scholarly journals Watching video games. Playing with Archaeology and Prehistory

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel García Raso
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
The West ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The Public ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Narrative Medium

Video games have become a mass culture phenomenon typical of the West Post-Industrial Society as well as an avant-garde narrative medium. The main focus of this paper is to explore and analyze the public image of Archaeology and Prehistory spread by video games and how we can achieve a virtual faithful image of both. Likewise, we are going to proceed to construct an archaeological outline of video games, understanding them as an element of the Contemporary Material Culture and, therefore, subject to being studied by Archaeology.

The Public Image of Eastern Orthodoxy

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather L. Bailey
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Crimean War ◽  
The West ◽  
Eastern Orthodoxy ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
The Public ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Public Relations Campaign

Focusing on the period between the revolutions of 1848 to 1849 and the First Vatican Council (1869–1870), this book explores the circumstances under which westerners, concerned about the fate of the papacy, the Ottoman Empire, Poland, and Russian imperial power, began to conflate the Russian Orthodox Church with the state and to portray the Church as the political tool of despotic tsars. As the book demonstrates, in response to this reductionist view, Russian Orthodox publicists launched a public relations campaign in the West, especially in France, in the 1850s and 1860s. The linchpin of their campaign was the building of the impressive Saint Alexander Nevsky Church in Paris, consecrated in 1861. The book posits that, as the embodiment of the belief that Russia had a great historical purpose inextricably tied to Orthodoxy, the Paris church both reflected and contributed to the rise of religious nationalism in Russia that followed the Crimean War. At the same time, the confrontation with westerners' negative ideas about the Eastern Church fueled a reformist spirit in Russia while contributing to a better understanding of Eastern Orthodoxy in the West.

scholarly journals БЛОГ ЯК РІЗНОВИД МАСОВОЇ ЖУРНАЛІСТИКИ В УМОВАХ ІНФОРМАЦІЙНОГО СУСПІЛЬСТВА

2020 ◽  
pp. 21-23
Author(s):  
Панасенко А. Р.
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Society ◽  
General Context ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Media ◽  
Post Industrial

In the information (post-industrial) society, a revolution in the media has taken place, allowing anyone to collect, process and create content, regardless of their educational background.The guarantor of the reliability of each blog, as in the case with traditional sources, should be its reputation, which is the key to its popularity. After all, blogs are an interactive phenomenon, and feedback will quickly let the authors feel the mood of the public and the direction of the prevailing trends. But traditional journalists, it seems, are not threatened with retirement, because many of them have their own blogs. In this light, it would probably be wrong to consider the veracity of blogs in isolation from the general context of the media.

scholarly journals Extreme Audio Culture in the New Digital Underground

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Tamatai-A-Rangi Ngarimu
Keyword(s):  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Distribution Networks ◽  
Urban Society ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Music Culture ◽  
Dominant Culture ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Underground Music ◽  
Post Industrial

