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52. "Put One More 'S' in the USA": Communist Pamphlet Literature and the Productive Fiction of the Black Nation Thesis
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Sangrey, Trevor Joy
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American studies ,Gender studies ,Communication ,1930s ,Black Studies ,Communist Party USA ,Critical Media Studies ,Ephemera ,Social Movements - Abstract
In 1928 the Communist Party USA developed an unconventional and intriguing proposal that black people in the Black Belt of the Southern United States were an unrecognized national group and should have rights to self-determination, a move later called the "Black Nation Thesis." Using this proposal the CPUSA impacted the highly contested discourse around race in the 1930s, in the North and the South. This dissertation brings together social movement studies with insights from critical media, ethnic, and gender studies to interrogate the rhetoric of the CPUSA's Black Nation Thesis. The work extends the growing scholarship on black radical organizing by looking at the archived ephemera of the period, specifically a collection of over 300 pamphlets, to probe how radical visions and dreams grow and spread, analyzing pamphlet literature as an imaginative and pedagogical space for social movements.Using analytical close reading techniques, I demonstrate how CPUSA pamphlet literature on the Black Nation Thesis functions as a productive fiction, signaling both the dreams that compel social movements as well as the working out of ideological issues and concerns. The Party used the Black Nation Thesis as a productive fiction to work through various political and policy issues as well as to galvanize membership and invigorate anti-racist struggle, laying the groundwork for the later intersectional analysis of race, class, and gender. Looking at pamphlets on the Scottsboro Nine trials, CPUSA presidential elections, and black women's labor, among others, I note how pamphlets function as speculative spaces for social movements.
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- 2012
53. The Friendship Assemblage: Investigating Programmed Sociality on Facebook.
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Bucher, Taina
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SOCIAL network research , *COMPUTER software , *FRIENDSHIP , *INTERPERSONAL communication - Abstract
In an age in which social networking sites have become the preferred way of socializing online, the question of how to think about the contours of friendship in and through these mediated spaces becomes all the more important. In contrast to much existing research on online friendship, this article takes on a software-sensitive approach. Through a close reading of various sociotechnical processes in which friendship is activated on Facebook (i.e., registering, making a profile, finding friends, communicating, etc.), this article suggests that friendships online need to be understood as a gathering of heterogeneous elements that include both humans and nonhumans. Moreover, this article attempts to show how the traditional notion of friendship as something created between equals and free of structural constraints does not apply to the realm of social networking sites, where software increasingly assists users in making certain choices about who will and who will not be their friends. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2013
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54. “Shoppers' Republic of China”: Orientalism in Neoliberal U.S. News Discourse.
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Ban, Zhuo, Sastry, Shaunak, and Dutta, Mohan Jyoti
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CONSUMERS ,ORIENTALISM ,NEOLIBERALISM ,INTERNATIONAL law ,IDEOLOGICAL analysis - Abstract
In light of China's recent ascent as the world's second largest economy, this article critically engages with current U.S. public discourses around China. In particular, we explore how Orientalist knowledge about China is appropriated within neoliberal contexts. Our ideological analysis of news regarding China in the New York Times revealed three themes: (a) The Shoppers' Republic of China; (b) China's responsibility to consume; and (c) China as the space outside international law. Our analysis underpins the relevance of theorizing the interplay between Orientalism and neoliberalism in contemporary U.S. mainstream discourses of China. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2013
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55. “You Can Help Yourself/but Don’t Take Too Much”: African American Motherhood on The Wire.
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Ault, Elizabeth
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AFRICAN American mothers , *AFRICAN American women on television , *MOTHER-son relationship , *POLITICS on television - Abstract
Despite The Wire’s (HBO, 2002-2008) successful, interesting structural analysis of urban politics and problems, its (few) portrayals of African American mothers exhibit a view of black motherhood as irresponsible, irrational, and emasculating, a view that hearkens back to that of the Moynihan Report. In this article, I look at the fourth season of the show to examine how mothers’ desires are presented as being central to the negative outcomes their sons face, as well as unrelentingly and sexually pathological. This aspect has been paid little if any attention in the show’s overwhelmingly positive critical reception; I explore the show’s political economic network context and the effects of The Wire’s self-proclaimed “authenticity” in furthering this discourse among its viewers. The treatment of these characters, encouraging mothers to “help [themselves], but [not] take too much” imbricates The Wire in the discourses of personal responsibility and self-governance that undergird neoliberal regimes it critiques. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2013
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56. Globalization from my African corner.
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Kupe, Tawana
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GLOBALIZATION , *INTERNATIONAL relations , *COMMUNICATION revolution , *COSMOPOLITAN democracy - Abstract
The article discusses the globalization efforts in Africa. It states that the globalization initiatives in the region becomes prominent in the early part of the 1990s to the 2000s. According to the author, the initiative manifested itself in the economic, political and cultural sphere in various ways.
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- 2013
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57. Commentary: Television, Business Entertainment, and Civic Culture.
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Boyle, Raymond and Kelly, Lisa W.
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PUBLIC television , *POPULAR culture , *CITIZENSHIP , *CULTURE - Abstract
This short commentary piece arises from completing an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)–funded research project into the relationship between representations of business on factual television in the United Kingdom and the public’s perception and understanding of entrepreneurship. What we would like to do here is reflect on some of the implications of this work with specific regard to the research agenda around the media and civic culture. We remain convinced that even in the digital age, popular television remains a central entry point into debates about the relationship between broader civic and political culture. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2013
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58. Introduction: Marx is Back -- The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today.
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Fuchs, Christian and Mosco, Vincent
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COMMUNICATION methodology ,MARXIST analysis ,COMMUNICATION education ,CRITICAL theory - Abstract
This paper introduces the overall framework for tripleC's special issue "Marx is Back. The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today". We point out why there is a return of the interest in Marx ("Marx is back") and why Marxian analysis is important for Critical Communication Studies today. We also provide a classification of Marxian dimensions of the critical analysis of media and communication and discuss why commonly held prejudices against what Marx said about society, media, and communication are wrong. The special issue shows the importance of Marxist theory and research for Critical Communication Studies today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
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59. Space, Place, and New Orleans on Television: From Frank’s Place to Treme.
