Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 203-212
Author(s):  
Michelle Hilmes
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
San Diego ◽  
Methodological Nationalism ◽  
Cultural Proximity

This work introduces the chapters (10–14) that analyze transatlantic television’s audiences and fans. It considers debates regarding transnational/transcultural TV distribution and consumption, highlighting issues such as binge watching and piracy. Following Joseph Straubhaar, it argues that the “cultural proximity” of US/UK audiences cannot be treated as objective and can in fact be modified by cultural capital. Such variations in transatlantic TV consumption suggest a need to break with “methodological nationalism,” and the piece concludes by engaging with recent work on transatlantic TV and audiences that has begun to do this, such as Elke Weissmann on TV crime shows. It then sets up each of the following fan/audience-focused chapters, ranging from Black Mirror fans on Reddit to “quality” US TV drama covered via the Guardian media blog, and then from British TV brands at San Diego Comic-Con to fanfiction’s engagement with national-cultural “nitpicking,” and the transcultural fan creation of SuperWhoLock.

NAMING THE ROMAN STARS: CONSTELLATION ETYMOLOGIES IN CICERO'S ARATEA AND DE NATVRA DEORVM

2016 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-171
Author(s):  
Caroline Bishop
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Sense Of Control ◽  
Greek Culture ◽  
The Way

Modern readings of Cicero's reception of Greek culture tend to reflect the way we frame the larger question of Roman reception of Greek culture. In the nineteenth century, and indeed well into the twentieth, when Hellenism was in the ascendant and Latin awarded a decidedly second place, Cicero was often read as a slavish copyist in thrall to the Greek classics. Recent work, however, has emphasized Cicero's sense of control over and entitlement to the cultural capital of this conquered province, and his manipulation of it in ways that position Rome (and himself) as a cultural and intellectual rival to Greece.

What does that shirt mean to you? Thrift-store consumption as cultural capital

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 457-477 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelly Steward
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ethnographic Observation ◽  
Symbolic Meanings ◽  
Symbolic Value ◽  
Other Consumers

Recent work shows cultural capital taking increasingly vague and embodied forms. Attitudes and understandings of “creativity” and “authenticity,” for example, hold more symbolic value than any particular objects. How are these culturally valuable understandings defined and transmitted? This project examines thrift-store shopping to show how symbolic meanings are defined and employed as a form of embodied cultural capital. Ethnographic observation and interviews with shoppers at thrift stores in Portland, Oregon, reveal competing symbolic understandings among two groups of consumers. One group, the “thrift-seekers,” is motivated by a desire to find bargains. Members of this group describe their consumption as a game in which they are able to compete with other consumers. The other group, the “creativists,” comes from a more privileged background and is motivated by a rejection of conventional stores. They describe their consumption as an exercise of creativity through which they establish superiority over other consumers. Each group implicates the other as it constructs its narrative of consumption. Outside of the thrift store, the creativists employ their narratives of creativity as a form of cultural capital, giving them status in relation to similarly privileged peers. This project illustrates the embodied nature of contemporary cultural capital and shows how classes implicate one another in definitions of it. Furthermore, it demonstrates how thrift stores hold particular significance as sites in which embodied cultural capital is defined.

scholarly journals NOTES ON SOME SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAN ORTHOPTERA

1902 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 141-146
Author(s):  
James A. G. Rehn
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
San Diego ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Academy Of Natural Sciences

The following specimens were collected at San Diego. California,during the year 1901 by Mr. G. W. Dunn, and are now in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. The terms used in the descriptions are those adopted by Comstock and Kellogg in their recent work, “Elements of Insect Anatomy”.

scholarly journals Class, pay TV access and Netflix in Latin America: Transformation within a digital divide

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-254
Author(s):  
Joseph D Straubhaar ◽  
Deborah Castro ◽  
Luiz Guilherme Duarte ◽  
Jeremiah Spence
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Digital Divide ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Satellite Television ◽  
Cultural Proximity ◽  
Latin American Region ◽  
Pay Tv ◽  
Cultural Discount

In the context of international flows of media products, this article offers an exploration of pay TV and the prospects for streaming television usage in the Latin American region. Based on audience preference data gathered by Kantar Media, the article offers an overview of how the pre-Netflix era looked like in the region. Drawing on the theories of cultural proximity and cultural discount, our results suggest that the international nature of Netflix programming is of particular interest and appeal among the upper middle class and elite, who have the cultural capital to enjoy and appreciate it. The findings also indicate that access to streaming television is hampered by a new digital divide, based in both age or generation, class and geography, which will limit the extent to which services like Netflix will disrupt broadcast and cable/satellite television.

