Pub Date : 2023-08-29DOI: 10.1080/15405702.2023.2251961
David Lipson, M. Boukes, Samira Khemkhem
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/15405702.2023.2219661
Hsin-Yen Yang
ABSTRACT This article explores the affective power of the kawaii (“cute” in Japanese) aesthetic in politics by drawing from the successful “cute” campaign in Taiwan’s vital presidential elections of 2000 and 2004. Based on field participation, interviews, and secondary sources, this study offers a historical-textual analysis of the ways in which cute aesthetics and fan participation alter the political communication process in postauthoritarian Taiwan. This study suggests that the prevalence of kawaii in protests and political campaigns, most salient in East and Southeast Asia today, indicates an ideological shift from masculine communication styles to an “effeminate” voice in politics. This study also exemplifies the significance of the “minor aesthetics” such as cute, zany, glamorous, and whimsical because they give voice to weak, silenced and marginalized groups. These minor aesthetic categories deserve the same level of serious attention that academics have given to the grand, the beautiful and the sublime.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/15405702.2023.2228306
Vlada Botorić
ABSTRACT The interconnectedness between an individual and the inhabited interior space is articulated through literature, philosophy, and critical theory. The interior, in theory as in practice, is understood even as dialectical where the domestic space is experienced. The role of fans as inhabitants of a space and their subjective fandom experience reflected through their specific expressions within the interior space are in focus. This study looks at aspects of the domestic environment with an emphasis on the collected items contained within to characterize fans’ attitudes toward the materiality of their objects of fandom. Fandom experience within the domestic interior is further explored in the context of the auto-ethnographic account of a life-long participant observer of the LEGO phenomenon, collector, and an academic-fan, where LEGO becomes a dioramic spectacle integrated into the living space. The study finally offers an externalizing fandom life-long experience and aesthetic preoccupations while creating a personalized interior.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/15405702.2023.2239207
Marta Torregrosa, Teresa Sádaba
ABSTRACT Digitalization has reconfigured the landscape in the fashion media ecosystem. New species have emerged within the environment. Today, fashion magazines compete with numerous fashion and lifestyle content providers, questioning their role as the sole authority when it comes to deciding “what is fashionable” and challenging their monopoly when it comes to prescribing aesthetic tastes. The purpose of this study is to analyze the case of Vogue to illustrate how species can adapt to the ecosystem. Vogue’s original response, as reflected in the different initiatives we have studied, enables us to draw up a map of players within the fashion industry, one in which the magazine serves as an institution and not only as a member of the media. In this respect, our conclusions highlight the importance of the public, as opposed to the medium itself, based on an understanding of communication as a social rather than a technological phenomenon.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/15405702.2023.2214541
Olivia Elakeche Idoko, Peter Ogohi Salifu
ABSTRACT Protest actions have become popular resorts to decry bad governance and press on socio-political demands in Nigeria. However, the attack and maiming of protesters, the hijack of the protest medium allegedly by hoodlums, and the arrest of protesters by unnamed security agents have introduced doubts as to the potency of the protest medium in effecting desired socio-political change. Understanding the motivations for protest actions through the Grievance theory and Leaning on Marxism, this article analyzes the social stratification and exploitation that triggers protests and the fate of the citizenry in the face of lethal opposition to protests as represented in Arase’s In my Country (2017) and Somewhere in Africa (2011). We submit that the struggle for good governance through protest and revolt requires patriotism, willful spirit, sacrifice, and courage. Optimal regard for the rule of law and the rights of citizens to peaceful assembly and protest is recommended.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-04DOI: 10.1080/15405702.2022.2109030
Rebekah Grome, Kristina Drumheller, Emily S. Kinsky
ABSTRACT Quantitative content analysis was used to examine social media responses to the BBC’s announcement of the first female Doctor in the science-fiction show Doctor Who. Tweets reacting to the BBC’s framing of the decision (N = 2,971) were coded for mentions of representation, impact on the character, political correctness, feminism, impact on ratings, and impact on younger generations. Results indicated that audience responses did not reflect the BBC’s framing but were generally supportive of the casting choice. Explanations for the lack of correspondence between the BBC and responses are explored.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-28DOI: 10.1080/15405702.2022.2103140
I. Siles, E. Gómez-Cruz, Paola Ricaurte
