Media Representation And The Global Imagination

Author : Shani Orgad
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745680859

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Media Representation and the Global Imagination by Shani Orgad Pdf

This book is a clear, systematic, original and lively account of how media representations shape the way we see our and others’ lives in a global age. It provides in-depth analysis of a range of international media representations of disaster, war, conflict, migration and celebration. The book explores how images, stories and voices, on television, the Internet, and in advertisements and newspapers, invite us to relocate to distant contexts, and to relate to people who are remote from our daily lives, by developing ‘mediated intimacy’ and focusing on the self. It also explores how these representations shape our self-narratives. Orgad examines five sites of media representation – the other, the nation, possible lives, the world and the self. She argues that representations can and should contribute to fostering more ambivalence and complexity in how we think and feel about the world, our place in it and our relation to far-away others. Media Representations and the Global Imagination will be of particular interest to students and scholars of media and cultural studies, as well as sociology, politics, international relations, development studies and migration studies.

Author : Fabienne Darling-Wolf
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780472052431

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Imagining the Global by Fabienne Darling-Wolf Pdf

A focused multisited cultural analysis that reflects on the symbiotic relationship between the local, the national, and the global

Author : Adrian Athique
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781509506576

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Transnational Audiences by Adrian Athique Pdf

In an interactive and densely connected world, transnational communication has become a central feature of everyday life. Taking account of a variety of media formats and different regions of the world, Adrian Athique provides a much-needed critical exploration of conceptual approaches to media reception on a global scale. Engaging both the historical foundations and contemporary concerns of audience research, Athique prompts us to reconsider our contemporary media experience within a transnational frame. In the process, he provides valuable insights on culture and belonging, power and imagination. Beautifully written and strongly argued, Transnational Audiences: Media Reception on a Global Scale will be essential reading for students and teachers of global media, culture and communications.

Author : David Crouch,Rhona Jackson,Felix Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134340651

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The Media and the Tourist Imagination by David Crouch,Rhona Jackson,Felix Thompson Pdf

Tourism studies and media studies both address key issues about how we perceive the world. They raise acute questions about how we relate local knowledge and immediate experience to wider global processes, and they both play a major role in creating our map of national and international cultures. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this book explores the interactions between tourism and media practices within a contemporary culture in which the consumption of images has become increasingly significant. A number of common themes and concerns arise, and the contributions included are divided between those: written from media studies awareness perspective, concerned with the way the media imagines travel and tourism written from the point of view of the study of tourism, considering how tourism practices are affected or altered by the media that attempt a direct comparison between the practices of tourism and the media. Incorporating case study material from the UK, the Caribbean, Australia, the US, France and Switzerland, this significant text - ideal for students of culture, media and tourism studies - discusses tourism and the media as separate processes through which identity is constructed in relation to space and place.

Author : Arjun Appadurai
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : 145290006X

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Modernity At Large by Arjun Appadurai Pdf

Author : Colin Renfrew,Iain Morley,McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Publisher : McDonald Institute Monographs
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSD:31822035405208

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Image and Imagination by Colin Renfrew,Iain Morley,McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Pdf

The dawn of art is sometimes equated with the birth of the human spirit. But when and how did figuration - sculpture, painting, drawing - actually begin? And did these first figurative creations coincide with the emergence of our own species, Homo sapiens ? Is figuration a general and fundamental feature of the human condition? In this challenging volume leading experts review the evidence now available from the worldwide practice of prehistoric archaeology, and go on to formulate some important conclusions. The scope of this work is global. It sets out to explore the first stirrings of artistic endeavour and of figurative imagery on each continent, and to consider the social context in which they arose. It will be a fundamental resource for all those seeking to understand the origins of art and the beginnings of human spirituality.

Author : Omedi Ochieng
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780268103323

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Intellectual Imagination by Omedi Ochieng Pdf

The Intellectual Imagination unfolds a sweeping vision of the form, meaning, and value of intellectual practice. The book breaks new ground in offering a comprehensive vision of the intellectual vocation. Omedi Ochieng argues that robust and rigorous thought about the form and contours of intellectual practices is best envisioned in light of a comprehensive critical contextual ontology—that is, a systematic account of the context, forms, and dimensions in and through which knowledge and aesthetic practices are created, embodied, translated, and learned. Such an ontology not only accounts for the embeddedness of intellectual practices in the deep structures of politics, economics, and culture, but also in turn demonstrates the constitutive power of critical inquiry. It is against this background that Ochieng unfolds a multidimensional and capacious theory of knowledge and aesthetics. In a critique of the oppositional binaries that now reign in the modern and postmodern academy—binaries that pit fact versus value, science versus the humanities, knowledge versus aesthetics—Ochieng argues for the inextricable intertwinement of reason, interpretation, and the imagination. The book offers a close and deep reading of North Atlantic and African philosophers, thereby illuminating the resonances and contrasts between diverse intellectual traditions. The upshot is an incisively rich, layered, and textured reading of the archetypal intellectual styles and aesthetic forms that have fired the imagination of intellectuals across the globe. Ochieng’s book is a radical summons to a practice and an imagination of the intellectual life as the realization of good societies and good lives.

