Lynn Schofield Clark
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199899616
- eISBN:
- 9780199980161
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199899616.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Marriage and the Family
How are families responding to the challenges of parenting young people in the digital age? This book draws on in-depth interviews with families from a range of socioeconomic backgrounds in order to ...
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How are families responding to the challenges of parenting young people in the digital age? This book draws on in-depth interviews with families from a range of socioeconomic backgrounds in order to trace the difference that social class makes in how families are making decisions about digital and mobile media use. This book finds that upper income families employ an ethic of expressive empowerment, in which parents encourage their children to use these media in relation to education and self-development and to avoid use that might distract them from goals of achievement. Lower income families, in contrast, embrace an ethic of respectful connectedness, in which family members are encouraged to use digital and mobile media in ways that are respectful, compliant toward parents, and family focused. Each approach has its own benefits and drawbacks, as upper income families are increasingly tempted to employ communication technologies in helicopter and surveillance parenting, and lower income families may use technologies in ways that strengthen interfamilial and neighborhood bonds while inadvertently reinforcing social isolation from other groups. The book challenges the hope that digital and mobile media might assist in bridging cultural and economic divides. It concludes that as U.S. families experience lives that are increasingly isolated from those whose economic circumstances differ from their own, the different roles that digital and mobile media are playing in family lives are reinforcing rather than alleviating what continues to be a troubling economic and social gap in U.S. society.Less
How are families responding to the challenges of parenting young people in the digital age? This book draws on in-depth interviews with families from a range of socioeconomic backgrounds in order to trace the difference that social class makes in how families are making decisions about digital and mobile media use. This book finds that upper income families employ an ethic of expressive empowerment, in which parents encourage their children to use these media in relation to education and self-development and to avoid use that might distract them from goals of achievement. Lower income families, in contrast, embrace an ethic of respectful connectedness, in which family members are encouraged to use digital and mobile media in ways that are respectful, compliant toward parents, and family focused. Each approach has its own benefits and drawbacks, as upper income families are increasingly tempted to employ communication technologies in helicopter and surveillance parenting, and lower income families may use technologies in ways that strengthen interfamilial and neighborhood bonds while inadvertently reinforcing social isolation from other groups. The book challenges the hope that digital and mobile media might assist in bridging cultural and economic divides. It concludes that as U.S. families experience lives that are increasingly isolated from those whose economic circumstances differ from their own, the different roles that digital and mobile media are playing in family lives are reinforcing rather than alleviating what continues to be a troubling economic and social gap in U.S. society.
Mauro Calise
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- April 2005
- ISBN:
- 9780199252015
- eISBN:
- 9780191602375
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199252017.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
Italy represents, in most respects, an ideal-type for the presidentialization of the political system: the role of individual leaders has been greatly enhanced vis-à-vis their parties, while they ...
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Italy represents, in most respects, an ideal-type for the presidentialization of the political system: the role of individual leaders has been greatly enhanced vis-à-vis their parties, while they have simultaneously gained a stronger hold over the executive branch of the state through the growing autonomy of the Prime Minister’s office and the exercise of an increasingly monocratic form of rule. Presidentialization has also deeply affected the electoral process: campaign style, media focus, and voting behaviour have all come to reflect an increasingly personalized form of leadership.Among the major causes of presidentialization, two—the internationalization of politics and the growth of the state—refer to general trends common to most industrial democracies. Thus, the presidentialization of the Italian political system must be seen, at least in part, as a response to the growing demands laid upon the political executive by the changing role of the state, both domestically and internationally. However, in order to account for the momentous and rapid nature of change in Italy, one needs to focus primarily upon the critical role played by the other two factors: the erosion of traditional social cleavage politics and the mediatization of politics.Less
Italy represents, in most respects, an ideal-type for the presidentialization of the political system: the role of individual leaders has been greatly enhanced vis-à-vis their parties, while they have simultaneously gained a stronger hold over the executive branch of the state through the growing autonomy of the Prime Minister’s office and the exercise of an increasingly monocratic form of rule. Presidentialization has also deeply affected the electoral process: campaign style, media focus, and voting behaviour have all come to reflect an increasingly personalized form of leadership.
Among the major causes of presidentialization, two—the internationalization of politics and the growth of the state—refer to general trends common to most industrial democracies. Thus, the presidentialization of the Italian political system must be seen, at least in part, as a response to the growing demands laid upon the political executive by the changing role of the state, both domestically and internationally. However, in order to account for the momentous and rapid nature of change in Italy, one needs to focus primarily upon the critical role played by the other two factors: the erosion of traditional social cleavage politics and the mediatization of politics.
