Conclusion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brooke Erin Duffy
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Organizational Identity ◽  
Women's Magazines ◽  
Participatory Culture ◽  
Media Convergence ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Gendered Identity ◽  
Magazine Industry ◽  
The Many

This concluding chapter returns to the guiding question “What is a magazine?” used by the book to explore the industry transformations associated with digitization and participatory culture by revisiting the concepts of organizational identity, professional identity, and gendered identity. It also discusses the many different ways in which contemporary producers of women's magazines are redefining their processes and products. It shows that the evolution from magazine as object to magazine as brand represents a conundrum for magazine publishers as they struggle to reach a consensus about “who we are as an organization.” While contemporary threats to the magazine industry are very real, the chapter argues that the actual shifts taking place are much more nuanced than universal accounts about media convergence suggest. As some traditional media boundaries collapse, others are being remade to preserve historical and cultural identity articulations.

Questioning Media Identity in the Digital Age

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brooke Erin Duffy
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Women's Magazines ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Identity Constructions ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Cross Platform ◽  
Women's Magazine ◽  
And Gender

This book explores the notions of remaking and remodeling the magazine by focusing on how women's magazines are evolving from objects into brands in the digital age, along with its implications for both producers and consumers of content. It considers how “traditional” media industries are transforming in a digital era of media, and more specifically, how producers are confronting vexing questions about the identity of the women's magazine. The book highlights three identity constructions: organizational identity, professional identity, and gender identity. It also discusses the implications for how, when, and where media producers work; how the cross-platform and interactive logics of production challenge the traditional categories of readers and audiences; and what is at stake for the content that gets distributed in various media forms. It shows that, in light of the boundary shifts associated with media convergence, magazine producers are ostensibly compelled to (re)define their industries, their roles, their audiences, and their products. The goal of this book is to initiate debates about the shape-shifting nature of creative labor.

Understanding Who is Having a Taste(off) Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 425-440
Author(s):  
Martinette Kruger ◽  
Adam Viljoen ◽  
Oghenetejiri Digun-Aweto
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
South African ◽  
Developing Country ◽  
Effective Medium ◽  
Cultural Immersion ◽  
The South ◽  
Market Segments ◽  
Culinary Tourism ◽  
The Many ◽  
Multiethnic Societies

Events and festivals, especially those focused on food, showcase the many nuances within a culture and can be seen to be an effective medium to transfer cultural identity or tradition. Cultural phenomena such as food festivals are integral to cultural immersion, especially in multicultural/multiethnic societies such as Nigeria. Emphasizing the importance of investigating the culinary festival market in Nigeria, TasteOff is an example in a developing country that identifies the market segments based on a multisegmentation approach that includes (i) travel motives, (ii) the important "festivalscape" factors, and (iii) future culinary event preferences. This research contributes dually to (i) a better understanding of culinary tourism in Africa, especially since much attention is placed on the South African scenario, and (ii) the needs and preferences of Africa's largest economy, Nigeria.

Wittgenstein’s philosophy and action research

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Shotter
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
Scientific Method ◽  
Gain Control ◽  
Participatory Culture ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The Social ◽  
Professional Research ◽  
The Many

Three themes seem to be common to both Greenwood’s and Gustavsen’s accounts: One is the social isolation of professional [research] elites from the concerns of ordinary people, which connects with another: the privileging of theory over practice. Both of these are connected, however, with a third: the great, unresolved struggle of ordinary people to gain control over their own lives, to escape from schemes imposed on them by powerful elites, and to build a genuinely participatory culture. An understanding of Wittgenstein’s later philosophy, and the recognition of its striking differences from any previous philosophical works, can make some important contributions to all these issues. Wittgenstein’s aim is not, by the use of reason and argument, to establish any foundational principles to do with the nature of knowledge, perception, the structure of our world, scientific method, etc. Instead, he is concerned to inquire into the actual ways available to us of possibly making sense in the many different practical activities we share in our everyday lives together: “We are not seeking to discover anything entirely new, only what is already in plain view.”

