From concrete walls to digital walls: transmedia construction of place myth in Ihwa Mural Village, South Korea

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 1326-1342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Youjeong Oh
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Media Representation ◽  
Cultural Economy ◽  
Property Value ◽  
Concrete Walls ◽  
Residential Neighborhood ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One ◽  
Construction Of Place

Media representation is not a neutral site for reflection of reality, but a process through which discourses are constructed and circulated. When presented in media, urban space is re-mediated and its meanings are newly configured. Discursive currents do not simply remain in the media sphere, but reshape the cultural economy of certain places by attracting tourists and inducing property value increases. This article examines the process in which Ihwa Mural Village, a disenfranchised residential neighborhood in South Korea, has become one of the ‘best photo spots’ for tourists through representation via three distinct types of media – murals, popular culture, and Instagram. The analyses focus on the double functions of each medium: branding function to create particular place meanings, on the one hand, and power to create distance between representation and community realities on the other. This dual tendency is reinforced by transmedia dynamics. When featured in diverse media, images of Ihwa Village proliferate, attracting more participants and enabling further transmedia interactions. Yet, transmedia image flows accentuate only visual and aesthetic qualities of place. The expansive and subtractive transmedia construction consolidates the place myth, while the same process advances its detachment from the reality of the place.

scholarly journals Branding Stratford: Social Representation and the Re-making of Place

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Desiderio
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
London 2012 ◽  
Dialectical Process ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Way

As part of the societal world, architecture and urban space do not have any ‘objective’ quality. They are representations. Their meaning is produced through the negotiation and interaction of individuals, groups and classes. Yet, such ‘subjective’ meanings do have a ‘material’ relevance, as they reflect a dialectical process between the functions, forms, ownership and practices of space. They reveal construal and construction: the way in which architectural spaces are represented on the one hand, and the way in which they are physically constructed and used on the other. Nowhere does this become more evident in our current society than in the arguments around urban renewal and regeneration. The Westfield Stratford City is a typical example. Part of the vast process of the urban regeneration of East London prompted by London 2012 Olympic Games, Westfield is a massive complex of luxury shops, restaurants, bars and five star hotels. It is seen by investors and local and national political authorities as capable of transforming Stratford into a site for shopping, tourism and leisure. It does this in numerous ways, one of which involves reconfiguring the image of the region through the press and media - through visual imagery and linguistic manipulations that promote a neoliberal agenda of gentrification that simultaneously devalue the existent societal structures and communities in the area. This paper offers a Critical Discourse Analysis of the manipulation of Stratford’s image by government, business and the media and suggests that the purely financially motivated misrepresentation it reveals, is typical of the urban regeneration ethos at work across the developed world today.

scholarly journals If You Are the One and SBS: the cultural economy of difference

2020 ◽  
Vol 175 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-19
Author(s):  
Wanning Sun ◽  
Jing Han
Keyword(s):  
Soft Power ◽  
Cultural Economy ◽  
Chinese Media ◽  
Industry Studies ◽  
The Media ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Broadcasting Service ◽  
The One ◽  
Fear And Anxiety ◽  
Popular Television

If You Are the One ( IYATO) is China’s most popular television dating show. Since Australia’s Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) bought it 6 years ago, the show has attracted a cult following among English-speaking viewers. SBS subsequently purchased several other Chinese reality shows, and the Seven Network launched its own version of IYATO. But none of these programmes have proven to be as enduringly popular as IYATO. Taking an industry studies approach, this article draws on the inside knowledge of one of the authors, and on interviews with several other SBS employees, to shed light on the media industry’s thinking behind importing cultural products from China, particularly against the backdrop of fear and anxiety about China’s influence. We also ask why IYATO has endeared itself to Australia’s English-speaking viewers in ways that the majority of Chinese media content has not, despite the Chinese government’s myriad soft power initiatives.

scholarly journals Modeling as a Method of Cognition in the Context of the Study of Leaders Representations

