Afterwords I

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Adams
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
Global Media ◽  
The Way

Notable disability studies scholar Rachel Adams reviews the conversation staged in this volume, and identifies several features of the collection that point the way toward a disability media studies: the fruitful interplay between textual and non-textual approaches, the modeling of new forms of intersectionality, and the value of considering the specificity of media forms through the lens of disability. DMS, she argues, could benefit from more attention to historical media forms and non-Anglophone global media.

scholarly journals A (premature) eulogy of broadcasting: the sense of the ending of television

Matrizes ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Milly Buonanno
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Broadcast Television ◽  
The World ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
The Way

The vanishing centrality of broadcast television has turned into a key issue within contemporary media studies, thus making the end of television a familiar trope in scholarly discourses and opening the way to a redefinition of the present-day phase in terms of post-broadcast era. Besides recognizing that there are plenty of places in the world where the broadcast era is still alive, this article makes the claim that the discoursive formation of the passing of television as we knew it may offer media scholar-ship the opportunity to assume the viewpoint of the end as the privileged perspective from which the broadcast era can be looked at anew, eventually acknowledging the reasons why it is liable to be praised rather than buried.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Laura Stamm
Keyword(s):  
Public School ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Teaching Tool ◽  
Queer Cinema ◽  
The Way

The Introduction chapter lays out the book’s key arguments, historical and theoretical background, and methodology. By arguing that queer biographical films are biopics, this book asserts that media studies scholars and film critics have failed to appreciate the biopic’s rich queer legacy. The chapter includes discussions of the biopic’s biomedical history and use as a teaching tool in public school classrooms before demonstrating why the biopic might be attractive to queer filmmakers and audiences during the AIDS era and emergence of New Queer Cinema. Through understanding the queer biopic as a biopic, this book reorients the way we understand the biopic genre itself.

The social spaces of hearing apps: problems, partners and intermediaries

2019 ◽  
Vol 171 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-37
Author(s):  
Nicole Matthews ◽  
Isabelle Boisvert ◽  
Catherine McMahon ◽  
Catharine Lumby
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
The Self ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Social Environments ◽  
Individual Health ◽  
Health Consumer ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Start Ups ◽  
The Way

This article offers an analysis of the development of three hearing and communication apps, drawing on interviews with people involved in their production. While a central figure in the media studies literature on apps is the self-managing individual health consumer, this article argues that physical and social environments and relationships within them are central to the way the hearing apps are produced, circulated and used. Often emerging from commercial start-ups, hearing apps become aligned with – or indeed stand in for – various kinds of governmental initiatives, not only in health but also in education and economic development. Partnerships between government, research and commercial organisations and the need to work through app intermediaries to find their end users shaped the way apps create recognisable ‘problems’ to address. This problematising function of apps and its impact on the uptake and use of apps are the key areas for future research.

On the transmodality of signs and their interpretants: Evidence from Peirce’s MS 599, Reason’s Rules

Semiotica ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (228) ◽  
pp. 223-235
Author(s):  
Winfried Nöth
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
The State ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Communicative Process ◽  
External Sign ◽  
The One ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe paper begins with a survey of the state of the art in multimodal research, an international trend in applied semiotics, linguistics, and media studies, and goes on to compare its approach to verbal and nonverbal signs to Charles S. Peirce’s approach to signs and their classification. The author introduces the concept of transmodality to characterize the way in which Peirce’s classification of signs reflects the modes of multimodality research and argues that Peirce’s classification of the signs takes modes and modalities in two different respects into consideration, (1) from the perspective of the sign and (2) from the one of its interpretant. While current research in multimodality has its focus on the (external) sign in a communicative process, Peirce considers additionally the multimodality of the interpretants, i.e., the mental icons and indexical scenarios evoked in the interpreters’ minds. The paper illustrates and comments on the Peircean method of studying the multi and transmodality of signs in an analysis of Peirce’s close reading of Luke 19:30 in MS 599, Reason’s Rules, of c. 1902. As a sign, this text is “monomodal” insofar as it consists of printed words only. The study shows in which respects the interpretants of this text evince trans and multimodality.

Disability Studies and the Destruction of Jerusalem

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Watts Belser
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Political ◽  
Cultural Logic ◽  
Gender Discourse ◽  
The Way

This chapter uses disability studies theory to analyze the political and cultural significations of the body amidst Roman conquest. Extending the insights of scholars who have examined way Roman colonial dominance reshapes Jewish gender discourse, it argues that imperial violence similarly restructures the way rabbinic narrative portrays the body. Bavli Gittin and Lamentations Rabbah both recount stories of Rabbi Tsadok, a celebrated priest who fasted for forty years in an attempt to avert the destruction of Jerusalem. In contrast to the beauty tales examined in the previous chapter, Rabbi Tsadok’s body is used to mark the visceral impact of Roman conquest—and to chronicle the enduring scar that catastrophe leaves upon the flesh. Yet even as these stories use disability to make visible the tremendous loss that destruction brings, they also resignify the cultural logic of imperial victory, emphasizing the subversive power of disabled Jewish flesh.

Walter J. Ong, Orality and Literacy (1982)

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 431-439
Author(s):  
Stephen Best
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Historical Change ◽  
Walter Ong ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

Walter Ong published Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word in 1982, synthesizing his career-long concern with the impact of the shift from orality to literacy on various cultures. Scholars of African American literary and cultural studies were coming to redefine their field around the terms orality and literacy at around the same time that Ong published his book; but where Ong stressed historical change or the fall from orality to literacy, African Americanists tended to accent their mutual mediation. This article explores the way that African Americanists, in stressing mediation, return orality and literacy to the concerns of Ong’s ostensible field: media studies.

Global Media Studies

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 490-492
Author(s):  
Bernhard Forchtner
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Global Media

Global media studies: its development and dilemmas

2013 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Sparks
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Global Media

Ferment in Global Media Studies

2002 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 630-640 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marwan M. Kraidy
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Global Media
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