Organizational identity, professional identity salience and internal auditors’ assessments of the severity of internal control concerns

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Burt ◽  
Theresa Libby
Keyword(s):  
Professional Identity ◽  
Internal Control ◽  
Organizational Identity ◽  
Internal Audit ◽  
Identity Salience ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Internal Auditors ◽  
Internal Control Weaknesses ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Benefits And Costs

Purpose This paper aims to examine whether increasing the salience of the internal auditor’s professional identity, defined by the expectations of their professional group, increases internal auditors’ judgments of the severity of internal control concerns when their organizational identity is high. Design/methodology/approach This paper tests the hypothesis using a laboratory experiment with internal auditors as participants. Findings The results support the hypothesis that professional identity salience moderates the relation between organizational identity and the assessed severity of identified internal control weaknesses. Increasing the salience of professional identity results in a more severe assessment of identified internal control weaknesses when organizational identity is high than when it is low. Originality/value Prior research in the lab and in the field provides mixed results about the impact of organizational identity on internal auditors’ judgments of the severity of identified internal control concerns. This paper contributes to the discussion on this issue. In addition, the results have implications for the debate about the benefits and costs of in-house versus out-sourced internal audit functions.

scholarly journals Adaptation in the Age of Media Convergence

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Participatory Culture ◽  
Media Convergence ◽  
Adaptation Studies ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Fan Communities ◽  
Cover Songs ◽  
New Phenomena

This collection considers new phenomena emerging in a convergence environment from the perspective of adaptation studies. The contributions take the most prominent methods within the field to offer reconsiderations of theoretical concepts and practices in participatory culture, transmedia franchises, and new media adaptations. The authors discuss phenomena ranging from mash-ups of novels and YouTube cover songs to negotiations of authorial control and interpretative authority between media producers and fan communities to perspectives on the fictional and legal framework of brands and franchises. In this fashion, the collection expands the horizons of both adaptation and transmedia studies and provides reassessments of frequently discussed (BBC’s Sherlock or the LEGO franchise) and previously largely ignored phenomena (self-censorship in transnational franchises, mash-up novels, or YouTube cover videos).

scholarly journals A Critical Period in Becoming a Teacher: How Novice Teachers Develop Their Professional Identity

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. p66
Author(s):  
Scott Gibbons
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Novice Teachers ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Role Identity ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Professional Identity Development ◽  
The Many ◽  
Novice Educators

It is important to understand how teachers develop their professional identity because teacher educators and supervisors can take necessary steps to ensure novice teachers are provided necessary opportunities to cultivate their identity. This article examines research on professional identity development and explains how teachers develop their professional identity and why it is important for mentors to aid in the development process. This article draws on previous research to both define professional identity and explore the many aspects that lead to identity development in novice teachers. Findings suggest that although any experience can contribute to professional identity development, key factors have a major impact on how teachers develop their identity and the role identity development plays in pedagogical thinking. Understanding how professional identity develops can help teacher educators, supervisors, and mentors make available opportunities to build agency among novice educators, helping them to grow into reflective teachers.

scholarly journals Children’s Fan-Play, Folklore and Participatory Culture

Ethnologies ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 255-289
Author(s):  
Contessa Small
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Harry Potter ◽  
Participatory Culture ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Ethnographic Observation ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Many

The study of children’s play activities has not only been historically trivialized, but numerous widely held misconceptions about kids, their play, folklore and popular culture continue to persist today despite evidence to the contrary. For example, some adults believe that mass media and popular culture has contributed to the decline of kids’ traditional play activities, while others argue that traditional play objects are being replaced by “media culture artifacts”; however, the child-centred fan-play research I present in this paper reveals that popular culture encourages and activates children’s traditional and creative competences, rather than destroy them. The Harry Potter “phenomenon”, as a contested site where youth struggle for visibility and power, serves as the case study for this paper. Based on ethnographic observation of several local events, surveys, and interviews with child and teenage fans of Harry Potter, I examine several emergent, participatory, fan-play activities (including costuming, role-playing, make-believe and spells) and discuss the many ways children manipulate, appropriate, adapt and combine popular culture and folklore, using both creativity and tradition as expression of their lives, identities and power struggles. I conclude by discussing the heart of contemporary children’s culture and play – the conservative/creative nature of children, hybrid play forms and the activation of traditional and creative competencies in the face of popular culture influences.

