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.
Claire Maree
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- August 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780190869618
- eISBN:
- 9780190869649
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190869618.001.0001
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
Queerqueen examines the editing and writing of queer excess into Japanese popular culture through mediatization of queerqueen styles. The book illustrates how a diversity of gender identifications, ...
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Queerqueen examines the editing and writing of queer excess into Japanese popular culture through mediatization of queerqueen styles. The book illustrates how a diversity of gender identifications, sexual orientations, and discursive styles are packaged together as if to form a homogenous character—the queerqueen. In a range of genres from conversational dialogue books to lifestyle television and animations, queerqueen styles are configured as crossing into popular media via the body of the authentically “queer male,” whose “authentic” speech is produced spontaneously without scripting. Editorial interventions enacted through the collaborative language labor of stenographers and record makers, graphic designers and illustrators, and editorial teams (re)trace the sonic qualities of the queerqueen. Through visual mimesis, contemporaneous citational practices, and the mobilization of nostalgia, queerqueen styles are enregistered as talk that is inherently excessive and in need of containment. Editorial acts of containment such as self-censorship simultaneously expose the sexualized nature of gendered norms of talk in Japanese. It is also here that possible spaces for dissent open up through contestation of the limits to excess. The visual and sonic crossings of gender norms unsettle heteronormative mapping of speech styles onto statically gendered bodies. Strategic use of a variety of linguistic resources such as hyper-masculine forms and hyper-politeness exposes the veneers of technologies that seek to regiment excess. Analysis of the inscription of queerqueen styles reveals metapragmatic stereotypes of gender, sexuality, and desire that are essential to the business of mainstream entertainment.Less
Queerqueen examines the editing and writing of queer excess into Japanese popular culture through mediatization of queerqueen styles. The book illustrates how a diversity of gender identifications, sexual orientations, and discursive styles are packaged together as if to form a homogenous character—the queerqueen. In a range of genres from conversational dialogue books to lifestyle television and animations, queerqueen styles are configured as crossing into popular media via the body of the authentically “queer male,” whose “authentic” speech is produced spontaneously without scripting. Editorial interventions enacted through the collaborative language labor of stenographers and record makers, graphic designers and illustrators, and editorial teams (re)trace the sonic qualities of the queerqueen. Through visual mimesis, contemporaneous citational practices, and the mobilization of nostalgia, queerqueen styles are enregistered as talk that is inherently excessive and in need of containment. Editorial acts of containment such as self-censorship simultaneously expose the sexualized nature of gendered norms of talk in Japanese. It is also here that possible spaces for dissent open up through contestation of the limits to excess. The visual and sonic crossings of gender norms unsettle heteronormative mapping of speech styles onto statically gendered bodies. Strategic use of a variety of linguistic resources such as hyper-masculine forms and hyper-politeness exposes the veneers of technologies that seek to regiment excess. Analysis of the inscription of queerqueen styles reveals metapragmatic stereotypes of gender, sexuality, and desire that are essential to the business of mainstream entertainment.
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”.
André Jansson and Paul C. Adams (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- July 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780197571873
- eISBN:
- 9780197571910
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780197571873.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Science, Technology and Environment
After the rapid rise of digital networking in the 2000s and 2010s, we are now seeing a rise of interest in how people can disentangle their lives from the increasingly pervasive networks of digital ...
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After the rapid rise of digital networking in the 2000s and 2010s, we are now seeing a rise of interest in how people can disentangle their lives from the increasingly pervasive networks of digital communications. This edited volume contributes to the turn toward digital disconnection research by bringing together an interdisciplinary group of authors with expertise in various forms and philosophies of disentangling. By “disentangling” we mean disconnection not just from media but from a digitalized world, a world in which places and landscapes are increasingly structured around digital connectivity. People increasingly look for strategies that will let them reject, avoid, and rework the pervasive media demanding they remain connected at all times. How might we facilitate autonomy from tendrils of digital surveillance, revalue places over dematerialized flows, and unravel digital dependency? Who gets to disconnect and who does not? How do natural cycles such as sleep and death relate to disentangling? Can we clarify the means and objectives of “digital detox”? Can we map the failures, glitches, contradictions, and paradoxes that plague digital connectivity? What does our willing and unwilling entanglement in digital networks say with regard to social resilience and cultural resistance? The book’s three sections start with questions about ethics and justice associated with the power geometries of digital (dis)connection, then move on to consider digitally entangled lives and afterlives, and conclude with a look at the ambiguities of (dis)connection in time-spaces of the COVID-19 pandemic.Less
After the rapid rise of digital networking in the 2000s and 2010s, we are now seeing a rise of interest in how people can disentangle their lives from the increasingly pervasive networks of digital communications. This edited volume contributes to the turn toward digital disconnection research by bringing together an interdisciplinary group of authors with expertise in various forms and philosophies of disentangling. By “disentangling” we mean disconnection not just from media but from a digitalized world, a world in which places and landscapes are increasingly structured around digital connectivity. People increasingly look for strategies that will let them reject, avoid, and rework the pervasive media demanding they remain connected at all times. How might we facilitate autonomy from tendrils of digital surveillance, revalue places over dematerialized flows, and unravel digital dependency? Who gets to disconnect and who does not? How do natural cycles such as sleep and death relate to disentangling? Can we clarify the means and objectives of “digital detox”? Can we map the failures, glitches, contradictions, and paradoxes that plague digital connectivity? What does our willing and unwilling entanglement in digital networks say with regard to social resilience and cultural resistance? The book’s three sections start with questions about ethics and justice associated with the power geometries of digital (dis)connection, then move on to consider digitally entangled lives and afterlives, and conclude with a look at the ambiguities of (dis)connection in time-spaces of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Gwynne Mapes
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- June 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780197533444
- eISBN:
- 9780197533482
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780197533444.001.0001
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
Food plays a central role in the production of culture and is likewise a powerful resource for the representation and organization of social order. Status is thus asserted or contested through both ...
