This chapter explores one application of hands on history: the Pebble Mill project, which employs a hands on approach to the creation and dissemination of multimedia artefacts, in the process ...producing what M. Dougherty and S. M. Schneider term an ‘idiosyncratic archive’. It focuses on the enrichment of histories through engagement with the online community, and the rewards and difficulties that result from facilitating them. The Pebble Mill project, an online community archive focused on the history of BBC Pebble Mill in Birmingham, is one possible answer. One of the challenges for hands on history is how to disseminate the experiential encounter with the historical materials to a broader audience, in a manner that does not revert to traditional written history. The Pebble Mill project consists of a website and a Facebook page with over 1600 members, many of whom are former BBC employees.
Книжевноста има реални социјални ефекти и се вклучува во идеолошкото создавање на националните граници. Овој труд преиспитува како во литературните текстови се гради граница меѓу ...австриските/германските и словенечките национални заедници во пограничната област Корушка во Австрија, во која живее словенечко етничко малцинство. Авторката спроведува критичка анализа на дискурсите на книжевните репрезентации на националните односи кај Словенците од Корушка и открива дека литературата е место на политичка борба, на кое се создава границата помеѓу Словенија и Австрија. Овие семиотички богати книжевни текстови како културни форми ги носат значењата на националните заедници и така ги материјализираат националните граници, бидејќи ги воведуваат во секојдневниот живот и говор. Тие дејствуваат како слики во кои луѓето се препознаваат како национални субјекти од едната или од другата страна на симболичката граница. На тој начин книжевните текстови може да ја обликуваат перцепцијата на националната стварност, затоа што го претвораат национализмот во добра приказна и со тоа ја сокриваат идеолошката димензија на текстовите и нивната улога во исцртувањето на националните граници.
The introduction of television as an institution and a technology into Slovenian socialist everyday life had tremendous consequences for the lives of individuals. This article attempts to disclose ...the main cultural, social and political aspects of the penetration of television into Slovenian homes and, consequently, sees television from the social and cultural-historical perspective as a (communication) technology, as a social and political space, and as a cultural practice and text. The social changes that were triggered were twofold: on the one hand, the introduction of television to people's homes changed the organization of family life because it transformed domestic spaces into informational tool-sheds, while on the other hand television also contributed to the dissemination of specific discourses, lifestyles and perceptions of reality. The rise of television in socialist Slovenia in the 1960s can, within this view, be considered as a strong boost to the 'Westernization' of Slovenian socialist everyday life, which introduced alternative visions of hybrid democracy incorporating both socialist and Western capitalist ideas and everyday practices. PUBLICATION ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT IN ENGLISH: Media and communication technology and its rapid development has had a revolutionary effect on the reading habits of readers and fans of popular literature. The main topic of ...this paper is "the new age readers", especially their reading habits, interactions, fan activities and identity creation. Our purpose is to trace the transformations in reading habits that occur with digital media and social networks. We have conducted in-depth interviews with Slovenian and foreign readers, who view the Internet as an absolute necessity for reading popular literature products. The analysis shows that Slovenian readers who strongly connect reading activities with the Internet subsequently bring global fan activity trends, such as fan fiction and real person fiction, to Slovenia. There is also a strong support for an identity construction thesis and our findings are also congruent with the thesis of consumer tribes, since we argue that new age readers construct their identities in a weakly connected group of people, who prefer to communicate on different digital communication channels rather than in real life. //ABSTRACT IN SLOVENE: Hiter razvoj medijskih in komunikacijskih tehnologij ima revolucionarne posledice za bralne navade bralcev in fanov popularne literature. Osrednja tema tega clanka so "novodobni bralci", se posebej njihove bralne navade, interakcije, fanovske skupnosti in kreiranje njihovih identitet. Namen najinega clanka je razkriti transformacije bralnih navad, ki jih prinasajo digitalni mediji in druzbena omrezja. Zato sva opravili poglobljene intervjuje s slovenskimi in tujimi bralci, ki se zadrzujejo v digitalnih okoljih in ki dojemajo internet kot absolutno nujnost za branje popularne literature. Analiza je pokazala, da slovenski bralci, ki svoje bralne aktivnosti tesno povezujejo z internetom, pocasi prinasajo globalne trende fanovskih aktivnosti, kot so e-fanzini, tudi v Slovenijo. Najini podatki podpirajo konstruktivisticno tezo o izgradnji identitete, prav tako pa so rezultati skladni s tezo o potrosniskih plemenih, saj trdiva, da novodobni digitalni bralci konstruirajo svoje identitete v rahlo povezanih skupinah ljudi, ki raje komunicirajo prek razlicnih digitalnih komunikacijskih kanalov kot pa v resnicnem zivljenju. Reprinted by permission of the Slovene Anthropological Society
