborative research in contemporary cultural practices which are influenced by intensifying transnational exchanges across historical, linguistic and cultural boundaries in Asia.
Koichi Iwabuchi
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789622098923
- eISBN:
- 9789882206885
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789622098923.003.0013
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This chapter explores the complexity of the impact of the Korean Wave in Japanese society and addresses the possibility of transnational dialogues through popular cultural connections. It first ...
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This chapter explores the complexity of the impact of the Korean Wave in Japanese society and addresses the possibility of transnational dialogues through popular cultural connections. It first examines how the reception of other East Asian media cultures proves to be an opportune moment for Japanese audiences to critically review the state of their own lives, society and history. This is done by comparing the reception of the Korean Wave, and Winter Sonata in particular, with the fervent reception of Hong Kong popular culture in the late 1990s. It also investigates the representation of and audience responses to a popular Japanese TV drama series that for the first time deals with socio-historical issues about resident Koreans. The critical analysis of the impact of the Korean Wave on the social positioning and recognition of resident Koreans in Japan should not be taken as totally rejecting positive changes. Critique is a necessary detour to further the potentiality of the emergent change and to actualize transnational dialogue through media consumption.Less
This chapter explores the complexity of the impact of the Korean Wave in Japanese society and addresses the possibility of transnational dialogues through popular cultural connections. It first examines how the reception of other East Asian media cultures proves to be an opportune moment for Japanese audiences to critically review the state of their own lives, society and history. This is done by comparing the reception of the Korean Wave, and Winter Sonata in particular, with the fervent reception of Hong Kong popular culture in the late 1990s. It also investigates the representation of and audience responses to a popular Japanese TV drama series that for the first time deals with socio-historical issues about resident Koreans. The critical analysis of the impact of the Korean Wave on the social positioning and recognition of resident Koreans in Japan should not be taken as totally rejecting positive changes. Critique is a necessary detour to further the potentiality of the emergent change and to actualize transnational dialogue through media consumption.
Tiantian Zheng
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816691999
- eISBN:
- 9781452952499
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816691999.003.0003
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Asian Cultural Anthropology
Chapter 2 captures current social attitudes toward homosexuality in postsocialist China. This chapter argues that social attitudes toward homosexuality are not as open and tolerant as previous ...
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Chapter 2 captures current social attitudes toward homosexuality in postsocialist China. This chapter argues that social attitudes toward homosexuality are not as open and tolerant as previous researchers have ascertained. Interviews with civilians and an analysis of media coverage suggest a common understanding of homosexuality as a perversion often caused by poor parenting, mistakes in child-rearing techniques, traumatizing experiences with the opposite sex, and misidentification of gender roles. Homosexuality has become a scapegoat on which is displaced anxiety over current social problems such as dissolved marriages and the AIDS epidemic. Although a dissolved family is pinpointed as one of the key factors that can lead to a child’s homosexuality, the media also portray homosexuality not only as a public menace and a threat to the family but also as a metaphor for passive masculinity and a national crisis, reminiscent of the colonial past when China was defeated by the colonizing West and plagued by its image as the Sick Man of East Asia. It is believed that building a strong manhood and sharpening proper male gender roles are required to revive and strengthen the nation.Less
Chapter 2 captures current social attitudes toward homosexuality in postsocialist China. This chapter argues that social attitudes toward homosexuality are not as open and tolerant as previous researchers have ascertained. Interviews with civilians and an analysis of media coverage suggest a common understanding of homosexuality as a perversion often caused by poor parenting, mistakes in child-rearing techniques, traumatizing experiences with the opposite sex, and misidentification of gender roles. Homosexuality has become a scapegoat on which is displaced anxiety over current social problems such as dissolved marriages and the AIDS epidemic. Although a dissolved family is pinpointed as one of the key factors that can lead to a child’s homosexuality, the media also portray homosexuality not only as a public menace and a threat to the family but also as a metaphor for passive masculinity and a national crisis, reminiscent of the colonial past when China was defeated by the colonizing West and plagued by its image as the Sick Man of East Asia. It is believed that building a strong manhood and sharpening proper male gender roles are required to revive and strengthen the nation.
Marco Deseriis
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816694860
- eISBN:
- 9781452952413
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816694860.003.0005
- Subject:
- Sociology, Politics, Social Movements and Social Change
This chapter shows how the founders of Luther Blissett were aware of the Canstin experience and thus adopted a series of measures to prevent individuals from over-identifying with the alias, which ...