<p>This thesis examines the use of technology – particularly obsolete technologies and residual¹ media – within underground and experimental music, using extreme audio culture (the genres of noise music and power electronics) and its relationship with the new digital underground of music and art as a primary focus. It seeks to illuminate issues surrounding not only the survival of underground music culture into the internet age (zines², mail order and independent production and distribution networks) but also broader, philosophical and sociological notions concerning humanity’s relationship with technology within contemporary urban society, as well as examining how these notions have influenced alternative and extreme music cultures. This includes how these issues are addressed within underground and avant-garde scenes; specifically, the manner in which extreme audio culture (beginning with industrial music) voices critique upon the digital age and post-industrial environments by illustrating the negative and grotesque aspects of contemporary urban society through the employment of transgressive themes and subject matter, coupled with the use of materials, practices and ideas coded as residual or as ‘noise’ (reappropriating what dominant culture perceives as unwanted, unfashionable, ‘wrong’ or taboo). By addressing these issues, we may work further towards understanding the progression of musical thought and the influence of sound upon the human psyche, as well as the ways in which music aids the continual transformation of culture within the digital/post-industrial age.  This research was undertaken from February 2012 until July 2013 with the primary methodological approach consisting of discourse analysis coupled with anthropological observations and historical contextualisation as we trace extreme audio culture back to its genesis within industrial music and the avant-garde. Drawing from the theories of Jacques Attali, Donna Haraway and Pierre Bourdieu, it will be argued that such music is prophetic of the way in which a society may develop over time, particularly in regards to our perceptions and attitudes towards technological advancement and urbanisation, not to mention our increasingly symbiotic relationship with machines as a prescriptive element of everyday urban existence. With these factors in mind, phenomena such as extreme audio culture and the new digital underground offer rich and striking considerations for the examination of digital age, post-industrial society from the perceptions of marginal creative scenes, extreme music, the avant-garde and contemporary underground music cultures.  ¹ As discussed by Michelle Henning, Will Straw, et al., residual media are those media technologies and techniques which are no longer useful, fashionable or profitable within dominant culture and are thus seen as obsolete or ‘noise’ (residue). These technologies, laid to rest upon the ‘scrapheap of dominant culture’ (as we shall discuss in Chapter One) may be acquired, utilised and reappropriated by dominated, marginal – i.e. alternative and underground – cultures and, as examined here within the context of underground music culture, be given a new use-value within creative communities or fetishised by collectors. See Acland, Charles A., ed. Residual Media. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2007. Print.  ² A.k.a. Fanzines: Independently produced, often hand-made, magazines.</p>

Forensic Architecture: A New Photographic Language in a Factual Era

2018 ◽  
pp. 70-75
Author(s):  
Clio Flego
Keyword(s):  
Multimedia Information ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Software Developers ◽  
Social Constructs ◽  
The Public ◽  
War Photography ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post Industrial

A group of visual activists, architects, software developers and archaeologists as well as a multicultural team composed of artists, investigative journalists and lawyers – an organic organization. Forensic Architecture ‘Investigative aesthetic’ is based on visual aggregation on data allowing viewers to enhance their perception-cognition of events by the integrated use of augmented photography. Their works have been presented in front of a court, but also exhibited at international shows all around the world. FA expanded use of photography, integrating in the urbanistic reconstruction of frames of any kind of multimedia information collected, consider it not simply as a medium, but as a proper tool for triggering critical reflections and political action. Forensic Architecture have mainly been investigating the area of conflicts with the aim to present counter- investigation on unclear circumstances, often underlining social constructs in the public forum. The particular role that FA plays, claiming social truth and assigning to photography the function to be a “civil act,” remarks its place in the history of war photography, and underlines the importance of also having a contra-culture in a post- industrial society, permeated by the presence of technology. Keywords: evidence, Forensic Architecture, forensic reconstruction of event, photography, truth-value

Guettée, Vasiliev, L’Union chrétienne, and the Public Image of Orthodoxy

2020 ◽  
pp. 153-180
Author(s):  
Heather L. Bailey
Keyword(s):  
Public Image ◽  
Educational Reforms ◽  
Freedom Of Conscience ◽  
The West ◽  
The Public ◽  
Church State Relations ◽  
State Relations ◽  
Positive Results

This chapter compares how Guettée, Vasiliev, and their periodical L'Union chrétienne were understood by their contemporaries in France and Russia. It talks about Guettée's reputation among the Russian civil and ecclesiastical authorities that saw him as a trophy and an outspoken defender of Orthodoxy in the West. It also discusses Guettée and Vasiliev's Russian contemporaries that had an exaggerated sense of how significant and impactful Guettée's conversion and the priest-publicists' polemical activities, including L'Union chrétienne, actually were. The chapter narrates events in Paris that reverberated in Russia and contributed to reformist tendencies, such as the reconsideration of church–state relations, educational reforms, and calls for freedom of conscience. It also analyzes the West and the Russian campaign to change the public image of Orthodoxy that had some positive results in Russia.

