scholarly journals #LauraSpeaks: Remediations of Pellegra Bongiovanni’s “Risposte”

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-117
Author(s):  
Elisa Briante ◽  
Marena Lear ◽  
Gerardo Pisacane
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Francesco Petrarca ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
The Creation

This paper examines the implications of digital remediation which translates and transforms an older text, endowing it with new life, in relation to the project #LauraSpeaks, a translation and remediation of Pellegra Bongiovanni’s Risposte di Madonna Laura alle rime di Messer Francesco Petrarca, in nome della medesima. Divided into three different sections, it describes the steps involved in this project, from the discovery of the original text and the analysis of Bongiovanni’s contribution within the realm of Petrarchism, moving to a discussion of the translation of her work from Italian to English and the creation of the “Twitterature” version of the text, then finally to an analysis of the text’s transformation into the film medium. This paper also investigates the theoretical premises of digital remediation and the role that hypertext plays in multiplying opportunities for meaning-making and in enriching the act of reading and writing.

scholarly journals Metodologiska val i studien av biografiskt material - metodologiska val och deras epistemologiska konsekvenser i studien av biografiskt material

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 53-69
Author(s):  
Vanessa May
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Story Telling ◽  
Lone Mothers ◽  
The Creation

Epistemological Questions Concerning the Study of Biographical. Material: The Consequences of Choise of Methodology Using my own research on written life stories of Finnish lone mothers as a case study, this paper examines the consequences of choice of methodology when using biographical material as data. I focus on two methodo-logical alternatives: analysing biographical material as documents of preceding events, or as meaning-making con-structs. Treating biographical material as a gateway into studying events in people’s lives reduces the heuristic value of the material, and consequently questions of truth and reliability become problematic. Nevertheless, this still seems to be the preferred methodological alternative of many sociologists. If biographical material is analysed for its own sake, focussing on the creation of meaning through story-telling, the above-mentioned problems of truth and reliability diminish considerably. Using research on lone motherhood as an example, I ex-plore arguments for the use of narrative analysis, examining what it has to offer methodologically, theoreti-cally and conceptually.

Norwegian black metal, transgression and sonic abjection

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Woodrow Steinken
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cultural Meaning ◽  
Black Metal ◽  
Private Citizens ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Mode Of Being ◽  
Modes Of Existence

This article explores the music and transgressions of Norwegian black metal in the early 1990s. Facial and vocal masking, emblematic in corpsepaint and screaming, lay at the intersection between these two modes of existence, musical and criminal. Masking in black metal leads to the creation of a new persona, what I call the ‘black metal double’. This double enacts a splitting of subjectivity between personal and public personas, and the vocal scream comes to navigate the space between these personas. This bifurcated existence predicates an alternate, abject mode of being for black metal performers. Masking becomes a theoretical means for living two lives: one as private citizens and the other as black metal musicians who transgress criminal and musical limits. By collapsing the boundaries between abjection and subjection, black metal musicians create new spaces of political and cultural meaning-making through masking.

Transforming narratives into educational tools: the collaborative development of a transformative learning tool based on Nicaraguan adolescents’ creative writing about intimate partner violence

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-24
Author(s):  
Robyn Singleton ◽  
María de la Paz Picado Araúz ◽  
Kathleen Trocin ◽  
Kate Winskell
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Transformative Learning ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Warning Signs ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Learning Tool ◽  
The Creation

The use of narrative has become increasingly popular in the public health, community development, and education fields. Via emotionally engaging plotlines with authentic, captivating characters, stories provide an opportunity for participants to be carried away imaginatively into the characters’ world while connecting the story with their own lived experiences. Stories have been highlighted as valuable tools in transformative learning. However, little published literature exists demonstrating applications of stories in group-based transformative learning curricula. This paper describes the creation of a narrative-based transformative learning tool based on an analysis of Nicaraguan adolescents’ meaning-making around intimate partner violence (IPV) in their creative narratives. In collaboration with a Nicaraguan organization, US researchers analyzed a sample of narratives ( n = 55; 16 male-authored, 39 female-authored) on IPV submitted to a 2014 scriptwriting competition by adolescents aged 15–19. The data were particularly timely in that they responded to a new law protecting victims of gender-based violence, Law 779, and contradicted social-conservative claims that the Law 779 destroys family unity. We incorporated results from this analysis into the creation of the transformative learning tool, separated into thematic sections. The tool’s sections (which comprise one story and three corresponding activities) aim to facilitate critical reflection, interpersonal dialogue, and self- and collective efficacy for social action around the following themes derived from the analysis: IPV and social support; IPV and romantic love; masculinity; warning signs of IPV; and sexual abuse. As a collaboration between a public health research team based at a US university and a Nicaraguan community-based organization, it demonstrates the potential in the age of increasingly smooth electronic communication for novel community–university partnerships to facilitate the development of narrative-based tools to support transformative learning.

scholarly journals Text application as a marker of intertext links in modern Ukrainian poetry

2021 ◽  
Vol IX(257) (75) ◽  
pp. 12-16
Author(s):  
A. Berestova
Keyword(s):  
World Literature ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Folk Art ◽  
Language Play ◽  
Poetic Text ◽  
The Creation

In the article proposed, the researcher tries to characterize the main manifestations of text applications on the basis of Ukrainian poetry of the late XX - early XXI centuries. The author of the research concludes that the text application is actively used in modern Ukrainian poetry as a marker of intertextual interaction and an actualizer of precedent texts of religious content, various genres of Ukrainian folk art, as well as Ukrainian and world literature. The text applications found in the processed poetic works play an important role in the creation of poetic text and perform the function of setting, informative-signaling, meaning-making, plotforming functions, as well as the means of creating figurative and stylistic figures and the means of language play.