Lynn Schofield Clark
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199899616
- eISBN:
- 9780199980161
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199899616.003.0009
- Subject:
- Sociology, Marriage and the Family
The questions of parenting in relation to these technologies is a more complex subject than many reports, and even advice books, would have us believe. Two styles of communication give shape to how ...
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The questions of parenting in relation to these technologies is a more complex subject than many reports, and even advice books, would have us believe. Two styles of communication give shape to how families, positioned differently in terms of socio-economic status, approach digital and mobile media: the ethic of “expressive empowerment” and the ethic of “respectful connectedness” inform us about how technologies are relevant to and problematic within differing families. The ethic of expressive empowerment can lead parents to emphasize the individual rights of the young person, sometimes at the expense of other familial goals. In contrast, the ethic of respectful connectedness emphasizes the rights of the family over the individualThe chapter then criticizes theories of the role of media in social change that have tended to assume that media change all people and groups within society in the same way. Finally, specific suggestions are offered to help parents educate themselves and their families on digital and mobile media.Less
The questions of parenting in relation to these technologies is a more complex subject than many reports, and even advice books, would have us believe. Two styles of communication give shape to how families, positioned differently in terms of socio-economic status, approach digital and mobile media: the ethic of “expressive empowerment” and the ethic of “respectful connectedness” inform us about how technologies are relevant to and problematic within differing families. The ethic of expressive empowerment can lead parents to emphasize the individual rights of the young person, sometimes at the expense of other familial goals. In contrast, the ethic of respectful connectedness emphasizes the rights of the family over the individualThe chapter then criticizes theories of the role of media in social change that have tended to assume that media change all people and groups within society in the same way. Finally, specific suggestions are offered to help parents educate themselves and their families on digital and mobile media.
Ellen Rutten
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780300213980
- eISBN:
- 9780300224832
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300213980.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Russian and Former Soviet Union History
This book presents the compelling study of “new sincerity” as a powerful cultural practice, born in perestroika-era Russia, and how it interconnects with global social and media flows. The global ...
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This book presents the compelling study of “new sincerity” as a powerful cultural practice, born in perestroika-era Russia, and how it interconnects with global social and media flows. The global cultural practice of a “new sincerity” in literature, media, art, design, fashion, film, and architecture grew steadily in the wake of the Soviet collapse. This book traces the rise and proliferation of a new rhetoric of sincere social expression characterized by complex blends of unabashed honesty, playfulness, and irony. This study of a sweeping cultural trend with roots in late Soviet Russia addresses postsocialist, postmodern, and postdigital questions of selfhood. It explores how and why a uniquely Russian artistic and social philosophy was shaped by “cultural memory, commodification, and mediatization” and how, under Vladimir Putin, “new sincerity” talk merges with transnational pleas to “revive sincerity”.Less
This book presents the compelling study of “new sincerity” as a powerful cultural practice, born in perestroika-era Russia, and how it interconnects with global social and media flows. The global cultural practice of a “new sincerity” in literature, media, art, design, fashion, film, and architecture grew steadily in the wake of the Soviet collapse. This book traces the rise and proliferation of a new rhetoric of sincere social expression characterized by complex blends of unabashed honesty, playfulness, and irony. This study of a sweeping cultural trend with roots in late Soviet Russia addresses postsocialist, postmodern, and postdigital questions of selfhood. It explores how and why a uniquely Russian artistic and social philosophy was shaped by “cultural memory, commodification, and mediatization” and how, under Vladimir Putin, “new sincerity” talk merges with transnational pleas to “revive sincerity”.
Janus Mortensen, Nikolas Coupland, and Jacob Thogersen (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190629489
- eISBN:
- 9780190629519
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190629489.001.0001
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
Mediated talk is organized around familiar styles—styles of person, relationship, and genre. But media also consistently remake and restyle these familiar patterns. This book brings together original ...
