scholarly journals Traditional transformations and transmedial affirmations: Blurring the boundaries of Sherlockian fan practices

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley D. Polasek
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Sherlock Holmes ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Virtual Spaces ◽  
History Of ◽  
Fan Practices

The modes of discourse employed by fans of Sherlock Holmes represent both affirmational and transformational impulses. As the fan community has grown and diversified, tensions have arisen between Sherlockians who prefer to utilize traditional frameworks dating back to the early practices of the Baker Street Irregulars in the 1930s and '40s and those who operate primarily in virtual spaces and utilize 21st-century digital platforms as frameworks for their discourse. Because the demographics of affirmational fans tend to align with those of fans preferring traditional frameworks, and conversely, the demographics of transformational fans tend to align with those of fans preferring transmedial frameworks, the styles of engagement often become conflated with the impulses driving the discourse itself. By first examining these tensions and then utilizing case studies that illustrate the four combinations of frameworks and modes of discourse—traditional-affirmational, transmedial-affirmational, traditional-transformational, and transmedial-transformational—I seek to complicate the boundaries that appear to divide the larger Sherlock Holmes fan community. I will demonstrate that the twin fannish impulses to affirm the text and transform it have operated not at odds but in parallel throughout the history of the fandom.

scholarly journals The scholarly rebellion of the early Baker Street Irregulars

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Mills
Keyword(s):  
Institutional History ◽  
Sherlock Holmes ◽  
New Criticism ◽  
National Organization ◽  
History Of ◽  
Fan Practices ◽  
Over Time

This work provides and analyzes an early institutional history of the pioneering Sherlock Holmes American fan club, the Baker Street Irregulars (BSI). Using the publications and records of these devoted Sherlockians, I track the BSI's development from a speakeasy gathering in 1934 to a national organization by the mid-1940s. This growth was built on a foundation of Victorian nostalgia and playful humor. Yet at the same time the members of the Irregulars took their fandom seriously, producing Sherlockian scholarship and creating an infrastructure of journals, conferences, and credentialing that directly mimicked the academy. They positioned themselves in contrast to prevailing scholarly practices of the period, such as New Criticism. I trace both how their fan practices developed over time and how this conflict with the academy led to many of the BSI's defining characteristics.

Diversity Management

2000 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. Ivancevich ◽  
Jacqueline A. Gilbert
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Diversity Management ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Workforce Diversity ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Private Organizations ◽  
History Of

There are now more new faces and diversity among the workforce than ever before and this trend is expected to continue into the 21st century. Managers in public and private organizations are searching for and experimenting with various approaches to more effectively deal with increasing workforce diversity. This article briefly reviews the history of diversity management and calls for a new agenda that encourages more collaboration between scholars and administrators, increased researcher on-site observation of workplace reactions to diversity management initiatives, more informative and rigorous case studies, and more third-party evaluations of diversity management initiatives.

scholarly journals O FADO NA CIBERCULTURA: Identidade e memória luso-brasileira em plataformas digitais

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 191
Author(s):  
Márcia Ramos De Oliveira ◽  
Igor Lemos Moreira ◽  
Lucas Txai Fonceca
Keyword(s):  
Digital Collections ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Virtual Spaces ◽  
Musical Genre ◽  
Small Series ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
History Of ◽  
Brazilian Identity

Este trabalho propõe-se a observar uma pequena série de espaços virtuais - blogs e plataformas digitais - destacando elementos alusivos ao fado, gênero musical característico da nacionalidade portuguesa, como referência a identidade da comunidade luso-brasileira nestes ambientes. De caráter exploratório, esta breve análise apóia-se na perspectiva da história do tempo presente, enfatizando aspectos relacionados a dimensão da memória, usos do passado e acervos digitais.    PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Fado; Identidade luso-brasileira; cibercultura; memória; história do tempo presente.     ABSTRACT This work proposes to observe a small series of virtual spaces - blogs and digital platforms - highlighting elements allusive to fado, musical genre characteristic of Portuguese nationality, as a reference to the identity of the Portuguese-Brazilian community in these environments. Of exploratory nature, this brief analysis is based on the perspective of the history of the present time, emphasizing aspects related to memory dimension, past uses and digital collections.   KEYWORDS: Fado; Portuguese-Brazilian identity; Cyberculture; memory; History of the present time.     RESUMEN Este trabajo es una observación de una pequeña serie de espacios virtuales - blogs y plataformas digitales - destacando elementos alusivos al fado, género musical característico de la nacionalidad portuguesa, como referencia a la identidad de la comunidad luso-brasileira nestes ambientes. De caráter exploratorio, esta breve descripción se apunta a la perspectiva de la historia del tiempo presente, enfatizando el tamaño de la memoria, los usos del pasado y los acervos digitales.   PALABRAS CLAVE: Fado; Identidad luso-brasileña; Cibercultura; Memoria; Historia del tiempo presente.