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Food plays a central role in the production of culture and is likewise a powerful resource for the representation and organization of social order. Status is thus asserted or contested through both the materiality of food (i.e. its substance, its raw economics, and its manufacture or preparation) and through its discursivity (i.e. its marketing, staging, and the way it is depicted and discussed). This intersection of materiality and discursivity makes food an ideal site for examining the place of language in contemporary class formations, and for engaging cutting-edge debates in sociolinguistics and elsewhere on “language materiality.” In Elite Authenticity, Gwynne Mapes integrates theories of mediatization, materiality, and authenticity in order to explore the discursive production of elite status and class inequality in food discourse. Relying on a range of methodological approaches, Mapes examines restaurant reviews and articles published in the New York Times food section; a collection of Instagram posts from ©nytfood; ethnographically informed fieldwork in four renowned Brooklyn, New York, restaurants; and a recorded dinner conversation with six food enthusiasts. Across these varied genres of data, she demonstrates how a discourse of “elite authenticity” represents a particular surfacing of rhetorical maneuvers in which distinction is orchestrated, avowed/disavowed, and circulated. Elite Authenticity takes a multimodal critical discourse analysis approach, drawing on theories from linguistics, food and cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, and philosophy. Its presentation and analysis of aural, visual, spatial, material, and embodied discourse will be of interest to scholars and students of communication studies, critical discourse studies, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and cultural geography.Less
Food plays a central role in the production of culture and is likewise a powerful resource for the representation and organization of social order. Status is thus asserted or contested through both the materiality of food (i.e. its substance, its raw economics, and its manufacture or preparation) and through its discursivity (i.e. its marketing, staging, and the way it is depicted and discussed). This intersection of materiality and discursivity makes food an ideal site for examining the place of language in contemporary class formations, and for engaging cutting-edge debates in sociolinguistics and elsewhere on “language materiality.” In Elite Authenticity, Gwynne Mapes integrates theories of mediatization, materiality, and authenticity in order to explore the discursive production of elite status and class inequality in food discourse. Relying on a range of methodological approaches, Mapes examines restaurant reviews and articles published in the New York Times food section; a collection of Instagram posts from ©nytfood; ethnographically informed fieldwork in four renowned Brooklyn, New York, restaurants; and a recorded dinner conversation with six food enthusiasts. Across these varied genres of data, she demonstrates how a discourse of “elite authenticity” represents a particular surfacing of rhetorical maneuvers in which distinction is orchestrated, avowed/disavowed, and circulated. Elite Authenticity takes a multimodal critical discourse analysis approach, drawing on theories from linguistics, food and cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, and philosophy. Its presentation and analysis of aural, visual, spatial, material, and embodied discourse will be of interest to scholars and students of communication studies, critical discourse studies, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and cultural geography.
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.
- 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.
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.
Claire Maree
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- August 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780190869618
- eISBN:
- 9780190869649
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190869618.003.0002
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
Chapter 1 provides an introduction to this book’s central argument that speech and/or writing produced by queerqueen personalities is ventriloquilized and entextualized by transcribers, ghost ...