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This chapter shows how the founders of Luther Blissett were aware of the Canstin experience and thus adopted a series of measures to prevent individuals from over-identifying with the alias, which was used to author media pranks, sell apocryphal manuscripts to publishers, fabricate artists and artworks, denounce media witch hunts, and author best-selling novels.Less
This chapter shows how the founders of Luther Blissett were aware of the Canstin experience and thus adopted a series of measures to prevent individuals from over-identifying with the alias, which was used to author media pranks, sell apocryphal manuscripts to publishers, fabricate artists and artworks, denounce media witch hunts, and author best-selling novels.
Julie Brown, Nicholas Cook, and Stephen Cottrell (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780197266175
- eISBN:
- 9780191865220
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197266175.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Popular
The radio programme Desert Island Discs has run almost continuously since 1942, and represents a unique record of the changing place of music in British society. In 2011, recognising its iconic ...
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The radio programme Desert Island Discs has run almost continuously since 1942, and represents a unique record of the changing place of music in British society. In 2011, recognising its iconic status, the BBC created an online archive that includes podcasts of all programmes from 1976 on, and many from earlier years. Based on this and extensive documentary evidence, Defining the Discographic Self: ‘Desert Island Discs’ in Context for the first time brings together musicologists, sociologists, and media scholars to reflect on the programme’s significance, its position within the BBC and Britain’s continually evolving media, and its relationship to other comparable programmes. Of particular interest are the meanings attributed to music in the programme by both castaways and interviewers, the ways in which music is invoked in the public presentation of self, the incorporation of music within personal narratives, and changes in musical tastes during the seven decades spanned by the programme. Scholarly chapters are complemented by former castaways’ accounts of their appearances, which give fascinating insiders’ views into how the programme is made and how its guests prepare for their involvement.Less
The radio programme Desert Island Discs has run almost continuously since 1942, and represents a unique record of the changing place of music in British society. In 2011, recognising its iconic status, the BBC created an online archive that includes podcasts of all programmes from 1976 on, and many from earlier years. Based on this and extensive documentary evidence, Defining the Discographic Self: ‘Desert Island Discs’ in Context for the first time brings together musicologists, sociologists, and media scholars to reflect on the programme’s significance, its position within the BBC and Britain’s continually evolving media, and its relationship to other comparable programmes. Of particular interest are the meanings attributed to music in the programme by both castaways and interviewers, the ways in which music is invoked in the public presentation of self, the incorporation of music within personal narratives, and changes in musical tastes during the seven decades spanned by the programme. Scholarly chapters are complemented by former castaways’ accounts of their appearances, which give fascinating insiders’ views into how the programme is made and how its guests prepare for their involvement.
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262090452
- eISBN:
- 9780262255127
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262090452.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This chapter begins with an exploration of the human fascination with dinosaurs and their imaginary influences and references on children and communism. It examines the nostalgic turn that has ...
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This chapter begins with an exploration of the human fascination with dinosaurs and their imaginary influences and references on children and communism. It examines the nostalgic turn that has increasingly contributed to making Eastern European national histories playful, mediated, and most often spectacular, entertainment in recent past times. The chapter proceeds with a short description of Svetlana Boym's emphasis on the movie Jurassic Park. Its later parts analyze the shades of postcommunist nostalgia, global children's media habits in postcommunism, and the contrasts between the popular Krtek (the “Little Mole”) and The Land Before Time animations. The concluding section of the chapter describes the programmatic recommendation for governing the fluctuation of such games in order to generate less domesticating theories about global children's media culture, along with related case studies.Less
This chapter begins with an exploration of the human fascination with dinosaurs and their imaginary influences and references on children and communism. It examines the nostalgic turn that has increasingly contributed to making Eastern European national histories playful, mediated, and most often spectacular, entertainment in recent past times. The chapter proceeds with a short description of Svetlana Boym's emphasis on the movie Jurassic Park. Its later parts analyze the shades of postcommunist nostalgia, global children's media habits in postcommunism, and the contrasts between the popular Krtek (the “Little Mole”) and The Land Before Time animations. The concluding section of the chapter describes the programmatic recommendation for governing the fluctuation of such games in order to generate less domesticating theories about global children's media culture, along with related case studies.
