Gaming against the greater good

First Monday ◽  
2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan McGrady
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The World ◽  
Greater Good ◽  
The Way

Wikipedia has grown to be one of the most visited Web sites in the world. Despite its influence on popular culture and the way we think about knowledge production and consumption, the conversation about why and how it works - or whether it's credible at all - is ongoing. This paper began as an examination of what the concept of "authority" means in Wikipedia and what role rhetoric might play in manufacturing this authority. Wikipedia's editors have functioned well as a community, having collaboratively developed a comprehensive set of social norms designed to place the project before any individual. Hence ideas like authority and rhetoric have only marginal roles in day-to-day activities. This paper takes an in-depth look at these norms and how they work, paying particular attention to a relatively new guideline that exemplifies the spirit of the Wikipedia community - "Gaming the system."

Unstoppable Decay and Relentless Hope: Study of Alterity in Popular Culture

2021 ◽  
pp. 56-76
Author(s):  
Adrien Ordonneau
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The Uncanny ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

Consequences of capitalism’s crises and their manifestations in arts have deeply modified the way we can approach mental health. As Mark Fisher pointed out in 2009 with his book Capitalist Realism, neoliberalism is using mental illness as a way to keep existing. The capacity to think a way out of alienation is deeply linked with arts and popular culture. The article proposes to study the uncanny dialogue between arts and politics in relationships to people, and mental health. The theoretical framework will show how arts are trying to build a way out of alienation, since 2009. The article will illustrate this research with the study of many artistic practices, including our own. The findings will show how the ambiguous and uncanny relationships with the world is used by artists as a way out of alienation, despite the difficulties occurring with mental health in time of crisis.

Reflection Through Fiction

2012 ◽  
pp. 21-34
Author(s):  
Patricia Cranton
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Transformative Learning ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

If we can learn to recognize ourselves and position ourselves in stories, we can identify beliefs, assumptions, and social norms that shape the way we see ourselves and the world around us. This has the potential for reflection and, in some cases, transformative learning. In this paper, I illustrate the process of positioning ourselves in stories using four Canadian short stories. I include the voices of participants who were engaged in a 12 week course on learning through fiction.

Conclusion

2021 ◽  
pp. 189-192
Author(s):  
Megan Woller
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Arthurian Legend ◽  
American Popular Culture ◽  
The World ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
Cultural Resonance ◽  
The Way ◽  
Traditional Stories

Traditional stories based on Arthurian legend continue to be told, and alongside these tales of romance and chivalry, a comedic tradition exists. This centuries-long tradition holds cultural resonance around the world, including having a strong presence in American popular culture. The musical as a genre has proven to be fertile ground for the insertion of American perspectives into the British legend. The use of song, in particular, can shape the way audiences understand familiar characters as well as the story itself. Given this context, the existence, popularity, and influence of Arthurian musicals represents an important contribution to the annals of myth.

Racial Capital from Pan-Africanism and Coloniality to Epistemic Rupture

2020 ◽  
pp. 74-92
Author(s):  
Jesse Benjamin
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Global System ◽  
Corporate Power ◽  
Racial Capitalism ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Politics Of Knowledge ◽  
Contemporary Politics ◽  
Pan Africanism ◽  
The World

The history and nature of racial capitalism remain primary questions of our times. Its true significance and gravity threaten to reveal everything about our contemporary world, from our immediate social arrangements to the global system. Within this, corporate power and the hegemonic culture shape the world at the limits of our perceptions. We must simultaneously engage the contemporary politics of knowledge production around these issues, both within the academy and in popular culture.

scholarly journals Las brujas y la mitología vasca en El guardián invisible de Fernando González Molina: de la tradición oral al lenguaje cinematográfico

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 95-103
Author(s):  
Magdalena Anna Gajewska
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Morphological Analysis ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Young Girls ◽  
The World ◽  
Free Women ◽  
The Way

