scholarly journals A performative framework for the study of intellectuals

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 322-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Baert ◽  
Marcus Morgan
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Public Intellectual ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Intellectual Performance ◽  
Jean Paul

This article introduces a new, performative framework for analysing intellectuals and intellectual interventions. It elaborates on the strengths of this theoretical perspective vis-à-vis rival approaches and develops this frame of reference by exploring key constituent concepts, including positioning, script and staging. The article then exemplifies the framework and demonstrates its applicability by exploring a public intellectual performance by Jean-Paul Sartre. To conclude, the article reflects on recent shifts in public intellectual performances, especially changes that are relatively durable and connected to the rise of new media.

Elements of language creativity

Semiotica ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Casini
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Ancient Philosophy ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Linguistic Change ◽  
Social Sharing

Abstract This paper proposes a concept of creativity that stems from a semiotic and linguistic theoretical perspective, in which the formal frame of reference for variation and linguistic change considers and evaluates both the process of general interaction and the contact of languages as a global phenomenon. This method proposes an analysis of creativity that ranges from reflections of ancient philosophy to a contemporary linguistic perspective, incorporates international ideologies, and identifies, within the dimensions of use and social sharing, the principle capable of guiding potentially unlimited forms of linguistic creativity that are self-expressive and communicative, far beyond the grammatical patterns of regularity and norm. Interpreting the paradigm of creativity according to this model means placing the semiotic property in a position of prima inter pares, entrusted not only with the “role” of forming signs (words, sentences, texts), but the function of arbitraire, as a phenomenon of language creation. The following reading references the semiotic contribution of Tullio De Mauro, an Italian linguist who has contributed to the systematization of creativity, overcoming and synthesizing both Saussurian structuralism and Chomskyan generativism.

Designing Practice-Oriented Toolkits

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 50-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Demosthenes Akoumianakis
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
The Other ◽  
Community Media ◽  
Conceptual Frame ◽  
Shared Language ◽  
Normative Perspective ◽  
Gaining Insight

This article aims to develop a conceptual frame of reference for analyzing and gaining insight to virtual community practices. The author’s normative perspective is that the vast majority of studies on virtual communities concentrate on managing (i.e., identifying, forming and sustaining) virtual communities, dismissing the practice the community is about. On the other hand, there is evidence to suggest that practice-oriented insights may offer new grounds for innovative engagement in virtual settings. Following a thorough analysis of seemingly heterogeneous concepts from new media, community-oriented thinking and practice-based approaches the article discusses what is it that differentiates offline from online practice, how these two are intertwined and why the literature lacks detailed insights on the actual practice virtual communities become engaged in. In light of this discussion, the Community-media-Practice grid is proposed as a guide for designing practiceoriented toolkits fostering a shared language for co-engagement in linguistic domains.

scholarly journals New Chinglish and the Post-Multilingualism challenge: Translanguaging ELF in China

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Wei
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
First Century ◽  
Chinese Speakers ◽  
Chinese Characteristics ◽  
Language And Communication ◽  
New Form ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
New Generation

AbstractBuilding on the extensive ELF research that aims to reconceptualise English as a resource that can be appropriated and exploited without allegiance to its historically native speakers, this article explores the issue of English in China by examining New Chinglish that has been created and shared by a new generation of Chinese speakers of English in China and spread through the new media. This new form of English has distinctive Chinese characteristics and serves a variety of communicative, social and political purposes in response to the Post-Multilingualism challenges in China and beyond. I approach New Chinglish from a Translanguaging perspective, a theoretical perspective that is intended to raise fundamental questions about the validity of conventional views of language and communication and to contribute to the understanding of the Post-Multilingualism challenges that we face in the twenty-first century.

Situating Public Intellectuals

2015 ◽  
Vol 156 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. David Marshall ◽  
Cassandra Atherton
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Public Intellectual ◽  
Entry Point ◽  
Public Intellectuals ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
The Public ◽  
Australian Context ◽  
Attention Economy

The concept of the public intellectual has always been a somewhat contested term. This article serves as both an introduction to the debates around what it constitutes and an entry point into how the new media environment is producing a different configuration of the public intellectual. Through key thinkers who have addressed the idea of the public intellectual internationally and those who have focused on the Australian context, this essay positions the arguments made by the authors in this special issue. Via a short case-study of TED, the conference and online idea-spreading phenomenon, it argues that the contemporary moment is producing and privileging a different constellation of experts as celebrities that match the exigencies of online attention economy. A shifted conception of the public intellectual is beginning to take shape that is differently constituted, used and situated, and this article helps to define the parameters for further discussion of these transformations.

Symbolic-discursive violence and new media: An epistemological perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-61
Author(s):  
Sabina Civila ◽  
Luis M. Romero-Rodríguez ◽  
Ignacio Aguaded
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
New Media ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Exploratory Analysis ◽  
Symbolic Violence ◽  
Epistemological Perspective ◽  
The Media ◽  
Research Studies

The following research studies, from a theoretical perspective, the different forms of symbolic and discursive violence and the transmission of hate speech through new media. The main objective is to understand the consequences of symbolic violence through language and how this affects freedom of expression. Reflective and critical argumentation is highlighted through an exploratory analysis carried out by a literature review, where it is determined that the confrontational narrative used by the media contributes to the dehumanization, demonization and polarization of specific collectives.