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Mediated talk is organized around familiar styles—styles of person, relationship, and genre. But media also consistently remake and restyle these familiar patterns. This book brings together original research on media styling in different national contexts and languages. It highlights and theorizes how creative acts of mediated styling can promote social and sociolinguistic change. The globalized world is already massively mediatized—what we know about language, people, and society is necessarily shaped through our engagement with media. But talking media are caught up in wider currents of rapid change too. Creative innovations in media styling can heighten our reflexive awareness, but they can also unsettle our existing understandings of language-society relations. In reporting new investigations by expert researchers, situated in relation to relevant theory, the book gives an original and timely account of how style, media, and change need to be integrated further to advance the discipline of sociolinguistics.Less
Mediated talk is organized around familiar styles—styles of person, relationship, and genre. But media also consistently remake and restyle these familiar patterns. This book brings together original research on media styling in different national contexts and languages. It highlights and theorizes how creative acts of mediated styling can promote social and sociolinguistic change. The globalized world is already massively mediatized—what we know about language, people, and society is necessarily shaped through our engagement with media. But talking media are caught up in wider currents of rapid change too. Creative innovations in media styling can heighten our reflexive awareness, but they can also unsettle our existing understandings of language-society relations. In reporting new investigations by expert researchers, situated in relation to relevant theory, the book gives an original and timely account of how style, media, and change need to be integrated further to advance the discipline of sociolinguistics.
Gordon Lynch
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199557011
- eISBN:
- 9780191738210
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199557011.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
The chapter begins by arguing that the sacred in the modern world has become mediatized, in the sense that public media have become the primary institution through which people engage with sacred ...
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The chapter begins by arguing that the sacred in the modern world has become mediatized, in the sense that public media have become the primary institution through which people engage with sacred forms. This suggests that public media are implicated in complicated patterns of relationship between media practices and technologies, sacred forms, and audience response. This is examined through a discussion of the BBC’s refusal to air a humanitarian appeal for Gaza in January 2009 in the wake of Operation Cast Lead. The strong public reaction against the BBC’s decision is discussed in terms of its perceived failure to offer restitution to the breach of the sacrality of the care of children. This illustrates the fundamental tension between the moral legitimacy of broadcasters, which derives from their identification with widely-shared sacred forms, and the professional aspiration for an impartiality which does not alienate any section of a broadcaster’s audience.Less
The chapter begins by arguing that the sacred in the modern world has become mediatized, in the sense that public media have become the primary institution through which people engage with sacred forms. This suggests that public media are implicated in complicated patterns of relationship between media practices and technologies, sacred forms, and audience response. This is examined through a discussion of the BBC’s refusal to air a humanitarian appeal for Gaza in January 2009 in the wake of Operation Cast Lead. The strong public reaction against the BBC’s decision is discussed in terms of its perceived failure to offer restitution to the breach of the sacrality of the care of children. This illustrates the fundamental tension between the moral legitimacy of broadcasters, which derives from their identification with widely-shared sacred forms, and the professional aspiration for an impartiality which does not alienate any section of a broadcaster’s audience.
Alexander L. Fattal
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780226590509
- eISBN:
- 9780226590783
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226590783.003.0003
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Latin American Cultural Anthropology
This chapter addresses the question: how did the state come to believe that branding could help defeat the FARC? It goes back in history to trace mediatization of the Colombian conflict, that is the ...
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This chapter addresses the question: how did the state come to believe that branding could help defeat the FARC? It goes back in history to trace mediatization of the Colombian conflict, that is the ways in which media played an increasingly central role in the war as it wore on. The chapter focuses on three inflection points. The first is the shift from agitprop, Soviet-style propaganda, to what the Colombian urban guerrilla group, the M19, called "armed propaganda." The second transformation was when Pablo Escobar, boss of the Medellín Cartel, adapted "armed propaganda" in his bid to avoid extradition to the United States, putting it at the service of an urban war that terrorized city residents and kidnapped high profile hostages, especially journalists. The third inflection point is the FARC's usage of hostages in a cynical bid to break what it describes as a "media siege" that does not allow it to speak for itself, and the public backlash to its efforts. In tracing the semiotic sensibility of Colombia's armed actors and the way the learned from each other, the chapter traces a history of the emergence of brand warfare.Less
This chapter addresses the question: how did the state come to believe that branding could help defeat the FARC? It goes back in history to trace mediatization of the Colombian conflict, that is the ways in which media played an increasingly central role in the war as it wore on. The chapter focuses on three inflection points. The first is the shift from agitprop, Soviet-style propaganda, to what the Colombian urban guerrilla group, the M19, called "armed propaganda." The second transformation was when Pablo Escobar, boss of the Medellín Cartel, adapted "armed propaganda" in his bid to avoid extradition to the United States, putting it at the service of an urban war that terrorized city residents and kidnapped high profile hostages, especially journalists. The third inflection point is the FARC's usage of hostages in a cynical bid to break what it describes as a "media siege" that does not allow it to speak for itself, and the public backlash to its efforts. In tracing the semiotic sensibility of Colombia's armed actors and the way the learned from each other, the chapter traces a history of the emergence of brand warfare.
