We Are All Art Historians Now: Teaching Media Studies and/as Cultural Studies

2019 ◽  
pp. 57-75
Author(s):  
Toby Miller
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Art Historians

scholarly journals ‘I realised then how “Parisian” Egypt was’: challenges and rewards of de-westernising travel journalism

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (8) ◽  
pp. 1151-1166
Author(s):  
Andrew Duffy
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
The West ◽  
Travel And Tourism ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Newspaper Articles

Bypassing the dominant Western bias in journalism scholarship is a challenge; it raises the question of what might replace it. Similarly, to evade the Western post-imperialism orthodoxies recurrent in cultural studies scholarship into travel and tourism would require other perspectives. This study combines the two and attempts to circumvent the Western bias in scholarship on travel journalism, given that its constituent parts are – for different reasons – becoming de-centred from the West. Textual analysis of Singaporean newspaper articles in Mandarin and English shows that questions of privilege and power remain but need not be associated with narratives of post-imperialism. Instead, destinations are textually constructed to justify the writer’s decision to travel. The intention for this article is to suggest ways that dominant Western perspectives in media studies may be balanced by other viewpoints which still expose issues of power and privilege but offer a less hegemonic, more culturally neutral starting point

The Australian journalism vs cultural studies debate: implications for South African media studies

Communicatio ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyan Tomaselli ◽  
Arnold Shepperson
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
South African ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
African Media

Fighting for the Future

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Star Trek ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
The Political ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The Moment

The first two seasons of the television series Star Trek: Discovery, the newest instalment in the long-running and influential Star Trek franchise, received media and academic attention from the moment they arrived on screen. Discovery makes several key changes to Star Trek’s well-known narrative formulae, particularly the use of more serialized storytelling, appealing to audiences’ changed viewing habits in the streaming age – and yet the storylines, in their topical nature and the broad range of socio-political issues they engage with, continue in the political vein of the franchise’s megatext. This volume brings together eighteen essays and one interview about the series, with contributions from a variety of disciplines including cultural studies, literary studies, media studies, fandom studies, history and political science. They explore representations of gender, sexuality and race, as well as topics such as shifts in storytelling and depictions of diplomacy. Examining Discovery alongside older entries into the Star Trek canon and tracing emerging continuities and changes, this volume will be an invaluable resource for all those interested in Star Trek and science fiction in the franchise era.

Walter J. Ong, Orality and Literacy (1982)

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 431-439
Author(s):  
Stephen Best
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Historical Change ◽  
Walter Ong ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

Walter Ong published Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word in 1982, synthesizing his career-long concern with the impact of the shift from orality to literacy on various cultures. Scholars of African American literary and cultural studies were coming to redefine their field around the terms orality and literacy at around the same time that Ong published his book; but where Ong stressed historical change or the fall from orality to literacy, African Americanists tended to accent their mutual mediation. This article explores the way that African Americanists, in stressing mediation, return orality and literacy to the concerns of Ong’s ostensible field: media studies.

Chinese Media Studies from an Inter-Asian Perspective

2011 ◽  
Vol 138 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-136
Author(s):  
Olivia Khoo
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Chinese Media ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
The Future

This article interrogates what might be considered specifically ‘Chinese’ about Chinese media studies. Examining Chinese media studies from the complementary perspectives of Inter-Asian cultural studies and diasporic interventions into Chinese media, the article seeks to define (and to extend) the current limits of the field as it has emerged in both teaching and research. In doing so, it considers what has hitherto constituted the ‘legitimate’ object of Chinese media studies and asks what might be encompassed by this field in the future as it continues to grow.

Erwin Panofsky and the Renascence of the Renaissance

1994 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl Landauer
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Nazi Germany ◽  
German Culture ◽  
Western Literature ◽  
Native Culture ◽  
Art Historians ◽  
Erwin Panofsky

It has long been understood that historians, literary critics, and art historians who write about past cultures use those cultures for present purposes, whether by turning Periclean Athens into an ideal for present-day America or the fall of the Roman empire into an ominous signal for modern empires. German humanists who sought refuge from Nazi Germany had, however, special reasons to use their cultural studies as a strategy of escape. Erich Auerbach in exile in Istanbul and Ernst Robert Curtius in “inner exile” in Bonn provided narratives of European literary history that minimized the contribution of their native culture, and in so reworking the narrative of Western literature, they were able to reshape their own identities. Their reconstructions of past cultures can thus be read as attempts at self-reconstruction. Ultimately, however, the attempt by such scholars to distance themselves from German culture often faltered on the very Germanness of their cultural reconstructions.

