Mary and Modern Catholic Material Culture

2019 ◽  
pp. 634-647
Author(s):  
Deirdre de la Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Marian Devotion ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
History Of ◽  
Important Means ◽  
Mediated Images ◽  
Material Religion

This chapter assesses the persistence of material culture in modern Marian devotion, against the backdrop of technological developments in the mass media and in conjunction with a history of modern apparitions. It argues that, despite the ‘virtualization’ of Marian phenomena, iconography, and devotional practice through media such as photography and the internet, the sensuous materiality of objects such as statues, relics, and the rosary still offers an important means through which the faithful experience Mary collectively and phenomenologically. Linking the centrality of material religion in Mary’s cult to theological notions of her corporeal incorruptibility and intercessory power, the chapter presents several cases where both mass and materially mediated images and relics of Mary have been used to propagate devotion to her. The chapter concludes with a discussion of deterritorialized religion in the digital age, arguing that despite the effect of technologies like the internet on Marian devotion and phenomena, Mary’s devotees will still reach for tangible signs of her presence.

Loving Ebola-chan: Internet memes in an epidemic

2016 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivia Rose Marcus ◽  
Merrill Singer
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Structural Approach ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Social Response ◽  
Coping Mechanism ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Fear Response ◽  
Cultural Artifact ◽  
History Of

In this article, the authors provide a layered analysis of Ebola-chan, a visual cultural artifact of the 2014–2015 Ebola outbreak. Rather than considering her as a two-dimensional anime character (i.e. as a simple iconic coping mechanism and/or a fear response), this recent Internet meme is analyzed using an integrated semiotic and structural approach that involves discussion of the genesis of disaster humor in light of the changing world of the Internet, the history of anthropomorphism of disease, and the biosocial nature of an infectious disease epidemic. Our analysis is designed to advance both the anthropology of the Internet and the anthropology of infectious disease. As a multi-vocal symbol with different meanings for different audiences, Ebola-chan represents a social response to a lethal epidemic in the digital age.

scholarly journals Personal networking function of the Internet

Sociologija ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalibor Petrovic
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Interpersonal Interaction ◽  
The Internet ◽  
History Of ◽  
Important Means ◽  
New Form ◽  
Networked Individualism

The aim of the paper is to understand the role of Internet in creating new forms of sociability in the modern society. In the first part the history of social studies of Internet is reviewed, and the conclusion put forward that the anti-social role of the Internet cannot be proved. In the theoretical part of the paper the author presents his idea of two basic roles of Internet as interpersonal interaction tool: transmissional and procreative. These two Internet functions are very important means for reproducing a new form of sociability known as networked individualism.

Seek and Ye Shall Find

2011 ◽  
pp. 740-754 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suely Fragoso
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Search Engine ◽  
Mass Distribution ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
Distribution Model ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Information Distribution ◽  
Distribution Mode ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Web

This chapter proposes that search engines apply a verticalizing pressure on the WWW many-to-many information distribution model, forcing this to revert to a distributive model similar to that of the mass media. The argument for this starts with a critical descriptive examination of the history of search mechanisms for the Internet. Parallel to this there is a discussion of the increasing ties between the search engines and the advertising market. The chapter then presents questions concerning the concentration of traffic on the Web around a small number of search engines which are in the hands of an equally limited number of enterprises. This reality is accentuated by the confidence that users place in the search engine and by the ongoing acquisition of collaborative systems and smaller players by the large search engines. This scenario demonstrates the verticalizing pressure that the search engines apply to the majority of WWW users, that bring it back toward the mass distribution mode.

The Risks and Challenges for Professional Journalism in the Digital Age

2020 ◽  
pp. 106-123
Author(s):  
Siti Nor Amalina Ahmad Tajuddin ◽  
Roslan Ali
Keyword(s):  
Digital Age ◽  
New Age ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Online News ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Technological Determinism ◽  
News Production ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Media Professionals

The Internet is a modern Pandora's Box which has exceptionally altered the way we disseminate and receive information messages, particularly news. Despite technological innovations being the apex of our history, it is undeniable that they pose new challenges and threats to a different degree. Hence, this study examined the risks and challenges faced by the Malaysian media professionals in this new age and how technological developments had impacted their work. Situated within the framework of the technological determinism theory, this study employed a qualitative semi-structured interview with thirteen (13) Malaysian journalists. This study found several challenges related to the journalists' safety and their professionalism. Media professionals, such as journalists and editors, often caught in a paradoxical and risky situations, which challenge the process of news production and deliverance ethically and legally. Journalists, who participated in this study, were pressured to produce more story ideas and deliver news assignments with shorter deadlines. This not only impacted the online news quality but also the credibility and transparency of the news organization.