Simon Morgan Wortham and Gary Hall
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823228140
- eISBN:
- 9780823240975
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823228140.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
The return of religion cannot be understood as archaism within modernity's deterritorializing dynamic. Jacques Derrida argued that there is a profound connection between mediatization and ...
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The return of religion cannot be understood as archaism within modernity's deterritorializing dynamic. Jacques Derrida argued that there is a profound connection between mediatization and Christianity, this is to say that Christianity embraces its own mediatization to the extent that it affirms itself as aesthetic religion. As Derrida goes on to assert, “mediatic manifestations of religion, Christian or other, in their production and their organization to national phenomena,” testify to the continuing power of the aesthetic, which has been inseparable from Western-style nationalism. In all cases these relations or intersections are characterized by ambivalence. Weber's attention to ambivalence seems to become curiously indirect or discreet, even teasing. In the Western tradition, the question concerning technology has always angled into questions of gender and sexual difference. Media is perhaps another name for the enactment of the aesthetic as a self-divided, self-displacing technique of manifestation.Less
The return of religion cannot be understood as archaism within modernity's deterritorializing dynamic. Jacques Derrida argued that there is a profound connection between mediatization and Christianity, this is to say that Christianity embraces its own mediatization to the extent that it affirms itself as aesthetic religion. As Derrida goes on to assert, “mediatic manifestations of religion, Christian or other, in their production and their organization to national phenomena,” testify to the continuing power of the aesthetic, which has been inseparable from Western-style nationalism. In all cases these relations or intersections are characterized by ambivalence. Weber's attention to ambivalence seems to become curiously indirect or discreet, even teasing. In the Western tradition, the question concerning technology has always angled into questions of gender and sexual difference. Media is perhaps another name for the enactment of the aesthetic as a self-divided, self-displacing technique of manifestation.
Monique Leyenaar and Drude Dahlerup
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199653898
- eISBN:
- 9780191751578
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199653898.003.0013
- Subject:
- Political Science, Democratization
This chapter addresses party and party system changes in relation to the future development of women’s representation in politics. What is the effect on women’s representation of the crisis of ...
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This chapter addresses party and party system changes in relation to the future development of women’s representation in politics. What is the effect on women’s representation of the crisis of representative democracy (albeit disputed) and of the decline of parties? It argues that the effects of the ongoing dealignment process in politics, such as personalization, the strong focus on leadership, the mediatization as well as the fragmentation of the party system, and especially the electoral success of populist parties, have a profound impact on the recruitment of women. Some effects are positive, some are negative, but all in all they contribute positively to a future gender balance in politics. The chapter pays specific attention to two types of parties, the greens and the populist, xenophobic parties, identifying the first type as often feminist and the latter type as often disruptive to women’s political representation.Less
This chapter addresses party and party system changes in relation to the future development of women’s representation in politics. What is the effect on women’s representation of the crisis of representative democracy (albeit disputed) and of the decline of parties? It argues that the effects of the ongoing dealignment process in politics, such as personalization, the strong focus on leadership, the mediatization as well as the fragmentation of the party system, and especially the electoral success of populist parties, have a profound impact on the recruitment of women. Some effects are positive, some are negative, but all in all they contribute positively to a future gender balance in politics. The chapter pays specific attention to two types of parties, the greens and the populist, xenophobic parties, identifying the first type as often feminist and the latter type as often disruptive to women’s political representation.
Anna Dahlgren
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781526126641
- eISBN:
- 9781526139016
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781526126641.003.0005
- Subject:
- Art, Art History
Chapter 4 explores how mass media, in the form of daily press, professional journals and television, represented and interpreted contemporary art that was deemed as illegal acts. In consequence, it ...
