Approach: How to Study a Vid

Fanvids ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Charlotte Stevens
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Detailed Knowledge ◽  
Canon Formation ◽  
Complete Form ◽  
Television Media

A vid offers more than just access to the specific interpretive work of the person who created it. The vid is a robust and complete form that is capable of withstanding analysis independent of detailed knowledge of either the source material or the vidder’s own interpretive motives/ beliefs. This chapter discusses the approach to textual analysis taken in Fanvids and reveals what can be learned from studying vids as texts unto themselves. This chapter also explores canon formation in television/ media studies and how this can apply to studying a marginal form. This chapter finishes with a discussion of the canons of vids that are formed through fan convention programming.

scholarly journals ‘I realised then how “Parisian” Egypt was’: challenges and rewards of de-westernising travel journalism

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (8) ◽  
pp. 1151-1166
Author(s):  
Andrew Duffy
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
The West ◽  
Travel And Tourism ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Newspaper Articles

Bypassing the dominant Western bias in journalism scholarship is a challenge; it raises the question of what might replace it. Similarly, to evade the Western post-imperialism orthodoxies recurrent in cultural studies scholarship into travel and tourism would require other perspectives. This study combines the two and attempts to circumvent the Western bias in scholarship on travel journalism, given that its constituent parts are – for different reasons – becoming de-centred from the West. Textual analysis of Singaporean newspaper articles in Mandarin and English shows that questions of privilege and power remain but need not be associated with narratives of post-imperialism. Instead, destinations are textually constructed to justify the writer’s decision to travel. The intention for this article is to suggest ways that dominant Western perspectives in media studies may be balanced by other viewpoints which still expose issues of power and privilege but offer a less hegemonic, more culturally neutral starting point

scholarly journals Breaking Bad and Narrative Complexity

2018 ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Dubravka Đurić
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Television Studies ◽  
Serial Production ◽  
Breaking Bad ◽  
Cultural Approach ◽  
Crucial Component ◽  
Visual Style

In this paper I deal with the phenomenon of narrative complexity in TV serial production, and as an example I will discuss Breaking Bad. Pointing to this phenomenon as a creative revolution, characterized by a new visual style, I will discuss its self-reflexivity. This means that the mechanics of producing narrative are realized by making the audience follow not just the plot of the story, but also recognize formal aspects of the construction of the storyworld, its characters, and relations. I will illustrate the paradigm shift in television studies from a cultural approach to textual analysis, which focusses on formal aspects of producing the serials. My approach to Breaking Bad will apply both approaches. In cultural analysis, I will focus on the masculinity in crisis which is taking place within the context of American neoliberalism. After that I will deal with the mechanics of visual narrating which is a crucial component of Breaking Bad. Article received: April 28, 2018; Article accepted: May 10, 2018; Published online: October 15, 2018; Original scholarly paperHow to cite this article: Đurić, Dubravka. "Breaking Bad and Narrative Complexity." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 17 (2018): 49−58. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i17.269

Women’s Studies Archive: Voice and Vision

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-63
Author(s):  
Jennifer A. DeVito
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Women's Studies ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Women’S Studies ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
User Friendly

Women’s Studies Archive: Voice and Vision is a collection of primary source material related to women’s history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries gathered from the archival collections of libraries and archives. The database emphasizes material authored by women and perspectives from diverse ethnic and religious groups. It covers a variety of topics such as slavery, political activism, socialism, education, marriage, and social justice. The content includes manuscripts, monographs, photographs, personal papers, and periodicals.The database is intuitive and user-friendly and incorporates accessibility tools such as OCR and image magnification. Users can search an individual collection or search across multiple collections. Textual analysis tools allow users alternate ways to discover additional content and the ability to explore historical term use.

Sissy Remixed

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 222-236
Author(s):  
Aster Gilbert
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Direct Address ◽  
Trans Women ◽  
Video Makers

Abstract Available scholarship on trans* pornography has favored mainstream studio and alternative/queer productions. Relatively little work has examined the phenomenon of trans* micropornography: user-made remixes of copywritten source material that are shared online within networks of pornographic fandoms. Trans* identities hold a significant purchase on microporn networks, evidenced by the ubiquity of trans* bodies and the work of trans* microporn video makers, who while hidden behind screen names and avatars, largely identify as trans* women and cis male “sissies.” Drawing on textual analysis of these videos and their methods of addressing the viewer, the author identifies a practice within microporn networks that she calls trans* porno remix (TPR). Through digital editing techniques, TPR creates haptic spaces for the viewer to imagine themselves as trans* subjects. Through modes of direct address to the viewer, on-screen captions, and audio-visual montage, TPR videos construct a trans* imaginary that is coproduced with the porn consumer and create space for viewers to experiment with gendered embodiment through imagining a future-oriented transformation into a trans* subject.

scholarly journals Snakes and Things: A Comics Exploration of Species through the COVID-19 Crisis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gina Matteo
Keyword(s):  
Animal Rights ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Text And Image ◽  
Animal Body ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Human Animal

While extensive research has been done by animal rights activists, philosophers, and interdisciplinary academics on the animal body in moments of crisis, there is little analysis and exploration of this topic in the comics form. Through engaging in the comics form (both as a maker and scholar), I argue that comics offer a unique perspective to consider body and space, especially regarding human-animal relationships in our current moment in time. The comics form offers the ability for scholarship and theory to unfold and layer beyond textual analysis; with the use of both text and image, comics not only explore topics, but reposition them to cultivate new meanings. For this project I aim to not only unpack human-animal relationships through themes of body and space, but to also demonstrate why the comics form is especially useful when understanding these topics. In employing the comics form, I aim to explore questions like: How does the comics form allow the reader to engage with theory? Why is the comics form pertinent to understanding human-animal relationships today? How are animal bodies and identities considered as living beings during the COVID-19 crisis? How are their bodies constructed and dismantled in spaces that have been created and defined by the COVID-19 crisis? My source material consists of interdisciplinary modern, spatial, and animal theory, as well as comic analysis and theory. In using the comics form and theoretical approaches to explore body and space, this project aims to add a new intervention into the comics realm, demonstrates how the comics form must be a considered approach in animal rights and spatial academia, and offers a new lens in understanding how we can use comics as a method to approach body, space, and the COVID-19 crisis.