Brian O'Neill and Ingunn Hagen
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847424396
- eISBN:
- 9781447302643
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847424396.003.0018
- Subject:
- Social Work, Children and Families
Across Europe and beyond, the promotion of media literacy for both children and adults has acquired an important public urgency. Citizens need to be media literate; it is claimed, to enable them to ...
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Across Europe and beyond, the promotion of media literacy for both children and adults has acquired an important public urgency. Citizens need to be media literate; it is claimed, to enable them to cope more effectively with the flood of information in today's highly mediated societies. As teachers, politicians, and policy makers everywhere struggle with this rapid shift in media culture, greater responsibility is placed on citizens for their own welfare in the new-media environment. This chapter focuses on how media literacy might be achieved. First, it examines how media literacy has been defined, with particular reference to the growing importance of digital literacy. Second, the chapter examines how media literacy has been adopted within policy frameworks as a response to rapid technological change. Third, the chapter critiques the ‘technological literacy’ that dominates much of the current policy agenda, and argues for a new approach based on better knowledge about children and young people's media and internet habits.Less
Across Europe and beyond, the promotion of media literacy for both children and adults has acquired an important public urgency. Citizens need to be media literate; it is claimed, to enable them to cope more effectively with the flood of information in today's highly mediated societies. As teachers, politicians, and policy makers everywhere struggle with this rapid shift in media culture, greater responsibility is placed on citizens for their own welfare in the new-media environment. This chapter focuses on how media literacy might be achieved. First, it examines how media literacy has been defined, with particular reference to the growing importance of digital literacy. Second, the chapter examines how media literacy has been adopted within policy frameworks as a response to rapid technological change. Third, the chapter critiques the ‘technological literacy’ that dominates much of the current policy agenda, and argues for a new approach based on better knowledge about children and young people's media and internet habits.
Patrick D. Murphy
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252041037
- eISBN:
- 9780252099588
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252041037.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
Today's global media sustains a potent new environmental consciousness. Paradoxically, it also serves as a far-reaching platform that promotes the unsustainable consumption ravaging our planet. ...
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Today's global media sustains a potent new environmental consciousness. Paradoxically, it also serves as a far-reaching platform that promotes the unsustainable consumption ravaging our planet. Patrick Murphy musters theory, institutional analysis, fieldwork, and empirical research to map how the media communicates today's many distinct, competing, and even antagonistic environmental discourses, demonstrating how the media pushes us to save the whales even as we are encouraged to devour all the fish. By examining this paradox through case studies of the “greening” of cable TV, online corporate branding campaigns, indigenous media, and the globalization of commercial media, he shows how today's complex, integrated media networks draws the cultural boundaries of our environmental imagination—and influences just who benefits. Analysis emphasizes social context, institutional alignments, and commercial media's ways of rendering discussion. Murphy identifies and examines key terms, phrases, and metaphors as well as the ways consumers are presented with ideas like agency and the place of nature. What emerges is the link between pervasive messaging and an "environment" conjured by our media-saturated social imagination. As the author shows, today's complex, integrated media networks shape, frame, and deliver many of our underlying ideas about the environment. Increasingly—and ominously—individuals and communities experience these ideas not only in the developed world but in the increasingly consumption-oriented Global South.Less
Today's global media sustains a potent new environmental consciousness. Paradoxically, it also serves as a far-reaching platform that promotes the unsustainable consumption ravaging our planet. Patrick Murphy musters theory, institutional analysis, fieldwork, and empirical research to map how the media communicates today's many distinct, competing, and even antagonistic environmental discourses, demonstrating how the media pushes us to save the whales even as we are encouraged to devour all the fish. By examining this paradox through case studies of the “greening” of cable TV, online corporate branding campaigns, indigenous media, and the globalization of commercial media, he shows how today's complex, integrated media networks draws the cultural boundaries of our environmental imagination—and influences just who benefits. Analysis emphasizes social context, institutional alignments, and commercial media's ways of rendering discussion. Murphy identifies and examines key terms, phrases, and metaphors as well as the ways consumers are presented with ideas like agency and the place of nature. What emerges is the link between pervasive messaging and an "environment" conjured by our media-saturated social imagination. As the author shows, today's complex, integrated media networks shape, frame, and deliver many of our underlying ideas about the environment. Increasingly—and ominously—individuals and communities experience these ideas not only in the developed world but in the increasingly consumption-oriented Global South.