Witches and Basque mythology in El guardián invisible by Fernando González Molina: From the oral tradition to cinematographic languageThe article investigates the way the oral tradition of Basque mythology and folkloric tales of witches resonate in the cinematographic language of the film El guardian invisible by Fernando Gonzalez Molina, which presents the investigation of the killings of young girls in Navarra. The study is based on anthropological and morphological analysis which intends to find the meanings expressed by means of filmic expression related to the contents and topics of our interest. The world presented in the film is marked by the presence of supernatural powers, the quality of which may be observed in both the contents and form of the film. The motives of the mythology correspond to the way of presenting them in an oral story. Regarding the image of witchery, it seems to be inspired by the vision which led the inquisitioners to the zone in question. The film refers to the stories of the trials of witches and presents both witch-hunting and genocide of free women. At the same time, it criticises popular culture and its negative influence on creating the prejudicial image of witches.

Fantasies of Returning to Nature as an Escape From Culture

2021 ◽  
pp. 324-337
Author(s):  
Elif Güntürkün ◽  
İlknur Gürses Köse
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Consumer Culture ◽  
Main Obstacle ◽  
The World ◽  
Hierarchical Position ◽  
Counter Culture ◽  
Eastern Cultures ◽  
Common Interests ◽  
East West ◽  
The Way

Modernism and its institutions have begun to be questioned by postmodern thinkers in almost every field. Nature was affirmed as an ideal on the path to liberation from culture. According to Camille Paglia, culture, which was seen as a way to the main obstacle to freedom, and the hierarchical position of the contrasts such as East-West, nature-culture, etc., has become the focus of discussions in the world of art and thought as fictions that need to be questioned and overcome on the way to liberation. While the view of nature as a liberating potential finds its place in consumer culture and popular culture as an extension of the opposing perspective originating from the counterculture, the return to nature has been fetishized by authenticating Eastern cultures with an Orientalist perspective. The beach, which is one of the representations of this common interests in the East in the art of cinema, will be examined in the light of the concepts of counter culture, postmodern subject, consumer culture, in the axis of nature-culture and East-West dichotomies.

scholarly journals Schizoanalysis and collaborative critical research

Aporia ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
ERIKA BIDDLE
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Critical Research ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
Traditional Research ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

    For researchers working within a critique of capitalism and its relation to knowledge production, it is problematic to use traditional research methodologies endemic to the very system being critiqued unless they are somehow altered. This article investigates the potential of schizoanalysis to provide conceptual tools for such an approach. Developed through the collaborative work of Deleuze and Guattari, schizoanalysis operates from the organic principle that knowledge is an indivisible part of the way we live in the world. However, schizoanalysis is not a research methodology; it inserts itself into research methodologies, warpsthem, and reproduces itself through them.

Becoming and being goth: How goths remember the scene’s transition from the eighties into the nineties

2021 ◽  
Vol 00 (00) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Trevor Bamford ◽  
Joseph Ibrahim ◽  
Karl Spracklen
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
The Political ◽  
Radical Politics ◽  
Dominant Culture ◽  
Memory Work ◽  
Music Scene ◽  
The World ◽  
Mainstream Culture ◽  
The Way

Goth emerged from post-punk, and by the 1980s became an identifiable feature of the popular music scene and wider popular culture. Fuelled by the success of bands such as the Sisters of Mercy, goth music and culture spread around the world, interacting with wider alternative, gothic fashions. At the end of the 1980s, goth reached a peak of interest followed by retrenchment into the alternative, subcultural spaces from which it had emerged. Nonetheless, it survives. In this article, we interview goths who became active in the 1980s and who remain engaged in order to understand how they became goths and what goth meant to them then. Using memory work, we are interested in how these goths construct their own histories and mythologies, and what this might tell us about the political and sociological importance of goth as a counter-hegemonic space at a time of globalization, consumption and commodification. We explore how they remember goth emerging from the post-punk scene with its radical politics and alternative, anti-mainstream culture. We examine the way these individuals remember becoming goth and their awareness of being in a goth scene. We then show how they remember and construct stories of when goth retrenched in an alternative underground that reconstructed the counter-hegemonic politics of punk and post-punk. Finally, we show what happened in the late 1980s and early 1990s and argue that the scene, or that part of the scene represented by our goths, is following a dialectical path carved out of the neo-Gramscian concept of negotiation when faced with the culturally and aesthetically hegemonic effect of a dominant culture.

