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‘Full power despite stress’: A discourse analytical examination of the interconnectedness of postfeminism and neoliberalism in the domain of work in …
2013
Stories and images of successful career women and support for women’s advancement in working life have become hallmarks of contemporary postfeminist media culture, and especially of women’s magazines such as Cosmopolitan. While in previous research these features have been seen as signs for a new, popular feminism, more recently they have also been connected to the growing hegemony of neoliberal governance, a mode of power that ultimately aims at the economization of the social and is fundamentally exercised in and through discourse. The aim of this article is to investigate further the interconnectedness of these two phenomena, postfeminism and neoliberalism, in the domain of work, using …
FROM SEEKERS TO ACTIVISTS
2009
Media culture is a firm part of youth cultures today. Media can also be seen as one empowering technology in the information society alongside traditional school and government. What kind of civic identities are young people constructing in contemporary media culture? This article discusses media-saturated youth and audience agency, drawing on Dahlgren's ideas of civic culture. Relying on empirical data from two case studies in Finland, we will introduce a typology of civic identities, which the young construct as members of the public in relation to media. Our first case study is a youth civic website called Vaikuttamo.net and the second is the Youth Voice Editorial Board, which consists o…
"The woman that we all need" : Kate Bush in the eyes of American fans
2015
Populaarimusiikin fanittaminen on yksi jokapäiväisistä ilmiöistä länsimaisessa kulttuurissa ja yhteiskunnassa. Kate Bush, brittiläinen muusikko, jonka ura on kestänyt yli kolme vuosikymmentä, on saavuttanut vankan fanipohjan ympäri maailmaa. Yhdysvaltalaisten Kate Bush -fanien ajatellaan kuitenkin olevan harvinaisia, sillä Bush ei ole saavuttanut Yhdysvalloissa musiikillisesti samanlaista asemaa kuten vaikkapa Euroopassa. Tämän tutkimuksen tarkoituksena on tuoda esiin Kate Bushin amerikkalaisia faneja, ja tutkia, kuinka he näkevät Kate Bushin artistina. Tutkimuksessa tarkastellaan Kate Bushin statusta osallistujien elämässä ja heidän emotionaalista suhtautumistaan Bushiin ja hänen musiikkii…
The Book Between Media Convergence, Media Specificity, and Diverse Reading Communities in Present-Day US Culture
2019
Drawing on empirical studies and statistical analyses of how digitization has restructured the American publishing industry during the last decade, Christoph Blasi considers the book’s current position in media culture from the perspective of book studies. He surveys the latest research on the development of print book production, on the market competition between printed books and e-books, and on the differences between screen and print reading. Noting that communication practices and circuits of book value creation have changed in the wake of digitization, Blasi also highlights the significant function that print books possess in the contemporary media ecology—both as part of transmedia s…
From Claw Crane to Toy Crane: Catching, Courting, and Gambling in South Korea
2022
The claw crane—an arcade game that invites its players to remotely grab a prize with a “claw”—has undergone a long process of development from an eye-catching “steam shovel” to a calculated gambling machine across amusement arcades, train stations, and traveling carnivals. Recently, the claw crane has become a common transmedia object in various consumer outlets around the world, serving today’s “kidults” who are willing to play and be playful with toys as grownups. Especially in South Korea, the claw crane now rewards its players with cutified character plushies, which arguably reflects and resonates with the local sociocultural conventions. In this mixed-methods study, we deconstruct the …
L’ILLUSIONE DEL SAPERE: L’UNIVERSO DELLE FAKE NEWS. UN’INDAGINE ESPLORATIVA CON GLI ADOLESCENTI
2020
L’informazione e la sua fruizione sono elementi essenziali all’interno della societa e cultura mediale poiche aiutano a comprendere cio che accade intorno a noi. D’altra parte, pero, si stanno diffondendo una serie di disturbi informativi dati dalla circolazione di informazioni false e volutamente fuorvianti. L’etichetta “fake news” e entrata all’interno del dibattito (non solo) politico e l’attenzione per le modalita di acquisizione delle informazioni online evidenzia una crescente preoccupazione per l’impatto delle piattaforme digitali sulla vita democratica e sociale. Di fatto, necessita ancora di essere studiato il grado di vulnerabilita di societa, istituzioni e individui alle manipola…
Egalitarny system kształcenia w kontekście nowej kultury medialnej
2015
Dynamiczne przemiany globalizacyjne i współczesna, wszechobecna nowa kultura medialna wywierają duży wpływ na system kształcenia. Wykorzystanie w europejskiej przestrzeni edukacyjnej nowych narzędzi technologii informacyjno-komunikacyjnych w praktyce utrwala źle pojęty egalitaryzm kształcenia i nie eliminuje związanych z tym zagrożeń.
The Politics of Privacy - a Useful Tautology
2020
While communication and media studies tend to define privacy with reference to data security, current processes of datafication and commodification substantially transform ways of how people act in increasingly dense communicative networks. This begs for advancing research on the flow of individual and organizational information considering its relational, contextual and, in consequence, political dimensions. Privacy, understood as the control over the flow of individual or group information in relation to communicative actions of others, frames the articles assembled in this thematic issue. These contributions focus on theoretical challenges of contemporary communication and media privacy …