Erin A. Meyers
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252039577
- eISBN:
- 9780252097669
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252039577.003.0005
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gender Studies
This chapter offers a brief analysis of the initial ascendency of celebrity gossip blogs into popular culture during the early twenty-first century. It establishes the notion of gossip as “women's ...
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This chapter offers a brief analysis of the initial ascendency of celebrity gossip blogs into popular culture during the early twenty-first century. It establishes the notion of gossip as “women's talk” and as a form of shared social meaning-making—from which context arises the celebrity gossip blog as a unique form of feminized popular culture that speaks to the broader shifts in media cultures in the early twenty-first century. As such, this chapter explores the gossip blog as a particularly feminized form of new media through attention to the existing social practices of gossip that continue to shape the place of gossip blogs within the celebrity media industry and the everyday lives of their predominantly female readers.Less
This chapter offers a brief analysis of the initial ascendency of celebrity gossip blogs into popular culture during the early twenty-first century. It establishes the notion of gossip as “women's talk” and as a form of shared social meaning-making—from which context arises the celebrity gossip blog as a unique form of feminized popular culture that speaks to the broader shifts in media cultures in the early twenty-first century. As such, this chapter explores the gossip blog as a particularly feminized form of new media through attention to the existing social practices of gossip that continue to shape the place of gossip blogs within the celebrity media industry and the everyday lives of their predominantly female readers.
Isabel Molina-Guzman
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814757352
- eISBN:
- 9780814759547
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814757352.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
With images of Jennifer Lopez's butt and America Ferrera's smile saturating national and global culture, Latina bodies have become a ubiquitous presence. This book traces the visibility of the Latina ...
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With images of Jennifer Lopez's butt and America Ferrera's smile saturating national and global culture, Latina bodies have become a ubiquitous presence. This book traces the visibility of the Latina body in the media and popular culture by analyzing a broad range of popular media including news, media gossip, movies, television news, and online audience discussions. The book maps the ways in which the Latina body is gendered, sexualized, and racialized within the United States media using a series of fascinating case studies. It examines tabloid headlines about Jennifer Lopez's indomitable sexuality, the contested authenticity of Salma Hayek's portrayal of Frida Kahlo in the movie Frida, and America Ferrera's universally appealing yet racially sublimated Ugly Betty character. The book carves out a mediated terrain where these racially ambiguous but ethnically marked feminine bodies sell everything from haute couture to tabloids. Through an examination of the cultural tensions embedded in the visibility of Latina bodies in United States media culture, the book paints a nuanced portrait of the media's role in shaping public knowledge about Latina identity and Latinidad, and the ways political and social forces shape media representations.Less
With images of Jennifer Lopez's butt and America Ferrera's smile saturating national and global culture, Latina bodies have become a ubiquitous presence. This book traces the visibility of the Latina body in the media and popular culture by analyzing a broad range of popular media including news, media gossip, movies, television news, and online audience discussions. The book maps the ways in which the Latina body is gendered, sexualized, and racialized within the United States media using a series of fascinating case studies. It examines tabloid headlines about Jennifer Lopez's indomitable sexuality, the contested authenticity of Salma Hayek's portrayal of Frida Kahlo in the movie Frida, and America Ferrera's universally appealing yet racially sublimated Ugly Betty character. The book carves out a mediated terrain where these racially ambiguous but ethnically marked feminine bodies sell everything from haute couture to tabloids. Through an examination of the cultural tensions embedded in the visibility of Latina bodies in United States media culture, the book paints a nuanced portrait of the media's role in shaping public knowledge about Latina identity and Latinidad, and the ways political and social forces shape media representations.
Derek Johnson
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814743478
- eISBN:
- 9780814743492
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814743478.003.0006
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This book offers a theoretical and historical intervention that redefines franchising as a model for conceptualizing collaborative production in media culture, problematizing the tendency to consider ...