What Brand Is This Place? Place-Making and the Cultural Politics of Downtown Revitalization

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramzi R. Farhat
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Place Branding ◽  
Downtown Revitalization ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Communities Of Interest ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Cultural Economies

This article investigates place-branding as a contested “cultural politics.” Through a case study of the creation of a “Downtown” Pomona (California) from the “Antiques Row” and “Arts Colony” that preceded it, the framework furthers our understanding of place-branding by highlighting how communities of interest contest competing cultural outlooks and further outlines the consequences of inadequate attention to the cultural economies that are supported by the meaning-making and place-making strategies of this cultural politics. In discussing how coalitions that cut across business and community interests contest cultural outlooks in an intralocal politics, the analysis offers an alternative to both elite/local and use/exchange approaches to the study of place-branding.

scholarly journals “NARRATIVE OF THE SELF “: THE DISCOURSE OF DAILY LIFE IN THE ESSAYS BY PARTICIPANTS OF LITERACY WORKSHOP

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-64
Author(s):  
Mundi Rahayu ◽  
Deny Efita Nur Rakhmawati
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social And Cultural Factors ◽  
Literacy Workshop ◽  
Important Activity

Literacy workshop is important activity delivered in community to increase people’s competencies not only in reading and writing, but more importantly in building critical perspectives. However, the result of the literacy workshop needs to be examined, not only to find out the success indicator of the workshop, but also to understand the narration presented in young peoples‘ works. It is necessary to get the idea of what the young people’s concern and thought. This paper discusses the writings as the products of literacy workshop held at Trenggalek, East Java, which was attended by young people as participants. The workshop results in 12 writings, consisting of two short stories, and 10 essays.  The questions raised in this paper are; how is the discourse of daily life represented in the writings of the literacy workshop participants? What are the social and cultural factors affecting the writers in constructing the discourse? This paper argues that young people’s concern reflects the current social cultural issues that matters in our life. Literacy for young people is not merely giving the skill of reading and writing, but it is a meaning-making process, that enable them to construct the meaning of their everyday life.

scholarly journals Dostoevsky: Translation Problems

2020 ◽  
pp. 117-133
Author(s):  
Tatiana A. Kasatkina ◽  
Arina B. Kuznetsova
Keyword(s):  
Original Text ◽  
Translation Theory ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Narrow Context ◽  
High Possibility ◽  
Different Levels

The translation of Dostoevsky’s works presents numerous problems, and their analysis can be a most efficient way for the creation of a translation theory and methodology for profound texts characterized by the fact that words link on different levels and each time activate distinct elements of their semantic range. The discrepancy between semantic ranges in different languages leads to the high possibility of losing one or more correlations between words in translation. For the reader of the translation, the consequence is the disappearance of one or more threads of meaning running through the original text. Authorial transversal concepts and hidden quotes suffer the most from this situation, as the reduction or the change of the initial valence of the word causes that the translated word, even if perfectly fitted for the narrow context of the concrete sentence, completely loses its reference to the cited text or the thread the concept waves in the text. The article offers concrete examples of and possible solutions to the problems occurring during the process of translation. This kind of problem usually helps to reveal the strategy and the attitude of the author of the text.

scholarly journals Moroccan Facebook Visual Narratives and Cultural Production

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-51
Author(s):  
Driss Faddouli
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Visual Narratives ◽  
Praxis I ◽  
Internet Art ◽  
The Creation

In this paper, I argue that the creation and circulation of the visual narratives within Facebook groups by Moroccan Facebookers largely entail and substantiate a stronger process of cultural production that has its own logic and praxis. I argue that this process of cultural production has two major facets: an aestheticization of everyday life and promulgation of specific modes of consciousness. Through the aestheticization of everyday life, I posit that Moroccan youth’s acts of cultural production increasingly blur the formal boundaries between the Internet, art, and popular culture; an aspect which fundamentally empowers their creative online input. Through the promulgation of specific modes of consciousness, I argue that the visual narratives attempt to develop and enhance the cultural sensibilities which better champion their perceptions and stances. Taken together, I claim that these major manifestations of the process of cultural production, while being deeply wedded to the Gramscian and Foucauldian perception of power dynamics, set the tone for an underlying struggle over power and meaning-making in the Moroccan society, thus seeking to intervene and exploit the gaps and contradictions in these power dynamics in society.

Ubiquitous Food Imaging

2017 ◽  
pp. 141-152
Author(s):  
Yasmin Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Vital Part ◽  
Everyday Objects ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Digital World ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Everyday Experiences

In our digital world, our notions of intimacy, communion and sharing are increasingly enacted through new media technologies and social practices which emerge around them. These technologies with the ability to upload, download and disseminate content to select audiences or to a wider public provide opportunities for the creation of new forms of rituals which authenticate and diarise everyday experiences. Our consumption cultures in many ways celebrate the notion of the exhibit and the spectacle, inviting gaze, through everyday objects and rituals. Food as a vital part of culture, identity, belonging, and meaning making celebrates both the everyday and the invitation to renew connections through food as a universal subject of appeal.

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