scholarly journals Unruly Puppets: Producing the Urban Poor in a Bangladeshi Television Idol Competition

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-216
Author(s):  
Din M. Sumon Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Reality Television ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
Dhaka City ◽  
Satellite Television ◽  
Visual Materials

Magic Tin Chakar Taroka (Magic Three-Wheeler Star) or Tin Chaka (Three- Wheeler) is a reality competition to find music talent exclusively from the urban poor of Dhaka city. This programme was shown on Bangladeshi satellite television in 2008. The present article is an ethnographic exploration of the Tin Chaka event which demonstrates how the cultural identity of the urban poor in Dhaka has been performed by the production of ordinary celebrities in the visual media. In doing so, a combination of on-screen and off-screen observations were undertaken for a period of six months which was complemented by semiological interpretation of adverts, jingles and other visual materials. In this article, I argue that, despite its admirable inclusivity and thereby remarkably instant acceptance by the audience, the reason behind the discontinuation of Tin Chaka in following years lies in the inscriptions of the show as a charitable undertaking, an act which has often been performed in the reality television programmes in the name of “democratisation”.

scholarly journals Learning on Harare’s streets under COVID-19 lockdown: making a story map with street youth

2020 ◽  
pp. 095624782097944
Author(s):  
Janine Hunter ◽  
Shaibu Chitsiku ◽  
Wayne Shand ◽  
Lorraine Van Blerk
Keyword(s):  
Urban Poor ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Urban Poverty ◽  
Homeless People ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Street Youth ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Story Map ◽  
Story Maps

The COVID-19 pandemic has had disproportionate economic consequences on the urban poor, particularly on young people living on the streets. As the pandemic moves from acute to chronic phases, novel methodologies can be used to rapidly co-produce outputs and share learning opportunities with those living in urban poverty. A “story map” focusing on the effects of the pandemic and lockdown was co-produced by UK researchers with street children and youth and practitioners in Harare, Zimbabwe in June 2020. Story maps are web applications combining participant-generated visual media into online templates, with multimedia content supported by narrative accounts. This story map reveals young street participants’ experiences of lockdown, including the effects on their livelihoods, sources of food and support networks. Its purpose is to tell the “story” of street lives, and to provide an advocacy tool and learning resource for policymakers, academics and practitioners working with young homeless people.

Live tweeting, reality TV and the nation

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 352-367
Author(s):  
Mark Stewart
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Reality Television ◽  
Reality Tv ◽  
Imagined Community ◽  
Cultural Formation ◽  
Discursive Analysis ◽  
Audience Fragmentation ◽  
The Creation ◽  
National Borders

This article argues that the live tweeting of reality television allows the creation of an imagined community, bounded by national borders. In an era of audience fragmentation and time-shifting of television engagement, live reality television encourages audiences to watch at time of broadcast; this is amplified by the move of some audience members to live-tweet the broadcast, communicating amongst themselves within a dispersed backchannel. A crucial result of the digital conversation is to reinstate the importance of the nation as a space for the reading and reception of culture. The article utilizes a discursive analysis of the concurrent Twitter conversation around the second season of The X Factor NZ in New Zealand in order to highlight the ongoing role that is played by the nation as a cultural formation in such discussions, as well as the ways that it makes understandings of national cultural identity visible.

Audio-Visual Media and Political Science Teaching

1949 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 766-776 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth G. Weintraub
Keyword(s):  
Mass Communication ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
Atlantic City ◽  
Political Scientist ◽  
College Level ◽  
Present Generation ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Visual Materials ◽  
Science Departments

In 1940, a total of 1,500,000 students (16 per cent of the 18–21-year-olds) were in attendance in American colleges. This was before the advent of G.I. education, which brought the figure up to 2,350,000 (24 per cent of the 18–21-year-olds).These vast numbers of students, presenting a challenge to the present generation of college teachers, are of particular portent to the political scientist. The latter, relying largely in the past on his own interpretation of the subject matter based upon standard texts as “the method” for courses in government, is faced with the problem of mass education; as a result, some of the standard teaching techniques are ineffectual. Under these conditions, to what extent can technological changes in mass communication media which have for the most part been ignored at the college level make a contribution?Audio-visual materials are available and in standard use in medical schools; teaching operative procedures from a televised performance was a regular part of the last medical convention at Atlantic City. Science equipment consisting of laboratories, museums, Balopticans, slide projectors, and motion picture machines are standard for science departments. Even college budget officers, immune to faculty pressure of various types, are sensitive to the demands of science departments for equipment. Such sensitivity, however, does not apply to the social sciences; budget officers still need to be convinced that social science departments have equipment requirements, beyond an allotment to the library for new books.