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Morgan Parmett, Helen
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TELEVISION programs , *MEDIA studies , *SOCIAL responsibility of business - Abstract
This article compares the HBO series Treme to an earlier television series that was also set in the Tremé neighborhood—Frank’s Place. I suggest that whereas for Frank’s Place, media scholars’ emphasis on the show’s representational practices of race and place was entirely appropriate, these questions are not sufficient to make sense of Treme. The latter enjoins media scholars to ask a different set of questions that examine both the show’s practices within the city as well as the city’s practices that implicate the show. Specifically, I suggest that the show requires an analysis of labor and hiring practices, tourism, and corporate social responsibility in the city. In so doing, I propose considering Treme not in terms of its representational practices, but rather, as a set of spatial practices bound up with the material production of city space as well as its citizen-subjects. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2012
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60. The Political Economy of Privacy on Facebook.
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Fuchs, Christian
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ECONOMICS , *INTERNET , *SAVINGS , *ONLINE social networks - Abstract
This article provides an analysis of the political economy of privacy and surveillance on Facebook. The concepts of socialist privacy and socialist internet privacy are advanced here. Capital accumulation on Facebook is based on the commodification of users and their data. One can in this context speak, based on Dallas Smythe, of the exploitation of the internet prosumer commodity. Aspects of a socialist internet privacy strategy are outlined and it is shown how they can be applied to social networking sites. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2012
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61. THE PUBLIC VERSUS PRIVATE SCHOOL DIVIDE: REPRESENTATIONS IN LOCAL MEDIA IN HAWAIʻI
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Ferreira, Jordana
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- Communication, critical media studies, framing, hawaii, media
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- 2022
62. Some Theoretical Foundations of Critical Media Studies: Reflections on Karl Marx and the Media.
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Fuchs, Christian
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MASS media ,MEDIA studies ,COMMUNICATION & culture ,GLOBALIZATION ,CONSUMPTION (Economics) ,SAVINGS ,CAPITAL investments - Abstract
Marshall McLuhan and Jean Baudrillard have claimed that Marx had nothing important to say on media, communication, and culture. The approach taken in this paper is different: It is argued that Marx should be considered as one of the founding figures of critical media and communication studies and that his works can be applied today to explain phenomena such as global communication, knowledge labour, media and globalization, media and social struggles, alternative media, media capital accumulation, media monopolies, media capital concentration, the dialectics of information, and media and war. The works of Karl Marx are systematically reconstructed to identify aspects of the media and communication. This reconstruction is based on Marx's circuit of capital. It is shown that Marx provided important insights for analyzing the role of the media in commodity and ideology production, circulation, and consumption and for discussing the role of alternative media production, circulation, and reception. Therefore, it is concluded that Marx provided important groundwork for media and communication theory that could be connected to the hypotheses of contemporary critical media and communication theories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009
63. THE PARADOX OF TRANS VISIBILITY: INTERROGATING THE YEAR OF TRANS VISIBILITY
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Berberick, Stephanie N. and Berberick, Stephanie N.
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Transgender narratives have increased in the contemporary mediascape, bringing to attention important critical questions about the types of trans representation available to audiences. Using the mediated climate of the United States as a case study representative of wider global trends, this paper employs textual analyses and a historiography of the phraseology paradox of visibility, (Seizer, 1995; Tseelon, 1995; Jones and Pugh, 2005; Barnhurst, 2007) to interrogate which transgender images are proliferated and the consequences of their consumption. I argue that there is a paradox of trans visibility, which highlights portions of transgender existence while obscuring others making it seem that society has progressed much further toward genderqueer tolerance than it realistically has. Furthermore, this paper posits that repeat representation of hyperfeminine, affluent transgender women is creating a trinary way of imagining transgender people and bodies that can intensify dangers transgender folks face.
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- 2018
64. Beyond the Phantom Public
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Nadler, Anthony M., author
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- 2016
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65. Taloudesta ja politiikasta : Taloudellisen ja poliittisen diskurssin yhteneväisyys tapauksessa Nokia
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Mikko Poutanen, Johtamiskorkeakoulu - Faculty of Management, and University of Tampere
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public discourse ,deliberaatio ,argumentaatio ,kriittinen diskurssianalyysi ,critical discourse analysis ,poliittinen talous ,critical media studies ,ideologia ,argumentation ,ideology theory ,Nokia ,poliittinen diskurssianalyysi ,political debates ,Valtio-oppi - Political Science - Abstract
