Birthdays, anniversaries, and temporalities: Or how the past is represented as relevant through on-this-date media

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (9) ◽  
pp. 1663-1679 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee Humphreys
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Journalism Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Memory Work ◽  
Exact Date ◽  
Media Institutions

This article explores the mediatization of birthdays and anniversaries through the concept of “on-this-date” media as a way to understand the representation and circulation of media content that occurred in previous years, on that exact date. Drawing on journalism studies and mediated memory work, I argue that past events are made relevant and then irrelevant through a frame of on-this-date media. By juxtaposing Facebook Birthdays and Memories with the Associated Press’s “Today In History” feed, I analyze the multiple temporalities at work across analog and digital media platforms. Drawing on Keightley’s zones of intermediacy, I examine how time is mediated through the textual, technological, and social aspects of media, in sometimes conflicting ways. Thus, this article seeks to contribute to our understanding of mediatization by examining how media institutions structure, organize, and represent mediated temporalities.

scholarly journals Influence of some social subjects on the media culture

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dragana Rašević
Keyword(s):  
Media Culture ◽  
Press Freedom ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Media Freedom ◽  
Editorial Policies ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Past ◽  
Media Institutions ◽  
The Media ◽  
Freedom House

Th is paper analyzes the problem of media culture today on the global andregional level in relation to its dominant social actors. Media culture in thework involves media content and the means of its transmission, high technologicalachievements (which are used in the process of collection, processingand dissemination of information) and a source of culture that we areadopting. Th e aim of this paper is to point out the infl uence of the dominantsocial actors - economic and scientifi c centers of power - the media culture.Th e problems that arise as a consequence of the most powerful determinantsof media culture are considered. Special attention is paid to research on freedomof media of American NGO Freedom House and IREX (InternationalResearch and Exchange Board) ProMedia. Th e position and freedom of themedia today compared to the past ten years is considered. Media freedom ismeasured by the score of freedom of speech, level of professional standards ofquality, reliable and objective information, economic business and independenceof editorial policies and actions of media institutions in the function ofprofessional media interest. It is noted that there are more and more countrieswhere press freedom is declined and that most of the countries of Europe andEurasia are in a precarious economic position, because they are not free increating media content and media culture, is often dependent on the powercenters that work in its fi eld.

scholarly journals Introduction: The emotional turn in journalism

Journalism ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 146488492098570
Author(s):  
Karin Wahl-Jorgensen ◽  
Mervi Pantti
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Major Change ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Journalism Studies ◽  
Diverse Field ◽  
Emotional Aspects ◽  
Developing Area ◽  
New Research

In journalism studies, an interest in emotions has gathered momentum during the last decade, leading to an increasingly diverse investigation of the affective and emotional aspects of production, text and audience engagement with journalism which we describe as an “emotional turn.” The attention to emotion in journalism studies is a relatively recent development, sustained by the concurrent rise of digital information technologies that have accentuated the emotional and affective everyday use of media, as well as the increasing mobilization, exploitation and capitalization of emotions in digital media. This special issue both builds upon research on emotion in journalism studies and aims to extend it by examining new theoretical and methodological tools, and areas of empirical analysis, to engage with emotion or affect across the contexts of journalistic production, content and consumption. In proclaiming ‘an emotional turn’ in journalism studies, the intention of this special issue is not to suggest a paradigm shift or a major change in the prevailing research agenda in the field. Rather, against the backdrop of the increasingly diverse field of journalism studies, it is to point out that the relationship between journalism and emotion represents a rapidly developing area of inquiry, which opens up for new research agendas.

Spectacular memory: Zombie pasts in the themed shopping malls of Dubai

2022 ◽  
pp. 175069802110665
Author(s):  
Paul O’Connor
Keyword(s):  
Social Groups ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Shopping Malls ◽  
Mass Consumption ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Past ◽  
Media Institutions ◽  
The Media ◽  
Coherent Body ◽  
Late Modern

Memory invariably involves sifting and sorting historical traces and reassembling them into societal representations of the past. Usually this has been done by social groups of different kinds or the cultural institutions associated with them, and has provided materials for the construction and maintenance of group identity. In what I term “spectacular memory,” however, the sifting and sorting of memory traces is performed by commercial and media institutions within a globalized cultural framework to create spectacles for mass consumption. Spectacular memory is enabled by the progressive breakdown of Halbwach’s “social frameworks of memory”—the association of memory with face-to-face relations within social groups. In late modern societies, “memory” as a coherent body of representations which is the property of more-or-less bounded social groups has largely devolved into a globalized store of representations curated and diffused through the media, advertising, tourism and entertainment industries. This article uses the example of the history-themed shopping malls of Dubai to characterize this form of memory.

scholarly journals Malaysia’s Vision 2020 and the Role of leadership in Economic Development

