scholarly journals Re-Locating the Spaces of Television Studies

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 123-130
Author(s):  
Anna Cristina Pertierra
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Entertainment Industry ◽  
Television Studies ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Broadcast Television

This paper will extend work originally presented in Pertierra and Turner’s <em>Locating Television </em>(2013) to argue that the reasons for which the demise of television was prematurely assumed can be understood and corrected by critically examining the geopolitics of television scholarship. The spaces from which television has been taken seriously as a topic of investigation have enabled a neglect of empirical and theoretical research that genuinely engages with the ways in which television might be understood as variously surviving, growing, innovating and even leading the current and future global media landscapes. The paper offers two ways in which television scholars might productively re-locate their spheres of concentration to understand the diversity of television worlds today: 1) empirically, it considers the case of the Philippines where broadcast television is successful in ways that could only be dreamed of by television executives in the so-called ‘world centres’ of the global entertainment industry. 2) theoretically, the paper refers to complementary attempts in sociology, literary and cultural studies to offer alternatives to Europe and North America from which scholars might locate the vanguard for modernity, globalization and innovation. It is by engaging with both of these strands in concert—empirically investigating television beyond the ‘usual places’ in such a way that responds to the call of cultural theorists to question our very assumptions about where television studies’ ‘usual places’ should be, that more nuanced understandings, and fewer premature declarations, might be made about what television is, and where it is going.

Precarity and Solidarity at Neoliberalism’s Twilight: The Potentials of Transnational Production Autoethnography

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 311-321
Author(s):  
Brian Dolber
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Structural Forces ◽  
Academic Labor ◽  
Creative Workers

This essay uses autoethnography to illuminate the shifting conditions of global creative and academic labor. By reflecting on my experiences during a 2014 research trip to Manila, the Philippines, I, as a U.S. scholar, consider the different experiences of precarity in transnational cultural production, as academic and creative labor are both shaped by neoliberal structural forces. Through production autoethnography, I argue we may build forms of solidarity between cultural studies scholars and creative workers. Attending to the broader political changes that have occurred over the last several years, I conclude that as neoliberalism has lost its hegemonic authority, cultural producers, including cultural studies scholars, have the opportunity to help forge something better.

Using a non-coercive process to engage mathematics teachers in lesson study

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 329-347
Author(s):  
Allan M. Canonigo
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Mathematics Teachers ◽  
Lesson Study ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Public High School ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Research Perspective ◽  
Stakeholder Relationships

Purpose While lesson study may be powerful, it may also be either misguided or superficial. Further, cultural change is difficult and norms such as teacher isolation and autonomy are well entrenched. These concerns point to the need for a non-coercive process that has a positive focus, is essentially self-organizing, encourages deep reflection, and avoids the pitfalls of manipulation by school administrators and or knowledgeable others. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach Using a qualitative case study framed by an appreciative inquiry (AI) theoretical research perspective, the author documents the experience of teachers who worked through a complete lesson study cycle with tenth-grade Mathematics in the Philippines, systematically reconstructed from field texts and deliberate co-construction techniques. Findings AI can provide the inclusive collaborative relationship for lesson study to be non-coercive because it takes into account the teachers’ voices, provides a relational space for interactions, offers opportunities for meaningful dialogue, empowers teachers to take action, and manages cultural differences, which avoid the dangers of contrived collaboration that are used to manipulate and control teachers. Thus, many of the benefits of lesson study were achieved through deepened relationships and more collegial atmosphere in the schools. Research limitations/implications The study was conducted in a public high school participated by three mathematics teachers teaching grade 10. This paper limits only to social interactions and dynamics that emerged when the lesson study was first introduced in a particular school. As its limitation, it did not include revisions of the lesson developed, because this study concerned only on describing the process to engage mathematics teachers in lesson study. Social implications This paper poses that more attention needs to be given to the key issues related to social interactions and group dynamics that emerge when lesson study is introduced to existing school cultures and stakeholder relationships. Originality/value This first-hand account of using AI as a non-coercive process for teachers to change their practice to collaborate through lesson study hopes to prompt a conversation about the role of culture for lesson study to be successful in schools.

scholarly journals Posthumanistic trends in foreign science vs culturology?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lyudmila Gotz
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Empirical Observation ◽  
Promising Area ◽  
Analytical Review ◽  
Ontological Turn ◽  
Foreign Science ◽  
Conceptual Foundations ◽  
First Time

The purpose of the article is to attract the attention of culturоlogists and cultural anthropologists to the possibility of reception of the problems and research lens of non-anthropocentric anthropology. In the last third of the ХХ – and early ХХІ centuries foreign non-anthropocentric anthropology has been in an active stage of conceptualization and institutionalization. And now its influence is continuing to grow. The article reveals the essence of such academic trends as anthropology without anthropocentrism, ontological turn in line with perspectivism, trans- аnd posthumanistic tendencies in the humanities, material turn, bio/animal turn, and others. The methodology within the framework of culturology and cultural studies is based on the conceptual foundations of non-anthropocentric anthropology, methods of empirical (observation, comparison), and theoretical research (abstraction, analysis, synthesis, induction, and deduction), etc. The scientific novelty of the paper lies in the fact that in the Ukrainian humanities, in particular in culturology and cultural studies, an analytical review of the genesis and essence of such a research approach as non-apocentric anthropology is carried out for the first time. As far as we know, the question of the need for the reception of the research optics of neo-centric anthropology by culturology is also raised for the first time. The article contains conceptual author’s tables also. Conclusions. The author believes that the reception of research on non-anthropocentric anthropology, the development of an appropriate conceptual apparatus, and revision of some key concepts of culturology in the light of modern scientific knowledge in a timely and promising area of research in culturology and cultural studies.

