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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Looking beyond the content of Michele Hilmes’s work to its structure and form, Shawn VanCour discusses the larger goals and techniques of Hilmesian historiography.
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Tags: consumer culture, counterpublics, Discourse, feminism, historical closeup, historiography, ideology, Jacques Derrida, media history, Michel Foucault, Michele Hilmes, public sphere, radio, radio voices, Roland Marchand, Siegfried Kracauer, soap opera, spectrology
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Michele Hilmes’ legacy for radio and sound studies, broadcasting history, and cultural studies is clearly profound and prodigious, but her influence extends further, as well: this quintessential cultural historian is also a profound new media scholar.
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Tags: cultural history, Discourse, historiography, media history, media industries, media studies, Michele Hilmes, new media, radio
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Josh Shepperd provides Part 1 of 2 to his final entry in the "On (the) Wisconsin Discourses" series with an examination of Michele Hilmes' contributions to discursive analysis.
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Tags: Birmingham School, communication arts, consumer activism, cultural theory, Discourse, discursive analysis, Douglas Gomery, drift literacy, Habermas, hegemony, historiography, John Fiske, Julie D'Acci, madison mafia, Media and Cultural Studies, media literacy, media studies, Michele Hilmes, Network Nations, public, public sphere, publics, radio voices, Richard Hoggart, sound studies, Stuart Hall, transnational
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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
Posted in Academia, Perspectives | Comments Off on Julie D’Acci on the Emergent Qualities of Sublimating Circuits
A federal appeals court just ended net neutrality because the FCC didn't call it what it is: common carriage.
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Tags: AT&T, broadband, Comcast, common carriage, Discourse, FCC, Google, net neutrality, Open Internet, policy, policy sphere, policymaking, regulation, Verizon
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Josh Shepperd's "On (the) Wisconsin Discourses" series continues with a focus on the contributions of Julie D'Acci to the concepts of emergence and temporality
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Tags: Birmingham School, Cagney and Lacey, Discourse, emergence, gender, industry studies, John Fiske, Julie D'Acci, temporality
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Colin Burnett continues our Aesthetic Turn series with a call to revise our thinking about moving image intelligence beyond just language and verbal systems of thought.
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Tags: aesthetic turn, auteurism, David Belle, Discourse, District 13, film, language, Luc Besson, media aesthetics, parkour, pictorial intelligence, Pierre Morel, Svetlana Alpers and Michael Baxandall, the moving image, Tiepolo
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What political investments are written into discursive analysis? What is the relationship between media literacy and aesthetic analysis?
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Tags: Aesthetics, Birmingham School, david bordwell, Discourse, Foucault, Gramsci, John Fiske, Julie D'Acci, Media and Cultural Studies, media education, media literacy, Michele Hilmes, Pierre Bourdieu, Raymond Williams, Richard Hoggart, semiotics, Stuart Hall, television, television studies, understanding popular culture, understanding television
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Part one in a series on "The Wisconsin Discourses."
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Tags: Discourse, John Fiske, Media
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