scholarly journals Negotiating Representation of Islamic Values on Korean TV Dramas Among Indonesian Muslim Youth

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 230-242
Author(s):  
Imron Rosidi ◽  
◽  
Khotimah ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Cultural Imperialism ◽  
Television Drama ◽  
Cultural Products ◽  
Muslim Youth ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
Islamic Values

This article describes one of the effects of globalization on young Muslims in Indonesia. They interact with a variety of cultural products from all corners of the world. Focusing on Indonesia, this article argues that the emergence of globalization has provided opportunities for young Muslims to negotiate Islamic value representations of Korean TV dramas. Using ethnography method, this article selects young Indonesian Muslims who like Korean television drama as informants. The emergence of transnational cultural products was believed to play an important role in the process of 'cultural imperialism' among young people. The information and views presented are not considered to be a ‘healthy’ menu for Muslim youth. In fact, in cultural studies, media imperialism or cultural imperialism is famously contested. By interviewing and observing 42 informants, this article finds that Muslim youth do not receive all the messages from the media passively. During their consumption on Korean television dramas, young Muslims are negotiating their representations. They are capable of selecting values from the television dramas. These Muslim consumers in this context do not just accept all the messages and representations of Korean television dramas. Indonesian Muslim youth have an innate cultural identity and conscious knowledge, which they have obtained from their learning environments such as education and culture. Muslim youth interpret "stories" in drama by relating them to their Islamic values. Keywords: Negotiation, representations, Islamic values, youth, Korean TV dramas.

scholarly journals Oaknín, Mazal. Feminism, Writing and the Media in Spain. Oxford, Peter Lang, 2019, 209 pp., ISBN 978-3-0343-1865-5

Hikma ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 367-370
Author(s):  
Maria Luisa Rodríguez Muñoz
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Essential Work ◽  
Rosa Montero ◽  
Cultural Products ◽  
Ana Maria Matute ◽  
Lucia Etxebarria ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media

In line with the sociological shift in translation and literary studies, which is experiencing increasing success nowadays, Professor Mazal Oaknín offers us an essential work to delve into the evolution of women’s writing in Spain in the twentieth century and how it is represented and constructed through the media. Unlike descriptive research focusing on cultural products, this scholar bases her research on the influence that historical context and marketing constraints have exerted on the image through which three emblematic female Spanish writers (Ana María Matute, Rosa Montero and Lucía Etxebarría) have introduced themselves to the world of letters and their readerships.

scholarly journals TO THE QUESTION OF THE NATIVE LANGUAGES OF RUSSIAN PUPILS

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
М.Ю. МАРТЫНОВА
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Social Engineering ◽  
School Education ◽  
Multicultural Society ◽  
Native Languages ◽  
United State ◽  
The World ◽  
National Languages ◽  
Ideological Work

Язык играет важную роль в истории и культуре любого народа. Национальность во многом отождествляется с идеей языка. Что же влияет на жизнь языка? Почему одни из них исчезают, а другие расширяют ареалы своего распространения? Насколько язык мож- но считать исторически заданным явлением и в какой степени – конструктом, резуль- татом “социальной инженерии”, идеологической работы? Во всем мире нарастает мно- гокультурность общества, и все более актуальной в этих условиях становится пробле- ма сохранения этнокультурной самобытности населения, передачи молодому поколению традиций его отцов и дедов. Готовя молодежь к жизни в многоязычном и поликультурном обществе, важно найти баланс между этнокультурными потребностями того или иного гражданина страны и задачами консолидации населения в интересах единого государства. В статье будут рассмотрены вопросы школьного образования на национальных языках и проблема их сохранения и изучения в регионах России. Language plays important role in the history and culture of any nation. Nationality is largely identified with the idea of language. What affects the life of the language? Why do some of them disappear, while others expand their distribution areas? How can language be regarded as historically given phenomenon and to what extent as a construct, the result of “social engineering” and ideological work? Throughout the world, the multiculturalism of society is growing, and the problem of preserving the ethno-cultural identity of the population, transferring the traditions of its fathers and grandfathers to the younger generation is becoming more urgent in these conditions. Preparing young people for life in a multilingual and multicultural society, it is important to find a balance between ethnic and cultural needs of a citizen of the country and population consolidation tasks in the interests of a united state. The report will focus on school education in national languages, and the problem of their preservation and study in Russia’s regions.

