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- Fornäs, Johan, 1952-, et al.
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Consuming Media : Communication, Shopping and Everyday Life
- 2007
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Inspired by Walter Benjamin-s classical Arcades Project, Consuming Media is a pioneering exploration of the interface between communication, shopping and everyday life. Based on a six-year -intersectional- ethnographic fieldwork by over a dozen scholars on a specific site, it analyses the links between media and consumption in contemporary urban culture and public space. The book is organized into ten chapters. The first two chapters introduce key ideas and theories. In the next four chapters, four large media circuits are scrutinized. The final four chapters discuss the results in terms of intermedial relations, time, space and power. The book thus offers a new foundation for understanding media use, consumption and the fate of urban public space in late modernity
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- Fornäs, Johan, 1952-, et al.
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Culture Unbound : Dimensions of Culturalisation
- 2007
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This report discusses ideas of a radical increase in the significance and scope of culture in modern society, where industrialism is said to have been superseded by a society of information, knowledge and experiences. Issues of cultural identity and community are increasingly focal concerns, the virtual worlds of media culture seem omnipotent, and the cultural sector is growing with each of its recurrent redefinitions. Politics and the economy are supposedly aestheticised, culture and design boost regional development, creativity is a core value. The theses of revolutionary -culturalisation- of society and everyday life have a long history through the various cultural turns proclaimed by scholars as well as in society at large. The report scrutinises some main arguments and their implications, pointing at a need to distinguish historical trends, material processes and ideological discourses. A differentiation is made between five main dimensions of the concept of culture that are associated with specific sets of culturalisation ideas and corresponding trans-formations of boundaries around and within the cultural field. This discussion also touches upon the position and role of cultural research itself. Examples are given from five focal areas for these processes: academic work, regional politics, public spaces, history constructions and border struggles.
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- Fornäs, Johan, 1952-
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Förord : Tillsammans med Erling Bjurström
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Ingår i: Kulturellt. - Linköping : Linköping University Electronic Press. - 9789173935494 ; , s. 5-8
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Fornäs, Johan, 1952-
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Inter : The transversal spaces, processes and networks of cultural studies
- 2007
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Ingår i: Inter. - Linköping : Linköping University Electronic Press. ; , s. 7-9
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This is an introduction to the proceedings of -Inter: A European Cultural Studies Conference in Sweden-, held in Norrköping 11-13 June 2007. The conference was organised by the Advanced Cultural Studies Institute of Sweden (ACSIS), whose director Johan Fornäs here gives a brief background to the event and its three primary dimensions of transgression and interrelation: the spatial flows of transnational globalisation between regions and countries of Europe and the world at large; the temporal processes of culturalisation that appear to have made culture and cultural research increasingly central to society and academia; and the networks of trans- and interdisciplinary cooperation that both enable and necessitate these kinds of events. The text is based on his plenary presentations at the conference, and at the same time serves as a preface to these conference proceedings.
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- Fornäs, Johan, 1952-
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Introducing MediaCities
- 2007
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Ingår i: The ESF-LiU Conference. - Linköping : Linköping University Electronic Press. ; , s. 5-19
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The ESF-LiU Conference in Vadstena 25-29 October 2006 gathered more than 50 international scholars to explore and discuss the theme of -Cities and Media: Cultural Perspectives on Urban Identities in a Mediatized World-. The main organiser and chair of the conference, musicologist researcher in media and communications Johan Fornäs from the Department of Culture Studies (Tema Q) at Linköping University introduces and sums up the event by outlining the general objectives behind this initiative.This introduction starts by discussing the recent convergence of two previously distinct research areas: media studies and urban studies. The separation is a particular facet of a more general disjunction between culture and space, which is now being outdated from both sides, as geographers and urban theorists are increasingly interested in the imaginary, mediated and symbolic, while cultural studies and media research express a growing attention to spatial dimensions and locations of communication practices. The various aspects and forms of this convergence are highlighted, combining the study of space in culture and cities in media or media representations of urban spaces with studies of culture in space and media in cities, comprising urban spaces of media making and use as well as the interspatial flows of images, texts and sounds. The result is a complex and dialectical fusion that may be termed MediaCities. Subthemes and dimensions of this interface between urban, media and cultural studies are discussed, outlining a background to the conference and ideas for future collaborative European research in this hybrid field, based on a set of different previous efforts that have paved the way for this new direction of research.
