scholarly journals JAPANESE TELEVISION: ADVERTISING, CULTURE, AND MEDIA PRACTICES

2021 ◽  
pp. 32-38
Author(s):  
Sebastian Brooke ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Consumer Goods ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Television Advertising ◽  
Media Consumption ◽  
World Views ◽  
Television Broadcasting ◽  
Media Practices ◽  
Basic Level ◽  
Small Screen

This brief overview examines Japan’s enduring relationship with the small screen and television broadcasting, a surprisingly faithful relationship in a time of upheavals in media consumption. Television connects all 126 million inhabitants, informing, persuading, relaxing, befriending, and providing topics for discussion and ways of contextualising events, brands, people and world-views. It is now virtually impossible to escape the worlds of the screens in any way in Japan, meaning it is also impossible to escape the manufactured content on these screens. The driving force behind this promulgation of screens is at its most basic level a self-promotion, a need to perpetuate consumerism and brandism, to ensure that screens continue to be bought and continue to integrate into everyday life, providing a direct conduit between products and consumers. These products range from the television screens themselves, everyday consumer goods, through to opinions and worldviews, selections and slices of life for consumption by audiences eager to absorb and consume and connect.

Negotiating Spirituality

2014 ◽  
pp. 57-71
Author(s):  
Ruly Darmawan
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Media Consumption ◽  
Natural Properties ◽  
Religious Rituals ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Being Religious

Religion in popular culture is inevitable from the packaging that led to the commodification of religion itself. This commodification becomes possible due to the natural properties of agents of popular culture. If we look at it closely, there are some attempts for this commodification to some religious rituals/activities. In some media, this commodification is packed with an effort that blends musical and theatrical compositions. This chapter describes the reality of commodification on religion that exists commonly in some media entertainment. This chapter is a kind of reflection towards the “being religious” situation that is commonly found in the everyday life and daily media consumption, especially on television during religious holidays.

Brief Reminders: Muslim Preachers, Mediation and Time

2020 ◽  
pp. 132-152
Author(s):  
Simon Stjernholm
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Multimodal Communication ◽  
Media Production ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Media ◽  
Religious Nature ◽  
Media Practices

This chapter explores a willingness on behalf of certain Muslim preachers to move beyond traditional preaching styles and create material that fits well within current social media practices. Focusing on the media productions of two Muslim preachers in Sweden, the chapter analyses how they experiment with oratory genres and modes. Using self-imposed brevity and multimodal communication in a type of media production defined here as a ‘reminder’, these preachers try to exhort their audiences to consider matters felt to be of pressing religious nature. The examples illustrate attempts to expand the reach of Islamic religious discourses beyond mosque environments and into the everyday life of an audience, with the potential of achieving a different kind of rhetorical work than a regular lecture or sermon.

scholarly journals Everyday Life Under Communism: Practices and Objects

2013 ◽  
Vol 68 (02) ◽  
pp. 207-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larissa Zakharova
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Consumer Goods ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Basic Consumer

Why should we consider the everyday life of ordinary citizens in their countless struggles to obtain basic consumer goods if the priorities of their leaders lay elsewhere? For years, specialists of the Soviet Union and the people's democracies neglected the history of everyday life and, like the so-called “totalitarian” school, focused on political history, seeking to grasp how power was wielded over a society that was considered immobile and subject to the state's authority. Furthermore, studies on the eastern part of Europe were dominated by political scientists who were interested in the geopolitics of the Cold War. The way the field was structured meant that little attention was paid to sociological and anthropological perspectives that sought to understand social interaction.

‘A Peculiarly English Institution’: Work, Rest, and Play in the Labour Church

2002 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 357-367
Author(s):  
Krista Cowman
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Religious Movement ◽  
The West

The Labour Church held its first service in Charlton Hall, Manchester, in October 1891. The well-attended event was led by Revd Harold Rylett, a Unitarian minister from Hyde, and John Trevor, a former Unitarian and the driving force behind the idea. Counting the experiment a success, Trevor organized a follow-up meeting the next Sunday, at which the congregation overflowed from the hall into the surrounding streets. A new religious movement had begun. In the decade that followed, over fifty Labour Churches formed, mainly in Northern England, around the textile districts of the West Riding of Yorkshire and East Lancashire. Their impetus lay both in the development and spread of what has been called a socialist culture in Britain in the final decades of the nineteenth century, and in the increased awareness of class attendant on this. Much of the enthusiasm for socialism was indivisible from the lifestyle and culture which surrounded it. This was a movement dedicated as much to what Chris Waters has described as ‘the politics of everyday life …. [and] of popular culture’ as to rigid economistic doctrine. This tendency has been described as ‘ethical socialism’, although a more common expression at the time was ‘the religion of socialism’.

