scholarly journals Radical Media Archaeology (its epistemology, aesthetics and case studies)

Artnodes ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Ernst
Keyword(s):  
Computer Game ◽  
Video Art ◽  
Space Mission ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Media Archaeology ◽  
Video Recordings ◽  
The Media ◽  
Radical Media ◽  
Critical Resistance ◽  
Logical Research

Media Archaeology is both a method and an aesthetics of approaching technical objects. Within a broad range of such academic and artistic practices, radical media archaeology will be presented against the soft archaeological metaphor, with an emphasis on Foucault’s approach and the non-human meaning of media-active archaeology. One characteristic of Media Archaeology is its focus on media materialism, analytically or creatively bound to practices like circuit bending. Seductive events like the excavation of once buried computer game cartridges (the E. T. case) request a more code-oriented, critical resistance to the archaeological metaphor, just like media archaeology as artistic research, such as the "Dead Media" project, requires a media-epistemological counter-reading. Diagrammatic Media Archaeography will be proposed as an alternative to culturally familiar narratives of media historiography. A special focus will be placed on video art and preservation where algorithms themselves become the archaeologists of archaic video recordings. The media-archaeological method is about signal "re-presencing" (Sobchack) rather than historicising (as in the cases of early television recording and the Voyager space mission "picture disc"). Media Archaeology as a method of techno-logical research stays close to the signal (be it analog waveforms or digital pulses). Media Archaeography as a mode of representation has been written about already (e.g. Ina Blom’s Autobiography of Video). For the challenge of media time heritage, video art preservation is applied media archaeology.

scholarly journals MEDIA REPORTING AND COMMUNICATION IN CRISIS SITUATIONS: A CASE STUDY OF A REFUGEE CRISIS IN B&H

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-85
Author(s):  
Suada A. Dzogovic ◽  
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Vehbi Miftari ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
South Eastern Europe ◽  
Communication Challenges ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Migration Crisis

The topic of this article presents communication challenges and the role of the media in constructing an image of migrants and refugees as “the others” in our societies today. The article analyses the migrant situation in South-Eastern Europe, specifically in migration crisis in Bosnia and Herzegovina that has been going on since 2018. The aim is to present the basic aspects of this issue and offer answers to key questions - who are migrants and refugees, what’s their own identity, from which countries do they come, how do they cross the border, where do they go, what is the state’s attitude towards them, what forms and channels of communication the state and other stakeholders use toward them, who cares for them, what do they preserve from their national, cultural and/or language identities and how do they construct self-identity and confront with the “hosting identities”, who donates funds for migration management and how they are managed? Also, a special focus of the research will be on the human rights of migrants and refugees in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is the subject of various discussions - both within the country itself and among various humanitarian, governmental and non-governmental international organizations in the EU and beyond.

Displacing Vision: Contact Improvisation, Anarchy, and Empathy

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Yohalem
Keyword(s):  
Group Behavior ◽  
Video Art ◽  
Individual Development ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Visual Medium ◽  
Mutual Assistance ◽  
Contact Improvisation ◽  
Video Recordings ◽  
Behavior Supports

In this article, I specify and historicize the modes of communication that were at play among practitioners of contact improvisation+ and between the dancers and their audiences throughout the 1970s and into the early 1980s. I argue that contact improvisation's turn away from dance as a performed visual medium and toward the tactile experience of the participants exceeds a phenomenological reading and instead needs to be considered in light of anarchist theories of mutual assistance in which group behavior supports individual development. At the same time, however, Steve Paxton, the founder of the form, became concerned precisely with its opacity for an audience. I locate this ambivalent engagement with the performance of a participatory action in the edited video recordings that Paxton made together with Lisa Nelson, Nancy Stark Smith, and Steve Christiansen. These mediated videos, aligned with the rise of video art, paradoxically aim to spark a stronger connection than Paxton thought was possible during the live demonstrations of the form.