Väitöskirjatutkimus tarkastelee julkisen diskurssin ja argumentoinnin tilaa Suomessa. Julkisuudessa esiintyvä poliittinen argumentaatio toimii hegemonisen vaikutusvallan areenana, jolla määritellään mistä asioista puhutaan, miten, ja kenen toimesta. Joitain argumentteja edistetään strategisesti poliittisten tavoitteiden saavuttamiseksi, kun taas toisia otetaan itsenäisesti käyttöön niiden toimivuuden vuoksi. Argumentaatio nojaa suostutteluun, eikä suoraan vallankäyttöön. Demokratiassa argumentaatio on tapa saavuttaa tukea omille aloitteille, ja perustella hyväksyttävästi kiistanalaisia päätöksiä. Tässä tutkimuksessa tarkastellaan erityisesti taloudellisiin perusteisiin pohjautuvaa argumentaatiota, sen hyödyntämistä politiikassa, ja sen ylivaltaa päätöksenteon perusteena. Argumentin taustatekijöiden yhteneväisyys auttaa pohjaoletuksia tukemaan toisiaan yli erilaisten yhteiskunnan alojen, kuten esimerkiksi liiketoiminnasta median kautta politiikkaan. Vakuuttavat argumentit yhdellä kentällä houkuttelevat hyödyntämään niitä myös muualla. Esimerkiksi irtisanomistilanteissa yrityksen on kannattavaa korostaa väistämättömyyttä ja välttämättömyyttä, vähätellen näin omaa toimintakykyään ja siten myös vastuuta ulkoisten tekijöiden pakottavista toimista. Poliittinen toimija voi samoin oikeuttaa toimensa vedoten ulkoisiin tekijöihin, koska tämä argumentti on kansalaisille tuttu jo työelämästä. Taloudellista logiikkaa on vaikea kiistää. Tutkimusta ohjaa “kipeiden, mutta välttämättömien päätösten” leviäminen yleiseksi argumentaation muodoksi suomalaisessa yhteiskunnassa. Siinä missä yritysjohtajat perustelevat henkilöstövähennyksiä kipeinä, mutta välttämättöminä ratkaisuina, jotka takaavat yrityksen tuottavuuden tulevaisuudessa, poliitikot puolestaan pahoittelevat joutuvansa tekemään yhtä lailla kipeitä, mutta välttämättömiä leikkauksia hyvinvointiyhteiskunnan palveluihin taatakseen sen kestävän tulevaisuuden. Molemmissa tapauksissa toimijat julistavat ryhtyvänsä näihin toimiin vastentahtoisesti, mutta vedoten pakottaviin tekijöihin. Niin ikään vedoten leikkauksiin nyt, jotta tulevaisuus voidaan turvata – lyhytkestoista kärsimystä seuraa parempi tulevaisuus. Julkisen talouden sopeuttaminen ja yrityksen kulurakenteen tasapainottaminen seuraavat täysin samanlaista argumentaatio-rakennetta. Tässä tutkimuksessa tarkastellaan taloudellisen toimintalogiikan ja argumentaation valta-asemaa demokraattisessa päätöksenteossa. Globalisaation aikakaudella kansantaloudet ovat asettaneet kilpailukyvyn ja vastuullisen taloudenhoidon etusijalle. Kyseessä on suuri muutos tavassa hahmottaa yhteiskunnan ja valtion roolia politiikassa talouden alaisina toimijoina. Tässä tutkimuksessa tätä kehityskulkua ohjaa uusliberaali ideologia, joka suuntautuu markkinavoimien keskeisyyttä korostavien kehysten kautta, ja ilmenee argumentaation tasolla. Laajan yhteiskunnallisen diskursiivisen muutoksen hahmottaminen vaatii kaikkien näiden kolmen teoreettisen tasojen huomioimista: ns. faircloughlaisen koulukunnan (Fairclough & Fairclough 2012) kriittisen diskurssianalyysin argumentatiivinen käänne yhdistetään kehysteoriaan ja ideologiateoriaan selittämään kuinka yhteiskunnallista todellisuutta rakennetaan uudelleen. Vaikka talous pidetään käsitteellisesti erossa politiikasta, talouden prioriteetit ohjaavat kuitenkin politiikkaa keskeisesti. Tämä johtaa siihen, että politiikka menettää osan merkityksestään todellisten vaihtoehtojen harkinnan ja keskustelun areenana. Tutkimuksen teoreettinen kolmijakoisuus yhdistyy tutkimusaineiston omaan kolmijakoisuuteen: tutkimusalueena ovat yhtälailla yritysten, median, ja politiikan diskurssit. Mikäli yhden yhteiskunnallisen alueen puhetapa ja logiikka ylikorostuu todelliseksi hegemoniaksi, kenttien väliset erot muuttuvat pinnallisiksi. Vaikka on ymmärrettävää, että liiketoiminnassa taloudellinen ajattelutapa on luonnollisesti keskiössä, median tehtävä on informoida kansalaisia ja tarjota moninaisia näkökulmia yhteiskunnallisiin asioihin. Yksipuolisen kuvan välittäminen kiistanalaisista asioista vähentää myös median mahdollisuuksia toimia valtaapitävien vahtikoirina. Edelleen, habermaslaisen ideaalin mukaan edustuksellinen demokratia edellyttää harkintaa – deliberaatiota – ja vilpitöntä keskustelua erilaisista poliittisista vaihtoehdoista. Ainoastaan keskustelemalla vaihtoehdot läpi voidaan tehdä päätöksiä, jotka ovat demokratian hengen mukaisia, tasa-arvoisia ja osallistavia. Näihin poliittisen vallankäytön oikeutus nojaa. Jos argumentit eivät kuitenkaan jätä tilaa vaihtoehdoille, poliittisen päätöksenteon rooliksi jää talousdiskurssin vahvistaminen. Toisin sanoen, talouspoliittinen päätöksenteko erotetaan ”normaalista” poliittisesta päätöksenteosta. Jos talouskriisi hahmotetaan koko valtion – yhteiskunnan – kriisinä, joka uhkaa olemassaoloamme, tuntuu vastuuttomalta ”haaskata aikaa” harkitsemalla eri vaihtoehtoja. Talousdiskurssi tarjoaa valmiit vaihtoehdot. Seurauksena uskottavien tai ylipäänsä hyväksyttävien poliittisten valintojen kirjo kaventuu taloudellisten perusteiden mukaisesti. Suomesta lähtöisin oleva, mutta maailmanlaajuiseen maineeseen noussut Nokia toimii tässä tutkimuksessa suuntaa-antavana esimerkkinä yritysten talousdiskurssista globalisaation aikakaudella. Tutkimus ei siis ole niinkään keskittynyt Nokiaan yrityksenä, vaan Nokiaan tietynlaisena markkinoita korostavan logiikan ja puhetavan malliesimerkkinä Suomessa. Nokian vaikutusvalta Suomessa tekee yrityksestä luonnollisen tutkimuskohteen: 2000-luvun alussa monesti ajateltiin, että se, mikä on hyväksi Nokialle, on myös hyväksi Suomelle. Lisäksi Suomen kansallinen konteksti pohjoismaisena hyvinvointivaltiona toimii tutkimuksessa vastakkaisena kehyksenä uusliberaalin ideologian markkinakeskeiselle ajattelulle. Suomen suhteellisen kapea ja läheisesti kytkeytynyt taloudellinen ja poliittinen eliitti huomioidaan myös tutkimuksessa. Tutkimuksen analyysin ensimmäinen taso kohdistuu Nokian lehdistötiedotteiden yritysdiskurssia seuraavaan argumentointiin keskittyen erityisesti irtisanomistilanteista tiedottamiseen. Nokian kaltaisen suuryrityksen irtisanomiset ovat lähtökohtaisesti merkittäviä, mahdollisesti ristiriitaisia tilanteita, jolloin Nokian on tärkeää onnistua esiintymään vastuullisena yrityksenä. Analyysin toinen taso tarkastelee Nokiaa koskevaa uutisointia irtisanomistapauksissa kolmen eri sanomalehden kautta (Helsingin Sanomat, Kauppalehti ja Ilta-Sanomat). Analyysi osoittaa kuinka voimakkaasti Nokian puoltama markkinakeskeisyyttä korostava kehys kulkee läpi sanomalehtien uutisoinnin. Kolmannella tasolla syvennytään poliittisen diskurssin tasolle, kohdistuen hallituksen esityksiin valtion talousarvioiksi. Analyysin kolmas taso irtoaa Nokiasta ja keskittyy enemmän talouspoliittisen argumentaation kirjoon, seuraten Fairclough & Faircloughn (2012) esimerkkiä. Valtiovarainministerin budjettipuhe sekä eduskuntaryhmien vastaukset käsitellään valtiontalouden tilan ja tulevaisuuden arviointina. Tutkimuksen aikajana sijoittuu vuosien 2000 ja 2013 välille. Tutkimus