Transmedia is more than just a tool for commercial industries. Matt Freeman looks at South American views and uses of transmedia to rethink its contributions to cultural memory and political history.
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Tags: Colombia, cultural memory, cultural studies, documentary, nonfiction, politics, transmedia, transmedia storytelling
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Chris Moreh explains how the need to take up the challenge posed by rapid economic growth in Asia has aided the resurrection of national imaginaries of an Asian origin in the Central European country of Hungary.
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Tags: András Zsolt Bíró, Asia, cultural studies, Discourse, Eurasian, György Matolcsy, Hungary, IJCS, International Journal of Cultural Studies, Jobbik, Kurultáj, National Identity, Turan, Viktor Orbán
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D. Elizabeth Cohen discusses how teaching with media from YouTube can be a force for literacy and internationalization in South Korea.
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Tags: bilingualism, creative cluster, creative economy, creative industries, cultural studies, Digital Media City, DMC, globalization, ICT, IJCS, information and communication technology, International Journal of Cultural Studies, language, South Korea, urban geography, YouTube
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The Hong Kong government has been saying that local people have a strong sense of belonging in this so-called “Asia’s World City.” Believe it or not? A promotional video featuring an old district in Hong Kong will tell you more.
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Tags: Asia, BrandHK, China, Chow Yun-Fat, cultural geography, cultural studies, everyday life, gentrification, globalization, Hong Kong, IJCS, International Journal of Cultural Studies, Kowloon City, localism, Neoliberalism, urban renewal, urbanism
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Josh Shepperd and Chris Sterling discuss a new national preservation initiative by the Library of Congress.
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Tags: #RPTF, @radiotaskforce, cultural history, cultural studies, Library of Congress, media history, media studies, National Recording Preservation Board, OTR, political economy, Radio Preservation Task Force
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Does circulating information influence, inflect, or inhibit material relations in empirically verifiable ways? And do strategic interventions in the super-structural sphere actually promote sustainable social effects?
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Tags: Bakhtin, Birmingham School, Cagney and Lacey, circuit model, circulation, cultural studies, cultural theory, Discourse, emergence, gender, gender and television, Gramsci, industry studies, John Fiske, Julie D'Acci, Mass Communication, Media and Cultural Studies, media effects, media literacy, media theory, Representation, Richard Johnson, strong effects, Stuart Hall, sublimation, television, television studies, weak effects
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In this latest entry in The Aesthetic Turn series, Kyle Conway considers the aesthetic experience of media, using translation and metaphor to turn our attention away from the object and toward our experience of media in the age of convergence.
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Tags: Aesthetics, affect, Casino Royale, chase scenes, convergence, cultural studies, Inception, James Bond, media aesthetics, media studies, Remediation, The Matrix Reoloaded, translation
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In this inaugural post in Antenna's new series on cultural studies and media aesthetics, "The Aesthetic Turn," Kyle Conway queries media's experiential dimensions.
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Tags: acafandom, Aesthetics, Aristotle, audiences, CCCS, cultural studies, david bordwell, encoding/decoding, media aesthetics, media studies, Nationwide, Richard Hoggart, Rudolf Arnheim, Shawn VanCour, spreadability
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As more media scholars grapple with issues traditionally associated with aesthetic analysis, the need to map the history, methods, and goals of this “aesthetic turn” proves increasingly pressing.
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Tags: aesthetic turn, cultural studies, cultural turn, Elihu Katz, encoding/decoding, genre, Gordon Allport, Hadley Cantril, historical poetics, Jason Mittell, John Caldwell, John Fiske, John Hartley, Julie D'Acci, Lynn Spigel, media aesthetics, media studies, Narrative Complexity, Office of Radio Research, Paul Lazarsfeld, performance studies, Personal Influence, production studies, Psychology of Radio, radio studies, Raymond Williams, reception studies, Robert Allen, Rockefeller Foundation, Rudolf Arnheim, SCMS, semiotics, sound studies, Stuart Hall, television studies, textual analysis
Posted in Academia, Film, Industry, Perspectives, Radio, TV | 4 Comments »
What could cultural studies work on TV look like if we saw our function as facilitating conversations among our students (and ourselves) about social identity, privilege, and power centered on their and our differing engagements with and feelings about television programming?
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Tags: cultural studies, empathy, pedagogy, ron becker, teaching, television studies
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An audio interview with Chuck Klosterman, accompanied by a discussion of how his work not only blurs things that us cultural studies professors celebrate by taking “low” culture seriously, but also in a way that inevitably makes us nervous.
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Tags: academia, Chuck Klosterman, cultural studies, popular criticism
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