Content tagged "media"
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Media in Transition 10: A Reprise – Democracy and Digital Media
Now accepting paper proposals. Concepts of participation, trust, and democracy are increasingly fraught, essential, and powerfully repositioned. How will our news media look and sound in the next decade? What can we learn from news media of the past? What can international perspectives reveal about the variability and fluidity of media landscapes?
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The Print that Binds: Local Journalism, Civic Life and the Public Sphere
Local journalism is critical as a tool for informing citizens so they can be civically engaged and hold the powerful accountable, as well as keeping communities together.
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When to Start Freaking Out: Audience Engagement on Social Media During Disease Outbreaks
Sensationalism, gatekeeping, and media figurations mean audience engagement is not merely a journalistic, revenue‐oriented concern — it is a public health concern too.
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Imperial Arrangements: South African Apartheid and the Force of Photography
Kimberly Juanita Brown will focus on US news media coverage of apartheid in the last year of its existence, and the images that anchored viewers’ interpretation of the event.
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Podcast: Anne-Katrin Weber, “Between Participation and Control: A Long History of CCTV”
Anne-Katrin Weber explores the politics of CCTV, highlighting the adaptability of closed-circuit technologies, which accommodate to, and underpin variable contexts of media participation as well as of surveillance and control.
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Re-Enchanting Spaces: Location-based Media, Participatory Documentary, and Augmented Reality
“In keeping with an emphasis on new forms of storytelling, I propose a taxonomy for location-based media that distinguishes three different levels of participation and user agency: Consumption, Interaction, and Participation.”
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Toward Transformative Media Organizing: LGBTQ and Two-Spirit Media Work in the United States
We found that despite scarce resources, many LGBTQ and Two-Spirit organizations have an intersectional analysis of linked systems of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and other axes of identity and structural inequality.
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Kara Keeling and Wendy Chun speak as part of “Racial Regimes, Digital Economies” symposium
With USC’s Kara Keeling on “Black Futures and the Queer Times of Life” and Brown University’s Wendy Chun on “Racial Infrastructure”.
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Video and podcast: “Virtual Reality Meets Documentary: A Deeper Look”
Featuring the leading creators in the virtual reality space, helping us better understand VR’s potentials and implications for documentary and journalism.
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Podcast: Lisa Glebatis Perks, “Media Marathoning and Affective Involvement”
Lisa Glebatis Perks draws from discourse gathered from over 100 marathoners to describe some of marathoners’ most common emotional experiences, including anger, empathy, parasocial mourning, nostalgia, and regret.
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Evaluating Interactive Documentaries: Audience, Impact and Innovation in Public Interest Media
This thesis explores the “theories of change” that inform institutional investments in documentary and examines how three public interest media organizations – the National Film Board of Canada, POV and the New York Times – are approaching interactive documentary production, attempting to define what constitutes success or impact.
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E-Sports Broadcasting
A look at e-sports broadcasting within the larger sports media industrial complex, e-sportscasters, and the economics behind the growing e-sports industry.
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Heike, Jike, Chuangke: Creativity in the Chinese Technology Community
Creativity in Chinese technology communities and its implication in China’s development mode shift from “Made in China” to “Created in China.”
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Podcast: George Yúdice, “Cultural Studies and The Expediency of Culture, Rethought in Relation to Internet Platforms and Megadata”
Culture understood as the “terrain of struggle for interpretive power” needs to take into consideration its relocation and reconfiguration in new media and technologies.
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Cultural Studies and The Expediency of Culture, Rethought in Relation to Internet Platforms and Megadata
The argument that culture empties out as it becomes ever more pivotal in the creative economy has, George Yúdice thinks, been borne out.
