New Keywords: Migration and Borders Casas-Cortes, Maribel; Cobarrubias, Sebastian; De Genova, Nicholas ...
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"New Keywords: Migration and Borders" is a collaborative writing project aimed at developing a nexus of terms and concepts that fill-out the contemporary problematic of migration. It moves beyond ...traditional and critical migration studies by building on cultural studies and post-colonial analyses, and by drawing on a diverse set of longstanding author engagements with migrant movements. The paper is organized in four parts (i) Introduction, (ii) Migration, Knowledge, Politics, (iii) Bordering, and (iv) Migrant Space/Times. The keywords on which we focus are: Migration/Migration Studies; Militant Investigation; Counter-mapping; Border Spectacle; Border Regime; Politics of Protection; Externalization; Migrant Labour; Differential inclusion/exclusion; Migrant struggles; and Subjectivity.
In this theoretical article, we introduce the Differential Susceptibility to Media Effects Model (DSMM), a new, integrative model to improve our understanding of media effects. The DSMM organizes, ...integrates, and extends the insights developed in earlier microlevel media‐effects theories. It distinguishes 3 types of susceptibility to media effects: dispositional, developmental, and social susceptibility. Using the analogy of a mixing console, the DSMM proposes 3 media response states that mediate media effects: cognitive, emotional, and excitative. The assumptions on which the DSMM is based together explain (a) why some individuals are more highly susceptible to media effects than others, (b) how and why media influence those individuals, and (c) how media effects can be enhanced or counteracted.
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Trinity College Dublin, DARIAH-EU and the European ...Commission. This book explores the challenges society faces with big data, through the lens of culture rather than social, political or economic trends, as demonstrated in the words we use, the values that underpin our interactions, and the biases and assumptions that drive us. Focusing on areas such as data and language, data and sensemaking, data and power, data and invisibility, and big data aggregation, it demonstrates that humanities research, focussing on cultural rather than social, political or economic frames of reference for viewing technology, resists mass datafication for a reason, and that those very reasons can be instructive for the critical observation of big data research and innovation.
INTRODUCTION Mignolo, Walter D.
Cultural studies (London, England),
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In this introduction to the special issue on "Coloniality of Power & De-colonial Thinking", the guest editor presents the focus question to ask what are the differences between existing critical ...projects & de-colonization of knowledge to other contemporary critical projects that inspired the inquiry of the modernity/colonialilty project at Duke-UNC in 2004. Their focus on Horkheimer's formation of "critical theory" is related to the intent of the volume as a contribution to colonial thinking as a kind of critical theory. The organization of the subsequent articles into five thematic sections highlights the evolution of the modernity/colonial research program, expansion of the modernity/colonial/decolonialilty project, ethnicity, nation-state & racism, the growing demographic presence of Afro-Latinos, & the decolonization of knowledge. The reader seeking the state-of-the-art of the modernity/colonial at the research program & de-colonial thinking vis-a-vis postcolonial studies, Marxism & cultural studies is warned about the radical difference between postcolonial theory & post-coloniality, & the difference between de-colonial thinking & Marxism. The editor decries the hubris of the zero point to conclude that de-colonial projects dwell in the borders & are anchored in double consciousness. This is a colonial subaltern epistemology of the global & the variegated faces of the colonial wound inflicted by 500 years of the historical foundation of modernity as a weapon of imperial/colonial global expansion of Western capitalism. References. J. Harwell
This article introduces the functional model of self‐disclosure on social network sites by integrating a functional theory of self‐disclosure and research on audience representations as situational ...cues for activating interpersonal goals. According to this model, people pursue strategic goals and disclose differently depending on social media affordances, and self‐disclosure goals mediate between media affordances and disclosure intimacy. The results of the empirical study examining self‐disclosure motivations and characteristics in Facebook status updates, wall posts, and private messaging lend support to this model and provide insights into the motivational drivers of self‐disclosure on SNSs, helping to reconcile traditional views on self‐disclosure and self‐disclosing behaviors in new media contexts.
