Diversión

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert Sergio Laguna
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Media Distribution ◽  
Cuban Diaspora ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Way

Diversión contends that our understanding of the Cuban diaspora is lacking not in seriousness, but in play. Against the melancholia, anger, and pain that have defined dominant characterizations of Cuban America, Laguna provides an affective complement for understanding this community by insisting on the centrality of ludic popular culture for a diaspora that has completely transformed in the last twenty-five years. The majority of Cuban America is now made up of arrivals since the 1990s and the US-born generation—two segments that have received little attention in cultural studies scholarship. Diversión examines these generational shifts and tensions through readings of a wide range of playful popular culture forms originating in Miami and Cuba from the 1970s through the 2010s. These include the standup of comedians like Guillermo Alvarez Guedes and Robertico, festivals like Cuba Nostalgia, a form of media distribution on the island called el paquete, and the viral social media content of Los Pichy Boys. By unpacking this archive, Laguna explores our complex, often fraught attachments to popular culture and the way it can challenge and reify normative ideologies—especially in relation to politics and race. Transnational in his approach, Laguna argues that this at times ephemeral archive of diversión is crucial for understanding not only the diaspora, but increasingly, life on the island.

Jumbos and Jumping Devils

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nisha P R
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Social History ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of

Jumbos and Jumping Devils is an original and pioneering exploration of not only the social history of the subcontinent but also of performance and popular culture. The domain of analysis is entirely novel and opens up a bolder approach of laying a new field of historical enquiry of South Asia. Trawling through an extraordinary set of sources such as colonial and post-colonial records, newspaper reports, unpublished autobiographies, private papers, photographs, and oral interviews, the author brings out a fascinating account of the transnational landscape of physical cultures, human and animal performers, and the circus industry. This book should be of interest to a wide range of readers from history, sociology, anthropology, and cultural studies to analysts of history of performance and sports in the subcontinent.

Culture and the popular: Introduction to essays in memory of Brian Rigby

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 293-299
Author(s):  
Michael Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The Us ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Uk ◽  
French Cultural Studies

This article introduces the special number of French Cultural Studies commemorating the role of Brian Rigby as the journal’s first Managing Editor. It situates his contribution in the emergence of cultural history and French cultural studies during the rapid expansion of higher education from the 1960s in France, the UK, the US and other countries. It suggests that these new areas of study saw cultural activities in a broader social context and opened the way to a wider understanding of culture, in which popular culture played an increasingly important part. It argues that the study of popular culture can illuminate some of the most mundane experiences of everyday life, and some of the most challenging. It can also help to understand the rapidly changing cultural environment in which our daily lives are now conducted.

scholarly journals Beaches as borders and Beaches overcoming Borders: An Appeal of the Humanities for more Humanity

Oceánide ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 72-77
Author(s):  
Peter Osterreid
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Ivory Tower ◽  
Cultural Products ◽  
High Culture ◽  
Practical Impact ◽  
The Way

This article investigates the cultural potential of the beach as a concrete place, a meaning-laden space, and finally as a metaphorical setting of idealistic vision. In conjunction with the politically heated dimension of beaches as borders to fugitives, the relevance that the humanities play in society is discussed placing particular emphasis on the role of cultural studies. Quite a number of cultural products both from the canon of high culture and from popular culture reaching wider audiences will be examined in the way they centre on the pivot of the beach. Cultural studies, it will turn out, is able to significantly contribute to discussions on morals and, beyond that, to the question of what attitudes in Western societies can be considered ethically acceptable. Thus, in contrast to many other academic disciplines, cultural studies is closely linked to reality and politics so that it is a discipline away from the ivory tower of academia because it deals with life and, most importantly, can have a practical impact on it.

scholarly journals Cultural Studies of Stone: Stones and Mountains in Folklore, Rites, and Toponymy. Review of the book: Ageeva, R. A. (2019). Kamen’ i gory v narodnoi kul’ture [Stone and Mountains in Popular Culture]. Moscow: Maska. 250 p.

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 260-270
Author(s):  
Yuri S. Kostylev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Proper Names ◽  
Functional Study ◽  
Reference Source ◽  
Slavic Languages ◽  
Folklore Studies ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Full Picture ◽  
Wide Readership

This paper gives an overview of the book Stone and Mountains in Popular Culture by Ruth Ageeva, a monograph that includes a preface, an introduction, seven chapters, an appendix, and a list of oronyms (proper names for mountains and stones) found in the text. The book presents a functional study of the original word stone and its derivatives in oronymy (chapter 1), analyses proper names of individual stones (chapter 2), considers the symbolic connotations of stones’ colour reflected in their names (chapter 3), deals with the image of the Alatyr stone in folk culture (chapter 4), provides a description of megaliths located across the globe (chapter 5), studies figurative names of mountains and volcanoes (chapter 6) and compares the ways of mountains representation in the cultures of different peoples (chapter 7). The research builds on a large amount of data related to the representation of stones and mountains in various cultures, wherein the evidence of East Slavic languages prevails. Methodologically, the study embraces a wide range of contexts including culture studies, folklore studies, ethnolinguistics, etymology, and others. The review notes both the large amount and the theoretical richness of the material giving the reader a full picture of the subject. As the book declares itself to be intended for a wide readership, the introductory theoretical remarks seem very much appropriate. With all the positive aspects of the book under review, the vastness of material is fraught with some deficiencies in its structure. But still this does not undermine the study’s theoretical and practical relevance as it can be of interest both to the general reader and specialists in linguistics, ethnography, cultural studies, as well as a reference source on the proper names of stones and mountains.