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 569-584
Author(s):  
Galina Lazutina ◽  
Chuanzhao Lin ◽  
Olga Smirnova
Keyword(s):  
Political Communication ◽  
Political Leadership ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Media Representation ◽  
Political Leader ◽  
General Description ◽  
Media Presentation ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One ◽  
Main Components

The article raises the problem of creating a theoretical basis for media representation of political leaders’ activities. To substantiate the re­le­vance of the topic, the authors rely, on the one hand, on the importance of such media representation, and on the other hand, on the importance of modeling, a method that has proved to be the best way of cognition and construction of reality in modern science. Modeling makes it possible to make a sign model of the objects of reality. It helps to understand them and to find opportunities for their improvement. This process is extremely important for the development of political communication representation in the media. The authors characterize the essence of modeling as of a scientific method, its principles and algorithms; they highlight its main stages and procedures. They focus on the possibilities the modeling gives when studying political leadership and its media representation. The article gives a general description of this phenomenon, examines its theory, and draws attention to the importance of the synthetic leadership theory and the factors that determine the style of a political leader. The functions of a political leader and the structure of the activities necessary for the implementation of these functions are presented in detail. Political leader’s activity model is developed on these grounds. It includes the main components of the leader’s function, the types of the activities necessary to implement these functions, and the forms of work traditionally used in the practice of political leadership. The model is useful when studying media representation of some specific politicians. The authors suggest methods, as a research tool, that allow getting information about the content, structure and genre of the media presentations. The conclusions emphasize the importance of a journalist’s responsibility in working on a political media presentation, and consider the prospects the modeling has for improvement of media representation practice both in Russia and worldwide.

Murder with Impunity: The Construction of Arab Masculinities and Honor Crimes

1970 ◽  
pp. 38-45
Author(s):  
May Abu Jaber
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Social Boundaries ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One ◽  
Male Authority ◽  
Cultural Networks ◽  
Gender Specific

Violence against women (VAW) continues to exist as a pervasive, structural,systematic, and institutionalized violation of women’s basic human rights (UNDivision of Advancement for Women, 2006). It cuts across the boundaries of age, race, class, education, and religion which affect women of all ages and all backgrounds in every corner of the world. Such violence is used to control and subjugate women by instilling a sense of insecurity that keeps them “bound to the home, economically exploited and socially suppressed” (Mathu, 2008, p. 65). It is estimated that one out of every five women worldwide will be abused during her lifetime with rates reaching up to 70 percent in some countries (WHO, 2005). Whether this abuse is perpetrated by the state and its agents, by family members, or even by strangers, VAW is closely related to the regulation of sexuality in a gender specific (patriarchal) manner. This regulation is, on the one hand, maintained through the implementation of strict cultural, communal, and religious norms, and on the other hand, through particular legal measures that sustain these norms. Therefore, religious institutions, the media, the family/tribe, cultural networks, and the legal system continually disciplinewomen’s sexuality and punish those women (and in some instances men) who have transgressed or allegedly contravened the social boundaries of ‘appropriateness’ as delineated by each society. Such women/men may include lesbians/gays, women who appear ‘too masculine’ or men who appear ‘too feminine,’ women who try to exercise their rights freely or men who do not assert their rights as ‘real men’ should, women/men who have been sexually assaulted or raped, and women/men who challenge male/older male authority.