Scholars have taken a growing interest in what we call “culturalized religion”—that is, forms of religious identification, discourse, and expression that are primarily cultural in character, insofar ...as they are divorced from belief in religious dogma or participation in religious ritual. This article aims to clarify our current thinking about these phenomena so as to facilitate future theoretical and empirical work. Drawing on recent work in the sociology of culture, we distinguish between culturalized religion as a form of constituted culture, a form of pragmatic culture, and a form of identity; and theorize three principal types of relations connecting each of these modalities: reinforcing relationships, resource relationships, and destabilizing relationships. In so doing, we develop an inclusive and dynamic approach to studying culturalized religion that clears the ground for further research into its diverse modalities and manifestations, as well as their points of intersection and interaction.
The article attempts to capture the current value shifts taking place in the game industry by looking at the debate on the contemporary digital game Kingdom Come: Deliverance by the Czech development ...studio Warhorse. For the purposes of contextualisation, the article also reflects on a case known as Gamergate, which served to highlight certain issues in the conception of games and questions about representation and diversity in games. Digital games are no longer the domain of young men alone as gamers now come from all genders and many age groups. Through a gender analysis of this digital game and a discussion/analysis of the controversy surrounding the historical authenticity of representation that has arisen around it, the article highlights the difficulties associated with trying to achieve historical accuracy. A digital game is considered a work of fiction that has its own rules of truthfulness within its own fictional universe. Increasingly, open-world games allow for the suppression of the leading role of the narrator that the game designers created. This tendency is only expected to grow stronger. The role of education and critical engagement with the game medium also need to be considered in the study of this issue.
This article focuses on the cordel as an idiosyncratic manifestation of Brazilian popular culture. It sets the results of original research on cordel gender representations within the specific ...social, cultural, and political contexts in which they originated/emerged. The article is based on research grounded in cultural studies and this discipline’s insistence on the critical importance of race, gender, and religion. The author argues that cordels – poems printed in cheap booklets with an illustrated cover and marketed to the mass public – offer important insights into existing social and gender norms in Brazil. Whereas in the past the genre was dominated by men authors and upheld conservative Catholic values, nowadays it has creatively adapted to the changing social realities. A comparative analysis of specific titles written in rural Brazil in the second half of the 20th century and titles written in the early 21st century by emerging women authors in an urban setting reveals starkly different patterns of gender representation. Contemporary authors – many of them women – are well aware of the cordel’s importance as a tool in the socialisation and apprehension of cultural meanings of gender. They represent gender through the cordel in ways that are subversive and serve to undermine the existing patriarchal norm. The cordel today continues to develop into a genre which is open and pluralistic in its multiple gender representations that reflect Brazil’s diverse social realities.
The purpose of the article is to carry out a categorical and conceptual analysis of the concept of “creativity”, to reveal its essence of interpretation and to analyze scientific views on this ...phenomenon in cultural discourse. The research methodology is based on the application of dialectical and logical approaches and theoretical general scientific methods, which allowed to carry out a detailed categorical and conceptual analysis of the concept of “creativity” in the cultural direction. The scientific novelty is related to the definition of scientific and theoretical approaches of scientists to understand the essence of the concept of “creativity” in the cultural aspect, as well as proposed the proper interpretation of the phenomenon under study in the modern cultural space. Conclusions. As a result of the categorical and conceptual analysis of the term “creativity” and a thorough understanding of the scientific and theoretical approaches of scientists on the phenomenon under study allowed to reveal its essence and propose its own definition in the cultural direction. Therefore, in our opinion, creativity appears as a complex process of realizing the subject, which realizes practically sensual experiences acquired by the individual intuitively, which is a consequence of the synthesizing capacity of the individual in the universal sense. Prospects for further research require the solution of issues that correlate with projections of creative self-realization of the artist in the modern socio-cultural space.
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