Animating Artifact Spirits in the 2.5-Dimensional World

2020 ◽  
pp. 55-65
Author(s):  
Akiko Sugawa-Shimada
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Young People ◽  
Web Browser ◽  
Cultural Products ◽  
Folk Belief ◽  
Folk Beliefs ◽  
Mobile Game ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Mix ◽  
Online Web

In Japanese folk belief, inanimate objects used for 100 years are believed to be granted a spirit. They are called tsukumogami, or artefact spirits. Through personification of the spirits in recent popular cultural products, the belief of tsukumogami has been popularized among young people who are unaware of the folk belief. One of the most popular works utilizing personified tsukumogami is Token Ranbu-ONLINE-, an online web browser (2015) and mobile game (2016). It has been adapted into 2.5-dimensional plays and musicals, anime works, and other media forms. The article explores how tsukumogami of Japanese swords are adapted in the media mix strategy of Token Ranbu. It argues that those adaptations serve to provide a spiritual site where Japanese folk beliefs can be traced. Through her study, the author also shows how Japanese folk beliefs (a mixture of Shintoism, Buddhism, and Chinese philosophies) are constructed, consumed, and used in Japan’s contemporary popular culture.

Finding My Cultural Identity: Experience from a "Dyaspora" in Haiti's Internally Displaced Persons Camps

2013 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 8-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabine Bernard
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Large Body ◽  
The United States ◽  
Internally Displaced Persons ◽  
Large Role ◽  
Internally Displaced ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
War Zone ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media

My experience in Haiti was remarkable, life changing, as well as challenging. Out of a group of five students, it is fair to say that I was one of the most nervous and apprehensive of them all. Having never been to Haiti, I fell victim to the socially accepted stereotype of Haiti as a dangerous, uninhabitable country. Being convinced of this negative perception, I was expecting to enter a war zone and witness only the depressing images of poverty that the media displays when showing Haiti. Fortunately, my experience proved my preconceived notions wrong; being in Haiti allowed me to witness the country's richness in culture and history as well as its significance in the world. Although Haiti is close to America geographically, it does not share the same cultural aspects as does the United States. It is culturally quite different. These differences have led to Haiti having produced a large body of anthropological scholarship, primarily because of its unique history. It has therefore played a large role in sociocultural anthropology that, in turn, has had a significant impact on my anthropological training. I can therefore say that the major distressing events that struck Haiti, such as the earthquake and all other events that helped make it an impoverished country, need an area of study like anthropology to help comprehend how and why a country like Haiti is where it is today.

scholarly journals LA GENÈSE DE L’HORREUR. REPRÉSENTATION DE L’ACTE TERRORISTE ET TRAVAIL DE MÉMOIRE DANS LA LITTÉRATURE MAROCAINE D’EXPRESSION FRANÇAISE / THE GENESIS OF HORROR: REPRESENTATION OF THE TERRORIST ACT AND MEMORY WORK IN MOROCCAN LITERATURE OF FRENCH EXPRESSION

2019 ◽  
pp. 85-103
Author(s):  
Abdeljalil El Kadim
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Acting Out ◽  
Know How ◽  
Love Story ◽  
Memory Work ◽  
Social Determinism ◽  
The World ◽  
Thought Patterns ◽  
The Media ◽  
Crisis Of Meaning

