On the Subject of Spirit Mediumship in the Age of New Media

2020 ◽  
pp. 25-55
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Spirit Mediumship ◽  
The Subject

scholarly journals Media skills for daily life: Designing a journalism programme for graduates of all disciplines

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-156
Author(s):  
Lee Duffield
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Journalism Education ◽  
Preliminary Conclusion ◽  
Media Audiences ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
Media Work ◽  
Journalism Students

This article in the journalism education field reports on the construction of a new subject as part of a postgraduate coursework degree. The subject, or unit will offer both Journalism students and other students an introductory experience of creating media, using common ‘new media’ tools, with exercises that will model the learning of communication principles through practice. It has been named ‘Fundamental Media Skills for the Workplace’. The conceptualisation and teaching of it will be characteristic of the Journalism academic discipline that uses the ‘inside perspective’—understanding mass media by observing from within. Proposers for the unit within the Journalism discipline have sought to extend the common teaching approach, based on training to produce start-ready recruits for media jobs, backed by a study of contexts, e.g. journalistic ethics, or media audiences. In this proposal, students would then examine the process to elicit additional knowledge about their learning. The article draws on literature of journalism and its pedagogy, and on communication generally. It also documents a ‘community of practice’ exercise conducted among practitioners as teachers for the subject, developing exercises and models of media work. A preliminary conclusion from that exercise is that it has taken a step towards enhancing skills-based learning for media work.

W(h)ither Media Influence?

2000 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Cunningham ◽  
Angela Romano
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
First Principles ◽  
Media Influence ◽  
Complex Flows ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Media Regulation ◽  
Policy Domain ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Central Term

During 1999–2000, the Productivity Commission's inquiry into Broadcasting, together with the ABA's ‘cash for comment’ inquiry, painted the old shibboleth of media influence in a new light. Influence has been a central term in government media regulation, but the term has rarely been interrogated from first principles in the policy domain. Assumptions have been made about the greater influence of television compared with radio, in spite of ongoing controversy centring around the cash for comment inquiry that has spotlighted both the power of talkback radio kings and their potential to misuse it. Policy-makers and politicians have also been overly optimistic about the potential of new media forms to ameliorate concentration of influence in the hands of media oligopolies. After examining the complex flows of influence within and between media organisations, this paper lists several recommendations for future directions in research on the subject.

Holography

2011 ◽  
pp. 103-112
Author(s):  
Martin Richardson ◽  
Paul Scattergood
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
New Media ◽  
Digital Holography ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Image Capture ◽  
Dimensional Image ◽  
Cave Paintings ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Radical Form

When writing this chapter it became apparent that we were not only exponents of digital holography, but also the critics. This is a problem when it comes to new media. How can one begin to make objective critical theory on a subject when there are no historical or ideological structures that produce and constrain it? While other digital technologies prove well developed, semantic and expressive, digital holography has some way to go before any quantized analysis of the subject is possible. This paper explores the function of digital holography, seeking comparison from other media and explores holography’s influence as a radical form of electronic digital three-dimensional image capture. Within this context we draw comparison with other forms of image making, from cave paintings in Lascaux (France), to Fox Talbot’s early experiments to capture light, Corbusiers architectural designs of space, to early television transmission. They all have one unifying factor: the unfamiliar and the strange, emblematic to visual possibilities in our perception of space.

The Moving Eye

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Exhibition Design ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Mobility Studies ◽  
Key Points ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Art And Architecture ◽  
Film And Video

Once the province of film and media scholars, today the moving image concerns historians of art and architecture and designers of everything from websites to cities. As museums and galleries devote increasing space to video installations that no longer presuppose a fixed viewer, urban space becomes envisioned and planned through “fly-throughs,” and technologies such as GPS add data to the experience of travel, images in motion have captured the attention of geographers and scholars across the humanities and social sciences. Mobility studies is remaking how we understand a contemporary world in relentless motion. Media theorist and historian Anne Friedberg (1952–2009) was among the first practitioners of visual studies to theorize the experience of mobile vision. Her books Window Shopping and The Virtual Window have become key points of reference in the discussion of the windows that frame images and the viewers in motion who perceive them. Although widely influential beyond her own discipline, Friedberg’s work has never been the subject of an extended study. The Moving Eye gathers together essays by a renowned international group of thinkers in media studies, art history, architecture, and museum studies to consider the rich implications of her work for understanding film and video, new media, visual art, architecture, exhibition design, urban space, and virtual reality. These nine essays advance the lines of inquiry begun by Friedberg.

