scholarly journals Theatrical Dialogue in the Digital Age: From Director’s Theatre to the Theatre Onscreen

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 457
Author(s):  
Lilia M. Nemchenko
Keyword(s):  
Digital Age ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Virtual Object ◽  
Educational Mission ◽  
Theatrical Practice ◽  
Inherent Nature ◽  
Movie Theatre ◽  
Television Plays ◽  
Theatrical Text ◽  
Professional Critics

Thanks to its inherent nature, theatre has been better able than other artforms to resist the challenges presented by information and digital culture, which are based on the principle of reproduction. Since a theatrical text is created anew each time, an audience can enter into a real-time dialogue with a concrete group of players recreating an authorial concept. This is true even when, as in director’s theatre, a director’s interpretation is performed by different acting companies.Today, however, the hubris of theatre critics and enthusiasts, who value unmediated dialogue as a pre-condition of theatrical pragmatics, has collided with the novel theatrical practice of live broadcasting, which was preceded by the standalone genres of radio and television plays. As a performance art, theatre possesses characteristics of a virtual object, where the information about such an object exists only in the memories of audiences or professional critics. In becoming digitised, theatre loses its former character – the uniqueness of presence in a concrete theatrical here-and-now that can never be repeated – and acquires a new mode of existence within a movie theatre represented in Russia by the Theatre HD project, which translates the theatrical educational mission into the digital age by involving new participants in creative dialogue.

Cultural Studies as Performative Research in a Digital Age

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 309-320
Author(s):  
Caroline Stockman ◽  
Fred Truyen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
General Domain ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
Research Domain

This paper aims to explore the nature of digital culture research, and the fitting methodology. Although it is still felt to be a novelty, it is not so different from the more general domain of Cultural Studies. The aim of research for both domains is meaning, or the challenge to understand the dynamics of the encoding and decoding process. Both domains endorse a wide variety of subjects, although typically the concrete methodology of Cultural Studies still remains restricted to qualitative approaches. The question of quantitative data and their analysis is highlighted in digital culture, and we should consider both its opportunities and limitations for the research at hand. In our reflection, Cultural Studies research emerges as a performative enterprise, and this is one of its unique distinctions as a research domain.

scholarly journals Serbian music criticism in the first half of the twentieth century: Its canon, its method and its educational role

Muzikologija ◽  
2008 ◽  
pp. 185-202
Author(s):  
Aleksandar Vasic
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Music Criticism ◽  
Educational Mission ◽  
Violin Concerto ◽  
The Public ◽  
Educational Role ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Professional Critics

Serbian music criticism became a subject of professional music critics at the beginning of the twentieth century, after being developed by music amateurs throughout the whole previous century. The Serbian Literary Magazine (1901- 1914, 1920-1941), the forum of the Serbian modernist writers in the early 1900s, had a crucial role in shaping the Serbian music criticism and essayistics of the modern era. The Serbian elite musicians wrote for the SLM and therefore it reflects the most important issues of the early twentieth century Serbian music. The SLM undertook the mission of educating its readers. The music culture of the Serbian public was only recently developed. The public needed an introduction into the most important features of the European music, as well as developing its own taste in music. This paper deals with two aspects of the music criticism in the SLM, in view of its educational role: the problem of virtuosity and the method used by music critics in this magazine. The aesthetic canon of the SLM was marked by decisively negative attitude towards the virtuosity. Mainly concerned by educating the Serbian music public in the spirit of the highest music achievements in Europe, the music writers of the SLM criticized both domestic and foreign performers who favoured virtuosity over the 'essence' of music. Therefore, Niccol? Paganini, Franz Liszt, and even Peter Tchaikowsky with his Violin concerto became the subject of the magazine's criticism. However their attitude towards the interpreters with both musicality and virtuoso technique was always positive. That was evident in the writings on Jan Kubel?k. This educational mission also had its effect on the structure of critique writings in the SLM. In their wish to inform the Serbian public on the European music (which they did very professionally), the critics gave much more information on biographies, bibliographies and style of the European composers, than they valued the interpretation itself. That was by far the weakest aspect of music criticism in the SLM. Although the music criticism in the SLM was professional and analytic one, it often used the literary style and sometimes even profane expressions in describing the artistic value and performance, more than it was necessary for the genre of music criticism. The music critics of the SLM set high aesthetic standards before the Serbian music public, and therefore the virtuosity was rejected by them. At the same time, these highly professional critics did not possess a certain level of introspection that would allow them to abstain from using sometimes empty and unconvincing phrases instead of exact formulations suitable for the professional music criticism. In that respect, music critics in the SLM did not match the standards they themselves set before both the performers and the public in Serbia.

Youth Identity in the Digital Age

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-82
Author(s):  
Vo Huong Nam
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Youth Identity ◽  
Profound Influence ◽  
Critical Task ◽  
Networked Society ◽  
Adolescent Period

AbstractThe digital culture has a profound influence on the formation of personal identity among the youth of Gens Y and Z. The networked society has strongly affected the process of forming an “inner identity,” a critical task in the adolescent period. The design of digital social media and apps can enslave youth in the “hive” and take away the solitude and resources needed for them to cultivate their “inner identity.” Therefore, there is a need for institutions such as school, family, and church to reinvent better ways to accommodate youth and engage them with digital media with responsibility and discernment.