koostaa yhteen kehyksiä ja argumentaatiota, antaen esimerkkejä sekä lehdistötiedotteista että sanomalehtiartikkeleista, koskien Nokian irtisanomistilanteita tältä aikaväliltä. Poliittisen diskurssin osalta samalta aikajaksolta poimittiin neljä budjettipuhetta – 2001, 2006, 2011, ja 2013 – erilaisin hallituskoostumuksin. Budjettipuheet sijoittautuvat myös mielenkiintoisesti erilaisiin makrotaloudellisiin jaksoihin: vuoden 2001 budjettipuheenvuorossa Suomi astuu aidosti globaalin maailmantalouden piiriin, kun taas vuonna 2006 ollaan taloudellisen nousukauden huipulla. Vuoden 2011 budjettipuheenvuoron aikaan talouskriisistä on ehtinyt kulua jo joitain vuosia kunnes tapahtuu laajamittainen siirros elvytyspolitiikasta talouskuriin koko Euroopassa. Viimein vuoden 2013 talouspuheessa lama jatkuu edelleen ja tulevaisuus näyttää yhä epävarmalta. Samana vuonna Nokian matkapuhelintoiminta myytiin Microsoftille. Tämä tutkimus osoittaa talousdiskurssin – ajattelun, puheen ja toiminnan – voiman suomalaisessa yhteiskunnassa. Vaikkei ole yllättävää, että suuryritys nojautuu voimakkaasti markkinoiden lainalaisuuksiin, on ongelmallista moniäänisen yhteiskunnallisen keskustelun kannalta, että näihin lainalaisuuksiin pohjaava argumentaatio toistuu mediassa. Joissakin tapauksissa tätä argumentaatiota ei ainoastaan toistettu vaan vahvistettiin, jättäen muille näkökulmille hyvin vähän tilaa ja siten vähemmän näkyvyyttä. Yhteiskunnalliset ja työntekijöiden intressit alistettiin säännönmukaisesti kilpailukyvylle ja kustannustehokkuudelle. Samat rakenteet toistuivat erityisen voimakkaina poliittisessa diskurssissa etenkin finanssikriisin jälkeisinä vuosina. Tutkimuksessa käy ilmi kuinka kansantalouden tasapainottaminen ottaa usein talouskurin (”austerity”) muodon. Vastuullisuus politiikassa ymmärretään yhtäältä yhteiskunnallisen oikeudenmukaisuuden varmistamisena, mutta toisaalta julkistalouden rajaamisena, joka menee tasapainotusta pidemmälle. Ottaen kuitenkin huomioon, että julkistalouden tasapainotus nähdään yhteiskunnallisen oikeudenmukaisuuden edellytyksenä, näidenkin arvojen välinen järjestys seuraa taloudellisia vaatimuksia. Samanlainen argumentaatio-rakenne löytyy yritysdiskurssista, jossa työntekijöiden oikeudet tai irtisanomisten yhteiskunnallinen vaikutus toki huomioidaan, mutta kustannustehokkuus ja tuottavuus ovat etusijalla. Mediassa tätä logiikkaa ei myöskään kumottu. Ammattiliitot eivät onnistuneet löytämään tukea argumenteilleen ja poliitikot puolestaan käyttivät Nokian alamäkeä vertauskuvallisena perusteena tehdä leikkauksia julkisella sektorilla. Sekä Nokialle että Suomelle tarjottiin kriiseihinsä lääkkeeksi tiukkaa taloudellista kurikuuria. Vaikka hyvinvointivaltion perinteiset arvot, kuten yhteiskunnallinen vastuullisuus ja oikeudenmukaisuus näkyvät usein argumentaatiossa, ne asettuvat argumentaation kokonaisuudessa toissijaisiksi arvoiksi, jotka pehmentävät kovia taloudellisia päämääriä. Tämä kehitys selittää myös osaltaan myöhempien hallitusten linjauksia. Väitöskirjatutkimus sijoittautuu osaksi monipuolista tutkimusperinnettä sekä teorian että empirian osalta. Tutkimus soveltaa faircloughlaista poliittisen diskurssin argumentaatio-analyysiä aiempaa laajemmin. Teoreettinen malli kokonaisuudessaan ottaa laajemmin haltuun yhteiskunnallisten diskurssien muutoksen monelta eri näkökannalta. Tutkimus sijoittuu myös erikoisella tavalla kolmen erilaisen tieteenalan – vastuullisen yritystoiminnan tutkimuksen ja organisaatiotutkimuksen, kriittisen mediatutkimuksen, sekä poliittisen talouden tutkimuksen – risteykseen. Tutkimuksen löydökset vahvistavat kriittisen tutkimuksen aiempia löydöksiä, sekä valottavat suomalaisen yhteiskunnan muutosta. Vaikka tutkimus on keskittynyt osittain Nokiaan ja erityisesti Suomen kansalliseen kontekstiin, on kuitenkin todennäköistä, että tutkimuksen lähestymistapa ja tulokset ovat sovellettavissa laajemminkin eurooppalaisessa kontekstissa. Tutkimus antaa myös viitteitä siitä, että yhteiskunnallisen diskurssin ja argumentaation yksipuolistumisen seurauksia esimerkiksi politiikalle on syytä tutkia edelleen. Taloudellisen teknokratian ylivalta saattaa heijastua poliittisten ja yhteiskunnallisten voimien kanavoitumiseen uusin tavoin. This dissertation studies the range of public discourse and argumentation in Finland. Political arguments in public discourse are a site of a struggle over meaning and hegemonic influence, defining what issues get talked about and by whom. Specific arguments are at one hand strategically promoted, and on the other autonomously adopted. Persuasion, rather than coercion, is necessary to convince others of the legitimacy of proposed actions in a democracy. The dissertation focuses in particular on how public economic discourse and argumentation resonates in political discourse. Discourse, after all, reflects social practice. The sharing of similar meanings, premises and arguments informs a specific kind of logic that is not unique to a single discursive field. The mutual supportiveness of the argumentative elements increase their salience. Successful arguments, in particular, lead by example. A corporate actor may find it useful to stress extraneous circumstances over his own agency to claim that controversial actions are inevitable and necessary, and thus not debatable. Lack of agency suggests lack of accountability. Political agents gain more legitimacy for their proposed policy agenda if the assumptions and arguments implicit in that agenda are familiar to audiences from the business context. This research is motivated by a critical examination of the proliferation of arguments of “tough but necessary” decisions, commonplace in the public sphere. The same argumentative structure is visible between CEOs, who argue for downsizings as painful but necessary, even inevitable actions that would safeguard the company's future prosperity, and politicians, who argue that reduction of public expenditures is an equally painful but necessary action to balance public finances in order to secure the future of the Finnish welfare society. In both cases, actors declare reluctance and yet demand decisive action, short-term loss over long-term gain. After all, reducing public expenditure and labour costs both serve the bottom-line. This rationale reflects the economic logic of scarcity in both cases. The dissertation considers the consequences of prioritizing economic discourse in political discourse and democratic practice. The age of globalization has prompted a shift towards conceptualizing politics through competitiveness and fiscal responsibility