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Chapter 1 provides an introduction to this book’s central argument that speech and/or writing produced by queerqueen personalities is ventriloquilized and entextualized by transcribers, ghost writers, editors, and/or producers through language-labor practices. The chapter traces the recycling of the visual and sonic image of the queerqueen figure in contemporary popular culture from the 1950s. It proposes that, though processes of mass commodification, the trope of the (sometimes) cross-dressing (sometimes) cross-speaking queerqueen has been recycled in print, audiovisual, and digital media through recurring cultural “booms.” These “booms” position queerqueen speech as a new phenomenon and shape the commodification of it within the historical and cultural context that forms the background to Japanese popular cultural productions. This chapter outlines how one can trace the entextualization of “queer linguistic excess” and its containment through analysis of the (re)production of “actual” conversations by “authentic” queerqueens as written text.Less
Chapter 1 provides an introduction to this book’s central argument that speech and/or writing produced by queerqueen personalities is ventriloquilized and entextualized by transcribers, ghost writers, editors, and/or producers through language-labor practices. The chapter traces the recycling of the visual and sonic image of the queerqueen figure in contemporary popular culture from the 1950s. It proposes that, though processes of mass commodification, the trope of the (sometimes) cross-dressing (sometimes) cross-speaking queerqueen has been recycled in print, audiovisual, and digital media through recurring cultural “booms.” These “booms” position queerqueen speech as a new phenomenon and shape the commodification of it within the historical and cultural context that forms the background to Japanese popular cultural productions. This chapter outlines how one can trace the entextualization of “queer linguistic excess” and its containment through analysis of the (re)production of “actual” conversations by “authentic” queerqueens as written text.
Paschal Preston
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780190053901
- eISBN:
- 9780190053932
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190053901.003.0003
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, International
Chapter 3 continues the initial review of existing research literature related to the changing role and forms of the media and economic affairs, and the issues of economic inequality in particular. ...
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Chapter 3 continues the initial review of existing research literature related to the changing role and forms of the media and economic affairs, and the issues of economic inequality in particular. It aims to identify some high-level ideas and concepts drawn from the fields of socioeconomics and political economy, as well as certain sub-sets of the communication and journalism studies fields, which shed light on the meaning of economic inequality and the key influences on the selection or making of news culture and journalistic practices. The chapter considers the shifting forms and meanings of economic equality in the modern social sciences, indicating the diversity of prior studies, engagement with, or neglect of inequality matters. It then moves on to address the notion of mediatization and select aspects of the evolving role and scope of the media in relation to economic and other societal processes, including those related to economic inequality. Next, some of the major approaches and prevailing perspectives on ‘making the news’ are identified. This outlines a typology of the prior research literature, noting a number of distinct schools in explaining the key influences on newsmaking and shaping journalism discourses. The authors focus on certain macro- and meso-level factors which influence news media and journalistic discourse (rather than individual-level characteristics or failings of journalists). The chapter ends with an outline of the authors’ transdisciplinary approach towards ‘making the news’, combining conceptual elements from both the critical cultural studies and political economy approaches. A final section considers conclusions and implications.Less
Chapter 3 continues the initial review of existing research literature related to the changing role and forms of the media and economic affairs, and the issues of economic inequality in particular. It aims to identify some high-level ideas and concepts drawn from the fields of socioeconomics and political economy, as well as certain sub-sets of the communication and journalism studies fields, which shed light on the meaning of economic inequality and the key influences on the selection or making of news culture and journalistic practices. The chapter considers the shifting forms and meanings of economic equality in the modern social sciences, indicating the diversity of prior studies, engagement with, or neglect of inequality matters. It then moves on to address the notion of mediatization and select aspects of the evolving role and scope of the media in relation to economic and other societal processes, including those related to economic inequality. Next, some of the major approaches and prevailing perspectives on ‘making the news’ are identified. This outlines a typology of the prior research literature, noting a number of distinct schools in explaining the key influences on newsmaking and shaping journalism discourses. The authors focus on certain macro- and meso-level factors which influence news media and journalistic discourse (rather than individual-level characteristics or failings of journalists). The chapter ends with an outline of the authors’ transdisciplinary approach towards ‘making the news’, combining conceptual elements from both the critical cultural studies and political economy approaches. A final section considers conclusions and implications.
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.
Zachary Sng
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780823288410
- eISBN:
- 9780823290383
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823288410.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
The chapter examines the complications of “mediatization” around 1800 in two separate senses. The first involves the growth in the variety, reach, and influence of media of communication. The second ...