scholarly journals "They Seek It Here, They Seek It There, They Seek It Everywhere": Looking for the "Global" Book

1998 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Hemmungs Wirtén
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Combined Process ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Etude De Cas ◽  
The World ◽  
International Publishing ◽  
Étude De Cas ◽  
The Way ◽  
New Millennium

Abstract: At the brink of a new millennium, Harlequin Enterprises Ltd. has grown into an international publishing phenomenon, publishing in more than twenty languages on six continents and in more than a hundred markets around the world -- a long way from what began as a modest Canadian reprint operation in 1949. Concerned with the way in which the ``global'' becomes the ``local,'' this article uses Harlequin's Stockholm office as a case study for a closer look at just how Harlequin romances are transposed from one cultural context into another. By arguing that translation and editing are local strategies with considerable power in changing the text as well as its production and consumption, this paper focuses on the way in which the Harlequin book, through the combined process of editing and translation -- what I have termed transediting, is given a ``Swedish'' identity. Résumé: A la veille d'un nouveau millénaire, les Entreprises Harlequin Limitées sont devenues un phénomène international dans l'édition, publiant en plus de vingt langues sur six continents et dans plus d'une centaine de marchés autour du monde -- une longue distance de ce qui avait été au départ une modeste opération canadienne pour les réimpressions en 1949. Concerné par le moyen dont le "global" devient le "local", cet article utilise les bureaux d'Harlequin à Stockholm comme étude de cas pour porter un regard plus attentif sur la manière dont on transpose les romans Harlequin d'un contexte culturel à un autre. En soutenant que la traduction et la correction sont des stratégies locales avec un pouvoir considérable pour changer le texte autant que sa production et sa consommation, cet article se penche sur la façon dont le livre Harlequin reçoit une identité `suédoiseé, au moyen de la traduction et de la correction -- ce que j'ai appelé "transediting" (la "traducorrection").

Science Editing

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariette DiChristina
Keyword(s):  
Web Sites ◽  
Special Kind ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Scientific Language ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Good Writer ◽  
The World ◽  
Good Writing ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Way

Let's be honest. Editors, as any writer will tell you, aren't all that bright. They may say they're looking for stories that will teach something important about the way the world works, but mostly they want to be entertained. They can't follow leaps of logic. They get distracted by elaborate prose, and they have no patience for boring factual details. They get confused by too many characters in a narrative, or they're easily irritated by extraneous quotes. And they don't like big words very much, either. In other words, we editors are a lot like the readers that we—and you—are trying to reach. In fact, we're a special kind of reader, in that our livelihood depends on our ability to think like the audience of our publications. This is the case for any kind of editing, not just science editing. Writers may shift tone or approach for different markets, but editors live and breathe our readers' way of life. We must internalize their interests, who they are, and what they expect from our magazines, newspapers, or Web Sites. Editors know what level of scientific language our readers will understand and what they won't. Each one of us also deeply understands our publication's unique mission. Many people say that to be a good editor you first have to be a good writer and reporter. We editors like to think so, too. Having had experience as a writer helps inform good editing, and gives the editor a firmer appreciation of the reporter's point of view. And it's certainly true that, if necessary, an editor must be able to step in and complete the reporting and revisions on an article. But more than being good writers, editors must be good critical thinkers who can recognize and evaluate good writing—or can figure out how to make the most of not-so-good writing. Especially when the subject is science, which can be complicated and convoluted, a good editor needs a sharp eye for detail. We need to be organized, able to envision a structure for an article when one does not yet exist, or to identify the missing pieces or gaps in logic that are needed to make everything hang together.

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