first. Rather than looking at the arguments presented alone, it is necessary to understand such macro-level shifts in discourse and social practice in broader terms. These arguments and discourse form the operational level of pro-market frames, informed by neoliberal ideology. All three levels – argumentation theory informed by the argumentative turn of “Faircloughian” critical discourse analysis (Fairclough & Fairclough 2012), framing theory, and ideology theory – are necessary to fully encapsulate how understanding and decision-making in society develops not only through sense-making but sense-giving. This approach is integral to producing, reproducing, and sustaining structures of power through an interplay of business and political interests in public discourse. The theoretical triangulation of this work is matched with an empirical triangulation of business, media, and political discourse. The risk posed by hegemonic dominance of one particular ideology and its associated frames and discourse are different depending on the discursive field in question. In business discourse prioritizing corporate logic can be expected to dominate. In media reporting, however, a plurality of viewpoints should be available to inform the citizenry. Moreover, deliberative democracy in particular relies on sincere debates and arguments in order to, according to the Habermasian ideal, achieve equitable and inclusive decision-making. However, if there are no viable alternatives, and discourse links financial survival directly to national political survival, political deliberation becomes fraught. Hesitation and delay are often presented as irresponsible in what is seen as an impending crisis. As such, politics risk becoming a de facto extension of economics. In so doing political decisions necessarily derive their basis and legitimacy from economics, and economic language. This leads to a narrowing of credible and feasible political alternatives, when it is the purpose of politics to find possibilities and alternatives. A singular ideology means there is no choice, and politics lose their raison d’etre. The Finland-originated but multinational telecommunications company Nokia serves in this dissertation as a corporate operative exemplifying the rationale of business argumentation and discourse. This dissertation is not as much an investigation of what kind of a corporate actor Nokia is, but what kind of corporate discourse it promoted in the Finnish context. Nokia's power and influence in Finland make it a suitable example to draw on for the purposes of analysing the interplay of economic and political discourse. What was good for Nokia was often seen as being good for Finland. Furthermore, Finland’s position in the tradition of Nordic welfare states makes the competition between the competing frames of pro-market and societal interest also relevant, as the corresponding ideological struggle is between neoliberal ideology and the tradition of the Nordic welfare state respectively. The role of elite-dissemination of hegemonic ideological logic and discursive practice is also explored, given the tightly knit composition of Finnish business and political elites. The first level of analysis focuses on corporate speech via Nokia's press releases, particularly relating to downsizing events, which were controversial and required careful argumentation to preserve the legitimacy of the company as a responsible corporate citizen. The second level of analysis deals with of media discourse relating to Nokia's downsizing. It observes how strongly the media took up Nokia's pro-market framing of the events. Media analysis focuses on three Finnish newspapers: Helsingin Sanomat (a socio-political approach), Kauppalehti (business approach) and Ilta-Sanomat (tabloid with national interest leanings) to provide a broad overview of reporting relating to Nokia's downsizing actions. The third level of analysis looks at political discourse in the form of budgetary speeches by Finnish Finance Ministers and party responses in Parliament. This last level follows the example set by Fairclough & Fairclough (2012) in seeing budgetary debates as key moments that present the state of the national political economy is stated and propose possible ways forward. The research timeline covers business discourse from Nokia from the early 2000s to 2013 – to the point when Nokia’s mobile phone business was sold to Microsoft. The same timeline is followed in the media material following Nokia’s rationalizations and public reactions to its downsizing events. Political discourse is explored through four budgetary speeches and their responses from 2001, 2006, 2011 and 2013. This allows the research to canvas the state of Finnish public discourse in three fields over a period of time – 12 years. This period covers the rapid globalization process of Finland and Nokia both in the early 2000s, the height of an economic boom in 2006, the shift from stimulus to austerity in 2011, and an uncertain future discussed in 2013. The research shows that economic logic is a powerful means to frame the debate: while it is expected that corporations prioritize economic logic in stating their case, it is troubling from the perspective of societal plurality that the same logic is reproduced in mainstream Finnish media. In some cases it is not only reproduced, but amplified through quoted expert sources, leaving very little room for objections challenging economic logic. This is not to say societal concerns are not addressed, but they are clearly given lower priority. Objections from the point of view of e.g. employee interest are subservient to issues of competitiveness and efficiency. It becomes increasingly problematic when the same logic is applied, most notably after the 2007-2008 financial crisis, to political debates. This argumentative development continues with later Finnish governments. The analysis reveals a powerful preference for pro-market frames that are largely interpreted as austerity policy. While both societal and fiscal responsibilities feature strongly in the arguments deciding the course of Finnish public finances, the arguably more powerful aspect is the latter one. It is only through fiscal responsibility that societal responsibilities can be realized. In essence, this argumentative structure is notably similar to that of a corporation undergoing restructuring: only once the company returns to profitability can the company’s responsibilities towards its employees be realized. The media, it is found, often emphasizes this framing of