The construction of grievable death: Toward an analytical framework for the study of mediatized death

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 242-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tal Morse
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Social World ◽  
Political Structure ◽  
Moral Orientation ◽  
Systematic Method ◽  
Death Rituals ◽  
Moral Principles ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media

Death generates rituals that organize the social world and bring to the fore the relational ties individuals have with one another. The media not only constitute the space where some of these death rituals take place but also are pivotal institutions that provide moral orientation. This article is interested in death-related media rituals and the extent to which these propose a way for individuals to situate themselves within a broader, social and political structure. Inspired by Judith Butler’s discussion of grievability, the article introduces the analytics of mediatized grievability, which offers a way of studying and analyzing news about death. This analytical framework unpacks the notion of grievability and accounts both for the properties of mediatized death rituals and for the moral principles embedded in these. The framework offers a systematic method of analyzing news about death and identifying the ethical solicitation such news addresses to its spectators with regard to how they should feel and act in situations of distant death.

scholarly journals Zygmunt Bauman and the Task of theTranslator

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (13-14) ◽  
Author(s):  
Szymon Wróbel
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Social World ◽  
Individual Experience ◽  
Zygmunt Bauman ◽  
Language Of Science ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media

The author presents the figure of Zygmunt Bauman as a public intellectualand a translator. Following Walter Benjamin and his essay“The Task of the Translator” and Jacques Derrida and his text“What Is a ‘Relevant’ Translation,” the author concludes that a publicintellectual as a translator is persistently confrontedwith the taskof translatingstatements and postulates from the “language of politics”into “language of practice” and “individual experience”, fromthe “language of science” into the “language of collective action”, andfrom the “language of sociology” into the “language of the media.”The author claims that the key category in Bauman’s thinking wasneither “liquidity” nor “modernity”, but “socialism as active utopia”.For Bauman, socialism is impossible without a socialist culture, butculture is a practice, i.e. it is anattempt to attune our collective goalsaimed at improving the social world. This alignment comes withoutresorting to the idea of a collective conductor (a program), but bymeans of resorting to the idea of a translator.

The mutual shaping of geomedia and gentrification: The case of alternative tourism apps

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
André Jansson
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Location Based Services ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Mobile Platforms ◽  
Alternative Tourism ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
The City

While the ‘media city’ has gained academic attention for over a decade, the role of the media in urban gentrification processes has been an overlooked issue. Due to the rapid expansion of geomedia technologies, for example, app-based social media and location-based services on mobile platforms, there is a growing need to address this area from a critical perspective. The article develops and tries out an analytical framework for studying the mutual shaping of geomedia technologies and gentrification processes, using alternative tourism apps as its illustration. The middle-class biased appearance of such mobile apps is hypothesized as an articulation of a broader trend, through which geomedia recognizes and gains affordances that fit the ambitions of certain social groups and their spatial norms, preferences and practices. The framework comprises two steps: (1) a media-technological unpacking exercise inspired by affordance theory and (2) a critical consideration of how geomedia play into the distribution of spatial capital in the city. The first step outlines how representational, logistical and communicational affordances of alternative tourism apps represent the broader shift from mass media to geomedia. The second step discusses the social logics whereby alternative tourism apps are adapted to middle-class spatial interests, and thus to gentrification, and how geomedia technologies in general affect the ability of different groups to access, appropriate and define different places and neighbourhoods in the city.

scholarly journals Tayangan Religi: Melekatnya Dunia Sosial dan Media Komersial

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Amirudin Amirudin
Keyword(s):  
Production Process ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Social World ◽  
Commercial Media ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Market Criteria ◽  
Stage Stage

This article summarizes the results of ethographic research on Religious Shows as Cultural Production Field: Studies on religious show of Mamah and AA in Action. The purpose of this article is to explore how Mamah Dedeh as one of the actors in the cultural production process through religious shows plays her role from daily life that is related closely to religious criteria which her habitus is formed through the missionary on the social stage. Stage of da’wah which is purely colored by religious criteria as a “blackbox” that directs her preaching in moslem comunity. But then, after she entered da’wah system in the media stage, which contained market criteria that must be followed. How she mixes and embeds da'wah systems in the social world with da'wah in commercial media, it is a subject that interesting to discuss in this article.

scholarly journals Proces strukturyzacji i instytucjonalizacji świata społecznego kibiców piłkarskich i jego konsekwencje