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Chapter 4 explores how mass media, in the form of daily press, professional journals and television, represented and interpreted contemporary art that was deemed as illegal acts. In consequence, it considers how media discourses intervened and acted in such artistic and legal processes. At the centre of this study are artworks made by three Swedish artists between 1967 and 2009 which were simultaneously considered as both artistic statements and real illegal deeds. These artworks and the ensuing media debates are illuminating examples of how the notion of art is continuously negotiated and interpreted very differently by various agents in diverse contexts. This chapter, therefore, expands its focus beyond the typical agents of the art world such as curators, critics and art historians to include statements and writing by representatives of politics, media, entertainment, law and the general public. Being controversial acts, these artworks were open to multiple interpretations and fed smoothly into the logic of the media system. Accordingly, the artists and their artworks were described as breaking news in the standard vocabulary of the press. In addition, they all elicited extensive media discussions on the definition of art.Less
Chapter 4 explores how mass media, in the form of daily press, professional journals and television, represented and interpreted contemporary art that was deemed as illegal acts. In consequence, it considers how media discourses intervened and acted in such artistic and legal processes. At the centre of this study are artworks made by three Swedish artists between 1967 and 2009 which were simultaneously considered as both artistic statements and real illegal deeds. These artworks and the ensuing media debates are illuminating examples of how the notion of art is continuously negotiated and interpreted very differently by various agents in diverse contexts. This chapter, therefore, expands its focus beyond the typical agents of the art world such as curators, critics and art historians to include statements and writing by representatives of politics, media, entertainment, law and the general public. Being controversial acts, these artworks were open to multiple interpretations and fed smoothly into the logic of the media system. Accordingly, the artists and their artworks were described as breaking news in the standard vocabulary of the press. In addition, they all elicited extensive media discussions on the definition of art.
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846318351
- eISBN:
- 9781846317859
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846317859.007
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
This chapter discusses a period of great change in French politics, society and culture from 1980 onwards. With a flourishing birth rate, a younger population began feeding into the adult workforce. ...
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This chapter discusses a period of great change in French politics, society and culture from 1980 onwards. With a flourishing birth rate, a younger population began feeding into the adult workforce. The younger French citizens breathed new social, political and cultural aspirations. It explains how the state's interest in promoting sport reached its peak, thus, taking the popularity of the Tour de France to new heights. Specifically, this chapter tells how professional cycling reflected new demands and constraints in the mediatization of the Tour de France. More so, it examines the changing role of cycling media and the professional cycling industry. Overall, it highlights two decades of change and continuity in French cycling. The successes achieved by cycling heroes of this time spearheaded a national system of preparing elite athletes in later years.Less
This chapter discusses a period of great change in French politics, society and culture from 1980 onwards. With a flourishing birth rate, a younger population began feeding into the adult workforce. The younger French citizens breathed new social, political and cultural aspirations. It explains how the state's interest in promoting sport reached its peak, thus, taking the popularity of the Tour de France to new heights. Specifically, this chapter tells how professional cycling reflected new demands and constraints in the mediatization of the Tour de France. More so, it examines the changing role of cycling media and the professional cycling industry. Overall, it highlights two decades of change and continuity in French cycling. The successes achieved by cycling heroes of this time spearheaded a national system of preparing elite athletes in later years.
Ellen Rutten
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780300213980
- eISBN:
- 9780300224832
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300213980.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, Russian and Former Soviet Union History
This chapter examines the relationship between sincerity and digitization and how sincerity relates to such central concepts in the sincerity-and-media debate as amateurism, imperfection, and craft. ...
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This chapter examines the relationship between sincerity and digitization and how sincerity relates to such central concepts in the sincerity-and-media debate as amateurism, imperfection, and craft. It considers the many online “produsers”—media expert Axel Bruns's term for denoting that, online, “distinctions between producers and users of content have faded into comparative insignificance”—who use online self-publishing tools to publicly share their views on sincerity. The chapter problematizes existing notions of mediatization and authenticity and discusses current debates about our “mediated” world. It calls for a move beyond Western paradigms and more transcultural sensitiveness in the academic debate on new media, reality, and honesty. It also looks at existing studies' near-exclusive emphasis on authenticity, sincerity's conceptual twin. It shows that in post-Soviet space, those who reflect on the impact of new media on our lives show a special interest not in authenticity but in sincerity.Less
This chapter examines the relationship between sincerity and digitization and how sincerity relates to such central concepts in the sincerity-and-media debate as amateurism, imperfection, and craft. It considers the many online “produsers”—media expert Axel Bruns's term for denoting that, online, “distinctions between producers and users of content have faded into comparative insignificance”—who use online self-publishing tools to publicly share their views on sincerity. The chapter problematizes existing notions of mediatization and authenticity and discusses current debates about our “mediated” world. It calls for a move beyond Western paradigms and more transcultural sensitiveness in the academic debate on new media, reality, and honesty. It also looks at existing studies' near-exclusive emphasis on authenticity, sincerity's conceptual twin. It shows that in post-Soviet space, those who reflect on the impact of new media on our lives show a special interest not in authenticity but in sincerity.
Sirpa Tenhunen
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780190630270
- eISBN:
- 9780190876562
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190630270.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Psychology and Interaction
Chapter 2 develops a theoretical framework to understand the appropriation of mobile telephony in Janta as myriad fluctuating contexts, networks, and spheres of life extending outside the village. ...