scholarly journals DEVELOPMENT OF CULTURAL TOURISM IN THE AGE OF POST-INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY

2020 ◽  
pp. 11-18
Author(s):  
Stepan Dychkovskyy
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Post Industrial

The aim of this paper consists in the study of trends in the development of cultural tourism of the post-industrial era. Research methodology. The author applies historical, bibliographic and analytical methods. Results. Art is an extremely important component of the tourism product, and cultural tourism is based on experience, according to which tourists become involved in the creative process, stimulating the activities presented to them. Tourism can qualitatively improve the processes of organizing and conducting games, festivals, competitions, exhibitions, giving those aesthetics and making them in the historic chronicle of the city. Festivals and holiday events play an important role in the development of cultural tourism. They are more accessible to the mass spectator because they are held in open venues, offer choices and are perceived as a lively and genuine holiday, inspiring their own self-improvement. Novelty. The author gives a rationale for the appropriateness and application of the new concept of cultural tourism, with the creation of even more specialized forms of tourism, one of which, namely, creative tourism. The practical significance. The study of issues within the framework of cultural tourism requires the use of an interdisciplinary approach, which acquires its clear features when choosing a subject of study. The interaction of culture and tourism, the cultural trajectories of modern tourism serve as a structure for analyzing the construction of identity and multiculturalism. Socio-cultural practices of modern tourism, developing in the context of global processes, have provided opportunities to systematically analyze and identify ways of positive practical implementation of its explicit and implicit opportunities. The material culture of the industrial age in the conditions of rapid development of the information society is considered as a historical resource that needed to be preserved and reused, and as a new direction of development of the tourism industry. Cultural tourism has become the main segment in most tourist destinations, but recently the focus has shifted from a purely quantitative increase in demand for the consumption of cultural and attractions to qualitative changes in the nature of this demand, which is based on the inherent desire to see and know parts of the world. In the modern literature on culture emphasizes its material component (buildings, structures, artifacts, works of art, etc.) and its elusive part (traditions, norms of behavior, beliefs, ideas, symbols, language, etc.). In this regard, for anyone, cultural tourism is not just an opportunity to get acquainted with some object of culture, but also to understand its interpretation, to learn new meanings through the environment, to assess the context (feel the atmosphere of the place), in other words, learn about the culture of the place and its inhabitants.

scholarly journals Real Men Wear Uniforms: Photomontage, Postcards, and Military Visual Culture in Early Twentieth-Century Germany

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 18-44
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Otto
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Subsequent Work ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The Public ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
National Socialists ◽  
Representations Of Women

This essay examines early twentieth-century German representations of men and women in uniform to consider how mass culture allowed individuals to participate in aspects of gender construction. It also reveals how masculinity was increasingly linked to military ideals. The pictures under scrutiny here were made in two significant but as yet under-researched types of pictures: pre-avant-garde photomontaged soldier portraits and popular postcards. Both of these visual forms originated in the 1870s, the decade that Germany was itself founded, and they both were in wide circulation by the early twentieth century. Individualized soldier portraits and postcards offered a glorious vision of a man’s military service, and they performed what Theodor Lessing has called Vergemütlichung, the rendering harmless of history. These idealized images of soldierly life were available to a broad swath of the public, but their democratization only extended so far. Representations of women in uniform served to reinforce—through stereotyping and humor—the unquestionably male nature of military institutions and, by extension, of public space. At the same time, by making apparent their own constructed nature, these portraits and postcards offered viewers a glimpse behind the masquerade of masculinity. This essay thus also identifies these images’ links to the subsequent work of avant-garde artists and to the National Socialists’ return to the ideal of uniformed masculinity.

scholarly journals The Future: 10 Challenges for Sustainability

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy L. Caradonna
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Sustainable Society ◽  
Cooperative Effort ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Sustainability Movement ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Many ◽  
Post Industrial