Consumer Motivations for Commercial Web Site Use

2011 ◽  
pp. 218-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas F. Stafford ◽  
Marla Royne Stafford
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Video Recording ◽  
Marketing Channel ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Communications Theory ◽  
Site Use ◽  
On Line

The purpose of this chapter is to explore theoretical background and previous research on new media uses and motivations as an avenue to understanding consumer motivations to use commercial Internet resources. This chapter will explore the communications theory of uses and gratifications, and will report and discuss the implications of a descriptive research process that establishes the domain of consumer motivations for Web site use. Building from a series of on-line focus groups conducted with the HotWired Internet site, the research discussed in this chapter includes the construction of an inventory of descriptive terms used to indicate the various areas of utility and enjoyment represented by the on-line experience. The objective of the chapter is to expose the reader to a theoretical perspective that is useful for understanding how consumers are motivated to use the Internet, by exploring and describing what consumers enjoy and seek in the on-line experience of Web sites. Knowledge of what consumers seek from a medium (uses), and what they enjoy about a medium (gratifications) prepares the reader to understand and utilize the tremendous communications and marketing resource represented by the World Wide Web. Research from previous studies of new media introductions provides a unique historical perspective available for grounding the conceptualization of the Web as a communications and marketing channel. The theoretical perspective developed from this research has been robust – applied over time to the introduction of television in the late 1940s and early 1950s, as well as to the innovations of video recording and time-delayed media exposure and media control through electronic remote devices.

It Was Only Natural

2010 ◽  
pp. 160-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Meyers Hendrickson
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Organization Theory ◽  
Organizational Context ◽  
Instant Messaging ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Primary Means

This chapter describes the cross-disciplinary conceptual frameworks used to examine a popular American entertainment website that employs a virtual newsroom utilizing instant messaging as its primary means of communication. This computer-mediated communication reconfigures the standard place-based newsroom arrangements and significantly influences the group’s organizational dynamics and culture. Because of the distinctive content and unconventional organizational structure of this site, no single theoretical perspective can be applied to its organizational context and content. Therefore a combination of organization theory (Schein, 2004), and newsroom sociology theoretical frameworks articulates an emerging dynamic represented by such a medium’s evolution from hierarchical to networked organization. This chapter exemplifies the potential for new media researchers to adopt a cross-disciplinary approach to their analysis. As old models for understanding media cease to support the complex structures of new organizations we must look to other frameworks for additional guidance.

Implications of Interactivity

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Collins
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
New Media ◽  
Sound Production ◽  
Control Mechanism ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Comprehensive Understanding ◽  
Scholarly Research ◽  
Digital Aesthetics

This article appears in theOxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aestheticsedited by John Richardson, Claudia Gorbman, and Carol Vernallis. This chapter explores concepts of interactivity as they relate to sound production in video games. A guiding assumption of the chapter is that interactivity is a definitive paper of new digital aesthetics in general and gaming in particular. And yet, the question of interactivity has not been addressed with sufficient stringency in scholarly research. At the heart of the chapter are these questions: What makes interactive sound different from noninteractive sound? Where doesinteracting withsound fit into our understanding of our experience of sound and music in media? How do we begin to approach interactive sound from a theoretical perspective? The implications of interactivity are examined, specifically the notion of sound as a feedback device and as a control mechanism. . In these ways the chapter works toward a more comprehensive understanding of sounds in new media contexts that addresses their particularity in interactive contexts rather than resting on previous assumptions about the primacy of sounds as narrative devices.

scholarly journals Fridays for Future als Lern- und Erfahrungsraum: Befunde zu den Beteiligungsformaten, den Motiven und der Selbstwirksamkeitserwartung von Engagierten

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (3) ◽  
pp. 10-15
Author(s):  
Jana Costa ◽  
Elena Wittmann
Keyword(s):  
Online Survey ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Active Engagement ◽  
Educational Processes ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Theoretical Frame ◽  
The One ◽  
Insight Into

In this article, engagement in the Fridays for Future (FFF) movement is examined from an educational point of view. Framing active engagement in the FFF movement theoretically as a learning opportunity, selected findings from an online survey (n=194) are presented. In a theoretical perspective, specific characteristics of the FFF movement are outlined with regard to learning and educational processes. Starting point of the empirical analyses are different possibilities of participation. On the one hand, an insight into the various participation formats is given. On the other hand, it is asked what motivates those involved to work for sustainable development and whether differences in motives and self-efficacy can be found depending on the form of participation. The results will be linked back to the theoretical frame of reference and discussed further.

Recurrent Interactions, Acts of Communication and Emergent Social Practice in Virtual Community Settings

2011 ◽  
pp. 34-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Demosthenes Akoumianakis
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Cultural Artifacts ◽  
Systems Research ◽  
Information Systems Research ◽  
History Of

The chapter builds on recent efforts aiming to develop a conceptual frame of reference for gaining insight to and analyzing ‘practice’ in virtual communities. Following a thorough analysis of related works in new media, community-oriented thinking and practice-based approaches as well as reflections upon recent case studies, the chapter discusses what is it that differentiates offline from online practice, how these two are intertwined in virtual settings and what may be an appropriate methodological frame of reference for analyzing them. In this vein, instead of reproducing arguments for community management (i.e., discovering, forming and sustaining communities) and the underlying methodological challenges commonly encountered in Information Systems research, our effort is focused on understanding emergent social practices through a practice lens framed in technology constituting structures and cultural artifacts. Through a cross case design we formulate the argument that community results from the history of co-engagement of actors in a joint field, while in virtual settings, it is recurrent interactions that lead to an act of communication or the enactment of practice. Our main conclusions are (a) online social practices are shaped through cycles of ‘constructing – negotiating – reconstructing’ cultural artifacts in virtual settings, and (b) practice-oriented toolkits designed to support cycles of ‘constructing – negotiating – reconstructing’ cultural artifacts offer new grounds for understanding innovative engagement by virtual communities.

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