Transgression in contemporary media culture

2020 ◽  
pp. 136787792096810
Author(s):  
Joke Hermes ◽  
Annette Hill
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Media Ecology ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Political Satire ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Media ◽  
Rule Breaking ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Film Piracy ◽  
Key Terms

This is the introduction to a special issue on media and transgression, one of early cultural studies’ key terms. It inquires into the uses of transgression as a critical concept to query contemporary media culture which is discussed in six case studies: on political satire, Mukbang, cult drama, the policing of film piracy, media scandals, and online trolls. Transgression points to the energy that fuels the media ecology – from content and content production to audience practices and the policing of content ownership. It is the (conscious) overstepping of moral and legal boundaries, that challenges written and unwritten rules. The frisson of rule breaking and the reward of rule re-establishment (whether by powerful parties or everyday gossip) are transgression’s bookends. Together they support the cyclical rhythm of media culture that maintains not just our interest as viewers but our interests and connectedness as citizens, whether in celebration, outrage or condemnation.

scholarly journals Media Innovations, User Innovations, Societal Innovations

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Axel Bruns
Keyword(s):  
Media Ecology ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Media Audiences ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Technology Innovations ◽  
The Status ◽  
Societal Changes ◽  
The Media ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Media Practices

As the Journal of Media Innovations comes into existence, this article reflects on the first and most obvious question: just what do we mean by “media innovations”? Drawing on the examples of a range of recent innovations in media technologies and practices, initiated by a variety of media audiences, users, professionals, and providers, it explores the interplay between the different drivers of innovation and the effects of such innovation on the complex frameworks of contemporary society and the media ecology which supports it. In doing so, this article makes a number of key observations: first, it notes that media innovation is an innovation in media practices at least as much as in media technologies, and that changes to the practices of media both reflect and promote societal changes as well – media innovations are never just media technology innovations. Second, it shows that the continuing mediatisation of society, and the shift towards a more widespread participation of ordinary users as active content creators and media innovators, make it all the more important to investigate in detail these interlinked, incremental, everyday processes of media and societal change – media innovations are almost always also user innovations. Finally, it suggests that a full understanding of these processes as they unfold across diverse interleaved media spaces and complex societal structures necessarily requires a holistic perspective on media innovations, which considers the contemporary media ecology as a crucial constitutive element of societal structures and seeks to trace the repercussions of innovations across both media and society – media innovations are inextricably interlinked with societal innovations (even if, at times, they may not be considered to be improvements to the status quo).

scholarly journals Reality culture as a prevailing cultural format in Serbia

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 1346-1363
Author(s):  
Sanja Domazet ◽  
Jelena Nikolić
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Parallel Processes ◽  
Printed Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
Uncritical Acceptance ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Internet Portals ◽  
Informative Content

The contemporary media culture in Serbia has been marked by two trends - democratization and transformation of the media. These parallel processes on the eve of the 21st century led to the decrease in informative contents and the increase in the entertainment ones. Therefore, reality shows take primacy in Serbia, no longer being an exclusive feature of the television. This paper is aimed at researching and describing the ways in which informative contents in the Serbian media have been replaced by television reality contents, as well as the ways in which the printed media and internet portals inform about them. By the qualitative method of content analysis, this paper realizes its goal to fathom the mechanisms of the transposition of the informative content into the entertainment one, thus deconstructing journalistic practices. The results will indicate that the domestic portals relate to realities in two ways - the first and less common modality is ignoring, while the second implies uncritical acceptance of this type of content, which creates fertile soil for the development and maintenance of the so-called reality culture.

Thematising multilingualism in the media

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 467-489 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Kelly-Holmes ◽  
Tommaso M. Milani
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
The Media

The focus of this special issue is on the opportunities presented and challenges posed by the thematisation of multilingualism in the media. A number of case studies from a variety of linguistic, media, political, social, economic and educational contexts are presented, with the objective of addressing the challenges and opportunities that arise when multilingualism becomes thematised. In this introduction, we would like to address two main theoretical and methodological issues: (1) what we mean by multilingualism; and, (2) what we mean by thematising.

