|
Showing 1 - 14 of
14 matches in All Departments
The concept of the audience is changing. In the twenty-first
century there are novel configurations of user practices and
technological capabilities that are altering the way we understand
and trust media organizations and representations, how we
participate in society, and how we construct our social relations.
This book embeds these transformations in a societal, cultural,
technological, ideological, economic and historical context,
avoiding a naive privileging of technology as the main societal
driving force, but also avoiding the media-centric reduction of
society to the audiences that are situated within. Audience
Transformations provides a platform for a nuanced and careful
analysis of the main changes in European communicational practices,
and their social, cultural and technological affordances.
This book aims to feed into the critical debates about media, power
and change through the respectful inclusion of a wide variety of
critical approaches and traditions. This diversity is
simultaneously structured and balanced by a deeply shared set of
concerns, that are mobilised to defend core societal values
including social justice, equality, fairness, care for the other
and humanity. Critical Perspectives on Media, Power and Change
raises questions about how the omnipresent media can contribute to
the materialisation of these core values, and how it sometimes
works against them. Rethinking social change, mediatisation and
regulations are thus significant issues - explicitly addressed in
this book. In addition the authors show how the role of the
critical media and communication scholar merits and requires
(self-)reflection; critical voices matter, but they also face
structural limitations. This book was originally published as two
special issues of Javnost - The Public.
The Mediterranean island of Cyprus is the site of enduring
political, military, and economic conflict. This interdisciplinary
collection takes Cyprus as a geographical, cultural and political
point of reference for understanding how conflict is mediated,
represented, reconstructed, experienced, and transformed. Through
methodologically diverse case studies of a wide range of
topics—including public art, urban spaces, and print, broadcast
and digital media—it assembles an impressively multifaceted
perspective, one that provides broad insights into the complex
interplay of culture, conflict, and identity.
Chapter 12 of this book is open access under a CC BY license.
Well-established scholars from a variety of disciplines - including
sociology, anthropology, media and cultural studies, and political
sciences - use the social construction of death and dying to
analyse a wide variety of meaning-making practices in societal
fields such as ethics, politics, media, medicine and family.
Chapter 12 of this book is open access under a CC BY license.
Well-established scholars from a variety of disciplines - including
sociology, anthropology, media and cultural studies, and political
sciences - use the social construction of death and dying to
analyse a wide variety of meaning-making practices in societal
fields such as ethics, politics, media, medicine and family.
The concept of the audience is changing. In the twenty-first
century there are novel configurations of user practices and
technological capabilities that are altering the way we understand
and trust media organizations and representations, how we
participate in society, and how we construct our social relations.
This book embeds these transformations in a societal, cultural,
technological, ideological, economic and historical context,
avoiding a naive privileging of technology as the main societal
driving force, but also avoiding the media-centric reduction of
society to the audiences that are situated within. Audience
Transformations provides a platform for a nuanced and careful
analysis of the main changes in European communicational practices,
and their social, cultural and technological affordances.
This book aims to feed into the critical debates about media, power
and change through the respectful inclusion of a wide variety of
critical approaches and traditions. This diversity is
simultaneously structured and balanced by a deeply shared set of
concerns, that are mobilised to defend core societal values
including social justice, equality, fairness, care for the other
and humanity. Critical Perspectives on Media, Power and Change
raises questions about how the omnipresent media can contribute to
the materialisation of these core values, and how it sometimes
works against them. Rethinking social change, mediatisation and
regulations are thus significant issues - explicitly addressed in
this book. In addition the authors show how the role of the
critical media and communication scholar merits and requires
(self-)reflection; critical voices matter, but they also face
structural limitations. This book was originally published as two
special issues of Javnost - The Public.
The book combines photography and written text to analyse the role
of memorials and commemoration sites in the construction of
antagonistic nationalism. Taking Cypriot memorializations as a case
study, the book shows how these memorials often support, but
sometimes also undermine, the discursive-material assemblage of
nationalism.
Trans-Reality Television: The Transgression of Reality, Genre,
Politics, and Audience offers an overview of contributions which
engage with the phenomenon of reality television as a tool to
reflect on societal and mediated transformations and
transgressions. While some contributors delve deep into the
theoretical issues, others approach the topic at hand through
empirical studies of specific reality television formats and
programs. The chapters in this volume are divided into four
sections, all of which deal with how we see the fluid social at
work in reality television through the trans-real, trans-politics,
trans-genre, and trans-audience. The first section stresses the
concept of the trans-real. These chapters go into the complexity of
the construction of reality in reality television. The second
section, which deals with the concept of trans-politics, offers a
diversity of perspectives on the articulation and re-articulation
of politics and the political. In the third section, trans-genre,
the chapters analyze how the modern conceptualizations of genre and
format are transcended. Finally, the last set of chapters
articulate the concept of trans-audiences, using case studies of
particular audiences and a study of reality celebrities.
