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- Bengtsson, Stina, 1971-
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Imagined used modes : Media morality in everyday life
- 2012
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In: International journal of cultural studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 1367-8779 .- 1460-356X. ; 15:2, s. 181-196
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article deals with the moral dimensions of everyday media use. It discusses the values, strategies and norms of the moral economy of media use in everyday life. First, it identifies three different kinds of values connected with media texts and technologies. Second, it discusses different strategies to create a morally correct balance in everyday life. Third, it puts forward the concept of imagined user modes to deepen our understanding of the moral dimensions of everyday media use. Imagined user modes are preconceptions of different technologies and texts and relate to our ideas of how the media affect those who are using them. They are considered when negotiating with ourselves on proper behaviours in specific situations, and therefore they can be different, depending on individual value systems and ideas of a morally correct behaviour.
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- Bolin, Göran
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Visions of Europe : Cultural technologies of nation-states
- 2006
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In: International journal of cultural studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 1367-8779 .- 1460-356X. ; 9:2, s. 189-206
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- With the expansion of the European Union eastwards,nations have adopted various strategies for being included in the Europeancommunity. This article discusses examples of cultural technologies used bypost-communist countries in aligning with Western Europe. It is argued that thephenomenon is in fact not new, as the marketing of nations has occurred since atleast the World’s Fairs of the 19th century. However, while the World’s Fairsaddressed the nation-states of high industrialism, cultural technologies are thefeatures used in a post-industrialized context, where it is more important toimpress with abilities of symbolic production rather than with traditionalindustrial production. In terms of modernization processes, it can be argued thatthe increased emphasis on symbolic production indicates a shift fromtechno-industrial modernization to techno-cultural modernization.
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- Brydges, Taylor, et al.
(author)
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Becoming a personal style blogger: Changing configurations and spatialities of aesthetic labour in the fashion industry
- 2019
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In: International journal of cultural studies. - : SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC. - 1367-8779 .- 1460-356X. ; 22:1, s. 119-139
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The increasing pervasiveness of social media and digital technology has had a particular impact on the geographies and nature of work in the fashion industry. A new segment of entrepreneurs - fashion bloggers - are utilizing these digital technologies, such as blogs and social media, to transform their personal lives and style into online businesses. This article draws on an in-depth case study analysis of an American personal style fashion blog; tracing its nine-year evolution from an outfit-of-the-day personal style blog, to one that encompasses her entire personal life, including diets, fitness, home decor and pregnancy. By focusing on one blog, we provide an in-depth exploration from its roots as a hobby for personal expression to a means of full-time employment in the fashion industry. Through this examination, emphasis is given to the process of becoming a blogger and the intensification of the ways in which the self is presented and commodified over time. We argue that personal style fashion bloggers provide an illustrative case study, not only for expanding our understanding of aesthetic labour in the digital age, but also highlighting the spaces and temporalities of work that these new formations and engagements of work give rise to. These processes highlight the changing configurations and spatialities of aesthetic labour online.
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- Carpentier, Nico, et al.
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To be a common hero. The uneasy balance between the ordinary and ordinariness in the subject position of mediated ordinary people in the talk show Jan Publiek
- 2009
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In: International journal of cultural studies. - 1367-8779 .- 1460-356X. ; 12:7, s. 597-616
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article looks at the articulations of the subject position 'ordinary people' by analysing focus group discussions with audience members, and interviews with participants in a north Belgian audience discussion programme called Jan Publiek. In this talk show ordinary people are granted access to a prime-time, live television programme, in order to discuss one specific issue each broadcast. This feature positions Jan Publiek among what have been called 'audience discussion programmes' or 'vox-pop' programmes (in contrast to elite talk shows). The article focuses on the construction of the ordinary person as a complex and multi-layered subject position. We argue that this identity is relational, and positioned towards an alliance of power-blocs consisting of celebrities, experts, politicians and media professionals. Through this relational positioning, ordinary people become articulated in Jan Publiek as authentic, but also as unorganized, apolitical, powerless, unknown, spontaneous and unknowledgeable. Lefebvre's distinction between the everyday and everydayness is then used to evaluate the political and emancipatory capacity of Jan Publiek and audience discussion programmes in general, which are sometimes criticized for their commodified and apolitical nature, but on other occasions valued for their democratic potential.
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- Christensen, Miyase
(author)
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On mediations and the environment : Material, spatial and epistemic considerations
- 2023
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In: International journal of cultural studies. - 1367-8779 .- 1460-356X. ; 26:4, s. 365-371
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The thinking behind this special issue was to move beyond the representation of the environment in news media and large-scale popular culture, and consider other informational outlets and spaces where environmental change is mediated and communicated. While mediatization has been an influential paradigm in media and communication studies, it has not addressed issues of, for example, materiality in relation to the excavation, use, construction and discarding of communication technologies. Thus, this special issue addresses the mediation of the environment on a broadened level, taking it beyond the ways in which media content alone represents environmental issues.
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- Doona, Joanna
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News satire engagement as a transgressive space for genre work
- 2021
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In: International Journal of Cultural Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 1460-356X .- 1367-8779. ; 24:1, s. 15-33
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- News satire plays with the political in ways that transgress journalistic as well as social and moral boundaries. But the ways in which audiences in different contexts engage with news satire are under-researched, despite the implications of the genre’s role for contemporary citizenship. This article asks how Swedish young adult audiences construct and negotiate news satire’s inherent transgressions, spanning across the ‘serious’ and ‘silly’. Based on interview and focus group data, the analysis shows how sustained news satire engagement entails genre work that aids the development of ‘transgression skills’. This process is stimulating, constructed as part of a complex and emotionally authentic mode of political communication, within a context where journalistic certainty has dominated. By achieving transgression skills, audiences are symbolically put on the same level as political elites and develop abilities to shift perspectives; thereby experiencing a deeper engagement with, and understanding of, political issues and performance.
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- Eriksson, Göran, 1964-
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See the error of your ways : belligerent expertise and the curative power of 'tough love'
- 2014
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In: International journal of cultural studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 1367-8779 .- 1460-356X. ; 17:6, s. 573-589
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article examines a particular form of popular expertise, one that uses aggressive, face-threatening confrontations as a means of achieving its goals. The specific case under scrutiny is the Swedish home renovation programme The Angry Carpenter (Sw: Arga snickaren), here considered as an instance of what has been labelled belligerent broadcasting. The analysis demonstrates that belligerent outbursts and emotional displays serve essential, but varying functions in the construction of the host's expertise. Belligerence is both a method to achieve epistemic status and for the enactment of expertise. Paradoxically, through his belligerence the host promotes a common-sense theory of good communication. A key lesson to be learned from programmes like this is the curative power of 'tough love'. When nothing else works, belligerence is justified as a method for diagnosing problems, dealing with personal difficulties and restoring healthy households.
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- Fast, Karin, 1979-, et al.
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Transmedia world-building : The Shadow (1931–present) and Transformers (1984–present)
- 2017
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In: International journal of cultural studies. - : Sage Publications. - 1367-8779 .- 1460-356X. ; 20:6, s. 636-652
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The study of transmedia storytelling has in recent years turned towards a more historicized understanding of its object of study, and also shifted to a wider perspective on narrative and narrative elements, focusing more on the transmediality of story-worlds and world-building rather than just narratives (‘plots’) in the stricter sense. This article combines these interrelated perspectival shifts in an analysis of story-worlds/world-building in two transmedia franchises: The Shadow (1931–present) and Transformers (1984–present), with a focus on the mechanics and processes of world-building in relation to transmedial change (i.e. how world elements are transformed over time as well as when story-worlds move across media platforms).
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