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 29-42
Author(s):  
Jacek Burski
Keyword(s):  
Social World ◽  
Global Changes ◽  
Fan Culture ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Fan Behavior ◽  
Sports Club ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Soccer Fans

The author analyzes the segmentation and institutionalization of the social world of soccer fans in the context of global economic and cultural changes. He refers to the literature on the subject to present the genesis of this sport and the descriptions that have been made of its fans. In the empirical part, he views the fan phenomenon in Poland on the basis of press and internet materials, casual interviews with fans of the Łódź Sports Club, and fan behavior in stadiums (the ‘framework’). Institutionalization and structurization in the social setting of Polish soccer fans are considered in connection with the economic and institutional changes after 1989 and global changes in the world of culture and the media. He proposes a typology of fans—the participants in the social world of soccer. He claims that the institutionalization of this world is underway but that organizing fans into associations is having a different impact on fan culture and the social world beyond than was earlier expected.

The reign of the ‘painterly real’ and the politics of crisis, 1999–2004

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Harutyunyan
Keyword(s):  
Video Art ◽  
Social World ◽  
The State ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
The Social ◽  
Politics Of Resistance ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Society ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Cultural Shifts

This closing chapter offers a reading of the work of two artists of the 1990s and early 2000s – David Kareyan and Narek Avetisyan, both previously members of the group ACT – and discusses their works in the context of social, political, technological as well as cultural shifts in Armenia. The two artists’ works, it argues, epitomize the contradictions of the turn of the century Armenia. This context is defined as a crisis of politics and political subjectivization vis-à-vis the state. This marked a shift from affirmative artistic practices in the conditions of the crisis of negation that characterized the mid 1990s, and gave birth to a politics of resistance. The chapter considers political, economic and art institutional transformations as interlinked processes that bring about an imperative to rearticulate art’s relationship to the social world. It locates the advent of video art, performance and installation within the advent of the media society and the techno utopias of global connectivity.

scholarly journals The media’s role in shaping the public opinion on education: A thematic and frame analysis of externalisation to world situations in the Portuguese media

2022 ◽  
pp. 174549992110577
Author(s):  
Íris Santos ◽  
Luís Miguel Carvalho ◽  
Benedita Portugal e Melo
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Frame Analysis ◽  
Social World ◽  
Double Reduction ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sources Of Authority ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Communications

This article uses thematisation theory (Luhmann, 1996; Pissarra Esteves, 2016) and frame analysis (Entman, 1993) to analyse externalisations to world situations (Schriewer, 1990) in the Portuguese print media’s discussion of education. Our data constitutes news and opinion articles collected after each PISA cycle’s results was published. The analysis demonstrates that the education themes discussed in the media between 2001 and 2017 are consistent, despite occasionally being discussed more intensively, frequently following the themes highlighted by PISA reports and OECD media communications. The frames used for these themes are more diverse, changing according to the speaker’s agenda and viewpoints. Externalisations (frequently PISA, OECD, and other participants in the survey) serve as sources of authority that help in thematising and framing education. This process works as a mechanism of double reduction for the complexity of the social world, narrowing the possibilities of how education is seen and interpreted by the public.

scholarly journals Youth organization "Plast" in the context of problems of application of Christian aspects in the process of activity of youth societies

2008 ◽  
pp. 147-154
Author(s):  
O.M. Tuyeshyn
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Social World ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Hiv Positive ◽  
Drinking Alcohol ◽  
Moral Principles ◽  
Youth Organization ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship

Today in Ukraine there is an acute problem of the spiritual alienation of a certain part of the younger generation from their people, their faith and traditions, which have developed over the centuries, from established moral principles, in particular, regarding personal self-determination in the social world. In turn, such confusion and disorientation in the social space leads to an aggravation of the relationship between the same outside world and the system of inner values ​​of the young man. Moreover, a hypertrophied and distorted understanding of reality entails a number of problems that often take the form of a pronounced social evil. For example, today our country is one of the leading places in Europe for the spread of AIDS. According to the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, every week, several dozen Ukrainians turn out to be HIV-positive when submitting appropriate tests. It is also hard to say about the spread of such social ills as drug addiction, drunkenness (striking the number of young people being treated today for alcohol abuse in drug dispensaries, and not caused by drinking alcohol, but by the widely publicized beer).

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.

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