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This book offers a theoretical and historical intervention that redefines franchising as a model for conceptualizing collaborative production in media culture, problematizing the tendency to consider this media production in terms of convergence culture, and challenging the assumption that socialized creative collaboration defies the labor hierarchies and power structures of industry. By directing attention to the history of media franchising, one can situate today's emerging social media within a wider tradition of collaborative and socially networked culture. The study of media franchising also advocates for a wider scope of analysis for the socialized production and consumption of culture beyond digital formations. In recognizing the kinds of collaborations and media productions franchising has sustained over time, it is possible to situate the current age of convergence within a tradition of reproducing culture out of commons exchange.Less
This book offers a theoretical and historical intervention that redefines franchising as a model for conceptualizing collaborative production in media culture, problematizing the tendency to consider this media production in terms of convergence culture, and challenging the assumption that socialized creative collaboration defies the labor hierarchies and power structures of industry. By directing attention to the history of media franchising, one can situate today's emerging social media within a wider tradition of collaborative and socially networked culture. The study of media franchising also advocates for a wider scope of analysis for the socialized production and consumption of culture beyond digital formations. In recognizing the kinds of collaborations and media productions franchising has sustained over time, it is possible to situate the current age of convergence within a tradition of reproducing culture out of commons exchange.
David A Green
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199230969
- eISBN:
- 9780191696497
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199230969.003.0002
- Subject:
- Law, Criminal Law and Criminology
This chapter compares Norway and England historically, economically, culturally, and politically. It begins with a brief overview of the post-war historical and cultural contexts, including the ...
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This chapter compares Norway and England historically, economically, culturally, and politically. It begins with a brief overview of the post-war historical and cultural contexts, including the status of children. It then compares the political economies and economic conditions in both countries and profiles the political systems and distinguishes between the majoritarian and consensus models of democracy. Finally, this chapter compares and contrasts developments in Norwegian and English press markets and media cultures.Less
This chapter compares Norway and England historically, economically, culturally, and politically. It begins with a brief overview of the post-war historical and cultural contexts, including the status of children. It then compares the political economies and economic conditions in both countries and profiles the political systems and distinguishes between the majoritarian and consensus models of democracy. Finally, this chapter compares and contrasts developments in Norwegian and English press markets and media cultures.
David A Green
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199230969
- eISBN:
- 9780191696497
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199230969.003.0004
- Subject:
- Law, Criminal Law and Criminology
This chapter defines some of the concepts used to explain the differences in responses to both the Bulger and Redergård cases, and to crime and the concern about it more generally in England and ...
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This chapter defines some of the concepts used to explain the differences in responses to both the Bulger and Redergård cases, and to crime and the concern about it more generally in England and Norway. It offers two conceptual models. The first model describes the reciprocal ways that knowledge, discourses, and public sensibilities interact with media culture and political culture to influence the penal climate. Sentencing guidelines systems and the US Constitution are used as examples to illustrate the relationship between culture and structure. The second conceptual model explains the ways in which political culture and the assumptions embedded within it constrain the way we think about the problems we face and the ways we respond to them.Less
This chapter defines some of the concepts used to explain the differences in responses to both the Bulger and Redergård cases, and to crime and the concern about it more generally in England and Norway. It offers two conceptual models. The first model describes the reciprocal ways that knowledge, discourses, and public sensibilities interact with media culture and political culture to influence the penal climate. Sentencing guidelines systems and the US Constitution are used as examples to illustrate the relationship between culture and structure. The second conceptual model explains the ways in which political culture and the assumptions embedded within it constrain the way we think about the problems we face and the ways we respond to them.
Julie Brown, Nicholas Cook, and Stephen Cottrell
Julie Brown, Nicholas Cook, and Stephen Cottrell (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780197266175
- eISBN:
- 9780191865220
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197266175.003.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Popular
This chapter provides an overview of the long-standing and highly popular British radio programme Desert Island Discs (DID). It sets out the historical contexts in which the programme was established ...
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This chapter provides an overview of the long-standing and highly popular British radio programme Desert Island Discs (DID). It sets out the historical contexts in which the programme was established and developed, and interrogates both its changing format and the meanings and values that have been associated with DID over time. Developments in the production process are also assessed, including the impact of various presenters and the selection of castaways, as well as the programme’s place in broader media culture and its relationship to particular national identities. Finally, it considers the potential value of DID to the world of scholarship, particularly following the establishment in 2011 of the programme’s online archive, and the contribution of chapter authors to the realisation of that potential.Less
This chapter provides an overview of the long-standing and highly popular British radio programme Desert Island Discs (DID). It sets out the historical contexts in which the programme was established and developed, and interrogates both its changing format and the meanings and values that have been associated with DID over time. Developments in the production process are also assessed, including the impact of various presenters and the selection of castaways, as well as the programme’s place in broader media culture and its relationship to particular national identities. Finally, it considers the potential value of DID to the world of scholarship, particularly following the establishment in 2011 of the programme’s online archive, and the contribution of chapter authors to the realisation of that potential.
