Symmetries of an online culture: two-colour frieze patterns in friendship bracelets

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-102
Author(s):  
Kathryn Beck ◽  
Lorelei Koss
Keyword(s):  
Online Culture

Locating the Online: Creativity and User-Created Content in Seoul

2011 ◽  
Vol 141 (1) ◽  
pp. 118-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larissa Hjorth
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Digital Natives ◽  
Online Media ◽  
The Future ◽  
Online Culture ◽  
Insight Into

As one location boasting high broadband speeds, infrastructure, strong techno-nationalist policy and some of the early examples of so-called ‘digital natives’, South Korea has been seen as the model for the future of online culture. However, beyond these images of techno-fantasies is a technoculture that is marred by an increasing ambivalence towards online media. Specifically through user-created content (UCC), researchers can gain insight into some of the paradoxes emerging around online creativity, community and politics. Drawing on fieldwork conducted between 2009 and 2011, this article considers what UCC means in Korea and how this reflects the particularities of Korea's technoculture.

scholarly journals Use of online cultural content for mental health and well-being during COVID-19 restrictions: cross-sectional survey

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Rebecca J. Syed Sheriff ◽  
Helen Adams ◽  
Evgenia Riga ◽  
Andrew K. Przybylski ◽  
Laura Bonsaver ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Online Culture ◽  
Reported Data ◽  
June July ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Health And Well Being

Aims and method To gain a deeper understanding of the use of online culture and its potential benefits to mental health and well-being, sociodemographic characteristics and self-reported data on usage, perceived mental health benefits and health status were collected in an online cross-sectional survey during COVID-19 restrictions in the UK in June–July 2020. Results In total, 1056 people completed the survey. A high proportion of participants reported finding online culture helpful for mental health; all but one of the benefits were associated with regular use and some with age. Reported benefits were wide-ranging and interconnected. Those aged under 25 years were less likely to be regular users of online culture or to have increased their use during lockdown. Clinical implications There may be benefits in targeting cultural resources for mental health to vulnerable groups such as young adults.

Understanding memes on Chinese social media

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-260
Author(s):  
Lu Ying ◽  
Jan Blommaert
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Facial Expression ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Cultural Form ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Online Culture ◽  
Chinese Social Media

Abstract Memes as online graphic semiotic resources have developed into a globalized genre and a cultural form. The vernacularization of this global cultural form on Chinese social media is Biaoqing (literally, ‘facial expression’). Biaoqing is a phenomenon and a genre engendered by the development of information technology and growing accessibility to the internet. The most prominent features of Biaoqing on Chinese social media (cute, mischievous, decadent, dirty, violent) are spawned by and therefore reflect the structure of society. The ludic nature of Biaoqing enables them to serve as resources for new forms of communication, potential of reshaping existing social norms, the landscape of online culture, and culture and society at large. The results of this contribution constitute an invitation for a reimagination of the role of graphic semiotic signs and digital infrastructures in society, and a rethinking of theories for sociolinguistic research in a digital era.

Eating as a transgression Multisensorial performativity in the carnal videos of mukbang (eating shows)

2020 ◽  
pp. 136787792090343
Author(s):  
Yeran Kim
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Economic Values ◽  
Online Culture ◽  
Society Of Control

In analysing the issues of body and affect involved in the contemporary online culture including mukbang (eating shows), I propose the term ‘carnal videos’. Carnal videos are a constitutive part of the society of control in the digital environment. Through the operation of multisensorial significations in carnal videos, human networked affect is excessively expressed and experienced, along with its politico-ethical potentials of perseverance and differentiation. By exploiting and colonizing such potentials, however, human networked affect contributes to the platform companies’ ever growing capitalist drives towards the maximization of economic values. Several conflicting layers of transgression operate within mukbang. One layer involves transgression as an affective force of resistance and pleasure, the other layer involves transgression, or the control of transgression, in terms of accelerating and capturing human faculties as biolabour. These two contrasting aspects of transgression are characterized by the ambiguity, complexity, and dynamics embedded in the practice of carnal videos.