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The chapter examines the complications of “mediatization” around 1800 in two separate senses. The first involves the growth in the variety, reach, and influence of media of communication. The second is a reorganization of political power in the wake of Napoleon, whereby territories that were formerly answerable only to the Emperor and therefore stood in “immediate” relation to imperial power became “mediatized.” Both developments and their profound consequences are represented in Kleist’s novella, “Michael Kohlhaas.” The text frames Kohlhaas’s spiral into madness and immoderation with a chain of virulent circulating signifiers (horses, letters, missives, prophecies, and so on) and an almost obsessive attention to borders, boundaries, and lines of difference that can only be crossed at great cost. Reading Kleist’s text alongside twentieth-century commentaries reveals how its urgent insights into language, force, and justice are intertwined with deep misgivings about mediality and its proliferating logic.Less
The chapter examines the complications of “mediatization” around 1800 in two separate senses. The first involves the growth in the variety, reach, and influence of media of communication. The second is a reorganization of political power in the wake of Napoleon, whereby territories that were formerly answerable only to the Emperor and therefore stood in “immediate” relation to imperial power became “mediatized.” Both developments and their profound consequences are represented in Kleist’s novella, “Michael Kohlhaas.” The text frames Kohlhaas’s spiral into madness and immoderation with a chain of virulent circulating signifiers (horses, letters, missives, prophecies, and so on) and an almost obsessive attention to borders, boundaries, and lines of difference that can only be crossed at great cost. Reading Kleist’s text alongside twentieth-century commentaries reveals how its urgent insights into language, force, and justice are intertwined with deep misgivings about mediality and its proliferating logic.
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.
Gwynne Mapes
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- June 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780197533444
- eISBN:
- 9780197533482
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780197533444.003.0002
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
This chapter begins with an explanation of “elite authenticity” in full, including a definition of the five rhetorical strategies of which it is composed: historicity, simplicity, lowbrow ...
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This chapter begins with an explanation of “elite authenticity” in full, including a definition of the five rhetorical strategies of which it is composed: historicity, simplicity, lowbrow appreciation, pioneer spirit, and locality/sustainability. Using theories pertaining to media discourse and mediatization, the author presents an analysis of the New York Times food section, relying on a corpus of 259 articles (including restaurant reviews and top-viewed articles). Throughout her analysis she demonstrates how the aforementioned interconnected rhetorical strategies are not only indexical of what is considered “authentic” in contemporary society, but also essential to the construction of status based on a purposeful distancing from traditional markers of eliteness. In sum, this chapter sets the groundwork for the simultaneous (dis)avowal of distinction which is integral to contemporary class maintenance.Less
This chapter begins with an explanation of “elite authenticity” in full, including a definition of the five rhetorical strategies of which it is composed: historicity, simplicity, lowbrow appreciation, pioneer spirit, and locality/sustainability. Using theories pertaining to media discourse and mediatization, the author presents an analysis of the New York Times food section, relying on a corpus of 259 articles (including restaurant reviews and top-viewed articles). Throughout her analysis she demonstrates how the aforementioned interconnected rhetorical strategies are not only indexical of what is considered “authentic” in contemporary society, but also essential to the construction of status based on a purposeful distancing from traditional markers of eliteness. In sum, this chapter sets the groundwork for the simultaneous (dis)avowal of distinction which is integral to contemporary class maintenance.
Yan Yuan
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- July 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780197571873
- eISBN:
- 9780197571910
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780197571873.003.0009
- Subject:
- Sociology, Science, Technology and Environment
As a form of anti-mediatization movement, the call for “slow media” gains its popularity in many societies. How exactly are “slow media” different and disconnected from the digital media? Where is ...
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As a form of anti-mediatization movement, the call for “slow media” gains its popularity in many societies. How exactly are “slow media” different and disconnected from the digital media? Where is the sense of slowness and disconnection from? This chapter uses a case in the context of contemporary China to interrogate these questions: shouzhang (手账), a form of diary keeping turning back to pen and paper and performed by many Chinese millennials. Based on the investigations of both the products and users, it demonstrates that doing shouzhang in today’s China involves a media ensemble that goes far beyond the physical diary and stationery, such that digital media play a constitutional role. Even the design of the physical diary is permeated with the digital principles. As for the sense of slowness and disconnection, it does not come from any fixed materiality of paper and pen, but is produced by a series of technological and cultural operations under the logic of hypermediacy.Less
As a form of anti-mediatization movement, the call for “slow media” gains its popularity in many societies. How exactly are “slow media” different and disconnected from the digital media? Where is the sense of slowness and disconnection from? This chapter uses a case in the context of contemporary China to interrogate these questions: shouzhang (手账), a form of diary keeping turning back to pen and paper and performed by many Chinese millennials. Based on the investigations of both the products and users, it demonstrates that doing shouzhang in today’s China involves a media ensemble that goes far beyond the physical diary and stationery, such that digital media play a constitutional role. Even the design of the physical diary is permeated with the digital principles. As for the sense of slowness and disconnection, it does not come from any fixed materiality of paper and pen, but is produced by a series of technological and cultural operations under the logic of hypermediacy.