Trans-Reality Television concludes by returning to the sense and
nonsense of the use of these 'post' concepts.
The theoretical framework of the discursive-material knot consists
out of a non-hierarchical ontology of the interactions of the
discursive and the material, articulating the assemblages that are
driven by this ontological setting as restless and contingent,
sometimes incessantly changing shapes and sometimes being deeply
sedimented. This book acknowledges the importance of discourse
studies, in having produced a better understanding of the
socio-political role of frameworks of intelligibility, and of
materialism theory in highlighting the importance of the agentic
role of materials. Still, the combination of the discursive and the
material requires our attention in a much more fundamental way;
that is where this book's first platform aims to provide a
contribution. These ontological-theoretical reflections are not
produced in a void, but they are put to work in this book, first in
platform two, which consists of a discursive-material re-reading of
three theoretical fields, dealing with practices that are all
highly relevant in contemporary democracies: participation,
community media and conflict (transformation). Finally, in the
third platform, this book turns its attention to a particular
social reality, analyzing the logic of the discursive-material knot
in the particular context of the Cyprus Problem. This case study
fills a gap by bringing community media and conflict transformation
together, through the analysis of the role of the Cyprus Community
Media Centre (CCMC), and its webradio MYCYradio, in contributing to
the transformation of antagonism into agonism. Deploying a
discursive-material analysis to study the participation and
agonization (and their articulation) in CCMC/MYCYradio shows the
complexity and richness of conflict transformation processes, in
combination with the importance of organizations such as
CCMC/MYCYradio for the betterment of society. The author's website
(LINK)
Trans-Reality Television: The Transgression of Reality, Genre,
Politics, and Audience offers an overview of contributions which
engage with the phenomenon of reality television as a tool to
reflect on societal and mediated transformations and
transgressions. While some contributors delve deep into the
theoretical issues, others approach the topic at hand through
empirical studies of specific reality television formats and
programs. The chapters in this volume are divided into four
sections, all of which deal with how we see the fluid social at
work in reality television through the trans-real, trans-politics,
trans-genre, and trans-audience. The first section stresses the
concept of the trans-real. These chapters go into the complexity of
the construction of reality in reality television. The second
section, which deals with the concept of trans-politics, offers a
diversity of perspectives on the articulation and re-articulation
of politics and the political. In the third section, trans-genre,
the chapters analyze how the modern conceptualizations of genre and
format are transcended. Finally, the last set of chapters
articulate the concept of trans-audiences, using case studies of
particular audiences and a study of reality celebrities.
Trans-Reality Television concludes by returning to the sense and
nonsense of the use of these 'post' concepts.
The theoretical framework of the discursive-material knot consists
out of a non-hierarchical ontology of the interactions of the
discursive and the material, articulating the assemblages that are
driven by this ontological setting as restless and contingent,
sometimes incessantly changing shapes and sometimes being deeply
sedimented. This book acknowledges the importance of discourse
studies, in having produced a better understanding of the
socio-political role of frameworks of intelligibility, and of
materialism theory in highlighting the importance of the agentic
role of materials. Still, the combination of the discursive and the
material requires our attention in a much more fundamental way;
that is where this book's first platform aims to provide a
contribution. These ontological-theoretical reflections are not
produced in a void, but they are put to work in this book, first in
platform two, which consists of a discursive-material re-reading of
three theoretical fields, dealing with practices that are all
highly relevant in contemporary democracies: participation,
community media and conflict (transformation). Finally, in the
third platform, this book turns its attention to a particular
social reality, analyzing the logic of the discursive-material knot
in the particular context of the Cyprus Problem. This case study
fills a gap by bringing community media and conflict transformation
together, through the analysis of the role of the Cyprus Community
Media Centre (CCMC), and its webradio MYCYradio, in contributing to
the transformation of antagonism into agonism. Deploying a
discursive-material analysis to study the participation and
agonization (and their articulation) in CCMC/MYCYradio shows the
complexity and richness of conflict transformation processes, in
combination with the importance of organizations such as
CCMC/MYCYradio for the betterment of society. The author's website
(LINK)
The Information Society is one of the recurrent imaginaries to
describe present-day structures, discourses and practices. Within
its meaning is enshrined the promise of a better world, sometimes
naively assuming a technological deus ex machina, in other cases
hoping for the creation of policy tools that will overcome a
diversity of societal divides.
With the two-phased World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS),
the United Nations attempted to stimulate the development of such
tools.
Simultaneously, the WSIS is a large-scale experiment in
multistakeholderism. The objective was to create a more balanced
decision-making process that would allow the voices of civil
society and business actors to be heard in international politics.
This book aims to evaluate the potentialities of both the
Information Society, and the WSIS in supporting and constructing
more democratic, just and developed societies. It is the second
book arising from the intellectual work of European Consortium for
Communications Research members.
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
Rockstar
Dolly Parton
CD
R421
Discovery Miles 4 210
|