priorities. Indeed, trade unions fail to argue for their members and politicians use Nokia’s decline as a direct comparison to the decline of Finnish public finances. Both Nokia and Finland are represented in a crisis, and the only way out for both is fiscal discipline. On the level of discourse, there still exists wide support for responsible, fair, and socially just policies of the welfare state. While these values exist in discourse, they are relegated to secondary positions because they make less sense in the context of pro-market arguments in a competitive state. This research contributes expansively to both theoretical and empirical literature on the neoliberal shift in conceptualizing the political economy in the Nordic states. Theoretical triangulation serves as a workable model of intertwined approaches to qualitative analysis that still presents argumentative political discourse, frames and ideology as separate concepts. It also contributes in the fields of 1) business studies – and organization studies and critical literature of corporate social responsibility in particular – 2) critical media studies and 3) studies on the political economy. The findings are in line with previous literature in the critical tradition, and shed light on the transformation of Finnish society (and welfare state) in the 21st century. While centred on Finland and partially on Nokia, it is unlikely that this homogenizing argumentative this practice is unique to the Finnish context. The consequences of this development for active social and political participation need to be explored further.
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- 2018
66. Acritical Review to the Media which Constructed in Media Literary Course in Secondary Education
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Hanifi Kurt, Iaman, A, Eskicumali, A, and Ege Üniversitesi
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Engineering ,Critical perspective ,Academic year ,Secondary education ,business.industry ,Communication studies ,Media literacy ,education of media literacy in Turkey ,critical media studies ,Resource (project management) ,Pedagogy ,ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION ,General Materials Science ,business ,Curriculum ,Mass media - Abstract
5th International Conference on New Horizons in Education (INTE) -- JUN 25-27, 2014 -- Paris, FRANCE, WOS: 000383740200100, Nowadays, in which mass media has been widespread and effective nearly in all parts of our life, the importance of media literacy has increased both in the world and Turkey. Not only is media enhancing its area of activity by means of the opportunities of communication technologies, but also has started to distribute various and excessive information. The course of media literacy, which is supposed to have some functions, such as reaching "the truth" from this excessive information, analyzing the reached information and evaluating primarily has entered the curriculum of the faculty of communication in Turkey and has started to be given as an elective course in the curriculum of secondary education from 2007-2008 Academic Year. This study will deal with edited media, which is taught in media literacy in secondary education, in a critical perspective that is often referred in communication studies. And in this study, edited media, in Media Literacy Teacher Resource Book, has been chosen as a research item. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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- 2015
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67. “It is Non-Summit” and “It is Abnormal” Unpacking Whiteness: Critiquing racialized and gendered representations in Non-Summit (Bijeongsanghoedam).
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Dr. Myra Washington, Dr. Shinsuke Eguchi, Dr. Jungmin Kwon, Kim, Seonah, Dr. Myra Washington, Dr. Shinsuke Eguchi, Dr. Jungmin Kwon, and Kim, Seonah
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- Whiteness
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In this thesis, I focus on a Korean entertainment show Non-Summit as a media text through which to investigate racialized and gendered representations of transnational identities in Korean media. Specifically, I examine discursive strategies through which foreign male characters are racialized and gendered in order to interrogate the hegemonic masculinity of White, Western, and heterosexual identities. On the basis of a critical textual analysis of Non-Summit, I discuss Non-Summit reproduces and distributes representations of White, Western, and heterosexual masculinity as dominant foreign identities. Furthermore, I examine the ideological implications of such discourse on the hegemonic foreign identities given the current condition of multiculturalism in Korean society and context of transnational Whiteness. I found characterization of foreign panelists functions as a process of privileging White, Western, and heterosexual masculinity in Non-Summit. It reveals racialization in Non-Summit is insidiously and complicatedly formed through discourse of liberalism, egalitarianism, and homonationalism as a process of “othering.” Similarly, by connecting egalitarian, liberal, and tolerative identities to White, Western, and heterosexual panelists, who are from European countries, Canada, and the U.S., the hegemonic masculinity is dominantly possessed by Western masculine identities. In addition, the dominant representations of foreign characters reproduce postracial and postgender ideologies that emphasize we live in the raceless and genderless world. However, the ideological message should be critically evaluated and challenged in that Non-Summit is a media space with maintaining the dominant visibility of White, Western, educated, middle-class, and heterosexual masculinity.
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- 2017
68. What Is the Politics of Platform Politics?
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Renzi, Alessandra
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CONFERENCES & conventions , *MASS media conferences , *ONLINE social networks - Abstract
The article discusses the highlights of the Network Politics conference attended by media scholars and held in Cambridge, England from May 11-13, 2011. Scholars who spoke at the event investigated emerging forms of networked sociality. Tiziana Terranova discusses the intersection between mammoth platforms like Facebook and Twitter and political phenomena like the North African and Middle Eastern uprisings.