In the aftermath of the May 2003 attacks, Moroccans were paralyzed by the magnitude of the event. Political scientists, sociologists, journalists took turns on television sets to try to comprehend the incomprehensible, to label the unspeakable. The trauma was such that society took refuge in denial, arguing the age-old tolerance of Moroccans and their legendary pacifism. Years later, young novelists seize the event; put it in fiction, initiating a work of memory likely to reconcile the community with its painful past. In order to get out of denial, suggest these novelists, one must have the courage to face reality in the front. The terrorist is here. Instead of pretending to ignore him, it would be more judicious, to approach him, to give him the floor, to access the intimacy of his conscience. Hence, amazingly we will discover the limits of our ability to interpret. In the terrorist act, there is nothing to understand. Above all, we must not go back to the usual thought patterns and easy causalities conveyed by the media. This crisis of meaning is expressed aesthetically by challenging the reading grids of the realistic novel. We must not believe that the genesis of horror can be explained by a kind of social determinism. Certainly, information about real allow us to understand, in part, the fact of acting out, of falling into barbarism. But, let's recognize that our understanding emains incomplete. The deep motivations of the terrorist will always escape us. Shifted in his habits, the reader is invited to approach the problem differently and manages to grasp the real dangers of the situation. Basically, the economic and social crisis of Moroccan society is only the tip of the iceberg. Above all, our society suffers from a crisis of the imagination since young people from outlying districts are deprived of the possibility of building their relationship with the world other than through mechanical tasks, which are often degrading. Fragilized by the symbolic misery, they become easy victims of jihadist rhetoric. Other facets of the terrorist emerge then and with them narrative possibilities never updated, including that of a love story endearing in its depth and simplicity. Morality: the story of terrorism could have been different if we had known how to negotiate the education of the imagination of a lost youth; this education is also inexpensive if we know how to go about it. In short, for Moroccan novelists, this reinvigoration of the meaning to which the reader is cornered is the, sine qua non, of any salutary memory work.

scholarly journals ‘Alexa, Adv(ert)ise us!’

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. 19-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Haas ◽  
Anna Keller
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
New Media ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
Child Friendly ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Smart Technologies ◽  
Advertising Literacy ◽  
High Degree

Digital assistants increasingly infiltrate the world of children. The way they function reminds us somewhat of playmates, nannies and tutors. So far, educators have only marginally dealt with this new media phenomenon, yet the use of smart speakers by young people offers many opportunities as well as challenges. These are elaborated in this article and classified in terms of media education. Firstly, we will address a definition of smart speakers and digital speech assistants, and then examine their use by means of usage data. We will then concentrate on examining the extent to which these smart technologies play a role in the environments of young people. What forms of advertising are there? What data do digital assistants collect? And finally, how can parents, educators and companies ensure that smart technologies are used in a child-friendly manner that complies with data protection regulations? Our aim is to nudge the phenomenon of smart speakers and speech assistants into the media-pedagogical focus. Dealing with the specific characteristics of smart speakers requires a high degree of (child) user competence. As we will show in the conclusion, there are further pedagogically beneficial approaches from the point of view of promoting advertising literacy.

scholarly journals ¡Soy músico youtuber! Construcción de la identidad artística a través del cover y la ficción. El caso de las violinistas Taylor Davis y Lindsey Stirling

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arantxa Vizcaíno-Verdú ◽  
Paloma Contreras-Pulido
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Virtual Environments ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Music Video ◽  
Cultural Industry ◽  
Cultural Products ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media

The audiovisual activity developing in social networks has led to the YouTube platform becoming an international creative and social space where the content created by the user, the media, the companies and the online communities comes together. This digital opportunity identifies the figure of the youtuber, especially those whose artistic and musicaltalents are disseminated by the use of a fictional cover. This research seeks to analyse this profilebuilding starting from its amateur origin and ending with its professional stage, by means of the figures of Taylor Davis and Lindsey Stirling: North American violinists devoted to music, video games, films, series, among other products within the Cultural Industry. To this end, their channels have been examined through qualitative content analysis. This methodology made it possible for us to explore in depth this mainstream phenomenon encompassing the world of fandom, music and artistic success through trendy cultural products. As a consequence, musician youtubers are building a creative, ingenious and suppressed community in virtual environments.