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Mahmoud Safy Mahmoud ◽  
Hoda Mitkees
Keyword(s):  
National Development ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Vision 2020 ◽  
New Economic Policy ◽  
Developed Country ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Economic Growth Rates

Malaysia has adopted several developmental plans since 1969 starting with the New Economic Policy (NEP), passing by the National Development Plan (NDP) and ending with the Vision 2020 adopted in 1991 under the rule of Mahathir Mohammed (1981-2003), whereby Malaysia has aimed to become a developed country by 2020. Looking for the future, Malaysia 2020 should build upon the older developmental plans; however there are some new elements that need to be considered if Malaysia is to continue on its successful developmental path. This paper aims at focusing on the issues that still need to be considered in Vision 2020 from an outsider point of view. This paper addresses the questions of what Malaysia’s economic plans adopted in the past which were able to achieve high economic growth rates while preserving at the same time the social aspects. And the paper focuses on trade policy in Malaysia under Mahathir rule, identifying how was it shaped and how likely it will continue in 2020. The paper identifies the challenges likely to be faced by Malaysia in the coming period and how such issues should be tackled in Vision 2020.

scholarly journals Avatars, Monsters, and Machines: A Cyborg Archaeology

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 324-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colleen Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Creative Potential ◽  
The Past

As digital practice in archaeology becomes pervasive and increasingly invisible, I argue that there is a deep creative potential in practising a cyborg archaeology. A cyborg archaeology draws from feminist posthumanism to transgress bounded constructions of past people as well as our current selves. By using embodied technologies to disturb archaeological interpretations, we can push the use of digital media in archaeology beyond traditional, skeuomorphic reproductions of previous methods to highlight ruptures in thought and practice. I develop this argument through investigating the avatars, machines, and monsters in current digital archaeological research. These concepts are productively liminal: avatars, machines, and monsters blur boundaries between humans and non-humans, the past and the present, and suggest productive approaches to future research.

scholarly journals ‘Wife, Mommy, Pastor and Friend’: The Rise of Female Evangelical Microcelebrities

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 758
Author(s):  
Katie Christine Gaddini
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Analysis ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Religious Authority ◽  
Social Media Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Prosperity Theology ◽  
Evangelical Women ◽  
Ethnographic Data

The popularity of digital media has spurred what has been called a “crisis of authority”. How do female evangelical microcelebrities figure in this crisis? Many of these women belong to churches led by male pastors, have amassed a large following online, and are sought-after speakers and teachers. This paper analyses how gender, religious authority, and the digital sphere collide through the rise of female evangelical microcelebrities. Bringing together ethnographic data, textual analysis, and social media analysis of six prominent women, I emphasize the power of representation to impact religious practices and religious meaning. This article examines how evangelical women are performing and negotiating their legitimacy as the Internet and fluid geographical boundaries challenge local models of religious authority. Moving away from a binary perspective of “having” or “not having” authority, this paper considers the various spheres of authority that evangelical microcelebrities occupy, including normative womanhood, prosperity theology, and politics. Finally, by examining the social media content put forth by female evangelical microcelebrities, I interrogate the political stakes of evangelical women’s authority.

A return to the past: Memory work as a method of body-awareness

Young ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 36-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martti Silvennoinen
Keyword(s):  
Body Awareness ◽  
The Past ◽  
Memory Work

Tennessee Williams’s Misunderstood ‘memory play’: Re-Imagining Amanda Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie

2021 ◽  
Vol 139 (3) ◽  
pp. 475-493
Author(s):  
Ramón Espejo Romero
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Tennessee Williams ◽  
Search For Meaning ◽  
Critical Tradition ◽  
The Past ◽  
Memory Work ◽  
Glass Menagerie ◽  
The Glass Menagerie

Abstract Tennessee Williams famously called The Glass Menagerie a ‘memory play’. This remark has been consistently overlooked or misinterpreted by critics, unleashing a tradition of approaching the play in a rather confusing fashion concerning who the characters are and how the playwright uses them. This paper engages with the character of Amanda. First of all, I will trace major transformations in the conception of characters throughout twentieth-century drama, providing background for Williams’s attempt to redefine major aspects of a playwright’s craft such as what a ‘character’ is. Secondly, I will survey a critical tradition surrounding Tom Wingfield’s mother and consider major views concerning the character. Recurrent in them, as my analysis indicates, is the failure to acknowledge her as a tool for the ‘memory work’ Tom carries out. The character is subsequently posited as a fluid entity that helps Tom (and Williams) make sense of the past and explore how their families shaped who they were. As opposed to a realistic play, where so much is given at the start, a ‘memory play’, as Williams seems to have conceived it, remains a cry for the reader to join the playwright in a common search for meaning, one that utilizes, rather than just displays, characters in order to reach standpoints that are far from fixed and immutable.

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