Digitally crafting a resistant professional identity: The case of Brazilian ‘dirty’ bloggers

Organization ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 755-783
Author(s):  
Marcos Barros
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
Professional Identities ◽  
Online Identity ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Identity Creation ◽  
Identity Processes ◽  
Social Media Tools ◽  
New Form

We explore how the consequences of disidentification from prevailing professional identities impacted the creation of a new identity and how social media tools enabled and shaped this process. We investigate these phenomena through the struggle of a group of Brazilian journalists who strived to escape the regulation of traditional media identity, creating their own identity as progressive bloggers. Analyzing blog entries and press articles, we uncover four distinctive forms of identity work—historical construction, embracing stigma, establishing authenticity, and satirical deconstruction—fueled by four journalism macro-discourses. Our article contributes to existing literature by uncovering the dynamics of disidentification, its consequences, and identity creation. We also add to the debate on the interaction between identity and resistance by proposing the concept of resistant-identity work, where—beyond being a form or a result of identity work—resistance might enact this process. Finally, we contribute to the study of online-identity processes by demonstrating how the characteristics of social media enable and shape a new form of identity work that is collective and visible.

scholarly journals EKSISTENSI MEGONO SEBAGAI IDENTITAS KULTURAL: Sebuah Kajian Antropologi Kuliner dalam Dinamika Variasi Makanan Global

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
M. Ali Sofyan
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Traditional Food ◽  
Cultural Symbol ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Many ◽  
Different Characteristics

Megono is one of the typical foods for the Batang and Pekalongan people, which is made from young jackfruit. Every tourist from outside the area, usually looking for a megono as a sign of having visited and take it as a gift. This study is the result of deepening data about the megono and its existence as a cultural identity for the Batang people in the midst of globalization. This research was conducted using a qualitative method with an open interview approach. Traders and consumers are the main informants for this study. This research employs Baudrillard concept of habitus. The results showed that every morning, the people of Batang seemed obliged to consume sego megono sambel. According to the results of data analysis, megono Batang has different characteristics compare to megono from other places, namely its distinctive aroma. As a traditional food, megono can still exist and become a cultural symbol in the midst of the many variations of modern food. For consumers, this food can deconstruct the social class created by capitalism. Megono does not belong to any classes. This means that megono can be a symbol of equality for society.Megono adalah salah satu makanan khas bagi masyarakat Batang dan Pekalongan yang terbuat dari bahan baku nangka muda. Setiap pengunjung dari luar daerah, biasanya mencari megono sebagai tanda telah berkunjung dan barang bawaaan. Kajian ini merupakan hasil dari pendalaman data tentang megono dan eksistensinya sebagai identitas kultural masyarakat Batang di tengah globalisasi. Penelitian ini dilakukan dengan metode kualtitatif dengan pendekatan wawancara terbuka. Pedagang dan konsumen menjadi informan utama dalam menjelaskan kajian ini. Menurut Baudrillard, arena konsumsi pada globalisme adalah kehiduapan sehari-hari yang merupakan sistem interpretasi. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan setiap pagi, masyarakat Batang seolah wajib untuk mengkonsumsi sego megono sambel. Menurut hasil analisa data, megono Batang memiliki karakteristik daripada megono dari tempat lain yaitu aromanya yang khas. Sebagai makanan tradisional, megono tetap dapat hadir dan menjadi simbol kultural di tengah banyaknya variasi makanan modern. Bagi konsumen, makanan ini dapat mendekonstruksi kelas sosial yang diciptakan kapitalisme. Megono tidak mengenal kelas. Artinya megono adalah simbol kesetaraan bagi masyarakat.  

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