ABSTRACT This paper establishes dialogs between theories on the popular and critical studies on algorithms and datafication. In doing so, it contributes to reversing the analytical tendency to assume that algorithms have universal effects and that conclusions about “algorithmic power” in the Global North apply unproblematically everywhere else. We begin by clarifying how Latin American scholars and other research traditions have theorized the popular (“lo popular”). We then develop four dimensions of lo popular to implement these ideas in the case of algorithms: playful cultural practices, imagination, resistance, and “in-betweenness.” We argue that this dialogue can generate different ways of thinking about the problems inherent to algorithmic mediation by drawing attention to the remixes of cultural practices, imaginative solutions to everyday problems, “cyborg” forms of resistance, and ambiguous forms of agency that are central to the operations of algorithmic assemblages nowadays.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-17DOI: 10.1080/15405702.2022.2074997
Gabriela Alcantara Azevedo Cavalcanti de Arruda, Daniel Medeiros de Freitas, Carolina Maria Soares Lima, Krzysztof Nawratek, Bernardo Miranda Pataro
ABSTRACT Following Robertson’s discussions on epistemic capital, the article analyses worldmaking procedures being used by members of one of the biggest neo-Pentecostal churches in Brazil – Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus. According to the popular narrative, social media, especially WhatsApp groups, contributed in a crucial way to the spread of sets of conspiracy theories aimed to question “established narratives” and creating an image of Jair Bolsonaro, currently the president of Brazil, as the sole hero (“the messiah” and “the myth”) fighting against the “corrupted” Brazilian state and the “globalist/communist cabal.” The article discusses interactions between members of so-called families created by the Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus. These families could have between a few or around one hundred members, and they are in regular communication (at least a few times per day) through WhatsApp. Most members of one family do not live in walking proximity; therefore, using WhatsApp is often the primary way they interact. The article puts families into a broader context of the media ecosystem owned or influenced by Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus and contextualizes the church as a religious “infrastructure of knowing.” The article discusses sources of legitimization of particular knowledge produced and mediated between families. The article argues that communication in families contributes to the creation of unique epistemic tools crucial in re-creating individual worldviews of members Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus.
摘要继Robertson对认识资本的讨论之后，本文分析了巴西最大的新五旬节教会之一——Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus的成员正在使用的世界创造程序。根据流行的说法，社交媒体，尤其是WhatsApp群组，在一系列阴谋论的传播中起到了至关重要的作用，这些阴谋论旨在质疑“既定叙事”，并塑造了现任巴西总统贾伊尔·博索纳罗的形象，作为唯一的英雄（“弥赛亚”和“神话”）与“腐败的”巴西国家和“全球主义/共产主义阴谋集团”作斗争。文章讨论了Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus创建的所谓家庭成员之间的互动。这些家庭可能有几个或大约一百名成员，他们通过WhatsApp进行定期沟通（每天至少几次）。一个家庭的大多数成员并不住在步行附近；因此，使用WhatsApp通常是他们互动的主要方式。这篇文章将家庭置于Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus拥有或影响的媒体生态系统的更广泛背景中，并将教会视为宗教“认知基础设施”。文章讨论了家庭之间产生和调解的特定知识合法化的来源。这篇文章认为，家庭中的沟通有助于创造独特的认识工具，这对重建Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus成员的个人世界观至关重要。
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Pub Date : 2022-05-16DOI: 10.1080/15405702.2022.2074998
Matti Pohjonen
ABSTRACT This paper highlights an understudied perspective on post-truth ideas in online popular communication through an examination of online popular communication during the Ethiopian conflict (or the Tigray War). It argues, in particular, that the epistemic contestations characteristic of the hybrid media environment needs to always be understood as double-layered: contemporary digital media functions both as a site where such contestations can be researched but, at the same time, the theories and frameworks of knowledge we use to articulate the debates need to be also critically contested theories originating from the West not necessarily valid in other parts of the world without critical examination. To specify the theoretical arguments made, the paper will use a mixed-method analysis that combines digital ethnographic research with a large-scale analysis of visual imagery shared on Twitter to understand popular communication and propaganda during the conflict/war.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-03DOI: 10.1080/15405702.2022.2071902
Arthur D. Soto-Vásquez, M. O. Vilceanu, Kristine C. Johnson
ABSTRACT There is a need to delve into major subgroups among U.S. Latina/o/xs and identify emerging patterns in their understanding and consumption of new media. This study used six small-group interviews to explore the fluidity of parasocial dynamics with podcasts among young Latina/o/x podcast listeners experiencing the COVID-19 lockdown. Recent literature has focused on the parasocial nature of dynamics, relationships, and emotional connections listeners develop with their favorite podcasts. While we found that there are unique circumstances of listening among young Latina/o/x listeners, such as living with family and working during school, their podcast interests are driven by identification with hosts, age, and gender more than ethnic parameters. The conceptual acronym EASY (Engaged Experience, Accessible Authenticity, Socialization in Solitude, and Youth and YouTube) was developed to interpret pandemic listening among Latina/o/x podcast users.
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