scholarly journals Conservative Islam Turn or Popular Islam? an Analysis of the Film Ayat-ayat Cinta

2010 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-128
Author(s):  
Lukman Hakim
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Film Industry ◽  
Cultural Transformation ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Religious Context ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Way

This paper offers a film and cultural studies analysis of the Indonesian religious film Ayat-ayat Cinta. It examines the way in which the film represents Islam in the context of the globalisation of the media industry, the wider cultural transformation and religious context in Indonesia. This paper argues that the film Ayat-ayat Cinta represents “popular Islam”, which resulted from the interaction between the santri religious variants and the film industry, capitalism, market forces and popular culture in Indonesia. Santri religious variants in this film are rooted in traditionalist, fundamentalist, modernist, and liberal Islam in Indonesia, and those Islamic groups which have undergone a process of conformity with capitalism and popular culture. As a result, the representation of Islam in this film is pluralist, tolerant, and fashionable.

Tweeting for Hearts and Minds? Measuring Candidates’ Use of Anxiety in Tweets During the 2018 Midterm Elections

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 652-656
Author(s):  
Bryan T. Gervais ◽  
Heather K. Evans ◽  
Annelise Russell
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
House Of Representatives ◽  
Fear Appeals ◽  
Media Messages ◽  
Midterm Elections ◽  
The Us ◽  
Hearts And Minds ◽  
The Way

ABSTRACTThis article considers whether candidates strategically use emotional rhetoric in social media messages similar to the way that fear appeals are used strategically in televised campaign advertisements. We use a dataset of tweets issued by the campaign accounts of candidates for the US House of Representatives during the last two months of the 2018 midterm elections to determine whether candidate vulnerability predicts the presence of certain emotions in social media messages. Contrary to theoretical expectations, we find that vulnerability does not appear to inspire candidates to use more anxious language in their tweets. However, we do find evidence of a surprising relationship between sad rhetoric and vulnerability and that campaign context influences the use of other forms of negative rhetoric in tweets.

Targeting Without Lawyers

2020 ◽  
pp. 51-88
Author(s):  
Craig Jones
Keyword(s):  
Vietnam War ◽  
Institutional Changes ◽  
Laws Of War ◽  
Prisoner Of War ◽  
Us Military ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Military Commanders ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Vietnam War ◽  
The Way

This chapter argues that the US-led war in Vietnam (1955–1975) paved the way for institutional changes in the US military, including the establishment of the US Law of War Program, which later precipitated the emergence of a new doctrinal approach to the laws of war called ‘operational law’. Military lawyers emerged from the Vietnam War better equipped and with a formal mandate to advise military commanders on the legality of targeting operations. Military lawyers performed a wide range of duties in Vietnam, especially around Prisoner of War (POW) issues, and were deployed in unprecedented numbers. Military lawyers were not involved in targeting, neither during ‘Operation Rolling Thunder’ nor ‘Operation Linebacker’, but the Vietnam War in general and the My Lai massacre of 1968 in particular helped to create the conditions for their involvement in subsequent wars.

Dynamic Social and Media Content Syndication for Second Screen

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 50-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Menychtas ◽  
David Tomás ◽  
Marco Tiemann ◽  
Christina Santzaridou ◽  
Alexandros Psychas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Semantic Annotation ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Content Management ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Second Screen ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Tv Shows ◽  
Modern Technologies

Social networking apps, sites and technologies offer a wide range of opportunities for businesses and developers to exploit the vast amount of information and user-generated content produced through social networking. In addition, the notion of second screen TV usage appears more influential than ever, with viewers continuously seeking further information and deeper engagement while watching their favourite movies or TV shows. In this work, the authors present SAM, an innovative platform that combines social media, content syndication and targets second screen usage to enhance media content provisioning, renovate the interaction with end-users and enrich their experience. SAM incorporates modern technologies and novel features in the areas of content management, dynamic social media, social mining, semantic annotation and multi-device representation to facilitate an advanced business environment for broadcasters, content and metadata providers, and editors to better exploit their assets and increase their revenues.

Latina/o-Asian Encounters

2021 ◽  
pp. 141-198
Author(s):  
B. V. Olguín
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Korean War ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Spoken Word ◽  
Western Asia ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Korean War ◽  
Writing Genres

Chapter 3 commences the recovery of an expansive plurality of globalized supra-Latinidades by exploring Latina/o-Asian wartime encounters in life-writing genres, wartime cinema, and performative popular culture such as spoken word and Hip Hop from WWII to the War on Terror. In addition to reassessing established and canonized texts about Latina/o wartime encounters with specific Asian nations, peoples, and cultures from WWII, the Korean War, and the US war in Vietnam, the chapter also recovers the neglected legacy of Latina/o exoticist and neo-Orientalist Latina/o travelogues in Cold War China and, more recently, in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Turkey. The wide range of these Latina/o encounters with the broader transcontinental space of Eurasia, the colonialist chronotope of the “Orient,” and equally complicated notion of the Ummah, or global community of Muslims, involves a multiplicity of transversal LatinAsian violentologies. These pressure for radical expansions of Latina/o mestizajes beyond conventional frameworks predicated upon Judeo-Christian and Mesoamerican legacies, and also extend through and beyond Latina/o mulattaje paradigms that weave Africa and the continent’s wide gamut of ethnicities, cultures, and religions into the mix. The wide violentological variations in these case studies span transcontinental Eurasia, the Levant (the eastern Mediterranean part of western Asia), Northern Africa, and the Americas. They thus further challenge the lingering resistance paradigm and other teleologies, and ultimately militate for a radical globalization of Latina/o Studies.

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