scholarly journals The Subject in Times of Media and Social Change. The Analytic Potential of the Mediatization Approach Using the Case of Retro Gaming

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Wimmer
Keyword(s):  
Computer Games ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Social Community ◽  
Holistic Understanding ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The One ◽  
Analytic Potential

<span lang="EN-GB">The study focuses on the question of the mediatized constitution of subject and subjectivity, which, surprisingly, has received little attention so far. The analytical reference to the mediatization approach enables a holistic understanding of subject, communication and media. Using the empirical example of the media (sub)culture of retro games, this article empirically examines the extent to which computer gamers are influenced by<span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 8pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"> the spaces of experiences of games</span>, not only in the moment of playing them, but also in the long term, with regard to their personal development and social community. The findings illustrate two dimensions of subjectivation processes: on the one hand, the reflective handling of computer games and thus subjectivation through games and game contexts, on the other hand, the nostalgic recollection of specific games and game contexts, which can be clearly separated analytically from the first dimension.</span><span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span>

The Last Decades and the Decline of Ava

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A. Aung-Thwin
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The One ◽  
Client System

The kingdom that was Ava came to an “end” in 1526-7. It can be attributed to both long-term structural causes as well as “incidents of the moment,” events that set “afire” the former “kindling.” These “incidents of the moment” can accelerate but also slow down (sometimes, actually reverse) long-term patterns and trends. In Ava’s case, they accelerated its decline. The merit-path to salvation, court factionalism, the patron-client system, and the growth of Shan ascendancy on the one hand, and military set-backs, serendipitous events, and intransigent personalities on the other, resulted in the “fall” of the First Ava Dynasty in 1527. Thereafter, Ava became an ordinary myosa-ship and ceased being the exemplary center of Upper Myanmar, until raised once again as capital of the Second Ava Dynasty in 1600, which is beyond the scope of this study.

UK Media Publications: 1986

1987 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-36
Author(s):  
Len Masterman
Keyword(s):  
American Dream ◽  
The Media ◽  
American Book ◽  
The One ◽  
The Uk

Quantity is more evident than quality in the 1986 crop of British media books. Chronic lack of funding and opportunities for serious long-term research into the media in universities, polytechnics and colleges is reflected in a general absence of sustained reflective work in the publishers' lists. Indeed the one media book published in the UK in 1986 which is stilt likely to be of indisputable value in 1996 is an American book, Roland Marchand's meticulous account of American advertising between 1920–40, Advertising the American Dream. It is, by some distance, the best media book of the year, though it is unlikely to shift perceptions of its subject as markedly as two outstanding earlier studies, Daniel Pope's The Making of Modern Advertising (1983) and Michael Schudson's Advertising, the Uneasy Persuasion (1984).

scholarly journals Outsourcing Equality: Migrant Care Worker Imaginary in Finnish Media

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camilla Nordberg
Keyword(s):  
Media Discourse ◽  
Term Contract ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Cultural Imaginary ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One ◽  
Care Worker ◽  
Regional Authorities

Implications from the restructuring of Nordic eldercare include the incorporation of new categories of care workers and a redefinition of the terms of citizenship and participation in working life. Drawing on the idea that policy actors script care worker subjectivities, this article examines print media as a key arena where the cultural imaginary of care work is played out. The media has the potential to accommodate ideological complexity through the possible range of participatory actors. From the scripts promoted through the mediascape, we can learn about the positions understood as being (in)appropriate for migrant care workers. This study draws on the analysis of news and feature stories from 2003 to 2013 in the largest Finnish daily, Helsingin Sanomat, and in the periodical Kuntalehti, published by the Finnish Association of Local and Regional Authorities. The article points to tensions in Finnish media discourse, identifying ambiguous occupational scripts for migrant care workers—rooted in neoliberal repertoires of self-sufficiency and normative individualism on the one hand and helplessness and naivety on the other hand. It draws attention to an unsettling construction whereby migrant care workers are excluded from a long-term contract with the Finnish care labor market, and where social equality is conditioned to global redistribution.

scholarly journals The Loss of the Popular: Reconstructing Fifty Years of Studying Popular Culture

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 228-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joke Hermes ◽  
Jan Teurlings
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Voting Behavior ◽  
Defining Moment ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Media Objects ◽  
The Media ◽  
Filter Bubbles ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The One

