Introduction

Periphērica ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-17
Author(s):  
Gina Herrmann ◽  
Isabel Jaén-Portillo
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Visual Narratives ◽  
Affect Studies ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
Cognitive Studies ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship

This special issue of Periphērica, Image and Storytelling: New Approaches to Hispanic Cinema and Literature, features leading research by scholars of Hispanic cultures at the crossroads of literature, film, mind, and society. The collection showcases cutting-edge fields and themes including cognitive studies, affect studies, embodiment, and empathy, as well as new perspectives on adaptation, film typology, film teaching, gender, and genre. The research presented in this special issue underscores the excitement produced by crossing disciplinary boundaries in the study of verbal and visual narratives, moving beyond prevalent transnational approaches that do not sufficiently address key factors in the creation and reception of film narratives such as historical-sociological contexts, affective dynamics, psychological responses, and gender variables. The contributors include scholars whose professional and social relationships to the history, practices, and evolution of the moving image and new media vary widely, broaching a diversity of theories and methodologies and presenting readers with a comprehensive and innovative perspective on film art and the relationship between filmmakers, films, spectators, and contexts.

Introduction: The Reactionary in the Fan and the Fan in the Reactionary

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mel Stanfill
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Fan Studies ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Relationship

This special issue explores the intersection of reactionary politics and fandom. Fandom has traditionally been thought of as progressive, but this has been limited and limiting. Moreover, considerations of the relationship between politics and fandom have especially focused on democratization and new media–enabled participation. However, it is important to expand our understanding to other aspects of politicization. This introduction situates the issue in relation to foundations of fan studies, examinations of political fandom and fannish politics, and growing recognition of inequality and conflict in fandom. These considerations are important in an era in which fandoms have increasingly overtly embraced reactionary politics and reactionary politics has increasingly taken fannish forms. It is this intersection of the reactionary and the fannish that this special issue seeks to unravel.

scholarly journals Introduction

1981 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Pauline Paine
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
New Development ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This special issue of Nexus is devoted to an analysis of concepts of sex and gender in selected Oceanic societies. Interest in the variable ways people construct and perceive gender is a relatively new development in anthropology and reflects a growing appreciation of the cross-cultural diversity in gender forms. However, an understanding of the variable criteria upon which gender can be constructed cannot occur unless accompanied by an awareness of the profound effect Western ideas concerning sex and gender have had upon the interpretation and analysis of gender systems world wide. Much current research rests on Western assumptions, often implicit, concerning the nature of sex and gender and the relationship of men to women. In order to underscore this point, I have chosen, in the introduction, to highlight Western culture's perception of sex and gender in order that we may understand the culture specific meanings and assumptions that such concepts carry. This, I suggest, is essential for an understanding of the papers that follow. In the following article Western notions of sex and gender will be outlined in some detail and their effect on anthropological analysis discussed. Finally, our culture's construction of gender will be juxtaposed with those of selected societies in the Middle East, North America and the Pacific in order to demonstrate the very different, but no less 'real', basis on which gender is constructed elsewhere.

scholarly journals Queer media temporalities

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Maria Pramaggiore ◽  
Páraic Kerrigan
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
New Media ◽  
Experimental Film ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Screen Media ◽  
Queer Art ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Film Form

This special issue of Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media on “Queer Media Temporalities” draws upon this theoretical tradition and its rich set of concepts to explore queer temporalities that emerge within or may be generated by our engagement with time-based screen media. In its focus on specific media forms, it joins work by Kate Thomas and Jodi Taylor, who explore the intersections between queer time and the formal parameters that govern the time-based genres of poetry and music. Our questions here relate to both resistances and transformations enabled by the encounter of queer with (old and new) media temporalities. We are interested in the way games, television, video and experimental film enable or demand a queer renegotiation of time. Our contributors examine the role that archival temporalities play in the representation of queer lives in history and the imaginative landscapes of games. They consider whether reproductive futurism can help us to think about the queer life cycle of a television series and its characters. How does queer childhood, or “growing up sideways” (Stockton) resonate with film form for filmmakers invested in a nonreproductive queer genealogy? What is the relationship between media obsolescence and the “queer art of failure” (Halberstam, Art)?

scholarly journals Editorial Volume 6 (2)

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Moore ◽  
Ruth Walker
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The Relationship

Introduction to the special issue: "Digital technologies and educational integrity" When Roger Silverstone (1999, p.10) asked "what is new about new media?" more than a decade ago at the launch of the first edition of the journal New Media and Society, he framed the question as an inquiry about the relationship between continuity and change. To address the issues relating to the interest and reliance on technologies in educational contexts - whether we are talking about web 2.0, digital media, social media, new media, or even next media - requires us to consider what is most important about the standards, traditions and practices that we hold as crucial to teaching, learning and research, as well as their relationship to change. This special issue broaches these issues to consider how changes in technologies used by teachers and learners - both in and out of educational contexts - has impacted on our understandings of educational integrity. To do this, we have had to ask questions about the integrity of the educational enterprise itself: just as the expanding research and writing capacities of digital media have complicated notions of authorship, so too does the increasing reliance on technologies in educational settings complicate expectations about the open or gated nature of educational institutions. However, it is not so much the digital technologies themselves, but how they are used, regarded, implemented and positioned by institutions, that offer a new twist to our interpretation of education as both 'borderless' and 'gatekeeping'. Download PDF to view full editorial