Introduction: Poetry, Popularity and the Periodical Press

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Caley Ehnes
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Periodical Press ◽  
Victorian Poetry ◽  
Poetry And Poetics ◽  
Middlebrow Culture

Using the publication of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s ‘L. E. L.’s Last Question’ in the Ladies’ Pocket Magazine as a case study, this chapter establishes the central premise of the book: periodical contexts are crucial to the study of Victorian poetry and poetics. From there, it provides an overview of recent work on periodical culture and poetry, including that by Kirstie Blair, Natalie Houston, Linda Hughes, Kathryn Ledbetter, and Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, as well as theories of cultural production and form, focusing on Pierre Bourdieu’s notions of cultural capital and middlebrow culture, and Caroline Levine’s recent work on form and its affordances.

What sentimentalists should say about emotion

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlie Kurth
Keyword(s):  
Moral Judgment ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Moral Cognition ◽  
Multilevel Structure

Abstract Recent work by emotion researchers indicates that emotions have a multilevel structure. Sophisticated sentimentalists should take note of this work – for it better enables them to defend a substantive role for emotion in moral cognition. Contra May's rationalist criticisms, emotions are not only able to carry morally relevant information, but can also substantially influence moral judgment and reasoning.

The Sun as a Magnetic Star

1976 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 457-463
Author(s):  
John M. Wilcox ◽  
Leif Svalgaard
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Rotation Axis ◽  
Polar Field ◽  
Magnetic Star ◽  
Rotational Axis ◽  
Field Variation ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Arbitrary Angle ◽  
Solar Magnetism ◽  
Oblique Rotator

SummaryThe sun as a magnetic star is described on the basis of recent work on solar magnetism. Observations at an arbitrary angle to the rotation axis would show a 22-year polar field variation and a 25-day equatorial sector variation. The sector variation would be similar to an oblique rotator with an angle of 90° between the magnetic and rotational axis.

Microstructural comparison of synthetic bioceramics with natural bioceramics

1991 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 38-39
Author(s):  
Shulin Wen ◽  
Jingwei Feng ◽  
A. Krajewski ◽  
A. Ravaglioli
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Human Tissues ◽  
Main Constituent ◽  
Laboratory Furnace ◽  
Chinese Adult ◽  
Human Enamel ◽  
Biological Compatibility ◽  
Synthetic Hydroxyapatite ◽  
Synthetic Work

Hydroxyapatite bioceramics has attracted many material scientists as it is the main constituent of the bone and the teeth in human body. The synthesis of the bioceramics has been performed for years. Nowadays, the synthetic work is not only focused on the hydroapatite but also on the fluorapatite and chlorapatite bioceramics since later materials have also biological compatibility with human tissues; and they may also be very promising for clinic purpose. However, in comparison of the synthetic bioceramics with natural one on microstructure, a great differences were observed according to our previous results. We have investigated these differences further in this work since they are very important to appraise the synthetic bioceramics for their clinic application.The synthetic hydroxyapatite and chlorapatite were prepared according to A. Krajewski and A. Ravaglioli and their recent work. The briquettes from different hydroxyapatite or chlorapatite powders were fired in a laboratory furnace at the temperature of 900-1300°C. The samples of human enamel selected for the comparison with synthetic bioceramics were from Chinese adult teeth.

Substrate specificity and inducibility of TACE (tumour necrosis factor α-converting enzyme) revisited: the Ala-Val preference, and induced intrinsic activity

2003 ◽  
Vol 70 ◽  
pp. 39-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy A. Black ◽  
John R. Doedens ◽  
Rajeev Mahimkar ◽  
Richard Johnson ◽  
Lin Guo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Substrate Specificity ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Tumour Necrosis Factor ◽  
Tumour Necrosis ◽  
Transforming Growth Factor ◽  
Intrinsic Activity ◽  
Converting Enzyme ◽  
Tumour Necrosis Factor Α ◽  
Factor Α ◽  
Necrosis Factor

Tumour necrosis factor α (TNFα)-converting enzyme (TACE/ADAM-17, where ADAM stands for a disintegrin and metalloproteinase) releases from the cell surface the extracellular domains of TNF and several other proteins. Previous studies have found that, while purified TACE preferentially cleaves peptides representing the processing sites in TNF and transforming growth factor α, the cellular enzyme nonetheless also sheds proteins with divergent cleavage sites very efficiently. More recent work, identifying the cleavage site in the p75 TNF receptor, quantifying the susceptibility of additional peptides to cleavage by TACE and identifying additional protein substrates, underlines the complexity of TACE-substrate interactions. In addition to substrate specificity, the mechanism underlying the increased rate of shedding caused by agents that activate cells remains poorly understood. Recent work in this area, utilizing a peptide substrate as a probe for cellular TACE activity, indicates that the intrinsic activity of the enzyme is somehow increased.

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