This article starts from the observation that popular culture resides in a contradictory space. On the one hand it seems to be thriving, in that the range of media objects that were previously studied under the rubric of popular culture has certainly expanded. Yet, cultural studies scholars rarely study these media objects <em>as</em> popular culture. Instead, concerns about immaterial labor, about the manipulation of voting behavior and public opinion, about filter bubbles and societal polarization, and about populist authoritarianism, determine the dominant frames with which the contemporary media environment is approached. This article aims to trace how this change has come to pass over the last 50 years. It argues that changes in the media environment are important, but also that cultural studies as an institutionalizing interdisciplinary project has changed. It identifies “the moment of popular culture” as a relatively short-lived but epoch-defining moment in cultural studies. This moment was subsequently displaced by a set of related yet different theoretical problematics that gradually moved the study of popular culture away from the popular. These displacements are: the hollowing out of the notion of the popular, as signaled early on by Meaghan Morris’ article “The Banality of Cultural Studies” in 1988; the institutionalization of cultural studies; the rise of the governmentality approach and a growing engagement with affect theory.

scholarly journals View of Polish and Russian Media on Euro 2012: Comparing and Contrasting

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 169-182
Author(s):  
L. A. Tsyganova ◽  
L. Bieszke
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
Football Fans ◽  
Youth Subcultures ◽  
The Media ◽  
Run Up ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The One ◽  
The Guardian

Considering the role of the media in modern society, we need to understand that public opinion about football fans in general is formed out of the information transmitted by the media. The objective of the study is to analyze the different views and aspects of the Euro 2012: its influence on countries development; its profitability but also the behavior of fans – their cooperation and rivalry. However, contemporary scholarship on sports sociology and football fandom subcultures does not recognize class impact on the near-football movement. European Football Championship 2012 showed problems of development and regulation of football fanaticism. It is essential to see how events on Euro 2012 in Poland, collision and confrontation Polish and Russian fans were reflected in Russian, Polish and UK press “Sport-Express”, “Soviet Sport”, “Rossiyskaya Gazeta”, “Gazeta Wyborcza”, “Gazeta Polska”, “The Independent” and “The Guardian”. Football fans’, organization, and culture require precise studies, not only for understanding of current situation, but, perhaps, also for the development of an adequate strategy of interaction with them in the run-up to the World Cup in 2018. It is also necessary to identify not only the relationship of this movement to the different sectors of society, but also a subculture itself and its image in public opinion shaped by the media. In the era of globalization, understanding of youth subcultures is complicated and leads to a paradox. At the moment, there is a modification of the fan movement. On the one hand, we see the transition from bullying to the cultural «fanatism»; on the other hand, the question arises, if the bullies were an integral part of this culture, do we talk about the death or rebirth of culture? Youth subcultures in the era of postmodernism and globalization are transformed, into the phenomenon of «postsubculture», and may enhance the destructive tendencies in the spiritual life of the young generation, increasing the level of nihilistic attitudes. It should also be noted that the movement of football fans is becoming mainstream. There has been an increase in the popularity of fandom in society. This is due to the attention to this phenomenon in the media, in the cinema and fiction. 

Key Concepts in General Theory of Management in Innovative Society

2014 ◽  
pp. 210-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksei Ponukalin
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Collective Intelligence ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Innovative Economy ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The One

The features of the modern world community in its transition to a phase-risk existence represent a socio- economic study on developing a model of an innovative society that is adequate to the conditions of the global crisis. A key problem of long-term development is the development of man, his social and natural environment but the key subjects of long-term planning are an innovative development and new quality of human capital since the quality of human capital is one of our competitive advantages. The economy must be innovative and the innovative economy must be created by “the innovative” person. Consequently such a person has to be available but for the moment there is no such massive phenomenon on a national scale. In terms of social and economic bases of social development the necessity of administration is determined by division of labor on the one hand and by the need for its cooperation on the other. The modern new paradigm of public administration is more likely based on the idea of more and more complete inclusion of a creative person into the structure of the subject of management connected with collective intelligence that transforms the society, as described in this chapter.

