The World Hobbit Project in Finland : Audience responses and transmedial user practices
This article examines audience engagement with The Hobbit fantasy film trilogy as a participatory and transmedial experience. To do so, we use the data collected by The World Hobbit Project in order to investigate the transmedial user practices of the Finnish audience of the trilogy. We will, firstly, look at what kinds of transmedial user practices – and transmedia users – emerge from our data. Secondly, we will ask the following questions: How do transmedia users receive and experience the films? What are the meanings assigned to The Hobbit films and the fantasy texts and user practices related to them, and what do these meanings tell of the broader meanings and uses of fantasy? Doing so,…
Fantasia ja transmedia
Gender and the superhero narrative
As the title of the volume promises, Gender and the Superhero Narrative offers an insight into the ways gendered norms and ideals have been negotiated in superhero narratives. Yet this is not all i...
Reimagining humanity in Battlestar Galactica, Bionic Woman and V
A Book Review: Colin B. Harvey – Fantastic Transmedia: Narrative, Play and Memory Across Science Fiction and Fantasy Storyworlds
Constructing a Transmedia Universe : The Case of Battlestar Galactica
In this article, we define a ‘transmedia universe’ as encompassing the complexity of transmedia storytelling, production and consumption. In doing so, we use the popular science fiction television series Battlestar Galactica as a case study, including both the original and reimagined versions of the series and their various intramedia and transmedia, narrative and non-narrative, and diegetic and non-diegetic expansions. Moreover, we look beyond the official productions of the Battlestar Galactica franchise and include, for example, user-generated content within its transmedia universe. peerReviewed
The (care) robot in science fiction: A monster or a tool for the future?
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Euroopan komission ja kansalaisten näkemyksiä eurooppalaisesta kulttuuriperinnöstä
Välineitä avarakatseiseen tiedontuotantoon
Tutkiva mielikuvitus. Luovat, osallistuvat ja toiminnalliset tutkimusmenetelmät yhteiskuntatieteissä. Toim. Sanna Ryynänen & Anni Rannikko. Gaudeamus 2021. 328 s.
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Affective Estrangement and Ecological Destruction in TV Crime Series Fortitude
Koistinen and Mäntymäki examine how graphic violence evokes affect in the context of ecological destruction in the UK-produced TV crime fiction series Fortitude (2015–17). They argue that the series mobilises generic exchange by incorporating speculative elements into a traditional crime narrative structure, thereby creating space for affective estrangement. They show how the amalgamation of violence, ecological destruction and affect serves as an entrance into socioecological critique with a strong cautionary element through the negotiation between the human and nonhuman and the ethics of violence. Theoretically, the chapter relies on Sara Ahmed’s view of affect as social processes produce…
Learning cultural literacy through creative practices in schools cultural and multimodal approaches to meaning-making
Introduction: Cultural Literacy and Creativity -- A Sociocultural Approach to Children’s Visual Creations -- Multimodality: Art as a Meaning-Making Process -- Tolerance, Empathy, and Inclusion -- Living Together -- Social Responsibility -- Belonging and Home -- Cultural Literacy During COVID-19 -- Conclusions: Cultural Literacy in Action -- Index. This open access book discusses how cultural literacy can be taught and learned through creative practices. It approaches cultural literacy as a dialogic social process based on learning and gaining knowledge through emphatic, tolerant, and inclusive interaction. The book focuses on meaning-making in children and young people’s visual and multimod…
Explorations of Linkages Between Intercultural Dialogue, Art, and Empathy
AbstractIn the 2000s, European societies have transformed quickly due to the networked global economy, deepening a European integration process, forced and voluntary movement of people to and within Europe, and influence of social media on culture, communication, and society. Europe has become an increasingly diverse and pluricultural continent where many people simultaneously identify with multiple different cultural and social groups. In such “super-diversified” (Vertovec in New complexities of cohesion in Britain: Super-diversity, transnationalism and civil-integration, Communities and Local Government Publications, Wetherby, 2007) European societies diversity itself is broad, multidimen…
Ympäristöuhkia ja tunnistamatonta vierautta
Tutkimme artikkelissamme ekologista ja affektiivista outouttamista suomalais-ruotsalaisessa spekulatiivista fiktiota ja Nordic noiria yhdistävässä televisiosarjassa White Wall (2020). Väitämme, että sarjan affektiivinen kokonaissävy muodostuu spekulatiivisen fiktion ja Nordic noirin lajityypillisten elementtien yhdistyessä, mikä rakentaa outouttavaa katsojakokemusta, jossa fiktiivisen maailman outous yhdistyy tosimaailman ekologisiin kysymyksiin. Tämä affektiivisen ja ekologisen outouttamisen yhdistelmä toimii lähtökohtana sarjan, etenkin sen keskeisen oudon ilmiön, valkoisen seinän, posthumanistiselle luennallemme. Hyödynnämme analyysissämme affektitutkimusta, eri genreteorioita sekä posth…
Kohti planetaarista tuntua : feministis-posthumanistinen uudelleenkuvittelu ja etiikka ihmisen jälkeen
Niin kutsuttu antroposeeni eli ihmisten valtakausi on aiheuttanut lukemattomia globaaleja ongelmia ja kriisejä, jotka ovat herättäneet kysymyksen ihmisten kyvystä elää eettisesti muiden lajien ja ympäristönsä kanssa. Esitämme, että feministisellä ja posthumanistisella teorialla on annettavaa taidetta ja tiedettä yhdistäville keskusteluille, joissa kuvitellaan toisenlaisia, ei-inhimillisiin toisiin eettisesti suhtautuvia todellisuuksia. Havainnollistamme tällaista uudelleenkuvittelua valikoimalla suomenkielistä nykyrunoutta, jossa rakennetaan ihmisen jälkeistä etiikkaa. Ehdotamme, että feministinen posthumanismi ja nykyrunous voivat haastaa meitä kuvittelemaan erilaisia t…
Planetary activism at the end of the world: Feminist and posthumanist imaginaries beyond Man
We are currently experiencing a planetary crisis that will lead, if worst comes to worst, to the end of the entire world as we know it. Several feminist scholars have suggested that if the Earth is to stay livable for humans and nonhumans alike, the ways in which many human beings – particularly in the wealthy parts of the world, infested with Eurocentrism, (neo)colonialism, neoliberalism, and capitalism – inhabit this planet requires radical, ethical, and political transformation. In this article, we propose that feminist theory, particularly feminist posthumanities, and Black feminist and decolonial thought, together with creative practices such as writing, have much to contribute to tra…
Challenges and Solutions in Ethnographic Research
Challenges and Solutions in Ethnographic Research: Ethnography with a Twist seeks to rethink ethnography ‘outside the box’ of its previous tradition and to develop ethnographic methods by critically discussing the process, ethics, impact and knowledge production in ethnographic research. This interdisciplinary edited volume argues for a ‘twist’ that supports openness, courage, and creativity to develop and test innovative and unconventional ways of thinking and doing ethnography. ‘Ethnography with a twist’ means both an intentional aim to conduct ethnographic research with novel approaches and methods but also sensitivity to recognize and creativity to utilize different kinds of ‘twist mome…