On the Early Days of Usenet: The Roots of the Cooperative Online Culture. (Chapter 10)

First Monday ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 3 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Hauben ◽  
Ronda Hauben
Keyword(s):  
Online Culture

“I see your garbage”: Participatory practices and literacy privilege on “Grammar Nazi” Facebook pages in different sociolinguistic contexts

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (7) ◽  
pp. 2391-2410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaroslav Švelch ◽  
Tamah Sherman
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
The Public ◽  
Language Policing ◽  
Online Culture ◽  
Orthographic Errors ◽  
Facebook Pages ◽  
Standard Language Ideology ◽  
Method Analysis

In contemporary online culture, Grammar Nazi (GN) is a derogatory term used to label individuals who practice excessive language policing but has also been ironically appropriated by groups of users who engage in evaluation of other people’s grammar for entertainment purposes. In this article, we combine approaches from media studies and sociolinguistics to analyze the adoption of the phenomenon by two GN Facebook pages in two languages: English and Czech. Our mixed-method analysis shows that while both pages can be read as examples of media participation, they also exemplify their users’ “literacy privilege” associated with standard language ideology. However, there are differences in the practices associated with the label, reflecting the specific sociolinguistic contexts. While Czech GNs act as “guardians” of the public space, collecting and displaying localized orthographic errors for collective dissection, the English page is more dedicated to sharing jokes and puns typical of international online culture.

Understanding the Emerging Contemporary Public Intellectual: Online Academic Persona and The Conversation

2015 ◽  
Vol 156 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-132
Author(s):  
P. David Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Public Intellectual ◽  
The Self ◽  
Public Intellectuals ◽  
Intellectual Work ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Initial Analysis ◽  
The Media ◽  
Online Culture ◽  
The Individual

At its core, the power of the public intellectual is the capacity to make ideas move through a culture. This article looks at what kind of academic persona – that is, what kind of public self whose original status comes from intellectual work and thinking – navigates effectively through online culture and communicates ideas in the contemporary moment. Part of the article reports on a research project that has studied academic personas online and explores what can be described as ‘registers of online performance’ that they inhabit through their online selves. The research reveals that public intellectuals have to interpret effectively that online culture privileges what is identified as ‘presentational media’: the individual as opposed to the media is the channel through which information moves and is exchanged online, and it is essentially a presentation of the self that has to be integrated into the ideas and messages. From this initial analysis/categorisation of academic persona online, the article investigates the online magazine The Conversation, which blends journalism with academic expertise in its production of news stories. The article concludes with some of the key elements that are part of the power of the public intellectual online.

Uyghurs on Chinese Social Networking Sites: The Creation and Destruction of Ethnic Youth Culture

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 264-286
Author(s):  
Nathan Light
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Virtual World ◽  
Online Community ◽  
Internet Use ◽  
Youth Culture ◽  
Software Engineer ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Online Culture ◽  
Social Networking Website

The Chinese social networking website Fenbei.com was started in 2003 by a young Chinese software engineer. By 2006 it provided an important online community for tens of thousands of Uyghurs, who developed an online culture and communication genres through which they creatively engaged in a virtual world with thousands of others who shared their interests. By 2010 the site was closed, stranding these Uyghurs and millions of other Chinese citizens without the online site that had become their virtual community and connected them to other users around China and even abroad. This article attempts to uncover a small part of what Fenbei meant for young Uyghur Internet enthusiasts and fills some of the gaps in research on popular Internet use in China.

Fostering a Safe Online Culture with Cyberbullying Awareness and Prevention

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 56-66
Author(s):  
Kay Kyeong-Ju Seo ◽  
Joseph Alfred Ciani
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
Virtual Interaction ◽  
Instant Communication ◽  
Online Culture ◽  
Diverse Cultures

The worldwide expansion of blogs, Twitter®, wikis, and virtual worlds is rapidly forming a new online culture where instant communication and virtual interaction are easily accessible at our fingertips. These powerful communication technologies are bringing global communities closer than we have ever imagined possible. While the technical affordances of these tools are holding promise to better support our diverse cultures and individual differences, the very same features can also bring in a major negative – cyberbullying. Internet aggression is more detrimental than traditional face-to-face bullying because it is often done anonymously behind computer screens. This makes human rights and equal participation more easily suppressed or violated in the cyberspace. This article focuses on raising awareness about the serious consequences of cyberbullying and suggesting innovative prevention actions, thus contributing to building a safe online culture.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document