Giselinde Kuipers
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781617030062
- eISBN:
- 9781617030079
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781617030062.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, Comics Studies
This chapter examines how people (as individuals and groups) came to terms with the 9/11 attacks and ensuing hawkish rhetoric by looking at alternative narrative forms, particularly Internet jokes ...
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This chapter examines how people (as individuals and groups) came to terms with the 9/11 attacks and ensuing hawkish rhetoric by looking at alternative narrative forms, particularly Internet jokes circulated through e-mail that reflect themes targeting Osama bin Laden as well as patriotism, hostility, and degradation. More specifically, it considers the way the events of 9/11 affected American humor and the temporary moratorium on humor in the country, as well as the jokes that emerged, both in the United States and abroad, in the wake of 9/11. It discusses Internet-based jokes about 9/11 and their relationship with a predominantly American visual culture and argues that they are not meant to cope with grief and suffering. Instead, it views Internet jokes as a comment on the serious and mournful tone of public discourse and media culture surrounding the events of 9/11.Less
This chapter examines how people (as individuals and groups) came to terms with the 9/11 attacks and ensuing hawkish rhetoric by looking at alternative narrative forms, particularly Internet jokes circulated through e-mail that reflect themes targeting Osama bin Laden as well as patriotism, hostility, and degradation. More specifically, it considers the way the events of 9/11 affected American humor and the temporary moratorium on humor in the country, as well as the jokes that emerged, both in the United States and abroad, in the wake of 9/11. It discusses Internet-based jokes about 9/11 and their relationship with a predominantly American visual culture and argues that they are not meant to cope with grief and suffering. Instead, it views Internet jokes as a comment on the serious and mournful tone of public discourse and media culture surrounding the events of 9/11.
Aurora Wallace
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252037344
- eISBN:
- 9780252094521
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252037344.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
In a declaration of the ascendance of the American media industry, nineteenth-century press barons in New York City helped to invent the skyscraper, a quintessentially American icon of progress and ...
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In a declaration of the ascendance of the American media industry, nineteenth-century press barons in New York City helped to invent the skyscraper, a quintessentially American icon of progress and aspiration. Early newspaper buildings in the country's media capital were designed to communicate both commercial and civic ideals, provide public space and prescribe discourse, and speak to class and mass in equal measure. This book illustrates how the media have continued to use the city as a space in which to inscribe and assert their power. With a unique focus on corporate headquarters as embodiments of the values of the press and as signposts for understanding media culture, this book demonstrates the mutually supporting relationship between the media and urban space. It considers how architecture contributed to the power of the press, the nature of the reading public, the commercialization of media, and corporate branding in the media industry. Tracing the rise and concentration of the media industry in New York City from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, the book analyzes physical and discursive space, as well as labor, technology, and aesthetics, to understand the entwined development of the mass media and late capitalism.Less
In a declaration of the ascendance of the American media industry, nineteenth-century press barons in New York City helped to invent the skyscraper, a quintessentially American icon of progress and aspiration. Early newspaper buildings in the country's media capital were designed to communicate both commercial and civic ideals, provide public space and prescribe discourse, and speak to class and mass in equal measure. This book illustrates how the media have continued to use the city as a space in which to inscribe and assert their power. With a unique focus on corporate headquarters as embodiments of the values of the press and as signposts for understanding media culture, this book demonstrates the mutually supporting relationship between the media and urban space. It considers how architecture contributed to the power of the press, the nature of the reading public, the commercialization of media, and corporate branding in the media industry. Tracing the rise and concentration of the media industry in New York City from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, the book analyzes physical and discursive space, as well as labor, technology, and aesthetics, to understand the entwined development of the mass media and late capitalism.
Ming-Yuen S. Ma and Erika Suderburg (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816670826
- eISBN:
- 9781452947181
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816670826.001.0001
- Subject:
- Art, Art History
This book explores the wide-ranging implications of video art and video-based production in contemporary media culture. The book examines the explosive viral reach of moving image-based content and ...