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- 2011
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69. Making Media Studies Transformational: Creativity Over (Just) Criticism
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David Gauntlett
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Cultural Studies ,Communication ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Media studies ,media as practice ,Compassion ,Context (language use) ,Empathy ,Creativity ,lcsh:P87-96 ,critical media studies ,lcsh:Communication. Mass media ,media studies 2.0 ,creativity ,making ,Transformational leadership ,Media Practice ,communication studies ,media studies ,critical theory ,Criticism ,Media system dependency theory ,Relation (history of concept) ,Psychology ,media_common - Abstract
This contribution argues the case for an empathetic approach to media studies at a perceived moment of crisis that brings creativity and digital users’ activities to the fore. It is the responsibility of media academics to think about leading conversations about what platforms for creativity can be and how less corporate environments for such can arise. Needed is a system view of the entire context for media which has more compassion for ordinary people; secondly a broader and more continuous view of media and thirdly attention to the more creative possibilities of media over mere criticism. Empathy and compassion are vital to cut across different media studies groupings including some critical perspectives. The depressing turn reflected in a book of 2012 towards criticizing the users of creative digital tools themselves as deluded narcissists and exhibitionists is mistaken. Media Studies 2.0 (see Gauntlett, 2011a) and work such as David Morley’s on a non-mediacentric study of media studies or Nick Couldry on media as practice or Shaun Moores on bodily movement and situation in relation to media offer useful perspectives on this broader view of media as does Tim Ingold’s insights into making and sharing. Such a take need not be ahistorical (see Scannell, 2007 and Gauntlett, 2011b) but aims at a media studies that is transformational not documentary with greater capacity for understanding.
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- 2017
70. Introduction
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Karppinen, Kari, author
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- 2013
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71. Corporate Branding via Instagram: Does Visual Representation of Diversity in Business Communication Matter?
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Hope, Krystal Anne
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- Communication, Business administration, Mass communication, brand communication, critical media studies, critical race theory, Instagram, social media, visual communication
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- 2019
72. Satirical News and Political Subversiveness: A Critical Approach to The Daily Show and The Colbert Report
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Leclerc, Roberto
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political economy ,Digital Humanities ,cool ,Other Film and Media Studies ,branding ,new media ,Other Arts and Humanities ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,satire news ,critical media studies - Abstract
Television shows like The Daily Show and The Colbert Report are often venerated for their satirical criticisms of mainstream media and for their pedagogical value as critical resources for political consciousness. The programs are said to provide interrogations of contemporary forms of power while fostering more active, collaborative and politically engaged audiences. This thesis interrogates such claims by introducing a critical reading of the shows. It engages in dialogue with scholars working within a Culturalist approach to media and politics by demonstrating the importance of a Marxist-inspired approach to the study of satire news. Attention is given to the political-economy of satirical programming with a specific focus on its kinship with mainstream news media. Equal consideration is given to the programs' branding strategies, including savvy forms of 'cool' consumption and the commodification and exploitation of online fan-labor that increasingly complicate the shows' pedagogical value.
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- 2015
73. Asocial Media Studies : Bourdieu as Remedy
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Lindell, Johan and Lindell, Johan
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Contemporary media studies has a tendency of ‘bracketing out’ the social dimension, and thus it needs to be better versed in social theory. Failing to account for "the social" is problematic since all media, and all communication are located in social contexts. This paper offers an exploration of the epistemological consequences of insisting on the location of media production, media content, and media use in social contexts in terms of Bourdieu’s social theory. A Bourdieusian approach to media and communication involves understanding that media production is always situated in complex, multi-leveled relations of power, be it the journalistic field, the field of cultural production or the wider social space occupied by the ‘produser’ of mediated content. The perspective furthermore implicates a refusal to succumb to an ‘internalist vision’ when studying communication or the content of the media that is the result of isolating communication from its context of production and consumption, which is where meaning is ultimately generated. Finally, it involves studying media use as a classifying practice that is becoming increasingly mediated through the habitus and an agents’ position in social space as the media landscape gains in appeal to persons – as individuals with preferences, tastes and lifestyles – rather than masses. It is argued that a move towards Bourdieusian media studies ushers the study of old and new forms of media production, content and use onto paths that provoke critical and enduring questions of the role of media in society.
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- 2015
74. Editorial Introduction: 'Media Tropes'
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Murray, Stuart J. and Murray, Stuart J.
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- 2011
75. “It is Non-Summit” and “It is Abnormal” Unpacking Whiteness: Critiquing racialized and gendered representations in Non-Summit (Bijeongsanghoedam).
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Kim, Seonah
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- Whiteness, Non-Summit, Transnational identity, Multiculturalism, Globalization, Critical Media Studies, Critical Cultural Studies, Communication, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Film and Media Studies, Journalism Studies, Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies
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In this thesis, I focus on a Korean entertainment show Non-Summit as a media text through which to investigate racialized and gendered representations of transnational identities in Korean media. Specifically, I examine discursive strategies through which foreign male characters are racialized and gendered in order to interrogate the hegemonic masculinity of White, Western, and heterosexual identities. On the basis of a critical textual analysis of Non-Summit, I discuss Non-Summit reproduces and distributes representations of White, Western, and heterosexual masculinity as dominant foreign identities. Furthermore, I examine the ideological implications of such discourse on the hegemonic foreign identities given the current condition of multiculturalism in Korean society and context of transnational Whiteness. I found characterization of foreign panelists functions as a process of privileging White, Western, and heterosexual masculinity in Non-Summit. It reveals racialization in Non-Summit is insidiously and complicatedly formed through discourse of liberalism, egalitarianism, and homonationalism as a process of “othering.” Similarly, by connecting egalitarian, liberal, and tolerative identities to White, Western, and heterosexual panelists, who are from European countries, Canada, and the U.S., the hegemonic masculinity is dominantly possessed by Western masculine identities. In addition, the dominant representations of foreign characters reproduce postracial and postgender ideologies that emphasize we live in the raceless and genderless world. However, the ideological message should be critically evaluated and challenged in that Non-Summit is a media space with maintaining the dominant visibility of White, Western, educated, middle-class, and heterosexual masculinity.