scholarly journals Prospects of News Televsion: Materials of In-Depth Interviews

2021 ◽  
pp. 157-170
Author(s):  
I. I. Volkova ◽  
E. L. Proskurnova ◽  
T. T. D. Tran
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Media Consumption ◽  
Television Programs ◽  
Funding Model ◽  
Television Broadcasting ◽  
The One ◽  
Television Journalists ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Empirical Material

The issues of the development of traditional news television in the context of a single information space are considered. The goal is to look at how much content creators and consumers agree in their predictions about the future of TV. The data of in-depth interviews were used as empirical material: professional television journalists (federal TV channels) and students (PFUR “Television” department) were interviewed. The contradictions between the two basic types of media consumption, which are characteristic of addressers and addressees of television messages, are revealed. It is shown that these contradictions explain the generational gap in the perception of modern news television programs, predetermine the decrease in TV consumption of news content from federal channels designed for a mass audience. The relevance of the work is due to the rethinking of the functions and prospects for the development of traditional TV by both professional broadcasters and consumers. The conclusion is made about the further development of news television. It is noted that, on the one hand (the opinion of professionals), traditional television broadcasting will be preserved while adjusting the agenda, rethinking interaction with the audience, changing the broadcasting paradigm, mastering new competencies by professional journalists and using the opportunities of the online space. On the other hand (students’ opinion), subject-to-object news broadcasting of federal channels will cease to exist when the generation of viewers and the funding model change.

Hearing Allah's Call

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Millie
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Media Consumption ◽  
Complex Societies ◽  
West Java ◽  
Political Concern ◽  
The World

For many Muslims throughout the world, oral preaching provides the most accessible and enjoyable medium for learning about Islam and its meanings for everyday life. This is true in Indonesia’s West Java province, where almost 98% of the population of around forty-three million practices Islam. Despite its popularity, Indonesia’s Islamic elites are concerned about the value of preaching. They see that Islam provides directives and motivations towards progress in areas of social and political concern, but argue that this progress will not be achieved if Muslims are satisfied with the pleasing artifice of clever preachers. Millie spent fourteen months in the company of some of West Java’s most successful Islamic preachers, but also spent time with critics of listening. He described and explores a dichotomy between Islamic speech which succeeds because it is shaped to suit listeners’ social realities, and discourses about Muslim subjectivity that connect media consumption with aspirations for social and political progress, and which portray listening as anachronistic and inefficacious. This detailed analysis sheds light on a question that is increasingly important in efforts to understand contemporary Muslim societies: What is the place of pious listening in the complex societies of today?

Being Rooted

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-308
Author(s):  
Peter Joseph Gloviczki
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Short Paper ◽  
Media Consumption ◽  
Multicultural Identity

In this autoethnography, I focus on listening as an act that encourages a process of being rooted in a multicultural identity. Listening across languages, cultures, and places helps reveal commonalities that might have otherwise remained unexamined. I hope this short paper motivates others to unpack the ways that seemingly disparate forces may help influence media consumption in everyday life.

Media repertoires and discursive communities: Studying audiences in the multimedia age

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanja Oblak Črnič ◽  
Breda Luthar
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Digital Natives ◽  
Media Consumption ◽  
Media Audiences ◽  
Social Community ◽  
Meaning Systems ◽  
Cultural Formations ◽  
Media Repertoires ◽  
Personal Media ◽  
Single Medium

AbstractDue to radical changes in media consumption, manifested in the widespread mediatization and proliferation of the uses of personal media in everyday life, research about media audiences can no longer focus on a single medium. In order to identify ideal-typical combinations of media platforms and aesthetic cultures in the population of the two largest Slovenian cities, the concept of media repertoires was used. The study shows that our respondents’s media consumption is structured into four typical media repertoires: integrators, digital natives, television viewers and newspaper readers. These four repertoires also represent distinct socio-cultural formations. In social terms, (digital) audiences therefore do not constitute a homogenous social community, but should be understood as class-differentiated discursive cultures or ‘meaning systems’.

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