scholarly journals The vulnerable gaze of the migrant

2019 ◽  
pp. 54-69
Author(s):  
Alice Cati
Keyword(s):  
Traumatic Events ◽  
Symbolic Forms ◽  
Web Series ◽  
Moving Images ◽  
Media System ◽  
Modes Of Representation ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Bear Witness ◽  
Person Experience ◽  
The Web

In the current media system, we are observing the increasing sedimentation of symbolic forms, discourses and imagery regarding contemporary migrations. With the reuse of videos filmed by migrants, the documentary form represents the best “yielding field” where intercultural modes of representation and visual self-inscriptions can be constantly reinvented. In particular, videos made with nonprofessional devices have drawn viewers’ attention to the capacity of moving images to bear witness to reality “from below” and, in some respects, to reproduce aesthetically the opacity and the contingency of events, even the most tragic ones. This paper examines how such a gaze, when it is embodied by the migrant subject, raises questions about the representation of a first-person experience, an experience which paradoxically constitutes a denial of all identity and subjectivity in a deeper sense. To do this, two interesting experiments recently hosted by the website of the Italian newspaper La Repubblica will be analysed: the web series Com’è profondo il mare and Un unico destino—Tre padri e il naufragio che ha cambiato la nostra storia. These web series not only represent traumatic events, but the images show clashes within the depictions themselves and a collision or negotiation between conflicting points of view.

scholarly journals The strange case of Francis Dolarhyde and the Dragon: Alternating narrative points of view and the source of knowledge in Thomas Harris’ 'Red Dragon'

2018 ◽  
pp. 47-68
Author(s):  
Justyna Stiepanow
Keyword(s):  
Propositional Knowledge ◽  
Stream Of Consciousness ◽  
Narrative Voice ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Vast Array ◽  
Indirect Speech ◽  
Cause And Effect ◽  
Modes Of Representation ◽  
Thomas Harris ◽  
Points Of View

This paper investigates the narrative voice employed by Thomas Harris in Red Dragon as a source of knowledge about the fictional universe, more particularly about the main villain, Francis Dolarhyde. Confronting important epistemological notions (knowledge, justification and their sources) with literary theoretical concepts (narrative voice and points of view), I analyse alternating modes of representation. Harris’ narrator shifts between three modes: the quasi-perceptual one – sense-based, rich in descriptive elements; the quasi-introspective narration carried out from a close subjective angle, using free indirect speech or stream of consciousness; and the testimonial mode – telling (rather than showing) the story through exposition resting on the principle of cause and effect. Employing a vast array of inter-textual pragmatics, the narrative remains ambiguous. In consequence, any proposition about Dolarhyde can be empirically and rationally challenged and all propositional knowledge regarding the character is merely fragmentary.

scholarly journals Argentina in Crisis: Superheroes in Zenitram (2010) and Kryptonita (2015)

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-309
Author(s):  
Vinodh Venkatesh
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Web Series ◽  
Moving Images ◽  
Present Essay ◽  
Comprehensive Examination

While the study of superheroes has become a comprehensive field in itself, a focus on global superheroes has only recently begun to take shape. Vinodh Venkatesh’s Capitán Latinoamérica: Superheroes in Cinema, Television, and Web Series (2020) furthers a comprehensive examination of the superhero in Latin American moving images from the late 1950s to the present day, covering contexts from Mexico to Chile. Missing from this study, however, is an examination of Argentine superheroes. The present essay fills this gap by addressing two films, Zenitram (2010) and Kryptonita (2015), that portray and critique Argentina and its relationship with neoliberalism in the 20th and 21st centuries. Both films move beyond the parameters of genre cinema by engaging salient issues extant in the cultural horizon of the country. 

Russian web series: Mastering the new format

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Artem Prokhorov
Keyword(s):  
The Internet ◽  
Foreign Experience ◽  
The Past ◽  
Web Series ◽  
The Web

The article studies how domestic screenwriters and directors are exploring the web series format that started actively developing in Russia only five years ago. Both series produced for major internet platforms and indie projects created by independent studios in the past five years are reviewed. The article analyses how Russian authors understand and take into account in their work the specifics of the new field, as well as the format-forming features of web series that have developed abroad. Such aspects as the lack of censorship, freedom from severe restrictions on story genres and heroes’ types have a significant impact on the dramaturgy of native web series. Those are the things that determine the attractiveness of this new format for experienced Russian authors moving to the internet from related fields: cinema and television. The results of the study show that Russian dramatists and directors rely on foreign experience of creating web series, but at the same time they try to modify certain features of this format and sometimes manage to find their own unique solutions.

scholarly journals Web Series as Digital Brand

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-36
Author(s):  
R D Santy ◽  
◽  
D D Anwar ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Promotion Strategy ◽  
Brand Engagement ◽  
Web Series ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
Promotional Strategies ◽  
The Web

The purpose of this research is to explain the role of the Web Series in discussing and delivering messages to audiences about the "value" of the product, where the web series published on digital media such as Youtube that becomes the attractive promotional strategies for the consumers. This research used a qualitative method with a descriptive approach that explains the promotion strategy and brand engagement through the web series that became a new content marketing campaign. The results of this study are the increased proximity between customers and brand as well as the increased understanding brand which leads to brand awareness because attractive promotional strategies can attract the attention of consumers. The use of web series to build engagement with customers also has its own added value, where the web series can also be used as a product campaign such as Ax Indonesia, which released a Web Series Axelerate the series: Kostan AX/3 that is in conjunction with the launch of their new product, Pomade, and Facial Wash. This study concludes that the approach to consumers must be adjusted to the characteristics of consumers themselves so that messages can be conveyed more effectively and on target.