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- Fornäs, Johan, 1952-
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Kulturaliseringens och kulturstudiernas korsvägar
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Ingår i: Kultursverige 2009. - Linköping : Swedish Cultural Policy Research Observatory. - 9789173937504 ; , s. 150-153
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Sedan ett halvsekel sätter processer av kulturalisering olika sorters kulturella aspekter på dagordningen i allt fler sammanhang. Det gäller ekonomi, politik och vardagsliv, men inte minst också kulturforskningen, där fältet för tvärvetenskapliga och transnationella kulturstudier (cultural studies) hör till de framväxande former som kraftfullt tematiserat sådana förändringstendenser. Kulturaliseringens genomslag i kulturforskningen diskuteras här i termer av ett antal stegvisa, parallella eller korsande strömningar som på motsättningsfyllda sätt förändrar villkoren och möjligheterna för att utveckla ny kunskap på detta område.
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- Fornäs, Johan, 1952-
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Kulturstudiernas brott och broar
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Ingår i: Kulturstudier i Sverige. - Norrköping : Linköping University Electronic Press. ; , s. 9-20
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Introductory lecture at the first national conference for cultural studies in Sweden
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- Fornäs, Johan, 1952-
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Meanings of money : the Euro as a sign of value and of cultural identity
- 2008
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Ingår i: We Europeans. - Bristol : Intellect Books. - 9781841502076 ; , s. 123-139
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This comparative study of euro (-) coins and banknotes as symbolic texts and media artefacts looks for changing national and supranational identifications in these official but widespread signs of economic and cultural value. How are facets of a joint European project signified in the common European images and national coin sides? How do they contribute to the shaping of a continentally shared cultural identity, in relation to pre¬vious national currencies? What meanings are shaped by euro money as a medium of transnational identification?Money signifies and transfers economic values. But coins and banknotes are also material artefacts that circulate widely among citizens. As such, they not only communicate a certain amount of abstract exchange value, but also throw other meanings into circulation in daily life. They have to be clearly identifiable in terms of value, nationality, age and authenticity. Produced by the international system of state national banks, they circulate condensed images of national identities and sociocultural value hierarchies through their carefully chosen design. Thus, they are widely spread media communicating conventionalised collective identifica¬tions that reach deep into daily life by being used by virtually everyone on a daily basis. The introduction of the euro in 2001, and its subsequent spread to an increasing number of nations within the European Union, offers a splendid chance to study changes in national identifications on an official level that also reaches deep into the wallets of daily life. How has this chance to contribute to redefining a shared European future been used by various actors? What meanings can be discerned on the faces of these money signs, and how are they understood by states and citizens across Europe? A close reading is made of these signs of economic and cultural value, in relation to current public discourses of national and post-national identity, and to ideas on money and cultural identity from Simmel, Benjamin, Habermas and others. Comparisons are made between value levels, between countries, and with pre-euro money, to discern value hierarchies, regional and political patterns, and historical changes. The public and political processes that gave birth to the euro designs show how EU institutions, states, economic market actors, designers and citizens interacted to develop new forms of identification across Europe. These micro media of communication and exchange greedily criss-cross national borders, but to what extent and in which ways do they also produce germs of truly transnational identities?Public discourses on the euro design are heavily colonised by the political and economic forces of that national and inter-national bank system through which interacting state bodies regulate the globalising market. Still, they offer a glimpse into the ways in which official identifications presently slide into new shapes. Comparing forms of cultural identification on the euro (a multiple site where identities are represented but also made), potentials and limitations of the project of a transnational European cultural identity are discussed.
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