On ‘cultural revolution’ and the Arab culture of revolution

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 398-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdullah R. Lux
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Universal Theory ◽  
The Road ◽  
Green Book ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Hype ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Pro Forma

Given the media hype and attention devoted to the events of the 2010–2011 ‘Arab Spring’ it may perhaps be overlooked that the Arabs, and more than many other nations, possess long experience with diverse and profound long-term revolutions in the twentieth century. For numerous reasons and especially the sweeping and pervasive socio-economic and political changes some of these introduced, they may well be more appropriately categorized as ‘revolutions’ than those termed as such at the moment. This article explores one dimension of this phenomenon and demonstrates that the concept of what was specifically termed a ‘cultural revolution’ (originally by Lenin about 1923) was first introduced in the Arab world by Jamal ‘Abd al-Nasser on 19 December 1961, nearly four years before Mao Tse Tung's launch of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in 1966. For his part, Mu‘ammar Qadhafi, who admitted borrowing the term (if not the mechanism) from Mao, would announce a ‘cultural revolution’ with markedly different connotations on 15 April 1973 at Zuwarah, which signalled the beginning of the road towards implementation of the ‘Third Universal Theory’ (reaching final form in the Green Book) and the subsequent inception of the Jamahiriya in 1977. Although the theoretical and practical implications were distinct for Lenin, Nasser, Mao and Qadhafi, history suggests that it was Nasser – the giant of Pan-Arabism who would come to define and represent Arab socialism – who preceded Mao as the first to call for a ‘cultural revolution’ as a policy at the level of state. He saw this as indispensable to the project of political and socio-economic revolution in the service of a just and sufficient society, where ‘sound democracy’ was not the pro-forma Western variant in the service of unmitigated capitalism and powerful elites, but rather an expression of socio-economic parity and a guarantee against exploitation by one group or one human being of another.

scholarly journals Some Assembly Required

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerome McDonough
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Computer Games ◽  
Digital Preservation ◽  
Document Collection ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Over Time

The semantics of XML markup is a perennial topic of discussion among markup enthusiasts, but these discussions often focus at the level of the meaning of a tag within a document, or within a document collection. Such discussions also have an inherent assumption of looking at the meaning of a tag at the moment. Employment of XML markup and machine ontologies for long-term digital preservation raises question of how meaning of tags may alter over time and how tags meaning may differ depending on the agent interpreting the tag. This paper discusses the Preserving Virtual Worlds project on the preservation of computer games and the semantic issues that arose in trying to use XML and OWL ontologies for long-term digital preservation.

scholarly journals Autonomes Chemielernen im Fernunterricht und darüber hinaus!

2021 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-73
Author(s):  
Klemens Koch ◽  
Patrik S. Locher
Keyword(s):  
Student Motivation ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Electronic Media ◽  
The Other ◽  
Autonomous Learning ◽  
Guided Learning ◽  
Professional Challenges ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One

Autonomous Distance Learning in Chemistry and Beyond! Using specific examples, some of which originate from online teaching in school during the COVID-19 lockdown in spring 2020, it is demonstrated how autonomous learning in chemistry can be supported, also in the long-term. Examples include the use of electronic media, experiments carried out at home, and discussion of current topics in the media that relate to chemistry to show how learning can be encouraged and the student motivation maintained. The aim is to encourage, on the one hand, self-guided learning to fulfill given study goals and on the other, autonomous learning out of curiosity and, later in life, to have the toolset to meet professional challenges.

Traumatic Brain Injury: A Trauma Surgeon's Perspective

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 82-89
Author(s):  
Oscar D. Guillamondegui
Keyword(s):  
Traumatic Brain Injury ◽  
Brain Injury ◽  
Multidisciplinary Approach ◽  
Trauma Team ◽  
The United States ◽  
Long Term Outcomes ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Injured Brain ◽  
The Moment

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a serious epidemic in the United States. It affects patients of all ages, race, and socioeconomic status (SES). The current care of these patients typically manifests after sequelae have been identified after discharge from the hospital, long after the inciting event. The purpose of this article is to introduce the concept of identification and management of the TBI patient from the moment of injury through long-term care as a multidisciplinary approach. By promoting an awareness of the issues that develop around the acutely injured brain and linking them to long-term outcomes, the trauma team can initiate care early to alter the effect on the patient, family, and community. Hopefully, by describing the care afforded at a trauma center and by a multidisciplinary team, we can bring a better understanding to the armamentarium of methods utilized to treat the difficult population of TBI patients.

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