scholarly journals ArtApki w edukacji plastycznej uczniów w wieku wczesnoszkolnym

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-136
Author(s):  
Dorota Sobierańska
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Visual Literacy ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Transfer Of Knowledge ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
School Activities ◽  
Early School ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
Artistic Applications

An important problem of the present is the preparation of young people to live among an increasing number of visual messages that come from the world of traditional and modern art and among visual messages from the media environment. In this situation, it is necessary to change early school art education from the traditional transfer of knowledge into educational settings through which students actively develop visual literacy. The artistic applications presented in the text, available on the websites of American museums, are one of the means leading to this goal. However, it should be emphasized that these applications should be a supplement rather than an alternative to school activities, and their selection and use must be carefully thought over.

scholarly journals Cultural Imperialism in the Discourse of Globalization (Subjective Factors)

2015 ◽  
pp. 22-32
Author(s):  
Nina Zrazhevska
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Discourse ◽  
Cultural Imperialism ◽  
Global Culture ◽  
Human Capabilities ◽  
Cultural Products ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Cultural Approach ◽  
Consumption Practices ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Globalization

In this research the subjective reasons for the expansion of global culture in local cultures are explored. The main objective is to analyze the subjective factors of the cultural imperialism and to show that psychological, marketing and technological factors are no less important than ideological and economic reasons of globalization. The methodology of research is based on cultural approach to the process of cultural imperialism, which describes at least four main scenarios of globalization. The first scenario is a global homogenization and cultural unification under the influence of “cultural imperialism”. The second scenario, “peripheral corruption” is the expansion of the Western culture to the peripheral segments in a global world, where the peripheral cultures filtrate and adapt the global cultural products. The third scenario is a “mosaic” culture of the isolated competing cultures of the hostile civilizations. The fourth scenario is an open egalitarian world with intense cultural exchange. We conclude that the subjective aspects of cultural globalization relate to the production of discourse, in which great narratives are challenged by the diversity of consumption practices. Given that globalization policy involves multiculturalism, the multiplicity of identities triggered by the virtualization technologies causes the new forms of cultural interaction and allows playing with different cultural contexts. The cultural imperialism is caused by the interpenetration of cultures resulting from the multicultural policy of the Western countries, that creates the effect of self-identity within the global cultural discourse. Cultural imperialism takes place due to the media-globalization, since the media-culture dominates in contemporary cultural discourse. In the contemporary socio-cultural environment, the media acquired global significance and technologically expanded human capabilities. A distinctive feature of the modern technologies is their potential to not only extend human capabilities, but also to significantly influence humanity, change human’s perception of the world and of oneself. Based on the cultural approach to the problem of globalization, we substantiate that in contemporary Ukraine the second scenario of cultural imperialism (“peripheral corruption”) dominates. It filtrates the globalized cultural products and adapts them for itself.

scholarly journals Media and Cultural Imperialism in Burkina Faso

Afrika Focus ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 17 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Serge Théophile Balima
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Cultural Imperialism ◽  
Cultural Products ◽  
Life Styles ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The Press ◽  
Information Media

The various kinds of information released in the press and other media are cultural products that partake in the shaping of citizens' opinions and minds. Radio and television in particular present their audiences in Burkina Faso with various life-styles through diverse entertainment programmes which have grown popular among the urban population. These are fertile fields for cultural imperialism in the country. In the on-going process of internationalization of culture facilitated by the new communication technology, the cultural identity of Africans is increasingly threatened. This phenomenon is the result of adverse political and economic conditions with significant cultural consequences. In the long run, these cultural consequences will lead to the marginalization of Africa on the international scene and its increased dependence on the western powers.Key Words: culture, imperialism, influence, information, media, uniformity. 

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