Technological Materiality And Assumptions About ‘Active’ Human Agency

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grant Bollmer
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Human Agency ◽  
Media Audiences ◽  
Active Audience ◽  
Real People ◽  
Material Agency ◽  
Methodological Reflection ◽  
Infrastructural Power

Abstract One of the most notable challenges to emerge from the materialist turn in media studies is the rejection of the ‘active audience’ paradigm of British cultural studies. And yet, in spite of the increasing attention to materiality, many of the problems associated with the split between German media studies traditions and those derived from cultural studies persist today. While no longer concerned with representation, privilege is nonetheless often granted to the material agency of ‘real people’ as that which shapes and determines the materiality of technology. This article is primarily a theoretical and methodological reflection on how materiality challenges - but sometimes relies on - long standing and often veiled traditions from cultural studies, especially as they move out of academic discussion and into the popular imaginary of social media and its ‘usergenerated content.’ I focus on some deliberate attempts at excluding materiality found in cultural studies’ history, arguing that an emphasis on the agency of ‘real people’ can only happen through the deliberate erasure of the materiality of technology. Drawing on Ien Ang’s Desperately Seeking the Audience (1991), which argued that television ‘audiences’ must themselves be understood as produced in relation to the demands and interests of broadcasting institutions, I suggest that digital media ‘audiences’ are produced in relationship to the infrastructural power of servers, algorithms, and software. This demonstrates that any attempt to identify ‘human agency’ must also look at how this agency is co-produced with and by technological materiality.

Media Technologies in Communication and Critical Cultural Studies

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ned O'Gorman
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Machine Learning ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Cultural Processes ◽  
The Relationship

Media technologies are at the heart of media studies in communication and critical cultural studies. They have been studied in too many ways to count and from a wide variety of perspectives. Yet fundamental questions about media technologies—their nature, their scope, their power, and their place within larger social, historical, and cultural processes—are often approached by communication and critical cultural scholars only indirectly. A survey of 20th- and 21st-century approaches to media technologies shows communication and critical cultural scholars working from, for, or against “deterministic” accounts of the relationship between media technologies and social life through “social constructivist” understandings to “networked” accounts where media technologies are seen embedding and embedded within socio-material structures, practices, and processes. Recent work on algorithms, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and platforms, together with their manifestations in the products and services of monopolistic corporations like Facebook and Google, has led to new concerns about the totalizing power of digital media over culture and society.

Is it ‘the economy, stupid’? Economic relations and cultural studies: Some reflections on Jim McGuigan’s Cultural Populism

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 932-952
Author(s):  
Garry Whannel
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Personal Communication ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Political Analysis ◽  
Socialist Politics ◽  
Syllabus Analysis

This article argues that in the development of media studies and cultural studies, a gap opened between textual analysis and political economy that became a damaging schism. The roots of the schism between the economic and the cultural lie in the growing influence of French structuralism, and post-structuralism from the late 1960s onwards. Jim McGuigan’s book, Cultural Populism, appeared at a time when socialist politics, political analysis and cultural theory were, both together and separately, in a degree of flux, self-reflection and loss of direction. This article outlines the nature of the split between emphasis on the cultural and the economic, the ways in which it continues to mark the field and the importance of continuing to try and hold the two together in the analytic frame. Methodologically, this article involves analysis of Cultural Populism and utilises document and archive searching, interviews, syllabus analysis and personal communication.

Reflexionen über Wiederholung

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Heiko Christians
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Combination Strategies

Der Aufsatz fragt am Beispiel von Tucholskys Pyrenäenbuch von 1927 nach den Möglichkeiten disziplinärer Zuständigkeiten und methodisch gesteuerter Interpretationen im Feld der Kulturwissenschaft. Gibt im Falle des Pyrenäenbuchs die aus Sicht der Medienwissenschaft avancierte Kombinatorik von Text und Photographie die Auslegung vor oder lässt sich jenseits dieser etablierten medienwissenschaftlichen Theorie-Topik dem Text selbst noch ein anderer konkurrenzfähiger Auslegungshorizont abgewinnen? Gelesen im Umfeld von Arnold Gehlens Reflexionen über Gewohnheit (1927) und Walter Benjamins Kunstwerk-Aufsatz wird Tucholskys Reisebuch lesbar als aktualisierte Kierkegaard-Lektüre und damit als systematische Abhandlung über mediale Gebrauchsweisen und Praktiken im Zeichen der Wiederholung. </br></br>Drawing upon the example of Tucholsky's 1927 [Book of the Pyrenees], the paper inquires into the possibilities of disciplinary competences and methodology-driven interpretations in the field of cultural studies. It asks whether in the case of the , the combination strategies of text and photography necessarily predetermine the interpretation, or whether there are other competitive horizons of interpretation beyond this wellestablished theoretical topos of media studies. If it is read in the context of Arnold Gehlen's 1927 [Reflections on habit] and Walter Benjamin's , Tucholsky's [Book/journal of voyages] presents itself as an contemporary reading of Kierkegaard and thus as a systematic discussion of medial usages and practices under the sign of repetition.

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