Versifying Batman: Superheroes in contemporary poetry

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 268-286
Author(s):  
Jeff Thoss
Keyword(s):  
Comic Book ◽  
Contemporary Poetry ◽  
Participatory Culture ◽  
Media Ecology ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Convergence Culture ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Alan Moore

AbstractSince the late 1980 s, poets from the US and, to a lesser extent, the UK have increasingly featured superheroes in their work, mostly appropriating iconic figures along the lines of Batman or Superman and exploring some aspect of their personality (e. g., Batman’s relationship to Robin, Superman’s loneliness) in dramatic monologues. The prevailing if not sole account of this phenomenon argues that these characters provide a shared mythology to a generation of writers to whom biblical and classical references are no longer readily available. It also ties the superheroes’ provenance exclusively to the medium of comics. This latter point, in particular, is open to debate, insofar as since the late 1980 s, superheroes are, more than ever, part of media franchises that treat comic books as but one among many outlets. The present article hence views the superheroes in poetry not so much as an appropriation of comic book but of transmedia characters. Simon Armitage’s seminal poem “Kid” (1992), for instance – a diatribe by Robin directed at Batman’s dismissal of him – resonates as much with the 1960 s TV series or Tim Burton’s Batman films (1989, 1992) as with the dark knight’s reinvention at the hands of comic book writers such as Frank Miller or Alan Moore. At the same time, the article aims to locate the place of the seemingly insular genre of poetry within a “convergence culture” that disseminates superheroes in the media ecology. Evidently, the “superhero poems” are not licensed creations that partake in officially sanctioned transmedia networks. Neither, however, are they a product of fandom and participatory culture. Instead, I would suggest that poetry here tentatively engages with the media culture that has factored into its marginalization during the past decades.

scholarly journals Emotionalisation of contemporary media discourse: A research agenda

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 586-610
Author(s):  
Franco Zappettini ◽  
Douglas Mark Ponton ◽  
Tatiana V. Larina
Keyword(s):  
Research Agenda ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
Linguistic Representations ◽  
Political Background ◽  
The Media ◽  
Contemporary Media

This special issue continues the discussion of the role of emotion in discourse (see Russian Journal of Linguistics 2015 (1) and 2018, 22 (1)) which, as testified by the burgeoning body of literature in the field, has become more prominent in different spheres and contexts of public life. This time we focus on emotionalisation of media discourse. We highlight the intensification of emotions in media and, showcasing contributions from international authors, critically reflect on constructions, functions and pragmatic purposes of emotions in media discourse. Our aim is to investigate emotions in the media from semiotic, pragmatic and discursive perspectives against the contemporary socio-political background in which traditional notions concerning the role of media are being noticeably changed. In this introductory article, we also put forward an agenda for further research by briefly outlining three main areas of exploration: the logics of media production and reception , the boundaries of media discourse, and the semiotic resources deployed to construct emotionality . We then present the articles in this issue and highlight their contributions to the study of linguistic representations of emotions. We then summarise the main results and suggest a brief avenue for further research.

scholarly journals Re-locating media production

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-11
Author(s):  
Helen Morgan Parmett ◽  
Scott Rodgers
Keyword(s):  
Media Culture ◽  
Media Production ◽  
Media Convergence ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Participatory Media ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
The Past ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Media Practices

It was arguably easier in the past to pin down media production in medium- or content-specific locales, such as the studio, the newsroom or the set. Contemporary processes of media convergence have dramatically opened up the ‘what’ and ‘where’ of media production to include all manner of quotidian practices and ephemeral places. This special issue, however, pushes back against the idea that contemporary landscapes of media production have been flattened. Each of the articles collected here accounts for significant transformations in media practices near to those that we would conventionally associate with media production, yet which are also potentially left behind in the rush to describe, theorize, celebrate and critique trends such as ‘produsage’, ‘prosumption’ and participatory media culture. Taken together, the articles in this special issue provide new insights into the locations and relocations of contemporary media production across new and under-researched liminal and peripheral geographies, and around new and unexpected objects.