Growing concerns about climate-change pollutants, the widening gap between the rich and the poor, resource shortages, and the world’s gamut of ecological problems have placed new pressures on sustainists. Creating a sustainable society that thrives within its biophysical limits is no longer seen as a distant and utopian objective; it’s now an urgent matter that, if neglected or mismanaged, will bring devastating consequences for the planet and the human economy that lives off of it. The increased political attention, institutional support, and financial commitment to the cause of sustainability means heightened expectations for immediate, tangible results. The public doesn’t want idle chatter; it wants workable solutions to very real problems. Can sustainists seize the moment and lead the transition to the sustainable future? The quest to create a sustainable society faces a host of obstacles, and many pressing questions remain unanswered: How can the entrenched political and corporate interests that perpetuate unsustainability be overcome? How can society willingly transform itself? Where will the money and political will come from to coordinate the transition? Will this sustainable society be “industrialized” or “post-industrial,” “globalized” or “localized”? Will the changes be top–down, bottom–up, or both? By charting the growth and development of sustainability since 1700, this book has not meant to imply that ecotopia is an inevitable end point. Even optimists concede that it’s quite possible that the task is too tall, that industrial society could drive itself straight into the ground, that collapse is a real threat, and that the Industrial Revolution was the first phase of humanity’s protracted extinction event. If sustainability does succeed in undoing the many harms that have caused our ecological predicament, it will only do so with the broad support of the public and through a cooperative effort to adapt and transform. At the risk of bombast, it will have to change the course of human history, and that’s no easy task. This book ends with a discussion of 10 challenges faced by the sustainability movement.

Soviet ‘Zeitgeist’: Critique of the Post-Industrial Society

1978 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-198
Author(s):  
Emil Bej
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Eastern Bloc ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Significant Activity ◽  
Societal Transformation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Biological Determinants ◽  
Dynamic Growth ◽  
Post Industrial

The Soviet discovery of the approach of postindustrial society is not an incidental one. Since converging trends are observed in both capitalist and communist economic systems, the inclusion of macroplanning and more significant activity of the public sector could not be left unnoticed by the Soviet authors. For if convergence is viewed as a “capitalist policy” toward integration, postindustrialism stresses behaviorism with an accent on the consumer demand whose outlook became subject to extended modernization and technical acceptance of societal transformation. Soviet observers claim that in the capitalist environment, objective economic principles are replaced by purely biological determinants, because technocracy and consumerism are the very functional representatives of oncoming social values. Parenthetically then, planning and welfare-state designs are modes to “socialize” capitalism, since the two systems, as western economists claim, possess common values in terms of dynamic growth with no particular doctrine of implementation. Therefore, capitalism not only enforced hybridization of two ideologies, it became a virtual variant of socialism, converging around an industrial nucleus with increased participation of the public sector. Thus, capitalist convergence and revisionism in certain socialist countries are inbred, because by recognizing certain Marxian truisms but by ignoring class struggle, western societies approximate reinterpretation of Marx in the eastern bloc. The latter is a direct contradiction of the Soviet aim of establishing a classless, community-oriented society.

scholarly journals The statue debate: Ancestors and ‘mnemonic energy’ in Paul and now

2015 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zorodzai Dube
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Public Image ◽  
The Public ◽  
Control Power ◽  
The Social ◽  
Heterogeneous Nature ◽  
Identity Complexity

Why do people in South Africa fight over statues – even to the extent of tying themselves to a mere bust? Using insights, especially from Jan Assmann, the study develops the argument that material culture (such as images and statues) provides the social energy that drives the manner in which history is told, that is, historiography; they provide the ‘silent objects’ with the power to control the public discourse and collective identity. Statues encapsulate all we need to know, inversely, concerning public discourse, particularly, concerning issues pertaining to control, power and class. From this perspective, those who vandalise them may be regarded as contesting public discourse identity and historiography. Insights from this discussion provide parallel discussions, especially, in Galatians where Paul contrasts the image of Abraham with that of Moses – choosing Abraham as the public image that best represents the identity complexity, cosmopolitan and heterogeneous nature that characterises the Hellenistic context.

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