In assuming a critical perspective, this article explores how injunctions encouraging “successful ageing” (Katz, 2013) are negotiated when they are intersected with those related to “eating well” ...(Vigneault, 2012). This “ageing well” happens inter alia through the adoption of “healthy dietary habits” and in the need to remain involved and active in society. This article follows the line of works in the field of cultural studies and critical gerontology which have questioned the injunction to “age well” in connection with communication and culture (i.e., Sawchuk, 2013 ; Grenier/Valois-Nadeau, 2013). It proposes an analysis of the ways in which mediatization (Hepp, 2012) informs the activist practices of a community agency through the creation of a food blog. The analysis presented here is the fruit of research work carried out between May 2016 and May 2017, at which time the project for a blog was developed. It analyses how policy assumed form from there in three dimensions : an inclusion in digital culture through the acquisition of technological proficiencies, an increase in the group’s visibility, as well as its mission, and a collective engagement generated by the socialization of its members, via the entire blog project. Food and the contemporary injunction to “age well” thus find themselves configured in a particular way, participating in collectivizing a normativity which otherwise tends to individualize the ageing process.
Since the 1960s, there has been a thriving Nordic tradition of media literacy research, pedagogics, and policy on how to best prepare the emerging media citizen for an increasingly mediatised ...society. Although the Nordic model of media literacy has previously been characterised by connections to Bildung, critical theory, cultural studies, and progressive pedagogics, much of today's understanding of media literacy is associated with a more instrumental understanding of education, with connections to the commercialisation and digitalisation of compulsory education. By suggesting a historisation of the Nordic media literacy tradition, in connection to the Nordic media welfare state, this article opens a debate about the future directions of Nordic media literacy.
In the COVID-19 pandemic, societal discourses and social interaction are subject to rapid mediatisation and digitalisation, which accelerate datafication. This indicates urgency for increasing data ...literacy: individual abilities in understanding and critically assessing datafication and its social implications. Immediate challenges concern misconceptions about the crisis, data misuses, widening (social) divides and (new) data biases. Citizens need to be on guard in respect to the crisis' impact on the next stages of the digital transformation.
Ovaj se rad bavi temom medijatizacije religije, shvaćene kao proces u kojemu strukturna logika medija ima veliku ulogu u religijskoj komunikaciji i tako utječe na uspjeh u prenošenju tih poruka, ali ...utječe i na religiju kao cjelinu. Stoga se pokušava argumentirati pozicija po kojoj današnju društvenu transformaciju religije nije moguće uspješno analizirati ni razumjeti bez uzimanja u obzir povećane važnosti medijatizacije religije i njezinih posljedica. Imajući u vidu sveobuhvatnu važnost interneta kao komunikacijske platforme, autori su nastojali istražiti može li se internetska prisutnost katolicizma u Hrvatskoj opisati kao umrežena religija sa svojim temeljnim sastavnicama (umrežena zajednica, narativni identiteti, promjene u pozicijama autoriteta, konvergentne prakse i integracija između stvarnog i internetskog konteksta). Korištena je analiza medijskog sadržaja na uzorku (N = 200) različitih kategorija katoličkih internetskih i Facebook stranica. Iako postoje važne razlike između, u odnosu na Katoličku crkvu, službenih, poluslužbenih i neslužbenih stranica, kao i između tih internetskih i Facebook stranica, rezultati ovoga istraživanja sugeriraju da u slučaju katolicizma u Hrvatskoj internetska religijska komunikacija ima bliske veze sa stvarnim svijetom, ne osporava formalne religijske autoritete, kao i da ne dovodi do novih tumačenja religijskih doktrina i tekstova. Autori zaključuju da internetska prisutnost katolicizma u Hrvatskoj dovodi do reafirmacije i jačanja postojećih religijskih formi u novom medijskom okruženju.
Abstract
In this article we introduce our special issue of the
Journal of Language & Politics
on the
(de)legitimisation of Europe. We start by outlining the rationale and research that led us to the ...special issue. In
Section 2
we set out the contextual framing of the contributions, i.e., the crisis of
legitimacy that European institutions and indeed the entire European project, have faced for the last decade and a half; crises
that have been brought about by different events and actors and have resulted in centrifugal and centripetal processes. Next, we
outline our theoretical approach to legitimation, which combines politico-sociological perspectives with discursive and
communicative ones. This is followed by
Section 4
, which introduces and weaves together the
contributions to the special issue. Finally, in
Section 5
we briefly discuss the findings
with regard to the aims and goals of the issue and also suggest potential next research steps.
The term ‘Chinese dama’ was originally coined by the Wall Street Journal in 2013 to refer to a group of middle-aged and elderly Chinese women who, somewhat frenetically, purchased gold or other ...items. This study employs a cognitive-linguistic approach to critical discourse analysis to examine how Chinese damas are linguistically mediatised in the Chinese English-language news media. A specialised corpus of 41 news articles with 26661 words, covering the years between 2013 and 2019, was built for this purpose. Informed by Maslow’s ‘hierarchy of needs’ theory, four most recurrent themes of Chinese dama news discourses were identified and coded. The analysis of these discourses suggests that whilst there is divergence in how newspapers construe Chinese damas’ participation in social activities when they are agentive, there is convergence in terms of schematising the conflicts between Chinese damas and the other parties. This seems to fit with the media’s ideological framework, steering ultimately towards the legitimisation of excluding Chinese female seniors from the public realm.
This article discusses why households in Germany use the Internet and content distributed online instead of classic broadcasting or a printed paper for customising ideal media repertoires that match ...with their media-related interests in the domestic sphere. Following the domestication approach, home is understood as a relevant field for research on online-based media use because it is the place where people traditionally negotiate the meaning of media technologies and content against the background of an existing media repertoire. The article refers to empirical findings from qualitative ethnographic research on 16 German households. It was undertaken between 2015 and 2017. In summarising, the empirical research emphasises three distinct reasons why people choose the Internet for domestic media reception over classic mass media: a better integration of media use in everyday life, particular demands and interests in specific content, and the politics of identity and the moral economy of the household.
Published in 2020, Meizoz’s essay focuses on contemporary writers’ relationship with money and the media, two forces that play an increasingly decisive role in the crafting of literary works and ...their reception. After an initial theoretical section in which the author discusses current research on “literature outside the book” and the “literary industry”, the gaze shifts to a series of case studies illustrating the postural differences between writers who choose “success” and those who choose “prestige”: on the one hand, public notoriety ensured by large sales volumes and media presence; on the other hand, peer appreciation, wich is the only source of lasting “consecration”. This review retraces the structure of the text and provides a comprehensive evaluation of it.
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