scholarly journals Values of Mediasphere and E-Culture

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 173-184
Author(s):  
Ludmila Baeva
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Electronic Communication ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Global Information ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Human Value ◽  
The Media ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Main Factor

The article focuses on the axiological aspects of consciousness under conditions of the development of contemporary media culture and e-culture. Relying on theories of mediaphilosophy the author considers the media as a main factor of the determination of human value in the information society. The research is aimed at eliciting the peculiarities of modern media culture in the context of an existential and axiological approach that enables the determination of the effect the development of the mediasphere in modern culture has on the world of human values. In this case, media (mediasphere) is understood in its broad sense as a sphere of electronic communication with diverse forms of appearance and electronic mass media, generating the global information space. The author suggests the analysis of the penetration of communication e-culture (and its forms) and media-culture. The author argues that the values of media-culture (freedom, personality orientation, pragmatism, and other) developed under the conditions of information and ethic pluralism, which give a person more responsibility of spiritual choice.

scholarly journals Media Culture as the Information Age Phenomenon

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 286-293
Author(s):  
Valentina A. Slavina ◽  
Yanina V. Soldatkina
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Communications ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Artistic Heritage

The article raises the issues of scientific reception of such a phenomenon as media culture. The authors offer their interpretation of media culture as a special type of culture of the information society in the broadest understanding of this phenomenon. The authors consider the concepts of media and culture and establishes their functional corresponddence. The contemporary stage of media development is characterized by a combination of communication and information intentions: classical media and mass communication media, including new media, blogs, social networks, as well as digital copies of non-network artifacts and their network modifications. The result of these media communications is a media text in the broadest interpretation of this concept. According to the authors concept, contemporary media culture realizes itself in two main aspects. In the applied sense, a media culture is a form of representation and digitalization of classical and network cultural units. In the global sense, media culture is understood as an aesthetic and axiological sphere of societys life, in which culture combines the value and artistic heritage, using the information and communication channels of the media for its representation in politics, education, and culture itself.

scholarly journals From immediate community to imagined community: Social identity and the co-viewing of media event

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 481-496 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xi Cui ◽  
Jian Rui ◽  
Fanbo Su
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Emotional Arousal ◽  
Media Ecology ◽  
Media Events ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Media ◽  
Live Broadcast ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Media Event

This study examines how different types of co-viewing are associated with viewers’ emotional response to the live broadcast of media events and their social identity. A survey ( N = 206) was conducted to examine the effect of the live broadcast of a grand national ceremony in China. Results show that viewers experienced emotional arousal when they watched the media event in physical, mediated, and perceived co-viewing conditions. Among these conditions, mediated co-viewing, operationalized as social media engagement during the event, is the strongest predictor of emotional arousal. Moreover, emotional arousal fully mediates the relationship between co-viewing conditions and viewers’ national identity conveyed in the broadcast ceremony. With empirical evidence, we demonstrate the continued relevance of the genre of media events and the importance of co-viewing experiences in the contemporary media ecology. We argue that this broadcast genre is still effective with regard to social integration, and dual-screening media events could be a new mechanism of this effect.

scholarly journals Editorial

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maja Klausen ◽  
Anette Grønning ◽  
Carsten Stage
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Learning Technologies ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Care Processes ◽  
Contemporary Media

This special issue, entitled “Health, Media and Participation”, consists of seven articles that explore some of the different ways that media participation and health participation intertwine in contemporary media culture. In these seven articles, participation in health and media is addressed in the analysis of a variety of practices: Patients that use media to become participants in co-decision and self-care processes, patients and citizens being more or less able to use media to engage in (patient) communities, patients communicating with (and affecting) institutions and authorities in new mediated ways, health professionals using social media to create public awareness about politically urgent issues and health professionals co-designing digital learning technologies. The contributions are in this way united by taking an interest in the democratic potentials and dilemmas of participating in health through media participation. The issue also includes one open section article by Vaia Doudaki and Nico Carpentier. The special issue is edited by Maja Klausen, Anette Grønning and Carsten Stage.

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