Introduction: Genre in Africa

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-158
Author(s):  
Tsitsi Jaji ◽  
Lily Saint
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Genre Theory ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Genre Studies ◽  
African Continent ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Affect Studies ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Genre Study

AbstractIn this introduction to this special issue, “Genre and Africa,” Jaji and Saint theorize genre from the perspective of the African continent to explore how such an orientation necessarily interrogates and transforms previous understandings of genre. After a brief review of pivotal work in genre studies, the authors turn to Africa’s particular colonial and postcolonial predicaments to theorize the specific interventions to genre theory that such a vantage point affords. Interwoven are summaries and commentary upon the six essays included in the issue. The introduction then concludes by highlighting several new directions of genre study occasioned by this issue’s contents, including the rise of new media and renewed interest in the intersections of popular forms and affect studies.

scholarly journals Introduction to ‘Music and Television’ special issue

Popular Music ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 245-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Negus ◽  
John Street
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Special Edition ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Music And Gender ◽  
The Relationship

Television has been conspicuously neglected in studies of popular music, and music has been notably absent from most accounts of television. The thought that this neglect might be significant was taken as the starting point for this special edition of the journal. Unlike some subjects (such as popular music and gender/sexuality, for example), where it is readily apparent that a number of people are busily pursuing research and where there is a history of sustained engagement in a range of related theories and debates, it was not clear initially who, if anyone, was seriously thinking about or researching the relationship between music and television. Even work on popular music and video, which once grabbed the imagination of popular music and media scholars, has faded from the academic agenda. We hoped that the call for papers might strike a chord and prompt new thoughts about this area.

scholarly journals Maintaining paternalism, retaining patriarchy: Gender and class in a Finnish industrial company, 1880–1980

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 402-419
Author(s):  
Matias Kaihovirta
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Time Period ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Industrial Company

This article examines industrial paternalism in Finland throughout a century, from the 1880s to the 1980s, and coincides with the rise and decline of industrial society in the history of Western capitalism. The focus of the article is on social relationships between management and employees in an ironworks in Billnäs, located in south-western Finland, and how it developed and changed during the studied time period. Applying a microscopic historical analysis, this article looks at universal phenomenon, namely concerning social relations and gender in the world of industrial paternalism in concrete detail. In addition to a historical understanding of paternalism, the article also contributes to a broader understanding of the relationship between social and economic relations in paternalist organizations with a view to exploring the cultural understandings of gender and class.

scholarly journals Introduction

2014 ◽  
pp. 2-3
Author(s):  
Nóra Nyirő ◽  
Mihály Gálik
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Ict Use ◽  
The Social ◽  
Working Groups ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Media And Communication

This special issue of Budapest Management Review is guest-edited in collaboration with the Working Group on “Audience interactivity and participation” of the COST A ction I S0906 “Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies”. COST is an intergovernmental framework for European Cooperation in Science and Technology, allowing the coordination of nationally-funded research at the European level. The Action “Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies” (2010–2014) is coordinating research efforts into the key transformations of European audiences within a changing media and communication environment, identifying their complex interrelationships with the social, cultural and political areas of E uropean societies. A range of interconnected but distinct topics concerning audiences are being developed by four Working Groups: (1) New media genres, media literacy and trust in the media; (2) Audience interactivity and participation; (3) The role of media and ICT use for evolving social relationships; and (4) Audience transformations and social integration.

Special Issue on “New Media and Social Psychology”

2006 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-57
Author(s):  
Bernad Batinic ◽  
Anja Goeritz
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
New Media ◽  
Special Issue

Interpersonal Stress and Poor Health

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mette M. Aanes ◽  
Maurice B. Mittelmark ◽  
Jørn Hetland
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Indirect Effects ◽  
Social Connectedness ◽  
Somatic Symptoms ◽  
Total Effect ◽  
Subjective Feeling ◽  
Interpersonal Stress ◽  
The Relationship

This paper investigated whether the lack of social connectedness, as measured by the subjective feeling of loneliness, mediates the well-known relationship between interpersonal stress and psychological distress. Furthermore, a relationship between interpersonal stress and somatic symptoms was hypothesized. The study sample included 3,268 women and 3,220 men in Western Norway. The main findings were that interpersonal stress was significantly related to psychological distress as well as to somatic symptoms, both directly and indirectly via paths mediated by loneliness. The size of the indirect effects varied, suggesting that the importance of loneliness as a possible mediator differs for depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, and somatic symptoms. In the case of depressive symptoms, more than 75% of the total effect was mediated through loneliness, while in the case of somatic symptoms just over 40% of the total effect was mediated through loneliness. This study supports the hypotheses that social connectedness mediates a relationship between interpersonal stress and psychological distress. The study also provides the first link between interpersonal stress, as measured by the Bergen Social Relationships Scale, and somatic symptoms, extending earlier research on the relationship between interpersonal stress and psychological distress.

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