Media Representation of the Pandemic: a Metaphorical Image of War (based on American Newspapers)

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (8) ◽  
pp. 69-83
Author(s):  
N. S. Dankova ◽  
E. V. Krekhtunova
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Media Representation ◽  
Martial Law ◽  
War Zone ◽  
Mass Consciousness ◽  
The Media ◽  
Coronavirus Infection ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

The article is devoted to the study of the media representation features of the situation of coronavirus infection spread. The material was articles published in American newspapers. It is shown that the metaphorical model "War" is widely used in media coverage of the pandemic. The relevance of the work is due to the ability of the media to influence the mass consciousness. The methodological basis of the research is formed by critical discourse analysis, which establishes the connection between language and social reality. The article provides an overview of works devoted to the study of metaphor. The theoretical foundations for the study of metaphorical modeling are given. In the course of the analysis, the linguistic means of updating the metaphorical model "War" were revealed. The authors note that this metaphorical model is represented by such frames as “War and its characteristics”, “Participants in military action”, “War zone”, “Enemy actions”, “Confronting the enemy”. It is shown that modern reality is presented in the media as martial law, the coronavirus is positioned in the media as a cruel and merciless enemy seeking to take over the world, the treatment of the disease is represented as a fight against the enemy. It is concluded that the use of the metaphorical model "War" is one of the ways to conceptualize the spread of coronavirus.

The Affective Politics of Citizenship in Reality Television Programs Featuring North Korean Resettlers

Cultura ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-163
Author(s):  
Soochul KIM ◽  
Kyung Han YOU
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Reality Television ◽  
Civic Identity ◽  
Media Representation ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Television Programs ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Television Shows

This study examines the dynamics of cultural politics in reality television shows featuring North Korean resettlers (NKR2) in South Korea. As existing studies focus on the role of media representation reproducing a dominant ideology for the resettlers, this paper focuses on the specific media rituals of NKR2 programs, which can be seen as a product of the neoliberalist localization process of the global media industry. In doing so, this paper demonstrates how NKR2 programs interrupt the current dynamics of emotions in regard to North Korean resettlers in South Korea. We argue that in shaping civic identity as an effect of the NKR2 show, cultural politics of citizenship in South Korea on North Korean resettlers serve the formation of relatively conservative and sexist civic identity.

Freedom of speech is not freedom from ethics: the 2019 Israel Folau media controversy as a case study

2021 ◽  
pp. 1329878X2199289
Author(s):  
Jay Daniel Thompson ◽  
Denis Muller
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Freedom Of Speech ◽  
Rugby Player ◽  
Ethical Principles ◽  
Framing Analysis ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One

This article examines how freedom of speech is framed in the media controversy surrounding the Australian rugby player Israel Folau’s April 2019 Instagram post. A content analysis and framing analysis of newspaper reportage reveals that the controversy has been largely discussed in terms of whether or not Folau’s speech was being curtailed and whether this curtailing indicates a broader, ideologically motivated censoriousness. This discussion is problematic in that it says little about the actual substance of Folau’s post. This article argues that debates surrounding freedom of speech such as the one involving Folau could and should be enriched by an engagement with ethical principles. This engagement is premised on a commitment to the free exchange of views, while acknowledging that ‘speech’ is not always inherently beneficial for democracy, nor worth defending.

scholarly journals “As quiet as a mouse”: Media use in Azerbaijan

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (s1) ◽  
pp. 893-911
Author(s):  
Ilgar Seyidov
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Media System ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Supportive Role ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One

AbstractDuring the Soviet period, the media served as one of the main propagandist tools of the authoritarian regime, using a standardized and monotype media system across the Soviet Republics. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, 15 countries became independent. The transition from Soviet communism to capitalism has led to the reconstruction of economic, socio-cultural, and political systems. One of the most affected institutions in post-Soviet countries was the media. Media have played a supportive role during rough times, when there was, on the one hand, the struggle for liberation and sovereignty, and, on the other hand, the need for nation building. It has been almost 30 years since the Soviet Republics achieved independence, yet the media have not been freed from political control and continue to serve as ideological apparatuses of authoritarian regimes in post-Soviet countries. Freedom of speech and independent media are still under threat. The current study focuses on media use in Azerbaijan, one of the under-researched post-Soviet countries. The interviews for this study were conducted with 40 participants living in Nakhichevan and Baku. In-depth, semi-structured interview techniques were used as research method. Findings are discussed under six main themes in the conclusion.

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