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- 2017
76. Terrorizing Gender: Transgender Visibility and the Surveillance Practices of the U.S. Security State
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Fischer, Mia
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- CeCe McDonald, Chelsea Manning, Critical Media Studies, LGBT rights, Surveillance, Transgender Visibility
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After decades of erasure, transgender people are gaining unprecedented mainstream media attention; yet transgender communities, particularly those of color, remain disproportionately affected by poverty, discrimination, violence, and harassment. Terrorizing Gender examines how media representations of transgender people connect to their surveillance by state institutions, specifically federal and state governments, the military, and the legal system. The project calls for centering transgender subjectivities and experiences in critical media studies in order to move beyond an exclusive focus on analyzing representations and visibility politics. Placing transgender at the center of gender studies, critical media studies, and surveillance studies focuses attention on the relationship between material consequences and representational trends in popular culture. By highlighting the material realities of transgender people, the project refutes popular narratives of progress that claim equality and civil rights victories for LGBT people over the last decade. Terrorizing Gender highlights two case studies: WikiLeaker and whistleblower Chelsea Manning, who was sentenced to 35 years in prison for violating the Espionage Act and leaking sensitive U.S. documents; and a black transgender woman from Minneapolis, CeCe McDonald, who was charged with murder for killing her attacker during a transphobic and racist assault in 2011. I argue that news media predominantly construct transgender people as deceptive, deviant, and threatening, and that these constructions not only affirm, but align with state interests in surveilling, harassing, and ultimately, criminalizing transgender communities. Particularly, the popular discourse of colorblindness – a pervasive belief that race should not and no longer does matter – circulated by media institutions is central to the state’s management and disposing of transgender lives. Terrorizing Gender thus contends that the current popularity of “transgender” must be understood to connote a contingent cultural and national belonging given the racialized and gendered violence that the state continues to enact against most gender non-conforming people, particularly those of color.
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- 2016
77. One of these things may be like the other: A comparative study of ESPN and Fox Sports One
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Bramley, Rodger Aaron
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- Experiments, Communication, Media Studies, Mass Communication, Journalism, Sports Media, Competitive Marketing, Critical Media Studies, Political Economy, Political Economy of Communication, ESPN, FOX, Fox Sports One
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This thesis examines the comparative relationship between ESPN and Fox Sports One through the content of their original programming. A laboratory experiment showing participants stimuli from the ESPN program SportsCenter and the Fox Sports One program Fox Sports Live is used to generate statistical evidence that viewer attitudes of the two programs are equivalent. This finding is surrounded with a general analysis of the empirical components of the other original programming broadcast by both networks. The vast economic power of both entities are viewed through both competitive marketing theory and the lens of political economy to situate these findings within the economic sphere they reside in.
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- 2015
78. Call Me By My Right Name: The Politics of African American Women and Girls Negotiating Citizenship and Identity
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Cherry-McDaniel, Monique Gabrielle
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- African Americans, African American Studies, Black Studies, Educational Leadership, Educational Theory, Ethnic Studies, Gender Studies, Critical Race Feminism, African American, Women Studies, Girlhood Studies, Critical Media Studies, Controlling Images, Citizenship, Identity, Intersectionality, Text Analysis
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African American women and girls have struggled to define themselves independent of a public curriculum, supported by education, politics, social commentary and community, that continues to define us in relationship to work, sex and motherhood. This study will select current manifestations of controlling images, and, in the tradition of Critical Race Feminism, historicize and speak back to the ideologies that support such derogatory images of African American womanhood. This study will provide a discussion of the multiple discourses of citizenship and public curriculum, and then connect them to the histories and heritages which have constructed differentiated citizenship in America, and has created the public curriculum which legitimates it.
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- 2012
79. "Down in the Treme": media's spatial practices and the (re)birth of a neighborhood after Katrina
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Morgan Parmett, Helen
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- Branding, Critical media studies, Media space, Race, Urban planning, Urban space
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In this project, I take the HBO series Treme (2010-present) as a case study for theorizing contemporary relationships between media, urban space, and raced and classed geographies. I argue that textual analyses of media's representations of city space and place, which comprise the bulk of contemporary scholarship on media and urban space especially as it relates to New Orleans and questions of race, are not sufficient in understanding the work of media in contemporary cities, and in post-Katrina New Orleans, in particular. Treme does not just represent race and place in New Orleans, it participates directly and materially in the rebuilding of the city and its marginalized neighborhoods by soliciting practices of community and neighborhood engagement, city branding, tourism, employment, and historic preservation. HBO also enjoins viewers to participate in the rebuilding and revitalization of the city by eliciting the spatial practices of viewers in the form of tourism, ethical consumption, and utilizing online interactivities to create emplaced material communities. Moreover, city and cultural policy, as well as HBO branding efforts, are aimed at fostering these kinds of interactions and spatial practices. Treme is therefore literally helping to drive, create, and intervene into the city that it represents, putting the spatial practices of media production and its viewers to work in ways that present solutions to racial, class, and spatial antagonisms made manifest in the Katrina event. This project therefore aims to contribute to media studies of city space by theorizing Treme as a spatial practice in the neighborhood. Treme provides a poignant case study that enjoins scholars to go beyond the text to consider the broader and more material aspects of HBO's original programming as well as in how media intervenes into particular city sites. It thus brings into focus the innovative ways in which both media and cities are increasingly articulating themselves to each other in the neoliberal city and provides some possible tools for media scholars to analyze those articulations. Theorizing media as a spatial practice, I consider how Treme participates materially in the production, governing, regulation, and organizing of urban and media space at the present conjuncture. I query how the series provides a vehicle for both cultural and economic revitalization and renewal in post-Katrina New Orleans, and I ask what this means for media scholarship on cities when the media industry takes up a role in the transformation of lived, material, and vernacular urban space?
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- 2012
80. The unique aesthetics and socio-cultural backgrounds of Nam June Paik's distorted images
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Kartal, Eda İrem
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cultural studies ,visual culture ,image science ,Bildwissenschaft ,global art history ,critical media studies - Abstract
The research is intended to contribute to the global art histories, cultural, visual culture, and critical media studies by examining the artistic approach and artworks of Korean-American artist Nam June Paik (1932 - 2006), who contributed much to our current visual culture environment. Paik’s television installations have been created through alternations of the television’s hardware; the distorted images that occurred through these artworks create an alternative style of image curating, in contrast to the standards of images imposed by the mass media. Apart from the socio- cultural scope of Paik’s artworks, the work focuses on his contributions to this alternative understanding of visuality. Paik’s experimental distorted images are convenient to be starting points to reconsider our visual habits and question what images evoke on us beyond their cultural, socio- political, and social importance., Eda İrem Kartal, Masterarbeit Universität Klagenfurt 2021
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