Media Literacies Hoechsmann, Michael; Poyntz, Stuart R
2011, 2012/01/01, 2012, 2011-11-28, 20120101
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Media Literacies: A Critical Introductiontraces the history of media literacy and grapples with the fresh challenges posed by the convergent media of the 21st century. The book provides a much-needed ...guide to what it means to be literate in today’s media-saturated environment.Updates traditional models of media literacy by examining how digital media is utilized in today’s convergent cultureExplores the history and emergence of media education, the digitally mediated lives of today’s youth, digital literacy, and critical citizenshipComplete with sidebar commentary written by leading media researchers and educators spotlighting new research in the field and an annotated bibliography of key texts and resources
Gurus and Media is the first book dedicated to media and mediation in domains of public guruship and devotion. Illuminating the mediatisation of guruship and the guru-isation of media, it bridges the ...gap between scholarship on gurus and the disciplines of media and visual culture studies. It investigates guru iconographies in and across various time periods and also the distinctive ways in which diverse gurus engage with and inhabit different forms of media: statuary, games, print publications, photographs, portraiture, films, machines, social media, bodies, words, graffiti, dolls, sound, verse, tombs and more. The book’s interdisciplinary chapters advance, both conceptually and ethnographically, our understanding of the function of media in the dramatic production of guruship, and reflect on the corporate branding of gurus and on mediated guruship as a series of aesthetic traps for the captivation of devotees and others. They show how different media can further enliven the complex plurality of guruship, for instance in instantiating notions of ‘absent-present’ guruship and demonstrating the mutual mediation of gurus, caste and Hindutva. Throughout, the book foregrounds contested visions of the guru in the development of devotional publics and pluriform guruship across time and space. Thinking through the guru’s many media entanglements in a single place, the book contributes new insights to the study of South Asian religions and to the study of mediation more broadly. Praise for Gurus and Media 'Sight, sound, image, narrative, representation and performance in the complex world of gurus are richly illuminated and deeply theorised in this outstanding volume. The immensely important, but hitherto under-explored, visual and aural dimensions of guru-ship across several religious traditions have received path-breaking and wide-ranging treatment by best-known experts on the subject.' Nandini Gooptu, University of Oxford ‘Gurus and Media casts subtle light on a phenomenon that too often shines so brightly that it is hard to see. This collection is a tremendously rich resource for anyone trying to make sense of that ambiguous zone where authority appears at once as seduction and as salvation, as comfort and as terror.’ William Mazzarella, University of Chicago 'This remarkable collection uses the figure of the mass-mediated guru to throw light on how modern Hindu mobilization generates a highly diverse set of religious charismatics in India. Because of the diversity of the contributors to this volume, the book is also a moveable feast of cases, methods and cultural styles in a major cultural region.' Arjun Appadurai, Emeritus Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University
If we want to understand contemporary China, the key is through understanding the older generation. This is the generation in China whose life courses almost perfectly synchronised with the emergence ...and growth of the ‘New China’ under the rule of the Communist Party (1949). People in their 70s and 80s have double the life expectancy of their parents’ generation. The current oldest generation in Shanghai was born in a time when the average household could not afford electric lights, but today they can turn their lights off via their smartphone apps. Based on 16-month ethnographic fieldwork in Shanghai, Ageing with Smartphones in Urban China tackles the intersection between the ‘two revolutions’ experienced by the older generation in Shanghai: the contemporary smartphone-based digital revolution and the earlier communist revolutions. We find that we can only explain the smartphone revolution if we first appreciate the long-term consequences of these people’s experiences during the communist revolutions. The context of this book is a wide range of dramatic social transformations in China, from the Cultural Revolution to the individualism and Confucianism in Digital China. Supported by detailed ethnographic material, the observations and analyses provide a panoramic view of the social landscape of contemporary China, including topics such as the digital and everyday life, ageing and healthcare, intergenerational relations and family development, community building and grassroots organizations, collective memories and political attitudes among ordinary Chinese people.
Tiesos klausimas komunikacijoje Kačerauskas, Tomas
LOGOS - A Journal of Religion, Philosophy, Comparative Cultural Studies and Art,
03/2020
102
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The paper deals with the notion of truth from a communicative point of view and the question of misrepresentation. Classical, evident, coherent, pragmatic and creative concepts of truth in media are ...examined. The theses developed are as follows. 1. Communication is possible only by ensuring the diversity of the participants and the diversity of their environment and their mediums. 2. Journalism should not be limited to depicting events but should seek to change them, too. 3. Represented reality is most distorted by the attempt to make it political by imposing one view towards it. 4. The concept of political correctness forms the early 1970s of 20th century is full of paradoxes.
Traducción del portugués al español del segundo capítulo de Teoría (literaria) americana (2011) de Fabio Durão, profesor de teoría literaria de la Universidad de Campinas. El texto reconstruye el ...debate de las últimas décadas en torno al impacto de la teoría en los departamentos de Estudios Literarios en el modelo universitario estadounidense, el cual actualmente se rige por dinámicas enmarcadas en la economía del conocimiento. El autor argumenta que lo que hoy en día se llama teoría es, en primer lugar, un discurso histórico sintomático de las transformaciones que la universidad ha venido sufriendo en la era de laeconomía del conocimiento y el neoliberalismo, y, en segundo lugar, una tecnología discursiva que ha empobrecido el estudio de la obra literaria.
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Review of Hemmann, Kathryn. Manga cultures and the female gaze. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing AG, 2020, paperback, $59.99, (184 p), ISBN 978-3030180973.
Applying Communication Theory for Professional Life is the first communication theory textbook to provide practical material for career-oriented students. The book features new case studies, updated ...examples, and the latest research to help students understand communication theory′s importance to careers in communication and business. The Fifth Edition features eight new theories, a new chapter on theories of strategic communication, and expanded discussions of mediated communication theories.
Multilingualism is a phenomenon that has become increasingly visible in popular cinema and thus is currently a very novel object of academic inquiry. The present volume is a cutting-edge collection ...of cross- and transdisciplinary takes on this phenomenon and its different aspects. Its topics range from translation theory to political and aesthetic quandaries of audiovisual translation and subtitling, to narratological function of multilingualism in fiction, to language ideologies and language poetics onscreen. Its authorship is a worldwide body of perspectives, whose contributions span a distinctive collection of international, national and regional film traditions.
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