The article examines the characteristics of extreme populist news discourses and their right-wing policies in the case of xenophobic discussions of refugees and Islam. It analyzes news articles about ...refugees from two weeklies, Reporter and Demokracija, which are self-described as right-wing-oriented political weeklies, in order to reveal the implementation of their populist policy. This policy is based on authoritarianism, militarism, nativism and ethnic nationalism, the culturalisation of economic policy and on the techniques of arousing disgust and hatred instead of compassion, and it is rearticulated in relation to refugees - Muslim immigrants - who are presented as a threat to "our" freedoms. The article notes that Islamophobia and extreme populist discourses, which are spreading via the news discourse, replace the biological with the cultural, but also refugees with Muslim immigrants, which gives us a new form of cultural racism.
Science in power Pusnik, Marusa
Cultural studies (London, England),
09/2010, Letnik:
24, Številka:
5
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Despite its image of an objective and neutral activity within society, science can also be involved in the ideological production of nationalism and in the creation of nations. This paper offers a ...critical cultural analysis of the mainstream Slovene scientific texts on national matters. It examines doctoral dissertations from various disciplines, all of which deal with Slovene national culture and its borders and were produced in Slovenia in the period between 1985 and 2002. With this I hope to disclose how they participate in the production of the knowledge about the nation. Such scientific representations signify the nation, provide meanings for the national community and create a specific regime of truth that organizes the popular national imagery. They penetrate the everyday reality as hard facts; they produce trustworthy knowledge and offer authoritative versions of reality. The analysis suggests that these scientific representations of the Slovene nation share a few nodal points that reproduce nationalist discourses. Almost all were written within the context of the dominant Slovene nation-building discourse and privileged national purity as a norm while they either ignored the notions of mythical national existence or failed to acknowledge the cultural diversity and hybridism. Reprinted by permission of Routledge, Taylor and Francis Ltd.
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Dostopno za:
BFBNIB, DOBA, IZUM, KILJ, NUK, PILJ, PNG, SAZU, UILJ, UKNU, UL, UM, UPUK
"Hands on Media History explores the whole range of hands on media history techniques for the first time, offering both practical guides and general perspectives. It covers both analogue and digital ...media; film, television, video, gaming, photography and recorded sound. Understanding media means understanding the technologies involved. The hands on history approach can open our minds to new perceptions of how media technologies work and how we work with them. Essays in this collection explore the difficult questions of reconstruction and historical memory, and the issues of equipment degradation and loss. Hands on Media History is concerned with both the professional and the amateur, the producers and the users, providing a new perspective on one of the modern era’s most urgent questions: what is the relationship between people and the technologies they use every day? Engaging and enlightening, this collection is a key reference for students and scholars of media studies, digital humanities, and for those interested in models of museum and research practice."
The authors have analyzed different discursive strategies through which women politicians express themselves in the Slovenian press. Based on a constructivist paradigm, which defines gender as a ...discursively constructed category, the authors have applied discourse analysis to discover how women politicians articulate and reproduce certain dominant myths of femininity in accordance with hegemonic discourses, paying special attention to the notion of sexist language. Female politicians in Slovenia spontaneously express their femininity through different myths about women: woman as a body and sex object, woman as a martyr, woman as a loving and caring individual, and woman as an enigma and threat. As women politicians in Slovenia are interpellated in a broader dominant ideological discursive framework, they do not challenge hegemonic beliefs and myths in society.
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