scholarly journals Norway at the Border of EU – Cross-Border Shopping and its Implications

2009 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randi Lavik ◽  
Sturla Nordlund
Keyword(s):  
Small Scale ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
General Increase ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Obvious Reason ◽  
The Media ◽  
Price Differences ◽  
Different Sources ◽  
The Eu

Cross-border shopping has for many years been an issue in the political debate in Norway, and it remains so. The focus of the media is mostly on alcohol and tobacco shopping, but shopping for other goods such as meat and other groceries are at least as important. Aim The aim of this article is to present estimates of the total cross-border shopping, especially from Sweden, with a special focus on alcohol and tobacco. Data Data are collected from different sources, mainly from the two research institutes SIFO and SIRUS. Results The total private import by travelers to Norway has increased, and so has special cross-border shopping from Sweden. An obvious reason is the price differences on alcohol, tobacco and meat in particular, which have been increasing since the neighbouring countries Sweden and Finland became members of the EU in 1995. Another reason is the general increase in travelling, especially by airplanes, during later years. People living near the border are, not surprisingly, much more often border-shoppers than people living far away. Border-shopping also has an illegal side, since some people violate the quite restrictive Norwegian quotas on travelers import e.g. of alcohol and tobacco. Around 20 per cent of the of the Norwegian travellers see such “small-scale smuggling” of spirits as a serious crime, and 25 percent had brought too much alcohol. The total private import by travelers, legal as well as illegal, represents a considerable revenue loss to Norway.

Supportive, transformative and reverse effects of media on Tunisian diaspora’s political identity

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mostafa Shehata
Keyword(s):  
Political Ideology ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Country Of Origin ◽  
The Political ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Significant Research ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Channels ◽  
Effects Of Media

The Tunisian diaspora in Europe has gained significant research interest due to the fundamental changes recently triggered by the Tunisian Revolution with which the diaspora strongly interacted. This article investigates the potential effects of media use on the political identity of Tunisian diasporic communities in Europe, from a sociopolitical communication perspective. Based on 45 interviews conducted with Tunisians living in Denmark, Sweden and France, a special focus has been set on the patterns of media use in relation to components of political identity (homeland orientation, religion and ideology), considering the combined influences of both country of origin and country of residence. The analysis shows that media exerted supportive effects on the diaspora’s homeland orientations – a process that likely depended on participants’ previous connection with Tunisia. The media also exerted short-term transformative effects on the political ideology and a reverse effect on religious orientations – a process that mainly depended on life in both country of origin and country of residence. This article proposes that this Tunisian diaspora is more likely to construct a hybrid identity, supported by media channels that facilitate the adoption of sociopolitical principles derived from both country of origin and country of residence.

scholarly journals Cultural Diversity across the Networks: The Case of National Cinema

Comunicar ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (40) ◽  
pp. 183-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margarita Ledo-Andión ◽  
Enrique Castelló-Mayo
Keyword(s):  
Special Focus ◽  
Transfer Of Knowledge ◽  
Digital Networks ◽  
Geographically Dispersed ◽  
The Social ◽  
Interactive Networks ◽  
Statistical Determination ◽  
The Media ◽  
The University ◽  
Social Demographic