The Evolution of Concept of Popular Culture and Its Significance

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 389
Author(s):  
Wensheng Deng ◽  
Pengzhuo Deng
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
New Media ◽  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
Frankfurt School ◽  
Cultural Consciousness ◽  
The People ◽  
British School ◽  
French School ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Conceptual Evolution

The paper has checked the evolution of concept of popular culture, which presents the essential meanings and its hidden reasons to general readers. Built upon the conceptual evolution, i.e. roughly from British School, Frankfurt School until French School, the thesis explores the possible characteristics of today’s popular culture of China in the ever-changing era. First, subjectivity of the people, i.e. the subject of China’s popular culture is composed of average people; Second, aesthetic experience, i.e. China’s popular culture is committed to perfecting her subjects’ mind and moral sense by providing beautiful contents, but not ugly immoral ones as currently appeared on new media; Third, “cultural consciousness,” i.e. the subjects should have confidence, reflection upon China’s popular culture, and not reject “others” blindly.

scholarly journals Znaczenie Internetu dla zarządzania reputacją naukowca

2021 ◽  
pp. 129-144
Author(s):  
Anna Pawiak ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Information Transfer ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Reputation Management ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Image Creation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Reputation Building

The article aims at drawing attention to opportunities of reputation management by researchers using new media, considering the importance of internet tools for image creation and identifying opportunities and threats. The research problem of the article focuses on answers to the question formulated as follows: What might the possible importance of the Internet for reputation building be? The problem relates to the issue of researchers’ active participation in creating and shaping their reputation online. The presented considerations have been based on literature and studies on the subject. The article attempts to clarify the distinction between the concepts of identity, image, and reputation. It discusses image-creating factors and refers to the question of immanent credibility and guise in research. The author describes examples of internet tools and points to their importance for reputation management, which concerns the sum of partial images accumulating over time. Communication plays an important role in building reputation. Owing to its availability, interactivity and variety of forms, as well as the speed of information transfer, the Internet has become an indispensable channel of communication. All researchers should recognise the fact in order to build their reputation thoughtfully. Their reputation involves a multitude of accumulated images formed as a result of interactions between factors associated with the subjects themselves, information the recipients obtain, and factors relating to the recipients. The conclusions of the study point to the necessity of reputation management by planned and deliberate actions taking advantage of internet tools. Thus, every effort should be made to prevent a situation where reputation is shaped irrespective of the interested person’s participation.

Educational Chances for Cultural Expressions out of the New Technologies

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-48
Author(s):  
Enrico Proietti
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Working Group ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Mental Attitude ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Open Method Of Coordination ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Educational Relation ◽  
The Subject

The European Commission faced the subject of educational relation between new media technologies and expressions of culture in order to adopt pondered policies. This article reports on the proceedings of an Open Method of Coordination Working Group, whose task has been to study the synergies between education and culture, regarding the new methods of artistic and cultural education provided by new technologies. By illustrating the debate on Media Literacy across Europe, it shows the specific recommendations expressed by the Group. Special focus is given on the educational application of new technologies to cultural heritage. By using this paratextual tool society could improve comprehension. As happened during a workshop of the Working Group, this paper focuses on the educational significance of using archaeological contexts. The necessary mental attitude to imagine and reconstruct past exteriorities involves a lot of contexts, above all the virtual one.

DMB Market and Audience Attitude

2009 ◽  
pp. 423-429
Author(s):  
Mi-kyung Kim
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Behavior ◽  
New Media ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Third Generation ◽  
Consumer Adoption ◽  
Digital Multimedia ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
Service Consumer ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Broadcasting Service

Since the late 1990s in Korea, there have been many users of mobile devices, and we have extended leisure time. The terrestrial broadcasting market is very competitive because a lot of media has emerged dividing the market. Therefore, terrestrial broadcasters introduced terrestrial DMB (digital multimedia broadcasting) service to sustain audiences for the terrestrial broadcasting market and increase audience satisfaction. In Korea, telecommunication businesses are saturated, and wireless network operators, in their effort to diminish their revenue dependence on mobile voice services on one hand, and to recoup the huge investments made on third generation networks on the other, try to develop new services and business models such as DMB service. Consumer behavior research is critical toward accelerating the diffusion and consumer adoption of new media. However, consumer behavior in DMB has not yet been the subject of much research, though consumer adoption of DMB service is expanding rapidly in Korea. While there is much discussion on the emerging DMB service, there is still little evidence indicating what influences consumers in their decision to adopt DMB service and which specific features they would like included in the DMB service. This article examines behavioral intensions toward DMB service through consumer survey in Korea. More specifically, this study explores the specific using features of DMB service such as the motive for adoption, the satisfaction with DMB service, major using hours, and favorite contents. Additionally, this article investigates the favorite genre of consumers. This study is to explore the emerging marketing challenges in the field of DMB and provide direct managerial implications to the key-market players.

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