After Stuart Hall's death in 2014, Korean newspapers ran detailed obituaries praising him as an influential British intellectual figure. The broad media attention appears to be unusual, given that he ...maintained a relatively unknown presence in the Korean cultural fields compared with other theorists. This work examines how and in which context Hall's writings have been cited, or not cited, and emphasized in the Korean cultural studies. The incorporation of Hall's writings into the resources of the academic field entangled him in scholarly rituals of parochial citations and applications, resulting in the fragmentation and de-contextualization of Hall's overall problem. The selective focus on and occasional absence of certain aspects among his intellectual and political legacies may demonstrate how imported British cultural studies have, or not yet, been indigenized and localized in Korean cultural and political contexts.
This article aims to re-examine the main ideas of traditional diffusion study in the context of the internet. Two news stories, one initiated by an established news organization and one uploaded by ...an individual internet user, were selected for our case study. The study analyzed how a news story gets carried on through various websites of media organizations and individuals.We found that the original stories undergo transformations in terms of content and form over time in the diffusion process. The authors hence introduce a new concept, ‘seed news’, in order to explain this transformative online news diffusion phenomenon. The concept of seed news may subsume the manifold and dynamic process of diffusion, addition, displacement, evolution, and decline of the news story. It also comes to terms with the multifarious dimensions of transmission and the active interplay between the media and users, or among the users themselves.
Based on the photographs of Ki-than Kim, this essay examines how the tradition of documentary photography in Korea evolved in terms of subject, style, and ways of seeing. It emerged as a humanistic ...response to the harsh social reality of the 1940s in an oppressive political atmosphere for photographers dealing with socially sensitive subjects. Hence, a compromise between roles of the arts and social muckraking characterised the evolving documentary tradition. In documenting the back streets of Seoul, Kim tends to reduce a subject with broad social implications to an introspective story of personal memory, thus representing the Korean documentary tradition.
The Importance of Choosing a Right Tool Im, Yung-Ho
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Examines the production of a history of newsworkers from a labor-process theoretical perspective, demonstrating how the history of journalism may be reconstructed as the history of the class ...experience of newsroom workers. Harry Braverman's (1974) deskilling thesis is utilized to analyze how technological devices have transformed skill requirements for newsroom workers, arguing that it ignores the impact of industrialization & the increasing importance of reporters on the decline of print journalism. Because the degree of deskilling among newsroom workers & blue-collar workers is incomparable, Michael Burawoy's (1979) analysis of the ideological-cultural dimension of skill, ie, his investigation of the organization of consent in the workplace, is used to explore the translation of social relations endemic to the labor process into work practices. It is concluded that a history of newsworkers must deemphasize descriptions of media celebrities & institutions while drawing attention to changes in the work experiences of relatively anonymous workers. 54 References. J. W. Parker
Based on the photographs of Ki-chan Kim, this essay examines how the tradition of documentary photography in Korea evolved in terms of subject, style, and ways of seeing. It emerged as a humanistic ...response to the harsh social reality of the 1940s in an oppressive political atmosphere for photographers dealing with socially sensitive subjects. Hence, a compromise between roles of the arts and social muckraking characterised the evolving documentary tradition. In documenting the back streets of Seoul, Kim tends to reduce a subject with broad social implications to an introspective story of personal memory, thus representing the Korean documentary tradition. Reprinted by permission of European Institute for Communication and Culture
Conventional journalism history has rarely been concerned with theoretical or critical-theoretical studies of the labor history of newswork. Theoretical implications of the existing literature have ...been ambiguous; in some cases, underlying assumptions have turned into a conceptual strait jacket that prohibits further theoretical development. Although theories of the labor process do not deal specifically with newswork, their ideas and insights could be extended to studies of newswork. The objective of this dissertation, then, is to examine concepts and theoretical-informed research from the labor process school, and to discuss how those concepts help theorize the labor history of the newspaper. This project involves a reconceptualization of the notion of history itself in journalism historiography. Based on the assumption that Marx's notion of the labor process must be broadly developed to incorporate such notions as critical analysis, totality, and the subject, this study critically examines the work of Harry Braverman and the labor process school. It concentrates on the ideas of skill, control, hegemony, and social relations, and speculates on how those concepts illuminate or limit a labor history of newswork. This study also explores future directions of research that go beyond the limitations of a labor process approach, scrutinizing theories that deal with the relations between education and the labor process, between economic structures and the labor process/labor market, and between gender/race and class. The resulting suggestions inevitably lead to an extremely eclectic notion of a theory of history.
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