scholarly journals Telling our stories on the web: Canadian English-language web series and the production of culture online

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilia Zboralska
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Canadian English ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Web Series ◽  
Structure And Agency ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Web

This dissertation presents the first critical scholarly analysis of the Canadian English-language scripted web series industry, its cultural practices, industrial dynamics and texts. Through in-depth interviews with 48 individuals active in the production of Canadian online scripted content, participant observation, and a benchmark quantitative analysis of gender and race in key creative roles in 175 seasons of Canadian web series, the dissertation investigates the web as an alternative space for Canadian scripted audiovisual content, and the actors and forces that have shaped and are shaping its development, including its emergent patterns of inclusion. By developing a novel theoretical framework that combines the critical political economy of communication with entrepreneurship studies, the dissertation is able to mediate effectively between structure and agency to reveal how Canadian web series creators are interpreting, internalizing and resisting larger institutional dynamics and discourses in their cultural practices and texts. Through their entrepreneuring, Canadian web creators are reacting to a variety of rigidities within the contextual dimensions in which they are embedded, including the absence of meaningful opportunities to practice their crafts, the persistence of networks of exclusion, and inaccurate or missing on-screen representations of themselves or others in mainstream media. Through their work, they desire to achieve freedom from these constraints. The challenge of disrupting the status quo is then revealed through an examination of the domestic and extra-national structural factors that act as impediments to their agency. The dissertation problematizes ideas of participation and access on the web, and introduces new conceptual terminology through the Participatory Culture Paradox, to encapsulate the contradictory set of relations that on the one hand, enables creators’ activities in the online space, and at the same time, constrains their capacity to find audiences and monetize their work. The findings here demonstrate that as much as internet-based distribution has expanded opportunities for participation for regular users, who you are, and where you are based, continue to be salient mediators of both participation and success in the development of professional scripted screen careers in the digital age. The dissertation culminates in actionable priorities for Canadian policy that aim at change.

scholarly journals Electronic-Acquisition Software’s Key Factors And Subsequent Impact: Points Of View From User’s

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rehan Khalique ◽  
Muhammad Asim ◽  
Salman Manzoor
Keyword(s):  
Sample Size ◽  
Quantitative Information ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Procurement Procedure ◽  
The Web ◽  
New Framework

Electronic-Acquisition Software’s  implies the usage of data and correspondence advances utilizing the Internet to do all phases of the Procurement procedure. The greater part of the organizations execute this new arrangement of Electronic-Acquisition Software’s  and they are succeeding while many come up short. This examination was completed on surveying Electronic-Acquisition Software’s  achievement factors among some Steel Companies of Pakistan. The target of the examination decides the achievement factors impacting the accomplishment of Electronic-Acquisition. This investigation included a semi-organized meeting from the acquirement administrators of chose associations for the distinguishing proof of accomplishment factors in their associations. Expressive methodology was embraced to locate the significant components that impact the accomplishment of Electronic-Acquisition Software’s  , from eight organizations a sample size of (150) respondents took an interest for the quantitative information assortment through a study survey. SPSSv22 is utilized to break down the gathered information and different examination are performed. It is uncovered from the examination that the entirety of the associations have embraced Electronic-Acquisition Software’s  with rehearses like e-sourcing, notice and offering on the web offer accommodation and proposition accommodation however because of uneducated market and feeling awkward in utilizing new framework at provider/merchant end a portion of the practices are not begun like e-installments.

Den kinematografischen Akteuren folgen

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
André Wendler
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Film Studies ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Moving Images ◽  
Media System ◽  
Digital Visual Culture

"Die gegenwärtige digitale visuelle Kultur hat die Filmwissenschaft in den letzten Jahren mit einer Reihe tiefgreifender Fragen konfrontiert. Das sind Fragen nach einer neuen Ontologie bewegter Bilder, dem Zuschnitt des globalen Mediensystems oder der Genealogie digitaler Medien. Der Beitrag schlägt vor, einige der in diesen Debatten aufgeworfenen Fragen mit Hilfe der Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie (ANT) zu lösen. </br></br>In recent years, digital visual culture has confronted film studies with a series of profound questions. These concern a new ontology of moving images, the design of the global media system or the genealogy of digital media. This paper suggests to solve some of these issues by means of the actor-network theory. "

Medium Infrastruktur

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriele Schabacher
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Film Studies ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Moving Images ◽  
Media System ◽  
Digital Visual Culture

"Obwohl Medien nur in bzw. als Infrastrukturen greifbar sind, geraten diese erst neuerdings in den Fokus medienwissenschaftlichen Interesses. Dabei bieten die Science and Technology Studies (STS), insbesondere die Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie (ANT), produktive Ansätze, um die mediale Dimension des Infrastrukturellen zu erschließen. Im Durchgang durch die Infrastruktur-Theoriegeschichte werden drei Hinsichten entfaltet, die für den Zusammenhang von Medien und Infrastruktur aufschlussreich sind: die Frage der In/Visiblität von Infrastrukturen, Probleme von Standardisierung und Metrologie sowie die spezifische Prozessualität von Infrastrukturen. </br></br>In recent years, digital visual culture has confronted film studies with a series of profound questions. These concern a new ontology of moving images, the design of the global media system or the genealogy of digital media. This paper suggests to solve some of these issues by means of the actor-network theory. "

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