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Chapter 2 develops a theoretical framework to understand the appropriation of mobile telephony in Janta as myriad fluctuating contexts, networks, and spheres of life extending outside the village. This chapter presents the book’s theoretical contribution to debates on social change and new media use, drawing from the following paradigms and concepts: domestication, polymedia, remediation, and mediatization/mediation. The book and the domestication paradigm share an interest in exploring how technology is adapted to everyday life and how it contributes to changes in everyday life through negotiation and social interaction. Different from the domestication approach, mobile phone use is explored in various contexts and in relation to face-to-face communicative contexts. Unlike studies utilizing the polymedia concept and mediatization scholarship, the book explores an environment where media use remains tangential because of economic and social barriers. The analytical framework highlights the relationships between mobile phone–mediated conversations and other speech contexts and media.Less
Chapter 2 develops a theoretical framework to understand the appropriation of mobile telephony in Janta as myriad fluctuating contexts, networks, and spheres of life extending outside the village. This chapter presents the book’s theoretical contribution to debates on social change and new media use, drawing from the following paradigms and concepts: domestication, polymedia, remediation, and mediatization/mediation. The book and the domestication paradigm share an interest in exploring how technology is adapted to everyday life and how it contributes to changes in everyday life through negotiation and social interaction. Different from the domestication approach, mobile phone use is explored in various contexts and in relation to face-to-face communicative contexts. Unlike studies utilizing the polymedia concept and mediatization scholarship, the book explores an environment where media use remains tangential because of economic and social barriers. The analytical framework highlights the relationships between mobile phone–mediated conversations and other speech contexts and media.
Shiju Sam Varughese
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- February 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780199469123
- eISBN:
- 9780199087433
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199469123.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Science, Technology and Environment
The concept of ‘scientific public sphere’ is developed in the chapter. The structural coupling of science with media and politics in contemporary liberal democracies has led to the emergence of the ...
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The concept of ‘scientific public sphere’ is developed in the chapter. The structural coupling of science with media and politics in contemporary liberal democracies has led to the emergence of the scientific public sphere as a deliberative space to negotiate modernization risks, a phenomenon that has radically altered the characteristics of the scientific-citizen publics. The scientific public sphere gets activated when public controversies over science are staged by the mass media. The deliberative turn in public engagement with science and the recent developments in understanding the interaction between science and media are discussed in the chapter to theorize mediated public engagement with science in contemporary risk societies. It is argued that present conceptualization of ‘medialization of science’ is insufficient to capture the dynamics between science, mass media, and risk politics, and the chapter proposes scientific public sphere as a better framework.Less
The concept of ‘scientific public sphere’ is developed in the chapter. The structural coupling of science with media and politics in contemporary liberal democracies has led to the emergence of the scientific public sphere as a deliberative space to negotiate modernization risks, a phenomenon that has radically altered the characteristics of the scientific-citizen publics. The scientific public sphere gets activated when public controversies over science are staged by the mass media. The deliberative turn in public engagement with science and the recent developments in understanding the interaction between science and media are discussed in the chapter to theorize mediated public engagement with science in contemporary risk societies. It is argued that present conceptualization of ‘medialization of science’ is insufficient to capture the dynamics between science, mass media, and risk politics, and the chapter proposes scientific public sphere as a better framework.
Björn Heile, Peter Elsdon, and Jenny Doctor (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199347650
- eISBN:
- 9780199347698
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199347650.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Popular, History, Western
Watching Jazz: Encounters with Jazz Performance on Screen is the first systematic study of jazz on screen media. Where earlier studies have focused almost entirely on the role and portrayal of jazz ...