scholarly journals Understanding Socialist Television

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabina Mihelj
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Television Studies ◽  
Economic Aspects ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Methodological Nationalism ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The Cold War

This article develops a number of conceptual and methodological proposals aimed at furthering a firmer agenda for the field of socialist television studies. It opens by addressing the issue of relevance of the field, identifying three critical contributions the study of socialist television can make to media, communication and cultural studies. It then puts forward a number of proposals tied to three key issues: strategies of overcoming the Cold War framework that dominates much of existing literature; the importance of a multilayered analysis of socialist television that considers its cultural, political as well as economic aspects; and the ways in which we can challenge the prevalence of methodological nationalism in the field.

scholarly journals Communication, Culture and Community: Towards A Cultural Analysis of Community Media

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Howley
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Blind Spot ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Community Media ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approaches ◽  
A Site

This paper promotes a research agenda committed to a sustained, multiperspectival cultural analysis of community-based media. In doing so, the essay takes up two interrelated arguments. First, it is suggested that community media represent a conspicuous blind spot in cultural approaches to communication studies: a situation that is at odds with the hallmarks of cultural studies scholarship, especially its affirmation of popular forms of resistance and its celebration of and keen appreciation for local cultural production. Second, the author maintains that as a site of intense struggle over cultural production, distribution, and consumption within and through communication and information technologies, community media demand the rigorous, interdisciplinary approaches and interventionist strategies associated with the finest traditions of cultural studies scholarship. The author concludes that this research program is essential for appreciating the social, political, and cultural significance of locally oriented, participatory media in an increasingly privatized, global media environment.

Reality Television

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Murray
Keyword(s):  
Reality Television ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Television Studies ◽  
Prime Time ◽  
Broadcast Television ◽  
Big Brother ◽  
Cable Networks ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

While we can locate the start of the most recent wave of American reality TV in the 2000–2001 season with the premiere of Survivor and Big Brother, the history of the genre reaches back to the very earliest days of broadcast television, with programs such as Queen for a Day and Candid Camera. The current, and perhaps most significant and long-lasting, wave of reality television developed out of a moment of financial destabilization for the broadcast networks. In an environment of rising production costs, intense competition from cable networks, and the appearance of a range of new digital technologies that threatened the very basics of the financing and production of broadcast television, networks welcomed reality formats—many of which were created and sold by European packagers—into their prime-time schedules. The genre has become so profitable over the past decade that not only has it formed the base of network prime-time schedules, but it has also seeped into virtually all cable programming, often helping form a cable network’s brand identity. Media scholars quickly took note of these industrial changes and also considered how cultural and political changes might also be fueling the popularity of the genre at the turn of the 21st century—particularly the increased acceptance of surveillance and the intensification of neoliberal strategies and discourses. As a result, reality television became a catalyst for not just the restructuring of the television business, but also for the study of television in an academic environment. Over the preceding decade, the focus and methods of television studies had been remade as scholars considered the social, economic, philosophical, and political implications of a genre that makes claims to the Real, the ordinary, and the spectacular simultaneously. This article details some of the most relevant and important works related to the project of understanding the global phenomenon of reality television.

Critical Media Theory

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Glynn
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Film Theory ◽  
Frankfurt School ◽  
Media Theory ◽  
Television Studies ◽  
Critical Media ◽  
1960S And 1970S

Critical media theory can be traced back to the development of critical theory by thinkers associated with the so-called Frankfurt School in the 1920s and 1930s. The critical theory of the Frankfurt School was generally neo-Marxist and Hegelian, and established powerful critiques of positivist, mainstream forms of social science and philosophy. The Frankfurt School’s approach to theorizing the emergent 20th century “mass media” therefore founded a powerful critique of mainstream, positivist, “administrative” mass communication research that became dominant in the early decades of the discipline. Arguably the most direct theoretical descendants of Frankfurt School critical theory (via the latter’s critique of industrialized culture) are the forms of political economy of the media that emerged in their wake. By the 1960s and 1970s, however, competing Marxist analyses began to challenge what they took to be the economism, reductionism, and determinism of Frankfurt School and political economy approaches. The most important movement in these respects came out of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. The so-called Birmingham School developed forms of structural and cultural Marxism that drew heavily on the work of Althusser and Gramsci in particular. Additionally, the CCCS developed semiotic and ethnographic approaches to critical media studies that drew upon thinkers such as Barthes and Geertz, and thus gave rise to theories of media audiences that differed sharply from those of the Frankfurt School and political economists. During the late-1970s and throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the critical media theory of the Birmingham School engaged closely with feminist theory and politics, and with critical race theory; it also engaged in dialogues and debates with poststructuralism, postmodernism, post-Marxism and postcolonialism, and spread internationally under the stripped-down heading of “Cultural Studies.” Though not unrelated, critical media theory can be differentiated from film theory: many film theorists reject the characterization of cinema as a “communication medium,” and equally rejected (for many years, at least) the engagement with television that spurred the development of a great deal of critical media theory and that helped give rise to the field of television studies in the 1970s and 1980s. Critical media theory in general, and television studies in particular, have incorporated some forms of psychoanalysis to one degree or another, but neither has been anywhere near as absorbed by psychoanalytic approaches as film theory was for many years (arguably as primarily a consequence of the specificity of the cinematic apparatus). In more recent years, new media theory in particular has been central to the continuing development and concerns of critical media theory more generally.

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