Afterword

2019 ◽  
pp. 229-238
Author(s):  
Carole M. Cusack ◽  
Massimo Leone ◽  
Jeffrey Sconce
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Film And Media Studies ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Media And Communication ◽  
The Relationship

In this afterword, three leading scholars, whose work explores the intersections of media, communication, and religion from different viewpoints, enter in dialog on the subject. Carole Cusack is a historian of religion and the author of groundbreaking works about the relationship between religion, imagination, and popular culture. Massimo Leone is a semiologist whose work has stretched the boundaries between the study of religion and the study of signs, both linguistic and nonlinguistic. Jeffrey Sconce is a scholar in film and media studies whose pioneering monograph, Haunted Media (2000), placed the theme of the supernatural at the forefront of studies in media and communication. Their responses provide a map of potential trajectories to further explore the connections between digital media and the supernatural.

scholarly journals REVIEW: Valiant on digital media, lacking on indigeneity

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 209
Author(s):  
James Hollings
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Journalism Studies ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Oxford University Press

Media and Journalism: New Approaches to Theory and Practice [3rd ed.], edited by Jason Bainbridge, Nicola Goc and Liz Tynan. Melbourne: Oxford University Press., 2015. 504 pp. ISBN 9-780-1955-8801-9.THIS IS an updated version of a well-established media text by three prominent Australian media academics. Like the first edition, it is aimed at beginner media studies students, providing them with a basic introduction to media, communication, journalism studies and public relations concepts, all in a friendly, informal tone.

scholarly journals Topophilia and Place Experience

Anekumene ◽  
2011 ◽  
pp. 8-13
Author(s):  
Yi-Fu Tuan
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Education ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Cultural Dimension ◽  
Geographic Space ◽  
Regional Dynamics ◽  
Place Experience ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Media And Communication ◽  
Geographical Space

Academic spaces of Regional Dynamics and Semiotics and Aesthetic Thought, developed under the program of Bachelor in Elementary Education with Emphasis on Social Sciences of Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas and the Research Geopaideia Group, interested in providing valuable elements in the discussion around current forms as geographical space is revealed and taught in our societies and educational contexts, especially in a teacher training program, it makes a bid to create a space for dialogue, taking advantage of recent digital media and communication, with experts in concepts and diverse epistemologies about geographic space and its significance in the world of life: it is how it is possible to consolidate an encounter with the teacher - Yi Fu Tuan. This meeting was primarily a time to explore emotional responses and for personal, academic and research enrichment full of opportunities for talking to and from the knowledge of Professor Tuan, about space issues. The work of Professor Tuan, widely known to geographers, geography teachers and those interested in related issues has provided in recent decades valuable items for the understanding, study, research and experience of space from other possibilities in which the subject is a main character. The Group Geopaideia aims to provide references for reflection in order to transform the traditional conception of geography in school that locates it only as a science for the enumeration and description of the biophysical phenomena on Earth’s surface, being the geography neglected and marginalized as a task of just mechanical memorization of dates and locations forgetting its core of study which is the geographical and socio-cultural dimension.

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.

Nosthetics: Instagram poetry and the convergence of digital media and literature

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-163
Author(s):  
Tanja Grubnic
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Entry Point ◽  
Original Definition ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Relationship

This article considers the proliferation of nostalgic aesthetics in Instagram poetry (‘instapoetry’). Though often overlooked, the relationship between the platform and the poetry itself is a vibrant entry point into debates about the handwritten, analogue and vintage styles of instapoetry. Connecting modernist and postmodernist arguments about nostalgia, this article provides a critical and conceptual lens with which to analyse the visual aspects of nostalgic aesthetics – referred to as ‘nosthetics’ – characteristic of instapoetry, investigating how and why the genre impersonates the pre-digital, analogue past. Combining scholarship on platforms, nostalgia and instapoetry shows how the concept of nosthetics can be used as a framework for literary and visual analysis of instapoetry. The theoretical framework proposed recommends three developments for those researching nostalgic aesthetics in instapoetry. First, greater attention should be paid to the platform. Second, engagement with scholarship on popular culture and nostalgia is needed. Finally, it is insightful to return to the notion of space at the heart of Johannes Hofer's original definition of nostalgia.

Touch, Time and Technics

2009 ◽  
Vol 26 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 330-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dave Boothroyd
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Contemporary Life ◽  
Communication Environments ◽  
Media Environments ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Ethical Significance

The development of immersive media-communication environments, and their theorization in terms of the `haptic', calls for a reconsideration of the relationship between sensuality and the ethics of contact. For the most part, the cultural theorization of the virtual which remains preoccupied with the visual has tended to limit its scope to the paradoxes, politics and ethics of representation. Much of media and cultural studies work, for instance, has adopted, directly or indirectly, the traditional visual and ocularcentric paradigm in its analyses of cultural forms and technologies as these have become integrated into contemporary life. Whilst it has been argued, for instance by Mark Hansen in his recent books, that this paradigm is inadequate to digital media and the developments of human-machine interactions the digital introduces, few comentators have addressed how new developments in immersive sensory media environments bear on the ethics of communication. By way of a reflection on the themes of the tactility of contact and the ethics of touch in the work of Emmanuel Levinas, this article critically evaluates the ethical significance of the `sensory extension' haptic media represent. It identifies and argues against the neo-positivist tendency of Hansen's reliance on the empiricism of the neurosciences whilst locating the resources for an ethics of touch in Levinas' concept of time as `diachrony'.