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Watching Jazz: Encounters with Jazz Performance on Screen is the first systematic study of jazz on screen media. Where earlier studies have focused almost entirely on the role and portrayal of jazz in Hollywood film, this book engages with a plethora of technologies and media from early film and Soundies through television and video to recent developments in digital technologies and online media. Likewise, the authors discuss jazz in the widest sense, ranging from Duke Ellington and Jimmy Dorsey through the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Art Blakey, Oscar Peterson, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Charles Mingus to Pat Metheny. Much of this rich and fascinating material has never been studied in depth before, and what emerges most clearly are the manifold connections between the music and the media on which it was and is being recorded. Long associations with film and television have left their traces in jazz, just as online and social media are subtly shaping it now. Conversely, visual media have always benefited from focusing on music, and this significantly affected their development. The book follows these interrelations, showing how jazz was presented and represented on screen and what such processes of mediatization tells us about the music, the people who made it, and their audiences. The result is a new approach to jazz and the media, which will be required reading for students of both fields.Less
Watching Jazz: Encounters with Jazz Performance on Screen is the first systematic study of jazz on screen media. Where earlier studies have focused almost entirely on the role and portrayal of jazz in Hollywood film, this book engages with a plethora of technologies and media from early film and Soundies through television and video to recent developments in digital technologies and online media. Likewise, the authors discuss jazz in the widest sense, ranging from Duke Ellington and Jimmy Dorsey through the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Art Blakey, Oscar Peterson, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Charles Mingus to Pat Metheny. Much of this rich and fascinating material has never been studied in depth before, and what emerges most clearly are the manifold connections between the music and the media on which it was and is being recorded. Long associations with film and television have left their traces in jazz, just as online and social media are subtly shaping it now. Conversely, visual media have always benefited from focusing on music, and this significantly affected their development. The book follows these interrelations, showing how jazz was presented and represented on screen and what such processes of mediatization tells us about the music, the people who made it, and their audiences. The result is a new approach to jazz and the media, which will be required reading for students of both fields.
Monika Kopytowska
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780190636647
- eISBN:
- 9780190636678
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190636647.003.0017
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Psycholinguistics / Neurolinguistics / Cognitive Linguistics
This chapter demonstrates how contemporary ‘media culture’ has altered the way we experience and communicate religion and explains the role which language and other semiotic resources play in ...
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This chapter demonstrates how contemporary ‘media culture’ has altered the way we experience and communicate religion and explains the role which language and other semiotic resources play in mediating religious experience and transforming the notion of sacred space, sacred time and a sense of communion based on collective emotion. The underlying assumption is that media together with religious institutions proximize the spiritual reality to believers and create a community of the faithful by reducing various dimensions of distance and providing the audience with a sense of participation and interaction. The chapter focuses on mediated rituals and demonstrates how both TV and radio, with their semiotic properties enabling liveness and immediacy, blur time-space boundaries, change the nature of individual and collective experience, and enhance the emotional and axiological potential of religious messages. It discusses the role of metaphor and metonymy as well as other cognitive operations within discourse space (involving both verbal and visual strategies) in these processes.Less
This chapter demonstrates how contemporary ‘media culture’ has altered the way we experience and communicate religion and explains the role which language and other semiotic resources play in mediating religious experience and transforming the notion of sacred space, sacred time and a sense of communion based on collective emotion. The underlying assumption is that media together with religious institutions proximize the spiritual reality to believers and create a community of the faithful by reducing various dimensions of distance and providing the audience with a sense of participation and interaction. The chapter focuses on mediated rituals and demonstrates how both TV and radio, with their semiotic properties enabling liveness and immediacy, blur time-space boundaries, change the nature of individual and collective experience, and enhance the emotional and axiological potential of religious messages. It discusses the role of metaphor and metonymy as well as other cognitive operations within discourse space (involving both verbal and visual strategies) in these processes.
Janus Mortensen, Nikolas Coupland, and Jacob Thøgersen
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190629489
- eISBN:
- 9780190629519
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190629489.003.0001
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
This introductory chapter explores interconnections between the notions of style, media, and change. It argues for a need to develop an orientation to change in sociolinguistics that is fully ...
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This introductory chapter explores interconnections between the notions of style, media, and change. It argues for a need to develop an orientation to change in sociolinguistics that is fully sensitive to and critically engaged with social change, and which can address reconfigurations in the language-society nexus under conditions of accelerating mediatization. The notion of style allows sociolinguists to explore aspects of stability as well as change in language use, it addresses the negotiation of social meaning across multiple semiotic modes, and it offers an analytical framework within which links between social action, identity, and social context may be investigated. Because of these affordances, the chapter argues, style holds the potential to provide a unifying perspective for sociolinguistic approaches to media and change. The chapter concludes with a comprehensive overview of the main analytic chapters of the book.Less
This introductory chapter explores interconnections between the notions of style, media, and change. It argues for a need to develop an orientation to change in sociolinguistics that is fully sensitive to and critically engaged with social change, and which can address reconfigurations in the language-society nexus under conditions of accelerating mediatization. The notion of style allows sociolinguists to explore aspects of stability as well as change in language use, it addresses the negotiation of social meaning across multiple semiotic modes, and it offers an analytical framework within which links between social action, identity, and social context may be investigated. Because of these affordances, the chapter argues, style holds the potential to provide a unifying perspective for sociolinguistic approaches to media and change. The chapter concludes with a comprehensive overview of the main analytic chapters of the book.