The research «Cinema, Diversity and Networks» tries to isolate the principal stimuli or reticences in the consumption of products generated by small cinematographies, analyzing the particular case of the diffusion through the digital interactive networks of cinematographic contents produced in Galicia. It is a multicentral investigation with the collaboration of the universities of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay – the countries with a significant migratory Galician presence, with special focus on the university groups of reception for their special predisposition to the media intercultural consumption. Our work addresses a statistical determination of the social-demographic and axiologic profile as well as the habits of consumption of the participant groups as an introduction to the confrontation with some representative films produced in Galicia between 2003 and 2008 in order to establish the influence of certain thematic, formal and linguistic variables in the acceptance or objection to certain messages. The study can be identified with the models of basic and applied investigation: basic, for its analysis of the cultural determinant indicators of the cinematographic consumption in communities, which although geographically dispersed preserve their identity elements such as the language; and applied, as our investigation provides a transfer of knowledge to their technological partners in addition to the opening of unexplored niches of transnational consumption through the potential that the digital networks offer nowadays.La investigación «Cine, Diversidad y Redes» pretende aislar los principales estímulos o reticencias en el consumo de productos generados por pequeñas cinematografías, analizando el caso concreto de la circulación a través de las redes digitales interactivas de contenidos cinematográficos producidos en Galicia. Se trata de una investigación multicéntrica en la que participan universidades radicadas en Argentina, Brasil y Uruguay –países con una significativa presencia migratoria gallega–, a través de grupos de recepción principalmente universitarios, por su especial predisposición al consumo mediático intercultural. Nuestro trabajo aborda una determinación estadística del perfil sociodemográfico, axiológico y de hábitos de consumo de los grupos participantes, como proemio a su encuentro con una muestra representativa, integrada por obras cinematográficas producidas en Galicia entre 2003 y 2008, a los efectos de precisar la influencia de determinadas variables temáticas, formales y lingüísticas en la aceptación o recusación de determinados mensajes. La investigación responde, en suma, a los modelos de investigación básica y aplicada: básica, por su análisis de indicadores culturales determinantes del consumo cinematográfico en comunidades que, aunque geográficamente dispersas, preservan elementos identitarios como la lengua; y aplicada, en la medida en que la investigación contempla una transferencia de conocimiento a sus socios tecnológicos, coadyuvante de la apertura de nichos inexplorados de consumo transnacional, a través del potencial que actualmente brindan las redes digitales.

Algorithmic memorial videos: Contextualising automated curation

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Lambert ◽  
Bjorn Nansen ◽  
Michael Arnold
Keyword(s):  
Media Ethics ◽  
Media Archaeology ◽  
Similar Work ◽  
The Media ◽  
Work Done

Web platforms such as Facebook and Google have recently developed features which algorithmically curate digital artefacts composed of posts taken from personal online archives. While these artefacts ask people to fondly remember their digital histories, they can cause controversy when they depict recently deceased loved ones. We explore these controversies by situating algorithmic curation within the media ethics of grief, mourning and commemoration. In the vein of media archaeology, we compare these algorithms to similar work done by skilled professionals using older media forms, drawing on interviews with Australian funeral slideshow curators. This professional commemorative labour makes up part of a broader, institutionalised system of ‘death work’, a concept we take from thanatology. Through the media ethics of death work, we critique the current shortcomings of algorithmic memorials and propose a way of addressing them by ‘coding ethically’.

scholarly journals Soft power „kínai módra”

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2019/2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Csikó
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Considerable Influence ◽  
Confucius Institutes ◽  
The Media ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Culture And Language

This paper introduces and examines Confucius Institutes (CI) as part of China’s soft power – with a special focus on the problems regarding the CI’s in Hungary. I also intend to analyse what kind of picture of the CI’s the mediapresents and how realistic this image is. I will discuss in two separate chapters the most serious accusations made against the CI’s (spreading Chinese propaganda, violation of human rights and academic freedom and spying forChina) because I consider that these topics provide valuable insights into the considerable influence exercised by the media even in the case of assessing educational and cultural institutions. The term “soft power” was introduced by Joseph Nye in 1990, referring to the ability to make the image of one’s country desirable abroad by using culture, ideology or institutions. But China had already discovered in the 80s how important culture and language can be as means to obtain power without recourse to “hard” methods. In 1987 China established Hanban; the first experimental CI was set up in 2004 in Uzbekistan and the first official CI was founded in South Korea in the same year. As of April, 2020 there are 540 CI’s world-wide, according to Hanban’s website, which clearly indicates that the CI’s are hugely successful. In Hungary there are currently 5 CI’s.

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