Oral History in the Digital Age

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly Schrum ◽  
Sheila Brennan ◽  
James Halabuk ◽  
Sharon Leon ◽  
Tom Scheinfeldt
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
The United States ◽  
Personal History ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Kitchen Table ◽  
History Of

Oral history means many things. It is a record of oral tradition, compiled of stories handed down from one generation to the next, as well as the recording of personal history or experiences. It can involve a formal interview examining a particular topic, such as the history of the space telescope, or a moment in time, such as the partial meltdown at the Three Mile Island commercial nuclear power plant near Middletown, Pennsylvania, on March 28, 1979. A kind of oral history can also occur informally, when family members share stories around a kitchen table or when a high school student interviews his grandmother about immigrating to the United States. The task of categorizing oral history has become even more challenging in the digital age. It is possible to define online oral history, as resources are available via the Internet that are related to the collecting, cataloging, preserving, or sharing of oral history.

scholarly journals Unboxing Childhood: Risk and Responsibility in the Age of YouTube

2021 ◽  
pp. 78-90
Author(s):  
Julie C. Garlen ◽  
Sarah L. Hembruff
Keyword(s):  
Media Literacy ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Moral Panic ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Children’S Agency ◽  
Online Comments ◽  
Critical Media ◽  
History Of

In this article, we look to viewer responses to James Bridle’s TED Talk on children’s YouTube to learn about the discursive landscape of childhood in the digital age. We first situate concerns about children’s use of YouTube within a history of moral panic and then conduct a thematic analysis of online comments to discover what viewers identify as the central concerns. We “unbox” three emergent themes of responsibility—corporate, parental, and societal—to understand how these themes might help us think about contemporary discourses of childhood “at risk,” critical media literacy, and children’s agency as social actors on the Internet.

scholarly journals MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY: DIGITAL OPTIMISTS AND DIGITAL PESSIMISTS

2017 ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Anka Mihajlov Prokopovic
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Pure Form ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Variable Intensity ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Media And Technology ◽  
The Relationship

This work examines the relationship between mass media and digital technology by following McChesney’s argument (2013) that the division on the technological optimists and technological pessimists is gaining in significance again. The debate between these two currents, which has been ongoing since the beginning of the Internet with variable intensity, has enabled many advantages and many disadvantages brought by the digital age is discussed in its “pure form''. The work is conceptualization of the following themes: the nature of the mass media, the characteristics of digital life, citizens' participation in the creation of content on digital platforms and the future of journalism, as they are seen by these two theoretical approaches.

scholarly journals The analysis of functioning of tourist branch in Poland and Ukraine during carrying out Euro-2012 on the basis of the given electronic mass media

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (43) ◽  
pp. 340-345
Author(s):  
U. Lukievič
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Tourist Industry ◽  
Sport Event ◽  
The Public ◽  
International Importance ◽  
History Of ◽  
European Football ◽  
Tourism Activity ◽  
The Given

European Football Championship 2012, which took place in the stadiums of the two countries at the same time namely, - Poland and Ukraine, - was the greatest sport event, which attracted attention of wide social circles. This sports forum is to be classified as a major business project, implemented in time and space in several qualitatively different levels. Among the most important parts of this event, an indicator of tourism activity takes a special place, which is largely influenced by the perception of the international importance of the championship in the public mind. Tourist industry in Poland and Ukraine prepared for the continental championship in an active way, spending the ad campaign to promote their product and seeking out new forms and ways of attracting as many fans as possible from different countries. These efforts have been largely associated with the spread of information on the Internet. Perhaps the Internet facilities have never been used to such an extent before in the history of the major continental sport competitions. Key words: football, championship, EURO-2012, tourism, mass media, Internet.

Sex Differences in Mass Media Preferences Across Four Asian Countries

2011 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 186-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malini Ratnasingam ◽  
Lee Ellis
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sex Differences ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
The United States ◽  
Female Students ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Evolutionary Explanation ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
The World ◽  
Media Preferences

Background. Nearly all of the research on sex differences in mass media utilization has been based on samples from the United States and a few other Western countries. Aim. The present study examines sex differences in mass media utilization in four Asian countries (Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, and Singapore). Methods. College students self-reported the frequency with which they accessed the following five mass media outlets: television dramas, televised news and documentaries, music, newspapers and magazines, and the Internet. Results. Two significant sex differences were found when participants from the four countries were considered as a whole: Women watched television dramas more than did men; and in Japan, female students listened to music more than did their male counterparts. Limitations. A wider array of mass media outlets could have been explored. Conclusions. Findings were largely consistent with results from studies conducted elsewhere in the world, particularly regarding sex differences in television drama viewing. A neurohormonal evolutionary explanation is offered for the basic findings.

Migration and Modernities

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Native Americans ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Racial Categories ◽  
Geographic Boundaries ◽  
The Us ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries

Migration and Modernities recovers a comparative literary history of migration by bringing together scholars from the US and Europe to explore the connections between migrant experiences and the uneven emergence of modernity. The collection initiates transnational, transcultural and interdisciplinary conversations about migration in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, demonstrating how mobility unsettles the geographic boundaries, temporal periodization, and racial categories we often use to organize literary and historical study. Migrants are by definition liminal, and many have existed historically in the spaces between nations, regions or ethnicities. In exploring these spaces, Migration and Modernities also investigates the origins of current debates about belonging, rights, and citizenship. Its chapters traverse the globe, revealing the experiences — real or imagined — of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century migrants, from dispossessed Native Americans to soldiers in South America, Turkish refugees to Scottish settlers. They explore the aesthetic and rhetorical frameworks used to represent migrant experiences during a time when imperial expansion and technological developments made the fortunes of some migrants and made exiles out of others. These frameworks continue to influence the narratives we tell ourselves about migration today and were crucial in producing a distinctively modern subjectivity in which mobility and rootlessness have become normative.

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