Thorstein Veblen: A View from the 21st Century

2007 ◽  
pp. 73-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Nureev
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Institutional Economics ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
History Of Economic Thought ◽  
Thorstein Veblen ◽  
History Of

The article provides a description of T. Veblen’s views, showing his place in the history of economic thought. The author analyzes the context of Veblen’s life and work and considers different aspects of his theoretical legacy. Special attention is paid to the discussion of Veblen’s role in the development of institutional economics. The author describes in detail the main trends in the development of institutionalism after Veblen.

Time Lost, Time Regained: Billy Wilder's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-202
Author(s):  
Laura Marcus
Keyword(s):  
Private Life ◽  
Sherlock Holmes ◽  
History Of ◽  
Part Structure ◽  
Lost Time

This article discusses Billy Wilder's 1970 film The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, which, though not enthusiastically received by audiences at the time, has subsequently become a work highly valued by critics and cineastes. Radically cut from its original four-part structure by the studio, it has come to be perceived as a film about loss. This relates both to its themes – suppressed love, the vanished world of Holmes and Watson – and to the history of the film itself, whose missing episodes exist only in fragmentary form. The first part of the essay looks at the ways in which the film constructs an image of Sherlock Holmes (played by Robert Stephen), with a focus on the question of his sexuality, while the second part turns to the ways in which the film became an ‘obsession’ for one writer in particular, the novelist Jonathan Coe.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
James McElvenny
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

This chapter sets the scene for the case studies that follow in the rest of the book by characterising the ‘age of modernism’ and identifying problems relating to language and meaning that arose in this context. Emphasis is laid on the social and political issues that dominated the era, in particular the rapid developments in technology, which inspired both hope and fear, and the international political tensions that led to the two World Wars. The chapter also sketches the approach to historiography taken in the book, interdisciplinary history of ideas.

Entangled Trees and Arboreal Networks of Sensitive Environments

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-126
Author(s):  
Birgit Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Tropical Trees ◽  
Atmospheric Change ◽  
Media Study ◽  
Gutta Percha ◽  
History Of ◽  
Study Perspective ◽  
Nature Perception ◽  
Technological Perspective ◽  
Tall Tower

The article discusses how current mediated conditions change nature perception from a media study perspective. The article is based on different case studies such as the current sensation of atmospheric change through sensible media attached to trees which get published via Twitter, the meteorologist Amazonian Tall Tower Observatory and the use of gutta percha derived from tropical trees for the production of cables in the history of telegraphy. For analysing the examples, the perspective of »media as environments« is flipped to »environments as media«, because this focus doesn’t approach media from a networked and technological perspective primarily but makes productive the elemental character of basic »media« like air, earth and water

THE CONCEPT OF THE BALANCE OF FORCES IN THE 21ST CENTURY

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 1835-1847
Author(s):  
Vladimir Tomashevic ◽  
Hatidza Berisha ◽  
Aleksandar Cirakovic
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Scientific Understanding ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Major Powers ◽  
Realistic Theory ◽  
World Power ◽  
History Of ◽  
Balance Of Forces ◽  
Single World

In this paper the authors proceed from defining the concept of balance of forces, theoretical understanding of the balance of forces from the aspect of the scientific understanding of the realistic theory of international relations with concrete examples from the history of international relations. However, the focus of the work is an analysis of the power between a single world power (USA) and major powers (Russia, China) in a possible balance of power.The aim of the paper is to try to point out, through a relatively brief review, the possibility of establishing a balance of forces in the 21st century.

Introduction: The Translation History of Virgil

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanna Braund ◽  
Zara Martirosova Torlone
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Large Collection ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Individual

The introduction describes the broad landscape of translation of Virgil from both the theoretical and the practical perspectives. It then explains the genesis of the volume and indicates how the individual chapters, each one of which is summarized, fit into the complex tapestry of Virgilian translation activity through the centuries and across the world. The volume editors indicate points of connection between the chapters in order to render the whole greater than the sum of its parts. Braund and Torlone emphasize that a project such as this could look like a (rather large) collection of case studies; they therefore consider it important to extrapolate larger phenomena from the specifics presented here

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