Editor's introduction: Psychology of Popular Media Culture.

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 137-137
Author(s):  
James C. Kaufman ◽  
Joanne Broder Sumerson
Keyword(s):  
Popular Media ◽  
Media Culture

Preschool children’s play and alignments in a bracketed framing of a music-technological breakdown

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-142
Author(s):  
Pernilla Lagerlöf ◽  
Louise Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Music Technology ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Children's Play ◽  
Experimental Activity ◽  
Children’S Play

Music technologies are becoming important in children's play in everyday life, but research on children's communication and interaction in such activities is still scarce. This study examines three children's social interaction in an 'experimental' activity in preschool, when the music technology breaks down. Detailed analysis is carried out by using a Goffmanian approach. The findings illustrate the children's interpretive framings of the adult's introduction and their orientation to the technological material in order to perform different alignments and how they change footings. The children's social interaction is organised according to the playful framing of the bracketed activity. This suggests the significance to pay attention to children's definitions of situations and to consider children's experiences of participation in popular media culture.

Editors' introduction: Psychology of Popular Media Culture.

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-71
Author(s):  
James C. Kaufman ◽  
Joanne Broder Sumerson
Keyword(s):  
Popular Media ◽  
Media Culture

Home Musical Environment of Children in Singapore

2008 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chee-Hoo Lum
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Classroom Practices ◽  
Peer Groups ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Musical Play ◽  
The Media ◽  
Home Musical Environment

The home musical environments of a class of 28 first-grade children in Singapore were examined in this ethnographic study. Technology was an integral part of the soundscape in the home. The musical repertoire gathered was closely associated with electronic and pop-influenced music, approaching the styles favored by teens and adults. Particular musical styles and selections that the families listened to and watched through the media also fueled these children with a sense of ethnic identity and nostalgia. Children's popular media culture was part of these children's broader social repertoire, creating a shared frame of reference for their musical play and generating cultural capital that was valued within their peer groups. Consideration of the various contexts in which these children learn about music, where their musical identities are being shaped under the influences of their techno-, media-, and ethnoscapes (dimensions proposed by Arjun Appadurai), has implications for music education classroom practices.

scholarly journals Originality, imitation and plagiarism: Teaching writing in the digital age

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Walker
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Fair Use ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Online Research ◽  
Student Writers ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Writing Standards

At one stage in the anthology Originality, imitation and plagiarism: Teaching writing in the digital age, it is pointed out that students 'worry' about plagiarism in the same way that they worry about engaging in file-sharing or illegally downloading software. That is – they don't. The attendant risks of getting caught or becoming vulnerable to a computer virus are recognised as the potential bad outcomes, but have become steadily normalised. This analogy, with its viral undertones, nicely expresses the quandary at the heart of a discussion of students' writing in the digital age, where the expanded possibilities of online research seem to not only model but to openly invite copying practices. It is increasingly difficult for student writers to negotiate the competing pressures of popular media culture, which actively complicate the concepts of originality and imitation, and the pedagogical directives to avoid plagiarism in their academic work. The issue is not as clear cut as some plagiarism policies might suggest, as the complexities of fair use and copyright of online material are being debated both in and out of the academy. This anthology explores the blurred lines of the often confusing and contradictory approaches to writing in the digital age, with individual essays addressing– through a range of disciplines and technologies – the central question of how ethical research and writing standards and practices can be fostered while simultaneously taking advantage of the opportunities provided by new technologies. View the PDF for the full review

scholarly journals Invective Form in Popular Media Culture: Genre – Mode – Affordance

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-36
Author(s):  
Katja Kanzler
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Way

Abstract The following article outlines a way to conceptualize invective form in popular culture that is particularly interested in accommodating the range, fluidity, and slipperiness that define pop-cultural invectivity. It is an approach that draws on one very well-established concept of formal criticism – that of mode – and one concept that has recently been brought to the fold of formalist inquiry – that of affordance. I will argue that conceiving of invective form in popular culture as a mode and as an affordance allows to address the diversity and range of external forms by which pop-cultural invectivity operates. In addition, it brings into focus the fluidity that marks the repertoire of invective popular culture, its paradoxical tendency to gravitate toward routinization in more set conventions, only to conspicuously push against these conventions’ boundaries. Finally, to conceive of the invective valence of the mode’s repertoire not as a fixed property but as an affordance helps talk about the volatility and dynamism of invective performances in popular culture, the way in which their invective effects are contingent on the social positionality from and for which they realized, and the way in which their invective valence is open for resignification.

scholarly journals A Different Shade of Pink: Literary Thresholds and Cultural Intersections in Italian Chick Lit

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Federica Balducci
Keyword(s):  
Popular Fiction ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
White Middle Class ◽  
Feminist Theories ◽  
Worldwide Phenomenon ◽  
Chick Lit ◽  
Anglo American

<p>This thesis investigates the Italian production of chick lit, a particular segment of contemporary women’s popular fiction developed in the mid 1990s in Anglophone countries. A worldwide phenomenon born out of Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary (1996) and the HBO TV show Sex and the City (1998), chick lit novels portray the professional, emotional and sentimental anxieties of white, middle-class, heterosexual and financially independent women in a witty and humorous tone. The arrival of chick lit and its successful translation into Italian in the late 1990s has prompted many local writers to engage with the genre, but the growing body of chick lit written in Italian and its place in the cultural and literary landscape have yet to be assessed. This thesis explores recurring themes, narrative strategies and stylistic features deployed in Italian chick lit novels not only against their Anglo-American models, but also in relation to Western popular media culture and the Italian tradition of romanzo rosa, its cultures and practices as well as its legacy. It shows the presence of distinct intertextual patterns in dealing with key generic features, such as the identification with the female protagonist and her journey toward self-empowerment, the relationship with consumerism and popular media culture, and the humorous style. This thesis also assesses the nature of chick lit as both a literary genre and a sociocultural phenomenon across countries and languages through theoretical perspectives of cultural studies and feminist theories on women’s popular culture and Western popular postfeminism.</p>

Writings on Media

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Hall
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
The State ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
The Political ◽  
News Photography ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Politics Of Race ◽  
Changing Role

Writings on Media gathers more than twenty of Stuart Hall's media analyses, from scholarly essays such as “Encoding and Decoding in the Television Discourse” (1973) to other writings addressed to wider publics. Hall explores the practices of news photography, the development of media and cultural studies, the changing role of television, and how the nation imagines itself through popular media. He attends to Britain's imperial history and the politics of race and cultural identity as well as the media's relationship to the political project of the state. Testifying to the range and agility of Hall's critical and pedagogic engagement with contemporary media culture—and also to his collaborative mode of working—this volume reaffirms his stature as an innovative media theorist while demonstrating the continuing relevance of his methods of analysis.

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