A New Perspective for School Management in the Digital Age

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Eren Kesim
Keyword(s):  
School Principals ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
School Management ◽  
Transformation Process ◽  
First Century ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Educational Organizations ◽  
Restructuring Process ◽  
New Perspective

All nations throughout the world have been influenced by rapid developments and transformations in the twenty first century. Throughout this process of rapid change, in which newly developed technologies and globalization gained momentum, all social establishments are being restructured. The restructuring process may only be realized with the involvement of individuals raised and trained in accordance with the age we live in, thus the strategic importance of educational organizations has risen. For educational organizations to fulfill the expectations of the responsibilities assigned to them, they must be managed in accordance with the requirements of this era. School principals are laden with important responsibilities throughout this process. One of the foremost variables of the transformation process enabled by digital technologies in the digital age is the concept of digital culture. This concept must be analyzed regarding its repercussions in educational organizations. This study analyzes the digital culture which has emerged in the digital age regarding its repercussion in schools and school management from a conceptual perspective.

scholarly journals Towards a Theological Anthropology of the Digital Age

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Gemma Serrano ◽  
Alessandro De Cesaris
Keyword(s):  
Theological Anthropology ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Inner Life ◽  
Technological Transformation ◽  
Do So ◽  
Human Finitude

Abstract The paper aims at providing some introductory insights in the project of a theological anthropology of the digital age. The objective is to show that theological anthropology can help us gain an original and valid perspective on the technological transformation we have been experiencing during the last few decades. In order to do so, it is not enough to underline the analogy between some sources of the Judeo-Christian tradition and some aspects of the so-called digital culture. Instead, the objective is to show that theology can offer some theoretical instruments able to offer a deeper insight in our condition. The paper starts from the notion of finitude, interpreted as a blessing and not as a “limit” of our nature. Through the distinction between Promethean and Epimethan approaches to technology, the text focuses on three core aspects of human finitude: corporeality, inner life and otherness.

scholarly journals Living in a digital culture: The need for theological reflection

2015 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita L. Cloete
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Theological Reflection ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Making Meaning ◽  
The Church ◽  
Proactive Role

Today our lives are filled with technology through which we communicate, work, play and even engage with for making meaning. This implies the pervasive presence of digital media as an integral part of our everyday life. Although studies on media are mostly done by sociology and communication students, living in a digital age has significant implications for theological reflections. Despite this being the case there is gap in terms of a religious response to technology. In response to this, the aim of this article is to stimulate theological reflections with regard to living in a digital culture. This is achieved by raising theological questions in the hope that theology could take a proactive role in these discussions. The implications of living in a digital culture are quite vast; therefore, the focus will be limited to how a community is formed and sustained, and the possible implications for the church as community.

Literary Translation and Digital Culture: The Transmedial Breakthrough of Poland’s The Witcher

2020 ◽  
pp. 205-226
Author(s):  
Paulina Drewniak
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Cultural Diplomacy ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Fan Fiction ◽  
High Literature ◽  
Digital Cultures

This chapter explores the international transmedial phenomenon, The Witcher, which began life as a 1986 Polish short story, ‘Wiedźmin’ (The Witcher) by Andrzej Sapowski, but has become a paradigm of the intercultural communication facilitated by the digital age, including not only translated fiction, but also fan fiction and fan translations, a videogame trilogy and a film. The chapter highlights the new opportunities that digital cultures offer translated literatures, regardless of national origin, and the challenges they present to existing translation studies theory, dominated by the circulation of high literature in book form. It also notes, however, how even internationally co-owned genre franchises, old considerations of national cultural diplomacy, narrative and identity remain.

scholarly journals The pixelated text: Reading the Bible within digital culture

Theology ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 121 (6) ◽  
pp. 403-412 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Digital Humanities ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Reading Process ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Text Reading

This article looks at Bible engagement in a digital age, focusing both on multimedia engagement with the Bible through the ages and on the changes that new technologies bring to the reading process, and asking some questions about our use of different technologies for different tasks. The article opens up the new possibilities afforded to scholars through the digitization of manuscripts and libraries, but also looks at the limitations of digital Bibles in their current forms. What new areas of research do the digital humanities open up for us?

scholarly journals TYPOLOGY OF INTELLIGENCE AND LIBRARY LOGO

2020 ◽  
pp. 29-38
Author(s):  
A. V. Sokolov
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Digital Signals ◽  
Educational Mission ◽  
Cultural Codes ◽  
Public Consciousness ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Intellectual Potential

Intelligence is understood as a means of mental activity, that is, a means of generating, storing, understanding, transforming thoughts in a special intelligible space of the noosphere. Three types  of intellects are distinguished depending on the  thinking subject: Intelligence A is an individual  lively wit of a member of a society, which is  in his mind; Intelligence B is a social logos, which  is the core of abstract thought and speech sphere  of public consciousness (logosphere) and includes  the BB Bibliologo as one of its particular types;  Intelligence C is an artificial intelligence that exists  in a digital virtual reality (computer space  and time). Intelligence A is a natural one, operating with symbols (speech and images) in a psychical human world; Intelligence B is artificial, operating with cultural codes in a social environment; Intelligence C is artificial, operating with digital signals in an electronic virtual environment. Two ideological problems are examined: firstly, the problem of the intelligences A, B, C dynamics of development in biological and historical time; secondly, the problem of interaction of various intelligences in the modern society logo sphere. The conclusion that digital culture must be balanced by humanitarian (humanistic) culture, the bearer of which is book cultural heritage, is made. For this, each Russian library should be a center of Russian culture, combining three types of intelligences: 1) library logo; 2) artificial intelligence of free access; 3) lively intelligence of a library team.  The educational mission of Library Logos is to use their intellectual potential for to bring to senses (familiarize with the mind) the population of Russia. Moreover, it is desirable that our politicians should comprehend that the library is the humanistic stronghold of the nation, and digitalization (informatization, automation) is an auxiliary tool to strengthen book culture as the basic value of Russia.

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