scholarly journals “I Started out as a Social Constructionist”: A Conversation with Myra J. Hird, Part 1

1969 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Scott
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Distinct Advantage ◽  
Language Studies ◽  
Symbolic World ◽  
And Linguistics

As a student of Communication, I have come to understand the field as being principally concerned with the symbolic world. Thus we see cultural studies, news and media studies, and language studies and linguistics as defining traditions; discourse and textual analysis as defining methods; and social construction as a defining theoretical approach. Yet the field has been defined in a number of ways which can vary drastically or conflict with one another. Rather than seeing this as a serious problem of identity, I suggest that, quite possibly, this is Communication’s most productive feature. Being interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, or whatever you would like to call it, Communication has the distinct advantage of being relatively free from the binding constrictions of older, more established disciplines. This means the field is at the forefront of producing novel research.

Senecan sententiae in Sir Thomas More

Moreana ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (Number 210) (2) ◽  
pp. 127-149
Author(s):  
Matthew Mehan
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Thomas More ◽  
Thematic Unity ◽  
Sir Thomas More ◽  
Collaborative Play ◽  
Insight Into

This textual analysis of thematic unity in the collaborative play Sir Thomas More presents both new discoveries and analysis of source material and of the play's careful use thereof. Special focus is given to the series of Latin, Senecan sententiae showcased in scenes 11 and 13, as More reacts to his fall from high office and worldly fortunes. By means of this analysis, the article offers further insight into the remarkable character of the play's Thomas More, namely his habit of balancing tragic and Senecan attitudes with more comedic ones in order to play the well-prepared role of a comic actor, despite a tragic stage.

scholarly journals Mapping Persona and Games

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Christopher Moore
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Computer Game ◽  
Tipping Point ◽  
Game Studies ◽  
Games Studies

For those new to games studies, the most important primer is the recognition that, as a field of research, it is at its most revealing when in conversation with perspectives from other fields and domains of inquiry. Espen Aarseth (2001) announced that the first issue of Game Studies, the international journal of computer game research, marked the commencement of computer game studies. Aarseth's editorial launched the trajectory for the following two decades of game research, obscuring much of the previous work examining digital and analogue games that had contributed to the tipping point at which the fields' coalescence could become a reality. Emerging from media studies, sociology, and a particular tradition of textual analysis in cinema and literature studies, games studies has since had a reputation for being the latest kid on the block. Like persona studies, game studies features key moments in which intersections between it and other fields and their theoretical and analytical perspectives prove enlightening, enriching, and even entertaining.

scholarly journals SPREADING THE WORD: TRACING THE AFFECTIVE ECOLOGY OF DIGITAL ORAL STORIES

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anjuli Joshi Brekke
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Digital Storytelling ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Digital Format ◽  
Rhetorical Studies ◽  
Oral Stories

This project explores the potential of creating, sharing and listening to oral stories online to open affectively charged spaces for listening across difference. In a world in which we are increasingly able to tailor the technologies that surround us to echo back our own voices and worldviews, we seem less willing to slow down and listen deeply to the voices of those whose presence risk placing our tidy worlds into turmoil. This project explores the affective political potential of both the processes of production and dissemination of the multiplatform oral history project StoryCorps. Drawing together recent work on affect from rhetorical studies, cultural studies and new media studies, this project uses textual analysis to analyze how the various StoryCorps platforms (NPR segments, the podcast, the StoryCorps me app) generate affective archives that invite different forms of interactivity from listeners. This paper explores the affective power of mediated voice to bring minoritized experiences and calls for equity to the ears of broader publics. It is significant because it highlights the boundaries and possibilities of digital storytelling as a way to connect with others across difference. The boundaries remind us of the persistence of structures of marginality that limit the seemingly democratic practices of storytelling in a digital age; the possibilities gesture to the power of minoritized voices to disrupt entrenched narratives. The significance of these stories rests in their claim to be at once particular and generalizable, and the digital format enables their travel in new ways and to new audiences.

An atomic-resolution microscope study of Al contracts on GaAs

1986 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 726-727
Author(s):  
Z. Liliental-Weber ◽  
C. Nelson ◽  
R. Ludeke ◽  
R. Gronsky ◽  
J. Washburn
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Schottky Contacts ◽  
Detailed Knowledge ◽  
The Past ◽  
Semiconductor Interfaces ◽  
Deposited Metal ◽  
Microwave Applications ◽  
Free Interfaces ◽  
Potential Use

The properties of metal/semiconductor interfaces have received considerable attention over the past few years, and the Al/GaAs system is of special interest because of its potential use in high-speed logic integrated optics, and microwave applications. For such materials a detailed knowledge of the geometric and electronic structure of the interface is fundamental to an understanding of the electrical properties of the contact. It is well known that the properties of Schottky contacts are established within a few atomic layers of the deposited metal. Therefore surface contamination can play a significant role. A method for fabricating contamination-free interfaces is absolutely necessary for reproducible properties, and molecularbeam epitaxy (MBE) offers such advantages for in-situ metal deposition under UHV conditions

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