Nuria Lorenzo-Dus
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190629489
- eISBN:
- 9780190629519
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190629489.003.0002
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
This chapter explores the notion of sociolinguistic change in relation to a popular news show in Spain (Salvados). The selected episode concerns the Spanish government’s controversial handling of a ...
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This chapter explores the notion of sociolinguistic change in relation to a popular news show in Spain (Salvados). The selected episode concerns the Spanish government’s controversial handling of a tragic rail accident. The analysis covers both the interviewing style of the show’s anchor (Jordi Évole) and public uptake of his style across digital media. Évole’s style is found to rely on stances of moral evaluation, mock naïvety, and ordinariness. These represent a departure from traditional forms of interviewing in Spain; they contribute to, stimulate, mediate, and evaluate sociolinguistic change within Spanish contemporary broadcasting.Less
This chapter explores the notion of sociolinguistic change in relation to a popular news show in Spain (Salvados). The selected episode concerns the Spanish government’s controversial handling of a tragic rail accident. The analysis covers both the interviewing style of the show’s anchor (Jordi Évole) and public uptake of his style across digital media. Évole’s style is found to rely on stances of moral evaluation, mock naïvety, and ordinariness. These represent a departure from traditional forms of interviewing in Spain; they contribute to, stimulate, mediate, and evaluate sociolinguistic change within Spanish contemporary broadcasting.
Monika Bednarek
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190629489
- eISBN:
- 9780190629519
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190629489.003.0006
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
This chapter examines processes whereby both international media conglomerates and transnational fans (re)circulate television series, whether for commercial gain or the negotiation of identity and ...
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This chapter examines processes whereby both international media conglomerates and transnational fans (re)circulate television series, whether for commercial gain or the negotiation of identity and community membership. The chapter discusses four key processes of (re)circulation, (1) (re)circulation of the narrative, (2) (re)circulation of the dialogue, (3) (re)circulation of the production, and (4) performative (re)circulation, illustrating them with examples drawn mainly from The Big Bang Theory. It argues that such processes can be associated with different styles of fandom, and that there are both similarities and differences between T-shirt texts and social media texts, for instance in terms of their potential for style and styling.Less
This chapter examines processes whereby both international media conglomerates and transnational fans (re)circulate television series, whether for commercial gain or the negotiation of identity and community membership. The chapter discusses four key processes of (re)circulation, (1) (re)circulation of the narrative, (2) (re)circulation of the dialogue, (3) (re)circulation of the production, and (4) performative (re)circulation, illustrating them with examples drawn mainly from The Big Bang Theory. It argues that such processes can be associated with different styles of fandom, and that there are both similarities and differences between T-shirt texts and social media texts, for instance in terms of their potential for style and styling.
Jenny Doctor
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199347650
- eISBN:
- 9780199347698
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199347650.003.0005
- Subject:
- Music, Popular, History, Western
Following World War II, the BBC experimented with the dissemination of music performance, not only on radio, but also on television. This chapter explores three television series—Jazz Is Where You ...
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Following World War II, the BBC experimented with the dissemination of music performance, not only on radio, but also on television. This chapter explores three television series—Jazz Is Where You Find It (1946–47), Jazz Session (1954, 1957), and Jazz 625 (1964–66)—questioning the point of transferring music performance from an audio-only medium to an audiovisual one that was inferior in technical quality. What did BBC audiences gain from watching jazz on television? How did producers embody experiences of jazz improvisation on television, aiming to inform and engage the interest of both studio audiences and audiences on the other side of the screen? From surviving documentation, this chapter explores the producer’s aims in terms of filmic, stylistic, and editorial possibilities of the time. Interestingly, the resulting mediatization centered on capturing—through decisions on staging, filming, editing, narrating, and presentation—the essential embodiment of jazz improvisation in live performance.Less
Following World War II, the BBC experimented with the dissemination of music performance, not only on radio, but also on television. This chapter explores three television series—Jazz Is Where You Find It (1946–47), Jazz Session (1954, 1957), and Jazz 625 (1964–66)—questioning the point of transferring music performance from an audio-only medium to an audiovisual one that was inferior in technical quality. What did BBC audiences gain from watching jazz on television? How did producers embody experiences of jazz improvisation on television, aiming to inform and engage the interest of both studio audiences and audiences on the other side of the screen? From surviving documentation, this chapter explores the producer’s aims in terms of filmic, stylistic, and editorial possibilities of the time. Interestingly, the resulting mediatization centered on capturing—through decisions on staging, filming, editing, narrating, and presentation—the essential embodiment of jazz improvisation in live performance.