scholarly journals A content analysis of tobacco and alcohol audio-visual content in a sample of UK reality TV programmes

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 561-569 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander B Barker ◽  
John Britton ◽  
Emily Thomson ◽  
Abby Hunter ◽  
Magdalena Opazo Breton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Reality Television ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
Reality Tv ◽  
Population Exposure ◽  
Alcohol Content ◽  
Big Brother ◽  
Minute Interval ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Made In

Abstract Background Exposure to tobacco and alcohol content in audio-visual media is a risk factor for smoking and alcohol use in young people. We report an analysis of tobacco and alcohol content, and estimates of population exposure to this content, in a sample of reality television programmes broadcast in the UK. Methods We used 1-minute interval coding to quantify tobacco and alcohol content in all episodes of five reality TV programmes aired between January and August 2018 (Celebrity Big Brother; Made in Chelsea; The Only Way is Essex; Geordie Shore and Love Island), and estimated population exposure using viewing data and UK population estimates. Results We coded 5219 intervals from 112 episodes. Tobacco content appeared in 110 (2%) intervals in 20 (18%) episodes, and alcohol in 2212 (42%) intervals and in all episodes. The programmes delivered approximately 214 million tobacco gross impressions to the UK population, including 47.37 million to children; and for alcohol, 4.9 billion and 580 million respectively. Conclusion Tobacco, and especially alcohol, content is common in reality TV. The popularity of these programmes with young people, and consequent exposure to tobacco and alcohol imagery, represents a potentially major driver of smoking and alcohol consumption.

scholarly journals CZY KULTURA WŁASNA JEST POTRZEBNA DO ROZWIJANIA KOMPETENCJI (INTER)KULTUROWEJ? O UWZGLĘDNIANIU KULTURY OJCZYSTEJ W PROCESIE NAUCZANIA/UCZENIA SIĘ JĘZYKA OBCEGO

Neofilolog ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 225-237
Author(s):  
Anna Waszau
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Competence ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Traditional Approaches

The purpose of the present article to reflect on the possibilities of developing (inter)cultural competence in the context  of glottodidactics by resorting to elements of the source culture, which helps to build (meta)cultural awareness. By analyzing  from a diachronic perspective, together with  some traditional approaches and modern concepts, it is shown that the evolution of glottodidactic models indicates the need to develop a reflective attitude which is built upon the (meta)cultural awareness. This progress, in turn, requires reflection on one’s cultural identity and on the system of one’s own culture which influences the socialization and enculturation processes. Therefore, awareness thus conceptualized can help in determining and understanding the organizational and generative principles of cultures, as well as their functioning and mechanisms.

A Critical Discourse Analysis of Negative Propaganda in Selected American and Chinese Channels: (COVID- 19) as a Case Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Prof. Abd Al-Kareem Fadhel Gameel ◽  
Prof. Abd Al-Kareem Fadhel Gameel ◽  
Prof. Abd Al-Kareem Fadhel Gameel
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
World War ◽  
Satellite Television ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Language Communication ◽  
Harm To Others

Propaganda has important power as a product of modern media (social media, satellite television, the internet). Those means enhance the fast spread of information, news, and events to the public. The thought of a propaganda phenomenon, methodically funded by doctrine, persuades individuals. Propaganda generally involves untrue things that are regarded as aggressive. Essentially, propaganda can be an aware communication act with effective people. For instance, leaders and politicians depend on specific strategies to create many elements of excitement. The obvious example of conversion of people to causing harm to others is the negative propaganda of World War II. As a part of language communication, the study of negative propaganda in visual media is one of the most motivating topics to find out, because of the ability of this matter to manufacture people to understand the insight of propaganda in an altered way. The researcher uses the seventh edition of the (APA) style to introduce this paper. The present study makes a distinctive effort to survey the 'ideological discourse structures' as one of CDA's fundamental concepts .The study goals to analyze and survey the forms and types of propaganda techniques which are employed by the CGTN Chinese and CNN American channels under study. It also goals to investigate the use of illocutionary types in these chosen channels of COVID-19. To achieve the aims of the current study, a proportion of hypotheses are proposed, containing "negative propaganda" that is the main type of content in both the Chinese and American channels within the study. The study covered CGTN and CNN news reports related to the coronavirus. The eclectic model consists of: Van Dijk (2000), Yourman (1939), Shabo (2008), and Ellul (1965). Three of those models (Ellul, Yourman, and Shabo) engaged in propaganda. The rest have certain frames to deal with. According to the analysis of the data, the central conclusions of this investigation have clearly demonst

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