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This book explores the wide-ranging implications of video art and video-based production in contemporary media culture. The book examines the explosive viral reach of moving image-based content and its infiltration into and impact on culture and everyday life. The chapters to this book analyze what is now a fourth decade of video practices as marked within and outside the margins of art production, networked interventions, projected spectacle, museum entombment, or 24/7 streaming. Intending to broaden, contest, and amplify the mediated space defined by its two predecessors, this volume investigates the ever-changing state of video’s deployment as examiner, tool, journal reportage, improvisation, witness, riff, leverage, and document.Less
This book explores the wide-ranging implications of video art and video-based production in contemporary media culture. The book examines the explosive viral reach of moving image-based content and its infiltration into and impact on culture and everyday life. The chapters to this book analyze what is now a fourth decade of video practices as marked within and outside the margins of art production, networked interventions, projected spectacle, museum entombment, or 24/7 streaming. Intending to broaden, contest, and amplify the mediated space defined by its two predecessors, this volume investigates the ever-changing state of video’s deployment as examiner, tool, journal reportage, improvisation, witness, riff, leverage, and document.
Sarah Projansky
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814770214
- eISBN:
- 9780814764794
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814770214.003.0008
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This concluding chapter elaborates on the book's responses to ubiquitous white girlhood: first, it draws on empirical methods to document the dominance of white heteronormative girls in media and ...
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This concluding chapter elaborates on the book's responses to ubiquitous white girlhood: first, it draws on empirical methods to document the dominance of white heteronormative girls in media and second, it then turns away from those girlhoods to highlight the many other girls who appear within media culture. The book addresses the mean girl, the hyper-sexualized girl, the vulnerable white middle-class girl (Ophelia), the “postrace” black girl, the gamma girl, the crash-and-burn girl, and the girl star/celebrity—all of which are either adored or abhorred. However, this is only part of the picture as other girls populate U.S. media culture: mixed race girls, feminist girls, girls who express rational anger, girl media critics, queer girls, girls who discuss and think about abortion, girls who take pleasure in the movement of their own bodies, and girls who stand up to violent men. These alternative girls are at the center of the definition of spectacular girls.Less
This concluding chapter elaborates on the book's responses to ubiquitous white girlhood: first, it draws on empirical methods to document the dominance of white heteronormative girls in media and second, it then turns away from those girlhoods to highlight the many other girls who appear within media culture. The book addresses the mean girl, the hyper-sexualized girl, the vulnerable white middle-class girl (Ophelia), the “postrace” black girl, the gamma girl, the crash-and-burn girl, and the girl star/celebrity—all of which are either adored or abhorred. However, this is only part of the picture as other girls populate U.S. media culture: mixed race girls, feminist girls, girls who express rational anger, girl media critics, queer girls, girls who discuss and think about abortion, girls who take pleasure in the movement of their own bodies, and girls who stand up to violent men. These alternative girls are at the center of the definition of spectacular girls.
Michael G. Lacy and Kent A. Ono
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814762226
- eISBN:
- 9780814765296
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814762226.003.0014
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This introductory chapter provides an overview of the paradoxical representations of race in contemporary U.S. media culture. Racism ranges from everyday racism experienced by individuals in private ...
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This introductory chapter provides an overview of the paradoxical representations of race in contemporary U.S. media culture. Racism ranges from everyday racism experienced by individuals in private contexts to longstanding structural inequalities and conditions. Media indicates that the United States is a post-racial society, in which race and racism are passé relics of a bygone era. Yet, those same media bombard the audience daily with spectacles of racial violence and disturbing racist images that serve as evidence that race and racism are alive and well in the United States. Thus, this book shows that race and racism are very much part of contemporary daily life in the U.S. race, racism, contemporary United States, media culture, post-racial society, racial violence.Less
This introductory chapter provides an overview of the paradoxical representations of race in contemporary U.S. media culture. Racism ranges from everyday racism experienced by individuals in private contexts to longstanding structural inequalities and conditions. Media indicates that the United States is a post-racial society, in which race and racism are passé relics of a bygone era. Yet, those same media bombard the audience daily with spectacles of racial violence and disturbing racist images that serve as evidence that race and racism are alive and well in the United States. Thus, this book shows that race and racism are very much part of contemporary daily life in the U.S. race, racism, contemporary United States, media culture, post-racial society, racial violence.