Geographies of media and communication I

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 365-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul C. Adams
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Progress Report ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Metaphysical Question ◽  
Media And Communication

Media and communication are attracting increasing amounts of attention from geographers but the work remains disorganized and lacks a unifying paradigm. This progress report suggests a new paradigm for geographical studies of media and communication and indicates how recent research fits under this umbrella. The report presents recent studies of literature, film and television, digital media, photography, comics, stamps and banknotes. The range of theoretical concerns in this body of work includes performance, agency, materiality, immateriality, networks, politics, emotions and affect. Collectively, these concerns point to communications not merely as transmissions through infrastructure, space and time, but rather as encounters between various human and nonhuman agents. The metaphysical question is exactly what such encounters do to participants – how agents are transformed by other agents’ communications. This leads to synthesis in a new paradigm for media/communication geography: the metaphysics of encounter.

scholarly journals Musik og design. Phil spector og lydfladens medialisering

2011 ◽  
Vol 39 (111) ◽  
pp. 127-149
Author(s):  
Ulrik Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Sound Production ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Sound Design ◽  
Sound Recording ◽  
Musical Sound ◽  
Music Production ◽  
General Investigation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Relationship

MUSIC AND DESIGN. PHIL SPECTOR AND SOUNDSCAPES MEDIATIZATIONPhil Spector is often referred to as one of history’s first true music producers, and his famed ‘Wall of Sound’ has been the model for many future musical productions. However, Spector’s productions can also be seen as an early manifestation, among others, of a much more general change in the auditory popular culture around 1960 away from the conventional approach to musicalsound as something that depends primarily on a musical performance and secondarily its technical reproduction S towards a conception of music as a form of design. Hence, Spector’s productions make a favorable material for a more general investigation of the relationship between music and design. Despite the rather extensive literature on Spector and his music, and on sound recording and sound production in general, the different aspects of Spector’s design have not yet been the subject of a broader phenomenological and aesthetic investigation. “Music and Design” explores the key elements in Spector’s musical project through an analysis of his use of repetition, accumulation and synthetized sound in hit recordings such as He’s a Rebel (1962) and Be My Baby (1963). It is argued that Spector’s productions are basically characterized by a displacement of the auditory focus from external media conditions, to musical sound as simultaneously a more synthetic and mediatized as well as moremassive and ‘massified’ soundscape. This mediatization of the soundscape would later constitute a predominant aesthetic model not only in current music production, but in modern sound design in general.

scholarly journals Interrelation of Communication Subjects: the degree of trust to the source of information

Communicology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 181-190
Author(s):  
P. Yu. Simonov
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Present Stage ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Communicative Act ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Source Of Information

The paper is devoted to the issues of interrelations between subjects of communication. The aim of the study is to analyze the role of trust in the source of information as a factor in effective communication. The objectives of the research are to differentiate the environmental and subjective approaches to the study of communication, to identify models of the communicative act at the present stage, to determine the principles of the relationship between the subjects of communication, to describe the factors that affect the degree of trust in the source of information, to develop criteria for studying the subject and his behavior in the communication process at the present stage. The research methodology includes a descriptive and survey method in the study of the theory of the issue, analysis and comparison of concepts from the point of view of philosophy, sociology, communication, psychology. The author examines the criteria for determining the “subject”, “subjectivity”, the psychological phenomenon of “trust” in the process of implementing media communication. The article describes various aspects of communicative relations related to the degree of subjects’ trust in the source of information and gives practical examples of the behavior of subjects of communication.

scholarly journals Media Ecology – (Un)necessary Research Perspective in Communication and Media Studies

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Laskowska ◽  
Krzysztof Marcyński
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Media Ecology ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Research Perspective ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
Research Goal ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Media And Communication

<p>The aim of this review and theoretical study is to determine the importance of media ecology theory for communication and media studies. Bearing in mind this research goal, the following research questions were asked: What is the media ecology theory? What approach to media and communication research does it represent? What research perspectives are proposed in the field of media ecology? What new can media ecology bring to communication and media studies? An additional objective of the article, and, at the same, time the intention of the authors, is to raise the interest of Polish researchers in the subject of media ecology and its various aspects, enriching research in the field of communication and media studies.</p>

scholarly journals DAILY OBJECTS AND POPULAR CULTURE IMAGERIES IN DAVID HOCKNEY’S WORKS

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (60) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Andy Warhol ◽  
Art Works ◽  
Research Problems ◽  
The Subject ◽  
David Hockney ◽  
The Relationship

The aim of this research is to investigate the reasons why David Hockney addresses daily objects in his works. At the same time, it aims to reveal the nature of the relationship between popular culture and daily objects. Thus, the types of differences between Hockney and his contemporaries will be identified; while determining how pop artists reflect popular culture on their works. The scope of the research includes an analysis of David Hockney’s works. By including works from artists such as Henri Mattise, Andy Warhol, and Fikret Mualla; their relation to the subject has been presented. The subject of this research bears importance in terms of providing a criticism of current issues that are based on daily objects in art. Therefore, the research is divided into artists and eras that can serve as a reference for daily objects and popular culture imageries. The research problems can be listed as: what are the characteristics that separate David Hockney from his contemporaries, why does David Hockney require daily objects in his art works? What is the nature of the relationship between daily objects and popular culture? Are daily objects in art a product of popular culture? In what context do the works of Hockney and Matisse show similarities? What is the connection between daily objects and Duchamp? Are daily objects in art a critique of modern art? It is expected that the answers to all these questions will shed a light on popular culture imageries and art today, along with David Hockney’s works. Thus, once more, this study intends to create awareness to the association of “art and life,” which is frequently used alongside modernism. Keywords: Popular culture imageries, daily objects, David Hockney, mass culture, art and life

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