Author : John Middleton,Kimani Njogu
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780253222015

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Media and Identity in Africa by John Middleton,Kimani Njogu Pdf

What is the role of the media in Africa? How do they work? How do they interact with global media? How do they reflect and express local culture? Incorporating both African and international perspectives, Media and Identity in Africa demonstrates how media outlets are used to perpetuate, question, or modify the unequal power relations between Africa and the rest of the world. Discussions about the construction of old and new social entities which are defined by class, gender, ethnicity, political and economic differences, wealth, poverty, cultural behavior, language, and religion dominate these new assessments of communications media in Africa. This volume addresses the tensions between the global and the local that have inspired creative control and use of traditional and modern forms of media.

Author : Graham Smith
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781509539260

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Can Democracy Safeguard the Future? by Graham Smith Pdf

Our democracies repeatedly fail to safeguard the future. From pensions to pandemics, health and social care through to climate, biodiversity and emerging technologies, democracies have been unable to deliver robust policies for the long term. In this book, Graham Smith asks why. Exploring the drivers of short-termism, he considers ways of reshaping legislatures and constitutions and proposes strengthening independent offices whose overarching goals do not change at every election. More radically, Smith argues that forms of participatory and deliberative politics offer the most effective democratic response to the current political myopia, as well as a powerful means of protecting the interests of generations to come.

Author : Faye D. Ginsburg,Lila Abu-Lughod,Brian Larkin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002-10-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520232310

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Media Worlds by Faye D. Ginsburg,Lila Abu-Lughod,Brian Larkin Pdf

This landmark collection maps and motivates the anthropological voice in media studies by locating the media in worlds of practice, sentiment, debate and dissent. Using such vivid examples as the image management of the Dalai Lama and the social organization of Nigerian cinema theatres, the authors remind us that media machineries are not more magical than the social worlds they inhabit and project. [Back cover].

Author : Natascha Gentz,Stefan Kramer
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791482094

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Globalization, Cultural Identities, and Media Representations by Natascha Gentz,Stefan Kramer Pdf

Explores the role of media in the construction of cultural identities.

Author : Shani Orgad
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231545631

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Heading Home by Shani Orgad Pdf

Women in today’s advanced capitalist societies are encouraged to “lean in.” The media and government champion women’s empowerment. In a cultural climate where women can seemingly have it all, why do so many successful professional women—lawyers, financial managers, teachers, engineers, and others—give up their careers after having children and become stay-at-home mothers? How do they feel about their decision and what do their stories tell us about contemporary society? Heading Home reveals the stark gap between the promise of gender equality and women’s experience of continued injustice. Shani Orgad draws on in-depth, personal, and profoundly ambivalent interviews with highly educated London women who left paid employment to take care of their children while their husbands continued to work in high-powered jobs. Despite identifying the structural forces that maintain gender inequality, these women still struggle to articulate their decisions outside the narrow cultural ideals that devalue motherhood and individualize success and failure. Orgad juxtaposes these stories with media and policy depictions of women, work, and family, detailing how—even as their experiences fly in the face of fantasies of work-life balance and marriage as an egalitarian partnership—these women continue to interpret and judge themselves according to the ideals that are failing them. Rather than calling for women to transform their feelings and behavior, Heading Home argues that we must unmute and amplify women’s desire, disappointment, and rage, and demand social infrastructure that will bring about long-overdue equality both at work and at home.

Author : Karen E. Smith
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780745658179

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European Union Foreign Policy in a Changing World by Karen E. Smith Pdf

The second edition of European Union Foreign Policy in a Changing World provides a clear introduction to the complexities of contemporary European foreign policy and offers a fresh and distinctive perspective on the nature of the EU’s international identity. Thoroughly revised and expanded, the book explores how and why the EU tries to achieve five core foreign policy objectives: the encouragement of regional cooperation; the advancement of human rights; the promotion of democracy and good governance; the prevention of violent conflicts; and the fight against international crime, including terrorism. In pursuing these goals, the book illustrates how the EU is faced with acute policy dilemmas because the five objectives not only clash with each other, but also with additional policy priorities – such as securing energy supplies or establishing strategic partnerships with key powers. The uniqueness of the EU as a global actor is carefully assessed, and its key policies and the related dilemmas it faces compared with those of other international actors. This well-written and thoroughly researched book will be a valuable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of European politics, foreign policy analysis, international relations and related disciplines.

Author : Øivind Fuglerud,Leon Wainwright
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782385677

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Objects and Imagination by Øivind Fuglerud,Leon Wainwright Pdf

Despite the wide interest in material culture, art, and aesthetics, few studies have considered them in light of the importance of the social imagination - the complex ways in which we conceptualize our social surroundings. This collection engages the “material turn” in the arts, humanities, and social sciences through a range of original contributions on creativity in diverse global and contemporary social settings. The authors engage with everyday objects, art, rituals, and ethnographic exhibitions to analyze the relationship between material culture and the social imagination. What results is a better understanding of how the material embodies and influences our idea of the social world.

Author : Emmanuel K. Ngwainmbi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030264505

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Media in the Global Context by Emmanuel K. Ngwainmbi Pdf

This book investigates ways in which global media coverage of conflicts affects the worldviews of the social and cultural values of nationals from the war regions. It identifies the cultural patterns in remote communities that have been ‘diluted’ by IT and the extent to which the changes impacted the values of the indigenes. It also describes the role that IT especially social media and broadcast media play in the understanding of war among residents in highly wired and remote communities, respectively.